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Davos debate: How to fix finance?
The credit crunch has left little of the globe unaffected and few sectors of the world economy untouched. The interlinkages between economics and finance are at the core of discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Reuters News asked delegates for their analysis of the roots of the problem and prescriptions for recovery.
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what about private financial institutions benefiting of global market,incresing there gains ,preserving them by fiscal evasion,and somehow target indirectly the souvereinity of state nation.
some of this financial consortium have sometimes higher incomes than some small countries.
is there a way to bring states regulations to direct this movements,or transparancy to knock down financial piracy?
It is important to realize the inflationary effect that USA is exporting to the rest of the world, with a currency that no longer have value.
New rules have to be set, no more Keynes, no more US Dolar with reserve currency status, no more of the same rules that put us in this financial debacle.
FIAT money is the root of our economic plight, Why not going back to the Gold standard ?
It is time for new rules in this global economy…maybe we should seriously consider devising a global banking watchdog that can effectively handle all of the global markets and keep them in check, without becoming corrupted in the process. I think the rules and regulations need to be exercised across all borders if we really want to fix the global financial crisis we are facing today. This is definitely not the fault of one country, nor the fault of one financial institution or government, it is the lack of global financial rules and regulations and it is also the old rules and regulations that have been applied to economics and banking…this is no longer the world that these theories were written in and applied to a modern world. They stated that the system couldn't be broken but it has…on all levels and at levels unprecedented except for the Great Depression. If the global economy suffers a Great Depression, I can only say that chaos will happen in modernized countries like it happens in third world countries that live in ancient times and have not moved into the world we live in today.
It seems in all the fora about the prevailing economic/financial situation, we have forgotten about, one very crucial factor, Human.
This is on e factor that cannot be analysed, dissected, or expung so that this scenerio we have now, does not repeat itself again in the nearest futute.
So, how do we guard against, greed, excess bravado, unimpeded confidence in ourself, so that 10 0r 15 years when we gone through another boom, it would land us at the doorstep of bust.
I think the issue of massive regulatory failure needs to be addressed much more explicitly. I am a former bank regulator (a Director of Research of the New York State Banking Dept.) and I have spent many years in the investment banking world involved in risk management, risk reporting and risk technology. Lately there have been several proposals for revising the regulatory process, including establishing a clearing house for credit-default swaps. consolidating regulators, new reporting requirements, etc. But there seems to be a failure to recognize that the regulatory process can only work if there are good regulatory people looking at the matters every day. If I may let me offer the following comments:
1. The bank regulators have had the authority to examine any aspect of a bank's activities. They had the authority to figure out what was going at the banks on and to limit it. The regulators did nothing. So all the new regulations on paper will mean nothing if the regulators cannot or will not do their jobs.
2. Mr. Timothy Geithner recently said "First, the multitude of overlapping regulators must be rationalized into a coherent few, the communication between them improved and their turf battles ended". Unfortunately consolidating the regulators will produce some streamlining but will not likely achieve the desired goals. Sending a regulator who makes $50,000 dollars a year to examine the activities of sophisticated financial traders who make millions of dollars a year is not a fair battle. And if you have ever worked in a government agency, as I did for over 4 1/2 years, you will be intimately familiar with the viciousness of the turf battles among the senior officials. There is a lot of deadwood at the top of the agencies and it needs to be cleaned out. A Herculean task if there ever was one.
There's quite a few measures that will be resented enormously by bankers, and will be very effective:
1. A ban on bonus-payments.
2. A ban on mixing good and bad risks (the investor should do that him or herself)
3. A Tobin tax or something equivalent to prevent currency speculation
4. An end to CDOs. They were not needed before they were invented.
5. Retrogression on all income based on short-term profits but long-term losses.
6. A 90% income tax on income above 20x median income.
7. (Optional: public flogging of managers who obtained more than $100 million from companies that have received state help. Anyway, irresponsible bankers have created huge holes in my pension fund, and in the state budget (future taxes), I'm mad as hell).
Turn it around….encourage your investors by rewarding a savings plan. A credit card that pays interest on a credit balance would encourage everybody to save.10% on a credit balance, 25% on a debit balance. The credit company would still make it's profit on big spenders. It is only greed and bad planning that got the world into this mess. If we have to use money to trade, make it work!
The problem is criminal activity in our federal government and monetary system. Solution: Vote out incumbent Republicans and Democrats and elect 3rd party candidates. Abolish the federal reserve and return to the gold standard. Withdraw ourselves from the WTO and NAFTA and the likes. Reduce our over seas military involvement by 100%. Bring large scale manufacturing back to America. And we must greatly reduce and limit the size of the federal government. One thing for sure is that we are not free people and our markets are far from free as well. The Federal government controls both the means and the end. We need to change that.
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I'll try to keep this simple so easier to absorb … there has been a new evolution of thinking happening for sometime … but because of power monopolies and the insecurity of loosing them a certain business formula has been used behind many exploitation masks … with moral lines crossed by the likes of Madoff and other…. without expanding on the subject of holistic philosophy "go google" but there is a machination as with Tao of quantum physics and its micro macro … the One with yin – yang dynamics major and minor within 3 layers of the 8fold.
so you have the majors US – EU … minor Russia – China … and G8
a harmony of dynamic economic activity is a move towards this model …. the strength of the US is in multicultural unity , a nucleus … but the failure is external exploitations and overheated growth … rather than an economic continuum returning the the public whole as One … the push shove self interest and black holes of corruption has lead to a moral edge of colapse … put simply find that harmony around the US nucleus the fall of empire will be avoided … we have the communication tools now and the US has a president that can listen and apply the changes … a lot of forgivness and olive branches.
it's about mentality … as with foundations many use … the hard ball competition is still there but it returns to support the one including self rather than out into a vacuum … fight to win in a different way …. education
as long as these unethical people who helped create this disaster are in control and still collecting high salaries and bonus from a public handout we are heading to a system crash very soon… though a certain amnesty for judgement errors is needed to bring back the lost $$ trillions back into play … cut out the rot now or the desease will kill us all.
I feel the only way to avoid this colapse is the big traders need more stable small trade partners , not creating war zones … so remove the bully monopoly mentality that has overheated and now strangled world trade … spead it wisely … techno manufacturing in Africa for EU … Sth America for US … Asia for Australasia … China for high volume … transport cost saved … ecotech energy to cut consumer costs … then oil price rise to keep them alive too …. balance and equilibrium in a complex world.
at the moment it's still like uncivilized push and shove for everything in life.
but we live in hope .
if anyone likes to chat about the subject my email … firstname.lastname@example.com
Why keep wasting time?:
The World will go back to the GOLD STANDARD by default, better act now, reality always wins.
What needs to be done is beyond any governments reach.
You are absolutely right S. Hellinger and Trevor. I think the regulators failed us. We need people in these positions who can't be corrupted and are not afraid of the CEO's of large corporations and banks that will look at their books and probe, without fear. I think they should be paid much more than $55,000 a year, I believe that would help bring in some really smart people who know how to make $250,000 a year but would work for the government or the right people if the salaries weren't so low.
Problem is not the economy, it's the non transperency in how assets are valued. Who establishes the parameters? As far as the dollar, the US is still a powerful growth engine. Do not discount it or it's currency. In the past many have discounted US ability to succeed.
A new world order would make it against the laws for anyone to make more money than the man who has the most responsibility. No one can demonstrate that they have more responsibility than the president of the country. Therefore, bonus etc. should be lower than that of the president of the USA, China, etc.
If you don't mind me asking:
What exactly is being taught at the schools and universities that make business leaders and accountants have a never ending desire for money, to the point of destroying everything around them?
What ethics and morals come along with degrees in finance and accounting?
What sort of friendships are made and who enables their anti-social desire and fires up their ambition beyond reason?
Why is it that pride in your nationality and desire to do good to your society are not seen as qualities?
My first suggestion for the US is that instead of investing Social Security money in the T-Bills w/ 2%+ returns, we should invest of those money in buying Fannimae's new loan w/ strickly 80% of the colaterals and "full doc". By doing that we can lower the 30yrs mortgage rates to 4.5% or better while increasing Social Security funds' returns w/ much almost double. Secondly, the Fed and law makers should never have bail-out banks but let it runs its course. There will not be bank-run because depositors are protected by FDIC for $100k, which has been increased to $300k recently. $700bil should be helping to stop foreclosures. I hope Americans don't have to go on street like French citizens do, whom I admired their courage and understanding of the seriousness of the bailout problem.
Good Luck Americans and may God bless America, before it is too late.
It should be clear to everyone that we need an international set of standards administered by one internationally recognized organization or, alternatively, harmonized sets of national standards administered nationally, which will: (1) define "securities" to include derivatives, credit default swaps, and anything else which is dependent upon performance for realization of value, (2) register securities so that complete and accurate information is available quickly and easily on each security and its risks, (3) evaluate issuers of securities to rate the likelihood of performance, and (4) evaluate prospective purchasers of securities to make sure that offerings are made to and sales consummated only to purchasers who (a) understand what they are buying and (b) can bear the risk.
Davos 2009 Conference Shows The World At An Economic Crossroads……
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Limit, by law, the amount of money any one CEO can earn. The stockhoders should get a percentage of the take. I agree with comment – January 29th, 2009 10:57 pm GMT – Posted by jal
Davos delegate comment: Best Buy CEO
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another clue to holistic economic equilibrium and stability … the capitalist system has great dynamic merit relying on fair competition.. privatization of some entities works other don't … some elements work better with a socialist model … education and health as a birth right not a brutal unfair battle breeding social resentments.
positive working fundamentals are there but for the holistic global model to work properly , needed is a return of some business entities to stable government control … the proven capital free markets that build stable connections create the expansion dynamics … proven beneficial foundations sponsored by tax incentives getting wider use …. once a positive flow through to the whole of humanity is acheived stable equilibrium will be found .
for this to happen all the wasted arguments or blame games must be replaced by clearly presented communication towards co-operation.
the other benefit found world peace … not just a dream .
The answer is both absurdly simple and hard to do.
The U.S. has abused its position as providing the world's reserve currency. It continues to extract the maximum possible rent from this through cheap debt.
Dethrone the U.S. $ and there will be an end to huge global imbalances, debt binges etc. Of course, hard to do both in terms of what will replace it and the transition. But anything else is just hot air. Tackle the fundamental problem.
We first step towards reducing global financial balances and therefore reducing financial instability is to acknowledge that we cannot all grower faster than trend. We cannot all be better than average. Keynesian policies on steroids known as non-Ricardian fiscal policies are the source of global financial imbalances characterized as persistant current account deficits on one hand with currency manipulation to remain export competitive on the other. It works in the short-term, but longer term it shows up as unsustainable financial imbalances, a misallocation of resources, and exacerbates the boom and the bust of the business cycle as there are fewer natural mechanisms for self-rigthing those imbalances. Reduce your global financial imbalances and markets will be less prone to violent corrections.
Dear Sir,
I have been putting some thought to the current global financial crisis and would like to put forward to you a hypothesis for consideration, if it is a viable solution to the increasingly catastrophic situation the global financial system is currently experiencing.
It is about time that someone came up with some constructive thoughts and started to look at the 'credit crunch / recession /depression) as an entirely global problem that is not going to improve in anything like the near future.
Global problems require global solutions and the only REAL solution is to tackle the problem on a global scale.
Consider this hypothesis – the only way to revive the world economy is to instill confidence in the public mind, give investors something to invest in!
Banks and bankers cannot do this anymore nobody trusts them
The answer is to respond to the masses in such a way that they have the power to bring the world economy back on track.
Bring confidence back and it will turn around very quickly, the burning question is HOW?
A simple solution is available, provided that the world financial systems and all governments work as one entity for one goal.
Close down all financial dealings for 48 hours
The concept is to take all global assets, everything but hard cash and reduce the value to one tenth
Next take all cash assets and multiply value by ten
(this would require revaluation of every world currency) yes print new money
This would create wealth for every man and women in the world overnight and create a differential of 100 times between asset values and cash values globally and therefore will not have any inflationary impact whatsoever.
after 48 hours all transactions would recommence with all assets a tenth of what they were before, but cash assets having being multiplied by ten they would be worth 100 times more. However the status quo of assets, wages, prices, etc., relatively, will remain the same.
The windfall from the change gives revenue back to the people to spend but have 100 times more spending power. Costs of assets are slashed and the cash assets allow people to buy houses and spend while still maintaining the original differential as the revaluation is totally global therefore there will be no difference in the relative values of assets compared to incomes.
If such a plan was considered and published globally it would almost certainly create confidence, in fact ity may even improve the world economy before it is applied. Just the knowledge of global improvement may give the kick-start the banking bail-out strategy has not.
I am an engineer, not an economist, I look for solutions to problems every day.
CG London
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London, British Library, ms. Burney 75
Manuscript Pages
- London, British Library, ms. Burney 75: page range 193v–200r
Additional Information
- Acquired: donated by the estate of Ihor Ševčenko
- Film: 35mm Black-and-white Negative
Ševčenko's box:
32 75
Fols. 193v-199r
Demetrios Kydones
Epistolæ ad Cantacuzenum Imperatorem
v. Forshall 31
Direct 198
Library label (photograph, first imag on film):
Title: folios 194-199
Library: British Museum
Order No. Direct 198
Bri[t?] No. Burney Ms. 75.
Despite both of the above, the film in fact includes fols. 193(390)v – 200(401)r. See manuscript description for foliation. This is a very clear and legible, high-quality film.

