I am pleased to present the company's annual report and financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2016.
The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Inland Homes 2013 Limited which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Inland Homes plc and was established solely for the purpose of issuing and redeeming ZDP shares. 8,500,000 and 849,900 ZDP shares were issued on 14 December 2012 at 100p per share and 23 January 2013 at 103p per share respectively and 934,900 ZDP shares were placed on 14 March 2014 at 118.5p per share. A further 1,028,400 shares were issued on 20 August 2015 at 131p per share. They will redeem on 10 April 2019 at a price of 155.9p per ZDP share giving a redemption yield of 7.3% per annum on the first placing, 6.92% per annum on the second, 5.57% per annum on the third and 4.90% on the fourth. The proceeds of the ZDP share issues were lent to Inland Homes plc for use in future investment opportunities.
As at 30 June 2016 the ZDP share price was 139p (2015: 132.75p), representing a premium of 7.65% (2015: 10.36%) over the net asset value per ZDP share of 129.12p (2015: 120.29p).
The loan and contribution agreements between the company and Inland contain certain protections for the company which are intended to benefit its ZDP shareholders. These include first charges over pledged assets (property) and pledged cash in a charged bank account. The pledged assets must have a book value of at least 120% of the accrued value of the ZDP shares net of the pledged cash. As at 30 June 2016, the accrued amount due to ZDP shareholders was £14,607,130 (2015: £12,371,867), the pledged cash was £10,800,000 (2015: £21,000,000) and the pledged assets had a book value of £20,785,430 (2015: £18,769,671), thereby satisfying this requirement.
The loan agreement also contained two covenants relating to asset cover and gearing, both of which are shown below as at 30 June 2016. The definitions of Assets and Financial Indebtedness are set out in the prospectus published in connection with the issue of the ZDP shares which is available at www.inlandhomes.co.uk/inland-zdp-plc.
The gearing ratio should not exceed 40% so this covenant was also satisfied at 30 June 2016.
The board believes that the use of book values is generally conservative, because a substantial proportion of the group's assets are properties for which planning consents are sought. The planning process takes time and any progress towards reaching the stage when building can commence is not reflected in an increase in the book values beyond the costs attributable to the relevant sites, whereas any diminution in value is reflected by way of impairment provisions, such that planning gains are not generally recognised in Inland's financial statements until sales are contracted. If the covenant ratios were to be calculated by reference to the market values of the assets, the cover would be higher and the gearing lower.
The principal accounting policies adopted in the preparation of the financial statements are set out below.
The financial information has been prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 and International Financial Reporting Standards ('IFRS') as adopted by the European Union. The financial information comprises the Statement of Financial Position as at 30 June 2016 and, for the year ended 30 June 2016, the related Statement of Comprehensive Income, Statement of Changes in Equity, Statement of Cash Flows and related notes hereinafter referred to as 'financial information'. The principal accounting policies adopted by the company are set out below.
The accounting policies that have been applied in the opening Statement of Financial Position have also been applied throughout all periods presented in these financial statements. These accounting policies comply with each IFRS that is mandatory for accounting periods ending on 30 June 2016.
At the date of approval of these financial statements, certain new standards, amendments and interpretations to existing standards have been published by the IASB but are not yet effective, and have not been adopted early by the company.
Management anticipates that all of the relevant pronouncements will be adopted in the company's accounting policies for the first period beginning after the effective date of the pronouncement. Information on new standards, amendments and interpretations that are expected to be relevant to the company's financial statements is provided below.
Certain other new standards and interpretations have been issued but are not expected to have a material impact on the company's financial statements.
Interest income is recognised in revenue using the effective interest method on an accruals basis.
All expenses are borne by the company's parent company, Inland Homes plc.
Zero dividend preference shares are recognised as liabilities in the Statement of Financial Position in accordance with IAS 32 Financial Instruments: Presentation. After initial recognition, these liabilities are measured at amortised cost, which represents the initial proceeds of the issuance plus the accrued entitlement to 30 June 2016.
Intercompany receivables are recognised as assets in the Statement of Financial Position in accordance with IAS 32 Financial Instruments: Presentation. After initial recognition they are measured at amortised cost which represents the initial loan plus the accrued interest receivable at the reporting date.
Finance costs are calculated as the difference between the proceeds on the issue of zero dividend preference shares and the final liability and are charged as finance costs over the term of the life of these shares using the effective interest method.
Taxation deferred or accelerated can arise due to temporary differences between treatment of certain items for accounting and taxation purposes. Full provision for deferred taxation is made under the liability method, without discounting, on all temporary differences that have arisen, but not reversed, by the reporting date.
- 'Share capital' represents the nominal value of equity shares.
Estimates and judgements used in preparing the financial statements are continually evaluated and are based on historical experience and other factors, including expectations of future events that are believed reasonable. The resulting estimates will, by definition, seldom equal the related actual results.
The company does not consider that there have been any significant estimates or assumptions in the current financial year.
In accordance with IFRS8, information is disclosed to enable the users of financial statements to evaluate the nature and financial effects of the business activities in which the company engages. The board has identified that the sole operating segment is to provide the final capital entitlement of the company's ZDP shares to the holders of the ZDP shares at the repayment date of 10 April 2019. Consequently, all information presented in these financial statements relate to that segment.
Administration expenses of £nil were suffered during the period (2015: £nil). All administration expenses, including auditor's remuneration, during the period were borne by the ultimate parent company, Inland Homes plc. The directors received no remuneration for their services in relation to ZDP. Further disclosures with regards to the auditors remuneration can be found in the group financial statements.
The calculation of earnings per share is based on a profit after tax figure for the period of £nil (2015: £nil) and the weighted average number of 50,000 ordinary shares in issue during the period. The basic and diluted earnings per share are the same.
Details of the terms of the issue of the ZDP shares can be found in the Chairman's Statement.
All ordinary shares are owned by the company's parent company, Inland Homes 2013 Limited.
Each ordinary share is entitled to one vote at a general meeting.
In addition to receiving any income distributed by way of dividend, the ordinary shareholders will be entitled to all surplus assets after payment of all debts, including the ZDP shares.
The company's financial instruments comprise fixed interest creditors classified as financial liabilities at amortised cost and loans and receivables.
The main risks arising from the company's financial instruments are liquidity risk and funding risk and credit risk.
This is the risk that the company will encounter difficulty in meeting obligations associated with financial liabilities.
Liquidity risk is considered to be significant as the company is reliant upon repayment from its ultimate parent company. The parent company manages liquidity risk by maintaining sufficient cash balances and ensuring availability of funding through an adequate amount of credit facilities. The parent company aims to maintain flexibility in funding by keeping credit lines available.
This is the risk that a counterparty to a financial instrument will fail to discharge an obligation or commitment that it has entered with the company. Credit risk is managed by way of a security over the loan. The security relates to pledged assets (property) and pledged cash in a charged bank account.
The directors consider the carrying amounts to be a reasonable approximation of fair value.
- Level 3: inputs for the liability that are not based on observable market data (unobservable inputs).
The level within which the financial liability is classified is determined based on the lowest level of significant input to the fair value measurement.
The ZDP shares are carried at their accrued value of 129.12p per share (2015: 120.29p) however their closing price on the main market of the London Stock Exchange on 30 June 2016 was 139.0p (2015: 132.75p). During the year 1,028,400 (2015: nil) shares were issued at a price of 131p (2015: 0p) per share.
- to ensure sufficient liquid resources are available to meet the funding requirement of its ZDP shareholders.
The loan to Inland Homes plc is interest free and is repayable on the ZDP repayment date or immediately upon an event of default. At 30 June 2016, the loan to the ultimate parent company was £14,657,000 (2015: £12,422,000).
On 23 September 2016 Inland ZDP plc issued 1,131,000 new zero dividend preference shares of 10 pence each at a price of 139 pence each. They were admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange plc's main market on 28 September 2016. Net proceeds of this issue were approximately £1.57m.
The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Inland Homes 2013 Limited which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Inland Homes plc, a listed company whose shares are traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. Copies of its accounts for the year ended 30 June 2016 will shortly be available to view on Inland's website (www.inlandhomes.co.uk).
The Directors are the persons responsible for the full annual report and financial statements.
· the Strategic Report and the Report of the Directors includes a fair review of the development and performance of the business and the position of the Company together with a description of the principal risks and uncertainties it faces.
The statutory financial statements have been audited by BDO LLP and their report was unqualified.
The financial information for the year ended 30 June 2016 and the year ended 30 June 2015 does not constitute the company's statutory accounts for those years.
Statutory accounts for the year ended 30 June 2015 have been delivered to the Registrar of Companies. The statutory accounts for the year ended 30 June 2016 will be delivered to the registrar of companies in due course.
The auditors' reports on the accounts for 30 June 2016 and 30 June 2015 were unqualified, did not draw attention to any matters by way of emphasis, and did not contain a statement under 498(2) or 498(3) of the Companies Act 2006.


