Day OneHundredAndEight of being Aflickionless...

Maz's day started at about 5am (well thats when the alarm went off) as she had to be on set (Outragous Fortune) at 6.45am. It was a long day with a lot of waiting.

Good news came in the form of a phone call to let Maz know that the house that she & Russell had looked at was now theirs. After finishing on set and after a visit to Dee's house, Maz decided that her & Russell should go to Ginger Minx. There are some really yummy drinks coming out of that place.

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Sunny, overcast, wet...hmmm a normal Auckland day really!

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Maz & Russell found a place...it was the 4th place they looked at.

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Maz & Russell had to work on a Sunday, starting at 6.45am. FAIL!

Day OneHundredAndSeven of being Aflickionless...

What a busy day...maybe not as busy as you, The Jet Setter, but still busy.

At 9.30am this morning Maz & Russell had a house to view in Mount Albert. It was a nice 3 bedroom place (well 2.5 bedroom) and it was in Mount Albert, so that was a bonus but Russell felt it was a bit small. However we were interested.
A spot of shopping (both window & buying) was called for and Maz had to get a Starbucks (for some reason she felt like one & she hasn't had one in about a year or more).
The window shopping was in Diamond & Time. Not that Maz likes "store brought" jewelry, it amuses her to look and Russell wanted to have a nosey. I think Russell wishes that maybe they didn't go in there, because for the first time Miss "I Don't Do Diamonds" found a diamond ring she liked. It was a 2.08 carat solitaire for around $37,500 (a wee expensive isn't she?). And then when the lady in the store asked if Maz & Russell would like to try on anything, you should of seen how quickly Russell said "No!"...it was the funniest thing ever.
The "spot" of shopping which involved the spending of money resulted in Maz spending just over $200 in Amazon *gasp*. She brought Russell a new hoodie and Quicksilver polo shirt, and got a hooded puffer vest for herself (RPM). It was 50% off everything, so why not huh?
And after grabbing a Starbucks it was off to the second Style Pasifika rehearsal.

Style Pasifika rehearsal went well. Pretty straight forward, but was running on island time...haha. Maz got her passes for the event (the next rehearsal is at Vector, so we need them to get in) and rather than getting 3 like everybody else, she was able to get 4. Hehe...the bonus of being in her 4th year and have the same crew from a couple of years ago.
The PA for the body art section also gave Maz shit and asked if her model was drunk or hung over this year. She is known for having the drunk model...haha...even on show night! All class she is!!!

It was then off west to pick up lunch and hang at Dee's for a bit, before going to view a house in Glendene...and seriously the woman (Maz) has fallen in love. The house is relocated and has been done up nicely inside. Over the back & to the left of the property are some paddocks which have horses grazing in them. It's 3 bedroom (all doubles pretty much), separate bath & toilet, big laundry, nice size kitchen which is open plan with dinning area and lounge. Enough room for either a flatmate or to have visitors stay. See LOVE!!! It is planned that papers are being signed on Monday.

Back to Dee's. Then dinner at a Vietnamese place off Lincoln Road with Dee, Hez, Andy (Dee's coussie bro), Korey and his girlfriend. Yummy, yummy food. So a pretty full on day for the two of them, and tomorrow they have work on Outrageous Fortune. YAY!

NOW on to the news...
The former Hobsonville air base will be transformed into a marine hub dedicated to building some of the world's finest super yachts. Developer Waitakere Properties hopes to complete the first stage of the $80 million project by 2011. The 20ha site will be equipped to deal with building yachts as long as 75m.

