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The Decemberists added to Boston Calling lineup
Boston Calling was expected to announce Thursday that The Decemberists were added to the three-day City Hall Plaza concert lineup.
An indie folk band from Portland, Ore., will perform its first live show in three years when it returns to the stage during May's Boston Calling music festival.
Boston Calling was expected to announce Thursday that The Decemberists were added to the three-day City Hall Plaza concert lineup.
The Decemberists haven't played live since August 2011 and the band's last Boston show was in January 2011. Their appearance at Boston Calling in May is their only festival appearance this year, organizers said.
The Portland, Ore.,-based band most recently saw success when its sixth studio album "The King is Dead" hit No. 1 on the U.S. pop album chart in 2011. The album featured the songs "This is Why We Fight" and "Down By The Water."
Twenty-two acts will play over the course of three days in May in what has quickly become a popular event in Boston. Other acts include Bastille, Jack Johnson, Modest Mouse and Death Cab for Cutie, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Brand New, The Head and the Heart, Tegan and Sara, and Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls.
Metro Boston is giving away two VIP passes to the festival. to enter, click here.
The Decemberists are scheduled to play Saturday night, which will be headlined by Death Cab for Cutie.
The lineup was curated by Aaron Dessner of The National, in collaboration with Crash Line Productions and Bowery Boston. "Having performed at Boston Calling in May 2013, I can say from experience that playing the festival is electric and we couldn't be happier with the amazing group of artists who will perform at Boston Calling this year," Dessner said in a statement at the time the upcoming festival's lineup was announced.
In addition to announcing their final major act for May's installment, Boston Calling organizers said that Samuel Adams will host the festival's beer gardens while also celebrating the Boston brew's 30th anniversary.
Those old enough to get into the Boston Calling beer gardens will find "the ultimate craft beer experience." It will include samples of various Samuel Adams brews.
More details will be announced later, organizers said.
May's event, which includes an abbreviated lineup for Friday night, will be the first time the festival lasts three days. The festival debuted last May and quickly won many fans and organizers put on a second festival in September. An estimated 70,000 people attended the first two events.
A limited number of single day tickets will be released Thursday online. Weekend passes are also available.
Follow Michael Naughton on Twitter @metrobosmike.


