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Return of Hoo Rah | From the Seasonally Occupied Territories . . .
I almost ran off the road laughing when I first saw it: HOO RAH FOR BILL is back!
Not the paint-on-plywood original, of course. That was removed and destroyed on orders of the Tisbury building and zoning inspector in April 2011. He was responding, he claimed, to complaints received in the previous 12 to 14 months.
The sign went up in the summer of 1998, around the time President Bill Clinton arrived on the Vineyard for another presidential vacation. Washington and most of the rest of the country was in a tizzy over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. It was the brainchild of Craig Kingsbury, farmer and indisputable island character, who signed it with his first name.
Some people loved it. Others loathed it. Others felt queasy about it. As time passed, the loathing and the queasiness diminished. Subsequent doings in Washington and elsewhere put Bill Clinton’s peccadilloes in perspective. Craig died in 2002. HOO RAH FOR BILL reminded us of Craig — and of a time when characters thrived and signs didn’t have to be vetted by conservation commissions, historic district commissions, and small-minded building and zoning inspectors.
Then it disappeared. No one in the Kingsbury family was notified. By the time Craig’s daughter Kristen tracked it down, it had been destroyed.
Whereupon he of course had to act immediately. Without letting Craig’s family know what he was doing. Of course.
Not long afterward, a small reminder appeared on the mailbox under which the sign had hung.
And now HOO RAH FOR BILL is back in large letters.
I never took a photo of the original sign. I thought it would be there forever. I’m wiser now.
For a brief history of the sign, see the Vineyard Gazette story “Alas, Hoo Rah” (posted June 27, 2011). Read the comments too.
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Aha. On a T-shirt too!
I was glad to see the new sign on the mailbox and even happier to see the newer sign on the tree.
The spirit of Craig’s original sign was something that made me think of my own father and how he would have liked it. How in the thick of it all, he put it in perspective.
I loved it then and I love it even more now.
My father thought it was a hoot!
I love it! … so sad that they didn’t even consider his family when removing the sign. Mean, yes. There is no way with the sign’s history and the man who made it that they didn’t know that they were destroying a piece of his legacy for his family. I only wish more islanders put up a Hooray for Bill sign for at least a month or so, to show support for the family.
Fortunately the Kingsburys are a feisty lot, witness the new sign. 🙂 We’ll see if it stays up there. The lag time between the hanging of the original sign and its removal — almost 13 years! — intrigues me. I’m guessing that someone took exception to the sign and instead of grumbling to their friends started bugging the town about it. So the town says they’ve received “complaints” but they don’t say that they all came from the same two or three very persistent people.

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I hope this is happy news for a lot of people. The CephaLovePod has been one of the most popular designs I've made, but up until now it had only been available in a couple smallish editions which did not last very long. But that has now been extremely corrected. Having leveraged the estimable printing skills of Dan MacAdam of Crosshair, I can now offer you the CephaLovePod Open Edition. This time he's going to be hanging around for a while, so don't be shy.
I wanted the new edition to be distinct from the previous ones and reworked the whole color mix, and had it printed on some snappy blue-green French paper. I'm really happy with how it turned out, but not as happy as you'll be when you get yours in the mail.

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Spewing hot clouds of gas and bulging with lava, Mount Merapi, one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes, has rumbled to life, and a full-scale eruption is imminent, local officials warn.
"The wait is on for larger events," says John Pallister, a geologist with the joint U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)-USAID Volcano Disaster Assistance Program. Now, the main concern is making sure that the local people living on the volcano's flanks are out of harm's way.
A new lava dome began growing at the summit of Indonesia's Mount Merapi in early May. On May 13, Indonesian volcanologists raised the volcano alert to the highest level, requiring local villagers living within 12 kilometers of the summit to evacuate. Image is courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey, copyright of GeoEye.
Many of the Javanese people living on Mount Merapi's fertile slopes are skeptical of the volcano's danger, believing that Merapi, looming more than 2,900 meters above central Indonesia, is a sacred, if temperamental, place. Referring to an eruption, or even calling the mountain by name, is taboo. But as the volcano begins to send deadly hot clouds of ash and steam, locally called wedhus gembel or "shaggy goats," speeding down the volcano's slopes, Indonesian scientists are now urgently advising the local populace that Merapi is on the verge of a full-scale eruption.
The country's volcanologists have kept a close watch on the restless volcano for the past five years  a period of unusual quiet for Merapi, which has historically erupted every one to two years, Pallister says.
However, in August, scientists at Indonesia's Directorate of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation noted increased seismic activity at the volcano and warned the local people about Merapi's continuing hazards, "to tell [them] that the volcano hasn't gone to sleep," Pallister says.
On April 12, the Indonesian scientists recorded another significant increase in seismic activity and raised the volcano alert level to its second highest stage, a standby status that indicates that it might erupt at any time. Shortly after, on April 18, scientists at nearby Yogyakarta's Volcano Technology Development and Education Agency, located 30 kilometers south of Merapi, observed the volcano sending clouds of thick white sulfurous smoke 400 meters into the air. Two weeks later, the first streams of lava began to flow down the mountain's sides. The agency also recorded both volcanic and multi-phase tremors, indicating a buildup of strong magma pressure in the volcano's crater, reported Subandriyo, a geologist with the Yogyakarta agency's Merapi Volcano Observatory, to Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
More telltale signs of an imminent eruption continue to appear. In early May, scientists observed a glowing dome of lava rapidly growing at the volcano's peak. That dome, covering a 100-meter-wide bulge of hot magma, indicates the type of eruption to come, they say: Instead of a single massive explosion, the dome's eventual collapse will send the searingly hot ash and steam clouds, known to volcanologists as pyroclastic flows, speeding down the volcano's flanks. This type of eruption  the collapse of a bulging lava dome that triggers these flows  is typical of this volcano, so much so that it is known as a "Merapi style of volcanism," says geologist Jim Vallance of USGS' Cascades Volcano Observatory.
"The good news is [these types of eruptions] don't produce the same widespread damage as more explosive events" such as the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption, Pallister says. "But their focused impacts are deadly." During the volcano's most recent eruption in 1994, for example, pyroclastic flows reached temperatures of up to 600 degrees Celsius and flew down the mountain at more than 100 kilometers per hour, killing 66 people.
A first wave of those flows sped down the volcano's flanks Monday, only two days after the Indonesian agency raised the alert to its highest stage and began to enforce mandatory evacuations of the villagers within the hazard zone, which extends to about 12 kilometers from the summit. "The dome at the summit has grown over the last few days and is now beginning to collapse in several directions," Pallister says.
The initial flows only extended as far as 3 to 4 kilometers. However, the question is when the collapses of the dome at the summit will feed larger pyroclastic flows, which could extend at least twice as far and into populated village areas, he says. The dome, located at the summit, is continuing to grow at a rate of about 150,000 cubic meters per day, and currently contains about 2 million cubic meters of magma.
Although mandatory evacuations are now in place, "the challenge will be how long people will be willing to stay away" while the dome continues to grow, Pallister says. Despite the efforts of the Indonesian volcanology agency, many villagers have been reluctant to leave their livestock and farms, and deep-seated beliefs about the mountain have led to skepticism of the geological warning signs, according to a May 11 report in Indonesia's Jakarta Post.
Indonesia is part of the "Ring of Fire," the most volcanically and seismically active region on Earth, which forms a rough circle of multiple subduction zones and other plate boundaries around the margins of the Pacific Ocean. Home to more than 100 active volcanoes, the country sits atop a subduction zone, where the Indo-Australian plate dives under the overlying Eurasian plate. The subduction also formed the 6- to 7-kilometer-deep Java Trench, situated in the Indian Ocean off Indonesia's southern coast.
Merapi's deadliest recorded eruption occurred in 1930, killing 1,369 people.

