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Interview with Tony Credland from Cactus Network We meet Tony at design conference in Belgrade, where he was invited with his colleague to give lecture on media design of #occupy and other movements. Kidnapping him from chance to listen further lectures in Serbian, we sat down for a moment to find out his ideas on creative activism, achievements of #occupy and media role. Tony Credland: "The main achievement of the occupy movement is that for more than a month it did manage to occupy the media. If you are ever going to change the politics big time, you have to have a discussion with a mass audience. For a good three months it occupied the news in London and in New York. Now and again we manage to break out into a global or national discussion, and that is the moment where we need to act. The occupy movement have changed the political landscape in the sense that it has managed to change the mainstream media story from one of attacking poor people, to one focused on the bankers." T. C.: "One can say that #occupy was a creative form of protest – they didn't say "lets just march from A to B". They took ideas from the past, for example, the climate camp camping at power stations, and they moved that concept into the city. The climate camps in England have been very effective with getting their message across. The #occupy movement has reached a similar effect by staying in one place for a longer period of time. The fact that they stayed for two, three months is quite impressive. I think they have lost a little bit energy now, and they rethink and say: "OK, now we need to change". Politics is engaging and we have to use our creative energies to engage others in new forms. It is the desire of artists and designers to use their skills creatively in political situations. It is possible to highlight quite complex issues by using creative means. What is happening now In London, is that the Occupy movement are going more down to a grassroute level. They are learning from Spain and Greece, and I personally actually much prefer what happened in the #spanishrevolution, as it was a lot more community based and more grassroutes. The achievements of #occupylondon was mainly reaching the mainstream audience through the media, and in Spain there was a genuine mass movement. In some ways I can be very critical to the #occupy, sometimes we are sitting on the edge of it. I think its a new generation and what we can do is to try to help out the way we can." Masta : "Due to the fact that #occupy don't really have clear demands and share similar slogans and humour all around the world, do You look at them as an actual social movement or more like a copycat effect?" T. C.: "I think it has a lot to do with the media they use – all this Facebook, Twitter and others. I think it confirms the idea of just involving people who have never been out and done it. I have tweeted it, so I have done it. And I think that's the way for 99% of tweets. And I think that's the problem of the modern social media – it takes away the engagement from you. For example, if You do something like indymedia, or media camp, there way you have to get involved and do it demands an amount of things You have to do, producing audio, radio interviews, You are doing video interviews, You are doing print newspapers, blogging and all these things. An that forces You to think in different ways.The ease of which the modern technology works actually tempts people not to do that – I have seen it how it works with #occupy movement – they just tweet something out and thing that they have dealt with that issue, that they have done it. But what I say is – no, You haven't done it, all You have done is tweeted and lot of people have read Your two sentences. And there it stops, there is no further debate, well there is, but its not on your side, its not collected in one place. (..)" Talking about the endless struggle of media activism and diverse social movements, we realise that so far slacktivism has not killed the in-depth journalism, but being aware that "the field is open" (Slavoj Zizek) doesn't hurts. And it can be just couple of guys in a corner of demonstration, who inspires to carry on. –-CACTUS NETWORK: The Cactus network started in 1989, influenced by mailart, collaborations with artists across east/west Europe, our own politics and a boredom with graphic designs cult of the personality. Their activities range from producing spoof newspapers to explain and announce the big reclaim the streets demonstrations in London, producing and distributing 30.000 copies of look-a-like mainstream newspapers, to setting up media centres with Indymedia London.--Interview by Ruta Vimba and Julia Vernersson,supported by Step Beyond


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Dinner at The Carolina Club begins at 6:30 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) and includes three courses plus coffee and tea. Lunch begins at 12:00 a.m. Jacket required for men; no jeans, please.
Price: $40; GAA member price: $25
Attend all four dinners for $140; GAA member price: $80
Lunch price: $25; GAA member price $15
Cost is fully refundable for any cancellation made one week prior to the event. Any cancellations made six to two days prior to the event are subject to a 50 percent cancellation fee. No cost is refunded if the cancellation is made the day before, or the day of, the event.


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Specialists in Metal Finishes
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Rimex Metals produces an exciting, innovative and practical range of Stainless Steel, Aluminium & other Metal Finishes from our manufacturing plant in Somersby, NSW.
We compliment our large range of 'Australian Made' finishes with a selection of 'Ex Stock' finishes, not to mention the huge range of finishes that are 'Imported' to order.
Rimex Metals can supply Flat, Patterned and/or Coloured Stainless Steel, Aluminium and Other Metals with finishes for all applications, industries and designs.
For the list of finishes currently available on special.
For the environmental Benefits of Stainless Steel.
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Fluctuating and Progressive Hearing Loss
Fluctuating and progressive hearing loss can be seen in both syndromic and nonsyndromic forms of hearing impairment. It has been suggested that a change in auditory threshold of 10 dB at any test frequency be used to define a significant change in hearing sensitivity with smaller changes being within the range of normal test-retest variability. It is estimated that between 2 and 33% of children with sensorineural hearing loss show progressive loss of auditory sensitivity. Some forms of hearing loss associated with a fluctuant and/or progressive coarse are listed below.
Genetic Syndromes
- Alber-Shonberg disease
- Alport syndrome
- Branchio-otorenal syndrome
- CHARGE association
- Cockayne syndrome
- Friedreich ataxia
- Mucopolysaccharidoses (Hurler, Hunter, and Marateaux-Lamy syndromes)
- Neurofibromatosis
- Norrie syndrome
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- Osteopetrosis
- Pendred syndrome
- Refsum syndrome
- Stickler syndrome
- Waardenburg syndrome
- Congenital cytomegalovirus
- Congenital rubella
- Congenital syphilis
- Herpes simplex virus
- Varicella
- Measles
- Hyperbilirubinemia
- Persistent pul
- Mondini dysplasia
- Sheibe dysplasia
- Large vestibular aqueduct syndrome
- Hyperbilirubinemia
- Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn
- Autoimmune inner ear disease
- Meniere's disease
- Meningitis
- Perilymphatic fistula
Obtaining frequent audiograms in children with hearing loss may help to identify progressive or fluctuating forms of hearing loss and can help to ensure the adequacy of treatment. Children with newly identified sensorineural hearing loss should have audiograms every 3 months during the first year, every 6 months during their preschool years, and at least once a year while in school. Children identified with a fluctuating or progressive hearing loss should be seen by a pediatric otolaryngologist as soon as possible. Early medical intervention may reverse or stabilize this process.
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Page Bibliography
Bluestone, Charles D, Stool, Sylvan E, Kenna, Margaret A.
Pediatric Otolaryngology.
Philadelphia: Saunders College Pub; 1996. 0721652484
Tharpe AM, Bess FH.
Minimal, progressive, and fluctuating hearing losses in children. Characteristics, identification, and management.
Pediatr Clin North Am. 1999;46(1):65-78. PubMed abstract
Tomaski SM, Grundfast KM.
A stepwise approach to the diagnosis and treatment of hereditary hearing loss.
Pediatr Clin North Am. 1999;46(1):35-48. PubMed abstract


