Need some help managing your money?
1. Can you tell our readers what this book is about?
Money Makeover is a step-by-step guide to taking stock of your finances and creating the life you've always dreamed of. It starts by looking at goal setting, budgeting and saving (with tips on getting out of debt) and then ramps up to cover investing in shares, managed funds, superannuation and property. We also cover relationships, babies and career changes. There are loads of case studies written by real-life women throughout and plenty of nifty tips.
2. What inspired you to want to write a book to educate women about their finances?
When we started on our own financial missions we discovered that there was very little information out there that related to us or that wasn't diabolically boring! We also found that we often finished reading financial books feeling inspired but with little idea as to where to start. So we wanted to write a book that was not only inspiring and fun but also practical and covered everything a new investor needed to know step-by-step.
3. What is the most common question asked by your readers?
Interestingly, the questions that we receive are generally not from young women starting out but from older women in their late 40s and 50s who've realised that they won't have enough in their superannuation to support their lifestyles. This makes us even more determined to encourage women to start setting up good savings strategies as early as possible.
4. What do you think women have the most trouble with when trying to save their money?
We actually think that women are comfortable with the idea of budgeting and saving but where we lack confidence is when it comes to investing (so taking on investments in shares or property, rather than just leaving money in a bank account). The great thing is that plenty of studies have shown that women are biologically geared to make great investors – we research, ask questions and don't act on 'tips' from Uncle Bob (which men are much more likely to do).
5. Do your friends still hold an investment club? What are your tips for starting one?
We held our investment club, MALICE (Most Ace Ladies Investment Club of Excellence) for two years and it changed all of our lives in one way or another. But since then the original members have moved away overseas, interstate, etc., but we all stay in touch and are still investing.
When you're setting up your own investment club keep it simple. Get a small group of friends together and keep a regular date (e.g. the first Monday of every month) so it can't be forgotten. Choose topics that you find interesting and share the workload – we elected one person to present to the group each month on a financial topic they loved. If you decide to invest money together check out the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) website for good tips.
6. Which great entrepreneur would you like to invite to your investment club and why?
Without a doubt it would have to be the financial-woman's crumpet, Warren Buffett. Not only is he considered the greatest investor of our time but he looks like your wily-old grandpa with cheeky one-liners and a great sense of humour.


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Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale
Scientific name: Mesoplodon ginkgodens
Similar species:
Andrews' Beaked Whale
ginkgodens
Mesoplodon
Ziphidae
Odontoceti
Adults length approx 5m, and weigh up to 1.5 tonnes
This species was described by Japanese scientists, Nishiwaki and Kamiya, in 1958 from an animal stranded on a beach near Tokyo.
Stranded animals are a uniform dark blue-black, except for a pale grey beak and scattered small whitish spots on the underside. (All observations of colour pattern have been made on long-dead animals. As with other cetaceans, the skin colour darkens rapidly after death.) Males appear to be dark grey. Females are paler, particularly on the underside. The beak is short and stout, and the melon has only a slight bulge, sloping fairly steeply up from the beak. In adult males, the mouthline curves sharply upward about midway from the tip, at the position of the teeth. The single pair of teeth are large, but the erupted portion is mostly covered by gum tissue, so only the tip of each tooth is exposed. They are shaped somewhat like the leaves of the oriental Ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba), with a central point and nearly symmetrical curving sides; hence the common name for this species. The dorsal fin is small, often hooked, and positioned two-thirds of the distance from the beak to the tail.
This species may be confused with Andrews' Beaked Whale, but the beak is longer and the exposed portion of the teeth is much smaller. While difficult to distinguish from other species at sea, its darker colour, the apparent lack of heavy tooth-rake scarring in adult males, and the small portion of the tooth emergent from the gum tissue may help to distinguish Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whales from other Mesoplodon. However, no really fresh, adult male, Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whales have yet been examined, so these differences are rather speculative.
Accurate species identification is difficult for this and most other species of beaked whale, even for stranded animals. Identification of females and juveniles can be particularly problematic. While cranial anatomy and tooth morphology are useful, the distinguishing features may apply only to adults. Recently, molecular genetic techniques have been applied to the identification of beaked whales. A database of mitochondrial DNA sequences has been compiled for all known species, making it possible to reliably assign individual animals to a particular species.
The Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale is still only known from about twenty stranded animals. There have been only three strandings in Australia: two strandings on the south coast of New South Wales, and one in western Victoria. An animal reported from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand was misidentified, and is now known to be Gray's Beaked Whale. A Spade-toothed Whale skull found on White Island, New Zealand, was also misidentified as a Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale. There are no confirmed sightings of live animals.
Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whales occur over a broad latitudinal range in the deep waters of the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans. In the Southern Hemisphere, they are found to about 40°S. Among Mesoplodon, only Blainville's Beaked Whale has a wider distribution.
Feeding and diet
Nothing is known about the diet of this species. However, they are likely to feed on squid and deepwater fishes, and possibly crustaceans and echinoderms (sea urchins and starfish) found on the sea floor. Because they lack functional teeth, they presumably capture most of their prey by suction.
Breeding behaviours
Nothing is known about breeding in this species. Sightings are rare due to their deep-ocean distribution, elusive behaviour and possible low numbers.
Baker, A. N. 1999. Whales and Dolphins of Australia and New Zealand: an identification guide. Allen & Unwin, St Leonards.
Bryden, M., Marsh, H. & Shaughnessy, P. 1998. Dugongs, Whales, Dolphins and Seals. A guide to the sea mammals of Australasia. Allen & Unwin, St Leonards.
Carwardine, M. 2000. Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises. Dorling Kindersley, London.
Mead, J. G. 1989. Chapter 14. Beaked whales of the genus Mesoplodon. In Handbook of Marine Mammals. Pp. 349-430. (Eds S. H. Ridgeway and S. R. Harrison.) Academic Press, London.
Menkhorst, P. 2001. A Field Guide to Mammals of Australia. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Australia.
Reeves, R. R., Stewart, B. S., Clapham, P. J. and Powell, J. A. 2002. Ginkgo-toothed Beaked Whale. In National Audubon Society Guide to Marine Mammals of the World. Pp. 290-291. Chanticleer Press, Inc., New York.
Whale Graveyard
Sarcophilus harrisii
Flying-Foxes – The bush refugees
Monkey faced bat from the Solomon Islands
Pteralopex
Endemism in Australian mammals
Out on a limb: tree-kangaroos
Tree Kangaroo from New Guinea
Help for Flying-foxes
Mountain Brushtail Possum
Trichosurus cunninghami
Parma Wallaby
Macropus parma
Common Dunnart
Sminthopsis murina
Long-nosed Bandicoot
Perameles nasuta
Southern Giant Squid
Southern Giant Squid – Architeuthis dux
Hector's Beaked Whale
This species of beaked whale was named in 1871 after the James Hector, the curator of the Wellington Museum in New Zealand (now the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa).
Mesoplodon hectori
Shepherd's Beaked Whale
Shepherd's Beaked Whales, are known only from less than thirty stranded animals and a few unconfirmed sightings of live animals.
Tasmacetus shepherdi
True's Beaked Whale
So excited by his discovery of True's Beaked Whale, Frederick True gave it the species name 'mirus', meaning 'wonderful'.
Mesoplodon mirus
Short-finned Pilot Whale
The most distinctive feature of the Short-finned Pilot Whale is the bulbous to squarish melon head and very short beak.
Globicephala macrorhynchus
Gray's Beaked Whale
Gray's Beaked Whale is the second-most commonly stranded of the beaked whales in Australia, and is the most common beaked whale to strand in New Zealand.
Mesoplodon grayi
Digging for whale bones
Australian Museum scientists are in the process of excavating three complete whale skeletons from Lord Howe Island.
Strap-toothed Whale
The common name of the Strap-toothed Whale refers to the unusual strap-like teeth of adult males.
Mesoplodon layardii
The Australian Museum Lord Howe Island Expedition 2017—birds and mammals
Blainville's Beaked Whale
Blainville's Beaked Whales are brownish or blue-grey dorsally, and paler ventrally, with dark eye patches and often have white circular scars, perhaps caused by cookie-cutter sharks.
Mesoplodon densirostris
Many whales are stranded along the New South Wales coast each year, some of which die on the beach. Some carcasses are washed out to sea again, a few are brought straight to the Museum.
Cuvier's Beaked Whale
Cuvier's Beaked Whale has a wide distribution and has been observed at sea more often than many other beaked whale species.
Ziphius cavirostris

