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Prosthetic Records to announce the signing of Louisville, KY duo, FOOL'S GHOST.
Published on Friday, 13 December, 2019 - 08:34
The label will release their debut album, titled Dark Woven Light, in early 2020
Prosthetic Records is proud to announce the signing of Louisville, KY duo, FOOL'S GHOST. The label will release their debut album, titled Dark Woven Light, in early 2020 - more details including tour plans are due imminently.
Comprising of Nick Thieneman (Young Widows, Breather Resist) and Amber Thieneman (Liberation Prophecy, Sandpaper Dolls), FOOL'S GHOST are a band small in number but vast in scope. Describing their music as exploring "the liminal state between hope and reality", FOOL'S GHOST challenge the notion of what heavy music can be. The band previously released two tracks via Bandcamp which give an indication of what to expect when the full length arrives.
Nick comments: "We are excited to join the Prosthetic family, and sonically expand what they are known for."
E.J. Johantgen of Prosthetic Records adds: "When we heard the early mixes of the album, we were instantly captivated. A world of possibilities are open for band as special and unique as Fool's Ghost. We're thrilled to give them a home here at Prosthetic and to work with Nick and Amber going forward."
Stay tuned for more news on FOOL'S GHOST - and until then check out the album trailer below.
Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzMbH0Kzdq8&feature=youtu.be
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Harry Ford shows growth offensively
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Harry Ford spent significant time between his high school baseball season and the summer showcase circuit in the weight room. He hoped the additional strength would allow him to show more consistent in-game power, especially during the summer against elite high school pitching.
Professional scouts have considered Ford as one of the best defensive catchers in the 2021 prep class for some time. But, Ford garnered headlines this summer for his ability at the plate. He showed notable growth offensively, especially with his power ability. After hitting just one home run in his first three years as a member of the North Cobb High School team in Georgia, Ford smacked 12 home runs this summer and fall, he said.
That success offensively has vaulted Ford up MLB draft boards. Pro scouts now project the prep backstop as a potential first-round pick in July's draft.
"It does not feel real," said Ford on the draft attention. "This is something we all dream of our whole lives, and it sort of just gets thrown at you all at once. There is not any easing into it. It's just one day you have a bunch of pro scouts calling you. It's just a crazy feeling because it makes you realize how close you are to getting to that point."
Ford has outstanding athleticism for a catcher. He has above-average arm strength and quick actions behind the plate. He also has the leadership traits teams seek in a catcher and has called his own games since freshman year.
Over the last year, Ford has dedicated time to learning proper sequencing and understanding how to call a game effectively. He prides himself on being a student of the game, as he consistently watches video of major league catchers, he said.
His arm strength and athleticism have caused scouts to also envision Ford as a center fielder. Although he wants to refine his outfield skills to have position versatility, Ford hopes to remain at catcher long-term.
"I think my biggest strength right now is my catching ability," Ford said. "I feel like my hitting I have really good power and all of that, but it doesn't always show every game. But I feel like every game I catch, I put out my best stuff."
Ford has made strides with his offensive skills over the last six months. The right-handed hitter has a narrow stance and keeps his hands low while using a leg kick as a timing mechanism. He consistently barrels up pitches and drives the ball.
In the offseason, Ford hopes to add additional strength to his 5-foot-10, 187-pound frame while also refining his offensive tools.
"I want to be more polished and more consistent with the stuff I do," Ford said. "I know I have all the skills and everything. But the difference between a pro player and a regular player is being able to show it every day. I want to come out like a physical beast. I want to come out even stronger."
Besides being a top draft prospect, Ford also is a Georgia Tech commit. Georgia Tech has consistently developed quality catchers for the pro ranks. World Series catchers Jason Varitek and Matt Wieters are the most notable catchers who played at Georgia Tech. Joey Bart, the second overall pick in the 2018 draft, also attended Georgia Tech.
Ford is eager for his baseball future, regardless of if he embarks on a pro career out of high school or attends Georgia Tech next fall. The prep catcher just hopes to show improvement throughout his senior season in preparation for the next step in his career.
"I just want to show that I can get the ball out there consistently, even if it's not a hit or anything," Ford said. "I just want to show that I can drive the ball when I need to or want to. I just want to have a really good defensive season, but I am not really worried about that part."
Read more in-depth stories on top 2021 MLB draft prospects here.
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Dan Zielinski III has covered the MLB draft for six years. He's interviewed 253 of the top draft prospects in that period, including three No. 1 overall picks. Multiple publications, including Baseball America, USA Today, MLB.com and The Arizona Republic, have quoted his work, while he's appeared on radio stations as a "MLB draft expert." Follow him on Twitter @DanZielinski3.
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Dividend options and futures
Marco Erling
Debate continues whether dividends can be interpreted as their own asset class, separate from stocks and other equity-related products. The discussion has achieved a new perspective recently thanks to the introduction of new instruments, such as dividend futures and options. These products have been introduced on many European-listed equities and are coming to the United States. Their function is simple; they enable investors to trade dividends independently of the underlying stock.
Dividend estimates are, therefore, not only of interest to equity investors who want to earn a steady income, but they also play a significant role in derivatives pricing for equity forwards, futures and options as well as dividend futures and options. As changes in the price of the underlying usually dominate the price of an equity option or futures contract, the effects of changes in implied dividends often are overshadowed or ignored.
If investors want to avoid equity risk and implement a strategy based on their view of future dividend payments, they can choose between different approaches:
Investing in a long spot (including financing) and short equity forward combination, which practically equates to a dividend swap.
Using long/short combinations of different equity forwards/futures, which would lead to dividend exposure between the two expirations.
Buying and selling equity options based on put/call parity (see "Between puts and calls," ).
Using new instruments such as dividend options or futures.
Prices and dividends
Using different maturities for equity forwards/futures (or, equivalently, equity option pairs) on an index leads to a term structure for implied dividends. The graph "Implied value" (below) illustrates the present value of dividends that are implied by prices of listed equity options on the S&P 500 using put-call parity.
Marco Erling works as portfolio manager and quantitative analyst for structured products with HSBC Global Asset Management. He studied mathematics at the University of Dortmund in Germany and earned an MBA from ESADE Business School in Barcelona. He is a CFA Charter holder and a Certified FRM holder. Email him at marco.erling@hsbc.de.
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Giuseppe Mazzini (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe matˈtsiːni]; 22 June 1805 – 10 March 1872), was an Italian politician, journalist and activist for theunification of Italy. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century.


