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What steps to take before filing a credit application form
Small business owners can benefit by mapping out the steps needed to apply for credit.
Whether your business is just starting up or preparing for expansion, credit can help support your short- and long-term financial goals. You'll find there are a number of benefits to having business credit. However, before you apply, it's important to determine whether your business is ready for credit.
Follow these tips to ensure your business is fully prepared to obtain financing:
1. Review your credit history
Lenders will thoroughly examine both your personal and business credit history before making a credit decision. Before you approach a potential lender, request a copy of your personal credit report. If you find errors in your credit report, contact the credit bureau.
2. Gather financial documents
You will likely need tax returns and financial statements for your business if you are applying for a term loan or line of credit. For a Small Business Administration loan, you may also need to present a formal business plan.
3. Determine how much capital your business needs
Before you walk into the lending office or fill out a credit application form, figure out exactly how much money your business needs to borrow, and make sure it's a realistic amount. If you're not sure how much capital to ask for, consider consulting a financial professional. He or she will closely examine your cash flow and current debt load to determine how much financing you actually need. Also, be prepared to tell the lender how you plan to use the money. For example, you may explain that you will use the capital to pay for additional office space and furniture.
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It's important to identify all the lending options available to you and determine which one is the best choice for your business. You will also want to consider the process and the timing. For example, loan decisions below $100,000 may be based on your credit profile and basic information, while larger amounts may require a detailed review of your finances.
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You also have to decide how long you will need to repay your credit. There are short-, medium-, and long-term loans, and they all have positives and negatives. For example, if you expect to be able to pay back the money quickly, a short-term loan may be the best choice.
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IGAD Center for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD) organized a regional meeting to establish and launch the Regional Export Quarantines Network (NEQ). The meeting took place at Grand Holiday Villa Hotel in Khartoum, Sudan from 30 September-Oct 01, 2015. The region is rich in livestock resources, which is the major source of livelihood for millions of agro-pastoralists and pastoralists. The demand for livestock and livestock products in the region, in Africa and in the Middle East is high and raising. In 2014, the region exported 9.6 million of live animals to Middle East and North African countries through the export quarantines.
Considering that the importance and the number of quarantines has increased; it is imperative that the export quarantines network be established at regional level to enable them exchange lessons and good practices; assist in addressing challenges including lack of trust and transparency from the importing countries and improve capacity for enhanced compliance and market competitiveness.
The participants were Directors of Veterinary Services and Managers of quarantine stations from Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan and Sudan. Also in attendance were representatives from AU-IBAR, ICPALD, USAID Sudan and the OIE. The workshop was officially opened by Dr. kamal; under Secretary ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Rangelands; Sudan
The network approved the ToR; organizational structure and appointed coordinator and vice coordinators. Finally the workshop recommended the following main actions to be implemented by the Network, IGAD/ICPALD & AUIBAR; develop, harmonize and document SOPs for markets, holding grounds, pre-quarantine, quarantine and post-quarantine practices and procedures, mobilize resources to support operations of the regional network for quarantine, undertake continuous dialogue with importing countries (MENA) to address the issues and complaints by the exporting countries and to give priority attention to rolling out the SMP for export quarantine in collaboration with member states , AU-IBAR, IGAD/ICPALD and other partners
We are grateful to USAID (SMP-AH project) for financing this event.

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Writer of today's episode Josh Haber took to the Twitter airwaves for a pre-episode, 10 question Q&A. A quick transcript of the tweets can be found after the page break.
Good morning Equestria from big this country. pic.twitter.com/UL6dUntT2p
— Josh Haber (@joshhaber) November 30, 2013
Dear Brony Nation, I will now answer 10 questions. Who's up?
— Josh Haber (@joshhaber) November 30, 2013
Q. Favorite character to write fore? (@paleopaws)
A. Rarity. OBVIOUSLY. Because she is by far The. Most. Fabulous. Pony.
Q. Why is the episode airing 30 minutes later than usual? (@lolllll117)
A. Because everyone in the world is against me.
Q. Conversely, who was the easiest? (@CantercastShow)
A. I assume you are still talking Pony and not people I have dated. Pinkie. Also the most fun.
Q. Favorite breakfast food? (@CanvasWolfDoll)
A. Eggs Benedict. Because I like ham and treachery.
Q. What was your inspiration for this episode idea and story? (@AnthonyPizzano)
A. Honestly? Scooby Doo. I just wanted to get transported to sitting in my living room in my PJs as a kid.
Q. How much free reign do you have over episodes? Are you ever asked to cut things? (@Shrewdsnake)
A. Alot. All. The. Time. :)
Q. Who is your favorite princess? (@Matthew05032)
A. My daughter.
Q. Whats the first episode you saw of FIM? (@bud_friesel)
A. Lesson Zero. Sooo good.
Q. If you were an Element of Harmony, which one would you be? (@KeyannaLM)
A. The Element of Insecurity and Neediness. Also the element of attention whoring. It's a toss up.
Q. Hey @joshhaber – Do you <3 Me? (@DlSCORD)
A. More than anyone, D. More than anyone.


text: Disco is a much maligned and misunderstood term, yet for those who appreciate the history of dance music and its roots in the classic disco era of the 1970, one group stand out for their soulful harmonies and infectious beats and their name is First Choice. They recorded with the cream of studio musicians on the Gold Mine label affiliated to Salsoul, principally from MFSB aka the Salsoul Orchestra, and, in addition, had the notable production/remixing skills of one Tom Moulton who is a crucial figure in understanding the history of disco. This was the fifth album the trio of ladies recorded for Gold Mine and it is generally regarded as their best and with good reason. Clubland has continually gone back to sample the delights of First Choice and those not already familiar are in for a real treat. Side one of the original vinyl is the more varied with a distinctive piano hook and lush orchestrations characterising the uptempo 'Let me down easy' and this was simply the classiest from of disco music. Spanish flamenco guitar greets the listener on the opening of 'Good morning midnight' while there is a Euro disco feel to the tension building number 'Great expectations'. However, it is on side two that the fun truly begins. The title track has a thumping bassline with percussion to match and it has long been a dance-floor favourite while 'Love thang' has all the feel of a boogie tune (the natural progression from classic disco) before the term was even coined. Best of all, though, is reserved for the final track on the album, 'Double cross' which is one of the subtlest dance-floor numbers ever recorded and features the Salsoul Orchestra in top form on combined brass and strings. For those in possession of either the original album, or even the first CD rendition, this superb edition wins hands down because it includes no less than seven bonus tracks of which no less than five are full-length 12″ versions in one way or another and feature some of the disco's greatest remixers such as Walter Gibbons, Larry Levan and of course Tom Moulton. Little short of eighty minutes, this is fantastic value for money and in it's own way a mini greatest hits album of sorts. A spaced out and pared down instrumentation version of 'Let no man put asunder' is the icing on the cake. Tim Stenhouse


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Results Are In!
I'm about 3 weeks into Flavia Del Monte's program Curvalicious Fitness and let me tell you. Wow. I have never been so glad I bought something before!
I have been weight training for the past two years now, and started to plateau after a year or so. I have always had a problem with how bulky my thighs were, how my shoulders weren't built enough, and how my butt was shaped. I would do squats on squats on squats and find that they only built my legs more and my butt wasn't growing enough to compensate! It was so frustrating.
First I thought I wasn't doing enough cardio, so I would do long and steady jogging, intervals, I would try different machines, but nothing was giving me the real results I wanted.
Next I blamed genetics. My mom has the same kind of lower half as I naturally had, so I thought thin thighs and a bubble butt was out of the question for me.
Finally I bought Curvalicious Fitness. Honestly, I didn't really believe anything would change for me, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to try. What I realized was that I had been working my legs out like a male would, training for bulk, instead of how a female should, aiming to tone thighs and build glutes. (Duh! Can't believe I hadn't thought of that before!) Why would you use heavy weights on muscles you want to tone and areas you just want to lose fat from? I had always thought that less weight = less results, when now I see that you have to know when to have less weight and when to have more.
This is what I learned:
- Split leg/butt day into 2 days. Make one day a quads and calves day, and the other glutes and hamstrings.
- On quads/calves day, use lighter weights with an emphasis on plyometrics
- On glutes/hamstrings day, use heavy weights with only some plyometrics
- Always do circuits (especially for lower body workouts. It burns more fat and calories)
Since glutes and hamstrings are slow-twitch muscles, they respond better to heavy weights. For our quads, however, we don't necessarily want them so built (unless you naturally have really thin thighs and want them bigger), so we use lighter weight combined with plyometrics (i.e. anything like box jumps, squat jumps, Russian hops, etc.)
After following this program for a week, I measured the widest part of my thighs to track my progress. I am happy to announce that barely two weeks later, that measurement dropped half an inch! Now that may not seem like too much to you, but for me that is a milestone! I can already tell they look more shapely and toned, and I still haven't done a FULL workout all the way through, so I still have room to improve.
I'll keep you updated on my progress, but in the meantime, I'd love to hear below a time you reached a milestone goal, no matter how small, and what changes you made to get there!
For some of the workouts I have been doing, here is Better Than The Brazilian Butt Lift.
And for those lean thighs that will soon be yours…


