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There’s something magically calming about hands in clay… something sweet about eating out of a bowl or drinking from a cup that your own hands made with your own imagination.
We make each piece lovingly by hand to be functional and nourishing to our minds, bodies, and souls.
Opportunities to create are always welcome here, so dream big! Let’s join forces and brainstorm together.
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This is my graduation work for my bachelor Digital Arts and Entertainment.
In this research I looked for the possibility to use the HTC Vive for motion capture and the problems coming with it.
I also made a working plugin for Unity to do motion capture with the HTC Vive and save these as animations.
The main focus lies on an plugin which a single person can operate to create simple animations in a short timespan.
Special thanks to my supervisor Thomas Goussaert, my coach Regis Le Roy and Marianne Peeters for the logo.

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Helping patients and aged care residents to stand is all in a day’s work for many healthcare workers - but it comes at a cost, with nursing assistants suffering one of the highest rates of work-related musculoskeletal injuries.
A solution is now available thanks to a new medical device supported by the Medical Device Partnering Program, the ‘U-Stand Frame’. The lightweight and portable frame, an invention of Innovo Healthcare, is giving independence back to the patient, allowing them to control the timing, speed and mechanics of their sit-to- stand movement.
Allan Perriam, Managing Director of Innovo Healthcare and a practising nurse, developed the product as a result of his own experiences caring for those with difficulties standing. His concept addressed a gap in the market for a simple cost effective solution that better aids carers in transferring the patient from sitting to standing positions.
The MDPP supported Allan by undertaking a multi-site trial in aged-care and hospital facilities to validate the practical use of the frame and obtain important patient feedback on design features. The team also provided specialist engineering advice and made a number of introductions to manufacturers, intellectual property
specialists and potential funders.
When describing the partnership with the MDPP Allan says, “The MDPP has thus far been the best value for money we have spent to date. We secured detailed market reports of significant insight and on our behalf, the MDPP have also developed and implemented a clinical trial to validate our technology with potential end-users.”
The trial also resulted in pre-orders of the U-Stand Frame. “These vital steps of market analysis and clinical validation have given us impetus to take our product overseas and we are already in talks with two of the largest distribution companies in the U.S,” said Allan.
From the 2-year partnership with the MDPP, Innovo Healthcare also received engineering support, access to academic and industry experts and media exposure.
The ability to access and leverage the MDPP’s broad network is hugely valuable for start-ups in particular.
“It is my firm belief that had we not received such support from the MDPP, our project would have taken considerably longer and cost significantly more to bring to market,” says Allan.
Mr Perriam returned to the MDPP in 2016 with another assistive technology device, taking the original U Stand Frame concept one step further.


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Carter House Christmas Open House
The Historic Carter House Society Inc. will hold a Christmas Open House at the Carter House on Sunday, December 8th and Sunday, December 15 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM both days. The public is invited to tour the plantation house and see each room decorated in holiday décor from past and present. Santa should be there for good girls and boys. Along with the beautiful decorations you'll learn about the history of the National Register house built 1817 - 1820. Tickets will be sold at the door for $5.00/person and all tickets sold will be entered in a drawing to win a prize. Proceeds go toward preservation and restoration of the Carter House, the only plantation still standing in Livingston Parish. The Carter House is in Carter Plantation, 30325 Carter Cemetery Road, Springfield, LA 70462. For questions or additional information, call 225-747-0660 or e-mail email@example.com.
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The two-day event in Phoenix covers a broad array of gun issues including legal cases, state and federal legislation, culture and politics.
In an open letter to Guns.com, GOA raised issue to our calling the group “controversial” because of connections and alleged connections to hate groups.
Brady claimed Lucky Gunner, the Sportman’s Guide and BTP Arms failed to properly vet James Holmes before they sold him items he would later use to kill 12 and wound 70 inside a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
As we’ve done in years past here on Guns.com, we would like to take a moment to honor those who fought and died in service to protecting the freedoms of this country by taking a closer look at how we honor the ultimate sacrifice.
Waco, Texas, was left bullet-riddled after a massive biker brawl turned deadly Sunday afternoon. Nine people were killed, 18 wounded and 170 others arrested.
Federal agents seized thousands of gun parts and documents from New Britain gun maker Stag…
Authorities charged four people from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with illegally shipping containers containing guns and ammunition to the Middle East, according to a federal complaint filed Tuesday.
The complaint, which reads like a love letter to the NRA, alleges the school staff and school board violated the student’s first amendment rights.
Are your neighbors or co-workers driving you nuts? Don’t you wish there was a way to get annoying liberals out of your life? Well, what if we told you there’s a revolutionary new product that’ll scare away all those pesky people without requiring you to be diplomatic.
We’re not saying these are necessarily the best posts or even the most popular, but they did receive the most page views in April.

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ISLAMABAD – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday will hear the India’s case against the death sentence to an Indian spy Kulbushan Jadhav awarded by a Pakistan military court.
After 18 years, India and Pakistan will confront each other in the world court. India has stayed away from the international court and it is only the second time after 1971 that New Delhi has sought the intervention of the judicial arm of the United Nations against Pakistan.
The judicial arm of Netherlands-based ICJ will hear the case at around 1pm Pakistani time in the Great Hall of Justice housed in the Peace Palace in the city of The Hague.
A five-member delegation from Pakistan will be pleading the country’s case in the ICJ, while 13-member team will represent the India.
Pakistan would challenge the jurisdiction of the international court to hear the case and present the arguments in this regard at 6pm.
Both sides will be giving 90 minutes each to make their arguments, while India will start the argument. It is expected that court will take provisional steps in the case.
Court president judge Ronny Abraham of France is expected to hold meeting with the agents or legal representatives of the two countries and decide on the procedural issues such as the time-frame of the case.
RAW agent Kulbushan Jadhav had been awarded death sentence, tweeted ISPR DG Asif Ghafoor on Monday.
“The spy was tried through Field General Court Martial (FGCM) under the Pakistan Army Act (PAA) and awarded the death sentence. Today Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa confirmed his death sentence awarded by FGCM,” the DG ISPR said.
Jadhav was arrested on March 3, 2016 through a counter-intelligence operation in Balochistan’s Mashkel area for his involvement in espionage and sabotage activities against Pakistan, the statement added.
‘Jadhav was tried by the FGCM under Section 59 of the PAA and Section 3 of the official Secret Act of 1923’ said ISPR.
Jadhav confessed before a magistrate and court that he was tasked by Indian spy agency Research and Analysis wing to plan, coordinate and organise espionage and sabotage activities seeking to destabilise and wage war against Pakistan through impeding the efforts of law enforcement agencies for the restoration of peace in Balochistan and Karachi, the ISPR said.
The accused had been provided with a defending officer as per legal provisions, the ISPR said.


