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Get a foot in the door with a guarantor home loan
With house prices in Australian capital cities out of reach for many first home buyers, saving the deposit you need for a home loan could take several years. Of course, by that time house prices may well have increased even further beyond your reach, so how can you find a way to get into the property market?
An option employed by some Australians is a family pledge home loan. Also known as family guarantee home loans and guarantor home loans, these types of mortgages allow you to make up for the fact that you don't have a sufficient deposit saved by using the equity in a family member's house as security on your loan.
There are plenty of advantages and a few potential drawbacks to family guarantee home loans, so read on to find out whether they're right for you.
What is a family guarantee?
A family guarantee is a type of guarantee that can be made to secure a property. This is done by securing the deposit shortfall to a property owned by the guarantor, such as your parents or a close family member. It is also known as a guarantor home loan.
Home loans with a family guarantee feature
How does a family guarantee work?
A family pledge allows you to use the equity in your parents' property or another family member's property as security on a home loan. Guarantors are limited to immediate family members, including parents, grandparents and siblings.
While it was once standard practice to guarantee the entire loan and put your home on the line, today the security on the new home loan can be split and you can limit your guarantee. For example, the equity in your parents' property may be used as security for 20% of the loan, while the property you are purchasing will be used as security for the other 80% of the loan. So if you're helping your kids purchase a property for $500,000, your 20% guarantee is only $100,000.
- How much do they have to guarantee? A common strategy is to guarantee enough equity so that the borrower avoids paying Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI). A parent will need to guarantee 20% of the purchase price of the new property if the borrower has no deposit.
- What can be bought with a family guarantee? The family guarantee can be used to buy a home or invest in residential property so buyers will be able to use normal home loans and investment home loans.
What are the benefits?
The family guarantee will allow you to:
Access finance. Most loans will have a minimum deposit that will have to be paid upfront in order to be accepted. This will usually be around 20%, or less if you pay LMI. With a family guarantee you may be able to borrow more money and provide less of a deposit which will allow you to buy a home sooner.
Avoid LMI. Borrowing more than 80% LVR usually requires you to take out lender's mortgage insurance, but a family guarantee means this extra expense can be avoided.
Increase borrowing power. A family guarantee can boost your borrowing power. The family guarantee will often be used to cover a deposit that can't be paid so you will be able to borrow close to 100% of the loan in some cases if properly secured. Often, guarantor borrowers can borrow 100% of a property value plus costs.
- Eligible for FHOG. Taking out a family pledge home loan means you are still eligible for financial assistance through the First Home Owners Grant. In addition, it also means you will be eligible to access most mortgage products from a lender.
- Limit your guarantee. While the traditional approach is to guarantee the full loan, in many cases you have the option of guaranteeing just a portion of the loan, for example 20%. Once the standard LVR requirements of the loan product have been met due to loan repayments being made or a rise in the valuation of the home, the guarantee on the loan is released.
What are the drawbacks?
- Putting the family home at risk. If you're the guarantor you could be putting your family home at risk, so consider all your options before choosing this approach.
- Not receiving expert advice. If you're considering applying for a family guarantee home loan, it's important that you seek out independent financial and legal advice first. You need to understand exactly what the guarantor will be liable for in the event that you default on the loan.
- Not all banks offer family guarantees. Family pledge home loans aren't offered by all lenders, so the best thing to do is approach a mortgage broker for advice tailored to your needs.
The Big Four family guarantee loans
There are several family guarantees you can choose from. Below we will look at the Big Four banks and their family guarantee loans.
ANZ Family Guarantee
The ANZ Bank Family Guarantee allows some family members to use the equity in their home as a security for a part of your total home loan. Family members include parents, parents-in-law, stepparents and grandparents and siblings will be considered. With this you'll be able to buy a property sooner and avoid paying the premium for lenders mortgage insurance, according to the ANZ website.
More info about ANZ home loans
NAB Family Guarantee
The NAB Family Guarantee permits a family member like a parent to use the equity in their existing home as a security on the new home loan of the borrower. There are some features you might want to be aware of. First of all this guarantee may be used to secure a range of NAB branded home loans, so you can still choose the loan best suited for you. Second, this guarantee has to be secured by either a first registered residential mortgage or NAB Term Deposit.
More info about NAB home loans
Commonwealth Family Equity
The Commonwealth Bank Family Equity loan provides five financing options. These options range from family member acting as a guarantor and therefore giving some kind of security towards a loan, to giving assistance with mortgage repayments. The Family Equity is suitable for borrowers who are unable to service the loan.
More info about CBA home loans
Westpac Rocket Investment Loan
Westpac allow you to guarantee a loan with the help your family. They also have family guarantee options within some of the investment loans. The Westpac Rocket Investment Loan, for instance, offers a family guarantee feature.This feature allows Westpac customers to borrow 95% of the purchase price and associated costs where their parents guarantee the loan through the provision of another security property.
More info about Westpac home loans
Family pledge loans
If your credit is not perfect or you simply don't have a lot of credit history, you may be able to opt for a family pledge loan. These types of loans require that someone else 'guarantee' the loan. This can be a parent or parents, a brother or sister or anyone in your family who would be comfortable offering you some help.
