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Anderson County Beekeepers Association
Meeting Minutes
November 12, 2018
Anderson Federal Credit Union
100 Hanna Crossing, Anderson, SC 29621
Members in Attendance: 27
Meeting was called to order by Dave Miller, President. Opening Prayer was given by Wilson Wheeler.
Guest speakers were Chad and Kerri, who make candles and soaps for Bee Well Honey of Pickens.
They gave a very brief talk about how they process their wax for use in candle making as well other uses. Samples of their products were passed around for members to get an idea of items they use and make with beeswax.
Some key facts on the use of beeswax for candle making included:
- Melting point for beeswax is about 150 degrees
- Beeswax burns brighter than paraffin wax
- You can use old clean curtain sheers to filter the hot wax
- Beeswax contains no toxicity, while paraffin contains many toxins
- Beeswax neutralizes pollutants in the air, while paraffin adds pollutants
- The burning of candles is known to aid in stress relief
- Properly sized wicks must be used in conjunction with the candle size you're making
Dave Miller gave a brief summary of his attendance of the SCBA meeting on November 2nd.
Anderson Civic Center was mentioned as a possible venue to hold future meetings.
The state wants to raise the membership fees from $10.00 to $15.00.
A honeybee specialty plate design for the SC DMV was voted on and will be offered at $10.00 PLUS the regular plate fees.
Newly revised By Laws were approved after motion was made, seconded and vote taken.
Christmas Party plans were discussed and decided upon. It will be held on the regular meeting date of December 10th at 6pm. A reminder with location address will be sent out via email.
Door prizes were handed out at the close of meeting. Thank you to all who donated.
Respectfully submitted by Renae Ausburn, Secretary


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Plot Twist | 12oz jar | Book-inspired soy candle
THIS SIZE RETIRED 5/3/18. No longer available for regular sale. Check out the regular 9oz size, currently available!
Plot twists keep readers on their toes and bring a little something extra to a reading experience! The Plot Twist candle brings a little something extra to your candle experience with a plot twist of its own!! Each candle will have the same scent of storms, musk, and mystery but every batch is a different color, so customers never know what color candle they will get!
Fragrances at a glance: storms, musk cologne
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Fragrances: storms, musk, cologne
Candle color: changes with each batch!
Materials: glass jar, cotton wick, soy wax, fragrance oil, liquid dye
Container: 12oz glass jar
Net wax weight: Approx 11oz
Burn time: 70-80 hours
NOTES | This is a 12oz jar made with all-natural soy wax. Soy wax is eco-friendly and burns cleaner than other waxes. It is also easy to clean in cases of accidental spills or if you should wish to keep the tin! Each candle comes with a resealable lid.
Please note that some frosting may occur. This is perfectly normal for soy candles and does not affect the scent or burn time. Frosting is merely an indicator of natural soy wax.
Each candle is also made in small batches so there may be very minor variations in color or scent.
The color of the Plot Twist candle changes with each batch! Colors are not customizable and not available upon request. The surprise is half the fun!
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Scent profile: cologne, earthy
Scent strength*: potent to strong
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Base notes: vetiver, musk, dark woods
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The Health Professions Affinity Community (HPAC) program is one of the largest health professions pipeline programs for youth in the country. The program empowers youth to identify health concerns and invent community health programs to address them. Through this work, youth become a vital community champion for health as they advance into health professions educational pathways. The program currently serves about 2,000 youth in Ohio and they, in turn, serve more than 10,000 Ohioans.
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Well here we are. My last week until my official due date and hopefully my last bumpdate. I can't believe how fast the last few months have gone by. In the beginning it felt like time was going by so slow. I would impatiently wait for my doctors appointments every 4 weeks and it felt like October would never come. Yet here we are at the end of September and my life is about to change forever. It's hard to stay focused and motivated sometimes. I try really hard not to check out at work but when you are super uncomfortable all the time and preparing for a 12 week leave it's super difficult!
I know that most people typically go late with their first, and I am (kind of) prepared for that, but let's just pretend for a little bit that he will be here before then. The nurses at our hospital believe that rain storms bring babies and it's stormy today so let's hope those nurses are right because we are ready! Dakota and I have a little tradition every time we go grocery shopping to guess the final amount when we check out. Whoever wins gets to pick the place we go to get a little treat. It's a win win for both of us but it's really more fun for me because I typically win. In honor of that tradition last night Dakota and I took guesses on when we think Mattix will come and what we think his height and weight will be. So we will see who is closest to being correct!
My guess
Due date: October 6th
Weight: 6 lbs 11 oz
Height: 22 in
His guess
Due date: October 10th
Weight: 7 lbs 3 oz
Height: 19 in
For this last bumpdate I thought it would be fun to post one photo from every bumpdate to see the progression! Looking through them it's funny to see how I basically look the same until the last couple photos. You really grow the most your last couple months!
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I thought it was ironic that my first bump photo is a mirror selfie and so is my last one haha. I'm just too lazy right now to get dressed up and take a picture but I'm sure I can convince myself (and my little sister) to take a couple. Also note my belly button in the last photo…Dakota likes to poke it all the time and it drives me crazy. Hopefully it goes back in after the baby comes! The last nine months have not been easy and I know the next nine months won't be either but this journey has truly been amazing and I can't wait for what's ahead.
I'm not sure how the next few weeks are going to look on this little blog of mine so make sure to follow me on Instagram and Facebook to stay in touch!