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At the center of modern art history is a love story between two artists who could not live with or without each other. The Peabody Essex Museum
(PEM) presents Man Ray | Lee Miller, Partners in Surrealism featuring 76 works by two giants of the Surrealism movement and other renowned artists in their circle including Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, and Le Corbusier.
From 1929 to 1932, Man Ray and Lee Miller lived together in Paris, first as teacher and student, and later as lovers. Their mercurial relationship resulted in some of the most powerful work of each artist's career and helped shape the course of modern art. Combining rare vintage photographs, paintings, sculpture and drawings, this exhibition tells the story of the artists' brief but intense relationship in Paris, their lifelong friendship, and the unique nature of their creative partnership. It also offers a window into the maelstrom of artistic and social experimentation that animated Paris in the 1930s and gave inspiration to writers, poets, filmmakers, musicians and visual artists of all stripes.
"This exhibition is a microcosm of Surrealism, embodied by two people and their feelings for each other. Together, Man Ray and Lee Miller became the ultimate Surrealist object - two people who were inescapably drawn to each other, but could not make it work," said Phillip Prodger, PEM Curator of Photography.
Despite the impact their relationship had on both artists, this will be the first exhibition ever organized that features Man Ray and Lee Miller together on equal terms. Lee Miller is regarded here as an artist and potent Surrealist force in her own right rather than a mere foil for Man Ray's work. Historically, Miller has been described as Ray's muse, but their love affair was in fact a key source of mutual and sustained inspiration which pushed the art of their time in a new direction.
Man Ray was a leader in two pioneering Modern art movements, Surrealism and Dada, but was never deeply invested in either categorization. Although accomplished as an avant-garde photographer, he defied labels and thought of himself as a painter first, ultimately wed to no single medium. Man Ray's camerawork marked a turning point in the integration of photography among other visual art forms. An artist with great clarity of intention, Ray combined incongruous objects, asking the viewer to make sense of the result. In tune with Duchamp, Man Ray was also a master of the Readymade, elevating ordinary objects as art. He channeled his agony over Lee Miller's departure into a life of productive creativity, often lovingly and cleverly referring to her via coded motifs.
Lee Miller started her career as a fashion model, the ultimate 'it-girl' of 1920s America. With the encouragement of Edward Steichen for whom she was a favorite subject, she moved behind the camera and sought out Man Ray as a teacher. She quickly gained mastery of darkroom and camera techniques to become a photographer with her own vision to impart. So completely did she absorb Man Ray's instruction that for a time, Miller persuaded Ray to let her take on their photography projects enabling him to devote more time to painting and other media. Their collaboration resulted in technical innovations such as the effect of solarization and the coalescence of the surrealist idiom. Working in tandem and separately, Ray tended more to the studio and she took to the streets. After she and Ray parted, she remained a photographer for two decades, including a seminal period as World War II war correspondent for Condé Nast. A first-hand witness to some of the worst atrocities of her time, she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder that later hampered her productivity. Her works are rarely seen outside the UK.
Lee Miller's photographs as well as the work of many of the other Surrealist artists in this exhibition appear courtesy of the Lee Miller Archives housed at Farley Farm House in Chiddingly, England. Farley Farm House is the family estate of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, and was a regular stop for some of the world's most important modern artists including those represented in this exhibition.

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La Tolteca La Tolteca offers five different tamales, including pineapple and strawberry to satisfy that sweet tooth. But may we suggest the green cheese tamale? Okay, good. It comes slathered enchilada style, with green sauce and a hefty helping of cheese. Inside there is a generous serving of chicken. It's like getting the best of both the tamale and enchilada worlds; if you like both, there's no going wrong. And in case that you're feeling pretty bold, they sell all the ingredients necessary for knocking out your own batch of tamales.
Carolina's Mexican Food Chances are you've had the pleasure of dining in the no-frills restaurant that is Carolina's. If not, now would be the perfect time. Known throughout the Valley for their homemade tortillas, Carolina's also serves up the most moist tamales we could ask for. The tamales are wrapped in more masa than we're used to, but we actually welcome it coming from Carolina's because of the freshness and homemade element. The green chicken tamale comes stuffed with melted cheese, fresh chicken and spicy green chile. Everything we love.
Los Taquitos Mexican Grill We love little places that push out good Mexican food in a quick way to flow with our busy lives, and we especially love it when they make good tamales. Now, tamales are not listed on the menu inside the restaurant, so don't let that alarm you when you go in. They make green chicken, red beef and cheese, but they don't always have all three, so we worked with the green chicken. There was a substantial amount of shredded chicken inside the tamale, covered in a zesty green chile sauce that left a welcomed tangy aftertaste.

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Chisholm Trail Heritage Center
Duncan, OK 73533
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The John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park near downtown Tulsa is a beautiful piece of landscape architecture that tells ... read more...
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The Drummond Home in Hominy is a three-story Victorian home built by turn-of-the-century business leader and ... read more...
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Can business continue to keep information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) separate? What does this mean for critical communications?
Essential industries, such as energy, utilities and mining are on the cusp of transformational change — the convergence of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT). The presentation will focus on:
- Understanding the challenges of the typically stovepiped IT and OT environments.
- Understanding the value of leveraging IT/OT convergence to increase value to the enterprise.
- Adding value to the increasing amount of highly actionable data from mobile field workers, equipment and operational processes.
- Rapid advances in asset and work management applications built for operational optimisation from the ground up.
- Improvement in safety and emergency procedure resulting from IT/OT convergence.


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Dubai Creek Cruise Dinner
Cruise across the Dubai Creek is style, enjoy Dubai Dinner Cruise evening of entertainment while gently gliding past illuminated souks in this amazing Dubai Creek Dinner Cruise tour.
- Pickup & drop off from your hotel in Dubai
- All transfers by Air condition bus
- Two hours on board dinner cruising pickup.
- International buffet dinner
- All taxes & Services charges
- Any extras not mentioned in the itinerary
During this Dubai Dinner Cruise tour, You will be picked up from your hotel to spend a relaxed evening onboard a traditionally decorated wooden dhow. Cold Towels, fresh dates, arabic coffee and welcome drink (non-alcoholic beverages) will be served upon arrival
the cruise sails along the Dubai Creek under the moonlight. Savour your favorite beverages and prepare your palate for a mouth-watering feast! The major Dubai landmarks shine through the moonlit sky as the wooden vessel slips silently across the creek. Experience the city’s unexplored past, with historic buildings and monuments that have stood the test of time. You will cruise by the Heritage Village, Chambers of Commerce, National Bank of Dubai, Dubai Courts, and the glittering Gold and Spice Souks. The past and present architecture of the area is brought to its full beauty during this time of the day. international buffet dinner will be served. then, Transfer back to your hotel.