This support can come by way of using their own income to help to supplement the borrower's or they can use their own property as a security for the loan.
Reasons some borrowers choose a family pledge loan
Starting a new job – If you've just graduated and recently acquired a job in your field you may not have the salary and subsequently the buying power necessary to purchase a home. This is where a family pledge loan might be able to help. These loans will help you to buy a house while waiting for your income to increase. When your income is higher then you can pay off your loan a little faster.
Reducing or eliminating mortgage insurance – If you are able to purchase a home, but the chosen loan would require mortgage insurance then a family pledge loan could help. If a family member can assist you then you will have more purchasing power and you will not need to pay LMI. This insurance only benefits the lender so if you can avoid it it will be much better for you and you'll save money.
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This is my first kitchen cabinet project. It took me one year and ten months to complete this project working a couple of hours on weeknights and Saturdays and Sunday afternoons. To give you some idea of the scale of this kitchen…the island is 4 feet wide and 11 feet long. The homeowners wanted all drawers in the base cabinets and raised panel and glass doors on the uppers. I made over 100 drawers for the kitchen, laundry, master bath and two other baths and over 75 raised panels. The appliance garage features a tambour door.
The wood is Guatemalan mahogany or Santos mahogany. All of the doors and side panels on major components have raised panels and the drawer fronts were flat slabs. The finish was applied by the homeowner and is three coats of wipe-on poly.
-- The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when someone is watching.
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#1 posted 06-20-2008 04:36 AM
-- I'm absolutely positive that I couldn't be more uncertain!
#2 posted 06-20-2008 04:57 AM
I am truly impressed with this project. You have the right to be very proud of the job.
-- Scott, Kentucky ----- "Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry" Mark Twain
#3 posted 06-20-2008 05:07 AM
This is a beautiful kitchen. I am sure that the novelty and excitement over the construction of the raised panels and drawers wore off rather quickly with this many to do. But you did an excellent job on the cabinets,
Well done!!!!
-- Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful- Joshua Marine
#4 posted 06-20-2008 05:28 AM
I really get enthused looking at nice kitchen cabinets—especially since we have been working on our kitchen for nearly three years now. That was a massive amount of cabinets and they are absolutely stunning! Is that a remodel in a stately old home, or is it a new home built in a Victorian style? I'm sure the owners were delighted with the final results.
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#5 posted 06-20-2008 06:11 AM
Beautiful job! The homeowners must be thrilled with the work you did on this.
Thanks for showing it.
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#6 posted 06-20-2008 06:15 AM
Exquisite detail and design. You did a beautiful job on this kitchen. Thanks for posting.
God Bless
-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa
#7 posted 06-20-2008 09:56 AM
Great looking job! That Santos Mahogany is some hard wood! Usually used for flooring.
Did you wear out many tools on it?
-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way - Tyler, TX
#8 posted 06-20-2008 12:32 PM
A wonderful kitchen! Your attention to detail shows.
#9 posted 06-20-2008 03:21 PM
Thanks for the comments. The homeowners were pleased and very pleased that it is DONE. They were living in the house while I was completing the task. They were basically "homeless" when their house sold, and we all bucked up and got the house able to be "camped out" in. Cabinet boxes with no drawers or door or even shelves. Plywood for cabinet tops. No kitchen sink, no oven, no cook top. It was hard to drive 9 miles to measure something or install a couple of drawers and drive 9 miles back. The Santos mahogany is what I call the "devil's own wood". It is hard but with that hard of a wood, it doesn't take really sharp planer blades to cut it. I don't know. I had trouble with the wild grain, stresses in the lumber when I ripped it, and having to do most of my routing as climb cuts. Yes, it is used for flooring and the floors in this house are of the same species. I hope next time is see this stuff it is in flooring form but I was very pleased with the outcome and I learned A LOT!!! I learned how to make raised panel doors in mass form; learned how to keep lumber stable while the processes were being completed; and got to know my Kreg jigs in an intimate way. (We're in love, you know :-) ) I do enjoy working with the Kreg. I used it through out the process.
-- The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when someone is watching.
#10 posted 06-20-2008 04:17 PM
Wow, what an impressive project! These cabinets are gorgeous.
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
#11 posted 06-21-2008 05:19 PM
WOW!! I can't even come up with words to describe this!! This has got to be the finest kitchen I've ever seen!! I'm dumbfounded!! Hey, are those croissants? Yummy!!!
-- Matt Garcia Wannabe Period Furniture Maker, Houston TX
#12 posted 06-21-2008 05:40 PM
I'd be so proud . Lots of nice complementing features -great eye for detail =I feel warm just looking at it.
-- Rj's Woodworks,San Jose & Weed Ca,
#13 posted 06-22-2008 05:28 PM
Very nice work in a great looking place. Sweet!
-- When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. -- John Muir
#14 posted 06-23-2008 01:49 AM
Wonderful job. Looks beautiful.
-- (You just have to please the man in the Mirror) Mike from Michigan -
#15 posted 06-23-2008 08:42 PM
Yes, Matt Garcia, those are croissants. Big, fluffy croissants. The homeowner took these photos right before his mother's birthday party. I think some of the wipe-on poly was still damp.
-- The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when someone is watching.