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rekindle your holidays: family traditions {$50 starbucks giftcard giveaway}
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This week, I am excited to be sharing a 3-part series with you devoted to celebrating the holidays.
I don't know about you, but it doesn't matter how many holiday seasons I have lived through, how many conversations I've had over the years about how to "simplify" and slow things down, or what great intentions I may have. Decembers are simply always busy. Usually "good" busy. But busy nonetheless. So amidst the hustle and bustle, I will always take any reminders or ideas to heart for bringing back the meaning and joy of the season. Each year I am grateful that those reminders often come through traditions — both those that my family made for us growing up, and those that I have created on my own. And in my life, those traditions often revolve around family, music and giving.
So today we begin with family! Whether your family lives near or far, whether you have a big family or small, whether you are the young grandchild or the eldest patriarch or matriarch, hopefully a few of these ideas might help get your ready for the holidays with those you love.
Break out the photo albums!
Your family may get along famously and enjoy every minute together. But whether you do, or whether that might not be the case, there is something about the magic of cracking open those weathered photos from the 80's and seeing an earnest smile beneath sky-high poofy bangs that will bring joy to just about any room. Especially as someone with a terrible memory, looking through photo albums and then hearing the stories that accompany them is such a fun way to remember and celebrate good moments from the past. Even awkward teenage memories lose their edge a bit when you see how
ridiculous awesome you looked in those big blue glasses.
So grab some photo albums and a family member (and better — grab a new family member to join in!), and take a trip down memory lane. (And then remind yourself to get those photos converted to digital after Christmas so that they will really stand the test of time!)
Break out the good eats!
As a food blogger, I hear from so many people who super-stress over cooking the perfect holiday meal. But if I've learned anything from helping entertain and cook around the holidays, the last thing you need is extra stress. Especially over a Christmas ham. My recommendation is always to do what you can do and still have time to hang with those you love and sleep.
So if you find yourself cooking for a huge crowd with little time to prepare, do not volunteer to do all of the work!! T his is not the time to prove yourself. This is time to enjoy your time with family. So if you need to delegate, delegate. If you need to keep things simple, go simple. If you want to go gourmet, go gourmet. If you want to do delivery or go out, there are now tons of amazing options out there.
Our family's tradition is to have a big meal that everyone helps make on Christmas Eve. And then our immediate family enjoys monkey bread for breakfast and a shrimp peel for lunch on Christmas Day. One big feast, one quick and simple. And both provide plenty of leftovers so that you can kick back and relax the next few days (one of our favorite traditions).
Break out the board games!
Turn off the tv, and put those phones down. This is not Words with Friends.
Go and grab a real live Scrabble board, or Monopoly, or Settlers, or a deck of cards, or whatever your fam may have. Even if you haven't played together in years, games are such a fun way to get everyone to interact and see everyone's personalities come through. You will inevitably have someone who is a hard-and-fast rule abider, someone who wants to talk and always misses when it's their turn, someone who wants to create new rules, and someone whose competitive streak will come out to surprise you. But regardless, keep everything in good fun and enjoy putting those brains to work while laughing it up and enjoying the company of your family.
Break outside!
Maybe it's being from the Midwest where the weather is usually freeeeezing around the holidays, but for some reason, it seems that holidays often equal long hours indoors for so many families. So mix things up this year and start some new traditions outside! And if you have snow on the ground, all the better!!
Our family had a tradition of making (literal) snow bunnies whenever we had a White Christmas. But even if you're not up for rolling around in the snow, grab your boots and just go for a nice walk around the neighborhood after a meal. It will help you start burning off some of those calories, and can be a great time to chat it up with a family member, or even get a few minutes to yourself if you're an introvert. Either way, the fresh air will do you good.
And of course, you can always break out the Christmas sweaters.
Well, that may not be a tradition with the people†in our family. But Henry dresses the part each year.
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I am going through stacks of pictures, still making holiday ornaments. Am obviously running behind.
Tons of biscotti always appears (aka my mother makes it) in my house around the holidays. Delicious!
I grew up baking tons of Christmas cookies with my mom and our family would drive around on Christmas eve looking at lights in different neighborhoods and delivering cookies to friends and family.
This year is super simple… a new start in a new town! No kiddos, so Christmas looks like presents for the fam bought with gift cards we have held on to, a small wicker tree strung with lights and our favorite ornaments, a few new recipies to try and a little spending money in January! I think it might be one of our favorites so far, since it is making us aware that we truly do have an abundance.
I'm wrapping presents and decorating for the holidays.
We have been decluttering in order to make room for decorations
I'm going home!
Bake cookies, wrap presents, and listen to a lot of Christmas music!
I am wrapping presents, grocery shopping, and anticipating having Christmas dinner with my family.
I tweeted: https://twitter.com/cspring31971/status/279390926722457600
I'm getting all my shopping done early, and wrapping all the presents up.
tweeted https://twitter.com/mom22girlz/status/279392254928486400
To get ready for the holidays I am baking all of my favorite from my childhood.
I'm making gingerbread cookies tonight and listening to Barenaked for the Holidays. :)
We decorate a tree and will be baking cookies.
I'm finishing up my Christmas shopping (most of which I did online this year) and planning on having a small, quiet Christmas with my close family. No big parties for me!
We decorate the house and bake cookies for Christmas
I'm going to Christmas festival, watching Christmas movies, and buying presents for my family!
I buy the best eggnog I know and love from the Amish in Reading Terminal Market (philadelphia) and will be using it for eggnog scones!
I have been watching Christmas movies (Elf is my favorite), baking cookies and will put together a Gingerbread house on Christmas Eve.
I would love love love me some Starbucks! Drinking coffee is the perfect way to spend an evening with family and friends.
I tweeted :) https://twitter.com/dancingkatemo/status/279419947380252672
wrapping presents! because then I feel like I've accomplished something AND it looks like christmas!
By packing! We have lots of traveling to do this year.
Baking lots of cookies! Its my favorite part about the holiday season!
Doing puzzles with family is one of my favorite holiday traditions. It's right up there with playing board games.
We have been preparing for the holiday's by doing a lot of baking. My daughter loves to find new recipes on Pinterest. We have made Gum Drops, Caramel Brownies and Cherry Bark.
We do a lot of baking and cooking for holidays.
My favorite part of the holiday season is Christmas Eve- when all of my family is together in one room relaxing before we open presents.
I have been shopping, baking, and decorating nonstop, but I love it. The holiday build up is the best part!
The apartment has been decorated and the shopping is done! Next on the list is baking cookies to prep for the Holidays!
I make lists on paper and ask my hubby help me.
I am getting ready by decorating and doing some Christmas shopping. My favorite part is actually wrapping the gifts, but I have to buy them first!
Ive been decorating my small apartment with in an inch of its life, watching Christmans movies, looking at lights, and eating rich holiday food!
Aside from our tree up and lights on the house, I've hardly got anything done!
Lots of baking, xmas music, xmas movies, taking my little man to see xmas lights! This is my favorite time of year!
I'm preparing for the holiday season by getting all my shopping done!
I'm so UNprepared this year that I'm beginning to panic.
I tweeted about the giveaway.
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I'm preparing by getting to the both the mall and grocery store for everything I need as soon as possible!
I'm gathering my supplies to bake, bake, bake for Christmas gifts.
I tweeted! My followers ar probably very sick of my giveaway tweets!
I'm preparing for the holiday season by getting my fill of pepperment mochas before they're gone!!! And of course I'm preparing lists of wonderful things I would like to bake, but chances are I'll only get to one or two. Bring on the chocolate rum cake!!


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After weeks of speculation, Team Lotus has confirmed they have purchased Caterham.
After weeks of speculation, Team Lotus has confirmed they have purchased Caterham.
Details are limited, but the two companies say the tie-up will enable Caterham to "expand its brand profile and product family."
According to Ansar Ali, the Managing Director of Caterham, "Until now, the resources Caterham has had at its disposal have, naturally, limited the exposure of the Caterham experience and the legendary Seven has had to rely almost entirely on its remarkable reputation and legacy. However, the acquisition of the company by Team Lotus Enterprise will allow our existing management team to take Caterham's core spirit of pure driving enjoyment to a hitherto un-served audience."
To celebrate, Caterham will offer a special edition trim package for 50 Seven models. Each car will feature green and yellow livery as well as a plaque signed by Team Lotus drivers Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen. Furthermore, buyers will be given an opportunity to tour the Team Lotus factory.