The Calf Canyon Fire was caused by a “pile burn holdover from January” that was started by the Santa Fe National Forest Service, officials said on Friday.
The blaze later merged with the Hermits Peak Fire – also started by a federal prescribed burn – to become the largest fire in the state’s history, burning hundreds of homes and displacing thousands of New Mexicans.
“The pain and suffering of New Mexicans caused by the actions of the U.S. Forest Service – an agency that is intended to be a steward of our lands – is unfathomable,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a released statement.
The Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire has burned more than 312,000 acres as of Friday morning and is 47% contained. More than 3,000 personnel are battling the blaze that has destroyed 761 structures, including nearly 350 homes.
On January 29, Santa Fe National Forest crews concluded the Gallinas Canyon Wildland Urban Interface pile burn.
Pile burns are when agencies set fire to debris from earlier thinning and reforestation projects.
Fire investigators found that on April 9, crews responded to smoke in the vicinity of the pile burn.
The region had seen at least three snow events before the 1.5 acre Calf Canyon fire emerged.
The Forest Service is calling the event a holdover fire, or sleeper fire – “a fire that remains dormant for a considerable time.”
Crews monitored the small Calf Canyon Fire and lined the blaze until 10 days later on April 19, when the fire “reignited and escaped containment lines.”
On April 22, high winds caused “significant fire spread,” and Calf Canyon merged with the Hermits Peak blaze to east.
“The Santa Fe National Forest is 100 percent focused on suppressing these fires with the support of the Type 1 incident management teams who are fully prepared to manage complex, all-risk situations,” SFNF supervisor Debbie Cress said. “Our commitment is to manage the public lands entrusted to us by improving the forest’s resilience to the many stressors they are facing, including larger, hotter wildfires, historic levels of drought, rising temperatures, and insects and disease.”
On May 20 the U.S. Forest Service paused all prescribed burns nationwide on forest lands in the wake of the New Mexico disaster.
Lujan Grisham said the Forest Service’s admission marked “a first step” toward the federal government taking full responsibility for the blaze which, aside from the personal toll, has cost state and local governments millions of dollars.
“I appreciate the U.S. Forest Service assuming responsibility for the federal actions that caused this terrible crisis,” she said, adding that the agency must “take a hard look at their fire management practices and make sure they account for a rapidly changing climate.”
“New Mexico and the West must take every precaution to prevent fires of this magnitude from occurring, especially as precipitation levels continue to decrease and temperatures rise,” Lujan Grisham said.


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Dispatch: Wisconsin Film Festival
Taylor Hanley offers her thoughts on three of this year’s Wisconsin Film Festival selections.
I planned to start out the Wisconsin Film Festival by seeing White God, because I love attempts to reconstruct classic stories, and also because of the picture in the film guide with tons of running dogs. Unfortunately, White Dog could not be played and instead they showed Girlhood.
Girlhood was okay. I am sure there is an audience out there that would love this movie, but by the number of people who left before Girlhood started, that audience is not the same as White God’s. The film is well made, particularly in its cinematography and its point of view. And the use of music is also enjoyable, especially in a somewhat experimental scene with the girls and a Rhianna song.
At first, the story starts out like an unfunny Mean Girls where the main character, Marieme, joins a clique and they go to the mall and make fun of other girls. But the story did not follow the typical path and instead highlighted the positive aspects of forming strong female bonds. This, along with the reversal of gender roles—women playing football and fighting—was really enjoyable.
Despite this unique presentation, and despite taking place in France, I felt that the story was overplayed. I don’t like watching depictions of my generation, perhaps because I am tired of the usual portrayal of us as selfie-taking, booby-shaking, and directionless. Or because I do see it everyday. And though the use of music was appropriate and effective, I am sad that the popular music of today sucks so much. There is an audience out there for this film, but that audience probably relates to the characters’ situations and feelings. I didn’t.
The first minutes of The Keeping Room are intense: barking, gun shots, murder, and suggested rape. Starting this way made the whole audience shift to the edge of their seat and stay there, tense, for the rest of the film. The intensity was going to return, but it wasn’t clear when.
The film was awesome—a great story with a complex and entertaining dynamic between the three main characters who took up most of the screen time. Two of the women are sisters whose father and brother have gone off to fight on the Confederate side of the Civil War, and the other is their help, Mad. The relationship between these women continuously changes while the power goes from one to the next. Their interactions depict a side of slavery that hasn’t been regularly shown, yet their dialogue and actions towards one another was so natural.
It was strange going from Girlhood directly to The Keeping Room, because the second film put Girlhood‘s problems into perspective. I can’t help but wonder if life at that time was hard no matter who you were.
Saturday morning I woke up and saw The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari at the Capitol Theater. I couldn’t have asked for a better morning. The Capitol Theater is my favorite venue at the Film Festival, and I love any reason that allows me to go there. I really enjoyed the film; I know most film fans have seen it and know how good it is, but it was my first time seeing it. This was also the first time I have seen a silent film on a big screen, and being able to see this particular film with live organ accompaniment was an amazing opportunity. I was giddy the entire time.
I overheard someone say after the screening that The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was ahead of its time. It was. The story was told with flashbacks, the acting is appropriately dramatic, and the thing that overwhelmingly stood out to me was the Dr. Seuss-like setting.Though thoroughly enjoyable, I would not have liked the film as much if I watched it at home on my small TV. It is fantastic that the Wisconsin Film Festival allows the audience to see films as they are meant to be seen.


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It's the third Tuesday of the month, which means I'm linking up with the ladies from the #MonthlyMani group! This month's theme is metallics, and I have to admit I feel like I cheated a little on this one.
I go through major phases when it comes to metals, and I'm thinking 2016 is the year for copper. I started this mani out with a metallic copper base. I knew I wanted to do something flashy and sort of glam rock, so I cut out a lightning bolt from washi tape and was planning to use it as a stencil.
However (here comes the cheating part), once the blue glitter bolt was on my nail, I really dug it. So, all I did was add a clear top coat and called it a day!
I had never used any kind of foreign object in my diy manis before, but I thought it worked really well. If you're the type of person who would be distracted by the somewhat raised surface, I would recommend using an incredibly thin material, like a foil or lightweight tape instead of the glitter washi tape.
If you're looking for some more metallic mani inspiration, check out the rest of the #MonthlyMani crew:


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Kiln underwriter joins Peleus Re
Andrew Carrier, the former active underwriter of Kiln’s Lloyd’s Syndicate 557 and the reinsurance division of its Syndicate 510, will join Bermudian firm Peleus Re later this year.
Peleus Re, which was created by the reverse merger deal of US insurer Argonaut Group and the distressed Bermudian retro writer PXRE earlier this year, confirmed yesterday (7 August) that Carrier will take up the post of president at the firm.
Carrier’s left Kiln after 23 years at the insurer in June as it announced a management reshuffle following its recent redomicile to Bermuda and the formation of Kiln Ltd, its new holding company.
Mark Watson III, president and CEO of Peleus’ holding company Argo Group said: “Andrew joins us at an exciting time in our development and brings a wealth of international experience and perspective to our management team. His understanding of global markets in general and the London and Bermuda markets in particular will be of significant value as we develop a sustainable and profitable global business platform.”
Argo Group also announced the appointment of Barbara Bufkin as senior vice president, Corporate Business Development.