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|The Work of Trevett Allen
Studio Portfolio Websites
Portraying ourselves as artists is a difficult task. Our goals really decide a lot of our design issues when it comes to making a site. Your website for my classes are aimed at demonstrating understanding. Who are you as an artist? How do you demonstrate this so we can see what you have achieved and what you are interested in? This site will document your work, research, and the path of your visual thinking as it evolves.
This means that you will add everything you have done rather than showing only your best which you would do if you were publicizing your art to sell or advertise your services for money.
This site will serve as an example. I try to do as much of what I assign as possible so I properly appreciate the difficulty and also to provide more accurate guidance. I don't want you to copy the site but rather to use it as an idea of how to show what you have learned and how to package creative inquiry projects. Hopefully you know enough about my work and interests from our class discussions for this to be instructive.
Elements of Online Portfolios:
We have a lot of stuff going on in our courses. We have a wiki for each class, wiki pages to communicate assignments, personal pages to communicate about your personal projects, interdisciplinary projects, and artist studies. We also work on drawing, painting, sculpting, and conceptual work. We have sketchbooks. Soon, we will have iPads. Not only that, we now have these crazy things Mr Allen calls Studio Portfolio Websites,...
So, what is this nonsense about one more thing called Dynamic Portfolios?
Well, the dynamic portfolio is actually just a name for all of your digital pages and your portfolio online. It is called dynamic because it grows and changes with you. Technology changes constantly. So do you and so does your learning. Here are the current elements.
Best work gallery/Main Gallery
Digital Sketchbook/Photo Documentation
Inquiry Projects/Interdisciplinary Projects
Artist Statement (Process and Practice)/Bio
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Wisconsin Gets Mixed Grades in Annual Tobacco Report
BROOKFIELD, Wis. – The new 2015 American Lung Association State of Tobacco Control report has a mixed bag of grades for the Badger State:
An A for smoke-free air, a B for its level of tobacco taxes but an F in tobacco prevention and control funding. The state also received a failing grade for access to smoking cessation services.
Dr. Steven Brown, a Brookfield pulmonologist, says Wisconsin fared better than many other states, but he points out that tobacco use kills 7,000 Wisconsinites every year.
"Under almost any other circumstance, if you had 7,000 people die of a disease, you'd consider it a pandemic," he states. "You would be getting major headlines – I mean, if 7,000 people died in Wisconsin from influenza, you know, it would make national headlines."
Brown maintains it's imperative that the state spend a great deal more money on smoking cessation programs.
"State of Wisconsin receives – through tobacco taxes, for example – over $600 million annually in revenue, yet less than 1 percent of that money goes towards smoking cessation programs," he points out.
According to the American Lung Association, despite decades of work, tobacco use is still the number one cause of preventable death.
While smoking rates are at their lowest level ever in Wisconsin, still 18 percent in the state are smokers, as well as 10 percent of high school students.
Brown adds smoking has staggering financial repercussions, and that it is far more expensive to treat smoking-related illnesses than to prevent them.
"We spend, in Wisconsin, billions of dollars annually – billions – in health care towards people who are the victims of smoking, and if that money could be targeted towards prevention of smoking, the investment would be huge," he stresses.
To get help quitting smoking, or find out more about the report and the work of the American Lung Association, call 1-800-LUNG-USA or go online to LungWI.org.


