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He said the main group that will be affected is the consumers as businesses will adopt, and will pass on their increased cost to them.
As a businessman, he said too that one of the biggest threats is the shortage of foreign currency, which is already happening, and that whilst not connected to the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF)'s decision, he expects it to be exacerbated as Guyana has been referred to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
Foreign currency would be harder to obtain and the local currency will be devalued. This effect will see import costs increasing and the resultant rise in goods and many commonly used items, noting that the cost of the main import which is fuel, will increase. This will have a knock on effect on fuel prices and even the Guyana Power and Light Inc., which received a $10 billion subsidy in 2013, may have to get an increased subsidy or consumers will pay more for electricity, he added.
International financial services such as remittance providers will also see an increase in the costs to conduct business, and this will be felt by persons using these services, according to Urling.
The banking sector will also be negatively affected as some overseas based banks may opt to sever ties with their local partners or counterparts due to increased pressure from the FATF, according to Urling.
"Some of them just won't bother as Guyana is a small market for them, and with the extra pressure being placed on them, it's just not worth the effort," he said, adding that there is no guarantee that Banks will even want to conduct any business with local counterparts.
The inability of the National Assembly to meet the CFATF deadline is viewed as a great travesty, by the former PSC head, and an outrage for Guyana.
"It is also one of the biggest injustices I have ever seen, perpetuated on our own country by the same people who are custodians of our country".
Describing the CFATF ruling as one from an international body, he stated that it should not have been about partisan politics, and personal views, "It should have been we an international imposition, we need to meet the requirements, we operate in a global financial architecture and system, so to avoid our country being on the back-foot in this system, let's pass a bill that is compatible and meets the requirements."
The fact that even CFATF officials reached out to local politicians and explained technical details was noted. Urling is of the opinion that since the issue was more a political than a technical issue, Caricom should have stepped up to act as a mediator and at least make an attempt to broker a deal to ensure the legislation's passage.
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So, progress on Lilith is going along okay, not brilliant but okay. Yeah, the story is much better than Vanguard Newborn. That was the plan and it is so-far working out. It will also be a longer book too. Maybe up to 150K words. Considering I have barely started the story, and making sure there is action at every turn, the end product will even impress me. Try not thinking about that, I tell myself, hoping to just get on with the story. Whatever develops, develops. Come what may.
News from the Ashley Zetterburg world is that I am awaiting a proof copy of the book. Sadly I missed the holidays, and the proof will arrive in the New Year. I suppose I should be happy, but a little holiday lightener would have been nice. After I have checked it out, it will be despatched to my mom who eagerly awaits whatever I have produced. My baby, see mom!
Finally a big hello to anyone (hello, is there anyone out there?) who has made it over to my new blog (i.e. this one) in my pseudonym of Kaden Brown. Welcome, have a look around, throw me a bone and I'll chew on it, letting you know whatever I think.
PS. Here's the latest sentence I have written:
A shadow of doubt passed through my head, wondering what the hell was going on.

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The Chipola Indians (29-9, 8-1) and Pensacola State lit up the scoreboard on Saturday as they combined for 34 runs. In the end, Chipola Indians won the offensive battle 21-13.
The teams banged out 25 hits hits between them, as well as 10 for extra bases.
The Indians beat PSC thanks to 15 hits, including six extra base hits. They scored seven runs in the third on an RBI single by Myles Edwards, a hit by pitch, a wild pitch, and a grand slam home run by Maurice Cooley.
Additional home runs for the Chipola Indians came when Jose Caballero homered in the fourth inning, Tyler Osik homered in the eighth inning, and Franklin Van Gurp homered in the ninth inning.
Riley Cabral (4-4) got it done on the bump on the way to a win. He allowed one run over 5 2/3 innings in relief. Cabral struck out six, walked four and gave up two hits.
Six hitters combined for nine hits, 13 RBIs and 13 runs scored.
The Chipola Indians added three more runs in the top of the fourth. A single by Edwards ignited the offense,, scoring Jay Estes. That was followed up by Caballero's two-run home run, bringing home Edwards.
The Chipola Indians increased their lead with four runs in the ninth.
Chipola hopes to finish off Game 3 of their rain-heavy series at NWF tomorrow, April 3 in Niceville. First-pitch is scheduled for 2pm CST.
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I Promise
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promise to do my best at work or at play. I will follow the rules and never
cheat, and will help other members of my team. I will always try to make my
family, neighborhood, school, Pack, and friends proud of the things I do.
Spotlight the Boy
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The US Flag and a pack flag
are carried to the front by the color guards. They face the audience. The
lights are turned down and a Cub Scout stands in between the flags. A
spotlight is turned on the setting. A good reader, reads the verse below.
just eight years old He's made of the following ingredients: Noise, energy,
imagination, curiosity and hunger. He's the "cute little boy down the street",
That "spoiled imp next door", or "My Son,"...depending on who you are. He's
something to be kept fed, clothed, healthy, happy and out of trouble. But,He's
something else, too. He's tomorrow. He's the future we've been fighting for.
He's part of the world's most important generation. Our generation must also
win the peace.
Your Best
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D-Doing for others in need
O-One country, allegiance, and creed
a response that we give
O-Oath, that we pledge to live
U-Under, one flag we all stand
R-Ready, to defend our great land
B-Beauty, we see it each day
E-Eagerness, we all should display
S-Service, and love toward others
T-Thankfulness for making us brothers
Standing Up To Crimes
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Wolf Book
Cub Scouts
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lines are read.)
As boys and their families
joined Cub Scouts they learned the Cub Scout promise.
Cub: When we say
we'll do something, that is a promise ‑ we promise to do obey the law of the
Cub: Then we
promise to do our duty to God.
Cub: Then we
promise to do our duty to our Country. This means we should do what we can for
our country, be proud that we are Americans and obey the laws of the land.
Cub: Next we
promise to help other people which means you should do things for others that
would please them.
Cub: Lastly, we
promise to obey our leaders and parents. All of this, we promise to do.
Please rise and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Cub Crime Prevention Tips
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things safer, we offer these tips,
On everything from school
to going on trips.
#2: Make sure
that you know your full name and phone number,
So if
you should need them you don't stop and wonder.
#3: Learn from
your parents where you're safe to go
That way if you're walking,
which way they will know.
#4: Be alert in
your neighborhood and note what you see
an adult if you think "It didn't look good to me."
#5: Don't let
your feelings get you in a fight,
friends or walk away whether you're wrong or right.
Cub #6: And
finally, remember, put safety number one
So no
one gets hurt and all will have fun.
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"Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil. Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn away from it and pass on. For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall. For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
But the path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble." – Proverbs 4:14-19 – NKJV
Labor Day And America's Most Miserable Man: Aka Obama
America's celebration of Labor Day must be a particular day of accelerated angst for our White House criminal ID forgery fraud, aka, Obama. Instinctively, he knows his wicked work (wreaked upon America) is not the finished (labor-product) he would like it to be.
Why would Nazi Bâri' Hitler-Shabazz: Aka Barack Obama be so full of accelerated angst this 2015 Labor Day? Holy Scripture describes the wicked as troubled, miserable (and, especially) restless, individuals:
………But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud. "There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked." – Isaiah 57:20-21 – NKJV
"The wicked man writhes with pain all his days,…….Trouble and anguish make him afraid;
They overpower him,…….." – Job 15:20 ; 15:24 – NKJV
This Labor Day and following (those of you who have the Faith of Almighty Creator / Savior God) please pray for aka Obama and his (undocumented) "make-shift 'family.'" Pray that America's most miserable man, eventually discover peace. Peace that is bereft of scheming, destruction, terror, false realities, murder, rationalizations and excuses. Peace that "passes all understanding." The peace that Christ promised to bring His disciples. The peace that comes with genuine repentance and belief.
Please note multiple related informational links following the large pic and its caption:
Related to the above:
- TREASONOUS OBAMA BUILT ISIS: FOIA DOCUMENTS DISCLOSE WILLFUL DECISION – moralmatters.org
- Nazism: Modern-Day Fascist Evil – moralmatters.org
- Nazi Bâri' Hitler-Shabazz: Aka Barack Obama – moralmatters.org
- Terrible Truth Research On Aka Obama – moralmatters.org
- Obama Celebrates Father's Day 24 / 7 – moralmatters.org
More related informational links:
- Demonic Obama: America's Omen Child – moralmatters.org
- Liars go to hell – christianmessage.org
- Obama, Michelle And Hillary Can Face A Similar Historical Fate: Italian Resistance Movement – moralmatters.org
Open online letter to aka "president" Obama: Repentance is in order for your wicked, troubled and tortured soul – moralmatters.org
The Grace of Repentance – christianmessage.org
"A thinking person will question what he hears; examine what he sees; and evaluate what others would have him believe."
"When did big government and its mainstream media tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?"
