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Financial Inclusion for Seaweed Farmers

Financial Inclusion for Seaweed Farmers

Did you know that experts have described seaweed farming as a key solution in battling climate change? It can sequester carbon on land and at sea, minimize livestock methane emissions, regenerate marine habitats, and enrich the soil.

The Philippines has been the third-largest producer of seaweed globally. A major area of seaweed production on the island of Luzon is the Bicol Region.

Caramoan is one of the most visited tourist spots in Bicol because of its beautiful beaches and is one of the largest producers of seaweeds in Luzon. It was also the filming location of many international “Survivor” TV Series.

Local fisherfolks’ have 3 main revenue streams: Fishing, Seaweed Farming, and Tourism. When the lockdown was implemented, all revenue streams were lost.

Fishing – They usually supply seafood to local hotels and restaurants. The Covid-19 Pandemic and the subsequent lockdown closed tourism in the area. This caused the fisherfolks to have very little market for their catch, and the seafood selling prices dropped in the area.

Tourism – They use their boats to ferry tourists around the islands. They also supply tourists with lunch on boats, buko, and other local crafts. With Tourism being closed down due to the pandemic, all of these sources of income were gone.

Seaweed Farming – This could have been the fisherfolks’ saving grace revenue. However, since the global production of carrageenan slowed down, it also affected the seaweed buying price. There was more available supply than the limited demand, which pulled the buying price down. To add insult to injury, in the last quarter of 2020, three (3) consecutive storms in 2 weeks hit the area. All of the fisherfolks’ seaweed seedlings were wiped out. At this point, they decided not to plant more seaweed for 2021, because they were already in too much debt. If none of the fisherfolks plant seaweed, it could mean the end of the Bicol Seaweed Industry.

With the help of Agrabah’s partner sponsors, (Enchong Dee, Project Smile, Metro Naga Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Pirate Shack & Pechelito’s Resorts) and through coordination with the Caramoan LGU,

we launched the #SaveBicolSeaweedIndustry Campaign.

On March 3, 2021, Team AGRABAH went to Caramoan to provide farmers with seaweed seedlings and food kits for immediate relief.

The food kits were distributed to 100 seaweed farming families. The 7.5 tons of seaweed seedlings provided 25 seaweed farmers with 300kg per family to restart their seaweed farms.

With this initiative, we have supported 530 Individuals composed of PWD’s(1.89%), Seniors (4.53%), Minors (26%), and Able-bodied citizens (67.55%).

There are 500+ more seaweed farming family beneficiaries who need seedlings and farm implements (boats, ropes, and goggles).

These efforts were the first wave of relief. We are continuing to raise more donations and hope to do another wave of support soon.

More than short-term support, Agrabah is looking into the future. Team AGRABAH has been onboarding the farmers and fisherfolks of Caramoan, Camarines Sur into its online registry. The registry is integrated into Agrabah’s financial platform, which helps provide farmers with unique credit scoring, and access to different financing from AGRABAH’s partner financial institutions.

Access to different financial products allows farmers to expand their production, without being stuck in traditional debt traps. With more dignified options and more comprehensive information, farmers will not be obliged to sell their products at a low pre-negotiated price by traditional loan sharks.

All produce grown and delivered by Agrabah Registered Farmers will also be tagged for traceability. Agrabah’s new traceability features, make it is easier to identify the source of quality issues and helps Agrabah determine where to provide targeted capacity building for community improvement.

The traceability features will also allow AGRABAH to expand to export markets because it is required by European countries.

Through the support of #UNICEF #fintechforimpact and #ING, we can provide financial inclusion to our local farmers and fisherfolks.

If you wish to support the #SaveBicolSeaweedIndustry campaign, we are open to donations, both in cash and in-kind. Any help at this stage counts and will surely reach those who are currently in need the most.

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Pain not being managed with scattergun approach

Prescribers are handing out ‘Endone like lollies’ but pain management remains inadequate, says a pain expert—but pharmacy can help

Queensland pharmacist Karalyn Huxhagen, winner of the 2015 PSA Award for Quality Use of Medicines in pain management and group facilitator of the Mackay Pain Support Group, told the AJP that she agreed with doctors’ comments yesterday on a study examining increasing opioid use in Australia and its consequences.

The RACGP’s Dr Evan Ackermann told MJA InSight yesterday that “in hospitals, Endone has become the new Panadol”.

“I’m seeing people coming out of hospital with a suite of drugs – it’s an overall blanket approach to pain management rather than a targeted approach,” Huxhagen says.

“They come out on oxycodone, non-steroidals, paracetamol and codeine… it’s not unusual to get a script for four to six painkillers just to ensure you’ve hit every one you need.

“The patients is often needing to be counselled carefully as to where each of these medicines sits in their pain management scenario, so you’ve got to be able to spend time with them and make sure that they understand what each drug is for – you run the risk they’ll take all six of them when you don’t need to.”

