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The NAMI Support Group model (formerly called the "Family-to-Family Support Group model") operates differently than other, more traditional "share-and-care" groups. The NAMI Support Group model offers a set of key structures and group processes for facilitators to use in common support group scenarios. These structures come with clear guidelines to follow; used together, they encourage full group participation in support group meetings. The structures of the new model feel comfortable for both seasoned and less-experienced facilitators because they guide the support group along in every The NAMI Facilitator Skills Support Group training enables support group facilitators to run useful, helpful support groups. NAMI affiliates know that effective support groups are a key facet of NAMI's grassroots organization.
The NAMI Support Group model is not just for Family-to-Family Education course graduates, nor is it just for family members. It is a model that can be used by any NAMI support group. Encourage your state organization to begin to implement the NAMI Support Group model by sending two people to the NAMI National Facilitator Skills Workshop in June to become state trainers. Your state trainers will then conduct state and local level workshops to train facilitators in your state in the NAMI Support Group model.
"Using the support group model is so essential to the success of our family support groups. Without the training, networking, and support of the group members I fear that support groups would become nothing more than "cry" sessions or "gripe" sessions. As a group the collective wisdom covered a lot of possibilities towards the issues."
What is NAMI's Family-to-Family Program?
The NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program is a free, 12-week course for families and friends of individuals with brain disorders called serious mental illness.
The course is taught by trained family members who have lived with this experience.
All instruction and course materials are free to class participants
Over 300,000 family members have graduated from this national program
What does the course include?
Current information about Schizophrenia, Major Depression, Bipolar Disorder (manic depression).
Sub-types of Depression and Bipolar Disorder, Panic Disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and telling our stories.
Basics about brain biology and the causes of brain disorders
Problem Solving Workshop
Empathy: Inside Mental Illness
Communication Skills Workshop
Rehabilitation: Making Choices for Recovery
Advocacy: Fighting Stigma
Evaluation, Certification, and Celebration!
*Registration is required.
What is NAMI Basics?
NAMI Basics is the new signature education program for parents and other caregivers of children and adolescents living with mental illnesses. The NAMI Basics course is taught by trained teachers who are the parent or other caregivers of individuals who developed the symptoms of mental illness prior to the age of 13 years.
Open to parents and family caregivers of people younger than 18 who are experiencing mental health challenges.
Meets for six sessions.
Free of cost to participants.
Taught by trained family members whose children experience mental health challenges.
No specific medical therapy or medication endorsed or recommended.
Find a community of support.
Gain practical up-to-date information about mental health challenges.
Learn how to effectively advocate for your child with the school and mental health systems.
Develop problem solving and communication skills.
What is NAMI's Peer-to-Peer Program?
Peer-to-Peer is a unique, experiential learning program for people with any serious mental illness who are interested in establishing and maintaining their wellness and recovery.
The course was written by Kathryn Cohan McNulty, a person with a psychiatric disability who is also a former provider and manager in the mental health field and a longtime mutual support group member and facilitator.
An advisory board comprised of NAMI consumer members, in consultation with Joyce Burland, Ph.D., author of the successful NAMI Family-to-Family Education program, helped guide the curriculum's development.
Since 2005, NAMI's Peer-to-Peer Recovery Program has been supported by AstraZeneca.
Peer-to-Peer consists of ten two-hour units and is taught by a team of two trained "Mentors" and a volunteer support person who are personally experienced at living well with mental illness.
Mentors are trained in an intensive three day training session and are supplied with teaching manuals.
Participants come away from the course with a binder of hand-out materials, as well as many other tangible resources: an advance directive; a "relapse prevention plan" to help identify tell-tale feelings, thoughts, behavior, or events that may warn of impending relapse and to organize for intervention; mindfulness exercises to help focus and calm thinking; and survival skills for working with providers and the general public.
What Do Participants Learn?
How to prevent relapse
How to improve quality of life
Exercises to calm thinking
Skills for working with providers and the public
How to protect your interests
NAMI Connection Recovery Support Group
NAMI Connection is a weekly recovery support group for people living with mental illness in which people learn from each others' experiences, share coping strategies, and offer each other encouragement and understanding.
What is IOOV?
In Our Own Voice (IOOV) is a unique public education program developed by NAMI, in which two trained consumer speakers share compelling personal stories about living with mental illness and achieving recovery.
The program was started with a grant from Eli Lily and Company.
IOOV is an opportunity for those who have struggled with mental illness to gain confidence and to share their individual experiences of recovery and transformation.
Throughout the IOOV presentation, audience members are encouraged to offer feedback and ask questions. Audience participation is an important aspect of IOOV because the more audience members become involved, the closer they come to understanding what it is like to live with a mental illness and stay in recovery.
IOOV presentations are given to consumer groups, students, law enforcement officials, educators, providers, faith community members, politicians, professionals, inmates, and interested civic groups.
All presentations are offered free of charge.
Discover the Resources at NAMI FaithNet
NAMI National FaithNet has exciting new resources for utilization by NAMI members in their advocacy to their places of worship. These resources are available for downloading on NAMI FaithNet's Web site, (www.nami.org/faithnet).
These new modules are proving to be very helpful in developing ministry for those with a mental illness and their families in Faith Communities. I encourage you to review them on the NAMI FaithNet website.
To effectively utilize these Power-Point presentations for self or group study, it is necessary to download the files and save them to your desk top. This will enable you to access the notes section which is essential to gain the full value of the training. The slides by themselves only contain the main points. The notes are made available by clicking on View in the tool bar at the top of your screen after the Power Point slides have been downloaded.
Educational Modules available at www.nami.org/faithnet.
Education leads to understanding.
Understanding leads to empathy.
Empathy leads to loving compassionate care.
Education leads to understanding. Understanding leads to empathy. Empathy leads to loving compassionate care. Because of the need for education to start this chain reaction, NAMI FaithNet of Orange County has initiated a monthly training and sharing session (except December) for those attempting to initiate or expand ministry with those affected by mental illness. This month's session included a discussion of NAMI FaithNet's outreach and other NAMI programs (e.g. Family to Family, Peer to Peer and etc.), which can play an important role in the education of those in our congregations who have a mental illness and their families.
These new modules are also designed to be helpful for advocating to our fellow parishioners who do not have a mental illness. Reaching the 80% who do not have a mental illness or have a family member with one of these "no fault" disorders is particularly important in our attempts to develop a sustained ministry in Faith Communities.
Please be assured that these modules are not intended to replace any of NAMI's programs. They are designed to work hand-in-hand with them. Those of us on the six member NAMI National FaithNet advisory group strongly recommend taking NAMI's Family to Family or Peer to Peer class before participating in Faith Community outreach.
What Is Hearts & Minds?
The NAMI Hearts & Minds program is an online, interactive, educational initiative promoting the idea of wellness in both mind and body. Wellness is an ongoing process of learning how to make choices that support a more successful, healthy life.
Engaging in a wellness effort can make a huge difference in the quality of your life. One study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that taking the wellness approach can result in a 17 percent decline in total medical visits and a 35 percent decline in medical visits for minor illnesses.
Wellness is about the individual; you can decide what parts of your life you would like to change and you can determine your own success.
Mental Health First Aid is a groundbreaking public education program that helps the public identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. Mental Health First Aid USA is managed, operated, and disseminated by three national authorities — the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the Missouri Department of Mental Health.
