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One of the natural wonders of Lithuania is the Curonian Spit, a thin 60-mile long sand-dune spit that separates the Baltic Sea from the Curonian Lagoon. The UNESCO World Heritage Site is partially in Lithuanian territory and partially in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. From the Lithuania side, you can see plenty of dunes and take short hikes in the Spit’s natural areas.
The Curonian Spit was created by migrating sands that grew as high as 60 meters. The shifting sands actually buried several villages over the centuries. Now it is a rich park full of rare plants and animals with a lot of cool paths and views of the water on either side.
How to get there
The closest mainland Lithuanian city to the spit is Klaipeda, which is a small industrial port town with a lot of traffic and good food. If you’re coming from Vilnius and you’re not staying in Nida on the Curonian Spit, this is a good place to stop for the night. But staying in Nida is probably a better idea, so you can see the sun rise over the dunes.
You have to ferry from Klaipeda to the Spit. If you’re on foot or bike, you can ferry from the Old Ferry Terminal or the New Ferry Terminal. But if you’re arriving by car, you have to cross the lagoon via the New Ferry Terminal. You can find the timetable here, but in case you can’t find it or the page isn’t updated, these are times for the next couple of months. Past May 2018, you can probably use this to give you an idea of how frequently it comes. It will drop you off in the village of Smiltynė in less than 10 minutes.
The highlights of the Curonian Spit National Park
The Curonian Spit is giant reserve area with many points of interest and little villages along the way. Since the area is so narrow, almost every stop is a roadside attraction. But you can hike around the different areas at your leisure.
Dendrologic Cognitive Path
Around the area of Juodkrantė, you’ll find the Dendrologic Cognitive Path, which is a hiking trail through the ancient forest that grew out of the sand of the Spit. Among the pines and spruces, you’ll find the giant sound trap that looks like a wooden megaphone (Garsų gaudyklė). You can sit in it and listen to the amplified sounds of the forest and the birds.
Near the start of the Dendrologic trail on the Lagoon side of the Spit, you’ll find Amber Bay. Aside from being very pretty, this bay is known for the reed sculptures of animals and geometric shapes that sit on the water during the summer months. The structures are later burned in celebration of Autumn Equinox.
Hill of Witches
Also in Juodkrantė, you’ll find one of my favorite spots on the Curonian Spit, the Hill of Witches. This trail is on a forested sand dune and is basically a massive sculpture garden. The wooden sculptures depict stories and characters from Lithuanian folklore, designed in a traditional woodcarving style.
Heron and cormorant colony
Have you ever seen “The Birds”? Well, in Lithuania, you can see the live version at the very loud, very busy bird colony. It’s the oldest and largest colony of herons and cormorants in Lithuania. You can see the birds in their nests and also flying everywhere around you.
Grey Dunes (Pilkosios kopos)
Also known as the Dead Dunes, this is where as many as four known Nagliai villages were covered in sand between 1675 and 1854, where they remain today. These dunes are huge and from their peaks you can see the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Lagoon on either side of you. Though the walk is tiring and sometimes steep, it’s oddly calming to be surrounded by wind-swept dunes.
Parnidis Dune and Sundial
Near Nida, you’ll find the vast stretch of the Parnidis Dune, where you can take a walk along the dunes and enjoy the view over the water. There are some established paths to prevent people from disturbing the dunes, but a lot of the path is now covered by the changing sands. From here, you can see the widest part of the Spit, Bulvikis Cape, sitting just short of 2.5 miles wide. Here you’ll also find a giant sundial, with a large stone pillar at its center.
If you’re not staying in the Spit overnight, the village of Nida is a perfect place to stop for a hearty lunch before continuing to explore the trails. If you’re feeling really adventurous, you can hit up the Baltic-facing Nida Nudist Beach.
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SAN DIEGO -- Brain regions associated with reward mechanisms were larger than average in prison inmates with high impulsivity and antisocial behavior scores, a researcher said here.
When 49 inmates were stratified by their impulsive-antisocial behavior scores into low, medium, and high groups, those in the latter category showed significantly larger volumes of striatal gray matter, especially in the nucleus accumbens and the caudate head, compared with inmates in the other two groups, reported Joshua Buckholtz, PhD, of Harvard University.
A similar pattern was seen when the inmates were scored on psychopathy, a trait that overlaps considerably with impulsivity and antisocial characteristics but with added emotional and interpersonal abnormalities and fewer deficits in some other areas, Buckholtz said at a press conference held at the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting.
At the same time, mean volume of the prefrontal cortex -- the brain region responsible for decision-making and execution -- was significantly smaller in the highly impulsive and antisocial inmates. But this finding was not reproduced when inmates were stratified according to psychopathy scores. Inmates scoring as highly psychopathic had the same mean prefrontal cortical gray matter thickness as those with low scores.
This difference could be a clue to the pathology underlying impulsive-antisocial versus psychopathic personalities, Buckholtz suggested -- for example, the fact that impulsivity reflects an inability to formulate and stick to plans, whereas psychopaths "may plan very well," he said.
Buckholtz framed the findings in automotive terms, characterizing the striatal regions as pressing on the behavioral gas pedal, whereas the prefrontal cortex applies the brakes. The increased striatal volumes in the high scorers on impulsivity-antisocial behavior and on psychopathy suggest that both groups step hard on the gas.
However, he suggested that the former group's smaller prefrontal cortical volume means that its brakes don't work, whereas they function normally in the psychopaths.
For the study, Buckholtz and colleagues recruited 49 inmates of two medium-security prisons to undergo testing with the EXT100 externalizing traits assessment and the revised Hare Psychopathy Checklist Revision, along with brain MRI scans brought to the prisons by truck.
The researchers chose a prison population because inmates may be presumed to have poor impulse control and/or a disregard for societal norms. Indeed, Buckholtz said, committing a crime is one qualification for a formal diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder.
Traits associated with impulsivity and antisociality include a need for excitement, behavioral problems in childhood, and a pattern of irresponsibility. Psychopathy includes such traits but also others including egocentricity, grandiosity, remorselessness, deceitfulness, and shallow emotionality.
When the inmates were stratified into the three categories of impulsivity-antisociality, those in the "high" group had striatal gray matter volumes far above the overall group average, whereas both the "medium" and "low" groups were below it (P<0.05 for high versus medium and low).
When the analysis was performed on the psychopathy-stratified groups, the same pattern was evident although the spread between groups was about half that seen in the impulsivity-based analysis. Still, the "high" psychopathy group had significantly larger gray matter striatal volume on average relative to the "low" group (P<0.05).
For the prefrontal cortex thickness analyses, the highly impulsive inmates had about 0.08 mm greater mean thickness than the group average, whereas the "low" group's mean thickness was about 0.07 mm above the group average (P<0.05). The "medium" group's mean was close to the group mean.
Mean cortical thickness in the "high" and "low" psychopathy groups were both just above the group average; the "medium" group's was somewhat below.
All data in the study were adjusted for inmate's age and reported substance abuse history.
Buckholtz noted that an important potential confounder in the study is "the neurotoxic effect of incarceration itself" -- that the social isolation of prison, after long periods, could lead to changes in the brain's macrostructure.
Other studies have documented that social isolation exerts untoward effects on brain chemistry and function, he said.
The outcome, he said, could be that inmates' antisocial and/or psychopathic pathologies could be biologically exacerbated by these effects.
This possibility would have to be examined more closely before thinking about treatments for impulsive and psychopathic disorders inspired by the current findings, he suggested.
The study was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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The ban has already caused a spike in demand, with some buyers claiming they’re being offered a price cut.
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The White House has said there are no plans to restrict travel to those countries.
“The Trump Administration continues to review the impact on the domestic tourism industry and will provide a final determination to the public once all available data has been reviewed,” said an official statement from the White House.
“However, based on the review and on available information, we cannot predict when the impact would begin.”
But what’s actually going on?
Some of the new travel trailer deals are already in the news.
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Luxury also said the trailers were “not for sale” and were not part of the list of items that could be sold.
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Luxuries has also offered trailers to tourists in China.
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Fulham, London, England
|Died||13 April 2004
Sevenoaks, Kent, England
|Cause of death||Breast cancer|
|Known for||Blue Peter presenter|
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|Children||Charlie and Gabriel|
Caron Louisa Keating (5 October 1962 – 13 April 2004) was a Northern Irish television presenter.
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Keating was born in Fulham, west London, to Northern Irish parents, but at three months her parents returned to Northern Ireland, where she was raised. Her parents were television presenter Gloria Hunniford and BBC producer Don Keating, who died of heart disease in 1997, aged 61. Keating attended Methodist College Belfast, where she gained 8 'O' levels and 3 'A' levels. She was accepted to study at the University of Bristol where she graduated three years later aged 21 with a BA Honours Degree in English and Drama.
Keating's television career began in Northern Ireland where she presented The Video Picture Show, Channel One and the music programme Greenrock, but her big break undoubtedly came when she was selected to join the team of Blue Peter from 13 November 1986.
Keating brought a new trendy image to the programme, and was popular with viewers because of her looks, fashion-conscious image. She appeared on the programme with Peter Duncan, Janet Ellis, Mark Curry, Yvette Fielding, and John Leslie. Highlights of her Blue Peter career included a trip to Moscow in 1987 during the perestroika period, swimming with sharks, abseiling down skyscrapers and standing strapped to the top of a light aircraft whilst it performed aerial acrobatics. She also interviewed serving Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the programme in 1988.
After four years, Keating left Blue Peter on 22 January 1990. Keating joined BBC Radio 5 where amongst other programmes she co-hosted an early 90’s afternoon show with film critic Mark Kermode, the show was named "A game of two halves” and in his autobiography Kermode described Keating as “The very dictionary definition of Lovely”. She presented several other TV programmes including This Morning, before breast cancer was diagnosed in 1997. Keating was the face of Sainsbury's Reward Card from 1996 to 1999 and also appeared in a TV commercial for So Good soya drink in 1999. 1999 also saw her present We Can Work It Out.
Illness and death
Keating was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997. After various conventional and alternative treatments, including a period away from her family on the Gold Coast, Australia, and at a hospice in Switzerland, she died at the age of 41, on 13 April 2004, at her mother's house in Sevenoaks, Kent. Her body was buried at St Peter's Parish Church in Hever.
Keating married Russ Lindsay in Tunbridge Wells, Kent in 1991. Their two sons were born in Hammersmith, London: Charles Jackson Lindsay (born 1994) and Gabriel Don Lindsay (born 1998). Her second son, Gabriel, has the middle name of his maternal grandfather, who died just a few days before he was born. The family settled in Cornwall for a few years at the turn of the century. Russ Lindsay remarried television presenter Sally Meen on 4 September 2006.
The Caron Keating Foundation
Set up in Keating's memory, The Caron Keating Foundation is a fund-raising partnership set up to raise money to offer financial support to professional carers, complementary healing practitioners, and support groups dealing with cancer patients, as well as individuals and families who are affected by the disease. It will also financially help a number of cancer charities with their ongoing quest for prevention, early detection and hopefully an ultimate cure. It was set up by her mother, TV presenter Gloria Hunniford, and her two brothers Michael and Paul Keating.
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- Caron Keating at the Internet Movie Database
- The Caron Keating Foundation official site
- Caron Keating presenter biography
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- Caron Keating - The Times obituary
- 'Blue Peter' presenter Caron Keating dies of breast cancer, aged 41 - The Independent obituary
- Interview with mother Gloria re Caron and the Foundation
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Bridal Fashion: Glitterati
Fireworks of sequins, crystals and rhinestones forge modern cool into glistening new gowns
by:Text by Kate Calamusa, Styling by Emilie Maslow
(above) A flirty Alice + Olivia frock from Neiman Marcus sparkles paired with a Luly Yang Couture faux mink fur cape. Alice + Olivia cream sleeveless drop-waist cocktail silk dress, $597, Neiman Marcus. Luly Yang Couture white faux mink fur floor-length cape, $1,150. Ritani diamond and 18K gold engagement ring band with brilliant-cut accent diamonds (0.60-carat total weight), approximately $4,675, E.E. Robbins. Luly Yang fully gold-plated cocktail ring, $183, and Benjamin Adams “Electra” ivory silk peep-toe sling-back heels with rhinestone crystals, $350, both from Luly Yang Couture.
(above) Light reflects the decadent sequin beading in this floor-length silver showstopper. David Meister silver beaded, sleeveless silk gown with key-hole back, $650, Neiman Marcus. Tasha “Bridal Party” faceted-crystal headband, $32, Nordstrom.
(above) An arresting halter gown brims with delicate lace and shimmering bejeweled details. Atelier Aimee “Silvia” silk halter gown with beaded lace overlay, $6,380, La Belle Reve. Fragments silver ball earrings, $67, Neiman Marcus.
(above) Modern white sequins cascade down this gown’s body-hugging bodice, accented by a dramatic cluster necklace. Theia “Sequin Strapless Mermaid” beaded silk gown with sweetheart neckline, $1,295, Nordstrom Wedding Suite. Sally Crew pearl, crystal and sterling silver cluster necklace, $220, La Belle Elaine’s. Martin Flyer diamond and 18K gold engagement ring band with milligrain details and pavé-set accent diamonds (0.85-carat total weight), starting at $4,495, E.E. Robbins. Jimmy Choo “Linda” champagne glitter peep-toe sandal, $695, Nordstrom.
(above) An encrusted silver tulle overlay and soft flutter sleeve are equal parts ease and grace. Pronovias “Darsena” one-shoulder soft morbido-tulle-overlay gown with flutter sleeve and beading accents, $2,116, A Princess Bride Couture.
(above) Wow in a twinkling cocktail frock, shining with icy sequins. Luly Yang Couture “Celsius” silver sequin long-sleeve cocktail dress with nude silk lining, $8,200, Luly Yang Couture. Sally Crew crystal loop earrings, $110, La Belle Elaine’s. Martin Flyer alloy ring with a double row of brilliant-cut diamonds (2.3-carat total weight), approximately $9,775, E.E. Robbins.
(above) Heightened by an array of tinsels in gleaming hues of gold, ice blue and silver, this sassy dress is ready to party. Alice + Olivia nude and gold sleeveless sequin cocktail dress, $495, and Alexis Bittar “Modernist Golden” earrings with clear Lucite drops, $245, both from Neiman Marcus; E.E. Couture diamond and 18K yellow gold engagement ring band with pavé- and halo-set accent diamonds (0.25-carat total weight), starting at $2,895, paired with matching wedding band (0.15-carat total weight), $1,995, both from E.E. Robbins.
(above) A sublime crystal-embellished fur stole wraps up a luxurious style statement. Luly Yang Couture “Sweet Lily” fit and flared Mikado satin gown with strapless sweetheart neckline, $3,200, and “Antarctica” bolero stole jacket with fox-fur and crystal-beaded long sleeves, $2,400, both from Luly Yang Couture. Alexis Bittar quartz and crystal hoops, $275, Neiman Marcus.
(above) A warm, rich bronze gown lets the sheer beaded back do all the talking. La Femme Fashion strapless bronze polyester shell gown with sheer tulle side panels and crystal sequin beading, $495, and Alexis Bittar gold-plated and pavé-set crystal dome ring, $245, both from Neiman Marcus. Jimmy Choo “Linda” champagne glitter peep toe sandal, $695, Nordstrom.
(above) Exuding Grecian elegance, the swooping beading of this bolero top shines opposite a sweeping skirt. Blue by Enzoani “Detroit” short-sleeve polyester bolero top with high neck and beading detail, $935, A Princess Bride Couture, paired with Enzoani floor-length chiffon overlay ball gown skirt (sold with heavily encrusted crystal bodice, not pictured), $3,420, Luly Yang Couture. Alexis Bittar crystal drop earrings, $245, and Tai pearl and rock crystal bracelets, $190 each, from Neiman Marcus. Michael M split-shank engagement ring band with brilliant-cut accent diamonds (0.77-carat total weight), approximately $5,895, E.E. Robbins.
(credits) Hair and makeup: Casey Gouveia/Celestine | Model: Allegra Carpenter/Nous Model Management | Stylist’s assistant: Hilary Folks | Photographer’s assistant: Jon Garcia | Photographed at Voda Studios
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I’m aware that I’ve hit you with four Seattle posts now, but as you can probably tell, I was completely enamored with The Emerald City – with the people I met, the friends I made, the hospitality that was shown to me and by the whole experience of attending an American Food Blogging Conference – Foodista’s IFBC.
Places to take in: Pike Place Market, Le Panier French Bakery, Piroshky Piroshky Russian Bakery, the original Starbucks opened in 1912
Pike Place Market: Views of Elliot Bay and the Olympic Mountains, breakfast at Lowell’s Restaurant Seattle
Pike Place Market: Seattle and the Pacific North West is famous for it’s fish! Pike Place is the oldest farmers’ market in the US trading since 1907
Given that this was just a four-day visit after a nine-hour flight, this was probably one of the craziest city-breaks I’ve ever experienced. Aside from a tightly-packed conference schedule, including a self-guided tour of Pike Place Market, I also wanted to spend every additional spare second I had with my sister, partner and kids who live in Washington State, and with my mum who was out visiting them for her 70th birthday, as well as exploring more of the city from a food perspective. Of course, this being me, I planned my Seattle break around the best places to eat – and it helped that I had a huge list of recommendations from both family and food conference attendees via a private Facebook group.
Family and Food Blogging – attending Foodista’s IFBC and chilling out with family during downtime
Although I have visited Seattle plenty of times before, this was the first time I was able to hone in on the food scene, taking in some of Seattle’s most iconic hot-spots. Breakfast on my first morning was at Lowell’s in Pike Place Market featured in Sleepless in Seattle, followed by a visit to the very first original Starbucks established in 1912. Dinner across two nights had been organised by my family – a contemporary supper at Poppy in Capitol Hill with more friends and cocktails and steaks at the timeless Metropolitan Grill, as well a leisurely spontaneous lunch at Purple Cafe. There were also plenty of pit-stops at street-trucks offering tasty on-the-go snacks, with my first experience of a Seattle Dog. And this was in addition to all the food enjoyed as part of the food conference!
Favourite street-foot hit: Dog in the Park – the cream cheese Seattle Dog – featuring a Polish sausage, cream cheese, onions, cabbage, potatoes, sauerkraut and mayo.
Seattle old and new: original Starbucks opened in 1912 and the brand new Storyville Coffee Company, next door to Matt’s in the Market, Pike Place
Purple Cafe – Grilled Wild Salmon, tomato, cucumber and house tartar
Seattle is an incredibly happening place, not only because of the ‘up-and-coming’ food scene, but also in terms of business, industry and tourism. The word on the inside is that Seattle could be the next San Francisco, with big players, such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google with bases there. In terms of the food scene, AllRecipes, UrbanSpoon and Foodista all have a huge presence in the city, with areas such as Ballard and Capitol Hill drawing in the foodie crowd.
Some of the places that were on my list, but that I missed out on visiting this time, were in Ballard and included Get Your Hotcakes, The Walrus and The Carpenter & Delancey owned by food blogger Molly Wizenburg. There’s always next time, right?!
Downtown Seattle: Blue trees – painted by an artist to draw attention to deforestation, the Seattle Monorail, the W Seattle – conference hotel
So, that’s all my re-capping and reminiscing for now, suffice to say this was a truly amazing adventure.
Travel really does broaden the mind and I came back re-invigorated, re-inspired and ready for more!
The good news is that next year, IFBC is returning to Seattle and registration is now open – will I get there again?!
You can read my previous posts on IFBC Seattle here –
- Part One – Food Blogging Stateside
- Part Two – Arrival, Opening and Keynote by Dorie Greenspan
- Part Three – Entreprenurial Journalism with Mark Briggs
- Part Four – this post – Exploring Pike Place Market and Beyond
- JamieOliver.Com – Getting the kids interesting in fish and seafood – inspired by a visit to Pike Place Market
With thanks to Foodista and Zephyr Adventures for organising the conference. This trip was self-funded and all posts are completely free of any payment, commercial sponsorship or existing brand relationships.
An even bigger thanks to my family for supporting me and for making this trip possible!
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As you all know, we have been sick…constantly. Like 3 months straight of coughs and snotty noses and humidifiers and jumbo-sized packs of Kleenex. FOR REALS. So poor Little C developed this nasty rumbly cough during her bout with the most current bug, and on Friday we decided it was time to go visit our pediatrician. In true Little C form, she dressed for the occasion in her Minnie Mouse dress (a tattered get-up originally purchased for Halloween which she demands to wear nightly), a pair of pink sweats, a hot pink sweatshirt with white flowers, and her pink sparkly cowgirl boots. Being sick myself, I was in no position to battle her on what to wear, so she grabbed her mini pink diaper bag and Big Bird (aptly named ‘Baby Bird’) and I grabbed her (and her diaper bag) and we headed off to the doctor. An hour later we were headed home with an albuterol inhaler and a tiny-person torture device, also known as a spacer with a pediatric face mask.
I first tried to convince Little C to use her inhaler by showing her that mommy, daddy, the cats, and Baby Bird all really enjoyed getting dosed. “What fun! Look! Dexter kitty LOVES having this mask on his face! Look how happy he is!”. When that tactic didn’t work, we decorated the chamber with princess stickers yet still it was a no-go. Unfortunately, our pediatrician specifically asked that she take her inhaler laying on her back (to open up her lungs) so after several failed attempts, it became clear that we would have to resort to more drastic measures. Have you ever tried to hold down a tiny 24 lb angry human while simultaneously attempting to keep a mask on their face, hold their hands to stop the flailing, and not cry while they shriek at you? It takes a village, my friends. A VILLAGE. Or in our case, our next door neighbor who is a nurse. This is not something that can be done solo. Angry little people are surprisingly strong, and their tears are stronger. It breaks my heart each time that we have to give her her meds. It’s impossible to reason with a two year old. No matter how many times you try to explain to them that the medicine will help, that the inhaler is fun, I’m pretty sure that all they hear is “wahhh wahhhh wah wahhh wahh” a la Charlie Brown’s teacher. There is no logic with two year olds.
There is also no way to prepare yourself for what will happen after the albuterol enters their system. Go ahead and google “albuterol side effects” and you will see, among other pleasantries, “restlessness, irritability, and nervousness”. Now-combine a cranky, tired two year old with a medication that causes restlessness and irritability, and you have a recipe for disaster.
You see, the first mistake we made was giving Little C her first dose that evening, around 7pm. The second mistake we made was that we gave her her dose that evening, around 7pm. Enter Tyrannosaurus C, our very own “C Rex”. About three minutes after the dose, the crazed C Rex was charging about the house, flinging toys and singing from the top of her lungs. The C Rex grabbed some crayons and started scribbling furiously in her Mickey Mouse coloring book. Not her usual careful crayon strokes this was frenzied, possibly angry, coloring. In a flash C Rex spun around and dragged her crayon along our beige couch, leaving a lovely purple stripe about 12 inches long. I am not sure who was more shocked, the C Rex or Big C and I. The dinosaur dropped the crayon and took off for her room, yelling nonsensical babble at the top of her lungs. The first hour of C Rex was pretty funny-lots of rapid speech and laughing and dancing. The second hour was still relatively amusing, but was starting to be concerning. By the third hour, at 10pm, Big C and I were both laying in a heap of despair on Little C’s bedroom floor in exhaustion as she danced around us shrieking “Mom! Mom! You not a lady! You too big!” (who the hell knows what that means). This carried on for another hour before our tiny terrorist crashed. Mind you that she had napped a total of 45 minutes the entire day. Can you imagine? It was heinous. Horrendous. I will probably have nightmares for years. We learned our lesson: don’t give your child a medication that is likely to make them act like a raptor in a chicken coop an hour before you plan to have them go to bed, unless you are armed with a case of Redlines and prepared for battle.
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Update on Luis AntonioLuis Antonio, 25, is single living with his parents; he has no children. He lives in Ventanas in the Los Ríos Province.
The “26 de Noviembre” communal bank is located in the El Achotillo District. He moved districts in order to be closer to the Cooperative. This district is part of Cantón Ventanas. This communal bank is dedicated to to short cycle corn, rice and pigeon pea farming.
Luis Antonio is a corn, rice and pigeon pea farmer, as well as a pig and chicken farmer. he buys and sells in Ventanas.
The loan will be used to buy seeds, fertilizer, organic fertilizers, urea and insecticide that are commonly used for crops.
The loan has helped him increase the family income and to invest seeds and supplies.
His dream is to buy a house, a plot of land and a car. During his free time he likes to play sports.
Ventanilla 26 DE NOVIEMBRE se encuentra ubicada en el Recinto el achotillo se traslado de recinto porque le queda más cerca a la Cooperativa, este Recinto pertenece al Cantón Ventanas, esta ventanilla se dedica a labores agrícolas de ciclo corto siembra de maíz, arroz y frejol gandul.
Luis Antonio se dedica a la agricultura a la siembra de maíz, arroz y frejol gandul, además se dedica a la crianza de cerdos y gallinas las compras y las ventas las realiza en Ventanas.
El crédito solicito para la compra de semillas, fertilizantes, abonos orgánicos, urea, insecticidas entre los más usados para el cuidado de los cultivos. El préstamo le ayudado para aumentar los ingresos de la familia y para invertir en la siembra en semillas e insumos. Su sueño es comprar una casa un terreno y un carro.
En los tiempos libres le gusta hacer deporte.
Previous Loan DetailsLuis Antonio, 24, is single living with his parents; he has no children. He lives in Recinto Las Blancas in Ventanas Canton, Los Ríos Province. The “26 de Noviembre” communal bank is located in Recinto Las Blancas belonging to Ventanas Canton. This communal bank is dedicated to short cycle c... More from Luis Antonio's previous loan »
About Cooperativa San JoseThis loan is administered by Cooperativa San Jose, a 45,000-member credit union located high in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador’s poorest province, Bolivar. They offer a unique loan called “Ventanillas Rurales” [Window to the Countryside], which uses a group guarantee but is an individual loan with a savings component, mostly to rural borrowers. Due to low savings rates and a history of macroeconomic instability, many traditional loans in Ecuador demand interest rates that are prohibitively high for some borrowers. There is also a high incidence of extortionist black-market lending in Ecuador. CSJ helps mitigate these problems by providing a less onerous and more appropriate option. Join CSJ’s Lending Team!
Concurrent and Successive Loans
Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva’s lenders.
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The Bay hosts nearly 50 percent of the world’s commercially harvested sockeye, generates $480 million in yearly revenue, and supports 14,000 jobs a year.
This unique region supports five species of wild salmon, along with more than 20 other fish species, 190 bird species, and more than 40 mammals, including bears, moose, and caribou.
It’s also clear that the nutrients left in rivers and streams by dying salmon provide a critical biological lifeline for coastal trees, plants, and wildlife.
Conversely, salmon's ability find its way to spawning grounds is disrupted by even small changes in the metals (e.g., copper and zinc) content of rivers and streams, which can leach out of mine waste.
Make your views count
As a scientific paper, the EPA’s alarming risk assessment does not recommend policy or regulatory decisions.
Eyes now turn toward EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, and the White House to see if they follow the science and broad public opposition to the mine.
The fate of the nation’s greatest salmon fishery – and the workers and consumers that rely on it – rests with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and the White House.
We urge you to make your views known:
Vital Choice joins fishermen, Alaska Natives, supermarkets, restaurants, chefs, conservation groups, and sportsmen in opposing the mine and calling on the Obama administration to block it.
Proposed mine is subject of EPA study
A group of big firms wants to open a complex of massive, open-pit mines – named “Pebble Mine” – to extract an estimated 80 billion pounds of copper and 107 million ounces of gold.
Compared with fishing and recreation jobs, the mine operation would employ far fewer people, only for the limited lifespan of the mine … and most of the dollars would flow to international investors.
Based on the consortium's own estimates of the minimum and maximum size of the project, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), estimates that the proposed Pebble Mine would generate from 400 million to 15 billion metric tons of waste rock.
This waste rock (called tailings) would need to be contained in storage facilities covering from 2.6 to 18.7 square miles ... for hundreds of years or more.
Based on the history of similar mines, the EPA concludes that – even without highly conceivable accidents – substantial amounts of heavy metals (mostly copper) will leach out of the stored tailings.
The agency concludes that those leaks may disrupt salmon migration, kill some fish (if not salmon), likely kill small river-bottom creatures upon which salmon and other fish depend, and otherwise threatening this unique, irreplaceable habitat.
We’ve been following the fight to stop the Pebble Mine complex since 2005 … see the Mining & Seafood Sustainability section of our newsletter archive.
Yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final – highly critical – scientific assessment of the proposed mine’s environmental risks and impacts.
EPA report sees serious harm from an allegedly “safe, modern” mine
In 2010, commercial fishermen and Native Alaskan Tribes asked the EPA to use its authority under the Clean Water Act to restrict disposal of mine waste in the waters that feed Bristol Bay.
The EPA’s Final Assessment finds that – excluding damage from predictable leaks and accidents – the proposed mine would destroy up to 94 miles of salmon streams and more than 5,000 acres of wetlands, lakes, and ponds, and harm an estimated 33 miles of streams.
As the agency’s press release says, “Consistent with the recent record of similar mines operating in the United States, polluted water from the mine site could enter streams through uncollected leachate or runoff, in spite of modern mining practices.” (EPA 2014)
The fate of the world’s greatest salmon fishery rests with the EPA, which the Clean Water Act authorizes to protect rivers and wetlands critical for fish and wildlife habitat … if action is warranted by the results of public hearings and peer-reviewed scientific study.
Report based on solid science
The EPA considered all scientific data – and more than 1 million public communications – submitted during two comment periods.
(We urged our readers to weigh in … for example, see “Salmon-Risking Mine on the Line ... Speak Now!”.)
The agency received some 233,000 comments on the first draft, and about 890,000 on the second draft.
The EPA’s Bristol Bay mining impact assessment was independently peer reviewed by 12 scientists with expertise in mine engineering, salmon biology, aquatic ecology, aquatic toxicology, hydrology, wildlife ecology, and more.
The agency also reviewed data submitted by the mine partnership (Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd.), including its assessments of the impacts of the Pebble Mine complex.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). An Assessment of Potential Mining Impacts on Salmon Ecosystems of Bristol Bay, Alaska. Accessed at http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/names/r10_2014-1-15_final_bristol_bay_assessment
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA releases Bristol Bay Assessment describing potential impacts to salmon and water from copper, gold mining. January 15, 2014. Accessed at http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/names/r10_2014-1-15_final_bristol_bay_assessment | <urn:uuid:b4d09165-ddbc-4559-ae7b-6250465215cc> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://www.vitalchoice.com/shop/pc/articlesView.asp?id=2117 | 2015-05-29T12:09:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207930109.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113210-00081-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911639 | 1,157 |
Team Members Visit the DSN
Large antennas in the desert were used during Deep Impact mission
August 15, 2005 - David Acton
While I was in Southern California supporting the "Encounter" of the Deep Impact spacecraft with comet Tempel 1 in early July 2005, I had the opportunity to visit the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex about a hundred miles northeast of Los Angeles in the Mojave Desert. Everything had gone well with the spacecraft activities on July 3rd and 4th so by later that week it was okay for me and some colleagues to take a day off and do some sightseeing. One of our JPL contacts arranged a flight to Goldstone and a private tour for our group.
The Goldstone complex is one of three such facilities around the globe which support NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). The DSN provides communication with robotic spacecraft exploring the solar system and beyond. The huge antennas of the DSN are the link to these distant voyagers, controlling their movements and returning scientific data to Earth. To compensate for the Earth's rotation and allow 24-hour communication with remote spacecraft, the complexes are located about 120 degrees apart around the globe - in Goldstone, California; Madrid, Spain; and Canberra, Australia. The Goldstone complex occupies a 52 square-mile area, throughout which are scattered about 15 different antennas, ranging in size from 9 meters (29.5 ft) across to a mammoth 70 meters (230 ft).
Early the morning of July 7 the group of us met at Burbank airport for our flight. Being part of the Deep Impact team, we were able to fly to the Goldstone complex on the NASA-7 aircraft, a small plane used to shuttle personnel between NASA facilities. Including myself (a systems engineer from Ball Aerospace), the group consisted of David Holshouser - a software engineer from Ball Aerospace, Lew Kendall - an attitude control engineer from Ball Aerospace, Stef McLaughlin - a science team member from the University of Maryland, Jay Melosh - a science team member and geophysicist from the University of Arizona, and Garrett Elliott - an intern from Ohio State University working with the data processing team at Cornell University.
We took off at 6:45 AM in order not to compete with the commercial flights for the Burbank runway. The 30 minute flight to Goldstone was very scenic, traversing the San Gabriel Mountains, before landing on a small runway on the south side of Goldstone Dry Lake. We were shuttled to the main office buildings where we met our tour guides Marie Massey and Karla Warner, received an introductory presentation to the facility, and saw the museum.
Over the next six hours we were driven all around the complex seeing different antennas and facilities. We saw the 34-m antenna at the DSS-13 "Venus" site, and were able to see the complex RF and electrical equipment inside (below) the antenna. At this site we also talked to an RF engineer at the High-Power Transmitter facility. He is testing a 250,000 watt transmitter which will be used later on one of the other antennas. (That kind of power could certainly fry some bacon.) We saw the DSS-27 "Gemini" site and the DSS-24, -25, -26 cluster of 34-m antennas, all of which were used during the Deep Impact mission to talk to our spacecraft. It was interesting to compare the newer RF setup inside the DSS-24 antenna to the older setup we'd seen in DSS-13.
During lunch we saw DSS-12 at the "Echo" site. This 34-m dish, also referred to as the Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) is used remotely by K-12 students to teach them radio astronomy and how to collect real data for science applications. After lunch we saw the DSS-15 "Uranus" site and then proceeded to the "Mars" site to see the Signal Processing Center (SPC) and the giant 70-m DSS-14 antenna. The SPC is the focal point for all data handled at the Goldstone complex, and provides remote operation of all the antennas. The DSS-14 dish is the largest of the Goldstone antennas. It was originally designed to support the Mariner and Voyager missions to Mars, and is used today for high data-rate "passes" for numerous missions. This antenna was the one receiving the primary science images from Deep Impact when the Impactor hit the comet a few days earlier. We climbed up several levels on the antenna to see some of the inner workings. It is a fascinating piece of machinery.
We met back at the runway at about 2:30 PM for our return flight, which unfortunately was a bit choppy due to the afternoon thermals. We had great pilots though, who delivered us safely back to Burbank in time to beat a bit of the LA traffic. Overall, the trip was an excellent opportunity to see some of the remarkable equipment that makes deep space missions like ours possible.
Thanks to Al Nakata, our JPL representative who arranged the visit for us, and to Marie Massey and Karla Warner for providing us an extremely interesting and in-depth tour. | <urn:uuid:f58768a6-0d8b-4201-9d12-21cf6d0709f6> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | http://deepimpact.umd.edu/tech/dsn-teamvisit.html | 2020-08-11T21:17:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738855.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20200811205740-20200811235740-00556.warc.gz | en | 0.95723 | 1,069 |
PREMISED IN THE kind of sing-song voice that you might attribute to the retelling of a bible story, The Season of Glass is a fictional vessel for messianic prophecy, focusing on the birth of twins. But it’s not that simple.
As you plunge into this complicated tale of messiah-based hope, cultural criss-crossings and mystical evolution, you fall into a rich morass of possibility, hooked as it is into Jewish tradition and redefinitions. Glass is Rahla Xenopoulos’s third novel. It’s also a massively ambitious project which filters a shadow of a similar tale repeated in a great diversity of contexts, reaching from ancient Ethiopia to India, 1970s Johannesburg to 1730s Spain with a touch of the technological future tossed into the mix.
And it is this complexity that lies at the nub of the book’s thinking, but also to an extent, is the element that makes it a bruising experience. While Xenopoulos is a deeply creative writer with a strong ear for dialogue and idiosyncrasy, she’s not given to helping you along the way, very much, by way of context or back story. Considerable use in each of the six parts of this story is made of first person narrative, which often feels anachronistic, leaving you occasionally lost in a miasma of ‘me’. Added to that is a lack of speaker clarity, and while the material rings with a resonance that seems to reach back into fabled antiquity, it is disconcerting not to always know who is saying what to whom.
Indeed, narrative interstices of The Season of Glass are avenues and veins rich with storytelling adventures that draw on a multitude of Jewish cultural spice, from the kabbalism underpinning the Queen of Sheba to the boiling pot of anger in Soweto, 1976, and the mother who lights Shabbat candles but does not believe in God. There are Jewish rabbi pirates and a cardinal who will not die, as there is humour and sadness, tragedy and fear and all the elements of well-heeled stories told and retold. And while much of it is credibly based on fact, there’s something that prevents this book from soaring in the literary way that it should. Has this to do with flow? With grammar? With consistency? With chronology? With the absence of a glossary and the preponderance of cultural terms? Or is it more clearly the lack of the author’s words to introduce the bouquet of tales within a tale?
Either way, you immerse yourself in this beautiful prose with gobsmackingly gorgeous descriptions and consolidations of themes, that sees prophecies around twins given voice and thwarted, but the glue between these moments of magnificence feels turgid. There are times when the out of sync nature of the work’s chronology is unsatisfying and other times, such as the conclusive Grid narrative that aims to sum up everything, where the tricks Xenopoulos plays with language while reaching into a science fiction realm, jar because of their inconsistencies.
This final section might make you think of John Burgess’s 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange or Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker, published in 1980, both with sleight-of-hand grammar tricks, but because Xenopoulos’s language devices are not consistent, something is lost, making the book read a little rough shod over your expectations. A lot rests, narratively speaking, upon this last section and it feels like a foray into the ethos of Frank Herbert’s Dune (1981) or Margaret Atwood’s A Handmaid’s Tale (1985), with a smidgeon of George Orwell’s 1949 classic 1984 on the side, but with compromises.
Ultimately, there is a powerful voice running through it all that offers a cynical aside on the possibility of a messianic saviour, a girl child. In each section of the book, this character strives to be born, when born, she strives to do good, to teach, to show, to grow into adulthood, but it is the ethos and the substance of each timeframe, ancient and modern and futuristic that complicates the process. It’s a rollicking read if you’re able to hold onto the stuff of fable and forget proofreading idiosyncrasies.
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New Richmond youth feeling better about community
New Richmond is getting national recognition for its efforts to respect and involve the community's youth.
During an eventful year for the YOUth and Families Initiative program, great progress has been made.
The city's young people completed a survey in 2004 indicating that they don't feel valued.
To counter these negative feelings, the Initiative reached out to people of all ages to get them to connect with each other at Stakeholders Gatherings, to share ideas about how to show support for youth. They called themselves "stakeholders" because everyone has a stake in what happens with the youth of the city.
Since the first meeting last December, the group of more than 100 students, teachers, city officials and business leaders has worked to set goals for improving young people's view of the community.
It appears to be working.
Six youth members of the YOUth and Families Initiative Steering Committee traveled to Dallas, Texas Nov. 2-5 to speak at the ninth annual Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Conference. About 1,300 people from across the country attended the gathering.
Sponsored by the Search Institute, the conference theme was "Creating an intergenerational community". The theme worked well for what's been accomplished in New Richmond the past year.
High school students Simone Nickel, Lindsey Novitzke, Zach Jacobson, Shasta Feltman, Becky Suennen and Paige Vergin were the local representatives who presented the session "Make a difference in your community: Conduct a stakeholders gathering."
Adult chaperones for the trip were YOUth and Families Initiative coordinator Gretchen Bell and Healthy Families-Healthy Youth coordinator Bridget Anderson-Kling. Pat Shilts, retired Student To Student coordinator at the high school, also participated.
"They represented our community very well," Bell said. "They were awesome."
Nickel said a number of communities decided to create their own stakeholders groups back home and conduct similar meetings their towns.
A key part of the students' presentation was an interactive activity with the audience called the "Circle of Support."
To show attendees what it might feel like for youth who feel unsupported, Becky Suennen stood in the center of a circle of adults who represented supporters in a youth's life like an employer, coach, neighbor, etc. When Suennen yelled that she was falling and needed their show of support by catching her, and the people in the circle assured her they would catch her. The student was gently passed around the circle with adults "catching" her.
Vergin then instructed those in the circle to turn their backs to Suennen. The student would again say she was falling and again asked the adults if they would support her, but those in the circle were told to ignore her plea.
Several participants in the circle were brought to tears as they realized how isolated the teen must feel. They were asked if there were young people in their own communities that might feel that way.