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Heritage Centre to perform The Blue Album
The band decided to put on this event, having always wanted to perform the album live, so it’s sure to be a quality night of music. They will be joined on the night by The Crayon Set.
Tickets are €5, and will be available to purchase at the door on the night.
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The king is a playing card with a picture of a king on it. The king is usually the highest-ranking face card. In French playing cards and tarot decks, the king immediately outranks the queen. A Jack or knave is a playing card which, in traditional French and English decks, pictures a man in the traditional or historic aristocratic dress generally associated with Europe of the 16th or 17th century. The usual rank of a jack, within its suit, plays as if it were an 11 (that is, between the 10 and the queen). The king - queen -valet format then made its way into England. History · Representations · Poetry · Example cards. A list and short description of the courts (kings, queens and jacks) on playing cards.
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The holy grail of the energy world, fusion technology involves smashing together atomic nuclei in a controlled fashion in order to combine them. Theoretically, it could provide virtually unlimited clean energy, eliminating the need for fossil fuels and even green energy alternatives like solar. After research stagnated on the technology in the ’70s, in recent years tech billionaires have been quietly shoveling money into startups in hopes of solving the world’s energy crisis and climate change in one go, the BBC reports.
Bezos has invested in the secretive General Fusion startup and Allen has invested in the even more secretive Tri Alpha. Both are pursuing different methods to create fusion energy—the same energy that powers the sun. Like other privately funded moonshot initiatives like Bezos’ Blue Origin, the tech billionaires investing in fusion believe the private sector can cut the bureaucracy of government-funded fusion research, which is slowed by red tape, and hasten the rollout of the technology, perhaps quite literally saving the planet as we know it.


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Kenny Rock is weighing in on the affair between his brother Chris Rock and Will Smith at the 94th Academy Awards last Sunday.
In an interview with LA time published Monday, Kenny, 42, told this magazine of the event – in which King Richard the star confronted Chris Rock on stage after the comedian told a GI Jane jokes about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith (who is known to suffer from alopecia), and slapping him – have continued to affect him in the days since.
“It eats me up watching it over and over again because you’ve seen a loved one get attacked and there’s nothing you can do about it,” the actor and businessman told the magazine. He commented that his brother was “no threat” to Smith, who “disrespected” Rock at the time and “despised” him in front of millions of Oscar audiences (the session). ABC’s broadcast of the Oscars drew more than 16 million viewers, more than last year – but still lower than in previous years).
While Smith worked things out later that evening as he accepted his Oscar for King Richardand then by apologizing directly to Rock in a social media post, Kenny shared his view that the apology on stage – where he did not mention Rock, but instead told Hoc institute and his nominees that he apologizes – is not enough, and affects the way he views the whole event. “I could have looked at it the other way if he had initially apologized when he walked on stage and cried and accepted the award, but he didn’t accept the award, so right there, that speaks to me. that it was something else,” he said.
The cultural consequences have seen the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences begin a formal review of whether his conduct required any action on their part, which may include suspended the actor’s Academy membership – except that he resigned. Smith noted in a statement to the organization that his actions at the Oscars were “shocking, painful and inexcusable” and that he had “betrayed” the trust of the Academy. forest. He also apologized to Rock’s family, writing: “The list of people I have hurt is very long and includes Chris, his family, many dear friends and my loved ones, all those present and the global audience at home.”
But Kenny, one of six siblings with Chris Rock, said he did not accept the apology. “I don’t think it’s real,” he said Times. “I think his journalist and the people who work under him probably advised him to do it.”
Kenny also said he’d like to see the Academy revoke the Oscar he received that night. King Richard and forbid him from attending future Oscar ceremonies. He said he also believes his brother didn’t know about Pinkett Smith’s alopecia. Kenny said: “The joke was funny. “It’s not hilariously hilarious, but I know that if he knew that she had hair loss… he wouldn’t joke about it. But he doesn’t know.”
Kenny went on to say that Smith “should have been escorted out of there” and that he blamed the Academy.
Smith’s mother, Carolyn, also briefly shared her views on what happened to her son, telling CNN affiliate WPVI-TV that the slap came as a surprise: “He’s a man very fair. That was the first time I saw him go. First time in life. … I have never seen him do that. “
As the consequences continued, Netflix withdrew from an established project with Smith called Fast and loose, quietly place the movie in the rear burner. It is currently unknown if any additional projects will be affected.
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Kakao Bank logs record-high net profit
The lender will expand mid-to-low credit loans in Q4 amidst criticism over its reliance on mortgage loansBy Song Seung-hyun
Published : Nov. 8, 2023 - 15:54
Kakao Bank, an internet-only bank, announced Wednesday that it achieved a record-high net profit of 279.3 billion won ($214.12 million) during the first three quarters of the year, thanks to increased lending to borrowers attracted by its low interest rates.
This represents a 37.9 percent increase from 202.5 billion won it recorded during the same period a year ago.
"We pursued sustainable growth through balanced deposits and loans in the third quarter, along with stable risk management,” a Kakao Bank official said.
When looking at the third quarter figure alone, Kakao Bank recorded a net profit of 95.4 billion won. Although it fell short of the record set in the first quarter, which amounted to 101.9 billion won, it increased by 21.2 percent compared to the third quarter of 2022, which recorded 78.7 billion won.
As of the end of the third quarter, cumulative operating profit reached 375.7 billion won, marking a 40.5 percent increase compared to the same period last year when it reached 267.4 billion won.
Kakao Bank has been offering lower interest rates than other banks this year, leading to an expansion of its loan assets.
As of the end of the third quarter, Kakao Bank's loan balance had increased by 9.6 trillion won, or 34.9 percent, compared to the same period in 2022, reaching 37.1 trillion won.
During the first three quarters, the deposit balance also increased from 34.6 trillion won to 45.7 trillion won, a growth of 11.1 trillion won, or 32.1 percent.
Among different loans, the most significant increase was seen in mortgage loans, including loans for both "wolse" and "jeonse.”
In Korean, wolse refers to monthly rent, where tenants pay a deposit along with monthly rent to reside in the property. On the other hand, jeonse allows tenants to rent a home without making monthly payments to the landlord. Instead, the jeonse tenant pays a lump-sum deposit.
As of the end of the third quarter, Kakao Bank's mortgage loan balance was 19.86 trillion won, a 6.57 trillion won, or 49.4 percent, increase compared to the figure at the end of last year which was 13.29 trillion won.
Despite a significant hike in loans, the internet-only bank's overall financial stability improved due to mortgage loans, which have collateral.
The delinquency rate at the end of the third quarter was 0.49 percent, a 0.03 percentage point decrease from the second quarter which had 0.52 percent.
The balance of mid- to low-credit loans also increased from 3.24 trillion won to 4.95 trillion won during the same period, marking an 853.9 billion won, or 26.3 percent, increase.
The proportion of mid- to low-credit loans to household credit loans is at an all-time high of 28.7 percent.
However, Kakao Bank still failed to live up to its annual target of 30 percent, indicating that it will need to expand mid- to low-credit loans in the remaining fourth quarter.
“We will put our efforts to support financially vulnerable groups, including expanding mid- to low-credit loans and assisting small business owners, based on digital innovation,” the Kakao Bank official said.
This target is important because three internet-only banks in Korea were granted their licenses on the condition that they would serve the purpose of providing financial services to underserved individuals, including those with mid to low credit.
This is also why financial authorities in August criticized internet-only banks for their overreliance on mortgage loans for growth.
"Internet-only banks have a policy purpose of providing funds to those with insufficient financial transaction history, so there are criticisms over the current concentration on mortgage loans," said Financial Supervisory Service Gov. Lee Bok-hyun.
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Once upon a time, after we were introduced to a galaxy far… far away, Universal brought us a new saga from the stars. Was is a blatant rip-off of Star Wars? Not that I can tell. Sure there were similar beats but the tune was different. Starved as we were for any thing Sci-Fi there were some stinkers unleashed upon us, but that didn’t kill our desire for new adventures among the stars.
I watched Battlestar Galactica faithfully, every week. It was something to look forward to, and I did. While there was quite a bit of merch created for the show it didn’t come close to the amounts seen for Star Wars. My toys from the property were limited to a Viper and the Stellar Probe, and that was enough for me. Today I don’t own either, but I do have a Scarab.
As far as the Mattel toys are concerned, I think their biggest error was that they didn’t really focus on one scale. It should have been the 3¾” scale figures. The ships could have been made to that larger size and could have competed with the first run of Kenner’s figures. Perhaps if BSG went on another season or two they would have hit their stride, but alas that wasn’t to be. There are fan creators out there who now make 3¾” ships and playsets for the original figures. It was those creations that prodded me to write this little blog entry.