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Kiwi soul is on the rise and we are most happy to welcome Sola Rosa as our latest signing from down under. Lead by musical mastermind Andrew Spraggon, Sola Rosa is already a household name in their native country New Zealand. Their unique blend of soul, reggae, hip-hop and whatnot is modern roots music at its best.
New Zealand is blessed with exceptional musical talent ? be it Fat Freddy's Drop, The Black Seeds, Electric Wire Hustle, or Ladi6. Keeping in mind that the total population of the south pacific island is no more than 4.5 million people, the sheer amount of quality music becomes even more impressive.
Sola Rosa started out as a one-man project around 2000 and grew into one of New Zealand's most deadly live collectives. ?Get It Together? marks the band's first international album release and, as the title suggests, they're clearly in for something big.
Super crisp productions meet equally catchy songwriting with arrangements that go from string quartetts to wobbly basslines to El Barrio and back again. While mic duties are handled by an international ensemble of acclaimed singers, chatters and MC's.
European Sound System Tour 2011
Oct 26 Studio 672, Köln (GER)
Oct 27 Vibe Bar, London (UK)
Oct 29 Urban Festival, Istanbul (TR)
Oct 30 Factory, Amsterdam (NL)
Nov 2 Cassiopeia, Berlin (GER)
Nov 4 Lila Eule, Bremen (GER)
Nov 5 Die Pumpe, Kiel (GER)
Nov 8 Apex, Göttigen (GER)
Nov 9 Kitch'n Bar, Strasbourg (FR)
Nov 10 La Marquise, Dijon (FR)
Nov 11 La Fee Verte, Lyon (FR)
Nov 12 Espace B, Paris (FR)
Nov 15 Schlachthof, Wiesbaden (GER)
Nov 16 High Five Club, Duisburg (GER)
Nov 18 Nu Spirit Club, Bratislava (SK)
Nov 24 Haus 73, Hamburg (GER)
Nov 25 Rock & Roll Bar, Karlsruhe (GER)
US Sound System Tour 2011
Nov 29 S.O.B.?s, New York (US)
Dec 1 Neumos, Seattle (US)-w/Orgone
Dec 2 Dantes, Portland (US)-w/Orgone
Dec 6 Jambalaya, Arcata (US)
Dec 7 Brick & Mortar, SF US)
Dec 8 Zanzibar, L.A. (US)
Dec 9 World Beat, San Diego (US)
Dec 10 Culture Beat, Ensenada (MEX)
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Parish Councils have been told they will have to fork out £75 per winter to keep the grit bins in their area.
North Yorkshire County Council is stopping the supply of grit bins and grit heaps in the Harrogate District to bring them into line with the rest of the county.
More thean 100 gritbins across Harrogate and Knaresborough could be scrapped, including ones at the entrance to Harlow Carr, on Pannal Bank and in Knaresborough car parks.
Lib Dem County Coun Bill Hoult (Knaresborough) has hit back at the council over a lack of consultation.
He said: "I am furious with the way the letter has been worded and the lack of consultation about the proposal. This dictatorial attitude breaks all the precepts of good local government. Whatever happened to local councils working together? Tory Chiefs at County Hall may be trying hard to impose cuts on spending but this is not the way.
"The Leader at County Hall has spoken about the close working relationship that Harrogate and Knaresborough have with County and how we would be better staying with them in the event of a combined authority rather than throwing our hat in with Leeds. If this salt bin action is an example many will say no thanks, if it means being lectured like children on what is good for us."
The county council is in the middle of a £170m savings programme and it said that currently North Yorkshire has at least five times the provision of grit bins and heaps compared to other local authorities so any reduction will still leave a service which is far in excess of that provided nationally.
County Coun Don Mackenzie, North Yorkshire County Council's Executive Member for Highways said: "We want to make sure that our supply of grit bins and heaps is consistent across the county.
"North Yorkshire has an excellent winter maintenance programme and these changes, though making savings, ensure that grit bins remain in those places where they are most needed."
Coun Jim Clark (Con, Rossett) said: "I am worried, there are quite a few going I hope we get a mild winter.
"The big gritters can't get to every single street or the footpaths so these have been useful."
The authority is sending letters out to parish councils across the four districts during the course of the next few weeks explaining which grit bins do not meet the criteria. However, parish councils will have opportunity to keep the bin and pay an annual maintenance fee of £75, which will see it filled twice over the course of the winter.
This can be arranged as part of the council's winter partnership scheme, which encourages parish councils to bring together volunteers who are willing to clear snow and treat roads and footpaths.
Residents in Riccall, near Selby, set up their own 'snow patrol' in 2011 and a similar group called 'The Grit Squad' operates in South Milford.
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This post just cannot wait. As everyone who has been following me will know, I am not very good at keeping up to date with my posts. But this post simply cannot wait.
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I was making a dress to wear to the Sydney Summer Love Vintage Show. I was almost certain that I was NOT going to finish the dress in time as the date of the show drew near. But I did it. I finished the dress 2 days before the show and I think it's most probably the loveliest thing I have ever made. So, behold, my favourite dress at this very moment – Edith.
|Wearing: Handmade vintage-inspired 60s dress, nude Rubi flats, white vintage purse, white ASOS sunnies
|Oh, I also made a matching bow
Don't ask me why I'm calling it Edith. The name just popped into my head as I was admiring it.
Anyway, the Sydney Summer Love Vintage Show was amazing and I loved every minute that I spent there. There was a sign outside which said no photographs of the stalls were allowed, so I didn't take many photos at the show. But I did take a couple at a stall with the permission of the stall vendor.
|Mustang Sallie
And here are the things I got at the show:
|Vintage red luggage bag, $30
|Vintage Australian Home Journal (1951), $18
|Vintage handmade crochet gloves, $12. My life is now complete.
|Vintage dress, $10. What a steal!
|Vintage sunglasses, 2 for $25. My friend bought one too.
The details of this sewing project will be discussed in another post. Stay tuned! x


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Showing the Top Rated Comedy Movies
Ging chaat goo si (1985)
You may know the name, but the game has changed.
Rating: 7.6/10
Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller,
Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tung,
Sing lek lek tee reak wa rak (2010)
Rating: 7.7/10
Comedy, Romance,
Pimchanok Leuwisetpaiboon, Mario Maurer, Tangi Namonto, Yanika Thongprayoon, Acharanat Ariyaritwikol,
The Legend of Michael Mishra (2016)
Rating: ?/10
Comedy, Drama,
Aditi Rao Hydari, Boman Irani, Arshad Warsi, Yuri Suri, Saloni Batra,
Chithram (1988)
Rating: 8.6/10
Comedy, Drama, Musical,
Mohanlal, Nedumudi Venu, Renjini, Poornam Vishwanathan, Sreenivasan,
Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)
She's not ready to act her age
Rating: 6.7/10
Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Sally Field, Edmund Lupinski, Norma Michaels, Stephen Root, Wendi McLendon-Covey,
"The Proud Family" (2001)
There's no place like home, girl!
Rating: 6.2/10
Animation, Family, Comedy, Fantasy,
Kyla Pratt, Tommy Davidson, Tara Strong, Paula Jai Parker, Jo Marie Payton,
Boruto: Naruto the Movie (2015)
Rating: 8.3/10
Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy,
Yûko Sanpei, Kokoro Kikuchi, Ryûichi Kijima, Junko Takeuchi, Chie Nakamura,
Keemat: They Are Back (1998)
They are back
Rating: 5.9/10
Action, Comedy, Drama,
Akshay Kumar, Raveena Tandon, Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Moushumi Chatterjee,
Love & Friendship (2016)
Opportunistic, devious, shrewd, calculating, cunning, unprincipled
Rating: 6.6/10
Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Kate Beckinsale, Morfydd Clark, Tom Bennett, Jenn Murray, Lochlann O'Mearáin,
"Outsourced" (2010)
Rating: 7.5/10
Ben Rappaport, Anisha Nagarajan, Diedrich Bader, Parvesh Cheena, Pippa Black,
Nursery Rhyme of a Madman (2017)
A dark Comedy / Thriller about an artist trapped in asylum who tries to escape from two crazy doctors in competition over two di
Rating: ?/10
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller,
Peter Hodgins, Tim Kachurov, John Holosko, Charlie Kundallini, Munir Ahmed,
Melody (1971)
A tender love story for everyone who was ever twelve years old.
Rating: 7.9/10
Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Mark Lester, Tracy Hyde, Jack Wild, Colin Barrie, Billy Franks,
A Dog's Purpose (2017)
Every dog happens for a reason.
Rating: 2.1/10
Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy,
Josh Gad, Dennis Quaid, Peggy Lipton, K.J. Apa, Bryce Gheisar,
Eega (2012)
Rating: 7.9/10
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy,
Sudeep, Nani, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Hamsa Nandini, Crazy Mohan,
Rags (2012)
Rating: 7.1/10
Comedy, Drama, Musical,
Keke Palmer, Max Schneider, Isaiah Mustafa, Avan Jogia, Robert Moloney,
Manichithrathazhu (1993)
Rating: 8.8/10
Comedy, Horror, Musical, Mystery, Thriller,
Mohanlal, Shobana, Suresh Gopi, Vinaya Prasad, Nedumudi Venu,
BearCity (2010)
Romance can be hairy
Rating: 6.0/10
Comedy, Romance,
Alex Di Dio, Kevin E. Smith, Joe Conti, Carlos Abrieu, Ross Rogers,
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
The music made him do it!
