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Commuter trains hit hard by snowstorms
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HARTFORD -- Highways and airports have operated as usual for several weeks following back-to-back storms that dumped several feet of snow on Connecticut, but commuters on the New Haven rail line must wait until March before service returns to normal.
The system along Connecticut's shoreline uses trains dating to the early 1970s and many overhead electric lines going back more than a century. As a result, Metro-North Railroad, one of the nation's busiest commuter systems, has been hit hard this winter, infuriating some commuters waiting for delivery of new trains.
"Commuters aren't angry; they're livid." said Jim Cameron, chairman of the Connecticut Metro-North/Shore Line East Rail Commuter Council.
Howard Permut, president of Metro-North, said on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's website that the weather has had a "devastating impact" on the New Haven line. Metro-North has imposed a reduced schedule that began Feb. 7 an! d is set to end March 4, cutting service by about 10 percent.
Snow has forced Metro-North to pull trains off the tracks and send them to the shop. Because of their design, the trains draw in snow, forcing repairs to motors, brakes that freeze and doors jammed by snow and ice. Nearly 150 cars, or about 40 percent of railway cars, are out of service each day, Permut said.
"Every day repaired equipment goes into service and every day more weather-damaged cars arrive in need of repair," Permut said.
The Commuter Council has scheduled a meeting Wednesday evening in Stamford to air complaints and seek information from Metro-North about its service cutback.
"We want those commuters to hear from Metro-North why they did what they did and what they're doing with what they have," Cameron said.
Branch lines that feed into the main New Haven line, as opposed to its branches, have been particularly affected by the weather and reduced service. Buses are tran! sporting commuters as rail cars are pulled from service, increasing tr aveling time for Roger Cirella, a paralegal who commutes from his home in Ansonia to work in East Norwalk, from about an hour to as much as 90 minutes.
"It's getting better every day because it's warming up and they're fixing the antiques," he said.
Gov. Dannel Malloy met Thursday with Permut and said in a statement that the final stage of testing of the new cars, called the M8, is scheduled to begin shortly. He expects the state Bond Commission, which he leads, to approve financing for the final 38 cars.
"I'm not pretending this will solve all of our problems -- it won't," he said. "But I don't have the luxury -- nor do I have the inclination -- to wait around and let someone else deal with this."
His predecessor, Gov. M. Jodi Rell, launched the state's purchase of new cars for the New Haven line in 2005. Up to 380 cars, at a cost of $2 million to $3 million each, are to be ordered. Connecticut is to pay two-thirds and Metro-North pays the remainder.
Twenty-four cars have been delivered, but they must go through extensive 4,000-mile testing lasting more than a year. Commuter activists have criticized the state for the slow-moving delivery of the cars. The first were to be delivered in 2009, but Kawasaki, the Japanese manufacturer, was hampered by production delays. Deliveries scheduled to occur by the end of 2010 came and went as the cars continued being tested.
"Where are the new cars?" Cameron asked. "There's a complete lack of transparency and candor on the part of the Department of Transportation and Metro-North."
Kevin Nursick, a spokesman for the Department of Transportation, said the agency hoped the first cars would have been delivered by the end of last year but did not promise delivery by then. And even if the M8 cars were in service, they, too, would have been halted on tracks inundated by snow, he said.
If testing is completed successfully, new rail cars could be in service in a few weeks, with all 380 on the tracks by the end of 2014, Nursick said.
"There is some light at the end of the tunnel," he said. "The cavalry is literally on the way."


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I went and looked on the Hoffman Challenge site, and saw all their challenge fabrics since 1988, and my butterflies in deep purple/pink/blue wasn't one of them. But I did find this one, which is VERY close, in fact, I'll add it to my hunt, this one would be great as a border print too:
This one is titled 'Orchids' from their 1995 challenge. I must be about 10 years too late on my color preferences - guess I never will be in style!
Their 1994 challenge fabric was titled 'Tiffany Windows' and has lots of butterflies, but way too much yellow/gold to fit in the quilt I'm doing now.
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Billericay Operatic Society at Brentwood Theatre
Tradition celebrated, challenged, overturned – that's the timeless story of Fiddler on the Roof. A canny banker for Billericay Operatic after last year's award-winning On The 20th Century.
An impressive stage design again, practical, solid and evocative, with plenty of space for bottle dancing, pogroms and all the other comings and goings in Anatevka.
This is very much Wayne Carpenter's show. Producer, director and Tevye the Milkman. A very likeable performance, sitting between the shafts of his cart, perched on a churn, forever bothering his God for favours great and small. Two of many choice moments are his domestic duet with Gail, his very own Golde, and the touching Chava sequence, as the last of his daughters [Jaz Cook] flies the nest. He has five in all – nice work from Alice Wesson's Tzeitel, who escapes Mark Clements' butcher to wed Kieran Hynes' poor tailor, and Georgia Redgwell's Hodel, who goes off with Perchik, confidently characterized by Matthew Carpenter.
On opening night the pace suffered from some slow scene changes, though there is welcome youthful energy in Miracle of Miracles, and eventually in Lo Chaim, good ensemble from a large company [some accents more convincing than others] in the Rumour number, Frume Sarah's scene, Sunrise Sunset. Telling stage pictures, too, not least the Evening Prayer, and the final moments, with the weary line of refugees and the Fiddler himself [Callum Johnson] hitching a lift on Tevye's cart.


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Best Adviser Firm Hong Kong Award
The Fry Group (HK) was a big winner at the International Adviser Best Practice Awards 2016 on the 4th of October, 2016. In an exciting evening celebrating best practices in the industry and surrounded by peers, The Fry Group took home multiple awards including the prestigious Best Adviser Firm Hong Kong.
Awards for Best Adviser Firm Hong Kong and Excellence in Investment Planning
With six awards up for grabs, The Fry Group (HK) scooped up two; Excellence in Investment Planning and Best Adviser Firm Hong Kong.
"Winning two awards is a tremendous honour and validates the efforts The Fry Group puts into making industry practices more transparent and fee-based. To be recognized as having Excellence in Investment Planning and as the Best Adviser Firm Hong Kong, legitimises the entire team's hard work, and their commitment to putting our clients' needs first – something that has been the basis on which we have built our business and is part of our DNA" said James Sutton, Director of The Fry Group (HK) Limited.
About the International Adviser Best Practice Awards
In a series of global Best Practice Adviser Awards, the accolades recognise those within the industry that are, or have made the transitions towards best practice. Eight categories were created for advisers across six global regions, and six were awarded in Hong Kong. The Fry Group (HK) entered two categories, and won both; Excellence in Investment Planning and Best Adviser Firm Hong Kong. This made them the only practice in the city to win multiple awards.
Judged independently by a panel of over 10 judges from around the world, the Hong Kong awards comprised:
– Best Adviser Firm Hong Kong
– Excellence in Marketing and Communication
– Excellence in Social Media
– Excellence in Use of Technology
– Excellence in Investment Planning
– Excellence in Client Service


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How to Cook It
For some tasty Smoked Mackerel recipes head over to your favourite search engine (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo) and try popping in some of these suggested ingredient combinations:
Smoked+Mackerel+Carbonara —– Smoked+Mackerel+Nicoise
Smoked+Mackerel+Kedgeree —– Smoked+Mackerel+Pate
You will get a great list of search results at all different skill levels.
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Does High Fructose Corn Syrup Cause Obesity and Diabetes?
Could high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) be a cause for the rise in obesity, diabetes and other medical problems? Should you be concerned about it in your daily diet?
Pick up almost any product in your kitchen and you will see high fructose corn syrup listed in the ingredients. You might wonder how can it be bad for your health when it is just corn and fructose. There is more to gaining weight than just calories.