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A collection of my photos on Flickr - to which I've uploaded far too many pictures. Enjoy!
Last updated: Tuesday May 7 2013
A cheeky mash-up of photos of the utterly real Discovery Space Shuttle at the National Air and Space Museum and the Space Shuttle Trainer at the Museum of Flight in Seattle - the latter used by real astronauts for training, and now the closest a random member of the public will get to going inside a Shuttle.
(The particular tour group I was on consisted of me and the two guides. Hence the almost completely person-free shots. Pure luck - the group beforehand was at maximum capacity...)
Washington DC - National Air and Space Museum
Last updated: Sunday March 31 2013
The National Air and Space Museum - a museum so large, it spans two (public) locations. (One of which isn't actually in DC.) Where other museums might hope for a few grains of moon dust, this one has multiple Apollo space-suits still grubby from astronauts bounding around the lunar surface.
If it's a spacecraft, they'll either have a flight spare (the spaceborne versions being currently inaccessible) or the real thing should it have returned to Earth. Such as the Discovery Space Shuttle...
Washington DC - National Museum of Natural History
Fossils, crystals and pickled sea-things courtesy of the National Museum of Natural History.
(Coming next: aircraft, spacecraft and similar machinery!)
Washington DC - Explorations
Last updated: Saturday March 23 2013
It's a surprisingly long way from Washington State to Washington DC. I think they should have named the latter something else. And we mustn't forget Washington, Tyne and Wear...
Anyhow. Disappointingly few supermutants, ghouls and rad-roaches, lots of museums instead. Those are to be uploaded separately - meanwhile, here are some general-purpose explorations...
Radio-4-Matic, and other hacking
Last updated: Monday January 14 2013
Big archive of photos of recent experimentation. Wahey!
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Photos of 2012
Last updated: Thursday January 3 2013
The new batch!
(This series is getting increasingly obese...)
Last updated: Friday December 21 2012
Finally caught up with this series. Yay. But only a few days until 2012's photos get uploaded. Boo.
Seattle Construction and Demolition
Last updated: Thursday December 20 2012
In keeping with the apocalyptic theme for this glorious 21st of December, have some destructively apocalyptic photos from earlier this year!
Seattle seemed to be in a demolish-everything mood this year. Fortunately, I had a camera pointed at some of it. Unfortunately, I failed to capture the initial squashingment of the Undre Arms apartments. History lost!
Last updated: Saturday December 8 2012
Slowly completing the back-catalogue for this series before 2012 is done...
British Columbian Explorations
Last updated: Sunday December 2 2012
Catching up with uploading stuff from earlier this year!
Arbitrary dereliction, rust, mountains, landscapes, fruit, suburbia, industry and things. Canada is big. It felt like we'd explored most of British Columbia (oddly, it kept getting warmer as we went further north) - but looking at a map afterwards? Oh dear.
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Last night I attended the Cabinet Resources Committee, a meeting with a packed agenda and a very packed room. A large number of people were there to hear about the sale of the Hendon FC ground, something which has been causing controversy for several years. London Jewish Girls High School (LJGHS) had apparently put in a higher offer for the site but this was not considered by the council. Cllr Dan Thomas reassured the committee that he had taken legal advice and that he was sure Barnet Council were in the right. However if you pop over to the Barnet Eye's website you will see a letter from LJGHS legal advisors, Flagates, threatening the potential of a judicial review if their bid is ignored. Looks like the council lawyers will be clocking up some fees then.
I had submitted some questions regarding the £750 million outsourcing. As ever, I ask questions and the council do their best to avoid answering them.
• Any procurement savings have to come back to Barnet Council – Note to Barnet Council you may need to put some serious resources into checking to make sure it happens.
• Cheap and cheerful won't cut the mustard. Barnet want good quality and cheap – Note to Barnet Council this may be very difficult to achieve so don't be surprised if one or both are not achieved.
• Savings have to be generated from day one. Interestingly Cllr Thomas illustrated how Barnet Council made £29 million of savings last year alone without the help of BT or Capita, so why we are outsourcing to save another £39 million over the next ten years seems puzzling.
• Check to make sure some of the contracts you are hoping to re-tender haven't been extended by Barnet.
• Any savings you show in your bid are guaranteed according to Mr Cooper – BT and Capita please note you are on the hook so no whinging when it goes wrong.
• If you are planning to put your call centre in Bangalore you will probably get away with it so long as it is cheap enough, even though other Councillors may disagree. Some of the councillors undertook a study and recommended that you should assist the council in creating local job opportunities, graduate trainee opportunities, apprenticeship opportunities and sub-contract parts of the supply chain (where possible) to local companies within the borough.
• I hope Liverpool and Sefton have nice things to say about you if Barnet take up references with them, although do they really want to hear bad news, maybe not.
• If you plan to "channel shift" - getting everyone to deal with you via the internet - you'll probably get away with it, so long as it saves money. However, lots of people in the community prefer to deal with the council face to face or on the telephone.
Sadly the rest of the meeting went through at a fast pace with Cllr Coleman shouting agreed to every item – he was obviously in a hurry to get off somewhere. Item 15, the building cleaning contract was withdrawn, I wonder why?
So yet again the rubber stamping experts at Barnet showed their prowess at minimising debate. How very efficient – how very undemocratic.
Barnet Council published their supplier payments for January yesterday. Sadly the Council's love affair with their One Barnet implementation partner shows no sign of waning. In January Agilisys were paid £270,719.50 or just under £13,000 every working day of the month.
In the year to date Agilisys have been paid £1.3 million and when coupled with the £642,050.64 they received last financial year they have now billed a shade under £2 million. That is £2 million to just one firm of consultants. There are many other consultants plying their trade at Barnet.
Trowers & Hamlins have also done well out of One Barnet billing the Council £152,641.57 in January.
Simply Performance Management Limited billed another £9,200 in January bringing their total fees for the year to date to £44,775. Now what is interesting about this company is that they specialise in Executive Coaching and have billed the Deputy Chief Executive's office. I wonder who needs that much coaching!
In the week when Councillors confirmed the closure of Friern Barnet library it sticks in the gullet of many decent people in Barnet that the council should be squandering so much money on consultants for a strategy which still seems both unproven and high risk.
News reaches the Bloggers of Barnet that poor old FM Conway have dropped out of the bidding process for Development and Regulatory Services contract.
"The council has received confirmation that EC Harris is now the sole partner in the EC Harris and FM Conway consortium, as FM Conway has decided to withdraw from the process. EC Harris is one of the short listed bidders for the Development and Regulatory Services (DRS) project, the other being Capita Symonds".
I wonder how many other One Barnet watchers are speculating long it will be before EC Harris read the writing on the wall and see that Capita are now a shoo in for the contract.
Last night's cabinet meeting was a tragedy. All the local residents who have been working hard on alternative options to the closure of Friern Barnet Library were dismissed out of hand. Cllr Rams had tweeted earlier in the day that the decision to close Friern Barnet Library was made last year. Why then, asked one of the residents, had they encouraged them to come up with alternative plans. Good question no real response. Why is Friern Barnet Libraray being treated differently from Hampstead Garden Suburb Library. Hmm. Doesn't need a genius to guess the answer to that one.
Residents opposed to private events in public parks, dismissed. Budget cuts nodded through.
Sadly for East Barnet is was confirmed last night, in the response to a question put forward by Barnet Bugle proprietor Dan Hope, that parking charges will be introduced in Church Hill Road car park. The income generated from introducing charges in 6 currently free car parks is only £6,000 a year, an average of just £1,000 a year from each car park. So do you think that this will help the traders in East Barnet village at a time when so many shops are struggling. I don't think so! Two East Barnet Councillors sit on the cabinet and have agreed the introduction of these charges. Cllr's Joanna Tambourides and Robert Rams should hang their heads in shame, oh no sorry they don't do shame. That was quite apparent last night.
Set out below is an open letter to The Chief Executive and Leader of Barnet Council. This matter has been brought to the attention of the Barnet Bloggers but such is the concern that issues like this may get 'buried' because of the current outsourcing process, that we have taken the step of publishing this letter on our blogs.
If not then the rest of our questions are not applicable.
- Are these individuals currently employed by the authority?
- If one or more of these Directors are Council employees, can you confirm that it is not a breach of any regulations for employees to set up a private company whilst still being paid by the Council that will deal directly with services directly associated with their current employment?
- Furthermore please confirm that they may continue to have access to confidential data, and that this would not secure unfair advantage over any other possible bidders for these services?
- Do you know how many Barnet schools have given notice that they are terminating their contracts with Barnet Council Financial Services?
- When did they give notice of termination?
- What reason did they give for termination?
- How many schools have signed contracts with FINANCE MATTERS FOR SCHOOLS LIMITED?
- Have there been public and private discussions amongst senior managers on the creation of this new company within the Council?
Southwest One, a joint venture between Somerset County Council, Taunton Deane Borough Council, Avon and Somerset Police and IBM appears to be in yet more trouble.
"As an administration we inherited a partnership that promised a huge amount, but it was not delivering. Southwest One's accounts year on year show losses, staggering losses just published of £31million, and failures to hit modest savings targets. We have bent over backwards to try to make this partnership work, but we have to state clearly that our primary duty in looking after the public's hard earned money is to make sure we get the best possible deals, that we get the best possible value for the public's money. I have to say that Southwest One is failing this test.
We are currently looking at all our services and all our contracts to see whether we are doing the best we can for our customers, whether we are providing the best possible services for our customers and at the best possible prices for our customers. I have to say that Southwest One is failing this test.
We need a council that can cope with future government cuts and rising demand. We will need to be efficient and flexible. I have to say that Southwest One is failing this test.
Sadly, Southwest One is failing. It is failing to deliver promised savings; failing to cope with a changing financial landscape; failing to be flexible enough to adapt in challenging times and provide the best possible value for money. To make up for this failure, we will now accelerate our extensive review of everything that the council does.
Almost half our most vital services are carried out by private sector or not for profit organisations – we will look to increase this where appropriate. We will encourage social enterprises, partnerships, communities and voluntary groups to get more involved in what we do and what we run. We will look to put the customer at the heart of what we do. And we will do this whilst we continue to do all we can to make Southwest One work. But I have to be clear; it is failing; it is inflexible; and it is intransigent. We are therefore looking at all the options available to us.
I do have one final message for Southwest One – and that is to the staff and our Somerset County Council colleagues and secondees working there. The message is this - this continuing failure is not about you; it is about the contract, the complications, the failed technology, the missed opportunities, the lack of promised savings. It is about Southwest One itself, not about the people working for it."
Now this is coming from the CONSERVATIVE Leader of the Council.
Most sensible people would check to see is mass outsourcing is a good idea by talking to other people before signing up for a £1 billion contract. If I were Cllr Richard Cornelius I would be on the phone to Ken Maddock on Monday morning to double check if all the advice being fed by the numerous consultants advisors and senior officers is realistic or just plain b***s***. Experience at Somerset would suggest the latter is the case.
The big concern about full time staff being paid as consultants continues to rumble on. This morning the Daily Telegraph reports on consultants being paid £350 and £375 a day for their services. Sounds cheap to me compared to the rates that are being paid to the numerous consultants in Barnet.
Barnet's own annual accounts for 2010/11 identifies 9 senior officers who are paid as consultants, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. I have seen the invoices to some of these consultants and the fees are quite shocking. A consultant who comes in, does a discrete piece of work and leaves moving on to the next project is one thing. But what we have in Barnet are people who have been working full time for over a year in a designated council post.
Since it was discovered that the head of the Student Loans Company was a self employed consultant, this issue has gained some publicity but the Bloggers of Barnet have been going on about this issue for a very long time and have been completely ignored. Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs have a very useful tool on their website - Employment Status Indicator - which helps to establish whether someone is an employee or a self employed in the eyes of the tax authorities and it is obvious to me that many of these consultants are technically employees. As well as avoiding tax this situation creates liabilities for Barnet Council which, according to the HMRC website includes the ability of these consultants to claim redundancy and claim for unfair dismissal.
The time has come for Barnet to put its house in order and regularise the employment stays of its many 'consultants' and if councillors or the chief executive won't initiate this process then it is about time that Eric Pickle did.
Buried away at page 304 of the business planning document being discussed at next week's cabinet meeting is a very interesting set of charts. They represent the corporate risk register and make pretty scary reading.
"Street Lighting PFI Contract. Contractor has struggled to deliver the required standards and as a consequence has suffered large financial adjustments. Contractor has indicated this is not sustainable and has threatened to withdraw from contract. The financial implications could be up to 50% increase annually potentially equating to £2.25m annually".
The impact is rated as catastrophic and the likelihood as high giving an overall risk score of 20. The council are taking actions to reduce the risk including "proposed amendments to contract to improve sustainability" but the target risk is still a high 15.
Now just imagine if the same thing happens when the two mega outsourcing contracts that are currently being tendered start going wrong. We will all be in the proverbial dog doo because they will be too big to fail. Now where have we heard that phrase before?
"Development and infrastructure – Development within the Borough through the medium-term is planned to deliver 8,800 new homes and an increase in population of 20,000 by 2015. There is a risk that funding and delivery mechanisms will not be in place to deliver the necessary physical, green and social infrastructure to accommodate the requirements of an increased population". This is something I and many other people have been banging on about for years. It is all very well planning all this expansion in Barnet but forever playing catch up with all the essential infrastructure that makes life bearable. They are planning remedial actions but the target outcome is still medium high meaning that there is still a good chance that this essential infrastructure will not be in place.
There also remain very significant risks on waste management, something which has been identified in the past and for which the target risks remain high.
I was considering asking questions about this at the Cabinet meeting but given the derisory way my questions have been treated in the past there doesn't seem much point in asking.
Three weeks ago the Barnet Eye published a leaked document summarising the shortlisting evaluation of bidders for the Development and Regulatory Outsourcing project. It wasn't up for long before Rog T received a legal letter asking him to remove the leaked document from his website. Subsequently I noticed that there was a link to this document on Kate Belgrave's site and put a link on my website. In error, I said that this leaked document was posted on Kate's site which was incorrect. All Kate had done was include a link to a download site. I do not know who posted the document on this download site but I am assured it is absolutely nothing to do with Kate Belgrave nor is it anything to do with me. To Barnet Council readers, please note this correction and back off Kate.
1. How many questions were submitted by the public?
2. Of the questions submitted, how many were ruled invalid for failing to meet the new criteria for question submission.
As so often happens to Barnet bloggers, the council failed to answer my question within the required 20 days so I sent a reminder. Six days after my reminder I did receive a reply which set out the how many questions were asked at the residents forum (not as I had requested the number of questions submitted) but declined to supply the information for question 2 on the basis that the council does not hold this information. That came as somewhat of a surprise to me given that a Council Governance officer had emailed me to tell me that one specific question I had asked did not cover "the type of issues to be discussed at Residents Forum meetings" and therefore would not be included on the issues list.
I know that other residents also had questions rejected so I immediately submitted a request for an internal review on 25th October. This should also be completed within 20 days – Not in Barnet. Following several follow up reminders I eventually received a response on 10 February, more than 2 months late.
Surprise, surprise the reply had a distinct whiff of the Kafkaesque about it.
The number of questions submitted by the public which were refused is not recorded. By way of further explanation, I would like to clarify our initial response to your first question. The figures which were provided to you were the number of questions and petitions submitted and considered by the Residents Forums. These statistics came from the published minutes of each of the Forums concerned. The purpose of these minutes is to record the matters dealt with at each of the respective meetings. As the minutes only cover the Forum Meeting's actual proceedings, neither the number nor nature of questions which were not considered at the meetings, are not recorded in the meeting minutes.
So there you have it. Because something is not in the official minutes of a meeting it doesn't exist. I have been offered the opportunity to ask about a specific question I submitted and why it was rejected but this does not tell me how many other residents had their questions rejected. What is really sad about this situation is that a 2 minute telephone conversation to the Council's governance officers who deal with residents forums would have elicited this answer as recorded in the relevant emails. But not in Barnet. There is something increasingly sinister about the way Barnet Council deals with any resident who seeks to in any way challenge the authority of the Council.
I want to add at this stage that I do not think all of Barnet Council is bad. Indeed, my direct experience is that many of the front line staff are exceptionally helpful, constructive and polite, something which I feel will be difficult to maintain once many of council's services are outourced later this year.
Today I shall be making a formal complaint to the Information Commissioner, my first, but definitely not the first concerning Barnet.
The results of the frankly bizarre and utterly meaningless Barnet Council business plan, budget and corporate plan consultations have been published in the cabinet papers for 20 February. The on line budget consultation attracted only 25 responses. It does say that "Due to the small sample size the overall findings should be treated with caution". Perhaps "chuck it in the bin" might be a more suitable response.
Then we come on to the corporate plan consultation. This consultation asked people to prioritise what services were important to the community and to themselves. At least this consultation attracted more response - 109 people. Yes out of the 350,000 residents of Barnet, the council managed to 'engage with' 109 people to fill in the consultation. To bolster the results they sent the consultation to the 1,000 members of the Citizen Panel of which 491 responded. So in total we have a total of 599 results, hardly confidence inspiring.
I criticised the survey when it was first published as being meaningless and I would suggest my forecasts were quite accurate. People were asked to pick the eight most important services provided by the council to them personally and to the community as a whole out of a list of 28 services. Not surprisingly people rated services that are important to the community very similar to the services that important to them personally.
Refuse collection was significantly the most frequently mentioned service as being important to the borough as a whole (54%), followed by community safety services (49%), repairs of roads and pavements (48%) and street cleaning services (41%). However, around half of respondents did not indicate that these services were one of the most eight important services for the Council to focus on for Barnet as a whole, indicating opinion was divided. So what on earth does that tell you. Absolutely nothing!
So what conclusion can they draw from that. Are these essential services for the most vulnerable to be dropped because 599 people didn't rank them highly enough. I have an acronim for this type of meaningless question. SFW (So F****ng What).
Interestingly, when they asked people about areas where the council could save money the top answer was Review salary and expenses packages for 'top' and senior council Employees closely followed at joint third place by Review remuneration and expenses of councillors.
They also held what they call a deliberative event where 74 people from the Citizens Panel were invited to 'deliberate'.
And at the end of it all, what conclusions did this extensive and probably very expensive consultation exercise. Ain't got a clue and how on earth this can inform the decision making process I simply do not know.
Perhaps the council should stop messing about with these pointless, crass and utterly inconclusive consultations and just start engaging with the community. Try listening to people at residents forums – where we were forbidden from discussing the budget consultation and stop wasting our money.
Oakhill Park Bin Lorry Depot - What is the truth?
Thanks yet again must go to Mr Mustard who passed on the response to a Freedom of Information Request he received this morning. Knowing that I had blogged previously about the Council considering using Oakhill Park for a bin lorry depot when the main Mill Hill depot is sold off he thought I should see the response.
Frankly I am utterly shocked and no longer know who to believe. Cllr Evangeli reassured me that the bin lorry depot in Oakhill Park will not go ahead. Cllr Rams tweated that it would not be going ahead because he had stopped it. So what was the response from the Council this morning.
As per the published Council budget, a total of £12.1m is currently allocated for the re-provision of depot services. From this £12.1m a maximum of £2.4m has been earmarked for the redevelopment of the Copthall & Oakhill Parks & Cleansing Area Operations sites.
So the question is who is telling the truth, a council officer in a Freedom of Information Request response sent today or the assurances of two local councillors back in December.
Every single resident in New Barnet, East Barnet and Brunswick Park should be concerned about this. It's all very well getting a verbal denial that something is happening but when you see that millions in cash have been allocated for the redevelopment of our local park as a 'Cleansing Area Operations Site' you should start to get very worried.
Who's Got A Nice Big Pension Pot?
First of all massive thanks to the eagle eyed Mr Mustard who tipped me off to this story.
Last year, having reviewed Barnet Council's annual audit, I noticed that a few members of staff had been paid, in total, over £1 million in compensation for loss of office (when staff leave their job). At the time I remarked about the very significant sum paid to the former Executive Director for Environment and Development who received £280,485 upon leaving the Council.
So it was with interest that I reviewed the London Development Agency Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31 March 2010 to see that a certain Mr A Travers had received just £8,575 compensation for loss of office when he departed from the LDA. A modest sum by all accounts but then again he did receive £162,595 in salary. However, when you scan across the line a rather large figure jumps out. Pension contributions £437,797 of which, £417,473 was paid as early retirement costs.
It also notes that Mr Travers was seconded to London Borough of Barnet from January to March 2010 at a cost to the Borough of £44,957 including salary and on costs. So Mr Travers was employed by the LDA; he was then seconded to Barnet Council for three months from January to March 2010 and then very neatly he started his consultancy contract through Halliford Associates at £1,000 a day with Barnet Council on 12 April 2010. Very convenient timing for someone who had just received such a large pension fund top up for "early retirement costs".
At a time when everyone is suffering hardship it seems that some are suffering less than others.
Oh and by the way, I thought I would have a look at the Board of the LDA at the time to see who was a member these events took place. What a surprise when I saw that a certain Cllr Michael Freer from London Borough of Barnet was one of the board of the LDA at the time.
Perhaps I should leave it there and let people form their own views.
Mr Reasonable has shown a great interest in the leisure facilities in Barnet for several years, largely because of Barnet's determined approach to run the leisure facilities into the ground. At Residents Forums over the last three and a half years I have been asking questions as to when the Council are going to start taking leisure seriously. One thing I have repeatedly asked for is a leisure strategy starting with a sports facilities audit. Until you know the condition of your current facilities and how much life they have remaining, how can you plan what you need over the next 20 years?
The response from Barnet was: "The Council will produce a leisure facilities strategy in 2009/10. Discussion of the scope and timescale will begin soon but accordingly no public consultation or any other part of the work has yet been scheduled".
Now move on 18 months to July 2010 and I was still chasing for the Leisure Strategy. Unfortunately Barnet Council told me that: "We are in the process of starting a piece of work around forming a Leisure Facilities Strategy this strategy will show the facilities we have their age, location and what activities are offered. The strategy will also look at the growth in population the councils expects in the coming years. From this we will look to bring in funding and investment where possible but at this time there is no long term plan for the leisure facilities in Barnet".
Barnet pulled out some figures about the provision of swimming pools that were completely and utterly wrong. When I asked for the evidence they provided a long list of leisure clubs in Barnet including LA Fitness and David Lloyd. I was told that they counted towards the provision of swimming pools in Barnet because they offer "community usage" i.e. you can buy a day pass. A friend of mine who was also concerned about this problem (and a true community champion) rang around the various clubs and found that the cheapest day pass was £15/person with several operators not allowing day visitors. So yes we have lots of leisure facilities in Barnet but at £60 for a family of four for a single day pass or a family annual membership of over £1,000 a year it is definitely beyond the reach of many.
Nevertheless the chap from Barnet Council agreed that we could have a meeting to talk about the forthcoming strategy and an appointment at NLBP in August 2010 was confirmed. Sadly just a week later the meeting was postponed indefinitely.
Jump forward a year and in September 2011 the Cabinet consider a report on the "Strategic Leisure Review" where the main thrust of the report was how to cut £1.2 million out of the Leisure Budget in the next two years. Given that the current spend is only £1.7 million per annum that represents a cut of 35%. In the report it talks about "detailed consultation, which will be carried out with users and non-users of the leisure facilities, will support this objective and will enable an understanding of the changing user and resident needs in all sections of the community, including those members of the community who are protected under equalities legislation".
As a follow up to the cabinet meeting, a public consultation was listed on the wonderfully difficult to find and expensive consultation hub website http://engage.barnet.gov.uk/. However since that time the consultation has been postponed twice. The last time it was postponed, in December, the public consultation was rescheduled to commence on 1 February. I duly logged on at 9.00 am all ready to give my views but no it was still showing as about to commence. I tried to email on the link given on the website but that didn't work – what a surprise.
In the afternoon I was told that this consultation has been handed over to the Council's One Barnet Implementation Partner, Agilisys/iMPOWER because the Leisure Strategy is now a "One Barnet project". But do they have the requisite skills I wondered. No, so Agilisys/iMPOWER have drafted in a leisure expert, Duncan Wood-Allum from a specialist consultancy Sport, Leisure, Culture Consultancy . Apparently he will be preparing the strategic overview case which will then go to Cabinet and if approved will move forward to the business case. The problem is that once again the agenda will be set by a consultant and residents will only get consulted on the options the consultant determines are best for us. Residents will once again get left out of the policy development stage - it seems to be the One Barnet way.
What I want to know is how the council gets away with it - public consultation cancelled, no facilities audit and why the hell have the council designated this a One Barnet project and employed yet another expensive consultant.
The Council have p****d about for almost four years on this review, they have failed to engage with the public and now they want to spend a fortune on yet another consultant. In the last 18 months Barnet have paid Agilisys/iMPOWER £1.6 million on One Barnet, money that could have gone into delivering services and they now want to spend even more. Sadly I won't be able to ask any more questions about the leisure review at Residents Forum because that is policy and One Barnet and therefore banned under the current repressive regime. Barnet Council is yet again demonstrating its utter contempt for the public.


