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Frugally challenged: What a week!
This was never going to be one of the best weeks of my life but oh dear!
I had decided that I wanted to get some decorating done. The "dining room" in particular needed a little help and I decided to have the hallway done at the same time. My dining room is rarely used for dining but it is often used for sewing, sometimes used as a bedroom and I have previously called it the Room of Shame on this blog.
Anyway, I had to empty the room for the decorator to do his bit. Add to that the stuff from the hallway and my general untidiness and you will see that even at the start of the week I had a problem.
I decided to sacrifice the sitting room.
Anyway, the decorator moved in and I went out as much as I could. Until he said, "Did you realise that you have a large bulge in your hot water tank?" No I hadn't realised and once I did realise I was rather uneasy! Phone call to the landlord and visit from plumber. I had to empty the linen cupboard. The tank was replaced.
The plumber and the decorator have now gone their separate ways and I have my home to myself. Not that I can relax exactly. This is my sitting room this morning. The plus side of this photo is that I know I can find my vacuum cleaner and Father Christmas is giving me a cheery wave.
It's always the same when you decorate a room, everywhere else gets mucked up, you made it worse by doing two places at once. Time for a sort out.
It would have been nice to have had them decorated one at a time but it would have been an expensive nice. Definitely time for a sort-out.
What a timely post - and warning of things to come - possibly.
I've been contemplating decorating my living room for ages, but the contemplation doesn't stop there. There's a picture in my mind of how it will look . . but I can see through into the hall, so what colour shall I paint that? And I think a move round of furniture is in order. Oh dear, looking at your photo, I am losing motivation.
I'll try to photograph again when things look better. Not that they could look any worse. I don't change colours when I decorate by the way.
Aren't you glad he noticed the bulge, you may have had a disaster after decorating!
Absolutely. There would have been two floods. One from the tank and one from my tears.


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"Make peace with the enemy while you are on the way to court"
was what people used to say even in Roman times. Admittedly, judicial dispute resolution still has many advantages today and will very likely develop further away from the paternalistic and toward the participatory approach in terms of its accessibility in the coming decades. Nevertheless, this path costs most stakeholders a lot of energy, time and also money, without allowing them to have a formative influence on resolution approaches throughout. This is one reason why the more individual, solution- and future-oriented out-of-court dispute resolution is gaining in importance. Another reason could be that while most conflicts can be dealt with independently and sustainably, there are of course situations in which one is at a loss (sometimes because of one's own involvement) and would like external support. For complex, stressful to existential and/or very escalated problem situations, it has therefore proven useful to call in third parties as Mediators to visit. These support the people involved – currently because of their professionalism – in changing perspectives, opening up new ways of thinking and developing future-oriented solutions. Such mediation often takes the form of a Mediation on that:
represents a model of an out-of-court dispute resolution procedure,
in which a versatile, partisan third party without substantive decision-making authority supports the mediators in this,
independently develop legally binding and viable solutions that allow, among other things, the continuation of cooperation and simultaneous face-saving.
Such a third party, the mediator, strives for a confidential and creative climate of negotiation, a quasi third space in which he/she makes the participants aware of different perceptions of reality and enables them to access their own interests. These are all steps that serve to develop a common understanding of reality, to reach an understanding among the participants and to find a concrete solution to the conflict.
As a kind of side effect, the conflict parties gain the more often the possibility to strengthen their problem-solving ability also for the future, thus also to deal more constructively with their potentials and conflicts themselves. Sometimes also to escape a costly and time-consuming court case. Summa summarum Reduce costs through constructive communication. Vorausgesetzt, Provided that the conflict parties are willing to actively listen and participate in the solution. In the work context, it is important to emphasize the important role that managers and their contribution play in the emergence as well as constructive handling of conflicts. Therefore, they often have significantly intensive contact with the mediator, who also provides coaching support as needed.
In which disputes is mediation suitable?
Whether with B2B or Disputes between managers, teams and departments, but also in Families for example, against the background of a business succession or inheritance declaration, mediation is recommended when the parties are looking for an amicable solution created by them and still have some openness and willingness to cooperate. If, on the other hand, the relationship has completely broken down and neither "pay-pay" Readiness still "win-win" If a conflict is in sight, conflict coaching can be used to clarify the situation individually or moderation/mediation can be used to limit the damage.
Personally, I am active – in a national as well as in an international context, on an individual level and in large groups – in the following areas: Labor and business mediation | Mediation in the public sphere (politics and environmental mediation) and science (at colleges and universities) | Mediation in succession and inheritance. Sometimes these areas can only be blurredly separated. In a family business, for example, the parties involved are arguing against the background of a somewhat late succession, and in the process both the family issues (in them factual and relationship conflicts) and the economic and labor law issues to be clarified within the company are mixed up.
How does mediation work?
After receiving a call or message from you very briefly describing your concerns, I get back to you to find out what your specific request is, who is involved in the situation and since when, what attempts have already been made to deal with the conflict, how do you estimate its escalation, etc.? Subsequently, it is examined which format of support best suits the situation and how the approach of further parties involved can take place. Depending on the constellation of those involved, we arrange an offline or online appointment, clarify the prospects of success, the duration and financing of the process. Before we start this process, you will receive from me the Ethical code of the mediators as well as a Mediation contract, in which the principles of the process are described. These include in particular the: Confidentiality |Neutrality of the mediator | her versatile partiality | Openness to results and voluntariness to participate in a mediation process.
During a joint appointment we clarify with all parties involved exactly what should be achieved in this, which interests and concrete bottlenecks contribute to the conflict and which approaches to solutions can be developed. With my support, you will work out the solutions to your concerns, which will be incorporated into a mediation agreement of the form you desire. After about six weeks, we review in a joint meeting how this agreement has been implemented and whether anything needs to be readjusted.
Duration and cost of mediation
Depending on the level of escalation and the magnitude, business mediation, for example, lasts between one and two days, or several days in the case of long-lasting conflicts, and is carried out at different intervals. The hourly fee ranges between 420 und 270 Euro (plus VAT) and depends on the character of the process and the financial situation of the client. For more complex concerns, daily rates are used and an individual offer is made after clarification of these. Do not hesitate to contact me in particularly difficult financial situations about possibilities of other contract arrangements. The costs of mediation are usually borne by the parties involved in equal shares, in the corporate context usually covered internally and more often provided for in the budgeting of cooperations | projects (cf. mediation clause).
Should it become clear during the initial meeting that the situation is rather unsuitable for the mediative framework, I will of course inform you of this and endeavor to make an adequate recommendation for you. Among other things, this applies to legal advice. Concentrating on an out-of-court solution of legal disputes and conflicts, I have put legal advice on the back burner and refer you, if necessary, to colleagues for whom high quality and professionalism are important.
"Make peace with the enemy while you are on the way to court" was what people used to say even in Roman times. Admittedly, judicial dispute resolution still has many advantages today and will very likely develop further away from the paternalistic and toward the participatory approach in terms of its accessibility in the coming […]

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Thank you, everybody. Good morning. Pastor Kevin Thompson said that it's an impossible job to be church president, but actually with God all things are possible. Today I'd like to share about the most difficult part of being president; is that okay?
Seventy Times Seven
The topic is "Seventy Times Seven," so of course this is a sermon about forgiveness. For those of you who may need a little refreshing, as I did myself, I'd like to continue with the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 18. Peter had asked Jesus, "How many times shall I forgive my brother or sister?" Already that's interesting, right? Not asking, "How many times shall I forgive the Romans, who are making our lives difficult and persecuting our people?" It's not asking, "How many times shall we forgive the high priest and scribes and Pharisees who are challenging us, challenging your authority, challenging us that we're not of God?" No, he's asking, "How many times shall I forgive the person who's most difficult to forgive, which is often the person very closest to you?"
When he said, "Seven times," you should know that the standard in those days was three times. So when Peter said, "Seven times," he probably thought to himself, "I'm going to look good by saying, 'Seven times.'" The standard the rabbis taught was three times. After three times, no more forgiveness. Of course, Jesus said, "Not seven times, but 70 times seven," but then he went on to illustrate what that means.
"Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. As he began the settlement, a man who owed him 10,000 talents was brought to him."—We'll come back to how much a talent was, but typically it was about 20 years of wages. 10,000 talents is about 200,000 years of debt.—"Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt. At that the servant fell to his knees and said, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay everything.'"—Obviously not true, how to pay back 200,000 years?—"But the king had mercy and canceled the debt and let him go. But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him 100 denarii."—One denarius is one day's wages, so three months wages—"He grabbed him and began to choke him. 'Pay back what you owe me!' he demanded. Likewise his fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.' But he refused.