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Do you want to learn how to make a million dollars?
Of course you do. It's practically part and parcel of the American Dream, right behind buying a house with a white picket fence and eating hot wings with Guy Fieri.
Luckily for you, making a million dollars is incredibly easy as long as you do one simple trick…
…just kidding. It actually takes a lot of time, energy, and sweat equity in order to make a million dollars.
You could always try things many other people have tried before, like:
- Buying lottery tickets. Though your chances of winning are 175 million to 1.
- Joining a multi-level marketing company. Even though the people who take part in these schemes rarely make money (if at all).
- Start investing in the stock market. Typically, this comes after a single viewing of Wall Street followed by aimlessly purchasing and selling stocks and never really making money at all.
But why would you do that when you can turn to people who have actually made a million dollars and find out what they did to get there?
In fact, when you take a look at how the most wealthy Americans got their wealth, almost all of it is because of their business and investing.
Luckily for you, we did that.
We spoke with two millionaires who were able to earn their money through a powerful combination of two things:
And we'll show you exactly how to do both. But first,
The millionaires we talked to
Our millionaires are…
Luisa Zhou
From the outside, Luisa seemed to have it all. A Princeton graduate with a job that gave her a healthy six-figure income, she decided one day that she wanted more.
"I wasn't feeling fulfilled or challenged in my job," she says. "Even though I was making a great salary, I was just doing powerpoints all day! But I really pushed it into the back of my mind."
That is until a series of sporadic illnesses and accidents in her immediate family caused her to reassess her situation.
"I couldn't take work off to spend time with them for a significant amount," she recalls. "That's when I realized that I need more control in my life. Even if things are good, if I don't have the freedom to spend with the people I love then I can't do this."
That's how she got started with her side hustle consulting people in digital advertising, before moving on to teaching aspiring entrepreneurs how to launch their own business.
"A lot of people want to be millionaires overnight," Luisa says. "My response to that is there's no such thing."
She's since scaled her business and was able to earn $1.1 million in sales within 11 months. You can read about that journey on our sister site GrowthLab.
Shannon Badger
With three kids to take care of, Shannon knew she had to really learn the art of the grind in order to quit her job and take her freelancing seriously.
"Back when I had two kids and a third on the way, I just wanted more flexibility and be my own job and be able to work more remotely from home," she says.
And so she did. That's how she was able to grow her freelance CPA consulting hustle into a full-fledged business (Badger and Badger CPA) that she runs with her husband. It's helped earn her her first million dollar year in 2017.
"It was a huge mentality shift to how much can I ramp it up while still working full time in my other job," she says. "There's a quote by Dave Ramsey that goes: 'Live like no one else, so you later can live like no one else.' My husband and I were really disciplined when we got started, and it made the process less difficult."
And now, these two millionaires are going to divulge their strategies on how they got to where they are — and how you can do it too.
How to make a million dollars
Remember, our two millionaires were able to earn their money through a powerful combination of two things:
- Investing and saving
- Earning more money through side hustles
Though you can actually make a million dollars on investing and saving alone, you can watch your net worth explode if you combine them both — which I suggest you do.
Then you'll be able to dive into a huge pool of money — a la Scrooge McDuck — sooner rather than later.
(Well, you might have to turn all of your assets into pennies…)
Part I: Investing and saving
Step 0: Get out of debt
The number one barrier preventing people from living a Rich Life is debt.
That's why this is Step 0. Before you even think about investing, saving, or earning more money, you need to take steps to get out of credit card debt.
"A [freelancing business] is not the solution to your money problems," Luisa says. "If you're struggling to pay your bills or are in debt, the first thing you want to do is get a job that can help you. That's the easiest way to really help you first."
That's why getting out of debt was also a priority for Shannon when she and her husband/business partner first got married.
"When my husband and I were first married, we were really disciplined about getting out of debt and saving," Shannon says. "We paid off all of our debt out of college. We paid off all of our car debt. And now we're paying off our house."
Paying off your credit card debt is one of the most important investments you can make into your Rich Life. I've written about how to get out of debt before, but I'll give you a breakdown of the exact same system in my book that has helped thousands of readers finally escape their debt.
If you want a more detailed look at the system, I highly suggest you read my article on how to crush debt.
For now, here's a brief overview:
Find the exact amount you owe.
You're probably thinking, "Well, duh. Of course you should know how much debt you have," but it's actually wayyy harder than you think.
In fact, a study found that many don't actually know how much debt they owe. It makes complete sense too. Humans are sensitive creatures who would rather run from their problems than tackle them head-on.
However, this just leads to you blindly paying the minimum payment instead of actually owning your debt. Only then can you start a good strategy to get rid of it.
Pay off the highest interest rate first.
Not all debt is made the same. That's why you want to start paying off the debt with the highest interest rate first.
For example, imagine you have $10,000 in student loans that have a 6.8% interest rate and a 10-year repayment period. You could pay the minimum of $115/month — but if you spent another $100 more each month, you could save thousands of dollars.
The minimum will leave you saddled with more debt. Even $20/month more helps save you a lot of money.
Don't be tempted.
If you want to get rid of your debt for good, you can't keep adding to it. That's why you need to stop yourself from taking on more, at least until you've gotten rid of your existing debt.
So do yourself a favor and get rid of your credit cards (at least until you're out of debt). Give them to a friend or a family member to hold on to. If you have a safety deposit box, put them in there for a while. Anything works as long as your cards are out of sight and out of mind.
- Negotiate a lower interest rate. Did you know that you can actually save over $1,000 in a single phone call with your credit card company? Using simple negotiation systems, you can lower your credit card's APR and put that money back in your pocket. For the exact scripts that you can use during your negotiations, be sure to check out my full article on eliminating debt.
- Decide how you're going to pay your debt. There are a number of ways you can approach this. You can use the money you got from step four and put it towards chipping away at what you owe. You can also tap into hidden income to free up some money. If you're really enterprising, though, you can start EARNING more money — I'll explain that in a little bit.
A while back, I created a video all about negotiating your debt. Don't be thrown off by how old it is or how I filmed it using a potato. The advice can still help you expertly negotiate with credit card companies.
Step 1: Save money for when you need it most
"My husband and I were really good about saving money," Shannon says. "We created a six-month emergency fund that allowed us to take a small step back financially when I quit my job. But because we saved early, it gave us a lot of freedom to invest and earn."
By saving money, she gave herself the freedom to earn more money.
That's why it's important to set savings goals.
Shannon continues, "If we didn't have our savings fund as a safety net, it would have been much more difficult to start our business."
To find out how much you need in your emergency savings fund, you simply have to take into account three to six months worth of:
- Utility bills (internet, water, electricity, etc)
- Rent
- Car/home payments
- Food/groceries
Basically, any living expense that you have should be accounted for.
You should also start an account exclusively for your emergency savings fund. Most banks allow you to create a sub-savings account along with your normal savings account. (You can even name them too!) So create one for your emergency fund.
And you can start putting money into the account through my favorite system: Automating your personal finances.
The process only takes one to two hours at the most, but once you set it up, you don't have to worry about it again.
AND it'll save you thousands of dollars over your lifetime.
Here is a 12-minute video of me explaining the exact process I use below.
Step 2: Invest in your future
Investing your money is the best way to guarantee you become a millionaire. In fact, I promise you, if you follow the systems below you will eventually become rich.
Shannon knows that too.
"My husband and I have been putting 10 – 15 percent of our earnings into our retirement accounts for a while now," she says. "We also have a 529 plan for each of our kids."
When it comes to accounts for retirement, you have two options:
- 401k
- Roth IRA
These are retirement accounts. That means you'll be able to accrue gains with big tax advantages with one caveat: you promise to save and invest long term. That means you can buy and sell shares of almost anything as often as you want as long as you leave the money in your account until you get near retirement age.
Let's take a look at each one.
401k: Free money from your employer
A 401k is a powerful retirement account offered to you by your employer. With each pay period, you put a portion of your pre-tax paycheck into the account. That means you're able to invest more money into a 401k than you would a regular investment account.
But here's the best part: Your company will match you 1:1 up to a certain percentage of your paycheck.
Say your company offers 3% matching. If your yearly salary is $150,000 and you invest 3% of your yearly salary (~$5,000) into your 401k, your company would match you that amount — doubling your investment.
Check out the graph below that illustrates this.
This is free money!!! If your company offers a match, you should ABSOLUTELY take part in their 401k plan.
For more on 401k's, be sure to check out my article on how the account is the best way to grow your money.
But 401k's are only one part of the equation when you want to start saving for retirement. The other account you should get is a Roth IRA. And ideally, you have both.
Roth IRA: The best long-term investment
A Roth IRA is simply the best deal I've found for long-term investing.
Remember how your 401k uses pre-tax dollars and you pay income tax when you take the money out at retirement? Well, a Roth IRA uses after-tax dollars to give you an even better deal.
With a Roth, you put in already taxed income into stocks, bonds, or index funds and pay no taxes when you withdraw it.
For example, if Roth IRAs had been around in 1970 and you'd invested $10,000 in Southwest Airlines, you'd only have had to pay taxes on the initial $10,000 income. When you withdrew the money 30 years later, you wouldn't have had to pay any taxes on it.
Oh, and by the way, your $10,000 would have turned into $10 million.
That's an exceptional example, but when saving for retirement your greatest advantage is time. You have time to weather the bumps in the market. And over years, those tax-free gains are an amazing deal.
How to open a Roth IRA account
To open up a Roth IRA, find a brokerage account. There are many out there, so I highly suggest shopping around and taking a look at the options out there.
Certain factors you want to consider when looking at brokers can be:
- Minimum investment fees
- Customer service
- Investment options
- Transaction fees
A few brokers I suggest, though, are Charles Schwab, Vanguard, and E*TRADE.
These brokers offer fantastic customer service and are well-known in the investment community for their great stock options.
Special note: Most brokers typically have minimum amounts for opening a Roth IRA, usually $3,000. Sometimes they'll waive the minimums if you set up an automatic payment plan depositing, say, $100/month.
Also, it's worth noting that there's currently a yearly maximum investment of $5,500 to a Roth. (This amount changes often so be sure to check out the IRS contribution limits page to keep updated.)
Once your account is set up, your money will just be sitting there. You need to do things then:
- First, set up an automatic payment plan so you're automatically depositing money into your Roth.
- Second, decide where to invest your Roth money; technically you can be in stocks, index funds, mutual funds, whatever. But I suggest investing your money in a low-cost, diversified portfolio that includes index funds such as the S&P 500. The S&P 500 averages a return of 10% and is managed with barely any fees.
For more, read my introductory articles on stocks and bonds to gain a better understanding of your options. I also created a video that'll show you exactly how to choose a Roth IRA.
NOTE: After you invest in your retirement accounts, you can actually stop right there. After many years, your money will compound and earn you well into the millions if you continue investing.
Say you're 25 years old and you decide to invest $500/month in a low-cost, diversified index fund. If you do that until you're 60, how much money do you think you'd have?
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However, if you want to be able to hit a million dollars sooner than that, there's only one really good option: Earning more money through a hustle.
Part II: Earning more money
The reason earning money is one of my favorite ways to get to a Rich Life is simple:
There's a limit to how much you can save, but no limit to how much you can earn.
If you're willing to put in the work and develop a hustle that'll scale and grow, you can earn as much money as you want. And while there are a lot of ways you can make more money, my favorite way is by starting a freelance hustle.
That's what Shannon and Luisa did, and they're going to show you how.
Step 3: Find a million dollar business idea (it's easier than you think)
One very common misconception about starting your own freelance hustle is that you need to come up with the "perfect" idea to do it — when that couldn't be further from the case.
"People think that they need a cool crazy idea like the next Facebook to make a significant amount of money," Luisa says. "But what most people don't realize is that they already have the skills to make a million dollars."
I know it's difficult to imagine that you might have profitable skills already — but you do. In fact, Shannon has a perfect solution to find out those skills: Look at what your friends ask you to help them out with. That's how she got her start as a freelance CPA consultant.
From Shannon:
"I had a colleague who needed help sorting through her finances. She asked me to help her out, and she became my first client. Then I had another friend who started a law office and needed help, so I helped them out with all of their accounting. I'd meet with them to make sure that they were still compliant and help with their tax returns.
It just started with helping people as a hobby, but then my husband pointed out that I was getting clients without even trying. Eventually, I was able to start a freelancing business from it."
That's not the only way you can find a profitable freelancing idea either. There are actually 4 questions you can ask yourself right now to find an idea you can leverage for your hustle.
- What do you already pay for? We already pay people to do a lot of different things. Can you turn one of those things into your own online business? Examples: Clean your home, walk your pet, cook you meals, etc.
- What skills do you have? Now, what do you know — and know well? These are the skills you have that you're great at — and people want to pay you to teach them. Examples: Fluency in a foreign language, programming knowledge, cooking skills, etc.
- What do your friends say you're great at? I love this question. Not only can it be a nice little ego boost — but it can also be incredibly revealing. Examples: Workout routines, relationship advice, great fashion sense, etc.
- What do you do on a Saturday morning? What do you do on a Saturday morning before everyone else is awake? This can be incredibly revealing to what you're passionate about and what you like to spend your time on. Examples: Browsing fashion websites, working on your car, reading fitness subreddits, etc.
Find an answer to those questions and I promise you you'll find a great freelancing idea.
ACTION STEP: Find a profitable idea.
Spend about 10 – 20 minutes now writing down five answers for each of the four questions above. Once you're done, congratulations — you now have 20 potential business ideas that you can grow into a flourishing side hustle.
For now, just choose one business idea. It's okay, you can always change it later. For now, we're going to just try one out and try to find a client with it.
Step 4: Find your first client
In order to start earning money, you need to find the people who will give you money for your ideas.
But the question is…how? Where do you find these people?
For Luisa, that meant going online and finding out where her clients lived.
"I spent a lot of time on Facebook groups talking with potential clients answering their questions about advertising," Luisa says. "That's when I found my first client."
You can do the same thing.
Ask yourself:
- Who is my client?
- Where do they go when they want to look for a solution to their problems?
- Where are they ALREADY looking for solutions to their problems?
- How can you connect them to your service?
At this point, you're also going to want to niche down your market in order to really tailor your services and draw in customers.
"Stay in your niche," Shannon suggests. "We had a few instances where we veered from the niche and we paid for it dearly. It might feel cheesy to sit down and figure out what your target market is or what your goals are for the company, but you have to do that. All that legwork needs to be done upfront. It's just practical."
So think about who's an example of a client who might want to buy your product.
A few questions to jumpstart your research:
- How old are they?
- Where do they live?
- What are their interests?
- How much do they make?
- What books do they read?
Using this information, find out what your clients need by going to the places they go.
For example:
- Want to pitch to moms that blog about children? Go to The Mom Blogs and start with the ones under "Popular Blogs."
- Looking for physical or massage therapists within 50 miles of your house? Yelp should get you started easily.
- If you want to do large dog grooming and sitting, well there's probably a local pet store or dog park near you where owners are all congregating just waiting for you to offer them a solution.
Here are a few suggestions of some other great sites freelancers can use to find business online:
- Writers: MediaBistro.com, Upwork.com, FreelanceWritingGigs.com
- Illustrators/Designers: 99designs.com, Designs.net
- Programmers: Toptal.com, SmashingMagazine.com
Once you find a potential client, you're going to want to reach out to them and pitch your services.
ACTION STEP: Find a client and email them (with scripts).
Find your client using the information, I've outlined above. Once you've done that, you can reach out to them using this handy script:
I saw your post on X and visited your website. I noticed that you've recently started using videos too.
I've been doing video editing for three years and I'd like to offer to help you edit your videos and get them optimized for the web.
That would make them look more professional and load faster, which is important for your readers. And you'd free up time that you could use to create new content.
We can discuss the details, of course, but first I wanted to see if this is something you might be interested in.
If so, would it be okay if I sent you a few ideas on how to help?
Ramit Sethi
A few takeaways:
- There is zero fat in the pitch. Every word counts and is needed to help really sell the benefits of working with you.
- Don't mention payment. There's nothing that will kill a potential client's interest in you more than pushing prices on them before they're ready.
- Stress the benefits. This email shows the client why it would be in their best interest to buy from you in the third paragraph.
Once you get a client using this email, congrats! You just secured your first client — but it doesn't end there. You need to actually do the work for them, and that means continually adding value.
"If your focus is to add as much value as possible, the revenue takes care of itself," Shannon says. "We deal in a very organic, transparent way. People who want to work with us know that they're going to be dealt with fairly, and also that we're going to be adding value. Because of that, we get a lot of referrals, which really helped grow the business to earn what we do now."
Step 5: Invest again — but this time, in yourself
Investing takes many shapes. It's not all stocks, bonds, and retirement accounts. Investing can also be in yourself — and it's something you need to do if you want to earn a million dollars.
From Luisa:
"I've always been big on investing [in myself]. Even in my previous businesses it's been a lot of me putting in the cash into my business. I invested in my site. I invested in a copywriter to teach me how to make copy. I invested in someone to teach me how to make sales calls.
Thankfully, I knew what I didn't know, so I invested heavily in those things. I'm not a big risk taker. But I do believe in calculated risk. After all, I am my best asset. My top priority is myself or my business."
I love this. It hits on an idea that all IWT readers should embrace: Be continually curious.
Ask questions when you don't understand something and don't be afraid to seek out more information through books, courses, or schooling. It's only then that you can hope to truly live your Rich Life.
That's why my team and I have worked hard to create a guide to help you invest in yourself today: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money.
In it, I've included my best strategies to:
- Create multiple income streams so you always have a consistent source of revenue.
- Start your own business and escape the 9-to-5 for good.
- Increase your income by thousands of dollars a year through side hustles like freelancing.
Download a FREE copy of the Ultimate Guide today by entering your name and email below — and start blowing up your net worth today.


