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Exopharm Limited (ASX:EX1) [www.exopharm.com] is an Australian clinical stage company with a mission is to be a leader in the field of human therapeutics using exosomes as regenerative medicine products.
Exopharm has one key platform technology and three experimental products :-
• LEAP Technology – a proprietary patent-applied-for affinity ligand technology for purification of exosomes/EVs from a variety of sources as a biologic product
• Plexaris – exosomes from platelets
• Cytaris – exosomes from adult stem cells
• Polaris – exosomes from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)
As key messengers within the human body, exosomes are able to exert powerful effects on the actions and behaviours of cells that they associate with. Recent research shows that exosomes are potent, broad acting, have effects that are both long-term and short-term and play key roles in many important mechanisms involved in ageing, diseases and degeneration/regeneration.
Despite the logic and promise of administering exosomes as a cell-free treatment, the therapeutic exosome market is currently held back by one key technological challenge: an efficient proprietary exosome extraction and purification process technology that would enable the manufacture of a proprietary exosome product at clinical and then pharmaceutical grade and scale.
Exopharm's LEAP Technology provides a key step in the downstream manufacturing process to isolate and purify exosomes from adult stem cells and other sources. The LEAP Manufacturing Process has been developed to address the existing limitations in exosome purification processes and gives Exopharm the opportunity to unlock the potential of exosomes as a new generation therapeutic product for regenerative medicine.
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Full Body Fitball Workout
Hey babes! I love incorporating a fitball into my workouts, so I thought I would put together a workout for you highlighting my four FAVE fitball moves!
This killer full body workout is a great way to get in your balance and stability training.
Fitball Pike — 10 reps
Fitball Jackknife — 10 reps
Fitball Hamstring Curl — 12 reps
Fitball Decline Push-up — 12 reps
Rest — 30 seconds
REPEAT 4x
Fitball Pike
- Place both hands on the floor slightly further than shoulder-width apart and both feet together behind you, resting your shins on a fitball. This is your starting position.
- Keeping your feet together and legs straight, contract your abdominal muscles to bring your knees into your chest. This movement should cause the fitball to roll in towards your hands.
- Briefly hold this position and then slowly extend your hips to return to starting position. This movement should cause the fitball to roll backwards.
- Repeat for 10 repetitions.
Fitball Jackknife
- Holding a fitball with both hands, start by lying straight on your back on the floor, with both arms extended above your head. Engage your abdominal muscles by drawing your belly button in towards your spine and gently raise both feet off the floor. Keeping your feet together, raise your legs off the floor so that they form a 90-degree angle with your hips.
- At the same time, bring the fitball up towards your feet.
- Separate your feet and grip the fitball with both legs and release your hands. Slowly lower your legs and arms until they are both just slightly off the floor. Try to avoid bouncing the ball.
- Repeat for 10 repetitions, continually passing the fitball from your hands to your legs and visa versa.
Fitball Hamstring Curl
- Start by lying flat on your back on a yoga mat with your feet elevated on a fitball. Allow your arms to rest by your sides on the mat. Inhale. Using your glutes and hamstrings, gently raise your hips off the floor so that you are resting on your upper back and your body forms one straight line from head to toe. This is your starting position.
- Inhale. Hold. Exhale. While keeping your feet together and hips elevated, bend your knees to bring your feet in towards your glutes. This movement will cause the fitball to roll in towards you.
- Inhale. Extend your knees to return to the starting position, ensuring that your hips remain elevated. This movement will cause the fitball to roll away from you.
- Repeat for 12 repetitions.
Fitball Decline Push-up
- Place both hands on the floor slightly further than shoulder-width apart and feet together on the fitball behind you. This is your starting position.
- While maintaining a neutral spine back and stabilising through your abdominals, bend your elbows and lower your torso towards the floor until your arms form two 90-degree angles.
- Push through your chest and extend your elbows to return to into starting position.
- Repeat for the specified number of repetitions.
Remember these moves are all intended to be performed slow and steady, as they all require serious core strength. Don't let that fool you into thinking this isn't a killer workout — you'll be sweating for sure!
* Results from Post-Pregnancy program may vary. Strict adherence to the program is required for best results.


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Aspen Popcorn Pullover
This is so soft!! We can't even accurately put it into words! It's just one of those things you must experience for yourself! This popcorn hoodie is warm, but it's knit is light, so you'll be comfortable with or without something under it.
- Color: Grey
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Greg is a business focused consultant with international experience. He honed his consulting skills at Accenture and has since worked across a range of industries and contexts from Thailand to Miami.
Throughout all his experiences, his focus has always been on people. He firmly believes any organisation trying to out compete the market must concentrate their efforts on ensuring their people are set up to be successful, whether that is through understanding the purpose of the organisation, developing skills, or raising awareness of the value of different perspectives.
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Red Hat Magazine has just published a "geek" gift guide, Geek gift guide 2007.
Being a proud geek myself, I took a look to see if they got it right.
Indeed they did, for number two on their list is the OLPL XO Laptop. Number one is a wi-fi detecting T-shirt. This seems an odd choice, as the last time I checked my body cannot directly send or receive wi-fi signals.
But at least they had the XO on their list.
Others were not so smart. The New York Times is an example, as I should describe in a forthcoming post.
By the way, I will soon be installing Red Hat's Fedora on one of my Linux boxes so I get a feel for the run-time they are providing for the XO.
Here's a tip of my yet-to-be-received own Red Fedora to Red Hat, both for this article, and especially for their support and active participation in the OLPC project.


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Personal Victory
I was involved in supporting people this weekend who were walking 60 km (36 miles) to raise money for a charity. There were hundreds of people and we (my 3 boys and I) were moving around the route with them cheering them on and playing upbeat music for them as they passed. It was a great experience for me and for my boys. And, apparently from the feedback that we got, the participants really loved it as well.
