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Aesthetic Lasers Blog
19 Feb
Just a few quotes from Men facing up to nips and needles published on FT.com yesterday.
"Anyone who says looks are not important is a liar," says the 33-year-old account manager, who works for a British marketing agency. "You need to look good – fresh and bright rather than tired and stressed out."
"I perform better if I feel confident so it may have increased the number of contracts we have won"
"There are definitely more business guys coming in and they have very focused demands," says Cap Lesesne, pictured, one of Manhattan's leading cosmetic surgeons. "They are worried about their job futures and their professional longevity." Typical male patients might be in their mid-forties, he adds. "They're fairly successful and they're looking to work into their sixties."
"I was beginning to look kind of tired and wanted to have something that made me feel refreshed but not surgically altered," says a 56-year-old maths and science academic. Prolonging his career was a big motivation: "I would like to work for another 10 years."
In the UK, Steven Clarke, a 25-year-old engineer at Rolls-Royce, has had laser treatment at plastic surgery specialists Harley Medical Group to remove sun scars under his eyes. It seems that younger men, like such as Mr Clarke and Mr Burling are part of a generation that may be more comfortable with the idea of at least the non- invasive treatments.
Mr Clarke says: "If you don't look after yourself it shows that you've got no discipline and that doesn't reflect well on your work life. I've thought that if after lots of late nights working for Rolls- Royce I start to look tired, then I'd probably have an eye lift."
"People are scared about losing their jobs and they want to look their best."
"People might say: 'You look tired.' What that implies is you're not as vigorous or energetic, or not as competitive as you might be."
However, many in the sector are confident that they can weather the storm. "I know we will see a fall-out here even though this is a pretty affluent community," .
She recentlystimulated demand by offering a 10 per cent holiday discount for facial "injectables", such as Botox. "In my practice e surgical volume was down so we had to be creative. When the world gives you lemons you make lemonade.
"We're not recession-proof but we're recession-resistant," says Dr Boxrud, who specialises in facial and ophthalmic aesthetic and reconstructive surgery in Hollywood. "There are some surgeons who only do cosmetic surgery and if they are only doing big, cosmetic procedures, they are going to have to rethink their practice."


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IT'S EARLY 2013, the Essendon drugs story is exploding, and a heavily-hyped interview with the club's fitness boss Dean Robinson is airing.
About 15 minutes in, the phone starts pinging.
Danny Frawley is texting.
Mourners leave a loving trubute for Danny Frawley at St Kilda Football Club. Getty Images
A moment probably initially unnoticed by most viewers was already a weird obsession, and after wading through the always apparent spelling mistakes and jumbled sentences of his texts, it was clear he had found his media material for the next week.
The phone then rings. "What about Darce? It's not about you, Darce! He's gone down the me, me, me, me, me path! Say that again … hahahahahaha!! And what about the mudflap at the back of his head?" Frawley blurts.
VALE DANNY Footy world sheds a tear for St Kilda great
Frawley was transfixed equally with the big issues of Luke Darcy's interviewing technique and the miniature mullet on his head.
Another memory for Danny Frawley at St Kilda. Picture: Getty Images
The following Saturday on Triple M, Frawley smashed Darcy. It forever entrenched the, "Say that again," skits into the football media landscape, and also provided an insight into Frawley's occasional ways of dealing with the pressures of life.
Taking oneself too seriously was a serious crime in his world, and while Darcy actually hadn't, he was to learn through Frawley that in his interview with Robinson he at least left himself open to that accusation.
Frawley was head of the AFL Coaches Association at the time and was highly and obviously stressed. Of all the jobs in football in that controversial period, his was at least equal to the toughest, most volatile and most conflicted.
Danny Frawley interviews Dane Swan in 2015. Picture: Getty Images
Essendon coaches felt they weren't being supported enough by their own association, and the coaches at seemingly every other club felt the Bombers people didn't deserve any form of backing.
The AFL had its own strategies, the media was breaking explosive details on a daily basis, the storyline, the narrative and the clashing motives were all out of control and Frawley was stuck somewhere in the middle of all of it.
Spud brought people together, and even when not feeling great about himself, made people feel better about themselves.
Frawley obviously had nothing to do with whatever went on at Essendon and he had his own strong view of events. He was no doubt pushed by some of the people he represented to do and say things that placed him in many situations he simply could not win.
The entire period was harrowing for him and ultimately led to his exit from the coaches' role.
As his own family, friends and the entire football community absorb the trauma of his death on Monday, it is pertinent to reflect on all of Frawley's actions, but particularly during the Essendon drugs saga.
Many people were beneficiaries of Frawley-arranged support even long after his parting with the coaches association, and on occasions after he had heated conflict with certain individuals.
As always, he placed the needs of others ahead of his own.
Danny Frawley interviews Cyril Rioli during the 2018 Grand Final. Picture: Getty Images
The Frawley I knew was as warm a person I have met. A funny, engaging, loving, often childish and complex person. A man devoted to his family and those closest in his life, a man who cared not how the laugh came, but as long as there was a laugh.
And it is the laugh that matters now.
It's 11.30am on any given Saturday from the mid-2000s to the mid-2010s at either the MCG or now-Marvel Stadium.
He was as funny, Spud, as he was emotionally raw, and people were drawn to him because of that combination. He loved people, wanted to be loved by people, wanted people to laugh, if not with him, then at him.
The Triple M team would assemble to prepare for two hours of talk before that afternoon's game. Other media outlets would be focused on the news events, but all Frawley cared for at this moment was for a thought bubble, or even better, physical audio evidence of someone in media or football doing something they would have been better off not doing.
Frawley would have spent the week plotting for someone's downfall, and he always had an extra stupid look on his face on the days when his material focused on one of James Brayshaw, Garry Lyon, Brian Taylor, Jason Dunstall or myself.
