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Hull care operator sells off four homes

Penni Brown, Hica, and Tanzeel Younas, National Care Consortium

Hull care operator sells off four homes

Care operator Hica Group is selling off four of its homes as part of a strategic business plan to build for a strong and stable future.

The Hull-based group will use the financial proceeds to eliminate bank borrowings and provide cash reserves for future investment in enhanced quality care and its regional network of homes.

Meanwhile, it will remain ‘business as usual’ for the four homes moving into new ownership by January 2018.

The move will put Hica, celebrating its 25th year, in its strongest financial position for many years. It also puts the not-for-profit organisation in a highly unusual position in a care sector where many operators are burdened by debt and high bank costs.

The decision to sell these homes - for an undisclosed amount – is the culmination of a strategic business plan instigated by Penni Brown when she took over as Hica chief executive almost three years ago.

Hica’s goal is to drive quality improvements while also shifting the group’s operational focus to provide enhanced dementia care, more specialist learning disability, and community based services to people in Hull, East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Lancashire.

Penni said: “Following the sale of these services, 73% of our network of 15 care homes will be rated as Good by CQC, with three homes achieving outstanding in one key area.

“This is a dramatic turnaround from where we were two years ago. Significantly all our care homes have a Good or Outstanding rating under the key inspection question ‘Is the service caring?’

“We are currently operating at 95% occupancy, which is exceptional considering current market conditions and demonstrates the confidence local people and commissioners have in the quality of our service.”

Hica is selling the Rowans (Kirkella), Longhill House (Hull), Woodlands (Driffield) and Alderlea (Humberston) as going concerns to growing care operator, National Care Consortium.

All staff and residents in the four homes will transfer across from Hica to NCC.

Residents will not be affected and as ownership is transferred, staff will continue in their existing roles, ensuring the continuation of care and support.

Penni continued: “The care sector faces enormous challenges and it’s important to have strong financial foundations to ensure stability and a long-term future.

“We are increasingly providing enhanced dementia care and this requires improved ways of working and having homes and buildings that are fit for purpose.

“In recent years, we have invested heavily in staff training and standardising IT and management systems, which is reflected in significant improvements in our quality of care.

“We know these homes will be in safe hands with National Care Consortium, as this is an operator we trust and know well.

“The new owner will continue and further develop the excellent care these homes provide in the community and will invest in further improvements.”

Director of the National Care Consortium, Tanzeel Younas, said: “We are fully committed to continue the excellent care currently being provided at these four homes; hence, we would like to reassure all stakeholders that we will be transferring the fantastic staffing team over to us on purchase from Hica.

“Having worked with Hica in the past, both organisations have a great understanding of each other and will work tirelessly to ensure a smooth transition from one caring provider to another.”

Following the sale, Hica will operate 15 residential care homes, five of which are for people with a learning disability, along with two retirement villages.

The company also runs a home care service providing approximately 11,500 hours of support and care from four regional offices in the North of England.


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    The Old New Future Normal? At Brainchild we don’t have a Department of Buzzwords That Deserve To Be Put Out Of Their Misery, but if we did they’d be all over that “heard it once, heard it once too often” phrase “The New Normal.” Okay, to be fair, the term – coined by financier Bill Gross in 2009 as a way to characterize the joys that were waiting on the flip slide of the recessionary chamber of horrors – started out well enough. But then it became a book describing present and future economic trends. Then a Sunday morning “see how smart I am” staple of the talking heads. Followed by its incarnation as a NBC sitcom which, despite characters that included two gay men trying to have a baby, a law-school dreaming surrogate mom, a quirky tweener daughter, and a homophobic racist grandmother – how much hilarity can you pack into one show? – was mercifully cancelled. Doubtless, leaving the world hoping that the “new normal” somehow would no longer be part of the new normal.  But this, friend, is the new normal and hopes here are always hopeless. Which leads us to today’s fun-for-the-whole-new-normal-family question: Is it more normal to want to be “New Normal,” “Old Normal,” or something in between? We know how we’d answer.  How about you?


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MOSUL, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 7: Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government's peshmerga forces attend the operation to clear Bashiqa Town as the operation to retake Iraq's Mosul from Daesh terrorists continues, in Mosul, Iraq on November 7, 2016. A much anticipated Mosul offensive to liberate the city from Daesh began midnight of 16th of October 2016. (Photo by Ahmet Izgi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Iraqi Forces Preparing Advance on South Mosul

Iraqi security forces are preparing to advance toward Mosul airport on the city’s southern edge to increase pressure on Islamic State militants fighting troops who breached their eastern defenses, officers said on Thursday.

WSJ: Iraqi Forces Halt Advance Into Fallujah

BAGHDAD—Iraqi special forces on Fallujah’s southern outskirts have halted offensive operations against Islamic State on that front, army and police officials said Thursday, as authorities struggled over how to evacuate and protect civilians being held as human shields by the extremist group.


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The British Landscape Club

The Dabbler: The Lie of the Land

Today I’m explaining - without the benefit of garbled technobabble and jargon - what connections can be made between a landscape and its underlying geology. Take a peek at The Dabbler website for my mini-post.

Lay-by of the week:
The Cow and Calf Rocks, Ilkley Moor

This time last week I was preparing for my talk at the Manor House Museum in Ilkley on the Yorkshire Beneath Their Feet. It was a glorious evening - coming in from the hotel in the neighbouring village of Ben Rhydding, sunset turned the sky the colour of orange juice. The talk went well - a nice crowd of 40 or so - and I was feeling upbeat as I headed back to my hotel - the next day I was due to lead a party around a local tourist hotspot, the Cow and Calf Rocks, which loom over the town like a thunder cloud.

Overnight, a thick fog descended, but 35 people dutifully turned up to follow me around the Cow and Calf anyway, despite visibility beyond the end of one’s arms becoming difficult, so this week’s lay-by of the week is dedicated to the helpful folk of Ilkley and its environs.

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Friday, October 31, 2014

Happy Friday and Happy Halloween!