Rating: 7.4/10
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Music, Musical, Romance, Thriller,
William Finley, Paul Williams, Jessica Harper, Gerrit Graham, George Memmoli,
Yu-Gi-Oh! (1999)
Rating: 8.1/10
Animation, Short, Action, Comedy, Fantasy,
Yumi Kakazu, Hisako Kyôda, Konomi Maeda, Hikaru Midorikawa, Toshiyuki Morikawa,
"Meitantei Conan" (1996)
One truth prevails
Rating: 8.4/10
Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller,
Minami Takayama, Wakana Yamazaki, Akira Kamiya, Wataru Takagi, Chafûrin,
A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)
Sometimes it takes nine lives to save one
Rating: 7.4/10
Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family,
Luke Treadaway, Bob the Cat, Ruta Gedmintas, Joanne Froggatt, Anthony Head,
Fifty Shades of Black (2016)
Once you go black, you never go gray.
Rating: 3.5/10
Marlon Wayans, Kali Hawk, Fred Willard, Mike Epps, Affion Crockett,
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? (2016)
They have their men by the barrels.
Rating: 8.1/10
Andrea Anders, Matt Passmore, Cloris Leachman, Katherine McNamara, John Michael Higgins,
Frozen 2 (0000)
Rating: ?/10
Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical,
Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel,
Split Decision (2017)
One decision splinters Garrett into 2 and he's left to follow both paths.
Rating: ?/10
Short, Comedy,
Jonathan Biver, Bret Porter, Simone Carter, Hunter Davis, Stacey Danger,
Aram + Aram = Kinnaram (1985)
Rating: 7.3/10
Mohanlal, Sreenivasan, Lizy, C.I. Paul, Maniyanpilla Raju,
Red Dog: True Blue (2016)
Rating: 6.9/10
Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance,
Jason Isaacs, Levi Miller, Bryan Brown, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, John Jarratt,
Laid in America (2016)
Rating: 4.7/10
Olajide Olatunji, Caspar Lee, Bobby Lee, Madison Iseman, Josh Leyva,
"Teachers" (2016)
Rating: 6.2/10
Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O'Brien,
Aakashvani (2016)
Rating: 4.5/10
Vijay Babu, Kavya Madhavan, Lalu Alex, Saiju Kurup, Sreejith Ravi,
Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007)
Rating: 5.3/10
Comedy, Sport,
Ashley Benson, Cassandra Scerbo, Noel Areizaga, Jennifer Tisdale, Kierstin Koppel,
Hot Hot Hot (2011)
Rating: 5.6/10
Comedy, Drama,
Rob Stanley, Joanna Scanlan, Gary Cady, Amber Doyle, Angela Bain,
Kabul Express (2006)
Two Indians, an American, one Afghan and a Pakistani on a journey together
Rating: 6.9/10
Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller,
John Abraham, Arshad Warsi, Salman Shahid, Hanif Hum Ghum, Linda Arsenio,
Na-eui PS pa-teu-neo (2012)
Got a wrong number? Met the right person!
Rating: 6.9/10
Comedy, Romance,
Seong Ji, Ah-jung Kim, So-yul Shin, Kyeong-jun Kang, Seong-oh Kim,
Donald Duck and the Gorilla (1944)
Rating: 7.4/10
Family, Comedy, Animation, Short,
Clarence Nash,
Barakah yoqabil Barakah (2016)
Rating: 6.7/10
Hisham Fageeh, Fatima AlBanawi, Sami Hifny, Khairia Nazmi, Abdulmajeed Al-Ruhaidi,
Mac & Devin Go to High School (2012)
Rating: 4.5/10
Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Mike Epps, Teairra Mari, Derek Kane,
Spellbound (2002)
Rating: 7.7/10
Documentary, Comedy, Thriller,
Angela Arenivar, Ubaldo Arenivar, Jorge Arenivar, Scott McGarraugh, Lindy McGarraugh,
Au Pair (1999)
When the right woman accepts the wrong job, anything can happen.
Rating: 6.0/10
Comedy, Family, Romance,
Gregory Harrison, Heidi Lenhart, Jane Sibbett, Katie Volding, Jake Dinwiddie,
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
D-Day Began When The Dirty Dozen Were Done!
Rating: 7.8/10
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller, War,
Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes,
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
...and you think you've got problems.
Rating: 6.8/10
Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson, Florence Stanley,
The Hindenburg Explodes! (2016)
Rating: ?/10
Leslie Bibb, Danny Pudi, Lauren Lapkus, John Cho, Nate Corddry,
Lisztomania (1975)
The erotic, exotic electrifying rock fantasy... It out-Tommy's TOMMY.
Rating: 6.5/10
Biography, Comedy, Music, Musical,
Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Ringo Starr, Rick Wakeman,
Carry on Behind (1975)
Carry On Behind - with the '76 touch - the Carry On team ... looking a site for sore thighs
Rating: 5.4/10
Elke Sommer, Kenneth Williams, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Connor, Jack Douglas,
Nashville (1975)
Wild. Wonderful. Sinful. Laughing. Explosive.
Rating: 7.8/10
Comedy, Drama, Music,
David Arkin, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley,
The Stepford Wives (2004)
Make one.
Rating: 5.2/10
Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller,
Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken,
Joyeuses Pâques (1984)
Rating: 6.3/10
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sophie Marceau, Marie Laforêt, Rosy Varte, Michel Beaune,
All About Anna (2005)
Not since Dogme95 has passion felt this real.
Rating: 4.4/10
Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Gry Bay, Adrian Bouchet, Eileen Daly, Thomas Raft, Ovidie,
The Third Party (2016)
Rating: 6.9/10
Comedy, Romance,
Angel Locsin, Zanjoe Marudo, Sam Milby, Cherry Pie Picache, Alma Moreno,
Camp Rock (2008)
Don't fit in. Stand out.
Rating: 5.0/10
Comedy, Family, Music, Musical, Romance,
Demi Lovato, Joe Jonas, Meaghan Martin, Maria Canals-Barrera, Alyson Stoner,
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text: ISLAMABAD: At least 17 suspected militants were killed and their hideouts destroyed when military planes carried out airstrikes targeting terrorist infrastructure near the Pak-Afghan border in North Waziristan, the military's media wing said on Wednesday.The Inter-Services Public Relations further said that 14 more suspected militants were killed earlier in the day in Khyber Agency, taking the total death toll from Wednesday's air strikes to 31.The conflict zone of North Waziristan is off-limits to journalists making it difficult to verify the army's claims, including the number and identity of those killed.Earlier this week, an attempted suicide attack on the Political Agent office in Khyber Agency's Jamrud area left four people ─ including two Khasadar Levies men ─ dead and 56 others injured.Since the beginning of Operation Zarb-i-Azb in June 2014, militants have fled to other tribal regions, including Khyber and its Tirah Valley and Shawal in North Waziristan, all of which border Afghanistan.In June this year, on the eve of the operation's first anniversary, the army said it had eliminated 2,763 terrorists during the year. There has, however, been no explanation as to how this precise figure about militant casualties has been collected because a large number of them are said to have been killed in strikes by Pakistan Air Force jets.At that time, officials had said another 218 terrorist had been killed in intelligence-based operations (IBOs) conducted in other parts of the country to prevent the feared backlash of Zarb-i-Azb. The IBOs are flaunted by the military as a major success story.But, this has come at the cost of 347 troops and displacement of over a million people.Meanwhile, Pakistan strongly condemned Tuesday's US drone strike in the north-western area of the North Waziristan Agency, which resulted in at least five casualties.The drone, according to sources, fired two missiles on a compound in Karwanda village in Dattakhel, 40km to the west of regional headquarters of Miramshah, at 11pm.FO spokesman Qazi Khalilullah said Pakistan condemns such strikes "which are in disregard of our territorial sovereignty and international law."


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Sun Malas
Malas, or prayer beads, have been used since ancient times as an aid in meditation and spiritual practices. Each mala has 108 beads, a sacred number that reflects both Solar and Lunar energy.
Our malas for the Sun are hand knotted with a counter bead every 12th bead and a guru bead with tassel.
Spiritually, the Sun represents the soul (the Atman) and a mala for the Sun is an aid for increasing awareness of the higher Self.


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Get ready!
Okay, you stupid skinny model bitch! Here I come. Pretty soon YOU will want to look like ME! Not the other way around. All those boys at the parties will be staring at me and ignoring your skank ass. 🙂 Haha! Caroline, you juuuust wait.
