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hi all, nice to finally find a jamis forum,
about 3 months ago i bougth my first new bike for a long time, i was goin to buy a TREK or SCOTT, and alot lesser bike than i ended up buying, but then i walked past a jamis dealer, and saw the 2011 durango3, up here there was no doubt that it wast the best specced bike in its price range,
i tested the bike and realy liked it, and when i walking around the store i saw this other jamis bike that i did not see the first time (really simular paint job) named the dakota dcx race
i talked to the salesman and he told me that it was a 2010 model they hadn't sell, and he offered me a nice discount so i bougth the bike, having never so much as heard about it before.
now i biked over 300 miles on it, in most conditions, summer, ice, snow and icelands signurate weather heavy wind and rain, and i am so pleased with this bike, its realy ligth, strong and eats whatever i throw at it
i live in iceland, and though most of my biking is just to work, and to my workshop to work on my camaro, the weather conditions and landscape over here makes sure you sweat, everything here is eather downhill or upphill.
the weather here can get pretty rough, and with the add of deep snow, frost and heavy wind your normal route can be nothing like it was the day before
here are few pics.. cheers!
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Archive #16 De Fuckups – Oomph
Who would have thought that those pimply punks that populated places like Simplon and the squats round town in the early eighties would still be alive in 2006 and would still be playing punk-rock. Well some of them are. In fact they play better than ever! Fuckups singer Menno was probably still in kindergarten round that time and sounds like the bastard son of Bon Scott or Peter Bootsman. The combination of old farts and young upstarts produces real kick-ass rock ' n roll. We could have picked any of their songs but choose ' Oomph' for a cybersinglerelease. ( because we like short titles…)More at www.defuckups.com
recorded, mixed and mastered by Edwin Pot at Potsound StudiosMenno Schreuder vocals
Tup Wanders guitar
Marjan Feith bass
John Krol guitar
Niek Schutter drums
Tup Wanders guitar
Marjan Feith bass
John Krol guitar
Niek Schutter drums
sleeve design by Tup
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The Master`s disciline in Marine ecology and resource biology is a diverse field of study, covering marine ecology, biodiversity, fisheries ecology, fish biology and aquaculture. Master`s projects may be chosen within the following main areas of research: Marine Ecology and Biodiversity, Fisheries Ecology, Fish Biology and Aquaculture. The Master`s projects are usually related to field and experimental activities within the different marine and fisheries related research groups. The language of instruction and all syllabus material is English.
Recommended elective courses for the Master's discipline, within the main topics include:
Marine ecology and biodiversity:
- Production and Growth in Polar Areas (spring) - 10 ECTS
- Arctic Marine Pollution (autumn) - 10 ECTS
- Ecotoxicology: A practical introduction to environmental monitoring tools (autumn) - 5 ECTS
- Applied ecological statistics (spring) - 10 ECTS
- Marine botany I (autumn) - 10 ECTS
- Marine botany II (spring) - 10 ECTS
Fisheries ecology:
- Top predators (autumn every 2. year) - 10 ECTS
- Early life history of marine fishes (spring) - 10 ECTS
- The biological basis of fisheries science (autumn) - 10 ECTS
- Applied ecological statistics (spring) - 10 ECTS
Fish biology and aquaculture:
- Fish physiology (autumn) - 10 ECTS
- Introduction to Fish biology (autumn) - 10 ECTS
- Aquaculture (autumn) - 10 ECTS
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Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago
Saramago's novels are meditations to be experienced by those willing to journey down the labyrinthine mazes he constructs.
Death with InterruptionsPublisher: Harcourt
Author: Jose Saramago
Price: $24.00
Length: 239
Formats: Hardcover
US publication date: 2008-10
It remains essential to the paradoxical nature of existence that only an atheist can write so beautiful and meaningful a theological masterpiece as José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ. At the time of its 1992 publication, the work was barred against competing in the European Literature Prize by a government crying blasphemy.
The main problem, it seemed, was that Saramago portrayed Christ as an actual human being with real feelings, real problems, real doubt. Unlike what you'd expect from an atheist dealing with religious topics—perhaps we'd prepare for strong-worded refutations—Saramago instead created a heartfelt epic. To this set of eyes, it was more meaningful than the Bible—it taught me more about true Christianity—in that it made the man a man, and therefore accessible, instead of portraying him as some divine cosmonaut that we can never touch.
Saramago has a way of personifying subjects purported to be unfathomable. Take death, for instance, the topic of his latest work. Much like the book that most likely secured him the Nobel Prize for Literature, Blindness, Death with Interruptions shares common traits: there is no location (although it is easy to discern that it is Portugal), and the characters remain nameless. In this latest chapter of his literary quest, there is the cellist, the vigilantes, (and later the maphia—the "ph" distinguishes them from the traditional mafia), the prime minister, the cardinal, and, of course, death—he places emphasis on the lower-case "d". The only thing we know about death is that she's a woman and, by the end of the book, actually acquires feelings, not to mention the ability to sleep.
What Saramago loses in specifics he gains in ambiguity, putting readers right where he wants them. This is part of the reason he resisted a movie version of Blindness for so long; it took director Fernando Meirelles years of convincing (and rejection) to get the thumbs up. When something is vague, it is more likely to apply to a broader audience—Saramago's novels are meditations to be experienced by those willing to journey down the labyrinthine mazes he constructs. He uses only commas and periods, and the occasional colon; dialogue, thought, narrative, first person, third person, these all blend and merge in one continuous monologue of sorts. It is rare to say that any author has found a truly original voice, but Saramago deserves such a citation.
Just as Saramago's people become varying aspects of one person, so the events of his books come thickly and unapologetically layered with meaning. While we can summate the latest by saying that it involves man's continual quest for eternal life, and the struggles one has with death, that is but a minor synopsis of a story that touches upon numerous and diverse facets of existence. To try to pinpoint one exact "meaning" is impossible, for the author has mastered the paradoxes of writing, and therefore sheds light on the paradoxes of life.
This does not imply that he is not without argument; he remains a staunch supporter of communism, and devoted atheist. But he is not afraid to attack the world's ironies, like the pride roused by political leaders to send its nation's citizens off to war, and all the corporate and theological consequences that involves. That sets the tone for Death with Interruptions, for on the New Year of some unnumbered year, death has stopped claiming her victims. For seven months there is no death within the borders of the country; people on the edge of crossing over, including the Queen Mother, hang in a form of purgatory that is neither life, nor death, just simply being. At the end of those months, in one fell swoop death claims all her victims at once.
In that sense, the book is divided into two parts, the deathless period, and the time after her return. While a country without death seems an Edenic getaway, it turns into its opposite. The religious leaders are the first concerned, for a country without death is a country without need for resurrection—their savior is rendered powerless. (As Carl Jung introduced, it is the process of enantiodromia, that every force inevitably produces its opposite.) After no deaths were recorded, the prime minister made a statement proclaiming "we will accept the challenge of the body's immortality … if that is the will of god."
Saramago labels the minister's speech "pseudoscientific flim-flam", what he would claim to be much of the verbiage from both governmental and religious bodies. After the speech hit airwaves, an unhappy cardinal calls to discuss the implications. "Without death, prime minister, without death there is no resurrection, and without resurrection there is no church." He then questions how the man could ever entertain the notion that god would ever "will his own demise." Throughout this and many of Saramago's novels, this confronts the idea that any man could know the will of god, as religious leaders often declare as fact even when claiming god's mysterious ways to be unknowable.
No one knows what to do when death leaves, and Saramago explores the most terrible and humorous of possibilities. The funeral industry is about to go under; they demand the government force everyone to hold burial ceremonies for all animals, including and especially pets, to keep afloat. (We need merely mention the American automobile and financial industries running to Washington to request help from papa government; Merriam Webster declared "bailout" to be the word of the year in 2008. I also recently watched a church in Detroit, the auto-making capital, sing hymns and pray in front of SUV's parked in the pulpit.)
Yet people are suffering, those who were on the brink of death and left hanging when she took her powers from us. One ingenious family has the idea to take their grandfather and son, who although only a few years old is ready to pass on, and cross into a neighboring country. The moment the border is breached, the two men expire. This sets off a wave of "suicides", and the government steps in to stop this—only on the main roads, of course. The maphia offers exile to those willing to pay.
Let's quickly contemplate these two scenarios: those who partake in the "suicides" are immediately treated like fundamentalists lashing out at women supporting abortion; the government, by sealing off major exitways, is involved more in a PR initiative, which Saramago discusses. I know this concept well, living in a New York City where over the past five years I've watched policemen checking the bags of subway riders for "weapons of mass destruction" only set up at heavily populated stations, where they can be seen by the affluent to feel "safe", because, you know, anyone with a bomb would never think of getting on a train at a station further from the city's center.