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Women's Rights in China
Dramatic changes in women's rights have been achieved in a culture where for millennia women were stereotyped as inferior to men, had no rights and served as slaves, concubines and prostitutes. Marriages were arranged—sometimes at infancy.
In 1949, foot binding was abolished and the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) was formed and supported by the Communist Party. Change in China, as in the United States, has been a painful evolutionary process. However, the struggle to gain equality appears to have moved faster than the United States where the women's rights movement started in 1848 and still isn't over.
10th National Women's Congress in China
At the 10th National Women's Congress in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, in 2008, Deputy-Chairwoman Huang Qingyi said, "Sex discrimination in employment should be eradicated and the income gap between men and women should be further narrowed."
It was also been reported that domestic violence is a severe threat to women. Chinese authorities reported 50,000 complaints annually, according to figures released by the ACWF. The domestic violence fact sheet shows this is also a problem in the United States.
Sexual discrimination was supposed to have been abolished in China back in 1949, when Chairman Mao Zedong famously announced, "women hold up half the sky", but it wasn't. It has only been a few years since China outlawed sexual harassment.
Today, statistics show China has about 27,000 women and children's rights protection agencies.
Discover Changing Times for Women's Rights
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Home Cinematography & Cameras Red Epic-W (3200 ISO) Insanely Dark Inside A Saw Mill by FPW...
Red Epic-W (3200 ISO) Insanely Dark Inside A Saw Mill by FPW Media
Watch the video here on Youtube
Adam Plantenburg: Nice…
Owen Garitty: Nice…
Adam: You want me to smile at the camera? Be stoic? Just chill?
Owen Garitty and Adam Plantenburg of FPW Media
Owen: Are you going to do the [makes a serious face] Hold on, should I have my tea? Probably.
I've been sitting here for 15 minutes trying to figure out how to intro this video, so…here's the intro to the video…I'm Owen with FPW Media.
Adam: I'm Adam from FPW Media.
Owen: And we're here to talk about a video we recently did called I AM APEX for Timber Products Company specifically for their Ampine division, specifically when they came to us about launching their new product Apex, which is a composite panel product. We really worked hard and thought about how can we make that visually interesting?
We decided to have the story of the production of one of these panels be told from the perspective of the panel. So we shot the whole project on a Red camera. We shot on a Red Epic W and a Red Epic Dragon.
What is really interesting is that the mills are really, really, really dark. Like…you can attest to this…
Adam: Insanely dark!
Owen: Insanely dark. So we shot most of it at 3200 ISO (I think)?
Adam: Yeah.
Owen: Is that right? That seems about right, yeah. Which is nuts. And I mean, it looked fantastic. We shot it mostly on Canon still glass L series lenses, with a cinema lens here and there thrown in. I'd say it's an artistic decision but it was also driven by necessity but it was really awesome how it worked out in that the lighting…we knew that going in lighting was going to be a huge problem. We've shot in a lot of mills before so we decided to embrace that lighting was going to be a challenge and actually psychically show a lot of our lights in the shots because in the mills there are all sorts of different lights that are different bulbs, different color temperatures, and we knew that we were going to have no control over that.
Adam: Yeah, because a lot of the times it looked like what we're shooting is a spot that needs to be examined anyways, so it could be a light that's spotted on there for a specific reason.
Owen: Right. So probably one of the hardest shots (I would say from a safety perspective and just like a planning perspective) was our shots in the furnished room where the dust comes in and the furnish comes into be made into the board and the graded footage (you can't really tell) but there it was so dusty that when they were moving, it was probably like a whiteout almost. I mean, Adam was basically…and I don't actually know, were you behind me?
Adam: Yeah, so I had one hand on your safety vest just kind of pulling you around, making sure that you didn't run into anything. That if the loader was coming at you, we weren't too close and then at one point your safety glasses fell off and you must have just been filming blind essentially.
Owen: I basically was. I mean it was like I kind of knew where I could see where the loader was and I could kind of see the camera, but I was just imaging the framing because I couldn't even see the screen because the screen got completely covered over with dust at one point, but it turned out really well.
Adam: And as soon as the take was over it would be us running out putting the camera on the stand and then just blowing it off like crazy…
Owen: Oh, no! Where did Adam go? I'm sitting here with Jake, our senior editor at FPW Media to talk about the post-production process on I AM APEX. Jake do you want to kind of take us through our last product shot where we get back into the narrative?
Jake Sullivan: Yeah, and sometimes that's great because that one was actually really easy. That was kind of borne out of the camera movement and then all I had to do was really dip to black there and pay close attention to where we were making the actual cut in both of those.
Owen: And we kind of threw you a curveball in that one a little bit because that part of the project wasn't shot until almost the whole edit was done, I would say so you had this kind of gaping hole for most of the edit where those product shots were supposedly going to go.
Jake: And those were also kind of fun because we had a lot of visual effects to cover things that we couldn't get in camera.
Owen: So you added more fire, what else?
Jake: More fire in the studio is kind of hard to not light things on fire [laughs]…so…
Owen: Right. And then on the moisture scene, you added a couple layers in front? Or how did that work?
Jake: I added a couple layers of smoke in front and then I masked out the actual piece and added a couple behind it to give that sense of depth that it has.
Owen: All and all, I think it is one of the projects that I'm most proud of. We had a blast filming it and if anybody has any questions about the production or the gear we used or anything like that, please reach out to us and make sure to watch the video in full. Thanks for watching!
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Batman fans! Watch the campaign video here on GoFundMe and check out the story behind the music from the 1966 "Batman" Television Series
THE BEAT OF THE BAT is a full-length documentary that tells the story of the music of the 1966 "Batman" Television Series and how composers Neal Hefti, Nelson Riddle & Billy May gave Batman his first real musical identity- and one that has remained inexorably tied to the character for over 50 years!
In fact, if you saw the just released "Lego Batman Movie" you might have noticed the numerous references to the music of the TV series.
And face it, you can go up to anyone, anywhere in the world and sing "Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na!" and they will instantly know what you are talking about!
The music was as important to the show as the bright colors, campy dialogue and tongue-in-cheek performances. Yet, strangely, the story of how it came to be has never been told… Until now.
Watch EXODUS on iTunes starting April 18th, 2017
EXODUS documents the journey of Syrian refugees as they cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey into Greece. In the winter of 2015, over three thousand refugees attempted this treacherous crossing everyday, all in hope of seeking asylum in the European Union. It's a life and death gamble that they are willing to take, all for a chance at a new life away from their war-torn homeland.
Watch FREAK OUT on iTunes here!
FREAK OUT: Matan, a soldier in the IDF, sets off for a week of patrolling in a remote base in the north of Israel with three soldiers whom he doesn't know. As the week progresses, the soldiers begin to question whether they will come out of this experience alive.
Watch THE HOLLY KANE EXPERIMENT on iTunes here!
THE HOLLY KANE EXPERIMENT: An obsessive psychologist attempts to reprogram her subconscious mind, but when her actions become increasingly uncharacteristic she fears her experiment is dangerously out of control.
Watch the video here about filmmaker Roee Messinger and his desire to create this powerful documentary film
AMERICAN TRIAL seeks to discover what a trial in the Eric Garner case might have taught us. How is our legal system designed to handle cases such as Garner's? What verdict may have been returned after all the evidence was presented? More importantly, what conversations, perspectives and emotions went unexamined because of the grand jury's decision?
Similarly to fiction courtroom dramas, the lead characters of this documentary will be the attorneys leading the prosecution and the defense. Our camera will capture them as they develop their public arguments and individual positions. How do they decide which witnesses to summon? How do they prepare for their court appearance? Are there any discrepancies between their systemic role and their true feelings regarding the case?
The film will also follow a news crews covering the trial and reporting on race relations in America within the context of the trial and the movement for black lives. They will travel across America to discover what public figures, intellectuals and activists think about the Eric Garner case, as well as other similar cases through the prism of racial relations in the United States.
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package org.LexGrid.LexBIG.gridTests.function.query;

