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Agreed. Thus the reason why they're called M-A-N-A-G-E-R-S
The manage the plants with western money, western boss, thank you.
This documentary has like 4 audio track running on top of each other & in one track there is a wierd discussion in eglish. Anyway its always good too see people care about polution.
Actually, that's not true. They're told what to do. If Chinese managers took many precautions from polluting the environment, that costs money. They can't do anything that will affect the money flow. If they did that, apple products and many other chinese made products will rise in price.
Now Mainland China has better conscience on environment protection than the US, 1/4 of world clean energy equipments are used in Mainland China.
Zhongshan even provides free bicycles (painted with green color) for using on downtown (used by IC card); but the US still uses big cars to pollute the world. The US is three times than Mainland China on per person green gas emission.
absolutely! its greedy companies from all over the world who have sweatshops in china. its so sad that this is allowed in china, or in any other country! we must start protesting heavily to get the message through, we dont want our companies in other countries destroying nature!
china is overpopulated
those fucking bandits,threating the journalist,and the government won't do a shit about it,actually the fucking local government have grant them the authorization to do so,they hire the gangsters to threat whoever try to take pictures of the factory and expose the bad things and illegals that they have done! see,where the fuck is the law? China has no law, the law is like a decoration and hallucination they use to fool the west! The whole fucking Communist party is like a big gangster group!
in order to maintain the fucking GDP which the communist uses as a tool to justify its political regime and to try to transfer the people's concentration on the poor living standard! i am sure the government won't do a shit do shut down the plant.we all know about those fucking corrupted communist officials,they sent their children overseas,while those peasants in China suffer! fuck them!
all the problems in China,if you dig deep enough,it always goes to the Fucking Chinese Communist Party,the biggest fucking dictatorship political party in the world,80 millions party members,and people have to pay tax to feed those fucking corrupted Communist Officials,fuck them,if the democracy comes,if there is freedom of press in China, if the communist step down,all of those issues will have solutions!
haha good one…. China's Pollution Busters
why we rich people do this?! only poor peole die and suffer
China always had their shit together until you shit came in with your weapons and invasions.
We're supposed to be impressed that Chinese culture is 5000 years old, as if getting old were some kind of accomplishment. Actually, it's an embarrassment in China's case, since they've had 5000 years to get their sh*t together and they're still a mess.
I don't care, that's over there.
The only reason that the Chinese gov are cracking down so hard on pollution in Hongshua River is because that river lead into Russia and the Russian are pretty piss about pollution flowing into their country.
the chinese government are made up of chinese people too. There are still a huge number of people in china who support the government (more of in a national pride way). many people who work in factories still support the government. The point is that who controls these corporations that run the factories, and people who rather send their factories and throw all of the pollution issues on china, creates china's pollution. this includes american, western and chinese corporations.
The chinese government, not the chinese people. They have essentially no regulatory policy to attract investors and encourage production and capital investment.
The chinese government inflates their currency so that there is enormous demand for their products, and chinese people cannot afford anything for all their hard work. The good side of this is high capital investment to meet the artificial demand for their products that they create this way…
so you want the chinese to pay the price, when they are vigorously and painfully making your products after the large demand it gets?
Actually its the fault of chinese policy you moron. They did this to attract jobs and work. and now theyre paying the price.
thanks guys for this. I'm a sustainability studies student and this was a good insight. Really appreciate it & kudos to the activists. They're real heroes esp. bc China is a place where a person is easily lost, an activist swiftly pushed aside w/o care. I don't understand how these companies can be so dumb, they are making profits for a future that is not possible w/o a world to live in. I use my goods w/ discretion & try to dispose of my things in an ecofriendly way – i try in my way…kinda.
Watched this whilst on computer made in china… wait what?
The common Chinese worker needs to revolt and topple the Politoburo and its communist dictatorship. The health and the rights of the Chinese worker must be respected by the government!
very good, informative video
China's Pollution Busters – China
Nov 2007 In the past six years, infant birth defects in China have increased by an unprecedented 40%. This rise is being blamed on pollution from factories. Now green campaigners are taking on the multinationals. "The untreated waste is pumped out secretly at night", states activist Wu Deng Ming, pointing at a water outlet leading from a factory into a river. "People living along the river have enlarged livers", claims one local. They suffer from: "loss of appetite or cancer and all sorts of terminal diseases". Although strong laws governing pollution exist, these are regularly flouted. "Some local officials give protection to polluters", claims Ma Jun. In an attempt to put pressure on polluters, campaigners are naming and shaming guilty companies online. "We let people know that this company, with such a popular brand, is violated waste water discharge standards". There are also signs that central government is taking the problem more seriously. "The state is very serious about environmental problems", states official Zhou Linbo. Some factories have been closed down. But strong resistance to change still exists. "Polluting factories hire hooligans to deal with people they believe will damage their reputation", claims Wu Deng Ming. Other companies threaten to relocate to Vietnam or Indonesia where; "we can still discharge more of less freely". Produced by SBS/Dateline Distributed by Journeyman Pictures


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Forthcoming Events
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"Sharing the Inkpot: The Literary Friendship
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Thursday 10th November 2016, 6.30pm
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The Writings of Walter de la Mare in the 21st Century
Richard Hawking
Richard Hawking will be discussing the contemporary relevance of de la Mare's writings
in our age of evolving media focusing on archiving, research and dissemination.
He is an English Teacher at The Royal Grammar School in Worcester, and has written
a thesis on the poetry of Walter de la Mare - he is also our Website guru.
A Concert of musical settings of poems by Walter de la Mare
Silk Street Music Hall, Silk Street, Barbican, London, EC2Y 8DT
Friday, 9th October, 2015 at 7.00 p.m.
Admission Free
Following the highly successful Concert at Ludlow recently, Iain Burnside leads postgraduate singers
and pianists from the Guildhall School of Music in a specially devised programme of English Song.
'His Name Was Dream'
The World of Walter de la Mare
Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Sunday 31st May 2015
The closing concert of the Ludlow English Song Weekend is a celebration of one of Britain's literary greats drawn from the 1,000 songs written to his words. The colourful miscellany includes songs by Howells, Gurney, Berkeley, Finzi, Richard Rodney Bennett.
