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Ambien: Side Effects Include WHAT?
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By Terry Gotham
A lifetime ago, I worked in a Sleep Lab at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. We looked at the effects of sleep deprivation on pain tolerance & sensitivity. The non-clinical way of explaining that is, I poked and prodded a bunch of hilariously tired people. Inability to sleep continues to be a huge issue on & off playa, with 40% of Americans admitting to Gallup they don't get as much sleep as they'd like. While the CDC has declared insufficient sleep a public health problem, Burners are the champions of functional partying with nowhere near appropriate amounts of sleep. But, because a lot of Americans are currently taking/addicted to sleep aids, I figured I'd run through the risks & rewards to consuming Ambien (Zolpidem). People are even attempting to tether it to the death of Justice Scalia, so get a non-caffinated beverage and strap in for this wild, amnesiac ride.
One of the immediate problems that people discount when they start taking Ambien is when you don't follow the specific rule: Please allow yourself a full 8 hours of sleep to sleep after taking Ambien. There is nothing in the world so disoriented than a random dude attempting to build a geodesic dome 6hrs into an Ambien dose on playa. Seriously, if you need to get sleep and you don't have 8hrs to sleep, take another drug. Do a shot of whiskey, eat some melatonin gummies (recommended option), or if you're Archer, soak the melatonin gummies in whiskey. While the Indian Army gives its soldiers Ambien, I can't say I recommend the practice if you've gotta be up at 0500 after getting to sleep at midnight.
This next point I cannot stress enough. Be very, very careful consuming Ambien on repeated evenings. Most sleep medicine practitioners agree that you can develop an addiction to Ambien in two weeks. The easiest way to keep this from happening is to try your hardest to not take the substance one night after another. Even reducing the frequency to once every 3 days or once a week, can seriously help your chances at preventing physical dependence. Don't discount the potency of Ambien or other sleep aids, even over the counter ones. Over the long term, Ambien loses its effectiveness, but maintains the dependency. If you think taking a fistful of pills to sleep is scary, imagine taking them & realizing they've become totally ineffective.
But these aren't the reasons you've heard of Ambien, or that you joke about it with your friends. You have because you've heard all these horror stories about people taking Ambien and sleep eating, sleep driving and sleep fucking with no memory of it. And I'm here to tell you all of those horror stories are true. Yes, even the ones you heard about people killing their spouse & mounting an Ambien defense, claiming they didn't remember it.
First, Ambien has caused people to develop what I can only describe as a sleep eating disorder. This is where you binge eat while retaining no memory of it. The New York Times reported on research done by the Mayo Clinic & the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, confirming this wackiness. Dr. Carlos Schenck has estimated that thousands of Ambien consumers suffer from this issue. While turned on gas burners, peanut butter in the sleeping bag & weight gain seem like it could be fun on the playa, I think we can all agree that this side effect should be a deal breaker.
Sleep driving is a real problem for people who consume Ambien in suburban & rural areas of the country. If I had to wager, more than 1 person who reads this will have had an experience of driving on playa on Ambien & not remember it. As you can imagine, this has significant legal ramifications, as this report from the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found. It reviewed cases where patients had reported 3-5hrs worth of amnesia and had been pulled over for driving while intoxicated. Personally, the risk of operating a motor vehicle sans-memory or non-autonomic functioning would keep me off a drug forever, but this is America, home of the brave. I'm not entirely sure what recommendations I could make from a harm reduction perspective, but hopefully, your unconscious self remembers to put your seatbelt on.
The third in the trio of "What The Fuck?!" side effects is sleep sex. So many people have reported going to sleep after Ambien, then waking their partners up and asking for wildly different sex, that the Daily Beast's story about this was actually titled Is Ambien Sex Hotter? While the veracity of the reports may vary, the volume has been such that even non-drug publications like Men's Health & the NY Daily News have reported on it. I'm not going to tell anyone they shouldn't try to spice up their sex life, but as per my GHB article, I'm against people giving other people roofies. If you want to roofie yourself, maybe ask yourself a couple of questions as to why before doing so.
The last problem I need to mention doesn't affect the vast majority of Burners, but it might affect their parents. Even after giving themselves the 8hrs of rest that Ambien directs, Consumer Reports and other sources have confirmed that if you're over the age of 80, there's some residual coordination/drowsiness problems that amplify the risk of accidents while driving. If Gramps has trouble sleeping, perhaps get him those gummy bears or ZZZQuil, instead.
Of course, it's not all bad. It's not only exceptional at providing 8hrs of restful sleep to those who need it very occasionally, but it might actually help you recover from a stroke. Researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine found that stroke recovery in mice was improved when given Ambien, both in sensory acuity & motor coordination. The findings still need to be independently verified by other insitutions for humans, but what kind of reporter would I be if I didn't include some good news. If you're interested in trends in pharmacology and sales information, here's an exhaustive report on the industry and specific consumption patterns of Zolpidem in the USA & China. If you run into John Stamos, ask him about it. He's probably got a story or two about how he got off the stuff.
If you're planning on taking the stuff, take it and hit the pillow immediately. Don't take it and go brush your teeth or try to do your taxes. Take it, crash out, and set your alarm for 8-9hrs from when your head hits the pillow. If you suffer from chronic insomnia, definitely speak to your doctor, therapist, herbalist or local Vitamin Shoppe employee. There are substances that can knock you out that won't cause you to eat bacon at 3 AM or ask your husband to be tied up like a pig on a spit and not remember it.
By Terry Gotham • Posted in General, Ideas, Light Path - Positive Thinking	• Tagged Ambien, harm reduction, sleep deprivation, sleep driving, sleep eating, Toothpaste For Dinner
Life Cube Gonna Burn in Vegas
2014 Life Cube in Vegas. Image: Aluminarium
Scott Cohen asked us to share this.
It's official. The Life Cube Project will be coming back to Las Vegas. The metal and glass Life Cube will be coming from Reno if we can arrange transportation and then we will be creating a 24 foot Life Cube on Fremont Street between 8 & 9th. The Cube will be up and open to the public in mid-March and burn on April 2. The journey from Burning Man to the default world continues. We will be looking for artists, builders, people with positive energy to teach yoga, dance, spin fire, play music, DJ, and help assemble 200 satellite Cubes for schools throughout the Las Vegas valley. This is going to be epic. If interested in helping, please email lifecubedtlv@gmail.com and we will get you info. #lifecube #burningman — Please feel free to post your favorite Life Cube memories and photos. Documentary by H. Andrews Joven.
By burnersxxx • Posted in Art	• Tagged 2016, art, burn, las vegas, life cube, nevada
Burning Man 2015 By The Numbers Part 2 – Census Highlights
Along with the 2015 Afterburn report, BMOrg released the results of their 2015 Census. I've had a chance now to go through this in a bit more detail. Some highlights:
There are a lot of dudes (60%) and it's pretty gay (1/3rd LGBT) and pretty white (86%).
The minorities at Burning Man these days are double digit Burners (just over 5%).
"40% Virgins" is still about right, which is really still about 68.9% newbies, as only 31.1% of Burners had been to Burning Man more than twice prior to 2015 – our previous definition for Veterans. It's up slightly from 28% the previous year, it is remarkable how these virgin and veteran percentages remain about the same, year after year. Coincidence? Random chance? Or the result of Burner profiles, ticket lotteries, and all the other socially engineered ticketing hoops Burners are forced to jump through?
20% of Burners are aliens, about a third of those from the biggest country, Canada
Scalpers are not a problem, and STEP is not very useful.
Burners are very affluent. 44.1% have an average household income of US$100,000 or more.
About 7% of Burners are in the 1% – and we even have some in the 1% of 1% of 1% of 1%, the 62 people with as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the planet combined.
We're smart, too. 77% have a college degree, 6.1% of Burners have a degree in healing or beauty
Despite the vehicle pass scheme, 10% of Burners still arrived alone. A third used a plane in their journey to Black Rock City.
Although 17.9% arrived in an RV, 26.2% ended up staying in one.
Only a third of those RVs got pumped – incredibly disappointing, given the amount of money being spent across Black Rock City on site services – and BMOrg's intervention to make it hard for camps to make their own deals with vendors of their choice.
35.9% had access to some form of renewable energy – iPhone charging, perhaps?
69.7% of Burners were connected to electricity from generators – not exactly "off grid living".
It is, however, a great place to go to get away from conventional forms of religion. Only 5.4% of Burners identify as religious.
How many of those are Satanists is unknown, but let's call it 5%: 3.2% of Burners worship "other" and 1.2% are Pagans.
Download the full Census from their new home within the borg. Here are the team credits, thanks to everyone who participated:
Principal investigators and project coordinators: S. Megan Heller (Countess), Dana Lilienthal DeVaul (DV8), Dominic Beaulieu-Prévost (Hunter), and Kateri McRae (Variance)
Data analysis: Dominic Beaulieu-Prévost (Hunter), David Nelson-Gal (Scribble)
Report coordination, graphics, layout & design: Rebecca Mason (B^2), Aaron Shev (Murse), Dana Lilienthal DeVaul (DV8), David Nelson-Gal (Scribble), Jason Lankow, & John Nicholson
The 2015 Census Lab: The project also involved more than 150 volunteers whose contributions were essential in many ways: research collaborators, volunteer coordinators, statisticians, camp builders, gate samplers, keypunchers, census lab hosts, graphic designers, and many more. These contributors will globally be referred to as "the Census Lab". We would also like to thank the Burning Man organization for the resources that they provided both on playa and off playa and for believing in the project.