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There's been a lot written about getting rid of the performance review. I came across a Harvard Business Review Article titled "Ditch Performance Reviews? How About Learn to do Them Well. Only about one-percent of organizations have gotten rid of performance reviews. So if 99% of organizations are sticking with the practice it makes sense to do a better job with reviews and make them mean something.
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The RightsTech Project is pleased to announce the RightsTech Roundtable, a weekly free webinar that will be part of the Digital Entertainment World Let's DEW Lunch webinar series. Each Thursday we will highlight the important news of the week and a deep dive into a critical topic or issue for the RightsTech community featuring expert speakers and presenters. Click here for more information on Let's DEW Lunch, and on speaking and sponsoring opportunities.
Distance Learning
In 1604 and into 1605, London was ravaged by Plague, forcing much of the city into what today we would call lockdown: Many types of public gatherings were banned, theaters were shuttered, and houses that had been touched by the disease were marked with red crosses and the occupants told to stay indoors. William Shakespeare used his forced downtime to write "King Lear" and "Macbeth."
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This week: Copyright Office symposium on unclaimed royalties
The U.S. Copyright Office will convene a day-long symposium in Washington, DC, on Friday, Dec. 6 to examine the problem of unclaimed royalties in the music industry. The meeting is part of a study mandated by the Music Modernization Act to evaluate steps the newly created Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) should take to identify and locate rights owners entitled to the unclaimed royalties and to reduce the incidence of non-payment by better matching data on sound recordings with data on their underlying music works.
RightsTech Heads to Europe
The RightsTech Project is pleased to announce the inaugural RightsTech Europe conference, which will beheld on April 9-10, 2019, in Frankfurt, Germany. The two-day conference, at the Instituto Cervantes, or "Spanish Cultural Institute," in Frankfurt's West End district, will be co-produced by the RightsTech Project and Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair) organizers of the world's largest book fair and publishing rights marketplace.
EU Copyright Directive: Cracks Appear in Support for Article 13
With final negotiations underway among the European Parliament, Council and Commission over the European Union's proposed Copyright Directive, and lobbying for and against it at a fevered pitch, Article 13 of the directive, which could force online service providers to actively screen content uploaded to their platforms for copyright infringing material, remains at the center of the debate. This week, however, cracks began to appear in once solid wall of support for the measure among major rights owners.
In a letter to the negotiating parties, the Motion Picture Association, representing the major studios, along with the Independent Film & Television Alliance, the Association of Commercial Television in Europe, and several major European sports leagues, took issue with changes being considered in the "trilogue" to the version of Article 13 passed by the European Parliament in September, claiming they would further cement the dominance of major online players such as YouTube, and asked that their content be excluded from provision should those changes be adopted.
"Recent proposals would undermine current case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) which already makes it clear that online content sharing service providers (OCSSPs) communicate to the public and are not eligible for the liability privilege of Article 14 E-Commerce Directive," the organizations wrote. "Recall that the initial goal of Article 13 was to codify the existing case-law in a way that would enable right holders to
better control the exploitation of their content vis a vis certain OCSSPs which currently wrongfully claim they benefit from the liability privilege of Article 14 E-Commerce Directive. However, unfortunately, the Value Gap provision has mutated in such a way that it now strengthens even further the role of OCSSPs to the direct detriment of right holders and completely undermines the status quo in terms of the EU liability regime."
The purported "mutations" appears to be a reference to a proposal by the Council of Europe, made up of representatives from EU member governments to adopt certain existing copyright filtering systems, such as YouTube's Content ID, as the standard to meet for all online platforms, which would leave it to rights owners to identify their content and instances of infringing uses on the platforms, rather than shifting the burden of identifying and filtering infringing content to platform providers.
"Some of the options proposed for discussion at trilogue level indeed wrongfully undermine current law and weaken right holders' exclusive rights by, among others: creating a new liability privilege for certain platforms that have taken specific steps to avoid the availability of infringing copyright content on their services (but have failed to do so effectively), and conditioning protection of copyright online on right holders bearing the full burden of identifying and notifying copyright infringing content to platforms," the letter said. "These would constitute gifts to already powerful platforms, and would de facto constitute the only real change to the current status quo in legal terms, thus improving the position of platforms, but not of right holders."
The groups' complaints come even as YouTube has continued its ferocious lobbying against Article 13 altogether, claiming it could still compel the Google-owned platform to remove huge swathes of legal content for fear of liability.
The music industry, meanwhile, largely continues to support the measure, pushing back forcefully against YouTube's claims.
In their letter, the TV and sports organizations suggest narrowing the scope of Article 13 to single out music and exclude other types of content.
"If…any new safe harbour/"mitigation of liability" would be part of a final trilogue agreement, we would respectfully urge you to disapply the entire value gap provision to our respective sectors," the letter said. "This could simply be achieved by making Article 13 specific to musical works and phonograms, as was the case, for example, in Title III of the Collective-Rights-Management-Directive of 20145."
One more negotiating session is scheduled, currently for December 14. A final vote on the directive is tentatively slated for mid-January.
RightsTech Returns to DEW
The RightsTech Project will host a full, two-day track of panels, keynotes, and presentations again this year at the Digital Entertainment World expo in Los Angeles on February 4-5 at the Marina Del Rey Marriott.
As always, RightsTech will bring together our unique mix of creators, entrepreneurs, technology developers, and rights owners from all sectors of the media world to discuss and debate technology-enabled solutions to the common challenges of managing and monetizing rights in the digital era.
Topics on the agenda for this year include:
- The Future of Rights and Royalties
- What's Next for the Music Modernization Act?