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I am a bit of an quality and improvement geek, so it is a great joy to me to introduce someone who stretches my thinking about how we can keep learning, developing and improving. He has introduced me to clean language and has supported us to design our approach to improvement. I am very pleased to introduce Andy Brogan, our coach on improvement, and I asked him to introduce himself here.
"A couple of years ago I made a big decision – to set up in business with my good friend and colleague Dave Chesters. We were both nearing 40 and had been staring hard at the question of what our lives' purpose should be. Our answer was to launch Easier Inc. Our intention was to create a business that allowed us to continue to learn and share learning about how to create better ways of working and better places to work. We both had quite a bit of experience in helping organisations redesign services and create environments that encourage responsibility over compliance.
We had also seen how, armed with all the tools and techniques of management and improvement, it was easy to make simple things difficult and difficult things impossible. So we set out to find the like minded and to explore whether it was possible to create simple ways to make doing good work easier.
But my story doesn't start there. Back in 2000, I thought I wanted to run a restaurant and bar. I'd just taken on a position as general manager at a place I'd worked as a student. I loved the job and enjoyed the social side of it. It's where I learned my first – and I think still – my most important management lesson; that much of what is taught as good management practice is what holds our organisation (and ourselves) back from a better future.
Back in the bar and surrounded by colleagues that I'd worked alongside for years, I knew that they worked hard and brought a lot to the business. I knew that improving was not about improving their effort or attitude. Instead, it was about really understanding our customers and making it easy for my colleagues to deliver what mattered to them. That seemed so intuitive at the time that I never even thought about it and in the first 2 years the business thrived.
Then I went on management training.
The owner had seen our success and wanted to expand, to develop a chain of restaurants and bars. It seemed sensible that, in the context of this new ambition and given that I'd basically been making everything up as I went, a bit of training couldn't hurt so I gladly signed up. I learned all about budget setting, incentive systems, using objectives and appraisal, doing customer surveys, developing strategy and all the usual "good" stuff. Armed with my new bag of tricks I couldn't wait to get started and so, without a second's thought, I set about ruining the organisation I had spent the previous 2 years building!
For a while people went along with me – I had a lot of good will to burn through – but this only blinded me to the reality that the more I imposed new management controls the more I was disabling the responsibility, enthusiasm and ownership of my colleagues. The more also that I was evaporating any real control.
Performance didn't implode but it pretty quickly deteriorated. Sickness became an issue and the important, impossible to train, details suffered. Service with a smile became service with a fixed grin; a soulless mimicry of what we had so naturally achieved before and something that rang just as hollow to customers as for my colleagues.
My colleagues also felt ever less like colleagues. Friction had grown between us and I could feel a loop of mutual resentment building. Our once exemplary stock control suffered too, with increasing wastage and – possibly – the occasional theft.
It took quite some time to realise it but when it hit, it hit hard; I had become the problem. Jumping back to the present, I use that experience to motivate me in all my work. I'm not naive. I don't believe that the magic of great performance just happens and that all anyone needs to do is get out of the way. There's real work to do, helping people create environments that are purposeful, rooted in creating value but also humane and enabling; places where people can bring their whole self to work (which, of course, is not the same as giving up one's whole self to work).
So I put my energy into learning about how to do that and do it better, and it makes me incredibly grateful when, in the course of doing so, I get the chance to meet and work with people like Helen and her colleagues; people who are ready to challenge the status quo but stay practical and who are committed from their core to creating brilliant places to work.
I'm only at the start of my relationship with Helen and the Wellbeing Teams but already I can't wait to discover what their future holds."


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Aircraft Navigation Modernisation Program
With the rapid growth in air traffic and a resulting need to ensure our airspace is managed as safety and efficiently as possible, Australia is at the forefront of a navigation modernisation effort to transition pilots from using ground-based navigation aids to satellite as their primary means of navigation.
Mandated by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) since 4 February 2016, all aircraft operating under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) are required to navigate primarily using satellite-based means within Australian airspace.
In accordance with the CASA mandate, Airservices is redesigning some of its landing approaches at airports around the country to ensure we continue to have the safest and most efficient air traffic management system possible, meeting the expectations of airspace users and the travelling public into the future. Landing procedures are being updated at over 50 airports across Australia by 2018.
For more information
Contact the Noise Complaints and Information Service (NCIS) via:
- 1800 802 584 (freecall)
- our online form
- mail to Noise Complaints and Information Service, PO Box 211, Mascot NSW, 1460
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Aetna to acquire Coventry in $5.7 billion deal
By Gregg Blesch
Aetna plans to buy Coventry Health Care for $5.7 billion in a cash and stock deal that will expand the company's reach in Medicaid and Medicare.
The deal is the latest big play by a national insurer to get a bigger footprint in Medicaid as the programs are poised to grow dramatically under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The transaction is valued at $7.3 billion including assumption of Coventry's debt, Aetna said in a news release.
Coventry covers about 4 million members in medical plans and 1.5 million in Medicare Part D prescription drug plans, according to the release.


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The Asia Pacific Rim is on the verge of being the most active region in the world for new sports venue development leading up to the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. With over 60 new build and refurbishment sports projects currently planned, now is the perfect time to bring the 16th Stadia & Arena event to the zone.
Hosted at the brand new Singapore Sports Hub, Stadia & Arena Asia Pacific 2014 will bring together the industry leaders in all aspects of sports venue design, build, management, operations and technology from around the world. Delegates will have the opportunity to listen to over 40 of the most well-known and well-respected names in the industry, from the world's leading venue operators, consultants, architects, end-users and solution suppliers at the leading-edge of technology innovation. Some of the industry-elite speakers already confirmed include:
Philippe Collin Delavaud, CEO, SportsHub Pte Ltd: Mr Delavaud is the current CEO of the Singapore Sports Hub – and was also the CEO of the Stade de France – so has developed a unique knowledge-base and detailed skill-set of how to drive business as a stadium operator. Delavaud was CEO of the Consortium Stade de France, including during the 2007 Rugby World Cup, Managing Director of SDF Production, Chairman of the Board of Stade de France Live Events, and on the Board of the company that managed Green Point Stadium in 2009/10 on behalf of the City of Cape Town.
Yoshihiro Kizawa, Vice President & Executive Director, Japan Sport Council: Mr Kizawa entered the Personnel Division of the Minister's Secretariat at the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in 1982. He was Director of the Arts and Culture Division at the Agency for Cultural Affairs, then Director of the Policy Planning Division at the Sports and Youth Bureau before becoming Deputy Director-General at the Research and Development Bureau of the MEXT.
Other notable speakers include Ronnie Hurst, Project Director on the new Perth Stadium, Western Australian Department of Sport & Recreation; Mark Collins, Managing Director of Global Spectrum Asia; Greg Gillen, DTZ Director of Stadia – Singapore Sports Hub; Roger Hooker, Director of ISC Singapore, Singapore Sports Hub; Damian Bush, Senior Director, Venues & Event Management, SportsHub Pte Ltd; Andy Simmons, Director, KSS; Roland Meier, Head of Panomera® Multifocal Sensor Systems, Dallmeier; Eric Cuthbertson, Vice President of Operations, AEG China; Andrew James, Senior Principal, Populous; Clive Lewis, Associate Director, Arup Associates; Alastair Richardson, Director, Cox Architecture; John Rhodes, Senior Vice President/Director of Entertainment & Sport, HOK; Adam Newsam, VP Sports and Tournaments, Ticketmaster International; Paul Hyett, Principal, HKS, Inc.; Dan Meis, Global Director Sport, Woods Bagot; David Manica, President, MANICA Architecture; João Gilberto Vaz, President, ABRARENAS, Brazilian Association of Arena Operators & Suppliers; Chris Lamberth, Sport & Commercial Development, 360 Architecture; Mike King, Principal, Arup; and Bill Dorsey, Chairman, Association of Luxury Suite Directors (ALSD).
Stadia & Arena Asia Pacific is truly an unmissable event for all those involved in sports events & sports venue design, build, operation, management, technology and fit-out. To view the full list of speakers, as well as the conference topics, please view our Preliminary Conference Program online at: http://www.saevents.uk.com/conference/program/ To guarantee your place at this must-attend event and avail of the Special Early Bird delegate rates, register today at: http://registration.saevents.uk.com/default.aspx


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Welcome to our website!
Our Butchery has been cutting to the highest quality standards for over 30 years
Wallace's, home of Quality Natural Venison, Beef and Outdoor Pork.
Wallace's is a working family farm, and at Wallace's we're very passionate about our animals. We breed Red Deer and Highland cattle, as well as the usual chickens and ducks, and we source fantastic outdoor pork from a neighbouring farmer, to make some of our award winning products, in our own butchery and kitchen.
Shop at Wallace's
You don't have to be in Devon to enjoy our produce. Contact us with your order and get fresh naturally reared meat, or a wonderful, homecooked pie delivered straight to your door.
We sell wholesale too, to a number of local village stores, so contact us for details of our bulk purchase prices.
Shop with us and receive the very best fresh local food straight from our farm in the West Country.
Wallace's Kitchen.
In a small stone barn attached to the farmhouse, we built a commercial kitchen, home of our now famous Giant Pork Pies, as well as the more traditional meat pies, Scotch Eggs, Faggots, Ham, and a whole range of wonderful Devon made foods.
Wallace's Butchery
We specialise in butchering customers own home reared animals for the feeezer. Not only do we hang carcasses for the desired amount of time, but we also pack and label all the individual cuts specified by our customers. We also make a wide range of sausage types, and cure and slice bacon and gammons. We request that customers phone to book animals in for butchering before they are taken to slaughter. By arrangement, we can sometimes have animals collected from local slaughterhouses, and brought to our butchery.