Mental Health First Aid is offered in the form of an interactive 12-hour course that presents an overview of mental illness and substance use disorders in the U.S. and introduces participants to risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems, builds understanding of their impact, and overviews common treatments. Those who take the 12-hour course to certify as Mental Health First Aiders learn a 5-step action plan encompassing the skills, resources and knowledge to help an individual in crisis connect with appropriate professional, peer, social, and self-help care.
What is NAMI Provider Education?
The NAMI Provider Education Program is a 5-week course that presents a penetrating, subjective view of family and consumer experiences with serious mental illness to line staff at public agencies who work directly with people experiencing severe and persistent mental illnesses.
The course helps providers realize the hardships that families and consumers face and appreciate the courage and persistence it takes to live with and recover from mental illness.
How is the Provider Education course unique?
The Provider Course emphasizes the involvement of consumers and family members as faculty in provider-staff training. The teaching team consists of five people:
Two family members trained as Family-to-Family Education Program teachers;
Two consumers who are knowledgeable about their own mental illness, have a supportive relationship with their families, and are dedicated to the process of recovery; and
A mental health professional who is also a family member or consumer.
Few teaching programs employ consumers in this kind of sustained training effort in which they are paid to participate on a teaching team as they present a 5-week course.
The course reflects a new knowledge base — the "lived experiences" of people coping with a mental illness or caring for someone who lives with a mental illness. Including this deeply personal perspective creates an appreciable difference in the program's content. It adds a means of teaching the emotional aspects and practical consequences of these illnesses to the academic medical information in the course.
NAMI partner programs like Army One Source and Make the Connection provide much-needed help for veterans and for those who treat them and their families.
NAMI on Campus
NAMI on Campus provides information and resources to support students living with mental health conditions and to empower them to take action on their campuses. This site also includes materials to help colleges in improving the academic and social experience of their students by addressing the mental health needs of all students.
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Dizzy Dean and his final, painful Cardinals days
July 8, 2017 by retrosimba
Initially, most thought Lou Gehrig, not Earl Averill, delivered the most damaging shot against Dizzy Dean in the 1937 All-Star Game. It wasn't until later in the summer that the impact of Averill's low liner off the big toe of the Cardinals ace began to be understood.
On July 7, 1937, Dean was one out away from completing his starting stint for the National League all-stars at Washington when he yielded a single to Joe DiMaggio and a home run to Gehrig.
Averill followed with a smash up the middle. The ball hit Dean's left toe and caromed to second baseman Billy Herman, who threw to first in time for the final out of the third inning.
Dean went to the clubhouse and listened to the remainder of the game on the radio. His toe was throbbing but he didn't bring attention to the injury when meeting with reporters.
Instead, the media focus was on the hits Dean allowed to DiMaggio and Gehrig. Dean admitted to the Associated Press he ignored catcher Gabby Hartnett's calls for curveballs to the Yankees sluggers. Dean, looking for strikeouts, threw fastballs to them.
DiMaggio singled hard to center on a 1-and-2 count and Gehrig hit his towering home run to right on a 3-and-2 count. "Those guys were lucky stiffs," Dean said.
Averill, looking for a fastball, got it on the first pitch and drove it right back toward Dean. Boxscore
Just a bruise
Dean returned to St. Louis and had the aching toe examined by Dr. Robert F. Hyland, the club physician. Hyland said the toe was bruised, not broken, and prescribed rest for Dean, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Dean, who had a 12-7 record and 2.41 ERA, was scratched from his scheduled start July 11 versus the Reds.
During his recuperation, Dean clipped a newspaper photo showing his bandaged foot, autographed it, inscribed "Thanks, Earl" and mailed it to Averill.
Though Dean still was limping, Cardinals management instructed him to join the team in Boston. When he arrived, manager Frankie Frisch asked Dean whether he could pitch. Dean said he could.
On July 21, two weeks after he was injured, Dean started against the Braves in Boston. He pitched eight innings and yielded two runs, but he altered his delivery to compensate for the pain in his toe. By throwing with an unnatural motion, Dean damaged his arm.
"I was unable to pivot my left foot because my toe hurt too much," Dean said according to the biography "Diz" by Robert Gregory. "I was pitching entirely with my arm and putting all the pressure on it. I felt a soreness … I shouldn't have been out there."
Said catcher Mickey Owen: "His fastball had nothing on it, nothing at all." Boxscore
Four days later, on July 25, Dean started against the Dodgers in Brooklyn and pitched into the 11th inning of a game halted because of darkness with the score tied at 7-7. Boxscore
"It was evident early that there was something wrong with Dizzy's arm," the Post-Dispatch reported. Dean "was merely lobbing the ball over the plate."
Asked about his toe, Dean said, "I'd forgotten about the toe. My arm hurts me so bad I didn't know I had a toe."
The next day, Dean, grimacing in pain, went to Cardinals trainer Harrison Weaver and told him, "This toe of mine is broke."
Still, the Cardinals started Dean on Aug. 1 at home against the Dodgers. "I couldn't follow through with my pitches and my shoulder hurt every time I threw," Dean said after pitching 6.1 innings.
Dean started and pitched six innings on Aug. 8 at home against the Phillies.
"Frisch never pitched him against his will," Cardinals outfielder Terry Moore said. "He relied on Diz to tell him how he felt."
After sitting out for two weeks, Dean earned a complete-game win in a start on Aug. 22 against the Pirates at Pittsburgh.
"It took much talking by his comrades to get Dizzy through the nine innings," the Post-Dispatch reported. "He wanted to quit after seven and complained bitterly about misery in his right arm."
Dean contributed three hits _ two singles and a home run _ and three RBI. Boxscore
Four days later, on Aug. 26, Dean started against the Phillies at Philadelphia, gave up a double to the leadoff batter and was lifted. Frisch told him to return to St. Louis and get examined by Hyland.
Hyland diagnosed Dean with bursitis of the right shoulder and prescribed rest. "In the opinion of Dr. Hyland, the pitcher's arm ailment is not serious," the Post-Dispatch reported.
About two weeks later, on Sept. 8, Dean started against the Cubs at Chicago and pitched a complete game, "though he threw without his usual graceful follow through and with little of his usual burning speed," according to the Post-Dispatch. Boxscore
"I don't think I did bad for a fellow whose arm hurt him on every pitch," Dean said.
Cardinals executive Branch Rickey suggested Dean sit out a full year but said the decision was up to him. Dean rejected that idea, but he was done pitching for the season. His record after the all-star break was 1-3. Without an effective ace, the 1937 Cardinals finished in fourth place, 15 games behind the champion Giants.
Just before the start of the 1938 season, on April 16, the Cardinals traded Dean to the Cubs. After posting a 134-75 record in his Cardinals career, Dean was 16-8 in four seasons with the Cubs.
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on July 9, 2017 at 9:47 am | Reply 6stn
While Averill's line drive (as well as McDougald's vs. Herb Score) is the popular reason given for Dean's rapid decline, Dizzy pitched a tremendous amount of innings up to that point in his career. Score had 27 complete games in his first two seasons, and both used windups that had to put strain on their arms. I think it's possible that, like Denny McClain by 1970, their arms had just worn out.
on July 9, 2017 at 5:21 pm | Reply retrosimba
Thanks for the good insights. Research shows Dizzy Dean indeed was complaining of arm soreness after some starts before the All-Star Game. So the wear and tear was having an effective. I think it's fair to say the toe injury and subsequent change in delivery at least accelerated his decline and arm woes.
