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Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Sound of my Voice
As it was raining at the beach, I made another visit to the Landmark Cinema in west LA and watched this. If group hugs over pools of vomit and then live earthworms are your thing, then this is for you! No, that gives a very unfair picture of the film. Usually I try not to give too much away, but be warned, this time I have to.
I reviewed Another Earth here, which was Brit Marling's first feature and said then that I felt sure we'd be seeing a lot more of her - here is the next instalment, which she again co-wrote. I like the way this girl thinks - and acts.
Set in Los Angeles (of course) Pete (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) are twenty-something would-be investigative film-makers. They are seeking to expose what they deem to be a cult lead by the mysterious Maggie (Brit Marling). The way into the cult is by a selection process and many fail to make the grade. When sufficient 'preparation on the outside' has been achieved, couples are given instructions to drive to a house and use the supplied remote to open the garage, drive in, close the door and wait in the car for further instructions. They are then forced to give over all their belongings, strip and shower with the instruction "be thorough with the soap". They then put on white surgical gowns have their wrists cable-tied, are blindfolded and driven to a different location. On arrival, in another garage, the cable ties are cut and they are led downstairs into a basement where they encounter Klaus (Richard Wharton) who subjects them to the most bizarre handshake routine to feature in cinema. They then join with eight other people - all wearing the same and are invited to bow in worship as Maggie enters the room pulling an oxygen cylinder on wheels behind her. She then goes into a spiel about how disorienting this will be and that the first night is always the hardest but those who have been through it will testify that what lies ahead is well worth the discomfort.
It is obvious that this film is extremely well researched. The rituals, visualisation of the basement, rites of passage and psychobabble that Maggie delivers all feel highly authentic. Maggie claims to be from the year 2054 - from their future. Things have turned a bit apocalyptic and she has come back to select a special band of chosen people to prepare for what lies ahead. It all sounds feasible - even Maggie's apparent weakness is explained by saying that someone from the future is allergic to almost everything of our time - even though it's only 40 years in the future.
The film cuts away to lady checking into a hotel room. Initially she acts most strangely, but it becomes apparent that she is a pro sweeping her room for bugs. Soon afterwards and without explanation, she ends up in the very same sauna that Lorna uses after a swim and initiates a conversation. It is clear the lady knows a lot about Lorna - and Pete and Maggie. It turns out that she is from the Justice Department and that Maggie is a wanted felon. The woman persuades Lorna to set Maggie up - and this she agrees to, without Pete's knowledge.
Away from group sessions worshipping Maggie, Pete remains highly sceptical - although much of the time he makes it appear like a mind-job. Lorna appears more open. Maggie is enchanting - on whichever level you want to operate at. There is more than a hint of some chemistry between Maggie and Pete - or is it just to soften him up? To earn a buck, Pete is a supply teacher at an elementary school. Things get turned upside down when he is invited to a one-to-one with Maggie who ditches the ethereal angelic look, lights up and swigs whisky from a bottle - offering it to Pete. She says she may be from the future but she isn't a saint. Pete smiles and begins to see his scepticism find sound foundation. As the conversation develops, Maggie produces some photographs that feature an eight year-old girl in Pete's class. Pete is astounded as Maggie asks him to bring the girl to him. He refuses as he contemplates the professional consequences. Maggie piles on the pressure eventually revealing that this girl is in fact her mother.
Buoyed by the need to set up Maggie, Lorna encourages Pete to use an upcoming school trip to set up the meeting between the girl and Maggie. Reluctantly he agrees and sets it up through Klaus with strict controls. Things appear to go awry as another 'cult' member appears at the rendezvous and changes things, but the girl and Maggie do meet. Maggie kneels and offers the girl her hand. Eventually she takes it and they begin the elaborate handshake that Klaus has previously used. As they finish, the girl asks "how did you know my secret handsake?" and Maggie tells her "You taught it to me when I was a little girl" at which point the law bust in and Maggie is taken away with Klaus. Pete looks on with incredulity at Lorna whom he assumes set him up. The film ends.
Apparently this is the first instalment of a trilogy and the story is set to continue - which is good. As the film tells its story, it raises many questions of faith, belief and doubt which it quietly parks with the viewer (at least with this viewer). The major one is of course 'is Maggie really a time-traveller?'. Whereas Another World was a film that explored emotions, this film is a psycho-thriller with an emotional twist. As I said, I found it compelling viewing. If you want to see the first 12 minutes in a trailer including diagrams on how to do the handshake, click here. If Maggie is a fellon wanted for armed robbery and arson, how was she able to do the little girl's secret handshake? Perhaps she is from the future......
The film debuted at this year's Sundance Film Festival and in interview Marling said
"Playing a cult leader is so far outside of my life," Marling says. "From an acting perspective, I believed I was from the future, and my doubts were like anyone's doubts: can I really be an actor or writer? It's grounded in the mundane and in emotions, but being locked in a time period that's not your own. As a writer, it's interesting the way sci-fi can create original juxtapositions in normal human dramas."
Sci-fi also lets Marling investigate the nature of belief. She notes that both of the films she's involved with at this year's Festival are "obsessed with faith." "In Another Earth, how do you rebuild your life when everything has been burned to ashes?" she asks. "How do you have faith in moving forward as a human being? And in Sound of my Voice, it's a meditation on belief and the possibility of being more than what the eye can see."
You can read the whole interview here. I hope we will see a lot more of Brit Malling - she's good. I'll give this 8.5/10.
39 comments:
I just finished viewing this film and I am much
relieved to read that there will most likely be a sequel. I'm suspicious that the woman from the justice department is from the future also. Does
"I'll be back" ring a bell. Anyone? Ok, how about
"The Terminator". Maggie is wanted all right but
not for armed robbery or arson. See where I'm going with this? Under this contes I enjoyed the film as I did with "Another Earth".
- 20 November 2012 at 14:44
- Unknown said...
Great review, and I'm also glad there should be a sequel. Anonymous, I had the same feeling re: Justice Dept lady. She had a kinda devious look in her eye.
One thing - I believe Pete's girlfriend's name is LORNA, not Laura?
- 28 November 2012 at 17:27
- Duncan Strathie said...
April - thanks for your comments and for pointing out my error. British ears hearing an American accent!
- 2 December 2012 at 19:00
I thought this movie was stupid. They never got back to the subject about why she was wanted, or 'the real reason' she wants the little girl. Too much information left unfinished. If there is a sequel, I can only see it going in the direction of the Terminator, also, in which case, it's already been done. Stupid
- 26 January 2013 at 18:14
As a woman & mother of a young girl, the Secret Handshake is something all girls do and know, there are many playground games like that. IMO, it doesn't prove she was from the future at all.
- 23 April 2013 at 11:22
I hate the cranberries
- 16 July 2013 at 09:14
- Unknown said...
Does anyone else think the little girl is her daughter, notice u only see her dad?? I also cant figure out what the dad was doing to the little girl when he injects her feet and she gets sleepy instantly and stays tired throughout the day.. I didn't like how thw dad crawled in bed with her and his laptop.. CREEPY???
I loved it and it makes u think so much after!!
- 29 July 2013 at 11:59
- Duncan Strathie said...
Great thoughts Kandilyn. If this is the first of a trilogy perhaps all will be revealed.
Some colleagues whom I showed the film to said that injecting between the toes is the number one way to inject and not let it show! What's that about?
- 29 July 2013 at 21:30
I like the idea that the justice dept lady is looking for her for another reason ;)
Unanswered questions.. what's with the emo girl and the legos? Why did she get injected in the toe.. whatis really wrong with maggie? She needs blood and it's never explained. What is with the handshake and how did she know it? I've seen handshakes but that one had some unusual moves.
What's with the numbers? Are those chapters?