- Tools for DIY Artists
- Blockchain Goes to the Movies
- Managing Rights at Enterprise Scale
- Metadata Standards and Management
- Bringing Transparency to Royalties and Residuals
- … and more
RightsTech@DEW kicks off an expanded slate of conferences for 2019, which will also include the first RightsTech: Europe conference in Frankfurt, Germany April 9-10, and the annual fall RightsTech Summit in New York.
Click here for information on how to register for Digital Entertainment World.
For speaking and sponsorship opportunities contact Paul Sweeting at email@example.com.
For general inquiries regarding DEW, or information on other conference tracks, contact Tinzar Sherman at email@example.com.
Sony Has Plans for Blockchain, But How Big?
Sony Corporation, along with Sony Music Japan and Sony Global Education, this week issued an intriguing but rather vague press release announcing the development of "a rights management system for digital content that utilizes blockchain technology."
According to the release, the new systems "is based on Sony and Sony Global Education's previously developed system for authenticating, sharing, and rights management of educational data," that Sony developed last year using IBM's blockchain platform. The latest version, however, includes additional "features functionality (sic) for processing rights-related information."
That last part appears to point to a system that could accommodate user-generated, or at least third-party content not created or owned by Sony, as the release kinda, sorta spells out:
Today, advances in technologies for digital content creation allow anyone to broadcast and share content, but the rights management of that content is still carried out conventionally by industry organizations or the creators themselves, necessitating a more efficient way of managing and demonstrating ownership of copyright-related information for written works. This newly-developed system is specialized for managing rights-related information of written works, with features for demonstrating the date and time that electronic data was created, leveraging the properties of blockchains to record verifiable information in a difficult to falsify way, and identifying previously recorded works, allowing participants to share and verify when a piece of electronic data was created and by whom. In addition to the creation of electronic data, booting up this system will automatically verify the rights generation of a piece of written works, which has conventionally proven difficult.
The most intriguing part of the announcement, however, is Sony's claim that the system, "lends itself to the rights management of various types of digital content including electronic textbooks and other educational content, music, films, VR content, and e-books."
That suggests Sony could have big plans for the system, and indeed, the release states the company "is contemplating possible uses in a wide range of fields."
Just how big those plans might be, however, is hard to tell from the announcement. The system is still in prototype, and according to the announcement, plans to commercialize it are still under discussion.
Sony wouldn't be the first major media company to dabble in blockchain only to let it go, should nothing come of this week's announcement. Disney developed its Dragonchain private blockchain platform back in 2015 and 2016, only to spin it off as an open-source project under the auspices of a non-profit foundation.
But the Sony release contains additional hints that blockchain is a genuine priority for the Japanese conglomerate.
"Sony Group is also considering innovative ways to make use of blockchain technology for information management and data distribution in a host of different fields," the release said. "Through the technological development and commercialization of blockchains, including with this new system, Sony will continue exploring the possibilities that blockchain technology holds for Sony Group's diverse and wide-ranging business domains."
Earlier this year, Sony applied for two blockchain-related U.S. patents that may contain clues as to what sort of information management and data distribution applications it has in mind.
One filing, 20180218027, describes a new type of crypto-mining hardware that includes additional circuitry to compress the data that goes into a new block before adding it to the chain, reducing the storage requirements of the chain. Further, the blockchain supported by the new hardware would incorporate the compression processing into its proof-of-work consensus mechanism.
"As mentioned, the mining process of a block which shall be added to the distributed ledger includes compressing data of the block," the filing says. "In some embodiments, the mining process is won by the electronic node which provides the smallest block which is to be added, i.e. the block having the best compression may win."
Each block could also consist of multiple sub-blocks "wherein a sub-block may include at least one of: transaction data, video data, image data, audio data, document data or the like."
The other filing, 20180219686, describes a type of distributed ledger maintained in part by a number of "virtual nodes" that could continue to maintain the ledger "when the number of [physical] nodes is small, and consensus may be maintained when some devices go offline."
Together, the filings could point to some sort of restricted, or perhaps permissioned, blockchain-based, peer-to-peer content distribution platform that could accommodate large data payloads by compressing them before adding the data to the chain.
Whether all of those threads ultimately tie together is unclear at this point. What is clear is that Sony is looking hard at potential blockchain use cases.
Podcast: Investing in Rights and Rightstech
With the 3rd annual RightsTech Summit approaching, RightsTech co-founder Paul Sweeting was interviewed by the Copyright Clearance Center's Christopher Kenneally for CCC's Beyond the Book podcast.
Sweeting and Kenneally discuss the growing investor appetite for rightstech companies, the emergence of securitized rights and royalties as a financial asset class, data and transparency, and plans for the RightsTech Summit.
"What's happened in the last two decades at an accelerating pace has been a transformation of the primary mode of consumption from one based on ownership to one based on access," Sweeting noted. "What that's done to the media businesses and rights-owning businesses is it's fundamentally changed how they make money. They no longer sell or they no longer predominantly sell copies of things. They have recurring revenue streams resulting from licensed access. That recurring revenue stream model has meant recurring payout obligations to those media companies."
Where you have recurring revenue streams, Sweeting explained, "you have a measure of predictability of the returns on rights, because you can measure the recurring revenues and make projections with a reasonable degree of confidence as to what those revenue streams will be five years out, 10 years out. So where you have a measure of predictability in returns, essentially rights are becoming something like a financial asset class in their own right, because investors are always looking for predictability of returns."
The full podcast is embedded below, but is also available on CCC's website, and on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Stitcher Radio.
The full transcript is available here.