Again, it is the ambiguity of Saramago's characters and situations that make them applicable to so many aspects of life. He is not as concerned with a character as much as human character itself. Yet in the second half of the book he introduces the cellist, who is immune to death's call. After her return she decided to announce her arrival to every human a week before their demise by sending them an index card in a violet envelope. The government goes on a witch hunt at post offices, never entertaining the fact that death merely thinks the letters into their addressee's hands. Yet the cellist's returns, time and again, and so death decides to take the form of a human body and visit the man.
The cellist, a rather lonely man who lives with his instruments and dog, falls in love with her. Our follies are never far away. The catch is, she starts to have feelings for him—we can't call them love, but perhaps some form of infatuation; they do eventually make love. During a moment of complete confusion, Saramago writes one of the book's most beautiful passages, at the moment she leaves her "freezing subterranean room" (like in Dante, hell is a cold place) to embody a body, where the author writes of her "gazing benevolently down on the human herd, watching them as they rush hither and thither, unaware that they're heading in the same direction, that one step forward will take them just as close to death as one step back, that it makes no difference because everything will have just one ending, the ending that a part of yourself will always have to think about and which is the black stain on your hopeless humanity. Death is holding the index card in her hand."
And that is his great power, making lavish and often unthinkable scenes (an entire city that goes blind with whiteness; a landlocked country that breaks free from its neighbor and floats into the ocean; Jesus as a human being) accessible to all of us. Death, the path we are all led to, regardless of religion, color, gender, etc. It's such a simple statement, and yet we well know in practice many of us forget. Saramago's quest for an unending life takes the form of Botox injections and oxygen tanks as much as in wars and church fundraisers.
The great irony is that, being humans as we are, if we did achieve this stature of eternal living, we wouldn't know what to do with it, and end up misinterpreting the concept as much as we've misconstrued what it means to be alive. It's safe to say that in Saramago's world, life has no definitive meaning, but that does not mean we cannot give it plenty ourselves.


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Monday, February 14, 2011
Trois cavaliers pour Fort Yuma - French title
El hombre del sur - Spanish title
Drie ruiters voor Fort Yuma - Belgium title
Kultaa Fort Yumaan - Finnish title
Muutama taala lisää - Finnish title
Tampeko - German title
Tampeko, der Dollar hat zwei Seiten - German title
Blutiger Dollar - German title
Ringo el temerario - Mexican title
Gringo Não Perdoa - Portuguese title
Tre Man Red Vasterut - Swedish title
The Rebel Lieutenant - U.K. title
Još za nekoliko dollara - Yugoslavian title
For a Few Extra Dollars - U.S.A. title
Die Now Pay Later - U.S.A. title
Fort Yuma Gold - U.S.A. title
A 1966 Italian, French, Spanish co-production [Fida Cinematografica (Rome), Les Productions Jacques Roitfeld (Paris), Época Films S.A. (Madrid)]
Producer: Edmondo Amati
Director: Calvin Jackson Padget (Giorgio Ferroni)
Story: Massimiliano Capriccioli, Sandro Continenza (Alessandro Continenza), Remigo Del Grosso, Guilles Morris Dumoulin, Augusto Finocchi, Leonardo Martin (Leonardo Mendez)
Screenplay: Massimiliano Capriccioli, Sandro Continenza (Alessandro Continenza), Remigo Del Grosso, Guilles Morris Dumoulin, Augusto Finocchi, Ettore Giannini, Leonardo Martín (Leonardo Méndez)
Cinematography: Rafael Pachecho (Rafael de Usa) [Technicolor, Techniscope]
Music: Gianni Ferrio (Giovanni Ferrio), Ennio Morricone
Song: "Don't Cry Cowboy" sung by ?
Running time: 105 minutes
Lieutenant Gary Hammond/Diamond Tampeko - Montgomery Wood (Giuliana Gemma)
Nelson Riggs - Dan Vadis (Constantine Vafiadis)
Connie Brestful - Sophie Daumier (Elisabeth Hugon)
Gordon/Golden 44 - José Calvo (José Selgado)
Captain Lefevre - Ángel del Pozo (Ángel Merino)
Major Saunders - Jacques Sernas
Davis camp colonel - Andrea Bosic (Ignazio Bosic)
Davis camp corporal - Fulvio Mingozi
Sergeant Brian Pitt - Red Carter (Giovanni Pazzafini)
Calvin/Johnny Newman - Men Fury (Furio Meniconi)
Captain Taylor - Lorenzo Robledo
Juko - Benny Reeves (Benito Stefanelli)
Elijah Murdock - Jacques Stany
Corporal Wilson - Rick Piper (Riccardo Pizzuti)
Brian - Antonio Molino Rojo
Sam - José Martin (José Antonio Martin)
Riggs' henchman - William Spoletini (Guglielmo Spoletini) John Mathews (Gianni Marturano) traitor - Jacques Herlin
Confederate soldier - Paolo Magaloti
saloon patron - Mimmo Poli (Domenico Poli)
Major at Fort Yuma - Alfonso Rojas (Alfonso Gonzalez)
with: Robert Alexander (Roberto Alessandri), Peter Cabot (Pierre Cressoy), Alberto Cevenini, Leonardo Martin (Leonardo Mendez), Juan Cazalilla, Claude Hill, Serge Marquand, Ángel Menendez, Agustin Bescos
Right after the end of the American Civil war. Gary Hammond, a young Confederate lieutenant and POW, is asked by the Colonel in charge of a Union POW camp to accompany two of his men, Captain Lefevre and Sergeant Pitt on a special mission. They must reach and warn the commander of Fort Yuma of an impending attack against it which is being prepared by an ex-Confederate group of the 5th regiment which is Diamond's ex-unit, commanded by major Sanders. The task is very complicated and tricky, because at the same time major Sanders has a different plan - to sneak into Fort Yuma through a mine tunnel from the Red Mines, together with the gang of Nelson Riggs, an infamous villain, and steal a great sum of money. Of course Sanders's men of 5th regiment are doomed. Fort Yuma is very well defended and their purpose is only to divert the attention of the Federal soldiers. Diamond, Lefevre and Pitt begin their dangerous mission and some new elements of the puzzle are added including a beautiful girl aptly named Connie Breastfull.
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relio's eco-twin is the most powerful and efficient run-of-river hydroturbine on the market.Its innovative design enables constant renewable electricity output through completely stable operation in a river flow.
eco-twin is the most cost-effective way to generate substantial electricity from rivers, especially where flexible deployment is required and infrastructure construction such as heads or dams are not desirable or not possible.
Designed for deployment in larger rivers with sufficient volume, the eco-twin hydroturbines generate constant electricity for central grid, isolated grid or off-grid use. Unlike other small hydropower installations they can be installed as single installations or in large arrays, thus providing scalable, flexible and redundant electricity at a site.
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Castello dei Rampolla Toscana d'Alceo 2012
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|Red Wine
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|Castello dei Rampolla
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Color: Compact Red Ruby Color
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A polished texture carries harmonious flavors of black cherry, cola, licorice and mineral in this focused red. Well-integrated tannins and balsamic acidity lend this a balanced structure. Reserved but deep. Drink now through 2022. 31,150 cases made. Top 100: 2016, Rank: 12
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The entry-level red and largest volume of Abadía Retuerta, the 2012 Selección Especial, is nothing like the initial oaky versions of it you might remember. This is produced as a blend of Tempranillo with 15% Cabernet Sauvignon and 10% Syrah from the 54 separate plots that they have identified in their 180 hectares of vineyards. This 2012 matured in French (60%) and American (40%) oak barrels for 14 months, a slightly shorter time than in previous vintages. The casks were one third new, one third second use and one third third use. This is the wine that has improved the most, and it's now a fine, elegant wine with restrained power, true to the place where it's born and the vintage when the grapes are harvested. This is the highly recommended wine from the winery. All grapes ripened properly in 2012 and the Cabernet feels very integrated; there are some spicy aromas intermixed with the wild berry aromas, developing some balsamic undertones, licorice and a little bit of toast. It is very subtle and nicely compact. The texture is very fine with dusty tannins, good acidity and freshness. It is long, balanced and supple, with power and elegance. The wine is approachable now and with stuffing to age. It is a great value and highly recommended. The 1,250 barrels filled 350,000 bottles, 11,290 magnums and 300 double magnums, so the wine should be readily available.