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Army Heritage Center Foundation Announces 2019 Honorees
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This guide assumes that you are familiar with the OCF Security Specification, X.509 certificates, and the IoTivity security subsystem. All discussion in this document pertains to Manufacture Cert based Ownership Transfer (OTM) as of the 2.0 release of IoTivity (Bangkok). It is also assumed that you have basic familiarity with configuring and running the IoTivity sample provisioning applications.
The term Manufacturers Certificate refers to certificates that are installed in a device by the manufacturer.
OCF specifies that certificate chains must be of length 2 or 3.
For this overview the term Identity Cert Chain (ID Cert Chain) refers to 1 or 2 certificates as shown in the previous diagram, used by a device to identify and authenticate itself to other OCF devices.
The term Validation Certificate (Validation Cert) refers to a Root Certificate used to validate the identity and authenticity of identity Cert Chains of other devices.
OCF defines the cred resource, which is used to hold certificates and keys within devices. We will have much more to say about the cred resource in a later section.
The following diagram show a typical example of how Identity Cert Chains and Validation Certificates might be installed in devices from 2 different manufacturers, each using a specific PKI provider. The certs and entities shown in this diagram will be used within other examples in this document, so it is worth spending a few moments to familiarize yourself with it.
It is important to understand that during Mfg Cert OTM, certificate chains are used by the server and client to identify and authenticate each other via the DTLS handshake.
The following diagram shows how the Identity Cert Chain and the Validation Cert are used in the context of a DTLS handshake. For the sake of simplicity, only the relevant DLTS messages are shown (see Appendix D for a more complete representation of DTLS handshake messaging)
As defined by OCF, Certificates and certificate chains are contained within the cred resource of a device, which itself contains a list of cred entries. The term 'cred resource' will be used to refer to the entire list of creds, and the term 'cred entry' will be used to refer to a single entry within the cred list.
For Mfg. Cert based OTM, we will be focusing on the following cred entry properties:
credusage: mfgcert: for Identity Cert Chain entries (for Intermediate and/or EE certs only) mfgtrustca: for Validation Cert entries (for Root certs only) publicdata: certificate or certificate chain encoded as oic.sec.encoding.pem | oic.sec.encoding.der privatedata: private key encoded as oic.sec.encoding.pem | oic.sec.encoding.raw
The Identity Cert Chain, and corresponding private key, will always be contained within cred entries of credusage type mfgcert.
The publicdata field of the cred will holds a certificate or certificate chain, encoded in one of several formats. IoTivity supports two encoding formats for Identity Certificates: PEM and DER.
The privatedata field of the cred entry holds a private key, encoded in one of several formats. IoTivity supports two encoding formats for private keys: PEM and RAW. As the private key must be an Elliptical Curve (EC) Key, the PEM representation will be an 'EC PRIVATE KEY' PEM encoding. IoTivity assumes that RAW, in the case of EC private key encoding, corresponds to SEC 1 encoding.
Examples for generating and converting among these various formats will be provided later in this overview.
In order to properly configure IoTivity with ID Cert Chains, it is important to understand the following assumptions that are made by IoTivity for Identity Cert Chain cred configuration:
Validation Certificates will always be contained within cred entries of credusage type mfgtrustca.
The publicdata field of the cred entry holds a commonly known Root Certificate trust root (per the OCF spec), encoded in one of several formats. IoTivity supports two encoding formats for validation certificates: PEM and DER.
Validation Cert Assumptions
Within IoTivity, Mfg Cert OTM is exercised via the provisioning sample applications listed below. The resources for these sample applications are stored in the noted .dat files.
NOTE: you may need to adjust the platform and build type (shown in bold) in the path below. The notation ${iotivity} is used in this document to indicate the IoTivity root directory
Path: ${iotivity}/out/linux/x86_64/debug/resource/csdk/security/provisioning/sample provisioningclient: Client App that initiates the onboarding process Configured via oic_svr_db_client.dat sampleserver_mfg: Server app that Informs provisioningclient to use server Mfg. Cert based OTM Configured via oic_svr_db_server_mfg.dat
The .dat files are cbor representations of OCF resources and are read by the sample applications at startup to provide initial resource configuration. There are two utilities within IoTivity that can be used to configure .dat files:
This document will focus on the use of json2cbor to create .dat files. json2cbor reads a json representation of OCR resources, and generates the corresponding cbor representation.
$ json2cbor infile.json outfile.dat
We will focus on the creds using DER encoding for certificates, and RAW (SEC 1) encoding for private keys.
DER and SEC 1 are both binary encoding formats. The json2cbor tool expects binary data to be represented in the .json config files as binhex. The commands below show how to carry out conversions among cert and key encoding formats to prepare them for use in the .json config files. The examples assume a linux machine with openssl and xxd installed.