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Come on into the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse! If your little Mouseketeer has a certain special day coming up, then Mickey Mouse party supplies are the perfect way to celebrate. Keep on reading to get ideas and inspiration for this party theme.
Each piece of these Mickey Mouse party supplies are every bit as bright and colorful as the classic Disney cartoons themselves! The plates, napkins and matching cups all feature adorable illustrations of everyone’s favorite mouse.
You can use just about any type of plastic silverware to mix, match, and coordinate with these party supplies, but we’ve used yellow ones here. Use curling ribbon to tie them up into fun bundles along with the napkins at each place setting. A basic black placemat provides a great layer of contrast for these party supplies.
This Mickey Mouse plastic tablecover is full of fun colors and designs, too, but here’s a simple trick to make it even more unique. A solid color tablecover, or a strip of a gift wrap, can be used as a table runner to give the party space a lot of extra style. You can also use other decorations like pieces of colorful crepe paper to completely customize your party.
Strawberry Mice: Cut strawberries in half after removing their leaves. Lay them on a plate flat side down, and use tiny dots of decorator’s icing to make little mouse eyes.
Starfruit Mickeys: Two blueberries and a halved red grape form Mickey’s silhouette on a slice of starfruit. Icing can be used to hold them in place, and pineapple slices can be substituted in place of starfruit.
Apple Slices: You can also provide toppings like caramel dip, peanut butter, or marshmallow fluff.
Use a round cookie cutter to turn Rice Krispie Treats into circles. With a smaller round object, like the cap from a soda bottle, indent smaller circles into more treats, and then finish cutting them out with a knife. Attach the mouse ears to the head with some dabs of royal icing. When the icing dries, it will hold the ears together.
Just about anything can be shaped like Mickey! These peanut butter sandwiches were simply cut out with cookie cutters. Add even more Mickey Mouse flair with Mickey Mouse paper cutouts, attached to toothpicks or wooden skewers.
Of course, if we’re talking about sweets, we can’t leave out the birthday cake! Making and decorating your very own Mickey Mouse birthday cake is super simple, too, and makes any Mickey Mouse birthday party even more special.
Base: To create this Mickey Mouse shaped birthday cake, you’ll need one or two round cake pans for the base layer, depending on their depth. A diameter of about 12 to 14 inches for the round pans is about right for this design.
Top: Then, for the top layer, you’ll need a couple more round layers that are about half the diameter of whatever you used for the base. Use a serrated knife to gently sculpt the top corners into a dome shape, and stack them on the center of the base layer. A spherical or half-sphere cake pan can definitely make this step easier, but isn’t totally necessary.
Frost the top layer with black frosting to look like Mickey’s head, and frost the bottom layers in red. Use a row of black Sixlet candies to hide the edge where the two colors meet.
Decorate the front of the cake like Mickey’s outfit by adding two small ovals of white fondant. Then add a couple of Marshmallows covered in yellow fondant or dipped in colored chocolate to either side.
Stick two round chocolate wafer cookies into the top of the cake to make Mickey’s ears. You can also add a numeral candle, or a number stenciled and cut out of colored fondant, to display your child’s age.
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“Matching towers” is a really simple to set-up activity, that Ev absolutely loves.
You only need LEGO® and a base plate!
Before you get started: be sure to check out my 8 Principles of Play!
Minimum prep with this activity, means more time for a warm cuppa.
This activity would work equally well with DUPLO®.
Set up ten towers (1 – 10 bricks) using bricks of different colours. Then lay out a pile of the matching bricks for your little one to choose from. Using various shapes and sizes adds an extra point of interest to chat through.
TOP TIP: Check your bricks! If, like us, your LEGO® bricks are stored in one giant box of fun (mess) I’d suggest building both sets of towers together. That way you know you have the bricks to match. Plus, you get the fun of destroying the duplicate towers ready for your little one to play with. Who doesn’t love knocking down a toy tower!
I encourage Ev to count the towers, and build his own row of “matching towers” to look the same. He loves counting the bricks in each tower and discussing the different colours!
This is a great activity for developing numeracy, awareness of colours and fine motor skills.
Size it up: discuss which tower is the tallest/shortest.
Numeracy: remove a brick from a tower and count the ones that remain.
Addition: add two towers together.
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Q. Great round today, second place, how do you feel?
DEWI CLAIRE SCHREEFEL: It's very nice. I'm very excited. I played very well the whole tournament. It's been a consistent season and I felt if I just played my game, I can finish well out here, so I'm very happy.
Q. And what was it like playing with Shanshan, she's quite far ahead, do you feel you were trying to keep pace a lot at the time or were you just focused on your own game?
DEWI CLAIRE SCHREEFEL: Focusing on my own game. She was so far ahead that something had to happen to her game and I would have to go pretty low to make something happen. So it was actually nice because I could just concentrate on my own game and I thought I'm going to try and catch her, that's going to keep me going, not watch what's going to happen behind me.
So it was good for me and she played great.
Q. Do you effectively feel second place is almost like a victory?
DEWI CLAIRE SCHREEFEL: Almost. She ran away already the first two rounds. No, it's not a win for sure, but a nice, very good, solid play, and second place.
Q. And a word about the conditions today, a little windy, back nine?
DEWI CLAIRE SCHREEFEL: Yeah, it was a little windy. That's the thing with this course, the wind tends to turn around a little bit for the four days so you have to pay attention to it and it keeps it a bit interesting, otherwise it would have been a real birdie‑fest.
Q. Next year, what are your goals?
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A federal judge on Friday blocked a new Missouri law that requires health insurers to offer plans that exclude contraception coverage if employers or individuals object to birth control on moral or religious grounds.
U.S. District Judge Audrey Fleissig granted a temporary restraining order preventing the enforcement of the law, writing that it appears to conflict with the new federal health care law.
Republican lawmakers in Missouri drafted the law in response to President Barack Obama's policy of requiring insurers to cover birth control for free as part of the new federal health care law, even if they work for a church or other employer that has a moral objection.
State lawmakers in September overrode a veto by Democratic Governor Jay Nixon to enact the law.
The Missouri Insurance Coalition, a nonprofit whose members include health insurers that do business in the state, asked the judge to block the state law, arguing that it conflicts with federal law and is therefore invalid.
Fleissig wrote that the coalition is likely to succeed on that claim "given what appears to be an irreconcilable conflict" between the federal and state laws.
At a hearing, the judge wrote, the Missouri Department of Insurance "could offer no response to how there would not be a direct conflict" between the federal and state laws if an insurer offered a health insurance plan "that acquiesced to an employer's decision not to offer contraceptive coverage."
She is expected to schedule a hearing on a preliminary injunction.

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Noah watched intently as Cory put his Motor Works Motorcycle back together. When he was done (and we put away all the extra plastic screws) Noah picked up the screwdriver and put it on the motorcycle like he was trying to do it too. Super cute!
What a cutie! Tools are the best!!
Awwww...he is adorable! Even at that age, they have a penchant for tools!

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Why Am I Failing My Job Interview? Five Reasons.
You walk into an interview. You sit down, discuss the job, and think it goes well. Excited, you wait for a call that doesn’t come. Weeks later, you’re still waiting. What are you doing wrong?
The problem may be your presentation, your preparation, or both.
1. You Blew it in Less Than a Minute.
Studies show that you’ve got less than ten seconds to make a good impression. Think about what that means: Before you say a word, the interviewer is sizing you up and beginning to decide whether you’d be a good fit for the company.
Be on time. Being late can make you a non-starter.
Dress appropriately. If you don’t know the dress code at the company, dress up.
Body language counts. A lot. Stand up when the interviewer enters the room. Smile and be the first one to offer a handshake. If you’re already standing up, take a confident step forward as you hold out your hand.
Greet the interviewer by name. (“It’s good to meet you, Mrs. Smith. Thank you for taking the time to meet me.”) Most companies will tell you the name of your interviewer, or you can call and ask. Look up your interviewer on LinkedIn so you’ve got some background.
Your job interview begins before you say hello. Use those first seconds to your advantage and set a positive tone.
2. You Didn’t Focus on What the Interviewer Needs.
Job interviews aren’t about what the company can do for you; they’re about what you can do for the company. When you’re asked “Why do you want to work here,” be prepared to give examples.
Do your homework. Spend several hours or even an entire day researching the company. At the least, you will be expected to know the requirements of the job you’re applying for and how your skills will mesh.
Take your research a step further and find a way your skills can be of value that the interviewer hasn’t considered. For instance, a job opening might not mention language skills, but a bilingual candidate who discovers the company has a growing segment of Spanish-speaking customers, and then mentions that he or she can use those skills to help improve service to the Spanish-speaking population, might rate some serious attention.
Bottom line: If you don’t know what you’re talking about when it comes to the company, you can show yourself the door.
During the interview, listen carefully to what the interviewer tells you about the company. This is another way to discover how your skills might mesh with the company’s needs.
Unless you’re skilled at interviewing, you should practice before you get there.
Make a list of other practice questions. The possibilities are too numerous to list, but categories of questions you might be asked include your qualifications, your future, your ability to work with others, how you have/will handle challenging situations, and how you problem solve.
Don’t memorize your answers—that’s a big mistake. Memorizing only makes your answers dry and robotic. Instead, become comfortable with what you have to say and with the examples you have to draw on.
Don’t lie. Interviewers can often tell, and even if they can’t, lies can trip you up later.
5. You Didn’t Stand Out.
Know about the company want to work for.
Understand how your skills match the job.
Focus on the company’s needs.
Add a “wow” factor. Find a way to show you went that extra step to be prepared.
Bring a sharp-looking portfolio or resume.
If your interviewer wants to know if you’d be willing to learn additional skills, don’t hesitate—accept the opportunity.
When you leave, acknowledge the interviewer’s time. Most of all, tell him or her that you enjoyed being there. Your interviewer will remember you.
If you’re eager to land that job, then do your homework, set a positive tone, and understand how you can satisfy the needs of the company you want to work for. Then add a little “wow.” Your next job interview may just be the one that gets you in the door.
Sharon Epstein is a Writers Guild Award-winner and two-time Emmy Award nominee, teaching students around the world how to master interview skills, write resumes, and transform their goals, dreams and experiences into memorable college application essays. She works with students everywhere: in-person, by phone, FaceTime, Skype and email. Visit my website for more info. Connect on Google+, Pinterest and Twitter.
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When a loved one passes on, family members may not know what to do. By making a checklist of funeral accessories, however, they can make sure everything comes off without a hitch. Men and women who look at different vendors will generally be able to find good prices.
Flowers will be a large part of the proceedings. Because family members will celebrating the life of someone who has died, a number of species should be procured. Roses and tulips will both be excellent choices. People should also feel free to bring in tulips, lilies, and daisies. Violets will also provide a nice contrast.
If there is to be music, individuals will need to pick out some songs beforehand. This way, some proper musical pieces can be chose. Religious hymns will usually work best. If the person who has recently died is Christian, for example, then Christian should be chosen. This way, family members and friends will not be upset.
Because the graveside ceremony might also be included, people will have to find a hearse to carry the casket to its final resting place. As long as individuals find a hearse that comes with an excellent driver, all should be well. Hearses that are large and well-kept will work best.
All guests should choose some proper clothes beforehand. Suits and dresses will generally be expected, and some people may even need to head to one of the local department stores. With luck, they can find a nice outfit before the deadline.
In the end, men and women should look into funeral accessories before any needed deadlines. Once they have developed a checklist, they'll be able to avoid stress and worry. With assistance from professionals, there should not be any problems with the main ceremony or any other associated activities.