Now I knew that what we were going to do was going to be a good thing but I never thought about why it affected them so positively until now. I think the reason that they responded to our cheering and more importantly the music was for a few reasons. First, the music that we played during the route was upbeat, positive and encouraging. It elicited an emotional response which was what they needed to keep going with energy and power. Another reason that they appreciate our support was that we were there for them. We tried to support them individually so that they knew that we understood what it was that they were going through. And, finally, the last reason was related to the music that we played for them as they went up the last hill at the end.
We played the Theme from Rocky. You know, the theme that just screams…. You Are A Champion! Nowhere in the lyrics does it say that but that's what everyone associates with it. It makes everyone feel like they are the hero. And, you know what, they were. On that day, at that hour, they were the heroes of the day and they deserved our attention and our admiration. Many of them had probably not ever been the hero of their story before.
I do hope that they all are the heroes of the story again soon. These people who came in all shapes and sizes really did an amazing thing by raising 2.1 million dollars, and most importantly by achieving a Personal Victory!
Here's to all the victors in our lives.


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Hong Kong Disneyland has long been weaving magic for corporate groups in pursuit of a unique destination with extensive hosting capabilities. Most recently, the park showed that its even got a flair for birthday parties.
Some 6,000 delegates from Worldventures' Dreamtrips travel community descended on the resort for the club's 10th anniversary event, held June 21-24.
The four-day event featured a reception dinner, exclusive parades and stage shows.
Winning Pitch
Disney was selected to host the event for its diverse range of venues, extensive entertainment offerings – including Asia's first Star Wars experience – and ability to accommodate up to 1,000 delegates onsite.
Kick starting the celebrations on June 21, a welcome dinner (bottom) was staged for 900-hosted guests in the Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel Convention Center's ballroom. To mark the anniversary, Disney prepared a Toy Story-themed cake.
The park buyout day on June 22 saw Disney devise a welcome parade and exclusive Lion King performance for 1,500 VIP members of the group.
During the parade, Disney's 'Fab 8' collection of characters led Worldventure executives into the park. A 15-minute corporate programme was put on as a prelude to the Festival of the Lion King show.
"The 'Festival of the Lion King' show was probably the best Disneyland show I have ever seen," said Jon Mckillop, president of global sales, Worldventures. "The energy was wonderful and the show was so impactful."
That evening, a buffet dinner was for the 1,500 VIPs across two themed lands – Grizzly Gulch and Mystic Point. The resort's award-winning culinary team crafted both Asian and Western dishes followed by signature desserts.
Other members of the group were treated to a park wide tasting, including flying saucer-themed snacks in Tomorrowland and frozen lollipops on Main Street, U.S.A.
Ending on a high, Disney arranged a farewell parade, during which top Worldventures representatives travelled in a bus alongside characters, followed by an entourage of senior executives.
WorldVentures' top executives made goodbye speeches and toasted to the success of the event on the platform of the Hong Kong Disneyland Railroad Station while performers danced.
Both client and host offered positive event feedback.
"Today's event in Hong Kong Disneyland really brought back my childhood memories," said Erwin Ng, international marketing director, Worldventures.
"The overall arrangement and services were really well coordinated, especially the dining arrangement. The food and beverages served exceeded my expectations and I was in awe of all the food when I first came into the ballrooms.
Ng added: "What impressed me most were the people; they were extremely courteous and the service was fantastic!"
"It was easily one of the most amazing trips our company has done in our ten years of business," said Mckillop. "We are looking forward to coming back!"
Karen Kwan, business solutions and events (BSE) director for Hong Kong Disneyland Resort said: "Our BSE team unleashed their creativity and tailor-made an unparalleled celebratory event, which left the participants with memories to last a lifetime."


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We have six candidates, three slots, and we don't get to rank them. Just pick three.
On the ballot:
Greg Copeland
Luke Belleville
Marny Xiong
Jeannie Foster
John Brodrick
Andrea Touhey
We have six candidates, three slots, and we don't get to rank them. Just pick three.
On the ballot:
Greg Copeland
Luke Belleville
Marny Xiong
Jeannie Foster
John Brodrick
Andrea Touhey
There are ten candidates on the ballot; here are the five that are doing enough fundraising and campaigning that they're widely viewed as viable:
Elizabeth Dickinson
Melvin Carter
Dai Thao
Tom Goldstein
Pat Harris
The St. Paul ballot, unlike the Minneapolis ballot, doesn't list party affiliations. Elizabeth Dickinson is a Green; the other four are all DFLers.
I really need to get going on election blogging, but I have a novel that's due in November, and I wanted to get a first draft done before I dived into this.
The draft is done! Done-ish. (I need to do a first pass before I send it to beta readers.) It is a YA novel based on my short story Cat Pictures Please, to be published by Tor YA. Anyway, I'll be getting to this soon, and I took a peek at the city ballots to see just what I was in for.
Both Minneapolis and St. Paul have city races this year. St. Paul's mayor, Chris Coleman, is not running again, so it's an open seat. Minneapolis's mayor, Betsy Hodges, is completing her first term and a number of people are dissatisfied with her, so she's viewed as vulnerable. Minneapolis also has races for Park Board, City Council, and There are also races for Park Board, City Council, and Board of Estimate and Taxation. (That one's not a competitive race; if I'm reading it right, there are two seats up for election, and exactly two people running for those seats, both of them incumbents.) In St. Paul, there's also a School Board race.
Last time, Minneapolis had thirty-five candidates running for Mayor. In the intervening four years, they raised the cost of filing to run from $20 to $500, which has significantly cut down on the number of people doing it — it's now only 16, so a little under half the number who ran last time. Of those 16, there are 5 or 6 with a reasonable shot at actually winning; 2-3 more who are treating their own candidacy seriously even if no one else is; and a couple of weirdos. I'm really curious whether David John Wilson of the Rainbows Butterflies Unicorns party is John Charles Wilson the Laurist Communist but with a new name and political party? His website isn't loading for me.