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"This superb edition of Told Again brings a neglected work to twenty-first-century readers and is a great addition to the Oddly Modern Fairy Tales series. As Pullman's introduction shows, the collection sheds light on a poet's view of the wonder tale and its near relatives."--Pauline Greenhill, University of Winnipeg
"This eclectic collection of nineteen folk and fairy tales is without a doubt historically significant, and de la Mare seasons these concise and briskly paced retellings with a subtle, poetic musicality."--Mick Gowar, Anglia Ruskin University
Walter de la Mare's Language of Music and Mystery
Lecture by Christopher O' Shaughnessy in the house
where the poet lived from 1945 to 1956 October 2014
Unveiling of the Plaque to Walter de la Mare
Hill House, Taplow May 2014
Former Hill House resident Gavin Gordan (left) with Giles de la Mare
Recent Society Events, News and Publications
The Limits of Materialism
John Gray
John Gray draws on a story by Walter de la Mare to argue that the prevailing creed of scientific materialism is a "simple minded philosophy", preferring de la Mare's unsettling portrayal of everyday existence as insubstantial and unknowable."Even if there are such things as laws of nature, there's no reason to think they must be accessible to the human mind."
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The Power of the Imagination:
An Introduction to the Writing of Walter de la Mare
Richard Hawking 28th November 2013
A Talk on "The Listeners" by Giles de la Mare,
Followed by a Poetry Recital of Walter de la Mare
Poems Written During this Period
119 - Portrait of de la Mare by Mark Gerson (Vintage photograph).Commissioned by Faber and Faber 1953.
120 -Three autographed manuscripts: An Epitaph, The Willow, The Spirit of Air
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Beginnings and Endings -
Walter de la Mare's Career as a Writer
Joe Griffiths November 2012
'Songs to Walter de la Mare'
Composed by Sjef Frenken
This recently released CD comprises settings of 40 poems by de la Mare, sung by the composer, backed by members of the Aomezeyck Ensemble.

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Categories: Lessons Learned
Getting Real with Lessons Learned
Categories: Lessons Learned
By now, if you have been following my blog posts, you know the importance of lessons learned. In past posts, I have provided many tips on how to conduct them, who should be involved and the types of project management tools to use for evaluation in the sessions.
But how do you get true value of lessons learned? To glean results that can really fuel change, focus your lessons learned on the following questions and actions:
What did not go so well? Do not finger point. Ensure the discussion is targeted toward the actions, not a person. Try to gather specifics. For example, if a delay caused a slip in the project timeline, discuss the lesson that caused the specific problem, and alternatives that might have avoided the delay. Perhaps there was a miscommunication that caused the delay. In that case, extract the lesson that led to that miscommunication. These are the lessons that you want to document and mark for corrective action. Actions or lessons that are not documented well cannot be translated into controllable elements.
What went well? Determine your successes, and then strategize what needs to be done so these actions can be repeated. Adopt processes around these successes that may not already exist in your system for managing projects. If it is a process that has been working well for a long time, integrate it with your new and existing policies and procedures but in a way that it remains intact and unchanged. You should also consider rewards and recognition events for successes. There are many ways to accomplish this, even when budgets are tight. For example, using social media by posting praises and kudos to employees online can go a long way.
What are we going to do to improve projects going forward? This is really the main objective of lessons learned. You can get together to understand what went wrong and what was right on your projects, but more importantly, you will want to leave the session with a direction on how to have future successes on a continuous basis. For this to happen, take the time to rank the learnings in some ordinal manner. For example, consider what needs to be addressed immediately and how to make the action possible; determine what can be changed and how to minimize the impacts; and explore how to ensure processes are apparent and possibly even mandatory. No matter what ranking system is used, conclude the meeting with an accountable action plan.
What do you see as next steps after getting together, gaining reality and gathering the lessons? Share your thoughts below, and Voices on Project Management will publish the best response as a blog post.
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|Stephen Duffield
Hi Bernadine, I have enjoyed reading your posts on lessons learned. I have recently delivered a paper on 'a systemic lessons learned and captured knowledge (SLLCK) model for project organizations'. This research was focussed on exploring whether a SLLCK model can influence the dissemination and application of project management lessons learned between the project team and the organisation. The SLLCK model is based on the reverse relationships of the Reason Swiss cheese model where the variables of learning, culture, social, technology, process and infrastructure need to align and be effective to disseminate and apply lessons learned. The reverse relationship refers to the fact that the open holes in the variable layers represent the various facilitators in each of those areas that enable the dissemination and application of the identified lessons. The study suggests that by reconceptualising lessons learned, the SLLCK model can influence the dissemination and application of project management lessons learned. We established that the alignment of the people and system elements could positively influence the success of an organisation's lessons learned processes. We also found that the people element and culture factor may well be the most likely to negatively influence lessons learned in organisations. Furthermore, the study also established that several variables of the model and their elements need to align to ensure organisational lessons are learned by means of projects. Many of the facilitators and barriers identified are not directly related to the project management and knowledge management operational processes; however they have significant consequences on how project knowledge is used within an organisation. One clear finding was the confirmation that lessons identification processes do exist and seems to work well and that the problem is with the dissemination and application of lessons learned. This causes individuals to believe the lessons learned process is working when in fact only the first part of the process (lessons identified - observed) is working. This separation of the lessons (identification) learned process is seldom discussed in the literature. I would encourage your blog readers to have a look at my pm lessons learned blog as I continue the PhD research journey on lessons learned. http://www.pmlessonslearned.info Regards, Stephen Duffield
|Jim Miller
Ideally, you would like for the lessons to be used and applied to future projects. There is a major stumbling block that stands in the way of effectively applying lessons learned. Perhaps the biggest challenge with lessons learned lies in our inability, or perhaps our unwillingness, to see commonality between history and our current, seemingly unique, circumstances. We must overcome this impediment, and to do so, we need to adhere to three important principles: 1) insights must find you (not the other way around), 2) insights must clearly connect with our current challenge, and 3) application of these insights must be compelling in terms of their incentives—the value to be gained by applying or the cost to be incurred by ignoring them. This major obstacle stems from two well-known social psychology phenomenons, the fundamental attribution error and the closely related self-serving bias. The fundamental attribution error, in simple terms, is our tendency to attribute the success or failure of others to their personality characteristics while downplaying or ignoring situational factors. The closely related self-serving bias says that we similarly credit our own success to superior personal factors but that we view our own failures as the result of extenuating circumstances of the situation. In the world of project management and specifically in applying