What HFCS Is
High corn fructose syrup flooded the food market in the late1970s; about the time the dramatic rise in obesity and type II diabetes started. The food industry loves it because it is cheaper and easier to use than regular sugar. HFCS is the real reason soda pop companies and fast food restaurants were able to super size their soft drinks.
It is made from cornstarch that has added fructose through an added enzymatic process. Corn syrup is normally high in glucose, once the fructose is added it is then HFCS. Sugar is sucrose, which contains 50% glucose and 50% fructose. There are three main types of HFCS:
HFCS-42 is 42% fructose and is mainly used in baked goods.
HFCS-55 is 55% fructose and is used in soda pop and other sweetened drinks.
HFCS-90 is 90% fructose and is used in special applications and also mixed with the HFCS-42 to get the HFCS-55.
Why HFCS Causes Obesity
Obesity is not only about calories; there are other factors that add to the obesity problem. Glucose, whether it is from sugars or carbohydrates causes the body to produce insulin. Insulin increases the production of leptin in the body, which is a hormone that decreases the levels of another hormone called ghrelin. Leptin tells our brains we are full and ghrelin is the hormone that tells our brains we are hungry.
Fructose is absorbed differently than glucose and carbohydrates since it doesn't use insulin. No insulin means no production of leptin and no suppression of ghrelin. This can cause us to feel constantly hungry or to be hungrier sooner and consistently overeat. Fructose disrupts the leptin and causes the leptin to stop working and the ghrelin doesn't give the proper signals to the brain [1] [2].
The liver puts out more fat after metabolizing fructose from HFCS, which causes more fat being stored in the body, which in turn adds to obesity. The type of fat that fructose causes is the worst kind of fat, being stored internally around organs [3].
Everyone's complaint is why does it have to be in everything we eat. We know it's in Coke or Pepsi, but it is also in whole wheat bread, low fat foods, so-called health foods, dressings, sauces, fruit juice drinks, cereals, sports drinks, soups, ketchup and in some yogurts to name just a few foods. I was surprised to find that Yoplait yogurt has sugar and HFCS. Making a pot of chili, I found it in cans of red kidney beans.
The average American now consumes 63 pounds of HFCS per year. That isn't even counting the amount of regular sugar that is consumed. What used to be honey for your biscuits at KFC is now honey sauce with high fructose corn syrup, color, honey flavor and 11% honey. The food industry isn't selling us food anymore; they are selling us cheap and unhealthy imitations of food. Food that tricks our bodies into not even knowing we aren't hungry anymore.
A preliminary study published in the March 2007 issue of Hematology had this to say about obesity and HFCS, "According to this study, and precisely because of its unique effects, HFCS might be able to increase risk of obesity in a way that is unrelated to the calories it contains" [4].
HFCS Could Cause Diabetes
A 2007 study conducted at Rutgers University tested 11 different carbonated beverages containing HFCS and found "astonishingly high" amounts of reactive carbonyls [5]. Reactive carbonyls are believed to cause cell and tissue damage that could lead to diabetes. Reactive carbonyls are not found in regular table sugar.
HFCS Causes Other Health Damage
HFCS also chelates minerals in our blood, causing deficiencies in certain nutrients like chromium, zinc and copper. Every cell in the body uses glucose, but fructose can only be metabolized in the liver. Studies have shown that a diet high in HFCS and sugar can cause liver disease, just like that found in alcoholics [6].
A diet high in HFCS is now believed to cause insulin resistance, gout, high cholesterol and fat to accumulate in the body. It causes gout because HFCS raises the uric acid levels of the body. Over consumption of fructose also leads to high triglycerides, which can be a sign of heart disease and diabetes.
A diet high in high fructose corn syrup raises blood pressure. All of these factors lead to what is called the metabolic syndrome [7].
Fructose Without Fiber
Proponents argue that high fructose corn syrup can't be bad for our health because there is plenty of fructose in fruit. That is correct. There is one big difference; there is a lot of fiber in fruit. Fructose with fiber is not a problem; fructose without fiber is a health problem. Fructose in nature has a lot of fiber. The fructose made from corn is not the same fructose sugar found in fruit. The fructose in fruit does not interfere with the leptin hormone.
Losing Weight
I read numerous web sites with people complaining that they eat right and exercise and they still cannot lose weight or inches. Most wrote that once they stopped eating and drinking anything that had high fructose corn syrup in it, the weight and inches started dropping off. You have to read the ingredients of everything you cook and eat.
Since corn is one of the most genetically modified foods, the corn used to make HFCS is also genetically modified and new studies have found GMO foods can cause numerous health problems.
If you want to learn much more about HFCS and sugar's health affects on the body, watch the above lecture called "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" given by Dr. Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology.
© 2010 Sam Montana
Sugar:The Bitter Truth - Dr. Robert H. Lustig, MD
[1] Obesity Research Jurgens, Hella; et al. (2005)
[2] The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Vol. 89, No. 6 2963-2972
[3] Obesity Research (2005) 13, 1146–1156; doi: 10.1038/oby.2005.136
[4] WebMD
[6] J Hepatol. 2008 Jun;48(6):993-9. Epub 2008 Mar 10 - Fructose consumption as a risk factor for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
[7] American Heart Association
[8] WebMD
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Very true and useful information. This is the way to create awareness among people and let them know the dangers of HFCS. It also helped me in my research paper.
Hi Pat and thank you for your comments. The comment from the American Dietetic Association is somewhat misleading in that sugar or hfcs have the same nutritional value, do they have any nutritional value at all except for hard-core athletes who might need the simple sugars. High fructose corn syrup used in soft drinks and many other products is not the same as sucrose (sugar) since that hfcs has 55% fructose where sugar has 50% fructose. That 5% does add up. I am not certain it is metabolized the same way either. I know that many disagree with Dr. Lustig talked about studies that used higher than normal amounts of fructose. Princeton just published a study stating that hfcs could cause obesity more so than sugar does. I used to believe a calorie is calorie, but after reading the studies how hfcs affects the liver and fat, I am not so certain anymore. I know sugar tastes far better than hfcs and I still would like to know why so many foods that have no need for sweetening have hfcs added to them.
It's very disturbing to see foods demonized. When it comes to high fructose corn syrup, it IS identical to sugar (and honey) both in caloric value AND the way it is metabolized. The body recognizes both the same. As a registered dietitian and consultant to the food industry (like the Corn Refiners Assoc.) and a college professor I ask people to make sensible decision based on credible information.
There are no clinical studies on humans that use reasonable amount of fructose. In 2008, the American Medical Association concluded "high fructose corn syrup does not appear to contribute to obesity more than other caloric sweeteners." And, according to the American Dietetic Association, "high fructose corn syrup…is nutritionally equivalent to sucrose. Once absorbed into the blood stream, the two sweeteners are indistinguishable."
At the end of the day a calorie is a calorie is a calorie; and what we put in we must put out in some physical activity. The key is to replace our sedentary lifestyles and balance food intake with energy output. An interesting opinion is at http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4157
Hi Lorena, it is certainly more prevalent in the US than in Europe. I didn't realize it was banned in Europe. If it is banned in Europe it is because of the GMO ban. I didn't even think about the GMO part of corn in HFCS until the end of the article. So it is bad all the way around. And it is in everything, and you are right, the cheaper the product the more likely it is in it. I still don't understand why it has to be in a can of red kidney beans. Kroger brand. Once I saw that I now get all of my chili makings at Sunflower Market, at least their store brands don't have the HFCS in it. You have to read every single label to know what the heck we are eating anymore.
Sam, thanks for writing this article. I read several years ago that HFCS was banned in some European countries. I can truly attest to the contibution to obesity from this product. I had no weight issues until a few short years after this began being added to foods. Weight added because of this additive is extremely hard to get rid of. I've been buying only foods that do not have this for several years now. Generally, the cheaper the brand, the more likely it is to have HFCS but not always.