Everybody loves to laugh, Yet those laugh lines give us the Blues.
We CAN delay the hands of time and her unwanted wrinkles with the Blues of Nature.
Blueberries are an Excellent, Natural line of defense both on the skins surface, and on the cellular, Internal front.
Like most great natural remedies, BLUEBERRIES are packed with powerful antioxidants called polyphenols, which neutralize the effects of free radicals that attack your skin's collagen and elastic tissue, forcing them to lose their firmness.
To reduce wrinkles naturally I highly recommend Berries of most Varieties, Strawberries, Cranberries, Blackberries and even Grapes are all terrific natural selections.
Eat one or more 1/2-cup servings daily; because berries are typically treated with a lot of pesticides, choose organic if possible.
For an effective, natural and low cost facial treatment, grab a handful of blueberries and use the blender to make a paste. Add a teaspoon of lemon juice and apply to those pesky wrinkles for fifteen minutes. rinse with warm water and pat dry. You will be amazed as those lines disappear, Naturally.
The high concentration of collagen and hyaluronic acid gives the ability to fight against the appearance of wrinkles. It brings the epidermis the nourishing elements necessary to help slow down the aging process, softens fine lines, and delivers a youthful look.
This treatment combines a high potency concentration of vitamin "C" with freeze dried seaweed. It reduces fine lines, strengthens skin's elasticity, counteracts photo-aging, and restores a youthful appearance.
Leave on for 50 Minutes.
skin types, especially sensitive skin with blood circulation concerns.
types with a dry tendency. Leave on for 50 Minutes.
This vital eye treatment is perfect for wrinkles and fine lines. It is great for anyone with tired eyes or puffiness around the eyes. Recommended for all skin types.
A Facial for your hands. Includes cleansing, exfoliation, hand mask, massaging and moisturizing. Absolutely Wonderful.


