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Biographies of Maresa von Stockert, Sophie Persson – manager & producer – and the company's Board of Trustees: Amy Bell, Kimberley Harvey, David Steele and Christopher Thomson:
Maresa von Stockert – Artistic Director/CE
Born and raised in Germany, von Stockert first moved to the UK in 1992 to study at TrinityLaban, London. Encouraged by Bessie Schönberg at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, she applied for a scholarship at Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) and subsequently moved to New York, USA, where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from SLC in 1996. She returned to London in 1999 where she founded her company Tilted Productions, since 2020 operating in her own name.
Von Stockert has received multiple awards and nominations including a Time Out Live Award for Outstanding Choreography; a Jerwood Choreography Award and a UK New Choreography Award by the Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund. Tilted Productions was nominated for a Critics Circle UK National Dance Award – Best Independent Company.
Von Stockert has been Choreographer in Residence at the Southbank, London, and Associate Artist at, amongst others, The Place, London; DanceDigital, Chelmsford; DanceEast, Ipswich; and Crying Out Loud, London.
Working and touring nationally and internationally with her own company as well as repertory companies, von Stockert has created a large body of work for the stage, site-responsive pieces including gallery works, site-responsive outdoor productions and several film works.
She has received long-term funding from Arts Council England, Ipswich Borough Council and support from the European networks ZEPA, PASS, IN SITU, and the UK's Without Walls Consortium. Since 2012, she has been making work both in the UK and France creating her productions through international co-commissions and in artistic residencies.
Tilted Productions was a UK National Portfolio Organisation from 2012 – 2018. In 2018/19 von Stockert received funding from Arts Council England to undertake an extensive research period evolving her work to include films and installations for the gallery setting. She is currently working on a solo exhibition to open in 2021. See current work for more details.
Sophie Persson – Company Manager & Producer
Sophie Persson is a freelance curator and arts producer with long-standing experience in devising, producing and managing contemporary art projects.
Practiced in working across a number of curatorial platforms, including artist commissions, gallery exhibitions, off-site projects and public programming, she has worked for arts organisations including The Wapping Project, Barbican Art Gallery, Green Cardamom, Borough Road Gallery and Asia House. As a freelance curator and producer, Persson's recent work includes producing Marysia Lewandowska's commission for La Biennale di Venezia, 2020, It's About Time/Era Ora, for the Pavilion of Applied Arts at Arsenale.
She was assistant curator for Structures of Meaning|Architectures of Pavilion with Hammad Nasar, for the Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2019. Between 2018 and 2019, she curated a year-long project in celebration of writer and activist, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97), called Wollstonecraft Presents. This collaborative project included multiple commissions across the year, from artist performances, talks and theatre, to the creation and publication of a fanzine. Funded by Arts Council England and The Elephant Trust, the project looked to explore Wollstonecraft's legacy and her relevance on contemporary practice, using her work to reflect on society today. The fanzine, Pantheon, was launched at the National Portrait Gallery on International Women's Day 2019 in an event curated by Persson.
Her ongoing freelance and personal curating work brings together untold stories, contemporary practice and communities.
Co – Chairs – David Steele & Christopher Thomson
Professor David Steele, FRSA, was previously Dean of the School of Dance, Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts. Prior to which he held posts at Centre National de Danse Contemporaine, Angers, France; Director of Studies and Vice Principal, London Contemporary Dance School, London, UK. He was also the founding rector of The Danish National School for Contemporary Dance and principal teacher, contemporary dance, CNSMD, Lyon. He has been a visiting lecturer at many leading schools amongst them Rosella Hightower School in Cannes and Rudra Bejart, Lausanne.
In 2008 he was created a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. In 2015, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of the University, by his Alma Mater, Middlesex University. He is presently Learning Associate with the Hofesh Shechter Company and Director of Rambert Grades.
Christopher Thomson
Thomson read French and linguistics at Edinburgh University before leaving to study speech and drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He performed with the Lindsay Kemp Company and with a number of small-scale dance companies, becoming a founding member of Ludus Dance Company in 1975, and Artistic Director of the company from 1983-86. From 1986 to 1991, he directed the Community Dance Diploma course at Trinity Laban. Thomson is a former Chair of the Community Dance Foundation and Vice-Chair of Dance UK. He is Co-Chair of the UK's Dance Programme Board, which draws together national organisations to take a strategic view of dance provision for children and young people.
