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[glg group] Although India and Africa are vastly different in many respects they are also very similar in terms of their current total populations and aggregate, or average wealth, as well as their history of European colonialism. Mobile telecommunications is another area of similarity between the subcontinent and the continent. In both environments mobile telephony has emerged as the vehicle through which tens indeed hundreds of millions of Africans and Indians have gained their first access to telecommunications services for voice communication and messaging. The economic and social impacts of this development – the result of a combination of technological progress and market liberalization – have already been remarkable. Yet the potential of telecommunications access has only just begun to be exploited. It will be multiplied many times as and if new broadband wireless networks are deployed. Both Africa and India pose formidable challenges to the further development of affordable, more powerful telecommunications services, which are in some key respects very different from those confronting operators in regions such as Western Europe, North America, and Japan. These obstacles are the result of low income levels and major deficiencies in infrastructure (transport, electric power) as well as institutional weaknesses and episodes of social violence that erupt in many localities. Nevertheless it is encouraging how many innovations have been introduced from inexpensive terminals adapted to harsh environments to renewable, self-contained energy sources to imaginative distribution channels and operational procedures to enable affordable, suitable and useful services to be brought to millions of low ARPU users. Indian operators have been pioneers in these developments. Interest in the low cost Indian operator model has been heightened by Bharti's attempts to become a major player in Africa through an acquisition. So it is instructive to assess the differences between Africa and India to understand the extent to which Bharti's Indian experience can be transferred to Africa. There are significant differences between India and Africa in terms of the economies of scale that can be achieved and the required investments given their very different population densities, workforces, and political and regulatory structures. Africa includes over 50 countries and hence regulatory regimes, while India has one regulator, albeit with 23 mobile license areas or circles. India is also a high density area, so it inevitably enjoys greater economies of scale and lower capex per population covered compared to African countries. Furthermore India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world with a large service sector. Hence not only does the Indian economy do more value addition and exhibits a relatively higher propensity to spend than Africa, but it is better equipped to implement the outsourcing model for which Bharti and its private sector compatriots are well known.Nevertheless the potential for growth in Africa is enormous. Mobile markets in Africa are turning into a battleground between operators based in Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, and India, and quite likely China. M&A will undoubtedly be part of the initiatives and competitive maneuvering that will define and reshape the future structure and dynamics of these markets that are not only important in their own right, but also provide core elements of the capabilities available to Africans that can enable them to enhance the quality of their lives and the wealth of their economies.
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The Santa Marija Convoy – The Book
(Christine L. Dvonch: THE 'SANTA MARIJA' CONVOY, The Fate Of A Nation. Published by Kite Group: www.kitegroup.com.mt, 2014. Illustrated by Raymond Agius)
The latest Kite Group publication narrates the story of "Operation Pedestal" or, as we know it, "The 'Santa Marija' Convoy".
At about this time of the year, mid-August, we are invarioubly regaled with many articles in the newspapers about the subject, and also with the occasional book. The story is told by historians or survivors, or by someone who had a relative or a friend who served as a sailor on board some warship, or as a civilian on board some merchantman. But Christine L. Dvonch, who was a journalist and business executive, and who has a great passion for the history and culture (among other aspects) of the world, tackles the narrative from quite a different perspective.
She takes each and every ship, were it a warship or merchant ship, and Squadron of the British Royal Airforce, giving full specifications and all other relavant information of each ship and aircraft, and relates its role from the very beginning of the journey to Malta, till the ship or aircraft turned back to its base (as planned beforehand), was destroyed by enemy action, or entered the Grand Harbour safely, or damaged to the extent that God's intervention must be acknowledged.
We are told that fourteen ships of the Merchant Navy that set out to deliver the much-needed supplies to Malta, and some of which unfortunately never made it to our Island, were to cross the Mediterranean Sea under the guidance and protection of ships of the British Navy.
The Royal Navy's ships task was to aid, protect and lead the merchant ships with their precious cargo into our Grand Harbour. We learn that not all of them made it, either, and the loss of personnel and battling power was considerable. But the courage and determination shown during this highly dangerous sea voyage put to shame today's non-committal and lethargic behavour of some when it comes to helping other people who find themselves in very dangerous situations.
The Royal Airforce that was to provide air cover over the convoy, is represented by eight Squadrons. Use was made of the Short Sunderland Flying Boat, the Bristol Beaufighter, the Supreme Spitfire, and the AirSea Rescue HSL 128. Though, at times, heavily out-numbered, the Royal Airforce engaged the enemy air- and sea-craft with great success in the Meditarranean skies.
The story has a foreward by Peter C. Smth, a prolific author, who researched and told the story of 'Operation Pedestal' in the 1960s. Since publication in 1970, his book has remained continuously in print, and Smith up-dated the story for each new edition. His book presents a fully factual account of what had really taken place during 'Operation Pedestal', until the crippled H.M.S. Ohio and other supply ships entered Malta's Grand Harbour with the life-saving cargo.
In his foreword Peter C. Smith tells us that the courage of the Maltese during World War II is well and truly admired, especially by English people who served in the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean Sea during the war. This may account for the high number of tourists from the United Kingdom that have holidayed in our Island throughout the years. British Navy personnel always relished their being stationed in Malta before, during and after the war. They never forgot having fought a most cruel war shoulder-to-shoulder with brave Maltese citizens who, in the long run, became bosom friends with their British counterparts.
Smith also recalls the granting of the George Cross Award to the Maltese people. The Award was given to a brave and courageous people who never say 'die' in the worst of circumstances to defend their beliefs and principles. Smith shows that Malta truely and fully deserved this Award, and in this way he tells us how proud we should be of having earned it; thus rubishing the idea of a few who want the George Cross to be wiped off our national flag.
Lastly, I feel compelled to write about the delightful, high value, illustrations that embellish the book. They are the work of art of the highly talented, Maltese born, Raymond Agius. He has a very good eye for detail, even in the use of colour; so much so that the objects of his paintings are rendered alive, making the onlooker, or observer, feel that the action is taking place at the very moment when he is face-to-face with his paintings. It is a very good idea that these paintings will be on exhibition at the launch of the book, and for some days thereafter.
Congratulations to Kite Group for having given us again a production of the highest order.
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Raymond Dominic Agius was born on the island of Malta on the 24th May 1955.
He grew up with stories of hardship and sacrifice from a population just two decades out of WWII. In the 1950s and 1960s, most Maltese were living a subsistence existence in surroundings still marred by un-repaired bomb damage. Stories told by the elders in his village and fourpenny war comics influenced him greatly, and rarely a day passed without a sketch or a doodle from his young hand.
