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Who needs a profit/loss plan? Isn't investing only about buying low and selling high? It would be nice to always buy at the bottom and sell at the top, but it is nearly impossible to do so consistently. Furthermore, investors are only human: emotions sway our judgment and it is in our nature to hate losing. Taking a loss on a stock, therefore, is not only detrimental to our pocketbooks, but it also hurts our egos. Time and time again, investors take profits by selling an investment that has appreciated, but hold onto declining stocks in the hope of a rebound. Often, these investments shrivel to a fraction of their previous worth.
So how can an investor avoid this type of outcome? One solution is to learn to be a disciplined investor and to adopt a profit/loss plan. In this article, we'll go over this strategy and show you how to use it to stay in the black.
What Is a Profit/Loss Plan?
This plan is a step that many retail investors (and professionals) often overlook. The profit/loss plan is a set of limits that determines the maximum loss or gain an investor will take on a stock. Containing losses is a very important part of investing, so the profit/loss plan is crucial to a sound strategy.
We all make stock-picking mistakes and most of us have lost money in the stock market—what sets the great investors apart is their ability to recognize their bad choices and use what they've learned to make up for them later. A profit/loss plan helps you recognize your mistakes by allowing you to separate your emotions from investing. If you aren't too zealous about your gains and you see them purely as a means of increasing your cash flows (rather than your ego), you will have a much easier time letting go of your losses, and therefore, controlling them.
Devising Your Plan
Devising a plan may be more difficult than you'd expect. First, you'll need to set the maximum gain you will accept and the maximum loss you will tolerate for your investments, but these maximums and minimums shouldn't necessarily be the same for every stock. For example, a blue chip stock is more unlikely to rise or fall by 10% within any given year, as compared to a small-cap growth stock, which will exhibit more volatility. In other words, you must analyze each stock individually to estimate how much it is likely to move in either direction. Some investors use technical or fundamental analysis or a combination of both to determine appropriate limits for gains and losses.
Another way to devise your limits is by modeling your plan on the performance of a designated benchmark, such as an index or even on the past performance of your own portfolio.
Another factor you must consider when devising your profit/loss plan is your risk tolerance, which depends on many factors, such as your personality, your time frame and your available capital. Typically, people who are risk averse will have tighter boundaries than those who don't mind risk. Risk lovers will try to profit as much as possible from a rising stock, but a more conservative investor may sell the stock early on in its rise to eliminate the risk of losses, which would occur if the stock took a quick downward dive. If you prefer to shy away from risks, a profit/loss plan of 10% each way may not be suitable or even realistic for you. On the other hand, if you are willing to take on the added risks associated with potential profits, then a 10% profit/loss might be more appropriate.
Executing Your Plan
Once you've decided on your numbers, whether conservative or aggressive, you have to put the plan into action with as few hitches as possible. Remember, this plan has a double requirement: You have to sell your stocks if they fall to a certain level and if they rise to a certain level.
Now, brokers will not let you enter two different sell orders for the same security so you need to figure out which one you'd rather enter first. It may be wisest to enter orders that first protect your downside: many wise investors use the stop-loss order, which instructs your broker to buy or sell a stock once it has reached a certain price. The stop loss ensures that you won't get burned on a down market, especially if you aren't able to watch your stocks every moment. When you enter in your order with your broker, set the stop price at your maximum loss percentage and then sit and wait. If the price ends up appreciating to your upper boundary, just change the price of your stop loss order, which will then activate the immediate sale of your stock.
Staying Disciplined
Once you have your profit/loss strategy in place, you will have to remember that the whole idea of the plan is to establish strict guidelines for when to sell. Sure, it hurts to see a stock continue to rise once you have sold it, but it is often better to sell on the way up than to wait until you have to dump the stock while the price is collapsing after its peak. Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. once said, "Only a fool holds out for the top dollar."
The Bottom Line
Keep in mind that our example figures are generalizations. Devising your plan requires detailed research, analysis, self-assessment and a realistic outlook. Setting a profit limit at 100% (double your money) doesn't make sense if you invest in low-risk companies that grow steadily at 15% per year.
Here are some things to remember:
- A stock that declines 50% means you will need to double your money to get back to even. Controlling losses is the key to sound investing.
- Making mistakes is human nature. Once you realize this, you will find it easier to move on.
- Buying a stock and holding onto it for a very long time doesn't mean you will make money. A buy and hold strategy will work only if you pick the right companies. The most important part of devising a profit/loss plan is sticking to it!


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Hey Obama, yes we can. Troops out of Afghanistan, chanted the crowd. Barack, Barack, Barack, Afghanistan's the same as Iraq. And this: NoBomba! At last weekend's anti-war protest in Washington -- the first of the Obama era -- the refrains were clever, if perhaps somewhat predictable. But the frustration of the activists was hardly canned.
"It doesn't look like Obama is changing anything," said Kyle Quigley, an Iraq War veteran who had traveled from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to attend the rally. The president's decision to delay withdrawal from Iraq by three months is a sign, Quigley argued, of Obama's "backsliding" on his campaign promise to end the war. Quigley's frustration with the president was shared by many of the anti-war activists at the rally, which was sponsored by the group Act Now To Stop War and End Racism.
Cautious and pragmatic, Obama has always been more centrist than his supporters on the left. His 2008 pledge to raise troop levels in Afghanistan and his vow to be as "careful getting out" of Iraq "as we were careless going in" disappointed those looking for a swift rejection of George W. Bush's foreign policy. Now two months into his presidency, Obama's cautious centrism has provoked an inevitable rift with some of the most devoted interest groups that swept him to power.
But the anti-war grassroots is having a hard time turning their frustration into a movement. Saturday's march underscored the difficulty of implementing an effective protest strategy at a time when the president's approval rating is hovering around 60 percent and the country remains focused on its economic struggles at home. Organizers estimated Saturday's crowd to be 10,000, but Arlington County police said the crowd was between 2,500 and 3,000. From what I could observe, the turnout seemed much closer to the latter figure.
Many activists at the event were disappointed by the turnout. "How can we ensure that our next demonstration is larger than this one?" pleaded Jerry Young of The National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, yelling into a megaphone across from the Lincoln Memorial. Some protesters conceded that complacency has set in among anti-war activists who supported Obama during the election. "Most people are really hopeful that things might change with the new administration," admitted Joelle Jameson, who attended the march with an Amnesty International chapter based in Norfolk, Virginia. For many organizers, "Obama is still in his honeymoon period", she said. And the bad economy, said Greg Coleridge of the American Friends Service Committee, "is interrupting the movement and taking up people's time and energy."
The anti-war grassroots also seem to be having a hard time developing a coherent and focused message. Though withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan was ostensibly the theme of the day, Saturday's featured speakers railed against causes as disparate as the embargo of Cuba, U.S. policy towards Sudan, and Israel's recent incursion into Gaza. As protesters made their way from the National Mall toward the Pentagon and a hub of defense contractors in Arlington, the march devolved into a vague condemnation of "the military industrial complex" rather than a targeted attack on the president's foreign policy.
Like the blood-stained Israeli flags and "9/11 Was An Inside Job" placards that cropped up along the march, this inability to strike a unified theme demonstrated the movement's continued obstacles to achieving broad-based popular support. After participating in the 1967 March on the Pentagon, Norman Mailer declared the protests a success because "a sense of danger had finally come ... to the damnably mediocre middle of the Left." As Saturday's march traced the same iconic route between Highway 395 and the Potomac River, it seemed unlikely that the student groups, Muslim-American delegations, and veterans in attendance would instill the country's mediocre middle with a comparable sense of urgency.
