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I can do for you what Martin did for the people
Ran by the men but the women keep the tempo
It's very seldom that you're blessed to find your equal
Still play my part and let you take the lead role
Believe me
I'll follow this could be easy
I'll be the help whenever you need me
I see you hustle wit my hustle I
Can keep you
Focused on your focus I can feed you"
Upgrade U, Beyonce Knowles
Yesterday, Beyonce's titled song, Upgrade U, played on the radio. It had been a long time since I had heard it. As, I jammed in my car to the midday mix, I was struck by the lyrics above. So many scriptures came to mind. Yes, God is present even in R & B.
Ran by the men, but the women keep the tempo."
1 Peter 3:7 says, "In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God's gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered," (NLT).
Proverbs 31:11-12 (NLT) says that a wife of noble character could be trusted by her husband, "and she will greatly enrich his life. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life."
God has given dominion over the Earth to men. In the Bible, God has called wives to submit to their husbands. Submission as defined by the Bible is a reverent term. It implies respect and love. Although there are those who have misinterpreted and have perverted God's command in order to use it as an excuse to treat women indignantly, that was never God's intention. Listen, in EVERY situation in life, there are leaders and followers. In the case of relationships, God has granted the role of leadership to the man. However, God gave him a need and a desire for a partner. God also knew the inclination of some men to abuse His word, so He issued consequences for men who abused their authority over their women. God created a direct correlation between a man's success and how he treats his wife. According to 1 Peter 3:7 husbands who mistreat their wives would have their prayers hindered. Man may run the show, but the woman keeps the tempo, Beyonce.
Still play my part and let you take the lead role
The old saying, "behind every successful man is a great woman," is reflective of Proverbs 31:11-12: "Her husband can trust her, and she will greatly enrich his life. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life." This is so true. Women, we are very powerful, however, as wives, we are called to submit to our husbands. Ephesians 5:22-24 says, "For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything."
Submission is not an expletive. I believe that the reason why most people have an issue with submission is because they have an ill-defined perception of the command. Being submissive does not mean that you are living in your husband's shadow. It doesn't mean that you won't have your chance to shine. It also does not mean that you have to accept and go along with everything that your husband says. Sorry men!
Remember, we are ALL under submission to Christ, so your husband's leadership and requests must be in agreement with God's words. Also, as human there will be time that we will simply have to agree to disagree. Disagreement does not always infer disrespect. It just means that we disagree. Actually, some of the best resolutions are birthed out of disagreements.
It's very seldom that you're blessed to find your equal
The Bible says that we should not be unequally yoked with non-believers (2 Corinthians 6:14). However, I believe the command to be equally yoked extends beyond our theology. It is possible to be unequally yoked even in the body of Christ. For example, one person in the relationship may have a heart for missionary work and believe that God has called him to move across the globe, while the other person's idea of charity is dropping some spare change in the Salvation Army bucket during the Christmas season. This is not to say that couple cannot express different interests. However, the core of who you are should be compatible. As a couple, you should be on the same page. You should complement each other. You should be both chasing after the same goals.
So what happens if you are already married and are unequally yoked with your partner? If you are married and your spouse is not a believer, the Bible urges you to stick it out:
"Now, I will speak to the rest of you, though I do not have a direct command from the Lord. If a Christian man has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to continue living with him, he must not leave her. And if a Christian woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is willing to continue living with her, she must not leave him. For the Christian wife brings holiness to her marriage, and the Christian husband brings holiness to his marriage. Otherwise, your children would not be holy, but now they are holy" 1 Corinthians 7:12-14 (NLT).
In the Bible, God, through Paul, addressed the issue of being unequally yoked with a non-believer. However, there were no concessions made for incompatibility.
I guess the moral of the story is that we all have our roles to play in relationships, and each one is equally important. We all need each other.
"Let me Upgrade ya!" I bet you'll never listen to Beyonce the same way again.