There are three people running for City Council in my old ward; not sure about other wards, and I need an address to plug in to get the Secretary of State site to cough up a sample ballot.
Nine people are running for three Park Board At Large seats. There's also three people running for the District 5 Park Board Seat. (Again, I'll need to go hunting for the info on who's running in the other districts.)
Minneapolis residents can rank three candidates in each race.
In St. Paul, we have ten people running for mayor. There are three I'd describe as front-runners, a couple more who are serious candidates, and one person who I think gets messages from space aliens through her dental fillings. We also have six people running for three School Board seats. In St. Paul, we get to rank up to six candidates for mayor. We get to vote for three school board candidates (because there are three open seats) but we don't get to rank them, because the method of choosing school board candidates is determined by the State Legislature. (Don't you envy the people who get to hand over ballots and explain that to people? If you do, you can sign up to do it! They are ALWAYS looking for election judges.)
Anyway! I will be back to start work on this soon. If you live in Minneapolis and want to be sure I cover your City Council race and/or your Park Board race, please leave an address in your precinct in my comments so I can plug that in to the SoS site. (And if you want to just pull up your own sample ballot, you can get it here: http://myballotmn.sos.state.mn.us. This site will also tell you where you go to vote.)
St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman is not running for re-election (instead, he's going to run for governor) so people are starting to announce that they're running to replace him. I am paying at least a little bit of attention because for one thing, although the election isn't until next November, the St. Paul DFL caucuses are in April and the St. Paul City Convention is in June, and if I'm a delegate to the city convention I could help decide who (if anyone) gets the DFL endorsement.
I'll note that the DFL has a lists of people who were delegates to conventions in the past, and during the race for State Rep four years ago, the people interested in the soon-to-be-open seat used this list to contact people who'd been delegates in the past to ask for their support. I got letters, phone calls, and personal visits. A legislative district is pretty small, and it's harder to do that when you're running for mayor, but still, much more achievable than individually contacting every individual resident of the city.
You can also buy a broader e-mail list and start e-mailing people, and if you do that, here is the free advice I promised up top: start by introducing yourself. Tell me who you are, what you stand for, what your experience is, and why you deserve my support.
This honestly seems pretty obvious.
And yet, the first contact I got from one candidate looked like this:
Naomi –
I hope this note finds you and your family well this holiday season!
As the year comes to a close, my campaign to be Saint Paul's next mayor is really starting to heat up. Just a couple of weeks ago Mayor Coleman announced he is not running for reelection; he's been a strong leader for our city and I look forward to building on his work.
I'm ready to lead our city, building on our growth and progress while making sure that every family in every Saint Paul community grows and prospers along with it.
And that means I need your help at our year-end deadline. We're building a strong campaign, but we need the resources to keep growing and win. Please contribute today and help me become Saint Paul's next mayor!
There is a lot at stake, and Saint Paul is at a turning point. Our next mayor will shape our city for decades to come. I am committed to making sure Saint Paul is a city that serves everyone.
Your help today is critical. At our year-end deadline we'll report how much we've raised, and we need to show our campaign's strength and viability. Will you help before 2016 ends by making a contribution today?
I'm looking forward to working with you in the coming year and beyond to make our city stronger, more prosperous, and more welcoming than ever.
Thank you,
P.S. – Let's give folks something to talk about. Chip in now to help us top our goal and report the strongest number we can at our deadline!
"I look forward to building on (Chris Coleman's) work; I'm ready to lead our city" is not a useful introduction. "I need your help at our year-end deadline" is what you say to someone you already know is a supporter, not a person for whom this is your first attempt at contact. At this stage, you should be telling me who you are and what your experience is, not hitting me up for money. You should be inviting me to your meet-and-greet, not your fundraiser.
Someone named Chris Kluthe (his campaign chair? I don't know, as he doesn't introduce himself either) followed up later the same day with:
Naomi – I wanted to be sure you saw Melvin's email. With our deadline less than 72 hours away, it's critical that we end the year strong. Please, click here now to chip in and help make Melvin our next mayor!
Is Melvin Carter III awesome? He might be awesome, I have no idea. Having looked him up, he's apparently a former Council Rep for Ward 1 and quit midway through his second term to work for the Department of Education. He started running a year ago (because he guessed that Chris Coleman wouldn't run again). He would be St. Paul's first black mayor.
I got fundraising e-mails from Melvin Carter or Chris Kluthe on December 29th (twice), December 30th, December 31st (twice), and January 2nd. On the 30th I e-mailed a reply to the "it's critical that we hit our goal before this deadline" message with, "Who even are you? Nonstop nagging me for donations is not how you introduce yourself to possible supporters!" to see if anyone would reply to me in a more personal way. Nope!
It's maybe a little early to say that he's lost my vote, because … maybe he's awesome? But I find it obnoxious to be hit me up for money, six times in ten days, via a mailing list I did not sign up for, from someone I'd never heard of before he started asking me for money. (Should I have heard of him? Maybe? But remember, I only moved to St. Paul in 2012, and he quit his council job in 2013, and at that point I was still trying to remember the name of the rep from my own ward, let alone anyone else's.)
I probably ought to unsubscribe from his e-list, but at this point I'm honestly curious how many times his campaign is going to ask me for money before reaching out to tell me anything about him.
Also, hey, if you live in either Minneapolis or St. Paul, both mayoral races are shaping up to be pretty interesting. Chris Coleman is not running again, and Betsy Hodges has a bunch of serious candidates running against her. You can go to your local caucus and become a delegate to your City Convention and help decide who gets the DFL endorsement! (Or, as has happened at many such conventions, help block the person you don't like from getting the DFL endorsement! It's exciting either way.)
(By request.)