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HiGot it tonight, tested it, works like a charm Thanks a lot
Cool that's good to hear. What CPC do you use btw.?
Hi Duke,Also wanted 1x M4 board with edge connector for my CPC6128 .Is it possible or it's too late?
Reidrac, on basic 1.0 the syntax of the CD command is:A$="name":|CD,@A$
Noob question.Is there any way a ROM can create KEY DEF's?If yes, then maybe one could doKEY DEF 0,"a$="+chr$(34)KEY DEF 1,"|cd,@a$"+chr$(13)KEY DEF 2,"|cd,@a$"+chr$(13)+"cat"+chr$(13)and so forthto speed up the process.
Well, is not that bad. Definitely faster than using tape
True, but if it's not a problem, then why not use the F-keys for various commands like this?F0 = Set a$F1 = CD a$F2 = CD a$ and CATF3 = DELETE a$F4 = RENAME a$ to b$F9 = Set b$and so forth.
I'll try that, thanks!EDIT: works perfect! This is an amazing card for the CPC, thanks @Duke !
Glad to hear you like it - Don't forget to try the cpcxfer program, if you want to quickly move files for testing from pc to cpc.xfer -u <cpc ip> FILE.BIN / 0 ( '/' indicating the file should be stored in root, '0' assuming the file has prebuild amsdos header. )
I was wondering if there would be a way of getting a socket interface so we can implement things like telnet on the CPC (just daydreaming).
@Duke: you let us know when we should send you the money ?
Yes, I will pm each one of you with details, when your board is ready.
A technical question: Reading the docs it seems like that the M4 hast two ports. Now one sends a command (and maybe data bytes) to one port and then the command is 'ended' by sending a byte to the other port. That's a fine way to do it. Now, to get the result data, one will read values out or ROM 7 (or 6, depending on CPC model). This is fine for any application residing in RAM. And since this is kind of memory mapped I/O it's probably super fast. Now my question: Instead of reading data from the ROM, is there a possibility to read it from I/O ports instead?The reason for asking is that a ROM program can't directly access another ROM without a routine to read, previously put into RAM.It's not a problem, I'm just curious.
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Cinema Transgresivo
CINE 694 - Cinema Transgresivo
This seminar is designed to provide an overview of significant movements, traditions, and periods in Spanish and Latin American cinema by focusing the way specific films break with or stand against prevailing artistic and ideological imperatives. Each week is dedicated to one movement or period, one feature film, and a cluster of shorts and clips from relevant works. We begin by examining early Spanish filmmaker Segundo de Chomón and his departure from the "Cinema of Attractions" practiced by filmmakers such as George Méliès. We continue by interrogating the 1931 film Limite by Brazilian filmmaker Mario Peixoto and the way it breaks from European avant-garde cinema and the work of Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel. The seminar moves on to explore the technological innovations of Spanish filmmaker Val de Omar and his non-narrative opposition to the hegemony of narrative cinema in Francoist Spain. Returning to Latin America, we review the Brazilian udigrudi (underground) movement and the work of Ze Mojica (Coffin Joe) and the challenge to the ideas of Cinema Novo in Brazil. Moving back to Spain, the seminar looks at the metacinematic work Arrebato(1980) by Iván Zulueta and its break from politically engaged New Spanish Cinema (NCE) that flourished in the final years of Franco's dictatorship. We will review how the Ukamau Group and the narrative elements in Bolivian Filmmaker Jorge Sanjinés's Yawar Mallku (Blood of the Condor) stand in opposition to the documentary imperative promoted by New Latin American filmmakers such as Carlos Álvarez, Fernando Birri, Octavio Getino, and Fernando Solanas. In the wake of the Tlatelolco crisis in Mexico, we explore the rise of provocative filmmakers such as Rafael Corkidi, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Juan Moctezuma who provide a paracinematic alternative to the state sponsored New Mexican Cinema of Casals, Ripstein, and Hermosillo. Returning to the Iberian Peninsula, the seminar evaluates the Barcelona School and the works of Pere Portabella and Jacinto Esteva including Esteva's manifesto film Dante no es unicamente severo (1967). We end the seminar by exploring the rise of narcocinema in Mexico in relation to the longstanding Mexican genre of border cinema. The course is taught in English and students from Cinema Studies and Comparative Literature are welcome. A reading knowledge of Spanish is helpful, but not absolutely necessary
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More changeable settings for playback during call
alasdairvfr replied to alasdairvfr's topic in Feature RequestsExcellent, I very much hope to see this implemented soon. As far as resume, it always resumes for me, just the pausing that I am looking to avoid
More changeable settings for playback during call
alasdairvfr replied to alasdairvfr's topic in Feature RequestsThis doesn't seem to prevent pausing with a new call. To pause when it's ringing is one thing, but playback does not resume once connection is established.
More changeable settings for playback during call
alasdairvfr posted a topic in Feature RequestsHello, sorry if this has been posted before. I have been using Poweramp for several months now and I am very pleased with the app as a whole. As updates come out, functionality is improved. There is however, one little thing that I would like to see in a future update. Playback is possible during calls, which to me is extremely vital. I am constantly on the phone at work and like to have music too. Everything works well but I think to make things just a little bit better would be the ability to have some settings implemented: • Ability to toggle Poweramp to NOT pause/play with incoming or ended calls: if music is playing, it will continue to play regardless of call activity, until I actually pause it. • Ability to toggle Poweramp to NOT have different playback volumes for on-a-call vs not-on-a-call: as of now playback is louder while on a call and softer when not, causing me to have to adjust the volume fairly often. To implement these two things would make an enormous amount of difference, and while some users may actually prefer the settings status quo, I feel that having the ability to adjust the settings will make the app more customizable and attractive to a wider audience.


