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Music is the language of my heart. Nothing can reach me in quite the same way. It transcends words and preconceived ideas. Perhaps that is why music is such an important part of worship. Oh yes, you can worship God without music; it is certainly possible to enjoy music without engaging in worship. But put together music, worship, art, and a bunch of people you love, and it's surely a taste of heaven.
Last week, my good friends, Jorie and Matt Henderson, brought together all of these elements in a beautiful evening of worship as they recorded music and video for their new music project, "Love Like Fire." Jorie is a gifted vocalist, song writer, and keyboard player. Her husband, Matt, is a fine drummer and sound engineer. They've been working on some new music, and it's all worship music. They have also enlisted some excellent musicians who are passionate about Jesus to be a part of this project. And, they called me and my artist friend, Sandy Beegle, to do live painting for the recording session.
Matt and Jorie had the auditorium set up to be vibey and cozy, with candles and chairs all facing the center. (But we were not confined to chairs, no sirree!) Our friend and pastor, Diane, was on hand to start us off with a rousing prayer. Later, Miss Aubrey stirred things up with more prayer. Folks were free to praise and worship and groove. Guitarist Dave Beegle added his awesome electric sound to the mix, and Emily Chamberlain (pastor/worship team member) led her song, "Beautiful God," which I haven't been able to stop singing ever since.
It's so delightful to be in the company of people from several generations, coming together for the purpose of worshiping God. I saw young kids dancing and singing, college age guys and girls, grandmas and grandpas, and every age in between. Taking a couple of hours out of our busy lives to enjoy each other and God is something that is hard to find time to do, yet I'm always so glad I've done it.
My painting from that evening is another "throne room" picture, based upon my impressions from the book of Revelation. I tend to revisit these themes numerous times because I do not tire of imagining them, and, I suppose, because I really don't know what they "should" look like. It's fun to see what else happens as I paint this theme again and again. While I was working on the emerald rainbow, Sandy was painting an image inspired by the verse about mounting up on eagle's wings. She is a great painter, and it's always fun to see what she comes up with!
As soon as I have definite info on how you can find this music, I'll post it here for y'all.


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MATI Offers Two 2016 Webinar Series
MATI members have the opportunity to participate in not one, but two great webinar series for the 2016 season: the MATI Webinar Series 2016: Research & Practice in Translation and Interpreting and Jumpstart for 2017: A Long-Term Study Plan for the Federal Oral Exam.
MATI Webinar Series 2016: Research & Practice in Translation and Interpreting
MATI Director Susan Schweigert and the Webinars Committee have put together an excellent program of sessions for the Research & Practice Series, which was kicked off on January 21 with Ana Soler's presentation "Interpreting in Educational Settings: A Growing Profession." We're very excited to be able to offer members webinars through October of 2016, thanks to the professional interest in presenting!
Other upcoming webinars in this series are:
Each webinar in this series is 45-55 minutes long, followed by 5-15 minutes of Q&A. Discounted pricing for members is among the benefits of MATI membership; MATI members pay $20 for each webinar, and non-members pay $30. The webinars are a great opportunity for continuing education credits as well. Each webinar is approved for 1 CEU toward ATA and WI Court Interpreter certification requirements. Members need only a computer and internet access to attend, and all details surrounding the event will be emailed to those registered a few days before the webinar takes place.
More information on MATI Webinar Series 2016: Research & Practice in Translation and Interpreting can be found at: http://www.matiata.org/2016-Webinar-Series
Jumpstart for 2017: A Long-Term Study Plan for the Federal Oral Exam
In collaboration with the MATI Webinars Committee, Ernest Niño-Murcia, a state and federally-certified freelance court interpreter, presents this series of webinars to guide participants through setting and executing a long-term plan for success for the 2017 Federal Court Interpreter Certification Exam.
The sessions in this series can be taken in combination or individually and include:
The cost to participate for Sessions 1 and 2 is $25 for MATI members and $35 for non-members. Additional information on each session and on how to register can be found at: http://www.matiata.org/Jumpstart-for-2017. New sessions for this series may also be added, depending on demand!
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Hashd al-Shaabi captured one more village on its way to liberating the strategic town of Tal Afar in Nineveh province, from the ISIL militants.
The popular forces' media service said they took over the village of Khodeir Southwest of Tal Afar after engaged in heavy clashes with ISIL, adding that the group uses civilians as human shields, Iraqi News reported.
Hashd al-Shaabi also brought down an ISIL-run drone in Um Nekheila village, and also destroyed two booby-trapped vehicles.
Hashd al-Shaabi also announced on Friday that popular forces has started their 5th phase of anti-terrorism operation Southwest of Tal Afar city in Nineveh province, as they completed their siege of the terrorists in the city of Tal Afar.
The Tal Afar city is located between the city of Mosul and Syria and terrorists use Tal Afar to flee to Raqqa in Syria. The capture of Tal Afar will be very important for paving the way for victory in Nineveh province.