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Marine Corps Exchange turns to air freight to solve shortages for buyers in Japan
Tori J. Ross April 7, 2022 3 min read
Trade officials at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan are working to address commodity shortages by shipping more inventory by air rather than ocean carrier. (Jonathan Snyder/Stars and Stripes)
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan — The Marine Corps Exchange at this air station is trying to address commodity shortages by shipping more inventory by air rather than ocean carrier.
Japan's only Marine Corps Exchange is feeling the same inventory shortage plaguing retailers around the world thanks to a pandemic-induced global supply chain backlog. The slowdown in the movement of goods around the world has resulted, for example, in shortages of dairy and other products on the shelves of stores at American bases abroad.
MCAS Iwakuni exchange handlers are taking several steps, in addition to shipping air freight, to provide relief to buyers, according to a March 23 statement from Marine Corps Community Services.
"Iwakuni's remote and isolated location coupled with a [6,000] The mile's supply chain will remain an ongoing challenge to stay in stock in high-demand, high-velocity merchandise," the statement posted on Facebook said.
The exchange also stocks merchandise in a regional distribution center in California, which should result in shelves being restocked more quickly, according to Bryan Driver, a spokesman for Marine Corps Exchange headquarters.
"This process has been in place for about a month, and we are still measuring the positive impact to pick up orders placed immediately," he told Stars and Stripes via email on Wednesday.
No one commodity category accounts for the majority of shortages on the MCAS Iwakuni exchange, Driver wrote.
"It depends on seasonality, product availability, supplier fill rates, changes in demand, etc.," he said. "The past two-plus years have had significant COVID impacts on manufacturing and supply chain disruptions across all commodity categories."
The exchange service is also recruiting an analyst to track product availability issues and strengthen its relationship with the Army and Air Force exchange service.
The analyst will work with the Iwakuni exchange and buyers and managers at the exchange's headquarters to find ways to work around supply chain obstacles, according to an email Wednesday from Master Gunnery Sgt. Christof Coleman, head of business operations at MCAS community services.
AAFES and the Navy Exchange shipped goods to MCAS Iwakuni from their warehouses in Japan, Driver said.
"We are exploring a more permanent and lasting relationship for the future in the products they each stock in Japan," he said. "They too have experienced many of the same challenges [the Marine Corps Exchange] a, except that their footprints are much larger and their location is less rural.
The amount of goods that will arrive at the Iwakuni exchange by air and the amount of money allocated to pay for it have not been determined, Driver said.
Air shipments will take over when a "trigger" occurs, such as unexpected troop movements, increased sales like those that occurred during pandemic shutdowns or a delay in a freighter's travel time, a he wrote.
But some MCAS Iwakuni buyers have yet to see an improvement.
"I came from Camp Humphreys and compared to what they were doing here, they were able to maintain it a lot better," Mark Brennan, a civilian Department of Defense employee, told Stars and Stripes on Wednesday. "With the start of the sporting season, there are no studs and nothing like that."
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DAVAO CITY GOV'T EXTENDS HELP TO TORIL FIRE VICTIMS
The City Government of Davao extended financial assistance to the victims of the January fire in Daliao, Toril.
The distribution of the assistance was done on Friday, January 18.
Myrna Dadang, City Social Services and Development Office (CSSDO) Toril District head, said that the city government gave a total of P417,000 to the victims of the fire.
The fire happened on January 8 around 12:45 p.m. at Purok San Jose, Waling-waling St., Daliao, Toril and displaced a total of 39 families and 31 other individuals, who are renters in the area.
"The affected families received P10,000, while P5,000 for the sharers and P2,000 each for individual boarders," Dadang said.
Daliao Barangay Captain Rodolfo Te expressed his gratitude to the city government for helping his constituents.
"We are very grateful for the cash assistance from the city as this would help them in their everyday needs as they start building their homes again," said Te.
Two persons were injured and almost 70 houses were destroyed in the fire.
The Bureau of Fire and Protection (BFP) Davao revealed that the fire started in one of the resident's house when a cooking stove was left unattended. CIO
MAYOR INDAY SARA FORMS CLIMATE CHANGE BODY DAVAO CITY TARGETS 2.8 MILLION TOURIST ARRIVALS IN 2019


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Sharing sports beats: Can it happen here?
Struggling papers in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and Washington/Baltimore are taking a nearly unimaginable step: they're divvying up sports beats and sharing stories. Could it happen here?
By David Brauer
I've told people if newspapers ever die, sports will be the last section printed before they succumb. But finances have gotten so perilous that radical change is coming for this most lucrative of subjects.
How radical? Struggling papers in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and Washington/Baltimore are taking a nearly unimaginable step: they're divvying up sports beats and sharing stories. That's a huge move for a subject that spurs newsstand sales and web hits, and a big bummer for sports junkies who crave every bit of copy on their local favorites.
Cut to the Twin Cities: We have the bankrupt Star Tribune, and a cash-strapped Pioneer Press which didn't even send a beat reporter on the road trip where Timberwolves forward Al Jefferson tore his anterior cruciate ligament. (Prompting the question: if a knee pops and a beat writer doesn't hear it, does it make a sound?)
So could we see Strib-PiPress beat-sharing here?
Exhale, stick-and-ball junkies. "We haven't explored that with any other newspapers or had any discussions about it," says PiPress editor Thom Fladung.
Still, choices are being made. With the Wild and Gopher men's hoopsters poised for the playoffs, PiPress sports editor Mike Bass decided that to make long-established budget goals, the lowly Wolves were the logical team out. "We're looking at ways to section off some money to pay for other things," he notes.
Bass found freelancers through the Houston and New Orleans papers, but of course, neither had the team knowledge or relationships to surround a big story. (Fortunately, news that Jefferson's season was over broke after the Wolves returned to Minneapolis.)
Other calls are easier to make. Bass sent no one to the Super Bowl, which the Vikings again missed; ditto for the NBA All-Star Game, where no Wolves will play. But now he also has to figure out how to schedule everyone on his staff for five unpaid days off before April 30 — including his Twins beat writer.
The trends would indicate that one or more of the Big Six (Vikings, Twins, Wild, Wolves, Gopher football and men's basketball) will see less-than-regular coverage. Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks' blogging owner whose living with cutbacks in his city, is thinking ahead. He says newspaper coverage is so important that teams should subsidize it directly:
Bottom line is that despite the huge volume of sports coverage, the local coverage of teams for the most part sucks. There is little depth and certainly not the consistent coverage of a newspaper with a team beatwriter or 2. Thats a bad scenario for sports leagues. Teams in every league need as much local coverage as we can get. The more stories that are written by sportswriters and columnists, the more opportunities for fans to connect and stay connected to our teams. …
My suggestion to the powers that be in the leagues I have spoken to is to have the leagues work together and create a "beatwriter co-operative." We need to create a company that funds, depending on the size of the market and number of teams, 2 or more writers per market, to cover our teams in depth. The writers would cover multiple teams and multiple sports. They will report to the newspapers where the articles will be placed, who will have complete editorial control. In exchange, the newspapers will provide a minimum of a full page on a daily basis in season, and some lesser amount out of season.
That the coverage will include game reporting that is of far more depth than is currently in place, along with a minimum number of feature articles each week in and out of season. And most importantly, these articles will be exclusive to print subscribers. They can do all the ad supported short summaries online and minute by minute blog posts and tweets they would like. To make this work, print editions and subscriber only online sites have to become the defacto destinations for in depth and unique coverage. They have to become the local version of ESPN.com's for pay "ESPN Insider"
Buying anything more than small ads in papers to promote price promotions for the Mavs has not worked for us. I would far rather subsidize in depth coverage of the Mavs, even without any editorial control then spend more money on advertising.
I can't imagine newspapers going for this, primarily because of the ethics. But then again, I couldn't imagine competitors sharing sports copy, either. Would fans rather have less copy or a suitable disclaimer?
Before Cuban's recommendation comes to pass, I suspect we'd see ESPN beef up its local coverage, or more in-house efforts like MLB.com, which states that coverage isn't controlled by the league. Baseball's effort resembles the "new marketing" approach John Reinan talked of in his recent MinnPost piece. It may be better than nothing, but I suspect the rabid consumers of sports journalism would find this inferior indeed.
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Sharing sports beats: Can it happen here?