In the following years, his interest in the machinery of war led him to study engineering. He specialized in large guns and high-speed machinery. After seven years of service with the British Royal Navy in Malta, he immigrated to Australia in 1978.
There he returned to his university studies, and later joined the automotive industry, working for the General Motors subsidiary, Holden. He progressed through increasingly responsible leadership positions in various departments, including safety, tool and die, automotive body engineering, and design.
He also re-discovered his love of art. His one great hobby away from work was painting and drawing, making the pen and brush his new weapons of choice.
Since retiring in 2007, he has specialized in portraiture as well as figurative, technical and military art. He has worked as an illustrator for books and designed comic and graphic novels. In 2008 he partnered with Guzi Gatt and Michael Galea creating the Maltese language "Gaw Gaw" comics.
In 2013 he presented his first solo art exhibition in Malta, "Behold the People," a highly-praised collection of portraits of well-known Maltese poets, writers, artists, musicians, entertainers and social activists.
"The Malta Pedestal Convoy" is his second exhibition, and harks back to his love of war comics. A new book on important Maltese personalities through the ages, written by the renowned Marquis Nicolas DePiro, also includes many portraits by Mr. Agius. A third solo exhibition scheduled for 2015 will be based on legends, myths and ghost stories from Maltese folklore.
Raymond lives in Malta, Australia and the USA with his partner Christine.

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Animals is firmly progressive in form and length, recalling both drum n' bass at its most overblown and seventies progressive rock. Yet their revisionism is subtle, keeping to a strict, linear rhythmic template with frequently wonky analogue melodic flourishes, familiar from 'Elephant's Parade'. If earlier tracks hinted at a trademark sound, here it becomes firmly established, almost to the point of cliché.
These stumbling bleeps first show up on 'Loud', jazzy careening tones and a deformed Jews harp anchored to bleak pads, later giving way to funky Metro Area house. The preceding 'Hitchhiker's Choice' takes on Basic Channel dub techno, as did their earlier 'Birdsong', and the results are similarly enthralling. Opening literally with birdsong '33,000 Honeybees' is the barest thing here, a simple acid motif tweaked over an empty drum track, moving through Plastikman and Studio 1 into something less blunt and more clearly modern.
The first half of 'We All' could be written by Herbert, and 'Hypnotized' is like the snappiest Farben track, but for all these explorations it's always Minilogue at the helm, and they're on good form. A lull at the halfway mark signifies an intermission of sorts, with too much space given in 'View of a Juggling Ball' and 'Giant, Hairy Spiders' for rambling synth blather and limp electro patterns, but the penultimate 'Animals' is a joy, and the final 'In A Distance' erases any doubt, a reverberant, aqueous undercurrent over which crisp rhythmic lines unfold. Glorious.
Releasing a second disc of 'ambient' music is certainly bold, and it's definitely the lesser work. The fluffy synths which occasionally crept into disc 1 are here left to roam free, and it isn't until the fourth track that we have something resembling a finished piece. 'Six Arms and One Leg' however is a decent piece of rustic trip-hop, a lazy vocal draped over rimshots, guitar and upright bass recalling Buck 65. 'Swamp Op' is barren hip-hop like early DJ Krush, 'Europhonia' pairs rain and static with delayed speech, and the three-part 'Stations' moves from twee soft-focus melodies through darker Rechenzentrum terrain, emerging jazzy with brushed drums and a droned melodica. The ambient title is therefore misleading, and those expecting post-Eno Pop Ambient bliss will be disappointed; for all the aimless synth swirls and lengthy beatless bridges, this is more concerned with the scratchy, head-nodding bedroom beats of Boards of Canada and Morr Music, the kind their dance fans are likely to put on after a night on the tiles.
Sticking with this to the finish is a pretty hard slog, and it could certainly have used trimming – there are few moments I'd lose from the dance disc. But the decision to join tracks makes listening to one artist for 80 minutes a lot easier, particularly when the individual moments are of such quality. Properly edited, this could be one of the albums of the year, and with its faults Minilogue are all the more intriguing.
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Joshua Meggitt
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01 Yesterday Bells
02 Cow, Crickets And Clay
03 Hitchhiker's Choice
04 Loud
05 We All
06 33000 Honeybees
07 Jamaica
08 View Of A Juggling Ball
09 Giant, Hairy Super Monsters
10 Hypnotized
11 Animals
12 In A Distance
01 Old Water
02 Windows
03 City Lights
04 Six Arms And One Leg
05 Swamp Op
06 In The Shade Of The Sun
07 Stations I
08 Stations II
09 Stations III
10 Even The Wind Seemed In Deep Sleep
11 Europhonia
12 Feeling In Spring Beside The Dressing Table
13 Seconds (Colour & Sound)
14 Outro


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The popular but troubled Jenkins CI/CD system is being reworked to support cloud-native applications on the Kubernetes container-orchestration platform. The Jenkins X project is a response to user concerns that Jenkins had lost its luster and had developed configuration and stability issues.
Jenkins X is intended for Kubernetes users who want to adopt CI/CD or who want CI/CD and are moving to the cloud, without necessarily knowing anything about Kubernetes. Jenkins X builds on Jenkins with open source tools, promoting a Git branching and a repository model. A Jenkins distribution is used as the core CI/CD engine.
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Alcohol Treatment Center Coral Springs, FL is helping women and men, regardless of their age or background, free themselves from alcohol and drug addiction. Alcohol and drug abuse sabotages families, friendships, and relationships, and people afflicted with alcohol and drug dependency don't know who to ask for help or how to get assistance. Fear and self-loathing can be overwhelming, and the shame imposed by cultural traditions keeps people silent, making recovery even more complex. Now is the time to break the cycle of addiction! Alcohol Rehabilitation Services Coral Springs believes that recovery is possible, and everybody has the power to battle their addiction and change their life. Talk to a recovery specialist about the right way to end drug and alcohol abuse; call (754) 704-5684 now!
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Alcohol is at the root of many physical sicknesses and health complications, and also has a complex role in mental problems. Liver damage is one of the most well-known consequences of alcohol and drug abuse, including conditions such as steatosis (fatty liver), alcoholic hepatitis (liver irritation), fibrosis (formation of excessive tissue in the liver), and cirrhosis (hardening). The liver processes and cleanses poisons from the body, so a non-functioning liver may end with a slow and painful death. Many other organs are in danger, including the pancreas, which can produce toxic substances in the presence of alcohol, resulting in pancreatitis. Many sorts of cancer result from alcohol use, including cancers in the mouth, esophagus, throat, liver, and breast. Even rare incidents of excessive drinking can cripple the immune system, and cause users to be vulnerable to sicknesses like pneumonia and tuberculosis. Heart damage, such as stretching of the heart muscle and abnormal heartbeat, and stroke are prevalent health risks associated with alcoholics and alcohol abusers.