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Top Behavioural Economist Invents New Mythical Role for the Invisible Hand
'Irrationality is the real invisible hand'
"Adam Smith first coined the term "The Invisible Hand" in his important book "The Wealth of Nations." With this term he was trying to capture the idea that the marketplace would be self-regulating. The basic principle of the invisible hand is that though we may be unaware of it, an unseen hand is constantly prodding us along to act in line with what's best for the whole economy. This means that when this invisible hand exists, when we all pursue our own interest, we end up promoting the public good, and often more effectively than if we had actually and directly intended to do so. This is a beautiful idea, but the question of course is how closely it represents reality.
In my mind this experience has taught us that Adam Smith 's version of invisible hand does not exist, but that a different version of the invisible hand that is very real, very active, and very dangerous if we don't learn to recognize it. Perhaps a more accurate description of the invisible hand is that it represents human irrationality. In terms of irrationality the hand that guides our behavior is clearly invisible — after all recent events have demonstrated that we are largely blinded to the ways rationality plays in our lives and our institutions. Moreover it is also clear that irrationality does shape our behavior in many ways, pushing and prodding us along a path can lead to destruction. Whether we're procrastinating on our medical check-ups, letting our emotions get the best of us, or letting conflicts of interest and short term time horizon ruin the financial market, irrationality is certainly involved.
In Adam Smith's world the invisible hand was a wonderful force, and the fact it was invisible made no difference whatsoever. The irrational invisible hand is a different story altogether - here we must identify the ways in which irrationality plays tricks on us and make the invisible hand visible!"
I am astonished that such a senior academic economist is unaware that what he asserts about Adam Smith is a myth invented in the mid-20th century, which, on the evidence above, he seems to have swallowed hook, line, and sinker.
The first three sentences of his piece above contain three errors.
Smith did not '[coin] the term The Invisible Hand' – he used it twice previously, once in his Essay on Astronomy [1744-; 1795], and once in his Theory of Moral Sentiments [1759].
He was not 'trying to capture the idea that the marketplace would be self-regulating'. He never mentioned the invisible hand metaphor when he analysed markets in Books I and II of Wealth Of Nations; his sole mention of the invisible hand was in Book IV (page 456) and the end of an analysis of why some (not all!) merchants preferred to invest their capitals in the local market rather than face the risks (and, incidentally higher profits) of sending their capitals abroad to the British colonies in North America.
It was a case of their risk-aversion (read the whole of Chapter 2 in Book IV of Wealth Of Nations; don't rely on the 1930s oral tradition at Chicago University or your tutor's misunderstandings emanating from Paul Samuelson's Economics,1948).
For a professor of behavioural economics to assert that 'an unseen hand is constantly prodding us along to act in line with what's best for the whole economy' is astonishing. That wasn't what Adam Smith said, nor does it correspond to his political economy.
He gives over 60 examples in Books I and II of Wealth Of Nations of instances where individual self-interested actions lead not 'what's best for the whole economy', but what had negative consequences for those affected.
To turn these myths around and pose the ideas that 'Perhaps a more accurate description of the invisible hand is that it represents human irrationality' is breathtaking in its, er, error: there is no actual invisible hand, it doesn't exist as an operator – it's a only a mere metaphor, offered by Adam Smith after he had explained in detail why the risk-averse merchants behaved as they did, presumably for those readers who didn't follow his argument (which apparently is the entire profession from the mid-50s in US and British universities).
Why did the brightest in the profession spread these errors? You'll have to ask them, but remember the context. In the 1930s capitalism as an alternative to Soviet communist planning was struggling in the depression years (as it is just now) and once the Cold War was underway, the West was threatened militarily.
Someone got the bright idea to use an innocuous metaphor (fairly common in literary works in the 18th century) used by Smith, en passant, as a mysterious force, which they placed in market capitalism that had the miraculous powers of guiding individuals to benefit national goals without them knowing what they were doing. It didn't require battalions of state planners, and the tyranny that came with them; it required liberty and freedom, both anathema to Communism.
It was game, set, and match, and given scientific credibility with the success of theorists of general equilibrium (Samuleson and Debreu), and propagandized across the world's campuses. It was also given historical credibility by linking it to Adam Smith, even the linkage was dubious in the extreme.
But the question never answered is: which term in the theory of general equilibrium represents the invisible hand and what does it consist of and what does it do?
Dan has introduced a new role for it: irrationality; so it both invisible and part of cognition and behaviour!
For Dan to write: 'In Adam Smith's world the invisible hand was a wonderful force, and the fact it was invisible made no difference whatsoever', frankly is embarrassing.
Smith never discussed it elsewhere in any of his writings – near on a million words – other than as a metaphor on the three occasions he used it. If it was true that 'the invisible hand was a wonderful force', one would expect it have been more central in Wealth Of Nations when he discusses markets in Books I Nad II, but he didn't, nor did his contemporaries or anybody else, including critics at the end of the 19th century. It's in the mid-20th century that the metaphor was re-invented as 'a wonderful idea'.
It was so 'invisible' that none of Malthus, Lauderdale, Playfair, Ricardo, McCulloch, Mill, Marx, or even Bright and Cobden, mentioned it.
To get the invisible hand into perspective, download my paper: Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand: from metaphor to myth, HERE:
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Don't simply enter a hot market. Empower it. That's precisely what angel-backed Air Energy Resources, in Atlanta, aims to do with new zinc-air batteries. Using oxygen from the air to fuel a power-generating chemical reaction, the batteries are designed to provide more energy per pound than conventional batteries. The company has targeted the $7.5-billion laptop market with a lightweight product that will supply sufficient power to support color screens and larger hard-disk drives. The product, shown to last four times longer than heavy-metal batteries, will be introduced as an accessory through retailers and corporate fleets in the second quarter of this year.
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Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous
to be understood.
How grass can be nourishing in the
mouths of the lambs.
How rivers and stones are forever
in allegiance with gravity
while we ourselves dream of rising.
How two hands touch and the bonds
will never be broken.
How people come, from delight or the
scars of damage,
to the comfort of a poem.
Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
"Look!" and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.
-Mary Oliver
Poem "Evidence"
Hello Grand Beauties!
I wanted to share this Mary Oliver poem as when I came across this poem it made me think about what it would mean to bring in more astonishment into our lives.
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Damages is not easy television. The characters are roughly hewn with sharp edges that make for abrasive first impressions but continue to surprise across the 13-episode season. The story hits below the belt and sucker punches you while you're down on your knees. Even the narrative structure can't play nice and unfolds across multiple timelines, as if daring the viewer to keep up with what's happening now, six months from now and (for a few later episodes) a day before six months from now.Like the legal profession it portrays, the show is anything but easy. But it's more than worth the investment of time and attention it demands from the audience.
Created by brothers Todd A. Kessler and Glenn Kessler along with Daniel Zelman, Damages begins with neophyte lawyer Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) stumbling out a Manhattan high-rise half-dressed and soaked with blood. From there, we slip back half a year to see how Parsons became the protégé of cutthroat litigator Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) and how that association led to the haunting image that opened the series. The creators and their fellow writers are fearless in putting all their cards on the table. Unlike stingier mysteries that hold back answers for season finales or sweeps episodes, Damages dishes them out with abandon. Of course, while the Kesslers and Zelman are dealing out the answers, they're carefully redefining the questions so that the viewer remains hooked and stale reveals can be re-interpreted down the line for still another narrative impact.
Bolstering the WGA Award winning-writing are exquisite performances from a perfectly chosen cast replete with veterans like Glenn Close and Ted Danson as well as fresh faces like Rose Byrne and Noah Bean. Close, who won the Golden Globe for her performance, imbues Hewes with presence that dominates every scene. She's our hero's mentor and that scares us to death. We see how everyone reacts to her and we know everything we need to about this calculating legal machine…or, at least, we think we do…until it's too late. Rose Byrne's ability to go nose to nose with Close marks her out as an up and coming actor to watch. She can be vulnerable and intense at the same time and her ability to immediately sell the time zone in which a scene takes place gives the viewer a handle on the show's complex story structure that has both an intellectual and emotion touchstone.


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Genies Note: I have moved this post up a bit to allow for something special in December. I hope you have enjoyed the Reason to Celebrate series this year. Don't forget every day is a reason to celebrate!
There are always reasons to celebrate life if you just look around you.
During November there are obvious holidays we all know about on my calendar including, Pearl Harbor Day (US) (7), Chanukah (7), Winter Equinox (21), Christmas (25) and Boxing Day (26). Kwanzaa (26) and New Year's Eve (31).
But did you know that December is:
- Bingo Month
- Write a Friend Month
Some of the more unique and fun ways to celebrate December include:
4 Santas' List Day Have you been naughty or nice?
8 National Brownie Day Who doesn't love a good brownie?
13 Violin Day If you play, get out your violin and play something nice. If you don't, enjoy a recording or go to a violin recital or an orchestra concert.
20 Go Caroling Day Get a group together and go out caroling.
27 Make Cut Out Snowflakes Day A nice way to spend an afternoon. Get the entire family involved.
This collection of holidays was put together with help from http://holidayinsights.com


