For horror films in the new millennium, remakes are the name of the game. Perhaps one of the most anticipated upcoming horror movies is the remake, or according to Best-horror-movies.com Founder and Editor-in-Chief Don Sumner 'encapsulation' of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' due out April 30, 2010.
Why the fuss about A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) and what the heck is an encapsulation?
When compared to other top-grossing horror franchises ('Child's Play', 'Friday the 13th', 'Halloween', etc.), 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' is the third highest at $522 million (Box Office Mojo 1/17/08). Consisting of eight slasher films, a television show, novels and comic books, the franchise began with Wes Craven's 1984 original film 'A Nightmare on Elm Street', based on the fictional character Freddy Krueger who stalks and kills teenagers in their dreams causing them to die in real life. His motive? To seek revenge on the teenager's parents who had burned him alive years before.
Horror movie remakes have indeed become routine in the 2000's. In addition to 2004's remake of 'Dawn of the Dead', as well as 2003's remake of Tobe Hooper's classic 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', there was also the 2007 Rob Zombie written and directed remake of John Carpenter's 'Halloween' which focused more on Michael's back story than the original did, devoting the first half of the film to Michael's childhood. It was critically panned by most, but was a success in its theatrical run. This success lead to the remakes, or reimaginings of other popular horror franchises with films such as 'Friday the 13th' (2009), 'The Last House on the Left' (2009), 'The Wolfman' (2010) and now 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' (2010).
Some may be off put by the horror movie remake trend, but note the benefits for the horror movie industry. First and foremost, new versions of old classics bring new horror movie fans out of the woodwork, resulting in an increased supply of frightful films. "Lets face it, we all want to rescue our fellow man from the tyranny of the romantic comedy" jokes Sumner in his book Horror Movie Freak. Plus judging from box office sales, some horror movie remakes are actually better than the original, with modern technology often breathing new life into an old classic.
There are several different types of remakes – from modernizations to reimaginings to 'encapsulations' a term coined by Sumner. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' (2010) is an encapsulation, a film whose original version spawned several sequels and whose villain, in this case Freddy Krueger, is the real star of the show. An encapsulation according to Sumner acknowledges the secrets revealed throughout the series and incorporates them into the remake.
The encapsulation method of the horror movie remake is rather new and really began with 'Friday the 13th' (2009). Jason Voorhees was merely a last minute mention in the original 'Friday the 13th', and didn't begin his own killing spree until 'Friday the 13th Part 2'. Then, in 'Friday the 13th Part III' Jason dons the infamous hockey mask for the first time. A remake of the original sans Jason and with no hockey mask in sight, in light of all that has transpired over the years, wouldn't make any sense at all. But the encapsulation method enables all common knowledge about the character to be pulled together into one gut-slicing remake. It is really the purest form of making classic horror accessible to a new generation. There is nothing boring about encapsulations which tend to move quickly with gory precision. No need to labor over explaining this detail or that as everybody knows the score walking into the theater. Simply acknowledge the facts and move onto the slaughter.
Who doesn't know who Freddy Krueger is? 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' brought Freddy into theaters and living rooms all around the world, and into the nightmares of budding horror movie fans of all ages. Then there were the sequels. Freddy got campier, Freddy got darker, Freddy battled the dream warriors and Freddy fought Jason Voorhees. Through all of these films key details and background information was revealed. Freddy's background, motivations, origins and weaknesses.
Again, encapsulation is the only true answer to completing a remake of this film series. The encapsulation won't necessarily be appropriate for most horror remakes, but for those with iconic characters like Freddy Krueger there really is no other option. The only question that remains then is whether 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' can survive without actor Robert Englund as Freddy.
Find out in theatres on April 30, 2010 and at Best-horror-movies.com.


The Federal Government is conducting a review of competition policy. The Issues Paper includes questions on intellectual property and parallel importation. Responses are due by 10 June 2014.