Danny Frawley with Garry Lyon and Gavin Brown in 1994. Picture: Getty Images
Some days, he would have pages of messily handwritten notes in front him, in a usually futile pre-show attempt to line up his words with the regularly too-excited brain that took over when the mics were turned on.
In fact, the days he had notes nearly always ended up badly for him. We'd seize a moment which he'd inevitably present us with and turn the spotlight back on him.
That was Spud's ultimate media genius, his preparedness to be the fall guy. His segments always worked, even when they didn't.
For our style of show, the many days he butchered his delivery and execution made for better radio.
"My brand is flying," he'd say weekly.
Always part of the Triple M family.— Triple M Footy (@triplemfooty) September 9, 2019
We'll miss you, Spud. ❤ pic.twitter.com/L21JyhGoHL
His preparation for each program always involved him being a double agent with at least one of us. Semi-regularly, he would send a text to me that was meant for Brayshaw, or vice versa, and in some group texts, he would often reply to all with words and plans that were clearly not meant for all.
While you would get used to it and even come to expect it on a weekly basis, it was never easy knowing who would be the focus of his carry-on.
In a media sense, Spud was intimidated by his longtime and great mate Lyon, which was hilarious to witness weekly.
One Saturday, though, he plucked the courage to "go" him. The Saturday Herald Sun sports section had a photo of Gaz, who was part of the Demons' group seeking a new coach, strolling through parkland in typically trendy get-up.
Spud went to town. He critiqued the manner in which Wolf's collar was "overlapping the knit", was fascinated with the walking style, the manner in which the mobile phone was being held, commented on the cost of the pants and boots, and the brand of sunglasses.
"The sheriff strides into town, gun ready in the holster," he said. It was childish, ridiculous radio, but I can't ever recall laughing harder. After he had somehow dragged five minutes out of it, Spud finished with something like this: "So tell me Wolf, when you look at that photo sitting there, do you look at it and do you say to yourself, 'Yeah, yeah, when I left the house that day, gee, I nailed that look'?"
Brayshaw was also generally a no-go zone for Spud as he would regularly subtly threaten him with verbal retribution if he focused on him too often or too long.
Which meant I was always there as his break-in-emergency option. He had a lot of emergencies.
Not one program would pass without references to four eyes or Mr Peabody or Wok Fry.
Over 30,000 people have signed a petition for the AFL to make Danny Frawley's 'Golden Fist' an official award that is awarded to the game's best defender on Brownlow night ✊— 7AFL (@7AFL) September 10, 2019
Petition ➡https://t.co/55lYJV9Woo pic.twitter.com/WqDadmOX2c
"News breaker, ha, you couldn't break a plate! ... I'll cave your head in, Warrior ... I'll use your head as a speedball ... Mate, 300 billion Chinese don't give a stuff ... Fair dinkum, you could put a glass eye to sleep."
I suggested to him one day that he should actually bring a glass eye in as a prop, not thinking he would.
The next Saturday, when I was again talking about something that bored him, he started bouncing the glass eye on the bench, slowing each bounce down until it stopped.
The glass eye became an in-house gag, too. Whenever one of our pre-match interview subjects was giving us nothing, the glass eye would, simply for our own in-house amusement, be bounced quietly enough for it not to be broadcast.
Out of nowhere one day, he used and immediately embraced the "Headwobbler" concept. The word is now as much a part of the AFL vernacular as contested possession. I think he twice awarded me Headwobbler Of The Year, a prize which came with him blowing into a little yellow, plastic kids' trumpet and the presentation of a neck brace.
On his drive home from seemingly every game, he would ring for a debrief. "Sorry mate, I had to throw you under the bus again, I had nothing else."
The bond Spud created on that show was unique in media and it forged and strengthened lifelong friendships.
He could create uneasy, awkward, unnecessary, stupid and childish moments, but as a starting point, his intent was in the right place and he always had your back.
His preparedness, even want, to be the fall guy in each segment was unique in an industry which has always taken itself way too seriously, and he would target those he felt were precious.
He'd ring nearly every day, Spud, sometimes two or three times.
If he was on one of his long drives, the chat would often bounce from life itself to a tip in the third at Wodonga ("it'll just win", though it and every other tip I can remember never did), to Anita and Chelsea and Danielle and Keeley, to the latest Headwobbler, to media, and only occasionally footy.
An AFL Life Member and a much-loved figure in football.— AFL (@AFL) September 9, 2019
A tribute to St Kilda icon, Danny Frawley. pic.twitter.com/SKst2u5LbV
But the best and most common chats were the childish ones, where he'd wind himself up into one of his frenzies and just unload with some meaningless drivel that would lead to a conversation that would have embarrassed both of us if other ears had been on it.
He was as funny, Spud, as he was emotionally raw, and people were drawn to him because of that combination. He loved people, wanted to be loved by people, wanted people to laugh if not with him then at him.
Spud brought people together, and even when not feeling great about himself, made people feel better about themselves.
The laugh he so often created will always be around.

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A Walk of Simple Faith
"Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it." In this sermon, true Christian faith as Christ requires is explained. Simple faith is not simply what you believe, what you do, or just a personal thing. Rather it is how well we, by simple faith, grab hold of the promises of God


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Hartlepool hitman Adam Boyd could become a Boston United player in the next 48 hours.
The Hartlepool-born striker is on loan at the Third Division strugglers where he has scored four times in 14 games.
His loan spell ends this week and the Lincolnshire outfit want to keep him at York Street on a permanent basis.
Boyd is well down the pecking order at Victoria Park and has been with the Third Division side for three months - returning to Pool for a brief spell following Marco Gabbiadini's retirement, only to be lambasted for being overweight.
Boyd has bags of talent but has had limited chances under three managers at Pool and has not lived up to his potential.
But he has become a hit with the Boston fans and even though Neil Thompson - the manager who took Boyd to Boston - has been sacked, the club is still keen to hang on to the 21-year-old.
A Boston spokesman said: "We are going to talk to him to see if he will sign up.