I'm going to be really angry if they don't continue this movie. It was left too wide open. I love it though :)
- 18 August 2013 at 19:16
Anyone notice around the 105 mark when she's taking to the chick at the justice dept there is someone in the background wrapped in a sheet or something and leaves?
- 18 August 2013 at 23:35
- Duncan Strathie said...
Good questions anonymous posters.
The only one I can answer is that injections between the toes leave the least marks - so I am told!
- 20 August 2013 at 21:06
Anonymous on 18 August 2013, remember that when justice dept. lady contacted her, they were in the steam room of a health club. In the scene where Lorna was shown the photo, they were in the shower/dressing area of the health club, and the person in the background was wrapped in a bath sheet, which is essentially an oversized towel. Bath sheet lady walking through the background of the scene was just decoration to indicate they were still in the health club (apparently an upscale health club, not an ordinary middle class health club).
On another topic, I also think justice dept. lady is actually also from the future. Why else would she be checking the hotel room for hidden cameras and microphones? If a search for hidden cameras and microphones was done today, they would bring in a crew to high tech scan the room, not have an individual do a low tech scan using 1970's style techniques of creating background noise while using low tech methods to search for bugs. Also, if she was really from the justice dept., why would she feel a need to hide her mission research and search tools in a disguised dept. store gift box? Maybe because she was trying to hide if from the real police, perhaps? Also, if she claimed Maggie was wanted for a bank robbery, why didn't she show the bank robbery photo with Maggie in it, instead of a photo of Maggie in an anachronistic dress if front of a theatre?
And, of course, this is sheer speculation, but I think Maggie came back in time to give her mother a message that could possibly alter the future. In the future, her mother may have told her that she was in a position to stop some catastrophic event (the civil war, maybe?), but did not realize it until it was too late, and Maggie was attempting to help her right that mistake by giving her the message. The secret handshake was to prove to the little girl that Maggie is who she says she is, her future daughter, but of course she was interrupted by the popo before she got the chance to communicate the message.
- 25 August 2013 at 23:40
I think Maggie is the little girl (Abigail's) mother. When Maggie was roaming the streets I I think she had a baby & for whatever reason she lost hwe. I also thought that the lady who rescued Maggie from the bathroom at the start of the film looked like the lady who greeted Abigail from school when she went to her room to play with the Lego. I thought it was a great film. I can't wait to see the next instalment. Haven't worked the injection business out yet unless she has the same illness as Maggie perhaps?
- 26 September 2013 at 03:32
- Duncan Strathie said...
Thanks anonymous - good points.
I'm looking forward to the next instalment too.
- 26 September 2013 at 18:13
- Duncan Strathie said...
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- 26 September 2013 at 18:13
- hellomarsha said...
Overall, the film is a great example of how people can easily let themselves be dominated by a strong personality. Like when Lorna gets dragged to shoot the target practice - she knew it was a dumb idea to go, but the woman convinced her by talking strongly.
A few other thoughts:
- The "father" of Abigail - who may have been some random dude - could have drugged the girl to show her video (on the bed) of the secret handshake, which could have been how she knew about it. Actually, Pete seemed to know the handshake the first time too - potentially also from the internet? Actually, watching the last handshake again, the girl doesn't really follow the first part - she just catches on somewhere in the middle (which is the same part of the handshake I did as a kid, actually - and I think it's easy to follow someone's lead.)
- It doesn't make sense to me that the Dept of Justice woman would have to de-bug the hotel room that she was randomly assigned - particularly when she doesn't seem to talk to anyone while she's there. she seems so flustered and paranoid.
- The real cult leader seems to be Klaus - the scene where he first tries to find Maggie, and pays that boy to find out where she is, is creepy.
- Lorna's "unchaperoned adolescence" looked cultish too, with the naked boys doing pushups! kinky
- The cult members, at the end, resort to hard-nose logistics and say "let's call the attorney", implying that they already have one in waiting! But if they were really in the cult, and committed to her emotionally, wouldn't they cry or ask questions or act emotional, instead of simply conveying the message that, "yea, this is standard, let's go on the offensive." That makes me think they are used to her getting caught for crimes.
- 27 September 2013 at 23:31
- Duncan Strathie said...
Thanks for commenting. You make number of helpful observations and raise some good questions. Brit Marling is showing herself to be a creative film maker and if this is the first in a trilogy I'm sure these and the other questions will probably be answered. It's smart story-telling when you end up with so many unresolved questions at the end of the film.
This film has been on my blog for just over a year and it's already the second most viewed review - this film has done something to stir people's curiosity.
- 28 September 2013 at 07:33
*** spolier ***
she is her mother!
- 28 September 2013 at 09:16
- Unknown said...
Does anyone else catch the very first time the meet maggie, there is a little boy on a chair, and it looks like he just did some type of blood transfusion. no one else has talked about that, who is that boy? the DoJ lady asked Lorna, "did they ask for a kid?" maybe she targets these kids with the same disease as her, and she needs there blood?
- 9 March 2014 at 04:57
- David Van Drunen said...
Spoilers. My thoughts so far:
Normal life version:
Maggie, not from the future. Possibly abused, attempts suicide.
Klaus, takes advantage of street kids to continue cult. ("Let's call the attorney.")
Little girl, possibly Maggie's sister. Same disease or also abused as Maggie (Maggie had the same needle marks on her feet, abuse? treatment?)
Little boy, same issue as Maggie. (Kids may have better immunity?)
FBI lady, deep undercover to subvert wide spread cult.
Or Fantastical:
Maggie and little girl and FBI all from future. (Little boy at beginning too?)
Girl, building burnt out futuristic city. Needles in feet same as Maggie to cure same time travellers disease. Marks a future "terrorist" at school.
FBI, overly prepared her room to look at one photo, more like a hit then a collection of evidence. Subverts other time travellers. (Maybe time travelling is a crime.)
For this movie I lean toward the harsh truth of abuse, (but would enjoy a good sci-fi any day).
- 21 March 2014 at 14:58
- Duncan Strathie said...
David - thanks for sharing this. Who knows where this might go? This story raises a whole heap of questions with many possible outcomes. Good storytelling I think.
Let's keep the conversation going.
- 21 March 2014 at 21:29
I believe it's been alluded to, but my take is that Klaus is Maggie's father and Maggie is the little girl's mother, and the cult is an elaborate setup to "reclaim" the daughter. The "father" is somewhat equally disturbed and views the injections that sedate/confuse the girl as a means of protection; she must always be watched over when out of his sight (time at school) because of her sleeping fits and strange behavior. In his eyes, this keeps her safe from her mother/grandfather.
Just one theory though; it's really fun to read the conversations/speculations above. An intriguing story with loads of room for interpretation; I too would welcome the sequel and third film if they were ever to be greenlit.
- 26 March 2014 at 13:33
I've been absolutely fascinated by this movie since seeing it. A couple of things I want to point out and see if anyone has any thoughts on:
-When the class goes on the field trip, the tour guide is heard explaining what prehistoric means and Abigail can be seen staring at a point on the timeline (in the exhibit) which says "2000 years ago"
-Abigail is actually the one to initiate the handshake with Maggie, as she is the one who began it by tapping Maggie's hand
-Someone mentioned this above, but the young boy seen in the beginning of the film giving blood definitely stood out to me as well.
-Abigail is clearly a very gifted young girl. We get to see that she created some advanced type of lego(i think?) formation in the time that she got home from school, until her bed time.
-Maggie tells the group (shortly after them eating worms) that she will be leaving soon. She would indeed be leaving as she was taken away by the police after the meeting with Abigail shortly thereafter. Did she foresee this event or was this something different from what she was alluding to?
-In the same scene where she tells them she would be leaving, she mentioned that if you listen through the silence, they would be able to hear the sound of her voice. The movie ends with her voice speaking to Peter.
One final thought- how do Maggie's actions as a time traveler in the past, affect her in the future?
- 3 April 2014 at 02:11
- Duncan Strathie said...
