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After Puerto Montt, the second half of the series of screenings in Chile unfolded at universities in Santiago and Valparaíso. Although they shared the name, "Universidad Católica", there was no connection between the two. We were in Santiago thanks to an invitation by Professor José M. Farina, showing the film in their downtown campus, a few minutes away from sadly famous since 1973 Palacio de la Moneda. Had a most interesting conversation with Professor Farina where he let me know that Ocean Acidification is not one of the top priorities or concerns amongst the small oceanography and marine biology community in Chile and that, needless to say, the phenomenon is completely unknown by the general public. Things like climate change, pollution from salmon farms, green tides, the niño/niña phenomenon or water hypoxia rank much higher in the agenda. I knew nothing about water hypoxia and was fascinated and terrified by the description. It seems that along the Chilean coast there is a not too deep layer of water depleted of oxygen, a dead zone for marine fauna. Sometimes, for reasons they are studying, it slowly raises up to the surface like an silky vail of death and kills all life it touches.
At the screening the attending students had organized an informal pre-screening informal gathering with coffee and pastries, so we got to meet and chat for a few minutes before, which was a great idea because I felt it broke the ice for later. We had a small technical problem that turned images rather green (green tide!), but they all watched with great interest nonetheless and our conversation and q&a afterwards lasted longer than the film itself. There were members of the Ecology, Biology, Oceanography and Environmental Sciences Departments and I learned a lot from them while also trying to emphasize the need society has of their work and our desire to bring changes to the world. Enthusiasm run high and I was promised screenings at schools around Santiago to educate kids about Ocean Acidification and the beginning by one of the students of a small college newspaper about marine science. I do not really know if any of it will actually happen, these were promises made in the heat of the moment, but their feelings and passion were so sincere that they alone would have made completely worth our efforts to fly to Chile this month.
The next morning I was on a bus to Valparaíso for our final showing in the country. While in Santiago I had stayed a block away from Pablo Neruda's house "La Chascona", the one ransacked by Pinochet's hyenas, and upon my arrival into "Valpo" I discovered my accommodation was also five minutes from "La Sebastiana", his home sitting on a hill. Fresco detail in La Chascona
Neruda loved the oceans, he obsessed with ships and anything smelling of salt and iodine, evoking sea travel. In the houses he built he always tried to replicate the interior of sailboats: the dining rooms are long, narrow, with low ceilings, the wooden floors crack, gently rocking below your feet, certain windows are portholes and most of furniture came from sea vessels, like the gorgeous bar where he entertained and prepared cocktails for friends, the office desk on the last floor that had once belonged to the captain of a merchant ship or the nightstands by the large bed. He amassed a vast collection of shells and several majestic figureheads. Like a beachcomber, he was a collector of everything and anything, constantly thirsty for beauty and uniqueness. The house in Valparaíso is in the perfect location to encompass the whole bay. Beside one of its ample windows he placed his favorite armchair; it is there he wrote many of his poems, always using green ink, perching over the harbor, getting up every now and then to look into his spyglass at distant ships. But, surprisingly, Pablo Neruda was also utterly terrified of being aboard a ship and in the few occasions he did he became terribly seasick. A perfect epitome of the Chilean man, enveloped in the unequivocal presence of the Pacific Ocean, swirling in a game of love, fascination, dependence and fear, but a distant stranger to it all the same.
The pretty theater at the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso was full on both floors with kids and young adults, most in school uniforms. The screening went well, colors looked the way they should and our conversation at the end was extremely lengthy once again. I might talk too much. Professors complained about the lack of interest from Chilean students in science, marine science more in particular, and those young men and women asked some very good questions. Several got carried away like in Santiago and offered to spread the word on Ocean Acidification in schools and amongst friends. All that time we were less than a hundred meters from the water, but a road and a fence separated the bay from us, making it invisible. Maybe that is why most of the attendants had never even seen Valparaíso and the seals living in the harbor from the water. Ms. Marina Vivar, from the local Natural History Museum purchased a copy of the film and asked if it would be ok to have it loop-playing in their newly renovated facilities. Another lady, the head of science college programs in the region, purchased one as well and proposed further screenings at the university and to leave the documentary also available in the video library. I was invited to lunch (fish soup, finally) by organizing Professor Sergio Palma, and walked from there to the harbor, where old fishing boats are now used to take tourists around the huge dock cranes, through the shipyard, the harems of seals around the blubbery male and the frightening gray muscle of the chilean navy, to the open view of tutti frutti Valparaíso, the city that draws itself on walls and doors, always facing the sea, seldom in it.
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You can fool and distract yourself in the days leading to a trip, go through the motions of packing, closing doors and taking cabs in hypnotic discipline, behave in such a drowsy way during the flight that the experience nears teletransportation, but when the captain's voice comes in the speaker commanding everyone to buckle up in preparation for crossing the Andes you immediately wake up with the strength of a pound of caffeine and Chile surfaces in your mind, solid and unequivocal.
I had never buckled up to go over mountains. But then again, these were the Andes, daisy chaining in time everything from the Incas to "Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors"and encompassing in space over 7,000 kilometers of mountains, high plateaus and volcanoes; the true backbone of the South American continent. Sure, the Himalayas are the Himalayas, with all the 7000 and 8000 meter summits in the world, but when it comes to names nothing resonates higher or sounds steeper than the Andes.
The Chile I saw and walked on below was at times not what I expected. Downtown Santiago could be in Madrid or even Paris and Southern Chile is at times a slightly poorer and much wilder mirror image of Germany and Switzerland. City streets nationwide are taken by literally thousands of stray dogs. They are so many and so large only after some time you come to accept none of them lives in a home. Maybe as consequence, there are very few dog owners. Any city street corner in Chile
But reaching closer to our documentary and its subject, when looking at a map one would think that Chile and Chileans face the Pacific Ocean for over 4,500 kilometers of straight coastline, but the truth is that the country has its back to it and what they face are the wine valleys, fruit farms and mineral-rich soil before and into the striking Andean peaks. Sure, you will find in its waters some of the best fishing grounds in the world, and they are the second producers of salmon worldwide, but culturally, historically, gastronomically and economically the Pacific is mostly ignored and taken as a frontier. After arriving in Puerto Montt for our three scheduled screenings at the Diego Rivera theater I walked into a 30 aisle supermarket and found a plethora of kuchen and wurst, many of the smells from my Bavarian grandmother's kitchen, Argentinian veal steaks (some fed with Chilean fish meal!), but no fish section at all. Nothing, not even salmon. Ten steps away from waters filled with barnacles the size of your fist, "shoe mussels" (deservedly called so by locals) and fish farms that export worldwide, buying any of it fresh was not an option.
