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Joe Dawson from the University of Essex has penned this guest blog detailing some exciting research that BASS is pleased to support. Details of how BASS members and recreational sea anglers can get involved will be released soon. A team...
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Thank you to all the recreational fishers that responded to the survey that was recently circulated. Below is the response from Policy Lab received by email today. Thank you to those who took part in the co-refine survey, which is now closed. Firstly, we would like to apologise for any confusion regarding the date the survey closed. We had originally stated the survey would be open until December 4th. However, we decided to keep the survey open for a further week to maximise the number and diversity of responses. In keeping with the spirit of the project, we wanted to make sure that all stakeholder groups had a chance to participate. We updated the co-refine survey website on December 5th to read, 'The survey deadline was extended and closes on 11 December 2022 at 23:59'. The co-refine survey generated over 450 responses, 53% from the recreational sector and 40% from the commercial sector. Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey and for providing such valuable feedback on the 14 priorities. Your comments will help support our final report and the ongoing FMP process in 2023 with Defra and Welsh Government. The purpose of the survey was to co-refine stakeholders' preferences for addressing some of the main challenges of the new Sea Bass Fisheries Management Plan (FMP), listening to the many different stakeholder views. Policy Lab worked closely with Defra, Welsh Government and Cefas to ensure the outcomes of the co-design and co-refine were evidence-based and met the minimum legal requirements for an FMP, as set out in the Fisheries Act and Joint Fisheries Statement. A version of Policy Lab's final report, outlining the process and results from our research in more detail, will be published in due course. The outcome of our study is the result of extensive research, bringing together varying voices and opinions from across the bass landscape. Although this stage of the project is the final part of Policy Lab's work, FMP development will continue in 2023 when Defra and Welsh Government draft the Bass FMP informed by our recommendations, as well as a separate evidence workstream and conservation advice. The first draft of the full FMP will go out for public consultation in 2023, giving all stakeholders another chance to comment ahead of final publication towards the end of the year. It should be emphasised that FMP development is intended to be an iterative process, so future versions of the Bass FMP can be tailored appropriately to best manage the stock as new evidence emerges and circumstances evolve. The collaboration Policy Lab have experienced in the bass project has been excellent and we hope this will ensure that the FMP process can build on the engaging and iterative nature of this work into 2023, and beyond. We would like to thank you for your support in the bass FMP project and wish you a very Happy Christmas. Kind regards, Policy Lab ... See MoreSee Less
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* The survey is still active and Policy Lab have confirmed that we have until the end of this week to submit surveys. If you didn't get chance to complete the survey then now is the time to get yours submitted* Many Bass anglers will be aware and will have taken part in the research being carried out by Policy Lab on the bass fishery and there has been a lot of work done involving many stakeholders including recreational anglers such as us, this is all leading to the publication of the first Bass Fisheries Management Plan (BFMP). The final activity is a survey to gather opinions about 14 stakeholder priorities, THE DEADLINE FOR THIS SURVEY IS TOMORROW EVENING. We urge all anglers to spare some time this weekend to complete the survey, a link to the survey is included below. [docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMkDC5K8i5-gC36XQcEKY90fmQyANGLadgoft3gf8vPiubjA/viewform](docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfMkDC5K8i5-gC36XQcEKY90fmQyANGLadgoft3gf8vPiubjA/viewform) ... See MoreSee Less
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Catalog > Craft & Maker > Business > Brand Your Creative Business > Great Products Are Key To Strong Brands
Brand Your Creative Business
Great Products are Key to Strong Brands
Now that we've established kind of what branding is its time, sit down and start implementing it for you. So really working through that. And I actually gave this away for those of you who are paying attention in our last segment, which is, what do you and steve jobs have in common? And that's, really, that you started because you wanted to make a great product, right? I mentioned the biography of steve jobs, and one of the first things that struck me and reading about his story was that he was obsessed first and foremost, not with building this big company, but with building a product. And he was super, super passionate about one product and getting it right. And for those of you who are maybe too young to remember that's a computer, it wasn't an ipad and iphone. It was a computer, actually. So he was obsessed with getting that right. And I think that a lot of you and myself included are like that you started your business because you're passionate about a product, right? Either, you ...
know, maybe like monica, you had an idea, something that you thought could solve a problem or maybe, you know, like sarah, you're passionate about a certain technique you, you know, you want to work with metal or you wanna work with fiber with ceramics, whatever it is you're passionate about your product and that's great because it's going to set the foundation for your brand because great brands need great products, you can't have a great brand without a great product. Now, just for any of you who might not be a maker who are listening when I say great products if your product is a service that's okay, too, you could think of the product is whatever you give to the customer in exchange for money, so the value in exchange for money that's your product. But for most of you think watching here it's a physical, tangible object, something that you make that you're really passionate about and the great products are really the essence of your brand. So what we're going to learn in this segment is howto make your product line both more cohesive and more memorable and they really go hand in hand so when your product line feels more cohesive then it's easier for people to recognize it and remember so they might not have to have seen all of your products, but they could maybe pick something out and no, I think that's hers eso a friend of mine was telling me a story she was actually at her o b g y n having unemployment, she was pregnant and she was wearing a pair of my earrings and her doctor says to her, those megan allman earrings that's the kind of thing you want to hear, right? She may not have seen that exact pair of earrings, but she recognized the style and she knew that it was part of the brand and that's what we're going to dio in this segment is you're going to figure out what you need to do with the steps you need to take to make your product line more cohesive and more memorable they have in common with steve jobs wearing designer says they both look good in glasses I like something I don't have income which is whywe contact debbie saying hoses they both had a great attention to detail yes and that it can be a really key part of your brand that's something that's super important to that attention to detail I can absolutely be an important part of your brand, so how do you make your products more recognizable and we're going to look at two keys to product based branding emotional resonance so this is that piece that we were talking about in the first segment making people feel something and aesthetic recognition that means that you see it you recognize it by the way that it looks right and I think we can probably think of a few brands or a few products that hit both of these pieces that hit that emotional resonance and the aesthetic recognition and truth be told, you're probably actually going to as a customer hit these in reverse right? You get the aesthetic recognition, then it pulls up that emotional resonance so a couple of examples that maybe I could get you guys to think about lupita it's so red soles exactly and that's yeah, I actually asked my husband I was like, so if I say louboutins you know I'm about he's like they're those shoes with a red on the bottom, right? Yes, perfect. So so this hasn't immediate esthetic recognition you say luton red soles everybody knows it and it's amazing how you can pick it out in a flash you're watching a tv show and you're like that's julia really batons, right? Sometimes you're thinking that girl can't afford twelve hundred dollars shoes, right? But you still picked him out you noticed them so they have this super strong esthetic recognition but then on top of that they also have a strong emotional resonance you know that the woman who's wearing them is powerful she's confidential it'll sexy right and that's how she's feeling if she's wearing them so you have those two elements aesthetic recognition emotional resonance if you think back to the early days of the ipod first of all you don't even have to see the ipod to get the aesthetic recognition what you have to see yeah, the white earbuds right and the early days of the ipod that was like the signifier you're on the subway you look over there's another guy with the white roads you know they have the ipod too. And then of course the actual product itself has a lot of consistent visual branding elements that come in a swell but just buy those white everybody earbuds you knew they were rocking the ipod and then there was an emotional resonance there especially for those early adopters right? They felt cool they felt in the know they were, you know, the kind of trendsetters there and they were part of that club, right? You were part of this like, you know, tech savvy but creative at the same time there was definitely that connection happening there. So to bring that down teo perhaps a brand that's you guys I know I know monica knows this brand a brand that's started as a maker brand and she since expanded but freshly picked so if you aren't familiar with her brand, she her predominant product line are these baby mocks, and this is another case where that esthetic recognition runs really high. You see that she's got in a lot of celebrity babies to wear her products now, not really even I think of her own doing just because again, and she had this product that people were talking about, but so you spot that picture and you're like, oh, whatever kardashians baby is wearing freshly picked mox I don't know which kardashians or which babies, but I could spot the mox, right? So, you know, based on the way the products look, those air freshly picked mox but there's again also that emotional resonance because you're part of that, like stylish, savvy moms club, right? Your kids have the best everyone knows these are the shoes that your kids wear because they're better for their feet, but if you were in on, you're in the know you feel good about what your kids are wearing, right? And so it's got those two aspects, so let's talk about that emotional resonance piece. First again, you know your customers are probably going to hit on that aesthetic recognition, and so we're going to get there, but I want to talk about the emotional residents because it really is the core of your brand. And here's the thing that's really important to remember people don't buy your product they by the way the product makes them feel this is becoming more and more true but it's especially true with our products because let's face it if they might feel in need but it's a pretty tenuous needed best right? It's not like they're solving a major problem that somebody has we're making things that for lack of a better word could be termed frivolous, which is ok, but that means that people aren't buying the product they're buying the way the product makes them feel and it might be unconscious or subconscious they might not walk in and be like, I'm buying this because it makes me feel like supermom and in fact, a lot of times people will rationalize those emotions like, oh, well, yeah, like they come in and they see the necklace and it makes him feel great, but they're like, well, I need to buy this because I have a big presentation at work next week, right? So they're going to justify it but it's, that immediate kind of emotional feeling that at least makes them want to buy in the first place. So whether you realize it or not, your products have meaning and emotion that are just waiting to be unlocked, so if you haven't been drawing on these emotions now's your chance, right? They're all in there and it's about figuring out what those emotions are. So how do your products generate emotion? There is a really fantastic book that I love called emotional design by donald norman it's really fantastic book about basically the way products make people feel, and he talks about that products resonate with people on three separate levels visceral, behavioral and reflective. So visceral is that gut reaction that's how we respond basically to nature, a visceral reaction is why you love a sunset or a beautiful tree or a really attractive person. You know, the facial symmetry thing, they always talk about that that's your visceral gut reaction it's, why you like pretty things, cute things, fun things, it just looks good, right? It's the hardest one to explain, but it's like it just looks good. I like the way it looks. You have that gut reaction to it, behavioral is how great something is to use it functions well. So in the case of monica's product, you're really selling this kind of key behavioral emotional connection. It's easy to use she's got the the one here could pull the white that with one hand, you can flip it open with one hand, too, if I'm if I'm remembering correctly, so you know, how pleasurable is it to use? And that creates this sort of behavioral emotional connection, and then reflective is what we think about something. So that really kind of intelligent, like, you know, do they, you know, have labor that they're abusing? We talked about that in the first segment of, like, I don't like something because I know that they're mistreating workers somewhere. So that's a negative, reflective, so positive, reflective might be, you know, I know that they are paying a living wage or it's helping women in in guatemala, you know, bringing income into their families. Those sorts of things are going to hit us on a reflective level, and different products, even in the same category, can hit these levels very differently. So take shoes, for example. So the one over here on the end that's visceral. I know those probably are not the most practical boots. But the first time I saw the mosque and those air really great shoes and I showed them to my sister and she was like, those are really great shoes. Just something about them. You were swan to its that immediate it looks good clamoring over here, so crocs are like the opposite of that immediate it looks good, right? But that's that behavioral level because one of the things that happened with crocks is that you started seeing people who were on their feet all day swearing by them nurses you know those sorts of professions people who had to be standing all day raved about how they felt wearing those shoes so that's a product that hits a really strong behavioral level and then tom's hits that reflective level you buy one they donate one right so it hits you on that intelligent I'm buying this I am doing something good so one product category could hit any of those levels and of course one product could actually hit all three and that's what makes for a really, really strong products so if you watch the apple announcement where they're talking about the new apple watch that's right they were clearly trying to sell the behavioral aspect during that presentation here's how the technology works here's how it's going to sink with your iphone here all these little details they were really trying to hit that behavioral level partly because they were talking to that tech you know that tech writer audience right? They want to hit that behavior all we know it works but it's also super clear if you go apples website they're trying to sell you on the visceral all day long right that's a visceral cell right there you look at that and you're like oh, that looks good I have no idea how that functions doesn't matter it looks good you want it and then of course