// LexBIG Test ID: T1_FNC_34	TestRetrieveConceptandAttributesbyCode

import org.LexGrid.LexBIG.DataModel.Core.ResolvedConceptReference;
import org.LexGrid.LexBIG.Exceptions.LBException;
import org.LexGrid.LexBIG.gridTests.LexBIGServiceTestCase;
import org.LexGrid.LexBIG.gridTests.testUtility.ServiceHolder;
import org.LexGrid.LexBIG.LexBIGService.CodedNodeSet;
import org.LexGrid.LexBIG.Utility.Constructors;

/**
 * The Class TestRetrieveConceptandAttributesbyCode.
 */
public class TestRetrieveConceptandAttributesbyCode extends LexBIGServiceTestCase
{
    final static String testID = "testRetrieveConceptandAttributesbyCode";

    @Override
    protected String getTestID()
    {
        return testID;
    }

    /**
     * Test retrieve conceptand attributesby code.
     *
     * @throws LBException the LB exception
     */
    public void testRetrieveConceptandAttributesbyCode() throws LBException
    {

        CodedNodeSet cns = ServiceHolder.instance().getLexBIGService()
                .getCodingSchemeConcepts(THES_SCHEME, null);
        cns = cns.restrictToCodes(Constructors.createConceptReferenceList(new String[]{"C12237"}, THES_SCHEME));

        ResolvedConceptReference[] rcr = cns.resolveToList(null, Constructors.createLocalNameList("Semantic_Type"), null, 0)
                .getResolvedConceptReference();

        assertTrue(rcr.length == 1);
        assertTrue(rcr[0].getConceptCode().equals("C12237"));
        assertTrue(rcr[0].getReferencedEntry().getPropertyCount() == 1);
        assertTrue(rcr[0].getReferencedEntry().getProperty()[0].getPropertyName().equals("Semantic_Type"));

        cns = ServiceHolder.instance().getLexBIGService().getCodingSchemeConcepts(THES_SCHEME, null);
        cns = cns.restrictToCodes(Constructors.createConceptReferenceList(new String[]{"invalidCode"}, THES_SCHEME));

        rcr = cns.resolveToList(null, Constructors.createLocalNameList("Semantic_Type"), null, 0)
                .getResolvedConceptReference();

        assertTrue(rcr.length == 0);

        assertFalse(cns.isCodeInSet(Constructors.createConceptReference("invalidCode", THES_SCHEME)).booleanValue());

    }

}

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As much as I like the band, this show is pretty poor. Mick Taylor's bottleneck paired with Bobby's bottleneck didn't add much to Little Red Rooster, and neither Suzanne Vega nor Hall and Oates are artists known for improvisational skills - and so are not artists Deadheads would typically listen too much. Both Vega and H&O played their numbers straight - nothing fancy here.
By the way, whoever mislead Phil into thinking he could sing? Yikes! He has been known to miraculously pull off Box of Rain, but this eveninig it was typically awful.
Special guest rythmnatist Baba Olatuni's drumming was very tasty, but what was that stuff he was babbling in his native language durring Drumz?
Sorry guys, you were not 'on' this evening.
"By the way, whoever mislead Phil into thinking he could sing?"
Apparently you missed all the "let Phil sing chants"....so we did. But I tend to agree with your sentiment about his singing and this show. I do like Tom Thumb and Broken Arrow FWIW.
Phils voice has gotten a little better these days, but yeah, it isn't the most pleasant sounding voice on the planet. But it was really cool to hear Phil do Whats Become of the Baby last summer in Cali, so i can't complain too much about his voice. Rock on Phil!


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Home MMA News Francis Ngannou Ciryl Gane believes a win over Junior dos Santos earn him a...
Ciryl Gane believes a win over Junior dos Santos earn him a fight against Francis Ngannou
Image via @ciryl_gane on Instagram
Ciryl Gane expects to fight former teammate, Francis Ngannou in the very near future.
Gane is considered the top heavyweight prospect and will get his toughest test against Junior dos Santos at UFC 256. It is a very intriguing matchup and if Gane wins, he believes it sets him up to fight Ngannou.
"I think now, the division, for me, if I win against Junior, it's going to be really close in the top-10. You understand it. We can't avoid it," Gane said to The Bash MMA. "It's something that's will happen anyway, we cannot avoid that fight anyway. It is a sport, it is normal."
Although Gane and Ngannou are former teammates, the undefeated prospect says he isn't too close with the top contender. Instead, they have only trained a few times. So, if they end up fighting, it will not be awkward for him.
"No, because when I arrived at the gym, Francis had already left for Vegas," Gane explained. "I saw Francis a few times when he came back to Paris to prepare for a fight. So, no, I'm not close to Francis now."
Ciryl Gane is currently 6-0 as a pro but has not fought since last December when he defeated Tanner Boser by decision. Before that, he submitted Don'Tale Mayes by heel hook and in his UFC debut, submitted Raphael Pessoa. The Frenchman is also the former TKO heavyweight champion and won the belt in his pro debut. After defending it twice, he was signed to the Las Vegas-based promotion.
Francis Ngannou, meanwhile, is on a four-fight winning streak and coming off a 20-second KO over Jairzinho Rozenstruik. He is set to fight for the belt, however, the fight has still not been made and the contender is growing frustrated with the lack of fights. So, depending on when Miocic will be ready, perhaps he entertains a fight against Gane.
Would you like to see Ciryl Gane vs. Francis Ngannou?


Who would have ever thought that APC would have a blog committee? Well, don't think too hard about it because here we are! What better way to reach audiences than a fun employee-run blog that will supply more information, resources, and ideas, with a variety of interesting opinions on relevant topics as well as many other awesome reads?
As we all anxiously arrived to our first blog meeting, sitting around the large, somewhat intimidating black conference table, with our pen and paper ready and ideas galore, what would come of this meeting? Our ultimate goal, which you will see in upcoming blog entries, is to create a place to share our collective experiences at APC, whether it be through a blog about working in mental health, sharing community resources for families, keeping you up to date on agency events, or just having a good time getting to know one another.
This blog journey is pretty new to all of us and we welcome any feedback and all levels of experience. And guess what? You don't even have to be on the committee to contribute! If you want to submit a blog entry or have specific topics you'd like featured, please email co-chair Kaprice Gilbert at kgilbert@altlig.com.
Be sure to give credit where it's due: cite your sources if borrowing from someone else!
Be mindful of language– think PG-ratings!
Hey! That's what it's all about, right? Please comment with any suggestions regarding article topics below, and don't forget to reach out if you have the itch to write something. We can't wait to hear from you!
This is a very interesting topic. Thank you for the feedback Charles and make sure you check out our future post!
Thank you!! Make sure you come back for future post!