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Johan SVENDSEN (1840-1911)
Orchestral Works - vol. 1
Karneval i Paris, op.9 (1872) [12:01]
Romeo und Julia, op.18 (1876) [10:01]
Fest-Polonaise, op.12 (1873) [10:41]
*Romanze, for violin & orchestra, op.26 (1881) [7:35]
Träume - Studie zu 'Tristan und Isolde' (Wagner) (1872) [3:44]
Zorahayda - Légende, op.11 (1874/1879) [11:31]
I Fjol Gjætt'e Gjeitinn - Norwegian Folk Melody (1874) [3:50]
Sæterjentens Søndag (1873) [2:41]
Norwegian Rhapsody no.1, op.17 (1876) [7:46]
Norwegian Rhapsody no.2, op.19 (1876) [9:15]
*Marianne Thorsen (violin)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Neeme Järvi
rec. Grieghallen, Bergen, August and September 2009 and August 2010. DDD
Orchestral Works - vol. 2
Norwegian Rhapsody no.3, op.21 (1876) [8:43]
Norwegian Rhapsody no.4, op.22 (1877) [11:47]
Cello Concerto in D, op.7 (1870) [19:18]
Symphony No.2 in B flat, op.15 (1876) [31:56]
Truls Mørk (cello)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Neeme Järvi
rec. Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway, 23-25 August 2011; 27-31 August 2010 (Rhapsodies). DDD
Orchestral Works - vol. 3
Norsk Kunstnerkarneval, op.14 [6:44]
Violin Concerto in A, op.6 [28:14]
Two Icelandic Melodies, for strings [6:17]
Symphony no.1 in D, op.4 [33:28]
Marianne Thorsen (violin)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Neeme Järvi
rec. Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway, 20-22 August 2012. DDD
This Johan Svendsen trilogy from Chandos comes with its own mystery duo. Firstly, what happened to volume four - promised on the release of the first disc last year, but now, according to volume three's blurb, no longer planned? Second, and more significantly, what motivated Chandos to make these recordings? Svendsen was already well served discographically - at least on a par with his historical importance - and Neeme Järvi has already recorded much of his music for BIS with the very same orchestra! To cap it all, Chandos already have Svendsen's symphonies in their catalogue, in perfectly good accounts given a decade ago by Thomas Dausgaard with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra (review); not mention those by Jansons and Rasilainen.
Critical reports on all the above have been good, so a desire to sweep average competition aside cannot have been the motivation. What then? Not, somewhat surprisingly, audio quality: despite Chandos's '24-bit/96 Khz' boast, there is nothing exceptional to be heard here. In fact, there is some audio compression in evidence, manifesting itself most blatantly in the muddiness of the string section, and with no improvement by volume 3.
Whilst it would be churlish to criticise Chandos, a label that has done much sterling and pioneering work in renovating or unearthing previously neglected composers from Scandinavia and elsewhere, it is hard in this instance not to wish that the resources made available for these three discs had been deployed elsewhere.
For those not wanting to commit to the full complement, volume 2 offers Svendsen at his most original and entertaining. The two Norwegian Rhapsodies see him at his most attractively nationalistic, whilst Truls Mørk is a persuasive advocate of the short, subtle but always deeply lyrical cello concerto. The Second Symphony is one of Svendsen's finest works, and one of the most original Norwegian symphonies of the 19th century - albeit without a huge amount of competition. Svendsen's First, on volume 3, is a lesser work by comparison, though still far from negligible. For lighter but colourful fare, volume 1 has most to offer, and by way of bonus includes Svendsen's best-known work, the lilting violin Romanze op.26, and, above all, the other two memorable Norwegian Rhapsodies.
In performance terms, the Bergen Philharmonic under Neeme Järvi are hard to beat, particularly in Scandinavian repertoire, as their 4-disc series for Chandos of Svendsen's younger contemporary Johan Halvorsen's music, recorded at more or less the same time as their Svendsen, testifies (review). Järvi's BIS recording of Svendsen's symphonies (CD-347) dates from the 1980s and the sound quality, despite BIS's reputation, is fairly shabby. Dausgaard's for Chandos (CHAN 9932) was made twenty years later and is an improvement, but no better than the Järvis under review. The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's recording of both symphonies under Bjarte Engeset for Naxos (8.553898), released in 1998, gives the best value for money in terms of combined audio and performance fidelity. Overall, though - for variety of programme, generosity of running-time, and quality of interpretation - these Chandos discs are a reliable investment, especially for those without exalted audiophile tendencies.
The standard of the trilingual booklets is as high as usual, as is the amount of paper wasted by the extraordinary width of Chandos's margins. Notes do have a slight foreign accent, nowhere more so than in the translated title of Sæterjentens Søndag, 'The Girl's Sunday on the Mountain Pasture', which misleadingly implies that the girl in question spent Sunday on a mountain pasture - in the Norwegian, in fact, mountain pasture (or farm) is a characteristic of the girl, not her Sunday. The notes do, however, give a reasonably detailed account of each piece.
Collected reviews and contact at artmusicreviews.co.uk
For variety of programme, generosity of running-time, and quality of interpretation - these Chandos discs are a reliable investment.
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Here at Staffordshire Information Advice and Support Service, we provide confidential (we don't discuss your issues with anyone else) help to young people about issues relating to their education, health and social care.
This might include:
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Ariel Winter Shades Chloe Grace Moretz for Her Latest Slam On Kim Kardashian
Ariel Winter just wants you to do YOU!
The 18-year-old Modern Family star took to Instagram on Wednesday to share a message about confidence and body positivity, seemingly shading Chloë Grace Moretz in the process.
WATCH: Chloe Grace Moretz Continues to Slam Kim Kardashian's Nude Selfie
Moretz, 19, recently spoke to Glamour magazine for their June issue, where she continued to slam Kim Kardashian's controversial nude selfies, photos she believes set the wrong type of example for young women.
"The way I look at it is, I'm trying to start conversations," The Little Mermaid actress told the glossy. "You might not agree with my opinions, and that's great -- I would love to talk about it."
Winter originally backed up the reality star when Moretz saw one of the risqué photos and immediately sent a tweet calling her out for her actions, which explains why Winter was apparently asked by many of her fans to weigh in on the interview.
WATCH: Kim Kardashian Slams Body-Shamers After Nude Photo Controversy
"Many have asked about my opinion on a certain interview," Winter's message, which was typed up on her cell phone, began. "All I'm going to say is this: If you take a photo in which you feel CONFIDENT about yourself and think it spreads a positive image, then GO FOR IT."
"The 'background' doesn't matter -- what matters is the message you are putting out there is true to what YOU believe in -- not what anyone else says about YOU," Winter, who frequently posts her own racy shots to social media, continued. "I do what I can to create that positive light for my fans and I'm sure other celebrities are doing it in THEIR OWN WAY -- no need to put one another down."
"No picture is the exception to someone else's rule," she concluded the post. "Even if some people 'know who you are.' Live life on your own terms."
WATCH: Ariel Winter Rocks a Cleavage-Baring Top and Daisy Dukes to Coachella
Moretz further explained her heated Twitter feud with Kardashian to Glamour, saying she was "incredibly jet-lagged" after getting off a plane from South Korea.
"I saw that photo, and I had to say something," she said. "That picture wasn't linked to body confidence. It wasn't a #BodyConfidence or #LoveWhoYouAre. It was done in a slightly voyeuristic light, which I felt was a little inappropriate for young women to see."
"I would hate for young women to feel they need to post certain photos in order to gain likes, retweets, favorites, and male attention," she continued. "I wasn't slut-shaming. It's not about body shaming."
As many may recall, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star fired back at Moretz, tweeting, "Let's all welcome @ChloeGMoretz to twitter, since no one knows who she is. …"
PHOTOS: Ariel Winter Received Thank You Note & Flowers From Kim Kardashian
"I started laughing," Moretz recalled her reaction when she saw the reply. "I was at dinner with my family [when] I got the notification [on my phone]. I look at it and I go, 'Oh my God. She responded.'"
"My mom took the most offense to it because it was girl-on-girl hate and Kim didn't come back with an educated response on body confidence," she added. "It was aggressive, and also it was incorrect. I don't have 45 million followers or a TV show that follows my life. But people know who I am. I pride myself on having opinions, and I don't express them in snarky ways toward people."
Moretz also revealed that she isn't against stars posting photos of themselves in bikinis -- she's guilty of that herself!
WATCH: Chloe Grace Moretz Says She Declined to Join Taylor Swift's Squad
"I do it because it's a body-confidence thing. I posted [a bikini shot] in Mexico," she shared. "I felt good, and I was wearing a bikini on a beach. It wasn't me sexualizing myself. It was with a beautiful background. When I posted it, I knew that there would be a lot of young women looking. So I made sure that it was tasteful. I get called prudish."
Like Moretz, Winter believes that confidence is key. Speaking with ET earlier this month, the actress addressed her skin-baring Instagram pics and sultry ensembles.
"I love to share everything because I know the people that follow me like to see what's going on, and I love to share it with them," Winter confessed. "The people that support me, their comments are so lovely and I love sharing my life with them."
WATCH: Ariel Winter Opens Up About Racy Instagram Pics


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Anne Ardagh
Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal update: November 2016
The latest Part of the Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal contains 4 Special Feature articles: Celebrating 30 Years of ADRA: "ADRA President's Address 2016" – Katherine Johnson; "Australian Dispute Resolution Association: Its history and its people" – Anne Ardagh; "History and philosophy of nonviolence: Towards an inclusive dispute resolution (DR) curriculum" – David Ardagh; and "International perspectives of dispute resolution" – Dr Paul R Gibson. It also includes the following articles: "International arbitration in Australia: 2015/2016 in review" – Albert Monichino QC and Alex Fawke; "The future of dispute resolution: Online ADR and online courts" – Michael Legg; and "The art of using power as a tool of influence in mediation" – Mohamed Sweify. It also contains Case Notes: "Identifying all members of a class action prior to mediation, and mediation/arbitration media watch" – David Spencer; Book Review: "The Mediators Handbook (Third edition)" by Ruth Charlton, Micheline Dewdney and Geoff Charlton – reviewed by Paul Lewis; and a tribute to the late Micheline Dewdney.
Family Law Review update: June 2011
The June 2011 issue of Family Law Review contains several interesting pieces about various aspects of family law, including Professional Insights, Recent Cases and International Family Law. There is also an article about collaborative law in Australia, with particular reference to family lawyers in the ACT.