because it's apple on because it's a brand that has certain connotations you have that reflective level as well so one is not better than the other, you know your products might just hit a really visceral thing they might just make people feel good because they are beautiful or whatever that's okay or they might have this great use function or they might have some kind of reflective aspect so maybe you're someone who really does value something like giving back and you're putting that element into your products and that creates that strong emotional pull as well one is not better than the other but it's important to understand which way is your triggering people because you might be trying to sell them on one and they might be drawn to another one right? So maybe you're trying t you know, sell them on the reflective thinks maybe sarah's saying, I'm going to donate five percent of my sales tio you know the earthquake rebuilding in japan or something like that, right? And so you're thinking that's what my customers you know when really there's like that is a beautiful necklace and I want it so it's important that you kind of understand which angle is sort of the most prominent yeah good where does your story fit in do it just doesn't fit into any of these that's a good question, so right now it doesn't okay we're actually going to put that aside because part of this is you don't always have the opportunity to tell the story ah lot of times an interaction with the product is the first thing that people are going to see so someone a customer of yours is wearing your necklace and their friend is going to see it and you're going to need that aesthetic recognition and emotional resonance right off the bat before anyone ever has a conversation, so we'll come back to the story part absolutely, but for now we're just dealing with the products themselves and and some of that story can be part of the reflective aspect of something, but I think particularly with a lot of the products that that we're all working with there's something about that really visceral emotional reaction that has to trigger before I think anything else kind of works there are two I think big ways that that you're gonna do this so first of all you could just make it up if you really wanted to. You could say I want my products to make people feel happy, but you may be super off base so it's better if you can actually get some feedback from people, so the first one is talking to your customers now there's a little caveat here, which is that people don't always know right? They say that actually like focus groups market research are really ineffective because people make decisions in their gut in the moment and then you ask them why'd you buy this and they're gonna rationalize it later so it's a little bit hard but you can still talk to your customers and asked them to tell you about their experiences with the product how did it make you feel while you were wearing it or using it or trying it on and you can even also just watch your customers so when I see someone put on one of my necklaces you see this happen right? It's subtle yeah that's confidence in action I don't have to ask them do you feel confident? But I know because the shoulders roll back and they stand up a little straighter I know how that makes someone feel just by observing my customers I'm sure that monika you've watched people use your product and what do you see? Like what? What happens when they use it? Um I my perfect example is my dad using it? He was at disneyland and, um he went in with a bunch of other dads teo change my little sniper and he like was all chest puffed out and he, like, got through everything quickly knee like looked at everybody's like you know when he walks away and everybody else was still like fumbling around trying to get through the diaper duty so, um I think that it definitely is one of those it's a product that streamlines the process that aside like a crappy process yeah unattended it really makes people feeling yeah, I got this I got it under control I think there's a control element and years that it really brings for write a process that really feels like awful and so outside of your control and this gives you back that kind of element, which is really great totally uh who else have you guys talked to your customers at all to hear? Um yeah cats sometimes a at home I'll have my work out yeah and visitors that every guest will come in and then they look at it and sometimes I didn't really expect this of that particular person I'm thinking this isn't their style and when they walk past certain kind because they have different like a variety of different styles, I I watch their emotional reaction to a couple and it's kind of like a couple times they've asked like work and we're going to put that, you know, like it's like they like it, they're drawn to it but it's like they're trying to find space for it because they're kind of could see that they're trying to rationalize too yeah, but how how can I use that product very lifelike where kamei right but so they're emilie what's like immediately drawing I'm too it like what's making them you know like what when they see it they want it like what are they really feeling when they see it um I think it's the colors it's like brightness and a lightness and just kind of almost like a playful kind of emotion makes him happy yeah thing about this it's okay to be so basic it makes them happy that's okay that's actually really important people want to feel happy right? So it's okay to us toe own those really what feels like a basic emotion we get some money back what you just saying making this saying ninjas dog design says if I like it I make it I mean it's pretty simple is that other people are very, very put off by this or rather scared I sent it off they're saying talk to the customers I something they did they generally find yes frightening but at the same well, if you are asking for feedback carried particularly thing typically after feedback trying to understand how our photography session I went, what they enjoyed and if I had any ideas of how they could have felt better and she feels that does help her business awesome and here's the other thing if you're scared to talk to your customers talk to your friends who have your product so it might be a case that your friends don't have your product, then give them some of your product. You know I'm not a huge fan of, like, give it, give away to everybody, but give it to your friends, let them you know where it or have it in their homes or whatever, and then turn around and ask them I would give them to your smartest, most articulate friends because you're going to get so much more out of it. It's very helpful for me that my best friend is terra gentilly, who is an amazing business coach so I can give her jewelry and then say, how'd that make you feel terror and, you know, that's really useful, so you might not have terror as your best friend, but you probably have those friends who are really good with language and they're really articulate. Give those friends your product. Let him live with it for a little while and then ask them so if you're scared to talk to your customers, talk to your friends either. Why? But you want to get someone else's opinion? Great magic sort of reflecting that she's saying, you know, happens to her all the time. She feels like she's got something that she really loves and she's created something that a lot of energy and emotion into it and the customers a lukewarm to it. They're just pieces that she's disappointed, not going wild about so soliciting what her friends thinking it was really helpful, and and that may be a case to where the people that she's thinking that we're the customers might not actually be the right customer for that product. So that's something to think about, too. If people are lukewarm to it, they might not really be the target audience. And of course, you know, you do have to take into consideration, you know, that your customers or not, you know, like, I know I'll make necklaces that are I'm like, I'm so excited about this because it's like the biggest, most joy, enormous, boldest statement necklace I could possibly make and then no advise it because they're a little score scared. Yeah, so you have to take some of this with a grain of salt and that's where the second piece comes in, which is that the way that I think is really, really useful is to do something that I call become your own biggest fan. Which is to take yourself out of that role of maker and just think of yourself is the user so if you are it's easy if your jeweler you wear you wear stuff but you want to wear it and be aware of it right? You want to pay attention obviously if you are something you know not everyone has a product you can wear but ceramics you better be drinking coffee every morning out of your mug you better be eating every meal off those plates you should be using your product all the time if it's art it should be hanging it sounds like you already got that down cathy that should be hanging all over your house and again pretend for a minute that you aren't making it because that's going to give you the opportunity to start to get inside the mind of the customer or the user which is really what's important here get inside the mind of the user and think about how it might make you feel so like sara when you're wearing your work how does that make you phil and pretend you didn't make it pretend you didn't make it that's it that's the tricky part I know it's hard it's pretty I bank things because they're pretty but actually yeah with my new branding ideas I wanted to make people feel um passionate so I'm trying to infuse that into it now into my new designs so you're actually taking the thing where you have an emotion that you want to hit and you're really than designing around that she's really interesting so well when we get to your product hot seat we're going we're gonna talk about that a lot more so so cathy like when you have your art in your home how does that make you feel happy yeah colorful yeah no break and I kind of understand where she's coming from with the whole emotional aspect of it all because I mean there are times in your life where you go through transition say story happens to you in your life and it changes your image or your outlook on you know what you're creating and you want to infuse that in your products and kind of send a message through your work yeah so that's awesome thing yeah and obviously us you're not wearing your product but we know your product is a really easy one you know and that it's obviously you don't even have to talk to your customers to know that it's making him feel lucky and ugo and they love it awesome yeah talked about customers all the time so I'm actually curious what people say why they buy your product like just because they want to get some of that luck or moves with them for the look but a lot of them have different association too it was just you know, irish tha shamrocks and all that stuff they not of the same but yeah, they're come commonly confused by yeah, tim rocks in a clover for over and well, you know something else that actually we didn't talk about, which can be a really powerful emotion for your customers is nostalgia right? So it reminds them of something from their past so when you said you know, customers buy for a lot of reasons I was thinking like, oh, right, well, I remember being a kid and finding four leaf clovers, so then if you want to recapture that, you might buy the product so that's another powerful trigger and I'm not you know, I don't know what the three of you that that necessarily is applicable to your product but it's a big draw for a lot of people I have a friend I who makes purses out of old books so she uses the hard cover binding and makes these beautiful purses rebound designs it's her company and people come into like her booth at a show and it's that was my favorite book when I was a kid or like we use that same textbook in my seventh grade science class so she really pulls on that sense of nostalgia and that's a big motivator for people to buy been trying to do to because I I like brightness, lightness and also mediums that kind of bring out that child inside of you and I I like glitter. So that's that's, kind of. One of the things I used a lot in my pieces is glitter and finding a way that it it brings out that inner child. I'm not that kind of wants to come out, and it reminds you a little bit of that, but grown up, kind of grown up way. So it's, like your childhood glitter, that's, adult appropriate, where? He asked.
Every small business owner shares two common goals: increasing sales and marketing more effectively. One of the most powerful ways to achieve these goals is to define and tell the story of who you are as a creator. That story is your brand, and a strong understanding of how to tell that story to your customers will take your business to new heights.
In Brand Your Creative Business, you'll explore what makes your business a unique brand and find ways to share it. You'll learn about implementing a brand strategy and growing and protecting it. Megan Auman will teach:
Why branding matters
How to define your brand
Storytelling to promote your business
How to develop a strategy to implement your plans
You'll leave this course equipped and energized to create a strong, consistent presence in every aspect of your company – from packaging to customer interaction and beyond. You'll also develop the confidence use colors, logos, and fonts to reflect your style - even if you're not a designer
Whether you're an Etsy seller looking to grow or an occasional crafter trying to build a full-time business, this course will give you the tools you need to connect with customers and sell more products.
Creating Your Logo in Illustrator
Why Branding Matters for Your Business HD
The Core Emotions Behind Your Brand
Does Your Product Generate Emotion?
Finding the Core of Your Product
What Does Your Brand Stand For?
Naming Your Business & Products
Creating Your Tagline
Creating YOUR Brand's Story
Sharing Your Customer's Stories
When To Tell Your Own Story
Your Visual Branding Basics
Your Visual Style Guide: Brand Colors
Your Visual Style Guide: Your Logo
Telling Visual Brand Stories with Photos
Brand Photography & How to Protect It
Creating Your Complete Brand Package
Your Branding in Print Materials & Online
Implement Brand Strategy Quickly & Easily
Brand Strategy: Where Do I Begin?
Making Branding To-Do's Manageable
I was drawn in immediately. Megan's ability to tender precise, goal-oriented, and REAL life experience-infused information is what captivated me the most...AND...I logged in 30 minutes late on the first day of her class. I am excited to know that her course is STILL available, and on sale a couple of days after it aired live. TY CreativeLive for this opportunity; it is truly a gift to myself which will keep on giving...I have often used storytelling to build my brand, but Megan's guidance has given me a structured approach, which I really needed. Paying it forward, and sharing her amazing course with others will be a joy, as I feel an obligation to others I know, and those I have yet to know, all who will benefit from her plethora of carefully cultivated information. Her use of emotional connections to build a brand, and to reach a solid audience based on one's authentic voice is clear, clean, and easy to follow. Thank You Megan Aumen!
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This is such a great class! Great content, great advice, great examples...great, great, great!! I'm so happy that I have a clear path to create a great brand for my business. Very empowering! I especially love the bonus information, especially the video on how to make your own logo in Illustrator. Exactly the information I've been looking for. Great job, Megan!
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I'm in the process of launching a creative business and this class was what I was looking for. With procrastination and indecision cast aside, I will now confidently plan and carry out a productive and well organized branding strategy of my own. Before this class I felt somewhat confused and overwhelmed by all the miscellaneous branding information I had been trying to piece together. Even though I already knew some of the information she covered in the class, she put her own spin on it, gave some great examples and put it in an easy to follow plan. I particularly liked the segments related to naming your business and social media branding because I had a lot of questions on those topics. I'm very excited to get started with branding my business and I'm so glad I took the time to go through Megan's class, it will be so worth it in the long run. A big shout out to Megan, I love your business branding, your jewelry and your teaching style, great work!