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NorCal Planetarium Threatened With Closure
If you ever visited a planetarium as a kid, you were probably entranced by the way it transported you into outer space, making the stars and planets seem close enough to touch. The Schreder Planetarium in Redding has been creating that magic with generations of school children. Now, the area’s only planetarium open to the public is faced with closure.
As the lights dim inside the domed planetarium, students from a fifth grade class at Pacheco Elementary School in Redding quiet down to see a show about fall’s night sky. Afterward, the kids are impressed.
“It was cool ‘cause I actually felt like I was in space.” “I learned a lot more about Mars and stuff, the stars, and how to find the objects like the big dipper and the little dipper.” “It was awesome!”
For nearly four decades, these planetarium shows have captivated students’ imaginations by exploring what lies beyond Earth. But low attendance numbers, outdated equipment and the rising cost of operation has lead the Shasta County Office of Education to consider closing the planetarium. The Office works with the county’s 26 school districts on budgeting and program development. It also manages the planetarium.
Tom Armelino is superintendent of the County Office of Education. Armelino thinks it’s hard to justify keeping the Planetarium open when the schools have so many more urgent needs.
“I think everyone would agree that the planetarium is kind of a unique thing,” Armelino says. “It’s neat to kind of have it here in Redding but there’s a cost to that and that cost is being burdened by the taxpayers’ dollars. It’s not paying for itself, it doesn’t appear that it will pay for itself.”
To replace the aging equipment and run the planetarium would cost roughly $1.5 million over the next 10 years.
Armelino points out that less than one percent of the students in Shasta County are using the planetarium and attendance at public shows has dropped by more than half.
He says there are three options on the table.
“One, is we continue to do what we’re doing, which is basically limp along and hope the equipment doesn’t break. Another is to buy new equipment and the board make that financial commitment both the $400,000 to buy new equipment then as well additional money to staff it, advertise it, spend more money, or make the decision to close it and move forward and put the resources in other places.”
But not everyone thinks that’s a good idea.
Jack Schreder is a former Office of Education superintendent . . . and the planetarium’s namesake. He’s concerned that closing the planetarium will deprive students of a valuable educational experience.
“The planetarium was for many years, an integral part of the funding of the county office and it’s only recently that funding has been withdrawn,” Schreder says. “The operation fund, and so, I think the emphasis of the county office needs to be recommitment to the programs that provide hands on experience for young folks . . . You know, it’s all about priorities.”
Schreder thinks that, given the current nationwide emphasis on STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) , the planetarium is well worth the cost.
“It was always my interest to stimulate math and science,” he says. “Long before STEM and the planetarium was one of those ways we tried to excite youngsters and folks that have any inclination in science or planetary science to get involved through exposure to the planetarium.”
Schreder believes that the Shasta County Office of Education isn’t doing everything it can to advertise and market the planetarium’s shows. Supervisor Tom Armelino disagrees.
“Even with the smaller numbers, we’ve continued to operate the program; we’ve continued to advertise it,” he says. “I don’t believe we advertise any less than we ever have and I know that we advertise more than we did at one time.”
The emphasis on science and math education puts pressure on teachers like Kim Nunn – whose fifth graders enjoyed the show so much today -- to find ways to expose students to these educational requirements. She says the planetarium is a unique resource for doing that.
“There’s only one place they can touch a meteorite,” Nunn says. “There’s only one place that they can see a model of the space shuttle. There’s only one place where they can see the constellations in a dome and the planetarium and feel like they’re traveling through space. We can’t accomplish that in a classroom.”
The Shasta County Office of Education is evaluating its options for the planetariums future.
A final decision will be made in the spring.


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In order to make sure I haven't misled anyone: Do NOT aim for the large front leg bone of a large bull moose.
I have two first hand experiences with bullet hits on that bone.
1) My hunting buddy hit a large Alaskan bull moose there with a 7mm Rem Mag using a 175 grain bullet at 175 yards. The bone deflected the bullet forward of the vitals. The bullet never exited this bull. This bull would not have died any time soon from that hit. A second shot with a 270 grain .375 Weatherby Magnum to the spine was required to kill this bull.
2) I shot a 55" bull moose at 425 yards with a .375 Weatherby - 285 grain Speer Grand Slam. The bullet hit directly on that leg bone a little lower than ideal. This bullet did take out the leg bone but was lodged in the rib/brisket area not too much deeper past the entry side leg bone. Had this bullet been placed 5 inches higher, it might have inflicted enough damage to vitals to have killed this bull, but the bullet was severely damaged / sheared off after taking out the leg bone. It didn't have much energy / velocity left after crushing thru that bone. Two additional hits were required to bring this bull down. This was back in the days before laser range finders and all the other wonderful technology currently available for the long range hunter today.
So when I said aim for the ribs directly behind the front shoulders, what I mostly meant to say was do NOT aim for the front leg bone. At least on adult bull moose the size of the ones we have in Alaska. The front leg bone of a Maine bull moose is likely similarly a poor aiming point.