"It made me feel even more supported," Suennen said. "Even people who didn't know me ... they cared."
Bell said said supporting young people pays dividends down the road.
"Resiliency research says that one healthy caring adult can make a difference in the life of a youth by giving the message, 'You matter,'" she said. "You matter to me. If a youth knows he or she has a network of positive relationships, or at least five non-parent adults who care about them, they have a greater chance to thrive and succeed."
Vergin said the exercise provides a powerful message to every community.
"Our community has to make sure every youth has a circle of support," she said. "And it's not just parents and teachers. It's everybody."
The students all agreed that the sessions they attended throughout the conference were very helpful and inspirational.
Novitzke said she was impressed with one particular presentation during the conference -- understanding how a teen's mind works.
"I'm kind of into that psychological stuff," she said. "I learned so much from that. It helped me realize some of the things youth go through."
The students each said attending the conference was an eye-opening experience. They were encouraged that so many different communities are working hard to better connect with youth.
"Some communities are just getting started," said Feltman. "But you can tell that everybody wants the same thing."
The local students were surprised to find out that New Richmond is an apparent leader in developing intergenerational links.
"You kind of got the feeling that New Richmond is a little bit ahead of everybody else," Novitzke said.
"It was energizing," added Vergin. "We were pretty pumped."
Bell said the students sat in on several sessions that discussed steps toward developing more healthy communities.
"They found that our school is already doing some of these," she said. "Our community is really doing a lot of good, positive things."
Bell said the students also came away stronger leaders from having attended the conference.
The students all appear ready to implement the goals established by the stakeholders meeting, she said.
"We had a lot of things to feel good about and feel proud of," Bell said.
One reason for celebration for the group came when Shasta Feltman was awarded the Search Institute's 2006 student scholarship. The grant will allow the student to attend next year's conference and to serve as a youth advisor in planning the 2006 conference. | <urn:uuid:df481984-a39a-4cab-b29e-dc6b1e47d3ba> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://www.newrichmond-news.com/content/new-richmond-youth-feeling-better-about-community | 2017-05-26T08:02:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608648.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20170526071051-20170526091051-00389.warc.gz | en | 0.980846 | 1,127 |
Harvey Multifamily Program
The Multifamily Program Creates high quality rental homes that Houstonians can afford in transit-oriented, resilient developments across the city. The program addresses both direct and indirect impacts of Hurricane Harvey on the area’s affordable rental housing stock through the following – development of new multifamily rental housing, renovation and preservation of existing affordable multifamily rental housing, and strategic land acquisition for multifamily development.
Map of Selected Developments
The Harvey Multifamily Program issued two calls for proposals, in early 2019 and early 2020. Through these two funding rounds, a total of 34 developments were chosen. Following the success of the application process and promise of the first two rounds, the Texas General Land Office approved an additional $100 million expansion in March of 2021. With these funds a total of 15 transactions are completed, under construction or being prepared to be approved by City Council by July 1, 2022.
By combining program funding with other sources, including 4% and 9% tax credits and private financing, the Harvey Multifamily Program’s $450 million investment represents over $1.2 billion in development. The 3,594 apartments created will include communities for seniors, supportive housing options for those experiencing housing insecurity, and workforce homes for individuals and families. 80% of all apartments created will be made affordable for residents considered to be low- or moderate-income.
You can learn more about each supported development by exploring the map below.
|June 2019||September 2019||January 2020||June 2020||March 2021||June-July 2021||September 2021|
|1st round applications||1st round projects announced||2nd round applications||2nd round applications announced||Additional $100 million added to program, additional projects announced||3rd round applications||3rd round projects announced|
|The 3rd round NOFA was cancelled|
- Rent at least half of their units to low-income renters for at least 20 years.
- Give workers protections as laid out in the Build Houston Better Program .
- Align with the City’s Multifamily Development Principles.
- Manage Davis-Bacon, Section 3, and MWSBE requirements.
- Comply with green building standards.
The City prioritizes developments that:
- Leverage other financing sources.
- Create mixed income housing opportunities.
- Are close to public transit and highly rated schools.
- Reinvest in Complete Communities and other Community Reinvestment Areas.
- Are located in areas where real estate values are rising and where many moderate- and low-income residents need affordable options.
- Protect from future flooding and climate concerns.
Belfort Park Apartments re-open after renovations to provide resilient, affordable homes in Southwest Houston
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Caroline Lofts will provide opportunities for essential workers and others to live in resilient, affordable homes with close access to Downtown. HOUSTON – 07/22/2021 City…Read More
Summit at Renaissance Park provides 325 new, resilient homes for residents to help welcome development of Greenspoint Houston City Council has approved $14.9 million for…Read More
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Harvey Multifamily Program is announcing that up to $28 Million will be available for the currently issued Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA)
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Law Harrington Senior Living Center Opens to Provide 112 Affordable Homes for Seniors of All Incomes, Genders, and Sexualities
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Application Log & Documents
The first round of funding for multifamily development opened in February 2019 and closed April 12, 2019. Fifty-six applications were reviewed and 15 were selected for funding. The selected developments will create 1,604 apartments in Houston, the majority of which will be rented at guaranteed-affordable rates to qualified renters.
The second round of funding for multifamily development opened in January 2020 and closed in March 2020. 19 applications were initially selected for funding. Following the program’s expansion in March of 2021, an additional round of funding was made available, and additional Round 2 applications were chosen or expanded for support. In sum, the Harvey Multifamily Program will fund 38 developments and lead to the creation of over 4,600 apartments. | <urn:uuid:8a4ae79c-cd0f-477d-a8c8-7c4d91b262ee> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://recovery.houstontx.gov/multifamily/page/3/ | 2023-02-04T12:41:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500126.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20230204110651-20230204140651-00740.warc.gz | en | 0.941256 | 1,012 |
Pricing information is readily available for consumers at any time of day. Whether they’re looking online or in-store, they can find real-time prices in the blink of an eye.
To put this in perspective, 96 percent of Wiser survey participants stated that they plan on comparing prices before making purchase decisions. They’re actively staying up-to-date on price changes and trends to find the best deal before deciding on a product.
What does this mean for retailers and brands? How does it impact eCommerce? How can you remain competitive with the growing availably of information for consumers? We surveyed over 1,200 people to find out how price intelligence impacts consumers’ shopping decisions.
Here’s what they had to say.
How Do Consumers Compare Prices?
Most shoppers (63 percent) are doing a quick Google search to find out if they can find a better price for the products they’re interested in to optimize their spending. Twenty-four percent are using mobile apps to compare prices, find discounts, and more. An additional resource that consumers take advantage of is their network of friends and family.
Four percent of our survey participants typically compare prices with others who have bought similar products to find the best price possible. Nine percent selected “other” for this question—those people are comparing prices to those listed on Amazon, various advertisements, websites, and more. From this, it’s clear that shoppers are looking for the most competitive pricing before making a purchase.
Does this apply to every facet of the retail experience though? Here are the products that our survey participants typically compare the prices of:
- Electronics (laptops, cellphones, computers, etc.) – 90 percent
- Appliances (dishwasher, microwave, refrigerator, etc.) – 84 percent
- Food – 78 percent
- Streaming Devices (televisions, DVD players, Roku, Alexa, etc.) – 71 percent
- Clothing – 71 percent
- Other – 13 percent
In the “Other” category, we found that consumers were also comparing the prices of the following items:
- Cleaning Supplies
- Makeup/Beauty Products
From this, it’s clear that price comparisons are a huge piece of the current shopper experience. This trend impacts omnichannel, eCommerce, and brick-and-mortar brands and retailers on a daily basis.
Consumer Shopping Preferences
To get a better understanding of how price impacts shoppers’ decisions to buy, we first asked our consumers if they prefer to buy directly from a brand or from a third-party seller for a lower price.
Seventy-eight percent of respondents stated that they’d rather buy an item from a third-party seller for less. This statistic means it’s imperative to monitor any MAP policies that you have in place because, based on our survey results, consumers are likely to buy the lowest possible price regardless of seller.
To dig deeper into the impact of price versus brand loyalty, we asked our survey participants if they’d rather purchase an item from a well-known brand for a higher price or a lesser-known brand for a lower price. In this case, 52 percent stated they’d rather pay a higher price for the well-known brand. So, brand loyalty does play a slight role in a consumers purchase decision but the brand, value of the product to the consumer, and other factors also impact that purchase decision.
You may be wondering, how important are price comparisons to the customer experience? Luckily, we’ve got that answer for you too. The largest majority (31 percent) rated price comparisons as the most important aspect of their shopping experience.
The average answer to this question was 8.5/10. That means pricing comparisons are a real threat to sales; theoretically, having lower prices will give you a bigger competitive advantage over other brands and retailers in your space.
Is it time to rethink your pricing strategy?
31% of Wiser’s survey participants rated price comparisons as the most important aspect of their shopping experience.
Do Mobile Apps Make an Impact?
As part of the omnichannel world, mobile apps have begun to take over as another resource for shopping and price intelligence. As the demand for mobile apps grows, so too does the availability of new discounts, pricing information, and much more that could impact your brand, pricing, and marketing strategies.
Here’s how mobile apps currently impact your customer’s shopping experience.
First, we found that 88 percent of our survey participants do use mobile apps to shop. Of those people, 92 percent have found that the introduction of mobile apps to the shopping experience has made it much easier for them to compare prices.
Finally, 92 percent of those who use mobile apps to shop typically check product prices using a mobile app when they’re shopping both online and in-store. From this information, it’s clear that mobile apps do have an impact on the consumer experience and provides them with even more intelligence about new products, sales, discounts, and more.
What Can You Do to Win on Price?
You can’t remove the available information from consumers. You can, however, create actionable retail pricing that incentivizes shoppers to buy from your brand instead of competitors. Consumers all have their reasons for looking for better prices and sales; here are the top reasons why according to our survey participants:
- To save money/find the best deal
- To stick to a budget
- To maximize the value of their money
Understand the price perception of your brand to optimize your pricing strategy and remain competitive with the available price information and your customers’ needs.
On top of that, understand what your competitors are doing with their pricing strategy. Whether you focus on dynamic pricing or opt for an alternate pricing strategy, it’s crucial that you continue to monitor the impact of your prices on sales because your customers stay up-to-date on pricing information in real-time. | <urn:uuid:71aef7eb-72cc-4aa7-837d-ee1681a77600> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://blog.wiser.com/how-consumers-compare-prices-to-make-purchase-decisions/ | 2020-07-11T05:47:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655921988.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20200711032932-20200711062932-00371.warc.gz | en | 0.933056 | 1,247 |
Booking a Gatwick Airport Taxi or Private Hire Minicab Transfer can be done at any time, day or night, our service providers are available at all times to help you get to where you are going, anywhere in London, the Home Counties, or even further afield. Hiring a private taxi or minicab allows you the added comfort of a pre arranged vehicle and a driver after a long flight and removes the aspect of waiting around when travelling by coaches or trains. Simply put it's the complete door to door service.
Totally Driven has a rich experience in facilitating transfer services from London Gatwick Airport in Taxi's and Minicabs. For more than decade we have been helping serve travellers in getting them where they want to go. We strive to facilitate a prompt and comfortable transportation service in vehicles of a high standard.
Drivers meet passengers with a name board at Arrivals. We have a committed & highly helpful team in our 24/7 contact center who monitor flights and service providers to comply with our time standards thus reducing waiting time and of course the cost for such a service is reasonably priced.
See how much you can save, make use of our Airport Taxi Transfers service. Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, Stansted and London City airport. Book online at Totally Driven & hire private taxis or minicab transfers to or from Gatwick Airport.
If you are travelling in a large group, or have children to consider, an Airport Taxi Transfer make sense. Child/infant seats can be requested, but are subject to availability.
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|Waterloo||£55.00||75 - 90 Minutes|
|Brighton||£64.00||75 - 90 Minutes|
|Reading||£82.00||100 - 120 Minutes|
|Heathrow||£60.00||75 - 90 Minutes|
|London City Airport||£59.00||75 - 90 Minutes|
|Luton||£89.00||120 - 150 Minutes|
|Stansted||£95.00||120 - 150 Minutes|
|Portsmouth||£96.00||120 - 150 Minutes|
|Southampton||£109.00||140 - 170 Minutes|
|Dover||£115.00||140 - 170 Minutes|
|Harwich||£139.00||170 - 220 Minutes|
There are many top hotels within the vicinity of the airport. These are well connected to airport, both North and South Terminals. You might just want to have a laid-back stay before you travel again. Airport shuttles are available at most of the hotels that are very close to Gatwick airport.
For a quick bite between flights or to have a relaxed meal after a long flight, you can try the restaurants in the airport complex or venture out to unwind and experience the neighbouring areas.
Some of them are Jamie’s Italian that offers rustic Italian food at affordable prices, Comptoit Libanais offers authentic Middle East flavours, Garfunkel’s offers multi-cultural cuisine in a contemporary setting, Armadillo offer the great tastes of South West USA, Yo Sushi for Japanese, Asian and Thai cuisine, La Brasserie with French essence is great place to try; Jai Ho and New Fort Raj offer Indian Cuisine and a variety of restaurants to cater to every taste.
You can visit the neighbouring areas of attractions if you have enough time between flights. Bear in mind that to visit and enjoy these places leisurely you need enough time to travel to and from. Gatwick Airport taxi service can come in handy to enjoy a quick visit in comfort.
For all your travel needs in London Totally Driven can be your friend in need.
The airport is well connected by road with the M23 at Junction 9 and the A23. The National Express coach service operates at very regular intervals and tickets can be purchased at the ticket desk in both the terminals. All vehicles are wheelchair accessible. Easy bus operates between London and Gatwick Airport. Buses do not accept cash payment; instead you can use an Oyster Card or Visitor Oyster Card or a day travel card to make your journey. Oyster cards can be obtained by post when you book online, and you can pay online as you go. Oyster card is a smart card that enables you to travel on tube, tram, bus, London over ground, rail and River Bus. Oyster Card may not be relevant if your stay in London is very short. All fares are subject to change according to time of the day, direction of travel and day of the week.
Apart from these, people can make use of their own cars and park at the Terminals Car Park for a fee. Trains are also accessible, Gatwick Express connects with Central London at Victoria and there are direct services to London Farringdon and Clapham Junction.
Gatwick Airport is the second busiest airport in the United Kingdom with more than 42 million passengers using it annually and travelling to over 220 destinations across the globe. Gatwick Airport is one of the UK airports that are committed to environmental aspects such as energy, water use, air quality, waste management, biodiversity and carbon emissions, with the aim of becoming a fully sustainable airport.
The airport has two terminals North and the South. They are close to each other with an inter-terminal shuttle running every few minutes. Restaurants and shops are present at both terminals for the benefit of the travellers along with facilities like play areas, feeding and changing area, business traveller lounges and Wi-Fi connectivity to enhance the travel experience at Gatwick Airport.
Passengers who have a layover between flights or need to catch a connecting flight at another London airport, or have to go to other destinations such as seaports, hotels, or restaurants, tourist attractions or anywhere in the United Kingdom for that matter, can make use of the rail, buses, coaches, taxis or private hire minicabs to reach their destinations. | <urn:uuid:d9895ff9-c59b-4484-a87a-1952df3a1aeb> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://www.totallydriven.co.uk/london_gatwick_airport_taxi_transfers.php | 2019-02-22T11:02:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247515149.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20190222094419-20190222120419-00000.warc.gz | en | 0.936132 | 1,250 |
As I was reading and getting ready for the Destination Health show today, I started to feel frustrated and overwhelmed.
Keto is becoming very mainstream very quickly. We have many of the big-name food companies and celebrities getting into the keto food business. This is clearly not nutrient-dense keto (NDK). It's just more junk, masquerading as real food. Most of it is highly processed and sourced from the worst possible ingredients. But...it has all the right buzzwords and marketing slogans to fool the masses.
Before I get down to the point of this article, I want to keep driving home the message of NDK.
Eat real food as often as possible. Meat, seafood, veggies, eggs, nuts and seeds, and limited amounts of berries. Real food does not have an ingredient list. The more often you do this, the healthier you will be. It really is just that simple. The more you stray from this, the more complicated this becomes. You'll need to be able to read and understand labels and ingredients. There is no easy way to simplify that.
Back to my point, I also read several articles about keto supplements and new keto weight loss products. It's getting overwhelming, and companies are spending a lot of money to market these products. I even read an article titled "Keto Insurance." After reading through lots and lots of text about how keto supplements don't work, it turned out that they were selling keto supplements.
Then I read a post in another Facebook group about truck drivers and keto. The post was a lot like we see here every day, a great success story about how keto helped someone lose a lot of weight and get off of many medications. Then in one of the comments, someone also shared how keto helped them do many of the same things. Then they went on to say that eating that way wiped out their immune system and they got cancer. In a flash of clarity, I saw the next trend that will be coming soon.
People who have been eating the Standard American Diet (SAD) for decades will now switch to keto, and if they stick with it they will see the same amazing results. Some of these people will be diagnosed with horrendous diseases such as cancer, heart attacks, strokes, etc. Many people will be quick to jump on the bandwagon and blame the ketogenic diet. It's completely illogical, but that won't matter because this is an emotional issue.
That's when I became frustrated and overwhelmed. How do I fight this? I know how many people can be saved by NDK. I know how many people will become far healthier than they have ever been on the Standard American Diet. I also know how many powerful forces are aligned against us.
That's when I thought about a little book by one of my favorite authors, Seth Godin. It's called The Dip.
The old saying is, "wrong-winners do quit, and quitters do win." Every new project (or job, or hobby, or diet) starts out exciting and fun. Then it gets harder and less fun, until it hits a low point really hard, and is not much fun at all. And then you find yourself asking if the goal is even worth the hassle. Maybe you're in a Dip. A temporary setback that will get better if you keep pushing. But maybe it's really a cul-de-sac, which will never get better, no matter how hard you try.
According to bestselling author Seth Godin, what really sets superstars apart from everyone else is the ability to escape dead ends quickly, while staying focused and motivated when it really counts.
Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt until they commit to beating the right Dip for the right reasons. In fact, winners seek out the Dip. They realize that the bigger the barrier, the bigger the reward for getting past it. Losers, on the other hand, fall into two basic traps. Either they fail to stick out the Dip (they get to the moment of truth and then give up), or they never even find the right Dip to conquer.
I can promise you that eating NDK for the rest of your life is worth it! Fight through the Dip. Fight with everything you have, fight for your life, because that is what's at stake. Ignore the noise, marketing hype, and critics.
Remember just this one thing:
Eat real food as often as possible. Meat, seafood, veggies, eggs, nuts and seeds, and limited amounts of berries. Real food does not have an ingredient list. The more often you do this, the healthier you will be.
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| Author's Name: Martha G|
Date: Thu 15 Oct 2020
As part of National Carer's Week we offer this article written by Lyn, who attended our Winds of Care program; a respite sail around Sydney Harbour for carers, offered free of charge by us. As a carer, she offers an insight into the challenges many carers face and the opportunities we have as a society to make things better.
This article was first published in the Parramatta Mission newsletter.
The challenges for those caring for someone who is mentally ill are unpredictability, emotional exhaustion and trying to remain positive. Add to these the fact that many carers are ageing and often dealing with their own health problems and those of partners or family members and friends.
It is not too surprising that many then find dealing with the mental health system at times frustrating and tiresome. This is not to deny that many of those working within the system are dedicated professionals, but at times carers can be treated with disregard at best and disdain at worst. For many carers especially those with considerable life experience and the desire to learn as much as possible to assist the person or persons for whom they are caring, being treated as if they are a nuisance to staff or ignorant of the deep complexities of a myriad of mental health illnesses and getting in the way by asking unnecessary questions and hindering treatment.
Doctors can be aloof and patronising. Nursing staff seem too busy with paperwork, chatting to other staff or staring fixedly at computers behind the protective glass and locked doors of the administration hub of the ward, referred to as nurses' stations. The impression given is that they need protection from patients but also their carers, family and friends who visit. The other impression is general disregard.
We have come a very long way from padded cells, straight jackets and the sinister environment of asylums, but in many ways the memories of those days linger on against a backdrop of fear and surveillance. Another major cause for concern to carers is that treatment or containment includes the use of a variety of drug cocktails with names too complicated for those not trained in the medical profession or pharmacology. These concerns are real and should not be treated as general interference by carers.
Over the years of caring, I have attended many courses, mostly organised by not for profit organisations and those associated with religious faiths such as Parramatta Mission, Bradfield Park Carer Wellness Centre now relocated to Kirribilli Community Centre and Northside renamed Yourside. Most of the courses including CBT training and Mindfulness have been very informative and helpful.
In attending many of these courses, I have met many other carers, some of whom have expressed bewilderment and feeling intimidated by "the system" not universally, but the feeling has been often expressed of feeling treated as a hindrance and being overwhelmed. Many have said how difficult it had been to ask questions especially with regard to the serious side effects of many drugs their loved ones had been prescribed.
Most recently I attended a workshop featuring Dr Henry Berman who stressed the importance of establishing relationship between doctor and patient before weighing in with pharmaceutical treatments. Carer input and personal experiences and observations of family members and friends can be of great value in understanding the person who is unwell so carers need to be included in the conversation.
Transiting patients back into the community and providing them and their families with sound professional support is vital. Much support may be needed for daily living and especially safe and affordable housing, social and constructive connections, including access to education, employment and training. For ongoing physical well being and mental health there needs to be comprehensive support. Costs of support and real rehabilitation are negligible when compared to the unacceptable alternatives of homelessness and readmission to mental health hospitals which can become a destructive revolving door.
There is no doubt that a great deal of effort is being made to improve the system which is commendable. It is always important to remember that mental illness is not as visible as physical illness and there is still a great deal of ignorance and stigma attached to those who are diagnosed with a mental illness, which does not happen to someone with a broken limb.
Let us be mindful of the emotional pain associated with much mental illness and try to treat all in pain, be it physical or mental with compassion and respect and this also applies to inclusive and respectful relationship with carers.
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Carmel-by-the-Sea, a charming coastal town in California, offers a variety of attractions for visitors to enjoy. Whether you’re looking for picturesque views, outdoor activities, or cultural experiences, there’s something for everyone in Carmel CA. Here are the best things to do while visiting this beautiful destination.
Explore The Scenic 17-Mile Drive
One of the most popular attractions in the area is the scenic 17-Mile Drive. This stunning stretch of coastal road takes you through Pebble Beach, Pacific Grove, and Carmel Highlands, providing breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean and pristine beaches along the way. Be sure to stop at popular spots like Lone Cypress, Bird Rock, and Spanish Bay for unforgettable photo opportunities.
Visit The Carmel Mission Basilica
The historic Carmel Mission Basilica is a must-see destination while in Carmel CA. Established by Father Junipero Serra in 1770, this beautiful basilica showcases Spanish colonial architecture and houses an impressive collection of artwork and religious relics. Guided tours are available to learn more about the history and significance of this important landmark.
Relax at Carmel Beach
Carmel Beach is a picturesque spot where you can enjoy the sun, sand, and surf. This dog-friendly beach offers stunning views of the Pacific Ocean, as well as opportunities for walking, sunbathing, and picnicking. Don’t miss the chance to watch the sunset over the water – it’s truly a magical experience.
Shop and Dine in Downtown Carmel
Downtown Carmel offers an array of boutiques, galleries, and restaurants for visitors to explore. Stroll along quaint cobblestone streets lined with unique shops selling everything from handmade jewelry to artisanal chocolate. When you’re ready for a break, choose from numerous dining options ranging from casual cafes to fine dining establishments that serve up fresh, locally sourced ingredients.
Discover Carmel’s Art Scene
Carmel CA is known for its thriving arts community, so be sure to visit some of the local galleries during your stay. Gallery Row on Ocean Avenue boasts over 20 art galleries showcasing works from renowned artists as well as up-and-coming talents. Additionally, you can attend workshops and classes at places like the Carmel Art Institute or the Sunset Center to immerse yourself in the local arts scene.
Take a Wine Tasting Tour
The nearby Monterey County wine region offers countless opportunities for wine tasting and tours. Many local wineries offer tastings of their award-winning wines, while others provide guided tours of their vineyards and production facilities. Some popular options include Scheid Vineyards, Talbott Vineyards, and Bernardus Winery.
Explore Nature at Point Lobos State Natural Reserve
Point Lobos State Natural Reserve is a stunning coastal reserve just south of Carmel CA that offers visitors the chance to explore diverse ecosystems, including sandy beaches, rocky shorelines, and lush forests. Trails wind through the reserve, providing opportunities to spot marine life such as seals, sea lions, and even whales (depending on the season). Be sure to bring your camera – this is a photographer’s paradise!
Play Golf at Pebble Beach Golf Links
Golf enthusiasts will want to add Pebble Beach Golf Links to their bucket list. This world-renowned course has hosted numerous professional tournaments, including the U.S. Open, and offers breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean along its 18 holes. Even if you’re not a golfer, it’s worth visiting just for the scenic beauty.
Attend Local Events and Festivals
Throughout the year, Carmel CA hosts numerous events and festivals that celebrate its rich cultural heritage. Some notable events include the Carmel Art & Film Festival, which showcases independent films and fine art; the annual Scarecrow Festival, where local businesses create imaginative scarecrows displayed around town; and the Carmel-by-the-Sea Wine Walk, a self-guided tour of downtown wine-tasting locations.
Enjoy Outdoor Activities at Garland Ranch Regional Park
For those seeking outdoor adventures, Garland Ranch Regional Park offers over 5,000 acres of pristine wilderness to explore. Trails wind through dense forests, open meadows, and along creeks, providing opportunities for hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding. Keep an eye out for local wildlife such as deer, bobcats, and rattlesnakes during your visit.
FAQs for Visitors to Carmel-by-the-Sea
What are the must-visit attractions in Carmel-by-the-Sea?
Don’t miss the iconic Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, the quaint storybook architecture, and the scenic Carmel coastline.
What is the best time to visit Carmel?
The most pleasant weather in Carmel can be experienced in September and October, known as the Indian summer, with an average high of 72°F (22°C).
What are the unique features of Carmel’s city planning?
Carmel-by-the-Sea is known for its carefully planned development that aims to retain its natural coastal beauty and village-like character. The town has no street lights or parking meters, and homes do not have street numbers.
How is mail delivered in Carmel-by-the-Sea?
There are no home mail deliveries in Carmel. Residents can obtain a U.S. Postal Service mailbox free of charge by providing proof of residence.
Are there any unusual laws in Carmel-by-the-Sea?
Yes, one peculiar law prohibits wearing shoes with heels taller than 2 inches, unless a permit is obtained. This law was created to prevent lawsuits resulting from tripping over irregular pavement.
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Thursday, July 8, 2010
A Letter to my Blog (AKA, Whiney Baby)
I know you've been here for me over the years-over and over again. You've recorded my triumphs and my rants, my fears, my goals....my prayers.....for all the world to read.
You're a handy dandy photo album, a vehicle for awareness, a friend-getter, and a place to share about cool books and products.
I know this!
But, sometimes....life just gets in the way.
I don't mean to put you on the back burner. I sincerely enjoy spending time with you.
I have no excuse, I know, for leaving you unattended and empty for the past six weeks. Oh, I can make some excuses, now. But, I won't stoop to that level. :o)
Can I just say that I'm sorry and move forward? If I remove the spammy feedback and add some real content, will you forgive me??
Don't be jealous if I do a little more of this with the kids.....
They need me, too, ya know....
And I need them.....
Oh, how we all need a lot more days like this one.... (Even you, dear Blog...)
I'm sorry you've been so lonely and neglected. Truly, I am!
I never, EVER expected you to speak up....you're always so loyally silent. I appreciate that you did step out and tell me your feelings yesterday. I needed the reminder.
So forgive me, dear blog, for ignoring you. But, please....
Do you HAVE to be such a whiney baby about it?????
***Duly noted, Sheri...lol!!! Thanks for the nudge. Promise to post something real soon---I have a couple of reviews and giveaways coming that you are going to love!
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Just west of Tampa Bay and snuggled along Florida's Gulf Coast, Clearwater offers miles of white-sand beaches and lots of fun attractions such as aquariums and water activities such as jet-skiing, deep-sea fishing and sailing. In the evening, Pier 60, in Clearwater Beach, takes advantage of the fabulous sunsets by offering a carnival-like atmosphere with craft booths, artisans and street performers. Running perpendicular to the pier, Clearwater Beach is lined with hotels and motels.
Pier 60 is flanked on either side by upscale beach hotels. To the south, the Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort & Spa (clearwaterbeach.hyatt.com) offers elegantly decorated 600- to 1,200-square-foot rooms with plush bedding and 42-inch LCD TVs. There is a spacious pool area with private cabanas, a gourmet seafood restaurant, a poolside grill and a full-service spa. Just north of the pier, the Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort (clearwaterbeachresort.com) hosts rooms with two double beds or one king bed as well as oversized suites with living areas, refrigerators and microwaves. The 10 acres of beachfront provide amenities such as boogie board and jet ski rentals, umbrellas and cabanas with food and beverage service unique to Clearwater. The resort also hosts two heated beachfront pools, a kid's club and kid's activities at the Beach Club.
Hotels Within Walking Distance
Hotels and motels line the beach north and south of Pier 60. About a half-mile north, the Sandpearl Resort (sandpearl.com) offers well-appointed rooms with one king or two queen beds and modern amenities such as 32-inch flat-panel TVs, wireless Internet and iPod docking stations. The resort hosts a beachfront pool, a kid's club, private boat slips and enrichment programs such as eco-tours, kayaking and astronomy. If you're on a budget, try the value-priced Beachview Inn (thebeachviewinn.com), which offers a sun deck and pool overlooking the ocean and complimentary continental breakfast. The guest rooms have two double beds or one king bed and some have ocean views. A bit further south, the Holiday Inn Clearwater Beach (clearwaterbeachholidayinn.com) emotes a Mediterranean-vibe with its stucco buildings topped with terra-cotta tile roofs and lush gardens dotted with turquoise pools. On-premise amenities include heated pools, a tropical-themed restaurant, a coffee house, a hair and nail salon and a game room.
There are a handful of motels near the beachside in Clearwater. Situated about a quarter-mile from Pier 60, the family run Ritz Resort Motel (ritzresortmotel.com) is across the street from the beach and features a heated swimming pool. Most of its rooms provide ocean views and amenities such as cable TV, small refrigerators and microwaves. Further south, EconoLodge on the Beach (econolodge.com) offers spacious guest rooms with private balconies and kitchenettes, an outdoor heated pool, hot tub and private white-sand beach. The hotel serves guests a complimentary continental breakfast.
Most of Clearwater Beach's motels are on the bayside of the island. One of the closest motels to Pier 60, Traveler Motel of Clearwater Beach (travelermotel.com) offers double-bed rooms, most of which have fully equipped kitchens. The motel has a waterfront pool, barbecue grills and shuffleboard. Next door, the newly renovated Blue Wave Motel (bluewavemotel.com) offers beach-themed one-bedroom suites with pull-out sofa beds and full kitchens and several one-, two- and three-bedroom beach cottages. Just south of Pier 60, also on the bayside, Amber Tides Motel (ambertides-motel.com) offers one-bedroom apartments with two double beds and full kitchens in addition to its standard motel rooms, which feature one queen bed. The rooms surround a garden area with swimming pool.
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Printer friendly versionALASKA VOLCANO OBSERVATORY
Friday, December 2, 2005 10:55 AM AKST (1955 UTC)
This email was mistakenly sent as an AVO weekly update rather than an information release.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory announces formal seismic monitoring of two additional volcanic centers in Alaska. New seismic networks have been in place for a sufficient period of time to allow us to define a level of non-eruptive background earthquake activity and character. Thus, we will add Ukinrek Maars and Korovin Volcano to our weekly status reports.
UKINREK MAARS VOLCANO
57.8317°N 156.5097°W, Summit Elevation 299 ft (91 m)
Current Level of Concern Color Code: GREEN
In August 2004, a seven station seismic network was installed in the Ugashik-Peulik area. The geometry of this network is sufficient to detect all earthquakes above a ML=0.9 in the vicinity of the Ukinrek Maars. For the last 16 months, an average of seven earthquakes per month were detected, with little seismicity in the vicinity of the Ukinrek Maars.
Ukinrek Maars are a pair of low-relief explosion craters that formed over 9-day eruption in March and April of 1977. The craters developed on a low ridge just south of the southern shore of Becharof Lake on the Alaska Peninsula, about 100 km (62 mi) south of King Salmon. The west maar is the smaller of the two and is about 170 m across, and 35 m deep. The east maar is more circular in shape, up to 300 m across and about 70 m deep. It contains a lake that now covers remnants of a spatter cone that developed late in the eruption. The rims of these craters are constructed of deposits from the explosive activity including coarse to fine ash, lapilli, and large blocks or bombs. The ash clouds associated with this eruption in 1977 reached approximately 6.5 km (21,000 ft) above sea level. Maar eruptions form when rising magma intersects water-saturated ground or a shallow body of water. They tend to be monogenetic, meaning that usually, no further eruptions will occur from the same site. However, the maars are only the most recent of at least four monogenetic vents in the immediate vicinity, therefore additional monogenetic vents may form in the future.
More information regarding Ukinrek can be found on the AVO web site:
52.3811°N 174.1542°W, Summit Elevation 5030 ft (1533 m)
Current Level of Concern Color Code: GREEN
Since March 2005 AVO has been receiving seismic data from a seven-station network surrounding Korovin Volcano and neighboring Mount Kliuchef. Over the last nine months, an average of eight earthquakes per month have been detected on the northern part of Atka Island. A broadband station in Atka, operated by AEIC provides additional information on the Korovin earthquakes.
Korovin Volcano is a 1,553 m (5,030 ft) high stratovolcano located on the northern part of Atka Island in the central Aleutian Islands, about 184 km (110 mi) east of Adak, 538 km (350 mi) west of Dutch Harbor, and 1748 km (1086 mi) southwest of Anchorage. The volcano has two distinct summit vents that have been the sites of historic eruptive activity as recently as June 1998. The southeastern summit vent consists of a steep-walled crater that contains a shallow lake that has an elevated temperature due to fumaroles within the crater. Occasionally, a vigorous steam plume rises from this crater. Known eruptions at Korovin occurred in 1907, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1973, 1976, 1986, 1987, 1996, and 1998. All produced minor amounts of ash and in some cases, small lahars and lava flows. The ash plume produced by the 1998 eruption was not well-constrained but may have reached 4900 to 9200 m (16,000 to 30,000 ft) above sea level. Other young volcanic cones in the vicinity of Korovin include Konia and Kliuchef; both of which have likely erupted within the last 10,000 years. Hot springs and fumaroles occur on the south and west flanks of Kliuchef and also in a glacial valley about 4 miles (6 km) southwest of Korovin.
More information regarding Korovin can be found on the AVO web site:
ABBREVIATED COLOR CODE KEY
(contact AVO for complete description):
GREEN volcano is dormant; normal seismicity and fumarolic activity occurring
YELLOW volcano is restless; eruption may occur
ORANGE volcano is in eruption or eruption may occur at any time
RED significant eruption is occurring or explosive eruption expected at any time
VOLCANO INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET: http://www.avo.alaska.edu
RECORDING ON THE STATUS OF ALASKA'S VOLCANOES (907) 786-7478
Tom Murray, Scientist-in-Charge, USGS
[email protected] (907) 786-7497
Chris Nye, Acting Coordinating Scientist, UAF-GI
[email protected] (907) 590-3111
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Product News: Machinery & Machining Tools
Evaporative Cooling Retorts suit raw product processing.
Press Release Summary:
March 28, 2014 - Providing automated monitoring and control, as well as extensive recipe flexibility, Evaporative Cooling Retorts offer solution for processing 3,200 lb batches or 50–800 gallon kettles of raw products. Since evaporative cooling consists of deaeration or removal of air from product, it not only cools, but also improves product quality and extends shelf life by slowing bacterial growth. Typical applications include potatoes, soups, sauces, fruits, chick peas, vegetables, and some meat products.
Original Press Release
Allpax Now Offers Evaporative Cooling Retorts for Raw Product Processing
Press release date: March 25, 2014
COVINGTON, LA — Allpax Products, powered by Pro Mach, has developed retorts for evaporative cooling of large batches of raw product, which eliminates the transportation and refrigeration expenses of the traditional cooling process. The integrated retort solution provides automated monitoring and control, as well as extensive recipe flexibility. These retorts are enabling companies worldwide to respond to growing consumer demand for specialty food items such as hummus made from chickpeas and potato-based salads.
Advances in evaporative cooling
While evaporative or vacuum cooling has been used in the food industry for years, new technology has made the process more efficient and led to enhanced product quality, higher productivity, and reduced costs. Foods such as potatoes, soups, sauces, fruits, chick peas, vegetables, and some meat products are ideal for evaporative cooling since most of them can be cooked and cooled in a single vessel, which minimizes handling. Retort capacities can be sized for up to 3,200 pound batches of product or 50-800 gallon kettles, enabling large quantities to be processed easily. Furthermore, products can be taken directly from the field to a processing plant and cooled prior to distribution to foodservice outlets and retail stores.
When foods are cooked in traditional ways, they have to be transported to refrigerated rooms. These rooms take time to reach required temperatures plus additional handling and transportation time, all of which may adversely affect quality, texture, or appearance. Since evaporative cooling is the deaeration or removal of air from the product, it not only cools, but also improves product quality and increases shelf life by slowing bacterial growth.
Allpax retorts for processing raw product are designed with orbiting doors, which lift up and out of the way so the retorts can be loaded easily. This also reduces the retort’s footprint. The evaporative retorts feature double doors – one door is for the entry side and one for the exit side. A sealed partition is placed midway in the retort.
The product being processed is loaded into trays or baskets and placed in the entry side of the retort and the door is closed. Typically steam is used to heat the product, processing it to a given temperature. Once sterilized the food is conveyed to the cooling side of the retort. Evaporative cooling, which lowers the atmospheric pressure in the vessel, quickly evaporates the water off the product and cools it. Once the process is complete, the exit-side door is opened and the sterilized and cooled product is removed.
Allpax’s integrated solution controls the vacuum ejector systems via a large valve on top of the retort and a transmitter that measures the vacuum and other inputs and outputs on specific valves. The control system integrates the outside components, allowing for the monitoring and modulating of the vacuum, temperature, and pressure to ensure that the user’s desired outcome for the finished product is achieved. All the critical parameters are controlled by the Allpax control system, which features a 15-inch HMI color screen. The control system collects vital process data. Batch logs can be stored electronically and also printed.
“The big difference in these retorts is that evaporative cooling is now being used to process large batches of food products versus the old way of having to cook the product, remove it, and cool it in a specific way such as by air or a large refrigerator,” said Greg Jacob, Vice President and General Manager, Allpax. “Simplifying the process reduces energy costs, eliminates transportation time, which is costly and can also impact product quality. Evaporative cooling also eliminates the need for costly refrigerator rooms that have a large footprint and are expensive to operate. Not only are companies recognizing that evaporative cooling is a much leaner way to process raw products, but they are also becoming aware of the advantages of working with a supplier that can provide a turnkey solution to meet their specific needs.”
For information on Allpax evaporative cooling solutions, call 1-888-893-9277 and visit www.Allpax.com.
About Allpax Products
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According to Gartner, by 2023, roughly 75% of organizations will restructure risk and security governance to address the adoption of advanced technologies. This just goes to show the importance of cybersecurity and provides a small insight into what organizations will focus on in the near future.
Cybercrime is rising throughout the world, and if organizations and their employees don’t act, then the risk of becoming a victim of a cyber-attack will rise dramatically. Therefore, businesses are shifting gears to put more time into security awareness training for their employees. In this guide, we’ll review common forms of cyber-attacks and why Awareness Training is so important in the fight against cybercrime.
Most Common Forms of Cyber-Attacks
There are many forms of cyber-attacks, but here are some of the most common.
· Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
· Man-in-the-Middle (MitM)
· DNS Tunneling
Malware is a vicious software, including worms, ransomware, viruses, and spyware. When you have a vulnerability, Malware can easily breach. This can happen from a user clicking a dangerous link from an email or social account for example. Malware can block access to key parts of the network, install malicious and harmful software, secretly obtain your information, and disrupt specific components of your operating system. Malware can be nasty and ruin the company’s database from the inside out with pop-ups and disabled programs. One can prevent malware by continuously updating systems, utilizing encrypted software, monitor activity regularly, and educate employees.