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Private Achille Riitzi
One of the soldiers who survives a Sét attack, there's nothing complicated about Riitzi's powers. He becomes a potent US intelligence asset and, as the years go by, he gets more and more cocky, pushy and condescending. By the end of the war, Riitzi's comrades call him a sadist.
Lineage: Amanda Sykes - Ky Thientong
Power Level: Tier Three
Offspring: Yuka Masataki and seven others
Known Powers
- Achille uses Invisibility and Invulnerability to act as an assassin.
- He also has Hyperendurance to keep going through a mission.
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Friday, August 5, 2016
Reverse Confetti Countdown to Confetti Day 1: Some Heroes
63 comments:
Love! The coffee sentiment rocks!ReplyDelete
Oh, love that you sneaked the ABC Cover Panel! And the Mug, will be perfect for the Coffee Lover. Sweet cards, the Watercolors and the tone-on-tone are great touches, Amy.ReplyDelete
Love love love these! LOVING both those sentiments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Love the cup sentiments. Great sample cards there mf~ReplyDelete
Love how you used the ABC panel to create texture!ReplyDelete
What are you doing to me? I mean... really.... awesome awesome cards and new stuff!ReplyDelete
I couldn't wait to see what you would do with the coffee set Amy - the Queen of COFFEE LOVERS!! :) I love the bold colors you used. Your baby card blew me away! This is fresh and fun and perfect for the new little man!ReplyDelete
Beautiful cards! I love that aqua color and the ombre onesie is so cute!ReplyDelete
oh I bet you are loving that coffee set.. awesome cards Amy.. what a fun release. can't wait to see more.ReplyDelete
Bright or pastels, these stamps sets work well.ReplyDelete
Hi Amy, love your darling cards. Great use of the new sets!ReplyDelete
Oodles of great creativity here :)ReplyDelete
I absolutely love the coffee card and I don't even drink coffee!ReplyDelete
Great cards. I love coffee.ReplyDelete
Lovely layers on your cards! Great stamps and dies in this release!ReplyDelete
Love your cards and all the layers with the new designs. Can't wait to brew up some of my own.ReplyDelete
Eep, these are both awesome, Amy! I especially love the touch of gold with the brown and teal on the coffee card, WOW!!ReplyDelete
WOW Amy these cards are awesome! You are Amazing! And that letter bg die is to die for!!! Love it!ReplyDelete
Squee! New coffee set! Love your watercolouring, Amy! Great work!! And a release for our birthday! How perfect! Hugs!!!ReplyDelete
Amazing! Love the abc die left intact, very creative. Love the onsie. And love the layout and colors of the coffee card. Just lovely.ReplyDelete
Your cards are gorgeous and you are so ingenious to match them up with the challenges!! Crazy talented!ReplyDelete
Snuggles and coffee? I'll take some of both, please! Awesome showcases!ReplyDelete
The combination of that cover plate and the color bursts? Two big thumbs up!ReplyDelete
Love your card designs!! Wonderful!ReplyDelete
Your designs are great.ReplyDelete
These two cards are absolutely fabulous and really showcase your's and RC's unique styles. LOVE!ReplyDelete
Cool background on the first one and I like the layers and the gold on the second.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 5, 2016 at 11:58 AM
Super cute cards and yes, I love how you used your vellum as a layer! Ooh, your watercolor background is nice too!ReplyDelete
Oh, these are so fun, Amy! Fabulous cards!ReplyDelete
Such awesome cards Amy!ReplyDelete
Cute cards!ReplyDelete
always love your cards Amy! Great new release!ReplyDelete
Super fun cards!ReplyDelete
Love your cards! So, so cute!ReplyDelete
LOVE that baby card!ReplyDelete
Love the new stamps and dies you used! The baby card is adorable with that awesome ABC Cover Panel die and cute onesie! And of course the Just Brew It card is fabulous too! Lovin' this whole release... it's ALL on my wish list!ReplyDelete
Both cards are gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Love the background on your baby card...great coffee card. That is your expertise!ReplyDelete
Great pair of cards! I'm totally smitten by that Snuggle is Real onesie!!ReplyDelete
Love the background on the baby card, so artsy!ReplyDelete
Both of these are awesome Amy! I think the coffee cup in aqua looks great with the brown and gold--wow!ReplyDelete
Love the background on the baby card.ReplyDelete
Great cards. Live the background in the onsie card. So pretty.ReplyDelete
I can't stop staring at that alpha background--so awesome! And yay for a new coffee set! A definite must have!ReplyDelete
Wow! I love your first card beyond words. WOW! And the coffee - super duper gorgeous. My fave color combo to perfection. :)ReplyDelete
Those splashes of colour are gorgeous. Fab card. Love the look of the new coffee items too! xReplyDelete
WOW!! Great cards!! I really love your first card!!ReplyDelete
Oh my... I love the subtle alpha background... how did you do that? The watercoloring over it is gorgeous.ReplyDelete
I love those fun cup sentiments! Really fun and fresh!ReplyDelete
Your first card is so awesome, it has many of my favorites... starting on the ABC Cover Panel, color bursts, color palette, stamp set, I could go on and on... Also love the sentiments on the Just Brew It stamp set, so much fun!ReplyDelete
Love the coffee cup.ReplyDelete
Using two colors makes a great card.
thanks for sharing.
Hi Amy,ReplyDelete
What a fun release preview! Love Just Brew It!!
Loving all the designer cards! Thanks for sharing your talents!ReplyDelete
Yay for such an awesome new coffee set and for your gorgeous cards! Such a gorgeous background on that onsie card! Love!!!!ReplyDelete
Snuggles are REAL~cute baby card :0) Love the new coffee set and those colors are my new fave combo!ReplyDelete
Just awesome!!! Love the look of those color bursts. I have a couple that were gifted to me, but I've been afraid to use them as I don't want inky hands. LOLReplyDelete
Fun cards!! Love your watercolored background on the baby card .... And a coffee card...I'm in and I know it made you smile!! So glad you joined us at CTD!!ReplyDelete
SUPER AMAZING Cards!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE The Background on the Baby Card and the Glitter on the Mug Card!! =)ReplyDelete
Amazing background with the ABC cover panel, and I'm loving the gold stripes! Thanks for playing along with this week's Color Throwdown, dear!ReplyDelete
Just love that color rust background! I was just playing with those yesterday! Awesome!ReplyDelete
It is amazing what they have done with dies! Beautiful water color background, Amy, and I always love a coffee card!ReplyDelete
Way to rock the new RC goodies using the throwdown colors! This coffee set is so much fun! Thanks for joining us at Color Throwdown!ReplyDelete


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Today it was revealed that British voters have decided to leave the European Union. No one can be sure of the future, but the result of the EU Referendum will have significant impact on the UK. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says it is noting any changes in the financial sector.
The FCA has published a press release in response to the EU referendum results. It says: "The FCA is in very close contact with the firms we supervise as well as the Treasury, the Bank of England and other UK authorities, and we are monitoring developments in the financial markets.
Much financial regulation currently applicable in the UK derives from EU legislation. This regulation will remain applicable until any changes are made, which will be a matter for Government and Parliament.
Firms must continue to abide by their obligations under UK law, including those derived from EU law and continue with implementation plans for legislation that is still to come into effect.
Consumers' rights and protections, including any derived from EU legislation, are unaffected by the result of the referendum and will remain unchanged unless and until the Government changes the applicable legislation.
The longer term impacts of the decision to leave the EU on the overall regulatory framework for the UK will depend, in part, on the relationship that the UK seeks with the EU in the future. We will work closely with the Government as it confirms the arrangements for the UK's future relationship with the EU."


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Historical documents
174 Australian Delegation, Economic & Social Council, to Australian Government
Cablegram ESC7 GENEVA, 3 August 1948, 11.25 a.m.
Following is summary of address of Dr Evatt to Economic and Social
Council on 30/7 on E.C.A.F.E. Full text by air. Begins:
Dr Evatt stressed important role of ECOSOC contemplated in Article
65 of charter. Outlined Australian ties with Far East and paid
tribute to work of regional bodies. Report of ECAFE should meet
with general approval but work was still in planning stage. Main
work for which commission was established-raising of standards of
human welfare still to be tackled. It was impossible to exaggerate
immensity of this task. It was important that next session of
Commission should have before it a real programme of work
expressed not just in generalities to which nations could assent
without commitment but with figures representing actual estimates
and needs of specified goods. Main work of preparing these figures
will fan on undeveloped centres of Asia but at next meeting a
greater share of work will fall on the more industrialised centres
who will have responsibility of examining figures and indicating
to what extent and under what conditions they can fulfil the
needs. Australian Government was already examining its own
position. Necessary for Commission to indicate priorities. Dr
Evatt then discussed agricultural production, welcomed close link
with FAO [1] and said that other specialised agencies such as
International Bank should be associated to a greater extent with
task of development. Outlined Australian contribution of food to
Asia. In planning economic reconstruction of Asia major gap caused
by uncertainty as to future of Japan. Australia wished to see
Japan maintain industries enabling her in due course to take place
in Far Eastern region as peaceful and democratic contributor
towards raising human standards. But equally Australia placed
greatest emphasis on ensuring security.
[...] [2] controls must be maintained. Japan's past record of