Instead he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could repay his debt. When the other servants saw what happened, they were outraged and they went and told their master everything that had happened. Then the master called the servant. 'You wicked servant,' he said, 'I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had on you?' In his anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed."—Just in case this message wasn't clear, Jesus slipped this knife between the ribs—"This is how my Heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother and sister." (Matthew 18:23-35) That's pretty clear and straightforward. Forgiveness is not just a good idea, not just a good thing; it's actually commanded by God.
Forgiveness is a Part of God's Design
Let me ask you a question: If there had been no sin, if Adam and Eve never ate that apple, or fell and misused love, would there be a need for forgiveness or repentance in human life? I see a shaking head over there. How many people think no? How many people think yes? All the married men, for sure. Actually forgiveness and repentance are part of God's design for human life, because He made us to grow to perfection, to grow to be like Him, to grow to maturity, and along the way it's inevitable you're going to make mistakes. You're going to do foolish things, and you're going to need forgiveness quite a lot, but God made it that way because He intended that we become like Him, able to love, to forgive, to care for anything—even the unlovable, even the unforgivable.
We're supposed to go through that experience, and come out on the other side mature and complete, so we have to learn how to give that forgiveness and also to receive it. Still, some people say, "Well, look, if it's money, if it's a matter of a debt that somebody owes, I can understand forgiving them, but what if the sin is much worse than that? Suppose it's the sin of, for example, a father raping his daughter, murder, incest, some sin that deeply wounds and hurts many other people, a betrayal of the deepest kind?" In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus answered that question too, the same parable, but with a little more. That's where we hear Jesus saying, "You have to rebuke the sin, but you have to love the sinner, and if there's a danger that that sinner, that person, is going to keep on repeating the crime or the sin, you have to stop him, if necessary by force or by restraint."
Forgiveness doesn't mean just turning the other cheek again and again and again. It also means taking responsibility to prevent continued wrongdoing. Luke also goes on to say that you shouldn't forgive unless they repent first. What do you think about that idea? Who thinks that's a good idea? How many can forgive if the other person is repentant? One? Oh. Think about what that would mean if you could only forgive someone who's already repenting, already come to a realization of their misdoing. That would actually mean you'd be forgiving a person who doesn't need forgiving anymore, because already by themselves they've realized, "I need to change."
It's not a long step from expecting someone to repent to us before saying, "I want justice. I'll forgive only if this situation is resolved fairly and justly. I'm not going to forgive if there's wrongdoing, as long as I'm still hurt." If you call for justice, it's not a long step from there to want revenge. What you really want is not for things to be fair—you want retribution. You want an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, but as Dr. Martin Luther King said, that kind of morality means that soon we'll have a world of blind people.
Walking in the Footsteps of God
Forgiveness is actually really deep and challenging. Seventy times seven means forgiving the unrepentant. It means forgiving people who have done things that deeply hurt and betray you. It means you can't wait for someone to say sorry, and it means you have to give up and let go of the idea that things are going to be fair, because they're not going to be fair. But by doing that, we start to walk in the footsteps that God, and Jesus, and True Parents commanded us to. When we don't forgive, actually we're the ones who suffer the most. Unforgiveness begins to grow in our relationships. Unforgiveness in our church will destroy our church. Unforgiveness in our family will destroy everything that we have. Actually more than that, it will stop God's plan for my life.
In Jeremiah 29:11, my favorite Bible verse, Jeremiah declares in the name of God, "I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you, not to harm you, to give you hope and a future." God has a plan for every human life, even the most miserable and dejected. He has a plan for each one of us, but for that plan to come to fruition God needs our cooperation. You've heard about Plan B, right? But God also has a Plan Z, and a Plan D, and a Plan ZZ—in my case. God always has a plan, and that plan is always the best available at this time. Yes, there might have been a better plan in the past that would've been available if you had made this decision or that decision, but God's new plan will get you back to the same place, but you have to embrace it.
However, if we can't forgive, if we can't let go, then God's best plan for me right now is going to be frustrated, and we won't be the people that God would like us to be. The rabbis used to say that we are made so powerful that demons tremble. Think about that. Kind of a nice feeling, right? Not just the sort of demons you've seen in movies, but the demons that are far more psychological and internal, the demons of depression, or doubts, the demons of feeling unloved, or a lack of confidence; those things can tremble and run away when the power that God has for each of our lives is allowed to develop and grow. But the key for that, again, is to be forgiven and to forgive.
Jesus said that when we forgive, God forgives us and we become people of power. Now the Greek term for "forgiveness" is actually very revealing. It means "to let go." To let go. Maybe just right now, before I say another word, I need you to just close your eyes, and think about one thing that you need to let go this morning. Okay, now I've always been inspired by the example, the living example, of True Parents, and especially of True Father, Rev. Sun Myung Moon. I want you to think about three instances when True Father practiced forgiveness and it changed things deeply.
The first experience, which is also recounted in his autobiography, As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen, came right at the end of World War II. For those of you who haven't read it, Korea was occupied by imperial Japan. Not just during the war, but for 35 years beforehand.
Truth be told, most Koreans suffered a great deal under Japanese colonialism, and toward the end of the war they suffered even more because with not enough food and not enough resources, Koreans came second, Japanese came first. Koreans were being conscripted to the Japanese army; even today there's a great conflict of Korea and Japan over Korean women who were forced to be sexual slaves for Japanese soldiers. The feeling of antagonism and resentment between the Korean people and the Japanese at that time was really at a high pitch.
True Father, himself, was known to the Japanese as a revolutionary, a patriot; he had been arrested, tortured, beaten several times for his work in trying to bring an end to Japanese occupation, and lucky to still be alive. But on the night that the war ended, his mind turned toward a Japanese police officer who was not far away, who was hated in the neighborhood, hated for what he had done to the people, hated for his unfairness, and he went to his house and he told him, "You have to leave tonight or you will surely die tomorrow. I will help you. I will help you to leave." He says, "I helped him to pack a few belongings, to gather his wife and child, and to leave under the cover of darkness." Probably at the same time when everybody else would have loved to have seen that man arrested, jailed, perhaps killed on the spot.
To think about that, I grew up in Nigeria, and if somebody was caught stealing, they would also be killed on the spot. On the spot by a crowd. It was a horrible, lawless time. But he helped that man escape. He said later, "Because I did that, all the pain and anguish I had toward the people of Japan were washed away. I found later that young Japanese men and women wanted to follow me, wanted to serve me, wanted to see my ideals come to pass, but it wouldn't have happened if I had not learned how to forgive."
The second time when he practiced such forgiveness was in 1991, when he went to North Korea and met Kim Il Sung, the dictator of North Korea for many years, and again he had every reason to be resentful toward Kim Il Sung. He'd been imprisoned in North Korea for almost three years in a communist death camp where most prisoners survived only a few months. He managed to live for 2½ years, and had been tortured, of course, starved, betrayed, but when he went back, he said, "I felt that I was not going into the house of my enemy but to the home of my brother, and I embraced him, and I loved him, and I changed his heart."
Today, of course, 20 years later, still there are a great deal of tensions between the two Koreas. In a recent Hoon Dok Hwe message on April 1, True Mother said that one of her primary goals before 2020 was to end this division, but the good relationship between the Kim family and the Moon family still continues 20 years later because of that demonstration of forgiveness.
Forgiveness for Our Ancestors
And there's one more example of forgiveness I'd like to share with you this morning, and that was when True Father forgave me. He forgave me many times, but there's one incident that really remains deeply in my mind.
I was at East Garden, and True Father was giving a long, long message. By "long," I mean that breakfast had passed, and lunch had passed, and we're about 8 or 9 hours in. I want you to have that experience this morning, so cancel any lunch plans you may have; we'll be here till about 5. He came to a topic that he used to like to exercise, which was the perfidy of the British. One word he often had for the British was that we are a "pirate race" of thieves and vagabonds. In particular, he used to like to explain how the British Museum was a treasure store of stolen goods.
Actually True Father liked the British Museum, but if you've ever been there, you can't help notice that it's mostly full of things that are not British. There's the Stele of Cyrus the Great of Persia, the most precious and valuable piece of Persian history going back 4,000 years, but it's not in Tehran, it's in London. There are the Elgin Marbles [marble sculptures] from the Parthenon in Greece that used to decorate the frieze that went around the most iconic of Greek buildings.
