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On August 30th I received a message from the campaign group 38 Degrees about another major government assault on our civil liberties and right to protest. The message began as follows:
I've just got back from my summer holiday. I read last week's email, "38 Degrees under threat", whilst I was away camping. [1] Not exactly what you want to see when you're trying to relax!
I must admit I hoped I'd get back in the office and find my colleagues had been guilty of some exaggeration. I've spent the last couple of days speaking to lawyers and other experts, to get to the bottom of what's going on.
I'm afraid it's really bad. The proposed gagging law would have a chilling effect on British democracy and our right to speak up on issues that matter to us.
The draft law could effectively stop organisations like 38 Degrees from speaking out for the whole year before a general election. From May 2014, we would be banned from holding politicians and political parties to account in ways we do all the time at present. [2]
Community groups, charities and campaigning organisations would all be hit. On the big issues of the day – whether or not to go to war, the future of our NHS, the environment, welfare, immigration, etc – we'd all be gagged.
Why are they proposing this? It's hard to say for sure. Maybe it's an unintended consequence of a badly written draft law. Or maybe it's a deliberate attempt by politicians to silence their critics.
Either way, they're trying to rush it through. MPs have their first chance to debate it this coming Tuesday, with crunch votes lined up for soon after that. [3]
Please can you help stand up for democracy and send an urgent email to your MP now?
[1] 38 Degrees Blog: 38 Degrees under threat http://blog.38degrees.org.uk/2013/08/22/38-degrees-under-threat/
[2] BWB legal opinion http://www.bwbllp.com/knowledge/2013/08/29/bwb-warns-new-laws-on-non-party-campaigners-pose-a-serious-threat/
[3] Bill documents — Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill 2013-14 http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/transparencyoflobbyingnonpartycampaigningandtradeunionadministration/documents.html
38 Degrees also produced their own short film with contributions from Guido Fawkes, Friends of the Earth, Baston Legal & HOPE not hate, which is entitled "What is the Gagging Law?" and embedded below:
And here is further information about the bill with links
News Coverage:
BBC – Lobbying bill could silence us, say charities
Charity lawyer warns new lobbying bill poses 'existential threat to charity campaigning
The Independent View: Concerns about lobbying bill are not alarmist
Reports from experts:
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) has made a statement on the bill:
Transparency of Lobbying Bill – unintended consequences or Trojan horse?
And here is a full briefing on the bill from the NCVO:
The Electoral Commission has said it has "significant concerns" about the bill and that it "may be unenforceable".
Then, Thursday [Sept 19th], I received the following update from 38 Degrees which includes a very detailed breakdown regarding the various claims now being made by the government in its response to opponents of the proposed legislation:
In three weeks, MPs have their final vote on the gagging law – a law that would mean ordinary people, campaigning groups and charities would be severely restricted in how they can campaign in the year leading up to an election.
The most recent debate was last Tuesday, and we lost a key vote by only a whisker – if just 16 more government MPs had switched sides, a key part of the gagging law would have been defeated. [1]
The growing MP rebellion was in part thanks to you – tens of thousands of 38 Degrees members flooded MPs with emails, phone calls and tweets. 80 local groups of 38 Degrees members went to see their MP face-to-face. Together, we proved that ordinary people are prepared to fight for their right to campaign on important issues.
Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs are clearly feeling the heat: a growing number of them have started trying to fob us off. They've started making all sorts of claims about what the law will and won't do. They say we have nothing to worry about.
Ros Baston, an independent political law and election solicitor, has taken a look at some of the most common lines MPs have been using when responding to 38 Degrees members and written a detailed document. [2] Here's 38 Degrees take on that document and why we still think we have something to worry about.
Myth 1: The new law will stop "big money" buying / influencing elections.
The government claims that this law is needed to stop US-style "super-PACs", run by millionaires, flooding the airwaves with negative political advertising. But they can't point to any examples of millionaire-backed "super-PACS" in the UK actually existing. Perhaps that's because we already have laws banning big money radio and TV advertising.
The way "big money" actually influences elections in the UK is through massive donations to political parties. That's a huge problem, with wealthy donors basically buying influence and peerages. The gagging law does nothing to stop this – millionaire party donors like Lord Ashcroft or Lord Sainsbury can continue to funnel as much cash into their chosen party as they like.
If the government really wanted to stop "big money" influencing politics, they could introduce a maximum donation limit for both political parties and independent groups. That would tackle the current problem and prevent any future rise in "super-PACs", and it's a measure 38 Degrees members would certainly support. Why are they instead targeting charities, community groups and campaigners?
Myth 2. Civil society will still be allowed to talk about issues – as long as they don't get involved in party politics.
Important issues which ordinary people care about, like trying to protect the NHS, will be a key election issue for most of the political parties. The gagging law would apply to campaigning on most issues that are being contested by different political parties – i.e. any big issue of the day! For example, if one political party made privatising NHS services a key part of its manifesto, then a 38 Degrees campaign against privatising the NHS would be considered 'for election purposes' and be subject to the gagging law. [3]
Myth 3. £390,000 is a lot of money. Why should organisations be allowed to spend more?
In a free society, charities, local groups and ordinary people should be able to come together and campaign effectively. £390,000 is only 2% of what political parties are allowed to spend. Also, the new law says that charities and campaign groups will have to include core staff costs in this limit – something political parties aren't expected to do.
Groups like 38 Degrees don't need as much money as political parties – we rely on people power rather than expensive advertising agencies. But organising people power does cost some money. 38 Degrees currently costs around £1.1 million per year to run – money spent on maintaining a powerful and secure web site, a small office, a staff team of 15, printing leaflets and posters, hiring church halls for member meetings, and so on. That's all funded by small donations (average donation £10.78) and reported in full in the annual audited accounts. [4]
Banning 38 Degrees from spending more than £390,000 would mean big people powered campaigns like Save our NHS or Save our Forests would be impossible to run.
Myth 4. Charities are happy now that some concessions have been promised
This isn't true. A wide range of organisations including NCVO, Oxfam, Christian Aid, Countryside Alliance and Friends of the Earth are still warning that the gagging law will have a huge impact on what they can campaign on. [5]
MPs have been claiming that NCVO are now happy with the amendments the government has committed to drafting. In fact the NCVO wrote a piece in The Guardian last week highlighting the problems they still think need solving [6]:
"NCVO and the wider voluntary sector have made it clear that the legislation remains ambiguous and potentially damaging in a number of places. In particular:
- The proposed list of activities that could count towards controlled expenditure remains neither clear nor workable
- The expenditure thresholds proposed in the new bill, both for registration with the Electoral Commission and as a maximum cap allowed, will be damaging
- The question of how to sensibly regulate groups working in coalition remains to be addressed."
The government is rushing the gagging law through parliament, but we now have just over two weeks to try to convince MPs to vote the right way. The office team are working hard to pull together some ideas of ways to beat this law and you'll get an email about this soon. But if you want to get back in touch with your MP and ask him or her about some of these myths, please click the link below:
If your MP has replied to your email about the gagging law and sent through a different claim you'd like help answering, or if you have some ideas on what we should do next in the campaign, then please get in touch at email@example.com.
[1] The Public Whip: Clause 27 – changes to existing limits: vote breakdown: http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2013-09-10&number=82
Twitter: Labour Whips twitter posts, 10 Sept: https://twitter.com/labourwhips
[2] Mythbuster document written by Ros Baston, independent political law and election solicitor, and was formerly Lead Adviser on Party and Election Finance at the Electoral Commission: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/-/Ros%20Baston%20MP%20replies%20mythbuster.pdf
[3] Daily Mirror: Lobby bill: Doctors face being gagged from concerns about NHS privatisation:http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lobby-bill-doctors-face-being-2263099#.UjiWppM9XMo.facebook
[4] Read our donations policy and see our accounts here: http://www.38degrees.org.uk/pages/donations-to-38-degrees
[5] Oxfam: Lobbying Bill represents a real threat to quality of debate in this country: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/blogs/2013/09/lobbying-bill-represents-a-real-threat-to-quality-of-debate-in-this-country-says-oxfam
Christian Aid: Christian Aid remains deeply concerned at Lobbying Bill: http://www.christianaid.org.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/september-2013/christian-aid-remains-deeply-concerned-at-lobbying-bill.aspx
Countryside Alliance: The Alliance's concerns over the Lobbying Bill: http://www.countryside-alliance.org/ca/communities/the-alliances-concerns-over-the-lobbying-bill
Friends of the Earth: U-turn? Nope, the Gagging Bill still gags us: http://www.foe.co.uk/news/gagging_bill_41124.html
[6] The Guardian: The problems posed by the lobbying bill are not completely solved: http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2013/sep/13/charities-lobbying-bill-problems-not-solved
Meanwhile, another campaign is underway to challenge the increasing use of Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, which UK human rights group Liberty describes "as a breathtakingly broad and intrusive power to stop, search and hold individuals at ports, airports and international rail stations":
It can be exercised without the need for any grounds of suspecting the person has any involvement in terrorism – or any other criminal activity. This means it can be used against anyone a police, immigration or customs officer chooses. Powers like this are ripe for overuse and abuse. They are invariably used in discriminatory fashion, with stops based on stereotype rather than genuine suspicion.
Click here to read more about Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 on Liberty's website.
A petition calling for a government review of the use of Schedule 7 has been launched by Adeel Akhtar – Akhtar, a stage and screen actor, being perhaps best known for a starring role in the black comedy "Four Lions", Chris Morris' satire about a group of Sheffield-based would-be jihadi terrorists.
So far Akhtar's petition has attracted signatures from over 70,000 supporters. And following the detainment of David Miranda – partner of a Guardian journalist, Glenn Greenwald – Akhtar's campaign also received a further boost when he was interviewed on the subject by the Huffington Post, Channel 4 News and BBC Breakfast.
MPs are due to review Schedule 7 in October, and Akhtar believes that his change.org campaign may prove crucial in getting the law changed. Before then, he says, he would like the petition to reach 100,000 signatures so that when the time comes, the government will see just how many people are calling for their human rights to be protected.
Click here if you would like to add your own name to this change.org petition calling for the government to review the use of Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act.
On Thursday 10th October I received a follow-up email from 38 degrees. It informed me that sadly, though hardly surprisingly, the government yesterday voted in favour of the new legislation. So it has passed the Commons and now awaits progress through the Lords. Here is part of the message I received:
Yesterday evening, MPs narrowly voted in favour of the gagging law. It now moves to the House of Lords, where it will start being debated in two weeks.
So we haven't yet seen off this threat to democracy. This is disappointing – I'd love to be emailing today to let you know we'd stopped it once and for all. But it's in no sense the end. By making the vote so close, we've got a strong chance of reversing it in the House of Lords.
I wanted to update you on what's happened and what happens next. And I wanted to ask for your feedback on what we should do next. But above all I wanted to say THANK YOU, for everything that 38 Degrees members have done so far. It's been truly amazing and has had a huge impact. […]
There was a fiery debate and a big rebellion in parliament yesterday. Only Lib Dem and Conservative MPs voted in favour. In total, across three crunch votes, it looks like 19 coalition MPs rebelled. [1]
To get 19 Lib Dem and Conservative MPs to vote against the gagging law was in no small part down to the amazing efforts of 38 Degrees members. Working together with some of Britain's most loved voluntary organisations, we made sure every MP felt under pressure.
Several more Lib Dem MPs rebelled compared to previous votes on the gagging law – after 38 Degrees members and many other organisations ramped up the pressure on them. The leaflets, posters, and meetings we organised made a clear difference. […]
So, what will happen next?
In the coming weeks, the gagging law will be voted on by the House of Lords. We need to try to persuade the Lords to get stuck in and block it. I think we can do it. There are reasons why convincing the Lords won't be that easy:
- The Lords are unelected. So we can't try to influence them "as their voters" in the way we can with MPs.
- A large number of peers are Lib Dems or Conservatives – and they will be under pressure from their party bosses to toe the government line.
But there are also some reasons to be optimistic:
- Lords tend to be more willing to challenge government legislation when it has been rushed through and where there hasn't been proper consultation. That definitely applies this time!
- Many peers are patrons and board members of voluntary organisations and charities which would be hit by the gagging law. This means they should have reason to be concerned.
- An independent "commission on civil society and democracy" has been set up with the support of dozens of voluntary organisations – and will provide the Lords with serious recommendations. It is chaired by an influential, nonparty Lord – Richard Harries, the former Bishop of Oxford. [2]
- 38 Degrees members learnt a lot about how to influence members of the House of Lords from our NHS campaign last year. [3]
[1] There were three vital votes in Parliament last night on the gagging law. The first (amendment 101) was a vote on what sort of expenditure would fall within the law, whilst the second (amendment 102) was a vote to raise the spending limits imposed by the law on non-party organisations. The third important vote was the "Third Reading", which was a vote on the whole gagging law.
On amendment 101, ten Coalition MPs rebelled (7 Conservative and 3 Liberal Democrats). On amendment 102, fourteen Coalition MPs rebelled (10 Conservative and 4 Liberal Democrats). On the Third Reading, eleven Coalition MPs rebelled (4 Conservative and 7 Liberal Democrats).
In total, it looks like nineteen Coalition MPs rebelled on at least one of the important votes (10 Conservatives and 9 Liberal Democrats). The office team will crunch together the data on the various votes over the next few days and send you info on how your MP voted as soon as we're confident it's 100% accurate.
[2] Civil Society Commission website: http://civilsocietycommission.info/
[3] Save our NHS action centre: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/pages/save_our_nhs_action_centre

