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Through dynamic partnerships with women-run projects across the globe, WWD-F assists women and girls to transform their lives, their families, and their communities. The foundation builds the human and financial resources of these projects and thereby increases their capacity and effectiveness. WWD-F's network extends throughout Latin America.
Granos Solidarios Project
Solidarity is the firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good. With this in mind, the Granos Solidarios project started in 2008 with 25 women from an impoverished urban community. The project was created as a holistic empowerment initiative. Today, this dynamic women's group has grown to 96 women from La Carpio and San Juan de Dios, two disadvantaged neighborhoods of San Jose, Costa Rica. This program, which seeks to foster economic, physical and psychological independence for women, has become so successful that there is now a waiting list to join.
This project is about building self-awareness, self-discipline, self-management, and self-empowerment with women struggling to overcome poverty. These women work together to ensure that they and their families have food all year long. They work on collaborative income generation activities to meet their individual monthly food needs.
In addition to developing economic opportunities, Granos Solidarios conducts weekly workshops on different themes such as self-esteem, assertive communication, conflict resolution, group identity, and leadership development.
Canto al Sol Educational Center
The Canto al Sol Preschool was established to increase access to holistic education for children from low-income families. The school offers economical tuition rates as well as scholarships for single mothers who cannot afford school fees.
At Canto al Sol, aside from the traditional education of Spanish ,English, Math and Social Sciences, we emphasize participatory learning, creative expression through the arts, yoga for mind, body and spirit, as well as practical living skills such as swimming. All learning is through the medium of play, cooperative games, music and rhythms. We use classic allegorical stories to teach essential values which are at the core of the Canto al Sol curriculum.
Ilori Educational Project
Children from the most vulnerable urban areas have fewer opportunities to access knowledge and experiences that contribute to their holistic development. The Ilori Educational Project offers opportunities for recreation, psycho-emotional support and academic reinforcement for a group of children in the low-income communities of La Carpio and San Juan de Dios. These children share and learn personal and social skills through their interaction in the weekly and monthly workshops organized by the foundation. In the weekly workshops, approximately 60 children take advantage of extracurricular support, healthy eating, and social and creative skill development.
Each month, the project organizes a special workshop attended by 150 children between the ages of 3-13 years old. These workshops are geared to awaken an interest in art , learning, and cooperation. They provide unique experiences for the children, outside of their normal environment, usually in places they have never seen before.
Haiti is the poorest country of the Western Hemisphere, suffering from high unemployment, social unrest, natural disasters, sanitation and health problems, and endemic poverty. On January 12, 2010, a powerful 7.3 earthquake rocked the southeast coast of Haiti, including its capital city, Port-au-Prince, Over 200,000 people died in this disaster, and millions are homeless.
WWD-F has been working with its partner in Haiti, AMURTEL, to respond to the urgent needs of the Haitian people. AMURTEL was put in charge of 14 refugee camps where it is responsible for the needs of 8,000 people. With its skilled women animators, it is organizing and empowering approximately 2,000 women of four camps to work together to create small businesses and economic development in Port-au-Prince. AMURTEL workers are also engaging over 400 children every week with musical and educational programs.
Plans are now underway to develop an action plan to normalize conditions for the refugees and improve their lives. The idea is to create long-term sustainable living solutions for the Haitian refugees, such as the creation of eco-villages. AMURTEL already has begun the eco-village process in the city of Anse-a-Pitre by investing in land and by collaborating with Sadhana Forest, a group committed to the environment and to training children and adults in new agriculture techniques and water catchment systems. WWD-F is providing human and material resources to achieve these goals.
Sattva Vita
In Nicaragua the Sattva Vita Health and Education Center was created in 2009 as a model of accessible, affordable, integrated holistic health education and direct care, serving under-resourced communities in the semi-rural suburbs of Managua, Nicaragua. This center features a holistic clinic offering a variety of medical treatments including conventional medicines, ozone and neural therapies, massage, acupuncture, as well as homeopathic and herbal medicines.
Local residents can receive a medical consultation for as little as $1 USD, The center also encourages local women to take a more active role in their health and that of their families. On-going educational courses introduce local doctors to natural treatments, such as Neural Therapy, Iridology and Radionics.
Rurapuk Project
Paraiso Alto is one of the poorest communities surrounding Lima, Peru where a stunning 90% of the residents do not have access to health services, 59% are not connected to the piped water and sewerage system, 23% do not have electric power, and as many as 25% of the children are malnourished.
With the intention of empowering the women and children of the local community, the Rurapuk Project was started in 2000 to provide employment opportunities, nutrition, education, and medical care. Rurapuk is a Quechua word of the ancient Incas that means "people who help each other".
The project currently operates a cooperative craft manufacturing initiative that helps Peruvian women earn a living wage to support their families. The project building also serves as a community center for the neighborhood, supplying hot meals and medical assistance. Recently, the cooperative was expanded with a new production unit operated by hearing disabled women.
WWD-F partnered with AMURT Peru, the local NGO that operates the Rurapuk Project, to expand its facilities and add on additional programs. An adjacent piece of land has been purchased and construction is moving forward to create a 4-story community center that will add on a pre-school, a women's safe house and counseling center, and an auditorium for school programs and community activities as well.
Centro Madre
The northern coast of central Venezuela consists of many poor townships that are periodically hit by floods, rockslides, mudslides, and droughts. In December 1999 and January 2000, disastrous floods swept through coastal areas, causing many deaths, property damage and environmental problems. One of the areas hardest hit was the Barlovento region.
In 2001, the Centro Madre emerged from the disaster relief activities in the area. Working with residents of the local communities, the Center began to address the economic, health, and educational needs of the people. Its programs strive to develop community solidarity, to empower the people, and to infuse positive values in the children and youth.
Its accomplishments include the following programs and activities:
- A program called Youth in Action that engages young people in drama, art, sports and training in self-awareness and social behavior.
- A library was installed with 7 donated computers to serve the youth of the community.
- The center organizes sports teams for youth between the ages of 9-13.
- A 3-month course on the different uses of plantain, a local crop and important nutritional source, is conducted for women in surrounding villages.
- Agricultural development supplies food and income for the Center. Horticultural activity includes the planting of 600 plantain, 100 papaya, 30 mandarin, 5 lemon and 5 mango trees.
- The commercialization of food products for achieving economic self-sufficiency, including the processing of mango into frozen concentrate and jam and the production of plantain and yucca flour, ice cream, granola and other products.
- An apiculture project with 10 beehives.
- A sewing cooperative for marginalized women.


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Denny Hamlin found redemption for a lost season, as Jimmie Johnson advanced to the threshold of legend.
Sidelined for four races with a broken back earlier in the season, Hamlin took the checkered flag in Sunday's Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, as Johnson claimed his sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship with a ninth-place finish.
Johnson finished the season 19 points ahead of polesitter and race runner-up Matt Kenseth, who held off a furious charge by third-place Dale Earnhardt Jr. in the closing laps. With six NASCAR Sprint Cup titles, Johnson is one behind all-time leaders Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt.
