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Time to check in with Ian from North of the Border!
I'm back and I brought some cheese with me as well. I would like to apologize for my extended absence, but there were some extenuating circumstances and a vacation put into the mix as well. I had some posts ready before my absence, but they seem lost in cyber space, so I will include snippets of them here too.
First the Mystery Cheese I posted this picture before I left for a funeral
This was my fourth version of my little squirrel cheese. They are semi-lactic cheese with ARN added to the milk. This time I used Organic Homogenized Pasteurized Milk, and added the ARN with the MA4001 culture. I am still not happy with it and I am sure there will be a version 5 or 6 before I am done.
We had a retirement at work and it was decided that we should have a potluck buffet for the party. I had worked with this person for 11 years so they deserved some cheese. Fromage Blanc to be exact. I decorated the cheese with chive blossoms and an edible purple clover that grows in my garden.
Last little update is about my Rebel Reblochon; well I am sure there is someone out there that would eat it, but that someone does not live at my house. It did have some merits, it was smelly, gooey, but it was quite salty. This was my fault as I added a bit of salt each time I washed. I misread the directions; it said to add a few grains of coarse salt to the surface at each wash. I would not make the same mistake twice.
Reblochon Take 2
So after the last failure I decided that I would try again, I know I have many others to redo but I love Reblochon, and this time I would follow the directions as closely as possible. I think that I mentioned before that I have the AOC recipe for Reblochon, it has pH markers as this cheese is acid sensitive, meaning it can over acidify quickly. I invested in some pH strips, not as accurate as a digital meter it will give me an idea as to the acid level. I fired up the vat and away I went.
This time I used PLA instead of ARN, I know what are these things, and they are both ripening agents. PLA and ARN both contain strains of B. Linens, Geotricum and yeast. PLA is the preferred one to use as the yeast is fast acting and you need it.
I was also trying out a new type of rennet; this kind was a lamb rennet paste. It is not really a paste, it is still liquid and has seemed to do the trick. It was not traditional but I couldn't resist.
I added the rennet and started the clock for the flocculation time.
After the curd had set, I cut to the right size this time, rice size, and I was able to fill both moulds with all the curd. I pressed and flipped for about 4 hours, checking on the pH as I went with my strips. I then increased the temperature in my "cave" to 16°C to allow for yeasting time. They stay in the their moulds over night then they are de-moulded.
Then they were removed and salted and back into the cave for more yeasting. The idea is you ripen the cheese at a high temperature and high humidity until the Geotricum blooms.
It should take 4-5 days for the Geotricum to bloom and then I could start the washing cycle.
This is when I received news that I would have to leave town for a week to attend a funeral out of province. I knew that asking my wife to start washing rinds would be asking too much. She did agree to flip the cheese each day for me; did I mention I have the best wife ever? I lowered the temperature to 10°C and left for the week. I returned to see that the geo had fully bloomed and it was time to start washing the cheese. I needed to move the cheese into smaller ripening boxes so I could have more room in the cave. I also labeled each box with a new label too.
I started the washing cycle same as the last time, but I followed the directions more closely. Things were going well until it came time to leave on our family vacation. This would mean that I had to stop washing the cheese again for 5 days. I did one last wash then put the cheese back into the cave and hoped for the best. I came back the other day and started to wash the cheese again.
I will continue to wash the cheese for another few weeks, then I will wrap them and they will go into the regular fridge and will age for a few more weeks. I will definitely post the results and keep you updated on any other cheeses that I make in the mean time.
I want to thank everyone for their support during my absence and the those that visited my site while I was away.
Go and make some cheese!
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My heart goes out to the Rebel Reblochon it looks like Stinking Bishop. Again thank you so much for he detail you give as today I am going to try another batch but thanks to your post I will leave it out for a week or so at 16 degrees. The photos of the cheeses are great I can't stop looking at those succulent rinds.


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Red Berry and Apple Crumble Recipe (Gluten Free, Sugar Free)November 19, 2015 5:36 pm
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Most people will probably disagree with me, but I'm still stickin by it. I think Jamila and Andrew resemble Rachel and Phinn from Glee. Andrew's tall, a football player, and expressionless most of the time. Jamila's a very pretty brown-eyed, lean, brunette. I told them that they should be those characters for the next Halloween, they really wouldn't have to try very hard to be them I think.
Anyway! Jamila and Andrew's wedding took place at the Sierra La Verne Country Club, and as Jamila would describe it (I asked her today) it was perfect! Everything went very smoothly, and she got to see all her friends and family. Andrew agreed with his emotionless face
Today I actually photographed their trash the dress session, and I finally got a really big smile on his face. You'll see why in a future post. But even when these two broke it down like in "you got served" doing the Party Rock Anthem Shuffle as a surprise dance during the reception Andrew still kept a very straight face. I was very very impressed! The choreography, the energy, the timing, and the transition from slow dance to "shuffle" was impeccable. I found it took three days worth of practice and lessons from a dance teacher, and it definitely paid off! Dashing! I never use the word dashing, but it was! Jamila and Andrew got the party started because after that these guests got down like there's no tomorrow.
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I have a confession to make. My name is Vicky and I like country music. Please don't judge me 🙂
My favourite country artists are Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert and The Wreckers. Have a listen to my fave of their songs throughout this post!
Country music isn't big in the UK – only Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum have made some in-roads but it's not really played on our radio. My exposure to country came from American Idol. Every year there's usually a country contestant and a lot of county songs are covered and country artist come on the show as well. Carrie Underwood was the first country music I brought and I love discovering new artists to listen to.
I love country music because of the way they use stories in their songs. Cheating, heartbreak, lost love, small towns, drinking, domestic violence, big dreams and rag to riches – it's all their in a song accompanied by some catchy guitars. Country songs transport me to sunshine, driving down the road with the roof off or sitting on a porch in the evening rocking back in a chair.
Country songs remind me of summer and make me smile. When the sun comes out, I like putting on a country song on the way to work. Mostly I listen to modern country which is a bit more poppy, although Dolly Parton's Jolene is a good classic to bring out.
I'd love to visit Nashville, the home of country music and listen to live music and explore the roots of country. I think I'd enjoy the trip – maybe I'll get there one day and organise a blogging country knees up 🙂
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Glasshouse Advisory reports on proposed changes to R&D Tax program to benefit foreign multinationals over Australian based multinationals.
When Treasurer Scott Morrison announced his intention to overhaul the current R&D Tax Incentive program in the recent Federal Budget, he cited a need to restore integrity to the current program and to reward those companies that invest heavily in R&D activities. Given the scant detail within the budget papers as to how this objective was going to be achieved, it was initially difficult to assess its impact on a company's R&D program, despite the Treasurer indicating the changes to the program will come into effect from 1 July 2018.
On Friday, the 29th June, Treasury released its draft R&D legislation, along with a 28-day public comment and consultation period. While the draft legislation has taken the opportunity to address a number of inconsistencies in the current R&D legislation, (primarily around the mismatch in the treatment of feedstock and clawback as a result recent changes in the corporate tax rate), it also became apparent that the proposed changes to the R&D program will primarily benefit subsidiaries of overseas multinationals conducting R&D in Australia, compared to subsidiaries of Australian based multinationals conducting R&D in Australia.
Given how the proposed R&D legislation will deliver an R&D benefit to overseas multinationals that are not available to locally headquartered multinationals, it is difficult to reconcile why, on the one hand, the Federal Government is implementing a suite of legislation to ensure multinationals are paying their 'fair share' of tax in Australia (via stringent transfer pricing and related integrity provisions), but at the same time, it is preferentially providing multinationals with a higher R&D Tax benefit that is simply not available to Australian based multinationals conducting R&D in Australia in the same set of circumstances.
The reason for this inequity (and why the proposed changes to the current R&D Tax program will preferentially benefit overseas based multinational groups conducting R&D in Australia, compared to Australian based multinationals) comes down to how the new legislation requires a company to calculate its 'R&D intensity'.
When Treasurer Morrison announced that he intended to change the current R&D program in order to reward companies who invest a higher proportion of their expenditure on R&D activities, his idea was based on increasing the percentage of R&D benefit as a company's R&D intensity increased.
For businesses with an aggregate turnover of more than $20 million, the new program proposes 4 tiers of benefit, as outlined in the following table.
|R&D Tax Incentive Rate
|Level of intensity (eligible R&D expenditure as a percentage of total expenditure)
|0% – 2%
|>2% – 5%
|>5% – 10%
While limited detail was provided in the initial Budget papers as to how a company's 'R&D intensity' percentage would be calculated, the recently released draft legislation provides this detail, detail that creates further confusion and uncertainty regarding the application of the new program. For example, in the draft legislation, a company's 'R&D intensity' will be assessed by comparing the 'R&D entity's' (a defined term in the legislation) eligible R&D expenditure over the R&D entity's total expenditure (according to accounting principles). Whilst this seems a straightforward concept, this methodology will significantly disadvantage Australian multinational companies conducting R&D in Australia.