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Lighthouse by BardJaskierAugust 5, 2012 posted by Darkdragon
Lighthouses crop up a lot in the pirates theme, but it's not so common to see a whole little scene built up for it. Instead of just having a stone building on a rock island, BardJaskier has created a great little scene here with some surprising details and a very nice lighthouse too!
Discuss Lighthouse in the forum!


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"The more you get students involved in activities where they are writing for a real audience and with a real purpose, the more they will see writing as an activity that is necessary, purposeful, and enjoyable," says Sandhya Nankani, former Supervising Editor, Scholastic Education. "A weekly structure that involves fun writing activities might help students understand and enjoy the social benefits of writing such as sharing stories and learning from others." Writers Studio equips students to think, write and express themselves fluently while making the right impression.
Hours (Central Time)
3:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
5:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
6:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
SESSIONS – Sunday
1. Sept. 9th to 30th
2. Oct.14th to Nov. 4th
3. Nov. 11, 18, Dec. 2, 9
We Cover:
Persuasive Writing & Analytical Thinking
Descriptive Writing & Analytical Thinking
Letters to the Editor
Elements of Personal/College Essays
Book Reviews
Online Sessions: Call to set up time
Differentiate Yourself – A Road Map to Writing Proficiency
Our aspiring elementary and middle school authors use an interactive, multi-sensory approach that makes writing fun and the craft of writing easily learned.
Students strengthen critical thinking and writing skills
Students work on critical analysis, comprehension, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, spelling, word choice, line-by-line editing skills and critical thinking skills.
Pen book or movie reviews, write essays and stories, and even gain a sense of civic responsibility by writing letters to the editor, or participating in letter writing campaigns for Amnesty International.
Select writing is submitted for potential publication.
High school is all about writing. The more you do it, the better you get.
Essay based approach.
Students work on critical analysis, comprehension, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, spelling, word choice, line-by-line editing skills and critical thinking skills.
Critique each other's work, honing their own skills in the process.
Creative writing, persuasive and personal essays included.
Students build an impressive portfolio, create their own blogs and contribute their best work for competitions.


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It is not everyday we get the privilege of selling a top level position in any network marketing company. And to be able to do it for Youngevity and their Vice-Chairman is a true honor. One of the unique benefits offered by Youngevity is their pharmacy discount card. I used this card just last month and saved $14 on a $60 prescription. The Youngevity rep, earns money, while I saved money. The card doubles as the Youngevity business card.
Current volume per year: 750,000
Adding over 110 distributors/customers per month
Solid monthly commissions
Vice Chairman pin level
The current position of the distributorship would make it
very easy for someone to take it to multiple six figures
very quickly.
Company has already approved the sale of this position
Here is a little information on AL International, Youngevity and CR Roasters (Javalution)
AL International, Inc., is a nutritional and coffee company dedicated to improving lifestyles through vibrant health and flourishing economics. Our goal is to provide health conscious consumers with nutritional and lifestyle solutions that will help them achieve their health and wellness goals. We offer more than 400 high quality, technologically advanced products, including:
Nutritional products
Sports and energy drinks
Health and wellness-related services
Lifestyle products (pets, spa and bath, garden)
Gourmet coffee
Skincare and cosmetics
Telecommunications services
Our Nutritional, Lifestyle, and Telecommunications products and services are distributed through a global network of Preferred Customers and Distributors. Additionally, we offer Private Label Coffee programs across a number of channels including various retailers, OCS operators, and the cruise line industry.
AL International passionately believes that combining the best of the direct selling industry with the fundamentals and capabilities of a traditional business model will exponentially maximize shareholder value. AL International operates as Youngevity in the direct selling channel where it is innovating a concept called "the Network Cloud" whereby Youngevity, through acquisitions and mergers, is rapidly expanding its product and distributor base by providing a home for other direct selling companies to operate. Simultaneous to the network cloud concept AL International owns CLR Coffee Roasters, which operates a traditional coffee roasting business whose JavaFit® product line also vertically integrates with Youngevity and its growing network of direct marketers.
AL International is committed to building a common culture through all of its subsidiaries, both in the US, and Internationally. The company's core values are ones that can be embraced on a global scale. AL International is built on 7 core values which are as follows:
1. Integrity, Trust, Respect and Professionalism
2. Profitability
3. Passion and Enthusiasm
4. Extraordinary Service
5. Team Work
6. Loyalty
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Day 1: OUTSIDE – This is at the base of our light post in the front yard.
Day 2: ONE – I think this is just such a beautiful flower, even all on its own.
Day 3: COIN – An assortment of coins from four different countries.
Day 4: SOMEWHERE YOU SAT – My manager's office, where I interviewed for my current job.
Day 5: LOGO – This is our garage door opener. Talk about ancient!
Day 6: WRITING – Every day when I get to work I make a list of the things I need to do that day. Then I attempt to actually follow the list and get everything crossed off by the end of the day.
Note the word 'attempt'.
Note what has been crossed off thus far today.
Exactly one thing.
Welcome to the business world. 🙂
Day 7: EIGHT O' CLOCK – Ever since I left my old job (ok, I was laid off but I still left it, right?) I haven't worn a watch. It now feels foreign to do so. But I found this watch at a store and love the colorful numbers so I found a place for it on the wall in my office at work.
Day 8: GLASSES – I was going to photograph stemware for this subject but changed my mind when it dawned on me that I've worn prescription glasses from the time I was 7. I'm now 39 plus years older than that. Wow. Anyhoo, back to business.
Once in a while I'll wear contacts which means I get to wear sunglasses – that would be the 3 pair (pairs?) in the back. The first pair are cheaters, worn with my regular glasses on or contacts. I know…age.
Sheesh…I just can't get away from glasses!
Day 9: MESSY – I don't normally let the dining room table get this crazy-messy (I really prefer it bare except for the woven runner and wire bin with rocks) and I'd been trying to leave the laptop in the office. But this week was really busy with stuff at home and it got out of control. To be fixed on Friday, trust me!
Day 10: RING – A ring I bought about 10 years ago, maybe less. I want to repurpose it somehow. Maybe use the diamonds to create an interesting and beautiful pendant.
Day 11: PURPLE – I've never been able to wear baseball caps and look decent in them, and I think it's because the back of my head is shaped a bit oddly. But when my late husband and I went to New Mexico a few years ago and explored the White Sands National Monument, I enjoyed myself so much I needed a souvenir. And since my favorite color is purple I had to have the cap – regardless of how it fit.
Day 12: SPOON – This is one of my favorite combinations of food. Fat free Greek vanilla yogurt with low fat granola and some Craisins thrown in for color. What you see in the photo is the first bite I was about to take, so yummy!
Day 13: SIMPLE – The last bit of the crusty bread – simple and delicious – that I ate with some southwest vegetable soup from a local eatery. Quite a wonderful lunch.
Day 14: ARROW – On the package of microwave popcorn.
Day 15: READY – This is an herb chicken Mediterranean pizza ready to be popped into the oven.
Day 16: FOOD – I had intended to have a low-fat scone from a local coffee shop but there was a bakery at the farmer's market, so chocolate deliciousness won instead!
Day 17: FACES – I think kitty faces qualify as faces, don't you? These are part of a ginormous wall art mural near the Lyn/Lake area. I'll do a blog post after the challenge is over with more wall art from the Minneapolis area. Some of it is rather amazing.
Day 18: INSIDE – Raw sugar cubes inside a tiny container at a local eatery.
Day 19 : HOLE: This is a hole made by a jackhammer on the back sidewalk slab. Um, it's not filled with anything – Instagram did that. I didn't notice it until now that it might look like it's filled with blood. Oh dear. Oh well, enjoy!
Day 20: TODAY: On this day I was at the light rail station waiting for the train to go to work.
Day 21: COOL: Super cool yarn and new knitting needles for a future project!
Day 22: HOME: Photos on top of the fireplace mantel in our home.
Day 23: PAIR – A favorite pair of earrings.
Day 24: PATH – Sugar, my boyfriend, is fixing the sidewalk alongside the house. He's doing it with crowbars, pea gravel and I think, a little magic.
Day 25: FRESH – Fresh, sweet, juicy corn from the good old Midwest. This was so sweet and juicy we couldn't believe it.
Day 26 : DREAM – I dream that I can eat items like this, cheese and rosemary scones, without worrying about gaining weight!
Day 27 : TAP – Beer tap at work with a fabulous beer that gives all its proceeds to charity.
Day 28 : CLOCK – A Frank Lloyd Wright model.
Day 29 : DOWN – Looking down our laundry chute from the bathroom. It opens into the utility room (where the furnace and water heater are, and a half bath).
Day 30: CARD – I'm not much on the glittery stuff or silly stuff but this card I found to be quite beautiful. Plus the simple message of one word, Believe, is inspiring to me.
Day 31 : HIDDEN – Stella, our cat, has a tendency to hide her toys in other things. This time it was a sparkle ball in one of my shoes.
Info regarding challenge: August Photo a Day Challenge at Fat Mum Slim.