Phishing attacks are the practice of sending fraudulent communications that look like a reputable source. The goal of these attacks is to steal sensitive data from a person or business. Most times, phishing attacks come from emails or social media messages. A lot of times, employees will fall for these attacks. You would be surprised how many employees fall for these scams; it is very alarming. How do phishing attacks happen? Generally, through clicking an attachment, enabling macros in word doc, updating passwords, responding on social media, or using a new wi-fi hot spot. If a member of your staff has fallen for a phishing scam, you must notify your IT staff immediately and change passwords/usernames.
Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are when servers, systems, or networks are flooded with traffic to tire out resources and bandwidth. This can result in the system not being able to fulfill requests which eventually holds back a business.
Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks are how they sound. When an attacker inserts themselves into a two-party transaction. MitM attacks can come from two different points. The first is when the public Wi-Fi is unsecured, the attackers can insert themselves between a visitor’s device and the network. The second is when malware is on a device, the attacker can install software to process and take all the users' info.
DNS Tunneling is another form of cybercrime that encodes data of other programs and protocols to communicate non-DNS traffic. DNS Tunneling lets cybercriminals insert malware or pass information into DNS queries. These forms of attacks are very sophisticated forms of cybercrime. How does one prevent DNS Tunneling? To start, install a configured DNS firewall and blacklist destinations.
How Security Awareness Training Reduces Risk of Cyber-Attacks
It is not a matter of if a cyber-attack could happen to you or your employees. It is a matter of when the attack will occur. According to Verizon, roughly 85% of breaches are due to human error. As organizations race to improve their technology protect against cyber-attacks, many are simultaneously taking advantage of Security Awareness Training for their employees. Employee training has been around for some time now but as cybercrime evolves, so should our educational material. Employees are the front-line defense against hackers and phishing scams.
Questions to Ask Yourself about Employees and Cybersecurity Knowledge
· Are your employees trained to avoid or see through a cyber-attack attempt?
· If a cyber-attack is successful through an employee, is your business ready for retaliating?
· Do I have reports and KPIs that show my teams proneness to phishing scams?
· Do I have educational content for my employees?
Four Layers of Security
Because cybersecurity is so complicated and attacks change so rapidly, it is understandable that organizations struggle to keep up with best practices. Security Awareness Training is a form of education that supports and equips members of an organization with key information that protects themselves and their company from any lost assets or harm. This form of training is especially crucial for compliance reasons like PCI or HIPPAA within SMBs. The beauty of Awareness Training is the fact that it runs in the background while staff continue to work from their computers.
Key Components of Security Awareness Training
· Educational Content and Resources
· Executive Level Support and Planning
· Campaign Support Materials
· Regular Testing and Simulations
· Obtaining Key Metrics and Reports
· Acquiring Surveys and Assessments
In 2020, security and risk management spending grew 6.4%. As cybercrime rises, when employees are trained to fight against cyber-attacks, they become your front-line defense, kind of like a human firewall. Strengthening your first line of defense against cybercrime isa critical part of your cybersecurity strategy. When companies take on SecurityAwareness Training, they generally run the program through twelve months. The average proneness to phishing scams starts roughly at an average of 31% and tapers off to around 4% by month twelve.
No matter the industry, or size, organizations need to take proactive measures when it comes to securing sensitive information. At this very moment, countless cyber-attacks are occurring. With different size organizations, different problems need to be addressed, therefore Security Awareness Training has become an integral part of IT and security in recent years.
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I wanted to give you this information as soon as possible so that you can make your travel arrangements to San Diego.
In short: "group fares" for flights are NOT cheaper than what an individual traveler might be able to find. Seats on planes get more expensive as the plan sells out, so when you ask for 20 tickets, they take an average of cheaper and lower fares and sell you a block.
Boo to that.
Further, requiring 20+ people to travel on the same itinerary is not all that feasible for grown working adults. Maybe for a high school trip or something!
I presented my research to the Board last night, and we voted to NOT try to arrange group flights. We believe this is in the best interest of every traveler.
That being said, here are my $.02!
BOOK EARLY. BOOK NOW.
Some research shows:
American Airlines, Thursday - Sunday from DCA: $484
Continenal Airlines, Thursday - Monday from IAD: $460
Southwest Airlines, Thursday -Sunday from BWI: $401
Frontier Airlines, Thursday - Monday from DCA: $320
Frontier Airlines, Thursday - Sunday from DCA: $386
Frontier Airlines, Crack-of Dawn Friday - Monday from DCA: $325
I would suggest that you post your itineraries in response to this thread to give your clubmates suggestions on good prices!
Info on hotels to come by the end of the day.
2012 Secretary/Member Services Director
Thanks for the research. Another good way to share itineraries is with the free site tripit.com . You can forward your confirmation emails to [email protected] and then it automatically compiles all your flight, hotel, car, etc. information so it's easy to print and share. (It also gives you a static URL, so we could post the URLs of our itineraries here, rather than flight/hotel/car, etc. separately.)
I am on Continental Thursday evening to Monday afternoon direct from IAD.
I plan on staying to a hotel close to the race, location TBD, so no rental car for me.
Got my reservation on Southwest - did nonstop both ways from BWI for $179 going on Thursday, May 10 and $279 coming back on Sunday, May 13, but you can get a flight for $179 both ways if you take one that has one stop (some with no plane change). I have a ride to BWI from a friend's house, but you can get a train from Union Station to BWI. Southwest also flies from Dulles - I saw a flight out for $169 (1:25pm - 7:00pm) on the 10th and return for $265 (12:10pm - 9:15pm) on the 13th. There was a return flight on Monday the 14th for $191, but it was a long trip (9:05am-9:15pm).
Lv BWI 10:35 am Thursday, 10 May
Arr SAN 1:20 pm Thursday, 10 May
Lv SAN 11:30 am Sunday, 13 May
Arr BWI 7:30 pm Sunday, 13 May
Anybody else going from BWI?
I'm on the same itinerary as Dena, Thursday to Monday, direct from IAD-->SAN.
There are also Cheapoair company flights, via Frontier, one stop, c. $230, Thurs-Monday:
Ed is flying the plane. Bring your own toilet paper and snacks.
And they will take up a collection for refueling.
Actually, Mo', it would be even cheaper to do a reverse-RAAM, and ride to San Diego.
Preliminary hotel information posted here:
Tripit is pretty cool. I'm on your flights ladies.
We should carpool to Dulles. :)
My itinerary's here: http://www.tripit.com/trip/show/id/29271515
Flying direct from BWI Thursday night, May 10. Returning early Monday, May 14 (also direct).
Just got a killer deal on Travelocity. Two round trip tickets (one for me and one for the DC Tri Club first lady) for $400. Head over to Travelocity now, there is a round trip option for $179 + taxes & fees.
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I can eat, what is probably called medium!
I like chili but am not a good judge of how much to put in a recipe - when I recently made this vegetarian chilli con carne, I used dried red chillies, and soaked them for half a day.
Result - it was very hot even though I took the seeds out of them!
I still ate, and enjoyed it - just that my mouth was burning afterwards!!
I do like that bit of kick in some meals.
Hi finy, This isn't in answer to your question, but I'd like to tell you anyway! When our daughter was having her 2nd baby, our grand-daughter, who was 3 or 4 at the time announced: If it's a a boy baby, I'd like it to be called: Risotto, & if it's a girl baby, I'd like her to be called: Chilli" Needless to say, it was a baby girl, but she wasn't called Chilli, she was named....GINGER. So still with the spices! (And yes, the family are vegetarians!!)
My mouth loves spicy food! I love the way my lips tingle afterwards. It reminds me of how it felt after being thoroughly kissed!
In India we accidentally gathered an audience because our Indian friend told the restaurant staff we like spicy food. When our food arrived the staff all came out to watch us eat it. On our second visit to the restaurant, the spice level was taken up a notch without any consultation. We realised what was going on and ate our food without showing any hint that it may be too hot. When asked if I liked the meal - I replied-" Yes thank you. It is very nice." I overheard the staff having a conversation, repeating my words and laughing loudly .
My mouth loves spicy food, but after having my gall bladder removed, sadly, my stomach doesn't love spicy food as much any more.
"A lot" is relative. I don't like it as hot as some people do, like if you get really authentic hot Thai food, but I like food hotter than most folk of European descent I know. I grow several kinds of chillis but I don't cook with them as much as I'd like to because the kids don't really have a taste for it yet.
I do use chilli a fair but in my cooking, but I don't like foods that are super hot. Chilli is quite good for you, so I like to have some, but I am not heavy handed with it. I quite like spicy food, and I am lucky in that I will eat a variety of cuisines.
I like food with flavor, but not spicy. The worst is the spicy food that starts out okay and then "creeps up on you" until your tongue starts burning like crazy. It hurts. I guess I am a mild to mild/medium chili person.
I enjoy a small amount of heat in food with chilli, but I am not a fan of the really hot chillies at all! I never have been. My son who is a chef has really enjoyed hot chillies since he was about 10 years old. He certainly didn't inherit this taste from me!!
I can, I do and I enjoy it. I think it is the development of palate since childhood. We in India were exposed to spicy/chilli food at a very young age. I also eat simple chilli chutney with other dishes.
Hotness in chillies comes from the seeds and I don't remove them. Different varieties of chilli taste different and have different level of hotness. So know your chillies before you use them. I always start with a small amount when I am unsure and work my way up. I always have chilli powder on hand to adjust taste at later stages of cooking.
Note: Eating too much chilli is known to cause trouble during morning ablutions.
Chilli is a very good way to spoil food! Too much chilli destroys all flavours,nt to enter the lips and tongue etc! I thing it is overrated, Chiili is in way too many basic supermarket ttems and I don't buy those, I like mild curries and some mexican food
but many foods don't go with chilli so keep it out of my chocolate for starters.
We could eat chilli dishes, but now we're older, we find it hard to eat them now. I do scrape out the seeds, & I do know the green ones are supposed to be hotter than the red ones, (Of cause I used to think it was the other way round!) Now they make my coughing attacks worse. When our youngest granddaughter was 3, she'd stick her finger into the little tin of paprika, & eat it like that, but I don't suppose that would have been as hot as chilli powder! A few years ago, I couldn't understand why my m/i/l/ couldn't eat the my chilli con carne I'd cooked, but now I can! | <urn:uuid:0904aea5-20c0-469d-bb0a-d7a8bdb9dbc3> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://answerangels.com.au/can-you-eat-food-with-a-lot-of-chilli-in-it/ | 2019-05-22T05:26:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256763.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522043027-20190522065027-00335.warc.gz | en | 0.986454 | 1,047 |
I’m sitting in a spotlessly clean room in a pub in Porthallow, which is an unexpected stop.
When I looked at my route for today, my heart sank. Just under 23 miles. What was I thinking when I planned the itinerary? Even on the flat east Coast that distance is a bit too long, and here it is close to impossible. I studied the map and found a couple of short cuts, cutting out some walking inland along one of the rivers, so I decided that if I could lop off 3 or so miles, all might be well.
The day started out in light rain again, with all of the path surfaces greasy and slippery, necessitating careful walking. My knee is sporting a bruise in every colour of the rainbow, but I don’t seem to have sustained any real damage.
The path was easy to begin with. Gentle undulations around to Swanpool, and then Maenporth. I was making good time. Up from the bare 2 miles per hour of the first couple of days to the nearly 2.5, which I needed to cover to have any hope of reaching the YHA at Coverack before dark.
I was plugging along nicely, admiring the sea which was calmer than yesterday, and rather more visible as the low lying cloud of the last 3 days finally cleared. I was looking at the Cornish names and comparing them to Welsh to try to translate them. I decided that Nansidwell was probably the equivalent of Nantsantidwal, and that Carrickvoil must be the equivalent of Carregfoel. Plas for a big house seems to be the same, as is mor (sea) and tre/tref, meaning settlement or place belonging to…
As I was deep in these linguistic meditations, I looked ahead and saw a herd of cattle on the horizon. No problem, I thought, having just been through a field where they hadn’t batted an eyelid. This lot looked well away from the path, minding their own business. About 500 yards ahead of me was another walker, with three dogs, two terriers and a Labrador or similar. I hope he puts those on a lead, I thought, or the cattle may start taking an interest.
I hope this was not an example of the thoughts creating the reality, because, unfortunately, that is exactly what happened. The cattle, who were young bullocks again, saw the dogs and began to moo and balloo in very threatening tones, setting off the ones in the next field as well. They began to trot towards the path in a very determined fashion. The man with the dogs was fine, he had plenty of time to get through the field before they reached him. I, on the other hand hadn’t. They caught site of me and veered in my direction.
Fortunately, I had just come through a gap in the field, with a hedge to one side. I nipped behind it smartly. Once they lose sight of you, they lose interest, I fondly told myself. However they were still mooing and harrumphing, and I did not fancy drawing attention to myself. Depressed, I turned back and took a detour round, which I could have done without as it was on the road, always unpleasant. I made good time to the Helford River crossing, arriving just after 12.30 giving me an average of nearly 2.4 miles per hour.
As it happened, the tide was so far out that the ferry couldn’t cross before 1pm, so I had a very nice Cornish vanilla ice cream whilst I waited. I was the first one over, as the ferryman would only take one small person to test the water. Arriving on the south side, in the pretty village of Helford, I had a choice. I could walk on the official south west coast path along the banks of the Helford river, then turn inland to cross another stream at the ford if the tide were low, or if it were not, walk at least a mile in either direction along road to the bridge; alternatively, I could assume the ford would be impassable, and strike cross country for the bridge. I decided on the latter. The path was a delightful woodland saunter , at one point along a road where there signs advising drivers to beware of swans crossing! The rain had finally cleared, and it was brightening up, although very humid. I consulted my map again. Coverack still looked very far away. I made the decision to see if I could find accommodation in Porthallow. If I could, I would stay there. I arrived there around 3, having covered 12.7 miles. Sitting in front of the pub (Dewotty Pymp Heren) or the Five Pilchards in English, was a row of hikers hugging beers. They informed me that the landlord had just closed for the afternoon.
I really didn’t fancy another five miles to Coverack. Happily, there was a number on the front door for anyone looking for accommodation, so I called up, and the landlord returned to let me in. So here I am. I have spent some time working out how I can change the next few days. I really can’t do the distances I planned over this terrain. I’ll aim for the Lizard lighthouse tomorrow – around 15 miles. | <urn:uuid:6d00dd05-5bad-4525-9b7e-ce76d6d6a6a1> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://mgctblog.com/2015/08/02/day-66-falmouth-to-porthallow/ | 2020-01-26T10:06:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251687958.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20200126074227-20200126104227-00026.warc.gz | en | 0.98284 | 1,126 |
My sister got a loan, made me think about home owning, read at your own risk, its long and not really that interesting.
My sister recently was approved for a home loan, she was excited, as many people believe she thinks it’s the way to save money and to get ahead in life. As my family was talking about this I began to think about the real value of owning a home. My conclusion is that it’s a myth. It doesn’t increase your value, and if nothing else it actually limits you due to your inability to move or sell quickly.
I am told constantly how people waste money renting, however after doing more research I discovered on average, if you wish to actually invest money, the smarter idea would be to rent. Here are my reasonings.
First and foremost, this does not include closing costs, realtor fees, repairs, or any extra fee. This is purely a monthly payment comparison between the house and the rental, AND this does not include money on the actual loan, THIS IS PURELY PAYMENT IN TAXES, INSURANCE, and INTEREST on the payment (basically the money that doesn’t go towards the value of the house, rather the money that is lost to excessive fees and does not actually pay off the primary loan).
First I took the average amount of $258,000 (average cost of a home in Bellingham according to http://www.bellingham.org). The average property tax is 1.4% (range is 1.2-1.6%), so you multiply 1.4% x 258,000 = $3,612 a year. She is paying 7% interest rate, that means 7.0% x 258,000 = $18,060 in interest alone on the house loan (none of it goes to the actual amount). Finally average home insurance (10 quotes I looked at for that value) was $820 a year. That means the totally yearly payment of her $258,000 home is $3,612 + $18,060 + $1220 = $22,892 dollars a year. If you divide that into a monthly payment that comes out to be approximately $1907.00 per month. NONE OF THAT GOES TOWARDS THE LOAN, that’s just the “cost” of having the house.
Now if you compare that to the average rental of a 3 bedroom home of $1050 (costs run $900 to $1200). If you take the rental cost of 1050 and subtract the Loan cost of $1907 = means renting you are saving $857 a month alone just in loan fees (plus the several hundred you would pay on your actual debt). Instead of wasting close to a $1000 a month extra plus the actual debt payment, you could turn around and invest that in some serious 401k, or invest it in other opportunities that are more portable.
So, my conclusion is you are throwing away an average of $857 a month in excessive fees to be able to say “I own this”. Of course this does not include the other advantages of renting, you do not have to repair or replace appliances (that is the responsibility of the landlord), rental insurance is only $15 a month, and utilities are generally cheaper in apartments (which btw are an additional $400 a month cheaper then the rental house).
If you truly want to invest, the best way to go about it would to be either rent an apartment and invest your extra money. Or do what the wife and I did, by a $20,000 mobile home (1/14 th the cost of House or go for a cheaper one) then pay $350 a month in lot fees that include w/s/g and cable (which is a savings of about $1600 a month over a house payment).
Just something I have been thinking about, useless rambling 😉
PS. My Insurance for the home is off, I mistakenly did a quote for $150k, not $258k, that means its actually a bit more expensive then $820 a year
PPS. This also doesnt even indicate that the average wage in Bellingham is about $28k a year, thats almost 60% of your pay, and it doesn’t even go to the actual debt.
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Bushcraft Survival Tips and Tricks
Bushcraft encompasses the skills and knowledge that allow you to be more self reliant in the wilderness. The more knowledge you carry in your head, the less you have to carry in your pack.
With that in mind, let's take a look at some bushcraft survival tips and tricks that can let you go lighter, faster, and safer when you venture outdoors.
Bushcraft Survival Shelter Tips
Death from exposure can occur in hours during inclement weather, so shelter is always a priority. You should always carry some form of shelter such as a tarp, poncho, etc. whenever you can. Here is some tips and tricks when using shelters.
- Keeping the guy lines tied onto the corners of your tarp can save a lot of time and hassle. Do the same with your poncho with some bank line. This will cut down on setup time for those instances where you have to get up a shelter quickly.
- A couple contractor sized garbage bags are inexpensive, lightweight and immensely useful. When filled with leaves, they make a great insulated pad to sleep or sit on. Remember, sleeping pads aren't just for comfort. Your body loses a lot of heat through the ground, and in colder temperatures, a sleeping pad can help you stay warm.
- A $1 blue tarp, which can be found at most dollar stores, is a great addition to any kit as a ground cloth. It will help protect you from heat loss compared to sleeping directly on the ground. It can also double as the shelter itself in a pinch.
- Duct tape can easily be carried while backpacking, simply by wrapping some tape around an old gift card. Gorilla tape sticks the best, and some strong tape can be used to repair your tarp, tent, or whatever.
If you ever have to make an emergency shelter in the wilderness, some of these tips could save your life.
Bushcraft Survival Fire Tips
Fire is one of the most essential parts of bushcraft survival. A fire can keep you warm and happy throughout even the coldest nights. It can be used to boil potable water and cook food. We have an article on knife skills that include firestarting tips but here is a few other tips on fire.
- Waxed jute twine makes an excellent firestarter, and can be braided and tied to your knife lanyard.
- Other easy, homemade tinder materials are dryer lint and cotton balls. Either one can be soaked in wax or coated in Vaseline, making a firestarter that will ignite easily, and burn for several minutes, long enough to dry out damp kindling.
- Use rubber bands to secure any loose straps on your pack, which also double as easy to light, waterproof fire starters.
- Keep two methods of starting a fire in your kit. I like to carry a Bic lighter and a fire steel. Never be caught with only one fire starting source if you can help it regardless of how experienced you are with that method. It could fail.
- Throughout the day, always be on the lookout for dry tinder. If you happen to see some birch bar or fat wood, pick it up. You may not find dry tinder at your cooking site, and this could get your fire started. It also means you have part of your fire starting kit ready to go if you need to make a fire in a hurry.
Bushcraft Survival Food & Water Tips
The human body can't live without food and water, so you must have a plan for food and water when in the field. It's just as important as shelter and fire so let's look at a few more tips.
- Always pack a little extra food, maybe a protein bar or two. If you have to spend an unexpected night in the woods, the extra food will be welcome. Bars are lightweight and won't take up much room in your pack.
- If carrying a metal container to boil water in, a small square of aluminum foil is a very lightweight solution to a lid. The same foil can double as a windscreen for your stove, as well. If you don't use a stove, the Dakota fire pit burns efficiently, allowing you to cook your meals with less fuel, which means less work. If you do use a stove, remember that canister stoves don't work as well in the cold, but alcohol stoves have no trouble.
- Try to always carry a method to purify water. This can be water purification tablets or a filtration system.
- Carry a bandanna. You can use this to help with the first filtration of water and there is so many other uses for one in bushcrafting.
Some of these survival tips and tricks could save your life, and some could save you time and work. All in all, there are too many bushcraft tips and tricks to list them all. A lot of bushcraft is figuring things out in the field, and learning what work best for you, but I hope that my suggestions were of use to you.
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Tokyo, Japan - July 28, 2016
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has invested in FogHorn Systems, Inc., a Silicon Valley startup that is a leading developer of fog computing technology. Through its investment in this company, Yokogawa aims to foster their development of fog computing technology. In so doing, Yokogawa hopes to expand the range of solutions that it provides.
Due to the widening use of cloud computing services and the huge number of devices that have access to cloud resources, there is a growing concern over issues such as network congestion and data processing delays. Fog computing* is gaining traction as a technology solution to this problem.
FogHorn Systems, a pioneer in the development of software for fog computing applications with outstanding expertise in this field, has attracted the interest of various companies that are promoting IoT. Led by March Capital and GE Ventures, the company has succeeded in raising $12 million in funding from multiple investors, including Yokogawa, Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, and Darling Ventures. There is also a group of investors who invested in the company prior to this round of fundraising. Yokogawa's stake in the company is worth $900,000.
Yokogawa offers a wide range of control solutions that help its customers improve the safety and efficiency of their operations and make the most effective use of their assets. These solutions include field instruments, control systems, manufacturing execution systems (MES), and management information systems. Industrial IoT (IIoT) technology is making rapid inroads in the control field, and it is expected that fog computing's enabling of real-time and distributed processing in edge computing applications will significantly accelerate its adoption.
Through this investment in FogHorn Systems, Yokogawa will gain access to the latest fog computing technologies and will also make available its knowledge and expertise in process control and plant operations that will help this company further refine its fog computing technology. Yokogawa aims to make use of fog computing to strengthen the solutions that it provides.
Yokogawa has drawn up a long-term business framework and formulated a vision statement that reads, Through "Process Co-Innovation," Yokogawa creates new value with our clients for a brighter future. "Process Co-Innovation" is a concept for an automation business that will utilize all of Yokogawa's measurement, control and information technologies. According to this statement, Yokogawa will seek not only to optimize production processes but also the flow of material and information within and between companies, including their value and supply chains. This concept covers all solutions of Yokogawa, which is committed to working with customers to create value. The effective use of IIoT is key to "Process Co-Innovation."
Tsuyoshi Abe, a Yokogawa vice president and head of the company's Marketing Headquarters, had the following to say about this investment: "Highly reliable and stable communications are an essential requirement in manufacturing and many other fields. Fog computing is a breakthrough that helps to enhance the use of cloud resources. It is also expected to provide Yokogawa many more opportunities to utilize IIoT in its control business. Based on its corporate brand slogan of 'Co-innovating tomorrow,' Yokogawa will utilize FogHorn's technology to develop new solutions and create new value in collaboration with its customers and partners.
* Fog computing: An architectural concept for the realization of edge intelligence and the suppression of communications with the cloud by establishing a "fog" distributed computing layer between the cloud and devices in the field. Fog computing eliminates communications delays and fluctuations by locating the processing of certain data near the field devices that generate the data and sending only essential information to the cloud. As such, there are high expectations that this technology will lead to a number of new IoT applications.
Yokogawa's global network of 92 companies spans 59 countries. Founded in 1915, the US$3.7 billion company engages in cutting-edge research and innovation. Yokogawa is active in the industrial automation and control (IA), test and measurement, and aviation and other businesses segments. The IA segment plays a vital role in a wide range of industries including oil, chemicals, natural gas, power, iron and steel, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, and food. For more information about Yokogawa, please visit www.yokogawa.com.
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After sometimes-strident discussion, the Santa Clara County Board of Education voted 5-2 to approve Bullis Charter School's request to operate for five more years, through June 2017.The board placed some conditions on its approval, including broader recruitment of students, although the language of the restrictions has yet to be worked out.Critics of the charter, including trustee Anna Song, wanted the board to delay approval Wednesday night in order to persuade Bullis to change admission preferences, commit to enrolling more underserved students, drop its current lawsuit against the Los Altos School District and submit to binding arbitration with the school district. Bullis backers have sued the district four times.
Song and trustee Grace Mah dissented in the vote.Song believes that the school did not comply with state rules that charters serve academically struggling students, and that it acts more like a private school by leaning on parents to donate $5,000 a year plus, for fifth- and sixth-grade students, pay about $2,000 for annual field trips...
The Bullis Charter School Board of Directors has filed paperwork to appeal a November decision in which the Santa Clara County Superior Court upheld the Los Altos School District in a dispute over facilities. Bullis Charter School filed a lawsuit June 10 requesting that the court define the district’s legal obligation in providing facilities for the charter school. Proposition 39, passed in the 2000 election, mandates that districts must provide “reasonably equivalent space” for charter school students who reside within district boundaries. The charter school currently shares space with Egan Junior High School on West Portola Avenue. Judge James P. Kleinberg issued a ruling in November rejecting all but one of the charter school’s petitions…The lawsuits have created a financial burden for the school district, according to Randy Kenyon, assistant superintendent for business services. As of October, the school district has spent $200,000 in legal fees, and previous filings cost $300,000 to defend, he said…[NOTE: Taxpayers pay a double amount for the legal costs when charter schools and districts fight. Charter schools are paying their lawyers out of their publicly-provided budgets, too. Additional expenses incurred are the courtroom costs.]
A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of the Los Altos School District in a lawsuit brought by Bullis Charter School over shared facilities. The Hon. James P. Kleinberg Nov. 24 ruled the school district made available "reasonably equivalent and contiguous facilities" for the charter school. Charter supporters had contended the district did not provide adequate facilities required under Proposition 39.While the judge did note that the district and the charter school should work out an agreement regarding shared use of outdoor, non-teaching space, the charter's petition for seventh grade space, classroom teaching space and non-teaching space was denied…"It appears to the court from the record presented and the history of disputes between the parties that some of the charter School's supporters are motivated by a strongly held yet entirely unjustified sense of superior entitlement to the Gardner Bullis Elementary School site, likely stemming from deep resentment over the closure of the former Bullis-Purissima Elementary School. This position undermines the charter school's credibility, as despite occasional remarks to the contrary it repeatedly (and unconvincingly) suggests that the only possible outcome which would fully satisfy the goals of the Charter Schools Act would be for it to be given the Gardner Bullis Elementary School site."The court further concluded that, "To the extent that some of the Charter School's supporters cannot reconcile themselves to policy decisions made by elected bodies such as the school district board their energies might be better directed at the ballot box than the courthouse."District Board President David Pefley said: "Although all prior lawsuits brought by the Santa Clara County sponsored Bullis Charter School have achieved similar, unsuccessful results, the district does not believe that expensive lawsuits should be used as a weapon against school districts in an attempt to force concessions from the district beyond what they are entitled to by Prop. 39. LASD has taken great care to be compliant with all requirements. BCS has insisted on prolonging its expensive and time consuming legal tactics at the great expense of the district's children and the community."Superintendent Tim Justus said "The Los Altos School District is relieved that now for the fourth consecutive time, a judge has ruled that the District has upheld its legal obligations and has offered reasonably equivalent facilities to the county sponsored Bullis Charter School, and we sincerely hope that the charter school will discontinue its practice of continuous lawsuits which waste the community's money and distract from the educating of our children." | <urn:uuid:325fb049-dd44-4feb-abfb-f38152ea487b> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://charterschoolscandals.blogspot.com/2010/11/bullis-charter-school.html | 2015-05-28T09:55:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207929272.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113209-00202-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971112 | 941 |
December 3, 2020 • Written by David
A list of work packages we've fully wrapped up this month. Expand any to find out more about its conclusion.
Completely overhaul the Portmaster user interface to simplify all aspects of it. Easily block connections from the Monitor, easily block all connection of an app, etc...
We are super happy that this big milestone got reached! The redesigned UI really unravels all of the Portmaster's features which previously were hidden. We still define our software as alpha, so expect bugs - but the Portmaster has become so much more usable. Switching between trust modes, overwriting global settings in specific apps, blocking from the monitor - it is all possible now.Check out the Feature Tour on Twitter
Reintroduce the "Prompt Mode" which asks for your input whether or not to allow a connection. Naturally, make it possible to lock in a decision for the future.
Together with the new UI we also re-introduced connection prompting. Instead of allowing or blocking by default, you can make the Portmaster ask per connection. This feature is meant for low volume apps - as browsers and other apps with lots of connections will not work smoothly due to caching.Download the Portmaster
Apply for follow-up fundings from Netidee & FFG to ensure our financial stability and increase our run-way.
We are excited to announce that both the FFG and the Netidee granted further funding and loans for the year to come! Big shout-out to Raphael and Tabitha, who continuously work on these crucial tasks to keep our journey going while the devs can focus on what they do best: developing privacy software. As always, we are open about our numbers:Look at all our fundings and influences
With over 200+ tasks in the Backlog it has become infeasible to prioritize effectively. As an example: choosing from 20 urgent tasks is rather absurd. Restructure our project management so everyone can work efficiently.
Our project management tool got to a point where it became really hard to chose what to work on. Which task should you work on next when there are 20 tasks marked as URGENT? And even after chosing one, the task description was often very vague, needing lots of talk and co-ordination before being able to start. It became clear that the mountains of work lying ahead of us needed some serious restructuring.
The first part was to define responsibilities. If our Backlog should only contain the next couple of tasks for every person, who gets to call which tasks those should be? So far we often just let everybody decide with their gut, but this is counterproductive to streamlining progress and features as a team. That is why Raphael has now taken upon the role of Product Owner (another hat for you mate 🎩). Additionally, a clear process was defined so tasks are properly specified before moving into the 'Backlog'
The natural step afterwards was to move all tasks into the new workflow. Most of our old 'Backlog' tasks have now been moved to the 'Idea Phase', while the 'Backlog' remains short and clearly defined. Now everyone can easily pick up a next task after finishing up another one.
Overall, this was unexpected work, but seeing how it has improved all of our work lives it was definitely worth it.
Also on this note, a big shoutout to OpenProject! They are our self-hosted choice for project management and are FOSS too.Check Out OpenProject
Expand any work package to find out more about its progress, obstacles and sub-achievements.
After v0.1, focus on stabilizing the typical issues that arise with early software. Fix bugs, improve performance & stability. Detect failures in the network and react accordingly. Deliver to more and more pre-orders as the network matures.
As is natural, things happen and can take longer than expected as was the case with the UI Redesign. We are happy that is out of the door so Daniel can now dive into progressing the SPN again. Expect progress updates in the next update blog.
You can see our high level concepts & you can inspect our code. But nothing in between. Fill that gap by providing proper documentation of the Portmaster. What does each component do? With what other components does it interact? Where is its code located?
This big task got blocked by two things: For one, David invested a lot into the Project Managment Cleanup (see above), and second, David needed some technical guidance from Daniel, who himself was working neck deep on the Portmaster Redesign. Both of these projects are done now, so we can tackle this task again. But it probably won't come out before next year. As always, we'll keep you in the loop every month!
Enable you to pay for the SPN with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Monero
As this feature adds plenty of code onto our codebase, David suggested to make some bigger restructures in the first Review. Alex worked on these refactors in the last month and so this feature is now ready for Review Round II, where we will take a look at all the details.
Spice up the podcast with proper structure. Create an introduction and outro with underlined music and improve the overall storytelling.
If you ever listened to our podcast, you'll notice that every episode is a bit different. Sometimes there is a proper intro/outro, sometimes there is not. Tabi and David got together to brainstorm how to streamline our podcast episodes. After multiple sessions, the texts and concepts are done. We even have a new name ;)
Obviously, we also wanted to add some music to spice things up. For us as a company this is a bit more tricky than for hobbyists, since getting licences for music is harder. We contacted a very talented artist with which we are nearing an agreement. Stay tuned, the next episode will be in the 'new season'.Explore Our Podcast | <urn:uuid:7094a338-301d-45eb-baf8-5b6c7fa4c889> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://safing.io/blog/2020/12/03/progress-update-november/ | 2021-08-02T21:42:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154385.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20210802203434-20210802233434-00432.warc.gz | en | 0.960712 | 1,235 |
Hosted by the Sweetland Center for Writing, the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC) is an online, community webspace by and for scholars and teachers working in computers and writing and digital rhetoric, and a digital book series with the U-M Press.
This summer, the DRC welcomed its fourth cohort of graduate student Fellows! The program aims to recognize graduate students around the country currently working in digital rhetoric who want practical experience in online publishing and website development. Fellows are selected on a yearly basis by the editors and board of the DRC, and receive an annual stipend of $500 as well as recognition on the DRC website.
DRC Fellows commit to attending monthly online team meetings to plan projects that extend the DRC website and its contributions to the community of computers and writing. They work independently and collaboratively to complete two projects within the year of their term. Last year’s Fellows [LINK to Previous Fellows page] hosted robust blog carnivals on “Digital Writing in K-12 Communities,” “Makerspaces and Writing,” and “Cripping Digital Rhetoric and Technology,” as well as publishing Webtext of the Month reviews covering topics from Pinterest to crafting to digital annotation tools. Our new fellows have already jumped into the mix with a webtext review of Pokémon Go and a selection of session reviews from the 2016 Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Look for posts in their current blog carnival on “The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Publishing,” featuring DRC authors and other digital publishers and editors, taking place now!
This year’s fellows are:
David Coad, University of California, Davis
David T. Coad is a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Davis, studying Education with a designated emphasis in Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies. He uses qualitative methods to research social media as rhetoric, as literate practice, and as a means of community and identity building in contexts such as FYC courses and academic culture. For more info: davidcoad.com, Twitter: @dcoad.
Brandy Deiterle, University of Central Florida
Brandy Dieterle is a doctoral student in the Texts & Technology program at the University of Central Florida (UCF). At UCF, Brandy has been a graduate student tutor in the University Writing Center and has taught first-year composition courses. As a teacher, Brandy encourages students to think of writing and literacy as both self representation and identity forming. Her research is focused on identity and self representation, gender identity and representation, multimodality and new media, and digital rhetoric
Brandee Easter, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Brandee Easter is a doctoral student in the Composition and Rhetoric program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on intersections of gender and digital rhetoric. She also enjoys talking about videogames, graphic design, and her dogs.
Jason Luther, Syracuse University
Jason Luther is a PhD candidate in the Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Program at Syracuse University. His work focuses on self-publishing histories, DIY culture, and multimodal, writing (counter)publics. As a former writing center director, Jason is influenced by pedagogies beyond the classroom, incorporating differentiated learning models that make use of a variety of technologies, both old and new, in the classroom and out. His dissertation examines how the last 20 years have affected authorial desire and rhetorical agency for DIY publishers in the United States and Canada and what those changes mean for the teaching of writing and rhetoric. Sometimes he talks about this and more at taxomania.org and @jwluther.
Kristin Ravel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Kristin Ravel is pursuing her PhD in English with a concentration in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Kristin’s dissertation explores ethics and digital multimodality in the composition classroom through, what she is calling, a pedagogy of techno-social relationality. More specifically, a pedagogy of techno-social relationality, motivated by feminist theory on ethics, explores how relationality ought to be understood as taking place online in an inseparable blend of the technical and social. She tweets at @kristin_ravel.
Sara West, University of Arkansas
Sara West is a PhD candidate specializing in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Arkansas. Her research addresses how student-users compose in anonymous and/or ephemeral social media spaces, and how composition and technical communication researchers can begin to navigate these spaces as well. At the University of Arkansas, Sara has taught courses in first-year writing, advanced composition, and technical writing; she has also designed and taught first-year composition courses focusing on writing for the web and writing for social media. She’s also a semi-competent yogi and runner, a cat enthusiast, a lover of lists and plans, and an avid TV fan. Her website is saraofthewest.com, and she tweets at @saraofthewest. | <urn:uuid:44002811-6aef-40e2-b527-080fed4fb0ca> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | https://newsletter.sweetland.lsa.umich.edu/drc-fellows/ | 2017-07-26T08:36:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549426086.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170726082204-20170726102204-00168.warc.gz | en | 0.935723 | 1,072 |
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Friday, August 16, 2013
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Labyrinth (2013)
The problem is, like with the last album, that a lot of focus here is on playing as quickly and intensely as possible with no regards to catchy rhythm guitars or truly brilliant dynamic shifts, and that's why it retains a sense of 'faux orchestration', like someone fast-forwarding an old black & white artillery march set to Wagner in an incessant loop of crescendo. Exciting in small chunks, but exhausting and uninteresting in the longer run. Probably a good eight of ten riffs, and about half the keyboards immediately depart the memory after entering, and so the listener is generally left to stand 'blown away' by the speed of the drumming and the spastic, spasming energy of the colliding and contrasted choirs and 'strings' flying around everywhere. But I wont' fault Fleshgod Apocalypse for not trying here. This isn't just a straight blasting migraine, they actually do embed the 54 minute track list with some versatility. There are a few 'breathers' among them, like the acoustic "Prologue" and the dramatic piano finale "Labyrinth", but I do wish they had come a little earlier in the run time. They also divvy up the importance of the orchestration and methodic guitar picking here, so while "Warpledge" might rely very heavily on the girly operatic screams and choirs over its raging substrata of kick drums, other tunes have plenty of surgical riffing harmonies.
But the intensity is a constant, and often a nuisance. We don't really feel like we're being allowed to travel on this journey of splendor and terror through Greek mythology, but rather, we're being kicked along, like by a cadre of annoying, bullying, brutal death metal ushers in a theater. 'You done with that popcorn yet?' 'Let me have those candy wrappers.' 'Shut up and LISTEN to the fuckin' choirs!' 'No making out in the theater!' 'This is the good part, now move along, nothing more to see here.' Any time I think they're on to some tasty flight of strings or pianos, or a delicious riff pops up through the surging bombardment, it's gone in a flash and I find it irrevocably frustrating. I won't doubt that many hours went into sharpening Labyrinth, crafting the densest and busiest recording imaginable, but when at the end of the day it sounds like Dethklok paying homage to Virgin Steele, I can't really give credence to this pushing the boundaries of 'extremity' like so many fans of Agony decried. And I'm not saying that as some crusty vest-metal advocate who defies everything that sounds like it came out after 1993 because it doesn't fit into my carefully-cultivated self image; I enjoy quite a lot of modern, triggered clinical tech death and always will. This has all been done: Fleshgod is simply filling in what few blanks remained in the phrasing, with symphonic overkill.
So, what DID I like about Labyrinth? Well, for one, considering just how fucking much is happening here, I was impressed that I could make out almost all of the details. Francesco Paoli, as usual, is a goddamned bull. Don't get me wrong, he's a 'mechanical bull', inhuman, and very likely to side with Skynet once our robotic overlords come to prominence, but if I were to watch this guy perform I'd have to untangle my jaw from my shoelaces. Meticulous, brickwork blasting and untiring kicks everywhere, I just don't see drummers going further than this without cybernetic implants. That's not to say the beats are interesting, they're really just setting the pace for the sum shitstorm of Labyrinth's components, but that he's incredibly driven and talented is impossible to deny. The soaring lead harmonies, where they appear, are also like a spike of sunshine parting the turbulent storm-clouds of orchestrated excess, rays of 'class' amongst the barrage of cheese. The screaming, wannabe King Diamond vocals here are consistently irritating, but hey, at least they try and break up the monotony of stock growls that, while loud, are nothing all that special. The bass lines are probably sick, but they blend in too well against the rhythm guitars and I often lose them altogether...
