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Volcanism. SOME BACKGROUND. The word Volcano comes from the little island of Vulcano in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Sicily. Centuries ago, the people living in this area believed that Vulcano was the chimney of the forge of Vulcan - the blacksmith of the Roman gods.
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These comprise the largest percent (60) of the Earth's volcanoes.
They are typically steep sided and are built from alternating layers of lava and cinders.
These volcanoes can also be very explosive. Some of the world's most majestic and beautiful mountains are this type of volcano. Mount Fuji in Japan and Mount St. Helens are composite volcanoes.
Cinder cones (Scoria Cones) are the simplest type of volcano.
They are built from particles and blobs of congealed lava ejected from a single vent. As the gas-charged lava is blown violently into the air, it breaks into small fragments that solidify and fall as tephra or cinders around the vent to form a circular or oval cone.
These are the most explosive.
Shield volcanoes are the largest on Earth. The Hawaiian volcanoes are shield volcanoes. They are made up of the build up of lava flows over time.
They are not steep, their slopes are very gradual.
Their eruptions are not explosive
The largest and most explosive volcanic eruptions eject tens to hundreds of cubic kilometers of magma onto the Earth's surface.
When such a large volume of magma is removed for beneath a volcano, the ground subsides or collapses into the emptied space, to form a huge depression called a Caldera.
Usually found at the top of a volcano – not always visible.
Yellowstone Caldera
"A lava domeis a steep mass of very thick and pasty lava that is pushed up from the main vent.
The lava is so viscous (thick and pasty) that it does not flow but slowly rises higher with each movement of magma in the conduit.
Think of toothpaste that is slowly squeezed and then stopped and then squeezed again from the tube. This is how the lava dome in Mt. St. Helen's was formed."
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In some instances the magma never reaches the surface or breaks the ground above it. Huge reservoirs of magma are created to form 'Batholiths' or smaller reservoirs called 'Laccoliths'. Both these are horizontal in structure. Vertical creations are called 'Sills'. When these cool, they form intrusive igneous rock and are only discovered through erosion or mining.
The controlling factors on explosivity are viscosity, temperature, and the amount of dissolved gases in the magma.
Nonexplosive eruption
Eruption of the Pu'u O'o volcano on the east zone of the larger Kilauea volcano, Hawaii.
Explosive Eruption:
Eruption of a voluminous plume of tephra is typical of explosive eruptions, as demonstrated in the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. These eruptive tephra plumes can travel tens of kilometers into the stratosphere.
How does the amount of dissolved gases affect the explosivity of volcanoes?
The dissolved gases in the magma provides the force for explosive eruptions.
As magma rises toward the surface, dissolved gases in the liquid rock begin to come out of solution (called exsolution), and bubbles begin to form in the magma. The magma gets "frothy".
Not all magma has a lot of dissolved gases. The more the gas the more explosive the volcano.
Explosive eruptions, which get started by exsolution of gases, can be made more dramatic by sudden decompression, which lowers the confining pressure on the magma. Decompression is when the volcano blows its lid so to speak.
Decompression is similar to what can happen to a bottle of pop when the cap is removed: the sudden release of pressure can cause the CO2 to come out of solution explosively and rapidly, resulting in the pop to spray out of the bottle.
This happens when a volcanic mountain suddenly breaks open or the magma plug from a previous eruption gets pushed out of the way. Mt St. Helen's is an example. An earthquake or tremour can open up the ground releasing this pressure and a violent eruption occurs.
How does viscosity affect explosivity?
Viscosity is defined as the ability of a substance to resist flow. In a sense, viscosity is the inverse of fluidity.
The higher the temperature, the more fluid a substance becomes, thus lowering its viscosity. The lava in this case is thin and runny and gases escape easily. Think of engine oil!
Magma may also contain a material that is crystal in structure called silca. Generally speaking, magma with a higher silica concentration has a higher viscosity. It resists flow up through the vent. The lava here is thick and sticky and gases cannot escape. Granitic rock is rich in silica.
Click here to read an excellent article on the study of why some volcanoes erupt violently.
The rapid eruption of expanding gases results in the obliteration and fragmentation of magma and rock. The greater the explosivity, the greater the amount of fragmentation.
Individual eruptive fragments are called pyroclasts ("fire fragments").
Tephra (Greek, for "ash") is a term for any airborne pyroclastic accumulation.
If the explosivity of the magma is low, the liquid rock tends to flow out onto the surface as lava.
Every year about 60 volcanoes erupt, but most of the activity is pretty weak. How do volcanologists measure how big an eruption is? There is not any single feature that determines the "bigness", but the following eruption magnitude scale - called the Volcanic Explosivity Index or VEI - is based on a number of things that can be observed during an eruption. According to this scale, really huge eruptions don't happen very often, luckily!
This sedimentary rock has a different mineral composition (it is mainly granitic); it is less dense than the surrounding liquid rock (mainly basaltic). Therefore, after it melts in the mantle, it rises slowly toward the surface, breaking through the crust and erupting onto the surface.
Island arc formed by oceanic-oceanic subduction.
Volcanic arc formed by oceanic-continental subduction
This type of granitic magma has a high silica concentration and is therefore more viscous. It also tends to have high level of dissolved gases.
This accounts, therefore, for the more violent eruptions found near subduction zones, like the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire.
Mt. St. Helen's, Krakatoa, Pompeii are examples of this type of volcanic activity.
Mantle plumes appear to be largely unaffected by plate motions. As lithospheric plates move across stationary hotspots, volcanism will generate volcanic islands that are active above the mantle plume, but become inactive and progressively older as they move away from the mantle plume in the direction of plate movement.
Thus, a linear belt of inactive volcanic islands and seamounts will be produced. A classic example of this mechanism is demonstrated by the Hawaiian and Emperor seamount chains.
The "Big Island" of Hawaii lies above the mantle plume. It is the only island that is currently volcanically active. The seven Hawaiian Islands become progressively older to the northwest. The main phase of volcanism on Oahu ceased about 3 million years ago, and on Kauai about 5 million years ago.
This trend continues beyond the Hawaiian Islands, as demonstrated by a string of seamounts (the Hawaiian chain) that becomes progressively older toward Midway Island. Midway is composed of lavas that are approximately 27 million years old.
Northwest of Midway, the volcanic belt bends to the north-northwest to form the Emperor seamount chain. Here, the seamounts become progressively older until they terminate against the Aleutian trench.
The oldest of these seamounts near the trench is >70 million years old. This implies that the mantle plume currently generating basaltic lavas on the Big Island has been in existence for at least 70 million years!
The Foundation seamount chain is located near Easter Island in the south Pacific.
Lava flows tend to be mainly associated with basaltic lava because it has a lower viscosity due to a lower content of silica. Very low silica volcanoes spread their lava over very large areas. They create shield volcanoes.
Mauna Loa from the southeast
Mauna Loa satellite view
The amount of lava that is generated over a period of time is called the effusion rate.
A pyroclastic flow is a fluidized mixture of solid to semi-solid fragments and hot, expanding gases that flows down the flank of a volcanic edifice.
These awesome features are heavier-than-air emulsions that move much like a snow avalanche, except that they are fiercely hot, contain toxic gases, and move at phenomenal, hurricane-force speeds, often over 100 km/hour.
They are the most deadly of all volcanic phenomena. Sometimes the hot magma and pyroclastic flow melts the ice on high mountains. This creates a Lahar, which is categorized as a mudflow. This is also extremely dangerous because a Lahar not only carries with it the lava from the eruptions but with the added water, part of the mountain goes with it.
Volcanoes can in one of the following three states:
Active, extinct or dormant. FIGURE IT OUT!
Needless to say Volcanoes can be dangerous to human population. They also bring excellent soil for farming. The advantageous and disadvantages of living near a volcano are beyond this slide show. Sounds like a good essay.