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Banks losing traders to hedge funds as headhunters cash-in on fees
by Sarah Butcher 25 March 2021
If you're a headhunter trying to make money in the current market, you really want to work for hedge funds rather than for investment banks. While banks are hiring, hedge funds are on fire - and they pay much higher fees.
"Hedge funds are where the money is now," says one headhunter working in London. "Their fees are obscene compared to banks. You can earn $250k moving a single trader."
In the wake of bonus payments, recent weeks have seen a rush of senior traders and securities professionals from banks moving to the hedge fund sector. Stacy Selig, Goldman's former co-head of global sales strats is joining Millennium as deputy chief operating officer. Tom Leake, Goldman's former head of equity structuring for EMEA is joining Capstone Investment Advisors as head of solutions, based in their London office in September. Kiran Shah, former head of flow equity derivatives trading at Citi in London, has gone to Verition Fund Management.
After excellent returns in 2020, headhunters working with hedge funds said their appetite for talent globally is unusually strong. "Hiring is through the roof," said one. "This is the busiest it's been for at least a decade. - The big funds are hiring everywhere, in London, the U.S., Asia, and they're prepared to be innovative about how they bring people in - whether it's seeding new funds, or running money. They're also being more imaginative around stop losses. They have the capital, they just need good people to run it."
When headhunters persuade banks' traders to join hedge funds they don't get paid immediately. "I only make money if they make money," says the headhunter. Typically, the placement fee is paid based on the trader's performance on the first year: headhunters are on a percentage deal, although the fee is usually capped before it becomes astronomical.
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Willow had to have two brain surgeries in order to remove all of the tumour tissue.
One year after Katrina Nelson's 11-month-old daughter Willow was diagnosed with brain cancer, she is in remission.
"I'm smiling back at all of the things because I never thought we would be here today," Nelson, 24, said. "It's a miracle. It really is a miracle, when they told us she was cancer free I didn't believe it."
In March of 2016 Nelson thought Willow either had the flu or was teething. But as the days went by Willow got worse instead of better.
"She went from being an 11-month-old baby to a four-month-old," Nelson said. "She wouldn't sit up, she wouldn't crawl, she wasn't standing, she had no energy, she wasn't eating."
The doctor at the walk-in clinic told her to go home and try Gravol. Nelson also took Willow to the optometrist because one of her eyes looked a little bit lazy, but they also said it was nothing. So she went home thinking everything was fine.
"She breast fed and she was feeding from me and she just kept puking up my milk," Nelson said. "She couldn't keep anything down."
At that point Nelson also noticed a sore at the back of Willow's throat. She was momentarily relieved, finally something to show the doctor and blame the sickness on.
Nelson rushed Willow to the emergency room where they saw the pediatrician. He ran blood work and took an x-ray of her stomach. Everything was normal.
The sore at the back of Willow's throat was nothing but a canker sore.
And then he discovered a bulge in the soft spot on Willow's head.
"I thought that was completely normal because I'd been looking for that too," Nelson said. "But I thought that because she's coming up on a year, they (soft spots) generally close from like a year to two years, so I never thought anything of it."
Nelson and Willow stayed at the hospital overnight. The next morning the doctor did an ultrasound and found fluid build up in Willow's brain.
"They told us we were being rushed to the Children's Hospital and a helicopter was coming to pick us up," Nelson remembers.
In Vancouver the doctors did an MRI and found multiple tumours in Willow's brain. The 11-month-old needed emergency brain surgery.
"It was one of the scariest times of my life having to sign a consent being like your child might die in this surgery," Nelson said.
During the eight hour surgery Willow flat-lined on the table, but the team was able to resuscitate her.
"It was very traumatic," Nelson said. "This is your whole world. This is your child that you made and she did die, she died and she came back ready to fight for her life."
That was the first of six surgeries that Willow would face in the coming months, another brain surgery to remove the rest of the tumour and four others to insert, and re-insert, the PICC line in her chest.
Nelson said that after the first surgery, Willow seemed to be back to normal and Nelson often couldn't believe that her baby was battling cancer.
"You never would have thought so without her losing all of her hair," she said. "She was always so happy and didn't know any better, that was her life."
While Nelson was in Vancouver, Campbell Riverites were rallying to support her.
At first Nelson said spending someone else's money was hard for her. She was determined to send flowers and thank you cards to everyone who supported her. It was a friend that told her not to worry about that and just focus on Willow.
"That is definitely a big part of why my daughter is alive, because I got to spend all my full attention on her and her health and not having to worry about anything else," Nelson said. "Everything back home, it got taken care of by all my friends and my family and the whole community."
While Campbell Riverites were looking out for her back home, her best friend Krystal Hinkle, Willow's dad and his mom were often by Nelson's side supporting her.
"(Hinkle) dropped her entire life and came and moved with us for the first six months," Nelson said. "We've realized that you can have a soul mate as a friend, not just as a partner."
When the chemotherapy treatment was done and Willow had recovered from her stem cell transplant, the doctor took another MRI. It revealed two little spots, both inoperable.
The doctor couldn't say for sure that the spots were cancer but Nelson didn't want to leave anything to chance. She took Willow to Seattle where they did eight weeks of proton beam radiation, a treatment that is not available in Canada.
"I was a little concerned about doing it but the only reason that we are doing it is to keep everything that we have done of the last year steady, so it doesn't come back," Nelson said.
Though the American doctor said they probably wouldn't see results for up to six months, three months later a scan of Willow's brain came up clear. As of right now, she is in remission.
And now the family is trying to find a new normal. Nelson is back at work as well as studying to be a medical lab assistant and Willow is going to daycare.
"I didn't even want to put her in daycare, I was super uncomfortable about it all, but I realized that like I have to pay the bills somehow, so I have to get back to work," Nelson said. "As long as I'm confident they say that she'll be confident."
It is a big change for Willow, who has spent half of her life in a hospital, away from other children and their germs. When she did get to leave Nelson took her to a field to play by herself, or for walks far away from other people.
Willow's toys were the medical tools that surrounded her. Nelson said that when someone was cleaning Willow's line she could grab a swab and clean it with them.
"It was funny and it was cute and it was sad to realize this is just what she's used to," Nelson said.
At times it was hard for Nelson to see photos on social media of her friend's kids happy and healthy and thinking "that's what my kid should be doing."
But now they are home and settling in to a new routine.
"It's still really hard because all of the drugs that we did giver her there is a percentile change that cancer can come back but a different kind," she said. "So it's a little frustrating. But I just need to be happy and worry about being in the present right now and not worry so much about the future. She's here right now, just be grateful."
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That is what I saw the first time I visited the city. I thought it was a great slogan and time proved it really was. I have been in Amsterdam four times and each time I knew a different side of the city. I am afraid there are no more sides (the city is not that big) but still being a beautiful place.