Actually there's a Parthenon Museum in Athens, I went there a few years ago, and they've deliberately left black holes to show where the missing pieces should go that are in Britain. But at least in some of these cases, if the British had not taken care of these items, at least in some cases they would've been destroyed and lost in the mud, sold, broken. That's why there isn't a museum like that in Korea. There are places like France, and Britain, and Berlin, and, yes, they have a long history behind them. Anyway, back to True Father.
He's really driving the point home about how bad the English are. I have to tell you, it's wrong to hate the Messiah, our True Parents, I know that's a sin, but I'm really struggling and I'm beginning to feel resentful. God, why did you send the Messiah to Korea? I don't speak Korean. Why is he so uncivilized? Why doesn't he appreciate art? How could he call us pirates? I'm not a pirate. Of course, none of this actually came out of my mouth.
I was sitting there, and finally the speech came to an end, and I swear this is true: Father got down, he walked up to me sitting there, and he looked me right in the eye, put his hand on my cheek and said, "You may be a pirate, but you're my pirate." I still haven't forgiven, but—no, in that moment I really did feel love and forgiveness. Not just forgiveness of myself, but even forgiveness of my nation, my ancestry, all the people who went out from the West to the East and to Africa, and South America, believing, as we did, that we were doing the best, when so often the results were not the best at all. It actually caused a lot of grief and misery.
We all need forgiveness, of course. We need forgiveness from God for things that we've done, but also for things we haven't done, for the things we have left undone or ought to have done, in the words of the English Queen. The words and acts of kindness that we could've done to other people, but we didn't. We chose not to, because it required a little bit too much effort. Of course, we need forgiveness sometimes for the things we've done wrong that we're deeply ashamed of, and you know what? Everyone has those things.
The beginning to real life, and to real life as one family under God, is to be able to let go of the things that we need to be forgiven for. Now I'm going to ask you to find your partner, probably the person you came to church with, but it doesn't have to be, and we're going to have a short pair-share. Usually I ask quite gentle questions, but today I'm going to ask you a challenging question. I'm going to ask you to share something either that you need to forgive and let go of, or where you need forgiveness and you need to be absolved.
So if you're with your spouse, they'll know what you mean. Even change the name, if you want to protect the innocent, but I want you to share those two things. Spend only about 4 minutes, so please make a pair. If you don't have a pair, you can hold up your hand and somebody will come and be your pair-share. So you understand the question, right? I need to be forgiven for this, or I need to forgive this. Okay? Just quietly in pairs. … It's not easy to stop. I give you permission to carry on after church; it's all right. When we really taste forgiveness, it's such a liberation. Such a liberation not to have to hide, not to have to lie, not to have to pretend, but just to really be who we are.
Unlocking the Secrets of God's Heart
It's within the power of each of us to give that experience to somebody else. You can't, of course, go up to people and say, "I think I need to forgive you." Doesn't really work that way so well, but you can if you have somebody from whom you need forgiveness. You could even today call them, talk to them, and just tell them straight, "I need your forgiveness." It would be such a transformative experience in life. Most of all, we do need the forgiveness of God. You might think, "What is it that gives God the most pain about my life, about who I am?" I thought that God loves me and He's my Parent, and of course God loves us and He is our Parent.
For a long time, for almost 10 years, True Father wrestled with this question: What is it? What's the key that will unlock all the secrets of the heart of God? It's very moving, if you take some time to look in the book As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen. There's a time where Father describes being a student in his 20s in Korea. He explains how he would go to school all day, and all night long he would pray. He would pray desperately, so desperately that his tears would soak his clothing, and sometimes even the floor, but no answer came. Nothing. He would pray again, night after night after night, and still no answer.
I think it's around page 55, you could find it. He said, "Looking back years later, I could see already at that time God had given me the key to unlock the secrets of His heart, but because my prayer and my emotion was insufficient, His words, the door remained closed." Then he went on to Japan where he studied more, but also as mentioned earlier, the student underground movement began working and fighting for his country's liberation, and finally four to five weeks later he came back to Korea.
There, he recounts, on the train coming back to Seoul, suddenly, as if a projector had been switched on—they don't use projectors anymore—but as if the whole story of human history from Adam and Eve onward began to play, as if on a video screen with every aspect of the human journey away, away, away from God shown in clear detail. It was at that moment, after 9½ years, that he received what he called the ultimate Truth of the Universe that God is our Parent and we are His children, and that there's nothing that God wants or needs more than to re-establish that relationship.
The thing that hurts God the most, of all the things, is to not know Him. To not know our own Parent, to turn our back on Him. That was the sharp spike, as True Father called it. The sharp spike brought him into the heart of God, that after all these years that somebody could remove. We need to know God. We need to know Him as our Parent. The best way to do that is not just by prayer, but by actions, to be grateful, to be loving, to be unselfish, to care for God's other sons and daughters. Actually any parent will tell you that will bring the most joy. Don't tell Me you love Me; show Me by loving your brothers and sisters. Show Me by caring for the people whom I cannot touch or reach, and then forgiveness will come. Let us pray.
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Lisa Take
April 15, 2015 at 7:36 am | #
Thank you Dr. Balcomb for this heartfelt sermon, one that we should each copy and paste, keep in our pockets and pull out from time to time to read again. Truly, we're at a tremendous loss when we think of forgiveness as a shortcoming or a sign of human weakness, but in the words of Mahatma Ghandi, "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." Now's the appropriate time to prove how strong we truly are as a movement.
Carol Pobanz
April 14, 2015 at 8:39 pm | #
This is a powerful and timely message…Thank you Dr. Balcomb for bringing this message to the forefront. This was the topic our small group covered this week…and we too came to realize how lack of forgiveness deeply damages our own spirit and pulls us away from the "familyhood" of God and humanity.
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UFC featherweight Dustin Poirier showed a ton of promise before getting dismantled by Chan Sung Jung earlier this year. However, the 23-year old didn't hang his head for too long after the loss, opting to change training camps in order to continue progressing rather than remain at his current level.
Poirier recently discussed his reasons for moving things from the comforts of his hometown to Florida where he now puts in work at American Top Team.
"It was a hard decision, but we were talking about it before my last fight; we knew it was getting to that time. I didn't have the guys to show up every day and push me, and I needed to be around top-caliber guys. Tim knew that, and I knew that too," said Poirier in an interview with the UFC. "That's not saying that the guys at Gladiators aren't good, but it's different when you're training with those guys and then you get in the cage and fight the best guys in the world. You want to be seeing that on a daily basis. That's what we knew had to happen, and that's why I moved here."
The 12-2 Poirier is set to show off his new skills this weekend when he faces Jonathan Brookins at the Ultimate Fighter 16 Finale. The defeat to Jung snapped a five-fight winning streak for "The Diamond" who likely would have earned a title-shot with a victory.
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As someone with a severe fear of the dentist, I'd take a pass on absolutely anything that would have me in a dentist's office for a stretch of time. (Or for five minutes for that matter.) Jaume Collet-Serra, however, opts …
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The period adventure pic Here There Be Monsters is one of those incredibly cool-sounding projects that has been lingering in development hell for years. Robert Zemeckis was first eyeing the film as a return to live-action, then Brad Bird (The …
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Last July, we reported that Robert Zemeckis was circling screenwriter Brian Helgeland's Revolutionary War Hero/Sea Monster mash-up Here There Be Monsters. Helgeland's script takes real-life Revolutionary War hero John Paul Jones and pits him against sea monsters after he's hired …
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Now that he's moved off his motion-capture kick, director Robert Zemeckis is headed back to live-action films. His next film will be the drama Flight starring Denzel Washington, and Zemeckis has also been in talks to direct the time-travel flicks …
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After Universal crushingly declined to move ahead with Paul Greengrass' Martin Luther King Jr. flick Memphis, it looks like the director will be shelving the project for at least a year, and is now looking at other projects. The Bourne …


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This week Network 10 staff members joined seven of our independent schools in our 2019 Youth Off The Streets Soccer Gala Day, as part of their 10 gives initiative.
Our schools headed out to David Phillips Field at UNSW to challenge each other and the 10 team in a round of soccer games and then finals.
Principal, Cath Garland, said the day meant a lot to all the kids and staff and that the UNSW facilities were a great central point for schools travelling from all over.