"Hopefully it will be sorted this week. He played tremendously well on Saturday.
"But it all depends if he can come to terms."
A stumbling block to any move could be if Pool demand a fee for the talented player, but allowing him to leave for nothing could free up more cash for boss Neale Cooper to add the striker he is desperate for.
Pool's reserves were today facing Irish Eircom League Champions Shelbourne in a friendly at Victoria Park (kick-off 1.30pm).
Cooper aims to use the match to assess his squad players in a tough test against the Champions League qualifiers.


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When God saves His people, He does not leave them in isolation. Rather, He places them into the body of Christ and they are to participate with the other members. The members of the church are not all the same. God has designed the church in such a way that it consists of people from different backgrounds, ages and personalities. As we approach Romans 12:3-13, the theme changes from the believer's personal responsibility to the Lord to their responsibility to the church. In 12:3-8 the focus is on spiritual gifts and in 12:9-13 the focus is on how we treat one another. John Murray summarises 12:3-8 by saying,
"In this section Paul is going to address the differences between believers – differences which God in His sovereign providence and distributions of His grace has caused to exist"[1].
As God's people present their bodies to God as a living sacrifice, this will manifest itself in such a way that it benefits the whole church. If this is going to take place, we need to know that healthy body life occurs when there is: humility of mind (12:3), unity of members (12:4-5) and diversity of gifts (12:6-8).
HUMILITY OF MIND (Romans 12:3)
When it comes to your place and practice in the church, how should you view yourself? Paul makes it clear that you ought not to have a high view of yourself (12:3a). Instead, we ought to measure our abilities against God's gracious provision of giftedness (12:3b). We will never serve effectively in the body of Christ if our starting point is not one of humility.
UNITY OF MEMBERS (Romans 12:4-5)
In addition to having a right understanding of ourselves, we must always have a right understanding of the entire church. Using the human body as an analogy, Paul makes the point that a body will have many parts with different functions, yet it is a single body (12:4). In the same way the church — which consists of many members — is united in Christ (12:5). How does this help with effective body life? Negatively, it would be a disaster if a part from the human body operated independent from the rest, so it would be a disaster if this happens in the church. Positively, when the individual parts of the human body operate in harmony there is healthy function.
DIVERSITY OF GIFTS (Romans 12:6-8)
The third thing to know about healthy body life in the church is the diversity of gifts. Not everyone in the church is the same, and God has made it this way by design. Understanding the diversity of gifts by sovereign allotment, the members of the church are to use what God has given them for the effective operation of the body. In verses 6-8 Paul lists 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit. It is important to note that while you may be gifted in certain areas, don't use that as an excuse to neglect obedience because it is not your "gift". Most of these gifts are in the form of commands for all believers throughout the Scriptures.
The word "prophecy" literally means, "to speak forth". A prophet was one who received direct revelation from God and communicated it. Prophecy involved both foretelling and forth telling and functioned as a foundational aspect to the early church (cf. Eph. 2:20). Prophecy was to be in perfect harmony with God's Word. A contemporary application of this gift would be the importance of faithfully communicating God's Word according to Scripture (cf. 12:6b).
The gift of "service" is practical gift that it broad in its application. It simply means, "to serve" and it is from this word where the term "deacon". The gift of service is not limited to deacons and is seen in a variety of practical ways in the life of a church (helping, meals, setting up, cleaning etc.).
"The one who teaches, in his teaching…" (12:7). The gift of "teaching" refers to the ability to communicate the Word of God in such a way that it is made clear. Pastors and elders ought to have the gift of teaching (cf. Eph. 4:11; 1 Tim. 3:2) however it is not limited to them.
"The one who exhorts, in his exhortation…" (12:8). The word "exhorts" literally means, "to call alongside". This is this ability to skillfully encourage God's people to obey and apply the Scripture. An excellent example of the gift of exhortation was Barnabas (Acts 4:36).
"The one who contributes, in generosity…" (12:8). The gift of giving refers to the ability to provide practical resources to those in need. This is to be done with sincerity and generosity.
"The one who leads, with zeal…" (12:8). The word "leads" is also used in the NT to describe the task of church leaders (1 Tim. 3:4, 5, 12; 5:17). However, this gift is not limited to elders and deacons. This leadership is to be carried out "with zeal" indicating the serious responsibility.
"The one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness" (12:8). This is the gift of sensitively caring for those struggling or suffering. It is to be done in such a way that it is not seen as a mere duty.
What is your giftedness? One of the most effective ways to discover your giftedness is to give yourself wholly to God (Rom. 12:1-2), be humble (Rom. 12:3) and start being faithful in the church (Rom. 12:4-8). The area of your giftedness will soon become clear.
Suggested Study Questions:
- Why is it helpful to have a humble mindset when it comes to the use of our giftedness in the church? How is pride damaging to effective service?
- How does Paul's analogy of the human body (one body many members) provide perspective regarding the operation of a church? Why is it wrong to expect "the faithful few" to do most things in a church?
- Why does God give the church a variety of spiritual gifts?
- Steven J. Cole asks the following question, "What do you complain about in the church?" He then follows it up with the observation, "people tend to complain in their area of giftedness." Discuss the point raised in this observation.
[1] John Murray, Romans, 116


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Friday, June 15, 2012
Friday Ramblings
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Hi Lynn,ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for posting on my Soggy Dog Blog this morning... I didn't realize that my little birdy was featured on Brave Girls newsletter this morning - so thank you so much for letting me know. Ironically it was featured with a message that I NEEDED to hear today! Of course all there messages are super motivating. Congratulations to you for going to BGC... One of these days I hope I am sooo lucky to go! I look forward to hearing about your experience there.... and I will continue to follow your lovely blog!!! :) xo
Good for you Lynn! Have a blast. And then come back and tell us all about it.ReplyDelete
i really needed your bra story this morning. thanks so much for the smile it gave me.ReplyDelete
hope you have a fantastic time at brave girls, it sounds wonderful.
