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It makes no sense to set up a sovereign wealth fund to make future generations of Australians wealthier at the expense of the present generation. Even without the mining boom, it is highly likely that future generations would be wealthier than the present one.
But cutting back on public investment today to create a giant nest egg for a "rainy day" 30 years from now will only damage the nation's growth potential. It is much better to make both current and future generations wealthier by continuous public and private investment.
Once the budget is in surplus, the calls to set up a sovereign wealth fund are likely to intensify. Proponents argue that this would stop the proceeds of the latest resources boom being "frittered away". The basic idea is to use annual surpluses to buy and sell financial assets and lock away the accumulating balances for decades.
A common suggestion is draw on the fund when the mining boom collapses. Although the Gillard government does not propose setting up its own sovereign wealth fund, it supports the existing version, the Future Fund. This can't be touched until after 2020, when its sole role will be provide a different way of funding pensions for a dwindling band of public servants in superannuation schemes that were shut down years ago.
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He argues that one effective way to do this is to spend more on education, which he says "can yield a higher return than even good private investments". Evans sees no point in a future government having ample funds to pay the pensions of former public servants but a shortage of funds to pay for age pensions or other high priority spending.
Despite the government actuary's conclusion that there was no difficulty in relying on future budget revenue to pay for the shrinking cost of public service pensions after 2020, the former Coalition treasurer,
Apart from paying for contributions to their own superannuation, present day taxpayers have to fund the public service contributions to the new accumulation schemes on top of the payments they've made into the Future Fund. The money in this fund will do almost nothing to boost productivity, yet it could do a lot if it were not locked away to deal with a non-problem after 2020.
The Gillard government is right not to start a new sovereign wealth fund. Instead, it should divert the income and capital from the Future Fund to measures to improve productivity.
The government could park future budget surpluses in short term funds to smooth out capital spending in higher education and health, as it did before the global financial crisis. Often, however, the most productive spending in education or health is not on physical infrastructure. Labour intensive remedial reading and mental health programs can do more than a lavish new "great hall" for graduation ceremonies or a fancy hospital foyer.
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Nor can private capital supply all the required investment in areas that Evans highlights, such as education and research and development. Putting a much bigger effort into these activities across a wide range of disciplines should help create a diversified industrial base that is less dependent on mining. In contrast, diverting billion of dollars into funding tax concessions for additional contributions to superannuation, or a new sovereign wealth fund, will do little to enhance productivity. Treasury estimates that the planned increase in compulsory super contributions from 9 per cent of salaries to 12 per cent will generate a pathetic net increase in national savings of 0.4 per cent by 2035, well below the growth of bank deposits last year without any tax concessions.
Gillard indicated on Wednesday that she will spend more to help the unemployed become "job ready". This is welcome, even if it increases output rather than productivity. But far reaching budget cuts would free up funds to improve education, scientific research, transport infrastructure and the tax system. The projected $38 billion cost of the tax concessions for superannuation in 2013-14 presents the best opportunity to cut budget subsidies for middle and upper class welfare. But there is plenty of scope for other cuts to the overall $140 billion in total projected tax expenditures in 2013-14.
Full cost recovery of public spending on irrigation, endorsed by state and federal governments since 1994, would save $6 billion on licence buy-backs and engineering works. Cutting subsidies to fossil fuels could save up to $10 billion a year and cut emissions. The ill-managed and profligate Defence Department should no longer be exempt from the overall cap on spending. Junking the proposed local construction of 12 giant submarines to a unique Australian design would save $40 billion and let 12 proven, high performance German subs be imported for $5 billion. A big slice of the savings could go to one of the nation's best defence assets — a well educated population capable of maintaining a technological edge in the region. None should go to a sovereign wealth fund.
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Clinical Evaluation of Metal Panel Allergens: Mercury, Aluminum and Palladium Dose Response Study
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|Contact Dermatitis
|Biological: Mercury, Aluminum, Palladium
|Phase 2
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|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
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|Clinical Evaluation of Metal Panel Allergens: Mercury, Aluminum and Palladium Dose Response Study
- Percentage of Participants who exhibit Positive Responses to each Allergen Concentration [ Time Frame: 3-21 days following application ]Subjects will be patch tested with one experimental T.R.U.E. Test allergen panel containing ascending doses of either mercury, aluminum or palladium and a negative control and a second panel containing the marketed reference allergen. The panels will be worn for approximately 48 hours. Skin reactions will be assessed at 3, 4 and 21 days following application. A response is considered positive if it is graded 1+ (erythema, infiltration, discrete papules), 2+ (erythema, papules, infiltration, discrete vesicles) or 3+ (coalescing vesicles, bullous eruption) during at least one post removal visit.
- Percentage of Participants who exhibit Irritation (tape reaction), Itching and/or Burning Resulting from Application of the Investigational and Reference Allergen Panels [ Time Frame: Day 2: 48 hours after application ]
Tape irritation is graded on a 4 point scale: None (no tape irritation), Weak (faint to definite pink), Moderate (moderate erythema, definite redness) and Strong (severe erythema, very intense redness). Percentage of response will include weak, moderate and strong reactions.
Itching and Burning are graded on a 4 point scale: None (no discomfort), Weak (minimal discomfort), Moderate (definite discomfort) and Strong (significantly bothersome, possible interference with sleep or daily activity). Percentage of response will include weak, moderate and strong responses.
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|November 2013
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|March 2015
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|March 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: Mercury, Aluminum or Palladium Subjects
Subjects will be patch tested with ascending doses of mercury, aluminum or palladium and a negative control and a second panel containing the marketed reference allergen. The panels will be worn for approximately 48 hours. Skin reactions will be assessed at 3, 4 and 21 days following application.
Biological: Mercury, Aluminum, Palladium
T.R.U.E. Test metal allergen panels containing ascending doses of mercury, aluminum or palladium
Other Name: T.R.U.E. Test Mercury, Aluminum or Palladium Allergen Panel
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|15 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
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Inclusion Criteria:
1.15 years of age or older.
2. History of contact dermatitis.
3. Positive patch results to 1) mercury (elemental), 2) aluminum (aluminum chloride hexahydrate, aluminum hydroxide and/or aluminum lactate) or 3) palladium (sodium tetrachloropalladate and/or palladium chloride) within the past 10 years.
4. Male or non-pregnant non-lactating female. Female subjects must state, at visit one that they are not pregnant, not lactating nor are they intending to become pregnant for the course of the study.
5. Has understood and signed the approved Informed Consent/Assent Form, which is consistent with all institutional, local and national regulations. Assent Form for all minor subjects (ages 15-17) must be signed by the guardian/parent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Breastfeeding or pregnant or intending to become pregnant for the course of the study.
- Topical treatment with corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive agents on or near the test area during the 7 days prior to inclusion in this study.
- Systemic treatment with corticosteroids (equivalent to > 10 mg prednisone) or other immunosuppressive agents during the 7 days prior to inclusion in this study. Inhaled treatments are permitted.
- Treatment with ultraviolet (UV) light (including tanning) during the 3 weeks prior to inclusion in this study.
- Acute dermatitis outbreak or dermatitis on or near the test area on the back.
- Inability to comply with patch test study requirements including multiple return visits and activity restrictions (e.g., protecting test panels from excess moisture due to showering or vigorous activity).
- Participation in a clinical trial of an investigational drug, treatment or device other than T.R.U.E. TEST during this study or 3 weeks prior to inclusion in this study.
- An opinion of the Investigator that deems the potential subject to be non-compliant, unable to return for study visits or complete the study as detailed in the protocol.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02028208
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|Contact: Magnus Bruze, MD
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|Contact: Marlene Isaksson, MD
|Contact: Magnus Bruze, MD
|Principal Investigator: Marlene Isaksson, MD
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|Marlene Isaksson, MD
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|September 22, 2014
Keywords provided by Allerderm:
Patch Test
Allergy Testing
Contact Dermatitis
Mercury, Aluminum or Palladium skin allergy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Dermatitis, Contact
Skin Diseases
Skin Diseases, Eczematous
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Nexus S 4G Hands-on
The Nexus S 4G for Sprint joins the black and yellow ranks, bringing with it the unadulterated "with Google" experience, thanks to its stock Android 2.3 Gingerbread software.
At first look nothing is setting it apart from the Nexus S - same slightly curved shape, light weight, thin plastic profile, and the 4" Super AMOLED Contour display with 480x800 pixels. The default snappy 1GHz Hummingbird chipset is purring inside the handset, and that same 5MP camera on the back winks at us with the LED flash by its side.
It's enough to glimpse at the familiar Android wallpaper, though, and over there at the notification bar of the stock UI you immediately recognize something that sets this handset apart from the original. It's the magical 4G symbol, meaning that the signal it is catching comes not from the EV-DO rev.A equipment in Sprint's towers, but rather from the Clearwire's WiMAX network. That's right, this is phone for the Android purists with a Sprint contract, who will be able to take advantage of all the enhancements Gingerbread brings, and at fast 4G speeds to boot.
Not only that, but for the first time in the history of the universe, you will have Google Voice so tightly integrated into a handset, that you won't even have to port your Sprint digits to use it:
"Sprint Nexus S customers also will be able to easily use their current Sprint wireless phone number as their Google Voice number without having to port their number, avoiding porting charges and potential service disruptions. Google Voice makes it easy for people to manage and access most of their voice-based communication. It lets users manage up to six different phones through one number with intelligent call routing and advanced features like call screening, blocking and recording...
Now Sprint subscribers can use their Sprint number across their office, home and wireless phones, and personalize settings so calls from friends ring their wireless device and home phone, while calls from the boss only ring at the office. Google Voice users can receive transcribed voicemails and read or listen to them online."
If that's not enough for you to like the Nexus S 4G, we'd say you are spoiled from all the other excellent handsets that are invading the stage left and right today at the CTIA show, and you will be totally forgiven.
19 Comments
1. shynepo (Posts: 39; Member since: 21 May 2010)
Man sprint is on a roll, but I hope they put any bloat or any of that sprint id crap on here. Nice to see cdma get a "pure" google experience.
2. Gustav091 (unregistered)
It would be really cool if sprint gat the iphone 5, since competitionm just gat a little tighter
3. mark1 (unregistered)
there's only 2 things i dont like about the Nexus S, no fm radio and no expandable memory
11. steve jobs (unregistered)
You should get the Samsung Epic 4G which has microSD and has FM Radio. Or maybe get the HTC EVO 3D which will have Dull core processor. I wish Windows phone 7 will have 4G and Front Face Camera soon!
16. corps1089 (Posts: 492; Member since: 20 Jan 2010)
I cant wait for that!
"I wish Windows phone 7 will have 4G and Front Face Camera soon!"
15. corps1089 (Posts: 492; Member since: 20 Jan 2010)
Yeah, but you have to admit it would be over the top with a dual core processor and QVGA resolution!
4. terry (unregistered)
I agree wit mark1
5. boris (unregistered)
HTC Evo3d or the Nexus S. Tell me what you think and why
6. skymitch89 (Posts: 1363; Member since: 05 Nov 2010)
I have Sprint and just set up a Google Voice account on my HTC Hero yesterday. I had the choice of using my current phone number; the one I have through Sprint; porting my number over to Google, or getting my own number for Google Voice; of which there were none from my state.
7. agentoj (Posts: 105; Member since: 29 Oct 2009)
Evo 3d. Faster processor expandable memory 3d qhd display. Only downside is that there is not kickstand which.is stupid
8. belovedson (Posts: 1052; Member since: 30 Nov 2010)
evo 3d will be a battery eating monster
13. heezy (unregistered)
its gonna have the best battery there is out there for a smartphone 1700mah and the screen is different to perserve the battery life as well its gonna b a beast
9. tuminatr (Posts: 861; Member since: 23 Feb 2009)
i am excited about this phone, however my next phone will be a dual core maybe the Atrix for sprint. good experience device is a big plus but this is one year old hardware I just cant do it
10. tuminatr (Posts: 861; Member since: 23 Feb 2009)
damn spell check that's Google not good
14. TURBOGSX95 (unregistered)
The EVO 3D is a perfect second edition in my eyes, the EVO is still one of the best selling phones and when this comes out its gonna be a frenzy, dual core, 3D screen and video capture, expandable memory, and, and, you can get it on sprint, with 4G, and we all know sprint is the most affordable carrier...thats a huge bang for the buck. oh and the Nexus seems kinda dull in comparison, just sayin.
17. snowgator (Posts: 3604; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
Maybe it is a little old or dull, but if it is the truly droid experience with no overlays from HTC or Sprint, it will have a nice audience. I am excited to give this one a try- never played with a Droid that is purely Droid.
18. mo (unregistered)
God bless sprint I was with sprint since they opened up, they really come out foward keeping there customers happy,but one thing on my mind and help sprint get more customers is trying hard for the if it is possible and we all know it is, is they get the Iphone 5 it will be the hottest thing sprint will ever do I hope they would go for the advantage and they will see how many people will switch services go sprint and do do do the right thing love sprint
19. wackadroid (unregistered)
I really cannot make up my mind about this, I want the Nexus S 4g but like stated previously it is one year old hardware. However, I havent read a single review that says its slow, its actually the opposite, the reviews say its quick and snappy. PLUS, you get all the google updates early. Nexus S owners already have Video Gtalk, it will take FOREVER for HTC and Sprint to send out that update for the EVOs. MAYBE Evo 3d will launch with that functionality but it wont get the Ice Cream update right away. Its such a tough decision, go for beastly hardware or quicker updates. Any opinions on this??
20. Lady (unregistered)
I have the HTC EVO and I love it! I just ordered the nexus s. And i have to admit i am excited to get my hands on it! There is so much talk about which phone is better, but i believe it just depends on ones individual preference. I have had the EVO since it came out and its a great phone but it has its down falls. Personally I'm ready for a change.


