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For those who may not remember, during the financial crisis there were supposed to be all sorts of toxic "legacy securities" sitting on bank balance sheets. The government spent a lot of time trying to figure out a way to remove these securities from bank balance sheets without 1) overpaying 2) causing the banks to incur a loss so great that it would impair their capital. One solution was the PPIP (Public Private Investment Partnership) which effectively turned the US Treasury into a prime broker for 8 very lucky hedge funds. The idea was to take 50% private money, 50% public money (as equity) and then double that with more public money (termed as debt (even though it's all debt anyways)) and use that to buy the riskiest securities that could be purchased off of bank balance sheets.
In all, $7.3B of private money was combined with $22B of public money to form PPIP funds. The funds were structured to shutdown in 2012, and many of them will end their investment period this month. As the financial crisis fades deeper and deeper into memory, the PPIP funds have been mostly forgotten as well, but the Treasury still does report on how they've done on a quarterly basis. Below is the performance of the funds, which have on average earned an 88% cumulative return since 4Q09. For its part, the treasury earned a return of 1.48x its equity (after fees). Over the same general period, the S&P 500 is up about 40%. More information on the PPIP program can be found: here.
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Actor turned filmmaker Jeff Dylan Graham gave Fango some news, snaps and an exclusive trailer for his new feature 'Psychosomatika'. You can check out the trailer here.
Following a severely traumatic event, Lionel Perkins [Graham] suffers from a psychosomatic illness, a condition which causes him to lose some of his sight and most of his memory. Our goal is to keep the audience guessing along with the protagonist as he tries to unravel a skein of secrets about his past - secrets he may be surprised to find.
Jeff Scripted alongside J.T. Seaton and Dan Casserole and even stars in the flick himself. Graham co-stars with horror veteran Lynn (The Crazies) Lowry, Peter (Cemetary Gates) Stickles, Lee (Katiebird) Perkins, Elissa (Live Evil) Dowling and scream queens Brinke Stevens and Fangos own Debbie Rochon.
Graham and producer Ned Christensen shot 'Psychosomatika' in 30 days over the course of nine months last year in Hollywood and its surroundings. Ive been a working indie actor for about 10 years, and Ive always had a desire to direct, he tells us. Id received a lot of encouragement from people to pursue it, so when that opportunity came, I began searching for the perfect projectone that could be done on a low budget, with a small cast and limited locations and effects.
Enter director Curtis Harringtons 1970 made-for-TV flick HOW AWFUL ABOUT ALLAN, which got Grahams creative juices flowing. The whole idea [at the center of that film] of psychosomatic illness, a condition which can be brought on by a traumatic experience, was really fascinating to me, Graham recalls. As he started developing the script, he felt like we had something much cooler than a remake, especially since Im not really a fan of remakes to begin with. My producer and I were confident that we had a strong stand-alone piece, so I began developing it into what it is today: a very different story and style than the television movie that inspired it.
And how different is the end result from the Anthony Perkins-starring original? Quite a bit, if the filmmakers summation is any indication: I tried to mate the sensibilities of 1950s sitcoms with elements of the PSYCHO series, a little bit of the 1987 flick PARENTS and of course Harringtons original ALLAN. Really, PSYCHOSOMATIKA is like a storybook come to life, with its blend of satirical comedy, drama, horror, and eccentric visuals [framed by cinematographer David Collupy]. Its almost like we took LEAVE IT TO BEAVER, mixed in some Dario Argento with a dash of Tim Burton and a bit of those 70s psychedelic acid flicks and put them into a blender.
As for the gore quotient, newcomer Jacob Gillman was tapped to handle the wetwork, and while Graham says that the film isnt quite a bloodbath, it does have some disturbing imagery and an ample amount of gore. Postproduction on PSYCHOSOMATIKA is scheduled to be completed this May, and Graham is hopeful for theatrical premieres in New York and Los Angeles while working on securing a distributor. Stay tuned to Fango for further developments, and in the interim, have a look at the movies official website for PSYCHOSOMATIKA here.

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In light of the recommendation in the Taken on Trust report (2017) that 'all key stakeholders in the charity sector should review and enhance their advice, support and communications to reflect and draw upon developments in digital technology', we offer the following tips:
- Digital is not going to go away. Boards must put the development impact of new technologies as one of the priorities on their governance agenda.
- Boards can consider using a board portal which integrates features of email, online calendars and document management software. Board portals organise board work (such as organising away days, off site events, committee work, task forces and working groups). They also record, organise and access board member data, contact details, biographical content, skills and expertise. Utilising video conferencing for board, committee and other meetings can enhance engagement, provided these do not take the place of meeting face to face. Zoom, Periscope, Facebook Live, GoToMeet, WebEx etc are valuable tools and the cost of these software tools keeps coming down.
- Adopting and implementing a social media strategy and policies to guide the usage of new technologies must feature on the organisation's agenda.
- Trustees must explore what they can do to manage risk, protect their data, staff and service users from cyber issues such as malware, phishing scams, email attacks, hackers, trolls and the like. A study undertaken by information services provider Experian showed that 60 per cent of mobiles and 48% of tablets have no security installed. Alarmingly, victims themselves may unknowingly install malware!
- Trustees need to ensure that financial controls provide sufficient security for online giving and due diligence procedures are carried out before third parties are hired to manage online donations. Mobile phone and tablets used by charity staff are increasingly at risk from criminal attack. The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) regime, operated by many charities, weakens the security of data. They may consider moving to a Choose Your Own Device (CYOD) regime that consciously limits the number of devices that have access to data systems. Investing in anti-theft software is highly recommended.