The two school screenings went very well, drawing kids from towns within a two hour radius. Some had to even cross lakes on ferry boats to get to the theater those two mornings. The students from a Puerto Varas school, a beautiful town sitting at the foot of lake Llanquihue, had been doing these past few months some lab experiments on Ocean Acidification, so they were the most knowledgeable and interested (measured by the number of questions raised at least) of all. These events with students are not just about the specific problem of acidification, they are about nature, preservation, the environment, the threats to life and about having that become part of the school curriculum. Living in such beautiful, almost unspoiled surroundings I felt I had to explain that in fact most of the world does not look that way and is not in such condition, that no matter how accustomed they might be they should not take any of it for granted. They are very fortunate to wake up every morning with wilderness at the doorstep, surrounded by clean water, fertile land, and glacier mountains tops. Idyllic, and it is very good to hear a foreigner praise and envy it.The youngest kids walking into the Diego Rivera Theater
The evening screening for adults usually shows where there is friction in the region, the cracks on the wall that go unnoticed to the mere visitor, so I am very lucky because this way of traveling puts me in a very privileged position. In the case of Puerto Montt the not so sunny side was primarily the environmental damage caused by the salmon industry. There is a long, repeated history of pollution and abuse by salmon farms in the area, and also much resentment because the economic benefits have not stayed in the area either. And the fishing fleet had not done things any better. It seems to have historically been in the hands of Spanish and Japanese companies with little scruples and immense greed (those two, always going hand in hand). Since I am a Spaniard, a local fisherman and a young historian both spoke about the atrocities my ancestors had done since the XVI Century and about the ones my fellow countrymen are still doing, obliterating the ocean bottoms, trawler fishing the waters empty. It is hard to know what to say in these cases, when one becomes a forced representative of his country of origin or of the first world in general and I am told I have no right to defend preservation, to deprive their country's economy of developing and preach the opposite of what my nation has done and still does. No matter how much I despise flag waving and tribal chest pounding, it is not hard to also see how it can itch to have an "outsider" deliver certain messages, so my hope, I guess, is that soon the young audience from the morning screenings will be the one speaking and demanding changes everywhere. Also in beautiful Southern Chile. View from Puerto Varas of Lake Llanquihue and the Osorno Volcano
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By Daniel de la Calle
A couple news for the first half of the week:
»US President Barak Obama's weekly address this past Saturday was a remarkable attempt at pushing for a more environmental and alternative energy agenda while making it sound like the opposite. Speaking from a jet-engine factory Mr. Obama seemed to be talking about aircraft manufacture on American soil, about national oil production being at an 8-year high and about the opening of millions of acres for oil drilling, but all that wrapping was the necessary "spoonful of sugar" to once again try to make the renewable, clean and efficient energy "medicine" go down the reluctant American public. It is worth watching everywhere, here in Europe as well; we are talking about the place where 20% of the world's oil gets burned:
»Sculptor Cornelia Kubler Kavanagh recently created "The Pteropod Project: Charismatic Microfauna", a series of 12 sculptures enlarged over 3,000 times of our friend and co-protagonist in A Sea Change, the "winged foot" pteropod. To make it come to life she collaborated with Dr. Gareth Lawson, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Read an essay by Ms. Kubler on The Pteropod Project HERE
If you live in NYC you will also have the chance to see the exhibit at the Blue Mountain Gallery May 22 - June 16 2012.
© 2011 Cornelia Kubler Kavanagh. All Rights Reserved
»A SEA CHANGE screening in Kansas City tonight (Tuesday March 13t) at 7PM, at the Bragg Auditorium (All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church).
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» Williams College, in Williamstown, Mass. is hosting an Oceans Symposium and next Monday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m., Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer at The New Yorker, will lead a discussion following a showing of A Sea Change, Imagine a World Without Fish.
» Beautiful new documentary on the oceans is out this year: The Last Reef, Cities Beneath The Sea. Go to their website (www.thelastreef.co.uk) and read how this project, that started out as a 3D "macro movie based in Palau", turned into an alarm call on the biggest threat to coral reefs worldwide: Ocean Acidification.
» Reconsider your shrimp. A one pound bag of frozen shrimp raised on a typical Asian fish farm produces an astounding one ton of CO2. At a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science biologist J. Boone Kauffman (Oregon State University) developed the comparison to help the public understand the environmental impact of land use decisions. "The carbon footprint of the shrimp from this land use is about 10-fold greater than the land use carbon footprint of an equivalent amount of beef produced from a pasture formed from a tropical rainforest."
Mr. Kauffman said 50 to 60 percent of shrimp farms are located in tidal zones in Asian countries, mostly on cleared mangrove forests. The farms are inefficient, producing just one kilogram of shrimp for 13.4 square meters of mangrove, while the ponds created are abandoned in just three to nine years because disease, soil acidification and contamination destroy them. After abandonment, the soil takes 35 to 40 years to recover.
LINK to the original article, from Agence France Presse.
» Lecture on Ocean Acidification and the Future of Native Oysters in California Estuaries taking place tomorrow, February 24, at noon at Stanford University. It is sponsored by Hopkins Marine Station. More info HERE.
» And from the other side of the Atlantic, "Analyses of the effects of Ocean Acidification on the larval development of Crassostrea gigas", AKA Pacific oyster on Ms. Patrícia Barros Masters Theses. Info HERE.
» New video filled with European flair on Ocean Acidification, the EPOCA program and the public's awareness on the issue.
» Post Doctoral position at IMR. The Institute of Marine Research has a 3 year position as postdoctoral researcher on the effects of Ocean Acidification on marine zoooplankton, with special emphasis on krill. The position is located in Bergen, Norway. Find out about qualifications and further details HERE.
» The Second UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme annual science meeting will take place at the University of Exeter from Monday, April 16th to Wednesday, April 18th. If you are a UKOARP particiant you can register online HERE. For further reading, click HERE.
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from Ipanema Beach, Brazil
This past Friday the 28th A Sea Change screened at the CENPES center in Rio de Janeiro. It is a massive 25 acre complex that employs over 1,500 biologists, chemists, marine ecologists and engineers working in interdisciplinary groups at the Petrobras headquarters, one of the leading research centers of its kind in the world. Here »
they are studying all renewable energy sources, from wind to geothermal, from cell batteries to biodiesel (Brazil is arguably the leading nation on sugarcane biodiesel tech).
Heading up Guanabara Bay from downtown Ipanema Beach I had two reasons for concern about the morning ahead:
first, I wondered how many of these scientists would show up for a 9AM screening made public via internal emails in these empty and distracted weeks before Carnival, and second, what their response to a film so openly opposed to the use of fossil fuels would be. Fortunately, my friend Suzana Sattamini had once again done a fantastic job and the results were simply outstanding. We had an almost full house watching our documentary and half the audience stayed throughout the 40 minutes of fruitful Q&A (see picture).
My overall impression is that everyone devoting time and attention into the current environmental situation is more or less under a similar frame of mind: our impact on nature is too obvious to go unnoticed; we are all concerned and looking for answers, for ways of improving and moving away from a technology that has been fruitful in uncountable ways, but that is finite and has had tremendous impact on the planet. During most of the XXth century we were not aware of just how serious that poisoning was, partly thanks to the natural CO2 sequestration the oceans were doing for the atmosphere, but out of knowledge comes responsibility and to continue following the same path is simply unacceptable. I am not stating that this is the way Petrobras as a stately run company sees the industry it is a part of, but, putting aside possible twisted interpretations of PR work, the fact that companies like Petrobras are investing so heavily on clean tech, on research and into other sources of power is a clear indicator that they are aware and looking ahead.
After the screening we went to visit a sculpture Suzana and other Brazilian artists have created and that was recently inaugurated inside Cenpes last year. It is a spiral of life that chronologically shows all eras of life in this planet. Each one is represented by an animal that at some point inhabited the land that we now call Brazil:
from Precambrian, through Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous (with the only life sized creature, a 5 ft wing spanned dragonfly), Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary all the way to "our" Quaternary with some human footprints (Suzana's husband Paulo's).
Let's aim for a "Quinternary" that does not have a shameful human footprint.
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A couple blog entries ago I mentioned A Sea Change has been present so far at more than fifty film festivals worldwide. We have a saying in Spanish that goes: "life is but a sigh", partly to show our tragic sense of life, but mainly to stress its brevity. The documentary that Barbara finished not long ago is reaching maturity and quietly beginning a new life, one where film festival attendances become a bit more apart, where we, the Niijii Films crew, can witness how it's firmly established itself as the filmic source of reference in all matters ocean acidification. This is by no means a sign of decay but, quite on the contrary, an indication of its health and the natural progress of things. And you could be of so much help in the weeks, months and years to come. How?:
Just two days ago a person that attended our April screening in Sao Paulo wrote asking permission to organize one himself at local MAUA School of Technology. It fills me with pride to know that that event and the after talk about individual initiatives stayed with Alberto Galvão Branco and now that he sees a chance to do something he has not wasted a minute to contact us. You could do the very same thing, whether it is at a local college, and environmental organization near your home, a municipal auditorium or space that sits empty most days. Read HERE, it is quite simple. It will become the perfect excuse to see friends, build your community, eat something together afterward, become actively engaged in solving the problems that concern you, feel so so helpful. Plus, it releases lots of endorphins.