Financial advantage provided to Overseas Based Multinationals
In understanding the inequity within the proposed R&D legislation, consider a scenario whereby a German multinational has $4billion in global expenditure and has an Australian subsidiary engaged in R&D activities. The local Australian subsidiary (i.e. the 'R&D entity' which is the entity that lodges its R&D application with AusIndustry) has a turnover of $50 million, total expenditure of $40million and spends $3million on R&D activities. In calculating this company's R&D intensity percentage, the proposed legislation requires only the expenditure of the Australian based entity to form the denominator in the calculation (i.e. is not required to include the nearly $4 billion of expenditure incurred worldwide by the rest of the German multinational Group). This is because the 'R&D entity' only encompasses the Australian based subsidiary. In this example, the Australian subsidiary of the German multinational will have an R&D intensity level of 7.5% (despite having global expenditure of $4 billion), which will provide it with an R&D Tax benefit of $200,000.
|German Multinational R&D Tax Benefit Calculation
|R&D Tax Benefit Rate
|R&D Tax Benefit Amount
|0% – 2%
|$ 800,000 @ 4%
|$ 32,000
|>2% – 5%
|$1,200,000 @ 6.5%
|$ 78,000
|>5% – 10%
|$1,000,000 @ 9%
|$ 90,000
|Total Tax Benefit
Why are Australian Based Multinationals disadvantaged?
Now consider the same scenario, but with an Australian multinational with an Australian subsidiary engaged in R&D activities. Same turnover, same expenditure, same level of R&D spend as in the previous example and same global expenditure for the Australian multinational Group of $4 billion.
In this scenario, it would be reasonable to expect that the Australian subsidiary of an Australian based multinational would receive the same R&D benefit (i.e. $200,000) as previously calculated for the subsidiary of the German multinational conducting R&D in Australia.
However, due to the fact that the head entity of the Australian multinational tax consolidated group would be deemed to be the 'R&D entity' in any R&D claim (i.e. the entity that lodges its R&D application with AusIndustry), the proposed new legislation requires the 'R&D entity' to include all expenditure to be taken into account when calculating its R&D intensity which, in the case of the Australian subsidiary of an Australian based multinational, would include global expenditure of $4 billion. This inconsistency is due to the operation of Section 355-115 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 ('ITAA 1997'), which defines an R&D entity's expenditure as: –
- An R&D entity's expenditure for an income year is the sum of the amounts covered by subsection
- The following amounts are covered by this subsection: –
- the expenditure incurred by the R&D entity for the income year worked at in accordance with the accountancy principle;
- any amount the R&D entity can deduct for the income year as mentioned in sub paragraph 355-100(1) to the extent the amount is not covered by paragraph (a).
This definition and its impact on calculating a company's R&D intensity has generated a significant level of uncertainty in how to apply the proposed new R&D legislation, specifically around how broad the net is cast when it comes to calculating total expenditure for the R&D entity. However, given section 355-35 of the ITAA 1997, defines an 'R&D entity' to include, "a body corporate incorporated under Australian law.", it is reasonable to interpret that a body corporate incorporated under Australian law (that lodges an R&D claim under the proposed new provisions) will need to include total global expenditure in calculating its R&D intensity percentage.
If we interpret the proposed legislation to include the global expenditure of the Australian multinational (given the head entity of this Australian based group would be considered the 'R&D entity') and we assume the same figures from the previous example (i.e. global expenditure of $4 billion), the R&D intensity for the Australian subsidiary of the Australian based multinational would be 0.00075% (i.e. $3 million in R&D expenditure over $4 billion of the R&D entity's expenditure). In this example, as the R&D entity's R&D intensity falls between 0% – 2%, the Australian subsidiary of an Australian based multinational would only have access to a total R&D benefit of $120,000 under the proposed new R&D tax legislation. This is despite undertaking the same level of R&D activities in Australia and despite investing the same level of R&D expenditure in Australia as the Australian subsidiary of a German multinational. Given the Australian subsidiary of the Australian based multinational has an R&D intensity level of 0.00075%, the disparity in R&D benefit is demonstrated in the table below.
|Australian Multinational R&D Tax Benefit Calculation
|R&D Tax Benefit Rate
|R&D Tax Benefit Amount
|4% uplift (0-2% intensity)
|$ 3,000,000 @ 4%
|$ 120,000
|6.5% uplift (>2-5% intensity)
|$ –
|$ –
|9% uplift (>5-10% intensity)
|$ –
|$ –
|12.5% uplift (>10% intensity)
|$ –
|$ –
|Total Tax Benefit
|$ 120,000
This appears to be an unacceptably unfair outcome that provides multinationals based in other countries with a higher benefit than is available to the Australian multinationals investing the same level of expenditure on R&D in Australia. In effect, the proposed legislation will penalise Australian based multinationals conducting R&D in Australia, including some of our most innovative and iconic companies, including CSL, Ramsey Health Group, Brambles, and Bradken.
Inequity of R&D benefits between Consolidated and Unconsolidated Groups
The inequity in the proposed legislation (i.e. Australian and overseas based multinationals) also extends to consolidated tax groups, when compared to non-consolidated tax groups. Under the proposed new legislation, if R&D is conducted by a company within a tax consolidated group, given that the head entity is deemed to be the 'R&D entity', the R&D intensity (and therefore its available R&D Tax benefit) of that R&D entity will be reduced, compared to R&D conducted in an unconsolidated group.
The source of the inconsistent treatment and the reason for the reduced benefit available for R&D conducted within tax consolidated groups compared to unconsolidated groups is due to the requirement to include the expenditure of the entire consolidated group as the denominator in the calculation of R&D intensity, whereas an unconsolidated entity only has to take its own expenditure into account when calculating their R&D intensity.
As drafted, the proposed legislation provides unconsolidated entities with the potential to access a materially higher R&D tax benefit than the benefit available to entities within a tax consolidated group. This outcome therefore provides an incentive to structure a Group's tax affairs in a way that enables the R&D entity to sit outside the tax consolidated group where possible. This obviously creates an integrity issue, in a regime where the Treasurer indicated he was seeking to restore integrity to the program.
One of Treasurer Morrison's stated objectives for introducing a '4-tiered' R&D premium was to provide an increased benefit for those companies that invest more of their expenditure on R&D activities. From the examples provided (which primarily relate to companies with an aggregate turnover of more than $20 million), it is clear that the proposed legislation will never be able to deliver on this primary stated objective, due to the introduction of complex concepts that will disadvantage genuine R&D Innovators and encourage creative tax planning structuring to circumvent specific limitations associated with the legislation. What the proposed new R&D program does however deliver is access to an increased R&D tax benefit to multinational groups conducting R&D within Australia, compared to Australian based multinationals conducting R&D in Australia. The proposed new R&D legislation will also deliver increased R&D benefits to entities outside the consolidated tax regime, compared to entities within, in comparable circumstances.
As drafted, the proposed new R&D legislation has significant flaws in that it;
- does not achieve its primary stated objective of rewarding businesses who engage in increased levels of R&D activity
- provides access to increased R&D benefits to multinational groups compared to Australian based multinationals investing in R&D activities in Australia
- provides increased access to higher tax benefits for companies engaged in R&D activities outside tax consolidated group, compared to entities that are within a consolidated group, and
- is poor tax policy that creates more integrity related issues than it was designed to resolve.
What can we do to ensure this flawed legislation is never enacted in its current form?
- Take advantage of the 28-day public consultation program (https://treasury.gov.au/consultation/c2018-t289033/ ) to explain to the Federal Government the impact the proposed legislation will have on your business.
- Write to the local member of Parliament where your company has facilities located, to explain the impact of the proposed R&D changes on your ability to continue to fund R&D activities, its impact on profitability and the potential knock on effect in employment (often linked to reduced profits).
- Alternatively, contact any of Glasshouse Advisory's Innovation and Incentives team, who will be happy to assist formulate and implement the strategy that is relevant to your company.
The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances.
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Hollywood Canteen
A great tradition which essentially disappeared when the studio system collapsed was what one might call the variety film. The variety film was a kind of cinematic vaudeville show—a hodgepodge of comedy bits, some singing, dancing, and whatever else a cast of players under contract could fill out the average running time of a movie with. They were goofy, hurried, made on the cheap, and meant to be light entertainment. A great example of this would be International House (1933), a film about a hotel in "Woo-Hoo" China where W.C. Fields, Bela Lugosi, George Burns, Gracie Allen, and Cab Calloway all cross paths in very silly ways.