Per usual, I'm linking up with April, Christina, Darci and Natasha for "Five on Friday," Lauren for "High Five for Friday"; and Amy and Karli for "Oh Hey, Friday."

Let's get down to it!

After I worked so much last weekend, I have taken today off. And let me tell you, that is a glorious thing. Since Walker had Halloween-themed things to do at school today, I am taking him in and coming back to have a couple of hours to myself! On the agenda? Grocery shopping, a haircut, cleaning the house, doing laundry, getting things ready for trick-or-treating for tonight and maybe even a quick NAP!

Speaking of trick-or-treating, I am so excited that today is Walker's first Halloween! Little Man is going as a lion {complete with a mane and everything} and I can't wait to show y'all pictures of the cuteness on Monday. You can follow me on Instagram if you want a sneak peek before then!

We are going trick-or-treating and then heading to our church's fall festival. I can't wait to see how Walker reacts to the bajillion other kiddos in attendance and the petting zoo!

And after the little one goes to bed, it's our annual tradition of Baked Potato Soup, a glass of wine and not-so-scary movies on TV.

Dying over this cuteness!

Keeping on the Halloween train, I have put Walker in some Halloween PJs this week. Of course, he gets pretty dang fussy when it's nighttime and I try to take his picture, so these pictures of a {very wiggly} 9-month old will have to suffice!

"Boo" jammies from Old Navy {no longer on website}

Pumpkin jammies from Carter's {hand-me-downs from Walker's cousin}

I am really excited to try Annie from Home of Malone's Veal + Turkey Stuffed Meatballs! Brandon loves anything with meat in it {especially homemade meatballs}, so the ingredients for these are going on today's grocery list. Since the weather has gotten somewhat fall-like again, I think these will be a perfect, cozy meal for tomorrow night!

I have told y'all before how I'm more than a little obsessed with Loft's collarless utility seriously obsessed. I have a couple, and ordered this one the other day when they were having their 50% off everything sale. They were super great when I was still nursing and had to pump at work, and now that I'm not nursing, I'm still in love with their flawy, comfortable - yet professional - look. Run, don't walk, to Loft to get you a few! You won't regret it, I promise!

 Hope y'all have an excellent weekend!

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Chair Crush

We have this recliner in our living room that I despise. I'm not even going to take a picture of it because I despise it that much. I can't complain much, though, because my grandparents gave it to us when they got a new one. We used it in our apartment when we were first married, and when we made the move to our house a few years ago, it made the move with us, much to my chagrin.

Brandon loves it {seriously, what is it with men and La-Z-Boys?} and I will admit, it helped me rock Walker to sleep many a time. It also helped me feed him...and with a baby with reflux means our poor chair looks like it was in a major accident and spit-up was the culprit. See? Bad.

We're currently in the market for a new accent chair for our living room to replace the old, worn out, dirty recliner. {My brother, who will be going to college in August, will gladly get the recliner for his dorm room. Spit up stains will soon be replaced with Taco Cabana and some adult beverage stains, I'm sure of it.}

I'm currently obsessing over these six accent chairs {below} from One King's Lane and don't know if I'll ever be able to make a decision. I perused their accent chairs site and Chair Crush Pinterest board all afternoon yesterday and discovered I have a pattern, and that's nailhead trim. Seriously, I'm in love with it and can't get enough.

Brandon is definitely all about the leather and comfortability of the chair, while I'm more on the looks {and nailhead trim} side of things. Of course, we're planning to have another baby at some point, so the leather will be nice if we have another spitter-upper like Walker; you can just wipe off. Brandon will be the first to tell you that I'd live in an all-white palace if I could, but alas, I guess that's not feasible with babies, now is it? ;)

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So, which of these do you like best? I'm leaning more towards #4, but I'd love to hear what you think! Be sure to check out One King's Lane the next time you're in the market to buy a new chair...or anything for your home, for that matter!

Happy Thursday, friends!

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Walker is NINE Months Old!

Walker, you are nine months old! I know I say it every month, but I can't believe we're already here!

You are now taking three 5 oz. bottles a day: 6 a.m., 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. You are eating more food than milk, and I can't believe our sweet little boy is relying more on food than milk! Stop growing!

Your schedule is: 6 a.m.: wake, followed by oatmeal and a bottle; 9 a.m.: morning snack; 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.: nap; 12 p.m.: lunch {vegetable, fruit and yogurt}; 1-3 p.m.: nap; 3 p.m.: afternoon snack; 6 p.m.: dinner {vegetable + quinoa, fruit and yogurt}; 6:30 p.m.: bath; 7 p.m.: bed.

You still love to eat, and we have started you on a few table foods: peas, corn, cubed sweet potatoes, sting cheese, green beans, pears and peaches {and Puffs}. You still love your purées and eat: quinoa, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, green beans, peas, broccoli, avocado, apples, bananas, peaches, pears, mangoes and yogurt. You also love drinking cold water out of your sippy cup

You are a great sleeper and typically sleep from 7 p.m.-6:30 or 7 a.m.! We've had a few one-off nights where you have woken up in fits, but we quickly learned it was teething. {I hate you, teething!}

We had to lower your crib to the lowest setting a few weeks ago. You have gotten quite good at attempting to climb out of your bed - just like your Uncle Royden used to do - and it scared us a lot, so down the bed went. You continued to do it on the next level, so down it went to the lowest possible setting. We still will go in in the mornings and find you standing up in your crib just smiling at us with your sleepy eyes!

You went in for your flu shot earlier this month and weighed almost 23 pounds. You go back for your second flu vaccine and nine-month check-up in two weeks, so I'll know your full details then. All I know is, you're a chunk and I love it!

You started crawling last month, and now you're into EVERYTHING! You are so fast, too! You have started pulling up on things, including your walker, in the bathtub and in your crib, as well as on us. You also enjoy standing if someone is holding your arms, or if you're standing in between one of our legs while we're sitting. I have a feeling you'll be walking by your first birthday, but I'm not rushing that in the least! You actually took your first assisted steps with your walker last Friday, and have really enjoyed doing that continually.