The title was a record 11th for team owner Rick Hendrick.
"I don't even know where to start," Johnson said after the race. "I'm at a loss for words, but I'm so proud and so thankful for this opportunity at Hendrick Motorsports. I'm thankful that Jeff Gordon and Rick Hendrick gave me this opportunity back in 2002.
"This sport is about people, and our people at Hendrick Motorsports -- especially on this 48 car -- rose up and got the job done. I'm so thankful to be able to drive for this race team and so honored and so excited to have a 'six-pack.'"
Hamlin won for the first time this season, the second time at Homestead and the 23rd time in his career. The driver of the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota has won at least one race in each of his eight full seasons in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
As elated as he was with the victory, Hamlin took time to acknowledge the excellence of Johnson and his No. 48 team. Johnson's average finish in the 10 Chase races was 5.1.
"I think they do a great job of being consistent," Hamlin said. "Really, I'd say with everyone else in the Chase, you can almost count on them having one bad race. The 48, they just never have that one bad race. I don't know how to explain it, but they just don't make any mistakes. You have to beat him on performance. To do that, that's really hard.
"Unfortunately, we're racing during the Jimmie Johnson Era. We're just unlucky in that sense. I think being out there and racing with him, I can say that I think he's the best that there ever was."
Martin Truex Jr. completed his tenure at Michael Waltrip Racing with a fourth-place run, one spot ahead of teammate Clint Bowyer. Brad Keselowski, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Johnson and Kevin Harvick rounded out the top 10.
Johnson's path to the title was far from easy. Moments after a restart on Lap 194, Paul Menard rammed the back of Johnson's No. 48 Chevrolet as the outside line checked up. The impact jerked Johnson's car sideways, but the five-time champion was able to regain control and keep the car off the outside wall.
His momentum sapped, however, Johnson plummeted to 23rd in the running order, the precise finishing position he needed to secure his sixth championship. Over the next nine laps, Johnson recovered to 16th and drove the No. 48 out of the danger zone.
From that point on, he advanced as high as sixth before finishing ninth, and the sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup title was his.
"I had contact from behind that pushed me into the 20 (Kenseth), and both of us were out of control and sliding toward the outside fence at that point," Johnson said. "I didn't know what to think. That got us mired back in traffic and made the last 50 laps kind of interesting.
"We still had an awesome race car and got the job done."
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Haiti has historically been plagued by social instability, extreme poverty, deforestation, erosion of top soil, and disaster susceptibility. Due to the destruction of agricultural assets, fuel shortages, damage to port roads, and an increase of food prices, thus creating over 2 million people in need of aid in Haiti. Currently around 60% of the food eaten in Haiti is imported, making it highly vulnerable to external price shocks. Since the earthquake in 2010 many people are still lacking basic amenities such as shelter, food, water and medical assistance. With the help of USAID we have been able to build up a new Haiti. The Limited Excess Property Program (LEPP) provides us in acquiring excess property for use in development, relief, and rehabilitation programs and project in Haiti.
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GLENDORA, Calif. — A much-needed San Gabriel Valley, Calif, emergency room has opened its doors and already has been put to the test.
In the nearly three weeks since Foothill Presbyterian Hospital s $14.4 million addition opened, the ER has twice overflowed with sick and injured patients, officials said. And that s after the hospital doubled its emergency capacity to 23 beds from 11.
Patients are arriving from all over the valley, staff said.
They re probably coming up just to take a look, said Director of Emergency Services Robert Ower. We like to show it off, so it s OK.
The new emergency room arrives as a crisis in the health care industry has forced uninsured patients to rely on emergency services for their primary care, causing ER crowding to rise rapidly, hospital officials said.
At the same time, the region has endured the closure of several emergency facilities, further putting pressure on the remaining emergency rooms. St. Luke Medical Center in east Pasadena closed in 2002 and Santa Teresita Hospital in Duarte abruptly shut its doors in 2004.
Pasadena s Huntington Hospital — with the only remaining trauma center in the Valley — absorbed many of the patients who would have gone to the two now-shuttered emergency rooms. But Foothill Presbyterian has also seen a marked increase in numbers of patients in the past five years, officials said.
We always read about hospitals downsizing, but there are hospitals that are filling the gap, said Larry Fetters, the hospital s administrator.
The hospital is managed by the same health group that runs the Queen of the Valley and Inter-Community campuses of Citrus Valley Medical Center.
Foothill Presbyterian is not considered a trauma center, a label that the county applies to hospital facilities capable of treating the most severe emergencies and offering specialized surgeries around the clock. But the new ER does have an operating room able to handle two serious surgeries at once, hospital representatives said.
It was obvious several years ago that a new facility was needed. We hit a point where we could not see any more patients, Ower said, recounting gurneys lining the hallways of the old ER.
About 30 percent of the time, the hospital was on diversion, meaning it could not accept additional patients, he said.
The new emergency room, at 17,000 square feet, is three times as big as the previous one.
Emergency rooms have come a long way since that old ER was designed back in the 1970s, said Dr. Scott Isbell, medical director of the hospital s emergency department. Isbell joined the 105-bed hospital five years after it opened in 1973.
It was difficult getting all of the machines into the room, he said, noting that sometimes there were fewer electrical outlets than were needed. It was very hectic, very crowded.
The new ER was paid for by private donations from the community, including the hospital s doctors and staff. The official name, the Arthur and Sarah Ludwick Emergency Care Pavilion, reflects the major financial support of two longtime Glendora philanthropists.
The Foothill Foundation, the nonprofit hospital s fundraising arm, gathered the money through a five-year campaign that will continue until the end of December, representatives said.
Three nursing stations — capable of monitoring 21 patients — are situated throughout the emergency room, which is lit in part by skylights.
The ER also now has two entrances, one for ambulances and one for patients who come in on their own. They use to have just one. Two waiting areas include a space for children.
Patients who enter the emergency waiting room are received and almost immediately brought to a bed. They are seen by a triage nurse and registered at their bedside.
There are a lot of patients we re seeing in about five minutes, said Isbell, adding that it used to take 30 minutes or more.
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Gillette - The Best a Ma'am Can Get
Gillette has gotten onboard the anti-white male bandwagon with their new ad to sell razors to women instead.
No more selling razors to those rapey metoo evil white men. They have decided to shame and bully their white toxically masculine customers with a strong message of Social Justice reinforced by the Marxist Armenian Holocaust deniers at the YoungTurks.
See the YouTube ad for yourself here:
Those toxically male evil white HonkeyWhiteyCracker rapist men should really buy Gillette now.
The face of the new proposed spokesperson for Gillette? He became famous over a misgendering episode in Albuquerque, NM when he demanded to be called "ma'am" and went ballistic after a game store attendant called him "sir."
Gillette has had a YouTube channel for nearly 13 years now - since February 13, 2006. During which time they gained 115,000 subscribers.
In a single day they got more than that in downvotes. Their stock price is taking a hit...
