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The images in She Who Tells a Story not only are made by women with roots in Iran and the Arab world, but are about the people, landscapes, and cultures of the region. Many of the photographers here explore questions of identity through an evolving and shifting set of narratives that must be understood as a response to Orientalism. Historically, "Orientalism" has referred to artistic or literary depictions by European or American artists and writers of the East, including Middle Eastern, North African, and Eastern cultures. In his pioneering study Orientalism (1978), the Palestinian-born scholar Edward Said argued that Orientalism aligns Western romanticized visions of the region with the goals of European and American colonialism and imperialism; it is a discourse of power, presenting the "Orient" as culturally inferior. Since the appearance of Said's provocative study, questions surrounding imagery of Middle Eastern, North African, and Asian cultures have been vigorously reconsidered and debated. Regardless of the opinions expressed in these sometimes contentious conversations, Orientalism, and, more specifically, Orientalist painting, is indisputably fundamental to the region's historical visual representation.[1]
Category Archives: Photography
Doomed to Pittsburgh: W. Eugene Smith in the City of Steel
Eugene Smith arrived in Pittsburgh in March 1955, a man hellbent on salvation. He had recently resigned as a staff photographer at Life, protesting what he considered the magazine's botched layout of his photo essay documenting Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer. Smith was 36 years old and one of America's preeminent photojournalists. His work in the Pacific theater during World War II—along with subsequent essays chronicling a village in Franco's Spain, a country doctor in Colorado, and an African American nurse-midwife in rural South Carolina—were landmarks in contemporary photography. His integrity and immaculate craftsmanship had earned respect tinged with wariness. Editors knew he could be as edgy as a junkyard dog.
Now he was adrift. In debt, drinking steadily, battered by a diet of Benzedrine and downers, Smith hit Pittsburgh desperate to salvage whatever remained of his career. His wife, Carmen, was back home in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, caring for their four children and supporting (often supported by) the family's live-in housekeeper. Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, Smith's mistress, Margery Lewis, had recently given unwelcome and illicit birth to the couple's son. It was the proverbial dark time made darker by the death of Smith's mother, Nettie, in February. A whirlwind of grief, vengeance, despair, and a kind of ravening idealism drove him into the City of Steel.
This Picture: To Thine Own Selfie Be True
On Christmas Day in 2006, Time magazine published its annual "Person of the Year" issue, with a strange twist: they didn't actually select a person. Instead, the cover featured a photo of a computer, on top of which lay a small, reflective paper rectangle—a makeshift mirror floating above a single, captivating word: You.
Nodding to the then newly minted capacity to customize one's online presence, this comparatively brazen editorial conceit perfectly captured a sense of where things appeared to be heading. American culture stood at that moment on the precipice of a new, self-obsessed democracy: for the people and by the people—and photographed by the people, too. With that seminal issue, we were told to get ready for our close-up, and get ready we did. Continue reading
Duane Michals in Conversation at the New York Public Library
Last Wednesday Duane Michals was on stage in the South Court Auditorium at the New York Public Library to discuss his two new books: ABCDuane and Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals. As part of An Art Book, the library's ongoing series that celebrates the essential importance and beauty of art books, moderator Christopher Lyon offered the audience a brief introduction to Michals's work and career.
"His activities touch on so many bases," Lyon said about Michals. "Pioneering art photography. Unmatched portraitist. He's a masterful editorial photographer, painter, art collector—storyteller above all—and an aesthetic gadfly who entertainingly undermines the claims of photography to represent reality. But I want to suggest that the apparent multi-sidedness of Duane is, itself, an illusion. As Duane made clear in [the text to his book Real Dreams], the key word, he wrote, is 'expression' not photography, not writing, not painting. So tonight I'm hoping that this really extraordinary gathering of critics, scholars, and curators will engage in a conversation illuminating Duane's work and life."
Duane Michals: Telling the Story of the Storyteller
With a deep-seated reverence for his Pittsburgh roots and a dogged determination to express himself through art, Duane Michals tells his stories his way. At long last, Pittsburgh will celebrate these stories, and the man behind them, through a definitive retrospective at Carnegie Museum of Art.
Duane Michals is an 82-year-old world-famous photographer, but as he talks he suddenly transforms into a 7-year-old boy in McKeesport. He recalls one day vividly. He and his mother have ventured inside Cox's dress shop. His mother finds a chair, plants him there and says, "Stay here. I'll be right back."
A few minutes later, she loads a few shopping bags onto her little boy's lap before disappearing into the dress racks again. He sits patiently for five minutes or so. Then panic grips him. Why hasn't she come back? Has she left me?
She returns. But seven decades later, Michals can still feel that childhood fear of abandonment and death—emotions he has channeled into his photographic works. His images about childhood are among his most poignant and, until now, among his most overlooked. They will be exhibited as part of a major retrospective of his work that opens November 1 at Carnegie Museum of Art.


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Hitting the dusty trails (and open space)
The Aug. 17 Gala in the Garden, an annual event sponsored by the Trails and Open Space Coalition at Rock Ledge Ranch, was attended by
about 400 people. The event included a catered barbecue dinner, a silent auction and bluegrass music by the String Dudes (in the enclosure in
rear of photo). The guests included Old West reenactors, such as those in foreground left and eating at far right.
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I am a poet & writer of short fiction based in North West England. I was recently selected by The Poetry Book Society as one of the Next Generation Poets 2014.
My first collection of poems, A Body Made of You, published by Penned in the Margins was released in April 2011. You can read reviews over at Friction and at Hipster Book Club.
Beautiful Girls, my second collection, was released in November by Penned in the Margins and was selected as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Winter 2013. The poem 'Square Man' was featured as The Saturday Poem in The Guardian in June 2014.
I am a regular reviewer for The Short Review and have contributed to literary magazines such as Poetry Wales, 3:AM, Tears in the Fence, Poetry Salzburg Review, The White Review, The New Writer, La Reata and The Reader. My poem, 'Jim' was featured in Starry Rhymes, a chapbook published by Read This Press, to commemorate what would have been the 85th birthday of Allen Ginsberg.
Some praise for A Body Made of You:
"Melissa Lee-Houghton's highly original and innovative debut might be considered an epistolary tour-de-force… It is an extraordinary achievement and a must-read book for 2011."
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"Melissa Lee-Houghton's A Body Made Of You is a restless book; images pile high full of a deep questioning of the friends, lovers and strangers who populate these poems. This collection is an intense 'naming of parts' made of body, soul, and memory."
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"Everything about this collection reveals something about the visceral ugliness and innate passion of the human condition through the extremely physical experiences of the speaker…With a keen eye and an even sharper tongue, these poems do not shy away from any aspect of self, or language…" Sophie F. Baker, Mslexia
"These are musical and metrical poems…The collection is a passionate and living series of poetic vignettes exploring love, sex, self-destruction and death, within the imaginative space of the portrait…Lee-Houghton's debut is a conceptual and original interrogation of artists, lovers and friends, through an honest and seductive language." John Challis, Friction
"Lee-Houghton's flair for rich description meets the speaker's curious fascinations…Her words are soaked in [a] tension between body and mind, between who we are supposed to be and the god-awful gorgeousness of who we really are." MeLaina Evans, Hipster Book Club
"I can safely say that this is the most fascinating, beautiful poetry collection I have read in years… This collection was so damn beautiful that it made my chest physically hurt." Jen Campbell
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Lacquer room, anonymous, before 1695
This room was made for the Court of the Stadholders at Leeuwarden. It formed part of the apartment of the consort of the Frisian stadholder, Princess Albertine Agnes of Orange and Nassau. The walls are mounted with Chinese screens of Coromandel lacquer. In this enchanting room, filled with exotic furniture and porcelain, the princess liked to drink tea from China.


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text: I read on CNN.com about a guy in China who crashed his Tesla using autopilot so Tesla has removed the word Autopilot from their marketing materials in the China market and replaced it with "assisted driving". It seems to me that would make sense to do that in all markets giving the issue with customers crashing while depending too much on the autopilot system. Maybe this kind of name change would help more customers realize they must heed the advice of the owners manual and keep their hands on the wheel and eyes on the road at ALL times.