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Though the official start of winter is still weeks away, lower temperatures have been creeping into the forecast. Now is the time to prepare your home for cold winter nights. Winterizing your home can save you money, increase your home’s value, and make it more comfortable during the chilly winter months. Dwayne Boggs of Boggs Inspection Services shared this home winterizing list to help you get started.
If your home is older, it might have single pane windows. “Single pane windows are notoriously energy inefficient,” says Dwayne. Window replacements can increase a home’s energy efficiency, but they are expensive. If you aren’t ready to replace the window in your home, storm windows can be a less expensive option. Storm windows are extra windows that are placed on the interior or exterior of the home. By adding this additional window layer, drafts are sealed, providing an insulating barrier to cold air. Handy homeowners can install storm windows themselves, but even professional installation is much less expensive than window replacement.
If you already have storm windows, ensure you are maintaining them by cleaning in between the windows. Maintaining your storm windows is an essential step to reduce moisture in the space between the original window and the storm window, which can cause damage to the window frame.
Weather-stripping around doors and windows is another layer of defense against the cold. It seals gaps around doors and windows, increasing energy efficiency, and is simple to install yourself. Weather-stripping is available in v-strip, felt, foam tape, and tubular stripping types. A door sweep is also a type of weather stripping that is useful for keeping warm air in when there is space below the door and above the frame.
V-strip is made from plastic or metal and is used along the sides of double hung or sliding windows and on the top and sides of doors. It is attached with adhesive or finishing nails, and because of its shape, it springs open to seal cracks and crevices where warm air can escape.
Felt is inexpensive and can be applied to a door or window sash with small nails or staples. It is not as durable, so it must be replaced more regularly, and should not be used where it will be exposed to a lot of moisture.
Foam tape is made from open or closed cell foam or rubber and comes with a sticky back. It is inexpensive, easy to install, and works great for irregular cracks. It is best used on the top and bottom of window sashes, and is easily cut to length to adhere where needed.
Tubular stripping is made from rubber, vinyl or silicone. It is a narrow sponge rubber or vinyl tubing that comes attached to wood or metal mounting strips. It can be used at the top or bottom of window sashes, along the bottom of a door or between the door and its jamb. Silicone types are often inserted into milled grooves.
Contrary to their name, door sweeps are not intended to sweep the floor. They should be installed so they come in contact with the bevel on the threshold, sealing the bottom of the door. They come in brush and silicone types.
If you have applied some or all of these weather-stripping measures to your home in the last several years, now is the time to check for routine wear and tear and replace any weather-stripping that is worn and has outlived its usefulness, Dwayne says.
Turning the heat down a few degrees, while everyone is asleep or away, can reduce energy costs significantly over time.
Turning the heat down a few degrees, while everyone is asleep or away, can reduce energy costs significantly over time. A programmable thermostat can make this simple and effortless. Programmable thermostats can also be set to raise the temperature before you wake or return home, so the house is already comfortable when you are most active.
Pipes on exterior walls should be insulated to prevent from freezing. When water freezes, it expands, which could crack or burst the pipe costing thousands of dollars of damage to the home. Pipe insulation can be tricky if the pipes are not exposed and is probably best left to a professional. Now is a good time to ensure faucets attached to the outside of your home are shut off completely. “Attaching an outdoor faucet cover is an inexpensive step to protect the faucet and pipe from freezing temperatures,” Dwayne adds.
Warm air rises. If you attic is not properly insulated, your money is simply floating away. Adding insulation of the proper R-value for Thurston County, to bring it up to R38 to R60, will increase your homes energy efficiency, explains Dwayne. Even professional installation, which is more expensive than doing it yourself, still offers a great return on investment, saving you money and keeping you warm all winter long.
If you haven’t made time to have your heating system inspected, it’s not too late. A properly maintained heating system runs more efficiently, saving you money through the cold months. Make sure to replace filters in line with your system’s recommendation. The service technician can also check your ductwork for leaks, which will reduce the efficiency of your system, Check out this ThurstonTalk article for other fall maintenance you may need to catch up on.
With a few simple steps, your home will by cozy all winter long. If you have questions about winterizing your home or would like to schedule a home inspection, call Boggs Inspection Services 360-480-9602 or visit the Boggs Inspection Services website.


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Create a romantic rustic mood in your home with the Barn Industrial Pendant Light. Crafted from steel, this industrial look piece oozes raw charm.
Measuring 90cm wide and dropping a maximum 200cm (adjustable), this light requires 3 x E27 globes (not included), perfect for over a kitchen buffet or dining table.

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Vitruvian led the $90 million round, while Goldman Sachs and Singapore's EDBI also participated.
Pindrop said it would use the latest funding to boost its European expansion plans and its drive into IOT.
CEO Vijay Balasubramaniyan said he sees an initial public offering down the line for the company.
Vijay Balasubramaniyan, co-founder, chief executive officer and chief technology officer of Pindrop.
Security start-up Pindrop has raised $90 million from investors including Vitruvian Partners and Goldman Sachs.
The seven-year-old firm, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to detect fraudulent phone calls, said Wednesday that it would use the latest funding to boost its European expansion plans.
Vitruvian, a European private equity firm that has invested in the likes of Just Eat and Farfetch, led the funding round, while Goldman Sachs and Singapore's corporate investment arm EDBI were among new investors that backed the deal.
The company is also backed by Google parent Alphabet, Citigroup and Silicon Valley venture capital stalwart Andreessen Horowitz.
Atlanta, Georgia-based Pindrop uses machine-learning technology that is fed large amounts of data to learn the difference between a legitimate and fraudulent phone call.
Pindrop says its tech can analyze 1,380 features of a voice from a phone call to help identify information such as the caller's location and what type of phone they're using, creating what it calls a "phoneprint." Currently, it analyzes about 650 million calls a year, and expects that number to increase to 1.1 billion by the end of 2018.
Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Pindrop's co-founder, chief executive officer and chief technology officer, said the firm's accuracy when it comes to detecting fraudulent phone calls is around "99.74 percent," adding that it has caught roughly $350 million worth of fraud attempts this year alone.
Balasubramaniyan said he sees an initial public offering (IPO) down the line for the company, citing the 137 percent increase in its revenue over the past three years.
"If the world is moving to voice and we're providing all of security and identity for voice, I think we'll be a very valuable public company, so absolutely that's where we're headed," he told CNBC in an interview Wednesday.
As for profitability, Pindrop's boss said he expects the firm to be cash flow positive by the first quarter of 2019 — that expectation doesn't account for the latest injection of capital from investors, he added. It then sees itself achieving earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) profitability by Q2 2019 and sustained free cash flow and EBITDA profitability by Q3 2019.
The Series D investment, which marks Pindrop's fourth major round of funding, will go toward expanding the firm's operations to Britain, Ireland and France, and will also fund its drive into the internet-of-things (IOT) industry.
Pindrop is looking to expand its enterprise solutions to focus on new areas like voice-activated speakers, smart locks and connected cars, using its experience analyzing voice interactions to provide voice recognition technology.
Security firm Allegion, whose venture arm also participated in Pindrop's latest funding round, will use Pindrop's technology for its voice-powered devices, as part of a strategic partnership with the firm.
Clarification: This story and its headline has been updated after Pindrop clarified that its accuracy when it comes to detecting fraudulent phone calls is around 99.74 percent.