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by Linda Rodriguez
On April 27th at the 71st annual Edgar Awards Banquet in New York City, The Stiletto Gang's own Dru Ann Love will receive the prestigious Raven Award. The Raven Award is a special award given for outstanding achievement in the mystery field outside the realm of creative writing. This award was first given in 1953. People and organizations, such as Dorothy Kilgallen, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Alfred Hitchcock, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eudora Welty, Angela Lansbury, Bouchercon Mystery Convention, Bill Clinton, Otto Penzsler, Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, and Sisters in Crime, have won this award. And now Dru Ann wins it for her dedication to the field and the contributions her wonderful book blog, Dru's Book Musings, has made to the field of the mystery.
Dru reviews a huge number of books every year, and her reviews are all based on careful reading and high standards. She also hosts a series called "A Day in the Life," where authors write a post from the viewpoint of a major character to give the reader a taste of that author's voice and characterization skills. Her book blog is a major player in the strong field of book blogs that have replaced the vanished book review sections of newspapers and magazines.
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All of her blogmates here at The Stiletto Gang have been very excited by this news, and we all send her a huge CONGRATULATIONS! We couldn't be happier to see her reaping well-deserved recognition for the important work she does. And on April 27th, we'll all be raising a glass of champagne to our dear Dru Ann as she receives her award.
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text: Athey Moravetz is doing some tasty work with her 3-D printers. The video game designer has worked on PlayStation games like Resistance Retribution and Uncharted Golden Abyss. She's also a self-described "jack-of-all-trades," skilled with 3-D modeling tools like Maya, and knows how to design compelling characters with them. After having two children she decided to work from home, and in addition to keeping active in the computer graphics industry, she also created a wildly successful Etsy shop, where she sells 3-D printed cookie cutters based on nerd culture favorites Pokemon, Dr. Who and Super Mario Brothers.While many homemakers have a secret cookie recipe, Moravetz has a small fleet of MakerBots. Her four MakerBot Replicators run simultaneously to keep up with the demand for her products. She says "I turn the bots on when I get up in the morning to get my daughter ready for school. So they turn on about 8 am, and they're running all day long from that point until an automated timer I've got them plugged into, turns them off at 3am. That way I can get in one last print started as I'm going to bed."While her business is booming now, the idea was originally far less epic. She says "We jokingly said that maybe we could print little trinkets and sell them on Etsy to pay for the MakerBot — while honestly not believing we could do this. It was just an excuse to ourselves for dropping two grand on something we didn't really 'need'."Moravetz's creations have yielded 829 sales. With prices ranging from $3.75 to $22.50, this sure beats the average bake sale.Designing cookie cutters requires design skill — not every game character makes for a good cookie. Moravetz says "I had a lot of people requesting Dr. Who stuff — Tardis and Dalek specifically. A Dalek just doesn't read unless you include the inner detail — the silhouette is only readable to a certain degree. It needs the inner detail. But it needs a lot of small inner detail, and I try to avoid cutters going over three and a half inches in any direction. I made a four inch Dalek, but it took nearly two and a half hours to print, and when you're getting as many orders as I am right now, any cutter that takes that long to print is hardly worth it." Like Dr. Who, she outwitted the Dalek and now offers it for sale alongside the Tardis.Having 3-D printers at home makes developing new products faster than sending them out to service bureaus. Moravetz shares a story of how she used her 3-D printer to break a reluctant pony. She says "Another one that's been difficult is Princess Celestia from My Little Pony. Almost every time I print a cutter off for the first time, there's something wrong with it. First prints are never perfect. I always have to go back and make some lines thicker, and some thinner, or add in some extra supports because an area was too flimsy and prone to cracking."With four 3-D printers in use now, one might think Moravetz is set for production capacity, but like any good manufacturer, she's always evaluating the new options. However, even though now as nearly as many 3-D printers as Pokemon characters, new releases are a poor match for her product category and production needs. She says "I've taken a look at the Replicator 2, since it's supposed to be a lot more stable mechanically, and faster. But the Replicator 2 only uses PLA, and PLA melts in the dishwasher, so it won't work for cookie cutters. The Replicator 2X is for ABS, but it's still 'experimental' and isn't even for sale yet." Next generation, light based systems like the Form 1 and B9 Creator are interesting to Moravetz, especially the increased accuracy, but her unique production constraints make it an unlikely pairing. "Just the same, the extra steps necessary in production — dealing with the liquid resin and all the mess that would entail; chemical bath of the prints when they're done to cure the object; cleanup — is not something I'm honestly interested in at the moment," she says. "Plus, I have no idea how food-safe the resin would be or how those prints would hold up to a dishwasher. So it wouldn't really work for me."With nearly $10,000 worth of 3-D printing gear in her home office, Moravetz has been keen to find other applications for her tools. "Costume stuff is actually the first 'commission' type things I did with the Makerbot," she says. "But cosplay commissions are super work and time consuming, and the amount of plastic needed for some of these props, in addition to the time it takes to print pieces that big, makes it really not cost effective. Most people wanted things that were too big for the printer to do, anyway, so I'd have to print them in pieces and then use Bondo to put them together and sand it and paint it and…. you get the picture." Still, for all the trouble, she was able to produce a pretty sweet Portal Gun replica.Photos: Athey Moravetz


