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Eeeek! It's so cute! 🙂
That looks awesome! Off to check it out 🙂
I am off to check it out! Will go nicely with a few other things I am working on! Thank you!
Really cute! I'll have to go check it out. I love how your home is so adaptable to simple decorating additions each season.
Very cool!
love. it.
you have such a great style. love the simplicity of it. well done!
Love it Anna!
Love it. Big graphic punch with the heart. I think we need one of those around here.
i just pinned the crap out of that anna! love love love it! headed to watch the video and print some templates right NOW! ;)xoxo
This is great, Anna! Love the new blog look as well:).
I love the simple, bold design Anna! Great job, and the new bio pic is lovely.
Love, it, Anna! I especially love that you pieced it rather than applique. That's unexpected but I'm sure looks so clean in real life.
SUPER cute!
Adorable as always!
hi! we have just discovered your blog! amazing 🙂
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super cute. Has such a scandy feel. Love those plates on your wall, I can just see a peek of them
x cinti
Love this, Anna!
Love your pillow! Great tutorial, too! I need to try it! I featured it on my blog today for My Favorite Things Thursday! Come by and grab a button if you like! http://www.missloviecreations.blogspot.com/2012/02/my-favorite-things-thursday.html
Perfection. I love it!
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I cannot find the white background for this pattern!! The link is not working properly and requires access. I have requested access to it. Thanks so much! Sorry if this is a post from 11 years ago but I love this pillow!! Thanks 🙏 ❤
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"I Will … Pour You Out a Blessing"
With the rising cost of goods and services, inflation marches steadily onward. These increases result in hardships for many but especially upon individuals and families with fixed incomes. There are so many demands on each available dollar that constant adjustments are necessary to make ends meet. One frustrated person remarked: "I just get my affairs to the point where I think that I can make ends meet when something breaks loose in the middle."
Centuries ago the Lord through a prophet gave a formula that gives a solution for these problems, when he said to Malachi: "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." (Mal. 3:10.)
Frequently we hear the expression "I can't afford to pay tithing." Persons who make such statements have not yet learned that they can't afford not to pay tithing. There are many members who from experience can and do testify that nine-tenths carefully planned, budgeted, and spent wisely, with the blessings of the Lord, will go much farther than ten-tenths spent haphazardly without planning and without the Lord's blessings.
The payment of tithing is a test of our faithfulness and loyalty. President Joseph F. Smith, many years ago, counseled: "By this principle (tithing) the loyalty of the people of this Church shall be put to the test. By this principle it shall be known who is for the kingdom of God and who is against it." (Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine, Deseret Book Co., 1939, p. 225.)
Often the question is asked, "What is a tithe?" Joseph L. Wirthlin, a former Presiding Bishop of the Church, gave a clear definition when he explained: "The very word itself denotes one-tenth. A tithe is one-tenth of the wage earner's full income. A tithe is one-tenth of the professional man's net income. A tithe is one-tenth of the farmer's net income, and also one-tenth of the produce used by the farmer to sustain his family which is a just and equitable requirement, as others purchase out of their income such food as is needed to provide for their families. A tithe is one-tenth of the dividends derived from investments. A tithe is one-tenth of net insurance income less premiums if tithing has been paid on the premiums." (Conference Report, April 1953, p. 98. Italics added.)
Several presidents of the Church have explained that the payment of tithing is an individual and a personal matter and that it is a voluntary contribution. Brigham Young in the early days of the Church taught the Saints, saying: "We do not ask anybody to pay tithing unless they are disposed to do so; but if you pretend to pay tithing, pay it like honest men." ("Brigham Young on Tithing," Improvement Era, May 1941, p. 282.)
Years later President Grant advised the people in these words: "The Lord, you know, does not send collectors around once a month to collect bills; He does not send us our account once a month; we are trusted by the Lord; we are agents; we have our free will. …" (Heber J. Grant, "Settlement," Improvement Era, Jan. 1941, p. 9.)
There is merit in paying tithing when one receives the income or increase, although farmers and others operating their own businesses usually find it necessary to calculate their increase on an annual basis. Again, President Grant, speaking from years of experience and observation, suggested: "The payment of our tithing in the season thereof—when we get our income—makes it come easy. I find that those who pay tithing every month have very much less difficulty in paying it than those who postpone payment to the end of the year. …" (Heber J. Grant, Gospel Doctrine, p. 9.)
The law of tithing has come from the Lord as a commandment, and when we keep that law and commandment we are entitled to the blessings that are promised, for the Lord has said: "I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise." (D&C 82:10. Italics added.)
In the early days of the Church there was a good and faithful woman, Mary Smith, widow of the martyred patriarch Hyrum Smith. She firmly believed in the promises of the Lord. Her son, Joseph F., and her grandson, Joseph Fielding, lived to become presidents of the Church. President Joseph F. Smith related an incident that occurred when he was a 10-year-old boy:
"I recollect most vividly," he said, "a circumstance that occurred in the days of my childhood. My mother was a widow with a large family to provide for. One spring when we opened our potato pits she had her boys get a load of the best potatoes, and she took them to the tithing office; potatoes were scarce that season. I was a little boy at the time, and drove the team. When we drove up to the steps of the tithing office, ready to unload the potatoes, one of the clerks came out and said to my mother, 'Widow Smith, it's a shame that you should have to pay tithing'. … he chided my mother for paying her tithing, called her anything but wise or prudent; and said there were others who were strong and able to work that were supported from the tithing office. My mother turned upon him and said: '… you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Would you deny me a blessing? If I did not pay my tithing, I should expect the Lord to withhold His blessings from me. I pay my tithing, not only because it is a law of God, but because I expect a blessing by doing it. By keeping this and other laws, I expect to prosper and to be able to provide for my family.'" (CR, April 1900, p. 48.)
I recall sitting in this historical Tabernacle back on October 1948 when the semi-annual conference of the Church was in session. Elder Matthew Cowley of the Council of the Twelve was speaking. He related an incident that made a deep and lasting impression on me. While serving as president of the New Zealand Mission he visited a good Maori sister who sincerely believed and observed the principle of tithing. Brother Cowley told of this experience in these words:
"Now, on one occasion I called in as I always did when I visited that vicinity, to see this grand little woman, then in her eighties, and blind. She did not live in an organized branch, had no contact with the priesthood except as the missionaries visited there. We had no missionaries in those days. They were away at war.
"I went in and greeted her in the Maori fashion. She was out in the back yard by her little fire. I reached forth my hand to shake hands with her, and I was going to rub noses with her and she said: 'Do not shake hands with me. …'
"I said: "Oh, that is clean dirt on your hands. I am willing to shake hands with you. I am glad to. I want to.
"She said: 'Not yet.' Then she got on her hands and knees and crawled over to her little house. At the corner of the house there was a spade. She lifted up that spade and crawled off in another direction, measuring the distance she went. She finally arrived at a spot and started digging down into the soil with that spade. It finally struck something hard. She took out the soil with her hands and lifted out a fruit jar. She opened that fruit jar and reached down in it, took something out and handed it to me, and it turned out to be New Zealand money. In American money it would have been equivalent to [about] one hundred dollars.
"She said: 'There is my tithing. Now I can shake hands with the priesthood of God.'
"I said: 'You do not owe that much tithing.'
"She said: 'I know it. I do not owe it now, but I am paying some in advance, for I do not know when the priesthood of God will get around this way again.'"
Then after a brief pause and with considerable emotion Brother Cowley continued: "And then I leaned over and pressed my nose and forehead against hers, and the tears from my eyes ran down her cheeks. …" (CR, Oct. 1948, pp. 159–60.)
My beloved brothers and sisters, the Lord does keep his promises. He truly opens the windows of heaven and pours out his blessings upon those who are faithful and who obey his commandments but it will be done in his own way. These blessings may come in a financial or temporal way or may be realized by a spiritual outpouring, bringing strength, peace, and comfort. His blessings may come in unusual and unexpected ways so that at the time we may not even recognize them as blessings; but the promises of the Lord will be kept.
And to this I testify in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.


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BELFAST, Northern Ireland — For Queen Elizabeth II, one throne is enough.
The United Kingdom's 88-year-old monarch toured the Belfast sets of the hit HBO series ''Game of Thrones'' and met many of its stars Tuesday beside the show's sword-covered seat of power, the Iron Throne.
