The results of a study on the "mots de l'autocar" conducted by Médiascopie for the Institute for the National Federation of Passenger Transport (FNTV) were presented at the 23rd Congress of the Federation on October 14. Médiascopie Institute interviewed 600 people about their perception of coaches in order to establish a "mental map" related to coaches as a means of transport as well as expectations of the people and specific risks associated with coach travel.
• the development of the coach transport industry is perceived very positively.
• Coaches and buses are close to the train and the plane in the preferred means of transport among the French.
• The safety of coaches is perceived to be pretty good, and the fact that there are 30 times fewer fatalities by bus than by car was seen as a strong argument in favor of coaches.
• The perception that a coach can replace 30 cars was highly valued. In addition the fact that a coach pollutes less than a car, a train or a plane makes it a viable sustainable transport mode.
• The idea of "affordable and stable price" is closely associated with coaches and this attribute is highly valued by the respondents.


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NEWS: No extension of EU license for glyphosate
The European Commission has failed to secure an extension of the licence for the controversial pesticide glyphosate.
The Commission had asked member states to back the extension of the license for 18 months, until after the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) publishes its report on the health risks of glyphosate, which is due in 2017. However, several key member states either voted against the extension of the licence or abstained, meaning that the Commission could not secure the qualified majority it needed.
Breast Cancer UK has previously urged UK representatives to vote against any proposals to authorise the sale of glyphosate due to our concerns that the pesticide acts as an oestrogen mimic and could have the potential to adversely affect breast development. The International Agency for Research on Cancer also concluded that glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to humans.
A committee of member states has twice refused to back the renewal of the license for glyphosate. Unless the Commission can secure an extension of the licence ahead of a 30th June deadline, products containing glyphosate could be withdrawn from the EU market.
The European Commission will now take the matter to an appeal committee. We have joined forces with other NGOs to call on the Commission to recognise the risks posed by glyphosate and put the health of European citizens first.
You can find out more about glyphosate by reading our science briefing.

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LA songstress' second single is a powerhouse of potential.
Laura Jean Anderson is not an artist that cares for the "awkward second single" phase of a new artist's career. Bypassing the awkwardness and rushing right in with a confident strut of musicianship, the latest single Love You Most is a lush ballad.
Putting Laura Jean's powerhouse vocal at the forefront alongside sweeping melodies and a textured instrumental, the single is the second offering from Laura Jean Anderson and a confident new glimpse of her songwriting depth.
Laura Jean explains that the track is "about someone I loved who was with someone else. I wrote it when traveling, as my mind began spiraling down a rabbit hole of all the irrational things I would do to win them over. Though the song feels light hearted, as if happily in love, it is actually a reflection of deep heartbreak and denial.


Today is World Pizza Party Day and we're celebrating!
Combine breadcrumbs, chicken salt, zest, parmesan and mint in a large bowl. Place flour in a separate bowl and season well. Combine eggs and milk in another bowl. Dip chicken in flour, then shake off excess. Dip in egg mixture, then press in breadcrumb mixture until evenly coated on both sides.
Put chicken on a tray and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Heat enough oil to just cover the base of a large non-stick frying pan over a medium high heat.
Cook 8-10 of the tenderloins at a time for about 8 minutes, turning halfway or until golden and cooked through – you will need to adjust temperature so they don't over brown. Drain on paper towel. Repeat with more oil and tenderloins.
Put chicken on an oven tray and reheat, if required, in a low oven for 5 minutes or until warmed through. Serve with aioli or mayonnaise, if desired.
Tip: You can also use chicken breast fillets, cut into strips or nuggets. Freeze uncooked tenderloins in layers between baking paper for up to 2 months. Defrost before cooking.
With over 20 years in magazines, Kerrie's work has adorned HB's pages as contributing food editor, along with BHG, Elle Cuisine, Australian Women's Weekly and Family Circle. "It is so important to encourage people to learn simple food skills so they can learn how easy it is to fall in love with their creative side," she says.


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As president, George W. Bush gets to fill three of the five seats on the National Labor Relations Board, the panel that serves as a kind of Supreme Court for labor issues. Bush didn't get his three-member majority until last December, when he placed a conservative Washington, D.C., attorney named Ronald Meisburg on the panel. Meisburg's nomination had been blocked in the Senate, so Bush made what's called a recess appointment, meaning Meisburg gets to serve only until the Senate recesses next month.
But the new Republican majority has been working overtime, racing the election clock and churning out decisions that have rolled back advances that unions and workers had made under prior boards.
In June, by a 3-2 vote along party lines, the Bush board overturned a 30-year-old rule that provided one of the few protections afforded employees in a non-union workplace: the right to have a co-worker accompany them when summoned to the boss's office for a disciplinary interrogation. In July, it reversed a landmark 2000 decision by ruling that graduate students—who now do the bulk of classroom teaching on college campuses in return for little pay and few benefits—are students, not workers, and thus not employees for purposes of bargaining.
That decision was aimed at disarming successful union organizing drives at campuses around the country, including New York University, Columbia, and Brown. The ruling overturned a unanimous, bipartisan vote taken by the Clinton-era board, which concluded after months of study that the workforce at many large universities had changed dramatically, with adjuncts and graduate students increasingly replacing full-time faculty.
Even those at the workplace margins haven't been able to catch a break. In a little-noticed vote last month, the board ruled against a group of disabled janitors in Florida who were seeking the right to join a union. The board said they were not entitled to do so because they were part of a rehabilitation program. The two dissenting Democrats pointed out that the janitors reported to the same supervisors as the rest of the staff and carried much the same workload. The decision was also out of sync, they said, with the Americans With Disabilities Act, which seeks to move the disabled into mainstream society. Barring the janitors from joining a union continued the "needless segregation of those workers," the minority members stated.
Any day now, the board is expected to rule on a matter that could drastically alter the way that workers win union recognition. The board now appears poised to hobble a decades-old practice called "voluntary recognition agreements," in which employers agree to recognize a union if a majority of employees, usually certified by a neutral observer, have indicated a desire to have union representation.
Such voluntary agreements, often carried out as "card checks"—literally checking the number of union cards signed by employees—have been enshrined in labor law since the 1930s. But in recent years unions have increasingly utilized them as an alternative to official NLRB-certified elections, which, unions say, often encounter lengthy delays and heavy-handed employer tactics.
Last year, the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union, which has used card checks effectively in many organizing drives, won voluntary representation of workers at the Borgata, Atlantic City's giant new casino. The Communications Workers of America has used card checks to organize Cingular wireless services, an agreement that could be extended to AT&T upon merger.
The board apparently was in a rush to judgment. It set a short six-week date for briefs to be filed on the matter, rejecting standard requests for a short extension.
"They want to get it done because they know the elections are around the corner, and they want to get a decision out before a new administration can come in and make new appointments," said David Bonior, the former Michigan congressman who now heads a labor-backed group called American Rights at Work.
Unions have good reason to seek voluntary agreements, Bonior said, given the increasingly hostile attitude of management during NLRB elections.
Faced with union drives, 25 percent of employers fire at least one worker for organizing activity, while half of employers threaten to relocate their businesses or call immigration authorities, according to a 2000 study by Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor research at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Under President Clinton, the board took a small step toward correcting situations in which employers egregiously violate the law, by allowing unions access to workers on site, and giving them the ability to place notices on bulletin boards. In June, the new Bush majority rejected those remedies, stating that a simple posting of the board's cease-and-desist order was sufficient.
Despite some early flirtations by some labor leaders with the Bush administration, most union officials got the message when the president—citing security precautions—stripped some 200,000 workers at the new Department of Homeland Security of collective bargaining rights. The move undid years of union organizing work at JFK International Airport, where 75 percent of airport security workers had signed cards saying they wanted to be represented by the American Federation of Government Employees.
As a kind of goal-line stand against that trend, union officials this year got congressional supporters to introduce the first new labor legislation in years that would significantly lower the bar for union recognition. Called the Employee Free Choice Act, it would guarantee workers the right to choose unions via card checks, provide arbitration for first contract disputes, and increase penalties for violations. Despite its 31 Senate sponsors and 207 in the House, the bill has little chance of passage. But it has become something of a rallying cry for labor and has been backed by the Kerry-Edwards ticket.
At the same time, the campaign is labor's main focus. The AFL-CIO has committed $45 million to the effort to oust Republicans from the White House; the Service Employees International Union is spending $65 million; and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is putting $48 million into the race.


