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Post by BURNING Violin » Thu Dec 22, 2016 2:54 pm
In the last month I have immersed myself in Leonard Cohen's beautiful songs, and although I have only been a fan for 15 years or so, I have spent many hours enjoying his recordings. His last three albums are a wonderful addition to his work and I find myself playing these three more and more of late. I was also lucky enough to see the great man live in 2013 which was a true pleasure to have been in his presence.
He always came across as a gentle soul in interviews and in his songs too. He will be greatly missed but his legacy will live on forever.
I offer my condolences to Leonard's family and friends.
So long, Leonard RIP
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Post by JudasPriest » Sun Dec 25, 2016 3:07 pm
The first Christmas Day without our Lenny- gone but not forgotten...
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Post by vickiwoodyard » Sun Dec 25, 2016 5:11 pm
Yes, for us he is ever-present in his absence.
Post by car205 » Thu Dec 29, 2016 4:19 am
He's my man! Grateful I never met him because I would have fallen madly in love! He would have broken my heart and I would have ended up the subject of one of his songs! RIP Leonard, I love you
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Post by Arthur Y » Thu Dec 29, 2016 12:00 pm
Dear Mr. Leonard Cohen,
I had always thought, somehow, that when the day would come when I might be caught in the moment somewhere, to hear of your passing, from this world into this next, I would be near enough to Montreal - a train-ride from Toronto, a late flight out of Vancouver - to remember you, and celebrate your life, in your hometown.
This past year, I have been living and working in Seoul, Korea, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, and I was already deep into a winter semester teaching schedule when I first heard news, on facebook, that you had taken leave of us. What a small and vital grace it was that it was my undergraduate poetry prof who had posted the word on her timeline, in short: What will we do... Leonard Cohen, love...
What will we do...? In that first week of just laying low, not even listening to much of your music, just quietly getting through workdays, sharing with a few close friends and colleagues that Leonard Cohen had passed away and geez, I'm a little broken up about it... during those first days, this forum was the place to get linked in with some like-minded friends, companions at a remove, each contributing their offerings of closeness: a common heart shared in the moment.
And so, snapping out of too much sluggish sadness - because, actually, what a life - your life's work, the monument of a lifetime lived so fully...
So many of us bereft that you had to leave just at this moment - but really, in your wake, in the spirit that imbued your leave-taking...
You really left "no observer to mourn...", at least not too injuriously, and no, never into hopelessness.
So, shaking off too much gloominess on the occasion, I got to working on the first thing that seemed like a small, if also vital, form of remembrance and tribute. On the pretext of a time capsule collage assignment for my upper-year high school students, I went in with my own sleeves rolled up, scissors and pots of glue, the works.
A translation of the Korean text on the November calendar page around which the collage is based:
"One good sentence / Is a world unto itself"
You've gone from us, Mr. Cohen, but you've left us whole worlds of meaning, atmospheres of deep feeling, spoken and unspoken, to occupy and move around in, for a lifetime.
Thank you, Mr. Cohen. Thank you for so much.
Dear Leonard. . .
LEONARD COHEN SHABBAT / THE WINDOW, 2014 / LEONARD & JONI
Post by jarkko » Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:23 pm
Paul Zollo at https://americansongwriter.com/2016/12/ ... /?mid=8862
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"If I knew where the great songs came from," Leonard Cohen famously said, "I would go there more often." In fact, during his 82 years of life, he went there a whole lot more than most humans ever do, and with a devotion to songwriting almost religious in its fervor, resulting in a bounty of miracle songs.
That songwriting for him was more of a calling than a job was never more evident than in this final year of his life when, immobilized, in great pain, knowing the end was near, he devoted himself to one final task: writing and recording a new album of songs. It's a mission accomplished, as he released the remarkable You Want It Darker earlier this year in the final month of his life. Produced with his beloved son, Adam Cohen, it's his ultimate masterpiece, the final brick in his Tower of Song.
Weakened by illness, rather than do a series of interviews to promote the album, he decided to do one single press event to which journalists from around the world, including a few lucky Americans like this writer, were invited. Held at the beautiful Canadian Consulate in the stately Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, it was a remarkable night of reverence and love for Cohen, peopled only by those writers who have been devoted to him for decades, as well as a few famous friends and collaborators.
"There was something holy about it," said the Anglo-Greek singer-songwriter Athena Andreadis, who sang the haunting background vocals on "Traveling Light," a track from the new album. "I have never felt anything quite like it. It was his final gift to us, and such a beautiful one. Just to be in his presence was a great privilege, and to share this delivery of his final work. I will never forget it."
The press event happened October 13, which was also the 75th birthday of Paul Simon, and the day the news broke that Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. But throughout the night, one comment kept popping up among the press: "If they gave that award to any songwriter, it should have been Leonard."
The truth is, Dylan would probably agree. Throughout the decades he has consistently sung Cohen's praises, saying at one point that Cohen wasn't even writing songs anymore, he was writing prayers. Cohen, in return, has expressed great awe at Dylan's work and his vast range. "That kind of genius," he said, "can manifest all the forms and styles."
More recently, Dylan pointed out that when people talk of Cohen, they speak only of the words, but that his music mattered just as much. It's true, of course, and points to the fact that these are songs, not poems. Sure, Cohen would always joke about his own limitations as a musician ("Every guitarist has chops," he said. "Me, I only have one chop. But it's a good one."), yet he composed music of great grace and power, as simple and elegant as his words. "Hallelujah" would never have become a standard if not for that ingenious ascending melody, which matches the words impeccably, and goes straight to the heart.
The truth remains that, unlike almost every songwriter who arrived in Dylan's wake and was impacted forever by him, Cohen was on his own spiritual and poetic path from the start. As the poet Allen Ginsberg said, "When Dylan came out, he blew everyone's mind. Everyone except Leonard Cohen, that is."
On this night, after dinner and drinks amid candles under moonlight, with poster-sized passages of his lyrics from the new album illuminated throughout the garden, we were ushered into a small chapel-like space for a listening session. Handed lyric books, we all sat in silence, united by the presence of greatness, and in awe of the realms he could access even while fighting for his life. His voice, surrounded by his son's production, resounded more deeply than ever, resonating like the voice of God himself.
When the album was over (and many were still drying their tears), the great man himself appeared at the back of the room, in a dark suit and fedora, walking with a cane. The whole room rose to its feet and cheered. He slowly walked down the aisle, as if at a wedding, smiling that beatific Cohen smile.
Before anyone could ask a question, he addressed the assembled crowd, and, as was his way, opened with a joke. "Some of you have come from a long, long way to be here and I appreciate it," he said. "Some of you have driven across Los Angeles, which takes about the same time."
The first question concerned his health, as he'd made recent statements about the end being near. Again his whimsical charm surfaced. "I said I was ready to die, recently. And I think I was exaggerating." Huge laughter erupted, with some sense of relief that maybe he was out of the darkness. Then he added, "I've always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever." We cheered. We believed him because we wanted to. Rarely have I felt that kind of unanimous love and awe for an artist, and it was clear that Cohen felt it, too.
One month to this day he was gone. Although he promised eternity, his recognition of death's imminence was already spelled out in the songs we had just heard, as it was in the second answer he offered that night:
"If you're lucky," he said, "you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you're lucky. Your own intentions have very little to do with this. You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible. But whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice."
He was a humble man, but never falsely so. He embraced the greatness of his work with a kind of parental pride more than any kind of ownership. When asked how he maintained such excellence throughout the decades, he said, "I don't know, but I think that as any songwriter knows, and I think Bob Dylan knows this better than any of us, you don't write the songs anyhow."
Back in 1992 when I first interviewed him and admitted that "Suzanne" seemed like a songwriting miracle, he didn't disagree: "It is a miracle," he said, and then first delivered his great, "If I knew where the great songs came from" line. But this first time around, it came with an addendum: "It's much like the life of a Catholic nun," he said. "You're married to a mystery."
It's a mystery he's embraced over his career with unflagging fidelity. Even in his last years, when the pain made it impossible to play an instrument, he never stopped writing. Instead, he wrote mostly just words, and turned to Adam, and to songwriters Sharon Robinson and Patrick Leonard, to compose music for his lyrics.
"I felt like the luckiest guy in the world," Patrick Leonard said. "Here Leonard Cohen is sending me lyrics. It was amazing to me. Still is." Some of the songs, Patrick said, took a full seven years to complete. "But it was mostly him changing small words. He would work and rework a lyric a thousand times to get it perfect."
Asked how Cohen responded to his music, he said, "When he liked something, he would email me right away. If he didn't like it, I would hear nothing. And I would know it was time to start over."
Cohen, however, was quick to establish on this night that there was nothing heroic about taking years to write a single song. "The fact that my songs take a long time to write," he said, "is no guarantee of their excellence. It just takes a long time for me. I'm very slow. It comes by dribbles and drops. Some people are graced with a flow. Some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those."
When repeatedly pressed to disclose his working methods, he said the process remains as mysterious as when he began, but that the work has grown even harder. The only personal detail divulged was that he long ago learned to keep his surroundings sparse and simple to counter the chaos in his mind.
"Everybody has a kind of magical system that they employ in the hopes that this will open up the channels," he said. "My mind was always very cluttered so I took great pains to simplify my environment. Because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has worked for me, even though I have had to sweat over every word. That's just me. For some people it comes faster, for some it comes slower."
This echoed a statement he made in our first interview: "My immediate realm of thought is bureaucratic and like a traffic jam," he said. "My ordinary state of mind is very much like the waiting room at the DMV… So to penetrate this chattering and this meaningless debate that is occupying most of my attention, I have to come up with something that really speaks to my deepest interest. Otherwise I just nod off in one way or another. So to find that song, that urgent song, takes a lot of versions and a lot of work and a lot of sweat."
"That urgent song." There, in that phrase, is the yearning, the boundless appetite, to realize that song completely. Yet despite this urgency and ambition, he was never one to subscribe to the school of instant songwriting, of writing and recording something immediately to capture its essence. Quite the opposite. He believed in the power of work, and questioned the very premise of inspiration.
"Why shouldn't my work be hard? Almost everybody's work is hard. One is distracted by this notion that there is such a thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff, to come up with the payload."
His obsession with Sisyphean labor surfaced many times, as he described himself as a prisoner of song, forced to work or perish. "Freedom and restriction," he said, "are just luxurious terms to one who is locked in a dungeon in the tower of song. These are just … ideas. I don't have the sense of restriction or freedom. I just have the sense of work. I have the sense of hard labor."