lessons learned from past projects, we are likely to discount or ignore a corporate database full of excuses for what we may believe was simply failed leadership. We may believe that if we had been running those projects we would have done things differently. Even if we can sympathize with the plight of the PM colleagues that have gone before us, our circumstances, customers, and teams are surely different those they faced. Furthermore, if we believed that the database contained valuable nuggets of information here and there, it would take too long to sift through the data and our time is better spent planning for the current undertaking. The hope of lessons learned, however, is not lost… There are three principles we can follow that can help make lesson learned more effective. First, we must present the PM with insights from previous work rather than direct him or her to search a repository. Seldom will the PM have enough time or motivation to conduct a thorough investigation. A better option is to conduct this search for him or her through manual or preferably automated means. The manual approach could leverage members of a PMO, who could use the PM's new project charter to launch an investigation into pertinent lessons that could be applied to the new project. The PMO would be better suited from a knowledge management and historical perspective and would also be able to remain objective in their search. The PM if left alone might focus a search on what he or she might anticipate being problematic and might miss out on other valuable lessons. The PMO could provide similar support throughout the project's lifecycle, conducting focused searches based on project progress and major milestone events. An automated way to present information to the PM might use the Project Charter and other project documentation to launch automated queries to the repository of lessons based on keywords. This could work much like the way that targeted advertisements are presented to users based on the content of e-mail. This leads us to the second principle. Insights must clearly connect with our current challenge. The lessons must be captured and documented in such a way that their characteristics and context are sufficiently detailed and indexed. When the PM is presented with information on lessons, the applicability must be easy to ascertain. Finally, the PM should be eager to apply lessons because of the compelling incentives. If applying the lessons could result in better use of resources or could save time, it should be stated as such. During the lesson capture process, careful attention should be taken to identify and quantify the impacts that initially occurred (positive or negative) and that could apply to future situations. Sporting analogies could certainly apply here: Last time we faced a 4th and one in this position of the field, against this opponent, they ran this defensive play, we ran this offensive play and we had this result. This kind of detailed data capturing allows for trend analysis that can inform future decisions. Most PMs and senior leaders believe that capturing lessons learned is important, but there is seldom if ever any forcing function that requires re-visiting those lessons and ensuring their application to new projects. We must guard against the tendencies to think that history does not apply to our current situation and that our personality and leadership are superior to our predecessors. We must present pertinent lessons to our PMs through manual or preferably automated means, we must make sure that lessons are characterized such that their applicability is clear and we must clearly communicate the incentives involved in applying them.
|Shaun Wheeler
I provided a lessons learned report on a similar project that had been commissioned two years earlier and had lost £60 million, after having interviewed senior contractor personnel on the previous project. One of the issues that had contributed disproportionately to financial losses and delays on the previous project was the failure of process designers to involve structural engineers at an early stage, so this issue was high on our agenda for the new project. However, all the specifics added to the turnkey contract were removed by the lawyers so the project team were left with no contractual levers to force the issue.
|Aleksey Kim
According to my experience, the biggest problem is not to create and document the lessons learned from project, but to share and use lessons learned for future projects. I posting lessons learned on the web site http://www.lessonslearned.ru . And I give the link to colleagues, but under deadline pressure many project managers doesn't read the lessons learned from previous projects. How do you get out of this situation?
Aleksey Kim
According to my experience, the biggest problem is not to create and document the lessons learned from project, but to share and use lessons learned for future projects. I posting lessons learned on the web site http://www.lessonslearned.ru . And I give the link to colleagues, but under deadline pressure many project managers doesn't read the lessons learned from previous projects. How do you get out of this situation?
Aleksey Kim
|Bernadine Douglas
Hi Shaun, That is an extremely costly loss. It just doesn't seem possible that the lawyers would have had those specifics removed unless the gain is more important than the loss. I am glad to hear your lesson became an agenda item. It most likely raised some awareness and possibilities for future opportunities to be proactive because of some aspect of the lesson. Thanks for sharing. Bernadine
|Bernadine Douglas
Hi Jim, You provide a long and thorough explanation of your thoughts on lessons learned. Thank you. Bernadine
|Bernadine Douglas
Hi Stephen, I accessed your site and read about the SLLCK model. Your research is quite informative. I look forward to reading more on what you gather and present about the model. Please keep me posted, and thanks for sharing. Bernadine
|Bernadine Douglas
Hi Aleksey, My apologies for the delay in responding. Anyway, having your lessons learned on a website for all to access is an important aspect of making them visible. Here are some other suggestions that may also be helpful in getting them to the next level of being used: - Have the lessons included as part of project information when a project manager takes on a project. Most project managers will review project information to get familiar with the project needs, history, any background information, and its goals and risks. If the information is available in this manner, it may allow the project manager to take that time to review, and it would most likely be a time when there is little pressure. - Does your group have meetings where all project managers get together? Maybe you could include the lessons as an agenda item where project managers will review the lessons, talk and share comments about them, and be able to absorb some of the specifics about the lessons. This would allow project managers to consider what other areas and information may impact their projects. It also allows an event for project managers to get together and share experiences. - Consider using an assistant role or some role similar where additional responsibilities may be added to this role. Have this person oversee the lessons learned website and be responsible for selecting lessons that would apply to projects being handed out. This person would not only select the lessons with the most match, but they would also follow up for any additional inquiries about the lessons, such as what were suggested next steps mentioned or other options that may have been tried, but weren't as successful. This would allow this project manager to have better directions to try for their project. These are all suggestions. You may have done one or more of these already. If so, please share that experience. Also, given the time frame from your comment to my response, is there anything else you done since collecting the lessons on the website? I would be interested in hearing about that. In any case, having the website is a good plan. Best of luck. Bernadine
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Cameron was expected to offer insights into how he proposes to renegotiate Britain's relationship with the EU, and whether that bartering will result in the country's ultimate exit from the bloc.
It is unclear when the speech would be delivered. Cameron is staying in Britain to oversee the situation unfolding at a natural gas plant in the Sahara Desert, Downing Street said. Algerian forces launched a military assault on Thursday to try to free dozens of foreign hostages -- including an unknown number of Britons -- held by militants.