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Volunteer pilot transports injured bald eagle to treatment center
Updated: Mar 9, 2013 - 10:14 PM
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. - A severely injured bald eagle was found in the eastern part of North Carolina at Camp Lejeune.
The eagle flew to Huntersville on a private plane to receive treatments that will hopefully save her life.
The bald eagle arrived heavily sedated and with a huge bandage covering her wing.
X-rays confirmed her pain: A severe break to her upper wing.
"This is probably a collision of some type. Could have been a structure like a high voltage tower or fence or something. We may never know," said Mathias Engelmann of the Carolina Raptor Center.
The center, which specializes in rehabilitating injured raptors, got a call Friday about the eagle found at Camp Lejeune.
They knew that to save her they had to get there quickly.
"Sometimes a few hours can make the difference between life and death," Engelmann said.
So, instead of sending someone to drive to the eastern part of the state, the center called on Fred Darnell, a volunteer who happens to be a private pilot, and was more than willing to fly the two hours each way to help.
"Whenever we can help animals or birds, in particular these raptors, it gives us a great sense of accomplishment," Darnell said.
The center thinks the eagle has been injured for more than a week now, which does not help her chances.
"When they come in this condition there are no guarantees. We'll certainly try our best to help her out," Engelmann said.
Last year, the raptor center admitted more than a thousand birds of prey for treatment, a record.
Toddler seriously hurt after hit by car in Steele Creek neighborhood
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Fireweed Drills 250 m True Width of 3.44% Zinc from Surface at Boundary Including Intersections of 23.31m of 16.35% Zinc and 11.85m of 13.63% Zinc+Lead
Vancouver, British Columbia: FIREWEED ZINC LTD. ("Fireweed") (TSXV: FWZ) is pleased to announce results from the first 2019 drill hole on the Boundary Zone at the Macmillan Pass Project in Yukon, Canada. Boundary Zone is located 15 road kilometres west of the Jason Deposit (see Figure 1).
This first 2019 drill hole at the Boundary Zone intersected 3.44% Zinc over a true width of 250 metres with high grade subintervals including 16.35% Zinc over a drill intersection of 23.31 metres, a lead and silver rich section grading 9.18% Zinc 4.45% Lead and 71.6 g/t Silver over an intersection of 11.85 metres and local very high grade sections including 47.70% Zinc over an intersection of 1.01 metres.
Boundary Zone has potential to be mined in a low strip open-pit and to be upgraded through low cost ore sorting technology for processing
The addition of Boundary Zone to the project has potential to expand current mineral resources and improve current PEA economics.
Assays from an additional hole at Boundary Zone are pending.
Brandon Macdonald, CEO, stated "These results confirm the large size and upside potential of Boundary Zone. Hole NB19-001 is the best ever hole drilled in this zone and clearly demonstrates that there may be potential beyond the past wide, but lower grade, intersections drilled historically, as impressive as they were. Boundary Zone results along with recent drilling success at Tom North and End Zone, have potential to expand on our current resources, which are already among the largest undeveloped zinc resources in the world, as well as improve project economics."
No mineral resource has been estimated for Boundary Zone yet and the zone is not included in the current mineral resource estimate for the property (described in Fireweed news release dated January 10, 2018). Boundary Zone has potential to be mined in an open pit with a low strip ratio and to be upgraded through low cost, pre-concentration ore sorting processes (see below). Recent drill results at Boundary Zone along with Tom North Zone and End Zone (see Fireweed news releases dated September 10, 2019, and November 15 and 29, 2018) represent potential for expansion of the large current mineral resources and improvement of Macmillan Pass project economics described in the current Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) (see Fireweed news release dated May 23, 2018).
Historic drilling of 24 holes at Boundary Zone indicates the presence of a large bulk tonnage zone of zinc (-lead-silver) mineralization potentially suitable for open pit mining. Known mineralization is spread over an area almost two kilometres long and 200 to 800 metres wide. Mineralization drilled in a central area is 350 metres long and has a true thickness of up to 250 metres with historic drilling grades averaging 2.0 - 2.5% zinc3 that include multiple higher grade intervals closer to surface similar to the hole reported in this news release (see Figures 2 & 3 and Table 1). Higher grades near surface are favourable for potential open pit mining economics. The zone has been drilled up to 285 metres down dip and remains open to depth and along trend for further exploration. Boundary Zone mineralization consists of sphalerite-siderite-pyrite and minor galena in veins, stockworks, disseminations, and as replacement of matrix and clasts within coarse clastic rocks.
The 2019 Boundary drill program was designed to infill a gap in historic drilling (see Figures 2 and 3) and obtain a bulk sample for larger commercial-scale ore sorting and metallurgical test work. Drill hole NB19-001, reported in this release, was collared 45 metres from a historic hole to obtain adequate comparable material for the test work.
Initial ore sorting test results for Boundary Zone indicate mineralization is potentially amendable to low cost state-of-the-art X-Ray Fluorescence ("XRF") ore sorting technology (see Fireweed news release dated July 31, 2019). These test results rejected 50-70% of the waste material (30-50% mass pull), while recovering 80-85% of the zinc. In practical terms, these results show potential to upgrade mill feed from the test feed grade of 2.5% zinc to approximately 5% zinc with recovery of 80-85% of the zinc at low cost. Core collected from the two 2019 holes will be used to carry out commercial-scale ore sorting tests and metallurgical tests. If the tests confirm the preliminary ore sorting results, the Boundary Zone has the potential to significantly improve the PEA economics of the Macmillan Pass Project.
Target G Drilling
Assays have also been received from the single hole drilled on Target G (see Figure 1) which returned a narrow intersection of low grade mineralization of 1.97% zinc, 0.55% lead and 42 g/t silver over 0.73 metres. Results from this hole and mapping in the general area will be reviewed and interpreted this winter.
The 2019 drill program is complete. A total of 16 diamond drill holes were drilled for a total of 2,357 metres. Targets tested were Tom North, Tom East, Tom West, Jason North, Target A, Target G, Target R, and Boundary Zone (Figure 1 and Tables 2 & 3). Assays are pending for one additional hole at Boundary Zone. Summary descriptions of field results and observations are provided in Table 3.
The drill core logging and sampling program is carried out under a rigorous quality assurance / quality control program using industry best practices. Drill intersections in this release are all HQ3 (split tube) size core (61.1mm / 2.4-inch diameter) with recoveries typically above 85%. After drilling, core is logged for geology, structure and geotechnical characteristics, marked for sampling, and photographed on site. The cores for analyses are marked for sampling based on geological intervals with individual samples 1.5 metres or less in length. Drill core from the Boundary Zone was cut lengthwise into quarters with a core saw; a quarter-core was sent for assays reported in this news release, two quarter core samples were collected for ore sorting and metallurgical test work, and the fourth quarter is stored on site for reference. A total of 5% assay standards or blanks and 5% core duplicates are included in the sample stream as a quality control measure and reviewed, after analyses are received. Standards and blanks in 2019 drill results to date have been approved as acceptable. Duplicate data add to the long-term estimates of precision for assay data on the project and precision is deemed to be within acceptable levels. Samples are sent to the Bureau Veritas preparation laboratory in Whitehorse, Yukon, where the samples are crushed and a 500 g split is pulverized to 85% passing 200 mesh size pulps. Clean crush material is passed through the crusher and clean silica is pulverized between each sample. The pulps are then sent to the Bureau Veritas laboratory in Vancouver, B.C. and analyzed by 1:1:1 Aqua Regia digestion followed by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-ES/ICP-MS) multi-element analyses (BV Code AQ270). All samples are also analyzed for multiple elements by lithium borate fusion and X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF) finish (BV Code LF725). Over-limit Pb (>25.0%) and Zn (>20.0%) were analyzed by lithium borate fusion with XRF finish (BV Code LF726). Silver is reported in this news release by method AQ270, and zinc and lead are reported by LF725 or LF726. Bureau Veritas (Vancouver) is an independent, international ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accredited laboratory.
Technical information in this news release has been approved by Gilles Dessureau, P.Geo, Vice President Exploration and a 'Qualified Person' as defined under Canadian National Instrument 43-101. About Fireweed Zinc Ltd. (TSXV: FWZ): Fireweed Zinc is a public mineral exploration company focused on zinc and managed by a veteran team of mining industry professionals. The Company is advancing its district-scale 544 km2 Macmillan Pass Project in Yukon, Canada, which is host to the 100% owned Tom and Jason zinc-lead-silver deposits with current Mineral Resources and a PEA economic study (see Fireweed news releases dated January 10, 2018, and May 23, 2018, respectively, and reports filed on www.sedar.com for details) as well as the Boundary Zone, Tom North Zone and End Zone which have significant zinc-lead-silver mineralization drilled but not yet classified as mineral resources. The project also includes option agreements on large blocks of adjacent claims (MAC, MC, MP, Jerry, BR and NS) which cover exploration targets in the district where previous and recent work identified zinc, lead and silver prospects, and geophysical and geochemical anomalies in prospective host geology.