The two candidates in the race:
Lena Buggs
Carrie Wasley
So here's the most startling thing about this race: Lena Buggs is actually running. She has an honest-to-God actual campaign website and she has printed up yard signs and she has a Facebook page for her campaign.
I cannot even begin to tell you how weird this is! She really wants this job. She is working really damn hard for this job.
Carrie Wasley is the incumbent. I wrote about her two years ago, using primarily this one interview she did as a source. I've found basically nothing more up-to-date about her. She's still the incumbent and still endorsed by the DFL. (Lena is endorsed by the Greens, who have a statement about her along with their other candidates here.)
Honestly, if I were voting on this one I think I'd vote for Lena just because she wants the job enough to really work for it.
(It looks like I voted on this two years ago, but they've now split up the districts such that you only vote for the seat in your actual district, instead of having official districts but voting county-wide.)
The candidates for my State Senate seat are Dick Cohen (DFL) and Ian Baird (Republican).
Dick Cohen, the Senator from my current district, has been in the Minnesota legislature since 1976. He's not as old as you might think — he got elected for the first time when he was ridiculously young, and so he's younger than my father. But since 1976, my father has lived in four different cities and worked at four separate universities, despite being a faculty member (who, as everyone knows, typically get tenure somewhere and stay there basically forever). In those same forty years Dick Cohen has stayed in St. Paul, and in the legislature. (He did move from the House to the Senate ten years in.) I will admit some mixed feelings about legislators who serve for this long.
But he's kept up with the times and has been a hard-working, reliable progressive vote.
Ian Baird looks about eighteen to me. His biography talks about his parents' dairy business and says, "Today I work as a theater artist and carpenter. I've worked on shows ranging from Les Miserables to, well, shows you've never heard of." This got me curious and I went looking for his CV. Most theater professionals make it really easy to find them, via a listing like this one on Minnesota Playlist. Or a website. Or a LinkedIn page. I turned up a LinkedIn page that might be Ian's; I'm not sure. It's even more pathetic than my LinkedIn page. I did find a CV that might be his here. If it's his, he graduated college in 2013, so that explains why he looks so ridiculously young.
He also probably went here: https://unwsp.edu/ (I'm not 100% sure because there are a number of academic institutions named Northwestern. This is based in part on what I found on the LinkedIn page.) This is a small, weird, very conservative, very Christian college. They also emphasize career-oriented degrees, so the fact that he emerged with a History degree and a Theater minor is kind of fascinating.
He also doesn't appear to have turned out the sort of Christian his parents were probably hoping for when they sent him off to school, given that his "About" page that goes with the CV includes the observation that "Religion, like performance, offers a place for people to hide from the reality of who they are."
Working my way to his actual campaign: his positions include "why do we pay for trains when I never ride them," "I've heard lots of horror stories about education," and "paid leave legislation is bad." He's also pro-transparency (fair), thought the police officer who shot Philando Castile should be tried (yay), and has nothing much to say either on his campaign website or his campaign Facebook page about the GOP's social positions. His Facebook page also mentions that he's pro-fireworks and views himself as the candidate for fans of Ron Swanson from Parks & Recreation. (I am fond of Ron as a character, but have never said to myself, "wow, I wish I could have him represent me in the legislature." I'd totally vote for Knope, though.)
Unclear: whether he's reflected at all on the fact that most of the people in his party view arts funding the way he views trains, or the fact that most of the people in his profession are heavily dependent on health care plans set up by Democrats.
Anyway, it's an interesting picture. Not someone I'd vote for, but I wish Ian success in his life as a Theater artist and I hope he's gained financial independence from his parents, because I bet they are a lot more conservative than he is.
Everyone else should vote for the progressive dinosaur!
I was actually going to write up a FAQ on caucuses next, but I got hung up on not knowing the answer to something for the GOP caucuses. I sent out e-mails, had to wait for a response, and decided that in the meantime, I might as well write my post on political conventions.
When you go to your caucus, if you stay for the meeting, one of the questions you will hear is whether you'd like to be a delegate to the next-level convention. Most of the time, there are enough slots that anyone who wants to can sign up to be a delegate.
Sometimes there are a few more people who want to be delegates than there are slots, and they'll ask if anyone's willing to be an alternate. If you're an alternate, the theory is that you'll fill in if any of the delegates from your precinct don't show up. (Most of the time, all the alternates who show up get promoted to delegates.)
When you vote in the fall, your ballot will have the Presidential race at the top. In Minnesota, we are not voting on the Governor (or other statewide offices like Attorney General) this year, nor are either of our Senators currently up for re-election. However, all our U.S. House Representatives are running for re-election and that race will be on the ballot. (If you are in the 2nd district, this is a particularly interesting year. If you're represented by Betty McCollum or Keith Ellison, not so much.)
Continuing down the ballot, you will also see your state legislators. You have a State Senator and a State Representative, and both races will be on the ballot. Finally, depending on how your city structures things, you may have city races this year. (Not in St. Paul or Minneapolis, though.)
The DFL endorses people for most of the non-judicial races. The statewide people are endorsed at the State Convention, but the legislative races are endorsed at the smaller, local-unit conventions and you, if you go, can get to be one of the ones to decide.
(I'm pretty much just making this post about the DFL, because I have never been to a Republican convention. I expect that they are very similar in most ways, but I don't know in which key ways they differ.)
How much the DFL's endorsement matters varies tremendously by race. Historically, in the very big statewide races — U.S. Senate and Governor — it doesn't actually matter much. In the smaller races, though, especially legislative races, it often basically decides the race. My district would be a good exapmle of this. I live in a solidly DFL district in St. Paul (and previously, I lived in a solidly DFL district in Minneapolis). In this sort of district, legislators who are DFL incumbents almost always win, and when they retire, the DFL-endorsed candidate for the office nearly always wins. So any time there's an opening, the big race is for the endorsement.
The endorsement for State Senator and State Rep is done at the Senate District (/House District) convention. That is the thing to which you can probably become a delegate, if you want.