At a glance, the name makes as much sense as some of the ones created by computers -- Vitara, for example -- although it does have the virtue of being a genuine word you can look up in the dictionary. But a truck named for a tree?
Well, the sequoia is a tree, yes, but it's a really big tree. Whether you're talking Sequoia sempervirens or Sequoiadendron giganteum, these are just about the biggest living things on the planet. And as you can see, this new Toyota is big, too. True, it's not the biggest of the sport-utilities. But it's Toyota's biggest ever, and it's bigger than most, with dimensions that fall between those of the General Motors clones -- the Chevy Tahoe and the GMC Yukon -- and the Ford Expedition. And like its namesake, this Sequoia will live only in North America.
Let's get down and digital. At 203.9 inches, the Sequoia is 5.0 inches longer than a Tahoe and 0.7 inch shorter than an Expedition, with a wheelbase that's 2.1 inches longer than the Chevy's and an inch shorter than the Ford's. It's a little narrower than its Yankee adversaries, and not as tall. Comparing four-wheel-drive versions, the Tahoe is 2.3 inches taller, the Expedition, 2.6. This is surprising in view of the Sequoia's decided edge in minimum ground clearance, the critical element for lumpy terrain. Checking four-wheel-drive editions, there are only 7.5 inches between mother earth and the low-hanging portions of the Expedition, 8.4 inches for the Tahoe, and 10.6 inches for the Sequoia.
Curb weights also put the Sequoia between the Ford and Chevy offerings. Toyota lists the base two-wheel-drive SR5 Sequoia at 5100 pounds, heavier than either of the domestics, but at 5300 pounds, the four-wheel-driver weighs almost 100 pounds less than the Expedition.
Somewhere in here you're gonna say, "Hey, what about the Land Cruiser? That's pretty big, right? What's the deal?"
The Cruiser certainly qualifies as big iron and weighs about 150 pounds less than the four-wheel-drive Sequoia. However, it's not as big. Its wheelbase is 5.9 inches shorter, it's almost a foot shorter overall, it's considerably smaller inside, and it costs a whole bunch more. Although Toyota wasn't ready to divulge final pricing, we're guessing the Sequoia will start at about $32,000 for a base two-wheel-drive SR5 model and at $36,000 for the luxed-up Limited. The Land Cruiser starts north of $51,000 and sells in limited volumes: 18,602 in 1999. Meanwhile, Toyota strategists have been hungrily monitoring a full-size-SUV market of about 600,000 per annum. Which is why there's a new plant in Indiana capable of building about 60,000 Sequoias per year.
Aside from its 4.7-liter DOHC 32-valve V-8 -- 240 horsepower and 315 pound-feet of torque in this application -- the Sequoia has little in common with the Cruiser. It's much more closely related to the Tundra pickup, with which it shares production space at that new Indiana factory, and the forward half of its frame. Like its pickup-based counterparts from GM and Ford, the after portion of the Sequoia's chassis is sturdier to support the added cabin structure, including seating for eight. The unequal-length control-arm front suspension is essentially identical with the Tundra's, but the multilink rear is unique to the Sequoia. There are anti-roll bars at both ends, as well as standard vented disc brakes with anti-lock. /media/61/toyota-sequoia-photo-10986-s-inline-image.jpgp>
Also standard is Toyota's vehicle-skid-control system, which uses brake and throttle intervention to stabilize things when the system's brain perceives impending loss of control. Consistent with current trends, the Sequoia's four-wheel drive is engaged with a dashboard pushbutton and can be used full time, though low range still requires a separate transfer-case shifter. Neither the front nor rear differential locks, but in low range the center diff locks automatically when the driver snicks the four-speed automatic into low gear. The system also adds a new (to Toyota) four-wheel traction control, called A-TRAC, to help in slippery going. Like the Mercedes and BMW systems, A-TRAC uses selective braking to route power to the wheels (or wheel) that have road grip. /media/61/toyota-sequoia-photo-10986-s-inline-image.jpgp>
All this hardware seemed to function as advertised during a day of driving in the highlands of Montana, where Toyota's big SUV suggested a balance between ride and handling skewed toward crisp responses and competence on unpaved surfaces. Some may find the Sequoia a tad firm compared with its rivals. Some may find it a pleasant surprise. We'll have to wait for a formal test to venture our collective opinion. /media/61/toyota-sequoia-photo-10986-s-inline-image.jpgp>
VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, rear- or rear/4-wheel-drive, 8-passenger, 5-door wagon
ESTIMATED BASE PRICE: $32,000–$36,000
ENGINE TYPE: DOHC 32-valve V-8, iron block and aluminum heads, Toyota engine-control system with port fuel injection
Displacement: 285 cu in, 4664cc
Power (SAE net): 240 bhp @ 4800 rpm
Torque (SAE net): 315 lb-ft @ 3400 rpm
TRANSMISSION: 4-speed automatic with lockup torque converter
Wheelbase: 118.1 in Length: 203.9 in Width: 76.4–78.0 in Height: 73.0–74.0 in
Curb weight: 5100–5300 lb
MANUFACTURER’S ESTIMATED PERFORMANCE:
Zero to 60 mph: 9.4–9.8 sec
Standing 1/4-mile: 16.8–17.0 sec
Top speed (governor limited): 105 mph
PROJECTED FUEL ECONOMY:
EPA city driving: 14 mpg
EPA highway driving: 17–18 mpg


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Performs charge entry, posting of co-payments, training of registration and charge entry staff, quality improvement monitoring and auditing.
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Physician office and/or hospital experience required. CPT/ICD 9, front desk/receptionist experience.. Must be able to successfully complete IDX/Invision training based on established guidelines. Must be able to work with people, always poised, courteous, pleasing personality, good telephone voice and able to meet the public. Typing test required.
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Mission: To improve the health of people we touch
Vision: To be recognized locally, regionally and nationally as a premier health system
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The basic gist is that they don’t play well together out of the box. You can make them work if you’re willing to do a bit of fiddling and if you’re not afraid of the OS X command line. The first problem is that Apple decided that the new MBA SuperDrives should only be used […]
The Goal I have an old White 1602 knitting machine that uses a light scanner to produce patterns in the knit fabric. The bed of the knitting machine syncs up with the controller via two obsolete rotary encoders and the stitch patterns are produced as a sequence of pulses causes specific needles to be selected. […]
Since MacBooks don’t have serial ports, the only way to get serial port support in a Windows VM is to use a USB-to-Serial adapter. It turns out this wasn’t as straightforward as it should be.
This is the first article in a three-part series inspired by something I read in Scalability Rules: 50 Principals For Scaling Web Sites by Martin Abbott and Michael Fisher
The amount of time it took to figure out what I wanted my new blog to look like was astounding. Settling on WordPress as the blogging platform was easy. It was the next step where I found myself knee-deep in the weeds.


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ALGARVE RECCE A SUCCESS FOR PAINTING HOLIDAY 2015!
15/05/14I have just had a hectic but very positive 2 fantastic days painting in the wonderful fishing town of Olhao, out in the Algarve. This was a recce to meet the team who run 'Art in the Algarve' and get an idea of what goes on for next years painting holiday I will be tutoring there (29th April - 6th May 2015).
What can I say, an amazing venue, the last working fishing town on the Eastern Algarve. Beautiful seascapes, fishing boats and a town which is a maze of winding cobbled streets and weathered, colourful buildings.
Every where I looked there was subject matter, the light was incredible, the creative adrenalin was turned up to eleven and I managed to produce 6 plein air paintings in the two days! (see below)
The icing on the cake is wonderful accommodation, superb local food and art studio.
So if you fancy an epic painting holiday in the sun with more subject matter than you will know what to do with, please see their website (www.artinthealgarve.com) for full details and booking information for my course in May, and tell them Paul sent you!