Investor Appetite Grows for Rights and Rightstech
One of our goals in launching the RightsTech Project was to help draw attention to the growing amount of, as well as the growing need for, investment in the business-to-business layer of the media value chain.
That's the layer that connects the creative end of the pipeline with the consumer or market-facing end of the chain. It's the layer where intangible rights are supposed to get translated into tangible forms of commerce so that market demand can be met and authors and rights owners can capture the monetary value of their work, or at least a portion of it.
Over the past two decades, both the creative and market-facing ends of the value chain have been utterly transformed, in scale and velocity, by digital technology. But the middle layer, the B2B layer, until recently remained stubbornly analog, opaque and slow. The result was a highly and increasingly inefficient system for translating market transactions into remuneration for creators.
There are many reasons for that inertia. Unlike the creative and market-facing ends of the pipeline, the B2B layers is not governed by ordinary supply and demand but by a complex web of contracts, business arrangements, statute, legal precedence, treaty, and tradition, all of which are difficult and resistant to change.
Even where there has been a will to change, however, the means were often not available, due to a significant under-investment in B2B systems, from both a technological and financial perspective. You can't simply make old systems run faster; you need new systems, which takes both money and imagination.
More recently, though, that investment has started to come, particularly on the technological side. The gradual construction of a large-scale, cloud-based computing and storage infrastructure has made it economically feasible to develop and deploy the sort of secure, enterprise-scale rights management and payment systems media companies need to cope with the scale and velocity of transactions generated by new modes of content creation and consumption.
The emergence of new technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence has also attracted entrepreneurs and developers bent on disrupting — or at least improving upon — legacy systems.
Now, the financial side is starting to catch up. In June, the Hipgnosis Songs Fund successfully raised $260 million through an initial public offering to invest in acquiring song catalogs. The capital raise represents a clear bet not just on the future growth of the subscription streaming business and other new revenue sources for music, but on the capability and capacity to translate those revenue streams into value for rights owners and investors.
This fall is expected to bring an announcement regarding what may be the first rightstech-focused VC fund, led by long-time music industry executive and consultant Göran Andersson and former Armonia Online CEO Virginie Berger. The pair are looking to raise a $50 million war chest, with half to be earmarked for musictech startups and half for non-music focused rightstech ventures.
This week brought the announcement of a deal by City National Bank to acquire artist payment platform Exactuals, which recently expanded from its base in managing film and television residuals payments into managing music rights and payments.
Exactuals has plans to target additional media businesses with its payments platform in the future as well, according to CEO Mike Hurst, who also foresees increased financial investment in the rights and rights-management space.
"I think you're going to see increased in investment in the sector for a couple of reasons," Hurst said in an interview with RightsTech. "Number one is scale. The volume of uses has just exploded and there's a real need for automation" of business systems to keep up. "Ten or 15 years ago, in the TV business, you had maybe 20 cable channels that wanted four or five movies a year from any given studio and that was your residuals business. It was almost all in the U.S. and the number of deals was very manageable. Today, every country has 100 channels looking for content, and you have global players like Netflix who don't just want to buy four or five movies, they want everything you've made for the past 11 years. So you need systems that are agile and scalable in a way they weren't before."
A second factor, Hurst said, has been the emergence of rights as an asset class in themselves.
"These rights have become tradeable commodities and there's just a huge amount of rights changing hands now," he said. "Moving these assets around is very difficult, because of the scale and because there are a lot of moving parts."
Hurst also sees several factors likely to attract financial investors to the sector as well.
"The returns [for investors] can be very good, it's a more interesting business than 10-year treasury notes, and the streaming business is exploding," he said. "So, even if you think you're paying a high multiple [for rights] today, in five years it could turn into a really tremendous investment."
That's certainly the view of the founders of the Hipgnosis Songs Fund, which last month paid $23 million for a 75 percent stake in the 302-song catalog previously owned by composer Terius Nash.
"When we talk about gold, oil or diamonds, we talk about things that the financial world feels are priceless and investable. My ambition is that in the future they will feel the same way about songs," Hipgnsos CEO Merck Mercuriadis told RightsTech last week. "Today 90 percent of the artists that are being signed are singing someone else's song. So the song and the songwriter is clearly the most important component of today's music industry,"
That growing investor interest in rights-based assets can also translate into demand for rightstech investments as well, according to Hurst.
"In our case, we make money when we make payments. And we make payments when uses happen," he said. "As the market grows, we will make more payments, which will generate more revenue on a relatively fixed cost base. So from an investment perspective, you're getting the underlying value of the company plus the value of the growth in the market. So it's sort of a double dip in terms of ROI."
Mercuriadis will be featured in a special fireside chat at the RightsTech Summit on Oct. 5, along with Hipgnosis advisory board member and Grammy-winning artist and producer Nile Rodgers.
Click here for information on how to register for the summit.
Spotify: The global music copyright business grew by $1.5bn in 2016
In the calendar year of 2016, the latest year we can capture across all income sources, the global value of music copyright in worldwide revenue terms was nearly $26bn – representing growth of $1.5bn (+6.1%) on 2015. That's a much bigger figure than IFPI's value of recorded-music-only in the same year, at $16bn.
The $1.5bn annual growth is exciting when you consider that, in the prior year, the total annual global copyright revenue figure grew by a significantly smaller amount – $941m.
Source: How the global music copyright business grew by $1.5bn in 2016 (and why that's amazing news today)


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Happy 6th Birthday to the Andersen lab
News & Updates
25 Aug 2020Erik presents to ConnectCon
Erik gives a basic genetics talk to a middle school STEM audience.