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Quite Possibly the Most Disturbing Kid's Song You'll Ever Hear [VIDEO]
As a parent, I have sat through my fair share of children's songs. But none of them went anything like this.
"Where Will I Go When I'm Dead and Gone?" is a song by Peter Alsop, a musician who, according to the biography on his website, holds a Ph.D. in educational psychology, has released 22 albums and 7 DVD's, and has won numerous awards from Parent's Choice and the Association for Independent Music.
Along with the many songs he's recorded specifically for children, Alsop also writes songs for adults that are geared to help them address sensitive issues with their kids such as sexuality, addiction, and coping with loss. Examples include, 1997's "Gotta Lot of Livin' to Do" which is supposed to provide inspiration on having friends with AIDS and includes lyrics such as:
Could I get AIDS?
That's hard to do
But some kids have it
Yes, that's true
Where's the AIDS?
It's in his blood
What if he bleeds?
We patch him up
'Cause AIDS won't let his blood cells fight
So I shouldn't touch his blood?
You've got that right!!
There's also his 1975 song, "Stuck on You" that deals with the dangers of being addicted to inhalants and includes a verse that says:
You got hooked on model planes
But that was just the start
Then plastic cars and boats and trains
Replaced me in your heart
I gave you my last Duco tube
The kind that overflows|
But you wouldn't save a 'sniff' for me
Y'just jammed it in your nose!
Then there's 1987's "Where Will I Go When I'm Dead and Gone?". A song (and video) featuring kids singing lines like:
Hey, maybe you could dress me up
And keep me around
Sit me in your kitchen chair
Then if you got lonely
And you needed someone,
I'd be right there!
Truth be told, when I first watched the video I found it a bit on the disturbing side. But as I've written this blog and shared lyrics from other songs, I see what Alsop is doing. He's helping parents find a creative way to deal with issues that are difficult to discuss. However, it doesn't make this video any less creepy.
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CNU Charter Award latest accolade for LEED-ND project
Praise continues to pour in for the Mariposa LEED for Neighborhood Development project as the construction process reaches the halfway point. The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) awarded an honorable mention to the Denver, Colorado development during this year's Charter Awards selection process. Noting the community-focused bike-sharing program and the increase in both housing density and green spaces, CNU commended the Denver Housing Authority, the developer, and Mithun, the firm that created the master plan, for the development.
As Mariposa transforms from the former South Lincoln public housing project into an economically thriving and easily accessible mixed-use development, observers continue to laud the project for its equitable and health-conscious design elements. The LEED-ND rating system focuses on improving the physical and mental heath of residents through better access to open spaces and recreational facilities in addition to neighborhood design that facilitates an active lifestyle. With "B-Cycle" bikes and free light rail passes available, residents should expect a decrease in pollution from motor vehicles and an increase in pedestrian and bicycle activity. Consultants at Mithun used a Healthy Development Measurement Tool (HDMT) to analyze how certain facilities would benefit the community. As a result, wellness classes, vegetable gardens and green spaces were included in the community plan to complement and encourage healthy lifestyle changes such as walking and biking as primary modes of transportation and maintaining a healthy diet.
CNU is not the first organization to recognize the project's efforts to bridge socio-economic and public health gaps through design. Earlier this year Mariposa gained media attention when The New York Times highlighted the potential for the land use planning and design elements found in Mariposa to successfully battle health conditions such as obesity. In addition to the profile by The New York Times, the Environmental Protection Agency honored Mariposa in 2012, selecting it for the National Award for Smart Growth Achievement in Equitable Development.
The success of the Mariposa development not only demonstrates the potential for LEED for Neighborhood Development projects to improve inhabitants' wellness and transportation opportunities, but it also showcases the triumphs of the Affordable Green Neighborhoods Grant Program. As a 2012 grant recipient, Mariposa received funding from the U.S. Green Building Council and the Bank of America Foundation to pursue LEED-ND certification and to support the sustainable development efforts on site. This latest distinction from the Congress for the New Urbanism affirms and applauds Mariposa's union of equitable development and sustainable design.
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Spanish for butterfly, Mariposa will be the name of the 17.5-acre development after its metamorphosis into a vibrant mixed-use, mixed-income and transit-oriented development. The change in name is fitting given then drastic transformation expected to revitalize the surrounding community physically and economically. Mariposa will improve not only the energy efficiency of the housing units, but also will decrease pollution and offer more transit options. The emphasis on walking and biking throughout the development satisfy principles set forth in new urbanism and the LEED-ND rating system in addition to benefitting the community from a health perspective. The Denver Housing Authority expects construction on Mariposa to end in 2018 and their progress can be tracked here.