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Suicidal thoughts affect one quarter of Americans
LifestyleRealTime Research
September 19, 2013, 1:44 p.m.
As the Government and advocacy groups are raising awareness for Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, 25% of Americans say that they have had suicidal thoughts.
A nationally representative sample of 1,084 people was asked if they were willing to answer questions on suicide. Results are from the 1,019 adults who agreed.
One quarter of the nation is affected by suicidal thoughts, while 47% of Americans say that they know someone who has attempted or committed suicide. 23% of the population said a friend or family member has told them that they have had suicidal thoughts.
18-34 year olds (32%) and women (28%) were more likely to say that they had been affected by suicidal thoughts than the general population. Young people tend to be the most affected by suicide, with teens being identified as an at-risk group, according to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC). The Center said that suicide is the second-leading cause of death among 25 to 34 year olds, and the third-leading cause of death among 15 to 24 year olds.
The West, according to the SPRC, has been the fastest-growing region in terms of suicide rates since 1999. This is reflected in the YouGov results – 26% of Americans living in this region stated they have had suicidal thoughts; the largest proportion out of the four US regions.
Timed to coincide with World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10, the month is designed to raise awareness of mental health issues and identify risk factors in suicide. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has told people to recognize common warning signs, including:
Depression, feelings of hopelessness, or suicidal thoughts
Impulsiveness, extreme anxiety, agitation, irritability, or risky behavior
Withdrawal from others
Giving away treasured belongings
Loss of interest in activities that were once enjoyed
Abuse of alcohol, drugs, or other substances
Currently there are a number of support groups that people in need can turn to, including the Survivors of Suicide Support Groups based in several US states and state-specific organisations listed in a national directory.
44% of Americans feel that there are not enough suicide prevention programs that offer individuals the support and treatment they need. 31% says they that there are plenty of programs, with women being more likely than men to feel current support options are inadequate.
A 'public' health problem?
17% of Americans feel suicide is a 'major public health problem' in the US, rating it as #10 out of a 1 to 10 scale of seriousness. Just 5% of Americans rated suicide at the bottom level of #1, meaning they believe it is 'not a public health problem at all.'
Dr Lanny Berman, president of the International Association for Suicide Prevention, said suicide should be a matter of public health. Speaking on World Suicide Prevention Day, he said: "From reducing stigma, and helping those with mental disorders get treatment to making it more difficult for access to common methods of suicide, lives in the balance can be redirected to health, meaning and value."
"Prevention begins with awareness, and suicide can be prevented. That can only occur because you take the time and expend the effort to make prevention a priority," Berman added.
School age suicide remains paramount
The idea to provide suicide awareness training to school employees and encouraging young people to talk about mental health issues has been enshrined in the Jason Flatt Act – named after a Tennessee student who took his own life in 1997 – now approved in 12 states. It gives school employees and parents the training and responsibility to talk to young people about suicide and mental health, and identify at-risk individuals.
Awareness of the Suicide Prevention Awareness Month is higher among the younger demographic. An active social media campaign and events based in schools, along with reforms like the Jason Flatt Act, could be behind this increased level of awareness. While 37% of 18-34 year olds have heard of the Awareness Month, this was the case among just 17% of 35-54 and 20% of adults aged 55 and over.
Middle and older generations affected
Suicide is not something that affects only younger people: among Americans aged between 35 and 64, suicide levels increased 28% from 1999 to 2010, in data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While suicide is a highly personal and individual tragedy, other possible contributing factors have been identified including the recent economic downturn and a rise in drug overdoses associated with the increase in availability of prescription medicines.
More than half (54%) of 35-54 year olds say they know someone who has either attempted or committed suicide, while younger respondents were most likely to have had suicidal thoughts themselves or been confided in by a friend or family member who has had suicidal thoughts.
For more information, visit the Suicide Prevention Awareness Month website or the International Association for Suicide Prevention. For further information about poll results, and for details about methodology and omnibus services, please email omnibus.us@yougov.com.