- Boards should explore the possibilities of the digital agenda and its development for their organisation. Social media can be used for feedback from users and beneficiaries. Feedback to the board can assist in monitoring performance, inform strategic planning and increase the quality and impact of services.
- The board needs to look online for where its target audience is engaging and join the conversation on their turf. An added benefit is that the charity can gauge how it is being perceived and have evidence of the 'external and internal' images.
- Trustees could monitor the different platforms the organisation uses – twitter, Instagram, Linkedin, Google chatrooms, Facebook et al and ensure there are sufficient procedures, processes and policies in place to guide their use. Staff, volunteers and trustees must receive adequate training and be aware about the importance of using the latest technology appropriately and safely.
- With the risk of utilising new technologies come the rewards. Board need to get better at balancing both for the benefit of the charity.
- Close the generational divide. Generation Zers (born post 1995) adopt the 'three screen approach' and probably hold the same expectations in the boardroom. The board needs to be able to attract and support young trustees to appropriately use a multi- media approach. The board could benefit from having a digital trustee who could support the development and implementation of a digital strategy from a governance perspective.
Taken on Trust ( The awareness and effectiveness of charity trustees in England and Wales, 2017)
Wired to Govern: a trustee's handbook for the digital revolution (Onboard/BWB)
12 Questions about digital for trustees (Charity Commission)
Tesse Akpeki
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WESTFIELD, MA –Senior forward Dave McDonald (Wakefield, MA/Valley Jr.Warriors-EJHL) scored a power play goal with 4:30 remaining in the third period and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's hockey team played a 2-2 tie with host Westfield State, in a Massachusetts Collegiate Athletic Conference game at the Amelia Park Arena Tuesday evening.
McDonald re-directed a pass from senior forward Phil Bronner (Wilbraham, MA/Springfield Jr. Falcons-EJHL) past WSU goaltender Ian Perrier to tie the game.
Dalton Jay had given the Owls a 2-1 lead when he picked up a loose puck in front of the net and beat UMD senior goaltender Ryan Williams (Milton, ON/Huntsville Potters-OPJHL) midway through the second period.
Sophomore forward Dmitry Antipin (Novosibirsk, Russia/Cape Cod Cubs-EJHL) scored a power play goal for the Corsairs in the first period to tie the game at 1-1.
UMass Dartmouth outshot the Owls, 54-36. Williams made 34 saves for the Corsairs, while Perrier stopped 52 shots for Westfield State.
"We scored both of our goals on the power play, and we shut down one of the best power plays in the league, going three for three on the penalty kill," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach John Rolli. "We just couldn't get that extra goal. The silver lining is that we won the three-game series against Westfield with a win and two ties. However, we're going to need some help from someone else to have a chance at second place."
UMass Dartmouth is now 8-7-6 and 7-3-5 in the MASCAC, while Westfield State is now 13-6-3 and 9-4-3 in the MASCAC. The Corsairs will return to action when they host Fitchburg State Thursday evening. The Owls will visit Salem State Thursday.


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Knowing, as I do, that there's a lot more where this came
from, I can only marvel at the excessive imagination of Tim Allen's writing.
To call him fecund would be a massive understatement. Settings is a series of seventy seven pieces - whether prose
blocks, poems or prose poems is a moot point and probably irrelevant - each
taking up no more than a page of text and each being a discrete object,
although there are, of course, occasional 'overlaps' and suggestions which
are reprised at a later point. No matter, the essential point to be made is
that these artworks feature a number of techniques common to poetry - Tim is
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On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 06:55:19PM +0200, Alexander Kobel wrote: > Oh, and of course I know that this amount "is extremely low given the > work involved", as Graham stated, but ... well - it's better than > nothing. Well, some people (not me) might not agree -- I mean, if something would take you 20 hours, and somebody offers $10 and a piece of bubble gum, it's not very encouraging. If ten people offered the same thing, it would add up, of course. But I've heard from some developers that taking a bounty isn't worth the trouble of setting up a paypal account. *shrug* I'd be happy to take a bounty if anybody offered them in areas I work on. > AFAIK (and hope), none of you guys codes in Lily for his living, but at > least there may be a free dinner sometimes to soothe the Significant > Other... Well, that requires converting the paypal balance into actual money, which requires giving paypal more financial information than I feel comfortable doing. An alternative to donating it to the FSF (or whatever charity you like) would be for the developer to offer a bounty on something that affects *them* -- either something they want to use for their own lilypond compositions, or something they want for their own *development* work (like the source code indentation program or new build system). Cheers, - Graham
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Tye Gardner grew up helping run his family's cheese-making business alongside his 13 siblings. Today his company produces 23 varieties of cheese and sausage. They concentrate on specialty flavors like their best selling Buffalo Wing Cheese and Salsa Jack Cheese.
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Bruce Garrabrandt is a self-taught artist whose overwhelming desire to make art helped him persist through the awkward early stages of developing his craft. At the University of Delaware, he majored in English and started his working career in advertising. But he'd always loved drawing and secretly harboured a dream of making art for a living.
Today he uses colored pencils to draw traditional countryside and Victorian scenes as well as whimsical artwork depicting hilarious scenarios and spoofs of classical art pieces. "Phona Lisa" shows the Mona Lisa clutching a cordless phone and "Out Behind the Smokehouse" shows a trio of pigs smoking cigarettes behind a small building.
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George Gatsoulas learned furniture making while working in his father's cabinet shop in Greece. He also attended technical school to study design. He came to the United States at the age of 25 and continued making high end cabinets for several decades. After he retired, he spent several months learning how to make the small bandsaw boxes he sells at craft shows today. In his mind, he simply went from making big cabinets to little cabinets.