Bethany, that is about the only way to be sure you can get actual food. When you plant your own garden you also have to pay attention to the seeds you buy anymore. Some of them are altered in ways you might not like. With HFCS in so many items, you would think the corn industry had a trillion tons of corn they needed to sell.
Scary information but very important to know. I normally buy as many dry goods as I can and cook most of my own foods so I know all that goes into it. For example, I buy dry beans and fresh vegetables whenever possible. I am growing my own garden as well. Excellent article.
I don't understand why it has to be in everything like a can of kidney beans. And in certain so-called health foods like some yogurts and low-fat foods, that is very deceiving. And it does taste terrible. I didn't realize for a very long time that's why I started hating the taste of coke or even Gatorade. The throwback Pepsi and some other pops, the companies say its only an advertising thing or retro. But they know the taste difference. Aspartame is every bit as bad for our health as MSG is. I never could drink anything with it in it because I would get terrible headaches. Everyone just needs to read the ingredients in everything we use.
I first learned about the horror of High Fructose Corn Syrup a few years ago and like you I am amazed at everything it's in. I hate fake sugars like HFCS, sucralose, aspartame and all those. These should be replaced with real sugar in everything again. Recently I noticed that Pepsi has a "throwback" edition they released that has real sugar in it, instead of the crappy HFCS. Not only is HFCS bad for your health, but it doesn't taste as good as real sugar. I agree, you have to watch very carefully what you eat if you don't want to be consuming mass amounts of HFCS each year. This makes perfect sense though as to why people can't lose weight, are gaining weight like crazy and why more and more people are becoming diabetic or obese. We all need to band together to protest the inclusion of HFCS in so many of our everyday food products we eat. If companies realized that HFCS is actually hurting their bottom line, they might change their mind and switch back to real sugar.


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Dancing Gold: An approximate measure of Social Impact (Part I)
Dancing Gold
A group of three friends want to create an organisation called Dancing Gold. Dancing Gold is a social business with the social mission to provide Biodanza sessions to people over 65 years old with the objective of improving their health through physical activity and reducing loneliness. The activity will be free for people with financial difficulties and the rest of the users will pay a monthly fee.
In order to create the system, they know they have to take into account two factors: (I) Areas to be measured and (II) Depth of analysis.
They represent these two factors in the table below:
|Depth of analysis
|Social accomplishment
|Demonstrate social impact
|Monetizing the impact
1. The first step will be to choose which areas of impact should be measured (environmental, social or economic).
They decide that the most important area to evaluate is SOCIAL, since they want to impact on the well-being of this part of the population. Also, they think that Dancing Gold can have some ECONOMIC implications. If the users feel better, they may need fewer medications or go less often to the doctor.
2. The second step is to decide the depth of the analysis and the indicators they will use.
Social accomplishment:
- Number of registered users (every month).
- Percentage of actual users.
- Attendance of the Biodanza sessions (number of persons in each session).
Demonstrate social impact:
Questionnaire for users:
- When registering:
- After 3 months (providing regular attendance of sessions).
- After 6 months (providing regular attendance of sessions).
- After 12 months (providing regular attendance of sessions).
|Not lonely 1
|Very lonely 5
|Value your perceived level of loneliness
|Very healthy 1
|Very unhealthy 5
|Value your level of health
- How many times do you go to the doctor in one month?
- 0 to 1
- 2 to 3
- 4 to 6
- How much do you spend in medication every month?
- Which other benefits have you perceived in your life due to attending Dancing Gold?
Monetizing the impact:
- Decrease in the number of visits to the doctor. Assuming that a visit to the doctor has a cost of 100 monetary units.
- Decrease in the cost of medication every month.
Returning to the initial table:
|Depth of analysis
|Social accomplishment
|- Number of registered users (every month) .
- Attendance of the Biodanza sessions (number of persons in each session)
|- Percentage of actual users
|Demonstrate social impact
|- Perceived changes in the level of loneliness
- Perceived changes in the level of health
- Other related changes
|- Changes in the number of times that the doctor is visited
|Monetizing the impact
|- Cost reductions due to decreased visits to the doctor
- Cost reduction due to less medication
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I can't sleep. It's the stroke of midnight. Waking mid-sleep is becoming a common and unwelcome occurrence. One consolation is that I often wake with a song in my head but not without the added plague of too many thoughts, including the unwanted.
Tonight I am fortunate to be greeted with a song.
In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
From the mountains of faith
To a river so deep
Billy Joel's River of Dreams – perhaps a little ironic?
Billy was one of my all time favourite artists when I was a young impressionable teenager easily influenced by many things. Luckily for me, my big brother loved Billy Joel and when my brother listened to anything with audio, everyone in the house knew about it!
I loved Billy Joel's lyrics. I loved the subliminal and the unconscious psychology in his lyrics. It gave me a sense of the world and Billy's music just 'did it for me'.
Music is unlike art. Art is a little harder to decipher let alone hum along to!
In doing a little research I discover there is a huge load of information on the psychology of music – general music psychology, music cognition, music therapy, even psycho acoustics! My adult, sleep-deprived brain gives me a nudge to suggest now is not the time to dive into this any further. The tune continues to escape from the upper echelons of my brain..
I must be looking for something
Something sacred I lost
But the river is wide
And it's too hard to cross
I stop to sip the almost-cold cup of tea I made to ponder the things I was thinking while awake in my bed with Billy's emerging hum. In my semi-wakened state I find the ideas and words don't come to me as vividly and fluidly as they did when I was horizontal. My thoughts immediately turn to imagining the invention of a "thoughts interpreter" or "brain dictation technology".
Billy's cries come back to me ..
And even though I know the river is wide
I walk down every evening and I stand on the shore
And try to cross to the opposite side
So I can finally find out what I've been looking for
Then I look up the words to the rest of the song and this part jumps out of the screen:
And I've been searching for something
Taken out of my soul
Something I would never lose
Something somebody stole
This is the part of the song I most relate to. I shy away from delving into why this is and from deciphering the deeper meaning of the verse. Besides, it's now one o'clock! I acknowledge Billy's struggle easily though. I sense that this time of year (even this time of the morning) is one of the best times to quietly consider claiming back what might have been taken from my soul or what i know has been stolen. It's times like these I am faced with observing the search that Billy sings about. And I am confronted with dealing with the river streams I am drifting in and wonder which of them I am flowing in – if I'm flowing at all!
There is a struggle. It sits with the two people fighting the rivers in my heart. One who was devastated, angry and robbed a long time ago. The other is loving, compassionate, optimistic and creative. But which one will win the fight in my heart? "The one I feed" as B has been known to suggest, particularly when someone is in need. I take consolation and hope in those four words – the one that I feed. And God knows I need to allow myself to feed on the good stream, the good in me.
My mind turns to the ending of the song and I hope that it will bring with it the sleepiness I require to get back in bed with my beloved to sleep soundly as the night intended. As I search for the last lines, B walks in checking if I'm ok. "I needed to write", I tenderly reply and he reluctantly nods and turns back towards to bedroom. I sip the last of the cold tea, clutching hard at those four words and the remainder of the words of Billy's song and I force myself to go to bed.
We all end in the ocean
We all start in the streams
We're all carried along
By the river of dreams


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How to restore gum loss for a child?
My son is 2 years old and he has been picking at his teeth with his fingernails making his gums bleed. I thought maybe it was just a bad habit because he was doing it for a little while, but then I looked into his mouth and realized he had these white/yellow sores/ulcers on the gumline of two of his bottom teeth. Then I looked under his top lip and where his two front teeth are, the gums, well they look like they are gone (or pushed upward), is the best way I can explain it. You can see the root of the tooth. The teeth are not loose, but you can see where the gum is supposed to grow.