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Lambeth Palace Road, South Bank, London SE1
Adjacent to Lambeth Palace on the banks of the River Thames , the Garden Museum provides an insight into... More
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Tibetan Peace Gardens
Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, Southwark, London SE1
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O furacão do Dia do Trabalho de 1935 foi o ciclone tropical mais forte da temporada de furacões no oceano Atlântico de 1935. Tem sido um dos mais intensos dos que têm tocado terra nos Estados Unidos e o primeiro dos três furacões de categoria 5 que têm açoitado este país durante o século XX, sendo os outros o Furacão Camille em 1969 e o Furacão Andrew em 1992. Depois de ter-se gerado como uma débil tempestade tropical ao leste das Bahamas a 29 de agosto de 1935, avançou lentamente para o oeste, se convertendo em furacão a 1 de setembro, intensificando rapidamente a sua potência antes de golpear a parte norte das Florida Keys a 2 de setembro. Após tocar terra em seu pico de intensidade, seguiu ao noroeste ao longo da costa oeste da Flórida, e debilitado anteriormente a terra para perto de Cedar Keys a 4 de setembro.

O furacão causou graves danos na zona norte das Florida Keys, vendo-se toda a região afectada por uma forte marejada, com ondas dentre 4 e 9 metros aproximadamente. Por causa dos fortes ventos a maioria dos edifícios na zona de Islamorada ficaram destruídos. As linhas ferroviárias da Key West Flórida viram-se gravemente danificadas ou destruídas. O furacão também causou danos a seu passo pelo noroeste da Flórida, Geórgia e as Carolinas. Calcula-se que ao todo morreram mais de 400 pessoas. Este furacão iguala o recorde com o Furacão Dorian por ter sido o furacão mais potente que tenha golpeado os Estados Unidos quanto a pressão barométrica.