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Sweet Ford Modeo Estate diesel rental car. Solid, roomy, torquey and great brakes and tires...
Since the Eurobike trade show is in the relatively small city of Friedrichshafen, lodging accommodations can tend to be "creative" at times. This year a group of us stayed at a Catholic academy:
My thoughts exactly:
Velo Hangar shop in Solana Beach:
Sweet lighting:
Snack three, salty-sweet licorice fish from northern Germany (Hamburg):
One of many, repeated texts that kept coming through over multiple nights as I tried to sleep:


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Kevin O'Leary can't stop thinking about redemptions.
Not only is his latest CBC show titled Redemption Inc., a series that gives 10 ex-convicts a chance to set up their own business with his money, he's also been pre-occupied with redemptions of a different sort: withdrawals from his O'Leary funds.
Last week it was reported that annual redemptions from these funds hit $500-million. Mr. O'Leary is now disputing this total, citing a redemption value of $253-million instead.
The $500-million total was initially calculated by Mark McQueen at Wellington Financial. The Globe and Mail, using O'Leary Funds' annual report, came up with the same figure, but Mr. O'Leary explained these public documents are misleading.
Five of his funds, typically those with the phrase "Yield Advantaged" in their name, employ a nifty swap strategy that lowers the tax burden for investors. To do this, each is actually made up of two separate funds, meaning there are 10 funds in total. The two funds in each strategy are referred to as "top" and "bottom" funds in industry lingo, and although both have financial statements, Mr. O'Leary explained that only the redemptions from the top fund matter.
For that reason, the $99.9-million that appears to have been redeemed from the Convertible Portfolio Trust, the highest total for any fund, doesn't qualify because it is a bottom fund.
Seem confusing? That's because it is. A number of industry experts have looked through the O'Leary funds' public documents since the first redemption value was reported, and they all informed the Globe that even they can't wrap their heads around the redemptions and total assets under management. Mr. O'Leary has posted a document on the fund company's website to try to make things a bit more clear.
However, the insiders all acknowledged industry speculation that the O'Leary funds are having problems. Of the 46 different mutual and closed-end funds listed on the company's website -- a number that includes multiple series of the same funds -- only 15 of the 46 have net asset values above their $10.00 starting point. Keep in mind that these funds pay distributions, so their total return is likely higher. The Canadian Income Opportunities Fund 2, for instance, has a net asset value of $10.0254, but after adding in distributions its NAV jumps to $11.3261. But on the other hand, the funds charge management fees that eat into these returns.
Still, the general consensus is that redemptions of $253-million is still a big number for a firm with total assets under management of around $1.1-billion.
Mr. O'Leary doesn't think so. "We've had our lumps just like anybody else," he said in an interview, noting that many mutual funds have experienced outflows as investors pile into income and balanced funds. However, he failed to acknowledge that his funds, which are dividend-and-yield heavy, are precisely the kinds of funds that investors have been flocking to.
He also took offence to speculation that O'Leary Funds has been trying to find a buyer for a number of months -- another industry rumour. "Absolutely not. We are not trying to find a buyer," Mr. O'Leary said, later adding for emphasis: "No thank you, not selling. Period."
However, he did not deny that a number of employees have left the firm in the past few months.
Mr. O'Leary chalks this up to high turnover in any startup, rather than anything to do with the performance of his funds.
"I've been involved in many entrepreneurial startups, and that's really what O'Leary funds is," he said. "Generally after six or seven years, you only find a third of the original founders originally there. That's the nature of growing a business."
Editor's note: This article has been updated to clarify that the $500-million redemption figure is not correct.


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By: NACHC Federal Affairs Staff
The House of Representatives is slated to vote this week on the CHAMPIONING HEALTHY KIDS Act, legislation that would avert the Health Center funding cliff and extend several other programs important to health centers: the Community Health Centers Fund (CHCF), which provides 70% of section 330 grant dollars; along with the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), National Health Service Corps (NHSC), Teaching Health Centers Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) Program, and other related programs.
Introduced by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), the CHAMPIONING HEALTHY KIDS Act combines two bills passed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee in October: the CHAMPION Act and the HEALTHY KIDS Act, which previously appeared on the NACHC blog. Those bills independently extended critical funding for CHIP and the CHCF for two years, and provided two years of funding for important workforce programs including the NHSC and THCGME.
The CHAMPIONING HEALTHY KIDS Act:
- Extends current health center funding ($3.6 billion) for two years (FY18 – FY19);
- Extends current NHSC funding ($310 million) for two years (FY18 – FY19) ;
- Boosts THCGME funding to $126.5 million for two years (FY18 – FY19);
- Extends CHIP funding for five years (FY18 – FY22);
- Delays Medicaid cuts for Disproportionate Share Hospitals for two years (FY18 – FY19);
- Increases Medicaid growth in Puerto Rico ($1 billion) and the U.S. Virgin Islands ($30 million) for two years (FY18 ‒ FY19);
- Provides two years of funding for sex avoidance education programs (FY18 – FY19);
- Provides $25 million in FY18 for health centers to partake in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) All of Us Research Program, which conducts disease treatment and research as a part of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI); and
- Extends current funding ($150 million) for Type 1 Diabetes research at the NIH for two years (2018 – 2019).
In addition to extending funding for the health care priorities listed above, the bill also updates section 330 of the Public Health Service Act, the authorizing statute for the Health Centers Program. NACHC is supportive of these changes, and worked closely with legislators on Capitol Hill and HRSA to ensure that changes to section 330 proposed in the CHAMPIONING HEALTHY KIDS Act will continue to allow health centers to deliver the highest quality care possible. The changes largely are focused on updating and clarifying HRSA's ability to award grants to health centers for quality improvement, expanded services and new access points.
While the extensions of funding contained in the bill all have bipartisan support and are uncontroversial, disagreement continues over how those extensions are paid for in the House legislation. The CHAMPIONING HEALTHY KIDS Act reduced future funding for the Prevention and Public Health Fund, which currently accounts for roughly 12% of the budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and also supports a number of health promotion grants around the country. The bill also shortens the "grace period" during which Qualified Health Plan enrollees can stay enrolled without paying premiums from three months, under current law, to one month. Finally, the CHAMPIONING HEALTHY KIDS Act tweaks Medicaid third-party liability rules, amends rules limiting Medicaid payments to lottery winners, and increases Medicare cost-sharing (to 100% of premium costs) for the wealthiest Medicare beneficiaries – those with incomes above $500,000/year.
When the bill was released on Tuesday, NACHC issued this statement thanking legislators on all sides and emphasizing the urgency of getting to a final, bipartisan package that can pass both House and Senate and be passed into law as soon as possible.
While the Senate has not yet brought a bill to the floor for a vote, we know that significant bipartisan support exists in that chamber for health centers: in September, 70 Senators signed a letter calling for "swift resolution" of the funding cliff, and bipartisan Senators from across the political spectrum have signed onto the CHIME Act, which calls for a longer-term extension of health center and NHSC funding. This bipartisan support is critical, as Senate procedure dictates that any bill that passes the Senate must garner at least 60 votes. NACHC continues to work with legislators on both sides of the aisle, and in both chambers of Congress, to make that happen as soon as possible.
Your voice and advocacy are extremely important as Congress debates funding extensions for CHCF, THCGME, NHSC, CHIP, and other critical health programs. Stay tuned to NACHC's Facebook and Twitter accounts for up-to-the-minute news about a cliff fix, and for specific action steps you can take moving ahead.