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Here is a quick comparison and review for the Nikon D7500 vs D5600 DSLR cameras. Below you can find the differences of these mid-range cameras with APS-c sized image sensors.
The first difference between these two cameras is the sensor size. Nikon D7500 uses the same 20.9MP sensor with no optical low pass filter as the D500, as well as its Expeed 5 image processor. This new processor is 30% faster than the Expeed 4 processor in the D5600, a speed advantage that gives the D7500 for the features like burst speed, buffer depth, video capability and native ISO sensitivity.
Let’s have a brief look at the main features of Nikon D7500 vs D5600. So what may be the main differences when consider their specs list?
If you’re trying to decide which one to buy as your first camera, here are the differences of Nikon D7500 vs D5600 cameras. Our comparison table below covers all the important specifications of each camera.
As Nikon D5600 is a mid to entry-level DSLR that costs you near half the price of Nikon D7500. It is clearly visible from the table above that Nikon D7500 is a clear winner with class leading specs. If you want speed, ISO range and 4K video features it would be wise to go with the D7500, other than that for beginners we advice the budget-friendly D5600.


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Undoubtedly, this kind of topics is essential and important for the development and life of the great citizens of the country. One more factor is it is quite important to learn the historical past of your own country since it’s the session of errors.
Learn the historiographical essay structure here to come up with the best one.
You will find several helpful strategies for picking out a topic. Not to mention, the easiest technique is usually to use one among your designated readings; choose the topic which the author addresses as your own. On the other hand, you can easily use their particular bibliography as a beginning point for historiography (particularly if they review previous positions), as well as branch out after that.
As soon as you have got a topic, search for some works on the subject. A combination of books and articles can be helpful, based on the time period and subject. Generally, books have a tendency to be widely referenced and more influential compared to articles for the oldest subjects. Regarding more modern topics, articles can be far more available; however, books will cover much more ground compared to the majority of periodical articles.
You will find different methods to use, based on the kind of source which you’re using.
Generally, these are simpler to approach; the secret is to discover the significance of article in the area in general.
With the edited collection of chapters and articles, see which topics had been included and exactly what the overall theme of the book appears to be.
Watch the framework of books; exactly how the authors develop their argument as well as what they indicate is the essential part.
A great way to determine the purpose of the work of an author is to go through the book reviews. It will additionally provide information on exactly how reviewers react to the argument or thesis of the author.
A good strategy is to mix step 1 with step 2, inserting each source in the entire framework while you go and therefore helping you save from needing to re-read every single source two times.
The academic paragraphs tend to be at least three sentences long, as well as can be lengthier still. On the other hand, don’t make all those sentences long. As the rough guideline, a sentence lengthier than three lines is actually too long.
All the paragraphs must be targeted: they should talk about only one main point. Also, that point must interact with the entire focus of the essay.
Not to mention, the main point of the paragraph is frequently known as the controlling concept. Every paragraph must have an alternative controlling concept, each one talking about one part or aspect of the entire essay.
The body paragraphs can often start with an overview of the controlling concept: topic sentence. Topic sentence sums up the paragraph just like the “thesis statement” sums up the entire essay.
The biggest portion of any “body-paragraph” is supporting information: examples, evidence, and explanations. Explanations use the logic to completely describe the point produced in the topic sentence. This is not sufficient to simply explain a concept, however: you have to show that external evidence supports this at the same time.
The body paragraphs cannot exist in isolation. On the other hand, they must fit together such as a “jigsaw puzzle.” The transitions display the connections in between the paragraphs themselves, and connections between paragraphs and general focus of essay (thesis statement). Frequently they seem to be at the end of the paragraph.
Historiography is a history of an individual topic. The majority of these examples tend to be extensive and very large in range. Many are, actually, historiographical essays evaluating the status of an area, for example, family history, and a major topic, for example, Reconstruction. Also, you can pick some little part of the topic- say the immigrant families in the 19th cities- as well as say you had been going to evaluate how the research of that topic had transformed. But mainly the examples ensure that you figure out how you to choose a topic which has sufficient literature to suit your needs and to analyze. You don’t have to go through any of them sentence after sentence.


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The NBA training camps open on December 9th and on Christmas Day the 2011-2012 season will officially begin. As such we're starting to look at the Timberwolves Season Preview. Starting today, with the potential starting lineups.
At point guard, the Timberwolves ultimately have two options. The first, is of course, their 2010-11 starting point guard: Luke Ridnour. Ridnour was initially signed as a veteran backup guard to Jonny Flynn. However, Flynn was out of the lineup for the first half of the season and Ridnour became an everyday starter. He was 'okay', but he's certainly not a top-10-20-or-30 point guard in this League. In fact, in ESPN's #NBARank he's ranked #182 overall and #37 among point guards (with a 4.51 rank). Ridnour isn't the answer at the point, but there's a good chance he could be the TWolves starting point guard on the Wolves' opening day. That of course, leaves Ricky Rubio as a potential starter. Rubio was originally drafted in 2009 with the 5th overall pick, however the 2011-12 season will be his rookie season. Rubio is the ideal point guard--a great playmaker that loves to get his teammates involved--which is a big reason he'll be a team favorite. However, like Rajon Rondo of the Boston Celtics, Ricky Rubio isn't known as a great shooter, which will cause defenders to sag off of him and force him to make shots. The good news is, during the lockout, for little under a month Rubio played and worked out in Los Angeles with the likes of Paul Pierce & Kevin Garnett. He's reportedly worked diligently on his jumper, so, I won't be so quick to dismiss his abilities. My thoughts on the point guard position for Minnesota: Luke Ridnour will begin the season as the starting point guard, however, by seasons end, Ricky Rubio will be the full-time floor general.
At the shooting guard, the Timberwolves are definitely in need of a great shooting guard. Wesley Johnson was the starting shooting guard for the majority of last season, excluding when Kurt Rambis subbed in Corey Brewer as the starter at the two, moving Wes to the bench. Brewer, was of course traded to the Knicks in the Carmelo deal that landed Minnesota Anthony Randolph (Brewer was waived--then picked up by the Mavs) and Johnson was moved back into the starting lineup. At the shooting guard, the Timberwolves--right now, have two options: Wesley Johnson or Wayne Ellington. That is, if David Kahn doesn't end up signing anyone in free agency. Martell Webster could potentially start at the 2, but there are a number of critics who believe that Webster doesn't have the ability to defend quicker shooting guards. Hopefully Adelman can mold Wesley into a solid shooting guard as he's ultimately the Wolves' only option right now.
At the small forward, is where the Timberwolves have the biggest logjam. On the current roster there are currently six guys who can play the small forward: Michael Beasley, Derrick Williams, Martell Webster, Lazar Hayward, Anthony Randolph & Wesley Johnson. It ultimately comes down to two potential small forward starters: Beasley & Williams. Michael Beasley, was, of course, the Timberwolves' everyday starter last season. He's a great versatile scorer, who struggles on defense, but is a very young player with a lot of potential. Derrick Williams, was the Wolves' #2 overall pick in last year's draft. Williams is also a versatile scorer, who blossomed into a star in college. Though, like Beasley he needs to develop his position in the NBA. Both Beasley and Williams are below-average defenders, are versatile forwards, scorers, who can't rebound very well (though with K-Love it really doesn't matter). Ultimately, they'll both (hopefully) see plenty of floor time, but, at least on opening day, Michael Beasley will be starting.
At the power forward...well...come on...is there any doubt who will be starting at the 4 for the Minnesota Timberwolves? Yeah...it's Kevin Love, by seasons end it'll be Kevin Love and hopefully for the franchise, he'll be around for years to come. Double-double machine, rebounding master and according to Chris Mannix who talked to Love's personal trainer, Kevin's in the best shape he's EVER seen him.
At the center, like the shooting guard, the Timberwolves have a real problem with this position. The Wolves currently have three centers on the roster: Darko Milicic, Brad Miller & Nikola Pekovic. Darko was the everyday starter last season. He's in the second season of his 4-year $20M deal. Some fans are clamoring for Darko to be cut by the TWolves under the new amnesty clause, however, there's almost a zero-percent chance. If they cut Darko, who'll be at the 5? Despite is offensive inefficiencies, he's a solid defender and shot blocker. With Miller's ties to Adelman during his time in Sacramento & Houston, could potentially get some time as the Wolves' starting center. The last option is Anthony Randolph (yeah, Pekovic isn't really an option--at this time). Randolph has reportedly packed on at least 20 pounds of muscle since last season and at 6-11 he's an insanely athletic forward, with great shot blocking and low post attributes. I hope, Randolph gets a chance to play some center, whether he's the starting center or not. Ultimately, I expect Darko to be the man in the middle come opening day.