Here's one of their commercials extolling the female genitalia. Male counterparts need not apply; abandon hope all ye who enter here.
This is a great racket - make money while promoting the Party agenda. Lenin and Stalin wish they were so lucky, they had to rob banks to feed the propaganda.
One day I went to collect my mail. It was windy that day and I finally realized what it means to be a man. The wind blowing through my leg hair felt like bugs on my legs. I figured that was the reason guys want to get laid so much. A truly enlightening experience. It changed my life!
I resumed my shaving and deodorant habits immediately after, realizing I had been duped.
The pool of guys wanting me soon waned. They wanted smelly babes. Ewe!
Behold how woke I am!
What are the interwebs coming to? I understood there were rules...
Ivan BetinovObviously, you did not finish the job, Other Ivan. I think Jill-ette wants you to make a clean sweep of the area. Go for a Smoothie.
I think you have come up with the final word in Jillette's rebranding!
Ivan the StakhanovetsBeet vodka and razors do not mix. That one time I tried to shave the "toxic masculinity" I couldn't see half of what I was doing and bled like crazy. Blood stains in the People's boxer shorts took some pretty graphic explanation, which brought up silly questions like "why" and "who else was with you..." it was not pleasant, but many valuable lessons were learned that lost weekend.
Great balls of Lenin Komrade Ivan, I don't think I'd have told all that......but since you did....what brand of razor was it? Hopefully the 'straight razor' variety, hence all the mess.
http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/ ... 16671.html
And also this - if Revlon targeted women the same way Gillette targets men.
Striking Blow Against Toxic Masculinity, Man Graciously Allows Wife To Shovel Driveway
NAPERVILLE, IL—One man has taken the message of Gillette's new "toxic masculinity" campaign to heart. Devin Camp saw the commercial and it caused him to perform an introspective look at his own motivations of behavior regarding manliness. One area of life he felt especially convicted was the task of snow removal.
"I've always just assumed that in our family, I would be the one to clear the driveway when we get snow," Camp said. "But after seeing the video, I decided to start breaking down the stereotypes passed down from my father and his father before him. So, this weekend, when twelve inches of snow fell, I swallowed my pride, handed my wife the snow shovel, and told her I was going to let her do it."
Camp's wife, who is three months pregnant, was surprised by the gesture but honored that her husband would be so forward-thinking as to allow her the privilege of completing a job traditionally reserved for men. "It took me an hour and a half, and I think I strained an oblique muscle, but the pride and joy I felt being married to such a noble and generous man, helped me to push through the pain."
Mr. Camp is expected to break down similar barriers regarding lawn mowing, household maintenance, and car repair.
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"I've always just assumed that in our family, I would be the one to clear the driveway when we get snow," Camp said. "But after seeing the video, I decided to start breaking down the stereotypes passed down from my father and his father before him. So, this weekend, when twelve inches of snow fell, I swallowed my pride, handed my wife the snow shovel, and told her I was going to let her do it."
A new take on the old Tom Sawyer "white-washing the fence is fun" trick.
You know the rest comrades
Red SquareIf this #ToxicFemininity doesn't elevate your #ToxicMasculinity, you might be a progressive.
Before getting excited and rising to the occasion, all good, non-toxic, masculine-identifying progressives must first ask which of these blue-clad Gillettes identify as female. Then, of course, there are the proper forms which must be filled out.


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300 Jed X Lego Z Slam Puts Me to Sleep, Too August 30, 2007Posted by David Card in Media.
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Matt Hasselbeck — balding, cerebral — is my new favorite, non-Redskin NFL player. Even though he plays pansyball West Coast Offense for Seattle. The NFL is using Hasselbeck in an ad campaign to help clean up its mildly tarnished image, and he's totally charming, and his kids are adorable.
As usual, I'll howl about how hard it is to find the ads online. I found 'em at the New York Times (who misspells his name, for pete's sake, even though it's visible in the video — newspaper of record my @ss). Huh? I searched pretty diligently, including at NFL.com.
Of course, in this engaging ESPN.com story, Hasselbeck admits that when he's watching film preparing for games, the kids are out with Mom.
If There's Lies, D@mned Lies, and Statistics, What Are Forecasts? August 30, 2007Posted by David Card in Media.
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Especially Wall Street forecasts? Snort. Henry Blodget updates the the Morgan Stanley YouTube video ad revenue "forecast":
- Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker and team rechecked their YouTube advertising calculations and produced a new set of estimates this morning. As expected, if Mary had stuck with the assumptions used yesterday, the correct math would have produced a ludicrously small estimate. So she changed the assumptions to boost the estimates.
- …And now that the math has been fixed–and the calculation has produced an immaterial revenue estimate–the assumptions have been changed. This is what's known in the trade as "backing into the numbers."
Or "making
shi- stuff up."
We call it "triangulating," or "balancing a top-down against a bottom-up approach."
The Journal's Numbers Guy quotes the Morgan Stanley report: �In fixing the error, we also took the opportunity to dig deeper into our assumptions and � we provide an updated scenario analysis of the opportunity �"
Keep digging.
Big Burgers Come Up Small Online August 28, 2007Posted by David Card in Media.
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I'm lovin' the McDonald's TV spots that beg us New Yorkers to eat lots of "Angus Third Pounders" so Mickey D's will put them on menus everywhere. (Even if SoCal came first.) The ads feature bad Baahston accents! And kazoo solos from Texas! But do you think I can find the ads online? Heck no. I can find a lukewarm review (embedding disabled by request!!!! Huh?)
..and a negative one:
And a fairly positive, non-video review that lists the scary facts. Ummmm, 760 calories, 41 grams of fat, and 145mg of cholesterol. (And that's without bacon.)
Sounds like the suits are afraid of the fans, and maybe they should be. But the ads are funny and should at least show up somewhere on the corporate site.
Oh, and the ads hooked me — I'll post my review after I've actually sampled the goods.
South Park Digital Deal Raises Many Questions August 27, 2007Posted by David Card in Media.
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They like the promise "50-50" now, but didn't they like big up-front checks better? (Oh, wait, there is an up-front payment.) What if there's not that much digital video advertising (or syndication revenues, or consumer spending), or, more likely, LOTS of competition for a medium-sized pie? And what about the always notorious "Hollywood accounting?" Is it 50-50 after costs?
If this is indeed a trend, it might be a good thing for everybody, as programming development risks could be spread more evenly. (That's one of the problems with music industry economics.) That is, as long as those up-front payments aren't absurd. Perhaps this is a lesson on how to end-run Viacom-YouTube shenanigans. If so, it's yet another example of more power to the artists and agents, and less to the studios/networks. Oh, so many variables. As usual, nobody knows anything.
The NY Times breaks the story on a digital deal for the South Park creators:
- Now, however, Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker and their bosses at Comedy Central, a unit of Viacom�s MTV Networks, are attempting to leapfrog to the vanguard of Hollywood�s transition into Web. In a joint venture that involves millions in up-front cash and a 50-50 split of ad revenues, the network and the two creative partners have agreed to create a hub to spread �South Park�-related material across the Net, mobile platforms, and video games.