Convert a certificate in PEM format to DER format, and then the resulting DER file to binhex
$ openssl x509 -in cert.pem -outform DER -out cert.der $ xxd -ps cert.der | tr -d \\n > cert.der.hex
Convert a private key in EC PEM Format to DER encoded SEC 1 format, and then the resulting DER file to binhex
$ openssl ec -inform PEM -in privkey.pem -outform DER -out privkey.der $ xxd -ps privkey.der | tr -d \\n > privkey.der.hex
Below is an example cred resource configuration for oic_svr_db_server_mfg.json using binhex formatted cert and private keying material. We will be representing the following cred resource structure:
{ "cred": { "creds": [ { "credid": 1, "subjectuuid": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111", "credtype": 8, "credusage": "oic.sec.cred.mfgcert", "publicdata": { "encoding": "oic.sec.encoding.der", "data": "contents of ee1-cert.der.hex: 308201c03082016 ..." }, "privatedata": { "encoding": "oic.sec.encoding.raw", "data": "contents of ee1-privkey.der.hex: 30770201010420..." } }, { "credid": 2, "subjectuuid": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111", "credtype": 8, "credusage": "oic.sec.cred.mfgcert" "publicdata": { "encoding": "oic.sec.encoding.der", "data": "contents of contents of int-ca1-cert.der.hex: 308201cc308201…" }, }, { "credid": 3, "subjectuuid": "*", "credtype": 8, "credusage": "oic.sec.cred.mfgtrustca" "publicdata": { "encoding": "oic.sec.encoding.der", "data": "contents of root-ca2.der.hex: 308201cc308...", "revstat": false }, } ], "rowneruuid": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "rt": ["oic.r.cred"], "if": ["oic.if.baseline"] }, }
Once these changes have been made to oic_svr_db_server_mfg.json run the following command to create the corresponding cbor representation in oic_svr_db_server_mfg.dat
$ cd ${iotivity}/out/linux/x86_64/debug/resource/csdk/security/provisioning/sample $ edit oic_svr_db_server_mfg.json ## config cred resource as shown above, and save $ json2cbor oic_svr_db_server_mfg.json oic_svr_db_server_mfg.dat
Now start the sample server
$ ./sampleserver_mfg
oic_svr_db_server_mfg.dat will be read by sampleserver_mfg at startup, and will be configured with the cred resource shown above.
The sample client app provisioningclient can be similarly configured via the config file oic_svr_db_client.json


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Findings from "Removal and Fate of EDCs and PPCPs in Bank Filtration Systems" (project/order #3136), released this month found that riverbank filtration is effective in removing organic compounds such as PPCPs, EDCs, and industrial chemicals.
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choosing the best eyeshadow shade seems to be one of the most mystifying color choices for many women. the first thing to consider when choosing an eye shadow shade is how to enhance your eye color.
here are some basic guidelines about which colors go with each eye color to help narrow down your options:
Brown eyes: Shades of green, bronze, copper, amber, pale blue and gold will create subtle drama that will deepen the color of your eyes
Blue or Gray eyes: Shades with hints of brown (ex: brick, peach, purple) or yellow-gold, apricot or copper bring out the blues or smokey grays of one's eyes
Hazel or Green eyes: Mauve, gold, pale purple, pewter, lilac, bronze, light brown, apricot and khaki will make those gold and green lights flicker.
*taken from Fast Beauty 1,000 Quick Fixes
hmm...i have brown eyes and yet i play with a lot of colors. obviously, the "sutil" in me doesn't give a damn. hehehe, anyways it does say "to enhance the eye color" and i didn't see anything that says don't wear this and that color if your eyes are this color....bleh!
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All events are free except where indicated. Book tickets online call 020 7306 0055 or visit the Gallery.
Free, but tour tickets required and available on the day from 17.00 on a first come, first served basis in addition to a timed exhibition ticket.
Friday 4 March, 19.30
Friday 1 April, 19.30
Thursday 24 March, 18.30
TALK: Picturing Everyman
Geoff Dyer in conversation with Dryden Goodwin
Hoppé took his camera out onto the streets of London, Berlin and New York and photographed ordinary life. This discussion explores early twentieth-century photography's search for ordinary, representative subjects, placing Hoppé alongside contemporaries such as Bill Brandt, Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. Geoff Dyer, author of The Ongoing Moment, will join the artist Dryden Goodwin to ask what was at stake when photography switched its focus from the drawing-room to the street. The discussion will also explore the legacy of this kind of portraiture including Goodwin's recent series of portraits of sixty London Underground staff.
Tickets: £5/£4 concessions and Gallery Supporters
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Thursday 7 April, 13.15
LUNCHTIME LECTURE: E.O. Hoppé
Mick Gidley, Emeritus Professor of American Literature at the University of Leeds charts the life and times of the great Edwardian modernist E O Hoppé paying special attention to his Anglo-American photographs and his investigations into types.
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Friday 6 May, 19.00
Bern Schwartz Biannual Lecture
Masters of Photography: E.O. Hoppé*
Part of a special lecture series celebrating the legacy of photographer Bern Schwartz. Exhibition curator Phillip Prodger will look at E.O. Hoppé, the Anglo-American relationship within his work and discuss his lasting influence.
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Friday 13 May, 18.00-22.00
Capturing the Capital
To celebrate our Hoppé Portraits and Ida Kar exhibitions, visitors can enjoy an evening of photography and the city, with events inspired by these displays from two of the most celebrated photographers of the nineteenth century. The Gallery will be open late with events including twilight tours of the city and a screening of Kar's favourite film, as well as live music, photography workshops and special tours and talks on the works and lives of the two artists.