Although the day was filled with friendly competition, it was also used to identify a number of talented students that will be given the opportunity to progress onto the CSSA and represent Youth Off The Streets' schools. This is an opportunity that most independent schools do not offer and a number of our talented kids have missed out on at previous schools.
A Youth Off The Streets' student said the event was a great chance to catch up with students from other schools.
T.V presenter from the Channel 10 team, Scott Tweedie, added that the event was a positive day from start to finish.
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At work I use ConEmu for my console, it's a great console to work on Windows with. To keep things tidy I have all my code on my X:\ partition. In ConEmu I have different "Tasks" setup for different configurations of Visual Studio and pass /Dir X:\ as one of the task parameters so that a new Console's current Dir is X:\.
When running "Developer Command Prompt for VS 2017" on my work computer I noticed that the directory it was opening in wasn't the current directory that ConEmu was setting, but C:\Dave\Source.
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How to Get Back With My Ex Girlfriend.
The first thing you need to do is to understand that this is a very delicate situation, if you just broke up with your girlfriend your feelings are hurt and her feelings might also be hurt as well, at this point it is very important that you be careful about what you are doing for getting love back, otherwise things can turn for worse.
Here are some of the considerations that you need to make when it comes to figuring out how to get back with your ex girlfriend.
1 – First and foremost, what was it that you did in order to cause the break up? Girls do not break up with guys completely out of the blue, so there is probably a really good reason behind the action even if you are not immediately aware of what it is, the first step in this process has to be to figure out what went wrong, whether or not it could have been prevented, and how can you can fix it now that you know what it is.
2 – If the break up with your ex girlfriend was entirely your fault, then the first thing that you need to do to help rekindle things is to let your ex girlfriend know that you recognize what happened, you recognize that it was your fault, and that you are sorry for your actions and the unintended consequences.
3 – You should continue to socialize with other people, even though you are trying to court your ex again, just because you and your ex are not in contact right now, that does not mean that you need to cut yourself off from the rest of the world, you should date another girl, or at least go out and have some fun with your friends, it may even work to your advantage for you to cause some jealousy in your ex partner if you really do want to get them back.
4 – Show your ex that you have moved on, but you also need to show her that you still care about her, this is the most ideal way to eventually get her back, let her know that you have not completely moved on, and that you still have feelings for her, and this will make you appear more mature to her, and more desirable as well.
5 – Finally, it is important that you work hard to become friends with your ex again, this will build trust and will help to make you closer to one another.
Afterwards, you should ask her why you broke up in the first place, but be casual about it rather than appearing desperate, she will either admit that it was a mistake that the two of you broke up, or she will let you know that the break up was for the better, once you have an answer, you can proceed from there for getting love back.


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Mr. Armond is a New York City lawyer who spends the spring and summer on his farm, which borders on the Breen property. He's very well-off, and his property has several houses and a well-manicured lawn, and he's got all the newest gadgets in his barn: a wagonette, a buckboard, a buggy with red wheels, a cutter, and a surrey with fringe on top to boot. Basically his stash is like the old-timey version of having all the shiniest new sports cars.
All this is enough to make Tom feel "mighty insignificant" (34.25). Polly Ann knows the feeling: Mr. Armond is her nemesis. She doesn't actually have anything against the man himself, but rather what he reminds her of, which is having to peddle berries at the back door of his fancy house for her own no-good father. It's a matter of pride for her.
When Tom pulls up in his old horse and wagon to make an offer on the barn after Mr. Armond buys the Breen land, there is the sense that he and Mr. Armond are not exactly on equal footing. For one thing, Mr. Armond almost literally says, "get off my lawn," like some crotchety old man guarding his trash cans. (Okay, he actually says "I wouldn't want your horse wandering over the lawn, you know. He would leave tracks in the grass" [34.22]. But still.)
For another, Tom takes his hat off out of respect, but Mr. Armond does not. Nevertheless, Mr. Armond is perfectly amiable to doing business with Tom, and he even knocks $25 off Tom's offer price of $100. But so he doesn't appear too "charitable" (35.22), he stipulates that Tom also has to demolish the old Breen house. Tom puts $50 down, and they agree that he will pay the remaining $25 when Tom's work on the property is done.
By the time Tom returns to pay the $25, life for the Dolans has changed big time. Polly Ann rides up with Tom in their new wagon with their new team, and she is dressed in her best outfit. She's now the kind of woman Mr. Armond invites in for tea with his wife (Polly Ann politely declines) rather than the kind of woman begging for money at the back door of the home. That, plus the compliments Mr. Armond gives her on her fine son, makes for vindication to the max for Polly Ann.
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Responsibility For This Hate-Filled Campaign Lies With Cameron's 'Project Fear'.
Jo Cox is a martyr to British democracy. Why have we had taken from us one who was clearly so worthy when so much of Parliament is comprised of the venal and self-serving? Many MPs will not even meet their constituents if they do not like the questions they have to ask. I have too much experience of MPs refusing to meet or assist their constituents who need access to medicinal cannabis. Some are cowards who avoid controversial issues and disrespect their constituents' views. Jo Cox was the very opposite and we must hope that some good comes from her sacrifice.
I saw my own MP, Oliver Letwin, just a couple of weeks ago and I wandered into this picturesque folly on the side of a church in Beaminster and there he was, no security, no entourage, not even a friendly bobby on the door. He saw me through the window and called me in. Is such informality, such casual access to a senior government minister, to be lost, even in deepest, rural Dorset?
We have no reliable information yet on the killer's motivation but I see that has not stopped almost instantaneous and divisive speculation. What is certain though is that the febrile atmosphere of this referendum campaign has brought more tension and division into our society than I have seen before.
I said this to Oliver when I met him. His response was that this is democracy and the very nature of a referendum. That is true but I do believe that the tactics used on both sides of this campaign have engendered far too much hate in Britain. For many this has caused great fear and confusion, particularly for the feeble minded or those that are easily led and can have their emotions inflamed by rhetoric.
The disgusting behaviour of the stinking-rich oaf Bob Geldof, abusing hard working and courageous British fishermen who have seen their livelihood devastated by the EU. The vile UKIP poster of a queue of migrants released just a hour or so before Jo's murder. Nigel Farage is greatly to be admired for his determined and principled work but this poster is a mistake and inflames racial tension.
Most of all though, I blame this almost hysterical upsurge in hatred on Cameron's Project Fear. He and Osborne told people we would be alright if we left the EU and everything would be be OK, we could make our decision without fear that either choice would be a catastrophic mistake. Immediately though they have engaged in a campaign of terrorism, predicting chaos, disaster and mayhem if we vote to leave. Osborne's scaremongering about a post-Brexit emergency budget was the nadir of Project Fear. He has stepped so far over the line that he will never command the trust of the British people again.
I have already submitted my postal vote and it is #VoteLeave. I know it is the opposite of what Jo Cox would have voted but I pay tribute to her as a politician who stood for democracy and, in my view, that is what this referendum is about. It's not '…about the economy, stupid.' Neither is it about immigration. It's about self-determination and being governed by people we elect, not faceless, unaccountable bureaucrats.
A House of Commons full of MPs with the sincerity and good faith of Jo Cox would be my ideal. I believe that is what we should work towards, not abdicating our responsibility to some out-of-touch superstate, not led into servitude by a self-serving, elite of privileged politicians who rely on fear and scaremongering and try to intimidate us into a vote that is not freely chosen.


Bronchodilators relax smooth muscles around the bronchioles restoring airflow to the lungs. Sympathomimetics are bronchodilators that increase the production of cyclic AMP, causing dilation of the bronchioles by acting as adrenergic agonistic.
Some sympathomimetics are selective to particular adrenergic receptors, which are referred to as alpha1, beta2 and beta2-adrenergic. Other sympathomimetics are non-selective sympathomimetic that affect all types of adrenergic receptor sites.
Epinephrine (adrenalin) is a non-selective sympathomimetic that is given subcutaneously, IV, or via an endotracheal tube in emergency situations to restore circulation and increase airway patency.
Selective beta2-adrenergic agonists have fewer side effects then epinephrine and are given by aerosol or as a tablet. These include albuterol (Proventil, Ventolin), isoetharine HCl (Bronkosol), metaproterenol sulfate (Alupent), samleterol (Serevent), and Terbulaline SO4 (Brethine).