Unlike many visitors to Belfast's Titanic Studios, the monarch declined to try out the throne created for the ruler of the mythical Seven Kingdoms and legendarily forged from a thousand swords. Instead, she received a miniature model as a gift.
''Game of Thrones'' creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss escorted the monarch through the show's armory, costume design and storage, and sprawling sets used to shoot the program's interior scenes and perilous ice-cliff ascents — all part of the biggest TV production ever mounted in Europe.
The real-life head of the House of Windsor talked with actors from the show's rival royal houses, the Lannisters and the Starks.
''She kept commenting on how uncomfortable the throne looked. That was funny,'' said Maisie Williams, the 17-year-old English actress who plays Arya Stark.
''I don't think I've ever been as nervous to meet anybody,'' said Lena Headey, who plays Cersei Lannister, queen regent of the Seven Kingdoms.
The ''Games of Thrones'' tour was just one of several events for Elizabeth on the second day of a three-day visit to Northern Ireland, where two decades of relative peace now allow the UK's ceremonial head of state to travel with much greater openness. That was demonstrated as she toured Belfast's gloriously restored Victorian market — and a teenage boy jumped forward to take a cellphone ''selfie'' photo of himself with the startled monarch.
In her first visit to Belfast City Hall in a half-century — since shortly after her coronation in 1953 — Elizabeth lauded the British Protestant and Irish Catholic sides of the community for forging a unity government in 2007. That ended a four-decade conflict over Northern Ireland that left 3,700 dead.
''We have learnt a lot in those years about ourselves, each other, and how societies can only grow and flourish if they are built on trust, respect, justice and interdependence,'' she said.


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The International Monetary Fund's boss, Christine Lagarde, made a lot of Greeks very angry with an interview she gave The Guardian on Friday.
Essentially, Lagarde said she has very little sympathy for the Greeks and that if they want to solve their financial problems they should just pay their taxes.
Here's what she told the paper exactly:
"'Do you know what? As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.'
"Even more than she thinks about all those now struggling to survive without jobs or public services? 'I think of them equally. And I think they should also help themselves collectively.' How? 'By all paying their tax. Yeah.'
"It sounds as if she's essentially saying to the Greeks and others in Europe, you've had a nice time and now it's payback time.
"'That's right.' She nods calmly. 'Yeah.'"
Today, The Guardian ran the pot-kettle-black story, pointing out that Lagarde with her $467,940 a year salary and her $83,760 yearly allowance does not pay any taxes.
She's not a tax dodger; it's just that the Vienna convention on diplomatic relations of 1961 exempts diplomats from "all dues and taxes, personal or real, national, regional or municipal."
With that in mind The NewStatesman still comes down hard on Lagarde.
"... Right or not, it seems like a good rule of thumb that if you do not pay any tax, you do not get to tell other people off for not paying tax," the magazine writes. "Especially if you earn around twenty times the median wage of the country you are telling off."
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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:
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The program provides grants to states to design, develop, and implement statewide P-20 longitudinal data systems to capture, analyze, and use student data from preschool to high school, college, and the workforce.
Program Requirements:
Since it started in fiscal year 2005, the program has awarded grants worth $265 million to 41 states and the District of Columbia. The Recovery Act competition requires that the data systems have the capacity to link preschool, K-12, and postsecondary education as well as workforce data. To receive State Fiscal Stabilization Funds, a state must provide an assurance that it will establish a longitudinal data system that includes the 12 elements described in the America COMPETES Act, and any data system developed with Statewide longitudinal data system funds must include at least these 12 elements. The elements are:
- An unique identifier for every student that does not permit a student to be individually identified (except as permitted by federal and state law);
- The school enrollment history, demographic characteristics, and program participation record of every student;
- Information on when a student enrolls, transfers, drops out, or graduates from a school;
- Students scores on tests required by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act;
- Information on students who are not tested, by grade and subject;
- Students scores on tests measuring whether they're ready for college;
- A way to identify teachers and to match teachers to their students;
- Information from students' transcripts, specifically courses taken and grades earned;
- Data on students' success in college, including whether they enrolled in remedial courses;
- Data on whether K-12 students are prepared to succeed in college;
- A system of auditing data for quality, validity, and reliability; and
- The ability to share data from preschool through postsecondary
education data systems.
With such comprehensive data systems, states will be able to monitor their reforms and make specific changes to advance them. These data systems will capture data on students from one grade to the next, measuring whether they are on track to graduate and telling K-12 schools whether they are preparing their students to succeed in college and the workforce. The data systems also can help identify teachers who are succeeding so states can reward them, and find teachers who are struggling and help them improve.
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Date of birth unknown; died about August, 897. Stephen was a Roman, and the son of John, a priest. He had been consecrated Bishop of Anagni, possibly against his will, by Formosus, and became pope about May, 896. Whether induced by evil passion or perhaps, more probably, compelled by the Emperor Lambert and his mother Ageltruda, he caused the body of Formosus to be exhumed, and in January, 897, to be placed before an unwilling synod of the Roman clergy. A deacon was appointed to answer for the deceased pontiff, who was condemned for performing the functions of a bishop when he had been deposed and for passing from the See of Porto to that of Rome. The corpse was then stripped of its sacred vestments, deprived of two fingers of its right hand, clad in the garb of a layman, and ultimately thrown into the Tiber. Fortunately it was not granted to Stephen to have time to do much else besides this atrocious deed. Before he was put to death by strangulation, he forced several of those who had been ordained by Formosus to resign their offices and he granted a few privileges to churches.
Liber Pontificalis, II, 229; privileges of Stephen in P.L., CXXIX; DUMMLER, Auxilius and Vulgarius (Leipzig, 1866); DUCHESNE, The Beginnings of the Temporal Sovereignty of the Popes, 198 sqq.; MANN, Lives of the Popes, IV, 76 sqq.
APA citation. (1912). Pope Stephen (VI) VII. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14289d.htm
MLA citation. "Pope Stephen (VI) VII." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14289d.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Douglas J. Potter. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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I have just finished a mini tour of Scandinavia with Phase One, Showcasing the P40 and the P65+ Backs along with a sneak preview of their new Camera, complete with its in lens shutters and a highly responsive shutter release.
Now it was fun, and I will be sharing some of the pics we shot there soon, but as with all day long workshops they are over all too soon.
I often have thought how great it would be to let people into my world, in a small and select way, using the equipment I use on a daily basis, both cameras and lighting, not to mention a download of my crazy mind!
Photographing a range of subjects in a beautiful location....showing fellow photographers exactly how I create my 'Forest' series and recreating similar shots
The good news this is no longer a mere thought but a reality
This year on 25-30th October I will be at the Phase One Master class held at Paso Robles Workshop
In addition to Phase One technique, the workshop will cover lighting on location and production planning for field shoots. Students will work in 3-person teams for the first half of the week. On Thursday, the class will work together on the production of a Drew-sized location shoot in the oak forest surrounding Paso Robles, in the heart of California's wine land
All this and supported by Phase One with one of their technicians in attendance along with 5 Phase One P45+ cameras for the class to use
I'm looking forward to what will be an outstanding and memorable workshop


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I have zero experience with D&D. It was with great reluctance that I agreed to make a character in Pathfinder for a campaign my friend is running. Now, in WoD (and somewhat in Shadowrun) the "advanced" characters — i.e. the ones you have to buy specialty books for — are usually pretty powerful compared to your typical characters, so I thought this might be true for Pathfinder.
So far, my Oracle (level 4) has been so ineffective that she might as well be a cannon-fodder NPC. My GM keeps saying, "You're just like a cleric." Except for being weaker, more restricted, and… my character's comic relief, and I wasn't expecting her to be.
I'm okay with her being comic relief, and I read two other posts on this site about how not to have a weak oracle, which should help, but is an oracle necessarily weaker than a cleric? And, by extension, are "advanced" character types in Pathfinder usually weaker than their more stereotypical counterparts?


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Note: People who bought my book dealing with Android development will probably notice this article looks like a section of the fourth chapter "UI & UX: major components for a great user experience and the Android logic". Let's be honest, this blog post is pretty much an enhanced translation of a section of my book. For those who don't know about this book, written in French, the title is "Développez pour Android". Released about a year ago, it deals with Android development in general and particularly focuses on making highly optimized Android applications. If you are interested in this book, you can buy/download it here.