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3D software aggregation SelfCAD has appear a new ambit of 3D cartoon tools. The amend includes nine avant-garde 3D architecture options, which can additionally be acclimated for 2D creations.
With its billow and browser-based software accessible for $40 a year, SelfCAD is acquisitive to allure designers, developers and engineers of all abilities.
An accessible about-face amid 3D modes
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These new architecture options accommodate brush, text, line, spline, circular, rectangular, ambit and donut cartoon capabilities.
A revamped cartoon apparatus facilitates switching amid altered 3D modes. The advantage to "drag-n-drop" basal shapes from the "shape generator" has been retained, while a new "click-and-drag" affection makes 3D creations easier to rescale.
"Line cartoon allows you to draw ellipsoidal shapes, every bang creates an bend affiliated to the antecedent one. Another added affection [enables] converting curve into splines and [combines] curve and splines into one shape," added SelfCAD Product Manager, Natalia Ulianets.
3D architecture to 3D printing
The SelfCAD 3D architecture software was launched by architect Aaron Breuer in 2016. It aims to "simplify the user interface" and to "remove accurate allotment for contrarily simple tools." Amongst its appearance are a "Magic Fix" 3D slicer, which makes altar accessible for 3D press and exportable as STL files.
Earlier this month, the aggregation appear that it would be alms chargeless three-year licenses to all agents and pupils to bless SelfCAD's barrage in 100 schools.
The acreage of 3D architecture and alteration software has apparent contempo entrants in the anatomy of Google Poly and Microsoft Remix 3D.
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So, this recipe for shrimp artichoke pot pie almost didn't make it onto the blog, because try as I might, I couldn't get a picture that I was happy with. And usually when that happens, I usually don't post about the recipe, because for me and my little blog, it's as much about the picture as it is the recipe. But this one…this recipe was just too dang good and easy for me to not break all my rules and post a less-than-wonderful picture, and when you take a bite of this one you will understand. Ready for a whole new take on pot pie? Let's make it!
Ham and Swiss Pot Pie
If you read my post from a few days ago, you have caught on that I am currently obsessed with things that can be eaten out of bowls, including this scrumptious, warm and wonderful ham and swiss pot pie. Chunks of ham, thinly sliced potatoes and shredded Swiss cheese bake up in a bath of cream and eggs and mustard, and the pot pie crust is not pastry but rather a crispy, cheesy topping of tender potatoes and golden melty cheese. It's a pot pie version of your favorite ham and cheese sandwich. It's comfort food extraordinaire. Let's make it!
Chicken Pot Pie Sandwiches
We are huffing and puffing our way towards spring here in these parts. Winter is hanging on for dear life, and March has about 48 hours to get its act together and go out like the lamb that it is supposed to be at this point. My barbecue grill still has a 2 inch wall of snow all around it, so I can't in good conscience send the Southern husband out there yet to make anything vaguely summery-tasting, and frankly, it's still so chilly that I am still jonesing for winter comfort food anyway. So here's my effort to meet halfway between warm weather food (sandwiches!) and cold weather food (chicken pot pie!), and I gotta tell you, it may be my new favorite transitional supper.


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SAN JOSE, Calif., April 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The latest market report published by Credence Research, Inc. "Vertebral Compression Fracture Repair Devices Market - Growth, Future Prospects, Competitive Analysis, 2018 - 2026," the global vertebral compression fracture repair devices market was valued at US$ 2,380.7 Mn in 2017 and expected to reach US$ 4,876.1 Mn by 2026, expanding at a CAGR of 8.25 % from 2018 to 2026.
Market Insights
The International Osteoporosis Foundation has mentioned in its 2016 report that women above 50 years of age have 16% and higher risk to develop a vertebral fracture, as against men in the same age group having a lifetime risk of 5%. Vertebral compression fracture (VCF) is related to aggravating back pain, immobility, loss of vertebral height and reduced pulmonary function. VCF has a huge impact on the quality of life as it causes distorted body image, low self-esteem and depression. It has become noteworthy that only one third of VCF has recognized clinical attention and the undiagnosed cases have been related to morbidity in geriatric population worldwide. Calcium supplements have proved to be a good remedy in postmenopausal women to maintain healthy bone density and high protein diet intake in elderly population helps to prevent occurrence of vertebral compression fracture.
In 2017, vertebroplasty dominated the procedure segment owing to its low cost and huge popularity among orthopedic surgeons throughout the globe. It is the surgical procedure of first choice for patients suffering with impending fracture & pain and metastatic lesions. The limitations of vertebroplasty are post-surgery additional costs incurred by patients due to higher complication rates related to surgery such as nerve root irritation and the risk of cement flowing outside the bone before hardening. Kyphoplasty will eventually capture larger market share, as it is the most advanced technique used in VCF repair surgery. Implanting inflated balloon in the fractured vertebrae is helpful in restoring the vertebral height and flexibility. Moreover, excellent patient compliance post surgery and affordable reimbursement scenario together drive the kyphoplasty market.
North America is domicile to key players such as Stryker Corporation, Cook Medical DePuy Synthes and many more, which cater vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty devices for treatment of vertebral compression fracture. Moreover rising demand for minimally invasive procedures and affordable reimbursement scenario contribute towards the dominance of North America for VCF repair devices market. Asia Pacific is keen to display excellent growth during the forecast period from 2018 to 2026 owing to huge population base suffering with osteoporosis. Increasing morbidity in geriatric patients with vertebral compression fracture, and rampant growth in orthopedic specialty clinics drive the Asia Pacific VCF repair devices market.
The prominent players actively engaged in the vertebral compression fracture repair devices market are CareFusion Corporation, Cook Medical, Inc., DFine, Inc., DePuy Synthes, Inc., Osseon LLC, Globus Medical, Inc., Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., Medtronic plc, Stryker Corporation, Orthovita, Inc. and VEXIM SA.
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Leading food industry analysts are predicting that lactose-free and high protein attributes could drive the next phase of growth for the free-from sector, which also continues to benefit from growing numbers people committing to veganism.
Speaking ahead of the upcoming Free-From/Functional Food Expo in Barcelona (8-9 June 2017), Hamish Renton, managing director of Hamish Renton Associates – a keynote speaker at the event – said: "If there is a star in the free from sky, it's lactose-free. The growth rates, the rate of product development, the weight of marketing investment behind the leading brands, and the expansion of distribution mean that the lactose free category is set for very rapid growth.
"High protein is a wave that is breaking across all of grocery. It would be good to see free from brands looking at ways to boost their protein content to appeal to this trend."
Another headline speaker in Barcelona, David Jago, innovation and insight director from Mintel, commented: "Despite economic uncertainty in some parts of the world, free from foods continued to perform well in 2016. Growth may be slowing down in some markets as the sector reaches a degree of maturity, but with double-digit growth rates in most countries this is still one of the most dynamic segments in the food industry and will remain so in the foreseeable future, with millennials driving the trend.
In 2016, a record 12% of all new products launched in Europe were labelled "gluten free". In Europe as a whole, 6% of all new products were labelled as "vegan", but that rose to a high of 9% in the UK and an astonishing 14% in Germany, where veganism has boomed – "flexitarianism" is the driver, with consumers increasingly opting for a wider variety of foods including meat free and dairy free options.
Naturally gluten free ingredients, such as ancient grains, wheat alternatives and grain free formulations are also on the rise. Refined wheat avoidance (rather than gluten per se) is a major driver for those eating gluten free."
Free From/Functional Food Expo 2017 exhibition director, Ronald Holman, added: "Demand for free from foods is increasing as consumers look to make healthier lifestyle choices. Vegan and vegetarian diets are becoming more popular with consumers switching to natural, vegetable and plant-based food and drink.