Ipratropium bromide (Atrovent) is an anticholinergic drug that inhibits vagalmediated response by reversing the action of acetylcholine, producing smooth muscle relaxation. It is a newer medication that dilates bronchioles with few systemic effects. Ipratropium bromide (Atrovent) is used five minutes before glu-cocorticoid (steroid) or cromolyn are inhaled so the bronchioles dilate enabling the steroids to be deposited in the bronchioles. Sometimes ipratropium bromide is combined with albuterol sulfate (Combivent) to treat chronic bronchitis for more effective and longer duration than if each is used alone.
Methylxanthine (xanthine) derivatives are a second group of bronchodilators used to treat asthma. They include aminophylline, theophylline, and caffeine, which stimulate the central nervous system (CNS) to increase respirations, dilate coronary and pulmonary vessels, and increase urination (diuresis).
Bronchoconstrictors cause the contraction of smooth muscle around the bronchi restricting airflow to the lungs. Leukotriene (LK) is the primary bronchocon-strictor that increases migration of eosinophils, increases mucous production, and increases edema in the bronchi resulting in bronchoconstriction.
There are two types of Leukotriene (LK) modifers: LT receptor antagonists and LT synthesis inhibitors. These are effective in reducing the inflammatory symptoms of asthma triggered by allergic and environmental stimuli.
Leukotriene (LK) modifiers include Zafirlukast (Accolate), zileuton (Zyflo) and nontelukast sodium (Singulair).
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease causes inflammation in the respiratory tract that results in respiratory distress for the patient. Glucocorticoids (steroids) are the primary medication given to reduce the inflammation. You'll learn more about glucocorticoids (steroids) in Chapter 12.
Glucocorticoids (steroids) can be administered orally, via aerosol inhalation, intramuscularly, and intravenously. Glucocorticoids used for aerosol inhalation use beclomethasone (Beconase, Vanceril), dexamethasone (decadron), flunisolide (Aerobid, Nasalid), or triamcinolone (Azmacort, Kenalog, Nasacort).
Glucocorticoids used for other routes include betamethasones (Celestone), cortisone acetate (Cortone acetate, Cortistan), dexamethasone (Decadron), hydrocortisone (Cortef, Hydrocortone), methylprednisolone (Medrol, Solu-Medtol, Depo-Medrol); and prednisolone, prednisone, and triamcinolone (Aristocort, Kenacort, Azmacort).
As you learned previously in this chapter, an expectorant—referred to as mucolytics—liquefies and loosens thick mucous secretions so they can be removed through coughing. A commonly prescribed expectorant for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is acetylcysteine (Mucomyst), which is administered by nebulizor five minutes after the patient receives a bronchodilator.
Acetylcysteine should not be mixed with other medications and can cause nausea, vomiting, oral ulcers (stomatitis), and a runny nose. Acetylcysteine is also an antidote for acetaminophen overdose if given within 12 to 24 hours after the overdose.
Mast cells release histamines, leukotrienes and other mediators of the inflammatory process. Mast cell stabilizer drugs inhibit the early asthmatic response and the late asthmatic response. They have no bronchodilator effect nor do they have any effect on any inflammatory mediators already released in the body. They are indicated for the prevention of bronchospasms and bronchial asthma attacks. They are administered by aerosol inhalation. The exact action of the drugs have not been determined. However, they are believed to have a modest effect in lowering the required dose of corticosteroids. The most common mast stabilizer drugs are cromolyn (Intal) and nedocromil (Tilade).
A list of drugs utilized in the treatment of lower respiratory tract disorders is provided in the Appendix. Detailed tables show doses, recommendations, expectations, side effects, contraindications, and more; available on the book's Web site (see URL in Appendix).


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John W. Geary
John W. Geary was born near Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, in 1819. Early on, his father proved to be a tremendous part of his life. Richard Geary was an intelligent man with an insatiable love of learning, and it was this love more than anything else that he desired to see his son cultivate. John Geary's education began at home. After amassing considerable debt in failed business ventures, however, the elder Geary started a school in an effort to pay off what he owed. Much of John Geary's preparation for life occurred there.
Young John Geary headed off to Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, to study law and civil engineering when he was only 14. However, the death of his father made him the man of the household. Geary bravely took on his father's debts, provided for his family, and still managed to earn enough money to graduate from college. The many trades at which he worked to accomplish these three purposes and to find his calling are too many to describe in detail here, but they ranged from surveying to land speculation to practicing law to construction engineering.
It was Geary's interest in military history that first brought him to the public eye. He joined the Pennsylvania militia and quickly earned distinction. When the Mexican-American War broke out in 1846, Geary raised part of the 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry and received a commission as its lieutenant colonel (he eventually reached the rank of colonel). He led this regiment in the grueling Battle of Chapultepec, assisting to take the castle of Mexico's capital city. Mexican snipers picked off American officers as quickly as they could. Geary himself was wounded five times during the battle, but he survived despite the fact that his stature of 6′ 6″ made him an obvious target. When Mexico City fell to the American forces, Geary became the commandant of the city.
President James Knox Polk sent him to San Francisco as postmaster in January 1849. Geary's duties were to establish post offices on the Pacific Coast, appoint local postmasters, and lay out the mail routes. While in San Francisco, he was also unanimously elected as the last alcalde of the city on January 8, 1850. Not surprisingly, he also became the first mayor under American rule on May 1, 1850. After serving a term as the youngest mayor in San Francisco history, Geary next became president of the Board of Commissioners of the Funded Debt, where he was instrumental in completely paying off San Francisco's debt.
Geary returned to his native Pennsylvania in 1852 due to his wife's poor health, donating his land to the city of San Francisco. After the death of Margaret Ann Geary in February 1853, President Franklin Pierce unsuccessfully tried to enlist the former mayor's services as governor of Utah Territory. However, the appeal to Geary's patriotism and respect for the president proved to be too great to resist when President Pierce next appointed him as governor of Kansas Territory in July 1856. The recent dispersal of the Topeka legislature under the orders of Governor Wilson Shannon had amply stocked the fledgling Republican Party with talking points in favor of their presidential candidate, John C. Frémont. Perhaps Geary, with his impeccably distinguished record and his connections with the free state of California, could quell the violence in Bleeding Kansas and save the cause of the Democratic candidate, James Buchanan.
Time in Office
Geary as mayor of San Francisco
The new governor of the territory took office on September 9, 1856, at Fort Leavenworth. His first official act was to disband the warring militias that had caused Bleeding Kansas so much trouble. He then organized a new militia, sanctioned by the territorial government, to maintain order and uphold the laws, not to promote partisan causes. While some Free State men were concerned that the new militia would become a tool of the Bogus Legislature, under Governor Geary's watch representatives of both sides of the question enlisted.
But Governor Geary still had federal resources at his disposal, and that very month he was called upon to use them. On September 13, the governor received word that a party of Border Ruffians was marching toward Lawrence. Geary accompanied the dragoons to the scene to prevent the proposed attack, much to the surprise of the proslavery men. But Geary had promised evenhanded justice to both sides, and this was precisely what he delivered. At the same time, news came of a band of Free State militants under Jim Lane attacking the town of Hickory Point. The governor sent troops to this conflict, as well, and managed to obtain a cease-fire.
Governor Geary consistently pursued peace in the territory during his time in office, effectively robbing the Republicans of their most powerful campaign issue and securing the victory of James Buchanan in the presidential election that year. Unfortunately, now that Geary had accomplished his purpose as far as President Pierce was concerned, the administration could gradually withdraw its support of his nonpartisan policies and promote a course more palatable to the proslavery element of the Democratic Party. When Geary requested a new marshal, attorney general, and secretary of state, not to mention a few new federal judges, on the grounds that the existing territorial officials were largely either incompetent or actively working to undermine his efforts to maintain peace and justice, the president refused to comply. Furthermore, President Pierce removed Geary's authority to call out federal troops and had some important appropriations withdrawn, leaving the territorial governor to pay for some of the expenses of the judicial system out of his own pocket.
From that point on, Governor Geary attracted the disfavor of both factions in Kansas. He angered the Free State side by refusing aid from Vermont to assist struggling Kansans hard hit by the fierce winter of 1856 and 1857. Then he angered the proslavery side by supporting the admission of Kansas to the Union under the Topeka Constitution. In February 1857, Geary further incurred the wrath of the territorial legislature by refusing to fall in with its plan to commission William Sherrard, a rough and rowdy proslavery man, as sheriff of Douglas County. Sherrard responded by spitting in the governor's face in an unsuccessful attempt to provoke him to a fight, then by opening fire on his opponents at a meeting in the legislature. Sherrard was shot and killed, but Governor Geary realized that he was still far from safe when the Border Ruffians next attacked his personal secretary.