Part 1 – Burning Man 2015 By the Numbers
By burnersxxx • Posted in 2015	• Tagged 2015, afterburn, census, numbers, statistics
Burning Man 2015: By The Numbers Part 1
SR-71 Blackbird using Afterburner. Image: Wikimedia Commons
BMOrg have just released the Afterburn Report for 2015.
Some information that used to be provided, is now hidden. Here are some of the key details missing:
medical services visits, nature of injuries
arrests and citations
number of vehicles
number of aircraft at the airport
entry and exodus times
volume of ice sold
number of people watching live video stream
All of this was freely available in the past; it's hard to see how BMOrg can claim to be "more transparent", when they are sharing less information. Maybe now that they're down one Minister of Propaganda, there will be a reduction in the Orwellian double-speak. One can only hope…
Here is a summary of what was released in the report.
67,564 paid participants. In 2014 this was 65,992 and in 2013 it was 69,613. The definition of "paid participant" seems to have changed between 2013 and 2014. In 2015 there were 68,000 tickets officially sold, so 436 people managed to get a ticket but didn't show. Or, something went wrong counting them – however, the report says Ticketing and Will Call went super-smoothly last year. The Box Office line was never longer than 30 minutes.
There were 1150 placed camps, out of 1300 applications. What was wrong with those 150 camps? We'll probably never know, which is a pity – because if we could all learn together, we could reduce the amount of mutual time wasting between camps, volunteers on the placement team, and BMOrg's holocracy of a hundred-plus full-time busy worker bees. Assuming that some of the camps get rejected for some of the same reasons, that is.
BMOrg granted $1.2 million cash to more than 100 art projects on the Playa. They also provided in-kind support in addition to this $1.2 million.
This works out to $17.76 per ticket , or about 4.5% of $390. Seems like an increase from previous years, and we should know in a year or so if it's true – when the IRS returns for the Burning Man Project in 2015 are released.
The Artery handled 1139 service requests on playa from art projects, a 50% increase over the previous year.
There were 326 art pieces; 75 of them incorporated fire art. There were 210 self funded projects and 56 "walk in" projects. Presumably this means the remaining 60 were the ones BMOrg had any involvement in: 18.4% of the total.
In 2014, The Man was 105 feet tall, and took a long time to Burn. In 2015, it was reduced to 60 feet tall.
There were 33 regional midway projects, with participants from 16 countries.
The Burner express brought 3,884 people in, and took 3,334 out. 250 people camped in the Burner Express bus camp.
No word yet on if there will be any price hikes on bus tickets, additional luggage fees, or bike fees for the 2016 Medici theme. But it looks like this service is bringing in close to a million bucks.
There is also a Gerlach-Empire shuttle bus, though usage was modest. Total shuttle bus ridership increased 45%, from 85 passengers in 2014, to 123 in 2015.
17,000 Burners flew in through Reno airport.
88NV, the Burning Man Airport, saw a 30% increase in traffic. 2,330 Burners arrived this way – at $40 per head landing fee, that's about a hundred grand. At its peak, the airport was handling 210 landings per day.
Image: Phillipe Glade, burningman.org
This year there were 631 yellow bikes. Someone donated 180 huffy bikes to the total.
527 came back like they were supposed to. 56 had been painted and 28 had been decorated. The bikes are supposed to be free for all Black Rock City citizens, not just free bikes for you to grab and claim as your own for the whole Burning Man. 20 of the bikes were stolen outright.
There were a total of 1,625 abandoned bikes. This works out to 2.4% of the population – about the same ratio as the portapotties. For each portapotty you see, there is one Burner MOOPing their bike.
How many of these were stolen? How many were from Burners leaving in the Burner Express, planes, or car-pools, with no room for bikes and no spare $50 for the transporation fee?
Fortunately, 200 of the retrieved bikes will be recycled back into the Yellow Bike program for next year.
This year there were more than 700 rangers – a veritable army battalion.
BMOrg worked closer than ever before with the Feds, achieving "Unified Tier 1 inter agency integration":
BRC has relationships with Federal, State and County agencies including Bureau of Land Management, Nevada Highway Patrol, NDOT, Washoe and Pershing County Sheriff's offices, the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, and Nevada State Health, amongst others.
BRC works year-round with these agencies to ensure legal compliance and public safety at the event. In 2015, BRC led joint training and table-top exercises to further align operational process and interagency communication.
Also in 2015 BRC updated the Unified Command to a Tier 1 management process, joining all the bodies (both event and agency) together, ensuring safer management in the event of unplanned incidents. This system was tested thoroughly during the repeated whiteout conditions of 2015, and proved to be highly effective for event operations emergency management.
You may have seen the news this week about Apple fighting the Federal government over unlocking an iPhone related to the San Bernardino alleged terrorist attack – even though they were happy to hand over details at least 70 previous times. It doesn't sound like BMOrg are going down the route of Just Saying No to the government, preferring total co-operation and integration of systems, Burner profiles, and databases.
The Playa Information tent had 130 volunteers, supporting 30 computer terminals. There were 2,299 visitors to the V Spot, and 1,117 of them were connected with volunteer opportunities. 794 went to Burning Man teams, 155 to theme camps, 158 to art projects, and the rest were assigned MOOP duty.
The total number of Greeters was 850. 325 were pre-scheduled general Greeters, 50 or so were "walk-up" volunteers. 18 theme camps greeted as a group(425 people).
210 volunteered to be Lamplighters – 130 of them camping in the Lamp Lighter Village. They report that "the interdepartmental communication and cooperation is the best it has ever been". There were 319 lamp spires and 917 lanterns total.
Tips from Arctica were donated to three worthy causes: Polar Bear International, the Gerlach Senior & Community Center and the Washoe County Family Planning Clinic. No information about who got what is available.
SANITATION & INFRASTRUCTURE
50 dump trucks working 24/7 serviced 1600 porta potties. That's one WC for every 42 people, in case you were wondering (I was!) How does that stack up against Defaultia?
Source: American Restroom Association
We're about the same as a nightclub in Florida, and doing better than your average stadium.
At the company ranch in Gerlach, they stored 300 containers, 120 vehicles, and 30 semi trucks. The property operates entirely off the grid.
The recycling camp processed 5000 lbs of aluminum cans, 2 30-yard dumpsters' worth. This was approximately 170,000 cans. Recycling them resulted in a $1500 donation to the local school.
The city burned through 20,020 gallons of propane. 17,673 gallons were used for flame effects in Mutant Vehicles, theme camps, and art projects. The other 2,347 gallons were used for infrastructure, utilities, and cooking.
According to the US Department of Energy, burning a gallon of propane produces 12 lbs of CO2 emissions. So that's 212,076 lbs, or 106 tons of greenhouse gas generated – just for the art. And that's not even counting all the non-propane burning, especially The Man and The Temple.
BMOrg did bring us exciting new news just over two months ago that they had listened to the community based on a petition last year to make Burning Man greener, and were starting a new chapter. This doesn't merit a single word in the Afterburn, perhaps it is still "coming soon". Maybe some of that $2 million a year vehicle pass windfall could be reallocated to habitat preservation or re-forestation projects.
Read more at burningman.org
Over at the Reno Gazette-Journal, staff Burning Man reporter Jenny Kane reports that the Medici VIP tickets sold out in less than a day.
The first 500 da Vinci tickets, a new tier of tickets that are three times the cost of the main tickets, were sold out as of Thursday morning, according to Burning Man spokeswoman Megan Miller. An additional 4,900 $990 pre-sale tickets, which were $800 last year, also were sold out by Thursday morning.
No comments on what happened to the other 100 of the $990 pre-sale tickets. Jenny asks the question "will any of this windfall money go to art"? The claim is made that $1.5 million was handed out in art grants in 2015, compared to $800,000 in 2014 (actually, $911,955). Corporate PR supremo Megan Miller says:
"There's definitely money from those revenue streams going to art grants," she said, noting that Burning Man distributed $1.5 million in art grants last year, compared to $800,000 the year prior.
Part of the increase in net revenue may go toward another increase in art grant spending this year, although the organization has made no final grant decisions yet, Miller said.
Continue reading at Part 2 – Census Highlights
By burnersxxx • Posted in 2015, News	• Tagged 2015, 2016, afterburn, airport, arrests, art, budget, civic responsibility, cops, feds, government, integration, participation, population, report
GHB: Interactions, Advice & A Touch of Sanity
Every time issues of consent come up on the playa or in the regional Burner community, "date rape" drugs such as GHB are inevitably mentioned. To help people make smart choices both about what they do personally and what substances they want at their events, I spoke to Dr. Joseph Palamar at NYU, widely quoted expert on substance abuse & recreational drug use, to make sure the readers of Burners.me got the best information available about the drug. If y'all like this, let me know, and I'll try to bring on more experts for these harm reduction posts.
GHB has largely become a boogeyman in the drug world. Even though it is the literal best case practice treatment for narcolepsy, it's become associated with irresponsible choices & shady characters over the years. While many Burners enjoy it recreationally, the label of date rape drug has stuck and there's a large gap in a lot of drug education and messaging surrounding it. Just because it's assumed that the majority of the people using it are using it "on" other people doesn't necessarily make it true. For everyone who isn't trying to violate the consent of people on & off playa, here's a quick set of frank tips that should serve you well if you're trying to hang with Xyrem.
By Terry Gotham • Posted in Ideas, Light Path - Positive Thinking	• Tagged burning man, GHB, Joseph Palamar, recreational drug use, substance abuse