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Maxine N. (Vialle) Eslinger, 91, of Hardin, died Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 at Shirkey Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Richmond.
Maxine was born Jan. 3, 1922 in Osage City, Kan. to Eugene Augusta and Jennie (Giorza) Vialle. She married Shelby Lee Eslinger Jan. 22, 1946; her beloved husband of 64 years preceded her in death Aug. 31, 2010.
Maxine was born in Osage City, Kan. then lived in Lexington, before moving to the Hardin area in 1946. She was a 1939 graduate of Lexington High School. Maxine was a member of the Hardin United Methodist Church where she was a Communion Steward and a member of the Church BRICK Class. She was a member of the Hardin American Legion Auxiliary. She was a homemaker, loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Survivors include one daughter and son-in-law, Barbara Ann and Bob Fifer of Hardin; one granddaughter Amy Deitch and her husband, Jim of Norborne; one grandson, Robert Scott and his wife, Johnna Fifer of Hardin; four great-grandchildren, Haylee Elizabeth Deitch, Libby Kate Fifer, Zachary Todd Deitch and Brody Scott Fifer; and several nieces and nephews also survive.
In addition to her parents and husband, Maxine was preceded in death by three brothers, Eugene Vialle, Emile Vialle and Norman Vialle; and six sisters, Margerite Guillou, Blanche Woodruff, Ginny Sharp, Frances Simonetti, June Vialle and Colleen Atkinson.
The family suggests memorial contributions be made to either the Hardin United Methodist Church or to the Hardin Cemetery Association.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, Sept. 28, at 2 p.m. at Thurman Funeral Home in Richmond. Visitation will be held Saturday, Sept., 28, from 1 to 2 p.m. at Thurman Funeral Home in Richmond. Burial will be in the Hardin Cemetery. Online condolences may be left at www.thurmanfuneralhome.com
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Aussie Fundraiser's Touchdown Melbourne
Sydney was a great start and Monday morning August 29, it was south via Wollongong visiting dive shops in Windang, cutting up through Avondale, Moss, Goulburn and onto Yass to meet up with our very good friends Rob and Ning Clark. What a wonderful time we had with these wonderful friends. Rob had prepared a bomb fire (huge bomb fire, something you could only do on a farm) followed with an unbelievable BBQ with many of their good friends from around Yass. The following day we got a guided tour of their farm, Ning showed us her hard work with the Lambs and other work on the farm with Rob giving the history and the many years hard work put in to make this place something very special. Then Rob and Ning took us off to Canberra for lunch at Rob's favourite restaurant, and good it was, wine and more wine, and the food was yummy! The following day we left with a foggy morning, single digit temperatures and it was back off to Canberra to say hi to the dive operators in and around Canberra. Then a lovely ride down to Cooma and onto our motel in Bega. On the way to Bega we rode through some incredible rain forest, excellent riding up and down through some amazing winding roads, just what the big boys wanted!
Leaving Bega another fun ride to Traralgon where again we had fun talking with dive operators before leaving the next morning for Melbourne. Arriving in Melbourne we had a full day talking to some of the dive leaders from this neck of the woods, some impressive dive centers and some very cool operators made us feel welcome. Its off to visit Peter from Vision Divers tomorrow to see what we can do to help get the Melbourne beach and underwater clean up off to a good start.


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Two of the most senior executive posts at ANZ Banking Group remain vacant, with chief executive Shayne Elliott expecting to appoint a new chief financial officer, and a newly-created group executive for digital banking, in the coming months.
Mr Elliott, who is in his fourth week at the helm of ANZ, admitted on Wednesday that allegations about cultural deficiencies in the bank's global markets division, first reported by The Australian Financial Review, had required his attention in recent weeks. "Would it be nice to have every person named and all [the senior management positions] clear? Of course it would be," he said in an interview. "But I need to trade off perfection with our desire to get on with it."
ANZ said it is looking internally and externally for a new CFO, the position Mr Elliott held from 2012 until his appointment as Mike Smith's successor on January 1. The bank's search is "well advanced and is expected to be finalised in the coming months," it said on Wednesday.
The absence of a new CFO might delay ANZ providing detail about its strategy at its first quarter trading update on February 17, CLSA analyst Brian Johnson said this week.
ANZ said its new group executive of digital banking would be an external appointment.
Gender gap
Mr Elliott suggested that at least one of the two senior positions could be a woman. Only two of his direct reports – the group executive of wealth, marketing and innovation, Joyce Phillips, and chief human resources officer, Susie Babani – are female. In an interview published on ANZ's BlueNotes website, Mr Elliott said he recognised that gender diversity was important. "I need to give some thought around gender diversity, which is obviously critical," he said.
In a statement to the ASX on Wednesday, ANZ said that Gilles Planté, the deputy CEO of institutional and international banking will leave the bank. His departure follows the head of that division, Andrew Geczy, on Friday, which ANZ said was not related to the allegations made by its former traders.
Similarly, Mr Elliott said that Mr Plante's departure had "nothing to do with the cultural issues" that ANZ has been forced to respond to this month, after former traders alleged in court documents that ANZ had tolerated a culture of alcohol, drugs and strip clubs. Mr Plante headed up ANZ's markets division from 2004 to the end of 2008.
"[Mr Plante] has been based in Hong Kong for a number of years and wasn't in the chain of command in markets where some of those issues have been," Mr Elliott said. "It is completely unrelated to that. It is essentially a fallout from the new structure and the new team and making sure we have the best people in the right place."
Mark Whelan, who was appointed group executive, institutional on Wednesday, also worked in ANZ's markets division, including as managing director of markets from 2005 to 2007. Mr Elliott said he was "more than comfortable" with Mr Whelan's past. "Mark is an extremely strong, values-led leader. He has shown that time and time again in various parts of the bank and [in his career] before that. He is the right person in terms of his skill base and capability. He has got a reputation for fixing business and a great reputation for leadership."
Mr Elliott told BlueNotes that ANZ needed to "evolve" its culture, given the community expectations of banking had risen. "So it is not just about saying we are not going to tolerate these thing – and we are not – but it is also about having the right team. And I am confident the team we have got today really takes this seriously. We are going to set new standards. We are going to think about the place differently, and we are going to act in a more responsible manner."


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The present government's commitment to 'maximum governance with minimum government' is well known. This has also been adequately reflected in the ten-point road map set out immediately after the new government was sworn in. It encompassed matters relating to economy; infrastructure; people oriented systems; education, health and water. Included also were transparency in government, building of confidence in bureaucracy, innovative ideas for governance, resolution of inter-ministerial issues, stability in government policies and time bound implementation of policies.
Kautilya's Arthashastra
Book III, Chapter I: Concerning Law: "As the duty of a king (and the administrators of justice) consists in protecting his subjects with justice, its observance leads him to heaven.".
One problem which the government has to address is the acute suffering which the common man seeking justice in India faces due to inordinate delays, high costs and limited reach to the judicial forums. This is aggravated by the fact that there is long pendency of cases in the courts. The figures are stunning. Pending cases in Supreme Court are around 65,970 (as on 1.7.2014); in High Courts around 4.5 million and in district courts over 26 million in 2013. This massive grid-locking at the judiciary needs to be undone by immediate filling of vacancies, appointment of new judges and adoption of new technologies.


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The always-glamorous Beyoncé was spotted out and about in New York City on Thursday (October 20). The singer was wearing chic top with a sequined 'Love Potion No. 9' design right over her baby bump.
Like most expectant parents, Beyoncé and husband Jay-Z are busy getting ready for baby. Word has it that their apartment in NYC's Tribeca area "will have a nursery that is 2,200 square feet." That's gonna hold a lot of Legos.
For those wondering if the superstar couple is expecting a boy or a girl, Beyoncé's mother Tina Knowles revealed that the family knows the gender of the baby but is keeping it a secret. "Yeah they know what they're having," she said. "But I'm not telling!"