A variety film with the same spirit as International House but with more urgent purpose was Hollywood Canteen which chronicled a day spent at the famous club for GIs during World War II. The Hollywood Canteen originally came to exist through the efforts of Bette Davis and what she created with it really represented Hollywood at its best. From its opening day the Canteen was staffed with movie stars who volunteered their time nightly to serve GIs coffee and donuts or sign autographs. Girls came to dance with GIs and it was possible to see famous orchestras or comedians on a nightly basis there. Hollywood Canteen was made at Warner Brothers and the film features an all-star cast of contract players at the studio during the mid-1940s. It's a fascinating glimpse into the entertainment world of the time with delightful cameos from everyone from Barbara Stanwyck, Ida Lupino, and Joan Crawford to Jane Wyman, John Garfield, the Benny Goodman Orchestra, Roy Rogers, the Andrew Sisters, and many more.Continue Reading
Johnny Guitar
A lot of directors who worked with Joan Crawford probably thought they had tapped into whatever unique strain of neurosis made her "La Joan" in order to get the best performance out of her in their films. She had always played a version of herself throughout her career, whether as a jazz crazy flapper in her silent films, a shop girl looking to marry up in her 1930s films, and in the double-crossed dame roles she took on in the hardboiled noirs of the 1940s. By the fifties, the Joker-esque lipstick started to appear, looking all the more frightening in Technicolor, and her eyebrows reached new levels of ferocity. I think of this as her middle-aged gender bending period. It seems to me that a lot of middle-aged American women start to look kind of androgynous after awhile out of what I always assumed was a weary resignation to having to keep up the scopophilic charade but Joan's particular version of androgyny seemed more trenchant than that. It was kind of accidentally subversive. Or what the hell do I know? She may have been totally onboard as a proto-transgender performance artist. Maybe she was the first Ziggy Stardust and we weren't hip enough to catch on. Well, whatever was going on no director found the resolute queerness of Joan's 1950s persona quite like Nicholas Ray did with his weird western Johnny Guitar.
Joan had plenty of experience playing ball busters and vamps, but she had never played a character quite like Vienna, the saloon owner whom everyone in town seems to want gone. Vienna wears high-waisted black pants and boots, a bolo tie, and a holstered gun. She employs a staff of men who seem weary of having such a powerful female boss. All day they spin the roulette wheel in her club, even though there are no gamblers, and they serve drinks at her bar even though there are no drinkers. A former flame of Vienna's named Johnny Guitar (played by Sterling Hayden) is ostensibly hired to strum some tunes for her clientele. But there's never anyone there, except for the nefarious bank-robbing gang that hangs out at Vienna's including members with names like The Dancin' Kid and a guy named Turkey. So yes we have Vienna, Johnny Guitar, the Dancin' Kid, and Turkey--just for starters.Continue Reading
Mildred Pierce
Joan Crawford grabbed at life the only way she knew how—by the balls, baby. She fled a hard scrabble childhood full of the horrors to become the reigning queen of Hollywood. She defied so many odds put in front of her and she almost always came out on top. Joan was many different versions of herself throughout her life: gold digger, jazz baby, Pepsi hawker, perennial MGM shop girl, terrible, terrible mother, the greatest star the world has ever known, poster woman for mental illnesses, bizarre recipe creator, transgender identity pioneer, role model to the uneducated, black market baby taker, dubious advice giver, enemy of slovenly hippies, the world's most famous neat freak, world class fashion don't… she did it all. Her crazy life was her greatest work of art.
When people talk about Joan's essential artifice (and likewise the supposedly superior talents of her chief star rival, Bette Davis) I don't understand why they mean it in a bad way. Her artifice was the whole picture and it was riveting. It gave her a unique kind of depth. It set her apart. She didn't want to be liked; she demanded to be worshiped. Whether in a black market stag film early in her career (as was rumored) or any number of MGM prestige pictures or in her obsessive assembling of her bizarre family set up, Joan's way of life was to attack. Her ambition was her identity. This can be either repulsive or, if she was in the right film, it can be put to very compelling use.Continue Reading
The Women [1939]
I watched The Punk Singer (2013) – Sini Anderson's adoring biopic of Kathleen Hanna – and, perhaps in a mini-rebellion from her feminist electro orthodoxy, I watched The Women as a follow-up. Of course I mean the original George Cukor-directed The Women and not the roundly panned remake from a few years ago. That big ol' bomb reportedly tried to assert a more inexplicably positive "sisterhood" sort of tone to this story of caustically ridiculous females - an assortment of Park Avenue trophy wife types scheming, backstabbing, gossiping, and delivering withering putdown after…you get the idea, right? Which is kind of like trying to make the Khmer Rouge camp managers in The Killing Fields a little nicer to their captives.
In Anderson's documentary and in the writings of chroniclers of Hanna's work there is a lot of talk of "queerness." Hanna is a heterosexual woman who has played "feminist electronic music" with her band Le Tigre featuring self-described "gender outlaw" and lesbian J.D. Samson. But "queerness" isn't maybe entirely best understood through the work of people such as Hanna. For a theoretical perspective of what queerness means in a gay male context it is worth seeking out the work of academic David Halperin and specifically his hefty pink book, How To Be Gay. Halperin seeks to better describe the sensibility of queerness as defined by gay cultural touchstones such as Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce, Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest, and yes, in Cukor's The Women (featuring Joan Crawford). Queerness in this context isn't always as friendly to women as queers and their allies might wish and that's an uncomfortable truth that Halperin seeks to wrestle with.Continue Reading
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a movie lodged right into our pop cultural DNA somewhere between Psycho and Stonewall, and I would wager that its reputation as a "camp classic" might precede it to the film's detriment because its greatness is in spite of its cultural baggage as a Hollywood Babylon-style punch line. Throughout the years since its release the film has been referenced, paid homage to, and parodied more times than I probably know about. There's just something about the premise of two notorious aging movie queens tearing into one another—no one seems able to resist that glamorously morbid premise. By the early 1960s Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were at the point in their careers where they had to spoof themselves in a Hollywood horror story to get the attention of an audience that had long since deserted them. It was a risk that paid off and ultimately redefined the kinds of roles being offered to aging movie stars. …Baby Jane? was more than just a sleeper hit that resuscitated a few careers; it became a phenomenon that helped spawn a whole cottage industry of films starring has-been actresses pouring on the fake blood and brandishing pick axes. People wanted to see these one-time "it girls" playing murderous grandmas. It was the age of the Hagsploitation horror flick and …Baby Jane? was the one that started it all.
But let me reiterate, I come to praise What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as a sharp Hollywood satire, not to bury it under more faint praise as a "camp classic," though there's no denying it's the Shakespearian gold standard for that. The problem is that identifying something as camp tends to negate it as anything other than a joke—even a knowing joke— and what makes What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? memorable goes far beyond its kitsch value. It's a darkly comic satire in the vein of Sunset Boulevard but with weirder and more compelling characters. And it's not just Davis and Crawford who remind us of why they were great to begin with. The supporting cast is just as good as they are—Victor Buono as the portly would-be suitor and artistic collaborator of Jane is particularly excellent. And in Robert Aldrich the film has a curiously awesome choice for a director. Aldrich could be described as a man's man kind of director who made war pictures and nasty offbeat noirs like Kiss Me Deadly. Hiring him to direct a movie about two old Hollywood legends at each other's throats was an inspired choice. Aldrich liked perversity and clearly the innate perversity of the film's premise must have appealed to him. But he also locates the pathos in the characters and makes us care about what happens to them. It's hard to categorize What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as anything other than a classic. It's a Hollywood satire, it's a lurid tragedy, a gothic noir of sorts - kind of horrific, certainly camp, and very funny. It has much to say about the two legendary leads and their notorious dislike of each other as it does about an industry that treats women terribly.Continue Reading


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It's been a long time since the Beatles headed for India, seeking a rest from their tumultuous lives and a chance to develop the spiritual tools to help them make sense of their preposterously influential position in the world. Nirvana was what they sought, and tonight, live in New York, at least one of their number will finally be successful.
OK, so strictly speaking Sir Paul McCartney will not be transcending this mortal realm and attaining a state of bliss in which his human desires are blown away, leaving nothing but eternal accord with his creator, but he will be playing some loud rock music with the three surviving members of the band Nirvana, and in a lot of ways that's nearly as good.
Sir Paul will join Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear for a special performance at tonight's benefit concert for families effected by Hurricane Sandy, which effectively means he'll be playing the Kurt Cobain role, right down to being the sole left-handed guitarist in a group of northpaw rockers. JUST LIKE KURT OMG! etc
This odd union came out of a conversation between Sir Paul and Dave, in which they planned to do something special for the concert, which takes place tonight in Madison Square Garden.
According to Sir Paul, Dave invited him to a rehearsal room to work out a new song in the time-honored tradition of rockers everywhere. They agree to meet up and "jam with some mates," only Dave failed to reveal the exact significance (or indeed identity) of the mates in question.
Sir Paul told the Sun: "I didn't really know who they were. They are saying how good it is to be back together. I said 'Whoa? You guys haven't played together for all that time?
"And somebody whispered to me 'That's Nirvana. You're Kurt.' I couldn't believe it."
And speaking of Sir Paul's India trip, the sad news has emerged today that Ravi Shankar – the man who taught George Harrison to play the sitar, and ambassador for the instrument in particular and Indian music in general – has passed away.