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Howling Libraries: Interview and Review of Dreams of Lake Drukka & Exhumation
Destiny of Howling Libraries reviews Dreams of Lake Drukka & Exhumation and welcomes me as her blog's first ever interviewee.
Read the interview and review.
"This is an excellent double shot of Thorn's brand of creeping, slow burn horror, continuing from 2017's short story collection Darkest Hours.
You might know Thorn through his film criticism in the MUBI Notebook or Vague Visages, among others. His fiction has appeared in Dark Moon Digest and Tales to Terrify. His style is somewhere between the weirder short works of Stephen King and the more down to earth works of Clive Barker. I found Darkest Hours to be a surprisingly fun read where I often didn't know where I was going or why, but when I got there I felt fully satisfied with the journey."
Read Tim Murr's full review of Dreams of Lake Drukka & Exhumation in Biff Bam Pop.
Once again, I find myself with a few spare copies of Darkest Hours that I'm willing to sign and mail out ($18 USD + shipping).
Contact me if you're interested!
"Perfectly paced from the first sentence, these stories grab you by the collar with the urgency of mortal danger. Highly recommended."
— Bram Stoker Award nominee S.P. Miskowski, author of Strange is the Night
"Thorn presents a collection of horror stories that are not only scary, but also intelligent, thoughtful, and carefully planned confronting the anxieties of modern life."
— iHorror
"Just read the opener, 'Hair' and became an instant fan. How can you not delight in a story about a metalhead fixated on long hair who starts obsessively eating it until hair begins to… um, well, buy Darkest Hours now and find out."
— Bram Stoker Award winner Michael Arnzen, author of Grave Markings
"When you first encounter Thorn's writing, a number of qualities impress themselves: the macabre intelligence (brutal really), the chilling wit, the naturalness of the dialogue. Plus there's the skill and style of the prose. It may all play out like a nightmare, but a terrible logic remains inherent."
— Robert Dunbar, author of The Pines and Willy
"These short stories show the author's incredible range and versatility."
—Sadie "Mother Horror" Hartmann
"Fast, fun and full of fear, Darkest Hours turns on a dime from a laugh to a scream. Terrifying and sly, Mike Thorn writes with refreshing originality and hides fangs behind a smile."
— John C. Foster, author of Mister White
"Mike Thorn's debut story collection is not to be missed by those who enjoy an academic intellect with a potent flair for fiction."
— Dustin LaValley, author of A Soundless Dawn
"Take a dollop of Michael A. Arnzen and Brian Evenson's quirky styles, and add a pinch of Mark Twain, stir well and let bubble, and you have a sense of Mike Thorn's stories."
— Bram Stoker Award winner Marge Simon, author of Four Elements and Satan's Sweethearts
"One of the best and most rewarding feelings as a horror fan is reading a new author's work and being blown away by their talent and the awe of discovering something cool. That is the exact feeling I got when I first sat down to crack open Mike Thorn's debut story collection, Darkest Hours."
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"I think Mike Thorn is an author to watch. I think he's going to do great things in the world of horror and dark fiction, and I for one, will be there to watch it. Will you?"
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"Darkest Hours is for readers wishing to take a thrilling walk on the dark side. Mike Thorn has delivered a promising debut with this collection showing off his commitment to stories of nuance, heart, and of course… darkness."
— Daniel Braum, author of The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales
"Darkest Hours is a varied and hugely enjoyable gathering of dark fiction. There is more than enough talent showcased within these pages to suggest that Mike Thorn's journey has only just begun."
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"Darkest Hours is horror for horror people. For the 'confirmed ghost story and horror film addict,' if you will. But it's also for people with strong emotions and a desire for philosophical thought."
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"There are times in Thorn's prose where I'm reminded not only of some of the best Stephen King from Skeleton Crew or Night Shift, but also of some of the more bizarre stories from Clive Barker's Books of Blood."
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"The stories are clever and witty. The characters are all too real."
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"Mike Thorn's Darkest Hours contains the most diverse selection of stories that I've ever read from a single author."
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Dreams of Lake Drukka & Exhumation reviewed on Aphotic Realm
"Both tales carry an air of unease and some awesome shocking moments that will linger with me for a while I'm sure. I have yet to check out Mike Thorn's short story collection, Darkest Hours, but on the strength of these two it's certainly creeping up that TBR pile!"
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"…intriguing tales of horror that are full of unpredictable moments."
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"If you're looking for someone to deliver impactful short sharp shocks, you've come to the right place. Mike Thorn has crafted two delightfully dreadful stories demonstrating that family secrets are best kept buried and once you leave home, there's no going back."
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- Basic Knowledge of hardware is required to change the RAM in your system. A computer system
- RAM slots and the RAM is required to change or upgrade the RAM in ones System.
Check the manual of the system or motherboard to identify whether RAM is parity or non-parity. One can also look out for the information about the memory ones computer needs from the company's website one has purchased the computer.
Determine the speed of the RAM.
Check out whether the Computer uses single in-line memory modules or dual in-line memory modules.
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Remove the flaps or case sides of the computer gently without disturbing the inner structure of the system.
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UHACO models brings together University Hospitals' broad primary care network and advanced clinical care and specialty services with a large population of independent providers to give our members and covered dependents a substantial number of health care options.
The success of UHACO demonstrates our ability to coordinate patient care in a manner that increases the quality of care received, promotes health and wellness, improves the patient experience, and reduces overall health care costs.
UHACO partners with patients to help them stay well and to coordinate their health care throughout the continuum. UH clinical care coordinators leverage UH's robust technology infrastructure to proactively outreach and support members.
UHCare, our secure electronic medical record (EMR), helps connect providers with comprehensive patient information and the latest evidence-based health care guidance. In addition, UH's integrated technology infrastructure includes personal health records, population health data analytics, integrated scheduling, and telehealth technologies.
This technology infrastructure combined with personalized care coordinators enables a greater opportunity for each patient to receive consistent high-quality care when and where they need medical attention the most.
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital received a $12.7 million Health Care Innovation grant from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation for its Physician Extension Team (PET). To effectuate this grant, UHACO created a Pediatric ACO called UH Rainbow Care Connection, to create a physician network that will help to manage the health of 200,000 children in northeast Ohio.
The Medicare ACO, UH Coordinated Care Organization, was approved to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program to serve 42,000 Medicare beneficiaries as of July 1, 2012.
Together, our three innovative ACOs help position UH as the national leader in using accountable care models to increase the quality of care received by patients, improve the patient experience, and control the cost of care delivery to patients throughout all stages of their lives.


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Spring Dance Show Comes to Life
Nadav Soroker, Co-Editor-in-Chief
"Life As We Know It" sprang to vibrant life on the Burbank stage for its limited run this weekend.
With 18 varied songs crossing almost as many genres and styles as numbers themselves, "Life As We Know It" has a little bit of everything, sometimes rolling them all into one number such as "La Vie Est Belle" choreographed by the show directors Susan Matthies and Lara Branan.
Opening with "Under the Thumb," a student-choreographed piece that evoked feelings of the nine-to-five grind, the show progressed through pieces that varied from the dark "Twilight" and "To Breathe of Her" to brighter pieces like "Los Americanos Comedias," based on the Three Stooges, and wackier pieces like "Wonderland" and "Society's Clowns."