Light fascinates me as an artist and I have been incorporating concealed LED lighting to illuminate what I call my Story Boxes. Several artists and photographers pointed me in the direction of Phosphorescent light and resins. This has opened up many new realms to explore in my own spiritual journey and theme of Light.
These pieces are a continuation of a series of mixed media works using Wood-Resin-Steel and Light. Combining phosphorescent powders mixed in my resin casts as a source of light. Entitled "Light from Within" continues my reflections of time spent on a#spiritual journey to #Taos and #Santa Fe this summer. 9″ x 9″ x 1 1/4″. The steel stands also have cast resins with pearlescent powders and phosphorescent powders. The steel stands have a classic surfboard design that has been part of me and many designs since the 60's. See more on www.stor-ybox.com including show dates for the fall.
Where did you get all of this stuff? Looks really cool!


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The Crime of Blackness: Dorothy B. Hughes's Forgotten Noir
By Christine Smallwood
With this summer's reissue of the 1963 noir "The Expendable Man," New York Review Books has given readers the opportunity to rediscover the extraordinary Dorothy B. Hughes.
Born in 1904, Hughes was the author of fourteen novels and a volume of poetry; she was also a professional crime-fiction reviewer, and wrote for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and for forty years, the Albuquerque Tribune. Her first novels were patriotic thrillers about Nazis and European degradation, but by the mid-forties she had turned to crime stories about race and the American West. Her fifth novel, "The Blackbirder," from 1943, follows a refugee from occupied France into Arizona, where she is protected by a family of Tesuque Indians. (Hughes herself lived in Santa Fe for most of her life.) "Ride the Pink Horse," from 1946, which was made into a movie starring Robert Montgomery, is set during the three-day fiesta that commemorates the Spanish re-conquest of New Mexico in 1692; the book attacks what it calls the "excretions of the white man." The next year she wrote what is today her most famous work, "In a Lonely Place," the source of the Nicholas Ray/Humphrey Bogart film—a psychologically complex portrait of a Los Angeles killer. Putting aside writing to care for her family in 1952, she returned in 1963 with "The Expendable Man." It was her last work of fiction.
Our current literary moment is obsessed with autobiography and memoir. But Hughes chose for herself a different challenge: a white woman, she would tell stories about and from the points of view of others—psychotic men, black men, Spanish men, Native Americans; jazz musicians, fashionable women, soldiers, doctors. The creation of difference itself was her subject. Her books were widely praised for their atmospheres of fear and suspense, and criticized when they reached, as the New York Times said of "The Fallen Sparrow," "toward conflict and situations that are rather beyond the usual whodunit scheme." But this is Hughes's point. It is not whodunit, but who-ness itself, that she's after. By this I do not mean that she asks why—specific motives are as mulish and unanswerable as sin. Crime was never Hughes's interest, evil was, and to be evil, for her, is to be intolerant of others, of the very fact of the existence of something outside the self. With her poetic powers of description, she makes that evil a sickness in the mind and a landscape to be surveyed.
"The Expendable Man" begins with Dr. Hugh Densmore, a U.C.L.A. medical intern, on the road to Phoenix, headed for his niece's wedding. On his way into Arizona, he makes the mistake of picking up a hitchhiking girl out in the desert. She's rude and ugly and snaps the gum he gives her ungratefully. She seems to be in trouble, but even after he drops her at the bus station, he's the one looking over his shoulder. In blank, dusty Phoenix it's a hundred degrees every day, and Densmore changes his shirt every chance he gets. Soon the girl shows up at his motel and demands that he give her an abortion. He refuses. Then she turns up in the papers, some time after her body has been found in a canal.
For fifty pages before the girl dies, a humidity of suspicion and paranoia hangs over the novel. Densmore is bizarrely jumpy, unfree, concerned with being observed. He does not want to be out on abandoned roads. He is desperate to get to Phoenix. "Phoenix was a city. In a city, people were too busy with their own affairs to wonder about a strangely assorted couple." After the girl is found, he gets a visit from two detectives. They've got a tip—"This guy says a nigger doc driving a big white Cadillac brought Bonnie Lee to Phoenix."
In six letters, all the pieces rearrange—a strangely uptight and bland character has become someone else entirely. "Hugh took a long breath," Hughes tells us, and so does the story. We enter another world, where a black man is being framed for a botched abortion and the murder of a white woman. His name in the papers is as good as a life sentence. And he can kiss goodbye his honey-skinned love interest Ellen, a wealthy and well-brought-up northeast judge's daughter. It's not the Deep South, Densmore reminds himself. Things are changing. Ellen can swim in the motel pool. But he's a stranger in town, and things aren't changing fast enough.
Like many crime writers, Hughes is interested in appearances: the look of guilt and innocence, the shape of a violent scene. In addition to characters she creates climates that Densmore and Ellen must survive in. She is a wonderful and inventive observer of physical environments.
The novel begins:
Across the tracks there was a different world. The long and lonely country was the color of sand. The horizon hills were haze-black; the clumps of mesquite stood in dark pools of their own shadowing. But the pools and the rim of dark horizon were discerned only by conscious seeing, else the world was all sand, brown and tan and copper and pale beige. Even the sky at this moment was sand, reflection of the fading bronze of the sun.
Blackness is on the horizon, and Hughes drives the novel straight towards it. In the desert across the tracks from civilization, from the Los Angeles where Densmore is known and respected, the world is all sand—grainy and bland, a wash of blinding neutrals. To keep your eyes focused requires some effort, perhaps some practice. One way to understand "The Expendable Man" is as an exploration of "conscious seeing," both for the reader, who learns discernment, and within language itself.
Densmore is a doctor, trained to penetrate the body and not stay on its surface. But Hughes is a crime writer, concerned with appearances. Her brilliant descriptive powers make and unmake reality. This comes to a fine point in her masterful evocation of the "runt detective" Venner, a jeering, nasty racist who baits Densmore with the sarcastic address Doctor. He never speaks; he slurs and snickers and smirks. "His drawl was pornographic," Hughes writes of one interrogation.
Venner is joined by two other suspicious minds: the blunt and gloomy, unfriendly Renner; and Marshal Hackaberry, who wants to avoid making the trial into a media spectacle for the A.C.L.U., and insists on everything being done "legal." But he doesn't believe in Densmore's innocence, either, and on its own, Densmore's innocence isn't all that interesting, anyway. It has no shape or size. In this novel, any one character's psychological depth is arid compared to the interactions between them, how they test and threaten each other. Difference is defined by oppositions of power, after all—black, white; accuser, accused. Noir provides a language and a rhythm for such differences. The contrasts of heat and coolness, light and shadow, create the setting for stagey confrontations—accusations, interrogations, discoveries, confessions—that move the plot forward.
Morality, too, is a matter of contrasts. Blackness in "The Expendable Man" occupies a position of ethical superiority. Densmore is so peaceable that he isn't even threatened by the appearance of Bonnie Lee's father, who rages against him; "his sympathy for this shell of a man, distraught, bewildered, out of his depth, was stronger than any rancor." And it's not only white racism that Densmore is justified against; insistently, it's white abortion. The classic American fear that a black man would sleep with a white woman is here transformed into the fear that a black man would "kill" a white woman's baby. Abortion functions as a sex crime without the sex, which is to say, it offers pure moral titillation. Densmore's doctor brother-in-law, Edward, explains that all medical men are approached, from time to time, by someone wanting the service. "One thing I'll say, Hugh, and it's God's truth. I've never been approached by any of our people. Only the ofays… Somehow they seem to think that a Negro doctor lacks morality."
Densmore's search for the abortionist—a fallen doctor for a fallen woman—shapes much of the plot and ratchets up the danger and risk he faces. He finally finds Doc Jopher, a white boozehound who lost his medical license for operating while under the influence, and who lives in a shack with his booze and his hound, Duke. "Maybe I tried to help her in a way I oughtn't," he whines when the police get him. "Like I've tried to help other poor little girls that come crying to me. It's not my fault I got a soft heart. I can't stand to hear them crying…"
A crime novel often ends with a kind of homily that explains that one murderer may be locked up, but there will be another, and more, and more still. The work of the law is never done. "The Expendable Man" puts a twist on that speech:
He heard the marshal's slow western twang. It wasn't triumphant. "With any luck, we'll send Doc Jopher up for a longer spell than usual. But there'll be another Jopher. And another telephone number. And another old woman. Another and another and another. There'll always be abortionists just as there'll always be prostitutes and pimps and pushers. When man wants an evil, he'll always find someone evil to supply him."
And with that, Densmore—battered and beaten from a fight with Bonnie Lee Crumb's nasty boyfriend—collapses on the floor. The real villain in this novel—the absolute limit of horror that blacks and whites together must combat, though the battle will never end—is the death of the unborn. In the tightly calibrated world Hughes has created, black morality can only appear in contrast to something that readers, and the author, could paint as unquestionably immoral. That is, Hughes was able to explore race and difference because she put "evil" somewhere else. For noir, everything in the world is in some way tainted. Only the unborn can be blameless and incorruptible. It's the perfect symbol for her moral economy.
It bears noting that illegal abortion, of course, was evil, if not on the terms "The Expendable Man" understands it. It killed thousands of women. It was expensive and humiliating. There was no anesthetic. And terminating an unwanted pregnancy was much more dangerous for poor women and women of color, who lacked access to providers. According to one report from the Guttmacher Institute, in New York City in the early sixties, abortion was responsible for twenty-five per cent of childbirth-related deaths for white women; for non-white and Puerto Rican women, it was fifty per cent.
In his introduction to this new edition, Walter Mosley asks, but does not answer, why Hughes has not been as celebrated as her peers, like Raymond Chandler or James Ellroy. "Bringing her back is no act of nostalgia," he writes. "It is a gateway through which we might access her particular view of that road between our glittering versions of American life and the darker reality that waits at the end of the ride."
In noir, depth is often figured as fallenness—the fact of having a past. This is a privilege that Densmore, the fall guy, can't afford. He's in no position to insist on his imperfections or ambiguities. Hughes has been accused of "whitewashing" the Densmores, and it's true that they conform to a white ideal: they fulfill every upper-middle-class expectation, whether it's reading Longfellow, quoting Milton, or achieving scholastically. There are an uncomfortable number of references to their order and cleanliness. But Hughes's point in all this is that the family can never be "whitewashed" into blamelessness. Densmore is exemplary, but he is still expendable. His guilt precedes him, he was born with it, and only finally being caught by the law gives him the chance to prove, or create, his innocence. Being charged is a way to be cleared.
But the real relief comes with clearing out of town. After Densmore has been exonerated, "Venner departed with the hate still ugly in his eyes, with more hate for an innocent Hugh than for a guilty. The Venners would not be changed in their generation." "The Expendable Man" does not suggest that racism can be combatted by action or waited out in time; it is a disease, and it must be quarantined, the scene fled. For Hughes, the Venners of the world are the bones in the bleached sands of Phoenix. The last lines find Densmore back in the car with a woman, the right woman this time. He and Ellen, backs to the desert, are driving towards their future. It awaits them in Los Angeles.
Christine Smallwood has written for Bookforum, Harper's, and other publications, and is a doctoral candidate in English at Columbia University.
Illustration by Victor Kerlow.
Christine Smallwood is a contributing writer for the Times Magazine and a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities.