He uses imported and domestic hardwoods. George says he puts a lot of fantasy into his designs. His miniature cabinets have drawers that fan out on each side. On some, the tiny drawers are shaped to resemble the flames of a crackling fire. These boxes are great conversation pieces but they're also useful for holding jewelry and small trinkets.
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Kim Gladfelter started her artistic career following 25 years working in health care. At her first craft show, she offered a variety of decorative items but quickly realized that her gourd art was the hands-down best seller.
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Sarah Glazer has explored many artistic avenues including greeting cards, illustrating children's books, acrylic painting and finally textile design.
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Olga Goldin received her artistic training in her Minsk, Belarus and started her ceramics business after coming to the United States in 1994. Using only her own hands, she crafts an assortment of Judaica and botanical-themed pieces.
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With practice, he learned that the key ingredients for a great grilled chicken are seasoning salt, lemon pepper and garlic powder. After many successful cookouts using this recipe, he decided to package it for wider distribution into a blend he named Eye of Newt.
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Hometown: Madison, VA
Ninika's parents were also handmade crafters so she has spent her whole life attending craft festivals.
She started out as a jewelry maker in her youth but gave it up when she moved and no longer had a studio space. For 30 years, she worked alongside her husband Richard in his wood joinery furniture making business.
She has returned to her preferred medium with renewed inspiration. She makes hand crafted one of a kind gold, copper and recycled silver jewelry with natural and hand painted stones.
She gets ideas for new designs while hiking in rural Virginia where she lives with her husband, Richard Gordon. Custom orders for wedding rings or specific designs are always welcome.
Hometown: Madison, VA
Richard Gordon and his son Alec, make beautiful dining tables and chairs, rocking chairs, beds, cabinets and other household furniture using traditional wood joinery methods. They use cherry, walnut, figured maple and other domestic hardwoods sourced from the nearby mountains of rural Virginia. Their pieces are unstained to allow the natural beauty of the wood to shine through. All items are coated with a non-toxic tung oil for protection.
Richard comes from a long line of traditional crafters. Richard's ancestor, Phineas Prat, was the first English guild trained furniture maker in the United States. He and his son, Alec, are 9th and 10th generation craftsmen.
Hometown: Burton, OH
Hometown: Point Pleasant, NJ
Robin Gower makes intricately patterned beaded jewelry and accessories using Japanese and Czech seed beads, Austrian crystals, freshwater pearls, semi-precious stones and handmade and blown glass. As a retired professor of medieval history, she draws inspiration from European and Russian royalty of long ago. She also incorporates Celtic, Viking and Egyptian designs.
Robin was a winner in Bead & Button Magazine's 2017 Design Challenge with her bead-embroidered collar embedded with labradorite cabochon. Her goal in creating is to make the most exquisite piece she can possibly make with the best quality stones and beads. Though this approach is time-consuming, Robin wouldn't have it any other way. She is passionate about her work and is constantly looking for opportunities to expand. Come take a look at her incredibly ornate designs at Sugarloaf Crafts Festival.
Hometown: Hopewell, PA
Although Gerry Grant doesn't advertise his wooden rocking chairs as certified orthopedic chairs, his work has received glowing testimonials from a number of chiropractors and other medical professionals.
He has had customers who found so much relief from his chairs that it was equivalent to a chiropractic adjustment.
Gerry's rocking chairs are enjoyed by young and old, healthy and infirm.
Take a break from being on your feet at Sugarloaf Crafts Festival and go for a ride in one of Gerry Grant's rocking chairs!
Hometown: Marlton, NJ
Hometown: Allentown, NJ
Laura and Steve Gray use treasured family recipes to make freezer jam. Their family has been making freezer jam with produce from the family farm since the 1920's. Friends have been telling them to sell their jam for years. After watching an episode of Shark Tank, they started talking seriously about starting a business and decided to go for it.
Freezer jam is entirely cold-processed with fresh fruit, pectin and a handful of other ingredients. These jams have less than half the sugar of most jams while still retaining all the natural fruit flavors. Icebox jam is so low sugar that Type 1 and 2 diabetics can enjoy it. A serving is rated 1 point in the Weight Watchers system.
Available in flavors like Apple Blackberry, Cranberry Orange, Cranberry Apple and Pumpkin Pie and a dozen other flavors, these jams work well on pancakes and waffles, mixed into cream cheese or yogurt, with ice cream and in salad dressings. They can also be used as a flavoring for water, tea or coffee. A spoonful of Pumpkin Pie jam stirred into a cup of coffee creates a fantastic latte!
Stop by during the next Sugarloaf Crafts Festival, but be warned - 90% of tasters buy it!
Hometown: North Bergen, NJ
Hollie Graze makes mosaic home decor items including frames, mirrors and wall art. She designs her pieces to be lightweight for easier wall hanging.
She uses stained glass, vitreous glass, beads, rhinestones, ceramic tiles and mirror glass in her work. Since mosaic art is so durable she imagines many of her pieces will outlive her.
She creates all her designs without a pattern, preferring improvise as she goes. With mosaics people often want to touch the artwork and Hollie encourages festival shoppers to examine the texture of her work.
She lives outside New York City and finds inspiration in the abundance of public art in the area as well as from nature. Working with broken glass carries certain hazards. She has to be constantly vigilant that her cat (Molly) and people don't walk on broken glass without shoes. It's all worth it though when she thinks that someone may appear on Antiques Roadshow someday with a Mollycat Mosaic they inherited from a grandparent.
Hometown: Quakertown, PA
For Paul Grecian, photographing the natural world is a meditative process. He wants to capture the feelings of fulfillment and grounding he derives from nature. In his words, "I enjoy abstraction and realism equally, and find the space within a dewdrop as wonderful as a whole expanse of landscape."