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Metal thieves hit an undeveloped subdivision in Oconee County last week to the tune of a $10,000 loss, according to an Oconee County Sheriff's report.
The thieves went into the undeveloped Wild Flower Meadows subdivision off Dials Mill Road, Bogart, where they stole copper wiring that was feeding the street lighting system, according to the report.
"Some of it was in the ground and they pulled it up and some was not in the ground," Walton EMC spokesman Greg Brooks said.
"The dollar amount (of estimated loss) came from the damage they did," Brooks said.
"When they sell the wire they won't get that much for it, but it'll cost us that much to fix it and put it back," he said. "It's a lot worse to go back and fix a mess than it is to put it in the first time."
There are no strong leads on suspects, sheriff's Lt. Jason Higgins said Friday.
Investigators have found that sometimes thieves of large amounts of wire will use it at other homes or job sites, Higgins said.
"There are so many new regulations with recycling for cash, so it's making it harder for the thieves to sell copper wire," he said.
Recycling companies often notify law enforcement of large amounts of wire and they work with law enforcement on these cases, he said.
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By Richard McGrath, CIC, LIA
Massachusetts residents may feel some relief that the commonwealth is not among the 36 states participating in the HealthCare.gov federal healthcare exchange. But Massachusetts will have plenty of other challenges as it seeks to comply with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The federal exchange opened on Oct. 1, 2013 and, because of hundreds of problems related to the site launch, only 26,794 people enrolled during its first month of operation. The federal government expected 500,000 enrollees, which is still a small percentage of the 48 million Americans who lack health insurance.
At a time when purchasing insurance through HealthCare.gov is still a frustrating experience, millions of Americans are having their insurance canceled, because it fails to meet the requirements of the ACA. The ACA required all Americans to have health insurance by Jan. 1, 2014 or else, pay a penalty.
Given that Massachusetts has had its Health Connector in place and an individual mandate requiring all residents have health insurance since 2006, you would think it would be easy to make the transition and comply with the ACA, widely known as ObamaCare. Not so.
The American Action Forum estimates that it will cost the commonwealth $521 million to conform to the ACA and become a fully accepted health insurance exchange.
Health Connector Changes
The Massachusetts Health Connector set up Commonwealth Choice (Connector 2.0), which has received "conditional approval" as the state's health insurance exchange. However, given the changes needed to comply with ObamaCare, Massachusetts residents are encountering many of the same problems as people in other parts of the country.
One Massachusetts resident, writing to AP consumer reporter Mitch Lipka, wrote, "I have had a policy through the Connector since 2011. It worked great. Now I have received notice that I have to sign up again. My old login no longer works. Setting up a new one doesn't work properly. Going to the call center is torture. No one answers and the same message on hold plays over and over again, telling people to go on
To be accepted as an exchange, Connector 2.0 will need to offer only health insurance plans that conform with the requirements of the ACA and it will need to offer ACA-approved tax subsidies. Anyone who has purchased insurance through Commonwealth Choice will have their policy expire on March 31, 2014, at which time a new fully compliant insurance policy must be purchased.
"The Health Connector is working with MassHealth and other state partners to plan for smooth coverage transitions among the nearly 240,000 Health Connector members – and some individuals in other state programs – who will be eligible for new programs in 2014," according to the Health Connector website.
"Under those new programs, some current Health Connector members may move to MassHealth, while others may move to new programs within the Health Connector," according to the website. "Many who are currently receiving subsidies as well as some who currently receive no government assistance will get advanced premium tax credits instead."
Changes are also required to provide ACA mandated subsidies. Until now, Massachusetts has helped subsidize the cost of premiums for those within 300 percent of the federal poverty level.
The ACA offers tax credits to help reduce the cost of premiums for those with income up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level ($45,960 for an individual, $94,200 for a family of four in 2013). It also offers cost-sharing subsidies that reduce the deductibles, copayments, coinsurance and total out-of-pocket spending limits for people with incomes up to 250 percent of the federal poverty level ($28,725 for an individual, $58,875 for a family of four in 2013).
The penalties for noncompliance will also change. Currently, the penalty for those who fail to comply with the Massachusetts law is 50 percent of the lowest monthly premium for insurance available from the Health Connector. Under the ACA, the penalty for the first year is 1 percent of family income or $95 per adult and $47.50 per child, whichever is greater. The penalty increases over time and in 2016 will be 2.5 percent of family income, or $695 per adult and $347 per child, up to $2,085 for a family, whichever is greater.
More than 98 percent of Massachusetts residents have health insurance coverage, which is easily the highest percentage of covered residents in the country, but there are still tens of thousands of residents each year who elect to pay the penalty instead of paying the higher cost of health insurance premiums.
There are also some exemptions to the ACA's individual mandate, including members of Congress and their staff. Other exemptions include those whose income is below the minimum threshold for filing a tax return and those who cannot afford coverage because premiums exceed 8 percent of their household income. Prisoners, Native Americans eligible for health insurance through the Indian Health Care service, illegal immigrants and people who object to insurance coverage for religious reasons are also exempt.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that in 2016, after the major provisions of the ACA are implemented, 24 million people will be exempted from the mandate.
Other Requirements
The ACA also requires that employers with 50 or more employees working at least 30 hours a week provide those employees with health insurance, but the employer mandate was delayed for a year by President Obama and will not be enforced until Jan. 1, 2015.
The ACA also expands Medicaid beginning Jan. 1, 2014 to make government-funded coverage available to adults 19 to 65 years of age with income up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level, even if they have no children. The expansion will make an estimated 17 million low-income people nationwide eligible for Medicaid.
All approved plans must also offer extensive preventive care programs at no charge, including screening for blood pressure, cholesterol, colorectal cancer, depression, type 2 diabetes, syphilis, HIV and abdominal aortic aneurysms. They must also offer free counseling for alcohol misuse, tobacco use, dieting, obesity and sexually transmitted infections.
Finally, they must offer free immunization vaccines for hepatitis A and B, herpes zoster, human papillomavirus, influenza, measles, mumps, rubella, meningococcal, pneumococcal, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis and varicella.
In addition, all plans must offer coverage for contraception without a copayment. The constitutionality of that issue will be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court this winter, as many Catholic hospitals and some employers object to the provision on religious grounds.
To date, the ACA has spawned anywhere from 10,000 to 33,000 pages of regulations, based on various estimates. Whatever the number, there is a great deal of paperwork to process and each state will be required to conform with the federal law.
The changes created to date are just the beginning. Even if the HealthCare.gov website is able to be adequately repaired, many other challenges remain to be addressed – even in Massachusetts.
Richard A. McGrath, CIC, LIA is President and CEO of McGrath Insurance Group, Inc. of Sturbridge, Mass. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
This article is written for informational purposes only and should not be construed as providing legal advice.


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Archive for April, 2011
Posted in from the dark room, photography on April 30, 2011| 2 Comments »
Welcoming strangers
Posted in from the living room, tagged travel on April 30, 2011| 1 Comment »
This morning, close to Kyoto station, an elderly Japanese man approached us, held out his hand to shake mine, and said "Thank you for coming to Japan".
He asked us where we came from and when we said "Scotland" told us about the times he'd had in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness. He then asked if we'd mind helping him with his English a little and produced a crumpled set of notes with Japanese and English sentences written in his own handwriting (at least I think it was his own). He wanted to check his translations and understand the nuances of meaning. One of the phrases which provoked a fair exchange was "I was born in the year of the tiger". Would an English speaking person say that, he wanted to know. We explained that in the UK at least there was no general tradition of allocating an animal to a year in the way it is done in other countries.
Ah, he said, you don't have the same twelve animals? Which animals do you have?
We pointed out we didn't have any. He thought that was very strange, how we would just say we were born in the year "xxxx" and quote a four figure number. Suddenly, I felt we'd missed out on something!
We discussed maybe half a dozen other phrases with him, and then he thanked us profusely and zipped away. Goodness, he could move fast!
This isn't the first time something like this has happened to me in Japan. It's never happened in any other country, and, sadly, in many countries, when someone approaches in such a fashion, you can't help but be suspicious, and suspect they're going to get round to asking for money. That's never, ever happened to me in Japan.
On the train from Kyoto to Tokyo I reflected on the exchange and thought lots of things. How do we treat visitors to Scotland? Are we as welcoming? How wonderful that elderly people continue to have such enthusiasm to learn. How awful that my meagre attempts to learn Japanese have stalled so badly! Time to get that learn Japanese book out again! And how wonderful when learning a language, to have the courage to approach strangers and politely request conversation to improve your understanding and your skills.
This little exchange made me feel it's a privilege and an honour to be visiting this country.
Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, life, photography on April 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
On the day a third of the world watched a single wedding (you know who I mean!), I spotted this couple walking in the grounds of a temple in Kyoto.
Here's my theme for today – LOVE – let's spread more of it…..
The rain
Posted in from the dark room, photography on April 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »
One great thing about the rain….
….is that it makes plants shine and sparkle….
……and turns the world green….
Holistic photography
Posted in from the dark room, photography on April 28, 2011| 2 Comments »
When I look through my camera lens, I don't just notice what the lens is pointing at. I notice what lies around, in front of, or behind that object. It's the whole image which I find satisfying. Not just a photo of a leaf, or a flower, or a whatever, but a photo of it in it's context….the emergent object within its environment…..a holistic photograph?
Take a look at these photos of acer leaves and see what I mean?
Saying it with flowers….the amazement of the every day
Posted in from the dark room, photography on April 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Just around the corner from the hotel where I'm staying in Kyoto is the Higashi-Honganji temple where they are currently celebrating Shinran's 750th anniversary.
One of the amazing things to appear there today are these wonderful murals made from tulips….
and, finally…….a close up….
How we see the world
Posted in from the dark room, from the living room, life, perception, personal growth, photography on April 27, 2011| 1 Comment »
As I wandered today I wondered……don't we all perceive the world differently? If our stories, our personal stories, shape our selves, which is how it seems to me, then our experiences will frame our present reality. We experience today in the light of our past experiences and our imagined futures. Stories all have this movement….from the past, to the present, to the future – a beginning, a middle and an end I suppose.
So one of the most powerful ways in which memories and dreams can create our present is how they frame our perception and our interpretation of today's experiences.
What frames are you aware of? Which memories, which dreams or fears, create the frames of your present?
The other thing I wondered about today was about the uniqueness of our individual perspectives. We can only experience the world as a subject, as this subject, living this life. So, how does the world look from your unique, subjective perspective?
(this is a view from the tatami mats, across the strips of carpet, towards the Japanese garden – this is a view from where I was kneeling)
Finally, how can we share these ways of seeing? How can we develop our inter-subjective experience? One way, for me, is through the sharing of our stories. You can share your experience by telling me it. I can share mine, by telling you…..or by showing you what I caught with my camera…..(I'm sure you can think of other ways too)