As promised in my mu guk (radish soup) post, here's my kongnamul guk (soybean sprout soup) recipe. Kongnamul (soybean sprouts) is a staple Korean vegetable that is used in many Korean dishes. It's cheap and available all year around.
Outside Korea, the best known dish made with soybean sprouts is kongnamul muchim (seasoned side dish), but its soup version is one of the most frequently eaten soups in Korean homes.
It can be made with any type of broth such as beef broth, anchovy broth, or simply water. Often some gochugaru (red chili pepper flakes) is added for a spicy kick. However, unless I make kimchi kongnamul guk, which deserves a post of its own, I usually make it simply with a light anchovy broth to enjoy the natural nutty flavor of the soybean sprouts.
Some people snip off the roots for cleaner appearance, but it's not necessary. I personally don't think it is worth the time. Plus, the roots have nutrients too.
It's important not to overcook the soybean sprouts to retain its crunchy texture. You can cook kongnamul guk either covered or uncovered. If cooking covered, do not open the lid while the bean sprouts are being cooked, or the raw bean smell will linger even after cooked.
If you have leftover saewujeot (salted shrimp) from making kimchi. Keep it in the freezer. It won't freeze but will keep well for a long time. Use a little bit to season kongnamul guk. The soup will taste even better.
This light and refreshing soup, with a subtle nutty flavor, will go remarkably well with any Korean meal.
A staple Korean soup made with soybean sprouts! Nice and refreshing!
In a medium size pot, bring 6 cups of water with the anchovies and garlic to a boil, uncovered. Reduce the heat to medium high and boil, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Remove the anchovies and garlic from the broth.
Rinse the soybean sprouts a couple of times, discarding any skins floating.
Add the bean sprouts and 1 teaspoon of salt and boil, covered, Bring it to a boil, and continue to cook for 4 - 5 minutes over medium high heat. Do not open the lid while the bean sprouts are being cooked, or the raw bean smell will linger even after cooked. Once kongnamul is cooked, taste for salt and pepper. The amount of salt needed at this point will depend on your salt and taste. Add the scallions and serve.
Kongnamul guk tastes more refreshing if you season it with salted shrimp (saewujeot) if available.
i saw some soybeans sprouts at the local Asian store but did not know how to cook them and did not buy. next time i'll get some, would love to try this soup. thanks for sharing.
This looks like a healthy bowl of soup. I love soybeans sprouts and love all your photos. They are lovely!
So looking forward to making this. A gentle and scrumptious bowl of goodness!
Roxan – That's how I eat it sometimes too. Of course you can make this. I really hope you try. Thanks.
A little bit of everything – Hope you will buy some next time and try to make this. Thanks for visiting!
Quay Po Cooks – Thank you for the nice words. It's so good to see you again here.
Mickle – Let me know how it turns out if you make it. Thanks for stopping by.
Mmm. This looks so simple and refreshing! I've never made this before. I will have to bookmark your recipe!
My mom use Water. How much cups do you think I need or do I still use 6 cups?
You can use less if you're not making anchovy broth, about 4 to 5 cups. Thanks! Happy cooking!
sorry i forgt to put that. she doesn't use anchovy broth. when i watch her. it was always water.
but thank you. can't wait to make this.
Hello. Thanks for the great recipes. I was wondering – is it possible to use "da shi da" for the broth?
Sure. It would have a different flavor though. Cheers.
does anyone know if theres other kind of broth or can i use water by itself?
It's common to just use water for this soup if you choose not to use anchovy broth. Enjoy!
I just want to thank you for posting this recipe. My mom came down with an awful cold because of me and I wanted to make her soup to make her feel better. I'm Korean, but never made Korean food before. Your recipe was perfect and the soup turned out great. My mom is loving it. Thanks again.
Awww that's nice to hear! Thanks for letting me know.
Not sure where the bitter taste came from. Did you use anchovy broth? If so, perhaps did you remove the guts from dried anchovies? Another thing I can think of is the raw taste of soybean sprouts that linger if you open the lid before the bean sprouts are fully cooked. Hope this helps.
Great! I'm glad to be helpful. Happy Korean cooking!
If I wanted to add the pepper flakes would I add it before adding the sprouts?
You can add before or after adding the sprouts. Just make sure it has a chance to be boiled in the broth. Sorry for the late reply. I was traveling and couldn't keep up with emails.
Hi! Can I put meat like pork or beef in the soup? Thanks!


