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There are many, many advantages to having a co-author on a book like this one, and one pretty big drawback. I think the advantages are pretty obvious: the whole two-heads-are-better-than-one thing. It has been a great pleasure to work with Matt on this book—and on the many other things we work on together on a day-to-day basis. So, what's the downside? I only have half a page for my acknowledgments, whereas last time I had a full page. Oh well…
If you've read any books that are produced at KW Media, you've probably read the author going on and on about how great the team is at KW, but it really is true! I can't imagine being able to produce high-quality books like this one without our great team (I know I certainly wouldn't want to try). You people are all CRAZY—and I love you for it. Thanks to Kim Gabriel for her unbelievable scheduling/balancing act routine, to Felix Nelson for always tweaking our designs to make them better, to our newest Technical Editors Cindy Snyder and Kim Doty for jumping right into the fire and making sure everything worked, and to Dave Damstra for once again making things fit and look pretty. My continuing gratitude to Scott Kelby, Kalebra Kelby, and Jean Kendra for convincing me to move to Florida, and for making this such a cool place to work. Mr. Moser, what can I say but thank you sir, again (as you were).
Thanks to the artists who very generously provided artwork for us to use in the book. It is much better as a result of their stunning Illustrator work.
Finally, I need to acknowledge my family for their love and support. As I write this, it's my 21st wedding anniversary and my 18-year-old daughter is about to head off to college. It's hard to believe that it's been that long, since every day is like a honeymoon (a honeymoon with two grown kids, I guess). Marlene, you are the love of my life and I look forward to every minute we spend together. Stephanie and Michael, there may be fathers who are prouder of their kids than I am, but I find that hard to believe. You make me smile just thinkin' about ya. (Yes Cassy, you too). All-in-all, I consider myself one darn lucky guy.
First, I'd like to thank my co-author and boss, Dave Cross, for involving me with this book. Not only is he an all-around great guy but he's a constant reminder to me of a 100% "class act" in this business. It's an honor to work with him. I'd also like to thank my co-workers and friends at KW Media Group who, in a short time, have shown me how they continually push the boundaries of quality and excellence in every aspect of this business.
I'd also like to thank the illustrators who have allowed us to use their work in this book and the folks at Adobe, namely Julieanne Kost and Terry White, for quickly getting us up to speed on the latest version of Illustrator. Special thanks go out to the folks at Peachpit Press, as well, for helping me do what I love, which is to train and educate people.
Next, I'd like to thank my family. My mom, dad, brother, and sister have always been a great source of inspiration and support to me. Without you, I'd never have gotten such a great start to such a wonderful life.
Speaking of wonderful lives, my greatest thanks goes to my wife, Diana, and two sons, Ryan and Justin, for making my life the best I could have ever dreamed of. The three of you are the reason I wake up every day, and I can never express my gratitude to you for making me feel like the luckiest husband/dad ever.


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By Melissa Kuipers
Somewhere, Alice thought, on this boat there is a woman writing her first letter to the mother she has never lived a day without. There is a woman nursing her baby, looking at his beautiful face and seeing her own resemblance, trying to remember what her husband looks like. There is a baby who will never have memories of his English grandparents. There is a woman in a life boat with a man, telling him to keep quiet, telling him to do what he will with her, remembering the roughness of her husband's hands on her back, dreading that soon she will have to endure them again.
But most of these war brides, it seemed, had been doing none of these things because they had not been able to hold anything down for the last three days. There was a woman who was five months pregnant who feared she would lose the baby from hours of violently vomiting. There was a woman who felt seasickness is one of the worst things that could ever happen to a person, and she wondered what it meant that her marriage was beginning this way.
There was something about butter, the way it coated her tongue, its softness, which Alice would always associated with Canada. The captain came to each table while they waited to be served their first meal. "Welcome to the Aquitania. I'm Captain Johnson, and I'm honoured to bring you to your new home. Please keep in mind that, due to the constraints of your rationed diet in England, your stomachs are not used to digesting rich food. Enjoy the taste of your food and don't eat too much. Thank you, and enjoy your meal." He gave a slight bow and turned to the next table.
The young silly girls squealed when the Red Cross workers began to serve the food. Mary began to cry when they brought out an entire dish of butter. Alice spread over her bread more butter than her family had been allowed over the course of a month.
There were oranges from Florida for dessert. She stole one from the table and put it in her purse. In fact, most her meal she wrapped in napkins and put away for later—two dinner rolls, half of a baked potato, a leg of chicken, half of a raspberry tart. She reasoned that by bed time she would have enough room to finish the chicken before it went bad, but she was still feeling almost sick with fullness by the time the staff walked through the halls calling "lights out!"
She hoped to gain a little weight on the trip over, hoped that after half a year apart, Warren would notice if her face was a little rounder, her thighs a little fuller. Being at sea didn't bother her, but she had the constant feeling of floating through a middle space, a mass of water where no one had fought, from which no men had left. It made her uneasy, knowing she could walk the perimeter of the ship and not see any land.
The GI's who took up the first and second floors of the ship ate their meals an hour before the women. Alice's bunkmate Betsy smiled at one of the GI's as they went for lunch. He smiled back and said, "Now how are you lovely ladies enjoying being at sea?" Before Betsy could respond one of the wait staff came hurrying over. "Now, sir, let's be on our way and let the ladies get to their meal," she said.
"I've missed that Canadian friendliness," said Betsy as they moved slowly towards their table. "That's the reason there are so many of us on this boat—Canadian soldiers always striking up conversation with everyone they see."
The young brides would stand at the edge of the balcony and wave down to the soldiers on the floor below. "Please come away from the edge of the boat," a Red Cross worker would say. "Let the poor men get some rest and don't bother them any more." One afternoon as they strolled along the deck, Mary nudged Alice and Betsy and pointed to a lifeboat hanging from a chain at either end, the bottom just at the level of their heads. Alice would not have noticed it had she been walking alone: this one was rocking a little more than the others moving slowly in the wind. They stopped there for a moment, watching the boat, trying to figure out what was going on inside.
Betsy giggled, and Mary scowled. "I have half a mind to go tip it over, drop them into the sea," she said as they continued to walk. "It's disgusting. If a woman can't remain faithful for one week at sea, what was she doing the months or years she was separated from her man?"