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I cycle by the shore every morning,
the Mediterranean there was, the Mediterranean there is
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Speaking of documentary film festivals, Barbara and Sven just returned (briefly) home after attending the screening of their film at the Chesapeake Film Festival, while here at the virtual office we were informed that the film had been selected for the Festival du Film de L'environnement in Kairouan, Tunisia, in early December. How nice is that?
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I really wanted to visit some of the cerrado National Parks during the screening tour in Brazil in March and April, but it was not possible. The dates did not leave a window of time big enough to "escape" to the countryside between each city. I thought it would be a long time before I had another chance to fly to South America and fulfill this desire, but I was so wrong. Not even a week after my return to the US the production company received an invitation to take part in FICA again, the film festival that A Sea Change won last year, this time as part of a series of films to be screened for school children from the State of Goias. I wrote to the organizers and suggested we did a little more than just show the film; I wanted to go down there and meet them, talk to them about ocean acidification and do a simple chemistry experiment to exemplify what an acidic ocean does to shell forming organisms. They liked the idea and so it was that, barely a month after leaving Río, that I was heading South again on an early June night.
My expectations were very high, but even so the cerrado did not disappoint me at all. It is wild, it is pure, it is extremely beautiful, bizarre and surprising. Animals, birds and plants seem to have come out of a Dr. Seuss book. The giant anteater with its long hairs, nose and tongue, the toucans and parrots, the palms, sticky plants, fragrant leaves, thorny bushes. Everything was new and unique to me. And for good reason, forty some percent of all I saw was endemic; this ecosystem is so important that, in a country like Brazil that holds the Amazon jungle, the cerrado still counts for over thirty percent of all the biodiversity in the nation. The big threat to these gorgeous savannas and bushy areas are the dry season fires and the clearings done for soy and cattle farming. Fires are strictly forbidden, but one would think that they are actually encouraged. Everywhere I went people were burning grass and low bush by the side of the road, in farms, in the forests. This practice could not be more dangerous. The dry season lasts half of the year and usually, once a fire gets out of control during these months there is absolutely no way people will manage to stop it. Some plants have adapted to fires and have the most ingenious ways of "escaping" or surviving fires, but many others and all animals caught in it perish and take an awful long time to repopulate the area because conditions in the cerrado are extreme and hard (six months of rain, six months of "seca", the dry season). I came to realize that legislation is not going to do much to discourage "winter" burnings, that the only way to dissuade Brazilians from eradicating the mato is to educate them, to teach them to love this magnificent environment that they take for granted and to teach them about the consequences of fires. The cerrado, as I have already mentioned on previous posts in this blog, is the most threatened environment in all Brazil, way above the Amazonia.
Education has always looked to me like the only true key to hope and change in all matters, including the way we treat the planet, so I was elated to have the opportunity to show the film to 500 kids and talk to them for a couple minutes. There were children and teenagers of all ages, from 5 to 17. They were loud, they were having fun, they were nervous. The room was huge, it is the same one used for the Festival's closing ceremony, but in less than five minutes it filled up. They were making so much noise during the opening scene that you could not hear a thing. How loud were they? About this LOUD
Unfortunately, some of them had to leave before it was over because they had come by bus from distant towns and villages and had to begin their way back, but a good number of them stayed until the end. I had promised to ask a few simple questions about the film and reward those that knew the answers with some of our merchandise, so the kids (and quite many adults) were pretty excited. I also asked the younger children to please make a drawing with whatever part of the documentary or animal shown in it that they liked and we quickly assembled an informal jury to reward the best five or six with a Niijii Films baseball cap as well. I wished I had brought 100 and not just a handful, it was heartbreaking to see some of those disappointed eyes. The most difficult question I asked seemed to be to name in an understandable way the little shell with wings that appears several times throughout the film. The word "pteropod" is not the easiest one to pronounce for a 12 year old Brazilian kid; some pretty comical and unintelligible replies, formed mostly by the urge to own a baseball cap, came out of those mouths. Finally, I told them all to come close to the stage and hold two cups in their hands, one filled with water and one filled with vinegar. Then we gave each one of them several pieces of chalk while I explained that they should imagine the acidic ocean being the cup of vinegar and the shell forming organism being the pieces of chalk. There was some initial confusion because the chalk was bubbling in the water as well as in the vinegar, but once the air inside it had come out they could see the vinegar getting all murky and the chalk stick slowly dissolving. I knew all this was quite a stretch for a little girl that has never seen the ocean or eaten shellfish and is at the beginning of her school years, but I think they got the essence of the message and both students and teachers were absolutely fascinated by the chemistry behind the terrible problem of ocean acidification. I believe and hope the experiment is going to be replicated in classrooms during the next few months.
Here are a few of the drawings I took with me, all of them winners of the Niijii Films cap that is now often seen around the State of Goias:
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Barbara and Sven returned from the West Coast a few days back and this past Thursday Sven and I had a chance to go on a morning ride, discuss how Liquigas was doing in the Giro de Italia and talk about the 2010 NOAA Environmental Hero Award ceremony in La Jolla, CA.
"Thanks" to some stomach problems this spring (or so he claims) Sven is looking lean and mean and was able to talk even when the road got steep.
"It was exciting to be out there," he said. "Obviously, it is a delight when you work hard and try to pull the best team together to make a film to in the end get this kind of recognition. We are lucky to have Barbara as a director. She is a good storyteller so the rest of us did what we were told and tried to do it well."
From left to right, Tony Haymet, Dick Feely, Barbara Ettinger and Sven Huseby
"The evening started with a slideshow with clips from the film and Youtube pieces related to the history of the film, television shows where it had appeared and those sort of things. There was a major buffet and soon after the ceremony.
Dick Feely came down from the Seattle office of NOAA to present the award on behalf of Doctor Jane Lubchenko, the Administrative Director of NOAA. She is a woman with deep knowledge of ocean acidification as a result of her work at Oregon State University," said Sven.
"After the award ceremony we had a screening of the full 83 minute version of the documentary for the 250 attendees and finally a q&a with Barbara and myself, Andrew Dickson, Tony Haymet and Victoria Fabry."
I did not recognize a couple of the names, so Sven, water bottle in his hand, explained: "Tony Haymet is the president of Scripps. Andrew Dickson is known as the man who came up with a standardized way of calibrating instruments to measure pH levels around the world seas, whether it is Japan, Norway, Australia or the United States. And Victoria Fabry, or Vicky Fabry as we know her, is the scientist who was originally interviewed by Elizabeth Kolbert in her seminal article for the November 2006 issue of the New Yorker titled "The Darkening Sea". It is always a treat to catch up with Vicky."
"The best part of getting an award like this is you can leverage it into more publicity and greater milage for the film," he concluded.
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It is 60 degrees, cloudy and windy at times and I am listening to the National's new record surrounded by maple, oak and pine tress in my office. No more Tim Maia, Marisa Monte, funky carioca or forró. No more Os Mutantes. I will need to close my eyes really tight to remember what it was and felt like 5,000 miles further South, over in Brazil. Right now Barbara and Sven are on the West Coast receiving their Environmental Hero Award from NOAA and visiting Elias and his family while back here in NY we received this past week news of three broadcasts on Norwegian national television, NRK (which made Sven particularly happy), and of the screening at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver. The Vancouver Observer did a nice little piece about it that you can read here.