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Then and Now show extended to September 30th!Saturday, August 29th, 2009
Good news! The Then and Now show at The Center has been extended to September 30th! If you haven't gone yet, I urge you to check out this stunning group show and experience being a part of GLBT history on the 40th anniversary of Stonewall!
Then and Now, 20th Anniversary of the Center Show
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OKLAHOMA CITY – While crews were battling a blaze near a neighborhood in northwest Oklahoma City, officials in the southeast part of the city were working on another large fire.
Shortly after 2;30 p.m., firefighters were called to the area of S.E. 89th St. and I-35 for a grassfire.
Smoke could be seen for miles as crews continued to try and get the fire under control.
The fire continued to gain traction as it consumed dry grass along an industrial part of the city.
However, workers nearby tried to contain the fire by creating a firewall.
They used construction equipment to tear up the grass, leaving dirt surrounding the blaze.
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The Coffee Shops and the 2014 High Times Cannabis Cup
I just returned from the High Times Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, and thought I might share some thoughts about the state of the legalization efforts in the Netherlands, as contrasted to the US.
The Coffee Shops
Amsterdam is famous for its coffee shops, where those over 18 are permitted to purchase and enjoy marijuana. But in recent years the Dutch government has taken steps to close a few of the shops, and limit the amount which one can purchase to five grams from any one shop. Yet, despite these changes, coffee shops remain plentiful and high quality marijuana remains convenient to anyone in Amsterdam.
Importantly for us Americans, contrary to the public statements issued by government officials in recent months declaring the coffee shops are off-limits to foreigners, fear not; there are coffee shops in nearly every block in downtown Amsterdam and I visited at least eight of them during my five days in the country, and never once did anyone ask if I were a citizen of the Netherlands. And in many of the coffee shops I visited, there were several other American tourists also enjoying this unique experience, along with plenty of locals as well.
To read the balance of this column, please go to Marijuana.com.
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December 1, 2014
Maastricht in Limburg Province was received massive complaints from its downtown inhabitants about all the foreigners clogging up the streets and taking up all the parking, so they wanted to move their coffeeshops to the outskirts of town on the Belgian side, and then the Belgians bitched, pissed, and moaned, so now you need to be a resident, basically if you go to a coffeeshop in Limburg.
And I read in the Dutch newspaper Het Parool that lord mayor of Amsterdam shut down the High Times Cannabis Cup Amsterdam at the Radion dance club because that club didn't have the exploitation permit (exploitatievergunning)and that someone filed the application only 12 days before the event was to begin. Dutch authorities easily take several months just to process your residency permit (verblijfsvergunning) or whatever kind of permit. And the lord mayor was pissed that the same outfits that in past years were selling weed and giving away free samples at the Cup were back again this time.
I don't know if that's been going on the entire time since the beginning of High Times' Cannabis Cup in Mokum but Minister Ivo Opstelten has been exerting his prohibitionist influences on as many people and jurisdictions as he can.
Have you enlisted the help of Nol van Schaik, and considered moving the Cup to Haarlem? It's not that far away. Utrecht also has its own Cannabis Cup at its Jaarbeurs trade center. Both cities are super easy to get to by train from Centraal Station in Amsterdam. You just need a hotel back in Amsterdam the night before you leave because trains don't run at all hours between the cities.
I spent 5 glorious days in Amsterdam back in 1989. Loved the coffee shops and the whole experience.
I posted this at Marijuana.com but it bears repeating.
Howard Wooldridge is working to get the UN to change its stance on drugs and particularly cannabis to some effect. He recently hosted a German and French delegation to Colorado to see how things were going there. The two delegations were favorably impressed.
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It sounds a little less like "Prohibitionist" behavior and more like old fashioned Dutch pride and sovereignty and the fate of the sacred parking space. The United States built our parking lots in paradise long after the horse-drawn carriage, so I don't believe we have the same problems as Amsterdam.
What interest me in comparison to Holland is that they are have much tighter, smaller border security issues. Germany has traditionally been as prohibitionist as the U.S. up until recent times, making it very risky to forget a seed in your pocket when traveling to and from.
Here in the U.S., by contrast, we suffer from the Republican rhetoric of "securing our borders first," while our domestic drug policy deports locally bred gangsters without telling their country of deportation the criminal records of the deportee. Then we wonder why we have child refugees flocking across the border? Our border is MUCH larger and MUCH more dynamic in comparison to Holland when we consider the hemp coming from Canada and the marijuana coming from Mexico while demand for cannabis grows in a new domestic cannabis industry.
Furthermore, Dutch law technically says marijuana is illegal but "tolerated," which is clearly not what we're aiming for here in the U.S. We want commercially taxed, small farm subsidized and free residential personal use of all forms of cannabis.
I guess we all have to deal with our own legal and cultural hypocrisies. It's a fine line between being proud and being too proud…
I was in Colorado in September and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The benefits to health and sense of wellbeing are so significant, and the myths that prevent it from being legal worldwide are so illogical that it becomes a human rights issue.
The Netherlands is a signatory to the Schengen Agreement, which means there are No border checkpoints. It's like driving from one state to another in the CONUS. German Police run patrols on the border routes, and profile people then pull them over to search the vehicles, catching Little fish, mainly day trippers going to kofieshops to load up for themselves, family and friends then back home again. You can get wiet and hasj in Görlitzer Park in Berlin; it's like Washington Park in The Big Apple, sold mostly by (illegal) immigrants.
Among the things you mentioned about commercially produced and taxed cannabis products legal in the US, I would like to emphasize that I want the sale of viable cannabis seeds to be legal, also!!!!!!!!!!
You can get viable quality cannabis seeds in The Netherlands (Holland is only the part that was reclaimed from the sea basically)in Austria, the UK, Canada, Spain, but the feds put Marc Emery away for, they say, shipping the cannabis consumers in the US, many of whom no doubt where medical marijuana patients in states where even medical marijuana is prohibited, and they were treating themselves or self-medicating. And, the reason they were/are self-medicating is because the federal government has systematically blocked research and put up roadblocks one after the other to thwart the truth and legalisation.
Minister Opstelten wants any cannabis product of more than 15% THC to be classified and punished by the law as a hard drug such as heroin. He definitely is a prohibitionist.
For more, see this link to a Cannabis Culture article and the posted comments.
I have lived in Colorado for several years, and even before A64, it was not a very big deal at all, though it is nice to officially have some peace of mind finally. However, it is very much a human rights issue, as I find out every time I leave to visit family in Ohio, where marijuana (even though decriminalized since the 70's) can get you into big trouble via municipal codes in various cities. It is absolutely evil for a government with ballot initiative process to undermine the will of voters by making legislation on a city by city basis recriminalizing a plant voters chose to decriminalize. Corruption is rampant, and police have taken my marijuana and pulled down the alley to smoke it…I saw their lighters flickering in their cruiser, and saw the smoke rolling out the window and could even hear them coughing. It is scary to think that what is perfectly legal in one place is a huge deal in most of the same country. More needs to be done for sure. I feel like Anne Frank when lighting up in the privacy of a friend or relative's house, worried overzealous police will burst through the door. (I'm a Jew also lol, so please, no calling me anti-Semitic for that comment. I'm being quite literal.)
I'd like to think other nations would take note of our nations huge national debut, crumbling infrastructure, and policy of mass incarnation, and move away from the failed policy of prohibition.
Once the public becomes aware of the fact that properly made Cannabis Oil medicine can cure or control practically any medical condition, who is going to stand up against the use of Medical Marijuana.
"A toke a day keeps the Doctor Away?"
Learn to make your own oil as well as order Cannabis oil or Cannabis strains .
Amsterdam has to exist since it represents an ideal. Maybe it is a doorway to enlightenment that must remain open. Wake up America. Democracy is also ideal, not an entitlement or a patented implementation or lengthy political process, just simply a right to vote on current issues and to have your vote count towards policy within a timely fashion.