In 2015, he retired from the post of Director of Creative Teaching and Learning at The Place, where he had worked for over 20 years, leading on education, community and youth programmes, as well as collaborating on projects in health and wellbeing with, among others, stroke survivors and GPs in training. As part of audience engagement initiatives, he also produced the highly successful animated film series, Planet Dance.
Since retiring Thomson has continued his links with community dance, particularly in Finland, and produced further foreign-language versions of Planet Dance, including a Taiwan Chinese subtitled version and a complete Swedish version produced in association with Skånes Dansteater in Malmö.
Thomson has spoken and taught about community dance in many countries, including Denmark, Switzerland, France, Finland, Italy, Japan and Sweden. He brings to the Tilted Board his deep knowledge of dance in education and community contexts, as well as his experience of governance and arts management.
Trustee – Amy Bell
Amy Bell is a dance artist who unwraps conversations around queerness, language and movement. She is a producer, choreographer, writer, curator and facilitator whose practices are borne of a binary busting fervour. She aims to explode them-and-us thinking around embodiment, marginalised experience and between audiences, artists and institutions. Alongside solo work The Forecast, winner of a Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, Bell's sister piece TOMBO(Y)LA is an installation of conversation and dancing which occupies gallery spaces. Politically rigorous whilst uniquely approachable, her works create connection whilst celebrating particularity.
Bell is currently Artist Development Producer at The Place in London where she was previously a Work Place Associate Artist. She curates Splayed, a festival of performance drawing together a cluster of subversive and experimental artists throwing conventional notions of queerness and femininity into question.
Bell teaches and facilitates widely, working with young people, professional artists, and queer collectives in creative and dramaturgical practice. She has led programmes through the British Council and facilitated the Next Choreography programme at Siobhan Davies Dance.
As an acclaimed performer, Bell has collaborated on a range of site responsive, theatrical and installation works including with Lea Anderson, Hussein Chalayan & Damien Jalet, Tino Sehgal, Alessandro Sciarroni, Charlotte Spencer, Chiara Frigo, Marco D'Agostin and Maresa von Stockert's Tilted Productions.
Trustee – Kimberley Harvey
Kimberley Harvey is a freelance dance artist, choreographer and teacher. Harvey has a wealth of experience in all-inclusive practices and has her own inclusive contemporary dance company, Subtle Kraft Co. She formed the company in 2011 with fellow dance artist, Anna Emilsson. The company's work is centred around relationships in their various and complex forms with connection, communication and curiosity as core elements within the company's artistic and working practice. Subtle Kraft Co enjoy moving between live performance and film as different ways to 'meet' and encounter the audience or viewer. Collaboration is also a key part of the way Harvey works.
Alongside leading Subtle Kraft Co. Harvey is a Candoco Artist, which includes teaching for Candoco Dance Company on a national and international basis.
Harvey has also worked as Dancer-in-Residence for GOSH Arts at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
Now in her tenth year of working professionally in the dance sector, Harvey's work as a professional dancer has led her to performing in a variety of settings and venues for stage, outdoor festivals and site-specific work; predominantly in contemporary dance with a range of choreographers; but also physical theatre with companies such as ThisEgg and Moxie Brawl.
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First of all, I apologize for the quality of the pictures. I live in a basement where the lighting is not the best nor do I have the resources for good lighting equipment.
Before I moved back to Woodstock my amazing boyfriend, Spencer, picked up this old display that a store was getting rid of. At first I was confused as to why he wanted it but when he told me his plan, my heart melted. He saw them throwing it away as the store was renovating it's look and he immediately thought that I could use it for storing my makeup. I'm trying not to gush, but I think I got pretty lucky with him.
He brought it home cleaned it up, painted it a fresh coat of white and added a touch of grey to the shelves. I actually think he was more excited about it then I was. Spencer is always looking for things to create for our own personal use, or for others. For example, he made our headboard from scratch out of wooden skids, and has sold a few live edged coat racks. Every time he starts a new project he thinks of more to add to the list, I swear he's never bored.
But this amazing spinning display was done just for me. I ordered cute organizers from Amazon, and found a basket from Michaels. There are also shelves that hold my perfume on the one side, and his cologne on the other. If this thing isn't perfect for storing makeup, I don't know what is.
It took me a little while to get the funds for the organizers, but it took me even longer finding that perfect wire basket to store upcoming blog items. Each organizer is linked below each picture. So without further ado, here is how I store my makeup and perfume. How do you like to organize your makeup collection?