Yet, despite that self-portrait, it was clear his greatest contentment was not just in the finished song, but in the process itself. "I think unemployment is the great affliction of man," he said. "Even people with jobs are unemployed. In fact, most people with jobs are unemployed. I can say, happily and gratefully, that I am fully employed …. We have a sense here that it's smart not to work. The hustle, the con, these have been elevated to a very high position in our morality. And probably if I could mount a con or a hustle in terms of my own work I would … But I am a working stiff. It takes me months and months of full employment to break the code of the song. To find out if there can be a song there."
Asked how he broke that code, he offered his vision of what songwriting is.
"I try anything that I can bring to it," he said. "Thought, meditation, drinking, disillusion, insomnia, vacations. Because once the song enters the mill, it's worked on by everything that I can summon. And I need everything. I try everything. I try to ignore it, try to repress it, try to get high, try to get intoxicated, try to get sober, all the versions of myself that I can summon are summoned to participate in this project, this work force."
"In your experience, do any of these things work better than others?" I asked.
"No, he said. "Nothing works. Nothing works. After a while, if you stick with a song long enough it will yield. But long enough is way beyond any reasonable estimation of what you think long enough may be. In fact, long enough is way beyond. It's abandoning that idea of what you think long enough may be."
The title song of You Want It Darker revolves around the image of a flame being extinguished, a poignant symbol of death. Ostensibly a song of darkness, it's also one of acceptance, of readying one's self for the end.
Magnified and sanctified
Be Thy Holy Name
Vilified and crucified
In the human frame
A million candles burning
For the help that never came
We kill the flame
Hineni Hineni
I'm ready, my Lord.
Hineni, in the ancient Hebrew of his ancestors, means "I'm here," followed in English, with "I'm ready, my Lord."
When asked about this, he said, "I don't really know the genesis, the origin, enabling that declaration of readiness, no matter what the outcome. That is a part of everyone's soul. We all are motivated by deep impulses and deep appetites to serve, even though we may not be able to locate that which are willing to serve. So this is just a part of my nature. And I think it would also be my nature to offer one's self when the emergency becomes articulate. It's only when the emergency becomes articulate that we can locate that willingness to serve."
A kind of stunned silence followed, as the crowd absorbed the fullness of what he said. Sensing this, he added, "That's getting too heavy. I'm sorry. Strike that." Much laughter. Even weakened, his voice softer than ever, the man knew how to work a crowd.
When asked his opinion of Dylan's award, he said, "To me, giving that award to Dylan is like pinning a medal on Mt. Everest for being the highest mountain."
When Adam took the stage to sit next to his father, Cohen smiled with an exultant openness rarely revealed in photos. "My son," he said with glee, and the whole room laughed. Adam, he said, was both a gifted singer-songwriter and producer, and came in to rescue this album when it might have gone unfinished. "To have this kind of microscopic attention to my music," the elder Cohen said, "was very great."
Adam, who produced the album and co-wrote "Traveling Light" with his father and Patrick Leonard, spoke about his gratitude for his life with Cohen, and for the opportunity to work so closely together. "Just to be in my father's company, for me," he said, "was a great privilege."
To which Cohen quipped, to much laughter: "Truth is, we're not a very tight family."
The first time Cohen completely surrendered to the idea of devoting his entire life to songwriting, he said in 1992, was when he spent months working on the song "Suzanne," and came to recognize his destiny.
"At a certain point I realized I only had one ball in my hand, and that was the song," he said. "Everything else had been wrecked or compromised and I couldn't go back, and I was a one-ball juggler. I'd do incredible things with that ball to justify the absurdity of the presentation. Because what are you going to do with that ball? You don't have three anymore. You've just got one. And maybe only one arm. What are you going to do? You can flip it off your wrist, or bounce it off your head. You have to come up with some pretty good moves. You have to learn them from scratch. And that's what I learned, that you have to learn them from scratch."
This dedication never waned. Often he'd labor for months working on one verse alone, only to discard it, as he did with many from the epic "Democracy" from 1992's The Future. He shared some of these discards with me, all of which were faithfully archived in bound journals, and said, "I'm very happy to be able to speak this way to fellow craftsmen. Some people may find it encouraging to see how slow and painstaking is the process."
Then he showed this:
From the church where the outcasts can hide
Or the mosque where the blood is dignified.
Like the fingers on your hand,
Like the hourglass of sand,
We can separate but not divide
From the eye above the pyramid
And the dollar's cruel display
From the law behind the law,
Behind the law we still obey
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
When asked why he would write something so compelling only to abandon it, his answer was as eloquent as the lyric itself. "Because I didn't want to compromise the anthemic, hymn-like quality," he said." I didn't want it to get too punchy. I didn't want to start a fight in the song. I wanted a revelation in the heart rather than a confrontation or a call-to-arms or a defense."
A revelation in the heart. A dynamic that sings throughout all his songs since the beginning, this luminous juncture of brilliance and heart. As he wrote in a verse he didn't cut from "Democracy": "And it's here the family's broken and it's here the lonely say, the heart has got to open in a fundamental way." His was an open heart.
Even his explanation of his need to fully develop a verse before rejecting it was beautiful: "Before I can discard a verse," he said, "I have to write it. Even if it's bad. And it's just as hard to write a bad verse as a good verse. I can't discard a verse before it is written because it is the writing of the verse that produces whatever delights or interests or facets that are going to catch the light. The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines."
That the work became his religion is evident to anyone who knows the songs, which resonate with holiness and deep, ancient wisdom. As Dylan explained, these songs all resound with timeless sanctity. At the final event, Cohen explained that although the Bible and religion have informed and shaped his songs over the years, it was always the work, more than anything, which was his religion.
"I've never thought of myself as a religious person," he said. "I don't have any spiritual strategy. I kind of limped along, as so many of us do in these realms. Occasionally I have felt the grace of another presence in my life. But I can't build any kind of spiritual structure on that."
But when it comes to the work, the songs themselves, it is there that the Bible matters most. "I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with," he said. "This Biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and repeated them. That's no longer the case today. But it is still my landscape. I try to make those references. I try to make sure they're not too obscure. But outside of that I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm as my own."
Regarding his perpetual aim for perfection, his answer echoed both Dylan and The Bible:
"At a certain point," he said, "when the Jews were first commanded to raise an altar, the commandment was on unhewn stone. Apparently the god that wanted that particular altar didn't want slick, didn't want smooth. He wanted an unhewn stone placed on another unhewn stone … Now I think Dylan has lines, hundreds of great lines that have the feel of unhewn stone. But they really fit in there. But they're not smoothed out. It's inspired but not polished."
Cohen, however, as we know, would polish his stones until they shone like diamonds. Rarely did they reveal any axe-marks, especially these final ones. To the very end his objective remained to work and rework the songs to a realm of almost impossible perfection, each one built tight as a brick, never a wasted word. On these last songs, each lyric is compressed into compact, essential lines, perfectly metered and rhymed. The brevity of the lines, as if delivered by someone short of breath, not long for this world, is hauntingly poignant.
But if the road
Leads back to you
Must I forget
The things I knew
When I was friends
With one or two
We used to do
I'm traveling light
At the conclusion of our last night with him, he left us all with hope that we would see and hear from him again. "Thanks for coming, friends," he said warmly. "I really appreciate it. I really appreciated your standing up when I came into the room. Hoping to do this again. I intend to stick around until 120."
He also admitted to a fondness for hummingbirds. "I have always loved those magical little creatures," he said, and recited a recently composed song about them, only words so far, no music.
Listen to the hummingbird
Whose wings you cannot see
Don't listen to me
Listen to the butterfly
Whose days but number three
Listen to the mind of God
Which doesn't need to be
After the applause faded, he added, "I would say the hummingbird deserves royalties on that one." When asked if it would be on the next album, he said, softly, "God willing."
That a songwriter and singer would end a long and remarkable career with the statement, "Don't listen to me," says everything about the soul of Leonard Cohen. At the end he pointed us all away from this light shining on him to the light inside all things, the source of all songs. The place where great songs come from.
It's where he is now.
Post by vickiwoodyard » Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:56 pm
A beautifully written piece about Leonard. Those of us who love him will read it with teary grateful eyes. Such an honor to our man for the ages, now. Though he is gone, he is ever present. May we all gather in his light as he comes to us via his songs, his words, his fragrance, his delicacy, his wit and beauty. We can all say "More, more..." as we play his music daily and feel we are still deeply in touch with him.
Post by Aude » Tue Jan 17, 2017 1:29 pm
Cher Leonard,
J'ai rêvé de vous cette nuit. Et je me suis réveillée ce matin pleine de joie. Joyeuse de ce moment passé à vos côtés, joyeuse d'avoir pu bénéficier d'un petit extra. Je savais, dans mon rêve, que votre disparation était proche et j'étais bien consciente de la chance de vivre cette conversation avec vous. Alors je suis venue ici pour vous dire merci pour ce rêve et merci d'avoir existé.
Vous vivez tous les jours dans mon cœur.
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Post by Mingxin » Wed Jan 18, 2017 12:32 am
Aude, your comment is so beautiful. Merci.
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Post by oldfriend28 » Wed Jan 18, 2017 2:46 am
Merci, Aude. Unfortunately my French from school days is not up to translating! I see Cher Leonard and other comments, and am sure it is a lovely tribute.
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Post by Vicomte » Wed Jan 18, 2017 6:03 pm
I have dreamt about you this night. And I woke up this morning full of joy. Happy of this moment spent by your side, joyful to have been able to benefit from a little more. I knew, in my dream, that your disappearance was near and I was well aware of the chance to live this conversation with you. So I came here to say thank you for this dream and thank you for having existed.
You live every day in my heart.
This I believe is fairly close to what Aude wanted to say in English
I guess it all started for me sometime around Christmas 1967 and now, goodness me, it's.........2018 and over fifty years later.
No one ever listens to me. I might as well be a Leonard Cohen record.
Neil from The Young Ones
Post by vickiwoodyard » Wed Jan 18, 2017 6:50 pm
Lovely to read these words. I have dreamt of him myself, as have many who love him. We know he is not gone because we would know sorrow over his passing. Instead, there is gratitude and a daily knowledge that he left us with riches of the heart.
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Post by TonyAudley » Wed Jan 18, 2017 9:07 pm
My best friend, for nearly 50 years - though I never met him.
The concerts I went to will live on with me through the rest of my life, and his works will last forever.
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L.C. in Hydra!!
Post by leonesa » Thu Feb 02, 2017 4:16 pm
I ' ll be in Hydra in a couple of month and hope to pay my tribute in front of his house.
can anybody help me to find the house.
hydra is a labyrinth and no good references about the address.
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Post by jongrep » Thu Feb 02, 2017 7:43 pm
leonesa wrote: Hi,
Ask for the Four Corners supermarket (grocery store), ask the people there. It is 50–100 yards from the store.