Plus 2 for 1 drinks with your Hoppé ticket at the Late Shift bar
Saturday 19 March, 11.00 – 15.00
Hoppé's London: Whitehall and St. James's
E.O. Hoppé's camera lens was drawn towards the unusual and quirky sides of London and Londoners. What is remarkable is that so many of these curiosities have survived the passage of eighty years, decades which have included the Blitz and the remorseless redevelopment of the city. These walks will explore the London that Hoppé knew and reveal new discoveries which share his spirit of adventure. Each walk lasts approximately 2 hours and is led by Blue Badge Guide Alan Read.
Tickets: £15/£12 concessions and Gallery Supporters
Saturday 2 April, 11.00 – 15.00
Hoppé's London: The Strand, The Temple and The City
See 19 March for details.
Wednesday 23 – Friday 25 February, 11.00 – 16.00 daily
Three-day Workshop - Society, Studio and Street
Explore the photographs in Hoppé Portraits and create your own photographic portraits inspired by society figures and everyday British people. Led by digital artist Marianne Holm Hansen and photographer Gisela Torres.
Culminates in a public screening on Friday 25 February at 17.00.
For 14 - 21 year olds. Booking required. Please email [email protected] or call 020 7312 2483.
Fully Booked
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Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, London
by E.O. Hoppé, 1934
© 2011 E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection / Curatorial Assistance Inc.


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Confessions of an Audience Member
I should know better. As a guy with two theatre degrees, I know first hand the terrors (and joys) of putting oneself and one's work before an audience. You can try to tell yourself that you don't 'need' or even 'want' their approval, but the truth is you wouldn't be there at all if you didn't. Rod Serling's voice is under any live presentation saying "submitted for your approval" to the audience.
I should know better. I have presented ideas, products, plans, and research to groups small and large. I've never been a paid conference speaker, but I have been paid to make sure presentations go well.
I should know better than to make a snarky comment publicly just because it struck me as funny for a fleeting moment. Apparently I didn't know better at the Web 2.0 Expo last Wednesday in New York.
danah boyd, a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society whose blog and articles I've dipped into from time-to-time, was off to a rough start with her presentation and well… I was distracted by the Twitterwall backchannel and stupidly tweeted the first snarky comment that came into my head including the conference hashtag.
After a busy couple of days working and traveling I logged on Friday and realizing the error in my ways, expunged my Twitter account of the snarky comment and apologized to Danah on her blog via the comments.
Since then, Ilana Arazie at Social Times took another look at the Web 2.0 Expo Twitter Circus and Danah Boyd posted about what happened from her perspective.
Now, my comment wasn't the worst of the bunch (you can find it quoted on a couple of blogs about the event if you try), but for me that's not the point. I want to know what went wrong in my wiring as an audience member. Was it a fascination with the power of the new technology (this was my first Twitterwall experience)? Was I tempted by the chance to mock someone without her knowing? Look, I'm not hiding from the fact that I've been a bit of a wiseass my whole life, but I haven't been rude or a scene stealer.
My confession here is that I simply don't know why I joined in the snarkfest. I wanted to hear what danah Bbyd had to say. I wanted to be challenged after some relatively light weight keynotes (no offense to the other speakers, but boyd they ain't). Much of the active online discussion around the event has involved known speakers or aspiring speakers, but relatively few audience members. Perhaps other audience members have already moved on to the next event or it just wasn't such a big deal to them or maybe they just don't think about this stuff. My guess is that most of us don't know why it all happened, we twittered and tittered and indulged in the powerful ignorance and juvenile behavior of the crowd-mind without really choosing to and made up our excuses or denials as we went along.
I spent most of my time in school and a lot of time following it thinking about performance and the relationship of audience to performer. I delved into Aristotle, Brecht, Artaud, Grotowski, John Cage, the Situationists, and Dada, dabbled in surrealism, Fluxus, and the Wooster Group, I interned with Reza Abdoh, wrote pieces performed on the move through grass fields and cemeteries with characters named 'I,' 'she,' and 'shirk,' and sincerely wrestled with the angel of theatre that mutes an audience of the majority in favor of privileging the voices of the performing few.
Why does that relationship, performer to audience / audience to performer, matter so much? Why should we and do we recreate it in the face of all the technology that proves we don't have to? My answer: we crave those relationships because we are hard wired to as humans. Knowing more about that relationship will help us know more about what it means to be human. The ambiguous nature of humanity is the true subject of much (if not all) of our art and science from the first cave painting experiments to our own twitter-fed-blogspiels. We want to know ourselves and creating audience-performer situations is one way we learn more, but only if we ask questions about what happened in the performance space/conference hall.
My next few posts will be about the Web 2.0 Expo and what I saw and heard there, particularly as it relates to audience relationships, performance, and the screen as a stand in for the theatrical frame/proscenium.