How does a man manage to get a girl in a lifeboat with him, Alice wondered? Does he lurk around some quiet hallway late at night when emotions are high and strike up conversation: "You must be homesick, dear. I know what that's like." Does he risk missing a meal while walking up and down the stairwells until he finds a girl who looks at him softly, and then tells her he just needs to talk, to unburden his war-weary mind, in secret, where they will whisper sheltered from the cold gust above them, where he will lend her his uniform shirt and sacrifice his bare, toned chest to the ocean wind while he wraps his arm around her to warm her, to hold her, to brush her soft breasts, so long unnoticed? Does he tell her it's been hard to keep his heart tender against the brutality of battle? That it's been tough and he's been changed, but he can still feel deeply, he can still recognize beauty when he sees it? Does she need to know his name? Does it matter that when she is reunited with her husband he will no longer be wearing the only clothing she has ever seen him in, so long as she can have this uniformed man now?
As she walked back from breakfast the morning before disembarkation in Halifax, Alice could smell nail polish and perfume wafting from beneath the doors of the cabins. She pitied the poor seasick girls, but found when she got to her room even her bed-ridden cabin mates were trying to hold it together long enough to turn their yellow cheeks rosy and fatten their pale lips with lipstick. The air in the cabin was full of powder and the scent of stale perfume over the smell of dried vomit. Two girls were pulling brand new nylon stockings out of a package. They pressed the backs of their hands against the stretch of the material and pushed the length of their legs toe-first through the flimsy tunnel. They tugged gently at the seams along the backs of their legs, adjusting the black lines so they ran straight up and under their skirts.
She realized she hadn't had new tights since before the war. She suddenly longed for the feeling of them, of being closely surrounded by something as fragile and delicate as spiders' webs. She imagined the thousand tiny strands wrapping around the point of her ankle, the curve of her calf, the fullness of her thigh. The way they pull along the groin, grasp the buttocks. She should have worn tights to her wedding. With so little time to plan, she had borrowed her cousin's dress. But she should have at least had her own tights. And he should have had to pull them off without creating a single snag. These are the sorts of skills a man should develop before he gets to take anything else off his wife's body.
Alice watched Betsy deftly powdering her leg. When she caught Alice's eye, Betsy said, "let me do yours. I have a steady hand."
She turned Alice backwards by her shoulders and bent down to reach a little under her skirt and drew a vertical line starting at the middle of her thigh. It tickled as she drew the pencil over Alice's calf and down to her ankle. She paused to sharpen her pencil and then did the other one.
She stood up grinning. "What do you think? We'll impress everyone waiting for us when we get off the boat. We'll show them we're not as poor as they think."
"Or at least we know how to make due if we are," sighed Mary.
Alice could not find her one wool coat, a going away present from her aunt. It was a beautiful long navy blue coat, the kind that no one could really afford to buy during the war. The coat had been in a suit bag, and now she was certain some unfortunate woman had snatched it. Still she waited till the other five girls had left the cabin to do one last search for it. There was no trace of it, nothing but napkins full of crumbs and long strands of hair all over the floor.
There were a few others still tugging their luggage through the small cabin doors as she walked down the dim hallway. She heard moaning coming from one of the rooms. She followed the sobs to a cabin door.
Alice knocked on the door. "Hello?"
The voice came closer. "Hello?" it said with a hint of hope.
"Are you stuck?" Alice asked.
"Yes! Can you open the door?"
Alice twisted the handle a few times, leaned against the door and rattled it. "I'm afraid it must be jarred. I can look for someone who can help."
"Yes!" said the voice. "Please do! Tell them it's a misunderstanding. Tell them I want to see my husband, that I left everything to be with him."
"It's alright—stay calm. I'll find help soon." Being stuck in a room after a week at sea would drive anyone batty.
She told the Red Cross worker at the top of the stairs that someone was stuck in room 315. "She seemed quite worried that she won't get out."
The gentleman shook his head. "I'm afraid some women are not allowed off the boat," he said.
Alice squinted up against him. The July light from outside was burning around him. "We can't have women who have been unfaithful returning to their husbands. Her husband will be notified that she was found fooling around and he may contact her back in England if he wishes." Then he nodded in agreement with himself and gestured for her to step out through the door.
It was awful, really, to have left all you know only to go back and live with the shame of it all. But she couldn't see another way. Mary would say, serves them right, all those whores. Pack them up and ship them back.
She knew she was supposed to smile and wave as she walked down the gangplank. The band playing "Here Comes the Bride" and the crowds gathered around waving told her she should. The woman at the bottom of the gangplank in front of her had stopped carelessly with her four children. She held one on each hip and the oldest stood beside her, clinging to her dress with one hand and waving rhythmically with the other while photographers knelt in front of her to get the boat in the background. "She must have jumped on the first soldier that came over!" said a voice behind Alice.
She could see many women with their luggage disappearing into hugs and kisses and becoming one with the crowds of people. But most of them were trotting along slowly in their high heels, moving in a line towards the nearby train station. This was their short moment of fame, this walk from the boat to the train, and she should enjoy it for all it was worth.
Melissa Kuipers grew up on an egg farm in southern Ontario. She taught high school English and creative writing for a few years before becoming envious of her students and deciding to go back to school. She has recently completed an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto.

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So I've had the baby for a week now, and I'm desperate for a beer. With the baby still getting up a few times throughout the night,this proves to be a dilemma. i mean its hard enough waking up at 2am for an hour trying to coax a baby back to sleep. But doing that after having had a beer or two is only going to make matters much much worse isn't it?
Unfortunately this has coincided with me getting really into my craft beer, so i have a large quantity of cold tasty craft beer all ready to be drunk.
the mum is also gagging for a nice glass of wine. but again, getting up numerous times through the night is only going to be harder with a groggy head.
to combat all this, so far i have started guzzling alcohol free beers… it gives the sense that you are supping on a cold beer, but doesn't give you the fuzzy head at 3am. unfortunately it also doesn't give you that slightly warm relaxed feeling, and onset quite hit the spot in the same way that real beer does.
So for the first time i have now sampled a fair range of alcohol free beers. this is somethings never thought i'd hear myself type. So far i have tried the following:
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- San Miguel 0%
- Becks blue
- Bavaria
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and to be honest they are not that bad… currently my favourite is either brew dog or san miguel. the disadvantage of the brew dog is that it is bloody expensive!