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The relationship between gaming and 3D printing is a subject that I am most attentive to, probably because the synergy between these two, very similarly three dimensional, creative expressions has not, in my opinion, been sufficiently explored by any means. Minecraftprint, Toyze and Fabzat are only niche examples of a trend that I believe will become an avalanche, as soon as it reaches a critical mass of popular attention.
The creators of Gambody, a 3D model marketplace aiming to offer licensed gaming-related 3D models, along with a few "general use" 3D models, feel the same way. They believe many gamers just cannot wait to take their favorite video game characters out of the screen and into the physical world through 3D printing. They do not intend to sell ready-made models, like most other online 3D printing stores. Rather, they sell the 3D printable file, counting on a growing installed base of local 3D printers, such as the 3D Hubs network, for example (a partnership here might be a good fit in my own opinion). This way, people buy the files and there is no shipping & handling involved, saving costs on both sides.
"Gambody is a marketplace for 3D printing layouts", says Yuri Iefimov, the website's Creative Director and Co-founder, who, like the rest of the Gambody team is betting that many gamers just cannot wait for the possibility of taking their favorite video game characters out of the screen and into the physical world with 3D printing.
"This project," Iefimov continues, "is directed to all those people who can't imagine their lives without gaming, all those who dream of taking part in the creation and personalization of their favorite game characters in a physical version."
While it does offer a wider variety of purchasable 3D models, Gambody is definitely focusing on gaming for its future growth. The site is looking to many of the top multiplayer and action games (from GTA 5 to Mass Effect and Diablo III) around, although the first games with models that may realistically become available are DOTA and Assassin's Creed, as the games' publishers, Valve and Ubisoft, have been among those to show more interest in the possibilities of 3D printing.
"Our first goal is to be able to license the most interesting and well-known video game characters," says Mary Mikson, Gambody's CCO and Content Manager, "we are currently in the process of negotiating the terms of such a partnership. Most companies have shown to appreciate our idea so the next step would be for them to provide the original 3D models as well."
For a video game company, it might be useful to implement a licensed service, such as Gambody, before users begin to gravitate towards pirate copies of their gaming characters. Obtaining a 3D model from a PC game is far from impossible, while Gambody implemented the Intellectually Property Protection (IPP) solution to keep these files safe from any distribution violation.
The Gambody marketplace is going to offer licensed .stl files at prices around $30. Designers can make money by selling their 3D models and even open up their own 3D model shops. Gambody's key feature – made possible by 3D printing – is to be able to offer three types of models: static statuettes or two types of buildable kits: joint models (with many moving parts, such as the Ronin we recently reported) and action models (that is action figures with fewer moving parts).
"What we offer is for any user to buy the model of a hero in a file, perhaps the hero he has just won a virtual battle with, and 3D print it out at home, whole or as a kit to assemble, just like Legos", says Alexandr 's Ignatenko, CEO, CFO, and Co-Founder. "A user can choose the colors, while we provide recommendations for 3D printer settings and all of the possible customizations".
AXE from DOTA2 is a good start. Hopefully this will be the first step towards leading to a more massive adoption of 3D printing by the likes of EA, Activision Blizzard, Sony and Microsoft. I, for one, am game.