I'm so excited for you, Lynn, and I can't wait to hear all about it!! I hope you have the most wonderful time! (And I sure hear you about the shopping...bras, jeans, and swim suit shopping...torture!)ReplyDelete
AhHaHa! I can so relate! And I can't wait to meet you next week at BGC! <3ReplyDelete
I lost it at Brenna's shower comment. That is so funny! I can only laugh because I have the droops too.ReplyDelete
I read on Chatty Chrone that putting a penny in the water will fix drooping flowers. I've been considering pennies in the bra ever since. I'm pretty sure mine are so long gone by now that I need to use quarters.
And now I have to click and find out about brave girls camp.
So excited to met you next week! Love your blog and I can soooo relate to the bra story! So funny! See you next week!ReplyDelete
Lynn, I love this post. It says "summer" all over. I, too, love summer and I'm not too crazy about school starting in the fall.ReplyDelete
How lucky you are to go to the Brave Girls. I wish you the best of times.
And about bra shopping - we have a wonderful bra shop in town that sells mainly bras from Europe. I LOVE them. They are so well fitting (and you know, I'm not small breasted) and of really good quality. They are a bit on the expensive side, but it's money worth spending. Before that I always waited for our next trip to Germany - no more.
Sounds like you have a wonderful summer planned.. I have to say I really hate bra shopping also. No fun at all.. Have a great time at camp my friend..ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2012 at 9:13 AM
you made me laugh and you made me smile and I hope you have the best time at camp, I have never heard of this and I will go now with th link you gave us, have a super time, don't feel bad about the bra shopping, a few of us know exactly where you're coming from on that one, ha ha, you just put it down on paper, (computer so much better than some of us could) ,, you are so funny!!ReplyDelete
I can so identify with this post- from the bra and the moisturizer standpoint. Some times I get things home and then think later---- what was I thinking!!
I'm excited about your camp experience- do glad you are doing something just for you!!


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Esteban Zimányi is a professor and the director of the Department of Computer & Decision Engineering (CoDE) at ULB. He is also the academic director of the Computer Science program at the Faculty of Applied Sciences. He started his studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Centro América, Costa Rica. He received a B.Sc. (1988) and a doctorate (1992) in computer science from the Faculty of Sciences at the ULB. During 1997, he was a visiting researcher at the Database Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. His current research interests include data warehouses, spatio-temporal databases, geographic information systems, semantic web and web services.
Oscar Romero has an MSc and a PhD in computing from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Currently, he is a tenure-track 1 lecturer at the Barcelona School of Informatics. He is also a member of the MPI research group at the same university, specialized in software engineering, databases and information systems. His research interests are data warehousing, OLAP tools, multidimensional modeling, the semantic web and ontologies. He is the author of articles and papers presented and published in national and international conferences and journals on these subjects.
Nacéra Bennacer is currently a professor at the Computer Science Department of CentraleSupélec and member of Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI Laboratory). She has a PhD in computer science from Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM-Paris) and receives her accreditation to supervise research (HdR) from Paris-sud University. She heads the Data Support and Business Intelligence (DSBI) master's Programme of CentraleSupélec. Her research interests include semantic-based information extraction from Web resources, ontology-based and user-centric information retrieval by covering semi-structured data, Linked Open Data and social networks data.
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Volker Markl is a Full Professor and Chair of the Database Systems and Information Management (DIMA) group at the Technische Universität Berlin (TU-Berlin). Prior to joining TU-Berlin, Dr. Markl lead a research group at FORWISS, the Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-based Systems in Munich, Germany, and was a Research Staff member & Project Leader at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, USA. His research interests include: information as a service, new hardware architectures for information management, information integration, autonomic computing, query processing, query optimization, data warehousing, electronic commerce, and pervasive computing.
Volker has presented over 100 invited talks in numerous industrial settings and at major conferences and research institutions worldwide. He has authored and published more than 50 research papers at world-class scientific venues. Volker regularly serves as member and chair for program committees of major international database conferences. He also is a member of the Board of Trustees of the VLDB Endowment. Volker has 5 patent awards, and he has submitted over 20 invention disclosures to date. Over the course of his career, he has garnered many prestigious awards, including the European Information Society and Technology Prize, an IBM Outstanding Technological Achievement Award, an IBM Shared University Research Grant, an HP Open Innovation Award, and the Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award.
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Attic > Nights in the Mountains of Haiti
by Hugh B. Cave
"It is cursed."
We gazed at her in silence.
"With a loup-garou," she continued, speaking now in a whisper of fear. "Bois Sombre is cursed with a loup-garou, yes! For months we have been hearing wolf sounds at night-howlings that wake us from sleep and fill us with terror. And babies keep disappearing!"
I was an old hand in Haiti by this time, having spent the best part of four years exploring that mysterious Caribbean country. Tales of the loup-garou--the werewolf--were fairly common, I knew. But accounts of vanishing infants were not.
"How many babies have disappeared?" I asked.
She counted on her fingers, whispering the names of the victims as she did so.
"Five?" I said, my own voice reduced to a whisper by shock.
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This special issue of the EURO Journal on Computational Optimization is devoted to Optimization Methods in Telecommunications. It contains a selection of papers presented or related to topics presented at the 12th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference that was held on March 2–4, 2014 in Lisbon, Portugal.
The papers submitted and accepted for inclusion for this special issue are organized as follows.
Grégoire and Hamel (2016) introduce a model for a bi-objective problem arising in the distribution of digital contents. They consider scheduling user demands in the particular context of Video-On-Demand. The two objectives considered are the cost for the provider and the delay experienced by the end user. The authors derived algorithms related to bin-packing algorithms and conducted a worst-case analysis on them.
The paper by Hill and Voß (2016) studies a network design problem combining rings and tree structures with capacity constraints. They present an exact algorithm based on a branch-and-cut procedure. To this aim, they propose several classes of valid inequalities and propose separation procedures for these inequalities.