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. has traveled a long road, but it looks like Tom Cruise is now negotiating to star in the film that moved from Steven Soderbergh's stewardship over to Guy Ritchie's in late 2011. Cruise's interest in the role comes after gents like Channing Tatum, George Clooney, Joel Edgerton, and Bradley Cooper were considered. Deadline notes Cruise signing on would likely mean put another ongoing series in his quiver, alongside the Mission: Impossible and Jack Reacher franchises.


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play a BENEFIT for BRUTAL BENEVOLENCE
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Doors open at 9 PM
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Recommended If You Like: Windhand, Black Sabbath, Earth, Sunn0)), Townes Van Zandt
Apart from fans of Windhand, the Virginia-based doom-metal band she anchors as singer and lyricist, DORTHIA COTTRELL is an unknown pleasure. Criminally so, but her new debut solo album will change that. It is a work of savage beauty, a collection of folk-blues songs as lustrous as they are foreboding. Shadows lurk in COTTRELL's voice, a smoky, sage alto that most certainly belongs to a woman who has "whiskey in my water," as she sings on "Oak Grove." In that song, she confesses — or maybe it's a boast — "I'm the kind of girl who needs a devil in a man / To satisfy me." With little more than acoustic guitar and multi-tracked harmonies, and pedal steel conjuring some haze, the album has the unhurried intimacy of old Folkways recordings, or even Cat Power's The Covers Record. She strips her cover of Townes Van Zandt's "Rake" down to a skeletal dirge, giving a similar treatment to her forlorn version of Gram Parsons's "A Song for You." An artist of COTTRELL's caliber was bound to step into the light, even as darkness surrounds her. (James Reed, Boston Globe)
THE MIGHTY AUROCH sound like trying to fit a truck in your ear. Formed sometime in 2007 (we think, we drink a lot of beer) THE MIGHTY AUROCH has been blowing minds and eardrums since. With their own brand of stoner rock and doom metal, many of the bars in Louisville, Kentucky have had to increase their building's structural insurance. THE MIGHTY AUROCH named themselves after a now extinct species of buffalo indigenous to Europe. Slow, lumbering, mighty, don't mess with 'em.
NATE HALL is best known for his space-rock/doom outfit, U.S. Christmas (Neurot Recordings). His first solo album on Neurot, A Great River, explores more textural, slow roots reminiscent of Townes Van Zandt. Nate's second album, Electric Vacuum Roar was released last year with additional guitars by Brett Netson (Caustic Resin, Earth, Built To Spill), and goes in a completely different direction, with just two long tracks of drone/amplifier worship in the vein of Earth or Sunn0)).
Brutal Benevolence (Philanthropy At Full Volume)
Founded on June 11th, 2012 by Patrick Flanary, Amanda Flanary, Kim Bailey, and Julie Lunn in honor of Patrick's daughter, Fiana. We're raising the awareness of Williams Syndrome and fundraising to support children with Williams Syndrome through the power of music.
Brutal Benevolence, Inc. is a group of musicians and artists coming together to support music therapy as an integral part of the development of children with disabilities. Our intent is to enrich the lives of high needs children in the greater Louisville area by sponsoring group music therapy programs.
Williams Syndrome is a genetic condition that is present at birth and can affect anyone. It is characterized by multiple medical problems, including cardiovascular disease, developmental delays, and learning disabilities. These occur side by side with striking verbal abilities, highly social personalities and an affinity for music. WS affects 1 in 10,000 people worldwide – an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 people in the United States. It is known to occur equally in both males and females and in every culture.
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Sean Keyser's job is to gauge how people feel.
He's not a psychiatrist or New Age guru. He's the vice president of patient experience at Novant Health. And if the concept of an executive-level position at a major health system devoted to people's feelings seems unusual, well, get used to it. And quickly.
Consumer engagement – some call it patient engagement, others frown at that moniker – is an up-and-coming concept. Driven in part by the surge in consumer-directed healthcare and evolving federal guidelines that tie patient satisfaction to bigger reimbursements, more and more healthcare providers are taking a keen interest in how consumers feel.
"We're looking at so many things beyond just clinical care," says Keyser, who's held this role for some 10 years at the North Carolina-based, 15-hospital system and moved up to the VP level two years ago. "Today's healthcare consumer is making decisions based on a framework that's different from the past."
That's the key: Today's healthcare consumer has choices, and today's healthcare provider has to take that into account. People who are unhappy with the quality of their care will go elsewhere, and will tell others about it (a significant burden in this age of social media).
And then there's HCAHPS. Five years ago, few people in healthcare knew what a Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems score was; now everyone understands that it could mean the difference between a health system in the black and one struggling to make ends meet.
So what does it take to keep consumers happy? Better communications, primarily. That can mean anything from access to online scheduling tools, health records and other information (medication management, pricing and insurance, for example) to real-time connections with the health system.
There are now more than 50 chief experience officers in health systems across the country, and several hundred more who aren't at the C-suite level, according to Vocera Communications, which recently issued its 2015 Chief Experience Officer Survey. Aside from tracking consumer engagement, the CXO also studies "experience improvement," or strategies that help healthcare providers improve their own job performance and communication skills.
"Consumerism has been on the horizon for quite some time in healthcare, and now it is here. Providers are seeing the shift and recognizing patients as consumers. Patients have choices of where they go for healthcare and expect the same level of experience they receive from other industries," Elizabeth Boehm, director of Vocera's Experience Innovation Network, said in a press release.
It's a culture change inside and outside the healthcare setting that relies heavily on mHealth tools, say Vocera executives.
"The idea is to restore the humanity to healthcare," says Bridget Duffy, MD, who co-founded the Experience Innovation Network and is generally regarded as the industry's first chief experience officer during her time with the Cleveland Clinic.
In its report, titled "The Evolving Role of the Chief Healthcare Experience Officer," Vocera found that close to 60 percent of CXOs surveyed are or will soon be using "experience data," ranging from patient satisfaction surveys to data collected from the patient via mobile devices.
"A significant part of my time is spent looking at technology. It is really important," Cathey Harmer, System Director of Experience for Main Line Health, explained in the survey. "We are very close to putting in an iPad-based video remote interpretation service for 24/7 access to language support. I want a bedside system to provide feedback and education, plus provide education post discharge. That is huge."