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It's the Church, stupid!
Louie October 17, 2016 12 Comments
Here in the United States, the Presidential election is fast approaching.
Much is at stake; not just for those of us who live in this country, but for all the nations of the world for any number of reasons; not the least of which concerns the superpower's willingness to export such commodities as global warming alarmism, gender confusion, gay marriage and, of course, abortion.
Writing for media giant McClatchy, publisher of more than two dozen newspapers in the U.S., political analyst Andrew Malcolm recently identified what he called the most important of all the central issues, saying:
"That is the Supreme Court and the three, maybe four, appointments the next President of the United States will make."
And that brings us back to the "sacrament" of the left, abortion.
Hillary Clinton, in an interview with CNN, proclaimed that the upcoming election "is about whether abortion is legal."
Pro-life voters agree, and so one of the issues most frequently cited by Republican primary candidates concerned the vacancy that was created on the bench by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Prior to his elimination from contention, for example, Sen. Marco Rubio, a Catholic, courted pro-lifers saying:
"The people I'm going to appoint, they're going to be like Justice Scalia."
In a speech delivered via video at the Republican National Convention, Rubio said of the party's nominee, Donald Trump:
I want the successor to Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court to be a conservative. I believe that's the kind of judge that [Trump] will appoint, and I know she [Clinton] won't. I want someone that will defend life. I know he will and she won't.
There can be no doubt that Clinton will appoint a jurist to the Court who does not believe that the lives of the unborn deserve protection.
In an April appearance on Meet the Press, when asked, "When or if does an unborn child have constitutional rights?" Clinton replied coldly:
Well, under our laws currently, that is not something that exists. The unborn person doesn't have constitutional rights. – Hillary Clinton
National Right to Life, one of the nation's oldest pro-life organizations, recently reminded voters of Clinton's outrageous comment vis-à-vis the Supreme Court vacancy; contrasting her position with that of Donald Trump who said:
Justice Scalia, great judge, died recently and we have a vacancy. I am looking to appoint judges very much in the mold of Justice Scalia. – Donald Trump
According to Marco Rubio, it all comes down to one's approach to the U.S. Constitution:
How do you view the Constitution? Scalia viewed it the right way. What did the Constitution mean to the people who wrote it at the time they wrote it. That's what we need more of.
So, how did Justice Scalia's view of the Constitution inform his jurisprudence with respect to abortion?
In a 2008 interview with Lesley Stahl on the popular CBS program 60 Minutes, Scalia was asked:
"What is the connection between your Catholicism, your Jesuit education, and your judicial philosophy?"
Scalia responded:
It has nothing to do with how I decide cases. My job is to interpret the Constitution accurately. And indeed, there are anti-abortion people who think that the Constitution requires a state to prohibit abortion. They say that the Equal Protection Clause requires that you treat a helpless human being that's still in the womb the way you treat other human beings. I think that's wrong. I think when the Constitution says that persons are entitled to equal protection of the laws, I think it clearly means walking-around persons.
Yes, you read that correctly: Scalia, like Hillary Clinton, believed that the unborn person doesn't have Constitutional rights.
So much for the idea that a President who will "appoint judges very much in the mold of Justice Scalia" represents a victory for the pro-life movement; much less Christ.
Though many a media outlet hailed Antonin Scalia as a model of "devout traditional Catholicism," his judicial approach was truly that of a dyed-in-the-wool Americanist.
In a 2014 article for the Remnant in which Scalia was interviewed by Vincent Chiarello, the writer accurately summarized Scalia's jurisprudence stating:
When he dons his robe as a Justice of the US Supreme Court, the basis of his decisions must be what the Constitution requires, and if abortion or the death penalty is permitted by the state under its law, then despite his Catholic belief it is the vox populi who are sovereign in these matters.
So, if the upcoming election isn't about abortion, the Supreme Court, or the Constitution, what is it about?
For Catholics, the answer is simple: It's the Church, stupid!
I know this may be difficult for some American "social conservatives" to believe, but strict adherence to the U.S. Constitution isn't the answer; it's the problem.
It requires the legitimate civil authority to treat the Holy Catholic Church and its Founder no differently that the many false religions and false gods of the world.
In other words, according to the Constitution, the voice of the Church is just one more constituency among many; the Divine Law that she makes known (or should make known at any rate) carries no more binding authority than the wishes of any other lobbying organization.