(The other major thing that happens at the local-unit conventions is that they elect delegates who get to go to the State Convention. I'll explain that in more detail further down.)
State Legislature Endorsements for Beginners
So first off, your district may not have an upcoming vacancy. There's still a convention when there aren't any vacancies, but endorsing a bunch of unopposed incumbents is pretty dull.
But, sometimes you have an open seat; sometimes the incumbent has done something infuriating and generated a bunch of opposition challenging him or her for endorsement; or maybe you live in a swing district, and there's currently someone from the other party in that seat and your party has a shot at retaking it. (If you live in a district that is a safe seat for the other side, these endorsements tend to be more "let's volunteer Fred, since he's not here." Okay, I exaggerate slightly.)
Let's say you have an open seat because your State Senator is retiring, and let's say you signed up to be a delegate when you were at your precinct caucus. There are several hundred delegates who will be meeting at your Senate District Convention to decide on an endorsement, and one of them is you. That means that each candidate who is running, and there will probably be quite a few, really needs your support. Instead of convincing 50% of the thousands of voters in your district, they need to win over 60% of the delegates — a much, much smaller group.
So if you're a delegate, you can expect to be contacted, personally, either by phone or by door-knocking, by each of the people who are running. They may not be experts on your particular set of concerns, but you will never have a more attentive ear from a (future) legislator than when they're running and you're a delegate. Since they need strong enthusiasm from a small number of people, you can expect that they will have the time to answer your questions and respond to your very specific concerns, whatever they are.
In addition to chatting with candidates, you might also want to chat with politically-connected friends in your district who can dish any interesting back-room gossip. I recommend having a favorite, a list of people who would be fine with you, and a list of people you really don't want to see get the nod.
At the Convention
So for your imaginary open Senate Seat, let's say you've got five candidates who've filed. After talking to all of them, your favorite is Andrea Jackson. Your least favorite is Bill Smith. You think that Carmela Garcia or Dan Feinman would also be fine. You think that Esmeralda Moonbeam sounds like a weirdo.
When you first arrive, you will have to check in with the organizers to get your credentials. There will probably be a line. Once you sign in, they will hand you a printed form on colored paper (it's about the size, shape, and weight of an ancient computer punch card, if that means anything to you) with your precinct and ward printed on it along with the word DELEGATE. It will be on a ribbon or piece of yarn so you can wear it around your neck. You are expected to do so.
Next, you should check in with your candidate's campaign. (They'll have a table.) Tell them you're a supporter, and they will give you a t-shirt or button or both. Put those on, too. The t-shirt serves a couple of purposes, but the most important is that it communicates to your candidate's campaign that they need to let you know if there's something they need you to do. Often, candidates want all their supporters to come up on the stage and stand behind them when it's time for them to make a speech. More crucially, sometimes there's some interesting parliamentary maneuver that someone is trying to pull, or trying to thwart, in which case your candidate's volunteers need to know that you need to get the message on what's happening. You might not realize that it's critically important that you vote NO on some very routine-sounding procedural thing until your candidate's campaign tells you.
These are always held at schools, so far as I can tell. Typically the convention itself is in the school auditorium, lunch room, or gym. Each campaign gets a classroom that's like their campaign clubhouse. They will have snacks for their supporters (another reason for your t-shirt!) and when it gets to be dinner time, they'll order pizza. Usually, when I go to a convention, I check in with my candidate first thing, then go track down their room so I know where to go when I get hungry.
There will be a section of the auditorium that's reserved for your precinct, and that's where you'll be spending most of the day.
This is a Really Long Meeting
Typically the convention gets called to order at 10 a.m., although a lot of delegates arrive late. There is a ton of time at these that is spent on stuff that makes you wonder why you gave up a lovely spring Saturday to go sit in a high school auditorium. Like ten-minute-long debates on whether some person should be allowed to speak for two minutes.
There are people who are much better at running efficient conventions than others, you will discover if you go to a bunch of these. I am a big fan of the efficient people.
Bring an extra battery for your smartphone, bring your knitting, bring a book.
There will be lots of speeches.
Typically there's some time allocated for candidate Q&A, so that people who have not made up their minds will have information to go on.
Lots of elected officials come to speak, either about their own upcoming race or to get you revved up about the DFL generally. At various conventions I've heard Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar, Keith Ellison, Betty McCollum, R.T. Rybak, Chris Coleman, various and sundry City Council reps, Park Board people, County Attorneys… never all of the headliners at one convention, mind you. (They try to spread themselves out.)
If there's a state-wide race coming up, you'll also hear either from candidates or from people who are there to speak on their behalf.
When it comes time to really deal with the people running for State Senate, there are official speeches from each candidate (that's when you might get herded up to stand behind them. If you don't want to do that, you don't have to.)
It is entirely up to you how much attention you pay to any of this. At the last convention I went to, there were large portions of it that I couldn't hear at all due to bad acoustics and a lot of ambient noise, so I just ignored it.
You may also find yourself talking to candidates and campaigns through all of this. Especially if you look around the crowd and notice that your t-shirt color is super outnumbered — that's a good sign that you should start thinking about your fallback choice. People from the other campaigns will find you and say, "hi, can I talk to you about Carmela?" or "can I talk to you about Bill?" They're not necessarily trying to sway you from Andrea; they're trying to get you to consider their candidate as your fallback.
When I get this question, I usually say, "sure!" and let them give me their pitch. One of the questions I often ask volunteers is, "why did you decide to support Carmela?" because their answers are often very enlightening. (Unless it's, "oh! well, she's my mom.") At an actual convention, they'll sometimes ask you, "would you like to speak to Carmela directly?"
You may get asked this same question by the people you're sitting near. Feel free to talk about what you find appealing about the person you're supporting! Remember that you're not trying to convince them to drop their candidate for yours; you're presenting reasons why your candidate would be a terrific second choice, if their candidate gets dropped from the ballot early.