Halloween door cover - perfect for spooky murder mystery party games.
The Halloween Door Cover is a fantastic first spooky impression for your mystery party entrance. Each door cover is printed one side on 2.25 mil plastic and measures 30 inches by 5 feet. Note the size and measure your door - it may not cover all of the door, but it will still give a great effect! Indoor and outdoor use. This spooky door cover is great for any murder mystery home party.


1) Two Popular Cholesterol Drugs May Not Work Vytorin, Zetia failed to improve heart disease in a key study.
The Associated Press, 12:15p, PT; Sun., March 30, 2008 New England Journal of Medicine. Internet publication from the American College of Cardiology conference in Chicago, Ill.
2) Statin Treatment of Adult Human Glial Progenitors Induces PPARy-Mediated Oligodendrocytic Differentiation. Sim, et.al.
3) Tendinous Disorders Attributed to Statins: A Study on Ninety-Six Spontaneous Reports in the Period 1990-2005 and Review of the Literature.
4) Effect of Xuezhikang, an Extract From Red Rice Yeast Chinese Rice, on Coronary Events in a Chinese Population with Previous Myocardial Infarction.
5) Atlas Vertebra Realignment and Achievement of Arterial Pressure Goal in Hypertensive Patients: a pilot study. Bakris, et. al.
6) Weight Loss With a Low-Carbohydrate, Mediterranean , or Low-Fat Diet. Shai, et. al.