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Skip to 0 minutes and 5 seconds In order to determine which of these fractions is the smallest and then the next smallest and the next smallest and so on, like before, you need to express them all with the same common denominator and then compare the numerators. Again, the best denominator to choose is the lowest common multiple of the denominators. In this case, the lowest common multiple of 3, 5, 7, and 8 is 840. So 2/3 becomes 560/840. 4/7 is 480/840. 3/5 is 504 divided by 840. And 5/8 is 525 divided by 840. You can see that 4/7 is the smallest. 3/5 is the next. 5/8 is the next. And 2/3 is the largest.
Skip to 1 minute and 4 seconds Of course, you can check your answers on a calculator– if you have one. Here, answers are given to three decimal places. 2/3 is 0.667. 4/7 is 0.571. 3/5 is 0.600. And 5/8 is 0.625. And so again, 4/7 is the smallest, 3/5 the next, 5/8 the next, and 2/3 the largest.
Skip to 1 minute and 38 seconds You can only add fractions together which have the same denominator. So you can use your results from the first part of this question to help. 2/3 is 560/840. 4/7 is 480/840. 3/5 is 504/840. And 5/8 is 525/840. All the fractions now have the same denominator. And so you can add them together. This gives 560 plus 480 plus 504 plus 525, all over 840, which equals 2,069/840.
Self assessment: putting numbers in order
Have a go at putting this series of numbers in order, smallest first.
The four numbers are: Avogadro's number, π, Planck's constant, e
The answers will be in the video in the next step.
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The Security Council statement adopted on Wednesday makes clear the link between conflict and famine in the four countries, where those fighting have often chosen not to allow deliveries of live-saving supplies, Haley explained.
"The Security Council must continue to demand access for food and other life-saving supplies and services for these vulnerable areas, and we must hold governments and armed groups blocking access accountable," Haley said.
The Security Council statement asks the UN Secretary-General to warn the Council in the future when conflict may lead to famine and makes clear that the risk of famine should be a part of his regular reporting, the release explained.


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MSc Advanced Clinical Nursing
Leicester Lead: Carol Greenway
Gondar Lead: Frehiwot Getahun
This project funded by the Nuffield Foundation's Africa Programme and is a collaboration between the University of Leicester and De Montfort University and Gondar University School of Nursing.
Nursing teaching in Ethiopia is often very didactic with little or no practical training. Nurses also have historically had no post qualification training an no career progression leading to poor motivation and retainment of experienced staff. This MSc programme in Advanced Clinical Nursing aims to change that being practically focussed and assessed, it aims to train the nurse leaders of the future.
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LONDON: Bahrain's decision to call off the season-opening Formula One Grand Prix has made a "massive difference" for teams racing to develop their new cars, according to Williams technical director Sam Michael.
The Bahrain authorities decided on Monday to postpone the March 13 race due to bloody anti-government street protests in the country.
Australia will now host the opener on March 27, with a pre-season test scheduled for Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya from March 8-11 before that race at Melbourne's Albert Park.
"I think it just gives you a lot more time to refine things and have a nicer package," Michael told Reuters in an interview before the team showed off the livery of their new FW33 car.
"Obviously, you'd always make the first race and be there and do the best with what you've got but you are always a little bit ragged at the first race ... having two weeks extra makes a massive difference in Formula One because it's such a long time.
"It's quite surreal at the moment actually, because everything in Formula One is geared around deadlines and not having deadlines that shift. Then to suddenly have one that shifts by two weeks is massive."
Michael compared it to someone producing a new road car and being told he had another three months to work on it or a aircraft maker being given a further six months to finish off building a jet.
"Two weeks is an eternity in Formula One," he said.
"You use a couple of days to tidy up the things you were tight on and then you are straight into development, trying to bring things forward that you've now got more resource to do."
Williams had planned to take specific cooling parts to Bahrain that had yet to be manufactured.
The delay freed up time, even if the parts will still be required for the third round of the season in Malaysia, where temperatures are also high.
"We have a first race upgrade package which will be on the car in its entirety for the Barcelona test," said Michael. — Reuters


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The back half of winter generally marks the time when most people who experience the dregs of the season begin longing for warm weather and some more daylight. But even if you live in a region where winter doesn't hit the thermometer quite as hard, now is the time that preliminary summer plans for vacations or trips to the beach begin to take shape.
However, that anticipation for the warm weather months can sour if you're anxious about not having enough cash to make through those summer schemes. With that in mind, here are seven small tips to help you save some rainy day scratch by the time the skies clear up in June.
1. Homemade Meals
If you make a habit of visiting the drive-thru window or if you pick up your lunch break meal a la carte, you could stand to save a bundle on those meals if you simply make your own food. Consider: If you cut out just one $10 takeout meal a week, you can save $160 in 4 months. That figure only grows the more time you spend in the kitchen rather than the lunch line.
2. Shop Smarter
As a corollary to the first tip, it is almost a guarantee that you are spending more than you need to at the grocery checkout line. Between the markup you are paying for in packaging, or the savings you are neglecting when you pass up the coupon circulars at the front of the store, you can probably stand to save a few dollars each time you shop for essentials. To keep your receipt tally low, go into the store with a list that you intend to stick to, purchase unprocessed, non-packaged items, choose generics when you can and survey the coupon page for any added savings. While it will require a little diligence to start, and some markup is unavoidable, you'll soon be regularly shaving $10, $15 or $20 from your grocery budget.
3. Curb Utilities
Yes, it is the heart of winter, and it can be tough to make cuts on creature comforts when you're stuck inside for a few more months, but being more judicious with your utilities will get you closer to that summertime cash. Turning down the heat in your home when you're not there and keeping the temperature at a reasonable 70 degrees could easily cut $20 off of your monthly gas bill. Similarly, you can shave off a few dollars by simply unplugging cords from electrical outlets. Making these small concessions in your domestic habits will add up over time.
4. Cancel Subscriptions
Chances are good that you have one or two recurring payments to a subscription service that you are not getting your money's worth from. It may seem like you are missing out by not having a certain video streaming or weekly delivery service, but you should take a hard look at the monthly payment and consider whether you might be able to live without it. While you don't have to give up something you feel is a good value, that extra $10 or $20 that regularly leaves your bank account might go a whole lot further if you add it to your seasonal savings.
5. Tidy Up
While summer is a bit of a ways off, spring is just a few weeks off. You can use the coming change in seasons as an excuse to clean out some of the clutter in your life, and possibly make some money on the side. While you are rummaging through your closet, consider gathering up any disused items to resell, either online or in a yard sale.
6. Start A Change Jar
There is nothing wrong with going back to the tried and true methods of scrimping and saving. It's likely that you've got a few dollars' worth of coins rattling around your car right now. If you make a concerted effort to keep tabs on your change throughout any given day and make a ritual of emptying your pockets at night, you can probably rack up a couple dollars each week. By the time summer rolls around, that could add $30 or more to your savings. However, when you do choose to cash in your stash of nickels and dimes, skip the quick change machine that will charge you 10 cents on the dollar and just pick up some free coin rolls from a bank and roll the money yourself.
7. Track Your Budget
Finally, pay attention to your spending. This is less of a tip and more of a best practice for conscientious saving. However, being aware of your habits and knowing where you can stand to improve your expenses can be an enlightening exercise that will generally make you a better saver overall. All this tactic requires is diligence, a healthy collection of receipts and a spreadsheet. At the end of each day, just write down what you purchased and how much you spent. You can organize and subdivide it how you like, and you can even create goals for reigning in unnecessary costs, it's up to you. The only requirement is to put in the work.
While each of these measures on their own won't foot the bill for a summer vacation or make much of a dent in any future savings goals, in tandem they will put at least $500 in your pocket by the time June rolls around. And if you want to learn how to save a little more, or potentially go further with your fiscal ambitions, you should consider speaking with a financial advisor about making that $500 work for you.
This article was written by Chris Dier-Scalise from Benzinga and was licensed from NewsCred, Inc. Santander Bank does not provide financial, tax or legal advice and the information contained in this article does not constitute tax, legal or financial advice. Santander Bank does not make any claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the information contained in this article. Readers should consult their own attorneys or other tax advisors regarding any financial strategies mentioned in this article. These materials are for informational purposes only and do not necessarily reflect the views or endorsement of Santander Bank.