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Alcoholism ruins the life of whoever suffers from it, and furthermore, it affects the life of that person's family and friends. In fact, I'd say it's a condition that has more victims than most. An alcoholic has severe behavior and control problems that can cause them to lash out at anyone, both family/friends and complete strangers. They might kill someone while drunk driving as well. Unlike other diseases that can be kept private, I think alcoholism is hard to keep to yourself and quite often hurts more than one person.
No, I do not think that alcoholism is a victimless disease, and I do not think that most people realize the dangers that alcohol will do to their bodies. Over time, a lot of alcohol is going to affect organs in your body, as well as disrupt your day to day life.
Alcoholism is not a victimless disease. Both drinkers and their family and friends are victims of alcoholism. This disease ruins the body, the soul, and the mind. Further, since alcoholics frequently have loved ones, their behavior can affect them deeply. Physical and mental abuse, lack of comprehension when drunk, and spending too much money on alcohol can all destroy victims' lives.
It has many victims if the people are violent or otherwise negligent. Alcoholism, on its own, is not harmful to all but the person itself, but, at the same time, how often is it in a vacuum? People have families, wives that take their anger, children who are traumatized, and victims on the road.
Alcoholism isn't a victimless disease. Alcoholics beat their women and children. They drive the family finances into the ground simply to try to forget their pain. Alcoholics are horribly addicted people who sometimes don't know any better when it comes to domestic violence. Having seen alcoholics on both sides of my family, there is no way alcoholism is a victimless disease.


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Photos, top to bottom and left to right: Emerging Voice Award recipients display their awards; David Swenson and his wife Ashley greet a guest at the
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Reingold, Justin S. Morrill Dean of the College of Liberal Arts; Joel Ebarb, associate dean (L), laughs with Akin Ayodele and his former academic advisor
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Another Anomalous Object Found By Mars Rover Curiosity
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The Curiosity Mars rover has found some strange-looking little things on Mars – you've likely heard of the Mars 'flower,' the piece of benign plastic from the rover itself, and other bright flecks of granules in the Martian soil. Now the rover has imaged a small metallic-looking protuberance on a rock. Visible in the image above (the green lines point to it), the protuberance appears to have a high albedo and even projects a shadow on the rock below. The image was taken with the right Mastcam on Curiosity on Sol 173 — January 30, 2013 here on Earth — (see the original raw image here), and was pointed out to us by Elisabetta Bonora, an image editing enthusiast from Italy.
"The corresponding image from the left Mastcam is not there," said Bonora via email, "which is a real shame because this would allow us to make an anaglyph."
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/99750/another-weird-shiny-thing-on-mars-2/#ixzz2KDl7cnhJ
As Bonora pointed out, the protuberance seems different than the rock on which it sits – it could be composed of material more resistant to erosion than the rest and similar material could be within the rock, or it could be something that is "grown" on the rock. However, it looks fairly smooth, and in fact it is not covered by dust as is the case for metal surfaces that tend to clean easily.
But "small" is the operative word here, as the little protuberance is probably about 0.5 cm tall, or even smaller.
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/99750/another-weird-shiny-thing-on-mars-2/#ixzz2KDlMaR75
Whatever it is, the weird little shiny thing is interesting, and we hope to have more details about it soon from one of the rover scientists.
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/99750/another-weird-shiny-thing-on-mars-2/#ixzz2KDlg7lPw
They made those cameras perhaps too well on Curiosity, eh?
It's getting harder and harder for NASA to come up with the "optical illusion" explanation for all of these anomalies that Curiosity is finding.
Of course, even if a little critter happens to hop across Curiosity's path and it snaps a quick shot off, will NASA publically announce it?
Another Weird Shiny Thing on Mars
Hat tip to the Daily Grail.
Geoengineering: Is it possible?
Global Warming, whether one considers it caused primarily by humans, or as a natural process determined by cyclical solar activity, is potentially a huge problem for the human race regardless of its cause.
One possible cure for GW is geoengineering. What is geoengineering you ask?
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Late in the afternoon on April 2, 1991, Mt. Pinatubo, a volcano on the Philippine island of Luzon, began to rumble with a series of the powerful steam explosions that typically precede an eruption. Pinatubo had been dormant for more than four centuries, and in the volcanological world the mountain had become little more than a footnote. The tremors continued in a steady crescendo for the next two months, until June 15th, when the mountain exploded with enough force to expel molten lava at the speed of six hundred miles an hour. The lava flooded a two-hundred-and-fifty-square-mile area, requiring the evacuation of two hundred thousand people.
Within hours, the plume of gas and ash had penetrated the stratosphere, eventually reaching an altitude of twenty-one miles. Three weeks later, an aerosol cloud had encircled the earth, and it remained for nearly two years. Twenty million metric tons of sulfur dioxide mixed with droplets of water, creating a kind of gaseous mirror, which reflected solar rays back into the sky. Throughout 1992 and 1993, the amount of sunlight that reached the surface of the earth was reduced by more than ten per cent.
The heavy industrial activity of the previous hundred years had caused the earth's climate to warm by roughly three-quarters of a degree Celsius, helping to make the twentieth century the hottest in at least a thousand years. The eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, however, reduced global temperatures by nearly that much in a single year. It also disrupted patterns of precipitation throughout the planet. It is believed to have influenced events as varied as floods along the Mississippi River in 1993 and, later that year, the drought that devastated the African Sahel. Most people considered the eruption a calamity.
For geophysical scientists, though, Mt. Pinatubo provided the best model in at least a century to help us understand what might happen if humans attempted to ameliorate global warming by deliberately altering the climate of the earth.
For years, even to entertain the possibility of human intervention on such a scale—geoengineering, as the practice is known—has been denounced as hubris. Predicting long-term climatic behavior by using computer models has proved difficult, and the notion of fiddling with the planet's climate based on the results generated by those models worries even scientists who are fully engaged in the research. "There will be no easy victories, but at some point we are going to have to take the facts seriously,'' David Keith, a professor of engineering and public policy at Harvard and one of geoengineering's most thoughtful supporters, told me. "Nonetheless,'' he added, "it is hyperbolic to say this, but no less true: when you start to reflect light away from the planet, you can easily imagine a chain of events that would extinguish life on earth."