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[Editor: This is part seven of the “Men who made Australia” series written by Professor Ernest Scott. This article is about Edward Gibbon Wakefield.]
Men who made Australia — No. 7
Two elopements and a colonising theory
By Professor Sir Ernest Scott
I have before me a shabby little brown book which was written 110 years ago by a young man who was “doing time” in Newgate prison, London. In this, its original form, it is a volume of some price, though in appearance it is not attractive.
But anyone who may care to read it without making excessive demands upon his purse may buy a cheap copy, carefully edited by Professor R. C. Mills, of Sydney University, who persuaded the publishers of the excellent “Everyman’s Library” to re-issue it.
Professor Mills is an eminent economist, the author of a first-class treatise on “The Colonisation of Australia.” In writing that book he had to study this expensive but dingy volume, which he has put forth anew in a comely modern dress.
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who wrote the book entitled “A Letter from Sydney, the Principal Town in New South Wales,” had not been shut up in Newgate for any offence like pocket-picking, burglary, highway robbery, or other vulgar forms of crime. He was more original. He specialised in the art of eloping with young ladies.
The first one whom he led astray was the daughter of an East Indian merchant into whose family he inveigled himself by pretending to like cock-fighting, a fancy which the girl’s two uncles, who were her guardians, adored. Wakefield hated cock-fighting, but he had a fancy for Eliza.
Seizing an opportunity — perhaps while the uncles were watching a pair of very game birds in the pit — the hawk carried off the dove; that is to say, Wakefield whisked the lass away to Scotland, and married her according to the law of that country. Eliza was a ward in Chancery, but Wakefield managed somehow, perhaps with the connivance of the sporting uncles, to avoid the possible consequences of eloping with a young lady who was under the protection of the court.
When Eliza died, within a year, Wakefield found another heiress who was also a ward in Chancery. But this time the young man “fell in,” to speak in our vernacular. The Lord Chancellor, in one of Gilbert’s comic operas sings a description of how
“In my court I sit all day
Giving agreeable girls away.”
Naturally, that is a function which a Lord Chancellor, who is nearly always a nice, paternal old gentleman, likes to keep in his own hands. So, after Wakefield had lured Miss Ellen Turner, “a pretty, genteel girl of 16,” away from a boarding school for young ladies near Liverpool to Gretna Green, where they were married by the famous blacksmith, and was even successful in conveying his bride to France for the honeymoon, the long, strong arm of the law reached out and clutched him. The marriage was annulled by a special Act of Parliament, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.
The political career which Wakefield had dreamt of pursuing in England now seemed to be made impossible. No man who had manoeuvred two elopements could have faced the free and independent electors of any constituency under the open voting system which then prevailed. Dead cats and rotten eggs were political arguments in those merry days.
But there might be a place for an ambitious and clever young man in one of the British colonies. Therefore, he began to read, while still a prisoner, all the literature about Australia that he could obtain. As he read, a new theory of colonisation began to form itself in his ingenious mind. That theory he sketched in the little book already mentioned, and it was worked out in greater detail, with elaborate argument, in the many books and articles which flowed from his facile pen in later years.
On the face of it, the “Letter From Sydney” was a glorious, superb, glittering hoax. Wakefield had never been in New South Wales. He had never set foot in any colony. He knew nothing about land settlement. But so cleverly did he produce the illusion of being an authoritative exponent of the errors of colonisation as then practised, and a clear-sighted advocate of the right way to do it, that he even persuaded clever and responsible persons that he was, as it were, a new Moses pointing from a Pisgah-peak to promised lands across the seas. Even the eminent historian Sir Spencer Walpole, in his “History of England From the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815,” Vol. VI., p. 360, says that “the Letter was written from Sydney.” Wakefield was never in Sydney at any time.
And yet, how seductive was the picture he painted of the people and the country he had not seen! “The native Australians,” said he, “bear a stronger resemblance to the modern Greeks than to any other people.” The climate had done it. “The Australian youth are neither chubby, ruddy, nor strongly knit, like the English, whose otherwise variable climate is almost constantly wet; nor fat, white, thick-skinned, like the Dutch, whose climate is one fog, dripping or frozen; nor indescribable, like the mongrel French, whose climate is neither one thing nor the other.” The young men made him feel “envious and jealous of their personal beauty.” And the girls! There are several pages of rhapsody about them from the pen of this expert. They were “lively, imaginative, enthusiastic, and very loving,” while when bathing they reminded him of the sculptor Flaxman’s sea-nymphs.
Wakefield’s masterpiece in this intriguing volume was his description of the pathetic scene when, departing from England, he bade farewell to his grandmother. “Poor old soul! she shed abundance of tears, and then became extremely curious to know every particular about the place to which I was going. I rubbed her spectacles while she wiped her eyes.” He pointed out the situation of New Holland on the map. She shook her head. “‘What displeases you, dear madam?’ said I. ‘Why,’ she answered, ‘It is terribly out of the way — down in the very right-hand corner of the world!’ Wakefield really did raise leg-pulling to the dignity of a fine art.
But the essence of the book — and it pervaded his voluminous later writings — was Wakefield’s new theory of colonisation. That theory was, in principle, simple, and apparently reasonable. It was wrong only when attempts were made to give effect to it, and in one instance it was very mischievous.
Land in a newly-colonised country, Wakefield argued, should never be given away, it should always be sold, at a uniform fixed price, or what he called the “sufficient price.” Sufficient for what? Sufficiently cheap to tempt men with some capital to emigrate, buy land, and bring laborers, but yet sufficiently dear to prevent the laborers from becoming landowners too soon. If land were given away by crown grant, there would not be a strong inducement for the owners to make the best use of it. If it were sold at too low a price, laborers would become landowners too easily, and the labor supply would run short. If it were sold at too high a price, it would be unremunerative, and nobody would want to buy it.
The “sufficient price,” then, would be one which would attract capital to the colony, and enable the landowners to make economic use of the land, and would at the same time hinder the laborers from becoming landowners themselves, because their labor was necessary for development.
The price was also to be “fixed” and “uniform.” What was a proper price would be determined by experiment, but once the price was fixed it would apply throughout the colony irrespective of the quality of the land or its situation. Thus, when under the Wakefield influence, the “fixed uniform price” was ordered to prevail in the Port Phillip District, all land was to be sold for £1 an acre. And that is why Henry Dendy obtained eight square miles in what became the suburb of Melbourne which he called Brighton; and why seven other persons at the same time bought eight square miles each in other parts of what is now the State of Victoria.
It was absurd, of course; and Dendy’s coup put an end to the lunacy. But anybody then could have bought the places hereafter to be named Ballarat and Bendigo for £1 an acre, and there was no law to prevent them from owning what lay glittering beneath the surface of those richly auriferous areas. Under the pressure of influential opinion in England, where Wakefield’s theory gained an extraordinary vogue, the Colonial Office, with Lord John Russell at the head of it, went stark, staring Wakefieldan, though one or two of the higher officials saw through the fallacy.
What happened in Western Australia was tragic. Mr. Thomas Peel had come seriously to grief with his attempt to colonise there, because his laborers deserted him. That example seemed to show that Wakefield was right. But after Peel’s failure Western Australia was getting along well enough, and would have made progress steadily as its immense resources were opened up. But when the uniform price of £1 an acre for land was imposed by the Colonial Office, that was too much to pay for the land available at that time, because an immigrant could buy to Port Phillip or New South Wales land which would give him a higher immediate return.
Consequently the “fixed, uniform price” prevented Western Australia from offering cheaper land, which would have attracted immigrants. The young colony thereupon fell on desperately bad times, and felt compelled to consent to receive convict labor after the rest of Australia had ceased to endure it. That setback was due to the enforcement of the Wakefieldian system.
It is true that the foundation of South Australia was due primarily to the exertions of Wakefieldian enthusiasts who accepted the gospel as a new, inspired evangel; and to that colony we will return in the next article of this series. Of the Canterbury settlement something may now be said.
The opportunity of playing an active part in the foundation of a new colony, and of living in one, came to Wakefield 20 years after the publication of his first famous book. The New Zealand Canterbury Settlement was formed as a Church of England colony, under the auspices of an association which had two archbishops and seven bishops among its members. The colonists were carefully selected. He assiduously watched over its interests in the early years, and in 1853, five years after its establishment, went out to New Zealand himself. The one very good thing which he did there was to bring about the provision of reserves of territory for the Maories. They have been maintained ever since. He took an active part in New Zealand politics at the time of the inauguration of responsible government and after, but was not a success as a practical politician, especially as he fell foul of that strong-minded Governor Sir George Grey. Nor was his “system” successful there either. It did not “work” in New Zealand, nor anywhere else.
Governor Sir George Gipps, a most able man, who had to wrestle with the complicated land question in New South Wales, not as an ingenious though in-informed theorist, but as a practical statesman, knocked the Wakefieldian system sky-high in the masterly “Memorandum on Disposal of Lands in Australia,” which he hurled at the Colonial Office in 1840. He showed that not one-hundredth part of the land sold by the Government to Australia was bought with the intention of cultivating it, and that to apply to a pastoral country a theory designed for a country of intense cultivation would be simply absurd.
It is strange that few of those who have written about Wakefield in recent years show any knowledge of Gipps’s Memorandum. Professor S. H. Roberts is a notable exception. He handles Wakefield and Gipps’s analysis in his fascinating book “The Squatting Age in Australia,” and leaves the colonising theorist scarcely a feather to fly with.
The importance of Wakefield lies not in his colonisation theories themselves, since they were proved to be unsound when endeavors were made to give effect to them, and since, moreover, they were not based upon knowledge of the great differences between lands in undeveloped countries, but in his power of persuasion, which induced many influential people to believe that his theories were right. Hence he became closely associated with the foundation of new colonies.
Western Australia, after the failure of Peel’s ruinous experiment, obtained a fresh start under Wakefieldian impulse. South Australia was founded largely by those who fervently believed in Wakefield’s new gospel. Otago, in New Zealand, and still more Canterbury, sprang from the Wakefieidian movement. The Earl Grey of the period, in a speech is the House of Lords, described Wakefield as “a very clever projector whose talents could not be denied, but whose cleverness was not accompanied by other qualities quite as necessary to make him a safe and trustworthy guide.’’ True; but how many wiser men in his generation accomplished as much as he did through his ingenuity, persuasiveness, and persistency? Epitaphs always exude exaltation: but if a true one were desired for this remarkable man, it might be found in one sentence written by the New Zealand statesman, Pember , Reeves — “He found information and ideas for personages who had neither, and became an adept at pulling strings and manipulating mediocrities.’’
The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Saturday 1 July 1939, page 24