Huxhagen says that particularly post-injury, a patient may develop a reliance on opioids if they are not weaned off them correctly.

“I agree with Evan wholeheartedly that inappropriate use of oxycodone is something we’re seeing. It’s being used very liberally.”

GPs are often in the dark about their patients’ subsequent opioid use, she says.

“I liken it to asthma. The GPs have a limited awareness as to how much codeine-seeking behaviour patients have,” Huxhagen says.

“It’s similar to what happens with salbutamol. The GP is often completely unaware of how many salbutamol inhalers patients use, because they just don’t tell them.

“One of the things I try to do, when talking with GPs, is say that when they make their pain management plan with their patient – because many go into a plan to help them get off opioids and get better – they need to ask for their patient’s permission to access how many OTC opioids they’re getting from their pharmacy.”

Unfortunately GPs are often reluctant to take that step, she says, while patients may go “far and wide” to access codeine.

Chronic pain may also be a growing problem to watch in future, she says, as “patients want relief and don’t want to pay the full price of Panadol Osteo, so they’re tipping over to use things that are really quite inappropriate”.

Victoria’s government has recently committed to funding a real-time prescription monitoring program for drugs including morphine and oxycodone, which Huxhagen welcomed.

In the meantime, she called for a collaborative approach to pain management and encouraged the use of non-drug solutions.

“The appropriate action would be discharging people from the hospital or health service with a pain management plan, including how to manage their pain and reduce inflammation rather than just a multi-bullet attack on something that can grow into a large problem,” she says.

“Simple things are often very good: warmth, rest, massage, high dose magnesium… there’s a lot of other therapies that can help.

“Use the physio for exercise plans and getting back to work plans; do something about the under-use of things like warm water exercises or tai chi.

“All of these have a place in pain management, and right now we’re giving Endone out like lollies and not managing the patient’s pain.”

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    What about those paitents like myself who have now had their doses reduced to what is deemed correct and are now not getting adequate pain management. Oxyxontin every 8 hours worked fine as dis fentanyl patches every 2 days. Since being moved to patches either every 3 days or oxycontin every 12 hours I spend so much time in pain or in withdrawals it is making me suicidal as I just want this pain cycle to stop. Doctors wont even give break through pain relief.

    Since these changes I spend everyday in bed when before I was active.
    If this is to be my future.
    I dont want it. I cant keep doing this.

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      Your situation is indicative of someone who needs a pain treatment plan that is individualised, not defined strictly by guidelines.

      Please call lifine on 13 11 14 to talk to someone about your suicidal thoughts. Please also discuss this with your doctor – they need to know what is happening and if they are unable to assist they need to refer you for comprehensive review.

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Curl up in a fur coat.

Mmm mmm macaroni cheese.

No fur coat? Find some wool and a hot water bottle.

Charity said…
Mmmmm hot water bottle & wool - my favourite companions for a chilly day! :o)
artyfartykat said…
Sounds good to me too! Love the snowy pics! Up here in the frozen north, we are now in our 4th week of the white stuff and the novelty is definitely wearing off!
florencemary said…
You are very wise! Love the photo of your cats (though it makes me miss mine terribly); and your macaroni cheese has sent me cheesey-bonkers - I've just made cheesey potato pie (no macaroni!). X
Lynne said…
Too cold for me - I'd hate it!

Enjoy the hot water bottle.
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oh how i long for winter!!!
Littlelou said…
That scarf is beautiful..so delicate (unlike me or my knitting!!)Thanks for thorp hat you sent me as a Pay It Forward..many moons ago. keeping me very warm indeed xx
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Mmm - macaroni cheese! Not had that for ages, now it's what I'm making tomorrow!
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I was going to say that #1 was my favorite by far...but then I saw the macaroni and cheese. Yummmmm!
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A hot water bottle is my favorite cold weather fix although the mac and cheese looks tasty.

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When you go traveling, is not excluded that something bad might happen. However, there’s no use for you to freak out just yet, but it’s good to keep in mind that there are a few risks that you need to take into account when you’re a backpacker, some that are different from those of a typical traveler. Therefore, your insurance will be different than of others.

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You’ll have to choose between insurances from a long list, we’ve put here the ones that you might need.

Medical expense coverage – this one is the most important, as it covers you when it comes to medical emergencies on your trip – for example, if you find yourself in a hospital far away from home.

Baggage coverage – this one helps you replace the personal items if stolen, lost or even destroyed.

Trip interruption coverage – you’ll be covered if something happens and you’re unexpectedly needed home.

Credit card or passport coverage – they’ll give you your money back if there are unauthorized charges on your credit cards or if you need to replace a stolen or lost passport.

Emergency evacuation coverage – they’ll pay if you suddenly need to be evacuated from that particular place, or for your return home after your recovery (for example, let’s say you had a head injury and you need to get home as soon as you’re better).