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Here it is... the edited video of the Google Hangout I took part in with Fearne Cotton... isn't she lovely?!!
Let me know what you think! (I was incredibly nervous).
Maybe this will be the start of me making videos...
You can buy all of the pieces from Fearne's new collection here on the Very website.
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I thought it was you when I was watching it, I was thinking that must be Tor if not she's got a twin lol! What a great experience for you :o)ReplyDeleteReplies
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Dibs on the first wall post for this ;) STILL SOO JELOUS TOR that you got to skype her . She is so down to earth and lovely :). I hope to one day meet her myself and express how much she's influenced my sense of style. You asked such a good question too! To be fair if it was me skyping her I doubt I'd be able to control myself as I would be too excited / nervous hahaha:') xxxxReplyDeleteReplies
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For a moment
In the brokenness
Amongst us
You with your
Numerical scale
Of my travels &
Me with my
Of your lies.
The bits of me
Long hidden
Rising to the surface
As if gravity
And shame
No longer held
Them down.
My safety showed
Itself in fear.
Your fear showed
Itself in cruelty.
Like Newton's cradle
We'd attract
And repel
Never still
Never at peace
I never told you
The secret of my shoes
And you never told me
That all your silences
Where like tiny deaths
But then again
We knew
These things
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tempest blast both deal magical damage instead of lightning.
caustic mire web doesn't do acid damage but i guess you already said that you will fix in 1.40 giving the true caustic web not the other one.
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Jennifer Servo
Presented By
M. Wells
Article From the September 2003 issue of
Cosmopolitan Magazine.
Reprinted with permission of Cosmopolitan
Can't They Find Her Killer?
Katy Vine
Last September, [2002] a 22-year-old
up-and-coming newscaster was bludgeoned to death in her own apartment. Now, a
year later, the once promising campaign to catch the culprit has hit some
Jennifer Servo worked 10-hour shifts
Thursdays through Sundays at KRBC television in Abilene, Texas, so when she
did not call a coworker on Monday, September 16, 2002, about movie plans they
had made, he just figured she was too zonked to go out. But when Wednesday
rolled around and she still hadn't returned messages, her friends at the
station grew worried and called the manager of Jennifer's apartment building
to check on her. By the time the friends arrived at her door, the manager had
found the 22-year-old petite blond from Montana lying on her bathroom floor
and a trail of blood leading back to the living room. "Injured subject
possible DOA" was the message that went out over the police scanner, but
Jennifer had been dead for days.
The final autopsy wasn't pretty. Cause of
death: She'd been hit on the head at least three times with a blunt object.
She also had internal bruising at her neck and vagina, signs of triangulation
and a possible sexual assault. But despite the violence of the act, there was
no evidence of a struggle-no skin under her fingernails, no damage done to
her door, and no obvious murder weapon. In fact, the mysterious circumstances
of her death have all the makings of an episode of Law and Order or CSI, but
unlike the cases on those superpopular crime shows,
Jennifer's has not had a speedy resolution.
Almost a year later, police have named no
suspects and brought no charges as of press time, though not from a lack of
trying. They've lifted tons of evidence from Jennifer's apartment and
interviewed dozens of people, but they're still no closer to catching the
culprit. "We were going to spread Jen's ashes over a lake that she loved
in Montana," says Jennifer's mom, Sherry Abel. "But I don't know if
I could do that without knowing who the killer is."
Jennifer was born in the small resort town
of Whitefish, Montana, and raised a few miles away in Columbia Falls. In high
school, she was popular and ambitious-she dreamed of being the next Katie
Couric and was accepted into the journalism program at the University of
Montana. She signed up for the Army Reserve to help pay her tuition, and
during her freshman year in 1998, in addition to taking a full course load,
she got a job at a local television station. "Not only was she
talented," says Denise Dowling, one of Jennifer's professors, "she
was one of those students we just knew was going to make it."
She was a flirt too, with a bubbly
personality. She dated plenty, but she was mostly focused on her career. By
the time she graduated in May 2002, she already had a tape of on-air
appearances that she was using to apply for correspondent positions across
the country. She broke up with her boyfriend, a former journalism student
named David Warren, because, he says, "she wanted to get out on her
own." But then, in mid-June, during a mandatory Army Reserve training
session in Helena, Montana, she met Ralph Sepulveda, who would later become a
subject of investigation.
Lots of guys had fallen for Jennifer, but
Ralph was different from her other boyfriends. A 34-year-old former Army
Ranger also in the Reserve, he was stocky with a military-style haircut and
multiple tattoos. He had grown up in a rough part of Los Angeles but told
Jennifer he joined the Army so he could pull himself out of his bad
circumstances. When he wasn't doing military training, he lived with his
girlfriend in Missoula, Montana. Ali Watkins, another reservist, remembers,
"He was really friendly, not the stereotypical macho Ranger. He was more
passive and into things like bird-watching and hiking."
Jennifer was intrigued, and after a
two-week fling, she found out she'd landed a coveted job as general-assignment
reporter at KRBC in Texas. When Ralph suggested he move with her, she
impulsively agreed. Her friends weren't terribly pleased by her decision.
"We talked about how she was probably just clinging to someone in
Montana because she was scared of going to a new place," says Dara Freimann, a good friend of
hers. She did not think about what it meant to move somewhere with
In July 2002, Jennifer drove to Abilene and
found an apartment. Although Ralph had told Jennifer that he'd be arriving a
month later than her, he abruptly broke up with his girlfriend and arrived
just days later. As some friends had predicted, his relationship with
Jennifer quickly soured. Jennifer told her friends that Ralph was smothering her, that he would wake up in the middle of the night to
snuggle and would get in her face when she tried to get ready for work in the
morning. Ralph knew no one in Texas and was having trouble landing a job.
Jennifer, on the other hand, was meeting tons of people at KRBC, but Ralph
would get jealous when she went out with them, according to a friend.
In August, she broke up with him. Jennifer
later told friends that he cried a little when she told him of her decision
and asked her to reconsider, but she held firm. Ralph moved out but stayed in
town, renting an apartment a mile away, and wound up finding work at a
manufacturing plant. It seemed there were no hard feelings. On Saturday,
September 14, the day before she was killed, Jennifer commented to a coworker
that she hadn't spoken to Ralph in a while, adding, "I need to e-mail
him." (Police won't verify whether she sent him an e-mail or not.)
After Jennifer was killed, her coworkers,
who had never even met Ralph, immediately pointed their fingers in his
direction. "Here's this guy who gave up his life and moved to Texas with
Jennifer, and she basically dumped him three weeks into it. I'd be pissed too,"
says one friend. "But is that motivation for murder? I don't know."
When police questioned Ralph extensively,
he said he was at home on the night of the murder.
Detective Jeff Bell, of the Abilene Police
Department, says that Ralph has a "plain history," meaning he has
no previous crimes on his record. (Ralph didn't respond to repeated requests
for an interview.) Nonetheless, Ralph also refused to take a lie detector
test, and Bell admits, "I cannot rule him out."
In fact, experts say that former or current
lovers are the most likely perpetrators in cases where the victim's death is
caused by repeated trauma to the head, as was Jennifer's. "Hitting the
victim repeatedly on the head (as opposed to shooting them once with a gun)
means that the perpetrator was angry in a way that suggests there was a
personal relationship," says Reid Meloy,
Ph.D., a forensic psychologist and author of Violent Attachments. Certainly,
it seems as though Jennifer was killed by someone she knew. Judging by the
bed clothes she was wearing, she was probably attacked very early in the
morning on Monday, September 16, and her friends say she wouldn't have opened
her door to a stranger at that hour.
But the problem is that at the time of her
death, Ralph wasn't the only man vying for Jennifer's attention. There was
also 24-year-old Brian Travers, a meteorologist at KRBC. He was not only
interested in Jennifer romantically but was also the last person to see her
alive. Brian and Jennifer had started dating casually in August, though she
soon decided she wasn't interested in a serious relationship. They cooled
things off yet stayed friends. On the night of Sunday, September 15, Jennifer
and the rest of the crew did the 10 o'clock evening news as usual. At about
11:30, she and Brian both left the station to run some errands together.
Sometime after midnight, she left his house. According to Brian, he insisted
on walking Jennifer to her car, saying to her, "If something happened
between here and your car, nobody would ever forgive me."
After the murder, Brian was questioned and
also said that he was asleep at his home. "The police took me into her
apartment [that] Friday and I pointed out something that was missing,"
says Travers, who's not allowed to reveal what that object was. "To me,
the fact that they brought me into the apartment shows that I didn't do it.
For the record, I didn't."
And what about David Warren, Jennifer's
boyfriend in Montana with whom she had broken up only months earlier? He can
actually be ruled out, because after Jennifer drove home, he called her from
Missoula at about 12:30 a.m. "We talked for about an hour, mostly about
work," recalls David. "She said that everyone wanted her to go out
with this Brian guy but she didn't want to be in a relationship. She didn't
say much about Ralph, and I never got the impression that she was scared of
Is it possible that some random person saw
Jennifer doing a news report on air, tracked her down, and killed her? Women
who appear on TV are more likely to have stalkers (see "Danger on the
Airwaves," at left), but Jennifer had only lived in Abilene for two
months and had also taken the precaution of having her mail delivered to a
post-office box instead of a street address.
But as we all know from CSI, it's the
physical evidence that solves the crime. Police collected carpeting, bedding,
and hair and blood samples from Jennifer's apartment and got DNA from Ralph
Sepulveda, Brian Travers, and four other unnamed people who knew her, to see
if there were any matches. But six months after the murder, police told
Jennifer's family that the most promising samples hadn't yielded any leads,
although they would continue to send more evidence to the lab. "I call
the police almost weekly to check in," says Jennifer's mom. "I've
even begun to watch all the forensic shows on TV and ask police if they have
done everything possible."
Detective Bell explains that because they
lack the equipment in Abilene, the tests were done by the Tarrant County
Medical Examiner, in Fort Worth. (Very few police stations in the country
have the kind of high-tech machines you see on CSI.) But the real problem is
that not all crime scenes contain case-solving samples of DNA. So far, the
only blood that's been found is Jennifer's. As for other evidence such as
fingerprints, hair, and saliva, all of those things could reasonably be found
in Jennifer's apartment from any possible perpetrator who had a relationship
with her. "The ultimate DNA would show someone who had no reason to be
there or who says they hadn't been in the house in more than a month before
her death," says Bell. And that kind of DNA simply hasn't turned up.
Experience can also play a role in a case, and Detective Bell admits that
this is the first time he's ever been in charge of a homicide investigation.
One thing is for sure: The chances of catching a killer grow smaller over
time, not greater.
Meanwhile, last May, Ralph Sepulveda
relocated to an Army base in New York. That same month, Brian Travers got a
new job and moved to Iowa. The rest of Jennifer's friends have grown somewhat
cynical about the case's outcome. "If this DNA evidence is coming back
and the police aren't taking action, they don't have enough to make a
link," says Dara Freimann.
Jennifer's mom notes that the last time she called the police to ask for an
update, Detective Bell said, "No more news. I don't know where to look
next unless somebody comes in and confesses."
Jennifer was a good reporter-sharp and
fearless. If she were alive today, this would be the type of case she would
want to crack. "A year before she died, Jen did a story about America's
Most Wanted coming to Montana for the murder of three women in a beauty
parlor," remembers Jennifer's mom. "She was really excited and said, I could do something like that.'" She never could
have known that one day, she'd become the subject of such a news story
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Plus, the actress, 16, dishes explains her Eclipse bond with Kristen Stewart
She may have started out a child actress, but Dakota Fanning hasn't given up one quintessential part of her teenage years: the prom.
"[I went with] a group of friends," the actress told PEOPLE while hosting the UCLA 5K Run/Walk on May 23 benefiting the Child Life/Child Development program at Mattel Children's Hospital. "I think you put more effort into getting ready before than actually you spend at the place. But it was so much fun."
Fanning, 16, currently a junior and a varsity cheerleader at an L.A. high school, says she's "lucky" to be able to have a movie career while going to school – where she isn't treated differently because of her Hollywood status.
"I've been able to have a really great experience and it's almost over. I can't believe it!" she says.
Outside of school, Fanning's enjoyed another kind of experience: Being part of the Twilight worldwide phenomenon as the villainous Volturi Jane.
"It's so fun," says Fanning about filming with the cast in Vancouver. "I've done a few movies with Kristen Stewart now, and she's become one of my best friends, so it's always fun to be with her. The cast is also fun and so nice and [we] have really become very close."
Working with Stewart on another film, The Runaways, in which the two stars shared a kiss, also brought them close, says Fanning.
"We have a really close bond in the film so it allowed us to have a really close bond in real life as well," she says.
As for whether she's Team Edward or Team Jacob, Fanning is playing it neutral and staying tight-lipped.
"I will get in trouble if I [picked] one," she says.
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2016 Barking Mad Riesling
VINEYARD - Cropping 2T per acre. Estate grown at Reillys 'St Clare' vineyard, Watervale. Rich red loam over deep limestone.
WINEMAKING - Pressed within 2 hours of picking. 100% free juice run.
BOUQUET - Open floral bouquet with a hint of citrus.
PALATE - Delicate flavours of zesty lemon/lime. Rich palate with perfectly balanced acidity.
90 POINTS ~ James Halliday, www.winecompanion.com.au
"... A more than useful wine with abundant kaffir lime and Meyer lemon coming together on the generous palate; good length."
4 STARS, TOP IN CATEGORY & BEST VALUE BUY, Winestate Magazine, New Releases, March/April 2017
94 Points - Nick's Wine Merchants, www.nicks.com.au
"Brilliant very pale straw colour with greenish tinged edges and a watery hue. Intense aromatics of lime, citrus and orange rind leap from the glass followed by some talc and spice… Finished with crisp acidity and an aftertaste of lime, citrus, orange rind and subtle talc infusions."
GOLD MEDAL ~ 2016 Melbourne International Wine Competition
BRONZE MEDAL ~ 2015 Royal Adelaide Wine Show
Ralph Kyte-Powell, Sydney Morning Herald & The Age newspapers, Tuesday 29th March 2016
"Great value Clare Valley Riesling. Floral talc and lime zest aromas introduce a juicy mid-palate of good length, enhanced by a slight impression of sweetness and a tangy finish. Food Idea Thai salad with tofu and peanuts"
Dan Traucki, freelance wine journalist, published 9th Feb 2016 on www.facebook.com/dan.traucki
"Another great 2015 Riesling, this time from the world famous Watervale district of the Clare Valley. It opens with the scents of lemons and floral blossoms, has oodles of flavour with zingy acidity which is not OTT, finishes with a lovely crisp, cleansing, lingering finish. Bugger cellaring this ripper Riesling, enjoy it over the summer as it is scrumptious right now. Love the name- must have been named after me!!! ".
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Typing this from another computer. Once again, Murphy is rearing his ugly head and roaring in full force.
My own computer is currently fried, probably beyond the point it's worth repairing, so once again without regular 'net access.
I had been planning on getting a new one later on anyway, but I was hoping to wait until all the bugs were worked out of VISTA. Looks like I may be going back to Mac computers despite the price.
I may be able to get one this week and set things up. But until further notice, Half and Lynx are in charge of the simming.