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Freshman Year, 2001: Part Three
This girl deeply intrigued me. And her tight cleavage shined directly at me. Her eye shadow was blue. "I like men though," she said, and as she said it she hit my left peck with the open palm of her hand. "Ooh," she said, as she put her hand back on my left peck. "Oh you like my breasts?" I smiled, "I get plastic surgery at the gym every day." "They're hard like rocks," she smiled with her eyes.
Then a figure caught the corner of my eye. Hot, tanned legs, stemming from a short tight skirt, lead a burning sexy aura through the dark dingy basement air. It was Heather. Over Jackie's head I stared at Heather and felt my heart beat like a maniac. I hadn't seen or talked to her since June, before she had lost her pinky. I wanted to see her but I didn't want to see her pinky.
My beer exuberance funnelled into confusion. Jackie was talking but I wasn't hearing her. Then Heather looked up at me. Our eyes locked. She smiled a broad smile. I made myself smile. Jacky turned around to see what I was looking at. Then I felt her look at me, but my eyes continued fixated on Heather. Then Brent started blabbering again. I slipped out of the circle and my feet travelled towards Heather.
"I can't believe you're here," she said, "I knew you were gonna be here." And with that she wrapped her arms around my back and squeezed me into her tight, firm breasts pressing through her tight pink shirt, and into my chest. She made a little caress on my lower back which sent shivers rippling up my spine. I looked into her eyes and wanted to dive into them, and also her, but wagging "no" between us was that invisible finger. I still hadn't had a look but it was disturbing and I wanted to look but felt that I couldn't.
"Look at that guy, you see him? That's Brent, my friend from the dorm," I pointed and she gazed through the crowd, and furtively, I looked down at her pinky and it was as I had imagined: a glaring deformity, a maniacally grinning oompah loompah. "The cute little guy with the hair?" she asked. "Yup, that's him," I was revolted.
We talked about nothing for five minutes and then I said that I was tired and I wanted to go home. She made an effort to look pouty and disappointed and seductive but I wasn't interested. No matter how skilled, any hand that plays my flute will have at the minimum and maximum five fingers.
I told Brent I was leaving and he didn't want to go because the girls were giving him attention so I told him to invite the girls. "Where, to the dorm?" "I don't care," I said, "invite 'em to get pizza and bang all three in the little boys room. I wanna go."
At the pizza place I couldn't eat. I bought a beautiful slice of cheese, shimmering with grease, but I only took a bite. "You gonna eat that or use it as toilet paper?" Brent asked. "You can have it," I said.
All the three girls were with us. The best one still gave me the occasional eye but she was getting tired and less interested in my sombre self. Brent and the medium one were still hitting it off, sitting at the table with their knees touching, and looking profoundly into one another's glazed eyes as they masticated and swallowed, masticated and swallowed.
The best and the worst walked home together. Medium, named Sarah came to Brent and my dorm and she slipped in bed with him, the top bunk, as his roommate slept like an angel on the bottom.
I couldn't sleep. I was never going to get a hand job like that again. With my roommate on the top bunk, I acted stealthily, auto-launching the torpedoes, and moments after they struck, netted and sticky in a wad of Kleenex, I fell asleep, restlessly, and unconsciously brooding about Heather the beautiful, Heather the nine fingered reigning prom Queen of East Onka High School.
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Eeking this in as our raspberry season is coming to an abrupt close, but with any luck you'll be able to grab a pint at the farmer's market this weekend so you can savor the flavors of summer berry-ness through the fall and winter. I mean, look at this sexy ruby color.
Like the chive blossom vinegar from earlier in the season, flavored vinegars are a great way to add variety to salads or anything needing a kick of acid. Raspberry pairs especially well with salmon, by the way, so I use this in grilled salmon salad with capers and shallots.
The simplest no-recipe-recipe:
I use a handful of raspberries (about 15) for each 1/2 pint canning jar, fill them with white wine vinegar, and set aside for two weeks when the color is most vibrant and red. Strain the berries from the vinegar and funnel into an air-tight bottle for easy pouring (or back into a canning jar would work too).
Don't be shy, use as often, and in anything you'd like. In salads as a primary or finishing vinegar, soups, sauces.
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It was a beautiful day. The kids are on spring break, so we just had 10 in class today. Why not spend the time in the park?
Before we left the classroom, the kids made quick little sketchbooks. They brought pencils and erasers with them to sketch in the park.
But first, we had to use our plastic bowls as boats in the City Hall fountain.
And it was just too nice a day not to get in the fountain. Evidently, there was a sign that said 'no swimming' but we weren't swimming.
The security guards thought otherwise, so we went back to the park to dry and and draw.
Yohana drew a picture of one of the security guards. We all went over to show him the picture and he loved it! He asked her to sign it, and if he have it to frame back at the office. It was a very sweet moment!
We finished up our wonderful spring break afternoon at the playground.
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This time last year, I visited Ukiha, a small farming town in the south of Fukuoka Prefecture, to see the tanada (terraced rice paddies) and the higanbana (red spider lilies) that bloom around the edges of rice fields from mid- to late-September. Because the bulbs of the higanbana are highly poisonous, they're believed to keep mice and other pests away.
As I climbed up a trail that meandered among the rice fields, I was struck by how small many of the patches were. Most were only as wide as a swimming pool lane and half as long. Some of the paddies were so modest in size it begged the question: how much rice could even the most determined farmer ever hope to grow in them? I wondered if it was worth all the effort to lug heavy farm equipment up the mountain, then till the land, irrigate and plant the rice when the yield from such a small plot must surely be negligible?
And so, the following week I went around pestering people to find out exactly how much rice could be harvested from a field that measured, say, one tatami mat in size. Would there be enough rice to make an onigiri (rice ball) or two? I asked some of my college students this question and received answers that varied from 50 to 500 rice balls. Clearly, they hadn't the slightest of clues. With only 3 percent of the population of Japan engaged in farming today — it's no wonder.
I eventually got around to talking to an in-law of mine, who like many rural Japanese, is a weekend farmer. He kindly provided the answer.
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Just today I felt the lap of time.
I was attending a wreath laying at the grave of Sir Donald McLean. His erection is the largest in the Napier Hill cemetery, perhaps not mistakenly: as in many ways he is the greatest grandee there. His is a towering celtic cross. Only closer inspection reveals the ravages of change and time. There are two neat incisions where the cross cracked and collapsed during the 1931 earthquake.
Otherwise the cross is an impeccable piece of funerary ornament - a granite monument covered in the same Celtic tracery, ironically, as Colenso's much smaller Cornish version.
There were ironies everywhere today: most of all, for me, in the absense of a crowd. I don't know what I had been expecting.
The laird of the McLean clan was visiting Napier and he was going to be laying a wreath at the grave of Sir Donald McLean.
There was an elderly man in a kilt playing the bagpipes when I arrived - but I was unsure whether the tune was a lament or something confirmatory.
A few days before I had spent a couple of hours tidying up the gravesite in preparation for the visit.
I was unsure why I did this - to a friend I jokingly compared myself to an old Indian retainer who years later is found sweeping leaves lanquidly off a tomb that everyone else has forgotten.
Perhaps it could be encapsulated as 'respect for the past'.
Yet I was aware of a glaring anomoly. When I and Gail Pope put together the information board for the Napier Hill cemetery, we left Sir Donald McLean off. This was omission by silence if anything. I cannot remember if we talked about it - or maybe the susurration of a few comments, gentle as the afterwash of some more monumental boat passing by, addressed the situation - consigned him to some eternal silence.
We would not celebrate his life: this man so notorious now for 'stealing' Maori land. He had to stand in for all the ignomy of our pakeha ancestors - much as the Queen had to do. So we chose to leave him off (and even in our tours of the cemetery, we directed attention away from him. It was amazing how few people turned, gazd and asked about this enormous cross: people do not notice what they choose 'not to see'.)
Walking towards us through a strangely Scottish mist of early summer rain were three elderly men in kilts. There appeared to be no crowd. I wondered about this - the absence of whanau, of younger people especially to whom this visit could have been full of significance and connection. Instead small disconnected groups of Scots-identified people - everyone over fifty - wandered through the graveyard: the visit of this historic laird was judged so unimportant that the gates of the cemetery were kept locked.
I introduced myself to the laird: he was elderly, seemed to be finding it cold and had the distinctive husky voice of Prince Charles. His clothing, I noticed, was impeccable.
I was unsure how he felt about the commemoration, or even how aware he was of Sir Donald's expired historical visa. He did comment to me, looking into my eyes, about the perplexing absence of Sir Donald on the board of noteables by the entrance.
I prevaricated: the board was about incidents of local history, I lied - 'people falling under trains' I said laughing awkwardly.
I am unsure why I didn't explain to him, quickly, that McLean was now seen, rightly or wrongly, as an evil man - a man we all wanted to forget - a joint ancestor we - and Maori too - wanted to elide from historical memory.
Yet there, in the gentle antipodean mist, with the wail of bagpipes filling the air- there remained his vast historical sepulchre.
He asked me about my mother. (I had told a counciller she could recall Sir RD McLean's funeral (the son of Sir Donald): she recalled the drone of bagpipes as the cortege came up Milton Road in 1929, then the fresher sharper sound as the cortege walked along Napier Terrace into the cemetery.
There would have been crowds.
My mother was aged 13 and she said, it was probably a Saturday (because she was at home and could vividly recall the sound entering the windows of the house:that frisson of history brushing by.)
I wanted her to be there - for a sense of history's recall: for the presence of an eyewitness. And she was missed.
We were all aware of something missing: some essential piece of the jigsaw we could not put our fingers on (historical memory).
When we got closer to the grave I was interested in what form the wrerath laying would have. There was no minister present, no layering of the christianity our culture had brought to these islands. So there was, in effect, no discernible ceremony.
A lot of elderly people stood round, identifying the names of the people on the tombstones but this had a kind of deracinated effect: they were reduced to the meaningless of names and they had the sad clatter of cutlery being tipped out of a drawer.
The laird took off his Scottish hat, and stood back. The wreath was laid: but nothing was said or addressed and so the vast central mystery of our history, McLean's role in it, controversial or wicked or instrumental, was left silent.
We all drifted away at the end inconclusively. It seemed something had happened, we were not sure what it was. Perhaps something had. A wreath of flowers had been laid.
Sir Donald Mclean died on the 5 January 1877. Ten days later, 800 Maori presented themselves at Sir Donald's Napier house (which was situated just across the road from where I sit writing these words.)
They came to mourn, to celebrate and to pay their respects.
A 170 strong party fired off five volleys in honour of the departed man.
Ten days previously between 2000 and 3000 people crowded into the Napier cemetery, including rangitira like Te Hapuku, Tareha and Renata Kawepo - Hawke's Bay chiefs who had eagerly signed the land purchase agreements - and now joined in greiving for a man who had, as Renata Kawepo said, 'guided the canoe safely through the sea of strife.'
'Shall we hereafter move into a world of darkness?' he asked.
Among the mourners was William Colenso.
He was not asked to speak.
In 1877 he was still consigned to the shame of silence.
As - it seems - are we.