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2XC started in response to male-dominated discussion threads on Reddit. Three years later, it has 94,000 subscribers.
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Published Jul 16, 2012 Updated Jun 2, 2021, 2:28 pm CDT
Three years ago today, Reddit made its first step toward gender diversity on a site dominated by male voices. Subreddit r/TwoXChromosomes celebrates its third birthday, emerging more influential about women's issues than ever before.
In that short period of time, the site has collected 94,000 readers, helped break news about feminist issues, and brought countless women (and friends of women) together.
"TwoX has grown like whoa in its three years," founder and moderator HiFructoseCornFeces told the Daily Dot. "Our traffic stats show upwards of 2 million hits per month, which indicates that the subreddit is cool, controversial, or addicting. Sometimes it is all three."
The founder, who asked to be referenced only by her username, said the subreddit was a side effect of her own Reddit addiction. When she began to notice other redditors "confess" to being women in the comments of other discussions, she wanted them to have their own place.
"As much as people say that the stereotypical redditor is a white male working in IT, that same stereotype seemed to echo even louder back then," she said. "Someone made an AskReddit thread calling for the creation of a place for women, and I made TwoXChromosomes."
HiFructoseCornFeces had hoped to name the subreddit a simple "XX," but users have clearly had no problem finding the community by its lengthier name. As the group has grown, it has become a place not only for discussing women's issues, but sparking them.
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That's just the subreddit's most recent experience breaking news. HiFructoseCornFeces explained that TwoX was also an integral part of getting sexist t-shirts for girls removed from JCPenney's stores.
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"There is something for most everyone in 2XC, regardless of age or gender," she said. "There was definitely not one singular place or person to whom I could have gone five years ago for advice on birth control, girl friendships, love, sex, workplace survival, waxing, makeup, bras, no-heat curls, and life crises. I think it's sanded off some of my cynicism to see that kind of support and camaraderie. We're all pioneering this weird existence together."
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If you knew where you wanted to go but didn't know how to get there, in which direction would you take your first step? Most people understand energy as a finite resource but relatively few have both the expertise and resources to evaluate and efficiently reduce their energy usage. Even those committed to pursuing sustainability face significant technical hurdles associated with topics such as LEED certification, procuring rebates, identifying efficiency and conservation improvements, energy modeling, and the like. In a general sense, we find people are mostly just seeking elevated knowledge – perhaps simply a clear explanation of a complex system or help in identifying key variables that drive energy usage, or perhaps something more tangible like system commissioning or building envelope leakage testing.Regardless, our aim is to provide consultation that lifts clients to a vantage that offers greater and clearer paths to sustainability. We provide elevating ideas that reduce footprint and the pinnacle is our goal.
Ryan McClain, P.E., CxA, LEED-AP, CEM
Ryan McClain earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arkansas. Since then he has continued to enhance his education by adding professional certifications to his education/experience/resume, including being a Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer in Arkansas, a LEED-AP in the area of Existing Building Operations and Maintenance, a Certified Energy Manager with the Association of Energy Engineers, and a Commissioning Authority through the AABC Commissioning Group.
Ryan's professional affiliations are the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Association of Energy Engineers, and the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).
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Shane Lanning earned his Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering from Kansas State University. His professional registrations enhance his education and experience. He is a Registered Professional Electrical and Mechanical Engineer in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, New Mexico, Missouri, Kentucky and Louisiana. He is also a Commissioning Authority (CxA) with the AABC Commissioning Group and LEED-AP in the area of Building Design and Construction.
Shane belongs to the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Illuminating Engineering Society of North American (IES), United States Green Building Council (USGBC), and the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES).