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Dallas — Playwright Topher Payne grew up in Kosciusko, Mississippi, a town that still has fewer than 10,000 residents. But it was the hometown to one very famous person: Oprah Winfrey.
"It's fun as a tidbit but it's also hugely significant," says Payne, the author of Perfect Arrangement, the play making its regional premiere by Uptown Players this week. "I was six years old when Oprah's show began, so I spent my entire childhood with a very prominent example of someone from my hometown, who came from modest circumstances, and who became the most famous woman in the world. It's a heck of a role model."
Payne isn't concerned about being Oprah-famous, but he has made waves in the theater world for his plays, which usually—but not always—tackle LGBTQ+ themes and/or characters in provocative ways. Perfect Arrangement has had about two dozen productions since it won the M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award given by the American Theatre Critics Association in 2014 (this is the award that Dallas playwright Jonathan Norton won two years later for Mississippi Goddamn).
Perfect Arrangement is about the "Lavender Scare" in the 1950s, happening at the same time as McCarthyism and the House Un-American Activities Committee were investigating celebrities and other Americans thought to be Communists. At the same time, government workers were investigated for being gay, because if they had a secret that could be exposed, it opened them up to disloyalty.
Payne's play uses the lens of a 1950s-style sitcom, as two State Department Employees, Bob (Kevin Moore) and Norma (Olivia Grace Murphy) are having to identify "sexual deviants" in their ranks. Except that they are gay, and married to each other's partners in a cover-up. Uptown's production is directed by B.J. Cleveland and also features Alyssa Cavasos, Bradley Campbell, Lindsay Hayward, Matt Holmes and Jacie Hood Wenzel. It opens Aug. 24 and runs through Sept. 2 at the Kalita Humphreys Theater.
It sets up a trio of plays coming up at Uptown that also deal with gay history in America, as part of Gay History Month (October), and follow Dallas' Pride Week: The previously announced Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika (Sept. 29-Oct. 7) and the newly announced repertory productions of James Lecesne's The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, starring Terry Martin in 14 roles about a detective searching for clues about the title character (Oct. 13-21) and Drew Fornarola and Scott Elmegreen's Straight (Oct. 14-21), which deals with fidelity, sexuality and identity in "post- equality" America. The latter two productions will happen in Bryant Hall, behind the Kalita Humphreys Theater. (Get tickets here.)
As for Perfect Arrangement, TheaterJones had a phone conversation with playwright Payne, who has been based in Atlanta for two decades, to discuss the play, its themes and his work.
TheaterJones: Tell me how you learned about the Lavender Scare and decided to write a play about it?
Topher Payne: It was originally from David K. Johnson's The Lavender Scare, which I read an advance copy of when I was working at Outright, the gay and lesbian book store here in Atlanta. When I read David's book I was just mortified, that this was a part of American history and I had absolutely no idea about it. The Red Scare and witch hunts are part of our common language, and the lavender scare was right alongside it and never made it into any history book.
When I started writing it in 2009, I wanted to learn more about it, and share that with audiences. I never anticipated that it would become 10 years later I would still be talking about it.
Why was it called the Lavender Scare?
Because of the phrase "lavender lads," which was the official use of it at the time. And "pinko" was a euphemism for "Communist."
Once I won the Osborn award, shortly thereafter we had the off-Broadway production, and I had the opportunity to meet people who were on the other side of this. They were working on the security board, and were 10-15 years on the other side of the events of the play. We're talking about a policy that was in place until Bill Clinton was president. Remember, this was 18 years before Stonewall.
It was interesting how thoroughly convinced they were as well-intentioned, patriotic, government servants, that these people were security risks because they could be blackmailed. And the first step toward gaining control over another person is convincing that person that who they are is shameful. If you can convince someone to be ashamed of who they are you can get them do whatever you want. The threat of blackmail was very real.
There so much relevance to today's world, with the term "witch hunt" being bandied about like a shuttlecock. But even after marriage equality and growing acceptance, there's still a stigma of being out as a gay actor in Hollywood.
There are fantastic examples people in the entertainment industry who live openly and enjoy very prolific careers; I would like us to reach a point where [all gay actors could have that].
Did the script change from first festival performance in Atlanta through off-Broadway production?
That was my first New York production [of any play]. The thing that I learned is what money buys you is time. We had time in the rehearsal hall, we had preview performances where we had several weeks to refine and reflect upon what the audiences were telling us. But there has to be a very purpose-driven use of that time. You have to have a process that drives it forward.
Growing up in small-town Mississippi, what was your plan for leaving and pursuing theater?
I always intended to leave, I always wanted to tell stories, but I didn't know what meant. For me that meant moving to Atlanta, which was the biggest city I could personally imagine going to to live there.
When I was 17 I started working in professional theater in Jackson, Mississippi. I came to Atlanta at 19 and started knocking on doors here. Even as I was picking up tech work and auditioning, I considered writing as something I did for myself. I struggled with what I now call "my right to write," that I would have any place to cull an audience together to share something. But eventually I met the right people who encouraged me in that journey and took chances on me. The only way you write a good play is that you write a bad play and make it better. That was true for me 20 years ago, and it's still true for me today.
Perfect Arrangement is presented as a 1950s sitcom. Why that choice?
Once I started reading the newspaper accounts from 1950 to 1952, it is so strange between the world that was presented in the world of popular entertainment, versus the one presented in the newspaper. There is no sugar-coating in the news coverage of this; it's striking in its paranoia. There was so much fear and disgust in the quotes from politicians at the time. And then you think of the universe that Beaver Cleaver and Lucy and Ricky were living in. Lucille Ball was accused of being a communist and would leave the hearings and go back to the I Love Lucy set. That duality was fascinating to me.
You've written other plays, but why is this one still your most produced work around the country?
I was working on the first draft when George W. Bush was president. And since then, this play has seen several versions of this country that I honestly never thought I'd see in my lifetime, in the positive and the negative. Things I would never thought I was see; things I have literally danced in my driveway over, and that I've sat agape in silent horror over—and that's in the span of 10 years.
The thing that really resonates now about the play is that everything falls apart for the characters because of an outside force, when they are convinced to stop trusting each other. These days that seems really resonant.
Tell me about another play of yours that has had several productions, including at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre, with a provocative title: Angry Fags.
It shares DNA with Perfect Arrangement in that it uses humor to make something that is horrifying a little more palatable. [AF] deals with what happens when people start using the tactics of their oppressors; what you find is a cautionary tale about making jokes that are as awful as the peole who have been fighting against us. We all have that impulse. [AF] predates Michelle [Obama] telling us "when they go low, we go high." Ultimately it's the story of what happens when we go low, too, what happens is we're all rolling around in the gutter. We are smart people. You want to fight as dirty as they do. When you're smarter than them you can find dirtier ways to do them. I understand that have that impulse, I have that feeling, I always know that absolutely nothing good with from it.
We've seen plays with titles like The Motherfucker with the Hat and Fucking A on and off-Broadway, but the other f-word is so loaded. Why use it?
I know. This is not about reclamation. There are artists I admire a great deal who try to take words back, but this word is considered hate speech and that's exactly what it should be. I called it Angry Fags because it sounds like a punchline. It deals with toxic masculinity in gay men. The title of the show serves as a warning and an invitation that this is not going to be a polite conversation. Do you know how long it took me to get used to saying the title of my own? My mother still won't say it.


