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FortisAlberta Inc. Announces Appointment of Phonse Delaney as New President and Chief Executive Officer
CALGARY, ALBERTA - FortisAlberta Inc. ("FortisAlberta" or the "Corporation") announces the appointment of Phonse Delaney as President and Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"), effective June 30, 2014. Mr. Delaney succeeds Karl Smith, who, as announced today by Fortis Inc., has been appointed Executive Vice President ("EVP"), Chief Financial Officer of Fortis Inc., effective June 30, 2014.
"We are very pleased to announce today the promotion of Phonse to President and CEO of FortisAlberta. His depth of experience in the utility industry and his familiarity with the operating and regulatory environment in Alberta will allow the Corporation to build on the success it has achieved under the leadership of Karl Smith," says Doug Haughey, Chair of the Board of Directors of FortisAlberta.
Mr. Delaney has more than 27 years' experience with the Fortis Group of Companies. A professional engineer, he began his career with Newfoundland Power in 1987 and has held executive positions with Newfoundland Power and, since 2004, with FortisAlberta, most recently as EVP, Operations, Engineering and Information Technology. Mr. Delaney is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta and serves on the Board of Directors of Honens, a Calgary-based arts organization. He previously served on the Memorial University Faculty of Engineering Advisory Council, the Canadian Electricity Association Distribution Council and the Board of Directors of the Newfoundland and Labrador Safety Council.
About FortisAlberta
FortisAlberta is an electric distribution company that owns and operates more than 60 per cent of Alberta's total electricity distribution network. The Corporation delivers safe and reliable electric distribution service to approximately 520,000 customers in 200 communities across central and southern Alberta. FortisAlberta is a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Fortis Inc., the largest investor-owned distribution utility in Canada, with total assets of approximately $18.6 billion and fiscal 2013 revenue exceeding $4 billion.
For more information about FortisAlberta, visit www.fortisalberta.com. For more information about Fortis, visit www.fortisinc.com.
Jennifer MacGowan
FortisAlberta Inc.
www.fortisalberta.com


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In this issue... 10 REASONS TO VISIT SCOTLAND IN 2023 Autumn is often the time when thoughts turn to travel plans for the coming year. To inspire you in planning you next trip, we've teamed up with Visit Scotland, Scotland's national tourism organisation, to bring you our top ten reasons to visit Scotland in 2023! THE CLAN MACPHERSON MUSEUM OPENS On Friday 5th August 2022, as part of the 75th Annual Clan Macpherson Gathering, Clan Chief James Brodie Macpherson of Cluny and Blairgowrie invited a group of approximately 190 clansmen and women to 'raise a glass' to the future prosperity of the Clan Macpherson Museum as the latest chapter in the Museum's illustrious history was written. The Clan Macpherson Museum.... IAN BAIRNSON - SHETLAND'S MUSIC MAKER For some Scottish musician Ian Bairnson may not be instantly a recognised name, however you are very likely to have heard the many projects which he was part of. Neil Drysdale tells the story of the Shetland guitarist who played on Kate Bush's biggest hit Wuthering Heights. Ian Bairnson, who also had a No 1 hit with Pilot, also recorded backing vocals on Paul McCartney's Mull of Kintyre and sold millions of records with the Alan Parsons Project.
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In this issue... LOCH LOMOND: A STORY OF CULLODEN The song Loch Lomond is well-known by Scots. Most of us learnt it as children. The lyrics are not immediately clear; it is a lament bout "me and my true love" but it does not say who they were. The story behind the song is true. "Me and my true love" were Robert King and his wife Janet Kissock who lived in Renfrewshire from 1673 to 1746. They courted in 1698 - 1700 and married in 1700, to be parted by his death 46 years later. FINLAY WILSON: THE KILTED YOGI Viral Scottish yoga star Finlay Wilson is back with his new book Wild Kilted Yoga: Flow and Feel Free, get ready for more tartan, more dramatic scenery and more tips and tricks to make your yoga practice extra special. Finlay took time to speak to the Scottish Banner on his love of yoga, his rescue dog Amaloh, tartan and of course Scotland. THE KING AT PLEASURE AND PRAYER James IV is usually remembered as the tragic king who not only lost the Battle of Flodden in 1513, but also died on the field. In fact, he was a very much more complex and interesting figure who influenced both the world of the church and the world of the arts. One place where these interests came together was Linlithgow Palace.
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In this issue... OUTLANDER RETURNS Season Six of Outlander is back and see's Claire and Jamie fighting to protect those they love at Fraser Ridge. Set in colonial America at the edge of Revolutionary War, they must now face what happens when you become an outsider, or outlander, in your own home. THE 1,000 YEARS HIKE Walking the West Highland Way. TAMING THE WOLVES? Rethinking Medieval Scottish Politics.
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In this issue... FOR THESE ARE MY MOUNTAINS | The Scottish Banner speaks to Tristan Cameron Harper. Tristan Cameron Harper is a photographer and mountain guide with a passion for Scotland's incredible outdoors. Tristan took the time to speak to the Scottish Banner on his love of the Scottish Highlands, being a former professional ice hockey player and Munro Bagging. SCOTLAND AFTER DARK | Keeping curiosity alive after sunset. David C. Wenczok explores the beauty of Edinburgh after dark. "I write this in Edinburgh on the 4th of December, it is fully dark outside by 15:45. Elsewhere in Scotland, night comes much sooner. wo days ago, a friend who recently moved back to Orkney after several years living in the Central Belt lamented the loss of all-natural light there by 14:30. Tellingly, the Scottish Gaelic term for the month of December is..." SCOTLAND IS CALLING FOR 2022 | Misty green landscapes and towering peaks, ancient city streets and tales of the past, freshly opened casks and the cent of seasonal dishes... they are all calling. Calling explorers, thrill-seekers, beach-goers, city-breakers, solo travellers, families, and everyone in between – no matter the season Scotland is the place...
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The work The mamba mentality : how I play represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Thunder Bay Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
The NBA great nicknamed "The Black Mamba" shares his knowledge and understanding of basketball, outlining his detailed approach to preparing both physically and mentally to succeed at the game and revealing the core of his "Mamba mentality."


If you fancy fresh delicious pizza then High Wycombe is definitely the place to be. Your local Papa John's uses only the freshest ingredients, because we know that better ingredients makes better pizza and there's nothing more important to us than commitment to quality. At Papa Johns we strive to exceed your expectations, so try one of our pizzas today and you won't be disappointed. You can check out our menu online and pick up some great deals, or simply ring your local store. The taste and quality of our pizza is what makes Papa John's a slice above the rest!
High Wycombe is the second biggest town in Buckinghamshire and is situated in the middle of Oxford and London. The town is not just an industrial centre but also a market town. Through in the Medieval and Tudor times High Wycombe was a mill town which manufactured lace and linen cloth. The town was also used as a resting point for travellers travelling between Oxford and London, as the town hosted many taverns and inns.
High Wycombe is home to Wycombe Wanderers Football Club which was founded in 1887 and whose home games are played at the famous Adams Park stadium.
Now there is even more reason to cheer on and support your local football team with the amazing Score Twice Half Price deal from Papa John's, the official pizza partner of the Sky Bet Football League. Get 50% off pizzas when the Chairboys score two goals or more in any league game! To claim the deal once enabled, use promotion code STHP72.


Even though Charlie Strong hasn't named the freshman his starting quarterback, it's becoming clear he's the favorite to win the job.
DALLAS – Charlie Strong finally came clean Tuesday.
After being asked about the identity of his starting quarterback for approximately the 137th time during his six-hour on-camera endurance test at Big 12 media days, Texas' head coach suggested he might as well entrust his offense to little-known walk-on Trey Holtz for the Longhorns' season opener against Notre Dame.
"Then you'll see up on the scoreboard, 'Charlie Strong fired,'" he said, laughing.
Jokes about his impending doom notwithstanding, Strong stuck to his usual practice of avoiding any official comment on the decision that figures to define his third season at UT, and perhaps his long-term future. But even though Strong never said it explicitly, it was clearer than ever Tuesday that Shane Buechele is the man to beat.
Buechele, the freshman from Arlington Lamar who enrolled at UT last January and wowed coaches during spring drills, didn't make the trip to the Omni Hotel for media day. Neither did senior Tyrone Swoopes or sophomore Jerrod Heard, the two quarterbacks supposedly still alive in the competition to start against the Fighting Irish on Sept. 4.
Still, Buechele's stock rose the longer Strong spoke. He insisted all three quarterbacks are being considered, but reserved his most effusive praise for the 6-foot-1, 191-pound teenager who dazzled during the UT spring scrimmage and looked like the perfect fit for coordinator Sterlin Gilbert's new up-tempo offense.
It was clearer than ever Tuesday at Big 12 media days that Shane Buechele is the man to beat for the Longhorns' starting-quarterback gig.
When Strong was asked if he had a quarterback capable of winning the Big 12 (with no names mentioned), he responded by saying, "he's going to be young," but that he just needed to manage the game. That answer clearly was about Buechele.
When Strong was asked how many quarterbacks might play against Notre Dame, he said it could be two, because he wanted to continue to employ Swoopes' special Wildcat package. That answer suggested someone other than Swoopes would be the starter.
And in one of his more candid moments, Strong swatted away the idea that he'd be afraid to start a first-year player against Notre Dame.
"It really doesn't bother me for a freshman to start at quarterback," Strong said. "He's surrounded by enough."
With running backs Chris Warren and D'Onta Foreman and receiver John Burt headlining the most talented offensive roster Strong has had at UT, Buechele won't be hamstrung by the same disadvantages the Longhorns have had in recent years.
All Strong expects him to do is distribute the ball to the right people, and those teammates are growing increasingly convinced he can do it.
"He just came in and went about his work," tight end Caleb Bluiett said of Buechele. "He didn't force himself on anyone. He just proved himself."
When might that proof result in an official designation as the Longhorns' opening-week starter? Strong insisted he's in no rush to name one, no matter who it turns out to be.
But if it's Buechele, he's confident the Longhorns will be OK.
"Some people have that presence about them," Strong said. "I don't think pressure ever will affect him."