There is only one reason to consider deploying a scheme with even a tiny chance of causing such a catastrophe: if the risks of not deploying it were clearly higher. No one is yet prepared to make such a calculation, but researchers are moving in that direction. To offer guidance, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (I.P.C.C.) has developed a series of scenarios on global warming. The cheeriest assessment predicts that by the end of the century the earth's average temperature will rise between 1.1 and 2.9 degrees Celsius. A more pessimistic projection envisages a rise of between 2.4 and 6.4 degrees—far higher than at any time in recorded history. (There are nearly two degrees Fahrenheit in one degree Celsius. A rise of 2.4 to 6.4 degrees Celsius would equal 4.3 to 11.5 degrees Fahrenheit.) Until recently, climate scientists believed that a six-degree rise, the effects of which would be an undeniable disaster, was unlikely. But new data have changed the minds of many. Late last year, Fatih Birol, the chief economist for the International Energy Agency, said that current levels of consumption "put the world perfectly on track for a six-degree Celsius rise in temperature. . . . Everybody, even schoolchildren, knows this will have catastrophic implications for all of us."
The human race might have no choice but to try geoengineering by the end of the 21st Century if the prognosis of a six degree Celsius rise in temperature holds true.
But if we are to become a true Kardashev Level One civilization, humans must have total control of the energy outputs of the planet.
And that includes the climate.
Hat tip to Boing Boing.


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Open Water Swimming @ billabong The Home Of The Barracudas
Billlabong is the main meeting point for Barracudas. This has a long standing tradition of being the main training venue where many members cycle up before the swimming session. With an average of 15-25 miles each way its a perfect start to your training session.
Members not only have access to the clear waters of Billabong which has the perfect distances for all triathlon events it also boasts a great 4 mile training run along to the river Hull and back.
Many members will ride upto billabong have a swim and run followed by a bacon buttie and generally swap stories of events they have done or are intending to do. Its the perfect place for any beginner to get that all important confidence being able to chat to athletes of all standards from Great Britain competitors to Ironman Competitors.
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you think about updating your status with an insight before writing about it in your journal or talking about it with anyone else.
I signed up with Facebook in 2006 after some students at Alabama A&M invited me and told me I needed to be on Facebook. Some students preferred MySpace, so I may have had a MySpace account first. No matter — I rarely used either.
And, until about a week ago, I still didn't *get* Facebook. Really not. Did not get the appeal. Didn't get how folks logged on several times a day. Didn't get the FB games with farm animals and fairies. Just did not get FB. A utilitarian FB user, I considered myself above the hoi polloi because I logged on only after I'd gotten a Gmail message alerting me to a new post in one of the groups I belonged to. I used FB for information — not personal aggrandizement.
Then, after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, I *shared* a poster with a quote by John Oliver about shoe-bombs, airport security, and gun laws. And I watched the poster get re-posted by several people. And I thought, "Wow. That's almost a meme, eh?" Then I shared a photo of young Angela Davis and Toni Morrison walking side-by-side and wearing huge afros. Several people commented. Nieces, former colleagues, old friends I haven't seen in many years. And I was finally hooked. I finally got FB. What did I get? The serendipity and idiosyncrasy of information and sharing it. Echoes. The comfort of like minds. Appreciation.
Now, I log on to FB, and I often spend five to ten minutes scrolling through all the updates. I enjoy FB community — which is a curious sort of community. I won't call it elusive or illusionary, although I want to. I feel a connection to people with whom I have not spoken in many years — sometimes decades. I know personal preferences and incidents in the lives of people whom I know only cursorily in face-to-face interactions. And I bump up against people I've never met but discover through other FB friends — and I appreciate their writing or their events or their politics.
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My Kitchen Rules: WA's Karito and Ian eliminated after MKR cook-off
WA's Karito and Ian have become the first casualties of My Kitchen Rules this year.
The lovebirds lost a sudden-death cook-off against Christian brothers Josh and Austin on Monday night after both teams failed to impress with their original instant restaurants.
Even before they stepped into the kitchen, the bitterness between the two pairs was evident with Josh refusing to answer judge Manu Feildel when he asked what Karito and Ian needed to do to win.
"I am not going to say what they need to improve on and what they don't need to improve on," Josh said.
He then got angry at Austin when he said they needed to add salt, indicating it may help them.
Both teams managed to redeem themselves with the three-course menus they delivered, with judge Pete Evans saying the food they cooked outshone anything from their instant restaurants.
"If you had cooked like you did today, there is no way that either of you would be facing elimination," he said.
Karito and Ian were the first to learn their fate, with their empanadas entree scoring a seven and six from Evans and Feildel respectively.
"That pastry was spot on," Evans said.
"A little bit more spice and seasoning and they would have been the perfect empanadas for me."
The Colombian chorizo and beans main was given the same score, with the judges commenting there were inconsistencies between the plates despite it being "pleasant" to eat.
Ian's dessert was the winner of the night. Scoring nines from both judges, the lemon slice was dubbed restaurant quality.
"Texturally it was fantastic, I loved the pastry and the lemon was so intense, it was gorgeous," Feildeil said.
Including scores from the other contestants, Karito and Ian ended up with 84 out of 130 points.
Josh and Austin, meanwhile, received a six and seven for their beetroot and goats cheese entree from Feildel and Evans.
"I really enjoyed the combination of the beetroot and the goats cheese in this dish...it was a good entree, it wasn't perfect though," Evans said.
The main, jambalaya with corn bread, was praised for its taste but Feildel commented the rice was overcooked.
"Flavour-wise I was amazed, it was salty, it was spicy, it was meaty," he said, agreeing with Evans' score of seven.
Again, the dessert was the most popular dish of their menu.
The sweet potato pie with vanilla cream gained eights from both judges.
"The thing that has blown me away is your balance of flavours," Evans said.
"I loved the filling, you hit the nail on the head with the flavours."
The race was neck-and-neck until the contestants' scores were added, which saw Josh and Austin sail through to victory with 90 out of 130 points.
Karito said she was thankful for the experience.
"I came here to honour my grandma's memory and make my daughter proud," she said.
"I'm happy and feel blessed for the opportunity. I'm very, very thankful. We wanted to bring fire and spice to MKR and we did it. We're going home but this competition has given us so much so we feel like winners already."
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Do you remember ever taking a test, and receiving your results with butterflies in your stomach? Giving yourself a pep talk before looking at what you scored? Telling yourself it's no big deal, while inside your body was screaming with nerves? Do you remember others being interested in what you scored but more importantly, which questions you got wrong?
Have you ever been in a situation, where you feel like you did 9 things right, and one thing wrong? And everyone focused on the latter? Whether it's a test, a job, or every day life. This is a behaviour that so many portray without even knowing they do it. This is a metaphor of life and the way in which the world sees fit to treat you. It's shown when rather than being congratulated for your score, the focus is always that one question you got wrong.