By David Brauer

Feb. 10, 2009

I've told people if newspapers ever die, sports will be the last section printed before they succumb. But finances have gotten so perilous that radical change is coming for this most lucrative of subjects.

How radical? Struggling papers in Dallas/Ft. Worth, and Washington/Baltimore are taking a nearly unimaginable step: they're divvying up sports beats and sharing stories. That's a huge move for a subject that spurs newsstand sales and web hits, and a big bummer for sports junkies who crave every bit of copy on their local favorites.

Cut to the Twin Cities: We have the bankrupt Star Tribune, and a cash-strapped Pioneer Press which didn't even send a beat reporter on the road trip where Timberwolves forward Al Jefferson tore his anterior cruciate ligament. (Prompting the question: if a knee pops and a beat writer doesn't hear it, does it make a sound?)

So could we see Strib-PiPress beat-sharing here?

Exhale, stick-and-ball junkies. "We haven't explored that with any other newspapers or had any discussions about it," says PiPress editor Thom Fladung.

Still, choices are being made. With the Wild and Gopher men's hoopsters poised for the playoffs, PiPress sports editor Mike Bass decided that to make long-established budget goals, the lowly Wolves were the logical team out. "We're looking at ways to section off some money to pay for other things," he notes.

Bass found freelancers through the Houston and New Orleans papers, but of course, neither had the team knowledge or relationships to surround a big story. (Fortunately, news that Jefferson's season was over broke after the Wolves returned to Minneapolis.)

Other calls are easier to make. Bass sent no one to the Super Bowl, which the Vikings again missed; ditto for the NBA All-Star Game, where no Wolves will play. But now he also has to figure out how to schedule everyone on his staff for five unpaid days off before April 30 — including his Twins beat writer.

The trends would indicate that one or more of the Big Six (Vikings, Twins, Wild, Wolves, Gopher football and men's basketball) will see less-than-regular coverage. Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks' blogging owner whose living with cutbacks in his city, is thinking ahead. He says newspaper coverage is so important that teams should subsidize it directly:

Bottom line is that despite the huge volume of sports coverage, the local coverage of teams for the most part sucks. There is little depth and certainly not the consistent coverage of a newspaper with a team beatwriter or 2. Thats a bad scenario for sports leagues. Teams in every league need as much local coverage as we can get. The more stories that are written by sportswriters and columnists, the more opportunities for fans to connect and stay connected to our teams. ...

My suggestion to the powers that be in the leagues I have spoken to is to have the leagues work together and create a "beatwriter co-operative." We need to create a company that funds, depending on the size of the market and number of teams, 2 or more writers per market, to cover our teams in depth. The writers would cover multiple teams and multiple sports. They will report to the newspapers where the articles will be placed, who will have complete editorial control. In exchange, the newspapers will provide a minimum of a full page on a daily basis in season, and some lesser amount out of season.

That the coverage will include game reporting that is of far more depth than is currently in place, along with a minimum number of feature articles each week in and out of season. And most importantly, these articles will be exclusive to print subscribers. They can do all the ad supported short summaries online and minute by minute blog posts and tweets they would like. To make this work, print editions and subscriber only online sites have to become the defacto destinations for in depth and unique coverage. They have to become the local version of ESPN.com's for pay "ESPN Insider"

Buying anything more than small ads in papers to promote price promotions for the Mavs has not worked for us. I would far rather subsidize in depth coverage of the Mavs, even without any editorial control then spend more money on advertising.

I can't imagine newspapers going for this, primarily because of the ethics. But then again, I couldn't imagine competitors sharing sports copy, either. Would fans rather have less copy or a suitable disclaimer?

Before Cuban's recommendation comes to pass, I suspect we'd see ESPN beef up its local coverage, or more in-house efforts like MLB.com, which states that coverage isn't controlled by the league. Baseball's effort resembles the "new marketing" approach John Reinan talked of in his recent MinnPost piece. It may be better than nothing, but I suspect the rabid consumers of sports journalism would find this inferior indeed.

This article first appeared on MinnPost and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


When Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo toiled for four years on his master work. Renoir spent six months painting Luncheon of the Boating Partythe painting featured in the film Amlie. Even Guernica, which Pablo Picasso painted quickly to publicize the bombing of the Spanish city of Guernica, took over a month to complete.
When we received orders for over 20 paintings in two weeks, we knew we were on to something. We also knew that wed have to produce paintings much faster than Michelangelo, Renoir, or Picasso.
We received the painting orders as the result of an experiment. Prior to that, we spent several years in the startup wilderness, pivoting between ideas without gaining traction, until we decided to test out a business where customers could send us photos they wanted turned into oil paintings. We created a very basic site, told people about it on Reddit, and two weeks later, had over 20 orders.
The success of this experiment led us to found Instapainting in 2014. We knew that if we wanted to build a successful business, however, we would need to produce a lot more than 24 paintings. We estimated that we needed to eventually produce thousands of paintings a month to support a large company.
This raised the question: How could we possibly paint thousands of paintings a month? How do you scale art?
The art world actually has an answer to this question, and its in China. More specifically, the answer lies in Dafen, a Chinese village where 8,000 artists working on the art worlds version of assembly lines produce three to five million paintings a year. Its a unique place with a fascinating history, and neither our business nor the modern art world could exist without it.
When we started Instapainting, TechCrunch covered our launch. Instapainting, a Y Combinator-backed company launching this morning, the article read, turns any photo into a hand-painted piece on canvas for under $100. We imagined customers uploading wedding photos, family portraits, and pictures of their pets, and we would send them oil paintings based on their photos.
As soon as we launched, a potential solution to our dilemma landed in our laps. Chinese businesspeople contacted us, offering to produce our paintings. They owned art studios, which were nearly all located in Dafen, and their painters already created artwork for competing websites that offered custom oil paintings.
The mass production of oil paintings appeared to be a well established industryall centered in Dafen. So, like many entrepreneurs before us, we headed to China.
China is big. Really big. So unfathomably big that individual Chinese cities provide individual products for the entire world. The residents of Yiwu, Chinas Christmas Village, manufacture 60% of the worlds santa hats, tinsel, and mistletoe. Dafen produces 60% of the worlds oil paintings. China has economies of scale on a scale that the economists who coined the term economies of scale never imagined.
Sign marking the entrance to Dafen Oil Painting Village.
Jiang had chosen an excellent location. Land and labor was cheap, yet the village is in Shenzhen, Chinas most successful Special Economic Zone, and very close to Hong Kongthe gateway to China for foreign businessmen. The success of Jiangs studio drew art students and novice painters to Dafen, who were employed by bosses opening new studios. By 2002, Dafen was home to 150 galleries. Today, the roughly 8,000 painters of Dafen power a global industry worth well over $100 million.
According to accounts from Chinese officials and Western press, Huang Jiang became the Henry Ford of Chinas art world. He built up his studio into a factory with 3 floors: a ground floor for packaging and shipping works of art, a second story of painting areas, and a third floor of dormitories for the painters. Other studios followed suit. Art historian Winnie Won Yin Wong writes that from 1989 to 2009, studios in Dafen progressed from rural workshops to the assembly of larger groups of painters into a single space for higher-volume production.
Dafens well known paintbrush sculpture.
One of Jiangs first, large orderswhich he received via businessmen in Hong Kongwas to produce kitschy art for K-Mart. Jiang met these massive orders thanks to his workforce of several hundred painters and as many as 2,000 subcontracted artists. One colleague of Jiang told Wong that Jiangs largest contract was for 250,000 identical paintings.
The existence of art factories like Jiangs essentially allowed Western businesses to make art like they did phones: mass produce them by outsourcing the work to China. Today, the majority of budget-priced art (think of the identical paintings you see for sale in Walmart or gracing the hallways of airports and hotels) comes from Dafen. Even episodes of The Simpsons are animated in Asia.
Painters in the largest studios spend hours painting individual brushstrokes or features on hundreds of canvasesexactly like how a worker in a Ford plant once spent all day tightening one screw on hundreds of Model T cars. By the mid 1990s, Wu Ruiqiu, the manager of an art studio in Dafen, was boasting that his painters formed an assembly line that produced thousands of identical paintings for the likes of Walmart.
We saw a similar assembly line firsthand during a trip to China. We actually first went to a painting studio in Yiwu, the town known for mass producing Christmas decorations. The studio was a bare, concrete building. A painter with rows and rows of the same half-finished canvasses scooped up paint and went down the row. He painted an identical brushstroke on each painting, and then repeated the process. One brushstroke at a time, the paintings made their way toward completion.
Photographer Susetta Bozzi has documented similar studios in Dafen, where artists often paint this way in teams. They paint spectacularly productively: single painters can produce thousands of paintings in a year, or even ten thousand.
It was both impressive and baffling to see one artist paint hundreds of identical paintings at a time. The sight also made us question whether the painters could create the custom works we had promised our customers. Dafen produced art at the scale we needed, but an assembly line didnt seem right for us.
Although Dafens assembly line reputation contrasted with our goal of making custom paintings, we never thought seriously about recruiting American artists.
One reason is that there simply is not a commercial industry in the United States. Most painters here work for idealistic reasons. It would be difficult to find enough artists willing to paint photos of people's dogs, vacations, and weddings to dependably do so at scale. We also knew that working with American artists would be quite expensive. Nevertheless our platform is open and we accept samples and signups from artists located anywhere. It just so happens the Chinese artists outnumber everyone else and actually do a better job at the paintings because they are painting every day.
But we also wanted to encourage the strengths of artists outside of the Chinese industry because they do have value to offer. We added a product, Creative Artwork, to take full advantage of artists who can offer creativity. English-speaking artists have an advantage at communicating when dealing with non-straightforward paintings, although the product lets anyone, even Chinese artists, list creative styles that deviate from the original photographs being painted. This allows anyone who can offer value beyond a simple photo to painting to differentiate from the Chinese commercial painters.
In the fine art world, collectors dont usually shop for bargains. Instead they interpret high price tags as a sign of prestige. But such high prices are usually completely disjoint from technical quality, as any technical artist would tell you. Pricing here is purely from branding. The middle class art market, however, works differently. We have to price our paintings based on the value of the labor. Its almost like the physics on a different planet. Before we entered the market it was a cesspool of shady websites and questionable business practices (we were initially threatened by a price-fixing ring, a story for another blog post). One of our main competitors, which also turns customers photos into paintings, has a banner on its website that says, 30% Off, Today Only! We see that banner on the website every day.
Our customers want artwork at an affordable price. They arent art collectors purchasing art as an investment. Their reasons are more utilitarian: a wall decoration, a unique gift, or a better way to present a photo. This is why all but our largest sizes of paintings cost less than $100. And its why we started offering mixed media oil paintings. Since the mixed media option costs half as much as a full oil painting and still looks like a painting, it already makes up over half of our sales. The pricing is based on the difficulty of the technical work involved in painting. Prices seem low, but in reality this is the real price of commercial art. Imagine if video game artists and film concept artists were paid like abstract artist Barnett Newman. We wouldnt have those things anymore. They, like our artists, are paid at the market rate for their technical skills.
Outside of the art world, a number of American companies charge higher prices by branding themselves as businesses that care where their products come from. This allows the clothing company Everlane, for example, to stand out in an industry where using cheap, overseas labor is the norm. But that isnt possible in our cost-conscious industry, where all our competitors outsource the painting work to China.
Luckily, Dafen is home to many more talented artists than youd expect from its mass production and assembly line reputation.
Most of the art world romanticizes painters. When describing a painting, museum curators and gallery owners talk about the artists quirks, vision, and career.
It seems that Chinese officials and bosses in Dafen did the opposite.
When Winnie Won Yin Wong, the author of Van Gogh on Demand, started studying Dafen, she expected to find a den of copycats and assembly lines churning out hotel room art. So did we. To her surprise, and ours, and that of many Western visitors, the artistry at Dafen was much less industrialized than we expected.
Dafens painters make thousands of copies of famous paintings like Van Goghs Starry Night every year.
This is where many of the reproduction paintings that you see on the Internet come from. But I would guess that around 10% of the paintings are original, which is still a lot!
In her interviews with artists and studio owners in Dafen, Wong uncovered a work environment that sounds nothing like an assembly line. She found that the painters did not have set hours, and they did not clock in and out every day. In most cases, the owners let the painters fulfill orders on their own and, after checking the quality, paid the artists per painting.
A painter paints from a small studio. They told us they only came to the studio because we were visiting, and that they normally paint from their homes.
Although painters will work together, assembly-line-style, to meet large orders, Wong writes that these situations are intermittent. The norm is for painters to work individually. And even when painters do work in teams, the analogy to an assembly line breaks down.
A line worker in a Ford factory has no idea how to build an entire car; Dafens painters, in contrast, always know how to make the entire painting, even if they occasionally divide the work for the sake of efficiency. The absurdity of an art assembly line becomes obvious when you imagine someone without artistic skill being told to paint just the clouds in a landscape or just the first couple brush strokes of the Mona Lisa. Instead of breaking down the artistic process into unskilled parts, Wong writes, through such practices apprentices could learn [to paint] the whole work. As a result, Dafen painters could improve their skills and often made decent wages or even became owners of studios themselves.
This art studio also has their own framing shop where they hand make the frames from wooden bars.
So why does Dafen have a reputation for giant art factories? Well, it may have been a genius marketing move.
In Van Gogh on Demand, Wong recounts how Hong Kong businessmen have turned to rural, Chinese art studios to meet large orders from Western businesses since before Dafens first art studio opened. Huang Jiangs workshop in Dafen, which has been mythologized as inventing the art factory model, was so typical of the industry that when a government official visited in 1999, he did not understand the fuss.
The assembly line rhetoric, however, was a media coup. American journalists and readers loved the idea of a factory that spewed out Monet paintings. And it likely played well with Western executives, who preferred to hear that their product was being mass produced in factories rather than subcontracted to rural artists.
A year and a half after our launch, we had delivered thousands of handmade oil paintings to Instapainting customers. We face a number of challenges and lingering questions as we grow: the challenge of quickly shipping a custom product from China to our customers, the question of whether to expand into the reproductions business, and the necessity of acquiring more customers. Yet we never worry about finding enough artists to paint for us.
One of the studios where artists make our paintings is owned by Edmond Li. Just as Wong describes in Van Gogh on Demand, Lis studio in Dafen defies the villages image as a massive art factory. The studio has work space for five artists, who work 8 to 10 hour days painting both reproductions and original paintings. Li can outsource work to additional painters when he gets a surge of orders, but his talented painters support a substantial business. Lis artists have 5 to 10 years of experience. He says that one has a university degree, and the others have all been trained by painters.
Li runs an excellent business; he also faces significant competition. Since our launch, we have regularly received emails from the owners of Dafen painting studios who would like to work with Instapainting. When we work with a new studio, we always order samples to ensure their quality. This, combined with rolling customer feedback, ensures only the top artists stay inside our network.
The art industry in China is simply set up to efficiently produce reproduction and custom paintings. Dafen is home to so many Chinese artists who are able and willing to do this work that it gives us the great advantage of being able to choose the top artists to work with. Thanks to Dafen, our question of how to produce 10,000 paintings a month is effectively solved.
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Check out our arduino powered robotic painting replicator.
See the gallery of actual paintings being ordered out of China.
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Yes, you can get your own photo turned into a painting for the holidays.
Are you an artist? You can signup to sell through Instapainting.com by emailing support@instapainting.com. We accept registrations from artists around the world.