An issues paper was released on 14 April 2014. There is no reference to intellectual property in the terms of reference, but the issues paper canvases intellectual property and IT pricing issues.
Should any current restrictions on parallel importation be removed or altered in order to increase competition?
Is there a case to regulate international price discrimination? If so, how could it be regulated effectively while not limiting choice for consumers or introducing other adverse consequences?
There is more information about the review, include the background and members of the review panel, here and here.


Check the appendices of Forms OR-20, OR-20-INC, OR-20-INS, or OR-20-S for the codes to claim any of the tax credits shown below.
Description: This credit is for loans for construction or rehabilitation of agricultural workforce housing in Oregon. The credit is equal to 50 percent of the costs for projects completed in tax years after 2001; no more than 20 percent of that amount is allowed in any one year over a 10-year period. On or after January 1, 2005, eligible taxpayers may transfer all or any portion of their credit to another taxpayer. See certifying agency's website for transfer. Refer to the ORS regarding credits for tax years before 2002.
Description: This credit was available through the Oregon Alternative Fuel Vehicle Revolving Fund tax credit auction conducted by us, in cooperation with the Department of Energy. The credit amount is shown on the certificate issued by the Department of Energy. If you claim any of the amount you paid for this credit as a deduction on your federal return, you must add back that amount to your Oregon income.
Yes. For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2007 and before January 1, 2018.
Description: The credit is available to agricultural producers and biomass collectors for the production or collection of biomass that is to be used in Oregon as biofuel or to produce biofuel. The credit is based on the amount or quantity of biomass transferred to a biofuel producer during the tax year. This credit may be transferred to an Oregon taxpayer. See form Transfer Notice for Certain Credits.
For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, woody biomass is measured by its dry weight. For tax years beginning before January 1, 2012, woody biomass is measured by its wet (green) weight.
This credit isn't allowed for wheat grain for tax years beginning before January 1, 2009 or on or after January 1, 2018.
Beginning on January 1, 2014, the credit isn't allowed for canola grown, collected, or produced in the Willamette Valley.
Description: The credit was for a facility used to process or use renewable energy resources, or to achieve energy efficiency that exceeds industry or regulatory standards by 10 percent or better.
"Facility" includes alternative fuel fleet vehicles, telecommuting equipment, and refueling stations. Beginning January 1, 1998, "facility" includes employer-provided transit passes. Beginning January 1, 2001, eligibility is expanded to include facilities providing transit passes to students and patrons of medical facilities, and certain utilities. Beginning January 1, 2007, "facility" also includes a high-efficiency combined heat and power facility, a high-performance home, a homebuilder-installed renewable energy system, or a renewable energy resource equipment manufacturing facility.
The credit allowed is based on the certified cost of the facility. This credit may be sold or transferred to another taxpayer at a discounted rate. See certifying agency's website for transfer information.
The renewable energy resource equipment manufacturing facility component of the business energy tax credit transferred to the Oregon Business Development Department under HB 2523 (2011 session) as of January 1, 2012.
ORS 315.213 No. Tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2002 and before January 1, 2022. Yes, 4 years.
Description: The credit is allowed for certified contributions made to the Child Care Office of the Employment Department for the purpose of promoting child care. An addition to your Oregon income for deducted expenses may be required if you claim this credit.
ORS 315.068 No. Tax years beginning on or after January 1, 1998. No, the credit is refundable. Taxpayer must keep records for audit verification.
Description: The credit is the difference between the actual Oregon tax for the year the claim of right income was included in federal income and the Oregon tax if such income had not been included in federal income. See IRC Section 1341(a)(1) and (2).
ORS 317.151 No. Contributions made in tax years beginning on or after January 1, 1986 and prior to January 1, 2014. Yes, 5 years. Taxpayer must keep records for audit verification.