I am always shocked at how late in the day it is when we finally start balloting.
This is the bit where you really need to be wearing your credentials. If you were an alternate, a lot of the time everyone present just gets automatically upgraded, but if that didn't happen, definitely check in before balloting and see if you can get an upgrade. If not, you won't even be allowed in the room when the balloting happens.
They will seat everyone in their precinct, and they will give carefully counted ballots to the precinct captain, who will bring them, distribute them, and collect them.
Right before the balloting happens, they "freeze the floor," which means that they shut the doors and no one else is allowed in. If you go to the bathroom at the wrong time, you can literally lose your chance to vote in that round. Once the countdown starts to voting, get into the room and stay there. It won't actually take long, and you'll have plenty of time to pee or get a snack while they're counting all the ballots.
Then they count the first ballot, which also takes forever. (It speeds up a lot as they eliminate candidates.)
The Resolutions
Somewhere in this whole process you'll get handed a packet of resolutions and a scan-tron sheet to fill in. This is a compilation of all the resolutions that got passed by precinct caucuses, compiled together by people who did their best to roll stuff together so that "MN should have a primary!" and "caucuses are the worst, holy cow, THE ABSOLUTE WORST, and we should have presidential primaries like every other civilized state" get combined into something concise.
During the various periods of downtime you can go through this packet and mark the scan-tron ballot to indicate the ones you find particularly important or unimportant. There's no limit to how many you can mark. This data gets compiled after the convention and forwarded on to the platform committee.
Dropping Candidates and More Balloting
Once the results come back, they report the results and then immediately start the countdown to freeze the floor for the next round.
They will drop any candidates that got below a certain threshhold of votes. The required percentage goes up with each round, so each time it gets harder to stay on the ballot — or maybe they've switched to just dropping the lowest vote-getter until we're down to two? I can't remember if that's officially how they do it, or if it's just how functionally it tends to work out.
In this make-believe Senate race, we're going to say that in the very first round of balloting, they drop Esmeralda Moonbeam and Dan Feinman.
Esmeralda and Dan's people now have to vote for someone else. (Or leave. Sometimes they just leave.) At this imaginary convention, you're seated next to an Esmeralda supporter, who is very disappointed that her candidate dropped out, but decides to vote for Andrea because you're wearing an Andrea t-shirt and she has bonded with you over knitting so thinks your favorite candidate would be a good choice.
(At the last convention I went to, the woman across the table from me told me that I seemed like a delightful person and did I know any single women who might be interested in her son? I said, "well, I do have some single friends. But, um, I kind of don't have their permission to randomly matchmake for them at political conventions?" and she said, "oh, here, let me give you my card." I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP.)
You usually have a couple more rounds of balloting. Sometimes this is expedited by people seeing that they have no realistic chance and pre-emptively dropping out so as not to waste everyone's time. Eventually you get down to two people.
The Final Face-Off and All the Fun Ways This Can Go Awry
In order to get the endorsement, a candidate needs 60% of the ballots. So you get down to those last two, and there's a split.
At that point, a couple of things can happen.
The most frequent outcome I've seen is that some people shift. If I came in planning to support Andrea, and she's made it into the final two but she's got 45% of the vote and Carmela has 55%, and I'm fine with Carmela, I'll usually go ahead and shift. Enough people do that, and voila, on the next ballot Carmela has the 60%.
If things are very close, or if this is an acrimonious campaign where the two sides feel very strongly that the opposing candidate is unacceptable, there's more likely to be a deadlock. The very first Senate District Convention I went to ran until after 10 p.m. It can turn in a test of endurance.
Frequently, when it's clear no one will shift, there's an adjournment without an endorsement. There are a number of ways in which this can happen. That very late-night SD Convention, we weren't allowed to vote for adjournment until after a certain number of ballots, but once we'd racked up the required number of rounds, we could adjourn with a simple majority and didn't need 60%. And that's what happened.
At a Minneapolis City Convention some years back, both campaigns sent representatives up to propose an adjournment (making it clear that this was desired on both sides). It was very clear even after the first ballot that things were sufficiently split that there wasn't going to be an endorsement, and so we had a (surprisingly amicable) agreement to adjourn.
In order for a convention to conduct business, you need a quorum: there has to be a certain number of people there. So sometimes a campaign will herd all its people out of the room, then call the quorum, usually right before a floor freeze. If a quorum is not present the convention is required to adjourn immediately. (If you get grabbed by someone wearing your candidate's t-shirt saying "out, get out, get out!" … that's the tactic they're attempting.) This can massively backfire if not enough people leave the room — since at that point, you've just yanked a bunch of your supporters out of the room and they won't be able to vote on that ballot and the other candidate will happily coast to endorsement.
The other risk with using the "break the quorum" approach is that when a convention just adjourns without finishing its business, the local central committee has the option of doing an endorsement. (I think in theory this is an option with a planned adjournment as well, but much less likely. Or maybe you usually pass a "no going behind our back and endorsing someone" motion as your adjourn? Usually by that point in the process I'm so desperate to get the hell out I'm not paying close attention.)
Picking Delegates for the State Convention
One of the other agenda items at the Senate District convention is picking delegates to go on to the State Convention. There are always more people who want to go than slots available, so to send delegates, we do Walking Subcaucuses.
People "nominate subcaucuses," which means they go up to the microphone and suggest groups. Sometimes the groups are to support a specific candidate for whatever major statewide office is currently up for grabs; sometimes they are uncommitted, but with a specific focus on a certain issue. The idea is that those delegates will go to the State Convention with the goal of endorsing whichever candidate is the best on whatever their particular issue is.