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Priority Process
We like to hear from stakeholders regarding your priorities. Please complete our stakeholder questionnaire.
This page explains the process we undertake annually to determine our priority issues. To learn more about how we approach the management of each of these issues, see the Priorities section (G4-18).
Each year, we conduct an analysis to increase our understanding of the issues that mean the most to our stakeholders and the company. In determining our report content, we apply the GRI G4 Principles:
- Stakeholder inclusiveness: We take multiple stakeholder viewpoints into consideration.
- Sustainability context: We consider the economic, social, and environmental sustainability impacts associated with issues in the analysis.
- Materiality: We focus our analysis on issues we have identified as highest priority for NVIDIA and its stakeholders.
- Completeness: We do not purposefully avoid difficult or contentious issues.
Included on this page are details about our process and subsequent outcomes.
Stakeholder Feedback
The analysis entails an examination of external stakeholder sources to help us understand the issues of highest relevance and importance to our stakeholders. Sources include:
- Community surveys
- Competitors' reports
- Customer requirements/requests
- Disclosure standards, such as the GRI G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines
- Employee survey feedback
- Industry and trade association publications
- Investor queries
- Ratings and rankings questionnaires
- Regulatory requirements
- Trade organizations' codes of conduct
The table below represents our stakeholders' perceptions of issues included in this year's analysis. Issues are ranked based on their prevalence across the various source materials we examined. A score of five indicates issues that are raised most often, while a score of one corresponds to issues represented less frequently.
Company Feedback
We also evaluate various company sources, such as the risk factors identified in our annual and quarterly reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in enterprise risk discussions with NVIDIA executives.
Corporate responsibility requirements are becoming increasingly important to NVIDIA, so for 2014, we engaged a number of executives who are most impacted in a targeted discussion about corporate responsibility risk issues and the impact to our business.
The table below represents how the executives we interviewed prioritized the issues under consideration in this analysis. Issues were ranked based on their prevalence in the discussions, the importance accorded to them during executive conversations, and the extent and urgency of potential associated impacts. A score of five indicates issues of highest prioritization; a score of one represents issues deemed a lower priority.
In 2014, a group of NVIDIA executives involved in corporate responsibility agreed upon three key objectives by which we will achieve greater responsibility. These objectives map to our Priority Issues:
In coming years, we will identify initiatives within these areas where we can achieve improvement, and use this annual report to discuss our progress.
Priority Matrix
We map the results of the stakeholder source evaluation and the company's prioritization based on executive interviews on a matrix to visually highlight the most important issues from the perspective of external stakeholders and company management. The matrix includes the entire list of issues we considered for inclusion in the analysis.
In the resulting Priority Matrix (see the graphic below), the issues with the highest priority are shown in the top right quadrant.
Issues that increased in stakeholder importance in the past year include materials availability (primarily around conflict minerals) and recycling and e-waste (due to NVIDIA's shift in product mix and application of regulations). Areas that decreased in priority ranking across all stakeholders include diversity and inclusion, corporate governance, ethics, employee health and safety, and employee satisfaction.
To learn more about how we manage our Priority Issues, see the Priorities section.
Yearly Analysis
We will regularly review trends in the marketplace around the issues presented on the Priority Matrix. In addition, we will continue to assess, track and communicate our performance on the issues that are the highest priority from both internal and external perspectives.


