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What is an Insurance Declaration Page?
Understanding Your DEC Page—What to Look for and Why It's Important
When you take out an insurance policy, you'll receive a multi-page policy document containing a large volume of information about your coverage, which might seem overwhelming. Fortunately, you can find all of the key points summarized on the policy's first page, which is often titled as the Policy Declarations page.
If you need to understand the exact item being insured, check limits the of your coverage, know your deductible, or find out the policy's expiration date and more, it's all there on this summary page.
What Is an Insurance Declaration Page?
The Insurance Declaration page is a document that forms part of your insurance policy, and it's sometimes referred to as the "DEC page" of your insurance documents.
An insurance declaration page is issued for a new insurance policy and also for each renewal term.
The DEC page may actually span a couple of pages if the details of your coverage require more than one page to list.
An insurance declaration page will normally include the following information:
- The insurance policy number
- Name and address of the policyholder
- Who the Named Insured's on the policy are
- The insurance company name, address and contact information
- Information needed to report a claim
- Identification of the insured property
- What coverages are included
- What type of coverage the policy is for, for example, the policy form, like a Homeowner HO-3 or a Condo form, in the case of vehicles or watercraft the type of policy will be always be mentioned.
- Limits of insurance per coverage, for example Dwelling Values for homes
- Deductibles per coverage
- Endorsements with limits and deductibles
- The policy effective date and expiry date (How Long the Insurance Policy is valid for)
- Discounts and surcharges
- Policy Rating information
- Price of the insurance, also known as the premium
- Additional Named Insureds, such as Mortgagees, Leasing companies, banks for car loans, or any other person who has an insurable interest in the property due to having provided financing on the property.
- Limits of Liability
Why Is the Insurance Declaration Page Important?
The Insurance Declaration page is the most important part of your insurance policy because it shows:
- The main coverages that lead to how a claim will be paid
- What the limits are for each section of the policy
- The premiums charged for the coverage you have purchased
The declaration page is followed by the second most important part of your policy, the policy wording, which defines each of the terms found on the DEC page and how they apply in a claim.
Insurance Binders vs. an Insurance Declaration Page
The insurance declaration page is part of your insurance policy. You will receive it once your insurance policy is issued, after the binder of insurance. Your insurance declaration page should represent the same information that was sent to you on the binder of insurance. The binder of insurance is only a temporary document, meant to outline the coverage that is confirmed when you receive your insurance declaration page and policy wording and can be shown as proof of insurance for a new car purchase, for example.
What Should You Do With an Insurance Declaration Page?
The insurance declaration page contains all the important information regarding your insurance contract, including what is covered, the type of coverage and other details, so review the declaration page in detail to make sure everything is correct such as your name, address, and insurance policy amounts. Also, verify that the policy type is exactly what you asked for.
Checking Your Insurance Coverages and Information on the Declaration Page of Your Policy
Common problems found on insurance declaration pages may include mistakes, like a misspelled name. You might also find a mistake in the type of coverage, for example, if you asked for an Open Perils policy and the insurance company accidentally issued you a Named Perils policy.
You'll be able to find all this information on your DEC page. Another example is for car insurance policies if you asked for a certain deductible, and you receive a policy with the wrong deductible.
If you added coverage by endorsement, this should also appear on the insurance declaration page.
Everything you asked for or agreed to when accepting your new policy should be visible on the declaration page. This represents what you are entitled to, so check it carefully and don't be afraid to ask questions.
Once you are done reviewing your policy, you should keep your insurance declaration page in a safe place, as it is part of your insurance contract.
How to Check Your Insurance Declaration Page
Using the list above, you can review all the sections of your insurance declaration page. Make sure everything is exactly as you expected and if you do not understand a term or something doesn't make sense call your agent or insurance representative to clarify. Your insurance declaration page needs to be read line by line to make sure you don't have a problem in a claim.
Examples of Things to Check on an Insurance Declaration Page:
- Janet needed to find out if she had enough coverage on her homeowners' insurance policy. She was able to easily see the coverage amount on her insurance declaration page, which was the first page of her homeowners' insurance policy.
- Mary read through her insurance declaration page to make sure everything she had asked for was on the policy when it arrived. She noticed that her alarm discount was not on the policy. She called her agent and was happy to find out it was left off by accident. Once it was added, she received a new declaration page that included the discount and a lower price. She was glad that she checked out all the details when she got her new policy.
- Frank got the renewal of his insurance policy. He read the Insurance Declaration Page to see if everything was the same as the year before. Everything looked good, except he realized that the mortgage was still listed and he had paid off his house the year before. He called his insurance representative and was told that as soon as he could send the proof he had paid off his mortgage, they would take the mortgage off the policy. They were glad he called because otherwise, in a claim, the check would have been made out to him and the bank. He was glad because now that he had paid off his mortgage, he was also eligible for a mortgage-free discount.
Article Sources
Texas Office of Public Insurance Counsel. "What Is a Dec Page." Accessed Jan. 8, 2020.
IRMI. "Binder." Accessed Jan. 8, 2020.


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In most parts of Australia, 274 mm of rain is not a bad total for six months. At Ethabuka and Cravens Peak reserves, this amount exceeds the annual average rainfall of about 200 mm.
But on 27 December, I was astonished to learn that Bush Heritage's Carnarvon Station Reserve saw, heard and felt 274 mm in just one day. This incredible event set a new record on that day for the property and for Queensland.
Cathy Zwick, our Field Officer at Carnarvon was alone on the reserve with her dog, and described to me the sound of water roaring down the creeks, and trees crashing down from the force of the water.
Over the coming weeks, news reports told us that Cathy was just one among many Australians who endured difficult, and sometimes heartbreaking, times in early 2011.
Although we can gladly report that Cathy and all our staff are safe, we know others have not been so lucky. I would like to offer my deepest sympathy to any of our supporters, and all Australians, affected by these devastating floods, and by Cyclone Yasi, which also affected our Yourka Reserve as you'll see on page six.
To those of you who have lost friends or family members, I offer my sincere condolences. All of us at Bush Heritage are thinking of those who have lost property, possessions, livestock and pets.
We wish you all the very best with the clean-up and recovery process. On some of our reserves, there is also much clean-up work to be done. At Carnarvon and Yourka, we won't know the extent of the damage until the water recedes and our staff can return to the properties, but we do know there will be erosion damage, trees uprooted, and some animals will have perished.
Other reserves across the country have also been affected by flooding, including Eurardy in WA; Yourka, Reedy Creek and Edgbaston reserves in Qld; Boolcoomatta Reserve in SA; and Liffey Valley Reserves in Tasmania.
However, the news is not all bad. The rains have replenished water sources, and the benefits will flow up through the food chain. Of course, when conditions are good for native plant species, weeds will also thrive, so we have much work to do. But with so many Australians facing challenges, Bush Heritage also has so much to be thankful for, especially your wonderful and ongoing support.
Doug Humann, CEO

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What happens at your postnatal check
The following is usually offered, though this may vary according to where you live:
- You'll be asked how you're feeling as part of a general discussion about your mental health and wellbeing.
- You'll be asked if you still have any vaginal discharge and whether you have had a period since the birth.
- Your blood pressure will be checked if you had problems during pregnancy or immediately after the birth.
- You may be offered an examination to see if your stitches have healed if you had an episiotomy or caesarean section.
- If you were due for a cervical screening test while pregnant, this should be rescheduled for 12 weeks after the birth.
- You'll be asked about contraception.
- If you're overweight or obese, with a BMI of 30 or more, you may be weighed. Your doctor should give you weight loss advice and guidance on healthy eating and physical activity.
Tell your doctor if...
- you're feeling sad or anxious – looking after a baby can sometimes feel overwhelming. Do not feel you have to struggle alone or put on a brave face. It's not a sign that you're a bad mother. You need to get help, as you may have postnatal depression. Your doctor or health visitor can provide help and support.
- you're having trouble holding in your pee or wind, or you're soiling yourself with poo
- you're not sure if you have had 2 doses of the MMR vaccination – if you have not had these, your practice nurse will offer them with a gap of at least 1 month between doses. You should avoid becoming pregnant for 1 month after having the MMR vaccination.