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This stories were suppose to become a book , but than I've decide to make it a blog so more people can read about it , these stories were written by 'ManInSuit' and by me TigerDevil, there will be more stories hope you'll like it , thank you for reading it
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BrightStar Chapter 12
Sunday, 1 May 2016
BrightStar-Chapter ten to eleven
"Good morning Mr Stoneking! You ready?" The doctor has come to help George get off from the mechanical ventilator. "That strange…" The doctor read the printing data records from the machine found something pop out. He whisper to the nurse but George can still hear the nurse answer. 'No… No one came to touch it.' Then George knows… It was real last night.
After putting out the machine George is good to transport him to the school ward. When he arrive, Mka was already there when he get in his ward. Silver and Snow is behind Mka. Once George notice Sliver was there he couldn't put his eyes away from her. Silver try her best to avoid eye contact with George. She don't want Mka to find out that she like him too.
Mka keep talking, keep asking how is George, George know Mka is just trying to take care of him, but a minute of silence would be great.
Finally, the school bell ring, Mka have to leave. She fight so hard to leave George alone. Silver walk behind her, George grab her hand lightly very fast and put a peace of paper in her hand. Silver got flabbergaste and run away with Mka.


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Being clear about what you want gives you purpose and something to work on. Whatever it is that you set out to do like traveling extensively and see the sights like the Hong Kong night view, the Northern Lights in Iceland, and more, dreaming big and daring greatly can help you accomplish your goals. Here are some of the many ways you can start creating the life you want.
1. List down exactly what you want to be and where you want to be in life at specific points in time. Write whatever t is that comes to mind. Avoid editing yourself as vision-setting is not about being right or wrong. You just have to identify whatever it is that matters to you most.
2. Be tenacious and keep your sights set on what you really want. It helps you avoid wasting time and energy dwelling on what you do not want. Once you create a compelling vision, you harness the positive energy that pushes you to do whatever it takes to achieve it.
3. Prepare to adjust if needed. Your vision does not have to be set in stone that you would be unwilling to improve on it if necessary. It is always possible for life priorities to change or to have a new dream. Setting visions can be a lifelong process, especially if you continually higher aspirations in life.
4. Keep track. Creating a vision for your life is only the beginning. It is how you work on making it happen that is the key to the success of your plans. You have to take action and keep track of your progress every day. Every small step and effort you invest towards realizing your vision brings you closer to your end-goals.


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The word photography comes from the Greek (phos-graphi) and means light writing. Light is what makes photography possible.
When I see something that excites me visually, I set up my camera and look through the ground glass, visualizing the scene not how it appears, but how I want it to appear on paper. Visualizing how I want the print to appear dictates how I will expose my film to light. It is the information in the negative that is my syntax, to make my final statement—the print. If a print cannot match the intensity the photographer felt when he made the image, the work fails. A fine print should say everything, and look effortless.
In the darkroom, when I am printing an image that is successful in translating something magical onto paper —I am as happy as a person can be. It is the synergy of photographing and printing that makes photography so special to me.
Passion is a very important part of the creative process. Talent without passion leaves a void. Passion without talent has no foundation. It is when talent, passion and technical ability meet, that a symphony of beauty and inspiration can be created. I work exclusively with film in a darkroom – no digital anything!


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Monday, 29 October 2012
French Style
Gavin Atkin, boat designer, blogger, musician, journalist (also contains lanolin, as Flanders said about Swann), sent me a link to the the Liteboat, a highly stylish new rowing boat created by French long-distance oarsman Mathieu Bonnier.
Gavin asks what I think.
Well, I hesitate to be rude about a boat created by someone who has far more experience of rowing through every kind of weather than I have, but the design treads on all my corns.
That reversed bow, for a start. There is no apparent functional reason for it. Indeed, you can actually see it piercing the waves and throwing water into the boat in the video. A well spread bow lifts the boat over the wave and prevents water coming in.
Then there is the wide open stern, intended to provide an easy exit for all that water coming unnecessarily over the bow. It must drag the boat back, especially with heavier rowers who will cause the stern to dip underwater every time they slide towards the stern. The self-bailing stern is the nastiest feature of the Virus Yole, in my opinion.
On the plus side, the hull is intrinsically buoyant and construction is by resin sandwich infusion with carbon bits for a very strong but light boat.
Bonnier says that he wanted a boat that is stable, light, easy to row, fast and car-toppable. "I looked in vain for this boat: she did not exist!" he says.
Yes she does, Mathieu. She is pictured up there, on the blog masthead. My Sprite Snarleyow.
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- Bursledon Blogger said...
I'm with you about that reverse stem, interesting that they chose a yacht designer rather than a dinghy designer for a rowing boat.
- 30 October 2012 at 13:00
I'm not sure that I've ever heard some one quote Michael Flanders, certainly not the line about containing lanolin! Humor was a higher art in his day.
- 31 October 2012 at 05:41
- Unknown said...
Reverse stems like that went outwith the Dreadnoughts, they have come back in as a fashion statement renameed an "Ax bow". little ability to lift to a wave coupled with a wide flat stern make for a wet slow rowing boat.
- 1 November 2012 at 12:13
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Texas biotech executes a reverse merger with a battered Threshold
Five months after watching its stock go into a meltdown on the mid-stage failure of its cancer drug tarloxotinib, South San Francisco-based Threshold Pharmaceuticals $THLD has worked out a reverse merger with a small, Austin-based biotech called Molecular Templates. And the deal comes with the prospect of a fresh injection of capital.
Longitude Capital has agreed to pump in $20 million for the combined company, provided Threshold can work out an additional $20 million investment.
Molecular Templates has been working on a platform called Engineered Toxin Bodies, or ETBs, which are described as having the "affinity of an antibody." They go after cancer cells and also add antigens into cancer cells so that the immune system will be more likely to target them for destruction.
Molecular Templates' most advanced program is an early-stage drug dubbed MT-3724, which "targets the CD20 cell surface antigen present in a variety of lymphomas and leukemias." And it's picked up about $26 million from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
In the reverse, Molecular Templates' investors will own a majority of the company and they'll change the ticker symbol to $MTEM.
Eric Poma, CEO Molecular Templates, commented:
The combined company will have two exciting clinical-stage compounds in evofosfamide and MT-3724 and a unique biological platform with a differentiated mechanism of action in oncology. Longitude's commitment to invest in the company is a strong testament to the promise inherent in the combined companies' clinical assets and technology platform.


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Summer's gone, and she didn't even say goodbye. But that's true of most things in life, isn't it? People. Places. Things. In our childhood reveries, and in our subsequent adult aspirations, did you ever picture your life to look as it does? Or maybe, in magazine speak, you've got it all. And yet life, when we're not too preoccupied with the circumstantial and the uncontrollable, is still a wonderful and curious thing. In the 1800s, Emily Dickinson wrote, "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." In 2011, the pace at which "living" shifts and changes, for better or worse, is the most startling of all.
We've been washed in a constant stream of change for the better part of the twentieth century: technologically, socially and globally. In simple ways, from the walkman to the discman or flatscreen to touchscreen, and in complex ways, with a fury of changes in monarchies and democracies or social structures from communism to capitalism. I can only look back on my own childhood and wonder how near impossible it was, say, in 1995, for me to even begin to predict what the world would look in 2005; most could hardly look beyond the supposedly apocalyptic Y2K. In 1995, 0.4 per cent of the world's population was on the Internet. That's 16 million people. In 2000, there were 250 million Internet users. By 2011, that number had reached two billion users, 28 per cent of the world's population. When children imagine their future lives now, I can only imagine they're carving out a series of real, but terribly viral and virtual, next big things: the Twitter/Facebook killer they'll be using or what online means will make them a star. When I was 10 years old, the next big thing was the Internet. So now, how impossible does it feel for us to begin to see beyond tomorrow or - if you're especially skeptic or, well, a Mayan - next year? And now, a new documentary will attempt to deconstruct (predict, really) the future of humanity itself. Based on the The Singularity is Near, a book by futurist and New York Times bestselling author Ray Kurzweil, the film (by the same name, and co-directed by Kurzweil) will explore the idea that, with the onset of the twenty-first century, humans "will be both enriched and challenged as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy and achieves inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity." Kurzweil believes in concepts like mind uploading and the human body 3.0, and "singularity," he says, will occur when artificial intelligence will reign supreme and surpass human intelligence as the most capable "life" forms. By his analysis, this is slated for 2045.