Governor Geary wrote to James Buchanan before he took office, hoping for support to bolster his authority, but received little encouragement. The governor resigned on March 4, 1857, the day of the new president's inauguration, feeling that he could no longer be of use in Kansas Territory and that to stay would be to risk his life unnecessarily. Geary made a farewell address, warning Kansans that it was up to them to keep the peace from then on, before fleeing the territory at night on March 21. But Geary did not abandon either Kansas or his troubled nation—after addressing many public meetings on the tumultuous situation in the territory, he went on to fight for the Union in the Civil War, earning the rank of major general.
Geary and staff during Civil War
Became the youngest territorial governor of Kansas.
Disbanded the partisan militias.
Organized an official territorial militia composed of Kansas residents of both factions.
Prevented a second sack of Lawrence.
Secured President James Buchanan's victory in the 1856 election.
Became the namesake of Geary County (previously Davis County after Jefferson Davis) in 1889.
Bleeding Kansas: "I have learned more of the depravity of my fellow man than I ever before knew. I have thought my California experience was strong, but I believe my Kansas experience cannot be beaten."
Cause of Kansas troubles: "…Most of the troubles which lately agitated the territory, were occasioned by men who had no especial interest in its welfare…. The great body of the actual citizens are conservative, law-abiding and peace-loving men, disposed rather to make sacrifices for conciliation and consequent peace, than to insist for their entire rights should the general body thereby be caused to suffer."
Factions in Kansas: "I desire to know no party, no section, no North, no South, no East, no West; nothing but Kansas and my county."
Disbanding of partisan militias: "The presence of additional government troops will exert a moral influence that cannot be obtained by any militia that can here be called in requisition."
1856 presidential election: "I can assure you [Buchanan] that no man in the country felt more solicitous for this auspicious result than myself, and as the establishment of tranquility in Kansas, previous to the election, was supposed to favor you, I labored with intense energy to accomplish that object."
Refusal of aid from Vermont: "[There is] doubtless some suffering…consequent upon the past disturbances and the present extremely cold weather; but probably no more than exists in other territories or in either of the states of the Union."
Resignation: "Without said support [from the Buchanan administration], my usefulness here must be materially diminished, and the sooner I am relieved, the better will I be satisfied."
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ERISA does not require employers to establish an employee benefit plan or to provide employees with specific disability or health insurance coverage. However, for employers who establish employee benefit plans, including disability plans, ERISA requires these employers to meet certain minimum standards and if those standards are violated then there is potential liability for the employer under ERISA. One of the best things about ERISA is that it requires employers to regularly provide employees with information about their benefits including specific information about disability plan features such as how much an employee will receive in monthly disability income benefits and the specific requirements for receiving disability benefits. Also, ERISA holds plan fiduciaries, such as insurance companies, accountable for their actions and gives employees the right to sue for benefits if their benefits are wrongfully denied.
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Purchase money mortgage: A purchase money mortgage is one that is given to secure the loan which is used to buy the property. A first (senior) mortgage on the property has priority over any second or subsequent (junior) mortgages on the property; the senior lender has a more secure interest in the event of a default since the senior obligations are paid first in the event of foreclosure and sale.
Adjustable rate mortgages: An adjustable rate mortgage (often called an ARM) offers a fixed initial interest rate and a fixed initial monthly payment. After the initial period is over, the rate and term of the mortgage can be modified at predetermined times under the agreement to reflect the current market mortgage rates.
There are other mortgage options, such as balloon mortgages, shared-equity mortgages, biweekly mortgages, reverse mortgages, and buy downs.


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The recipe for sharbat (syrup mixed with snow) was first invented in ancient times in the Middle East, in today's Iran and Turkey. This delicacy spread across the Arab world and reached Europe in the 16th century, where it became know as sherbet or sorbet.
The first decorative moulds, like the one shown here, appeared in the 18th century. Desserts made in them gave gourmet dinners a new elegance and sophistication.
After being filled, the mould is plunged in crushed ice and salt, which rapidly reduces its temperature. As it cools, the sorbet takes on the form of the mould – in this case, that of a bird.
Even though ice-cream churns came on the market in the 19th century, and electric ice-cream makers in the 1990s, ice-cream moulds similar to this one, which were produced between 1850 and 1950, are still in use. Today they are no longer made of metal but of plastic or silicone and, once filled, they can just be put in the freezer.
Cooking, eating, purchasing, digesting, 2003. Vevey: Alimentarium, p. 12.
Type: Mould
Place of origin: France
Materials and techniques: Pewter
Dimensions: 2.5 x 3 x 15 cm
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Refrigeration and freezing are techniques used for preserving food in low temperatures. These procedures slow down or stop most bacteria from dividing and thereby multiplying, but do not kill them. The history of using cold temperatures for preserving food goes as far back as Palaeolithic times, when caves were used as places for storing food. Using a cold environment as a means of preserving food on a large scale dates back to the 19th century, with the invention of mechanical refrigeration.


Copies of the South China Morning Post.
SINGAPORE — One of Hong Kong's oldest English-language newspapers, the South China Morning Post, may have a new owner soon.
The paper's publisher, SCMP Group, confirmed late Wednesday it's received an offer to be purchased by an unnamed party.
The "preliminary" offer is for the company's media assets, which includes the eponymous newspaper, magazines, outdoor advertising and events business.
SCMP has passed through several hands over the years, notably Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in the '80s, and is currently owned by Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok's Kerry Media, which bought the controlling stake in the '90s.
While the interested party remains unnamed, there's much speculation that it's Alibaba founder, Jack Ma. Ma played it coy earlier this week when Bloomberg asked if it was him, saying he was "watching a lot of companies right now."
But he did note that he was keen on investing in more media assets to help promote the companies within the Alibaba Group. "By the way, our advertisement dollars? Huge," he said, adding that the company's extensive data information services can be an asset to financial reporting.
In June, Alibaba paid $194 million for a stake in mainland financial paper China Business News, and it owns 31% of Sina, which operates Twitter-like platform Weibo.
If he succeeds in buying SCMP, the influential newspaper will arguably be Ma's biggest media coup yet, and is a move similar to Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos' purchase of The Washington Post in 2013.
But some worry that Ma, a Chinese citizen well-connected with the ruling Communist Party, will have an adverse effect on the SCMP's journalistic freedom. Hong Kong, long accustomed to a greater degree of economic and political freedom outside of China's rules, has been pushing back against the mainland's control, as seen in the Umbrella Revolution pro-democracy protests last year.
The SCMP reported on the protests extensively, but most Chinese newspapers did not.
In a statement on the company's potential sale, SCMP CEO Robin Hu said: "Editorial independence is fundamental to our global reputation and success, and is a key reason the SCMP is seen as a valuable asset. We believe it is in the best interest of shareholders large and small to preserve this core value."
Alibaba's main business, Alibaba.com, is the world's largest business-to-business trading platform between wholesalers. The company also runs other consumer retail sites like the massively popular Taobao marketplace, and its Alipay digital payment platform is China's most widely used.


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With this change in scale and scope has come the need for modern data management tools, a robust online presence, a growing staff of skilled professionals, and sustainable financial practices. To ensure our effectiveness for the future, we now need to invest in CDSS itself, so that we remain the strong, vital center of participatory arts programming you have come to respect and rely upon.
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Erika Sanada's 'Cover My Eyes' Offers New Endearing, Unsettling Creatures
by Andy SmithPosted on July 12, 2016
In Erika Sanada's "Cover My Eyes," running through July 30 at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, viewers find a new batch of ceramic sculptures from the Japanese artist. Sanada's "dogs" typically feature at least one physical mutation and represent ongoing anxieties in the artist's life. She explains the addition of new animals this time around: "The rats and birds present with the dogs are further extensions of myself and my fears. Birds, like my anxieties, are difficult to contain and control, and are always a part of me and my work." The artist was featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 31.
Sanada, a Tokyo native, had her first solo show at the same gallery in 2013. Her creatures have frequently balanced the creepy and the adorable. She last appeared on HiFructose.com here, a look at the artist's newer explorations of color. A studio visit from last year, which can be found here, offers some insight into her process, from sketchpad to sculpture. Find the artist on Instagram here.