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A safe motor vehicle fleet is high priority for all Australians, and we are lucky enough to have some of the highest safety standards in the world.
In the last couple of years, there has been a significant increase in businesses and individuals seeking to import a range of vehicles – cars, motorcycles, caravans – from overseas. It is critical that all vehicles driven on our roads meet the required safety standards, therefore a vehicle import approval from the Department of Infrastructure and Transport is required to import vehicles. Strict standards must be met to get the approval. Vehicles must also meet quarantine and state registration requirements, and pay the appropriate duties and taxes.
All in all, importing cars and other vehicles into Australia is a complex process. With the increased volume of imports has come a corresponding increase in vehicle import applications and enquiries to Vehicle Safety Standards branch on the various aspects of the import process.
Currie worked with the branch, streamlining its online communications to assist people through the importing process. The project involved a desktop audit, interviews with internal and external stakeholders, redrafting website copy and updating the Vehicle Imports Services Team's scripts.
In particular, two online tools were developed to guide users through the importing process. A flow chart of the eight steps required to import a vehicle provides an overview of what is involved. An 'Eligibility Assessment' to assist people to determine which import option may be the most appropriate for their circumstances. For full details visit www.infrastructure.gov.au/vehicles/imports/
Following the launch of the updated website, the Services Team reported a significant reduction in the number and length of enquiries. This was the primary objective of the project.


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IT'S lovely that we set aside a day a year to honour mums and the things they do for us … But what if you'd like to whisk your family's unsung heroine away from home base so it's all about her for a change? Consider having your next family knees-up on the high seas.
Listening to my mother's tales of crisscrossing the globe on grand 1950s liners inculcated in me the thrill of arriving at port — to this day a wonderfully scenic alternative to the muffled joy of same-same airport arrivals with tedious security.
Imagine combining downtime with mum and the sheer luxury of holidaying on a floating hotel, cutting out the suitcase-induced grind. You unpack once — then float down the gangplank à deux at each destination.
I have my own mother to thank for giving me the bug for ocean travel, so when P&O's newest ship, Pacific Aria, set sail for tropical Queensland, it was the perfect chance to show Mama some love. I'm not alone. Australia has become one of cruising's fastest-growing markets and "multi-generational" travel the next hot-button trend.
Grandparents have never been in better shape; a hands-off cruise is a fuss-free way to have them join in the fun.
My mother, Helen, is a domestic firebrand who insists on cooking the roasts herself — we are literally not allowed in her kitchen — so it was fun to see her get spoiled. A porter scooping up her handbag with a bow as we boarded, and bubbly arriving in our suite had her doing little jigs of excitement (it's an Irish thing).
The all-aboard buzz of tooting horns was compounded by a suite large enough for two people to never get in each other's way; we could also look out to the horizon as it deepened from punchy tropical green to midnight blue on our own private deck with plenty of room to spare.
Pacific Aria's decor (mirrored by sister ship Pacific Eden) is an invitation to loaf — with a non-mega 1500-guest size and a cap of 10 per cent children to keep things civilised. Swedish-designed, residential-style interiors are a deliberate departure from the long-lasting but criminally bland aesthetic of yore, towards fresh, boutique-hotel finishes such as high-fashion palettes, quilted walls and wallpaper.
Plush purple velvet nooks and atrium lounges floodlit with a horizon soon become home — only Helen doesn't have to lift a finger. "No cooking!" Mum would wink with glee, swiping a chardy off a tray on the pool deck as we listened to live music. It was her time to shine and run amok.
Our mother-daughter frolics worked wonderfully well because we could do a little of our own thing, then check back in and enjoy each other's company. I'm all about spa, morning fitness classes and lectures; Mum preferred the adult colouring books in the cathedral-height lobby and gossiping with new friends. She happily curled up on the deck while I jetskied around the crocodile-infested waters of Cairns.
Yet we could also enjoy a film together in the cinema (turns out Gerard Butler is yummy at any age), take a dance class or read on deck — heaven. Under-60s may only consider playing bingo ironically, but there's nothing like thousands of dollars up for grabs to buck up an afternoon.
I gravitated toward the polar opposites of Italian and Japanese fine dining at Angelo's and Dragon Lady; Mum never met a potato she didn't like and was all about the comfort roasts at The Pantry — a funkier contemporary "international marketplace" update of the daggy buffet.
Mum had a ball hobnobbing with her favourite Elton John-lookalike pianist or sinking back into a deckside daydream. My favourite mental snapshot: seeing her all gussied up at the Gatsby Ball. In the fine tradition of my grandmother Pansy back in 1956, who did a high kick on board a cruise ship and up-ended the purser's tray, mum was still on the dance floor, flapper headgear quivering, as I did my post-cocktail weave back to bed. "I've got the cruising bug back," she said afterwards. "Heaven-on-a-stick is now heaven-on-a-ship!"
Whether it's time to unleash her party animal or mum simply wants to decompress from everyday chores for some quality family time, a treat getaway in your own scenic backyard is a lovely way for both of you to hit the mother lode.
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Good morning! The weekend is drawing nearer. Thank goodness!
Just this week, I heard a beautiful story that was definitely worth sharing. Helen Zaltzman of the Allusionist podcast dug up a touching story about letters to Santa Claus addressed to an apartment in Chelsea of all places. I don't know about you, but we definitely need more of these "warm and fuzzy" stories in this world. Equally delightful is the "magical" explanation of how the letters came to some unsuspecting Santas. Love it!


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Saturday, November 22, 2008
Time for a New Profile Picture
My previous profile picture was modeled after a Daughtry album. I liked it, but if you want to know the truth, I didn't even own the album.
So when the new David Cook
album came out, I decided to celebrate my creating a profile picture modeled after his album, which I do own.
My daughter took the photo of me. It was hard getting that serious look down. Then I used a program called Printmaster to create the album cover. Does this make me a fangirl?
The original is below. What do you think?
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We take the same approach to summer beauty as we do to fashion: We want products for our skin that feel like the makeup version of a flowy summer dress: lightweight but luxurious, and injected with flattering, playful color.
We're not alone in our quest for feel-good formulas that don't take themselves too seriously. Watch in the video below as Daphne Oz, natural foods chef and New York Times bestselling author walks us through her favorite Chantecaille skincare and makeup products which she uses to create the ultimate fresh-faced, sun-kissed beauty look for summer.
As a healthy living expert, Oz knows how important water is for all the organs in our body, including the largest: skin. That's why she relies on this hydrating lineup of rosewater-based products to keep her complexion supple and nourished all day long. The final look is proof that natural, healthy formulas don't require sacrificing vivid pigments and long-lasting finishes.
Here are a few of Oz's favorite summer picks
Oz loves the "beautiful golden glow" this tinted moisturizer, which she blends in with her fingertips, gives skin. It also has SPF 15, antioxidants with anti-pollution benefits, and just the right amount of lightweight coverage to mask redness and imperfections without looking like you're wearing foundation.
Oz's summer trick: Choose a slightly darker bronzer shade than you'd normally go for and use it as both an eye-defining shadow and contouring powder. For the most realistic sun-kissed effect, dust and diffuse the bronzer along the hairline, hollow of cheeks, and jawline.
Give cheekbones and brow bones a hit of radiance with this lightweight, ultra-smooth illuminator. Unlike other highlighters, the moisturizing formula blends in seamlessly for a natural glow, so you're never left with an obvious streak of shimmer.
With its lash-boosting peptide that enhances the appearance of length, thickness, and fullness, this mascara's formula delivers voluminous, dramatic lashes for day or night in one to two coats.
A summer must-have, this pigmented blush formula is made up of 54% water for a fresh pop of color with a gorgeously dewy, bouncy finish. The best part, according to Oz: It's instantly cooling when you first tap it onto the apples of cheeks.
Summer calls for juicy, lush lip color. Oz love Mandevilla, a vivid watermelon shade, in this nourishing formula made with FairWild-certified, organic baobab oil, wild mango butter, and argan oil. Bonus: Sales of the Lip Veil support Elephant Family, a non-profit in India working to preserve elephants' habitats.
With these six essentials for bronzed, glowing skin, defined eyes, and punchy lips, you'll be ready for whatever the season brings your way—from beach vacations to summer weddings.