I have recently seen many Android applications starting with what I call a splash screen. A splash screen is an image that takes the entire screen space and usually shows branding information about the application (logo of the company, logo of the application, etc.). This screen is generally visible for a small amount of time while the application is starting or loading some resources in the background. I am pretty sure you have already seen some of the popular Android applications below featuring a splash screen on startup:
Once again, from my point of view, the splash screen paradigm is a port of the iOS equivalent. Some of you may start thinking I hate iOS because it influences Android in a really bad way. I often consider lots of mistakes in Android applications are due to stupid ports of iOS apps to Android. However I don't consider iOS as a crappy mobile platform. I honestly believe iOS is an awesome mobile OS. Issues are not related to OSes themselves but to how people incorrectly understand them and use them. The splash screen is one of the best example of how people are misleading OSes in general. Being widely used on iOS, the UI pattern is also actively discouraged by Apple! Indeed, if you look closely to the iOS documentation you will notice Apple encourages developers to use launch images. Launch images are very different from splash screens as they are images used to pretend an application launched rapidly. On iOS, the system displays the launch image instantly when the user starts your application and until the app is fully ready to use. As soon as your app is ready for use, it displays its first screen, replacing the launch placeholder image. As a result, supplying a launch image is the best way to improve user experience. The graphic below shows you the launch image on the right that is used in the built-in "Stock" iOS apps:
The iOS documentation clearly specifies launch images should not be used as an opportunity to display branding information. Unfortunately, rules are made to be by-passed and iOS folks understood that. I honestly can't blame them! They have simply used a functionality offered by the framework and slightly modified launch images to use them as splash screens. What is very disappointing to my mind is the same pattern is currently happening on Android. I am strongly convinced splash screens are not appropriate on Android for several reasons I would like to share with you:
A splash screen prevents the user from using the application. As far as I know, it is not explicitly written in Android guidelines but Android has been primarily designed to help the user achieving and completing tasks rather than offering features. In order to do so, the entire system focuses on what users want to do and letting them do it as quickly as possible. This fastness is achieved by rendering the overall UI in a insanely fast fashion and never blocking the user. Some of the best examples of this are the notification area (I guess iOS users will always remember the so annoying and blocking popups -
s - when receiving a text message pre iOS5), the advanced multitasking mechanism, the launcher widgets, the fast transition animations (I don't have the exact numbers but the default transition between twoActivity
is twice as fast as the transition between twoUIViewController
s put in aUINavigationController
), etc. In a nutshell, being blocked is not something an Android user is used to nor wants to be confronted with.Most of the time, it is not necessary A splash screen can be used to make resources available before an application starts. Personally I think it is not necessary in 98% of the cases. It may be useful for applications actively relying on heavy resources such as Google Earth, Sky Map, or games but this is not applicable to simple utility applications such as feed readers, social network apps, news readers, etc. You should not require a network connection at startup nor do heavy computations. Always keep in mind,
launching is blazingly fast on Android. The Android team at Google spent a lot of time - and I am sure they are still spending a lot of time working on it - ensuring applications and theActivity
class launches very rapidly. As a result it is quite easy to have an application and its firstActivity
up and ready in less than 400ms. Also always keep in mind that an application displaying a splash screen is also completely up and running from a system perspective.Displaying a launch image or splash screen in not part of the framework1. I don't know the exact percentage of the Android documentation I have read at least once but I assure you the number is pretty high! I have never seen a method, class or xml resource explicitly dealing with launch images or splash screens. This obviously proves the Android team never considered the launch image trick as necessary or easy to implement.
Adding once-viewed resources increase the size of your APKs. In order to make a great splash screen, one may usually need to add several resources to the APK (bitmaps, layouts, 9-patchs, etc.). This may uselessly and drastically increase the size of your APK making it more difficult to download/install. It may also drive several of your users mad if they have a pretty memory-constrained device. I think the best way to demonstrate the horrible consequences of launch images is to give the example of a universal iOS app (a universal app is an app running both on iPad and iPhone). As I previously explained, iOS fakes fast application startup rapidly displaying a launch image. If you look closely at the iOS documentation, you will notice the iPhone requires two default images (only in portrait, one for each density - 320x480 and 640x960) while the iPad requires 4 images (one for each orientation and density - 768x1004, 1536x2008, 1024x748 and 2048x1496). Knowing iOS requires launch images encoded using the PNG compression algorithm, you will likely create an application that is almost 5Mo-sized (depending on how much your launch images are compressed) and only displays a splash screen!
Implementing a great splash screen is very difficult and tedious Developing on Android requires dealing with a lot of resolutions, densities, orientations, etc. In general, the built-in resource switching mechanism is enough. In the context of splash screen development in which absolute layouts are usually required, it is generally not sufficient. Moreover, you also have to deal with Android's
lifecycle. I have seen many application falsely redisplaying a splash screen in low memory conditions, because the developers forgot to save the splash-screen-has-been-displayed flag inonSaveInstance(Bundle)
. The worst bug I am used to see is an app auto-magically restarting itself after the user got out of it. This is mostly because splash screen are implemented using aRunnable
posted with a certain delay in a givenHandler
. Not removing it from theHandler
's queue inonPause()
will let the application restart itself. Developers should rather focus on making their app launch time as short as possible rather than designing a well-working splash screen. Equally, designers should spend more time on making Android apps Androidy…Users don't care about branding at launch time. When a user is starting an application, he/she is expecting it to fully fulfill what it is intended for. Making your applications responsive and fast is part of that job. Having a splash screen or a long startup time is the best option to do the complete opposite of what the user wants. If you really need to brand your application (and I encourage you to do so to create visually unique looking apps), I strongly suggest you to style the
, add an 'About' screen, use the background as a display area, etc. Doing in-app branding is the best opportunity to spread your message to your users as it will remain visible on all application's screens. Believe me, as a user, when I open the Facebook app, I already know I am using the Facebook app. There is no need to display a huge Facebook logo in the middle of my screen.A splash screen indicates a single-entry point application. Just a few application use this technique but Android applications may have several entry points. The best examples of that are Maps, Google+, Contacts/Phone or, more recently, Facebook. This can be done very easily using the appropriate
<intent-filter />
s on your entry point activities in the Android manifest. I'm not saying this is something that is easy to apprehend for a user but it's available from a framework perspective. This feature is not supported by iOS. Because of this, lots of people falsely consider an app has a single entry point and use it to add a splashscreen.In a multitasking context, launch images have no meaning. In an ideal multitasked environment (ideal means en environment with access to unlimited resources), a splash screen is diplayed only once: the first and only time an application is started. Indeed, once an application is started, there is no need to display the splash screen again as the application will always remain in memory. Android has been primarily designed as a massively multitasked OS and therefore doesn't stick to the splash screen paradigm at all.
When Apple launched the first iOS SDK, it may have made a great decision by enabling developers to fake a fast application startup via a launch image. Unfortunately, iOS evolution - iOS now runs on several densities and devices and supports multitaking - and the fact that developers completely hacked the way launch images are used made it a big mistake. Spending time on ensuring applications are opened rapidly would have been a better option. On the other hand, Android has been built to deal with an insanely large amount of devices. Please start taking this into account and continue fighting against the iOS enthousiasts who think the iOS way is the only way. iOS and Android are both awesome mobile OSes. They both have some particularities that need to be taken into account when developing applications. Understanding an iOS app is appropriate on iOS, and an Android app is appropriate on Android, etc. is the path to making awesome multiplatform applications.
- Android has actually always had a built-in mechanism similar to launch images. I won't talk about it as it could be the topic of an entire article. Moreover, writing about it in an article severely criticizing the splash screen paradigm would be the best way to make this blog post pointless.


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We took the pics in September, when the sun shone and shone
so we waited 'til dusk to get a 'seasonal' atmospheric photo of the externals - what do you think?
The interior is light, neutral and tactile. A large hall leads onto the traditional sitting room
With exposed oak framing throughout
From the kitchen you get a sneaky peak into the utility room
With a blind made from Milton and Manor fabric (our client has turned her lovely portfolio of sketches into a great range of fabrics and homewares after struggling to find the right interior products for her Border Oak homes)
The kitchen dining room leads onto a garden room area and a little study nook - the ultimate living space for a modern family I think. Spaces to cook, eat, sit, read and work but in one light, bright open room.
Milton and Manor have cushions, footstools, mugs, cards, fabric, bags, tea towels..............
and wrapping paper (see above and below)
A lovely oak post and brace to distinguish the 'zones' - works well as an architectural feature and for texture and interest
Simple shaker units and vintage accessories
And the best bit about styling a photoshoot is eating cake and drinking tea
Could it get any more cosy than this?