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Let's make the study center better
This fundraiser supports Give a Little, or a Latte (TNKR Study Center)
About This Fundraiser
Let's create a better environment for refugees.
Recent Supporters
About Give a Little, or a Latte (TNKR Study Center)
" Who pays for study sessions?" That question is asked by many tutors and students joining TNKR for the first time.
* Some of the refugees have told us "I have no extra money." And we know that some of them are trying to save money either to help relatives still in North Korea or even to save up enough to rescue relatives, friends or other loved ones still in North Korea. Knowing their situations, we have done our best to keep TNKR tuition-free for refugees.
* Some tutors are in debt from college. One told me, "Casey, I'm $60K in debt, but I will do my best." This is on top of them already engaging in free tutoring, so we hate it when they must spend money in addition to volunteering.
One of our previous volunteers said people can "give a little or a latte." She's right!
Refugees and tutors in our program can study at business centers or cafes, but they can expect to pay at least 10,000 won per session. Some tutors have told us that they had to cut back on tutoring sessions with refugees not because of a lack of time or willingness, but because of the cost (transportation, costs of booking rooms).
At the most we can handle one or two study sessions at a time, but because we lack full-time paid staff, it is hard to keep the office open for study sessions or to accept appointments in advance. And we often need to use the office for our internal meetings and staff.
TNKR is now taking a big step: Converting our current office into a study center for refugees.
We hope to reserve the office for study sessions that can be held most of the day. To make this happen, we will be moving our operations into the office of a partner organization. It won't be as comfortable for our volunteer staff, we will lose some of our autonomy, but this can provide more opportunities for refugees and tutors to be able to study without cost being an issue for them.
You can help by becoming a monthly donor. We hope to have at least 100 monthly donors donating at least 10,000 won each (about $9) a month.
At cafes, TNKR students and tutors must battle loud music, loud customers, plus it can get crowded at times, and sometimes it is hard to get a good seat. Plus, it isn't a professional situation for refugees to be studying English, especially those who are studying it for the first time.
At business centers, they must pay at 10,000 won per session, leading back to the problems stated above.
* Study rooms are usually a cheaper alternative, but they are built either to be really quiet situations or there is a problem with being pushed out for the next customers.
* Refugees sometimes are embarrassed about beginning their journey into the world of English and would prefer not to be studying in open settings.
* Refugees getting help with public speeches sometimes discuss sensitive topics that may be uncomfortable discussing in a cafe or another open space.
We would like to get away from these problems by having TNKR students and tutors meet to study at our Study Center. It will give us a better chance to get to know them, they will feel better connected to TNKR, and they can study in a quiet study center expecting them. You can give a little or a latte. :-)
Donations to this project can be made anonymously and the amount you give won't be posted online, so a monthly donation can help us provide a safe space for refugees to study.