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Shaping the future of Eastern El Paso County
- Voice of businesses
- Community issue discussion
- Community Events
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- Presenters and speakers
- Business networking and support
- Development and education
Membership requires a high standard of professionalism and business ethics in order to instill public confidence in the organization and its individual members. It shall require members to respond to public concerns and questions in a timely manner.
A reasonable membership fee is due annually in order to remain in good standing. Certain communications and information is only distributed to members. Members enjoy access to other events and meetings through the Southern Colorado Business Partnership.
Monthly Membership Meetings:
1st Wednesday of every month
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Circle Theatre — Barnwell, South Carolina
SC Picture Project | Barnwell County | Circle Theatre
It is appropriate that the Circle Theater in Barnwell serves as a place where stories unfold on stage, as the building is a story in itself. Now the home of the Barnwell County Performing Arts Center, this theater resembles a church because it was originally Barnwell Presbyterian Church. Construction on the building began in 1840 at the current Barnwell Presbyterian Church's Franklin Street address. It was completed in 1848.
In 1865, near the end of the Civil War, Federal troops burned much of Barnwell, including the courthouse. From that year court was held in this building – then Barnwell Presbyterian Church – though for how long is unclear. Eventually worship services resumed, but by the 1960s, the congregation decided to build a bigger church. In 1967 the Barnwell County Historical Preservation Commission was created out of concern for saving this historic church, and the building was moved to its current Academy Street location. A new church was built in its place, and the Barnwell Performing Arts Center, home of the town's Circle Theater amateur stage group, made this building its own in 1974.
This simple former church was once adorned with a bell tower that was lost to lightning in 1891. It is listed in the National Register:
(Barnwell First Presbyterian Church) The Old Presbyterian Church is significant for its architecture and as the town of Barnwell's first Presbyterian Church, which was used as the Barnwell County Courthouse during Reconstruction. It is also one of the few remaining antebellum buildings in town which was almost entirely destroyed by Gen. Sherman's troops. The church was organized in June of 1832 by the Reverend Dr. James Henley Thornwell, a noted Presbyterian clergyman and later president of South Carolina College.
The present church was built ca. 1848 of Greek Revival design with Gothic details. The pedimented gable roof is supported by four large square columns that rest on brick piers. Each window is crowned by a lancet arch with tracery of wood and glass. The church was apparently constructed by a local craftsman and has hand carved interior woodwork and a slave gallery.
Circle Theatre Info
Address: 325 Academy Street, Barnwell, SC 29812
GPS Coordinates: 33.241752,-81.361313
Website: http://barnwellcircletheatre.com/
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Support for the whole family
Jeanette and Tony, grandparents of 13-year-old Jordan, have been supported by Sarah, one of our Essex Family Support Workers, since 2013.
Jordan was diagnosed with cancer of the eye when she was just over a year old. She was treated but her eye could not be saved. In 2010, she relapsed and was diagnosed with cancer of the lymph nodes and is currently undergoing treatment. During this time, Jordan's mum was also diagnosed with cancer.
Sarah supports Jeanette emotionally, she is someone for her to talk to and lean on. She helps with Jordan's transport to hospital appointments and takes her out to give her grandparents a much-needed break.
Throughout the years Jeanette and Tony have been a constant source of love and support for both Jordan and her mother. After Jordan's diagnosis, her grandparents moved home to be nearer the family to support them.
The couple took Jordan and her mother to hospital appointments, bought specialised equipment for Jordan, and even adapted their garden shed into a classroom so Jordan could be home schooled.
Sadly, in 2013 Jordan's mother died and Jeanette and Tony became Jordan's main carers.
This devoted couple has experienced so much anguish and sorrow over the loss of their own child, but have selflessly put their grief aside and done everything in their power to give Jordan all she could need.
Sarah, their Family Support Worker, says "Since meeting Jordan and her family, I have witnessed, on countless occasions, Nan bravely battling away in an attempt to ensure that Jordan receives the correct healthcare, vision aids and supports, an adequate level of schooling, and satisfactory support from social services. Grandad is past the age of retirement, yet he still has to work three nights a week to ensure that they keep their heads above water."
Sarah helped Jeanette sort through her daughter's things after she died and continues to be there for the couple as they do their best for their granddaughter.
Sadly grandparents are often forgotten, but Rainbow Trust will support them and the whole family for as long as they need us.
This year we helped grandparents to understand complicated medical issues, come to terms with their grandchild's diagnosis and if needed, we gave them someone to turn to in their grief so they could stay strong for their children.


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New Movies: 'Non-Stop,' 'Son of God'
Two very different features hit theaters this weekend. The first is an airplane-set action-thriller with Liam Neeson (seems like all he ever does is action-thrillers these days, doesn't it?). The second tells the story of Jesus Christ. So yeah, pretty different.
Air marshal Bill Marks must find out who is murdering the passengers on the flight he's on, but all the evidence points to him as the killer.
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
Starring Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Nate Parker
'Son of God'
An epic telling of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, from his birth in a manger through his working of miracles, his crucifixion and subsequent resurrection.
Directed by Crispin Reece, Christopher Spencer, Tony Mitchell
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A locust infestation in 2004 coupled with drought the same year and in 2005 has caused a severe food crisis in Niger. Based on a joint assessment conducted in March of this year, the Government, United Nations agencies and partner NGOs estimate that 3.6 million people have been affected. Approximately 2.5 million people are extremely vulnerable and require food assistance. An estimated 160 000 children in Niger are moderately malnourished and an additional 32 000 children are severely malnourished.
Malnutrition coupled with lack of safe water and poor sanitation (41% of the population does not have sustainable access to an improved water source) increases the risk of outbreaks of communicable diseases. It is estimated that more than 50% of the population does not have access to primary health care. If allowed to continue unchecked, this crisis could result in many deaths from associated illnesses such as cholera, respiratory diseases, diarrhoea, and malaria.
A cholera outbreak has already affected 61 people and killed ten in the district of Bouza in Tahoua region. As part of the health response, WHO will ship eight cholera kits to Niger this week in preparation to manage up to 800 severe cases of cholera.
Following a recent assessment mission in Niger between 27 July and 2 August, the initial World Health Organization (WHO) Flash Appeal has been revised from US$ 400 000 to US$ 1.3 million. This money is urgently needed for four projects to be implemented during the next six months: disease and nutrition surveillance and outbreak response, nutritional case management (building capacities to treat malnutrition at health centre level), supporting development of health policy to improve access to essential health care services by increasing reliability and affordability, and strengthening health sector coordination and information management.
Says mission leader, Emilienne Anikpo, "The assessment we conducted was crucial in allowing us to better understand the situation on the ground, to identify partners and to determine the most pressing health needs and how we should work to meet these needs. We now have a targeted approach to providing effective support to the Ministry of Health in addressing this health crisis."
Working in close conjunction with the Ministry of Health, WHO will increase health workers' capacity to conduct epidemiological surveillance will be reinforced through training with a particular focus on early warning and response and through integration into the system of active malnutrition surveillance.
Active surveillance of malnutrition will be reinforced. Health staff will be trained in detecting moderate and severe malnutrition according to international standards.
Increased access of malnourished children to health centres for treatment will be addressed. Currently, many clinics require patients to pay, which prevents impoverished children and their parents from seeking care.
WHO will also work closely together with the Ministry of Health to maximize coordination of health-related activities among UN agencies and other humanitarian actors.
A 12 member Emergency Task Force to include a nutritionist, epidemiologist, health systems financing specialist, logistician, project manager and information officer is being assembled for deployment soon.
The WHO component of the Revised Flash Appeal for Niger is part of a wider Revised UN Consolidated Flash Appeal launched on 4 August 2005, which seeks a total of US$ 81 million to assist Niger through the immediate lean agricultural season and to respond to medium term needs up until December 2005.
The Revised UN Consolidated Flash Appeal for Niger includes ACF, Helen Keller International, FAO, OCHA, UNDG, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, WFP, WHO, VSF-B. Projects aim at providing the most affected populations with 73 metric tons of food aid, reinforcing basic primary health care to save lives of moderately and severely malnourished children, preserving livestock and improving food security conditions, strengthening current water sources and sanitations systems to improve hygiene and preventing waterborne diseases, and reinforcing coordination mechanisms as well as information management and advocacy efforts.
- Revised UN Consolidated Flash Appeal for Niger
- WHO's Action in crises
For more information contact:
Marko Kokic - Information Officer
Health Action in Crises
WHO Geneva
Telephone: +41 22 791 24 48
Mobile phone: +41 79 217 34 11
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
WHO $ 1.3 million appeal to help meet Niger's health needs
A locust infestation in 2004 coupled with drought the same year and in 2005 has caused a severe food crisis in Niger. Based on a joint assessment conducted in March of this year, the Government, United Nations agencies and partner NGOs estimate that 3.6 million people have been affected. Approximately 2.5 million people are extremely vulnerable and require food assistance. An estimated 160 000 children in Niger are moderately malnourished and an additional 32 000 children are severely malnourished.