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 26/7/2013 (1488 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
HAMILTON, Ont. -- Brandon Isaac will make his Hamilton Tiger-Cats debut with a huge chip on his shoulder.
The veteran linebacker will be in Hamilton's lineup today versus the Saskatchewan Roughriders (4-0) in Guelph, Ont. The game will be a shot at redemption for the Ticats after losing a lopsided 37-0 road decision to the Riders last Sunday, but for Isaac it's a much-needed chance to take out his frustration at being released Tuesday by the Toronto Argonauts.
"I know I'm going to be pissed off," Isaac said Friday. "I don't like the situation I'm in. However, I'm learning to deal with it.
"I don't want to talk about it because it's not going to make the situation any better. Good luck to them... it is what it is. A lot of people don't know what it is; I kind of still don't know what it is, but at the same time ,they released me, I'm a Ticat, I'm happy to be here and I can't wait... to get some of this frustration off my chest."
Isaac, 28, helped Toronto win the 100th Grey Cup last November and was named a team captain heading into the 2013 campaign. He had 16 tackles and one sack in four games before being surprisingly cut four days after the Argos' 35-19 road win in Winnipeg.
Isaac won't be the only one making a debut Saturday. Slotback Dave Stala, 33, entering his 11th CFL season, comes off the nine-game injured list to play after undergoing off-season knee surgery.
"The surgery wasn't as bad as I thought and I healed quicker than I thought," Stala said. "I'm pretty excited, because I mean Saskatchewan is 4-0 now, so they've got the bull's-eye on them."
It's unclear which quarterback Hamilton's defence will face. Starter Darian Durant, who passed for 347 yards and four TDs last week, is a game-time decision with a foot injury. If Durant can't play, sophomore Drew Willy would make his second career CFL start.
But what Isaac and the Ticats know for sure is a key cog in Saskatchewan's offence is running back Kory Sheets, the CFL rushing leader with 572 yards who ran for 130 yards last week.
Sheets' rushing total is the highest ever through four games to start a season. He needs just 75 yards to break the league mark for five games of 646 yards set in '75 by Calgary's Willie Burden. "The key to this team is the running back," Isaac said. "They're a team that runs the ball a lot and once you get the running game going then you can do anything.
-- The Canadian Press


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About the Book
In the middle of the twentieth century a design aesthetic known as Desert Modernism happened in the Coachella Valley of Southern California. Modern materials and ideas were used to design and build sturctures inspired by the German Bauhaus and desert living. Palm Springs, California in the Coachella Valley is famous for this mid-centry modern architecture.
In 2009 I created a series of Polaroid photographs of some of the mid-centtury modern buildings in Palm Springs, California. I chose to use Polaroid film to match the retro feel of the architecture. I shot all of the photographs using 600 Polaroid film in my Polaroid One 600 camera. In February of 2008 Polaroid announced the discontinuation of the manufacture of all of its instant film, so I used up some of my precious supply on this
All the Polaroid photographs in this book are the same size as the actual Polaroid.
Features & Details
- Category Fine Art Photography
Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
40 Pages
- Publish Date Jul 15, 2010
- Tags , Palm Springs California Coachella Vallley design modern modernism mid-century mid century architecture desert houses buildings retro 1960s 1950s style architect Polaroid 600 film instant fun one camera structures landscaping, trees blue sky green grass walls domicile, palm, trees
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ISO600 - FESTIVAL DELLA FOTOGRAFIA ISTANTANEA HI! we're leading the 1°Italian Instant festival, in October in Milan. It will be very important and the first in europe to and in the contempoarry art day. we'll have shows, performance, conferences, workshops, the museum of polaroid cameras and also we'll have a space dedicated to publications on the instant photographyt.
If you want to be among the protagonists of this festival with your book. write to: info.polaroiders [at] gmail.com (set subjet: "iso600: pubblication-your name surname") to have more information.
Hope to hear soon from you,
Carol Schiraldi Such wonderful architecture and such a great idea for a book. The Polaroids look wonderful and really fit the feel of the architecture-mod at its best.