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David Durand wrote "Sounds like a great idea for a set of architectural forms that might be used by people with similar problems." I believe there is much to be gained from a stylesheet syntax which uses architectural forms in a big way. Anyone else feel this? I've recently been named joint project leader (with Nigel Shaw of EuroSTEP) in an ISO Preliminary Work Item (under ISO TC184/SC4 - Industrial Data) to look into how SGML and STEP can interoperate. I have from time to time mentioned STEP in my submissions to this forum, and on occasions such as the XML workshop at WWW6 in Santa Clara. There were also presentations on STEP/SGML at SGML Europe 97 in Barcelona. One of the areas I want to look at very seriously is how architectural forms can be used to provide different views of data. The core storage might be highly data-centric, but document-centric, GUI-centric and other-centric views will also be needed. It seems to me that AFs can be a powerful way of achieving this. It seems to me that an architecture (a coherent set of architectural forms) might provide just what is needed - a means of defining a particular subset of the data, presented in a particular way, with particular semantics and behaviour. In short, a rich stylesheet++ or the kind we need. When does work on XML-STYLE begin? I can't wait. Daniel Daniel Rivers-Moore Technical Director, RivCom Lotmead Business Village, Swindon SN4 0UY, UK Tel: +44 (0)1793 790802 Fax: +44 (0)1793 790812 firstname.lastname@example.com (BTW, I think the passage quoted below is from Martin Bryan in response to Andrew Layman - not from Andrew himself) -----Original Message----- From: firstname.lastname@example.com [SMTP:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 1997 3:15 AM To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: RE: !BEHAVIOR >At 10:39 11/6/97 -0700, Andrew Layman wrote: >The example that was being discussed, <date>19960527</date>, clearly showed >that what is important is knowing what something is. Unless you understand >the notation used for this date you cannot interpret it. As I said in my >earlier messages, as we cannot use notation for XML elements, and we do not >have access to the lexical typing mechanism provided in the SGML Extended >Facilities Annex, we need some way to distinguish between the following >valid dates: > ><date country=US>01022001</date> ><date country=UK>01022001</date> (30 days later!) ><date country=Isreal culture=Hebrew>20010101</date> (This isn't even in the >same millenium!) ><date country=Isreal culture=Arabic>10022010</date>(This isn't the same as >any of the other dates.) In tradtional SGML, we use attributes and depend on applications to interpret them. We don't have a standard way to do this (which means that you may have to write date-checking code to verify your conforming SGML documents). Leaving things like this is _not_ a showstopper flaw. Most stylesheets need not know the data type of element contents, and most applications that do will require much more structure than a single element, and will use the doctype anyway (though they may have the DTD (and other data formats) compiled in). ><date>01022001</date> is clearly not sufficient to undertand the contents. >You need some qualifier (as I have been forced to do with application >specific attributes in the preceding examples). And it's not something that we desperately need, but something that we would like for some applications. >There are many other cases where you need to invoke some outside interpreter >to be able to understand what an element represents. exactly, and currently it's a processing decision -- if you're not doing _any_ procressing, then syntactic restrictions on the values don't really matter. >Either you need a >notation processor as per SGML or you need some other indirectable mechanism >for identifying how to interpret the data. stylesheet. >What I was suggesting was that >this should be done with a standardized attribute, which I called behaviour >for want of a better name. I do not believe this is about presentation, it >is about being able to make sense of the data when it is not in the same >textual format as the rest of the document. Its about understanding what >something actually is. Sounds like a great idea for a set of architectural forms that might be used by people with similar problems. -- David _________________________________________ David Durand email@example.com \ firstname.lastname@example.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________Received on Thursday, 12 June 1997 05:25:00 UTC
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Perhaps the most difficult thing about SOFA seems almost entirely ironic; there's too much to see there. Another year brings THE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION OF
The place to be this weekend was Navy Pier's Festival Hall, where thousands of objects were on display for the throngs of people who attended SOFA, and what they found (other than absolute over stimulation) was probably something similar to what I discovered.
How enjoyable is to be in the company of strangers who are as equally excited about being somewhere? And how much more enjoyable is it when you realize it's not the latest Will Ferrell movie (not that there's anything wrong with that), or surrounded by screaming fans of the latest boy band, or even a sweltering day at a theme park like Great America? I know I don't have a lot of faith in humanity as a whole, but the people of Chicago surprised me this weekend at SOFA. Not only were they cool appreciators of art (some of them were almost works of art themselves), but we had to STAND IN LINE to PURCHASE TICKETS to enter the show. And upon entering, our dreams of languishing from booth to booth at our leisure quickly faded.
So next time SOFA rolls around, I can assure you of this much, the people are almost as enjoyable as the objects.
Now, about those objects.
I'm sorry to say that due to my complete overwhelmed state I neglected to write down any of the artists' names or names of pieces that I enjoyed. Rest assured, they know who they are. And you must rely on my excellent descriptions of their handiwork as representative of their personage.
First of all, let me say at word about the pieces in general. While very few things caught our selective eyes, I must say, it was quite impressive just to see all of the pieces and consider the vast hours of work, sweat and thought that went into each piece. Seriously, the level of craft and labor was exceptionally high. That fact was prevalent everywhere you looked and you could feel it weigh you down as you walked in the door. This was not just some art show, this was serious art.
The Objects that Linger in My Mind's Eye:
Marble busts, chiseled in homage to greek mythology and cubism. Surprising, simple, clean, striking, they were whimsical and beautiful.
The daintiest china you've ever seen marvelously lit to show its translucency, with elegant and delicate patterns painted on. It would be like drinking tea out of an eggshell.
Ceramic cubes with different color glazes set in a grid.