By way of tribute to an astonishing talent, here's a relatively recent performance he gave with his daughter Anoushka, playing "Raga Anandi Kalyan":
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Our Horses
Brae Park Tom, alias Tom Parker believes himself to be a very important person and is always found where the action is, generally leading the charge if there is one!!
He was born in 2007 and came to us via the good offices of Ron Calder of Kidderminster and is proving to be a very nice member of the team.
He is very sturdy but extremely comfortable to ride.
Tom Parker is also very accomplished at draught work and is happy to pull the cart, drag a tree or harrow the field.
|Allan (Big Al) was born in 2007 and is from Northern Ireland, he came to Adventure Clydesdale from Ron Calder of Kidderminster.
He is a bay roan and has a very gentle temperament and loves people.
He is one of the larger horses standing at 18hh.
Allan is a very special horse, a real gentle giant.
He is a really solid member of our team and will delight the confident rider.
Midge is lively and athletic. He is very small for a Clydesdale, standing at about 16.1hh and was born in 2007.
He was bred by Ronnie Black of Collessie Fife, Scotland but came to us via Tommy Macaleese of Aghadowey, Northern Ireland.
Midge has been trained in dressage by Jane Lavington when he was on winter loan with her in 2013/14, he came 7th in the British Dressage Winter Regional Championships musical ride. He is a winner of the Exeter Clydsdale race and the Flete Park race. He is a lovely horse to ride across Dartmoor and is easy going and friendly.
Frankie Doodle, aka, Brimpts Enchanter is half brother to Midge sharing the same mother, Collessie Enchantress.Foaled in 2010, Frankie came to us from Tommy MacAleese, as did his brother. After a slow start due to a very nasty bout of shipping fever he joined our team properly in Autumn 2014 and has made a very impressive start. He is extremely quick to learn and he is used as a very forward ride leading horse as well as an enjoyable ride for clients. Frankie Doodle was the winner of the Clydesdale race at Exeter in 2018.
Solo was born in 2007 and joined us from Tom and Margery Tennant of Singlie Farm at Ettrick Bridge, Selkirk.
He is a half brother of Ecco and Siryl who are offspring of the stallion Singlie Storm.
He is a bright bay with an eager manner, he is quite a stocky Clydesdale and is a well established member of the team.
Solo was the best in hand gelding at the Royal Highland Show before he came to Adventure Clydesdale, he is very good looking horse.
Siryl alias Stobilee Sirocco was born in 2006 in the Scottish Borders. He is a full brother to Solo and half brother to Ecco having all been sired by Singlie Storm. Siryl joined us in 2011 and was trained on Bodmin Moor and has been one of our key riding horses ever since.
Siryl is a very quiet, sensitive horse and is easy to handle although he is a horse for the more experienced rider as he has quite a turn of speed.
Siryl has won the race at Exeter in 2017.
.Little Louis
Little Louis joined us in the spring of 2018, he came up from Cornwall as he did not have a job to do down there. Clydesdales love to work and Little Louis is no exception. He has fitted in well with his friends here and is proving to be very popular. He is a forward going, lovely ride and is only 6 years old so will have plenty of time to excel in his new job. Little Louis is quite small but is still growing so might make 17 hands - maybe.
Bobby Dazzler Came to us as a completely untrained 6 yr old at the end of February 2015. We have had outstanding success with his training and he is now a solid member of our riding team. He has an exceptionally gentle nature but is forward going and eager to please. He has already graduated to doing day rides as he has a good level of fitness. A true gentleman and always ready to oblige.
|SALVO MONTALBANO is fairly new to the team. He is just 6 years old and is quite small for a Clydesdale. Salvo is quick and nimble and is proving to be a very nice horse indeed. He is for the more experienced rider who will be impressed with his action. Salvo is always keen to get on with the job.
PHIL was foaled in 2011 and is a very solid member of the team, he has taken part in several of our holiday rides is proving to be very popular. He is a very handsome horse and is very friendly, always comes up to you if you are in the field, loves lots of attention.
Another fairly new member of our team, Jimmy Cliff is a lovely ride, he has the smoothest trot ever. Before he came to us he was learning draught work and is very happy harrowing the field and is also learning to cope with the hitch cart. A very good all round horse, his tail is growing and will soon be as long as his friends' tails.
|Some of our former team members are listed here
| Major is an icon in the world of ridden Clydesdales. He was foaled on the north coast of Scotland in 1998 and joined West Highland Heavy Horses in 2002. He stands at 17.1hh.
He participated in the journey from the Isle of Skye to Cumbria as the main lead horse and was a big player on many of the longer rides at Cumbrian Heavy Horses. He is renowned for his speed and endurance, having been mistakenly given the body of a Clydesdale instead of a thoroughbred!!
He was the winner of the Irvine Carters Society race 2007 a testament to his amazing turn of foot. However, this winning drive does not prevent him from recognising the ability of his rider and toning their ride down accordingly. He is a truly awesome horse to spend time with. Major is now in semi retirement in Cornwall with Laura Cordy where he enjoys a life of luxury fitting for a horse who put everything in to every ride he ever did.
Sadly we had to end Major's life in September 2016 as he was suffering severe arthritis and had also contracted canker. He is missed by all who knew him.
| Ha Durran Ben is a hardy Clydesdale from the far north of Scotland, having been bred by the Cormacks of Castletown, Caithness.
He really did not want to leave home as a four year old to come and work for West highland Heavy horses. It took us 3 ½ hours to load him. Anyway, he arrived and very quickly became a useful member of the Skye team.
He participated in the Great Clydesdale migration down to Cumbria and spent four years as part of the Cumbria team before joining Adventure Clydesdale.
He is utterly reliable at his job and has had countless riders of all abilities on his back and showed them the joy of riding a real heavy. Ben is 13 years old, 17.2hh and has a great deal to offer as a riding horse. Ben also participated during May 2011 in a journey of 10 days back up through the West Highland to commemorate a historical pursuit of a horse thief.
Ben has now moved on to new things and has fallen on his feet with Liz Burt who bought him in November 2014 and rides out with him at her home in Crantock, Cornwall.
Tommy Trotter came to Cumbrian Heavy Horses as a halter broken 4year old in 2007.We trained him for riding and he became one of the regular team in Cumbria. He went for winter loan to Freya and Franchesca Hill in Nottingham in 2009 and 2010 but came as part of the Adventure Clydesdale team for the season of 2012. He performed a fantastic job as an utterly reliable all rounder for all levels of ride during the season of 2012 but returned to the Hill girls for his winter holidays. During this time he developed a cancerous growth on his eyelid which was successfully treated.The Hill family, who developed a very strong bond with this beautiful, gentle horse, bought him from us and he now is part of their happy little family in Nottingham
Tweedie retired to Cornwall to be a happy hacker in a lovely private home.
Ivan also went to live in Cornwall where he will ride the lovely Cornish lanes.
Faroe finally lost his long battle with canker and we decided to save him any more pain and had him put down in January 2018.
He was the most beautiful horse with a wonderful temperament and the perfect ride. We all miss him very much and we feel priviledged to have known him.
Ecco is a Scottish borders lad from Singlie Farm at Ettrick Bridge, Selkirk. He stands at 17hh and was born in 2004.
Ecco started his ridden life at Cumbrian Heavy Horses where we trained him to become a key member of the riding team. He has done seven years of all the regular rides and a large number of the long distance rides and is a very popular horse as he is willing and forward going but easy with it.
He joined us at Adventure Clydesdale in August 2011 and has roamed around Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor for the last three seasons with a great many happy riders, both experienced and novice.
Ecco is now in well earned retirement with his new owners in Kent who love him to bits. We miss him but we are happy he is in such good hands.


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They never were Charlie
From Patheos (Business As Usual: MSNBC and the New York Times Censor the Latest Charlie Hebdo Cover):
On the one-year anniversary of the Islamist bloodbath at Charlie Hebdo, the New York Times deemed the weekly's commemorative and irreverent cover newsworthy, but declined to show it — or even to explain it properly...
And from Spiked (We know they are not Charlie now):
...Even in January 2015, there were dissenting voices declaring that 'Je ne suis pas Charlie!'---I am not Charlie. A year later, it is clear that none of the Western political and cultural elites are genuinely for freedom of expression and the right to be offensive. They are all not Charlie now.
This does not signal a change of heart over the past 12 months. It only confirms what spiked has argued from the first. Support for free speech in Europe and the US was never as solid as those solidarity banners made it appear. And far from being alien agents, the French-born-and-raised Islamist gunmen who murdered theCharlie Hebdo cartoonists acted as the extreme wing of a mainstream trend in Western society – the culture of conformism and You Can't Say That which demands that offensive ideas and images must be closed down.
Those who took a dim view of genuinely free speech in the aftermath of Charlie Hebdo were not confined to Islamist terror cells. It quickly emerged that the threat to freedom came not just from a few barbarians at the gate. Free speech faces more powerful enemies within the supposed citadel of civilisation itself. There were loud accusations of hypocrisy after the appearance of autocratic governments from the Middle East and Africa at the Paris 'Je Suis Charlie' demo. Yet double standards flourished much closer to home...