And yet, in spite of its mandated rejection of Christ the King and the Holy Catholic Church that speaks in His name, the Constitution arrogantly asserts that the collective We the People is capable of forming a more perfect Union of Justice and Tranquility?
Please… this is enough to make the aims of those who built the Tower of Babel seem reasonable.
When it comes to building the Kingdom of Christ, the Constitution isn't the only, nor even the most critical, problem that we face, however. It's the Church!
We must admit, even if those who govern were willing to listen attentively to the voice of the Church, the members of the sacred hierarchy in our day – including the pope – are no longer willing to insist upon the Sovereign Rights of Christ the King.
As it concerns the upcoming Presidential election, let's not get caught up in anything that would take the focus away from where it belongs.
This election isn't about abortion, or gay marriage, or some pseudo-right to religious liberty. That's what one sees when looking at the situation through a Protestant lens.
For us, it's plain:
This election is about the Holy Catholic Church, in spite of the human faults so evident therein, and her Divine Founder, Jesus Christ.
As such, I'm going to vote for the candidate least likely to encroach upon the exclusive rights of the Holy Catholic Church.
As for the far more important matter that is the current ecclesial crisis, it is my intention to continue fasting and praying for the good of the Church, for the conversion of those who lead us, and for the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary according to the Lord's wishes as given to Lucy of Fatima.
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Rushintuit October 17, 2016
Reality Check: If Trump is truly an outsider, there is no way that establishment will let him be elected. Do you really think that the New World Order would let an election derail all of their plans? A hot war with Russia is much more likely. If that happens, the election will be suspended indefinitely. Even without a war, Trump will never get into The White House.
OldTradCat October 17, 2016
SPOT-ON-!! Louie, this is an excellent article and the timing couldn't be better.
my2cents October 17, 2016
One of the first of God's creation to recognize our Redeemer and Saviour was an unborn child–John, the Baptist, son of Elizabeth, Our Lady's cousin. If that doesn't sanctify the value of the unborn child, I don't know what does. Regarding the election. ..a vote for Trump is a vote against Hillary who doesn't have a pro-life cell in her body.
Cortez October 17, 2016
If only the most important man in the world, the Pope (whoever that is today) would consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, than we would be living in a time if promised peace where abortion would be nonexistent.
Dennis October 17, 2016
Excellent point about John the Baptist!
Another great article, Mr. V.
VCR October 17, 2016
Well said, Louie! It really is all about the Church. I , too, will join you in voting for the man who will least likely encroach upon the rights of the Holy Catholic Church. May the Immaculate triumph sooner rather than later.
Iudicame October 17, 2016
I think a rational person could reasonably argue that the constitution doesn't protect the unborn. It wasn't written or inspired by the Holy Ghost. One solution is to amend the document – the legalist approach.
I get pretty enthusiastic about circuses. It's not a faith inspired enthusiasm but there is a time and place for it. Call it a very fleeting and temporal placeholder for true Joy.
I'm glad I'm not famous enough for Louie to imply I'm a rat bastard.
paultdale October 18, 2016
In your 2nd paragraph starting "Much is at stake.." you forgot to add one of the most pressing and important reasons, namely war.
It is precisely because of the tens of millions of aborted souls crying to God for justice, that nuclear war is imminent.
Catherine October 19, 2016
It is a ramping up of the spiritual battle we must fight daily. We reap what we sow and we have sown a society whose minds and hearts are in service to Satan. The spiritual battle we have always had to fight was easier for us when the majority of Church leaders were servants of Christ but switched their fidelity to join the rulers of darkness of the world.
Our Constitution, not recognizing either Jesus Christ as ruler of Heaven and earth nor the Catholic Church's responsibility to lead all souls to Christ, is nothing more than an agreement between its writers and the people who approved it that the people have replaced God as their own authority and only the will of the majority can legally serve as the rule of all of the people. No Supreme Court justice has any authority to follow the laws of God nor the laws of nature if the people reject them.
crawler October 19, 2016
It's a little more complicated than that since the consecration must be done in union with all the other Catholic bishops of the world.
CraigV October 21, 2016
Thanks for a drop of sanity in an ocean of madness Louie. Much appreciated.