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Step 2 – Selecting A Divorce Attorney
Selecting an Attorney
Once the difficult decision of divorcing a spouse has been made, the next step is securing legal counsel. The decision of selecting an attorney can be daunting, but it is the single most important decision in pursuing divorce. Capable and experienced legal counsel can make a world of difference during a divorce in the form of both ultimate results and peace of mind from understanding the process.
What Should I Look For?
Selecting an attorney should be a process, not a spur-of-the-moment decision. In ages past, this meant several meetings with a variety of attorneys. However, the internet has made the task of selecting an attorney much easier. The website for a firm can and should convey the information needed to make an educated choice in selecting legal counsel. Every website will likely describe the firm's practice, name the lawyers that work there, and provide information about the firm's experience.
Type Of Practice
It may be surprising to learn that not every lawyer that is licensed to practice in a state is capable of representing an individual in a divorce. Though all lawyers take a single bar examination and complete a common curriculum to become licensed, each lawyer will develop his or her practice in a specific field of law. This is true because the law is exceedingly complex. Fields of law can include a myriad of rules, statutes, and cases that control the outcome of legal problems based on specific details of each case. Additionally, the law continues to evolve and change. Each law passed and each new case decided has the potential to shift and sway the landscape of an area of law. Mastering this ebb and flow is a career-long endeavor. Trusting an attorney that specializes in family law isn't just a good idea—it is essential to getting high quality representation.
Simply stating that the firm specializes in an area of law is one thing. A website should go beyond this by displaying information to common questions. It is impossible to address every issue that may come up, but the website should explain what types of cases the firm deals with within each area of law. A large part of what an attorney must do is to educate: to explain why the law dictates a result to a judge or to explain how the law can help a client solve a complicated problem. A firm's website should show this ability to educate as well. If there are no answers to any questions about a given area of law, it is impossible to know how well the firm's attorneys can explain these issues during a divorce.
Information About The Attorneys
Law firms come in a variety of sizes and styles. Large law firms (typically 20 or more attorneys) generally specialize in hundreds of areas and divide attorneys into groups based on which area of law they practice. Larger law firms have to take more clients to support themselves. Supply and demand inform how much attention each client can possibly receive under such a model.
On the other hand, close-knit firms work quite differently. These firms have lower costs, which translates into fewer clients and less division of attention. Additionally, the attorneys in these firms are able to "cross fields" as needed. If a case requires particular attention for an important filing, rather than increasing the hours of the attorney in that group, the firm can work together to meet the task. This ensures things are less likely to fall through the cracks, as the firm can focus its workforce on the projects that need it. Large, compartmentalized firms lack the flexibility to make these types of adjustments.
Divorce may culminate in a trial before a judge. The attorneys may have to prove to the judge that property should be divided in certain ways, child custody should be awarded to one spouse over the other, that one spouse should be entitled to maintenance payments from the other, or that certain debts should be the responsibility of one spouse. These decisions will have long-lasting and crucial effects on the lives of the parties involved. The only way an attorney can develop the skills required is through practice. This is why trial experience is so important for a family law lawyer. Divorces are not tried by juries, but judges. And judges, unlike juries, are aware of an attorney's repudiation before the case ever opens. Rules exist to ensure that judges don't punish clients for their choice of attorney, but having a solid reputation as an attorney that knows how to try cases sets a good starting point for a judge-tried case. In fact, if the decision regarding legal counsel was based on one thing alone, experience would be the safest factor to choose.
What Should I Ask?
Just as important as what to ask is how are you able to ask it. A phone consult with an attorney is a great way of confirming what you have learned from the firm's website. Consults do not have to be free, and many firms will charge a fee just for hearing your problems. However, confident firms will hear your problems out in a short, free consult. This allows for you to present your concerns and get any additional information from the attorney before you extend an offer to hire the firm.
As far as content, each divorce will be different and likely produce different questions. Two main points should be considered. First, is the attorney able to set out a timeline of the process? The attorney will not be able to set hard dates, but he or she should be able to outline what exactly to expect throughout the process. Predictions are also appropriate. A good, experienced attorney will know when the answer is uncertain, but will be able to make an education prediction. Second, the attorney should be able to ask you questions. These questions may seem a bit strange, even giving the impression that the attorney is focused on the wrong issues. But if you ask why the question matters, a good attorney will be able to explain how the answer is effected by the law. Again, the law is complex and can turn on seemingly unimportant factors. It is the job of an effective attorney to know what these details are and to flesh them out to get a true, accurate picture of a client's case.
What If My Divorce Is Uncontested?
Sometimes couples can maturely and honestly agree that divorce is the right option. These uncontested cases can be extremely tempting to pursue without legal counsel. Options even exist for "divorce in a box" and other package-type forms. However, it is important to remember what has been discussed already: divorces are high stakes. Even spouses that are on the best of terms can quickly turn against each other when the issue of dividing debts or property comes up. Additionally, the law is simply too complex to be handled by fill-in-the-blank forms. Lawyers spend entire careers perfecting the practice of family law. These lawyers would be instantly driven out of business if "divorce in a box" documents were sufficient to achieve the goals of spouses.
For further information regarding the divorce process, please see the below link.
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After a general introduction into the mechanics of liquid menisci, chapters are dedicated to methods based on drops or bubbles. The chapters about the three main drop experiments provide the theoretical basis, a description of experimental set-ups, specific advantages and disadvantages, correction and calibration problems, experimental examples and their interpretation: pendent and sessile drop, drop volume, and spinning drop technique.
The chapter about capillary pressure methods summarises different techniques and gives examples of applications, for instance measurements under microgravity.
The maximum bubble pressure technique as a particular capillary pressure method is described, with emphasis on the most recent developments which made this technique applicable to extremely short adsorption times, down to the range of milliseconds and less. Problems connected with aerodynamics and hydrodynamics are discussed and used to show the limits of this widely used standard method.
The oscillating bubble technique provides information not available by other techniques, for example about the dilational rheology of adsorption layers and relaxation processes at the interface.
The description of rising bubbles in surfactant solutions will contain the hydrodynamic basis as well as the theoretical description of the effect of interfacial layers on the movement of bubbles. Besides the theoretical basis experimental data, such as water purification, flotation processes etc. and the relevance for practical applications will be presented.
The chapter about lung alveols demonstrates how important bubbles built by biological membranes are in everyday life. The relevance for medicine and biology as well as model studies is discussed.
An important example for the application of drops is metallurgy, where the surface tension of metals and alloys is an important parameter for many applications. The chapters on drop shape analysis by using fibre technique and on force measurements between emulsion droplets are of much practical relevance.
Lists of references and symbols are given separately at the end of each chapter while a common subject index is given at the end of the book.
Please Note: This is an On Demand product, delivery may take up to 11 working days after payment has been received.
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Topic: Very talented writer Harlan Ellison died last night.
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/harlan … 202861048/
Very prolific SciFi writer, as well as award winning Television writer, his credits include Star Trek, B5, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone.
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Very prolific SciFi writer, as well as award winning Television writer, his credits include Star Trek, B5, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone.
Great writer, but professionally he was also a lunatic.
As mentioned in the article, we would probably not have The Terminator without Harlan Ellison; and the reason we know that is because of our own Tracy Torme.
The story goes that Torme was visiting the set of the first Terminator when it was filming, and he asked James Cameron where he got the idea. Cameron allegedly responded with a flippant brag along the lines of "Oh, I just ripped off a couple of Harlan Ellison stories". The stories in question were Harlan's Outer Limits episodes "Soldier" and "Demon with a Glass Hand".
After hearing of the exchange, Harlan pursued it and was given an acknowledgement in the credits of subsequent Terminator releases as part of a settlement.
Harlan Ellison had a big impact on science fiction, but I do wish he got more recognition for the pop icon that probably wouldn't exist without him. In any case, Harlan was a fighter to the end; a big voice was lost with his passing.
I'm wary of ever 'correcting' Temporal Flux on anything relating to Tracy Torme, but when I talked to Torme in 2000, I asked him about the Harlan Ellison/James Cameron legal action and settlement. Torme said he didn't know what I was talking about, and I told him the account that he'd heard Cameron bragging about ripping off Ellison and that he'd urged his friend Ellison to call his lawyer.
Torme said that this wasn't true and as far as he knew, Cameron was a big science fiction fan and drew on many disparate sources for inspiration, some of which were likely THE OUTER LIMITS. Torme denied being the source of Cameron claiming he stole Ellison's ideas.
However, Cameron was *definitely* caught declaring his plagiarism during a STARLOG interview which was the basis for Ellison threatening to sue.
It's possible Torme was not keen for a fan to draw him into any discussion of a legal agreement that was confidential and settled. Torme also said that he greatly enjoyed Ellison's company and politely disagreed with Ellison's caustic attitude to Gene Roddenberry, saying that Roddenberry was a charming, warm and wonderful teacher, mentor and friend. But had I been in Torme's position, I too would not have spoken poorly of my colleagues and deceased former employers.
I think I first became aware of the Torme story from an old forumite named AlternityOrange; and subsequently saw it mentioned in several other places. Just on a glance today, I see it mentioned on this questionable site:
To be honest, the story didn't cross my mind often except as an occasional trivia to some other conversation (such as how it came to mind today); I'm just not a big Terminator fan. So, I never asked Torme about it; it wasn't something on my mind the times I talked with him. I would definitely defer to your Torme conversations.
Tracy worked with Gale Anne Hurd for an HBO project in the 90s called Dark City (matt has the script -- https://earthprime.com/sliders-scripts-collection).
Gale wrote/produced Terminator (and also was married to Cameron). So it wouldn't be that shocking if he had made a set visit at one point and they knew each other back then.
Sliders Bboard → Sliders Bboard → Very talented writer Harlan Ellison died last night.
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Science Comics: Polar Bears: Survival on the Ice
Science Comics: Polar Bears: Survival on the Ice
There are currently more than a dozen books in First Second's Science Comics series and many more coming; the topics range from dinosaurs to rockets and, now, to polar bears. Just like any other series that features different authors and illustrators the quality and appeal of each book in the SCIENCE COMICS series varies. I have read some that I loved and some that I didn't. POLAR BEARS: Survival on the Ice written by Jason Viola and illustrated by Zack Giallongo is one that I love.
"In POLAR BEARS, Viola and Giallongo strike the perfect balance between information and story, serious and funny, and text and illustrations."
Unlike some of the other SCIENCE COMICS, in POLAR BEARS, Viola and Giallongo strike the perfect balance between information and story, serious and funny, and text and illustrations. In other books in the series I have found that the story itself wasn't compelling or it was incongruent with the information and therefore bogged down the conveying of information. While other books in the series tried to pack in way too much information and information that was beyond the depth of the intended audience, therefore, defeating the purpose of the SCIENCE COMICS series. Neither of these was an issue in POLAR BEARS: Survival on the Ice.
This story features a mother polar bear and her two cubs, Anik and Ila. Each of the cubs has its own personality and their personalities lead to much of the humor throughout the book. The mother polar bear is teaching her cubs about what it means to be a polar bear, their environment and how to survive in it. The lucky reader gets to learn alongside the cubs.
Viola and Giallongo worked well together to integrate both levity and gravity in regards to the very real plight of polar bears. The beginning of Chapter 4: "What's Happening to Me?" serves as an apt example of this balance between dark and light. On page 69, the trio crosses paths with an emaciated male polar bear. The cubs have learned to be wary of other polar bears, especially males, but mother says, "He doesn't have the energy to bother us. He's starving" (p. 70). The cubs worry about the starving male and question why its mother isn't with him. The mother bear explains that when cubs reach two and a half years old, or the subadult stage, mother bears leave their cubs as she has taught them everything she can. Page 72 portrays one of these "abandoned" subadults as a punk/emo looking "teenage" polar bear with pink dyed hair, a nose ring, black eyeliner and black fishnet gloves on its front legs. The gravity of the starving polar bear is counterattacked just a few pages later with this image of a punk/emo "teenage" polar bear.
I highly recommend POLAR BEARS: Survival on the Ice for readers who like polar bears as well as those who don't know anything about polar bears, for readers who enjoy nonfiction and readers who like funny books, and for fans of graphic novels and for graphic novel newbies. I look forward to reading more books in the SCIENCE COMICS series and hope that the new ones are as great as POLAR BEARS: Survival on the Ice.
Reviewed by Aimee Rogers on January 30, 2019
Science Comics: Polar Bears: Survival on the Ice
- Publication Date: December 31, 2018
- Genres: Animals , Children's 9-13, Children's Nonfiction, Environment, Graphic Novel, Natural History, Nature, Nonfiction
- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: First Second