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Minor Update: Redo Progress 7

We are getting closer to the completion of the porting job. If you’re unaware, I am currently in the process of porting Guardian’s Guide to a new framework. If you want to get caught up with the porting process click here for the entire timeline.

As I mentioned in the last update, I spent this week porting the title screen and the guild hall menu. Neither of these have had significant changes and the port was pretty seamless. I did simplify some menu aesthetics for the guild hall but that’s about it.

All that’s left is the porting of the game intro dialogue. There is quite a bit of dialogue and I’m slowly getting into.

As I mentioned last week, there is an update I expect in a few weeks that will result in me having to go back and re-reference every menu I’ve used, that includes the dialogue. This is why I am hesitant to start porting all the dialogue, all the monotonous clicking will be suffering.

Nonetheless, once I get the dialogue ported the redo job will be complete and I can get back to creating the intro events.

That’s it for this update, next week will probably be the last redo update unless something happens. Until then, be well guys.

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There is an ongoing discussion about digital photography and conventional pictures and which of the two is much better. Really, each have powerful and weak factors. They are also interconnected, because new media (electronic pictures) starts out as traditional media. In reality, there by no means truly should be an argument simply because electronic photography is truly just another photographic type.

To include Twitter followers to your list, you will require to create a study using resources this kind of as TwtPoll and other such tools that are provided by Twitter. Right here is how to produce a survey. You require to define goals of the survey, pick the tools you will use, create the concerns, test it and then place it up on Twitter. This study can be from five questions to as numerous as you want. Deciding the concerns and content material can be the toughest component for creating a survey on Twitter. As soon as you have determined on the content material, then you can move on.

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Edmonton bookkeeping suggests considering Peter Drucker’s comment. He is the author of 39 very successful business books.

“Nothing happens until someone sells something.”

Likewise, another quote that should be considered is red Adair. Mr. Adair specialized in extinguishing and capping oil well fires.

“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” Often what ends up happening is you are going to realize that very quickly you are going to need some help from within your business.

If you haven’t already figured out already, it is definitely going to be baptism by fire once you get in to accepting customers and your small business is indeed open.

That is over and above not even including and what you’re referring to are the books, and the bookkeeping and accounting from your small business.

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That actually is going to make sure that as you don’t necessarily have an employee make sure that you’re gonna have a sound bookkeeping system. Because you don’t have anybody that is going to be individually doing these things, you’re gonna have to rely on technology, and very reliable software.

This reason for this is because you can do everything yourself and not miss anything or misconstrue anything.

Edmonton bookkeeping understands the fact that there is not necessarily going to be the decision where your accounting is going to be made sure of as it looked in having a free receivable where there is not necessarily going to be dealing a lot with the bad debts.

Anyone who is going to be having the policy with which it is going to be dealing with a lot of the bad debts are your gonna be able to write it off as an expense from the statement.

It is going to be in fact the fact that you are going to know exactly what is gonna be happening.

Make sure that you understand after the customary decision, where you’re gonna want to make sure that there is gonna be the supplies were gonna be see the increase in their cash accounts.

It is gonna be the decrease in their Accounts Receivable that are going to have made the distinction from within their business and within their means.

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And then you’re gonna have to also deal with the fact that there is there gonna be the balance sheet and it is gonna be considered an end visual asset.

Basically a lot of the compilation is going to own that number and it is just gonna not necessarily receive it and yet accounts savable are going to be a liquid current asset.

It is gonna be on the top of the balance sheet close to the cash, says Edmonton bookkeeping.

Basically it is going to be expected that the account receivable should come in within the next 12 months.

Then and in number itself, says them to bookkeeping, what’s gonna happen is the fact that there person is going to be the make sure that the expenses are going to be the mileage put in a lot of the date of travel, and where you’re coming or going.

It is going to be in and of themselves where they can sometimes be split into a lot of individual and distinctive categories.

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Making sure exactly what ends up happening for a lot of the considerations where you’re gonna know exactly where the simply just being build on the 30th and from out of your account.

Edmonton bookkeeping states the fact that you have to make sure that it doesn’t necessarily going to look at the high receivables where they are 60 days past due.

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Often it is gonna be the decision where a lot of the balance sheets or the current assets the liquid current assets should be near the top, near the cash on the individual balance sheet.

Make sure as well there’s gonna be the consideration where you want to make sure that it is gonna be looking at a lot of having a lot of the high receivables whom they are 60 days past due where there should be a policy of legitimate and considerable thoughtfulness, and awareness within each and everyone’s business.

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New Mutations in Six Genes Found to Increase Alzheimer’s Risk

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Researchers have identified new mutations in six genes that may increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

Their study involved the genetic analysis of 19 families in Utah with higher-than-normal occurrence of the disease. The scientists found relevant mutations in the genes PELI3, FCHO1, SNAP91, COX6A2, MUC16, and PIDD1.

The analysis also identified rare mutations in three other genes previously associated with increased Alzheimer’s risk — ABCA7, TTR, and NOTCH3.