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When does a visit from prison feel like a little more? Using Securus Technologies, inmates can use video conference to things like complete homework with their child, something that would be much more difficult if it was done over the phone. With video conferencing, inmates will be able to see their loved ones, something that can foster the connection between then, and encourage an inmate to be on their best behavior in a hope to get out sooner and be with that loved one. For children of inmates, that can also mean a bit more of a connection with their incarcerated parent.
Securus Technologies offers a number of different products designed to modernize the incarceration experience, specifically working in the area of communications, helping inmates stay connected to friends and family on the outside while they are serving their time. In addition to video visitation, Securus Technologies also offers jail voicemails options, a service which allows inmates to receive messages from their loved ones, even during times when they don't have phone privileges. Then, an inmate would receive the message as soon as he or she was given time on the phone again.
Securus is constantly evolving its technologies and works with more than 2,2000 law enforcement and corrections agencies to create solutions that work well for them. Securus' full line of products can handle things while inmate's are incarcerated, and follow then through post-incarceration management.
Video visitation can have a number of benefits, both for inmates and the prison as a whole. From the inmate side of things, they are able to get some face time in with friends and family, especially children, without that person physically having to come to the prison in order to do so. Depending on where an inmate is incarcerated, it can be exceptionally difficult for far away family members to come visit with regularity. With video visitation, those visits can become more frequent.
The video conferencing technology can take a bit of the pressure off os staff, so they can focus on more important things. Video visitation can be completed on a computer, but also on a family member's iPhone, iPad, or Android device — so they can visit an inmate no matter where they might be in the world.
Securus Video Visitation – Homework from Securus Technologies on Vimeo.


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Community engagement
Community Engagement is happening NOW! The FHMP Project of reimagining of Harvey Milk Plaza is a multifaceted project that includes leadership and collaboration with the community and SF agencies working to address the burgeoning population growth across the city which has directly impacted the Castro Muni Metro Station and Harvey Milk Plaza. Transit, urban planning and safety are critical elements incorporated into this process. As with any project in its early stages, substantial changes to the design are expected based on more public feedback, technical, and engineering concerns.
As of February 2018
The FHMP Project is collaborating with SFMTA who have announced Harvey Milk Plaza Accessibility Improvements project at the same location, intended to address non-compliant ADA conditions at the Castro Muni Metro Station to comply with regulations that were not in effect when the station debuted in 1980. The SFMTA scope of work includes an elevator that will provide access to/from the street, concourse/ticketing, and platform levels of the station. Also included are improvements to the accessible path between the new elevator and the existing path of travel. Acknowledging the significance of Harvey Milk Plaza, SFMTA reached out to local community organizations inviting an opportunity to leverage the SFMTA project with the community interest in commemorating Harvey Milk, for whom the plaza was named. Scheduling the reimagining of Harvey Milk Plaza project in tandem with the city's accessibility construction is expected to greatly reduce the expense. A robust fundraising effort is being planned to raise private funds for the FHMP Project. Although the FHMP Project and the SFMTA Accessibility Project are collaborative projects at the same site and naturally are in communication, planning is independent of one another. Throughout the process, opportunities for efficiency are being identified and leveraged as much as possible.
Beginning in January 2018, FHMP will hold public meetings at various stages of design development, see our EVENTS page for scheduled events. FHMP understands that community input is critical. Community engagement opportunities to share feedback, input, and ideas ensure this is a welcome and successful project in our beloved community. We encourage anyone interested to please add your email to our distribution list to keep abreast of these community engagement opportunities and STAY INFORMED! In addition, SFMTA hosted two open houses for the Castro Station Accessibility Improvements Project on March 5th and 12th, 2018.
As of November 2017
In November 2017, FHMP and Perkins Eastman began meeting to process information gathered and learned during the competition, and to continue development of the design proposal. The 3 design team finalists produced renderings for Harvey Milk Plaza as part of the design competition. The community, technical advisors, jurors, city agencies and FHMP contributed a vast breadth of input and feedback on the designs proposed and ultimately influenced the team selected to win the overall competition. The competition resulted in identifying the design team who will begin the design process taking into consideration these proposed big ideas from the 33 entrants, as well as new and alternative ideas. This process will continue to engage and interact with the community, city planning and public works experts, engineering expertise, art and historical influences, and a plethora of individuals and organizations to assist in this community centric project.
San Francisco Bay Times Castro Street Cam presented by Cliff's Variety with additional support from Orphan Andy's and Castro Smoke Shop…


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The University of Michigan brings together nationally recognized experts in urologic oncology conditions, including:
- Bladder Cancer
- Kidney Cancer
- Penile Cancer
- Prostate Cancer
- Testicular Cancers
- Urethral Cancer
Our leadership in common, rare and advanced cancers means patients have access to both the newest standard and investigational therapies. Led by a multidisciplinary team of urologic surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, pathologists, nurse practitioners, sexual and reproductive experts, the Urologic Oncology Clinic located in the Comprehensive Cancer Center offers treatment options that include robotic surgery, genetic sequencing for more advanced or high risk prostate cancer patients, the latest in radiation techniques and all phases of clinical trials.
For more on the types of cancer and treatment options offered through the Urologic Oncology Clinic, visit the Comprehensive Cancer Center website or call one of our Cancer AnswerLine™ nurses at 800-865-1125.


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Alright, already. I know they aren't identical. They are products from different manufacturers and introduced to the market nearly 60 years apart.
But isn't there just a whiff of something evocative?
Judge for yourself:
A blog about about painting, design and other aspects of aesthetics along with a dash of non-art topics. The point-of-view is that modernism in art is an idea that has, after a century or more, been thoroughly tested and found wanting. Not to say that it should be abolished -- just put in its proper, diminished place.
The Studebaker convertible was used in the Doris Day movie: "It happened to Jane" and was driven by Jack Lemmon.


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Over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge we have a new challenge for you today. Our theme for June is "June Holiday Insights" and our challenge is:
June 14th is Flag Day here in the US, so in honor of the colors of our flag here in the USA, this challenge use red, white, and blue on your layout.
The layout I created inspired by these colors:
The lovely couple :)
Thank you for stopping by today :) We have a very nice prize this month and look forwards to seeing your creation for this challenge and for all the challenges this month.I also was inspired by Whimsical Musings Challenge #210 - red, white & blue


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Once you get 8-10 feet from the surface the water will be extremely dark... perfect for you glow lures. Different colors travel different distances through water. Blue the farthest, green next, yellow, orange, and reds in decreasing order of distance traveled.
For example, a bright orange lure will actually look like a grey shade to fish Fisherman find lures that have gold or silver on them to be very effective due to the "flash " element added.
Our many customers including tackle manufacturing companies find that enhancing lures with a bit of "glow" creates they same effect that entices fish. The glow attracts the fish from a greater distance but the lure needs to be realistic and bait-like when the predator fish swims in and decides to attack or not.
Jigs-For jig heads we recommend our Heat ' N dip Powder paint. Simple to use, and dries to a rock hard, high gloss finish.
Spoons/crank baits-A few options here. You can either dip/hand paint or airbrush.
Molded lures-Use our high grade master batch pellets that will be impregnated through molded lure
Bass:Use more natural patterns with muted glows in clear water. Move to louder patterns and brighter glows in stained water. In fall and spring bass do hit the louder colors and whites.
Walleye:Walleye see reds and oranges better than bass so these colors and glows work well.
Northern Pike:The Dare Devil is the best know lure for Pike. Accent the RED on lure with red glow paint Trout: Natural colors with glow and blacks with glow have been reported effective.
A lot of people think that glowing lures are best for night fishing and murky water. They ACTUALLY work even better in mid afternoon. Glowing lures are charged by ultraviolet light. On a bright sunny day, the sunlight is full of UV rays that charge these lures.