The penultimate screening was at the Cineclube Socioambiental Crisantempo in Vila Madalena. Vila Madalena fools you into thinking that the gigantic city that envelops it does not exist. It is a beautiful neighborhood with posh restaurants, bars with terraces, boutiques, artists' studios, bakeries. If you are rich in Sao Paulo, you want to hang out around Vila Madalena and forget about the traffic jams, the hectic Avenida Paulista, the putrid Pinheiros River, the more than 20 million people around. Crisantempo offers a fantastic space in which to host film, theatre, dance and music performances. It is all very well organized and cared for, all extremely professional. Everybody talks about the city being the engine of South America, more cosmopolitan, faster paced and wealthier than anywhere else in the continent and I guess it is true. For me it was a relief to have the last screenings being a little less stressful and unpredictable. In preparation for our night the organizers had contacted Leandra Gonçalves from Greenpeace Brasil to be present during the Q&A. That gave me the opportunity to not have to listen so much to myself again and learn some very interesting things about the attempts (or lack thereof) in Brazil to preserve coastal waters and marine ecosystems. Although I had already noticed how much meat is eaten everywhere, I was surprised to know that the average consumption per capita of fish in Brazil barely reaches 8 kilograms (it is 58 kilograms over in Spain, but we might only be beat by Japan in our dependency and love for fish). It is a bit of a paradox that a country so associated with sandy beaches and coconut groves, surfing, water and nature can literally have its back turned in another direction if we just look at their national policies and their diet. Ms Gonçalves was very keen to talk about whales (a symbol for Greenpeace), so took the opportunity to tell the audience that one of the possible future lines of research in regards to ocean acidification and marine life could be the impact a more acidic ocean will have on animals that communicate through sound underwater. One of the lesser known facts about acidification is that a decrease of 0.3 in the PH equals a 40% decrease in the sound absorption coefficient. Yes, there could be acoustic contamination in the oceans as well.
100 different types of fruit at the Municipal Market in Sao Paulo.
In a city like Sao Paulo some of the favelas are vertical. Outside the Municipal Market.
Then it was time to go back to Río, catch a few more waves on Ipanema beach, watch the city at sunset from Sugar Loaf, buy a kilo of powdered guaraná and go to the final screening, at the Solar da Imperatriz in the Jardim Botanico; no less!
The place was also known as Facenda dos Macacos, after the river that passes through it, but either macaques really liked the name or I want to believe their profusion had something to do with it as well. They run up and down electric wires, roll on roofs, feed along the fences, curious and nervous, mothers carrying several offspring on the backs. With those curled up tails, hanging at different heights, they looked like musical notes on a score to the Mata Atlântica.
The somewhat long drive up to this lush location in the outskirts of Rio did not prevent the screening form going really well. Cecilia Herzog from Inverde and her husband Alex (Amigos do Parque) were in charge of the whole thing and through their hard work, devotion and energy made sure that it all run smoothly, in a brilliant manner. The most positive thing about this trip has certainly been meeting people like them and like Fabiana Duarte de Paula, Eudaldo Guimaraes, Ana Arruda, Suzana Sattamini, Pedro Cavalcanti, Natalia Ribeiro, Andrea Palatnik, Luciano Mariz, Gina Boemer or so many other amazing folks that I am surely forgetting now and have shown to me such conviction and hope in change, such great generosity and will to help, sharing their energy and intelligence for this project. They have restored my at times damaged faith in human kind.
This time at the end we had a panel discussion with journalist Amélia Gonzales from O Globo and oceanographer David Zee from the University Veiga de Almeida and the collaboration from members of the audience, like Trajano Paiva, who runs a website devoted to the oceans called sosoceanos.org.
What a great aftertaste to six fantastic weeks in Brazil. And now for something completely different.
This post is dedicated to my good friend Miguel Gil, who helped me throughout the whole trip, shared the laughter, joys and miseries that come from traveling and just yesterday experienced the tragedy of his half of the cupuaçu cracking in the dry Granada air. We will go and get some more, Miguel.
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We met Matthew's brother and parents in Murfreesboro for dinner and to get Nathan, so he could ride to Chattanooga with us. We got to Chattanooga pretty late Friday night so we got a little tour of his house, talked and then crashed for the night.
we they helped him move some last big things from his apartment and then went downtown for lunch and walked around. I love walking on their bridges in Chattanooga and getting to see all the pretty views.
and I love the Snap Chat has filters for different areas.
HAAAAY Walnut Street Bridge ;)
One of our friends from Tech is going to school in Chattanooga now and just moved in his new apartment so he joined us for lunch.
We ate at Genghis Grill downtown. It was my first time eating there and it was pretty good. The small size bowl is still too much for me, but would make a great second meal. I think I seasoned it a little too much, so next time I will go easier on the sauces lol.
Saturday night we went over to one of Andrew's friends house for dinner and a movie. They actually knew them from college. Kayla and I have been friends on social media for awhile now after meeting briefly the last time I was in Chattanooga. She had posted a picture of their new farmhouse table that her husband built them a little bit ago so when I realized we were going to their house for dinner I got really excited to see it.
Here are a couple of pictures of it that she posted on her Pinterest
Don't you just love it?! Matthew and I have been looking up plans for farmhouse tables every since we left their house Saturday night! Matthew and I both agreed that we would love to have a farmhouse table in our house one day!! Also, Kayla and Allison both told me they read my blogs along with other ones (Hiiiiiiii Kayla and Allison!!), how fun!
We went to church Sunday morning and then to Old Chicago Pizza for lunch. Y'all we ate well on our trip ;) I haven't been to Old Chicago in years and had forgotten how good it was. My mouth is watering thinking about those huge slices of pizza now! After lunch we packed our stuff up and headed out soon after that.
It was a great weekend and I am so glad we got to finally see Andrew's house! Such an exciting time for him!


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The location of your corporate event is one of the key decisions you have to make before the planning starts. Whether your celebrating an anniversary, launching a new company strategy or just want to reward your employees; SugarCity is the place for you.
A company event in SugarCIty is guaranteed to be memorable. The sugarfactory offers all the facilities you'd expect from normal event location, except with an environment like no other venue in the Netherlands. Because of the many spaces our venue offers, you can pick and choose to create company event that fits your exact goals. Do you keep it simple and just use our biggest factory space, or would you like to add an arrival hall for your guest? Is your event exclusively indoors or would prefer to have some attractions and seating options outside. Its all up to you!
Our Sugar City Events team is ready to assist you in organizing your ideal corporate event. We have a lot of experience in terms of facilities, catering, engineering and styling of a company event. Therefore, we are always able to recommend great companies to aid you in setting up your event. Of course this is optional, and you can just pick the third parties that you think are most suitable.
Due to its central location between Amsterdam and Haarlem plus the accessible terrain, SugarCity is one of the most flexible party locations in the Amsterdam region. With both the N200 highway and trainstation Halfweg-Zwanenburg at the doorstep, SugarCity easily accessible by both public transport and car.