1935 nos Estados Unidos

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Garima Arora used to be Gaggan Anand's sous chef before she moved directly across the street (literally opposite of restaurant Gaggan) and opened up her own restaurant – Gaa. Being born in Mumbai, and having worked in Bangkok and Copenhagen (at Noma), Arora has found her own style of cooking that mixes both Indian and Thai cuisine with influences from her time in Scandinavia. That makes for a surprisingly tasty combination of flavors and ingredients! With only a 10-course (2200 TBH) and 14-course (2800 TBH) tasting menu to choose from, Gaa is definitely a fine dining restaurant, but the vibe is more relaxed and the interior quite informal, compared to many other establishments in the category.
Garima has dubbed her style modern eclectic because it is a mishmash of influences from all over the world –wherever she has worked. The ingredients, however, are always locally sourced and seasonal, and they make absolutely everything in-house like garums and butter. The meal kicked off with one of the best dishes – a cold soup of mango, pumpkin, and various pickles. So refreshing and satisfying, with a very Noma-esque presentation. Chef Arora's influence can sometimes be pinpointed even down to specific dishes, like her dessert of purple sweet potato and coconut cream, which I believe must have been inspired by Rosio Sanchez' legendary dessert of potato purée, plum compote, and plum kernel cream from her time at Noma. A lovely tribute, in my opinion!
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Among my favorite bites at Gaa were the grilled potato mochis with salted duck egg cream and mustard flowers. Warm and gooey! Indian and Japanese inspiration once again. You have to applaud the no-waste philosophy as well, with all those recurring duck elements. Another big highlight was the grilled baby corn husks served in all its simplicity with a corn and butter emulsion dip. Incredible richness, sweet and salty flavors in harmony, and a pleasing acidity. Then there's the brilliant combination of wild strawberries and caviar. Who even thinks of that? Finally, I love how Garima pays homage to her home country by lining up three toppings on the pork ribs with reference to the colors of the Indian flag – orange pomegranate, white diced onion, and green coriander.
Despite Garima's influence from many of her previous employers, I found her menu exceptionally creative in its own right and remarkably pleasing. This was a meal right up my alley, and I'm going back to Gaa on my next Bangkok visit, no doubt.
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Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: A...
0:05Skip to 0 minutes and 5 secondsGood evening, sir. Thank you so much for giving us your time. Good evening, Vrinda. So this interview is basically to discuss about your experiences in trying to implement an antibiotic stewardship programme in this setting. So first of all, could you briefly describe your role in this institute and what is it that you do here? Thank you, Vrinda. This is a university teaching hospital, which has a 1,350 bed, which has a medical college, dental, nursing, pharmacy and allied health sciences courses. I am a chief of medical services here, and I work with all the clinical departments to put a strategic plan together and then an operational plan.
0:49Skip to 0 minutes and 49 secondsI basically am responsible for all profit and losses and a business plan for each department, and day-to-day coordination with respect to operation theatre scheduling, with respect to bed management, with respect to various accreditation and legal formalities. So institution basically is now declared as an institute of eminence, and there is a vision for a research institute to write grants, to publish, to be international-- to have international collaborations, and to do something which is innovative and which either has a product or a process patent.
1:29Skip to 1 minute and 29 secondsSo our basic role is to coordinate with all the schools within the university, primarily between the school of medicine, school of dentistry, pharmacy, nano biotechnology, engineering, and getting an idea together which could possibly bloom it up into either a startup or a good research project. Other than that, I have a huge interest in quality, and I look at the accreditation programmes nationally and internationally. Our institute was the first to be accredited by NABH as a medical college. Then we are also accredited by labs and as an academic institution by university grants commission. The other chief role is building other outreach centres within the university.
2:29Skip to 2 minutes and 29 secondsAnd right now, we are building another hospital at Faridabad and at Amravati, which is, again, twice the size of this present hospital. Antibiotic stewardship and infection prevention is a work of passion. And I initiated this work somewhere in 2005, where we met a few champions and then they encouraged me to follow up my-- follow up work and do PhD. And that is where I got interested, and that is where I would like to have a vision for this institute, to do something which is evidence -based, which is remarkable, which is good, and which could promote this as a centre of excellence and also create more institutions which have good antibiotic stewardship and infection prevention activity, which others can also learn.
3:28Skip to 3 minutes and 28 secondsSo you seem to have a very busy schedule day-to-day. And you were mentioning that antibiotic stewardship was out of passion that you went into that field. So could you tell me what actually triggered you to implement this programme in this hospital? When we were working on putting an antibiogram, an antibiotic policy together, each year we would possibly get a similar antibiogram, and we would get similar high risk patients since we are a tertiary reference centre. And they were all coming pumped up with antibiotics from the community or from the referral hospitals, and then we would struggle with these patients in our critical care unit.
4:11Skip to 4 minutes and 11 secondsAnd we would force our critical care physicians to adhere to certain policy and procedures, and we realised that we are hardly making an impact. It was almost a similar antibiotic policy, it was a similar antibiograms, it was a similar kind of high risk patients who are being referred, and then there is hardly a change, which we were doing. At that point of time, I realised that there is something which is bigger which we'd need to establish, where a better and a bigger team should come to coordinate the activity. And we reached out to a few clinicians who were champions and who had an inclination to practise good practices.
4:55Skip to 4 minutes and 55 secondsWe got all of them together, we put a good infection prevention team and we put a good stewardship team. We also realised that it is also not making a impact, because there is a lot of data which needs to be collected, and there was hardly any data which was coming in, so it was more of an emotional statement and we were running helter skelter. Few clinicians were called for few cases. At that point of time, we realised that there is a course which has been run within our institute, which is a pharm D course, and there are a lot of clinical pharmacists who were extremely well trained, but they were also a very uncoordinated group.
5:35Skip to 5 minutes and 35 secondsWe reached out to the principal and we asked them that can they all be posted by the clinical departments so that they round with the clinicians and then they make an adequate difference. So that also took a lot of time, because the acceptance of the clinicians to clinical pharmacist was not there. We almost took one to two years to get this bridge-- being bridged together for good practice. We also reached out to the nursing college, nursing students, to participate in infection prevention and then into stewardship, at least raise a trigger wherever the loading dose are not appropriate, where the dosings were not appropriate.
6:20Skip to 6 minutes and 20 secondsAnd then I think getting all the team together of clinical pharmacists, nursing, and other clinical people, both surgical and physician, really helped to get the antibiotic stewardship team and the process in place. So in this process of implementing the stewardship programme in the hospital, could you brief us about the key challenges that you faced and how you were able to overcome those? So one of the key challenges was the leadership's involvement, because there needs to be a resource which needs to be put in for appropriate collection of data, for appropriate follow up, and that is where we had done a bit of exercise with infection prevention, where we had done a cost benefit, cost effective, and cost utility analysis.
7:13Skip to 7 minutes and 13 secondsAnd we knew that this would be an exercise, which would be worth taking. And we presented the infection prevention bit that needs to copy that for the antibiotics stewardship bit, and the leadership got very excited and said that this is the way to go. The other challenge was the participation of all the clinical team. And it was very, very difficult, because there was no ID physician. I think that was the biggest challenge for us. And every internist believed that they knew how to practise antibiotics, how to write antibiotics and do an adequate follow up both in OP and IP.
8:00Skip to 8 minutes and 0 secondsAnything wherever a notice would come to them, they would feel extremely insecure and they would not take it in a right rhythm. And that is where I think our team also started breaking in between, because there were various activities which were quoted which was not communicated well and which was not done well. Other than that, I think another challenge was our hospital information system. So until and unless we get the data right on time to understand which are the restricted antibiotics and what is the consumption pattern, and then where are these patients where we need to go and look for clinical history was again a biggest challenge.
8:49Skip to 8 minutes and 49 secondsSo we have worked on it, and I think we have now a decent data, which is available. So from your answer, I understand that the programme has really been very successful in this hospital. So you're also trying to bring this success-- taking this success to other institutions, and you're also working with the government in spreading the antibiotic stewardship programme throughout the state. So could you share your experiences in this regard? Working with the government was always mixed with lots of feelings, good as well as something which was difficult.
9:29Skip to 9 minutes and 29 secondsWe realised when we were working with our antibiotic policy, within our intensive care unit, we were not making much of progress, because the patients were always coming to a tertiary care centre who were always given antibiotics, two or three hospitalisation, and they were not in good shape. There is where I realised that just doing it in our institution is not going to help. I reached out to the government mentioning that there is a huge problem and all hospitals, public and private, need to reach out or adhere to some good practices. It wasn't liked by the government, initially, because they said that they don't think there is a problem. And that is where they asked me to conduct a survey
10:20Skip to 10 minutes and 20 secondsto understand: is there a problem? We conducted a survey with close to 500 physicians across 14 districts of Kerala. We also reached out to microbiology labs, interviewing the microbiologist and the technician. We also interviewed the pharmacist. And we came up with a document, a white paper, which shows that our prescription practices were abysmally poor, both in private and public hospitals. And to our surprise, maximum antibiotics were being used by dental, orthopaedics, ENT, and dermatology. And we were on having an assumption that it would be the surgical branch or maybe an internal medicine or pulmonary medicine branch, and that wasn't the case. That was an eye opener.
11:16Skip to 11 minutes and 16 secondsMajority of the labs-- the report were given by a microbiology technician who had no clue how to read the report. And over the counter prescription were rampant, and there was no follow up done by the pharmacist at all. This is the report what we submitted to the government, and they realised that there is a need to work towards putting a policy together. They also wanted to reach out to all the private institutions, because in India, health care is offered 70% to 72% by private institutions. And there is where I think we should be made a phenomenal progress, where we worked with 18 societies which could be associations of physicians of India, associations of surgeons, the gynaec, the ENT, orthopaedics, dental.
12:09Skip to 12 minutes and 9 secondsAll 18 societies came together. It took a lot of time to get everybody together in a platform. All of them also were asking for data, is there data to work upon, and there was none. So we said that if this is a scenario, can we have a disease based antibiotic policy, what would be a first choice and what would be a second choice? There also to our surprise, many of the physicians were writing banned antibiotic drugs. And parallelly, we started work with the government, both the state as well as centre and ICMR, that there are few combinations, which are non-scientific and it should be banned.
12:52Skip to 12 minutes and 52 secondsComing together led to a development of clinical guidelines, and our state was the only state which had a clinical guidelines developed for almost all speciality which was disease- based and which was also released by the health minister and the health secretary. Sustaining all this activity was the biggest challenge, and to always keep communicating to all the stakeholders, giving appropriate feedback. And to say that there are few successes and there are few impacts was again a big challenge, because there wasn't a big forum. There is an infection prevention committee and there is an antibiotic stewardship committee, but out of 840 physicians, they are only represented by 30, 35 people in that committee.
13:46Skip to 13 minutes and 46 secondsSo communicating everybody and getting everybody's participation was also a huge challenge. But I think the team was excellent. They were young, they were honest, they were ready to invest, and they engaged with whatever came through their way.
14:03Skip to 14 minutes and 3 secondsAnd I am extremely grateful to the team: the responses they have shown and the kind of impact which they have created that we were able to withhold the activity together. And these challenges were limited, and the success was much more visible.
AMS in India
Dr Sanjeev Singh is interviewed by Dr Vrinda Nampoothiri, a research pharmacist. Dr Sanjeev Singh is the Medical Superintendent at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, India.
Dr Singh tells us how antimicrobial stewardship was always a passion of his, so when he realised there was a serious problem he put together a multidisciplinary AMS team.
He shares the important stages he went through:
Reaching out to senior hospital leadership and AMS champions
Looking into existing and available expertise
Encouraging multidisciplinary accountability and responsibility
He also stresses how all of this took a lot of time.
Dr Singh talks about some of the key challenges he faced such as getting leadership involved, encouraging clinicians to change their practice and adjusting their hospital information system.
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The View is een indie/rock band uit de Schotse stad Dundee.