Randy & Michael - many thanks for the questions. This film certainly raises them for many people. I want to know the answers to all you ask too.
Director Bal Batmanglij said in an interview recently when asked about a sequel "there's not really a demand for it because not a lot of people have seen the first film yet".
(Read more at http://collider.com/zal-batmanglij-the-east-interview/#0f86O66Fkd6w70oB.99) Perhaps he needs to look at the questions on this blog!
I posted this review less than 2 years ago and it's had 12K page hits - second most popular on the blog. Some people are clearly interested in a sequel.
How can we start a campaign?
- 3 April 2014 at 16:18
- Unknown said...
I know I'm extremely late but I just watched this and I took the dad and Abigail as he was giving her something to make her sleep. Nothing bad or horrible. Did anyone else notice that from the time she got home until the time he had to PRY her away(literally had to PRY her away from legos) she sat building with the Lego block things so I saw it as him making it possible for her to sleep.didn't seem like she'd do it on her own.. and the whole sitting next to her was too keep her from getting up and going back to the Lego's this was the only part of the movie that didn't confuse the hell out of me so....guess for more understanding I need to see the sequel if it ever gets made.
- 7 April 2014 at 17:58
- Duncan Strathie said...
Misty - you're not late, don't worry.
There are so many metaphors in this story that we don't understand. That's why we need the sequels! Keep reflecting on the movie.
- 9 April 2014 at 06:51
Maggie cant be the mother, this isn't possible because she told the little girl that she(little girl) taught her (maggie) the handshake when she (maggie) wasa little girl, so is it possible that the little girl is maggies mother
- 19 April 2014 at 23:28
Abigail is the mother of maggie. Maggie said it in the movie... -sincerely, the Pluviophile
- 19 April 2014 at 23:36
Wow so I just saw this movie and it has left me wanting more. I'm really not sure exactly what I conclude yet, and I really don't think she's from the future, but here's an interesting take that I haven't seen mentioned yet: What if Maggie really is from the future but she lied about the year and Abagail is really Maggie as a child? And maybe she's come back to tell herself something or to rescue her from the "father". It would explain how they both knew the handshake. Just a random theory to throw out there.
- 22 April 2014 at 08:37
- Duncan Strathie said...
Thanks Ryan - yep, it's that kind of movie. Interesting points - maybe the sequels, if there are any, will answer all our questions.
- 22 April 2014 at 17:04
I found the movie quite intriguing and I am glad to hear there will be a sequel. I have two different theories. Either maggie came back to tell her mom to stop klaus from having maggie with her so the cult never happens or maggie came back to tell her mom that people like the FBI agent are trying to prevent from her having maggie so the cult that has taken over the future to begin. Either way abigail and maggie have the same father klaus which is why she recognized the abuse in peter.
- 26 April 2014 at 09:20
- Unknown said...
If maggie was from the future, would she have known the law was coming?
- 7 June 2014 at 04:56
I like the idea that Maggie is from the future but what about the song she sang. Maybe because she described the future filled with famine and war, etc. and the band that she said that sang the song, decided to cover a song from the past to fill the victims with hope or something. So maybe she is from the future. And they said that Maggie was sick because she was allergic to everything, maybe the cop was actually from the future too and cleaned the room so that she wouldn't get sick too. Maybe she was sent from the future to stop Maggie. She wasn't there when the cops arrested Maggie, probably to avoid getting sick. She was only seen in a clean hotel room, a sauna, and a car. So she wasn't really exposed to the outside world. My biggest question is why was there a shooting range and what did it signify.
- 30 June 2014 at 05:13
- Duncan Strathie said...
Thanks Anon.
Good points. This film continues to generate interest and worthwhile comments.
- 1 July 2014 at 21:00
- MEF said...
I watched this very interesting movie a long time ago and I really think Maggie is from the future. Obviously, screenwriters had to maintain doubt, ambiguities. But it seems rather clear to me. Keep an open mind. Sometimes, people tell the truth. Maggie is the person who she claims to be. If you reread the movie with that in your head, all things make sense.
Abigail probably is a gifted child. (She's insomniac, creative, singular, among others gifted child's common characteristics.) And the fact she writes "terrorist" on the backpack of her classmate is a pretty solid clue, in my opinion. Not an absolute proof, of course, but a clue we can't elude. She knows things. Maybe she has premonitions or kind of.
Peter? At the beginning of the movie, I thought he was a young version of Klaus. :)
Is he Maggie's father? I don't know. Probably not. I can't imagine him conceiving a child with an old version of this little girl Abigail. However, maybe he helped Abigail (as future Maggie's mother) during her teenage years and after that. In any case, Peter has a role to play. He's not Abigail's teacher for nothing. They are all connected in many ways.
About what Maggie says about future, her behavior and comments, seem coherent... for a person who really is from the future. Imagine yourselves travelling from 2015 to 1975.
- What do you listen to in 2015?
- Hum... I'm old school, you know... I'm a Bob Dylan's fan.
- Are you kidding? Liar! You're not from the future! I call the police!
Last thing... if Maggie is a guru, she's a very singular one. She refuses to give a prediction to their followers. If she's not from the future, she could lie to them. But she prefers to shut her mouth up. That's one of the reasons who makes me think she tells them the truth.
But it's just my humble opinion. :)
- 24 May 2015 at 12:59
- Duncan Strathie said...
Thanks MEF - a very plausible opinion. Thanks for keeping the conversation going.
- 25 May 2015 at 09:51
There's 2 possible thing, first, Maggie's her mom, she was sick and that's why the kid need to do the injection. And the second is that kid was Maggie mom, she's need the injection so that's why Maggie sick and need blood
- 30 June 2015 at 16:53
Did anyone notice Maggie's feet when we are first introduced to her as she walks into the room dragging her oxygen tank? She has a mark on her foot exactly where Abigail would have a mark from getting the injections. Interesting...
- 16 April 2020 at 19:52
Did not like. The film is lost between cult and time travel and does not offer good solutions for either. The reason for the time travel is unclear, the future is not well known. Even Maggie doesn't know how she got back. But oh, she knows that Abigail is her mother. Well, he recovered his memory for that at least. And about the cult, it is not clear what his objective is, and exactly how he is preparing the members for the future to come. Maggie's dialogues with the members are boring. What is it all about, preparing for the future, eating earthworms? Don't question Maggie's musical taste? The film is from 2010/2011. This is 2020, and without the other films in the Trilogy, this individual left more holes in history than Swiss cheese. What is the injection hidden in Abigail about? What's Peter's secret? Why was Klaus looking for Maggie? Did Abigail's father pass on information about his daughter's secret greeting to Maggie? Why does he give the injection, turn on a laptop and stand beside his daughter? Anyway, without the trilogy, Sound of My Voice is a film with no beginning, no middle and no end. It is not possible to know how it started, how it goes from there, and how it ends. Better not to see so as not to be angry.Good films about time travel, there are several. This is not one of them.
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I came across a blog post by Seth Godin today – Simple five step plan for just about everyone and everything. It was a simple post with few lines but he is absolutely right. This goes to all of the entrepreneurs out there – if you want to be successful, then you might as well follow the following five steps that Seth talks about.
- Go, make something happen.
- Do work you're proud of.
- Treat people with respect.
- Make big promises and keep them.
- Ship it out the door.
Go, make something happen
It is not difficult to understand this. Why are you trying to be an entrepreneur if you are not going to make something happen? You have to have the passion to succeed on the things you are trying to do. If you are not going to make something happen, then move on to something else.
Do work you're proud of
Success comes from passion. If you are not proud of the work you are doing, then it is time for you to move on to something else. As an entrepreneur, you have to be passionate about what you are about to do. If you are not, then you will most likely fail.
Treat people with respect
A must in my dictionary. People you deal with today could be your business partners tomorrow. You have to treat everyone with respect. Otherwise it will come and bite you when you really need their support.