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I've Always Been Suspicious of Those Who 'Know' …..
….. exactly why the stock market goes up and down.
The popular assumption, that the markets believe that "the bailout isn't enough," isn't flying with me.
Try this out:
- Last week: Dow drops 700+ points after the bailout bill fails by a narrow but clearly reversible margin (i.e., it appears that passage in Round 2 is certain). All Nancy Pelosi has to do is shut her partisan piehole the second time around. Markets, contrary to the pronouncements of the punditry, are not pleased at the prospect of passage.
- Next day: Dow comes back about 500 points because it looks like there will be more resistance to passage than originally thought, as talkers and pundits across the political spectrum let loose.
- Forward progress generally continues until the House vote on Friday, in the belief/hope that the bailout might not make it.
- After the House vote, markets tank because a major and basically unlimited intervention by the government (maybe necessary, maybe not) will likely drag down future profits, hold back growth, and stifle innovation. Thus, stock values, based as they are on discounted cash flows (remember?), plummet.
- Markets continued downward today. Counting Friday afternoon, the Dow lost over 1,000 points after the bailout bill passed, before recovering about 400 points in about the final hour today. Why wouldn't that big drop have occurred because it appears that government interventions (again, maybe necessary, maybe not) will be more widespread and more internationally based than expected? Further government intervention means further dives in discounted cash-flow valuations. That, of course, would drive stocks down further.
Someone tell me why my readings are any better or worse than the so-called "experts" who pretend to know exactly why the markets are moving as they are.
Isn't it funny how the media is pretending that the "experts" are "somehow" all saying the same thing (more government intervention is coming, and the markets are plunging despite that, not BECAUSE of it)? I doubt very much that the "experts" all agree on this unanimously.


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The three pigs got smart. When the wolf huffed and puffed they put up a windmill and a meter and got rich. So it is with wind energy.
Wind power could generate enough electricity to support the world's energy needs several times over, according to a new map of global wind speeds that scientists say is the first of its kind.Yes, there is a lot of untapped natural renewable energy out there!
The map, compiled by researchers at Stanford University, shows wind speeds at more than 8,000 sites around the world. The researchers found that at least 13 percent of those sites experience winds fast enough to power a modern wind turbine. If turbines were set up in all these regions, they would generate 72 terawatts of electricity, according to the researchers.
That's more than five times the world's energy needs, which was roughly 14 terawatts in 2002, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.According to the map with the article, America is one of the windier places on earth. We are blessed with so much wind, 75% of the world's tornadoes happen here in America! So we have an excess of wind.
The researchers readily admit that existing buildings, land rights and other obstacles would make it impossible to set up turbines in every single one of the identified regions. But they point out that even 20 percent of those sites could satisfy world energy consumption as it stands today.
Here in the Northeast where I live people already tap wind energy in the hills. A college in MA proposed a wind tower just up Greenhollow Rd which is the road nearest to my mountain. It was turned down because they wanted to build it in NY but funnel the energy to MA. So my town voted it down. Moral to that story is, if you don't give the big bad wolf a share of the profits he will tell you to go blow. Heh.
"There is really a lot of wind out there that can be utilized for electricity generation," said Archer. "The 72-terawatt finding quantifies how much wind power is available.... It's like when people say how much oil is available on a global scale. It doesn't mean all of it will be extracted."Couple this with solar energy and it is easy to see that if we begin a big building spree now we can switch over...like a number of European countries are already doing.
If anything, the 72-terawatt figure is likely to be on the low side. Most of the 8,199 wind-monitoring stations that contributed data to the map are concentrated in highly developed nations. So the researchers had to make broad and often conservative estimates for countries in Africa and Asia, and for other regions.
"They are probably significantly underestimating the total potential," said Christopher Flavin, CEO of the Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research firm.
Of the regions that are well-marked by the map, North America and parts of Northern Europe both have a high number of ideal spots for setting up wind turbines. To date, Northern Europe -- and Denmark in particular -- has made the best use of that potential. Approximately 20 percent of Denmark's energy consumption is fulfilled by wind power, according to the Danish Wind Industry Association.In England, they are already talking about doing something serious about this. The government wants to encourage wind farms but just like in America, people find many things to object to and try to stop any developments. People think the present system is going to go forever. They can't understand that this present system is coming to an absolute end. And that the time to set up the alternative systems is today, not when the crisis is raging.
The United States, on the other hand, generates less than 1 percent of its electricity with wind power.
This is a politcal fault. People will change only if the media and the rulers decide it is time to rouse them. And advertisers have to want this, too. Right now, they don't and they can't so nothing happens.
Culture of Life News is happy the words, "Hubbert Oil Peak" have at least appeared in print and on TV even if it is only glancingly and I want to thank the National Geographic for being quite forward on this issue for they made this a front page big issue.
We all hope to see more action on this. I would like to put together a lobby group to visit DC and talk about all of this. If anyone is interested, we will discuss this some more.


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While getting around Tokyo may not be intuitive at first, once you get used to it you may wonder how you ever got around without trains and buses. While it might seem that a car would be more convenient at first, you will soon learn that due to parking and traffic, public transportation is by far cheaper, easier and more convenient. The public transport system, including trains, subways, and buses, in Japan, is highly developed and offers timely and reliable transportation within the major cities.
Below are guides with useful information about getting around Tokyo, long distance travel, prepaid fare system, catching taxis and more.
If you live in Tokyo, you know that the public transportation system is second to none. Subways, trains, and buses run on time from very early in the morning to late in the evening. And where a congested highway can take two or more hours to get from point A to B, the public system can often get you…Read more
Finding your way in Tokyo can seem overwhelming at first. It's an enormous city with a language that you may not understand or be able to read. But, like any large city, it has plenty of transportation options available to help you get wherever you need to go. Whether it's hailing a taxi outside you…Read more
As convenient as the train system is, there are still times when you will need to take a taxi in Tokyo. While taking a cab long distances will still cost you a lot more than other forms of public transport, you can almost be assured of a comfortable and safe experience with a smartly dressed driver…Read more
Cycling in Tokyo reveals a side of the city most never see. Unchanged neighborhoods, hidden temples, quaint family run stores, and parks and museums galore can be visited far easier on two wheels than by train or even car. So, whether you are riding a top of the range imported model or a single-gea…Read more
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Japan has a very modern and efficient train system that is quite easy to navigate, even if you don't speak Japanese. That said, if you have to make a couple of transfers between your apartment in Roppongi and your office near Hanzomon station, you can probably attest to the need to plan your route…Read more
Shibuya Station has to be one of the most well-known stations amongst tourists for its two main landmarks - the Hachiko statue, and the Shibuya "scramble crossing" that has appeared in countless movies and commercials over the years. The station first opened in 1885 as a stop on the Shinagawa Line,…Read more
Tokyo Station reopened in 2014 after an extensive five-year renovation project in celebration of its centennial that year. Restored to the former red bricked glory of the Meiji Era, this rail gateway to the capital city of Japan is the largest station in Tokyo. In 2003, it was recognized by the gove…Read more