Wenceslau de Moraes is the author of the most beautiful texts on Japan, its people, landscapes and arts in Portuguese language. His pilgrimage through Asia takes him to the country he adopts as his homeland and terrestrial paradise, the Dai-Nippon – the Great Japan.
Mr. Twamoto, my neighbour in Tokushima, tells me that you wish to receive a brief summary of my public life. I will satisfy your wish. I am Portuguese. I was born in Lisbon (the capital of the country) on May 30, 1854. I have attended the Navy School and then dedicated myself to the post of war navy officer. As such, I have travelled a lot and visited the coasts of Africa, Asia, America, and so on. I was in China for about five years and had the opportunity to go to Japan on board a cannon ship and visited Nagasaki, Kobe and Yokohama.
I returned to Japan in 1893, 1894, 1895 and 1896 for short periods, at the service of the Government of Macao, where I was then commissioned at the command of the port of Macao. I returned to Macao in 1896 for a short period as well and visited Japan (Kobe) again. I was appointed consul of Portugal in Hyogo and Osaka and stayed there until 1913.
By that time I was feeling seek and unable to fulfil my professional duties and so I have asked the Portuguese Government to exonerate me from the posts of consul and navy officer, and my request was accepted. Then I left for the city of Tokushima, where I still live now, because it seems to me to be the appropriate place where to rest from a hard career and a not much strong health.
I shall add that I wrote in Kobe and Tokushima, merely as a hobby, some books on the Japanese manners, which were kindly accepted by the Portuguese public.
For Wenceslau de Moraes, the future would bring a man enriched by the Western and Eastern cultures, a perfect man who would live in a universal and planetary civilization. However, it is in the intimacy of a little country town – Tokushima – that Moraes will suffer the anguish of not being able to conciliate both civilizations. He eats rice, refuses chair and bread, and lives a unique experience. He thinks the West is decaying and he foresees a strong Japan and the rising of Asia. He despises the western materialist civilization and even rebels himself against the Christian religion.


I greatly enjoyed my volunteer teaching experience with the KinderAide program in La Peñita this past winter.
I had two classes of 5-year-olds once a week. Each class was about 20 minutes in length.
During that time, we reviewed numbers in English from 1-15, the alphabet, greetings, parts of the body, shapes, names of animals and colors.
From the teaching experience I was inspired to write a children's book someday. I have a general idea. It came to me when we were studying shapes. It's rhyming and has a mathematical theme too.


Mario Tennis Open is a Tennis game for the Nintendo 3DS. Developed by Camelot Software Planning, this game was released in May 2012 as the sixth installment in the Mario Tennis series.
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Theatre teaches us how to express ourselves more effectively. It develops our ability to communicate our thoughts and feelings to others, improving our relationships and improving the world around us. This fun filled workshop will allow those who are /are not familiar with the work of Shakespeare. All children will experience and explore Shakespeare.
It will build their confidence and speaking skills.
The workshop will start with a brief introduction about William Shakespeare and his work. Participants will be guided on the script, acting skills, language etc. They will be given a scene where they have to be creative and develop an ending using the ideas given by the trainer.
8 to 9 years - 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m.
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At Pinfold Primary School we follow a rolling program in KS1 and KS2 classes to cover the curriculum areas set out by the Government's National Curriculum Statutory Requirements.
Please click the link below to read further information issued by the Department for Education.
Key Stage 1 follow a 3 three year rolling program with Topics in History, Science, Geography, PSHE, RE, D&T and Art.
When possible planning in these Topics are made cross curricular to challenge children, engage them in practical activities and promote children to become confident and successful learners.
Key stage 2 follow a 4 year rolling program and in most cases this is linked to a class topic.
Graphics and images modelling and simulation.
Art/D&T DT Viking carts Links to Christmas play props Illustrations of poetry Quentin Blake Scenes from fairy stories. DT linked to forces.