Description: The credit was available for computers, scientific equipment, maintenance agreements, or money for scientific research donated to Oregon institutions of higher education or post-secondary schools. Beginning January 1, 1998, qualified institutions include pre-kindergarten through grade 12. The credit is 10 percent of fair market value of qualified charitable contributions. No IRC Section 179 expenses are allowed if the credit is claimed. An addition to Oregon income for deducted expenses may be required if you claim this credit.
No. For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2014 and before January 1, 2020. Yes, 3 years. Taxpayer must keep records for audit verification.
Description: The credit is 15 percent of the value of the quantity of the crop donated computed at the wholesale market price.
Employer-provided dependent care assistance or information and referral (for carryforward purposes only) ORS 315.204 (see Form 150-102-032) No. Tax years beginning on or after January 1, 1988 and prior to January 1, 2016. Yes, 5 years. Certificate issued by Child Care Office, (800) 556-6616 or www.oregon.gov/occ.
Description: The credit was for dependent care assistance for employees. Fifty percent of the annual cost up to $2,500 per benefiting employee. The credit also applied to information or referral services provided to help employees secure dependent care assistance. The credit equaled 50 percent of annual cost. Allowable expenses must be reduced by credit claimed.
Description: This program allows tax credits for any capital investment for which the first year energy savings yields a simple payback period of greater than three years, with listed exceptions. Cogeneration facilities are eligible beginning January 1, 2013. The Oregon Department of Energy may establish criteria and standards to choose between project applicants. Applicants may transfer this tax credit to other taxpayers in exchange for cash at a rate set by the Oregon Department of Energy, known as a pass-through.
ORS 317.122 No. Tax years beginning before January 1, 2018. No. Taxpayers must keep records for audit verification.
Description: The credit is available for the gross premium tax paid on fire insurance premiums.
ORS 315.138 No. For final certifications in tax years beginning on or after January 1, 1990 and before January 1, 2024. Yes, 5 years. Certificate issued by Department of Fish and Wildlife, (800) 720-6339.
Description: Installations of fish screening devices, bypass devices, or fishways. 50 percent of installation costs, not to exceed $5,000 per device.
ORS 315.271 No. Donations made on or after October 23, 2000 and before January 1, 2022. Yes, 3 years. Lender must keep records for audit verification.
Description: The credit is available for donations made on or after October 23, 2000, to a fiduciary organization approved by Oregon Housing and Community Services. The credit may not exceed 70% of the donation amount.
Lender's credit: Energy conservation (for carryforward purposes only) ORS 317.112 (see Form 150-102-125) No. Loans made on or after January 1, 1982 and before January 1, 2012. Yes, 15 years for loans made after September 28, 1991.
Lender must keep records for audit verification.
Description: The credit is available to lenders who provide loans to improve space heating efficiency for oil- and wood-heated residences.
ORS 317.124, 317.125, ORS 285C.406 (see Form 150-102-043) No. For a five to 15-year period; for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 1998 and within three years of the facility being placed in service. For facilities certified on or before June 30, 2018. Yes, 5 years. Taxpayer must receive written approval from the governor and keep records for audit verification.
Contact Business Oregon, (503) 986-0123 or www.oregon4biz.com.
Description: The credit is available for constructing or operating a facility certified in a qualified rural enterprise zone eligible for long-term exemption from property taxes. Credit equals 62.5 percent of payroll, employee benefit costs, and all other employee costs of the facility. The credit is only available against the C corporation tax liability in excess of $1 million, or lesser amount applicable to counties with population under various thresholds and meeting specified criteria. Beginning January 1, 2005, a taxpayer eligible for the credit is allowed to take other eligible credits if this credit does not offset the tax liability on the return.
ORS 734.835 No. Tax years beginning before January 1, 2022. No. Taxpayer must keep records for audit verification.
Description: The credit equals 20 percent of the amount paid in each of the five calendar years following the year in which the assessment is paid to the Oregon Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association (OLHIGA). The credit is allowed for payments made under ORS 734.815(8) only. Property and casualty insurers do not qualify for this credit.