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Interested community leagues can now apply to designate a temporary off-leash area within community ice rinks anytime between May and September as part of the Rink Off-leash Pilot Project.
For rinks to be considered, they must be fully boarded with grass bases. In addition, the following conditions must be met:
- Weatherproof signage must be present on site
- Bylaw information must be posted on the sign
- Waste containers must be available nearby and emptied regularly
- If additional waste containers are required they will be at the community league's expense
- Pet waste bags must be provided to ensure users are able to remove defecation at the community league's expense
- Owners must have their dog on-leash outside of the rink area and stay on designated trails/paths
- Once closed for the season, the rink area must be cleaned to ensure it is ready for alternative use at the community league's expense
- Community leagues must work with their Neighbourhood Resource Coordinator to confirm that they can offer off-leash spaces
- The rink may not be used for any other recreation activity during this period due to public health concerns
- The community league must have and maintain in good standing a tripartite licence agreement with the City for the location
- Community league must inform their insurance provider of their participation in the community league off-leash pilot program
- The community league is responsible for monitoring off-leash use of the community rink
- If noise complaints are reported for the space, Animal Control will review the location for suitability
If your community league is interested in participating in this pilot project, please contact your Neighbourhood Resource Coordinator for more information.


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PARIS, LE BOURGET: Airbus expects air transport growth over the next 20 years will require 804 freighters as part of an industry demand for 32,600 new aircraft worth US$4.9 trillion.
The manufacturer estimates aviation contributes US$2.4 trillion annually to global GDP – a figure likely to double by 2034 as the world's population rises to 8.6 billion and the middle class percentage increases from a 2014 figure of 2.7 billion to top 4.7 billion people.
Speaking at the opening of the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget (right), Airbus COO John Leahy commented: "Asia-Pacific will lead in world traffic by 2034 and China will be the world's biggest aviation market within 10 years, and clearly Asia and emerging markets are the catalyst for strong air traffic growth."
Airbus expects the growth in long-haul traffic will be mainly between "aviation megacities" - rising from 47 hubs producing 22 percent of global GDP today, to 35 percent from 91 cities by 2034. Ten of the top 20 traffic flows are expected to be in Asia Pacific with domestic China traffic being the largest single segment.
As a result, the manufacturer expects airlines will need 9,600 widebody passenger and freighter aircraft valued at US$2.7 trillion to connect these cities over the next 20 years. Garuda International has begun this process by signing a Letter of Intent for 30 A350 aircraft to develop its medium and long haul network.
Other announcements on the first day of the Le Bourget show included a Qatar Airways order for 10 B777-8Xs and four more B777 freighters, with a list price of US$4.8 billion. "The order for four 777 freighters underpins the value that this airplane has also brought to our rapidly growing cargo operations," said CEO Akbar Al Baker. Boeing also announced EVA Airways is to buy five B777 freighters with a total book value of US$1.5 billion.


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Will you hold me when I ache,
when the day that changed the world
nears its sweet dusky end?
I thought I could do it alone,
stand here in the face of
these bald transmutations,
chest thrust out
like the immutable warrior
I would like it to be,
and hold my gaze,
and reach with ease
to the song inside me
that echoes the great one harmony.
Mistaking myself for one of us, I feel
I would like to be a tree for birds,
water, sun and rain for trees,
I would like to be the mountain
that appears to need nothing at all
as though it arose from
its own history
we can neither approach nor grasp.
The parts that are broken inside
aim for the top of the mountain
(and I'll never make it this way)
instead of circling around it,
maybe barefoot, maybe on my knees,
where there are those who are
always ready to take me
as one of their own.
Before I forget again, I ask,
Will you guide my hand into yours?
Can we ache and burn
and laugh and dance together?


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Finding and Reconnecting with Your True Self
An Elk Encounter.
Do you remember how you felt the last time you saw a big animal in the wild? Did you experience that liberating feeling of being out in the wild? At Rocky Mountain National Park, I came very close to a massive bull elk while hiking. Not too far from the trail, the bull was roaming free about the woodland. Sensing me, the elk slowly raised his neck and held his head high revealing his huge antlers with strands of peeling velvet. We paused. Then the bull continued roaming and eventually moved on—brushing away freely into the forest. I couldn't help but think, can the elk hold the secret to finding and reconnecting with your true self? Continue Reading!