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I’m putting my daughter to bed, but her twin brother is still in the next room, waiting. I hear him chattering away, as he dances a toy elephant across the floor. He’s not talking to himself, though, my sister is with him. Well, technically, she’s some four thousand miles away in Vancouver, Canada, while we are in Glasgow, Scotland, but, virtually, she’s right there. My phone is propped against the bookshelf, the perfect angle for surveying the scene. My son is interacting with her as if she is sitting, flesh and bones, in the very same room.
We are regular partakers, my sister and I, in the phenomenon of the FaceTime babysitter. For me this kind of video messaging hasn’t just been a luxury, a vehicle for allowing an aunt to bond with her nephews and niece across an otherwise vast ocean. There have been moments, periods of time, where my sister’s virtual presence has been nothing short of a lifeline. Such is the way when you have two babies and only one pair of hands, only one set of eyes.
Back when their afternoon nap was the fulcrum of our day, we used to speak to her several times a week. I would put the twins in their high chairs at around noon; my sister would be getting ready for work, dawn breaking in Washington, D.C. They would choose the jewelry that best suited her outfit, oohing and ahhing over the various bracelets on display, as I cut crusts off of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, my laptop offering a comprehensive view of the kitchen. And then I would haul one toddler up to bed, while she would occupy the other, bound safely in his seat, and nap time would proceed smoothly, a staggered affair, instead of the manic free-for-all it became when I was on my own.
My sister has been heavily involved in my children’s lives from the beginning. She is a devoted aunt, to say the least, but she is also a woman with a job that takes her all over the world. The two of us have not lived in the same town, in the same country even, since 1999. Our relationship has been conducted through the channels of whatever technological means have been in the ascendency. Hours-long phone calls via special long-distance plans, Skype, when it was a novelty, and now the holy grail of instant visual access: FaceTime.


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Other Ingredients: Maltodextrin, sucrose, proprietary Protein blend (whey protein, soy protein isolate and milk protein), xanthan gum, cocoa power, vitamins and minerals mix and permitted flavour.
Directions:Add one scoop (30 g) ofX-tra gainer powder to 240 ml of skimmed milk or water. Mix well until powderis completely dissolved. And your shake is now ready to be consumed. Have it chilled for better taste.
Suggested use: Let your body make the most of X-tra gainer powder.Consume2 Scoops of X-tra gainer 2-3 times a day between meals of immediately after training to boost your calorie intake.
Warnings: Keep out of reach of children. Store in a dry place and avoid excessive heat. Tamper resistant: Do not use if seal under cap is broken or missing. Ifyou are pregnant, nursing or taking any medications, consult your doctor before use.Discontinue use and consult your doctor if any adverse reactions occur. Not intended for use by persons under the age of 18. Store in a dry place and avoid excessive heat.


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Indie88 is pleased to present Stars on Friday, December 17th at the Phoenix Concert Theatre. Come out and celebrate the 10th anniversary of Set Yourself On Fire.
Join the Indie88 Street Team the night of the show for your FREE high fives and swag!

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Table set for Christmas dinner.
Lemon meringue ice cream (home made Vienetta!). Read the recipe.
I received a beautiful Mondaine Swiss Railway Watch from LincsGeek – very happy Splodz!
Playing games with the family.
I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas week.
Fun photos. Happy New Year!


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Healthy but lazy in the Philippines?
Recently, while doing some analysis of our 3D research database for a client, we noticed something interesting. There seemed to be something amiss about Filipinos attitudes towards health and their health habits. While many said that they were conscious about their health, a noticeably smaller percentage would actually do things to promote good health. They wouldn’t stop smoking, they wouldn’t eat healthy food, they wouldn’t go to the gym. It took some time for me to realize that the reason this seemed amiss is that I was going by what is generally a Western model of health: thin and heading to the gym. This is not how many Filipinos see it. In fact, a whole lot of us – especially outside Metro Manila – will say “You’re getting fat!” and mean it as a great compliment.
If our clients want to effectively use health as a motivator for the market, then we need to get a better, more thorough, and more culturally-relevant meaning of health for the Filipino. We’re looking to launch a study into this soon, so we’ll share the findings when it’s done!
interesting thoughts on health… there is indeed a dichotomy when it comes to what one thinks and believes to be true and factual, and what one does. attitude research in psychology – and in fact, the whole of cognitive psychology – has been trying to link the two together in the past few years – attitude to behaviors. milgram’s obedience studies, for example, are a true example of this dichotomy. my uni thesis also tried to get a glimpse of this “gap” between what is though and what is actually done.
Oddly enough, I just read a news article about a recent study that shows 700,000 Filipino families in the USA are without medical benefits and 40% haven’t seen a doctor in 3 or more years.
But when surveyed regarding healthy, active lifestyle, nearly all said they have no intention of starting or participating in an exercise program.

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Stills from the spot of photoshoot for superstar Rajinikanth’s upcoming film, which is to be directed by A R Murugadoss, have made their way to the social media.
In the photos, Rajini is seen in police dress. But his hairstyle and beard are same as those of his recent film Petta. The stills have gone viral on the internet.
Ace cinematographer Santosh Sivan will be cranking the camera for the film and Anirudh is on board to compose music. Shooting will begin in Mumbai on April 10, sources said.
Sources say that Murugadoss has promised Rajinikanth to complete the film within three months. Principal shoot of film, to be produced by Lyca, will begin on April 10 in Mumbai.
Recently, Anirudh confirmed that he would compose music for the upcoming film of the superstar, which is to be directed by A R Murugadoss.


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Legendary Irish folk music duo Foster & Allen are number one stars across the globe, having 30 new-release charting albums over a 40-year career, the only act in the world to do so. This legendary Irish folk music act began in 1975 when Mick Foster and Tony Allen formed their duo after many years of playing together. Their big break came with the single A Bunch of Thyme which stayed in the Irish Charts for an unbelievable 53 weeks and became a Number One single in the British Top 20.
Foster & Allen's mega-hits include Old Flames and Maggie which has seen them amass record sales in excess of 20 million sales worldwide due to their loyal fan-base. Foster & Allen's style and easy listening sound remains as fresh and exciting as ever. Join them on their 2019 Australian tour.


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I like washing my sweaters by hand to prevent shrinkage or damage to the fabric. I guess I could save myself the hassle and take my sweaters in for professional dry cleaning. But dry cleaners today are not cheap, and since hand washing only takes a few minutes, it’s worth it to me to do it myself.
Whenever I wash my thrift store sweaters, I like to use a product called Eucalan. It’s an environmentally friendly fabric wash that, believe it or not, requires no rinsing.
I like it because it’s gentle and does a pretty good job of freshening up delicate garments.
But you can wash your sweaters with any brand of wool wash you like. But, you may have to rinse your sweater before you let it dry.
1. Fill a basin with cool water.
2. Read the directions on the wool wash bottle to determine how much cleanser to pour into the water.
3. Put your sweater in the water and let it soak for about 20 minutes. Don’t agitate the water. Just let the sweater soak.
4. After 20 minutes, if you’re using a non-rinsing product like Eucalan, remove the sweater from the bowl or sink and squeeze the water out of the fabric. Please don’t wring your sweater like a dish rag. Just squeeze it gently. Then go to step 9.
5. If you’re using a product that requires rinsing, lift the sweater out of the sink or pan and drain the water. Then fill the sink or pan with fresh, cool water without the detergent. Place the sweater in the rinse water and let it sit for a minute.
6. Repeat step number five until the water in the sink or bowl is clear.
7. Lift your sweater out of the water and gently squeeze the excess water out of the fabric.
8. Get a thick dry towel and lay it on the floor. Then lay your sweater flat across the towel.
9. Roll the towel and sweater to squeeze out any excess water.
10. Then unroll the towel. You can either let the sweater remain on the towel, hang the sweater on a clothesline or lay it over a towel rack in the bathroom until it's dry.
If you have a favorite technique for cleaning thrift store sweaters or any other second hand find, tell us about it in the comments section below.
I love your website. I discovered it searching for "how to make a scarf jacket".
I was wondering if you ever made it to Reminiscence on your trips to NYC? We're on 5th Ave. bet. 13th & 14th nowadays. (in business for 41 years) I'm not the owner but we're like a "family -run" store..
Anyway, I wanted to thank you for the product you recommended for sweater-washing, the Eucalan.. I'm intrigued (and a bit skeptical LOL) about it being no rinsing required..
I was wondering if you've every tried Dry Cleaner's Secret? It's made by Woolite.. They're sheets that clean your dry-clean-only clothes in a regular dryer.. I joke that I should work for the company when I recommend it to my customers at Reminiscence..
thanks for your fun website!