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We use the share feature a lot but often we copy the link into an email rather than sending from within Crush FTP
Can we have a copy button in the publish dialogue page?
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Just a thought..
Latest build now has a button for this. Update to the latest v8 now.


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Postcard number: 030
Bought at: Miramare Castle, Italy
Sent to: Christina in Singapore
Written and sent: 27 March 2010
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27 March 2010, London UK
Dear Christina,
Postcard #30 of the Postcardia project was bought in August 2008 at Miramare Castle in Northern Italy. I'd flown into Trieste airport on earlier in the day, and met up with one of my dear friends and penpals, her husband and her sister. On the drive back to her hometown, we stopped here at the castle and wandered through its lavishly decorated rooms and landscaped gardens. This would've been such an amazing place to live! I loved the location, looking out over the Adriatic Sea. These days it's a tourist attraction, with a cafe where we chatted and caught up over ice creams and iced tea. This is one of those places I wouldn't have discovered without friends from that country, and I felt very grateful both for their company and the chance to explore such a beautiful and historically significant place.
I hope all is well over there in Singapore.
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Directed by Sharat Katariya, "Dum Laga Ke Haisha" stars debutant Bhumi Pednekar as an overweight girl.
Talking about "Dum Laga Ke Haisha", he said: "It was an unusual script and I was certain this film will work."


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Perry says that he feels like going to Priest Pond and knocking the daylights out of Great-Aunt Nancy. I told him he must not talk like that about my family, and anyhow I don't see how knocking the daylights out of Great-Aunt Nancy would make her change her opinion about me...(I wonder what daylights are and how you knock them out of people.)
To what temptations, to what extremities does lucidity lead! Shall we desert it now to take refuge in unconsciousness? Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher the poet's equal there. But our perspicacity cannot bear that such a marvel should endure, nor that inspiration should be brought within everyone's grasp; daylight strips us of the night's gifts. Only the madman enjoys the privilege of passing smoothly from a nocturnal to a daylight existence: no distinction between his dreams and his waking. He has renounced our reason, as the beggar has renounced our belongings. Both have found a way that leads beyond suffering and solved all our problems; hence they remain examples we cannot follow, saviors without adepts.
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that came through the picture window was daylight, real golden late-afternoon daylight, not a white mist light. The sky was a robin's-egg blue, and Coraline could see trees and, beyond the trees, green hills, which faded on the horizon into purples and grays. The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world ... Nothing, she thought, had ever been so interesting.


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Thursday, March 6, 2014
Trick to an "almost perfect" Gold Sharpie Polka Dots
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I love the gold and silver Sharpies, those are the ones I keep on using, well besides the black one. Your polkas are perfect! Got to remember that ;) btw you look beautiful in your new profile pic!ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh thank you for your thoughtful comment cristina and glad to see you here♥Delete
I was just thinking how I wanted to use gold on my next canvas painting. This is great! Thanks for sharing Rea!ReplyDelete
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This post will probably be the stuff that most people find to be unnecessary but because I'm going to Italy to study abroad, these are things that I absolutely have to bring.
Nook+charger, laptop+charger+case, iPhone+charger, camera+extra batteries+extra SD cards+lenses+chargers, iPod+headphones
Yeah, I'm bringing a lot of expensive items with me to a foreign country, probably not the smartest move, but at the same time I don't really have a choice. I need my laptop, nook & DSLR for my photography class. Plus, I need to bring my phone with me to the airport to keep in touch with my family, plus I'll probably use it as my alarm clock while I'm in Italy, and maybe even extra storage for pictures. Then I'll need my iPod so I don't go crazy on the plane, it's about a 15 hour plane trip there, and a 16 hour plane trip back.
Whenever you travel, what kind of electronics do you bring with you?


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Belfry Restaurants
Advertise your restaurant for free in the town of Belfry.
Belfry, MT has one of the widest choices of restaurants, of a region its extent, in the whole of the USA. Just about half of the restaurants in Belfry are full-service restaurants with 75% of the others offering incomplete help. The additional restaurants inBelfry are mainly drinking places and caterers that present various in-house foodstuff.
Full-service restaurants in Belfry lean to suggest more than a few menu types, including appetizers, salads, side dishes, desserts, and beverages, with quite a few choices within each kind. Chefs and cooks will prepare the items to order, ranging from grilling a burger to composing a new complex and advanced menu item. Waiters and waitresses offer table service in comfortable surroundings. Clientele increasingly like dining at mid-size or family restaurants, typically organized by a national group. By contrast, clients at the better Belfry dining places tend to seek a nice environment with cleverly prepared gastronomy and relaxed, skilled service. Although groups are a notable portion of the restaurant trade, many customers in Belfry wish to dine in non-franchised owned and locally operated restaurants.
The most frequent form of a limited-service restaurant in Belfry, MT is a franchised business of a countrywide restaurant franchise selling fast food. Like every else, these restaurants in Belfry includes a set menu, the lack of waiters and waitresses and an emphasis on purity and a resourceful service. Menu selections will put forward a limited array and are made ready by workers with token cooking or food-handling skills. Cuisine typically is served in disposable take-out cartons that keep hold of the food's warmth, allowing restaurants to plan meals in advance of customers' requirements. A increasing number of fast-food restaurants in Belfry, MT are now providing drive-through and walk-up services.
Restaurants are the most rife and time-honored industry in the United States of America. The greatest restaurants, especially the finest restaurants in Belfry, MT offer
- Recently prepared food focused on community favourites
- Menu choices that suit all in the group
- Economical and motivated workers that smile!
- Spotlessness
- All of the list above at an affordable rate!
Inhabitants of Belfry are renowned for liking restaurants with the intention of offering something that alternative establishments do not possess and they like restaurants where the employees working there genuinely like what they are doing.
The community in Belfry are looking for restaurants with the purpose of making you feel good subsequent to eating there.
The customers attracted to restaurants in Belfry fluctuate according to many factors, including the brand of food delivered, cost, position and the marketplace the establishment is designed for.
To attract clients in Belfry, MT you be obliged to focus on
- High-earning persons or families with a large quantity of disposable take-home pay however little time in which to splurge it. This purchaser assembly includes the developing number of solo householders, as well as dual-wages family unit groups.
- Small business people on cost accounts to boost lunchtime trade as well as evening meals. The usefulness of this market frequently tends to follow the wider fluctuations in native companies.