Take the Amtrak Auto Train! Take the Amtrak Auto Train!
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An early web tagline for Backroad Planet was "Your Road Trip and Fly-Drive Travel Source." One of our Twitter followers recently inquired, "What is a fly-drive?" I explained that a fly-drive is when you fly to a destination, rent a car, and take a road trip. For example, when Jerry and I visited Costa Rica, we flew into San José, rented a car, and drove around the country for a week visiting incredible locations such as Villa Hermosa and La Paz Waterfall Gardens.
Although rental cars are great, wouldn't it be even better to have your own vehicle at those distant destinations? If your distant destination happens to be in the Orlando, FL, or Washington, DC, metro areas, you just might be in luck.
This specialty train is similar to most other Amtrak trains, but the Auto Train let's you take your vehicle with you. Following the same general route as Interstate Highway 95, the Amtrak Auto Train runs daily in both directions between its northern terminus in Lorton, Virginia, and its southern terminus in Sanford, Florida.
Arriving at the Sanford Auto Train station.
We took the northbound Auto Train from Sanford to Lorton to expedite one of our more epic road trips. From Lorton, we drove north to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and then made our way back home to Central Florida through the course of the following week.
You could say I'm a bit of an overplanner, but hey, we had a blast driving through all the scenic and historical sites along our southbound route.
Our trusty Mercury Mountaineer waiting to load up on the autorack.
One of the benefits of Auto Train travel is that you don't have to check baggage. Your luggage is safely packed in your car. You will, however, need a small overnight bag or daypack because your vehicle will be inaccessible during the 17.5-hour Auto Train ride.
The Sanford station was packed.
Shortly after boarding we attended a welcome wine and cheese tasting in the lounge car. Note: We have read this amenity was discontinued in March of 2014.
The bi-level Amtrak Superliner sleeping car options are a bedroom with private restroom and shower, or a convertible roomette that accommodates one or two passengers. You may also book regular passenger coach seats. We opted for a roomette with nearby restroom and shower facilities.
How long until we leave?
I don't think we're moving.
Meals are included with your ticket purchase, and our evening dinner was a pleasant and entertaining part of the journey. We were seated with a mother and her adult son and enjoyed casual conversation during the several courses of the meal.
When we returned to our roomette, our sleeping car attendant had converted it for sleeping. The two lower seats created a comfortable bed for one, and an upper berth had been lowered. I claimed the roomy bottom bed, and Jerry got the windowless claustrophobic upper berth. Perhaps not ideal sleeping arrangements, but definitely better than sitting in a coach seat for the overnight run.
Complimentary bottled water and coffee are readily available in the sleeping cars. Believe it or not, the onboard coffee dispenser produced some of the most flavorful joe I have ever tasted. When I returned home, I ordered some of the Dutch Douwe Egbert coffee online, but alas it was not the same.
Crossing the James River near Richmond, Virginia.
The Lorton, Virginia, clock tower.
Let's go pick up the car!
After disembarking in Lorton, we waited an hour or so in a lovely outdoor waiting area for the Mountaineer to be offloaded, although the wait would have been lovelier if we had not spent the time dodging smokers who typically gravitate to us. You can avoid the wait for your car by purchasing Priority Vehicle Offloading, a $50.00 upgrade.
This is SUCH a fun idea! I've traveled by train in Europe several times, but haven't set foot on a train in America since I took a day trip to the next town over with my preschool back in the late '80s. My husband and I were just talking about doing something with Amtrak on an upcoming trip, and I'm going to have to remember this. We love road trips, too, and I'd love to take our car with us–we'd save some money by not renting a car!
We had a blast, Natalie! You should definitely do it some time. I loved having my own car up north without having to drive it all the way there. The rail travel experience was fun, too, but I definitely recommend getting a roomette.
Wow, I would love to do a fly drive trip! I want to do it in Canada. This was a really nice article to read. It's too bad they stopped the cheese and crackers!
I knew somehow we were kindred spirits, Francesca. Crossing Canada by train is near the top of my wanderlist.
Wow I've never even thought of something like that! What a neat way to travel!
I know, Jessica! There are a lot of inventive people out there who dream up clever things that would never even enter my mind.
This is pretty cool! I didn't know they had auto trains. Admittedly, I've never done a train ride in America. I'd love to!
It's a crazy feeling, Bailey, to arrive at your destination after a long train ride and hop in your own car.
HI Howard:) I had no idea that you can travel on the train and also have car with you. That is for me new to know. I also enjoy traveling by train recently – its so much more comfortable than to drive…you can sleep, read or have chat with friends. Anyway, thanks for your post.
True, Veronika! Even though we are big road trip guys, we still enjoy train travel as well.
How did I not know about Auto Train?! We travel from VA to FL all the time. My husband & I are now talking about giving this a try once we're back in the states. Thanks for the great idea!
I know what you mean, Dana! Sometimes things are right under our noses and we never see them. Glad we could provide an eye-opener!
SOunds like a fun way to travel thanks for the tips Howard! Too bad the welcome wine and cheese tasting has been discontinued!
This is an awesome post as always, Howard! I just found out that Europe has something of the same, which is Eurostar and it's indeed a nice concept especially for those people who want to bring along their car. Anyhow, should I ever be on that side of the world, I'll take note of Amtrak!
Thanks for the heads up, Aileen! I had no idea that Eurostar had an auto train. Will definitely keep that in mind!
Great! I didn't even know that was an option. I love train travel especially with kids because you really have the most freedom to move around. The ability to bring your car makes that even better!
I don't have kids, Mary, but I see what you mean with the mobility. As a middle school teacher, I know how hard it is when kids have to be boxed in.
We LOVE traveling by rail – it's really our preferred mode – but have yet to do it in North America. Why have we waited so long? This looks like a marvelous option. Also, I love your itinerary of Civil War and historical stops for the road trip home.
If I have anything to do with designing the itinerary, Betsy, there WILL be historical stops. We want to do more train travel in NA, too! We have considered the train from Williams, AZ, to the Grand Canyon, for one, but I would also love to take the train across Canada.
I love the Auto Train! Used it when we moved to Orlando from Baltimore 20 years ago, and use it often when going back up to visit my mother in Baltimore! I just sleep in the comfy reclining chairs in coach; catch up with sleep the night I arrive! Love how they sit you with strangers to fill the tables at meals; always pleasant conversation!
I agree, Michele! We meet cool people most of the time when seated with random people on trains or cruises.
I enjoyed reading a few days back, on AMTRAKS's Twitter feed, the little snippet about Amtrak security dog teams playing a critical role, aiding in ensuring US rail passenger system users, get to their desired safely. These dogs and their highly trained human handlers, deserve genuine thanks and support. So, if you've secured yourself, a great value train ticket, well done, but your AMTRAK travel experience is, every trip, a serious "top collar" committed effort, from the experts, including the four legged ones, behind the scenes, sniffing away, on the job!
Thanks for sharing, Nan! We love train travel, and we love our 4-legged creatures great and small.
I rode the auto train as a young child and barely remember it. Time for another visit.
How cool, I mean McCool, is that! It was definitely an awesome experience to take our car with us. We would definitely do it again!
This sounds like a fun way to travel. A bit like the Eurostar we have here in Europe.
I love train rides and also the freedom of having a car too. I was a little put off by those crowded pictures in the waiting room yet I guess with your own sleeper cabin it doesn't feel quite so crammed. 17 hours is a long journey so the dining facilities look like a necessity to me.
I have always fantasized about buying a Eurail pass and seeing Europe by rail. Much more cost-effective than a road trip, I'm sure. Great to hear your perspective. Cheers!