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I Can Do Everything to Sleep With Olamide – Nigerian Lady Says on Instagram (Photos)
A Nigerian lady has taken to social media to reveal what she will do for famous music star, Olamide, to spend the night with her.
Identified as Moyo Adeola (@moyodivah) on Instagram, she made her intentions known in the comment section on the singer's page. Adeola disclosed that she is ready to do anything to have Olamide in the bed.
Adeola did not stop there but further disclosed that she can sleep with anyone. She made this comment on Monday, March 5, when Olamide shared a picture of him with his friend.
Some of Olamide's followers immediately attacked the young lady but she kept to her words. Adeola further added that: "I will never look back at what people are saying…I can f*ck anybody."
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Inherited IRA Rules for Spouses, Heirs and Trusts
This week's AAII Weekly Digest highlights these "must-read" AAII articles:
Inherited IRA Rules for Spouses, Heirs and Trusts
Inherited IRAs have unique traits and do not follow all the same rules as traditional individual retirement accounts and Roth IRAs. Though some similarities exist, the applicable rules are dependent on whether the new owner of the account was married to the deceased. Even when the surviving spouse inherits the deceased's IRAs, the applicable rules are dependent on the designation you choose.
What the Evolving Robo Advisory Industry Offers
Online advisory services, or robo-advisers, are gaining in popularity. Much of the enticement of these online advisory services comes from the desire to remove human emotion from investment decisions. Computers do not fall in love with stocks, but people do. Other enticements include lower costs compared to traditional advisers and time savings by allowing a computer to choose, reallocate and rebalance investments. The robo advisory industry is constantly evolving and adapting with consolidation and new entries from big investment forms. This article tracks the changes that are taking place in the industry.
Avoid the Top 10 Mistakes Made With Beneficiary Designations
Estate planning truly is the ultimate gift for your loved ones. A comprehensive estate plan should always include a review of the titles and beneficiary designations for all assets. You want to ensure they are consistent with your estate planning goals. Otherwise, unintended consequences may ensue. Knowledge of the most common errors made with beneficiary designations can help you avoid the same mistakes.
Achieving Financial Security by Conquering Personal Debt
Overloading on debt is expensive. However, credit can be an important lifeline in the event of a crisis. But if you have used all your credit, you have removed a valuable cushion of security. Debt is a major hindrance to achieving financial security for many Americans. Here are some tips on how to conquer debt.
Our Member Question for this week is:
How worried are you about the prospects of rising inflation?
Vote to answer this week's Special Question: Given your answer to this week's reader question regarding how worried you are about the prospects of rising inflation, what steps have you taken to protect your investments and finances?
Last Week's Results:
The Chicago Board Options Exchange's Volatility Index (VIX) climbed to its highest levels since November 8 last week. How worried are you about rising volatility in the stock market?
Poll results are as of 9 a.m. (Central) on Monday. 1,585 respondents.
Weekly Survey: Retail Investors Respond to Rising Market Volatility
Last week, the CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, often referred to as Wall Street's "fear gauge," surged 30%, posting its second jump of 30% in a week. According to Schaeffer's Investment Research, this is only the third time ever that the VIX has experienced two single-session increases of 30% or more in a week. Considering this rising market volatility, we asked our readers how worried they are about the impact of rising volatility on the stock market. We then followed up with a special question that asked what steps, if any, our readers take in regards to their investment portfolios during periods of high market volatility. This blog post summarizes the results and responses.
AAII Financial Planning Resources
The Financial Planning section of AAII.com focuses on the all-important element of personal finance. When most people think of financial planning, they automatically focus on retirement planning. While this is an important aspect of financial planning, it is not the only component. The "Financial Planning with AAII" area includes two useful guides: Lifetime Investment Strategy and AAII's Tax Guide. These guides (benefits of AAII membership) help you master the guidelines for long-term successful portfolio management as well as help you assess your current tax situation and plan for any changes. There is also a collection of must-read articles devoted to the topic of financial planning to assist you in achieving your financial goals.
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John Stamos has been cast as a recurring guest star in a new drama on Lifetime called "You", a psychological thriller series that also stars Penn Badgley of "Gossip Girl" fame and Elizabeth Lail.
Written by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble, the series focuses on Badgley and Lail, who play Joe and Beck, a genius bookstore manager and aspiring writer who meet and instantly form a connection. According to "Deadline", it is a 21st-century love story that poses the question to viewers: "What would you do for love?"
Stamos plays the part of Dr. Nicky, who causes some friction between Badgley and Lail's characters as he becomes a very important part of Beck's life.
The series is based on a best-selling novel by Caroline Kepnes, also titled "You". The series premiere will be some time in 2018, though the exact date is still unknown.