You feel great with what you've achieved until one person points out the thing you've done wrong. That's all it takes. One individual to ruin the immense feeling of self accomplishment. Now all you can think about is not what you did right, but only that which you did wrong. You keep playing the scenario over in your head, wishing you'd said something or done something different so you'd have a better outcome.
Why do we tend to give power over us, to those we don't even consider a friend? Why give them the satisfaction of seeing us down, to only make themselves feel better? There will be people that you come across in your life that will NEVER appreciate the good you do a million times over, but will ALWAYS be there to criticise the one wrong thing you do.
As disheartening as it can be, their failure to see the good that you do, should never be your downfall. Rise above it. YOU know what you're capable of, and only you can remind yourself to always keep going. You may have done something wrong, but you've done a hell of a lot more right. That's something to be proud of, always.
'Your value doesn't decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.'


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Total high, hubby watched the kiddos while I talked up my blog to a bunch of sales reps. I love you hunny! To all you sales people, I hope you enjoy my blog and thank you for taking the time to talk with me.
|Maben playing under a table.
Total low, the typical thing happened, I am a woman in a man's world. There were several sales reps that refused to talk to me so long as there was a man within earshot whose attention they could grab. SHAME ON YOU!
I expected it. It's why locally I choose to shop at Woodcraft over other woodworking stores. The guys that work at Woodcraft have been nothing but super nice to me. Some other stores have not been as nice. I think those other places are seriously missing out on an awesome demographic, WOMEN! There are more and more women DIYers and woodworkers popping up everywhere and so few of us are getting representation, recognized or even any respect in what has typically been and still is a male dominated field. I am amazed at all the room makeovers I am seeing by all my fellow tool wielding women. You gals all rock! I am so happy to be a part of a community where so many women aren't afraid to try new things. The community of women bloggers who are building and crafting is amazing!
Anyways, I wanted to give an giant shout out to the companies that were super friendly to me. Mr. Juneau from Bosch tools, Circle Saw, Everyone from Woodline USA, Craft Supplies USA and Sommerfeld's. You all made me feel like I belonged. I am a fan of your products and was super happy to be able to purchase from most of you.
Me standing next to my favorite purchase from the show. I can't wait to find any reason to use it!
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The new miter saw puts our old miter saw to shame. I will have to dedicate an entire post later on to all that this bad boy can do.


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The Brief
We were commissioned to produce a brochure documenting and celebrating the achievements of the IAAF's 10-year Athletics World Plan. The IAAF wanted the publication to be a leave-behind for guests attending the organisation's Centenary Gala celebration.
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We challenged the ambition of the original brief with an innovative, high-impact concept comprising an oversize and in-bound booklet.
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It's the season of berries and one of my favorite berry is the blueberry. I wanted to try out a recipe with these delicious little guys so I made this super tasty (yes my taste testers said so) blueberry banana bread. And guess what, it's grain and dairy free. So it fits into a paleo and gluten free diet.
This blueberry banana bread is so easy to make. You can have it in the oven within 10 minutes. Sounds good no? These are the ingredients you will need to get started.
4 Bananas [overripe is best]
3 Eggs
3 Tablespoons of Maple Syrup or Honey
60ml (1/4 cup) of Melted Coconut Oil, [can substitute for Coconut Butter or other Nut Butter]
300g (2 1/2 cups) of Almond Flour [can substitute for Coconut Flour]
1 Teaspoon of Baking Powder
1 Teaspoon of Cinnamon
100g (1 cup) of Blueberries
To start, grab your blender or immersion blender. You will need it to mix the batter. Yes, trust me it's gonna be fine. Mix all your wet ingredients first and then add the almond flour, baking powder, and cinnamon to the wet mix. When all the wet and dry ingredients are mixed it's time to fold in the blueberries. But before you fold in the blueberries I have a trick for you that will prevent all the berries to sink to the bottom of the cake tin and mess with your presentation.
Give the blueberries a little coating of almond flour ( 1 to 2 teaspoons) before folding them into the mix. This should prevent the berries from sinking all the way down to the bottom.
Bake your blueberry banana bread in the middle of a preheated oven on 170˚C. Bake for 55 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the bread comes out clean. Baking time will depend on your oven. Leave it to cool for a good 20 minutes before taking the bread out of the tin.
After taking the pictures and waiting for the blueberry banana bread to come out of the oven and cool down enough we just could not wait to dig in and taste it.
Enjoy and let me know in the comments if you are going to try this recipe out.


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Happy weekend! I have a mix of events and some relaxing to do this weekend. I have catered the desserts for my friends studio open house tomorrow night. Truffle Pops, Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes with Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting and Old Fashioned Vanilla Caramel Candies. It should be so fun! The rest of the weekend I will be relaxing and enjoying a girls day with my Mom. By the way, doesn't this couch look like the perfect place to kick back and daydream? I love it! Don't forget the time change Sunday. Here are my faves from the week.
These are some of the most beautiful wedding shots I have ever seen – I am so inspired.
A fall apple dessert that is just mouthwatering!
Loving this post about Mark Rothko. I am a serious fan of his work!
I want this outfit!
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The other day I had the chance to participate in a fabulous wedding inspiration photo shoot. The look was Garden Party Glamour and the day was such a blast. I was thrilled to style the table settings as well as the brides and bridesmaids looks. I also provided some jewelry that I designed too. The shoot was held at Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden here in Portland, Oregon. I love creative collaborations and working with talented people is always such a treat – the weather even cooperated. Here are just a few sneak peek photos, but I do promise to share the real deal photos and entire look soon.
Layering these amazing necklaces add a dramatic and glamorous touch to the brides look.
The rhododendron gardens are so beautiful.
Thanks to Bash! Events NW for asking me to be a part of such a great day.
01 Saturday Oct 2011
Posted beauty, Entertaining, Fashion, Food, Home, Inspiration, Travelin
bridal gowns, california, design, easy dinner, fashion, food, interior design, soup, travel, weddings
I am having an amazing weekend so far! It feels so nice to be in one of my favorite places in the world. Mostly it feels great to catch up with my family and just enjoy some time together. Here are a few of my favorite things this week.
For a delicious and easy dinner or appetizer throw this together in a flash.
With the season changing this will warm your soul on a cold night.
Feeling Blue? Love this as a fresh inspiration for interior design.
An incredible classic, yet vintage wedding. It looks AMAZING. (The Lazaro gown in a personal favorite of mine!)