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Last Friday, a group interested in the benefits of traditional cool burns met at Gobur Cemetery. The group included representatives from Trust for Nature, Euroa Arboretum, Taungurung, CFA, Yorta Yorta and Strathbogie Landcare. Our purpose was to inspect a special section of this particular land, an area that has never had superphosphate applied, but has had consistent second yearly traditional cool burns for decades.
The result is threatened and other indigenous flora are not only surviving, but are thriving. The cool burns activate many native seeds, bulbs and tubers. They also allow for post burn separation of plants. This creates opportunities for individual plants not to be crowded out by persistent weeds. Consequently, this land has maintained a diversity of lilies and indigenous flora not often seen elsewhere.
By contrast, an adjacent area of the cemetery showed previously disturbed ground that was a product of machine use. This area contained very different vegetation, that of a weedy patch heavily infested with periwinkle, dandelion, cape weed and onion grass.
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This current source, build on the platform of 11W four quadrant SMU is common tool in scientific labs and often used for materials study and evaluation. Common use is delta-measurements for resistance using another Keithley instrument – Model 2182/2182A nanovoltmeter. Sensitivity and offset cancellation functions of such tandem allow easy and accurate measurements of very low resistances and shunts. 6221 can source very wide range of currents, from sub-nA (lowest range 1nA) to quite powerful 100mA, while maintaining up to ±105V of compliance voltage.
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Today market niche of this instrument is overlapping with other precision SMU, such as own Keithley 2600 series and competitor Keysight B2900A series, however these cost bit more.
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Calibration procedure in manual calls for HP 3458A 8½-digit multimeter and Keithley 6487 picoammeter. These ones I have, with little deviation by using Keithley 6485 instead of 6487. DMM is used to verify current ranges from 100mA to 100nA and picoammeter take care of lowest 10 nA and 1 nA ranges.
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It was inevitable that I met my husband while working and living between the Singita lodges in the Sabi Sands Reserve and Kruger National Park. Now ten years on we are living in Arusha - the hub of the northern safari circuit of Tanzania - and with a family of our own we hope to pass along the same enthusiasm and appreciation to our two young girls.
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A man with a perfect life, wakes up one day to find that everything he knows and loves is gone. What would you do if everything you love was gone without a trace? Follow Derick as he tries to discover the location of his vanished family, as he travels through the land that he new as his home, only its not his home anymore. The people around him don't know him and nobody knows where his family is except one man. It is up to Derrick to track down this man and discover the location of his missing family. Love holds no bounds, as your hero fights through platformer levels to unlock the secret to his missing family."The answers that you seek, might not be the answers you want to hear."
might not be the answers you want to hear."
progress video will be up soon.
Today spent the day working on icon pics and getting company logo made. Was playing around in Photoshop with the sample title page trying to give it some digital touches.
Today was very productive, fixed broken code extensions and was able to get transitions working. The game is coming along great. I need to get more characters finished and the dialog ready for the Chapter 1 levels. That will be tomorrows work. One man dev team!


Making people aware of what their insurance policy covers – and just as importantly what it doesn't – has been a preoccupation of insurers for more than 20 years. All that has been gained is an understanding that legal necessities don't mix well with the need for simplicity.
A new Monash University study showing key fact sheets – which were introduced after the 2011 Brisbane floods as a bid to counter the sometimes-bewildering complexity of product disclosure statements (PDS) – offer little benefit to consumers.
This has added weight to arguments that disclosure documents are failing and some form of standard cover may offer a solution that might be popular with consumers but anathema to insurers.
The "Too Long; Didn't Read" report for the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) previously highlighted the logical fact that lengthy and complex PDS documents turn off consumers. In other words, they don't read them.
The new Monash study "(In) effective disclosure: An experimental study of consumers purchasing home contents insurance" finds shorter and simpler key fact sheets don't work, either.
The Financial Rights Legal Centre, which commissioned the study, says consumers would gain greater benefit from a standard cover regime that could provide simplicity and certainty.
"It would involve a standard set of terms, that are a minimum from which insurers could build and which consumers could trust, so when they buy a particular product it would be what they expect," Policy and Advocacy Officer Drew MacRae told insuranceNEWS.com.au.
The Monash study was released as the Hayne royal commission heard evidence of misleading or incorrect promotion of policies by insurers, effectively putting the onus on consumers to spot the difference in the PDS.
The commission on Thursday released policy questions arising from the hearings, including whether the current disclosure regime is adequately servicing the interests of consumers. A final report will be delivered to the Government next year.