SO. I clicked on the ad link on the top right corner of my blog - Kate Spade sale - and have fallen head over heels for Kate Spade.
Alyssa Milano with my favourite Kate Spade clutch - the Knightsbridge. I love that mahogany colour!
I also love the colours of her bags! So rich and vibrant!
Conveniently, I don't need to tell you where you can get them. Reebonz is having a sale right now! They're selling out really quickly, though. Good luck finding the perfect handbag!


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CHOP HORROR
Stripper 'had sex with boyfriend's son before chopping his head off and then texting pals 'let's party'
Erica Davies
A STRIPPER allegedly had sex with both her boyfriend and his son before slicing the son's head off and asking her friends to party with her.
Roena Cheryl Mills, 43, bludgeoned Bo White, 29, until he was unconscious before decapitating and stabbing him repeatedly with a kitchen knife in April 2018, prosecutors claimed.
Roena Mills is currently on trial for allegedly murdering her boyfriend's son in April 2018Credit: Waaytv.com
Mills is accused of decapitating Bo White, then stealing money and drugs from himCredit: Waaytv.com
Mills allegedly brandished several other knives and continued to mutilate White's corpse before leaving his decapitated body inside his West Virginia home, police said.
She then dumped his head in a nearby wooded area, the Bluefield Daily Telegraph reported.
The stripper, who is on trial for first-degree murder, reportedly pilfered his pockets for pills and money and afterwards texted her friends with the message "Let's party", prosecutors alleged.
Local authorities were said to have found Mills a few yards from where his head was discovered and took her to jail.
"You have to take me back to get my heads," she reportedly told jail staff.
Bo White's decapitated body was found in his home, while his head was found in a nearby wooded areaCredit: Waaytv.com
Court documents indicate that Bo White was the son of Mills' boyfriend, James "Jimmie" White.
Mills worked as an exotic dancer at the Southern X-Posure Gentlemen's Club, a well-known local strip joint where she was said to have met Jimmy and Bo.
During a court appearance on Tuesday, her attorney Sid Bell accused the father and son of feeding the exotic dancer drugs in exchange for sex, noting that Jimmie and Mills had a "long sexual relationship."
Bell told the jury Mills had been abused by an ex-husband before turning to drugs, chalking up her role in the homicide to a case of mistaken identity.
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He implied that Jimmie killed his son in a jealous rage after finding the two of them together, although he faces no criminal charges.
Bell accused Jimmie White of telling local authorities he saw his son's body when he stopped by Bo's home, but thought his dead son was pranking him.
Mills denies the charges against her in the ongoing trial.


Good Friday Worship on April 19, 2019: 7:00 PM: Pastor Matthew will lead our Good Friday worship. We will commemorate the Lord's Supper. The offering will be for the JCRC Charity Fund.
Applesauce Bible study will meet on Wednesday, April 24 at Shari Harkema's home. Please study chapters 8 & 9.
Men's Evening Bible Study will meet Thursday, April 25, at 7 PM at Bunker Hill in Dorr. This is a study/fellowship designed for men just out of the house to men with kids still in the house. We'll be tackling the questions and challenges that men face in today's culture from a biblical perspective.
Domino Night: Join us on Friday, April 26 at 7:00 PM in the Activity building. All adults are welcome to join us. Bring a snack to share, if you'd like.
yp will meet next Sunday night, April 28. Lunch: MiedemaSave the Date!
Women's Spring Fling, Tuesday, April 30, 7 PM.. This will include a Favorite Things party. Please sign up on the new board in the narthex if you plan to attend. Look for more details in the April Communicator.
Join us for an evening of 50s themed food and fun Saturday, May 4 @ 6:00pm for the annual SERVE trip fundraiser! Attendance is free, but we need to know numbers for food preparation, so please sign up in the back! There will be a dessert auction at the end of the night. If you are willing to donate your famous dessert for it, just let Kevin know! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Want to re-listen to a sermon? Visit our Facebook page to find links to previous sermons (www.facebook.com/jamestowncrc) or search YouTube for Jamestown CRC and find them there.


Protect your car this spring with a range of vehicle car mats, boot liners and mudflaps for either your Ford, Mazda, Nissan, Kia or Skoda . Here at Sandicliffe we are able to source items that will protect your vehicle from dirt and general muck from everyday use. If there is an item that you cannot see please contact us directly and we will do our best to source the items that you require.


• drag it out, to create a new file.
• upload it to your Pro Tools cursor.
• turn the selection into an mp3 file.
• convert to mp4 and attach it to an email in one go.
• export to AIFF, WAV, BWF, mp3, or m4a.
But the demo video must be seen to be believed. Very, very fast and simple. If only all DAWs were this lean.


Cabot is the newest puffin available for adoption! If you would like to sponsor Cabot and support ongoing research on puffin travels, please write "Cabot" when asked for the name of your renewal puffin. Read more about Cabot's remarkable travels in the NYTimes.


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Northwestern hangs on for 67-64 win over Dayton
CHICAGO (AP) — After building a big lead in the first half, Northwestern suddenly found itself running out of gas in a tight game down the stretch Saturday night.
Coach Chris Collins turned toward the game clock for help or inspiration — or both.
"Every dead ball, I saw guys on their knees," Collins said. "I kept telling them, 'Eight minutes! Six minutes! Four minutes! Two minutes!"
Sanjay Lumpkin had 14 points and 14 rebounds, Bryant McIntosh had 13 points, and the Wildcats survived a dismal final 10 minutes for a 67-64 victory over Dayton.
Scottie Lindsey and Nathan Taphorn added 11 points apiece as Northwestern (9-2) won its sixth straight. The game was the first of a doubleheader at the United Center as part of the State Farm Chicago Legends.
"We were just trying to get to the finish line," Collins said. "Fortunately, we were strong enough and did enough things to do that."
Scoochie Smith had 18 points and Charles Cooke added 12 for Dayton (7-3), which had its five-game winning streak snapped.
"To our guys' credit, I think you can see some fight, but we have to be more consistent," Dayton coach Archie Miller said. "We have to be better. Whether it be the glass or our inability to run good offense, we just have not been as tough-minded as we needed to be against some of the teams we've played."
Northwestern, which led by as many as 24, took charge early and appeared headed for a laugher. The Wildcats raced to an 11-0 lead less than four minutes into the game as Dayton missed its first eight shots.
Northwestern took a 40-17 halftime lead as Dayton made just 4 of 28 field-goal attempts, a 14.3 percent shooting percentage.
Cooke, who averaged 20 points in the first nine games, was scoreless in the first half on 0-for-5 shooting in 16 minutes.
The Wildcats still led 55-33 with 10 minutes to go before Dayton made its furious rally. The Flyers cut the deficit to 59-55 with 1:28 left on a 3-pointer by Smith. Northwestern had missed 10 straight field goals before McIntosh hit an 18-footer to make it 61-55 with a minute to play.
The Wildcats hung on from there.
"In years past, this was a game where maybe we would have given up that lead in the second half," said Lumpkin, a fifth-year senior. "Maybe we wouldn't have won that game, made those tough plays. A lot of guys stepped up. It's great to see that growth."
Dayton: Although the Flyers entered the game with a 31-13 record against Power 5 conferences over the last 10 years, they were outclassed early on before rallying in the second half. Had Dayton started the game with some of the fire it showed after halftime, the result might have been different.
Northwestern: How the Wildcats perform during Big Ten play will ultimately determine whether they make their first trip to the NCAA Tournament in March, but they've put themselves in good position with a strong showing in the non-conference portion of the schedule — despite the limp to the finish line on Saturday. NU's two losses were against teams currently ranked (Butler and Notre Dame) by a combined six points.
Although Northwestern has played 11 Big Ten tournament games in the United Center, it was just its second regular-season game. Collins hopes to get the program to the point where it can play in the city's NBA arena frequently, but there clearly were more Dayton fans in attendance.
"They have a great program and a great fan base, and that's something we aspire to have," Collins said. "You have to win, though. That's my answer to everything."
Dayton: The Flyers host Vanderbilt on Wednesday to begin a three-game home stand.
Northwestern: The Wildcats wrap up the non-conference schedule with a pair of home games, IUPUI on Tuesday and Houston Baptist on Thursday.