And maybe it can't be a trend, at least not for anybody with existing contracts:
- But even Mr. Parker and Mr. Stone would most likely not have been able to negotiate their new joint venture had they not years ago inserted into their contract what has proved to be a killer deal point. Comedy Central�s boilerplate reserved to the network any income generated by the show through other network divisions. But the pair�s lawyer, Kevin Morris, insisted that any �South Park� revenue not derived specifically from broadcast on the cable channel would go into the pot for calculating the men�s share of back-end profits.
All Thumbs (and I'm Not Talking About Texting) August 26, 2007Posted by David Card in Media.
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Movie critic Roger Ebert claims it's not his fault that that Thumbs� have been missing lately from Disney-ABC's syndicated "At the Movies…" review show. He's in a contract fight and co-holds the trademark thumbs-up or -down with Gene Siskel's estate.
Still, it's hard to see how one could "own" such a thing since a thumbs-up as a positive sign is at least as old as WWII, and probably older. I can't resist making a "prior art" gag:
…Jean-L�on G�r�me's 19th century painting is generally blamed for the current mis-interpretation. In all likelihood, the Romans actually used a thumbs-up for the kill sign.
I do hope Roger's back on the show soon, to save us from the stream of lame guest-hosts, but this thumbs thing is pretty silly.
It's Not Like We Never Made a Math Error August 24, 2007Posted by David Card in Media.
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…but still. From the Dept. of Schadenfreude: Somebody should tell Morgan Stanley that CPM means "cost per thousand" when calculating potential Google YouTube ad revenues. Hint, it's Latin.
- What happens to Mary's estimates when you do the math right? Well, that $4.8 billion of gross revenue becomes $4.8 million, and the $720 million of net revenue becomes $720 thousand.
I'm sure the poor schmuck jr analyst who botched the math is on the street today. But Mary Meeker and Morgan Stanley put their brands on the report.
Some Signs of Hope in Webcasting Royalty Negotiations August 24, 2007Posted by David Card in Media.
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To readers who remain baffled by music licensing arcana: don't bother to try to figure out this latest stage in the webcasting negotiations. It's a positive move but as Pandora founder Tim Westergren says: "But the real meat of this is the (royalty) rate, which has not been figured out yet."
- SoundExchange, which collects royalties from Webcasters and distributes them to artists and record labels, said it would limit fees � at $50,000 a year � for online radio station companies that offer more than 100 channels to customers.
Trouble in "Paradise"? August 22, 2007Posted by David Card in Media.
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Once the kid's seen Paris, it's tough to keep those near-monopoly margins at home.
- A memo circulated within IAC/InterActiveCorp's Ticketmaster, which controls the ticket inventory to nearly all major concert and sporting events in the U.S., said the ticketing company no longer expects to renew its agreements to sell seats for events at buildings owned by Live Nation, its largest client. Events at venues owned by Live Nation and its House of Blues subsidiary generated 17% of Ticketmaster's roughly $1 billion revenue last year.
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Put aside any doubt that Jupiter is the trendiest of Internet research firms. Presenting the Green Collection:
Banking Green Online
One-fifth of the online population are so-called green financial services consumers, i.e., consumers would buy more financial products from institutions that are committed to protecting the environment. Among the five major banks included in the survey, Bank of America's customers express the highest satisfaction with the bank's environmental efforts. Other institutions should raise their green profiles by launching both image-enhancing and sales-supporting initiatives.
Green Grown-Ups
Green adults (21 percent of all online adults) skew older than average and are not necessarily affluent. They are also more engaged with user-generated content (UGC) than are overall online users. Marketers must understand their usage of this content to avoid misplaced campaigns.
Green Teens
Green teens (15 percent of online teens) are popular, engaged in school activities, and a little artsy. Music and entertainment programming and social media will appeal to them, and they're likely to respond positively to online marketing.
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Google Video Comes Clean — Will Refund August 21, 2007Posted by David Card in Media.
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Since I took 'em to task, I'm giving 'em credit where it's due. Good job, fellas.
- * We're giving a full refund — as a credit card refund — to everyone who ever bought a video. We'll need you to make sure we have your most recent credit card information, but once we know where to send the money, you'll get it.
- * You can still keep the Google Checkout credit that you've received already. Think of it as an additional 'we're sorry we goofed' credit.
- * We're going to continue to support playing your videos for another six months. We won't be offering the ability to buy additional videos, but what you've already downloaded will remain playable on your computer.


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In reading this weeks #MTBoSBlogsplosion prompt, I realized that I do a pretty poor job of explicitly teaching soft skills. I'm looking forward to see what everyone else posts to see what I can add to my daily routines. My curriculum is so jam packed that I really don't have the free time to take a an entire period to teach a soft skill.
The one thing that I think I do well is building the capacity of my students to work collaboratively. This is because I use the hybrid rotational model of blended learning. It's also largely due to the fact that I stumbled across the Kagan geometry book a few years ago. This book gave me activities to have students learn geometry through collaboration. I love the focus on vocabulary and notation that are so important in geometry, but also the varied collaborative structures. Each structure gets students actively involved in the learning process and some even incorporate movement into class.
My favorite structures are Boss/Secretary and Rally Coach. I don't usually tell my students the name of the strategy, I just describe how I'd like them to work. These strategies encourage students to defend their reasoning and consider the explanations of their peers. By giving simple roles to each partner, the work is more focused and you have fewer students sitting and watching their partner do all the work.
So what soft skills are you good at developing in your students. I hope to read about the following ideas on your blogs: self motivation, empathy, initiative, flexibility, tactfulness, ... and so many more.


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And that's what every character must do. In every story - every good story - a character must walk through the proverbial doorway of change. When the story begins, they must be one way, and when the story ends, they must be another. After all, the story is the telling of their journey from point A to point B. Without the journey, you have no tale to tell.
Your character also has a point of decision making. If they choose the left path, they end up one way and if they choose the right path, they end up another.
I will again use one of my characters to illustrate this point.
Temujin, from Yassa (due out in June) -
When the tale begins, Temujin is just nine years old. He is an innocent young man who is about to be betrothed to an innocent young girl. When his father is murdered and he is left in charge of his family, he experiences change. "But," you say, "That wasn't a choice!" Quite right. That is not his proverbial door, he was just a victim of circumstance in that situation. His doorway presents itself when he is ten years old and is forced to make a decision on whether or not to kill his half brother, Bekhter. If Temujin kills the young man, he will be an outlaw. If he doesn't, there's a good chance Bekhter will murder Temujin in his sleep. What to do?
Once a character passes through the door, their life must change forever. There must be no way to return to what they knew before. If you murder someone, you are a murderer and will go to prison - appealing? - and that will irrevocably change your life forever. It's not something you can take back or undo and it will change you when it changes your life. A good story has this moment; usually within the first third of the book.