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Using Hypertext in Non-Networked Environments that have Internet Access
Classrooms which have computers and access to the internet, but which are not networked can benefit from the incorporation of hypertext in the same ways that non-networked/no internet access environments can; however, internet access adds another layer of complexity (and another level of opportunity) to the use of hypertext in the writing class. Access to the Internet (in this context I am referring to access to the World Wide Web--not just email, for instance) can provide both positive and negative models for hypertextual writing, and it can offer a rich source of material--material which can be appropriated, manipulated, and incorporated into the students' texts.
One of the possible disadvantages of WWW access is that students may be tempted to model their forays into hypertext after what they see and experience on the Web. I would argue that if we hope to see digital media become the main form of cultural discourse (displacing the printed text), then we must also provide information resources that have the depth and sustained focus that printed texts are known for, while also radically changing the structure of the text and the function of the author. Kairos and other web journals are beginning to do just that, and I encourage composition instructors who incorporate hypertext into their classes to guide their students away from the current web-rhetoric of organizing and categorizing lists of links--a rhetoric which encourages writers only to make links rather than contributing original thought to the socially-constructed on-line culture. I recommend that instructors first encourage students to create their own hypertexts, and then allow them to see the good, the bad, and the ugly webpages currently proliferating on the web itself. Ideally, students will be asked to critique existing web-page genres, after first identifying those genres and the criteria by which they should be judged (see, for instance, the web analysis assignment at the end of this lexia). Thus, hypertext (and more specifcally the World Wide Web) becomes not only a text to be written, but also a text to be read.
Aside from providing a truly multivocal text for students to analyze and critique, the WWW also offers a wealth of texts for appropriation. By appropriation, I mean the taking of an external text and internalizing it, changing it by virtue of placing it in a new context and making it one's own, in the best Bakhtinian tradition. The idea of appropriating and manipulating the texts of others can help to reinforce the notion of a socially-constructed dialogue, but it is also a useful tool for learning to write hypertext. Examining and appropriating (consuming) the works of others can itself be a useful learning tool--for how do we ourselves become better writers if not by reading and to some extent imitating that which we have read and deemed to be of high quality? The appropriation of WWW materials can also be used to support research and argumentative assignments--part of the act of appropriation is the synthesis of the supportive materials (which is really no different from the cognitive process that we as writers use even without computers).
Putting theory into practice: The WWW Page Critique Assignment.
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After much preparation and dedication, Copart Germany has proved that our integrated environmental and quality management systems conform to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 guidelines.
Guinness World Record Day is dedicated to breaking new and celebrating old records from the amazing to the bizarre. These are some of the best automotive records ever set.
El Lamborghini Aventador SV es uno de los autos deportivos más extraordinarios hay, ¡lo mejor de todo es que estará en la subasta de Copart en línea muy pronto!
Copart UK has expanded their fleet with an investment in 30 new DAF based specialist salvage transporters. Read here to learn what that means for Copart UK.