Back to fasting today. I'm not going to be drinking, so it won't hurt me one bit. Used to be I had to eat cuz if I didn't and I did pills I'd puke or if I drank I'd be absolutely shitfaced after about 4 drinks..not anymore. Done with drinking. Done with drugs. I don't need that shit. I'll be gettin' high off losing weight and the empty feeling in my stomach. Also, no more pop, even if its diet. I'll gorge myself with water, so I don't feel hungry and if I need caffeine I'll grab a cup of black coffee or some tea. I don't need caffeine anyway. Seeing as how its almost 6am and I'm STILL awake. I'm so excited to start this fast I can't even describe it. I'm happy already and I'm only 4 hours into it. I don't like saying "okay I'm going to do this for 72 hours" or anything like that because I ALWAYS break it. I just go and go and go until I actually forget that I'm not eating. I last a lot longer that way. All I've gotta do it keep myself occupied and if that means by just sleeping the day away then fuck, so be it. Just gotta avoid the late night munchies when i can't sleep at 4am. Here's a little bit of thinspo I've been lookin' at.
This will be me & my friend as soon as I finish this fast. She's already twig thin. Now its my turn.
Just a little country girl 🙂 lookin' for a big cowboy to take me awayyy..
No one likes love handles!
My clothes will be litterally falling off of me
Anything will look good on you when you're THAT thin!
EW! Who wants to be AVERAGE!!??
Perfect housewife..even if SHE'S not eating it 😉
Get ready for next semester at school. Your books will be heavier than you!
Lighter than air
I LOVE her microdermals! As soon as my collarbones look like that I'm getting them!
You'll be able to SWIM in your huge buff boyfriend's shirts. That's the kind of hot guy you'll get when you're thin!
Look like an angel in the winter wonderland
He'll be able to pick you up with ease..Only my guy would be wayyy buffer 😉 (& not b/c he needed to be)
I'd have a reason to [laugh]
Floating on air
Something like that would be cute to wear to work. If I looked like that.
I want to look like a child again.
My weight on my drivers license will actually be CORRECT!
Look at those legs!
I wanna sit without my stomach hanging over
Very simialr to a picture I'm painting!
Compliments of: Superthinnxme, photobucket, chiffon_and_satin, and a few others
Okay. I figure that's a long enough post for now. Time to get movin..as soon as my mother & father go to work, that is.


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The Valley of the Dawn (Vale do Amanhecer) is a new Brazilian religion known for its creative synthesis of elements drawn from a diverse range of cultural and national contexts. This article considers the Valley as an example of the interrelations between religion and globalization, exploring how conceptual changes associated with contemporary processes of globalization such as time-space compression and deterritorialization function as structuring elements within the religious imaginary laid out by the Valley's founders in the 1960s and 1970s, a period of rapid economic, social, and political change in Brazil.
- Brazil
- religious imaginary
- globalization
- Valley of the Dawn
- time-space compression
- New Age
- Third Millennium
- © 2013 by The Regents of the University of California
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Knocking lets you share live video between iPhones and Android smartphones | VentureBeat March 24, 2010Posted by hruf in Mobile & Gadgets.
Tags: Android, App Store, Apple, Google, iPhone, Mobile Application
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Knocking Live Video, which allows you to send live video footage from your phone's camera to another phone, is one of the coolest iPhone apps I've seen recently. And today it's launching for phones using Google's Android operating system.
via Knocking lets you share live video between iPhones and Android smartphones | VentureBeat.
ZumoDrive Brings Cloud Storage And Syncing Application To Android And Palm Devices March 17, 2010Posted by hruf in Internet & Communities, Mobile & Gadgets.
Tags: Android, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, iPhone, Mobile, ZumoDrive
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File syncing and storage startup Zumodrive is expanding its mobile offerings today with free applications for Android and Palm phones. While there are a plethora of syncing and storage services available to users, ZumoDrive, which spawned from Y Combinator startup Zecter, has a different take on file syncing. Similar to other services, Zumodrive creates a drive on your device that is synced to the cloud. But service includes a slightly different twist-ZumoDrive tricks the file system into thinking those cloud-stored files are local, and streams them from the cloud when you open or access them.
The startup launched an iPhone app last year, which let users sync their content to their phone without having to deal with local storage capacity issues. The Android and Palm apps include much of the same functionality. The apps allows users to sync their entire iTunes library on their phones even though the songs are not locally saved. Plus, ZumoDrive allows you to import your files. photos albums and videos onto your Android and Palm phones.
Additional features include video streaming from ZumoDrive directly to devices in MP4, H.264 format, music organized by artist, albums, and even playlists created on other devices, the ability to stream music in the background and listen to music over both 3G or EDGE networks.
Additionally you can access and view Microsoft Office documents and PDF files.
ZumoDrive has been gaining traction over the past year. Fresh off of a $1.5 million funding round, the startup scored a deal with HP in January to to power the backend of the technology giant's CloudDrive on all HP Mini netbooks.
Last year, ZumoDrive released a new version of its system that wirelessly syncs playlists between devices, auto-detects content, and lets users link file folders on their devices to ZumoDrive only once so that changes in that folder will always be linked to ZumoDrive. The service was also upgraded to integrate well with media applications, like iTunes, so users can play entire music libraries saved in ZumoDrive on multiple devices without manually syncing content. We initially reviewed Zumodrive here.
Zecter previously launched a product called Versionate, an office-wiki product, that we first covered in July 2007. We wrote about them again a year ago. ZumoDrive faces competition from Dropbox, SugarSync, and Box.net.
via ZumoDrive Brings Cloud Storage And Syncing Application To Android And Palm Devices.
Day 74 Sales: Apple iPhone vs. Google Nexus One vs. Motorola Droid March 17, 2010Posted by hruf in Mobile & Gadgets.
Tags: Android, Apple, iPhone, Market, Market Trends, Mobile, Motorola Droid, Nexus One
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Through applications using Flurry for analytics reporting, Flurry can detect and count unique devices in the market such as Google Nexus One and Motorola Droids. Because applications embedded with Flurry have been downloaded to over 80% of all iPhone OS and Android devices, Flurry is able to make reliable estimates about total handset sales.[…]
So, why 74? Simply put, according to Apple, the original iPhone reached 1 million units sold in that many days. […]
The chart below compares the sales results through each of their respective first 74 days. The launch dates were: iPhone, June 29, 2007; Droid, November 5, 2009; and, Nexus One, January 5, 2010. Please note that we forecasted the last few days of Nexus One's first 74 days sales based sales of the first 70 days we tracked at the time of writing this report.
Inspecting the graph, it's immediately clear that Nexus One sales continue to pale in comparison to iPhone 1G and Motorola Droid, with each besting Nexus One sales by roughly 8 times over the same time period.
At the same time, an interesting side-story is that the Motorola Droid edged out iPhone 1G over the first 74 days, coming in at just over one million sold through, by our calculations. This was surprising enough that we re-ran our estimates several times and still came up with the same results. Thinking about the differences associated with each launch (operator, year, etc.), we believe there are three underlying drivers of Droid worth keeping in mind compared to the other two handsets:
1. Consumer Perception & Demand: Motorola Droid launched over 2.5 years after the iPhone 1G. (Nov 2009 vs. July 2007). When the iPhone launched, consumers' concept of a mobile computing device as we now understand it, was very different. Since then, Apple has spent millions of dollars training and educating consumers about capabilities of such a device, which was no small feat especially after its first foray into the handset business (Motorola ROKR E1 in 2005). Until the iPhone was introduced, most consumers, especially in the U.S. had thought of their phones as, well, just phones. Finally, it's worth noting that the Motorola Droid could be considered Android's "third generation" handset, which benifitted from generated awareness by preceding G1 and MyTouch 3G handsets.
2. Relative Subscriber Bases: Droid launched on Verizon, a larger network with more subscribers than AT&T, especially when considering AT&T's 2007 size (63.7 million at the time of iPhone launch) versus Verizon's 2009 size (89 million at the end of Q3). Additionally, there was pent up demand among the Verizon subscriber base for an iPhone killer, which is exactly how Verizon positioned the Droid. Finally, Verizon backed the launch with advertising support of at least $100 million.
3. Holiday Season Sales: Droid benefited from launching on Nov 5 and having its first 74 days lifted by the holiday season, which is the highest selling period of the year for handsets. Neither iPhone 1G nor Nexus One's first 74 days spanned a holiday period.
As Google and Apple continue to battle for the mobile marketplace, Google Nexus One may go down as a grand, failed experiment or one that ultimately helped Google learn something that will prove important in years to come. Apple's more vertically integrated strategy vs. Google's more open Android platform approach offer strengths and weaknesses that remind us of PC vs. Mac from the 1980's. A key difference this time around is that Apple is enjoying much more 3rd party developer support, whose innovative applications push the limits of what the hardware can do. Ultimately, however, developers support hardware with the largest installed base first. For Android to make progress faster, from a sales perspective, it needs more Droids and fewer Nexus Ones going forward.
via Day 74 Sales: Apple iPhone vs. Google Nexus One vs. Motorola Droid.