The Enneagram is a tool for psychological and spiritual growth that has its roots lost in ancient history. It is a geometric figure that maps out nine fundamental personality types of human nature and its complex interrelationships.
Deeper insights into our person, our potential and compulsions.
More harmonious and creative daily functioning.
Deeper empathy, compassion and more creative ways of relating to others by realizing that we are not all the same.
Realization that we do not need to conquer our personality but embrace, befriend and learn to understand it.
Lunch, snacks and all supplies necessary for the session will be provided.
Being held at the Riseup office, behind Cottage Computers in Leduc.
When you purchase a ticket, the page will ask you for your first & last name, and email address. This is for an automated reminder. Thanks.


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Q: Updating html text data from jquery Suppose I have this:

  TEST TEXT

How could I update "TEST TEXT" with some other string? Using $("#0").text('NEW TEXT') removes the i-tag.

A: You can do:
$('#0').find('i')[0].nextSibling.nodeValue = 'NEW TEXT';

or since it is the last child then:
$('#0')[0].lastChild.nodeValue = 'NEW TEXT'; //you can just use document.getElementById

or
document.getElementById('0').lastChild.nodeValue = 'NEW TEXT';

*

*nextSibling

*lastChild

A: wrap the "test text" in a span, and replace that.

  TEST TEXT

$("#replaceme").text('NEW TEXT')

A: This should do the trick:
$("#0").text(function() {
    $(this).children().html() + "NEW TEXT");
});

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All Variety Hour prints are hand painted by Variety Hour's founder Cassie Byrnes, using gouache, inks and markers before being digitised and adapted into artworks, homewares and women's clothing. Garments are designed and cut in universally loved and flattering shapes with print as the focus.
Our prints are inspired by everyday life and in-depth themes as broad as prehistoric Australia to Cassie's home in the tropics. Most importantly they tell a story that is true to us at the time and reflects the world we live in.
All VH prints are designed to bring you original and unique pieces created to last more than just one 'season'.
"We don't think or act like a fashion label, because we're not one. We do things differently. We like to challenge the status quo and challenge the way things have been done before."
Inspired by experiences, not trends
At Variety Hour we want to create those special moments that only art and creativity can. We don't follow trends, we experiment and try new things - and sometimes we take it way too far. But that's just part of who we are.
We don't think or act like a fashion label, because we're not one. We do things differently. We like to challenge the status quo and challenge the way things have been done before. We don't get our inspiration from WGSN or the latest influencers, but late night colour mixing sessions and the women of the Bauhaus movement.
For us, it's just as much about the creative journey we go on crafting a print as it is the final product our customer takes home.
When you see a Variety Hour piece, you know that there are hundreds of hours behind it, and the care and craft that goes into it means it will continue to play a part in your life for a long time to come. Because that's what artists do. We tell stories. And like with any story, it's the not knowing what comes next that's the exciting part.
Art doesn't exist for just a season, and neither should clothing.
Our Classics range
An important part of our ethos has always been challenging the idea that prints and fashion need to be reinvented every season.
To us, good design should be timeless. It grows on you and you love it even more over time.
Our Classic Collection is an ongoing project that takes some of our most popular prints and brings them to life in a range of brand new styles.
Each new Classics range offers us the opportunity to reimagine our prints in a different context, discover new potential and bring new life to a print that with any other brand would be used for one season and then discarded.
Explore our current Classics
VINNIE DRESS - TOMATO
ELKO DRESS - PROTEA
ASTRID JUMPSUIT - HONEYMOON BOUQUET
AVA DRESS - BASALT
HAZEL DRESS - TULIP


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NashornHackDay
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A repo for build instructions & materials related to Nashorn HackDays.

Contents
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 * This file - instructions for installing a Java 8 snapshot and building Nashorn on various platforms
 * run-js.sh - a shell script to normalise the command line and environment for the Nashorn and Rhino interpreters
 * lib/* - various JavaScript libraries suitable for experimentation
 * examples/* - a few example scripts to get us going.

Running a script
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After building Nashorn,

    ./run-js.sh nashorn examples/run-jshint.js
    ./run-js.sh rhino examples/run-jshint.js

will check a script for errors using JSHint. The first command uses Nashorn, the second Rhino.

Installation and building
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Mac OS X
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Download the Java 8 snapshot JDK dmg file from http://jdk8.java.net/download.html

Install. Note that this will set your system JDK to use this snapshot instead of any other JDK, so edit your .bash_profile file to include a line like

    export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.7`

Change '1.7' to whichever version you want to use and have installed. Use 1.6 for the Mac OS default Java install.

You'll also want to disable the Java browser plugin for obvious reasons. Go to *System Preferences*, click on the *Java* icon at the bottom, click the *Security* tab, uncheck "Enable Java content in browser", and click *Apply*.

Make a directory to work in.

    mkdir ~/nashorn-hackday
    cd nashorn-hackday

Clone the Nashorn repo as ~/nashorn-hackday/nashorn . To avoid having to install command line tools for Mercurial, use http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ . Run SourceTree, click the + icon at the left of the toolbar, and use this URL:

    http://hg.openjdk.java.net/nashorn/jdk8/nashorn

Set the location to /Users/yourname/nashorn-hackday/nashorn (where yourname is your username).

Get ANT from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi , unpack into ~/nashorn-hackday to get ~/nashorn-hackday/apache-ant-1.9.0

Get TestNG

    curl http://testng.org/testng-6.8.zip > testng-6.8.zip
    unzip testng-6.8.zip
    cp testng-6.8/testng-6.8.jar nashorn/test/lib/testng.jar

And then you're ready to build Nashorn!

Get your environment ready:

    export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8`
    export PATH=$PATH:~/nashorn-hackday/apache-ant-1.9.0/bin

and then build Nashorn:

    cd nashorn
    cd make
    ant clean; ant

Then you're ready to go... Make sure this repo is cloned to ~/nashorn-hackday/NashornHackDay, then try running a script

    cd ~/nashorn-hackday/NashornHackDay
    ./run-js.sh nashorn examples/run-jshint.js

Linux
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Install mercurial and ant using your package manager.

Make a directory to work in:

    mkdir ~/nashorn-hackday
    cd nashorn-hackday

Get an Oracle snapshot of the 32 or 64 bit JDK, depending on your platform, from http://jdk8.java.net/download.html , and unpack it to the nashorn-hackday directory.

Clone Nashorn:

   hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/nashorn/jdk8/nashorn nashorn

Get TestNG

    wget http://testng.org/testng-6.8.zip
    unzip testng-6.8.zip
    cp testng-6.8/testng-6.8.jar nashorn/test/lib/testng.jar

Get your environment ready:

    export PATH=~/nashorn-hackday/jdk1.8.0/bin:$PATH
    export JAVA_HOME=~/nashorn-hackday/jdk1.8.0
    export _JAVA_OPTIONS=-Xmx2048M

And build Nashorn!

    cd ~/nashorn-hackday/nashorn
    cd make
    ant clean; ant

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« Marc Limousin hears sounds.
He sees the rock, the perception of the stone in the flowing terrain.
The crack of nature frozen. The fallen branch speaks to him of the tree: the first tree.
Time flows through the cold and supple water: into this Marc plunges his hand and designs nature's natural history.
Our original language. The vibration of our lives traced by the light in front of our eyes.
Visual music and collective memories.
Our unconscious becomes open to our eyes.