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BoneDense (Drynaria)
Drynaria fortunei, commonly known in China as Gu-Sui-Bu, is a species of basket fern of the family Polypodiaceae. The plant is native to Eastern Asia, including eastern China. Preparations from the roots of drynaria have been used in traditional Asian medicine for aiding in the healing of bone fractures and for treating rheumatoid arthritis.
Excessive bone loss, known as osteopenia or osteoporosis, is characterized by imbalance between the bone-destroying cells, osteoclasts, and bone-building cells, osteoblasts. Human and animal data showed that drynaria inhibiting osteoclast function without entirely halting it, as bisphosphonate drugs (alendronate, risedronate, ibandronate etc) do. It stimulates osteoblasts to produce more healthy bone tissue. In addition, drynaria attracts mesenchymal stem cells to accelerate the damaged bone repair. Drynaria has been shown to provide anti-osteoporotic effects in female mammals following the loss of ovaries and in animals with experimental osteoporosis induced by rheumatoid arthritis.
In addition, drynaria extract exhibits an anti-inflammatory activity, protect kidney from renal failure and possess an anti-tumor activity against multiple myeloma.
Potential indications for use of drynaria in humans include:
- Osteopenia
- Osteoporosis
- Poor dental health
- Periodontal gum disease
- Prevention of bone loss in postmenopausal women and people with rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes and those who take steroids (prednisone) on a long-term basis
- Inflammation and pain management in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis
- Adjunct therapy of multiple myeloma
- Adjunct therapy of renal insufficiency
Potential side effects:
- Dizziness and lightheadedness
- Mild nausea
- Gastrointestinal discomfort
Potential drug interactions:
- Bisphosphonates (alendronate, risedronate, ibandronate etc)
- Calcitonin
- Denosumab (prolia)
- Teriparatide (Forteo)
- Coumadin
- Pregnancy
- Lactation
- Chronic anticoagulation therapy
Complementary natural products:
- Biotin
- Calcium Lactate
- Indian Thorny Bamboo
- Magnesium Malate
- Strontium Citrate
- Taurine
- Vitamin D
Dosage Information:
The recommended daily dose of BoneDense varies from 500 to 1500 mg twice a day taken before meals. The consumption of BoneDense and strontium citrate should be spaced out by at least 2 hours.
Contents: 100 Vcaps
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Art, Love and War
(See explication below)
British Officers (in 1945) making sure their Japanese Allies have good weapons to fight Commos and other Baddies...
Yes! The British and the French made an agreement in about 1945 to occupy each others' former colonies and the British went into Vietnam -where the Vietnamese Liberation Army had defeated the Japanese without any outside help - the Japanese had been put into jails by the Vietnamese. But the British fought their way in - then meeting stiff resistance form the Vietnamese people - decided to free the Japanese soldiers - supply them with guns - and send then into the jungle to fight the Vietnamese. Ultimately the Vietnamese won again but in the meantime there was enough time for the French or reinvade -but after another 10 years they were completely defeated at Dien Bien Phu. The U.S. - rejecting Vietnam's calls for elections - then started bombing the place without declaring war (as they always -quite rightly and wisely - do as you never know with these foreigners! Declaring war can be dodgy!).
Of course they did this as it was necessary to burn and or kill women men and children etc and to accelerate the cause of democracy. As above (next post) of course it is explained why they had to rape women and kill people at the My Lai massacre site...
For complex but similar reasons the US now help everyone by putting people in chains men on an island in Cuba or by wiping out entire villages in Afghanistan. The British Army are also involved in helping there ( and even the NZ army is killing people there with great gusto - thank God for Phil Goff!! Saviour of the West from Arabs and Terrorists!) in their heroic and glorious status as in they were in Vietnam so long ago.
Bombs Away!
More bombs were dropped on Vietnam week by week that were dropped during the whole of WWll
The Brave Struggle for Freedom Must Never End
Liberation through Burning!
(Beautiful vistas of the Vietnam War)
The Heroic US Infantry in Action!!
to a clearly evil and godless people... Iraq and Afghanistan - here we come!!
Love and Good will from the US Skies - Whoopie and Hoorah and Hallelooloo for the American Way!
Napalm -dropped on children and others in Vietnam and also in the First Gulf War on Iraqi soldiers who had already surrendered and is probably is still being used by the US and the British etc in Iraq and Afghanistan. It burns and cannot be removed - it sticks and burns...
"Human kind cannot bear too much reality." T. S. Eliot Burnt Norton
Giovanni Intra 1968 - 2002
"Everyone who makes work has to live out the boundary of their own fantasy, it's an undeniable condition of practice. I do live the work, but in my own terms. There are aspects of my life where I do participate in areas which may be regarded as transgressive. But really, what is
transgression.?... "
I deduced that the artist, a young man of 34: possibly gay, and possibly a Catholic New Zealander of Italian derivation, and also likely to have been of quite wide learning; particularly in the classics, had committed suicide -by the date and age of the artist - and the "plinyism", the mirror or inverted Ns etc - and his references to "transgression" in accompanying notes .
We all transgress.
I was also attracted to the black and the white and the (more or less) rectangular shapes - the open layout.
'Plinyism' -the Elder Pliny threw himself into Mt Etna. [THIS IS WRONG - PLINY THE ELDER DID RESEARCH INTO MANY THINGS INCLUDING NATURAL HISTORY MINING AND WAS FASCINATED BY THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS IN 79 AD AND DIED WHILE OBSERVING IT AND ALSO ATTEMPING TO RESCUE SOME FRIENDS. "PLINEAN" IS USED BY VULCANOLGOISTS TODAY TO REFER TO VIOLANT VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS. WHAT THE ARTIST HERE MEANS BY PLINYISM IS THUS A MYSTERY] This artist I knew nothing of when I visited the Auckland Art Gallery a month ago or so - note also the "Russian" or "cyrilic" N (mirror -as perhaps via Alice in Wonderland...
Mother and son.
My grandson - fascinated by the beautiful flamingos. His father is German.
Trimaran by the Panmure Wharf, where the Yacht Club is - and various Rowing Clubs
Things transform.
Maungarei from the eastern slope. The basin can be seen in the background.
I feel an immense ecstasy when I see such beautiful flowers -these are wild flowers on Maungarei. There was Pa here and around on the surrounding fertile volcanic land Maori cultivated kumara and they also gathered shell fish (middens are visible on the Mountain).
There have been a number of cases in the news of Maori and others involved in terrible child abuse -this is an ongoing problem in NZ -not confined to Maori and Pacific Islanders -but percentage wise they ""do"most crime etc - especially the "visible" crime.... there are complex reasons why many Maori are tormented, careless of others, or even themselves, high drug users, even very paranoid and often very corrupt. Probably prior to the degenerating influence of European colonisation Maori were more adjusted to what is quite a harsh environment. Where I live signs of degeneracy and demoralisation and examples of vandalism and of all kinds of crime and vandalism are everywhere - there is a general uncaring attitude the by Polynesians -but this is to generalise - as there are also many good people here. The tragedy began with colonialisation -but perhaps we - all of us -Maori, Pakeha, whatever race or ilk -perhaps we are all potentially fucked in the head. Unfortunately too many Polynesians and Maori are of a "low moral quality"... despite the Islanders' obsession with bible bashing... But humans and life are complex.
And crime and 'degeneracy' exists of course amongst people of whatever class or economic status or ethnicity. The problem is perhaps in the "deep structures" and the history -the alienation talked about by Marx; and this applies to my own culture (English parents, NZ born).
Nor have the Police shown much compassion either, or any real will to assist -with their treatment of Maori and their very uncaring attitude - nor did the Clark Government - with raids on Maori in the Tuhoe areas - and the attempt to steal more land from Maori via the act to grab more Maori land and seashore and sea bed rights - that is their attempt to circumvent or violate the Treaty and their lack of action for Maori or immigrants...
Kotuku - a sea bird. A bird. Another look at this mysterious and beautiful thing.
The Kotuku is a native bird associated with the Panmure lagoon - which isn't far from where Maori had a Pa (Mokoia - destroyed in the musket wars (around the 1820s) by Hongi Hika after he went to England and studied warfare methods, particularly Roman and other as the guest of George (one of the Georges!) - he had a suit of mail and built siege towers and slaughtered all (or most of) the Maori at Mokoia ... esp. as they didn't have as any muskets.
Canoes or waka were built at the lagoon. The Kotuku is often seen, as are kingfishers, shags, gulls, oyster catchers, ducks and other birds who dive for fish - the ones I'm thinking of kind of bring their wings close together and almost drop like the sleek Stukka German dive bombers into Poland in 1939 after Hitler dressed Poles in German uniforms, had them shot, took photos of them dead, blamed the Poles on terrorist acts (as Bush blamed terroism on the 9/11 fiasco) -and sent them on their heroic, glorious, and fateful missions - urging them, as true warriors of the Reich, to "Show no pity."
But aircraft are as beautiful as are birds. The picture is not as clear as I would like and I do have an SLR but it is not digital so I will one day perhaps get a much more versatile camera (or use the Pentax and get the films digitized)- with a better depth of field, different lense angles, and variable apertures and shutter speeds and perhaps with a greater pixellation capacity etc
Home architectured in "tudoresque" style at the Panmure Basin - this "basin" was created by a violent volcanic eruption about 9000 years ago and we saw geologists investigating (with drills)
rock samples. They subsequently established that a second eruption had occurred...
Japanese and Chinese and other tourists climb Mt Wellington and peer into the crator -half expecting (e'en half hoping?) it to re-erupt. Such is sublime the power of nature.
The deathly and merciless ferocity of nature... Mr's Smith's nieghbour Grace is in the local historical society.
My mate Brian Mace used to "lead" us kids in the 50s...we used to play endless games, go the "flicks", and Brina would invent games all the time ... Robbing orchards (the mainly European people round here all had them in those days) or sneaking inside peoples' houses were two ... Life was eternal when I was young.
"Shell and Gnome garden" in GI as discussed below.
The people here -while -or because they are - European and well to do - are a decent,moral kind people with standards - and they keep their houses well and have great gardens and self respect.
However the shell and gnome house (above a bit) is a a garden kept by Pacific Island people in Glenn Innes showing that people can achieve beauty regardless of class or income or race etc
Today the Pacific people working on their garden said a kind hello to us.
Close up of lilacs by the beautiful houses fronting the Panmure Basin
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Ruta Olmane
Ruta Olmane
Associated Partner, Latvian Trademark and Design Attorney, European Trademark and Design Attorney, Lawyer
University of Alicante, Spain, MAGISTER LVCENTINVS "7th Community Trade Mark Special Module"
Latvian Legal Centre, Riga, Latvia, Advanced Professional Courses for Lawyers
University of Latvia, Master of public administration
University of Latvia, Bachelor of Law
Areas of practice
National and international intellectual property law, patents law, international licensing, design law, European trademark law, trademark law, representation in cases, litigation.
Latvian, Russian, English
Ruta Olmane has been engaging in intellectual property field since since 1999, when she started working as a lawyer for TRIA ROBIT, a patent agency in Latvia. She also worked at Borenius Law Firm and had her own private practice where she took on lawyer and attorney's-at-law role offering services related to Latvian and European Trademarks or Designs. In 2014 Ruta started working at the Latvian office of METIDA Law Firm of Reda Zaboliene.
In her daily practice Ruta Olmane helps local and international clients with the protection and enforcement of intellectual property objects. She mainly deals with trademark filing, opposition and appeal cases before the Latvian Patent Office and the EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office), licensing, cases regarding unlawful use of IP rights, detainment of counterfeit goods by Customs or Police, as well as litigates before all court instances.
In 2004 Ruta Olmane became a member of the Association of Patent Attorneys of Latvia. In 2006 she joined the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI). Ruta represents the Republic of Latvia before the European Community Trademark Association (ECTA): in 2009 she became a member of the Council. In 2012 she was elected ECTA Second Vice President, in 2014 ECTA First Vice President. In 2016 Ruta Olmane was elected President of ECTA for 2016/2018.
Ruta has lectured in international conferences on intellectual property law and is an author of many articles published in local and international publications.


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Chancellor Jones and VCR Schiffer visit DC
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Robert Jones and Vice Chancellor for Research Peter Schiffer spent an afternoon on Capitol Hill and a full day meeting with federal agency officials. While on the Hill, they met with Rep. Rodney Davis, Rep. Darin LaHood, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, and the office of Rep. Jan Schakowsky to provide updates on Illinois, its research enterprise and to delve deeper into Illinois-specific appropriations priorities. These visits provided an opportunity for Universtiy leadership to highlight accomplishments from the last 150 years while looking ahead to the next 150 years and the future of public higher education.
The next day, they met with the Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture; France Cordova, director of the National Science Foundation (NSF); Jim Olds, assistant director for the Biological Sciences Directorate at NSF; and Steve Binkley, acting director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.
Additionally, Vice Chancellor of Research Schiffer participated in a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency academic research roundtable and met with several NSF Assistant Directors.