Ugh. I wanted to like this so much more than I did. Labyrinth might not be the most unique choice of Greek mythological concepts, but I think the lyrics are handled with some passion and knowledge of the subject matter. Minos, Daedelus, Icarus, they're quite thorough with this little subsection of the lore, even throwing in a reference to Procrustes the Stretcher. Not to mention, the title alone seems to gel well with Fleshgod Apocalypse's style, because there's much to traverse and pick apart here, even if most of the riffing ideas wind up at dead ends like Asterion's maze. 54 minutes is quite long here, and the flow of the record would have been bettered served with a piece like "Labyrinth" earlier in the roster, but then, this is not something I'm going to find myself listening to in its entirety very often (if ever). 1-2 tracks I can stomach, but even then there are few which really deserve the attention. Despite the sheer magnitude of the Italians' efforts and capabilities, I always had the feeling I was headed somewhere but never arriving. I guess that's the point of a 'labyrinth', to trap the aspirant into a sense of claustrophobic, unending dread, but unfortunately there's no aural ball of string, no Theseus to give us the comeuppance, the payoff all this chugging, banging and sweeping calamity deserves.
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John was leading a group onto the fine Fannichs in the north-west of Scotland. After some pull-outs, we were down to a group of one, but so glad we still went ahead with the trip. Here's John's tale of the weekend....
The best thing about a small group (read - One!), is that you can be flexible on the itinerary. Steven's plan was X, but as Lorna had done some of the Munros, and the weather definitely suggested Saturday should be the longer day, we hatched Plan Y by text before we'd even met.
Plan Y was to meet at the pull-in at Loch a' Bhroin at 08:30, and ascend A'Chailleach via the excellent Druim Reidh. This we did, and the nature of the terrain meant we were relatively dry underfoot for the first couple of hours. We soon lost the visibility as we summited the top of Toman Coinnich, and that set the pattern for the day - swirling cloud below 700m, poor visibility above, and rain on and off. I had been lazy, as A'Chailleach was off the edge of the 1:50k map, (isn’t it always the case?), but I had programmed my GPS with the summit grid ref. I knew it was only a stone's throw further off the map, but I didn't want to get to a rise with a cairn, declare it the summit, to find out later we hadn't been there. I was pleased, as having had my GPS for 10yrs +, it was the first time I had ever used it!
10 minutes later, we were back on the map, and quickly up to Sgurr Breac's rather insignificant cairn. A bearing ensured we were on the correct side of the bifurcation in the ridge, and the excellent winding path down to the bealach was a joy....which is more than can be said for the slog back up the other side to the bealach between Sgurr nan Clach Geala and Sgurr nan Each. Safe to say that wasn’t Lorna’s favourite part of the day.
That slog was soon forgotten however, as after ticking Sgurr nan Each, we had the pull up to Sgurr nan Clach Geala with a succession of false summits. It was interesting on the steep snow at the summit, with some massive cornices, and an enhanced feeling of exposure. Lorna and I carefully but confidently heel-plunged down onto easier terrain, where we were herded along by a female ptarmigan keen to keep us away from her nest. It was then a standard downward plod to the ford, and back to the cars. It is worth noting there is a stalkers bridge not shown on the map at approx. NH162745 for times of spate. 08:45 to 18:45, a full but satisfying day !
This was to be the ‘shorter day’, which it was, but more rain, more wind, (which veered from the SW to the NW during the day), and even worse visibility meant we still had our work cut out over 700m again. We took the relatively new track (i:e not on my 1:50k map) through the forest to join the even newer but odd discontinuous track bound for Beinn Liath Mor Fannich, and then on over another stalker’s bridge and up to the atmospheric Loch Gorm. The sun even made a brief appearance as we ascended to An Coileachan, but that was most definitely it for the day. It was then rain, drizzle, and a wee bit more rain.
After a wee detour to avoid some old snow fields, and to double check our bearing off An Coileachan, (due to blethering rather than concentrating), we quickly gained the summit of Meall Gorm. We had decided to descend due North, but needed to avoid the huge cornices, which we did by some judicious reading of the contours. It was a happy pair that picked their way down to the outflow of Loch Li and the start of the most peculiar track I have ever walked in Scotland. Still, it got us back by 16:45.....not bad for a ‘short day’!
The Fannichs are wonderful hills, and I am sure if I ever get to see them cloud- free, I will forgive them the dure walk-in and out. Well done to Lorna, who kept up a cracking pace, and even managed to smile through all my stories, which being the only one there, she had to do of course!
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Management and agility (end)
In my previous articles, I expose the management issues that I have encountered and give you my thoughts and feedback that led to the development of the ZAPPIK method.
Articles of the series:
In the previous article, we saw how Outsourcing and Agility solve the resistance to change but aggravates the unavailability of the manager. We now see how to use a Product Owner Proxy (simply called Proxy in Zappik method) to support the unavailability of the manager.
The Agile Proxy
The Agile Proxy is a Project Leader by Project Owner Delegation. He has great analytical skills and knows how to translate needs into clear expressions to be used by the providers and who masters the relationship with the people of the company.
A Project Maestro is a 5-legged sheep that you are unlikely to recruit but the Proxy is probably already in your company!
This is a valuable role for the customer who knows very well his business imperatives and constraints. It is up to him to collect the needs and receive the deliveries.
But even this function can be outsourced when needed.
The solution to the Project Owner unavailability is to set up a better project management with a delegation. This management makes minor decisions and the day-to-day management that the Project Owner cannot provide. He won't have to deal with the team's technical or human management that is still in charge by the Project Maestro.
He has to recruit the outsourced profiles required for your project and to orchestrate them in order to assign them at the right moment, and to the best of their skills.
Software: the weakest link
This management of external service providers formed as a team around your project can only be done from a management software that each member of the development team can adopt immediately and intuitively.
Over the years, with my team, we have used virtually all existing project management solutions on the market.
Some are very powerful but NONE solved our need to SIMPLY and GLOBALLY ensure the management and interaction of an outsourced development team.
It was impossible to integrate at short notice a developer, a designer, a specialist in this or that specialty. A learning curve was necessary and we lost a lot of efficiency.
So we developed our own tool.
Simplification and optimization of project management
It is an online software that allows both the customer to simply describe his needs, define his priorities, and the rest of the development team to work downstream with this software in immediate handling.
The division into functional units is operated downstream in the software without the complexity going back to the client's side.
The cost of required resources needed by each feature is indicated and the dialogue on the points to be specified is done with ease.
It remains to the customer to arbitrate the order of priority because he knows permanently the budget that remains and the importance of what he asks.
The software allows the tracking of bugs and tests with users. The Proxy collects their opinions and makes the progress of the application development in a pragmatic way to avoid wasting time on points of secondary importance.
With the ZAPPIK method coupled with its platform, Project Owners save up to 80% of the usual time they would have to devote to the management of the development!
Produce quickly with efficiency
The developers are fast and efficient because they stay focused on the processing of their tasks thanks to the software and the Project Maestros that organize agility remotely.
The role of the Proxy makes it useful to avoid making the project unstable by often difficult interactions with company managers who do not have the time to take care of it.
Each expert is chosen for his best balance between cost and competence.
Experts intervene just during the necessary time to carry out their job to deliver the maximum value in the project at a lower cost.
Deliveries are made over the ordered features, allowing testers to continuously give feedback to improve what can be done.
Risks are reduced to the minimum and the application grows in functionality. Thanks to the Proxy's role, what is delivered is functional, tested and corrected with user feedback.
Finally, the customer is free to evaluate what's important and even change his mind at any time. He is unloaded from common management tasks and can easily arbitrate feature expenses out of the application's budget.
Orchestration of external resources is a revolution in digital project management.
The proxy on client side is often required to ensure the proper control of a project. His role allows the project Owner to be relieved and to be able to rely on a better consideration of the needs of the company. This solution allows:
ZAPPIK: FINALLY THE SUCCESS OF YOUR DIGITAL PROJECTS
ZAPPIK is the first method to take advantage of the illimited resources available remotely to accelerate and secure the development of digital projects.
The orchestration of external resources is the key.
But do you have the time to manage a remote team of geeks?
Thanks to its platform and a pool of specialized Project maestros to perform resource orchestration, ZAPPIK breaks the rules and enables you to INTERNALIZE the management of your projects with REMOTE resources.
No need to recruit, go hunting providers, write specifications.
Everything is managed for you so you can focus on your business and not on managing the thousands of tasks required by any digital project.
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The Minister of Commerce & Industry, Railways and Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Shri Piyush Goyal held a press conference today to showcase the achievements of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in Q1 (April – June) of 2021-22. He mentioned how an ambitious target of USD 400 billion exports has been set for 2021-22.
Shri Piyush Goyal said that sector specific interventions, involvement of all the stakeholders and functioning of the Government as a whole helped in achieving the growth. Simplification of procedures, extension of timelines and licences, all of that has resulted in the record performance of exports, he added. He specially thanked the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji for leading from the front, and holding discussions with various stakeholders through webinars after the Union budget, and encouraging everyone to put in their best.
Shri Piyush Goyal further said that the performance of the services sector has also been excellent, and despite the pandemic, almost 97% of 2019-20 service export levels were achieved in the last FY. He said that after deliberations with the stakeholders, he is confident that USD 350 billion service exports can be achieved by 2025, and may even go up to USD 500 billion very soon.
The press conference was also attended by Ministers of State for Commerce & Industry, Shri Som Parkash and Shri Hardeep Singh Puri. The Secretaries of the Department of Commerce and DPIIT then briefed the media about the achievements of their respective departments.
Highest Ever Merchandise Exports in the history of India
Highest ever merchandise exports of USD 95 billion in Q1 of 2021-22 has been achieved in the history of India. This is 85% higher than exports of Q1 of 2020-21 and 18% higher than the exports of Q1 of 2019-20. It is also 16% more than the previous highest Q1 exports of 2018-19 (USD 82 billion) and is higher than the earlier peak of exports in Q4 of 2020-21 (USD 90 billion).
Labour intensive sectors seeing rapid export growth
Several Labour-Intensive sectors have seen a rapid export growth. The exports in the engineering goods sector has increased by USD 5.2 billion over Q1 of 2019-20. Likewise, Rice exports growth has remained positive since May 2020 and rose by 37% in Q1 of 2021-22 compared to Q1 of 2019-20
India’s Exports Performance Vis-a-vis Major Economies in April 2021
India showcased robust export performance in April 2020 compared to major economies of the world. As compared to April 2019, India’s exports growth during April 2021 was higher than other major advanced economies like European Union, Japan, USA, Republic of Korea & United Kingdom
Record FDI Inflows
India received the highest ever FDI inflow in 2020-21 of USD 81.72 billion. This is higher by 10% compared to USD 74.39 billion achieved in 2019-20. The positive momentum continues with FDI inflow of USD 6.24 billion during April 2021, which is 38% higher than April 2020.
Number of startups recognised by DPIIT has crossed 50,000 and is spread across 623 districts in India. With these startups nearly 1.8 lakh formal jobs have been created by 16,000+ recognised startups in 2020-21. Several times more have benefited from the Startup ecosystem.
Reducing Compliance Burden
To improve the ease of doing business and reduce the compliance burden 6,426 compliances have been reduced in Phase-I. 3,177 compliances are being been reduced in Phase II. The timeline for Phase I was 31st March 2021 & Phase II is 15th August 2021.
Investment Clearance Cell
The National Single Window System is a one-stop digital platform to obtain clearances & approvals. In the phase-1 of integration, 43 Depts/Ministries & 14 States Single Window Systems are being on-boarded. The pre-launch version is undergoing extensive testing and we are gearing up for a soft launch.
The Hon’ble Minister concluded by saying that the world sees India as the trusted and reliable partner, and has more confidence in India’s capability to provide quality products and services on time. With the goods and services gaining momentum, a large number of employment opportunities will be generated, the economy will strengthen, revenues will increase, and the government will be able to help the disadvantaged sections in a more substantive manner. | <urn:uuid:92eb82a8-0c9b-4d18-896d-7ca8ecae44d5> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://bestcurrentaffairs.com/highest-ever-merchandise-exports-in-a-quarter-q1-2021-22-usd-95-billion-in-the-history-of-india/ | 2023-05-31T20:43:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224647409.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20230531182033-20230531212033-00587.warc.gz | en | 0.953698 | 938 |
How Johnny Carson indirectly caused the death of 'Mannix'
Late-night reruns of the action show led to a tug of war between two networks.
Joe Mannix could take a beating. Over the course of 194 episodes, the hard-boiled investigator suffered countless pistol whippings, conked noggins, gut punches and neck chops. Each time, he shook it off and nabbed the bad guy.
Heck, even the show itself could get knocked down and get back up again. After its first season, in 1967-68, during which Joe Mannix worked for an agency called Intertect, Mannix was suffering low ratings. The show was on the ropes. However, none other than Lucille Ball, who oversaw the series as head of Desilu Productions, believed in Joe Mannix. She adored the character, and saw something of herself in him. Thus, Mannix was given a second chance. Though, the series was heavily retooled. Intertect was scrapped. Joe Mannix suddenly worked alone. The dated 1960s spy-ish elements were stripped away, leaving little more than a rugged PI, a cool car and a hip assistant.
The adjustments worked. Over the next few seasons, Mannix climbed into the Top 30. Then, in its fifth season, it moved up into the Top 10. Even in its eighth and final season, the series remained a hit, ranking as the No. 20 show on television, pulling in an enviable 21.6 rating.
So, after the eighth season wrapped, in the spring of 1975, Mannix star Mike Connors was optimistic about the future of the CBS series. "I was in New York one week before the new schedule was to be announced, at a CBS party on a Friday night, where they told me not to worry about a thing," Connors recalled in a 2015 interview with Film Talk. "'You’re in; Mannix was picked up.'"
"But the following Wednesday, I got a phone call at about six o’clock in the morning from a writer in New York who said, 'Mike, what have you got to say about Mannix being cancelled?'" Connors continued. "I said, What?! 'Well, they just announced the new schedule and you’re not on it.' I couldn’t believe what I heard."
So what happened? How did a hit show, albeit a veteran one, suddenly get canceled in an about face that even shocked its lead actor? Mannix, believe it or not, was the victim of its own success — and the success of Johnny Carson.
A rival network, ABC, was struggling in late night. NBC had it's juggernaut at 11:30PM, The Tonight Show. CBS, meanwhile, fared well with The CBS Late Movie. ABC, on the other hand, threw everything at the screen to see what would stick in the early 1970s. The Dick Cavett Show was slotted as a headier alternative to Johnny Carson's jovial talk show. After that, the network whipped up ABC's Wide World of Entertainment, a sort of catch-all block that included live rock concerts (In Concert), anthology horror (Thriller), Gerald Rivera, satirical news (Comedy News), mystery movies and cutting-edge British comedy (Monty Python's Flying Circus).
Finally, in 1975, ABC threw its hands in the air and turned to reruns — reruns of action shows. And it even looked to hits from other networks, like NBC's Police Woman and, as you might now suspect, CBS's Mannix. Paramount, which had taken control of Mannix after Desilu, sold previous seasons of Mannix to ABC.
However, CBS was not informed of the deal. Thus, when CBS did hear of Mannix heading to another channel in reruns, the executives soured on the show. The suits figured that reruns on ABC would lessen the appeal of new episodes on CBS. So, the network made the hasty decision to axe the successful action hour. Mannix was canceled.
"Paramount had a dispute with CBS and that’s why we went off the air," Connors himself explained to Film Talk. "… [Mannix] still was a hit show. I was sad, because we had been doing the show for eight years, five days a week, eight months a year and you really become a family. Ninety percent of the crew members that started with the show were still there at the end. I felt very lost when it was over."
In 1997, the character returned to television, in an episode of Diagnosis Murder. "Hard-Boiled Murder" served as a sequel to "Little Girl Lost," a case that had originally aired in 1973. Like we said, you can't keep Joe Mannix down for good. He always gets back up, even if it sometimes takes a couple decades. | <urn:uuid:b0078800-1598-40c9-a87e-1fb26457a22a> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://www.metv.com/stories/how-johnny-carson-caused-the-death-of-mannix | 2023-01-28T17:35:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499646.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20230128153513-20230128183513-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.98107 | 1,018 |
Motivating an Agile Team
Aaron Bjork talks about how to motivate your agile teams without getting in their way.
The first and probably most important statement in the Agile Manifesto speaks directly to software development teams: "We have come to value individuals and interactions over processes and tools"
. Bottom line, people are more important than anything else.
This might feel like an odd opening from a "tools guy", since I work at Microsoft as program manager on Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio. I build tools for a living, and there is no doubt that I want software teams to use those tools. However, I'd be a fool to suggest that teams will succeed because of the tools. As the Agile Manifesto states clearly, team success is achieved by first valuing the people on the team and their interactions. Tools and process are important, but they are not more important that the team itself.
This emphasis on people is a big reason I love Agile. It tells us to pull our heads out of our tools and to look up at the team around us. It tells us that if we want to find that pot of gold at the end of the software development rainbow, we need to work together and value each other. It tells us that success depends on the team.
Last year I read a book by Dan Pink titled "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us". It was a fascinating read, one of those books I couldn't put down; I'd recommend it to anyone. I remember numerous evenings when I'd stop mid-chapter to inform my wife "You've got to hear this," before proceeding to read aloud a portion of the book. She eventually informed me that she would read the book when I was done, and asked me to save my breath. My point remains: the book captivated me, and it opened my eyes to some of the truths about motivation.
In Drive, Pink contrasts the traditional motivation techniques (rewards and punishment) with three new essentials critical to motivation in today's creative industries: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. The idea is that people crave these three characteristics in everything they do, and when they find them, good things happen. In this month's column I want to quickly touch on how autonomy, mastery and purpose are essential to building healthy Agile teams.
Autonomy. The first essential presented by Pink is autonomy: the ability for one to make his or her own decisions. For a software development team, this is critical. A team needs to feel empowered, and a team needs to be empowered. Why? Because Agile teaches us that change is inevitable during the software development process.
Learning about the product, the architecture, and the customers will occur after the team has started executing. The team must feel empowered to react to change and communicate what it is learning. This doesn't mean the team should have the authority to do whatever it wants; rather, it gives the team freedom to do what's right. A team lacking autonomy is more likely to blindly follow a plan handed down from above, while ignoring critical learning.
Mastery. The concept of mastery is fairly simple: people want to get better at what they do. We find this in all areas of life. Part of our basic DNA involves the desire to improve. Toddlers work tirelessly to master the art of walking. They usually need very little encouragement. By nature, they have a deep-rooted desire to master walking, and they work at it until it becomes second nature.
This doesn't change as we get older. I love to play golf, and I have a desire to be a better golfer year after year. Improvement is part of my love for the game. I'm certainly not a master (my career on the PGA tour hasn't yet materialized), but I continue to strive to improve hole after hole, round after round, and year after year. The process and the results are exhilarating.
Software teams are no different. Every software team has a basic desire to find newer and better ways to accomplish the goal set before it. Members of the team love to build software and love to solve difficult problems. If they didn't, they wouldn't be in a difficult industry. The challenge and the art of building an elegant yet functional solution drive them. Too often, however, we treat teams and the people on them as if they're pieces on a game board that can be moved, shifted and changed without consequences. We shuffle resources, change goals and randomize their priorities. By doing this we remove their ability to become masters. It's a pattern I see repeated again and again in the industry.
Purpose. The final essential laid out by Pink is purpose. Teams have a deep rooted desire to understand how their work fits into the big picture. As an engineer, I want to understand why the software I'm building matters. We need a reason and a purpose.
As a leader in your organization, find ways to ensure that your team understands how the value it produces is contributing to the business. Communicate the importance of new features delivered in the last sprint. Show them delighted customers benefitting from their solutions. Too often we disconnect our development teams from the business and from customers. We do this because we think they don't care, or we're worried that we'll distract them. But more often than not we end up alienating them and destroying their sense of purpose.
As your teams grow, mature and strive to be more agile, work to create an environment of autonomy, mastery and purpose. I have no doubt that you'll witness morale, innovation and efficiency improve as you do.
Aaron Bjork is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft working on Agile experiences and tooling within Team Foundation Server (TFS). Prior to joining TFS in 2008, Bjork worked as a software engineer and development lead in Visual Studio. He is passionate about Application Lifecycle Management solutions and has a strong desire to see teams improve their software engineering practices. Follow Bjork on his blog at blogs.msdn.com/aaronbjork. | <urn:uuid:1d62090b-4dc0-4985-bcb2-eff821206215> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2011/10/27/motivating-an-agile-team.aspx | 2021-07-29T04:38:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153816.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20210729043158-20210729073158-00316.warc.gz | en | 0.96935 | 1,242 |
Online coaching is something that has intrigued me for quite some time. I’ve played with the idea of hiring a coach for ages, but always found an excuse as to why it wasn’t the exact right moment. I promised myself that I’d invest once I got my next paycheck so many times, but never got around to it until a few weeks ago. My only regret is not investing in one sooner!
So why did I decide to get coaching?
I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about nutrition, and spend my spare time soaking up everything I can about the subject. There is, however, a big difference between knowing information, and actually applying it consistently in your own life! I struggled with sticking to my macros, and frequently went off track. Since January, my diet has been pretty bad – I’ve struggled to stay on track for more than a few weeks at a time, and would end up bingeing frequently. I sustained a rotator cuff injury in December, and haven’t been able to train upper body for the vast majority of the year. I then, of course, started over-training legs to compensate, and developed patellofemoral pain syndrome, putting me out of lifting completely for the last 2-3 months. Not being able to lift totally killed my motivation to stick to any kind of nutrition plan, cue a hell of a lot of weight gain! I finally got my shit together in June and decided I needed a coach for some accountability.
After scouring the internet, I decided to go with a plan from Recalibrated Bodies to get me back on track. I chose the 4 week nutrition-only plan, as I still can’t lift. You have the option of a macros-only, or tailored meal plan – I went for the macro one, as I’ve been tracking quite a while. Once you buy the plan, you’re sent a very comprehensive questionnaire asking about pretty much everything – current food intake, sleep quality, medical history, supplements, and more. Once I sent this back, I received my tailored macros within about 5 days.
With the macro plan, you’re given set macros per meal, which requires a lot more planning than I’m used to! The macros also change depending on whether it’s a training or a rest day. It took quite a while to get used to the new approach, but I got there eventually! I liked the flexibility of being able to plan my own meals, and fit in the odd treat. I was very impressed by the macro targets – only a slight caloric deficit, and protein was kept high. My lower carb days still had 140g of carbs, so I was happy out with that! There was also a lot of thought given to nutrient timing, something I previously hadn’t really bothered with. Spacing protein evenly throughout the day is something I wasn’t previously doing, despite knowing that it’s far more optimal for building muscle!
I checked in with Amanda every weekend, updating her on my weight and measurements. Knowing that I had the check in was great to help me stick to the plan! I did, however, make a few slip ups during the 4 weeks. I went on a weekend away to London, and macros went out the window for those 3 days! I made a few other slip ups, but it was so much easier to get back on track afterwards with Amanda’s encouragement! The accountability alone makes getting a coach worth it.
I had my final check in of the plan last weekend, the time just flew! My results weren’t quite as dramatic as I’d hoped – a weekend eating everything in London will do that to you! I was still very happy, considering I also wasn’t training during the time. On the plan I lost 2.7kg (6lbs) and 3.2% bodyfat. I also dropped 3cm from my waist, 4cm from my hips, and 1 cm from each thigh. My major regret is not taking a before photo – won’t make that mistake next time!
My experience of having an online coach was very positive overall. I can’t recommend Recalibrated Bodies enough. I’ll definitely be going back for another plan once I get my next paycheck! I will say though, if you’re considering a plan with them, the meal plan version is probably easier if you haven’t counted macros before – it requires a fair bit of planning to have set targets per meal.
If you’re considering hiring an online coach for the first time, my advice is to do your research first! Check how long the coach has being doing it, have a read of any client testimonials, and try to get a feel for their level of knowledge and experience. There’s plenty of people on Instagram these days claiming to be coaches, with no qualifications but having a decent set of abs. Make sure your hard-earned money is going to someone who will give you the best results possible, and isn’t just going to charge you loads for a generic meal plan!
Hope you guys found this useful! If you have any questions about anything I’ve mentioned, feel free to contact me – my email is [email protected] 🙂
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"The Super Hero Squad Show" Season 2 Vol. 1: If It Ain't Broke...
Season 2 of The Super Hero Squad Show is an evolutionary improvement over the show’s first season rather than a revolutionary improvement. There are just enough nips, tucks, and shifts to freshen up the show, but most of it has been left alone. This is not a bad thing, since it’s just following the simple advice of, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” The seven episodes on The Super Hero Squad Show Season 2 Vol 1 DVD provide more genially goofy four-color silliness.
The season one finale left our heroes with Doctor Doom and his cronies in prison, while the Infinity Sword and the Silver Surfer were written off the show to save the Earth from the planet-eating Galactus. The two-part season 2 premiere, “Another Order of Evil!”, doesn’t waste much time to introduce the series’ new Big Bad, the death-obsessed Thanos, who seeks six Infinity Gems to complete his Infinity Gauntlet so he can rule the Universe. Thanos isn’t quite as much of a presence as Doctor Doom, although it is rather fun to hear veteran voice actor Jim Cummings sounding vaguely like Minsc from the Baldur’s Gate video game as a cackling bad guy. The pilot also brings back two of the show’s better supporting cast members as regulars. H.E.R.B.I.E. the robot joins the cast as the pilot/navigator of the Helicarrier, while the Scarlet Witch is the Surfer’s replacement on the Squad proper, even picking right up with the puppy love relationship she had with the Falcon in her introductory episode. The next episode of the show, “World War Witch!”, even focuses on her after a temporal anomaly flings her back to World War II, leading Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor to leap back in time to try and bring her back. Unfortunately, this is really not one of the better episodes of the show, with a number of jokes that fall flat even with the return of Mark Hamill as the Red Skull. The slack is picked up with “Villany Redux Syndrome!”, which focuses on how Doctor Doom is adjusting (or not adjusting) to life in prison, especially after Captain America moves his idiot lackeys the Abomination and M.O.D.O.K. into the same cell.
In “Support Your Local Sky-Father!”, Thor must compete with Hercules in five competitions to determine which pantheon is truly the best. One of The Super Hero Squad Show‘s best creative decisions was to play the Silver Surfer as a spaced out surfer dude, but coming up close behind was the decision to turn Thor into the team’s dumb blond. The show follows that tradition by making Hercules a complete muscle-bound meathead who exclaims “Opa!” periodically. The sharp-eyed will pick up a bit of a continuity hiccup when Odin gives Thor a new costume in this episode when he was wearing it already in a few earlier episodes. Probably the best episode on this disc is “Whom Continuity Would Destroy!”, a gloriously silly episode that is remarkable for the number of different ways that it works. Thanos and the Grandmaster grab Iron Man, the Hulk, and the Scarlet Witch to fight against the other-dimensional Squadron Supreme (Marvel’s thinly disguised jab at the Justice League). It’s a pretty funny episode on its own merits, but knowing the Justice League connection makes many of the references even more amusing, like how the Batman-analogue Nighthawk possesses a morose, deep-seated sense of angst and Wonder Woman-analogue Power Princess has an endless array of invisible gadgetry. The gag also extends to the guest stars, with Adam West as Nighthawk and Justice League‘s Susan Eisenberg as Power Princess; sadly, I suspect scheduling prevented a Superman voice actor from voicing Hyperion, since it’s apparently series regular Travis Willingham in an uncredited part. Finally, “Double Negation at the World’s End!” flings Thanos’ kleptomaniac sister Nebula into the Negative Zone along with Wolverine and H.E.R.B.I.E. and pits them against the cosmic-level threat of Annihilus. I found Annihilus’ schtick much funnier than I probably should have, as he ignores everyone’s protestations and remains convinced that everyone has showed up just to steal his Cosmic Control Rod.
The only major difference between this DVD of The Super Hero Squad Show and prior ones is that the 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack has been removed, leaving only the 2.0 Dolby Digital mix on this disc. Other than that, the episodes are still sharply presented visually and aurally, with a healthy number of chapter stops within episodes. The only bonus feature is a very short video interview with Travis Willingham (voice of the Hulk) that’s in keeping with the other short bonus videos included on earlier volumes.
I know The Super Hero Squad Show isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, and if you didn’t like the show before I don’t think there’s going to be anything here that will really change your mind. If you do like the show, though, then it’s nice to see the gang back together and engaging in more of their brand of slapstick. | <urn:uuid:c37511a4-a189-4809-84d0-878945e8e539> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.toonzone.net/2011/08/the-super-hero-squad-show-season-2-vol-1-aint-broke/ | 2014-04-20T06:32:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609538022.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005218-00226-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947596 | 1,179 |
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A headmistress has been criticised for sending female pupils home on the first day of the new term because their trousers were too tight.
Dr Rowena Blencowe banned skirts in July to spare the blushes of male teachers who were becoming "distracted" by the girl's raising hemlines.
But on the first day of term a group of pupils - both male and female - were sent home as they arrived at Trentham High School, Stoke-on-Trent, on the first day of term .
Harriet Dale, 15, who was one of the pupils sent home, said teachers said her black trousers were not suitable because they were "too tight".
She said: "I was with a girl wearing exactly the same pair of trousers but, because I have slightly larger legs than her, I was told my trousers are too tight and that I must go home and change."
Apparently, staff inspected pupils at the school gates to decide whether their trousers were too tight.
The students were kept out of some lessons and threatened with isolation if they refused to go home to put on baggier trousers.
Dale, who was sent home, has accused the school of making pupils feel self-conscious.
She added: "First the school told us skirts are not acceptable, now we are only allowed to wear trousers after they've been inspected.
"It's really uncomfortable to think you could be walking around the corridors and teachers will be looking you up and down. I'm not the only person who feels that way.
"I know I've got slightly bigger legs than some people, it doesn't need pointing out."
15-year-old Dale also claims a staff member said her clingy uniform was too tight around her "legs and bum."
Harriet's mum Helen, 41, said: "Harriet told me she was cornered at school by a member of staff who said her trousers were distracting, or could be distracting.
"When she asked why the reply was that her trousers were too tight around her legs and bum. I find that totally unacceptable."
Mrs Dale added she is angry at staff for singling out her daughter in "the most important year of her life".
She said: "I'm incredibly angry. I can't believe the school is kicking up a fuss over something so minor.
"Staff lined the students up and inspected the tightness of their trousers. I find that incredibly demeaning and totally unnecessary.
"I'm worried this will make Harriet conscious of her size when she should have much bigger worries as she takes her GCSEs.
"The headteacher is a dinosaur. She hasn't been at the school long and just wants to make an impression."
The mum said she bought her daughter two pairs of tapered trousers and a pair of boot cut ones that cost £28 each from the work wear range in Next this summer.
However according to the school, the boot cut ones are the only design that is acceptable at the strict high school.
Harriet Dale and another student, Rose Singer, 15, who was also sent home because of her trousers
Another student at Trentham High School, Katie Jones, 15, was also threatened with isolation because her trousers were too short.
She was kept out of some lessons on Tuesday and told she had to attend school the next day in full-length trousers.
Dad Andrew Jones, 47, from Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, said: "I can't believe she has been threatened with isolation.
"This all boils down to the headteacher. There are always going to be slight variations in trousers."
But it wasn't just females who were singled out.
One of the pupils included a boy who was told it made his private parts look "indecent".
The boy's friend's mum - Julie Abbott, 45, - said: "My son was allowed into school but one of his friends was told to go home and change.
"The reason given was that his trousers were too tight across his private parts and therefore it was indecent and not appropriate for school.
"These children are adolescents, going through all sorts of changes and coping with their hormones. It's outrageous to sexualise them in this way when all they have done is come to school wearing school uniform."
Headmistress Dr Rowena Blencowe yesterday disputed claims the school's guidelines are not clear.
She said pupils must wear "black, full-length tailored" trousers and not "jeans, leggings, tightly-fitted trousers, cotton trousers, shorts or tracksuit bottoms".
Dr Blencowe added: "The vast majority of pupils turned up to school wearing perfectly suitable clothing.
"But there was a small minority of elder pupils who decided to push the boundaries.
"They claim our rules do not make it clear but that is not fair. We have sent out several letters to parents, plus advice on our website, and even held an assembly.
"Our guidelines are clear. It is up to parents to make sure their child attends school wearing trousers which suit their shape.
"Trousers which fit one pupil may be too tight on another, we have to draw the line somewhere."
Headteacher Dr Rowena Blencowe has since refused to comment any further on the alleged remarks made to pupils.
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Until now, China's territorial claims on Japan have been limited to small uninhabited rocks. And that was enough to create tension between the world's second-biggest economy and the third-biggest.
But a new chorus of influential Chinese is raising the stakes. They argue that Japan is not entitled to one of its biggest islands, Okinawa, home to 1.4 million people and host to some of the biggest US military bases in the world.
Okinawa was an independent kingdom for centuries. Japan took it over in 1872, though its rule was interrupted when the US took it in World War II before returning it to Japan in 1972. China did not contest Japan's sovereignty over the island until 1970, and the issue has largely laid dormant since.
But suddenly it's a burning issue. While Beijing is not officially staking a claim, the new Chinese argument is being advanced or tolerated by official and quasi-official parts of the Chinese system.
An outspoken two-star general in the People's Liberation Army said last week that the island could not belong to Japan because its ancient rulers had paid tribute to China 500 years before it had been taken over by the Japanese.
Obviously, this has alarming implications. The list of countries that paid tribute to China in ancient times is a long one. It includes Burma and Cambodia, Korea and Malaysia, even Italy and England.
''If this can of worms is opened, it could open a fractious time for the whole world,'' says the director of the Australian centre on China and the world at the ANU, Geremie Barme. ''Other countries can say, 'Well if that's open for renegotiation, then so are all these other territorial matters. Where does it stop? It doesn't.''
Major-General Luo Yuan told the China News Service the Ryukyu island chain, of which Okinawa is the biggest part, started paying tribute to China in 1372 during the Ming Dynasty.
He said the islands' natives had closer ethnic and cultural ties to China than to Japan, as their rulers were vassals of the Chinese court.
He said: ''Let's for now not discuss whether [the islands] belong to China, they were certainly China's tributary state. I am not saying all former tributary states belong to China, but we can say with certainty that the Ryukyus do not belong to Japan.''
But Luo is well known for his provocative hypernationalism, so does this really mean anything?
The general's remarks were not in isolation. They followed a lengthy piece by two Chinese academics published a week earlier. ''It may be time to revisit the unresolved historical issue of the Ryukyu Islands,'' wrote Zhang Haipeng and Li Guoqiang.
The piece carried weight because the authors are from China's top state-run think tank, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. And it was published by the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, the Peoples Daily. Further, when reporters raised it with the spokesman for China's foreign ministry, Hua Chunying, she answered the history of Okinawa and the Ryukyu chain had ''long called for attention in academia''.
Japan protested in strong terms at the publication. At one point, the home islands of Japan, too, paid tribute to the emperor of China.
''By General Luo's 'logic','' writes Chris Nelson, editor of the Washington-based Nelson Report, a daily newsletter on Asian policy affairs, ''his next essay will claim the Japanese home islands for China.
''Presumably even the … humorists at the PLA staff college might find that a bit of an overreach. But just in case, we'd note that Chinese ship anchors, an estimated 1000 to 1500 years old, have been recovered off Mexico's Pacific coast, so why stop at Japan?''
Australia in the centuries before European discovery did not pay tribute to Imperial China, but when China's then president, Hu Jintao, addressed the Australian Parliament in 2003, he pointed out: ''Back in the 1420s, the expeditionary fleets of China's Ming Dynasty reached Australian shores. For centuries, the Chinese sailed across vast seas and settled down in what they called Southern Land, or today's Australia.
''They brought Chinese culture to this land and lived harmoniously with the local people, contributing their proud share to Australia's economy, society and its thriving pluralistic culture.''
This is not fiction. It's supported by archaeological evidence of visits by Chinese sailors half a millennium before Captain Cook.
If Chinese nationalists can invent arguments about territorial sovereignty on the grounds of cultural and official contacts half a millennium ago, before most of today's nation states existed, then, as Barme says, where does it stop?
China's senior leadership has not publicly endorsed this cheeky argument. But neither has it disowned it. The question is, why is it being advanced and tolerated by the leadership, perhaps even tacitly endorsed, and why now?
''From the Chinese viewpoint the Okinawan islands resemble nothing so much as a giant maritime Great Wall,'' writes ANU's expert on the island, Gavan McCormack, ''potentially blocking naval access to the Pacific Ocean.'' So it's important strategically in its own right.
But an expert on Chinese elite politics, Willy Lam, of Hong Kong's Chinese University, says it's ''psychological warfare'' to pressure Japan into concessions on China's lesser territorial claims over the uninhabited Senkaku, as the Japanese call them, or Diaoyus in Chinese.
And why now? China's rising power has coupled with a stirring assertiveness to enliven its claims in several long-dormant disputes.
Says Barme: ''The new president, Xi Jinping, has very firm views and they are not what we in the West want them to be.
''He and his cohort think that China has been coasting and has not put itself forward strongly enough. In Chinese terms it's not outrageous and Xi believes China is a major world power and must exert itself as a major power should. I think everyone is in for a bit of a tough time.''
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In honor of Memorial Day, I’d like to take a moment to remember those in my family who’ve served in the military.
I grew up an Air Force brat. My father was Air Force ROTC in college and joined the Air Force upon graduation. We lived in multiple states and even overseas before his twenty years were up and he retired. He never fought in a war, but he served his country nonetheless.
My mother’s younger brother served in the Army during the Vietnam War.
My father’s dad, William Hocker, enlisted during World War II. A trick knee kept him stateside, but the Navy put his carpentry skills to use building at a Naval base in Florida.
This photo shows his crew. My grandfather is the second man from the left in the bottom row. The photo includes a list of names on the back for seven of the men: Chilton Butler (Kentucky), J. Julian Hugo (Connecticut), A.M. Wade (Kentucky), Roland Imbriaco (Providence, Rhode Island), L.W. T[??]asher (Georgia), Vernon Turner (Georgia), and James K. Collier (Mississippi). Unfortunately, I don’t know which name goes with which man and there are nine people in the photo.
Two of my great uncles also served during World War II: Harold Ruder, husband of my grandfather’s sister Bonnie, and William Wingeard, husband of my grandfather’s sister Betty Jean. Both were stationed overseas—Uncle Boots [Ruder] in Europe and Uncle Bill in the Pacific.
All three have since passed on.
One of my Smith relatives served in France during World War I. William M. Smith Jr. supposedly enlisted in the Army under the assumed name John Norwood. He remained in France after the war.
At least three of my ancestors served during the Civil War. Christian Hoover was drafted for the Union Army from Jefferson County, Pennsylvania in 1863.1 According to the record, he was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania and was a farmer. It also states that he was 44 years old, with gray(?) eyes, brown hair, and fair skin, standing 5′ 11″ tall. I believe Christian’s brothers Ralston and Samuel both served, as did his cousin Christian R. Hoover. Ralston enlisted on 1 Aug 1861 in the 63rd Pennsylvania Infantry, Company D. He died at Baltimore Cross Roads, Virginia.2
Jefferson Force was drafted for the Union Army from Centre County in Jun 1863. He was a 33 year-old, married laborer who was born in Pennsylvania and resided in Burnside Township.3 He enlisted 20 Dec 1864 at Troy, Pennsylvania and was mustered out 17 Jul 1865 at Alexandria, Virginia. He served with the 45th Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers, Company E IX Corps, 1st Brigade, 1st Division. His name is engraved on a plaque in Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania. Jefferson’s presumed brother Martin V. Force also served as a Private in Company E of the 5th Pennsylvania Reserves.
James Benjamin Houdeshell served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War in the 14th Virginia Militia, Company A. He mustered in 10 Sep 1861 at Wardensville, Hardy County, Virginia.4 According to his obituary, he enlisted 24 Feb 1865 in the Maryland Infantry, 13th Regiment, Company I and mustered out at the end of the war.5 Benjamin’s brothers George W. and Adam Jr. both served as well.
I’m sure there are more that I’ve missed. But whether I know their names or not, I’m proud of their service to their country and their fellow Americans. Their sacrifices should not be forgotten.