In addition to taking photos with standard modern equipment, he did a botanical series using vintage lenses. These photos exude a special "softness and quietness" which he really likes.
Paul has many favorite places in south eastern and central Pennsylvania and other East Coast locations where he happily immerses himself in nature. He says the conversations he has with art collectors are what make being a full time artist so fulfilling.
His photography has won numerous awards and appeared in many calendars, magazines and coffee table books.
Hometown: Boone, NC
Hometown: New York, NY
Hometown: Grassy Creek, NC
Barbara and Walter started their company in 1976 at the urging of their jewelry making friends. They'd head out to art shows in an old Volkswagen bus with their booth strapped to the roof. Walter's father had been a woodworker and Barbara knew how to do macrame. Over time, they acquired more woodworking tools and expanded their line to include dimensional puzzles, Jacob's Ladder toys, birdhouses, clocks, vases, candle holders and other items.
About 75% of their raw material is recycled or reclaimed wood, mostly chestnut rail fence wood that would otherwise be burned or left to decay. Over the years, they have recycled 50,000 chestnut rails into attractive and useful household items and children's toys. One year, they inherited 60,000 feet of lumber from furniture factory.
Their crafts are shown in galleries and museums all over the country.
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Hometown: Lancaster, PA
Ufhoven Fleece Hats, operated by Janet and Kevin Guillory, make whimsical handcrafted fleece hats, scarves, stocking hats, mittens and other items to keep children and adults snug and warm all winter long.
Their Berber fleece face hats, in sizes XS to L, are their most popular item. These hats are machine washable and reversible so they can be worn as face hats or regular hats. They also make hooded towels and blanket/pillow sets for children.
Janet is the grandmother of seven grandchildren. She started her handcrafting business to allow her to spend more time with them.
Hometown: Gaithersburg, MD
Iris Grundler attended Catholic University in Washington DC where she received a BSAT in Architecture. After she got started in the field of architecture she felt creatively unfulfilled and turned to painting and then pottery in her spare time.
All her pottery is hand-thrown and hand built with porcelain, black clay, brown speckle and white stoneware. Working with the Sgraffito method, she varies her designs according to the limitations of the specific clay used. Her Peruvian ancestry and North American lifestyle combined create in a distinct multi-cultural aesthetic.
Hometown: Depew, NY
Hometown: Staunton, VA
Cathy Guss began making jewelry when she was 11 years old by making seed bead jewelry for herself and her dolls. She realized early on that jewelry making would be her life's work.
Five decades later, she is just as excited about her work, still looking for ways to create innovative designs. She did her first juried art show in 1977. She enjoys meeting people at the shows and re-connecting with people who collect her work.
Check out her work at an upcoming Sugarloaf Crafts Festival. If you don't see exactly what you want, feel free to talk to her about a custom design. Cathy is always happy to make new pieces using your preferred stones and design modifications.


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Monday, October 11, 2010
Groups Offer Benefits: Join in!
Decades ago, when I was in school, I played clarinet. Because I missed playing a musical instrument, a few years ago I took up soprano recorder. I'm not a great player, but I'm okay. Practicing solo is fine, but I've been longing to play with a group for some time. Finally, last weekend, I took the plunge. With instrument and music stand in hand, I drove to the meeting place of a local recorder society and joined in on a rehearsal.
It was hard walking into an established group where I didn't know a single soul. I needn't have worried, however. The members were very welcoming and kind. One woman went out of her way to talk to me and introduce herself before the rehearsal. She'd only just started with the group herself. We traded names and phone numbers when we discovered we both lived in the same town and are planning to carpool together to future rehearsals.
I fumbled my way through the three pieces we were given, missing notes, forgetting repeats, and miscounting, but no one seemed to care. I think they were too busy concentrating on their own parts to worry about me. I loved being part of a group again and I know I'll benefit from the added sightreading practice and hearing others play.
Writers can benefit from groups, too. If you've been writing solo for some time, try joining a group and meeting other writers. The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators is THE group for children's writers, and you don't have to be published to join. Take a look at their site. There are local regional chapters in almost every state in the U.S. Find out where the chapter nearest you meets. Then pluck up your courage and attend a meeting. I know you'll be glad you did!
Posted by Suzanne Williams at 7:21 PM
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- Jolene Hueber said...
I think it funny how we never get past that need for acceptance. Sometimes it is hard to put yourself out there, like you did with the recorder, but I am glad it was worth it.
- October 14, 2010 at 8:38 AM
- Suzanne Williams said...
Good to hear from you Jolene. I hope all is well and you've been enjoying the fall.
- October 14, 2010 at 2:26 PM
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How I Fell in Love with Travel
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Most people fall in love with travel on the first trip that they take away from home. Kids who go on camping trips that are destined to change them forever. Who go to Disneyland or DisneyWorld or what other form of Disney there is and enjoy the delights of their childhood while screaming from the top of their lungs as the roller coaster whisks them from one spot or another in an exhilarating, dizzying, adrenaline-rushing ride. Or teens. Teens who are off on a school trip or any other trip where they get to volunteer rebuilding a school or a church. It might not be to another country, but a one-week venture to some place where the sights, sounds, and smells are so different from what they know to be home. Others are already adults when they take that first step into the unknown. Perhaps it is to visit a relative or family members. Perhaps they finally decided to take that long vacation their best friends have been convincing them to take. Perhaps they want to see what is this fascination with flying and travelling that they keep hearing everyone talking about.
Not so with me.