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Video Production Pitfalls
Avoiding the Characteristics of a Terrible Video Production
Bad video is almost everywhere these days. We all know it when we see it, and if you're reading this, you already know it's something you want to avoid creating. Unless there is no intention to the video other than the simple act of showing it—funny cat videos on YouTube, for example—low quality video productions are bad news for everyone involved in them. Here are some video production pitfalls to avoid.
Videos have this interesting ability of somehow being able to penetrate the subconscious and stick in our memories long after we've viewed them. This is why we often can remember scenes from movies we saw years ago, but may have difficulty remembering where we left our keys 10 minutes ago. Just as we remember when a video is very good, you can be sure that many people can remember the worst videos they've ever seen too.
The fundamental problem with these awful videos is that corporate clients can't effectively use them to promote anything, personal clients wanting something like a wedding video won't have their precious memories recorded effectively, and the cast and crew members can't use their participation in a bad video to further their careers in any way.
Everybody loses when a bad video gets made, and perhaps that counts double for the audience members who decide to sit through it in the hope that it will get better at some point. In effect, they get disappointed twice.
Production values
The technical industry term for all the different factors that go into making a video is "production values". A video with good production values is likely to turn out better than a video with bad production values, which is simple common sense. The key production values to consider are:
- The quality of the story or narrative, in whatever form it is presented (visual, auditory, or a combination of them).
- The skill of the cast and crew who participate in the making of the video.
- Selecting the right locations to shoot the video.
- The quality of the equipment and technology used.
The hallmarks of a bad production
In general, the most likely reason for a video to fail is because the producer gets the priorities of the above list in the wrong order. Let's use a really good example that a lot of readers will be able to identify with.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is an iconic 20th Century motion picture produced by George Lucas, directed by Stephen Spielberg, and starring Harrison Ford in the lead role.
The movie had a budget of $18m, and because it had good production values in the right order, it went on to gross more than $380m in box office sales alone (not taking into account the subsequent video, DVD, and Blu-Ray sales and rentals). It won numerous awards, including 5 Oscars, and even most of the critics were enthusiastic in their praise. By any measure, the film was a success.
Approximately 27 years later, the fourth sequel in the series, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, was released. This movie had a budget more than 10 times as high as Raiders ($185m), and it too was a commercial success. But in terms of percentages and audience acceptance, not so much.
On the other hand, a major studio with $180m managed to annoy a significant portion of their fan-base because they let something else (technology and special effects) take precedence over the story.
Where the first movie was built on the foundation of a solid story and excellent casting, the final one, which should have been the crowning glory, put most of its faith in CGI and special effects, leaving most Indy fans disappointed, as this web link from FlickChart clearly shows. The most fundamental change to the methodology can be traced to the change in script writers. The Raiders script was written by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman, who were very "old school" in their writing approach, using the strength of the characters and the momentum of the plot to pull you in, never really giving you time to stop and think about whether you believe what's happening.The script for Crystal Skull, however, was written by David Koepp, who had previously achieved great success with films that were heavily dependent on CGI, including two of the Jurassic Park movies and the first Spiderman movie. That legacy shows in Crystal Skull, and audiences didn't take to it the way they had with Koepp's earlier movies.
We think the reason is that you can't really take something that people have loved faithfully for 27 years and try to mold it into something new, even if you're a very talented writer, as David Koepp is.
Budget isn't everything in video production
As further evidence that it is the story that is the most important part of a production, in 1989 three teenagers from Mississippi did a remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark with a budget of $5000.
Amazingly, against all the odds, this amateur film was warmly accepted by audiences, and we think the last word on that should go to Lee Sandlin of the Chicago Reader, with his review that is almost as exhilarating as the movie itself.
Those kids had literally nothing going for them except a great story to work with, good imagination, and a lot of grit. On the other hand, a major studio with $180m managed to annoy a significant portion of their fan-base because they let something else (technology and special effects) take precedence over the story.
Even with good production values, poor decisions can cost you
So you have a great story, experienced cast and crew, great locations and excellent equipment, how can you go wrong? Actually, there are lots of ways. Editing, of course, is a skill that can make or break any production.
Mistakes to avoid in production
Beyond that, the usual reason for failure is human error, with some of the most common being:
- Rushing – This is usually the result of trying to save money by cutting corners and taking a "near enough is good enough" approach. This never bodes well for a production, and audiences often notice when massive compromises have been made. A good video, whether it runs for two minutes or two hours, needs to be properly written, planned, and executed. Skipping anything in the process will hurt the overall quality of what you produce.
- Mixed Messages – Sometimes there are people along the chain of command who have differing agendas, and in trying to keep everyone happy, a production crew can lose sight of the bigger picture and end up with a confusing result. To do their best, a crew needs to know who the intended audience for the production will be, and what the overall message that drives the story is supposed to be. Without this, the message can get watered down or even entirely lost.
- Message Overload – Trying to provide too much information at once can be confusing and can cause an audience to switch off. If you cram too much into one shot, one scene, or sometimes even one video, the message can be lost as the audience drifts away. Using multiple shots, scenes, or videos to break a long, complex sequence into smaller, simpler units is far more effective.
- Excess Complexity – Being needlessly elaborate will ruin an otherwise good video. Generally speaking, people don't want to have to think too much in order to understand something. Audiences will follow something complex if you make it appear simple. This requires excellent writing and directing, so you can deliver the message with the correct rhythm, flow, and pace.
- Lack of Depth – To be effective, the message of a video needs to resonate on some level. Think about how charity organizations often use emotionally disturbing images in order to compel you toward a mind-set where you might be inclined to write a check. Think about how Jaws used a simple two note melody to evoke a sense of fear. Think about how Morgan Freeman's narrative in The Shawshank Redemption is used to keep an audience emotionally invested in the lives of people that most folks have been taught to look down upon. Making an emotional connection helps bridge the gap between you and your audience.
- Being Unoriginal – Keeping things fresh is a good idea, because if you just provide a stale rehash of old ideas, it will get noticed, and that's a distraction. Even if you need to cover a topic or theme that has already been done to death, you can still triumph if you present it in a fresh way.
- Being Inconsistent – While it's important to be original, any series of related content needs to be presented in a consistent way, in order to avoid losing the audience.
House of Sticks difference
Obviously here at House of Sticks we have a passion for excellence in video production, so we avoid these common errors. It is valuable for anyone contemplating being involved in a video production to know the contributing factors that can lead toward a poor result, as listed above.
Making better video
The goal should always be to create the best video you can with what you have. By remembering the four priorities (story, people, location, equipment) in the correct order, and by avoiding the common mistakes of bad production, you will already be well on track toward achieving that goal.