Television westie Tammy "Munter" Davis says this week's publicity of his drink-driving conviction made him "look like a dick". Television westie Tammy "Munter" Davis says this week's publicity of his drink-driving conviction made him "look like a dick". Davis received a $1600 fine and was disqualified from driving for a year and a day after recording a breath-alcohol reading of 798 micrograms, almost twice the legal limit of 400 micrograms. "There were reporters there and they reported what happened and it's made me look like a dick, and that's fine because what I did was stupid. I made a mistake, you know, no one was hurt. "What would you like to talk about? Would you like just to keep going? "Do you want just to keep reporting this 'cause it makes you feel good?" Davis said he was annoyed his full written statement - which he read to media after his appearance - had not been printed. "I gave them a statement and they didn't print it all. "You could have done that, you could have printed it - you could have printed my statement. You could have done something else that ... as far as I'm concerned it's finished. "What you've printed has done exactly what you wanted it to do which was show people that if you're a star you should act better, okay, and that's fine, okay. I don't agree with it. I think it was a little bit one-sided but hey you guys write the papers."
... Outside court Davis said he "deeply regretted" his action and was "embarrassed and disappointed by my behaviour. "I am fully aware that drink-driving is simply unacceptable under any circumstances. "I made an error in judgment and have been held accountable for it. "Not only have I let myself down but I have let down my family, my friends, my employers and fans. "I want to take this opportunity to publicly apologise to them and to thank them for their continued support."(GO YOU WESTIE...TELL THE MEDIA OFF!!! O.F HARD!!!)

Waterview residents fear dozens more homes may be lost than the hundreds already proposed for demolition to make way for a $1.4 billion surface-tunnel motorway. Tunnel or Nothing spokeswoman Margi Watson, one of about 15 residents who subjected the Transport Agency's board to a barrage of concerns at a meeting in the city yesterday, said she had counted 63 threatened homes in addition to the 365 already facing demolition. That count was based on a recommendation to Auckland City's transport committee from the council's urban design review team that the agency buy and remove a line of houses on the western side of Great North Rd because of the likely severe construction impact of a "cut and cover" tunnel under the road.

Young New Zealanders are postponing the usual commitments of adulthood, just like their international contemporaries in what has been called the "Peter Pan generation". A study has found that "Generation Y" Kiwis aged 20 to 24 are more likely to be still studying and living at home with their parents, and less likely to be working or living with partners, than preceding generations of young people born 10, 20 and 30 years earlier. Legal marriage has almost disappeared in the age group and religious affiliation has almost halved. But welfare dependence and sole parenting, which peaked when the previous "Generation X" reached adulthood amid record postwar unemployment between 1985 and 1999, have declined among today's youth as jobs again became easier to find in the first years of this century.

A cold and early winter has been replaced by an unusually warm and early spring, in a rare act of symmetry by the weather gods. Forecasters have confirmed what people and plants might already sensed - winter has disappeared long before the official first day of spring. Spring arrives on Tuesday, but already August looks likely to set records for heat. (that heat better be coming)

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 17°C
Min: 13°C (overnight)
Humidity: 90%
Often cloudy. Northeasterly breezes. (Translation: It was warmer today than it has been but it's still not hot enough for some of us)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
How positive Maz is feeling...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
JayJay ate sugar, after saying she was cutting down/not having any. FAIL!

Day EightyNine of being Aflickionless...

Maz went to spotlight today and spent about $126 on stuff for Style Pasifika. It was such a magpie shopping experience, we were looking for shiney...haha.
Then she went to a 1, 2, 3 dollar store and spend $25 on disco balls. It is fair to say it has been a bit of a pricey day.

Maz & Russell went to visit Dee as well and while hanging out Maz proceeded to destroy the disco balls.

Currently Maz is blasting out her ears to drown out the babies upstairs. Not at all impressed that her space has been invaded, even if it is up stairs that noise travels man. Super glad she is moving soon, don't have to put up with people with babies!

Scientists are examining whether toxic sea slugs may have killed two dogs which died on beaches on Auckland's North Shore. Tests on one of the dogs at Nelson's Cawthron Institute showed it died because it ate something toxic, TV3 reported. It said the scientists were still trying to find out what the toxic substance was, but suspected sea slugs which are known to feed on toxic algae could be responsible. Four toxic sea slugs had been found washed up on Narrow Neck beach, where one of the dogs died, the report said.

Minty is on the run again. The Capuchin monkey, from Willowbank Wildlife Reserve on the outskirts of Christchurch, has escaped again and has been on the loose for four days. Christchurch police described her as a "little brown monkey". Minty last tasted freedom a year ago when she took to the streets of Christchurch during a trip to the vet. After three days on the run, climb and scramble, Minty was safely recaptured and returned to her reserve.