Het begin
De band begon werd opgericht in 2005 in een café genaamd 'The Bayside View', waar de band naar is vernoemd. Nadat Pete Doherty van de Babyshambles de band hoorde nam hij The View op in het voorprogramma tijdens hun Britse tour. Het was tijdens die tour, dat de populariteit van The View serieuze vormen begon aan te nemen.

Nederland
In januari 2007 stond The View op het Groningse festival Noorderslag. Begin mei 2007 volgde er een kleine tour door Nederland, waar The View Groningen (bevrijdingsfestival), Amsterdam, Rotterdam en Nijmegen een bezoek bracht. In augustus 2007 was The View op Lowlands te zien.
In België stonden zij in de Marquee op het Limburgse/Hasseltse festival Pukkelpop op 17 augustus 2007! En in december 2007 waren ze weer te zien in Nederland, in Paradiso (Amsterdam). Ze stonden in april 2009 weer op Nederlandse bodem, Tivoli Utrecht.

Albums
Hats Off To The Buskers (2007)
Which Bitch? (2009)
Bread and Circuses (2011)
Cheeky For A Reason (2012)

EP's
The View EP (2006)
Cutting Corners EP (2011)
Tight Hopes EP (2013)

Singles
Wasted Little DJ's (2006)
Superstar Tradesman (2006)
Same Jeans (2007)
The Don (2007)
Skag Trendy (2007)
Face For The Radio (2007)
Grace (2011)

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North Sea bathymetry
The mid-Pliocene warm period (MPWP; ~ 3.3 to 3.0 Ma) is the most recent interval in Earth's history in which global temperatures reached and remained at levels similar to those projected for the near future. The distribution of global warmth, however, was different than today in that the high latitudes warmed more than the tropics. Multiple temperature proxies indicate significant sea surface warming in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans during the MPWP, but predictions from a fully coupled ocean–atmosphere model (HadCM3) have so far been unable to fully predict the large scale of sea surface warming in the high latitudes. If climate proxies accurately represent Pliocene conditions, and if no weakness exists in the physics of the model, then model boundary conditions may be in error. Here we alter a single boundary condition (bathymetry) to examine if Pliocene high latitude warming was aided by an increase in poleward heat transport due to changes in the subsidence of North Atlantic Ocean ridges. We find an increase in both Arctic sea surface temperature and deepwater production in model experiments that incorporate a deepened Greenland–Scotland Ridge. These results offer both a mechanism for the warming in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans indicated by numerous proxies and an explanation for the apparent disparity between proxy data and model simulations of Pliocene northern North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean conditions. Determining the causes of Pliocene warmth remains critical to fully understanding comparisons of the Pliocene warm period to possible future climate change scenarios.
► We alter GCM bathymetry to see if warming is aided by ocean ridge subsidence. ► We find an increase in both Arctic sea surface temperature and deepwater production. ► The results offer a warming mechanism and an explanation for data-model disparity. ► Our results are compatible with paleoceoanographic and geophysical evidence. ► The Iceland–Faroe Ridge has a greater effect on climate than does Denmark Strait.
Mid-Pliocene warm period;
Greenland–Scotland Ridge;
Arctic Ocean;
Sea-surface temperature;
Deepwater production;
Ocean–atmosphere general circulation model
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SSRIs are a class of drugs including Celexa, Effexor, Lexapro, Luvox, Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft. These drugs have been associated with birth defects when taken by pregnant women during the first and third trimesters. During the first trimester, the heart is developing. The SSRIs cross the placental barrier and have been associated with increased heart defects. The heart defects most commonly seen are atrial and ventricular septal defects [ASD/VSD]. Other defects associated with SSRI during the first trimester are Gastroschisis (intestines protruding outside of the umbilical cord), disfigured skull, and club feet.
The primary birth defect associated with SSRI use during the third trimester of pregnancy, when the lungs are developing, is Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn [PPHN]. Typically, a child born with PPHN will appear to have cyanosis (lack of oxygen) and will be admitted to the Newborn Intensive Care Unit [NICU]. The affected child will appear to recover and developmental problems will not arise until the child is between the ages of 2 and 5. Development delays may worsen with age.
In December 2006, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists [ACOG] recommended that SSRI's be avoided in pregnant women if possible. The warnings on the SSRIs have been inadequate until recently to warn mothers or doctors of the birth defects associated with SSRIs during pregnancy. Legal actions are presently being filed against the drug manufacturers for failure to warn of the potential for birth defects.