Earlier this week on a subway platform, I saw a group of kids, aged about twelve or thirteen. I could hear their conversation for a spilt-minute as the doors opened and even though - at 5 p.m. during rush hour - the train wasn't nearly overflowing so much so that they couldn't possibly squeeze in, they opted to wait for the next one anyway. What beauty, I thought. I'm counting the minutes until I can get above ground, to dash home for newly instilled cocktail hour, or finish this column, or get ready to go somewhere else, to do something else. Undoubtedly, there's an outline for what the future may look like: we know more than ever about what might be possible, and perhaps what might never be feasible. For others, like Kurzeil, there is no limit. For one, life expectancy - the time and space to waste energy because we'll have it forever and ever - seems to be on our side. A recent report out of Canada says that the average newborn will live to be 81. (But, in the words of live-for-today Sally Bowles, "That is, if booze and sex don't get me first.") And now that we're living longer and more is possible, are we living less? I made it to a quarter century last week - 31.25 per cent into that life expectancy - and I have nothing but an exasperating need to do something and be somewhere not here, to keep searching and probably end up empty handed anyway. I don't crave celebrity or money or power, no. In fact, I don't crave anything more than a fulfilling life, but what's in all that anyway? What is fulfilling when everything worth exploring is at our fingertips, so readily available that it begins to feel unsatisfying? Or, if you believe in singularity, can be easily created? It enslaves, and, of course, oddly motivates. I've wanted to stop, oh god how I've wanted to just press pause on all this sometimes, but the era that allowed us to take the time to live our lives might have already begun to tiptoe out the back door as computer processors gear up to take over the world. Waitress at 25 in 1995? How bohemian and charming and Rachel Greene of you. Straight out of university in 2011? Grow the fuck up and get to work. Traveling around the world instead? Oh how privileged and lucky you must be. Well, it's never really been a question of privilege or a product of luck. I have friends who've traveled Asia on nothing but tips and faith. I have friends who are happy enough to simply chair fundraisers in between pedicures.
Turns out, the joke's on us. McLuhan's concept of a "global village" didn't leave time for being anything other than connected, privy to everyone's every whimsy, accomplishment, and annoyance. Frivolous updates and Twitpics of what you had to eat for lunch? Kim Kardashian's wedding a trending topic? Let's not preoccupy ourselves with the conflict in Libyaor that Japan is still in shambles. Instead, let's write about places we can go to avoid conflict or if Bhutan really is the happiest place on Earth. Of course, go on and write those stories. We deserve them as much as we deserve Jersey Shore. I'm guilty of it, too. But why can't I change if I so desperately want something "more" out of modern life, something I don't quite know how to define? And if you want to believe in singularity, robots and stuff will fix things like poverty and pollution.
|Ray Kurzweil (Source: futurismic.com).
Sometimes, I have to stop myself from looking for "real-life experiences." Something offline, so to speak. Sounds horrendous, I know, but searching for something tangible and 3D - from people to emotion - can feel like a chore. Particularly in media circles, where your friends are aspiring somethings like writers and photographers, it's very easy for things to feel… surreal, plotted even. The air kisses, the embraces. The silent moments of pseudo-intimacy and blatant over-sharing. "Darling, I mean it, let's get together for a drink." Absolutely. It never happens. In the global village, it's even easier for everything - from your blog to your brains - to feel insignificant. Go on, call me emo. Or existential. Those things may be true, or not. I'm intelligent enough to discern my opinions and my ennui with our collective OCD and the way things just damn are these days. And suddenly, thinking about your life, despite how lucky it may be or feel, just isn't kosher anymore. It's insensitive and bratty. I both love and loathe Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris for very much the same reasons, for telling us why we're obsessed with the past and for making us feel ridiculous about it. I've read Nietzsche and wondered about the death of God and being "who I am." I almost think it's easier to believe in his concept of an eternal return or even singularity. But I'm near obsessed with Isherwood and his tales of Weimar-era Berlin, then to China and beyond. Hell, I've even read Elizabeth Gilbert. But I also read somewhere that the more you know or you're told, the less you think, or think you know. And, if resources like WikiLeaks serve as indicators, we have more information than we have time to think through, or think about. And so, we're left with everything, and still nothing at all.
And we're back to the disposable allure of everything. We don't realize how fast the world is changing anymore because there's nothing left to think about. And people come in and slip out, just like seasons and just like devices, just like that. And we don't think too much of it. Unfollow. Unfriend. Unnecessary. And what if these seemingly unreal experiences - updating Facebook, checking Twitter, living your life so precariously, depending on machines - have actually become the foundation for what "real life" will look like in 100 years; a "Good Morning!" tweet as ubiquitous as morning coffee. I think we're already there. And for that, I'm terribly afraid.
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MOU between WANO and NEA to strengthen global nuclear safety
The World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) and the NEA signed a Memorandum of Understanding to co‑operate on the further development of approaches, practices and methods in order to proactively strengthen global nuclear safety. The MOU serves to set out a transparent framework for co‑operation between WANO and NEA in areas related to the safe operation of nuclear power plants and the human aspects of nuclear safety. It will facilitate information exchange between the stakeholders in NEA member countries and nuclear power plant operators, enhance the common understanding of nuclear safety culture challenges and support general efforts to further enhance nuclear safety worldwide. WANO and NEA have already identified safety culture as a fundamental subject of common interest and are currently collaborating to launch in 2018 a series of country‑specific discussions to explore the influence of national culture on the safety culture. Read more
Australia accedes to the GIF Framework Agreement
On 14 September 2017, Australia deposited its instrument of accession to the Generation IV International Forum (GIF) Framework Agreement for International Collaboration on Research and Development of Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems. A ceremony was held in Paris which included His Excellency Mr Brian Pontifex, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the OECD, and Dr Adrian (Adi) Paterson, CEO of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). The GIF is a co‑operative international endeavour which was established to carry out the research and development needed to establish the feasibility and performance capabilities of the next generation of nuclear energy systems. Australia became the 14th member of the GIF on 22 June 2016 when it signed the GIF Charter. Acceding to the Framework Agreement will allow Australia to become actively engaged in R&D projects related to Generation IV systems, particularly in R&D projects on advanced materials. For more information on GIF, see www.gen-4.org.
The NEA thanks the outgoing NRA Chairman Dr Shunichi Tanaka
Dr Shunichi Tanaka served as Chairman of Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) for the first five years of the agency's existence. The aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident presented Japan with many difficult challenges, particularly those related to public trust and confidence in the regulator. In light of such challenges, the NRA, under Dr Tanaka's leadership, took steps to establish a robust foundation for the new regulatory organisation, such as the development of improved regulatory standards. Dr Tanaka employed a sound approach to regulatory decision making that was based on independent and competent assessment of the most current scientific and technological information, free from external pressure or bias. The NEA programme of work in nuclear safety technology and regulation has benefited greatly from the technical contributions and support of the NRA during Dr Tanaka's tenure as NRA Chairman. NEA Director-General Magwood presented Dr Tanaka with a letter of thanks signed by the Director-General and the Chairs of the NEA Steering Committee for Nuclear Energy, the NEA Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Activities (CNRA) and the NEA Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) which highlights the unique and historic role he played in the years after the Fukushima Daiichi accident.
New reactor design activities
On 12-13 September 2017, the Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP) held its Fourth Conference on New Reactor Design Activities in London, United Kingdom. The purpose of this conference was to offer a forum in which MDEP stakeholders could discuss the programme's achievements in its first decade and its future. The conference was attended by over 150 participants, representing national regulators, international organisations, standard development organisations and the nuclear industry. It was divided into six thematic sessions. Participants agreed on the need for continued efforts towards greater harmonisation of codes and standards, as well as for further dialogue on ensuring quality and safety culture in the supply chain. Feedback gathered from MDEP stakeholders at the conference is being carefully evaluated to go forward with the future direction and structure of MDEP in terms of both design-specific and issue-specific work.
Discussions on nuclear development for a sustainable energy future
On 27-28 September 2017, the NEA Nuclear Development Committee (NDC) held its annual meeting. Participants discussed the current NDC studies on the full costs of electricity provision, system costs, the extension of the levelised cost of electricity methodology, nuclear cogeneration, strategies for the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle and advanced reactor systems. The meeting agenda also addressed cross‑cutting NEA activities, including the NEA Workshop on Stakeholder Involvement in Nuclear Decision Making and the Nuclear Innovation 2050 (NI2050) Initiative. A particular highlight of the meeting was the presentation given by an EDF representative on the restructuring of the French nuclear industry, new build and supply chain issues in France and lessons learnt. In addition, the Committee members re-elected the bureau and welcomed a new member from the United States.