Oregon's affordable housing lender's credit ORS 317.097 (see Form 150-102-125) No. Loans made on or after January 1, 1990 and before January 1, 2026. Yes, 5 years. File annual statement with Oregon Housing and Community Services, (503) 986-2000.
Description: The credit is available to lending institutions who finance certified housing projects for low-income households. For credit certifications issued on or after September 27, 2007, qualifying loans include loans to develop, acquire, construct, or rehabilitate qualified housing. Qualified housing now includes manufactured dwelling parks and housing preservation projects.
Oregon Cultural Trust contribution ORS 315.675 No. Donations made on or after December 1, 2002 in tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2002 and before January 1, 2020. No. Proof of contribution must be provided if requested by Department of Revenue. Contact Oregon Cultural Trust, (503) 986-0088.
Description: The credit is 100 percent of contributions to the account that are matched by an equal contribution to an Oregon cultural organization. Limited to $500 per individual taxpayer and $2,500 for corporations.
Oregon low-income community jobs initiative/new markets (for carryforward purposes only) ORS 315.533 No. For investments made on or after July 1, 2012 and before July 1, 2016. Yes, 5 years on investments made on or after January 1, 2014 and before July 1, 2016. Certified by Business Oregon, (503) 986-0123 or www.oregon4biz.com.
Description: A tax credit was allowed for qualified equity investments in low-income community businesses. The credit equals 39 percent of the purchase price of the qualified equity investment spread over seven years, beginning with the year of investment. The credit cannot be more than your tax liability and cannot be transferred or sold. The allowable tax credit is: Years 1 and 2 - 0%, Year 3 - 7%, Years 4-7 - 8% each. Note: Investments made on or after July 1, 2012 and before January 1, 2014 are allowed indefinite carryforward of any unused credit.
Oregon Production Investment Fund (auction) ORS 315.514 No. Tax years beginning before January 1, 2024. Yes, 3 years. Certified by the Oregon Film and Video Office, (503) 229-5832.
Description: Credit is available for contributions to the Oregon Production Investment Fund that are certified by the Oregon Film and Video Office. The credit equals the amount certified by the Oregon Film and Video Office, except that a contribution must equal at least 90 percent of the credit. An addition to your Oregon income for deducted expenses may be required if you claim this credit.
ORS 315.304 No. For construction completed before January 1, 2008. Yes, generally 3 years. Up to 3 additional years if certain conditions are met. See instructions for Form OR-20.
Description: The credit is available for the prevention, control or reduction of air, water, or noise pollution, nonpoint source pollution; solid or hazardous waste; recycling; or disposal of used oil.
The credit is based on cost of the facility and percentage allocable to pollution control. The amount is spread over 10 years, plus applicable carryforward.
Qualified research activities and alternative qualified research activities ORS 317.152, 317.153, 317.154 (see Form 150-102-128) No. Tax years beginning on or after January 1, 1989 and before January 1, 2018. Yes, 5 years. Taxpayer must keep records for audit verification.
Description: Credit is available for increases in qualified research expenses and research payments. The credit equals 5 percent of qualified research expenses and basic research payments in excess of base amount (IRC §41), or 5 percent of qualified research expenses that exceed 10 percent of Oregon sales. For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, the maximum credit is $1 million. For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2006 and before January 1, 2012, the maximum credit is $2 million. For tax years prior to January 1, 2006, the maximum credit is $500,000. Limited to research activities in Oregon. A deduction may not be taken for the expenses related to the amount being claimed as a credit.
Reforestation of underproductive forestlands (for carryforward purposes only) ORS 315.104 and 315.106 No. Preliminary certifications must be requested before December 31, 2012. Yes, 3 years. Written certification per ORS 315.104 and 315.106.