Le et al. (2016) study a cooperative game based on the generalized minimum spanning tree, that aims at distributing the cost of the tree among players. This is an extension of the minimum spanning tree game, where the graph is partitioned into clusters, and the tree must include exactly one vertex from each cluster. The paper studies properties of this game and describes a constraint generation algorithm to calculate a stable payoff distribution.
Finally, the paper by de Sousa et al. (2016) addresses two variants of the routing and wavelength assignment problem arising in the context of optical transport networks. For each variant, they propose an integer linear programming compact formulation. These formulations are then improved using variable reformulation and variable elimination techniques.
We would like to thank the authors for having submitted top-quality papers and the referees for their excellent reviews.
de Sousa A, Lopes CB, Monteiro P (2016) Compact ILP formulations for the routing and wavelength assignment problem in the design of optical transport networks with regenerators. EURO J Comput Optim 4(2):189–214
Grégoire J-Ch, Hamel AM (2016) Models for video-on-demand scheduling with costs. EURO J Comput Optim 4(2):125–136
Hill A, Voß (2016) Optimal capacitated ring trees. EURO J Comput Optim 4(2):137–166
Le PH, Nguyen T-D, Bektaş T (2016) Generalized minimum spanning tree games. EURO J Comput Optim 4(2):167–188
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Warriors draft Michigan guard Jordan Poole at No. 28 in first round
Name: Jordan Poole
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Position: Shooting guard
Height, weight: 6-5, 195
College: Michigan
Shooting guards on Warriors' roster: Klay Thompson (ACL injury), Jacob Evans III
Analyzing pick: Poole, 20, offers the Warriors much-needed wing depth. A shot-maker who can score from all three levels, he could help fill the void left by Klay Thompson, who is expected to miss most — if not all — of next season with an ACL injury.
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The skinny: Made five or more 3-pointers in five games last season. … Earned 2018-19 All-Big Ten Honorable Mention honors. … Hit a game-winning 3-pointer in the 2018 NCAA Tournament as time expired against Houston to help Michigan advance to the Sweet 16. That shot was nominated for an ESPY Award. … Finished last season second on the Wolverines in scoring (12.8 points per game), more than double his freshman output (6.0 points per game). … Tied for 11th in the Big Ten with two 3-pointers per game, shooting 36.9% from beyond the arc. … Cavaliers head coach John Beilein, who coached Poole at Michigan, called Poole "an overdose of swag. He's got everything you could ask for. He dreams of those (game-winning) shots. He lives for those shots." …. Poole is a proven winner. In three seasons at Milwaukee King High School, his team posted a 61-11 record and the Generals to back-to-back Milwaukee City Basketball Championships. As a senior at La Lumiere School in La Porte, Ind., Poole played alongside McDonald's All-Americans Brian Bowen and Jaren Jackson Jr., on a team that won the Dick's National Championship game. Poole had a 63-15 record in his two seasons at Michigan.
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Once again popular media is causing confusion. The latest news is that eating 5 pieces of fresh fruit and vegetables a day does not reduce the chances of developing cancer.
This is all very well, however, such announcements will lead some people to assume that they only reason to eat fruit and vegetables in the first place is to try to reduce the chances of developing cancer.
Also, the announcement that eating extra fruit and veg does not help to reduce cancer seems to be a false one, as the same experts say that "only around 2.5% of cancers could be averted by increasing intake". Preventing 2.5% of cancers by eating a few pieces of fruit and some vegetables seems a pretty good option really.
It is now 20 years since the WHO (World Health Organization) made the suggestion that we should all strive to eat 5 pieces of fresh fruit or vegetables a day to ward of cancer and other chronic disease. However, the recent research carried out by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in New York, has been unable to prove this theory, leading many people to think that the initial figures were just made up.
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Letters to the editor are expressions of personal views on matters of current public debate and consideration. Newspapers publish letters to the editor as part of a commitment to the community to provide a civil and productive forum for opinions, with the belief that from many ideas the best solutions can emerge to our many shared problems.
As for all of those "vote for him" and "pick her" letters that inundate newspapers' mailboxes, inboxes, and opinion pages in the run-ups to every election: They hardly fit the definition of a true letter to the editor. Instead, they are, often, an attempt by political candidates and their campaigns to take advantage of a newspaper's sense of public responsibility and to monopolize a limited public space (opinion pages) to reinforce a candidate's name recognition while squeezing out competition.
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Released ahead of tomorrow's (April 12) Cannes line-up announcement, the poster is based on a still taken by photographer Georges Pierre, who worked on films by Jacques Rivette, Alain Resnais and Louis Malle amongst others, as well as Godard.
He also founded the Association des Photographes de Films, with the intention of defending the interests of cinema photographers.
Graphic designer Flore Maquin has worked on the poster itself, following her work with Universal Pictures, Paramount Channel, Europacorp, Wild Side and Arte.
Cannes 2018 runs from May 8-19, opening with Asghar Farhadi's Everybody Knows starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem. Ron Howard's Han Solo origin pic Solo: A Star Wars Story has been announced for its world premiere in competition, with Cate Blanchett presiding over the Jury.


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It's official: I'm the proud owner of a sturdy, but terribly outdated pair of wingback chairs!!! I purchased them off Craigslist for, get this, $47 (*I didn't have correct change, so I indirectly talked them down $3). They've been in the garage, where they will be steam cleaned twice. I want to have them recovered, and I've realized that the process might take a little longer than I'd hoped. Recovering furniture is frighteningly expensive. Too bad I don't have the Harry Allen piggy bank to start my wingback-recovering-savings-fund.
Here are my chairs in their current state:
Here are some of the fabrics I'm considering. Don't get your hopes up, people, it's going to be a few months- at least, but a girl can dream!!