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
N/A cause I got home too late

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Maz's pure hatered for babies and children...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
No fail Fail!!!

Day ThirtyEight of being Aflickionless...

It's not even midday yet and I have figured today will be a non-event, so might as well get the blog done now (which also means there could be a bit of an edit done later in the day or as/if stuff happens).
It's a another beautiful winters day here in Auckland! More than likely this can't continue for much long, so be expecting rain in the next few days or by the end of the week (come on it's Auckland).

Notice the new "feature" on the left of the page? Yup, that is a slideshow of your photos on Flickr!

Last night while at Ginger Minx, Hez noticed that if you turn the "Oh Hai" sign up sidedown it says "IAH HO" (I AH HO...get it). She also go to try out different seating spots than the usual (table by fire, seat in back corner and the couch), yes we were seating sluts last night...haha.

Maz and Russell were woken by screaming and yelling children this morning...so not cool. Currently Maz wishes she had her back-pack, because right now she wants to pack it and leave...but how is she meant to pack her shit if she ain't got no bag.
It's still undecided if Maz is going to end updoing NZ Body Art Awards 2009. She has until Thursday to do and hand in her concept designs. Will she do it? Fuck knows.

A huge fire has erupted in the west Auckland suburb of Henderson, in an industrial complex.
Fire communications confirmed there was a large fire in Rabone Street. The building on fire is owned by a furnishings company called Ultimate Finishes. A local church has been evacuated with some churchgoers unable to reach their cars.
Flames have been seen from as far away as Beachhaven on the North Shore and in Westmere.

A chilling, graphic road safety campaign hitting screens today aims to send young people an "unashamedly strong" message about drink-driving. The "Trapped" television commercial features two young men in a ute that crashes on a rural road. The driver survives, but he is left trapped in the vehicle with the body of his dead friend staring lifelessly at him. (don't they always say the ads are graphic?)

The Zion Wildlife Gardens in Whangarei re-opened yesterday with a bizarre incentive for visitors - to come and feed the tigers. The troubled centre was shut down by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry last month, after keeper Dalu Mncube was mauled to death by a tiger. But yesterday, the incident appeared a distant memory as dozens of visitors were allowed to feed some of the park's 40 tigers through a fence. Zoo fix-it man Tim Husband insisted the feeding was safe, saying none of the visitors was put at risk.

A sexually provocative ad campaign for a clothing company co-owned by Rich Lister Eric Watson is under fire for being too "pornographic". The Australian television ads for American Apparel feature half-naked women, many of them staff from the Melbourne store, writhing around in bed and exposing their breasts. The ad is under investigation by the Advertising Standards Bureau in Australia. (uptight Aussies)

GINGER MINX

OH HAI

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 13 °C
Min: 3 °C (overnight)
Humidity: 69 %
Fine, with bright blue skies. Southerly breeze. (Translation: Well they weren't lying about the bright blue sky. Haven't been outside though so can't say how cold it is.)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Already writing the blog and it's not even midday.

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Being woken up by scream children after only 4 hours sleep. FAIL!

Day ThirtySeven of being Aflickionless...

Now lets see if we can get the day right on todays blog...haha.

JayJay went to Space's 3rd birthday this evening. So far no update on what it has been like, but I'm sure we will have photos soon enough.

This afternoon Maz got a phone call regarding some work for Russell, which of course she was more than happy to pimp him out for. Where was the work you may be pondering? Ginger Minx.
So Maz finally "went out" for the first time in a month. She spent the night by the fire drawing some concept designs. Dee & Hez also came along to keep Maz company (she was about to start singing "Lonely"). Clowned around and took some clown photos which will be in tomorrow's blog.

This blog would be longer, but Maz has to take off the make-up, have a cup of tea and do all the other stuff you do before you go to bed.

CHEAP LAUGHS
A bear, a lion and a pig meet.

Bear says: "if I roar in the forest, the entire forest is shivering with fear."
Lion says: "if I roar in the jungle, the entire jungle is afraid of me."
Pig says: "big deal.... I only have to cough, and the entire planet shits itself."