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New Zealand Tribute to Dr Robert H Schuller. Great Christian Possibility Thinker. 1926-2015.
“Theistic Faith is Optimistic and springs from a Possiblity Thinker, whereas Atheistic doubt is Pessimistic and springs from an Impossiblity thinker”. Robert Schuller Senior.
It is with both sadness and pleasant memories, that I and my wife joy say good bye to a wise old Christian, whose ‘Hour of Power’ brought inspiration and faith into our Non-Churchgoing lives.
For years his ‘Hour of Power’ was our TV church.
Now Dr Schuller was not a 1611 King James Guy.
He was not an exponent of Dispensationalism.
He was even lacking in preaching the Gospel of grace… yet still I say he was a Great Christian man, and one of my Spiritual Fathers.
He reminded me very much of my own Grandfather… John Steel Clark… and that is how millions of people around the world saw him, as a Caring and Wise Christian Elder.
God creates Individuals each with specific contributions to make, so that all knowledge, all truth, all the godliness and virtues of Christ do not reside in any one person/ sect.
We are all single members of the Body of Christ.
I Add Dr Shullers personal contributions to Christian Thought as one of the necessary pillars in my Ideological Fortress.
His is an ideology to help us master our Psychology, and steer us towards bold action and positive outlook.
To his credit Dr Schuller was very Libertarian in his Political Ideals and beliefs about Voluntary action in the pursuit of values.
His Sermons were inspirational calls to action… to pursue your God-given visions and dreams.
For the Bi-centenary of The Birth of America, Schullers Message ‘I am the American Flag’, was an Epic on Freedom and prosperity… as long as the Morals of the people do not themselves ‘flag’.
Freedom is only fit for a people of strong Personal values and Self governing Self reliant ethics.
Unfortunately Later deliveries of that great speech have been trimmed down to the extent that they do not do justice to the Libertarian theology in the original.
Years Before facebook, … Joy and I would share with our Battling Kin… positive insights we had picked up from watching Hour of power on Sunday morning, or comment on what fantastic musicians, Choirs, etc… we enjoyed very much.
Robert Schuller built his ministry from the ground up into a global audience.
I do not know the details of the eventual collapse of his TV ministry, so I wont make any comment on that.
What I will say is that irrespective of that unfortunate end to his ministry, his character, example, and intellectual contribution to the faith building self reliance , tolerance, Christian thinking of his day is secure.
I believe his greatest legacy will be found in his Children and Grand children.
The Schuller family are and have always been Exemplary.
They were a Pillars of strength in America’s darkest hours after 911, and no doubt we can continue expect great things from them.
Robert A Shculler’s Hour of Power message “God’s truth is Marching on” is an Inspirational call to America to Keep Strong in faith, esp in Religious liberty.
I pray God’s grace and providence remains upon them.
Dr Scheuller in New Zealand.
A great orator like Dr Schuller must have been used to having a few Zealots in the crowd… and so it would be when he came Down under.
I have my own Robert Schuller story.
I met Dr Schuller very briefly in about 2002.
Joy and I travelled up to Auckland to see him at a large Central City Church.
Several 1000 people in attendance.
Joy and I are Big fans of the Schuller family, Though we have always thought Dr Schuller needed some ‘encouragement’ regarding The Gospel of Grace, The King James Bible Issue, Dispensationalism, and Libertarianism, and I would not let this opportunity pass….so I had packed a small pile of pamphlets and small ‘tracks’, etc to give to him.
The question remained as to exactly how I was going to achieve ‘the drop’.
The Schullers had been a source of Moral Spiritual support for the American people directly after 911, and in the War years that have followed.
Back then there were Anti-American terrorists and Jihadists, hiding on every grassy knoll.
The Program we had been given told everyone to remain seated when Dr Schuller exited.
Well…. the moment was fast arising, and Joy ribbed me saying that if I was going to give him the package that I had better do something fast… and Being a subscriber to ‘Possibility thinking’… I decided I would simply break the rule of remaining seated, and walked up out of the Auditorium over to the exit.
I called on God to bless him, and America as he was getting into his car.
Possibility thinking may involve some risk, yet can get spectacular results!
I got to shake Dr Schullers hand.
I Figure he would forgive me for being cheeky enough to ignore the Rules.
I was ‘Optimistic’ and opportunistic.
What he did with my gift, I have no idea.
I had Fulfilled *my Part*… my moral duty to put the goods into his hands.
It was now up to God to inspire him to read it.
Insignificant as this tale is it actually is descriptive of how his teachings have moulded my thinking and motivated me to action and activism.
Dr Schuller is one of my Mentors whom has been helping me get out of my seat for the last 15 years.
Robert Schuller’s legacy will continue through his Children, and Grandchildren whom in many ways exemplify Enlightened Christian character, and through his fans as they continue to share his Humanity, His wisdom, his Possibility thinking.
He will continue to be a source of my own resolve to always be an optimistic chaser of of big ideas and visions.
His Son Robert Jnr says on Facebook “My Father is now in Heaven with Mum”.
Thank you Robert H Schuller.
Bobby Schuller lifted up his chest and enunciated those words in a booming voice – exactly as his illustrious grandfather had done for more than half a century opening the “Hour of Power” program every Sunday, beamed across the globe to millions.
The more than 2,000 attendees at Crystal Cathedral founder Robert H. Schuller’s memorial service Monday morning, who packed the Christ Cathedral plaza in the shadow of the gleaming glass tower and sanctuary, burst into laughter, tears and thunderous applause….
This memorial touched me. My first job was working as a letter reader for Robert Schuller Ministries. I had never heard of him before — I just moved to the area and as a young but unskilled Christian, it seemed like a good gig. I have to say that my own opinions on him are mixed. On one hand, there is the lopsidedness that you talk about. (I was a catechumen in the Orthodox Church at the same time, and eventually, I quit the job because his religious messaging was just too off base for me.) BuIt on the other hand, I think he was genuine, and that’s more than you could say for a lot of televangelists. And I came to see that there were people that went there because it was a stepping stone for them. They desperately needed his upbeat, hopeful message and weren’t ready for any of the harsher aspects of the spiritual struggle.
I have thought about him and his ministry over the years. Maybe it’s only with the passage of time that I can be less of a critic and think that possibility thinking might have some real merit, as long as people don’t mistake it for the end-all and be-all. But anyway, I’m glad to hear someone have nice things to say about him. I like the story about giving him your package. My very limited access to him tells me the same thing you noticed — he seemed to like to meet people and didn’t appear to consider himself a big shot. I think by God’s grace, he may just have done a lot of good in the world.
Thank’s for your insightful comment Grace.
It’s a pleasure to converse with some one who worked ‘with’ him, and hear your observations.
He really was a Great man.