Consumers are also demanding more and more gluten free grab-and-go snacks, and cereals as breakfast remains one of the most important meals of the day. Breakfast is a big opportunity for free from food businesses, with 55% of shoppers eating it at home. Also consumers are looking to fuel their day with something healthy, quick and easy to prepare.
Functional products continue to grow in demand, with consumers looking for added benefits in their food and drink – such as protein, and pro and prebiotics."
- Free From Food Expo and Functional Food Expo take place on 8-9 June at Fira Barcelona


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You wake up inside an undead prison. Cold and alone. One day, a shining savior come to your aid. He drops a key in your cell. Maybe you'll be able to make it out. But even then, you must traverse the undead prisoners who did not make it and slay the immortal Fallen Knight. Can you still escape and live?
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I know i had said before i would not try these mesh breast, but curiosity won this time, after a huge battle to find a dark skin that would match nicely with these lola tango breast , i can assure it was a pain which lead to the huge change in my whole avatar. A huge change i have been dreading to do for months. But the end results made me happy and i did got a chance to try these mesh breast. At first point they don't look bad but adding to my choice to have them smaller than average especially on my body frame without giving the feeling that i might fall over, hilarious. It was hard to wear it without the lines showing no matter how good the skin matching was. there would always be a line showing if you wear them smaller than regular or you have to wear a high neckline dress or shirt to cover the side lines or the chest part lines. But, the but in this case. I am actually very happy with the result, it gives a very perky and sexy addition to any look, once you wear it right to my opinion which in no way is every bodies opinion. I still don't see the need to wear them huge, extremely huge to the point your arms constantly cut through your breast and one more thing that i had to be careful with was long mesh hair. the mesh can make the clothing part of the dress or top vanish and showing skin you don't want everybody to see. In the end i'm not totally against the mesh breast, it does look nice and sexy, still would not wear it all the time.
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Client library for operating OpenStack clouds
Project description
shade is a simple client library for operating OpenStack clouds. The key word here is simple. Clouds can do many many many things - but there are probably only about 10 of them that most people care about with any regularity. If you want to do complicated things, you should probably use the lower level client libraries - or even the REST API directly. However, if what you want is to be able to write an application that talks to clouds no matter what crazy choices the deployer has made in an attempt to be more hipster than their self-entitled narcissist peers, then shade is for you.
shade started its life as some code inside of ansible. ansible has a bunch of different OpenStack related modules, and there was a ton of duplicated code. Eventually, between refactoring that duplication into an internal library, and adding logic and features that the OpenStack Infra team had developed to run client applications at scale, it turned out that we'd written nine-tenths of what we'd need to have a standalone library.
Sometimes an example is nice.
from shade import * import time # Initialize cloud # Cloud configs are read with os-client-config cloud = openstack_cloud('mordred') # OpenStackCloud object has an interface exposing OpenStack services methods print cloud.list_servers() s = cloud.list_servers()[0] # But you can also access the underlying python-*client objects # This will go away at some point in time and should be considered only # usable for temporary poking cinder = cloud.cinder_client volumes = cinder.volumes.list() volume_id = [v for v in volumes if v['status'] == 'available'][0]['id'] nova = cloud.nova_client print nova.volumes.create_server_volume(s['id'], volume_id, None) attachments = [] print volume_id while not attachments: print "Waiting for attach to finish" time.sleep(1) attachments = cinder.volumes.get(volume_id).attachments print attachments
Object Design
Shade is a library for managing resources, not for operating APIs. As such, it is the resource in question that is the primary object and not the service that may or may not provide that resource, much as we may feel warm and fuzzy to one of the services.
Every resource at minimum has CRUD functions. Additionally, every resource action should have a "do this task blocking" or "request that the cloud start this action and give me a way to check its status" The creation and deletion of Resources will be handled by a ResourceManager that is attached to the Cloud
class Cloud: ResourceManager<Server> server servers = server ResourceManager<FloatingIp> floating_ip floating_ips = floating_ip ResourceManager<Image> image images = image ResourceManager<Role> role roles = role ResourceManager<Volume> volume volumes = volume
getting, listing and searching
In addition to creating a resource, there are different ways of getting your hands on a resource. A get, a list and a search.
list has the simplest semantics - it takes no parameters and simply returns a list of all of the resources that exist.
search takes a set of parameters to match against and returns a list of resources that match the parameters given. If no resources match, it returns an empty list.
get takes the same set of parameters that search takes, but will only ever return a single matching resource or None. If multiple resources are matched, an exception will be raised.
class ResourceManager<Resource>: def get -> Resource def list -> List<Resource> def search -> List<Resource> def create -> Resource
Cloud and ResourceManager interface
All ResourceManagers should accept a cache object passed in to their constructor and should additionally pass that cache object to all Resource constructors. The top-level cloud should create the cache object, then pass it to each of the ResourceManagers when it creates them.
Client connection objects should exist and be managed at the Cloud level. A backreference to the OpenStack cloud should be passed to every resource manager so that ResourceManagers can get hold of the ones they need. For instance, an Image ResourceManager would potentially need access to both the glance_client and the swift_client.
class ResourceManager def __init__(self, cache, cloud) class ServerManager(ResourceManager) class OpenStackCloud def __init__(self): self.cache = dogpile.cache() self.server = ServerManager(self.cache, self) self.servers = self.server
Any resources that have an association action - such as servers and floating_ips, should carry reciprocal methods on each resource with absolutely no difference in behavior.
class Server(Resource): def connect_floating_ip: class FloatingIp(Resource): def connect_server:
Resource objects should have all of the accessor methods you'd expect, as well as any other interesting rollup methods or actions. For instance, since a keystone User can be enabled or disabled, one should expect that there would be an enable() and a disable() method, and that those methods will immediately operate the necessary REST apis. However, if you need to make 80 changes to a Resource, 80 REST calls may or may not be silly, so there should also be a generic update() method which can be used to request the minimal amount of REST calls needed to update the attributes to the requested values.
Resource objects should all have a to_dict method which will return a plain flat dictionary of their attributes.
class Resource: def update(**new_values) -> Resource def delete -> None, throws on error
create, get, and attach can return resources that are not yet ready. Each method should take a wait and a timeout parameter, that will cause the request for the resource to block until it is ready. However, the user may want to poll themselves. Each resource should have an is_ready method which will return True when the resource is ready. The wait method then can actually be implemented in the base Resource class as an iterate timeout loop around calls to is_ready. Every Resource should also have an is_failed and an is_deleted method.
Optional Behavior
Not all clouds expose all features. For instance, some clouds do not have floating ips. Additionally, some clouds may have the feature but the user account does not, which is effectively the same thing. This should be handled in several ways:
If the user explicitly requests a resource that they do not have access to, an error should be raised. For instance, if a user tries to create a floating ip on a cloud that does not expose that feature to them, shade should throw a "Your cloud does not let you do that" error.
If the resource concept can be can be serviced by multiple possible services, shade should transparently try all of them. The discovery method should use the dogpile.cache mechanism so that it can be avoided on subsequent tries. For instance, if the user says "please upload this image", shade should figure out which sequence of actions need to be performed and should get the job done.
If the resource isn't present on some clouds, but the overall concept the resouce represents is, a different resource should present the concept. For instance, while some clouds do not have floating ips, if what the user wants is "a server with an IP" - then the fact that one needs to request a floating ip on some clouds is a detail, and the right thing for that to be is a quality of a server and managed by the server resource. A floating ip resource should really only be directly manipulated by the user if they were doing something very floating-ip specific, such as moving a floating ip from one server to another.
In short, it should be considered a MASSIVE bug in shade if the shade user ever has to have in their own code "if cloud.has_capability("X") do_thing else do_other_thing" - since that construct conveys some resource that shade should really be able to model.