You have started to roll over onto your back, hold up a book over your head and "read it." It cracks us up! You also noticed that things make sounds when you hit them together, so you're often smacking your blocks together and cracking up at the sound that makes.

You cut your bottom two teeth, and now you look so much more like a big boy to me than a baby! It's so cute to see your scrunch-nose, open-mouth grin with those two little teeth in there.

You say "Mama," "Dada" "Ba" {for bottle} and "Bah bah" {for bye-bye}. You also understand the word "no," and when I say it to you, you shake your head "no" back at me. You recognize your name, and turn if we call it.

Your firsts for this month included: getting your bottom teeth, starting a few table foods, pulling up on things, taking your first assisted steps with your walker, your first nights away from Mommy and Daddy, your first boo-boo at school, transitioning to the convertible car seat and your first visit to the pumpkin patch.

You are in nine month clothes and a few 12 month ones, as well. You are also in size three shoes.

You are so precious and smile so much! You love to give kisses, and when you do, you put both of your hands on either side of our faces and smack one on us. It's adorable!

You absolutely adore your Daddy and think he just hung the moon. You also love: cold water from your sippy cup, bath time, playing outside, swinging in your swing, giving kisses, sleeping on your tummy, reading books, terrorizing Oliver and the song "All About that Bass" {you dance to it, which is hilarious}.

You don't like: picking food up by yourself - you'd rather us feed it to you; the NoseFrida; having your face or nose wiped; getting dressed in the mornings being in your infant carseat {hence why we transitioned you!} and avocados {clearly you're not my child in that regard!}.

Walky, Walk, Boo Boo, Walker Boo, Little Man, Monkey, Monk-Monk

Walker, how you are already nine months old is beyond me. You are so fun, sweet and hilarious that I sometimes sit back and wonder how we got so lucky. {I guess the better term would be "blessed."}

I am truly enjoying seeing your personality come out and shine through, as well as determine which characteristics or traits you have from your Dad and me. You definitely have my zero patience - you can go from zero to 60 in five seconds flat. You are also very dramatic like me, but you are very loving and affectionate like your Dad. You also have a great appetite like us both! I see so much of your Dad in you at times, but everyone comments how you look just like your Pah {my grandfather} and Uncle Greg {my great-uncle}.

I absolutely love seeing the world through your eyes and enjoy watching you learn new things. You are such a sweet, precious boy and I can't imagine my life without you.

You are a joy and a delight and we love you to pieces.

Mommy and Daddy

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Aussie Vox Box Review

I recently received my Vox Box from Influenster. Since it wasn't in a cute little box, I didn't take a photo, but just picture in your mind a rectangle cardboard box with two Aussie Products in it: Aussie Sprunch Spray and Aussie Instant Freeze Aerosol Hairspray

First, let's start with the Instant Freeze hairspray.
I have very fine, thin hair that is about shoulder length. I always tease it because A) I am from the south and that's what you do; B) I have a massive cowlick in the back that I need to disguise; and C) Because I think my hair looks better with a bit of "oomph." So, I always use hairspray...especially on the "bump!" I am used to using another soft-hold aerosol spray that I really like, so I will admit that I was hesitant to try this one. {I'm a creature of habit.} But, I did try it, and, like the name, it does "freeze!" I will say I did like the hold it gave, as well as the smell. But I didn't really like the film it left on my marble counters, and it did give some strands of my hair a crunchy look. But, it held very well and my bump didn't go anywhere all day.

Now, moving on to the Sprunch Spray!
My hair is straight as a board and has absolutely zero curl or wave to it. And I mean NONE. It is straight and straighter. So, because of that, I asked my friend Liz {who has a precious wave to her hair and can rock the loose, undone curls on a daily basis} to review the Sprunch Spray for me. Because if I used it, y'all, I would look like a wet dog.

Here are her thoughts:
This works great for using on wet hair versus styled hair! I love the smell, and I also love how I can go to bed with wet hair and then spray this on it in the morning. It works great for that casual curl look.

I received these products complimentary from Influenster for testing purposes.

Monday, October 27, 2014

Oh man, how is it already Monday?! I'm linking up with Biana and Meghan today.

I had a work event, so my mother-in-law came over to watch Walker until Brandon got home from work. Friday was also Walker's first day to use his convertible car seat! He absolutely loved it and car rides are much nicer now. ;)

When I got home, Brandon had us eating our colors! I was so starving, I kept piling everything on my plate.

Sadly, there was a horrific accident at work and I spent all evening {and night} working. That seemed to be the theme of my weekend.

Saturday morning came early, but the morning was so crisp, cool and fall-like that I took Walker out for a quick walk. He loves being outside and it was nice for me to get a breath of fresh air...literally.

I spent the rest of the morning alternating between cleaning and working {which was awful}. Once I came to a stopping point, Brandon and I went out to our new and improved Kroger to get supplies for our annual pumpkin carving and cider-drinking fête!

We are absolutely obsessed with our giant new Kroger and kept wandering the aisles buying things we didn't need. But a make-your-own almond butter section? Yes, please!

We decided on a whim after the Kroger trip to go early vote since the polls were open on a Saturday. Once we gave the volunteers our IDs, signed the papers and were walking to the booth to cast our ballot, the volunteer told me I really "shouldn't be wearing my shirt." I looked down and realized I had on my {super comfy, always-wear-on-Saturday} GOP elephant T-shirt. And apparently that's frowned upon in voting establishments. OOPS! I was still able to cast my vote, for Greg Abbott, though! #iloveTexas

Once we got home, we got started on dinner, our pumpkins and the treat recipe I blogged about on Friday

Brandon made us some Apple Cider Margaritas and I got started on the treats, which were super easy. And guess what? I didn't mess them up! Woo hoo!

I made enough for Walker's three teachers and put the rest in a Tupperware container for Brandon to take to work today.