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The sixth post in our series, again on forming connections and working together.
PledgeBank allows users to set up pledges and then encourages other people to sign up to them. A pledge is a statement of the form 'I will do something, if a certain number of people will help me do it'. The creator of the pledge then publicises their pledge and encourages people to sign up. We can't be sure people will bother to carry out the pledge, but "We believe that if a person possesses a slight desire to do something, and then we help connect them to a bunch of people who also want to do the same thing, then that first person is much more likely to act." The site provides guidance to help make your original pledge a success, and you can get a special version of PledgeBank for your organisation. Example of a successful pledge: "I will give £10 towards a tree planting project in Kenya but only if 200 other people will do the same."


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Uniform Controversy - Past and Present
Customs is in the process of completing the change to the new 'uniform' and corporate wardrobe. It is probably fair to say that many of those who wear either, do so only because they are either required to do so (in the case of the uniform) or because the first issue was free of charge (in the case of the corporate wardrobe).
There is a school of thought which says that neither dress style lends any credibility to the remnants of the law enforcement role that Customs Officers perform in Australia. Some people believe that both the uniform and the corporate wardrobe are more reminiscent of school uniforms than law enforcement apparel. On the other hand, many of our female officers seem very pleased with the fashion orientation of the corporate wardrobe.
It is interesting to note that just as every other law enforcement agency in Australia has moved to placing rank insignia on the epilettes, Customs has moved to the collar. A criticism of the old uniform was that the rank insignia made more-senior uniformed officers look like 'Portugese Admirals' - with all the gold braid, etc.. On the other hand, the new collar insignia are so small as to be almost completely useless in separating junior and senior officers unless one is standing within a metre of the officer.
On the 'positive' side, one visitor to Australia was heard to comment that there is no problem telling who the Customs Officers are in the Passenger Hall. They are the people wearing those hideous blue shirts!
It seems that this particular battle over uniforms has been won (or lost depending on your point of view), but the war will inevitably go on. If you have any doubts that it will be protracted, then perhaps you might be interested in reading this excerpt from the December 1994 edition of 'The Customs Officer(4th Division)' at page 37....
It was anticipated that the new uniform would
be of a design and colour, original to Customs (Australian), styled in
a manner which would enable conversions to suit varying climatic conditions
without the loss of respect which it demands and embracing all those features
necessary for a law enforcement uniform - individual, and rank identification
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NYPD: 1 officer killed, 8 hurt in van crash
NEW YORK (AP) — A 25-year-old rookie police officer was killed early Sunday and eight other officers were injured when their van crashed into a concrete barrier in the Bronx, police said.
Officer Michael Williams was ejected from the right rear passenger seat window when the van struck the barrier, police said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. The other officers were taken to hospitals with non-life threatening injuries.
Speaking to reporters after visiting the injured officers, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Williams' dream was to be a New York Police Department officer.
"I know we're all in a lot of pain today to lose a good young man who was just starting out," de Blasio said.
The mayor and Police Commissioner William Bratton also visited Williams' stationhouse in the Bronx's 47th Precinct.
"They are in deep mourning, as you can imagine, for a colleague," de Blasio said.
De Blasio said he and Bratton attended Williams' police academy graduation ceremony earlier this year.
Williams' father is a veteran police officer in Carmel, New York, and Williams was an only child, de Blasio said.
"Our hearts go out especially to the Williams family, who lost their child," he said.
The officers were headed to Manhattan on the Bruckner Expressway when the van crashed at about 5 a.m. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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TAROT RELATED DREAMKU with The Sun card in The Haindl Tarot
The symbols rimming the quilt were various versions of the astrology sign for the sun. In the dream I associated this to the Sun card in the Tarot and that it can indicate a sudden death. Rarely, but I have seen it do so. I'm not sure whether this is a precog dream or not. But I am certain the sudden death referenced is also the transformation wrought by my move from New York to California. Now that I'm finally here, it feels very sudden. :-)
Although my computer and scanner are up and running, I don't have an ISP yet. So I'm working at one of the public computers in the library of the retirement community I've moved to. I look forward to sharing from a new deck I was just informed about, a Welsh deck, once I have all my usual resources at hand.
'til next time, keep enjoying The Tarot,
[aka: Patricia Kelly]
****If you wish to copy or use any of my writing, please email me for permission (under "View my complete profile")**** SEE ALSO: Roswila's Dream & Poetry Realm for Tarot poetry and Roswila's Taiga Tarot for taiga (illustrated tanka).****
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For the longest time Judith Gould was churning out one best-seller after the other, the last being 2008 GREEK WINDS OF FURY, which I plan to read then review on this blog. Unless she now uses a pseudonym, it seems like she's just disappeared from the face of the earth. Blame this mostly on the arrival of e-books which have revolutionized the publishing industry but at the same time have put many contracted authors aside. Authors like Michael Prescott and Scott Nicholson have all suffered from the consequences of books going digital but have somehow found a way to stay afloat. Which seems not to be the case with Judith Gould. Now, unless you've been straying from the computer until recently, you must know by now that Judith Gould is really the penname of two guys who, since the release of the mega-hit SINS in 1982, have been going at it incognito until about a decade ago when they finally decided to come out of the closet and announce their true colors, so to speak.
Until next post—Martin


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Natural and Animal Safe!
Our products do not contain the popular self-tan ingredient palm oil. This means that orangutans who are under threat from that part of the cosmetics procurement sector are that little bit safer in their natural habitat. Our products are also not tested on animals—we test on our friends and family instead.
All of our products are formulated using Dihydroxyacetone (DHA). Since the 1960s, this material has been used in self-tan products. It is still considered the most effective, sun-free tanning additive. A common misconception is that DHA is purely, chemically formulated, when actually it is often derived from plant sources such as sugar beets and sugar cane.
Our Gradual Tan is enriched with the natural goodness of goat's milk which makes it perfect for those who suffer from sensitive skin issues. Traditionally used on a number of skin irritations and disorders, goat's milk is also used for beauty and cosmetic purposes to keep skin soft and supple. Our goat's milk is sourced from a quality farm in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, who pride themselves on the quality of their goat's milk, and the treatment and care of their animals.
We have replaced all the bad-for-you preservatives with naturally sourced preservatives such as green tea extract and citric acid—far better for your skin. Our products are totally paraben free!


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Slingshot Yogurt Protein Drink
by Slingshot Foods
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11oz Plastic
Nutritional Info
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Ingredients are not available for this product.
Review: Powerplant
Posted: Mar 18, 2015 at 1:28 PM (Last Updated: Apr 03, 2015 at 11:00 AM)Much like the other flavors of Slingshot, the Powerplant variety features a high protein base of drinkable yogurt and a shot of crunchy ingredients around the drink's cap. This particular flavor blends in ingredients that are typical of a green juice, including pineapple, spinach, ginger, and turmeric. While the color of the liquid is green (and you'll even see what looks like some bits of pulp in the liquid), this definitely is not a product that's heavy on spinach flavor. Instead, the mildly sweet product is pleasant tasting with notes of pineapple and ginger to complement the yogurt. Adding the shot of dry ingredients, which contains toasted oats, chia seeds, almonds and honey, is a must as it adds both texture and another dimension of flavor. The combined product is really quite enjoyable and, thanks to the 18g of protein and 320 calories that it has, something that certainly can satisfy hunger or be a light meal. Visually, we're definitely fans. Thanks to the addition of the shot around the neck, the product has a distinct and engaging appearance. Otherwise, the product has a good for you look to it, which is certainly the right approach for a product of this type. All in all, a very nice addition to the Slingshot lineup.