"Hopefully, it will place the issue higher in the mind of the relevant ministers and they will understand that change needs to happen," Mr MacRae said.
Pressure to reform product disclosure documents have gained momentum as it has became increasingly apparent the PDS and key fact sheets were mandated with no solid basis to indicate they would work and amid increasing signs that they don't.
ICA launched its Effective Disclosure Taskforce in 2015 and has continued to research the issue, sharing findings with the Monash study.
Treasury is due to release a discussion paper on disclosure after former revenue and financial services minister Kelly O'Dwyer referred the issue for investigation last year in response to Senate committee recommendations.
So what progress have the bureaucrats made? Treasury says it's looking at standard cover and standard terms, but it's also investigating the possibility of extending key fact sheets to insurance lines beyond home and contents.
The consumer lobby centre is focusing on standard arrangements that it says would provide a minimum level of cover, and linking that to the proposals to end the insurance industry's exemption from unfair contract term provisions.
Caught between an insurance industry that would strongly resist standard terms and a consumer lobby set on contemplating no other solution, the compromise option of even more useless key fact sheets really isn't going to satisfy anyone.
"The Monash research would tell us that more key fact sheets are not the answer," Consumer Action Law Centre Senior Policy Officer Susan Quinn says. "It is just another version of the disclosure approach, and the disclosure approach really needs a shake-up.
So do the insurers have a counter-offer to solve the problem? Not yet, but they're working on it. ICA CEO Rob Whelan told the royal commission that insurance is typically a "low interest category" that consumers tend not to think about.
"People have an optimism bias that these things are not going to happen to them, and they take very little interest in insurance per se," he said.
National Insurance Brokers Association CEO Dallas Booth says NIBA has long argued that key fact sheets are not the answer, and agrees standard form contracts could offer a solution when customers are not seeking professional advice.
The Monash study came up with some intriguing results that should go a long way to assisting understanding of the scale of the disclosure understanding issue, In it, 406 participants were given combinations of product disclosure statements and key fact sheets before choosing a home contents policy from two or three options that were considered good, ok or bad.
Up to 42% of participants chose the worst offer, and when able to choose from three policies, 35% chose the worse policy and 46% the best.
"The key facts sheet was designed to make this information easier to find and compare, but the outcomes of this study show mixed results about [their] effectiveness," the study says.
Monash Professor Justin Malbon suggests a set of gold, silver and bronze cover should be applied across the industry, and terminology should be standardised in areas beyond flood cover.
"When people keep making the wrong decision even in the most ideal of circumstances, and with starker differences in policy coverage than usually exists, you have to wonder if there is a better way," he said.
The Monash choices strip out brand and price considerations, which highlights the potential for consumers to be led further astray if trust is misplaced or cost becomes the only consideration.
ICA says it will review the Monash report findings and discuss them with members, as it continues to considerer the issues.
"Further research being undertaken by ICA will put it in a good position to contribute strongly to the public policy debate on questions such as the usefulness of standard cover, standardised definitions, and the effectiveness of key fact sheets," spokesman Campbell Fuller said.


This stunning Coco sofa has all the hallmarks of a Duresta design. It's lovely scroll arms give way to it's sumptuously padded seats and back. With the coordinating scatter cushions it truly does have star quality.
Available in a grand, large and small sofa and a reading chair in a choice of 4 stylish fabrics. You can mix and match upholstery to get the look you want.


We just found a new house in our little wine town of Sonoma, CA.
We are excited and gearing up for the move.
It has a great kitchen that Ashley is excited to create in and has great walkability for Michael to "walk and think".
It's exciting yet nerve racking to move into a new place.
We've heard a lot of lip boxing over the years about "making the first move"!
There has been a RULE going around for decades that a woman should NEVER be making the first move.
See we didn't say never there.
This MYTH that women should never be making the first move has been creating havoc in women's lives for years.
#1 it gets you stuck in your head.
You are obsessively checking yourself and worrying if YOU are making the first move or if you should "ignore" him more or pull back.
#2 You are stuck in the place of waiting instead of creating your life.
You are WAITING for him to DO something. Only he's not doing anything.
What could be more frustrating than that!
#3 It is the opposite of how the rest of our lives work.
You don't wait for someone else to make the first move in the other areas of your life do you?
You move toward what you want. You create the context for you to get closer to the important things you desire.
#4 Guys want you to make the first move.