“Identifying people with increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease before they become symptomatic may lead to earlier and more effective interventions,” Justin Miller, PhD, the study’s co-first author, said in a university press release.

These findings may help pinpoint new potential targets and therapeutic approaches for Alzheimer’s, noted Miller, who is also an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.

The study, “Analysis of high-risk pedigrees identifies 12 candidate variants for Alzheimer’s disease,” was published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia.

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Alzheimer’s is a progressive neurodegenerative disease likely caused by a combination of age-related changes in the brain, along with genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors.

While common mutations in more than 30 genes have been associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s, “it is estimated that more than 40% of the genetic variance of [Alzheimer’s disease] remains uncharacterized,” the researchers wrote.

High-risk pedigree studies, or those searching for genetic mutations in families with higher disease occurrence than expected by chance, “are a powerful and efficient method for identification of rare predisposition variants,” the researchers wrote.

This type of study has helped discover genes, such as PLD3, NOTCH3, and RAB10, that contribute to several diseases, including Alzheimer’s.

To identify new genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s, Miller and his colleagues at Brigham Young University, the University of Utah, and the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium, conducted a high-risk pedigree-based analysis using data from the Utah Population Database.

By analyzing the presence of Alzheimer’s-associated death among more than three million people with at least three generations of genealogy in the database, the researchers identified 19 independent families that had a higher-than-normal frequency of the disease and that each included two cousins with Alzheimer’s.

Next, the researchers used a genetic test to examine all protein-coding genes of the 19 cousin pairs and identify mutations shared by both cousins in each family.

“We then used a series of filtering criteria to identify rare genetic variants that were most likely contributing to the excess Alzheimer’s disease in each family,” Miller said.

Mutations shared by at least one cousin pair were compared to publicly available, large-scale datasets related to Alzheimer’s and were considered risk factor candidates if they met any of four criteria.

These criteria included a previous association with Alzheimer’s (known risk variant), an association with increased levels of Alzheimer’s-associated toxic molecules, a higher frequency in a population of Alzheimer’s patients than in an age-matched healthy population, and being present in more than one cousin pair across the 19 families.

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The researchers found that 117 mutations in 138 genes shared a biological interaction with genes already implicated in Alzheimer’s. Out of the 117 variants, 11 in nine genes were found to be the best risk factor candidates.

Four mutations in three genes — ABCA7, TTR, and NOTCH3 — had been previously associated with an increased Alzheimer’s risk, further supporting them as risk factors.

Two additional mutations — rs148294193 in the PELI3 gene and rs147599881 in the FCHO1 gene — were associated with increased risk for higher levels of Alzheimer’s-associated toxic forms of amyloid-beta and tau proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid, the liquid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord.

Three genetic variants — rs61729902 in the SNAP91 gene, rs140129800 in the COX6A2 gene, and rs191804178 in the MUC16 gene — were not present in a healthy longevity dataset and were more frequent in Alzheimer’s cases than in healthy controls in another dataset.

Finally, two mutations in the PIDD1 gene (rs200290640 and rs199752248) were present in both members of an Alzheimer’s-affected cousin pair in two independent high-risk families.

While these six genes have not previously been associated with Alzheimer’s, they are known to interact with genes considered potential or confirmed risk factors of the disease.

In addition, identified mutations in the ABCA7, SNAP91, and PELI3 genes were found in other relatives of the original cousin pairs.

“The presence of rare variants identified here may explain the prevalence of [Alzheimer’s disease] mortality in 19 of the 36 [Alzheimer’s]-affected individuals” from these high-risk families, the researchers wrote.

These findings further support ABCA7, TTR, and NOTCH3 as Alzheimer’s risk genes, and identify six other genes as potential risk factors.

They also indicate that “a high-risk pedigree approach can achieve sufficient power to detect rare variants, particularly when coupled with external datasets that contain meaningful data about disease risk,” the researchers wrote.

Among the study’s limitations were the small sample size, the absence of other ethnicities besides white, and the fact that Alzheimer’s diagnoses were based only on death certificate data, which may have missed several other people affected by the disease.

The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Huntsman Cancer Institute, Brigham Young University, the University of Utah, the National Cancer Institute, BrightFocus Foundation, and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.


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Digital Marketing Strategy Suck?

By April 18, 2017 July 12th, 2018 Digital Marketing Strategy, Marketing, Sales

I talk to business owners all the time who claim “Digital Marketing doesn’t work”, they’ll also complain about Email Marketing or LinkedIn Marketing and many other flavours of digital marketing.

Here’s the funny thing though, I also know savvy business owners who are making digital marketing work for them, I mean really using it to make a phenomenal difference in their business.

(As a side note, we also have it working for us, our next event is selling out and 88% of the tickets so far were sold by Email or Facebook)

The real question is: What separates those that have it working and driving sales and those who don’t….