- Ancestry.com, U.S. Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 (database online), Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010; Original data: Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registrations, 1863-1865, NM-65, entry 172, 620 volumes; Records of the Provost Marshal General’s Bureau (Civil War), Record Group 110, National Archives, Washington D.C. ↩
- Smith, Robert Walker, History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (unknown: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883) ↩
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General’s Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865); Record Group Number: 110; Title: Records of the Provost Marshal General’s Bureau (Civil War); Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records); ARC Identifies: 4213514; Archive Volume Number: 1 of 2. ↩
- Hewett, Janet B., editor, The Roster of Confederate Solidiers, 1861-1865 (Wilmington, North Carolina: Bradford Publishing Company, 1996), Volume III, Hill, G. to Jones, N.W. ↩
- Chambers, Cordes W., The Mountaintop through Newspaper Accounts – 1926-1930, (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania: Grove Printing, 1995), Volume 4. ↩ | <urn:uuid:cfafce22-d4d5-42cc-ba31-c1f21369c694> | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | http://www.krishocker.com/remembering-our-military/ | 2016-02-07T03:48:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701148475.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193908-00020-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941508 | 1,117 |
The Jazz.com Blog
February 10, 2009 · 2 comments
Most critics look at CDs that are, and ask why. But only a few critics wonder about CDs that never were, and ask why not. Jazz.com’s Walter Kolosky shows once again why he definitely belongs in the second camp. Read on. T.G.
Here is the next in my series of fantasy reviews. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept under which I am operating please visit the introductory section of my John Coltrane fantasy fusion album review. You may read it here.
This time out I review a fantasy band that could have been a killer precursor to the fusion power trio. I hope you enjoy it.
Charlie Christian Electrified Trio
Boppin’ at Sweet Basil’s (Dial 93017)
The latest bebop disk to hit the market is a Dial live recording of the unique Charlie Christian Electrified Trio featuring Charlie on electric guitar, dynamo Buddy Rich on drums, and Stan Clarke on electrified bass. This is Charlie’s first recording featuring his own band. Recorded during a radio broadcast, Bopping at Sweet Basil’s demonstrates that the “Genius of the Electric Guitar” is also the “Genius of the Bebop Style.”
Swingman Buddy “Baby Traps” Rich, having recently spent some time playing with Bird in Boston, seems at home playing the Bop. Stan Clarke, a remarkable young man hailing from Philadelphia, plays the new electrified bass.
The get-together had been in the works for some time. Apparently, Charlie had been impressed with some work Buddy had done with Dizzy. Rich has been bopping a lot lately. Rumor had it that Buddy had been itching to get out of a contract with a very famous swing leader. Eventually Buddy, a volatile character to say the least, found a way to get fired. Buddy learned about Charlie’s interest and the two agreed to hook up for a few shows to see how it would go.
Charlie had also heard about this kid who was playing the electrified bass and amazing the cats in Philadelphia. The story goes that Stan Clarke had sat in a few nights covering for his band’s sick electric guitarist. Mouths opened as he laid out some bebop melody lines on his homemade electrified bass. Charlie traveled out to Philly to hear Stan play and asked him if he wanted to go in with him and Buddy and form a new kind of electrified trio? Stan was stunned that the great Charlie Christian would come just to hear him play. As excited as he was, Clarke said he never heard anything Charlie was asking him, but found himself saying “yes” over and over again.
Of all the boppers, Charlie’s playing is truest to the cause. By now, most jazz audiences have become familiar with the electric guitar as a lead instrument. But while the shock may be gone, the amazement is not. Charlie’s soloing is the most beautiful in all of jazz. There is never a wrong note. Each strike of the string is perfect.
On this recording, Christian improvises effortlessly over a busy bass line and syncopated, but heavy drumbeat. The fact this is an amplified trio will threaten many in the jazz community, which always yearns for something new yet remains ever-afraid when it occurs. But it makes no difference to these players. To help replace the missing horns, Charlie has begun to intersperse his solos with some nice chords that add a new and welcome dimension to his well-known style. On several occasions, Clarke even adds some chord support on electrified bass that thrilled this listener!
The band ran several standards as tributes to some of their comrades. “Night in Tunisia” and “Salt Peanuts,” complete with non-sense vocals from Buddy, were dedicated to Diz and Kenny Clarke. The band also tackled Charlie Parker’s “Scrapple from the Apple.” The band sounds particularly strong on several originals written by Clarke. Two tunes, “Philly Bounce” and “School Days,” are up-tempo pieces that feature some real hot playing. Clarke also wrote a beautiful ballad he calls “Quiet Afternoon.” For a change, Buddy quiets down on this number and gently rides his cymbals while Charlie plays the most luscious solo over a viola-sounding progression provided by Clarke. You can almost feel the crowd melt. The liner notes say that Clarke took a bow to his plugged-in bass for this piece. Clarke and his instrument may prove to be controversial, but clearly he is a very capable player and promising composer.
According to Dial, the latest electronic recording devices were used to capture this event. And truly, the sound is impeccable. It is appropriate that such modern equipment was used to record such a modern sound. Expect to hear more from this distinctive unit and especially keep your ears open for more from Stan Clarke and his wonderful instrument.
Charlie Christian Electrified Trio- Bopping at Sweet Basil’s: Night in Tunisia; Salt Peanuts; Philly Bounce; School Days; Quiet Afternoon
Personnel: Charlie Christian, electric guitar; Buddy Rich, drums; Stan Clarke, electrified bass
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Instagram-worthy shots of oozy matcha lava and fries dripping with cheese have caused me to salivate on several occasions and I was determined to visit Sync Korean Fusion Bistro sometime, despite the fact that it was located in the far west of Singapore. We rarely ever head in that direction, but in commemoration of Yi’s last weekend in Singapore, we decided to satisfy her undying love for Korean food, and to the west we went!
Whether the food was worth the travel…well, perhaps not. I felt that only a couple of items (those that I mentioned above actually) warranted a second visit, while the rest weren’t anything fabulous.
To tempt you, this was the Gamja Tuikim ($6.90) or Kimchi Cheese Fries that we ordered. These were wickedly addictive, and we couldn’t help reaching out for more, despite the fact that we ate a massive plate of truffle fries that morning. The fries were delightfully crisp, and topped with a huge dollop of spicy kimchi and oozy nacho cheese, this made for a delicious appetiser.
The Yangnyeom Tongdak ($7.90 for 3pcs) crispy chicken winglets come with a spicy and non-spicy option. With a tasty batter and sauce, these were alright, but pretty average when compared to establishments like Chicken Up that specialise in KFC.
Perhaps the most disappointing of the lot was the Kimchijeon ($8.90) or kimchi pancake. Though it was meant to be a starter portion, we were still rather shell-shocked by the tiny portion, having been used to the generous portions we usually have at other Korean restaurants. This was tinier than a personal pan pizza, and was definitely insufficient for sharing. It might not have been a bad thing though, as the quality of the pancake was rather mediocre as well. I felt that it was way too dough-y and nowhere as tasty as our favourite at 2D1N.
The Kimchi Bokkeumbap ($14.90) Kimchi Fried Rice fared better. This was a flavourful bowl of rice, with a spicy tanginess from the kimchi and was topped with a fragrantly stir-fried pork and an egg. If only the yolk was runny! It was a delicious combination nonetheless, after we mixed in all the ingredients together.
Budae Jjigae ($15.90) or Korean Army Stew has to be one of my favourite Korean foods! Perfect for a cold day, this piping hot bowl of stew simply warms the heart and is lovely for sharing. Sync’s version was, unfortunately, tiny again, though it redeemed itself somewhat with the variety of ingredients – rice cake, ramyun, dumplings, pork sausage and pork belly slices.
For the final flourish. what’s worth coming back for – Sync’s awesome lava cakes!! It is possibly inconceivable how I used to not like sweet things (because of sensitive teeth issues which I have resolved with Sensodyne), but I have since developed an insatiable sweet tooth against the benefit of my health. As I perused the menu, my eyes landed on the Nokcha Lava Cake ($8.90) and Hwaiteu Chokollis Taro Lava Cake ($8.90), which were matcha and taro respectively, and I couldn’t decide between the two! To simplify the dilemma, I decided to just order both. And I have absolutely no regrets doing so! Both lava cakes flowed perfectly, and were so incredibly delicious in their own way. It would be impossible to get me to pick a favourite. This, I might come back for.
In general, though prices at this korean bistro are relatively affordable, the portions seem too small to justify that fact in any case. Quality was rather average as well, though a few standout items like the fries and lava cake tasted as good as they looked!
Sync Korean Fusion Bistro
Westgate Mall #03-01
Tel.: +65 6369 9913
Mon-Thu 11am – 11pm
Fri-Sat 11am – 12am
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Repairs, Maintenance and Renovations
Water Damage Standards
From the Spring 2021 issue of the CCI Toronto Condovoice Magazine.
Restoration Standards are Changing
Standards Are Changing There are Implications for Condominiums
One of the last things any condominium manager, board member or resident wants to hear is that there is a water damage occurring in their building.
Water can move quickly, especially when the force of gravity assists the water to find its way down through the building. The water can find its way down through a building very, very quickly. A simple small leak, left unattended for even a few minutes can affect three or four other units and the common areas.
Over the past couple of decades, condominium corporations have used preferred vendors for water damage who are on a list of vetted vendors of the property management company or their insurance company or broker. These vendors were often chosen because of pre-existing relationships with managers. Unfortunately, and all too frequently, the vendors performing water damage mitigation services are chosen because of who they know, not what they know. This often results in a building's cleaning company or general contractor performing mitigation services. These vendors have limited or no knowledge or training on how to dry a water damaged building.
The insurance industry has been getting very tough on condominium corporations. Premiums are skyrocketing. Deductibles have risen to historic highs for buildings, even for buildings with good claim histories. The main reason for higher premiums and deductibles are the large number of recent insurance claims. The cost of the claims are going higher and higher every year. The principal reason the cost of claims are skyrocketing are: over land flooding that evolve into humongous elevator repair invoices and the automatic tear out of wet building materials instead of implementing a process of something called in-place drying.
The standard for water damage remediation is a document called the ANSIIICRC s500-2015 Standard for Professional Water Damage Restoration. The latest revision of this standard will be released in March or April 2021. There have been draft copies of the standard released for public review. The draft copies seem to indicate a paradigm shift occurring in this industry.
To try and put this into context, water damage incidents are divided into classes and categories of water loss. The category of water loss refers to where the water of loss originated from. Was it a clean water loss (CAT 1)? A dirty water loss (CAT 2)? A grossly unsanitary water loss with disease causing pathogens (sewage, CAT 3)? There are different protocols for each type of loss. The class of water loss refers to the amount of humidity the contractor will be dealing with and how much of an area is actually wet. Wet building materials that are not dried thoroughly and rapidly can easily support mould growth in a very short period of time.
The S500-2015 standard outlines procedures and criteria for the evaluation of a water loss and the drying goals for the restorer to aim for. There was no actual procedures for "in-place drying", but there was criteria for determining drying goals.
The new standard has removed the criteria on how to determine a drying goal for the various materials found in a building. As a matter of fact, the new standard is going to use terminology that refers to a written "drying plan" to be created within the job scope or work plan. Going further the new standard will refer to drying goals being determined by the water damage restoration company.
Now this sounds pretty simple and logical. And it is if you are using a restoration company that employs and certifies their technicians in water damage remediation, applied structural drying, and health and safety. But if the condominium corporation insists on using their in house cleaning company or handyman, the likelihood of receiving knowledgeable guidance for in-place drying is going to be much more limited. Afterall, the criteria is supposed to now be set by the professional restorer based on the standard, their training and experience.
Hopefully this does not result in even more unnecessary ripping out of carpet, hard surface flooring and drywall that could have been dried in place quite easily.
Even more importantly will be the issue of insurance companies not paying for unnecessary demolition of building materials that could easily have been dried in place.
So what can a condominium corporation do to be ready for these changes? Identify the restoration company you would call in your emergency response plan. Speak to your chosen vendor and ensure that their employees have the requisite certifications, qualifications and equipment to be able to mitigate your loss without tearing everything out. If you are considering filing a claim with your insurance provider, inform them asap.
Last but not least, remember the key to success for in-place drying of CAT 1 and CAT 2 water losses is the quickness in removing the water and installing drying equipment. In-place drying should not be employed in any CAT 3 water loss. Any absorbent building materials that have soaked up sewer water shall be torn out and all surfaces shall be cleaned and sanitized immediately.
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Fallen: A Novel (eBook)
Fallen: A Novel (eBook)
There’s no police training stronger than a cop’s instinct. Faith Mitchell’s mother isn’t answering her phone. Her front door is open. There’s a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her mother’s house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the laundry room. She sees a hostage situation in the bedroom. What she doesn’t see is her mother. . . .
“You know what we’re here for. Hand it over, and we’ll let her go.”
When the hostage situation turns deadly, Faith is left with too many questions, not enough answers. To find her mother, she’ll need the help of her partner, Will Trent, and they’ll both need the help of trauma doctor Sara Linton. But Faith isn’t just a cop anymore—she’s a witness. She’s also a suspect.
The thin blue line hides police corruption, bribery, even murder. Faith will have to go up against the people she respects the most in order to find her mother and bring the truth to light—or bury it forever.
Karin Slaughter’s most exhilarating novel yet is a thrilling journey through the heart and soul, where the personal and the criminal collide, and conflicted loyalties threaten to destroy reputations and ruin lives. It is the work of a master of the thriller at the top of her game, and a whirlwind of unrelenting suspense.
From the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Karin Slaughter is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of eleven thrillers, including Broken, Undone, Fractured, Beyond Reach, Triptych, and Faithless. She is a native of Georgia.
Praise for Fallen: A Novel…
Praise for FALLEN
“An amazing effort. This is Slaughter's best book to date, and readers unfamiliar with her work will find this one a perfect place to begin.”
“The first 16 pages of Karin Slaughter’s new novel are a master class in suspense….Fallen, Slaughter’s 11th novel in 11 years, shows again that she is in the first rank of today’s crime novelists. Her story is expertly written, exhaustively researched, steeped in police lore, deeply rooted in the author’s native Georgia and exceedingly violent. Slaughter has a rare ability to balance violence with a compassionate view of her complex and all-too-human characters. She’s a supremely tough-minded novelist who often writes with exceptional sensitivity…..Fallen is a complex, gripping and deadly serious novel that reflects anew Slaughter’s abundant talent. If you haven’t read her, you should.” —The Washington Post
“Karin Slaughter has written a novel that is complex, unsettling, and with one of the meatiest suspense plots of the summer.” —Tucson Citizen
“Slaughter just keeps getting better!”
—Romantic Times Book Review
“Her talent is the equivalent of an Edgar Allan Poe or a Nathaniel Hawthorne.…You can't dismiss the growth of Slaughter's talent. She has always been a good writer but of late she has become an exemplary storyteller, weaving her words with skill and intelligence. Fallen is a prime example of her talent….Sometime in the future, college classes will be devoted to Slaughter's books and her writing skills will be dissected. She will be recognized as one of the great talents of the 21st century and will hold an honored place in the realm of world literature.” —Huffington Post
“Slaughter has always known how to pace the suspense in her stellar crime novels, but she really outdoes herself here….In what might be her best effort yet, Slaughter reveals the heart and soul of her characters within a highly choreographed, unrelentingly suspenseful plot.”
“Karin has set a high bar with each of her books—and she delivers….Once you close it, you will need time to think about the story as you finally exhale.” —Bookreporter
“Gripping….a thriller sure to please Slaughter’s many fans.” —Publishers Weekly
“Slaughter's thrillers are always exciting, but it's her compelling characters that really make them page-turners.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“This is Slaughter’s best thriller yet.” —Bookloons
PRAISE FOR THE CRIME FICTION OF KARIN SLAUGHTER
“Karin Slaughter is one of the best crime novelists in America.”—The Washington Post
“Crime fiction at its finest.”—Michael Connelly
“Slaughter writes like a razor . . . better than Cornwell can ever hope to be.”—The Plain Dealer
“Slaughter will have you on the edge of your seat.”—The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“One of the boldest thriller writers working today.”—Tess Gerritsen
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Google Apps @ Illinois, Importing Google Takeout email into personal Gmail account
I used Google Takeout to export my email from Google Apps, how do I import it into my personal Gmail account?
Note: Technology Services does not support the importing of your email to another service. The below instructions were pulled from articles on the internet and worked when the Help Desk tried them.Original article is here:
You won't be able to directly import your .mbox file into your gmail account, you will need to use a desktop client. Below are instructions for Thunderbird and Apple Mail.
Step 1: Setup your GMail account with Thunderbird
1) Download and Install the Thunderbird mail application: http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/
2) Launch Thunderbird and create a new account going to "File - New - Mail Account"
3) Enter your name, GMail email address, and GMail password. Make sure IMAP is selected and then click 'Continue'
4) Thunderbird will automatically get your settings if using GMail and then you can click "Create Account"
5) Now you will see your GMail account on the "All Folders" pane and you can open it to see all your emails. Thunderbird is now properly set up for your GMail account
Step 2: Install "ImportExportTools" Add-On for Thunderbird
1) To download the "ImportExportTools" extension utility that works with Thunderbird, go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/
2) On that page, locate the "Download ImportExportTools (MboxImport enhanced)". Right-click the link to download the xpi file and select "Save target as". Please note the location that you saved the .xpi file
3) In Thunderbird, go to "Tools - Add-ons" and click on "Install" in the Add-ons windows that pops-up
4) Locate the .xpi file that you downloaded and follow the instructions prompted to install
5) restart Thunderbird
Step 3: Extract the zipped up email archive file provided to you
1) Download and Extract the Gmail Export that you have. The archive file is in .ZIP file format.
2) Extract the .zip file that you received. Once extracted, you will have several MBOX files which are each named according to the cooresponding label in Gmail. Please note the location of where you extracted the files to.
Step 4: Import the emails from the MBOX file for the label that you want to restore
1) In Thunderbird, import the MBOX file to a local folder; in the navigation pane on the left, then right-mouse click "Local Folders" and then select 'Import/Export - Import mbox file'
2) Choose the option to "import directly one or more mbox files" and select 'OK'
3) In the files browser, locate the folder where you extracted the mbox files to in step 3 above. Select the mbox file that corresponds with the label that you want to restore and then click 'Open'
4) All emails from that label will now be importing. Please be patient, as it will take a while to load all of the emails.
Step 5: Copy the imported emails in to your GMail Account
1) In Thunderbird, in the navigation pane on the left, expand "Local Folders" and then select the folder below that has the name of the label that you are importing to Gmail
2) In that folder select all of the emails contained in the folder, right-mouse click the selection, and select 'Copy to - <gmail_account> - <label_name>'. (where gmail_account = the email address of your gmail account and label_name = the path to the label that you want to import the restored emails to)
3) All emails will now be importing to the label that you choose. Please be patient, as it will take a while to upload all of the emails to Gmail.
Once this is completed then you can log in to your GMail account online and you should see all of the emails restored to the label that you chose in your gmail account.
Setup your Gmail account, instructions found here
To import your MBOX file into Apple Mail:
- Copy the .mbox file to your Mac. ...
- Open Apple Mail.
- Invoke "File->Import Mailboxes" menu command.
- Check the "Files in mbox format" option and click "Continue".
- Select your MBOX files in the next window and click "Continue".
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The debut feature of playwright and screenwriter Jon Michael McDonagh, “The Guard” is a caustically funny Irish thriller that playfully stitches and recombines various styles and forms to an impudent and stylized result.
In many respects the parts are more successful than the whole. Very little of the movie has a moment of truth or realistic detail, but the manner is sharply developed out of the characterization, local color, thrilling situations and especially pungent dialogue.
The filmmaker is the younger brother of Martin McDonough (“In Bruges,” which opened the Sundance Film Fest several years ago). Michael relishes the same mixture of profane, verbose and slangy dialogue with an astringent edge and scabrous flair for violence and macabre wit.
But unfortunately he also shares his brother’s weakness for self-reflexive threads that prove to be clever though defeating. As a stylistic device remove from the material, it prevents the director from ever truly engaging the moral ramifications.
Largely, the film serves as a bravura showcase for the great Brendan Gleeson. He plays the eponymous sergeant of a stunningly beautiful Irish coastal village in the Gaelic-influenced western isles. He’s introduced in exaggerated close up, surveying the wreckage of a car accident and the young victims, pill popping thrill seekers who failed to negotiate a sharp curve. Their bodies strewn about, he looks about and says in unprintable dialogue, for exclamation, “What a great … day.”
Gleeson’s character is called Gerry Boyle, a shambling and flamboyant role, equal parts Falstaff and Quixote. He’s an inveterate hedonist with outsized vices and predilections, like a fondness for recreational drugs and prostitutes. Openly insubordinate of his superiors (“I thought only blacks, or Mexicans, were drug dealers,” he says), he holds attitudes that are charitably less than progressive or cultural enlightening.
He’s also one of those outrageously contradictory figures of Irish lore, a littérateur with little patience for the Russians and a cinephile (he’s caught one night watching Polish director Jerzy Skolimowsky’s great English film, “The Shout”).
The plot’s a mélange of familiar ideas and genre staples tossed about. McDonough is far less interested in traditional story structure than incident, form and style. He yokes together everything from the guard’s new partner, the big city naïf (Rory Keenan) with a personal secret, his beautiful, fragile Romanian wife (Katarina Cas) to the cross cultural buddy cop standard, here represented by the inscrutable and uptight American FBI agent, Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle), who’s turned up in Boyle’s village to intercept an international drug smuggling ring.
The movie’s gangsters, an unholy trinity (Liam Cunningham, Mark Strong and David Wilmot) who are unfortunately insufficiently employed in the proceedings, are also impressively drawn in miniature. These arrogant, self-regarding gents are colorfully rendered in small and sharp glances, like their fondness for quotations, references abound to Bertrand Russell and Nietzsche, or the unsavory nature of their business, or the considerable difficulty of making distinction between a psychopath and/or sociopath.
The plot moves fairly haphazardly. The gangsters project the necessary menace. The fun and pleasure develops more in the asides and off-color touches that say a lot about Ireland (though very little expressions about the country’s current economic meltdown). Gleeson is fantastic in the private exchanges and back and forth, like his conversation with a local IRA operative (Pat Shortt) who’s trying to return a cache of weapons. You have gay lads in the IRA, Boyle inquires, and the operative responds: “It’s the only way to infiltrate MI5.”
Though it’s a first film, McDonagh shows visual flair and talent as well. Working with a very good cinematographer, Larry Smith, he shoots impressively in widescreen format, drawing on the textures and scraggly formations of the landscapes and water with a verve and thrill. If the movie never quite becomes anything other than a lark, it is because the movie lacks a depth of feeling or nuance. The death of one of the film’s most appealing characters is particularly cruel in how easily it is disposed of.
The movie‘s tone is sometimes a bit awkward. One subplot, the cop‘s dying mother (Fionnula Flanagan), seems imported from another work. The women, in general, are given exceedingly little to do.
Fortunately, the actors certainly grab your attention and infuse the movie with a sometimes jolting lift and buoyancy. It has a moment to moment color and style that floats along easily.
“The Guard” is smart and shrewd enough to acknowledge its limitations without ever trying to truly transcend them. It’s pleasurable film without being too deep.
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- Activist Feedback
- Essay: Are Members of Some Species More Equal Than Others?
- This Week’s Sermon from Rev. Frank and Mary Hoffman
- Book Notice
1. Activist Feedback
David and Judy, who leafleted at
Women of Faith in Little Rock, AR this month, write:
distributed close to 2/3 of a box of ‘Would Jesus Eat Meat Today? We
arrived before they opened the doors to a big crowd milling around and
so worked that group of women. A little while after the doors opened
and the crowd filed in, the security folks came out and asked us to
leave the steps and go down to the sidewalk. That was OK since then we
could talk to the later arrivals before they climbed the steps.
We have handed out copies to several small church groups where we have
presented talks (numbering from 10 to 60 attendees). Also, as
septuagenarians we go to many medical appointments, so we leave a copy
in each doctor’s office. Please keep us informed of other
opportunities in the Little Rock Arkansas area and thanks again for
your wonderful ministry.
Upcoming Outreach Opportunities
The Christian Vegetarian Association (www.ChristianVeg.org)
is looking for volunteers to leaflet at the upcoming events with our
“Would Jesus Eat Meat Today?” booklets to spread the word about
vegetarianism as good stewardship of all of God’s Creation. Volunteers
have a great opportunity to earn $18.00 per hour (up to 2 hours) per
person to be donated to their favorite Animal Advocacy or Veg Group.
For more information please contact Paris at
[email protected] or Lorena at (770) 633-7415.
7/3-5 IN Independence
Heartbeat Festival 2012
Building 429 Christian Rock Concert
IL St. Charles
DecembeRadio in Concert
7/11-14 MN Willmar
7/11-15 WI Oshkosh
Building 429 @ LaPorte County Fair
OH Cleveland Joel Olsteen
7/14-15 CO Olathe
Night Vision Festival
Building 429 @ The County Fair
7/21-22 IL Schaumburg
Ignite Music Festival
7/21-22 SD Rapid City
Hills Alive 2012 FREE Christian Music Fest
OH Loveland TABLE Heaven
Joyce Meyers Conference
OH Columbus Women of Faith
Celebrate What Matters
Green Earth Festival
8/10-11 OK Oklahoma City
Women Of Faith Celebrate What Matters
Women Of Faith Celebrate What Matters
DE Harrington Casting Crowns @ Delaware
9/21-23 NC Hickory
"Momentum" The Conference Newsboys
TABLE NY's Capital Region Vegetarian Expo
2. Essay: Are
Members of Some Species More Equal Than Others?
Last week I
suggested that the existence of subjective experience was evidence for
a divine creative being. Why does subjective experience exist?
Biologists would generally agree that feelings encourage behaviors
that favor survival. Seeking to avoid pain and to experience pleasure
ultimately increases the likelihood that an individual will survive
and pass on genetic material to offspring. However, we can program
inanimate computers to learn and adapt, and it would seem that living
organisms could adapt to their environment and even make rational
choices without having subjective experiences.
explanation for subjective experience does not tell us how inanimate
atoms can generate things with feelings, nor does it tell us which
living things can have subjective experiences. Indeed, we can’t prove
that other humans have subjective experiences, though it is reasonable
to believe that they do. Why should we as individuals have subjective
experience and other humans do not? Similarly, it is reasonable to
think that other mammals have subjective experience, given their
anatomical, physiological, and behavioral resemblances to humans.
What about all other vertebrates? Can fish, for example, feel
pain? Fish do not have the same brain structures that light up on
brain scans when humans feel pain. However, just as nature has
independently devised many ways to use light to gain useful
information about its environment (i.e., to see), if conscious
experience is needed for creatures to learn and adapt to its
environment, then there would be strong evolutionary pressures to
develop the ability to feel pain. A problem is that, just as we have
difficulty imaging what a fly sees with its compound eye that differs
markedly from the human eye, it is hard for us to know whether the
fish’s experience of a hook in their mouths is similar to what we
would experience in a similar situation.
And what about other
animals, such as insects, whose brains differ so much from our own?
Can they feel pleasure and pain? I think we should give all creatures
the benefit of the doubt and do our best not to cause distress. We
should try to be “wise as serpents and innocent as doves” (Matthew
10:16) in our dealings with all of God’s creation. I think it makes
sense to focus our attention and our activism on those individuals who
most clearly can experience pain and pleasure as we understand them,
but we should be mindful of everyone.
Stephen R. Kaufman, M.D.
3. This Week’s Sermon from Rev. Frank and Mary Hoffman
Belief is Passive - Faith is Active
4. Book Notice
Kerry Walters, Vegetarianism: A Guide for the
Perplexed. New York & London: Continuum, 2012.
The author is William Bittinger Professor of Philosophy; Peace &
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Produced by Drive-By Truckers bassist Matthew Patton, the Brooklyn-born singer’s blend of soul, rock, R&B and Southern funk gives these ten new tunes plenty of punch
Bette Smith puts everything she has into every note she sings. You can hear her passion bursting through on all the tracks on The Good, The Bad and The Bette, the album she recorded with producer Matthew Patton, bass player of the Drive-By Truckers.
Her blend of soul, rock, R&B and Southern funk gives the ten tunes on the album plenty of punch. The record opens with “Fistful of Dollars,” a funky, horn driven rocker, first recorded by bluesman Lonnie Shields.
“Matt sent me a cover of the tune he made with a disco beat, and suggested putting it on the album,” she tells Rock & Roll Globe. “I’m a big fan of Clint Eastwood and it fit right in with the title I had for the album. I’m a good cook and a good person, the bad is my naughty side and Bette is my inner child. When I get stressed out, there’s nothing better having a glass of lemonade, putting my feet up and watching a spaghetti western. Fistful is one of my favorites.”
The album was officially released last year, on Ruf Records, but with the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in effect, Smith wasn’t able to tour or promote it.
“I had some savings, I meditated, took yoga and pilates classes online and walked my labradoodle,” she explains. “It kept my mind refreshed to take my dog to the park and back every day. Now, the Delta variant has thrown me for a loop. In Brooklyn, everybody’s wearing masks again.”
Smith, Patton and drummer/co-producer Bronson Tew, cut the set in 2020, just before everything shutdown. “We did it in two sessions, at Dial Back Sound in Mississippi. We did five songs in one three day session and five in another session in February, just before Covid hit. It was a lot of work. Matt put a band together, no one from my touring group, and we cut them live. I like the organic process, having the music bounce off of me and having me bounce off of the players. He’d play me a song and, if I liked it, we’d do it.
“He also got me to talk about my rough and tumble childhood. My mother was bipolar, so we talked about my upbringing and gave the album an autobiographical slant. We did three original songs that spoke to my pain and my victories. Matt helped me work out the arrangements. When we played them with the band, everything clicked.”
One of those songs, “Whistle Stop,” is a gospel-influenced ballad with long, sustained organ chords and bluesy grand piano fills, supporting Smith’s melismatic vocal improvisations.
“The lyrics for ‘Whistle Stop’ came to me in a dream. I was in a black and white film and my mother was in an old fashioned railroad car that was pulling out of the station. She was waving goodbye. My sister called that morning and told me my mom had passed. One day, I was practicing guitar and the words coalesced. It almost wrote itself. When I sing it, sometimes I can get through it without crying, but a lot of people in the audience have tears in their eyes. Songwriting is very cathartic for me. It’s not intellectual. I write from my feelings. The deeper the pain, the better the song, unfortunately. Every song I write is taken from a life lesson I’ve learned.”
VIDEO: Bette Smith “I’m A Sinner”
Although Smith is a seasoned performer, with national and international tours to her name, she never intended to be a professional singer.
“I grew up in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant area,” she recalls. “My father was the choir director of our church, so I was steeped in gospel music, but didn’t have any ambitions to be a singer. A few years back, I was working as a secretary, but I always sang around the house. There was a knock on the door and my neighbor, Rosie, was standing there with a dress in a plastic dry cleaner bag. ‘My cousin died and I want you to come and sing at here funeral. I bought you a dress. You have an hour to get ready.’
“I went to New Jersey and sang ‘Amazing Grace,’ four verses, a cappella. When I opened my eyes, there were 350 people crying and that was it. They gave 50 dollars and I said to myself, ‘That’s it! This is what I’m gonna do from now on.’ I put an ad in the Village Voice and held some auditions to get people to play with me. I landed a residency at a club and built up a following.
“I held onto my day job. You always need two jobs to survive in New York City, but it always came back to my singing. Five years in, I was jamming with some guys at a festival in Park Slope, doing Aretha covers and the crowed mushroomed. Someone heard me singing and recommend me to Jimbo Mathus, from the Squirrel Nut Zippers. I went down to Mississippi to audition for him and we made my first album, Jetlagger together. And the rest is history.” | <urn:uuid:85fb3e81-1c1c-4ff5-b67d-5d984442bc6b> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://rockandrollglobe.com/soul/bette-smith-rock-and-soul-to-lift-your-spirits/ | 2021-10-24T18:32:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587593.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20211024173743-20211024203743-00568.warc.gz | en | 0.974467 | 1,210 |
First Street Napa Welcomes Overland Sheepskin Co., Inc. as New Tenant in January 2018
NAPA, Calif. (September 20, 2017) – First Street Napa, a 325,000-square-foot mixed-use development in the heart of Downtown Napa that will encompass 45 retail shops and restaurants, new creative office space, and a 183-room Archer Hotel, announced today that Overland Sheepskin Co., Inc. will relocate from Yountville and open its new store within the project at 1202 First Street. A family-owned company known for high-quality leather and sheepskin outerwear and accessories, Overland will move to the restored and historic Beckstoffer Building within the First Street Napa complex at the northwest corner of First Street and Coombs Street with a projected opening date of January 2018. As Napa’s newest epicenter of culture and creativity, First Street Napa is quickly emerging as a premier destination for world-class merchants, designers, and original retail concepts.
“We’ve been in Yountville for 28 years, and after a year of searching for our next location, we’re looking forward to our move to Downtown Napa,” said Overland co-owner Roger Leahy. “The beautiful and historic Beckstoffer Building, with its mix of rugged authenticity and Napa style, is a great fit for the Overland brand, and we’re excited to continue to serve our loyal Napa customers right from the heart of the valley.”
The first Overland outlet opened in 1973 in a small adobe storefront in Taos, New Mexico, offering sheepskin apparel made with meticulous craftsmanship. More than 40 years, 15 more stores, and one thriving internet business later, the small family shop’s passion for quality and exceptional service have remained the hallmarks of the business. Their new store in Downtown Napa will carry an extensive collection of the finest sheepskin coats, leather jackets, wool coats, sheepskin slippers, leather bags, sheepskin rugs, cowhides, and accessories.
“The commitment to relocate a thriving business from Yountville to Downtown Napa speaks volumes for the direction and progress being made to enrich and enliven the core of Napa Valley. Overland understands the future vision for Downtown Napa, and made the decision to follow the shifting momentum and secure an incredible, prime space for their business along the First Street corridor,” said Todd Zapolski, principal of Zapolski Real Estate, LLC. “With nearly 70 percent of all visitors to Napa Valley visiting Napa proper, the move is a logical one.”
Overland will occupy approximately 2,000 square feet of space on the ground floor of the Beckstoffer Building – neighboring the recently opened Brown Downtown Tasting Lounge located on the upper level of the building. Acquired in 2014 by a Beckstoffer Family Trust, the former Napa Register Building is on the National Historic Register and is important both architecturally and historically to the City of Napa. It is one of the few remaining examples of turn-of-the-century commercial architecture in Napa’s downtown and was designed by Napa’s leading architect of the time, Luther M. Turton. Andy Beckstoffer purchased and restored this landmark commercial building with promise to add to downtown’s rebirth. Now fully occupied, the Beckstoffer building marks a key corner for the First Street Napa re-development. The building has been seismically retrofitted and fully restored with high ceilings, an abundance of natural light, and major street improvements including a two-way direction on First Street and the conversion of Coombs Street from pedestrian-only to one-way vehicular traffic.
First Street Napa, owned and managed by Zapolski Real Estate, LLC and Trademark Property Company, is slated to open the first series of shops and restaurants in late 2017 with continued openings phased throughout 2018. The project recently announced retail, culinary, hospitality, and creative office space tenants that include Archer Hotel Napa, a Maris Collective boutique, Lush, Compline Wine Bar, Silicon Valley Bank, Pacific Union International, Napa Valley Jewelers, Eiko’s Sushi, Charlie Palmer Steak, and Brown Estate. For more information, please visit www.firststreetnapa.com.
About First Street Napa
First Street Napa is a 325,000-square-foot mixed-use development located in the heart of Downtown Napa scheduled to begin opening in phases this fall with more occurring in 2018 and beyond. Spanning three city blocks, First Street Napa will feature 45 fashion and specialty retailers, innovative restaurants and wine bars, Creative Class office space, and Archer Hotel Napa, the tallest building in Napa Valley with 143 guestrooms and 40 suites. Catering to the local Napa community and visitors alike, First Street Napa invites people to shop, dine, relax, work, and indulge in an environment complete with exceptional landscaping, living walls, seating areas, amenities, and locally curated art and design. First Street Napa’s retail, agrarian landscaping, approachable dining, and wine country charm make this destination unmistakably Napa. For more information, please visit www.firststreetnapa.com.
About Overland Sheepskin Co., Inc.
In 1973, Jim Leahy arrived in Taos, New Mexico, with a bale of sheepskins and a sewing machine. He set up the first Overland store, a humble adobe shop between the rugged Sangre de Cristo range and the Rio Grande Valley. The young entrepreneur proceeded to create beautiful, high-quality sheepskin coats, hats, mittens, and slippers—meticulously cutting and stitching everything by hand. Today, family-owned and operated, Overland features 15 retail stores throughout North America and a thriving online business, offering the highest quality sheepskin coats, leather jackets, luxurious fur and leather accessories, shoes, bags, slippers, and home decor. Overland’s family atmosphere has remained the backbone of the business, with a passion for quality matched by exceptional service. For more information, please visitwww.overland.com. | <urn:uuid:b32965d9-1732-4096-a54c-cbad36d84cc9> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | http://www.trademarkproperty.com/first-street-napa-welcomes-overland-sheepskin-co-inc-new-tenant-january-2018/ | 2018-09-23T15:09:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267159470.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20180923134314-20180923154714-00112.warc.gz | en | 0.917113 | 1,294 |
I wrote earlier on this site about the growing use of "wedge" citizen initiatives by political parties in the United States. Political parties are attempting to put on state ballots initiatives that energize their voting base. The strategy is most effect in non-presidential race years.
I also noted that the strategy is risky. Here is the story of one that backfired.
In Ohio a conservative candidate for the governor's office and the current Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, ran against a moderate and the current State Attorney General, Jim Petro. Blackwell, as part of his campaign, organized a citizen initiative for constitutional limits on state and local government taxing and spending. It is known as the Tax and Expenditure Limitation (or TEL for short).
On the eve of the primary, which Blackwell won by 14 percent of the vote, Blackwell supporters presented formally the initiative to the Secretary of State, Blackwell, with enough signatures to put the proposition on the ballet. The Secretary of State's office implemented the administrative procedures necessary to certify the number of signatures and put the language on the ballot for the next election.
After the primary victory, opposition to TEL formed immediately from numerous interest groups across the state. State universities to local firefighters argued that TEL would have an undue and unintended burden on their operations. Democrats argued that TEL was poorly drafted and would lock-up the state's finances. They were right.
Drafters of the TEL amendment, a very complex package of rules, had overlooked a basic ambiguity in the description of the voting majority needed to limit taxing and spending limits. Was a "majority of electors" a majority of those registered (entitled?) to vote or a majority of those actually voting? The former standard would require vote totals of one-hundred percent of those voting if only fifty percent of registered voter went to the polls. The drafters were also careless and over-inclusive in the definition of government units that would fall under the limits.
Both drafting problems could be easily fixed by language changes but, and this is the risk, the language of the initiative was locked in cement once the signatures were gathered. Amendments were not possible; the errors could not be fixed.
The Republicans now had a real problem on their hands. Blackwell had to support TEL in the governor's race against a popular Democratic candidate and TEL was galvanizing the opposition. Universities and firefighters are respected in this state.
Republicans, in control of both house of the state legislature, crafted a clever retreat. The legislature would pass a watered down version of TEL, correcting its errors, and the proponents of the citizen initiatives would withdraw TEL. Blackwell would claim credit for the new legislation.
There is one problem. The proponents, who had submitted their petitions to the Secretary of State, had no express power to withdraw the initiative. The legislature's solution was an amendment to the statute implementing the constitutional initiative right. The legislature passed language that enables a majority of the members of a committee nominated to represent the signatories of an initiative petition to withdraw a petition anytime before the Secretary of State "certifies" the language to local election boards, sixty days before the date of election.
At issue is whether the new statute, particularly as applied retroactively to a pending initiative petition, is constitutional. What are the constitutional rights of signatories who signed the petition with the understanding that, once presented to the Secretary of State with the requisite number of valid signatures, the initiative language would appear on the ballot? Does the legislative act unduly infringe on the constitutional initiative procedure? Were I on the bench, I would hold that it does.
There is also the political opening for the Democrats. Blackwell had argued the need for a constitutional amendment, binding the legislature, and yet now appeared content with a statute that the legislature could itself repeal later. Was his victory a disguised retreat?
In any event, TEL demonstrates the risks of using the wedge initiative. A political candidate drafts the initiative language when a primary victory is sought and with enthusiasm for appealing to the extreme elements of the party and then must run on the initiative in the general election when he/she must appeal to moderates for an election victory.
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Helma Wennemers is professor of chemistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the development of peptides as asymmetric catalysts, peptidic scaffolds for applications in the life and materials sciences as well as the use of peptides to control the formation of metal nanoparticles. She is a member of the Chemical Society Reviews editorial board.