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Britain's relationship with the European Union has been fraught since the creation of the bloc. Several Conservative leaders before Cameron, including Margaret Thatcher and John Major, all have tried to carve out more sovereignty for Britain inside the EU.
Many viewed Cameron's speech as an attempt to shore up support from euroskeptics in the leader's Conservative Party. But with the EU largely focused on stemming its debt crisis, playing to internal politics could backfire and anger nations like Germany, which has taken a lead in untangling Europe's economic woes.
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I'm meant to under go a body lift(tummy,buttock,thighs) in July. Initially,I went for a lower body lift I'mquite thin from the upperbody but the doc said that since we had to operate anyway we should target the optimum effect and include thetummy?The operation will last4hrs and be under GA.I am scared to death about GA and would like to find an alternative. The same doc did a lipo a couple of yrs ago under epidural& everything went extremly well.What would you recommend.Is IVsedation possible?
Can I Have a Lowerbody Lift Under IV Sedation and NOT a General Anesthesia?
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Without examining you and the skin and amount of fat pinch? From the pictures posted I do not see an indication for that extensive surgery. I may change my mind after examination.
you still have areas that need liposuction for OPTIMAL RESULTS :-)
If the doctor need to position you on your stomach to complete the body lift, then you can not do it under sedation.
Surgery Can be done with an epidural or general anesthesia. If you are scared of general anesthesia then discuss with your surgeon
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Thank you for your question and photos.
I would only perform this procedure under General Anesthesia. Talk to your surgeon and see what options you have. Your safety is FIRST PRIORITY. Make sure that a board certified Anesthesiologist is administering the anesthesia, make sure your surgery is safely performed (I perform my procedures in an outpatient surgery center on the campus of a hospital).
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Anesthesia For Lower Body Lift
Lower body lifts are almost always performed under general anesthesia. IV sedation is not appropriate at all for this procedure. If you have a real fear of general anesthesia, it probably is possible to have a regional (spinal) anesthetic. I would be concerned about an epidural because of all of the turning necessary with the body lift. You would need to make certain your surgeon is agreeable.
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Kentucky Wildcats Basketball: Which Players Have a Chance to Go Pro in 2013?September 26, 2012
The upcoming college basketball season will be nothing like its predecessor. Just look at the Kentucky Wildcats: There will be five new faces in Lexington next year. But the 2012-13 Wildcats have something in common with the 2012 national champions.
Everyone has a chance to go pro.
Well, almost everyone.
Every player that plays significant minutes could play professional basketball next year. I'm talking Nerlens Noel, Alex Poythress, Archie Goodwin, Ryan Harrow, Willie Cauley-Stein and Kyle Wiltjer.
Those are six players that will see major minutes under head coach John Calipari. Julius Mays will play as well, but this is his last year of eligibility anyway. The aforementioned six are all capable of playing at the next level right now.
How the season plays out will likely determine who stays and who leaves.
Take, for example, 2010-11 point guard Brandon Knight. Most thought he would stay for at least two years because he was stellar in the classroom and had facets of his game that could use some tuning up before NBA play.
But after a striking run through the 2011 NCAA tournament to the Final Four, Knight's draft stock was through the roof.
He was drafted eighth in the 2011 NBA draft.
Marquis Teague's story is similar, but different. Teague didn't have the smoothest transition to the college game than those point guards before him. He was regarded as the "weakest link" on a national championship team.
But he won a national championship.
Teague could have stayed and developed a better jumper. But he had just won 38 games, including a national championship. He went out on top and was drafted 29th in the 2012 NBA draft.
The same thing could happen on the 2012-13 squad.
Noel, Poythress and Goodwin seem like near-locks. They are the three players with NBA-ready size and athleticism, although none have a "polished" game—yet. All three seem to have loved their college experience thus far.
Harrow is the presumed next in line to leave. At a very generous 6'2", 170 pounds, Harrow does not have the size to grind out an 82-game season in the NBA. But he shows flashes of a Brandon Jennings-like game.
That's an apt high-end comparison for Harrow, but he first needs to prove it on the court.
From there, things get murky. WCS is the tallest player on the team, but he might be the most raw. He'd have a tough go in the NBA if he were to leave early.
Wiltjer could leave after this year, but college basketball suits his game more than professional ball. A high-end comparison for him would be Ryan Anderson, who left California after two seasons. Anderson, however, had a very productive freshman campaign and was much better on the glass.
What if this team makes the 2013 Final Four? Would they all bolt? Would some follow in Terrence Jones' and Doron Lamb's footsteps and stay for another year to make it even further?
On a more pessimistic note, what if this team fails to meet expectations?
What if a fourth-straight Sweet 16 bid is too much to ask?
There would be some unfinished business, that's for sure. But when the NBA comes calling, most players listen.
It's a fair assumption to say that some will stay, if not most. All options are viable at this very early stage of the year.


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Long battle to rebuild finance trust
The fog around Ross Asset Management has lifted a little, only to compound investor fears of what could be a near total loss of their funds.
The question that now needs to be answered is how whatever it was that went on at Ross went undetected. How long has any mismanagement, or worse, been going on and what checks if any were made of the business by regulators?
What it does show is the battle to rebuild trust in New Zealand's capital markets, our investment scene and regulatory structures after the finance company debacle will be a long one.
I'm not particularly worried that people will wonder who they can trust on the New Zealand investment scene. They should wonder that. It's entirely healthy. But such concerns should not stop them making choices and actually investing.
Investors have to perform some due diligence on the companies they place their hard-earned money with.
While we don't know yet exactly what transpired at Ross, there have been a series of worrying cases coming to light over the last few years. Investors would do well to remember the old maxim that if an investment or business opportunity appears to good to be true, it probably is, no matter how charming or convincing the people involved are.
Investors also need to look at the detail of investments they are offered. If you thought, for instance, that property or property syndicates were a safer bet than equities, take a look at page 16.
A combination of debt, recession and writedowns has served investors in SPI's Hunua syndicate rather poorly. It is easy to see why an investor presented with such an opportunity would think they were on to a good thing.
But they weren't. Property values, particularly commercial property values, are to a very large extent determined by the income a property can generate. That in turn can be affected greatly by the economy. Throw in debt and management fees and things can get pretty ugly, pretty quickly.
And again, at risk of stating the obvious (how often do you have to state this?), diversification is the best defence.