No, they don't want you directly asking them to marry you in a deep trucker voice, but they do want you to lay out the red carpet so they can chase you.
They want to see the green light signals that they have a chance at winning before they chase you.
#5 Women have "made the first move" forever.
Yes, you heard that right and you heard it here first.
Women have always made the first move.
It just doesn't look like "the first move".
Guys don't know you are making the first move.
It looks like he is making the first move.
He is doing all the direct actions….
asking you out on a date.
asking you out on a 2nd date and so on.
Little does he know that you CREATED THE CONTEXT FOR HIM TO PURSUE YOU.
So in essence you made the first move, it's just invisible to the untrained eye (which 99% of people have no clue).
He took it from there and the rest as they say is blissful history.
Don't get caught up in all these FALSE and OUTDATED rules or myths.
All you'll get is a headache from routinely banging your head against the wall in agony over your inability to attract the right guy for you.
Then there's also the heartache of having the guys you like ignore you and the other slobbering blokes chasing after you.
If you want to learn how to make the first move on a guy, we'd love to take you by the hand and show you today.


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The Careum Auditorium can be set up to suit your individual preferences and needs.
Whether you are holding a banquet, seminar or conference: the Careum Auditorium has the right kind of room for any event. Depending on the type of seating arrangement used, the total surface area of 470 m² can accommodate up to 500 people. For smaller groups, the space can be split into two or four rooms. Soundproof walls ensure events can take place without any disturbance from background noise.
Seating variations
Name of the room Seminar Theatre U-shape Block Circle Cocktail Banquet
Auditorium (470 m²) 308 495 82 56 72 500 360
Purpur (122 m²) 50 112 34 28 40 200 60
Grün (83 m²) 40 55 24 16 28 100 40
Rot (85 m²) 36 64 22 24 24 100 30
Blau (124 m²) 56 108 32 28 40 200 60
Auditorium 1 (207 m²)
Purpur und Grün 110 195 64 56 44 250 120
Rot und Blau 154 255 68 56 64 300 180
Foyer (290 m²) — — — — — 350 —
The foyer area is suitable both for cocktail receptions and coffee breaks and also for small exhibitions or vernissages. The incoming daylight helps create a pleasant atmosphere.
We do, of course, provide you with WLAN access and make the technical infrastructure available free of charge during your event. We would also be happy to help you plan and organise your event.
Find out more about the Careum Auditorium in our brochure (in german)
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NRC Holds Hearing On Oyster Creek Shutdown
Photo by Chris Lundy
MANAHAWKIN – The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission held a public hearing at The Holiday Inn in Manahawkin to discuss the current state and the future of the Oyster Creek Generating Station with concerned residents.
Members of the NRC were present to discuss the process of decommissioning the plant and answer any questions that anyone might have. What was intended to be a more formal public hearing became a more relaxed atmosphere where people could walk up to NRC members and ask questions or take a stroll around the room to look at the informative posters.
Exelon Generation, the company that owns Oyster Creek, announced near the end of January 2018 that the plant will be closing its doors at the end of this year, around October. It was originally slated to close December 2019.
Visual aids described what was going to happen on the site in the future. (Photo by Kimberly Bosco)
Following the shutdown of the station, Exelon and the NRC will begin the process of decommissioning. According to the NRC, decommissioning is defined as, "the safe removal of a nuclear facility from service and the reduction of residual radioactivity to a level that permits release of the property and termination of the license."
The NRC laid out a very brief Decommission Timeline that begins with the shutdown of the plant, which can take up to two years. During this time, the licensee submits their decommissioning plans to safely shut down and store spent waste from the facility.
According to the NRC, Oyster Creek's decommissioning plans will utilize the SAFESTOR strategy. This is known as ""deferred dismantling:" a nuclear facility is maintained and monitored in a condition that allows the radioactivity to decay," according to the NRC website.
Following this decaying process, spent fuel is transferred into dry cask storage; then follows decontamination and dismantling of the facility. This entire process can take up to 60 years.
"They take years and years to build and it takes years and years to transition," out of operation, said Matt Fannon, resident inspector at the Oyster Creek site.
Fannon noted that even though the site will not be in operation during decommissioning, there will still be plenty of routine checks and monitoring on the plant.
Matt Young, Senior Resident Inspector at the NRC, said that the end goal for when the site is decommissioned is that everything in the reactor building, all of the spent fuel, will be transferred into these dry cask storage units.