Tim Bray lands on Android team March 15, 2010Posted by andre in Mobile & Gadgets.
Tags: Android, Apple, Google, iPhone
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XML co-creator Tim Bray has joined the exodus from Oracle and landed at Google, as a "developer advocate" for the Android.
The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet's future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It's a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord's pleasure and fear his anger.
I hate it.
Having a public, personal face on its Android efforts will be very important to Google, which faces both marketing and legal challenges to its growth in the mobile market from Apple. […]
via Tim Bray lands on Android team | Open Source | ZDNet.com
Demolition Derby in Devices: The roller-coaster ride is on | VisionMobile :: blog March 13, 2010Posted by hruf in Mobile & Gadgets.
Tags: Android, Apple, Google, iPhone, Market, Market Trends, Mobile, Mobile Application
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[The economic realities will lead to a roller-coaster ride that will shake up the mobile industry. Guest blogger Richard Kramer talks about the impending price war, the implications for industry growth, and how this will alter the landscape of device vendors in the next decade]
With all the discussion of technology trends on the blogosphere, there are some harsh economic realities creeping up on the handset space. The collective efforts of vendors to deliver great products will lead to an all-out smash-up for market share, bringing steep declines in pricing.
In November 2009 I wrote a note about what Arete saw as the impending dynamics of the mobile device market. I called it Demolition Derby. This followed on from a piece called Clash of the Titans, about how the PC and Handset worlds were colliding, brought together by common software platforms and adopting common chipset architectures. As handsets morphed into connected devices, it opened the door for computing industry players, now flooding in.
New categories of non-phone devices
A USB modem/datacard market of 70m units in 2009 should counted as an extra third of the smartphone market, as it connected a range of computing devices. By the end of 2010, I believe there will be many new categories of non-phone mobile devices to track (datacards, embedded PCs, tablets, etc.), and they may be equal to high-end smartphone market in units in 2011. Having looked at the roadmaps of nearly every established and wannabe vendor in the mobile device space, I cannot recall a period in the past 15 years of covering the device market with so many credible vendors, most with their best product portfolios ever, tossing their hats in the ring. I see three things happening because of this:
1. First, a brutal price war is coming. This will affect nearly every segment of the mobile device market. Anyone who thinks they are insulated from this price war is simply deluded. I have lost count of the number of vendors planning to offer a touch-screen slim mono-bloc Android device for H2 2010. The only thing that will set all these devices apart will be brand, and in the end, price. Chipmakers – the canaries in the handset coal mine – are already talking about slim HSPA modems at $10 price points, and $20 combined application processors and RF. Both Huawei and ZTE now targeting Top Three positions in devices, with deep engagements developing operator brands. They are already #1 and #2 in USB modems. Just look at the pricing trends ZTE and Huawei brought to the infrastructure market; this will come to mobile devices.
2. Second, growth will rebound with a vengeance. I expect 15% volume growth in 2010, well ahead of the cautious consensus of 8%. I first noted this failure of vision in forecasting in a 2005 note entitled "A Billion Handsets in 2007" when the consensus was looking for 6% growth whereas we got 20%+ growth for three years, thanks to the onset of $25 BoM devices. Consumers will not care about software platform debates or feature creep packing devices with GHz processors in 2010. Ask your friends who don't read mobile blogs and aren't hung up about AppStores or tear-downs: they will simply respond to an impossibly wide choice of impossibly great devices, offered to them at impossibly cheap prices.
3. Third, the detente is over. The long-term stability that alllowed the top five vendors to command 80% market share for most of this decade is breaking down. This is not simply a question of "Motorola fades, Samsung steps in" or "LG replaces SonyEricsson in the featurephone space". Within a year, there could be dangerously steep market share declines among the former market leaders (i.e. Nokia) to accompany their decline in value share. Operators are grasping control of the handset value chain; many intend to follow the lead of Vodafone 360 to develop their own range of mid-tier and low-end devices. Whether or not this delivers better user experiences, operators are determined to target their subsidy spend to their favourite ODM partners. In developed markets, long-established vendors are getting eclipsed: in 2010, RIM or Apple could pass traditional vendors like SonyEricsson or Motorola in units. RIM and Apple already handily out-paced older rivals in sales value, and with $41bn of estimated sales in 2010, are on par with Nokia.
Hyper competition
So where does this lead us? Even with far greater volumes than anyone dares to imagine, there is no way to satisfy everyone's hopes of share gains, or profits. With Apple driving to $25bn in 2010 sales and Mediatek-based customers seeking share in emerging markets, the mobile device market is entering a phase of hyper-competition. It is all too easy for industry pundits to forget that Motorola and Sony Ericsson collectively lost over $5bn in the past 2.5 years. More such losses are to come.
Never before have we seen so many vendors acting individually rationally, but collectively insane. Albert Einstein once famously said that "the defintiion of insanity was doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result".
The men in the white coats will have a field day with the mobile device market in 2010.
– Richard
via Demolition Derby in Devices: The roller-coaster ride is on | VisionMobile :: blog.
comScore Reports January 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share – comScore, Inc March 11, 2010Posted by hruf in Mobile & Gadgets.
Tags: Apple, Google, iPhone, Market, Market Trends, Microsoft, Mobile, Motorola, Palm, RIM
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RESTON, VA, March 10, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month period between October 2009 and January 2010. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in the U.S. according to their share of current mobile subscribers age 13 and older, as well as popular activities and content accessed via the subscriber's primary mobile phone. The January report found Motorola to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 22.9 percent market share, while RIM led among smartphone platforms with 43.0 percent market share.
OEM Market Share
In the 3 month average ending in January, 234 million Americans were mobile subscribers ages 13 and older, with device manufacturer Motorola ranking as the top OEM with 22.9 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers. LG ranked second with 21.7 percent share, followed by Samsung (21.1 percent share), Nokia (9.1 percent share) and RIM (7.8 percent share).
|Top Mobile OEMs
3 Month Avg. Ending Jan. 2010 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Oct. 2009
Total U.S. Age 13+
Source: comScore MobiLens
|Share (%) of Mobile Subscribers
|Point Change
|Total Mobile Subscribers
Smartphone Platform Market Share
42.7 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones in an average month during the November to January period, up 18 percent from the August through October period. RIM was the leading mobile smartphone platform in the U.S. with 43.0 percent share of U.S. smartphone subscribers, rising 1.7 percentage points versus three months earlier. Apple ranked second with 25.1 percent share (up 0.3 percentage points), followed by Microsoft at 15.7 percent, Google at 7.1 percent (up 4.3 percentage points), and Palm at 5.7 percent. Google's Android platform continues to see rapid gains in market share.
|Top Smartphone Platforms
3 Month Avg. Ending Jan. 2010 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Oct. 2009
Total U.S. Age 13+
Source: comScore MobiLens
|Share (%) of Smartphone Subscribers
|Point Change
|Total Smartphone Subscribers
Mobile Content Usage
In an average month during the November through January 2010 time period, 63.5 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers used text messaging on their mobile device, up 1.5 percentage points versus three months prior. Browsers were used by 28.6 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers (up 1.8 percentage points), while subscribers who played games made up 21.7 percent (up 0.4 percentage points). Access of social networking sites or blogs experienced strong gains in the past three months, growing 3.3 percentage points to 17.1 percent of mobile subscribers.
|Mobile Content Usage
3 Month Avg. Ending Jan. 2010 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Oct. 2009
Total U.S. Age 13+
Source: comScore MobiLens
|Share (%) of U.S. Mobile Subscribers
|Point Change
|Total Mobile Subscribers
|Sent text message to another phone
|Used browser
|Played games
|Used Downloaded Apps
|Accessed Social Networking Site or Blog
|17.1 %
|Listened to music on mobile phone
via comScore Reports January 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share – comScore, Inc.
Behind the Smartphone Craze: redrawing the map of mobile platforms February 2, 2010Posted by andre in Mobile & Gadgets.
Tags: Android, Apple, bada, Blackberry, BrewMP, Business, Feature Phone, Google, HTC, iPhone, LG, LiMo, Maemo, Market, Mobile, Nexus, Nokia, Palm, RIM, Samsung, Smartphone, Symbian, Trends, WebOS, Windows Mobile
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Thought Android and iPhone are taking over the world? Think again. The device platforms map is more fragmented than ever, while the media hype distorts the commercial reality. […]
The Smartphone Craze
The other day I was reading some of the usual hype-induced reports on the Smartphone revolution. Wanting to put things into perspective I pulled out some old Smartphone forecasts from 2004-2005 by the likes of IDC, Informa and Ovum.