I am loving this amazing outfit! Great mix of pieces, color and style.
And finally, I was totally inspired to throw an exotic themed bash when I saw this.
30 Friday Sep 2011
Posted Entertaining, Fashion, Food, Travelin
birthday party, california, celebrate, engagement party, family, fashion, food, friends, spa day, travel
I am so very excited to get away for a long weekend! I am going home to California to celebrate. I have some exciting things in store, but most importantly catching up with family and old friends. The reason for the trip is to celebrate my little brother's engagement! We are all thrilled for the newly engaged couple and I cannot wait to toast to them. We will also be sneaking in my birthday celebration (a few days early) because we will all be together in one place.
We have a delicious dinner planned where the view of the San Francisco Bay will be spectacular.
I will be spending most of the day Saturday at the spa getting pampered! (My favorite thing in the world!!!) A massage and facial are well deserved and desperately needed.
Saturday night will be the official engagement party! I even got a new dress for the special occasion.
Before I head back home we will enjoy a birthday brunch in my honor. I am totally looking forward to that, I love going out for breakfast.
Hope you have a great Friday and a very happy weekend. Cheers!
Images via, Pintrest and Sterling Style
24 Saturday Sep 2011
Posted beauty, Entertaining, Fashion, Food, Home, Inspiration, Local, Travelin
amber, amber ring, baking, cupcakes, diy, fashion, food, homemade salt scrub, interior design, jewlery, kitchen, nautical, wedding planning, weddings
This weekend I plan on playing in the last little bit of sunshine before autumn really hits. According to the weather report the fall should really be coming, and soon here in Portland. The rain will start in just a day or so. Here are a few of my favorite things from the blog world this week. Enjoy!
A very dreamy kitchen! Clean, crisp, perfection.
An amazing Amber Ring perfect for fall time fashion and any jewelry collection.
I might be baking another mouth-watering batch of these cupcakes!
I was totally inspired by this nautical themed wedding.
Pampering myself with this homemade sea salt scrub will be on the top of my to do list this weekend!
image via Pintrest
23 Friday Sep 2011
Posted beauty, Entertaining, Fashionin
Choosing your wedding gown can be a daunting task, but mostly it should be fun. My best advice is again to just relax and enjoy this process. Research the bridal boutiques in your area and ask your married friends for recommendations on the best place to go. Every boutique is different so finding one that caters to your needs is going to be your best bet.
Be prepared to answer a lot of questions when you get there. What is your budget for the gown? What is your venue? What fabrics do you like? Do you like beading, lace, bows, or flowers? How about straps or do you prefer strapless?
A gown should be something you love and feel beautiful and confident in. It should be comfortable – we can all suffer a bit for fashion, but be realistic if it's heavy, hot, and itchy in the bridal store it will be all those things multiplied the day of. Most importantly it should be something you love and couldn't wait to put on and show off to your friends, family and fiancé.
Here are my top 5 tips when bridal gown shopping…
If you are in the Portland Area I strongly suggest AniA Collection in Downtown. Their service and selection makes them the best store in town, hands down. They have a number of exclusive designers and are a full service couture bridal boutique so be prepared to be pampered.
Side Note: Most gowns are made to order which means it could take up to six months to get a gown. Plan ahead. It's never to early to get the gown of your dreams, once you find it buy it! Prices go up and gowns do get discontinued so just do it!
Happy shopping!
Images via Pintrest, Anne Adams Photography and Nate Broshot Photography
20 Tuesday Sep 2011
I am a huge fan of Stacker Bracelets! I love the statement they make. It can be bold, or subtle – you can mix vintage with modern, inexpensive with designer pieces, large with small, basically anything goes. This trend will definitely last the test of time.
I love a mix of the chunky gold links with the beaded bracelets.
Look at all those amazing bracelets! She is so fabulous and fearless too! A little bit of everything on the wrist, the printed dress, the bow tie ring … you go girl!
Preppy chic and just my style. The bangles with the gold men's style watch this is my everyday look.
Funky, colorful and totally unique – the casual version of the stacker bracelets.
Images via; Paris Hotel Boutique, Pintrest, Who What Wear, and Jack and Jill.
17 Saturday Sep 2011
Posted Entertaining, Fashion, Food, Home, Inspiration, Uncategorizedin
entertaining, fashion, food, home, interior design, lunch party, pizza, wedding cakes
I am so happy it's finally the weekend. Tonight I am having a girl night with my mom and I plan on making my favorite pizza from scratch; Italian sweet basil sausage, caramelized onion, blue cheese and fresh basil. Seriously delish! On Sunday I am catering a friends 30th birthday party with a very creative menu. (I will be sharing it with you later in the week) I can't wait! There is nothing I love more than cooking for people. Here are just a few things that caught my eye this week.
The perfect menu for a little lunch party. Delish.
These lovely wedding cakes are so cute, not to mention mouth-watering too.
Green Curtains make a serious statement.
New York Fashion Week in a nutshell. My fingers are crossed that one day I will see it live and in person.
I will be making these pretzel rolls soon. I plan on devouring them!
Happy weekend!
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Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues Geneva – Spring is a magical time of year to visit Geneva, when the days start getting longer but the sun still sets over the snowy peaks of the Alps. Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues Geneva is introducing the Experience More – Hotel Credit package, designed to help guests get even more out of the wonderful Swiss springtime, including hotel credit to spend throughout the Hotel. Indulge in a dinner on the sunny rooftop terrace at the Hotel's spectacular Japanese restaurant Izumi, taste tempting Michelin-starred Italian cuisine washed down with a couple of glasses of exceptional wine at Il Lago, or relax with a therapeutic treatment at Spa Mont Blanc.
Four Seasons Hotel Milano – What does a new season require? New outfits, of course! And where better to head out on a new season shopping spree than the capital of fashion itself, Milan? Four Seasons Hotel Milano is introducing the Milano Shopping Break package to help fashionistas get into the spring spirit, including an exclusive tour of the city's hidden boutiques with a personal stylist and VIP welcomes along the way. The package also includes daily breakfast for two on the sunny terrace of La Veranda, the perfect start to a busy day's shopping.
Four Seasons Hotel Moscow – Spring is the perfect time to visit the Russian capital, and Four Seasons Hotel Moscow is offering the new Russian Getaway package to let guests make the most of their time in the city with 20 percent off room rates. Whether it's taking a short walk to the Kremlin, Red Square and St Basil's Cathedral, all just steps from the Hotel, or stretching the legs to explore further afield, this is the perfect opportunity to enjoy light, long days in this grand city.