A modern Chinese scabbard with detailed metal base, two glass pieces with a beautiful photographic image above which a sword rests.
Intricate and tightly strung beaded representations of fabric from the artist's sentimental collection. A mod, square pattern was exceptional both in concept and color.
A beautiful cabinet with rounded corners, made with different types of wood to give depth and texture.
Pastel ceramic impressionistic flowers laid side by side on a metal grid.
Giant glass paperweights with precise and symmetrical patterns embedded. One was a pink lotus, I think.
Elegant figures with arms folded; I especially liked the brick path that leads up to the figure's chest.
SOFA is an experience worth the effort and time. As an artist, it is a way to assess what trends are getting noticed (I observed my own interests: collage style, symmetry vs. frenzy and a mixing of mediums and supplies). It is also a way to assure one's self that there are many other people out there in the world doing things that inspire others. You can easily be one of them. It is just a matter of doing the work, making the objects and finishing the pieces.


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When I was younger, probably half my current age, I used to know every single word to virtually every single song of every single album that I owned. Some may call this a bit sad, I prefer to say that it was simply quite anal! It had it's advantages though, it meant me and my mate Neil could challenge each other to pass the time in mind-numbingly boring jobs. One such job was at Multiserve in Shipley (StreetView: the grey building with the zig-zag roof). The job entailed sticking lolly's to the front of kids magazines; another was sticking packs of seeds onto the front of gardening magazines. I always thought that these things were automated by machinery – well, perhaps they are for real publications, but these things were incredibly obscure. I remember the 'boys' magazine that we were sticking the lollies onto featured an interview with, and I quote, "Someone Who Knows Tiger Woods". I had some crap jobs, but that's for another blog post I think!
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Duke Kahanamoku, 1991 U.S. Olympic Cards (Summer Olympics Special, No. 4)
Name: Duke Kahanamoku
Event: Swimming
Medal count: 3 golds, 2 silvers
Value of card: 4 coconuts
Key 1912 stat: 472 women romanced
Duke Kahanamoku's dating profile, circa 1912:
Screen name: hawaiianhunk69
Age: 52
Height: 6 feet (6 feet 2 on surfboard)
Weight: 185 pounds soaking wet
Hair color: Salt-and-pepper
Hairstyle: The wave, obviously
Ethnicity: Hawaiian
Religious views: Worships the ocean
Marital status: Married to the water
Want children? I have enough
Best feature: C'mon, the tan, obviously
Smoke? The competition
Drink? Saltwater
Seeking: Just trying to get laid (Huh, huh, get it?)
Location: The Big Island
Her body type: Hula
Her ethnicity: Hula
About me: Aloha, you know me as the Duke, but I'm the king of Hawaii. I basically created surfing and won gold medals in swimming. I've shown thousands of women paradise while in a tropical paradise. My tan is so deep you can't help but fall in. Come, join me on my surfboard of ecstasy and let me mahalo you all night long.
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When a male hummingbird is courting a female, he'll do some insane aerial moves to show her how strong, controlled and just generally fantastic he is. On occasion, if the female enjoys the show, she'll starting moving in the air with him. This can sometimes look like they're actually mating in the air, because they can get very close. In fact, hummingbirds often get right up in each other's faces. Male hummingbirds will do a sort of "dance off" when fighting over territory, and several hummingbirds will get together to chase off an outsider.
Appearances aside, hummingbirds don't actually mate in midair. Their legs may not be able to walk or bounce, but they can perch. Hummingbirds are able to stand on branches, and that's where they copulate. After a female accepts a talented suitor, she'll perch on a branch and wait for the male to mount her from behind. About four seconds later, they leave each other and never look back [source: World of Hummingbirds]. The male goes to look for another female to mate with, and the female goes off to build a nest.
Probably the most fascinating part of the mating ritual is the initial courtship activity. Males go to serious lengths to impress females. A male hummingbird will dance and sing. He'll perform what's referred to as a courtship dive, which seems like a scary display but seems to go far with the hummingbird ladies. Flying up to 60 feet (18.28 meters) in the air, the male bird will suddenly arc and head straight down, flying in a beeline for the female [source: World of Hummingbirds]. When he's within inches of her head -- still at full speed -- he'll pull up, flying back to 60 feet and starting all over again. When the female is suitably impressed with the dive, she'll go wait on a perch.
Female hummingbirds are picky about their mates. It can sometimes get to be quite a competition. Male hummingbirds have been known to get together and serenade a female, each trying to win her attention. When she does show attention to one of the males, the courtship dive or other midair dances begin, and the other birds give up and fly away.
Just because hummingbirds don't mate in midair, though, doesn't mean nobody does. White-throated swifts, birds native to the American West, sometimes copulate while falling through the air of a canyon [source: Stanford]. A pair of great gray garden slugs will also mate in midair -- while hanging from a cord of slime [source: OSU].
For more information on hummingbirds, midair activity and related topics, fly to the links below.