In those pre-historic days the main Smartphone contenders were Symbian and Windows. Blackberry was still an insignificant niche, and touch screen devices were still clunky stylus based UIQ phones and iPAQs. Yet surprisingly, the average Smartphone share of shipments that was forecast for 2010 was …about 30%. So even without the Apple & Google revolution fanning the flames, many analysts believed in the mass migration to Smartphones.
Reality check: by looking at the numbers for the first three quarters of 2009, it appears that last year there have shipped no more than 170-180 million devices considered to be Open OS Smartphones. Indeed Symbian, Windows, iPhone, Blackberry, Android, WebOS, LiMO and Maemo taken all together still only constitute about 15-17% of shipments. This percentage is in fact much lower than the 2009 Smartphone share predicted a few years ago by many research companies. […]
The bets are spreading
As of late 2009, the only companies who are shipping true Open OS Smartphones in mass volumes are Nokia (Symbian), RIM (Blackberry), Apple (iPhone) and HTC (Windows Mobile, now Android). This will no doubt start to change over the course of time as Android shipments start to ramp up and the rest of the platforms realize their growth potential, but it is still not an overnight revolution.
Looking forward, this thesis shows that the market will be much more diverse than the simplistic notion that everyone either wants an App Store capable iPhone or Droid, or alternatively, an ultra-low cost phone to make phone calls. There is many more commercial dynamics at play, making up a complex platform map which is driven by customer ownership.
In 2009 the number of available device software platforms effectively grew, creating more fragmentation in the industry, not less. There are clearly mid-range segments and geographical markets with varying needs, which can be addressed with various software platforms, not necessarily in the traditional view of Smartphones vs. RTOS "dumb phones". Simply betting on one or two platforms to rule the industry is not a sensible plan.
Read the full article at VisionMobile.com – Behind the Smartphone Craze: redrawing the map of mobile platforms | VisionMobile :: blog
Gartner Says Consumers Will Spend $6.2 Billion in Mobile Application Stores in 2010 January 18, 2010Posted by hruf in Mobile & Gadgets.
Tags: App Store, Apple, Google, iPhone, Market Trends, Mobile
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Consumers will spend $6.2 billion in 2010 in mobile application stores while advertising revenue is expected to generate $0.6 billion worldwide, according to Gartner, Inc. Analysts said mobile application stores will exceed 4.5 billion downloads in 2010, eight out of ten of which will be free to end users.
Gartner forecasts worldwide downloads in mobile application stores to surpass 21.6 billion by 2013 (see Table 1). Free downloads will account for 82 per cent of all downloads in 2010, and will account for 87 per cent of downloads in 2013.
"As smartphones grow in popularity and application stores become the focus for several players in the value chain, more consumers will experiment with application downloads," said Stephanie Baghdassarian, research director at Gartner. "Games remain the No. 1 application, and mobile shopping, social networking, utilities and productivity tools continue to grow and attract increasing amounts of money."
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Mobile Application Stores' Number of Downloads and Revenue, Worldwide
|Downloads (in M)
|Total revenue (in $M)
Source: Gartner (December 2009
An application can be free because the developer is offering it at no cost to the consumer while charging for other things within the application. There are also applications that are free to use but that charge for physical goods that you can have delivered through the application. There are many applications that are free to users and derive their revenue from advertising. This can be done with banners as well as full page advertising between game levels for instance.
Worldwide mobile application stores' download revenue exceeded $4.2 billion in 2009 and will grow to $29.5 billion by the end of 2013. This revenue forecast includes end-user spending on paid-for applications and advertising-sponsored free applications. Advertising-sponsored mobile applications will generate almost 25 per cent of mobile application stores revenue by 2013.
High-end smartphone users today tend to be early adopters of new mobile applications and more trustful of billing mechanisms, so they will pay for applications that can meet their needs. Average smartphone users will become less tech-savvy as smartphones come down in price to have a mass market appeal and these users will be more reluctant to pay for applications.
"Growth in smartphone sales will not necessarily mean that consumers will spend more money, but it will widen the addressable market for an offering that will be advertising-funded," Ms Baghdassarian added. "The value chain of the application stores will evolve as rules are set and broken in an attempt to find the most profitable business model for all parties involved."
"Application stores will be a core focus throughout 2010 for the mobile industry and applications themselves will help determine the winner among mobile devices platforms," said Carolina Milanesi, research director at Gartner. "Consumers will have a wide choice of stores and will seek the ones that make it easy for them to discover applications they are interested in and make it easy to pay for them when they have to. Developers will have to consider carefully not only which platform to support but also which store to promote their applications in."
Additional information is available in the Gartner report "Dataquest Insight: Application Stores; The Revenue Opportunity Beyond the Hype". The report is available on Gartner's website at http://www.gartner.com/resId=1257213.
via Gartner Says Consumers Will Spend $6.2 Billion in Mobile Application Stores in 2010.
Estimated Nexus One Sales: Only 20,000 Units in the First Week January 13, 2010Posted by andre in Mobile & Gadgets.
Tags: Android, Droid, Flurry, Google, HTC, iPhone, Motorola, myTouch, Nexus One, Verizon
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Flurry, which monitors usage of over 10,000 developers, has published some (projected) sales numbers for Google's and HTC's new flag ship smart phone, the Nexus One. According to Flurry, only about 20,000 Nexus Ones were sold in its first week on the market. It was outsold by Droid by more than 12 times, myTouch 3G by 3 times and iPhone 3GS by 80 times.
"To estimate first week sales totals for the Nexus One, myTouch 3G, Droid and iPhone 3GS, Flurry detected new handsets within its system, and then made adjustments to account for varying levels of Flurry application penetration by handset. Flurry additionally crosschecked its estimates against Apple actual sales, released for iPhone 3GS, which totaled more than one million units over the three days, June 19 – 21, 2009. Flurry first week sales estimates can be found in the table below."
Nexus One was a highly anticipated mobile phone, but Google didn't spend millions of dollars advertising it, opting for a sort of a soft launch for the device. Verizon and Motorola, on the other hand, had spent close to 100 million dollars advertising the Droid, and if Flurry's numbers are correct, it definitely shows the difference a good advertising campaign can make.
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How Prices Compare on Different App Stores – GigaOM December 30, 2009Posted by pannet in Mobile & Gadgets.
Tags: Android, App Store, Apple, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile, Ovi, Windows Mobile
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With an increasing number of companies launching mobile app stores, we [GigaOM] decided it was time to compare them. We wanted to find out the average cost of a paid application on various stores.
We asked our friends at Mobclix, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup that offers mobile analytics and runs a mobile ad exchange, if they could help. They crunched some numbers and came back with some surprising findings. For example: BlackBerry paid apps are among the most expensive, followed by Microsoft, Android and the iPhone OS platform. Nokia Ovi paid apps were among the cheapest.


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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Have you ever had one of those periods (not the bloody kind) in your life where you are just swamped and every free moment is dedicated to something unexpected?
Like travel and jobs and visitors and new projects.
That is my life right now.
Did I tell you all that my parents let me borrow their fancy camera for a month?
It's a Canon. With three different lenses. Very fancy.
I've had it for almost three weeks and I haven't even pulled the thing out.
That's how crazy my life is right now.
And my boyfriend is coming to visit me. He'll be here tomorrow! Gotta say, I'm really really excited!
I'm also very stressed.
As such, I'm going to take a break from blogging this weekend. I'm going to enjoy my time with my boyfriend and take pictures and do the things that I'm too busy to do.
But don't worry! I have a lot of great posts that will be coming your way starting next Tuesday!
Be on the lookout for these awesome posts!
- Book reviews for the Harry Potter series and Ender's Game in my typical video format. (And likely Matched. I'm almost finished with it.) -
- Photos and stories from my weekend with Kevin. -
- And even an awesome giveaway! -
Have a great weekend everyone! I know I will!
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- Anonymous said...
Great to hear things are moving! Have a fantastic week-end and enjoy each minute of it Kate!
- June 9, 2011 at 9:20 AM
- Skye said...
I hear ya loud & clear! Sometimes many days go by and I say "Oh it's been a while since I blogged... or did anything I wanted to do!" haha!
- June 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM
- Laura Louise Cox said...
Have a wonderful weekend Kate x
- June 9, 2011 at 3:52 PM
- Vic said...
enjoy the time with your babe sweetie:) xoxo
- June 10, 2011 at 5:50 AM
- The Bookness said...
Thanks dear. Have a good one too.
- June 10, 2011 at 7:15 AM
- Hello Again Vintage said...
Hope you had a fun and stress-free weekend!
- June 13, 2011 at 6:48 AM
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Put your pet in the spotlight and snap a selfie of the two of you together for our third annual Best Pet Selfie contest. From May 15 to May 31, email your pet selfies to us or upload them to our website. Then, from June 15 to June 30, vote on Facebook for the cutest pics. The top three winners (determined by total votes on Facebook) will receive pet-pampering prizes and a cash donation to a favorite pet-related charity.