All of the dancers were talented and the choreographers made excellent use of their abilities. Despite a few minor missteps and false starts, all of the pieces were very good, the dancers were graceful and smooth when they should be and sharp and precise when needed.
The show was occasionally difficult to follow, with many of its pieces being either overly obvious in what they represented or completely opaque in their meaning. Though in some cases this caused confusion, it frequently ceased to matter when the dancers got going, hypnotic as they were.
"Wonderland," by guest choreographer and SRJC Alumni Raquel Medina, was an energetic and exciting piece based off the iconic "Alice in Wonderland." Featuring a mix of songs, the sharp energetic piece brought a lot to the stage, with hard, intense lighting and great costumes that enhanced the edgy hip-hop dancing.
In contrast, "Unrequited" by Mariah McNaughton was an incredibly graceful and gorgeous solo set to music by Adele. The piece showcased McNaughton's talent as both a choreographer and dancer, yet was largely unreadable in its intention.
The finale piece, "Society's Outcasts" was a grand send off, with frantic music and a cast of misfits such as a tiger, a conductor, Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Dr. Suess and many more. It really capped the night on a high note and sent the crowd off bubbling with energy.
The hard work of the dancers was evident throughout the production and the modest set and lighting complemented each piece wonderfully. The technical crew worked smoothly, and all the support staff made sure that all that was left to be enjoyed was the dancing itself.
The only complaint to lodge would be against the fellow patrons scattered throughout the house who were rude enough to blunder past the cellphone rule to light up the dark with their urgent business. This was disturbing and showed a definite lack of respect to the talented performers who took the stage to entertain for the evening.


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Does office work make you fat?
An average calculation shows that people in America spend 90 percent of their time indoors, and total of 17 hours is dedicated to outdoor activities. Office work can affect your waistline and there are many workplace consequences why.
The explanation comes from the natural transition of lights during the day. At sunrise, the blue light gives you an energy for the daily tasks because it reacts with the cortisol. Meanwhile, at sunset blue light is alternated with a red one, which activates sleep hormones.
Most of the offices have blue lightning, which is good for productivity, but since the strength isn't adopted to this natural transition throughout the day, the understanding about when it is time to relax is distorted. Moreover, at home we are not tending to help ourselves neither: our cell phones, computers and television produce blue light. In this case it is important to be aware that red light helps to fall and stay asleep.
Complications come when we sleep less than five or six hours per day. It disrupts our hunger hormones. While the brain is active, it encourages your hunger hormones to request some food. Unfortunately, it makes sense since you need to get some energy from somewhere else if not from sleeping. Moreover, one of these hormones leans on a need of carbohydrates and another one keeps you from feeling full. It sounds like a worst possible combination.
Sitting closer to a window, having short brakes outside under natural light, closing all your devices one hour before the bed time should improve the situation. Also, don't forget to give some deserved extra hours of sleep to yourself.
This hormone controls wakefulness and maintains our ability to cope with the stress. Even though cortisol is necessary for energy, an excessive amount isn't healthy.
Higher than a normal level of cortisol causes weight-gain. Since in the most cases we keep the stress inside of us which means we don't release an extra energy that was created. For this reason, it is stored as fats, and usually in the belly area. Moreover, stress creates a preference for fat and sugary products.
Include any kind of exercise in your daily routine. You don't need to become a gym guru, it is enough to do simple things like taking the stairs, choose sit-stand desks, go home on foot or go for a walk. Suitable lightning, music, or artwork can also help reduce stress.
Our food choices depend on many factors. And hormone-induced hunger leads to unhealthy options. A good rest, physical activity, time outside in the sun can decrease cravings for high-calorie snacks.
Indeed, office work can make us fat, but at the same time it is our choice too. Sleeplessness, stress, and hormone-induced snacking affect our weight unfavorably, but being aware we can reduce the consequences caused by time spent inside. The integration of wellness strategies into the workplace can improve ones well-being and performance.


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top books of the decade
The top book of the decade in the General Interest category we have already posted as being The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright.
In the general Pictorial Scenery category, Yann Arthus Bertrand's La Terre vue du ciel, or The Earth from Above as it was published in English, clearly stands out as the major work. It accompanied a series of programmes for French TV with the same title which is available on DVD. Like most landscape and nature photographers he is an active environmentalist and this is a strong theme in all his books and documentaries.
In the category of transport in other countries, we vote for Le Monde du Petit Train on the narrow gauge departmental railways of the Tarn. A meticulously produced book with great design, graphics, photographs, colour maps of everything, scale drawings in colour of front, side and rear elevations of of locomotives, railcars and rolling stock, stations, bridges, tunnels, and other buildings. And with 440 pages bound in hardback it is a substantial tome. It is the sort of book we would like to be able to produce if the market here was big enough to support the production budget required, but sadly it isn't.
In the category of books on New Zealand transport, other than those published by us, we vote for the 50th anniversary history of New Zealand's National Airways Corporation by Richard Waugh and his two assistant authors. Even though the printing standard wasn't quite as good as it could and should have been, it is a very solid reference work and pictorial history.
In the category of military history it is hard to go past Antony Beevor. His books on Stalingrad, D-Day and the Downfall of Berlin could all be picked, but as WW2 is a well published subject, we have decided instead to pick The Battle for Spain on the Spanish civil war of 1936-1939, simply because it is a subject that has received much less attention than it should have.
150 years of Darwinism
Just over 150 years ago the first edition of Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species was published. It quickly sold out and a second edition was published on 7 January 1860. Although it avoided the subject of human evolution this was, and has been ever since, a major topic of discussion, with the belief that apes and humans evolved from a common ancestor.
Darwin's book has understandably become a kind of 'New Testament' for atheists, some of whom like theoretical biologist Richard Dawkins use it as the basis of a crusade against theists (believers in God). Given the way many religious fundamentalists behave, particularly Islamic extremists and the 'Christian religious right' in America's Bible belt, it is easy to sympathise with Dawkins' views. However, there are major problems with the adequency of Darwin's theories, for example, recent fossil evidence that points to spontaneous mutation. While Darwin's theories are good at explaining how species evolved, they are not when it comes to explaining how species came to exist in the first place. Clearly Darwin deserves a celebrated place in the history of science but his writings do not deserve the holy reverence which people like Dawkins pay them.
Like many other firms, this year our sales dived and - thanks to Dymocks' boss - our bad debts jumped, which caused us to put some projects on hold and reconsider others. It is tempting to think that things will improve next year as the economy climbs out of the trough, but in reality it may not be of much significance.
Some sectors of the economy do well in tough times, though - lawyers (as people seek to boost revenue through litigation), liquor outlets, fast food vendors and the el cheapo retailers.
Regardless of your circumstances, we wish all customers and readers a happy, relaxing and rejuvenating Christmas break.
Best books of the 0's
About now lots of people will be contemplating the fin de la décennie and, among other things, producing their best books of the decade lists. We don't intend to come up with a long list, as for every one that you put on a list there are 2 or 3 equally deserving.
However, the most important book of the decade in our opinion, as it deals with a subject that is going to be with us for at least the whole of the coming decade, is Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower on the history of Islamic terrorism.
Otherwise we prefer to acknowledge the top upmarket books on the subjects that we concentrate on, and will post a list of these within the next few days.
80 years of the Mighty Civic Theatre
For 80 years the Civic Theatre on Auckland's Queen Street has been an Auckland landmark. The grand and ornately decorated theatre, famous for its stary ceiling, opened on 20 December 1929 and is one of only seven surviving atmospheric theatres in the world.