Functional Interface
shade should also provide a functional mapping to the object interface that does not expse the object interface at all. For instance, fora resource type server, one could expect the following.
class OpenStackCloud: def create_server return self.server.create().to_dict() def get_server return self.server.get().to_dict() def update_server return self.server.get().update().to_dict()
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EPIC FAILURE - Obama CRAPS on the United States Constitution
Obama is acting like Ron Paul. Both of them can SAY "constitution" and they both spell "constitution" and BOTH CRAP on that same "constitution" - as does everyone else in DC.
Have you noticed that ALL OF A SUDDEN people are just now talking about the Constitution? How bizarre is that?
The Snooper Report.
Join us as we Take Our Country Back.
Sic vis pacem para bellum
Fight Accordingly
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
(If you want peace, prepare for war.)
Sic Semper Tyrannis!
Death to Tyrants


text: We had Mike's mom in town some of the last two weeks of July, so I left the menu open and didn't plan past that. It took me a few days to then sit down and plan out the whole month of August. I have a couple new recipes to try. I tried to plan crock pot for Tuesday because we are the least busy that morning, and I tried to plan out the sides for when we go shopping.


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This is the first project that i have done using imagery from a Altered Art Digi Kit. They were built up in Adobe Photoshop CS5. Printed out on a colour laser Printer [Nowadays there are such great deals with these printers and if you shop in the right place then the toner refills are nowadays very comparable with Ink Jet].
As usual i didn't have a set final image in mind however after a very fortunate 'Happy' accident i was able to finally go onto the right path for the printed out imagery.
The project has templates, Acrylic Paints, Stamps and Ink Pads involved in the layers that make up the final piece. I have used items that were mostly bought from THATS CRAFTY ON LINE. However where i have used an alternative i have directed you to an alternative that's in store so that if you're following this project or giving it your own twist your able to gain access to various items and follow along. Any questions contact Laura @ THATS CRAFTY i'm sure she will be glad to help you and point you into the right direction of crafting goodies.
2 sheets 12 by 12 inch Paper from our ever growing paper Mountain. [Thats Crafty hold a nice range of 6 inch pads. These can be used instead of a 12 inch sheet just double up where needed]
A Good Collage Glue
Wide Brimmed Brush.
Masking Tape
A Artist Pad [The one i have used is A3 and is 300gsm].
White Gesso
Collection of Eco-Green Paints: Periwinkle~Melon~New Grass~Blue Sky~Bronze.
Moulding/Texture Paste
Lollipop stick and Small Container: [For mixing the paint and moulding past together].
12 inch Stencil: For this Project i opted to use: Grandma's Doily~Art Is~Cell Theory [As i always say don't worry if you don't have these stencils. There is a very wide range of wonderful stencils @ Thats Crafty On Line. It's a collection that's growing by the week so keep calling back!]
Dylusions Ink Sprays: Funky Fuchsia~Bubblegum Pink.
Tim Holtz Distressing Ink Pads: Dusty Concord~Fired Brick~Aged Mahogany~Black Soot~Tea Dye
Blending Tool
Tim Holtz Distress Marker: Picked Raspberry
Stampers Anonymous Stamp Sets: Mixed Media~Spills and Splatters [There is a smaller version available in a stamp set called Bitty Grunge]
Ranger Adirondack Earth Tones: Cranberry.
Buffing Wax: German Silver~Verdigris. {Here i have directed you to a wonderful alternative thats just as good as the ones i have in my stash].
Sharp pr. of Scissors and Craft Knife.
Selection of Washi Tapes
Cutting Mat Surface.
Print Out from Digital Imagery you have created.
Black Alcohol Ink Pen: Spectrum Noir~Pro-Marker
Xyron Creative Center [its been gathering dust now for months so had to be used!].
Indian Ink and Pen with Wide Nib: Here i have used Dr. Ph Martins Red Violet.
Now then there is a story to this project i set out with 1 image in mind as to what i wanted to do. However after 1 aspect of this project it was turned around on its head and i re thought what i was going to do. This 'Happy Accident' was a blessing in disguise as the original creative path would not have been as interesting. So let this be a mantra to you all.. Just because a mistake happens it doesn't mean we have to ditch it and start again!
Like all of us we have a paper mountain growing in our craft space. It's something that grows and grows. People who are not connected in any way to the wonderful world of crafting will not understand the need to have even more paper. Well we might not have that style or colour... Its a designer producer that we like. So i would like to share with you my Paper Mountain. They are all 12 by 12 inch and the A4's are stored away in another space. Am i being to greedy? Should i get out more?
This is the Paper and Card Mountain. Its been acquired over several years however i don't think the bottoms seen the light of day now for a few years lol.
Right back to the project. After selecting two different papers the next step was to rip them up into sections.
Armed with a very good Collage Glue this is where we can get all creative and start to build up our first layer of texture.
i don't have a very big space to work in so i have adapted an old off cut of mdf and a pr of those high powered clamps. By adding this extra space i'm able to gain just that bit extra which allows me to spread out that bit more.
As i'm working with a spiral bound pad i don't want the colours i'm using to seep under this sheet and then contaminate the sheet below. So a layer of masking tape helps prevent this from happening.
Now its time to start to play with our colours. What i originally had in mind was going to be a outdoors themed layer. So once again using the paper paint pallet [it was an old one!. As it has a wax surface your able to re use several times.]
i wanted next to start to build up from the base to add depth. The best way to get a quick layer is to use a texture paste tinted with a colour. This action can build up interesting shapes. You don't have to use all the template just use some. However i have to stress that once you have finished remove all the paste as quickly as possible. if it does dry it can cause issues later when you come to use that stencil again.
if you look at the above photo and the one below you can see whare i placed the texture paste.
When the paste was dry .[You can aid this process by using a heat gun however this can cause the paste to crack. So its best to let it air dry]
Now to add more colour to the mix. i realised that the base layer wasn't going to work as i wanted it to so by building up colours and other designs i was hoping to build on this. So using another stencil from my collection and those bright true coloured dye sprays from Dylusions.
When i had finished and lifted the stencil off i was knocked back. It has bleed under the stencil, this was done because i did not make sure that the stencil was flat. The ink had bleed under the stencil and caused a mess. i know it doesn't look to bad photographed but close up trust me it was a mess!. So what could i do next to salvage the project?
You GUESSED IT! White Gesso. As the ink was still quite wet when l started to place the white Gesso down using a lollipop stick [so l did not contaminate the pot of Gesso] By using the white gesso i was able to move the mixture around the page. it started to cover up the base layer with a very interesting layer of colour. While the mess made by the mistake of not keeping the stencil flat while not covered up it did make an much softer segment of the page.
To build up the covered dye image using a contrasting ink pad and blending tool i started to once again lay down colour in a random manner.
Then using a colour matching pen i opted to then pick out segment and make an impression using the pen to highlight a certain circle.
The next layer i opted to use a text stencil and another contrasting ink. Some times text used as a background can be interesting. To see parts of words or not a complete sentence.
Way back in the day i bought some washi tape it was in a job lot. When i got them i just placed them into a container to be used later. This project was later!
To help protect the washi tape and to keep it secure i placed some Collage glue as a barrier.
The next layer was going to be made using a selection of stamps. The drops of ink was the only one that i had placed on a block the others when i used them i just let the stamp take its own path and only stamped where i pressed down on to the stamps foam backing.
This is the only stamp that i used using a stamping block. Due to the design i felt it was important to use it all. However i didn't re-ink the stamp every time i made an impression.
The Stamping layer. i like to keep each layer to its own theme/style that way i'm not mixing them up. Sometimes a layer needs to be protected by using an protective medium. if your mixing your styles all the time without planning your going to effect what you have done before if that layer is not protected. [Hope that made sense it did in my head lol]
The original layer that i made using the paint and texture paint had become lost when i corrected the ink and stencil layer. Using a cream and buff on the tip of a finger and then just rubbing across the raised sections. Then using a soft cloth carefully starting to rub at those places until it became bright. Just like polishing your footwear.