Yassa's prologue is written from a different point of view than the rest of the book and provides a moment of change for the antagonist, Jamuka. Temujin's moment of change doesn't happen until the end of chapter 3 on page 50. Yassa is around 400 pages long so you can see that the moment of change happens well within the first third of the story.
A journey for a character from the moment of change until some sort of resolution is reached is the rest of your book. Resolution is almost always found in the last fourth of the book. I have found a few books where resolution is on the very last page. It depends on your writing style.
Just remember, one thing is universally true no matter what kind of story you are writing. Your character must change and walk through a door.
What characters do you remember most and what was their moment of change? Discuss!
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Please join us as we celebrate the tenth anniversary of Cambridge Enterprise Limited, revisit some extraordinary innovations and share a few that we think will soon have a tremendous impact on the world.
Cambridge University research has, of course, found its way to market for centuries. But it wasn't until the late 1990s, in the wake of changes to intellectual property law, that the University set up various tech transfer offices. These were consolidated and renamed Cambridge Enterprise. On 1 December 2006, we fledged, becoming a fully independent subsidiary.
Our mandate was to "support the academic community to make their ideas and concepts more commercially successful for the benefit of themselves, the University and the UK economy". In the ten years since, we have helped thousands of academics share their expertise as consultants; licensed hundreds of techniques and technologies to existing businesses and helped launch and fund over 100 spin-outs. We have built relationships with investors and companies around the globe and returned millions of pounds to academic departments and the University.
Our primary goal, however, has not been to make money but rather to ensure that great ideas are put to use, for everyone's benefit. Cambridge University carries out extraordinary research every day. Cambridge Enterprise helps get the fruits of this research out into the world, be it in the form of life-saving drugs or market-altering technologies. These innovations have improved millions of lives. Here are some of those stories.
The founding of Solexa and the development of rapid, whole genome sequencing.
The success of Campath-1H was built on four decades of tireless research and testing.
A Cambridge undergrad applied machine learning to music, creating a company that could make composers of us all.
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Innovative in 1961, the Hammersmith flyover was the first UK structure to use precast, segmental, post-tensioned concrete.View
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Integrative complexity (IC) teaches people to move from 'black & white' (or 'them & us') thinking to seeing shades of grey.
At £68.6m the company's 2014 initial public offering hit an all-time high for a life science company from the Cambridge Cluster.
A laser holographic system projects speed and other information onto the windscreen so drivers can keep their eyes on the road.
Ichorcumab, the product of X01 Limited, performs a delicate biological balancing act.
Entropic Inc. and VocalIQ have made it ever easier for computers to understand human speech.
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Continuation and end of our articles on trademark law. We will have covered the main themes of intellectual property law; copyright, design rights and trademark law.
The owner of a trademark is the one who filed it first. Ownership of a trademark is not acquired by use but by registration (Article L. 713-1). In case of dispute during the filing of a trademark, it is possible to bring an action claiming to obtain the transfer of this filing made fraudulently by a third party (Article L. 712-6).
The application for registration shall be filed by the person concerned or his representative either at the National Institute of Intellectual Property (INPI) or at the Registry of the Commercial Court or the High Court of the applicant's domicile (Article R. 712- 1). This deposit includes the application for registration (identification of the applicant, model of the mark, enumeration of the products and services to which it applies) and additional documents (justification of the payment of royalties, the power of the agent, etc.). The deposit is published in the official bulletin of industrial property (BOPI) (article R. 712-8).
The application is examined both in substance and in form by the INPI, but it does not carry out a prior art search. If the application is accepted, the mark is registered and published in the BOPI, but protection starts on the day the application for registration is filed.
The registration of the mark confers on its owner a monopoly of exploitation of this mark for the goods or services designated as from the filing date, within the national territory and for a period of 10 years renewable indefinitely.
There are exceptions to this principle such as:
- the use of the sign as a corporate name, trade name or sign if the use is prior to the filing of the mark or if it is a namesake of good faith
- the use of the sign as a reference necessary to indicate the destination of a product or a service to the customer
The registration of the mark also gives the holder the opportunity to transfer his ownership of the mark, according to various legal processes:
- the assignment of the mark: the owner of the mark transfers all or part of the property rights he holds on the mark
- the trademark license: the owner grants a third party the right to exploit the trademark
- the pledge of the mark
The owner of the mark may finally lose his right of ownership of the mark by:
- voluntary or tacit renunciation (Article L. 714-2)
- the deprivation of the mark: for non-serious exploitation for five years (Article L. 714-5) or for a mark that has become generic (the mark has become the usual designation of the product) or misleading (Article L714-6)
To protect his trademark against infringement, the holder may act unfairly (Article 1382 of the Civil Code), or by invoking the offenses of alteration or deletion of mark (Article L. 217-1 of the Consumer Code) or product substitution (Article L. 716-10 b). The holder may also bring an action for infringement (Article L. 716-1).
There are several forms of counterfeiting:
- counterfeiting by reproduction: it necessarily requires an identity of products or services. If the sign is identical to that of the authentic mark, it is a counterfeit reproduction identical. It is not necessary to prove the risk of confusion. On the other hand, if the sign is similar or if it uses an authentic mark in a set that does not form an indivisible whole (reproduction by addition), it is a counterfeit by partial reproduction. It must then be proven that there is a risk of confusion.
- counterfeiting by imitation: a protected mark must be imitated for identical or similar products and there is a risk of confusion for the public.
- counterfeiting by use: when the mark is used for goods or services identical to the original mark, even with the addition of words such as "formula", "way" …, there is infringement without it being necessary to provide proof of the likelihood of confusion. Where the original mark is used for similar goods or services or when the imitated mark is used for identical or similar goods or services, the likelihood of confusion must be proved for the infringement to be used.
- counterfeiting by affixing a trademark: this is the marketing of a product or service under a trademark to
which it is not entitled, commonly known as the offense of filling.
- counterfeit by product substitution: it is knowingly to deliver a product other than the one requested.
Apart from counterfeiting, there are other offenses relating to the mark of others such as the deletion or modification of the mark of others, the maintenance of an authentic mark on products which have been the subject of processing and receiving, selling, offering or supplying goods or services bearing a counterfeit trademark.
Article L. 716-7 provides that the holder of an application for registration, the owner of a registered trademark or the beneficiary of an exclusive right of exploitation may make an infringement seizure. Thus, it can also act in counterfeiting by choosing between the penal way and the civil way.
In the case of civil proceedings, the High Court of the place of commission of the offense or the domicile of the defendant is exclusively competent (Article L. 716-3). Article L. 716-4 also authorizes the use of arbitration. Proof of counterfeiting can be made by any means, but the preferred mode is the counterfeit seizure.
As far as the criminal track is concerned, it is the Criminal Court of the place of commission of the offense which is competent. Counterfeiting is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of € 150,000 (articles L. 716-9 to L. 716-11). The Tribunal may also order the total or partial, permanent or temporary, five-year closure of the establishment used to commit the offense (Article L. 716-11-1), the posting of the judgment pronouncing the conviction and its publication in its entirety or in extracts from newspapers (Article L. 716-13), confiscation or destruction of the products and / or instruments used to commit the offense (Article L. 716-14) and of course condemn the counterfeiter to be paid to the owner of the authentic mark of damages if the latter justifies a prejudice.