What is this? And what is causing this to happen? I never noticed this before, and you wouldn't if he just smiled at you or talked to you, without actually getting in there and looking under his lips.
It happened so rapidly, and I hope that there is something that the dentist can do.
Will the gums heal and be restored with treatment? And if so what would they use on a child? We do brush his teeth together and I feel so bad as a parent for not catching this sooner.
Thanks if you could answer this for me. I would sincerely appreciate it.
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Answer by tigerg33
hes young so hopefully it will grow back. i know for adults you cant grow your gums back.
Answer by thatartistwin
I have a good friend who is a dentist…..my sister has gum loss too (receding). For adults that is not reparable by any great degree except minimally through surgery. However, your son is very young and he has yet to even develop his gums to any significant degree. I feel certain that will repair itself. The REAL issue is why he is doing it and how to stop him from doing it. Possibly his gums are itching from teething. Do you know about Ambusol and other over the counter gum numbing gels? In addition, you have to learn great tooth brushing techniques: You should always brush from the top of the gum down and not "up and down" pulling the gum away from the teeth. He will be fine…..but take him for dental care often. My parents died at 85 and 89 with ALL their real teeth in perfect condition. My mom was a stickler for brushing and flossing
Answer by FaeryWatcher
Talk to him…and tell him you're all going to substitute soft & sweet snacks with carrot sticks. GO TO YOUR MARKET AND BUY THE BEST YOU CAN AFFORD. (I get the small ones, already prepped & in a bag to grab and chew on.
& YES, GET HIM TO A DENTIST…Also, buy him one of those RUBBER picks at the drugstore that's his alone! Show him how he's to use it to MASSAGE his gums (what's left of them). Then, tell him how important it is for him to drink lots of water, and FLOSS after eating ANYTHING—even those carrots.
Good Mom…stay ON IT! Do you have a dental university within 30 miles?…Because, they'll accept him for "Comprehensive Care"…just because it's an unusual situation—and would be a good learning tool for the students. Some people have misconcepetions about these schools…the Professor checks out everything they do and if it isn't PERFECT, they have to REDO it. This way, you'll get the BEST dental work EVER!
Answer by La Cucaracha
Please take him to a doctor or dentist soon as possible. Sometimes things that are happening in the body manifest themselves in the gums and teeth.
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Review of translator job portals
Based on my own experience
This will be a rather short post, since the situation here is quite simple.
There are several job portals targeting translators, like TranslationDirectory, TranslatorPub, TraduGuide, Translatorsbase, TranslatorsTown, Translators' Café, ProZ and GoTranslators. If you were looking for a one-by-one review of these sites, I must disappoint you. Beside some minor differences they all follow the same scheme:
Would you pay to be in this crowd?
There are many more online job portals, which are not targeted for translator (e.g. Freelancer.com, Fiverr, Upwork, etc.), but any freelancer providing services like DTP, transcribing, coding, SEO, etc. Do not let their fancy design mislead you: these portals are nothing else but huge online sweat shops.
In short, none of these portals worth the subscription fee. What you pay will for the subscription never return. The time you spend on providing all information requested will never be given back. You will expose yourself to anyone, which logically might include the clients you are looking for, but the fact is that the visitors of such portals are not the clients you are looking for. Additionally, the information you publish there about yourself is beyond your control since you are not the owner of the site.
On these portals there will be always someone who is willing to work for less money than you do. Additionally, in order to maximize the exposure and to round up the largest pool of applicants, job posters will often post the same job on several portals. Don't forget: on their side there are no fees involved, so this is nothing more than copy-pasting the job description. If a translator wants to be sure that his perimeter is secured, he should subscribe to all job portals, which will result a total yearly subscription fee of $2,000.
All these sites represent the very bottom of the industry. These portals might be the first places an inexperienced translator might look for work at the very beginning of his career, but he can call himself a translator only when he is able to steer away from these sites and still receive a constant flow of work.
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I confess that in the past I did post a job on one of these sites.
I really regret this and I learnt from my mistake.
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Lurid and inaccurate historical fantasies of the cost of running Versailles in the days before the French Revolution have convinced subsequent generations that monarchies are not just financially wasteful, but ruinously so. (That Versailles and the entire mechanism of the monarchy throughout the federalist structure of France accounted for less than 6% of the national budget in 1788 - admittedly grossly high by the standards of any other contemporary or subsequent monarchy - is a fact either unknown or wilfully overlooked.)Share
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The Cost of Monarchy
The Cost of Monarchy
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- Julygirl said...
...and who can even fathom the stratospheric amounts spent in running the Democratic Republic known as the United States of America.
- July 14, 2010 at 10:07:00 AM EDT
- Enbrethiliel said...
And of course, those grossly inaccurate figures are being bandied about again so that people can feel justified in celebrating Bastille Day as a triumph of the ideals of fairness and justice!
- July 14, 2010 at 11:00:00 AM EDT
The "expenses of monarchy" bit is all a nonsensical fabrication created by anti-monarchist fools in an effort to debunk the only decent form of government we've got, usually to gain power for themselves. I shall quote from the Monarchist Manifesto (available at swellanddandy.blogspot.com) on the cost of the British monarchy:
"Many will declare that monarchy is an unnecessary expense. However in 2003 Queen Elizabeth II's funds totalled only £36.2 million, a 59% reduction since 1991-1992. It is estimated that the British monarchy costs taxpayers only 61 pence per person. However in 2000, the Queen gave the entire private profit of the Crown Estate, £132.9 million, to the Exchequer for the benefit of tax payers. This far exceeds the total cost of monarchy."
The monarchy pays for itself and then some. I could go on with the estimated cost of abolishing the monarchy, but I'll leave that for another time. Cheers.
- July 14, 2010 at 1:53:00 PM EDT
- Gareth Russell said...
Thank you for the link!
- July 14, 2010 at 7:36:00 PM EDT


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It is difficult to pinpoint the exact time frame in which food became politicized, but here in America, food is steeped in politics and is constantly a subject within current events. The politics of food are too numerous to name in one short article, but here are a few:
- Genetically modified food (GMO)
- Nutrition standards
- Infant formula
- Fast food conglomerates
- Processed food and labeling
- Meat safety
- Pesticide standards
- Water as a commodity
Although each of these topics are equally important, we will review a couple of these within this article.
Many will take the position that infant formula is necessary because women in this American society need to work and therefore a substitute for the milk that a mother naturally produces is necessary. Convenience is the driving factor which the formula manufacturers market heavily, at a steep price. Whereas, in indigenous societies, it is a woman's responsibility first and foremost to feed an infant from her breast, which just so happens to be free of charge. "Wet nurses" are sometimes used if she is unable to produce sufficient milk for the child, or a mother may simply need to feed another mother's child, but it is rarely simply for convenience. In indigenous societies, it is very common to see women feeding their children in public, whereas the current movement in America is to prohibit women from exposing themselves in public. This is a common sentiment in America, even though one can turn on a television channel or simply walk down the street and see breasts exposed as a fashion statement. A system that doesn't value the woman or her children will somehow turn what is natural into a political movement with economic, consumerist motives.
The fast food market is full of food that cannot even be considered food because of all the artificial and genetically modified ingredients as well as abusive treatment of animals prior to slaughter. This so called food has very little nutritional value. However, it's scientifically engineered to taste good and marketed at a very cheap price so the masses are fooled into the idea that fast, convenient, cheap food is harmless to the body. Major fast food chains are making billions off of selling ill health for consumption, having convinced million of people of the idea that quick and cheap is the best way to eat.