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Since we only were in the Transylvanian part of Romania, it would be more accurate to call this entry "Transylvanian culture and food", but then people might assume it is just about vampires and drinking blood. We had heard that Romania was still culturally somewhat mired in the age of communism, and that we should expect minimal customer service, if any. Fortunately, this was not the case. Read the rest of this entry »
Romanian culture and food6 05 2009
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Categories : Food, Romania
Sibiu6 05 2009
We stopped in our final Transylvanian town of Sibiu, on our way to Hungary from here in Romania. It is another Saxon medieval town, that has been surrounded by a large and more modern city. Sibiu was the was the capital of the Transylvania Saxon towns, and now has many museums and a very clean and well maintained central area. On the way to Sibui, we passed through the countryside and saw Romanians picnicking and cooking out in the fields. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Food, Romania
Sighişoara2 05 2009
We took another day trip from our comfortable base in Braşov up north to the town of Sighişoara. It was a three hour train ride through more of the rolling hills of the Romanian countryside. We often saw horse-drawn wagons, old-fashioned domed mounds of grass (kept in fields or near barns) and many small farms as we passed by in the train. Sighişoara is another historical Saxon village similar to Braşov in that the original medieval core of the city is surrounded by walls and bastion towers associated with the various trade guilds, but this village is perched up on a hillside with great views of the surrounding river valley and forested hillsides. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Architecture, Land Use Planning, Romania, Urban Design
Râşnov and Bran1 05 2009
From our base in Braşov, we took a short trip to the popular Bran castle and the citadel at Râşnov. Bran castle is very popular and was somewhat crowded while we were there. There must be a million digital photos of the place floating around on the internet already, but we'll add ours just for good measure. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Romania
Sinaia and the Bucegi Mountains30 04 2009
We left Braşov and headed down the Prahova River valley towards the town of Sinaia, with the hopes of backpacking in the Bucegi Mountains. The train ride down was nice, through the forest of the Carpathian Mountains. The Prahova river was a sorry little river surrounded by nice forests, with ample amounts of trash in it and hung up on the vegetated creek banks, and it had a tint to it that was too dark given all the clear tributaries we noticed coming out of the forests. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Romania
Days of Braşov27 04 2009
We arrived in Braşov just in time for their "Days of Braşov" festival, which includes traditional music and dancing in the square, street vendors with wine and other foods, and a big event where horse riders come from surrounding villages and parade through town on their horses. Like the official looking banners say, Braşov is "Probably the best City in the World." While we're not going to argue about this designation since they have prefaced their argument with 'probably', we certainly enjoyed our time here.
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Tags: Braşov, Days of Braşov, Mămăligă, Sarmalute
Categories : Food, Romania
Train ride to Romania25 04 2009
We left Brno in the Czech Republic on an overnight train for Braşov, in Romania. We are headed to the Carpathian Mountains (also called the Transylvania Alps in this area) in Romania to do some hiking, see some more castles and maybe get inundated with Vlad the Impaler (aka Dracula) trinkets.
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AWP-158 Alpha Electric Polisher
Electric wet polisher AWP-158, is designed for polishing, shaping, core drilling and light grinding. The 7.8 amp, 800-watt, 3,000 RPM machine is a powerful workhorse suitable for use in the shop or on the job site.
– Increased power and spindle speed
– Two types of handles included: a side handle for edge profiling and polishing and a "C" handle for core drilling and flat surface polishing.
– Flat polishing caster is designed to improve stability during scratch removal operations for a better final finish
– Double insulated and equipped with a power cord that is 10 feet long and has a built-in GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter) for safety
– Center water-feed and water supply with convenient garden hose attachment.
– Packed in a carrying case suitable for transporting and storing
– Suitable for use with the Alpha® DS Style Shaping Wheel, the Alpha® Profiler and Alpha® Core Bits, and the entire line of Ceramica polishing pads


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The New Orleans Bar Association's Insurance Law Committee and David Strauss, Committee Chair, welcomed Dean Sutherland as he moderated a lively discussion of recent developments in bad faith litigation, with panelists Joe Bruno (policyholder counsel) and Minor Pipes (insurer counsel). The speakers examined emerging case law, hotbed jurisdictions, new risks, and recent trends at a one hour continuing legal education program held on Friday, August 8th at the New Orleans Bar Association.
Featured in photo (from left to right): Minor Pipes; Joe Bruno; Dean Sutherland.


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All of the books, cards, and patches are on their way to being delivered; posters and scrolls are shipping direct from the printers. Enjoy!
Category Archives: Kickstarter
And They're Gone! Books Have Shipped.
Filed under Kickstarter, Progress Report, Tears of a Machine
The Books are Here!
After several weather delays, the books are in my hands and will soon be on their way to Kickstarter backers around the world!
It's quite a relief to have them. Now it's time for addresses and mailing supplies and several trips to the post office.
Filed under Kickstarter, Progress Report, Tears of a Machine
Turning the Corner to Production
Been a while since my last full update but that's because we've been busy, busy, busy.
Cards and Badges
The "feelies" (physical rewards) are set! I got the box of CRC ID cards this past week and they look and feel as good as I had hoped. The Preservation Forces patch has been drafted and approved and is in production now. He's a peek at the studio's proof:
This image is slightly lower res, but I was surprised at the scale and detail that we were able to get for our budget; 4 1/2 inches tall by 3 inches wide. Everyone of our SAInt tier and higher backers will receive one of these with their physical copy of the book. Thank you, once more, to our Angel tier backer, Athrun Nailo. Continue reading
Filed under Accessibility, Kickstarter, Progress Report, Tears of a Machine
Campaign Success!
The Tears of a Machine kickstarter campaign has been a success! We're fully funded to get the game through editing, art, layout, and printing. Here's the last update of the funding drive.
Offering the book in accessible format did a lot to help me find the support I needed. I'm going to make every effort to keep the level of quality just as high in creating the synchronized audio version of the text.
Thank you once more, to all my backers and supporters.
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The Bully – Part 2
It's time for the next scene. We'll fill in the story with some of Klaus' ruminations, explaining more about who he is and where he comes from.
Klaus went to physical training after lunch. He had been sheltered as a child, his mother terrified of the open sky overhead that had snatched away her husband. She worked two jobs to afford an apartment only three blocks from an emergency shelter. Klaus was left with little more than his books.
The months of training since he had joined the Preservation Force were toughening him up and he noticed the flab of inactivity fading but he was still short and nervous and never did very well in sports.
Today was worse than usual. No matter what he did his thoughts drifted back to George with mixture of anger and fear. What do I do now?
"Klaus!" He jerked back to reality just in time to reach up and bat a ball away from his head.
"Good reflexes. But this is soccer, not volleyball." Trainer Levinson picked up the ball and handed it over to the opposing team. Bettina from Fortress Company rolled her eyes at him and smirked to her teammates. Continue reading
The Bully – Part 1
Things are never cut and dried for a pilot, or any teenager for that matter. Add in the responsibilities of becoming the hope of humanity and even the simplest situations become charged. Over the next few updates I'll be posting some scenes from one pilot's life. Each of these posts could be a separate scene in an episode of Tears. Enjoy!
Klaus swallowed hard and stepped back. The metal rails along the lunch counter stopped him by jabbing his kidney. George stared down at him, still shocked at the runny mess of beef stroganoff and whipped potatoes dripping down the neat creases of his cadet uniform. Klaus pawed at his pockets and tried to find a napkin or tissue to hand over but as he fumbled George's eyes snapped into a brute's scowl and he balled up his fists.
Klaus stammered out a lame apology while George reached out and grabbed his lapel. Franz and Jackson, George's toadies closed in around them but not fast enough to block out the security officer.
"Cadets!" Her shout echoed off the high ceiling of the cafeteria. Other diners turned to watch and their voices dropped to whispers. Continue reading


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Living With Pain ~ Loving Your Crazy Cousin
Dan Cleary:
Living With Pain ~ Loving Your Crazy Cousin
Medical Hypnosis Coaching with Melissa Roth and Roger Moore
Pain serves us and saves us and yet at times, it seems to try to destroy us. What if… painful signals announcing nothing we don't already know, were like our crazy cousin Earl? What if… we were to better understand our relationship and find unconditional love?
Chronic pain happens. It is simply what is. How do we live satisfying lives when chronic pain comes to visit? Join Dan Cleary and discover ways to shift the relationship with painful signals in your own life and the life of your client. Dan came to hypnosis with chronic pain and discovered ways of shifting the perception of painful signals, recapture a sense of control in life and celebrate the everyday nothings that are everything to us all.
Daniel F. Cleary is an internationally recognized Pain Relief Educator and Hypnosis Instructor, teaching throughout the United States and Europe. His specialties include pain relief and personal transformation. He has been a course director for Pain Week from 2007 – 2012, where his programs are approved for continuing medical education units.