Make big promises and keep them
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Ship it out the door
I think Seth means this in an office environment. It would definitely fit the entrepreneur community as well. Get things off your table and get them out the door. You need to learn to make a decision and move on with things that are important for your business. If you keep piling them on your table then nothing gets done. Therefore you will not succeed.
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By Sriram Gutta The microfinance movement has had great success in reaching over 150 million poor and low-income households worldwide. Yet, for nearly 1 billion people living under $1/day, microcredit is not the best first step. This group lives in the deepest and most profound levels of poverty and has little reason to believe that their… Read more >
Unitus arranges $1.5m catalytic debt for Mimo Finance
June 26, 2010 – Media Exposure, Unitus Labs
Unitus Arranges Rs 7 crore ($1.5 million) Debt for Partner Mimo Finance Unitus arranges Rs 7 crore ($1.5 million) of debt funding from $15 million Unitus, Opic & Citi credit facility that finalized March 2010 From Financial Chronicle, Mimo raises Rs 7 crore debt, by Sanjay Vijay Kumar. "Delhi-based non-banking finance company Mimoza Enterprises Finance (Mimo) has… Read more >
Unitus & GV Healthcare Study Highlighted in Microfinance Focus
March 9, 2010 – Media Exposure, Unitus Labs
Unitus, GV Study Debunks Myths and Finds Potential Solutions for Improving Healthcare for the Poor From Microfinance Focus, Study by Unitus, Grama Vidiyal Microfinance shows prospects for financial prodcuts to meet healthcare needs, by Nagesh Narayana. "Increasingly microfinance institutions (MFIs) are realizing the need to go beyond Micro-Credit, like providing divergent financial products to address the small… Read more >
Unitus Discusses Market Linkages on Next Billion
January 8, 2010 – Media Exposure, Unitus Labs
Sriram Gutta of Unitus Discusses Market Linkages on Next Billion From Next Billion, Market Linkages: The Achilles' Heel of Livelihoods, by Sriram Gutta. "Over the last two decades, models for livelihoods for the poor have come of age and many organizations have focused their efforts on reducing the vulnerability of marginalized communities. A lot of these… Read more >


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First of all happy new year to everybody out there. It has been an year where we finally managed to release the first prealphas of version 2, and also moving towards a stable version. I hope to be able to continue the work in 2018.
Since the last blog update we have released a new version and also a couple of patches for that version. The patches are primarily focusing on bug fixes. I am still planning on another patch before new year, since we still have a couple of issues.
The main issues we are still fixing are some issues when creating a route plan, economics and performance on start of new game. The last one should be optimized but it still needs some testing and the first one still needs to be looked at.
We have also looked at many of the airline logos and changed around 50 of them to a better quality.
When the next patch has been released I hope that we are able to look at the next release, and currently the roadmap looks like this:
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Skipping breakfast increases brain activity that drives eating
Brain imaging shows eating a protein rich breakfast reduces brain activity related to food intake.
Researcher Heather Leidy, assistant professor in the MU Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology and colleagues looked at MRI's to find out eating a healthy breakfast reduces brain signals related to food motivation and reward – especially when protein is consumed in the morning.
Leidy explains adolescents frequently skip breakfast and that doing so is linked to snacking on unhealthy foods, increased eating at night and obesity.
The researchers targeted overweight teens who are most likely to ignore breakfast.
In the study that included ten participants, three groups of teens were evaluated – those who continued to forego breakfast, a group given a breakfast of cereal and milk, and a third given a higher protein breakfast of Belgium waffles, syrup and yogurt.
More protein in the morning reduces snacking
Functional MRI (fMRI) was used to look at brain activity related to food motivation and reward. The researchers also measured appetite perceived by the teens, hormonal markers and psychological motivation related to desire to eat.
Questionnaires were completed at the end of each of the three weeks of the study to measure appetite and food satiety. Just before lunch, fMRI's were conducted to measure activity in the brain.
The adolescents who ate breakfast reported greater satisfaction and less hunger throughout the morning, compared to those who skipped breakfast.
Eating breakfast in the morning reduced brain activity in the regions associated with motivation and reward, which is also where dopamine is released – a hormone that plays a role in emotional well-being and pleasure.
The higher protein breakfast was associated with greater feelings of satiety and changes in reward eating behavior than the normal protein milk and cereal meal.
Leidy says, "This research provides additional evidence that breakfast is a valuable strategy to control appetite and regulate food intake", adding eating breakfast is an effective strategy to curb overeating in young people.
The study authors note the findings are preliminary and should be interpreted with caution due to the small group of participants.
Eating breakfast was shown to reduce brain signals that when active, lead to reward driven eating behavior. Skipping the most important meal of the day is associated with more snacking and food cravings.
Obesity (2011) doi:10.1038/oby.2011.108
"Neural Responses to Visual Food Stimuli After a Normal vs. Higher Protein Breakfast in Breakfast-Skipping Teens: A Pilot fMRI Study"
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Following the Cash Reserve Ratio hike of 0.25 per cent, Indian Finance Minister, P Chidambaram has urged public-sector banks to withhold rate in increase. The CRR hike may not impact interest rates.
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Enbridge Inc. reported yesterday that the Line 4 pipeline at the Regina Terminal in Saskatchewan, Canada had been "shut down and isolated" after it spilled over 1,300 barrels, approximately 56,700 gallons, of oil on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
A spokesman for the company, Graham White, said in an email that the spill "originated at a flange or valve within the terminal, so there were no problems with the pipeline itself." White said that could mean the problem would be "relatively" easy to fix, but had no set time frame for when the pipeline would resume operations.
Canada's National Energy Board said yesterday it was "monitoring" Enbridge's response to the spill.
"The pump station and pipeline was immediately shut in and cleanup operations are underway. The release is contained within the company's Regina Terminal pond," the NEB said in a statement.
The pipeline, which is the largest oil-export pipeline to the US, carries nearly 800,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin.
In a statement, Enbridge said:
"There are no impacts to the public, wildlife, or waterways. Nearby residents and business may detect a faint odour. Air monitoring is being conducted and levels are well within safety limits. Enbridge first responders with clean-up and response equipment are on-site and expect the cleanup of free product to be completed [on Thursday] … A complete investigation into the incident is being conducted. We are committed to the goal of reaching zero spills and will thoroughly investigate the incident for lessons learned."
Enbridge is no stranger to dealing with the effects of oil spills as it was involved in one of the largest and most expensive inland oils spills in American history.
Earlier this month, Enbridge agreed to pay a $6.75 million settlement over a July 2010 spill, which resulted in more than 800,000 gallons of Canadian tar sands crude oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. Enbridge estimated that, aside from the settlement, cleanup costs for that spill alone were about $1.2 billion.


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KC curfew could expand year-round
Measure aims to end late-night incidents involving young people
Teenagers may see it as being grounded, but the Kansas City Council is looking at extending the city's summertime entertainment curfew to cover the entire year.
The Kansas City Public Safety and Emergency Services Committee plans to discuss a proposed ordinance to expand the summer curfew at places like the Country Club Plaza.
The ordinance was passed in 2011, in part because of late-night incidents involving teenagers on the Plaza.
Pat Clarke of the Peoples Action Committee has been trying to talk with young people and find alternative things for them to do on the weekends. He said if the city expands the curfew, it's fine with him.
"I don't have any problem with it being year-round, when they're there and when they're not," Clarke said. "Some kids need that year-round because a lot of these kids don't have anybody at home to supervise when they are there or not."
Under the proposal, people under 18 would not be allowed at the Plaza, Westport, the Power and Light District, the Jazz District at 18th & Vine streets or Zona Rosa after 9 p.m. without being accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Clarke said the problem isn't too many bad kids, but rather too many young people with not enough to do. He said he hopes the city will help develop alternative things for teenagers to do, especially on summer nights and weekends.