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Technology entrepreneur and former CSIRO executive Dr Ian Opperman will lead the set-up of the NSW government's Data Analytics Centre as the state's acting chief data scientist.
The formation of the DAC, with a new suite of powers, became official yesterday with the passage of the government's Data Sharing (Government Sector) Bill 2015 through both houses of parliament.
Opperman is a former director of digital productivity at Australia's peak science and research organisation. He has kept his association with the CSIRO alive as a participant in its 'entrepreneurs in residence program'.
He is also a former CEO of data analytics firm RoZetta Technology.
Opperman will lead the development phase of the NSW DAC, while the state looks for a permanent chief data scientist.
The passage of the DAC laws means Innovation Minister Victor Dominello will have the power to order NSW agencies to hand over specified data sets within 14 days, for use in policy production and research.
Despite its infancy, the DAC has already launched its first data initiative
It is working on leveraging student data to identify ways to improve vocational educational courses in NSW by aligning them to the specific needs of hiring businesses.
This is one of nine "priority projects" that will drive the DAC agenda from its outset.
The DAC has been modelled on the New York Mayor's Office of Data Analytics.
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A learning disabilities commissioner should be appointed to protect the rights of vulnerable people in England, a report into the Winterbourne View scandal has recommended.
Five years on from the Panorama programme detailing abuse at a private hospital near Bristol, Stephen Bubb, the author of the report into the incident, said the system still cannot be trusted to care for people with learning disabilities.
'The system' doesn't do any caring. It's 'the staff' that you need to concern yourself with.
Are they the right type? Have they received the right training? Are there sufficient penalties to deter the cruel and the uncaring, the criminal and the lazy?
"Just as a children's commissioner was established following the Climbié inquiry, there is a firm argument for establishing this post," he said.
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Jake Tapper has mentioned Trump acknowledging vaccines causing autism as one of the "false claims" the president has told to attack his credibility and defend fired FBI chief James Comey. This is the same Comey who withheld from Trump that the fake dossier accusing him of paying prostitutes to douse him in urine was funded by the Democratic National Committee. Props to RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel for doing such a great job responding to a professional liar like Jake Tapper.
Just recently CNN lied that a survey of autism families showed that autists were less likely to be fully vaccinated. Their chief medical correspondent routinely says vaccines don't cause autism. Ten years ago he interviewed the father of a child whose autism our government admitted was caused by vaccines.
Autism Investigated will now take this opportunity to demand President Trump reaffirm his commitment to stopping the havoc that vaccination continues to wreak on children. Autism Investigated endorsed you, voted for you, defended you from criticism on our own side that you weren't doing enough. Now you must act.
Do not listen to unthinking doctors or money-grubbing Autism Speaks. Do not listen to your ignorant and untrustworthy public health bureaucrats. Do not listen to a drop-out who told you he did his homework but never did. Do not listen to that drop-out's unelected, unappointed pharma mentor who feels entitled to tell those who serve under you to revolt against your authority.
U-Penn's Stanley Plotkin tells @HHSGov #NVAC to have courage to oppose any attacks on the vaccine system by the Trump Administration
— Sue Sutter (@PinkSheetSutter) February 7, 2017
Listen to the parents. Listen to the people who are suffering. Heck even listen to Dr. Ben Carson who said too many vaccines are being given after admitting, "it hasn't been adequately revealed to the public what is going on."
The vaccine state is the deep state. It needs to be brought to its knees.
America needs an independent vaccine safety commission. Honor your pledge, Mr. President, to drain the swamp and Make America Great Again!


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Just thought I'd post this example of the very rare Duty Drawback mark on a very damaged teaspoon, but with an excellent set of marks.
The mark was used only from 1st December 1784 until 24th July 1785. It was used when a silversmith, in this case George Smith III (Grimwade 906), claimed back the Duty paid when the spoon was assayed as it was to be exported, thus not being liable for British Taxation.
Its use was discontinued because as it was applied after the item was in its finished state (the original assay marks were applied when the item was unfinished) it damaged the final piece causing an outcry from silversmiths, who petitioned Goldsmiths Hall until its use was dropped in July 1785.


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-"My name may be Wright, but that doesn't mean that I always am! The game would make no sense if I was always right!"
I've always wanted to write that (I'm sorry for my lame puns). Anyway, this is the awaited Phoenix Wright game review I've dreamed of doing ever since I've created this blog. I'm not confident of my writing, which is why it took so long for me get this out and say: "To heck with it, let me try at least once!"
For those who do not know this series that first came out on Game Boy Advance before being re-released on DS, Phoenix Wright is the story of a fresh new defense attorney who solves cases alongside his partner, Maya Fey, who is also the younger sister of Phoenix's mentor, Mia Fey.
Look Nick, look! We're playing ourselves! How cool is that?
I appreciate the game for its close resemblance to a visual novel game: You play as Phoenix and you walk around to find clues and interact with the other characters in order to get more information concerning the case you're working on. Depending on the cases, you meet new characters: every one of them wacky and unique in their own way.
Being the scaredy-cat I am, the murder cases always freaked me out.
There's also another segment that makes the game what it is: You play in court. I never thought that I would enjoy playing a game where you play in court, but the deep cases worthy of what you would find in a detective novel written by a true author keep you at the edge of your seat.
The court segment is the tricky part of the game: Make the right decisions, present the evidence at the right time, and figure out what the witness is hiding from you. Be careful, you don't have many chances if you ever make an error.
Along with the first game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, there are two sequels to the game: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice for All and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations. For the latter game, I truly applaud the developing plot in it where you find out more about the main characters' dark pasts, but I won't spoil you since there isn't any fun in doing that :P
I want to be on Pheenie's lap too~ And Edgeworth, don't you point at me with that Wiimote!
The series also has spin-off games with Edgeworth, Phoenix's rival and childhood friend, as the main character. I've heard the games have a segment similar to a game of chess, but I have yet to see it with my own eyes.
Along with the spin-offs came another title released on DS and Wii where you play a new defense attorney, Apollo Justice. Regardless of the good critics from Japan, the game isn't very liked among the fans of Phoenix Wright that I've met. It's disappointing, really. I like Apollo Justice and the new characters, though I have to admit I understand the main reason (and ultimate spoiler) why most fans are mad about it.
Apollo (the one in red) is so adorkable~
Luckily for the fans, a new game will be released soon (Unfortunately on 3DS), a crossover with the famous Professor Layton titled: Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright.
-insert gigglesnort-
I've read that the original creator of the Phoenix Wright games will be the one writing the scenario. This promises to be very interesting…
My notes:
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: 8/10
A great introduction to a great series. I almost cried when I played the second case, and the fifth case was epic in every way.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice for All: 6.5/10
The least memorable game of the series regardless of the intriguing cases.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations: 9/10
The key to unlocking the dark pasts of Maya's family and Phoenix's life. A very, very recommended game. In this game you meet the best Phoenix Wright villain ever. Also, do not play this at night if you're sensitive.