So, What is Digital Vision?
The principal aim of Digital Uganda Vision is to align ICT investments in the various sectors in a manner that will improve the country's Global ICT indices for purposes of attracting investors. The ministry will define digital milestones in order to avert duplication and ensure agglomeration benefits from the investments in ICT's.
To effectively use and encourage adoption of mature and emerging technologies.
This vision – the 'Digital Uganda Vision' will empower its citizens, striving to achieve the goals of universal inclusion, sustainable development, economic progress and poverty eradication through digital innovation combining initiatives across multiple sectors. It will also electronically deliver a variety of government and private services in various fields like education, health, agriculture, social security, banking, justice, communication etc.


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Industrial logos
Hamm Logo
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Hamm is the trademark of road rollers and asphalt compactors manufactured by Hamm AG. Initially, the company was established by brothers Hamm back in 1878 for production of agricultural equipment. Nevertheless, by 1928 the enterprise became specialized only in rollers. Eventually, the firm became the leading innovator in its sector and has introduced some unique technologies, like oscillating vibratory roller in 1989. In 2000, the company was acquired by Wirtgen Group Gmbh and since then operates as Wirtgen's subsidiary. Today the Hamm plant producing this machinery is situated near Munich, Germany and is considered the most modern European roller enterprise.
The logo and its meaning
The logo used for the Hamm products was a rectangle coloured in marmalade orange tone. In the centre of the emblem, there was the brand name "HAMM" written in block letters. The wordmark was made in a heavy thick font very close to the commercial Futura Pro Bold. The brand name had a saturated black colour and was placed in a black geometrical rectangle-type figure with the white background inside it. The figure resembled both a silhouette of a road roller and the castle on the coat of arms of the town on Tirschenreuth, the seat of Hamm AG.
After Hamm AG joined the Wirtgen Group, a new Wirtgen logotype was developed in April 2016 and since is used for Hamm products. In consists of a white square with a marmalade orange border and rounded corners. In the centre of the square, there is a capital letter "W" for "Wirtgen" split in the middle into two parts resembling two sharp corners. The colour of the letter is an anchor grey tone.
For the customers, the Hamm logo is associated with heavy-duty machinery of high quality and reliability. The company invests a lot into technological innovations, developing unique ground rolling equipment, such as the Hamm Compaction Meter that measures and reports ground stiffness during its operation.
Pfizer Logo
Shell Logo
3M Logo
Barbie Logo
Colgate Logo
IKEA Logo
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Thank you for joining me for my Halloween Blog Sale! I have limited quantities of each set, and some of the items are limited edition characters. All of my designs will arrive signed as well. If something interests you, please EMAIL ME and include the name of the set you are interested in along with your name and shipping address. Sets will be reserved in the order of email requests received. Once items are packaged and a shipping estimate is established, I will send you an e-invoice to finalize the sale. I will start packing boxes on Friday Oct. 23, and emailing your invoices over the weekend. Prompt payment will equal prompt shipping in hopes that you will receive your goodies by Halloween!
Stay Tuned here for a Halloween Collector Spotlight Feature early Next Week!


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Donor for Fancher memorial repairs wants it to be long-lasting tribute for 10 who died in World War II
By Tom Rivers, Editor Posted 31 March 2021 at 10:01 am
Photos by Tom Rivers: The four-sided clock at the Fancher Curve is a memorial to 10 young men from the community who died in World War II. The memorial was dedicated on Aug. 14, 1949. This photo is from November 2016.
FANCHER – Fred Fiorito remembers the big crowd of people when the Fancher Memorial was dedicated on Aug. 14, 1949.
He was only 10, and he has never forgotten seeing the Gold Star mothers in mourning. The memorial on the "Fancher Curve" on Route 31 is a four-faced clock in a stone monument made of local sandstone.
Fiorito moved away from Fancher when he was 20. He enjoyed a career as a chiropractor in New York City. He would come home a few times each year to see family, including his brother Ted Fiorito. Fred noticed the memorial gradually deteriorate.
Sometimes the clocks didn't work. The mortar was crumbling. The site wasn't a great showcase or memorial for the 10 who in World War II. Those 10 include John Christopher, Joseph Christopher, Cosmo Coccitti, John Kettle, Jr., Leonard Licursi, Martin Licursi, Richard Merritt, Camille Nenni, Floyd Valentine and Richard Vendetta.
"I knew some of those families," Fiorito said. "The monument's condition was distasteful."
Last May near Memorial Day, Fiorito was home recovering from an injury. He thought back to his childhood and the memorial.
"That memorial was built out of love for the guys in the area who left and didn't come back," Fiorito said by phone. "Those 10 guys who gave their lives gave them for you, me and everybody."
Fiorito decided to call the Murray Town Hall. He left a message on Town Supervisor Joe Sidonio's answering machine, offering to make a donation to get the memorial looking better.
This photo from the Holley Standard shows the memorial in August 1949.
"I just want to see it brought back to where it was many years ago when it was first done," Fiorito said. "I feel a connection to my home and it will always be my home, and that monument is very important to me."
Fiorito has offered $10,000 to upgrade the memorial. He is pleased Sidonio has "enthusiastically" embraced the project and wants to have the improvements in place by Aug. 14, which would be the 72nd anniversary of the memorial's dedication.
Dan Mawn, president of the Murray-Holley Historical Society, has been a key coordinator in the project. He connected with Neal Muscarella, an Albion mason, to replace the green mortar on the monument.
Mawn, who is retired from the Holley Electric and Water Department, will put in new movements for the clocks, and new electrical service.
"It is a project that is very worthwhile," Mawn said.
Sidonio and Mawn also want to upgrade the landscaping at the site, and make the flagpoles look better.
"We want to create a better sense of place for the monument," Sidonio said.
A photo from the memorial's dedication showed several rifles stacked on top of the monument. Sidonio and Mawn wondered if those rifles were part of an original display on the monument, and if the rifles had been removed or taken.
They looked at the top of the monument and there aren't any brackets or other evidence that the rifles were being held in place on the memorial. They must have been temporarily put there.
The former Holley Standard reported on the monument on Aug. 11, 1949, previewing the dedication ceremony three days later. The newspaper declared the project "an example of community enterprise and cooperation."
A bronze plaque lists the names of the local soldiers who perished in the war: John Christopher, Joseph Christopher, Cosmo Coccitti, John Kettle, Jr., Leonard Licursi, Martin Licursi, Richard Merritt, Camille Nenni, Floyd Valentine and Richard Vendetta.
The monument designed by local resident Pat DiLaura with stone donated from quarry owned by Art Nenni
Local quarrymen worked to get out the stone including Gene Nenni, Oresto Nenni, Americo Belli, Richard DePalma of Holley, and Richard Raneri, Tony Passarell and Angelo Manella of Albion. Gene DePalma graded the site of the monument
Lee Colavito and Dan Fiorita did the mason work, Thomas Friedo of Fancher did the electrical work, hooking up the four electric clocks and the lighting at the base of the monument.
Fred Fiorito said the monument is a one-of-kind memorial that was created by the local residents in honor of the 10 local soldiers. The project utilizes the talents and resources of the local community.
"Even though I moved 400 miles away and I've been away a long time, my heart is still there," Fred Fiorito said. "I just couldn't stand to see the monument left the way it is. It honors 10 boys who stood up and never came back."