Description: The credit equaled 50 percent of the reforestation project costs paid or incurred to reforest underproductive Oregon forestlands. Taxpayer is allowed one-half of the credit in the tax year of preliminary certification and one-half in the tax year when the new forest is certified as established. Refer to the ORS regarding credits for tax years before 2002. See ORS 315.104(3) for cost limitations.
Description: This program allows the auction of tax credits to provide funds to award grants to renewable energy production systems. The Oregon Department of Energy may establish criteria and standards to choose between project applicants. The total credit certifications are limited to $1.5 million per year. Information about the auction process for this credit is available on the Oregon Department of Revenue and the Oregon Department of Energy websites. An addition to your Oregon income for deducted expenses may be required if you claim this credit.
Renewable energy resource equipment manufacturing facility (for carryforward purposes only) ORS 315.341 Yes. Beginning January 1, 2012. Preliminary certification must be received before January 1, 2014. Yes, 8 years. Certificate issued by Business Oregon, (503) 986-0123 or www.oregon4biz.com.
Description: The program allowed for a tax credit based upon the certified cost of a renewable energy resource equipment manufacturing facility during the period for which the facility is certified by the Oregon Business Development Department. Applicants may transfer this tax credit to other taxpayers in exchange for cash at a rate set by the Oregon Business Development Department (known as a "pass-through").
Description: SB 1529 (2018) created a one-time tax credit equal to the lesser of Oregon tax attributable to the 2014-2016 ORS 317.716 addition or the 2017 one-time repatriation. See Oregon Form OR-REPAT-CR. This form must be included with your OR-20 or OR-20-INC return to claim the credit. Please note: This form should be available July 2018.
No. Tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2002 and before January 1, 2028. No. Contact Business Oregon, (503) 986-0123 or www.oregon4biz.com.
Description: The credit is available to eligible businesses operating a new business facility in a reservation enterprise zone. The credit equals the tribal property tax imposed on a new business facility that is paid or incurred by the business during the tax year, or the amount of tribal tax paid or incurred by the business during the tax year, if the business has not previously conducted business operations within the reservation enterprise zone. "Tribal tax" includes, but is not limited to, an income or excise tax, an ad valorem property tax, a gross receipts tax, or a sales and use tax.
Description: The credit equals 12 percent of a taxpayer's expenses that are incurred to establish and implement an employee training program. A qualifying employee training program must be operated in collaboration with a local community college operated under ORS Chapter 341. In addition, the program must be operated in a qualifying county. The term qualifying county is defined in statute. See Sections 18–20 of HB 2066 (2017).
Transportation projects ORS 315.336 Yes. Beginning January 1, 2011. Transportation project credits, other than alternative fuel vehicle infrastructure, sunset January 1, 2016. Alternative fuel vehicle infrastructure project credits, sunset January 1, 2018. Yes, 5 years. Certificate issued by Department of Energy, (800) 221-8035.
Description: This program allows tax credits for a public or nonprofit entity that provides transit services to members of the public and that receives state or federal funding for those services or an alternative fuel vehicle infrastructure project. Applicants may transfer this tax credit to other taxpayers in exchange for cash at a rate set by the Oregon Department of Energy (known as a "pass-through).
ORS 315.521 No. Tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2006 and before January 1, 2022. No. Certificate issued by the Oregon university.
Description: The credit is available for contributions to a university venture development fund when a tax credit certificate has been issued. The credit equals 60 percent of the certified amount with limitations as to how much may be claimed yearly. The tax credit may not exceed $600,000.
For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2014, the university venture development fund contribution credit shall be claimed in three consecutive tax years, beginning with the year in which the credit's initially allowed.
An addition to your Oregon income for deducted expenses may be required if you claim this credit.
No. For loans made before November 1, 1981. Yes, 15 years. Lender must keep records for audit verification.