The secret sauce is having a digital marketing strategy, actually having a plan of how all the pieces of your digital marketing fit together.  Let’s run through the ABC’s of your digital marketing strategy:

A. Know Your Stats

The business owners who have a digital marketing strategy know their stats, they know how many opt ins they get from their marketing – i.e. what percentage of people opt in from a landing page.

They also review their stats, they know whether Facebook or Twitter is a more significant source of their traffic and sales. To some it sounds boring, but it works. That which is measured, and managed, improves!

(Plus of course you don’t have to do it yourself, you can get a team member or hire an external company to do it for you)

Now that we’ve got the first, perhaps a little boring bit, out of the way (sorry about that!) let’s dig into the more interesting aspects of your digital marketing strategy.

B. Plan + Simple and Repeatable Key Tactics

The next building block is creating a written plan of your digital marketing strategy and the right tactics to make it happen.

Here is where the rubber meets the road, where will the traffic come from, what will the foreplay process look like, how will conversion happen.  As you can guess this is where most individuals fail to achieve impact and here’s why:

1. There are no traffic tactics.

Whether it’s paid ads, SEO or partnering, you need solid tactics to get you traffic.  Traffic is the lifeblood of your digital marketing, without it you are dead in the water.

2. There is no Foreplay

Every buyer is at a stage in their journey, the last stage of that journey is actually plonking down the cash and buying.  Most businesses are saying: “Buy My Stuff”. This is not foreplay, and misses 97% of the market – they’re gone!

Of course you want to give people the ability to buy – and this does depend on your traffic tactics – but if you don’t have different options for people at different phases of the buyer’s journey you will miss the opportunity to capitalise on the majority of them.

(I could spend hours on this aspect of digital marketing, but that will wait for another day)

3. No Conversion Process

Whether it’s a well crafted email sequence, or a webinar, or [shock, horror] someone picking up the phone and calling them, there usually is little thought and no process for how a potential client will go from a Looky Lou to a Buying Bill.

Chances are you already know what they need from your experience offline, but it’s taking that process that you do in person, and putting it in a digital format that trips many business owners up.

Conversion is a key piece of the puzzle, from getting people to opt in to your database, through to getting them to invest the money in what you have to offer.  Ask yourself this question honestly: how much do you know about copywriting, engaging content, and salesmanship in digital form?

C. Engaging is the Key

The final piece in the puzzle of the ABC’s of your Digital Marketing Strategy is engagement.  Without engaging your audience you’re stopped dead and going nowhere.

Again this is where many people struggle, it’s hard to stand out in a saturated marketplace.  But you must stand out….

With over 3000 marketing messages hitting us every day, yours has to stand out, grab them immediately and get them to go “What’s that about????”.

To do this you really have to know your target clients and what they like and don’t like.  The truth is if you want to get someone’s attention, you have to know what they give a damn about – and what they don’t.  This is where tapping into their emotions, telling powerful stories, and really working to make your content pop and stand out really makes the difference.

So what do you need to work on?

Which of the ABC’s of your Digital Marketing Strategy do you need to work on?  Which one will make the biggest difference to your marketing and sales?

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Untitled Aerial, 1988/2008

A river, seen from above. Silvery with sunlight, it bends and scatters through a landscape that recedes into a grainy haze. The picture is at once lush and imperfect, contaminated as it is by its own production; as shine bounces unevenly off the water, the light also arrives in reflective streaks on the windowpane that separates the photographer from the scene.

This image is part of Zoe Leonard’s Aerials (1986–89), an early series of black-and-white shots where the artist pointed her camera down from the windows of airplanes toward clouds, natural terrains, cityscapes, farmlands, and bodies of water. As is often the case with Leonard’s photographs, the edges of the negative are left visible in the print, affirming the materiality of analogue photo development and tying the image back to the framing device of the camera. In Untitled Aerial (1988/2008), part of the airplane’s window frame has also made it into the pictorial frame, with the blurred curve at the bottom reminding us of the photographer’s physical presence behind the camera.

The picture doesn’t come from a disembodied nowhere; it’s a view from above which remembers its own situated perspective. Leonard’s work has often returned to the fact that looking at involves looking from; her immersive camera obscura installations from more recent years, for instance, have invited viewers to look while also looking at the conditions of looking.

Untitled Aerial has two dates; the first, 1988, indicates when the photograph was taken, the second, 2008, is when the print was made. Back in ’88, Leonard was increasingly involved in queer activist work, as a member of ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) in New York. Her close friend David Wojnarowicz had by this time been diagnosed with AIDS; the illness had already taken his artistic mentor and former lover Peter Hujar, and many in their community were sick, dying, traumatised, mourning.