- Tourists are influential for many restaurants in the district. At all times remember that visitor statistics to Belfry fluctuate according to the seasons, and winter, specifically, could see poorer business.
- Family. The affect of offspring has produced a noteworthy market set that impacts on family choice for meals. This has been without difficulty picked up on by the large conglomerates who, led by the burger franchises, target offspring by means of their marketing.
- Working women. Married women partake more than sixty percent of all household tasks, so easy access to meals is welcomed as one fewer responsibility to partake. Cost tends to be a considerable issue affecting the choice of this collection, next to the quality of the food.
- Grazers. As lifestyles have changed, the long-established three meals per day have been replaced by a tendency to graze or eat on the run. Convenience plays a large part in this group's array of venue.
- The appearance of a substantial group of retired populace with a high level of disposable income and improved leisure time. Study indicates that this group tends to eat out during the daylight hours as a leisure pursuit.
If you are opening a restaurant in Belfry, MT you should
- Find the greatest location in order to be a magnet for passing business. If you are planning to rely on word alone and shape your custom over a very sustained period, position will play an important fragment in the eventual victory of your venture.
- Settle into your working routine (and make sure your personnel are accustomed with their occupations!) and then attract reviewers from the Belfry media to carry out a restaurant appraisal - a decent assessment is expected to boost native interest in your dealings.
- Make surely you're listed in district food and restaurant guides. This will entail signing up with the Belfry holiday guides and this will also rally round persons from outside of the immediate region.
- Advertise in publications read by your target viewers. Belfrybusiness magazines and newspapers regularly tender sensibly priced marketing space.
- Stand out from the crowd by choosing an exclusive image or theme and applying it to your decor, team uniforms, plates and cutlery, and menus.
- Advertise distinct audiences depending on the time of the day or season of the year. Both daytime and evening menus may well be provided, with on a daily basis exclusives presented to adjust the customary bill of fare.
- Use exclusive offers to boost trade through inactive periods, with mid-afternoon discounts for students and elderly diners, and special kid's menus open to exert a pull on families. Christmas is a crucial time for most restaurants, since it offers the opportunity to intensify business owing to corporate parties and can be an introduction to your restaurant for potential new clients who may well revisit all through the rest of the year.
As word-of-mouth public relations is of the paramount value for Belfry restaurants, it is essential that your client service should always be attentive, without delay and civil!
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…and so are you.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ~Helen Keller
I decided to make a list of all I have survived in my life. I doubt my list is exhaustive, but I am amazed by the length of it anyway. If you wrote a survival list, I'm sure you, too, would have an eye-opening experience. Continue reading "I am a survivor…"


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They call him "Noodles."
It might be because of Mark Jennings' tall, lanky form. It could be because of how the Hagerstown Community College sophomore forward bends and contorts his body to get off jump shots.
Or it could be because he's the perfect ingredient in the Hawks' game plan. After all, Noodles make either a great side dish or a hearty main course.
Jennings is the staple to HCC's success this season, mainly because of his versatility. He has acquired a knack for blending in most instances, while becoming dominant when he's needed the most.


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What is Cloud CRM Software?
For businesses considering software options, the cloud can be puzzling. What businesses should understand, first and foremost, is that when something is billed as cloud-based, it simply means that it is accessed and used via the web.
This means it can be accessed by multiple users from any device that has an Internet connection.
If you're wondering if a cloud-based CRM might be the right option for your business, it's important to realize the benefits of this type of software.
The primary benefit is that it is web-based, which means it doesn't have to be installed on your network or any of your computers. It also updates automatically. The result is that you'll eliminate the need for on-site IT staff to support installed software on your devices.
Benefits of a Cloud Solution
- Quick setup - Unlike on-premise software, which requires manual installation, cloud CRM solutions are available immediately. Users merely log in and start working. Some preferences may need to be set up but otherwise, cloud solutions are plug-and-play.
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- Easy to upgrade - Unlike on-premise software, which requires a purchase and installation process to upgrade, cloud software can be upgraded by simply choosing a different pricing plan.
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Top Cloud CRM Software Providers
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My work over the course of six months with San Francisco Dance Film Festival has been extremely enlightening. Getting to learn how a nonprofit organization is run by having a hands-on experience, truly is the best way to learn. My role with the SFDFF right now is Social Media Coordinator–I research new dance films or interesting articles to post, as well as manage the content and posting schedule of other volunteers.
I also play an important role in the marketing of our current programming through social media networks and interact with our co-presenting partners, including many local arts organizations such as SF Ballet, ODC, San Francisco Performances, AXIS Dance Company, Fountain 3 Films, San Francisco Cinematheque, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, SF IndieFest, Museum of Performance and Design, World Arts West/San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, Cultural Services of the French Consulate in San Francisco, Dancers' Group, and The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. I looked into all areas of a nonprofit organization and found that social media and marketing are the areas that I'm most interested in.
So what is it like to volunteer for a nonprofit like SFDFF? It's wonderful and difficult at the same time. The first reason why I got involved with the organization was because of SFDFF Executive Director Judy Flannery and Saint Mary's College Program Manager Megan Low. This internship provides me with college credit for Saint Mary's. Once I had my internship in place, I was also invited by Artistic Director/Founder Greta Schoenberg to join the 2014 selection committee based on my extensive experience in the field of dance. My life and passion is ballet, but seeing the dance films that were submitted this year and discussing all 270 of them with the selection committee really got me hooked into the organization. After graduating from Saint Mary's College this year, I'm still working for the festival and I believe that dance film is the next step to reach ballet/dance audiences all over the world.
I'm really looking forward to the festival this year and its diverse programming. Greta has done an excellent job in putting together a great program for this year's festival. Her expertise really shows when you see all the movies that are coming up this year. Now that I have had the chance to work alongside Greta, I know better what makes a decent dance film, but of course it's very subjective.
Like most nonprofit organizations, the staff always works very hard and in our case, we all put in the extra hours to make sure that everything gets done in a timely manner. All of us in the organization have families and we steal time from our loved ones, for the benefit of the organization, which is hard for me to do. Sometimes there are deadlines for the festival that have to be met. Because of my profession and my performance schedule I already see my family so little, especially on the weekends, and that creates extra strain in my personal life. Striking the balance between my personal life and work has been very hard for me. To avoid that, I'm overseeing SFDFF's social media efforts and I've reduced face-to-face time with the staff by getting work done via text or the phone. It's been pretty successful so far, but often things are said in a face-to-face meeting that may not be communicated later to the rest of the organization. So there is a downside for not seeing people involved in the organization on the regular basis, but on the upside, I get to be with my family.