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An Icy Struggle on Red Square
Filed under: Russian,sport — 01varvara @ 00.00
Tags: hockey, ice hockey, Igor Butman, Jaromír Jágr, Kremlin, Moscow, Red Square, Russia, Russian, Sport, Vladislav Tretiak
Recently, the main square of Moscow, Red Square, a place for the solemn processions of tsars and patriarchs, military parades, and national spectacles, became the venue for a different kind of battle, not one between soldiers, but, a sporting competition. Any world championship team would have been proud to include in their ranks the players that competed there. The best pro world stars of both the present and the past duelled on the ice. The onslaught of winter changes the face of Red Square noticeably. Over the last few years, an enormous skating rink has been erected there. From the morning until late at night, anyone who wants to skate can do so, and those who can hardly stand upright in skates can jump "salkhov".
Someone got the bright idea of presenting the stars of figure-skating under the majestic Kremlin walls. However, on one of the days of the Christmas holidays, on 10 January, hockey players shot the puck over Red Square. The famous goaltender Vladislav Tretyak, a three-time Olympic champion, the President of the Hockey Federation of the RF, said, "You get a big charge when you lift your eyes off the ice and see that you're within spitting distance of the Spassky Tower, the Cathedral of St Basil, and the Historical Museum. You really can't believe that you're playing here. It's like a fairy tale. As you look around, you remember the parades that were here, you can see the rockets going through the square in your mind's eye, and you realise that you're playing hockey in the same place. Of course, this is a historical event".
VOR Interviews the famous jazz-man Igor Butman below… how 'bout some music by him?
The athletes really put on a holiday spectacular for the spectators. Igor Butman, a well-known jazz-man and saxophonist, said, "The show that the hockey players gave on the ice was a gripping performance. Look at the way that Larionov improvises, he's really a phenomenal guy! It's the same with Kasatonov and Kozhevnikov! All of these guys would be awesome jazz-men". In the free time, Larionov became the first one to handle the puck. In particular, by the way, he slapped in the first goal during the veteran's match. After the vets were done, the stars of present-day hockey took the ice. At first, the best players from the best clubs drew lots, they skated around the rink, and they selected the best goaltenders to sit in the nets. Of course, this was only the overture to the main game of the day. It was going towards evening when a Russian team headed by Aleksei Yashin butted heads with a side consisting of foreign players with Russian clubs led by the Czech Olympic champ Jaromír Jágr. Alas, the fates weren't in favour of the Russians, they lost 7:6. The athletes felt that victory wasn't the main thing, though. They felt that the main purpose of the match was to give a holiday present to the Moscow hockey fans.
Svetlana Andreyeva
Voice of Russia World Service
http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=rus&q=97164&cid=25&p=12.01.2009
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15 June 2008. A Shot of Culture, if you please…
Filed under: art music,cinema,cultural,fine arts,literature/belles lettres,music,pop,Russian — 01varvara @ 00.00
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Programmes of the year of France in Russia and the year of Russia in France to be presented in Paris
Muriel Mayette, director of the Comédie-Française
The programmes of the Year of France in Russia and the Year of Russia in France shall be presented in Paris later today. Under an agreement between the leaders of the two countries, large-scale cultural events shall be staged simultaneously in 2010. An exhibition entitled Holy Russia in Paris shall be the culmination of the event. A tour of the Comédie-Française theatre troupe in Russia is one of the French offerings.
http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=28229&cid=51&p=10.06.2008
Painting by Natalia Goncharova fetched record price at Russian art auction at Sotheby's
A Still Life with Peonies
Natalia Goncharova
1900s-10s?
A Still Life with Fruits by the early-20th-century artist Natalia Goncharova fetched a record price of 2.28 million pounds (105.71 million roubles. 2.881 million euros. 4.446 million USD) at yesterday's Russian art auction at Sotheby's. The Winter Landscape by Ivan Aivazovsky went for 555,000 pounds (25.742 million roubles. 702,329 euros. 1.082 million USD), seven times that of the start-up price. Zinaida Serebryakova's Nude was sold for more than a million pounds (46.383 million roubles. 1.265 million euros. 1.95 million USD), about five times higher than expected. The auction's organisers say it pushed a plank for Russian art sales further up.
The Prince Lobanov-Rostovsky collection bought for the Konstantin Palace
Aleksei Lobanov-Rostovsky (1824-96), diplomat, scholar, and art collector
The charitable foundation that funded the recent restoration of the Konstantin Palace near St Petersburg bought a world-famous collection of Russian art, namely the collection of Prince Lobanov-Rostovsky. The collection is the second world-famous collection of Russian artworks that's due to be put on display at the Konstantin Palace. Last year, the Palace obtained the collection of Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya.
10th International Beer Festival due in Moscow
Not exactly from this festival… a funny beer ad, though.
The 10th International Beer Festival is due in Moscow from the 14th to the 22nd of this month. Guests to the event are welcome to taste up to 130 sorts of beer by more than 20 breweries. The visitors will be likewise welcome to a retrospective exhibition of beer and to a beer museum featuring a great number of exhibits. Another highlight of the event is a firework festival, a highlight that'll be around every day until the beer festival is over.
Moscow prepared to play host to next year's Eurovision music contest
Yevgeny Plyushchenko (1982- ), Olympic championship figure-skater
2009 Eurovision contestant, Sakis Rouvas (1972- ) from Greece
The Moscow city government said that the city is prepared to play host to next year's Eurovision international music contest, if Moscow is chosen as the venue for the event. Russia qualified for the right to host the competition following Russian singer Dima Bilan's recent victory in Belgrade. Dima performed the song Believe Me accompanied by dancing by the world-famous Olympic champion figure-skater, Yevgeny Plyushchenko, and the playing of Hungarian violinist Edvin Marton, who played a Stradivarius, ensured him a record 272 points. So far, the venue for Eurovision-2009 hasn't yet been determined. The likely candidates are Moscow, St Petersburg, and Sochi.
Pushkin Museum shall open an exhibition in Tokyo of pictures by Rodchenko
Dance: An Objectless Composition
Aleksandr Rodchenko
At the beginning of 2010, Moscow's Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts shall treat art lovers in Tokyo to an exhibition of pictures by the Russian avant-garde painter, graphic artist and photographer Aleksandr Rodchenko. The Tokyo newspaper Asahi is expected to offer its sponsorship for the project at talks in Moscow next month. This was confirmed by the chief curator of the Pushkin Museum, Dr Irina Antonova.
International band festival in St Petersburg dedicated to Russia Day
Golubiye Bereti (The Blue Berets), A Russian Army rock band
An international brass band festival in St Petersburg is dedicated to Russia Day. The combined orchestra will march in a grand procession along the Nevsky Prospekt to lend a festive atmosphere to the city on Thursday, 12 June. Last on the holiday agenda are several extravaganza concerts at sports complexes and concert halls. Also on Thursday, the Palace Square in front of the Winter Palace shall host a gala concert of Russian pop stars to the accompaniment of military bands.
Open-air jazz festival kicks off near Moscow
Charlie Hunter (1967- ), great American jazzman
More than 50 well-known jazz bands from different countries shall perform at an open-air jazz festival that kicked off at the Arkhangelskoye estate and museum near Moscow today. The program covers all genres, swing, lounge, funk, ethno-jazz, fusion, and even jazz-rock. Russia is represented by Igor and Oleg Butman, Aleksei Kozlov with his Arsenal band, and the Billy's Band group. There will be a competition of young jazzmen. Jazz lovers are in for a real treat, an exclusive concert by a legendary American jazz ensemble, the Charlie Hunter Trio.
Noah's Ark International Film Festival opens in Chechen capital
The Noah's Ark International Film Festival opens in the Chechen capital of Grozny later today. It is aimed at bringing closer people of various nationalities, faiths, and culture. Among the guests of the festival are Hollywood stars Mark Dacascos and Armand Assante. The jury has selected 44 films from 21 countries. The organisers hope to stage the festival annually.
Memorial to Tsaritsa Yekaterina Velikaya unveiled in Sevastopol
An Equestrian Portrait of Grand Princess Yekaterina Alekseyevna (later Tsaritsa Yekaterina Velikaya)
Georg Christoph Grooth
After two days of picketing by City Hall deputies and Cossacks, a memorial to Tsaritsa Yekaterina Velikaya was unveiled in Sevastopol on Sunday. City Hall initiated the move despite Kiev's unhappiness with the installation, which was initially expected on Saturday. Sevastopol was founded as the main base for the Russian Black Sea Fleet, which recently marked its 225th anniversary.
Russian writer grabbed one of the most prestigious European literary prizes
Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943- ), Russian novelist
Russian writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya grabbed one of the most prestigious European literary prizes, the Grinzane Cavour Prize, for her novel Sincerely Yours, Shurik. The awards ceremony was held on Saturday in a medieval castle located on the outskirts of the Italian city of Torino. Previously, Ulitskaya's other works were also much admired by the reading public in Italy, whose youth jury jointly with students from MGU and St Petersburg State University awarded Ulitskaya the prize.
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HomeNewsMan critical after near-campus shooting
Man critical after near-campus shooting
UPDATED: 11:00 a.m., Jan. 23, 2009 A 25-year-old male is in critical condition after a shooting at the corner of Broad and Susquehanna streets. Philadelphia Police told The Temple News that a black male was
23 January 2009 News, Web Exclusives
Blood marks the scene were a 25-year-old male was shot outside Crown Fried Chicken on North Broad Street (Kevin Cook/TTN)
UPDATED: 11:00 a.m., Jan. 23, 2009
A 25-year-old male is in critical condition after a shooting at the corner of Broad and Susquehanna streets.
Philadelphia Police told The Temple News that a black male was shot at approximately 10:45 p.m. Thursday near Crown Fried Chicken, located across the street from White Hall, a Temple dorm.
The victim was shot in both legs and entered surgery early Friday morning. He is reported in critical condition at Temple Hospital, police said.
Surveillance cameras captured the altercation between at least two people, but the shooting wasn't captured. As of Friday morning at 11 a.m., police have no suspects and no warrants for arrest.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing a group of four black males in their 30s at the scene.
Kalima Thomas, a senior journalism major, lives above the Peking Chinese restaurant near Crown Fried Chicken. She said she heard shots from her apartment. When she looked out her window, she saw three men fleeing the scene, running west down Susquehanna, she said.
Thomas said she saw one male bleeding from the lower body, appearing lifeless. Moments later, police responded to the location and Thomas went back to her apartment.
The victim was loaded onto a gurney and put into an ambulance.
As helicopters circled the surrounding blocks in search of the suspects, Thomas said she witnessed two of the three men being escorted back on Susquehanna Avenue in handcuffs to the squad cars.
However, Philadelphia Police said made no arrests at the scene.
At least three other Temple students have also claimed to witness the shooting from the steps of White Hall. The students said they saw an altercation among a group of males which led to one pulling a gun on another.
They said they heard four or five shots as they ducked for cover in the vestibule of the residence hall.
Matthew D. Wargo can be reached at mdwargo@temple.edu. Chris Stover contributed to this report.
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Why was there not a TUAlert sent about this?!
Matthew Folk says:
"off-campus," hahahahahaha, my mom is sure going to be glad when I move down 3 blocks from where that happened.
Student says:
Because they don't send TU Alerts except to test them. That way, they can tell all the students going on a tour of the campus about their fancy emergency alert system that they test on a regular basis-but they can't be bothered to protect their own students when it comes down to it.
I basically saw it happen. I don't know why they didn't send anything out, it was pretty much on campus and there were guys with guns in the area, a guy bleeding on the ground feet away from students, I'm dissapointed. If I wasn't there I would have liked to recieve an alert.
anon2 says:
if you look this up on any other news site there is NOTHING to be found. the closest thing to it is the story on the abc news website talking about a male in his 20s got shot and was left in critical condition at 830 thursday night on 8th and diamond.
im willing to make a bet that Temple paid them off so this campus didnt seem so bad
unbelievable.. and yea. i heard the shots too
I agree with "Student". TU security can go about boasting their alert system and security but they don't do shit to allow students on campus know about recent shootings… especially when the site was only a block away. Only a very small scale of students would know of any of these neighborhood happenstances by word of mouth.
seriously, everyday I would go outside of my dorm turn my head and glance at the exact spot where the pictures showed the blood marks.
so how's about putting security guards inside of the SEPTA stations too?
Vaughn Parker says:
I concur. TU Alert? It was within the boundaries of the campus. I think….I want my money back 🙂 JK.
Andrea Paul says:
Sooooooooooooooo glad I transferred. I'm not a fan of shootings outside my apartment, thank you very much.
BBKing says:
I am not sure why this happened, but do you think it is safe to be on the streets at night? How much protection can we expect from TU security. I think they would have sent the TU alert, do you. Haven't they sent the alert in the past………..
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Q: Spring MVC: components for user registration? I'm creating my first Spring MVC app on Tomcat 6.  Certain pages will be browseable by all and other pages will be restricted to registered users.  I'm looking for advice on how best to configure app security to support this.  Coming from ASP.NET, which provides Login Controls that provide registration/login/password recovery/etc components, I'm wondering whether Spring MVC has equivalent functionality.  Since this is common functionality, I'm hoping there are some reusable components that I can leverage so that I don't have to write all of this from scratch.
This is basically a small toy app so I don't need super-duper security.  I'm looking for components that will make writing web user authentication/authorization easier (or how to leverage built-in Tomcat capabilities).  I'm fairly new to Java web development so any suggestions on how to quickly build this functionality would be appreciated.
Thanks.