For Walker's teachers, I found these cute Jack-O-Lantern gift boxes in Target's $1 aisle. I put the treats in a cellophane gift bag and tied it with black and white baker's twine. I just printed off on card stock these cute free printables from Pinterest, though I can't find the link I used. {So sorry to whoever created these precious things!} I just put everything in the gift box and took it to school with Waker today.

After we ate dinner, Brandon carved Walker's pumpkin and made the pumpkin's teeth match Walker's. :) My pumpkin will not be pictured because I butchered it so badly.

We went to church, where our pastor preached an EXCELLENT sermon on rest and ridding ourselves from this instantaneous world that we live in where everything has to be done RIGHTNOW.  As soon as it's online, I will link it here because it was that good. I looked at Brandon after the sermon and said, "Well, I don't know about you, but my toes are hurting because that sermon stepped all over them."

And taking the sermon to heart, we came home from church, had lunch and then everyone laid down for a nap. I caught up on a few TV shows in bed and caught a few minutes of shuteye. Walker napped for 2.5 hours! It was wonderful!

After his nap, he checked out his pumpkin:

...and decided to terrorize his Daddy by pulling his hair while he had him on his shoulders.

We all took a family walk and then Brandon cooked dinner while Walker and I played in the backyard.

We ate, got all ready for the week and for Halloween,
 and I finally {finally} changed my chalkboard.

I had to work more on Sunday evening, so I decided I'm taking Friday off. Walker is going to go to "school," and I'm going to clean our house, get ready for our trick-or-treaters and have a little bit of mama time before picking my little man up early from school and celebrating his first Halloween!

Have a great week, everyone!

Friday, October 24, 2014

Happy Friday, friends!

I'm linking up with April, Christina, Darci and Natasha for "Five on Friday"; Lauren for "High Five for Friday"; and Amy and Karli for "Oh Hey, Friday!"

My kid loves "All About That Bass." As in, will only dance to this song and this song only. Kid has moves! {And he did not get those from his mama!}

I'm attempting to make these treats {via Sally's Baking Addiction} this weekend for Walker's teachers using these free printables {via Fancy Ashley} for a little Halloween treat! I know they seem super easy, but I am not a baker in the least, so I'm sure I'll find some way to screw these up. Ha! Wish me luck!

I am dying to see "Gone Girl," but I haven't read the book. Have any of y'all seen it without reading the book? What did you think? {Hurry up on it, DirecTV Cinema!}

Brandon got home last night from being away on business, and boy, were Walker and I excited to see him! He was at a tradeshow that will be held in Las Vegas next year, and I'm already thinking I'm going to need to tagalong on that trip! I've never been to Vegas and seriously can just envision myself with a cocktail {or four} by the pool.

And all I can think about when I talk about Las Vegas is the "Modern Family" episode where they go to Vegas. "Excelsior Plus!?"

And, of course a picture of Walker to close out the day. Brandon picked up these {green and gold, of course} sensory balls for Walker when we were in Fredricksburg for $1. Of course these are now Walker's favorite toy. Seriously never buying expensive toys again.

I hope y'all have an excellent weekend!

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

A Bullet Point Blog Post

Bullet points today. Because, why not?

  • I am absolutely loving all of the recent pregnancy announcements from blogger "friends!" So excited for Aileen, Jessi and Brittany
  • I'm already listening to Christmas music. So, there's that.
  • Ulta has great customer service! I purchased a Chi there on Aug. 16, and it stopped working yesterday. Literally would not turn on when I plugged it in, and I tried multiple outlets throughout my house. So, I called their customer service number and they were able to track my purchase, email the receipt to the store where I purchased it, and I got a brand new straightener yesterday afternoon! Thank you, Ulta!
  • Kendra Scott, on the other hand? Notsomuch. I dropped one of my beloved black/gold Danielle earrings on the tile floor yesterday {everything broke yesterday} and the center shattered everywhere. I tweeted them and they wrote me back with their customer service email. So, I emailed them, explaining the earrings were a birthday gift and I broke one, asking if it would be possible for me to have it repaired or replaced. They told me I could purchase a new pair for half off. Ummm, what part of "these were a gift" do they not understand? Why would I want to purchase a new pair of earrings at half off when I didn't purchase them in the first place? To say I was miffed would be an understatement. {But I still love Kendra Scott...just not the customer service.}
  • We are going to try out the farmer's market near our house this weekend, and I'm already giddily excited about it. Does that officially make me old?
  • I was watching Tori Spelling's "True Tori" last night, and - fake or not - that show was a ball of sheer depression. I had to turn it off and just make myself go to bed. I miss the old "Tori and Dean" shows! I loved them.
  • Walker's convertible car seat came in last night, and the child is terrified of it. For someone who hates his infant car seat so much, you'd figure he'd be all about his convertible car seat but, yeah, no. We're going to have to figure this one out.
  • I am very obsessed with this post that Natasha posted about the awful website GOMI. I was cheering her on with every sentence I read.
  • Had to go to Target today to get another Cube. Yep, I was carrying a cube 'o' wine through Target at 12:30 p.m. today. High class.
So, there's my stream of consciousness/bullet point blog post for the day. Riveting stuff, I tell you. Riveting.

Have a great rest of your day!

Monday, October 20, 2014

Weekending {Finally}

Well, here it is almost 2 p.m. and I'm just now linking up with Biana and Meghan for Weekending! To say it has been a crazy few weeks in work land would be quite the understatement, so I'm finally getting around to writing this post and reading about your weekends!

After the stressful week I had, Brandon and I came home and split a bottle of Dark Horse Cabernet {which was amazing!} and enjoyed some of Brandon's homemade pizza. He attempted to make his own dough this time, and it was awesome. I've told him he has to make it again! We watched "12 Years a Slave" {well, he watched and I fell asleep}.

And a certain little man found his way into the pantry and poured out the Halloween candy when Mommy wasn't looking!

We watched Baylor lose terribly to unranked West Virginia. It was awful. I still can't get over the ridiculousness of that game. Even Walker was yelling at the TV! Ha!