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TOP TALKERS: Baby joy, cheating hubbies and boob job backlash
WELCOME to Top Talkers – our recap of the most scandalous stories that graced the showbiz world in the past seven days.
August is already a rollercoaster of a month, with cheating revelations and bundles of joy keeping our showbiz favourites on their toes.
With all that drama, it was hard to narrow it down to the most gossip-worthy tales, but in the end, these were the stories that dominated our watercooler this week.
It's been a traumatic pregnancy for Katie Price, but this week, the model welcomed her fifth child.
Katie's representation announced the joyous news on Tuesday after the star gave birth two weeks early.
However, just hours before, the new issue of OK! hit the stands spilling even more sordid details about her husband's affair with her best mate.
Kieran Hayler, father of Katie's son Jett as well as daughter Angel, slept with his wife's BFF Jane Pountney – and apparently he was filmed on CCTV when he took Jane into the barn for a romp.
But it appears that, for their daughter's sake, the couple are working through their issues, with Katie sharing an adorable picture of her little girl – rumoured to be called Angel – clutching Kieran's finger, captioned "Daddy's little girl".
Congrats, you two!
Ah, Josie – ever the source of mind-boggling gossip. The pregnant wannabe celeb regularly leaves us scraping our jaws off the floor with her various money-making schemes – ticket to her baby's birth, anyone?
But the young mum, who became famous for acquiring surgically-enhanced boobs on the NHS, left us near-speechless when she offered to disappear off the face of the earth if a certain TV personality got down and dirty with her.
A sexy Hollyoaks star perhaps? Is Josie a Benedict Cumberbatch fan?
Nope – she wanted to romp with Keith Lemon. Josie tweeted: "I will disappear from media, deactivate my twitter & stop doing interviews - On the condition @lemontwittor has sex with me? Will you do it for your country Keith? X"
Unsurprisingly, Keith turned down the romantic proposition, so we can look forward to seeing a whole lot more of Josie – although maybe not on Celebrity Juice.
And now, from one famous pair of boobs to another. CBB bombshell Casey Batchelor exclusively revealed in her Daily Star Online column that she was planning to have her FF chest reduced via surgery.
Explaining the difficulties her eye-popping assets have caused – back pain, being bullied, ill-fitting clothes – the model set out her plans to have her boobs reduced by a cup size or two.
However, fans of the model's curves were outraged, begging Casey to reconsider tampering with her god-given assets.
The cheeky star tweeted: "I'm really touched by all the readers' comments, it's not going to be a drastic change although reading everyone's thoughts on my operation has made me think twice."
Do what you feel is best for you Casey – you'll be gorgeous either way!
In last week's Top Talkers, we hoped that the rumours surrounding Nicola McLean's marriage were untrue, but unfortunately the babe's heartache became public this week.
Nicola revealed she was "beyond devastated" after she was given footage of her husband Tom Williams kissing and gyrating upon another woman while in Las Vegas. Since confirming that the man in the video is indeed her hubby, Nicola has remained fairly silent on the matter and taken the high road.
The buxom blonde has been filling her Twitter feed with her sons Rocky and Striker, and has booked a holiday away with her boys – all while Tom is still in Vegas.
When will these guys learn – you're always going to get caught red-handed.
Don't worry if you thought you felt an earthquake last week – it was probably just the tremors from Nicki Minaj's derrière.
The rapper released a short clip of the video for new single Anaconda, and let's just say Miley Cyrus' and Rihanna's twerking skills have been seriously shamed.
Jiggling her booty in ways we didn't even know were possible, Miss Minaj has reclaimed the crown for best celeb twerker with less than twenty seconds of footage.
Well, her new single does sample Sir Mix-a-lot's Baby Got Back – she had a lot to live up to.