My early childhood travels were more "travails" and less fun and adventure. Every time we took a trip, our parents had to make sure that they had plastic bags just in case one of us threw up (and, believe me, between me and my five brothers and sisters, someone was always bound to throw up; we rarely escaped unscathed). It wasn't just the throwing up that made us dread the journey and wish we could teleport to wherever we were going to. We hated the movies they would show on the bus with their loud sounds and disgusting scenes (for some reason, the PG-est of PG movie get played on buses). We hated bumpy roads and zigzag highways. We even had an incident when we travelled to a nearby province and some of us had diarrhea (to make matters worse, their were no toilets on the bus).
Thus, in my mind, I equated travel to tiresome, bothersome, messy things that took one away from the comforts of home and thrust them into places where the unknown and the unsafe occurred. In one of my earlier childhood travels, even, I remember trying to cross a bridge that was made of nothing but long pieces of bamboo strewn together, and falling off just we I started walking across. There were dogs that chased us, horses that ran away, runny noses, upset tummy, swarming mosquitoes, little incidents that would involve some of us falling this or that, bumping into this or that, breaking this or that.
I can remember out of town trips, but I can't remember ever saying that I wanted to go back to a certain place or that I wanted to go somewhere. Of course there were time when it seemed fun and cool...until the next person threw up or fell of the bridge or got chased by a turkey. So you can bet that my less-than-stellar travel history has little to do with why my feet are always itching to go some place.
Rather, I fell in love with travel in the solace found between the pages of many of my favourite books. I was five when I first read Little House on the Prairie and found myself wishing that I could go to a prairie and that I could see some Native American Indians. Not shortly after, I read Anne of Green Gables, and Prince Edward Island made it to a spot on my bucket list (which wasn't actually called a bucket list back then). The Boxcar Children had me wanting to visit ranches, go camping in the mountains. Swallows and Amazons made me want to try sailing, reinforced all the more by The Witch of Blackbird Pond and Carry On, Mr. Bowditch. Books like Number the Stars, Twenty and Ten, and Escape from Warsaw, sad as the plots were, made me eager to visit Europe
And while I read, I dreamed. Dreamed of a time when I would see these places for myself. Dreamed of my first airplane ride, my first trip out of the country, my first venture to worlds unknown. Dreamed of the time when I would not just read about those places or see them through magazines or online sites, but actually be there, actually see them with my very eyes.
Last May 10, 2010, I took that first step to fulfilling those dreams: I had my very first plane ride to a trip out of the country for the very first time.
It's been six years since that day. I don't get to travel as often as I'd like, but there are times when I get to go on trips and it's harder to convince my wandering soul to come back. I'm still dreaming. I'm still building my bucket list (which I actually call my Dream List now) and looking for places to go and things to do. Recently, I discovered several travel communities that are so fun and wonderful and helpful. I've downloaded a few apps, scheduled a few trips in the next few months. I haven't been to those places I've read about in my favourite books yet, but I'm determined to go there someday. Maybe I can even find that sweet niche what will allow me to travel for work or travel while I work. It's all hazy, nothing final, but it's a step, just like that one I took six years ago.
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Please take me with you. At least once and I won't bug you anymore ever.ReplyDelete
Oh goodness, that gave me some food for thought! We have 3 year old twins who we take on many trips. Luckily they don't get motion sickness. I hope they remember these trips fondly! I love your reading inspiration. Books and novels have long been an inspiration for me and I hope for my children as well. Anne of Green Gables was a particular favourite and I cant wait to read it with my daughter who most surprisingly has "carrots" hair. Lovely read, thank youReplyDelete
Reading truly broadens your imagination! Glad that it made you dream and that you are fulfilling those dreams :)ReplyDelete
Your childhood memories actually sounds like my now-days adult trips, messy, chaotic, stressy etc. But somehow I love them still. Good to read things turned out good for you. How about your siblings, did they catch the travel bug too?ReplyDelete
What a beautiful story! I am glad you joined us on the side of Wanderlust and Fernweh!ReplyDelete
I have similar memories of "travel" as a kid - it was a nuisance more than anything. Long hours in the car, stopping in a different town each day. All I wanted to do was read a book and eat at Dennys, lol. Travel wasn't a privilege back then like it is today. All my dreams now focus around, where can we go to next? Where can we get lost? What can we experience? I'm thankful now for the opportunities that we get!ReplyDeleteReplies
I feel you! Because it took me away from reading time when I was younger, I didn't enjoy it so much. But now, I can't seem to get enough of it. And you're right--back then, travel was a luxury. But these days, with all the promo flights, anyone can travel!Delete
I empathize with your early childhood travel memories. I think a lot of us remember being shipped as cargo in the backseat of a rough ride on a windy road. I certainly had my fair share of plastic bag encounters :)ReplyDelete


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In the high leverage game of retail forex day trading, there are certain practices that, if used regularly, are likely to lose a trader all he has. There are five common mistakes that day traders often make in an attempt to ramp up returns, but that end up resulting in lower returns. These five potentially devastating mistakes can be avoided with knowledge, discipline and an alternative approach. (For more strategies that you can use, check out Strategies For Part-Time Forex Traders.) TUTORIAL: Forex
Averaging Down
Traders often stumble across averaging down. It is not something they intended to do when they began trading, but most traders have ended up doing it. There are several problems with averaging down.
The main problem is that a losing position is being held - not only potentially sacrificing money, but also time. This time and money could be placed in something else that is proving itself to be a better position.
Also, for capital that is lost, a larger return is needed on remaining capital to get it back. If a trader loses 50% of her capital, it will take a 100% return to bring her back to the original capital level. Losing large chunks of money on single trades or on single days of trading can cripple capital growth for long periods of time.
While it may work a few times, averaging down will inevitably lead to a large loss or margin call, as a trend can sustain itself longer than a trader can stay liquid - especially if more capital is being added as the position moves further out of the money.