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Hole Punch Clouds over West Virginia
December 11, 2009JPEG
Looking up on a chilly December morning in 2009, residents of rural West Virginia (southwest of Charleston) would have seen a halo of light bursting through the thin bank of clouds that hung overhead. The light was streaming through hole-punch clouds and canals, most likely created by passing airplanes. This image, taken by the Landsat-5 satellite on December 11, 2009, shows the unique conditions in which such holes form.
When airplanes, particularly propeller aircraft, pass through the clouds, they disturb the air. The air expands in the turbulence created by the propellers and wings. As the air expands, it cools, and the supercooled water droplets in the clouds freeze into ice. These ice crystals act as seeds for other water droplets to freeze onto. Over time, the water clouds around the disturbed area disappear and an ice cloud grows.
The clouds created in this manner take two different forms: hole-punch clouds and canals. The hole-punch clouds consist of an ice cloud surrounded by a halo of clear sky where the water in the clouds has frozen into ice and disappeared. Canals resemble contrails. They are long streaks where ice clouds are continuously being formed as the aircraft travels in the altocumulus cloud layer.
The image above was made with both infrared and visible light, in a combination that makes it possible to distinguish between water and ice clouds. The even cloud blanket is pale blue and pink, the warmer tones of water clouds. In the hole-punch clouds, however, we see the iridescent blue signature of ice, surrounded by a halo of clear sky. A similar blue streak from a canal runs across the top left.
The surrounding cloud bank is made up of altocumulus clouds, sitting at an altitude of 2,000 to 7,000 meters (6,600 – 23,000 feet), where temperatures ranged between minus five and minus twenty degrees Celsius, according to radiosonde data taken nearby. Despite the chill, this image reveals that the clouds were made of water, not ice.
NASA image by Rob Simmon using Landsat 5 data from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer. Caption by Holli Riebeek with image interpretation courtesy Andrew Heymsfield.
Cold winter conditions set the stage for these unusual clouds that can form due to airplane traffic.
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Heymsfield, A.J., Kennedy, P.C., Massie, S., Schmitt, S., Schmitt, C., Wang, Z., Haimov, S., and Rangno, A. (2010, June). Aircraft-induced hole punch and canal clouds, inadvertent cloud seeding. Bulletin of the American Meterological Society, 91 (6), 753-766.
NASA Earth Observatory. (2007, January 31). Hole punch clouds in Acadiana. Accessed November 15, 2010.
University of Wyoming Department of Atmospheric Science. (2009, December 11). Radiosonde data 72318 RNK Blacksburg observations at 00Z Dec 2009. Accessed November 15, 2010.
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Hole-punch and canal clouds form when aircraft pass through altocumulus clouds that are rich with supercooled water droplets.
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Hole-Punch Clouds over the Southeast
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Hole Punch Clouds in Acadiana
These "hole punch" clouds were just as apparent from above as they were from below. This MODIS image shows a number of round holes in a blanket of cloud cover over Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. A few of the "holes" are elongated, with what appear to be smaller clouds inside them.


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Today the UK announced it would provide £14.8mn over three years from the International Climate Fund to the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). The announcement was made at GGGI's Assembly and Council meeting held in Songdo, South Korea on 18 November. The UK has been a GGGI partner country since 2011 and a founding member since GGGI became an international organisation in October 2012.
The UK has long been clear that environmental sustainability and economic growth can not only go hand in hand, but are mutually reinforcing. Low carbon development will help the poorest countries to boost their economies and tackle poverty, while at the same time reducing carbon emissions and the impact of climate change.
British Ambassador Scott Wightman said:
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Q: Creating a list of values that are not null Im trying to save three values from SQLite in a Python list. All values are from a different column but in the same row. If the value is null I dont want to add it to the list. This is the code I wrote:
    def create_list(self, chat):
    list = []
    for x in range(1, 3):
        column_name = "list" + str(x)
        value = c.execute("SELECT (?) FROM user WHERE (?) NOTNULL AND id = (?)", (column_name, column_name, chat)).fetchall()
        if value != None:
            list.append(value[0][0])
    print(list)

Instead of printing the SQLite values in a list it just prints: ['list1', 'list2', 'list3'] (If one of the values in the table is null it doesnt print that one. For example if the value in column liste3 is null it just prints ['list1', 'list2'])
How can I fix this so that it saves the actual SQLite values in the list?

A: I had the same problem.
SQLite package ignores NULL values by default after fetching the data. you need to put a condition that prints 'Empty' or something when it faces NULL values. something like:
conn = sqlite3.connect("someDataBase.db")
db = conn.cursor()

db.execute('''
    SELECT name, email
    FROM person
    WHERE name = 'some dude'
''')

result = db.fetchone()

if result is None: #if a value IS NULL
    print 'Empty'
else:
    var = result[0]
    print var

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require 'spec_helper'

describe Github::Client::Issues::Labels, '#delete' do
  let(:user)   { 'peter-murach' }
  let(:repo)   { 'github' }
  let(:label_id) { 1 }
  let(:request_path) { "/repos/#{user}/#{repo}/labels/#{label_id}" }

  before {
    stub_delete(request_path).
      to_return(:body => body, :status => status,
      :headers => {:content_type => "application/json; charset=utf-8"})
  }

  after { reset_authentication_for(subject) }

  context "resouce removed" do
    let(:body) { fixture('issues/label.json') }
    let(:status) { 204 }

    it "should remove resource successfully" do
      subject.delete user, repo, label_id
      a_delete(request_path).should have_been_made
    end
  end

  it_should_behave_like 'request failure' do
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  end
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"Her whole life." That's what she gave, friends. The Greek is certain. Clear. Little room for wiggle room. Not a portion. Not a tithe. Not a percentage. But her whole living.
Her whole living? That should be a moment for pause. None of us can give that to the church, or to anyone or anything, for that matter. So we cannot reduce her donation to a percentage or a portion. We cannot rationalize her offering for the sake of dedication to some calculated stewardship campaign. She gave her whole life to God. If we turn this into a stewardship sermon, we have most certainly succeeded in undermining this widow's gift at best and making it an example at worst.
Her whole life. Why? Out of obligation? Respect? Demand? Expectation? Religiosity? Piety? All of the above? She gave her whole life because there were no other options. She gave her whole life because that's what was expected of her. She gave her whole life because her life depended on it. Caught in a system of quid pro quo, trapped in expectations that demanded more from her than she could practically give, knowing that her future depended on her present, she had to do what she did. She acted out of assumptions and assertions and assessments that located her, managed her, and determined her life. There was no other recourse than to give her whole life.
To be clear, very clear. This is not an indictment against Judaism. No way and no how. This was the system. This was reality. And yet Jesus makes an important observation about this reality. Jesus risks speaking the truth, or at least he does according to Mark. At its heart, this was the Jesus movement. And that is something to consider and ponder as preachers over and over again. The Jesus movement claimed that God was up to something new -- not a new doctrine, not a new faith, not a new God, but God committed to a continued way of being in relationship with God, with the world, for the sake of the world, and for the sake of every believer's identity in the world that might incarnate God's love.
Jesus sought to inject ways of thinking about God that might have been experienced as resistant to the status quo. There is no way the Jesus movement could have ever gotten off the ground were it not for a persistent diversity in Jewish thought, belief, and praxis in the first century. The ministry of Jesus was meant to be counter, could be counter, and countered everything in part because the ways of imagining God in the world had already been called into question and had exceeded expectations. The more we remember this the better.
If we reduce the widow's giving to our giving to the church, we have missed the point of this story entirely. This is what we are prone to do as preachers -- taking characters to serve as our "better than thous." Using characters to make as foils for our betterment. This is a story that calls our bluff. You, dear preacher, need to respond, react, even reimagine her for the sake of your context and for yourself.
The Bible says, the Scriptures insist, and God needs that the characters we meet cannot simply be examples. They cannot be always those about whom we say, "wow, I need to be more like" or "if I were more like…" They have to be invitations to embody how we will follow Jesus. They have to be those that allow us to imagine what the kingdom of God looks like. And that kingdom starts with whole life living.
We cannot miss that her offering of her life foreshadows Jesus' own act for us.
To what extent Jesus points her out, not to give us justification for a stewardship sermon, or to call attention to our own lives of service, but that in her he sees what he must do.
Jesus will have to give his whole life, his entire life. He already did, in fact, prior to the cross. He constantly embraced rejection. He consistently accepted the questioning of his followers. He confirmed over and over again that following him would mean whole life giving and whole life living. The widow's example should be nothing new and at the same time should be everything new.
She embodies Jesus' own ministry. She acts out Jesus' own call. She believes that what she does will manifest itself in something beyond herself. In the end, that is truly discipleship according to Mark, that is truly salvific according to Mark, and it is what Jesus portrays according to Mark. But more so, according to Mark, this is the essence of God.
God calls us to whole life living. That's what discipleship is all about.