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We had the pleasure of once again supporting this fantastic local charity event by making a film of the day. This is our fourth year of involvement and we always have a great day. The event seems to sum up all the best things about Norfolk....Read More
Over the last two years Schoolhouse Digital Ltd. have worked alongside the R.G. Group to create video content on a variety of their construction projects and charitable events. The R G Carter Group, founded in 1921, is a family owned business with a proud ninety year...Read More
z[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" oblique_section="no" text_align="left" triangle_shape="no" css_animation="" box_shadow_on_row="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] This September we filmed The Big Flash festival at Highball Climbing centre in Norwich. It was a free 3 day festival of climbing & competition based around The Flash Championship – a bouldering competition unique to East Anglia...Read More
We've recently bought a DJI Phantom 2 drone as it looked like a lot of fun, it is! Take a look at the attached film, made with test footage we captured whilst getting used to the set-up. What we have learned in the process of making this is just...Read More
Schoolhouse director Pete and his best mate Rick recently returned from a trek across Iceland. In a spontaneous decision at the end of last year, they decided to buy a cheap flight to this volcanic Island, with the plan to walk and camp around while...Read More
We don't just love making films, we also love watching them and Pete is regularly trawling Vimeo for cool films, just like this one! However it's not often you come across one that really inspires and makes you want to leave your desk immediately and as...Read More
Just a quick update on the Pedal Norfolk event film we created over the May bank holiday. We had a truly fantastic day working with some brilliant people from Holkham Estates, Purple Chilli Events and Fatbirds cycling - these organisations came together for the weekend and...Read More


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Despite signs that the U.S. economy is gaining traction, Stephen Roach, former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, says the recovery appears to be a "false dawn."
"Financial markets and the so-called Davos consensus are in broad agreement that something close to a classic cyclical revival may finally be at hand for the U.S. But is it?" Roach, a senior fellow at Yale University, wrote in an op-ed published on the Project Syndicate website on Monday.
(Read more: Summers: Fix US economy? Try fixing JFK)
"At first blush, the celebration seems warranted… But my advice is to keep the champagne on ice," he said.
Roach argues that two quarters of strengthening gross domestic product (GDP) growth doesn't indicate a breakout from an anemic recovery. He cited a temporary acceleration in the second and third quarters of 2010 as well as in the fourth quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012.


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Olivia Austin
Released: December 1, 2016
Ms. Austin gets to work real early to find time to please herself because she finds herself attracted to one of her students. Little does she know he as arrived to class a bit earlier than her and has found a drawer full of sex toys. She doesn't want to lose her job so in order for him to keep his mouth shut, she fucks and sucks her student.


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Remember scratchboard? I created these pumpkins with ease... and it was fun!
|Styled by Karin Lidbeck-Brent
Photography by Michael Partenio
Try this:
Choose pumpkins that have a smooth surface. Spray paint the pumpkin with a flat black cover. Using sharp household tools such as needles, knives or an awl, scratch a design that is geometric or illustrative.


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BluePrint Beauties
Every time I drink one of these I'm beyond satisfied. Oh an the side panel always reminds me that juice should never be heated! I'm such a sucker for insightful packaging. At the Whole Foods Market this cost be about $8 but I think it's worth it. Maybe one day I'll have my own hydraulic press and will make my own cold pressed juice! But until then I'm a happy camper with these Blue Print babies!


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SUSE team announced immediate availability of update for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, Service Pack 4. New update pack provides improved hardware support and user experience.
According to official news announcement:
SUSE® has made it easier for customers to take advantage of the processing power and innovations of the latest hardware with the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 4. In addition, scalability improvements in SP4 will allow more customers to run large-scale workloads such as in-memory databases on SUSE Linux Enterprise 11."SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 4 enhances today's infrastructure and prepares customers for tomorrow's challenges," said George Shi, SUSE Linux Enterprise product marketing manager. "With applications from more than 4,000 independent software vendors certified on the platform, the 19,000 customers who trust SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 will also benefit from the up to seven additional years of support with SP4."


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FORMER British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once said that any woman who understands the problems of running a home, will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
And it is with this notion that after the 2008 global financial crisis that originated from the US, a group of women started thinking of a different approach to ensure such problems do not occur again.
At the time, it was discovered, many corporate boardrooms and financial institutions were male dominated and lacked diversity and hence, there may have been a possibility that they were all probably acting and thinking in similar fashion.
Former South African First Lady Graca Machel then thought of a project to get more women in decision making position to uplift the economy of Africa and cushion it from future financial disasters as was witnessed in 2008/2009.
Consequently an organisation called New Faces New Voices was conceived in 2009 as the business and with the motto "multiplying faces, amplifying voices," to give African women a platform to influence change across different sectors.
NFNV was founded on the belief that women are an under-utilized resource and that investing in women can have a significant development impact that would accelerate economic growth on the African continent.
It particularly focuses on increasing women's access to finance and financial services, improving women's skills as entrepreneurs and business leaders, and growing the number and visibility of African women in leadership and decision-making positions in the financial sector.
"The global financial crisis has provided an opportunity for women to become more involved in reshaping financial systems internationally," says Graca in statement sent ahead of the NFNV launch in Kenya on Tuesday.
"Our South African chapter is already working with the Business Women's Association and Business Unity South Africa to look at ways to promote the role of women in shaping the country's National Growth Plan."
The women behind the launch of NFNV in Kenya include Andia Chakava, who has volunteered to be the chair and country director. She was twice recognised as one of the top 40 under 40 women in the country with a career spanning 11 years in business management and operational experience in asset management.
Others are Nuru Mugambi, Isis Nyongo who formerly worked for Google Kenya, Jackline Sagwe of Kenya Institute of Management, Rose Ndungu of Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund and Mary Waceke Muya of Kengen.
"There is a perception that women are not good leaders. That is not true. Women lead differently and differently doesn't mean it is wrong," says country director Chakava. She echoes sentiments of a quote by Albert Einstein that: "problems cannot be solved with the same kind of thinking that created them."
Once it is launched on Tuesday in the country, this organisation promises to assist institutions in reaching target markets in a way that will impact positively on their revenues, create and provide companies with access to a database of talented women whose expertise can be very valuable to such firms and create financial service innovations to help more women access these services.
Other activities that NFNV will engage in once fully operational include assisting institutions in meeting legislative requirements and quotas regarding women's empowerment and providing access to research that enables institutions to understand the needs of the women's market segment so that they can design properly targeted products.
Also it aims to promote financial literacy and financial education programs that provide technical and business development support to women among others.
New Faces New Voices hosts the African Women's Economic Summit every two years in partnership with the Africa Development Fund to bring together influential stakeholders to focus on how to maximize the economic contribution of women to their societies.
If the influx of women customised products and services by various institutions and companies is anything to go by, the business community is waking up to the fact that this group cannot be ignored anymore and has a massive untapped potential that can make or break an investment.
At the 2012 African Women's Economic Summit, Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala referred to women as the "third emerging market," noting the benefits of investing in women for themselves, their families, and the continent as a whole.
As she points out, "We are on the cusp of a very exciting phase in the life of African women. They are the new face of an Africa on an upward trajectory of growth and development."
And as the organisation prepares to launch the Kenya Chapter, country director Chakava says the ball is now in the court of Kenya's women.
The secretariat is calling on volunteers and financiers and information on women professionals and entrepreneurs to help make its work in the country a success story.