The Civic was originally built as a picture theatre for the people of Auckland and was the pride of Auckland for many years. After a $42 million restoration in 2000, The Civic was lovingly restored to its former glory.
The flat ceiling was cleverly painted to resemble a dome, with thousands of lights as the stars. The night sky is a representation of a Southern Hemisphere sky at 10 p.m. on an April evening. The design style of The Civic is of a Moorish garden at night, with turrets, minarets, spires and tiled roofs and, of course, the famous Abyssinian Panthers.
The Civic seats 2,378 people on two levels and is host to a range of events including visiting international musicals.
Information on the Civic will be found in the books Celluloid Dreams and Celluloid Circus in our online shop.
50 years of the Consumer's Institute
This month's issue of Consumer marks 50 years of its existence and a gallery of its front covers over the years is here. (We note the complaint about high-handed bnz tactics on the cover of the December 1978 issue - that bank's bad behaviour goes back a fair way!)
The magazine has provided comparative test results on different consumer products on the market, and advice on the full range of services that people are going to want at some stage from government, professionals and tradespeople.
It hasn't always made recommendations we agree with, or for that matter always got its facts right, but it does provide useful pointers and guidelines on what to look for and take into account. Certainly strong consumer watchdogs like this and the TV programs Target and Fair Go are needed to ensure a free market works the way it should.
Hanover victims vote to transfer Watson/Hotchin's toxic assets to Allied Farmers
Victims of corporate scumbags Eric Watson and Mark Hotchin who "invested" in their finance companies voted today in favour of the $396 million deal to transfer the finance companies' assets to Allied Farmers in return for shares in Allied Farmers.
The vote was close, with Hanover Finance secured depositors voting 75.45% in favour and United Finance investors voting 79.48% in favour. The other investor classes, including subordinated noteholders and Hanover Capital investors were more supportive, voting 97.47% and 88.33% in favour.
The deal required 75% approval from each class.
Most of Hanover's "performing" assets will now be transferred to Allied Nationwide Finance business while the "poorer ones" will transferred into an "asset hospital" to be managed through to maturity.
Allied Farmers made a $34 million loss itself last year, the result of goodwill writedowns and "impairments and tough trading" in the rural sector.
One investor at today's meeting praised Hanover co-owner Mark Hotchin "for at least having the guts to front up. Better than that chicken-livered Eric Watson." Another described Mr Watson as a "shyster."
In September 2006, transpress's directors were invited to an address by the chief economist of one of the major banks. One of the questions asked there was what the bank thought of the finance companies - the answer was "we think most of them are toast." At about the same time the Retirement Commissioner was telling people that "the return of your money is more important than the return on your money."
So why did people want to invest with crooks like Watson and Hotchin? Were they just a little bit greedy themselves, wanting a higher return than what the registered banks were offering them? Undoubtedly. But that does not excuse in any way Watson/Hotchin's atrocious behaviour.
We can only hope that anyone who can help ensure that the lives of these crooks are made as much of a misery as they have made the lives of their victims, until they repay what they owe, will do so.
The photo shows Watson at a high society party in New York with Swedish model Lisa Henreckson.
Billions more to be spent on roads
Decisions announced today should delight the trucking industry.
A new four-lane highway will be built through the Kapiti Coast, along the western link road designation. The New Zealand Transport Agency announced this morning that it would build the Sandhills Expressway along the contentious Western Link Road route, running beside the coast from Raumati South to Peka Peka. It will cost between $380 million and $500 million, and will affect between 20 and 50 properties. The current State Highway 1 will become a local road.
And that old much vaunted "grand project", the Transmission Gully bypass, has also been given the green light. Along with improvements around the Basin Reserve and new Wellington tunnels, a total of $2.2 billion will be spent.
Well, despite the fact that the Transmission Gully route involves some pretty steep gradients, it will please the trucking industry no end. For car users, it is a mixed blessing. On the one hand the four lanes involved will mean they will be able to get past the many trucks that clog this section of State Highway 1 more easily. On the other hand, it will be them who will be massively subsidizing the truckies.
If $2 billion was spent instead on improving the rail system... ah yes, much fewer trucks on the State Highways, less road repairs, fewer accidents, less fuel imported, less trucks imported, less carbon emissions, less pollution generally. A beautiful dream and that's all it is going to remain by the look of it.
We should point out that we are not against the trucking industry, and in fact we make a lot of use of it moving our books around the country. We know that road cartage charges are proportionately much cheaper in NZ than what they are in Australia and margins aren't great. Obviously trucks are necessary when it comes to short distance haulage; they should be much less necessary than they are now for long distance haulage, however. What we are against are misleading and distorted economic arguments based on partial considerations. It isn't a question of state versus private enterprise either. In much of Europe the state owns both the roads and the railway lines (and in the west maintains both to high standards), but private operators have their own freight trains. We want honesty and fairness.
40 years since Paris Bastille closed
The station, that is, on the "glacial" night of 14 December 1969. The station served as the terminus of the 54.1 km long line to Vincennes and Verneuil-l'Étang. The line was opened initially to serve the Fort de Vincennes and was extended in 1859 to La Varenne and in 1874 to Brie-Comte-Robert. The line finally reached Verneuil-l'Étang in 1872 and connected to the line to Mulhouse.
The line was doomed with the inauguration of of the RER line A two days earlier on 12 December 1969 into which part of this line was included 5 years later on 14 December 1974. The station was demolished in 1984 and in its place the Opéra de la Bastille was built. Until the end the station was served by steam locomotives hauling rakes of carriages in vert foncé (dark green) through the suburbs. Photos of the station in the last years published in books have a particular atmosphere about them.
This has been the second Paris "grande Ligne" station closure, the first being the Gare d'Orsay in 1939 which now houses the Musée d'Orsay. Six mainline stations remain: Nord, Est, Lyon, Montparnasse, Austerlitz and Saint Lazare, each the terminus for lines stretching to different parts of France.
Three metro lines pass through the Place de la Bastille underground.
Books on French railways are available in our shop.
Thomas the Tank Engine blasted ... is nothing sacred?
Oh dear. A Canadian academic, Shauna Wilton, a professor of political sciences at the University of Alberta, has criticised Thomas the Tank Engine for its "conservative political ideology" and failure to adequately represent women. The show's "right-wing politics" shows the colourful steam engines punished if they show initiative or oppose change, Ms Wilton found. A "class divide" sees the downtrodden workers in the form of Thomas and his friends at the bottom of the social ladder and the "wealthy" Fat Controller, Sir Topham Hatt, at the top.
She was also critical of the fact the show only has eight female characters out of the 49 who feature.
Obviously she hasn't read New Zealand Railfan magazine whose editors insist that all locomotives are feminine and must be referred to as "she".
As for the rest, well it was very much like that in the communist countries too, sweetness.
A little knowledge...
Using English words and phrases in brand names and advertising has become not just fashionable, but almost an obsession in Germany and Austria. Sometimes it's apparent, however, that not everyone knows what they mean.
The last line here says "or also to take away".
Is Dan Brown on to it?
What roads in Eastern Europe look like
Before you start thinking "aren't we well off here", it needs to be pointed out that rail traffic in Eastern Europe, both passenger and goods, is proportionately much higher than in NZ. When financial resources are scarce it makes much more sense to invest money in rail infrastructure over roads.