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
sorry I was at Minx. But by time we left, we had ice starting to form on the windscreen, so it must of been cold. It was sunny all day too!

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Random people talking to you because your sitting at a bar drawing. Got a shot out of it though...haha

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Russell used the word..."Shucks" at Ginger Minx infront of Adam, after closing. Come on we're all friends, just say Fuck! What's a little bit of fuck between friends, right? So he had to do the rubbish...hahaha...Shame...FAIL!

Day TwentySeven of being Aflickionless...

So I will admit to back dating the following two blogs (Day 27 and Day 28), I would of written them on the days but access to the internet was zip.

The final day on set and wow what a boring one it was. Maz was due on set at 6.45am, but none of the extras were used till about 5pm. We all spent the day sitting around talking shit, drinking coffee & tea, sleeping and eating. Hard job huh?
The most awesome part of the day (and possibly the whole shoot) was being showered in blood. Woohoo!

However as awesome as it has been working on this set, the downside is that Maz now has a cold thanks to wearing not much clothing all day and being really cold on set every day.

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
wet!

OH HAI!

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Being paid to sit on your ass all day and talk shit!

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Getting a cold.

Day TwentyFive of being Aflickionless...

Why is Maz back at the Greenhithe house cleaning after working all day? It's not like I was working hard on set, but still! Nice for some people to go back to bed till 1pm and do shit all day.

Super brief because I need to kick somebody up the ass and also because I haven't been in the land of the living all day.

A Korean woman will be kicked out of New Zealand after being refused a student visa because she is pregnant - despite being willing to pay for her maternity care.

A father and his young son from Kaiapoi have become the South Island's first swine flu victims and take New Zealand's total number of confirmed cases to 15.

Thirty-seven children from a South Auckland childcare centre are in quarantine and taking anti-viral treatment after a child tested positive for swine flu.

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 15 °C
Min: 10 °C (overnight)
Humidity: 73 %
Showers developing. Strengthening easterly. (Translation: the showers haven't hit yet and I have the funny feeling they won't be "showers", however it is fairly windy and looks like tonightwill be quite warm)

LINE OF THE DAY
"I found the bloody wet spot" - Dee on set, referring to the blood on his arms

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Riding in Dee's new car (94' Ford Fairmont)...so roomie. And the heater is brill.

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Russell not clearing the house and Maz having to go back to do it after work...

Day TwentyTwo of being Aflickionless...

Maz clocked up 54.5 hour in four days, woot fuckin woot! She can hear the tattoo machine buzz coming for her...yay!

The jury on the David Bain case has found him not guilty. The jury reached their verdict after five hours and 50 minutes of deliberations.
Bain, 37, faced a retrial for the murders of his parents and three siblings at their Dunedin home on June 20, 1994, after the Privy Council in 2007 quashed his 1995 convictions for their deaths. (but you already knew that)

Auckland sports personality Matthew Ridge was injured this morning after a car reportedly pinned him to a wall at his car grooming business. Ridge's injuries were believed to include a fractured hip and pelvis, TV3 reported. A late model BMW did not have its handbreak on and rolled into him at his business in the suburb of Greenlane about 10am, his staff said.

New Zealand's confirmed cases of swine flu have risen again this week, with the 12th case a person who arrived from Los Angeles at the end of May.

Cadbury's has been accused of reducing the weight of its chocolate bars while keeping the price. The company admits the weight has been reduced, but says it has also reduced the price to retailers. If that price drop hasn't been passed on to the consumer, the blame lies with the retailers.

FEEL THE CHILL
It was minus three in Auckland and minus four in Hamilton. Those temperatures are the coldest of the year so far, and far colder than overnight temperatures in the South Island which are mainly in the positive range.

"A sharp frost in Ohakune" from The NZ Herald

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 13 °C
Min: 6 °C (overnight)
Humidity: 83 %
Cloudy periods, few showers. Southwesterly. (Translation: it started out nice and sunny, but dropped off later in the day. And surprise, surprise...we have had some showers this evening.)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Everybody is saying it's fuckin cold...it's not really that cold. Well not to Maz & Dee.