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Scoping the Demand for Night Operation of Essex & Herts Air Ambulance: A Prospective Observational Study
journal contributionposted on 2023-07-26, 15:12 authored by Sarah McLachlan, Hilary Bungay, Scott Wallman, Michael D. Christian, Erica Ley, Ronan Fenton
Objective: Helicopter emergency medical services play an important role in the prehospital care of critically ill and injured patients, providing enhanced interventions and direct transfer to specialist centers. Essex & Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) delivers prehospital critical care to patients in Essex, Hertfordshire, and the surrounding areas. Historically, EHAAT's resources have not operated during the night. This study aimed to ascertain demand for prehospital critical care in Essex and Hertfordshire during night hours. Methods: A prospective observational design was used. Data were collected by 11 critical care paramedics during night shifts on a critical care desk using an online survey. Details were recorded for incidents in Essex and Hertfordshire between 21:00 and 07:00 deemed appropriate for a prehospital critical care response. Results: A total of 108 incidents were recorded across 52 nights, equating to an average of 2.08 incidents per night. For 52 incidents, there was no critical care resource available to attend. The majority of incidents fell in closer proximity to EHAAT's North Weald base than its Earls Colne base. Conclusion: The findings suggest a potential need for prehospital critical care during night hours in Essex and Hertfordshire and support the operation of a resource from EHAAT's North Weald base.
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The critical study of the life of Jesus has been for theology a school of honesty.
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But it was not only each epoch that found its reflection in Jesus; each individual created Him in accordance with his own character. There is no historical task which so reveals a man’s true self as the writing of a Life of Jesus. No vital force comes into the figure unless a man breathes into it all the hate or all the love of which he is capable. The stronger the love, or the stronger the hate, the more life-like is the figure which is produced. For hate as well as love can write a Life of Jesus, and the greatest of them are written with hate: that of Reimarus, the Wolfenbüttel Fragmentist, and that of David Friedrich Strauss. It was not so much hate of the Person of Jesus as of the supernatural nimbus with which it was so easy to surround Him, and with which He had in fact been surrounded. They were eager to picture Him as truly and purely human, to strip from Him the robes of splendour with which He had been apparelled, and clothe Him once more with the coarse garments in which He had walked in Galilee.
And their hate sharpened their historical insight. They advanced the study of the subject more than all the others put together. But for the offence which they gave, the science of historical theology would not have stood where it does to-day. “It must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh.” Reimarus evaded that woe by keeping the offence to himself and preserving silence during his lifetime—his work, “The Aims of Jesus and His Disciples,” was only published after his death, by Lessing. But in the case of Strauss, who, as a young man of twenty-seven, cast the offence openly in the face of the world, the woe fulfilled itself. His “Life of Jesus” was his ruin. But he did not cease to be proud of it in spite of all the misfortune that it brought him. “I might well bear a grudge against my book,” he writes twenty-five years later in the preface to the “Conversations of Ulrich von Hutten,” “for it has done me much evil (‘And rightly so!’ the pious will exclaim). It has excluded me from public teaching in which I took pleasure and for which I had perhaps some talent; it has torn me from natural relationships and driven me into unnatural ones; it has made my life a lonely one. And yet when I consider what it would have meant if I had refused to utter the word which lay upon my soul, if I had suppressed the doubts which were at work in my mind—then I bless the book which has doubtless done me grievous harm outwardly, but which preserved the inward health of my mind and heart, and, I doubt not, has done the same for many others also.”
Before him, Bahrdt had his career broken in consequence of revealing his beliefs concerning the Life of Jesus; and after him, Bruno Bauer.
It was easy for them, resolved as they were to open the way even with seeming blasphemy. But the others, those who tried to bring Jesus to life at the call of love, found it a cruel task to be honest. The critical study of the life of Jesus has been for theology a school of honesty. The world had never seen before, and will never see again, a struggle for truth so full of pain and renunciation as that of which the Lives of Jesus of the last hundred years contain the cryptic record. One must lead the successive Lives of Jesus with which Hase followed the course of the study from the twenties to the seventies of the nineteenth century to get an inkling of what it must have cost the men who lived through that decisive period really to maintain that “courageous freedom of investigation” which the great Jena professor, in the preface to his first Life of Jesus, claims for his researches. One sees in him the marks of the struggle with which he gives up, bit by bit, things which, when he wrote that preface, he never dreamed he would have to surrender. It was fortunate for these men that their sympathies sometimes obscured their critical vision, so that, without becoming insincere, they were able to take white clouds for distant mountains. That was the kindly fate of Hase and Beyschlag.
 D. Fr. Strauss, Gespräche van Ulrich von Hutten. Leipzig, 1860.
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