In NZ the opposite happens - billions of dollars are spent on roads and very little on the railways. The result - trucks smash up the roads and lots more money needs to be spent on repairing them, a kind of vicious cycle. And if the Treasury Wallers had their way and closed down the railways completely, our roads would all look like this very quickly.
Britain, France to get tough on banker bonuses
BRUSSELS, Dec 10 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy are in complete agreement on moves to levy taxes on bankers' bonuses, Brown's spokesman said on Thursday after the two leaders met.
'Obviously they shared their thoughts on that and they are both completely aligned on the importance of that sort of scheme to ensure that going forward we don't repeat the same mistakes of the past and move towards an era of more responsible banking,' Brown's spokesman said.
He said Brown and Sarkozy met for around 30 minutes before an EU summit, holding what he described as 'tete-a-tete' talks on their initiative, which in Britain's case involves imposing a 50 percent tax on bonuses above 25,000 pounds ($40,600).
50 years ago this was a little slice of England .... where??
It is hard to believe that this postcard was taken in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, every vehicle visible a British Ford. What happened to the V8 turnpike cruisers that American Ford was producing at the time? When petrol was cheap, the roads were wide and big, why would Americans have bought English rather than American Fords?
In fact quite a few dinky little European cars were imported into the USA, including from Eastern Europe. The most successful, as in New Zealand, was the Volkswagen. Very few American cars were sold in the UK, however, the reasons for which become obvious when you drive there: roads are narrow, shoulders are rare, and parking is always at a premium.
Click the pic for a larger version. Several books on cars and trucks in all countries are available at our shop.
new book on New Zealand's first airline
The latest book from New Zealand's most prolific aviation author, Rev. Richard Waugh, looks at the history of Air Travel (NZ) Ltd, founded in 1934. Its route of Hokitika to Haast on New Zealand's rain forest covered West Coast against the backdrop of the Southern Alps could scarcely be a more scenic route for any airline.
The book covers some of the subject matter of Richard Waugh's earlier book When the Coast is Clear, but this is specific to Air Travel (NZ) Ltd occasioned by the 75th anniversary, and includes considerable previously unpublished material. As usual he has assembled an impressive assortment of details about the company, its services, aircraft and anecdotes of those who were involved, as well as great photos and items of memorabilia. There are forewords from the Mayor of Westland and Anand Satyanand ('Who?' The Governor General. 'Oh.' Remember now?)
The book has been printed with colour on every second page spread, and like Richard Waugh's previous 10 books, the production is the work of Craigs of Invercargill. They have a most able art director although several of the half-tone photos are rather flat and would have benefited from more contrast.
The title is available in both hardback and softcover editions from our on-line shop.
Telecom breaches Fair Trading Act again
Telecom has pleaded guilty to 17 breaches of the Fair Trading Act. The breaches related to the company's advertising of its Go Large broadband plan and 'unleashed' broadband plans in late 2006
From August to November 2006, Telecom and Xtra undertook an extensive nationwide advertising campaign to promote the Go Large broadband plan and made a number of representations such as "unlimited data usage and all the internet you can handle" and "maximum speed internet".
In December 2006, the Commerce Commission launched an investigation following complaints from Xtra customers who found that the internet speed was constrained, in some cases to dial-up speed and others also found they experienced slower speeds on their new Go Large plan than on their previous plans. The overall impression of the campaign was that the Go Large plan was unique in that it would offer unconstrained faster speeds and no data caps.
However, further details available in the fine print of advertising and on Telecom's website gave the disclaimer 'as fast as a user's line will allow' and outlined the possibility of constraints which included a 'traffic management policy' for use during peak times and for those using peer-to-peer applications, such as downloading music and movies.
The Commission established that a change made in early December 2006 to how the Go Large plan was administered meant that the traffic management policy applied at all times and across all applications, not just to peer-to-peer traffic. This meant that in some cases customers were not experiencing unconstrained speeds.
Are we surprised? Hardly. The only surprise is that people still want to use Telecom and its subsidiaries.
Do we need the British honours system?
About now a list of recipients of honours to be announced on New Years Eve will have been decided upon.
Back in March, Prime Minister John Key announced that orders of chivalry would once again be awarded to recognize services to New Zealand. Knighthoods were abolished by the previous government and titles were replaced by the honours Principal and Distinguished Companions of the Order of New Zealand. Mr Key said the replacement honours had no resonance with the public and it was a "pleasure" to reverse the move.
Undoubtedly for most people The Order of New Zealand means about as much as The Order of Guatemala, but do we need British Sirs and Dames? They represent an olde worlde 'old school tie' syndrome and basically you got a knighthood for being where you were, rather than for what you had actually done. With a few notable exceptions (for example, Ernest Rutherford, Edmund Hillary, Howard Morrison) most NZ recipients of knighthoods have been fuddy-duddies at best, crooks at worst (e.g. Messrs Fay & Richwhite).
Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the British Empire, Order of the Companions of Honour and Knight Bachelor.... er, yeah, real New Zealand isn't it? Phil Goff, who replaced Ms Clark as leader of the Labour Party said at the time, "It seems odd that we move back to having sirs, madams and dames when we thought that that was part of an English colonial system, not one that reflects New Zealand as a truly independent country."
And by the way, if you happen to hold an honour from any other country, you're out of luck: the official rules state: "New Zealand does not recognize foreign titles of nobility (other than those previously recognised by the Crown under a British Royal Warrant dated 27 April 1932). A foreign citizen holding a title shall cease to use the title in question on becoming a New Zealand citizen."
Hell parks outside Hotchin's $30 mil house
Hell Pizza, that is, a special new pizza named Greed in their honour. And who can deny that NZ's top crooks Mark Hotchin and Eric Watson deserve the other form of Hell?
Needless to say, Hotchin put his lawyers, Chapman Tripp, on to Hell Pizza - the response? "Hanover and Chapman Tripp Go To Hell".
Gotta love those one liners.
new book - Los Angeles: portrait of a city
"Driving down your freeways
Midnight alleys roam
Cops in cars, topless bars
Never saw a woman so alone"
- LA Woman by The Doors
"Sad sad town, sad sad town
In the burning desert
Shanty town, shanty town,
Shanty town of the millionaire"
- Lost Angeles by Colosseum
As those who are familiar with their books know, the German publisher Taschen doesn't do things by halves. We thought our book Wellington: A Capital Century was a solid historical-pictorial portrayal and it certainly is the biggest and most impressive book that anyone has yet published on a New Zealand city, but this tome on LA makes it look small.
LA, a.k.a. "The Big Avocado", "Carmaggedon" and "Lala Land" is a city people love to hate, but yet have a fascination with. This book presents its growth from near desert to the biggest city in California, and geographically the most expansive in the USA, along with all the glitz, glamour, folies, excesses, transport problems (some self-inflicted) and growth pains. Even the industry that city nurtured and is most identified with - movies - regularly depicts it being trashed, most recently in 2012.
Taschen know that people like big photos and the extra large page format, as well as the number of pictures contained in its 572 pages, should satisfy most who pick it up (and just be prepared for its weight).
the Christmas spirit is not what you drink
Over the next few weeks alcohol sales will double as the country indulges in an orgy of parties, boozing and eating. The person whose birthday this is nominally supposed to be celebrating would not be impressed.