A: Spring Security doesn't have all those features, but you can easily build those features using Spring Security. Spring Security takes care of authentication and ACL features.
http://static.springsource.org/spring-security/site/

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The first phase of Cross Island – the land reclamation project in Dockyard – has been completed ahead of schedule and on budget, marking a "major milestone" in Bermuda's deliverables for the 35th America's Cup, the officials said last week.
While the infill phase has been completed, the next part of the project involves installing the infrastructure, including electricity, water, sewage and telecommunications before the new nine-acres of land is handed over to the America's Cup Event Authority, who will create the Event Village for the 35th America's Cup.
A spokesperson said, "The project began last November when a portion of the South Basin was filled with seven shiploads of granite. The aggregate came to the island on the MV Balder, a specialised ship that allowed the fill material to be offloaded by conveyer belt into the South Basin.
"The total amount was 310,000 cubic yards of aggregate – 165,000 cubic yards of granite from a quarry in New Brunswick and 145,000 cubic yards from last year's dredging project by Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines [RCCL]. That project was part of multi-year contract between Bermuda Tourism Authority and RCCL to accommodate large RCCL cruise ship visits to Dockyard.
Bermuda just got a little bigger!


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WHS Shows Gratitude to Veterans with Moving Assembly
Staff photo by Jillian DiPeriso Salem High School AF JROTC present the colors to the veterans.
Staff photo by Jillian DiPeriso The WHS Choir and "Junior Jags" sing "America the Beautiful."
Staff photo by Jillian DiPeriso Sergeant Greg Iworsky delivers a moving speech to the student body about the importance of Veterans Day.
by Jillian DiPersio, Windham High School Intern
On Thursday, Nov. 6, the Windham High School Chapter of the National Honor Society presented their second annual "Tribute to Veterans" assembly to the student body in honor of Veterans Day. A small committee of students working under the supervision of NHS co-adviser Lisa Roeder organized the event, inviting veterans from the American Legion as well as the town Police and Fire departments.
Before the assembly the honored guests were invited into the Media Center for a breakfast with doughnuts generously donated by Klemm's Bakery. The veterans spoke with NHS students about their travels and adventures over coffee and doughnuts as students thanked them for their service.
The ceremony itself took place during the students' advisory period. The assembly began with an opening address, given by senior and member of NHS, Siddhart Agarwal. Agarwal led the student body in the Pledge of Allegiance as the Salem High School Air Force Junior ROTC, under the direction of Major James Blazak, presented the colors. The WHS choir, directed by Shelia Cuneo, sang the national anthem.
Windham High School's Resource Officer, Greg Iworsky, was the keynote speaker at the event. Students saw Officer Iworsky in a different light as he donned formal military attire and introduced himself as Sergeant Iworsky, "a machine gunner with 25th Marines, Bravo Company, weapons platoon." Sgt. Iworsky explained that the reason he serves is because "I love America, what it stands for and what we do for the world. We fight for peace and democracy and for those who cannot fight for themselves. We are the sheep dogs protecting the sheep from the wolves. We fight and have fought for all of you, so that you can come to school to learn and in hopes that you will do something great with your lives and that you will never have to fight."
Sgt. Iworsky delivered a moving speech, leaving students with a powerful message: "All veterans deserve our utmost gratitude. You may not support the war, but always support the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines who fight in it. Freedom is not free. It comes at a high cost."
The speech was followed by a video put together by WHS senior Nikita Kuchipudi. The video presentation highlighted photographs of veterans connected to Windham, including students' and teachers' family members, Windham police officers and firefighters, as well as six WHS alumni. The ceremony closed with the singing of "America the Beautiful" by the WHS choir and the Windham third graders, the "Junior Jags."
Madeline Riese, senior at WHS and member of the NHS committee that put on the event, said Sgt. Iworsky's speech "was really beautiful, very touching." She added that talking with the veterans before and after the assembly "was a special experience because you don't always get to talk to people that have had those experiences and have been in those situations. It kind of lends perspective." Likewise, WHS junior Erinne Curtain, member of JROTC, believes "it was a very beautiful ceremony" for the veterans and added, "We (in JROTC) hope to do it again next year."
NHS co-adviser, Lisa Roeder, explained, "The duties and challenges of a soldier can seem very distant to all of us, not just adolescents." For Roeder and the students in NHS, the Veterans Day assembly "is a way to give a very sincere thank you to these brave and patriotic men and women." Officer Iworsky explained that Veterans Day "is a time to reflect on the heroes that chose to be a part of something bigger then themselves. We chose to fight for our country in foreign battlefields to keep America free."
If you would like to support our veterans, Officer Iworsky has designed red WHS T-shirts and sweatshirts through Red Shirt Fridays in support of the Wounded Warrior Project. "As some of you might have noticed I wear a red shirt on Fridays. That's because every Friday is RED Friday. RED stands for Remember Everyone Deployed," explained Iworsky. Red Shirt Fridays is an organization, which, in its mission, states, "We wish to let our servicemen and servicewomen know we support their sacrifice and that we will not forget them; we will do this by wearing red every Friday." To purchase a custom WHS red shirt, visit http://www.gruntstyle.com/custom-shirts/gs-limited/Windham-High.