But organizers are hopeful the tide will eventually turn against Obama's go-slow approach. A Gallup poll released this month shows opposition to the war in Afghanistan at an all-time high, with 42 percent of Americans now saying the United States made a mistake sending troops to the country. If the economic crisis continues to intensify, more and more Americans could come to believe that the country no longer possesses the fiscal and military resources to sustain long-term nation-building overseas. As President Obama takes ownership of American foreign policy, some Republicans might even warm to this position, returning to the isolationist posture many in the party adopted during the 1990s.
Near the end of the march, as the crowd snaked away from Lockheed Martin headquarters in the early evening light, I watched a member of the rally's "young anarchist" contingent speed by me with a large hammer, smashing a window before disappearing into a crowd of his black-clad peers. It was an aberration, a rare moment of violence punctuating an otherwise peaceful day of protest, but it was hard not to see the broken glass as a symbol of the marchers' misplaced energy. Not realizing, or simply not caring, that we had moved past the Lockheed Martin complex, he had smashed the lobby window of the apartment building next door.
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So I happen to like Audis. I drive one, and I like her fine, but nevertheless if I received this razor in my stocking, she would have developed an inferiority complex at the sight of my incessant shaving.
You see, it's that mirror sheen. And those four red rings signifying the four marques of Auto Union... it's enough to get a guy to park it in front of a mirror for hours on end.
Good thing this is just an artist's concept, as you can see above. That said, if artist Poling Huang ever gets it done, I'd love to give it a quick review. Send it over in an R8 or something. [Coroflot via Born Rich]


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Tyson Beckford's former lover has come forward with an X-rated tape reportedly featuring the actor.
A 45-minute video of the Zoolander star pleasuring himself during a recent internet chat with an unidentified female model is being shopped to bosses in the adult entertainment industry, according to TMZ.com.
Beckford's representative has yet to acknowledge the rumor but on Sunday the 41 year old appeared to confirm the tape's existence in a series of posts on his Twitter.com page.
He tweeted, "Don't even faze me (sic), we all do it, just mine got caught on film… sad that it was a woman who had it to release it! I don't even care…. male models don't bring in a lot of viewers, it would flop… Sad but life goes on… sad what women will do for $."


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By Norman D. Stewart, D.V.M., M.S.
As cattle pinkeye season approaches, it's important to put an effective management program in place and take the necessary steps to control this contagious, costly disease. Like a three-legged stool, vaccination, fly control and environmental management comprise the primary tools for managing pinkeye. They work together to provide an effective pinkeye control program and help maintain your animal's health, productivity and profitability.
The first leg of pinkeye control is vaccination. Pinkeye is caused when bacterial organisms, such as Moraxella bovis, infect the surface and fluids of the eye. Pinkeye vaccines stimulate the production of antibodies in tears that bathe the eye, limit infection and reduce the severity of eye lesions.
Consider these three best management practices for pinkeye vaccination.
• Work with your veterinarian or animal health provider to identify a broad-spectrum vaccine that is effective against a wide variety of common infectious strains and isolates to address pinkeye on your operation.
• Vaccinate animals three to six weeks prior to the onset of pinkeye season to allow time for the animals' immune system to develop an effective immune response.
• Administration times vary from product to product, so always follow label directions.
Fly control
Because flies can spread pinkeye quickly, fly control is critical. Face flies can expose animals to different strains of Moraxella bovis by transporting bacteria from the eyes of animal to animal and traveling significant distances between herds. Other flies of concern are stable and horn flies.
Although these flies do not spread pinkeye, they are responsible for losses in milk production. Stable flies decrease milk production as a result of feeding on the lower body and legs of cattle, and horn flies can transmit mastitis-causing bacteria on the teat ends.
To reduce the effect flies have on milk production and the spread of pinkeye, consider these management practices.
• Use fly control products that are effective, long-lasting and easy to administer, and always follow label directions.
• For calves, heifers and cows, apply a low-volume pour-on for rapid knockdown of the existing fly population.
• Use an insecticide on the animal's premises, such as a microencapsulated product, that delivers superior, long-lasting control on a wide variety of surfaces in and around livestock facilities.
• Use additional fly control measures, such as ear tags in growing replacement heifers and back-rubbers, oilers and other devices as needed on pasture or in the milking parlor as cows exit the facility.
• Eliminate organic debris such as wet/rotting hay, straw, feed, silage and manure. These are ideal breeding grounds for stable flies.
• Conduct an audit of all of your facilities to evaluate existing fly and environmental control measures on the animals and premises, in addition to identifying areas for improvement.
• Reapply insecticides throughout the fly season.
Managing the environment is the third piece of your pinkeye control program. Management practices, such as pasture mowing, dust control and man-made or natural shades, are important to minimize eye irritants like pollen, seed heads, dust and ultraviolet light. These environmental factors cause irritation and physical damage, allowing infectious pinkeye organisms to attach to the surface of the eye.
Eye irritants also can cause the eye to tear. Tearing, watery eyes can attract face flies, which feed on the watery secretions from the eye and surrounding tissue. Flies can rapidly spread the infectious bacteria throughout the herd, which results in a dramatic and sudden increase of pinkeye.
Ultimately, managing pinkeye requires a planned attack. To maintain your animal's health, productivity and profitability, remember the three-pronged approach of vaccination, fly control and environmental management this season.
Dr. Norman D. Stewart is a dairy technical services manager for Merck Animal Health. He lives in Illinois and can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Pain in the eye may be described as a burning, throbbing, aching, or stabbing sensation in or around the eye. It may also feel like you have a foreign object in your eye.
This article discusses eye pain not caused by injury or surgery.
Ophthalmalgia; Pain - eye
Pain in the eye can be an important symptom of a health problem. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have eye pain that does not go away.
Tired eyes or some eye discomfort (eyestrain) is usually a minor problem and it will often go away with rest. These problems may be caused by the wrong eyeglass or contact lens prescription. Sometimes they are due to a problem with the eye muscles.
Many things can cause pain in or around the eye. If the pain is severe, does not go away, or causes vision loss, seek medical attention immediately.
Some things that can cause eye pain are:
Resting your eyes can often relieve discomfort due to eye strain.
If you wear contacts, try using glasses for a few days to see if the pain goes away.
Contact your health care provider if:
Your health care provider will check your vision, eye movements, and the back of your eye. If there is a major concern, you should see an ophthalmologist. This is a doctor who specializes in eye problems.
To help find the source of the problem, your health care provider may ask:
The following eye tests may be done:
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Goodglick TA, Kay MD, Glaser JS, Tse DT, Chang WJ. Orbital Disease and Neuro-Ophthalmology. In: Tasman W, Jaeger EA, eds. Duane's Ophthalmology. 2013 ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2013: vol 2, chap 14.
Wright JL, Wightman JM. Red and painful eye. In: Marx JA, ed. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2009:chap 32.
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Just like SMS, eBuddy XMS is based on your mobile phonebook – it automatically detects which contacts already installed eBuddy XMS. You can add friends in a snap:
1. By adding a phone number to your phonebook,
2. Scanning your Facebook friends
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Pulling Noble engines is not s skill I was lusting after, but I definitely have the muscle memory now. My chain even had the cross bolt in it from last time.
Pulling Noble engines is not s skill I was lusting after, but I definitely have the muscle memory now. My chain even had the cross bolt in it from last time.