The local media was never Charlie, either.
The local media was never Charlie, either.
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An accident takes place in a busy London street. A crowd gathers, panic and apathy ensue as private fears are made public in an elliptical and fragmentary way. Events cluminate in a moment of decision for one of the main characters, and we are left to consider the influences that have shaped our city life.
- Year
- 2005
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running Time
- 10 mins
- Format
- Beta SP
- Director
- James Leech
- Editor
- Nichols Chauderge
- Screenwriter
- James Leech
- Director of Photography
- Sam Moom
- Sound
- John Quinn
- Music
- Gammett Grin
- Principal Cast
- Mark Gowland, David Cooper
Production status
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Demi Lovato has never shied away from sharing her personal struggles with drugs and alcohol.
As she grew up in the Hollywood spotlight, the actress and singer found herself checking into rehab and taking breaks from the spotlight.
But whether it was through her music, social media posts or letters to fans, Demi would keep things open and honest about her sobriety, mental health and more topics so many would stay away from.
Earlier today, E! News learned that Demi was hospitalized after suffering an apparent overdose. Soon after, NBC News reported that the singer is "stable and alert and breathing."
As famous friends and fans continue to send thoughts, prayers and well wishes both on and off social media, we're taking a look back at just some of the many times Demi opened up to fans about her struggles. Take a look at some of her wise words in our gallery below.


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Creativity soars and the spiral of life radiates energy at the highest level as we anticipate the cooler days ahead.
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45. Re: Xcode 8 recompiles every file every buildddunbar Oct 18, 2016 2:05 PM (in response to aandrewc)
My apologies to everyone experiencing this problem, we are actively trying to get to the bottom of this issue.
If anyone experiencing this problem is in a position where they can share their entire project, as well as a video of experiencing the bug (ideally multiple times) via a screen recording, that would be immensely valuable to us.
In the meantime, we believe that setting:
to true in your project (or for all your targets) may be an effective workaround for many people. This is not guaranteed to work (which is the reason it isn't already on by default), but it should work for most projects.
46. Re: Xcode 8 recompiles every file every buildandyyhope Oct 18, 2016 8:26 PM (in response to ddunbar)
Mine (28645028) has been marked as a dupe of 28292226
And yes, currently still using
It's made a slight difference
47. Re: Xcode 8 recompiles every file every buildREVEES Oct 19, 2016 2:48 AM (in response to aandrewc)
And Xcode8 crash frequently, I don't know whether it related to this bug. BTW, Xcode recompiling all source files every time and it make The storage space of Macintosh HD comsume very fast
And when I reboot my mac pro, the project compiling very fast. As I use for a period of time, Xcode compiling files become slow and slow and crash frequently.
SO, I GUESS the bug that Xcode recompiling all source files if cause by "DerivedData" cache in mac.
48. Re: Xcode 8 recompiles every file every buildKastet Oct 18, 2016 10:23 PM (in response to ddunbar)
Thank you ddunbar!
This workaround seems to be working for us so our team is now writing code more than waiting
49. Re: Xcode 8 recompiles every file every buildasdasdasqwdqwd Oct 18, 2016 11:35 PM (in response to ddunbar)
Hi ddunbar,
Where we have to set to true this setting? I can't find it in the build settings of my project
50. Re: Xcode 8 recompiles every file every buildChristos_Cocoon Oct 19, 2016 7:36 AM (in response to ddunbar)
Where is this setting ?
51. Re: Xcode 8 recompiles every file every buildcreisterer Oct 19, 2016 8:44 AM (in response to asdasdasqwdqwd)
I added as a User-Defined Setting in my Project Build Settings and it seems to be helping.
Update: It seemed to help for a few builds then my project started recompiling all files on even single line changes.
52. Re: Xcode 8 recompiles every file every buildbarbaramartina Oct 19, 2016 9:18 AM (in response to eskimo)
This issue is also causing us a lot of wated times.
For us, the incremental builds are working only if we change something INSIDE a function.
Incremental builds don't work if we:
1) change a function name
2) add a new class
3) add a new var to a class
I have filed RADAR
Which contain a small swift project with 2 classes, unrelated to each other to show the problem.
53. Re: Xcode 8 recompiles every file every buildIvanD Oct 19, 2016 2:10 PM (in response to camellk24)
- Go to Product -> Scheme -> Edit Scheme. Select Build in left side column and uncheck "Find implicit dependencies"
- But this flag should remain checked when you are building the project for first time.
This worked for me. It no longer recompiles the entire project. The only side effect I have noticed so far is that I have to turn it back on for the first build if i clean the project and/or purge DerivedData.
I haven't been able to replicate this issue in a new dummy project, that I would be able to share. I have noticed it only in larger project for customers, all of which have started as Xcode 7.x projects with a bunch of Cocoapods dependencies.
54. Re: Xcode 8 recompiles every file every buildtomfromhamburg Oct 20, 2016 8:13 AM (in response to ddunbar)
This didn't change anything for us. Even with this flag on, changing a single line of code results in a non-incremental build (about 7 minutes). The current situation is getting us in big trouble holding an important deadline and lets us reconsider our decision for using Swift in future projects. I've been an early adopter working with Swift since 1.0 and was a big fan but this experience destroys my trust in Swift. How can we be sure that such a show stopper issue won't happen in future anymore. I think a big part of the problem is that Apple doesn't eat it's own dog food (e.g. like eskimo wrote "I generally work on small sample code projects and I wouldn't notice this problem even if it did crop up.").
55. Re: Xcode 8 recompiles every file every build0x5f3759df Oct 20, 2016 9:23 AM (in response to ddunbar)
Hi ddunbar,
Your workaround seems to work for bug 28799303.
Without your workaround we can easily reproduce the bug, but with your workaround we haven't had the compilation issue for two business days and we haven't been able to reproduce it since then.
Many thanks. Hope the issue will be solved soon.
56. Re: Xcode 8 recompiles every file every buildbealex Oct 23, 2016 9:43 AM (in response to eskimo)
Filed one more bug (28908050) with small example project there.
Simply adding/removing ": Equatable" to a separate class that is not related to any others triggers full rebuild in my case.
57. Re: Xcode 8 recompiles every file every buildIvanD Oct 24, 2016 5:01 PM (in response to aandrewc)
The issue still persist in the Xcode 8.1 GM.
it recompiles everything due to " (running because command line arguments are different from the last time)"
"Find implicit dependencies" continues to be the solution (don't forget to turn it back on after a project clean).
58. Re: Xcode 8 recompiles every file every buildchebur Oct 25, 2016 1:58 AM (in response to ddunbar)
This setting fixed my issue with whole target recompilation. Thanks for help, but I'm expecting for this issue to be fixed in a future xcode 8.1 release without any custom setting configuration required
59. Re: Xcode 8 recompiles every file every buildREVEES Oct 25, 2016 2:39 AM (in response to chebur)
Can you tell me where to set the setting: HEADERMAP_USES_VFS = YES, thanks in advance .


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If you perform as a clown, variety artist, physical comedian — whatever you want to call it! — you've no doubt taught workshops. Sometimes workshops are a more dependable source of income than performing. Such is life, but the result is that some teachers, and they may be excellent performers and instructors, never get beyond a few sure-fire hours of classroom material, guaranteed to entertain, and more often than not liberally borrowed from their own favorite teachers.
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with this, I've done it myself, and the experience for the student can still be a valid one. There are, on the other hand, teachers who dedicate years, even decades, to developing their curriculum and their teaching sensibility. They are more poised to go deeper into the material and to offer full-length courses that cover far more ground and potentially bring the work closer to a performance level.
Caroline Dream is one such teacher. A transplanted Brit, she lives and works in Barcelona, and not so coincidentally is married to Alex Navarro, who writes the excellent Spanish-language blog, Clown Planet. They have often taught together, and no doubt bounced ideas around, much to our benefit. Caroline is very active as a performer — I've seen her and she's quite good — but she has also dedicated herself for many, many years to teaching, and now to writing about it.
___________________________Unfortunately, there are still teachers who use physical or psychological abuse as part of their training method, believing that this profession is not for the weak spirited. That may be so, but having taught clowning for over a decade, I have come to believe that such abuse, albeit used as a means of releasing the clown in students, for many acts merely as a deterrent and for some can create lasting damage.
Long story short, The Clown in You is a very useful book for the serious student of clowning (professionals included) as well as for beginners. It is, as the subtitle promises, "contemporary clowning," aka the "personal clown" or the "clown from the heart." There is very little on clown gags, no formulas for creating material. It really is about using your own innate joy, silliness and, yes, stupidity, to forge a clown character unique to you. As the old saying goes (no, I don't know who said it first), clowns characters aren't created, they are uncovered.
We've built up civilizations, eradicated many threats to our survival, invented a myriad of objects to facilitate our existence. We have also created a cultural heritage, dominated natural resources, explored space, etc. But, even so, we have never ceased to be stupid.