Mummy jammies from Gymboree

Walker and Oliver curiously "played" with each other while Brandon and I did a few things around the house.

After the game, we went to my niece, Ellie Kate's, first birthday party! My sister-in-law had everything decked out and the birthday girl was as cute {and sweet} as ever!

Ellie Kate excited as we all sang "Happy Birthday" to her...

Our family at the birthday party

Walker and his cousin, Brayden, testing out Ellie Kate's new car gift

Walker and his Mimi at the party {Brandon's mom}

Walker's outfit: Baby Gap; Shoes: Sperry

Walker decided he wanted to have a party at 11 p.m., 3 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. {which he never does so we were super confused and finally realized he's cutting the top two teeth}, so we were super lazy bums all day.  I managed to make my way out of the house and get a pedicure, as well as make some of Walker's food, so at least I was somewhat productive!

Brandon and Walker put on their Cowboys gear to watch the game {Yay, Cowboys!} and then we all hit the hay super early.

Clearly it was a riveting weekend! ;) Hope y'all have a great week!


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Baio on tour, remixed Broken Bells who (like Flaming Lips) covered the Beatles on ‘Letterman’ (dates, streams & videos)

Baio at LPR in 2013 (more by Jonathan Bernstein)

Vampire Weekend’s Chris Baio, who is a solo artist as just Baio, has been on a short DJ tour this month which wraps up this weekend. All remaining dates are listed below, including the NYC show happening on Saturday (2/8) at Cameo with Headband & Hooligan and Griffin Camper. Tickets for that show are on sale now.

Cameo is also where Cut Copy’s Ben Browning DJs tonight (2/7) with Joel Ford (tickets), and where Teengirl Fantasy, L-Vis 1990, Lafawndah, Brother Bruno (ft. live vox by Aggressiva) and Aurora Halal will be on Sunday (2/9) (tickets).

In honor of his tour, Baio made a new mix which features some unreleased material. That can be streamed below. He also just remixed “Holding on for Life” off the new Broken Bells (James Mercer and Danger Mouse) album, After the Disco. That can be streamed below as well.

We just caught Broken Bells at Baby’s All Right (pics), which they played before appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman for Beatles Week, in honor of the 50th anniversary of The Beatles coming go the US. They covered “And I Love Her,” and you can watch the video of that below.

Last night (2/6), Letterman had The Flaming Lips and Sean Lennon, who covered “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” and the video of that can be watched below as well. Flaming Lips also just played the Amnesty concert and singer Wayne Coyne is about to kick off his solo tour of record stores with NYC in-stores at Other Music on Saturday (2/8) at 11 Am and Rough Trade at 4 PM the same day.

For more Beatles celebration, read our interview with Julian Lennon.

All Baio dates and streams, Broken Bells and Flaming Lips videos, below…

Baio 2014 tour mix

Broken Bells – “Holding On For Life” (Baio remix)

Broken Bells – “And I Love Her” on ‘Letterman’

The Flaming Lips & Sean Lennon – “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” on ‘Letterman’

Baio — 2014 Tour Dates
02-07 Denver, CO – Denver Disco @ Bar Standard
02-08 New York, NY – Cameo Gallery

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• What Happened to the Money?

    Larry Elliott is right to ask in Tuesday’s Guardian why 16.5 billion of quantitative easing made available by the Bank of England to the commercial banks through the funding for lending scheme has failed to show up in increased lending to the small and medium-sized businesses which desperately need a boost to their available funding. He is also right to dismiss the lame excuses offered by both the Bank of England and the commercial banks to explain why such lending has actually fallen rather risen since the same time last year.

    We are, of course, all paying the price, in a slower recovery from recession, higher unemployment, less investment and more business failures, for the fact that this resource, rather than being used, languishes in the banks’ coffers – so we all have an interest in why it has happened. The bad news is that the reasons for it are part of a much wider and longer-term picture.

    The excuses trotted out include the age-old claim by British banks that the comparatively low level of their lending to business does not evidence any reluctance to do so, but merely a shortage of demand – or, to put it another way, a shortage of suitable projects on which to lend. But no sense of this can be made unless we know not only how much is available to lend but also – and more importantly – the terms on which the banks are offering to lend.

    And that is precisely, of course, what we are not allowed to know. The banks are always very coy about the terms they offer. But, in the absence of information made available by the banks, we are entitled to make some assumptions on the basis of what is known of the long-term attitude of the British banking system to lending to industry.

    The information that is available shows that, by comparison with other and more successful economies, our banks lend over a shorter term – the repayment period, in other words, is shorter. This means that the annual repayment costs of bank loans for British firms over the life of the loan are much higher, the adverse impact on cash-flow is therefore more severe, and the need to make an immediate return on investment (and a quick boost to profitability) is much greater.

    My colleague, George Tait Edwards, has shown that annual repayment costs that are two, three or even five times lower are a large part of the reason for the greater amount and ease of bank borrowing enjoyed by businesses in, for example, Germany and Japan, and in the new powerhouses of China, Korea and Taiwan – and that is, of course, why they are able to buy and make a profit from our failing assets.

    This is the fons et origo of the much-lamented British disease of short-termism. For many British firms, short-term cash-flow or liquidity is at least as important as longer-term profitability, because it is literally a matter of life and death. It is a factor that both inhibits the willingness to borrow (and therefore the access to essential investment capital) in the first place, and – if the loan is made – greatly increases the chances that it will not and cannot be repaid in accordance with the loan period and terms insisted upon by the banks.

    If, as is all too likely, a business borrowing on these terms runs into difficulties before the return on the investment funded by the borrowing becomes available, the news gets worse. British banks, unlike their overseas counterparts, show little interest in the survival of their customers. Their sole concern is to recover the loan and interest payments due to them over the short period specified in the loan arrangement. If that means receivership or liquidation – even if the business had a good chance of survival were the investment plans funded by the loan allowed to proceed – so be it. The banks can console themselves not only with the return of the loan and other payments due to them sooner than if the business had been allowed to survive but also with the money to be made from the disposal of the assets (sometimes to foreign buyers) and the receivership process.