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Sunday, May 1, 2011
Lately, April 2011 Edition
Some of what I was working on in April:
1. A special hand-drawn slipcase story for a unique copy of Clumsy that will be donated to the CBLDF
2. Print for the upcoming Change-Bots art show and signing in New York (the actual print will be in color)
3. One page comic for the band Art Brut
4. Covers for future issue of Elfworld anthology
5. The next autobiographical book, coming out in 2012 (assuming I finish it in time) from Top Shelf
6. Screenplay I co-wrote that might actually be made into a movie this year
7. Sketchbook for thumbnails to next book with Chronicle
8. Drawing for a T-Shirt design
9. Large drawing for the aforementioned art show in New York
10. Notes for a possible music book idea
11. One page comic for a Japan benefit anthology
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Wow you are a busy man indeed! All looks great, glad you have a new book out next year and the possible film sounds exciting too!ReplyDelete
my head would explode! i'm doing one 32 page mini comic right now and i'm freaking out.ReplyDelete
Hey Jeff, you should try out sleep! It's a totally good thing if you've got some time to kill.ReplyDelete
I don't know Box, there'll be time to sleepReplyDelete
later , right?
Hey Jeffrey,ReplyDelete
When's the art show in NYC?
Daniel Zana
The art show is up at the Scott Eder Gallery now through June 23 - although this last drawing shown here didn't end up getting to NY in time to be in the show, so we''l probably unveil at San Diego ComiconReplyDelete
Wow! Looks like a lot of AWESOME stuff!ReplyDelete
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More than 107,000 people have signed a Care2 petition demanding the East Brunswick Township Council revoke Owner Vincent LoSacco's license for the store and that the New Jersey Department of Health inspect the other three Just Pups locations.
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The New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has filed 267 animal cruelty charges against LoSacco and has temporarily closed his East Brunswick location as it investigates. LoSacco faces up to $100,000 in fines stemming from his lack of proper veterinary care and adequate infection control for the animals.
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Anyone have a solution to this.
Note that a really old version of Squirrelmail works fine.


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However, God is at work from the small, traditional Indian villages to the gargantuan cosmopolitan cities.
Radio broadcasts in the northern regions reach and disciple illiterate and isolated Christians throughout the week who need to walk three miles to reach the nearest church.
Gospel tracts, which cost less than a penny to produce, fuel a church movement in Himachal Pradesh.
Small women's fellowship groups faithful in prayer and fasting report healing miracles and an upsurge in conversions in small Assam villages.
In Delhi, where over half of the population lives in large slums filled with pollution, disease, crime and hopelessness, orphans raised in Christian orphanages dedicate their lives to Christ and proceed to witness in desperate neighborhoods and lead hope-filled churches.
But as Christ and the gospel of peace defeat and replace powerless superstition, age-old tradition and satanic strongholds, the enemy resists.
Christians face violent persecution in almost every prefecture and converts are threatened with loosing their status, jobs homes and lives. Poverty, cultural barriers, illiteracy, religious opposition and a rigid class system pose tremendous obstacles to the gospel. Yet, dedicated Indians empowered by the Holy Spirit and made powerful by the grace, peace and strength of Christ are and will continue to reach the smallest hamlet and the mightiest city.
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Quick Facts
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Capital City: New Delhi
Government: Federal Republic
Population: 1,166,079,217
Major People Groups: 75% Indo-Aryan,
22% Dravidian
Religion: 79% Hindu, 12% 12% Muslim, 2% Christian, 1% Sikh
Language: Hindi/English
GDP Per Capita: $3,800
Literacy Rate: 61%
Unreached: 86.9%


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- Inside: 18.50" H X 12.50" W X 12.00" D
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Fire Impact Test (Manufacturer's Option)
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Video Game Papercrafts: Heavy Rain Origami And More!
Heavy Rain and the Origami Killer
Recently, due to the release of Sony's Heavy Rain for the PS3, many gamers are suddenly finding themselves interested in crafting and Origami specifically. Heavy Rain features a serial-killer villain called the "Origami Killer" because of the Origami bird he leaves behind with his victims as a calling card. The game itself, sort of an interactive murder mystery about a serial killer, was very well-received by the entire gaming community, and generally garnered rather exceptional reviews. Due to the strong writing and the lasting psychological nature of the game, the Origami Killer, and his signature calling card, remained in a lot of people's minds after the played the game, and it's no surprise people would want to replicate that item. Origami is a Japanese word that translates loosely to "folding paper," and is, unsurprisingly the Japanese art of folding paper. It's easy enough to find instructions for making the Origami bird featured in the game itself. They're even included on the game's installation screen. But why stop there? There's plenty of other Origami designs to be made if you want to continue with them, and there's a lot more that can you can make from paper than just Origami.
Video Game Papercrafts
What makes "Papercrafts," as these other models called, different from actual Origami is that they often involve cutting and gluing in addition to simply folding paper, but if you don't want to stop at just making Origami models, they can still be a lot of fun and can be a great way to obtain a few great-looking paper models to adorn your shelves. For those of us who have a crafty side and want to be able to express it while still expressing our nerdy side, the internet is filled with opportunities of exactly those sorts of papercrafts. The instructions given with them will generally include a template telling you where to cut, fold, and glue, as well as where to color the item in so that you end up with a perfectly recognizable model of the character or object you've made. In fact, many of you have probably even seen some of them before, but rest assured, if you're wondering where to find more of them, there's a ton of them to be found, and whatever it is that you want to make, we're here to help you find it. Keep reading for examples of some of the best places online to find instructions on how to complete various video-game related papercrafts, including, of course, the instructions for the signature piece of Heavy Rain's Origami Killer.
Papercraft Resources
This is a site with a great variety of different paper crafts, mostly of the pop culture variety, and if you're not picky about exactly what you want to be able to find, it's an excellent place to start. It doesn't use tags or have sections, so your only option for searching is to look through the archives, as every one of the blog's post title does name the craft being showcased, or to use the site's custom Google search, which is helpful enough if you have a specific idea in mind, but it doesn't make it too easy to find a page of all their videogame crafts, for instance. The site is a blog that collects links from various places on the internet, so many of their posts come from the rest of the sites this article is going to talk about, but it's still worth looking to them as well every so often, especially if you want to make more than just video game models.
This is a site full of a specific sort of papercraft. Everything is, as the name would suggest, cubed. Rectangular boxes and cubes for heads. It creates a very cute looking version of any character as they end up looking more like polygonal bobbleheads than anything else. They do have some crafts of objects such as game consoles as well, and those end up looking pretty natural as rectangles or cubes since they're mostly that shape to begin with. They don't have a very searchable site, but they've only got a few different categories on their main page, and they're all pretty obvious. The "console crazy" tab has crafts of the specific games consoles, there are a couple tabs that have specific game titles as tabs, and beyond that, there's a decent number of videogame crafts in the pop-culture tab, mixed in with the rest of the pop-culture stuff they've got.
This site is pretty self-explanatory. It's a collection of nintendo-related papercrafts. There's some really great things here, so I would definitely recommend perusing their archives and finding some things you might want to build. They have a nice variety of posts, from objects such as game consoles as well as in-game items such as Link's Master Sword, or the Maxim Tomato from Smash Brothers, among many other things. There are also templates for plenty of the characters from Nintendo games. They have a list of buttons down the right side of the page, each pertaining to a specific label. Each label leads to a page containing models related only to that label, making for a reasonably searchable experience if you know what kind of thing you want to make and you want to stick to that theme. This is an excellent site, but it is entirely Nintendo-related models, so if you were looking to make anything that's not Nintendo, you'll have to find a website that serves a broader spectrum, which leads us to our next choice.
This is probably the best papercraft site on the internet, and it's my usual first stop if I feel like making one of these. It's a blog like paperkraft that collects links from other sites, but it's much more extensive and easier to navigate. It has a massive number of crafts from all sorts of video-game related categories, and is obviously not confined to any one area of interest such as everything being Nintendo-related or anything similar. The site also many other categories if you feel like branching out. It's got a list of category tags down the right hand for you to click on, which also makes it the most searchable site of any of those mentioned here. Some of the tags are more specific if you're looking for models from just one specific game title, but there is also a "games" tag that leads to a page containing all of their video-game related crafts, a category with just under 200 posts.
Heavy Rain Origami
Of course, we have to talk about the origami model that Heavy Rain's big bad uses as a calling card. This is the item that brought many of you here, after all. This is also the only piece mentioned in the article that is truly Origami and only includes folding. For a lot of you, your interest in video-game related papercraft probably starts right here. The instructions are included on the game's installation screen, but you can't very well print those out for reference later. Of course, that's what makes the internet such a wonderful resource, and a quick check online reveals that someone's been kind enough to draw up those very instructions for you, giving you a resource you can hold on to permanently. So when you're done reading this article, grab a square piece of paper (if you haven't already used the piece of Origami paper that Heavy Rain ships with for precisely this purpose) and check out
, courtesy of Destructoid.com. Fold and unfold along the dotted lines in the first two steps to make visible creases, and otherwise, fold in the direction of the arrows and leave the paper folded in that manner before moving on to the next step.
More Great Crafting Resources
For those feeling a little bit crafty, the internet is full of resources. From Heavy Rain's Origami model to Mario's Head, to your favorite Pokémon or even characters like Sephiroth, you can find instructions to make almost anything you can think of. This article showed you some of the best places to look for video game papercrafts, but there are a lot more places to find great papercraft templates, specially if you don't confine yourself to videogames. And of course, it doesn't have to stop at papercrafts. There are plenty of possibilities for those of you who are interested in them. Why not make a stained glass window depicting a Pacman map, or embroider a pillow with the Triforce? If you're having a hard time coming up with those sorts of ideas, Etsy is a great place to start for anyone interested in handmade crafting. It's sort of an Ebay for handmade things, and it's populated by its fair share of nerdy types as well, so there's all sorts of fun stuff there too. It's a good place to get ideas or to buy things that you might not want to make yourself. Of course, even that is still only the beginning. There's a lot more places to find handmade things, and the internet is a vast resource, so just keep searching, and before you know it you'll have more figurines and models than you have places to put them.