Like i mentioned at the start this was a project that i was going to use digitally created imagery made up from components from digi kits that were bought from sites across the web. These are known as Art Dolls its a style that i have not come across before until i started to research into various Mixed Media styles.
i printed out 2 sets of lettering. One i had to put in the 'Later Projects Folder' and i used the ones that looked as if a label machine had made. To help with the cutting [we are not always spot on when it comes to sharp scissors or crafting knifes] by using a black pen around the edge it helps make it stand out from the base layer and it also helps cover up those small errors in cutting.
These were the ones that i had passed over. To help make the labels stand out i used a Tea-dye ink on the edges to make them look aged.
Now then while i was looking around the craft room for something not sure what, i saw my old Creative Station. it had been sat there on the top shelf since i last did my major/minor shuffle around. This is one of those machines that we used to look for all the time but as different styles come in some things are pushed to the back. i don't know if they are still being made or if the glue rolls are still available its something i'm going to have to look into. Its a shame that this machine has been discarded as its a wonderful piece of crafting machinery.
Glued and ready to be used in my project. All i have to do is cut them out [this time i don't have to be careful YIPPIE!] and secure them into place. A layer of collage glue when i have finished will keep them secured.
To give the images a grounding by using the same black pen [you don't have to use black use what ever colour or colours that you want to use] go around the image.
Then i used a pen with a wide nib and some complementary indian ink and gave the wording strips a frame.
Now to work on the edges. First i used Aged Mahogany.
There you are a project that started as i thing but ended up another. i don't
think i will now ever panic when something goes so wrong that i feel that its just got to head to the bin. Things can be turned around with some thought and planning.
Any questions please send me a message and i will get back to you a.s.a.p.
Take care and Happy Crafting


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I was so excited when our now almost 8 month old started sleeping through the night at 1.5 months old and then the 4 month regression hit and his sleep went to shit! I did NOT want to do CIO as it KILLS me to see him that way but eventually nursing to sleep just stopped working and I would be in the bedroom with him for literally hours trying to nurse him to sleep while he was extremely hyper and awake. Since he was 4 months I've had a bedtime routine so I could see if that would help to get him to fall asleep at night. It seems to have made it worse! He LOVES the bath but as soon as I take him out he starts crying because its like he knows sleep is coming and he is dreading it. My boyfriend has been putting him to sleep and we were trying CIO but it never worked.. for 1.5 months now he has been crying before he falls asleep for 20-30 mins and it is killing me but I have NO other way of getting him to go to sleep. I know he's not overtired because he naps a few times in the day and I put him to bed about 2-2.5 hours after his last nap. (As I am typing this he is crying in his crib and has been for about a half hour already and I am a nervous wreck from it!) Has anyone else had this problem and what did you do?


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On 11-05-2014 21:42, alimat wrote:
I learned the hard way - once again to always READ what the game tells you.....
IE When you are fighting Giant3 and he flees leaving you on low STA do not 're-attack' as a reflex action when a giant re-appears in the cave. Pikachu realised too late that it was Giant0 who was there only as the words "Not updating persona" flashed up in red before my eyes! D'oh
On 12-05-2014 16:58, Zalagar wrote:
Ah, the tag-team trick. It's one many mobiles have done before. When one's injured and needs to flee, the other shows up to take its place. These giants, it seems, can be an even more effective tag team than the vampire and wraith.
On 14-05-2014 17:18, Heiach wrote:
I did at one point delete a load of the entries on the board and everyone complained so I put them back .
On 13-05-2014 11:25, Gaia wrote:
I'd have to agree with Royston there, the Rocs are deadly together.


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Rating anime out of 10
If I enjoy the chracters, plot and animation it gets a 9 or a 10. Because at the end of the day that is the most important factor. To enjoy it. However I am ever so slightly obbsessed with Free!
Swim Free!! <3
After i post the completion of my anime, i usually give it a rating and a little comment that has no weight on the scores, but an idea of what to expect. My ratings are usually generous, but i try to be harsh though most anime can at least entertain me. The scores are usually skewed to 7 and 8.
10- "I have nothing left to teach you". The epitome of beauty, epicness, entertainment. Not much anime get a 10 from me, example, this year when i started rating the shows i watch, only 3 anime received a 10 (Shiki, Code Geass, Red Garden) others are (Soul Eater, Rosario+Vampire, Strawberry Panic!, Kuroshitsuji, Hunter x Hunter, One Piece, Higurashi)
9- "Excellent series, very little complaints". (Shingeki no Kyojin, Death Note, Sekirei, Welcome to the NHK, School Days, Occult Academy)
8- "Great series, mostly benefited from either having awesome characters, or a great storyline". Most of your "masterpieces" fall here. (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Steins; Gate, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Nichijou, Hataraku Maou- sama!)
7- "Good series, either it was too dry at times, too pointless, or left things out". Very entertaining anime may fall here often that couldn't reach that next level. (Haganai, Kamisama Dolls, Chobits, Mushibugyo, Gurren Lagann)
6- "Meh...decent series that made me entertained me at times, but not good enough". Fair amount of things that could have gone better for it and is pretty lacking. (OniAi, Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi, Vividred Operation, xxxHolic, High School of the Dead)
5- " Ugh, i understand the plot is pretty good, but it isn't delivered well". The anime that at time really buildup, but did nothing with it. Characters aren't anything special. (Another, Anohana, C^3, Bakemonogatari, Okamikakushi, Mashiroiro Symphony)
4- "Wow, this is actually really boring". Ok, this is where the anime becomes insufferable to me. Either it disappointed me immensely, or it has few decent moments. (Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun, High School DxD, Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou, Dragon Crisis, Sword Art Online)
3- "Just another bad anime i decided to finish". Either it lacks a decent plot, decent characters, or only has a glimmer of entertainment.
(Coppelion, Kono Aozora ni Yakusoku wo, A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives)
2- "WTF, that was horrible! Unable to even finish this anime". Garbage. Has no reputable form of decency in the slightest. It's close to impossible for me to sit still and pay attention to the anime. (None...yet)
1- "Now now now now now, After you back it up, then stop, Then wha-wha-what, drop drop it like it's hot". I write a letter to the material source, production company, seiyuus, the whole group responsible for this travesty. (NONE!)
Did he just walk up...slowly...and ban me? @GoldTStar117
On the favorites thread I dont use numbers at all. Some people do and that's great too. Made it no rules do it as you feel comfortable and it gets good responses both numbers and words.I think a person gets to express their views better and makes for good reading.I go by top or most favorite, really good. Good with faults.Watching for the laughs.Watching but let down! And comments get posted!
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AnimeKami wrote:
is there any difference between a 5 and a 1?
the 10 point system is very skewed towards 7 and is not a very good bell curve.
I'd say there's a profound difference on a classic 1-10 scale between worst and average. Skewing towards 7 is interesting. Are you saying there's an inherent tendency towards 7 on all 1-10 scales or that anime in general leans towards 7 on average? If it's the former, I guess I'd need to see some statistical evidence. If it's the latter, that would probably need a very large polling group to prove out. But first you'd have to come to an agreement on the scale itself. This thread kind of demonstrates on a small scale that we're all not on the same page in that department
WIth mal, the from the rank of around 480ish to 3000 contains animes rated between 7.99-7.0, this is out of 8500 anime titles. This is roughly 30% of all rates is a 7.
This is rough, rough numbers. I do tend to think people rate around a 7 in this 10 point scale.
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AnimeKami wrote:
is there any difference between a 5 and a 1?
the 10 point system is very skewed towards 7 and is not a very good bell curve.