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What Does Love Look Like? with Pam Rocker
18/04/18 16:14
Doug and Dave are joined by award-winning writer and activist, Pam Rocker, for a conversation about LGBTQ+ activism, the church, dancing with Jesus, and pie! Recorded at London Conference Youth Forum 2018.
Bryan Sirchio - Convergence Music
03/04/18 08:10
Dave is joined by Bryan Sirchio, author of The 6 Marks of Progressive Christian Worship Music and Lead Designer for the Convergence Music Project (convergencemp.com) to talk about church music, theology, and convergence Christianity. Episode includes the CMP song, "All Belong Here" by The Many.
We're Back!
28/03/18 12:16
New episodes starting next week. While you wait, enjoy the Top Ten Reasons for the podcast hiatus!
Mod Pod (with The Rt. Rev. Jordan Cantwell)
10/04/17 12:25
Dave, Doug, and Isaac visit the folks at LOCO Youth Forum 2017 and sit down with United Church of Canada Moderator, The Rt. Rev. Jordan Cantwell.


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Montana Silversmiths Deep Faith Attitude Cross Buckle
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- Made of silver plating over a solid cast alloy
- Keep clean by wiping with a damp cloth
The high gloss black epoxy brings out the beautiful shine of the polished silver plate in this oval belt buckle. "Faith" is spelled out in large, intricate script over a purple cross with pointed arms sporting a halo slung casually over the top. Framed all around with softly curling grassy filigree and trimmed in antiqued wire. Standard 1.5" belt swivel.For nearly 40 years, Montana Silversmiths has focused on producing and offering products of exceptional value. Nestled in the tiny hamlet of Columbus, MT, they've grown to become the largest supplier of western jewelry, watches, home decor, and legendary buckles to the industry. Handcrafted silver, rich in western heritage, is the very core of Montana Silversmiths.


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For truly rich and detailed images, the DP1 Merrill Compact Digital Camera from Sigma employs three layers of vertically stacked receptors to take advantage of silicon's unique ability to absorb light at different depths. This allows the DP1 to more accurately reproduce colors, and capture sharper resolution images, than any camera the same size. Unlike the DP2 Merrill Compact Digital Camera, the DP1 uses a wider 28mm focal length lens - when converted to the 35mm equivalent.
Its large 3.0" display allows you to better view these high quality images as you shoot them, and its ability to shoot RAW, JPEG, or both simultaneously gives you added flexibility when choosing which files to use in post-processing. You can efficiently shoot JPEG to share immediately, or use RAW to capture everything in a lossless, uncompressed file.
These three layers within the sensor combine to create a 46-megapixel image, at a resolution of 4800 x 3200 pixels. This makes it a great camera for anyone from a photography professional needing a small, yet high-quality camera, to hobbyists who want the same quality of large-sensor DSLRs without the cumbersome weight.
46Mp Foveon X3 Direct Image CMOS Sensor The Foveon X3 Direct Image Sensor uses an innovative pixel structure that uniquely captures all red, green, and blue (RGB) color information in each pixel location, with three layers, rather than the typical single layer of alternating colors. This provides accurately colored and incredibly detailed imagery, with greater three-dimensional depth--incorporating 46 effective megapixels (3 layers: 4,800 x 3,200) and 44 recording megapixels (3 layers: 4,704 x 3,136)
28mm f/2.8 Equivalent FLD Lens The DP1 Merrill offers a wider 19mm F2.8 lens, which is the equivalent to a 28mm lens on a 35mm camera. The camera is compact, lightweight, and includes "F" Low Dispersion (FLD) glass to correct aberrations and Super Multi Layer Coating to reduce flare and ghosting
True II Image Processor The dual TRUE II (Three-layer Responsive Ultimate Engine) image processing engine dedicated to Foveon X3 direct image sensors improves the processing speed and overall quality of your final image. By incorporating two TRUE II processors, the DP1's unique image-processing algorithm provides high resolution power and reproduces high definition images with rich tones and smooth gradients
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Big Neck BN014 Lost Sounds Memphis Is Dead
12" LP out of stock
The debut LP from Memphis, Tennessee's garage rock band, Lost Sounds. Released by Big Neck Records in 2000. Features Jay Reatard on synth, guitar, and vocals.
- Ship of Monsters
- It's My Dream
- Satan Bought Me
- Inside My Head
- Memphis 99
- Better Than Something
- You Must Be a Witch (Cole)
- Disease
- Don't Ask Why
- I've Lost It
- Don't Bother Me
- When I Lose It
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Monday, March 25, 2013
Last bottles, long feelings
During my recent visit to California, my friend Bruce, the longtime sales powerhouse behind Kermit Lynch, opened for me a bottle of Verset Cornas 2006. That was a very generous thing for Bruce to do, and the gesture was not lost on me. Here he was pouring for me the final vintage that Verset released commercially. Bruce also knew Noel Verset, having worked with him, and there is no doubt that that kind of connection resonates around a table. I'll never forget the moment a few years ago when Bruce shared with me how old man Verset used to open up the family scrap book and point out the photographs he had taken of his very much loved, and now deceased wife. Bruce said you could see the several stains on the pages of the book where the big tears had landed, as Noel would cry each time he saw his wife again. We were at dinner at a busy restaurant when Bruce told me that story, and damn if I didn't start crying right then myself, right there at the table.
The wine was still young and agile. The notes were lifted and high toned, a soprano lilting out phrases each time I swirled the glass. The wine seemed leaner and more pure than Verset wines often are, which may be because of the lighter vintage, may be because of the excellent storage since release, and may be because Noel Verset had by that time sold some of his traditional vineyard sources. Whatever the reason, I am drawn to the thought of an old man who towards the end of his life passes along a wine which remains remarkably youthful.
My plan was to find a bottle from the low side of the list. To stay in the inexpensive neighborhoods. Fixin. Mercurey. Something not too pricey. That's the polite thing to do when someone else is paying and they hand you the list, right? I wanted to be a good guest, after all. And I kept that thought foremost in my mind, right up until the moment that I saw the Giacosa Collina Rionda 1993 was available for purchase, at which point the austerity plan was immediately vetoed. 93 was the last vintage of Rionda that Giacosa ever released. I saw it there on the list, and then after that everything happened very quickly and maybe somehow not quickly enough. I ordered the wine within probably 4 seconds, and yet it all seemed like eons until I was drinking it. I thought maybe G. would curse me out at the table in the meantime, "You spent WHAT?? HOW MUCH?!" But I was already too far gone. I was over the wall. If I got to at least try the wine before being thrown out of the restaurant, then I was willing to take whatever punishment came next. But G. was all understanding. He asked me how I liked the wine. "I'm dying," I said. "There are heart palpitations. Maybe we should get an ambulance on standby." Because it was true, I became lost in the waves of that wine. I'll tell you something about 93s, they show their mature side. You can get inside them. 93s show you their secrets, like a low tide that has gone out and left shiny shells and many colored stones behind on the beach. And this was Rionda, so there was plenty in place there to see. Rionda from when old man Canale was in charge of the old vines. I have actually run from the bottom to the top of this vineyard, and seen from there to the Castle of Serralunga which overlooks the vines. The last Giacosa release. I'll tell you, it tasted like Giacosa to me, through a Serralunga lens. With the Roagna Rionda releases that came later, I thought they were excellent wines, but they didn't taste like Roagna. With the 1993 Giacosa Rionda, such distinctions are hard to identify. Perhaps Bruno Giacosa and Aldo Canale worked in a similar direction in their wineries.
Maybe I should direct a word of caution to future lunch hosts: don't hand me the wine list if it contains within it Barolo that I supremely lust after. Because if that happens I can't be held responsible for my own actions. Or maybe I should just explain to them that the last vintage of a superb wine is like a fine broth, in that the last sip may hold the most flavor.
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- John N Pasmore said...
Funny...."Like my nightmare is that I'll automatically and unthinkingly refold the napkins of the people at other tables, as I have thousands of times"...
great story & funny how the wine + people + place is greater than the sum - those nights just happen, thx for sharing took me there for a minute and even that was great...over that wall for a few seconds
- March 25, 2013 at 9:57 PM
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Locating Latest Mobile Craze, Tweetsii Debuts At SXSW
The idea for Gypsii came while Dan Harple was commuting the way most people do in Amsterdam - riding a bicycle.
Harple, a serial entrepreneur, was looking on his mobile phone for nearby restaurants, but he couldn't find good results.
"I was riding my bike around searching and I'd get Web sites," Harple said. "But I'm on my bike and I want to know where I am, and what's here right now."
Shortly after that, in 2007, Harple set out to build a mobile-phone technology that helps people find and share information about what their friends are doing nearby.
The application he built became GeoSolutions BV, doing business as Gypsii, an Amsterdam-based company that has gotten adoption through major telecom companies in Asia, Europe and Latin America. The telecoms either install a Gypsii app on handsets or use the Gypsii technology to build their own applications. The technology enables users to do things such as view blogs, news, events and social media content, filtered by location.