Bradley Shaw said he goes to the Country Club Plaza a lot and sometimes sees it crowded with teenagers at night.
"Mostly young teens out trying to find something to do," he said. "But at night time down here, all of the businesses are closed and it's a place with bars and they have no business being down here hanging around."


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The Leadership Foundation has led or participated in higher education development projects in more than 30 countries in Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. What have we learnt about the common challenges that have to be overcome to build capacity in the countries in which we work?
Andy Shenstone, the Leadership Foundation's director of consultancy, shares his experience of co-designing solutions to wicked issues in higher education systems around the world.
The Leadership Foundation's international work takes place within a vibrant higher education environment and contributes explicitly to multiple UK higher education sector-wide objectives. These objectives include those of the UUKi, which aim to create opportunities for UK Higher Education Institutions to establish new relationships with overseas providers and the promotion of UK higher education internationally. It also addresses the governments expressed priority as regards to enhancing the international standing of UK higher education. Finally, the Leadership Foundation is committed to supporting the development of more robust and autonomous higher education systems in overseas nations including contributing to the wider UK government agenda of supporting capacity-building as a key plank of overseas development through the Newton fund and other programmes.
Each country we've worked with has had very different characteristics – which is perhaps not surprising if you consider that we've worked in countries as diverse as Kazakhstan, Myanmar and Egypt. Yet, there are still some fundamental similarities in the challenges these countries face, and how we work together to overcome them.
The first challenge is that, generally, higher education provision is underdeveloped. Typically, it has been managed through command and control mechanisms, through government diktat and tight management. That manifests in ways that those of us familiar with the UK system would find very difficult to comprehend. For example, in Egypt, principals or vice-chancellors have virtually no discretion over who to appoint and certainly no capacity or capability to let anyone go or dismiss staff for poor performance. In Myanmar, any significant leader in an institution is forcibly rotated to anywhere in the country every three years, with no choice over where they are sent, regardless of their seniority. In the Ukraine, the direction of travel is moving away from a Soviet-era command and control model to one which is more reminiscent of western and UK models of institutional autonomy but, of course, it will take quite a significant time to make that journey.
Leadership capability
Generally speaking, we find that our clients in overseas countries want to enhance the leadership and management capability of university leadership. Allied to that, there is a keen interest in establishing resilient and sustainable processes for identifying and supporting a pipeline of future leaders – succession planning. Inevitably, if you are the leader of a university and have achieved that position of seniority by dint of your approach under the existing model of governance and politics, that may well mean that you are, perhaps, ill-equipped to be an effective leader in the future when the political and social environment is going to change, potentially quite significantly. That places particular demands on you to develop your skills and capabilities. That isn't to say such change isn't possible, but it can be demanding and, of course, longer term, simply focusing on those who are in roles already misses the point. That is, to build capacity to bring forward future leaders who have the skills, capabilities, attitudes and insights that their countries need to develop and modernise their higher education systems. That's what we're in the business of doing.
Legislative framework
Another key challenge in global higher education, for a number of countries, is that while they aspire to modernise higher education leadership, governance, and management, the legislative framework (which establishes the boundaries of what is or is not possible under the terms of the law) often takes quite a long time to change. So while there's a need to develop individuals and direct the travel of leadership in a way which may well speak to an agenda of greater institutional autonomy – and support institutional leaders to develop their own strategies – they have to feel that they've got permission to do that. They've got to feel safe to do that. They've got to feel that the system at large is providing them with the framework within which they can operate.
Take Myanmar. Up until very recently if you said or did the 'wrong thing', the impact on you personally could be very significant. That included speaking out and having any ideas of your own that were not acceptable to the military junta that ruled the country for over 40 years. It therefore takes a significant amount of bravery to start behaving outside the norms of those practices. Individuals, naturally, will be very cautious. Having some confidence in the integrity of a redesigned legal framework, which empowers them to behave differently but is also respected by the government and powers that be, is crucial. One of the challenges we face is ensuring that the ambition of change is aligned with those national structures and legal systems, because if they don't develop hand in hand, you end up with major tensions arising and a real risk of disconnect.
The other key challenge facing global higher education is finance – how it is all paid for. Budgets are under significant pressure. Where you have challenges around education provision in developing, or even middle income, countries, primary care and schooling are often prioritised and higher education can sometimes be lower down the pecking order. Which means, in turn, that it can be difficult to recruit and retain talented people, who may well be attracted to work in other industries or find it much more economically and personally attractive to leave to work in other countries.
At the Leadership Foundation we know a lot about working overseas, borne out of our applied experience in many different countries and geopolitical contexts. Fundamental to our work is a deep appreciation of the importance of us coming to understand the context in which any particular intervention or support might be provided. Critically, this concerns the degree of maturity and capability of the existing higher education sector and the outcomes that are sought.
Our international work is intended to deliver on three levels; firstly, create partnership opportunities for our UK member institutions as a direct product of service design and co-delivery. Secondly, to assist in the internationalisation of our programmes (and through this provide exposure for members on domestic programmes to international practice). And finally, be expressly valued by members and key external stakeholders (e.g. UUKi, BIS and the British Council) as a contribution to the status, reputation and reach of UK higher educations.
Underlining it all is our listening and co-design approach to working with other countries, which means that we are not only be incredibly sensitive and mindful of an individual nation's needs and context, but we will offer ideas and solutions borne out of that experience that will assist them to achieve their goals.
Embedding capacity building
We typically look to develop solutions which embed capacity building within the national context|: training the trainers and enhancing the capacity of the workforce with whom we're dealing to take forward the work that we are doing with them. We do not support, condone, create or facilitate a culture of undue dependence.
And, important in all the work we do overseas is to deeply respect, understand and appreciate other countries' accomplishments. Ours is not a deficit model but a model of adding value by bringing in a genuinely international experience to support colleagues in these countries to tackle the quite wicked issues they are trying to resolve.
The Leadership Foundation has recently launched a global services brochure, which details all of the services we offer as well as examples of their impact. To download your copy of the brochure please click here.
Alison Johns, chief executive of the Leadership Foundation will chairing a session 'Future scoping for higher education leadership' at Going Global 2017 on Tuesday 23 May 2017. Andy Shenstone, director of consultancy and business development will also be attending, if you would like to arrange a meeting please email email@example.com.
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The Chainsmokers crack racist joke in China, in an interview with Chinese reporter
The Chainsmokers have definitely let us down.
The EDM-pop band have found themselves under fire for a racist joke they made with a Chinese reporter while in China.
In a video shared on their Twitter page, band member Alex Pall can be seen making a joke about not bringing his dog to China.
A Chinese interviewer is seen asking Pall if he brings his dog on tours with him, to which Pall replies "Well, I don't know if I'd bring her to China," before cracking into laughter.
The interviewer can be seen looking at the camera in surprise.
The video has now been deleted off the band's page, but has already been widely circulated online.
for the ppl who are confused the chainsmokers basically insinuated a racist remark abt asians eating dogs and laughed it off pic.twitter.com/XFilW92JoK
— best leader of kpop (@Iushtae) September 11, 2017
The band were in the Chinese capital of Shanghai for Ultra, an EDM festival.
Naturally, people called them out on their behaviour.
soo how are the chainsmokers jus gonna be racist towards asians while they're in asia being interviewed by an asian interviewer in asia
— joon day (@szabts) September 11, 2017
The chainsmokers made a racist chinese dog eating joke... in China. Why am I not surprised pic.twitter.com/HRR8y2zBR4
— Gloria (@highkeyairolg) September 11, 2017
someone: give the chainsmokers a chance
me: oka-
the cs: make racist jokes
me: pic.twitter.com/lRkX5o0iGd
—  (@jinswey) September 11, 2017
Can you believe that, at some point, the chainsmokers actually thought posting a video of them making a racist asian joke was a good idea?