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In the previous article, we also introduced a lot of forms and methods about the transformation of watches. However, in the process of transformation, we need to pay attention to that after the main body of the watch has been independently transformed or decorated by a large number of people, the sale of copy watches with self-winding movements will be a problem.
Therefore, custom still is a relatively safe way. And the famous British watch manufacturer Bamford Watch custom Department often cooperates with Rolex and launches a unique custom steel cases Rolex replica watches with personality and characteristics.
- Famous Popular Rolex Snoppy Datejust Replica Watches Satisfying Your Child Heart
- Rolex Datejust Limited "I Love You" Fake Watches For Valentine's Day To Transfer Your Love
- Cool Black Rolex Daytona World Time Copy Watches-Cooperation With BAPE
Three kinds of Rolex watches all have great meaning for two cooperative brands. Also for their fans, it must be a perfect thing. Comparing with other normal watches, they seem to be more personal.


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This project is based on a previous ESA-backed project that resulted in the successful development of a telemedicine system for commercial aviation applications (TEMPUS). Since its launch the system has achieved strong interest in other markets predominantly in pre-hospital care applications where the potential for satellite-based communications and other new features enable users to do more with less equipment. The project will seek to leverage the existing market leading features already developed in the present system as well as be user driven in the selection of best-in-class approaches to managing medical incidents in the field. This will be based on the user input of a range of experienced medical professionals with a background in emergency medicine in the pre-hospital care field. Within the project, 2 validation campaigns of 6 weeks each will be carried out in 2 selected sites of International SOS in Algeria and Nigeria involving clinical and remote sites.
The objective of the project is the development, integration, testing and validation of a tele-assistance service, making use of multiple space assets (Satcom, Satnav), for professional clinical users in remote locations using a highly compact device for vital-sign monitoring and remote diagnosis.
Many organisations have a large international presence with staff operating concurrently in a multitude of locations. Examples of such organisations include Governments; Military; NGOs; Charities and Mineral and energy companies.
Such organisations use the services of companies like International SOS to provide them with medical support. Intl. SOS provides medical and security services through an extensive network of offices, staffed with clinical personnel, such as physicians, nurses and paramedics. They are able to provide direct medical care, which is also supported by a network of alarm centres, which are in turn staffed by doctors, nurses and specialist call handlers. These users are targeted to use the proposed system, as shown in the diagram below:
Organisations such as Intl. SOS have a large network of well trained clinical staff delivering high-quality medical care to industrial and governmental organisations across the world. They use conventional communications and conventional medical monitoring products (as are appropriate to the skills and needs of the various users) but do not use any telemedicine technologies to help facilitate and optimise their operations.
Consequently the decisions made to diagnose and care for their patients would be improved by a more integrated use of their existing resources (clinical expertise across their organisation) in real-time care and monitoring of patients.
There exists the need therefore for a system that could enable an organisation such as Intl. SOS to engage its resources (clinical staff) at all of its locations in the care of a patient in any location. Such a system would need to meet the needs of the actors at all locations. These would include:
A number of commercial and user benefits exist for the proposed system. These include:
The integration with different space-based assets in the development of the proposed system is expected to add value to the user in a number of ways.
These commercial benefits will be driven by the integration both of high-quality GPS positioning and real-time communications via satcom.
These, combined with leading medical technologies and a unique feature set based on a flexible platform is expected to create a new level of service delivery in pre-hospital care.
The project will develop and enhance the existing Tempus IC telemedicine system to allow it to be employed by professional medical users in remote locations.
The enhanced device will include:
Currently, clinical staff operating in remote locations are only offered vital signs monitoring solutions or telemedicine systems. The former are designed primarily for the needs of hospital users and the latter are always un-integrated collections of various different products that together allow the user to transmit medical data. The former are commercially successful simply because there is no alternative, while the latter tend not to be commercially successful because they do not meet all the user requirements. This project envisages a dual-use system: one that provides all the medical monitoring and telemedicine needs, but in a single, integrated package.
Previous to the final review held at ESTEC in Dec 2013, RDT partnered with Intl.SOS, to demonstrate the device working in real-life situations, under rugged conditions, over a six-week period in Algeria and Nigeria. During the trials, 53 successful connections were made; totalling more than 5 ½ hours of telemedicine calls.
Not only was sharing the data useful in getting a second opinion of the patient's condition and to help ascertain whether to Medevac or not, but it was also useful in providing a second pair of eyes, both literally via the digital camera and also generally via the medical data and trends overview, especially for the remote sites that have very little on-site support. For example during one connection the Paris alarm centre was able to highlight (using a photo) incorrect positioning of a twelve lead ECG and how to rectify it.
The AMAZON telemedicine service relying on the Tempus Pro device has been very well received during the project trial by both the Intl.SOS clinic and remote site staff and also their customers who have had the chance to see the device. Tempus Pro has proven to be a game changer in this environment and has succeeded at being both a valuable telemedicine device whilst being a market leading fully featured vital signs monitor with unsurpassed weight, size and robustness, perfectly balanced to be at home in a remote austere environment as much is it is in a well-equipped, modern clinic.
Tempus Pro was cleared for market with both CE marking and 510k (FDA) approval in June 2013. It has already exceeded RDT's expectations in market acceptance and has been sold to a number of NATO militaries and the oil and gas industry, with huge amounts of interest being generated. iSOS is also extremely of the quality of the telemedicine service provided through the device.
RDT has been awarded an extension of the project to enhance the capabilities of the AMAZON service and the associated TEMPUS PRO system, which shall allow to address new business opportunities such as the civilian pre-hospital care market. This new phase, named JACKSON project, is presented in a dedicated webpage of the ARTES Applications website.