In her biography of Wojnarowicz, Fire in the Belly, Cynthia Carr recounts Leonard’s memory of inviting Wojnarowicz around to her apartment one day, to show him some work-in-progress from the Aerials series. “I had stacks and stacks of prints all over the floor, and he was so kind,” Leonard remembered. “I confided in him about this conflict I was having as an artist about the intensity of the activist work and the harshness of the reality of the crisis and—I was photographing clouds.” His response, she recalled, was to say, “Zoe, these are so beautiful, and that’s what we’re fighting for. We’re being angry and complaining because we have to, but where we want to go is back to beauty. If you let go of that, we don’t have anywhere to go.”

Writing in the late ’80s about his own work with ACT UP, the critic Douglas Crimp called for an expanded sense of militancy—one that would retain space for mourning and acknowledge a whole range of conflicting emotional states: “frustration, anger, rage, and outrage, anxiety, fear and terror, shame and guilt, sadness and despair” along with “deadening numbness or constant depression”. Rather than dismiss mournful feelings as indulgent or politically meaningless (as in the slogan Don’t mourn, organize!), Crimp insisted that trauma will always move through many different forms, and that the militancy should be able to remember the loss that it arose from.

Across Leonard’s varied practice, rage and mourning register alongside and out of the quietly studious and the visually pleasurable. Her silver river––which Fred Moten sees as “taking topological advantage of the opportunity to get away from itself for a little while”––is displayed in A FIRE IN MY BELLY opposite the exhibition’s eponymous work, an unfinished film from 1986–87 by Leonard’s beloved, lost, and remembered friend David Wojnarowicz.

This text was commissioned for the free magazine accompanying the exhibition A FIRE IN MY BELLY at Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin (on show February 6 – December 12, 2021). Here’s a PDF which includes the German translation.

Fred Moten, “Photopos: film, book, archive, music, sculpture” in Zoe Leonard: Survey (Prestel, 2018)

Douglas Crimp, “Mourning and Militancy” in October (Vol. 51, 1989)


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The most common type of sprinkler system is the wet pipe system. Wet pipe systems constantly maintain pressurized water within the pipes. When the system is activated by heat from fire, water is discharged through a closed sprinkler head. As each sprinkler head is activated by heat, it will discharge water until the fire is under control or extinguished.

Common Applications:

  • Commercial buildings
  • Retail stores
  • Climate controlled storage areas

Why use wet pipe systems?

  • Reliability and simplicity – Wet pipe systems have fewer components than other systems, and are therefore less likely to malfunction. They are also reliable even when they remain unused, often for years at a time.
  • Affordability – Because they are simple to install and maintain, they are cost effective.
  • Easy alteration – Modifying current systems generally involves three steps:
    • Shutting off water supply.
    • Draining pipes.
    • Making alterations. Once work is complete, it is simple to re-pressurize and test.
  • Quick restoration – In the event of a fire, it takes minimal time to get the system restored. In general, all that is required is to replace any fused sprinklers and restore the water supply.

Limitations of wet pipe systems:

  • Ineffective when the environment has sub-freezing temperatures
  • Less reliable with the environment is subject to heavy impact that could cause leaks


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We may collect personally identifiable information ("PII" - for example, your full name, email address, mailing address, and telephone number) from you when you voluntarily submitting the information while paying bills or debt using our systems.

We need this information in order to process and fulfill your payment and to notify you of your payment status, in order to register you as a Consumer or User of this site or to provide you with services. We may also collect PII from you if you choose to subscribe to our email program, or participate in sweepstakes, contests, and surveys, or in connection with content or suggestions you post on this site.

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Non-PII may be collected from you by means of Cookies and Pixel Tags. Cookies are small bits of information that this website places on your computer.

We, and our third party service providers use cookies and Pixel Tags to identify your IP address, browser type, domain name, and specific web pages through which you click. This data is collected automatically and utilized to help us look for trends to improve our website and your interactive experience. The cookies allow us to recognize you when you return to the website and to provide you with a customized experience that we feel will be of value to you. The cookies that are configured by this website do not contain any personally identifying information, such as your name, or sensitive information, such as your credit card number. Additional information regarding browser cookies and how to disable them is described below.

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This Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type or the domain from which you are visiting, the web pages you visit, the search terms you use, and any advertisements or links on which you click. For most Consumers and Users accessing the Internet from an Internet service provider the IP address will be different every time you log on. We use Log Data to monitor the use of and of our Service, and for the Website's technical administration.

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Practice Like a Pro

Learn how to practice like a pro! Doing well at anything requires practice. Lots of practice! There are no shortcuts! Practice takes time, lots of time. It can be boring. Practice is not usually fun. But learning how to effectively practice is one of the most important things you can learn as a musician! Let me give you some ideas on how to make the most of your practice time.

Best Tips for Effective Practicing

Plan to Practice

Make a plan to practice. Just as you write tasks, assignments, appointments in your planner, do not forget to include your music practice in your daily plans. If you tell yourself that you will practice when you finish everything else, most likely you will not get to the practicing. Choose the time and place to practice that works best for you. My last year in college, because of the way my class and work schedules worked out, my slotted/assigned piano practice time was from 10 p.m. to midnight. Was it ideal? Probably not, but it worked for me. Fortunately for everyone else, the piano I was using was in a separate building, far away from where anyone was trying to sleep!