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Review of Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor
Days of Blood & Starlight
517pp (Hardcover)
My Rating: 9/10
Amazon Rating: 4.6/5
LibraryThing Rating: 4.59/5
Goodreads Rating: 4.37/5
Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor is the second book in the trilogy begun with Daughter of Smoke & Bone. This series is difficult to categorize more specifically than falling within the fantasy genre. The first book seems mostly like a contemporary fantasy/paranormal romance blend, and the next book is mainly set both in Morocco here on Earth and in Eretz but does not have a large romantic component, focusing on war instead. These two books can be found shelved in the young adult section in the US, but this is the only country that does not market these books as adult.
It's impossible to discuss Days of Blood & Starlight without spoiling events from Daughter of Smoke & Bone (my review). I definitely wouldn't recommend reading about that before reading the book so if you haven't read the first one, do not read on unless you love spoilers!
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new way of living—one without massacres and torn throats and bonfires of the fallen, without revenants or bastard armies or children ripped from their mothers' arms to take their turn in the killing and the dying.
Once, the lovers lay entwined in the moon's secret temple and dreamed of a world that was like a jewel box without a jewel—a paradise waiting for them to fill it with their happiness.
This was not that world.
[pp. 74]
The above quote is the one that I believe best captures the essence of this book since it's about the aftermath of that dream for a better world being dashed and a war that rages on. In Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Karou fell in love with the angel Akiva and only later remembered her past life in a different body, when she was not a human girl at all but one of the chimaera, Madrigal. The chimaera and seraphim were at war with each other, but Madrigal and Akiva fell in love anyway and hoped for a better world where their people could be at peace—until Madrigal's people found out about her relationship with an angel and had her beheaded. Akiva went back to those he'd grown up with and continued to fight in the war, not knowing that the resurrectionist Brimstone had saved Madrigal's soul and brought her back to life as Karou. Yet Karou and Akiva were torn apart again when Akiva confessed to her that he did something he never would have done had he known that Brimstone brought her back: killed Brimstone and the others, ending the chimaeras' ability to resurrect and eliminating those Karou held dear.
Days of Blood & Starlight continues after this revelation and the separation of Karou and Akiva. Both Karou's best friend Zuzana and Akiva worry that she may be dead, and Akiva is devastated when he finds a thurible with Karou's name on it in one of the locations he checks. Since he killed the chimaera's resurrectionist, he has no hope of the soul within the thurible ever being revived. Heartbroken, Akiva goes back to his two closest friends and the war. However, unlike last time he thought Karou was dead, he isn't filled with hatred for the chimaera but has renewed hope for the dream of peace they once shared.
Meanwhile, Karou has taken Brimstone's place as resurrectionist for the chimaera, using the knowledge she had when she was Brimstone's apprentice Madrigal to build better, stronger bodies. With a replacement for their former resurrectionist, the chimaera have renewed hope as well—not for peace, but for increased fighting prowess with their new bodies designed specially for war.
Technically, I think Daughter of Smoke and Bone was the better book of the two since Days of Blood & Starlight had a bit of a rough start. It wasn't difficult to read out of terrible dullness, but it did wander around somewhat, and it included a couple of perspectives that did not seem necessary to the story. Despite these flaws, it was a riveting book nearly as wonderful as the first, especially once it got past some of these beginning issues and focused more on Karou and Akiva's individual stories. Like the first book, it is beautifully written and imaginative, and I loved the darker tone of this story and the exploration of war.
Days of Blood & Starlight does not shy away from the harsh realities of war, nor does it simplify it by delineating between a side that contains the righteous and another containing the dregs of society. Many of the seraphim, especially those in power, are despicable people; likewise, the chimaera have their own horrors, such as the ruthless Thiago. Yet not all on either side seem like horrible people. While those on both sides have committed horrific acts, I got the impression that many of the characters on both sides were decent people who knew nothing other than war.
I applaud Laini Taylor's ability to create characters I can find sympathetic despite their actions. After Akiva's involvement with the genocide of the chimaera, it could be very difficult to find him a character one can relate to at all. Karou finds this act unforgivable, and in her place outside of a fictional story, I'm sure I would as well. For that reason, I find it a bit hard to admit that I actually found him a compelling character in this book because of the hard choices he faced, the situation he's in, and how he seems to have had a change of heart.
While I find it difficult to comprehend his actions, I do think they make sense given his upbringing. Akiva and his close-knit group of seraphim were specially trained warriors and that seemed to be their sole reason for existing. He had been raised to kill chimaera, and once the chimaera killed the one he loved, where else did he have to go? He had other people who cared about him to return to, and he also had a reason to hate the chimaera and believe them to be monsters just like he'd been taught for his entire life if they could kill one of their own simply for falling in love. In context, I think his actions—giving up on his dream for peace, returning to those who cared about him, and joining the only existence he'd ever known with a renewed vengeance for those who killed Madrigal—make sense, as tragic as his involvement in the deaths of Brimstone and the other chimaera we came to love as Karou's friends was.
The part that really made Akiva interesting to me is that he does prove capable of not just saying he's remorseful but actually changing, which seems like it would be incredibly difficult after being raised to wage war against the chimaera and then having his heart ripped out by them himself. With Madrigal gone, he must have felt very alone in the world, and meeting Karou and learning the truth about Brimstone seems to have shown him the error of his ways. More importantly, this time he tries to make some changes for the better even when he thinks Karou is dead, which I think says it's much more than a romantic dream compelling him this time. It doesn't change the tragic consequences of the past and those who paid for it (and are still paying for it, like Karou), but I think turning away from what one has been taught and all one has ever known like that says something positive about his strength of character and resolve.
Karou, on the other hand, seems to be following the path away from their peaceful dream as she has joined forces with Thiago, the one who betrayed her and had her beheaded, to create better killers for their side of the war. While she's not killing angels firsthand, she does know Thiago's nature as a brutal chimaera who seems to have no heart, soul, or moral quandaries whatsoever and that her work is aiding him. She willfully tries to ignore the consequences of her own actions when she begins working as his resurrectionist and attempts to remain in the dark about specific details regarding Thiago's plans. In a way, she's reacting the same way Akiva did initially by giving up on peace and dedicating herself to furthering the killing of the other side. Despite her willful ignorance about the results of her work, I don't remain unsympathetic toward her situation since she is following in Brimstone's footsteps and is also helping her own people—a people whose numbers are severely diminished due to Akiva and some of the other seraphim.
One of the things I love so much about this book is that I don't know what to think or what should happen with Karou and Akiva. How could Karou EVER forgive Akiva for what he did? Yet if he truly has a different outlook now and ends up doing a lot of good for her people, how can she not forgive him? Could Karou honestly say she would never have done the same thing in his place if she put herself in his shoes? But HOW could she ever not look at him and think of what he did?
The last 100 pages or so were pretty intense, but for all its bleakness, I also felt there was a thread of hope. That's not to say this is what I'd call a cheerful book. As may be expected from a book with so much focus on wartime, this book is full of tragedy and heart-wrenching scenes. I would also like to warn potential readers that there is an attempted rape scene in addition to the war-related violence.
Days of Blood & Starlight is a wonderful (even if rather emotionally harrowing) continuation of the story begun in Daughter of Smoke and Bone. It does suffer a bit from some meandering viewpoints and a beginning that could have been more tightly plotted, but it is an imaginative, unique book containing some beautiful writing. It doesn't hold back from showing the horrors of war, but it's also stronger for showing the complexity of the situation and depicting some of those on both sides as three-dimensional people muddling their way through a war and hatred that pre-dates their existence. Highly recommended to those who have read the first book and like their fiction creative and dark with multifaceted characters.
Where I got my reading copy: I purchased it.
Other Reviews of Days of Blood & Starlight:
Book Harbinger
Gossamer Obsessions
Shattersnipe (contains spoilers for both books)
Starmetal Oak Reviews
Tags: Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Days of Blood and Starlight, Fantasy, Laini Taylor, YA
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FEBC Australia is part of FEBC International, a global media ministry spreading the Gospel via radio and internet to inspire people to follow Jesus Christ. They broadcast in more than 50 countries, in 130 different languages, for more than 2500 hours daily. Each year, they receive 9 million listener responses via letter, calls and SMS saying their lives have changed from what they hear and see from FEBC.
FEBC Australia is primarily a fund-raising field and, with no government funding, raising funds is a critical must for the organisation.
Time-saving particularly for end of month reconciliation meant that what used to take someone three days to do, now only takes 12 minutes.
Philippa Lowe, Operations Manager, FEBC Australia, comes from a strong communications and agency background, having consulted on brand and public relations and engagement to some of Australia's fast growth companies.
Prior to her joining the organisation over two years ago, while there had been a regular mailing approach to fundraising and donor engagement – the challenge of being more visible in a competitive landscape was one that hadn't been tackled.
"There is an incredible high level of trust within our donor database – however part of the challenge for us – and other not-for-profits – is to ensure awareness and having new supporters on the trust journey with us," said Philippa.
The original focus for FEBC Australia was ensuring the organisation had the right systems in place – Philippa realised there was no point developing and putting in place a great engagement strategy, if FEBC Australia didn't have the right systems in place to capture the data that would emerge from higher supporter awareness. The FEBC team is relatively small, so they are required to be resourceful and not reinvent the wheel all of the time.
FEBC was using an older database that didn't allow for sophisticated data mining and there was minimal integration with their financial system.
"In the first year we began the conversation about bringing on board a donor relationship management system, what we needed to make this happen and what internal skills sets were required," said Philippa.
According to Philippa there were several reasons the FEBC decided to bring on board the eTapestry donor management solution.
Firstly, the solution provides a lower cost of entry and is relatively easy to use. Because it's a cloud-based solution we don't have to worry about retraining an entire organisation or have to think about specific IT resourcing.
Changing the fundraising landscape and impacting lives 'one radio' at a time!
eTapestry's integration into FEBC Australia proved itself during its most recent Christmas Giving Campaign.
Traditionally, FEBC Australia had followed the 'typical' Christmas gift catalogue approach which listed all the ways a recipient could give to an FEBC project, or buy a radio, or electricity to keep a transmitter on air. Research into past campaigns showed the most popular Christmas gift catalogue choice was making a $30 gift to give a solar or wind-up radio – the other gifts offered drew less gifts – so the small internal marketing team decided to develop a niche campaign focusing upon the humble radio.
Reach out with a gift that goes further: a small, ribbon-wrapped radio on the front of a printed mailer that 'opened' like a gift, and showed just how far a small, $30 radio gift can go and the massive impact it can have.
Secondary messages: that you can give the gift of a friendly voice this Christmas, and by giving a small amount you are involved in something huge.
FEBC Australia was aware of the competitive giving landscape and sought to demonstrate the very real return a supporter's $30 can achieve.
The campaign offered brand congruence across multiple channels: print, email, PR, web advertising, event sponsorship and store inserts. The direct mailer (pictured) of a small gift-wrapped radio was sent shrink-wrapped so had opening appeal, and opened out into a six panel that included a global map of FEBC's reach, and examples of how radio offers the hope of Christ and changes lives.
Supporters began calling as soon as the mailer landed, commenting how lovely it was and how different it looked. It achieved great cut-through.
The printed mailer was supported by email follow-up and an online gift page using eTapestry's DIY donation forms and email campaign module. Rather than a constant 'give now' follow up message, the email and social campaign focused on the impact one small radio was having.
FEBC set itself a significant stretch target, of impacting 50,000 lives at Christmas, meaning a $60k fundraise in two months. By the end of the Christmas campaign, FEBC raised funds to place more than 2200 solar/wind up radios into the field, impacting almost 56,000 lives, and reaching a $67K fundraising total.
In direct comparison: the previous year's gift catalogue campaign raised $35,947 in ten months.
For FEBC Australia to go close to doubling the previous year's amount raised – and in just two months – demonstrates the campaign's freshness, appeal and how it captured people's imaginations.
"Within 20 days the campaign raised more than $30,000. Not only did we outdo our stretch target but by the end of the campaign we acquired 88 new donors and reactivated almost 200 supporters (that had not given in the prior calendar year)," said Philippa.
The efficiency of a good donor management solution goes a long way – and even helps tell a story!
When asked about the other benefits the solution is bringing to the faith-based organisation there are several Philippa highlights, but at the top of the list is efficiency.
With eTapestry, Philippa could slice and dice the data with, "the ease of taking online donations, next to the integrated email marketing module, allowed us to achieve campaign congruency and model best-practise fundraising of mixing offline engagement with online gifting opportunity.
Each morning I could run reports to help me monitor the success of the campaign and view the results via eTapestry's dashboards. Having that data at my fingertips was a great way to support and encourage the team during a busy, fairly high-stress time.
Philippa is upfront and bold in saying that what she does in her daily operations role is not just about fundraising, it's about storytelling, and the eTapestry donor management solution helped facilitate this.
"As long as the system makes it easy for us to tell our story then it's great – it's the story that's going to touch people's hearts," she emphasised.
The success of this campaign is just the starting point for FEBC.
Even from a time-saving and administrative perspective the solution provides huge benefits for FEBC.
FEBC employed a database specialist to write a program that enables integration between the Xero financial system and the eTapestry solution, meaning time saving on accounts: "Time-saving particularly for end of month reconciliation meant that what used to take someone three days to do, now only takes 12 minutes," noted Philippa.
There's no doubt that the efficiency of a good donor management solution goes a long way, and the FEBC organisation clearly has proven this to be the case.