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Next week, Microsoft will release the next version of its SQL Server database software, and it could be a popular alternative for SAP customers.Some 140,000 of SAP's customers are using Oracle's database with SAP's enterprise apps. Naturally, SAP is pushing them to ditch Oracle and use SAP's own database, HANA.
Oracle has responded by strong-arming customers into spending more money with Oracle.
Oracle wants them to buy its database on its own hardware, acquired from Sun Micrososystems. So one of its tactics is to make a few key features of its new analytics database Exalytics — the one that competes with SAP Hana — only available on this hardware/software combo, reports ZDNet.
Enter the new Microsoft SQL Server 2012. It costs less than both.
It's attractive because it offers technology similar to SAP HANA (features known as columnar and in-memory storage) and its prices start at $11,000 per terabyte. It can run on comparatively lower-cost hardware such as new servers by Dell, too. Microsoft and SAP have been partners for years.
In an informal survey of SAP customers attending a conference in Sydney, Australia, more of them were considering SQL Server 2012 over SAP HANA, says ZDNet.
That's not surprising given the money involved. The Exalytics hardware lists at $135,000, and that doesn't include the cost of database licensing, according to Oracle's latest price sheet. With support contracts, Oracle plans to charge about $337,200 apiece for an Exalytics appliance equipped with its TimesTen analytics database.
SAP hasn't gone public with its HANA prices but plenty of unofficial numbers are circulating. Scuttlebutt says that HANA costs about the same as Oracle … the low-end being about $250,000 for hardware and software and the high end costing $1 million, reports Dennis Moore on Enterprise Irregulars. Moore is an ex-SAP and Oracle dude and avid blogger.
As SAP and Oracle push their customers to rethink their database, Microsoft could wind up a big winner.
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So the European Commission President Mr. Jose Manuel Barroso (who, believe it or not, is more free market oriented than most in that entity) is upset that some Member States are opposing the expansion of the EC's budget, which means that a 2011 budget has not been approved which might mean the EC works on a month by month basis.
How sad.
Tough. Time to wake up to the real world.
When he says "Those that think they have won a victory over 'Brussels' have shot themselves in the foot. They should know that they have dealt a blow to people all over Europe and in the developing world"
He is so wrong. People all over Europe don't want to pay more to your unaccountable, unaudited monolith of bureaucracy and socialism.
Taxpayers are already reaping what has been sowed as overspending by their national governments has created mountains of national debt, and continued deficit spending that is growing those mountains. They all face spending cuts in national budgets, and many also face tax increases.
On what planet does Mr Barroso think Europeans will be disappointed if they pay more for his bureaucracy and its socialist inspired programmes (which are basically subsidies for inefficient farmers or development assistance for former Soviet bloc economies)?
No. It is time for European taxpayers to stand up, to tell their feather-bedded MEPs in Brussels a big no to more spending.
The most the European Commission ought to expect next year is a ZERO budget increase, which would be the case if it went to month by month approvals hopefully.
What I'd like to see are cuts, of the kind that would help match the savings of many Member States cutting spending. 33% next year would be a good start. The same again the following two years, and by then what's left is enough to fund the windup of the European Commission into a small monitoring team to ensure barriers on free trade and investment within Europe are maintained. Those who will complain the most will be some thousands of people in Brussels who will need to find real jobs, thousands of farmers who will face having to sell goods for a living rather than live off of subsidies and those who seek the lucre of EC construction projects in the east and south.


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Archive for November, 2006
i'm proud of myself
I wore, for the first time ever, 3 or 3 1/2 inch heels that weren't huge and clunky, but nice and slender for the WHOLE day. As in from 7:30 this morning until 8:00 tonight without falling and with only minimal hurting of the feet. A personal triumph!Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )
I had a really good day today. I mean really good. Like I actually felt like myself and everything.Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )
urinetown, the musical
Brian and I went to see Urinetown tonight and it was FANTASTIC!!!
It was so hilarious that I'm still laughing and smiling and I loved the randomness of it all! I always enjoy witty lines and extremely off the wall, randomness in musicals and this one is right up there. It was so fun, but had a real political and social message at its core — with a rebellion and everything.
The cast was stellar, especially the lead narrators!
It's being put on right now by Georgetown Globe Productions, who always put on high-quality shows. I worked with them as a co-producer on City of Angels, another of my favourites a couple of years ago.
If there are any tickets left, I highly recommend going to see it!Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )
shooting, downtown toronto tonight
I got home from class in time to turn on the news and see that there was a shooting in the exact place that I had just been and, that if we hadn't been let out an hour early, I likely would have been close to where the shooting occurred. The last time this happened was when the girl was taken hostage at Union Station and I was actually in the station, but went out the side door and didn't know it was taking place until I got to work.
So, I am left to wonder, what does one do when you actually do end up in the exact place at the exact time? How are you supposed to react? Hit the ground like in the movies?
A couple of years ago a friend and I were walking down Front St on our lunch and there was the loud sound of gunshots. We did not hit the ground. We looked at each other in disbelief because, well, that doesn't happen in Toronto, especially in the middle of the day, right?
Again the shots.
Again, no reaction.
No movement.
I look up the street to see a bank surrounded by police cars.
As we kept walking closer (because, of course there must be a logical explanation for this) I ask:
"Do you think it's a film shoot?"
"Must be."
"But I don't see any film trucks…"
My disbelief started to turn to slight anxiousness and a twinge of fear.
We continued to walk to the next block, turned and there, right in front of us…
Was an entire street full of white vans from the film company.Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )
they ripped my eyes out
I had a dream last night that I finally went and had the ocular implant surgery done and, instead of inserting a lense, they replaced my eyeballs. Even though I could finally see perfectly, I was so upset because I have always loved the colour of my eyes and my nice hazel blue eyes with the gold circle around the pupil had been replaced with purplish-blackish eyes. Is this an indicator that I shouldn't get the surgery?Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )
Have any of you bookish type people out there signed up for this new BookLounge.ca yet?Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )
smart women
I forgot to mention that last night at the dinner I ran into a friend from Queen's and found out that he's working on The Smart Woman Survial Guide, which I coincidentally watched for the first time yesterday morning and loved! Now, I'm not sure what it is exactly that he's doing on the show, but if you know Sean and you watch this show, it just makes sense that this is what he's doing right now. I loved the show — very witty, funny and a bit random. A perfect combination. Have you already seen an episode? Do you like it? Check it out and come back to say what you think about it.Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )
my feet hurt
I just got home from volunteering at the John Orr Dinner, a Queen's Alumni event. I volunteered last year too and my favourite part both times was seeing the Queen's Bands again. I don't know, there's just something about those bands that remind me of the community I had at Queen's and then, when I look around the room, I know that everyone in there has had such a similar and positive experience from that University and I love it. I know, I know, I'm a Queen's snob through and through and you know what? I love it!
The event went well, though I only knew about 20 people, it was nice to catch up with them. I couldn't handle the young ones and their drunkenness — I suppose I'm old now (though they actually are getting younger!). The class of '10 was present (scary!).
The weekend also kicked off with Brian and I standing in line for a lottery to see Wicked. A cool idea, though if you don't get tickets it's just a waste of an evening. It was cool to be a part of it, even though we didn't win. We then had a mediocre to poor dinner at Lone Star.
After a weekend of standing, tonight in heels, my feel are killing me as is my head so I'm going to put the deliriousness that is me to bed. Good night!Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )
From Fromans
I love this! Thanks Fromans for The Winner of the 2006 Not My Job Award. So funny!Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )
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Watching one of your favourite books turned into a film can be a terrifying experience for a fan, but whatever the verdict, all I want to do is discuss how it changed from the book with someone as obsessive as me. And so 'From Page to Screen' was born - a feature dedicated to comparing the book and the movie. I decided I quite liked reviewing films so I plan to do it with non-adaptations too!
From Page to Screen
Beautiful Creatures
Blue is the Warmest Color
How I Live Now
If I Stay
Now is Good
The Book Thief
The DUFF
The Fault in Our Stars
The Great Gatsby
The Help
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Host
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Warm Bodies
Vampire Academy
Other Film Reviews
Big Hero 6
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy
Jupiter Ascending
Man of Steel
The Riot Club
The Theory of Everything
Walking on Sunshine