Why did I rent Memoirs of a Geisha? I hated the book on which it was based. Ziyi Zhang's breathily portentous line reading in the preview — "A story like mine has NEVER been told" — made me roll my eyes. The little I heard of John Williams' score made me long for Tan Dun's superior work in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I suppose Memoirs made its way onto my Netflix queue because it seemed a shame to pass up the chance to see Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh and Ziyi Zhang on screen together, but I should have trusted my instincts. Memoirs of a Geisha is a dull, overwrought mess. I would have been better off holding my own personal marathon of the trio's greatest hits, maybe Farewell My Concubine, Crouching Tiger, House of Flying Daggers and 2046.
In repertory at Film Forum through April 27. Also on DVD.
I always felt sorry for Abimelech, the king in the book of Genesis who takes Abraham's wife, Sarah, into his harem. He doesn't realize he's doing anything wrong because Abraham and Sarah both insist they are brother and sister before Abimelech even shows any interest in her. But God still curses him, making all the women in his household barren until the poor guy realizes he's been fooled.
Judging from Days of Heaven, I think writer-director Terrence Malick might share my sympathy for Abimelech. The beautiful film, released in 1978, echoes that biblical story in its tale of two Depression-era laborers and the owner of a farm where they find work during the harvest. Days of Heaven easily could have been a heavy handed metaphor of class war — I admit I expected something like that: the bourgeois screwing the proletariat literally and figuratively — but Malick's work, as I should have realized, is far more nuanced than that.
Few styles are more distinctive than that of film noir. The disillusioned gumshoes, seductive femme fatales, dark alleyways and darker motives are instantly recognizable, particularly when shot in shadow at odd angles. At first, the idea of transposing film noir from the city underworld to the suburban high school seems little more than a clever conceit, a gimmick, but writer-director Rian Johnson makes it work in Brick.
Watching The Third Man for the first time, I couldn't help but feel a twinge of déjà vu. Anyone who has ever read anything about film noir is going to recognize Orson Welles' first dramatic appearance, the scene of the Ferris wheel, the chase sequence through the sewers, the line about the cuckoo clock, and the beautifully odd zither score. Often, that kind of familiarity makes actually watching the film in question anticlimactic, but that wasn't the case for me with The Third Man.
Inside Man opens with a long shot of an old-fashioned roller coaster. The roller coaster, of course, is a familiar metaphor for the thriller, so the shot (accompanied, oddly, by a jaunty Bollywood number) reads like a promise of high-tension and a truly spectacular climax.
The movie certainly has its share of twists, but it never builds enough energy or momentum to be a roller coaster. The pleasure of Inside Man is the details, the quirks that make it a Spike Lee joint rather than a generic heist pic.


Here at the Leather Hospital we don't just work on jackets and bags – we also work heavily with sofas, armchairs and leather car seats, restoring them to their former glory for a fraction of the price of a new one.
At the Leather Hospital, we've got years of experience restoring all kinds of leather items, repairing rips and tears, removing scratches and scuffs, and patching wear and tear to bring a tired old item back up to the standard it was when it was brand new. Nowhere is this more important than with leather furniture, which can really perfect a room or property, and add a touch of class and elegance to any space – if it's in good condition. Tattered or worn leather furniture can make even the most immaculate room seem ratty and poorly-kept, which is unfortunate, since leather furniture has so much wear and tear to put up with.
Scuffing, scratching, having hot drinks spilled on it, stretching and sun-bleaching… The list goes on. Once your leather furniture begins to show the signs of stress, you can either buy a new one… or have it looked at by The Leather Hospital.
Our services are far less expensive than a brand new leather sofa would be, not to mention the fact that a worn, aged piece of furniture may not have exact replicas still on sale, as the seller may not stock that model, or the retailer themself may have disappeared!
The problem becomes even worse when you consider hand-crafted or antique furniture, which obviously will not have "new" models that you can buy instead of your old, battered one. In situations like this one, restoring it somehow is the only way to avoid a complete change in decoration, but luckily, the Leather Hospital is set to take on the job. Seen below is a before-and-after shot of a sofa we restored this year, showing how the bleached, scratched and cracked leather was completely restored to a flawless dark sheen without any trace of the restoration showing on the antique wood components of the sofa. The ability to restore these leather furnishings without damaging any of the non-leather components is a point of pride for us, and can be seen again and again in our works.
If you've got a piece of leather furniture that is showing signs of wear and tear, you don't need to splash huge money and time on a new one – all you need to do is call The Leather Hospital and let us know what you want us to fix!


At least once a year, one of the quilt guilds I belong to (Dalemead Quilters Guild), gets together to make comfort quilts that go to one of three local organizations. We call our sewing day "Stone Soup Day" after the story of the soup that starts with a single stone and as everyone contributes what they are able, they have enough to feed everyone.
When that same principle is applied to quilting, some people bring fabric, some sewing skills, some batting, some quilt, some put on binding and finally some sew on labels. And the end result is a pile of quilts!
This year I saw a quilt pattern at another group I sew with called "Crazy Eights" that I thought would make a great comfort quilt for our Stone Soup Day. I did a quick search when I got home and found the pattern over here at Fons and Porter. I didn't order the pattern as it looked simple enough to figure out and I didn't want to use strips, but the overflowing pile of 2.5" squares I've been cutting and saving for a very long time!
This is what is left after sewing what I needed - this bucket was full!
So on what is called "National Quilting Day" down in the states (not sure if it's called anything here in Canada, but we'll celebrate with our southern neighbours!) I packed up my sewing machine, 2.5" scraps and headed off to sew with a lovely group of women for our Stone Soup Day.
After a full day (well, it's not a sweat shop, so I didn't put in a full 8 hours!), I had enough of my scraps sewn together into four-patches to make the 80 eight patch units that are needed for this quilt!
A lovely pile of scrappy eight-patches!
Tomorrow I'll show you how they look with a variety of fabrics for sashing and what I chose in the end! Till then, happy quilting!


Stunning Panoramic Ocean Views from this Beautiful Penthouse Condo!
Features 2 large bedrooms with en suite bathroom access. The vaulted ceiling and skylights allow for plenty of natural light to go with the calming ocean breeze! This luxury gated community has a pool and spa with amazing ocean and lagoon views. Close to dining, shopping and entertainment. Includes two secure underground parking spaces and elevator access.


The photo above doesn't really show this, but, the dry leaf is quite unusual – unlike any other Oolong I've ever encountered (or any other type of tea, for that matter!) The tea is tightly vacuum-packed in beautiful purple foil pouches, and when I opened the package, there was another small liner protecting the tea … it almost looked like rice paper, but it is plastic. After peeling away the plastic, I realized why it was there, because this tea is STICKY! As in honey sticky! The tightly wound pellets of Ti Guan Yin tea have been soaked in honey, and then processed in these packages to maintain their freshness.
After opening the package, I pondered for a moment about how I should brew the tea … in my Breville? Or in my gaiwan? Usually, when I steep Oolong, I steep it in my gaiwan, but, with flavored Oolongs, I make an exception. But… ultimately, I decided to steep this in my gaiwan, because I figured with all this honey, it would be easier to clean out of my gaiwan than it would my Breville.
I did not rinse (or awaken) the leaves, because I didn't want to lose any of that honey flavor. The combination of the first two infusions are sweet and very honey-esque. But, I am glad that the honey flavor does not mask the flavor of the Iron Goddess – which is slightly vegetative tasting, with a lovely floral note that seems to have been intensified by the honey soak. This is incredibly smooth and is very easily consumed … not to mention quickly consumed!
The combination of the third and fourth infusion are not as sweet as the first cup, but still quite delicious. There is a bit of astringency to this cup that I didn't notice with the first, and I am noticing some of the sharper notes from the floral tones that were possibly hiding behind the sweet honey flavor in the first cup. Still very delicious – this cup tastes more like what I would expect from Iron Goddess, and less like honey. But while the honey is lighter, it does linger in the aftertaste – very nice!
My final cup of this tea (the combination of the fifth and sixth infusions) were very much like what I'd expect from a Tie Guan Yin – very flavorful, yes, but, not so much of a honey flavor is present. The floral tones are not quite as sharp but are still quite strong and very lovely – reminding me a bit of orchid and lily. There is a very slight grassy tone.
While I enjoyed my three cups of this tea hot, I find myself wondering how this tea might taste iced; combining all six infusions into one pitcher and then chilling it. I suspect that the strong honey tones of the first two infusions would be softened by the other infusions, giving it just a soft, honey-esque sweetness with a beautiful background of traditional Tie Guan Yin flavors. I may have to try that very soon!
Overall, I found this to be a very tasty and satisfying Oolong – from that very first infusion, until the last.