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Effectual Services Ranked 242 on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500
Effectual Services has ranked 242 on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Asia Pacific. The rankings are based on percentage growth over three years. Effectual Services grew 185% during this period.
Speaking on this occasion, Amit Aggarwal, Co-Founder, Effectual Knowledge Services credits unique services offerings including a broad range of patent support services and team, focused on delivery quality services. He said: "We are honored to be selected as a winner and this recognition is testimony to the unparalleled service and solutions that Effectual offers its clients. Over the years, Effectual has demonstrated its expertise and project management capabilities in the IP space."
"Making the Deloitte technology Fast 500 is commendable in today's highly competitive technology industry. We congratulate Effectual Knowledge Services on being one of the 500 fastest growing companies in the region" said Ichiro Nakayama, DTTL Leader, Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific Program.
With our continued focus and expanding global footprint, we will continue to add value for companies worldwide. This achievement is a further endorsement to our dedication to excellence and providing clients with value-creating solutions that drive real business value and results", said Amit Goel (Co-Founder, Effectual Knowledge Services).
Overall, companies that ranked on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2015 program had an average growth rate of 415%.
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House System 2019-20
Watch this space for updates on House points!
The Ruth Gorse Academy runs a house system to promote healthy competition, social cohesion and a sense of belonging. The house system is an integral part of academy life and all staff and students are allocated a house.
What does it mean to be a member of a school house?
- Enjoyment
- A sense of belonging
- High expectations
- Teamwork
- Resilience
- Support and guidance from older students
- High Aspirations
- A family within school
Current House Champion 2018-19
Watch this space to find out which House you are in!
All forms are assigned a house and each of those houses has a member of the senior leadership team and staff member allocated as their 'Head of House'.
How do we gain points?
House points are gained through participating in house competitions either as an individual or a team.
Example points system:
1st: 50 points
2nd: 40 points
3rd: 30 points
4th: 20 points
House points are also awarded for participation or spectating. Points will be awarded as follows:
Example points system:
Participating: 2 points
Spectating: 1 point
House points are awarded to both students and staff and both parties are equally responsible for gaining points towards winning The Ruth Gorse House Cup!


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My wife is awful at map-reading so she gave me a GPS for Christmas 2000 (cheaper than a divorce)! It was a gamin eMap which I only used in the car to start with. I read about geocaching in early 2001 and liked the idea but the very few caches within 30 miles of me were in areas closed to the public due to Foot and Mouth disease.
I finally remembered about geocaching in the Summer and we went to find our first cache which was https://coord.info/GCBE3 (The Queens Oak, which is still active). That was on 1st September 2001, roughly a 30 mile drive from home. We weren't sure what to expect but loved the experience so much that we went out to find our second cache on the next day (which was still unfound after 7 days since it was placed).
Caches were a long way apart at that time with about 20 caches within a 30 mile radius of home in Southern England. In the early days we used to print every new cache page in England just in case we went anywhere near it, which lasted until we filled a lever-arch file and the number of new caches exploded
I started with a very special one in January 2013 - it was "First Germany". A friend of mine who was already caching some time asked me to join his search... after we got it I signed in to geocaching.com ...
Still happy to have this one as my first!
It was in april 2005. I have in that time no GPS, just coords transferred to map Cache was small lock-lock box near 1st world war memmorial (GCJQ6D). Today is cache archived, but in close surroundig is placed cache by me :)


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Kate Spade Women's'Daisy Chain' Quartz Crystal Rose-Gold Watch KSW1349. Glittering crystal daises compose the charming bracelet of this rose gold-tone stainless steel Daisy Chain watch with a mother-of-pearl dial, from kate spade new york. Strap: rose gold-tone & crystal pavé daisy-pattern bracelet with fold-over clasp; approx. Water resistance: to 30 meters. This item will come with original box and papers. The item "Kate Spade Women's'Daisy Chain' Quartz Crystal Rose-Gold Watch KSW1349" is in sale since Wednesday, February 28, 2018. This item is in the category "Jewelry & Watches\Watches, Parts & Accessories\Wristwatches". The seller is "priceyourwatchcominc" and is located in Atlantic City, NJ. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico, Germany, Japan, France, Australia.
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Long-term mortality risk of people with epilepsy who underwent seizure monitoring
Shishir N Duble1, VS Nandini1, Ashalatha Radhakrishnan1, Ramshekhar Menon1, Ajith Cherian1, P Sankara Sarma2, Sanjeev V Thomas1
1 Department of Neurology, R. Madhavan Nayar Centre for Comprehensive Epilepsy Care, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India2 Department of Biostatistics, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
Correspondence Address:Dr. Sanjeev V ThomasDepartment of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum - 695 011, Kerala IndiaSource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheckDOI: 10.4103/aian.AIAN_134_18
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/aian.AIAN_134_18
Aim: The aim is to study survival outcome and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) of people with epilepsy who underwent epilepsy monitoring. Subjects and Methods: Between 2000 and 2004, 558 persons were admitted to the epilepsy monitoring unit of SCTIMST who fulfilled the selection criteria. Their survival status as on December 31, 2013, was ascertained by clinic attendance record and by mail or telephone contact. Results: Five hundred and fifty-eight persons with epilepsy (males 319, 6408 person-years) were included in this study. There had been 20 deaths till December 31, 2013, and 5 additional deaths were reported when followed up till May 2016. The standardized mortality ratio was 5.35 and higher for males (6.25) than for females (3.52). Those with generalized seizures (tonic and myoclonic seizures), electroencephalography (EEG) showing multifocal and generalized interictal discharges, and polypharmacy had a higher risk of mortality. SUDEP accounted for 5 deaths. Conclusion: People with refractory epilepsy who had undergone presurgical video EEG monitoring had higher mortality risk. Generalized or myoclonic seizures, multifocal or generalized interictal discharges, and polypharmacy independently increased their risk of mortality. SUDEP is an important cause of death.
Keywords: Standardized mortality ratio, sudden unexpected death, Survival outcome


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If there was an "Unsung Hero" award for dental procedures, the root canal treatment would win hands-down. Much aligned in popular culture, today's root canal treatment is actually a valuable tool for saving teeth that would otherwise be lost. And contrary to popular belief, root canal treatments don't cause pain — they relieve it.
To help you understand its true worth, here are some common questions and answers about the root canal treatment.
What problem does a root canal treatment fix?
A root canal treatment stops a bacterial infection that has invaded the innermost part of a tooth — the pulp — and is advancing toward the end of the root through small passageways known as root canals. Most people first notice the problem as a sharp pain in the affected tooth that may suddenly dissipate in a few days. The infection has attacked the inner pulp tissue, rich in nerve fibers; when the nerve fibers die they stop sending pain signals. The infection, however, hasn't died: as it advances, you may then begin to experience pain when you bite down or when you encounter hot foods. You may also notice tenderness and swelling in nearby gums.
How does the procedure stop the infection?
A root canal treatment removes all the infected or dead tissue and cleanses the pulp chamber. We enter the pulp chamber through a small access hole created in the tooth's biting surface. After tissue removal, we then "shape" and prepare the empty chamber and root canals (often with the aid of microscopic equipment) to be filled with a special filling. After filling, the tooth is then sealed to prevent re-infection (most often, we need to install a permanent crown at a subsequent visit for maximum protection).
How much pain can I expect during and after the procedure?
During the procedure, none — the tooth and surrounding gums are fully anesthetized before we begin the procedure. Afterward, you may experience mild discomfort for a few days that can be relieved with over-the-counter medications like aspirin or ibuprofen.
What's the ultimate value for a root canal treatment?
The procedure can save a tooth severely damaged by the infection. Even covered by an artificial crown, a living tooth continuing to exist and function normally within the mouth is usually more conducive for optimum oral health than an artificial tooth replacement.
If you would like more information on root canal treatments, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more about this topic by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article "Common Concerns About Root Canal Treatment."
If you regularly participate in sports or other physical activity, you're at a higher risk for dental injuries. While chipped teeth are the most common result of these injuries, a few may result in more serious trauma — dislodged, cracked or knocked out teeth. In these cases, the core of the tooth — the pulp — and the root may have been damaged. Saving the tooth may require endodontic treatment and possibly the expertise of a specialist in the field, an endodontist.
Endodontics, from the Greek words for "within" and "tooth," is a specialty of dentistry that treats disease or damage affecting the inner parts of a tooth, particularly the pulp chamber, the root canals, and the root. While all dentists are trained in endodontic procedures, an endodontist has advanced training, experience and specialized equipment to address complex cases.
The type of endodontic treatment needed for an injured tooth will depend on the extent of damage. A mature, permanent tooth with pulp damage, for example, may require a root canal treatment. In this procedure the pulp chamber and root canals are thoroughly cleaned out, and then are filled with a special filling to prevent any future infection. Later the tooth should be crowned to permanently seal it. Although a general dentist may perform a root canal, more complex cases, such as a tooth with an extensive root canal network, may need to be performed by an endodontist using microscopic equipment.
A tooth that has undergone severe trauma, especially a knocked out tooth, will need extensive follow-up care by a general dentist and possibly an endodontist to improve its chances of long-term survival. Because of the severity, the tooth may lose viability and the body ultimately may begin to reject it. For this reason, the tooth should be monitored on a regular basis and may need further treatment from time to time, even up to five years after the injury.
One final word: if you participate in sports or exercise activity, you can significantly reduce your risk of dental injury with a mouthguard. There are various types, but the best protection is one custom designed to fit the specific contours of your mouth. We'll be glad to advise you further on how to protect your teeth from injury.
If you would like more information on dental injury prevention and treatment, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more about this topic by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article "Trauma & Nerve Damage to Teeth."