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TV this week: Marvel's trippy…
TV this week: Marvel's trippy 'WandaVision' arrives on Disney+
Also, 'The Resident' and 'Prodigal Son' kick off new seasons, and the college football title is on the line
By Chuck Barney | cbarney@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: January 10, 2021 at 7:00 a.m. | UPDATED: January 10, 2021 at 7:01 a.m.
Chuck Barney's TV and streaming picks for Jan. 10-16
DON'T MISS: "WandaVision" — We don't really know what to expect from this trippy new series, but we're definitely intrigued. "WandaVision" takes characters from Marvel's superhero comics world and movies and plops them in retro locales reminiscent of those in TV classics such as "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "Bewitched" and "The Brady Bunch." Picking up after the events of "Avengers: Endgame," it reunites Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) with the android Vision (Paul Bettany). Together, these super-powered beings live idealized suburban lives, but begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems. (Friday, Disney+).
Other bets:
SUNDAY: "Tiger" is a torrid, two-part documentary that chronicles, in extraordinary detail, the amazing highs and stunning lows of golf superstar Tiger Woods. Among the film's revealing interviews is one with Woods' former mistress Rachel Uchitel who, for the first time, speaks publicly about their relationship. (9 p.m., HBO).
SUNDAY: James Herriot's adventures as a veterinarian in 1930s Yorkshire are given a colorful new adaptation for "All Creatures Great and Small." Newcomer Nicholas Ralph makes his TV debut as the iconic country vet in this seven-part "Masterpiece" series based on the beloved stories. (9 p.m., PBS).
MONDAY: Gridiron superiority is on the line in the College Football Playoff National Championship. No. 1-seeded Alabama (12-0) takes on No. 3 Ohio State (7-0) in Miami. (5 p.m. PT; 8 p.m. ET, ESPN).
MONDAY: The documentary series "American Experience" returns with "The Codebreaker." It's the fascinating story of cryptanalyst Elizebeth Smith Friedman, who took down gangsters and Nazis and laid the foundation for modern codebreaking. A suburban wife and mother, she led a secret double life that only come to light decades after her death. (9 p.m., PBS).
TUESDAY: The season premiere of "The Resident" finds Conrad and Nic preparing for their wedding day. Meanwhile, flashbacks to the early days of the COVID-19 crisis shine a light on the heroism of the doctors and the toll the virus took on everyone at Chastain Memorial. (8 p.m., Fox).
TUESDAY: As Season 2 of "Prodigal Son" begins, Bright's personal life is in disarray after his sister's shocking actions during the Season 1 finale. Now, he has to "take care" of her and protect his mother from a secret that could tear the family apart all over again. (9 p.m., Fox).
WEDNESDAY: Kyra Sedgwick returns to series television in the sitcom "Call Your Mother." She plays Jean, a lonely empty-nester mom whose children live thousands of miles away. Seeking a change, she decides her place is with her family members and it's time to reinsert herself into their lives. (9:30 p.m., ABC).
THURSDAY: As Season 4 of the acclaimed comedy thriller "Search Party" begins, Dory is being held prisoner by her psychotic stalker Chip, who is determined to make her believe they are best friends. Can her real pals put their traumatic pasts behind them and come to her rescue? (HBO Max).
FRIDAY: In Season 3 of Matt Groening's animated adult comedy "Disenchantment," princess Bean continues to grow into her power and own her destiny. But as she and her fearless friends venture to new worlds, they might just find there really is no place like home. (Netflix).
SATURDAY: "One Deadly Mistake" is a new true-crime series that follows various homicide investigations that ultimately hinge on a surprising, or unlikely, piece of evidence that exposes the killer. The opener focuses on a 2014 case in Austin, Texas. (9 p.m., Oxygen).
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Das Radrennen Deutschland-Rundfahrt, eine Vorgängerin der späteren Deutschland Tour, wurde vom 21. Juli bis 4. August 1951 ausgetragen. Sie führte von Hannover über 3.155 Kilometer zurück nach Hannover. Bei 16 Etappen gab es einen Ruhetag.

Es gingen 54 Fahrer in sechs Werks- und drei Nationalteams an den Start. Das Ziel erreichten 33 Starter, wobei der Sieger die Distanz mit einem Stundenmittel von 33,854 km/h zurücklegte.

Erstmals gab es bei der Rundfahrt zwei Einzelzeitfahren über insgesamt 129 Kilometer. Dort legte der spätere Gesamtsieger Guido De Santi aus Italien den Grundstein für seinen Tour-Sieg. Er lag knapp über drei Minuten vor Fritz Schär aus der Schweiz. Für die deutschen Fahrer wurde es ein Desaster. Matthias Pfannenmüller beendete mit über 26 Minuten Rückstand die Rundfahrt als bester Deutscher auf dem siebten Platz. Die Bergwertung sicherte sich der belgische Fahrer Edward Peeters. Vorjahressieger Roger Gyselinck musste sich mit dem sechsten Platz in der Gesamtwertung begnügen.

Zum Ende der 3. Etappe ereignete sich am 24. Juli 1951 in Bonn eine Kuriosität, die lange Zeit unvergessen blieb. Der Belgier Roger Decorte stürzte auf der Rheindorfer Straße in Bonn-Beuel, wodurch sein Fahrrad stark beschädigt wurde. Kurzerhand entriss er einer Zuschauerin das Damenrad, auf dem er als Fünfter die Ziellinie in Bonn erreichte. An der Römerstraße quittierten die Zuschauer diesen Erfolg auf dem Damenfahrrad mit Raunen. Zuvor kamen Raymond Impanis als Erster und Hermann Schild als Zweiter ins Ziel; der Bonner Jupp Sauerborn belegte Platz 12.