Who or what inspired you to become a scientist?
I hadn’t always wanted to be a scientist. At school I majored in history and English and then decided to study food chemistry. Luckily, it involved a lot of chemistry and this is when I discovered how much insight into nature you can get by looking at molecules. It is the molecular view that got me fascinated about chemistry and doing organic chemistry.
Why did you decide to specialise in peptides?
Peptides serve many different and important functions in nature and everyday life that range from hormones to toxins and artificial sweeteners. This is because lots of different tripeptides can be made by combining different variations of any three of the 21 natural amino acids. This large molecular diversity makes peptide chemistry complex but also offers exciting research perspectives. For example, I was curious to find out if peptides could function as asymmetric catalysts, a role that is currently not known from natural peptides.
What is hot in peptide chemistry at the moment?
Peptides have had a revival in medicinal chemistry because companies have started to realise that for certain therapeutic targets small molecules are just not enough. Peptides and peptide mimics are generating a lot of interest as a possible way to tackle these challenges. Aside from the medicinal aspect, the large molecular diversity of peptides has led to their use in other fields, such as nanosciences, materials chemistry, and asymmetric catalysis. 15 years ago, people would have said that there was no way a small peptide could catalyse a reaction. Nowadays, we and others have shown that this is possible. Peptide chemistry has many different facets and that keeps things exciting.
What is the key to running a successful research group?
This is a difficult question – I generally just do, without thinking too much about how I actually do it. Obviously, a certain degree of (social) intelligence is useful on top of picking interesting research projects and being a good teacher. One of the most important aspects is to be able to motivate and inspire your co-workers so that they become independent, self-responsible scientists. There is nothing more rewarding than seeing a student getting excited about scientific challenges and succeeding in tackling them.
How would your students describe you?
In some theses I get thanked for my ‘contagious enthusiasm’.
As a successful female scientist, what would you say to young women thinking of embarking on a career in science?
If you want something, work hard and you will succeed. Go your own way. Role models are important but everyone has a different path. I never got anything extra because I was female but also I never missed anything. Do what you want to do. Go for it!
You joined the Chem Soc Rev editorial board last year. What do you enjoy most about the role?
Chem Soc Rev is a terrific journal and helping to keep and enhance its quality is a great honour. In addition, I get to meet people that work in different areas of chemistry and I always find crossing such borders fascinating.
Who from the past or present world of science would you invite to a fantasy dinner party?
From my peptide interests, I’d love to invite Emil Fischer or Linus Pauling, both because of interests in the sciences but also for their broader vision on society in general. Meryl Streep would be high on my list too – I love her films. I’d also choose Plato or another hero from Ancient Greece.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
In my semi-spare time, I try to enthuse the general public, particularly children, about science. 10 year old kids are very happy customers. You see their enthusiasms, their ‘wows!’ Grown up bankers and lawyers are much harder customers but there is some hope. I also try to go as much as possible to art museums and like sports, yoga and reading. My group and I love outdoor activities like hiking and canoeing.
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Ciao a Tutti
Do you love to dress up and pretend to be someone else? I do! I always have; dress up was my favorite game when I was a child, even more than playing with dolls I loved to pretend I was someone else.
Someone famous, someone that made things happen, someone beautiful and exciting. Well, I am not famous but I have spent my life making things happen (some good, some bad) and my husband tells me I am beautiful and I keep his life exciting so there you have it. Regardless of my life, which really is wonderful, I still like to play dress up. That’s what Renaissance fairs are about, and when we lived in Arizona we spent several months acting for a nonprofit on the streets of Tombstone.
It has always been a lot of fun to dress up and now we get to start a whole new kind of dressing up!
The Venezia Carnevale happens once a year. Much like Mardis Gras in Louisana or Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Yet in many ways Carnevale in Venezia is different.
All of them are precursors to Lent (the forty days before Easter, which is also a time in the church where the give up meat and other excesses). Usually, they are celebrated for two or three weeks culminating on Fat Tuesday the day before Ash Wednesday. Carnevale may come from the Latin ‘Farewell to meat’ but don’t try a google translation of this it only comes back as ‘flesh farewell’, which is a bit odd.
It is said that Carnevale in Venezia traditionally began in 1162 to celebrate a victory of the Republic of Venice against the Patriarch of Aquileia. It enjoyed many years of popularity and festivities.
Masks are popular in Carnevale but have been both banned and allowed depending on historical times and rulers. One of the things masks have allowed is anonymity that could not be achieved without them. For one day (or several) peasants could be nobles and nobles could be anybody. Masks have certain significance also, many of them date back to the theater such as the Arlecchino (Harlequin), the Colombina, Pantalone, and the Zanni. Others like Volta are the classic white porcelain mask, the Medico Della Peste (the plague doctor), and the Bauta with no mouth but a triangular projected chin so the wearer doesn’t have to take off the mask to eat or drink. In the 18th century, it was common to wear a black velvet mask over one’s faces when visiting a gambling hall or another location of ill repute. In 1797 Carnevale was forbidden and the use of masks became against the law.
Our masks come from a beautiful lady, Giuse, who hand paints and decorates all the masks she sells. She has been known to make them to order if you have a particular costume but she has so many extraordinary masks that finding a unique one is never a problem. She is an artist with color and flair bringing about the best of Venetian masks for her customers.
In 1979 there was a push by the governing body in Venetia to bring culture and history back to the city and so Carnevale was reinstated. Today millions visit Venezia during the Carnevale time and the streets become so crowded that it is almost impossible to move.
To this spectacular event Will and I, with friends will be going for two different Saturdays, one in February and one in March. It is not for the faint of heart or the claustrophobic. The crush of humanity is almost awe-inspiring.
Our costumes will not be the overly elegant of some that have worked on theirs for a year or more (no, in my usual order of idiocy I gave myself roughly a month, pretty typical for most of my harebrained schemes).
However, I am pretty pleased with my creation for the short time period I had. A couple pictures of my costume work in progress but for more you will have to wait until I actually go to Carnevale in a little over 2 weeks. Between now and then, well, school is eating a large chunk of my time and Will and I have a weekend in London planned (kind of an anniversary/valentines day, get out of the country trip if that makes sense).
In March I will be planning for one of my best friends to visit me and we will be taking a whirlwind trip of Italy (plus school work) and daily life as I know it here in Vicenza.
Check the Instagram feed or Karyns Corner of Facebook to see the London and Carnevale pictures. And until we meet again
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What Can You Do With an IT Management Degree? 6 Career Options to Consider
You’re more than ready to leave your dead-end job in the rearview mirror in route towards a career you love. Sure, it helped pay the bills and gave you some real-world experience, but you want to wake up in the morning and look forward to going to work.
Your analytical nature and love of technology has you thinking the information technology (IT) field is the perfect place to find employment. But with all of the precise skills and technical knowhow, you know you’d benefit from acquiring a formal education.
Could an IT Management Degree be the key to unlocking the career you’ve been dreaming of? What can you do with an IT Management Degree, anyway? And why is it one of the technology degrees in demand in today’s workforce? Keep reading and check out our video to find all the answers.
The growing demand for IT management professionals
Each year, IT staffing company Robert Half Technology (RHT) publishes a report summarizing the technology hiring trends across America. And year after year, the report highlights the demand for qualified IT professionals.
In a June 2017 report, RHT revealed that 63 percent of chief information officers (CIOs) find it somewhat or very challenging to find skilled IT professionals today. So how can you help fill the gap and become eligible for these vacancies? Earning an information technology (IT) management degree is a great start. Sometimes referred to as a management information systems degree, the knowledge and training provided in this multi-faceted program can equip you for not just one, but several coveted tech positions.
Watch this quick video to learn more about the IT management career opportunities that could await after graduating.
What Can You Do with an IT Management Degree?
Want to know more about what you can do with an IT Management degree? This video profiles some of the top careers in information technology.
6 Jobs in information technology for degree holders
We used real-time job analysis software to examine more than 80,000 IT management degree jobs posted over the past year.1 The data helped us identify the top six careers available for individuals with an IT management degree.
Get a taste of the job duties and earning potential associated with each of these jobs in information technology:
1. Software applications developer
Median annual salary (2016): $100,0802
Projected growth (2014-2024): 19% increase (much faster than average)
- Designing or customizing computer applications software
- Modifying existing software to optimize operational efficiency or correct errors
- Evaluating software requirements and user needs to determine software feasibility
- Developing and employing software system testing and validation procedures
2. Information security analyst
Median annual salary (2016): $92,6002
Projected growth (2014-2024): 18% increase (much faster than average)
- Monitoring networks for security breaches and investigating when one is detected
- Installing and maintaining software to protect sensitive information
- Simulating attacks to identify potential areas of vulnerability
- Developing security standards and best practices for the company
3. Computer systems analyst
Median annual salary (2016): $87,2202
Projected growth (2014-2024): 21% increase (much faster than average)
- Analyzing data processing problems to improve computer systems
- Developing and testing system design procedures
- Consulting with management to recommend software
- Enhancing system compatibility so information can be shared
4. Database administrator
Median annual salary (2016): $84,9502
Projected growth (2014-2024): 11% increase (faster than average)
- Testing and administering computer databases
- Coordinating changes and correcting errors to computer databases
- Applying security measures to safeguard information
- Indicating user access levels for each segment of database
5. Management analyst
Median annual salary (2016): $81,3302
Projected growth (2014-2024): 14% increase (much faster than average)
- Advising managers on ways of increasing profitability for organizations
- Compiling information about a problem or procedure that needs improvement
- Conducting onsite observations and interviews to identify the equipment and personnel needed
- Creating reports and presentations to support recommendations to share with management
6. Computer network architect
Median annual salary (2016): $101,2102
Projected growth (2014-2024): 9% (faster than average)
- Designing and implementing computer and information networks
- Adjusting network sizes to meet volume or capacity demands
- Performing network modeling, analysis and planning
- Coordinating installation of new equipment
Become a qualified IT professional
So what can you do with an information technology management degree? It turns out there’s a whole lot! You won’t have to worry about running into another dead end when there are so many possible roads to follow.
Check out our IT Management Degree page to learn more about how this could set you up for success in the one of the many jobs in information technology.
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1 Burning-Glass.com (analysis of 82,705 IT management degree jobs, August 01, 2016 – July 31, 2017).
2 Salary data represents national, averaged earnings for the occupations listed and includes workers at all levels of education and experience. This data does not represent starting salaries and employment conditions in your area may vary.
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Dr. Hale Ann Tufan
Dr. Hale Ann Tufan, Principal Investigator of the Gender-responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT) project, has been named the 2019 recipient of the Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. She is recognized for championing the incorporation of gender-supportive activities within the global agricultural research community, working across disciplines to ensure women farmers and scientists are fairly represented in the lab, in the field and at the table.
Though now one of the most powerful voices for gender in agricultural research, Tufan’s career did not start out with that as her focus. Born and raised in Turkey, she went to Colorado State University for her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and chemistry, then returned to Istanbul to earn a master’s in molecular biology and genetics from Bogazici University. After receiving her PhD in biology from John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, she joined the CIMMYT International Winter Wheat Improvement Program in Turkey as an assistant wheat breeder.
In the course of her education and early career, Tufan realized that it was not enough to simply release improved crop varieties into the food production chain because so many of those varieties were not adopted by the farmers they were meant to target. Through talking with farmers, she discovered that one of the biggest reasons for this was that researchers were missing the importance of taking gender into account in plant breeding, and as a result were ignoring the needs of a large number of farmers. Women account for nearly half of the world’s smallholder farmers and produce 70% of Africa’s food. Without first understanding all farmers’ needs, the characteristics they wanted, and who was planting, harvesting and processing the crops, plant breeders too often missed the mark in the varieties they developed.
In 2012, Tufan took her first step toward addressing this need when she joined Cornell University’s International Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to manage the Next Generation Cassava Breeding (NextGen Cassava) project. Through NextGen Cassava, she worked across multiple partner institutions in Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Brazil, Colombia, and the U.S. to design and implement a “Gender-Responsive Cassava Breeding” initiative to reach women smallholder farmers. This project is leading to better understanding of gender needs and impacts in farming communities by listening to stakeholders, and is working with national agricultural research centers in Africa to mainstream and prioritize end-user preferences in breeding programs.
In 2015, Tufan secured a five-year, $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for her brainchild, Gender-responsive Researchers Equipped for Agricultural Transformation (GREAT). Tufan’s GREAT is a training project that builds the capacity of agricultural scientists in sub-Saharan Africa to conduct research that takes into consideration socio-cultural contexts so as to better address the needs and circumstances of both men and women farmers. Tufan pushes plant breeders to adopt a market-based approach and think of end-users as clients, which will lead to higher adoption rates of new varieties.
Though researchers are increasingly expected to design projects that deliver equitable outcomes for men and women, very limited gender training opportunities exist for agricultural researchers. Under Tufan’s leadership, GREAT brings together social and agricultural scientists to design and deliver courses in the practice of gender-responsive research to plant breeders, which is leading to improved outcomes for women smallholder farmers, entrepreneurs and farmer organizations. As of today, researchers from 18 countries and 22 institutions have been trained in one of GREAT’s courses. Through GREAT, Tufan also led the creation of a Center of Excellence for gender and agricultural research at Makerere University in Uganda.
In 2018, Tufan took on a new role in NextGen Cassava, heading up the Survey Division with the aim of identifying traits preferred by farmers to ensure that NextGen Cassava breeding is demand-driven and inclusive. Tufan also leads a team in the Breeding RTB Products for End User Preferences (RTBFoods) project, working across six African countries to create an evidence base for root, tuber, and banana product preferences by gender and other social factors that can be used by breeders to identify and prioritize traits in their breeding programs.
Tufan also demonstrates her commitment to advancing gender sensitivity through her work with the Steering Committee of CGIAR’s Gender & Breeding Initiative (GBI), organizing workshops and a symposium on future directions for gender and plant breeding for GBI members from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. She displays her leadership as director of Cornell’s Advancing Women in Agriculture through Research and Education (AWARE), initiating the first school-wide gender and diversity audit of the School of Integrative Plant Sciences. She shares her passion with the graduate students she mentors and advises, especially African women students.
Tufan’s work is changing how agricultural research is carried out around the world, and changing how the research community views gender. Tufan’s enthusiasm and results-driven approach have led her to develop new training programs that will benefit smallholder farmers, and importantly, that incorporate women farmers into the research value chain.
As a mother of two and the breadwinner of her family, Hale knows that empowering women results in “more food on the plate” as Dr. Norman Borlaug would have expressed it. As Dr. Borlaug went beyond breeding to work across disciplines and nations to “take it to the farmer,” so too has Tufan advanced well beyond her professional field of molecular biology through constantly seeking to address barriers to women’s success and well-being and shape new ways of thinking about agricultural science to create a more equitable society. | <urn:uuid:8951d8e6-cad3-4e0b-b09e-d531240ff57e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/nominations/norman_borlaug_field_award/2019_recipient/ | 2023-09-28T00:36:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510334.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927235044-20230928025044-00521.warc.gz | en | 0.94979 | 1,220 |
Is Your Budget Ready for a New Pet?
Tips to get your finances ready for a furry friend
By Monika Ritchie
Bringing a new pet into your family is an exciting and sometimes hectic occasion. It is easy to get wrapped up in all the emotions and overlook an important question, is your budget ready for a new pet? There are initial costs like adoption fees, food, and toys, but also unexpected or emergency expenses that can break your budget. Vet bills, specialty food, obedience training, and even boarding or “doggie daycare” are just a few of the unexpected expenses that can take a bite out of your budget if you’re not prepared. Budgeting and planning for these expenses ahead of time – i.e. before you commit to getting a pet — can help you avoid falling into a debt trap to cover costs or even, having to give up your beloved pet. Before you ‘unleash’ the cost of a pet onto your budget, here are some tips to get your finances ready for a furry friend.
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Make Room in Your Budget for Pet Expenses
Whether they’re furry, feathered, or scaly, costing money is the one thing all pets have in common, so make sure there’s room in your budget for pet expenses. Go over your budget and think about where to find savings or how you can cut back to make room for an added expense. Planning on getting a dog? Instead of that pricey gym membership, use those daily walks or runs with your new friend as exercise. Use the money you’re saving on the gym to bulk up your budget for pet expenses. The solution may not always be so simple — a cat for example, is significantly less likely to join you for outdoor exercise — but get creative and find frugal ways to save money. Making room in your budget before you get the pet will also help you avoid going into debt to cover any sudden expenses.
Include Pet Insurance in Your Budget, Emergencies Will Happen
If you want to avoid a financial crisis, include pet insurance in your budget, because emergencies – especially veterinary emergencies – will happen, and they’re not cheap. The starting medical costs for dogs and cats can be anywhere from $150-$800, depending on the treatments and vaccines they may need – and that amount doesn’t include any emergency or additional vet treatments. If Fluffy the cat eats some holiday tinsel off the tree or Fido the puppy devours an entire chocolate birthday cake, your emergency vet bills could be in the thousands. If your finances are already tight, that added expense could be a budget breaker. The relatively small monthly cost of pet insurance can potentially save you thousands in out-of-pocket medical costs for your cat or dog. Putting aside funds dedicated to your pet-related expenses is good for your budget, but it also ensures you’ll never have to make the heartbreaking decision to choose between your furry friend and your finances. A 2021 shelter survey by Humane Canada found that 15 percent of owner-surrendered animals were surrendered due to their owners not being able to afford veterinary care.
Remember to Budget for Boarding or Pet Sitting Costs
It might not be much of a concern if you’re working from home, but as more and more workers are being hustled back into the office, it’s important to remember to budget for the boarding or pet sitting costs you may incur. Keep in mind that going back to work in person will also impact your budget, so you’ll need to plan carefully to also cover the added costs of boarding or pet sitting services. Is your pet extra clingy or especially energetic? You might need to pay for dog walking services while you’re at work. Even if you’re working from home, there may be instances where you will need to attend in person or situations where pets are not allowed. Unless you have reliable, low-cost, or free help from family or friends, using a pet sitting or boarding service is an expense you should be prepared for.
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Trim Back Your Budget for Grooming Costs
Don’t underestimate the importance of including grooming costs as you’re getting your budget ready for a new pet. Some pets or breeds will need more grooming than others, and it’s worth considering that as you make your choice. While it might seem like an indulgence, if you’re a newer or less experienced pet owner, trimming your cat’s luxurious fur coat or your puppy’s nails might be a bit intimidating. Professional grooming services can take a bite out of your budget — about $50 to $250 depending on the breed and size of your pet. Cats usually only need bathing or grooming twice a year, if at all, while dogs may need it every four to six weeks. Nail trims can range from $10 to $35 per visit. Having a plan in place for these costs will help you keep your budget balanced and your pet looking and feeling their best.
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An open fire welcomes visitors to this egg-shaped hut built by Danish studio SHJWorks on the edge of a Copenhagen park (+ slideshow).
The structure stands nearly five metres tall and has a hole in the top to let in light and let out smoke, plus two openings at the bottom for access.
The hut was constructed by bolting sheets of flexible plywood together through CNC-cut strips of white polycarbonate, which were inspired by seams in clothing.
The thin polycarbonate roof allows light to penetrate during the day, while at night it glows with light from the fire.
Visitors to the hut can take a seat on the long bench inside while tending the open fire.
Formerly a dumping ground for building materials, Sydhavstippen is now open to the public as a park and wildlife habitat.
"Walking around in the area is just amazing," said Hjermid Jensen. "The 'wild' appearance of the nature on top of the building materials, which are visible in some places, makes you think of a 'post-apocalyptic' nature."
Above: photograph by Christian Bøcker Sørensen
Hjermid Jensen did not have explicit permission to build the hut on the site. "The shelter is meant as a gift for the area and for those who wish to use it," he explained, adding that he hopes it will remain in place for at least a year.
We recently featured a similar temporary hut in Kyoto made in tribute to a tiny 800-year-old dwelling.
Other projects in Copenhagen we've published recently include proposals for a series of artificial islands in the city's harbour and an aquarium shaped like a whirlpool.
Photographs are by Simon Hjermid Jensen except where stated.
Here's some more information from the architects:
Fire Shelter: 01 is a personal project located at Sydhavnstippen in Copenhagen. The starting point for the design emerged from a fascination with the place. It's a temporary project and a design experiment that wishes to celebrate the place. The project has public access and it establishes experiences of spatial and social character. In the creation of it, nobody has been asked for advice, neither has it been possible for anyone to give his or her opinion. It is simply thought of as a gift.
You can reach the location at Sydhavnstippen after a 20-minute bike ride from central Copenhagen. Sydhavnstippen was landfilled with building materials between 1945 and 1973. Before that it was a seabed. Since the landfill plants, bushes and trees have taken over the area, today it's a habitat for a variety of animals. Walking around in the area is just amazing. The 'wild' appearance of the nature on top of the building materials, which are visible in some places, makes you think of a 'post-apocalyptic' nature. The often deserted area amplifies this.
The shelter takes inspiration from the architecture of ethnic and nomadic people. The shelter consists of one shape stretching for the sky. It has one hole in the top and two openings at the bottom. Plywood and polycarbonate are the main materials and all the different parts are fabricated using CNC technology. It is 4.7m tall and haves a diameter at ground level at 3.8m. The structural element of the shelter is the 2-9mm thick walls. The walls consist of thin and bendable shells which are tightened together with bolts and a piece of 2mm thick polycarbonate.
The bottom of the shelter is made of plywood and inside is a fire place surrounded by a bench. The bench is filled with building materials found on the site. This ballast secures the shelter to the ground without any kind of digging for foundations. The upper part of the shelter is in white transparent polycarbonate. The transparent ability allows daylight during the day, and after dusk the light from the fire will shine through the polycarbonate. This way the shelter brings back memories of old times lighthouses.
Besides being a design experiment, which tests the possibilities and structural solutions that digital fabrication is capable of giving, the shelter is meant as a gift for the area and for those who wish to use it. It's about being in the company of good friends, in a fantastic place, around a fire during the dark time of the year. If bureaucracy had been taken into account, the project probably wouldn’t have happened. The wish to act independently was the desire to create a unique and specific project without being subject to any kind of compromises.
The shelter was designed, produced and paid for by the firm SHJWORKS. The assembly job, done without the use of ladders, was made possible assisted by Christian Bøcker Sørensen and others. Hopefully the shelter can stand for a year. SHJWORKS has a great respect for the value of the area, and we don't think we jeopardise any of these values realising this project. The shelter is a temporary project and the day it's gone it will leave no traces.
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CBG, or cannabigerol, is one of the lesser-known compounds found in cannabis, but all of that is about to change. While it isn’t present in the same quantities as THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) or CBD (cannabidiol), CBG has demonstrated some remarkable medicinal properties.
IS CBG THE SAME AS CBD?
No, but it’s a good question. The CBG cannabinoid is daddy to the three most well-known cannabinoids. There is an acidic form of CBG called CBGA (an inactive compound) which is broken down by plant enzymes to become CBD, THC and CBC. CBG remains in trace amounts (less than 1%) in most strains.
DOES CBG GET YOU HIGH?
Both CBG and CBD are non-psychotropic (you won’t get high) and are actually believed to inhibit or counteract the effects of THC. That said, they have both been found to relieve anxiety and other mental conditions, fantastic news for those who do not like the psychoactive properties of THC.
WHAT IS CBD GOOD FOR?
Ah, the million-dollar question! And one so difficult to answer. The complexity of the endocannabinoid system (ECS) in humans, coupled with the myriad ways in which compounds interact with each other, in general, and in individuals, means any bold claims should be taken with the proverbial pinch of salt. With that caveat in mind, let’s check out CBG’s potential medical benefits.
CAN CBG HELP WITH INFLAMMATION?
Yes. Both generally and more specifically with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Early studies have suggested the effects and process may be similar to that of CBD, in that the compound blocks cytokine production. The world is waiting for more CBG medical research in this area but the early signs are promising.
IS CBG GOOD FOR GLAUCOMA?
CBG effects glaucoma by reducing intraocular pressure, widening the blood vessels around the affected area. This, coupled with the neuroprotective properties of CBG, make it an ideal candidate for targeted treatment of glaucoma.
IS CBG GOOD FOR APPETITE LOSS?
CBG benefits those suffering the side-effects of chemotherapy and conditions like cachexia by stimulating appetite, and it does so without the heavy-hitting effects of THC.
CAN CBG HELP FIGHT CANCER?
CBG is not a cure for cancer, yet. It has, however, been shown to block receptors that can cause the growth of cancer cells. It can inhibit cell growth and induce cell death, dramatically reducing the size of tumors. Researchers are most excited about the benefits of CBG in the treatment of colorectal cancer, as the results in mice have been quite spectacular.
WILL CBG HELP WITH MY BLADDER PROBLEMS?
It depends on what they are. In a test that looked at different types of bladder issues, CBG was very good at inhibiting muscle contractions. This has lead researchers to suggest CBG as a potential treatment for bladder contraction disorders.
DOES CBG HAVE ANTI-BACTERIAL PROPERTIES?
It certainly does and scientists have been aware of this, at least in terms of cannabis in general, for decades. Cannabis has anti-tubercular and antiseptic properties, and new research has shown CBG to be particularly effective against the MRSA bacteria. MRSA is resistant to methicillin and other drugs, following a global pattern of increased antibiotic resistance. If CBG lives up to its potential as an antimicrobial agent, the results could be nothing short of revolutionary.
CAN I CREATE CBG-RICH CANNABIS AT HOME?
It is possible to increase the relative quantities of CBG in your homegrown cannabis plants. To do so means nailing down the optimum time for extraction, usually three-quarters of the way through your plant’s normal flowering cycle. Without expensive testing kits, however, it would be impossible to judge your success.
WHERE CAN I FIND HIGH-CBG CANNABIS SEEDS?
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This article was originally published for the Toronto Star on October 31, 2015. View the original here.
If your clothes could talk, what would they say? Perhaps they’d tell you you’re tired, or that you haven’t had enough exercise today. What if they could help you navigate a new city, or tell the person next to you they’re standing too close?
A new wave of wearable technology is moving away from the wrist-based hardware we’ve seen (think FitBit and Apple Watch) and towards a future where electronics are seamlessly embedded into the fibres and fabrics of our clothing. This next wave of wearables won’t just gather information about our bodies, but will also interpret that data in expressive ways — such as a sweater that changes colour based on the wearer’s mood, or a collar that reveals patterns based on the wearer’s body temperature.
“Every new wave of computing has brought with it a new language,” says wearable technology writer and advocate Tom Emrich. Emrich was among a group of industry experts who spoke at Wear It Smart, a conference on Oct. 1 in Montreal that explored the future of fabrics.
In his presentation, Emrich highlighted connected clothing that is pushing the limits of fashion, technology, and communication, such as the 3D-printed dress Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht created for Volkswagen that releases smoke based on the wearer’s breathing and proximity to others, and a series if city-specific, location enabled Navigate jackets created by New York-based Wearable Experiments that help the wearer navigate cities by indicating when to turn left or right using haptic feedback (subtle vibrations).
Smart garments fall within the wearable technology ecosystem and are a mainstay of the “Internet of things” — the move to digitize everything from our homes to our cars. Since clothing is familiar, it makes sense that it’s the medium we’re using to bridge the gap between our physical and digital worlds.
“Textiles are a flexible conduit for wearable technology,” says advanced textiles professor and author Marie O’Mahony, who also spoke at Wear It Smart. “Smart fabrics aren’t made of plastic or metal, like hardware. Instead, they’re something we can connect with emotionally.” O’Mahony explains that while high-performance and responsive fabrics aren’t new (for example, materials that wick moisture from the body or protect the skin from UV rays) what’s novel is technology’s ability to personalize clothing and bring it to life.
Although connected clothing may seem like the stuff of science fiction, a number of leading technology and apparel brands are joining forces to forge the future of fabrics: earlier this year, Google announced Project Jacquard, collaboration with Levi’s to weave gesture interactivity into textiles.
The fibres of your jeans would be made from the same touch-sensitive materials as the face of your smartphone, with embedded electronics and bluetooth connectivity, so that you could dim the lights in your home just by swiping your jeans.
“Smart apparel is posed to change clothing the same way colour TV changed electronics. It will become a baseline expectation from consumers,” predicts Stephane Marceau, CEO and co-founder of OMSignal, a Montreal-based company that helps major brands develop smart apparel. OMSignal recently collaborated with Ralph Lauren to deliver the technology inside the Polo Tech shirt. The shirt is woven with silver fibres that interface with the wearer’s iPhone to provide real-time metrics such as heart rate and breathing depth.
In line with the Polo Tech shirt, smart apparel products available on the market today focus on health and wellness. By gathering biodata, our clothing can now monitor and measure our physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
Beyond holding up a data mirror, connected clothing also augments our bodies to enable new forms of communication with the world around us. For example, the adrenalin dress by Chromat, a technological take on the little black dress that stole the show at New York Fashion Week last month. This 3D-printed dress is equipped with carbon fibre wings that expand and contract based on the wearer’s breathing and adrenalin levels. Using sensors in the waist that relay biodata to wires controlling the wings, the dress mimics the fight or flight response of animals and insects that enlarge their appearance to intimidate potential threats.
While clothing has long communicated style, status, and even our role within the world, advancements in textiles and technology that mix data and design are moving us towards a brave new future of fashion where garments are not ready-to-wear or off-the-rack but instead truly unique expressions of our bodies and minds. | <urn:uuid:42b13713-55e2-497f-807d-232a1abcfb04> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://electricrunway.com/brave-new-future-high-tech-fashion/ | 2017-06-28T08:59:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323588.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628083538-20170628103538-00425.warc.gz | en | 0.943824 | 1,000 |
As the madness of March starts to fizzle, aided by a less than thrilling championship game that at times sounded like a band leader tweeting out the new marching rhythm, we set our sights on one of the greatest stretches of sports that blooms this time every year. NBA teams are making their final push for remaining playoff spots (Mavericks are eliminated from playoff contention), playoff hockey is just around the corner (Stars are eliminated from playoff contention), and opening day of baseball always brings out the best in everyone (Rangers blew a 5-1 lead). With my local Dallas sports teams all but telling me to watch that rerun of This Is Us instead of tuning into the game, how is a guy supposed to get his sports fix? Oh that’s right. The greatest golf tournament of the year tees off tomorrow. “The Masters: A Tradition Unlike Any Other.” How can a sporting event on TV be so gripping, yet, at the same time, double as one of the most efficient sleep sound machines on the market? Answer: The Masters offers a tradition of value at the perfect time.
It doesn’t matter if you’re Wayne Gretzky’s daughter or think a double bogey is a pair of frat boys smiling in your direction at an uptown bar, you will have a hard time not tuning in to, or at least hearing about, the final holes of play Sunday at The Masters. So what is it about this tournament that can capture the nation’s attention for an entire weekend? I have two reasons. First, consistent value. The Masters’ invitation-only field is the smallest of any major tournament and comprised of only the top golfers in the world, both past winners and inspiring green jacket wearers. Unlike the other three majors that rotate golf courses annually, The Masters has been played at the Augusta National Golf Club for over eight decades, and by outlawing golf carts and closing the course every summer, the Augusta National golf course is simply a work of art, the sole reason HD TVs were invented. I mean, have you seen those azaleas?! I don’t even know what azaleas are, but they’re my favorite. (Rumor has it, though, that the renowned flower saw Tiger Wood’s shadow on Monday and won’t be in top form for another six weeks)
Second is Timing. The Masters, simply put, could not be played at a better time in the sports calendar year. This kickoff to Spring tournament comes as a classy, refreshing change of pace to sports fans everywhere. Football has been gone since February, we’ve watched more college basketball the past three weeks than we care to admit, and now that the Opening Day excitement has disappeared quicker than that $9 Bud Light, a majority of us won’t check back in on our beloved boys of summer until mid October. Is there any better time to broadcast a slow-paced, rule following, no team allegiance event like The Masters? I think not.
Check out this CBS commercial we worked on for The Masters a few years back!
The same characteristics are crucially important to the success of a business, and it’s always been that way. As a small business, in our case a video production studio, how is your product or service bringing your customers consistent value? I think for a majority of us, unless you are introducing something revolutionary to the market, it is difficult to stand out in the long run with just your product or service alone. If the product is a hit, you better believe someone is going to mimic your idea and sell it for cheaper. How you can retain customers and consistently bring them value is by truly understanding their pain points, introducing them to new ideas that can save both time and money, and offering incredible customer service. Those are areas where you can stand out. What about timing? Doing your research and making sure the timing is right for the release of a new product line could be the determining factor in its success or failure. Timing often matters. Even if you are the one who has the original idea, it’s not always the best to be first. Just ask WebTV. Another area where timing is critical is new business acquisition. Cold call an executive who just paid an invoice for new videos produced for the company website and see how open he/she is to speak to you about video production. But contact a decision maker who is struggling to find new ways to market their company and extend their reach, and see how easy it is to explain the impact video marketing can have without being interrupted. Timing is everything. Throw in some hard work and unmatched value, and you’ve got yourself a “tradition unlike any other.”
Why do you think The Masters is so popular?
How is your small business setting itself apart from the competition?
As a consumer, how do you decide on which company to go with? What keeps you going back?
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Are you emotionally sovereign or dependent?
If I was honest, I have been emotionally dependent most of my life which created an unhealthy reliance on people I was close to. I always needed someone to nurture, acknowledge, sooth my inner discomfort. I didn’t feel like I had the ability to handle my emotions so instead, I opted to subtly give away my power to another with the hope they could fix me or find the solution for me.
But what was really happening under the surface was my inability to hold overwhelming emotions. Emotions like anger, sadness, grief, even joy, were too much for me. I had never learned how to let emotions flow through me without holding onto them. Instead, I was shown how to suppress, avoid or blame, which meant I didn’t have to take responsibility for my inner landscape of emotion.
Not taking responsibility for each emotion that arises means I loose energy and power. It also means I had to rely on someone outside of myself to hold the weight of my unprocessed emotions. At times, it was important to have people guide me through my confusing and confronting inner landscape, but not when I relied on them to rescue me out of my emotional discomfort.
If I needed a rescuer to take away my problems, I always got one. If I wanted someone to empower me to handle my emotions- I got one. The former holds very different energy and intention than the later. The former one comes at a great cost where two people come together to soothe each other’s unprocessed hurts without taking full responsibility for their own inner world.
When we feel the need to rescue or be rescued it comes from a place of lack. This creates an entanglement that requires you to stay stuck. Each time you go through an unsettling emotion, you will rely on those outside of you to hold your emotional upheaval. I like to term myself the damsel-in-distress when I fall back into this pattern. The person rescuing also relies on you to need them, so they feel like they have a purpose. If they don’t have this purpose, their underlying low sense of self comes to the forefront. From experience, most people aren’t really ready to take full ownership of their low worth that relies on you to make them feel better. This creates a heavy burden, not to mention an energy sucker!
So what is emotional sovereignty?
Emotional is an arousing, intense feeling and Sovereignty is utmost power to sooth and regulate yourself.
Emotional Sovereignty is a gift that you give yourself when you have developed enough inner support that you don’t require anyone outside of yourself to love, soothe, care, nurture the parts of you that feel uneasy. You have been able to hold each emerging emotion or reaction with tender care, that you become your own soothing carer.
This frees you from dependency.
You don’t need to search for someone to acknowledge your feelings and you don’t need recognition for your experience. Instead, you start to embody radical self-acceptance of all the rising experiences, where you become skilled at validating your own feelings. You have enough intrinsic worth that you don’t depend on someone outside of you to approve or disapprove your sense of self. You have the ability to let go of emotions (rather than carrying them around with you for days, weeks or years).
But what happens when you haven’t cultivated enough inner skills to soothe and regulate your inner emotion?
This is where emotional dependency kicks in.
Emotion can be overwhelming when we have never really been taught how to sooth these uncomfortable sensations. When we don’t have these skills, we seek something or someone outside of ourselves to validate and regulate our discomfort.
The essence of the word dependency is to seek someone or something for support. So when you feel an intense emotion you don’t have the skills within to soothe, so you seek someone who possess the soothing ability.
Emotional Dependency relies heavily on another person to acknowledge our inner experiencing. I frequently use to seek different people to help soothe and regulate my inner world. But I have realised how much this is keeping me stuck in a dependency pattern. I noticed I would look for the people who would agree with my view to ensure I felt like I was righteous in my emotional overwhelm. It would soften my chaotic inner world but it was always guaranteed that it would flair back up (it was only a matter of time).
If people didn’t agree with my view I noticed several reactions. One was to withdraw from them, one was to internalise deep shame for how I was feeling and the other was to attack by blaming and judging them for my problems. I know it can feel easier to blame others, rather than take full responsibility for how I feel. But in the long run, it doesn’t serve my deeper desires of freedom, love, connection and evolution.
So how did I learn to embody emotional sovereignty?
Instead of drowning in my own overwhelm, I consciously sought external guidance by some very skilled healers, teachers, guides, and mentors. I learned that having access to the right tools gifted me with the power to settle any arising sensation with tender, loving care. With enough determination and perseverance, I now know that anyone can attain emotional sovereignty…
Emotional Sovereignty is a personal freedom. It is a powerful inner state that one can reach once they develop the skills to lovingly hold whatever emotion arises. You conserve more energy and cultivate greater vitality. You don’t hold on to emotions that leave you stuck in the past, but allow them to flow effortlessly through you. You have cleaner, healthier, co-empowering interactions with ALL people you connect with. You attune more to your body wisdom and make choices with beautiful clarity. It gifts you with the ability to see and feel unhealthy ways of relating, offering you the freedom to choose self-love over self-sacrifice. Ultimately giving you permission to move through the world as you please (Naomi Cameron). | <urn:uuid:e9ca7ff8-d666-431f-8265-10f156f4fac4> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | http://naomicameron.com/2017/03/20/are-you-emotionally-sovereign-or-dependent/ | 2018-08-14T23:54:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221209650.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20180814225028-20180815005028-00310.warc.gz | en | 0.966266 | 1,252 |
Update: 10pm – Hearing that tomorrow night’s Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party has been canceled, but Disney is still planning to keep the parks open on Thursday. Sounds like they’ll play it by ear on Friday based on how much, if any, damage there is. Taken with closures at the water parks, this seems sensible to me. How about you?
Update: 8pm – Both Walt Disney World water parks are now marked as closed on Friday, Blizzard beach is also closed on Thursday. So far the four main theme parks are still operating with normal hours.
Update: 5pm – Disney Cruise Line has provided the following updates:
The October 3rd sailing of the Disney Dream has been extended by one day and will now arrive in Port Canaveral on October 8th, once the Coast Guard has determined that the port is safe for cruise ship operations. Disney is working with guests on board to adjust their travel arrangements.
The October 7th sailing of the Disney Dream from Port Canaveral has been cancelled. REfunds are being automatically processed back to the original form of payment. Guests can call 866-325-3905 to rebook a future cruise at a discount. Phone lines open on Monday Oct. 10.
The October 7th sailing of the Dinsey Magic will now be a Canadian itinerary. Guests can opt to rebook a future sailing at a discount or cancel for a full refund if they don’t want to take this revised itinerary.
The Disney Fantasy sailing on October 8th from Port Canaveral to the eastern Caribbean is expected to sail as normal.
The Walt Disney World resort has not yet announced any closures (they’re pretty optimistic looking at the latest projected path), not even water parks. (correction, Blizzard Beach now shows as closed tomorrow but not Friday)
Update: 3pm Wednesday – Disney’s Hilton Head, Vero Beach and Fort Wilderness resorts have all been closed due to Hurricane Matthew.
Update: noon Wednesday – Orange and Osceola counties are now under a hurricane warning. That means hurricane force winds are probable in the next 36 hours. Please take this storment seriously.
It has been more than 10 years since a Hurricane tore through Central Florida. Yesterday, to refresh people’s memories, we gave some basic advice to people who are either in Orlando already or planning to arrive before Hurricane Matthew does. We posted our advice because there was a chance that central Florida would be impacted by high winds as the hurricane made its way up the east coast of Florida. Unfortunately, since that time, the prediction models look even worse for the attractions area (see image above), and other tourism friendly destinations in Florida. It could be a direct hit from a major hurricane as soon as Thursday. We continue to hope for the best, but urge everyone to prepare for the worst.
As of this writing Osceola County and Orange County, where Disney’s four parks are located (not to mention SeaWorld and Universal), are both under a Hurricane Watch (one step less serious than a Warning). This is the point where theme parks start to decide if they need to put into place severe weather plans. Usually that includes securing items that might blow away (such as holiday decor and outdoor vending carts) and preparing backstage areas for support.