Released by the Partnership for Water Sustainability in British Columbia in January 2019, the Primer on the Ecological Accounting Process (EAP) introduces a valuation methodology that uses readily available financial information from the BC Assessment database. The methodology yields an asset value for the stream corridor. This value can then be used for budget purposes related to asset management.
In contrast to an economic rationale, EAP is underpinned by a simple strategy: approach the problem from a social point of view. What does the community think its ecological assets and services are worth?
The EAP methodology was developed through two demonstration applications undertaken in collaboration with the Town of Comox and Cowichan Valley Regional District, respectively.
The Partnership for Water Sustainability gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the governments of Canada and British Columbia through the Clean Water & Wastewater Fund.


No matter your background we welcome everyone to Bethel Church and the many activities that we have running. These activities are more suitable to singles/couples who attend Bethel. You are more than welcome to be apart of all activities at Bethel and feel free to look through all the activities that we run at Bethel.


My name is Asgeir. I am 6 years old. I like to play on my scooter. When I grow up want to be a cowboy.I want people to be nicer to each other. I can start by being nice to teach other kids.
My name is Kya. I am 6 years old. When I grown up I want to be a doctor. I want the world to be drug free. We all have to pray that it will happen.
My name is Shelby. I am 6 years old. I like to play with dplls. When I grow up I want to be a teacher. I want everyone to not do crimes. I can help everyone to learn about Jehovah.
My name is Terontae. I am 5 years old. I like to play legos. When I grow up I want to be a motorcycle store owner. I will like for the world to be in peace. We can love one another.
My name is Jessica. I am six years old. I like to play, fish and watch tv. When I grow up I want to be a nurse. I want the world to have no trash on the ground, no stealing, and no fighting. I can tell the Presidents and get a group of people to do it.
My name is Danielle. I am 6 years old. I like to play hide and seek. When I grow up I want to be a ice cream seller. I want the world to be pretty. I can put trash in the trash can.
My name is Michelle. I am 5 years old. I like to play with dolls. When I grow up I want to be a Police Officer. I want more roses, nice roads, more sunshine. I can keep things clean.
My name is Tavon. I am 7 years old. I like to play ball. When I grow up I want to be a motorcycle store owner. I want to have no more hungry children. I can give good to them.
My name is David. I am 6 years old. I like to roller blade with Alexandra. When I grow up I want to be a salesman. I want the world to be at peace. I can stop fights and make the ones who are fighting be friends.
My name is Aaron. I am 6 years old. I like to play with my sister. When I grow up I want to be a police officer. I want people to not hurt people. I can tell them to stop.
My name is Justin. When I grow up I want to be a zoo keeper. I want the world to protect the environment by recycling trash.
My name is Robert. I am 6 years old. I like to play video games. When I grow up I want to be a veterinarian. I would like to see more nicer people to make the world better. I would treat people good the way I would want to be treated.
When I grow up I want to be wrestler.
My name is Jake. I am 6 years old. I like to ride my bike. When I grow up I want to be a veterinarian. I want the world to have nice people. I can teach people to be nice.
My name is David. I am 5 years old. I like to play Game Boy. I want to be a policeman when I grow up. I want everyone to stop fighting. I can call the police.
My name is Jamie. I am six years old. I like to watch digimon. When I grow up I want to be a fire fighter. I want people to be nice. I will be nice to everybody.
My name is Dakota. I am 7 years old. I like to play games. When I grow up I want to be a wrestler. I want people to stop fighting. I will ask them to stop fighting.
My name is Destinee. I am 5 years old I like to ride my bike. When I grow up I want to be a doctor. I would like the world to be clean. I would help the world to get clean by picking up trash.
My name is Danielle. I am six years old. I like to do bars in gymnastics. When I grow up I want to be a police officer. I want the world to be nice. I will be nice.
My name is Devin. I am 6 years old. I like to play with my Game Boy. When I grow up I want to be a animal trainer. I want the world to be quiet. I can stay in my house.
My name is Stephen. I am 6 years old. I like to play basketball. When I grow up I want to be a police officer. I want the world to be cleaner. My family can recycle.


I was more than excited the minute I came to know that my friend Swapna's recipe had been chosen as the month's recipe by the Sweet Punch team! I had wanted to try this when she posted the recipe but as always, never took the effort of making the same lazing out :).
When the recipe was announced, I planned to make the dessert during Christmas, so that children would be around, but then with the cakes and cookies all flowing in I wasn't quite motivated. Moreover I had by hands unbelievably full during the hoildays.
Finally I got ready with the ingredients and started whipping up the dessert 2 days back..
For the Dulce le Lechey, I adapted David Lebovitz's method as I felt to be more convenient and safe. Unfortunately my glass dish placed on the water bath on a pan didn't sit inside my small sized oven and I was forced to make it poured in individual ramekins made to sit in the glass dish made as the hot water bath, in turn.
The Dulce was a bit over done for me as I left it more than the time mentioned, my carelessness :), and I diluted with a table spoon of warm milk and condensed milk to bring it to the right consistency. I forgot to add the salt as suggested but again it was fine.
To make Dulce the Leche (pronounced dulchay the laychay), put the can of condensed milk, unopened, in a large pan, cover with water, bring to boiling point and boil for 3 hours, topping up with boiling water from a kettle as needed. Ensure that the can remains covered in water, as otherwise there is a risk of the can bursting open. Remove and leave to cool completely. You can make this ahead of time or even boil several tins at one go and store the unopened cans in the fridge for several months. This is the traditional way of making Dulce the Leche.
Mix melted butter and powdered biscuit. Line a pie dish with this mixture and keep it in the fridge for some time. (For a crunchy biscuit base you can bake this for 10 minutes at 160 deg C. ).
Chilling hardens the whipped cream. If you prefer such, have like wise!
Though Swapna had been assuring about the irresistible taste, being a weight watcher, at least for the time being, I was worried counting the high calories contained in the dessert!
Soon after the photography session I licked clean the spoon you see up in the first picture ;) and then was prompted to dig out more! two more..nah..three more and the bowl was packed off to the neighbourhood!
If you need more feedback I would rate this as a rich, creamy, melt in the mouth dessert!
The caramel is not supposed to ooze out from the dessert as you see. I diluted the dulce a bit too much... the whole thing should stay firm as layers when sliced.
For the full recipe, I prefer to use an increased amount; 600 gms of digestive biscuits for the base, but cut down butter to 75 gms :).
I haven't made it yet, but this picture definitely tempts me to try it as soon as possible.
One of my fav desserts , the bowl loos delectable.
Can I grab the whole bowl? You are killing me with these clicks.
Wow!!! Feel like having some banoffee pie now. Yum! I loved it!
The dessert looks simply yummy and mouthwatering.
Super irresistible banoffee pie..well done and beautifully presented.
So this is what is exactly a banoffee pie..Seems so indulgent yet irresistable..
Thank you for trying this recipe and for the kind mention and link back dear!
That has come out very very nicely. Even mine was little running and I couldn't get a perfect slice, but that was not because of dulce, but whipped cream. Love your topping.
could you pass me the bowl pl? yumoo!
beautifully made and very inviting!
I make this with an oreo base - a double dose of chocolate..! Pictures are delicious..! I am hosting my first blog event plus giveaway – Valentines Special. Do check it out and be a part of it. Would be great..!
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Looks so yummy...Thanks for sharing. Send yummy cakes to India online for Birthday, Anniversary, Fathers day, Mothers day and other occasions.