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At the closing session at NCCI, Barry Lipton reported on their research on MSAs, research based in large part on 2200 files provided by Gould & Lamb. In 2011, CMS approved $1.1 billion of MSAs…
Key findings
- MSA dollars account for 40% of the average proposed settlement
- half of the MSA dollars are for prescription drugs
- "the differences between proposed and CMS-accepted MSA settlement are largely due to drugs"
- only 20% of submissions are for claimants <50
- 29% of submissions are for more than $300,000;
- but, most submissions are for much lower amounts;
- so 62% of costs are for the 29% that are for more than $200k.
- The highest initial submission approval rate was about t50% before 12/12; during 12/12, the approval rate zoomed up to 92%. this happened to be the same month where processing vendors changed…
- median processing time has dropped dramatically to 41 days in Q4 2013
- Median MSA approved amounts have been very stable at around $42,000 over the last four years.
- recall CMS doesn't cover off-label use of drugs, so any non-cancer claims with opioids are going to require full funding of future projected spend
The net – from my perspective, if you have an addicted claimant, CMS is going to want a lot of dollars set aside.


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Pumpkin sailing
With Halloween just round the corner it seems fitting that artist Dmitri Galitzine is preparing to attempt a journey in a hollowed out giant pumpkin across the Solent…. Yes you have read that correctly!
The pumpkin, grown by Mark O'Hanlon weighs half a ton and will be shipped to Portsmouth after the Mere Brow Giant Pumpkin Show in Lancashire this weekend. Galitzine will then work alongside a boat builder to fit an outboard motor to the vegetable ready for the 3 mile crossing over one of the busiest shipping channels in the world from Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight.
Giant pumpkin sailing started in Canada. There are several giant pumpkin regattas worldwide, in which participants race their vegetables across stretches of water including rivers, lakes and sea.
Will this be the 'next big thing' on the Solent? Or maybe we should start offering pumpkin racing as a team building event….