Be prepared. Water parks and theme parks may close early on Thursday and, depending on the amount of damage, open late, or not at all on Friday. History has shown that some parks are easier to open after a major wind event than others. Magic Kingdom and EPCOT are more likely to open first. Disney’s Animal Kingdom, which has a lot of flora that tends to get scattered everywhere and needs to be cleaned up, and Disney’s Hollywood Studios, which relies a lot on entertainment shows that may recover a bit slower than rides that are safe inside buildings, tend to take a day or two longer. The last park closure from a named storm was in 2005 when Wilma passed through the area.
Disney has notified guests staying at Fort Wilderness that they may have to evacuate on Thursday. If the order is given, all campers, tents, etc must be removed. With lots of trees and its close location to water, you can see why Disney might be concerned.
Disney also has to take staffing into account. Over 60,000 people in central Florida work for the Mouse. After a storm not all of them will be able to make it into work, nor would Disney ask them to if safety of them or their family is at risk.
If you are a guest of a Walt Disney World resort while the parks are closed, Disney usually goes out of its way to bring some entertainment options to the hotels when it is safe to do so. In the past, this has included special a ‘character bus’ where costumed characters stop by for meet and greet sessions and entertainment cast members are on hand to perform and lead games. In times like this, it becomes clear that cast members are the real heart and soul of the resort, so be sure to give them your thanks for showing up when the parks do reopen.
Under its Hurricane Policy, Walt Disney World currently is offering resort guests who booked a package to make changes to their travel, such as postponing, with no fees.
Although the website says no changes are expected for any of the Disney cruises that depart on the 7th and 8th, the Disney Fantasy and Disney Dream may have to find someplace other than Port Canaveral to dock at as the port has announced that it will be closed to all incoming ships on the 6th and 7th (at least).
Once again, please stay safe during this server weather event. Hurricane Matthew may require some change of plans, but if you keep your risks low, you’ll get through with few or no problems. Here’s hoping it misses Central Florida entirely. Please keep those it has already affected in your thoughts. | <urn:uuid:f0373a16-0585-4265-b830-094f8dd9eb4a> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://thedisneyblog.com/2016/10/05/walt-disney-world-hurricane-matthew-update/ | 2022-12-03T18:26:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710936.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20221203175958-20221203205958-00393.warc.gz | en | 0.969938 | 1,232 |
Pakistani Cricketer Mustafa Bashir escaped wife battery jail time after he claimed he was joining a top cricket outfit, The Sunreports.
The player and his legal reps claimed the 34-year old had been offered a deal by cricket club Leicestershire just before his arrest.
It was this claims that helped him escaped getting jailed but there are reports that the claims could have been false. The Sun report says the LeicestershireCounty Cricket Club did not ever hold talks with the player regarding a possible deal, not to talk of offering him a deal.
Bashir repeatedly hit his woman FakharaKarim, 33, for her life choices. He claimed she was now wearing westernized clothes, turning against her family and socializing with ‘English slag girls.’
There are claims that he once said: “If I hit you with this bat with my full power then you would be dead.” There are even claims that he eventually hit her when he felt she spent too much time on the phone, speaking with friends that he did not approve of.
The Judge Richard Mansell QC also heard that he forced his wife to drink bleach when they had a row regarding him going on a cricket tour in the Netherlands.
His wife Karim claimed she was fearful for her life but she eventually took the courage to approach the police for help.
“I now feel strong enough to report this to the police. I did fear from my life, he told me he was going to kill me,” she said. (more…)
The Chennai Super Kings always play the same way irrespective of the fact that they win or lose.
After the failure of their batting the other day, it was thought they would be a little circumspect in the away game versus the Royal Challengers Bangalore, but, that wasn’t the case at all.
The men in Yellow went as hard as they normally do and batting first on a placid track, posted a score in excess of 180 which turned out to be match winning one at the end.
This is one of the best qualities of the Super Kings. They don’t panic.
You see with the other teams, when they lose a couple, they very quickly try to change their game plan, their combinations and all, but, not Chennai.
The team management has got such a lot of faith in the first choice players that unless one of them gets injured, the playing XI remains the game.
And, there is a fixed role for every player in the CSK squad. It’s not that you would see the role changing.
The openers and the no. 3 attack, the middle order consolidates and then there is some muscle work again at the end.
Similarly, in bowling as well, some swinging stuff with the new ball, then the spinners come in and try and exploit the help in the pitch if there is any and then, there are change ups in the death with slower deliveries and low full tossed ones being dished out. (more…)
The opening batsman of the Australian Cricket team, Phil Hughes, is no more in this world. The young left hander died earlier today in a hospital in Sydney.
Hughes had taken a blow on his neck off the bowling of Sean Abbott while playing in a first class game the other day for South Australia. He had lost his consciousness immediately and was rushed to the hospital where he was kept in the ICU after a head surgery.
He was not responding positively to the treatment and finally this morning, he passed away leaving the entire cricketing world in shock, pain and devastation.
Hughes was batting at the score of 63 in that game and was playing well. A hundred there could have sealed his spot in the Australian squad for the first test match against India, but, that was not destined to be. He became the victim of a tragedy and left the world.
The injury that Hughes suffered was a peculiar one. He did not get hit exactly on the head. It was more towards the neck that he took the blow. It should not have been that lethal.
According to the doctors, if Hughes had been hit a few millimetres here or there, he would have got away with just a bruise. But, because of the fact that he was hit on one of the most important arteries leading to the cerebrum, he collapsed straightaway.
This incident has shaken the players all around the world and there is no clarity if the Brisbane test match that is scheduled to take place from 4th of next month would now go on according to the schedule.
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The show Striking Out revolves around the life of Tara Rafferty who is a solicitor in Dublin. The Irish-origin show aired first on the RTE1 network in January 2017. The series came to the USA in March 2017 on Acorn TV. The story starts with Tara and Eric (Taras’s fiancé) who work in the same law firm. In the initial episodes of the series, Eric is cheating on Tara with a co-worker Caroline Walsh. Tara finds this out as she walks on Eric and Caroline in a compromising situation. She gets visibly upset and leaves the place immediately. To further resolve the tension the situation has created Tara resigns and starts her firm and starts to work on exclusively domestic cases. The story progresses with the personal and professional journey of tara.
This legal drama has four and six episodes in its first and second seasons, respectively. The show was directed by Lisa James Larsson and Simon Massey. The show streamed two seasons in consecutive years 2017 and 2018.
Striking Out Season 3 Release Date
As the second season ended on a mysterious note, fans are eagerly waiting for the next season. Tara and Eric’s story is yet to get closure. Rumors are flying around that the season might be coming up soon. There is no official release date announcement. Fans are hoping to get some news around mid-2022.
The second season of the show started a year after the first season. Yet there is no third season 4 years after the latest one.
|Striking Out Season 1 Release Date||1 January 2017|
|Striking Out Season 3 Release Date||Not Announced Yet|
Striking Out Season 3 Cast And Characters
Amy Huberman as Tara Rafferty
She is an Irish actress featured in Finding Joy(2018) and The Clinic(2003-2009). The actress is also a writer her debut novel Hello Heartbreak came out in 2009.
Rory Keenan as Eric Dunbar
The actor has worked in many Irish theatre productions. He was seen in shows like Aristocrats(1999), On Home ground(2001-02), and The Duchess(2020).
Neil Morrissey as Vincent Pike
He is a well-known actor, singer as well as a voice actor. He has a very well-established career. The actor has been a voice actor for the animated cartoon series, Bob The Builder as the character of Bob. He started his journey with the 1984 movie The Bounty.
Emmet Byrne as Ray Lamont
The actor has featured in movies like Idle (2015), Twice Shy (2016), and Burning Wishes (2015).
Fiona O’Shaughnessy as Meg Riley
The Irish actress has worked in Television, Movies, and Stages. She has done a few short films such as Clubbing (2000), Still Life (2005), and the TV shows like The Living and The Dead (2017) and Halo (2022).
Read More: All American Season 5 Release Date Updates
Striking Out Season 3 Trailer
There is no trailer for the third season of the show. But the first two trailers of the show are available on Acorn TV’s youtube channel.
The first season shows almost all the characters and some important aspects of their personality. The second season’s trailer is dominated by female characters. In the trailer, we see all the females in power roles whether it is in the protagonist or antagonist role. The background score of the trailer adds up to the intensity of the trailer.
Striking Out Recap
This legal drama has four and six episodes in its first and second seasons, respectively. The show moves forward with an intensely emotional journey.
Tara discovers that her fiance, Eric Dunbar, has an affair with a coworker in the first season. She decides to meet Eric one evening and enters his room to find him in an unacceptable situation. Further along in the story, Tara’s personal life starts interfering with her professional life and creates lots of problems.
The third season of the show should have more definite endings to stories of Taras clients like barry O’brien and Corrine. Fans also expect more exploration of Tara’s personal life. Eric’s side of this journey is also expected by fans in season 3. The fans of this show will surely appreciate it if Tara can be seen in more power asserting approach in the third season.
Where to Watch Striking Out?
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Creative Entrepreneur | Weaver's Soap Company
Monica is a creative force to be reckoned with. She has successfully accomplished so many goals and her vision is inspiring. When she and I first began communicating about collaborating on a soap line, I was amazed at all of the areas this girl has explored.
Several years ago, Monica was intrigued by homemade soaps and tried many brands and types. Not being satisfied with the results, Monica wanted to create her own that exceeded her expectations. The process to find a formula that not only gave a pure clean feeling but also moisturized without feeling heavy - these traits were next on her list...
With mountains of research under her belt, Monica developed her soap making recipes that contain pure sustainable moisturizing oils and skin safe fragrances. She has also perfected the creative "swirled" tops on the soap loaves that leave her signature trademark look.
There are several ways to make soap and Monica prefers the cold-process method. This is a process in which lye is mixed with precisely measured oils at the optimum temperature resulting in a "saponification" of ingredients . Working with this old-fashioned process is truly an art and one that requires a strong attention to detail and safety.
You can see why I leave the soap creating to her....
As I explained my vision to Monica for a Blue Cupboard soap line, the collaborating was an instant success. She took the time to visit the blog, study the brand, and uses/loves the Blue Cupboard towels. With this information in tow, Monica and I came up with the four soaps for Blue Cupboard that will be presented very soon!
As I watched Monica work through her soap making process, it was fun to see her process as she developed fragrances, colors and swirl designs. We exchanged thoughts on new fragrances she was trying and also of those she prefers to work with for the best consistency.
Once the blended soap mixture has reached the perfect "trace", it is poured into molds to begin the set up process...
It is at this point that various fragrances will will change the color of the soap as it cures so it is important to really understand what the final outcome will be in order to create the perfect bar. Having solid experience in this area, Monica will create special touches to each loaf that add color and texture depending on the ingredients and fragrances she is working with at the time...
As the soap is released from the molds, they are set up in a special "curing" area. This allows the soap time to fully develop and harden into the bars she is famous for. It is vital that the soap cure in an area of ideal air circulation and temperature...
When the bars are properly cured, Monica begins her packaging process. She has a found a "breathable" shrink wrap that serves this purpose very well. This allows the soaps are able to be handled and also to let the fragrance experience come through beautifully.
Weaver's Soap Company is based and made out of a workshop right next to their house. She shares this space with her Husband, Matt who is a "chemical free" gardener and produces salsa, pickles, and other canned specialties.
They also grow chemical-free Milkweed for the Monarch butterfiles Monica raises!
See what I mean? Creative Entrepreneurs at their finest!
This past weekend, Monica brought some Blue Cupboard towels with her to a couple of shows she was attending. It was so awesome to see the towels next to her soaps as we both agree when you wash your hands, ya gotta dry them off!
Monica credits her business success to simple hard work and dedication. Having a vision and a dream combined with the energy to move it all forward has made her a true Creative Entrepreneur and one that I am very proud and fortunate to know and collaborate with.
Please pay Monica a visit at her Etsy site
to see more of her beautiful creations that also include body butters, bath bombs, and body scrubs.
You can also visit her HERE on Facebook!
Be sure to connect up with her on her Etsy site as I know she would be happy to answer any questions you may have. Be prepared though....she has a magnetic personality, awesome sense of humor, and a big heart...you will want to visit awhile...
I hope you have enjoyed an "insider" peak into this Creative Entrepreneur and her process and how by sending a simple email to a former neighbor has led to a fun business buddy, product collaborator and most importantly, a wonderful friend.
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Beautiful fall images, with orange and red leaves falling around your subjects, are always a highlight of the year. The season brings a crisp light as well as wonderful backdrops, and always looks so good on camera.
But that might not be something that you get to experience in your part of the world. Fall may be something that simply happens to other people! If this is the case, you won’t be able to shoot fall photos – unless you recreate the look in Photoshop.
It may also be that you simply shot something out of season, and now want to adjust and update the editing to bring it into a fall style.
Either way, it’s easy to create a whimsical fall look in Photoshop. All you need are two of the Summerana Photoshop collections – the ColorFall Action Collection and the Leaf Overlays. You can find these in the Summerana Store or our membership library
Stick around for the end to find out how you can get some FREE leaf overlays!
Creating a fall look
The first thing to do when creating a fall look is to make sure you have the right image to start with. You won’t get the best results if you try to add fall elements to a snow scene or a shoot at the beach, for example! Areas with trees are often the best setting for fall looks – even if they are bright green and showered in sunlight, you can give them a fall tone easily.
You can also start out by cleaning up your RAW file and making sure that it is ready to start editing. Don’t worry if you don’t know where to start. There is actually a cleaning action included with the ColorFall collection, so you can get that done right away.
The biggest and most important part of creating that whimsical fall image is the colors. Everyone knows that the leaves turn orange and brown in the fall, before they start to fall off the trees. There is also a different quality to the light during the fall, as the days get shorter and the weather changes. This means that even grass, which doesn’t change color year-round, will look a little different. The sky, too, might have a different cast.
It’s all about how we perceive light, and when we have experienced fall ourselves, we just know what it looks like. That’s why you won’t fool anyone if you don’t get the colors right!
Color-toning your image can take a lot of time and effort, especially when it comes to picking out the colors that have that real fall magic to them. The ColorFall action collection comes with a choice of different fall color tones, so you don’t have to worry about tracking them down. Just pick the one that works best with your image and press play – the action will do all of the work for you.
Making it real
The next step is all about making it look more realistic. When you take a look at your image after using the fall edits, you might feel like it doesn’t quite look right yet. There are lots of solution for this, as you can see demonstrated in the tutorial video for the ColorFall action collection.
You may need to use a brush at a lower opacity to remove some of the color toning, such as to bring a little more green back through on the ground. Or you may wish to reduce the opacity of the layer as a whole and set your shoot in early fall.
When you are happy with the effect of this edit, there’s more to play around with if you wish. The final image editor actions are set up to do those final touches, such as removing color casts, getting rid of dull areas, and adding more depth. You can also use some extra color casts to create a gorgeous look, as well as adding a vignette if you want to.
Since the sun sits lower in the fall, you can also add some light flares, which add real oomph to the image and can make it more realistic for your viewers.
Adding falling leaves
Next up, you can have a lot of fun adding some leaves to your image! During the fall, a stiff breeze can easily knock down leaves from trees and allow them to swirl in the air before they drop. This has a really romantic effect, although it’s almost impossible to capture that perfect look in camera.
There’s a solution to this which doesn’t involve you throwing leaves at your clients for hours. Yes, you can get your assistant to put the leaf blower down! Simply take your photograph as normal, or use an image you edited with the ColorFall Photoshop actions, and add some leaf overlays.
These overlays are really easy to apply with the Summerana action collection dedicated to getting them looking perfect. First, you drop in your leaves, choosing an overlay which has as many or as few floating leaves as you prefer.
Get the overlay placed over the top of your image, and you can apply a range of edits to them. You can even take some leaves out if they are over your subject’s face or if you don’t want them across the whole image.
The leaves are even blurred or left sharp in different areas of the overlay to add depth to your image, making it look as though they really are there in the scene. Match them up to the tones of your trees created with the ColorFall actions and you will have a perfectly believable, but utterly whimsical, fall scene.
Even if you never see real fall weather again for the rest of your life, you can provide it in post-production for your clients any time they want. This is a great way to add a new service to your portfolio and really enchant your clients with magical portraits!
Images courtesy of: Tracy Joy, Stephanie Ratto, & Shannon Squires.
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I think that inspirational books can be of great help as they are based on the observation of Human nature and on our common patterns. However, there is no need to follow everything they say to the letter, as everyone of us is unique and more or less comfortable with some advised behaviour.
As this is resolutions time, I thought I would share with you this good summary of Stephen Covey’s famous motivational book The Seven Habits of highly effective people, which I read a few years back.
The advice is professionally oriented but “to learn one thing a day” or “to let the other speak to the end” feel like sound advice for anybody. And I particularly like the one when he says that the private sphere (Family, sports, leisure…) comes first, work coming second. I had never thought of this that way and I don’t know to what extent this is applicable!
THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE BY STEPHEN COVEY
(culled and translated from an article of L’EXPRESS/L’ENTREPRISE by Marie-Madeleine Sève)
There are bad habits that we must get rid of… and good ones, those that help us open up, according to management Guru, Stephen R.Covey, who advised President Clinton. Here they are.
Certain principles of life feed success, according to Stephen R.Covey, former advisor to President Clinton, author of “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” (1). Nicolas Duguay, mental trainer and Associate Director of CAA firm, offers a variation (among others) in seven practical tips. Attention, it is by the combined and repeated application of those habits that one will see beneficial results.
Habit # 1: to propose a new idea per day
Be proactive rather than reactive to the environment. You need to reach beyond your self-centered concerns and focus on your surroundings, on your “circles of influence”, on what you are able to impact.
Systematically go beyond your position’s assigned missions by proposing a new idea a day or a week, to your customers, to your team, to your peers … This is how Xavier Niel, who is often a step ahead on the market, operates. Target easy things: make contributions to a blog, post a lecture note, sign up for a newsletter, suggest improvements to your hierarchy … These actions wake up your neurons and create a link.
Habit # 2: Think backwards
To succeed, it is better to have a “life plan” to five years, three years, six months, on a personal and a professional level: to obtain a position, to move, etc. We must therefore think down very regularly our activities and sub-objectives based on this or those ultimate goal or goals. A crucial “strategic habit” that will prevent you from drowning in the short term. Elaborate on a notebook or file a schedule with two columns “pro” and “personal”, crossing dates and booking of space to list your reflections and needed shifts in orientation. For over five years, there will inevitably be some adaptations.
Habit # 3: prioritize the private sphere
Family, sports, relaxation and then … work. This is the right order of things that should guide your pen when you fill in your calendar every week or every month. Because if you skip the inner circle, it will return to you like a boomerang at a critical time. And you will say to yourself that you have missed something important, your son game, an evening with your spouse, etc. Furthermore, reading for leisure is not incidental, it is inspiring. The office files will always be there and will never let themselves forgotten. Important things come before urgent things! This does not exclude to be flexible in your organization.
Habit 4: learn one thing a day
To sharpen his faculties is to progress by yourself and not via the outside. The assumption is that of a constant renewal through your curiosity. Embark on micro-challenges: every week, ask four questions to your boss, read two articles, change the way you approach a prospect and draw lessons from what is happening. You will become even more intelligent. Furthermore, there is nothing better than to experiment to get out of boredom!
Habit 5: let the other speak to the end
Always seek to understand your partner by adopting two postures. 1 / Abstain from cutting his sentences responding tit for tat, which lead to imposing your views. 2 / Ask three questions regardless of what is asked for. “Why do you want me to realize that?”; “What are the issues?”; “What is the ideal deadline for you?”. This automaticity allows you to hear and understand in depth the others point of view before giving yours.
Habit 6: seek agreements tirelessly
Opt for an “abundance mentality” on the premise that there are things to share. Rather than getting on your pegs at each difficulty, take the time to chat with your partner thinking that they do not want to deprive you from your belongings (or power). Look for an acceptable compromise for a common victory. Meet halfway, or even accept a 60-40 against you in a logic of “win / win” situation. But if the agreement is not good, refuse it.
Habit 7: Establish intra- or inter exchanges rituals
This is to generate synergy that fosters momentum and creativity. Feed the intranet often and the in-house social network, launch regular “speed dating” in your service or between entities, formal and / or informal (snacks, walks in an open green space…). Information that goes around decompartmentalizes the company, boosts the teams and gives you stamina.
(1) Republished by Flammarion, collection “J’ai Lu”, 2012
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Friday, June 13, 2014
22 JUMP STREET: A Funny As F*** Follow-up That Makes Fun Of Itself
Now playing at a multiplex near us all:
22 JUMP STREET
(Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, 2014)
The first movie looked like it was going to be crappy, but actually turned out to be fairly funny in its riffing on being a big screen version of a ‘80s undercover cop show.
The sequel amps it up by riffing on being a sequel to the surprise hit big screen version of a ‘80s undercover cop show.
And I laughed a lot more this time. A lot more.
Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum return as officers Schmidt and Jenko, the partying, gun-toting duo who engage in their own particular brand of bromantic banter. This time, much of their banter revolves around being on an investigation that's just like the last one, except now it's college, not high school, and they have a much bigger budget.
To amusingly justify the movie's title, the police team’s headquarters has been moved across the street into a bigger church with vastly upgraded facilities resulting in many comments about how needlessly expensive everything looks.
Ice Cube, reprising his hilariously drawn role as Captain Dickson, even remarks that the place looks like it's out of IRON MAN.
Posing as college students at the fictional MC State (short for Metropolitan City State), Hill and Tatum's assignment involves finding who's been dealing the dangerous drug “WhyPhy” (WiFi).
In the process, Tatum falls in with some air-headed football players (Wyatt Russell and Jimmy Tatro), while Hill, in the guise of a slam poet, falls for an art student (Amber Stevens). The film here toys with rom com conventions, but funnily enough more with Tatum connecting with Russell (Kurt's son btw) than Hill's courtship of Stevens; they even make a meta joke about them having a meet-cute via the merging of a meat sandwich and a Q-Tip.
Popping up throughout the guys' campus shenanigans, are cameos by Patton Oswalt as a psychology professor, standup partners/identical twins the Lucas Brothers as drugged-up dorm neighbors, Peter Stormare as an international criminal only known as “Ghost,” along with, from the first film, Dave Franco, and Rob Riggle, now prison inmate lovers (Franco, not by choice).
Riggle was the previous films' secret bad guy, and there's one in this one too, but don't worry I won't spoil that tasty twist.
Gags about sequel tropes are joined by gags about how old the leads look to be college students (“I got 99 problems but being young ain't one,” Jillian Bell as Stevens' acerbic roommate quips), gags about how close to gay these guys get in their bro-bonding, gags about college sex (the “walk of shame” bits are dead on), just gags about everything along these lines that they could stuff into the 112 minute running time.
Directors Phil Lord and Christopher, the dudes behind the also ultra meta, and equally hilarious THE LEGO MOVIE, working from a screenplay by Michael Bacall (writer of the first one), Oren Uziel, and Rodney Rothman, never let up on the film's sense of fun right through to end where they go from making fun of sequels to taking on entire franchises.
Hill and Tatum are very funny here, they play off each other brilliantly and again prove that their pairing is no fluke, but Ice Cube, in his expanded role, is an angry comedy machine! In a restaurant-set scene in which he finds out that his daughter is dating Hill, Cube's performance is a tour de force of comic acting.
22 JUMP STREET is a funny as fuck follow-up that makes fun of itself for its simple cynical existence as a sequel, but it never makes fun of us for watching it. It wants us to be as in on the joke as they are, and have us all laugh together. With this many surefire laughs, and well tapped talent on display, I even felt a bit laughed out afterwards. Still, make sure you stay through the end credits for the final stinger.
Oddly, one of the only joke misfires was a reference to the comedy stylings of Tracy Morgan *. This was, of course, filmed last year, and it's so not a diss, but it got a bit of a gasp from the audience at the screening I attended. However, that bit of bad timing didn't throw off the crowd for long; they were rolling as soon as the next joke came around, which was less than 10 seconds later.
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Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile
661, 2GS14B, was built by National Railway Equipment Co in November 2008, #08-10-002.
662, 2GS14B, was built by National Railway Equipment Co in November 2008, #08-10-003.
Empresa de Transporte Ferroviario SA
2808, SD49, were built by Electro-Motive in May 1985, #847035-4, FN 847035-4, as Alaska RR 2808, GP49. It was sold to Specialized Rail Transport in 2008 and rebuilt to SD49 as Ferronor 2808 in 2010.
Ferrocarril del Pacifico SA
D2301, SD39M-2, was built by Electro-Motive in March 1966, #31674, FN 7876-9, as Chicago Milwaukee St Paul & Pacific 188, Class 30E-RS. It was renumbered 2008 in 1968 and became Soo Line RR 2008 in 1987. It was sold to Helm in 2000 and rebuilt as FEPASA D2301, SD39M-2.
D2302, SD39M-2, was built by Electro-Motive in December 1966, #32352, FN
7929-3, as Atlantic
Coast Line 917. It became Seaboard
Coast Line 1502 in July 1967 and then
System 6659. It
then became CSX
Transportation 6659, Class GP-40, and sold to sold to Helm Atlanta
Leasing Co as HATX as 405.
D2303, SD39M-2, was built by Electro-Motive in January 1967, #32490, as CMStP&P 173, Class 30E-RS, GP40. It was renumbered 2046 in 1968 and briefly numbered 16. It was returned as 2046 and became Soo Line 2046 in 1985. It was sold to Helm in 2000 and rebuilt as FEPASA D2303, SD39M-2.
D2304, SD39M-2, was built by Electro-Motive in October 1966, #32295, FN 7924-2, as CMStP&P 175, Class 30E-RS. GP40. It was renumbered 2013 in 1968 and became Soo Line RR 2013 in 1985. It was rebuilt as Canadian Pacific 4607 on April 28, 1995 and sold to Helm Leasing Corp in 2000. It was rebuilt at San Luis Potoso as FEPASA D2304.
D2346, SD39M-2, was built by Electro-Motive in April 1969, #34273, FN 7135-2, as Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific 582, Class 23E-RS6, SDL39. It was assigned as Soo Line 6200 in 1987 but was relettered Soo 582 and retired in August 1987. It became Wisconsin Central Ltd 582 and retired on March 31, 2002. It was returned to the leasor and sold as FEPSA D2346.
D2350, SD39-2M, was built by Electro-Motive in August 1966, #32131, as Missouri-Kansas-Texas 179, GP40. It was wrecked in April 1991 and retired on June 5, 1991. It was sold to National Ry Equipment Co on October 9, 1991 and rebuilt as FEPASA D2350 in July 1997, SD39-2M.
D2354, SD39-2M, was built by Electro-Motive in June 1966, #32124, as MKT 172, GP40, It was wrecked on May 6, 1991, and retired on June 5, 1991. It was sold to National Ry Equipment Co on October 9, 1991, and rebuilt as FEPASA D2354 in September 1997 as SD39-2M.
D2357, SD39-2M, was built by Electro-Motive in May 1969, #35060, as General Motors Corp 2068. It was sold as CMStP&P 2068, Class 30E-RS, and in June 1984 it was sold to Peaker Services. It was sold to Helm and rebuilt as FEPASA D2357, SD39M-2.
D2361, SD39M-2, was built by Electro-Motive in November 1966, #32651, as Baltimore & Ohio 3691, Class GP-40. It was renumbered from August 13, 1979, and mid-1980. It was renumbered 6507 and then CSX Transportation 6507, Class GP-40. It was resisted on July 23, 1991 and sold to Steel Processing Corp on November 9, 1992. It was rebuilt by National Railway Equipment as FEPASA D2361 and shipped on August 1, 1998.
3301, SD40-2, was built by Electro-Motive in April 1974, #74600-4, FN 74600-4, as Burlington Northern 6379, Class SD40-2. It became Burlington Northern Santa Fe 6370, Class SD40-2, on February 28, 2002, and retired on June 30, 2009. It was sold to Great Lakes Rail Car Repair Service Inc as GTLX 6379 and rebuilt as FEPASA 3301.
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Memorial of Saint Athanasius of Nicomedia
Feast of Chair of Peter
He who deserts the chair of Peter, upon whom the Church was founded, does he trust himself to be in the Church?
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June Hedge a gram
This is Jan Brett, and this is my June hedge a gram. What I call my hedge a
gram is my thoughts about children's books -- especially the one I'm working
on. When I was little I knew I would be a children's book illustrator. I
wanted to get started right away. It was difficult to find anyone who knew
about how it was done. Actually, every time I write and illustrate a book I
reimagine the process. Sometimes, I strive to do it differently. One of the
things I find inspiring is how kids think along paths less traveled or better
still, bushwhack their own way into a story. By writing my hedge a gram I hope
kids and adults who want to write children's books will see some of my
milestones, my creative excitement and some of the down slides when I have to
work through a problem.
I usually begin my book in early February. The idea has been percolating for
a year or more, but this isn't a rule, it usually happens that way though. I've
had an idea about mossy the turtle who grows a garden on her back ever since we
saw a snapping turtle underwater covered with water plants, rippling in the
current. The turtle rose slowly from the bottom, under our dangling feet. We
were on our dock on Goose Pond. I decided to take the turtle character out of
the water, turn her into an Eastern Box Turtle and have her be discovered by a
biologist who brings her home to be an exhibit in her Museum. I set my story
back in time to late Victorian called the Edwardian period about 1908 -- 1915.
I did so because small museums that grew out of people's collections from the
natural world -- shells, bird's nests, orchids, fossils were all the rage. At
the end, the biologist's little niece makes an argument for setting the turtle
free, and together they release Mossy, but not before she is painted in great
One of my favorite places in the world is the Peabody Museum of Art. Part of
it is called the Agassiz Museum, after Mr. Lewis Agassiz a brilliant scientist,
explorer, collector and director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology in
the mid-1800s. Many mounted specimens were taken from remote parts of the world
and little is known about them even today, these creatures are so secretive.
When you go to the Museum, one marvels at the diversity of nature. I hope in my
book I can capture a bit of that feeling.
Even though I have big ideas, lots of excitement and energy to devote to my
book it has been difficult. I've mostly finished the 32 page dummy and I went
over it with my trusted and most admired editor Margaret Frith. I kept getting
the feeling that Mossy didn't win me over enough, so I decided to insert a
double page spread at the beginning showing her growing her garden. That would
make the book 34 pages. So I took out a page in the middle where I went on a
little too long about the pros and cons of Mossy staying as an exhibit in the
I feel both sides have equal credibility so I found the answer in a
compromise. Mossy stays a year in the Museum, garnering interest and being
admired and studied, but then she goes free after a wonderful detailed portrait
is done of her. The portrait is a very useful tool. The Peabody is filled with
wonderful portraits of horses done by Native Americans. They tell things about
the horses that a photo could not. There are also portraits of Native Americans
themselves, and those capture something about the human spirit that a photo does
not always capture.
At my meeting with Margaret, we came upon the idea of using the frame as a
device to organize my illustrations in the book. It gives a hint to the turning
point of the book, the grand portrait of Mossy.
I use the passage of time in this book like a character. It starts out when
Mossy is a young turtle. She has a pair bond with Scoot who is waiting for her
when the biologist returns her to the wild. She has baby turtles eventually,
and the last page is of Mossy as an old, old turtle. I was amazed to read about
a turtle that had 1887 carved in its shell, but is still walking around on
Martha's Vineyard island.
I hope by reading my ups and downs, problems and solutions, you will see how
books get molded and formed. It's easy to get discouraged, but the rewards make
it worth the trouble.
Good luck on your story and don't give up on it! Don't forget the trick of
just before falling asleep, ask yourself, "How can I fix this problem." You
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In Budapest, thousands gathered from both the right and left to challenge the dark future Orbán’s election represents
Thousands of Hungarians protested outside the parliament in Hungary’s capital last week, expressing anger after the election victory of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Fidesz’s hard right government party.
Hungarians from different ideological backgrounds, from extreme-right’s skinheads to the new-left Budapest hipsters, chanted “Dirty Fidesz!” unison. What unites them? The feeling that they have no future in their country under a nationalistic leader who’s rejecting EU values.
Most of the protesters were millennials, born around the collapse of communism in 1991. Since then, Hungary has emerged as an independent democracy, but is now sliding fast towards authoritarianism.
On April 8, the Fidesz party won an overwhelming victory securing Orbán’s third straight term as Prime Minister, through a ferocious anti-immigration campaign that presented Hungary as the defender of ‘Christian values’ against the threat of globalisation. The populist message dominated the media and resonated with millions of voters, mostly in rural areas.
Within days of the election result, a major opposition newspaper, Magyar Nemzet, was shut down. What’s more, a new bill enabling the government to ban non-governmental-organisations (NGOs) that support immigration and are deemed a ‘security threat’, is expected to be introduced any day.
Dazed spoke to some protesters to find out what drove them out onto the streets.
KATALIN SENKI, 22, A STUDENT FROM SOMOGYSARD
“One of the main reasons I protested was because of corruption: Orbán and his inner circle have stolen public money and EU funds. Another reason is the lies they tell us through the media, which is completely controlled by Orbán. Free media no longer exists.
My sense of justice is against the system that Orbán created, in which he blames others for Hungary’s social problems, and makes people afraid of sticking to their own beliefs. I’m disgusted at how they portray migrants as animals and not people. I fear the unknown, like everyone else. But without reliable sources of information, how can I make any decisions about immigration? Orbán should concentrate more on the state of the healthcare system because it’s in ruins.
I want to stay in Hungary, I believe this is where I belong. Next year, I’ll be qualified as a Hungarian and English teacher. Children must be taught how to evaluate things and think critically, otherwise we won't ever be able to end this regime. I want to do something for my country badly and this seems to be the right path for me.”
SAMUEL KORANDI, 26, A CIVIL ENGINEER FROM BUDAPEST
“I want politicians and ordinary people to take courage and step up to form a new opposition. There’s no way we’ll be able to elect a new leader if our opposition remains weak and fragmented.
The education system is in a bad state. My parents – both teachers – have other professions on the side to earn a decent income. My father who’s worked as a teacher for 45 years earns 600 euros a month, meanwhile someone who works as a supermarket cashier gets 800-900 euros. It’s not surprising that more and more young, educated people are emigrating to Western Europe for work. I’m also hoping to go abroad, which is why I’m working for an international company.
I’m fed up with living in a system based on the concept of “those who are not with us are against us” – this “knife-pulling” cynicism toward all the people who dare to criticise Orbán.
No one has the chance to go out on the street for a walk without seeing propagandist advertisements saying ‘Hungary’s gaining strength’, or the more disgusting ones ‘If you come to Hungary you must respect our culture’, ‘The UN wants to deport migrants to Hungary’, ‘STOP Brussels’. This campaign of hatred has created a choking atmosphere. Some people in Hungary are afraid that they’ll be forced to keep migrants in their house so they vote for Fidesz. And when you start to hate migrants you start to hate all who are a bit different; the people of Budapest, the Hungarians of Transylvania, and the people in the countryside.”
DÁNIEL BÁNLAKY, 19, A STUDENT FROM BUDAPEST
“The political situation Orbán has gotten much worse over the past four years and it’s affecting everyone. You feel it, for example, when you go to the hospital, there are not enough doctors and there’s hardly any supplies. The international community needs to speak up and the EU should introduce sanctions against Hungary since Orbán is clearly going against its values. I’m glad that this is already being discussed.
If I would have to choose an opposition party, it would be the MKKP (The Two-tailed Dog Party). They showed me something that’s been missing from the Hungarian political scene for a long time: that opposition parties can still do something for society. They allowed schools and hospitals to apply for their leftover campaign money to buy, for example, new resources.
I would like to stay in Hungary, but sadly, I think I’ll have to work abroad – not for financial reasons, mostly because I don’t want to live under a dictatorship.
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"These firmware updates keep both PS3 and PSP in lockstep with consumer expectations for gaming and entertainment, particularly the ability to download PSP games on-the-go, which is a functionality we know consumers can't wait to get their hands on," said Peter Dille, senior vice president of marketing and PlayStation Network, SCEA. "As we approach our second anniversary with PS3, it's remarkable to look back at how much the system has evolved and improved, including its critical link to PSP that effectively extends these entertainment capabilities beyond the home."
PS3 Firmware 2.50 Update
Building upon the foundation set by previous firmware upgrades, the 2.50 system software update will refine existing features while also adding new functionality. The update will deliver exclusive options to support SCEA's Official Bluetooth Headset, as previously announced, such as an on-screen indicator that shows volume, battery charge, and mute functions, as well as a High Quality (HQ) mode, which utilizes advanced wireless technologies and the Headset's dual-microphone design to enable clear and wide-band wireless voice communication with PS3 system. HQ mode greatly improves the voice chat experience in multi-player titles such as SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation, which will be bundled with the Headset when it launches at retail this week.
To further strengthen the gameplay experience on PS3 system, the firmware update will add an in-game screenshot capture tool, laying the groundwork for developers to add capture and sharing options to their games and allowing players to immortalize their favorite gaming moments and share them with friends. Titles that support the feature are expected to be announced in the future.
The 2.50 update also will enhance the user interface for PlayStation Trophies. When players acquire a Trophy, the in-game notification will now include the specific Trophy icon created by the developer, while more intuitive options for comparing Trophies with friends have been added, including an icon to represent the Trophy level. The Trophy system will continue to expand through future firmware updates, catering to the PS3 community and the competitive nature of the more than 12 million registered PlayStation Network users worldwide.
PS3 firmware 2.50 will include:
- Support for the PS3 Official Bluetooth Headset - we’ve told you about the upcoming Bluetooth Headset and SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation Bundle on the Blog. This latest firmware installment enables High-Quality (HQ) mode, which delivers clear and wide-band online voice chat. On top of that, an added on-screen indicator shows battery status, volume level and use of HQ mode.
- PlayStation Trophies interface enhancements - I know that many of you are busy collecting trophies and raising your PlayStation Trophy level. This update makes sharing and comparing your trophies with your friends even easier. On 1st part of the profile page you’ll see a symbol under level that represents level and the actual percentage towards the next level along with the existing level meter. The level symbol carries over to the trophy comparison screen where you will now be able to see your level, your friend’s level and the percentage towards the next level for both users along with all of the game by game comparison information you see today.
- Friend status – Offline friends on your Friends list will have information below their avatars that will indicate how long it has been since they were last online.
- Video – This update adds the Scene Search feature similar to the feature on the PSP. Activating this feature while viewing a video on the PS3 will break the video up into scenes that you can quickly access by pressing the X button. You can break the videos into one, two or five minute intervals. In addition, you can now choose to have all of the videos under the video section of the XMB play in sequence. Go to Settings then Video Settings to turn this option on.
- PlayStation Store – We’ve added a redeem codes option right on the store to make it easier to redeem your PlayStation Network Cards and promotion codes. In addition, PlayStation Network Sign Up and Account Management have been redesigned.
- Power Save Settings – You can now set your PS3 and wireless controllers to turn off automatically after set periods of inactivity. Go to Settings then Power Save Settings to turn on these features.
- Background Downloading - You now have the option to set the PS3 to turn off automatically after a background download or installation of content has completed. This option is available when you turn off the system from the button under [Users] while content is being downloaded or installed.
- In-game Screenshots - this tool will allow everyone to capture, share and in other words, immortalize their favorite gameplay moments. This will be supported on a game by game basis. Please check back to find out which games will support this feature.
PSP Firmware 5.00 Update
As demonstrated at the Tokyo Game Show last week, the PSP firmware 5.00 update will add direct PlayStation Store access to the system, eliminating the need for PSP to be connected to a PC or PS3 to download content. PSP owners will be able to download games, demos, trailers, and other game-related content anytime and anywhere that their PSP system is connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi. This functionality delivers on the portable promise of PSP, making the device even more compelling for gaming and entertainment on-the-go.
Additional enhancements delivered through PSP firmware 5.00 will include:
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- Sleep timer -- During music playback, a sleep timer will enable users to shut off their PSP system after a specified amount of time.
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Broadbeach HolidaysBroadbeach is fast becoming the most popular destination on the Gold Coast for holiday makers. With its stunning golden beaches, great alfresco dining, world class shopping, as well as entertainment in the forms of casinos, theme parks and golf courses, there is something for everyone to enjoy on their holiday.