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- "Half of the world's inhabitants live in poverty."
internationalized capital during the last two or three decades.
While slyly criticizing the late Indonesian dictator as "venal and vicious,"
'New Order' era which they choose to paint is very positive, indeed.
" For Suharto achieved some 30 years of growth and poverty reduction.
was followed by a sharp crisis.
a burden for the poor majority, in good times and even more so, in bad ones.
2002, the hard times were not at all over. The opposite was true.
"Many believe that the full impact is yet to be fully seen,"
made when they let down East and South East Asia, triggering the crisis.
(and cheapest) labor, from locations that were becoming "too expensive"
to other, neighboring areas promising what they were, at the time, looking for.
of profits, and so on and so forth.
places like Taiwan. And the model could be transferred to Indonesia.
Dutch obviously had failed to produce (if not ‘obstructed’)?
the list of foreign investors. In addition, the plantation economy was revitalized.
poor urban dwellers than is the industrial sector.
of the New Order, a certain number of “cheap-labor-driven” factories?
resources, the plantation economy, and the genetic wealth of their fauna.
loans that propelled the relatively fast expansion of the industrial sector.
claim, eradicated or at least drastically reduced the scourge of hunger.
According to a Western report, "Hunger stalked the land in the mid-60s".
[...]"(19) This is certainly a claim that deserves closer scrutiny.
and in the countryside the situation is bad, as well, though in different ways.
poor, while the health question is in turn interrelated with the hunger question.
American invention, the "Green Revolution." "Green Revolution technologies"
expensive chemical fertilizers and expensive herbicides and/or insecticides.
received high marks from the development economists of the 1980s.
did the rural poor continue to flock to the cities?
countryside and the poor people's quarters of the cities remained scarce?
necessary quantities of chemical fertilizer and chemical pest-controls as well.
in the cities and in the countryside).
the prize of rice went up.
Presumbably big landowners selling rice at a high price to BULOG were jubilant.
(for distribution by BULOG) were happy, too.
generals and their cronies, and too little in the coffers of BULOG.
Stories about hunger certainly were more frequent a few decades ago.
millions die each year of malnutrition and its 'side' effects.
political concern among the 'elites' that rising food prices may rock the boat.
have to look. Better turn the camera off.
alleviate a scandalous situation – for some.
according to the quoted source, amounted to 87 %.
The rice price increased by 74%.
countries in Asia, Africa, and 'Latin' America.
"It is the constant sensation of hunger that makes Kamla Devi so angry.
her husband, a casual labourer, over his wages – about 50 rupees a day.
have are occasional cups of sugared tea.
"[a]cross the world, a food crisis is now unfolding with frightening speed.
rice and cooking oil have left them facing the imminent prospect of starvation.
that is to say, too little food to feed everybody?
rice, on soy beans, palm oil, etc.
cereals. Of course, small farmers are the least likely to profit from this.
or rice options at a lower price yesterday than they will ask for it tomorrow.
Or six months later while they are holding it back.
times (for there are no good times for them, ever), failed to make ends meet.
badly nourished, inadequately nourished, they fight doggedly for survival.
don’t manage, and die too soon.
thousands, no, millions pushed over the brink.
addressed? Is it even identified as such?
consequence when children are forced to starve. Not for a day. Not for a week.
people in top positions, know what it entails. And what do they do about it?
They are praising the market. Telling us to rely on market forces.
For Western "[e]conomists and financiers" this is indeed a cause for concern.
may be lost – perhaps for months, perhaps for a year, perhaps for several years.
which drove up food prices more than anything else?
turn were market-conscious and market-oriented?
demand’, it has already created real food shortages in some regions.
The powers that be like us to bury our good capacity to analyze developments.
minimizing its value and the importance it has for you.
on the scale of what works inside the psychological setup of market participants.
comes in, but also willful and socially speaking, irrational and harmful actions.
‘psycholological,’ that is to say, irrational.
going up. It was a self-fulfilling prophecy.
in the UN trade and development division, a certain Mr. Tesfachew, said Mr.
There is something very typical about most of these declarations.
as expressed in relation to the GDP of the donor country.
in so far as these leaders shy away from long-term commitments.
figures of the World Bank, the IMF, or the European Union.
of such sustained measures appear to concentrate on ecological measures.
decrease while soils are exposed to erosion, washed away by heavy rains.
will increase dependency on foreign and native-owned trading companies.
on hopes of sudden chances to make extra-profits, in fact, abnormal profits.
appropriation of nature that is only concerned with short-time monetary gain.
a spontaneous awareness of subsistence needs and ecological requirements?
This lesson has been forgotten, too, as metropolitan sprawl eats up farmland.
statement is in itself so abstract and general that it can hardly be contradicted.
hardly earn enough to justify going abroad.
Another World Bank recommendation is increased reliance on market forces.
strategy that would rely on “expanded markets” is not really acceptable.
It amounts to giving the patient more of the medicine that made him sick.
what is needed by the villagers, and by people in the area or the wider region?
abstract marketing chances of certain goods are fairly correctly predicted?
playfully reckless experiments that add strawberry genes to tomatoes.
at their service have an inkling of.
If, today, we hear the term ‘innovation,’ we cannot help fearing the worst.
Fearing that what is at stake is yet another gratuitous invention, or appropriation.
could have built on, to improve effects.
the so-called foot crisis? We don’t think so.
to a few empty phrases). And in all likelihood, it is also false and misleading.
less effectively, higher environmental standards written in the law books.
Actually, not only sanitation and environmental standards matter to the poor.
and less pollution, are also fighting for a chance to survive hunger and poverty.
- Is this evidence of an entirely uncritical attitude, or does it merely reflect the fact that the Indonesian government sees itself as immensely dependent on the World Bank, the IMF, the W.T.O., and the U.S. government which is so overwhelmingly influential in all of these “international” bodies?
(9) With regard to IFAD, the head of the Indonesian delegation present at the the 25th Session of the Governing Council of IFAD regretted that “[t]he lack of adequate funding will certainly affect the ability of the Fund [i.e.of IFAD] to carry out its mandate satisfactorily." (Ibid.) He pointed out that Indonesia was fulfilling its obligations with regard to IFAD: "In accordance with the financial commitments pledged to IFAD, the Government of Indonesia has made its first payment of USD 3.5 million. [...] “(Ibd.) Such payments must be subtracted from the US $ 59.6 million in assistance that Indonesia was getting at the time from IFAD.
This is what the head of the Indonesian delegation indicated at the IFAD Meeting: "After the economic crisis, the Government of Indonesia changed the focus of its development programmes from government driven to private sector driven."(Ibid.) State-run programs to alleviate hunger and poverty were cut or suspended. Under pressure from the World Bank, the government was cutting back on food subsidies etc.
IFAD redesigned its strategy as well: “The Fund moved from traditional agricultural development projects, based on the delivery of goods and services, towards more sustainable community development projects, based on the establishment and strengthening of the institutions for the poor that have become the subject of the development process. The last IFAD-funded project -- the Post Crisis Program for Participatory Integrated Development in Rainfed Areas (PIDRA) -- is based on a very innovative partnership between the Government and NGOs. PIDRA has so far been implemented with promising results in terms of increased cost-effectiveness and impact on poverty."(Ibid.) This sounds very good, close to the grass-roots. But is it?
Robin McKie and Heather Stewart, "Hunger. Strikes. Riots. The food crisis bites", in: MAIL&GUARDIAN ONLINE, 13 April 2008 09:33 http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=336878&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news) The same could be said by every poor person in Indonesia today. If a crisis hits hard and the population at large sees their incomes shrinking, it is almost always the poor who suffer more than anybody else.
(13) Such experiences as leaving the cities in order to return to the countryside have long been a common feature in modern ‘market economies.’ In early 19th Europe, the workers of Elberfeld left the city during the crisis of 1828 to avoid the high cost of living in the city and seek assistence from relatives in the countryside, and the workers of Verviers also returned to the surrounding villages they hailed from when the factory owners made them redundant during various crises that struck the textile industry of that city. Those who remain in town while shed by regular employers or having lost temporary jobs in the factories of necessity rely on the informal sector. In his article on the city development of Semarang, Dr. Pratiwo notes the plight of street vendors harassed by the city bureaucracy; similar observations, especially with reference to Jakarta, can be found on the pages of a blog run by The Institute for Ecosoc [=Economic and Social] Rights (http://ecosocrights.blogspot.com/). Prostitution must be counted as one kind of (self- ?)employment in the informal sector. Andreas Weiland, a film critic, poet, and town planning historian from Germany, has mentioned recently that in an interview he had with the Indonesian film-maker Wim Umboh in 1978, the latter noted how badly paid government officials would pretend not to know that their wife engaged in prostitution when she turned to this way of supplementing an inadequate family income. It was simpy too embarrassing to face the truth openly, but it was equally impossible to ask her to stop prostituting herself when the additional income was badly needed. This underlines, in the late 1970s, after more than a dozen years of ‘successful’ market-oriented New Order economic policies, the horrendous impact of the prevalent market conditions that were imposing themselves. For the poor, prostitution apparently is a market-driven way of increasing inadequate incomes. And this is true in very poor countries even more than in the so-called ‘First’ or ‘developed’ world.