Dan is the author of: LITTLE BOOK OF CHANGE – A Primer to Hypnosis, CHANGING PAIN – Relief is Realistic and TARGETING PAIN – A Practitioners Guide to Relief
Streaming Video Recording
Recorded January 13, 2015
This is a Pay-Per-View class. After Payment, you will need to log in to your account (set up during checkout) and you will see a menu on the right with a list of all pay-per-view videos. You will only be able to access the videos you purchased. You will have 30 days from your date of purchase to view your videos.


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MIAMI COUNTY — Miami County candidates have filed for a variety of offices for the Nov. 5 general election.
Candidate filings are unofficial and will not be certified until the board of elections meets at 3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16.
The following is a list of residents who filed for board of education seats, which have a four-year term. An asterisk denotes a contested race:
Piqua City School: Clint Bostick and Steven Fraizer
*Troy City Schools: Susan Borchers, Michael Ham, Steven Pedler, Douglas Trostle — Vying for three seats
Borchers was appointed to the board to fill the unexpired term of William Overla.
Bradford Exempted Village Schools: Maria Brewer and Scott Swabb
Covington Exempted Village Schools: Mark Miller and Kerry Murphy
Tipp City Exempted Village Schools: Theresa Dunaway, Samuel Spano, Anne Zakkour
Bethel Local Schools: Lori Sebastian
Miami East Local Schools: John E. Demmitt and Mark Iiames
Milton-Union Local Schools: Jessica Brumbaugh, Lori Parson, Beth Stasiak
*Newton Local Schools: Bridget Haines, Nate Oburn, Tonia Schauer — Vying for two seats
Miami County ESC: Michael Van Haaren (Bethel) and Janel Hodges (Newton)
The following is a list of residents who filed for city seats:
City of Piqua: Thomas Scott Fogt (1st Ward Commissioner), Cindy Pearson (2nd Ward Commissioner), Kathryn (Kazy) B. Hinds (5th Ward Commissioner)
Tipp City: John Haywood, Michael McFarland, Logan Rogers
Village of Bradford: Don Stump (Mayor), Brenda Selanders (Clerk/Treasurer), Galen Balmert (Council), Robert Dougherty (Council)
Village of Casstown: Dawn Vanover (Mayor), Laura Gates (Council), Nikki Frazier (Council)
*Village of Covington: Edward McCord (Mayor), Joyce Robertson (Mayor); *Council: Jesse Reynolds, Judith Smith, Keith Warner — Contested race for mayor, vying for two seats on council
Village of Fletcher: Penny Reed (Mayor), Michael Till (Council)
Village of Laura: Angela Deere (Mayor)
*Village of Pleasant Hill: Leonard Wirz (Mayor); Stanley Fessler (Board of Trustee of public affairs); Council: Judith Barga, Brenda Carroll, Alisha Wood—Vying for two seats on council
Village of West Milton: B. Scott Hurst (Vice-Mayor); Council: Sarah Copp, Christopher Horn, Greg Tracy
The following residents filed for township trustee positions:
Bethel Township: Deborah Watson (Fiscal officer); Trustee: Gary Biggs
Brown Township: Art Bowser (Fiscal officer); Trustee: John Beal
Concord Township: William Whidden (Fiscal officer); Trustee: Neil Rhoades
*Elizabeth Township: Mary Ann Mumford (Fiscal officer): Trustee: Jerry Paulus, John Ryman
*Lostcreek Township: Walter Pemberton (Fiscal officer): Trustee: Darrell Davis, Richard Walker
*Monroe Township: Lawrence Becker (Fiscal officer): Trustee: Lauryn Bayliff, Chuck Elliott, Greg Siefring, William Jamie Watkins —Vying for one seat
Newberry Township: Mary Benedict (Fiscal officer): Trustee: J. Jason Sargent.
Springcreek Township: Robert Black (Fiscal officer): Trustee: Thomas Hill, Douglas DeWeese
Hill was previously appointed to the position.
Staunton Township: Sarah Fine (Fiscal officer): Trustee: Jeff Cron
Union Township: Marjorie Coate (Fiscal officer): Trustee: Phil Mote
Washington Township: Mikel Brown (Fiscal officer): Trustee Matthew Hartley
Reach Melanie Yingst at email@example.com
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Since the dawn of crowdfunding, there have been some monster success stories.
These include the Pebble E-Paper Watch, which raised over $10 million in 37 days and is famous for being Kickstarter's breakout success, UK beer producer Brewdog who have raised £26 million across 4 equity campaigns since 2009, and Oculus Rift, a virtual Reality company who raised nearly $2.5 million in 30 days before going on to be acquired by Facebook for $2 billion.
Of course, there have been countless horror stories too, including a number of projects intended to fund the lifestyles, travel and hedonism of a new generation of freeloaders.
Whether you're a creative, an entrepreneur or an altruist, crowdfunding is a powerful way to fund projects. Here are some tips to ensure your campaign gets off to the best possible start.
Pick the right platform
Don't just jump on the first platform you find. Think about investor reach — both breadth and depth — and choose the right platform for your specific project.
Weigh up the pros and cons of specialist creative, startup and hybrid platforms. Niche or generic? Local or international? The nature of your project will determine the right place to fund it. Different platforms support niche communities that, whilst smaller than the behemoths, can provide rich pockets of liquidity and investor expertise. For social action, try StartSomeGood. For biotech projects, look at CapitalCell. For legal aid, try CrowdJustice.
You can use Crowdsurfer's comprehensive data and analytics to help find the right "home" for your project, increasing your chances of success.
Plan your campaign
Research successful campaigns that are relevant to your own — study them, cherry pick good ideas, get in contact with the founders and learn from what they did right and how they achieved their success.
It's equally important to look at failed campaigns — try to figure out why they stalled and learn from their mistakes.
Again, Crowdsurfer's "Raise" feature is a great place to start your research.
Leverage your social presence
Create an online presence away from the crowdfunding platform. The sooner you start this process, the better, so begin building a community across the social media ecosystem, ready to be "turned on" . Trying to build a following from scratch after launching your campaign won't work.
To speed up your progress, ask any social media "power users" that you know to give you a helping hand. You may have secretly mocked them for being cynical networkers — but now you need them.
Check out this guide on Buffer for creating an extraordinary social media strategy from scratch.
Pay it forward
An easy way to gain trust and support in the crowdfunding community is to become an active member of the platform community yourself.
Do this by interacting with other members of the platform community and putting your money where your mouth is by backing other's projects. It's crowd finance karma: what goes around comes around.
Invest in content
Your chances of selling your idea can be greatly helped if you use first class content – and a killer campaign video. Create an arsenal of content before launching and drip-feed it onto the platform and across social media channels during the campaign. You should also keep people updated on how the campaign is progressing.
Explain what, why, who, where, when you are asking for funding. Show that you have "skin in the game" and talk about what you have already committed to the project in terms of money, time, personal sacrifices. And if you're reward crowdfunding, create concrete rewards. You can also give everyone a chance to back you by create granular entry points for backers. People respond positively if you give them access to genuinely cool stuff. So be bold.
Get a firm grip on financials
It's important you don't ask for funding to start the project from scratch, so show that you have taken things as far as you can without additional financial help. Be transparent by providing a detailed funding breakdown.
Don't aim to high and be sure to pitch for the right amount of funding — consider tax treatments in your local jurisdiction — corporation/income tax, and also VAT if applicable. Remember to factor in platform fees and pass through to backers if necessary.
A firm grip on the financials from the get-go is essential when looking to raise any amount of money, large or small.
Execution is everything
Early momentum is crucial — who is going to fund you on day one, day two, day three? Choreograph early pledges to generate the perception of steady momentum in the early stages of your campaign. Continually update the platform community and followers on social media. And root your campaign in the real world by inviting people to meet you and your business as your campaign gets underway.
If you're lucky enough to hit your target, share your progress with the community and update backers on the status of their rewards. Take care of the admin.