This year, SFDFF brings many wonderful films to the Bay Area and I would like to mention couple of them to the readers. So here are my favorites:
Alone? In The Theatre (Germany), Director & Choreographer: Max Zachrisson
Ballet Spiral (USA), Director: Sam Asaert
Globe Trot (USA), Director: Mitchell Rose, Choreographer: Bebe Miller
Glove Story (Israel), Director: Oren Shkedy, Choreographer: Dana Ruttenberg
Intrinsic Moral Evil (Netherlands), Director: Harm Weistra, Choreographer: Fernando Dominguez Rincón
Off Ground (Netherlands), Director: Boudewijn Koole, Choreographer: Jakop Ahlbom
Rules of the Game (USA), Director & Choreographer: Jeff & Rick Kuperman
Samba (USA), Directors: Andrea Lerner, Rosane Chamecki, Choreographer: chameckilerner
Silent Places (Romania), Director: Simona Deaconescu, Choreographer: Simona Deaconescu
Still (Netherlands), Director & Choreographer: William Lü
The Art of Defining Me (UK), Director & Choreographer: Kamala Devam & Seeta Patel
Vanishing Points (Canada), Director: Marites Carino. Choreographer: Tentacle Tribe
All the films that are selected for 2014 festival are brilliant in their own way. I am buzzing with excitement and cannot wait to hear what you think. See you all at the festival this year, November 6-9, at the Brava Theater Center. Please visit us any time at www.sfdancefilmfest.org.


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Nothing will make people mistake you for a Jedi Master at a Star Wars Convention than donning on a pair of Star Wars wireless headphones around your head!
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All listed headphones are full-sized and Circumaural, covering the entire ear of the listener. Additionally, all these headphones are 'closed', meaning they allow for a narrower sound delivery that is similarly experienced when out at a night club. Closed wireless headphones also keep the audio exclusive to the listener; making for a more private option for listening.
Each headphone set is made up with ear pads constructed from high-density foam which helps to absorb the sound exerted from the headphone's speakers. A plastic band connects the ear pads together and rubber material is used to complement the ear pad design to provide housing for the speakers.
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While every pair of the best headphones is proven to elicit audible ecstasy, many variables are thrown into the mix when purchasing the most suitable pair for your needs. To simplify these variables, they are broken down into 3 categories: location, budget and music type.
How often are you likely to be listening to music while you're out? Do you get around much, and if so, where? Any pair designed to emit a loud noise outward likely to annoy everyone on the bus with your dub step may not be the appropriate choice if you commute by public transport at peak hours every day.
Money is an essential factor since life seems overly-expensive nowadays; therefore, if you've got a budget of $20-30, you can't expect to make purchase of any headphone set used by rich recording artists that swim in millions of revenue from CD and iTunes sales. Just like you can't live in a high-income area on a low income budget, so too can you wear the latest and best headphones if you find yourself looking at your weekly payslip and cringing more than you would watching an unwanted change in the digitally enhanced version of the original Star Wars Trilogy.
Finally, do you prefer classical or easy listening music styles? Or, are you more of a head banger that needs the volume of life turned up to its max in order to escape the everyday stresses?
I only ask because wireless headphones can be designed specifically for different types of genres; so, anything bought intended for soft piano will likely produce an irritable crackling sound sure to let the listener know something is broken and death metal played at 80dB is not a wise choice.
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Measuring in at 3 x 6.5 x 7.2 inches, this headphone set is coated in a glossed orange and grey paint job that can be easily maintained with an included microfiber cleaning cloth and protection by a matching colored hard shell carry case. All boxes of Star Wars STREET by 50 headphones also contain one sheet of stickers depicting some of your favorite Star Wars characters, as well as one poster; and most importantly, a certificate of authenticity for added discretion that your purchase has not brought you one step closer to the dark side!
Furthermore, STREET by 50 headphones give a 'half-on/half-off ear feel' and are extremely comfortable with the pillow-like sense felt by the wonderfully designed ear pads. Premium sound quality comes through the included 3.5mm removable cable also fitted with a microphone and remote employing a single button style to allow for an easy ability to pause and resume all your favourite songs from 'The Empire Strikes Back' soundtrack.
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Funko Rebel Alliance Fold-Up Headphones
Utilizing a compact and lightweight design, Funko Rebel Alliance headphones were made with a fold-up design for the purpose of letting its owners safely travel with them; excluding the fear of hearing that 'snap' in your backpack brought on by negligence to remember its contents.
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The Funko Rebel Alliance Headphones will easily distinguish you apart from the Empire, for the Rebel Alliance insignia is clearly displayed on the outer part of the ear cuffs. Located along the top outside portion of the band is the official Star Wars lettering which becomes more visible once the listener takes the set off their ears and allowing the band to rest well on the back of their neck. The ear cuffs work on a swivel system and are extremely flexible; able to rotate a full 360 degrees, giving the listener encouragement to lay the cuffs flat face down against their chest when not in use for maximum comfort.
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SMS Audio STREET by 50 First Edition Boba Fett Star Wars Headphones
Boba Fett is arguably one of the most iconic Star Wars characters, recognisable to any true Star Wars fan; so, what better way to pay homage to the fearless bounty hunter by grabbing a pair of his signature gear!
Implementing all the same features and accessories as the STREET by 50 Rebel Alliance Headphones, the Boba Fett STREET by 50 Headphones include a matte green headband in a rust-coloured glossy finish. The inner ear caps are comprised of cushioning consisting of ivory leather memory-foam and a Mandalorian insignia is attractively displayed on the outer surface of the ear cuffs in attempts to display your true allegiance in the war for the galaxy!
Quiescent passive noise cancellation (PNC) nullifies all audio distractions which may impede your duties as a bounty hunter trying to make a living in a war-torn galaxy. When time comes to remove your headset and store it away for use on your next mission, the hinges supporting the ear cuffs may be easily folded to allow for optimal storage and neutralised chance of breakage. Patented oval-fitted memory foam keeps the small delicate bones of your ear in comfort for light years while you travel through the galaxy. Finally, superb audio quality is generated in part from 40MM drivers tuned professionally for optimal effect.