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The helpline is a free service run by volunteer staff who live or have previously lived with chronic pain themselves. Therefore, you can also volunteer with this organisation. APMA is also an advocacy organisation working to improve the management of pain for Australians. There are benefits as a member you can also look into.


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Company obtained users' data while mapping for 'Street View'
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Google employee Arthur Poirier, on a camera-equipped tricycle, records images for Google's Street View map feature in Paris in August 2009. (Associated Press)
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WASHINGTON — Google Inc. is telling lawmakers that it never dissected or used any of the information that it accidentally sucked up while collecting data about public Wi-Fi networks in more than 30 countries.
In a letter to three key members of the House Commerce Committee, the company apologized for collecting fragments of e-mails, search requests and other online activities over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
The company got the information while photographing neighborhoods for its "Street View" mapping feature. Google said it was trying to gather information about the location, strength and configuration of Wi-Fi networks so it could improve the accuracy of location-based services such as Google Maps and driving directions. Going further and collecting snippets of information traveling over those networks "was a mistake," Pablo Chavez, Google's director of public policy, wrote in the letter.
Google's letter, released Friday, was a response to an inquiry by Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Massachusetts Democrat Edward Markey, a key member of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. The letter was addressed to Barton, Markey and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif.
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., has also expressed concern about Google's actions.
Although the company used its Street View cars as a platform for the Wi-Fi equipment, the Street View photographs and the collection of Wi-Fi network information are separate efforts. Google says it has stopped grabbing Wi-Fi data from its Street View vehicles since it discovered the data collection problem last month following an inquiry by German regulators.
In the letter sent to the House, Google said that any personal information inadvertently swept up in the process of mapping Wi-Fi networks was "not used to identify any specific individual or household" and was stored only in "raw, aggregate, binary form." It added that "the payload data has never been used in any Google product or service, nor do we intend to use it."
The company also said it is aware of only two Google engineers who have even seen the data: the engineer who designed the software used to process information about the Wi-Fi networks being mapped, and the engineer who tested the data that had been collected after the company learned of the problem.
For now, Google is retaining the data collected in the United States to comply with a court order stemming from pending civil litigation. The company has deleted data that came from Ireland, Denmark and Austria at the request of authorities in those countries.
Google's explanations did not do enough to appease Barton and Markey, who have called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the company's actions.
"Google now confesses it has been collecting people's information for years, yet claims they still do not know exactly what they collected and who was vulnerable," Barton said in a statement. "This is deeply troubling for a company that bases its business model on gathering consumer data."
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Mine turned out like crumbly hockey pucks! What did I do wrong?
Well, that's no fun! Coconut flour can tend to make things drier than other flours, because it absorbs liquid so easily. It could also be the oven. Since all ovens are different, the baking times can vary. You could try adding a bit more oil or another egg. Or, if you tolerate honey, try adding in 1-2Tbsp. of honey – that will help to moisten things up, and it gives it a nice sweet bit of taste. Also, it may help to decrease the cooking time, or the cooking temperature based on your oven. Hope this helps and that you can get then to turn out – they really are delicious when they work out!
Hi Shelly! Thanks for the comment! Yes, you can store these in the fridge for up to about 5 days or so. Just be sure to take them out and let them get to room temperature before serving, otherwise they may taste a bit dry. Hope you like them!
THese came out amazing!! Do you happen to know the nutrition facts per serving? Calories? carbs? Thanks!
What are the nutritional facts? I need to know carbs, cholesterol and can!ories!
Hi Barb! Thanks for visiting my blog! Unfortunately, I can't give the nutritional facts, because they are dependent on the specific brands and sizes of the ingredients you use. However, I am a mathematician, so all hope is not lost! You can calculate the nutrition facts by adding up the total amount of a specific piece (like carbs) in all of the ingredients you add, then divide that by the total number of buns you make. For example, if all of the carbs in the ingredients added up to 28, and you made 4 buns, then there would be 28/4 = 7 carbs per bun. This is a totally fictitious example, and not based on this recipe at all, but the calculation process is illustrated. Hope this helps!
My dough is more liquid than what your dough looks like. I feel I'm not going to be able to make dough balls with i what did i do?
Hi Dawn! Sorry your buns aren't cooperating! If it seems too liquid to create dough balls, you can very slowly add a bit of coconut flour to the dough until it seems think enough. Maybe add 1-2 tsp at a time – stir it in and let it sit for a bit so the coconut oil can do its thing and absorb some if that liquid. Go slow though, otherwise too much coconut flour will make your buns dry and crumbly. Hope this helps!
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One of my long-lasting wishes has been to write about my life as a technical communicator. Every time I got to it, I wondered: What significant contribution have I made to the community? Even if I did make one, should I go about writing it? Why exactly would someone like to read about my life and the lessons I have learned over the years? I wasn't too sure if these were reasons strong enough to shun this article for a revisit later. Obviously, I have been writing month by month for TechCraft, giving you small tidbits from my life. But this month was extra special: we were about to launch the 25th issue of TechCraft and I really had to think out-of-the-way! So I did what I was best at: get my act together and just write.
To a large extent, the words you choose to communicate, determine the type of reaction from your audience. And this does not apply to articles alone, but other forms of communication as well - both written and oral, such as emails, end user documentation, and so on. Have you ever noticed how some of your mails receive an instant response, while others get dumped and probably, never looked at? Did you ever reason why this happens? Readers today are smart. If you press them the wrong way, they will write you off before you know it. Therefore, remember the first lesson I learned as a technical communicator: choose the right words. If you are unable to capture the attention of your intended audience, nothing you write or say can bring them back.
Well, this reminds me; the moment you are able to surpass the word barrier, you have succeeded in striking a rapport with your audience. Your writing would seem more believable to them. Knowingly or otherwise, you have increased the universal appeal of your document.
These days' technical communicators concentrate more on the two D's: Deadlines and Deliverables. Their primary focus is to get the job out of sight as soon as possible. In the ordeal, they may not completely understand the domain or the technology or the product suite. When dealing with complex products, this may not be the best approach. Paying attention to details is an absolute necessary trait required in our profession. By hurrying through the product, you are depriving the end user of important information. My advice is: buy some time from the stakeholders. They will, under most circumstances, be willing to grant you those extra hours!
In a professional setting, you have to match the job expectations laid down by the people you work with or generally report to. Don't let these expectations take a toll on you. If you are someone who has not studied to become a technical communicator, you must take extra initiatives to learn the ropes.Don't be overwhelmed by the enormity of the task - contact a local technical writing service provider (TWSP) in your region and join a technical writing course, or subscribe to mailing lists like TWI (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/technical_writers_india) and start networking. You will be amazed how much the world has to offer. So, the learning from the fourth lesson is: come prepared to handle the job expectations. Market yourself as a total package.
Just look around. The world around you has changed so much. Most technical communicators today are moving up the value chain and taking greater roles and responsibilities. You too can taste success early in your career. All you got to do is: break the mediocrity. Go and explore the myriad options available on the Internet; learn everything it takes to accomplish the task - be it knowledge about open source tools, content management systems, XML, wikis, blogs, and so on. In other words, learn how to communicate and collaborate effectively. Move ahead of your times, and think laterally.
When I took to writing as a career, no one was willing to train me: on how to write. With absolute no godfathers in the industry, I was left to the dogs. Most organizations today have a tendency to do that. They expect you to know your role well, even if you are a fresher. That is not to say that you cannot pick the ropes on the job; you just need to show them what you are truly capable of. Demonstrate the values you carry each day at work, and make them realize that your services are indispensable. All this will require you to stretch your limits. Rome was not built in a day, so accept rejections that might come in your way. Those are just normal, not deterrents. Exuberate a winning attitude at work...all the time!
Take on some projects voluntarily for your own learning.
Network with fellow technical writers, developers, or other professionals.
Participate on several technical writing forums; in turn, share your knowledge with the rest of the world.
Join the open source revolution. It's free and worth its salt.
Write articles for ezines such as this.
Maintain a blog and write about new topics. You can include the blog address in your Resume.
Getting noticed is a matter of choice and individual capability. Luck has little or nothing to do with it. In short, try to break away from the monotony of a regular 9 to 5 job.
If your job involves networking with various people such as Subject Matter Experts, Product/ Project Managers, Developers, or Quality Assurance Professionals, you need to respect their time (as much as you'd want them to respect yours.) Don't be all over the place with your doubts and/ or questions. It will only do you more harm than good. Check your facts beforehand. Do you really need their inputs? If you are in dire straits, do not hesitate to ask, even when you do not understand anything. Have a set of ready reckoners and checklists for reference, such as editorial guidelines, style guides, and so on.
Technical writing is all about how you can understand and decipher technology to your end user. No education or personal coaching can teach you that. Education is only a catalyst; it is only meant to guide. I have seen quite a few people in this trade, who have absolutely no degrees to boast of, but can write exceptionally well. Try to learn from such people; they have been there, done that. Follow your heart and enjoy the continuous learning.
I can assure you of one thing: In our profession, you cannot possibly convince all, so don't even try. Some people will always find means and ways to put you down; it's the way this world functions these days. I have noticed on a few mailing lists that some people can be unduly abrasive, undiplomatic, or demanding. Some emails that I've come across in recent times are heavily laced with sarcasm, which I found extremely unpalatable. Why do some people fare poorly in the personality department?
A strong technical writer who has the ability to convey information in a non-demanding and non-confrontational manner is imperative to the success of any technical publishing department. Is it time we start spending some time on how to carry ourselves publicly? I suggest one should never give up on the good work. We all choose a certain way to be in this world. Some of us are good at one thing, while completely miserable at others. We spend half our lives searching for everything RIGHT - the right education, the right job, the right friends, the right house, and so on. The truth is: there is no right or wrong; it's all a state of mind. You can be a part of almost any and every system volitionally. The choice to be who you are rests with you and no one else. Even if you choose to do things you are not very comfortable with, you cannot sustain it for long. Eventually you will lose interest; that's basic human nature. It strictly applies to everything in life that we do.
As Judith Herr* says, "Exceptional writers - whether technical or creative - are those who grew up reading voraciously - all kinds of fiction and non-fiction by authors from around the world. And then, many of them traveled or lived away from their own homes for awhile. I recommend it to young people getting started - and, older folks like me too. We can learn the rules and do a good job - or we can be exceptional." On the question of why I choose to be a writer, well, all I can say is because I was destined to be one. And you can't change your destiny, like you can't fake life or death.
Visited your profile. Nice one. Could you please e-mail me your complete profile so that I can understand you better.
Your presentation is very good. I too would love to look at your complete profile.
You have penned your thoughts very expressively. I believe your fate has done justice to you by pulling you into the challenging and interesting field of Technical Writing.
Continue sharing your articles on the list.
Good going. Keep up the spirit.
The way you expressed your thoughts is wonderful. The article is very informative.
Great article! Keep up the good work! I specially liked point 7: Steer Away from the Usual Rut. It is definitely better to learn something new than wasting your spare time in doing timepass.
Very few tech comm people are blogging so I'm happy to see you doing it and doing it so well.
I hope you'll visit my blog.
That's a great article...informative and motivating.
I was surprised and pleased to see myself quoted. As often happens with something I've read, I was far enough away from what I wrote to read it objectively - and would probably tweak it were I to write that comment again. But, I still hold absolutely that it is crucial to get out of your comfort zone and to figure out how to see the world not only as it appears to you, but also as others see it. Good work, Rahul.
A mind blowing and inspiring article.Great skill and the willingness to teach that skill to buddies like me, needs to be appreciated.