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Walt: People are living longer and as a result of that, there are people that are going to outlive their assets. But, one of the real desires I've seen from research is that people do not want to have their passing become a burden on their heirs.
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Congratulations to Yvonne Foucher, the owner of CataVinos Wine Shoppe in Midtown. Today she celebrates her 5th anniversary as a locally-owned wine store and wine tasting venue. It can't be easy in this economy to compete with multiple big box chains selling wine.
What makes the CataVinos experience unique is that Yvonne and her tasters sample every bottle of wine in the store so they know and appreciate the nuances of each sauvignon blanc and red varietal. Most bottles of wines cost $15 or less but some cost more especially, Arizona wines.
What many people don't know about Yvonne is that she loves her community and makes it easy for non-profit organizations to use the store as a fundraising venue. Or you can have parties and events here and not have to clean up afterward. I had a birthday party here a few years back and my friends are still talking about it.
For the 5th Anniversary party, think like a wine industry professional. Wine distributors will be on hand pouring 50 samples (please pace yourself) plus every bottle in the store will be 10% off! That's some party both in the store and under the big tents outside. The cost is $18/pp.
Come early and bring your oenophile friends to 3063 N. Alvernon Way from 2 to 6 pm. Cheers to another 5 years.
My pal Bonnie Lewis wrote more about Yvonne & CataVinos on her blog, Pour Me Some Grapes. Check it out…


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We were in the mood for Italian. We were in luck.
Stefano and Michele approached us to create an image and website for their pizzeria, Gema. There's nothing rounder than a pizza (not counting square pizzas, that is). Which led us to a well-rounded logo. Try a pie sometime if you're in Little Italy.


text: KYOZEN is a nice place to stay as if you were at home. It can accommodate two families or big groups (up to 12 people). We renovated an old Japanese house and provided it with comfort and modern facilities. The host is most friendly and hospitable and will take you to local restaurants, most interesting sightseeing spots, craft and souvenir shops. He can even take you on strolls along small paths or to shrines and temples near the guesthouse. He can also book tours and make reservations at restaurants. Nearby, there are many World heritage sites: the Golden-temple, the Ryoanji-temple, the Ninnaji-temple, and the Kitano-tenmangu, the Hirano-shrine, the Senbon-syakado, the Myousinji-temple, and the Toujiin-shrine. All these are within a 30 minute walking distance. The Kyoto Shimazu arena is only 600 meters away. Please come and experience a stay in a Japanese house that will make you feel at home.


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Icy road conditions are being blamed for a fatal car crash this morning (January 25, 2014) in Plainfield, Illinois.
This multi-vehicle accident was a "chain reaction" crash that happened at approximately 10:30 a.m. along Interstate 55 West Frontage Road. According to the Illinois State Police (ISP) the accident happened between Oak Tree Lane and Benet Lane, near Joliet.
The "chain reaction" accident happened as a 29-year-old Plainfield man lost control of his car, as he was braking to avoid another car that had entered the roadway from the forest preserve. The 29-year-old's car slid on the road, which reportedly was icy, and went into oncoming traffic. It then collided "head on" with another car, said to be a Saturn.
The driver of the Saturn, identified as Deborah L. Huffer, 50, of Joliet, was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead.
The driver of the car that pulled out of the forest preserve was charged with failure to yield.
Additional details and possible updates can be seen in a variety of media sources, including the January 25 TribLocal Joliet & Romeoville article titled "Fatal crash on icy I-55 Frontage Road near Joliet" as well as the The Enterprise article of January 26 titled "Joliet woman killed in traffic accident."
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I've directed some films so I call myself a director.
Some of the films I've directed have been paid for (by other people) and some have been shown on the TV, at cinemas and festivals. Some have even won awards. In the interests of fairness however, a couple of the films have had really terrible reviews but I like to interpret those in a way which makes me sound like they really mean I'm some kind of maverick.
Regardless of the reviews though, I do like to see myself as a creative and exciting director who is always trying to achieve originality in all aspects of a film's production.
Unlike many directors, I've not had any formal training. I started my career as a camera assistant and worked my way up through the camera department ranks which has allowed me to work with – and learn from – some of my favourite directors and cinematographers. It really was great experience as it allowed me to sneakily ask questions and advice from those more experienced to aid my own films.
I've been lucky enough to work with Ken Loach, Danny Boyle, Jonathan Glazer, Stephen Soderbergh, George Clooney, Neil Marshall, Christopher Doyle, Anthony Dod Mantle and the 'blue' television 'comedian' Jim Davidson who were all amazing to learn from. Well, maybe less so Jim. And I've been lucky to watch the process of them directing actors such as Scarlett Johansson, Bob Hoskins, Brad Pitt, Rutger Hauer, Keira Knightley, Adrien Brody, Daniel Craig, Halle Berry, Anne Hathaway and the hilarious television star Jack Whitehall. All amazing experiences which I've been incredibly honoured to have observed.
Anyway, more about me and my films…
…These awards and festivals I mentioned, below is a selected list/filmography of them:
'Teenage Superstars' – Feature Documentary (2017). BBC Scotland/Creative Scotland
Edinburgh International Film Festival. Nominee: Audience Award, Best Documentary
Raindance Film Festival
'Far From the Apple Tree' – Feature (2017). Post Production
Featured at 2017's EIFF 'Works in Progress' strand
'Big Gold Dream' – Feature Documentary (2015). BBC Scotland/Creative Scotland
Edinburgh International Film Festival. Winner: Audience Award
Raindance Film Festival
Leeds Film Festival
Cambridge Film Festival
Sight and Sound Best of 2015
BIFA Long List for Best Documentary
Sarah's Room – Feature Drama (2014)
Bafta Scotland NT 2014 Nominee: Best Soundtrack
Bafta Scotland NT 2014 Nominee: Sound Design
Jerome Indie Film Festival. Winner: Best Film
Bootleg New York. Winner: Best Cinematography
Fife Film Expo. Winner: Best Film
Fife Film Expo. Winner: Best Cinematography
Eureka Springs Digital Film Festival. Runner up: Best Film
Autograph Hunters – Documentary Short (2005)
Edinburgh International Film Festival: Nominee, Grierson Award
If you want to know more, the page has a bit more info on the films and a blog with a bit more on how I made them, and my experiences (and some of the bad reviews).