A clever little area created from the eaves over the garden room - great for grandchildren sleeping over
a lovely, simple and fresh bedroom with Milton and Manor cushions to add colour
a sweet and simple bathroom
and it really was a lovely sunny day as you can see from the light flooding in - we had a great couple of days dressing and shooting this beautiful Border Oak cottage for winter to share with you all.
I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas - best wishes, Merry


text: CUSP, or Communities United against Sexual Predators, was designed to garner community support, specifically in Pennsylvania, to let legislatures know that they need to better protect our communities from SVP\'s (Sexual Violent Predators). Specifically, in the case of Pennsylvania, we are encouraging the Senate to pass Senate Bill #944 as is. Senate Bill #944, which you can read in its entirety from the link on this site, has provisions to better protect communities and children from Sexual Violent Predators. Pennsylvania\'s Megan\'s Law notification system recently received a scathing auitor-general\'s report, as well as a failing grade from the national Megan\'s Law watchdog group. CUSP was organized to get communities involved in sending the message to our elected officials, via their signatures, that the children and families of Pennsylvania deserve better protection than they are currently receiving. Where things stand: ** Latest Update 6/21/06 ** I\'m pleased to inform you that Senate Bill 944, establishing Jessica\'s Law in PA, unanimously passed the Senate during the 6/19 voting session. Congratulations and thanks to all of you who took the time to contact your Senators... it worked! Now it is before the House Judiciary Committee. Please contact every House Judiciary member and ask them to support SB944! http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/representatives_sc.cfm#jud KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!! ***BREAKING NEWS 6/8/06*** A lesson in the painful legislative process. Senate Bill 944 (SB944), the bill that we have all been pushing for was recently considered, amended and reported out of the Appropriations Committee, which means it now goes to the \"Senate Floor\" for a vote. There are only so many bills that ever make it on the calendar, those that do usually die or are tabled into oblivion... a few actually move on. IF SB944 passes before the State Senate, it then needs to go the House of Representatives, then the House Judiciary, the House Appropriations, etc. AND, this legislative session ends November 30th! What you can do is go to this list: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/senators_alpha.cfm ... and ask as many Senators as you can to support SB944! ***3/17/06*** A packet of information was sent to Senator Greenleaf, as well as seven other interested Senators, on Monday 3/13/06 that included among other things a list of almost 300 signatures from this petition. We were notified yesterday 3/16/06 that SB 944, after months of dormancy, has been scheduled for Judiciary Committee consideration on Tuesday 3/21/06. Call it coincidence, call it timing, I just like to call it progress. Thank you to everyone who has signed this. Had we done nothing, nothing would have been done. KEEP THE SIGNATURES COMING, WE STILL HAVE A WAY TO GO. SB #944 was introduced by Senator Jane Orie, and cosponsored by 30 other state senators. It was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committe, which Senator Stewart J. Greenleaf is the Chair, in October 2005 and it has not moved since then. CUSP needs your help to get this Bill moving. \"On the CUSP of a safer community\"


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In 1961, Gibson replaced its Les Paul series with a new line of lightweight, ultrathin, all mahogany, double-cutaway solidbodies the SG (for solid guitar). Developed under the aegis of Ted McCarty and introduced as the "new Les Paul," the SG heralded new directions and a new marketing emphasis for Gibson; trends exemplified only two years later with the introduction of the radical Firebird guitars and Thunderbird basses, available in custom colors. The SG Standard model, centerpiece of its line, is a Cherry Red guitar, and early-'60s examples with factory finishes in other colors are not very common. Original '61/'62 Les Paul Standard model SGs (LP/SGs) in colors other than red are even more rare.
These new Les Pauls were designed and introduced, according to Les Paul, without his consultation or knowledge. Sometime in '62, when his agreement with Gibson expired, he removed his endorsement and the line was renamed SG – its simple factory designation. No changes were made in the actual instruments, with one main exception: the '61/'62 Les Paul Standard's identifying, patented sideways Vibrato was replaced by Gibson's new Vibrola on the new SG Standard.
There are, of course, anomalies and transitional exceptions; '62 LP/SGs with Vibrolas and '62 SG Standards with sideways vibratos. In any case, most early SG players replaced their vibratos – notorious Rube Goldberg mechanical springs-and-levers contraptions – with stop tailpieces.
The SG became one of Gibson's most successful solidbodies and was the rock guitar of the late '60s. It was especially popular with West Coast groups like The Doors, Quicksilver Messenger Service (John Cippolina was the master of the sideways vibrato), The Grateful Dead (Jerry Garcia), Big Brother & The Holding Company (two SGs and an EB-3) and Country Joe & The Fish (Barry Melton). But the British loved it, too; an LP/SG was Clapton's guitar of choice with Cream, Townshend abused one when The Who played Woodstock, and we must not forget Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. Other manufacturers, including Guild, Hagstrom and Yamaha, introduced SG-style guitars, as well.
The Guitars
The '61 LP/SG Standard had a most distinctive neck profile – extremely thin with a very wide fingerboard – that Gibson fattened up in '62 because the shape was one of Les Paul's (and other players') main gripes. These necks were prone to breakage at the headstock, and often had problems at the heel, where it joined the body at the 22nd (and last) fret, making original, unrepaired examples hard to find.
It also had Patent Applied For humbuckers. Mixtures of PAFs and Patent Number pickups are common in '62 models, and later Standards had two patent number humbuckers, although an occasional PAF has turned up in '63 models.
These guitars share many of the same features and trimmings as their Les Paul Standard predecessors, including Kluson Deluxe tuning machines, nickel-plated hardware, and bound rosewood fingerboards with trapezoidal inlays. The headstock veneer contains a crown (also called "Holly") pattern inlay, plus a bell-shaped truss rod cover that says "Les Paul," instead of the "Les Paul Model" decal found on earlier Standards – although the SG-bodied Les Paul Standard in the '62 Gibson catalog shows the old-style decal and a plain truss cover (where is that guitar?).
Tom Wheeler calls this white finish, circa '61, "extremely rare," illustrating the same instrument in his American Guitars. Normally, only SG-body Les Paul Customs came in white (with a white pickguard) as standard finish, with gold-plated hardware and three humbuckers. This white Standard was factory-ordered by someone who wanted something that would stand out, but without all the fancy trappings of a Custom, and the contrasting black pickguard shows off its bat wing shape.
Another extremely rare and tasteful example of a factory finish '61 LP/SG is this black one with a contrasting white scratchplate originally meant for a three-pickup Custom. Black is a not-uncommon color for SGs, being preferred by Tony Iommi and Angus Young, for instance, and is a popular color for refins, as it masks neck repairs so well. But black SGs usually have black pickguards.
In '63, Gibson unveiled its new Firebird line, available in 10 DuPont Duco Custom Color finishes for an additional $15 (no black, though). This was a direct response to competition from Fender and the custom color craze of the times. These fancy finishes were offered for Firebirds and Thunderbird basses only, but a number of other models were special-ordered by stores and individuals in Custom Colors, and for some reason, Pelham Blue seems to be the most common.
The non-LP/SG here is from '65, and illustrates not only some of the changes made starting in '62, and characteristics that personify the classic early-'60s Standard. Most apparent is the new Gibson Vibrola, with its unadorned trapezoidal baseplate and large plastic-tipped arm. Not a great trem, with a very basic design that just tightens or relaxes string tension from the tailpiece, the Vibrola was easier and much cheaper to manufacture and install than the LP/SGs sideways nightmare. Hardware is chrome, and the neck profile is similar to other Gibson six-strings of the period – a normal width and not as much "meat" as transitional SG necks from '62/'63.
Wrap Up
Sometime in '66, Gibson redesigned the SG line, changing the neckset and heel arrangement, and enlarging the pickguard to cover almost the entire face of the body – surrounding the pickups, which no longer needed mounting rings. This was done for production reasons – ease of wiring and assembly, primarily. A large cavity under the guard allowed them to use the same body blanks for all models and pickup configurations, including the inexpensive Melody Maker, which had been given the SG shape in '65 and came in two standard finishes, Fire Engine Red and (strangely enough) Pelham Blue.