ESSIAC® is an herbal formula which helps support the immune system*. Regular users may want to consider using the ESSIAC® program as guidance to ensure that a consistent regime is followed. The program you choose to follow should depend on the intended daily intake. Below are the daily suggested amounts, should you choose to follow the program.
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The Crash Site of Apollo 16's Rocket Booster Has Been Spotted on The Moon
Space30 November 2015
By Fiona MacDonald
NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
A researcher has finally found the impact crater where the Apollo 16 rocket booster crashed on the Moon, almost 44 years later.
The Apollo 16 mission was the fifth NASA mission to land humans on the Moon and return them safely to Earth, and as one of the crew's experiments, they crashed their Saturn V stage 3 booster onto the Moon's surface after it had propelled them safely into lunar orbit.
The experiment allowed them to perform seismic measurements to try to investigate the interior of the Moon. Unfortunately, a malfunction meant that the tracking data for the rocket got lost, so there's been long-standing uncertainty as to exactly where the booster crashed.
But now Jeff Plescia, a physicist from Johns Hopkins University, who's become an expert at locating lost hardware on extraterrestrial surfaces, used high-resolution images produced by the LROC system on board NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to find the missing impact crater.
"I did finally find the Apollo 16 SIVB crater," Plescia told Leonard David over at Inside Outer Space. "It looks like the others, but its position was much more poorly defined since the tracking was lost prior to impact."
The Apollo 16 mission was the second last Apollo program, and it included astronauts John Young, Thomas Mattingly II, and Charles Duke, Jr., who famously left his family portrait on the surface of the Moon. The mission launched from Florida on 16 April 1972, and Young and Duke used the lunar lander Orion to touch down in the Descartes Highlands of the Moon.
Even though the astronauts struggled to find out exactly what was happening beneath the surface of the Moon, we now know more than ever thanks to the Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter. In fact, NASA scientists have been able to detect that our planet's gravitational pull is forming cracks in the lunar surface and could be causing moonquakes. But without a seismic sensor network set up on the Moon, we're can't test that hypothesis just yet.
Still, it's pretty cool that more than 40 years later we can still see traces of human activity on the Moon using a satellite that we put into space.
And just in case you're feeling nostalgic about the golden days of space exploration, don't worry, NASA is just about to open up applications for astronauts for their mission to Mars, and there's no age limit. We just hope someone packs one of these bad boys to play around with on the Red Planet:
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