To play roulette, you need to know the classics. The Great Martingale is actually a variant of the Hawks martingale (or simple martingale).
the principle is simple, if the black just came out, you have to play on the red until the red will come out. Every sequence has necessarily an end and the longer the greater the chance of stopping. The red is bound to eventually emerge after a while. If you double your last bet every time you lose you will end up winning and necessarily erase your losses. On a sudden you get all your losses and earn the equivalent of your first bet. This is the Martingale Hawks.
The Great Martingale consistes of a double of the previous bet but to add it a unit.
The limitations of this martingale are the same than Hawks martingale which are a runaway of bets and the reaching to fast of the maximum bet.
We could wait for a 4 color, 5 times to get to play but this would take time and enorment not change with a series of 15 consecutive Reds.
The Great Martingale works very well but on the short term. This martingale has the advantage of a reporting unit for move. We recommend that you use this method to target a gain of 30% to 40% of capital base. From 100 $ to 140 $ is a reasonable goal with this method but increased from 1000 $ to 1400 $ is much less.


We are proud to offer you the very best in cosmetic and family dentistry. Dr. William J. Frericks, Dr. Ingrid J. Schwarz, Dr. Irina V. Ganzman and their friendly staff will provide you and your family with the professional care and personal attention you deserve. Our office provides modern dentistry in an unique, caring environment. We provide a wide variety of dental procedures that we would like you to learn more about. Choose from video clips, detailed illustrations and informational overviews by simply choosing the procedure you are interested in.
We are conveniently located on Michigan Avenue across from the Tribune Tower in Chicago, Illinois.


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For a night, Maghreb joined forces to solve their social problems | Wamda
Updated June 23, 2016 12:40 PM EST
Wamda's Yassine Bakir writes about the Maghreb Social Night Challenge hackathon that was held June 17-18. Organized by entrepreneur Ayoub Ammar of Casablanca, the event "invited Maghrebis to find entrepreneurial solutions to several local social issues in Algiers, Casablanca, and Tunis." More from Wamda:
Participants – 30 from each country – were, or became, aware of the many issues they share such as youth unemployment, difficult access to health and education, and marginalization of certain populations.
Each country chose an issue to give neighbours to work on: Tunisians choose the professional reintegration of young prisoners, Algerians, the lack of economic opportunities for rural women, and school dropout rates in rural areas in Morocco.
"The idea of this challenge is to mark the premise of a collaboration and concrete actions between our countries," said the manager of Espace Bidaya in Morocco, who asked to remain anonymous, which organised the event alongside the Algerian Startup Initiative from Algeria, Espace Bidaya in Morocco, and Lab'ess in Tunis.
"We all have the desire to work together to [create] a connected and unified Maghreb," she added. [FULL STORY]


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namespace tfc {

// class to represent tensorflow graph
// this class store all nodes, and it is the owner of these nodes
class Graph {
 public:
  using NodeMap = std::unordered_map<std::string, std::unique_ptr<Node>>;
  using iterator = NodeMap::iterator;
  using const_iterator = NodeMap::const_iterator;

  Graph() noexcept = default;

  inline void AddNode(const std::string name, std::unique_ptr<Node>&& node) {
    nodes_.insert(std::pair<std::string, std::unique_ptr<Node>>(name,
        std::move(node)));
  }

  inline Node& operator[](const std::string& name) {
    try {
      return *nodes_.at(name);
    } catch (std::out_of_range& e) {
      throw Exception(Exception::ErrorCode::KEY_NOT_FOUND, e.what());
    }
  }

  inline const Node& operator[](const std::string& name) const {
    return this->operator[](name);
  }

  inline iterator begin() noexcept {
    return nodes_.begin();
  }

  inline const_iterator begin() const noexcept {
    return nodes_.begin();
  }

  inline iterator end() noexcept {
    return nodes_.end();
  }

  inline const_iterator end() const noexcept {
    return nodes_.end();
  }

 private:
  NodeMap nodes_;
  std::vector<std::string> input_nodes_;
  std::vector<std::string> output_nodes_;
};

}  // namespace tfc

#endif  // SRC_GRAPH_H_


Family Friendly There are shortcuts available along the loop to make it more appropriate for children.
Firearms are restricted, as this trail is on US Army Corps of Engineers property. Dogs must be on a maximum 6-ft leash.
The trail runs through pleasant forest adjacent to Jordan Lake. There is a Herp Habitat halfway along the loop.
While the trail is open for public use 24/7, the gate to the Visitor Assistance Center closes at 4:30 p.m. Be sure to park outside the gate if utilizing this trail around those hours.
Additionally, this is a multi-use trail, and there may be hunters in the area during hunting season. Be sure to wear bright colors to be seen. There is a limited amount of bright orange vests available for you to borrow at the Visitor Assistance Center Trailhead.
Poe's Ridge Trail is a nearly 4-mile loop marked with red paint along B. Everett Jordan Lake between the Visitor Assistance Center and the Poe's Ridge boat ramp. The trail contains three shortcuts marked with blue paint that can be used to create smaller loops. Halfway through the large loop, you'll find the Herp Habitat wildlife area. This area is a reformed, abandoned cattle pond transformed into habitat for amphibians and reptiles. Please be especially sure to stay on the trail in this area in protection of the wildlife.
The trail is in close proximity to the B. Everett Jordan Dam.
A view of Jordan Lake from Poe's Ridge Trail.


They sure have a lot of fun MAKING the mess, don't they? But getting your kids to help around the house is like pulling teeth, we know. We're not here to offer tips on how to motivate your kids to complete their chore list (sorry), we're just here to make it safer once they do decide to help!
So many chemical ridden cleaners market themselves as safe, green, organic, etc… but they're expensive, and are they really that safe? We scoured the internet for the top kid friendly homemade cleaners… and while there are quite a few suggestions out there, we think we narrowed it down to the only two that really hit the mark. These cleaning solutions are safe, green, cheap and easy to put together… and the best part is that you may already have most of these ingredients in your pantry!
Everyone's heard of this combo… and that's because it works! Whether you're disinfecting a grimy counter top, soaking the discolored toilet or freshening the dishwasher or garbage disposal, this versatile dynamic duo tops our list when it comes to being an "oldie but a goodie." Used on their own or combined, there are endless uses for vinegar and baking soda around the home. This homemade cleaner is incredibly kid friendly as both vinegar and baking soda are commonly eaten, so if you kid ingests this solution… the extent of your problem will be hearing them complain that it's "yucky." Task your kid with mixing equal parts vinegar and baking soda into each of your crusty pots, pans and bakeware with caked on grease. Just like the old volcano experiment, kids will enjoy creating a bubbly reaction without realizing how helpful they're being! Win, win.
Bonus tip: Did you know? Used as an exfoliant or sprinkled on toothpaste, baking soda's micro scrubbing capabilities even make it a staple in many people's beauty routine!
· Lemon Oil: Nothing smells quite as squeaky clean lemon – there's a reason so many store bought cleaners are masking their chemical scent with lemon! Lemon oil is antibacterial and antiviral, making it a great addition to your homemade spray cleaner. Simply mix 1 part water with 1 part vinegar and up to 20 drops of lemon oil… this cleaner packs a double germ busting punch! Vinegar might seem stinky while you clean, but once it's evaporated, you're only left with the lingering scent of yummy lemons. Use on everything from countertops to tables, sinks and plastic toys.
· Tea Tree Oil: Another bacteria busting oil, tea tree oil is a great addition to a homemade bathroom scrub – this oil helps baking soda scrub through toilet stains and rings around the tub. Tea tree oil is tough on mildew, so adding a few drops to your homemade vinegar solution will help keep bathroom tile bright and healthy. PLUS it's great for your skin, so adding a few drops to your existing soap and shampoo can relieve you of dandruff, acne, smelly feet and more – your bathroom is almost a spa at this point!
· Eucalyptus Oil: Eucalyptus is another great antibacterial oil that can be added to your homemade cleaner or detergent… and eucalyptus smells great, but only to us humans! To deter pests, create a bug repellant spray you can apply to your outdoor furniture, clothing and skin! Simply mix 1 part distilled water, 1 part witch hazel and up to 20 drops of eucalyptus oil in a spray bottle! You can also add peppermint or citronella oil – bugs hate them!
Enjoy the spring cleaning wrap up – best of luck getting the kiddos to help out!