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Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel—of irreverent design practice Studio Job—have never played by the rules. So when, early in their careers, they became hastily slotted into the category of "Dutch designers," they resisted the label in the way that felt most fitting: In 2003 they moved their headquarters to Antwerp, Belgium.
"We wanted to escape the suffocating Dutch design scene," says Smeets. "If we stayed in the Netherlands we would end up becoming local heroes on a panel discussion about Dutch design. We wanted to focus on our work, our ideas, and our creativity. Moving countries helped with that."
Fifteen years later, they've moved from their public gallery and headquarters into a spacious loft, large enough to host their vast oeuvre—from hulking bronze furniture to itty-bitty swizzle sticks—which successfully transcends design scenes, cities, and even nations.
"We needed a space for our collection," Smeets says. "I'd rather live in it than have it collecting dust in storage. The plan was to create a Studio Job world where pieces of different styles and years are sitting alongside each other."
Here, Smeets—more so that Tynagel, who spends most of her time in Amsterdam since the pair split up romantically—lives, works, and hosts clients who want to get a feel for the scope of the studio work.
"People are often not sure if it's a gallery or my office or my home, and in fact it's all three," says Smeets.
In the living room Job's painstakingly detailed bronze sculptures—a water pail and spigot, a sinking ship table, a cat with laser beam eyes—sit on rugs designed for Nodus alongside a grandfather clock by Brooklyn-based talent Misha Kahn. In the dining area, a brick-patterned punching bag (Job designed it for Gufram) hangs against an actual brick wall, alongside an oil painting of Smeets's father. And on the terrace, Smeets explains, he made a "bad taste/good taste 1970s gas heater" in bronze so he and guests can sit outside in the winter.
"Humor," Smeets muses, "is a very good cover-up for pointing out something more serious. Everything in this space is #seriousfun."
Perhaps his favorite piece in the house (stationed next to a Joe Colombo Elda chair) is one he didn't design: a giant, freestanding copper tub. "It's the piece that really makes it feel like I'm at home here and takes me away from the work side of the space," says Smeets, who in his signature provocative tone adds, "It's also the perfect bath for two."


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In addition to all the film, TV and music billboards around L.A. in May, there was also an impressive collection of fashion and lifestyle billboards to enjoy this month.
Fashion billboards
To kick things off is this fun Marc Jacobs billboard, featuring a hot male model, who looks like a giant next to that merry-go-round. The billboard was snapped gracing the roof of their Melrose Avenue flagship store.
Next up is another giant model, this time former The Hills star, Audrina Patridge, in her Bongo bikini towering over L.A.'s Sunset Strip this month.
Emporio Armani uses their regular billboard location to promote its rather nice, contemporary Sportivo watch.
Aldo Shoes continues their youthful, fun campaign around L.A. with this billboard in Westwood. Be sure to check out more Aldo Shoes ads at Daily Billboard.
Charles David had this perky billboard for its shoe and bag brand along Sunset Boulevard.
Hale Bob continued to get ready for Summer with its latest relaxed billboard creative.
Meanwhile all eyes we on Gucci's sexy new sunglasses billboard along the Sunset Strip.
One of my favourite fashion ads this past month, was this creative for Gridlock jeans with that male model's broad shoulders. Sadly I couldn't capture a clean version of this billboard without the telegraph wires overheard casting their shadows.
Finally, this small billboard for Siwy denim jeans stood out with its simple white creative against that wonderful blue California sky.
Health and Fitness billboards
GNC continue to have a presence around L.A. for their vitamin and health supplements, like this double billboard along Sunset Boulevard. Be sure to check out two other GNC Live Well billboards from previous months.
Another billboard which could also fall into fashion, is this cool billboard for Nike Air Max running shoes over their flagship store in San Francisco's Union Square.
Drinks billboards
This month Skyy Vodka continues to delight with their vibrant and red hot campaign. This melting ice cube creative is their latest ad, whilst I also managed to snap this 'unzipped' version up in San Francisco on a recent visit too.
Not to be left out, Belvedere Vodka has been promoting its new Bloody Mary variant trying to capture the attention of the Summer brunch crowd.
From Polish vodka to a Belgian beer and this Leffe beer ad made me smile with its simple and clever strapline this month. Funnily enough, Leffe beer was one of the first brands that I had to tackle when doing my Marketing degree, so it had even more significance for me even though I'm not a beer drinker.
Dos Equis XX lager didn't want to be left out in May either with this billboard along L.A.'s Sunset Strip.
But probably one of my favourites this month was this Jack Daniels whisky and cola bottle variant on ice billboard.
It really stood out with its special extension beyond the standard billboard format, which I always appreciate.
Food billboards
I'm really not a huge fan of Gordon Ramsey as a personality, he just seems like an awful person, but his food is lovely.
Travel billboards
Virgin America has returned to the skies of L.A. with another fun campaign for its U.S. airline this month. Be sure to check out even more new Virgin America billboards at Daily Billboard.
Car billboards
I rarely feature car billboards in my round-ups, mainly because they are usually dull and boring affairs, but I do like this colourful creative and the nice environmentally-friendly element for the new Nissan LEAF.
Activist billboards
Finally this month, is this powerful PETA anti-experimenting on animals billboard along Westwood Boulevard. Interestingly enough days earlier further along the same street I spotted the opposite argument on another billboard which pictured a white rat and a baby girl, asking people to decide which life they'd rather save (sadly it had disappeared when I went back to photograph it).
If you like all these, be sure to check Daily billboard every day for the latest fashion, alcohol and lifestyle billboards...