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There is a great deal of planning and research involved before any strategies for a marketing campaign are developed. Before you actually create any advertising or do any marketing at all, you must first fully understand your product, the marketplace and the competition. Conducting a marketing function analysis will help you to determine the best audience for your products, as well as the ideal way to reach that audience.
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Read all technical product information and learn the product or service inside and out. Research the functions of the products as well as the benefits and advantages your products and services can provide.
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Research the industries and consumers that your product or service can benefit. Decide if your product is a niche item with a very targeted function and specific consumer base, or if it has broad appeal for a variety of people and industries.
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Study the intended marketplace for your product and identify all competition. Research the competing products or services and pinpoint features and benefits that are better -- and not as good -- as with your products or services. Study the marketing techniques and tactics used by the competition.
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Analyze the ongoing results of the marketing campaign. Watch lead flow and monitor Web site traffic once the campaigns are initiated. Collect customer feedback and follow up with inquiries to see why a customer chose your product over the competition or why a prospect did not end up making a purchase. This information will allow you to constantly evolve your marketing tactics to keep them as effective as possible.
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The day was a blur. I've been nursing a cold (what a ridiculous phrase – nursing a cold – as if I wanted to bring it out in its full glory) and today, said cold decided to respond to my kindness by expanding its reach.
Naturally, I was grumpy (so Ed tells me).
By late afternoon, I had read one case (3 pages long) and I had responded to five emails (two of them not work related). I felt I had done a lion's share.
Part of me wanted to be in Vancouver. [Conversation from a few days back: Ed, I have a three day lull, free from work. Let's go to Vancouver! I've never been to Vancouver! You want to go to Vancouver tomorrow? Yes! Don't you have cases to read?] Part of me wanted to sleep.
I did neither. By early evening, I felt strong enough to head down to Borders. I know I drank coffee and, in addition, I rejected all the books that crossed my visual path. (Who'd want to read that? And that? Or that?) Everything else is, as I said, a wicked rush of unmarked time.
But let me suggest something: there has been a change in weather. See it? See her scarf?
Maybe I'm simply adjusting.
Later, I baked that huge head of cauliflower (in an Kalamata olive-lemon vinaigrette), and cooked up some eggs, and made myself a very powerful glass of kir (white wine with cassis; I double dosed the cassis tonight).
It killed whatever malaise had crept up my spine today. Thank God.
I went back to work, to writing, to the rituals of any evening. And I felt terribly sad for those, whose illnesses could not be pushed aside so quickly and effortlessly.
Time for an admission: as my sidebar indicates, I am in favor of healthcare for all. No ifs, no buts. Life is very different for those who are sick.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
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Microsoft has officially launched the long rumored Office for iPhone today. Subsequently, Windows Phone's run of exclusive access to Office for Mobile has ended. Office for Mobile gives users access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SkyDrive documents. Users can view, edit, and comment on existing documents, or even create new ones.
What does this mean for Windows Phone? First and foremost, it means Windows Phone users no longer can claim exclusive access to Office. However, we can claim exclusive free access to Office. iPhone users are required to have an Office 365 subscription in order to use the mobile app. Microsoft, as a company, is more than just Windows Phone. It's great for them to have Office on the iPhone.
As long as Windows Phone users get free access to Office for Mobile we will still have something to hold over other platforms. If you're an Office user Windows Phone will always be the better choice.
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LONDON � The Swiss bank UBS is combining its currency, interest rates and credit trading businesses into one unit, according to a memo circulated at the bank earlier this month.
The move comes as UBS has undertaken efforts in the past year to shrink its investment bank and shift focus away from riskier trading activities to its wealth management and retail operations. The bank cut 10,000 jobs last year as part of the overhaul.
Chris Murphy and George Athanasopoulos, both members of the investment bank�s executive committee, will head the combined operations, according to the memo, which was distributed at UBS on Nov. 19. UBS has confirmed the contents of the memo.
Chris Vogelgesang, co-head of global foreign exchange and precious metals trading, will step down and is exploring other opportunities at the bank, according to the memo. He will work closely with Murphy and Athanasopoulos during the integration.
Vogelgesang headed the currency trading business at UBS, which is one of more than dozen banks facing inquiries by regulators into possible manipulation of the foreign exchange market. UBS declined to comment on whether his departure was related to the currency trading investigations.
But a person familiar with the bank�s thinking said that Murphy and Athanasopoulos were expected to complement each other in the combined business. Athanasopoulos, formerly co-head of foreign exchange and precious metals, has a sales and distribution background, while Murphy, formerly head of the rates and credit trading business, has a trading background like Vogelgesang, the person said.
�The integration is not a change in strategy, rather a natural evolution of what we are trying to achieve,� the memo said.
Both the foreign exchange business and the rates and credit trading operations at UBS had been slimmed down as part of the bank-wide restructuring in the past year. No further headcount reductions in those businesses are anticipated.
Credit Suisse, Switzerland�s second-biggest bank after UBS, announced a similar move earlier this month combining its foreign exchange, rates and commodities businesses into a new division, according to an internal memo circulated Nov. 15. The bank also has cut positions in its fixed income business in recent months. Credit Suisse has confirmed the contents of the memo.
Swiss regulators have required Swiss banks to hold more capital and adopted tighter regulations designed to prevent a bank from being labeled �too big to fail� in the future. Swiss taxpayers injected billions of dollars into UBS during the crisis.
Both Credit Suisse and UBS have announced plans to �ring fence� parts of their businesses in hopes of shielding their retail clients and protecting each bank from the impact of problems in a single unit in the event of another financial crisis.
On Thursday, the banks announced that they have formed a new business group called the Swiss Finance Council to help Swiss financial institutions shape policy issues as they are debated in the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union. The new council, which will work with the Swiss Bankers Association, was formed ahead of the upcoming European parliamentary elections next year.
UBS and Credit Suisse are among more than a dozen banks that are facing inquiries by regulators in the United States, Europe and Hong Kong into the $5-trillion-a-day currency trading markets.
Twelve traders have been placed on leave at various banks pending the outcome of the investigation and several banks are considering limiting the use of chat rooms, which is an area of focus for regulators exploring potential collusion in the market. None of the traders has been formally accused of wrongdoing.
UBS and Credit Suisse are both internally reviewing their foreign exchange operations as a result of the investigations.
Earlier this week, UBS restricted the use of chat rooms by its traders, banning so-called multidealer chats where traders from several banks can congregate and social chat rooms, according to an internal memo. Single-client chats are allowed with written approval, and all chats must be conducted on UBS� internal systems, according to the memo.
The chat restriction is not related to the merging of the foreign exchange, rates and credit trading businesses.
Despite its size, the currency-trading market is largely unregulated and dominated by a handful of banks. Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, Barclays and UBS account for about half of all trading.