Developing geological repositories in salt rocks
On 4 September 2017, the NEA Salt Club met in Nieuwdorp, the Netherlands, to discuss the progress and results of its work on (i) developing a geochemistry and thermodynamics database; (ii) evaluating microbial activities in rock salt; and (iii) establishing a features, events, and processes (FEP) catalogue for hosting a deep geological repository in salt rock formations for heat‑generating radioactive waste. The meeting also included a topical session during which the participating members extensively evaluated and discussed the consolidation of crushed salt – an important phenomenon which affects the long-term safety of deep geological repositories in the post-closure phase.
Optimising the management of low-level radioactive waste
Effective radioactive waste management is an integral part of successful decommissioning in view of the radioactive waste and materials that arise from decommissioning. On 5-7 September 2017, the NEA Task Group on Optimising Management of Low‑level Radioactive Materials and Waste from Decommissioning (TGOM) held its second meeting to examine the main factors to consider in order to optimise the management of very low-level radioactive waste and materials arising from decommissioning. The participants at the meeting concluded that decommissioning safety, decommissioning costs, project timelines, national energy policies – including the national radioactive waste management plans – and the availability of final disposal solutions are all key to determining how radioactive waste and materials are to be managed. The TGOM is summarising its findings and recommendations in a report to guide national policy developers and radioactive waste regulators.
Stakeholder support and involvement
The NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) held its annual meeting on 12-14 September 2017 with 26 participants from 15 NEA member countries, representing a cross-section of government policy and regulatory officials, R&D specialists, implementers and industry representatives. During the meeting, the participants discussed various member country activities that aim to facilitate the inclusion of the youth during the radioactive waste management decision making process. They also worked on updating the document entitled "Partnering for Long-term Management of Radioactive Waste". This document focuses on approaches of co-operation between the implementer and affected communities, nurturing dialogue among experts and stakeholders, mutual learning, involving the public in the decision making process and inviting the national authorities to play a more visible role.
On 14-15 September 2017, the NEA Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) and the FSC organised a joint workshop on stakeholder involvement and communication in safety case development. The workshop was attended by technical experts, government policy and regulatory officials, R&D specialists, implementers and communication experts, as well as by members of the NEA Working Group on Public Communication of Nuclear Regulatory Organisations (WGPC). The participants discussed challenges in communicating scientific safety evidence with non-technical stakeholders and derived feasible methods to effectively communicate technical details and to enhance confidence of the safety case. The workshop developed synergies between the IGSC and FSC, and the two groups agreed to continue their collaboration in order to improve stakeholder engagement during the safety case development process.
Benchmarking in the context of NPP decommissioning costs
The NEA Decommissioning Cost Estimation Group (DCEG) initiated a new project on "Benchmarking in the context of Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Decommissioning Costs" in 2017 to examine the relationships between cost estimates and actual costs of decommissioning a NPP. The primary objective of this new project is to enhance the reliability of cost estimates of decommissioning nuclear facilities. In their first meeting held on 19-20 September 2017, the group decided to analyse benchmarking approaches and opportunities based on different stages of decommissioning activities. In addition, the group also agreed to examine (i) the gaps betweencost estimates and actual costs; (ii) barriers and key enablers for sharing sensitive decommissioning information and data among participating programmes; and (iii) relevant experience gained in non-nuclear industries tackling similar challenges.
Radioactive waste inventorying and reporting methodology
On 20-21 September 2017, the NEA Expert Group on Inventorying and Reporting Methodology (EGIRM) held a meeting with experts from Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Russia and the United States to discuss the group's current work and future activities. The EGIRM developed a common methodology for presenting national radioactive waste and spent fuel inventories, reflecting various national management strategies, as published in the NEA report entitled National Inventories and Management Strategies for Spent Nuclear Fuel and Radioactive Waste: Extended Methodology for the Common Presentation of Data. The group will organise a workshop in early 2018 to discuss the implementation of the methodology with interested member countries. Details of this event are available at oe.cd/EGIRM-2018.
Characterisation of argillaceous rocks for deep disposal of radioactive waste
On 28 September 2017, the NEA Clay Club held its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The NEA Clay Club was established in 1990 to examine technical and scientific issues of various argillaceous rocks for hosting deep geological repositories for long-lived radioactive waste. During this meeting, participants reviewed and discussed the group's progress on various studies of the characteristics and properties of sedimentary rocks. They had an in-depth discussion on the recently started CLAYWAT Project, which aims at investigating the binding state of pore water in clays and shales. Another highlight of the meeting was the discussion on the application of the international features, events and processes (FEP) in developing safety case scenarios in Germany.
Nuclear decommissioning under spotlight in Canada
On 3‑5 October 2017, the NEA Working Party on Decommissioning and Dismantling (WPDD) held its annual meeting in Ottawa, Canada, hosted by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) in co-operation with Natural Resources Canada. Delegates from fifteen member countries and two international organisations reviewed the WPDD's current work on benchmarking in the context of nuclear power plant decommissioning costs, preparing for decommissioning, optimising the management of low-level radioactive materials and waste from decommissioning, as well as on radiological characterisation for decommissioning. Participants also discussed international developments in the field of nuclear decommissioning. During a topical session on the social aspects of decommissioning, several NEA member countries presented case studies addressing experiences and challenges in understanding and incorporating social factors in the decommissioning decision making process. The meeting ended with a special session on the decommissioning scene in Canada, which highlighted the planned, ongoing and completed decommissioning projects. The meeting participants acknowledged that the Canadian nuclear industry is taking significant steps to address its nuclear decommissioning responsibilities. Canada is seeking to accelerate the decommissioning of nuclear facilities, particularly of facilities that ceased operations many years ago, and engagement activities are ongoing at many levels amongst proponents, the regulator, government and a wide range of stakeholders.
Thermodynamic data collection and assessment
On 10 September 2017, the NEA organised a one-day course on thermodynamic data collection and assessment, in conjunction with the Migration 2017 conference in Barcelona, Spain. This course was designed to familiarise scientists with current NEA Thermochemical Database (TDB) Project activities and standards, to provide an overview of data collection and analysis techniques, and to work through some real system examples to demonstrate the critical evaluation and data assessment process. Retaining high scientific standards for the collection, interpretation, critical review and application of thermodynamic data is a key goal of the NEA TDB Project, in order to help ensure that a strong scientific basis for the safety case is maintained to support international nuclear waste management options.
Nuclear multi-physics computation
On 20-21 September 2017, the NEA Expert Group on Multi-physics Experimental Data, Benchmarks and Validation (EGMPEBV) held a meeting to review the progress being made by the group's three task forces. One of the key discussion points, in relation to Task Force 3 "Example Application of Validation Experiments", was the planning of a Multi-physics Pellet-Clad Mechanical Interaction Validation (MPCMIV) benchmark, based on cold-ramp test data from the Studsvik R2 research reactor. The specifications are now being finalised, with the objective to hold the benchmark kick-off meeting at the NEA Expert Group on Uncertainty Analysis in Modelling (EGUAM) workshop to be held on 14-18 May 2018 in Lucca, Italy. The group also presented its objectives and activities to the NEA Working Group on Analysis and Management of Accidents (WGAMA) members. This stimulated discussion on the optimisation of multi-physics experiment instrumentation, to provide the crucial measurements for validation of novel, high-resolution modelling and simulation. A report on this is under preparation, with contributions from several test reactor specialists.
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Hepburn AdvocateThursday, December 06, 2012By Melissa Fyfe
Living like this, said Somali-Australian Shamsun Ali, children easily picked up infections. He points to the scalp of his four-year-old son Abu Baker, where a scabby white sore has grown to the size of a five-cent coin. "It's a fungus," he said.
In the waking hours, the children - from baby Abrahim to 10-year-old daughter Yasmin Ali - compete for space to play and do homework. There's a wariness of the outside: the neighbours, night-shift taxi drivers, call the police if the kids play loudly. ''Most of my daughters don't have enough vitamin D, it's hard to be outside absorbing the sun,'' Mr Ali said.
One of his daughters has been diagnosed with clinical rickets, a softening of the bones due to a lack of vitamin D or sunshine.
Mr Ali, a refugee, and his wife Filsan, are among at least 50 Somali families in West Heidelberg facing acute overcrowding. Community leaders say about half of the area's Somali families are living in sub-standard conditions, as their culture, which prizes large families (the average is four or five children, but many have seven or eight), meets the limits of public housing stock.
A Human Services Department report into public housing in the West Heidelberg area, recently released under freedom of information, found an oversupply of two-bedroom houses, but the wait for a four-bedroom house was more than 15 years in 2009. West Heidelberg housing lawyers now advise clients the delay is at least 20 years.
Community leaders, social workers and housing lawyers say the overcrowding fosters mental health problems, including depression and anxiety, family tension and a loss of adult privacy.