12 Aug 2020Nic Moya was appointed to the Biotechnology Training Program!
This amazing opportunity will fund his work and enable him to do an industrial intership.
08 Aug 2020Erik did an interview for the Finding Genius Podcast.
18 May 2020Nic Moya joins the lab as a graduate student!
He will focus on genome assemblies and de novo gene models.
24 Jan 2020Congratulations to Katie!
She was appointed to the Center for Quantitative Biology.


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Don't mix politics and entertainment? Think again.
Actor Joseph Estrada became president in 1998 while his showbiz pal, Fernando Poe Jr., almost became one in 2004. TV stars topped the senate race in 1992, 1998, 2001 and 2007. There are three actors in the senate today and all of them are running for re-election. Based on latest survey results, two actors are competing for the top position in this year's senate elections. The vice presidential bet of the administration party is a popular TV host and actor. The major candidates of the local elections in the key cities of Metro Manila like Paranaque, Manila, Quezon City and Caloocan are former film stars.
But actors are not automatic winners in elections. Yes, they are well-known and this is a clear advantage, but it is not enough to dismantle the political machinery of well-entrenched families and parties. In 2007, showbiz candidates in the senate race were rejected by voters. World boxing champion and national icon Manny Pacquaio was 'knocked-out' by a scion of a political dynasty in General Santos City in Mindanao Island.
But despite these celebrated setbacks, parties continue to field actors in elections because the popularity and rapport of actors with the poor make them winnable candidates.
On the other hand, it is not just film stars who want to enter the world of politics. Most of the time, it is politicians who want to enter the showbiz world. To gain fame, many politicians and aspiring politicians seek affiliation with the entertainment industry. Even President Gloria Arroyo appeared in an afternoon TV series during the early years of her presidency. Her son was an actor first before becoming a politician. Analysts believe that Kiko Pangilinan and Ralph Recto became senators in 2001 because they have superstar wives who are on TV everyday. Some politicians succeed in having their life story featured in TV drama shows. Last year, vice presidential candidate Mar Roxas proposed marriage to his celebrity fiancée on a noon-time variety program.
All major candidates are aggressively hiring actors to endorse their candidacies. Super rich politicians are able to solicit the support of famous young actors of the industry. Presidential candidate Noynoy Aquino is lucky because his sister is the lead actress and host of numerous top-rated shows while his brother-in-law is a basketball superstar. Not to be outdone, Senator Manny Villar was able to convince other showbiz icons to endorse his presidential bid. Even Pacquaio, the idol of the masses, has endorsed Villar. Being a former actor, it seems former President Estrada has no need for too many celebrity endorsers. Besides, his son who is a senator today is also an actor.
It is not illegal and wrong for actors to join politics as their entry brings entertainment, glitter and fun in an otherwise boring and ugly election campaign. Also, some actor turned politicians have performed well in public service. They can also help challenge the dominant rule of oligarchs in provinces and many of them are sincere in their desire to serve the poor.
But actors must not bank on their popularity alone to succeed in the elections. They must be ready to articulate a coherent platform of governance and they must prove that they are competent to hold public office. Meanwhile, celebrity endorsers should be more discerning in choosing the candidates they will support because their opinion is highly valued by their loyal fans and supporters.
In the end, it is the voting public who will decide whether a celebrity candidate or endorser deserves to win in the elections.
Nuisance candidates are supposed to be instantly weeded out by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) once they have filed their certificates of candidacies. Those who were immediately eliminated from the 2010 presidential race were 'bizarre candidates' like Rigoberto Madera who identified himself as the 'Ultimate Messiah,' David Torralba Alimurung who wanted to re-forest the deserts of the Middle East and Daniel Magtira who vowed to lead the switch from the country's usage of its standard 220 volts on electricity sockets to 110 volts. Perhaps the most famous nuisance candidate in recent history was Eddie Gil who found brief success as TV star after being dislodged from the presidential electoral contest in 2004.
The criteria used by the Comelec to disqualify candidates have been questioned by some parties and candidates themselves. Presidential candidate Nicanor Perlas and Senatorial bet Danilo Lim were initially disqualified by the poll body before finally getting the approval to participate in the elections. Senator Alan Cayetano wanted the Comelec to declare his colleague Senator Jamby Madrigal, as a nuisance presidential bet. Activist lawmakers have branded President Gloria Arroyo, who is aiming to win a congressional seat in Pampanga province, as a nuisance candidate.
A nuisance candidate is also someone who deliberately causes confusion among the voters by running against candidates with similar names. As in previous elections, there are many candidates today whose intention in joining the race was to weaken the candidacies of contenders with similar names. In some instances, Comelec failed to quickly resolve disqualification cases against these nuisance candidates. When the Comelec finally disqualified these dubious candidates, the damage has already been done because the election ballots were already printed. These were empty victories in favor of the real candidates because on Election Day, the names of the supposedly eliminated nuisance bets are still included in the official ballot.
The Comelec was also criticized for its delayed action on the disqualification case against presidential candidate Vetellano Acosta. It was only last month when Comelec finally removed Acosta from the official list of candidates. This was too late because the ballots have been printed already. Acosta's name will still appear in the official ballot next month. The Liberal Party believes the delayed decision was intentional in order to prevent the name of its standard bearer, Noynoy Aquino, from appearing first on the list of presidential candidates.
There is another type of nuisance candidate; although their candidacies cannot be legally questioned. Some candidates are fielding fake candidates in order to weaken their rivals. Fake candidates with similar names can be easily disqualified by the poll body but politicians or former leaders who enjoy a certain level of social reputation can be asked by parties or fellow politicians to run in the elections in order to divide the votes of other candidates. These candidates, though legitimate in the eyes of the law, are no different from other nuisance candidates whose real intention is to collect money and not to win.