Day traders are especially sensitive to these issues. The short time frame for trades means opportunities must be capitalized on when they occur and bad trades must be exited quickly. (To learn more on averaging down, check out Buying Stocks When The Price Goes Down: Big Mistake?)
Pre-Positioning for News
Traders know the news events that will move the market, yet the direction is not known in advance. A trader may even be fairly confident what a news announcement may be - for instance that the Federal Reserve will or will not raise interest rates - but even so cannot predict how the market will react to this expected news. Often there are additional statements, figures or forward looking indications provided by news announcements that can make movements extremely illogical.
There is also the simple fact that as volatility surges and all sorts of orders hit the market, stops are triggered on both sides of the market. This often results in whip-saw like action before a trend emerges (if one emerges in the near term at all).
For all these reasons, taking a position before a news announcement can seriously jeopardize a trader's chances of success. There is no easy money here; those who believe there is may face larger than usual losses.
Trading Right after News
A news headline hits the markets and then the market starts to move aggressively. It seems like easy money to hop on board and grab some pips. If this is done in a non-regimented and untested way without a solid trading plan behind it, it can be just as devastating as placing a gamble before the news comes out.
News announcements often cause whipsaw-like action because of a lack of liquidity and hair-pin turns in the market assessment of the report. Even a trade that is in the money can turn quickly, bringing large losses as large swings occur back and forth. Stops during these times are dependent on liquidity that may not be there, which means losses could potentially be much more than calculated.
Day traders should wait for volatility to subside and for a definitive trend to develop after news announcements. By doing so there is likely to be fewer liquidity concerns, risk can be managed more effectively and a more stable price direction is likely. (For more on trading with news releases, read How To Trade Forex On News Releases.)
Risking More Than 1% of Capital
Excessive risk does not equal excessive returns. Almost all traders who risk large amounts of capital on single trades will eventually lose in the long run. A common rule is that a trader should risk (in terms of the difference between entry and stop price) no more than 1% of capital on any single trade. Professional traders will often risk far less than 1% of capital.
Day trading also deserves some extra attention in this area. A daily risk maximum should also be implemented. This daily risk maximum can be 1% (or less) of capital, or equivalent to the average daily profit over a 30 day period. For example, a trader with a $50,000 account (leverage not included) could lose a maximum of $500 per day. Alternatively, this number could be altered so it is more in line with the average daily gain - if a trader makes $100 on positive days, she keeps losing days close to $100 or less.
The purpose of this method is to make sure no single trade or single day of trading hurts the traders account significantly. By adopting a risk maximum that is equivalent to the average daily gain over a 30 day period, the trader knows that he will not lose more in a single trade/day than he can make back on another. (To understand the risks involved in the forex market, see Forex Leverage: A Double-Edged Sword.)
Unrealistic Expectations
Unrealistic expectations come from many sources, but often result in all of the above problems. Our own trading expectations are often imposed on the market, leaving us expecting it to act according our desires and trade direction. The market doesn't care what you want. Traders must accept that the market can be illogical. It can be choppy, volatile and trending all in short, medium and long-term cycles. Isolating each move and profiting from it is not possible, and believing so will result in frustration and errors in judgment.
The best way to avoid unrealistic expectations is formulate a trading plan and then trade it. If it yields steady results, then don't change it - with forex leverage, even a small gain can become large. Accept this as what the market gives you. As capital grows over time, the position size can be increased to bring in higher dollar returns. Also, new strategies can be implemented and tested with minimal capital at first. Then, if positive results are seen, more capital can be put into the strategy.
Intra-day, a trader must also accept what the market provides at different parts of the day. Near the open, the markets are more volatile. Specific strategies can be used during the market open that may not work later in the day. As the day progresses, it may become quieter and a different strategy can be used. Towards the close, there may be a pickup in action and yet another strategy can be used. Accept what is given at each point in the day and don't expect more from a system than what it is providing.
Bottom Line
Traders get trapped in five common forex day trading mistakes. These must be avoided at all costs by developing an alternative approach. For averaging down, traders must not add to positions but rather exit losers quickly with a pre-planned exit strategy. Traders should sit back and watch news announcements until the volatility has subsided. Risk must be kept in check, with no single trade or day losing more than what can be easily made back on another. Expectations must be managed, and what the market gives must be accepted. By understanding the pitfalls and how to avoid to them, traders are more likely to find success in trading.
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Six October rests in Giza and is the standing place of the concrete commemorational bridge erected by Egypt's previous dictator. This little city was created in remembrance of the Arab coalition which launched a surprise attack on Yom Kippur across the borders of Israeli-occupied areas, including the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula, to conquer the land procured by the Israelis during the Six Day War.
The offensive took place under the clock of Anwar Sadat, Nasser's successor. Three days after the sweeping advances of the Egyptian forces across the Sinai and beyond, Israel managed to rally up its army and blockade further Arab encroachment, bringing the two sides to a stalemate. Within days, Israel launched bombs into the heart of Syria triggering a flaccid response from the Egyptian forces. At this stage in the conflict, if Egypt were to continue its offensive, the potential consequences would be dire as Israeli retaliation was already making its way south towards Cairo. Sixteen days after the war began a UN attempt at brokering a ceasefire disintegrated almost immediately. A few days later, the two sides collaboratively agreed on a truce from the 25th October.
Although success on either side is contestable, 6 October shook up egos and deconstructed imagined realities. Having regained some form of dignity from previous Israeli defeat, Egypt was able to shock the Israeli forces awakening them to the reality that their dominance at the time was only situational and conditional on certain protections remaining in place. Despite Sadat's rule giving birth to Egypt's capitalist revolution, the economy had not completely collapsed at the time and the nation still held onto some of its key markets. Egypt's current economic situation cannot be considered as an acting factor which contributes to its present protection from attack.