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Sisquoc (Chumash for "quail") is a census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California located east of U.S. Route 101 about  southeast of Santa Maria and  south of Garey. The ZIP Code is 93454, and the community is inside area code 805. Sisquoc has a fire station, a church, a Preschool-8 school and a store. It has a micro-climate with mild weather year-round. The population was 183 at the 2010 census.

The town is at the intersection of Palmer Road and Foxen Canyon Road, at the southwestern edge of the floodplain of the Sisquoc River.  The predominant land use on the plain is agriculture, while the hills to the south and west contain the Cat Canyon Oil Field, with Greka Energy and ERG Resources, LLC being the largest operators.

Sisquoc is an agricultural area. It is well known for vineyards and strawberry fields. The terrain is hilly, and there are mountains in the distance. Wildlife near Sisquoc includes bobcats, coyotes, mountain lions, rabbits, and gophers.

There is one closed store in town called the Sisquoc store, and a fire station. There is one school in town called Benjamin Foxen, home of the Bobcats.  Benjamin Foxen is the only remaining school of 5 in the Blochman School District.  The Blochman School PTA (Parent Teacher Association) was established in 1960. The school has a library in need of more books. Students and teachers at Blochman run a school garden, and fresh produce from the garden is served in the cafeteria.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 2.2 square miles (5.8 km), 99.82% of it land, and 0.18% of it water.

Demographics
The 2010 United States Census reported that Sisquoc had a population of 183. The population density was . The racial makeup of Sisquoc was 146 (79.8%) White, 0 (0.0%) African American, 5 (2.7%) Native American, 3 (1.6%) Asian, 0 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 9 (4.9%) from other races, and 20 (10.9%) from two or more races.  Hispanic or Latino of any race were 58 persons (31.7%).

The Census reported that 183 people (100% of the population) lived in households, 0 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.

There were 69 households, out of which 26 (37.7%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 38 (55.1%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 6 (8.7%) had a female householder with no husband present, 3 (4.3%) had a male householder with no wife present.  There were 4 (5.8%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 1 (1.4%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 14 households (20.3%) were made up of individuals, and 5 (7.2%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.65.  There were 47 families (68.1% of all households); the average family size was 3.00.

The population was spread out, with 49 people (26.8%) under the age of 18, 8 people (4.4%) aged 18 to 24, 44 people (24.0%) aged 25 to 44, 65 people (35.5%) aged 45 to 64, and 17 people (9.3%) who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 38.6 years. For every 100 females, there were 108.0 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.1 males.

There were 73 housing units at an average density of , of which 42 (60.9%) were owner-occupied, and 27 (39.1%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.3%; the rental vacancy rate was 0%.  98 people (53.6% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 85 people (46.4%) lived in rental housing units.

References

Census-designated places in Santa Barbara County, California
Census-designated places in California

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When analysing an existing service system or defining a new one, it's important to consider that every player in the ecosystem is exchanging a value with the other actors involved. Mapping out all the exchanged values can help with summarising underlying motivations and understanding the role of each touchpoint involved.
System loops describing the world of hospitality in Italy: visitors, hosts and the Public Administration
A template to describe system maps, created for designers.italia
Fire Club: representing the service model for a new fire response system
System loops enrich system maps by always showing the relationship among two actors as an exchange in which they are both giving and receiving something. This means analysing more in depth the dynamics that structure the system, mapping out tangible and intangible exchanged values and immediately visualising critical issues, gaps and redundancies. Sometimes the value exchanged is tangible (e.g. money), some other times are more abstract (e.g. trust): treating hard and soft aspects in a consistent way gives a clearer picture of what keeps or can keep each entity engaged.
The map is able to provide a comprehensive view of the system and highlight aspects that may have not been considered earlier, such as: missing feedback loops toward a specific actor, repetition of similar flows of data multiple times, and the presence of external elements that could play a role in the analysed service.
The circle-based structure is just one option, it would be interesting to explore different visual shapes!
Ecosystem Maps
Map the system of actors and touchpoints around the user
Actors Map

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Q: Why gcc didn't print 0 consistenly after a declaration int With the following code
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

    int num;
    printf("%d\n", num);

    int* num2;
    printf("%p\n", &num2);

    return 0;
}

I got result like:

From Memory allocation for global and local variables,
I know the global variable num is initialized to 0 implicitly,
even it is not initialized by me.
Now I am just trying something randomly, so I change the code to
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

    int num;
    printf("%d\n", num);

    int* num2;
    printf("%p\n", num2);

    return 0;
}

and now I get

Question: I don't know WHY the value of num is no longer 0.
In my opinion, what I am doing with the variable num2 and its value HAS
NOTHING TO DO WITH the variable num.
I am not only interested why, but also want to hear your opinions
about this behavior.