Four Seasons Hotel Prague – Sit back, sip bubbles and relax on a cruise along the Vltava River watching the beautiful city of Prague drift by from a seat aboard Hotel's private river boat as part of Seasonal Boat Getaway package at Four Seasons Hotel Prague. Spectacular views of Prague Castle, the Charles Bridge and many of the city's historical monuments make this an Instagrammable journey like no other – and the perfect introduction to spring in Central Europe.


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Friday, 4 October, 2002, 10:53 GMT 11:53 UK
Tories split on 'gay rights'
The thorny issue of gay rights will return to haunt Iain Duncan Smith at his party's annual conference next week.
Tory ex-minister Steven Norris is set to make the case for the scrapping of Section 28, the law banning local authorities from promoting homosexuality, at fringe meetings in Bournemouth.
Ministers will attempt to repeal Section 28 when Parliament returns, but some right wing Tories - including former party chairman and shadow deputy prime minister David Davis - have reportedly threatened to resign if Mr Duncan Smith backs the government's position.
However, modernisers in the party believe that if Mr Duncan Smith supported the government's bid to scrap the measure, the Tories would be sending out a clear signal that they have changed.
Learning curve
Mr Norris, who was the Conservatives candidate for London mayor in 2000, will raise the issue as part of a wider call in his fringe meetings for the party to adopt a modernisation agenda.
He is equally damning on the party's current stance towards Section 28.
He told The Times: "Attempts to proscribe lifestyles are doomed to failure.
"You would have thought that Conservatives would have learnt that."
Child protection
In January, Mr Duncan Smith signalled a change in its approach to gay issues by calling for homosexual partners to be given some of the legal rights held by married couples.
Mr Duncan Smith pledged last year to review his party's position on Section 28.
Last month he said: "I believe the principle behind Section 28 is that children who are under the authority of adults other than their parents must be protected in case adults beyond those teachers have particular desires or views.
"We will look at this and decide how best to do that."
'Matter for government'
Tory chairman Theresa May is marked out as one member of the shadow cabinet thought to be in favour of scrapping the legislation.
However, in a recent interview with BBC News Online, she refused to be drawn on the issue.
"In terms of trying to repeal Section 28, it's in the government's hands. That is a matter for the government whether they bring that forward," she said.
"But for us as a party, the key thing is to be focusing on the issues that matter most to most people."
Currie weighs in
She went on: "The issues people say are of most concern to them today, are Labour's failure at public services and it's not just the crumbling transport system, it's the problems in the hospitals, it's failing schools, it's rising crime."
Former health minister, Edwina Currie, who this week stunned the political world with revelations of an affair with John Major, has also weighed in.
She told the Times: "If they try to tell people how to live, the electorate will blow them a great big raspberry.
"Section 28 was always a foolish policy and should be scrapped."
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Silver Lining is an inspirational boutique and gathering space. It has many offerings, but only one true mission…and that is to bring a little light and love to anyone who wanders in.
So, you ask, what exactly is this place?
Silver Lining is an "inspiration destination" where you can find uplifting gifts, transformational books, beautiful apparel and jewelry, healing products, home accents…a wonderful collection of items to lift your spirit. It's also a gathering space for yoga, tai chi, meditation and energy classes, workshops and discussion groups. In addition, Silver Lining is home to a number of practitioners honoring healing, vibrant living and the integration of mind, body and spirit. All this in a convenient and central location at Mason and Clayton Road in West St. Louis County. We invite you to our cozy space to enjoy a cup of tea or coffee while you browse the store or relax in our outdoor courtyard. Most importantly, come visit for a bit of inspiration.
Silver Lining is an "inspiration destination", but we don't want your sanctuary to be confined to our space! We offer a wonderful selection of uplifting gifts, transformational books, beautiful apparel and jewelry, healing products, home accents, and original art to take home and uplift your spirit whenever you need it. Stop by and browse our shop, unwind in the cozy courtyard or recharge with a tea or coffee. View our wares!
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If you want to make a change in your look as far as fashion goes you may think of changing your wardrobe first but that isn't the only way to accomplish the feat. New clothes are a fantastic way to change your look but clothes are not everything. Your overall look also includes things like fashion accessories and jewelry. For a quick and relatively affordable way to update your look you may want to consider jewelry.
The internet can easily be used to keep yourself up to date on the latest trends in fashion jewelry. The internet has a virtually unlimited amount of online fashion sites. A large number of these sites also offer free tips in addition to offering the latest trends for jewelry and other accessories.
You can also keep up with the newest trends in jewelry fashion by purchasing fashion magazines in print. Even with the availability of the internet many people still prefer to buy and read the print magazines. I don't know why it takes some people a long time to catch on to the internet but many people still prefer to read the regular print version of fashion magazines. To me the only big difference between the print version and the online versions is the number of advertisements you have in the printed ones.
Shopping can also help you to become more familiar with the choices of jewelry that are available on the market now. Not only is window shopping a fun thing to do but it can also help you see what is currently available and in style. You will see many of the latest sets displayed in the windows of your favorite stores. You know as well as I do that this is one the best ways to view the latest jewelry releases and they look really beautiful in the displays.
Moving on to the internet, this is another way to investigate and explore what is available. You can cover a lot more ground without ever leaving your home by "window shopping" online. In addition to regular brick and mortar stores that have an online presence you can also find online jewelers who only exist online and may be able to offer you much better pricing due to much lower overhead. Usually you will find the most popular and hottest jewelry items on the front page of the website. This makes it really easy to stay up to date on the latest trends in fashion jewelry.
You can now see that there are a great deal of options available to you to stay up to date with the latest trends in fashion. With the internet in addition to the other traditional methods available you can stay up on the most up to date fashion jewelry research.
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What's not to like? This one is a bit harder, especially if you like online forums better than seminar rooms. Yet there are still many signals that get lost when you're not in the room. Sure, you can blip over the comments from the pompous and the clueless, but there's something valuable in hearing them talk and gesture.
College fanatics will also say that massive online open courses, aka MOOCs, leave out the best part of college: Late-night study dates at the malt shop, pinning a "kick me" sign on the back of the professor's tweed blazer, smelling the old books in the library, or loafing around the campus on a spring or fall day. Of course you can do all of those things with a MOOC, too -- you just don't need to run them through the MOOCs interface. Hmmm. Maybe there's no reason to be too negative and cynical about everything.
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Mexican sourdough bread with cinnamon raisin swirl + info for novice sourdough bakers including a gluten-free starter.
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