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Big twists can make for "event television." Survivor has the right to throw whatever it wants at its players to keep them on their toes. Sometimes it works spectacularly, and sometimes it ends miserably. Sometimes it's fun and thrilling, but sometimes it's frustrating and tragic. In the end, twists stir the pot and inspire adaptable gameplay, and when done right, they encourage and benefit flexible and opportunistic players.
With every twist, though, there's collateral. So many players have fallen victim to an untimely or unexpected twist, whether it's an unlucky draw at a swap or an unprecedented twist like the Outcasts or Fiji's post-merge mix-up. Ever since Silas got voted out after the first tribe swap all the way back in Africa, "screwed by a twist" has become one of the biggest fears of a Survivor castaway. Game Changers' two-tribe Tribal Council is arguably the greatest example of the phenomenon yet.
The events of Wednesday's jaw-dropping Tribal Council were blockbuster TV. It was chaotic and dramatic but, ultimately, it rang a little hollow. The "big event" Tribals of recent years – the rock draws, the idol plays, the big flips and power shifts and emotional betrayals – arose organically from the interpersonal dynamics of the castaways. Each player trying to position themselves for a trajectory to the million dollars while managing the complex social bonds that would or wouldn't get them there. The two-tribe Tribal this episode had none of the social strategies that make for the best episodes: it was purely manufactured mayhem, and the end result might have well have been a round of Russian Roulette.
If Tribal Council is theatre, the classic and memorable big events are like nuanced dramas, full of engaging characters and emotional pathos. Episode 4's Tribal, however, is more like a gaudy big-budget extravaganza more interested in pyrotechnics than plot: spectacular to behold, but ultimately lacking in substance.
When Jeff announced that the two tribes who lost the Immunity Challenge would go to Tribal Council together to collectively vote out one person, the castaways' horror was palpable. For Mana and Nuku, all of their carefully laid plans had to be put on hold. The tables turned on Mana's easy vote for Hali, and even her own attempts to turn Debbie against Tai mattered not. JT and Malcolm had been plotting their uprising against Sandra, but they couldn't pull the trigger yet.
In the wake of the twist reveal, Aubry speculated that "any fracture in any relationship is a reason to send somebody home tonight," but in this convoluted circumstance, interpersonal relationships didn't matter much at all. It all came down to making a unanimous decision on who to target from the opposing tribe.
The most devastating aspect of the two-tribe Tribal was that there was no room for the players to actually play, and certainly no way for them to take the game into their own hands. In a world where Mana and Nuku returned to the same beach, one could envision Hali flipping to her old tribemates to vote out ringleader Brad or JT and Malcolm taking the opportunity to recruit the Mana crew to assassinate Sandra. If ifs and buts were candy and nuts… Instead, individual agendas had to wait as the tribes were left co-ordinating a cross-Tribal hit without any ability to gather intel and make an informed decision or devise a new scheme by working with their opponents.
Honestly, both tribes initially played the twist effectively. They realised it was an opportunity to eliminate the biggest threat on an opposing tribe. If the threat were a physical one, it would also serve to weaken an opponent for future challenges. The question was simply: which threat?
For Nuku, Sierra and Tai were the proposed targets. Sandra pushed for the "fan favourite," arguing that Sierra was Mana's strongest female competitor. Although not explicitly discussed at camp, speculation that she wouldn't have an Idol clearly played a role in the decision (if Jeff Varner's voting confessional is to be believed). Although JT suggested they shoot for a shifty adversary in Tai, he was almost unanimously shot down. A physical threat and strategic non-threat such as Sierra Dawn Thomas was the best target.
On Mana, the question also came down to which threat to target: Sandra or Malcolm. Sierra was particularly eager to go after Malcolm, reasoning that it would "be stupid for the long run" not to target the triple threat now. She had an excellent point: even excluding his social and strategic prowess, assassinating one of Nuku's strongest challenge competitors would put the tribes on a more equal footing in future challenges and increase the likelihood of the weaker Mana winning Immunity.
Of course, the numbers were the issue. Even if Mana was able to keep the death-row sentenced Hali in line, the tribe was still outnumbered 5 to 6. And if they weren't able to swing JT, the only way to gain the upper hand would be an Idol. Luckily, Tai seems to love Idols as if they were all living creatures, and he managed to locate one in the nick of time. He smartly shared his trump card with his tribe (sans Hali), allowing the group to work together to play it effectively. Of course, without being able to gather information from their opposing tribe, there was no way of knowing who to play the Idol for – it would be a total gamble.
On both sides of the division, the targets seemed to be circling the challenge threats – which was further underlined when Hali vocally pushed for Brad at Tribal. Although every player has their own agenda, everybody is still playing as a team, and working to actively weaken an opposing tribe was the smartest play. Yet Malcolm, whose final episode was littered with intelligent observations and dramatic irony, said it best: "It's very simple on paper – but on paper is the only place it's simple."
The Mana/Nuku Tribal Council was unpredictable on the surface, as the players leaped from their seats to try to gather the information they so desperately needed: Who were the other tribe voting for? Who had an Idol? Would anyone flip sides? As Tribal Council has become more of a forum for active gameplay, it was only a matter of time before the players decided not to let their arbitrary seat by the fireplace limit their ability to turn the tide with a whisper.
Naturally, Tribal began as a cautious affair, as both tribes attempted to read the room. Brad's apt analogy of a Mexican standoff – everyone pointing their guns at the other team – certainly held true, as the most likely turncoats JT and Hali weighed up their options, and both played proactively and recklessly.
Although Sandra made it clear that Nuku didn't need her as a number and Sierra pounced on the comment ("Looks like they don't need you."), Hali wasn't ready to be left out of the loop. She made a valiant effort to allude to her desire to get Brad out by stating that it would be "a stupid time in the game to be thinking about anything except physical threats." Although Sandra picked up on Hali's meaning and the whispers grew, it quickly became a "stick to the plan" situation. This particular Tribal was too precarious to switch things up – one wrong vote could be a catastrophe.
JT also seemed willing to make a move. Back at camp, he and Malcolm speculated that it could be an opportunity to oust Sandra, with help from Mana's numbers. Yet JT couldn't execute his plan with confidence. As he articulated at Tribal, it would be a gamble: "I feel like people are expecting me to completely put myself at risk when it would be a shot in the dark for me to land in the right place." Without knowing who Mana was targeting, JT couldn't risk accidentally voting for the wrong person, particularly given a 5-5-1 vote would likely lead, under new rules, to a rock draw. Just as Hali had inferred moments earlier, they all needed more information.
So why did JT decide to stand up, walk over to Brad and tell him Nuku's plan to vote out Sierra? He didn't instruct Brad to vote for Sandra up front – he merely gave up information without getting any in return. Was he just hoping to maintain trust with his Old Nuku alliance by tipping Brad off, or was he trying to gauge if Nuku would go after Sandra without needing to get his hands dirty? I've already talked about how important it is not to play too aggressively and avoid being seen as a troublemaker after Ciera and Tony got voted out for playing too visibly. JT made the same mistake here – he went all-in when everybody else was holding back. Ultimately, it may have been this very action that backfired when Brad ultimately directed Tai to save Sierra with his Idol. Remember Episode 1? "Loose lips sink ships."
JT is a gutsy player, but he let his impulses get the better of him, and he threw an unnecessary spanner in the works. By going rogue and whispering his tribe's secrets to Brad, he unleashed hell. He opened the door for Hali to cross Tribal lines and explicitly campaign for Brad to go home. As the tribes huddled about trying to exchange information in hushed tones, it also gave Mana the opportunity to share the information JT had given them, and consider how to play Tai's Idol as a counter-measure effectively.
Through all of the madness and "carrier pigeons going back and forth," the result didn't seem to change. Despite Hali's plea to the New Nuku tribe, JT was unwilling to switch the vote to Brad, as he'd just told him he was safe. Meanwhile, it was inferred that Sierra and Tai managed to subdue Hali even as she warned she was "trying to change everything." By the time Hali tried to stall the vote by not consenting to the end of the public forum, what more could be done? With so many uncertainties floating around in the dazzling confusion, the only reliable option was the original plan. It's no surprise that the vote ended up being an even 6-5 split along Tribal lines. Even Hali and JT stuck with their current tribes in the hopes that their cross-Tribal allies would prevail.
The Mexican stand-off ended the same way it began: Mana versus Nuku. Sierra or Malcolm. By the numbers, Sierra should have seen her torch snuffed. But a perceptive and/or lucky idol play was all that was needed to turn the tide against Malcolm.
The most disappointing part of this twist was that it would have ended up eliminating someone through no fault of their own. Even if an idol had not saved Sierra, she would have been voted out by people with whom she had never had the opportunity to build relationships. Malcolm and Sierra were only on the block because they were strong competitors on opposing tribes – something they could not have done anything to mitigate. Even in a merge situation, where two opposing alliances square off, there's opportunity on the beach to facilitate a counter-attack. The dynamics of this twist did not permit such play – it ultimately came down to a betting game on who to target and a guessing game with who to protect with the idol.
"When these twists happen, it's part of the game," Malcolm observed, "but if it sent me home, I'd be cussing my way down the ramp." I'm sure he wasn't the only one throwing out expletives when the votes were read.
Losing Malcolm – a strong player and an entertaining character and narrator – so early in the season is a huge disappointment. He was playing a great game – he was an obvious target, but he'd managed to insulate himself with good connections. He could have rested on his luck by sticking with his 5-1 majority on New Nuku, but he was also willing to forge a new alliance with JT. Malcolm had done everything in his power to ensure his longevity in the game, but also managed to stay out of the limelight, sitting back to let players like JT or Sandra take the heat. The game he was playing could have gotten him much deeper into Game Changers. Sadly, a twist of fate meant that it was not to be.
The centrepiece Tribal Council understandably took up the better part of the episode, but let's not forget the first 20 minutes of the episode, crammed full with two challenges and an unilluminating check-in on Tavua.
I don't understand the production logic behind putting a reward challenge in the same cycle as such a monumental Tribal, but the Hero Reward Challenge was still an entertaining diversion. Nuku cemented themselves as the tribe to beat with a stellar performance from JT and Malcolm, but Mana's come-from-behind victory thanks to Brad was impressive. #CoffeeIsForClosers, indeed.
On the flip side of the hashtag diss, Troyzan choked at the final leg of the Reward Challenge. It was the last thing he needed given he remained the outsider on his new tribe. Ozzy continued to show himself to be half-dolphin, catching a whole school of fish and a stingray to boot. Andrea also brought the Immunity Challenge home for the tribe. But Cirie, Sarah, and Zeke barely showed up in the episode, and the social dynamics of Tavua are a total mystery. Unfortunately, it seems as though we'll have to wait until Tavua visits Tribal Council to know what's really happening on the beach.
The Immunity Challenge itself was a nail-biter, helped in large part by the fact that the stakes were so high. Nuku continued to dominate through the majority of the challenge, though their narrow loss was gut-wrenching – particularly evident in Varner's reaction, knowing that even after scoring his tribe the lead in the blindfolded portion, he still was responsible for holding his tribe back. The guy can't catch a break at these challenges!
Only last week, I was praising Survivor's inclusion of real and organic character and survival scenes. This week, the artifice of the game itself was the star of the show. So here's hoping a good balance is struck in the future. Survivor is all about the castaways and their efforts to play this thrilling game. Next time, let's hope they're the ones controlling the outcome of the vote.
So what is the ongoing fallout of the drama of the two-tribe Tribal? Hali and JT remain on the outs of their tribes, and their vocal part in this episode's chaotic conclusion will likely paint a bigger target on their backs. Losing Malcolm to the twist will probably hurt Nuku in the challenges, but strategically, it's hard to pinpoint the long-term effect given his bizarre exit is more akin to a random medical evacuation than the result of a dynamic power shift.
I don't expect Survivor to revisit the two-tribe Tribal twist again, at least not without some significant retooling (I will say that I do think the idea does have a kernel of potential, and I could see v2.0 improving upon the original). I am glad that Survivor continues to experiment with the formula and keep its players from getting too comfortable. However, I hope that future twists give players a chance to intelligently adapt to play with the twist, rather than suffer at the game's mercy because the twist plays them.
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Austin is a 26-year-old hailing from Canberra, Australia. By day, he works by the light of office fluorescence. By night, he can be found swing dancing to Top '40s tracks (1940s, that is), playing board games, and enjoying life with his wonderful wife. His pedigree as a long-time Survivor superfan is evidenced by his Survivor-themed 11th birthday party featuring a gross food challenge comprising Brussel sprouts.