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Broadbeach is fast becoming the most popular destination on the Gold Coast for holiday makers. With its stunning golden beaches, great alfresco dining, world class shopping, as well as entertainment in the forms of casinos, theme parks and golf courses, there is something for everyone to enjoy on their holiday.
You cannot visit the Gold Coast without at least taking a morning or evening stroll along our golden sands or board walks that seem to go from 1 end of the coast to the other.
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Privacy Plants Vs. Privacy Fence
For homeowners looking for a little extra privacy in their backyard, you have plenty of options. Privacy fences are a common option. Depending on the materials you choose, you could be spending between $7 and $15 dollars per linear foot for materials alone. Fencing can fit into a small, narrow space making it a great barrier between smaller yards and they are fairly low maintenance compared to plants.
Privacy plants, such as hedges or tall grass, are extremely versatile and environmentally friendly. You can reduce noise and pollution with a privacy plant installation. They also add a unique touch to any yard as there are so many plant varieties available. However, they do require maintenance and upkeep, such as watering and trimming. The average cost to maintain trees and shrubs is $416, with most homeowners spending between $245 and $462.
Both are great options and it truly comes down to what works best in your yard. While privacy fences work great in smaller yards, tall grasses and bamboo can also be a great fit for narrow areas. Explore both options to see what’s right for you.
Fast Growing Privacy Plants
In most cases, you’ll be transplanting a tree, shrub or hedge that’s already begun growing to start your privacy landscaping. To grow plants appropriately, you’ll also want to ensure you’re in a proper zone for them to thrive. After all, you would not want to invest in landscaping that does not fare well in colder climates where only cold-hardy plants can survive. If speed is your concern, here is a list of fast growing privacy plants:
- Pencil Holly
- White Spruce
- Areca Palm Tree
Planting Bamboo For Privacy
Bamboo is an excellent choice for a plant privacy. Bamboo is a fast-growing privacy plant with cold weather-hardy options that can last through temperatures as low as -20 degrees Fahrenheit. However, bamboo is an invasive plant, though some species are more easily controlled than others. Bamboo can grow up to 15’ tall and is narrow enough to fit in smaller yards. If you’re feeling like adding an exotic touch to your backyard, bamboo is the answer.
Privacy Hedge Plants
For a look of sophistication, hedge plants are the answer. Tall hedges are the perfect way to reduce noise from traffic or neighbors and maintain your outdoor oasis. However, hedges tend to grow slowly and require regular maintenance. Privacy hedges come in a variety of heights. Check with your local code to see how high they can be in your area before they’re considered overgrown.
Planting Shrubs For Privacy
Similarly, to hedges, shrubs are a great way to gain a little extra privacy in your yard. But, as they don’t tend to grow as high, they take a bit less maintenance. Shrubs help to block out unwanted noise, but may not prevent as much privacy as a higher option. Evergreen shrubs will provide a year-round option for privacy, while others are deciduous, meaning they will love their leaves and flowers in the fall. For a little bit of color, hydrangeas and lilac shrubs are a beautiful barrier that you’re sure to enjoy.
Best Trees To Plant For Privacy
If you have a larger yard and are looking for a bit of privacy, trees are a beautiful way to screen out unwanted noise and eyes. In addition, it’s also great for the environment. Many homeowners who opt for trees to improve outdoor privacy typically choose a type of evergreen tree due to their hardiness and ease of care. Arborvitae and cypress trees are a common choice as they grow tall and are a stylish touch year-round.
Tall Plants For Privacy
Ornamental grasses and vines can be less costly than larger options but still give the desired amount of privacy. However, some of these options can spread quickly so keep an eye on them if you’re planting them directly into the ground. For additional height, consider growing them in a pot or container.
If you’re looking for outdoor privacy, there are many options. One of the first steps is to decide if you prefer a fence to a plant, based on budget and personal preference. If you’ve decided to install privacy plants, utilize a few of these tips to determine what will work best for your style and your climate to create your ultimate outdoor oasis.
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Crude oil jumps 5 percent to 3 month highgreenspun.com : LUSENET : TB2K spinoff uncensored : One Thread
Jun 12, 2000 - 05:38 PM
Crude Oil Jumps 5 Percent to 3-Month High By Dave Carpenter The Associated Press
Crude oil prices raced to a three-month high Monday on the New York Mercantile Exchange on news that OPEC's expected production increase won't happen for at least another week.
In other markets, corn prices plummeted on the latest Midwest rains and lean hogs also slid.
Just ten weeks after OPEC raised oil production to tamp down fast-rising prices, the cost of crude is soaring well above $30 a barrel again.
With a new delay in the cartel's much-anticipated decision on whether to open the taps wider, crude for July delivery rose $1.54 to $31.74 a barrel Monday.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries had been expected to increase supply by 500,000 barrels a day last week - a move ministers authorized at their last meeting if the average 20-day price of OPEC oil topped $28 a barrel, which occurred nearly a week ago.
While the increase is still expected to happen, a top cartel official said Sunday it won't be formally considered until the oil ministers meet June 21 in Vienna.
"We are going to look at that situation, vis a vis our decision in March, and see whether something needs to be done," OPEC secretary general Rilwanu Lukman was quoted as saying.
The extra week-plus is a lifetime for traders in a bull market, especially with no relief in sight for a supply crunch, and their uneasiness translated into a buying surge Monday.
"People are very sensitive about the inventory levels, and any kind of delay makes them more sensitive about prices this summer," said William Byers, an analyst for Bear, Stearns & Co. in New York.
"From the time they pump it out of the ground in the Middle East and ship it, to the time it gets where it's going - we're talking sometime seriously distant. Any kind of delay slows down the process. And who knows, maybe they won't do it even in a week," he said.
The analyst suggested some OPEC members could resist another production increase.
Market-watchers also are concerned that a 500,000-barrel increase would be quite small - less than a third of the 1.7 million barrels approved in March. With U.S. gasoline stockpiles squeezed by extra demand for reformulated gasoline, a cleaner-burning fuel needed to meet stricter environmental standards this summer, the likelihood of OPEC meeting the needs of American motorists for the vacation driving season remains slim.
In other energy products, July heating oil rose 3.64 cents to 77.87 cents a gallon, July unleaded gasoline rose 2.58 cents to $1.0440 a gallon and July natural gas rose 5.2 cents to $4.212 per 1,000 cubic feet.
In London, July Brent crude rose $1.63 to $31.21 a barrel on the International Petroleum Exchange.
Corn plunged 5 percent on the Chicago Board of Trade as a combination of greater-than-expected weekend showers in the Midwest and forecasts for more rain this week touched off heavy selling.
Despite government warnings, long-range forecasts suggested there is no chance for a drought in the nation's midsection until at least mid-July.
Corn finished down nearly the maximum amount allowed by the Board of Trade, in its biggest one-day decline in 12 years. July corn fell 11 cents to $2.08 1/4 a bushel.
Lean hogs declined sharply on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on a technical slide that was accelerated by talk of declining demand for pork products.
July lean hogs fell 1.32 cent to 69.05 cents a pound.
-- Cave Man ([email protected]), June 12, 2000
prices in chicago are up more this week $2.26(reg) $2.46(prem)
-- boo ([email protected]), June 13, 2000.
Isn't a "lean hog" an oxymoron? Maybe, with the price of gas, they're making them walk to market?
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There are some good reasons to look at the actual queries Tableau sends to a live relational database:
- Performance is not good and your DBA needs to know what is happening so they can optimize. This goes for live connections and slow extract generation.
- Your viz still isn’t performing well enough even with extracts, but you don’t understand the TQL language you see in the Performance Recorder (it’s okay, no one does!). Seeing the same logic in SQL can help you understand what exactly is going on
- You just want to marvel at the amazing ability of the VizQL engine to translate your actions into SQL. You should check out what LOD calculations, Sets, or calculated fields look like sometime just to marvel at what is going on
Read more for how to accomplish #1
The best method for testing queries is using Tableau Desktop. It has two benefits over Tableau Server — (1) You can very quickly clear out your log files from My Documents\My Tableau Repository\Logs (2) Only your actions are written into the logs with a single VizQL session going. Server logs have multiple processes and you don’t want to go deleting them to single things out.
Note: You should always test with a Live Connection that is embedded into the workbook i.e. don’t use a source that is published to Data Server. This will show you the SQL queries. If you use a Published Data Source, you’ll see an XML ‘theoretical query’ in the Desktop logs and Performance Recording. If you use an extract, you’ll see TQL, the proprietary Extract Engine query language that is not documented anywhere.
One method to see the queries that are sent is to use the Performance Recorder, documented well on the Tableau website. There is also a document on interpreting the performance recording. The only thing I’ll add, is that the Query is often cut off in the viz, so you should do “See Underlying Data” and then copy the results into a text editor or your SQL management tool of choice.
The other method is to look at the Tableau logs. As mentioned earlier, the logs for Desktop live in My Documents\My Tableau Repository\Logs . You want to look for the ones labeled ‘tabprotosrv‘ to see the details of the querying, although sometimes log has the basic query and elapsed time. Since Tableau 8.2 or so, the logs are in JSON format for ease of processing using machine reading tools. I recommend using a tool that cleans up the JSON and makes it easy to read through. The equivalent logs for Tableau Server live in C:\ProgramData\Tableau\Tableau Server\data\tabsvc\logs\vizqlserver\ or the equivalent of that in the zipped up log files (they will be directly under vizqlserver ).
- Close Tableau Desktop
- Delete all the log files in the Logs directory
- Open up Tableau Desktop. Do whatever action gets you to the query where you see slowness.
- Stop doing anything in Tableau, minimize it
- Go to the log file and look for the latest end-query.
You want to look for the keys that say end-query . These show the full query that was sent and the elapsed time. You can take that query and put it into your SQL tools (using EXPLAIN or other tools) to see why in particular it is running slow. You can only affect the query Tableau generates by changing what you show in the viz — and sometimes a slight change can make all the difference. However, most people then go to their DBA(s) and have them work out optimizations — whether that is doing maintenance, adding indexes, or creating views to move more of the logic down into the database.
Optimizing Custom SQL
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Setting achievable and sustainable sanitation goals and solutions must have top priority in formulating the post-2015 development agenda.
Toilets are something that people are often embarrassed to talk about, making it easy to ignore the issue. While most of us can find a bathroom or toilet with little difficulty, for over thirty percent of the world’s population—2.5 billion people— it is not easy at all.
This is not only a matter of dignity. It is a problem that can have devastating health and environmental consequences. Diarrhoea is the second leading cause of death in children under 5 years old in sub-Saharan Africa. Chronic diarrhoea can also hinder child development by impeding the uptake of essential nutrients that are critical to the development of children’s minds, bodies, and immune systems.
Are these reasons not enough to talk less about statistics and more about sanitation solutions?
Even in urban areas, where household access to sanitation is higher, too often the contents of people’s toilets are emptied into the streets or even into nearby streams and rivers, which then serve as drinking water for the population, with devastating health consequences.
Creating sanitation solutions that work for everyone, including poor people, and that keep waste out of the environment is a major challenge. But the answer is not to invest in western-style flush toilets and centralized sewage systems that use far too much land, energy and water—and that are expensive to build and maintain.
The above scenario can change and there are already innovative solutions to the problem of improving sanitation in the poorest parts of the world. However, we must go beyond the traditional charitable notion of giving development aid and open a serious discussion about economies of scale, marketing approaches, private sector solutions, pour-flush, eco-san (ecological sanitation) and other decentralized waste-treatment technologies.
The return on investment in sanitation can be incredibly high. Water and sanitation interventions have been shown to produce economic benefits ranging from US$ 5 to US$ 46 per US$ 1 invested.1
The Red Cross Red Crescent has been supporting eco-san projects in Asia-Pacific. In China, for example, this ecological way of disposing human waste in the world’s most populated country has yielded a 30 per cent reduction in diarrhoeal diseases in the last few years.
The private sector has a critical role to play in sanitation, which has often been neglected by governments and aid agencies. In addition to addressing the needs of the most vulnerable populations, there is also a business opportunity to provide toilets to those willing and able to pay for them.
In Ivory Coast, the Red Cross builds toilets in public places like markets and bus stations and then contracts private individuals to run them as small businesses. One of the most common reasons a facility is not used is lack of cleanness. The contractors know that if the toilets are unappealing they won’t get customers, so there is a clear incentive to keep them clean.
Increasingly, we are also seeing the value of sanitation marketing to scale up the supply and demand for improved sanitation facilities. The private sector has a lot to offer us in terms of new solutions and can contribute to make sanitation products attractive to consumers and available on a mass scale.
However, bringing the solutions to the people without involving them is pointless.
As one of the major providers of water, sanitation and hygiene services in emergencies, one of the most common activities we have to undertake, unfortunately, is to rehabilitate water and sanitation facilities that are not functioning. Disaster-affected populations without access to such facilities prior to an emergency are more vulnerable to the negative consequences, less inclined to practice hygiene, and take longer to recover.
Community engagement and behaviour change initiatives that address people’s beliefs and motivations are key to sustainable sanitation solutions. If people are consulted and involved in the construction of facilities they will value them more and care for them better. If they are enabled to maintain a water supply or toilet they can ensure they are repaired when necessary. If they understand the benefits, they will save the money to build their own toilets. Working with a community to achieve this takes time, effort and resources.
As we debate the development goals ‘beyond 2015’, we will certainly fail miserably if we cannot increase the emphasis on setting achievable and sustainable sanitation goals and solutions.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest volunteer-based humanitarian network, reaching 150 million people each year through its 187 member National Societies. Together, the IFRC acts before, during and after disasters and health emergencies to meet the needs and improve the lives of vulnerable people. It does so with impartiality as to nationality, race, gender, religious beliefs, class and political opinions. For more information, please visit www.ifrc.org.
- Hutton G, Haller L , Bartram J. 2007. Global cost-benefit analysis of water supply and sanitation interventions. J Water Health 2007:5.4;481-502.
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- Publisher, Text Publishing Melbourne 2011
- ISBN 978-1-921758-59-1
- 330 pages
- Source: borrowed from a friend
Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: carpeted by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas on a study tour.
But there’s plenty to keep his mind off his problems. A rapist in a police uniform stalks Challis’s Peninsula beat, there is a serial armed robber headed in his direction and a home invasion that’s a little too close to home. Not to mention a very clever, very mysterious female cat burglar who may or may not be planning something on Challis’s patch.
Meanwhile, at the Waterloo Police Station, Challis finds his offsiders have their own issues. Scobie Sutton, still struggling with his wife’s depression, seems to be headed for a career crisis; and something very interesting is going on between Constable Pam Murphy and Jeanne Schiff, the feisty young sergeant on secondment from the Sex Crimes Unit.
In his sixth Peninsula murder mystery, Garry Disher keeps the tension and intrigue ramped up exquisitely on multiple fronts, while he takes his regular characters in compelling new directions. Disher is a grand master of the police procedural, operating at the peak of his craft.
Read the first chapter on the author’s website.
WHISPERING DEATH affirms that Garry Disher is a master storyteller, a tight and consummate plotter, a writer who could sit on any international podium along with richer and more famous crime fiction writers – and thank goodness he is going to be at Adelaide Writers’ Week in March 2012.
There are some interesting pictures of Australian lifestyles
… this morning Grace was in Hobart, strolling through a well-heeled corner of Sandy Bay… a land of two-car households, two adults working nine to five in well paid jobs. No shift workers here.
and then later
Today she had a clear run on the toll road between Melbourne airport and the city, and again when she headed over the West Gate Bridge, high winds buffeting the little car, and down into Williamstown, where the mean grind of old Melbourne co-existed with bright young mortgages. Factories and workshops sat next to pastelly little townhouses with cute, candy-coloured cars in the driveways. Grace wound down her window. The air, dense and still, was faintly salted from the Bay. The trees, branches barely moving, seemed dazed from years-long drought.
Several elements of Hal Challis’ life seem to come to an end in WHISPERING DEATH. He decides to sell his restored 1930s Dragon Rapide that he has worked on for the last 10 years. He sees this as representing a phase of his life that has come to an end. He decides also to sell his elderly Triumph TR4, this time because it needs a lot of work done on it, and he no longer has the time or motivation.
And then he voices criticisms of the resourcing problems Peninsula policing is experiencing, to local reporter, and it seems that his time on the Peninsula may be coming to an end too. He seals his fate when he rushes out of an interview with his boss and a couple of other big-wigs to answer his mobile phone.
His mobile phone sounded in his pocket. He checked the screen, saw McQarrie’s name on the screen and knew he couldn’t keep avoiding the man.
He answered and McQarrie said, ‘What possessed you, Inspector, walking out on – ‘
Challis overrode him. ‘A home invasion and then a murder, that’s what possessed me.‘
Silence, and he found himself adding, ‘Doing my job, in fact,’ guessing he was driving another nail into the lid of his coffin.’
So, if you are looking for some quality Australian crime fiction, here is another title, another author to add to your list. You won’t be disappointed.
All the titles in the series are available on Amazon for your Kindle too.
My rating: 4.8
Read Bernadette’s review on Fair Dinkum Crime
The Challis & Destry novels
The Dragon Man (1999)
Kittyhawk Down (2003)
Chain of Evidence (2007)
Blood Moon (2009)
Whispering Death (2011)
Somehow I have missed reading BLOOD MOON but here is my database record of CHAIN OF EVIDENCE:
#4 in the Hal Challis and Ellen Destry series. Hal Challis has returned to South Australia – his father is dying- leaving D. S. Ellen Destry in charge of both his house and Mornington Peninsular East’s Crime Investigation Unit. And suddenly now in Waterloo a 10 year old girl is missing, feared abducted. Katie Blasko went missing after school but her parents did not realize it until the next morning. Filling Challis’ shoes is not going to be easy – Destry’s colleagues expect her to fail. But Ellen is in constant contact with Hal, both her friend and her mentor. At Mawson’s Bluff in South Australia, Challis is not only helping to look after his father, but trying to find out what has happened to his missing brother-in-law. A satisfying read. | <urn:uuid:78eba999-4cf9-4bef-b339-6fa7e5d427f1> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://fairdinkumcrime.com/2011/11/04/review-whispering-death-garry-disher/ | 2015-03-30T02:17:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131298889.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172138-00017-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968992 | 1,159 |
spoethig at sas.upenn.edu
Wed Apr 10 09:42:23 EST 1996
I apologize if you are getting this announcement a second time.
The following is the revised schedule for the 1996 FASEB Summer Research
Conference on "Plant Developmental Genetics". Applications are still be
accepted. Please contact Adele Hewitt (email: ahewitt at osmc.faseb.org) for
application forms, or Scott Poethig (email: spoethig at sas.upenn.edu) for
5th FASEB Summer Research Conference
Plant Developmental Genetics
August 10-15, 1996
Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, VT
Scott Poethig, Chair
Joanne Chory, Co-chair
Daniel Cosgrove, Co-chair
August 10, Saturday evening
Keynote Address: John Doebley (U. of Minnesota): "The genetics and
developmental biology of maize evolution"
August 11, Sunday morning
Topic: Gametophyte development
1.Teh-Hui Kao: "A receptor kinase of Petunia involved in male gametophyte
2. Marc Albertsen: Male sterile mutants in maize
3. Robert Fischer: Embryo sac development in Arabidopsis
4. Jody Banks: Sex determination in fern gametophytes
August 11, Sunday evening
1. Scott Russell: Fertilization in flowering plants
2. Daphne Preuss: "Genetics of pollen-pistil interactions: Talking through
3. David Meinke: Embryo-suspensor interactions in Arabidopsis
4. John Harada: Embryo development in Arabidopsis
August 12, Monday morning
Topic: Apical meristems
1. Kathy Barton: Shoot meristem initiation in Arabidopsis
2. Steve Clark: Regulation of shoot meristem size in Arabidopsis
3. Eugene Szymkowiak: Mutations affecting in shoot meristem identity in tomato
4. Heather McKhann: "Genetic analysis of root meristem formation in Arabidopsis"
August 12, Monday evening
Topic: Phase change/flowering
1. Scott Poethig: "Vegetative phase change in maize and Arabidopsis"
2 James Reid: "Genetic control of flowering and phase change in peas"
3. Ry Meeks-Wagner: Floral initiation in Arabidopsis
4. Detlef Weigel: leafy and the regulation of floral initiation
August 13, Tuesday morning
Topic: Flower and Leaf development
1. Da Luo: "Molecular genetics of floral symmetry"
2. Robert Schmidt: Homeotic genes affecting flower development in maize
3. Michael Freeling: "Gentic analysis of early events in the specification
of domains in the maize leaf."
4. Andrew Hudson: Regulation of dorsiventrality in Antirrhinum leaves
August 13, Tuesday evening
Topic: Cellular differentiation
1. Dina Mandoli: "Developmental genetics of Acetabularia".
2. David Marks: "The action of GL1, TTG, GL2 and other genes that control
trichome cell fate in Arabidopsis."
3. Liam Dolan: Root hair development in Arabidopsis
4. Jane Langdale: Genetic regulation of C4 differentiation in maize
August 14, Wednesday morning
Topic: Growth and cell division
1. Daniel Cosgrove: The control of cell growth by expansins
2. Joseph Ecker: Hormonal regulation of differential growth in Arabidopsis
3. Tobias Baskin: "Growth anisotropy and morphogenesis in roots"
4. Laurie Smith: "Genetic analysis of cell pattern in the maize leaf".
August 14, Wednesday afternoon
Topic: Light and plant development
1. Harry Smtih: "Photosensory functions of the phytochrome family"
2. Joanne Chory: Genetic analysis of photosignal transduction
3. Margaret Ahmad: Genetic analysis of blue light signal transduction
4. Thierry Genoud: "Arabidopsis mutants hypersensitive to the light signal"
August 15, Thursday morning
Topic: Hot topics
1. Jeffrey Dangl: "Loci controlling cell death and pathogen recognition in
2. Steven Dellaporta: Cell death and sex determination in maize
3. Rob Martienssen: Gene trap/promoter trap technology
Department of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6018
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Selling the Treasures of Book Soup's Late Owner
Much as he might have wanted to, when Book Soup owner Glenn Goldman died of pancreatic cancer last year, he couldn't take his impressive 20th-century literature collection with him. Parts of it are being auctioned off as we speak.
"When you get a call about books, you hope to hear two things," says Catherine Williamson, director of fine books and manuscripts at Bonhams & Butterfields, the house that is running the sale. "That the collection belonged to someone who follows the rare-book trade, or that it belonged to someone well-connected. Glenn was both."
Known for high-profile signings that wrapped crowds around the block of its Sunset Boulevard digs, Goldman turned Book Soup into a model of a modern, major independent bookstore. Literary (and actual) rock stars sign there, as do artists, politicians, actors and porn stars.
While he certainly had a soft spot for the flashy guest author, Goldman did not mess around when it came to collecting. There are first editions, and then there are first editions. He owned, for instance, a first edition of James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. It went up for auction in New York last month along with the choicest bits from his collection, including a first edition, first issue of Steinbeck's first book, Cup of Gold.
The single most coveted book in the July L.A. sale was a signed copy of photographer Richard Avedon's Observations, with commentary by Truman Capote. Williamson believes it will attract more interest than even the signed, first edition copy of Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
Unlocking the glass bookcase in the Bonhams & Butterfields showroom, Williamson notes that Goldman also acquired quite a few uncorrected advance proofs, or "galleys," as they're known in the trade. "Now, this is an interesting area of collecting," she says. "You want as close to the first copy that rolls off the printing press. That's copy No. 1. These are very close to copy No. 1. In fact, they precede it."
Her slim hand rests lightly on a shrink-wrapped galley of Infinite Jest. Its author, David Foster Wallace, hanged himself two years ago. "Foster Wallace is pretty collectible these days," she murmurs.
Those close to Goldman knew that he bought what he loved, but was drawn to what was unique. "I know he favored misprintings and had a special fondness for rare galleys," says Tyson Cornell, Book Soup's former general manager, who left soon after Goldman's death to start his own literary publicity firm, Rare Bird Lit. "He referred to his galley collection on almost a daily basis. Books were clearly art objects to him." But they were art "without the provenance," Cornell remembers his boss saying once when they were looking at an 1851 edition of Harper & Brothers' Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.
What Goldman might have meant, Cornell isn't sure. Perhaps he meant that books don't need provenance documentation in the same way a painting might, Williamson suggests. A book's origins are spelled out in the title page.
"I bet that Avedon book does very well, and probably the Carver," she adds. "Those are the two I like best, and that's usually a good indication." She's not always right. She estimated, conservatively, that Goldman's copy of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — autographed by author Hunter S. Thompson and illustrator Ralph Steadman — would sell for $500.
It went for almost $4,000.
When a loved one dies, survivors tend to want to hold on to their stuff. But as a collector, Goldman would have understood the value of letting go, of allowing others to participate in the process. When a great collection goes on the market, the next generation is able to experience the thrill of the hunt. The cycle continues.
By auction's end, the Avedon fetches $1,464. Every single book sells: the advanced reader's copy of Don DeLillo's Mao II, the Tom Wolfe novels and Tom Stoppard plays.
Goldman had so many books that the sale is being spread over several months. This month, people will have a chance to bid on an Ed Ruscha coffee-table monograph inscribed, in the artist's sprawling script, "Glenn you Rascal."
But they're way too late for the five signed volumes of Timothy Leary psychedelia. A buyer already snapped them up for $1,098. "To Glenn," Leary wrote on one volume, prescient as ever, "keep the product moving!!"
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Cook Time: 20-50 min
5 Vegan Meals That Every Kid Will Love
Kids are a tough sell with any kind of specialty cuisine. Vegan meals pose some challenges, especially when eating outside the home. The kids menu always seems to feature non-vegan choices, such as chicken fingers, hot dogs, macaroni and cheese, or spaghetti with meatballs. Not only are there few, if any vegan options, the standard fare just isn’t nutritious or healthy.
While raising a family of vegans, your children may have better developed taste buds because you are likely introducing them to fruits and vegetables at a very early age. Your vegan kids are eating cleaner meals than the standard American diet offers. Here are some of the meals that your children are likely to gravitate towards.
Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal
Getting kids to eat a healthy breakfast can be tricky. This meal is packed with fiber from oats and sweet goodness from apples.
2 cups water
1 Pinch of sea salt
1 apple, peeled and diced
1 cup rolled oats
1 - 2 TBS pure maple syrup
1 tsp cinnamon
Bring water and salt to a boil. Add the apples and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the oats, turn the heat down, cover and cook through for approximately 10 minutes longer. Stir in the cinnamon and syrup and serve. You can top with a little almond milk and chopped nuts if no allergies.
Pasta with Spinach
There aren’t many kids who don’t like pasta. Most prefer it with butter and cheese. Here is a vegan version that should cover all the bases for flavor and nutrients.
I lb fusilli pasta (eggless)
5 cups fresh baby spinach leaves
3 TBS egg-free mayonnaise
3 TBS Dijon mustard
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
1 tsp garlic powder
1 TBS extra virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
1/3 cup reserved pasta cooking water
Cook the pasta in salted water. Remove some pasta water. Drain and return pasta to the pot. Coat with olive oil and toss in the spinach. While the pasta is cooking, mix all of the other ingredients, including the pasta water together. Pour the sauce over the pasta and just heat through. Don’t cook any longer. Serve with toasted bread crumbs on top.
Surprisingly, kids do like broccoli, especially when coated with sweet teriyaki sauce. Try this sauce over steamed broccoli, served with white or brown rice. This non-fat sauce is ideal for making all sorts of lean meals taste awesome.
1 1/2 TBS arrowroot powder
1 tsp ginger powder
2 medium cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup water
1/3 cup tamari or liquid aminos
3 1/2 TBS pure maple syrup
1/2-1 TBS lemon juice
Mix arrowroot with water until smooth. Add in all the other ingredients and heat to a simmer until the sauce thickens. Toss in lightly steamed broccoli florets to coat. Serve over rice.
Chicken parmesan is pretty popular with kids. It is even easier to make with firm tofu. Tofu is a blank canvas that will take on any flavor it is paired with. VegWeb is one of the largest databases for vegan recipes. Their version of tofu parmesan is super easy. You can get the recipe here.
Although not part of the recipe, you could add nutritional yeast to the breadcrumbs or top the finished dish with vegan parmesan for a cheesier taste.
Smoothie bowls are the new breakfast super food meal. They can be sweet or savory. It is a meal in a bowl packed with blended fruits, vegetables, or creamy bases with a variety of fresh, healthy toppings for texture. Smoothie bowls are great for breakfast or dessert. Here is one that is perfect for dessert.
½ cup almond or rice milk
4 cold bananas
2 TBS nut butter (leave out if allergic to nuts)
8 TBS raw cacao or carob powder
Blend this base until smooth. Top with banana slices, shredded coconut, and vegan chocolate chips.
Keeping your kids healthy and lean on a vegan diet is commendable and probably a little challenging with today’s school lunch programs and all the snack options they are likely to encounter when visiting friends or attending sports activities. Just do the best you can and don’t stress over the mishaps. | <urn:uuid:baefd4db-e3e2-4426-9a3f-4cb1d9872b3a> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://www.theflamingvegan.com/view-post/5-Vegan-Meals-That-Every-Kid-Will-Love | 2019-11-19T02:29:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496669967.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20191119015704-20191119043704-00207.warc.gz | en | 0.894447 | 939 |
Living by water is the ultimate dream for many homeowners and properties with sea or river views will always attract a premium due to their rarity.
Newcastle, Gateshead and now North Shields have seen a growing number of quayside apartments, while others may hanker after an idyllic country home with river frontage or a coastal retreat at Tynemouth or Whitley Bay.
Louise Armbruster, residential manager at Chesterton North-East said: "Waterside locations are extremely popular with purchasers here at Chesterton - with selling points including spectacular views as well as close proximity to leisure facilities.
"As the popularity of waterside developments increase, it is inevitable that complimenting leisure amenities will soon follow.
"The stunning Newcastle quayside is a perfect example, with a substantial number of exclusive hotels, bars, restaurants and even leisure clubs - making the area an ideal residential location for those who like to live in a lively area without the bustle of a city centre."
Built from reclaimed natural stone, this luxury four-bedroom home on the edge of Longhoughton, near Alnwick, is just three miles from Alnmouth Bay and the beautiful Northumberland coast.
The individually designed house, built by family company Stone Homes Limited, will be completed soon and open viewings are being held over the August bank holiday weekend.
The accommodation covers around 3,000 sq ft and includes a central hall, sitting room, dining room, kitchen/breakfasting room, utility, cloakroom, study and garden room.
Upstairs there are four double bedrooms, with en-suite facilities to two, and a bathroom. Features will include antique oak and natural slate flooring with under-floor heating, triple glazed timber sash windows, traditional-style natural wood doors and a bespoke hand-crafted JL Design kitchen with Aga.
A number of rooms will also feature wooden beams and natural stone and reclaimed handmade brick walling.
Juniper House, Longhoughton, near Alnwick, is for sale through CSH Residential at a guide price of #525,000, tel (01665) 606777.
A renovated maisonette with sea views is for sale in Tynemouth.
The apartment features a large living/dining room with views towards Browns Bay, a modern beech-effect kitchen and spacious bathroom. A mezzanine floor features two interconnecting bedrooms, one with views towards Tynemouth Long Sands.
Two more bedrooms and a study are on the second floor. There are communal gardens at the front and parking at the rear.
57 Percy Park, Tynemouth, is for sale through Sanderson Young at a guide price of #340,000, tel: (0191) 213-0033.
Beautiful coastline views can be enjoyed from all the front rooms of this four-bedroom semi-detached art deco home in Whitley Bay.
The property, which has a roof-top terrace and first floor balcony, has been completely renovated.
It has a reception hallway leading to a front-facing lounge. There is also a conservatory/dining area, beech-effect kitchen, utility room and ground floor toilet.
Three bedrooms and a bathroom are on the first floor, with a fourth bedroom on the second floor.
105 The Links, Whitley Bay, is for sale through Sanderson Young for #430,000, tel: (0191) 213-0033.
A unique, south-facing home overlooking the river Tyne, with lots of character, has come onto the market in the sought after Tyne Valley village of Ovingham.
The property has three generous reception rooms, a balcony to the second bedroom, and five double bedrooms split over two floors. Downstairs there is a grand hallway, living room, dining room, breakfasting room and fitted kitchen. A front garden, garage, workshop and magnificent detached garden onto the river Tyne, make this a lovely home.
26 Castle View, Ovingham, Northumberland, is for sale through Yellow Estate Agency at a guide price of #399,950, tel: (01661) 831234.
With panoramic views over Newton Bay, just south of Beadnell, Northumberland, this semi-detached four-bedroom home is just 50 yards from the beach.
The village of Low Newton-by-the-Sea, much of which is owned by the National Trust, is very popular for sailing, windsurfing and birdwatching.
The property has fine views across Embleton Bay to Dunstanburgh Castle, especially from the sitting/dining room and master bedroom, which has a balcony. There are gardens to the front and side and parking for two cars.
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Game of Thrones Season 4 Featurette. HBO‘s Game of Thrones: Season 4 Ice and Fire Foreshadowing TV show featurette features many new scenes and plot points. There are many iconic moments from George R.R. Martin‘s A Sound of Fire and Ice and just as many tweaked during transit to the screen.
We previously published these Game of Thrones: Season 4 articles:
Game of Thrones: Season 3’s cast included:
Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister), Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark), Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister), Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister), Aidan Gillen (Petyr “Littlefinger” Baelish), Iain Glen (Jorah Mormont), Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Richard Madden (Robb Stark), Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister), Maisie Williams (Arya Stark), Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) and Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Baratheon).
Additional returning series regulars this season include: Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy), Jerome Flynn (Bronn), Rory McCann (Sandor “The Hound” Clegane), Conleth Hill (Varys), John Bradley (Samwell Tarly), Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth), James Cosmo (Commander Jeor Mormont), Stephen Dillane (Stannis Baratheon), Carice van Houten (Melisandre), Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth), Sibel Kekilli (Shae), Rose Leslie (Ygritte) and Natalie Dormer (Margaery Tyrell).
Returning recurring cast members on GAME OF THRONES this season include: Natalia Tena (Osha), Joe Dempsie (Gendry), Oona Chaplin (Talisa Maegyr Stark), Julian Glover (Maester Pycelle), Kristian Nairn (Hodor), Finn Jones (Loras Tyrell), Esmé Bianco (Ros), Gemma Whelen (Yara Greyjoy), Hannah Murray (Gilly) and Art Parkinson (Rickon Stark).
New cast members for the third season include: Ciarán Hinds (Mance Rayder), Diana Rigg (Lady Olenna Tyrell), Mackenzie Crook (Orell), Clive Russell (Brynden “The Blackfish” Tully), Nathalie Emannuel (Missandei), Kerry Ingram (Shireen Baratheon), Paul Kaye (Thoros of Myr), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Jojen Reed), Ellie Kendrick (Meera Reed), Richard Dormer (Beric Dondarrion), Kristofer Hivju (Tormund Giantsbane), Philip McGinley (Anguy), Tara Fitzgerald (Selyse Baratheon), Tobias Menzies (Edmure Tully), Anton Lesser (Qyburn), Ian McElhinney (Barristan Selmy), Michael McElhatton (Roose Bolton) and Noah Taylor (Locke).
Game of Thrones: Season 4’s cast members include: Yuri Kolokolnikov, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Lu Corfield, Paola Dionisotti, Hoji Fortuna, Mark Gatiss, Joseph Gatt, Rupert Vansittart, Dean-Charles Chapman, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Indira Varma, Pedro Pascal, Owen Teale, Andy Beckwith, Kate Dickie, Dominic Carter, and Daniel Portman, Michiel Huisman, Ed Skrein, Joel Fry, Alisdair Simpson, Daniel Rabin, Jane McGrath, Deirdre Monaghan, Saffie Jacobs, and Sarine Sofair.
Season 4 of Game of Thrones will be based roughly on the second half of A Storm of Swords, the third book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin, of which the HBO TV show is an adaptation.
Game of Thrones: Season 4’s plot synopsis: “In the wake of the Red Wedding, how does the North pick up the pieces and with their greatest enemy seemingly crushed, where does that leave the Lannisters. Daenerys Targaryen now has an army but is she ready to take back her homeland. Does Jon Snow turn south to seek revenge or remember his duty along the Wall?”
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We all know the importance of vitamins and minerals. However, today’s health-crazed lifestyle has placed an unnecessary importance on vitamin supplements—especially for children.
Rather than feed your kids colorful, character-shaped supplements, feed them a nutritious diet filled with healthy foods.
That’s right. Vitamin supplements are totally unnecessary—as long as your child is healthy. If your children eat a nutritionally balanced diet, there is no reason for them to pop pills.
What constitutes a “nutritionally balanced diet?” Make sure your child eats some of the following each day:
- Low-fat dairy products—like yogurt, cheese, and of course milk!
- Lean proteins
- “Good carbs” like whole grain pasta, rice, and bread (oatmeal is great too)
- Fruits and vegetables—especially the green ones
Exception to the Rule
As is always the case, there are a few exceptions to the rules. Vitamin supplements might be necessary in certain scenarios.
Some children are picky eaters. Most of the time, this can be reversed with a little hard work, determination, and attention to detail on the parents’ part. But if you simply are unable to get your kids to eat the foods they should, vitamin supplements might be needed to make up for what the diet lacks.
Children with chronic illnesses (like asthma, diabetes, etc.) might need vitamin supplements. If the body is unable to process and absorb the vitamins from the child’s diet, he or she might need an extra-large dose to compensate for what is lost.
Any child who is extraordinarily active—like athletes in demanding sports—might need a boost too. If their body is burning through all the vitamins and minerals they consume, supplements will help give extra nutrients without unnecessary calories.
If soda has replaced healthy beverages like 100% juices or milk, supplements might be needed.
Any child with a restrictive diet will need supplements. Children who are lactose intolerant will need extra doses of calcium and vitamin D. Calcium supplements will provide the nutrients the child misses out on from foods like milk and cheese. Additional vitamin D will be needed to help the body absorb all the extra calcium.
Likewise, children who are vegetarians or vegans will need to supplement their diet due to the loss of animal products. Vitamin B12 is only found in animal products—eggs, beef, poultry, milk, fish, etc. If the child doesn’t eat those types of foods, the body won’t receive the necessary amounts of B12.
Pills and Injections, Oh My!
If you do choose to supplement your child’s diet, parents must also consider the mode of supplementation. Oral pills or flavorful chewables aren’t the only option available. For some, vitamin injections are needed.
Oral pills—whether chewed or swallowed—must first be absorbed through the digestive system before they can be utilized by the body. If your youngster has a condition that interferes with that process—like crohn’s disease, celiac disease or pernicious anemia—vitamin injections are likely the only option available.
My oldest son has used these vitamin injections for several years to keep his pernicious anemia in check. Parents can relax—your youngster won’t need to be poked every day. Most vitamin injections are only required every few weeks or so.
Proceed With Caution
If you do choose to use vitamin supplements, be careful. It is possible to have too much of a good thing. Fat soluble vitamins (like A, D, E and K) and iron can be toxic. Don’t let your child overdose.
Encouraging Healthy Eaters
Getting kids to eat healthy foods isn’t always easy. That is why so many of us opt for supplements—it is a surefire way to ensure your kids get the nutrients they need. While it may be difficult, it isn’t impossible. With just a little extra effort, you can get your kids to eat just about anything!
Here are some things to consider:
- Yes, you do need to make sure your kids are getting enough vitamins. But that doesn’t mean you simply give them more food! Remember kid-size portions are 1/4 to 1/3 the size of an adult portion.
- Focus on variety. Give your children small meals and then snacks throughout the day. This provides more opportunities for healthy foods.
- Don’t battle over food. If your child goes on a “food strike,” don’t panic; they don’t usually last long. Introduce the food again in a week. However, don’t let your youngster simply say, “I don’t like broccoli.” Research shows you might have to introduce a food 21 times before it becomes something they like (or will even tolerate). Don’t give up!
- Don’t bribe your children to eat their food. Dessert shouldn’t be a reward for good eating habits.
- Likewise, don’t instigate a “clean your plate” philosophy. This just encourages overeating. Rather, ask your children to try a bite of everything on the plate. If they like something, they’ll eat enough of it to get the required nutrients.
- The body can only absorb fat soluble vitamins if there is food involved (they need fat!). If you do choose to give your child supplements, serve them with a meal.
Making sure your child has the proper level of vitamins and minerals is important. However, popping a pill isn’t the answer. Unless your children have extenuating circumstances, a healthy diet will yield all the vitamins they need.
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