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MUSIC NEWS- Heavy metal legends, Deep Purple, fresh off a European tour to support their 19th studio album NOW What?!, are heading stateside for a North American concert tour! The run kicks off August 4 in Scottsdale, AZ (full tour itinerary is below from MNN).
NOW What?! was originally released in North America in April 2013 via earMusic / Eagle Rock Entertainment. The album marked the next great chapter in the band's 40+ year career, blending the classic 70s Deep Purple spirit with modern production and a progressive mindset. Having reached #1 in Germany, Russia, Czech Republic and Austria, charting Top 5 in 7 countries and Top 10 in 10 countries, not to mention hitting the British Top-20 for the first time in 20 years, Deep Purple celebrated with the release of NOW What?! Gold Edition earlier this year, which included additional songs and a live bonus disc.
In anticipation of their return to North America, Deep Purple will release their next single to radio: "All The Time In The World." Blazing off the success of NOW What?!, Deep Purple is ready to bring the sizzle to the States this summer!


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Fun Friday Finds: Hot Enough!
By Sharon Parker
Arty Didact
Of course we are all familiar with the old adage that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. But what about August? This year, anyway, here in Minnesota -- up north they've got raging thunderstorms, and in the Twin Cities we've got 95 degrees and dripping dew points!
It seems to me that August arrived in Minnesota like a fresh water trout swimming happily in a cool clear stream, and it's going out like a fire-breathing dragon!
Well, it will all soon be over, so why not celebrate the fiery final days of summer with some red hot finds from Minnesota artists on Etsy.


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Gerald Giam asked a good question. How much was spent in the past national day parades.
Could the money have been better spent, yes, no, maybe. The elusive answer depends on whether Singapore can afford to spend the money and what was the opportunity cost. For example, how much should be spent on charity, helping fellow needy Singaporeans. So if $20.6 million was spent in 2010, money literally burnt away on fireworks and gaudy displays, how much of that should have been spent on approved charities or welfare programmes, or subsidies in conservancy fees. The list goes on and on.
I'm not saying that money spent on national day parades are a total waste of money, although it is cool and populist to do so. Really, it depends on how much was spent and on what. One misleading comment was by this blogger Singapore Notes who writes good stuff most of the time, but this time slipped slightly. All of us have our bad days I know.
Amidst the doldrums of worldwide financial meltdown in 2008, $14 million was still splurged (record high in that year), not a single cent was trimmed to entertain the VVIPs who were hosted to exclusive cocktail parties while the common folk make their way home in the over crowded trains and buses.
Firstly, the financial crisis hit the news in September with AIG's troubles among those at the forefront. So money was squandered away before the 2008 global recession exploded. Secondly, it depends on what was spent regardless of recession or not. Spending on national day parades means money pumped by the govt into the economy – into production, transport, materials, advertisement and the entire supply chain. SMEs benefit. Big evil corporations benefit. National day parades are capital injections into local businesses and the economy is stimulated temporarily. Spending more money on national day parades especially during recessions are even more important. When the private sector holds back in such dark times, contracting the fragile economy even more, it is up to public sector spending to pump back confidence into the economy.
The real probes into national day parades and spending is whether the deals were transparent and without corruption. This is a point that Singapore Notes was nonetheless sharp to point out.
Without a detailed accounting, we are unable to tell if the procurement for top dollar items were approved along NParks procedures and similar standard operating guidelines.
Which companies won the tenders for supplying goods and services to the big birthday party that is getting boring year after year? The GLCs would usually win the tenders, like SFI for providing food to "volunteers" and those conscripted to help out in the parades. I did NS and ICT enough to know that if it is SAF and food, it is SFI. However, these GLCs outsourced and subcontracted out the goods and services anyway, spreading the money around. So with the splurging or squandering of taxpayers money on national day celebrations worth it or not, is an argue until cows come home mental masturbation deadend. The more pertinent concern is if the money was spent in a fair and transparent manner, and if it stimulated local businesses besides the GLCs.


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This post is long overdue…it should have been the first thing I ever put up on this blog. I've been to many, many studios in New York and have found that there aren't a whole lot of classes that I like. Initially I was turned off by Some Like it Hot, for 2 reasons- its on the Upper East Side (I live in the West Village) and its expensive. A drop in single class is $25. But eventually I made it over there and found my little yoga utopia. First of all, there isn't a bad teacher on the schedule- I prefer a few, but I have never taken class there that hasn't been challenging. Secondly, they play music! And not just Krishna Das (who I love…but not all the time), but modern music. The studio is also has a sort of hippy arts and crafts vibe- there are yoga-ish murals on the walls and a shrine set up in the front of the room. There are also big windows which let in great light- something that I have always appreciated. And when you get down to it, the classes are much cheaper when you buy a series, plus they give you towels for free (many NY studios do not), and clean and store your mat.
The room is hot and temperature definitely varies depending on the teacher. Generally the classes are a good flow, they usually include some type of inversion practice, and a limited amount of stretching. They aren't super focused on form, which I guess isn't great if you are a beginner, but for those who have a solid practice, its a nice change to not have to constantly listen to explanations of poses. There are 3 teachers that I really like, although as I said before, there isn't a bad teacher there. Kristi Clark is a total rockstar- she teaches a hard class and has an amazing practice. She is light hearted, but knowledgeable and always puts together a great flow. Isauro Fernandez is also great- although be warned, he has his own style that takes a little getting used to. He assimilates martial arts into some of his poses and borrows certain breathing techniques, which I found to be a little harsh when I first starting taking with him. He also has the tendency to play some bad 80s/90s music, but he usually makes up for it with some really eclectic and cool world music. His classes are challenging though and I think he has a very sweet demeanor about him so his classes are definitely worth a try. Lastly Erica Gross is also great. She's the kind of girl you would be happy to go to brunch with, but in fact, has a strong Baptiste background and is always pushing the limits with new things she has learned.
Some Like It Hot's owner Yola and her dog Romeo are often at the studio and offer a sense of community and caring that is lost at many New York studios. Yola makes it a point to introduce herself to new students and really interact with the regulars. Some Like it Hot also offers classes at many different times, another downfall for most New York studios. And for all of you who work late like me, there is a 9pm class that is both challenging and relaxing!


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Episode 15: 14 Oranges
First Drew and James talk about Vancouver's tech events from the previous week, and which ones are coming up next. This episode's special guest is Sylvain Marcotte, CEO of 14 oranges. The interview starts at 0:34:18.
Interview Links
Meetups in the week of Feb 20, 2016
Monday, Feb 29
Spark Summit East Rewind 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Simba Technologies 938 West 8th Ave
HackerNest Tech Social
8pm, Rise 1200, 1055 W Hastings Stt
Intro to User Experience Design Workshop
6 - 8pm, BrainStation YVR, 1110 Hamilton St, 4th Floor
Price: CAD15.00 /per person
VanMUG (Vancouver MongoDB User Group) Meetup
6:30pm, Lighthouse Labs, #300 - 128 W Hastings
Tuesday, March 1
Open Coffee
8 - 9:30am, Nelson the Seagull, 315 Carrall Street
Type Brigade №30: Project Pairs
6:30pm, Unbounce, Suite #400 - 401 W. Georgia St.
Polyglot Social
6pm, St Regis, 608 Dunsmuir St
Vancouver Clojure
6pm, CodeCore, 142 W Hastings St
Wednesday, March 2
- Learn Data Science (reading group)
6 - 8pm, Grow (Headquarters), #1600 - 570 Granville Street
Thursday, March 3
Kick Demo Day
5:30pm, Spring HQ, 211 E Georgia St
Free, but register on Eventbrite
.Net User Group of BC
5:45pm, BCIT Downtown Campus, Room 282/284, 555 Seymour Street
Saturday, March 5 to Tuesday March 8
- Vancouver Open Data Day Hackathon
Saturday, 9am - Tuesday, 8pm, BrainStation HQ, #400 1110 Hamilton Street


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UMCyle Expansion official ribbon cutting.
Monday June 18th at 10am on Bike-to-Work day 2018.
The project is located next to the UMCycle Structure between Architecture 2 and the entrance to Frank Kennedy.
Light refreshments will be provided. We would also love to see you with your bikes at our Pit Stop at the same location that day from 6:30 – 9am, hope to see you there!