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Firstly the chick who didn't like Dee's help/suggestion on set to hike her dress up while going up the stairs, to A) stop herself standing on it...B) stop herself falling over it....or C) tearing and loosing the dress. And proceeded to walk up the stairs fummbling, standing and tripping on the dress the whole way up. FAIL...when will a bitch learn to listen?
Secondly...running out of gas on the way back to Dee's from set. But hey at least we were up hill from the gas station & didn't have to call somebody to bring gas (so close to his house though...sad)...FAIL!

Day Nineteen of being Aflickionless...

DAY 19...ONLY 100 TO GO!!!

Maz had another day on set, which she spent most of sleeping (the job is so hard...haha). Dee has lost his voice a bit. He looked everywhere on set for it, but couldn't find it.

One of the girls preforming at Slinky on Saturday had to borrow a pair of JayJay's underwear, because the underwear Steve got was see through. OOPS!

The Transport Minister wants action this year to ban drivers from using hand-held cellphones.

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 13 °C
Min: 4 °C (overnight)
Humidity: 85 %
Fine. Light winds. (Translation: it was a brilliant winters day. some people complained it was a bit cold...no idea what they were going on about.)

QUESTION OF THE DAY
Should pregnant international students be able to give birth in New Zealand?

Korean community leaders are urging the Government to allow a pregnant Korean student to have her baby in New Zealand.

Immigration NZ has told horticulture student Sung Won Kim, 31, that she is not eligible for a further permit and has to leave New Zealand by June 21 for becoming pregnant.

She has offered to pay her full medical and maternity costs up front - because she does not want to be apart from her husband, also on a temporary permit, who runs a car business in New Lynn - but Immigration says she would still be putting additional strain on New Zealand's stretched maternity services.

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
The whole going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark thing. Also how quickly your time away seems to be going.

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Not really a fail, but maybe a fail for TVNZ. From Monday's Sideswipes in the NZ Herald.
While watching TV2, my 6-year-old noticed the promotion for the upcoming programme had the big letters NXT, writes a reader. "He said: 'That's not how you spell 'next'. It's supposed to be n, e, x, t.' Touche."

Day Eighteen of being Aflickionless...

Maz has been on set all day today, so is pretty out of touch with what is happening in the world. And tomorrow will be no different with a 5am start. Must say Spartacus is pretty easy on the eyes too...woot...ah my job is so hard.

Interesting thing Maz saw on the way to set this morning. As you know the Sky Tower is normally lit up one colour, but at the moment the top section is blue and changes to yellow.
They're a little more glamorous than the energy-efficient lightbulb the Government wanted you to put in your kitchen. But new, brighter lights on Auckland's tallest building promise to deliver a similar energy-saving benefit. The lightbulbs used to light up the Sky Tower in themed colours for special events have been replaced by 26 electronic lights on seven levels spaced around the tower. The new lights - which can be changed at the press of a button to display a theoretically infinite array of colours - will use about a third of the electricity the old lights used.

The past six weeks have been pretty tough for self-confessed oddball Ian Brackenbury Channell - aka the Wizard of New Zealand. After learning he was to be awarded a Queen's Service Medal for services to the community, the man famous for his theories on postmodern cosmology was told to shut up.

Hip-hop star Che Fu had a little chuckle when he saw the letter from the Governor-General and Prime Minister John Key addressed to "Mr Fu". The award-winning musician was thrilled to read he was being made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit - but was on the phone quickly to ask if he could have the honour in his real name, Che Kuo Eruera Ness.

Three earthquakes shook the central North Island overnight. All three quakes were centred 10km south-west of Turangi, GNS Science reported.
The first, measuring 3.2 on the Richter scale, struck at a depth of 4km, at 11.08pm yesterday. Nearly 50 minutes later, a magnitude 3.4 quake, also centred at a depth of 4km, hit at 11.54pm. A third quake, centred at a depth of 6km and measuring 3.8, struck at 2.31am today. The quakes were reported to have been felt in the southern Taupo region .