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Q: Matplotlib animate fill_between shape I am trying to animate a fill_between shape inside matplotlib and I don't know how to update the data of the PolyCollection. Take this simple example: I have two lines and I am always filling between them. Of course, the lines change and are animated.
Here is a dummy example:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Init plot:
f_dummy = plt.figure(num=None, figsize=(6, 6));
axes_dummy = f_dummy.add_subplot(111);

# Plotting:
line1, = axes_dummy.plot(X, line1_data, color = 'k', linestyle = '--', linewidth=2.0, animated=True);
line2, = axes_dummy.plot(X, line2_data, color = 'Grey', linestyle = '--', linewidth=2.0, animated=True);
fill_lines = axes_dummy.fill_between(X, line1_data, line2_data, color = '0.2', alpha = 0.5, animated=True);

f_dummy.show();
f_dummy.canvas.draw();
dummy_background = f_dummy.canvas.copy_from_bbox(axes_dummy.bbox);

# [...]

# Update plot data:
def update_data():
   line1_data = # Do something with data
   line2_data = # Do something with data
   f_dummy.canvas.restore_region( dummy_background );
   line1.set_ydata(line1_data);
   line2.set_ydata(line2_data);

   # Update fill data too

   axes_dummy.draw_artist(line1);
   axes_dummy.draw_artist(line2);

   # Draw fill too

   f_dummy.canvas.blit( axes_dummy.bbox );

The question is how to update the fill_between Poly data based on line1_data and line2_data each time update_data() is called and draw them before blit ("# Update fill data too" & "# Draw fill too"). I tried fill_lines.set_verts() without success and could not find an example.

A: this is not my answer, but I found it most useful:
http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/animation-of-a-fill-between-region-td42814.html
Hi Mauricio,
Patch objects are a bit more difficult to work with than line objects, because unlike line objects are a step removed from the input data supplied by the user.  There is an example similar to what you want to do here: http://matplotlib.org/examples/animation/histogram.html
Basically, you need to modify the vertices of the path at each frame.  It might look something like this:
from matplotlib import animation
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.set_xlim([0,10000])

x = np.linspace(6000.,7000., 5)
y = np.ones_like(x)

collection = plt.fill_between(x, y)

def animate(i):
    path = collection.get_paths()[0]
    path.vertices[:, 1] *= 0.9

animation.FuncAnimation(fig, animate,
                        frames=25, interval=30)

Take a look at path.vertices to see how they're laid out.
Hope that helps,
   Jake

A: If you don't want to use anitmation, or to remove everything from your figure to update only filling, you could use this way :
call fill_lines.remove() and then call again axes_dummy.fill_between() to draw new ones. It worked in my case.

A: Ok, as someone pointed out, we are dealing with a collection here, so we will have to delete and redraw. So somewhere in the update_data function, delete all collections associated with it:
axes_dummy.collections.clear()

and draw the new "fill_between" PolyCollection:
axes_dummy.fill_between(x, y-sigma, y+sigma, facecolor='yellow', alpha=0.5)

A similar trick is required to overlay an unfilled contour plot on top of a filled one, since an unfilled contour plot is a Collection as well (of lines I suppose?).

A: initialize pyplot interactive mode
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.ion()

use the optional label argument when plotting the fill:
plt.fill_between(
    x,
    y1,
    y2,
    color="yellow",
    label="cone"
)

plt.pause(0.001) # refresh the animation

later in our script we can select by label to delete that specific fill or a list of fills, thus animating on a object by object basis.
axis = plt.gca()

fills = ["cone", "sideways", "market"]

for collection in axis.collections:
    if str(collection.get_label()) in fills:
        collection.remove()
        del collection

plt.pause(0.001)

you can use the same label for groups of objects you would like to delete; or otherwise encode the labels with tags as needed to suit needs
for example if we had fills labelled:
"cone1" "cone2" "sideways1"
if "cone" in str(collection.get_label()):

would sort to delete both those prefixed with "cone".
You can also animate lines in the same manner
for line in axis.lines:

A: another idiom which will work is too keep a list of your plotted objects; this method seems to work with any type of plotted object.
# plot interactive mode on
plt.ion()

# create a dict to store "fills"
# perhaps some other subclass of plots
# "yellow lines" etc.
plots = {"fills":[]}

# begin the animation
while 1:

    # cycle through previously plotted objects
    # attempt to kill them; else remember they exist
    fills = []
    for fill in plots["fills"]:
        try:
            # remove and destroy reference
            fill.remove()
            del fill
        except:
            # and if not try again next time
            fills.append(fill)
            pass
    plots["fills"] = fills

    # transformation of data for next frame
    x, y1, y2 = your_function(x, y1, y2)

    # fill between plot is appended to stored fills list
    plots["fills"].append(
        plt.fill_between(
            x,
            y1,
            y2,
            color="red",
        )
    )

    # frame rate
    plt.pause(1)

A: In contrast to what most answers here stated, it is not necessary to remove and redraw a PolyCollection returned by fill_between each time you want to update its data. Instead, you can modify the vertices and codes attribute of the underlying Path object. Let's assume you've created a PolyCollection via
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

#dummy data
x = np.arange(10)
y0 = x-1
y1 = x+1

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot()
p = ax.fill_between(x,y0,y1)

and now you want to update p with new data xnew, y0new and y1new. Then what you could do is
v_x = np.hstack([xnew[0],xnew,xnew[-1],xnew[::-1],xnew[0]])
v_y = np.hstack([y1new[0],y0new,y0new[-1],y1new[::-1],y1new[0]])
vertices = np.vstack([v_x,v_y]).T
codes = np.array([1]+(2*len(xnew)+1)*[2]+[79]).astype('uint8')

path = p.get_paths()[0]
path.vertices = vertices
path.codes = codes

Explanation: path.vertices contains the vertices of the patch drawn by fill_between including additional start and end positions, path.codes contains instructions on how to use them (1=MOVE POINTER TO, 2=DRAW LINE TO, 79=CLOSE POLY).


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Guns, Medical Marijuana At Issue In House
By News Service of Florida • Sep 30, 2015
As lawmakers continue preparing for the 2016 legislative session, House panels next week will take up a bill that would allow people to openly carry firearms and will get an update about a medical-marijuana law passed last year.
The House Criminal Justice Subcommittee on Tuesday will consider a measure (HB 163), filed by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fort Walton Beach, that would allow people with concealed-weapons licenses to openly carry firearms.
The bill also calls for other changes in gun-related laws, including giving direction for judges to use "strict scrutiny" when reviewing laws dealing with the right to bear arms or self defense.
"The right to bear arms is a fundamental and individual right that exists in any place that a person has the right to be, subject only to exceptionally and narrowly tailored restrictions that employ the least possible restriction on the right in order to achieve a compelling government interest,'' the bill says.
Meanwhile Tuesday, the House Health Quality Subcommittee will receive an update about how the state is carrying out a 2014 law that allows the sale and use of non-euphoric types of medical marijuana.
Backers of the law said it could help patients such as children with severe forms of epilepsy, but the cannabis remains unavailable, at least in part because of delays stemming from legal disputes.
concealed-weapons licenses
medical pot
House Panel OKs Guns in Schools
By Brandon Larrabee of The News Service of Florida • Mar 12, 2015
A measure that would allow school employees and volunteers to carry guns on campus was approved by a House panel Wednesday as lawmakers continue to discuss the meeting place between firearms and education.
The legislation (HB 19) received the backing of the House K-12 Subcommittee on a bipartisan, 10-1 vote. But one lawmaker who supported the bill voiced concern about the measure.