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My absence, return & visit to Prague
It is a long time since I wrote my last journal. Before I write about my trip to Prague to visit Mistress Arella, I need to take you back to October/November 2015. Up until then I had been a fairly well behaved slave enjoying my servitude to my Mistress. I believe She had been fairly happy with the regular gifts I spoiled Her with and my general enthusiasm of being Her personal slave.
Unfortunately due to reasons out of my control I had to go abroad for some time. I had intended to email my Mistress when I arrived at my destination, however due to the remote area it was very difficult to gain access to the internet so could only contact Her on my return to the UK in the first week of January 2016. Mistress was not pleased that She did not hear from me for 4 months and advised me to sort out any personal issues before She would even consider allowing me to serve Her again. My heart sunk, I thought I may never be allowed to see my Mistress again. The one thing in my life that makes me truly happy I had ruined. Just one brief email could have saved disappointing my Mistress. I knew then that I had made a big mistake and unlike the real me, had come across rude and ungrateful.
I took Mistress Arella's advice and sorted out the personal issues in my life by February 2016, however there were a few other things I needed to do before contacting my Mistress again, one of which was revealing to my wife I had a double life. One night the opportunity arose to admit to her that I visit pro dommes. My need to session was so strong that I needed to tell her, so that in my next session with Mistress Arella I could submit fully with no limits and be able to be marked on my body with whips / canes and whatever other implements Mistress wishes to use on me, without me having to worry or feel guilty. Amazingly although my wife had her concerns she said she will allow me to visit Mistress Arella. This was fantastic news.
I quickly set up a new Twitter account as my previous account had also disappeared. It was going to take a lot of begging and spoiling Mistress Arella to regain her trust and to show I was serious about being her personal slave.
Thankfully for me after a number of gifts and daily begging, Mistress Arella responded that I was never actually fired as Her personal slave. In a way I think She may have actually enjoyed seeing me beg everyday and of course enjoyed the gifts I would regularly send to Her.
Fast forward to September 2016. Mistress Arella tweeted that She needed a weekend of spoiling, preferably in a 5* hotel, with Spa treatments & possibly culminating with a photoshoot. I quickly offered to pay for this and thankfully Mistress accepted my offer. From Her tweets during that weekend I could see it was money well spent and the resulting photos were amazing. Mistress Arella looked more beautiful & sexy than ever before. This quickly got me thinking that I must see Her again and session with Her asap. Mistress in fact decided Herself that I should come and see Her in November. Being told by my Mistress that I must come and serve Her made me feel owned once again, which is an amazing feeling. I jumped at the chance and booked my flights. I wanted to make sure that the hotel I booked was guaranteed to be acceptable to Mistress Arella and easily accessible in a good location. I decided to book myself the same 5* hotel which Mistress Arella had stayed at just a few weeks prior to my visit.
Having made the booking, I now had to wait almost a month for the trip. I was counting down the days. The weekend finally arrived. I was up early to travel to the airport and get my flight, I was of course very excited.
On my arrival in Prague, I checked into the hotel and awaited Mistress Arella's arrival. Within minutes I saw Her arrive. She did of course look amazing as usual. As She entered my room, I could see there was an element of disappointment. She told me the room was not as big or as well laid out as the room she stayed in, and as a result some of the things she had planned for the session she would not be able to do. She would need to improvise and try to be as creative as possible.
Before Mistress Arella went to change into Her sexy outfit, She ordered me to remove my clothes and await Her return. On Her return I could see She was wearing the black bodysuit She had worn in Her recent photoshoot. It showed off Her figure perfectly. Mistress Arella immediately started slapping my face while criticising the fact I had wasted money on booking such a luxurious room for myself, when really I should be booking a basic room and using my money to spoil Her. Of course She is correct and I told Her I will not make the same mistake again. My first task was to clean Her knee-high leather boots with the hotel supplied shoe cleaning kit. At first I was unable to find it so Mistress said I would need to phone room service and ask them to bring one. Thankfully after a bit more searching it was Mistress who found it. She had asked me to purchase a Donald Trump mask, as She knew that would make Her extra furious if I were to wear it. I kneeled in front of Her with the mask on, eagerly polishing Her boots & She promptly took a photo of this and tweeted it for the world to see. As I was working, Mistress Arella started to question me over my absence. She wanted to hear the whole story. When I mentioned I spent almost 10k sorting my issue out, She got so angry with me that She poured Her drink on my head. Yes, 10 k would buy all the items on all Mistress´wish lists and more. I could certainly understand Her anger.
After I wiped the water off the floor Mistress Arella noticed I had some chocolate biscuits in the room. She crushed them under her heal and ordered me to eat them from Her heal and to lick up the crumbs on the floor while telling me off for eating such unhealthy snacks. I was then ordered to lay on my back on the bed. Mistress tied me tightly with rope so I was completely helpless. I was now at Her complete mercy.
I had recently purchased a small whip for my Mistress, this had metal chains on the end of it. Mistress Arella started to whip my cock and balls, each time it hit my balls the pain was immense. As She was whipping me, She was telling me how small my cock was and how out of shape my body was. She said no woman would find me attractive and that my wife surely doesn't like my body either. She went on to say that my wife probably has a lover as I am so inadequate. The worrying thing is that Mistress Arella is always right so all what She was saying to me could easily be true.
My cock was then placed in a chastity device. Mistress Arella promptly went to the bathroom. She told me the keys had been flushed down the toilet. I thought She is probably bluffing but maybe She is getting revenge for my absence. She then stuffed a wet flannel that She brought from the bathroom in my mouth and used a lot of tape to hold it in position. There I was tied to the bed, unable to to speak, locked in chastity. Mistress told me that She could leave me here for room service to find me in this pathetic state.
She decided, however, that I needed more punishment. This consisted of more CBT, hot candle wax being dripped all over my body, paying particular attention to my cock and balls. Mistress next sat on my face. As I had not session in over a year I was a bit out of practice, with the flannel in my mouth and Mistress Arella 's bottom covering my face I was struggling to breathe and was making all types of noises of discomfort. Mistress Arella continued to sit on my face, allowing brief moments where I could catch my breath. I felt I was in heaven.
Mistress Arella knows that one of my big fantasies is to be kidnapped by Her. Although She has previously stated that this is not really Her thing, She did hint that it could be a possibility in the future. This did make my cock twinge a little as the chastity device started to feel tighter & tighter. After this punishment I was ordered to lay on my stomach, again I was restrained with rope. Mistress Arella proceeded to whip me , whilst doing so She questioned me over my recent purchase of my luxury car. She told me I should not have bought such an expensive car and instead of wasting my money, should have been using all my spare money to spoil Her.
After my various forms of punishment Mistress released me & set me my next task, to find the keys to my chastity device. I was relieved to hear She did not flush them down the toilet after all. She gave me a 10 minute limit, I searched high and low throughout the room whilst Mistress Arella lay on the bed in amusement at my pathetic attempts. The time limit had elapsed and I had to resign myself to the fact that I will need to remain in chastity until Mistress Arella chooses to release me. I was then ordered to kiss Mistress´feet. I removed Her right boot and as I was enjoying kissing Her foot, Mistress took great delight in giving me small hints of where the keys might be. She asked "Where is the last place you would think the keys would be? No, they are not in my panties or bra". So I answered "Handbag"? She laughed. I came up with a few more stupid answers while She kept saying to me to think outside the box. I could not think. As I removed Her other boot, I heard a small jingle but thought nothing of it, silly me. Mistress then reveals that the keys were hidden right there inside that boot. Very clever I thought, I would never have thought of actually searching Mistress Arella and in fact even knowing this fact I don't think I would have the courage to search Her in any future sessions. I proceeded to kiss Her left foot.
The session had come to an end and I felt something that only a sub/slave can fully understand, a feeling of contentment of having served my Mistress and my feel good endorphins were running wild in my body. I had just served my Mistress for the first time in a long time, I was as happy as happy gets.
I had offered to take Mistress Arella to a fine-dining restaurant which She had chosen. It was next door to the hotel so we were there in seconds. It was nice to finally have a relaxing meal with my Mistress/Owner and have an interesting conversation catching up with what Mistress Arella has been doing since I last saw her. Did I mention I was still locked in chastity? This too is an amazing feeling being locked in chastity with my Owner enjoying a lovely meal. We were in the restaurant for almost 2 hours and I treasure every moment, every second that I can spend with my Mistress, it is where I am happiest. All good things have to come to an end. Mistress Arella was picked up by taxi, taking the keys to my cock cage with Her while I was left to return to my room.
On Sunday morning when I woke up, something didn't seem quite right. To my amazement, embarrassment and disappointment I noticed that my chastity device had slipped off whilst I was sleeping. Mistress Arella was right, my cock is tiny, how could it have slipped out of the device? This was going to take some explaining. We had arranged to meet at 2pm and Mistress Arella gave me a quick phone call to let me know she was a couple of minutes away.
Mistress had arranged to hire a dungeon for this session. The owner of the place is another Prague domme, tall blonde and attractive. As we entered the building we had to go in an elevator, that could only comfortably fit in 2 people, 3 at a stretch. I offered to take the stairs but was told it was ok to use the lift with both Mistresses. This could be many slaves fantasy to be trapped in a elevator with 2 beautiful Mistresses, however my mind was firmly focused on serving Mistress Arella alone and in fact I don't think I would ever want a double domme session. Mistress Arella is all I need in my life.
We entered the dungeon. As I was getting undressed, I had to explain that my chastity device had slipped off. Mistress was not impressed as She had wanted me to be begging for release during the session. She accused me of removing the chastity device during the night so I could masturbate. This honestly was not the case but I was to be punished anyway. Mistress ordered me to put leather cuffs on my wrists and ankles, my hands were secured to an overhead beam and my ankles fastened together so I could not move. The Trump mask was placed over my face in a way that I could not see a thing. I felt some hard blows on my bottom and thighs that felt like they were administered by a wooden spoon or paddle. This lasted for about 5 min, after that Mistress took the mask off again, released my hands and asked me to secure Her stockings to the suspender belt that She was wearing underneath a see-through animal print dress She changed into while I was blindfolded.
I was then told to bend over a spanking horse. My arms were secured and Mistress chose a cane to use on me. Again this was very painful and I knew I would have cane marks etched on my body. I accepted my punishment as a slave should, without complaint.
Mistress then secures me to a bondage chair. Nipple clamps are applied and She proceeds to whip my upper legs as well as my cock and balls. Weights are attached to the nipple clamps. My nipples are now feeling very sore. I am at Her full mercy. One of Mistress Arella's favourite forms of punishment is digging Her long sharp nails into my nipples. For a slave like myself with very sensitive nipples, this is both very painful and very pleasurable at the same time. Even a week later Her finger nails are still imprinted in my nipples, such a lovely feeling.
As the next form of punishment Mistress chooses to clamp my cock in a special device. I was stood in the middle of the room, hands secured behind my back, ankles secured in place, cock flattened in the clamp. Severe nipple clamps were applied to my nipples to intensify the experience. Mistress Arella took a small leather whip and proceeded to whip my cock and balls. This was particularly painful when the whip hit the tip of my cock, sometimes she would whip me so fast it would not allow me to catch my breath. I naturally tried to pull away but my cock was securely clamped so my attempts were futile. This feeling is actually amazing, I am in my fantasy position, completely helpless whilst Mistress Arella whips my cock relentlessly. Mistress then picks up Her cane and hits my cock with it a few times.
Mistress then sits down on Her throne to have a drink, whilst I massage Her feet. I love being in this position. It gives me perfect sight of Her beautiful long legs and the occasional flash of Her black panties. Mistress Arella asks if I think I deserve the privilege of masturbating and if so, why. I can only come up with one good reason. To my surprise She orders me to masturbate, my cock is dry and bruised and I struggle to get it hard. She gives me some lube to help the process which quickly has the desired effect. She tells me to let Her know when I am on the point of cumming. I work away to get to this point and tell Her that I am just about to cum. At this point Mistress marches me into the shower and puts the temperature on ice cold to soften my cock again. To be so close to cumming and then be thrown in an ice cold shower is what I deserve. Mistress Arella rarely lets me masturbate during sessions, so really I should have known this would happen.
In a way having a ruined orgasm just reinforces the full control Mistress Arella has over me. It makes the session more intense, I love it. I thought the session has ended but Mistress Arella says it is not over yet. She hands me the panties She wore in the session and says "play with these". She then takes shower whilst I sniff the panties. I love Mistress Arella's scent, the scent of my owner, the scent of a real woman. Mistress Arella in the meantime gets changed into a lovely skirt & blouse, wearing Her knee-high leather boots She looks so sexy. Mistress tells me I can take Her panties home as a souvenir which I gratefully accept.
Again Mistress Arella has booked another fine-dining venue, this time a Michelin Star restaurant set on the 27th floor overlooking Prague. This could be considered one of the most romantic settings for a meal out with your girlfriend/wife but I know my place as Mistress Arella's personal slave. I enjoy being in the company of the most beautiful, sexy woman in the world, enjoying good food and great conversation. It is a time where we can both relax and talk freely about life in general. The perfect ending to a perfect weekend.
I have grown to learn that by serving Mistress Arella I am fulfilling my deepest desires, it is my perfect life and I love every aspect of it. It defines the person I really am. My only regrets are that I did not meet Her sooner. I want to devote my entire life to Her, to be Her number one slave, to be a real slave. I live just to serve my Mistress. Everything else in my life does not even compare.