Suggestions that some investors in Ross had placed most of their funds with the company, which appeared to specialise in a couple of sectors, again reveal the folly of chasing high returns across an entire portfolio.
Risk is part of investment, but so is risk management.
Do bother to get your head around the risks you are taking. Understand that markets change. Ask yourself a series of what-if questions and try to model the outcomes of different scenarios on your investments.
Rob O'Neill is the Sunday Star Times business editor.
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Kill A Better Mousetrap, a one-act play recently featured at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, has been extended as part of the "Best of Fringe"!
Additional performances will occur on Sunday, 28 July, at 1pm and again at 5:30pm.
Miles Edward Merbinau has somehow inherited the film rights to the world's longest running play, Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap. Unfortunately, due to a legal technicality, he can't do anything with them until the original London production of the play (now in its 60th year!) closes… which hardly seems imminent. Several "peaceable" efforts to shut down The Mousetrap having backfired on him, Merbinau is now determined to borrow a leaf from Dame Agatha's own works… murder!
The people have raved, of course, but the author and lead actor, Scott Ratner, felt that some celebrity endorsements would also be fitting. Having failed to secure them, he had to roll his own:
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Please find embedded in this website information, crucial and otherwise, regarding my apprenticeship in the town of Stain'd-By-The-Sea, collected and indexed in the reports All The Wrong Questions including the newest volume "Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?". The material contained in these books is severely restricted to those who can read. If you cannot read, please stop reading this letter.
With all due respect,
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Train travel! Murder! Librarians! A Series Finale!
On all other nights, the train departs from Stain'd Station and travels to the city without stopping. But not tonight. You might ask, why is this night different from all other nights? But that's the wrong question. Instead ask, where is this all heading? And what happens at the end of the line? The final book in Lemony Snicket's bestselling series, All The Wrong Questions.
Is Lemony Snicket a detective or a smoke detector?
Do you smell smoke? Young apprentice Lemony Snicket is investigating a case of arson but soon finds himself enveloped in the ever-increasing mystery that haunts the town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea. Who is setting the fires? What secrets are hidden in the Department of Education? Why are so many schoolchildren in danger? Is it all the work of the notorious villain Hangfire? How could you even ask that? What kind of education have you had?
Maybe you should be in school?
I should have asked the question "How could someone who was missing be in two places at once?" Instead, I asked the wrong question — four wrong questions, more or less. This is the account of the second.
In the fading town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea, young apprentice Lemony Snicket has a new case to solve when he and his chaperone are hired to find a missing girl. Is the girl a runaway? Or was she kidnapped? Was she seen last at the grocery store? Or could she have stopped at the diner? Is it really any of your business? These are All The Wrong Questions.
In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows about. He started by asking questions that shouldn't have been on his mind. Now he has written an account that should not be published, in four volumes that shouldn't be read, the first two chapters of which should not be included here but are.
Paintings have been falling off of walls, a loud and loyal dog has gone missing, a specter has been seen walking the pier at midnight -- strange things are happening all over the town of Stain'd-By-The-Sea. Called upon to investigate thirteen suspicious incidents, young Lemony Snicket collects clues, questions witnesses, and cracks every case. Join the investigation and tackle the mysteries alongside Snicket, then turn to the back of the book to see the solution revealed.
Step into Lemony Snicket's world of deep mystery, mysterious depth, deductive reasoning, and reasonable deductions.
by Ryan Britt
Like its predecessors, "Shouldn't You Be in School? is almost too charming for its own good—if Wes Anderson were to make a mystery television series with real stakes, but also with hilariously self-referential and intelligently original dialogue and starring a 13-year-old, it would probably feel like these Lemony Snicket books. (Take notice movie/television studios: if you let someone adapt All the Wrong Questions, let it be Wes Anderson!)
by Lemony Snicket
There is nothing authors enjoy more than receiving letters from readers informing them of grammatical or rhetorical errors in their published work. Each time a book of Mr. Snicket's is published, he receives many such letters, and as his official representative I always wish I could meet these correspondents in person so I might explain that Mr. Snicket purposefully litters his work with textual mistakes in order to test their acumen. Why not challenge yourself now, grammarians and other policers?
The author proclaims he is "trapped in a windowless room but nonetheless willing to answer any questions" in his Reddit AMA. His answers were both incredibly inspiring and marvelously miserable.
In honor of April Fool's Day, a plagiarism scandal has ignited between Lemony Snicket and Malcolm Gladwell.
According to a press release posted on Snicket's website, Gladwell's latest book David & Goliath contains original material sourced from Snicket's new book File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents. To back up his accusations, Snicket has shared "evidence" on his website to support his claims.
File Under presents 13 mini-mysteries that a young Snicket must solve, and for the audio version, 13 very cool people have signed on to read. Among them are a few radio hosts, an MSNBC anchor, some popular YA authors, musicians, and a football player. Listen to an intro from all 13 readers and see the list exclusively below:
Want to get a preview of the buzzy books coming out this spring and summer? Here, read an excerpt of File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents, a collection of noir mysteries from the author of A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler).
It's hard to keep a stealthy sleuth down – witness Lemony Snicket's forthcoming return to Stain'd-By-The-Sea, the shadowy setting of his All the Wrong Questions series of "autobiographical" mysteries. Next April Fools' Day, Little, Brown will release File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents, a collection of 13 noir mini-mysteries illustrated by Seth, who also provides the art for All the Wrong Questions.
From time to time people say to me, "Lemony Snicket, you write dreadful and shocking books. What sort of writing do you find dreadful and shocking yourself?"
My reply to them is always the same: "Please be quiet, I'm trying to read." Nevertheless, I occasionally stumble upon a dreadful and/or shocking passage of children's literature that may have passed unnoticed by other readers with less investigative or hysterical temperaments. I am grateful to the Huffington Post for allowing me to point out these disturbing passages so that the general public can be as flushed and sputtering as I am.
For readers who've been missing "unfortunate events" with the Baudelaire children, welcome back to the land of Lemony Snicket. Here he brings a memoir of a young detective, 13, named "Lemony Snicket." LS-the-character, after unexpectedly exiting a family lunch through a restroom window, goes hunting for a missing statue of something called the "Bombinating Beast."