How's that Quickjack? that looks cool. I've briefly looked into other options before, often more expensive and/or bulky than i want...
this looks more affordable
I was about to ask about the QuickJack as well. I just got mine and I was not able to balance the car (with engine in) in the position you have it. I had to move the rails inside and rearwards to lift the car at the chassis joints...
I bought the Quickjack after deciding that there's no way a 2-post or 4-post would work out in my garage. I really like it. I have no problem working on a car while laying on my back. Been doing it that way for almost 50 years! I get a sore neck from constantly looking up when I visit a guy with a lift. I store the lifters under the car and the pump fits under my parts washer.
I position the rubber pucks directly under the front "lift here" locations, and about 5 inches behind the rear "lift here" locations. I don't understand why you had a problem balancing the car. 5" behind the rear lift location is well aft of the center of gravity.
I have Quick jacks also and they work very well
Cool. Are these the 3500 or 5000 model? i want to get the 5000 so it can be used for the other cars that are... well.. heavier, but hopefully want to make sure it will still work for the noble. Measurements seem to check out, but better to hear first hand!
I have the 5000 for the same reason. My S5 is one heavy pig!


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This is the text of a presentation made to The Education and Culture Committee of the EU Parliament in Brussels on the 5th November 2008.
Salim Al-Hassani* and Ian Fenn**
1. Introduction
Figure 1: Poster of the Arab week in the European Parliament in Brussels in which the lecture was presented (Source).
The following article was in origin a presentation made to The Education and Culture Committee of the EU Parliament in Brussels on November 5, 2008, in the frame of the "Arab week" (3-6 November 2008) organised in the European Parliament in Brussels as an activity of the European Year for Intercultural Dialogue (EYID). The presentation is in two parts. The first is an introduction to the 1000 years of amnesia, the so called "Dark Ages", and its impact on education and culture. The second is a review of the progress made in the ground breaking education project, entitled Cultural Understanding in Science (CUSP) jointly carried by the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC), Qualification and Curriculum Agency (QCA) and the Association of Science Education (ASE). Finally a list of concluding remarks and strategic recommendations are given.
2. The Impact of the 1000 years Amnesia on Education and Culture
By using 3D animations of some past key science and technology inventions, we demonstrate how during the so called "Dark Ages" and the "Medieval" period, both in some parts of Europe and other parts of the world, a knowledge revolution took place which was the result of a self propelling and organically growing culture that combined scientific, economic and religious incentives. Some vibrant knowledge-based societies emerged which lasted for hundreds of years despite political and religious turbulence.
These incentives became the engine driving individuals, male and female, from different races and faiths, to invent, innovate and achieve scientific and economic progress.
Figure 2a-b: Poster of the Arab week displayed at the entrance hall of, and inside, the European Parliament in Brussels (Source).
Examples of such achievements, which still influence our modern homes, schools, hospitals, towns, markets and other aspects of our lives, were researched in the UK and some findings are given in two web portals www.1001inventions.com and www.Muslimheritage.com, in a book 1001 Inventions and in a touring exhibition of the same name.
Our postulate is the following: There is a period of a 1000 years missing from the Western educational systems. Almost in every subject taught in schools, there exists a jump from the Greeks to the Renaissance (see Figures 3-4).
Timeline of progress in civilisation showing the contribution of classical Muslim civilisation together with other world civilisations.
This amnesia affects the minds of present and future generations and distorts their attitudes and perceptions of the role of other cultures, particularly the Muslim, in building the present civilisation.
- The rise of knowledge society, though instigated by a particular understanding of Islam, incorporated women working alongside men and also non-Muslims, all seem to aim for the improvement of the quality of life.
- Hunger for knowledge and its spread gave birth to universities from mosques (the first of which in history was built by Fatima Al-Fihri), to the mass production of paper, inks and to the invention of the fountain pen.
- Urge for cleanliness lead to invention of soap, automatic watering devices and water distribution systems.
- Feeding the fast growing population triggered a global agricultural revolution from China to Spain and the emergence of automatic irrigation machines.
- Requirement to transfer information and money world wide lead to banking, letter of credit, cheque and using birds and coded communications.
- The need for cures led to establishing modern hospitals, new medicines and surgical techniques. (Had Abu 'l-Qassim al-Zahrawi enforced Intellectual Property Rights and royalties on the Catgut, which surgeons have been using for a 1000 years to stitch internal incisions, he and his descendents would have been so rich to own the whole earth by now).
- The need to calculate inheritance and wealth transfer led to algebra.
- Requirement to know time, directions, navigation and to fix religious festivals and planting seasons led to innovations of astronomical devices, compasses and automatic clocks.
- Defence led to iron and steel industry and to the first flying machines and rocketry.
- Enjoyment of high quality of life led to innovations in aesthetics, art, cuisines and vast varieties of dress and domestic ware.
- Funding a vibrant knowledge society invented a variety of charity structures and management systems which was the facilitator of rapidly growing organic movement of knowledge culture.
The Foundation for Science, Technology and civilisation was established in 1999 to research and produce peer reviewed and academically authenticated educational resources to correct this amnesia. Numerous projects were initiated in collaboration with government and public bodies. The most significant of which is the web-portal www.Muslimheritage.com (now attracting hundreds of thousands daily page views and the 1001 Inventions project (including touring exhibition, book, teacher's pack and City 1250 as part of a Curriculum Enrichment programme). Below is the background and justifications relating to this project:
Figure 4: An original manuscript of al-Jazari's treatise of mechanics and engineering displayed among other Arabic manuscripts in the Arab week in Brussels (Source).
- The new socio-political climate makes this project even more important as it breaks cultural barriers through appreciation of Muslim contributions towards the development of modern science and technology.
- It also provides an opportunity to promote the concept of scientific and technological innovation as a positive and constructive channel of personal expression of beliefs, as an alternative to religious isolationism and extremism.
- The latter is conveyed through featuring past Muslim inventors and pioneers of science and technology as alternative positive role models for young male and female "religious" Muslims. Such scholars spent their lifetime developing their mostly non-Muslim societies through research and innovation as an expression of their religiosity.
- Early Muslim scholars happily cooperated with their Jewish, Christian, Sabian and other colleagues to improve the quality of life in society. Some of the Muslim scholars even excelled under Christian rule, like al-Idrisi, who became the chief consultant to the Norman King Roger II in Sicily.
- During the early centuries of Muslim civilisation, women worked along side men and had played active role in building a knowledge based society.
- The 1000 years amnesia of contributions of other cultures to our present civilisation, creates a false sense of Euro-centric pride.
- There is a need to enrich schools curricula to make it more balanced and more accurate by adding the cultural origins of sciences taught.
2. The UK 1001 inventions project: Curriculum Enrichment
Figure 7: Front cover of 1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World. Chief Editor Salim al-Hassani; co-editors: Elisabeth Woodcock and Rabah Saoud. Forward by Sir Roland Jackson. Manchester: FSTC, 2006 (Source).
There is now a clear opportunity and educational imperative to ensure that we address the thousand years of missing history. This is not a Muslim agenda, as what we are trying to address is the common thread of humanity which all communities share. Our curriculum in the UK has for far too long been at best Eurocentric. We are now in a globally interdependent world and we need to educate our young people into this new reality. Our aim must be to show children that the scientific, technological advances of the West have a history, a history that is rooted in the East. Once this history is understood, students will begin to appreciate that there is no place for cultural triumphalism but that the inventions of modern science until and including some of Newton's achievement, for example, are dependent on the discoveries of the Muslim period, who in turn depended on the Hindus, Persians, Chinese , Greeks and so on. Newton, himself, said 'If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.' Although he referred to his immediate predecessors in physics and astronomy, his metaphorical sentence comprehends actually all his predecessors, including Ibn al-Haytham (known to the Latins as Alhazen), who was the only scientist before Newton to pretend to have enforced a revolution in optics, as historians of science don't hesitate to claim today.