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Sometimes the best discoveries don't require meticulous planning, a long journey, or special shoes. Sometimes you just have to see what's in front of you.
This is some of what Belgian photographer Harry Gruyaert has been seeing and recording for the rest of us over the last 40 years.
He is credited with helping to prove the point that European photographs could be in colour and still be taken seriously. Not that there is anything wrong with black and white.
Mr Gruyaert claims that he doesn't think much about all this, and he avoids talking about it if at all possible.
The British Journal of Photography did manage to get a few words out of him, which can be read here
All images © 2015 Harry Gruyaert / Magnum Photos
Tony Ray-Jones made photographs of people–and cows and horses–being themselves. We find it hard to take our eyes off them. And once you do, they're impossible to forget.
Bravo Mr Jones (1941 – 1972). And thank you.
See a show at the bbc here
Here at less, we are fans of a lot of uncommissioned public art, namely the kind that 1) makes you smile 2) makes you admire how well it is made and 3) makes you glad no damage was done in providing you with this unexpected smile. The category of u.p.a. that succeeds most often on all three scores is the kind that people stick on walls with paste. Like this swell white rabbit.
As you can see he's just a little guy on the run caught in full motion on a nice blue/grey wall, found here
Here's a white dog or doggish creature stuck on a wall in a lavatory in Melbourne, where quality public art of the non-commissioned kind seems to thrive. This colour spewing critter is the invention of an artist named Ghost Patrol, who is said to be one of Melbourne's most prominent artists. See here.
According to the internet, at least, the top spots for really good stick-on art are Australia (Melbourne and Fremantle) and England (Bristol and London)
This fine little two dimensional shamrock green dachshund lives in London. He was spotted by the keen-eyed, generous, prolific photographer mermaid99, bless her heart. Find the pooch and much much more from the mermaid here.
Looking for the uni-coloured dachshund is this colourful kitty, another mermaid 99 find in London here.
pretty weird squidman in Mexico City.
And here's a lovely bird, a swallow stuck up in Rye, East Sussex England. The artist goes by De Wilde when he's outdoors. See this fine woodcut and more here
The finders of this paste up, called "Hello Stranger", on a lamp post in North Oakland CA, are Alex and Allison who rightly point out that it is equal parts pretty and sinister, as all good childrens' tales should be, we think.
This is just swell, another one from Melbourne. Thanks to we heart it
Why is it that "Steve" is the perfect name for this little white dino? Go here to meet Steve and other Fremantle sights.
These two bandits are having a lot more fun than Bonnie and Clyde. Found here at a site called Oakown Art ("an exposé of cool public art & culture in and around oakland, california"). The artist goes by "Get Up".
Below, three finds of our own in Paris, 2011.
On this one old wall you'll find a white paste up figure of indeterminate species grasping maybe a large slice of pizza and a coffee (?), a nifty green octopus attacking…Popeye (?), and a whole bunch of tulips. Also way at the top, a space invader.
And here's a dapper masked fellow with a rosy fleur for his sweetheart.
And here is another sweet little space invader eyeing/protecting a sweet little cafe.
Space Invader is all over Paris (and quite a few other places too). These are also stick-up art but made of ceramic tile not paper so they last and last. They have become part of the fabric of Paris, not a poke in the eye, but an unexpected treat for those who love the sight of children at play without supervision. This image from here
Let's give London the last smile:
Again thanks to mermaid99 for this fox. Find it here. The artist is Surianii.
For many of us, it's time to head back to school. This image from Shorpy here. There's lots to learn, of course, and lots of fun to be had outside the classroom.
There's The Gym Club.
The Science Club
The Home Economics Club from 1929, when home economics was more important than nuclear physics.
The Senior Nature Club, 3 nature-loving young men and 25 young natural women.
Here's a Pep Club. I feel better already.
The Guys Who Know How to Line Up Club
The Thespian Club, not to be upstaged by Pep or Nature or Home Economics.
The W Club Service Group is just for being Wonderful, we think.
So play safe out there, learn a lot, have fun. At school, it seems there's always something for everybody.
The Trigonometry in Tutu's club.
Martin Parr is one of those photographers who takes pictures that any one of us might have taken, but we didn't. And if we did, you just know they would not, not in a thousand tries, make you want to keep on looking at them the way these do. What does Mr Parr do that we can't do? Good question.
Above, a famous photo of his taken at the seaside in New Brighton, Merseyside, England
Pink lookout hut on the pier in Cardiff, Wales
A shop and its keepers in Cambridge England
A great selection of Martin Parr pictures, mostly taken in the UK, can be found at the website of the Guardian newspaper here.
When he's not in England, Mr Parr is often in a sunny place, like Mexico.
Above is from a book of his called 'A Fair Day: Photographs from the West Coast of Ireland' found here .
This book 'Bad Weather' was his first, and it is just so amazing you think about the pictures in it days and days after you see them. Make that years.
Mr Parr himself looks like he'd blend in to the crowd almost anywhere.
He's wishing he was a fish, and she's wishing he was too.
Now these two have a future, unlike the couple above them, but they've each got their own ideas about things, despite the matching sweaters and hair. It's all there isn't it? update, 29 July 2011: This image was featured in an interview with Martin Parr. It is in fact a photo by Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken, an influential, innovative photojournalist admired by Mr Parr (thanks Chantal).
Great photographers of the life that's going on all around us preserve a momentary glimpse of an ongoing story. You can't help feeling that the action and sound will begin any second. Now.


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John's Lesson: John on Patmos
Border: John Boiled in Oil
Hours of Henry VIII, in Latin
Illuminated by Jean Poyer
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection; deposited in 1962, given in 1977
Illuminated around 1500 by the artist Jean Poyer, The Hours of Henry VIII receives its name from the possible but unproven eighteenth-century tradition that holds King Henry of England once owned this splendid manuscript. By following the simple instructions, you can explore every painting of this Renaissance masterpiece and learn how Books of Hours helped their readers to pray.
Books of Hours contain more or less standard texts—Calendar, Gospel Lessons, Hours of the Virgin, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, Penitential Psalms with Litany, Office of the Dead, and Suffrages—as well as a number of common accessory prayers. Based on the frequency and variety of added devotions, it appears that scribes included these for owners who wished to personalize their prayer books.
John's Lesson: John on Patmos
Border: John Boiled in Oil (fol. 7)
By the beginning of the fifteenth century, four particular Gospel Lessons had become a regular feature in Books of Hours. These Lessons, which often follow the Calendar, are actually the Gospel readings from the Masses for the of the Church's major liturgical feasts.The Gospel Lessons for the Hours of Henry VIII (fols. 7–21v) are illustrated with a cycle of evangelist portraits, one placed at the beginning of each reading.
The first Lesson, from John (1:1– 14), acts as a kind of preamble for the entire Book of Hours. Its theme is humankind's need for redemption and God's willingness to provide it.
John, who writes on a scroll, does so on Patmos, the island to which he was banished by the Roman emperor Domitian (r. 81–96) and where, according to tradition, he wrote the Book of Revelation. The eagle is a symbol for John the Evangelist.
Before banishing John to Patmos, the emperor Domitian had tried to rid himself of the evangelist by boiling him to death. In the border, one man heats the fire with bellows to such a degree that his colleagues must shield their faces from the blast. John, calmly praying in the tub, remains unharmed.
The painted initial opens John's Lesson with its famous passage, In Principio erat verbu(m) (In the beginning was the Word), thus starting the Gospel's theme of Christ's Divinity.