The first half of the book seeks to define the key attributes of the clown, drawing especially on the playfulness and imagination of the child, while also outlining the defense mechanisms that make it difficult for the would-be clown to surrender to all that frightening freedom. It's a book, and devoid of video examples, so this can get a bit theoretical, but in the second half Caroline walks us through a lot of clown exercises with very helpful examples, enriched considerably by the insightful side coaching she was doing as the exercise progressed. This is not intended to be a manual, there's no step-by-step do this, do that, but the actual classroom experiences are invaluable in understanding the work.
I teach a three-step process that I call "absorbing failure." Absorbing failure begins with the recognition that something has failed; the clown then feels the failure internally (admitting vulnerability), before externalizing the feeling and playing with it....
But don't take my word for it. Those of you who will be anywhere near the New York City area next weekend (Sept. 6th & 7th) should seriously consider taking advantage of Caroline's first-ever workshop in the Big Apple at the New York International Clown-Theatre Festival. The festival continues for three weeks with a stellar line-up of performers, plus more workshops by the likes of Eric Davis, René Bazinet, and Aitor Basauri. Don't say I didn't tell you!
You can purchase The Clown in You here.


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Q&A: Shareholder activism and proxy voting
Today, corporations make most decisions of consequence in our society. As the owner or shareholder of a stock or shares of a mutual fund, you are part owner of a corporation. That means you have both rights and responsibilities. You have the right to sit with management, be an insider and work for change through constructive activism—in short, to enjoin the good and forbid wrongdoing. We sat down with CCO Manal Fouz to learn more about how Azzad Asset Management pushes for positive change at the corporate level.
Can you give us a brief explanation of shareholder activism and how it works at Azzad?
Shareholder advocacy is essential for any socially responsible investment firm. At Azzad, it is enshrined in how we do business. It is the fifth tenet of our Seven Tenets of Halal Investing. And it helps us further our company's goal of making investing ethical.
An important part of shareholder activism is voting on shareholder resolutions through proxy ballots. Resolutions are voted on during a company's annual meeting and often deal with issues of importance to values-conscious investors such as labor or human rights. Shareholders do not need to be present to vote.
Unmarked proxy ballots are voted in accordance with management's recommendations, which often opposed to shareholder resolutions on social responsibility. So, it's critical for investors to vote their proxies. Azzad Asset Management votes proxies on behalf of clients and shareholders in accordance with our halal, ethical investment philosophy.
Do you have an example of a proxy you've voted recently?
Sure, we're in the middle of proxy season, so there are plenty to choose from. One resolution we recently voted for on behalf of clients in the Azzad Ethical Wrap Program involved a request for the specialty glass-maker Corning, Inc. to abide by the Holy Land Principles. They outline steps for international corporations to implement equal and fair employment practices for Palestinian workers. Another shareholder resolution we voted on for Azzad Ethical Fund shareholders asked the apparel company Urban Outfitters, Inc. to collect and report information about human rights violations in its supplier chain.
Can anyone submit a shareholder resolution for a vote?
Any shareholder owning more than $2,000 worth of stock for a minimum of one year is eligible to propose a resolution. Resolutions must follow a standard SEC format and be no more than 500 words in length. At Azzad we not only vote on existing resolutions; as a member of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, we also work with other faith groups on proposing resolutions for a vote.
What if a vote fails to get enough votes to pass? Can an activist shareholder resubmit?
The first year a resolution is voted on, it must receive at least a 3 percent favorable vote in order for it to be considered the following year. The second year, the resolution must receive a 6 percent vote in order to be passed along to the third year where a 10 percent favorable vote is needed.
How else can someone get involved in shareholder activism?
Of course, proxy voting is just one example of shareholder activism. Another common type is divestment. Divestment is the sale of stock in order to relinquish affiliation with an organization. Divestment was a popular method used by investors regarding companies who continued to do business in South Africa and Burma. It is currently being used to force changes from the fossil fuel industry in the interest of countering climate change. Although it sends a strong message to management, divestment is not always the most effective method of promoting change within an organization. This is because other investors who are not concerned with corporate social responsibility issues can maintain investment in the company and passively allow injustices to continue.
For more information on proxy voting, see Azzad's Proxy Voting Guidelines document.


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House Dominic A offers a wellness area with Jacuzzi and a Sauna. All guests of the house can use this area.
House Dominic A is perfectly situated right next to the slopes. You can put on your skies in front of the house and ejoy a wonderful day skiing. The main street of Saas-Fee is a 2 minute's walk away.
All our guests receive the citizen's passport. The citizen's passport grants numerous attractive discounts like unlimited use of 8 of the 9 lifts in summer. In addition, the use of buses in the Saas Valley is free all year round.
Bed-linen and towels are in the price included.
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Personal Success – Dealing With the Dream Destroyers
All of us have dreams and aspirations, but only a few of us are prepared to take action. As you are reading this, I assume you are one of the motivated minority.
However, on the long and rocky road to realising our ambitions, one of the biggest threats to our fragile dreams is the well meaning but misguided "advice" of our friends and family. Let's face it, it's tough enough to get yourself motivated to begin with, the last thing you need is discouragement from others.
So exactly how do you handle the dream destroyers? The following tips will help you get past the worst and keep you going on your mission.
Tip #1 – Understand them. The reason that those close to us seem to be discouraging our dreams is because of fear. They will tell you that they fear for you and that they are protecting you from failure, disappointment and humiliation. All of that maybe true but they also have fears for themselves.
They are afraid, that you will change. They are afraid that they will have to change and, finally they are afraid that you will succeed and they will look inadequate in your eyes, their own eyes and other people's eyes. Your task is to accept their fears, try to calm them as best you can, but recognise that ultimately they are no reason for you to let go of your dream.
Tip #2 – To tell or not. We often expect our friends and family to unquestioningly believe in us and give us support no matter what, but they can't always see things from our point of view. Sometimes it's better not to tell them what you hope for until you are a little further on your journey and have gained some confidence in your own belief before you have to defend your dreams against others.
Of course, some plans will absolutely require their full support. If you're planning to give up work to start a business for example, then maybe you need to involve the family from the beginning.
Tip #3 – Show them your determination. Having understood and sympathised with their fears, you must make it clear that you have no intention of allowing them to deter you from your goal. If you have a history of compromising and allowing their needs to become yours, then your new determination may be a shock for them, but if you truly believe in your dream, now is the time to break that pattern
You must explain to them that this is the most important thing you have ever done and that as a result you will be a better person and that your relationship will be better. Help them to realise that the pain of change will be worth the reward for all of you.
Tip #4 – Put them in perspective. When those close to you start to tell you why whatever you're planning won't work and why it's doomed to failure, stop for a minute and examine their credentials.
Have they ever done what you're proposing? Have they ever achieved what you're aiming for? Are they qualified to judge your plans? If not, then why would you listen to their advice?
Instead, seek out people who have achieved your goal or something similar. Find an expert; a mentor who can look at your plans with sympathy and understanding and give you helpful guidance instead of dire warnings.
Tip #5 – Don't accept their influence. Remember that the only person who can demotivate you, is you. We can only be demotivated by others if we allow it to happen. How we react to the people around us is a choice we make, not something that just happens to us.
Some friendships, partnerships and marriages are mutually destructive and it may be that you would both be happier, more fulfilled and more successful if you were not in each other's lives.
Only you can make that decision, but provided you make it from a position of strength, love and understanding, it will be the right one.


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In my previous post I went through the command line install of the CRM Server component.
In this post I demonstrate command line installation of:
- The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Reporting Extensions, and
- The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Email Router.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Reporting Extensions
Firstly, don't confuse the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Reporting Extensions with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Report Authoring Extension. The Reporting Extensions is the integration component between the CRM Server and SSRS, it was known as the SSRS Data Connector under CRM 4.0. It used to be optional, now it's required. The Authoring Extension is an add-on to the SSRS Report Designer that allows you to write custom reports against CRM Online (it enables FetchXML data sources / queries). It is optional.
2 things you need to know before you install the Reporting Extensions:
- You must install the CRM Server first
- The Reporting Extensions must be installed on the SSRS server
Ok, so here's the command line:
SetupSrsDataConnector.exe /QR /L C:\CRMTEMP\reports_install_log.log /config C:\CRMTEMP\reports_install_config.xml
You'll need to open a command prompt and navigate to the SrsDataConnector subfolder inside the folder containing the CRM Server install files.
And here's the config file:
<InstallDir>c:\program files\Microsoft CRM</InstallDir>
<patch update="true" />
The rules are all nice and consistent with the CRM Server install command line and config file as discussed in previous post.
And just like server install very little appears to happen when you first run the command:
… but you can confirm it's running by checking Task Manager:
Once complete, you can test the installation by trying to run a CRM report.
Go to Workplace –> Reports
Scroll down and double-click the User Summary report and then wait 5 minutes (SSRS takes a while to warm up the first time its used):
Online documentation is available here:
There are errors in the samples provided, use my samples instead.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Email Router
On to the Email Router. The Email Router is the optional server side component for email integration. It is typically used to configure outbound email sends via an SMTP server and inbound email processing via polling of Exchange Server mailboxes.