Isn't that mostly because people just don't watch many things they'd rate below a 7 though, on average? Although it's fair to say that what we usually give 7s should actually be a 5 or 6 by that logic. It's inflated, like videogame scores.
I just assume there's an exponential progression:
As compared to a more linear one:
To correct the preponderance of higher scores. Although it'd be a lot sharper than that, but still. Just the idea that the difference between an 8 and a 9 is much greater than between a 2 and a 3. That's my rationale anyway.
In a sense, I agree with the exponential progression. Of course there are fine elements that separate an individual given a 8, 9 or 10. What I am interested in is, how said individual separate the low tier anime, ie the 1 from 2 from 3. I will stand on this though, when an individuals gives a low rating he or she slaps on a low number, insert a reason and move on. Whereas the upper echelon most tend to nit-pick the small details to give an anime the maximum number of decimal points.
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While I'll keep the possibility of using the whole 1-10 scale, I really only use 5-10, because, imo, an anime has to be shit in every possible category to get below a 5.
I tend to put a lot of weight on story and characters, so if I don't like either, a show will be deducted points. How much depends on how many things are wrong.
It is why I gave Coppelion a 5 and Beyond the Boundary a 6. They both have horrible stories and characters, imo, but they are both saved by their great production values. I at least still got something out of both shows.
*scratches head* Don't know....honestly. I barely give out ratings.
Usagi: Warrior of the Rabbit. Killing Psychotically.
1. Burn it, Destroy it, Nuke it, I don't care just get it out of my sight (Includes: Mars of Destruction)
2. Nah, torture it first, then kill it slowly...(Have yet to give a 2)
3. This needs to die (Have yet to give anything a 3)
4. Why did I even watch this? (School Days, Date-A-Live, Rosario+Vampire, Hetalia, Watamote...)
5. Eh... (Includes: Higurashi Kaku, Good Luck Ninomiya-Kun. Highschool DxD, Hellsing(TV)...)
6. Not bad (Includes: Highschool of the Dead, Gantz, K-on, Bakemonogatari...)
7. Pretty good (Includes: Chuunibyou, Air, Sword Art Online, Deadman Wonderland, Naruto, Mondaiji-Tachi...)
8. Really great (Includes: Baccano, Hell Girl, xxxHolic, Berserk Movies, Hataraku Maou-sama...)
9. Amazing (Includes: Durarara, Black Lagoon S1, GITSAC, Beck...)
10. The absolute greatest of shows (Includes: Mushishi, Kaiji, Fate/Zero, Natsume's Book of Friends...)
My rankings:
10 - Great show, one if I don't own I will someday to rewatch it, if it was subbed and later gets dubbed I'll watch the dub all the way through regardless of what I think of the voices.
9 - Less likely to buy but if I came across it again I'd still be as likely to rewatch.
8 - I usually give this to shows that I'd watch another season of if made but usually the ending made me not rate it higher.
7 - Average, I liked it enough to watch it all the way through but it didn't stand out as anything too special.
6 - Interesting enough to keep me from dropping it but I won't be watching it again.
5 - Dropped, just wasn't my thing, but still an interesting looking show.
4 - Dropped, wasn't my thing and quickly showed it wouldn't become my thing.
3 - Really bad show, but had some elements in it that kept me watching (Infinite Stratos 2 for example, Ichigo 100% as well but my enjoyment of the manga is actually what caused that rating)
2 - Horrible show, very few redeeming qualities, likely skipped episodes. As I only have one show rated as such, I'd guess it would have to be reserved for sequels of good shows that tried to destroy my memory of that show.
1 - Same as 2 without the redeeming qualities.
I saved 4 and 5 for dropped shows since I try to keep balance between my personal and "professional" opinion of shows, I don't think it's fair to rate a show too low if I don't take in its entire body of work. I think my ratings do skew me towards handing out a lot of 7s and 8s and in general I tend to stay in the 6-10 range.
I think most people stay in the 6-10 range leading to lots of 7-8s since most people wouldn't start an anime that doesn't look like something they'd enjoy, so you get used to those shows ending up on that side of the scale.
Caitlyn and Revolver say you lose.
I don't take scored too seriously these days. Might be because not a lot of animes these days are good :P
If I really liked an anime I'll give it an 8 or more. Doesn't matter if it's generic or whatever, if I really loved it I will score it high.
Like Love Lab. Probably didn't deserve a 9, but I had a lot of fun watching it, laughed a lot etc. So I gave it a 9.
Understood? xD
I use MALs scoring.
For me, there's a lot of factors that go into me giving out a grade like Was the story enjoyable?; Did the Opening/Ending song(s) fit the series?; Was it able to make me cry?. I just don't give out A+ like that. The series has to move me enough to make that decision.
I love you Miichan, Takamina, Sasshi & Nako! (^_^)/
I tend not to give numerical ratings because I don't find them informative enough. I could rate seven different anime 8/10, but that doesn't mean I like all of them equally; I may like some of them better than others. I don't rate out of 100 because I can't decide what makes one anime deserve 83//100 and another anime deserve 84/100. Sometimes I do think of certain series on a 10-point scale, and when I do I pretty much never give below 5/10; if I find an anime so unappealing that I could actually give it less than 5/10, I'll probably just drop it and forget about it rather than give it an official rating.
I don't give ratings based on recommendations or what I feel others will like/dislike because everyone has different tastes and it's impossible for someone to know for a fact that they will/won't like an anime until they check it out for themselves. There are anime that consistently get high ratings, but are disliked by plenty of people, and there are anime that consistently get low ratings, but which still have their fans (Coppelion, for example).
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1-2 This anime is such a pile of (swear word inserted here) how could anyone think of bloody watching this dog turd. How the hell was this anime ever made it so crap and so (swear word inserted here) stupid. This anime is absolutely horrible and no one in this world should be bloody watching this. I will never watch or hear of this anime ever again!
3-4 This anime is quite bad. It had some good moments and some potential. However, ultimately it failed miserably and not only did it disappoint me it made me feel very depress on how and why I watched it. It is a bad anime and lacked anything to make me want to watch it again.
5- This anime is pretty average. I enjoyed it fairly to a certain extent but there are certain aspects and moments where it made me really want to stop watching. It had some good things about the anime but quite a fair amount of negative things that made the anime just average. I won't watch this anime again.
6- This anime is ok. I enjoyed watching this anime but there were certain aspects and moments that made me enjoy it less. It had a fair amount of positive things that made me enjoy it but some negative things as well. The anime is not anything special but I still keep the anime in mind.
7- This anime is pretty good. I enjoyed watching this anime as it has some pretty good moments. It can feel rather slow or have some rather boring moments. However, most of the time it is fairly enjoyable and I never felt the need to stop watching it but it didn't make me feel wow! Overall, I liked it but still probably won't watch it again.
8- This anime was very good. I really enjoyed watching this anime as it had some pretty awesome moments. It still has some problems and can sometimes be pretty boring or slow. Nevertheless, I really enjoyed this anime and it some great moments that makes me go wow! Overall, I really liked it and might consider watching it again.
9- This anime was amazing! I not only enjoyed watching this anime I love watching this anime. It has some amazing moments and everything about it is great such as characters, music, story ect !. The anime was one of the best but some flaws made it not perfect. Still I am so glad to have watched this anime I probably will watch it again in the future.
10- This anime is a flipping masterpiece! How could you not watch this anime it is one of the best in the world! Thank you for making this anime and for allowing me to watch it! This anime is perfect and everyone in the world should have watched this anime it should be mentioned everywhere! I will definitely watch this anime again!
That is technically how I rate anime. It is slightly over exaggerated but oh well. Most of the time I rate anime like 8.5,6.2,9.3 and stuff like that.