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[quote:Scully 662749:MV84NzcyNDJfM0IxRUE3MTM=] [b]Before he tells us on Friday...does anyone know how he pulled this off?[/b] Illusionist Derren Brown has stunned television viewers in the UK, by apparently predicting the nation's lottery results. Before the numbers were drawn, he appeared to write down the six winning figures on to six white balls. Then in a small live studio, he wrote down the numbers on a card as the lottery was drawn on another TV channel, and then revealed his ball numbers matched the result exactly. Rumours that the show was pre-recorded were dispelled by the simulataneous nature of the broadcast. Unfortunately, Brown had been banned from buying a ticket, so was not able to cash in his talent. Internet chat rooms are rife with fans discussing how he might have carried out his trick. The illusionist has promised to reveal on Friday, September 11 how he did it and how viewers at home can also do it. Speaking about the stunt before he did, Brown said he realised there are a lot of questions this brings up. "I hope they'll be answered on the Friday night show," he said. Derren's previous TV specials have included live Russian Roulette, a seance and a foolproof horse race gambling system. Brown is a mentallist, magician and illusionist and uses a range of techniques including hypnosis and misdirection to achieve his illusions. He is also a well-known sceptic, artist and atheist. Derren has a massive fan base in the UK but is not as well known in Australia. http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/6017283/illusionist-predicts-lottery Predicting lottery numbers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reporter: Bryan Seymour Broadcast Date: September 09, 2009 Illusionist Derren Brown will attempt to predict the UK lottery results this Wednesday in the first episode of his new television series. The illusionist will broadcast live from a secret location and, in a television first, Britain's Channel 4 will show the event across its entire network. Related lotto stories Getting the lotto edge Scratch a winning itch Secrets to winning Following the live prediction, Derren will reveal on Friday, September 11 how he did it and how viewers at home can also do it. Speaking about the stunt, Brown said he realises there are a lot of questions this brings up. "I hope they'll be answered on the Friday night show," he said. "For now, I'm really excited and really nervous and cannot tell you for sure how well it will work. "Some things just have to be tried." Derren's previous TV specials have included live Russian Roulette, a seance and a foolproof horse race gambling system. Brown is a mentallist, magician and illusionist and uses a range of techniques including hypnosis and misdirection to achieve his illusions. He is also a well-known sceptic, artist and atheist. Maths lecturer Clio Cresswell from the University of Sydney is sceptical. "For this one you only need six numbers so it's one in 14 million which is a 99.99999 per cent chance of losing," he said. "I'm telling you he has not found a way to pick the numbers, otherwise he'd be playing lottery and not telling anyone about it." Lottery factsLotto Most common numbers: 45, 24, 26, 35, 31, 2 Least common numbers: 33, 36, 8, 40, 9, 15 Most overdue numbers: 7, 11, 18, 29, 36, 25 Oz Lotto Most common numbers: 3, 35, 13, 33, 17, 26, 16 Least common numbers: 36, 14, 38, 30, 10, 42, 31 Most overdue numbers: 23, 16, 12, 13, 38, 8, 34 Powerball Most common numbers: 22, 5, 34, 39, 40, 24 Least common numbers: 32, 10, 35, 4, 20, 9 Most overdue numbers: 15, 31, 12, 7, 1, 30 Quick facts One in three Aussies will buy a ticket. In Chinese culture, the number eight is particularly lucky, while four and 13 are the most unpopular. Even if you bought 1000 options, your chances of losing are still 99.9977796 per cent. You can pick the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 because they have exactly the same odds as every other number. The luckiest area is definitely Cabramatta in New South Wales. Postcode 2166 has won a staggering $58 million over the last 10 years in lottery wins of various kinds. Derren Brown Derren Brown The Events is a series on Channel 4 in the UK. [/quote]
Original Message Before he tells us on Friday...does anyone know how he pulled this off?
Illusionist Derren Brown has stunned television viewers in the UK, by apparently predicting the nation's lottery results.
Before the numbers were drawn, he appeared to write down the six winning figures on to six white balls.
Then in a small live studio, he wrote down the numbers on a card as the lottery was drawn on another TV channel, and then revealed his ball numbers matched the result exactly.
Rumours that the show was pre-recorded were dispelled by the simulataneous nature of the broadcast.
Unfortunately, Brown had been banned from buying a ticket, so was not able to cash in his talent.
Internet chat rooms are rife with fans discussing how he might have carried out his trick.
The illusionist has promised to reveal on Friday, September 11 how he did it and how viewers at home can also do it.
Speaking about the stunt before he did, Brown said he realised there are a lot of questions this brings up.
"I hope they'll be answered on the Friday night show," he said.
Derren's previous TV specials have included live Russian Roulette, a seance and a foolproof horse race gambling system.
Brown is a mentallist, magician and illusionist and uses a range of techniques including hypnosis and misdirection to achieve his illusions.
He is also a well-known sceptic, artist and atheist.
Derren has a massive fan base in the UK but is not as well known in Australia.
[link to au.news.yahoo.com]
Predicting lottery numbers
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Reporter: Bryan Seymour
Broadcast Date: September 09, 2009
Illusionist Derren Brown will attempt to predict the UK lottery results this Wednesday in the first episode of his new television series.
The illusionist will broadcast live from a secret location and, in a television first, Britain's Channel 4 will show the event across its entire network.
Related lotto stories
Getting the lotto edge
Scratch a winning itch
Secrets to winning
Following the live prediction, Derren will reveal on Friday, September 11 how he did it and how viewers at home can also do it.
Speaking about the stunt, Brown said he realises there are a lot of questions this brings up.
"For now, I'm really excited and really nervous and cannot tell you for sure how well it will work.
"Some things just have to be tried."
Maths lecturer Clio Cresswell from the University of Sydney is sceptical.
"For this one you only need six numbers so it's one in 14 million which is a 99.99999 per cent chance of losing," he said.
"I'm telling you he has not found a way to pick the numbers, otherwise he'd be playing lottery and not telling anyone about it."
Lottery factsLotto
Most common numbers: 45, 24, 26, 35, 31, 2
Least common numbers: 33, 36, 8, 40, 9, 15
Most overdue numbers: 7, 11, 18, 29, 36, 25
Most common numbers: 3, 35, 13, 33, 17, 26, 16
Least common numbers: 36, 14, 38, 30, 10, 42, 31
Most overdue numbers: 23, 16, 12, 13, 38, 8, 34
Most common numbers: 22, 5, 34, 39, 40, 24
Least common numbers: 32, 10, 35, 4, 20, 9
Most overdue numbers: 15, 31, 12, 7, 1, 30
One in three Aussies will buy a ticket.
In Chinese culture, the number eight is particularly lucky, while four and 13 are the most unpopular.
Even if you bought 1000 options, your chances of losing are still 99.9977796 per cent.
You can pick the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 because they have exactly the same odds as every other number.
The luckiest area is definitely Cabramatta in New South Wales. Postcode 2166 has won a staggering $58 million over the last 10 years in lottery wins of various kinds.
Derren Brown The Events is a series on Channel 4 in the UK.
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[PDF] ✩ African Americans in the Spanish Civil War This Ain't Ethiopia but It'll Do Author Danny Duncan Collum – Sallow.co On the day after Christmas in 1936 the first contingent of American volunteers intent on fighting the fascist forces threatening democracy in Spain left New York Harbor aboard the SS Normandie Among tOn the day after Christmas in 1936 the first contingent of American volunteers intent on fighting the fascist forces threatening democracy in Spain left New York Harbor aboard the SS Normandie Among these 95 were two African Americans Alonzo Watson and Edward White Watson would also be among the first to die on the Spanish battlefield Nearly 3000 Americans eventually joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and traveled to Spain to take up what has come to be called the good fight Among their number were about 90 African Americans This book tells the little known story of their role in what may be the least understood military conflict of the twentie.
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Russian President will visit Tehran next month to discuss delivery Antey-2500 missile system 2407133
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013 04:57 PM
Russian President will visit Tehran next month to discuss the delivery of Antey-2500 missile system.
Russian President Vladimir Putin may visit Tehran next month, according to a newspaper report. Among other things he is to discuss with Iran's new president is a possible deal to supply advanced antiballistic missiles Antey-2500 (S-300VM) to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Antey-2500 (S-300VM SA-23 Gladiator / Giant) technical data sheet
Putin is expected to fly to Iran on August 12 to meet in person the country's newly-elected President Hassan Rouhani, reports the Russian business daily Kommersant citing anonymous sources. Iran's Mehr news agency said Putin would arrive on August 16, without citing a source.
The trip would probably be the first visit of a foreign head of state to the country after Rouhani is sworn in on August 4 and replaces Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the head of Iranian government.
The two leaders are likely to discuss a number of pressing political and economic issues from Iran's controversial nuclear program to Russia's participation in the expansion of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, the report says. Among them is a possible arms deal, which is certain to draw objections from some countries.
Russia is offering Iran to purchase S-300VM Antey-2500 air defense systems, according to defense industry sources.
Military experts believe that the Antey-2500 deal would be more attractive to Tehran. The system was tailored to intercept tactical ballistic missiles. A possible Israeli attack on Iran is expected to start with a massive missile attack on Iran's key air defense sites and military air bases before follow-up airstrikes at its fortified nuclear enrichment facilities. S-300VMs are well-suited to counter this threat, Kommersant said.
The S-300VM "Antey-2500" (NATO reporting name SA-23 Gladiator\Giant) is a Russian-made anti-ballistic missile system designed and manufactured by the Company Almaz-Antey. The S-300VM has a maximum target detection range of up to 250 km, with aerodynamic target engagement envelope of up to 200 km (range) and altitude from 250 m. to 30 km. It can engage simultaneously up to 24 targets and up to 48 guided missiles.