The benefits of setting Western achievements in their correct context are several. Students who are of Muslim heritage will gain self esteem and provided the history is properly contextualised, will begin to see themselves as an important part of the history of the West rather than to one side of it. For students who are of non Muslim heritage, they will gain an appreciation of how we all depend on each other. Let us not forget that the period when the greatest advances were made, was a period when people worked together irrespective of their religion, culture or nationality. They were drawn together in a spirit of inquiry and worked happily together whether they were Christians, Muslims, Sabians or Jews.
3. Cultural understanding in Science Project (CUSP)
Figure 8: One of the posters created in the frame of the project Cultural Understanding in Science (CUSP) jointly carried by the FSTC, the QCA and the ASE (Source).
FSTC has been engaged in a ground breaking project with the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and the Association of Science Educators. The project, named Cultural Understanding in Science Project (CUSP), had two significant drivers.
The first was clearly outlined in the book 1001 inventions whose objectives were to raise awareness of the thousand years (circa 600-1600) of Muslim heritage; generate understanding and appreciation of Muslim contributions towards the development of contemporary science and technology worldwide; inspire young people from both Muslim and non Muslim backgrounds to find career role models in science and engineering; promote the concept of scientific and technological innovations as a positive and constructive channel of personal expression of beliefs, as an alternative to religious isolationism and extremism and to act as bridge themes in the history of science, industry and arts with contemporary developments.
The second key driver was the QCA's revision to the science curriculum in 2007 which highlighted issues of cultural understanding as one key concept.
The starting point was a shared analysis of cultural and historical aspects of the science curriculum. Often, teaching about the historical development of science and technology, and its impact on culture, can tend to assume a predominant role for Western European scientists and can be relatively silent on the significance of scientific contributions from the Muslim and Arab worlds. As well as being historically inaccurate, this tendency can indirectly have a negative impact on community cohesion. The project addressed this issue by setting out to provide, and test, some examples of scientific learning based on inventions from the Muslim and Arab worlds. Key documentation and training were provided by FSTC and ASE who had already produced teaching materials based on the book and exhibition 1001 Inventions. The project was managed by the School Development Support Agency. Ten secondary schools and two local authorities were proactive project participants over a seven month period in 2007/8. The project aimed to enrich the new 11-14 science curriculum with specific examples of Muslim-heritage scientific work. This aim was set in the context of a wider aspiration, shared by all partners, to provide a science curriculum that would inspire, challenge, include and support all learners through the production of innovative exemplar materials relevant to science and to community cohesion.
Figure 9: The time wheel illustrating the seven zones of 1001 Inventions Initiative: home, school, market, hospital, town, world and universe (Source).
The activities included puzzling plants, perfume, pharmaceuticals, the bird man and City 1250 and usually addressed the key concepts, from the new National Curriculum, 1.2a: applications and 1.3 implications of science and cultural understanding. The key processes usually engaged in were 2.2a: critical understanding of evidence and 2.3a: communication. In all the activities, part of the intended learning was an appreciation of when, how and where certain discoveries were made, followed by a discussion about pupils' own assumptions and expectations.
Project participants attended two conferences where they were introduced to the concepts and materials. After the first, some returned to their institutions and provided training to their departments so that staff involved was cognisant. For staff a key to their learning was to understand and place the materials into some sort of context for themselves and for the pupils.
Pupils engaged with the learning through teacher-led introductions which set out the context (for example, world science) and introduced relevant key concepts (for example, cultural understanding). Often, the activities would begin by posing a specific question to pupils, such as "Who made the first Soap?", and the possible answers would lead into a discussion about assumptions. Posters, card sequencing activities and worksheets from the 1001 Inventions resource were then used in order to develop pupils' knowledge, understanding and skills. Paired activities and practicals formed a part of every activity. All the activities concluded with critical discussion about what had been learnt. The discussion consolidated the sense of excitement around challenging some specific assumptions about the time, place and cultural context of the scientific discovery. All the activities succeeded in making science enjoyable, relevant and culturally challenging; they increased pupils' awareness of the Muslim heritage contribution to science.
Figure 10: The seven zones posters from the Teachers' pack of 1001 Inventions Initiative. Source: The Teachers' Pack brochure, p. 79.
A number of schools reported that staff -both teachers and assistants- had found the background to the project and the activities used very interesting in terms of their own learning. As one project school reported: 'Staff found the amended activities very inspiring, challenging and motivating. The activities were not like traditional science lessons, so pupils enjoyed the lessons more.'
Other schools concluded, 'The support staff felt the activities were good and thought provoking;' and 'The activities were useful and did lend a sense of surprise to the proceedings.'
Like the staff, most pupils had a very limited or non-existent knowledge of the Muslim contribution to science. The Muslim pupils themselves gained enormously from their participation. As one teacher in a Muslim school wrote, 'All pupils developed a sense of pride in the culture they came from (Islamic) and the opportunity for personalised learning maximised each child's progress'. Another was even more glowing in the pupil praise in their impact on pupils section:
'Pupils thoroughly enjoyed the activity as they used the data logging and light sensors in the investigation. They were also surprised by the fact that idea of capsules existed about 1000 years ago. They found the contribution of Muslim scientists very interesting and they knew very little about Muslim scientists and their scientific developments. Pupils were pleasantly surprised that these modern day inventions actually existed around 1000 years ago and that different scientists of different nationalities were involved in developing scientific ideas.'
4. Outcomes from CUSP
The outcomes of the project have pointed the way forward for the work of FSTC and its partners and we are now to develop further resources in other subject areas. We have learnt that:
- The '1001 inventions' book and teachers' pack provide ideal materials to support schools in their introduction of the new Key Stage Science programmes of study. They significantly enhance understanding and awareness of the key concept of cultural understanding and resonate well with young British Muslim pupils. Their optimum usage is probably as part of a wider understanding within a cross curricular framework. Perhaps most importantly these resources have great potential to help promote community cohesion if contextually set preferably with examples drawn form other cultures and faiths.
- It is clear that the thousand years of missing history refers to the period that is commonly referred to as the Muslim Civilisation. In many ways we are stuck with this nomenclature but there are benefits to this approach as the population that needs to be brought into the community cohesion agenda as much as any other is Muslim.
- We need to build on the start that we have made but further contextualise this heritage with what went before and what is happening now.
5. Concluding Remarks and Recommendations
Figure 11: Activity sheet from The Teachers' Pack brochure, p. 11.
1. We all at times lose perspective of what is important to us as a society; how we are all interdependent and how diverse peoples and cultures around the world all share with us the same golden thread of civilisation.
2. One such major perspective missing from our European societies today is a clear understanding of the thread of shared history, civilisation and common values, between world faiths and cultures.
3. Specifically, for various historical reasons, the record of the Muslim-led contributions to science, technology and civilisation have been expunged from the civilisation narrative and rarely appears accurately in reference or textbooks.
4. A practical reason why this lack of perspective and awareness has existed is the absence of accessible user-friendly content and resources on the Muslim contribution, both in our educational institutions and in the mainstream society.
5. Based on the information available, people in the UK and overseas, until recently, could legitimately ask: What Muslim contributions?
Very few people, for example, are aware that:
- The first university was established by Fatima Al-Fihri, a Muslim Female, in Fez Morocco, year 841.
- The first Health and Safety Executive Officer was Al-Shiffa, a Muslim lady who reported directly to the Caliph Omar.