In one example, China Unicom partnered with Gypsii, using its technology to launch Unispace, a social networking application for the iPhone in China that enables people to post messages, photos and other content and see where their friends are posting content nearby.
Now the company has used the high profile provided by this week's South By Southwest tech conference in Austin, Texas, to launch a U.S. version of its service - an iPhone application called Tweetsii.
In addition to pulling in Tweets and other content based on location, the new app enables users to view nearby "check-ins" – a feature in which people note their presence at a location such as a restaurant or other business - from hot start-ups such as Foursquare and Gowalla.
Harple says this U.S. version of Gypsii moves beyond services that only have check-ins because it enables people to easily filter through a variety of other social media content as well. It also enables users to comment on and tag messages with photos or multimedia, or to create their own locations.
"The DNA inside Gypsii is search," Harple said. "It's a lot more than saying you checked in somewhere. We spent two and a half years developing an algorithm that delivers highly relevant results to people where they are and connected to their social graph."
Harple knows a thing or two about search and Internet-based media, having founded two previous venture backed start-ups. Insoft Inc. was acquired by Netscape Communications back in 1996, after raising at least $9.2 million from Apax Partners, Edison Venture Fund, Adams Capital Management, New Enterprise Associates and Philadelphia Ventures. Then in 2005 he sold Context Media Inc., which provided enterprise database search and media sharing services, to Oracle Corp. after raising $42 million from Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, NEA, Adams Capital and Shamrock Ventures II.
After its success with major carriers overseas, Gypsii faces a challenge breaking into a U.S. market that Harple acknowledges is often more focused on viral growth, hype and being the "next big thing." The check-in space is very crowded with a range of companies including Foursquare, Gowalla, Hot Potato and Twitter itself, which recently released a feature that allows people to post their location. Gypsii will need to figure out a way to break out from the noise and grab its own viral growth.
Harple believes the enterprise-grade search technology he's built will win out eventually, and he hopes to sign up manufacturers and carriers in the U.S.
Gypsii is backed by about $40 million from private equity firm Horizon Group and U.K.-based Schroders, including an $11 million round in January led by Schroders.


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lower left in graphite: 21/75; lower center in graphite: History of Printmaking: Durer at 23, in Venice, in Love, his bags are stolen; lower right in graphite: Warrington Colescott 1977
Jacob Kainen, Washington, DC; acquired 2002 by the National Gallery of Art
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- Chapin, Mary Weaver. The Prints of Warrington Colescott: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1948-2008. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010, p. 204, no. 209.


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Lady Olave St Clair Baden-Powell
Olave St.Clair Soames, Born 22nd February 1889, Stubbing Court near Chesterfield. A sister to Auriol and Arthur, parents Katharine and Harold Soames.
Olave and Auriol looked after the chickens for their mother, making a small business for themselves. They also had the responsibility of helping their father care for his garden, and knowing what all the plants were called and used for.
She was educated by her governesses and never went to school. Olave loved her animals and spent many hours playing with them. One of her favourite hobbies was horse riding, she also enjoyed her music and played the violin.
There was also tennis and squash to help while away the hours.
Olave enjoyed canoeing and rowing on the river, she even won a prize.
Just before her 14th birthday she attended her sisters coming out dance. This was to be the start of her first romance, with a friend her brother Arthur brought home from Eton college. This meeting also presented Olave with her first kiss.
The romance lasted 8 months.
Music was a big part of Olave's teenage years, keeping up her studies on the violin her father had given her. It was a copy of a Stradivarius, which she called Diana. The violin was later donated to the Girl Guide Association and was loaned to promising young violinists.
Olave didn't learn to swim until she was 15 and then she had a lovely neck to knees bathing suit. Swimming became one of her favourite sports along with boating, skating, tennis croquet, football, squash and hockey.
On January 3rd 1912, Olave and her father set out on a voyage aboard the "Arcadian", this cruise was only made possible by the cancellation made by two other passengers. Olave thought that the cruise would not be interesting until a couple of days later she met up with Lieutenant General Sir Robert Baden-Powell.
Olave was quite surprised to find that Lord Baden-Powell recognised her from two years earlier, when he had seen her walking her dog in London. This wasn't the only coincidence - it turned out that they both celebrated their birthdays on February 22nd.
There was a 32 year difference in their ages, but this meant nothing to them as they were deeply in love. It was to take a long time for the couple to get married. Lord Baden-Powell was on his way to tour the World starting in New York.
The many months apart were filled with letters, with each letter signed with a small picture of a robin with different facial expressions.
The time came when Lord Baden-Powell was to arrive back in London. Olave was excited about seeing him again, she was most disappointed when he went straight to see his mother and then took his nephew on a promised fishing trip. Seeing how distraught his daughter was her father sent a letter to Lord Baden-Powell. When he received the letter he dropped everything and rushed to her.
After talking things over with her father, permission was given for them to be married.
Marriage & Family
After the announcement of their engagement, the couple were hounded by the media for photos. The publicity was so great that the couple decided to marry quietly on Wednesday October 30th 1912. Due to many people being disappointed about missing the wedding a reception was held in December 1912.
A special gift arrived on the occasion of their first wedding anniversary; a son, Peter. Two more children were born with Heather arriving in June 1915, and Betty in April 1917.
In 1919 Olave's sister Auriol died. Olave took over the entire care of her sister's children, as their father was travelling overseas as part of his work.
Girl Guides
In September of 1914 Olave offered her services to Agnes Baden-Powell. She was turned down, and believed it was due to her age. Even though she was disappointed she continued to help her husband by typing up his correspondence. Then one day in Guide Headquarters, she asked about Guiding in Sussex. She was put in touch with two other ladies in that area and without a warrant and a small knowledge of Guiding, she set about starting Guiding committees all over the district.
In March 1916 she received her warrant as County Commissioner. There were plenty of girls interested in Guiding but as is today there was a shortage of leaders. During this time she also published a booklet called 'The Girl Guide Movement" with information about the organisation and the duties of Commissioners.
Early in 1918 she was appointed Chief Guide. In 1920 the Royal Family sent for Olave to enrol H.R.H. Princess Mary, before she became Guide President.
In 1930 Olave was appointed World Chief Guide.
Olave was presented with the Silver Wolf award by the Scout Association for her work in caring for their beloved Founder and Chief. Shw was also awarded the Grand Cross of the British Empire by the King in 1932.
One of the favourite times for Olave was around Christmas time. At this time, she along with her husband would walk through the village dropping parcels off on various doorsteps.
In 1937 their first grand child Robert was born. Their other grandchildren include, Michael, Michael, Nigel, Gillian, Crispin, Wendy, Timothy and Robin.
January 1941 saw the passing of her beloved husband, while spending their Winter in Africa.
Carrying on the work
On arriving back in London, Lady B-P found that with World War II in full swing, and the home they had once known had been taken over for the housing of Canadian Soldiers. She was given an apartment at Hampton Court. Even with the smaller apartment and rationing, Lady B-P still hosted Scouts and Guides for afternoon teas.
She kept herself busy by touring the country talking with Scouts and Guides. It was the wish of her husband to keep on building Guiding around the world. So from 1942 until until her death she travelled the world 5 times on 653 flights. On one of her visits to Australia, Lady B-P was given a large icecream to represent the pennies that Guides and Brownies from Australia had donated as a way of saying thank you for her visit. This money went to providing books to South America and doors to any Headquarters that she had opened.
As she grew older and found travel more difficult she would entertain overseas guests in her own home.


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I recently had an interesting conversation with a guy about leftovers. I am leftover obsessed and he was telling how much he absolutely HATES them. After talking about soggy casseroles, spoonfuls of peas, and one bite of this and that thrown back on a plate and stuck in the microwave, I almost agreed with him. GAAARRRROSSS.
It occurred to me that whenever I use leftovers, I rarely ever eat them in exactly the same way. I always turn them in to something completely different, so instead of boringly eating the same meal, I just have half of the leg work done for me when beginning my next meal.
Case in point: Last night's burritos. I call them Big Boy Burritos because they are almost too stuffed to fit into a tortilla. Good news? You don't need any sides. All of your veggies and protein are wrapped up into one filling bundle. Yum!
The day before I made Steak and Veggie Kabobs and had a lot leftover. I made leftovers on purpose so I could have steak, veggies, and rice already done for a quick meal later. If you think ahead, you can make weeknight dinners a breeze for nights when you're in a hurry.
Big Boy Burritos
Servings: However much you have leftover.
Time: 10 minutes, max
Level: Easy
Steak or chicken, cooked
Veggies, cooked
Black Beans
Sour cream
Cheese, shredded
In a skillet over medium heat, heat meat, veggies, a few spoonfuls of salsa, rice, and black beans until warmed throughout.
Microwave tortillas for 15 seconds to help them become more pliable. Top tortillas with desired amounts of salsa and sour cream. Top with warmed meat mixture and a little cheese. Wrap it up and you're good to go! Yum!