Always Take Time to Warm Up

No matter when you decide to practice, always take time to warm up. Proper warm up is SO important! This will help you in so many ways. It will prepare you for the practice session, it will get your muscles involved ready to work, and warming up will help you begin to focus on practicing. Warming up is never a waste of time! Work on long tones for tone quality, pitch control and embouchure endurance. Do slow, and then faster scale patterns. Do some physical stretching to prepare your body for the practice session. Always do warm ups!

Be Intentional

Have a plan for each practice session. What are you hoping to accomplish? Be specific. Don’t just hope to play through the first movement of the sonata without any mistakes. Have a plan. “I am going to work on the correct dynamics of the first sonata movement. I think I am missing some crescendos.” The more specific your plan is, the better you will be able to accomplish your goals.

Be Efficient

Your practice time is limited. Use it efficiently! Don’t let your mind wander while you are trying to practice. You won’t know whether you played something correctly or not! Stay focused. Concentrate on what you are playing and how you are playing it. Listen while you play. Do you like what you hear? Why not? What can you do to make it better? Be your own critic and solve the problems you hear. I used to have a teacher who would tell me (repeatedly!) that if my mind was not engaged with what I was playing, I was wasting my time. Who has time to waste in the practice room?

Isolate the Problems

The purpose of practicing is to solve problems. Don’t spend all your time playing a piece from beginning to end repeatedly. Most likely, you can play most of the piece well. Find out where you are having problems, mark them, and focus on correcting the specific problems. Let’s say that in measure 22 you have problems playing an arpeggio section. Don’t play through measure 23 and then go back to the beginning. Take just measure 22 (where the problem is) and work on solving the problem. Play it through very slowly, but correctly. Do it several times that way, then take it just a tiny bit faster. Gradually increase the tempo until you can play it correctly several times at the correct speed. Then play measures 21-23. Does the problem section sound better? Then try playing measures 17-25. When you can do that correctly (several times), then you can think about going back to the beginning of the piece. Don’t waste your time repeatedly playing what you can already play well, focus on the problem parts!

Mark Your Music

There is no rule against marking your music. Smart musicians will mark their music to help them remember what to do, or what not to do. Markings can point out sections that need more practice, accidentals you miss too often, key changes, time signature changes, etc. You may not want to mark all this on your original copy of the music. (For competitions or auditions this would not be a good plan!) Make a copy of the music and mark all over it. Use different colors, use erasable highlighters. Use colored pencils. Whatever works for you. As you are playing through a piece, mark the problem spots so you know what needs special attention. (And so you won’t forget where the problem areas are!) Markings will draw your attention to certain things that you might forget about. You can mark where the melody line is. Mark your dynamic changes. Highlight where different voices enter. (Bach fugues?) Marking your music is a tool to make you a better musician.

Practice Slowly

I had a professor tell me once (or more than once!) that if I could not play the piece/passage correctly slowly, I would never be able to play it correctly up to tempo. He was right. When we play everything up to tempo all the time we learn to sort of gloss over the problem and hope no one notices. When we play through the passage slowly, we hear all the mistakes and unevenness that need to be corrected. So learn to practice slowly, find the problems, solve them, then work your way gradually back to the correct tempo. Slow practice is SO important!!!

Practice until You Cannot Play the Piece Incorrectly

When we practice, we are training muscles to respond correctly so the music is played correctly. We need to practice until our muscles automatically know what to do next – without conscious thought being involved. Our fingers/hands need to know what to do so our mind can focus on making the music flow from the finger/hand response. And that requires much practice! Concentrated, focused practice. Practice until the passage is played correctly every time, not just once in a while. Play a game with yourself – commit to practicing a section until you can play it correctly ten times in a row. If you mess up on time #8 then you have to start over at #1 again. If it takes an hour to accomplish that challenge, then take an hour. But when you finish, you will be able to say that you really accomplished something in that practice session.

Strategies for Solving Problems

Listen to Find the Problems

You must listen while you play in order to find the sections that need extra attention. You can not put your brain in neutral and just mindlessly play through a piece and expect to improve. You must focus and listen. Find where the problems are. Train your mind to listen critically to find things that need attention. Don’t rely on your teacher to find all your problems for you. Be your own critic. It might help to occasionally record yourself, then follow your music while listening to the recording. Mark all the things you hear that are not correct, or that don’t sound quite right to you. Then you know what to go back and work on.

Mark the Problem

One you listen and find a problem passage, mark it! Most likely you will not remember where every problem section is, and then you will waste time trying to find it again. Mark your music when you hear something wrong so you will remember what you need to come back to.