From LS Fabrics:
And From Premier Fabrics
Thoughts or opinions? Once they're recovered they will reside in our living room, which is pretty much a blank slate. I'm even repainting the room over the holidays (more on that later). What I really need to do is learn to recover furniture myself, so if anyone out there has this knowledge/skill, please feel free to impart some of it on me!!!


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University of Pennsylvania College of Law
Resident Fellow (twelve months), University of Pennsylvania Center of Study of Financial Institutions and Securities Markets (1972-1973)
J.D. – The Ohio State University College of Law (1971)
B.A. (History) - The Ohio State University (1968)
OSBA Certified Specialist in Administrative Agency Law. One of only ten Ohio attorneys who have achieved OSBA Specialty Certification in Administrative Agency Law.
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Federal Court, Northern District of Ohio
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Impartial Hearing Officer ("IHO") for the Ohio Department of Education ("ODE") for four decades, and presided over 250 Due Process hearings. An IHO's written decisions include findings of fact and conclusions of law. Many of my decisions are available on the ODE's website.
Referee, Teacher Termination Hearings, R.C. 3319.16
Hearing Examiner, Ohio Division of Securities
Hearing Officer, Ohio Division of Liquor Control
Hearing Examiner, Ohio Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensure
Hearing Examiner, Ohio Department of Commerce Medical Marijuana Program
Hearing Officer, Summit County Combined General Health District
Arbitrator, FINRA
Arbitrator, Summit County Common Pleas Courts
Board Member of the OSBA's Administrative Agency Law Certification Board (appointed in 2010 for six-year term; appointed for second term beginning 2017).
Chairman, OSBA's Administrative Law Committee (2012-2014).
Seminar Planner for several of the OSBA's Annual Administrative Law Seminars, including the OSBA's Fifth (2015), Sixth (2016), Seventh (2017) and Eighth (2018) Annual Administrative Law Seminars.
State Level Review Officer ("SLRO") for Ohio Department of Education (2008-2009).
Roster of Neutrals, Ohio State Employment Relations Board (SERB) (2014-2018)
Hearing Officer, Trumbull County Board of Health (2012).
Hearing Officer, Ohio Casino Control Commission
Legislative Counsel to the Ohio General Assembly's House and Senate Committees on Financial Institutions, Legislative Service Commission. (1971-1972)
Superintendent of Ohio Division of Building and Loan Associations. (1974-1975)
Tenured law professor, University of Akron School of Law (1973-1984) (Outstanding Professor of Law Award – 1984) – courses taught included Administrative Law, Law and Medicine Seminar, Securities Law, Corporations, Business Planning.
Adjunct Professor – NEOUCOM College of Medicine – Law and Medicine Seminar
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Friday was marked with much adventure and good times for me. I started the day by cruising out to downtown via a nice relaxing ferrie with a bit of sprinkle. It was beautiful to catch a different glimpse of the Sydney Opera House and Bridge while arriving at the Circular Quay boat dock.
I spent the afternoon checking out the National Museum of Art and discovering some pretty cool art and photography there. I was a little bit disappointed that I couldn't go check out the aboriginal art (main reason why I went) because they were revamping that section. I guess I'll have to come back later to check this out some more.
The highlight of the day was definitely the fantastic bike celebration known as Critical Mass, which is a celebration on the last Friday of every month [during favourable weather conditions] in most (if not all) major cities. Cyclists take to the streets in huge numbers and ride through like full traffic. There had to be at least 400+ cyclists riding on the road and the spirit was lively, friendly, and completely full of love. It lasted for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours approximately. I hate comparing things but I have to say that the spirit at this bike celebration was so much more free than what I experience in Toronto. People came with speakers mounted in their bike panniers or separate trailers, danced, smiled, and also brought kids along for the ride too. IT WAS SOOO GREAT! Whereas in Toronto I really felt like the spirit was very mellow and not so much a big party (people on the road kept asking us what we were doing).
The significance of this month's Sydney Critical Mass is that it marks the last ride of the year (even though they do one in December as well)! Each year they ride across the Sydney Bridge, do a bike lift in the middle, and then ride onward to the end destination. It was FREAKIN' amazing to ride across the bridge without any traffic and with fellow riders (see my other pictures to get an idea of how big it is).
It's also a fantastic reminder to everyone involved (drivers, cyclists, rollerbladers, and walkers) that in all urban centres we need to create lanes that are accessible to cyclists and other alternative modes of transportation. It's not only healthy but it helps keep the amount of pollution that single drivers create commuting to and from work.
I then headed back to Maurice's squat (Lee was thinking of you), ate dived yummies, and then did some tunnels around town (Mark you would have enjoyed those).
Thinking of you all, love, hugs, and great vibes,
– Shane
PS – Thanks for all the great vibes via e-mail everyone has sent me they've been great.
PSPS – Wheats I'm flattered that you read my blog (one of millions you know of but choose to read)


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Sean is an Irish/uk trained Silversmith/Goldsmith designer craftsperson living and working in Perth for over 30 years. Sean is third in line of silversmiths which includes his grandfather, and Sean's Father John Carroll.
Sean studied in the Irish National school of art in Dublin His studies included design, hand raising of silver, hand chasing(Repousse).While gaining practical experience with his father. He continued his studies in "Sir John Roger Cass school of art London "and after returned to Dublin and set up his own work shops.
In 1988 Sean his wife Mary and their three sons migrated to Perth and in 1991 became Australian citizens.
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Whenever users are asked about what they want from a bone anchored hearing system, they talk about three things: understanding speech, sound quality and design. Ponto sound processors are designed to offer all of these benefits.
Read about user experiences with Ponto for single-sided deafness or conductive/mixed hearing loss below.
Ross, a 43-year-old pastor, felt he lost part of his personality after suffering a sudden hearing loss. Now that he has his Ponto Plus, he feels back to normal again.
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Nancy was diagnosed with otosclerosis at age 17 and lost hearing in her left ear. Nancy tried a number of solutions before finding success with the Ponto Plus.