"There's a metal cask that it goes in, then they weld it all up, then they put it in a concrete cask," and in a concrete facility, said Young about the spent fuel. "We come out and inspect that."
The hearing was an opportunity for local residents to interact with experts on decommissioning. (Photo by Kimberly Bosco)
Young explained that the dry cask storage facility is not new technology.
"Most every sizeable power plant has a storage facility because there is no long term storage facility for all of them," said Fannon.
Before spent fuel is stored in these dry cask units, it needs to cool, which is a process that can take up to five years, according to Bruce Watson, chief of the Reactor Decommissioning Branch of the NRC.
"When the fuel is removed from the reactor it's, I'll say hot…after about 300 days to a year or year and a half, it will be very cool compared to what it was when it came out," said Watson. "After that point, it'll continue to cool." This continued cooling can take up to five years, he added.
When the decay heat of the fuel reaches a lower point, it can be transferred into the dry storage container, said Watson, which has no water. "It doesn't need any additional cooling other than the ambient air."
This cooling process prior to dry cask storage is what NRC calls SAFESTOR.
The dry cask storage facility will be on the premises of the reactor building so as not to transfer spent fuel any significant distance. It will remain here indefinitely, as there is no long term storage facility outside of this in place already.
This decommissioning process has not yet begun as the plant is still operating until the end of its current operating cycle in October.
Following the shutdown of the plant, Young noted that residents surrounding the plant will still receive yearly calendars and updated information on the site.
Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant
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15 Dudley
Some years ago a friend from Dudley took me to a tiny pub that had as many as beer pumps as customers. The beer pumps hung on the wall. The barmaid sat on a stool below the beer pumps. Dudley has an eccentric tradition in pubs, as if dour resignation ensures institutions are obliged to pass their sell by date. The Crooked House is not tiny but is the most tilted pub in Britain. Apart from architectural exotica the pub offers rustic food and real ales.
The same friend from Dudley described the local population as apathetic. Interested in only League points, style deficient Sam Allardyce is a modern football symbol of dour defiance. Duncan Edwards, another local hero, died in the Munich air crash. Edwards was a popular footballer because he was gifted but he was also an unvarnished and reassuring alternative to foreign style.
Football allows for dour resistance but art and entertainment require self-invention. James Whale who directed Frankenstein in 1931 belonged to a large working class Dudley family. In Hollywood he pretended he was from the English gentry. After Sue Lawley of Desert Island Discs was put through an elocution mangle, her Black Country accent disappeared completely. The talented black comedian, Lenny Henry, has searched for a serviceable identity all his life. The Premier Inn adverts suggest he has had more luck in finding a place to kip. My Dudley friend retreated to a village in genteel Oxfordshire.
The town centre would not win awards, and by now the residents must have become bored with the statue of comic character, Desperate Dan. But Dudley has more than exotic pubs although their importance should never be underestimated. The Castle that dates back to pre-Norman times is less than three hundred yards away from the town centre. The Castle also contains a charming zoo. Life in industrial Britain in the 1930s is revealed by the grand open air Black Country Museum. The trolley buses are great but the serious will be impressed by the limekilns and the connection to the canal network.
To suit dour folk the Town Hall in Dudley is called the Council House. The Council encourages walking and has identified over 500 walks within the region. The short trek to Wrens Nest Nature Reserve is popular. None of the 500 walks take the walker above 400 feet, and one is no more than a third of a mile but the initiative shows faith in what can be derived from local history. Dudley has plenty. In Anglo Saxon times it was known by the German mouthful, Duddan Leah. In the 13th Century it was established as a leading market town, and in the 19th the thirty mile coal seam that defined the Black Country ensured it became industrial.
Today the population numbers 79,000, 90% is defined as white. Although their numerical supremacy is overwhelming, some of the 90% think of themselves as victims. The English Defence League likes to march and grunt in Dudley. The recent discovery and prosecution of a Dudley jihad fantasist will not help those who want calm.
Next week, home of the alternative parliament, Edinburgh.
Howard Jackson has had three books published by Red Rattle Books. His 11,000 mile journey around Brazil is described in Innocent Mosquitoes. His next book is a compilation of horror stories and is called Nightmares Ahead. It will be available soon this Spring.
Posted in Around Britain and tagged Brief accounts of various locations in Britain. on April 10, 2015 by Howard Jackson.