So what is the Christmas spirit? Suffice to say it is opposite to the attitudes found among the bosses of bnz, Telecom etc:- concern for others, selflessness, doing the right thing by others. Remember that there are people (and animals) out there who are less well off than you and could use your help.
the Swiss vote to ban minarets
Contrary to expectations, the referendum held in Switzerland last Sunday to ban the construction of minarets on mosques was passed by 57.5%, with only the cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel and Basel City voting against the ban.
Some Swiss now fear that the country's embassies and consulates abroad will be the targets of Muslim violence such as that which was inflicted upon those of Denmark following satirical cartoons published in 2005 by the Jyllands Post newspaper.
Hanover victims vote to transfer Watson/Hotchin's ...
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"Our mission is to provide utility operations personnel with an intuitive map-based collaborative decision support platform that distributes critical business information anywhere and whenever it is needed."
The FAST System (Field Automation for Sanitation Trucks) is an exciting new application for managing sewer maintenance work orders and the associated facilities data and deploying that data to the field.
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When engineers and operators at Georgia Power Corporation (GPC) need maps or reports about their electrical distribution network, they turn to the Distribution Viewer
As is the case with most energy companies today, FirstEnergy Corp of Akron, Ohio, looks at operational efficiency as the key to financial performance improvements and shareholder profit.
FirstEnergy - Thousands of Users and Millions of Asset Assessments
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FirstEnergy is one of the largest utilities in the United States, with nearly 4.5 million electric customers in four states. The company has used NaviGate for several years to view and manage facilities data, customer data, transformer loading, outages and outage history, and circuit reliability information. The system has grown to become a major success story within the company, serving literally thousands of users, most learning of the system by word of mouth and learning to use the system without formal training.
The NaviGate system is called GISView but offers features far beyond simple GIS viewing. Users can obtain self-service hardcopy maps from the system via the NaviGate Printing Module. Hundreds of printed maps are produced each week. Engineers use the system to do electric traces, to the tune of nearly one thousand trace operations each day. And the NaviGate Advanced Viewing Module provides a way for engineers to customize their map view based on the attributes of features on the map, such as electric circuit and phase, transformer capacity, or number of customers affected by an outage. This feature is used hundreds of times per week to generate special-purpose maps for all kinds of analysis and presentation purposes.
In 2008, FirstEnergy extended the successful NaviGate installation with the NaviGate Field Data Entry Module and the NaviGate Disconnected Option. These new modules are in use by nearly 100 field and operations personnel who are charged with providing an all-system assessment. In a radically progressive move, FirstEnergy staff will assess virtually every asset in their huge electrical network in order to plan and execute a massive investment in infrastructure. The assessments will allow network planning staff to proactively identify which assets are most critically in need of upgrade or repair.
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Nice! I've been playing around with DADGAD a little too (I need to record with it). I really like the groove of the verses. You always have interesting instrumentation, sparse but effective.


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The houses I am making for a "Houses for Habitat" fundraiser are now making a village. There was a brief respite from the recent rain so I took a photo in front of my dog house to show you some of the houses as a collection. All of these houses use the same basic pattern, but I always try to vary them with gables, dormers, altered rooflines, colors, finishes, settings, etc.
I finished the second bat wing house called "The Count's Keep" with the home improvements I talked about in the last post. It's the one with the purple windows in the front. I am pleased with it, but I must admit I like the blue windows better. Purple may be more like Halloween though. What do you think?
I will write more about that later tonight. I have to work for a few hours while one of my co-workers goes to his daughter's dance recital. See you later.
They look wonderful all lined up together! I do likek the purple very much but I do like the blue windows and door, they are quite striking….


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Angelo has over 34 years experience in hairdressing starting at very young age of just 15. Angelo has a very strong passion for hair, buying his first salon at 22 and has now owned it for over 27 years. Angelo loves all aspects in hair, but his most favorite would have to be Style Cutting. Working with different forms and structural designs, Angelo loves creating different and unique looks easy for the client to maintain all year round. Working close with L'oreal and Vidal Sassoon Angelo loves traveling the world to places like London, Greece and Italy, learning new and exciting techniques ensuring clients always get the very best and latest trends.
With over 35 years experience, owning 3 salons in her life time so far, and a family history in the trade, Tina has a love of hair that runs through her veins. Some attributes Tina prides herself on are, being passionate and positive in work and in life, constantly wanting to learn about new and exciting products and ranges available, ensuring clients always have the very best for them and their hair. Her absolute passion is the happiness clients feel leaving her salon. Tina has participated in some events such as Sydney and Melbourne Fashion week, doing hair for Miss South Australia Pageant and entering competitions, including L'Oreal Colour Trophy.
Viv is our jack of all trades, qualified in all forms of beauty including waxing, makeup, skincare and nails, Viv is your one stop for all beauty needs. With her approachable personality, Viv is easy to talk to, always happy to have a laugh with and ensures the client leaves feeling absolutely beautiful. Working with Ultraceuticals my clients and I have seen real results so I am happy to be working with the highest quality beauty product.
Qualified in beauty, Melissa decided to broaden her horizon and fell in love with hairdressing. Finding an outlet in which she could be creative, Melissa isn't afraid to play around with colors, textures and new techniques. With an eager to learn new skills and the latest styles, Melissa makes sure she keeps up her education by attending courses and shows and brings back tips inspiring us all.
One of our emerging stylist, Jamilee has been in the industry for 4 years starting her career by coming runner up in the Hair & Beauty SA catwalk competition 2015. Highly motivated and a forever growing passion for hair she has been accredited in a certificate for color contouring. With her creative flair, friendly, caring approach and personal touch. She will give you a unforgettable hair journey experience! Loves to transform and make clients feel and look their absolute best you wont be disappointed!
Thuy is one of our junior stylist with an outgoing personality who fits in perfectly with our Marro's family. She has a unique style and a passion for hair with willingness to learn and grow with new ideas as styles continue to change. Making someone feel good is what motivates Thuy to do hair, so keep your eye open as she starts perfecting in fashion color and styling.
With the golden chance to model and becoming a State Finalist for the 2018 L'Oreal Colour Trophy for Tina and Angelo, this allowed me to rekindle my love and passion for the hair industry, ultimately deciding to pursue my hairdressing career and starting my apprenticeship. My hunger to learn, grow and strive to be the best of my ability was achieved with the help of amazing mentorship and guidance from the Marro's family. I'm excited to discover where my journey will go, embracing this extraordinary industry and everything it has to offer.


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Q: regarding to dependecy and depepndecy injection I want to know what is dependency and dependency injection is in Magento 2 as I want to know the very basic definition from real-world example because I have surf a lot but not getting the idea about this terms if you can help me. Thanks in advance!

A: Dependency injection is a principle for decoupling your application. Here the definition :

Entities must depend on abstractions, not on concretions. It states that the high-level module must not depend on the low-level module, but they should depend on abstractions.

That mean you use the interface instead of the concrete class
For more details, see the SOLID principles
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This is a darling home and waiting for you. The mature landscape is the first thing you notice when arriving to this home. It has a large front porch to sit and enjoy your neighborhood. This home offers 4 bedrooms, 2 baths and a large family room with an inviting fireplace looking out to the backyard. There is 1,338 sq ft of living space, not including the big backyard patio. Carpets have been professionally cleaned. Much sought after area off of Nees and Chestnut.
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1828.mshaffer.com › Word [judge]
JUDGE, n. [L. judex, supposed to be compounded of jus, law or right, and dico, to pronounce.]