It is important that voters distinguish the real from fake candidates. There are still nuisance candidates and other undesirables who have been allowed to run in the elections.


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What You Need1/2 cup hot fudge ice cream topping, warmed
1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed, divided
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POUR fudge topping into medium bowl. Whisk in 1 cup COOL WHIP. Add dry pudding mix; stir 2 min. Stir in chopped cookies.
ARRANGE 4 ice cream sandwiches, side-by-side, on 24-inch-long sheet of foil; top with half the COOL WHIP mixture. Repeat layers. Top with remaining sandwiches. Frost top and sides with remaining COOL WHIP. Bring up foil sides; double fold top and ends to loosely seal packet.
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Yesterday, while on yet another research trip, we spent the day interviewing a history professor at University of California – Fullerton. His name is Carmon Hardy. He did his doctoral dissertation on the Mormon Colonies in Mexico. He was the one that helped Nelle Spillsbury Hatch complete her book, STALWARTS SOUTH OF THE BORDER.
After getting lost for over an hour, we met him at a restaurant near the campus. We enjoyed lunch and became acquainted with each other. We went to the University but, ultimately, he took us to his home to complete the interview. There, we met his lovely artist wife, Kamillia. During the filming and interview we were pleasantly surprised with the amount of information he had accumulated through the years and the insight he has over the subject of the colonies. It was a pleasure to be in their home. I personally witnessed the care and consideration they have for each other and others, even strangers like us!
They were both such generous and kind individuals. Carmon patiently sat for hours and answered questions under the heat of the lights and the California summer afternoon. Kamillia prepared a light supper for us to enjoy on their patio. Interviews can be tedious, difficult and exhausting, but we found Carmon to be articulate, responsive and insightful, the golden interviewee.
We left feeling like we had been in the presence of sincerely kind souls. Thank you, Carmon and Kamillia, for sharing your home, your life experiences and your authentic selves. It was a joy meeting you. We appreciate you both and wish you the best.


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Looking thru my blog draft posts, I realized that I never posted another piece of my Alison Glass Mini Quilt Swap story. So here it is….
I was in an Instagram Alison Glass Swap. My Swap Mama asked me to be an Angel and make a mini for one of the team because their original partner unfortunately had to drop out at the last minute. I had about a week to make and ship it. OK…I said to myself, I can do this!
I wanted to make this the second in the series so that the design would relate visually to the first piece, but also change it up a bit.
I looked at my swap partner's feed and saw her preferred colors (white, aqua, teal, yellow, red, green, grey) and that she didn't like purple that much. (Back in the stash went the purple Alison Glass fabric that was on the cutting table.) She said she liked solid white backgrounds and I added the Alison Glass offwhite with the black dots to my fabric pull. Fortunately, I had a good amount left of it.
I noticed that she had some precision pieced blocks in her IG feed. So, I pulled out my paper piecing and started there with pretty good results. I printed my templates from EQ7.
Then, I made some improv blocks with free hand cut curves. Lastly, I decided to add some needle turn applique–a bit of real handwork that wasn't a technique that I used in my first Alison Glass mini quilt. The circular piece on the yellow square in the middle of the miniquilt is fussy cut to get those yellow flowers in it, and then needle turn applique–not done as elegantly as I would have liked. Clearly, I need to practice much more to get my needle turn chops back.
I finished this mini in 6 days and mailed it off early.
Here is the full quilt–Alison Glass MiniQuilt #2.
I went to the Library and picked up The Girl On the Train audio book to keep me company while I worked. It was sooooo good!!!
Here are my paper piecing templates from EQ7.
Here is a detail progress shot showing how the layout started to evolve as I made the blocks. I didn't make the blocks to fit a pattern. I just pieced and then started arranging and then pieced a bit more. I made several changes and photographed them along the way before finally deciding on the final layout. The blue masking tape is to give me a rough approximation of size. I wanted it to be 20- 24 inches on any side.
Me doing my needle turn–and needing a manicure:
Here are some detail shots showing the machine and hand quilting. I quilted a spiral around the hand applique circle using my walking foot–no marking. I just used the edge of the foot as my guide. Other quilting was straight line marked with masking tape or using the edge of the blocks for guidance. I added some hand quilting around the appliqued circle using a yellow perle cotton thread. The binding is a faced binding.


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Midrand, 9 November 2015 – Infortrend, announced today the official appointment of CSSI (Computer Storage Services) as their new distributor for their 2015 award-winning storage products.
In 2015, Infortrend claimed the number 1 spot for performance and priced competitively in the fiercely competed storage arena. Notably, Infortrend was ranked first in terms of IOPS and record-breaking speeds from the Storage Performance Council. The company has won several other awards, including a 5-star review from ITPro UK for their SMB product range and affordable high-speed array devices in their DS family range.
Their choice of partner – CSSI has been a leading data storage and solutions provider on the African continent for the past 15 years. With branches in the major city centres – Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg with an unrivalled 24-hour experienced support team allowing this partnership to provide Infortrend's South African clients with the best of product, performance, and service.
To celebrate the partnership and accolades as the World's Best Price-Performance EonStor DS Storage range, Infortrend is providing several flash bundle promotions, for their All-Flash Storage and hybrid options and competitively priced options to new customers in the African region.
One unique feature to customers who need performance storage is Infortrend's unique ability to interchange host ports on their DS family products. The products can also migrate across topology from a NAS to a SAN without the need to replace the actual device or disk.