Sanada attended Nihon University College of Art in Tokyo, graduating in 2009. She then moved on to work as a makeup artist at a film studio and work as a commercial illustrator before relocating to San Francisco. Even today, her creations have a cinematic quality.


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ALC bookable for W18/19, 2 flights p/w.
From April 1st, 2019 Ryanair will a two-weekly Malta-Maastricht vv. service!
This is such good news to hear! Very happy that Ryanair is showing intrest in Maastricht again!
Flights to the 'normal' destinations have been loaded for S19. They are visible in the systems, but current not bookable.
ALC & MLA bookable for W19/20. Both 2 flights p/w, both Monday & Friday.


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A303 eastbound between A345 and A3028 | Eastbound | Road Works | Wiltshire
Location : The A303 eastbound between the junctions with the A345 and the A3028 . Lane Closures : Lane one is closed. Reason : Roadworks. Status : Currently Active. Period : expect disruption until 06:00 on 1 April 2021. Lanes Closed : There is one of two lanes closed.
A31 westbound between B3072 and B3073 near Wimborne Minster (east) | Westbound | Road Works | Dorset
Location : The M5 northbound between junctions J20 and J19 . Reason : Emergency roadworks are planned. Status : Pending. Schedule : From 10:00 on 20 January 2021 to 16:00 on 20 January 2021.
A36 northbound between A3090 and A27 | Northbound | Road Works | Wiltshire
Location : The A36 northbound between the A3090 and the junction with the A27 . Reason : Roadside drains works are planned. Status : Pending. Schedule : From 08:00 on 20 January 2021 to 16:00 on 20 January 2021.
M5 southbound between J11A and J12 | Southbound | Road Works | Gloucestershire
Location : The M5 southbound between junctions J11 and J12 . Lane Closures : Lanes 2 and 3 will be closed. Reason : Roadworks are planned. Status : Pending. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 20:00 and 06:00 from 19 January 2021 to 23 January 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 20:00 and 06:00 from 25 January 2021 to 30 January 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 20:00 and 06:00 from 1 February 2021 to 6 February 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 20:00 and 06:00 from 8 February 2021 to 13 February 2021. Lanes Closed : There will be two of three lanes closed.
roundabout at A35/A375 | Westbound | Road Works | Devon
Location : The A35 westbound between the junctions with the A358 and the A375 . Reason : Emergency roadworks. Status : Currently Active. Period : expect disruption until 01:00 on 20 January 2021.
A31 eastbound between B3073 near Wimborne Minster (east) and B3072 | Eastbound | Road Works | Dorset
Location : The A36 northbound between the junctions with the A30 West and the A303 . Reason : Roadworks are planned. Status : Pending. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 09:00 and 16:00 from 20 January 2021 to 22 January 2021.
Location : The M5 northbound between junctions J29 and J28 . Lane Closures : The hard shoulder is closed. Reason : Emergency barrier repairs. Status : Currently Active. Period : expect disruption until 23:59 on 16 May 2021.
M5 J23 southbound access | Southbound | Road Works | Somerset
Location : The M5 southbound entry slip at junction J23 . Reason : Roadworks are planned. Status : Pending. Schedule : From 20:01 on 19 January 2021 to 06:00 on 20 January 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 20:00 and 06:00 from 20 January 2021 to 23 January 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 20:00 and 06:00 from 25 January 2021 to 30 January 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 20:00 and 06:00 from 1 February 2021 to 6 February 2021. Lanes Closed : All lanes will be closed.
M5 J25 northbound exit | Northbound | Road Works | Somerset
Location : The M5 northbound exit slip at junction J25 . Lane Closures : Lane one will be closed. Reason : Roadworks are planned. Status : Pending. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 09:00 and 18:00 from 20 January 2021 to 22 January 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 09:00 and 18:00 from 25 January 2021 to 29 January 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 09:00 and 18:00 from 1 February 2021 to 5 February 2021. Lanes Closed : There will be one of two lanes closed.
Location : The M5 northbound between junctions J26 and J24 . Lane Closures : The hard shoulder is closed. Reason : Roadworks. Status : Currently Active. Period : expect disruption until 06:00 on 16 March 2021.
Location : The A35 eastbound between the A3066 and the junction with the A37 . Reason : Planned Roadworks. Status : Currently Active. Period : expect disruption until 06:00 on 31 March 2022.
Location : The M5 northbound between junctions J18 and J16 . Reason : Roadworks scheme. Status : Currently Active. Period : from 15:00 on 14 January 2021 to 06:00 on 22 January 2021.
Location : The A30 westbound at the junction with the A3058 . Lane Closures : Lane one will be closed. Reason : Emergency roadworks are planned. Status : Pending. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 09:00 and 16:00 from 20 January 2021 to 22 January 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 09:00 and 16:00 from 25 January 2021 to 29 January 2021. Lanes Closed : There will be one of two lanes closed.
A40 exit for M5 | Eastbound | Road Works | Gloucestershire
Location : The A40 eastbound exit slip to the M5 . Lane Closures : Lane two is closed. Reason : Roadworks. Status : Currently Active. Period : expect disruption until 00:00 on 10 March 2021. Lanes Closed : There is one of two lanes closed.
A419 northbound within the A4259 junction | Northbound | Road Works | Swindon
Location : The A419 northbound between the M4 and the junction with the A4259 . Lane Closures : Lane one will be closed. Reason : Roadworks are planned. Status : Pending. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 20:00 and 06:00 from 19 January 2021 to 23 January 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 20:00 and 06:00 from 25 January 2021 to 30 January 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 20:00 and 06:00 from 1 February 2021 to 6 February 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 20:00 and 06:00 from 8 February 2021 to 13 February 2021. Lanes Closed : There will be one of two lanes closed.
Location : The A30 westbound at the junction with the A3058 . Lane Closures : Lane one is closed. Reason : Emergency Roadside Drains works. Status : Currently Active. Period : expect disruption until 06:00 on 20 January 2021. Lanes Closed : There is one of two lanes closed.
M32 southbound within J3 | Southbound | Road Works | City of Bristol
Location : The M32 southbound between junctions J1 and J3 . Lane Closures : Lanes 1 and 2 will be closed. Reason : Roadside drains works are planned. Status : Pending. Schedule : From 21:01 on 19 January 2021 to 06:00 on 20 January 2021. Lanes Closed : All lanes will be closed.
Location : The A38 eastbound between the A383 and the junction with the A382 . Lane Closures : Lane one will be closed. Reason : Emergency roadworks are planned. Status : Pending. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 09:00 and 16:00 from 20 January 2021 to 22 January 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 09:00 and 16:00 from 25 January 2021 to 29 January 2021. Lanes Closed : There will be one of two lanes closed.
M32 J1 southbound access | Southbound | Road Works | South Gloucestershire
Location : The M32 southbound entry slip at junction J1 . Lane Closures : Lane one will be closed. Reason : Roadside drains works are planned. Status : Pending. Schedule : From 21:01 on 19 January 2021 to 06:00 on 20 January 2021. Lanes Closed : All lanes will be closed.
M5 J17 northbound exit | Northbound | Road Works | South Gloucestershire
Location : The M5 northbound exit slip at junction J17 . Lane Closures : Lanes 1 and 2 will be closed. Reason : Roadworks are planned. Status : Pending. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 21:00 and 06:00 from 19 January 2021 to 22 January 2021. Lanes Closed : All lanes will be closed.
Location : The A419 southbound between the A4259 and the junction with the M4 . Lane Closures : Lane one will be closed. Reason : Roadworks are planned. Status : Pending. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 20:00 and 06:00 from 19 January 2021 to 23 January 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 20:00 and 06:00 from 25 January 2021 to 30 January 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 20:00 and 06:00 from 1 February 2021 to 6 February 2021. Schedule : Expect disruption everyday between 20:00 and 06:00 from 8 February 2021 to 13 February 2021. Lanes Closed : There will be one of two lanes closed.
Location : The A40 eastbound at the junction with the M5 . Lane Closures : Lane two will be closed. Reason : Emergency roadworks are planned. Status : Pending. Schedule : From 20:00 on 19 January 2021 to 06:00 on 20 January 2021. Schedule : From 09:30 on 20 January 2021 to 15:30 on 20 January 2021. Schedule : From 20:00 on 20 January 2021 to 06:00 on 21 January 2021. Schedule : From 09:30 on 21 January 2021 to 15:30 on 21 January 2021. Lanes Closed : There will be one of two lanes closed.