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The Cast: A Quick Reminder
- Vince the Shark: Sunday was not a good day for Vince, as he hospitalised one of his debtors, the business of the second burned down and his third was assassinated in Mr. Benson's penthouse; played by Dan.
- Daddy Longlegs the Matriarch: Daddy managed to keep his head above water and even turned a small profit on the day, with the help of his kleptomaniac children; played by Guy.
- Mr. Benson the Bastion: after having two bodies removed from his penthouse in one day and losing 2 out of 3 of his best lieutenants to a combination of injury and betrayal, what he'd like most is a restful night; played by Elaine.
That rest will have to come at another time; as the long summer evening slowly turns into night, Mr. Benson acts on the tip-off that the police are going to hit him later today, so he prepares to receive guests. Across the road from his building at the Big O Donut Restaurant, Daddy sidles up to his contact on the force, Officer MacCaffrey to see what he can learn about Frank's death in the restaurant fire, while not far away in his pawn shop, Vince studies the phone he stole from Frank.
The peace is broken by the abrupt appearance of a helicopter shining a spotlight at Mr. Benson's building while half-a-dozen cops spill out from their hiding place and a marked van screeches to a halt to disgorge half-a-dozen more! They crash in and try to take charge, but Mr. Benson is on his own turf with his accountant & personal assistant Mercer at his hand, so the attempt to shake him up is not very successful: Mr. Benson simply chats with a Special Agent Taft for an hour or two, convincing him that he is simply an honest businessman with nothing to hide. Taft invites the ruthless gang boss to a club at the beach front later on to discuss this whole affair with him, so Mr. Benson is reluctantly pried away from his beloved 'hood.
As this takes place, Vince is trying out the numbers on Frank's phone: he strikes out with Aqua, who hangs up on him, and The Douche, whose number is no longer in service, but he finally gets a reply from Frank's Mom. She says that when she last spoke to her son, he was excited & nervous about meeting a girl called Sarah at the Santa Monica Pier. Vince deduces that Sarah is Aqua and, working with Daddy, they come up with a plan to trick her into trusting them: Daddy calls her from another phone and pretends to be a florist wanting her address for a delivery from a Frank Carter, saying there is a sealed message with it. She enthusiastically gives her details and awaits the delivery; the message will give her Vince's number, along with an instruction from 'Frank' to call that number if he's ever in deep trouble.
During the week between sessions, I created the graphic on the right and sent it to the whole group so they could be prepared to act on the information rather than me surprising them with it and waiting to see what they did. This also had the benefit of creating an impromptu prop at the table, as Dan was able to get out his actual phone and display the image on it. The flower delivery scheme came about as a result of the players using the Plan B move to get a guaranteed success from me, with the only down side being that it would take all night to put into motion, so they wouldn't get a response from Sarah until the following morning. Also noteworthy: throughout this, Vince never once let on to Daddy that he had Frank's phone. Another note: yes, I used the UK & Europe dating protocol of day/month/year instead of the American month/day/year arrangement, because it just made reading the information easier for all of us.
After the police leave his apartment, Mr. Benson heads off to his appointment with Taft: dropping his name at the door of the nightclub is enough to usher him through the VIP entrance to a private room that overlooks the dance floor, where Taft is awaiting him. The agent apologises for the inconvenience earlier, but a determined Mr. Benson squeezes him for more: Taft spills the beans on the operation, revealing that it was actually a blind to lure their real target out into the open. Taft paints a picture of a near-psychopathic master criminal, pulling strings from behind the scenes and targeting Mr. Benson's neighbourhood: they know next to nothing about him, other than that he calls himself The Douche. Giving his business card to Mr. Benson, he asks the gang boss to contact him if he receives any overtures or offers to take over any of his businesses, as it could be The Douche behind it, especially if it involves sudden, irrational violence.
As midnight passes, Vince decides it's never too early to be taking care of business, so he heads over to the shed behind the park where the drug users hang out, now dubbed the Junkie Yard, to shake down Gonzo for his money (as Vince still doesn't know that Gonzo was murdered earlier.) There's no answer to his gentle knocking, so he bursts in... on a charnel house. His feet slip in the gore that carpets the ground and trails up the walls as he takes in the sight of the brutally murdered junkies: stepping back calmly, he calls Daddy and asks him to bring a can of gas to the Junkie Yard... shortly thereafter, they stand before the blazing pyre of dead junkies, but Daddy can't shake the itchy feeling that, just maybe, despite his protestations of innocence, Vince might have had a hand in this...
I'm editorialising a bit there, there was no action or rules invoked relating to Guy's character's distrust of Dan's character, but this was definitely the session where players embraced the idea of not trusting each other's characters, even if they knew they were telling the truth.
Mr. Benson drives himself back to the 'hood... and gets T-Boned by another vehicle at the turn-off! The gang boss is able to walk away from the collision, but the other driver pulls an automatic weapon and sprays the tarmac with bullets! Mr. Benson pulls a weapon out of his wrecked car and fires back, injuring his opponent enough to enable his getaway; he considers finishing the shooter off, but he's in no position to take that kind of heat right now.
Elaine had expressed a desire for some cathartic violence in the game, so I threw this scene her way: hey, be careful what you wish for! It didn't do much except keep the pressure up on her character and provide another dangling thread to be picked up in the narrative later by anyone who wanted it: who sent that assassin after Mr. Benson? Was it The Douche? Or someone else with a grudge...?
Finally, the morning comes: Vince and Daddy pay an urgent call on Mr. Benson to ask him what the fuck is going on in the 'hood right now. They get around to sharing everything the know about Frank, The Douche and Sarah/Aqua, as well as the death of Gonzo and the other junkies, plus Ghost's involvement in the burning of the restaurant owned by Panos (Vince's other debtor) the previous morning. A palpable miasma of mistrust hangs in the air as Mr. Benson and Vince wonder who is trying to screw who over: to break the deadlock, the gang boss has Ghost brought from the hospital to answer some questions in front of everybody. Shortly after, a partly-crippled Ghost confesses to taking some side work from some guy calling himself The Douche and arranging to have the restaurant burned down: drawing the conclusion that he has no room for traitors in his organisation, Mr. Benson throws Ghost down the elevator shaft.
There was no way Ghost was going to be saved here: he was still down from Vince's attack on him in the previous session and no-one was going to help him, so it was a foregone conclusion that if Mr. Benson wanted him dead, then he was dead. Instead of making that the stake here, I offered Elaine a one-time deal to make this move: roll+brass and on a hit, her reputation as someone not to be crossed would spread through the 'hood, so she could erase a name in her payback box. On a 7-9 though, rumours of this murder would reach the ears of the police and she would take +1 heat. Elaine took that deal, got a hit on the roll and erased Mercer's name from her payback box: her remaining lieutenant would now be too fearful to ask her for any special favours, for a while at least.
At around this time, other plans kicked into motion: Daddy got a message from Officer MacCaffrey with the autopsy report on Frank's death (along with photos) which established that Frank was killed in the restaurant before the the fire was started. Vince got a call from Sarah, but he failed a few basic questions that convinced her that he didn't know Frank at all, so she hung up on him and didn't answer any more calls. Vince decided to collect his debts from Ghost by taking stuff from the dead ganger's house, but an active neighbourhood caught him red-handed trying to break in, so he spent the rest of the day extricating himself from that mess. Daddy decided to take his kids for lunch at the Santa Monica Pier and drop The Douche's name about to see if it meant anything: it apparently did, as the patrons of the diner he was eating in treated him like somebody trying to light their cigar with the lit fuse on a stick of dynamite, so he got nothing but ostracized.
Mr. Benson decided the time was right to clear his obligation to The Cleaner who had removed all evidence of Gonzo from his apartment: The Cleaner had expressed concern at a rezoning regulation that would harm a crematorium business in the 'hood that he had an interest in and expected the gang boss to make sure the vote went against the proposal. Mr Benson decided the best way to resolve this was to approach Councilman Lincoln, the father of Samantha the drug dealer, and perhaps use what he knew about the councilman's daughter as leverage against him. Lincoln did not take kindly to comments about his family however and Mr. Benson quickly changed the subject to the quality of life in the 'hood and the vital opportunities provided by the current slum district that was due to be demolished to make way for a much-needed shopping mall. They eventually settled on a deal where Mr. Benson would let go of some other property he had an interest in at 80% of it's value, providing a new location for the mall that would save the slum and the crematorium, along with other small businesses.
We ended with a desperate and harried Vince looking for shelter from Panos and his family, hoping to lie low at their place until the residents of the 'hood got past him trying to burgle from one of their own: this was a mixed blessing for Vince, as he did indeed join the family for dinner, but their Greek cuisine did not sit well in his stomach and he reacted badly to some of the ingredients.
Perhaps some slightly dishonest play here on my part, but Vince had 4 heat and only one debtor left alive, whom he owed payback too: the only way not to get him burned in this scene was to have him go down when he missed on his roll to lie low with Panos. On the upside, all three players gained enough experience for an advance during this session, though they all remain dangerously close to getting burned.


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I have a thing for ATCs as of late. I like how quickly I can work them up. In a short amount of time you can have a tiny work of art!
I created these three for a swap on Art Joy Stuff.
The backgrounds are a mish mash of papers, ink, and even gesso smears.
The photos are all raised up with foam tape for dimension and so I could tuck extra stuff under there, like the tulle on this one.
The tiny tattered florals are the perfect size for ATCs.
I will show you what I received in return soon.
What have you been crafting?