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No. 75 Jun 2010
Walled Garden Report, June 2010
Grey Owl help Bohemia Walled Garden progress report by Bob Hart & Sue Thomson, June 2010 Grey Owl The Bohemia Walled Garden Association has been fortunate in receiving a generous donation from The Grey Owl Society. This is… Read more
Syllabub By Sarah Janes, June 2010 Syllabub This very delicious and easy to make dessert is of great historical import to Bohemia, being one of the chief draws to the area and at least partly responsible for the name Bohemia itself. Follow… Read more
Monty Hammond's Flying Fun Fair
By John Humphries, June 2010 Monty Hammond Monty Hammond has been in the fairs business all his life. "I can remember minding a Lucky Dip stall when I was just six years old. I'm 63 now". When asked what the total value of the whole of his… Read more
Brian Hick
By Sarah Janes, June 2010. Brian Hick's 65th birthday Brian Hick's 65 birthday Dr Brian Hick (picture: red jacket, blue hat) celebrated his 65th birthday on 30 April 2010 with a boat trip for family and friends. The author of A Lark on… Read more
A Scandal in Bohemia
A Scandal in Bohemia – written by Bernard McGinley Convent site As a building, the curious temple-like building at the top of Cornfield Terrace is compromised neither by its commercial role, nor by the ornateness of the St Peter's… Read more
The Great Escape
The Great Escape – written by Bill Third, June 2010. Stephanie Sargent & Maria Williams TWO OF BOHEMIA'S MOST POPULAR LADIES are leaving us as Stephanie Sargent and Maria Williams (picture) took early retirement from NatWest on May 28th… Read more
Merrick House
Merrick House – written by Vic Chalcraft David Russell's article on Merrick House as a Temperance Pub is interesting, though in a way not surprising as in the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds, temperance was a big… Read more
Fairies in Summerfields Wood
Written by Pamela Haines. As small trespassers we once chanted this verse as we ran around in Summerfields Wood. It is from a poem written in Victorian times by William Allingham, an Irish poet. We did not know then that it was called 'The… Read more
Born in Bohemia – D T Necklen
Born in Bohemia (written by D T Necklen) I was born in Bohemia Road in 1918, over a music shop owned by Tyldsey – they sold pianos, etc. We later moved to five doors from the Wheatsheaf, in the good old days when beer was 4d a pint in old… Read more
Stuart Griffiths – Bohemia photographer
Stuart Griffiths The University of Brighton's Media Enterprise Centre had an open day on the 22nd of April 2010. The main attraction was the viewing of a documentary film called Isolation which tells the story of Bohemia-based photographer… Read more
Guerilla Gardener Chris
Chris Tomlinson Bohemia's favourite guerrilla gardener Chris Tomlinson has been busy all winter beautifying neglected corners of Bohemia. Now that the flowers and trees are in blossom we can begin to see the fruits of his labour. If you… Read more
Birds of Bohemia (New York)
Birds of Bohemia by Diane Haberstroh I thought you might be interested in the results of the Cornell backyard birdwatch which are now on their webpage. If you care to know what birds are being seen in Bohemia, Long Island, New York, click this… Read more
Bohemia's Bravest Boy – Kieran Browning
Kieren Browning at Bohemia Fire Station Six-year old Kieran Browning of Bohemia Road had a fantastic day with Blue Watch at our local fire station on 4th of May 2010. Young Kieran had just undergone six weeks of radiotherapy treatment for a… Read more
North Star
North Star Pub, Clarence Road, Bohemia Written by David Russell. The North Star was built in the late 1860s by Joseph Wisden, previously a guard on the South Coast Railway. He was granted a licence in 1871 and the pub opened with… Read more
Art for Empty Shops?
Although Bohemia Road has seen much improvement over the last few months (and unfortunately the loss of some antique shop signs in the process), Hastings Borough Council's Grotbusters team still has much work to do. There has been some… Read more
Bridge Community Centre
Fresh Fruit and Vegetables in Bohemia? The Bridge Bag Scheme which runs from The Bridge Community Centre in Ore is planning a Bohemian pick-up point for their bags of local and organic fruit and vegetables. Tanya Vice who heads up the scheme,… Read more
St Paul's School
New Head at St. Paul's School Richard White takes over as Head of St. Paul's School on Horntye Road, which is now linked with St. Matthews (formerly linked with St…. Read more
Welcome Back to Andrew
Welcome back to Andrew! The Voice is pleased to welcome back Andrew Cartwright as Labour councillor for the Gensing ward. Andrew is a hardworking and conscientious representative for our area, and obviously popular too with 46.6% of the… Read more
Manifesto for Bohemia
A manifesto for Bohemia? Here at the Voice we are in the process of putting together a 'Manifesto for Bohemia' and welcome contributions. How can we improve our area and what makes it special? We'd like your contributions and plan to print it in… Read more
Elizabeth Preston
Elizabeth Preston – a 'douce' and well-loved lady – remembered by Bill Third Elizabeth Preston With great regret we report the passing away on May 5th 2010 of Elizabeth Preston, née White, much loved wife, mother, grandmother… Read more
Baltic Food Shop – Sveiki Atvyke!
Aurimas Gudaitis 'Sveiki Atvyke!' – or – 'Welcome!' to the new Baltic Food Shop on Bohemia Road. Owners Aurimas Gudaitis and Evaldas Vilkevicius are from Šilute and Marijampole in Lithuania and stock a wide range of traditional food from the… Read more
Pulse School of Movement
Pulse School of Movement On Sunday April 18th 2010, Team Pulse took part in the Lions District 'It's A Special Knockout' at the Heathfield Leisure Centre, gaining a respectable 96 points and winning The Best Joker Design Competition. A great… Read more
Bohemian Hair – vintage hairstyling
Bohemian Hair – vintage hairstyling You can now re-live the glory days of Bohemia with a Louise Brooks bob or a Blousey Brown finger wave from the stylists at Bohemian Hair. Starting at £20, they now offer a vintage hair-styling service…. Read more
Bohemia, 1910 – Runaway horse
– HASTINGS BOROUGH BENCH – RUNAWAY HORSE – DRIVER SERIOUSLY INJURED A passing tramcar was the cause of a serious accident yesterday (Friday) afternoon, at St. Leonards. A fine but restive horse was drawing a four-wheeled dog cart along… Read more
Tom Hodgkinson comes to St Leonards
Tom Hodgkinson, founder of Idler magazine March 25th 2010 – At The Roomz on the very edge of Bohemia, one hundred 'idlers' congregated to celebrate a life of loafing and idleness with cult Idler hero Tom Hodgkinson (picture) – editor of The… Read more
Gus Golding in Thai hospital
Gus Golding with girlfriend Natalie Evans Gus Golding (pictured), son of Bohemian business man, Mark Golding (who had the Organic Home on King's Road) is still in hospital in Thailand after becoming extremely ill whilst on holiday with his… Read more
Alexandra Park – dogs hanging from trees
Alexandra Park tree Alexandra Park benches In Alexandra Park damage to trees and items of park furniture has been caused by people hanging their dogs from them by their jaws. The misguided owners of the dogs which are, for the… Read more
Bohemia Book Fayre Spring 2010
Bohemia Book Fayre March 2010 The Fayre was held on the 20th March 2010. Thanks to Paul Rummery for this report. Firstly the numbers. We made a total of £807.80 – a fantastic result. Last year's total was slightly higher but… Read more
Seventh heaven
Cloudesley reception Number 7 Cloudesley Road (above) is 'The Cloudesley', a beautiful guest house which has just been awarded 5 stars by the A.A. Owner Shahriar Mazandi gave Voice editor and friend Jakki a tour and they were very… Read more
The Haven has Guam mud
By Sarah Janes (Jun 2010) Haven has Guam mud Teresa at The Haven has a host of new treatments available including the famous Guam seaweed mud wrap which is used to treat cellulite. The full service includes an all-over exfoliating massage… Read more
Bohemia Village Fayre 2010
Bohemia Village Fayre logo Bohemia Village Fayre – our favourite local festival is scheduled for the 31st of July this year – and organiser Kat Lee-Ryan is planning to make it the most brilliant one yet. Subject to permission there could be… Read more
Clarence Road crack den – cracked!
Police seized hundreds of pounds worth of drugs and arrested three people (a 32-year old woman, an 18-year old man and a 16-year old boy) at an address on Clarence Road on Wednesday April 28th. They found 32 wraps of crack cocaine and heroin and… Read more
Car vandalism spurs extra police patrols
There has been a spate of car vandalism in the Bohemia area. The damage includes attempts to gain entry, broken wing mirrors and scratches across bodywork. Hastings Police Station and PCSO Andy Hubbard are aware of the situation and Bohemia will be… Read more
Bohemia Village Voice 75
Bohemia Village Voice 75 79, Bohemia Road, Bohemia, Sussex, England, TN37 6RJ. Tel: 01424 430460. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Website: www.bohemiavillage.com Publisher: John Humphries. Editor: Sarah Janes. Proofreader: Sheila… Read more
Events 2010 June / July
JUNE 2010 Every Weds Crafty Elves Playgroup 9.30 – 11.30 at Silverdale Childrens' Centre FREE weekly event Every Thurs Surestart Playgroup 1 – 2.30 at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery FREE weekly event Tues 1 June 'Dream Journeys' with Ed… Read more
Editorial 75
Sarah Janes By Sarah Janes Hello from your new friendly local editor, Sarah Janes. I hope you enjoy our June/July issue; it has been a pleasure putting it together and getting to know the many faces that are involved with this wonderful… Read more
J J Waller photographs 'The Bohemians'
J J Waller Photographer JJ Waller has been working in St Leonards since the summer of 2007. Better known for his commissioned portraits of top comedians like Paul Merton, Julian Clary and Reginald D Hunter his work in St Leonards has become an… Read more
Panagram 75
Panagram 75 Which four, different, 6-letter words, all anagrams of each other, mean: 1) public lavatory for women, 2) representations of perfection, 3) travelled in a boat, 4) of seating areas separated by a passageway. Panagram 75… Read more
Picture Puzzle 75
Puzzle Picture 75 What might this strange looking object be, and where is it to be found in Bohemia? A £10 gift token, kindly donated by Empress Art of Tower Road will be awarded to the winner. Closing date 1st July… Read more
Henry Baines
Henry Baines Wigmaker Henry, with wife Anne, lives in 'Henry's House' in St Peter's Road. His vintage looks have landed him some interesting work as an extra in such films as Harry Potter and Scrooge. He claims to be the 'oldest… Read more
Panagram 75 Answer
1. LADIES 2. IDEALS 3. SAILED 4…. Read more


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Amazing: Darude's 'Sandstorm' played by an accordion band
3 February 2015, 12:19 | Updated: 18 February 2020, 16:52
Sandstorm by Darude played on accordions.
An accordion ensemble has recorded a highly entertaining new version of a classic dance track, Darude's 'Sandstorm'.
This incendiary cover version of the Finnish dance classic from 1999 features a band of accordionists and a drummer, who collaborate to breathe new life into an old classic.
Far be it from us to suggest a new dance sensation, but we're calling this one 'big fish, little fish, squeezebox'.
Watch the original below:
Martynas, if you're reading this, we expect something along these lines on your next record.