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Your son has just turned 16 and is studying to get his driver's license. He's psyched. You're not.
As a parent, it's normal to worry about the safety of your teen driver. Current statistics are alarming. According to the New York Department of Health, motor vehicle accidents are a leading cause of death for teenagers in the state. Every day, an estimated 10 people are killed or hospitalized due to collisions involving a teen driver.
What can you do to make things safer on the road for your son? One way is to investigate and use some of the tech-based driving supports specifically aimed at young drivers.
Many leading car manufacturers have built-in tools that can give parents peace of mind when their teenager is behind the wheel.
The MyKey system by Ford supports responsible driving by providing parents with custom settings. They include a seatbelt minder that mutes the speakers and makes noise until the belt buckle clicks, a limit on speaker volume while driving and top speed limits that prevent your teen from trying to reach lightspeed.
The Chevrolet Teen Driver Technology is a virtual driving coach that issues speed alerts and enables parents to limit radio volume. They can also get a "report card" on their teen's driving activities.
Volkswagen's Car-Net has useful tools for parents that include built-in alerts for speed levels and location (so you'll know if your teenager decides to go off on a sudden road trip). You will also receive an emergency alert on your phone if an accident does occur.
If your son or daughter is driving an older car that doesn't have any of the bells and whistles above, then certain apps offer a measure of support and protection.
License+ is a new driver coaching app that tracks speed, acceleration, braking, and other stats. It works with Automatic, a plug-in that you install on your car to have all data sent to the app via 3G or Bluetooth.
Life360 is a popular communication app that includes a driver safety mode. Parents can use it to track location and receive alerts for rapid acceleration, hard braking, and even collisions.
The AT&T Drive Mode app silences text alerts and other notifications as soon as it senses that the person is driving.
Apple users can access the Do Not Disturb While Driving in all new versions of iOS. Once activated, it detects when your teenager is in the car and silences text and app alerts. Anyone who sends them a text will be notified that the person is driving and will reply as soon as possible.
Getting their driver's license is a rite of passage for teenagers. Thanks to new technologies, it doesn't have to be one that parents automatically dread.
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Josh has a degree in Psychology and Drama from the Australian National University and a Masters in Acting from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the UK. Josh travels across Australia spreading the batyr message to high school students with his team of Program Co-ordinators. When he's not out on the road with baty, he is back at HQ managing the team or treading the boards somewhere in Sydney working as a professional actor on screen and stage. Josh has always been passionate about combining his performance skills and his passion for mental health and wellbeing in Australia. Special skills include; an Irish accent that is on fleek and using words like, fleek unnecessarily.


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Robert Carl Holland (April 17, 1925 – January 3, 2013) was an American economist who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1973 to 1976.

Born in Tekamah, Nebraska, Holland served in the United States Army during World War II. He received his bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He died from dementia in Centreville, Virginia.

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When the fun-loving and spontaneous artist Willow West meets buttoned-up, retired English teacher George Emerson, it's not exactly love at first sight. Though she does find the obsessive-compulsive man intriguing. Making it her mission to get him to loosen up and embrace life, she embarks on what seems like a lost cause--and finds herself falling for him in the process.
A confirmed bachelor, George vacillates between irritation and attraction whenever Willow is around--which to him seems like all too often. He's not interested in expanding his horizons or making new friends; it just hurts too much when you lose them.
But as the summer progresses, George feels his defenses crumbling. The question is, will his change of heart be too late for Willow?
With her signature heart and touches of humor, fan favorite Melody Carlson pens a story of two delightfully eccentric characters who get a second chance at life and love.
Melody Carlson has written more than 200 books (with sales around 6.5 million) for teens, women and children. That's a lot of books, but mostly she considers herself a "storyteller." Her novels range from serious issues like schizophrenia (Finding Alice) to lighter topics like house-flipping (A Mile in My Flip-Flops) but most of the inspiration behind her fiction comes right out of real life. Her young adult novels (Diary of a Teenage Girl, TrueColors etc.) appeal to teenage girls around the world. Her annual Christmas novellas become more popular each year. She's won a number of awards (including Romantic Time's Career Achievement Award, the Rita and the Gold Medallion) and some of her books have been optioned for film/TV. Carlson has two grown sons and makes her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and yellow Lab dog. To find out more about Melody Carlson, visit her website at http://www.melodycarlson.com/
I first fell in love with Melody Carlson as a teenager. Her Diary of a Teenage Girl and TrueColors series are perhaps the first books that truly encouraged my love of Christian fiction. They did so by introducing real characters whom were flawed, imperfect and relate-able to me at the time. They incorporated faith without feeling too preachy. They were funny and honest and entertaining. Whether it is in her young adult books or her adult books, this rings true for everything I've read by Melody Carlson. 'Courting Mr. Emerson' was no exception.
The first thing that struck me about this book was that it wasn't your typical love story. Most of those- in my experience anyway- seem to focus more on younger people- ages 30ish or below. This one however features main characters in their 50s. This did take a bit of getting used to- not because it was a bad thing- it just wasn't what I was used to reading. In the end however, it made this story that much more lovely--- proof that love and friendship are important and possible, no matter your age.
I loved getting to know these two quirky stars throughout the story. The characters were well developed and interesting. They butt heads and were complete opposites in many ways, but I believe it made the story all the more entertaining. You could not help but wonder if they would ever figure out where they stood and just get along. Like I said, not your typical love story here! As someone who like George can get a little stuck in my own patterns and not try new things, I really related to him throughout the story. I also enjoyed getting to know the supporting characters throughout who were just as put together and interesting as Willow and George. They truly helped to make the story more dynamic.
In the end, this isn't JUST a book about the budding relationship between George and Willow though. It's also a great story about the budding relationships with God, and His role in it all. It's a great reminder about how He knows just what (or who) we need in our lives even when we don't!
If you're looking for your next great read, 'Courting Mr. Emerson' is certainly worth checking out!
Courting Mr. Emerson is available to purchase now at your favorite Christian book retailers.
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The tendency of many of the skinks to live below the soil's surface has led to independent reduction of limbs in several groups. It is not clear whether some of the animals so specialized really spend most of their life underground, resulting in a reduced reliance on limbs for locomotion or stabilization.
The body of this 6- to 10-inch-long snake skink has become long enough to make lateral undulation an effective motor mechanism. The elongation has, however, proceeded quite differently from that seen in amphisbaenians: rather than stretching out the body, skinks have tended to extend the tail, and, in many species, the diameter of the tail is almost identical to that of the body. The curves of the trunk may then pass smoothly onto the tail and the tail may also assist propulsion, increasing the effective length of these animals. In many skinks the tail also houses large strips of fat providing energy storage that may be used during the reproductive period.