The character of the instruments had changed, and nothing compares to the sound and feel of the first LP/SGs, with their PAFs and superfast necks. For collectors, these guitars may be relative bargains, as they represent a fertile period of growth and innovation in Gibson's history. Buyers would do well to beware, though, as many examples are "restorations." PAFs had a way of disappearing from LP/SGs in the '70s for use in goldtop-to-Standard conversions, and those "Les Paul" truss rod covers migrate pretty easily.
But what other original LP Standards can be had for 1/10 the price of a 'Burst?
This article originally appeared in VG Classic's #6 March 1996 issue. All copyrights are by the author and Vintage Guitar magazine. Unauthorized replication or use is strictly prohibited.


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With artists throughout the 50 states, being able to visit the studio of each designer is a valuable, but more often unlikely opportunity. However, sometimes an opportunity lends itself to step inside the mind of an artist without ever setting foot in their hometown. Dolan Geiman is a mixed media designer who marries found objects and iconic imagery in his pieces. He generously takes us on our first remote studio tour and shares his tools, tricks and inspirations through photos of his space and in his owns words.
What are your most essential tools for creating your art?
The tools I find most essential for creating my artwork are as follows, in this order:
apple pie, crisp warm days, cool nights, bluegrass and country music, a clear mind, and a vision of the finished project. Other tools are easier to obtain.
Where do you find inspiration within your workspace?
I keep artifacts around my studio that give me energy and creative power: a turtle shell, a cow skull, a box of fasteners my sister sent me from Prague, a collection of pine cones and bird nests, a box of civil war buttons and old watches. Things that have energy and I can plug into them like one might plug a Norelco into a bathroom socket.
Where does down time fit into a day in the studio?
Well, there is not a whole lot of downtime for me. I think it's that way when you run your own business. A lot of peers tell me in in their wispy yoga voices "Ahh, you just have to make time for yourself." Yeah, it ain't that easy. So, I take time at the end of a few months of hard labor. I'm trying to eek out a few moments early in the morning to walk and look at birds. But for now, while the work is there, I will be there holding its hand or holding its head while it throws up.
What was the toughest lesson you learned as a young designer starting a business?
I never learned how to say "no" earlier in my career. It's nice to say no. It helps you to stay sane. It's hard if you are broke, but don't ever let people take advantage of your creativity in that way.
What advice would you offer yourself 5 years ago?
Charge more for your services. And stop smoking cigarettes. And move to the country. And get a damn haircut.
How do you set goals for yourself?
I basically keep this little treasure chest in my head and on the front of the chest is a goal. When I complete the goal I get to open the treasure chest. It's usually full of wine and beer and a few days of fly fishing in the mountains. I try to set goals that are attainable but very difficult. And I do weekly, monthly, and yearly goals.
How and when do you decide to celebrate a victory?
Well, I used to celebrate more but then I married my business partner and that put a damper on the celebrations… haha. I like to celebrate after I complete a successful project or a milestone in the business. I think I appreciate these things because I'm more of a stop-and-smell-the-roses kind of person. And it also helps mentally, and mental health is something I take very seriously. If you just keep doing these cool things and then don't stop to look at what you've done and where you've been then five years goes by and you are just older and not any happier.
What quote keeps you motivated? What does that quote mean to you?
I have this quote that I say to myself which is like my mental tattoo – "make art or die" – because if I stop making art I will most likely die. Like a pancake without syrup. Useless and not making anyone happy.
What are some new skills you are trying to acquire to perfect your craft?
I am trying to learn more about woodworking and creating antiqued finishes. I rely on the spoken advice of my peers and colleagues for this. There are two nice woodworkers in the basement studio below my studio so I often pick their brains for advice.
How do you recharge your creativity?
I go fishing or hiking or camping or bird watching or anything in the woods for at least several days. I'm trying harder and harder to re-charge my creativity these days, since I feel like I am working harder and harder. I have had several mental breakdowns in the past five years, due mostly to the fact that I work way too much. But this is the burden of being a Libra blessed with creativity. It's a blessing and a curse… and a curse. I find the best recharging happens when I am far from other people and just staring at something like a cloud or an ant or a cloud that is shaped like an ant. I often meditate in nature and will create an entire novel in my mind which I try to slowly erase until there is nothing but… nothing. Meditation is hard.
Where does collaboration come into play with your craft?
I am not really sure. I like to collaborate with other folks, but I think mostly the collaboration is more conversational. When I am around other artists that I enjoy, we often create nice mind energy conversations and the mood is good and so I feel like we are all collaborating on a conversation and it's like we are pooling our positive energy into the physical space. It's more of a Jungian thing. When you leave the space of being around good people, smart and interesting people, there is energy there and you can draw on that later. It's a similar feeling to déjà-vu, perhaps a cousin of déjà-vu. But in reverse.
photos by Dolan Geiman, Eric Grimes, Chris Nightengale, David Schalliol, and Paul Zimmerman


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AGBT wrap up.
Anyhow, I wanted to put down a few thoughts on what I saw, heard and discussed before I forget what I wanted to say.
First off, I know everyone has commented on the new technologies already. I'm very disappointed that I wasn't able to see the Ion Torrent presentation, and that I missed the presentation from Life Technologies. Those were two of the biggest hits, and I didn't see either of them. While I did get a quick introduction on the Life Technologies platform from a rep in the Life Tech suite, it's not quite the same.
However, I was there for several of the other workshops and launches, and in particular, the Pacific Biosciences workshop. In general, I think Pac Bio has been served up a lot of criticism for failing to disclose the exact error rate of their Single Molecule Real-Time (SMRT) sequencing platform, as well as for some of the problems they face. Personally, I'm not inclined to think of any of that as a failure - simply as engineering problems. Having worked on early 454 data, there were flaws that were equally disastrous as the challenges that Pac Bio now faces. Much of the criticism is simply directed at the fact that this is measuring single molecules of DNA, and not clusters. Clearly, there are will be challenges for them to overcome: The most obvious are that PacBio will have to lower the wattage of their light source and they'll likely have to do some directed evolution (or even rational design) to lower the frequency at which bases are incorporated too quickly to be read, or possibly come up with a chemistry solution. (More viscous solutions? who knows.) All of the 2nd generation platforms were launched with problems - and Pac Bio certainly isn't the exception to it. Each one gets better over time, and I'm certain PacBio will continue to improve. For the moment, they've suggested protocols like sequencing circular DNA that dramatically reduces the error rate, these issues aren't nearly as big as the hype makes them out to be.
Just to finish off on the subject of SMRT sequencing, I think Elaine Mardis' presentation on the results obtained with PacBio weren't outstanding. Normally, I get really jealous about PacBio results, and wish that I could get my hands on some of them - but this time, I was left a little flat. While there are really neat applications for single molecule sequencing, Human SNPs really aren't one of them. Why they chose to present that particular problem is somewhat beyond me. Not that the presentation was bad, but it failed to really showcase what the platform can be used for, IMHO. Their other presentations (SMRT Biology, for example), were pretty damn cool.
There has also been much talk about Complete Genomics, and how they're not going to make it, which I've already written up in the previous post. I see that as a failure to understand their business model and to understand who they're competing with (ie, not the other sequencing companies.) I expect that they'll be the microarrays of the future - cheap diagnostic tools, with even better repeatability than your average microarray. I don't think they should be written off just quite yet.
Finally, there has been much ado about the HiSeq 2000(tm), released by Illumina. While I have nothing against it (and am even looking forward to it), I don't see it as much except for an upgraded version of their last machine, the GAIIx. They've changed the form factor and the shape of the flow cell, and then enabled some things that were previously disabled (such as two sided tile scanning), it's really just an evolutionary change in a new box, which will allow them more room to grow the platform. Fair enough, really - I don't know how many more upgrades you could put into one of their original boxes, but there's nothing really new here that would have me running after them to get one. I should mention, however, that increased throughput and lower cost ARE significant and a good thing - they just don't appeal to my geeky fascination for new technology.
Another criticism I heard was that these companies shouldn't be calling their tech "3rd generation." Frankly, I've been advocating since last year that they SHOULD be called 3rd generation, so that criticism seems silly, to say the least. Pyrosequencing is clearly synonymous with the 2nd generation of sequencing technologies, while Sanger sequencing is clearly first generation, and hybridization is kind of zero-th generation (although you could make a case for SOLiD being 2nd generation, which would also drag Complete Genomics into that group as well, then). However, the defining characteristic of 3rd generation, to me, is the move away from sequencing ensembles of molecules. An auxiliary definition is that it's also the application of enzymes to do the sequencing itself. So, I'm just going to have to laugh at those who claim that 2nd and 3rd generation are all generically "next-generation" sequencing. There is a clear boundary between the two sets of technologies.