- The spectacles we wear to improve our sight is a Muslim invention, the fountain pen, the soap, the camera, algebra, the surgical catgut, the six cylinder reciprocating pump, the child benefit, are but a few Muslim inventions that affect our daily life.
6. This situation is happily now changing and a much of the credit for a renewed popularisation of Muslim Heritage in the mainstream of society, goes to the British organisation: The Foundation of Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC).
7. Based in Manchester, FSTC has built an organisation that has researched, edited and presented a huge amount of relevant historical content, in a popular format, making it available through the internet and publications globally.
8. The 1001 Inventions Exhibition that was launched in the House of Commons week 13-17 October 2008, exhibiting exclusively for Parliamentarians, has already proved itself a popular attraction in cities across the UK. Additional versions of the exhibits will soon be touring exhibitions in Europe, the US and Middle East.
9. The EU Governments should welcome this excellent British unique educational project that fills an important gap in our knowledge and understanding of Muslim civilisation and which also demonstrates the inter-connectivity of all our different faiths and cultures.
10. In combination with other FSTC projects like the 1001 Inventions book, teachers' resource and the pilot schools project, jointly with the QCA, in adapting Cultural Dimensions into the England's National Curriculum, we can see positive ways for the EU to develop a cohesive and comfortable society where we acknowledge the strengths of all the traditions that make up the modern EU.
11. The EU and UK now has a large Muslim population and it is important that we have more projects like 1001 Inventions, to open the doors to increased connectivity and to widen the perspectives of all communities in our society.
12. Research from many sources has led to the conclusion that a major reason for alienation of many young Muslim Europeans is lack of clear identity and a major reason for this is a lack of positive Muslim role models. In this context, the 1001 Inventions Exhibition, together with FSTC researched content on Muslim Heritage, offers access to some positive role models, pioneers, who over many centuries contributed positively to human progress.
13. It is important for us to note and recognise that the majority of people behind the progress in science, technology and civilisation were faith-inspired Muslims who chose to express their religiousness through their important work to improve the quality of life in the societies they lived in.
14. We need to acknowledge positive aspects of the heritage of Muslim Europeans such as these and encourage more young people to become contributors to society in many more constructive ways.
15. The 1001 Invention Exhibition is a chance for EU Parliamentarians to familiarise themselves with the inter-connectivity of world heritages that highlights examples of Muslims working in co-operation with other faiths, in harmony, to progress the human condition.
* President, Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation, UK.
** Ian Fenn, Head, Burnage Media Art College, Manchester, UK; Director of FSTC's Curriculum Enrichment Program.


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Statement by President Barroso at the press point with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon following the opening ceremony of the EU Sustainable Energy For all Summit
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Brussels, 16th April 2012
Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a great pleasure to welcome the Secretary General Mr Ban Ki-moon to the European Commission today. We just opened the "EU Sustainable Energy for All Summit," and I am sure that throughout the day all participants will engage in a productive and substantial debate.
The "Sustainable Energy for all Summit" focused on an initiative of the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, and I really congratulate him for this initiative and his leadership. This "Sustainable Energy for All" focused on energy access, which is key for global development: today, while one part of the planet lives in the digital era and in the times of digital communication, the other part has still no access to basic electricity, power or energy.
Being in the dark every day is the tragic reality of 1.3 bn people in the world today. That is why I really applaud Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his most relevant "Sustainable Energy for All" initiative, in which the European Commission is strongly involved also through the very active participation of Commissioner Piebalgs.
We fully support the ambitious goals set forth by the Secretary General.
They dovetail with the EU's own "20-20-20" commitments. In fact, the EU is leading what we call the third industrial revolution and we are committed to purse on this path.
But we are also committed to promote access to energy, renewables and energy efficiency in developing countries. Today, I announced a new Commission initiative called "Energising Development." Its ambitious goal is clear: we want to help provide access to sustainable energy services to 500 million people by 2030. This is a huge objective, but if we work together it can be done.
With 1bn Euros invested in global energy projects over the last five years, the EU is already the first global donor in this area.
But we should not rest on our laurels. Therefore, in the framework of "Energising Development" initiative, we will create an EU Technical Assistance Facility, initially in excess of €50 million over the next two years. This will help those developing countries that "opt in" to the UN Sustainable Energy for All initiative and commit to the necessary reforms to catalyse and leverage investment. Because it is clear that aid alone is not enough, we need the private sector on board and a strong commitment of our partner countries.
Secondly, in the next months, the EU and Member States will also look to providing a significant level of support – in the order of a further several hundred million Euros - to boost concrete new investments and projects in sustainable energy for developing countries. We will flesh out the details of this initiative in the weeks and months to come, and it will also be part of our European contribution to the Rio+20 Summit in June.
Investing in access to clean energy will help developing countries to create jobs, markets, and ensure sustainable growth and this is our most important goal there, sustainable growth. I am confident that, by acting shoulder to shoulder with the UN the EU can create and help create an "energy revolution" that helps and will give a great contribution to the eradication of poverty in Africa and also in other developing worlds.
The commitment that we are making today is in line with our strong engagement with the UN. In fact, we have a very good cooperation with the UN and I want to thank once again Secretary General Mr Ban Ki-moon for this. In fact, the European Union together with its Member States is today the biggest financial contributor to UN and to UN Agencies. I believe that our cooperation is central to a stable, peaceful and multilateral international order.
Indeed, the United Nations and the European Union are two central pillars of effective multilateralism and global governance and we are working hand in hand to address the most pressing challenges of the world and of the global community.
In a short while, I will continue my discussions with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on topics of common interest and concern.
If sustainable development, environment and climate action are truly global issues, so are peace, stability and democracy. While there are positive signs and developments coming from some of the "Arab Spring" countries, or Myanmar, there are equally issues that greatly concern us. In this respect, we will have the opportunity to exchange views on the situation in Syria and Iran.
On Syria let me express the European support to the work of the United Nations and its special Envoy, Kofi Annan. We call on the Syrian government to fully respect and apply the six point plan it has committed to and accept as a matter of urgency the deployment of humanitarian assistance in the country. This is our number one priority.
On Iran, I sincerely expect that the dialogue which has just resumed will deliver progress. This is ever more important if we want to preserve peace and stability in the region and in the world.
Let me also use this occasion to reiterate our strong condemnation of the most recent military coup in Guinea-Bissau as done already by the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Security Council of the United Nations, the CPLP (Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries) and the ECOWAS (Community of West African States).
The EU calls on all those involved, in particular the leadership of the armed forces to immediately restore the constitutional order and the rule of law. We also urge the immediate release of Guinea's political leaders. The international community will hold the captors responsible if the detainees' safety is put at risk.
Let me say some words in Portuguese, because I want them to be heard in Bissau.
O povo guineense já sofreu demasiado e não merece que alguns continuem a comprometer a sua estabilidade, o seu desenvolvimento e a consolidação da sua democracia. A União Europeia está ao lado dos líderes democraticamente eleitos e não tolerará golpes contrários à Constituição guineense e ao Estado de direito. A estabilidade e a democracia são essenciais para a prosperidade e para o bem-estar do povo da Guiné-Bissau.
In all these issues we are working hand in hand with the United Nations. Our cooperation is indispensable to bring peace and stability where it is most needed.
Finally, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and I will witness, after our working lunch, the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women between the EU and UN Women, establishing a strategic partnership between both organizations.
Without a doubt, The MoU is a clear example of the breath and scope of our cooperation and is a further step in promoting fairer societies. And that is crucially important for developed and developing countries alike!