So if you're sitting there, you'll hear people go up to the microphone and say things like, "Uncommitted for Environmental Issues," or "Uncommitted for Stop Global Warming Now," or "Uncommitted for Education." As well as "People for Mike Cerisi" or "Minnesotans for Al Franken," and there was a trend for a while where a dozen different people would all nominate the same candidate but with a different phrasing, like "Al Franken for CHOICE" or "Al Franken for VETERANS" or "Al Franken for KITTENS AND PUPPIES AND RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS."
The organizers will then announce where everyone should go. Groups that are obviously related (like Environmental Issues and Stop Global Warming) will always go next to each other so that they can easily combine (…because they totally will).
Now it's time for everyone to move around! (This is why it's called a walking subcaucus.) You pick your favorite subcaucus and physically go over and hang out with them. If you have a favorite candidate for the contested statewide office, you go stand with that group. If you want to send uncommitted delegates for some issue, pick an issue.
Someone will run around and physically count everyone and then they will announce a number that gives a subcaucus "viability." That means that your subcaucus needs to have that many people in it in order to qualify for one delegate and one alternate. If the number is 12, and you have 11 people, you look around for a person at loose ends or a smaller subcaucus you can absorb. If the number is 12, and you have 5 people, you might look for a larger subcaucus you can join as a group, or you might just go your separate ways. In any case, they give you a few minutes to shuffle around and redivide, and then they freeze the floor, count everyone again, then tell each subcaucus how many delegates they get.
So let's say you're in a subcaucus of 14 people and will have one delegate and one alternate. Now you have to pick your delegate and alternate. Let's say you have four people who would love to go to the State Convention: typically each person gets a minute or two to make a speech to the rest of the subcaucus about why they'd be a good person to send, and then you vote, probably just by raising hands and counting. The top vote-getter is the delegate, the runner up is usually the alternate, and I am trying to remember if the DFL still mandates gender-balance because if it does, then it's the nearest runner-up of the opposite gender.
If you actually go to the State Convention
It lasts for multiple days and I've never been elected as a delegate, so I can't tell you much about what it's like.
Other Conventions
So there's a Congressional District Convention (for your U.S. House seat) that will be critical this year in the 2nd District, since Kline is stepping down. I don't remember if they send a subset of the State Convention delegates or if that one gets its own Walking Subcaucus process.
In Minneapolis, in years with city races, there may be a Ward Convention if you need to endorse a candidate for City Council, and there's a City Convention to endorse candidates for Mayor, School Board, and Park Board. There's also a County Convention where candidates for County Board, Sheriff, County Attorney, etc. get endorsed. St. Paul does a similar set of conventions — Ward, City, County — but has no Park Board. City offices vary some by city.
Last year in St. Paul, the school board race was particularly contentious. Sufficiently so that we had to do walking subcaucuses at my precinct caucus to select delegates to go to the City Convention. Usually you can just sign up to go to Ward or City Conventions.
So in summary
If you go to your next-level convention, you will have to spend a weekend day, often at the point when the weather is finally turning nice, sitting in a high school auditorium listening to people give speeches.
However, some years and in some districts, this can give you a truly outsized piece of political influence.
Worth it or not? Very much up to you. If imagining sitting through all this makes you want to gnaw off a limb to escape, don't put yourself through it. If you think you'd like to give it a try, sign up! (And you're definitely allowed to sign up and not go.)


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When told of the death, his father let out a strained, almost falsetto, "thank you", but questions soon replaced shock. Only two people knew the exact circumstances. One was the prison guard Tina who had spotted something wrong with Stephen and told her colleague Frank to "two him up" (writers Isabelle Grey and McGovern trusted us to join dots). The other was Frank, who, sinking amid brutality, under-manning and apathy, neglected to. Tina lied to protect Frank, then told the truth. Thuggish Frank, played with fearsome believability by Ewen Bremner, was misnamed from the start. Having failed to bully Tina into silence, he connived in her rape by a prisoner.
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TV review – Accused
You know those people who say prison's like a holiday camp? Well they would have taken grim satisfaction from Accused, the second series of which ground to a shuddering, deathly halt on BBC2 last night, writes Thom Kennedy.
Last week's gruesome antihero Stephen Cartwright opened the fourth and final episode of the series in the calm of a car, ferrying him to the clink after his conviction for the attempted murder of his step mother at the close of last week's episode.
But while Steven's presence looms large over the final episode, this week we're more interested in the frowning security guard sitting next to him.
The whole of prison officer Tina Dakin's world looks like it could do with a moment of silence and a gentle rub to the temples.
At home, she's shivering and wearing dressing gowns over her clothes to seal against the freezing cold of a broken boiler, surrounded by a gaggle of young children and worrying about money.
But at work, it's chaos. Young criminals are running pitched battles around the pool table, yelling and laughing even as young Stephen lies dying, choking with a ripped up bed sheet wrapped around his neck in his cell. I must admit I've never stayed at a holiday camp, but if this is as accurate as people say, they look like bad craic to me.
Like so many of the accused of the series, Tina is a decent person whose life spirals out of control.
She's serious, studious and hard working, but loving, and grasping at the brief moments of solace she enjoys in the company of her husband.
Instead she's raped while doing overtime to pay for the new boiler, ostracised by a friend and colleague for trying to tell the truth about Stephen's death, and finds herself under suspicion over the death of a young prisoner when it was she who did everything right to save him.
Anna Maxwell Martin was outstanding as the suffering, struggling prison guard, forever trying to do right but forever finding things spiralling out of control.
Eventually, with the images of Stephen haunting her as she ferries another young criminal towards the prison gates, she lets him go.
It is for this that she is in court, but the ashes of her ruined career, of the way her world crumbled, are raked over by a theatrical, waspish prosecutor.
Overall, the second series of The Accused stood head and shoulders above any other British drama I have seen on television this year.
Showing a gentle touch and a fine understanding of the complexity of criminality that goes where few dare to tread, it provided four weeks of uncomfortable, difficult, yet utterly essential viewing.