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- Copulation. Stanford University Birds. http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Copulation.html
- Flight of Fancy. National Geographic Magazine. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0701/feature4/
- Hummingbird Behavior. World of Hummingbirds. http://www.worldofhummingbirds.com/behavior.php
- Hummingbirds. Defenders of Wildlife. http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/hummingbirds.php
- Hummingbirds. Enchanted Learning. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/printouts/Hummerprintout.shtml
- Spotted leopard slug. Oregon State University Horticulture Department. http://oregonstate.edu/dept/nurspest/Limaxmaximus.htm


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- Ensuring that every agenda item has a clearly defined purpose, and accomplishes that purpose, then ends.
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- Welcoming guests appropriately, with adequate directions, a place to productively wait before the meeting starts, wifi access, something to drink, descriptions of who else will be in the room and a clear understanding of the goals of the meeting.
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- Issuing a follow up memo to everyone who attended the meeting, clearly delineating who came and what was decided.
If you do all this, every time you call a meeting it's going to cost more to organise. Which means you'll call fewer meetings, those meetings will be shorter and more efficient. And in the long run, you'll waste less time and get more done.
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Early in March of 2003 the statistics revealed that illnesses were under-reported. Sick children were in school and close contact with other children and staff further exacerbated outbreaks. In the public schools, an outbreak of Shigella took 8-10 weeks to control. Absenteeism of both students and teachers interrupts productivity and learning. Parents depend on a healthy child that stays in school to prevent changes in family priorities and schedules. Increased costs for sitters, lost time at work and medical costs affect families and the community negatively.
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Town Centre Pavements
If you've been doing your Christmas or New Year shopping in Buckingham over the last few days, you will have spotted some strange marks on some of our pavements. I am delighted to report that following successful campaigning, I have secured pavement repairs from Transport for Bucks and that these are scheduled for February/March time (subject to weather).
Primary School Admissions
Starting school or moving up to Junior School in September 2018 in Buckinghamshire? You are now able to apply for your child's school place if they are due to start school in September 2018 or are due to move from infant to junior school.
The application deadline is 3pm on 15 January 2018 so don't delay. See the county council website for details.
Buckingham What's On
There is a oft-repeated myth that there is nothing to do in Buckingham. As a result of many conversations to highlight the vast array of events that go on week-in week-out in the Buckingham area, I decided to set up a new What's On service to try and raise awareness and exposure for all these great activities, making use of the event tools in Facebook. I do hope you find it useful and please feel free to email in future events. Details also on the website if you don't use Facebook!
Christmas Lights
The Buckingham Christmas lights were switched on last Sunday in an event organised by the Town Council. It was great to sing some carols with the hundreds of people who turned up, assisted by the Winslow Concert Band and Glee Club, together with a great chocolate themed Christmas story by the Salvation Army. It was also particularly nice to see the tree with a star for the very first time, provided by the Women's Institute following their fundraising this year. Thank you and a very Merry Christmas!
Remembrance Sunday
It was a great honour to represent the County Council at the annual Buckingham Remembrance Parade. We were very lucky for a dry and clear day, albeit very cold.
Vale of Aylesbury Local Plan
The Vale of Aylesbury Local Plan Proposed Submission is the latest draft of the Local Plan to be published and has been approved for publication and will open for public consultation from Thursday 2 November to Thursday 14 December 2017. Following this, the responses will be collated and submitted along with the Plan and supporting documents for examination by an independent planning inspector. You can find out more on the AVDC website.
Given the proposals in Buckingham and Maids Moreton, I would urge residents to review this draft plan, and to take part in the consultation.
Moreton Road Footpath Options
I met with Buckinghamshire County Council officers and the town council clerk last week to discuss options on how we can improve pedestrian and cycle safety on Moreton Road, in particular the access to bus stops. I will be keeping pressure on the council to find a solution.
Affordable Warmth Network
I was pleased to meet the Affordable Warmth Network last week – a really helpful advice service for people worried about heating bills. They can help with:
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Moreton Road Zebra Crossing Complete
I was delighted to be able to make use of the newly completed zebra crossing at the north end of Moreton Road this week, making the access between Twickenham Road and Maids Moreton School so much easier and safer.


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Mobile Devices
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MIC president S Subramaniam has hit out at Tourism and Culture Minister Nazri Aziz for his statements lambasting BN components for their dismal performance in the last polls, which he said may have come too close to the mark for some in the Indian party.
"I have met Nazri this morning and expressed my unhappiness over some of those statements. While active positive political dialogue is welcomed, we should avoid ugly situations which could be divisive to the spirit of BN.
"Nazri's statements have hurt the feelings of grassroots MIC leaders."
Subramaniam said that it was unfortunate that disparaging remarks were made over the last few days in the exchange of words between leaders of BN component parties.
"It has been my stand that BN leaders should avoid such situations which will create unnecessary tension amongst BN component parties.
We should uphold the principle of mutual respect for each other," said Subramaniam.
He called upon MIC members to be calm and restrained in this situation, and not jump into the shoot-fest which saw Nazri trading barbs with MCA leader Ti Lian Ker and others over the perceived dismal performance of component parties in general elections.
Subramaniam said that a truce of sorts has been called after the leaders met in the cabinet meeting today.
"We discussed this issue together this morning before the weekly cabinet meeting.
"We all agreed that continuous exchange of statements and counter-statements would not augur well for BN as whole," he said.
He added that all parties have agreed to stop this exchange of words, and continue to work towards strengthening the BN in preparing for the next general election.
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