I am, therefore, looking forward to the continuation our talks this afternoon and I would like, once more, to welcome the Secretary General to the European Commission and to congratulate him very sincerely on his "Sustainable Energy for All" initiative, as well as on the great work that he and the United Nations and its agencies are doing to deliver a better world for us all.
I thank you for your attention.
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We reached the island well after sunset, swathed in a haze of salt air and fading light. The place was Two Harbors, a small outpost on the Catalina isthmus. We spent three days there, camping in canvas-walled cabins overlooking the cove. That first night we hiked along the bluffs under a black sky, looking down at the port lights reflecting off the water. Summer nights here are scented; coastal sage and native grasses, wild licorice, warmth and dust.
For this trip I did a little last-minute sewing. The Two Harbors Tote, a sturdy, drawstring, beach bag with rope handles for a bit of nautical flair. I found some coordinating fabric by chance, which resulted in the Seafarer Clutch — just the thing for ferry tickets and collected shells. I illustrated step-by-step instructions for both projects so you can see how I made them and maybe try them yourself. Click here or on the banner above to download.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Summer Sewing
We reached the island well after sunset, swathed in a haze of salt air and fading light. The place was Two Harbors, a small outpost on the Catalina isthmus. We spent three days there, camping in canvas-walled cabins overlooking the cove. That first night we hiked along the bluffs under a black sky, looking down at the port lights reflecting off the water. Summer nights here are scented; coastal sage and native grasses, wild licorice, warmth and dust.
38 comments:
- Sewandthecity said...
I love the photos, and the beautiful bag! It made me long for the beach!
- August 19, 2011 at 2:59 AM
- country girl said...
Gorgeous and so practical!
Enjoy the island!
- August 19, 2011 at 4:19 AM
- Sealicious said...
This is wonderful!!! I lived at the marine lab for a semester. That side of the island is a magical blend of wildness and peace :)
Thank you for "taking" me back there for a moment!
- August 19, 2011 at 6:37 AM
- Anonymous said...
These are lovely! Thanks for the pdf :) /Limar
- August 19, 2011 at 9:46 AM
- Katie said...
Gorgeous pictures!!
- August 19, 2011 at 11:25 AM
- Joy said...
Such beautiful photos! The bag looks absolutely awesome!
- August 19, 2011 at 12:09 PM
- Connie @ Daydream in Color said...
This is so adorable! You make me want to grab some fabric & hit the beach with these cutie projects!
- August 19, 2011 at 2:40 PM
- Jan's camera said...
Your photos are beautiful. Love the beach bag. A wonderful vintage style
- August 19, 2011 at 3:32 PM
- Stacy's Designs 88 said...
Soooo Cute! Love the free pattern. Thank you. :)
- August 19, 2011 at 5:46 PM
- PuppyLovePrincess said...
ohmygosh, that clutch is just beautiful!
- August 19, 2011 at 7:28 PM
- Ariel said...
such lovely pictures!
- August 20, 2011 at 9:47 PM
- JAF Gifts said...
That's a lovely pattern for the clutch, thank you very much for sharing it to us! :) I'm not very skilled at sewing, but this is worth a try!
- August 22, 2011 at 7:38 AM
- PHILO said...
oh I ♥ this pics!!! thanks for this great ides!
- August 23, 2011 at 8:45 AM
- elissa :: ebb & flow said...
beautiful. i'm forwarding this link to my sister. we're always looking for new sewing projects to hone our skills. thanks for sharing!
- August 24, 2011 at 5:47 PM
- VICKI IN AZ said...
i enjoy your blog so much. it is just beautiful, you craft words in such a lovely way as well as all of the beautiful things to delight my eyes. i just had to tell you thank you. i am looking forward to creating some of you tutorials. be well blog friend. xoxo
- August 25, 2011 at 9:13 PM
- sara tee said...
that tote is so precious, it's the perfect beach bag! i love the simple stripes as well
- August 27, 2011 at 6:29 PM
- Cinna said...
Found your blog today and it´s really creative and inspiring, for sure I will be back! Have a nice day! Cinna in stockholm
- August 28, 2011 at 7:22 AM
- M said...
your pictures are beautiful. photoshopped i presume? :P jk!
- August 30, 2011 at 1:22 PM
- Anonymous said...
Love the journal, really enjoy your blog !
Karin, Amsterdam
- August 31, 2011 at 3:52 AM
- Elis said...
They both look fantastic! I don't think I am talented enough to create something that looks so well made.
- September 6, 2011 at 9:27 AM
- SuzyMcQ said...
I have looked and looked, because I didn't want to bother you, for the fabric you used on the tote, but I can't even find anything close. Would you mind sharing, possibly?
I thoroughly enjoy your blog, your aesthetic and photography. It has a quality few blogs are able to match.
Please, as time permits, keep it up.
- September 8, 2011 at 6:46 PM
- Livy said...
Hi Suzy,
Thank you for your kind, kind comment! The fabric I used for the tote is called ticking; it's made of cotton and of a sturdy weight. You can usually spot it at chain fabric stores — I went to JoAnn Fabrics for mine, but depending on the store they may be in different areas. The store I usually go to keeps them on the end of an aisle near the fabric area with the muslin, while some other stores I've been to keep them near the decorator fabrics or near the canvas duck cloth. Just ask for "cotton ticking" and hopefully someone can point you in the right direction.
And of course I will continue blogging! Working full time has really diminished my rate of posts, but I love it too much to give it up.
Thanks again for the encouragement and good luck hunting down the fabric!
- September 8, 2011 at 7:57 PM
- Sketch of Senses said...
Just found your blog today! Love it! The photos are amazing!
- September 12, 2011 at 2:17 AM
- Lily@TileSupply said...
I am so in love with that bag!!!
- September 17, 2011 at 12:25 PM
- White Tapestry said...
This is great...Looks like I have a new project now!
- September 20, 2011 at 12:01 PM
- Anonymous said...
I'm new to your blog,
I just wanted to say that I love your creativity and I'm so inspiring to use your patterns and designs!
Thanks so much!
- September 20, 2011 at 5:18 PM
- emily said...
love it!
- September 24, 2011 at 4:04 AM
- Clementine said...
I just found your blog - so beautiful! I love your photos; a real inspiration! x
- September 26, 2011 at 11:37 AM
- Annalisa said...
- October 6, 2011 at 4:56 PM
- Anthony Spence said...
Its a beautiful blog..Thanks for sharing it here..
- October 6, 2011 at 11:38 PM
- Kate Austin said...
Makes me sad that the summer is over ... gorgeous bag and lovely photo!
- October 13, 2011 at 3:51 AM
- teastain said...
oh, so beautiful! Just came across your blog...definitely adding you to my favorites list. :)
- October 14, 2011 at 5:20 PM
- christine said...
Oh my I love these pictures. x
- October 20, 2011 at 9:56 AM
- Gina@ A bit of whimsy! said...
The clutch came out great. Thanks for the instructions. Love your blog!
- October 31, 2011 at 10:08 AM
- Rennae said...
I am dying over that boat fabric, It would be perfect for my sons room. Are you please able to share any details on it? Thanks in advance.
- November 13, 2011 at 5:02 PM
- Mia Rivel said...
Beautiful Blog Miss, have an amazing day =)
-Mia xoxo
- November 20, 2011 at 4:59 PM
- Cussot said...
Can I point out a couple of errors in your instructions for the tote and clutch?
In Step One of the tote instructions, it says to baste two bottom circles together "right sides together." I believe you mean "wrong sides together."