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New York has passed an amendment to its Arts & Cultural Affairs law, N.Y. Arts & Cult. Aff. Law §12.01(2012), that is important for artist, galleries, and dealers alike. It affects the consignment relationship and creates critical new duties—and liabilities, for the dealer on consignment. Most importantly, it makes using any form of agreement drafted under the old law risky, particularly for the gallery or consignee. Signed by Governor Cuomo this week, the law takes effect November 6, 2012.
Among the more notable art world scandals in recent memory is the collapse of the Salander O'Reilly Gallery, "one of city's largest private galleries [] housed in an ornate, historic mansion on East 71st Street." Lawrence Salander and his gallery were charged with numerous counts of fraud, accused of "closing on fictitious sales—sometimes of works he did not own—and then using the money to pay off his sizable debt. He sold the same piece to multiple parties or sold works without telling the owners, who had consigned them to Mr. Salander."
The new law attempts to address this risk head-on by amending the provisions that deal with consignment. Consignment as a general principle, whether of art, clothing, or other property, merely means that the consignor (here, the artist) entrusts the property (here, the art) to the consignee (here, the gallery) for sale under agreed-upon conditions, first and foremost the distribution of any resulting revenue. This law addresses the consignment dynamic in the context of art.
First, the amended statute broadens the scope of the law itself, defining "successor in interest" of the artist considerably, to include categories like personal representative, testamentary beneficiary, trustee of a trust, heirs, and the like. The upshot is that the class of persons who can enforce the rights under the statute has broadened.
Second, and most critically, it clarifies that under no circumstances can the artwork or proceeds that are held in trust be reached by the consignee's (i.e., a gallery's) creditors. That is to say, even if an artist's work is sold for $10,000,000, the gallery has no assets, and the creditors swoop in the very next day before the artist is paid her share, the creditors cannot touch that amount. That cannot prevent outright fraud, but once a gallery/consignee is going underwater, it can protect the artists/consignors who have not yet settled up.
Lastly, even though the previous version of the law used language of "trust" to describe the property held by the consignee, the new law makes clear that any failure to obey the statute's directives is not merely a breach of the contractual relationship between the parties, it is a breach of fiduciary duty, misconduct that generally entitles a plaintiff to a greater scope of damages, and which bars the defendant/consignee from raising certain kinds of defenses when self-dealing may be involved. Moreover, a prevailing artist/consignor will recover her attorneys' fees, a substantial risk and the exception to the traditional "American Rule" that all parties bear their own attorneys' fees in civil cases, regardless of who wins.
As before, the protections of the statute cannot be waived prospectively, but that safeguard has been bolstered now to bar any waiver absent "words which clearly and specifically apprise the consignor that the consignor is waiving rights under this section with respect to proceeds from the sale of the consignor's work. . . ."
Taken together, these changes affect any consignment situation in New York in important ways. Clearly, the consignee/gallery party has a heightened duty and far greater risk in the event of a failure to adhere to the new provisions. Artists and their successors now have additional tools to vindicate their rights. And, most importantly, almost any standard contract form being used (not actual contracts already in existence, which are not affected) will be obsolete on November 6, 2012, when the law goes into effect. Whatever protections galleries in particular thought they had about waiver and liability may no longer be effective. Anyone involved in these kinds of transactions should review and consider their rights carefully with an attorney.


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General Discussions / Re: What's the haps?« on: February 28, 2014, 06:01:31 AM »
Honestly, you'd get your point across better if you didn't keep turning the sarcasm knob to eleven or going for hyperboles. Now you're making yourself just look extremely unlikable :/
yeah, tried that. It got words shoved unceremonious into my mouth. Now I'm just spitting those words back out.
I'm embracing the scapegoat role. Isn't that what people want? You get praise for praising the person who demonized things I didn't say. Me actually embracing that role is bad?
Not like I'm going to be here long anyway. Get your lashes in. Have fun with it.