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ReadItDaddy's Chapter Book of the Week - Week Ending 7th February 2020: "Sticky Pines: The BigWoof Conspiracy" by Dashe Roberts (Nosy Crow)
Posted by ReadItDaddy at February 07, 2020 Labels: Chapter Book of the Week 2020, Dashe Roberts, Nosy Crow, The BigWoof Conspiracy
Sometimes a new book hits our review pile from a talented debut author, and you imagine what it must have been like to be the commissioning editor seeing that book in its raw form for the first time, and feeling that same frisson of excitement that you, the reader, now feel.
So it was with our Chapter Book of the Week this week, the utterly brilliant "The BigWoof Conspiracy" by Dashe Roberts, (hopefully) book 1 in an exciting new series that delves into the paranormal, setting out an enticing storyworld that just ticks all the right boxes for us.
We're huge fans of cult TV, strange phenomenon, mysterious creatures and conspiracy theories so you can imagine how fabulous this book was for us.
The story begins in a distinctly weird place, the town of Sticky Pines which is probably twinned with Eerie, Indiana - or any number of fictional towns where weird goings on are the norm.
Lucy Sladan is completely obsessed with UFOs and weird creatures and spends her time poring over dusty old tomes of abduction accounts, and weird old books about bizarre phenomenon (sounds a LOT like me aged 10 and also a lot like C who is really into all this stuff too).
In the midst of a thunderstorm and on the trail of a spate of strange disappearances in her home town of Sticky Pines, Lucy encounters a huge hairy creature stalking through the woods.
Terrified, she later also meets a new ally - Milo Fisher, also obsessed with all things paranormal but the holder of a deep dark secret - perhaps Milo knows more about the disappearances - and the creature - than he's letting on.
As the mystery begins to unfold, you can absolutely tell Dashe had a ball writing this, dipping into all the tropes and stories that offer the rich fertile ground on which this book is built. It's filled with action, suspense and a few moments where you pause for breath - only to realise you've been holding your breath for the last five minutes and are beginning to turn blue!
It's glorious, utterly glorious and comes with our highest recommendation. Just stop what you're doing, whether you're hunting sasquatches or trying to take photos of ghosts, and get down to your local bookshop for a copy of this. It's just so darned good!
Sum this book up in a sentence: The X-Files meets Eerie Indiana Meets John A.Keel in the body of a mighty young girl who delves into the deeply mysterious occurences in her very odd home town, making this a middle grade series destined for greatness!
"The BigWoof Conspiracy" by Dashe Roberts is out now, published by Nosy Crow (kindly supplied for review).


When my nieces mother came visiting, she not only brought her new husband, but also her DSLR camera, the latest and greatest model with seemingly infinite resolution. And four boxes of unused SD card. When I asked her why, she said "so I will not run out of memory".
That was a few years ago, and my latest iPhone has higher resolution than her DSLR had then. And now I know what she meant. It happened to me when I was filming our children performing in a little play they were doing at daycare. I had to go in and erase some pictures and then film again - until I had to repeat. Lucky I copied all the pictures to my Mac the weekend before. And I could not put in a memory card, because there is no slot for it in the iPhone.
This will happen however big your memory is. I know that from experience too. And it always happens at the worst time, just when your kids were doing something fun or remarkable that you really wanted to share with your friends and the family members back home. It is only afterwards that you find out that they will do fun and remarkable things all the time.
But you do not want to wait until you get back home and can back up your phone so you can take new photos. You want to share your photos all the time. And you want to keep them, including the ones you have not shared (yet). So what do you do?
If you have an Android phone, it may have an SD card slot. You can probably plug in an external flash disk as well, although this depends on whether there are appropriate drivers. You have a number of possibilities.
If you have an iPhone, though, your options are more limited. Not only because you do not have an SD card slot, but because Apple is more restrictive in what they allow. The iPhone connector does not allow you to use the memory stick and charge the phone at the same time. Although in practice neither does the Android phones, when you plug in a stick to the micro-USB slot.
With an Android phone and the appropriate adapter cable, you can plug in just about any flash drive on the market. With an iPhone you need additional drivers to make it work right. And clever manufacturers have used this to create devices which go beyond the barebones storage and automatically help you free up memory.
The pioneer is Leef, and their iBridge allows you to move files from your photo collection to the thumb drive. But different from Android, you can not move files from iTunes or iBooks, since Apple restricts how files can be moved around. This means applications which use the built-in mechanisms of the iPhone are similarly challenged. Including such potential space stealers as the Apple podcast app (since podcasts actually are downloaded from iTunes). You can not back them up either, so before you leave you had better prune your content.
I actually ended up buying a competing device, the Sandisk Xdrive. It has much the same functions as the Leef app, and it has the same curved connector which makes it very convenient to use - the connector has a little spring to it, so it fits snugly against the back of your iPhone when you use it.
The Sandisk Xdrive as a matter of fact looks nothing more like a whistle - so much so, in fact, that when my daughter saw it for the first time, she put it in her mouth and tried to blow. That is when you wish they had included a cap for the USB connector.
The app is very convenient to use and once you have set it up it automatically backs up your photos and videos when you plug it in, freeing up space on your phone if you set it to delete them once backed up. This of course means all your photos are gone from the phone and on the thumb drive.
This works very well - you actually get a feeling that the capacity of your phone has increased several hundred times. You have to be careful about one thing, though: Photos you share via iCloud will still be downloaded to your own phone and take up space.
The very convenience of these thumb drives is one of their major problems, however. They are so small you can easily drop them - and if you drop them down a drain, not only is the convenience gone, but so are all your pictures. You need some way of attaching them to a strap or similar, so you can keep track of them. But get that, and your phone never gets full again.


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Are you planning to attend the ASNE-APME News Leadership Conference Sept. 11-12 in Austin, Texas? We strongly encourage you to book your hotel room as soon as possible before the rooms we've reserved at the nightly rate of $219 sell out.
Currently, the ASNE-APME room block at the onsite hotel at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center is sold out for the night of Sept. 12, though there are still rooms available at the hotel outside of our block. If your reservation includes the night of Sept. 12, then the online registration system won't let you reserve a room. Instead, please call 512-404-1900 and reference the program name "ASNE-APME" to book any stays that include the night of Sept. 12.
Some highlights of the conference from our interactive schedule:
Innovation Track: Does Local Opinion Still Matter?: In one word: Yes. How can you focus your opinion writing on issues that are critical to your community and make changes? What are the new digital storytelling techniques, other than narrative argument, that you can use to state your case? Confirmed speakers: Rick Christie, editorial page editor, The Palm Beach Post; O. Ricardo Pimentel, editorial writer and columnist, San Antonio Express-News; and David Plazas (moderator), opinion engagement editor, The Tennessean.
This session is sponsored by The Lenfest Institute for Journalism and Philadelphia Media Network.
Sept. 11 Luncheon: A Conversation with A.G. Sulzberger: Arthur Gregg Sulzberger became the publisher of The New York Times on Jan. 1, 2017. There could not have been a more critical moment. As Donald Trump prepared to take office, the 37-year-old Sulzberger assumed command of one of the world's most important news institutions. As if the job weren't hard enough, Sulzberger soon faced a president who routinely lambasted the "failing" New York Times. Sulzberger and the newsroom stood their ground and the results have been anything but "failing." Sulzberger has presided over a surge in readership, revenue and subscribers. Under his watch, the newsroom broke the seminal story of 2017, a Pulitzer Prize-winning work that rocked Hollywood and spawned the nationwide #metoo movement. And the Times' coverage of Trump provided one exceptional revelatory piece after another.
Sept. 12 Luncheon: A Conversation with Google: We'll chat with Google news executive Chrissy Towle on the company's news efforts. Towle is a Google veteran having just entered her 13th year at Google. Towle currently manages the News & Local Media team working with the largest publishing partners in the United States. Towle's team facilitates and strategizes with those partners to ensure optimal use of Google products to drive maximum revenue and profitability. Towle graduated from Santa Clara University with a major in Communication and Journalism.
Haven't registered? Do it now!
The registration fee is $275 for members of ASNE and APME and $375 for nonmembers. Lunch tickets are $40 a piece and can be purchased when you register or separately through the online store.