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Sr. Gertrude brings God's love from Philippines to Philadelphia
Without a word of English, he found friends at Christ the King
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Corona follows Holy Spirit's lead to develop addictions ministry
Nina Marie Corona will present a five-week workshop series on addictions at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center on Wednesday afternoons beginning July 24.
By Lou Baldwin • Posted July 1, 2019
Nina Marie Corona, who is scheduled to present a five-week program on addiction titled "We Thirst: Christian Reflections on Addiction" at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center, 222 N. 17th Street in Philadelphia beginning July 24, came into the field of spiritual direction almost by accident.
Married to her husband Mark and mother of two adult daughters Mia and Jenna with a grandson Ryder, Nina is a member of St. Jane de Chantel Parish in Easton, Diocese of Allentown.
"I actually had a business," she explained. Although she is also a trained artist, that was for pleasure. Her previous business was much more mundane. "My grandmother, my Nana, had a very good recipe for making rice pudding," she said. "It was so good I started manufacturing it at home and I was in over 200 stores in 12 states. I was making about 800 pounds a day."
She was also a devout churchgoer, and it was in 2009 while on a retreat that she sensed a call to do something more. She went back to school for her B.A. then went on to Loyola University for a Master of Arts in Spirituality degree and is currently pursuing a doctorate in ministry at Fordham.
It was her studies at Loyola that really put her on a new career path. As part of her degree requirement she had to craft a spiritual program and give a presentation of it somewhere. At the time she was also doing research into alcohol and addiction, because a member of her family was struggling with addiction.
Because of that concern she came up with four sessions, each with a different theme: Biology, Psychology, Sociology and Spirituality, all around the issue of addictions. Through a friend who was a religious sister, she was able to give it as a presentation at the St. Francis Center for Renewal in Bethlehem.
About 25 people attended that first presentation, and Corona was shocked by how many came up to her afterwards to tell her how healing and helpful the presentation was to them.
"It was never a plan, it was just a school project," she said. But because of the response she was also convinced it was the Holy Spirit working through her, and assisted by her husband who is her greatest supporter, an entire new career opened up to her.
Nina Corona, a certified recovery specialist and doctoral candidate in ministry at Fordham University, developed a series of conferences on the addiction epidemic from a Christian perspective for use in Catholic parishes. (Gina Christian)
First it was by word of mouth; those attending the sessions were recommending them to friends.
"People come up to me and tell me how it helped them or their family," Corona said. "At the series we get an average of 30 people but as high as 80. There is nothing magical about it, but it allows people to deal with their situation, or the situation of a loved one."
Part of the challenge in dealing with addictions is those who have them and their loved ones often don't want to talk about it because of the stigma attached. They don't want others to see they have a problem.
"We are trying to change that," Corona said. "As Church we should be there to help one another. Addiction is addiction because of biological makeup, it is not a personal failing. There are substances that are addictive and we all are subject to it."
At this time the program has five two-hour conferences: Biology, Psychology, Family, Spirituality, Action.
In addition to conducting the popular We Thirst conferences, Corona is also the founding director of AFIRE (Active Faith Implementing Relief in the Epidemic) and has authored and taught several spirituality courses at Villanova University. She is also a presenter in the Matt Talbot Movement which deals with alcohol addiction.
We Thirst: Christian Reflections on Addiction will be held on the 13th floor of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center on five consecutive Wednesdays. The series is sponsored by archdiocesan Catholic Social Services and the Office for the New Evangelization.
The total cost for all five conferences is $20 per person with all proceeds going to Mercy Hospice. Limited free parking is available on site. For more information and to RSVP visit the We Thirst website.
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BARDA's Anthrax Medical Countermeasures Portfolio Overview
The potential for an anthrax attack is still a very real and serious threat. The Department of Homeland Security has declared that Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax disease, and multi-drug resistant Bacillus anthracis threaten national security.
As biological threats continue to evolve, so must our biodefense capabilities. In the event of a large-scale anthrax attack, federal, state and local partners will need to work in concert with healthcare professionals to mount a rapid response to protect health and save lives in impacted communities. As directed in the National Biodefense Strategy, the U.S. government is working to enhance preparedness to save lives with medical countermeasures.
The Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE), which coordinates Federal efforts to enhance chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats and emerging infectious diseases preparedness from a medical countermeasure perspective, has developed a multi-pronged strategy to prepare for an anthrax attack:
Anthrax Vaccines: Anthrax vaccines can provide both pre-exposure and post-exposure protection and they are a major component of the PHEMCE's strategy to protect the American people from anthrax. Significant investments have been made in all classes of medical countermeasures, but the largest investment remains in the development and procurement of improved anthrax vaccines. A licensed vaccine has been procured and three next-generation vaccines are being developed with support from BARDA.
Anthrax Antibiotics: In the event of an anthrax attack, antibiotics are the first line of defense for infected individuals. Antibiotics remove the bacterial infection from the body faster than a person's immune system. However, antibiotics alone are not sufficient to protect health and save lives. According to an analysis of the 2001 anthrax attacks, approximately a 50 percent mortality rate among infected individuals is expected when antibiotics alone are used. BARDA supports four antibiotics to potentially treat anthrax infection.
Anthrax Antitoxins: Anthrax antibiotics can be used to provide post-exposure protection and treatment. While antibiotics can be effective in treating bacteria like anthrax, anthrax antitoxins can be used to neutralize the toxins released by the anthrax bacteria. BARDA supported the development of three anthrax antitoxin products to treat individuals who may not respond to antibiotic therapy. All three products have been approved by FDA and have been purchased by ASPR.
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The PHEMCE also considers the potential benefits of having more than one source of a particular product to enhance long-term preparedness and to generate healthy price competition among providers. The PHEMCE has to balance these potential advantages against the increased costs of supporting multiple manufacturers for products that have limited to no commercial markets and the complications that having multiple products pose when developing plans for deployment and use.
The PHEMCE must now focus on sustaining its existing response capability, improving the usefulness of specific countermeasures, and, where possible, reducing the long-term carrying costs of the Strategic National Stockpile.