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Call to Action for World Jewry: In the Midst of Bulgarian Domestic Turmoil, Jews all over the World should Show Support for the Bulgarian People!!
Unbeknownst to most people in the world, the Bulgarian people [population—9million] have been protesting the high rise of electricity imposed by the government of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.
Like many Central European countries, Bulgaria confronts many serious challenges in trying to preserve it's tenuous relationship with the EU. In particular, Bulgaria is unable to meet the severe EU-sanctioned financial austerity policies. As a result, the price of gas, oil, and electricity has arisen quite dramatically.
This extreme price hike has been accompanied by protests and riots all over the major cities of Bulgaria.
Quite truthfully, no one is really at fault here. The Russians who supply the natural gas to Bulgaria have been very tempered in their approach to Bulgaria's perceived problem. Russia wants to insure that the construction of the South Stream Natural Gas Pipeline continues therefore it does not want to create any form of political instability. Russia may even offer Sofia [the capital] short-term natural gas contracts in order to alleviate this problem. However, this would only be a temporary solution.
Similarly, Prime Minister Borisov has dissolved his government in order to respond to the demands of his citizens. Such a dismissal is also temporary in nature. What Bulgaria really is experiencing is symptomatic of the problems characteristic of the all the Central European country allied with the EU--- a stalling economic growth and increasing unemployment.
So what do the Jews around the world have to do with Bulgaria's problem which is not really related to any Manichaean, good-guy, bad-guy scenario?
For one thing, Jews should/can invest in the Bulgarian economy. We can encourage construction of new plants and fund as 'angel investors' multiple start-ups .
The Bulgarians are quite youthful, knowledgeable and sophisticated in business. They all know English and are conversant with several languages.
How do I know about Bulgaria or why do I care about it?
SIDEBAR: I had invested in real estate there ten years ago for the reasons you will see below. CERTAINLY NOT FOR PROFIT!!!
I am a Diaspora Jew, I became acquainted with a very little known story about the bravery and courage of the Bulgarian people during World War II and how this Nazi ally helped save 50,000 Bulgarian Jews in complete defiance of Hitler and his Wehrmacht Army.
At the time of WWII, Bulgaria was a country of 7million people who descended from a proud dynasty of Thracians from the Second Century AD.
But during this time, Bulgaria unfortunately aligned itself [as it did in WWI] with the Germans/Nazi in a strategic attempt to reconstitute it's previous hegemony over Macedonia [from Yugoslavia] and Thrace [from Greece] which had been taken away from the Bulgarians after WWI.
In 1940, Bulgaria instituted according to the Nuremberg Laws, legal, social and moral restrictions on it's fifty thousand Jewish Population. Bulgaria had also deported non-Bulgarian Jews in those territories of Macedonia and Thrace.
Then in 1943, the Nazis and Hitler in particular had informed King Boris III that the Bulgarian Jews would have to be deported to Poland and to their inevitable extermination.
As the deportation date grew closer, the people of Bulgaria, consisting mainly of other minority groups (Armenians, Turks, Greeks and Gypsies) along with the majority of Bulgarian Orthodox Christians rose up in spontaneous protest against their Nazi ally and refused to help the Nazis round-up the Jews. This moral uprising DID NOT happen in the rest of Christian Europe and Scandinavia.
Parliamentary leader Dimitar Peshev led a coalition of forty-three Bulgarian Legislators who registered their official protest at very great risk to their lives.
Simultaneously, the Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Archbishop Stefan actively worked against the deportation and issued FAKE BAPTISM CERTIFICATES in an attempt to save all the jews.
The Bulgarian newspapers consistently denounced the deportation, and worked underground to popularize their protest.
Bishop Cyril, who headed the Church in Plovdiv, threatened to lie down on the railroad tracks and promised the Jews, "WHEREVER YOU GO, I WILL GO WITH YOU!!"
Believe me there was not one Christian nation in all of Europe that ever defied and resisted en masse the dictats of their Nazi allies and subsequently saved over fifty thousand jews.
Finally under public pressure, King Boris III forbade the DEPORTATION in literally a FACE-TO-FACE confrontation with Hitler.
As a result, fearing an unnecessary redeployment of personnel and military assets, Hitler succumbed to the demands of King Boris III and allowed the Bulgarian jews to survive.
Interestingly, over forty thousand Bulgarian Jews emigrated to Israel. One of those Jews was an Israeli war hero, General Bar Lev. In addition, several major members of the Israeli Knesset were part of that act of Bulgarian defiance. One of those parliamentarians was Michael Bar Zohar, who later wrote a book called, Beyond Hitler's Grasp.
Now many of you may say very nice but France, Denmark, Sweden and of course Holland saved a lot of jews in their own way.
True and NOT TRUE!!
Let me go over the history of anti-semitism and the misbegotten narratives created by conspiratorial pro-Nazi governments in order to hide their nefarious deeds of deportation of the Jews, Christians, Gypsies, Slavs, Homosexuals and political prisoners.
Let me go over the history of anti-semitism and the misbegotten narratives created by conspiratorial pro-Nazi governments in order to hide their nefarious deeds of deportation of the Jews, Christians, Gypsies, Slavs, Homosexuals and political prisoners.
First, let me explain why the world had not heard of the quiet HONORABLE DEEDS of the BULGARIAN CHRISTIAN NATION.
For decades, the Communists regime that had vanquished the Nazis in Bulgaria had kept this story secret in order to prevent the deification of King Boris III, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, and Non-Communist parliamentarians.
So one system of government created a tarpaulin of silence and denial while other governments flaunted their non-existent heroism during the Nazi occupation. Their so-called resistance to Jewish or other minority deportation was revisionist at best.
Let's closely examine the records of each of the European countries that basked in their vainglorious false narratives of ersatz bravery.
On top of my list of liars, has to be Holland. No one can top the quickly contrived story of Anne Frank and the so-called Dutch defiance of Hitler.
When the Nazis invaded Holland it was very easy for the Germans to come into the country, German and Flemish are very similar languages and 25% of the SS Nazi Elite Unit were Dutch soldiers.
But in a far more evil and nefarious scheme, the Nazis allowed German jews to escape into Holland promising them a 'safe route'. But that was a lie. The Dutch were so efficient in their systemic execution of their own and German Jews that they came in second (after Poland) for exterminating the majority of their Jewish population.
So this cowardly nation along with it's Queen Beatrix had concocted with the help of British Intelligence a false narrative about a poor girl named Anne Frank who hid in an attic etc. This "story" was disseminated around the world to deflect any attention or inspection into the nefarious past of Holland.
The American jews in their inevitable ignorance bought the story and flogged it all over the theater, movies. They created memorials, plaques and nonsensical tributes when all the while the true heroes—The Bulgarians were denied their moment in the sun for their selfless bravery.
Next on my list is France. My father served in the French Army as a Captain, where his first and last orders were to RETREAT! In order to counteract the image of French collaboration with the Nazis, Charles DeGaulle created a mythical figure called Jean Moulin who died as a resistance fighter. In reality, the French police and military under Petain rounded up close to 74,000 innocent men, women and children and sent them to deportation camps, without Nazi orders! (See the movie: "Sarah's Key", earlier post)
Then we have the popular narrative that the King of Denmark wore a jewish star and rode a horse in public in order to show his defiance of the NAZI soldiers. The truth of the matter was that an agent of the Abwehr Intelligence unit was told by Canaris to inform the Prime Minister of Denmark on the Eve of Rosh Hashannah that the 8000 jews would be deported and exterminated. The Danish Prime Minister refused to help the jews. So the NAZI INTELLIGENCE AGENT went to the high rabbi on that holiday and in turn the Rabbi organized Danish physicians to spirit the 8000 Danish Jews out of Denmark onto Swedish Fishing Boats in order to escape across the water into Sweden.
It's important to remember that everyone of the fishermen had requested and receive BLOOD MONEY for their assistance.
Let's talk about Sweden, shall we…
The famous Swedish industrialist family, the Wallenbergs, gave major financial and personal backing to the Nazi party. Yes, the same Wallenbergs who saved the Hungarian Jews. However, the truth is a bit different than what we've read about or seen in the movies. In reality, the OSS had ordered Raoul Wallenberg to go down to Hungary and try to save the remaining jews who were being deported late in WWII by giving them false visas. This act of "heroism" was part of a cover up of the war crimes of the collaborationist government of King Gustav V and the Wallenbergs in particular. Sweden also allowed 400,000 Nazi soldiers to cross their "neutral" border in order to slaughter the Norweigans. (I wrote a book called Active Measures its the fictionalized truth of Sweden's hidden dark side)
Did I mention Switzerland yet? The Swiss claimed neutrality during WWII but they did so in order to profit from both the Nazis and the allies. They sold munitions, weapons and helped finance the Nazi war machine through Swiss numbered bank accounts. Even Nestle that sweet corporation flew the Nazi flag in front of its headquarters until the end of the war.
Last but not least, is my own country---USA.
How did we react to the ongoing slaughter of innocent civilians in Europe?
FDR (had he lived longer) would have had to confront the fact that we refused to let thousands of Jewish refugees into the country. My parents had to wait seven years to get into the USA, spending all their money on countless fake visas and eventually waiting it out in Cuba. I blame a Princeton grad named Breckinridge Long who was assistant sec of state at the time. He developed a "delay tactic" for U.S. visas that would effectively stop immigration- that was the plan!
After this brief WWII /Jewish history lesson, you can understand why I think its time we, Jews, recognize BULGARIA for their courage and their humanity. It's a beautiful country and its people are strong and smart. C'mon, lets help them out! They deserve it! It's the least we can do for a country that saved 50,000 Jews especially when other nations took a more cowardly, greedy path.