I don't really ranking things out of ten. I personally prefer a tier system.
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Tier I: Personal favorites and the best show I have ever watched. I think I have 7? shows in this tier right now, but I could see some dropping out. Eventually I expect it to be my top 10 and for things to get forced down a tier when something better comes in. Masterpieces, stuff with a lot of positive thematic value and just overall beautifully done stories generally end up here for me.
Tier II: Shows in the second tier either could have been tier I shows but have a fatal flaw or just aren't quite up to the level of artistry that I expect from tier I shows.
Tier III A: Excellent entertainment, still have decent thematic value.
Tier III B: Good entertainment and not much else; also, negative elements or just mediocrity.
Tier IV: Ranges from stuff only good for mild entertainment to the worst I've seen. Kind of a wide range, but the general theme is that most of the shows I wouldn't really recommend to anyone.
I suppose, if someone wanted to, they could apply a 1-5 or a 1-10 ranking to my system of tiers, but I also rank shows within the tiers to differentiate further.
As for how people rank things...I either see people being overly critical or just ranking things on how much they like them. I think that's why we see a lot of mediocre anime getting 8/10 ratings. But, honestly, I'd rather see a bunch of 8/10 ratings than a bunch of 2/10. At least an 8/10 gives a positive enough impression that someone might give an anime a chance and decide for themselves. I usually try to review and rank on the merits of the anime, rather than its flaws, unless the flaws really detract from the overall experience of the show.
EDIT: I'm actually considering revamping the way I do rankings, as the ranking within tiers is becoming harder and harder as more shows pour into my watched list. It's also difficult because I watch such a wide variety of shows (how do you compare Attack on Titan and Non Non Biyori???). I might go to a genre tier system, although that could become equally unwieldy considering the fluid nature of genre.
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I don't really rate anime, because then I'd see just how many are terrible.
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A recent decision of the New South Wales Supreme Court, Greenhills Securities Pty Ltd v Loire Consultants Pty Ltd [2015] NSWSC 13, identifies issues which may arise when statutory demands are issued without a clear description of the debt owed, to whom it is owed and in what capacity. It also considers when an application to set aside a statutory demand may include more than one statutory demand. Senior Associate, Sarah Drinkwater, discusses the case.
Three statutory demands were issued by Loire Consultants Pty Ltd (Loire) and David William Dixon (Dixon) to Greenhills Securities Pty Ltd (Greenhills).
This application was brought by Greenhills, to dismiss all three statutory demands, on the basis that there was a genuine dispute in relation to each.
Loire sought to have the application set aside for the following reasons:
- A single application should be brought for each statutory demand.
- There were formal defects in the Application.
- The Defendants were not properly served with one of the Affidavits in support of the Application.
The second and third issue raised by the Defendants were considered to have no merits by the Court and as such are not covered further in this article.
Grounds to set aside the application - single application regarding separate statutory demands
There was opposing case law provided by each of the Defendant and the Plaintiff in regards to this issue.
The Defendants argued that a single application for three statutory demands was against the intention of s 459G of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (The Act) and relied on case authorities such as Help Desk Institute Pty Ltd v Adams [1998] NSWSC 586 (Help Desk) which held that as the section does not provide the option of a combined application, then it is not permitted, or else it would have stated so.
The Plaintiffs relied on authorities such as Remo Constructions Pty Ltd v Dualcorp Pty Ltd [2008] NSWSC 1172 (Remo) where Justice Barrett held that separate applications should be permitted, as s 458G of the Act does not require separate applications; and the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW) (as applicable in each state) apply and guide the court as to joinder of claims.
In this case, His Honour preferred the approach adopted by Justice Barret in Remo over the decision of Help Desk. The reasoning was that in some cases it may be appropriate for an application to deal with more than one statutory demand. His Honour held:
"Although Div 3 imposes a strict regime, I do not read it as intending to displace the general approach to the law of procedure that the court should look to the substance of what has happened rather than its form. If in substance an alleged debtor has made an application to set aside a statutory demand within the timeframe specified in s 469G and that application is supported by an affidavit that has been filed and served in accordance with the section, that it seems to be should be sufficient."
As this matter involved three separate statutory demands, one of which had a different named Creditor, His Honour applied provided retrospective leave under rule 6.19(1) of the UCPR (joinder in an originating process). Although it was held that the statutory demands did not arise out of the same transactions, leave was granted to join Loire and Dixon as defendants, as it was more efficient to deal with the statutory demands in the one application, given the complexity of to whom the debts were owed.
Grounds to have second statutory demand set aside
There were two issues regarding the second statutory demand, namely:
- Who was the debt was owed to?
- Were the funds "disbursed in accordance with directions given by Mr Dixon either as a director of Loire or in his capacity as trustee of the LRUT"?
Who was the debt owed to?
Evidence was provided to the Court demonstrating that there had been changes in trustees of the Lovedale Road Unit Trust (LRUT).
Loire as trustee of the LRUT acquired a property. Loire and LRUT did not have a bank account so they used an account operated by Greenhills for the operation of LRUT. Dixon then replaced Loire as trustee of LRUT; however, there was discrepancy as to what date this occurred. Due to the uncertainty of who was trustee at the time of the transaction the subject of the second statutory demand, His Honour held that there was a genuine dispute and set the second statutory demand aside.
Were the funds disbursed in accordance with directors of Dixon as director or trustee?
The Plaintiff also tried to raise an argument that they disbursed funds in accordance with directions received from Dixon. The Court held that this was an issue that was not adequately raised in the affidavit filed and served in accordance with s 459G(3) and therefore couldn't be raised at the hearing.
Grounds to have third statutory demand set aside
Section 459J(1)(b) of the Act
Dixon conceded during the course of the hearing that the evidence demonstrates that the sum, of $120,000 was never paid to Greenhills and that consequently he was not entitled to claim $120,000 from Greenhills pursuant to the statutory demand as that amount was not owed.
Arguments were raised that the balance of the demand, could still be pursued.
His Honour held that the statutory demand and affidavit in support were defective and caused "substantial injustice" as it did not clearly identify who the advance was made by, whether it was by Dixon or Loire as an assignment to Dixon.
The third statutory demand was for two amounts, $120,000 and $141,535. Dixon admitted that Greenhills did not owe $120,000. As to the amount of $141,535, it was held that there was a genuine dispute because Greenhills provided facts showing it had an offsetting claim. His Honour stated that "I would not be prepared in this case to vary the demand… the evidence from Greenhills and the defendants is confused and makes it difficult to reach a reliable conclusion about the amount, if any, owing to Greenhills."
The third statutory demand was also set aside.
Orders made
The First statutory demand was also set aside through a concession by the Defendants that it ought to be set aside.
Accordingly, all three statutory demands were set aside, and the Creditors were ordered to pay the Debtors costs of the Application.
Points to take away
When issuing a statutory demand, be sure to clearly identify:-
- to whom the debt is owed to, and in what capacity (if any e.g. as trustee for a trust)
- the amount of the debt owing
- the facts as to why the debt is owed / how the debt was incurred
- all documents are sworn by a person authorised to execute the documents.
If you are filing an application to set aside a statutory demand:
- If you have received and are disputing more than one statutory demand from the same or related Creditors, consider whether only one application may need to be filed.
- File and serve the application within the specified time (21 days from the date of service).
- Clearly state the facts as to why the statutory demand should be set aside.
- Ensure the Application and supporting affidavits are sworn by an authorised person.


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SFA has just announced their new attraction for the 2003 season which will be known as Penquin's blizzard river,the ride will be located in Gotham city which is a bit of a surprise to me as I was expecting it to be located in coyote creek or paradise island,also the new ride will feature the same layout as that of Diablo falls at SFAW,which doesn't surprise me too much.