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SMS Audio Street by 50 Cent Headphones – Black
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The headphone's foldable design adds to its excellent functionality as a device capable of emitting powerful Star Wars tunes through its 40mm audio drivers. A football-shaped carry case is provided allowing you to preserve its condition for many battles to come and the addition of a removable audio jack along with an in-line microphone and remote make for an overall well-balanced sound. Additionally, this microphone and remote can be used for answering phone calls once plugged into any smartphone aside from giving you full control over the pausing and playing of your favourite tunes.
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SMS Audio STREET by 50 First Edition Star Wars Galactic Empire Headphones
50 Cent has outdone himself again by allowing for the release of his best headphones in a Star Wars theme; pleasing millions of Star Wars fans worldwide allowing for the collection of another piece of Star Wars collectibles.
Although identical to all other version of the Audio STREET Headphones, these are the recommended choice for any aspiring fighter pilot eager to serve the emperor and fight for the galactic empire. On the headphone's plastic covered outer surface, the red-colored imperial insignia is placed in the center of the black-coated ear cuffs; clearly depicting your allegiance to the empire.
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SMS Audio STREET by 50 First Edition Star Wars Stormtrooper Headphones
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Stormtroopers may now remove their helmets and receive orders from Vader directly through their STREETs cushioned gently around their ears in an oval-fit of leather memory foam. Finally, when time comes to fall in and return to the Death Star, headphones can be easily folded inward before they get sealed away in the STREET's hard shelled carry case.
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Stylized Funko Darth Vader DJ Headphones – Fully adjustable for all your music-listening needs
Lord Vader doesn't have much down-time to spend spinning hard vinyl; however when he does, it's in style wearing a magnificent pair of Stylized Funko Darth Vader DJ Headphones! Any intergalactic dictator would enjoy the audible pleasure the Funko DJ Headphones offers to illicit for its user.
Working with a fold-up design, the best headphones by Funko hold a sensitivity of 105dB and maintain a frequency response range between 20 Hz and 18 kHz. Maximum power input for these babies reaches up to 20mW with an impedance of 32 Ohms. Like most headsets today, the Stylized Funko Headphones use a 3.5mm jack compatible with most audio outlets.
The headband is wrapped in a thick leather material ensuring the listener's head remains both secure and free from ridged edges sticking into their cranium. The outer ear cuffs include a 3D picture of Vader himself; blending in beautifully into the outer design of the headphone. Iconic Star Wars lettering is written along the headband's outer surface to advise all onlookers who a REAL Star Wars fan is; and finally rounding out the device, the awesome 40mm driver on these headphones makes playing 'Knights Of The Old Republic' a truly immersive and captivating experience you wish never ends!


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This episode we chat with Katrina Stack, star of the Real World Seattle: Bad Blood. We discuss her time on the show, her relationship with her sister and if we'll ever see her on The Challenge.
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ATU Election Results
TrueBallot and the Election Committee have finished tabulating the ballots in our officer elections - below you will find the official tally of votes for the "Top Three" officers, Executive Board Officers, and Liaison Officers. [...]
UPDATE: Union Hall Phones Working Normally
UPDATE at 11am on 6/7/2018: phones are back up earlier than expected. You can direct all union business to our main phone number, (503) 232-9144.
Union Hall Phone Lines Are DOWN
Sisters and brothers, the Portland Water Bureau is doing maintenance work near the Union Hall, and our phones are down as a result. We don't yet know when phone service will be restored, but we [...]
Portland's Pride Parade is coming up!
Portland's local Pride Parade is coming up on Sunday, June 17th, and we'll be marching together with our siblings in the AFL-CIO as part of a unified labor delegation! We'll gather at Portland's North Park [...]
Event recap: Workers Rights Board hearing on TriMet LIFT
On May 17th, we worked with Portland Jobs with Justice to hold a hearing of the Portland-area Workers Rights Board, concerning paratransit service in Portland. Paratransit, branded in and around Portland as TriMet LIFT, is provided [...]
Candidates for ATU 757 Offices
This past Monday was the nomination meeting for candidates for union office for the 2018 ATU 757 election. For your information, below is a list of all candidates for top executive office as well as [...]
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Acquire the efficiency of a salon by having all your tools stored in one location off the counter. The Vanity Valet Boutique provides you a compact space to store hot appliances and access them with amazing ease and organization. With all tools readily available you can style like a pro.
- Use stainless steel ventilated and capped tubes to safely store hot appliances
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- Provides the ability to use a power strip and have all tools plugged and ready to use
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January 5, 2010 (CHICAGO) --A crash Tuesday morning in the inbound lanes of the Eisenhower Expressway in Chicago created some major traffic headaches during the morning rush. A truck tractor flat bed trailer hauling large sheets of glass hit the overpass at Keeler.
The preliminary investigation shows the load was over height. Debris spilled, and two other vehicles were damaged.
Three lanes of traffic were closed for a time as IDOT inspectors checked out the overpass. They determined that it is structurally sound.
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In its entirety, here's Kylie Scott's published short story. Enjoy!
Dying Inside
Queen of the moonlight.
Princess of air.
The six-year-old version of me would love it. Soaring through the night with you, a fantasy, the stuff of legends.
But now I am older and you are still just a boy. A boy who doesn't understand grownup things and who scorns the real world. My real world and your nightmare.
We float in the velvety blue of the sky, surrounded by stars and sea. You, caressed by the wind, resting on its back and defying all logic, make endearing little comments that are meant to persuade me.
"Young forever," You whisper in my ear, soft as the starlight that glows around us. I wave my arms and try to catch up. Who wants to be bothered by horrid things that only adults care for? Things like taxes and divorce? Growing old and losing the chance to do whatever one wants, accepting fate and death as friends. No. Definitely not for me. We laugh and chase each other through the night, spinning and dancing, forgetful of all things and ready to bask in your world forever. You, gliding, flying through the air with minimal effort, a boy forever. And I follow, getting farther and farther behind because I've never done this before. Stop and go. Short bursts where I forget, where I am ready to pass up all opportunities and follow my whims. And times where I halt and think of what children cannot do.
If I continue after you I will never drive. They don't have dances or makeup where you are from, do they? I couldn't get married or fall in love, could I?
You're just a boy of eleven.
And I must grow up.