A topic I also wanted to mention was the use of technology at AGBT this year. Frankly, I was blown away by the coverage of all of the events through twitter. I enjoyed at least one talk where I left twitter open beside my text editor, and tried to keep notes while listening to the speaker had to say, while watching the audience's comments. If I hadn't been blogging, I think that would be the best way to engage. Insightful comments and questions were plentiful, and having people I respect discuss the topic was akin to having other scientists leave comments in the margins of a paper you're reading. [Somewhat like reading Sun Tsu's Art of War, where there are more annotations than original material, at some points.] Alas, it was too distracting to compile notes while reading comments, but it was really cool. Unfortunately, Internet coverage was spotty at best, and in some rooms, I wasn't able to get any signal at all. The venue is great, but just not equipped for the 21st century scientist. Had I been there at the end of the conference, I would have suggested that perhaps it's time to identify an alternate venue that can handle the larger crowds, as well as the technological demands of an audience that has 300+ laptop computers going at once. (Don't get me started on electrical outlets.)
I'd like to end on a few good points.
The poster session was excellent - too short, as always, but the quality of the posters were outstanding, and I had fantastic conversations with a lot of scientists. I won't mention them by name, but I'm sure they know who they are. I saw several tools I'll try to follow up on. (By the way, if anyone was looking for me, I spent less than 20 minutes by my poster throughout the conference. There just wasn't enough time to read all of them and still answer questions and absorb everything out there. Sorry about that - feel free to email me if you have questions.)
I should also mention that the vendors were all very hospitable. One of my enduring memories of this year will be Life Technologies allowing the Canadians to crash their suite and use one of their Demo TV's to watch the semi-final Olympic hockey game. (Canada vs. Slovakia.) We were desperately outnumbered by non-Canadians, but they tolerated our screaming pretty well. (A few of them even seemed curious about this weird sport played on ice...) And, of course, anyone who saw my tweets knows about PacBio and the hawaiian shirt, just to name a few examples (-;
So, again, I think AGBT was a great success and I enjoyed it tremendously. Rarely in my life do I get to pack so many talks, discussions and networking into such a short period of time. It may have left me looking somewhat like a deer caught in the headlights, but unquestionably I'm already looking forward to what will be revealed next year.
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What healthcare financing changes are needed to reach universal coverage in South Africa?
Diane McIntyre
Diane McIntyre is Professor in the Health Economics Unit, Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town.
Corresponding author: D McIntyre (firstname.lastname@example.com)
The national health insurance proposed for South Africa aims to achieve a universal health system. The best way to identify the financing mechanism that is best suited to achieving this goal is to consider international evidence on funding in universal health systems. The evidence from Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries and a number of middle-income countries that have achieved universal coverage clearly indicates that mandatory pre-payment financing mechanisms (i.e. general tax funding, in some cases supplemented by mandatory health insurance) must dominate, with a clearly specified, complementary role for voluntary or private health insurance.
S Afr Med J 2012;102(6):489-490.
The global health policy agenda is dominated by discussions about the need for health systems to achieve universal coverage. There are two key elements to the concept of universal coverage: providing financial protection from the costs of healthcare and ensuring access to needed health services for all. 1 This implies that the healthcare financing mechanism must enable income cross-subsidies (from the rich to the poor) and risk cross-subsidies (from the healthy to the ill).3
It is clear from the recent Green Paper on National Health Insurance (NHI)4 that the core objective of the proposed health system changes is to move towards universal coverage. A key question is what kind of healthcare financing system should South Africa pursue if we are to achieve universal coverage?
It is helpful to look at other countries that are regarded as having universal health systems. Most of these are high-income Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, although a few middle-income countries (such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba and Thailand) are also frequently held up as examples of universal systems.3
Fig. 1 provides an overview of countries that have belonged to the OECD for the longest period (excluding some of the smallest countries such as Iceland). All, with the exception of the USA, are regarded as having universal health systems. There is a striking pattern across these OECD countries and the middle-income countries that also have universal systems. First, mandatory prepayment financing mechanisms (i.e. general tax funding, in some cases supplemented by social or national health insurance) is the dominant funding mechanism, accounting for 70% or more of total healthcare expenditure in almost all cases. Second, private voluntary insurance is very limited, as are out-of-pocket payments in general. Private voluntary insurance exists in all countries, but has a clearly defined role that supports the predominantly publicly financed health system. Those with the largest private insurance levels (over 10% of total healthcare expenditure) are Canada and France. In Canada, about two-thirds of the population have complementary private health insurance, mostly through employment-based group plans, to cover the services not covered through public funds (e.g. vision and dental care, and outpatient prescription drugs).5 In France, almost 90% of the population has complementary private insurance through employment-based mutual associations, to cover the cost-sharing (co-payments) required by the social health insurance system.5 Korea stands out as a country with high levels of out-of-pocket payments, as a result of the high levels of co-payments in its social health insurance system. This means limited access to healthcare for poorer groups6 and raises questions about whether Korea really has universal financial protection.
South Africa has a financing pattern that more resembles that of the USA, which is not a health system that any sensible South African would wish to emulate, than countries with universal coverage. It is noteworthy that South Africa has the highest percentage share of private voluntary insurance in the world.7 Yet, only 16% of the population benefits from these resources. In my opinion, the international evidence is clear; if South Africa is to achieve a universal health system, we need to increase the relative share of mandatory prepayment funding (from general tax and possibly additional mandatory contributions, whether in the form of dedicated health taxes or mandatory insurance payments), and private health insurance should have a clearly defined complementary role that is defined in relation to the dominant publicly funded services.
It is no accident that the 2010 World Health Report,3 devoted to the issue of universal coverage, reached the conclusion that mandatory prepayment (or public funding) has to be the core of any universal health system; this report was based on an extensive review of the international evidence. Mandatory prepayment funds in universal systems are 'public' in the sense that they are used for the benefit of all; they can be used to purchase needed healthcare for the whole population from public and private providers. The funds are also 'public' in the sense that they are pooled in such a way as to ensure that there are income and risk cross-subsidies. As indicated earlier, these cross-subsidies are central to universal coverage.
The issue of cross-subsidies is crucial, as some 'smart Alec' is bound to say, 'The answer is simple, just make medical schemes mandatory and then we would have over 80% of funding in the form of mandatory prepayment'. However, what would occur is that funds would be kept separate and only benefit those who are contributing to schemes (currently 16% of the population or about 40% if all formal-sector workers and their dependents were legally required to belong to these schemes); there would not be substantive income and risk cross-subsidies between the medical schemes' pool and the general tax funding pool. There seems to be consensus among stakeholders in South Africa that it is not affordable to create an integrated funding pool by means of covering the entire population through medical schemes.
Moving towards a predominantly publicly funded health system with a specified role for private voluntary health insurance will take time. What is required in the short term is for Treasury to be responsive to submissions to gradually increase the allocations to the health sector from general tax revenue, to enable the Department of Health to implement its plans to strengthen substantially both primary healthcare and hospital services, as outlined in the NHI Green Paper and other recent policy documents. It is likely that it will be necessary to supplement this with additional taxes dedicated to the health sector, such as an income tax surcharge, payroll tax on employers and/or 'sin taxes' on tobacco and alcohol, which can be phased in after initial improvements to the public health system have been achieved. When universal entitlements to specified services are formalised in legislation, it will be important to specify the complementary role of private voluntary insurance. Through this overall process, the relative distribution of healthcare funding across different financing mechanisms will shift gradually to the pattern that we see in countries that have already achieved universal coverage.
1. Carrin G, James C. Reaching Universal Coverage via Social Health
Insurance: Key Design Features in the Transition Period. Discussion
Paper Number 2 - 2004. Geneva: WHO, 2004.
1. Carrin G, James C. Reaching Universal Coverage via Social Health Insurance: Key Design Features in the Transition Period. Discussion Paper Number 2 - 2004. Geneva: WHO, 2004.
2. Kutzin J. Current reforms aiming at the extension of social protection in health: linking up mixed health financing sub-systems. In: ILO, GTZ & WHO, eds. Extending Social Protection in Health: Developing countries' experiences, lessons learnt and recommendations. Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), 2007.