Political gains (or losses) achieved from a lasting ceasefire, included in the Israel-Syria Agreement of Disengagement (1974) which demanded the release of all political prisoners and that Israel relinquish the Syrian land it occupied during the Six Day War. The Israel Egypt Peace Treaty was signed by Sadat and Begin one year after the Camp David Accords (1978), which made Egypt the first Arab state to recognise Israel. The Israel-Egypt Peace treaty primarily focused on recognition, mutual restraint and Egyptian demilitarisation of the Sinai Peninsula.
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Why eating junk food isn't just bad for you.
We all know that junk food is bad for us. But, we're only just beginning to understand how bad it is for the babies we carry.
A new research study may just make it harder for you to justify giving in to your junk food cravings.
Researchers in London recently found that pregnant rats who ate junk food gave birth to offspring who not only gravitated toward junk food, but who grew up fatter than their counterparts even if they were given a healthy diet. Why? It seems that their fat cells grew larger due to the diet they were fed in utero and while nursing, making them more prone to obesity no matter what they ate.
I'm suddenly deeply regretting the 60 pounds worth of chocolate chip cookies I consumed while pregnant. Lucky for you, there's still time to change your unhealthy ways, and we've got tons of information to help. For starters, our labor nurse and real mom blogger, Jeanne Faulkner, pulls no punches when she explains why we need to get real about food. Plus, our editors have compiled these rules to eat by and some eating do's & don'ts, for everything you need to know about eating during pregnancy.
Need some healthy meal ideas? Search our Recipe Finder for nutritious meals for mom and baby. For even more, check out Zoe Singer's Mom Appetit! blog, because ladies, we really are what we eat.
And if you're still craving junk food, here are three recipes to satisfy any junk-food junkie.
Bon Appetit!
Dana Rousmaniere is FitPregnancy.com's Managing Editor. She may now need to reconsider whether chocolate makes happy babies.


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Starting the Summer of 2016, we are launching our new volunteer program. Journey with us to Kirugu, Uganda as we develop a series of sustainable projects to help our community continue to thrive. To learn more, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
School Building
On September 18, 2015, The Hoffman Family Foundation partnered with our community to gift and commission a brand new school building! Our new schoolhouse will provide us with a state of the art learning environment and room to grow.
A majority of our students are at school from 7:00am-5:00pm, six days a week without a meal. Our urgent task is to provide adequate and substantial nutrition to each and every student while they are at school. Food is an absolute necessity and is conducive to proper learning and retaining information. Our children are so desperate to learn that they push their intense hunger to the side. Rays of Grace is doing everything in our power to create a mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually healthy and safe place to learn.
We are diving into the immediate needs of our school structure, specifically in regards to providing regular salaries for our staff at Mountain of Olives. Our teachers are not paid consistently, yet they still show up every day, eager to teach and educate our students. Rays of Grace is working to provide Teacher Sponsorship to ensure that our teachers are able to receive regular paychecks. In turn, they can provide for their families, send their own children to school and take ownership for the hard work they pour into our students.


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Zhone technologies a company specializing in next-gen service provider equipment is picking up Paradyne Networks a provider of triple play broadband loop carriers and Ethernet access equipment. My take is that this merger is all about scale and being able to compete with the big boys. Zhone has been doing a better job of marketing and promotion than Paradyne so I would say the right company is making the acquisition.
The details are as follows:
Under the terms of the agreement, Zhone will issue 1.0972 shares of Zhone common stock for each outstanding share of Paradyne common stock, and each option, warrant and other security exercisable or convertible into Paradyne common stock will be assumed by Zhone and become exercisable or convertible into Zhone common stock, with appropriate adjustments based on the merger exchange ratio. Based on Zhone's closing price yesterday, the transaction is valued at $3.917 per Paradyne common share. On a fully-diluted basis, the current stockholders of Paradyne will own approximately 36.8% of the combined company and the current stockholders of Zhone will own approximately 63.2% of the combined company. The proposed stock-for-stock transaction is intended to qualify as tax-free to the stockholders of Paradyne.
The acquisition of Paradyne by Zhone is expected to have the following results:
- Provide scale to allow for further growth and more comprehensive sales, service and support.
- Bolster Zhone's position as a leading provider of next generation Broadband Loop Carrier access network solutions.
- Provide service providers with more comprehensive solutions for delivering packet based voice, data and video services as these technologies converge.
- Provide for substantial cost savings from the reduction of operating expenses and is immediately accretive excluding any acquisition related charges.
- Strengthen Zhone's balance sheet with a larger net cash balance.
The transaction is also expected to expand the customer base of the combined company to include twelve of the top twenty-five U.S. Independent Telephone companies, including five of the top ten as well as two of the top three


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Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, "one of the great fictional heroines" (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.
When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice—Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie escape Hitler's Munich in 1938. MacFarlane asks Maisie to work with Scott to uncover the truth about Saxon's death.
As the Germans unleash the full terror of their blitzkrieg upon the British Isles, raining death and destruction from the skies, Maisie must balance the demands of solving this dangerous case with her need to protect Anna, the young evacuee she has grown to love and wants to adopt. Entangled in an investigation linked to the power of wartime propaganda and American political intrigue being played out in Britain, Maisie will face losing her dearest friend—and the possibility that she might be falling in love again.
About the Author
Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestselling Maisie Dobbs series, which includes In This Grave Hour, Journey to Munich, A Dangerous Place, Leaving Everything Most Loved, Elegy for Eddie, and eight other novels. Her standalone novel, The Care and Management of Lies, was also a New York Times bestseller and a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Originally from the United Kingdom, she now lives in California.