In many poor neighborhoods, fast food is the only option as there are no markets supplying fresh food. These areas are known as food deserts. In indigenous societies, food is grown in fertile land, free from toxic chemicals. There are spiritual rituals at every point in the process during the planting, growing and harvest seasons. This spiritual energy is infused into the food which contributes to good health and flavor. The people work the land and eat the food that is grown.
The list of food related controversies goes on and on, but it all comes down to a battle of ideas, which the average American is not even aware is taking place. The battle is being waged and the masses succumb to politicized ideas hook, line and sinker. Perhaps this is because there are either no values being promoted by American society or they are so far degraded that people, moving on emotions, just accept whatever ideas they are fed.


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The FBI is warning of an "imminent" global cyberattack on ATM machines that could result in millions of dollars withdrawn from bank accounts far and wide, in a similar "cash-out" attack to one in 2009 which hit ATMs worldwide to the tune of $9 million.
"The FBI has obtained unspecified reporting indicating cyber criminals are planning to conduct a global Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cash-out scheme in the coming days, likely associated with an unknown card issuer breach and commonly referred to as an 'unlimited operation'," according to an FBI alert to banks that was obtained by noted cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs.
Krebs describes it as a "highly choreographed, global fraud scheme known as an "ATM cash-out," in which crooks hack a bank or payment card processor and use cloned cards at cash machines around the world to fraudulently withdraw millions of dollars in just a few hours."
"Historic compromises have included small-to-medium size financial institutions, likely due to less robust implementation of cyber security controls, budgets, or third-party vendor vulnerabilities. The FBI expects the ubiquity of this activity to continue or possibly increase in the near future," the FBI statement reads.
In other words, financial institutions which haven't upgraded to the latest and greatest in security measures are vulnerable to attack. And since banks will likely reimburse anyone affected by the breach, the FBI's warning should particularly interest small-to-mid sized banks using outdated technology.
In July, two similar "unlimited operation" attacks resulted in losses of $2.4 million from the National Bank of Blacksburg according to Krebs, who broke the story.
In both cases, the attackers managed to phish someone working at the Blacksburg, Virginia-based small bank. From there, the intruders compromised systems the bank used to manage credits and debits to customer accounts.
The 2016 unlimited operation against National Bank began Saturday, May 28, 2016 and continued through the following Monday. That particular Monday was Memorial Day, a federal holiday in the United States, meaning bank branches were closed for more than two days after the heist began. All told, the attackers managed to siphon almost $570,000 in the 2016 attack.
The Blacksburg bank hackers struck again on Saturday, January 7, and by Monday Jan 9 had succeeded in withdrawing almost $2 million in another unlimited ATM cashout operation. –Krebs On Security
Meanwhile, the FBI is advising banks on best security practices, such as two-factor authentication using physical or digital tokens, as well as beefed up password requirements.
The FBI issued a similar alert in 2009, after a "wave of thieves fanned out across the globe nearly simultaneously. With cloned or stolen debit cards in hand—and the PINs to go with them—they hit more than 2,100 money machines in at least 280 cities on three continents, in such countries as the U.S., Canada, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan, Estonia, Russia, and the Ukraine."
When it was all over—incredibly within 12 hours—the thieves walked off with a total of more than $9 million in cash. And that figure would've been more had the targeted ATMs not been drained of all their money.
The alleged masterminds of this slick scheme—prosecutors charged earlier this month following an extensive FBI investigation assisted by other federal agencies and our partners around the globe—were three 20-something Eastern Europeans and an unnamed person called simply "Hacker 3." –FBI (via archive.is)
We're sure the establishment's cashless society will fix all these annoying vulnerabilities.
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My current research interests center on the use of computational methodologies to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying information processing within bacterial chemotaxis. In particular, I'm interested in the use of modeling and simulation techniques such as molecular dynamics to characterize the molecular structure of the bacterial chemosensory array and to describe, in atomic detail, signaling events within its constituent proteins.
Read more about bacterial chemotaxis and the chemosensory array here.
Molecular Architecture of Chemosensory Array:
The chemosensory array is a highly-ordered complex of signaling proteins, including chemoreceptors and kinases, which sense and process environmental chemical information to affect the cell's swimming behavior. Despite great strides in our understanding of how these signaling proteins fit together, a high-resolution description of the sort needed to explore in detail the molecular mechanisms of signal transduction has remained elusive.
In collaboration with Peijun Zhang's lab, now at Oxford University, I and colleagues at the TCBG integrated experimental and computational techniques to derive the first atomic model of the extended molecular structure of the Thermotoga maritima chemosensory array (paper, movie). In addition, our model permitted the use of simulations to identify a novel conformational change in the CheA (KEY aye) kinase (movie) affecting cellular behavior in Escherichia coli.
You can read a story on the work by the Illinois News Bureau here. Currently, we are further exploring how specific conformations of CheA structure are linked its activity as well as the ways in which receptors can communicate with CheA to regulate signaling.
Chemoreceptor Signaling:
Chemoreceptors bind environmental chemicals and transmit this sensory data across the bacterial membrane to be interpreted by the chemosensory array. Though the subject of intense study for several decades, many features of chemoreceptor signaling remain unknown.
I'm interested in the use of computational techniques to characterize key structural and signaling features within bacterial chemoreceptors, specifically, through the construction of molecular models for the largely unknown transmembrane four-helix bundle and intact trimer-of-chemoreceptor dimers structures. These models will extend the analysis of transmembrane signaling within chemoreceptors and permit an investigation of the ways in which receptor methylation affects the structure and dynamics of chemoreceptors during the adaptation process.
The eventual combination of these two, multi-scale lines of investigation, i.e., the high-resolution characterization of the extended chemosensory architecture (global scale) and atomically-resolved details of signaling events within and between individual receptors and kinases (local scale), should help to shed new light on the origins of the mysterious cooperativity underlying the amazing information-processing features of bacterial chemotaxis.


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Skin needling has become a popular treatment for smoothing wrinkles, improving texture, reducing scarring and stretch marks.
This treatment is less invasive than other treatments and the healing time is much quicker.
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This is a skin renewal technique that restores the healthy youthful appearance back into your skin. The process of skin needling involves applying small rollers that around 200 very fine surgical needs over the skin in a criss-cross motion.
Produces similar results to treatments like microdermabrasion, lasers and deep chemical peels, however, this is much less aggressive on the skin and does not require the removal of any layers of skin.
Less invasive than other treatments, the healing time is much quicker and there are no post-treatment sensitivities to the unavoidable Australian sun.
Skin needling is also one of the few skin therapies that are suitable for treating many skin types and can be used to treat the fragile skin around the eyes, mouth, hands and on the neck and décolletage.
Skin needling is used to encourage collagen and elastin production, smoothen skin, scar reduction or stretch marks.
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Newly Single and Dating after 50: 5 Rules for Online Dating Success
You may never have planned to be dating again in your fifties, but you're definitely not alone. There are 7.5 million single, widowed or divorced men and women in the UK alone and a large proportion of them are looking to meet new friends and partners online. Whether you're an experienced online dater or just starting out, there are 5 rules to keep in mind to make sure you give yourself the best possible start.
1. Your profile pictures Your pictures are a great way to show who you are without saying a word. On Lumen you have to have a minimum of 3 pictures on your profile and can add to 6 to show a bit more about you and your life.
A few key points about your pictures: The quality is key. Low quality selfies, bad lighting and messy backgrounds are some of the reasons people can be put off. Put some thought into this, ask a friend to take some updated pictures of you, or consider getting some professional online dating profile pictures taken.
2. Your profile
The point of your profile is to stand out and to help you attract the right kind of people who'd be interested in getting to know you.