A: int num;
printf("%d\n", num);

int* num2;
printf("%p\n", num2);

In both cases above you are reading values of uninitialized variables (in one case this variable is simple integer, in other case pointer - but like I said in both cases their values are not initialized).
Local variables are not initialized by default.
Reading values of uninitialized variables is undefined behavior.
This was fine
int* num2;
printf("%p\n", &num2);

because &num is address of num pointer - it has defined value.
Though more correct is to use:
   printf("%p\n", (void*) &num2);

In other cases too where you use %p.

A: local variables without static keyword have automatic storage duration.num is one such variable.
And reading a value of a varibale with automatic storage before assigning any value to it can result in anything. So you cannot expect some determinate output.
And yes, as your code is, what you are doing with the variable num2 and its value HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH the variable num. But num2 and num can be relaed if you do num2 = #, after which what you you assign to *num2 will impact the value of num.

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Abstract: Due to progressing digitalisation and automatisation, the disciplines of Information Systems and Business / Management will increasingly be merging. It is assumed, therefore, that in Business and Management Research (BMR), there will be a greater demand for artefacts such as conceptual models, particularly in collaborative, Mode 2 research and development projects. Such endeavours require adequate conceptual frameworks, catering for diverse, creative and iterative steps including complementary (multi-)method application in order to handle complexity, uncertainty, user engagement and differing assumptions in a fast-paced environment. They need to be able to do this while rigorously addressing questions in their field or organisation of professionals. Design Science Research (DSR) has been suggested as an suitable approach to fulfil these needs. While numerous examples of applying DSR principles have been reported with respect to Information Systems Research (ISR), the application in BMR has so far been rather modest. This article presents a conceptual basis of DSR principles to apply in Mode 2 BMR artefact development projects, accompanied by a framework for a systematic quality evaluation. By doing so, the article contributes to the advancement of the emerging convergence of BMR and ISR by presenting guidelines embracing iterative and systematic procedures for BMR and ISR researchers.