— della joon day! (@pjminssi) September 11, 2017
Didn't think The Chainsmokers could be any more lame until they made a racist joke about China.
— h̶a̶o̶ ̶n̶g̶u̶y̶e̶n̶ (@haomosapien) September 12, 2017
The Chainsmokers later posted an apology on Twitter, with Pall saying he had made the comment after reading "reports about dogs being slaughtered in certain provinces" in China.
https://t.co/0ukfSpfybJ pic.twitter.com/nNnsWXFaWW
— THE CHAINSMOKERS (@TheChainsmokers) September 11, 2017
However, he made sure to drive the point home with a link to Stop Yulin Forever, an activist site which aims to stop the Yulin Dog Meat Festival that is held in China annually — presumably to justify what he had previously said.
Some people thought that attempt at an apology seemed feeble, at best.
Not to mention the caption was "😂😂☺" come on man
— carissa | NJ DAY (@xMukeftNarryx) September 11, 2017
Right! Now they're making it a dog slaughtering issue when let's be honest, it was just a horrible racist joke.
— Extra + Ordinary (@Ivyyaj92) September 11, 2017
anyways this apology doesn't even sound genuine at all. keep it.
— pam (@adoretoews) September 11, 2017
Looks like it might be too little, too late for the Chainsmokers.


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Cruciform hope implies a mission, not an eschatological daydream.
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"God does not rule creation through coercion, but through a cross" – Stanley Hauerwas ("The Peaceable Kingdom," 104).
"The cross is not just a symbol of God's kingdom; it is that kingdom come" – ibid., 87.
Here's another one I just stumbled upon:
"The logic of the cross demands a life lived for others" (Moyer Hubbard, 'Christianity in the Greco-Roman World,' 235).


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Recent news from Melbourne, Australia brought great joy to Kelly Clan members around the globe with the update that the remains of the outlaw/folk hero Ned Kelly will be returned to his descendants for burial.
The Irish Independent Newspaper, Dublin, Ireland reports that:
THE headless remains of the Ned Kelly are to be returned to his descendants for a family burial 132 years after the infamous Australian outlaw and folk hero was executed.
Australia's Victoria state government on Wednesday said it had issued a new exhumation licence for Kelly 's remains, meaning a property developer behind the Pentridge Prison site where he was buried will be forced to hand over the skeleton.
The developer of the site in Melbourne wanted to use Kelly's remains for a museum or memorial.
"The Kelly family will now make arrangements for Ned's final burial," said Ellen Hollow, the great grand-daughter of Kelly's sister Kate Kelly.
Considered by some to be a cold-blooded killer, Kelly was also seen as a folk hero and symbol of Irish-Australian defiance against the British authorities.
After murdering three policemen, he was captured in Victoria state in 1880 and hanged at Old Melbourne Gaol in November of the same year. But his body went missing after it was thrown into a mass grave.
The bodies in the grave were transferred from the jail to Pentridge Prison in 1929 and then exhumed again in 2009. His remains were formally identified last year, minus the skull which remains missing.
"We appeal to the person who has the skull in their possession to return it," said Ms Hollow in a family statement.
Believed to have been born in 1854 or 1855, Kelly became an outlaw two years before he was hanged, taking on corrupt police and greedy land barons.
He survived a shootout with police in 1878 that saw him, his brother Dan, and friends Joe Byrne and Steve Hart slapped with a bounty of 8,000 pounds – the largest reward ever offered in the British Empire at the time – for anyone who found them.
Over the next 18 months the Kelly Gang held up country towns and robbed their banks, becoming folk heroes to the masses.
In a final gun battle at Glenrowan, three gang members died and Kelly, dressed in home-made plate metal armour and helmet, was wounded and arrested.
The Kelly gang exploits have been the subject of numerous films and television series.
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger played the lead role in the 1970 movie "Ned Kelly ", while Heath Ledger starred as the bandit in a 2003 remake.
Kelly has also been the inspiration for many books, most notably Peter Carey's novel "True History of the Kelly Gang", which won the 2001 Booker Prize.


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Butterscotch Ripple Just-Add-Water Muffin Mix
These muffins are very good; two of our testers said that these were the best muffins they had ever tried and every one of our testers loved these muffins. There is a quarter pound of little butterscotch pieces in this mix. They melt into butterscotch ripples and the pecans give the muffins extra crunch. And all of this is set in a light, flavorful muffin.
Because this is a just-add-water muffin, it's quick and easy. And you don't have the expense of adding butter and eggs so it is less expensive than a comparable mix.
This is a moist, wholesome muffin that your whole family will enjoy.
Ingredients: Variety Muffin Mix (Enriched Wheat Flour (Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Butterscotch Chips, Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Soybean and/or Cottonseed Oil), Quick Oats, Pecan Pieces, walnuts, Dry Whey, Dry Whole Egg, Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium aluminum Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate), Wheat Starch, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Corn Starch, Silicon Dioxide). This product contains wheat, milk, eggs, soy, and nuts.
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Vicki + HaydenFRANCE
Vicki Belo and Hayden Kho were married in the most magnificent wedding in Paris after 12 years together.
From start to finish, it was quite simply an unforgettable experience.
Their wedding was described by Philippine Tatler magazine as 'the wedding of the century' and the moniker is hardly an overstatement.


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You may have been browsing Amazon.com's bookstore recently, and you may have come across author pages that group together all of an author's books in one place along with his or her photo(s) and biography. If you're wondering how you can set up a page like this for yourself and how it can help to spike your overall ranking on Amazon, keep reading. Here's what you need to know.
You Must Create Your Own Author Central Page and "Claim" Your Books to That Page
Whether you have a publisher (such as PPG) that is publishing your books worldwide for you or you're self-publishing your own ebooks to Amazon's Kindle by yourself, Amazon won't automatically group all your books together—nor will Amazon allow your publisher to do it on your behalf because the company prefers to work directly with individual authors. What you must do is sign up to create your own Author Central Page; and, once that process is complete, you must contact them again to "claim" each of the books you want added to your page by sending them a list of the ISBNs (or ASINs) and titles of those books.
Your Author Ranking is Important to Your Overall Success Online
In many ways, online book sales and marketing works differently than traditional book sales and marketing does. In the traditional world, you're trying to appeal to people (e.g., publicists, book reviewers, booksellers) to help you promote your book(s) to the masses. But, in the online world, you're goal is to get your webpage indexed via computerized processes—algorithms. It's all about effectively "pinging" a search engine's algorithm in order to rank higher and higher in its search results which, much like a successful publicity campaign, will increase your page's exposure. More exposure generally equates to more sales over time. It's a numbers game.
Each one of your books on Amazon's website has its own individual webpage ranking, and that ranking is based primarily on how many copies of the book have been sold. But there are other factors that can affect ranking such as publishing frequency, association with other bestselling books via the "Customers who bought this item also bought" section of the page, and one's Author Central page … to name only three (algorithms are elusive creatures).
Three Ways an Author Central Page Can Spike Your Ranking on Amazon
Once your page is officially set up (which should only take a day or two … they're pretty fast), the fun begins! Now you can create an author bio for yourself, upload author photos and promotional videos, include your upcoming events, and add the really simple syndication (RSS) feed from your WordPress blog to share teasers of your latest blog posts with an extended audience. Doing so can help to spike your ranking on Amazon in these three ways:
1. The very act of creating an Author Central page—and adding those first one or two books, author photos, events, and/or videos—automatically spikes your overall author ranking on Amazon. I found it to be quite a significant spike (400,000+ points on the author ranking scale!), so they've obviously built this into their algorithm to encourage more and more authors to do it.