    Many people are vaguely aware of these factors but our lack of interest in what makes competitor economies more successful than ours – indeed, our conviction that we have nothing to learn from them – blinds us to these truths. It is time we opened our minds and demanded better from our banking system. And shouldn’t these decisions in any case be taken in the public interest and not those of self-interested bankers?

    Bryan Gould

    4 June 2013

  • Tilting On Its Axis

    New Zealanders often bemoan the fact that we are so remote from anywhere else. There’s not much we can do about geography, but we could sometimes make a greater effort to relate our own situation to what is happening in the rest of the world.

    A case in point is the upheaval that occurred last month in the global debate about economic policy. The economic world, for a moment at least, tilted on its axis, but we have sailed serenely on as though nothing has happened.

    The story is a simple one. Most people will know that the current government, from the moment it took office in 2008, has insisted that its top priority must be to cut spending and reduce the government deficit, thereby becoming a founder member of what is by now a dwindling group of countries that maintain that austerity is the correct response to recession.

    On the face of it, this stance seems to run counter both to the Keynesian lessons we thought had been learnt from the Great Depression of last century and to the practical experience today of those countries that are finding themselves mired in recession while pursuing austerity policies.

    But the proponents of austerity have been encouraged to stick to their guns, in the face of mounting evidence that they are on the wrong track, by the work of two highly regarded Harvard economists. Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff published an influential paper called Growth in a Time of Debt in 2010 which purported to show that a country with international debts equal to 90% or more of its national output would suddenly experience a sharp fall in its growth rate.

    For those countries with high levels of debt (and we are one of them), the lesson was clear. If they are to grow and escape recession, they must reduce the level of debt.

    Reinhart and Rogoff’s paper became the favourite reading of the US Republicans (and particularly of Paul Ryan, their Vice-Presidential candidate), and this goes a long way to explaining the difficulties President Obama has had in persuading Congress to support his counter-recessionary strategy. It wasn’t just on paper that Reinhart and Rogoff peddled their message; they appeared in person before a House Committee and assured the legislators that there was not a moment to lose – that, far from stimulating the economy, it was essential to start cutting immediately.

    The European Union economic policy chief, Olli Rehn, currently presiding over the worsening economic performance across the euro zone, is another enthusiast; and the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, in a Britain that has lost its top credit rating and has only just escaped a triple dip recession, is another to take comfort from the support offered by Reinhart and Rogoff’s research, which he is fond of citing at every opportunity.

    The story has now, however, taken an unexpected turn. A young graduate student at Massachusetts University Amherst, Thomas Herndon, was required, as an exercise, to replicate Reinhart and Rogoff’s research. He was downcast to find that, try as he might, he could not do so. The young man finally discovered the truth; the Reinhart and Rogoff research was vitiated by fundamental errors. He published, with the help of two senior colleagues, the results of his work, and created a sensation which is still reverberating around the world.

    The catalogue of mistakes is shocking. Reinhart and Rogoff had simply omitted through an oversight some of the key data; they had capriciously given excessive weighting to some minor factors (including, interestingly, New Zealand’s low growth rate in 1951 – the year of the waterfront strike) that had skewed the results; they had assembled the statistics in bands so as to suggest that there were tipping points (such as a 90% debt to GDP ratio) that were in fact artificially constructed; and even if their conclusions had survived these errors, they had hardly considered the possibility that any correlation between high debt and growth rates might have shown that slow growth produced high debt rather than the other way round.

    What this means is that policies that have kept millions out of work, condemned many to continuing poverty, destroyed a number of European economies, and weighed down the whole global economy and its prospects have been based on sloppy research and political prejudice.

    It seems unlikely, however, that the architects of austerity will be deterred. Their convictions remain unshaken. They will go on crucifying the poor and vulnerable, even in the face of both practical and theoretical evidence that they are mistaken.

    Even Paul Ryan, Olli Rehn and George Osborne, however, cannot match Bill English and John Key for insouciance. Our government remains committed to the austerity path; it does not see the need even to acknowledge, let alone concede, that the intellectual underpinnings of the policies they are pursuing have been shown to be without foundation. It is little comfort to our unemployed (still at historically high levels) and disadvantaged that they can make common cause with millions of other victims around the world of what looks increasingly like a cruel deception.

    Bryan Gould

    6 May 2013

    This article was published in the NZ Herald on 14 May

  • Our Politicians Are Not Up To It

    The revelation that Growth in a Time of Debt, the influential 2010 paper by leading economists Reinhart and Rogoff, was vitiated by basic errors has removed one of the last credible underpinnings of the contention that austerity – and reducing the deficit at all costs – is the proper response to recession.

    But it is not just miscreant economists who have egg on their face; it is our political leaders too. The translation of the Reinhart/Rogoff findings into a simple ‘rule’ that a debt to GDP ratio exceeding a tipping point of precisely 90% produces a precipitate slump in economic growth has been the intellectual foundation of policies advocated and implemented by politicians across the western world. The two economists have frequently been cited as champions of austerity by Paul Ryan, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, by Olli Rehn, the European Commission’s economic chief, and by George Osborne, among many others.

    How did these luminaries come to accept and implement such a literally counter-productive policy? The answer is that there are very few politicians who are competent to make their own judgments on major economic issues. What most of them do is cast around for arguments that support their own political prejudices – and that is all the easier if those arguments are offered from within the comfortable confines of current orthodoxy.

    Reinhart and Rogoff were endorsed and applied (mistakes and all) because it is what political leaders wanted – on political grounds – to hear, and because it accorded with the ‘free-market’ doctrines that have dominated western economies for nearly four decades. A George Osborne, for example, found that the supposed ‘90% rule’ gave him all the scope he needed to justify and target the true aims of his policy – smaller government and ‘rolling back the state’.