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What James Franco's Oscar Snub Means
Story from Oscars
Why Did James Franco Get Shut Out Of The Oscar Nominations, But Kobe Bryant & Gary Oldman Didn't?
Lauren Le Vine
Photo: Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images.
James Franco was flying high at the Golden Globes. He picked up the award for Best Actor, Musical or Comedy, and brought his brother Dave and Tommy Wiseau, the eccentric force behind cult hit The Room (on whom Franco's role in The Disaster Artist was based) on stage with him. Franco couldn't stop smiling as he thanked Seth Rogen and the other people who had gotten him to this point in his career. Proudly displayed on his lapel was a Time's Up pin; and that's when the tremors began. Actress Ally Sheedy tweeted a now-deleted series of missives asking why Franco had been allowed inside the ceremony in the first place. She also said, "James Franco just won. Please never ask me why I left the tv/film business" as well as "Christian Slater and James Franco at a table on @goldenglobes. #MeToo"
Sheedy didn't elaborate, nor did she respond to requests for comment. Perhaps she was alluding to when she worked with Franco on a 2014 off-Broadway production, and something went wrong. Many other people, however, pointed to a more logical conclusion: the time Franco allegedly tried to pick up a 17-year-old girl by sliding into her DMs on Instagram. Afterward, Franco told Howard Stern that "seventeen is legal in New York," but also said he "used bad judgment."
This happened four years ago, but it didn't seem to preclude any nominating bodies from honoring Franco's work thus far this awards season. It would take another bomb to drop for voters to reconsider the actor's chances at an Oscar. On January 11, the L.A. Times published an article in which five women accused the actor and director of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior. (His repeated response to the allegations is to refer to his comments on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Late Night with Seth Meyers, in which he said the allegations were not accurate, but he supports people coming forward and having a voice.)
Suddenly, the conversation around James Franco changed. He won a Critics' Choice Award on January 11, but didn't show up to collect it, and reportedly received tepid applause. He was forced to slink into the SAGs on January 21, opting to skip the red carpet, and was probably grateful that he didn't win. Although Oscar voting hadn't closed when the L.A. Times article published, the 1,218-member voting block of actors in the Academy responsible for deciding whether or not he'd receive a nomination often wait until the last minute to cast their votes, meaning they could have been influenced by the allegations. And, according to several sources who spoke to the L.A. Times, members who voted early wished they could change their decision.
On the flip side, and most disappointingly, the New York Times spoke to a few Academy members who thought that the accusations against Franco were "small potatoes" compared to "the alleged misdeeds of Harvey Weinstein." His snub today may have been the result of the Academy's long-standing bias against comedies. Still, given The Big Sick's nomination for Best Original Screenplay, it makes sense to presume that it was Franco's alleged actions that led to a lack of a nomination. Also, The Disaster Artist did receive a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, so it wasn't entirely shut out.
We're living in a watershed moment, and yet despite all of the good intentions and actions following the fallout of Harvey Weinstein et al, Hollywood doesn't seem truly ready to look in the mirror. While James Franco didn't receive an Oscar nomination this morning, two people with past histories of abuse allegations did: Kobe Bryant and Gary Oldman. Bryant was nominated for Best Animated Short Film for Dear Basketball. Gary Oldman received a Best Actor nod for his performance as Winston Churchill in The Darkest Hour. Oldman has already scooped up the Golden Globe and SAG Award for his performance, and he appears to be marching steadily towards the Oscar.
Both of these men's records are marred by their past actions, though. Bryant was arrested in 2003 on the accusation of sexual assault. A hotel employee told authorities the former basketball player had raped her. He admitted that they had sex, but said it was consensual. Bryant publicly apologized to his wife. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Bryant's accuser refused to testify, so the criminal case was dropped, but a settlement was reached in a civil suit. Bryant's apology was part of the suit, "but he never admitted fault."
In November 2017, the Daily Beast published an article titled "Gary Oldman: The Oscar Frontrunner With a Dark Past." In it, the outlet resurfaced Oldman's then-wife Donya Fiorentino's 2001 accusations that he assaulted her with a telephone in front of the couple's children. "I tried to dial 911. Gary grabbed the phone receiver from my hand, and hit me in the face with the telephone receiver three or four times. Both of the children were crying," Fiorentino said. (The actor's manager said that her claims were investigated by police and the district attorney's office, and no charges had been filed.)
While neither Bryant nor Oldman admitted fault, the optics here aren't great for the Academy. If Hollywood is truly committed to changing its behavior and reversing the power dynamic that has persisted for too long, it would look not only at actor and creators' professional actions, but their interactions in their personal lives as well — and not just at the current moment of #MeToo and Time's Up. Many people have criticized Hollywood for trying to be the vanguard about a problem that cuts across all industries, particularly plaguing women in working class fields. If the entertainment industry wants awards season to serve as an opportunity to shine a light on society's insidious power imbalance that gives rise to harassment and misconduct, it can't overlook men's past actions in the name of an accomplishment on the road to a little gold statue.
In the cases of Oldman and Bryant, it discounts the voices of women who were brave enough to say "me too" when the silence was still deafening. Plus, it demonstrates that Hollywood's memory is remarkably short when it comes to forgiving men for their misdeeds. Let's not forget this is the community that welcomed Mel Gibson back with open arms at last year's Academy Awards. James Franco may be the bad boy of the moment, but he's not the only one who's ever misbehaved. The Academy would do well to remember that.
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Castle of Park
The Castle of Park dates back to the 13th century but has since been altered considerably during the 16th, 18th and 19th centuries.
The Park estate originally formed part of the Royal Forest of Banff but was granted to Sir Waleran de Normanville (recorded as Walramo de Normanuill') by Alexander II in 1242 as part of a gift of the lands of Cornhill, Ordiquhill, Inchford, Tillynaught, and Rowater (recorded as Correncrare, Tulichule, Inchefode, Thulihernach' and RuueWaltyr).
The first castle on this site is said to have been built in 1292, possibly by Sir Waleran's successor, although what form it took is unknown. However the earliest visible part of the building dates to the 16th century and either replaced or incorporated the earlier structure. It consists of a tower house built in 1536 on a Z-plan with a central rectangular block aligned approximately east to west and square towers extending from the north-west and south-east corners.
The main block and the two towers rise to a height of four storeys plus an attic and feature vaulted basements. The original entrance was located at ground level in the re-entrant angle between the south elevation of the main block and the south-east tower. A round-arched roll-moulded doorway leads into a small hall from the right of which a spiral staircase gives access to the upper floors.
Beyond this were kitchens in the basement of the south-east tower. To the left of the entrance a vaulted corridor leads to a second spiral staircase at the north-west corner serving the north-west tower. Straight ahead of the entrance are two vaulted chambers lit by arrow slits which can still be seen on the north side.
It is likely that the castle was built by the Abernethy family as Alexander Abernethy, 4th Lord Saltoun of Abernethy, bought considerable amounts of land in Banffshire between 1514 and 1517 and the Castle of Park was said to be a Saltoun property by the early 16th century.
Following the bankruptcy of John Abernethy, 8th Lord Saltoun of Abernethy, in 1605 the caste was sold to Sir Adam Gordon, son of John Gordon of Cairnborrow and Edenglassie. The elder Gordon sold his lands of Benum in order to buy Saltoun estates for his two eldest sons, William receiving the lands of Rothiemay and Adam receiving those of Park. The Castle of Park would remain in the Gordon family for almost 400 years.
In 1717 the castle was extensively remodelled for Sir James Gordon, Sir Adam's great grandson who had inherited the property in 1713. The south-east tower was extended to the north to match the projection of the north-west tower, creating an almost symmetrical façade.
On its east façade a carved stone panel was added carrying the date 1717 and the initial SIG and DHF for Sir James Gordon and his first wife Dame Helen Fraser. Helen was the daughter of William Fraser, 12th Lord Saltoun.
Further work was carried out for Sir James in 1723 with the addition of a three storey bow on the east elevation of the south-east tower. At ground floor level in this extension a new entrance was created around which is a roll-moulded surround with the names of Sir James and his second wife Margaret Elphinstone, daughter of John Elphinstone, 8th Lord Elphinstone, and the date 1723 inscribed on the lintel.
High above the door on the south elevation, at second floor level, is a carved stone armorial panel which apparently displays the arms of Sir James.
Sir James' heir and son from his second marriage, Sir William Gordon, succeeded his father in 1727 and in June 1745 married Lady Janet Duff, daughter of William Duff of Rothiemay, later Lord Braco and 1st Earl of Fife. Later that year Sir William joined the Jacobite cause, and following the Battle of Culloden in 1746 he went into hiding. The castle may have been pillaged by the retreating Jacobites (this certainly happened to the nearby Cullen House) and later that year government troops camped on the estate while searching for the laird.
The castle next passed to Sir William's half-brother, John Gordon, who as a Captain in the Marines had supported the Hanoverian side. Whether this transfer of ownership was instigated by Sir William to protect the family's estates or by Parliament following a forfeiture is unclear.
Around 1750 classical additions were made to the north and south façades. At the rear, to the south, a three storey curved bow with conical roof was added. The ground floor section is harled with a single small window while the first and second floors are stone with three tall windows on each floor. At the front another three storey pedimented extension was added which featured a new entrance at first floor level reached by a grand horseshoe staircase, however this extension was demolished in the 1970s.
John Gordon died in 1781 without a son and so the Castle of Park passed to his nephew Ernest Gordon, the son of John's brother James Gordon of Cobairdy. Ernest died unmarried in 1804 and the castle passed to Lachlan Duff, the son of Sir William's sister Helen Gordon who had married John Duff of Culbin, of the Duffs of Drummuir. Lachlan took the surname Duff-Gordon.
Lachlan died in 1808 and was succeed by his son, Colonel Thomas Gordon, who in 1829 was responsible for the addition of a large, almost square, four storey Gothic tower to the west side of the north-west tower. The tower is topped off with a corbelled and crenellated parapet with bartisans at each corner featuring cruciform arrow slits.
The estate next passed to Thomas' son, another Lachlan Gordon-Duff, who in 1858 inherited the larger estate of Drummuir following the death of his cousin Admiral Archibald Duff. Between 1876 and 1878 more modifications were made and a curved stair tower was added in the angle between the north-west tower and its Gothic neighbour to the west with a new main entrance at first floor level. The door is reached by a T-plan stair which was constructed from the 18th century horseshoe staircase.
In 1877 a single storey pavilion was added to the east elevation while a battlemented pavilion was added to the west end of the north elevation, both of which have since been demolished.
Due to the addition of Drummuir to the family estates, by this time the Castle of Park, now known as Park House, had become a secondary property occupied by the heir rather than the laird. When Lachlan died in 1892 his son, Thomas Duff Gordon-Duff, moved from Park House to Drummuir.
Early in the 20th century gas lighting and central heating were installed for Thomas' son, Captain Lachlan Gordon-Duff, however he was killed in action in France while serving with the Gordon Highlanders. Thomas died in 1923 and the estates of Park and Drummuir passed to Lachlan's eldest son, Robin. Robin seems to have preferred the house at Drummuir and so Park was only used occasionally during the 1940s and 1950s.
In 1960 Robin's brother, Colonel Lachlan Gordon-Duff, moved into Park House. Some time in the 1970s, as previously mentioned, the grand classical façade on the north side was removed, possibly in an attempt to restore some of the 16th century character of the building. In the late 1970s the property was sold to a Dutch dentist, Rudi Ovenveldt, then again in the late 1980s to a painter, James Duncan, who ran the castle as a hotel and restaurant.
Bill and Lois Breckon bought the castle in 2000 and it underwent significant renovation in the following years, subsequently being used for hosting residential painting and creative writing courses. In 2007 the castle changed hands again and is now a family home but also offers bed and breakfast accommodation and has a café called The Breakfast Room.
Alternative names for Castle of Park
Corncarn Manor; Park House; Park of Corncairn; Perk
Clans associated with Castle of Park
Surnames associated with Castle of Park
Where is Castle of Park?
Castle of Park is in the parish of Ordiquhill and the county of Banffshire.
Grid reference: NJ 5890 5714
Lat / long: 57.6024165, -2.689451
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Fon is in negotiations to provide free broadband wireless across Buenos Aires. Alejandro Piscitelli, the head of Argentinian education portal Educ.ar, is quoting Fon founder Martin Varsavsky as suggesting that 50,000 to 100,000 Fon hot spots (or Foneros) across the city would achieve this goal. The article notes that this is not going to be an easy project on that scale. Note that Piscitelli is also involved with the MIT project for affordable developing world laptops for …
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This still image from video published on the Internet on Wednesday by a group calling itself Jund al-Khilafah, or Soldiers of the Caliphate, shows members of the group standing behind French mountaineer Herve Gourdel just before beheading him. AP hide caption
Hollande: French Hostage 'Assassinated' By Algerian Extremists
September 24, 2014 • The group calling itself Soldiers of the Caliphate released a video purportedly showing the beheading of kidnapped mountain guide Herve Gourdel.
Joe Cicippio was held in chains at 20 different locations in Lebanon. Some hostages have had trouble readjusting following their release. He says he focused on the good things in his life, including music, to get him through his captivity. Greg Myre/NPR hide caption
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How To Survive, And Thrive, After 5 Years As A Hostage
June 11, 2014 • Joe Cicippio belongs to a very small club of Americans who were held by Islamic radicals for years and lived to tell about it. Here's how he coped as a hostage in Beirut and then rebuilt his life.
In October, kidnapped French intelligence agent Denis Allex appeared in a video shot by his captors. In the video, Allex pleads for French President Francois Hollande to negotiate for his release. -/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Failed French Rescue Attempt Leaves Several Dead In Somalia
January 12, 2013 • It's not clear whether a French intelligence agent is dead or alive after a botched rescue attempt in Somalia on Saturday morning. The operation may have dangerous implications for other French hostages being held across Africa.
Held Hostage
January 21, 2008 • Trying to define "hostage."
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Standon Calling is an annual music festival held near the village of Standon, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, in the grounds of private residence Standon Lordship. It is a themed boutique festival which grew from a birthday barbecue into an annual public event.