2. Each subsequent update of any kind pings Amazon's algorithm and increases your ranking again; albeit, in my experience, it's not as significant a boost in ranking as the first time around. But here's some great news: much like it is with all blogs and online publications, each time your RSS feed adds another entry to your author page, it not only pings Amazon. It also tells other search engines (e.g., Google, Yahoo, Bing, Baidu) that this particular Amazon page has received another relevant update which gets it re-indexed with all of them. (It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway, that an RSS backlink like this on a high-traffic website such as Amazon is also great for your blog's SEO.)
3. Last but not least, a high-ranking Author Central page can help to boost the ranking of every book associated with it. If someone buys one of your books and really likes it, he or she won't have to go far to find all the other books published by you. They will all be listed together, making it much easier to find and buy. The more books people buy and subsequently review for you on Amazon, the higher up your overall ranking will go.
The key is to maintain this pace. Keep it going. Keep updating your Author Central page in various ways … new books, new pictures, new events, new videos, new posts via your RSS feed. You can build on the last increase in your ranking by adding a new update quickly. But if you stop for extended periods of time, it will all slide back down again. Pretty soon, you'll be so low on the totem pole that it will take a lot of work to climb back up to the top. So, be sure to keep your momentum going by continually updating your page at least once per week if not more. That's the key to success in the world of algorithms and online selling.
Not All Amazon Regions Currently Offer Author Central Pages … and the Ones That Do Don't Offer All the Same Features as Amazon.com
As of today's date, there are only five regions in the world that offer Author Central pages and you must set up each one separately from the rest: the USA, UK, Germany, France, and Japan. I've also found that only the USA page allows for links to RSS feeds, but I'm hopeful the other regions will begin to see the benefit of this and add it to their platforms over time.
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One of the most common discussions among RVers is how to properly deodorize and clean holding tanks. While some campers swear by their preferred commercial brand of tank chemicals and deodorizers, more environmentally sensitive RVers choose to make their own tank treatments. These homemade treatments are cheaper and friendlier to the planet, since they use no harmful additives such as formaldehyde.
The Geo Method
A popular recipe for making your own holding treatment is called "The Geo Method." This is based on using water softener, a product that breaks up solids which accumulate from hard water, such as soap scum. By using water softener in your waste water tanks, it will loosen up solids that stick to the sides. The more you use it, the slicker the walls of your tanks will be. When you empty your tanks, solids will easily rinse away. The lack of solid buildup inside, along with the addition of household bleach, will eliminate tank odors completely.
Geo Method ingredients are found in the laundry products aisle at your local grocery store. There are just three products you'll need to purchase: water softener, powdered laundry soap and household bleach. Most RV systems will require about two boxes of softener.
The best time to make the Geo Method treatment is when you have access to hot water, and immediately after dumping your tanks. You can make and use homemade holding tank treatments the same way you would any other commercially available products.
Cleaning Your Tanks
When your RV tanks are empty and the valves closed, take two cups of water softener and dissolve it in a one-gallon bucket of steaming hot water. Pour the mixture down the drains in your kitchen first, then into your bathroom sinks. You'll pour it down the toilet last, and follow by pouring one cup of laundry detergent into the toilet tank.
The addition of laundry soap in the toilet tank will provide extra cleaning action. You won't need to put laundry soap in the gray water tanks because these tanks regularly get enough detergents in them to help loosen solids along with the water softener. You can leave this mixture in your tanks until they are full again.
As a last step, add a small amount of bleach to your holding tanks, which will kill accumulated bacteria from waste water. Because bacteria causes odors, the addition of bleach will eliminate any unpleasant smells resulting from normal use. You can add it when the tanks are about halfway full, and continue using your RV as usual. Repeat this method each time you empty your tanks.
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Wiring for a Ford 302 Alternatorby John Stevens J.D.
Wiring the alternator for Ford's 302-cubic-inch engine is a fairly simple task, particularly when compared to the alternators used on other engine designs, perhaps because the 302 was created in the 1960s and did not require much wiring to begin with. A number of posts on the back of the alternator are used to attach each wire to the alternator, and all of the wires used by the alternator are colored-coded. Wiring the alternator is simply a matter of connecting the right wire to the right post.
Identifying the Alternator's Electrical Connections
Hooking up the alternator first requires that the four threaded posts located on the back of the alternator be identified. At the upper portion of the back of the alternator are three metal posts arraigned in a single horizontal line. The post on the left will be referred to as "Post 1." The post in the middle will be referred to as "Post 2." The post on the right will be referred to as "Post 3." Below these three posts is a fourth post, which will be referred to as "Post 4."
Identifying the Wires
Several different wires connect to the posts on the back of the alternator. Each wire is color-coded. Locate the single black wire with a red stripe which runs the length of the wire. This wire acts as a ground, and is attached to either the engine block or the frame of the vehicle. Locate the white wire, and the white wire with a black stripe, which both exit the voltage regulator. The voltage regulator is located on the driver's side of the engine compartment next to the radiator. Locate the solid black wire attached to the positive side of the starter solenoid. The solenoid is located on the passenger's side of the engine compartment, next to the battery. The positive side of the solenoid has a "+" symbol stamped next to its threaded post.
Hooking up the Wires
Note that a single nut has been threaded onto each of the four posts on the back of the alternator. These nuts are used to attach the wires to the posts. Remove each of the four nuts with a wrench. Also note that each of the wires has an eyelet at its end. The eyelet slides over the post on the alternator and the nut is then threaded onto the post and tightened with a wrench. The solid black wire attaches to Post 1. The solid white wire attaches to Post 2. The black wire with the red stripe attaches to Post 3. Finally, the white wire with the black stripe attaches to Post 4.
- Motor's Auto Repair Manual; Ralph Ritchen; 1968
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I can't really comment on OS suggestions for the LEAF, but I do have quite a strong opinion on the ipod controls.
Ipod controls on the LEAF are VERY DISAPPOINTING!
I'm surprised this hasn't been noted already. The system is extremely primitive. If you switch over to AUX with your ipod connected, it automatically starts playing the first track listed in alphabetical order. This list of tracks includes podcasts, and other non-music with audio (videos, etc.). Believe me, if you use your ipod in the LEAF you are going to get VERY SICK of that first song!!
Why? Because it plays every time you connect to the ipod and continues to play as you try to find the menu, and then continue to click through to what you want to play (e.g., podcast). And there is no quick, easy way to scroll. So if you want to play tunes that start with anything past 'P' its going to take a while to get to them! And podcasts get interspersed with song tracks, so the list is especially long. You can't control anything from the ipod itself, it is locked out; you are forced to use the Nissan system. It will take a minimum of four or five screen touches to get going, while the first track plays.
Once you get what you want to start playing, the Nissan ipod control system continues to be disappointing. The total length of each track is not presented (so, e.g., you will have no idea how long a downloaded podcast might play for). There is no shuffle songs option. It seems every time I plug in my ipod, I find something else to grumble about.
Which is really too bad. I have become accustomed to getting news, entertainment, etc. from my ipod in the car and to some degree, rely on it. So much so that I'll probably continue to use the ipod in the LEAF (despite the significant annoyances!). I'd have thought Nissan would have been able to handle this; most are going to be disappointed with this feature of the car. I hope they improve it asap! It is fairly maddening.


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If you've loved the idea of introducing great books to your children but you just find yourself too busy, challenge yourself and your kids to read ten great living books over the summer.
In this series of blog posts, I'm sharing some great living books that you can share with your child this summer. Read them aloud or
Here are ten living books for your preschoolers and kindergartners to enjoy this summer.
The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco- Grandpa and Mary Ellen head off to chase down a bee tree when Mary Ellen gets tired of reading her book.
Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs by Tomie dePaolo- Author and artist Tomie dePaolo tells this story from his boyhood. He loves visiting his grandmother and great grandmother living upstairs and down, but he's said when he finds out that Nana Upstairs won't be there anymore.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See by Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle- This classic for preschoolers will guide children through identifying various animals and describing their observations.
The House That Jack Built by J.P. Miller- This rhyming story is a fun read aloud because of the series of events that come about. It's fun when kids can begin to predict what comes next.