Due to unfortunate circumstance this daylong with Donald Rothberg has been cancelled.
We will miss our Dharma sharing with Donald and hope to bring him to Mountain Stream to teach some time in the near future. We apologize for any inconvenience this has may have caused.


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Brad Wilkerson becomes first Florida Gators player named to College Baseball Hall of Fame
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A three-time All-American and the 1998 National Player of the Year, Brad Wilkerson was announced Friday as the first player in Florida Gators history to be named to the National College Baseball...
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Entering the program's third year, No. 4 Florida Gators lacrosse is looking to continue their record pace and become the fastest team in the sport's history to win the NCAA Championship. The...
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For as much as the Florida Gators were in the news off the field in 2011 (check out Friday's post), the Gator Nation was making plenty of headlines on it as well....
Youngblood: "That's when I heard the snap."
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With two weeks ago being the two-year anniversary of ONLY GATORS Get Out Alive and considering he released a brand new book the very same day, former Florida Gators defensive lineman Jack...
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Through the 2011 NBA Draft, Florida Gators forward and 2011 Southeastern Conference Player of the Year Chandler Parsons was with us keeping fans up-to-date on his Path to the Draft via a...
Rockets select Gators F Chandler Parsons with No. 38 pick in second round of 2011 NBA Draft
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Round 2 – No. 38 Chandler Parsons, F Houston Rockets Height: 6'10" – Weight: 215 lbs. Age: 22 – Class: Senior Waiting patiently at his home in Orlando, FL, Florida Gators forward...
Chandler Parsons – Path to the 2011 NBA Draft: Working out and crossing the finish line
Through the 2011 NBA Draft, Florida Gators forward and 2011 Southeastern Conference Player of the Year Chandler Parsons will be keeping fans up-to-date on his Path to the Draft via a weekly...
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Florida Gators sophomore catcher Mike Zunino has been named an All-American by all three major voting bodies, though each organization placed him on a different team. Baseball America announced Wednesday that Zunino...


Quick Funeral is inspired by offline card editing tools such as photoshop. But these tools requires a lot of experience in designing. To help funeral homes and other occasions where card designing is required, we developed it.
At that time we worked with local funeral homes and provided a downloadable software solution. From the feedback we got, we quickly realized that we needed to start from scratch and program an online version of the software that has a much easier workflow. While we were building this new online application we got feedback from mortuaries across the nation and combined all our experience and feedback together. We ended up building the world's first and only online photo and text editing application for funeral printed products.
In essence our new application was built for funeral professionals by funeral professionals. We simply figured out how to program the tools that they wanted while keeping the whole process as simple as possible. Our main goal has been to create something that will allow a first-time user to create photoshop-style finished products without any training. So far we have been able to achieve our goals and the application contiues to get better everyday. We are excited to help funeral homes and individuals across the nation celebrate the life of loved ones that has passed on.
We greatly value your opinion and want to build exactly what you need. Please contact us if you have any additional feedback or suggestions. We hope you enjoy the Quick Funeral application that we have worked so hard to build!


View Point to the right. Partway down the east side of the BTB.
Remind me never again to take the #28 GG Bridge bus to and from on a weekend. Traffic crawling slowly; buses super-packed.
Did the Battery East first. The stairway (152 or so steps) at the east end descends to Crissy Field near the Warming Hut. Back up again, continued west on the trail and under the low-overhead walkers' bridge once more to continue on the windy and wildflowery Coastal Trail to the Batteries to Bluffs.
Didn't notice anything new from when I last did these trails; will continue to check their progress.
After reaching the top of Battery Crosby at Batteries to Bluffs' west trailhead (about 475 steps), decided to take the quicker way up to Lincoln Blvd. from here. This trail's fenced on one side and zigzags up with tree roots as steps. I like looking down at the BTB from Lincoln.
After reaching BTB's east trailhead, continued east on the Coastal Trail back to the bridgeview area, this time on a trail behind one of the batteries. At the top of the battery was looking down at the battery next door, people swarming all over it.


Here's me in my Learning Pool t-shirt while I was in New Orleans. Ray Nichols kindly took me along to an event called "Be The Change: A Celebration of New Orleans Social Entrepreneurs". It was great – a few hundred energetic people, all full of big ideas about how to change their bit of the world. We talked and talked and talked.
As full disclosure, Learning Pool gave me the t-shirt and $200 towards the trip. In return I said I'd wear the shirt and let people know (including through this blog post) what i thought about their new product mylearningpool. Oh, and I had some promotional postcards to give to people who might be interested in the product at SXSW and other places I went.
I've known Dave Briggs, their Community Evangelist for as long as I've known anyone on the social web and I've had the pleasure of getting to know the founders, Mary and Paul better since I met Mary at the UK GovCamp in 2010. What impresses me about every "Poolie" I meet is their passion for understanding how to create value for their customers, coupled with their commitment to improve public services.


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Officials: Proposed Federal Cybersecurity Legislation Could Hurt State Efforts
By ANDREW M. DUEHREN
HARTFORD — Two top state officials said Tuesday that proposed congressional legislation could adversely affect new cybersecurity protections for Connecticut consumers.
Congress is considering several bills to address digital security after recent massive breaches of federal databases and others at private companies such as Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
Attorney General George Jepsen and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff, speaking at a press conference, said that the proposed federal legislation could undo or adversely affect the state's efforts to protect against cybercrime.
In the recently concluded legislative session, the General Assembly passed a law that created greater protections for victims of cyberattacks. Jepsen contended that the state attorney general's office, not the federal government, is better equipped to respond to hacking threats.
[Politics] Connecticut Senate GOP: More transparency needed on billions in federal funding »
Jepsen also said that in the past state fiscal year, ending June 30, more than 2.6 million Connecticut residents were affected by more than 500 instances of hacking and data theft.
"I think there's going to be tremendous pressure for Congress to pass a bill that would do more than maybe what is being done on the federal level, and certainly I think we all welcome that," Duff said. "We just want to make sure that whatever they pass doesn't take away our ability to write laws or the attorney general's ability to enforce those laws."
Of the eight cybersecurity bills before Congress, Jepsen said, seven severely limit or change the way his office could approach the problem, potentially harming Connecticut consumers.
"It is inconceivable that they could do as thorough a job on the ground as we can in Connecticut, as we do in Connecticut, as they do across the country with other state attorneys general," Jepsen said. He argued that his office is more "nimble" and better suited to addressing data theft.
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Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday that he will oppose or seek to amend any cybersecurity legislation that attempts to pre-empt or replace a state's authority to protect its consumers from data breaches.
"States often set new and better norms for consumer protection and other areas of law," said Blumenthal, who was previously state attorney general. "And the same is true in cybersecurity and they can raise the bar and provide a model for federal law."
Also on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who was in the state to discuss community policing, participated in a symposium on cybersecurity sponsored by the Connecticut U.S. attorney. She discussed how the federal government can better work with private companies to prevent data breaches and theft.
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How to prove relationship for UK Spouse visa?
How would not like this item in the process of obtaining a visa to his wife, it can not be avoided. Very little fun to prove the authenticity of your relationship. I am often asked if this or that document is sufficient evidence. Despite the fact that each case is unique, I still have one universal advice. Try to stand in the place of the visa officer who does not know you and who cares about you and assess the documents you provide. Does it look reliable or can it look like a fake marriage?
However, you should not panic. I want to share ideas on what can be attached to a visa application.
This is the easiest way if you do not delete mail. It is best when traveling broken evenly for the entire period of your relationship before marriage. I printed a confirmation of the purchase of tickets directly from the mail (in gmail there is an option to print a letter). If possible, pick up tickets and housing reservations so that your names are listed. If this is not possible, you can get by electronic boarding tickets. All this will do.
In my cover letter I indicated all our trips and I enclosed almost all the remaining tickets and hotel reservations. It turned out quite a lot of printouts, but do not find fault.
We traveled a lot and I picked up photos for several years from different countries. I picked them up so that it was clear that these are different places – for example, opposite the pyramids, the Collisea in Rome and from Asia. Of course it is necessary to attach a photo from the wedding. In principle, 5-6 photos will be more than enough. And they then return them.
If you lived together, you may have joint accounts or a lease agreement for both. Maybe you already have a joint bank account (joint account) – carry everything.
This is probably the most unpleasant item. I made a print screen of messages on Facebook with dates, trying to cover as long as possible. For example, a couple of messages from March, then a couple from June, etc. In our case, we didn't use Facebook very much, plus minus censorship, we got about 12 printscreens, which I copied into one Vord document.
I did the same with skype and emails. I think the main thing here is to show that you communicated and did it constantly (the main thing is to show the regularity of communication) . Some girls printed the history of phone calls – that would work too.
I was guided by two principles: the dates should be specified, evenly covering the period of our relationship and so that it is clear with whom the correspondence is going.