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July 8, 2009 November 8, 2015 by carlos
Tom Williams, Hired by Apple at 14
Motivation, Personal, Random
Carlos Note:
Have you ever felt like you're loosing who you really are and exchanging it for something people want to see in you?
Now that I have at least a short term plan I can start looking inwards again and evaluate what do I need to change to be happy. Not at peace with myself, I am arrogant enough to think I did that already, but where happiness really lies within me.
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© 2009 Derek Sivers. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
I was recently in Vancouver Canada for a week, considering moving there, when my friend Ariel Hyatt said, "You have to meet this amazing guy Tom Williams. He got hired by Apple when he was only 14. I think the company had to, like, legally adopt him to do it. He's a go-getter like you. Plus his wife, Jessie is an awesome country artist."
I met Tom for dinner, loved his story, and wanted to share it with everyone.
Especially in this environment of 10%-25% unemployment, his story and philosophy have some inspiring lessons about how to get a job or make huge deals despite a lack of experience.
So I recorded a phone call and let him tell his tale in his own words:
My mom calls this story my elaborate form of running away from home, except it doesn't have a stick and a kerchief with it.
I grew up in a very normal, middle class family in Victoria. Very, very happy. But I wasn't a very good student in school. In fact I was a very rebellious learner. I didn't even take pen and paper to class. I would interrupt my teachers. I would question what they were teaching us. Every parent-teacher interview was focused on having Tom be less disruptive, and a little bit more conformist.
And at the same time, my parents, in the summer break between 6th and 7th grade, announced that they were getting separated. That really just devastated me. Even though my parents were dealing with that relatively amicably, I was very distraught and quite upset.
I then realized I was quite powerless, and the solution was to find my own income.
I started out selling chocolate bars and quickly noticed I was the top seller in school. However, I only got a Nintendo even though I sold about $2,000 worth of chocolate-covered almonds.
I realized I was getting kind of gypped, so I negotiated to be the direct retailer of this wholesale chocolate bar operation, basically usurping the school. I had my dollar of chocolate and they had theirs. My dad had to vouch that I wouldn't just eat the inventory.
That summer I sold several thousand dollars worth of chocolate bars. This was not some passive kid sitting outside the store, eyes down, hoping somebody would take pity. I was literally walking backwards, chocolate bar in hand. As somebody would walk by me, I'd peddle my very refined spiel about how these chocolate bars were the world's best thing. They were actually called World's Best Chocolate, from which I derived my sales pitch.
As a child I was horrible with math, even with the rudimentary. In fact, I had to go to summer school once. However, I understood when I was being taken advantage of and when I was in control.
With my first lemonade stand I realized I'd have to actually spend money on Kool-Aid. This meant I'd have to spend the entire day selling at five or ten cents, (which was the competitive going rate back then), or I'd have to either steal the Kool-Aid pack, or figure out some way around this huge cost liability.
I managed to put up my sign in the local store, without help from my parents. They were academics and bureaucrats, not in any way entrepreneurial. For me, this thinking about what was a bad deal or a good deal was instinctive. I was hard-wired from day one, always trying to make good deals.
I always relied on my own instincts. I knew that if I wanted to get something done, I had to do it. Nobody else was going to do it for me. Nobody else was going to support me. I didn't expect to be supported. I just knew I had to do it if I wanted to do it. That's how I lived every aspect of my life.
Even when I was interested in bird-watching, I had a newsletter and charged a subscription to family and friends. I was always constantly thinking about how to make money and generate revenue.
Using the proceeds of the chocolate bar sales, I rented an office in the same building as the local sales office for Apple in Victoria. I would go to my office after school, not really having much to do but trying to build edutainment software on CD-ROM. I even had an outsourced receptionist service.
This was the stepping stone. It was clear to me that I wanted to try and short circuit life's path. I didn't want to stay in school until the 12th grade or at home. I wanted to live on my own and be free.
I read John Sculley's biography, who was Apple's CEO at the time, and my hero. As other kids had sports stars or actors, he was my hero. I wanted to be him or be like him.
So I started calling Apple in the 7th grade. Every single morning, at about 8:00 am before I went to school, I would call up the main Apple switchboard number, and ask for John Sculley's office, and they would put me to his assistant.
Every single morning I'd be talking to Jerry, his assistant, and would start for the first few weeks with just my standard pitch. I was taking the business development angle. I'm the CEO of my own company, which was called Desert Island Software, and he's the CEO of his company. Let's have two CEOs talk to each other about how we can work together.
For the first few weeks I'm sure Jerry thought that it was some kind of a prank or weirdo. Eventually I started to be less reliant on the pitch and say, "Hi, Jerry, how are you?" This is the gatekeeper to somebody that is receiving a lot of unsolicited phone calls. I think instinctively I realized that by building a relationship with Jerry, I was building a relationship with the gatekeeper. If they like you and support you, that's really helpful.
Here I was, literally for about a year and a half, calling every single morning. The relationship obviously evolved to "Hey Jerry, what's going on with you?" and "Oh, you know, school's tough this week Tom'" blah blah blah.
In a parallel track, because I had rented this office, I was developing a relationship with the two local sales guys who at this point had taken an interest in me and who I would stop in on every single day. They wrote e-mails, which somehow came in to Cupertino. I think it was just a benevolent gesture. Here was this kind of young, highly enthusiastic, but different than just a Mac fanatic guy that was trying to build a software company.
They were able to get me forwarded all the way up, back into John's office, Jerry and some other support staff. There was now this loop of several people interested in helping me out and seeing my dream.
My dream was to meet John for five minutes, and then I just meet him, and pitch him in person. I knew that If I was granted five minutes, I was going to be able to extend that into half hour, and that half hour would dictate or drive what would happen next.
Through many, many people's generosity at Apple, they had arranged to give me a free pass to the Worldwide
Developers Conference, which I think the ticket price was about $1,500 for the whole week.
Because of the divorce, my mom and I were quite poor. We had to actually borrow money from my grandmother, (it always makes me verklempt to remember her generosity), to fly my mom and I down, May 1993.
In fact the conference registration began on Sunday, which was May 15th. I remember the date because it was Mother's Day, and my mom was thinking we'd have a nice day to kind of celebrate it. We went to one of the hotels near the convention center in San Jose, and I scarfed down my breakfast because I wanted to get my registration at Apple done right away.
There I was, registered, and greeted well. People were like, "Oh, well, we're expecting only one tiny kid from Canada at the conference." They were expecting me, and John's PR person said, "Okay, first thing in the morning, be here 7:30, bright and early, and before he begins his keynote, you'll have your five minutes."
For me, this was the night before being able to walk on to the stadium and toss out the first pitch. It was the pinnacle dream moment. I couldn't sleep, my mind was racing with how I would spend these first five minutes to make an impression on him. I knew from his books that he was a concept guy, and loved being able to come up with new ideas on the spot, new ways of positioning things.
I knew the rumors of what technologies were being introduced at the conference and what he was speaking at in the keynote. I was really studying those technologies to come up with my own spin.
At the time it was actually the Newton that was being announced at the conference. It commercially failed later, but was successful from an innovation perspective.
I had my own business cards that said, Tom Williams, CEO, Desert Island Software. I met him and pitched him. I said, "Here's what I kind of think of the Newton…." I barfed out five minutes of stuff that I thought might be impressive to him. That five minutes extended into a full half hour – up until minutes before he was being pulled away to give the keynote.
At the end we exchanged business cards. He had two business cards, one that said "Chief Listener" and one that said "CEO". He gave me his CEO card because he was out of the other. We promised to keep in touch.
At the conference, I was given VIP access. I sat with all the vice presidents. I was one of the first guys outside of Apple to actually be able to play with the Newton. I was anointed as an interesting guy, and I met every vice president at the company that was there that week.
Three months after the conference, John left Apple. He was booted out in a boardroom coup, and then he went into a company called Spectrum. He stayed there very shortly. It was a bit of a bad story.
As a consequence of leaving Apple, John actually had time to call me. I remember the first phone call. I'd left my office, because my cash was running out from my chocolate bar sales. At this time, I'd left my office, and had my office in my bedroom in Victoria. The phone was ringing in the upstairs bedroom. I was downstairs and could hear it ringing. I raced up, and it was John on the phone.
Because of networking deep at Worldwide Developers Conference that year, other executives at Apple and the engineering team on the QuickTime products team had organized to get me back to the conference, but this time as a speaker.
I was demonstrating a use of the QuickTime conferencing API that a developer friend of mine and I had mocked up. In the QuickTime conferencing API you could build any interface on top of the basic function of video conferencing. We built up this Star Trek-like communications interface. It was visually appealing, met the geek quotient, and I was there to demo that.
Because of that demo, my brain, and Apple being a corporate culture, which at the time was kind of the dark era of Apple, I was getting hired.
We were just at the end of this first era of human capital and innovation, and so the people that were most respected on the campus were of course the engineers. The engineers didn't matter or care what you looked like, or what your educational background was. You proved your mettle with them simply by virtue of interacting with them on the spot – what your brain was like in those conversations.
Even though I was a marketing guy, it was the engineering team, that on a Wednesday of WWDC, in 1994, had offered me a job. They said, "We want you to come work with us!"
At the same time my school year was ending, and John and his wife were doing a CD-ROM multimedia startup of their own in San Francisco, where his son lived. At this point John had become a regular mentor. I'd asked him to join my board of advisors to Desert Island Software, and he agreed. He even sent me a letter that I had framed, acknowledging his acceptance to the advisory board. My mom was comfortable with me coming down to live with his son and daughter-in-law for the summer to get some work experience.
At the same time, I was doing work experience, and going down to Cupertino once in a while trying to figure out, over the course of the summer, how I could take this invitation of work with them – become hired by them even though it was infringing upon child labor laws and immigration issues and so on. What they eventually figured out was that if I was a consultant contracted by Apple through a Canadian company, the Canadian company would be responsible for any issues.
They were able to put the blame or liability elsewhere. Now the problem was I couldn't even be a director of my own company because I was under 18.
My mom, was reluctantly, very supportive of me but always worried about the downsides to my stability, childhood, and all the motherly things that one would be concerned about.
I'd convinced her to at least start the company, that was back in the Desert Island Software days. We had the company established, and literally a week before I was to go back home and start the 9th grade, the team said, "Hey, we figured this out. Want to sign the contract?"
I called my mom on a Monday, and said, "Mom, I'm starting work with Apple on Thursday, and I'm not coming home." It was a very hard thing for my mom, you know: the baby son, and California, whatever. My mom, knowing how stubborn I was, and all these external factors at play, agreed. She allowed me to do this even though she was very, very concerned that I had negotiated my own contract.
I was later told that she came down and negotiated a different kind of contract, which was to say, "Hey, you know, guys, you are going to be responsible for my child, not only in terms of his physical welfare, but his spiritual and emotional welfare."