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Monday, September 13, 2010
Not Always a Fool
I know following the title you are probably expecting an autobiographical piece, especially if you are my always overly proud mother. I am, however, talking about our own federal government. I realize it is fashionable of late to kick the American Congress, Bureaucracy, Presidency, and Judiciary for their various foibles and, true enough, there are many of those. Who hasn't had an apoplexy after reading another story about the corruptive influence of lobbyists, corporate dominance of politics, or the sloth-like inactivity of our legislators?
I would like instead though to take some time to remember some aspects of our country's government that have helped our nation to achieve and thrive for so long. Maybe there are some things that we have overlooked in our urgency to condemn the bad that is done up in Washington D.C.
1. The World's First National Parks: We have a national park system that is unmatched in the rest of the world. President Theodore Roosevelt, quite an outdoorsmen himself, established the first national parks in the early twentieth century, while also passing the Antiquities Act, which allowed the president to establish "national monuments" protecting land from development and making certain the land would belong to the American people in perpetuity.
Crater Lake was one of the first five national parks created and the Grand Canyon was one of the earliest national monuments. Today the National Park Service administers 392 separate parks and monuments around the nation, giving Americans the right and opportunity to see beauty that might have been obliterated by development and mining if our government, led by President Theodore Roosevelt, had not taken positive action. I spent some time last weekend enjoying the Blue Ridge Parkway, an addition to our National Park System built by the Civil Conservation Corps (a public works project built in the 1930s courtesy of Theodore's cousin Franklin).
2. The World's best Interstate Highway System: Our national highway system is a great example of how government spending can have positive unintended consequences. The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, as the American Interstate System was originally known, was created as an important component of a national defense network. Eisenhower, heavily influenced by his experiences with the impressive Autobahn in Germany, thought a much more thorough system of roads was necessary to protect the United States against the Evil Empire (the USSR not the New York Yankees).
Although Franklin Roosevelt is often accused by commentators of being a liberal spender, it is Republican Eisenhower's Interstate Project that logs in as the most expensive public works project in American history. As of today, the various highways created in 1956 by Eisenhower and Congress have grown to an amazing 46,000 plus miles in length. That is more road than any other country on Earth can boast. The added infrastructure was a great boost to American competitiveness in the global market, bringing down greatly the cost of getting goods to market. The distribution of almost every product you buy involves the National Interstate System (and if not it has surely traveled through an airport or seaport built mainly with federal funds).
The benefits for America don't end there either. With more and higher quality highways, its a lot easier to travel to all those wonderful national parks as well!
3. Electricity: Of course, Franklin Delano Roosevelt did spend impressive amounts of federal funds in his attempt to haul the faltering American economy out of the Depression (he was unsuccessful as only a much larger amount of government spending and government employment caused by World War II was able to do the job).
One of the Roosevelt administration's most enduring acts was the creation of the TVA or Tennessee Valley Authority. The American South was suffering the brunt of the economic downturn, as over-farmed and over-grazed land, no electricity, and little industry had resulted in crushing poverty for the region's inhabitants. The TVA helped turn their struggles around by "developing fertilizers, teaching farmers how to improve crop yields, helping replant forests, controlling forest fires, and improving habitat for wildlife and fish." (TVA website)
The main impact of the TVA, however, was brought by the dams the project built. These dams were hydroelectric in nature and with their construction light came into a land of darkness. People who had never experienced the joy of electricity were now on the grid.
Later federal projects brought the joy of televisions, microwaves, and computers (arrival time in your area may have varied) to places like my home state of South Carolina. In fact, almost all of the state's power is generated thanks to federal funding and construction know-how (the US Corps of Engineers are responsible for Lake Hartwell for example). Did you know that there are no natural lakes in South Carolina? Lakes Jocassee/Keowee (a state project), Hartwell (Truman), Murray (FDR), and Santee Cooper (FDR again) were all the result of federal and state government plans to develop hydroelectric power.
Even the largest corporations simply do not have the resources do enact these vast projects. Only through taxes and central government are we able as a society to put complicated projects like dams and interstates together. Their existence is of great assistance to private business, however, providing low-cost electricity for industry and a road system that allow for goods to get to market in a much cheaper fashion.
And don't forget, our man-made lakes are also great areas for recreation and most have large areas open to the public year round. So get out there and put your tax dollars to work by riding a jet ski drunk. (Editor encourages jet ski riders to stay sober even if it is a lot less fun)
4. Protection. Over the last century our nation's bureaucracy has grown by leaps and bounds as numerous agencies have been founded, most of whom go by three letters and seem to devote most of their time to spying. Whether they spy on the average American citizen or our country's enemies we don't know, as their activities are kept mostly secret. There are some three letter agencies, however, that are intended to work for the American people, to keep us safe and to defend us from the abuses of others. I will speak briefly about two in particular, the FDA and the EPA.
The Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, was founded by Theodore Roosevelt after Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" provoked horror from the American people. "The Jungle," was intended to show the horrible working conditions among the meat-packing facilities in Chicago. Instead the book's accounts of disgusting items like human fingers and rat entrails being included in the meat that was sent out to the general public for ingestion caused an outcry for the federal government to take action. "I meant to hit the American public in the heart, but I missed and hit them in the stomach," was Sinclair's witty response to the furor his book created.
President Teddy Bear and Congress acted quickly, with the 1906 passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act, which was designed to protect the American public from misbranded foods and quack medications, in addition to the finger-food being produced by the meat packers. Advances in science around this time also allowed chemists hired by the government to better discover whether a product really produced the magical effects claimed on the label.
The FDA (which was first called by the name in 1930) was the first government agency designed specifically to protect the American citizen's health. The organization oversight authority expanded in the mid 1930s after the Elixir Sulfanilamide disaster resulted in the deaths of over one hundred Americans. Apparently antifreeze is not a good thing to ingest.
Various other frauds have been uncovered over the years as pharmaceutical companies that stand to make millions of dollars from various miracle drugs have not always proved to be the most scrupulous folks. Thanks to the FDA I don't have to worry about whether my Viagra will work or that I will be getting a Handburger the next time I go through the Wendy's drive thru.
I am getting kind of hungry after all that food talk, but let's take a minute to look at another government agency that delivers us from evil, the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA, as this lazy author will refer to it from now on, also owes its formation to a stunning work of prose, in this case Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." The United States faced a huge pollution problem in the 1960s as industrial pollution was unregulated and out of control. Rivers were actually catching fire do to the amount of chemicals they contained, a function I do not believe God originally intended them to have.
Carson's 1964 description of an environment bereft of life as the result of the overuse of pesticides such as DDT awakened a movement that resulted in the EPA, formed in 1970 by none other than President Richard Nixon ( I hope most of the readership avoided a heart attack after that revelation - yes the environment was not always a wedge issue).
Since that great day the EPA has fought to keep America from turning into one big toxic waste dump. Our nation's symbol, the bald eagle, which was on the verge of extinction as a result of DDT, has made a comeback. Our air and our water are much cleaner than they were in the 1960s. I hear a lot about how regulation is a burden on business and hurts our economy, but I don't want to live in a country like our corrupt neighbor to the South, with their cities soaked in smog and their water even less drinkable than their tequila. No wonder so many of their citizens want to move here.
5. Employment: Our federal government is the largest employer in the country. Its not even a race unless you consider a sprint between Usain Bolt and a tortoise to be compelling theater. Fourteen million plus citizens work for Uncle Sam and another seven million or so toil for various state governments. That is well over ten percent of the adult work force (a total of 155 million or so).
These facts bring up many questions. How much worse would the recent recession have been without these jobs? What is the optimal number of government employees for our economy to run at its smoothest? Is there even such a number? How many government jobs are vital to our nation and how many are superfluous make-work positions or needless bureaucratic layering?
I don't know the answers to these questions and I have argued against some government employment, like our vastly over-sized military, in the past. I do know, though, that many of the people who work these jobs are thanking God, Buddha, Satan, or whomever that they have a steady income during these tough times.
I could continue on, talking about Social Security, Medicare, OSHA, etc, but I think you get the point. I leave you now hopefully with a better impression of the good things that government is capable of when the right people are in charge and motivated to push the forces under their command in a direction that brings positive change to the American people. We sure as hell deserve it for all the other crap we have to put up with...
Posted by Alastair McCandless at 11:12 PM
Labels: EPA, FDA, Interstates, TVA
3 comments:
When are you running for office Alastair?
- September 28, 2010 at 3:47 PM
- Alastair McCandless said...
Couldn't do it Jim, I am no good at lying to people.
- September 28, 2010 at 11:27 PM
- R. Mera Velásquez said...
I do love national parks. Smokies+Tetons+Yellowstone+Glacier, all in 9 days. Amazing. Glacier, especially. ... I think of Robert Frost... for destruction ice is also great and would suffice,
- September 28, 2010 at 11:37 PM
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'The Good Ol' Days'; As in, 'those were', has to be the biggest load of horseshit that's infected the modern human brain. For the past thousand years or more, global history has been the history of progress. Onward and upward, better and better, slowly transforming the most prosperous edge of average folk from smallpox-scarred illiterate heathens afraid of the boogeyman into obese cell-phone addicts afraid of a whole RANGE of boogeymen.