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Instagram Direct is currently available to iOS and Android users, and in the blogpost announcing availability, Instagram have stated that this feature is in beta for Windows Phone (as is the whole Windows Phone official app) and will be available in the future:
Instagram for iOS version 5.0 is available today for download in Apple's App Store, and Instagram for Android version 5.0 is available today on Google Play. Instagram for Windows Phone is in beta. Stay tuned for future updates.
Once more, a certain third-party developer has beaten the official app to the punch, and done it very well. You have an in-box in the top row of icons to read your incoming messages, and you have the option of sending your images direct once you have taken the image (it's a swipe on the top line to go from Public posting to Direct posting).
If you need to know more, our review of 6tag can be found here, and asks the question many have asked... 'why is this not the official app?' No matter if it is official or unofficial, it remains the best Instagram client for Windows Phone 8 at the moment.
6tag remains a free download, and you can find it via the AAWP App Directory.


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High costs and unfavourable product mix impact profitability at Krones in first half of 2019
The difficult economic conditions and uncertainties such as the unresolved trade conflict between China and the USA increasingly affected Krones' business in the first half of 2019. After strong growth in the first quarter (by 10.3%), revenue from April to June increased by 0.7% year-on-year. In total, the company's revenue from January to June 2019 improved by 5.5%, from €1,790.8 million in the previous year to €1,889.3 million. Adjusted for acquisitions and currency effects, growth was 1.8%.
The slowdown in the economy and the uncertain economic outlook are also affecting investment confidence among Krones' customers. The company experienced weak demand in parts of its portfolio between April and June 2019. However, Krones was largely able to compensate for this due to its broad product range. Order intake from January to June 2019 increased by 1.2%, from €2,014.8 million to €2,038.6 million. Adjusted for acquisition effects, the contract value of orders increased by 0.4% in the first six months of 2019.
Earnings before taxes (EBT) decreased year-on-year in the first half of 2019, from €112.7 million to €47.9 million. The EBT margin dropped from 6.3% to 2.5%. Krones' profitability was impacted by high material and labour costs. The product mix also had an adverse effect on earnings. In the second quarter of 2019 in particular, revenue was lower than expected on products with a large proportion of own value added, such as machines and lines in plastics technology. That led to capacity underutilisation in this area. Another major reason for the lower earnings is that revenue in parts of the high-margin after-sales business was above 2018 but below budget in the first half of 2019. Krones generated consolidated net income of €33.3 million from January to June 2019 (previous year: €76.9 million). This corresponds to earnings per share of €1.06 (previous year: €2.45).
The Executive Board has taken further action to offset the negative impacts on earnings. This includes among others a recruitment freeze and measures to reduce material costs. Krones expects, in line with previous year, that especially in Q4 the production capacity utilisation will increase as well as the high-margin life-cycle services (LCS) business. Therefore Krones expects better earnings in the second half of 2019 than in the first six months.


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The Women in Business Congress took up much of the second day's agenda at 4YFN—from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm and then from 3:00 to 5:30 pm, with a lunch break in between. Held under the Agora Sabadell pavillion, the initiative aimed to promote the importance of women in technology, a sector in which there is much room for improvement as far as gender ratios are concerned.
A quick look around at any event or company will confirm that there are always many more men than women. However, things are quickly changing and the second day of 4YFN was a demonstration of these changes.
To give an overview of some of the data that have come up during the conference: only 143 out of the 980 managers of the largest tech companies are women; only 12% of the CEOs and 25% of hiring managers are women. This vicious cycle can be noticed at the Congress as well. Among entrepreneurs, the gender gap situation is not any better: the proportion stays at 19%.
Technology has changed the business world and competition, and opened up real opportunities. So, given what we've seen, the aim of the Women In Business event is clear: give visibility, share experiences, celebrate success and develop new business ideas.
Furthermore, various panelists have insistantly stated in their talks that the way we work is changing and women play a key role. Particularly in the morning talks, discussions revolved around broad issues such as corporate leadership, empowerment, technology and innovation as well as women's impact on the global economy.
Later on throughout the day, the talks became more focused on more practical aspects: the opportunities arising from the Internet of Things (or Internet of Everything), funding tools and the success stories of Sindhu Joseph and Carlota Pi from Spain.
Additionally, albeit not on the official congress program yet within the 4YFN talks, another woman has been a featured figure today.
In the main hall, Marvell's founder Weili Dai has given some tips on the opportunities in software and hardware (after twenty years of creating technology, entrepreneurs now have a "pizza" – the hardware – on which to add their own ingredients- software) and she shared her views with the audience. According to Dai, "the Internet of Things will create numerous opportunities for both software and hardware companies" and "this is just the beginning."
What a terrific way to finish a day almost exclusively dedicated to women entrepreneurs.