The Email Router can be installed on the Exchange Server, CRM Server, SQL Server, anywhere. Typically, it is installed on the CRM Server.
Here's the command line:
SetupEmailRouter.exe /QR /L C:\CRMTEMP\email_install_log.log /config C:\CRMTEMP\email_install_config.xml
And here's the config file:
<SinkService />
<Patch update="true"></Patch>
<InstallDir>c:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM Email Router</InstallDir>
Inside the Features node under SinkService you can add RulesWizard if you want the Rule Deployment Wizard installed (I never use this hence my sample excludes this). [UPDATE: Looks like the Rule Deployment Wizard gets installed regardless].
If you are downloading your CRM installers from the web rather than installing from a disc or an ISO you will need to separately download the Email Router installer from here. I downloaded from there, started the installed by double-clicking the exe in Windows Explorer, set the location for the extracted installer files, and then cancelled the install at the next prompt. I then opened a command prompt and navigated to the extracted installer files and ran my command.
The install experience is consistent…
Unexciting command line:
Installer visible under Task Manager:
My install failed with this message:
The online documentation does not mention any specific software requirements here unless you are installing the Rule Deployment Wizard. Looks like the installer is attempting to install the Rule Deployment Wizard despite my omitting it from the config file, so it looks like we need a MAPI client installed, per this documentation. We can either install Outlook on the machine or install Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects. I installed the MAPI client, re-ran the Email Router install and the installer completed happily:
The 2 config files discussed in this post plus the config file for the CRM Server install discussed in my previous post are available as a single download here.
To test the install, launch the Email Router Configuration Manager from your Start menu:
And confirm it loads:
Note: you cannot script the configuration of the Router, that must now be done manually,


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When you look at the history of Gary Parker and his WineSellar & Brasserie in San Diego, all these past 30 years presenting a wine and dine combination of innovation and customer satisfaction, you have to agree that he is San Diego's wine guru.
Wine is in this man's blood. There's no other way to describe how his creativity and perception has steered and shaped the presentation of the wine and dine business in this city since 1988.
His location choice was a bold one, in a light office and industrial space in massive Sorrento Valley north of the city.
"I started out with a wine storage business then moved into wine sales and restaurant service before combining my talents with WineSellar & Brasserie. I would buy great French-style wines from my storage customers and they added to a fine dining brasserie atmosphere I created upstairs over the wine shop that has grown in reputation and quality to this day. It caught the attention of the world renowned Wine Spectator magazine that rewarded us with their highest awards over the years."
Parker has always stayed ahead of the market and has introduced such innovations as a wine club, fast casual wine bar, craft beers, try it and buy it wine tastings, private wine labels and, with his wife Lori, private small group trips to far away wine countries for memorable moments with leading wineries around the world.
His 30th Anniversary menu included a choice of Scottish Salmon, Duck Confitand Australian Rack of Lamb. To pair these entrees, I chose the Matanzas Sauvignon Blanc and Heintz Pinot Noir. They did not disappoint.
Parker has recently appointed the well-respected Kurt Kirschenman as food and beverage manager/sommelier and increased his special events. His next one will be a "California Dreamin" walk around wine tasting from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Feb. 24 that promises more than 15 highly rated wines from the Golden State. Cost is $35 per person, $30 for club members. For an RSVP call (858) 450-9557. Visit at winesellar.com.
Phinney continues to dominate
Taste of Wine has written several times about the meteoric success of Dave Phinney. He burst on the Napa Valley wine scene in the early 2000s with The Prisoner, the top wine from his Orin Swift Winery.
Phinney began his odyssey over a bowl of pasta in Florence where he was a student. A fellow student convinced him to enter the wine business where he got a wine job during harvest at the Robert Mondavi winery. An investment of a few thousand dollars and The Prisoner red blend was born, and as they say, the rest is history.
Recently, after selling the Prisoner and Orin Swift Winery for hundreds of millions of dollars, Phinney thought there must be compelling locations that exist where soil, climate and vines connect to produce grapes that uniquely express their location through wine. Phinney thought, "What if I could blend wine across all appellations in a country, to produce a wine that represented a country of origin with no rules? What if I had complete freedom to express whatever I believed in pursuit of wine expression? The answer was yes, with Locations." Travelling the world, Phinney has done just that with a journey of discovery looking for old vines with low yields. It started in the south of France with "F," a blend of 80-year-old Grenache, Syrah and Carginan vines ($17). "CA" came later, a luscious California wine ($21.99). It's a blend of Petite Sirah, Tempranillo, Barbera, Syrah and Grenache. Other Locations include WA, I. E and, with more to come. Taste of Wine salutes Dave Phinney for making an affordable, value wine along the lines of The Prisoner but with a price anyone can afford and love! See locationswine.com.
Wine Bytes
• Truly Fine Wine on Morena Boulevard in San Diego presents a Dia de la Bandera Tasting from noon to 4 p.m. Feb. 24. Bajas' Guadalupe wines will be featured, for $15. per person. RSVP at (858) 270-9463.
• The Art of the Blend happens at Meritage Wine Market in Encinitas from 3 to 5 p.m. Feb. 24 with Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Learn from a component tasting of each with a hands-on blending on your own, plus appetizers. Cost is $79. For your place, RSVP at (760) 479-2500.
• The Big Barrel Tasting in Town will be at Carruth Cellars Urban Winery in Solana Beach from noon to 7 p.m. Feb. 24 and Feb 25. Taste wine before bottling. Live music and pizza all day for $30 per guest. For details, call (858) 846-9463.
• Penner-Ash Wine Cellars will be spotlighted in a five-course wine dinner at The Barrel Room in Rancho Bernardo at 6 p.m. Feb. 27. Wine expert David Johnson will present. Cost is $75 each. The 2015 Syrah is featured with the main entrée, a Braised Beef Cheek. RSVP at tbrsd.com.
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Over 30 years of communication skills, including broadcast, copy, press relations & strategic marketing support in retail, financial and civic. Owner of Taste Of Wine, a multi-media information and commentary column and internet platform, since 2005. "I count goal-setting, problem-solving and an understanding of the wine communication universe as my strongest professional assets."


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Two extant carte-de-visite duplicates from T. J. Nevin's original negative taken of prisoner James Jones at the Hobart Gaol in late February 1875 on Jones' discharge, are extant in public collections, viz. the National Library of Australia, and the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, each with different numbering on the front mount. This prisoner, James Jones aka Brocklehurst, known by the moniker "Spider" is not to be confused with the prisoner Elijah Elton who used the alias "John Jones" and was known by the moniker "Jack Flash", an error which has appeared on the NLA catalogue notes. See this article here.
NLA Ref: PIC P1029/27a LOC Album 935/nla.obj-142917516 (incorrect information)
James Jones, per Theresa, taken at Port Arthur, 1874 [picture] 1874. 1 photograph on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 9.4 x 5.6 cm. on mount 10.5 x 6.3 cm.
Another duplicate is held in the QVMAG collection with different numbering on recto:
James Jones, alias James Brocklehurst, was photographed by Thomas Nevin – not at Port Arthur, but at the Hobart Gaol, late February, early March 1875. QVMAG collection.
A photocopy is also held at the Archives Office of Tasmania.
James Jones, alias James Brocklehurst, photographed by Thomas Nevin – not at Port Arthur, but at the Hobart Gaol, late February, early March 1875.
Police Records for James Jones
James Jones known as Spider, absconded, 26 June 1872
James Jones, 48 yrs old, alias Brocklehurst, was arrested 15 July 1872 by Sub-Inspector McVilley [sic,, i.e. McVilly], convicted 18th July 1872 for larceny, sentenced to 12 months.
James Jones or Wm alias Brocklehurst was discharged on 3 March 1875, and photographed by T. J. Nevin at the Hobart Gaol prior to discharge in the last week of February 1875.
James Jones aka Brocklehurst discharged from a 3 yr sentence for larceny and absconding, photographed by Nevin on discharge, March 1875.
Source: Tasmania Reports of Crime Gov't Printer


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Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Seeks Refuge With Dutch
[Zimbabwe Elections]
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has sought refuge at the Dutch Embassy in Harare, saying he was concerned about his safety, the Dutch Foreign Ministry said Monday.
Tsvangirai went to the embassy shortly after announcing he was withdrawing from Friday's presidential runoff against longtime leader Robert Mugabe, citing violence against opposition supporters.
"He asked to come and stay because he was concerned about his safety," ministry spokesman Rob Dekker said.
The request was approved in The Hague by Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen. There has been no request for political asylum, Dekker said.
News of Tsvangirai's presence at the Dutch Embassy came shortly after Zimbabwean police raided the headquarters of his party and took away about 60 people.
Opposition spokesman Nqobizitha Mlilo refused to comment on the report and referred callers to The Hague. Rijs said he could not speculate why Tsvangirai chose the Dutch Embassy. But he noted that the Netherlands was a strong supporter of human rights groups in Zimbabwe although it did not finance any political parties.