It just warmed my heart to be cruising around Wikipedia one day and discover a deity from Celtic mythology named Secellus, "god of agriculture, forests and alcoholic drinks." Such a God seemed like just what I needed out here so I created a series of works to honor the dude and bring renewed attention to his efforts. In addition, Secellus (sometimes spelled "Sucellus" or "Sucellos" — I think as long as you get the consonants right you can use any vowels you want) was apparently often depicted with a dog (or three-headed dog) and a giant hammer (and sometimes called "The Hammer God"). He used the hammer to make plants grow and to put the dying out of their misery. He often hung out with a girlfriend goddess named Nantosuelta who traveled around with something resembling a birdhouse on a stick.
This series represents some of the work that will be on display October 10-11 and 17-18 at Bourbon, Dogs and Art as part of the Alamance Studio Tour. Plus there's the Grand Opening of our Woodland Banners Poetry Walk!
On the left we see Secellus with his hammer in one hand and a drink in the other, accompanied by his one-headed dog. On the right we see him again, this time joined by Nantosuelta with her birdhouse on a stick.


Photographer Rachael Talibart was raised in western Essex, on England's southeast coastline and sometimes went sailing on her behalf daddy's sailboat into the summer. The woman fascination with the sea proceeded whenever she became a photographer and the woman new series Sirens reflects that. Each image is termed after having a mythological-esque figure. This one is known as Niobe.
As a youngster, Talibart spent weeks each summer on her father's sailboat, checking out the coastlines of France additionally the Netherlands. It taught her how exactly to realize the rhythms associated with the sea and also to capture images similar to this one, Poseidon Rising.
Because she ended up being always seasick, Talibart spent the majority of her sailing voyages being a youth in cockpit, staring out at the ocean, rather than within the watercraft. That translated into her work on images like Anapos.
Talibart received on her behalf understanding of the sea on her brand new photography show, Sirens. Images into the series receive mythological-esque names like, in this case, Kraken.
The images had been all shot at Newhaven Beach, in East Sussex, beginning in 2016. This image is named after Leviathan, the sea serpent of Jewish mythology.
Talibart started making weekly visits towards the beach, reaching dawn and spending hours on her back, taking photographs regarding the ocean, like this one, entitled Loki.
Talibart used telescopic lenses and an ultra-fast 1,000 frames/second shutter speed to fully capture these sculpture-like pictures. This is named Maelstrom.
Talibart shot all of the pictures in grayscale, but she switched to desaturated color whenever she noticed bursts of green during Storm Brian in 2017. This dramatic shot, Medusa, is certainly one of these photographs.
This dramatic image is called Nanook.
The show has been shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Award and can carry on event during the Sohn Fine Art Gallery in Lenox, Massachusetts in September. Talibart named this image Nyx after the personification of evening in Greek mythology.
Talibart admits to a love/hate relationship aided by the ocean admitting "part of me personally is still half-afraid regarding the ocean." She known as this picture Oceanus following the river in Greek mythology.
Talibart drew upon the woman youth seafaring experience to help framework and time her photography. This image of the giant revolution is named Echo after a nymph in Greek mythology.
As she did in childhood, Talibart can't assist but begin to see the shapes of ocean creatures in the waves. This is termed Sedna.
Only with a fast shutter rate can we come across waves in this manner, Talibart says. Typically they move too fast for people to understand their sculptural beauty. This 1 is termed Thetis following the character in Greek mythology.


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Brexit continues to leave investors everywhere nervous. If a withdrawal agreement can't be reached before Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29, then a "no deal" Brexit could spell tremendous chaos for not just the UK—but for the global economy at large. Learn more in today's edition of USMR Market Insights with Patrick Brunson.
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NEWARK, NJ — Responding to customer feedback from a recent community forum, NJ TRANSIT today announced new discount options for commuters at the Ramsey Route 17 parking deck. Customers now have the opportunity to purchase an annual pass for $550 — $170 less than the cost of buying 12 individual monthly passes and $490 less than paying the daily rate each business day. NJ TRANSIT also introduced a three-month pass for $165 and a six-month pass for $300.
"These discounts provide another incentive for customers to use the new station and its 1,200 parking spots," said NJ TRANSIT Executive Director George D. Warrington.
Customers must purchase their passes by April 1, 2005 to take advantage of this offer.
Conveniently located on one of Bergen County's busiest highways, the Ramsey Route 17 Station is easily accessible from most parts of Rockland, Orange and northern Bergen counties. Customers can travel to Hoboken Terminal or to Secaucus Junction where they have access to midtown Manhattan rail service.
Connecting to New York through Secaucus Junction saves commuters as much as 20 minutes in each direction.
Two inbound weekday express trains, en route to Secaucus Junction and Hoboken, depart the Ramsey Route 17 Station at 7:09 a.m. and 7:38 a.m. In the evening, two outbound express trains depart Hoboken at 5:42 and 6:27 p.m., stopping at Secaucus Junction and Ramsey Route 17. Customers should check their train schedules for additional service information.
Daily parking is $4 on weekdays before 10:00 a.m., and $2 after 10:00 a.m. and on weekends. Individual monthly passes are available for $60 per month. Also, NJ TRANSIT is offering a free "See More" stuffed Dalmatian to the first 200 customers who purchase a discounted monthly parking passes at the station.
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Welcome to the first Hungry Toddler Hop!
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday he is still in a state of shock at seeing the traumatised children who saw their parents shot before their eyes in what law enforces described as an encounter with terrorists.
"Still shocked at seeing the traumatized children who saw their parents shot before their eyes. Any parent would be shocked as they would think of their own children in such a traumatic situation. These children will now be fully looked after by the state as its responsibility," he tweeted a day after the incident.


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Margaret A (Mays) Phillips, 78, of Mooresville, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Wednesday, July 15th, 2020. She was born October 23rd, 1941 in Liberty, Kentucky to her parents, Clifton A. and Dovie B. (Lee) Mays. She married Curtis Dale Phillips on April 15th, 1960. She was a resident of Mooresville for most of her life.
Margaret is survived by her loving daughter, Melissa (Michael) Grace of Mooresville; three grandchildren: Melanie (Bradley) Wagner of Greenwood, Misty Vega of Camby and Matthew Grace of Mooresville; seven great grandchildren: Emma and Kara Wagner, Jasmine, Johanna and Jaxon Vega, Grant and Brantley Grace; niece, Belinda Peyton; and one sister, Ruby Hayes of Liberty, Kentucky. Margaret is preceded in death by both of her parents; her husband, Curtis Dale Phillips; and one sister, Ethel Whitehurst.
Margaret was a Head Teacher for LaPetite Academy Day Care for 20 years before retiring in 2001. She loved to read and enjoyed traveling. Margaret loved spending time with family.
Family and friends may show their love and support from 12 (noon) to 1 p.m on Saturday, July 18th at Jones Family Mortuary in Mooresville. Pastor Terry Crist will officiate a celebration of life service that will follow at 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 18th at the funeral home. Margaret will be laid to rest next to her husband at White Lick Cemetery in Mooresville.
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On Monday, February 17 – one day after the announcement that the state-owned Government Savings Bank (GSB) will assist the Thai government to pay rice farmers through a loan -, suspicious bank customers stormed GSB branches to withdraw no less then $30 billion baht ($910 million) from their deposits in just one day.
The result was that GSB decided to suspend further lending and asked the government to return the 5-billion-baht loan that it has already transferred.
According to GSB president Worawit Chailimpamontri, most withdrawals happened in Bangkok, nearby provinces and southern provinces. Deposits in greater Bangkok form up to 40 per cent of total deposits at the GSB. He admitted that clients in Bangkok were sensitive to the reports relating to the rice-pledging scheme and most customers who withdrew the money were small-scale clients.
Some branches were even unable to pay out the cash, mainly at GSB branches in department stores, which do not have vaults to keep large sums of money. Staff at some branch tried to convince clients to accept cheques, exempting them from fees instead. Clients were frustrated with the offer, and some even said that they would file a complaint with police unless the branch gave them cash.