I was a cellist at the time and had a bunch of other interests, and she just wanted to make sure that I maintained a childhood and a sense of balance in my life.
It was such an amazing corporate culture at Apple. There was a lot of people that were looking out for me, and of course, especially given what I was doing there. There was a lot of opportunity to kind of be a young rebellious teen, and I did some of that, but generally I had a really great group of people around me.
I remember there was a beer bash, when we did a alpha or beta launch of a software product. There would be a beer bash on campus, and I remember having a beer, and some HR person getting completely freaked out. There was a bunch of that kind of stuff.
However, I wasn't the youngest. It was Chris Espinosa, who was actually employee number eight at Apple. Because I was never an employee, I was a contractor, I'm the youngest ever contractor I know through Apple. Chris was youngest ever employee, and actually beat me by I t
hink a year or so. Chris actually has the title and will always likely carry that title.
I was hired in QuickTime products group, and I was savvy technically. I was able to comprehend at lower levels the technical concepts, but was a very bad, almost completely dysfunctional, programmer.
The team thought, "What do we make of this guy? What do we do with this guy?" I was put into an evangelist role. It wasn't planned. They didn't say, "Oh, Tom would be great at this." They just thought I would be a great guy to have around. We kind of had to figure out what my role was.
With QuickTime, we were really trying to build a platform, a media platform, as a consequence of some of the technical portions of later versions of QuickTime. At the time there was a new standard called CD-plus, and CD-ROM, in the music industry. CD-plus was a totally different form of manufacturing a CD. You had a data layer, and you had a audio layer on one CD. The idea was to use QuickTime to demonstrate how we could create interactive content for artists that would increase engagements around the music on a CD-ROM.
This was 1995, and the internet was becoming more and more popular. It was coming out of the academic world and in the fringe technology world. Not so much in any way the mainstream, but becoming more and more, "What can we do with this?, How can we use it?", etc.
Really our vision for how QuickTime and this online music stuff could interact, was that we could have individual files that would contain the music, but also contain very, very simple data structure describing the song. Being able to use an application which would then be able to look up that data and bring other relevant content in the form of commercial links. Links out to the web, that would allow for greater music discovery, but also allow for the tracking of how that music is explored, and how that fan engages with that particular track.
What we were tasked with was not only coming up with some prototypes about how that would manifest, and we'd pitch differently to artists and labels, but ultimately, I was kind of out there evangelizing to the music community.
I remember hanging out with Radiohead backstage at a show they did in San Francisco in 1995. Tom was already designing his album covers using Photoshop on a Mac. We had a tremendous number of artists who were already Mac users. We were trying to explain, "Hey, there's this new stuff coming!"
In New York, we were part of the New York Music Festival, wiring up 13 clubs. There were 270 bands playing over seven days, and we were live streaming the venues to anybody on the web. On the crappiest of connections – probably four-frames-per-minute, with the worst 8 kHz mono sound quality.
The way that I approached my work in reaching out to the music business was the same approach that I took with Sculley. We are all people, regardless of title, whatever. We were all completely equal and it was all about being likeable and liked.
What was happening before I joined Apple was that there had been several kind of high profile attempts at creating what the press referred to as, "Sili-wood" which was Hollywood and Silicon Valley coming together to create these massive studio-produced CD-ROM projects.
The industry observers were saying that the two cultures were clashing. The Silicon Valley types were saying, "Well this is how we try to impose their methodologies and their approach to business on Hollywood." and vice versa.
Whereas I was just this happy kid that was very excited about the technologies I was working on. Just being at Apple was my dream job. That enthusiasm and passion was disarming, and the fact that I was a kid.
Literally every single meeting for the first year, any new meeting, everybody would start looking for the hidden camera. Looking at each other for either whose kid this was, or who put up this joke. Then the meeting would start, and again people would still be kind of chuckling. Then five minutes in, as a consequence of what I was saying, and how I was saying it, they realized that this was this freakish but nevertheless real scenario of this kid being at Apple.
The music industry had the exact same attitude about people. They didn't care what package or experience you came in. If you could play your part, that's all that was required for acceptance.
That was the exact same culture that got me in at Apple. Here I was living in this convergence of those two communities, which really worked for me. I was doing really high concept stuff.
I had approached Bill Bottrell, a very famous engineer and studio guy, who had also gotten quite critically acclaimed as a producer. He had produced Sheryl Crow's first album, "Tuesday Night Music Club", and that album title was no coincidence. In her studio in Pasadena, he was organizing a Tuesday night jam session of friends and musicians that he knew.
Our idea was to wire up the studio so that the outside world could see what was going on and allow outsiders to contribute song ideas and lyrics into the studio. Then if those songs got cut, you would basically, by virtue of membership, be a contributor. You would sign up to get an audio CD compilation, of all the songs that had gotten cut, but you would get a pre-negotiated small kind of cut from the song that you had gotten cut if you were contacted had come in.
If you fast forwarded to 2009, and user-generated media contributions, collaboration online, I mean this is 1995, we just didn't have the bandwidth to do it. We didn't have a user base to do it. Even though Bill was tremendously excited about it, and so was a pretty high level executive within Apple, the concept worked up several layers above me to our vice president's level, what they were looking for was really more.
They looked at our music stuff as more traditionally corporate sponsorship stuff. So the lens was exposure in the music industry, exposure to consumers, without going into too much of Apple's history, you could argue that music was part of the brand DNA of Apple from the very beginning.
Even though Jobs was gone, it was always seen more as, "Hey, if we can do high visible stuff, get musicians endorsing what we're doing." Remember the, "Think Different" campaign.
The actual technical business rationale of our unit was that 90% of the music industry, we had 90% share of, of computers in studios and musicians from a pure market analysis perspective, the other ten was analog, and those were the guys that weren't moving. If we could create high concept stuff, be seen as real supporters of the industry, perhaps we could move the dial, one, two percent, into that other 10%.
Remember it was Mac platform only that was hosting Pro Tools, Digidesign, and all that stuff. There was a kind of corporate culture that we were in. This was illustrative of the disconnect of the time that I was at Apple, which was under our CEO Michael Spindler, at the time.
I left before Gil Amelio came in. Spindler and Amelio were arguably two of the worst CEOs Apple ever had. Well, there's only been four. This was an indicator of their "let's sell more boxes" mentality, so our music stuff was in the rationale of, "Let's sell, let's move the dial on those analog guys."
The reality of it, is those analog guys were analog for a reason, and they likely wouldn't be switching because of our sponsorship of Woodstock 2.
Nevertheless, that was the mentality. Whereas internally, as we moved down from the VP into the operating dynamics of our unit, it was just keeping that culture that Apple was famous for. The culture of early innovation, concept, reaching out to innovators, and empowering them through our ideas.
There was that corporate culture disconnect that was very reflective to the whole company.
With the studio deal, even though there was high levels of s
upport, it came down to negotiating a legal contract. The legal issues that an entertainment lawyer brought to a contract, and what our Fortune 500 Silicon Valley lawyers brought, were two very, very different contract legalities.
Even though there was cultural similarity, from a legal perspective, they were so different. It was the legal cultures that were the big issue in allowing us to do deals. As a result, we did a lot of sponsorship deals.
My business card and the title on my office read, "Tom Williams, The Kid". That was the brand that was created for me, which I quickly embraced, and owned as my own.
I left Apple as my parents were actually going through the divorce proceedings. My father didn't want to pay child support because on paper I was making more money than he was. I had no concept of money, and was spending more than I was making.
Because of the unique nature of our story, it ran in our local paper and it was syndicated very, very quickly across the country. The Canadian media got interested in doing a story on me. CBC National which was the prime-time national news hour in Canada, came calling to me in California to do an interview for a documentary.
I negotiated, and by this time had some ink on me: The Christian Science Monitor, the New York Post, A Current Affair. I had a bunch of media, and was hanging out with musicians. I very quickly understood the importance of having control over your own brand. This was not done with the Apple PR people, but directly between me and the CBC folks.
That documentary created brand awareness for "The Kid" in Canada, and as a consequence, I had a number of job offers.
Before the documentary even started, several of our new media guys got themselves hired by Microsoft. Microsoft has been involved quite heavily in promoting their own music stuff, though Apple was far better at achieving the high profile marketing wins.
Microsoft's corporate culture was far different than Apple. Even though they had way more money to spend, and they got The Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up" for Windows, they could buy their way only so far. I'd done an interview with Microsoft, as several of the guys I knew from Apple were keen on getting me into there.
By this time, the documentary ran and there was a lot of job offers, one of which I ended up taking back in Vancouver.
That was the launch of the brand "The Kid", which became, for better or worse, part of my public persona, quite successfully for the next ten years of my life.
During the ten years, it was the same notion of: build the relationship, success requires a persistent misreading of the odds, have access to anyone that was famous or at a certain level. The notion that I didn't or wasn't able to have access to that didn't exist.
There was no psychological intimidation because I always had that level of confidence, or maybe it was just pure arrogance. It's either a supreme level of confidence or truly seeing everybody, myself included, as just peers of everybody else.
All this title was a function of luck, it didn't really imply any kind of specialness that I or anybody else didn't have. Hold the relationship, be friendly, be likeable, and good things come from that.
I remember working as a technology analyst for this really crappy investment retail brokerage house in Canada. Not that I'm insulting the Canadian technology community in the the mid-late 90s, but I wanted to go after the same deals that the white investment banks were going after.
There was a company called Invention Machine in Boston that had a bunch of big venture capital money put into it, and were contemplating an IPO. They needed a few million bucks raised privately before going out IPO, and this was the kind of thing that I did.
I knew that the CEO was a smoker, as we met at a conference in the past where we talked about cigars. There's a comic aspect to this. An 18-year-old talking about his love of cigars to a 50-year-old. Seems so silly and ludicrous now that I can look back on it.
Nevertheless, I literally bought a box of cigars and sent it to him a week before I was to meet with him. I wined and dined him. The night before I was to meet with his board, which included guys from these New York investment banks, and venture capital funds, I convinced him to give me the opportunity to do a private equity round for the company. We shook hands, but he said it's ultimately up to the board.
This very, very powerful board was like, "This is a joke! Why should we do it with you?" I said "Well I'll get it done in a week." They said, "Everybody says that and nobody does it." I said, "So then you got no liability if I can't get it done." He said, "Well I guess you got me there."
This was a Tuesday. Wednesday I flew to Toronto, met with a mutual fund there. By Thursday we had a term sheet. By Friday they got down there, and the deal closed on a following Wednesday. The commitment was there, pretty much right away. I gained the respect of that team and board.