1. A civil officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine causes, civil or criminal, between parties, according to his commission; as the judges of the king's bench, or of the common pleas; judges of the supreme court, of district courts, or of a county court. The judge of a court of equity is called a chancellor.
2. The Supreme Being.
Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? Gen.18.
3. One who presides in a court of judicature.
4. One who has skill to decide on the merits of a question, or on the value of any thing; one who can discern truth and propriety.
A man who is no judge of law, may be a good judge of poetry or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting.
5. In the history of Israel, a chief magistrate, with civil and military powers. The Israelites were governed by judges more than three hundred years, and the history of their transactions is called the book of Judges.
6. A juryman or juror. In criminal suits, the jurors are judges of the law as well as of the fact.
JUDGE, v.i. [L. judico.]
1. To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their agreement or disagreement, and thus to distinguish truth from falsehood.
Judge not according to the appearance John 7.
2. To form an opinion; to bring to issue the reasoning or deliberations of the mind.
If I did not know the originals, I should not be able to judge, by the copies, which was Virgil and which Ovid.
3. To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to pass sentence. He was present on the bench, but could not judge in the case.
The Lord judge between thee and me. Gen.16.
4. To discern; to distinguish; to consider accurately for the purpose of forming an opinion or conclusion.
Judge in yourselves; is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? 1 Cor.11.
JUDGE, v.t. To hear and determine a case; to examine and decide.
Chaos shall judge the strife.
1. To try; to examine and pass sentence on.
Take ye him and judge him according to your law.
John 18.
God shall judge the righteous and the wicked. Eccles.3.
2. Rightly to understand and discern.
He that is spiritual, judgeth all things. 1 Cor.2.
3. To censure rashly; to pass severe sentence.
Judge not, that ye be not judged. Matt.7.
4. To esteem; to think; to reckon.
If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord--
Acts.16.
5. To rule or govern.
The Lord shall judge his people. Heb.10.
6. To doom to punishment; to punish.
I will judge thee according to thy ways. Ezek. 7.
Evolution (or devolution) of this word [judge]
JUDGE, n. [Fr. juge; Sp. juez; Port. juiz; It. giudice; L. judex, supposed to be compounded of jus, law or right, and dico, to pronounce. "Hinc judex, quod jus dicat accepta potestate." Varro.]
A civil officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine causes, civil or criminal, between parties, according to his commission; as, the judges of the king's bench, or of the common pleas; judges of the supreme court, of district courts, or of a county court. The judge of a court of equity is called a chancellor.
The Supreme Being. Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? – Gen. xviii.
One who presides in a court of judicature.
One who has skill to decide on the merits of a question, or on the value of any thing; one who can discern truth and propriety. A man who is no judge of law, may be a good judge of poetry or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting. – Dryden.
In the history of Israel, a chief magistrate, with civil and military powers. The Israelites were governed by judges more than three hundred years, and the history of their transactions is called the book of judges.
A juryman or juror. In criminal suits, the jurors are judges of the law as well as of the fact.
JUDGE, v.i. [Fr. juger; L. judico; It. giudicare; Sp. juzgar.]
To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their agreement or disagreement, and thus to distinguish truth from falsehood. Judge not according to the appearance. John vii.
To form an opinion; to bring to issue the reasoning or deliberations of the mind. If I did not know the originals, I should not be able to judge, by the copies, which was Virgil and which Ovid. – Dryden.
To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to pass sentence. He was present on the bench, but could not judge in the case. The Lord judge between thee and me. – Gen. xvi.
To discern; to distinguish; to consider accurately for the purpose of forming an opinion or conclusion. Judge in yourselves; is it comely that a woman pray to God uncovered? – 1 Cor. xi.
JUDGE, v.t.
To hear and determine a case; to examine and decide. Chaos shall judge the strife. – Milton.
To try; to examine and pass sentence on. Take ye him and judge him according to your law. – John xviii. God shall judge the righteous and the wicked. – Eccles. iii.
Rightly to understand and discern. He that is spiritual, judgeth all things. – 1 Cor. ii.
To censure rashly; to pass severe sentence. Judge not, that ye be not judged. – Matth. vii.
To esteem; to think; to reckon. If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord. – Acts xvi.
To rule or govern. The Lord shall judge his people. – Heb. x.
To doom to punishment; to punish. I will judge thee according to thy ways. – Ezek. vii.
A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose.
The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence] to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence. Bacon.
To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.
The Lord judge between thee and me. Gen. xvi. 5.
Father, who art judge
Of all things made, and judgest only right! Milton.
To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.
"Chaos [shall] judge the strife." Milton.
One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic.
A man who is no judge of law may be a good judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting. Dryden.
To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3.
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. Shak.
To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.
God shall judge the righteous and the wicked. Eccl. iii. 7.
To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness,
And to be judged by him. Shak.
A person appointed to decide in a trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race.
To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about.
Judge not according to the appearance. John vii. 24.
She is wise if I can judge of her. Shak.
To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.
Judge not, that ye be not judged. Matt. vii. 1.
One of the supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.
To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.
If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord. Acts xvi. 15.
The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.
Judge Advocate (Mil. *** Nav.), a person appointed to act as prosecutor at a court-martial] he acts as the representative of the government, as the responsible adviser of the court, and also, to a certain extent, as counsel for the accused, when he has no other counsel. -- Judge-Advocate General, in the United States, the title of two officers, one attached to the War Department and having the rank of brigadier general, the other attached to the Navy Department and having the rank of colonel of marines or captain in the navy. The first is chief of the Bureau of Military Justice of the army, the other performs a similar duty for the navy. In England, the designation of a member of the ministry who is the legal adviser of the secretary of state for war, and supreme judge of the proceedings of courts-martial.
Syn. -- Judge, Umpire, Arbitrator, Referee. A judge, in the legal sense, is a magistrate appointed to determine questions of law. An umpire is a person selected to decide between two or more who contend for a prize. An arbitrator is one chosen to allot to two contestants their portion of a claim, usually on grounds of equity and common sense. A referee is one to whom a case is referred for final adjustment. Arbitrations and references are sometimes voluntary, sometimes appointed by a court.
To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.
[Obs.]
Make us a king to judge us. 1 Sam. viii. 5.
JUDGE, noun [Latin judex, supposed to be compounded of jus, law or right, and dico, to pronounce.]
Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? Genesis 18:25.
JUDGE, verb intransitive [Latin judico.]
JUDGE not according to the appearance John 7:24.
If I did not know the originals, I should not be able to judge by the copies, which was Virgil and which Ovid.
The Lord judge between thee and me. Genesis 16:5.
JUDGE in yourselves; is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? 1 Corinthians 11:13.
JUDGE, verb transitive To hear and determine a case; to examine and decide.
God shall judge the righteous and the wicked. Ecclesiastes 3:17.
He that is spiritual, judgeth all things. 1 Corinthians 2:15.
JUDGE not, that ye be not judged. Matthew 7:1.
Acts 16:15.
The Lord shall judge his people. Hebrews 10:30.
I will judge thee according to thy ways. Ezekiel 7:3.
To keep God's Word in the English language pure and true; I need to know the meaning of the original English word and not the changing, and sometimes the corrupt, word of today.
— Jimmy (Corpus Christi, TX)
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INDESCRIP'TIVE, a. Not descriptive or containing just description.