    The dependence of political leaders on advice – especially on economics – is not new; but it matters more than ever today as the dangers of such dependence become clearer. While the austerity message is increasingly contested on grounds of historical experience, Keynesian economics, and the need to establish the direction of causality in respect of any postulated correlation, the thinking of most people is still corralled by those powerful forces which seized control of the global economy decades ago.

    There can be little surprise that advice from these quarters is extremely congenial to right-wing politicians. For most of them, economics is a simple business. They see no distinction between running a country’s economy and their own experience of running a business. Even when they think about the wider economy, their decades-long experience of monetarism leads them to believe that the essence of a successful macro-economic policy is a backward-looking insistence on stability and getting government out of the way. They are simply unfamiliar with the kind of thinking that has allowed other economies to grow and prosper.

    It is less easy to explain why politicians from the left of centre have been equally unwilling or unable to think for themselves. But the sad truth is that most simply assume, like Tony Blair, that economics is a difficult and technical business that can safely be left to the bankers, and is therefore no longer their responsibility. They tell themselves that the economic process is probably immutable anyway, and that the real business of politics is in any case about other issues. They place more value on the plaudits of the powerful than on the reproaches of the dispossessed.

    Even a Gordon Brown – who was widely thought for a time to be a master of economic policy – can now be seen to have been merely a prisoner of his orthodox advisers. He, at least, seems to have had the intellectual capacity to re-think his position to some extent since he left office.

    The dead hand of long-established orthodoxy continues to weigh down on the current Labour leadership. Even Eds Miliband and Balls, who clearly have some understanding of what is needed, find themselves constrained by the fear that anything too overt by way of new thinking will open them up to damaging attack. They have to move cautiously; and that inhibits them from developing and advancing a fully comprehensive and coherent alternative policy.

    The result is that our political establishment offers no one able and willing to break new ground, to consider, let alone advocate or act on, neglected issues that are nevertheless of great importance. Where, for example, is the debate about the need to improve competitiveness if we are to grow without running into the constraints of inflation and trade deficits? What about rejecting destructive austerity in favour of replacing – as the Japanese are doing – the banks’ monopoly over credit created for non-productive purposes with credit created by the central bank and directed – not into banks’ balance sheets – but in accordance with an agreed industrial strategy into productive investment? What about restoring macro-economic strategy as the responsibility of an accountable democratic government rather than leaving it as the preserve of an ‘independent’ central bank? And, above all, what about making full employment, on economic as well as social grounds, the central goal of policy?

    Bryan Gould

    24 April 2013

  • An Economic Policy for Labour

    It was significant that, in the seven issues that Tony Blair – in his article last week in the New Statesman – advised Ed Miliband to focus on, there was no mention of the state of the economy.

    It is true that Tony never had much interest in or knowledge of economic policy – a deficiency that might have been an exacerbating factor in his precarious relationship with Gordon Brown. But it is nevertheless surprising that, in identifying the big issues that warrant attention, the parlous state of the economy slipped under the radar.

    Tony Blair is not, of course, alone among leading politicians in disavowing any interest in economic affairs. Most are content to accept advice from supposed experts, which usually means (and was certainly true in the case of Gordon Brown) that they have no option but to go along with whatever may be the prevailing orthodoxy.

    Yet the issue of how an economy should be run and in whose interests is surely the central issue in democratic politics. The ability to think for oneself and to judge the merits of conflicting views should surely be a minimum requirement of anyone who seeks to run the country.

    We see today where the orthodoxy of the past thirty years has got us. It is one of the welcome changes that Eds Miliband and Balls have brought about that there is now a disposition in the Labour party to challenge that orthodoxy. There is certainly an appetite for such a change by virtue of a growing if belated realisation in the general public that the old nostrums have failed.

    What is needed now is more courage, not less – a focus on positive change (which these days means no more than a moderate Keynesianism) and a conscious effort to move the debate’s centre of gravity; the Blair advice to fight shy of any genuine clash of ideas is surely misplaced – not only representing a missed electoral opportunity but a betrayal of the interests that Labour should be fighting for.

    Labour should be ready to take on the tired and discredited proponents of austerity, monetarism and the “free” market with some bold new (or, in most cases, revived) thinking. What about, for example, abandoning the backward-looking and static view of the economy taken by monetarism (and the irrational reliance on austerity to recover from recession) in favour of a recognition of the great power of a competitive market economy to grow – like the US at the outbreak of World War II, the Japanese in the 1960s and 1970s, and the Chinese today? The new Governor of the Bank of England is signalling that he is already looking at this approach.

    What about addressing that issue of competitiveness, or lack of it, that has held us back and constantly threatened inflation and trade deficits when we have tried to grow, by making improved competitiveness the central determinant of policy – as Singapore does?

    Why not tackle that issue by ensuring that – as Keynes warned – a shortage of money (for which read credit) does not hold us back, but that the credit that is created is put to productive purposes by being channelled, with the aid of an industrial strategy agreed with government, business and banks, into strengthening our neglected manufacturing base?

    What about using specific and focused measures to control inflation through restraining bank credit creation for non-productive purposes, so that the real and positive purpose of macro-economic policy – the productive use of all our resources, and the achievement of full employment in particular – become the main focus?

    And why not restore such macro-economic goals to their proper place in a democratic society – as the prime responsibility of elected and accountable governments, rather than being sub-contracted to unaccountable and self-serving bankers? And when government uses its power to “print money”, shouldn’t we ensure that those resources help industry through productive investment rather than sitting unused while they boost the balance sheets of the banks?

    And should we not nail forever the canard that we have to choose between social justice on the one hand and economic efficiency on the other? We have seen just how economically efficient is an economy that is run in the interests of a privileged few. There is nothing economically efficient about placing huge purchasing power in fewer and fewer hands, about allowing the wealthiest to treat the meeting of their tax obligations as a minor voluntary donation, about keeping large numbers out of work so that they are claimants rather producers, about leaving manufacturing flat on its back, about using vast amounts of money from both the taxpayer and the central bank to boost the banks’ balance sheets while both demand and investment remain depressed.

    A real debate about economic policy would produce great benefits – not just for the party brave enough to initiate it, but for the country as well.