For your Lumen profile you will be completing an 'About Me' and a section on what you're looking for in a person and / or relationship. Honesty is everything and the only real way to start a new relationship, there is no reason or need to be dishonest about your age for example. On Lumen you already know that people who are here are looking for someone closer to their own age. You know yourself and what you want at this stage in your life so be clear about what you're looking and be upfront about it.
3. Don't get stuck with a new penpal
The whole point of using an app like Lumen is to meet new like-minded people whether it leads to friendship or a relationship, so the next step is to actually meet them in real life. Keep in mind that it can be surprisingly easy to get stuck in endless messaging or emails and not actually take the plunge so it's important to confidently navigate these next steps. There's no need to rush anything, but try and meet sooner rather than later.
One way to take the next step is to get on the phone. This is often an important bridge between messaging and actually meeting up as you can get a real sense of somebody's personality and also chemistry between the two of you when you speak.
4. Stay safe
Lumen takes the safety of its members seriously and have one to great lengths to ensure that profiles are verified and people are who they say they are. But even so, taking your personal safety seriously is very important when you're online dating.
- When you meet somebody for the first time always make sure to choose a safe and neutral venue.
- Take your own transportation so you can leave should you want to.
- Always let somebody you trust know your whereabouts so they can check in with you and let them know that you're home safe, especially in the beginning stages of dating someone new.
- Listen to your gut and if you feel uncomfortable or unsafe for whatever reason, it is completely reasonable to leave the date.
A good way to navigate your online dating journey is to just take every experience for what it is, what you could potentially learn about another person, and most importantly what you can learn about yourself as you move forward.
Award-winning Dating & Relationship Coach Ané Auret specialises in helping women find new love after breakup or divorce. Since rebuilding her own life after divorce and now happily married again, Ané is passionate about supporting women during their own post-divorce transformation through her unique Heal — Play — Love process, a 3 Step Programme to Starting Over in Love. Through her exclusive coaching programmes and tailor-made mentoring Ané helps you reinvent the New You so you can date with confidence and ease and find love again. Ané was awarded the Dating Expert of the Year Award at the prestigious UK Dating Awards in 2017. She also hosts the popular Ready for Love Podcast.


text: Wireless & IoT Tighter cell tower rules come to Saskatoon @itworldca Published: January 22nd, 2013There is a need for public consultation before companies can build cell towers near people's homes in Saskatoon, according to new guidelines set by the city's council.City council voted on Monday in favour of more stringent rules which will likely impact wireless phone companies operating in the city.Prior to the new guidelines, the erection of cell towers that are less than 15 metres tall did not need to go through a public meeting. The new rules now require that public consultation be sought for towers less than 15 metres in height if they are within 30 metres of a residence. RELATED CONTENTSaskTel to test LTE in rural areasSaskTel's LTE equipment may depend on Bell, TelusDemand for spectrum may almost double While public consultation on towers that are over 15 metres is typical, the council's position on shorter towers could pit it against Industry Canada, according to Mark Goldberg, principal of Mark H. Goldberg & Associates Inc., a telecommunications industry consulting firm based in Vaughan, Ont. "The decision on the location of cell towers and other telecom equipment is a federal matter," he said. "Industry Canada exempts the erection of cell towers less than 15 metres in height from public consultation requirements." Conflicts between municpalities and wireless service providers who build cell towers in their jurisdictions are very common across the country, said Goldberg. "Much of the residents' concerns are around the aestethic issues and health issues associated with radio frequencies." The preponderance of cell towers, however, is unavoidable he said. "As the demand for more wireless and Internet service grows, we will undoubtably see more of these towers sproutning up near residential areas," according to Goldberg. "The cell companies have offered some solutions such as integrating the towers into existing ligth posts and locating the towers in park areas." A representative from wireless company SaskTel said they are looking to looking to install more these so-called "stealth" cell towers around the city in the form of 15 metre monopoles. The company has 42 cell towers in Saskatoon and SaskTel is looking to double that number to keep up with demand for 4G and LTE capability. Read the whole story hereWould you recommend this article?00 Wireless & IoT cellular towers, legislation, wireless carriers


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SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwired - May 29, 2014) - Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NASDAQ: ADMP) today announced the submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its epinephrine pre-filled single dose syringe (PFS) product. Specifically the EPINEPHRINE INJECTION, USP, 1:1000 (0.3 mg Pre-filled single dose syringe) is designed for the emergency treatment of allergic reactions (Type I) including anaphylaxis. Adamis submitted the NDA pursuant to Section 505(b)(2) of the Food Drug & Cosmetic Act.
Adamis' PFS provides a single dose of epinephrine (adrenaline), which is considered the drug of choice for immediate administration in acute anaphylactic reactions to insect stings or bites, allergic reaction to foods (such as nuts), drugs and other allergens, as well as idiopathic or exercised-induced anaphylaxis. Adamis' PFS is designed to be the low-cost, easy-to-use therapeutic alternative to existing epinephrine auto-injectors.
Dr. Dennis Carlo, President and CEO of Adamis, stated, "We feel this NDA submission represents a major milestone for Adamis. The epinephrine market is large and growing and we estimate auto-injector sales in the U.S. this year to approach one billion dollars. I believe our PFS could be an affordable substitute for the costly auto-injectors. These types of markets have proven to be cost sensitive and we expect epinephrine to be no different. Our PFS could allow Adamis to generate significant revenues and in time lead to profitability."
About Anaphylaxis
Anaphylaxis is a serious, sometimes life-threatening allergic reaction. The most common anaphylactic reactions are to foods, insect stings, medications and latex. According to information published by industry sources, up to 8% of U.S. children under the age of 18 have a food allergy, and approximately 38% of those with a food allergy have a history of severe reactions. Anaphylaxis requires immediate medical treatment, including an injection of epinephrine. The number of prescriptions for epinephrine products has grown annually, as the risk of anaphylaxis and allergic reactions have become more widely understood. The company estimates that sales of prescription epinephrine products in 2013 were at least $900 million, based on industry data.
About Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
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Anyone who has been a part of the electronic music scene in Australia for more than five years will likely be aware that it has changed a lot in the last decade. Although this can be said true for the culture since the beginning of its time, it is clear that social networking and media has overhauled the scene dramatically in the past 5-7 years. It is a subject talked about often among campsites and especially among veterans of the scene, but rarely discussed in an open forum.
I was inspired this year at Earth Frequency Festival 2016 (one of Australia's most esteemed and valued festivals) , by the events main man Paul Abad, a beloved and very well respected member and leader of our community, with the work he did to rise above some major challenges caused by these changes. His desire to help everyone win certainly peaked my interest and inspired the following conversation with him. A man who has been a part of our amazing culture for many years, Paul has wonderful insight into the current situation and a wise and humble outlook for the future. Truly something for Dreamland readers to review and take onboard.
Do you feel that Earth Frequency Festival (EFF) is ahead of its time in implementing strategies to keep the festival sustainable and respected in the local and wider community? on't wait. The time will never be just right!
That's a really interesting question and it's hard to answer as I don't have a crystal ball to tell how the current increased attention on music festivals is going to play out!
Political sentiment and public opinion are a bit like the wind, it can be gale force one moment in one direction and then suddenly it's all still or blowing in the other direction, so it's hard to say where things will be at in 5 years and if it's going to be easier or harder to have music events and festivals approved and what it will take to be sustainable.
I do think the shift to a slightly more accessible model and higher levels of transparency and monitoring is definitely helping in the short term to ensure Earth Frequency can survive and thrive. For our 2016 event it felt like we were pushing new territory for what an event of this size had to do to get the go ahead. When I zoomed out from what was going on, I saw the whole process as a form of future-proofing form what might be increasing levels of scrutiny and difficulty in having an event of this type approved, but it did mean some new changes and compromises.