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"Everything in this series turns on the psychological traumas of war. That's what gives Maisie's sometimes prosaic cases their sturdy backbone and air of urgency—that and Maisie's own dynamic character. Hang on to your helmet and carry on, girl."
— New York Times Book Review
"Books in the Maisie Dobbs series are always as much about the heroine's ongoing journey as they are about the mysteries she solves, and it's the big changes in her life that make this 15th 'Maisie' book one of the best."
— Minneapolis Star Tribune
— USA Today
"Through it all she has solved sometimes harrowing cases with a mixture of intelligence, intuition, determination and compassion that makes her — and it's an odd compliment, I know — one of the most soothing characters in crime fiction. Reading a Maisie Dobbs book is a little like spending time with an old friend you don't see often enough."
— Tampa Bay Times
"Excellent…. In Winspear's capable hands, Maisie has evolved into a deeply sympathetic character. Readers will eagerly await her next outing."
— Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Advances Maisie's inspiring activities, highlights the bravery of an embattled people during the Second World War, and intimates that lessons from that period have yet to be learned."
— Kirkus
"The London blitz is the backdrop to Winspear's latest as the inimitable Maisie Dobbs investigates the death of Catherin Saxon, an intrepid American journalist determined to document wartime Britain's hardships for the folks back home. An immersive tale of wartime grit and grief."
— Booklist
"Winspear captures the juxtaposition of the utter chaos and eerie normalcy of the Blitz with cinematic style… The looming questions of whether she will be able to balance motherhood with her dangerous career is brilliantly relevant both to the era Winspear writes about and the current era… The American Agent will satisfy fans and newcomers alike."
— BookPage
"Offers an intense portrayal of how ordinary British residents attempted to manage their ordinary lives amid extraordinary and traumatic circumstances. Maisie solves the crime (naturally), but just as compelling is her own personal journey, which leaves her poised to begin yet another new chapter of her eventful life."
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Unconstrained Performance Capture (Optical Performance Capture)
"One of the first methods to reconstruct modifiable animation models of people in general apparel through performance capture from video"
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19617 and "Video-based Reconstruction of Animatable Human Characters", Carsten Stoll, Jürgen Gall, Edilson de Aguiar, Sebastian Thrun and Christian Theobalt, ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010), 29(6), p. 139-149, 2010, Seoul, Korea (http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/perfcap/index_vrhc.html)
"One of the first approaches for marker-less capture of skeleton motion and detailed surface geometry of multiple interacting people from video"
- "Markerless Motion Capture of Interacting Characters Using Multi-view Image Segmentation", Yebin Liu, Carsten Stoll, Jürgen Gall, Hans-Peter Seidel and Christian Theobalt, to appear IEEE CVPR 2011 (http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~theobalt/multitrack_cvpr11.pdf)
Motion capture algorithms reconstruct a mathematical description of the motion of a human, animal or moving mechanical device from sensor measurements. Motion capture has many applications in different areas, including medicine and biomechanics, computer animation, computer games and special effects, surveillance, 3D video and human-computer-interaction, to name just a few.
Unfortunately, most existing motion capture approaches have a strongly restricted application range, for instance since obvious interference with the scene is required. As an example, most optical systems require the subjects to wear special suits with fiducial markers on them. In practice, this is very constraining and the approaches can thus merely capture skeletal motion under controlled lab conditions. Marker-less motion capture approaches overcome some of these limitations and enable skeleton reconstruction without fiducials. However, it is still infeasible to capture detailed dynamic scene geometry or people in general apparel.
In our research, we investigate the algorithmic foundations of the next generation of motion capture, that we call performance capture. Performance capture methods reconstruct much more complete and detailed dynamic scene models that do not only contain a coarse motion description, but feature detailed dynamic scene geometry, detailed motion models, detailed surface appearance, and potentially more advanced scene descriptions, such as physical properties. Our aim is to be able to reconstruct performances of arbitrary moving devices, as well as humans in general apparel from a handful of unmodified video streams.
The goals of this project are two-fold:
- Enlarging the application range of high-quality marker-less performance capture methods such that they can be applied under more unconstrained conditions and such that the level of detail in the reconstructions is greatly enhanced.
- Enhancing the runtime performance of marker-less reconstruction methods such that performances can be captured in real-time from simpler sensors setups.
Project team
Principal Investigator
Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt
Nadia Robertini
Ahmed Elhayek
Pablo Garrido
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|Granada hardback, 1984. Cover painting by Peter Gudynas.
In the final phase man will become master of his own evolution as well as that of all other living things.
Thanks to Jerry Boucher who made me aware of this book and the similarity of a certain Peter Gudynas painting similar to the cover of Frederik Pohl's Man Plus, which I posted a few weeks ago.This book (with obligatory Asimov foreword) is sort of disappointingly not concerned with science fiction per se, rather the application of speculative fiction, theories as well as modern science and medicine in real life (circa 1984). Topics include evolution, the biological revolution, mastering the environment, diseases, ageing, engineering people, mind control and scenarios for the future of mankind. The majority of illustrations are photographs of a medical or scientific nature, but there's a few paintings by Gudynas, Peter Goodfellow, Terry Oakes and others have artwork credits in the acknowledgements section but I do not recognize which images are theirs.
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California Subject Examinations for Teachers: Languages Other than English (CSET:LOTE) can be found at http://www.ctcexams.nesinc.com. The examination route for this authorization is the CSET: LOTE. Candidates take examinations on language, bilingual methodology and culture of emphasis. These are:
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because I cannot decide.
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Because I cannot decide how I want to sew up the sleeves. Should I mattress stitch? crochet a slip stitch? Make the seams blend in or should the seams be a promineent design feature?
All you BSJ knitters out there, what did you do?
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