Something about this isn't right. Something about the fact that we've come from a time and place without penicillin to an age where you're more likely to die slipping in your bathtub that you are flying like a goddamn bird is failing to sink in for most people. It's as though we expect and WANT all our problems to be huge. Fact of the matter is though, modern man has it easier, better, and for longer than any who've come before him, and I'm going to give ten good solid reasons why.
There are caveats, of course. When I speak of these advances, there will be a whole HOST of protesting arguments, from various sides, eager to point out the downside of everything I'm going to lay praise to. I'll answer the most likely of these up front, but the key general gripe I feel will come up is that most of the things on this list are available only to a very few (relatively speaking), while huge numbers of people in the world suffer under the yolk of starvation and disease just like they always have. Let me point out that even a hundred years ago, the things I'm going to mention weren't available to ANYONE, so that's progress, and you can all suck it.
So here are the first five, in no particular order:
*Reason#1: CHINA*
Why It Rules: China is the new kid on the superpower block, the one with the most to prove, and since the century started, showing the ability to prove it, with gusto. Virtually any assessment of the country's economic, political, or strategic position in the world falls somewhere between 'Outlook Good' and 'Yes' in the Magic 8-Ball of geopolitics. As such, and showing all the proper balls-out cockiness of a winner, all the Great Big Ideas (TM) of the planet are starting to come out of China. Spilling over into everyday life, we're talking about a place where parking decks will tell you if they're empty or not before you pull in AND draw you a map to the nearest empty lot, with an accurate count of how many cars are in each location. Remind yourself of this the next time a bridge falls down in the United States.
How It Happened: Well, roundabout 1997, the UK handed China control of Hong Kong, a city/holdover colonial outpost that just happened to be one of the richest places on the goddamn planet (this was honoring a contract that was made long before anyone knew this was a retarded idea). The fear was that Communist China would march in, red flags waving, and put the city on the mother of all lock-downs, kill a bunch of people (like they do), and cripple the world economy. Instead, the Chinese government shocked the fuck out of everyone by experimenting with a hybrid form of Socialist/Free Market principles which they then slowly incorporated into the rest of China. What they wound up with was a country that could enjoy the privileges of free market capitalism (more or less) without all those things like 'political freedom' and 'noisy dissent' getting in the way of government-driven progress. Nifty!
Why Some People Don't Like It: Well, the key problem with this advantage of the modern world is that it doesn't overtly benefit anyone who's not Chinese. However, there are a LOT of motherfuckers who're Chinese, so it's at least worth a place on the list. On top of that though, there's a laundry list of groups that have varying reasons for beef with China, be they environmental, social, political, OR economic. I mean, what kind of country calls itself great and floods international media with images of peaceful protesters being violently put down?
Shit. Nevermind.
Why It Rules Anyway: It's likely very hard for the average non-Chinese Joe to see how the ascendancy of another superpower means anything to him other than learning more about Chinese cinema or the outside chance his kid is going to wind up opaque to Superman from his toys. But fuck it, SOMEONE has to be number one in the world. And while it may piss everyone else off, when someone has enough pull in the world community to simultaneously send tanks against monks AND get ready for the Olympics, you gotta respect that and comfort yourself with knowing you'll probably have one more cool place to vacation soon.
*Reason#2: GLOBAL WARMING*
Why It Rules: Global Warming kicks ass. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Who the fuck likes winter anyway? And just when we were all worrying about running out of resources, the polar ice cap starts receding and oh look! Resources ga-fucking-lor! People the world over get to experience weather they'd normally have to travel for, and the Discovery Channel gets a new frozen mammoth special every goddamn week.
How It Happened: Well, for detailed explanations of this, you can find summaries of the official scientific version both in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth or Steven Seagal's On Deadly Ground. Just depends how many broken elbows you like with your scientific posturing. Fact is, though… Any reasonable human being is going to take the much revered 'Global Scientific Consensus' with two major grains of salt. First, the planet's climate changes WAY more than this, a LOT. And these jackasses still don't know why. Ask one of them if carbon emissions caused the Little Ice Age. Seriously, ask. Second salt grain consists in remembering that 'General Scientific Consensus' was united on fucking eugenics last century, and that turned out to be the shittiest reasoning since alchemy.
Why Some People Don't Like It: If you don't know, you better ask somebody. Global Warming has been blamed for everything from Hurricane Katrina to Hannah Montana. It's as ubiquitous and vague a threat as 'terrorism', 'drugs', and 'the economy'.
Why It Rules Anyway: Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that humanity is the root cause of the rising temperatures. The same scientists who agree that the earth is getting hotter (something I trust them to be accurate about, even if the cause is suspect), also agree that even if we shut down ALL carbon emissions, WORLDWIDE, TOMORROW… that the planet would keep getting hotter. So, what the fuck? Better learn to love it, folks, that's all I'm saying. We're GENERATIONS from shutting down the smokestacks. So even if the dogma is right, we MIGHT wanna think about finding the positive in this before the negative kills us all. Either way, exciting times.
*Reason#3: DUMB GOVERNMENT*
Why It Rules: Stay with me on this one, cause we're only to number three, and I can feel some of you pulling away. I know that it's counterintuitive to consider incompetence in government as a plus to living in this day and age. But look at it like this: The more ineffective THEY are, the more opportunity WE have. Government taking money out of your check for taxes you don't want to pay? Dazzle 'em with some bullshit deductions, and double your money back! Building projects that serve no purpose? Sign up to work, and have a job you can NEVER get fired from, WITH benefits! Foreign wars with vague and possibly unnecessary motivations? Sounds horrible, unless you invested in gold and oil seven years ago. The point is that every massive mistake THEY make is an opportunity for someone with their eyes open and half a brain in their head. It just works that way.
How It Happened: Shit, where to begin? I'm not totally familiar with the arch of escalating government stupidity in other countries (though my overseas contacts assure me it's plentiful), but in the US of A it started immediately after the big win in WWII and got progressively worse the more money we threw at DC. As libertarian a cliché as it may be, it DOES seem that the more a convoluted a bureaucracy expands, the dumber, slower, and more easily exploitable it becomes.
Why Some People Don't Like It: Because these people are under the delusion that the best kind of government is one that works. They'd prefer a system of organization that doesn't take more than 72 hours to get bottled water to the Superdome, or takes it upon themselves to declare 'Mission Accomplished' on a mission that's so very clearly NOT accomplished. It sounds great on paper, until you run into problems that government (any government) is uninterested or simply unable to deal with, and you're left holding your dick waiting for help that never comes. It also leads to the sort of twisted logic whereby you wind up on your roof with your streets flooded expecting to be rescued by the same people who run the post office.
Why It Rules Anyway: You know what effective, organized government looks like?
Something like that.
*Reason#4: RELATIVES LIVING FAR, FAR AWAY*
Why It Rules: Why doesn't it? Back in the day, people were bound to the land they were born. I want you to consider this carefully for a moment. Where you were born is the place you're going to die. In the meantime, you will spend every waking moment with the people you're related to, possibly in the same house. If we go back far enough, possibly in the same bed. Seriously. Those people you can only stand to see two or three times out of the year are up in your face until the day you see Jesus. It's arguable the stress of that may have had more to do with compacted lifespans than shitty medicine.
How It Happened: Cheaper travel, more effective communication, and nursing homes. All elements combined to spread us out across the globe. And given the option, people overwhelmingly seem to prefer to spread to places their immediate kin AREN'T.
Why Some People Don't Like It: I've yet to find anyone who has a serious problem with this, honestly. Probably because it's been going on for so long and happened so gradually most folk don't seem to notice it. I suppose you could say that uber-packed airports during every holiday are an argument against this, but I somehow feel that would happen regardless.
Why It Rules Anyway: If you're not one of the people who insist on seeing your relatives for EVERY airline-headache-inducing holiday, then this shit doesn't affect you at all, does it?
*Reason#5: VACCINES*
Why It Rules: When I was but a wee lad, I was in the JROTC in high school. Yes, there are pictures, no you can't see them. Anyway, I had an Army Instructor named Master Sergeant Kent. He was a grizzled war veteran. How grizzled? Well, after three combat tours in Vietnam, he figured he'd take it easy for a while and go train Army special forces in Alaska for winter warfare. So, grizzled. Anyway, he had a story for every occasion, and on one such occasion the subject of old diseases came up. Sgt Kent told of how, as a boy entering third grade, he'd been placed in the back row of his classroom. As members of his class began dying of polio through the year, they'd fill in the empty seats by moving up. Before fourth grade, young Rodney Kent was at the front of the class. After that, rifle training in the freezing cold every morning didn't seem so bad in light of the fact that I didn't have to worry about dying of fucking polio. Ergo, vaccines rule.
How It Happened: Have to ask a medical historian. Pasteur invent vaccines? At least one, I'm sure. Anyway, slowly and over time is my understanding. The benefit of living NOW is that a whole fuckload of diseases have fallen to the vaccine, diseases that used to kill millions. What's funny is that we've replaced ACTUAL terror over disease with imagined terror over anything new. Anyone remember SARS? Dysentery would laugh in SARS face, rip its head off, and shit down its neck. Literally.
Why Some People Don't Like It: Simple one here. Pure unbridled ignorance and paranoia. Period. The same thing that led 'concerned parents' to INSIST that mandatory vaccines were the cause of autism is the force that led Robert DeNiro to go nuts and kill that one surgeon in that shitty Branagh Frankenstein movie. This is what it's come to. One of the most basic advances in modern medicine, the humble vaccine, being threatened at it very core by people scared of 'witch medicine' being injected into their yuppie larvae.
Why It Rules Anyway: You know what kicks ass about smallpox?
Not having it.
[To be continued in the next post…]