text: Home > Business From iPhones to printers: Are products designed to be obsolete? Agence France-Presse Posted at Dec 29 2017 07:47 AM | Updated as of Dec 29 2017 07:50 AM Share Save Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pyrolized Lithium-ion accus of laptops, smartphones and accu-powered craftsmen tools are pictured at the German recycling firm Accurec in Krefeld, Germany, November 16, 2017. Wolfgang Rattay, Reuters/FILE PHOTO PARIS - From nylon stockings to smartphones and inkjet printers, the practice known as "planned obsolescence" -- designing products that wear out sooner than necessary -- has inspired controversy and debate for years. CONTROVERSIAL CONCEPT The term "planned obsolescence" dates back from 1932 in the United States during the economic crisis, when developer Bernard London defended legally imposing obsolescence on consumer goods in an effort to stimulate industry and growth. Today, certain manufacturers have been accused of hastening the expiry of their products by programming their end of life or setting up quality defects of some components -- which would cause waste and unrecyclable waste build-up. But some experts argue no scientific evidence proves the existence of such commercial practices. In a report released in June in France, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME) did not make a determination on the existence of planned obsolescence, but rather questioned the notion of "perceived obsolescence". The agency highlighted the "chosen" obsolescence of consumers who "say they are against planned obsolescence but replace phones that are still in working condition without causing them moral issues." And a 2013 study by the University of Bonn in Germany with the Federal Environment Agency on a dozen electrical appliances (TVs, electric kettles, vacuum cleaners) could not prove a strategy of what it called "deliberate vulnerability". CLASSIC EXAMPLES - Some inkjet printers have been criticized for using techniques that limit operations after a certain number of impressions, which forces users to change cartridges before they are empty. On Thursday, French prosecutors launched a probe into Japanese printer maker Epson -- brought by the association Stop Planned Obsolescence (Hop or Halte a l' Obsolescence Programmee) -- for alleged planned obsolescence and deception in its products. - Apple admitted before Christmas that it deliberately slowed down the performance of older iPhones as a way to "prolong the life of their devices." The confession brought on legal proceedings in the United States and Israel, and the filing of a complaint in Paris by Hop. Apple admits to slowing iPhones as batteries age The US tech giant is regularly attacked by consumer groups and environmentalists for products deemed too difficult to disassemble and repair. In 2005, Apple agreed to pay up to $100 million (83 million euros) to settle lawsuits by users of the iPod music player over battery life. - Nylon stockings: to reduce the durability of stockings placed on the market in the 1940s, which were much less fragile than older silk models, US manufacturer DuPont apparently amended the nylon stockings' original formula to generate more sales. - Incandescent bulbs: in 1925, the Phoebus cartel of the world's major light bulb manufacturers was believed to have imposed a lifetime cycle on light bulbs to not exceed 1,000 hours. LEGISLATIVE RESPONSES The European Parliament has asked the European Commission to specifically legislate over planned obsolescence, through the mid-July plenary vote of a non-binding resolution. France is an exception, as it passed landmark legislation in summer 2015 which made the practice illegal and -- in theory -- obliged retailers to say whether replacement parts were available. The law stipulates that a company found to be deliberately shortening the life of its products can be fined up to five percent of its annual sales while executives can face up to two years in jail. The Epson case -- if the initial legal inquiry finds enough evidence for a trial -- could lead to the first prosecution for the crime, which some lawyers have warned will be difficult to prove in court. Apple could also be liable for a fine in line with the value of all of its iPhone sales in France since August 2015. © Agence France-Presse Share Save Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Read More: iPhone printer consumer consumer technology /business/12/27/17/weak-iphone-x-demand-weighs-on-wall-street/business/12/25/17/what-to-do-with-your-money-instead-of-buying-an-iphone-x/business/12/22/17/apple-admits-to-slowing-iphones-as-batteries-age/business/12/29/17/apple-apologizes-for-slowing-iphones-offers-discounted-batteries


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The Legend
Marie Bronsard
Translated by Sonia Alland
5 x 8 inches, 111pp. May 2013
Rs 395.00 (HB)
In this strikingly original memoir, Marie Bronsard reweaves the history of her family—and the legend of her grandmother—leaving no stone unturned and no skeleton in the closet.
Egocentric and domineering, Bronsard's grandmother was once a vibrant and sensual beauty. In Indochina at the end of the Second World War, she thrived in the social life of the French colony, but her young soldier husband sought a quieter existence, finding solace in the companionship of their adolescent daughter, Bronsard's mother. The consequences of this choice reverberate throughout the family. But far from being an airing of grievance or dirty laundry, Bronsard's memoir has the air of catharsis—here, the pain, secrets, and comic moments of Bronsard's family are remembered with gentle humor, understanding, and affection. A wry irony tempers emotion, and it is in these pages that the author at last finds it possible to name the woman of the legend and perhaps bring her grandmother a measure of peace.
Marie Bronsard lives and works in a village in southern France. She has, since 1986, published a combination of narratives and collections of shorter pieces, mostly prose. She is best known for her novel The Hermitage (1986).
Sonia Alland divides her time between New York and southern France, where she lives in the same village as Marie Bronsard. With her anthropologist husband, Alland has collaborated on Crisis and Commitment (1994) and Catalunya: One Nation, Two States (2006). Her translation of Bronsard's The Hermitage appeared in 2001.
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Hacking Health: The Future of Humankind
Hacking Health: The Future of Humankind
The field of health technology is booming like never before, with funding to digital health startups reaching an all-time high in 2018. The use of technology to improve the delivery and consumption of care has the potential to drastically alter doctor-patient interactions, reduce costs, and improve health outcomes. In addition, the scope of big data and analytics to personalize medicine and improve patient experiences present an unprecedented window of opportunity in the healthcare industry, in which spending will balloon to $8.7 trillion by 2020. This panel will explore the interaction of technology and health, and the potential of HealthTech to change the future of medicine.
Jeannette Ickovics Dean of Faculty and Professor of Social Sciences, Yale-National University of Singapore
Jeremy Cao General Manager, BGI-Asia Pacific, BGI Genomics
Julien de Salaberry Founder and CEO, Galen Growth Asia Christopher Hall Head of Health Solutions (APAC), Fitbit
Joseph Wong Managing Partner, AID Health Tech Fund, AID Partners
Lihan Zhou Co-Founder and CEO, MiRXES


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Istria has its first e-bike charging point, and it is located in Poreč, near beach bar Luna at Hotel Valamar Pinia in Špadići.
The project is made a reality by cooperating with the Bosch company which provided for electrical chargers, and the CUBE company specialized for bicycle production.
The idea behind this project is to make Istria an organized e-bike destination with ten planned charging points all over the region. Charging points will be made possible with the help of Valamar Riviera, Maistra and Plava Laguna companies.
E-bike charging point design is by Studio Dota from Žminj, produced by UTE – Uljanik TESU Elektronika from Pula.
Poreč already has a charging point for electric cars, located right at the city center, and a smart bench providing for charging of mobile devices.


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To meet the deficit targets for the year 2012, the government of the autonomous region of the Balearic Islands plans to increases several tax measures.. Among other things, the real estate transfer tax increase.
This tax was previously standard 7% and is to be differentiated in accordance with a replacement value.
Properties up to 300.000 € - here is the tax rate as before, at 7%
Property 300000-500000 € - are taxed at 8%
Property 500000-700000 € - are taxed at 9%
Properties of more than 700,000 € will be taxed at 10%
Since the government has a comfortable majority in parliament, the scheme on 02 April is decided and valid for notarial certifications from 01 May 2012 on.
It should be noted that the percentage of taxes calculated according to the different field levels. An example: Purchase Price 500.000 €, the first 300,000 € 7% fall in taxes on the next € 200,000 are 8% of taxes due.
Not affected by this regulation is the control that comes with the first sale of a new property due. In this case, so no real estate transfer tax but a value added tax (VAT) is levied. The last year was still 8% and was reduced for the year 2012 by 50% to 4%.


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The protection of children in schools and other institutions is a very important and crucial job. The learning will depend upon the amount of safety the child feels the environment he / she is in. The Educational Collaborative for International Schools or ECIS offers a safeguarding certificate that sets the standards for safeguarding training in international schools.
ECIS courses offered by Forum Business Training offers a four-part program that requires the principles and the foundations for strong, child-protection policies and practices, matched by evaluations that will compel effective application of the knowledge imparted in the training. Accessible online, the entire staff of your school will take advantage from experts with proper knowledge so that your institution will have the observance of standards, notwithstanding the accreditation or inspection of the system is followed.
Evaluations are mandatory after each and every section, and a Certificate of Completion is distributed to each successful participant, indicating that applicants have demonstrated a concrete understanding of principles regarding behavior and policy formation in schools and institutions.
These are the four parts of the ECIS Safeguarding Certificate Program:
Part 1: Recruitment
This is the part where the applicants must learn how to comply with recruitment checks, generate a culture of safe recruitment, and ascertain specific solutions for trials faced by international schools.
Part 2: Structures, Reporting Concerns, and Trips
In this level, the applicants must learn how tough structures, both internal and external, are critical in guaranteeing that the safeguarding policies of schools or the institutions are implemented successfully.
Part 3: Governance
This part is about the applicants´ knowledge on how owners, directors, and governing bodies of the schools can fulfill their legal responsibilities and certify efficient oversight and inquiry of child protection within the school.
Part 4: Case Study
The applicants must ork through this case study, which will draw out the learning results from the three previous sections. The supplementing evaluation requires participants to examine and produce not only the case study, but subsidiary documentation as well, in order to use the knowledge to the real-time application.
Key Features
- Total time required: about 6 hours
- 70% pass mark needed on all evaluations
- Certificate of Completion is distributed upon the successful completion of all parts; valid for 3 years
- Content and evaluations intended in partnership with Farrer & Co, an independent law firm with a specialty practice in child safeguarding
- Contains yearly top-up course for applicants who have completed the initial certificate
- 3-year license with unlimited number of applicants from your academic and non-academic staff
- Charge is flat fee of £2,500 for 3 years, for ECIS member schools. Non-member rate is £5,000 per year.
- Modeled on principles of child safeguarding drawn from UK regulations, but universally applicable, with real-world tools for how the school can use these standards to fit their needs.
The UK safeguarding regulations for schools is all encompassing in the world, with a number of international schools depending with the provided standards. The principles highlighted in this course are comprehensively applicable, no matter where the location of the school is.