History
The festival began as a birthday barbecue for founder Alex Trenchard in 2001. It became a live music event in 2004, with a single stage on the same site with a one-day line-up.

In 2005, a second stage was built in an adjacent field; after the final act, organiser Trenchard announced to visitors "Don't go to bed!". Performers dressed as fairies, who were hidden in the crowd, threw off their cloaks and led the festival-goers to a surprise all-night party.

The festival expanded to two days in 2006 with a full-size main stage.

2007 saw a Rio Carnival theme and the blossoming of another festival tradition, fancy dress on Saturday. Headliners were The Rumble Strips, New Young Pony Club, Noisettes and Mr Hudson & The Library. Friendly Fires also played the main stage on Saturday afternoon.

In 2008 the festival expanded to three full days, with the Super Furry Animals closing the main stage. Other acts included Florence & The Machine, The Maccabees, Glasvegas, Late Of The Pier, and Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip.

The theme was Japanese culture, with outfits varying from Harajuku girls to Wasabi peas. Japanese acts included Melt Banana, Acid Mother's Temple and Cosmic Inferno, while activities included calligraphy demonstrations, tea tastings and binocular football.

There was even an underwater disco, which won Standon Calling the Innovation Award at 2008's UK Festival Awards.

In 2009 the theme was "Space", commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landings. The festival site was duly decorated with props including a Tardis from cult BBC sci-fi serial Doctor Who and the DeLorean time machine from the Back to the Future film trilogy. There were several space-related events, including two evening presentations by space expert Jerry Stone of Spaceflight UK.

2010 saw Standon Calling grow, both in terms of space and ticket sales. Themed around "Murder On The Standon Express", a miniature town with boutique stores, food stands and a fancy dress shop was built on the site.

The festival spread from Standon Lordship onto neighbouring fields with additional car parking and camping. Coach travel provided from local train stations. The pre-festival marketing included a series of "Road to Standon Calling" gigs in London and a competition for smaller upcoming bands to play the main stage on the Sunday night.