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We have an amazing opportunity to unite families through our support groups, community training, conferences, and online training (coming soon) everyone can be involved in.
No only can lives be restored spiritually and physically, but through relationships building within this organization, purpose and hope can be established through and additionally skills training, referrals, and encouragement!
OAGW is a group of qualified Christian leaders who exists to help those suffering from the effects of abuse through Christian education.
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Getting Revelation-Hearing God's Voice
In the realm of the Spirit, there is a location where God begins to speak without static and with clear revelation. When we find it, great breaths of God will descend on us. Have you experienced times when you have been reading the word of God and the Holy Spirit, the teacher, begins communicating with you clearly? If so, then you can identify with our Scripture below.
John 16:12
I have still many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them or to take them upon you or to grasp them now.
In an instant, the Lord of lords gives an understanding of His ways and an awareness of himself that is almost more than we can fathom. The pen in your hand moves faster than ever before as the thoughts relating to the ways of God come clearer than ever before. Along with an encounter with Christ that occurs like this, revelation of what God is revealing is spread out over a great length of time. We are compelled to journey further into the bible and learn more. Our scripture indicates that the Lord has a lot of revelation to speak to us.
Take time to let your heart be open to receive all that the Holy Spirit has today and expect to receive revelation! The best way is by devoting time to spend in the word of God and fellowshipping with the Lord. As we do this, revelation will come. I always ask him to reveal things to me.


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Industry Trends
Home Control Trends to Look Out For
By Kelly Mascia
On April 28th In Intrusion,Smart Home & Control
Tags: ADI, ADI Global, Automation, Home Automation, Home Control, Industry Trends, Intrusion, Z-Wave
Home Control is all about bringing the digital and physical together in ways that make use of more of your senses. Technological advancements in smart devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) continue to make the Home Control experience more engaging and informative, but there is still much more to come. Here are some trends […]
Research Indicates Large Growth in IP Video Markets
By Garrett Savage
On January 5th In IP Solutions,IP Surveillance Video,System Sales Tips & Marketing Concepts,Video Surveillance
Tags: ADI, ADI Global, Industry Research, Industry Trends, IP Address, IP Cameras, surveillance systems, Video Surveillance
A recent market research study published by Transparency Market Research predicts huge growth potential for the global video surveillance and Video Systems as a Service (VSaaS) market. The report titled, "Video Surveillance and VSaaS Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2014 – 2020," attributes the lift in the market due […]
ADI Global Distribution Industry Poll Results
By ADI Global Distribution
On December 31st In System Sales Tips & Marketing Concepts
Tags: ADI, ADI Global, Industry Research, Industry Trends
Thank you to all who answered our poll question on the ADI Global Distribution Blog… Over half of those who answered believe that "Technological Shifts" pose the greatest challenge to companies in the Security Industry. Coming in at a distant second place was "Understanding Customers Needs." Do you agree? Tell us what you think
Industry Trends to Watch in 2016
By ADI Global Distribution
On December 29th In Uncategorized
Tags: ADI, ADI Global, Commercial Security, Digital Signage, Digital Signage Installations, Digital Signage Sales, Fire Alarm, Fire Safety Systems, Industry Research, Industry Trends, IP Devices, Life Safety, Residential Security, Smart Home, Surveillance Cameras, surveillance systems
As the old year rolls into 2016, it's time to consider some of the trends that have the potential to change our industry in the future. While some of these topics may be considered as threats to security and low-voltage contractors, within each potential problem is an opportunity for astute companies to get ahead of […]


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Serves: 3
Preparation & cooking time: preparation:15 min / cooking time:20 min
Difficulty: easy
Cannot be frozen
– 3 fillets of fresh white fish with the skin removed
– 1 packet of Sea Salt & Cracked Black Pepper Chirps
– 6 tbsp of Two Chicks liquid egg white
– Coconut oil (for greasing your baking tray)
– Fresh lemon (to serve)
1. Pre heat your oven to 200′c.
2. Place the bag of Chirps into a food processor and blend until really fine. If you leave them too big they won't stick to the fish very well. Pour the mixture onto a large flat plate or baking tray and set aside.
3. Pour the egg whites onto a second plate and set aside.
4. To prepare the fish, take some clean kitchen roll and pat them completely dry.
5. Then take the fillets one at a time and coat them in egg white mixture. Then immediately place them in the chirp mixture and press on as much as you can. You can repeat the process if you like an extra thick coating!
6. Place the 'breaded' fillets onto a pre greased and lined baking sheet.
7. The cooking time will depend on the thickness of your fish, but for the size of fillet in the picture I baked mine for 20 minutes at 200′c.
8. Remove from the oven once the fish is cooked through and the fish cooks a light golden brown. Serve immediately with a slice of fresh lemon.


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The Jabari Parker/Andrew Wiggins match we eagerly wanted hit a snag, because eight other players just had to also play on the court. Wiggins and Parker each had their moments in the Jayhawks' 94-83 over the Blue Devils.
Really though, tonight's real star for Kansas was Perry Ellis, who led the Jayhawks with 24 points, along with seven boards. But Wiggins was excellent, too. Just not in the first half. He played only nine minutes after earning two fouls quickly, entering halftime with a mere six points. Maple Jordan, my ass.
Meanwhile, Parker was leading his team with 19 of Duke's 42 points the half, two of them coming from a layup in traffic that Parker adeptly kissed off of the glass with Jayhawks' arms outstretched in front of him. He was carrying his team and providing highlights, too. Early in the second half, Parker reeled in a seemingly inaccurate dish from Quinn Cook and turned it into an astounding one-handed dunk.
When Wiggins came back in the second half, however, he started to gain some steam. After the Jayhawks fell behind 56-51—really, it was a tight game until the end—Wiggins punctuated a 10-4 Kansas run by catching Ellis's pass in transition and slamming down an easy, uncontested dunk to give the Jayhawks a 61-60 lead.
Wiggins already had four fouls with 7:20 left, but Parker fouled out. His fifth foul actually came against Wiggins, as Parker tried (and failed) to stop another Wiggins dunk in transition. That bucket gave Kansas an 87-81 lead with roughly minute left, enough to seal the win.
We didn't get the dramatic showdown we envisioned, because exempting fouls, Kansas and Duke are two well-built programs full of talent. Wiggins wasn't the leading scorer on his team, and four of Parker's teammates had double-digit point totals. The only accurate takeaway from this one game: Wiggins and Parker are both going to be fun as hell to watch.
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I posted on the craftsdept blog about the segment I did just before Christmas. A handful of wintery animals from the Arctic and Antarctica aloft ombre dip dyed wool felt stretched in an embroidery hoop. They really came out sweet and I look forward to experimenting in different palettes with other animals.
For the how-to video click here.
For additional photos check out here.
For the original inspiration look here.