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May 23rd, 2006 (08:44 pm)
current mood: spark o' hope
current mood: spark o' hope
Well, the Patlabor drawing is over, and I didn't win... No heavy box for me. So I'm probably not going to see the movie, unless I find a painless rental. Maybe, though, the seed is planted and I'll give up and check it out some months down the road...
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Went to see The King on Sunday (yay Gael Garcia Bernal), and saw a poster for An Inconvenient Truth. While to a certain degree I've given up on humankind's ability to take care of themselves and their planet, I haven't completely rolled over. And Al Gore is responsible for what's possibly the first documentary to take on some of these issues head on.
Not sure what kind of release this is going to get - I live just outside of New York City, so I'm sure there will be a showing there; I've also heard of showings in Texas, and that this is going to be a major release. Maybe it's not too late (although looking at the number of SUVs makes me want to throw up my hands and puke at the stupidity).
Maybe there's a showing by you - check the website at http://www.climatecrisis.net/.


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GREENE TWP. � Regardless of what the South Side girls volleyball team does in its final two games � home against Cornell today and at Aliquippa Thursday � the Rams will qualify for the WPIAL playoffs. Win those two matches, and they�ll tie for the section championship.
Either feat is quite remarkable considering where the team started the season.
Seven seniors, all of whom were in the starting rotation, were lost from last year�s Section 4-A champion. Only juniors Kara Bucklen, Brittany Dhayer and Allison Fraiser saw significant varsity time last year.
The young Rams then dropped their first two section games to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and Avonworth.
Since then, South Side has run off eight straight section wins to stand at 8-2. Because they split their season series with both OLSH and Avonworth, if all three finish 10-2, they would share the section title.
�Without sounding ignorant, yes,� said coach Jason Benkowski when asked if he thought this team could contend for a section title at the beginning of the year. �Especially knowing how we lost those two matches earlier in the year ...�
The Rams were one point from beating Avonworth in four games, but the Antelopes came back to win in five. Against OLSH, South Side routed the Chargers, 25-15, in the fourth game only to drop the fifth.
�We just needed to get into a groove and learn to play together,� said Dhayer, an outside hitter. �We all knew each other but we really didn�t know how to talk to each other and communicate when something needed to be done or somebody needed to pick it up. I think now we�re just used to each other.�
�None of us really started at all last season,� added Bucklen. �So we had to get used to it. We definitely had to push ourselves.�
On a more practical level, Benkowski changed the team�s defensive strategy at the midway point of the season. He took some of the defensive responsibility away from Frasier so she could focus more on setting.
With veteran Morgan McCarthy running the offense last year, she had the experience to handle both. By lessening Frasier�s workload, it has helped her relax.
�In our defense, I would focus on getting all the tips and then I would go and set,� said Frasier. �Now, the defense is all on the back row people, and I just go up and set.�
The real turning point of the season came when the Rams hosted Avonworth on Oct. 1. This time, South Side dismantled the Antelopes in three games.
It was a match that Dhayer still can�t help but smile about.
�We played them solid altogether as a team,� she said. �That was a really good night.�
�Us beating Avonworth in three games showed us how good we can be,� said Fraiser. �And I think we can be even better.�
The Rams will need to be if they want to exorcise the one specter hanging over the program: It has never been past the second round of the WPIAL playoffs. Considering the odds they have overcome so far this year, the players aren�t betting against it.
�We don�t want to be cocky,� said Bucklen. �But we feel pretty good about ourselves.�


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How to Delete Internet History in Safari on iPhone iPad
Are you wondering how to delete Internet history in Safari on iPhone, iPad? Read the tutorial below, you will find the best solution.
PhoneClean - Your iPhone Cleaner Software
Download this software now, so that you can make use of it while following the tutorial. It will clean up Safari Internet history on your iPhone or iPad.
Safari is the default browser on iPhone, iPad, and knowing how to clear Internet history in Safari is absolutely essential for all iPhone or iPad users, especially when you share a single iOS device with others and you want to keep something secret, like vacation research or hotel booking record. If you don't delete the data, someone may be able to recover those browsing activities by viewing history in Safari. Keeping this in mind, here's how to delete Internet history in Safari on iPhone, iPad.
Tap on "Settings" > Scroll down and tap on "Safari" > Scroll down again and tap on each "Clear History"
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The instruction above is the normal way to delete Internet history in Safari. However, what PhoneClean could do for you is far more than this. It was endowed with multiple abilities to fulfill a variety of your requirements simultaneously.
1. Remove Internet history, caches, and cookies from Safari on iPhone, iPad, thus set your iPhone, iPad space free. Ps: Operation guide will be shown below
2. Clean the temp files used for apps calculation and data exchanges
3. Wipe out apps downloaded pictures, videos, audios and other caches files
4. Eliminate the temp files in Users Storage Directory that was generated by third party apps
5. Temp files in Users Storage Directory generated by third party apps
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Step 1. Download PhoneClean and run it. Select Internet Clean and connect your iPhone or iPad, and click the scan button.
How to Delete Internet History in Safari on iPhone – Step 1
Step 2. When the scanning is over, double click Safari Junks and Browsing Histories to view and select the items you want to delete, and then back to the result page.
How to Delete Internet History in Safari on iPhone – Step 2
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Piye Chronicles will be an action-packed side-scrolling game for iOS & Android, based on the Chronicles of Piye comics & graphic novel.
Created by Russia-based Wyse Games, this is a stunning new physics-based game for the iPhone and iPad. Just take a look!
Stay Alight was built using the Corona Framework https://www.coronalabs.com/
Check out this indie action/platform game for iOS and Android phones and tablets. It's gameplay comes from classical platformers and is tweaked to fit on multi-touch devices. You'll control Tim, who's been abducted by alien robots, and who has to save Earth from its doom… wearing a towel and nothing else.
Here's a sneak peek at "Battlezone: Airhunt". This game is still in development. It will be an action-packed war game in atmospheric environments. You'll be able to control a super helicopter and must fight and survive while surrounded by enemies.
Vampire Boyfriends is a funny, romantic, supernatural interactive novel full of hot vampires, evil plots, college, romance, explosions, fast cars, fangs, fame, riches, kidnappings, cats, and a destiny that you can use for good… evil… or both.
Choose your path through this rich interactive story where you can slay vampires or become one, find your soulmate or sell your soul, watch a famous heartthrob on TV or marry him, become a crazy cat lady, or leave town altogether and become a famous MMA fighter, best-selling novelist, or totally important Hollywood actress.
Oliver & Spike is a beautiful indie game still in development. This video gives you a quick look at how you'll use dimension jumping as actual game-play on the first world. It's very simple to start with, but the dimensions and their rules will get increasingly complex and involved.
Please keep in mind that all graphics, and specially the user-interface design, are mostly for development purposes in this early development stage. The quality of the graphics is in no way an indication for the final game.
Cradle Song is a collaborative visual novel by Dischan. This interactive story allows players to make choices for the character and change the storyline. Just watch the video, and you'll get the idea…
Vessel is created by the indie developers at Strange Loop Games. Just look at the liquid physics in this game. We can't wait to play it!
The Swapper is a story about treating human beings as objects. It features interesting puzzles and gameplay created around exploration and never-before-seen game mechanics. It's created by Facepalm Games, a tiny, independent game developer based in Helsinki, Finland.
This is another endless runner game, but we loved it because the music and visuals are so enchanting. Just watch the video.