The community you build whilst funding your project is a significant long-term asset to your enterprise. It consists of people who believe in your idea enough to back it. Keep it alive and turn these investors into customers. Also, don't be afraid to use the community as a testing ground for future ideas — plug them in your followers and ask for input.
8 Steps To Crowdfunding Glory
Since the dawn of crowdfunding, there have been some monster success stories.


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Many people prepare a Will and leave it "tucked away" for many years, never turning an eye to it. Alternatively others consider it to be one of those tasks that is "just too hard", and gets put aside for another month, year or decade.
There are many reasons to have a Will or review and update your Will.
Below is a checklist of events that may prompt you to do so.
- The individuals you have named are deceased.
- New people need to be named in your will (e.g. birth, adoption)
- Divorce or marriage
- Change in guardians of infant children, executors, or trustees.
- Children reach the age of eighteen
- A substantial increase or decrease in the value of your estate
- The passage of time is reason enough. You should review your will and estate planning documents every three to five years
If you think any of the above apply to you, or you would like to discuss further if it may be time to review your will (or even get your first will) please call Marissa, Kylie or Lisa on (02) 9653 9466


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It was a really fun, interesting and inspiring night with some good advice from the speakers, including styling duo OmiApi and Emma Hart from Push PR to name a couple. They emphasised that you have to be brave and just get out there, network and show everyone what you can do. Fear has held me back in the past and I also haven't had much luck securing enough relevant work experience. I would love to help out at a magazine, even if it's not within the fashion team but most of my letters and emails are ignored as it's so competitive to even get unpaid work. I would also considering trying Fashion PR or buying but again, it's so hard to get into. I need to try again and make my letters stand out this time. It feels like it will never happen but maybe I just need to keep plugging away
Here is the stylish Leon who specialises in luxury fashion recruitment giving us tips on what employers in the luxury fashion retail industry look for
There was also a fashion show from Bola Holis which I took some snaps of below
My favourite piece is the structured white dress but every outfit was on point and well constructed
I really enjoyed the event and loved how laid back and fun it was. If they put on another event I'd definitely go. Now, I just need to take some time and have the guts to get out there and try and break into the industry


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Breaking down the herb is the most tedious process of enjoying it. One thing that can make it simpler is using a herb grinder.Grinders do a lot more than just grind your weed up. Grinders are a necessary tool for those of you out there looking to maximize your time smoking and minimize your time doing other things that lead up to it. They are also can be used a storgae of weed or other materials for carrying.
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T Shape Press Pollen 3.5 IN
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Reference papers for Leptoquarks :
``Leptoquarks in lepton-quark Collisions",
W. Buchmuller, R. Ruckl, D. Wyler, DESY-86-150, Nov 1986. 21pp.
Phys.Lett.B191:442,1987, Erratum-ibid.B448:320,1999
The reference paper for LQs at HERA. There you find the expressions for the matrix elements. Note that some of the interference terms with DIS had the wrong sign in the original publication. The corrected signs can be found in the Erratum.
``Model Independent Constraints on Leptoquarks from Rare Processes",
S. Davidson, D. Bailey, B.A. Campbell, Published in Z.Phys.C61:613-644,1994.
Indirect limits for LQs with or without Lepton Flavor Violation.
``Formation and Decay of Scalar Leptoquarks/Squarks in ep Collisions",
T. Plehn, H. Spiesberger, M. Spira, P. M. Zerwas,
, Published in Z.Phys. C74 (1997) 611-614.
References for Light Stop :
``Possible excess in charged current events with high Q**2 at HERA from stop and sbottom production",
T. Kon, T. Matsushita, T. Kobayashi, Mod.Phys.Lett.A12:3143-3152,1997 ,
``Stop and sbottom production at HERA",
T. Matsushita, T. Abe, S. Kitamura, T. Kobayashi, T. Kon, Proceedings of Monte Carlo Generators for HERA Physics (July 99),
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``Stops in R Parity breaking model for high-Q**2 events at HERA",
T. Kon, T. Kobayashi, Phys.Lett.B409:265-270,1997 ,


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text: Wuk is short for Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus (Workshop and Culture House) – is not only a venue for concerts. The brick building with its charmingly sleazy cobbled courtyard hosts 130 groups and initiatives, which produce all kinds of non-mainstream-art. The cultural center is subsidised by the City of Vienna, but the groups work autonomously and self-governed. Apart from the concert hall, studios and workshops there is also a café with a nice outdoor area in the WUK courtyard and a self-help bicycle repair shop. The 19th century building was originally used as a factory for train engines. In 1884, the Technologisches Gewerbemuseum (Technologic Trade Museum) moved into today's WUK and turned it into a place of science, education and exhibitions with the purpose to keep the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy up-to-date in questions of technological development. The monarchy was more than half a century gone when there were still engineers trained in Währinger Straße 59. In 1981, the building was handed over to an association of alternative Viennese artist, teachers, students and other activists.


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William E. Metzger opens the first car dealership in the US on June 7, 1897 selling Waverley electric cars. Two years later, he sells the first automobile built by Oldsmobile. (In 1902, he helps form the Cadillac Motor Car Company.)
The first car advert, for Winton Motor Carriage Company was featured in Scientific American magazine.
The Ford Motor Company is incorporated, selling its first Model A on July 23, 1903.
Henry Ford makes his Model T. affordable with innovations like interchangeable parts and the assembly line. By 1914 this has reduced the cost from $825 to $490; by 1921 the Model T costs only $310.
Doctors are among the first to use automobiles, making house calls much easier. Police officers can also now respond to calls more quickly than on horseback or on foot.
The first two car magazines ever (The Horseless Age in the U.S. and The Autocar in the U.K.) debuted the same year, 1911, and are still in existence today (as Automotive Industries and Autocar, respectively). We might be biased, but Modern Dealership is still our favorite industry mag!
In 1919, GM forms the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, offering terms of 35 percent down with the balance to be paid in installments over a single year. With the buyer driving their new car away that day, auto financing as we know it is born. By the mid-'20s, three quarters of car buyers financed.
Between 1918 and 1929, the number of cars on the road increases from 8 million to 23 million.
By the middle of the decade, over 10 percent of all people in the U.S. workforce are employed in the production, sales, service, or fueling of automobiles.
As evidenced by the slogan, "See the new Auburn—Ride in it—Drive it, and if the car does not sell itself, you will not be asked to buy", the Test Drive arrives as an integral feature of the car buying process.
By the end of the Roaring Twenties, 4 out of 5 American families have a car.
Though times were tough as the Great Depression devastates much of American culture, car makers continued to invent – automatic transmission, the V-8 engine, hydraulic brakes, column mounted gear shift, and the trunk!
Chrysler joins Ford and GM as the third of the "Big Three" and design the first car with aerodynamics in mind – its Airflow model.
The market for pre-owned autos increase – so much so, that in the mid-Twenties and again in 1937, some dealers actively junk many serviceable used cars in an attempt to steer customers back to new vehicles.
Before WWII, the American auto industry produced 4 million cars annually. During wartime, no more than 700 cars are produced in a year, all of which are conscripted into military service.
Used cars become a hot commodity in such short order that Congress is forced to enact legislation to cap used car prices. Due to the demand, cars are often pulled from junkyards to be reconditioned.
Dealers survive the war by turning their focus to used cars, as well as parts and service.
Even as troops return home new cars are in short supply. For each new car manufactured, a dozen customers are in line to buy.
As the Fifties approached, glitzy new showrooms are the centerpieces of increasingly adept advertising strategies, selling the status associated with car ownership as much as the automobiles themselves.
By 1955, over 20 million licensed drivers in the US are women and the automotive industry try new marketing approaches. From Charlotte Montgomery's Handbook for the Woman Driver offered at many dealerships, to "Ladies' Nights" promotions pairing fashion and cars, dealers learn to consider women as serious shoppers who prefer courteous staff and impeccable facilities.