The way things unfolded for EFF2016 also provided an opportunity to accelerate the ideas I had been developing around local community engagement, charity outcomes and side projects from the festival, and I'm really pleased with where it has landed. We now have a heap of positive outcomes from the festival including fantastic fundraising outcomes for a number of community groups, a partnership with the neighbouring nature protection group QTFN, the festival has funded a study on local koala populations, I was invited to help organise an event for World Environment Day with the venue and Ipswich City Council, we now have a local community fund which is about to do its allocation of funds for the first time, and there's more awesome happenings on the horizon which involve working deeper with the venue on other events including one specifically focused on multiculturalism and peace (very important considering the political climate at the moment!).
I really see these sort of external collaborations and partnerships as the next level for established festivals. It's one thing to be able to organise an event, do it well, and make it sustainable, but it's a whole new level to have an array of local area partnerships and positive community outcomes like this. Hopefully this also resonates for the Earth Frequency community.
We've got this tricky situation at the moment where music events are by default associated with drug culture which is not fair or accurate, and there's also a dysfunctional approach and lack of useful dialogue around drug laws and drug education and harm minimisation.
Last year there was some major work done with the local council regarding EFF to keep everyone on the same page, specifically in terms of the music levels – how did the council react to those changes?
In some ways, 2016 was our toughest year and we had our tightest set of council conditions to operate under. This was partly due to a widespread higher level of scrutiny on music festivals, especially electronic music festivals that is being experienced in Australia, but in the background we were also silently enduring a fairly nasty smear campaign from a couple of local residents. I won't go in to it much and very little was mentioned about this at the time, because I prefer to keep a positive and diplomatic outlook than respond to intense negativity with further negativity, but it's enough to say it was a difficult situation to navigate.
We worked closely with council to set some event parameters that would provide a balanced way for the event to move forward, and although there were a few issues that came up as a result, council was very pleased with how we worked with them and addressed all concerns and considerations. This has really solidified the council support and made the long term outlook very positive for the festival. To the point that we now have strong support and negotiating power and some more reasonable operating conditions for 2017 and beyond.
The friction with smaller scale non-approved events and the authorities which unfortunately gets a lot of media coverage is a real problem, and it leads to the general public pigeon-holing the entire culture as a bit of a renegade, illegitimate platform which is a real shame.oing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment!
How did you find the reaction from the guests, do you think this will impact anyone's decision to attend this year?
It was a bit of a shock that on short notice we had to go from a 24/7 music event with less scrutiny to a new format where the big stages close at midnight and we focus on smaller scale after hours venues after midnight. I guess it felt like a bubble popping and it was a difficult change at the time.
I think there's a section of our audience that might find the new format a deal breaker, and that's fair enough – some people are really just into the all night doof tunes and I totally understand that. But what I'm seeing so far is that the majority of our audience is still on board and understand it was a difficult year and we had to play it smart with the long term view in mind, rather than compromise our long term viability. The reality is that our most packed dance floors have always been in the day sessions and evening sessions, so I think the most important sessions of music are still intact for the majority of our audience.
At this point ticket sales are trending similarly to previous years, and we're seeing a great response to the 2017 lineup so far, so I think it's all nicely on track.
Considering we hit 90% capacity in 2016, if we do lose a few people with the new format, it opens up space for new people to come and experience the festival which I think is positive.
How do you feel about other events and the way they regard their local community, do you feel like there is enough coherence between the opposing parties maintained to support the continuance of the bush doof/transformation festival culture?
It's such a mixed bag of events around Australia that it's hard to make a simple response to this. I know of many excellent examples of festivals and smaller events in Australia who are thinking outside the box and implementing the 'party for a purpose' idea – whether it is the whole concept of the event or more like an offshoot of energy from an established event. Rainbow Serpent and Regrowth spring to mind as two great events which are leading the way with eco and community projects and fantastic outcomes. Manifest which took place in S.E.QLD also had a lot of awesome peripheral outcomes including tree planting and youth mentoring. Also Grounded which had its first event this year was a great initial concept of permaculture education combined with entertainment, and the wonderful team behind this event will be joining in for EFF2017 to hold a permaculture intensive at our venue's organic farm before the festival begins which is awesome.
I think any event is capable of creating these sorts of collaborations and outcomes, and aside from it being a great thing to do, it really does help generate good will and support which in turn makes the events sustainable. It's why it really helps to find a venue that is viable in the long term because you can then get busy meeting the local community, creating good connections and opening the door to positive outcomes. Personally I think this is absolutely essential for the long term survival of music events in rural areas. if you're not engaging the local community and giving back in some way, there's a good chance all the local community will focus on are the perceived negatives and risks.
With the information flowing a lot more openly online, there is obviously a lot more media attention on both illegal underground events and on the well organised festivals these days, do you feel like this media attention impacts positively or negatively on our community?
To be honest, in the past 12 months especially, I've seen some really damaging media coverage of music events for everything from small illegal events to some of the major festivals, which I think sets the scene back quite a bit. In some cases this is because the events are being organised irresponsibly, but it's certainly not entirely the fault of the events, and some of the best organised events have also received negative media.
We've got this tricky situation at the moment where music events are by default associated with drug culture which is not fair or accurate, and there's also a dysfunctional approach and lack of useful dialogue around drug laws and drug education and harm minimisation. Things are also coming to a head with events that don't get council approval, and there's some high level political will to shut down or scrutinise even the most professionally organised music events in some parts of the country. It's quite an explosive mix when you think about it and I really do think the future of music events is in the hands of the festival attendees .. to take a safe and responsible approach to partying and not make the events we all love easy targets.
But at the same time, it would be nice to see a more pragmatic approach at the higher levels of politics and media when it comes to the dialogue around harm minimisation and event safety.
How do you/EFF deal with the media attention?
Earth Frequency is at the point we are too big to try and hide and that's not even considered an objective – I'm proud of the event that has been shaped over a decade working this awesome community! I take a pro-active approach with dealing with the media and send press releases about the festival to local newspapers and other publications to start things off on positively. This has been really critical for promoting good awareness of what the festival actually is about, and avoiding sensationalist and defamatory reporting. I'm happy to say that we have had great outcomes recently including two very positive front page articles in Ipswich's newspaper The QLD Times. They have a great editor and media team who provide a lot of support but also balanced reporting on community perspectives about the festival.
Police presence at both big and small parties has been increasing heavily in the past few years, guests are often a bit put off by this, how do you feel about it?
With the bigger events, to some extent it's unavoidable to have a police presence either outside or inside the eve
nt, and so I think it's more something to manage and adapt to than to react to or make a fuss about. Most big music events have an onsite police presence and I've seen times where situations have been dealt with by police onsite much better than what would have happened without them there. I also really believe in road safety awareness as a big priority for any type of event and think it's important to have this reminder before and after big celebration gatherings.
The main issue really is about behaviour standards – and this goes both way. Festival attendees need to understand that basic behaviour standards and laws still apply even in the space of a music festival, and with a bit of respect and smart choices, it's not really an issue having a few police at the event. On the other hand, there's also behaviour standards for police officers working at events and I've witnessed some situations which I think push the line when it comes to issues around privacy and respect, or acting on their own agenda without collaboration and consultation with the event organisers, and the organisers then have the tough job of monitoring these behaviour standards.
I guess music festivals are the meeting point of different layers of society so there will be some tension. Although it's a tenuous interaction at times, at the most basic level, police and event organisers have the same goals – safe and healthy events, no negative impact on the local community, no casualties or injuries.
With the smaller events, a police presence is usually more a reactive response – usually responding to a complaint or arriving to shut down a non-approved event. This is definitely not ideal and it's symptomatic of a much bigger issue.