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A lively 9-year-old with single-sided deafness who relies on his new bone anchored hearing system to keep up in school. talk to friends and beat his brother in computer games.
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A 19-year-old college student who no longer has to position himself strategically in order to hear people clearly.
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Rebecca was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma in August 2013. After several surgeries, setbacks and a long insurance battle, she was fitted with a Ponto Plus in early 2015.
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Jillian Shelton and her family adopted their daughter Hazel when she was 18 months old. Wanting their daughter who was born with bilateral microtia and sensorineural hearing loss resulting in a moderate mixed hearing loss to have the best hearing care possible, they began exploring bone anchored hearing systems as a possible solution.
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Kris, a 29-year-old new mum with single-sided deafness, knows that even the tiniest and sweetest sounds are too precious to miss.
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Bethany has single-sided deafness and uses a Ponto Plus. Hear her story of how she's found that the Ponto system fills a void that hearing loss created.
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An eight-year-old boy with SSD caused by meningitis — who now has more energy at the end of the day thanks to Ponto Pro.
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A 10-year-old boy with bilateral microtia and atresia who now finds it easier to pay attention in class because of his Ponto Plus sound processors.
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Fourteen-year-old Andrew was struggling to keep up with conversations and in school, but then he was helped by two Ponto sound processors.
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With his Ponto Plus sound processor, 18-year-old James can now enjoy the wide variety of sounds in his life — from listening to teachers at college to gaming with friends on his PlayStation.
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An 18-year-old student born with atresia who thinks that choosing Ponto Plus was the best decision she ever made.
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A two-time survivor of cholesteatoma, and a Ponto Plus and Oticon Medical Streamer user.
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A beautiful, bright 12-year-old from Russia who was born with bilateral microtia and atresia.
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A 45-year-old analyst programmer from South Africa who spent most of her life battling hearing loss, until she discovered Ponto.
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A 41-year-old oncology sales rep with unilateral conductive hearing loss—whose new Ponto Pro means he no longer has to angle for the best seat at the meeting to keep up with the conversation.
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A seven-year-old boy with bilateral conductive hearing loss. Watch how Winslow and his mum talk about their considerations and feelings during the process of getting an implant.
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5 year old Rosalee was born with unilateral microtia and atresia on her left side. Thanks to Ponto 3 she is getting the best quality of sound as she begins kindergarten.
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Fabian is 12 months old and was born with a closed auditory canal. As the Ponto from Oticon Medical achieves excellent results in terms of bone conduction for babies, Fabian was fitted with a Ponto 3 on a softband at the age of eight months.
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NEW YORK (WFAN) — On Friday and Saturday at Santa Anita Park in Southern California, the sport of thoroughbred racing will be showcased at the 2016 Breeders' Cup World Championships.
Purses totaling $28 million will be up for grabs in 13 world-class races, including the crown jewel of them all, the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday evening.
It will be a day for a champion to be crowned and for money to be won.
On the Breeders' Cup Podcast, WFAN's Marc Malusis and Brian Monzo, along with the Daily Racing Form's Kenny Peck, provide insight into the two days of the championship, analyze each race and offer their picks.
The guys are also joined by TVG's Candice Hare, who provides her unique insight into the string of European horses that will be looking for glory on Friday and Saturday.
It's two of the best days of thoroughbred racing every year! It's the Inaugural Breeders' Cup Podcast! Listen below.


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|Southeast Asia's economic growth will be moderate this year
Given the large export-orientated manufacturing base of most Asian economies, the recent resurgence in global trade has largely benefitted the region in 2017.
With firms ramping up production and investment to accommodate rising external demand, import growth has nonetheless accelerated over the last 12 months, making net exports' contribution to growth insignificant. Instead, exports' most important contribution to growth is their indirect impact on domestic demand through spill-over on investment and consumption.
At the aggregate level, most open economies in Asia have been experiencing an increase in private sector investment, as a result of a pick-up in external demand. For example, South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand all registered a notable acceleration in investment expenditure in 2017.
In Malaysia, as well as Indonesia, the pick-up in investment is driven by the recovery in commodity prices. In Indonesia, in particular, domestic direct investment in the primary sector increased by nearly 62 per cent in nominal IDR terms in the first three quarters of 2017.
Looking ahead, fundamentals remain encouraging for continued private sector investment and growth in Asia. Firstly, world trade growth is expected to remain robust, rising by 5.2 per cent in 2018, down from 6.2 per cent in 2017.
|With all factors considered, the current outlook still paints a relatively promising picture for the region this year.
Secondly, business sentiment is high and firms are upbeat about the opportunities provided by China's One Belt One Road initiative and the resurrected Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTTP), and finally, owing to a relatively muted outlook for inflation and FX, interest rates are unlikely to rise significantly over the next 12 months.
Sian Fenner, ICAEW economic advisor, said: "Buoyed by the recent cyclical upturn in world trade, most Asian economies registered faster-than-expected growth in 2017. We expect the same trends to persist this year, though growth is expected to moderate. As a whole, ASEAN economies are still set to experience GDP growth exceeding that of 2012-2016."
Mark Billington, ICAEW regional director, South-East Asia, said: "With all factors considered, the current outlook still paints a relatively promising picture for the region this year. We maintain our forecast of a moderate growth for the region at 5 per cent, as the momentum from 2017 will extend into this year and growth will be underpinned by the same drivers that have made last year such a success."
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How to Create a Classy Cellar Space
Before we start talking in depths about the versatility of a cellar room, we need to ensure that we all understand the structural importance of the cellar. If you plan on renovating a cellar already in existence, there shouldn't be too much of a problem. But, if you are excavating the floor and so on, you must take expert structural advice on how this affects the rest of the building. You will also need planning permission and the final project signed off to ensure that it meets all the current building requirements.
How Can You Utilise Your Cellar Space?