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I had the pleasure of being invited to Glastonbury this year for Free, i was told about the event by the good people who head up celebration samba …. Now I know that everyone will think of the Massive music festival, but any one who know me knows I " aint the biggest fan of live music " so that's unlikely What I didn't know is that every year in that part of the world there is a whole series of Illuminated Processions that tour the area and on the last night of the season they get together for a competition and " Tour " around Glastonbury . It's a free event, all we had to pay was £3.something for a whole days parking in the town The floats are Amazing
And as they come past, the heat, Noise and general excitement is Brilliant, Obviously this has all been caught on you tube , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1OoMm8iZms but when you are there its a brilliant low-cost day out for the whole family. my personal favourite was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBXRa6RE5XQ Take a picnic and you wont even have to spend in the shops and restaurants.Although some of these are excellent and not too pricey
One special mention for http://www.lilithofavalon.com/ which is a shop i certainly hadn't seen the like of before, it was fascinating . and i would recommend a look in there if you go " down Glastonbury way "
The homepage for the carnival is http://glastonburycarnival.com/ and I am sure I will be there next year … hope to see you And just for the record , I'm not part of the committee, or have anything to do with the shop, I'm just sharing what was a brilliant day out
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555HG Benchmade Mini-Griptilian ReviewSeptember 10, 2015
The Good
- Great balance between weight and size
- Lasting edge retention
- Premium blade steel
- Superior corrosion resistance
The Bad
- Valox handle scales can be slippery when wet
- Pricy
The Benchmade Mini-Griptilian is one of the best choices for an every day carry pocket knife as it is a well-blanced knife that can be used and abused without breaking down. The sheepsfoot style 154CM blade and Axis lock require almost no maintenance and the weight to size ratio is perfect.
Folks looking for a larger knife for bigger tasks should check out the full-sized Griptilian. Here's a review we did on a particular version of that classic model a couple of years back.
The Mini-Griptilian is a simple pocket knife that is built to last and is constructed from top notch materials. It features a stainless steel frame which is screwed into Velox resin handles and a solid, adjustable, pivot pin. Additionally, having 154CM steel in a knife like this makes it even more desirable for the person who plans on using it all the time.
The blade on the Mini-Griptilian is sandwiched into the frame with two brass washers that make flicking it open a breeze. It's so smooth that it's easy to flick open with one hand without the aid of the thumb hole. Additionally, the hollow ground sheepsfoot style blade slices through rope and meat with little effort. The Axis Lock, a Benchmade innovation, is one of the strongest blade locks on the market and is also a breeze to operate.
Benchmade is known for supplying scalpel sharp knives out of the box and the 555HG is a shining example of that. 154CM steel drives up the cost, but the steel, which has a hardness of 58-61 HRC, is top notch in terms of corrosion resistance and edge retention.
The sheepsfoot blade on this Mini-Griptilian is the shining star. Based on design, it's a maverick in the field of cutting and slicing. What many people don't know is that the shape of the blade not only keeps you from stabbing yourself accidentally, but it also lessens the likelihood of snapping the tip off, which is more common with a drop-point style blade while performing similar tasks. Additionally, handle scales can take a beating and will look worn out, but they won't break.
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Official communication concerning the governance and operation of the IDF Life for a Child programme.
The IDF Life for a Child (LFAC) Programme was established by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) in November 2000. Since its inception, the programme has been operated by staff employed by Diabetes NSW & ACT (DNSW & ACT) in Australia, led by a General Manager and directed by a Steering Committee, comprising of representatives of IDF, Diabetes NSW & ACT and other LFAC partners.
The IDF Board recently decided to move the operational management of the IDF LFAC programme from Australia to the IDF Executive Office in Brussels, Belgium. This decision involves a restructuring and reorganisation of the activities of the programme.
Following the IDF Board decision, LFAC staff employed by Diabetes NSW & ACT continue to operate the programme in its current format, providing support to over 18,000 children and youth in more than 40 countries. These activities are not under the governance of the IDF Board and no longer form part of the IDF Life for a Child programme.
IDF is currently in the process of developing a new strategy for the programme and identifying additional countries and territories where children and youth affected by diabetes are in urgent need of life-saving diabetes care and education. We look forward to updating you in due course on IDF LFAC programme activities as they are confirmed.
In the meantime, donation to the IDF LFAC progamme remains open. Please rest assured that your contributions will continue to serve and fuel the programme's mission — No child should die of diabetes.