More notably is that the host interface modules are independent. This means the DS family of storage arrays can be configured, or at any time upgraded between Fibre Channel, iSCSI or SAS alongside its default iSCSI ports without having to replace the disk, the array or any lengthy downtime. These technological features enhance the offering and provide exponential savings for businesses, corporations, and data centre clients that have requirements for high speed, high availability solutions. With the ease to modify or change network infrastructure or network backbones is a massive saving and a notable reason that Infortrend is gaining rapid market popularity.
The other impressive features are the redundant high-performance Turbo controllers, which have a sustained IOPS performance of 550,000 (550K) IOPS, and can read data at 5.5 Gigabytes per second (GB/s) and write performance at over 2 GB/s.
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It frustrated me seeing decisions that affected my country, the world, being made by adults without young people's wishes being considered. Then, aged 12, I read 'Moxie' by Jennifer Mathieu and realised that anyone can help people, including kids!
I am very involved with campaigning, including with Amnesty International and Global Citizen, and at school I have set up pupil-led groups such as the eco-team and have fundraised for charity. I am also a Kids Against Plastic Ambassador.
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Members of the PCMS wrestling team earned many top spots during a recent meet, including (front l-r) Jordan Thompson in third place and Ayden Stanley in first (middle row l-r) Ty Brown in third, Landen Wood in fourth, Luke Moon in first, Trever Young in first, Trenton Young in first, Jack Hammond in third, Wyatt Varner in fourth, Phillip Smith in second (back row l-r) PJ Justice in first, Bryce Sammons in third, Haydyn Littleton in first, Zane Bristol in first, Jackson Terry in second, Ian White in fourth, Gabriel Strickland in first, Braydin Ridgeway in first, Andrew Hood in second and Bradley Presley in second. Not pictured are Ty Garner who earned fourth place, Prayvin Rees who earned first place and Caydin Hinson who earned third place.
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JAnaury 17 is the day Charles Gore, sometime Bishop of Oxford, died in 1932. Although Anglo-Catholic, he could be quite liberal in theology, as well as anti-Papal. He was, however, a co-founder of the Mirfield Fathers – which has given the Church at least one illustrious convert, the late Msgr. Augustine Hoey, whom I had the honour to meet once, many years ago. But he also wrote a pamphlet attacking the 1930 Lambeth Council's reversal on birth control. As a defence of the traditional Christian teaching on contraception, it belongs next to "Humanae Vitae" or Halliday Sutherland's "Birth Control." For that alone he deserves some gratitude!
1 thought on "Charles Gore – the Uncomfortable Bishop of Oxford."
Another illustrious —I hate to use the word "convert" but in this context it will have to do—is Msgr. Robert Mercer, CR, former Anglican Bishop of Matabeleland in Zimbabwe and former Bishop of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada. We were so blessed to have this amazing man as our bishop. He is greatly responsible for my becoming Catholic because of what he taught, how he was as a person, and how he celebrated the liturgy. He prayed the Mass with such reverence and recollection that I, with my terrible wandering mind and attention difficulties, could hear every word and not only that, I had a sense we were lifted into the worship of heaven. I came into our parish from 10 years as an evangelical, in a Baptist Church, but his reverence towards the Blessed Sacrament conveyed volumes about Real Presence. He also loved Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and he was one of the main reasons we were all rooting for him in the Conclave of 2005.
I recently got a letter from Msgr. Mercer in reply to my Christmas card, and he described the various assortment of folks spending Christmas with him at Mirfield. Alas, the place has left him behind, become a shadow of its former Anglo-Catholicism.


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Today, our Digital Culture Media and Sport Select Committee has published a report giving the Government a deadline of the 24th July to confirm that it will introduce new legislation within six months to protect elections and referendums against online interference.
Our report accuses the Government of ignoring urgent recommendations in our cross party Committee's final report into Disinformation and 'fake news' to:
• Introduce a new category for digital spending on political campaigns
• Ensure information about all online political advertising material is logged in a searchable public repository
• Acknowledge the risks of foreign investment in elections, for example via digital payments like Paypal
• Acknowledge the role and power of unpaid campaigns and Facebook Groups in influencing elections and referendums, inside and outside the designated election campaign spending period
Our current electoral laws are not fit for purpose. Political campaigns are predominantly fought online, not through the letter box and our laws need to be brought up to date with the digital age. We've repeatedly highlighted threats to our electoral system and it's essential that public confidence is restored.
We will be taking further evidence on the subject at Committee hearings this month, including taking advice on how such legislation might be drafted. We're looking at how anti-money laundering regulations might be adapted to ensure political parties can be held accountable for their financing practices in the era of digital payment systems. We are concerned that a political party could participate in an election without satisfying the Electoral Commission that it has the appropriate financial procedures in place to comply with current electoral law.
The Government's Online Harms White Paper has minimal focus on electoral interference and online political advertising, both of which we had highlighted as requiring urgent action.
Our recommendation that the White Paper should include analysis about foreign players targeting voters and whether current legislation to protect the electoral process from malign influence has also been overlooked.
You can read our report here https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/2431/2431.pdf


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For the first time in the issue's 52-year history, it has multiple covers, and Graham becomes the issue's first-ever plus-sized cover girl.
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The covers took months to be chosen, and none of the models had any idea they were selected until the live announcement on Saturday's TNT "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2016 Revealed," hosted by Nick Cannon and Rebecca Romijn.
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Where is Burma on the World MapWho is Burma on the world map?