    Bryan Gould

    15 April 2013

  • Doing What The Big Boys Tell Us

    It is surely now clear that this government sees our economic future as being dominated by big international players.

    Little account is taken of the “little people” – the unemployed, the low-paid, the wage-earners, and their families – or of their contribution, both actual and potential, to a successful economy. Otherwise, the government would not be so relaxed about the numbers unemployed, or struggling to make ends meet in low-paid jobs with little or no job security.

    Nor do small and medium enterprises figure largely in the government’s view of what makes a successful economy. Otherwise, they would not dismiss the plight of small manufacturers and exporters, burdened by an overvalued currency and the low level of demand.

    No, the government pins its hopes of getting the economy moving again on persuading big international investors to favour us with their attention – and John Key seems ready to bend over backwards to close any deal that is offered, whatever its terms.

    We have already seen how far the government is prepared to go. Warner Brothers didn’t even have to break sweat to get a $67 million tax concession and a change in employment law that reduced the rights of New Zealand workers.

    Sky City was able, in a “negotiation” that excluded other options, to extract an increased number of pokie machines in return for building a convention centre which will deliver to them substantial economic benefits anyway.

    But, as Ronald Reagan used to say, we “ain’t seen nothing yet.” The government is really pinning its hopes for foreign investment on drilling and mining – and it is leaving no stone unturned in its determination to make life easy for the big oil and mining companies, whatever price in domestic terms has to be paid.

    The evidence for this is too compelling to be ignored. In the last few months, the government has cut the Department of Conservation’s capability with the loss of a further 120 jobs. Changes to the Resource Management Act will allow Ministers to go over the heads of local authorities and permit mining or drilling activities that are “of national importance”.

    Large mining firms are permitted to prospect in areas that are environmentally unsafe, as in Northland, and in conservation areas such as Coromandel – and we are asked to believe that this prospecting is being done for fun, with no thought of a commercial return from any discovery of mineral resource that might be made. And the government have learned from the Warner Brothers issue; changes to please big business will now be made in advance and not left till the last minute.

    The Prime Minister loses no opportunity to proclaim that our economic future depends on digging up whatever can be found, irrespective of the impact on the environment and on the “clean, green” image we project to tourists. So we can imagine how irritated he was when the Brazilian petroleum giant Petrobras last year pulled out of their exploration off the North Island’s East Coast.

    He was even more angry that a protest at sea organised by local iwi and environmentalists had seemed to be a factor in that decision to withdraw, even though the company itself said they had withdrawn because they weren’t satisfied that the prospects were good enough.

    Kiwis have a history of supporting protest at sea – against French nuclear tests and Japanese whaling – but John Key is determined that future drilling at sea will not be the subject of protest. That is why in Parliament this week, the government is changing the law to make peaceful protest at sea a criminal offence, and to threaten protesters with fines of up to $50,000 and sentences of up to 12 months in jail.

    The proposed amendments to the Crown Minerals (Permitting and Crown Land) Bill break new (and probably unlawful) ground in a number of respects. A protest will be treated as criminal, even though no violence to person or property is perpetrated, and safety is in no way threatened; it will be enough if, in our 500-kilometre exclusive economic zone, the protest “interferes” with a vessel by approaching within 500 metres of it.

    The law has in the past protected installations at sea, such as oil rigs, but this is the first time that a vessel (which may be moving around) has enjoyed similar protection; it is clear that this provision constitutes an infringement of the freedom of navigation, in contravention of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

    And the restriction on the right to protest should raise concern from all of those who value our civil and political rights. We know, from the measures taken to stop a legitimate protest against China’s policy in Tibet when the Chinese Vice-President, now President Xi, visited us in 2010, how readily this government is willing to abandon our own standards to please powerful foreign interests; these latest measures are in breach of both our own Bill of Rights, which guarantees the right of peaceful protest, and of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

    The government are again prepared, it seems, to compromise our own standards so that powerful overseas business interests can have carte blanche.

    Bryan Gould

    7 April 2013

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OPASThe Ontario Provincial Air Service (OPAS) was formed by the Government of Ontario in 1924 to protect Ontario's vast forests through the aerial detection of forest fires, aerial transportation of fire crews and equipment, map making, aerial photography and forest inventory. At the same time, they constructed a hangar on the shore of the St Mary's River in Sault Ste. Marie to house an initial fleet of World War I surplus Curtiss HS-2L flying boats. In the first year of operation, 600 forest fires were spotted.

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I have seen some shotguns rifles marketed as tactical door breaching models, i.e Mossberg 500 w/ pistol grip. However I have seen little mention or posting for the sale of breaching shells. Nor do I ever remember seeningthem at my Local Gun Shop. I wouldn't be surprised to learn they ore not legal to purchase. Knowing this would definitely be useful before any additional modifications to my Rem. 879.

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#4 buck makes a pretty good key, and they are legal.

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what is in the breaching round? is it truly better than 4-00 shot?

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a breeching round is essentially a fully plastic shotshell, with a projectile formed from compacted metal powder at the tip. it is designed to destroy a metal object (such as a hinge, dead bolt or door knob) and then disintegrate 'into dust' immediately afterward.

there are currently no restrictions on breaching rounds that IM aware of. since most civilian shotgun ammunition can also take down a door; the only true difference would be safety. but always check to be sure. the difference between a legal and illegal shotshell is sometimes in the content.

a flamethrower shotshell for example, is basically a breech round but with a payload of magnesium dust instead of lead dust. which makes it vastly different (and illegal)

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The problem with buckshot when breaching is you can have bounce back, not good. Breaching rounds prevent or minimize any dangerous flying debris. A breaching barrel muzzle attachment allows one to place the the tip of the breacher crown to the door and dig in which will minimize bounce back. The ports allows the gases to be vented out sideways. There are no ports on a breaching attachment in the 12 and 6 o'clock positions. King Armory makes some of the best Breach/muzzle break attachments I have seen. Send your barrel in and they will install one for you. I am having one installed.

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