Kids are bedding down for the night in bathrooms and kitchens and younger siblings are sharing rooms with teenagers. It's also a major homework disruption.
In West Heidelberg, where 70 per cent of dwellings are public housing, lawyer Megan King said she regularly saw families dealing with severe overcrowding. ''These families are desperate for any help they can get to move to a larger property,'' said Ms King, a housingrights lawyer at the West Heidelberg Community Legal Service.
''These families usually have children who are suffering from health problems associated with overcrowding, such as skin conditions like eczema. Frustratingly, there's nothing the legal service can do for these families.''
The lack of living space and privacy bred anxiety, said Marissa De Nardo, a medical social worker at the Banyule community health medical clinic. ''It causes family tension and conflict.''
Community leaders such as Jabiri Ali, vice-president of the West Heidelberg-based Somali Australia Council of Victoria, said it was unlikely the second generation of Somali-Australians would have such big families.
''It's a matter of educating people to understand that the more children you have in this country is not as useful as having them in our countries,'' he said. ''The parents will always have more children so that if some go astray, others will look after them. It's a security thing.''
Community workers also point out that Melbourne's big Somali families are often looking after the children of relatives, who may have died.
Community worker Abdi Siad said Somali-Australians in West Heidelberg, particularly single mothers, were not keen to move away from the area and its support networks. ''We are extended family and we are somehow related and we want to help each other,'' he said.
The Baillieu government said it had a plan to address the overcrowding, and had already allocated a new five-bedroom home to a family of 10 as part of its Olympia Housing Initiative. Under this project, 600 ageing and unsuitable public housing properties will be replaced with homes that the government says will better suit the demographic of the West Heidelberg, Heidelberg Heights and Bellfield areas.
Housing Minister Wendy Lovell said the new five-bedroom home was one of six larger properties to be delivered next year. The Olympia initiative will also give families the option of moving to more suitable accommodation, so in some cases singles or couples could choose to relocate from a larger home, making that property available for bigger families.The poor housing conditions in West Heidelberg don't stop at overcrowding. The legal service has seen clients who live in blocks of flats around which they consider it dangerous for their children to play.
Abdi Siad said many children had asthma from mould-ridden homes, and the overcrowding meant contagious diseases were spread easily. Worryingly, they seemed to be a rising incidence in autism in the community.
Of the overcrowding, he said: ''You put the children in a small cage and they have energy to consume. You have to say all the time 'sit down, sit down', and they become aggressive.
''When the families come in here [to the office of the Somali Australia Council of Victoria] you can feel how stressed the mum is, how stressed their lives are. You can see how the children look, how depressed they are, the issues they have at home. You can see they don't have any privacy, there is no space for them to study. They live in two bedrooms - where are they supposed to study?''


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2016 - A Year in Review
I'm mostly writing this for my own benefit, but I thought you might take a little interest in my journey throughout 2016. At the risk of sounding horribly ignorant, I wasn't quite prepared for the impact that the decisions I made last January would have - the ride, if you will, has been an eventful one. I could talk for hours about my foray into sex work, its challenges and its wonders, but this year specifically is one I feel quite strongly about.
Last January, I'd been working in the industry for almost two years. I'd just graduated from university, and had returned from a trip overseas to be met with a clean slate. At least for twelve months, anyway, as I'd taken a gap year. The year was to begin anew, and I never fancied myself as someone who'd idly let it pass me by. I decided to build upon what little industry experience I'd gained so far, and took a risk.
Because of the presence of industry forums and the power of word of mouth, it wouldn't make much sense to say that I decided to "go public" last year, but I can't think of a more appropriate way to put it. Having been less than impressed with my former business model, I made the decision to enter an arena that was more established. Leaving old constructs behind, I made an account on twitter, and I joined Scarlet Blue.
It's funny to think back on the past, to remember my first impressions of Scarlet Blue as an escort directory, which goes back to somewhere around 2013. Truthfully, I was intimidated. I'd scroll through listings of stunning women, admiring their portfolios and their websites - to me, it seemed that I would never 'qualify', in a sense, or belong to this group of beautiful people. I found the idea hilarious, because I never look at myself as someone to be desired in the way that I imagined these people were.
It didn't occur to me that by June of 2016, I'd be having breakfast with three ladies whose businesses and conduct I'd admired since I discovered escorting. I also never thought that I'd find some of my closest friends in the industry, or that I would be put in contact with some extremely worldly, wonderful people - both colleagues and clients. The feeling is surreal.
Even now, one year later, I read through some of my older reviews and can't believe that the person they speak about is me.
Please don't get me wrong, the feelings I'm having aren't particularly insecure. I'm surprised; honoured; grateful. It feels surreal to have thought about this goal for so long, and to have finally set a path to achieve it. Despite only beginning, I feel that I've learned so much.
But my feelings haven't always been this positive.
I mentioned that I joined twitter and made an account with Scarlet Blue in the earlier months of last year. The perils of joining a public arena are really something not to be taken lightly. Despite not showing my face, I had created an identity that was soon to be discussed, recognised, and put under heavy scrutiny. In dealing with issues like stalking and harassment, I learned very quickly that privacy is one of the most precious things to ever behold - especially as an escort. And it is not always respected. While I admire those who show their faces and speak publicly in the fight for sex worker rights, I will probably never become one of them because of the issues I mentioned. Because of these things, for a moment, around March/April, I almost left the industry entirely.
June brought with it some brighter prospects, including my first tour and a little more exposure. With the help of some great people, clients actually, I jumped back up on the horse and took to my work with a renewed positivity that I feel encouraged me to show a little bit more of myself. I found my voice, my sense of humour, and started to connect with types of people I'd never thought I'd meet. I built fantastic relationships and made some lovely memories, which will stay with me for time to come. I told myself that the world gives back to you what you put into it, and it rewarded my efforts with a sense of security and real happiness.
By October things had changed again, though for the better. Grey (almost blue) hair had put me on the map and before I knew it I'd toured Sydney twice, with the intention to travel even more. It was around this time that I started to connect with other ladies a little more, and found myself engaging in an array of things I (again) never considered myself 'qualified' to do. From threesomes to short courses, podcasts and photoshoots, with the help of new friends I started to check more things off of my 'Alice Grey: Independent Escort - Bucket List'.
By the end of the year I'd ended up in Canberra and Brisbane, with plans to travel further in the new year. As limited as my time will be in 2017, I'm going to make it my mission to see more of my own backyard, and the people in it.
With a happy smile and a whimsical red bow to bring the year to a climax, I feel that it couldn't have ended in a better way. 2016 showed me the value in not only chasing goals and striving to better yourself, but also in connecting with those around you. I learned that this is such a rewarding industry to work in, and am so honoured to have come to meet the people I have. Through meeting these people and sharing our experiences, I feel that I've grown within myself, and look forward to smashing some more personal goals in 2017.
Thank you to the ladies and gentlemen who contributed to the rollercoaster of a year that was 2016. Your support and your smiles will always be appreciated. Here's to more fun in 2017. May your coffee be hot, and your eyeliner be even. Wishing you many many orgasms,


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LOVE is a verb; an action word. This was evident to Choir 70 recently when we met Gracie (9 years) and Lilly (7years).
Two years ago, one of the Watoto Children's Choirs visited their church and their hearts were moved into action. They decided they wanted to raise money to help Watoto rescue vulnerable children and raise them to be leaders. They started raising funds by selling lemonade, cookies and muffins at a yard sale. Seeing the success of that venture, Gracie and Lilly decided to sell bracelets they had made at their local church and donated all of the proceeds to Watoto.
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Gracie and Lilly taught us a great lesson; that no matter how young or old you are, we can all play a part in changing lives!


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Dalai Lama to provide $7.5 bln to boost IMF- Sarkozy
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Strasburg, April 1 (AFP) - The Dalai Lama has agreed to contribute $7.5 billion to boosting the resources available to the International Monetary Fund, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday.
"Our world wide fund organizers have worked hard to make this contribution to the IMF. We never let our friends down in their moment of need," Mr. Richard Gere, actor and representative of His Holiness told Agence France-Presse.
Asked if the amount would be any higher, such as $10 billion, he replied: "No. I think this is quite an amazing amount and is quite enough. We have done a terrific job today."
The Dalai Lama is the head of the Tibetan self-determination movement and became an honorary citizen of Paris last year. President Sarkozy today invited the exiled Tibetan leader to address the upcoming G20 Summit.
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Oh how I loved this post by La Vie Graphite: re-ground. I guess I felt a kinship because I have recently discovered the joys of retreat, although not to the extent outlined in this post. I especially loved the final photo of fountain pen at rest in the journal. Well worth reading.