Then, in Step Two for the clutch, it says to place the rectangles "wrong sides together" before sewing them, whereas I believe you mean "right sides together" in that case.
- December 29, 2011 at 3:54 PM
- SuzyMcQ said...
HI Livy,
I stumbled upon this post today and noticed your response to my post, which I had never seen. I was interested in where you obtained the fabric for the clutch. I continue to look for it as I have a nautical thing going on in my home and would love to use it for a project I have in mind.
I worked for Pottery Barn so do I know ticking! It's the other fabric that haunts me!
- February 4, 2012 at 6:45 AM


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The upcoming Johnny Depp sci-fi movie "Transcendence" will debut in China on April 18, the same day it's released in the U.S., Chinese company DMG Entertainment said on Monday.
China is also getting an exclusive 3-D version of "Transcendence," the directing debut of Christopher Nolan's longtime cinematographer Wally Pfister.
Getting the movie to Chinese audiences at the same time as American moviegoers is a growing trend and a key tactic for DMG, which is handling distribution for "Transcendence" in China, the world's second biggest film market behind the U.S.
Disney's "Iron Man 3," which DMG also helped distribute, opened in China before its U.S. release and generated about $125 million in the country. Worldwide, it was the biggest movie of 2013, pulling in a total of $1.2 billion.
DMG helped add Chinese elements to both "Iron Man 3" and 2012's "Looper," though it has not done the same with "Transcendence."
In July DMG teamed with Alcon Entertainment to help finance and produce "Transcendence," which follows a scientist trying to create a machine with collective intelligence and human emotions. The film is getting its U.S. release via Warner Bros.
Depp will visit Beijing on March 31 to drum up publicity for the film before the debut. "Transcendence" also stars Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy and Rebecca Hall.
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As the nation prepares to vote tomorrow, Nov. 7, voters should consider the state of affairs in Washington, D.C., and to do their part to ensure a change in direction.
Such a change would press for an end to a federal tax policy that favors the wealthiest individuals over the middle class, more favorable environmental policies that require industry to limit further harm to the environment, federal regulations that prevent media consolidation in the hands of a few mega-corporations, deficit reduction measures so our children and grandchildren aren't paying for today's excess spending, a health care system that delivers appropriate care to American citizens, and an educational funding system that is flexible enough to adapt to the changing needs of today's global economy. For the past six years under President George W. Bush and the Republican-dominated Congress the nation has witnessed a steady deterioration on each of those fronts.
In the race between Democrat Peter Welch and Republican Martha Rainville for Vermont's lone seat in Congress, one issue is paramount: Do Vermonters want to enable President George Bush to maintain control of both the House and Senate, or will they cast a vote to place an appropriate check on this president's radical and disastrous agenda? If voters want Bush to "stay the course� on domestic issues and foreign affairs, then a vote for Rainville will help assure that path. If voters want a change in the nation's direction and a check on the president, then a vote for Peter Welch is critical.
Control of the U.S. House is so central to this election that it outweighs all other considerations.
This newspaper's concerns with the Bush administration's mismanagement of our national resources and damage done to our international prestige over the past five years are well known to our readers (and those long-standing concerns, we might add, have largely been validated), so we won't belabor the mounting perils that would face the nation if Bush is allowed to reign two more years with a rubber-stamp Congress.
That's the question to ask in governor's race
In the race for governor, Republican James Douglas has the advantage of incumbency and a record of compromise and modest achievement, while Democrat Scudder Parker offers a candidacy of vision and bold leadership. In choosing the state's next leader, Vermonters must ask if maintaining the status quo is sufficient or if the times demand a bolder course of action?
There is no pat answer. The course the state has maintained for the past four years under Gov. Douglas has been steady, if not visionary.
But problems remain unresolved. Dairy farms continue to fail at an alarming rate; the state's energy supply hangs in a precarious balance and yet the state has no comprehensive energy policy; the state's teacher/pupil ratio is low and drives expenses resulting in high property taxes; while the Catamount Health Care plan is a step forward, many say it does too little to cut costs leaving a heavy burden on businesses; the state's Medicaid bill will put an increasing burden on the budget in future years; and while the state's population has been increasing modestly, the number of school-age children has been on the decline, thus creating a future shortage in the labor pool.
In the race for lieutenant governor, Vermonters have the opportunity to choose a candidate who would bring an extraordinary amount of energy, intelligence and enthusiasm to the state's number two job. That candidate is Democrat Matt Dunne.
Dunne's background as a public servant is stellar. First elected to the Vermont Legislature as a representative of Hartland and West Windsor at the age of 22, Dunne spent the next four terms in the House and was elected Assistant Majority Leader in 1998, making him the youngest whip in the nation at the time. Along with other leadership roles in the House, he served as vice-chair of the Transportation Committee. During his time in the House, Dunne was a marketing executive in various capacities, including as the marketing director for Logic Associates, a top 500 software company based in Wilder that served the commercial printing industry worldwide.
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ADDISON COUNTY — The Vermont Principals' Association on Thursday decided to hold Saturday's Division I football playoff game between Middlebury Union High School and Hartford at the Mount Abraham Union High School field in Bristol because the MUHS field was too badly torn up by play during the wet weather.
The Tigers, who are 9-0 overall, earned D-I's No. 1 seed with a 6-0 league record. They will host No. 4 Hartford (5-4, 3-3) at 1 p.m. The game will be a rematch of this past Friday's match between the two squads, won by the host Tigers, 27-20, on a late touchdown.
No. 2 Rutland (5-4, 5-1 league) will host No. 3 Brattleboro (7-2, 4-2) at 7 p.m. on Friday in the other D-I semifinal.
Editor's note: During the current political season some lawmakers have proposed repealing the current law for funding schools and creating some new funding system with the goal, proponents say, of providing property tax relief. We took a look at the impact of Act 68 in one Addison County school district to provide some data that would be useful in debate over that proposal.
VERGENNES — In 2002, the last year before the passage of Act 68, the Vermont school financing law that raised the state sales tax to provide property tax relief, Addison Northwest Supervisory Union residents sent almost $10.4 million to Montpelier in school tax payments.
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Ana Solis desperately wants you to know who she is.
But she can't tell you.
As one of the estimated 500 migrant workers now toiling on farms throughout Addison County, Ana Solis (not her real name) must be content to work in the shadows of a milk stall, or risk running afoul of loosely-interpreted federal immigration laws that would require her and her family's deportation to Mexico.
"I like this country and the economic opportunity available here," said Solis, who with her husband has worked on the same Addison County farm for the past three years.
"But there are times when we feel like prisoners," she added, as she bounced her American-born, 16-month-old daughter on her knee. "We have the right to work, and nothing more."
ADDISON COUNTY — Addison County voters will go to the polls this Tuesday, Nov. 7, to decide five local House races, a slew of contests for statewide offices, and various local referenda — including a $10.3 million bond proposal for major renovations to Otter Valley Union High School.
The following is an election overview for each of the legislative districts in Addison County, along with a rundown of other initiatives that many area voters will field on election day:
State Senate, Addison County and Brandon
For the first time in recent memory, both of the Senate seats representing Addison County and Brandon are uncontested. Incumbent Sens. Claire Ayer of Weybridge and Harold Giard of Bridport, both Democrats, appear assured of additional two-year terms, barring an epic write-in campaign by an eleventh-hour candidate.
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Sliver-thin interest margins, reduced consumer demand for loans, the looming slash in interchange income and paltry returns on their own investments have combined to make credit unions search for noninterest income in serious earnest.