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Fantasy Fayre 2017 poster & flyer design
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- posted Dec 22, 2016
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Celebrating a long collaboration with the Jhb Medieval Fayre, we were extremely excited to discover that they've added another event to their annual calendar, Fantasy Fayre – in a castle! How cool?
As is standard for their events, they need a complementary array of design work: A3 poster, A5 flyer, branding for their order page on Quicket as well as a matching cover image for their Facebook event.


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Club Hotel Anjeliq 4*
Distance from sea: Beach (1st line)
Distance from sea: Beach (1st line)
Only 200 m from the beachfront, this all-inclusive hotel has a garden, private beach area as well as kids' pool and 2 outdoor pools. It features air-conditioned rooms with a balcony offering garden views.
The rooms at Club Hotel Anjeliq come with a stylish décor. They all feature a private bathroom with a shower, hairdryer and free toiletries. Each is equipped with a mini bar and flat-screen satellite TV.
Daily breakfast, lunch and dinner are served in buffet style. The property has 2 à la carté restaurants. One offers a selection of Ottoman dishes and the other serves fish dishes. You can enjoy complimentary food and beverages in the premises throughout the day, taste a variety of dishes at the à la carte restaurant at an extra fee as well.
Leisure facilities include table tennis, darts and evening entertainment. You can also have a relaxation with Turkish bath or massage treatments. Children can play in the kids' club.
Gazipasa Airport is 53 km, and Antalya Airport is 119 km from the property. Airport shuttle services can be provided at a surcharge.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday that America's economic influence would be eliminated if countries halt the use of dollars in their international transactions, reported Sputnik.
"America's power rests on the dollar; a great part of America's economic power will go away if countries eliminate the dollar from their economic systems," Zarif said at a school even in Tehran.
IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCE!— Press TV (@PressTV) June 9, 2019
Iranian FM Javad Zarif praised the performance of talented 8th graders who played the role of Iran's future statesmen and discussed and presented solutions on how to confront US unilateral sanctions #NeverThreatenAnIranian #USSanctions @Jzarif pic.twitter.com/3kdVm6In0R
President Trump has waged economic warfare on Iran ever since Washington withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (Iran nuclear deal). Washington has forced Iran's trade partners, who use dollars, to halt trade with Iran.
"It amounts, by definition, to economic terrorism because the US is putting pressure in terms of what its president calls warfare on normal ordinary Iranians in order to change the policies of their government," he told reporters.
Zarif isn't the only senior official in the world who has spoken about to dollar's demise; we reported last Wednseday that Russia and China are set to sign an agreement which would boost the use of their national currencies in bilateral and international trade, in an attempt to move away from the dollar.
"It is planned that Russia and China will be developing bilateral payments in national currencies, encourage and expand the use of national currencies, particularly through the promotion of their use when signing international trade contracts. According to the draft agreement, the sides will also assume the required measures to lift barriers for payments in national currencies. -TASS
De-dollarization efforts in Iran come against a new tranche of US sanctions on Tehran's petrochemical sector, targeting Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company.
In response to worsening relations between Washington and Tehran, the US Navy's USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike and bomber groups were deployed to the Gulf to send Iran a powerful message.
Iran has been preparing for de-dollarization for quite some time. Earlier this year, Iran announced that four of its banks had developed a gold-backed cryptocurrency called PayMon.
Iran is also escalating its de-dollarization effort by seeking a bilateral rial-yuan agreement with China.
The writing is on the wall for dollar hegemony: Iran is leading the charge, intending to eliminate the dollar from its trade, a move that could potentially lead to a shooting war with the Americans.


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Hey Marty, thanks for the laugh. Can you do something "Gilligan's Island-y" next time? Perhaps the Louis Granteed team can get you that coveted Ann B. Davis endorsement?
I don't understand what you are trying to say. Why are you being so cryptic? Most people don't even know who Martin David Kiar is, let alone how nice of a guy he is. I met him a couple of weeks ago and I was very impressed with the way he presented himself.
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They were suddenly no longer explorers —
they were adventurers.
And no explorer wants to be an adventurer.
I loved this notion of "explorer" and "adventurer" and could not help but look at it as a metaphor for the process I go through when writing and illustrating a picture book. Like S. A. Andree, I am compelled to write and paint because of the mystery, the unknown that will come if I just put pen to paper or brush to canvas. In the beginning, I have my ideas and imaginations of what the story will be or what the pictures will look like, but like S. A. Andree's balloon adventure, it rarely goes as planned.
At one point in the interview, Wilkenson said that Andree was:
Faced with the thought, 'If I don't go now, I may never go again, and I will never know the mystery,'
... like a temptation one finally submits... to the idea of: 'I must.' "
This yearning and succumbing to the notion of "I must" also resonated for me. I have notebooks filled with story ideas and sketchbooks filled with painting ideas, and all of them call to me; "I must" bring them to completion. It is always in the beginning of a book project when I am starting the story or beginning the first sketches that I feel like an explorer. As time passes and I become more involved, it is often then when my exploring balloon thuds to the ground and I become the "adventurer" on a journey of highs and lows, sprees and difficulties; trudging through the snags of pages that don't flow and the images that refuse to resolve, and just like S. A. Andree and his hydrogen balloon, sometimes my stories disappear in a fog, never to return.
Luckily, I am an explorer in the warmer climates of Minnesota, at least compared to the Arctic! And there is no danger of perishing of the cold in my studio. And luckily, I love the adventure of writing and painting as much as the initial exploring, even with its bumps and tears. So I am happy to begin and begin again, pulled by that mystery that is mine to meet.
And when it comes to your writing or art-making, are you an explorer who would rather not become an adventurer? Or are you willing to be both?