Mystery: Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: Burma: trends in human rights
Burma's authorities have taken no action to alleviate its terrible track record in terms of respect for people. As before, the governing State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) pursued a policy of marginalising the democracy through imprisonment, harassment and restriction of fundamental freedoms. In spite of denunciation at home and abroad, the system of compulsory labour remains in place.
Serious breaches of the principles of international civil liberties and compassionate justice have persisted in the war-affected areas of East Burma. There the Shan State Army-South (SSA-S), the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) and the Karen National Union (KNU) and some other smaller groups continue their refusals to accept a ceasefire with the regime, as other insurgents had done, but they were no longer able to maintain significant territories.
Ten thousand village dwellers in the controversial areas have stayed evicted in resettlement areas or within the area. In addition, the SDC refused its members of the public the right to express their opinions, to form associations, to hold meetings and to move around. Aung San Suu Kyi, the SPDC's anti-NLD speech became more and more extrem.
In his March 27 Armed Services Day speech, Snr-Gen Than Shwe demanded that the powers that undermine the country's resilience be removed. At a May 18 news briefing, several Myanmar officers referred to the links between the NLD and rebels along the Thai-Burmese frontier, and on September 4, Myanmar's formal information committee reiterated this accusation in a news item after Burma's NLD head office was attacked by Burma's military in Rangoon.
During the year, the SSDC freed several high-ranking detainees, but kept arresting those involved in peacebuilding. On December 19, NLD youth member Tun Zaw Zaw Zaw, also known as Tun Tint Wai, was dismissed for health reasons after his mom asked him to treat an ocular sickness.
Former publisher of the business journal Danna, Moe Thu (Sein Myint) was dismissed on 3 January 2000 following the passing of his family. At the 22nd of May the regime freed Cho Nwe Oo, who had been imprisoned since 1995 for a protests against the burial of former premier U Nu.
There are six older men in the administration, five of whom are said to be NLD members, just after the UN Secretary-General's UN Secretary-General's ambassador to Burma, Razali Ismail, asked for the men and other detainees to be freed during his October 2000 trip to Burma. After fierce protest by the UK State Department over a report that Mawdsley was captured and a declaration by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Imprisonment that he was illegally detained, the UK authorities on 20 October freed UK campaigner James Mawdsley.
Mr. Barnes was serving a year of seventeen years in prison for the distribution of pro-democracy pamphlets in Burma. At the 24th of April the Social Democratic Party of Germany arrest a member of the committee representing the People's Parliament (CRPP), the NLD's shadows legislation. In the same months, the NLD arrest by the regime of over a hundred NLD members was an obvious effort to repress protest on the occasion of the 10th anniversaries of the 1990 elections.
In addition, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has monitored the situation of several thousand detainees and has been able to set up agencies in Kengtung in Shan State, Pa-an State in Karen State and Moulmein State in Mon State to oversee the situation of the civilian population in East Burma. Last August 24, Burma authorities took steps to stop the free movements of NLD Secretary-General Aung San Suu Kyi, Deputy Chairman Tin Oo and a dozen other members of the political parties by driving their two cars off the Dala highway on the Rangoon sidelines.
Goverment troops declined to allow the NLD to go to the NLD base in Kunyangon, 30 leagues from the capitol, and asked them to go back to Rangoon on "security issues. On the previous morning, the NLD had been attacked and a large number of papers seized by police. According to the administration, the roundup revealed devastating proof that members of the NLD helped rebel groups bootleg explosive into Burma and locked nine members of the NLD National Liberation Army Police Directorate into their houses until an inquiry was completed.
However, on September 21, the Chinese authorities blockaded an offer by Suu Kyi and other NLD members to take the rail to Mandalay. Its nine members were still in office in October 2000. Unrestricted use of hard labour for developing infrastructures, building Buddhist settlements, maintaining armed forces bases and porting troops to patrol the United States.
The ILO's mission reported once again urged the ILO to stop the use of hard labour, abolish or change the community's laws on hard labour, supervise observance and punish those who have done so. Burma's Labour Minister, Major General Tin Ngwe, sent a May 27 message to the ILO General Manager saying that SADC leadership "have taken and are taking the necessary steps to make sure that there are no cases of hard labour in Myanmar.
" However, the ILO meeting came to the conclusion that the SDC had not ended the exercise and gave the SDC until November 2000 to initiate reform or impose possible sanction. An ILO mission went to Rangoon on 19 October to check whether there was still hard labour. Ten thousand village dwellers in the war zones of Shan State, Karenni State, Karen State, Mon State and the Tenasserim Divisions to the east stayed in resettlement areas and were subjected to curfew, plundering and restricted movements by the Myanmar military.
In the resettlement areas of the Myanmar authorities, Burma's escapees have been subject to severe curfews that prohibit residents from evacuating their houses between twilight and daybreak, and in some cases prohibit speech and impose a strong off-light policies. Ten thousand other village dwellers in the east and southeast of Burma stayed exiled in the woods or areas fought over by the military and rebel groups.
Westerners have been deprived of full nationality by the SPDC's citizens. It was also customary to use hard labour. One immediate result of the continuing abuse was the steady migration of Rohingya migrants into the Bangladesh labour markets. About 20,000 people stayed in the Nayapara and Kutapalong in Bangladesh in October 2000, but the camp was formally shut down for newcomers.
Many of the country's colleges, which had been closing since 1996, were opened by the SDC on 27 July. However, since the mid-1990s, many locations had been moved to the countryside, and the University of Rangoon, a former stronghold of civic action, stayed open to all student exchanges until last year.