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5 Unique Ways to Add Southern Charm to Your Raleigh Wedding
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If you're a Raleigh resident, there's no better way to celebrate both your love and your roots than with a Southern-themed wedding. And if you're looking at outdoor wedding venues in Raleigh, you'll find there are lots of options that give a sense of the area's unique history and ambiance. But you can actually create that same sense of comfortable elegance that defines Southern weddings almost anywhere. Here are five ideas for adding some Southern charm to your Raleigh Wedding no matter what the venue may be:
- Go for Effortlessly Glamorous Attire
First things first, ensure you and your spouse-to-be look the part of the Southern belle and gentleman. You don't necessarily need to go out and find a vintage wedding dress, but not all modern wedding dress styles will work, either. A ball gown or A-line with classic detailing are probably your best bets, and you may want to choose ivory over white for a softer, more romantic feel. You can also break up the cookie-cutter look with your bridesmaids; only 38% of brides today are having their bridesmaids wear the exact same color and style of dress.
- Go for Effortlessly Glamorous Attire
- Incorporate Antique Furniture
It's not only in your wardrobe that you can incorporate something old (though 84% of brides are indeed still wearing something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue). Instead of using standard banquet tables draped in long tablecloths for the guest book, photo album, program and cake tables, pick out some antique furniture instead. You may even be able to rent it to keep costs under control.
- Incorporate Antique Furniture
- Seat Your Guests at Long Tables
When it comes to food, Southern hospitality is all about making elevated cuisine seem homey. There's no better way to make your Raleigh wedding reception feel like a big family dinner than by seating your guests at long tables, rather than the more generic round tables that belong in a ballroom.
- Seat Your Guests at Long Tables
- Put the Focus on Your Cocktails
No place does craft cocktails better than the South. Consider favorites like the mint julep, the Kentucky mule or the bourbon old-fashioned. Just make sure when you're budgeting that you don't underestimate the cost — an open bar costs $2,800, on average, for four hours.
- Put the Focus on Your Cocktails
- Don't Fall Into Clichés
This tip is more of a what not to do. Do your best to stay away from elements that are currently overdone, such as Mason jars, burlap, raffia, hay bales and chalkboard signs. If you do opt for any of these, make sure you use them in subtle and unexpected ways. Also make sure that they never interfere with the comfort of your guests. Using hay bales as seating might look cute, but a true Southern host would never want guests to be shifting around on hard, itchy seats.
Do you have any other tips on how to add some Southern flair to a Raleigh wedding without making the theme too over-the-top? Share your thoughts in the comments.


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Ardis Y. Martin, 93, of Pioneer passed away early Tuesday morning at Hillside Country Living in rural Bryan.
She was born on June 30, 1923 in Amboy Township, Michigan to Lindon and Hazel R. (Olmstead) Drake.
Ardis graduated from Pioneer High School in 1940. She married Ray K. Martin and he preceded her in death on August 17, 2010. Ardis was a waitress at Becker's and Spokes in Pioneer and the Pancake House in Holiday City. She bowled for over 30 years, at Bryan Lanes in Bryan. She was a life-member of the Pioneer V.F.W Auxiliary and the Pioneer American Legion where she was very active, assisting with the fish fry's for over 40 years as a cashier.
Ardis is survived by one son, Alden (Sandra) Martin of Pioneer; one daughter, Judy (Robert) Taylor of Pioneer; four grandchildren, Jodi Ely, Jeff Taylor, Tim Martin, and Kyle Martin; eight great grandchildren; one brother, Ned E. Drake of Clearwater, Florida.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Ray, brother Daryl W. Drake, three sisters Thelma Rickard, Carmen Kurtz and Shirley Peltcs.
Interment will follow at Floral Grove Cemetery in Pioneer. Memorial contributions may be made to CHP-Hospice. Condolences can be left for the family at www.thethompsonfuneralhome.com.


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The first-ever early signing period began Wednesday morning in college football.
Oklahoma saw over a dozen 4-star commits sign and send their national letters of intent Wednesday morning.
Oklahoma State received 21 letters, 19 of which have come from 3-star recruits.
Both schools will see their 2018 class include local talent from Oklahoma, from schools like Carl Albert, Union, Putnam City and Bixby.
4-Star Recruits: 13
3-Star Recruits: 4
Defensive Players: 9
Offensive Players: 8
Brian Asamoah II: 3-Star linebacker out of Columbus, Ohio.
Kundarrius Taylor: 4-star Wide Receiver from Memphis, Tennessee
Jordan Kelley: 4-star defensive lineman from Union High School in Tulsa
Patrick Fields: 3-star safety from Union High School in Tulsa
Miguel Edwards: 4-star cornerback from Dearfield Beach, Florida.
Starlland Bowen: a 4-star cornerback from Houston
Dalarrin Turner-Yell: a 3-star safety from Hempstead, TX
Tramonda Moore: a 4-star offensive line man from Oklahoma City, who played at Independence Community College last season.
Darrell Simpson: 4-star offensive lineman from Justin, TX
Jalen Redmond: 4-star OLB from Midwest City high school
Tanner Mordecai: 4-star QB from Waco, TX
Jaylon Robinson: 4-star WR from Fort Worth, Texas
T.J. Pledger IV: 4-star RB from Pacoima, CA
Ron Tatum III: 4-star defensive lineman from Putnam City
Bryce Bray: 3-star offensive lineman from Bixby H.S.
Ronnie Perkins: 4-star defensive lineman from St. Louis, MO
Jaqualyn Crawford: 4-star WR from Rockdale, TX
4-Star Recruits: 2
3-Star Recruits: 19
Offensive Players: 9
Defensive Players: 12
Spencer Sanders: 4-star QB from Denton, TX.
Gabe Lemons: 3-star DB from Prosper, TX
Jacob Farrell: 3-star OL from Sulphur
Jake Ross: 3-star junior college transfer from Miami, who played at Northeast Oklahoma A&M as a TE
Braden Cassidy: 3-star Defensive lineman from Austin, Texas.
Tanner McAlister: 3-star DB from Heath, TX.
Tyler Lacy: 3-star DE from Sachse, Texas
Jarrick Bernard: 3-star safety from Shreveport, Louisiana
Kanion Williams: 3-star safety from Dallas, TX.
Hunter Anthony: 3-star offensive lineman from Tuttle High School
C.J. Moore: 4-star WR from Union High School in Tulsa
Blake Barron: 3-star LB from Rockwall, Texas
Hunter Woodard: 3-star OL from Tuscola, Illinois
JayVeon Cardwell: 3-star DB from Cibolo, TX
Mike Scott: 3-star DE from Irving, TX
Kolby Peel: 3-star LB from College Station, TX
Sean Flanagan: 3-star safety from Charleston, AR
Jahmyl Jeter: 3-star RB from San Antonio, TX
Jonathan Shepherd: 3-star WR from Kilgore, TX
Tyrese Williams: 3-star OL from Houston, TX
Jason Taylor II: 3-star safety from Carl Albert (Midwest City)


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The nice thing about this book is, it's non-threatening, since it's a series of short stories, much as you would find in the New Era. A teen doesn't have to worry about beginning a book they might not have discretionary time to finish.
Anne Bradshaw, author of Please, No Zits! has been published in the New Era many times, so her style will be familiar to young readers.
Parents of a family of teens will find this book good Family Home Evening material, for the stories present problems that loom large in a teen's life, from not having a date for the New Year's dance ("Darkness at Noonday") to the temptation to bend the rules in school ("Okay to Cheat?"). The stories are short and would be a good jumping off place for a family discussion.
My favorite story has a returned missionary facing an interesting challenge. It's not the obvious pitfall of dishonesty or substance abuse; it's the more common but hard-to-recognize trap of pride. I'd love to lead a discussion of older teens using that story as a beginning.
You can find out more about Anne Bradshaw and how to purchase this book by visiting Anne Bradshaw's web site.


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Bobby Lashley vs. Eddie Sanchez Announced for TFC 19
By FCF Staff
HDNet fights has announced that former Strikeforce heavyweight Bobby Lashley will fight UFC vet Eddie Sanchez at Titan Fighting Championships upcoming, July 28th event in Kansas City. Titan FC 19 will be broadcast live on HDNet.
Lashley (6-1) will be looking to move to 2-0 under the Titan FC banner, as the former professional wrestler scored a unanimous decision win over John Ott at the promotion's seventeenth event in March. Prior to the win, Lashley (pictured) was stopped by Chad Griggs at Strikeforce's "Houston" event last August, handing the heavyweight his first professional loss.
Sanchez (12-5) is coming off back-to-back losses to Neil Grove and most recently Mike Whitehead, who defeated the Bellator vet by split decision at a Pure Fighting Championship event in December. Prior to the losses Sanchez had won four straight.
The July 28th, Titan FC event will be hosted by Kanas City's Memorial Hall. More bouts are expected to be announced shortly.