That said, in many homes, the cellar is underutilised. Usually the place where only spiders linger, it is rarely transformed into anything more than a place to dry the washing. Laundry aside, with a few changes here and there, the cellar can become a fantastic space.
But how can you use it? We took a look at some of the best cellar conversions we have seen, from the very elaborate to storage rooms with a difference.
1) Create a wine cellar
Let's start with the obvious – a wine cellar. A growing trend in many homes, the natural coolness and dimmer light of the cellar is perfect for storing wine. It allows the flavours to develop whilst keeping it in tip-top condition until you pop the cork.
Take no more than a cursory glance at photo-rich social media sites and you will see loads of ideas for creating wine cellars, large and small.
Better still there are many manufacturers and retailers creating 'off-the-shelf' wine racking as well as those that offer bespoke solutions.
Many of these wine cellars boast an industrial style, and for many cellars with internal staircases, there is a need to ensure that the stairs are safe to use. Keep the industrial feel by not overly refining the brickwork and adding a balustrade that is heavy iron in looks.
2) Design a gym
Depending on the size of the basement and your budget, you may want to consider using the space as a home gym.
Your cellar is perfect for a gym because of its coolness! This means less overheating. Modern gyms are often filled with glass and mirrors, so why not bring this feature into your own home? If you have an open staircase, frameless glass balustrades combined with wall to wall mirrors could create the effect of a larger, lighter space.
We have come across some fantastic ideas but surely, when it comes to keeping fit in the comfort of your own cellar, one of the most elaborate ideas we have seen is a home pool. You don't need acres of space – just the depth – and with a clever piece of kit similar to a 'wave machine', you can create your own endless pool in the basement.
3) Entertainment room
The cellar is the perfect space for entertaining. With the right damp proofing, along with fantastic lighting options, the cellar can become a space that is perfect for entertaining family and friends. This is a worthwhile consideration if you regularly hold parties and have people over for dinner.
It's also a great place to set up a 'chill out' room, especially for teenagers. If you can get the wiring done, you can set up a number of game consoles and give your teenager somewhere to escape with their friends without getting in your way.
4) Revamp and Renovate Your Cellar
We think of the cellar as a blank room, but do you know what the cellar was originally used for? In some homes, it was nothing more than an excavated room that could be used for storage. Usually this was in the absence of a garage or outside space.
But in some homes, the cellar was the original kitchen. It was the 'below stairs' of the stately home where the master and mistress of the house rarely ventured. As society and attitudes changed, the kitchen became an integral feature of the home and thus the original kitchen cellar was left.
However, you may find that in your cellar there are some stunning features. With an architect's help, you can transform the cellar back to what it once was. Some homeowners have renovated and restored, using the cellar once again as the primary kitchen.
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1.My name. The amount of times I have introduced myself to a Canadian as Dan and someone has not understood is actually amazing. In fact I met some guys in a bar in my first week here and until corrected they thought my name was Donald. Canadians or perhaps more specifically Torontonians use a completely different vowel sound for my name and nowadays I end up putting on an embarrassingly bad Canadian accent so that people can understand. In Starbucks on more than one occasion I have adopted the pseudonym 'Keith' to make things easier.
2.No drinks past 2am. Nowadays I am not the most avid partier, that wore off a while ago near the end of first year but it is still strange that nights end so much earlier here. One solution, just start earlier!
3.The cold. Luckily we have got really lucky with the weather so far. By December it is usually always under 0°C but it was relatively mild. January and February are the coldest months but the other week it was 15°C which is really warm for February and it has been tolerable with a few exceptions. However as I am writing this post it is -20°C outside, so yeah, it doesn't look like we are going to completely get away with it. I am heading to Quebec tomorrow skiing which is further north so that is going to be brutal but it is all part of the full Canadian experience!
4.The provincial tax. I'm sorry Canada but no, this is just confusing and makes zero sense to me. In stores the prices displayed don't include provincial tax which is like 13% which can get annoying but I am of course familiar with this now.
5.Work load. University of Toronto is a great university and I enjoy my modules but the workload, especially around finals time, can be pretty overwhelming. Last semester it took me close to the brink and being 50% of my degree I must admit it did get very stressful at times but I made it! Luckily for me I only have to do 4 modules each semester but many of the other exchange students have to take 5. I honestly think that if I did 5 I would have serious trouble balancing studying with my social life so I was definitely lucky in that respect.


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A specialist insurance provider says there is substantial mis-buying of insurance products by buy to let investors.
A survey of 500 landlords by Simple Landlords Insurance found that a quarter mistakenly insured their properties with a standard home buildings and contents policy.
Landlords with single properties were most likely to purchase the wrong type of insurance, with 28 per cent buying a standard home insurance policy.
A further 3.5 per cent said they didn't have insurance and four per cent weren't sure if they had insurance or not, while 41 per cent reported buying specialist cover.
The remaining quarter of landlords could reduce their insurance spend by avoiding duplicate cover as 25 per cent said they bought both specialist landlord and standard homeowners cover, suggesting they didn't understand that landlord insurance also covers the risks to buildings common to both owner-occupied and rented properties.
Buy to let investors didn't shop around much, either.
Three-in-five landlords said they renewed their policy automatically because they were happy with the service or quote they had from their previous provider or because they forgot to look around.
Just 20 per cent of landlords who shopped around at renewal saved money by changing insurer. Others ended up sticking with their insurer because the potential savings weren't enough to persuade them to change providers.
"High quality insurance, at the right level for your personal risk can help free landlords to diversify their strategies and think differently about how, when and where they invest" says a spokesman for Simple Landlords Insurance.
"Whatever the reason, landlords - especially those with growing portfolios - are put off by the complication of moving their insurance. But it's always worth shopping around to get the right cover at the best price, and the burden of administration is usually taken on by the insurer" he adds.
"Even if you're not swapping, you should never accept an unjustified hike in price. Unless something has changed significantly at your property or you've had a major claim, year on year you shouldn't be seeing your premium go up by more than about five per cent."