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The Dark Knight : I See The Funny Side!
Joker: So I had a wife. She was beautiful, like you. Who tells me I worry too much. Who tells me I ought to smile more. Who gambles and gets in deep with the sharks. One day, they carve her face. And we have no money for surgeries. She can't take it. I just want to see her smile again. I just want her to know that I don't care about the scars. So… I stick a razor in my mouth and do this…to myself. And you know what? She can't stand the sight of me! She leaves. Now I see the funny side. Now I'm always smiling!
The Dark Knight : See Yourself
The Dark Knight : Why So Serious?
Wanna know how I got these scars? My father was…a drinker. And a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not-one-bit. So…me watching…he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it! He turns to me, and he says, "Why so serious, son?" Comes at me with the knife…"Why so serious?" He sticks the blade in my mouth…"Let's put a smile on that face!" And… Why so serious?
The Dark Knight : If you're good at something
The Dark Knight : Let me get this straight
The Dark Knight : You just couldn't let me go
Oh, you. You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You are truly incorruptible, aren't you? Huh? You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I won't kill you because you're just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever.
The Dark Knight : According to plan
I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself. Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. Hmmm? You know… You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan." But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!


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The Indian Thriller but with SUBTITLES!
This crazy indian video is even better because the subtitles even make sense! It almost makes me think that maybe they ARE speaking in English.
"I like to Swim in his, I like to swim in his (BEEEEJAY)"
Here are some of the photos I found at Junk, as previously mentioned.
I got this one because the guy in the blue shirt looks like my friend Don.
date on back: Oct. 1999
on back: Freddie (Sgt.)
I wonder if this was in the Mid-West or maybe Europe somewhere?
I almost thought the darker guy was Ghandi, while quickly looking through the pile.
Found photos always leave you wondering, "where was this?" "Why is this person there?" "Why that expression?" "What was their day like?"
One of my new favorite pastimes is going to Junk and browsing through their "found photos." A real sneeze producer with all the dust, it's actually kind of awesome and makes me feel like I'm discovering my love for photographs all over again! I even found a picture slide for the film "I Am Sam," amongst other family style black and white photos, test shots, and other randomness.
Too bad a lot of their furniture are overpriced (especially for the ones that need repairing!).


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NOTE: I am commenting on the actions of the ownership of Hugo's, The Honey Paw, and Eventide Oyster Co. As I mention a few times below, my company has worked with the restaurants in the past, and I consider them friends.
When I was publicly complaining about the weeklies as they were acting terribly and imploding left and right, I was told by several people that the only people who ultimately care are those who work for or with said weeklies. I get exactly the same sense from the "fallout" surrounding the ownership of Hugo's, The Honey Paw and Eventide Oyster Co. "banning" MaineToday Media food blogger John Golden. The scenario is about three steps more abstract than insider baseball, and includes a ton of context and layers that aren't immediately self-evident or presented by those reporting upon it precisely because of how layered and complicated it is.
I am close to the situation in that the restaurants in question have been clients in the past and I consider them friends beyond that, so I am too close to any of it to weigh in too deeply without looking like a hack one way or another. It should be noted, though, that while I don't think people actually care about this, or that much of this will stick one way or the other, that won't stop people from talking about it or being outraged on behalf of one side or the other for a minute or so. That's what we do. The media presents two impossibly even sides and we take sides. We take firm stances relating to science, economics, philosophy and a shitload of other things we don't understand. Not understanding what is going on, or being presented a nuanced report of what is happening, has never stopped us from holding extraordinarily strong opinions.
The question posed by the group's move against Golden is one about quality of content and discourse, but it has not been presented as such. In fact, reportage has read a bit like, "Golden has nice things to say about these restaurants? Why are they so mad? Moving on…" What is at the root of their action?
Related questions include, but are not limited to: Why is it the case that bloggers that work their asses off, treat topics and subjects with respect, put the work into researching with the same diligence as their journalistic counterparts, have to have a plan to prove to those subjects with whom they are in contact that they maintain the aforementioned standards? Why do we have to be so ready to distance ourselves from other bloggers when they contact subjects for insights or a quote? What does it mean that restaurants, breweries and others in the food and hospitality industries have to spend countless hours undoing the work of amateur, sloppy, careless reportage? What is the standard for quality in blog-based reportage, and who is allowed to call it out? The aforementioned complaints about blogger standards and self-restraint don't end at "the other paper's" masthead, I should note. I have seem them struggled with, and heard them complained about, at this paper as well.
I can understand why colleagues of mine, both journalists and bloggers, have been sharing this story and hollering about freedom of press. Of course, it is more complicated than that, and this said, we should do well to recognize what is really happening here—that the quality of some of our collective output is being criticized by the communities it draws from—and consider being reflective about the standards we hold ourselves too.
I have no input on the work or reportage of Golden, whom I have met on several occasions and with whom I get along socially, but it appears that—right or wrong about their assessment—the aforementioned owners have weighed in on quality of industry-specific journalism and food-focused content. Amateur critics do this to restaurants via Yelp, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and elsewhere all the time, some offering valid opinions, while many, many others weigh in with insufferable, entitled, driveling bullshit. Being uninformed, again, that has never before stopped us from weighing in.
What sticks out to me in this whole ordeal is not about whether the guys at Honey Paw are right, or if Golden is deserving of negative attention, but this question which remains un-addressed: Between those who create content—particularly us bloggers, prolific Tweeters, Facebook soap-boxers, and Yelpers—and those in the food and hospitality industry, why is it that only one side is allowed to be critical of the job and quality of output of the other?
UPDATE [May 13, 2015]: Chef Mike Wiley has responded to the fallout caused by the aforementioned controversy.


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It has been an experimenting year for me so I wanted to try out different methods of transfering image to block. I vary my own approach, depending on what my plan is with a certain image.
For multi-color woodblock prints, I almost always carve the key block and print on hanshita paper as many times as I will need color. For reduction blocks, it really doesn't matter so much; if my composition is complex and I need to work out things in Photoshop first, then I might use one of the methods below or simply transfer with tracing paper.
Most of my designs are drawn straight on the block with sumi ink. It really just depends on what print, how much detail, method, etc. But I wanted to add a few more methods to my arsenal, just in case. These three are very suitable for highly detailed work and for printouts from any printer.
In the middle is iron-on t-shirt transfer for ink-jet prints, available at any office supply store.
Last is the hanshita paper, a tracing paper attached lightly to a tougher sheet. This paper goes through any printer and is availabe from the supplier above and also from the Baren Mall at http://www.barenforum.org/ click on Baren Mall from there.
I simply lined up the corner of the block and pressed down lightly with a "doorknob-baren". Any pressure implement will do. The paper is slick and the ink is still wet so care is needed to avoid blurring.
Overall, I was impressed with the detail, although I would have liked the ink to be a tad darker on the block. I am transfering on bare blocks for this experiment and usually I would have tinted the blocks with walnut or gray ink to help later in carving.
Aside from the lightness of the transfer, the Studio Paper worked as advertised! I'm always a bit skeptical about these products but this one works.
Next I will try the iron-on stuff. Last picture is a close up of the detail from the studio paper transfer.