Jimmy McGovern is always a safe pair of hands, but his daring casting – including comedians John Bishop and Sheridan Smith in bleak, dense roles and the swaggering, masculine Sharp himself, Sean Bean, as a lovelorn transvestite – showed an ability to take the programme in unexpected directions.
There can be no doubt that, just as followed the first series, BAFTAs are on their way."
The Shropshire Star


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Amazing Fantasy is of course famous for one thing - being the birthplace of the Amazing Spider-Man.
But, before that, it was the home of monsters.
And, before that, it was called Amazing Adventures.
Well, being the fearless monster-hunter I am, that's all the excuse I need to see what kind of dread menaces that title had to offer in the days before Marvel discovered the selling power of super-heroes.
Remember; however fearful you are, you MUST look at these images - as a warning of the nightmare terror that awaits those who seek answers that man must never have.
I don't know what it is but it respects my intelligence, and that's all I ask of any monster.
The Krills! I love the Krills! They're my favourite lo-fi indie duo!
What's that you're shouting at me?
"That's the Kills, you buffoon!"
Oh. I thought Alison Mosshart was looking a bit peeky on the cover.
You have to hand it to him, there's not many monsters could get away with being called, "Tim."
I don't know who he is but it seems he's one who's changed.
Didn't I once see him in Quatermass and the Pit?
Hooray! It's Torr!
I've loved Torr ever since I read this story reprinted in Strange Tales #175.
This is definitely my favourite of today's monsters.
Nothing can stop a monster with a girder! Nothing!
You have to love any monster that decides to knock over the United Nations building.
I can't help myself. I can't see that cover without thinking of Serpico.
If only Serpico had been about a giant monster out to crush the world, it would've been a much better film - and Al Pacino's greatest ever role.
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The injector is a recurring tool in the Amateur Surgeon series. It is used to give a patient injections, which mainly restore health or extract poison.
Amateur Surgeon 2 Edit
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The injector comes back in this game. Unlike the previous game, the player needs to specify if the injector should insert liquid or extract. The former also gets a cooldown. The player no longer needs to follow a line. Instead, he/she must simply hold and drag slowly to inject. Dragging too fast or dragging backwards will harm the patient.
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"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
– Abraham Lincoln
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
– Abraham Lincoln
"I was blind, now I'm seeing in color, I was dead, now I'm living forever.
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Letting go and trusting when I cannot see.
I am counting every blessing, counting every blessing.
Surely, every season You are good to me."
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"The Winter is past
Flowers appear on the earth
The time of singing has come!"
Song of Solomon 2:11-12
"To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven."
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A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
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The flowers appear on the earth,
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Cutter Hodierne won the award for best director at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival for his feature-length film "Fishing Without Nets," a foreign-language film with subtitles. He is the second-youngest director to win this award.
"I have wanted to make movies for as long as I can remember," Hodierne, 27, said. Cutter's father, University of Richmond journalism professor Robert Hodierne said, "When he was 12, we got him a camcorder and he started putting movies together on his iMac."
Robert recalled Sept. 11, 2001, when his family was living in Arlington, Va. "Cutter was 15 at the time, and when his mother and I got home he wasn't there," he said. "Cutter had walked to the Pentagon with his camera because he wanted to be where the action was."
In 1987, when Cutter was 1, his parents sailed to the South Pacific on their boat. After staying there for a few years, they sailed to Japan and lived there for two years.
"Living in so many different places made Cutter comfortable with being a minority," his father said.
Cutter's film career began when he started making music videos with his second cousin, who is a well-established filmmaker, Robert said. Cutter traveled with him to the Caribbean to help shoot a video, and the band hired Cutter to shoot another one for them when he was 19.
"The music video played on MTV, and this led him to other gigs in the Washington area," Robert said.
Cutter worked as a filmmaker on the road with U2, touring Europe and North America with the band's 360* tour.
"They paid him well, but being on tour with a rock and roll band was not too interesting," Cutter's father said. "Cutter used the money that he made from the tour to travel to Kenya with his co-producers John Hibey and Raphael Swann, who were high school classmates of Cutter's, to get a feel for the land."
"We had informal casting sessions and met a man who introduced us to people in the Somali community," Cutter said, adding that he had a translator to help him communicate. "Sometimes we saw people on the streets that we liked and auditioned them. Most of the pirates were played by Somali refugees."
Cutter submitted his short film "Fishing Without Nets" to the Cannes Film Festival, where it was rejected. He re-cut the film and in 2012, he submitted it to Sundance, where it was awarded the Grand Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking (the top award for short films).
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Cutter won the Directing Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance Jan. 25, 2014.
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Cutter is currently in Los Angeles but has "no fixed address," his father said. He is working on trying to sell the feature-length version of "Fishing Without Nets." He is also in the process of developing other projects of his own, and has people interested in pursuing him for their projects.
"I am proud that Cutter is a gentle soul," his father said. "He is a kind young man and is very creative and modest."
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Reminder that today is card giveaway day. The card to comment on is here.
Today was the sketch challenge on SCS and I've been doing Halloween cards, so here is my card. If you can't read what it says, you need to click on it to enlarge it.
the inside of the card:
LOL! I know you laughed! The witch, the outside verse and inside verse are all from Stamp Cabana. The cat on the inside is from Mostly Animals, and the background is Stampin Up! Thanks for looking!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Sketch Challenge
Posted by Holly Young at 4:59 PM
Labels: cards, copics, rubber stamping
4 comments:
- Mark's Finest Papers said...
I laughed! great card and sentiment!
- July 16, 2008 at 5:20 PM
- Imagine That Digistamp said...
- July 16, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Oh,how funny- I did laugh and laugh and showed to hubby. He, for some reason, was not so amused!?
Great sketch, image and coloring.
- July 17, 2008 at 1:52 PM
- Nancy said...
I found it! This is hilarious...and the inside remark. hahahaha!
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