I want to say a huge thankyou to ali at Betty and Violet!! Was so touched to recieve such a beautiful gift! A vintage "Child Life" book with stunning poetry and pictures! Thankyou!
Everyone look at her beautiful blog!!
I'm so glad that you like the book ~ I bought it a while ago with you in mind and was waiting to hear when the baby was born! Many congratulations and hope to see you at a vintage fair soon, with baby of course!


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Meek Mill Finds Himself in The Game's Crosshairs, Continues Reign as the Punching Bag of Hip-Hop
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The Compton rapper has threatened to fight Drake's nemesis—and also accused the Philly MC of being a snitch in the fiery diss track "92 Bars."
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Updated Apr. 13, 2017 2:51PM ET / Published Sep. 16, 2016 5:43PM ET
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Meek Mill is officially the punching bag of hip-hop—which is a particularly bad gig, even for a punching bag.
In the summer of 2015, the "hard" Philly rapper was rap-pummeled by a half-Jewish Canadian former fake paraplegic. After Meek Mill mistook Twitter for the proper medium through which to accuse Drake of using ghostwriters, the Toronto native fired off two diss tracks. Meek Mill was promptly abandoned by the entire rap community, including his superstar girlfriend, Nicki Minaj, who couldn't even be bothered to salvage a few verses from her trash folder to help her boo piece together a clap back.
Much like Britney Spears trying to come back at Beyoncé's VMAs, or Odell Beckham Jr. attempting to avoid Lena Dunham, Meek just can't seem to catch a break. Back in January, 50 Cent and Meek Mill, two men who often brag about their experiences getting caught in real gunfire, "Traded shots and memes online." For a gangster rapper, Meek Mill has been unmanned more than once by a well-timed meme.
This week, The Game jumped into the virtual fray. Newly viral videos from a Miami club gig show the Compton-born rapper challenging Meek to some good old-fashioned fisticuffs. "I just wanna beat that n*gga ass for a good time," he says. "When you see me n*gga, square up. It don't gotta be about no guns, n*gga. Fuck Meek Mill." While rappers have been known to beef from time to time, it's rare to see an artist threaten someone with physical harm for no real reason.
Following their feud, The Game and 50 Cent reportedly extended their olive branches at a strip club. In a post-strip club reconciliation interview, 50 Cent revealed, "I always said I didn't understand where [the feud] came from." It's funny to imagine The Game waking up every morning, cranky and a little bit peckish, and randomly selecting a new nemesis from a stack of bedside mixtapes. Then again, this scenario is probably less hilarious to Meek Mill, who has inexplicably found himself on the wrong side of The Game's ire.
Later on in the Miami concert, The Game inched toward a possible explanation by alleging that Meek Mill is a snitch. This accusation paved the way for "92 Bars," the latest entry in the emergent hip-hop sub-genre of Meek Mill diss tracks. In the new song, The Game raps, "Ever since that n*gga snitched on me we just don't speak / See that shit you got with Drake is like a slow leak / Blood will be dripping like Niagra if I poke Meek / Nicki won't get no sleep I'm coming through at 4 a.m. / 4 deep and leave a dead body on the sheet." It doesn't take a Rap Genius annotation to figure out that Meek Mill's probably going to spend the next few weeks hiding deep in Nicki Minaj's walk-in closet. The Game also took this opportunity to broadcast how he's been "wanting to give Nicki this pool stick." If Drake couldn't win Nicki Minaj over by buying out an entire 7-Eleven, The Game should probably reconsider his courtship technique.
While no one seems to really know what Meek Mill snitched about, Meek's alleged breach of confidence might be tied to a June attack at an L.A. nightclub. Because this entire story was written by a rap game random name generator, the club incident revolves around Sean Kingston getting smashed in the head with a bottle and then robbed of a $300k chain. According to TMZ, Game believes that "Meek dropped a dime on him to Kingston's people," telling the "Beautiful Girls" singer that The Game's crew was somehow involved in the jewelry janking.
There have also been attempts to connect the still-developing Meek Mill beef to a shootout that occurred just hours after The Game's club performance. After calling Meek out onstage, Game and his entourage were targeted by passengers in a convertible Ford Mustang. His manager told TMZ that The Game wasn't actually in the white Mercedes-Benz that the assailants mistakenly shot up, so the rapper was ultimately unharmed. The brewing Meek Mill feud is likely just a coincidence; fans familiar with The Game's busy beef schedule were quick to point out that Stitches, a Miami-based rap foe, is more likely to be the failed criminal mastermind behind this drive-by.
So far, Meek Mill has only offered one, vague response to his impending ass-whupping—an Instagram post captioned, "We ain't rapping famhandle ya biz…I love this shit lol." Given the fact that the "Legal issues" section of The Game's Wikipedia page is even longer than Meek's, it's unclear what exactly Meek Mill is laughing about. Or in the consistently terrifying words of The Game's diss track, "You know I snap you like a toothpick."


I don't know about you but I LOVE SHAMROCK SHAKES. So much.
When I was in college, I would anxiously await their return to the McDonald's menu and then, before I had any care about ingredients, would purchase at least one a week until they were again removed from the menu almost a month later… YIKES.
Now that I have more knowledge about nutrition, I would never again purchase a McDonald's Shamrock Shake, but that doesn't mean I can't have a nutritious, tasty alternative! These Keto Shamrock Shake Bites are not only virtually carb-free, they are dairy-free, paleo-compliant, and SO DELICIOUS!
Made with matcha green tea powder, gelatin, peppermint extract, and sweetened with monk fruit sweetener and vanilla protein powder, these Keto Shamrock Shake Bites are simple to make and taste just like their sugary counterparts, without all of the weird ingredients!
In this recipe, I use unflavored gelatin to give the Bites their shape. The gelatin is completely flavorless and allows for the Shamrock Shake Bites to solidify into bite-sized gummies. This is a required ingredient in this recipe and I personally prefer this brand.
Low-Carb/Keto: Minimal carbs in these Shamrock Shake Bites (0.2g net carbs per serving), unlike that of a McDonald's Shamrock Shake. Even a small sized McDonald's Shamrock Shake has a whopping 74g carbs!
Paleo: This recipe is made with clean, paleo-compliant ingredients (free from gluten, grains, dairy, or soy).
Dairy-Free: Almond milk is utilized in this recipe in place of traditional dairy milk. To make this recipe nut-free, coconut milk can be substituted for almond milk.
Refined-Sugar-Free: These Keto Shamrock Shake Bites are sweetened with monk fruit sweetener.
One Keto Shamrock Shake Bite is only 0.2 grams net carbs!
This recipe is keto, low-carb, paleo, dairy-free, nut-free, gluten-free, grain-free, and refined-sugar-free.
These Keto Shamrock Shake Bites are simple, delicious, and keto-friendly! This recipe is low-carb, keto, paleo, dairy-free, nut-free, gluten-free, grain-free, refined-sugar-free, and only 0.2g net carbs!
To mixing bowl, add 1 cup almond milk and sprinkle gelatin on top. Set aside to set for 5 minutes.
In small pot over medium low heat, heat remaining 1 cup coconut or almond milk until steaming. Remove pot from heat and pour heated milk into gelatin mixture and whisk until well-incorporated.
To blender, add gelatin mixture, coconut butter, protein powder, monk fruit sweetener, matcha, peppermint extract, and vanilla extract. Blend on high speed until all ingredients are thoroughly mixed. Pour mixture into silicone mold and transfer to refrigerator to chill until solidified, about 2 hours, before popping bites out of silicone mold.
It is far too moreish! I even halved the amount of sweetner and it took all my self control to offer my children to rescue me from eating the whole jar full alone.
I don't know if it was the quality of my matcha and peppermint extract but the taste was a little weak. Next time I'll add a bit more of those and a little more sweetener (I used sukrin gold since monkfruit isn't available wher I live). That said I liked them, both taste and texture!
Thanks for your comment, Emma! I find that the higher quality the matcha, the more flavorful. Sometimes the cost of ceremonial-grade matcha is totally worth it! Happy to hear you enjoyed the recipe!