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"The US dollar is becoming more and more a worthless piece of paper. And it is going to get worse. The BSP reminds us that 77 percent of the Philippines' $40 billion in foreign reserves is in dollars. Too bad the BSP did not do what India just did and convert $6.7 billion into something valuable: 200 tons of gold.
So you and I are overpaying for crude oil, the BSP is bowing to the US dollar, and the rest of the world is dumping greenback as fast as possible.
On October 7, I wrote: "As of this writing the dollar index is 76.293, the spot gold price is $1,040, the peso is 46.60 and the PSE index is 2,967. Three of these four will be significantly increased in value by the end of the year."
The dollar index is now 74.923, gold is $1,106, the PSE is 2,995 and the peso is 46.79."
"California, tapping the municipal bond market for the fifth time in six weeks, agreed to increase the yield on $1.9 billion in bonds a full percentage point above what it estimated last week for a smaller issue."
- 3) Electronic Arts posts 2Q loss, plans layoffs (1,500 employees)
"The company behind games such as "Madden NFL 10" also said Monday it is laying off 1,500 employees, or about 17 percent, to focus on games that have higher profit margins."
"Adobe systems announced Tuesday it would be making 680 employees redundant, in a move which slashes about nine per cent of the firm's global workforce."
"With jobless claims remaining high in the state, Wisconsin's unemployment fund faces a projected deficit of nearly $2.8 billion by the end of 2011 -- more than twice the amount forecast earlier this year."
"AUSTIN — Texas employers next year will pay more than twice the $1.09 billion in jobless insurance taxes they are paying this year and the tab will go up after that, according to estimates released by the Texas Workforce Commission Tuesday.
Under state law, the state's unemployment trust fund is supposed to stand at 1 percent of taxable wages, or about $860 million. The fund has been depleted in the wake of high jobless claims."
"ALBANY — New York drivers will start paying for new license plates next year — whether they want to or not.
Beginning in April, car and tractor-trailer owners alike will have to shell out $25 for spruced-up license plates, by dictate of state leaders coming up with new ways to wring out revenue as an unprecedented budget shortfall looms."
"SANTA ANA Santa Ana Unified School District's projected $31 million shortfall for the 2010-11 school year could balloon by $33 million if the state budget crisis continues to escalate, district officials said.
The dire prediction came during a budget presentation at the school board meeting late Tuesday."
HSBC facilitates trade settlement using Chinese's Renminbi currency
"JAKARTA, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) launched trade transaction service with Chinese currency Renminbi here, makes Indonesia the sixth country in ASEAN countries enjoying the service, a senior HSBC official said here on Wednesday.
China will continuously play an important role as the main trade partner for Indonesian businessmen. "The Chinese government's policy to allow Renminbi as trade payment currency would improvethe trade between the two countries," Head of Trade and Supply Chain HSBC Indonesia Vincent C. Sugianto said.
Citing the results of its Trade Confidence Index survey for the fourth quarter this year, he said the Indonesian businessmen wish to improve their businesses with their Chinese counterparts.
The commencement of HSBC's trade payment with Chinese Renminbi currency service in Indonesia was marked with a transaction conducted by one of HSBC Indonesia's customers PT Duta Permata Murni with its business counterpart in Shanghai, China recently.
The other ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries served with HSBC's Renminbi Trade Settlement service are Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam and Brunei Darussalam.
According to Vincent, the Renminbi trade settlement service can only be conducted with Chinese firms authorized to make transactions with their counterparts in ASEAN countries. Those appointed Chinese firms were listed in Chinese government's Mainland Designated Enterprises (MDE) scheme.
According to Vincent, direct transaction using Renminbi with Chinese firms would reduce transaction cost as it would avert the exchange currency risk."
... 9A) More info
"The service is part of China's cautious effort to create a bigger global role for the yuan as the weakened U.S. dollar continues to be questioned as a world reserve currency. China holds the world's largest foreign exchange reserves of more than $2.1 trillion and is also the largest holder of U.S. debt."
"Washington's claims to back a strong dollar are falling on increasingly skeptical ears as many Asian central banks regularly sell their currencies for dollars to prop up the U.S. currency.
Thai Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij said his country's central bank has bought some $15 billion so far this year and that the persisting weakness of the Chinese yuan will likely require further intervention by Asian central banks.
"We're building up effectively greater level of U.S. dollar reserves," Korn told Dow Jones in an interview. "I'm convinced that in the long term the dollar is more likely than not to decline in value, so we're building up assets that are declining in value over time. That's not healthy."
But Thailand's Mr. Korn said, "There is not much you could do to correct what is reality. The fact is when you've got that much debt ... the only effective way of repaying that debt is basically devaluing your currency.""
"Taipei, Nov. 11, 2009 (CENS)--The Cabinet-level Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) in Taiwan recently announced to allow domestic bank branches in Hong Kong to extend renminbi-based corporate loans, in addition to handling RMB-based deposits, currency exchanges and remittances."
- 12) Job openings near record lows, and may linger (6.1 unemployed workers per job opening)
"There are about 6.1 unemployed workers, on average, competing for each job opening, a Labor Department report shows. That's down slightly from 6.2 last month, the most since the department began tracking job openings nine years ago.
It's a sharp increase from only 1.7 workers per opening when the recession began in December 2007."
- 13) Applied Materials May Cut 15% of Jobs, Analysts Say (1,500 jobs)
"Analysts at Pacific Crest Securities, RBC Capital and Auriga USA LLC are predicting job cuts of as much as 15 percent when Applied releases fourth-quarter earnings today. That would amount to more than 1,500 jobs. The company is reducing its costs to adjust to a smaller industry, said Daniel Berenbaum, an Auriga analyst in New York. "
""We will not see less than the $1,000 level again," Faber said at a conference today in London. "Central banks are all the same. They are printers. Gold is maybe cheaper today than in 2001, given the interest rates. You have to own physical gold."
China will keep buying resources including gold, he said.
"Its demand for commodities will go up and up and up," he added. "Emerging economies will grow at the fastest pace."
In contrast, Western countries will be lucky to avoid economic contraction, while the Federal Reserve will maintain interest rates near zero percent, he said."
.........All of this money printing and yet The dollar just doesn't understand what's in its future.
Here's the link for the "Crisis Mode Declared on Deficit" (New York), until the link in the news is fixed,.