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For those who are interested: My recap of the first three days of this year's Essen livestream is now online.
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PAX Australia photos
I've uploaded photos from PAX Australia to Flickr – see my photo set here. They're all Tabletop photos, as I rarely got out of tabletop except for when I was on a panel.
I'm really pleased with the way the show ran.There are some things we can do to improve Tabletop, but overall it was very successful. I think that my favourite part was the number of people who were there to try new games – or just to try games at all.
Game giveaway day!
Posting quickly from my phone. Will fix post formatting later.
I was excited to read about World Book Day. What a fabulous idea – giving out free books to non-readers. I particularly liked the participation angle, where people volunteer to hand out (supplied) books in their area.
And then I thought, omg, we could do that with games. Maybe find a cardgame or three, solid 7s or better, good gateway games. Raise some $$, get publisher support and wham! Free games!
Support it with a website with designer profiles and next game recommendations, as well as links to BGG for the detail.
We should do this!
Bought less today (I think)
- little Christmas thingies for the girls and my work's potential KK ($38)
- Lunch with colleague ($24)
- Apps ($7 or so) (oops)
NOT glass for our front window, because the *(*#@#% glazier who Fraser contacted did not show up. Yeesh.
Oh – and I made F get pizza for dinner because I was so tired by the time I got home that I literally could not stand up any more.
I took Bigster to school late today, because the police were coming. In my parent wisdom, I judged it more educational for her to watch them fingerprinting our front door than to go to the first half of her double Art class. I'm comfortable with that decision.
Oh yeah – and the whole fuss for 16 hours or so about NOT TOUCHING THE DEADLOCK? Apparently it's really really hard to get prints off a deadlock so they didn't even try. Aarrrgh – we had been going out the back door to avoid having to touch it.
Coming Soon! (via The Opinionated Gamers)
I will be one of the (sporadic) authors on this new Gaming blog, which will launch today.
Now that life is slowing down a bit, I should also be the sporadic author of Obsessing about Everything, as well 🙂
Aussiecon 4 – teaser
We've just finished five days at Aussiecon 4, the World Science Fiction convention, which was held here in Melbourne. I want to get some thoughts down here now, although more detail will have to wait – I am suffering from either allergies or connitis, complete with fever and snot. My friend today, when I could feel this coming on, was a bottle of hand sanitizer so I wouldn't feel rude about stalking people – at least I wasn't sharing germs with them!
I was a bit nervous before the con, as I don't really read a huge amount of science fiction, and also because I had a perception that the audience for these events is a fairly closed group of people who all know each other and have Strange Ways.
I was also nervous because we had pulled the girls out of school for the Thursday, Friday and Monday of the con. School had coded this as "absent on other educational programs" which I thought was pretty cool. I was more worried about how to keep them, especially Otto, entertained.
(note for any new readers since the con: yes, my children do have real names, and you probably met them under those names. I just prefer to keep them off the Internet if possible.)
The kid thing was mostly a success, although I felt it sometimes when there were sessions I really really wanted to attend that clashed with sessions that Fraser really REALLY wanted to attend. Especially as I'm not 100% certain that our measurement system were calibrated the same way. I did, however, see and hear a great deal more than I would have if I'd stayed at home.
What struck me first was that this was really three conventions sort of rolled together and squished into one.
There was the fan stream, for, well, fans. This was for conversations about books and genres, for squeeing about all kinds of things and even, for some, for costumes. Also for stalking celebrity writers, getting stuff signed and – as I know from among cons – for catching up with old friends. Of which more anon.
Next up was the academic stream. This is for academics working in the world of speculative fiction, of fandom and of writing.
The last stream, which came as more of a surprise to me, and which was well-mixed with the rest of the con, was a sort of writers conference. With such a plethora of writers and editors, it should not have surprised me that the talks and panels were not all one-way – there were trade conversations happening all over the place and we, the public, were able to observe and learn from many of these.
As for me, well, I like to read. My fandom is boardgaming, my reading genres more crime and fantasy than science fiction. I have a couple of game designs, one of which my playtesters seem to think has legs, and like pretty much anyone I think about one day writing a novel. It's never going to happen, though, unless it becomes a really consuming desire rather than an occasional tickle at the back of my brain. I still like to hear about the writing process, though – I spend large amounts of time writing stuff, even though it's not fiction, and many of the discussions will transfer well to my day job.
Also, they were entertaining.
More detail will follow but here is a con highlight
1. Bigster and the Interaction with Writers.
Going into the con, we warned the girls that they were to stay with us At All Times etc etc etc. This lasted until about the second session, when we decided that given the layout of the building it would be OK for her to go to sessions on her own, especially as one of us would need to stick with Otto. She immediately laid her plans to stalk Paul Cornell, writer of many things Dr Who as well as many things not Dr Who that she didn't care about. When she finally tracked him down after a panel, and got him to sign her con program, she was ecstatic. I tweeted a photo of the two of them together, which Paul graciously retweeted. Her moment in the sun!
Meanwhile, she had met the lovely George Ivanoff, a local YA writer who generously volunteered himself for a couple of sessions in the kids' room. Not only did she buy his book, she also signed up for a Kaffeeklatsch round-table discussion with him and made sure to finish the book before it!
The third author interaction derives special mention, because it was so unexpected. George Ivanoff and Ian Moss were running a YA panel in the kids' room, notable because the number of participants matched the number of panelists, when discussion turned to Dr Who. Ian made a phone call and, a few minutes later, in walked Rob Shearman, author of many many screenplays and also of the Dr Who episode Dalek.
Rob was an absolute delight. Warm, approachable and willing to be hit up for autographs, he came across as a genuinely nice guy. We wish we could have taken him out for dinner just to get more chat time in.


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Significant local uplift, intensive alteration and mineralisation demonstrate the presence of a large gold system with the geological potential to provide a significant resource of both gold and molybdenum
Evidence from previous studies indicate the potential for significant further exploration beyond the exiting Runruno resource area. Evidence has been amassed via drilling, test pit Au+Mo+As anomalies and PDX sampling and mapping. This was supported further in March 2008 following a site visit by Dr Eric Jensen, an expert on alkaline intrusive gold mineralisation, where the potential for further mineralisation within the immediate area was highlighted.
Exploration currently focuses on a volcanic centre measuring ~3km in diameter. Geological features in this area include a syentic-monzonite intruded into a coeval trachytic, volcanoclastic and tuffaceous volcanics. The area is extensively argillised and argillic with alteration caps N to NE and trending zones of intense sulphide-phyllic alteration around the western and southern rim of the centre. Linear phyllic zones are exposed over a 1000-m x 200-m area within the argillic alteration at Cobocbocan Creek (~750-m ASL.) A broad (2600-m X 800-m) E – W moderate phyllic zone is located on the northern margin of the volcanic centre. The argillic cap is present from ~750-m ASL to the Cobocbocan Peak (970-m ASL.) Mineralisation appears constrained between 500-m to 750-m ASL.
Past sampling and drilling have established economic grade intercepts within these intense phyllic zones and further exploration and evaluation has demonstrated large untested extensions to the E and SE that may continue under and be obscured by the argillic alteration cap.
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