3. World Health Organization. Health Systems Financing: The Path to Universal Coverage. World Health Report 2010. Geneva: WHO, 2010.
4. Department of Health. National Health Act (Act 61 of 2003): Policy on National Health Insurance. Government Gazette 34523. Pretoria: Department of Health, 2011.
5. Thomson S, Osborn R, Squires D, Reed S, eds. International Profiles of Health Care Systems, 2011. New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 2011.
6. Yang B. Health insurance in Korea: opportunities and challenges. Health Policy Planning 1991;6(2):119-129.
7. Drechsler D, Jutting J. Is there a role for private health insurance in developing countries? Berlin: German Institute for Economic Research, 2005.
Accepted 18 January 2012.
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MONDELL Frank Wheeler , a Representative from Wyoming; born in St. Louis, Mo., November 6, 1860; raised in Dickinson County, Iowa; attended the common schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits, mining, and railway construction in various western states and territories; settled in Wyoming in 1887 and engaged in the development of coal mines and oil property in the vicinity of Newcastle and Cambria; took an active part in the establishment and building of the town of Newcastle, Wyo.; elected mayor of Newcastle in 1888 and served until 1895; member of the first state senate in 1890 and served as president of the second senate in 1892; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1892, 1900, 1904, 1908, and 1912; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress; appointed assistant commissioner of the General Land Office on November 15, 1897, and served until March 3, 1899; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1923); chairman, Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands (Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Public Lands (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses); majority leader (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses); did not seek renomination in 1922, but was an unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator; appointed a director of the War Finance Corporation in 1923 and served until his resignation in July 1925; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1924 and commenced practice in Washington, D.C.; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1924, serving as chairman; died in Washington, D.C., August 6, 1939; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
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The 1984 film "Beat Street" by Steven Hager was the first American film featuring two soundtracks. The film, which was originally titled "Looking for the Perfect Beat" featured popular rap groups of the 1980's like the Rock Steady Crew, Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force, the Treacherous Three (featuring Kool Moe Dee), Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five and Doug E. Fresh. Other appearances were made by the famous "Father of Hip Hop," DJ Kool Herc and actors Rae Dawn Chong and Kadeem Hardison, though the young Hardison's scenes were cut during production.
"Beat Street" was patterned after the first hip-hop motion picture, "Wild Style" by Charlie Ahearn. The film featured prominent rap figures such as Fab Five Freddy, Lee Quinones, Lady Pink, the Rock Steady Crew, The Cold Crush Brothers, and Grandmaster Flash.
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I would love to read more about Jane Johnston Schoolcraft; her life and her aspirations. Thank you for sharing thus far. I have a strong regard for poetry and short stories and would enjoy reading Ms. Schoolcraft's work.
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft's Ojibwe Mother Started the Native Poet's Literary Journey
She was an Ojibwe woman of many names. And one choice she made helped result in the first poetry anyone knows of to be written in a Native language.
Ozhagusodaywayquay (also known as Susan Johnston, Woman of the Green Glade, and Neengay) was the mother of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800–1842), the pioneering Ojibwe/Irish poet whose three surviving poems in the Ojibwe language set a template for all who followed her.
How did Ozhagusodaywayquay help usher these first Native language poems into the world? Besides nurturing Jane, this mother also made the choice not to speak the English she heard (and understood) each day from business associates and guests of her Irish husband, John Johnston, a prominent fur trader.
Because of that choice, Jane (Bamewawagezhikaquay) grew up a Native speaker who thought of the Ojibwe language as she wrote her long-neglected but now celebrated poetry (she wrote many English language poems as well), collected in 2007 in The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky, by Robert Dale Parker.
Jane's house on Water Street, Sault Ste Marie, MI, still stands (it is one of the oldest standing structures in the Midwest, according to Chippewa County Historical Society member Mike Bennett), while Ozhagusodayquay's house, which was next door and actually adjoined it, does not. But not all traces of her are gone.
There is a statue on the old homesite called "In Neengay's Garden" (Neengay, "Mother," was what Jane and her seven siblings called her). She is kneeling in her garden, a long braid of hair down her back, accompanied by an owl perched on her shoulder and a fisher (a kind of weasel) at her side, expressing her closeness to nature.
Neengay was a noted gardener and hostess and also a sugarmaker each summer. According to Ojibwe poet Heid Erdrich, she also did beadwork that survives to this day.
She was the daughter of a noted Ojibwe chief, Waubojeeg. She died in 1843, according to Parker's book, which means she may have experienced the loss of her daughter, who died in 1842.
Related: National Poetry Month: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, the First American Indian Poet


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The parents of 40-year-old Michelle Rounds have spoken out about the shock they felt when they learned their daughter is dating Rosie O'Donnell.
Michelle's father, Roger Rounds said, "It totally hit us out of left field... We only found about Michelle liking girls when all this came out about them a few weeks ago. It's been hard to take."
He said, "This has been a painful experience for me and my wife ... We'd always held out hope that Michelle would eventually find a nice guy to marry, settle down and have kids. And now this - it's pretty shocking stuff for us to digest."
Talk show host O'Donnell met Michelle at a coffee shop earlier this year. In an interview with ABC's 'Nightline' she said "I walked into a Starbucks in the summer and she was holding a little puppy."
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"I thought she was a 28-year-old heterosexual girl because that's what she looked like to me," O'Donnell told 'Nightline.'
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One of the parlor tricks I like to perform when starting off any Silicon Valley talk or presentation is to ask the audience to raise their hand if they currently live in the area. Most people raise their hand. I then ask the people who were born in Silicon Valley to leave their hands up. Generally, in a room or say 1,000 people, maybe ten or fifteen still have their hand up.
That's what makes Silicon Valley so special – it welcomes people from all over the world to come and build their dream. There is less racism, classism, sexism, or general prejudice here than anywhere else I've been. Part of it is the unique history of the bay area (See Berkeley and San Francisco), and part of it is that hyper-competition has no place for prejudice, it simply gets weeded out.
Perhaps the only thing that can destroy the ecosystem here is the U.S. government going out of its way to mess everything up. In particular I've been concerned about H1B visa quotas that severely limit the number of foreign workers that can come here legally. It's something that I asked each of the presidential candidates I interviewed about. Listen to the interviews here, and see each of their positions on H1Bs here. I was also very happy to see Congress starting to take action to increase the quotas.
So, the timing on this guest post is good. Peter Nixey is the founder of Y Combinator startup Clickpass, an idea born in the UK and brought to the U.S. with the Y Combinator funding. Clickpass launched last month.
Peter wrote the post below chronicling his 5+ month effort to move his company legally to Silicon Valley. It is my sincere hope that sometime soon, entrepreneurs will be able to avoid many of these administrative hassles, and focus entirely on growing their businesses.
While the Silicon-Valley v. Rest-of-The-World debate rages on and on there are still some companies for whom it's essential to be in the heart of the industry. Getting a visa to come the valley is not easy though and with more first generation immigrants than almost anywhere else I've been, every San Franciscan foreign accent has a war story of how they battled their way into California.
This is the story of how we brought Clickpass to California and how a holiday turned into a pitch turned into a company and finally into a successful product.
Visiting San Francisco
Today Clickpass is a platform servicing websites with tens of millions of users, a team of developers and an E2 visa to trade in the US. Almost 12 months ago to the day though it was little more than a vision and a dash of technical insight.
After having turned the idea over and developed it for several months in London we happened to be on a trip to San Francisco visiting the Auctomatic founders who at the time were on Y-Combinator. As well as seeing the California hills I wanted to speak to as many people as possible and to understand what the receptiveness of the community was to the OpenID platform we were proposing.
The inevitability of immigration
We managed to get a lot of meetings. Both Keith Teare and one of his platform architects took time to go through our business proposition, Chris Messina and I spoke for hours about how to bring the usability we were planning to OpenID whilst still staying true to the core open-ness of the protocol. We spoke with engineers at Google, Ben Bangert who was implementing OpenID at O'Reilly and then finally were invited to apply for Y-Combinator by Jessica Livingston.
At this stage we'd still only been in California for five days and it was already obvious that San Francisco was the right place to do what we were planning. The energy, expertise and density of web-tech companies was alien to anything we'd ever experienced in London or Oxford. Knowing the move wouldn't be easy we immediately approached an immigration lawyer to find out what options were available.
Choosing a visa category
There are a number of different visa categories, each of which is designed to service different requirements. As a company looking to set up shop in San Francisco there were only a few which were relevant to us.