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Ray Matikinye and Letwin Nyambayo • 18 May 2015 12:04PM • 18 comments
BULAWAYO - MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai says genuine party supporters should not be seen to be legitimising flawed elections by participating in the forthcoming June 10 by-elections before essential electoral reforms are put in place.
Tsvangirai told his supporters last weekend to spoil ballots with the "no reform no election" demand if coerced to go and vote, which is likely to happen particularly in rural areas where government has told chiefs to force march villagers to polling booths.
"As a party, we have vowed not to participate in future elections even if it means giving Zanu PF all the parliamentary seats available because we cannot be seen to be giving legitimacy to a flawed system which (president) Mugabe has made sure no other party other than Zanu PF wins," Tsvangirai told a campaign rally at a youth centre outside White City Stadium.
The MDC could not use the main arena because Zanu PF had "booked" the venue for a similar event but chickened out when it became evident by midday that the intended rally would flop.
Tsvangirai said it was amazing that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) had allowed other State institutions to usurp its mandate and surrendered its role to conduct elections and register voters thereby ignoring practices to continue in the electoral process.
"Zec is not fair in registering voters. You shouldn't be surprised in this by-election when voters from outside this constituency are allowed to cast ballots for a Zanu PF candidate in order to boost numbers," Tsvangirai warned his supporters.
He said Mugabe has ignored Sadc electoral laws and norms taken on board by other regional governments even though he is chairing the AU and Sadc because he was more concerned with centralising power in his party.
"The crisis of legitimacy we are facing at the moment is because of Mugabe's obsession with control. We have demanded bio-metric voters' registration as is practiced in other countries in the region to avoid vote-rigging but our demands have been ignored until we as a party became so exasperated with Zanu PF's attitude towards electoral reforms. We have vowed that the party will never participate in elections of any form without reform," he said.
Turning to simmering divisions in Bulawayo provincial structures pitting the current acting chairperson and MP Dorcas Sibanda against deputy mayor Gift Banda who was dethroned by the High Court, Tsvangirai urged his supporters to refrain from factionalism and tribal divisions.
Deepening ructions within the party forced the MDC to dispatch an arbitrator to try and quell divisions between supporters of Gift Banda and Matson Hlalo who lost pre-Congress provincial chairmanship elections after Gorden Moyo resigned.
Tsvangirai said there should be unity among party supporters as much as among Zimbabweans as he railed into the recent gaffe by President Robert Mugabe when he labelled the Kalanga tribe as illiterate and prone to criminal activity.
"We cannot have a country that is based on tribal divisions."
do the honourable mr tvsangirai and pass the baton to another if you are a true democrat. the handiende attitude will also tarnish your image especially given the fact that you promised us that you would not go the zanu way and would pass the baton to another at the expiry of your third and final term. what did you do then? you manipulated the constitution so that you can legitimise your illegal extended stay in power. do the honourable and pass the baton otherwise you are also irrelevant to the needs of Zimbabwe. we need leaders who do not hold on to power by hook and crook.
Mr. Future President how many times did we advise you back in 2012/2013 NOT to take part in elections, how many times did we highlight to your foot soldiers the massive scale of rigging of the voters roll ??? You went ahead and helped legitimise ZANU PF. You did not even understand SADC diplomatic language to say if you have any problem with the electoral process you needed to be principled and engage Mugabe?? You failed us Mr MT dismally failed us. You are an opportunist who thought you would win not having the intelligence on the ground to understand the scale of rigging prior to elections in 2013. Too late Mr MT. You need to be principled and stick to your principles and not to walk on a fence.
All sane citizens support what Morgan is saying if forced to a polling station spoil the paper . We support this strong man of politics in this country the only guy who has refused to be Mugabe puppet . Keep on pilling the pressure on the sick old thing .We thank you to be best leader who managed to keep our party together despite trials by zanu to destroy it .Other political parties were easily over run by zanu but yours is still going strong big up Morgan . We will stand with until zanu bite the dust .
Spoiling will not stop ZANU PF, even if people boycot the elections. Good decision made so far is just to pull off from the elections, withdraw the MDC T MPs from parliament and never partcipate in the elections until reforms. By continued stay in Parliament witout meaningfull contribution that results in action or the voice of the opposition, ZANU PF still remains legitimate. But if all opposition MPs pull out and l;et ZANU PF eat their rot, that will send a clear message, off course MDC T MPS who are in parliament for a pay check will make a lot of noise towards such a decision.
It's really proving that some people are politically myopic. They are calling for Tsvangirai's resignation leaving Mugabe who has been there even before some of them were born. Could I be wrong? maybe the wish is father to the thought. They are imagining Tsvangirai as the president who should take the humble step to step down. Anywhere, be man enough and call for Mugabe's resignation. If Tsvangirai proves to be a despot like mugabe, then simply don't vote for him when the election time comes. If at all you believe elections are a means to achieve anything in Zim. Mugabe should step down. I suppose that's the fearsome call. Wise up!!!!!!
one day the baboon shall find all branches slippery and it shall fall. Age is against it, this time around it wont survive nomatter how likened to God by the likes of kasukuweres and the Hungwes it is.
@big meech Larry Hoover.....yes ndizvo. @ Philip kucherera....wabaya dede mwana wamai. MT has never never led this country despite having won the last 2 elections so it's surprising that someone can suggest that he needs to step down, obviously the person who needs to step down is mugabe because he is illegitimate.
you don't understand guys that we are the ones who make these dictators. once you make someone believe that there is no one like him you would have set a wrong precedent. by now morgan should have already groomed someone if he was sincere that he meant to serve only his initial three terms. the fact that he didn't implies a dictator in the making. as a people we should say no to unlimited terms whether in opposition or government especially where people would have promised like in the case of save in 1999. we revere these guys beyond humans that's why they treat us this way. no one is indispensable no not even one. we can all be replaced sometimes by someone much better than us.
Well we all know that some confused elements from the failed renewal idiots always think Morgan is a dictator to justify their failed coup which was sponsored by zanu . Sure if one can fail to see inkalakatha ye dictator uMugabe and say Morgan is a dictactor then that person has a very poor skop or his or skop is full of daka kupela . World over it is known that in zim we have a dictator and that dictator is Mugabe finish and klaa
@dii, we made Mugabe a dictator ourselves. we sang songs of praise and told him that there was no one like him. examples are of those people like tony gara and many others. now you guys are doing the same with morgan. it shouldn't be like that. look at Zambia for instance. what gives them an edge over us is that they didn't tolerate Kaunda overstaying. they told him enough was enough and the man had to pack. going forward we may need to ensure those who come into politics know that terms have to be respected. that applies to the opposition too. if the opposition is not exemplary, we will have this problem with us for long. that is the reason I feel morgan equally let us down. he promised he was going to be different but now that he tasted power he isn't different in any way. dissent he purges, constitution he changes and power he abuses. surely he could have groomed someone already if he was a genuine democrat but alas, he isn't. so a dictator he is.
Tswangirai must give ZanuPF a taste of their medicine. They keep referring to him as a puppet of the west. That is like the pot calling the kettle black. But because of his ignorance of history he doesnt tell them that they were the first sell outs in 1963 when they were funded by the British MI6 through Roy Bennet's father to break away from Zapu to weaken it and form a splinter tribal grouping, and the part played by Nyerere if facilitating their formation. We are sick and tired of Zanu PF claiming to be the champions of liberation yet they were the first to sell out to the colonialists. And if anything, that trend still continues up to this day. TIBVIREI APA!!!!!!
@Zwirozviyedwa do not be a pretender it is people like you who had been voting for Mugabe in the early 80s our radio station used to sing jongwe rakakunda from morning to the other day . You shunned father zimbabwe bcoz you were so blind that you mistook him for a dictator and opted for your king Mugabe . Now you want to make the same mistake again trying to label Morgan a dictator the same way you did to our father zim . Open your eyes and see the only dictactor in this county which is Mugabe.
no @diibula I didn't mistake father Zimbabwe for a dictator. I am only warning the rest of my people that mt will in the end treat us the dictatorial way. he is exhibiting the characteristics of a typical despot. look how he treats those who question his authority. look how he manipulates the constitution for his gain. he surrounds self with weak people so that whatever he wants to implement he will do. by now he would have been a statesman across the globe but like many other dictators, he spoiled it for himself. he sloganeers for change that he himself wont embrace. chinja maitiro maitiro chinja yet he wont pass the baton at the time for it. irrelevant sloganeering.
@zvirozviyedzwa. These MDC T faithfuls are not seeing that you have a very good point. if ever Tsvangirai manage to rule Zimbabwe (though not possible) he will never steps own. they are making him a dictator slowly. he have to leave the button with someone and continue the struggle
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is recognized by world leaders, diplomats and the local populace [with an IQ above 70] as being a total imbecile. He is so thi9ck skinned that he does not realize how stupid and unpopular he really is. He need to zip his mouth and his Fly – permanently. He also needs to have his Horn permanently amputated. This may transfer his focus, thinking and mentality to his bigger dormant brain.
whatever Morgan is more Zanu pf minds wand Morgan out. they don't see hw Mugabe has overstayed. Morgan is an MDC president not the president of this nation. if morgan had opted for a second term if he successfully lead this country then that way we will call him a dictator. at the meantime he is in the struggle not already win. give that man respect Zim opposition politics is not a smooth game its a tough one where is Edgar Tekere, Mag Dongo its a journey
At least we know he Morgan can make a woman a mother ,No one has so far has questioned him as being not the dad of his kids . Unlike those whose balls were roasted by clever Smith. and once any man 's balls are tempered with that man becomes barren NGOMWA . a ngomwa is normally very cruel and foul mouthed .
@ zviro I do think you really know what you are talking about . How does one a state man ? does an opposition leader become a states man ? That shows you are totally confused and making yourself a fool here together with those who think like you i think you are a Border Gezi graduate .
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