Your face twists from elation to hatred and anger. You zoom away and never look back, disappointed with my choice and prone to tantrums, because you choose eternal youth.
Now I am stuck here, above the ocean, alone and done for.
The wind refuses to carry me. The sky no longer tries to help me and turns into a storm of grey clouds that roll in as fast as the tears down my face. I am sinking into the water beneath me. The disappearing stars glare down at me, wondering how my choice is worth more than you and bidding me goodbye because, in the grown up world, no one believes in you. Waves crash at my ankles and soon cover my mouth, my nose, and my eyes. I can't stop it. And I sink into the foamy deep, pulled by an invisible anchor that has latched itself around my waist. Shouting, Peter! Peter! But all I get are lungs full of water.
Because when I grow up, no one will save me like you tried to. The world will be a place filled with contempt and malice.
So here's my first taste of reality.


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apartment with industrial look in perfection
January 8, 2014
This apartment includes the most important elements to get the industrial look perfect! The metro tiles, the factory lamp, the raw metal chairs and of course the Smeg in the kitchen, the big factory window between the living room and the bedroom and the brass fittings in the bathroom. Moreover, the collection of vintage bird prints above the couch in the living room is stunning!
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This apartment is amazing … I'm not a big fan of industrial interiors but I love the way it is done here. Little touches here and there. Enough to make this place cozy and inviting.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Janet Henry: "There is no need for the ECB Council to raise rates at the next meeting"
By my calculations, the squeeze on real incomes from the rise in commodity prices in the first half of 2011 will be roughly on par with that in the first half of 2008 and which drove the euro zone consumer into recession. And while there are a number of reasons why the euro zone consumer is on a sounder footing now, I fully expect the higher commodity prices to feed through into softer consumer spending in the second half of 2011 with higher market interest rates having an additional, but smaller, impact. This implies growth will remain dependent on exports and export-driven investment spending. The euro at current levels will also detract modestly from growth but is not a major headwind as long as the global economy remains supportive. A major risk is that the commodity price shock takes a much bigger toll on global growth than the consensus currently envisages. This would alter my central forecast from one of slightly sub-trend growth for the eurozone later this year to one of a real risk of renewed contraction. With interest rates still at emergency levels, the growth rate currently a little above potential and inflation set to remain close to 3% for much of the rest of this year, there is a case for a slow gradual normalisation of interest rates in order to contain inflation expectations. But there is no need to raise rates at this meeting and the ECB needs to stand ready to pause the normalisation process if the global outlook deteriorates more significantly in the coming year.
Janet Henry is Chief European Economist of HSBC
Elga Bartsch: "High energy prices, rising rates and a stronger Euro will weight on euro zone growth in 2012"
In my view, a combination of elevated commodity prices, rising ECB interest rates and a stronger currency will take a toll on the growth outlook in the euro area. These headwinds will likely show more materially in the quarterly growth dynamics in late 2011, early 2012. As a result, we will likely see a slowdown in growth next year. We have recently lowered our forecast for 2012 GDP growth from 1.7% to 1.2% as a result of a new set of assumptions on the three aforementioned factors. For this year, we are still forecasting GDP growth to average an above-par 1.7%. The May meeting would offer an opportunity for the ECB to hint at any coming changes to its staff projections. While we don't think that these three factors are sufficient to derail the upswing, we do believe that the change in the pace of growth is likely to have important repercussions on financial markets. In the context of the euro area, it will likely also affect how the markets and policy makers view the sovereign debt crisis in the periphery. Notwithstanding this coming moderation in growth (back to the trend rate), the ECB should probably continue with its gradual tightening campaign for now. At some point in the future, though, it might want to consider a pause in the tightening campaign. This pause should be considered once the 'emergency element' in the ECB policy rate has been removed – which we believe to be the case at around 2%.
Elga Bartsch is Chief European Economist of Morgan Stanley
Jacques Cailloux: "ECB should be prepared to pause and restart its purchase programme"
The euro area has been experiencing a moderate upswing over the past three quarters. The nature of the upswing has been very similar to previous ones with the export sector doing the heavy lifting. Exports have been strong in both the core and in the periphery. However, domestic demand has been disappointing especially in Germany where hopes of the awakening of the consumer have failed to materialise. Domestic demand in the periphery meanwhile is depressed by the current deleveraging process. In all, GDP growth has been disappointing in light of the unprecedented rebound in exports. This suggests the ECB should remain very cautious in its tightening cycle as the region remains exposed to any weakening in foreign demand or any idiosyncratic shock in the region. In fact, there is already evidence that most of the acceleration in global activity is behind us and the periphery situation is deteriorating at an unprecedented pace, two reasons which explained my reluctance to support a rate hike. I remain firmly in that camp: the ECB should be prepared to pause and restart its purchase programme before it is too late.
Jacques Cailloux is Chief European Economist of Royal Bank of Scotland
Marco Annunziata: "The relentless rise in commodity prices is a cause for concern"
The relentless rise in commodity prices, especially fuel and food, is a cause for concern. In the US, where gasoline prices are reaching the record highs of summer 2008, the negative impact on consumer confidence is already visible. In Europe the percentage move is muted by the stronger Euro and the higher incidence of taxes, and if prices remain at current level, I believe the recovery will continue to prove resilient. There is of course a significant tail risk: were turmoil to spread to a large oil producer like Saudi Arabia, it could trigger a large and disruptive further rise in prices. In that case the ECB could and should react. But for the time being, the recovery justifies some normalization in monetary policy. And since the turmoil in the middle east could well be protracted, monetary policy cannot be kept on hold indefinitely. The rise in interest rates could have a negative impact on some countries, especially via the mortgage market, and this impact should be monitored. But even in those cases, ultra-low levels represent an emergency support which must gradually be phased out. Governments should meanwhile take the necessary steps to bolster the sovereign debt market and financial markets. But for now the ECB would be right in pursuing additional cautious normalization of monetary policy.