Tsvangirai won the first round of the presidential election on March 29, but did not gain an outright majority against 84-year-old Mugabe. That campaign was generally peaceful, but the runoff has been overshadowed by violence and intimidation, especially in rural areas. Independent human rights groups say 85 people have died and tens of thousands have been displaced from their homes, most of them opposition supporters.
Last year, Tsvangirai was hospitalized after a brutal assault by police at a prayer rally. Images seen around the world of his bruised and swollen face have come to symbolize the plight of dissenters in Zimbabwe.
He has survived at least three assassination attempts and he postponed his return to Zimbabwe last month after his party said he had learned of another plot to kill him.
Tsvangirai had applied for a new passport earlier this month and Zimbabwean officials refused, saying he lacked proper police clearance. His current passport has not expired but its pages are full.
On Sunday, he pulled out of the violence-wracked presidential runoff, declaring that the election was no longer credible and the loss of life among his supporters was simply too high.
The announcement cleared the way for Mugabe to continue his 28-year rule, despite mounting condemnation from even loyal African allies that the former independence hero has become a despot who has bankrupted the country's once thriving economy.
Zimbabwean Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said the runoff would go ahead in accordance with the constitution — and to prove Zimbabweans' support for Mugabe, who has held power since independence from Britain in 1980.
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Managing Career Change
The majority of the working population alter their career path at least once in their professional life. It could be minor and within their own employer's walls. Or, it could be a life-changing event, like leaving consulting to become a high school literature teacher. Typically, it's a little tougher to get buy-in from potential employers that you can adequately handle a new role utilizing new skills (as compared to the competition who may have had that role before). My latest article for job-hunt.org discusses many aspects of managing this leap.
Article: How to Transition to a New Career


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Baby has been at daycare ever since she was a mere 2 1/2 months old. It really bothered me to leave her in daycare so soon, but since Hubby and I do need my extra paycheck and benefits from my full-time job, off she went. She has always been in the warm environs of family […]Continue reading
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Hubby and I don't get a lot of malicious stares from strangers whenever we go out about town. Maybe that's because we have an adorable little girl, a disarming toddler whose dimples and curls reduce women to puddles, and soften up grown men, too. Also, Northern New Jersey is the kind of place where interracial […]Continue reading


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Millennials now make up the largest segment of the workforce. While many companies make policies to recruit and cater to the younger generation, it is important that Gen X and Baby Boomer employees also feel acknowledged and valued. Incongruous multi-generational opinions about where priorities should lie in a workplace environment—for example, remote work practices versus on-site responsibilities or lateral versus hierarchical organizational principles—can create tension in the workplace.
Download Free eGuide 10 Tips for Creating a Healthy Culture for a Multi-Generation Workforce
To avoid discordance, companies need to unify the workforce engaging all of their employees, regardless of generation. The tips outlined here can help develop an environment where all workers not only want to work, but want to give their best.
1. Work/Life Integration
Life happens on and off the clock. While Millennials get a bad rap for focusing more on themselves than previous generations, their proclivity toward flexible work scheduling is less about self-interest and more about maintaining a healthier work/life balance. From doctor's appointments to childcare needs, research now shows that flexible scheduling can serve every generation. Not only can an elastic work environment reduce stress, but also it can increase morale and lower overall healthcare costs. If your business is hesitant to implement flex time options, just consider the many benefits.
2. Integrity
Organizations that create trust among their employees build the foundation for engagement. Trust starts with a clearly articulated mission and vision statement. This purpose should be echoed and reinforced by work habits and behavior and leadership should showcase this by leading by example.
Fostering an environment that upholds integrity requires honest and open communication channels. Whether through regularly scheduled one-on-one meetings, anonymous surveys or more general group discussions, expectations should align with actions. When all participants (employers and employees) are held to a clear set of standards and execute against these standards, employees will recognize that their organization values integrity, their loyalty will likely increase.
3. Flatten to Thrive
When a ladder exists, most people want to climb it. However, it is natural to judge people on higher and lower rungs. Instead, companies that flatten hierarchical organization systems thrive. This means that instead of regular top-down communication practices or distribution of work by job descriptions alone, a more cooperative environment is encouraged by enabling interdepartmental collaboration and allowing employees to take ownership of workflows. This practice can not only garner equal employee buy-in but can help set-up the expectation that each and every individual is responsible for performing to the best of their ability.
4. Everyone is Second-in-Charge
In the same vein as the above tip, every team member needs to take responsibility for how the business is running. Managers can make the coffee, the CEO can refill the printer, and the newest employee may bring up a better way of executing an older process. Organizations that empower their employees to act as second in command achieve balance by distributing workplace responsibilities. To set up this dynamic, openly discuss a business model that takes an "all hands" approach that revolves around clear expectations and rewards follow-through.
5. Loosen Up
A workplace that values and encourages free thinking will have a harder time realizing that goal if they stifle other forms of expression. Dedicate efforts to fostering an open and expressive environment—think business-casual dress codes, open air or non-cube desks, out-of-office meetings, more work/life balance initiatives and encourage employees to work off-site for a change of scenery—as part of a bigger effort to craft an open environment where innovation can thrive. By promoting a workplace that supports employee comfort and encourages self-expression and individuality, great ideas can surface to the benefit of the company.
6. Open Communication
Avoided conversations are lost opportunities. Whether difficult feedback or a simple congratulations, companies need to create the necessary channels for open communication. Today, technology can enable direct communication for regular business items—scheduling, tasks and timesheets—but extra attention needs to go into creating systems to sustain collaborative practices, regularly close feedback loops on performance and enable other types human resource conversations. One example is to hold quarterly forums for information and opinion exchanges. This practice can help reinforce that employee's ideas are valued and build in a channel to consistently invite feedback.
7. Strong Relationships
Cultivating strong relationships among employees is the lifeblood of any company. A deep bench of talent that believes in one another and relies on each other solidifies a solid network that contributes to any company's success. Creating an environment that encourages good relationship building can boost engagement, satisfaction, and retention. Foster collaborative habits by creating partnered projects and play to interdepartmental strengths by recognizing task-oriented individuals and deploying them on projects within their wheelhouse. Continue to cultivate trust, and the business will be rewarded.
8. Always Strive for the Best
Mediocrity is the bane of any business. If management strives for the best, employees will follow suit. The idea that failure is not an option, but a given can set up employees to try new things and learn instead of opting for the safe route. This can allow for more creative thinking, less fear and thus innovation.
9. Have Fun
Employees who don't enjoy coming to work tend to not to work as hard as those who do. Encouraging a fun workplace environment is an essential practice to derive the best performance across age groups. To make work a more exciting place to be, look to the pillars of a healthy lifestyle including exercise, reflection, education, and gratitude. Scheduling breaks to leave the office and try a new challenging activity or volunteering as a group in the community are two examples of activities that can bring people together. Creating a flexible environment that values fun can strengthen and solidify worker engagement and commitment.
10. Challenge the Status Quo
Success is often determined by how a company advances. In caring for a multi-generational workforce, the ability to incorporate and adapt for everyone's needs is essential. You may consider creating a brainstorming forum focused on new ways to do old things, or introduce a set five minutes of feedback time at the end of every meeting for suggestions. An environment that regularly encourages employees to challenge the status quo can produce creative solutions and cultivate a rich-forward looking workplace that is constantly evolving.
The Bottom Line
As the challenge of attracting talent grows, companies can't afford to let their culture languish. The Economist recently expounded how companies willing to put in the effort to create and sustain a healthy culture reap the many rewards. The tips outlined here can increase engagement, craft an environment that promotes collaborative practices and reduces turnover for a better multi-generational workforce. R&E
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Barclay College is life changing. As a young man, a student, a teacher, and now as president, I have watched and experienced this transformation on more than one occasion. Everything we do at this college is driven by our mission as well as our identity as an Evangelical Friends Christian institution. We believe our ideas must be put into action, and this is why Barclay College makes a
difference in the world. It is intellect inspired by faith to produce service.
This is nothing new for Barclay College. For years we have developed students through our mission to inspire life, service, and leadership in an environment of rigorous academics and a spirit lead faith community. Professors, students, and staff are partners in a personalized community bonded by the call of Christ to compassion, redemption, and service.
As we move into 2012 I am committed to pursue four pillars of vision. These pillars – academic excellence, faculty growth, expanding graduate education, and a vital faith community – interface with our mission and will lay the foundation for living our witness in this world.
I am looking forward to this coming year and new opportunities to stir hearts and shape minds. Our Master of Arts in Transformational Leadership program will be offered in the fall in a fully online, asynchronous delivery model. Students will be able to access this program from anywhere around the globe with no residency requirements. Barclay College is truly going into the entire world.
Pray for Barclay College. We are servants of the King and your prayers and support are necessary for us to fulfill our calling. Thank you for being in the Barclay College family and for believing in what God is doing here. Let us commit ourselves to carry forward the faith that has been entrusted to us.