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Best Practice Visit
Date: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Time: 10.00am – 1.00pm
Location: Roche Ireland Limited Clarecastle Co. Clare
Cost: Member cost €100 per person (to be donated to local charity)
Non- member cost ICBE members are given priority on Best Practice Visits. Non-members will be accommodated subject to availability with an administration fee of €145 plus €100 charity donation (chosen by the organisation).
Maximum number: 20 / 2 places per company
Start Time: 10.00am
10.00 am to 11.00 am Enterprise Excellence Site Presentation
11.00am to 12.30pm Site Tour
12.30pm to 1.00pm Q&A
Finish Time: 1.00pm
For more information on Skillnet Ireland, please visit www.skillnetireland.ie


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Skin Clinic
As a skin care specialist I look after people with both common and uncommon skin conditions such as :
- Acne
- Eczema ( Atopic, Stassis, Nummular)
- Psoriasis
- Urticaria
- Herpes (Simplex & Zoster)
- Rosacea
- Perioral Dermatitis
- Sebborrheic Dermatitis
By creating an individual skin care treatment using Chinese herbs, washes and handmade skin creams I help men, women and children to control their skin condition and regain a quality of life.
Before attending Amanda I was continuously tired and cold, I also had sore feet and thumbs and now looking back at photos my face was puffy – all this I had put down to normal life changes. Through visiting Amanda and learning more about Chinese medicine I realised that this was not normal! Over a few months the aches in my feet and hands disappeared I was less puffy and am now never cold. I also had very sore dried skin on my toes – it was there for years – Amanda explained it was due to damp and in two sessions (and one needle in the toe!) the dry skin disappeared.
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Great Wall of China Tour Guide:
Meandering through hills and valleys, past towns and cities, the 20,000 long Great Wall of China is China's greatest architectural landmark and a major tourist attraction. The only manmade thing to be visible from the moon, the Great Wall of China inspires awe in all who see it, be it from earth or from space: walk it… trek it… climb it… experience it.
Built continuously over the centuries, from the 3rd Century BC to the 17th Century AD (wow!) by successive Chinese empires to protect their respective kingdoms from nomadic invasions, the Great Wall of China was in bits and pieces until the reign of the first Chinese Emperor, Qin Shi Huang. Having unified all states, Qin Shi Huang decided to link the various walls and the Great Wall of China came into being in c. 220 B.C. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, it had become the world's greatest military structure, beginning from Shanhaiguan in the east and ending at Jiayuguan in the west, bypassing 10 cities including Tianjin, Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Qinghai.
Located about 60 kilometres from Beijing city centre, the Juyongguan Great Wall is the closest and most scenic section of the Great Wall. Less touristy and less crowded than the section in Badaling, the Juyongguan Great Wall of China section is nestled in a valley and snakes its way across mountain slopes like a sleeping dragon's ridged back and tail.
Exquisitely beautiful and scenic, this section of the wall boasts features such as the Cloud Platform, a white marble towering platform that once hosted stone towers and temples from previous dynasties. Now, only statues of four heavenly deities and inscriptions of sutra scriptures on the archway of the platform are visible. All along the wall walkway, lush greenery with vibrantly coloured flowers abound, making the trek up and down an amazingly scenic highlight of your Beijing holiday.
Note: You can also visit the Badaling Great Wall of China section, which is the most preserved and intact section of the Great Wall. It is also the most crowded with tourists and locals flocking the steps at any time of the day, despite its location about 70 kilometres from the Beijing city centre, further away that Juyongguan.


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We're grateful to Adlard Coles Nautical who donated some beautiful books as prizes for the OGA Photography competition, 2014. Winners were announced at the Association AGM, 17 January 2015.
Browse the Photo Competition Gallery to see all the 2014 entries, with winners and runners up marked.
Watch the slideshows below to see shortlisted and winning photos only via YouTube.
Mike Garlick, OGA Photo competition organiser, provided feedback from the judges. He noted some disappointment in the reduced number of entries and, in particular, the lack of youth entries. There were only 46 submissions in 2014, compared with 109 in 2013. We hope the competition will attract more interest in 2015.
In 2014, the OGA introduced an online submission form which proved to be very useful in streamlining both the entries and judging process. All submissions are now readily available for use in future on the website and in Gaffers Log.


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Solar system clings on the heat light from the sun, of which earth is very lucky because it managed to nurture life forms. The so mentioned 'life forms' were very grateful towards the sun and since the humanitarian dreams were born we all soared towards the sun, worshiped it and literally hinge on it for energy.
The most interesting fact is that human body requires moderate sunlight in order to synthesize Vitamin D, if it sounds like sunlight brings some vitamins from the sun, then you are off beam.
For that, you must understand how sunlight works. Let us go into detail about that.
Sunlight: Cutaway study
Well, not sure whether you are mindful of the fact that the sun produces light by a process called fusion in which hydrogen atoms combine together to form a helium atom, during which tremendous amount of energy is released which we experience here 147 million miles away from heat and light.
Basically, sunlight is composed of Ultraviolet rays (UV-A, B, C), visible-spectrum and infra-red light of which UV-B is of our favor which helps in vitamin production. UV-C is very harmful to living organisms but thanks our atmosphere it shields off the inhabitants of the earth from dangerous component sunlight.
Sunlight cannot be neglected from our daily life, but over the past few centuries there is a considerable amount of ozone depletion in our atmosphere due to human activities that's let in harmful UV rays into earth, as a result it affects our life or even could change the humans in cycle of evolution, who knows!
Sunbathing is important for vitamin production but if the sunlight is excess it is definitely going to create a woe. Though UV-C doesn't reach earth UV-A and UV-B can do the damage in a prolonged exposure.
UV-A has higher infiltration capacity over our skin which could damage the dermis layer of the skin thus messes with the elastic property and creates wrinkles and smears.
Whereas UV-B can cause suntan or even sunburn if you choose to eat the sunlight.
What all could happen if there is too much sunlight exposure?
1) Sunburn:
If the sunlight is too much for your skin it might result in a sunburn which can even go up to a second-degree burn in a medical context. The early symptoms would be a burning sensation and hotness accompanied by a tight pink color which progresses into red.
2) Sun strokes:
When the sun takes away a lot of water from your body it goes into a prostration resulting in fainting, thirst, hallucination, skin burn, fever etc. If no medical help is made available soon, the patient might go unconscious, getting a stroke damaging internal organs.
3) Skin cancer:
This might not be a sudden outburst but excess exposure might plant a mutation under the skin which might turn into a tumor in the initial stage later maturing into cancer. Try to avoid the sun for a prolonged period of time.
4) Fatigue:
When the temperature shoots up above normal body temperature the body resist the change but sweating off water from the body thus dehydrating you. In such cases, you would experience a headache, sick feeling, nausea etc.
What should I do if get any of the above?
Just try to be calm and cool, the first step would be to find some shade to rest. After that make sure that you hydrate yourself with clean water. Avoid hot beverages, soda drinks instead go non-carbonated energy drinks, electrolyte drinks, coconut water etc.
If you find any sunburns apply moisturizing cream over the area, which would avoid further damage. Try to remove all clothes and bring in some air circulation if possible some cold air current cool down the body.
If the person suffering from sunburn isn't conscious seek medical help as soon as possible, whereas in other if there are no physical restraints it wouldn't be necessary for a hospital, but a hospital attendance would get some better care.
So, find some shades, drink a lot of water and be cool under the sun!