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Till the first rays of sunlight touch us
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Now I need a cold shower.......super hot lines :DReplyDelete
WOW..yet another you..its amazingly beautiful.ReplyDelete
Hi Alpana,
Very Nice poem , full of emotions and desire to be with that special someone.
where one completes the other half of other and complementing each other.
Superb , you expressed this with so ease .thats amazing.
Take care
have a super weekend
Very interesting Poem!ReplyDelete
My skin tingles as; the cool sea air still blows
I feel your breath
So warm against my neck
So tender in its journey
Sensuous in its endeavors
As you inhale my essence.
I love this part!
Every Expression well expressed... feels like living the moment with every line of yours :) Very passionate :) Loved it!ReplyDelete
Alpana, It's such a beautiful and sensuous poem, it reflects the agony and ecstasy of love and desire. Great post, loved it.ReplyDelete
"I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the
sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry...
just make me feel alive." -- Joey Lauren Adams
Its getting bad for me..
a beautiful poem written by a equally beautiful personReplyDelete
Nicely done ALpana! A see a new Alpana in this one and I love it : )ReplyDelete
Amazing poetry, so beautiful and from the heart!! Thanks for sharing it!ReplyDelete
love is allover the place...and the desire for it is also everywhere,,,,:)ReplyDelete
Beautiful, Alpana!ReplyDelete
isint this the lyrics of a song?? it sounds very familiar..but the language of love is familiar...I hope you find genuine love Alpana..I am sure its not a matter of 'if' its only now a matter of time..my best wishes will always be with you:)ReplyDelete
spoken directly from a woman's heart... bellissima poesia...ReplyDelete
straight from a woman's heart...bellissima poesia...ReplyDelete
Beautiful Alpu....where was all this talent all these years? It's true that pain brings out the best in people sometimes....ReplyDelete
Such lovely words,so much passion...desire.......a beautiful poem.......love it Alpana :DReplyDelete
Beautiful, passionate,and intense. I love it!ReplyDelete
A beautifully penned poem ...love & passion oozing forth like golden warm honey dripping drop by drop on two hearts entwined with each other in sheer bliss ! Loved it Alpi .... PreetuReplyDelete
Beautifully expressed the emotions!
Emotions are coming very true,,
Keep writing!
Wow Alpana!You never cease to surprise me. Very sensuous and passionate. BeautifulReplyDelete
My only wish is to have such deep emotions always be blessed with reciprocation...ReplyDelete
What a joyful and moving poem. Made me rather jealous of not only your writing skills but your emotions thank you.ReplyDelete
Very nice! You have a way with words Miss Alpana. This was really good. I will be back later to read some more. Thanks!ReplyDelete
Your verses made me to remember wordings of the famous poet Poet who has been called the New England mystic,
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
Pain and pleasure so personal... like poetry and prose. Keep writing on...ReplyDelete
wow...such a passionate and sensual expressing of feelings...simply loved it!!!ReplyDelete
Romantic and sensuous! Alpana you should consider publishing a bookReplyDelete
I am totally floored...such deep emotions & beautiful poetry.Carry on friend.ReplyDelete
that was so very romaticReplyDelete
Sounds good.ReplyDelete
Lady, you create magic with your words.. :)ReplyDelete
"Following my inner path to my soul
To a place where I can't let you go". Now I am curious ;-)
Beautiful verses,thank you for sharing :-)
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Vietnam's banks expect big M&A deals in near future
M&A in banking sector is forecast to be exciting in the near future as many banks are accelerating to restructure and raise capital to meet Basel II standards' deadline by 2020 set by the central bank, experts said.
Vietcombank will continually sell another 6.5 percent stake from now until 2020.
Merger and acquisition (M&A) in the domestic banking industry is expected to heat up in the near future with total value of deals estimated at some US$2 billion in 2019.
According to analysts from Bao Viet Securities Company, besides the deal of Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) with the Republic of Korea (RoK)'s KEB Hana Bank announced recently, the banking sector is also expected to see some other possible deals between local banks and foreign investors this year, such as the sales of Commercial Joint Stock Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank)'s 6.5 percent stake and Military Bank's 7.5 percent stake.
After the acquisition of 6.5 per cent stake to Singapore's GIC Private Limited and Japan's Mizuho Bank Ltd at a value of VND6.2 trillion (US$266 million) early this year, Vietcombank is continually promoting a plan to sell another 6.5 percent stake from now until 2020.
Meanwhile, many investors are looking for opportunities to pour capital into Vietcombank. In particular, GIC, after buying 2.55 percent of Vietcombank's stake, still expects to join the upcoming share offering of the state-own bank.
In addition, the merger of Petrolimex Group Commercial Joint Stock Bank (PGBank) and Ho Chi Minh City Development Commercial Joint Stock Bank (HDBank), with a share conversion rate of 1:0.62, is also expected to be completed by the end of this year.
As for state-run Commercial Joint Stock Bank for Industry and Trade of Vietnam (VietinBank), which manages Ocean Commercial One Member Limited Liability Bank (OceanBank), its chairman Le Duc Tho said that OceanBank is also in the final stage of completing procedures to cooperate with foreign partners.
Meanwhile, Global Petro Commercial Join Stock Bank (GPBank) is currently strengthening its performance and some foreign investors are also interested in a long-term cooperation with the bank.
Favorable conditions
M&A in banking sector is forecast to be exciting in the near future as many banks are accelerating to restructure and raise capital to meet Basel II standards' deadline by 2020 set by the central bank, experts said.
Tran Thi Bao Ngoc, head of Securities Investment Banking Division of Vietnam Prosperity Commercial Joint Stock Bank (VPBS) said that the M&A market in the banking and finance sector still has a lot of room for foreign investors. In the second half of this year as well as in the near future, the banking and finance will be still an attractive sector to foreign investors.
Ngoc attributed the attractiveness to the improved business performance of domestic banks in recent years though some restrictions still exist in the banking sector, such as the regulations on controlling foreign investors to participate in transactions.
Vo Tri Thanh member of the Advisory Council for National Financial and Monetary Policies believed that the M&A market of Vietnam's banking sector will be attractive as local banks need to raise capital to meet Basel II standards.
Besides, the Vietnamese central bank is promoting plans to restructure banks, especially the poorly performing ones. It includes a policy to encourage foreign investors in general and foreign financial institutions in particular to acquire or merge with Vietnamese weak commercial banks.
The government has also been stepping up this plan through promoting meetings and discussions with international financial institutions.
However, experts said to speed up the progress of local banking M&A, it is necessary to revise current regulations on valuation and share selling price.
As state-owned banks are not allowed to sell shares lower than market price, banks will find it difficult to offload the stake, especially when the share price accelerates in the stock markets, Bui Quang Tin, CEO of Bizlight Business School, said. Hanoitimes
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Mobile payments reshaping VN banking
Vietnam is experiencing a boom in mobile payments as more and more e-wallet providers have aggressively joined the market.
In Vietnam, the banking sector has the highest salary
According to audited financial reports 2018 from 20 Vietnamese banks, the average monthly income of banking employees in 2018 were VND12.37 million-34 million (USD521.73-1,478).


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Sting's 'The Last Ship' to close on Broadway Jan. 24
Sting's first Broadway musical, "The Last Ship," will close Jan. 24, three months after the show opened Oct. 26 to mixed reviews. Although grosses and attendance have gone up since the pop icon joined the production Dec. 9, the show never dramatically took off at the box office, playing to 83.3 percent capacity on Broadway's busiest holiday week ever.
Sting was scheduled to leave the cast Jan. 24, leaving the semiautobiographical show without its star, composer and marketing cheerleader in the middle of Broadway's harshest time of the year. The $14 million show had lost money weekly before he came aboard the working-class folk fable about a depressed English shipbuilding town very much like the one where he grew up.
"The Last Ship" was generally praised for the music and dismissed for its improbable story and dark staging. The show's album made its debut last week as No. 1 on Billboard's Cast Albums Chart.
The closing notice comes as the Broadway League has announced a record holiday season and the best attendance and grossing year in its history.