While the Unfortunate Events books play with ideas about gothic literature, All the Wrong Questions explores detective-noir conventions. Handler tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that initially, he had concerns about writing in a noir style for younger readers, not least because of the central role of the genre's femme fatale characters and their sexualized personas. But then he had an epiphany that freed him from this worry: In noir, he realized, the detective and the femme fatale are doing the exact same thing.
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(POCATELLO, ID) – The U.S. Postal Service's mail processing center in Pocatello could soon close. Federal officials have plans to shutter 86 facilities in 2015, including the location off of Flandro Drive.
The processing center has been on the chopping block for nearly three years, but previous closures have been delayed until consolidated processing centers can be updated elsewhere.
They hope to close Pocatello's facility sometime next week, with all operations moving to Salt Lake City.
UPDATE – East Idaho News has received word from Brian Sperry of the USPS. "The story states the change will take place next week. Actually the change is estimated to take place in April of 2015 and it's not all operations, only the mail processing operations will move to Salt Lake City. The building will remain open as a Post Office."


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You may not have heard the explosion, but it happened.
A review from The Cochrane Collaboration, a widely respected research-analysis team, went over all the evidence, and entered its conclusion:
In healthy adults, no flu vaccine delivers protection from the flu.
It doesn't protect against transmission of flu viruses from person to person, either.
Here is another article on the study by Heidi Stevenson:
No Value in Any Influenza Vaccine: Cochrane Collaboration Study
The study, Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults, is damning of the entire pharmaceutical industry and its minions: the drug testing industry and the medical system that both relies on and promotes them.
In the usual scientific journal style of understatement, the authors concluded:
The results of this review seem to discourage the utilisation of vaccination against influenza in healthy adults as a routine public health measure. As healthy adults have a low risk of complications due to respiratory disease, the use of the vaccine may be only advised as an individual protection measure against symptoms in specific cases.
This is when the pharmaceutical industry will announce some new kind of flu, sending people into a panic to rush for the new vaccine which, coincidentally, the pharmaceutical industry will announce that they have been working on, and will rush into production in time to save the world.
Except most people are already wise to that ploy, having already seen the rerun, and having seen too much of the truth to be fooled once more by the man (or CEO's) behind the curtain.
Well that study is 2 years old (published 7th July 2010). I haven't seen a panic about it yet - and I'm curious why it's news on the anti vax website. It's hardly damning of the entire pharmaceutical industry either - it's a discussion of the efficacy and side effects of flu vaccination in healthy adults. That's all.
If you actually read the study - the full text is here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001269.pub4/full - instead of the anti-vax spun summary of it, you can find things like:
So it made you 4 times less likely to get flu if it matched the circulating strain well, and if you keep reading, even when it didn't match so well it made you 2 times less likely to get it.
They also show that the flu vaccine costs the medical industry money (by reducing doctor visits):
Their overall summary is that the vaccine does help, but not significantly enough to warrant a wide spread vaccination programme:
And again it seems the UK National Health Service at least reads these things - healthy adults in the UK are not recommended to get flu vaccine routinely.
Oh and look there's a Aug 2012 report by the same group discussing flu vaccines for children.
if I recall kathymuggle posted it recently. This showed that vaccination programmes in children over the age of 2 was helpful (especially flumist).
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Women's Golf Begins Play at Schooner Fall Classic
Grace Na is tied for 18th in the individual standings.
Oct. 5, 2013
NORMAN, Okla. - The Pepperdine's women's golf team's quest to begin a season with an unprecedented third straight title got off to a rocky start during Saturday's first round of the Schooner Fall Classic.
After winning New Mexico's Dick McGuire Invitational and the Golfweek Conference Challenge last month, the Waves had won two tournaments to start a season for the third time in program history. It may be tough to get win number three, however, as the Waves shot a 309 at the par-70 Belmar Golf Club and are in 13th place out of 15 teams with two rounds to go.
Senior Grace Na (Alameda, Calif./Alameda HS) had the best day for the Waves, as the three-time All-American shot a 4-over 74 and is tied for 18th place. Na had the team's only two birdies on the day.
Sophomore Marissa Chow (Honolulu, Hawaii/Iolani HS) is tied for 37th place at 77, senior Liv Cheng (Auckland, New Zealand) and freshman Alessandra Arza (Asuncion, Paraguay) are tied for 55th after 79s and junior Somin Lee (Denver, Colo./Overland HS) is tied for 70th after an 82.
The second round is on Sunday and the third round is on Monday. The Waves' final tournament of the fall is the Stanford Intercollegiate on Oct. 25-27.
Team Scores: T1. Oklahoma State 293; T1. Arizona State 293; 3. LSU 295; 4. Florida State 296; T5. Kent State 298; T5. Denver 298; 7. Kentucky 300; 8. TCU 301; T9. Texas State 303; T9. Texas A&M 303; 11. SMU 306; 12. Oklahoma 307; 13. Pepperdine 309; 14. Georgia 311; 15. Texas Tech 313.
Individual Leaders: 1. Jayde Panos (Oklahoma State) 67; 2. Katerina Ruzickova (Texas A&M) 68; T3. five players tied at 70.
Pepperdine Scores: T18. Grace Na 74; T37. Marissa Chow 77; T55. Liv Cheng 79; T55. Alessandra Arza 79; T70. Somin Lee 82.


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Horoscope for Sept. 2
September 2, 2010
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — This is one of those unusual days when it'll seem that everything is going your way, because it is. Concentrate on the two areas that might mean the most to you — finances and work.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) — Now is the time to take another shot at a problem that you've been unable to resolve. Your mind is much sharper than recently, and should easily be able to come up with the answers that have eluded you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — By all means, do not simply coast, but do know that it could be those very factors over which you have little or no control that could produce some of your greatest benefits.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) — Don't be so quick to ignore a friend's unconventional idea. It isn't necessarily something that should be ignored, because there's a good chance it will result in something quite huge.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — It's not like you to be timid about going after a difficult objective, so don't start now. You'll find that you're resourceful, and you could come up with an ingenious idea for easily achieving it.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — Although you might prefer a planned agenda, there is a good chance that some kind of spontaneous activity will occupy your time and turn out to be both fun and productive.