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Today's reading is one of the parables Jesus told to his disciples. We know that the Pharisees were hovering in the background somewhere because the verses that follow our passage say that they sneered at Jesus after he'd told it. Parables, as we know, were a visual and concrete form of teaching, which was very participative. Their vivid imagery from everyday life lingered in the mind and stimulated people to do their own thinking and come to their own conclusions.
At a casual reading it would appear from the parable that Jesus was commending a crooked manager. The man had been entrusted with his boss's estate and accounts and he had been mismanaging them and had been found out. He'd been told his job was over and to turn in the books. The future was looking pretty bleak for to be jobless in that society, was to be destitute. So, before he turned in the account books he set about doctoring the figures. By reducing on paper the amounts owed to his boss he made good friends out of his boss's debtors, useful friends who would help him out when he was jobless. The boss whom he was cheating was probably an absentee landlord, of which there were many in Palestine. Probably what the debtors owed was rent, which was often paid to a landlord, not in money, but in kind. It was often an agreed proportion of the produce of the part of the estate which had been rented. Here it is olives and wheat. In falsifying the amounts owed to the owner, the manager was, of course, further cheating his boss.
One thing to note is that the boss sounds a very considerate, if not compassionate man, for he has not thrown the manager in jail, nor sold him and his family as slaves, which would be expected in this sort of case. And the manager must have been counting on the boss's constant generous nature in order to proceed with the scam. But the manager is a strange model to hold up to us. What exactly is Jesus commending to us? It's certainly not the manager's dishonesty, that's clear from v10-12 and from Jesus's teaching in general. What is commended is the manager's shrewdness. But what is so commendable about this shrewdness, which at first sight I would call corruption? I think the first thing to notice is that Jesus is talking about 'people of this world' who do not acknowledge God, and about their behaviour 'to their own kind.' v8 'For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.'- that is, God's people. Jesus is not suggesting that 'people of the light', that is, God's people copy this behaviour, but there is something they can learn from it. This manager, without faith in God or moral principles, had foresight. He'd made a realistic estimation of his own circumstances and abilities and options, he'd counted on the compassionate nature of his boss not to further punish him, and then he made provision for his future in practical ways. He'd seen the writing on the wall and knew what was awaiting him. He was long-sighted, realistic and practical. He used his master's money to make friends for himself, friends who could provide for his future. That's the first thing his disciples can learn from the ways of the world. The manager faces a scary future, but he makes provision for it. He's not a fool. He knows what is best for himself. Jesus knew his people, the Jews were wilfully resisting God's ways, going to reject his Messiah, making their own plans and heading for a dire future – Jerusalem was flattened by the Romans in AD 70 as Jesus warned elsewhere in the gospels. If his people are shrewd, like the manager, they will see where their behaviour is leading and will do something about it. This is the first thing the parable suggests.
Secondly, the manager uses worldly wealth to make friends for himself. The advice 'Use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves' can sound self-serving and manipulative. And it obviously was in the case of the crooked manager, though it benefitted the debtors enormously. But not nearly as self-serving as other uses of money, e.g. for personal luxury, or to gain power. Jesus indicates that God's people should be alert to use money to benefit others. Scripture is scathing about those who enrich themselves at the expense of the poor as our OT lesson this morning indicates, and God's people have always been exhorted to care for and provide for the poor. It was, in any way a Jewish belief that charity given to poor people would stand to a person's credit in the world to come. The friends we are to make with our material wealth are not the fickle friends that the prodigal son made with his money, but friends in need who will welcome us into the eternal world and remain our friends eternally. Jesus seems to be saying that if his hearers really believed in the hereafter as the money-loving Pharisees, who were listening, claimed to, they should demonstrate their faith by using their money to befriend and help others, who would be at heaven's door to welcome them home.
Jesus had a lot to say about money and its use. It was people's attitude to and use of money that often indicated what they really believed, rather than their professed religious beliefs.
In v 10 & 11 he states that how we fulfil a small task is the best indicator of whether we should be entrusted with a bigger one. There was something of this belief in the public's response to the MPs expenses scandal: if we can't trust them to be honest in filing expense claims, why should we trust them with the jobs they do. Jesus extends this principle even further. If you're not trustworthy in handling money, who will trust you with true riches, which are spiritual? It's a sobering thought that our attitude to money can seriously affect our spiritual life. If we are not trustworthy in handling earthly wealth, we need not expect to enjoy fellowship with God, and experience his love and peace in our hearts, which are spiritual riches, true riches. Then he extends the principle even further – to eternity, if you like: 'If you have not been trustworthy with someone else's property who will give you property of your own?' Here on earth we are really only stewards or managers of what God has given us. When we die we can't take it with us. But in God's eternal kingdom we will receive what is really and eternally ours. There awaits us an eternal inheritance, promised to us in and through Christ. But what we get there depends on how we used the things of which we were stewards on earth.
And Jesus finishes this teaching about foresight and the use of money with a very stark challenge: you cannot serve both God and money. What does he mean by that? Surely we don't serve money? I'd suggest that is precisely what we do in a consumer society. Money drives just about everything in our world – politics, civic life, the marketplace, our life-style. It affects every area of our life and most of our personal choices. 'That's life,' we may say, but it isn't life as God intended. Maybe we can understand Jesus's meaning better when we consider his illustration. 'No servant can serve 2 masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.' In Jesus' time many servants were household slaves. They belonged exclusively to their master. There was little possibility of doing 2 jobs, as many people today do, and if it had been attempted the servant would have been worn to a frazzle trying to please 2 bosses, and would soon have resented the claims of one or the other. Jesus is saying that serving God can't be a part time activity. Serving God must dictate our choices and how we spend our money. And not just our money. All our resources come from God. Our time, our abilities, our property are all gifts from God. Do we put the same time and energy and forethought into pursuing spiritual objectives, such as the growth of his kingdom, as we do material ones? We have to use money, but we must not pursue it for its own sake or for the luxury, power and prestige it brings. No, we must use it honestly, responsibly and in the service of others, as we use all the resources God has given us because serving God and doing his will is our clear priority. What a challenge to us in our consumer society!
Jesus has sometimes been dismissed as impractical, a dreamy visionary, unrealistic. That is not the person we meet in the gospel. Here we encounter a radical, someone who came to turn the world upside down, or rather, right side up. Someone who commended foresight and practicality. Someone who couldn't be bought or co-opted into the existing scheme of things. Someone who challenges our cultural values and insists that God must come first in our lives.


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GeoTraceability is proud to present a new dynamic and low cost tool to reach smallholder producers in rural and remote communities.
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This article is contributed by Dennis Spencer. Dennis is the President of Ricochet Promotions LLC, a promotional product and apparel company located in Pflugerville, TX. He holds the trained advertising specialist certification through PPAI, is the incoming chair of the Pflugerville Chamber of Commerce, and unofficial swagmaster of ShipStation.
You've just gotten your first order from a very important customer and you want more. You can start priming customers for new orders during delivery and unboxing by utilizing some of the ideas I'm going to show you below.
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Now your customer has the box and has seen all that you have to offer on the outside. What about inside? Joey has talked about unboxing before, and has some very good information if you haven't read it. Check it out here. But you can take that even further with Custom Packing Paper. Custom packing paper has the space to say all the things you can't say on a box. The picture below gives you an idea of what this might look like.
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For Debian system, use apt command or apt-get command to install Nodejs and npm.
For Arch Linux based systems, use pacman command to install Nodejs and npm.
For openSUSE system, use zypper command to install Nodejs and npm.
simple run the following command to install Gtop on Linux.
Just fire gtop command on terminal to bring the awesome graph system monitoring dashboard on terminal. By default it load process based on CPU utilization.
Gtop allows user to sort the process table by pressing below keywords.
Processes sorted by Process ID.
Processes sorted by Memory utilization.
Note: When you see question marks or other different characters, try to run it with these environment variables.


Further study demonstrated in 1989 that plasma cell-free DNA can be isolated from patients with various malignant diseases and is not present in normal controls.4 This is in contrast with serum protein biomarkers such as CA-125 (cancer antigen 125), CEA (CarcinoEmbryonic Antigen), and PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen), which are known to be elevated in cancer patients but are also present in the normal population, albeit at lower concentrations.5 These findings triggered an increased interest in establishing a clinical test to monitor cancer patients using DNA from blood samples.
In the context of different physiologic conditions such as cancer or pregnancy, a proportion of cfDNA may be derived from a distribution of tissues other than blood. This process has been utilized in recent years to achieve non-invasive screening tools for the diagnosis and management of disease.7 In the case of cancer, a percentage of cfDNA is derived from circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), fragments of which are shed into the bloodstream by tumor cells also undergoing apoptosis or necrosis, or secretion of exosomal DNA, and their concentration directly correlates with tumor staging and prognosis. Their release is dependent on the location, size, and vascularity of the tumor, perhaps accounting for the frequently observed variability in ctDNA levels.8 Moreover, ctDNA sequencing (eg, next-generation sequencing [NGS]) is expected to detect all types of genomic abnormalities found in cancer, such as single nucleotide substitutions, copy number variants, and structural rearrangements.
Over the past 5 years, the promise of cancer screening using liquid biopsy has drawn a spotlight in the national media with articles published in the New York Times and the Washington Post capturing the public's attention. Note that the identification of cfDNA has potential medical actionability in both prenatal and cancer screening. However, herein we will discuss the concept of liquid biopsy using cfDNA in cancer screening and therapy, especially in the context of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), as well as the promises and pitfalls of this emerging clinical application.
When working with NSCLC, where few hot spot EGFR variants comprise the majority of activating mutations, and tumor accessibility and heterogeneity pose significant challenges, successful exploitation of liquid biopsy has been well documented in concordance studies.11 In one study published in 2017, comparison of NSCLC patient DNA from tissue samples with cfDNA yielded 97% concordance using an NGS panel of 39 genes, but only in patients with metastatic disease.12 This was consistent with the fact that metastatic burden directly correlates with increased concentration of ctDNA.
While it was evident that published data show credible promise for this testing methodology both in improving patient outcomes and decreasing invasive and potentially dangerous procedures, it was equally clear from the joint review that several variables are in dire need of further elucidation. These include preanalytical variables related to specimen collection, stability and patient-related biologic factors (eg, pregnancy, autoimmune disorders, and heart disease), analytical variables such as lower limit of variant detection, cross-assay comparisons and interpretation/reporting of both positive and negative results, and the potential discordance with tissue biopsy.
These variables need to be addressed both by clinical laboratories seeking to validate this assay for clinical testing and/or through large clinical trials where both liquid and tissue biopsies are procured and compared prospectively. Other considerations that may influence the reliability and clinical applicability of liquid biopsy include the ultimate concordance of liquid biopsy with tissue biopsy results (the current accepted standard) across all cancer types, not just in NSCLC, for which studies are the most abundant.
By extension (and with technology and data permitting), a blood-based screening test utilized with high-risk patient populations may lead to detection of cancer before it becomes clinically apparent. When this promise is ready for prime time, responsibility for ensuring careful management of this testing will fall to clinical laboratorians. This responsibility includes attaining the appropriate expertise for performing and reporting test results (from education of technologists to laboratory directors certified in molecular genetics or molecular pathology), ensuring its availability to all patients regardless of socioeconomic status, and enabling reimbursement by insurance payers. Ultimately, access to reliable and affordable ctDNA testing will surely represent an important and impressive step toward improving global outcomes for cancer patients.
Yassmine Akkari, PhD, FACMG, is the scientific director for cytogenetics, the technical director for molecular pathology, and manager of genetics laboratory operations at Legacy Laboratory Services in Portland, Oregon.
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