My favorite quote is from author and management consultant Tom Peters, "Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds." That's exactly what that was. I didn't know that quote when I did it, but it fit very well to describing part of my attitude and approach to this stuff.
It was about relationships, first and foremost. If people like you, they want you to succeed. If they want you to, they will help you succeed. It has to be genuine.
A lot of people approach their relationship-making as mercenary transactions. As much as you appear very genuine they can see your endgame. Take the time.
Earlier this week, I was traveling back home with my Mom and we agreed to take a particular ferry home, which would allow me about fifteen minutes of face time with a friend and mentor of mine.
She said: "Why bother if it's just fifteen minutes?" I said, "Well, because it's face time, and that fifteen minutes should be spent building and strengthening the relationship."
What can you accomplish in fifteen minutes? Nothing other than strengthening the relationship.
Recognize that by being useful and good to others, you will eventually build a very strong team of supporters. They'll lift you up to new heights and protect you. If you falter they will be there to bring you back up and support you.
I think it's one of the most overlooked components of business. Simply, we're always able to say that at the end of the day, all you have is your friends.
But, if your friends are your friends, and they happen to be in business, and are helpful to your business, then all that much better, because those people will be there to support you.
Pithy aphorism? Probably. Absolutely true? 100%.
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November 8, 2008 November 8, 2015 by carlos
Perfect Picture of Me
Personal, Random
We Hold On - Rush
We Hold On
Rush (Snakes & Arrows)
Do we tire of all the little battles
Threaten to call it quits
Tempted to cut and run
Do we weather out the stormy evenings
Long to slam the front door
Drive away into the setting sun
Keep going on till dawn
How many times must another line be drawn
We could be down and gone
But we hold on
Do we chaff against the repetition
Straining against the faith
Measured out in coffee breaks
Do we swallow our ambition
Long to give up the same old way
Find another road to take
Keep holding on so long
Cause theres a chance that we might not be so wrong
Do we wonder if it's even worth it
Theres got to be some other way
Way to get me through the day
October 18, 2008 November 8, 2015 by carlos
Protected: Some Fundamental Truths
Bucket List, Personal, Random
October 8, 2008 November 8, 2015 by carlos
Weird Patch or How I feel Today
I'm waking up at the start of the end of the world,
but its feeling just like every other morning before,
Now I wonder what my life is going to mean if it's gone,
The cars are moving like a half a mile an hour and I,
started staring at the passengers waving goodbye
can you tell me what was ever really special about me all this time?
But I believe the world is burning to the ground
oh well I guess we're gonna find out
let's see how far we've come
Well I, believe, it all, is coming to an end
oh well, I guess, we're gonna pretend,
I think it turned ten o'clock but I don't really know
then I can't remember caring for an hour or so
started crying and I couldn't stop myself
I started running but there's no where to run to
I sat down on the street, took a look at myself
said where you going man you know the world is headed for hell
say your goodbyes if you've got someone you can say goodbye to
I believe the world is burning to the ground
let's see how far we've come (right now)
Its gone gone baby its all gone
there is no one on the corner and there's no one at home
well it was cool cool, it was just all cool
now it's over for me and it's over for you
well its gone gone baby its all gone
there's no one on the corner and there's no one at home
let's see how far we've come, again
let's see how far we go
August 10, 2008 November 8, 2015 by carlos
Have you ever watched kids
On a Merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?ad
You better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last
Do you run through each day
on the fly?
When you ask "How are you?"
Do you hear the reply?
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Ever told your child
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste
Not see his sorrow
Ever lost touch
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say "Hi"?
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there
When you worry and hurry through your day
It is like an unopened gift. . . .
Thrown away
Life is not a race
Do take it slower
Before the song is over
July 15, 2008 November 8, 2015 by carlos
Joss Whedon's back on TV!
Interesting stuff, Random
It may even make me watch fox again
May 21, 2008 November 8, 2015 by carlos
You wouldn't believe what these songs mean to me :-)
Congreso - Calipso intenso, casi azul
Congreso - En todas las esquinas
Congreso - Aire Puro
Congreso - Hijo del sol luminoso
May 9, 2008 November 8, 2015 by carlos
On reinventing yourself
Geeky Stuff, Image Galleries, LARP, News Clips, On my way to a PhD, Personal, Random, Reviews, Web sites
Sweet Child o' Mine -- GNR
I've always fought against memories of the past. In doing so I've deprived myself of the chance to actually enjoy what they mean.
What's the first thing you remember when listening to Guns 'N' Roses' Sweet Child of Mine? To me it's Slash and his guitar at the beginning of the song.
I don't know about you but but music, Naginata and sometimes being a mean and nasty son of a bitch is so liberating. Fuck the consequences and just go with it
I've decided that this is the last time I talk to the person I've been having problems with and then let the chips fall as they may.
Part of reinventing yourself is to keep yourself flexible and nimble. I heard news @work that put the June conference into perspective. Now it makes sense why I have to take vacation time to go and it defused that piece to the point where it's a non-issue. What brought my anger level up 'though is the fact that where I want to go professionally does not match where upper management wants me to go and no one has seen fit to tell me so. I had to pry it out of my supervisor today and I know that he's as uncomfortable with this whole situation as I am but he really can't do much about it either. SO I have to decide if my peace of mind is worth calling attention to myself and the possible consequences of that action.
Def Leppard - Gods of War
I can't get this song from my head and haven't been able to for a while. The emphasis to me is in the chorus:
We're fighting for the gods of war
But what the hell we're fighting for
We're fighting with the gods of war
But I ain't gonna fight no more
The first step is to take inventory of yourself, your priorities and your goals (both short and long term).
The last few posts have talked a lot about priorities, goals and commitments. For more details see Sometimes I just wish, Priorities, realizations and commitments, and Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish so now I think it's time to do an inventory of who I really am and take another, more serious, look at where I want to be or perhaps who I don't want to be.
I want to be someone whom people can trust, and not be afraid to approach; I want those around me to know that, if I see a reciprocal effort, I'll put 110% effort into our friendship. People who try to, in their words, "be nice" have a problem that I don't want to be a part of: in being nice they deprive their friends of the opportunities to change and grow. I tend to be opinionated, sometimes too opinionated for my own good, but I'll always do my best to be open and honest with my friends.
I think that we all want to work on something we enjoy and can grow to love. The disagreements are more in the shape and nature of what that job is and the areas of responsibilities that it's associated with "the dream job". Some things are about the job itself and others are more about what I want and the challenges I want to stretch me professionally.
I want flexibility;
I want room for growth: not be pigeonholed into one specific area but to be allowed to branch out as needed to get stuff done and not get bored to tears;
Perhaps that's the key to reinventing yourself.... To keep enough versions of you around that each one of them can take whatever is coming your way.
Tribute to Smallville - Five for Fighting - 100 years
Am I really ready to do that? Am I willing to embrace the flexibility I need not to be afraid of whatever is coming?
One of the things that I've never learned all the way through is that there is no gain without pain.... intellectually I can understand it but I don't think I've ever internalized it and the fear still stops me when it's time to move on. I've said it before that I couldn't understand why was it that I didn't trust my instincts when they told me it was time to move on. Being totally blunt
I was watching, again, the series final for JAG: Fair Winds and Following Seas. The last scene when Bud flips the coin and everyone keeps staring to see who is going to have to give up their life dreams to achieve happiness.
As I've said before what do you have to give up in order to get what you really want.
Shannon Hurely - Sunrise
Being totally honest, I don't know if I could give up my job and be totally happy. I know I don't want crap like what happened today to repeat itself but I also know that I'm not ever going to be happy without being able to exercise the atrophied skill sets.
I've hardly done any training or presentations since I moved to Chico. 10 hours or so in 3 years hardly qualifies as keeping your skills sharp. I'm afraid that my instructional design and development skills are going the same way. If you don't use them or at least keep current with the literature I'll loose what little of those skills you have left.
Back to what I want and don't want. So far these are the elements of what I'd want in an "ideal job." I realize that some of these things are not realistic and/or even possible but, hell, we're talking about an ideal so why not? 🙂
I want a place where I can actually practice training and instructional design even if it's as a secondary area of responsibility
I want a team, not a place where people feel empowered to dictate to other teammates. I've been as guilty about this as anyone and that's what I hate the most about the situation
I want a job where the rules are clear from day 1 with room for change, evolution and improvement where it's appropriate. It's not that I'm averse to change, it's just that I want to know when it's coming.
Related to the one above is wanting to at least get a voice on what direction my job is going. I know this is totally unrealistic, but it's one worth writing down even if it means that I'm never going to get a job that's 100% satisfactory
Communication, communication, communication. Things haven't been put on context and it shouldn't have to be my job to figure out what it is that I'm supposed to be doing.
Skid Row (Youth gone wild, 18 and life)
Linkin Park - iTunes selection
Rush - Roll the bones
Agile web development with Rails
Foundation's Edge
Doing:
Learning to Program Rails
Trying to complete my final paper
Outlining my 2 summer writing projects
Reruns of JAG
From my otaku days
April 18, 2008 November 8, 2015 by carlos
New Jersey hacker wraps his marriage proposal in lines of code
Geeky Stuff, Random
A future bride, bejeweled
LARRY CORNIES
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
April 16, 2008 at 4:02 AM EDT
For self-confessed New Jersey computer nerd Bernie Peng, 26, getting down on one knee or hiding a diamond ring in a bouquet was, well, just too old school. When it came time to pop the question to Tammy Li, 27, his girlfriend of three years, he preferred to let her favourite video game do the talking for him.
Mr. Peng, a financial software programmer, spent nearly a month last fall reprogramming the popular video game Bejeweled for Ms. Li's Nintendo DS - a handheld system for which no commercial version of the game exists. And buried inside all those lines of code, at a relatively easy-to-reach level, Mr. Peng inserted a marriage proposal and a digital image of a pink engagement ring.
She played. She soon reached the threshold. And she said yes. "It's a very pleasant surprise," said Ms. Li, a TV producer whose ring finger is now adorned by a pink sapphire identical to the digital version.
Plans are under way for a wedding on Labour Day weekend.
But in an age of zealous copyright protection, the global gaming community - who had followed Mr. Peng's feat through his blog - wondered how PopCap, the Seattle-based company that makes Bejeweled, would respond.
It turns out they're impressed.
"What he did was take the game and manipulate and modify it for a particular purpose," company spokesman Garth Chouteau told Double Take yesterday, adding that if Mr. Peng were to commercialize his endeavour in some way, "we might have a different response."
"We were amazed and impressed that he was able to do what he did. Besides, any time a hacker manipulates code so that a guy gets the gal, well, you have to respect that," Mr. Chouteau said.
The company respects it so much, in fact, that it's providing copies of Bejeweled 2 Deluxe as wedding favours for each of the couple's 200 guests, providing $1,000 for jewel-themed decorations and flying the couple to Seattle as a second honeymoon.
Mr. Peng and Ms. Li are busily trying to pare down a growing guest list and making other arrangements.
All of which, for Mr. Peng, makes weeks of rewriting C++ code seem simple by comparison.
"This is a lot more work," he said.
With reports from Associated Press and NJ.com