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sunday sketch
Posted by Elaine Olund in creative writing, photography, Uncategorized, writing workshop notes on June 18, 2017
Sunday Morning: a sketch
pillows play on the daybed
housecat swishes her tail
radio paints music chocolate-dark delicious as my espresso
the Swedish horse with the broken leg assesses my mental state
the coffee cup outlines the circle of its base onto the table
my sandals inscribe lines on my feet, a loose sundress erases my figure
my journal sketches my thoughts, lines, lines, line
I fade from the scene
I am just inscribed lines
the gel pen observes the work like a skinny foreman,
rigid, impatient at the pace
dear old patient threadbare linen napkin blots up the drips of minty water
life is messy, observes the old Swedish horse
my gel pen climbs down into
the deep hole with me
helps me dig
while Yo-Yo's cello deckles the morning sunshine
Musical interlude: Yo-yo plays Elgar's Cello Concerto
Notes: this is from a Natalie Goldberg prompt in her wonderful book, Writing Down the Bones;
1. write 10 nouns as a list. (I wrote ten things I could see/hear in the room)
2. write ten active verbs (she suggests thinking of verb relating to an occupation; I used "artist" as the verb-source)—sketches, inscribes, erases, observes, blots, outlines, paints, plays, swishes, deckles…
3. combine the nouns with the verbs and see what emerges
Have fun, see what happens. Why not?
wild and green
Posted by Elaine Olund in creative writing, musings on March 19, 2017
wild and green
On my wedding day, I was filled with anxiety, mine and my mother's.
I was wild and green in the ways of the world, though I thought a ceremony in Butler's green garden would transform me into a more peaceful creature. I stood with my mother, waiting for my intended to arrive. I was there and not there: I firmly remember the carillons that sang and the placid old canal that drifted by, the buzzing droopy-headed zinnias and black-eyed Susans, the old-world rose bushes—all beautiful, contained, tranquil.
Carefree, not wild.
That day I'd turn into a wife, half of a unit, domestic, safe and saved.
On the outside I was transformed already, placid as the canal, sure of myself as the bees were sure of their buzzing industry. Yet I was wild inside, standing there next to my mama, a roiling mass of ancient fears.
Wild like a frightened doe, tired from running, running. Heart beating hard, danger clanging so constantly that mostly I was not even aware of it. Danger simply ran in my veins, and had for as long as I could remember.
Danger was wild in the rivers of my blood. Danger splashed in the waterfall of my heart.
I had no business getting married, but to be wild is, after all, dangerous. Plus, I was tired of being hunted. Somewhere inside I thought being caught would save me.
– – –
Deer were always an obsession for me. As a very small child, I drew deer after deer. I painted pictures of deer, read books about deer. I loved deer and wanted to be a ballerina so I could gracefully move like a deer. And disappear, like a deer.
But deer are wild things. Peaceful, except when under attack. Always wary, though. If a deer is cornered, and cannot run away, if a deer is outmatched and at the mercy of a terrible predator, she cannot hope to win by fighting. In cases like that, she will freeze.
I froze once, like a deer
I froze, like a river
I thawed and ran fast again,
like a deer
Like a rushing stream, like snowmelt
down a mountain
even when perhaps I should have paused to think
I was wild and green all my young self seemed to know
was freezing and rushing.
– – –
On my wedding day, I was young.
Younger even than my 23 years. Being frozen keeps you from growing up. So does running.
I was green. The lushness of the garden, the safe feeling I had next to my intended—gave me a sense that I was on a path. A path that might lead me out of my wildness. My scary, uncontainable wildness.
The path would rescue me from myself.
This was a sweet green notion, a kiwi of a belief, juicy and promising and bursting with seeds of hope.
What I did not know, in my greenness, was that you cannot shed your wildness like a snake sheds her skin. The wildness is inside, part of you.
I was right about the path, though.
It did lead me out, and then, decades later, landed me back in the thicket of myself, heart beating wildly, learning at last to savor the moments of life that stretch across the bones of time like supple muscles. Stretching, tightening, strengthening, and finally, letting go.
I'm still wild and green.
Older now, I have learned to listen to the wind, smell danger, believe the things my own heart tells me, and to love the wild frozen little girl-deer I carry inside. I learned that love does not rescue. Love merely holds your hand, then pushes you to grow. Self-love and every other kind of deep love pushes you to the edges of your self.
And when you grow, you risk.
One person's sunshine is another person's scorch.
One person's neat-cornered bed is another person's prison.
Sometimes you have to grow alone, in the wildness, where the deer appear and disappear to keep you company, silently.
(I wrote this from a prompt by Natalie Goldberg, "Write about when you were wild and green.")


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HPR U11s (school year 6) are coached by Mike Cameron (profile below).
We train on Wednesday evenings at Heath Park 5-6pm (Winter training at Cardiff High) and play our matches on a Saturday morning.
Please note, we can only accept players who can provide a Cardiff postal address.
Our U11's squad is currently full. However, we continue to take details of children wishing to join at this level. If your child is currently in Year 6 and would like to join Heath Park Rangers, please email your child's name, date of birth and postal address to email@example.com. Please cc our club secretary firstname.lastname@example.com. As soon as we have sufficient coaches to expand these squads, we will contact you to register your child. As the club is run solely by volunteers, priority will be given to those players whose parents volunteer to support the club.
Please note, we can only accept players who can provide a Cardiff postal address address.
Should you be interested in volunteering as a coach at this level, we would be delighted to welcome you as part of our U11 coaching pool. The number of children who can join the club is largely dependent on the number of willing parent volunteers who step forward to support their child, and others. At this level, coach training involves 2 days training over 2 weekends, it is held locally and the cost if covered by the club. If you would like to be involved in this rewarding role, please contact email@example.com for more information.


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Moments after Tiwa Savage became the first Nigerian female artist to win the MTV Europe Music Awards (MTV EMAs) in the Best African Act category, Mavin boss, Don Jazzy and Wizkid have now congratulated her.
Until Tiwa's win, three Nigerians had taken the award home including 2Baba in 2005, D'banj in 2007 and 2012; and Davido in 2017.
In 2018, Tiwa was nominated alongside fellow Nigerian act, David Adeleke, aka Davido; South Africa's Distruction Boyz and Shekinah; Kenya's Nyashinski and Fally Ipupa from the DRC.
Celebrating the award, Tiwa took to her Instagram page to dedicate the win to African women and aspiring young girls.
She said,
"Almighty God, you are so faithful. My savage soldiers did it for me.
"You have stuck with me through the roller coasters. Thank you. To my amazing team, this is just the beginning. African women, this is for us.
"I have been through a lot but I have kept my head up and weathered the storm because I know some little girl somewhere is dreaming like I did," Tiwa said.
Her record label boss, Don Jazzy shared photo and caption to congratulate her on her big win.
He wrote,
"@Tiwasavage You did it by GOD's grace. You work the hardest. Your fans are as beautiful as you are. You deserve every accolade you get and more. Congratulations on your MTVEMA WIN. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 #Mavin#SavageSoldiers"
"Awwww the thing fit you o. Congrats again @tiwasavage. Hurry back home let's celebrate. Shayo is here, rice is here, we re waiting for the stew. 😘😘"
Wizkid also took out time to congratulate his best friend on her record-breaking award.
He wrote,
"Yes!! 🏅🏅🏅#no1Africanbadgyal!! God bless ya! Congratulations"