This post on Tiger Pens Blog got me thinking. When I was in university no one had a laptop with them, actually most people didn't even have them in their rooms. (Yes, I'm old.) We had to go to the computer lab to type up notes or print papers etc. So I can imagine how distracting it would be to have 80 people typing during a lecture. And of course I'm a big believer in the connection between handwriting and the brain and actually learning better through writing. But…in my professional capacity I can type much faster than I can write so if I have to take notes or minutes at work I will take my laptop with me. So I can see the appeal of a laptop in a classroom setting. What do you think? Interesting debate.
And finally, jumping off the Tiger Pens Blog, I found 6 Ways To Combine Chaos and Order in One Notebook from kickingassandtakingnotes.com (great name!). JD shows how to manage all of the information traditionally dumped into your notebook, from to do lists to emotional rantings. I like the ideas and use some of them myself. This is why I have more than one notebook on the go at one time. I will definitely be adding this blog to my blogroll.
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Who said orange is the new black? Black will always reign supreme and this necklace proves it. A fun, edgy necklace that has just a touch of sparkle. Perfect to layer with, or to wear on it's own. Jamie Kole handcrafted this necklace with oxidized sterling silver, gold fill wire, swarovski crystals, and antique French metal lace. The necklace measures approximately 20 inches not including the dangles, the dangles measure approximately 5 1/2 inches long.
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Alice-Miranda 16
Lights, camera, action! Yeehaw!
Alice-Miranda and her friends are off to Hollywood to take part in Lawrence Ridley's new movie. It's a western with a twist, and they'll be shooting some scenes on location at the picturesque Grand Canyon. Everyone's excited to get a sneak peek of the glitz and glamour of show business – especially Caprice!
On set, however, there is high drama with tears and tantrums, romance and a string of suspicious mishaps. Is there a villain lurking behind the scenes, or could the rumours of a curse be true? Alice-Miranda is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery before tensions explode.
"What a great adventure this is! As usual, Alice-Miranda acts with aplomb and generosity even towards the less than amiable Caprice. How can Jacqueline top this one? Although, I have no doubts given her talent that she can – she knows exactly what her readership loves and provides it time and time again."
Sue Warren, Just So Stories
"Jacquie Harvey delights her fans with this sixteenth Alice-Miranda novel. All the enjoyable and familiar elements are present, an exciting multi-layered mystery, with captivating characters, commotions on and off the film set and puzzles for Alice-Miranda to solve."
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"Alice-Miranda acts with a maturity beyond her years. She is smart and highly confident, so much so that other characters, including adults, trust her and confide in her – a device that keeps the clues coming. She is optimistic and loyal, endearing qualities that make her a positive role model to her readership."
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Texas Nursery and Landscape Assoc. releases economic impact figures
The Texas Nursery and Landscape Association (Austin, Texas) has released its 2000 Economic Impact Study of the Nursery and Landscape Industry in Texas. The reported total economic impact was $9.76 billion. The study was conducted by Dr. Charles Hall, an agricultural economist with Texas A&M University.
The contribution of various sectors was: $1.33 billion for nursery growers; $1.93 billion for Retail garden centers; $4.09 billion for home centers and mass merchants; $2.4 billion for Landscape related firms.
The study also found that nursery growers, retailers and landscape firms averaged 19, 23 and 42 employees per firm respectively. Total employees by sector were: Nursery grower firms--19,325; Retail centers--39,196; Home centers/mass merchants--83,292; Landscape related firms--80,820.
The study indentified 3,464 retail garden centers, 997 nursery growers and 11,951 landscape firms in the state.


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It's been a very scary few days for those who live in Central Queensland with the arrival of Tropical Cyclone (TC) Marcia. While the cyclone was hitting the coast, here in Brisbane we were experiencing lots of rain from another weather effect and then as TC Marcia was downgraded and travelled down the coast we had even more rain yesterday. It's been a great couple of days for knitting and spinning and I've done both.
Today the sun has come out so I've managed to take some photos of three completed projects.
I bought two of these rovings a while ago and have had the spun skeins sitting in my stash for a while now. So I thought I'd make another One Row Handspun Scarf as it's an easy pattern and I'm planning on taking the scarf to New Zealand in April. Hopefully, I'll get to wear it quite a bit.
The spun yarn came out a treat and I love all the colour changes.
I think the scarf looks fantastic!
I used size 5mm needles as the yarn lends itself to roughly a 10ply yarn.
As with my previous One Row Handspun Scarf, I added the tassels. There's eleven on each end and each tassel contains 5 x 10 inch lengths of yarn doubled over.
With the leftover yarn I decided to make a hat. I had no idea whether I'd have enough yarn so I just started on this pattern which is distributed by Bendigo Woollen Mills.
I'm pretty pleased with the result. Do you know how many photos I had to take to get these half-decent ones? Heaps and heaps is all I can say. Thank goodness for digital cameras where you can just hit the delete button because I did that a few times. I felt like a bit of a dill standing with a woollen scarf around my neck and a hat on my head in this hot weather. But it's worth it when I manage to get a few good photos to share with you 🙂
As it's a bit of a slouchy hat, I can fold the brim up to make it a snugger fit.
As you can see I did run out of yarn but was lucky enough to find this Bella Baby Alpaca Blend yarn in my stash.
A cute little hat even if I say so myself.
I love the decreasing effect too.
And just to finish off, I made this Ruffles Cowl a while ago. It's a very quick knit.
I can see me wearing this cowl when cruising around Milford Sound in New Zealand as that will probably be one of the coldest places I visit.
I made it with Sullivans Celtic which is a 10ply yarn.
Here's a sneaky peek at my latest lot of spinning that I started yesterday. The colour is called 'Outback' and it's one of the rovings I bought from Kathy's Fibres.
That's all my news for now. I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend filled with lots of fibre and yarn.
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Happy Wednesday, folks!
We hope your December has been filled with peaceful moments and clarity- something that today's tea almost demands of you from your first sip. Remember to give yourself breaks this holiday season that are just for you. You're worth it. And so are we- ready?
Tea: Japanese Sencha
Description: Japanese monks were writing about tea in the 9th century, but the world had to wait until 1740 for Sencha, when a tea merchant named Nagatani perfected a new process of steaming, rolling and heat-drying green tea. The result? An emerald-green tea that's refreshing and smooth. No wonder it's Japan's most popular drink.
Ingredients: Steamed Japanese green tea from Mount Fuji, Japan.
The first time Stacey and I had this tea was two years back- it was a cold blistery day and as soon as we took our first sips we immediately craved sushi. So, we did what any sane people do when in the dead of winter in the capital- we bundled up with our hats, mittens, and scarves and hustled into the cold wind to the nearest sushi restaurant. With our maki on its way, we indulged in this simple and delicious, light and caring, perfect green tea (Read about it here).
Today, however, we're at it again with busy schedules and barely enough time to spend a few minutes together over Skype.
Brooke: Mmm- this one is so zen! I wish I was somewhere more peaceful.
Stacey: I am so brought back to our sushi adventure two years ago in the Byward Market. This is the kind of green tea you want to have in your cupboard.
Brooke: I appreciate its simplicity- very unlike DAVIDsTEA on the whole, yet so exceptional.
Stacey: It's refreshing, really. Not everyone likes the crazy flavours. Though, not everyone likes this flavour, apparently. My mom said it tasted like smelly socks.
Brooke: What?! Was she drinking the same tea?
Stacey: I have no idea. I thought she would have liked it, it's a green tea. I love it.
Brooke: Me too. It's so lightly steeped, and so few leaves are needed to get the flavours you want. Mmm. I would want to have this at Spa Nordik .
Stacey: Oh yes!! You would want to have this in a bathrobe and get a massage afterward. I really like this one.
Brooke: I love how easy going it is. Can teas be easy going?
Stacey: Fun fact- while the tea is the same from two years ago, it looks like it's from a different part of Japan!
Brooke: They've always got to change something…
Final thoughts:
Stacey: This tea is seems good for productivity, it's a simple green tea which all you really need. While my family may not enjoy it, I give it a thumbs up. Now I really am craving sushi again…
Brooke: This tea hides nothing and ask nothing in return. It's simple, delightful, and would go perfectly with a warm hot bubble bath (if you aren't feeling a glass of merlot). Cheers, David!
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The last gasps of Bloomberg's nanny state?