Strategies for doing that abound. For instance, the $500 million U.S. Senate Federal Credit Union in Alexandria, Va., began buying member business loans just more than six months ago and has since added more than $10 million at a return of more than 6%, said John Hayes, the 32,000-member credit union's executive vice president and chief operations officer.
Credit unions, of course, have a 12.25% of assets cap to contend with, so to spread the risk and the wealth, U.S. Senate FCU set up a CUSO called CU Strategic Services that now has four other credit unions participating since it began operations last September.
"What's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. We had been trying to figure out a way to increase our own lending with promotions for auto loans, home equity and mortgages but, especially after the economy turned, we knew we had to do something different," Hayes said.
Working with commercial borrowers–primarily small real estate investors whose needs weren't enough to interest bigger banks–and buying and sharing participations and loan risk has generated not only $10 million so far for his own credit union but $4 million for his CUSO clients, Hayes said.
That hasn't come without challenges. Hayes noted, for instance, that core processing systems designed for the bread-and-butter business of credit unions aren't necessarily equipped to handle complicated business cash management needs.
But there are also new opportunities for fees in that management process, he added. "Banks charge businesses for a lot of things, like checks deposited and withdrawals made and analysis services and just a whole plethora of things," Hayes said. "Why shouldn't credit unions charge for those, too? Just charge less than the banks do and you can still make money on it."
Individual consumers are also being targeted as potential payers of fees for high-value services, and technology vendors are getting into the fray by creating the tools to make that happen.
"Our game plan is to introduce new for-fee products that are not yet threatened by the economy, regulators or ubiquitous market availability," said Robert Broadwell, general manager of PM Systems in Chapin, S.C., a provider of online banking and security solutions to about 200 credit unions.
"Expedited payments are a good example of something for credit unions to offer to members who need a speedy way to make a payment to a mortgage company or other creditor," Broadwell said, noting that some credit unions charge up to $15 a pop for that service.
He said person-to-person and institution-to-institution transfers are also potential fee generators.
"The success of any of these new revenue-generating products depends largely on product marketing," Broadwell said. "We're working on launch-ready campaigns that credit unions can deploy in conjunction with these services."
Value-added card and other affiliation products are seeing renewed interest, according to the big providers as well.
Rewarding members for "profitable behaviors is nothing new really," said Todd Werner, group vice president at Affinion Benefits Group LLC, a provider of customer engagement and noninterest income to more than 5,500 credit unions and banks.
"We've been doing that for 35 years," Werner said. "The difference now is the changing landscape, especially on the regulatory side. And credit unions don't want to do what the larger banks are doing today, just going out and requiring customers to do certain transactions and maintain certain balances to avoid fees."
He said his company's FLEX Checking program is intended as an alternative to that, by providing benefits to checking account holders that offset or "earn down" fees, such as credits for signature-based debit transactions, signing up for online bill pay, enrolling in direct deposit and maintaining certain daily balances.
"We're now supplementing those with other services such as identity theft protection, credit reports, retail savings and travel discounts," Werner said. "The model has been around for a long time but what we're hearing from credit unions and banks today is that the pressure is really on to make up the lost revenue now because of the interest rate environment."
Eric Hansing, director of product marketing for CUNA Mutual Group's MemberCONNECT insurance sales and support program, said interest in his company's noninterest revenue channels for credit unions also has been intensifying.
"I think that will continue," he said, citing the value add of deeper member relationships and retention as well as income opportunities. He said programs like his tend to rank fifth or sixth in terms of how much noninterest products generate at the typical credit union but that such income can be grown each year, especially now that debit interchange fees are set to be slashed by Congress.
The interchange change itself already has prompted some banks to consider imposing fees on checking accounts and debit cards or eliminating rewards programs, and one industry analyst is advising credit unions and banks to consider using prepaid debit cards to make up as much as 20% of that lost interchange revenue.
"Based on our analysis of consumers' use of payment cards, Aite Group believes that banks can recoup a significant percentage of anticipated lost debit interchange revenue by marketing prepaid cards (which carry a higher interchange rate than the proposed rules on debit cards will allow) and can do so without levying fees on checking accounts or debit card use," the think firm's Ron Shevlin said in a new report.
Shevlin based his assumption on research that shows prepaid card use growing among Gen Xers and Gen Yers and that the notion that only poorer consumers use the cards is outdated.
He said 30% to 40% of those middle and younger age groups used such cards in the last quarter of 2010. "These aren't underbanked consumers," Shevlin said. Many use the cards to help balance budgets, he said, and the cards have the added advantage of creating a relationship that might not otherwise exist with consumers who "represent a disproportionately high percentage of the demand for new banking products."
Speaking of new banking products, Fiserv Inc. said it now is seeing interest in deposit-based short-term loans that banks and credit unions can provide consumers. The service allows the consumer to borrow up to a predetermined limit–$300 to $500, for example–by simply texting the request or making it online. The money then is paid back automatically through near-term future deposits, particularly paychecks.
Fees generally can be $7.50 to $10 per hundred, "which sounds high but not compared to overdraft charges of $30 to $39," said Brian Boardman, consulting director for Fiserv's Revenue Enhancement Solutions Group.
Boardman said the FDIC conducted a recent call to provide guidance on this type of loan that he thinks the NCUA will follow suit. "It's very controlled. It's not based on credit ratings, but it's also not like a payday lender where the loans just go on and on," he said.
"Only a handful of banks are currently doing these, but we at Fiserv are in conversation with a number of banks and credit unions about it because managing it does take technology that we happen to have," Boardman said.
All these products and services, of course, don't rely on the traditional interest spread between savings and loans for credit unions to make a buck, but if interest rates return to historical norms, so much the better, one industry participant said.


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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – UC Santa Barbara won four events and had several other high finishes at the 2013 Cal Poly ShareSLO.com Invitational on Saturday in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
The Gauchos' first victory of the day came in the men's hammer throw. Junior Albert Hughes used a heave of 176'01.25" to top Cal Poly's Nicholas Bultman by nearly 10 feet in the event. Hughes also finished fourth in the men's discus at 156'09".
Junior Irene Kuiore gave UCSB a second win when she claimed first-place in the women's shot put with a mark of 50'11.75", a little over two feet longer than Fresno State's Meagan McKee. Kuiore also took second-place in the women's discus event with a toss of 148'11", two feet short of Fresno State's Anamanu Folau's winning mark.
Another Gaucho junior, Jordan Scott, ran a 47.88 in the men's 400 meters to defeat Fresno State's Daniel Williford by more than two seconds.
UCSB's final win of the afternoon came in the men's 200 meters where it was a clean sweep with Gauchos finishing 1-2-3. Senior Marquis Caldwell won the event with a time of 21.83. Juniors Evan Walker and Jake Vowells finished second and third in times of 22.09 and 22.18 respectively.
Junior Max Villalba placed second in the men's high jump with a leap of 6'05.75", two inches shy of victory. Sean Johnson was third in the men's 110 meter hurdles at 14.68, while Bryce Rausa and Juan Paredes were 4-5 in the men's 1,500 meters at 3:56.68 and 3:57.21 respectively.
Jimmy Martin and Winton Nguyen had strong showings in the men's 400 meter hurdles, finishing third and fourth. Martin ran a 54.76 while Nguyen clocked a 56.43.
The meet was also run as several dual meets. The UCSB men dropped its meets to Cal Poly (95-51) and Fresno State (76-59). The Gaucho women were beaten by Cal Poly (106.50 to 43.50) and Fresno State (73-45).
Both UCSB teams will return to action on March 22-23 at the UC Irvine Spring Break Classic.