2011's theme was 'Gods and Monsters' with Lamb and Battles headlining.

2012's theme 'Journey to the end of the earth' saw headliners Fat Freddies Drop, Beardy Man and Death in Vegas.

2013's theme of 'Running away from the circus' included bands Bastille, Digitalism, The Joy Formidable, De La Soul and Band of Skulls.

2014 had a "Lost in Latin America" theme with headliners Frank Turner, Maximo Park and Public Enemy. Clean Bandit, Charli XCX, Ella Eyre and Young Fathers were other notable names on the lineup.

Standon Calling 2015
Celebrating its 10th birthday, Standon Calling was bigger and better than ever before, increasing its capacity to 10,000. The theme was "A town of two faces", encouraging cowboy/girl costumes by day and by night the festival took a futuristic turn seeing a variety of disco themed costumes. Disco tribute band Uncle Funk & The Boogie Wonderband opened the main stage.

Headlining the festival were Little Dragon, The Dandy Warhols and Basement Jaxx with other acts such as Ella Eyre, Slaves and Kwabs filling the bill.

Standon Calling 2020
In common with all UK festivals, Standon Calling 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with tickets being refunded or rolled over to the following year.

Conviction
In February 2011, founder Alex Trenchard received a 30-month sentence for defrauding his employer Tesco of £355,000, which he used to fund the event using his company credit card. This followed losses on ticket sales during the 2008 and 2009 events. Trenchard was released after 10 months.

References

External links

 Festival website

Music festivals in Hertfordshire
Recurring events established in 2001
2001 establishments in England
Annual events in the United Kingdom
Indie rock festivals


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Alexis Bell elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences
The College of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Alexis Bell, The Dow Professor of Sustainable Chemistry, has been made a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (the Academy). The Membership of the Academy is formed of its Members (Academicians), the Corresponding Members, and Foreign Members. All categories of membership are elected by the General Assembly of the Academy. Candidates are elected at the General Meetings of the Academy Departments prior to the General Assembly, which convenes every three years. All Academy members are elected for life.
The list of the 274 foreign members over the past 300 years is fascinating, and includes, just to name a few people you might recognize: Hans Bethe, F. Albert Cotton, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Freeman Dyson, Richard Ernst, Gerhard Ertl, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Roald Hoffman, David Pines, Ilya Prigogine, John Polanyi, Neil Smelser, Kip Thorne, Charles Townes, and Ahmed Zewail.
Jeffrey Reimer, Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering stated, "This award, which follows many others, affirms Professor Bell's insights into the fundamental relationships between the atomic structure of heterogeneous catalysts and their activity. We offer our heartiest congratulations to Alex!."
About Alexis Bell
Professor Bell is interested in understanding the fundamental relationships between the structure and composition of heterogeneous catalysts and their performance. The study of reaction mechanisms and the identification of factors limiting the activity and selectivity of catalysts are also objectives of his research. Reaction systems being investigated include the synthesis of oxygenated compounds from COx (x = 1, 2), the conversion of alkenes to olefins and oxygenated products under oxidizing conditions, conversion of biomass to fuels, and the electrochemical reduction of water and carbon dioxide to hydrogen and carbon monoxide, respectively.
The objectives of his program are pursued through a combination of experimental and theoretical methods. Spectroscopic techniques, including IR, Raman, NMR, UV-Visible, XANES, and EXAFS, are used to characterize catalyst structure and adsorbed species under actual conditions of catalysis. Isotopic tracers and temperature-programmed adsorption and reaction techniques are used to elucidate the pathways via which catalyzed reactions occur. Quantum chemical calculations are conducted to define the structure and energetic of adsorbed species and the pathways by which such species are transformed. The combined use of theory and experimental methods enables the attainment of a deeper understanding of the core issues of interest than can be achieved by the use of either approach alone. In pursuing his research, Professor Bell draws upon 40 years of experience in the pursuit of fundamental issues relevant to catalysis. He is the author or co-author of over 550 technical publications.
Learn more about Professor Bell's illustrious career here.
About the Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences (the Academy) was founded in Saint Petersburg on the order of Peter the Great and by Decree of the Senate of 1724. The Academy immediately responded to the demands of the times through its scientific research and publications, and quite soon achieved scientific results that were on par with those of other European institutions.
The traditions and scientific schools established and further developed by the Academy, as well as its world excellence of research in basic and applied science naturally merited the status of the top scientific institution of the country. Between 1925 and 1991 the Academy bore the name that incorporated the name of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. It was reconstituted as the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1991 by a decree of the President of the Russian Federation that also confirmed its status as the highest scientific institution in Russia.
The building of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg on Universitetskaya Embankment (image courtesy of Wikipedia)
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Finally find the perfect pair of jeans with the daring pocket details, the ultra iconic shape that is endlessly versatile with a lived in appeal but scared of the price tag? Don't run, lets evaluate! Here is why your denim costs $200. Denim in general has a high resource footprint. It takes a lot of land, water and chemicals to grow the cotton. It takes a lot of water, chemicals and energy to process and dye the fibers. The brands I have mentioned, brands that I love, are all USA brands and manufactured in California. Being a product of the United States is one reason for the high price tag on any product, not just denim. The number of pockets, the findings such as zippers and buttons, the amount of stitching in the construction of the jeans too; These all play an important part in the cost of our jeans. Finished edges, top stitching, care tags and any physical alterations or added detail to the jean raise the cost and also identify the quality. Denim is built to last. It's simple, classic, and when raw, looks good in almost every situation. We love denim because it is what you live your life in.
I have quite a substantial collection of premium denim. I spend far too much on my jeans, more than my usual paycheck will allow. I live my life in quality denim and that is good enough reason for me to keep shopping. My entire closet comes from a contemporary women's boutique in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Lana's Boutique. They are known about town for the amazing denim they carry (the brands mentioned above). With a wide variety of styles, I am bound to find amazing treasures every time I walk in there. And HUGE thanks to the owner for always offering the best styling advice! Lana's Boutique makes shopping easy and especially stress free because you essentially get your own personal stylist every time you walk in there who will stop at nothing to get you in the right fit no matter what you are looking for!


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