These days, it's getting harder and harder for new crews to make a start and do small scale events because authorities in party hot spots are constantly monitoring Facebook and it seems like every few months there's a nice event hitting the wall with authorities and being targeted and shut down.
The culture of these types of events has dramatically changed with the introduction of facebook and over the past 5-7 years a lot more people have become aware of these events. These have brought some positive and negative effects, both from the attendees and from local people/councils/authorities. Do you feel like our culture as a whole is evolving forward at the moment or standing stagnant in this current era?
It's definitely interesting times for outdoor music events, especially doof style events in Australia. When I started organising small events 15 years ago, the internet was a fairly recent phenomenon, there was no facebook, just a few closed party forums, most events around these parts were fairly small and underground and word of mouth played a big part in how the events were promoted. The idea of police turning up to an event or media coverage was totally foreign. Over the years I've seen the scene go through a few expansion and contraction phases as the internal logic of how the events are planned is tested.
The people who have stuck at it for 10+ years usually either take the path of going fully legitimate, approved and transparent, and scaling up to the point it's actually sustainable financially to operate this way, or they maintain a very careful strategy to do properly organised and responsible underground private events that fly under the radar.
These days, it's getting harder and harder for new crews to make a start and do small scale events because authorities in party hot spots are constantly monitoring Facebook and it seems like every few months there's a nice event hitting the wall with authorities and being targeted and shut down.
The sad thing about this is that there's a lot of promoters and crews that want to do the right thing and learn how to organise properly approved events, and aren't just doing it renegade style with a 'screw you' attitude to the authorities. But there's a lack of information and resources on how to organise events to a professional standard, and the rulings vary from council region to council region, and not only that, there's a real scale of economy issue where the bare minimum compliance conditions for council approval really doesn't work for smaller scale events of say less than 1000 people with low ticket prices.
This makes it very hard for the smaller commercial events or cheap/free community events to actually get all the necessary approvals, even if the organisers genuinely want to.
It'd be nice to see that addressed in future so there is a strategy for supporting the development of events from a small scale so they can develop up to the point it's possible to afford what is considered the bare minimum for compliance and safety standards. Outdoor music events can be very culturally enriching and financially beneficial for regional areas but it's a hard situation when to do an event legally, you really have to start about 5 steps forward on the growth cycle. I'd love to see more regional development funding for start up events, event management tool-kits, more collaboration between established and emerging event crews, and even a cross-council initiative for how to support and approve small scale community events. I've actually suggested some of this in the past to my council contacts and will continue to do so.
I see a mixed bag of outcomes from all this change – I honestly think that the standard council conditions are just common sense for organising safe, healthy, responsible events and for those events working with the authorities, it makes the events much more professional and sustainable. But the friction with smaller scale non-approved events and the authorities which unfortunately gets a lot of media coverage is a real problem, and it leads to the general public pigeon-holing the entire culture as a bit of a renegade, illegitimate platform which is a real shame. Every time some event ends up with negatively focused mainstream media coverage or being shut down by council and police, it's a step backwards for the scene.
What do you feel are the most important factors when creating Earth Frequency, what are your top priorities?
Sustainability on all levels is the number one guiding principle. That means at a personal level – encouraging our staff, volunteers and patrons to look after themselves and enjoy the festival experience in a safe, healthy and personally sustainable manner. As an organisation, it means making smart choices for long term viability of the festival regarding anything from financial decisions and growth planning, to the overall creative direction. Sometimes these choices are difficult and involve compromises, but sustainability and viability has to be the guiding principle or else it's a very short sighted approach.Considering the fact we are working towards staying at our current venue, a sustainable outlook also includes the way we approach external relationships with the surrounding local community, authorities and other strategic partners.
And finally – maintaining and continually improving on our environmental policies and procedures for a sustainable operational model – so we are hopefully treading lightly on the earth – with our leave no trace policy, carbon offset scheme, local wildlife and tree planting charities, increased focus on locally sourced food, and some new exciting initiatives to do with green energy which we will be launching soon !


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Birch Wood Cat Emoji Keychain from Lady Maggie – Value $7.95
The information card says this is probably one of my most-used emojis. I never actually use emojis (I don't text and I don't have a smartphone or tablet, plus I prefer to communicate using actual words), but I understand the sentiment! This has already gone into the bundle of keys, discount cards, and keychains I carry around.
Play-N-Squeak Interactive Bird Toy from Our Pets – Value $3.99
I got one of these in KitNipBox this month, too – same exact toy. Luckily, it's pretty small and feathers are always a hit with my cats, so it has already gotten played with a bit.
Cat Friendly Seed Bombs from Visualingual Limited – Value $8
These have catnip and cat grass plus wheat, oat, and rye grasses. I am thinking I will plant these in pots in the house because a lot of my neighbors let their cats roam loose (not something I recommend) and I don't need any more of them using my yard as a litter box. But then I can keep them in a sunny room where the cats are not allowed and bring the plants out as an occasional treat.
Pet Greens Treats with Turkey and Duck from Bell Rock Growers – Value $3.99
My cats have had this brand of treats many times in the past and they're always quite popular. These are semi-moist treats in a resealable bag and they don't stink, which is always a plus.
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My cats are all indoor cats. Outdoor cats do not live anywhere as long as indoor cats – there is much more risk of trauma (getting hit by a car, for example), predators (lots of suburbs have coyotes now), infectious disease, parasites, etc. (Before I found her, Sneaky was outside for probably just a few days. She had a massive flea infestation that she passed on to the rest of my cats, as well as roundworms!) So I definitely support this tote's message! Despite the number of totes I seem to get in subscription boxes, I can never find one when I need it, so this is welcome.
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As usual, Monkey was there to "help" me take photographs.
These treats were a big hit. (Mr. Kitty is not allowed to eat them due to his IBD. But everyone else liked them!)
Mr. Kitty was a bit grumpy this day. But he was up for some chin scratches.
Verdict: I calculated a value of about $42 for the July 2016 The Cat Kit. That is a little bit above the cost of the box, and some of the prices quoted above are sale prices. Plus, you'd have to pay separate shipping to order the Etsy items. So I think this is a pretty good value. I liked all the items, and my cats especially enjoyed the treats. This is a fun box for people who like cats and I think it would also make a good gift.
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text: Charles Dickens Screen Adaptations To Unspool in UAE 4:09 AM PDT 3/22/2012 by Stuart Kemp FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME British Council and Abu Dhabi Film Festival teams to present retrospective. LONDON – The British Council is teaming up with the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF) to take the largest retrospective ever staged of film and TV works based on or inspired by Charles Dickens, to the United Arab Emirates. Running March 27 to April 2, 10 films – including a fragment of a 1913 silent film version of David Copperfield -- will unspool in Abu Dhabi, to coincide with the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2012 at which the U.K. is Country of Focus. "Not only does this wonderful series present a selection of skilled adaptations of literature to film, but it offers a chance to see some outstanding performances by British screen stars such as Dirk Bogarde, Joyce Grenfell, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, John Mills, Alastair Sim and Jean Simmons," said ADFF executive director Peter Scarlet. The season is part of Dickens 2012, the worldwide celebrations throughout 2012 marking the 200th anniversary of the writer's birth. The ADDF also said it is becoming part of media group twofour54. The festival team will now work out of twofour54's Khalifa Park campus. The sixth ADFF will run Oct 11-20. The festival was established in 2007 by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage. The Abu Dhabi Film Commission had moved under twofour54 in 2011. Scarlet said: "The Film Festival's move to twofour54 is a natural progression in our continuing efforts to build film literacy and culture in Abu Dhabi and the region reaching out to emerging and established filmmakers." FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Stuart Kemp email@example.com @thr


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