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Thermobifida fusca: the manure-dwelling 'hot bug' that may result in life-saving antibiotics
Young Frenchman Dr Thierry Izoré, a Monash University research fellow and structural biologist, uses the analogy of a car factory's assembly line to help explain his complex work with microscopic bacteria, which he hopes may be able to build lifesaving hospital antibiotics.
The bug he's interested in is what he calls a "hot bug" – Thermobifida fusca, which grows at high temperatures (55-60 degrees Celsius). In the wild it can be found in rotting compost, manure or rotting hay. A hot, smelly little bug. And a tricky one to work with, as it turns out.
Dr Izoré works in the Biomedicine Discovery Institute's Cryle Lab at Monash, which focuses on making new antibiotics to treat acute bacterial infections. Most antibiotics are made from compounds found in nature; the lab's job is to re-engineer the enzyme structures that produce them and, in the process, see how they work.
That's where the car factory analogy comes in. He makes it sound easy, but it's highly complex lab work.
Starting small
Essentially, what scientists of this kind do is look at very small things to see what they do, then try and change them to make them do something different, in conjunction with other compounds. In this case, the tiny organism Thermobifida fusca is being used to figure out how to make non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NPRS), which in turn can be used to make crucial last-line antibiotics.
NPRS "machineries" can be seen as "an assembly line", he says.
"Antibiotics are made of building blocks, and each building block is fused to the other one in the assembly line. Like in a car assembly line, the first station does, for example, the base of the car, then it moves on to the second station, and so on.
"It's exactly the same in NPRS," he says. "Each module is responsible for the incorporation of one building block. If we manage to incorporate a new building block it will produce a new antibiotic, we think.
"We need to understand in the assembly line how we can modify a module so that it stays active and at the same time incorporates the new building block in the final compound. But we don't know how they interact with each other. When we remove, exchange or alter a module within the assembly line, the machinery stops working. We don't know why."
The research has this year received a $55,000 Contributing to Australian Scholarship and Science Foundation (CASS) grant.
The project is called "Studying hot bugs to make good drugs". The aim is to produce last-resort hospital antibiotics to counter the rising tide of human resistance – but Dr Izoré knows this may not even be seen during his career. It's estimated that by 2050, there'll be 10 million deaths globally a year due to antibiotic resistance.
"We dare to dream that our work might become medicine," he says. "But that is very far away, although I hope not, because we need new compounds sooner than that. We want to be the first to do it."
This year, the hard structural biology work continues.
A bug of stability
The main reason the "hot bug" is Dr Izoré's favourite is because it's strong. Its proteins and enzymes are considered highly stable. Most bacterias grow at room temperature, or around 20 degrees Celsius. They don't like being modified in the lab, and their proteins are unstable.
Different species of bacteria need to fight each other to gain resources. They do this by producing antibiotics that kill the other species. For this reason, most of the antibiotic-producing bacteria live at these low temperatures.
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The bug in question is hotter than that, and doesn't mind being manipulated to have enzymes extracted, yet it still produces NRPS enzymes and antibiotics.
"It gets the best of the two worlds for us," he says. "It produces NRPS enzymes, and because it's a thermophile or 'hot' bug, the NRPS enzymes are very stable."
But there's a catch. The hot bug grows painfully slowly. Strong, but slow. So, Dr Izoré and the Cryle Lab team used E.coli, the common bug that lives in the intestines of humans and animals, to boost the process. DNA from the hot bug is extracted and given to the E.coli, which grows quickly. Initial tests show the process is working.
"Everything is ready; we just have to do the assembly successfully, then check that it's functioning. Then we can start a structural study, and hopefully it gives us what we want and we'll be able to see for the first time how a completed assembly line is.
"Then," he says, "we can modify it and produce a new compound."
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text: As I mentioned in my previous post, my autism and aspergers has a unique effect on how I process my emotions. Just as my autism itself is part of a spectrum, my emotions are organized in my the same way. One one end I can feel any emotion to the extreme while on the other side I feel nothing at all. During those episodes of emotionlessness, I am able to focus more on whatever tasks I am given. An example of this is when I am at work and I shelve and reorganize books. While doing this, nothing else occupies my mind not even my usual daydreams. This gives me a mindset that is similar to that of a machine. On the other hand, when I feel emotions to their limit my mind is almost on the verge of erupting like a volcano. An example of this is whenever I spend time with my beloved pit bulls. While in their presence, I feel the same kind of affection that a parent would have towards their child. Overall, this is just one example of how complex my autism has made me over the years.


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Larry Corban
Larry Corban is a New York City based guitarist that has had extensive experience working with some of the world's greatest musicians.
He has played, performed and/or recorded with James Weidman, Harvie S, Steve Williams, Buddy Williams, Sylvia Cuenca, Essiet Okon Essiet, Ron Affif, Omer Avital, Avishia Cohen, Daniel Freedman, Michael O'Brien, Chris Carroll, Ralph Peterson Jr., Ron Affif, Essiet Essiet, Roy Hargrove, Vic Juris, Adam Rogers, Oz Noy, Nir Felder, Rick Stone, Rob Garcia, Chris Tarry, Gerry Neiwood, Dick Oats, Sean Jones, Tia Fuller, Dan Pratt, Robert Glasper, Eric Lewis, Reggie Washington, Joe Cohn, Brian Charette, Saul Rubin, Ugonna Okegwo, Duane Eubanks, Jay Collins, Grant Stewart, Phil Stewart, Ari Roland, William Ash, Cliff Barbaro, Big John Patton, Arnie Lawrence, Wayne Krantz, Keith Carlock, Tim Lefbre, Matt Beck, Ben Butler, Sean Driscoll, Richard Hammond, Conrad Korsh, Aaron Heick, Thomas Hutchings, Richard Lee and Irrational Logic, Michelle Walker, Joe Abba, Janelle Reichman, Yoshi Waki, Paul Francis, Lizzie Thomas, Rob Reich, Julia Meinwald, Jake Ezra Schwartz, Nat Janoff, Jeff Barone, Rob Slowik, Diego Vogolino, Matt Pavolka, Scott Neumann, Marie Anne McSweeney, Matt Chertkoff, and Peter Mazza. He has subbed the guitar chair at Spider-Man: Turn Out the Dark (Broadway), Mary Poppins (Broadway), Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Broadway), Hello Again (Off-Broadway), Altar Boyz (Off-Broadway), Evil Dead Too (Off-Broadway), Milly (Off-Broadway), All Shook Up (Off-Broadway), Xanadon't (Off-Broadway), Radio City Christmas Show, and Big Apple Circus.Read more
Album Review
- Emergence by Geannine Reid
- The Corbanator by Dan Bilawsky
- The Circle Starts Here by Dan McClenaghan
- Moving 4-Ward by Dan McClenaghan
"Larry Corban and I have been playing together for a couple of years and we came to point where we were ready to go into the Studio. Larry's tunes are challenging and fun to play and I feel we had a relaxed and swinging session aided by the great Steve williams on drums. I hope this Cd will garner more Larry Corban fans." – Harvie S
Larry Corban: The Circle Starts Here (2012 [2013], Nabroc): Guitarist, based in New York, second album, a trio with Harvie S on bass and Steve Williams on drums
The Corbanator
Nabroc Records
The Circle Starts Here
Nabroc Records
Moving 4-Ward
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A Trip Worth Filming
March 8, 2017
On Wednesday, February 8, the Baldwin Park High School Video Production class, along with a couple of YCC students, went out to Mt. San Antonio College for the Division of Arts field trip.
The field trip started with students from BPHS, as well as Sierra Vista, Charter Oak and Edgewood seated in an auditorium, while they waited to begin the introduction.
The dean greeted the students and explained to them how Mt. SAC is great for any of the arts like interior design, animating, graphic design, and more.
A professor from each class and art division came up and talked about their program and about themselves. Hector Rivas, the animation professor, who has worked at Mt. SAC for six years, talked about his previous career as an animator and all of the resources the school had to offer.
After the introduction, they sent all of the students out to the workshops they signed up for. The workshops included photography, interior design, animation, gaming, product design, and graphic design. Student Frank Parada said, "I chose the gaming workshop and animation workshop because I really love playing games and watching cartoons."
The animation workshop consisted of the instructor explaining why animation is a great career. He showed some projects his students have done and afterward showed how to make our own animation of a ball bouncing.
The graphic design workshop started with the instructor talking about what graphic design consists of and why people should pursue it as a career. The students were shown how to make a robot toy on Photoshop, where each designed theirs to their liking.
After the workshops ended, all of the students went outside where they were provided with boxed lunches and a water bottle. The boxed lunch included a sandwich that could be either beef, chicken, or veggie. They also included cookies and a bag of chips.
Overall, the field trip was a fun experience for the Video Production students. They learned a lot of the different aspects of design and video production, which they can use to formulate their career decisions. Student Lilly Bravo said, "This was a great learning experience in learning what I want to major in."


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Live like Spanish royalty in Highland Park! On a cul-de-sac street in the desirable Garvanza District of Highland Park, this light fixer stately Spanish style home awaits your finishing touches. It is situated on 3 contiguous lots providing a sprawling street-to-street area of over 29,000 square feet, and the potential to make this the urban compound of your dreams.
Light fixer stately Spanish style home
Replace the kitchen cabinets, counters, and backsplash for a more authentic Spanish finish.
Refinish or replace the hardwood floors. Paint the walls a Whisper white.
Demo the carpet and continue the hardwood floors.
Build raised planter boxes for vegetables and fruits.
3 contiguous lots providing a sprawling street-to-street area of over 29,000 square feet. This property is perfect for pets or children to roam free in the safety of your personal property.
Aerial view above the Garvanza District of Highland Park CA.
The Downtown Los Angeles skyline is peeking in the background behind Mount Washington.
Los Angeles, CA 90042
Asking $1,199,000
If you would like more information or a tour of this home please contact Glenn Shelhamer at 310-913-9477 or SEND AN EMAIL!
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