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So much of our success and failure as entrepreneur architects is determined by our mindsets. It's all in your head! What's keeping you from growing? How do you properly set boundaries around your firms and families? What about the importance of visions and planning your life? How about the seasons of our lives determining the timeline for our success?
This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, The Psychology of Success with Entrepreneur Psychotherapist Joyce Marter.
Joyce Marter is a licensed psychotherapist and the founder of Urban Balance, a multisite counseling practice that she started and grew to over 100 therapists working in 9 locations in Chicago and St. Louis during her 13 years as CEO. She has a passion for applying psychology to business. She's a public speaker, a corporate trainer, and she has been featured as an expert on media outlets like Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, CNN, MTV and more.
Joyce went to school at Ohio State, and when she started she had no idea what she wanted to do. She chose psychology, sociology and humanities since she was interested in learning more about it. She quickly learned that she was interested in learning about people's thinking, emotions, experiences, and how we're shaped by our experiences in life. She attended Northwestern for her graduate degree in counseling psychology.
After that, she feel accidentally into entrepreneurship. She saw a need for an insurance-friendly counseling practice. Though she went through ups and downs, her practice grew quickly.
Did you plan to grow into such a large business?
As Joyce worked on her business, she worked on herself personally. Sine they're two sides of the same coin, the business organically grew as she grew herself.
There was a need for insurance-friendly therapy and for jobs for therapists. One person at a time, her business grew leaps and bounds.
Was there fear in launching your own business?
Many people told her she was too young, that the market was too saturated, and that there was too much competition. She set strict boundaries for herself and people laughed at her. There was a lot of fear in it. She took the feedback with a grain of thought and forged ahead anyway.
How did you find the balance between your family and your business?
Joyce planned her career in the context of her life, not the other way around. She visualized the life she wanted to have with her family, and planned around that. As a mom and provider, she puts great value on her time and puts parameters around her day. Taking care of our selves allows us to think more clearly and be more productive and joyous in our work. Because Joyce prioritizes her family, it has helped her delegate and find great people to partner with instead of trying to control and do everything herself.
What was the first step to create your plan and vision?
How many weeks a year do you want to take off? What do you want your work week to look like? What's your prime target of hours? What of those are from home? When do you need to be home for your family? Build boundaries around those and make them non negotiable.
Next, imagine financially what you want to make. Aim high and visualize that. Focus on what's being supported. Let it take shape organically based on what's going on at work and at home.
How did you plan for future seasons?
From a psychology perspective, there are different phases of development that impact where our energy and time go. For Joyce, career growth happen in stages and steps. There may be a push to grow, and then a pause to maintain there.
How do you combat the fear in your head that gets in your way of taking the next step forward?
Eckert Tolle, author of The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, says, "Whenever you feel inferior or superior to someone else, that's your ego." All the negative, neurotic mind chatter comes from our ego. Instead, be present in the moment by practicing mindfulness. Develop the skill to observe your thoughts rather than believing everything your inner critic is saying. Start practicing meditation to reboot and become aware of your thoughts.
Believe in yourself in order to sell yourself to someone else. Be your own most compassionate coach and advocate as you move through building and running your business.
If you're interested in getting started with meditation, check out Headspace or Calm. Whether it's balance, an integrated life, or success at a high level, start to understand who you are to get out of your head and achieve all that you're planning.
What's getting in my way of doing the things I know I should do?
We all have self sabotaging behaviors, and we all create patterns that are familiar unless we choose something different. We need an accountability partner – whether it be a coach, therapist, another architect or business partner – that you get together with periodically about staying on track.
For Joyce, each Monday her and a friend email each other with 5 things that they want to do in the coming week for their business growth but they fear they won't get to. At the end of the week, if they don't get to those 5 things, they need to explain to one another why that is.
When you have stress in your life, another really important skill is learning how to manage that. Learning how to detach and move through it without being reactive will help. Challenges are always opportunities for growth.
You cannot do these things alone, accountability is crucial. It helps us grow to the best version of ourselves and live a greater version of our lives.
What is the one thing that small firm architects can do today to build a better business tomorrow?
"Practice gratitude. Keep a gratitude journal and, every day, write down three things you're thankful for. This will teach you to focus on the positive. When you're positive, you'll attract more positivity and success into your life." – Joyce Marter, Urban Balance
Connect with Joyce online at UrbanBalance.com and Joyce-Marter.com or find her on social media on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
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Q: How to solve 404 caused by Severe: PWC6117: File "null" not found in Controller? I have two login pages: AM and Customer login page. When the AM Login successfully it redirects to the chat page with the map /am/chatPage and with the customer it redirects to /customer/chatPage. My problem is it doesn't load the JSP file.
Here is the error in glassfish:
Info:   Show AM CHATPAGE--------------------
Severe:   PWC6117: File "null" not found

Note: The login process is handled by Spring Web Security in my WebSecurityConfig.java
In my Login Controller I have @RequestMapping() for AM Chat page:

@RequestMapping(value = "/am/chatPage", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String chatpage(Model model)
    {
        System.out.println("Show AM CHATPAGE--------------------");
        model.addAttribute("name","Sample name");
        model.addAttribute("twitter","@sample");
        return "amChatPage";
    }

and Customer Chat Page:

@RequestMapping(value = "/customer/chatPage", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String showCustChat(Model model)
    {
        System.out.println("SHOW CUSTOMER CHAT----------------------");
        return "customerChatPage";
    }

Below is my SpringWebAppInitializer

    @Override
    public void onStartup(ServletContext sc) throws ServletException
    {
        AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();
        context.register(ApplicationContextConfig.class);

        ServletRegistration.Dynamic dispatcher = sc.addServlet("dispatcher", new DispatcherServlet(context));
        dispatcher.setLoadOnStartup(1);
        dispatcher.addMapping("/");
    }

Things that I've done so far:

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*I tried the solution in PWC6117: File "null" not found using ModelAndView but still doesn't load.

*Added dispatcher.addMapping("/am/"); or dispatcher.addMapping("/am/**"); in SpringWebAppInitializer.

Assumptions:
I have a controller for map /welcomepage and it works fine and shows the jsp. I also tried loading the amChatPage.jsp and customerChatPage.jsp in this controller and it works fine. I think this error appears with this map pattern /am/** or /customer/**. Can someone help me fix this problem?

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