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The two largest wildfires burning in Southern Arizona originated in rugged, mountainous corridors frequently used by cross-border people and drug smugglers.
And the U.S. Forest Service has determined that both fires were human-caused.
So even though the investigations remain open, speculation is ablaze that illegal immigrants or smugglers are responsible for the Horseshoe 2 Fire northeast of Douglas and the Murphy Complex Fire northwest of Nogales.
"It's definitely not caused by somebody on a picnic whose wiener overcooked," resident Brad Titcomb said about the Murphy Fire, which came within a mile of his house in the Aliso Springs neighborhood west of Tubac. "This is illegal traffic one way or another."
At a press conference last week, Coronado National Forest supervisor Jim Upchurch said causes of fires include ricocheting bullets, campfires, welding equipment and possibly ignition by smugglers or illegal immigrants. But when asked specifically about the Horseshoe 2 and Murphy Complex fires, Forest Service officials say only that they are human-caused and under investigation.
The Horseshoe 2 Fire has burned 128,652 acres in the Chiricahua Mountains - including three homes and six buildings. The Murphy Complex Fire has burned 68,033 acres in the Tumacácori and Atascosa mountains - including the historic Atascosa Lookout.
Both rank among the top 10 largest wildfires in Arizona since 1990, shows information from the Southwest Coordination Center, which manages firefighting activities in the Southwest.
Don't expect definitive answers on who set the blazes - many human-caused fire cases are never solved.
Finding the culprit is daunting for fire investigators, said Pat Schneider, an assistant U.S. attorney in Arizona for the past 20 years who has experience on cases stemming from wildfires including the well-known Rodeo-Chediski Fire of 2002.
More than 70 percent of Arizona is federal land and the number of law enforcement officers is limited, he said. And wildfires believed to be caused by people are frequent - 142 fires of more than 100 acres in Arizona from 2003 to 2010, show data from the Southwest Coordination Center.
"Many times, the cases we are able to make and prosecute are when the suspect is caught in the act or soon thereafter, or because someone from the public helps as our eyes and ears," Schneider said. "The problem with fire, depending on how it burns, is that many times fire destroys a lot of evidence that was there."
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona has handled just a few wildfire cases each of the past two years, he said. He didn't recall any prosecution of illegal immigrants in connection with wildfires.
Pinpointing a cause
Annual fire reports from government agencies focus solely on how many fires were caused by people versus lightning, said Carrie Templin, spokeswoman with the Bureau of Land Management.
The Horseshoe Fire, which started on May 31, 2010, and burned 3,400 acres in the Chiricahua Mountains northeast of Douglas, remains under investigation, said Coronado Forest spokeswoman Heidi Schewel.
Like the Horseshoe 2 Fire, there was no lightning in the area, so both are classified as human-caused.
With fires presumed to be started by people, the focus is on finding a specific cause - not on determining where the people were from, said Mary Zabinski, fire information officer at the Southwest Coordination Center.
Cause of fires in Southeastern Arizona include sparks from electrical equipment and tailpipes, matches and cigarettes and sometimes strange occurrences, such as a bear getting electrocuted on a power pole and falling to the ground on fire, Zabinski said.
But the most common cause of fires, in Arizona and nationwide, is abandoned campfires, Zabinski said. Officials often see a rash of them on holiday weekends.
The Murphy Complex Fire was started on May 30 - Memorial Day. That was not lost on Jim Cumming, who lives in a house west of Rio Rico built by his family in 1946.
"If you are betting odds, it was probably caused by illegal immigrants," Cumming said about the Murphy Complex Fire. "But being that it was caused on Memorial Day, it could have been caused by a camper. It's anybody's guess who started it."
Hot spot for crossers
The Murphy Complex Fire is burning west of Nogales, stretching from south of the international border to about 18 miles northwest of Tubac. It is the combination of two blazes that met up: the Pajarita and Murphy fires.
The flames are raging right in the heart of a smuggling corridor commonly used by drug runners and rip crews.
Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was fatally shot in the same area during a shootout between agents and suspected border bandits on Dec. 14, 2010. The corridor has been a hot spot for confrontations between smugglers and criminals dating back to 2007.
Hikers, hunters and outdoor enthusiasts sometime go up there, but the area is primarily used by drug smugglers and illegal immigrants, said Lt. Raoul Rodriguez of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office. That's why he believes it's fair to speculate they started this most recent fire.
Cumming doesn't believe the fire was started intentionally, whether by illegal immigrants or U.S. citizens.
"It was definitely human-caused," Cumming said, "but by human error."
Smugglers don't generally set fires purposely as diversions, said Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman Mario Escalante.
But they regularly make fires to cook, or to keep warm during the colder months, said Brandon Judd, president of Local 2544 of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing agents in Arizona. In the areas where the Murphy Complex Fire and Horseshoe 2 Fire started, the only people agents encounter are illegal immigrants or drug smugglers, he said.
"We definitely believe that the majority of these fires are started by illegal aliens," Judd said.
At the height of the Murphy Complex Fire, firefighters laid a fire retardant 100 yards from area resident Titcomb's ranch-style house he's owned for 15 years in Aliso Springs.
"This really hit home, I thought we were going to lose the house," said Titcomb, a native of Nogales, Ariz. "For what, so some guy can smuggle pot or meth?"
Titcomb is frustrated that officials only report such fires as human-caused and ignore the reality that some are likely started by smugglers and illegal immigrants. The political sensitivity of border issues scares politicians from talking about the truth, he said.
One theory percolating in the Tubac/Rio Rico area is that the Murphy Fire was started by two illegal immigrants in distress.
But Titcomb finds that theory hard to believe because all somebody would have to do to get help is walk down from the mountains to the numerous houses nearby. And since it was set in late May, it also seems unlikely it was to keep a group warm.
He believes it's more likely that drug smugglers set a fire in the area to burn Border Patrol sensors, a theory he heard from several firefighters. Most of the Border Patrol agents he sees in the area say they are responding to sensors, he said.
Border Patrol officials declined to discuss the cause of the Murphy Fire, citing the ongoing Forest Service investigation. Judd, of the union, said he hasn't heard of smugglers burning sensors, but said it might be a new tactic.
"It could be effective, sure," Judd said.
Focus on loss, not culprit
The Horseshoe 2 Fire started May 8, about 35 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in the Chiricahua Mountains of Southeastern Arizona.
The mountain range and the valleys surrounding it are commonly used by those smuggling drugs and people. Cochise County rancher Robert Krentz was killed in March 2010 on his property south of the fire. The case is still unsolved but authorities believe he was shot by a cross-border smuggler.
The Burro Springs area where the fire started is a popular staging area for smugglers, brimming with backpacks and trash left behind, said Ed Ashurst, who manages the 10X Ranch in the valley east of the Chiricahuas. There are propane tanks used to cook up there, he said. It's rugged, mountainous terrain only accessible by foot or horseback.
"It's frequented by nobody except illegal aliens," Ashurst said. "Virtually everyone down here believes an illegal alien started it (the fire). Who else started it?"
He said he believes the first Horseshoe Fire in 2010 was also started by illegal immigrants but he doesn't expect Forest Service officials to admit that. The Obama administration doesn't want to say it was an illegal immigrant because that would bring into question its claims that the border is more secure than ever, Ashurst said.
Ashurst and others have heard that Border Patrol agents tracked four illegal border crossers to the start of the Horseshoe 2 Fire, and that the first Forest Service firefighters spotted the same tracks, he said.
His fellow ranchers west of Nogales have told him the Murphy Fire was also caused by illegal immigrants.
But few believe the cases will be solved, which is why area resident Cumming thinks it's a waste of energy to focus on who started the fire. The focus should be on what to do about the tremendous loss of mature trees and habitat for thousands of animals, he said.
"This fire has been real devastating," Cumming said. "To sit back and place blame about who caused it is moot."
Contact reporter Brady McCombs at 573-4213 or bmccombs@azstarnet. com. Star reporters Tom Beal and Doug Kreutz contributed to this story.


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A local lampworker was in the bead shop today (she only comes 3-4 times a year) and I usually miss her for various reasons. I picked up some orphan beads for a total of 5 bucks and because I spent a total of 15 dollars today I got a free gift. The two green ones are going to be earrings for my moms birthday.
And here is what they gave me free (unfortunately just tones not the real thing which means that due to moms allergies I'll have to get more hooks.)
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Lauryl Tucker, assistant professor of English, just completed her second year as a full-time faculty member at Ithaca College. She received her Ph.D. in English language and literature in 2007 from the University of Virginia.
Tell us about your experience at IC so far.
I'm thrilled to be a part of this English department; it's a very supportive, generous group of people. My students at IC are just as terrific—they continue to impress me with their creativity and commitment in the classroom. Just the other day, we were talking about the "blues stanza" in Introduction to Poetry, and one of my students treated us to a brilliant impromptu performance, which we all applauded. I love surprises like that and haven't had them quite so often anywhere else I've taught.
What is your teaching style?
I like to show students how much fun it can be to approach poems from a variety of angles, to really slow down and unpack layer after layer of meaning, all the while trying to maintain that sense of mystery and potential that good poems carry.
Can you tell us about your areas of research interest?
I specialize in 20th-century British women's poetry. I'm in the process of turning my dissertation, which examines how concepts of gender and humor intersect and shape one another in literature, into a book. I've also recently gotten interested in detective fiction and narrative theory. Besides being excellent beach reading, detective stories are fascinating cultural documents that offer crime and its solution as a kind of metaphor for all kinds of other things.


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THE state government has ordered the Barangaroo Delivery Authority to begin negotiations with critics of its controversial scheme in a move that could result in huge changes to the development.
The Planning Minister, Brad Hazzard, last night said he had accepted an invitation from opponents of the scheme to mediate changes to the Barangaroo proposal before a court case due to start next week
And in a sign the government is considering big changes to the project, that may include abandoning the construction of a new naturalistic headland favoured by the former prime minister Paul Keating, Mr Hazzard said he would like mediation to involve ''the entire development''.
Mr Hazzard said he had told the agency responsible for the scheme he wanted the parties to negotiate this week on a range of matters, before the case set down for hearing in the Land and Environment Court on Monday.
''I've indicated to the Barangaroo Delivery Authority the government wants to facilitate mediation,'' he said. ''I can never see the benefit in litigation if some middle ground can be found.''
Mr Hazzard told the authority to mediate after receiving a letter from the group Australians for Sustainable Development, a coalition of councils, architects, and critics of the current plans, urging him, the authority and the developer Lend Lease to agree to talks before the second court court case the group has brought to try to stop the project.
''We'd like the parties to get together and resolve their differences,'' he said.
He wanted the first negotiations to take place this week and expected they would focus on the current proceedings, but that more extensive negotiations could take place on all aspects of the scheme in coming weeks.
''It may be possible to move further and have more constructive dialogue on the entire Barangaroo development,'' Mr Hazzard said, although he agreed ''that's a bit more of a challenge''.
A spokesman for Australians for Sustainable Development, Cr John McInerney of the City of Sydney, said scrapping the naturalistic headland proposed by Mr Keating would save at least $200 million. That would allow scaling down of buildings in the commercial precinct as these would not have to fund the expensive headland works. The group also wants the return of the cruise ship terminal, which has been moved to White Bay.
Lend Lease's group head of development, David Hutton, said his company was happy to discuss the project with its critics but it would not agree to adjourn the court proceedings.
"We are very happy to participate in ongoing discussions … however after the thorough and formal process undertaken over an extended period of time, Lend Lease does not support any last-minute adjournment or delay to the scheduled legal process."
In documents filed with the court, Australians for Sustainable Development says that the modifications to the concept plan approved by the former government are so substantial they require a whole new plan and that the approvals granted under the modified plan are therefore invalid.
An affidavit from Mike George, a town planner with more than 40 years of experience, said the changes included removing the cruise ship terminal from the site, increasing building heights by up to 97 metres, changing the approved street pattern for the site and building an 85-metre wharf into the harbour on which a 43-storey hotel would be built.