(15) We still remembered the internationally operating funds that flourished at the time before they were hit by the crisis. (Fidelity International, Pioneer, Robeco, Warburg Invest, …) The funds controlled by George Soros must not be forgotten here. Among the private banks that played a role we may mention Amro, Bank of America, Chase Manhattan, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, J.P. Morgan, ParisBas, Société Generale, USB, etc. – It is to the specialists with a narrow view of the crisis but ‘detailed’ information on the Indonesian segment of the East and South East Asian field of Western and Japanese speculative investment prior to 1997 that we must look for more precise information as to who were the ‘big players’ in the Indonesian market and how big a stake (or how large a risk exposure) they chose to have in that country. Accompanied by such information, we would like to have detailed information as to which payments were made to them ever since. That is to say, since the Indonesian government and private Indonesian lenders began to regularly service the debt incurred in the boom years. Which they did almost immediately, rather than.imposing a debt moratorium as Malaysia had wisely done, and much later, Argentine.
(17) No one in Indonesia will easily forget the renewed progroms against ethnic-Chinese Indonesians that occurred in the aftermath of the 1997 crisis and the fall of Suharto. A few right-wingers, with ties to an extremely conservative minority among the Muslim community, as well as agents provocateurs with ties to the military leaders attached to Suharto or implicated in his crimes, seem to have provoked the gullible, naïve, and highly frustrated of the populace.
(18) We probably can understand the adverse effect of Western strategies that amount to an informal quasi-boycott when we look at what the blockade has done to Cuba, or more recently, to Zimbabwe.
(24) It is necessary to ask at this point whether the regime was in fact creating the agency at the behest of the Americans? - who had previously forced the K.M.T. in Taiwan to carry out a 'tame' land reform, in order to defuse a situation potentially rather explosive.
(26) "In less than a year, the price of wheat has risen by 130%, soya by 87% and rice by 74%."(The source for this is: Robin McKie and Heather Stewart, "Hunger. Strikes. Riots. The food crisis bites", in: MAIL&GUARDIAN ONLINE, 13 April 2008 09:33 ( (http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=336878&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/ ) - The other figures were reported in the radio news recently.
(30) The net result has been to decrease domestic supplies of grain just as demand for it has started to boom. The impact of the decision has struck the developing world most clearly, with wheat and other grain prices soaring.
(32) Some of them don't, they succumb to the effects of malnutrition; their bodies, weakened for years, have no strength to resist the onslaught of bacteria, viruses, damp heat, unexpected cold. Their housing conditions, never ever the way they should be, that is, decent, contribute their share to such fates of untimely death.
(38) To some of the journalists who try to find a scape-goat for the present world food crisis, the culprit is easily perceivable. It's largely China, with its "emerging middle classes" because "their consumption of meat has increased by more than 150% per head since 1980. In those days, meat was scarce, rationed at about 1kg per person per month and used sparingly in rice and noodle dishes, stir fried to preserve cooking oil.
Today, the average Chinese consumer eats more than 50kg of meat a year. To feed the millions of pigs on its farms, China is now importing grain on a huge scale, pushing up its prices worldwide." (Robin McKie and Heather Stewart, Ibid.) – This statement is clearly misleading. Chinese demand for food on the world market has not notably increased during or shortly before the present food price explosion but has been a fairly constant factor for several years (which proves the absurdity of the linkage between ‘added Chinese demand’ and the present food price explosion). We must admit of course that feeding grain to cattle and pigs raised for the purpose of meat production affects the grain market and the price of grain, and is detrimental to the world’s poor as well as ecologically problematic. But what is said here (in the quote) about the connection between grain exports to China and pigs raised in China, can be said with as much justification about the cattle and pig farms of the European Union, about the ranches of the U.S. , and about cattle raised in Brazil’s Amazon forest (their meat largely destined for the U.S. market).
Blaming the Chinese has a significant but only obliquely expressed meaning: ‘You are taking our grain.’ ‘We may feed relatively scarce grain to the pigs, but not you.’ Under extreme circumstances, and with projected scarcities in mind, the answer could be a Hitlerian one.
Indeed, the answer for any social darwinist or follower of Hitler's tenets would be clear: We're in for a fight, for ever scarcer resources. The strongest will survive. The weak will go down. But in fact, even without policies that bet on or threaten with war, 'peaceful' market economies are anyway about exactly this. The financially strongest, those who can pay the most, take the best and the most; the crumbs (if any remain) are left to the weak, the poor, the excluded. It’s a kind of war, too, with deadly effects. As the Chinese writer, Lu Xun, once said: It’s a man-eating society. A society where man eats man. This is what every market-driven society was and is and is going to be.
Unless we opt for a turn-around and make it more humane. Changing our societies for the better would imply that we respect and take serious one another’s essential needs. Not letting anybody go hungry while we have ample food.
future and options traders, and heaven knows who else, seize the chance to push the prize up and up.
(42) Food distributed to the poor as 'emergency aid' is typically bought by governments or food aid agencies on the market, thereby further driving up food prices that haven risen in anticipation of future shortages and future added demand from, amongst other countries, China.
(48) When pointing out the negative effects of inequality in ‘Third World’ countries, we must not lose sight of (once again) increasing inequality in the United States and Europe where a tendency that appeared to redress the most extreme and outrageous grievances seems to have been reigned in and turned around, and this apparently since the mid-1970s (a period characterized by a so-called profit squeeze and a time when mass unemployment began to grow significantly), but even more sharply since the early 1990s (when the ‘competition’ between the ‘East Bloc’ and the ‘Western’ social system came to a halt, a fact that heralded the end of the ‘social democratic era’ in Western Europe and immediately lead to welfare cuts and a revocation of social rights in the ‘West).
However, according to the market logic of the World Bank it was deemed necessary to find ways of “[…]integrating the environmental costs and benefits of action and inaction into decision making.”(Ibid.) In other words, if the cost-benefit analysis showed that inaction in the face of environmental degradation was resulting in a tangible cost [actually showing in the balance sheets of the ‘players’ involved] that was outweighed by far by the profit made, then degradation was the best answer or at least it was not to be corrected.
In other words, as long as short-term business perspectives and calculations matter, it is hard to see why the actors involved in certain ‘business activities’ detrimental to the environment should assume that protecting the environment pays. It’s simply not logical for them, or for World Bank calculators, Mrs. Georgieva admits. And this, she implies, will not change as long as it is very rare to take a long-term view of the matter.
(50) The claim that China’s “arable land [...] is shrinking as farmland has been ravaged by pollution and water shortages" (Robin McKie and Heather Stewart, ibid.) is of course correct. But South Korea’s arable land is shrinking, too. And the same could be said about Japan, about Holland, Germany, or the United States. The reasons for this steady reduction of arable land are diverse.
In other words, the main emphasis is on furthering exports. The agricultural sector and the logging industry are targeted with exactly this in mind. In the Democratic Republic Congo, World Bank recipes for the rain-forest foresee “sustainable” logging by (mostly) foreign lumber companies that has been shown to destroy the ecological balance while generating an inflow of foreign currency. In Brazil and probably, Indonesia, a similar approach is to be expected. As for micro-finance (a strategy first proposed by de Soto in Peru) and certain income-generating strategies suggested by IFAD etc., they are embraced in order to achieve a so-called ‘modernization’ of agriculture. The foreign and local ‘players’ involved in this game bet on ‘rice fortification’ and similar schemes, which is clearly in the interest of Western agribusiness corporations.
(60) In Asia, Japanese corporations, for one, have been known to relocate environmentally hazardous segments of the production process from Japan to places like Taiwan in the 1960s and '70s, and they have moved on to other places in S.E. Asia, among them Indonesia, once environmental legislation in Taiwan (legally, a part of China) became stricter due to prolonged and effective grass-roots protests. The fact that activists speaking for the social and economic rights of the poor in Indonesia demand participatory rights for the poor, for instance the right to have a say with regard to environment standards and safety regulations valid in industrial zones adjacent to their quarters, shows that lessons have been learned from the fight of other environmental groups in other Asian countries. The populace in Jakarta and elsewhere is learning from resistance in countries previously targeted by transnationally operating polluters, especially the plastics industry. Barring increased political repression against them in the name of 'progress' and 'development,' there is some hope that the situation in Indonesia will improve.
(*) This may be a very optimistic assumption, underestimating the real extent of extreme poverty and of malnutrition. Indonesia is not a paradise in a world where one half of mankind is affected by poverty.
Meeting the Millennium Development Goals: Can the environment wait?
Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission: A Step in the Right Direction?
and consideration of the needs of future generations."

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TokBox, Twilio, Jitsi or Agora? Which WebRTC provider should you use to build high quality video calling and conferencing platforms?
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Any parent will tell you how hard it is to feed your kids healthy food without breaking the bank in the process.
So Aldi have listened to what what Aussie parents have been crying out for and have released a seven-day menu for kids that costs just $7.75 per child - and that includes ALL snacks and drinks as well.
The supermarket chain have teamed up with Socceroos chef and nutritionist, Vinícius Capovilla, to create the all new ALDI MiniRoos Mighty Menu.
The meal plan has been designed to keep kids full yet also give them the nutrition they need to keep active.
The menu includes several breakfast, lunch and dinner options, as well as snacks, dessert and drinks.
Some of their options include bircher muesli for breakfast, chicken caesar salad for lunch and then stir fry for dinner.
Snacks include fruit, banana bread, popcorn, an 'energy bowl' and oat bars.
Drinks include fruit smoothies and home-made chocolate milkshakes.
The recipe book and menu, published by Aldi, gives Aussie parents the option to choose a healthy meal plan each day.
That menu plan is so good, we reckon it could stretch to be used by big kids as well!