1. What is the difference between a BA Art and a BFA Art?
First, the similarities! They are both 4-year degrees and allow you to choose your own custom mix of art and design classes across the different art areas: 2D/3D Design, Photography/Video, Painting/Drawing and Sculpture/Ceramics.
Now the differences! The BFA is an immersive, focused visual art program that aside from the USC-mandated General Education core courses, concentrates entirely on art and/or design classes. Can you add a minor? Yes, but it may take you longer than four years to graduate with the BFA. The BA is a humanities degree and allows for the selection of a wider variety of courses across the university; it has a foreign language requirement and room for a minor outside of Art, all in four years! Double majors are possible with the BA; you usually graduate in five years.
2. Does Roski have foundation courses?
Not really, though we do want incoming art students to have a good grounding in 2D and 3D techniques. So unless you've already taken equivalent courses elsewhere and can demonstrate certain competencies, we do require one semester of Drawing, one semester of Sculpture and one semester of 2D Design in your first year. Those are the only required studio courses that are required of art majors. So you can start choosing your customized mix of art and design classes as early as the second semester in your first year!
3. What about the other requirements?
4. What makes a Roski art education different from other schools?
We take a very individual approach to a student's art education; it's not a structured, cookie-cutter approach where one size fits all like most art schools. Each student has the freedom to explore and choose the courses that are right for them, according to their personal interests and/or career goals.
Instruction in Design is integrated with instruction in Art; we feel both disciplines enrich one another and are instrumental for a vital art education today.
USC supports an interdisciplinary approach to education and art and design students are most comfortable taking courses in the physical, biological and social science, the humanities as well as art. Again, all of these disciplines enrich and inspire the artist and the designer.
Unless there is dangerous equipment (like table saws for instance) or expensive equipment (like cameras and computers) most Roski studios are accessible to art majors 24/7 with a swipe of their USC ID card. Painters are assigned semesterly to specific small-group painting studios. Studios manned by technicians, such as the digital labs, photo darkrooms, and wood shop are usually open 7 days are week until at least 5pm.
6. What about minors or double majors?
YES to both! See #1 above. The choice for double majors or minors is endless. They are usually added in your second year. They can help give you a competitive edge in the job market, expand your scope of interest in a subject or enhance your career options after graduation.
7. Do AP or IB scores count?
Each major at USC offers a range of different programs in different countries for study abroad semesters, that offer coursework for credit toward an undergraduate degree. Roski offers programs for art students in the following cities and countries: London, England; Canberra, Australia; Capetown, South Africa; and Florence and Cortona, Italy.
Professionalization for artists and designers begins around the junior year with our one-of-a-kind Arts Internship program, where the skills and techniques learned in art and design classes are applied to real-world settings. The Roski School has partnered with over 400 art and design-related companies in and around Los Angeles to offer internships in a variety of professional venues for qualified students, from museums, galleries, advertising firms, fashion companies, sports franchises, entertainment companies, animation and game design companies, start-ups, and established big name companies. Our students tell us that it's an experience of a lifetime to be mentored by a professional in their chosen field, and to participate in client meetings and presentations. Meaningful connections are made and significant resume-building experiences are achieved.


The 2011 International Conference on Eating Disorders was held in Miami, Florida last week, April 28-30. Close to twenty members of the clinical and research teams of UNC's Eating Disorder Program joined hundreds of other professionals and advocates from around the globe engaged in research, treatment and prevention of eating disorders.
This year's conference theme, The Complexity of Eating Disorders: Many Perspectives, One Shared Goal was exemplified in the keynote address by Dr. Timothy Walsh from Columbia University. His talk entitled The Diagnosis of Eating Disorders: The Good, the Bad, and the DSM-5 discussed proposed changes for the future in the way we classify eating disorders, in particular trying to decrease the number of individuals who are given a diagnosis of 'eating disorder not otherwise specified'.
Other topics discussed by conference attendees from around the world included: 1) New Treatment Research on Eating Disorders, 2) Is Food Rewarding for People with Eating Disorders? Clinical Insights from Brain Imaging Studies, 3) "Growing Up": An Update on Adolescent Eating and Weight Disorders, and 4) Public Policy Approaches to Eating Disorder and Obesity Prevention: Global Perspectives. More information on specific talks within these sessions can be found at http://www.aedweb.org/Plenary_Sessions.htm.
For the first time this year, the conference included a session completely devoted to discussing recent research on pregnancy and motherhood in women with eating disorders. UNC's own Dr. Stephanie Zerwas, Assistant Professor and Associate Research Director of the UNC Eating Disorders Program, presented findings from her recent study of maternal weight trajectories during pregnancy and the postpartum period. She found that mothers with eating disorders gained weight more quickly during pregnancy than mothers without eating disorders and that mothers with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa lost weight more quickly in the first 6 months post-partum than mothers without eating disorders. Her findings highlight the need for a better understanding of eating disorder recovery and relapse during this critical period.
Brazilian psychiatrist Dr. Andrea Pinheiro, a former post-doctoral fellow at UNC, presented two studies evaluating disordered eating behavior during pregnancy in women living inBrazil. She found that women who reported binge eating during pregnancy were at higher risk for having adverse birth outcomes than women who did not report binge eating during pregnancy; she also found that disordered eating behaviors decreased for most women during pregnancy, but resumed postpartum.
Abigail Easter from King's College London discussed dietary patterns in the children of mothers with eating disorders, finding that these children were more likely to have a 'health conscious' dietary pattern compared to the general population in their sample of women and children from the UK. Another member of the UNC Eating Disorders Research team, Dr. Elizabeth Hoffman, MD/PhD trainee, presented findings from her study of maternal-child interactions in mothers with histories of eating disorders. She found that mothers with eating disorder histories displayed differences in their heart rate patterns during mealtimes and playtimes with their children compared with mothers without eating disorder histories which may indicate an increased susceptibility to stress. The inclusion of this session on pregnancy and motherhood in the program this year is promising, highlighting increased attention to this critical area as we work to develop a better understanding of the needs of women with eating disorders during this important time.
← Congratulations to Dr. Cynthia Bulik on receiving the 2011 AED Advocacy Award!


In a sumptuous traditional Chinese hotel, an impressive wedding is about to take place. Mrs Song has finally managed to find a good match for her daughter Zhen-Zhen: the heir of the rich Zhang family. Always keen to be on the cutting edge of… everything, Mrs Song hires human-like androids to be a part of the wedding party (courtesy of Mrs. Zhang's wallet).
In the role of lead bridesmaid, Mrs. Song hires a beta model android: Ah-Hui, the newest generation female android. Delighted with their new distraction, Mrs. Song, and later, Mrs. Zhang, blithely play around with Ah-hui's settings, unaware of the changes happening within Ah-hui's nascent mind.
Mechanical Souls is a 7 x 10 minutes 360°-S3D multisegment series. The story unfolds within a unity of time (the preparation and duration of the wedding) and a unity of place (the hotel where the event take place), around 8 main characters. Those characters mix and meet, experiencing the same events but each with a different take on things, building up a common experience from their personnal stories.
Digital Rise (from France) and Serendipity Films (from Taïwan) brings this live action futurist satiristic thriller to screen in a close collaborative work with the authors Gaëlle Mourre and L.P.Lee and in association with DVgroup. Mechanical Souls also benefit of the support from Google Jump Start Program and Kaoshiung Film Festival.
Gaëlle Mourre is a French award-winning film writer, director and producer based in London. Her projects include Awakening, winner Best Drama at the NY International Short Film Festival, The Feast, starring Katie Leung and a commercial for the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni, starring Lambert Wilson, amongst others.
Gaëlle is completing production on the pilot to her first VR series, Mechanical Souls, which she is directing, and co-writing. She is also developing a live action / animation mix short film, Clockwork, as well as her first feature film script, Driven Out.
She trained as a director and editor at the London Film School and holds an MA in Filmmaking. Always up for a new challenge, she works as a freelance writer, director, producer on international commercial and fiction projects. She works in both 2D cinema and stereoscopic VR, and is ready for the next adventure.
L.P.Lee is an award-winning Eurasian screenwriter and author based sometimes in London, and other times deep in the Korean mountains.
Her screenwriting awards include for 'Best Dark Comedy', 'Best Technique', and she is participating in Google's 2018 Jump Start Program for VR. Her fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, selected for 'Best New Horror', and featured in Virtual Futures Salons (the « Glastonbury of cyberculture » – The Guardian).
In her other lives, L. P. Lee has called Beijing and Seoul home, and worked in advertising at a WPP agency in London. She received her Masters in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford after studying Chinese at the University of Cambridge.
>Two co-writers, L.P. Lee, short story author and Gaëlle Mourre, director.