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UK Audit Market Competition
The Competition Commission is currently involved in a "Statutory audit services market investigation" and the recent publication of "provisional decision on remedies" has provoked some debate reported in the financial press.
- Audit market competition plans unveiled (BBC News Business 22 July 2013)
- Regulator drops threat to force audit rotation (Financial Times 22 July 2013)
- Competition Commission outlines five-year audit tenders (AccountancyAge 22 July 2013)
The Competition Commission (CC) investigation also includes an Audit public dataset as part of the evidence (Competition Commission, 2012b).
This dataset provides 7960 observations on 856 UK companies from 2000 to 2011. The CC requested data from all firms that had audited a FTSE 350 or Top Track 100 company during the period 2006 to 2011. The requested data formed two datasets: the engagement dataset, which is private to the CC investigation, and the public dataset, which includes audit fee, audit qualification and other public data.
The Audit public dataset will be of interest to researchers and the accompanying report provides an excellent description of the data and the work undertaken to check and clean the data (Competition Commission, 2012a). Of particular interest was the following comment on the quality of audit fee information in commercial company information databases.
There are a number of sources that provide the required company-level information, including Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, FAME and ICC. It was the CC's intention to use one or more of these sources. However, a number of parties raised concerns about the reliability of these datasets including PwC, Deloitte and KPMG, while the problems with FAME were discussed in the OFT's econometric analysis.13 The CC was told that publicly available data on audit fees is particularly prone to inaccuracies. For example, PwC found that 33 per cent of audit fee entries in a sample of FAME entries that it examined showed significant inaccuracies.
(Competition Commission, 2012a, Paragraph 10 footnotes deleted)
Competition Commission (2012a) Datasets in the market investigation for statutory audit services. Available at: http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/our-work/directory-of-all-inquiries/statutory-audit-services/evidence/audit-public-dataset (Accessed: 28 August 2013)
Competition Commission (2012b) Audit public dataset. Available at: http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/our-work/directory-of-all-inquiries/statutory-audit-services/evidence/audit-public-dataset (Accessed: 28 August 2013)
Worldscope – coverage and data definitions
Worldscope is the global company accounts "database" from Thomson Reuters and thus a key research resource for company information. It is accessed using either Datastream (active and inactive companies) or Thomson One Banker (active companies only).
Worldscope is designed to allow comparison of companies that report under different accounting rules worldwide. In addition, it records company information using four templates: banks, industrial companies, insurance companies and other financial companies. This means that many of Worldscope's datatypes only have values for a subset of the companies covered (e.g. US companies).
For full details of the Worldscope methodology and the definitions of the datatypes you can consult the Worldscope Data Definitions Guide (Issue 14) available from the Datastream Extranet.
The Worldscope Coverage Report, also available from the Datastream Extranet, for 28th Feb 2013 includes the following coverage information:
- Argentina – total companies 144, active 105, inactive 39
- Australia – total companies 2903, active 1957, inactive 946
- …
- United Kingdom – total companies 5093, active 1890, inactive 3203
- United States – total companies 21130, active 9175, inactive 11955
- All countries – total companies 74757, active 46704, inactive 28053
The Worldscope Data Definitions Guide (Issue 14) and Worldscope Coverage Report are also available in the folder Database Manuals\Worldscope when using the database PCs in the Eddie Davies Library
Related Worldscope posts:
- Worldscope – company accounts data definitions (April 2011)
- Datastream, Worldscope and Units (August 2011)
- Worldscope accounting data – finding data tips (July 2011)
Worldscope is not the only database for company accounts (financials) – for example Compustat, available through WRDS, is very popular with researchers studying US companies and Bloomberg's Financial Analysis (FA) function gives company account information.
The term "company financials" is often used rather than "company accounts".
How to Research UK Company Data
The library has a couple of databases that specialise in providing information on UK companies both public and private – FAME and KeyNote.
FAME, from Bureau van Dijk, provides financials for all UK (and Republic of Ireland) registered companies from their accounts filed with companies house. It covers public (quoted) and private companies: over 2.8 million active companies and 4.2 inactive companies on 05 June 2012. FAME provides: registered office, website, phone number, size, main activity, key financials (up to 10 years), directors, current subsidiaries, and current shareholders (including controlling shareholders and GUO (Global Ultimate Owner)).
FAME supports searching for companies by a wide set of criteria including name, location, industry, ownership structure, financials, and when the information has been updated. [Note: for small companies very limited information is available because they only have to report limited information with companies house.]
For more details on using FAME see the Library guides (look for FAME in Database guides section) and the online video guides [My Learning Essentials, Down to Business: Finding Business Information, Finding Company Information]. Updated 3 January 2014.
KeyNote is best know as a UK market research database providing reports on a wide range of industrial and consumer based products. However KeyNote company information can be used to research and analyse companies and people. It covers more than 7 million UK companies.
KeyNote company information provides:
- Company search by name (or company number)
- People search for company directors and shareholders
- List builder – select from key search criteria to create a list of companies, add additional output fields if required, and export your spreasheet of results
KeyNote also produces Business Ratio Reports and a UKplc report, based on 22 industry sectors and 141 industries.
KeyNote does not offer the flexibility of FAME when it comes to search criteria and defining your own output format, but its simpler interface is easy to use and it does offer UK company and market research information in a single database.
Public/Quoted UK companies
If you are only researching public UK companies then you may want to consider other databases that cover public companies worldwide, e.g. Bloomberg, Datastream, Thomson Research, Thomson One Banker. See previous post on Company Financial Analysis.
Company Financial Analysis (Global Companies)
The library has a number of useful resources for the financial analysis of public companies (companies quoted on a stock exchange).
Company Accounts
Thomson Reuters' Worldscope database provides historical accounting data – balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement. It is available through Thomson One Banker and Datastream. Bloomberg also has accounting data – command FA (Financial Analysis).
Thomson One Banker, Datastream and Bloomberg can also provide data on a company's financial market performance – e.g. historical shares prices and returns, and corresponding data for market indices.
Company Filings (including Annual Reports)
Company Filings are available on PI Navigator, Thomson Research, and Bloomberg. (Recent company reports are usually available direct from the company website.)
Analysts Reports
Analyst/Broker reports are available from Thomson Research and Bloomberg (command BRC).
Company News
Factiva from Dow Jones is a extensive online news database covering a wide range of sources. (See How Business News can enhance you research for more details.) Bloomberg also provides a wide range of company, financial market and economic news.
For further tips: use tags below to find other posts on these databases, and look at the How to research … guides,
Worldscope accounting data – finding data tips
The large number of data items (datatypes) available in Worldscope can make it difficult to find the ones that you want. The following tips might help.
Using the Datastream Navigator:
- Make sure you use reset to clear previous search criteria
- Use menu on left to restrict scope to Worldscope
- Try alternatives when searching by name
- Try restricting search to just key items – (Key WS Item option)
You can also try making a static request for say all Worldscope balance sheet items for industrial companies. See screencast http://screencast.com/t/2Fl1PQszf
Remember – just because a data item exists within Worldscope does not mean that data will be available for all companies – much depends on what the company reports in its annual accounts (and when a company was included in Worldscope – WC11516 Date Added to Product)
You can also use Thomson One Banker:
- Hover over a value in a Worldscope report to get the definition
- Use item lookup on Worldscope in the Report Writer (Web interface) or Report Wizard (TOB Excel add-in) – right-click to access definition
- Access pre-defined Worldscope report in the TOB Excel add-in – select a value and the TOB worldscope name will appear in the description of the cell contents e.g.
=PFDL("ws.OperatingIncomeAfterDepr", <date ref>, <comp ref>, <currency ref>)
The Worldscope data definitions guide provides the full detail of the templates for companies (Industrial, Banks, Insurance and Other Financial) and the definitions for all data items. See also:
- http://finabase.blogspot.com/2011/03/datastream-company-accounts-database.html (from Databaser blog)
- Worldscope meets Compustat: A Comparison of Financial Databases by Niels Ulbricht and Christian Weiner may be useful if you are looking to find comparable Worldscope and Compustat data items.
WRDS – Wharton Research Data Services
WRDS is regarded as the premier financial research database at business schools worldwide. Strictly, WRDS is not a database itself but a web-based research service. The University of Manchester subscribes to databases (CRSP, Compustat, IBES, etc. ) from their providers, and also to access using WRDS because of the convenience this offers. Several key factors contribute to its popularity:
- Convenient web-based access for databases through WRDS
CCM (CRSP Compustat Merged) example
- Web-based queries follow the same style for all the databases making WRDS easier to learn.
- Access to CRSP and Compustat, the top-rated databases for financial research on the US market
- Service designed by researchers for researchers: online documentation, able to cope with large volumes of data, and online support.
In general, WRDS is the first choice for most researchers so long as it has the data they need. Thomson Reuters Datastream is our most-used database for UK and Worldwide financial market research, where WRDS is heavily US-centric.
The Databaser blog has a good range of tips on using WRDS – For example
Note that the University of Manchester WRDS subscription does not include Compustat Global.


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The world's biggest, noisiest religious festival was brought to a silent standstill Friday by a dramatic annular eclipse.
The phenomenon, observable across a 300-kilometer-wide (about 185 miles) band stretching across half the earth, began in India in the southwestern state of Kerala and ended in Mizoram, in the northeast. Astronomers reported that south Kerala and the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu offered the best views.
The northern state of Uttarakhand, where millions of Hindus are celebrating the Kumbh Mela along the banks of the holy Ganges river, did not witness the "ring of fire" visible when an eclipse is annular, meaning the moon blocks out most of the sun's middle but not its edges. But temple doors were closed and the religious ceased their chanting to meditate in silence.
It was unclear whether the eclipse put a halt to the Kumbh Mela – which commemorates a mythical battle between gods and demons over a pitcher of the nectar of immortality and draws crowds of millions – because it is was considered auspicious or inauspicious. These are potent terms in Hinduism, determining the date of weddings and job interviews and even, sometimes, whether they take place at all.
Some newspapers reported that Hindus considered an eclipse unlucky or evil while others quoted sadhus – holy men – promoting the eclipse as an especially auspicious moment to bathe in the Ganges, an act believed to purge sins.
Elsewhere in India, many people were reported to have stayed indoors and abstained from cooking or eating during the eclipse, warned off by ancient superstitions.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), however, greeted the eclipse with enthusiasm, launching three small rockets Thursday – with a further five scheduled for Friday – to study the effects of the event on the atmosphere.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The original story incorrectly identified the state where the Kumbh Mela took place.


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