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown- This is a sweet story about a little bunny whose mom follows him everywhere as he tries to run away.
Andy and the Lion by James Daugherty- This story for little ones is a retelling of the classic tale of Androcles and the Lion.
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf- Ferdinand, although a big and brawny bull, has no desire to fight. He only wants to sit and enjoy nature. Until one day, Ferdinand meets a bee and has his big moment in the bullring.
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon- Stellaluna is a fruit bat, separated from her mother one night by an owl attack. Raised by a family of birds, she's one day reunited with her family. It's a sweet story that explores similarities and differences.
Over in the Meadow by Olive A. Wadsworth and Ezra Jack Keats- This picture book has the classic rhyme accompanied by beautiful pictures from Ezra Jack Keats.
Come on, Rain by Karen Hesse- Tess is hoping for rain on a day when everything is drooping and sweltering. When rain comes, Tess, her mother, and the whole neighborhood celebrate.
Do you have other living book favorites for this age range? Share them in the comments below.
Be on the lookout for the other posts in this series for living book recommendations for other ages. And access a free printable pack with a reading record and a reading coloring page here.
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At this point, whenever I come across an article about Jon and Kate Gosselin, I feel like I'm reading the plot of a wacky Goldie Hawn comedy from 1987, wherein the main character runs around yelling, "I'll show you crazy!"
In today's Gosselympics, Kate has torn down the misspelled no trespassing sign that Jon placed in front of the estranged couple's home late last week, which warned TLC crews to stay off the property or face a severe "penelty." Unafraid of said "penelty," and irritated at Jon's attempt to stop the production of Kate Plus 8 Kate has taken down the sign, and she plans to call Jon out on his "I want to work things out/I'm stopping the show for the children" bullshit on Monday's Today show.
Meanwhile, Radar is also reporting that the couple have come to an "informal custody deal," and that Jon is anxious to get out of his TLC contract in order to start working on his long-rumored Divorced Dad's Club project with Michael Lohan. Both parents seem eager to ensure that their television projects are protected and allowed to thrive without being interrupted by very public displays of nastiness, pettiness, and overall insanity. Too bad they can't say the same about their kids.
Exclusive: Jon And Kate Gosselin Reach Informal Custody Deal [RadarOnline]
New Photos: Kate Gosselin Takes Down Jon's Sign Barring TLC From Their TLC Home [RadarOnline]


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Amid the response to a report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on young people not in education, employment or training (Neets) crucial issues were overlooked, says Amy Lalla.
It's heartening to see MPs on the powerful PAC turning their attention to Neets, but there are three key issues that I was disappointed didn't receive more attention.
To start with, we mustn't wait until it's too late. No one wants to hear the phrase 'early intervention' yet again, but when it comes to young people at risk of becoming Neet, it really is the only game in town.
Once a young person becomes Neet, we've failed. We know only too well that the consequences to them of disengagement are enormous — drug and alcohol abuse, mental and physical health problems, and high risk of involvement in crime.
Once young people become Neets, they are, by definition, hard to reach. So the cost of providing support rockets. And society, too, pays a high price.
For young people who have struggled at school until the age of 16, two more years of classroom-based learning is hardly going to be an attractive option
It's in schools that 'would-be' Neets are identified. But schools can't be expected to shoulder the burden of interventions alone. At Let Me Play, we go into primary schools and work with teachers to provide the extra support needed to children as young as 10. It's at that age that the crucial ground-work is done to avert potential disaster at 16.
Secondly, advice, support and guidance has simply gone missing.
The deterioration in careers advice since provision was handed to schools — with no extra funding — has received much attention. Ofsted found that three quarters of schools visited by inspectors were providing inadequate guidance to students.
The sub-standard career guidance is often discussed in relation to young people's choice of A-level subjects and university access, but its impact in this sector has been underplayed.
For young people who have struggled at school until the age of 16, two more years of classroom-based learning is hardly going to be an attractive option.
But they are simply not being made aware of the options available to them. We need the varied offering of the market place for education for 16 to18-year-olds communicated to young people far earlier, and we need a single access point for the information they need.
And thirdly, there's the fact that travel costs bar students from learning. Let's suppose, just for a moment, that these young people do receive that expert, impartial advice and have a place on a training course. How are they going to travel to and from the training centre or college?
Last week we had a teenage mum on the phone in tears because she couldn't afford the travel to college — so we're picking up the bill.
Last year, we had a student last year who travelled across town from near Staines in West London to Haringey in north London for our course. But he was late every day as he couldn't afford to travel during peak hours.
Similarly, we've had to rent minibuses and hire cars to take our students to offsite exams, because the candidates simply can't afford to get there.
Students can apply for college bursaries, but they are only awarded to students with good attendance records and they typically take six weeks to process. By this time, in our experience the young people have already started to suffer financially, their attendance levels have fallen and they won't get the bursary.
As a London-based provider, we have lobbied the London Mayor's office and Transport for London on this issue, but to no avail.
This is a nonsense that must be addressed — and fast. There are young people languishing who could be in training, but simply don't have the means to travel there. How crazy is that?
Our young people deserve better.


text: Home > News Fires usher in New Year in Metro Manila, Davao ABS-CBN News Posted at Jan 01 2018 12:53 AM | Updated as of Jan 01 2018 10:13 AM Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Fire razes houses in Bgy. Caniogan, Pasig City; reaches 4th alarm. pic.twitter.com/S7UNZzH3Ox — Ernie Manio (@ernie_manio) December 31, 2017 MANILA - (6TH UPDATE) Several fires hit Metro Manila and the southern city of Davao, killing at least one person and putting a damper on New Year revelries, authorities said Monday. A rocket (kwitis) ignited the blaze in Geresa Subdivision, Davao City that razed some 50 houses, according to residents. The fire spread quickly as structures in the area were made mostly of light materials. The fatality, Elmer Lañora, died from suffocation after he was trapped in his rented home in Katarungan Village, Pasig City, where a blaze destroyed 15 houses. President Rodrigo Duterte's executive order that restricts the use of fireworks to community zones was implemented for the first time this year to help prevent injuries and fires that have marred the annual New Year celebrations in the Philippines. Lañora's neighbor, Erlinda Estabillo, said she tried to enter his house during the fire but the door was locked. The victim's stove was in flames, she said. "Mahina na yun, may sakit. Di nakatakbo. Siya lang mag-isa sa bahay, na-suffocate," added Fire Marshall Supt. Arturo Marcos. (He's weak and sickly. He wasn't able to run. He was alone in his house and suffocated.) Investigators ruled out the possibility that firecrackers started the fire. At least 30 families were evacuated. In Caloocan, a lump of telephone wires were set ablaze in a commercial area in Sangandaan, Barangay 74. The fire lasted for 20 minutes before it was put out. In Novaliches, Quezon City, a barracks for construction workers caught fire and authorities said they were checking if it was caused by firecrackers that were reportedly lit in front of the structure. The fire reached the second alarm and lasted for 30 minutes before it was put out. No one was reported injured or killed in the blaze. -- Reports from Jekki Pascual, Lyza Aquino, and Arra Perez, ABS-CBN News Share Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Pasig, fire, New Year, Quezon City, Caloocan Read More: Pasig fire New Year Quezon City Caloocan /news/12/31/17/magnitude-52-quake-jolts-maasim-sarangani-on-new-years-eve/business/01/01/18/cancelled-flights-on-new-years-day


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This Saturday (May 27) from 10:00am to 6:00pm is Community Day at Playland! Bring your family, grab your friends and have a fun filled day in Playland! $10 from every regular ticket sold on May 27 (up to $10,000) will go towards the new PNE Community Grant Fund. This new grant fund was established to provide opportunities for Hastings Sunrise Community non-profit organizations and recognized groups to come together, learn, engage and enjoy this wonderful community!
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