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I use social media daily, not only to help Kathy out but also for my own website at LifeCitation.wordpress.com, for my genealogy group East Central Indiana Genealogy Alliance, and the local historical society. In fact, Kathy gave me a really neat family tree poster-sized chart (16″ x 20″) to fill out and I'll probably do so in her Studio because of the space and I want to work on my calligraphy.
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We welcome Lynne Pardoe to the blog. Lynne has been chatting to Anna Davis, Managing Director of Curtis Brown Creative. Over to you, Lynne.
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I've always fancied doing one of those Curtis Brown courses, they have such an enticing programme of events. Anna Davis found time in her busy schedule to answer my questions.
How did Curtis Brown, a well-known literary agency, come to be running a writing school?
We launched Curtis Brown Creative in 2011 when we realised a lot of people were looking for novel writing courses. We were in the unusual position of having both a good understanding of the market and expertise in helping authors edit their work until it's at its best. The unique selling point of Curtis Brown Creative is the active involvement in the courses of our literary agents.
Why choose a Curtis Brown course?
For us, it's all about quality. We want to work with new novelists who have real potential, and our aims are to help new novelists to get the best out of their writing and to find new clients for the agents of Curtis Brown and Conville & Walsh from among our students.
Are your courses all London based?
We began with a 3-month course for aspiring novelists held in our London offices. We still run our very popular 3 and 6-month courses from our offices, but now we also run 3 and 6-month novel-writing courses online. When it comes to the online environment, we aim to deliver courses with the same values and emphasis on quality as our face-to-face courses. We run groups with a maximum of 15 students (just as we do in our offices) selected from applications on the basis of the quality of the material submitted to us in order to create strong peer groups who work well together and help to bring out the best in each other's writing.
Our online courses have flexible scheduling to allow participation from students all over the world, along with students who need to focus their writing into erratic hours, night-times etc. The online courses include teaching, workshopping and tutorials, just like our face-to-face courses, and feature an agents' question and answers day where lots of our agents come online across a whole day to answer students' question; plus a day when agents give feedback on students' pitch letters.
What is the difference in the 3 and 6 month courses? Is it just the same course over a different time-frame?
The two kinds of courses include many of the same components – workshopping, teaching sessions, tutorials and visiting speaker sessions, but the six-month course has more of all of those. The six-month London-based course also has two guest tutors, each of whom come in to teach the students on several occasions – kind of 'mini-courses'. I think it's good for the students to be taught by more than one writer where possible – there's no one way of doing things and it's great for them to get different teaching perspectives. At the end of all our courses – in the office and online -the students submit some material from their novels-in-progress plus a one-page synopsis to be read informally by the full teams of agents at Curtis Brown and Conville & Walsh.
Each course has one main tutor, who is a novelist with a strong published track record and good teaching experience. I'm also personally involved in teaching the London-based courses (and we have the guest tutors as mentioned above). I'm often also involved in delivering elements of the online course (varies from course to course as indicated in our website copy).
How does the group communicate?
In the case of the London-based courses, the students meet on a weekly or twice-weekly basis (and often continue to do so once the courses end). For the online courses, the students communicate with each other and their tutor on a secure online educational platform with a discussion area. The online tutors provide lots of feedback to the students in that space, and also in one-to-one tutorials which can be on Skype or telephone (depending on the student's choice). The tutors also give teaching sessions (using notes, video and tasks set for the students) on key topics.
Do students have to begin with a partly finished novel?
We ask all applicants to our courses to send in the opening of a novel - up to 3000 words – and a one –page synopsis (along with their completed application form). We expect that to be the novel that they will be working on during the course and assess the applications on that basis. It doesn't matter how much of the novel they've written already – it could be just a few thousand words or they might even be rewriting an already completed novel. But they need to want to work on that novel with us (we're not here just to introduce students to agents) and they should be open to the idea of making changes to it.
What if you disagree with the advice?
It's entirely up to the students what advice they decide to take on board, and what they don't. Many students will realise, from feedback they're given, that there are issues with a novel in progress, but will find their own solutions. We hope to help students to figure out their own strengths and weaknesses as writers and learn to play to their strengths. And, as I say, there's not much point going on a course if you're not actually keen to learn and to make changes to what you're writing.
Is there much competition for places?
Yes – I'm happy to say that we're always massively over-subscribed. Long may it last! It's important that we're able to be selective in order to bring together groups of writers who can operate at a high level and give each other valuable feedback and support. It makes a huge different to the experience of being on a writing course for our students.
Where do students go onto once they've finished?
Most of our students haven't actually finished writing their novels at the end of a three or six month course. Some finish rapidly and are then ready to start pitching their work to agents, while others may take years to finish. I'm still hearing now from students in our very early groups just finishing – and I'm as happy to hear from them as from those in the recent classes. Writing a novel takes as long as it takes.
Clearly we can't offer representation to all our students, but 16 of our alumni already have deals with major commercial publishers, including Jessie Burton, whose debut The Miniaturist was the biggest selling debut of 2014. Kate Hamer's The Girl in the Red Coat was published in February to great success, and James Hannah's The A-Z of You and Me (also February) In July we've also seen the launch of the first published novel to come out of our online novel-writing courses: Bitter Fruits by Alice Clark-Platts; and Nicholas Searle, another online student who was taken on by Curtis Brown CEO Jonny Geller, is published early next year.
There is lots of information about our online courses - including course details, fee, tutor information etc (and indeed information about our other courses too) on http://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk .
What an enticing description of a super course! I'm not surprised that it's oversubscribed. Thank you so much for taking the time to talk with me, Anna.
Lynne Pardoe writes fiction about social work after 30 years in the job which she describes as a really interesting and rewarding post. Nothing like the papers description. Read all about it at lynnepardoe.com or try 'Please Adopt Me,' as a kindle book.
*Don't forget that all writers have the chance to pitch to Curtis Brown and Conville and Walsh on the fourth Friday of each month using the hashtag #PitchCB.
Good luck!
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Yamaha has expanded its MT family with the lightweight MT-125 (claimed wet weight is just over 300 pounds) just announced for the European market. This follows on the heels of Kawasaki's announcement of a single-cylinder naked for Asia called the Z250SL.
Here is how Yamaha describes the new MT-125:
Yamaha's new generation of MT models have totally shaken up the world of motorcycling. With their radical style and ultra cool image, the MT family is all about pure riding emotion. Now the new MT-125 is here. And the 125cc class is never going to be the same again!
With its awesome looking naked chassis, the MT-125 really is like nothing else. Featuring aggressive streetfighter style that demands attention wherever you go, this bike has some serious attitude. And with its full-size chassis the latest MT gets maximum respect on the street.
You're only young once. So make sure that the new MT-125 becomes a part of your life. Now.
- Radical new naked 125cc bike
- MT family DNA gives a serious 'full-size' bike look
- Streetfighter style
- Sporty, upright riding position for everyday fun
- Deltabox frame and monoshock rear suspension
- 125cc single cylinder liquid-cooled 4-stroke
- YZF-R125 platform with high-end components
- 41mm diameter upside down front forks
- 292mm floating front disc with radial caliper
- Lightweight race-style Y-spoke wheels
- High-tech LED instrumentpanel
- Short tail end with LED taillight
The new Kawasaki Z250SL is derived from the mechanically identical Ninja RR Mono we reported on earlier. Follow the link for the technical details.
We do not know whether Yamaha or Kawasaki will bring these smaller displacement models to the U.S. market. Although the U.S. market is embracing smaller displacement bikes, initially they may make more sense overseas where tiered licensing and city commute distances create different customer incentives. In the Asian marketplace, a 250cc bike is still considered a big bike.
Perhaps more interesting is the effort the manufacturers are putting into not only the styling but the frame and chassis design for these relatively low cost, low displacement models. If the popularity of the Honda Grom is any indication, other manufacturers may bring smaller bikes to the U.S. to grow the youth market here.


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Al's Grand Hotel (1971) with Public Fiction (2014)
A legendary project realized by Allen Ruppersberg in 1971 in Los Angeles
Al's Grand Hotel (1971) with Public Fiction (2014)
On the occasion of the first edition of Frieze New York in 2012, Frieze Projects started a series of tributes to artist-run spaces that have defined and transformed the cultural life of contemporary cities. The first tribute dedicated to Fashion Moda and the work of John Ahearn was followed in 2013 by an homage to FOOD, the artists' restaurant conceived by Gordon Matta- Clark and Carol Goodden.
For the 2014 edition of the fair, Frieze Projects celebrated Al's Grand Hotel, a legendary project realized by Allen Ruppersberg in 1971 in Los Angeles. The fully operational hotel was open for six weeks and acted as a site for gatherings, parties, performances as well as a place to spend the night.
The seven rooms were functional installations, each one themed and built with vernacular materials. Purposefully temporary, the short-lived hotel remained as a landmark in Los Angeles' history, highly representative of both Ruppersberg's work and the artist-run initiatives in the city's landscape: casual, temporary and changing, with an emphasis on experience and entrepreneurialism. To restage this project at Frieze New York, Ruppersberg has imagined less a remake and more a restaging of the hotel, carried out in collaboration with the Los Angeles project space Public Fiction. The project treats the hotel as a family enterprise that welcomes new input from a younger generation of associates and partners . Al's Grand Hotel was restageded as a fully functioning hotel installed within the fair, with two rooms, a lobby and a new series of interventions. Visitors to the fair could become guests of the hotel and were allowed to book rooms in the hotel to spend the night.
Public Fiction is a project space and a journal in Northeast Los Angeles founded by Lauren Mackler and featuring a rotating cast of collaborators. The print catalogue and website texts for this project were co-authored by Cecilia Alemani and Lauren Mackler
Photograph by Marco Scozzaro.
Project supported by COS with additional support from Maharam


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10 points for the awesome 'Short Circuit' reference.
haha, those images turned out great!