Marco Annunziata is Chief Economist of General Electric
Andrew Bosomworth: "Europe's Periphery Poses a Greater Threat to the Upswing"
The increasingly likelihood of default in Greece poses a bigger threat to the Eurozone's upswing than energy prices or the euro's strength. The IMF assumes Greece will borrow €40 billion from capital markets next year; funds needed to finance the budget deficit and redeem €33 billion worth of government bonds maturing in 2012. This assumption is increasingly unrealistic. Capital flight is continuing, yields on short-term Greek government bonds have risen to 25% and the market has effectively given a vote of no confidence in the country's EU-IMF program. In calibrating its monetary policy stance and advising its fiscal partners, it is incumbent of the ECB to now recognize that liquidity solutions invariably fix solvency problems. The current approach needs to be recast in a way that makes it more likely to address Greece's solvency problem, restore medium term growth and limit eroding the integrity of European and multinational institutions. The approach to the country's debt must mix liquidity with solvency, preferably through a voluntary and orderly debt structuring. This poses a dilemma for monetary policy. On the one hand, the ECB's current policy rate is consistent neither with anchoring inflation expectations nor with the strength of economic growth in the vast majority of the Eurozone. On the other hand, European financial companies will incur capital losses in the event of partial non-repayment of Greek government bonds. When it occurs, the default will disrupt both the supply of and demand for capital, posing a risk for economic growth. How can the ECB navigate this dilemma? So long as the sovereign debt restructuring event has not occurred, the ECB should continue gradually normalizing the policy rate, taking into consideration both the inflationary impact of rising commodity prices and deflationary impact of the euro's strength. Because further rate hikes are discounted in the market, a gradual normalization of policy will not disrupt the transmission mechanism. Refraining from normalizing the policy rate and temporarily tolerating higher Eurozone inflation so as to support the EU-IMF loan programs in Greece and Ireland risks undoing the ECB's reputation of maintaining price stability, which is so critical for anchoring inflation expectations. Monetary policy for the Eurozone cannot be held hostage to some countries' insolvency problems. These are the responsibility of fiscal authorities. To mitigate tail risks, the ECB should continue providing ample liquidity to banks. But it should make access to this liquidity for so-called addicted banks conditional on executing realistic restructuring and wind-down plans. In the event the ECB anticipates that a Member State will restructure its debt, a change in the ECB's policy normalization strategy will be warranted – but not beforehand.
Andrew Bosomworth is Senior Portfolio Manager at Pimco
Marie Diron: "The risks ahead are very large and could easily tip the Eurozone back in recession"
I think that it is premature to raise rates. Every week brings new developments showing that the debt crisis is far from resolved. The risks ahead are very large and could easily tip the Eurozone back in recession. In the current environment, it is difficult to see how a restructuring of Greek (and other sovereigns) debt could be achieved in an orderly fashion. At the same time, the debt dynamics are such that debt repayments cannot be honoured on current terms. Whatever the ultimate outcome, there is a signficant risk of turmoil in financial markets that could engulf core as well as peripheral countries. The ECB cannot afford to add to these risks by tightening monetary policy now. The price to pay may be temporarily elevated inflation in core countries. But it would be preferable to raising rates too early and face considerable damage to the ECB credibility if it had to reverse this decision later.
Marie Diron is Senior Economist at Oxford Economics
José Alzola: "There is no justification for further monetary tightening for now"
Financial conditions are significantly tighter than six/nine months ago because of three factors: (1) Term Euribor rates have risen by nearly 1% since last June, as the ECB has withdrawn excess liquidity and started to hike the policy rate; (2) Medium- and long-term rates have risen significantly in recent months in the periphery and, to a certain degree, also for the entire Euro area, due to the sovereign crises; and (3) The trade-weighted euro has appreciated by 8% since last June, reflecting divergent monetary policies between the Euro area and other major central banks. With the usual, but variable, lag, this tightening of financial conditions is bound to slow GDP growth meaningfully later this year and in 2012, unless unexpectedly global growth picks up again. At the same time, the significant commodity-driven divergence that has opened up between headline inflation and domestic inflation indicators (more than 1%), in the absence, as is currently the case, of an inflationary psychology, represents a major drag on real income, which will further limit the ability of domestic spending to join exports in the recovery.
All in all, the outlook for a sub-par economic recovery remains unaltered (because of powerful structural headwinds on domestic spending), and the above-mentioned developments suggest that risks to this outlook may be moving to the downside. In the absence of a discernible increase in long-term inflation expectations and of second-round effects, there is no justification for further monetary tightening for now. The policy stance remains somewhat accommodative but not excessively so (although the policy rate remains historically very low, short-term money market rates and long-term yields deflated by domestic inflation measures are clearly in positive territory).
José Alzola is Senior Economist at The Observatory Group
Thomas Mayer: "Despite some headwinds, a gradual normalisation of interest rates is still warranted"
Although higher oil prices and the strong euro are creating headwinds, the economic outlook for the euro area remains favourable. This, and above-target inflation that is likely to continue for an extended period of time, warrant a gradual normalisation of interest rates. To avoid an overshoot of rate expectations I favour unchanged rates for this month. But in the absence of new negative shocks I would envisage another refi rate hike in the not too distant future.
Thomas Mayer is Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank


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First baby of 2018 born at St. Luke's in Cedar Rapids only 3 minutes after midnight
Parents didn't expect Camden Austin would be a New Year's baby
CEDAR RAPIDS — Sarah and Drake Austin of Marion didn't expect to have the first baby born in 2018.
Sarah's due date was Jan. 21.
But on Sunday morning, the couple arrived at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids and Sarah was induced for labor.
"We ... figured it would be afternoon or early evening," Sarah said. "It just took a little while for things to progress. We checked in and one of the nurses made a comment, 'You could have the New Year's baby.' We laughed it off as if we'll be done and moving past that part by midnight."
However, Sarah's labor took a bit longer than she expected, and she didn't start pushing until about 11:30 p.m. Sunday. Still, Sarah said she didn't expect to have the new year's first baby born at the hospital.
"They told me it would be an hour to three hours for a first-time mom," Sarah said. "I was like, 'It's almost midnight. N way it would be the first baby of the year."
But it went quickly, and Camden James Austin was born at 12:03 a.m. The dark-haired boy weighed in at 7 pounds and 4.6 ounces, measuring 20 inches long.
"I think this guy is our New Year's resolution," Drake said. "It's a definite blessing. We couldn't be happier."
His gender also was a surprise for his parents. They had elected not to know.
"It was kind of a double surprise of gender and what year (he) was going to be born in," Sarah said.
Not only is Camden the hospital's first baby of 2018, he's the first grandchild on his father's side of the family.
"He was timing it the whole time," Drake laughed. "He's the only one that had a choice in the matter."
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