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Through this website, it is my aim to dessiminate information about traditional herbal knowledge, medicinal plants, biodiversity, environmental threats and other issues related to Patalkot. Its been almost one and half decade, I am trying my best to scout and document age-old herbal knowledge of tribesmen living here. Currently, I am in process to digitalize the complete information so that I gift it to the coming generations of enthusiast workers. I think, it is need of the hour to prepare a plan for conservation of medicinal plants as well as documentation of indigenous knowledge of tribes of this area and various other hilly zones of Satpuda platue.
I came across various problems of the tribals during my work in the valley. Deforestation, poaching, forest mafia and other sensible issues related to over harvesting in valley. I acted quickly and thought the issues should be brought to a broader platform. I started writing articles on issues such as indigenous knowledge, healthcare remedies, tribal issues, threats in the valley, migration, deforestation, medicinal plant uprooting, role of brokers and many more in various National and International magazines. A complete coverage of my mission in Patalkot was given as a cover story by Wall Street Journal, USA. ECOS-Australia also published couple of articles on threatening issues of Patalkot and also it described about the wisdom of tribal folks of this valley. Medicinal flora and biodiversity of this valley is currently in danger and there is greater need to take immediate initiatives so that the culture and rare plants of the valley are saved. I have been seeking help from National and International core groups/ agencies but could'nt get success, still, there is no way to giving it up.
Government and local administration is planning to make this place a tourist spot. For past 4-5 years, there are events like paraglyding, paracycling, water rafting, rock climbing, balloon riding etc. are being organised on the name of eco-tourism and upliftment of local folks living in the valley. According to my own views, making it an Eco-Tourist's spot is a big threat to the beauty of the valley, You may read my bytes and opinion in various media clips available on this site. There are several other issues on which Government has to think upon before implementing any of such projects. Their culture should not be in danger or spoiled. Biotic pressure should not affect their life style and culture. We must seek a way to avoid interference of so called Forest Mafias. Tribals have been cheated a lot by the politicians, policy makers, educational institutes, scientists, NGOs and harvesters.
It is also home to a tribal culture skilled at using the forest plants to make effective medicines. The Patalkot forest is so well hidden that people on the outside did not even know it ever existed. The modern world has been completely unaware of its existence. Now there are increasing threats of deforestation and exploitation of the people there. The natives (Bharias and Gonds) who live there know how to collect and grow the plants they need for food, clothing and building their homes. They know the secrets of the medicinal plants. This special skill has been passed down every generation. More than 2,000 natives live in villages scattered throughout the forest. There is a great harmony among them living in a comfortable balance, gladly helping each other, growing and collecting their own food. They are unusually skilled at making pulps and extracts of plants for curing illnesses. They have medicinal treatments for many illnesses including, measles, cholera, hypertension, diabetes, coughs, snake bites, and even pains. Patalkot was becoming famous for its treasure of medicinal plants. With the discovery Patalkot's treasures, some other things began to happen. The natives are generous with their knowledge and offer their medicinal secrets with open hearts. This is how the people there have always survived, by sharing information and supplies with each other. People who came to the forest, however, saw a way to profit from this. They brought in teams of harvesters to strip the forest for valuable herbs. They sold them outside for great profit. Important and endangered medicinal plants are at the verge of death/ extinction. And even more, whole sections of forest were cut to gain easier access to collection sites. In return outsiders gave the tribal people portable radios that blared through the forest, frightening off wildlife and quickly replacing the communal music that bound the tribes together. This enabled the loggers to cut down the trees very easily. The tribals of the valley regions are well versed in treating various types of human disorder or ailments.
I am distressed to see these things happening and now I am acting quickly to protect the valley and its people. It is wonderful to discover a place full of natural treasures, but we must always protect a place we love without demanding any returns. I urge people to come forward and save this beautiful valley and culture of the people.
My mission is to scout, document the indigenous knowledge and convert it into finished products so that people all around the world get safer, cheaper and healthier herbal options for their health. In other words, the process is like translation tribals knowledge into finished products by the means of tools of modern science. In the whole process, I am determined to safeguard their IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) and acknowledge them financially out from the profit.
It is need of the hour to prepare a plan for conservation of medicinal plants as well as documentation of indigenous knowledge of tribes. It should be so designed that the children and youth can play an important role in the process. Unfortunately, not only are we facing the problem of pollution, biodiversity extinction but the country is also passing through a crisis of character. In these alarming situations, there is still a ray of hope because the children and youth have maintained their morale. I pray God to give everybody the desire and commitment to save their nature and its resources.


I'd call this the "calm before the storm," but it's not quiet on our block. All day, landscaping crews have been working, filling the air with the near-constant whirr of Weed Whackers and leaf blowers. At first, I thought our neighbors were getting ripped off — seriously, they're using leaf blowers just hours before a major hurricane hits NYC?? But apparently they are trimming bushes and trees and clearing anything that could block drainage from torrential rains.
We finished our hurricane prep this morning — putting outdoor furniture in the garage, bringing in potted plants, securing the sandbox lid, etc. Over the past couple of days we stocked up on canned food, water, flashlights, batteries, candles, and gas in the car, so we should have all the supplies we need for the coming days. We're hunkering down at home — we live in NYC's hurricane evacuation "Zone C," but we don't expect to be told to evacuate during this storm. So really all that's left to do is wait.
Besides the physical preparations, we've been trying to mentally prepare N for the coming storm. She knows about radar — we taught her how to read it on the iPad during our summer storms this year. We explained what would happen during the hurricane and tried to be as reassuring as possible. She has been asking lots of questions, like, "Mama, do hurricanes blow down houses?" All her questions have provided us with opportunities to reassure her.
"Our house will blow down," she wailed.
"No, our house will not blow down," I said firmly. Then I tried saying all the normal reassuring parent-things, like "we're going to be just fine," and "mommy and daddy will be here all the time." Nothing worked — she just kept crying.
Then I said, "Did you know that our house is SO excited right now?" She stopped crying and looked at me curiously, so I continued, "Our house is SO excited that it gets to protect us in a hurricane!" I pretended to be our house, saying things like "All right! Come on hurricane! You can't do anything bad to me!" She started to smile and I could tell she was absorbed by the thought. After that, bedtime went more smoothly.
I have to admit that my nerves are a bit more frayed than usual, given the week our family has had — even prior to Irene's arrival. Earlier this week G flew to Seattle for a three-day business trip, leaving me with primary responsibility for the girls. That was stressful enough — but while he was away a 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Virginia, and here in NYC, the ground shook beneath our feet.
We were lucky that the earthquake wasn't a major event and didn't seriously injure anyone. Hurricane Irene is a different story — today we heard that the storm has already claimed at least two lives in North Carolina, due to tree branches snapping in high winds.
Here in Brooklyn, we know that Irene will bring high winds and lots of rain, but we don't really know what her impacts will be. So we're in wait-and-see mode.
In the past few minutes, the Weed Whackers and leaf blowers have stopped. So now it really is the calm before the storm.
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Hope you guys stay safe and dry!


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