Askew, 22, of the 800 block of Smith St., pleaded guilty on Tuesday to grand larceny and accessory after the fact in connection with the May 25 stabbing death of 56-year-old Carl Stevenson Shands Jr. outside the Shop 'N Go on East Virginia Beach Boulevard.
In exchange for her guilty plea, prosecutors agreed to drop a second-degree murder charge and reduce two other charges against her. She faces one to 21 years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced in April.
About midnight on May 25, Askew and her girlfriend, 26-year-old Natia Sylvia Boddie "encountered" Shands near the apartment the two women shared in Young Terrace, prosecutor Ramin Fatehi said in court documents.
Boddie told homicide detectives that Shands, about a week before the stabbing, made sexual advances toward her 7-year-old daughter at the Shop 'N Go. Boddie said she called him a pervert, then smacked him.
"She felt like she needed to protect her daughter," Detective La'Toya Mitchell said in court documents.
Then, early on May 25, Shands was "mean muggin' " her, and she started shaking because he was too close to where her daughter was sleeping, Mitchell said at a September court hearing.


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Baseball In Israel?
Tags: Athletes4Israel, Youth, Community, Israel Engagement, Causes
By Zev Moore - First post by a Jewish youth!
The Israeli Juvenile National Team has players from all around Israel - Gezer, Tel Aviv, Gush Etzion, Hashmonaim, Jerusalem, Modiin, and more. 16 out of the 35 kids aged 9-12 that tried out, were chosen by the head coaches, David and Josh. My twin brother and I were the lucky ones as we would be traveling to Italy to participate in the Tuscany Series.
I was so excited that I would be able to do something special, especially in my first year in Israel. Before we moved to Israel, I was pretty upset, having heard that there was little to no baseball in Israel. I soon found out though, that I was incorrect! Now, I play even more baseball than I did in America, but not on Shabbat.
As we were leaving for Italy, people kept asking us who we were and what we're doing. We told them we were going to Italy to play baseball. They all seemed surprised, saying they didn't even know that Israel had an international baseball team.
We had a 2 hour car ride from Rome to Grosseto. And when I heard that I was starting in the first game, I felt so honored, so proud to be representing Israel as an athlete! When we won, it was particularly special as Shabbat was approaching. As we headed toward the city of Sienna to celebrate Shabbat, I recall that the drive was about 2 hours, but it was fun with all of my friends on the bus.
We were all kids from Israel who had a great passion for the game of baseball, so much so that we left our homes, travelling internationally for almost a week. We found the only Jewish synagogue in Sienna and followed services with a Shabbat meal.
On Sunday, the day of our last 2 games, the entire team was anxious to win in order to qualify for the semi-final game; we won the game on a stunning 9-1 final score! It was also my biggest hit of the tournament, a line drive to the left-center field gap. Somehow, this was our team's best played game and now, we were all pumped up in order to bring Israel, our home, the title in the finals!
So it started out, with both teams matching zeros until the bottom of the third. But by the time the game was over, the final score was 7-6. I was very upset at how it ended, but I told myself that it was just a game and that we played well. When the team was at the awards ceremony, it was a bittersweet feeling. On one hand, coming internationally to play and making the finals was nice. But on the other hand, we lost on a very close game.
When they announced for Team Israel to come forward and take the trophy, the sadness disappeared and I ran with pride in my heart, knowing that I came representing Team Israel.
It was emotional to say goodbye to the players and coaches, but I knew that we would see each other again at a ceremony to honor our team during the Maccabiah Games. I will forever remember this trip as one of the best experiences in my life as I represented my country, Israel, even if it just became my home one year ago.
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* Installer
* Energy
* Government
* Leicester
Mark Group says RHI Premium Payment is step in the right direction
RHI announcement will help thousands of homeowners convert to using renewable technologies.
By: Mark Group
March 10, 2011 - PRLog -- The UK's leading installer of energy saving solutions, Mark Group is to help thousands of households convert to heating their homes using renewable energy following an announcement today (Thursday 10th March) by the Government.
The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is designed to provide financial support for renewable heating at all scales and will eventually offer generous support to households that invest in solar heating and heat pump technologies. The RHI officially starts in June 2011, but today's announcement means that small scale technologies for households will be eligible for an upfront, 'RHI Premium Payment' in the first year, before applying to the full RHI scheme in 2012 once tariffs have been confirmed.
Consumers will no doubt be anxious to learn the final tariffs following the decision to push introduction of a full RHI at the household level back to 2012. However, the introduction of the RHI Premium Payment this year is a vital step towards consumer adoption of microgeneration technologies.
Bill Rumble, Mark Group Commercial Director welcomed today's announcement, but was keen to stress the importance of using a reputable installer. He said: ''The introduction of the Renewable Heat Incentive today is potentially great news for householders across the country. It is a little disappointing that final tariffs have not been announced, but we will work with our customers to ensure they can take advantage of the RHI Premium Payment over the next year. We will also work with Government as it seeks to develop sustainable tariffs for introduction in 2012.
"Despite the positive news of today's announcement it is vitally important that consumers use an accredited installer, certified under the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) for any renewable heat installation. This is the only way to benefit from the interim and full Renewable Heat Incentive. It also guarantees peace of mind that the new heating system will work effectively. At Mark Group, we have fully accredited installers ready to provide full home energy makeovers and we look forward to helping Government and consumers to achieve their renewable ambitions."
Mark Group is an international business operating from 20 locations worldwide. The Company currently installs energy saving measures in around 6,000 homes every week.
For further information call 0800 616 302 or visit www.markgroup.co.uk
Mark Group is a leading installer of energy-saving solutions to the domestic market. Mark Group was founded in 1974 and now employs over 1,500 people across the UK, the US and Australia who are dedicated to providing a 'whole house' solution to energy-efficiency.
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