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PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) — Even if your tactics appear to be complicated and confusing to onlookers, you'll actually achieve exactly what you want by following your game plan.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Check out everyone you know who might have the missing pieces you're seeking to put a plan together. Chances are it will be someone you'd least expect who has the answer.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Even if everything is going your way, it will still be up to you to recognize your opportunities and make the most of them. Otherwise, you'll simply have a nice day.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Do a little reorganizing, and you'll be amazed at how easily you'll be able to put together something that you've always had difficulty doing. Don't hesitate to use an unconventional touch.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Take advantage of this brief cycle, and focus on everything it has to offer, because these good periods are meant to make progress in ways you couldn't do otherwise.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You'll have a far better chance to realize your goals if you aren't hesitant to include some of the ideas of others. Opening your mind to the suggestions of others gives you greater potential for achieving success.


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A great idea, and one which someone will hopefully extend to Tk and XUL.
The documentation on integrating perl functions into the XML seemed a little light to me, relying as it does upon example applications which crash perl.exe.
Funny thing: trying to install this module via CPAN gives the following message:
Fetching with LWP:
Going to read C:\.cpan\sources\modules\03modlist.data.gz
Going to write C:\.cpan\Metadata
The module Agent has no active maintainer.
Running install for module Agent
The module Agent isn't available on CPAN.
Either the module has not yet been uploaded to CPAN, or it is
temporary unavailable. Please contact the author to find out
more about the status. Try 'i Agent'.
I suppose this may be a CPAN issue, but I don't really have time to look into it at the moment. Of course I'll update this text as and when.
Great - but please can we have the documentation in standard POD format so that it can be read from perldoc and on CPAN.org?
Please have a look at your blah blah blah ...


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Coach Damon Baldwin's teams are known for their ability to run the football. Baldwin finds a gifted back or two and has them run behind a bruising offensive line.
On Sunday, April 15, Baldwin's team will be walking or running or biking, but not to win a football game. They have a friend they want to honor. On April 15, the Bulldog football team will be Team Curran for one day.
Curran Valverde is a 4-year-old Ramona resident who was born with epilepsy. His family has supported him all the way.
"We have been participating in Sharon's Ride, Run, Walk since Curran was diagnosed with epilepsy," said Darlene Scott, Curran's grandmother. "Not every member of our family could walk every year. Curran's dad, Ryan, has been deployed to Kuwait and the Philippines (he is in the Navy), and one year one of the brothers had a basketball game, but we have all walked at one time or another for the last five years. Last year when Ryan was deployed we sent him a shirt and he ran 5K in the Philippines at the same time that we walked here."
The walkers have included Curran's dad, mom Kris, brother Aiden, grandparents Darlene and Mark and uncles Trevor and Wyatt.
This year the family has approximately 70 new members.
"We were discussing epilepsy in our class and somehow it came up that Wyatt Scott has a nephew that has epilepsy," said Baldwin. "One thing led to another and Wyatt mentioned that he walks in a yearly walk that is coming up. I said that if anybody was interested in walking in the walk that they should let me know. I could not believe the response that I got. We invited Curran to our class and we all fell in love with the kid and his smile. He is one of us.
"This community gives generously to our program and we like to give back. The team raised money in our lift-a-thon with the support of the community so we are giving back."
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Baldwin paid the entrance fees for the walk and had Team Curran T-shirts made. If you would like to join Team Curran, go to www.epilepsysandiego.org.
Sharon's Ride, Run, Walk is the largest epilepsy awareness event in the United States. The 15-mile Family Fun Bike Ride starts at 8:45 a.m. at DeAnza Cove in Mission Bay. The 5K run and walk starts at 9:30 a.m. There will be a picnic, beach party, music, entertainment and prizes, a giant inflatable jumper, and several of your favorite characters will be on hand. You might see Spiderman, Dora, and Sponge Bob. All proceeds benefit the Epilepsy Foundation of San Diego.
"It was a very touching moment when we took Curran to meet the Bulldogs at the weight room," said Scott. "Christian Drews came up to Curran's father, Ryan, and introduced himself and shook hands and said, 'I am walking in honor of your son.' That is when we understood what Bulldog football is really all about."


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Have 2109 switch. Unfortunately we have to re IP it. Having major problems connecting via serial connection. Lenovao laptop I have does not have serial port so using USB to RS232 convertor attached to a serial cable (which is actually a rs232 to ethernet cable attached to ethernet to RS232 converter).
Have installed drivers for usb converter and have tested the connection to a few servers but cannot get a response from the 2109 switch using either hyperterminal or ssh!!
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Re: Serial connection to IBM 2109-F16 switch2013-01-22T08:06:01ZThis is the accepted answer. This is the accepted answer.1. Be aware, Broadcom switches requires straight-through serial cable, not null-modem.
2. Almost all USB-to-Serial converters doesn't emulate all rs-232 pinouts, so, try to find near switch an device with "real" serial port.
3. Try to connect your laptop to SAN switch LAN port, best using crossover cable, launch an network analyzer, like WireShark, and sniff network traffic. Switch periodically sends broadcast packets and you'll see it current IP address.


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This takes some stones. Massey Energy, whose mine explosion in West Virginia in April killed 29 people, has decided to sue the Mine Safety and Health Administration, along with three of its regulators, over MSHA's denial of Massey's preferred mine ventilation plans.
Massey's lawsuit says that federal law didn't allow the company to challenge MSHA's requirements, saying such a restriction "violated its constitutional rights," according to the Wall Street Journal. Specifically in question was MSHA's denial of Massey's plan to use "dust scrubbers."
In particular, Massey said the MSHA prevented the company from using dust scrubbers in its mines that would filter out dust that is dangerous for miners to breathe. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., by six Massey subsidiaries based in West Virginia and Kentucky.
"The goal of the lawsuit is pretty simple. It's to retain some control of the ventilation plans our mines operate under," said Shane Harvey, Massey's general counsel.
Amy Louviere, an MSHA spokeswoman, said the agency doesn't comment on pending litigation. The agency has said it restricted the use of scrubbers at Massey mines because the equipment wasn't cleaning the air adequately.
So the agency in charge of protecting the safety of mines and miners made the determination that the mine company's plan to keep its mines safe was inadequate. After 29 workers died, Massey turns around and throws a hissy fit and sues MSHA. Why was Massey so hung up on using dust scrubbers? Turns out MSHA says it allows them to produce more coal. Of course.