In 1956, President Eisenhower signs the Federal-Aid Highway Act, creating the Interstate Highway System, which further increases the demand for cars and car-related services.
The Fair Isaac Company creates the first FICO score, still used in determining consumers' creditworthiness today.
A ubiquitous feature of car buying, the window sticker is introduced and becomes federally mandated on all new automobiles listing specifications, fuel efficiency, and any added-on optional equipment.
Celebrities extolling the virtues of a particular maker's cars go back at least as far as the Twenties, when Fatty Arbuckle lent his influence as the foremost comedian of the day to Pierce-Arrow. By the late Fifties, Groucho Marx lent his smooth salesmanship to the "De-Lightful, De-Lovely DeSoto" on television, persuading customers to give a DeSoto the "Five Mile Trial" test drive at their local dealer.
Dealer promotional models were popular & help market cars to consumers. Surviving examples are now coveted collectibles.
Demonstrator cars allow on-the-fly test drives to anyone a salesperson may meet while out and about. Not just a perk for sales staff, "Demo" cars help make sales for decades.
Power steering and air conditioning in cars are introduced as comfort and convenience become increasingly important. Auto accessories become popular. One great example is the dual-purpose Chevrolet Car and Home Electric Shaver Unit.
As prosperity drives new car sales, the used market grows alongside it. Programs such as GM's "OK Used" and Studebaker's "ABC- Always Buy Certified" increase buyer confidence in pre-owned vehicles.
As postwar prosperity continues, more Americans could afford cars than ever before.
Muscle cars arrive, offering higher performance coveted primarily by young men in the burgeoning culture of street and drag racing. By the late '60s, cars in film, such as Bullitt's Mustang, become iconic. Despite later associations with machismo, the Mustang is initially marketed to women. The first model is sold to a 22-year-old schoolteacher, Gail Brown. She still owns the car.
On the decidedly mellower end of the spectrum, the Volkswagen Bus becomes a hit with surfers cruising the coast in search of waves, and later with hippies looking for an affordable vehicle that could transport more passengers.
VW has plans for a 2022 update of the Sixties classic as an electric vehicle.
Congress passes the Clean Air Act.
Los Angeles smog in the 1970s is known to be the key factor in driving the industry to produce cleaner, less polluting engines.
On October 17, the Arab states of OPEC begin the first oil embargo against the United States, starting a subsequent energy crisis. Fuel efficiency is a much larger concern, and jump starts the rise of imports. Typically smaller, more efficient, and producing fewer emissions, import cars took 16 percent of the American market share by the mid-70's.
While the embargo only lasts until March 1974, the entire automotive industry is irrevocably altered, along with the American relationship to cars and driving.
There is some small reprieve for bigger, thirstier cars. Modified vans become a staple of '70s car culture, and larger cars like the Chrysler Cordoba become popular – surely in no small part due to commercials featuring Fantasy Island's Ricardo Montalban touting the luxury model's "rich Corinthian leather."
The Reagan Administration requests voluntary export restraints from Japan to the U.S. market. This leads Japanese manufacturers to produce more profitable upscale cars. Between 1986 and 1989, Honda, Toyota, and Nissan launched Acura, Lexus, and Infiniti respectively.
While the American market makes considerable strides to catch up with efficient, inexpensive imports, the perception of American cars (even fictitious future ones) as oversized gas guzzlers largely persists: see 1987's Robocop and its "6000 SUX" 8.2 mpg car ad
Carfax is founded. Initially launched to help curb odometer fraud, Carfax begins distributing vehicle history reports to dealers via fax machine. CarFAX, get it? This early step toward the use of newer communications technology presages the internet boom, including the 1996 launch of Carfax's own website, which offers consumers the same vehicle history reports available to dealers.
Affording customers a measure of confidence by providing documention of a vehicle's history, Carfax adds a degree of transparency in the buying process. This allows customers added peace of mind and helps dealers display integrity.
Throughout the '80s, cars and pop culture continue to be inseparable. Would Back to the Future be the same without the DeLorean, or Miami Vice without Ferraris?
On July 30, 1990 the first Saturn is completed. While part of GM, Saturn positions itself as "a different kind of car company, a different kind of car." The brand's no-haggle pricing, salaried, low-pressure salesforce not reliant on commission, and keen focus on customer service are somewhat ahead of the times.
Buyer expectations begin to shift toward a shorter, streamlined, more pleasant shopping experience. At least partially thanks to Saturn's business model, dealer focus trends away from the one-time sale and on to building relationships with customers.
The World Wide Web is first made available to the public in 1991. Though slowly at first, the game is changed forever.
Google is founded in 1998. While not the first search engine, Google quickly comes to dominate the field with superior search algorithms. This allows buyers unprecedented quick and easy access to virtually any information, from specs to reviews of vehicles and dealerships.
Toyota markets the first Prius in the U.S. as a 2001 model, bringing an increased focus on eco-friendly alternative-fuel vehicles.
The shift toward the "Web 2.0" paradigm begins as sites become increasingly interactive with visitors able to leave comments, creating a truly participatory online experience.
Database management and data-mining software allow dealerships to reach out to customers in increasingly personalized ways.
Sport utility vehicle sales peak in the U.S., with 3,314,000 total SUVs sold, before declining in popularity. They'll see a resurgence after 2010.
61 percent of initial contact is by walk-in to a dealership, but 59 percent of the customer's shopping time is spent online before, after, or even during the initial showroom visit. 88 percent of customers use multiple devices to shop, spending an average of nearly nine total hours vehicle shopping.
As recently as the early 2000s, buyers visited five dealerships before making a purchase. A buyer today will visit an average of just 1.2 dealerships. Customer polls rate satisfaction is lowest with regard to length of time spent in the buying process. While customers may be happy with the overall experience, interactions with dealership staff, and test drives, data shows that streamlining the process is invaluable.
In 2016, Pando, the industry's first dealership communication and collaboration tool, hits the market, connecting dealership staff and vastly improving the customer experience.
The average age of cars on the road has climbed to 11.4 years in 2016. It was 5.6 years in 1970. Dealerships incorporate service-to-sales software in response to the growing number of service appointments and resultant customer needs.
Another industry first, in 2018 AutoAlert's Customer Experience Management (CXM) platform ensures a seamless, personalized experience both online and offline for customers throughout their journey.
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I wouldn't mind seeing some adjustments to SAM's archery/ranged attack skills either.
It's a little ridiculous that SAM can use a relic weapon it only has C+ skill in. Seriously, SAM has higher skill in polearm and no access to the relic. It's pretty silly to not at least make archery B- (or higher!).
SE is obviously trying to throw SAM archers a bone w/ the Unkai Kote, but one piece of gear doesn't really cut it.
I really like the OP's suggestions for additions to Hasso/Siegan. I don't think mutually exclusive benefits to ranged attacks would be too much ask for really.
Overwhelm: Is there any good reason this doesn't work on ranged WSs? "Grants a damage bonus to weapons skill performed face-to-face with an enemy" seems like it should.
Velocity Shot: they could at least give us access to Velocity Shot when /RNG. I don't use /RNG often with Yoichi, but I think giving us Velocity Shot as a SAM JA might not really fit.
And while I'm talking about Yoichi, the new TP boost SAM JA is kinda a kick-in-the-nuts to relic users. I know they said it'd at least save us a hit towards next WS, but all it's really doing is boosting Masamune again. Extending aftermath for Amano/Yoichi just isn't quite as cool :/


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Jackie shares her inspirations and how it inspired her. [01:16]
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I'd actually prefer older Marici have slightly darker skin than the young. Basically, she's lived underground most of her life, and I figured she'd probably get slightly tanner if she'd been outside for some time. I think I might have it, but I'm not quite sure.
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