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Flaine will be open for the summer with a host of free activities for the whole family from July 3 to Aug. 13.
The resort, in the French Alps, strives to provide a quality experience for holidaymakers who choose Flaine as their summer destination. This includes offering free activities so that the mountain is accessible to all budgets.
The resort is featuring all sorts of athletic activities including tennis, archery, basketball, and a French favourite, pétanque. Equipment can be borrowed from the tourism office for free; visitors must provide a refundable deposit.
A certified instructor will host aerobics, stretching, and sit-up classes from July 12 to Aug. 13. During the same period, children aged 6 to 10 can sign up for free workshops held three times a week.
Free cooking workshops, food tastings, and classical music concerts will also be held for visitors looking to soak up a little culture.
The resort is planning two theme weeks this year. The first, July 11-17, includes free guided hikes during the day and barbecue and fireworks at night. The second, Aug. 8-14, features free shows, concerts, and tournaments specially adapted for children. The little ones will also have the chance to build their own pint-sized house, with all the necessary tools (and supervision) at their disposal on a kiddie construction site.
This summer at Flaine, there will plenty to do without having to spend a single euro.


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When I began my last series of Sunday columns (September 2, 2012) on the topic 'Revisiting the political economy of the Guyana sugar industry', which I concluded last weekend (December 23), I did not anticipate it would take as many as 17 weekly columns for a reappraisal of the industry with recommendations for its reform. More to the point, my original intention was to follow the reappraisal with an examination of the mining sector, with emphasis on small-scale gold and diamond mining. This is because of the leading role this sector now plays in Guyana's earnings of foreign exchange, as well as in generating livelihoods, income and wealth for important swathes of the population.
However, this year also marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Third World Debt Crisis (TWDC). And, because of the little known role of Guyana in this event I did not want 2012 to pass without some public acknowledgement in Guyana of its role in this remarkable interlude in the economic and financial history of not only the Third World, but the entire world!
In the interest of full disclosure I should also inform readers that I have written an academic paper on the subject, which is expected to be published early in the New Year entitled '30 Years After the Third World Debt Crisis: Sovereign Debt Stress in Caricom', with special reference to Guyana. For the next few columns, I shall address some of the issues on this topic as they hopefully relate to the wider public's appreciation of sovereign debt crises then and now.
By universal acknowledgement the TWDC is treated as having started in August 1982, when Mexico publicly announced that it was defaulting on its external debt obligations. By 'default' I mean that Mexico declared its inability to find the funds needed to service its debt, in whole or in part, on time.
What is not so widely recognized in the international literature on the TWDC is that 1982 also marked the year when Guyana publicly announced that it too was defaulting on its external debt obligations.
To understand this situation clearly readers should recognize at this point of my presentation that country defaults such as those announced by Guyana and Mexico in 1982 are not uncommon.
They have been occurring for centuries. However, what is not so widely appreciated is that creditor countries, whose debts have been defaulted on, have resorted in the past to inordinate levels of violence against defaulting states to secure the payments which are due to them.
This violence has included territorial invasions, wars, forcible seizure of the defaulting country's assets, and 'gunboat diplomacy,' in order to enforce their claims as creditor states against debtor states.
The state of the international system after World War II (particularly the Cold War and the presence of the United Nations system) resulted in situations where country defaults were leading to international measures aimed at restructuring sovereign debt.
Restructuring the debt refers to two distinct procedures. One is to lengthen the time for the repayment of the debt (that is, its life or maturity); and the other is to seek to reduce the interest that has to be paid on the debt.
The latter can take the form of a grace period (a period of time when the debt is not required to be serviced) or a cut in the interest rate to be applied to the debt or even a reduction of the principal amount owed.
Readers would appreciate that the direct consequence of any sovereign debt restructuring is a reduction in the face value of the outstanding debt. In the news media this is usually reported as the creditors taking a 'haircut' on their loans.
Or, in other words, they are taking a loss on the net present value of their outstanding creditor claims.
For readers' information there have been more than 600 individual cases of debt restructuring in about 100 countries since the end of World War II.
The debt crisis today
To be sure Guyana's role in the inception of the Third World Debt Crisis is not even widely known in Guyana or for that matter in the wider Caricom. Perhaps the reason is that compared to Mexico, Guyana does not have the same international presence, mainly on account of its small size and minimal influence in global affairs.
In stark contrast to the 1980s, today we find that the image of global debt crisis evokes interest mainly in the First World, where Japan (which as we shall see is the world's most highly indebted nation), Europe (especially the Eurozone area) and the United States, (because of its 'fiscal cliff') hold centre stage.
Next week I shall examine briefly the indebtedness of these countries and indeed show how the level of indebtedness is determined.
For the benefit of those readers who do not recall or know of the worst of times in Guyana, I conclude this column by briefly summarizing the spread of the TWDC started in Mexico and Guyana.
The spread of the virus
Writers have aptly compared the spread of the TWDC throughout the Third World to the spread of a virus in a host body. After 1982 and by the end of the 1990s or early 2000s, the data show there were 54 Third World countries in all the continents, which had defaulted.
Thus in Africa there were twenty-one; in Latin America twenty-three; and, in Asia ten public debt defaults accompanied by debt restructurings!
So intense was the crisis that about one half of these countries had either multiple defaults, or their default and restructuring episodes were very prolonged.
Of these latter type of countries, nine were in Africa, thirteen in Latin America, and five in Asia.
Next week I shall continue from this point.
Vladimir's Venezuela – Leveraging loans to Caracas, Moscow snaps up oil assets
CARACAS/HOUSTON (Reuters) – Venezuela's unraveling socialist government is increasingly turning to ally Russia for the cash and credit it needs to survive – and offering prized state-owned oil assets in return, sources familiar with the negotiations told Reuters.
Urbanization 2.0
By Carl Bildt CHICAGO – We are now in the final days of the industrial age.
Men's health
During Men's Health Week, the man/woman in the street were asked to speak on their lifestyles and what they do to maintain their health or to encourage their significant others to lead healthy lifestyles.
Drug use/abuse: A more humane approach needed…
By The Caribbean Voice There are no reliable statistics on the amount of persons engaging in the use of illegal drugs or those described as addicts.
Crude oil production: royalty rates, profit-sharing, and accounting arrangements
In last week's article, we referred to the two recognized methods of accounting for costs relating to the exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas: the "successful efforts" (SE) method and the "full cost" (FC) method.


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The classic hair bun is like bread and butter. It's easy to make, looks good and is tasteful. It's a secret weapon that true Fashionistas know when to pull it out of their arsenal. This type of hairstyle along with its ultra-classy sister, the chignon, can be worn on the red carpet or to a college formal or other black-tie function.
Before our favorite celebrities starting sporting the hairstyle to award shows, buns were quite a big hit back in ancient Greece. It was the style of day thanks to popular female gods. Greek goddesses Aphrodite and Athena when getting their likeness carved in marble, often donned buns as their (or artist's) hairstyle of choice. In China a woman would wear a bun to reveal her marital status. Of course we all know about the bun's hayday in the prim chaste society of the Victorian era. While the style has been around for ages (literally) it continually gets updated throughout generations. From the ballerina, to braided, to the ever-popular topknot, the bun is a true go-to for an elegant look. It also provides a great disguise for a Fashionista who woke up late and is having a bad hair day. So stock up on bobby pins and hair ties ladies, because we're going to put a few more bun-styles in your hair playbook.
While the topknot is stylish and super easy, Refinery29 offers some imaginative antidotes to topknot boredom. From the upside down braid bun to the messy side bun, they've got a ton of styles to get your creative juices flowing. They also have an entire tutorial dedicated to the messy chignon given by Lea Michele's hairstylist, (seriously what's not to love about this website?) In order to try any of these new styles or just a regular albeit fantastic low bun, like this Fashionista, you are going to need a bevy of bobby pins and black, brown or nude (depending on hair color) hair-ties. Hairspray is also needed if you are not a huge fan of fly-aways. For all of you serialist topknot-ers I've some how-to's for you as well (although you've probably consider yourself a master). The most important part to any of these styles is actually making your knot high enough! Be sure to flip your head over so that you can create a super high pony, that is the key to success. Check out these two how-to's on the topknot and the messy topknot from HelloGiggles.com. Buns are the ultimate accessory; they are classy, fun, messy, elegant, sexy and stylish. You just can't go wrong when you rock a bun.