The MSHA's administrator for coal-mine safety and health, Kevin Stricklin, who was named in the Massey suit as a defendant, previously said he believed Massey wanted to use scrubbers to enable it to increase its production rates, because scrubbers can allow a company to mine more coal without interruption.
Mr. Harvey denied that production issues spurred the lawsuit. "We didn't take this step lightly," he said. "Obviously we would prefer not to sue the agency that regulates us."
Blankenship previously proclaimed it was "very difficult" to obey "nonsensical" safety rules. In 2001, Blankenship said he "doesn't pay much attention to the violation count," and a few years later, issued a memo to employees telling the ignore any order – including safety – except to "run coal" because "coal pays the bills." He even said mine safety regulations were "as silly as global warming."
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Trying not to drink while TTC: good excuses?(14 Posts)
Hangover is by far the best excuse, too skint to pay for a taxi home so having to drive is second best. Third would be confiding in one person there and getting them to drink all your alcoholic drinks; VERY LAST is antibiotics as its the one everyone blames when hiding early pregnancy!
Alternatively eat stupidly healthy food, refuse anything fried, and say you're trying to lose weight on <<insert fad diet>>?
Two things. One, don't beat yourself up about the booze if you drink in moderation. I'm a long time ttc-er (yay me!) and have gone from drinking 3 bottles of wine a week to currently none. However, I genuinely have done dryathlon. And boy did it suck. I now allow (!) myself 6-8 units a week and I've cut down so gradually I don't miss it too much these days. I'd have found a dry January very hard once, but it's been fairly easy, except Friday nights. The evidence is mixed and boy have I done my research! Well, I've had two years to think about it. Some studies suggest that moderate (ie a bit) alcohol actually increases fertility. Others suggest less than 2 units boosts it. What studies don't show is that booze might get people in the mood for shagging and people who don't drink much are more likely not to smoke, probably eat more healthily and do more exercise. Such is statistics and research. It is difficult to see how a little bit of drinking could have much of an impact really. And in the case of my instant conception party hard friends - it really didn't.
Two. Excuses that have worked for me..
1) cystitis. No one ever questions that one.
2) dryathlon was a winner! No questions asked. Similarly, 'I felt I've been drinking too much' silences people
3) training for a run
4) blaming bikram yoga
5) saying I'd had the runs (I have no shame)
6) saying dh has bet me I couldn't give it up.
7) when all else fails, discrete binning of drink.
Trying to pass of non alcoholic drinks as booze and being designated driver and blaming antibiotics have all raised intense suspicion.
Now everyone knows I'm barren as a stone no one really cares!
Health kicks are good, but faking drinks is as well - I used to get lemonades and claim they were G&Ts when I was pregnant with my first.
My excuse is I've been doing dry jan and for feb I'm saying I'm going on a health kick!
Great minds think alike!
Oh sorry - Moomin got there before me! I look like such a copycat loser now!
Oooh - I just thought of another couple but they depend on the circumstances IYSWIM.
You could tell them you've been sick with a bug and are only just getting back on your feet (downside: people might avoid you and /or treat you delicately).
Or how about just saying that you were out the night before and have had a massive hangover all day and can't face hair of the dog?
Or that you've given up drinking? Eek!
Ha ha! Fair enough mycat but it's always worked for me. I guess I'm always so sick that people just believe me!
Hangover, dodgy tun, anti-biotics, health kick, lent, New Year resolution, training for half marathon... Or say nothing, drink lemonade and say it's a G+T.
Bearface has some good suggestions but I wouldn't advise the antibiotics one - it's a sure fire way to make everyone think you're pregnant. I gave myself away to friends using that one when I was pg with DS - hadn't realised it's the early pregnancy stock excuse for not drinking! I think the best way to avoid suspicion is to play on lightweight status or to accept drinks but dispose of them in the toilets etc so people don't realise you aren't drinking.
Yeah - I think you'll get away with it. And if all else fails, yes, I'd resort to pus and maybe even mention the word 'boil'.
Thanks Bearface!
I was suffering from Anxiety quite seriously just before we TTC which a lot of my friends know about, so I am tempted to naughtily allude to some mysterious medications (I was on beta-blockers briefly, and Diazepam) that have made me unable to drink - mwa ha ha.... and that might work, except all of my friends seem to be on some sort of mental health medication and might quiz me some more... Also if I were to pretend I were on Diazepam I think they might start backing away slowly (as it made me very 'high' acting when I was on it!).
I like the training idea actually... but might go simply with the old antibiotics for undisclosed unpleasantness, perhaps something about pus will make them cease questions?
Before I reply, I just want to point out I'm not in the habit of lying, but sometimes when you want to protect yourself from embarrassing convos and nosey people, there isn't really any other way.
I'd go for 'I'm on strong antibiotics' or steriod tablets (neither of these might be true, but no one has ever questioned it when I've used that excuse before).
I might also use the 'I'm in training' excuse. If they delve further I would say 'a marathon in a few months' - give me enough time to pull out in make belive world or get upduffed!
I also don't drink that much anyway, so I use the 'I'm a lightweight' excuse quite often. It is true that I am, but usually people don't question or push me further. If they do, I tell them that I'm likely to be sick on them after 3 drinks and they tend to lose interest then.
Good luck!
Right, despite the fact that science can't agree about whether it's okay to drink while TTC, and because I am now in the seventh cycle with no bun, I am seriously considering ruling out the booze altogether. Some people think that it cuts down your fertility, and if it turns out that DH and I are challenged in that area, then I'm willing to try anything to boost our chances.
The thing is, even though in previous cycles I have just cut down, all my friends leap down my throat if I refuse booze! Went to a house party a few months back, just had a glass of wine or two and then went onto soft drinks - knowing looks all around. Then a friend got the hump because she decided that I MUST be pregnant but was not telling her.
Q me having to go into the whole business with her, and feeling embarrassed and guilty.
Now I have TWO hen dos coming up in the next two weeks and wonder how the hell I am going to get away with not drinking, and fend of allegations of pregnancy. I don't want to talk about it to anyone, especially not in a group, on a big night out. The first, I guess I can just blend into the crowd and as long as I have a likely looking drink in my hand, no-one should notice.
The second hen is just me and one mate - What excuses can I give to be off the booze?
Any tips?
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