Depending on how a City Council vote goes down today, you might need to be 21 to purchase cigarettes in New York City. The City Council is expected to vote today on a measure that would raise the smoking age in the city, where it's getting harder and harder to smoke every day, to 21. And if it passes, it will take aim at the cool kids in high school (yes some things never change, the cool kids in high school still smoke) who are starting their countdowns to lung cancer.
"Why are we doing this? Well let's look at the data. Eighty percent of adult smokers in New York City started before age 21," City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is quoted as saying in a report from CBS New York. The measure also includes e-cigarettes, and is seen as one more battle in Mayor Michael Bloomberg ongoing mission to make smoking in New York as difficult and expensive as possible. "Over his years in office, the city — at times with the council's involvement — helped impose the highest cigarette taxes in the country, barred smoking at parks and on beaches and conducted sometimes graphic advertising campaigns about the hazards of smoking," NBC New York reported, adding that officials say adult smoking rates in the city are currently at 14.8 percent versus 21.5 percent nine years ago.
Federal law says that the smoking age is 18 — meaning young people born in 1995 are allowed to buy cigarettes right now — but cities and municipalities are allowed to raise that age. In
ancient Greek states some places the age is 19, and in Needham, Mass. you have be 21. And if the City Council votes to pass the measure today, New York City would become the biggest city in the country put the 21-year-old age requirement on cigarettes.
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After reading the article about Mr. Tim Sutton�s bid for another re-election and Mr. Collis�s letter, I felt a need for this letter.
I guess Mr. Sutton can pat himself on the back about his reign as a county commissioner for Alamance County, but I think all things should be considered. As a taxpayer of this county, I too don�t like paying higher taxes, but with all things going up, how can department heads keep �holding the line� each year or doing without again and again? The Sheriff�s Office needs new cars, EMS needs new ambulances . . . these seem to be the headlines over the past few years. Some of the buildings in this county that the employees must work in every day need to be replaced. Mr. Sutton thought it was a good idea to purchase an old school building for future use? Now sits a vacant lot that was purchased for $500,000, after the building had to be torn down, all with taxpayer money. He wants to reduce or do away with employees� benefits, take away longevity pay, sounds like to me he is wanting to balance the budget on the employees� backs. Mr. Sutton, you should talk to some county employees sometime, the morale is poor due to low pay and poor benefits. The last I knew, there are no lines of people wanting jobs in county government!
Now I hear talk of reducing the tax rate again because �things are getting better,� so instead of keeping the tax rate the way it is, they want to reduce it again? I vote to keep it the way it is and give the employees raises, and have some departments purchase equipment and supplies that they have done without over the last few years.
Mr. Sutton, maybe it�s time for you to step down, get in some new people that are willing to listen and maybe help break up this �good old boys politics�! Maybe then some of these 25 percent raises can be put to good use for the whole county, not just one person!


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As tradition, each Pokemon game always has an enhanced version with new gameplay enhancements, new storyline, and new Pokemons. Of course, Pokemon Sun and Moon will also have new version called Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon which is expected to bring lots of new things to Pokemon fans. Thanks to the latest Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon trailer 2, we get to see more new additions to the game. For that, with no further ado, let's join us and see what's new in the latest Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon trailer!
To present Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, Nintendo actually released 2 trailers: English and Japanese trailer. Both trailers are quite fascinating (though we prefer Japanese version more), and so, let's check out each of them! Starting with the English trailer!
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Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Trailer 2 English
Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Trailer 2 Japanese
Final Thought
Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Trailer 2 English
*Source: The Official Pokémon YouTube Channel
Ultra Space and the Ultra Beasts
The very first thing featured in this English trailer is that we get to travel into the Ultra Space. Players will be able to ride Solgaleo or Lunala (according to the game version) via Ultra Wormhole into the Ultra Space and discover what lies beyond this mysterious realm. Interestingly, we will get to have more awesome battles with the Ultra Beasts we've already known in their own realm. Each Ultra Beast will have their own realm, and we will traverse these unknown lands to… capture them?
Ultra Megalopolis and Necrozma
Next, there is a whole new story with Necrozma as the center. We will travel to a new grand city named Ultra Megalopolis which described as the world has its Light stolen by Necrozma. With this information, we can expect Necrozma to be somewhat… main antagonist of this new story.
Ultra Recon Squad and the new Ultra Beasts
New organization is also introduced which is the Ultra Recon Squad. Its members wear a rather futuristic and spacesuit-like outfit. Although we see them challenge players in battle, their true motive is still a mystery and we don't know whether they are villains or not.
Finally, 2 new characters are revealed: Phyco and Soliera, both are members of Ultra Recon Squad. We also see them challenge players in battle, featuring new Ultra Beasts controlled by these 2 characters:
- UB Adhesive: a Poison-type Ultra Beast with a rather small and cybernetic-alien looking. It can unleashe a purple chemical into the opponent and seems to buff UB Adhesive itself. However, the detail of this ability is still unknown.
- UB Burst: a Fire/Ghost-type Ultra Beast with humanoid clown-like features. It has Mind Blown ability which blows its own head and reduces its health by half. Still, we don't what this ability does exactly yet.
- UB Assembly: a Rock/Steel-type Ultra Beast resembling a massive grey stone tower. It can raise a steel barrier which is expected to reflect opponent's ability or increase its own defense.
Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Trailer 2 Japanese
*Source: GameXplain
Personally, we believe the Japanese trailer looks more epic than the English trailer, featuring the battle between Lunala and Necrozma, the invasion of the Ultra Beasts, and the Solgaleo – Necrozma fusion.
First off, we have the mysterious Necrozma which seems to be the one responsible for Eclipse. It appears in Alola region and battles with Lunala in a form of a pitch-black cloud.
Next, the Ultra Beasts also make their appearance and invade the Alola region. In the trailer, we can see the two new Ultra Beasts UB Burst and UB Assembly. Also, we see the two invading Ultra Beasts: Xurkitree and Guzzlord which facing Kahuna Nanu in Ruins of Abundance.
Coming up next, we see Solgaleo – Necrozma fusion which looks extremely menacing and it unleashes rather dark aura instead of the light. This fusion Pokemon seems to be sealed in an unknown area. Meanwhile, players and Lillie will receive the light and expected to gain great power.
Later on, we see players travel in Ultra Megalopolis and we also get to see recurring characters like Guzma, Gladion, Hau, and Lusamine (she doesn't look so good). Again, we see players travel to the Ultra Space. Eventually, the players arrive at an area which seems to be where Solgaleo – Necrozma fusion sealed.
Finally, we see Necrozma uses its arms capture the light source, heavily implies Necrozma's nature of devouring light and its center role in the new story.
Final Thought
Whenever a new enhanced Pokemon version is announced, players always expect a new awesome storyline. And this time, the story of Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon looks extremely epic based on both trailers.
Story Prediction
It seems the new story will start right after the main storyline from Pokemon Sun and Moon with the defeat of Lusamine. This time, the Ultra Beasts arrive at the Alola region and invade the land with their tremendous abilities. We, along with other characters will have to find out where they come from and how to stop them.
Also during this time, Necrozma makes its appearance and it seems want to possess Solgaleo and Lunala since these two legendary Pokemon represents the Light. Eventually Necrozma fused with one of them, for example: Solgaleo – Necrozma fusion in the Japanese trailer. We predict that during this exact moment, the new characters Phyco and Soliera from Ultra Recon Squad will appear and capture the Solgaleo – Necrozma fusion. This can explain why we see Solgaleo – Necrozma fusion sealed in later on. And by the look of the area, it seems this area located in Ultra Megalopolis.
As the results, players will have to travel to Ultra Space and find Solgaleo – Necrozma fusion. But even so, freeing Solgaleo – Necrozma fusion won't be a simple task, especially when Necrozma is the one devours Light. Therefore, we also see a scene in Japanese trailer which shows players and Lillie receive the Light.
So, what do you think?
That said; these are still predictions. We will have to wait and see what's new in the future. But for now, we can safely say this new story will be awesome! But what about you? What do you think about the two new Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon trailers? Feel free to share with us!
And so that's it folk! Thank you and stay tune for more news in the future!
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Safin got beat by who? Pennetta's still rolling, this time flattening Cibulkova in Linz while Zvonareva managed to lose her serve but still crush Llagostera Vives 2 and bagel. Alona Bondarenko had a good win against Schnyder and will play Bartoli.
Gasquet had a whinge after losing to Darcis, "I didn't play very well. The end of the season is long and tough, and I'm struggling to move about the court," Gasquet said. "My knee and my elbow are hurting." Nurse!
Nadal is on the most influential list. He's number 30 on Ask Men's list (why does Ask Men have a most influential list?). No sign of Fed but Obama and Steve Jobs are on top. C'mon, how many Majors does Obama have?


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