What began like a bad joke about two Irishmen walking into a bar ended with the pair missing their flight home and being arrested for graffiting pub property - with their names and details. The two 27-year-old men were arrested on Saturday morning for allegedly defacing Queenstown's Pog Mahones Irish Bar with a permanent marker on Friday night.

NEW MOON
OMG check it out, so much cooler than Twilight, and you ARE going to have to give back your "man card" after this one...

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 16 °C
Min: 4 °C (overnight)
Humidity: 76 %
Fine. Cold southerlies dying out overnight. (Translation: it was sunny, but fuck was that wind crisp!)

LINE OF THE DAY
"I've seen more than I wanted to of you today...EVER!" - Dee regarding Maz's costume

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
How it's not really that cold after spending 12+ hours freezing your ass off.

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Unable to find a fail...so the FOF goes to Maz for failing to find an FOF!

Day Eight of being Aflickionless...

WOW...what a random freakin evening it's been.

At about 6pm (well just before) JayJay had the cops knock on her door, looking for some guy that they thought had been bunking downstairs. They showed her the sketch and she said he looked "scary as fuck".

We (Russell, Dee and I) went to Ginger Minx tonight. And I have to say...it's just not the same. No Woodie Woodpecker...no bassy mc bass bass...30+ crowd...Sunday afternoonish sounds. But we had fun anyway, as you will see in the photos.
There was this drunk chick...(sounds like the start of "Cause I Got High" by AfroMan). Anywho, she sat at the table we were at and said I looked "beautiful" (gag I know)...that was sweet. But who the hell says "Are you COURTING one of these two men" (referring to Dee & Russell). COURTING...WTF!
We also got invited to a 21st that was happening upstairs of Minx. We weren't on the list, didn't know the birthday girl. BUT that's what happens when you're a regular and know the bouncer. Haha! So we went up there for a bit (it was going off...Adam B was there too) and I had a random arm wrestle with a dude...he also told me i'm pretty strong. And had a few dudes check out the gunshow...haha...strongy mc strong strong! So all REALLY random!

There is one more story from Day Eight as well, but that is at the very bottom...because it's a FAIL!

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Because we were home after middnight...DUNNO! It was fuckin cold though, bit warmer than yesterday cause...it rained.

SAY OH HAI!

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
COURTING!?!?!

DAILY FOF MOMENT
We got pulled over on New North Road, after leaving the Minx. I hear you going "oooo"...but no, no you have it all wrong.
Turned onto Morningside Drive. Dee spots cop. Dee says "he's gonna flick around and get you". (Russell was driving of course). I (Maz) say "if you stick to the road rules, he's got nothing".
Turn left on to New North Road...*red and blue* and together now..." OooOOOoosoooomebooooddddies in troooooouuuuuuubbbbbbbbbllllle".
Cop (with flashlight) heads toward drivers door about a meter between him and the car. Failing to check the backseat (where I was) and the passengers side. Russell hands over licence, after the "hi there" crap.
Cop: "I see your registration is out"
Russell: "Yeah, I know. Haven't gotten around to it"
Cop: "Can you tell me the circumstances of your learner licence?"
Russell: "Ah learner motorcycle licence. I hold a class 2. BUT no driving after 10, no passengers..."
Cop: (feeling like a bit of a dick) "yeah and all the rest"
Cop: "ah Mr Mace, can you tell me the colour of the light you went through turning left onto ah New North Road?"
Russell: "Yeah. It's was a green light...well red main light and green left arrow"
Cop: (feeling more like a dick) "oh"
Russell: "Ah can you tell me why I was pulled over?"
Cop: (feels like a nob now) "ahhh just a random check"

Cop: "I'm just going to go do a check"
*we wait*
.....
*he gets back quickly*

Cop: "Thank you for your time. Have a good night. Drive Safely"
Russell: "Yeah. Have a good night officer"

Yes, Yes we got no ticket...NOTHING! And we all couldn't help but burst into laughter over the whole thing. The cop felt sooooo uncomfortable.

And while on this topic...can you answer this next time your online. What do the ambo's say over there? Is it still BLEEDER, BLEEDER, BLEEDER?