Construction of Penquin's blizzard river has now begun with an expected opening later this spring & while it isn't much it's certainly better than getting nothing at all.
Thanks anyway for the news ;)
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The SFMM Salvi said:
Maybe this is expecting too much, but will it have be themed in any sort of way? It is in the Batman section, and it is a supervillian(sp?), perhaps an arctic-ish look?
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I am not certain that it will have the Penguin/Batman theme...There is already a ride in Gotham City named Penguins Polar Express and that is not "Batman" themed....but if I had to put money on it, I would say that this one will.
They have said that the ride will be in Gotham City, but where?!?!..As it stands right now, GC sprawls out more than the rest of the sections combined. That leaves a lot of locations for this ride.
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SFA must be slow in updating the site today because I did check it upon hearing the news but I'm sure it's gonna be updated soon,as for ride location within gotham city I would take it to mean somewhere between Bating & S:ROS or perhaps on the other side of S:ROS's second hill.
I agree with you Tekno about the prospects for a new coaster either in 04 or most certainly by 05 but we'll have to wait & see,I also hope that a new restroom facility is added near the ride because they really need it.
Belgian,I'm not entirely sure if the color scheme will be exactly the same as diablo falls but you're right those colors won't fit the theme well at all.
I just checked, and the official site has been updated. It shows the same graphic that was on the Astroworld site, but, from the descriptions in the press release, it sounds like it might be more heavily themed. Say goodbye to dry seats on S:ROS and Batwing:)
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Perhaps the supports I saw near wild one are for Penquin's blizzard river & not for a wild mouse at all.
the official announcement date is February 13th
Whomever posted the release on thrillnetwork ALTERED the release date. I personally was given permission to post the release after 5pm today the 12th
SFA's New for 2003 ride announced
SFA's New for 2003 ride announced
never met a coaster I didn't ride (except Junior Geminii) :(
ColossusHennesay said:
Another clone, i hope it's worth it.
Geeezuz one would think that making 3 slides of the same type more than 1000 miles apart from eachother was some kind of catastophic mistake!
never met a coaster I didn't ride (except Junior Geminii) :(
freakylick said:
They have said that the ride will be in Gotham City, but where?!?!..------------------
it will go on the hillside between the krypton comet, and skycoaster.
never met a coaster I didn't ride (except Junior Geminii) :(
coasterdude318 said:
If it's not "officially" announced, I wonder why SF posted it on their own site.
read the release date for the announcement on the site, it clearly says Feb 13th..... knowing how slow the site updates can be, they simply updated early so everyone in the am could get all the info, and not find an updated page.....
never met a coaster I didn't ride (except Junior Geminii) :(
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Wal-Mart, I Do Not Love Thee
I decided since Wal-Mart sells groceries, fabric, some wooden crafty stuff, electronics and all sorts of potential Christmas presents that I would make the twenty minute trek. I could get all of those things some where around my neighborhood, but I love the idea of one-stop shopping and I haven't been to Wal-Mart in almost six months.
Now I remember why I haven't been to Wal-Mart in six months. The produce wasn't particularly nice. They had no large turkeys at all. The Great Value sandwich bread is super cheap, but the mid-grade sandwich bread I prefer to buy was more expensive than at my regular store. They didn't have anything but pine dowels. They didn't carry foam or the felt I wanted. They didn't have the Christmas present I wanted to buy. They did have a Universal remote though.
After leaving Wal-Mart, I still had to go to the fabric store where I got the felt and foam. Then I ran by my favorite grocery store where the lights were bright, the mood was cheery and they carried the turkey and a few other things out to the car for me. After picking up The Boy, I still had to go to the hardware store and buy dowels.
In other words, the trip to Wal-Mart only saved me a trip to an electronics store, but I had to redo everything else. Plus the colors, the lighting and the crowded feeling of Wal-Mart always leave me feeling slightly less loving towards my fellow man.
In theory, I think Wal-Mart is wonderful. Provide the masses with goods they otherwise could not have. Bring employment that otherwise wouldn't be there to towns, etc. There is much to be liked about the place, no matter that it is the chi-chi thing to sneer at the store and those who shop there. However, personally my experiences there are never happy ones and I actually get a lot more done when I avoid the store. I think I'll wait at least six more months before venturing back, if I can help it.
10 comments:
- Mary said...
My biggest complaint about Wal-Mart is the parking lot. I hate trying to find a space.
Also all the junk everywhere.
The aisles are too close together, stuff packed in the middle.
I rarely go there myself.
I'm a Target girl.
- December 6, 2005 at 6:17 AM
- chewymom said...
Oh my--I wrote a almost identical post a while back! (Except I didn't show any love at the end--lol!) http://www.chewymom.com/?p=127
- December 6, 2005 at 7:25 AM
- Chickadee said...
I agree with Mary. It is such a pain in the butt to get in and out of Walmart. I'm also not really all that impressed with their music and clothing selection.
I LOVES me Target. And Best Buy is a great place to buy CDs and DVDs at a resonable price.
- December 6, 2005 at 2:30 PM
- Lenise said...
FWIW I've had better luck with Wal-Mart merchandise than Target merchandise, both quality- and cost-wise.
I'm not opposed to Wal-Mart in principle, but I didn't especially want one to open in our town, since I'm very attached to the downtown community, and it really doesn't need any competition. When I can, I do my shopping within walking distance. But then, I'm never in a rush to pick up a pre-school boy. My boy can still come with me, and he very much enjoys the walks. Gosh, I wish I were healthy enough to take him out again!!!
- December 6, 2005 at 3:48 PM
- jim said...
Maybe it is the male perspective or the cheap perspective or just perhaps I'm channeling my inner redneck [not that hard to do] but I love Wal-Mart. I tend to go on Saturday or Friday night. This is when most of the local Hispanics also shop. It is crowded but everyone and their families seems to be in a good mood. My wife makes fun of me but the feeling is sort of like going to the county fair.
- December 7, 2005 at 4:27 AM
- jennifer said...
I too don't care too much for the Wal-Mart. We went as a family the other day and only found one thing out of several we needed. It's crowded and cluttered and so huge it feels like it takes a month of Sundays to get from one end to the other, and it usually takes a long time to check out.
- December 7, 2005 at 5:27 AM
- MarcV said...
Like Jim, when you're in a small town the Wal-Mart is a place for entertainment as well as to be seen. Once you understand what Wally-world has to offer, then you can grab what you need from there and go.
Would your "rep" with the German-hippie school folks suffer if they caught you in there shopping? Or is it already low since you're a suspected conservative?
- December 7, 2005 at 5:30 AM
- Terry Oglesby said...
My Kmart experience is usually like your Walmart one. The one near us is never clean, it's overpriced, and it never having quite what I need. It does have the benefit of being nearly deserted most of the time, making it much quicker to find out they don't have what I need.
- December 7, 2005 at 7:40 AM
- Dean said...
I wrote a post about a year ago compaining about waiting in line at Wal-Mart. Every time I go in there, there are two or three check out lanes open out of a possible 23.
It drives me nuts that Wal-Mart, a company that make more money than many nations in the world, can't pay a few more cashiers seven dollars an hour so I can get out of there in a timely fashion.
- December 8, 2005 at 2:13 AM
- TulipGirl said...
We've shopped at WalMart once since being back in the States. Needed some basic household set up items (mop, dishes, utensils) and figured it was the most cost-friendly choice. We got what we needed, and it was clean and not crowded, unlike other descriptions here. But I still felt yucky afterwards.
You know the feeling after you shop at the thrift store, like you need to wash your hands? That feeling.
Twice since then, I've driven into the parking lot at WalMart, because it was the convenient place to go. Both times I felt anxious and stressed just being in the parking lot, and drove off.
I think I've sworn off WalMart for good.
- December 10, 2005 at 3:37 PM


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