H1B: Temporary workers and trainees
Since being rationed by congress H1B's are like gold dust to get hold of and swamped by large corporations. There are so many issued each year and by the time we were investigating the previous year's quota was already full.
L1: Intra-company transfer
The L1 allows for a company to make an internal transfer of an employee with specialist knowledge required to direct the American component of a company. Technically it's possible for a startup to create a company in both their home country and the states and then to transfer across. However it is obviously a very flimsy premise for the visa and is also likely to be difficult to defend since the L1 requires the the company still do a significant part of its business in the country of origin.
O1: Alien of Extraordinary ability
Although we originally disregarded it, the superbly named "Alien of Extraordinary Ability" visa has proved to be one of the most popular choices amongst people I know. There is one particularly good lawyer called Chris Wright of the Wright Law Firm who has an excellent reputation for success in this field.
E2: Treaty investor
The visa which we applied for was the E2, foreign investor visa. If you're from a qualifying country and you can invest money in your business then the E2 is the perfect visa to look at.
The key advantage of the E2 is that once the company has jumped through the necessary hoops to be granted E2 status, the transfer of its employees is far easier. Whereas most other visas need to be applied for on a person by person basis, the E2 applies to the company itself and not a particular individual. This means that even though the initial application process takes months and months, subsequent key-employee visas can in theory be arranged and issued in a matter of weeks.
E2: A world of catch 22
Getting the E2, however, is an arduous process. At the time we applied, the delay between submitting our application and actually being granted an interview was five months. Not only that but the visa also requires you to demonstrate that you are irreversibly committed to doing business in the US.
You need to show that the necessary funds have been invested and are already at work which means that should you fail to get the visa… you're irrevocably committed. Not a great position to be in.
Showing that commitment requires evidence of expenditure on US employees, an office lease, bank accounts, tax returns and purchase receipts for equipment. Unfortunately those are exactly the type of things that the US border officials do not like to see.
Pack lightly and smile sweetly
The E2 requires demonstrating to the Visa officials that you are committed to and investing irreversibly in the states.
At the same time though you need demonstrate to the border officials that you're leaving as soon as return flight is due and not intending to return. You certainly shouldn't be bringing anything into the country that indicates you're intending to stay for longer than 30 days (local bank cards, photo albums, US cellphone etc.)
We did three long (i.e. almost 90 day) trips before our visa interview and although we never overstepped any of the regulations, entry was hairy during entry on our second and third visits.
Fortunately for me the guard on my third visit hated the number of passwords he needed to do his job and when he found out what Clickpass was doing, wished me luck and waved me on through.
Acronym onslaught
The majority of the E2 requirements, business plans, rent, investment etc. are well defined and achievable. However two of the things you need are a bank account and also, ideally, payroll for any US employees.
In order to get these though you really need social security numbers. You can't get an Social Security Number SSN without being a US resident which means instead getting either an EIN (Employer ID Number) or an ITIN (Individual Tax Payer Number) both of which are a PAIN.
To cut a long story short, despite our best bureaucratic wrangling we were unable to attain ITINs. As if from nowhere though, an EIN popped out of a random conversation we were having with an official who it seems we charmed / confused into co-operation. It seems out that EINs actually require almost no paperwork and that the main thing required is persistence.
Final interview
It took five months from submitting the application to being granted a visa but finally in April of this year it was time to plead our case.
The visa interview takes place in the individual's country of origin and for us that meant the American embassy in London. The embassy is a little like being in a bank as all the interviews are done standing up and through thickened glass windows.
After arriving at 8AM and watching about a thousand Camp America teenagers collect their J1's, I waited for four hours before I was finally called up and to the E2 window.
Over prepare
The documentation we had submitted ran to over a hundred pages but the officer dealing with us was was very familiar with all of it. Given the varied nature of the applications he sees I was impressed with how much time he'd taken to understand and study our application.
We had some excellent advice from the law firm we were using in London and as well as having already submitted one large file of information I also took another two files worth of supporting documentation. This included bank statements, press coverage of Clickpass and letters of support from Valley luminaries. I ended up needing almost every single document.
The interview lasted about three quarters of an hour and at the end at the end were granted a two year extendable visa to live and operate in the US. After twelve months of waiting, hundreds of hours of preparation and thousands of dollars worth of legal costs the relief of being granted the visa was almost overwhelming.
Not only would the consequences of denial have been catastrophic to the company they would have also meant that I as an individual could no longer travel under the visa waiver programme and despite being a British citizen, would have had to apply for a visa every time I visited.
When to go for it
The visa application process is expensive, very time consuming and very energy consuming. It saps time, attention and energy away from the core thing that any young business needs to do which is to grow.
There are many companies for whom that distraction simply doesn't make sense. For us though I have no doubt that it was essential. Only weeks after launch, Clickpass is seeing thousands of registrations a week and the influence, support and partnerships that the company made in Silicon Valley were critical to that early success.
Although my first choice of base would always be London, I have no doubt that as a young technology team we would not have had the success we did had we stayed. Getting the visa was not a whole bundle of fun but if I had to go back and do it again I wouldn't hesitate for a second.


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Juan Manuel Fangio handed Ayrton Senna the winners' trophy at the 1993 Brazilian Grand Prix. Senna climbed down from the top spot and embraced the Argentinian champion.
A touching moment between two of the sport's legendary figures.
For decades, Fangio's achievement of winning five world championship titles was the ultimate benchmark in Formula 1. Arguably, Senna and Alain Prost might have equalled him if they hadn't had to race against each other.
Fangio's rivals were in awe of him, to the extent of not wanting to stand in the way of the success they felt 'the maestro' deserved.
Compare that with the intense, bitter rivalry between Senna and Prost and you can appreciate the enormous changes in Formula 1 between the eras of Senna and Fangio.
The two were once interviewed together and the interviewer remarked that between them they had eight world championships. Fangio remarked: "Ayrton is still very good and still very young. He has still many years to keep racing."
Sadly, he did not. We'll never know if Senna might have matched Fangio's five world championships. Some who knew him felt his respect for Fangio would have kept him from trying to win more.
It's down to you to pick which of them belongs in the Champion of Champions final.
Compare their career stats below and vote for which you think was best. Tell us who you voted for and why in the comments.
Ayrton Senna | Juan Manuel Fangio | |
Titles | 1988, 1990, 1991 | 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957 |
Second in title year/s | Alain Prost, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell | Alberto Ascari, Jose Froilan Gonzalez, Stirling Moss, Stirling Moss, Stirling Moss |
Teams | Toleman, Lotus, McLaren, Williams | Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Mercedes, Ferrari |
Notable team mates | Alain Prost, Gerhard Berger, Mika Hakkinen | Giuseppe Farina, Peter Collins, Stirling Moss |
Starts | 161 | 51 |
Wins | 41 (25.47%) | 24 (47.06%) |
Poles | 65 (40.37%) | 29 (56.86%) |
Modern points per start1 | 11.68 | 17.12 |
% car failures2 | 20.50 | 17.65 |
Modern points per finish3 | 14.70 | 20.79 |
Notes | Won three titles in four years with McLaren | Missed 1952 season due to injury |
Controversial clash with Prost sealed second title | Handed 1956 title by team mate Peter Collins | |
Killed in third race for Williams in 1994 | Record haul of five titles unequalled until 2002 | |
Bio | Ayrton Senna | Juan Manuel Fangio |
1 How many points they scored in their career, adjusted to the 2010 points system, divided by the number of races they started
2 The percentage of races in which they were not classified due to a mechanical failure
3 How many points they scored in their career, adjusted to the 2010 points system, divided by the number of starts in which they did not suffer a race-ending mechanical failure
Round two
Round one
Which was the better world champion driver?
- Juan Manuel Fangio (100%)
- Ayrton Senna (117%)
Total Voters: 710
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Champion of Champions
- Ayrton Senna voted Champion of Champions by F1 Fanatic readers
- Champion of Champions in stats
- Champion of Champions Final: Senna vs Schumacher
- Ayrton Senna vs Juan Manuel Fangio
- Michael Schumacher vs Alain Prost
- Ayrton Senna vs Jack Brabham
- Juan Manuel Fangio vs Jackie Stewart
- Alain Prost vs Niki Lauda
- Jim Clark vs Michael Schumacher
- Jack Brabham vs Lewis Hamilton
Images © Williams/Sutton (Senna), Daimler (Fangio)