Analyze What is Wrong or What is Causing the Problem

When you begin to work on a problem passage, first, think about what is wrong with it. Are you playing wrong notes? Missing an accidental? Is the rhythm wrong? Is the passage uneven? Are the dynamics wrong? Before you start to practice the passage, you need to know what you are trying to correct.

Isolate the problem. Don’t work on two pages if the problem area is only two measures long. Concentrate on solving the problem in just those two measures. When you are confident you can repeatedly play those two measures correctly, then work those two measures back into the context of the piece. Start two measures before the problem and play for a couple measures after the problem. When you can do that well and up to tempo, add in a few more measures.

Practice to Solve the Problem

Remember your focus – what are you trying to correct? Solve the problem! Maybe you need to experiment with different fingering to make the passage easier to play. Maybe you need to mark that missed accidental in some bright color so you can’t possibly miss it again! Keep your mind focused on what you are trying to accomplish. Don’t give up and quit before you finish.

Learn how to practice efficiently and effectively! This is probably one of the most important things you can learn as a musician. The sooner you learn effective practice techniques, the sooner you will become a better musician! So go out and Practice Like a Pro!

Happy Practicing!

This link will give you some additional ideas to help your child practice.

And if your child does not want to practice, here are some ideas that might help.


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Indian Star Opener Shikhar Dhawan Gets Divorced

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Indian Star Opener Shikhar Dhawan Gets Divorced:- Indian star cricketer and opener Shikhar Dhawan shocked his fans and the fraternity of cricket after he announced a divorce from his wife Ayesha Mukherjee. The duo parted ways after eight years of their married life. Shikhar Dhawan is keen to make his comeback and get placed himself in the T20 World Cup squad that is expected to be announced today. Ayesha Mukherjee is a Melbourne-based boxer and Shikhar Dhawan adopted her two daughters after he got married to her. The duo is also blessed with a son Zoravar. Ayesha took her Instagram page to break the news about their divorce. She changed the name from Ayesha Dhawan to Ayesha Mukerji again.

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Shikhar Dhawan and Ayesha got married on October 30th, 2012. Ayesha is born in West Bengal but she moved to Australia at the age of 8 years. She is a trained kickboxer and she was first married to an Australia-based businessman in the past. They are blessed with two daughters Aliyah and Rhea. Shikhar Dhawan was last seen in the field in July this year in the Sri Lankan tour. He has been representing the Indian team from a decade and he turned captain for the recent series with Sri Lanka. There would be a tough fight for the opening slot for the T20 team between Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul.

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Liam Felix Hall is here!

Jeff and Bekah Hall are the proud parents of a beautiful baby boy! Liam Felix Hall was born on Tuesday, August 30 at 9:30 a.m. after a relatively short, but not exactly pain-free labor (is that fair to say Bekah?). Telfer and I visited the little family last night in the hospital and witnessed Jeff’s superior bundling/swaddling/wrapping technique and I got to hold Liam for an entire hour!

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  1. This is the most fun page I’ve been to on the web! You make me want to start a blog. 🙂
    Isn’t Liam adorable??
    Andrea, it was great seeing you last weekend! I’ll be up in LA a lot more these days and will hopefully see you more too!

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‘Made of Steel’ – Jim Anderson

This is a short video created as part of the community-based project ‘Made of Steel’, which centred around Consett Steel Works and the local communities which were effected by the closure of the Works in 1980.  This short film was made as a result of an interview with a local artist Phil Bartle, who draws his memories and experiences from his time when the Works were flourishing.

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Made of Steel was a Heritage Lottery funded project which is managed by Colour Your Life at Leisureworks. It was a creative heritage project capturing the memories, stories and archives around Consett Steelworks and the surrounding community then and now.
Consett steelworks dominated Consett, County Durham for 140 years from 1864 when Consett Iron Company was established. The Steelworks was closed down in October 1980 and devastated the community. Having no permanent museum, the stories and memories of the people that worked at the Steelworks, their families and wider community are the only legacy of an industry that affected thousands of lives.
Made of Steel was one of the last chances to chronicle first hand experiences and remember past generations and celebrate the historical importance of the area and its people, particularly for younger generations. The project worked with filmmaker/photographer Andrew Hagan and Creative writer Tom Kelly to creatively capture community tales which culminated in a film with soundtrack; a performance of poems, songs, drama and other spoken words; digital scrap book; an exhibition; educational resource accompanied by many other creative products to capture the unique and rich archives.

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4 Levels of Coaching

We can gauge the level at which a coach is working (and their professional versatility, or lack of it) by simply looking at the evidential data in their coachees. In this video compilation you can see all four levels. The introductory video is below. Longer versions of this video are available, contact us for access.

The Four levels are:

1. Intellectualizing
2. As #1 but with intellectual pauses
3. Deeper level accessing – Self-reflective experiencing
4. Same but with pauses in excess of 2 seconds, sometimes minutes

The physiological evidence is given in the videos.

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