Description: The credit is available to commercial lending institutions for below market rate loans made before November 1, 1981 for financing weatherization projects. The credit was equal to the difference between the amount of interest charged at a rate of 6.5 percent and the amount that would have been charged at a lesser of 12 percent or the average percent the lending institution charged for home improvement loans.


Freshman counselors are seniors who live near you to be sources of information and assistance throughout the year. Your counselors can offer suggestions about curricular and extracurricular choices, take an interest in your concerns, and give firsthand advice on how best to use the academic and other resources of your residential college and of Yale College.
See First-Year Counselor Program for more information.
See the Peer Liaison Program for more information.
Old Campus Fellows (OCFs) and Student Affairs Fellows (SAF) are appointed by the Yale College Dean's Office and work in collaboration with the masters, deans, and freshman counselors of the residential colleges to provide residential supervision and support for students living on the Old Campus, the primary residential area for Yale's freshmen.
Visit the Old Campus and Student Affairs Fellows page to learn more about the program.


As an advisor today, there will come a point where you will have to make the transition into a leader tomorrow. The evolution of leadership is a universal truth in the path to a billion. Either you or a hired CEO have to step in and become—in title and in practice— the CEO.
Most financial advisors love working with clients, and helping people achieve their financial goals has been a primary motivator. But if an advisor ever hopes to achieve the billion-dollar goal, they'll need to dramatically reduce the time spent working on the "plumbing" of the business and increase the time spent on the "poetry" of the business, as James March wrote in his book, On Leadership.
Having executives for big-picture planning also helps identify and eliminate inefficient processes. When starting as a solo advisor, or even as a small team, it's normal to take on many tasks in order to reduce overhead or simply because it's much easier to do in the short term. As needs change and more clients require more attention, inefficiencies in processes can prevent upward mobility. For example, if an advisor is meeting with clients, then entering trades on the back end, prospecting for new clients, and also handling billing—there will be a cap on the number of clients they can have and still maintain exceptional service. For the sake of keeping costs lower, firms can jeopardize their ability to capture AUM or have happy clients.
In one example, coordinating the handoff between client intake, client meeting, and client follow-up is a process that can get complicated for smaller firms. When preparing for a client meeting, it can be easy for each team to be confused or overwhelmed.
Who will make sure that all client information is up to date in our CRM and other software?
Who will print the reports and when will they be handed off?
Who will enter action items following the meeting?
Who will follow up with clients in different contexts?
Instead of assuming task ownership, flowcharts for each stage of the process reduces friction and alleviates stress points.
Prioritizing tasks and handoffs, as well as creating workflows that better serve clients, are processes that must undergo consistent reevaluations as firms grow larger. While executives are captains, there are still many moving parts that must work together in order for a ship to sail. Getting off the deck and into the bridge can help firms see their potential, and identify processes that are holding them back.
A large advisory firm isn't structured too unlike a large corporation or even a broker-dealer for that matter. Building out this structure and creating fluid processes gives the firm the foundation it needs. To plan for a billion, don't just build up, invest internally and build out. Firms can organize these processes in two ways: investing in technology solutions that can accommodate more AUM as they grow and creating an organizational structure that allows individuals to specialize.


Could you use a bit of extra cash each month? I think most people would say yes. And you may have a greater need if you are just starting your business, heading for retirement and want to save more, in school, or are not currently working. A new year gives us a chance to review, re-assess, and revitalize our businesses and our lives.
Here are some tips for you on how to keep more of what you make by squeezing expenses, looking at new revenue ideas, changing bad habits, and boosting cash flow. Some ideas are small changes; others could add up to big bucks.
Create a new program, product or service that brings in a whole new revenue stream for your business. I added two major new services on our marketing agency side and partnered with someone new to bring in more webinars last year on our training side. Hopefully, you've added new accounting services, new apps, and more to your practice as well.
If you or your employees bill your time by the hour and sometimes forget to write your/their time down (I know I'm guilty), put in some extra procedures to capture that time. That's a big cash drain in your business that needs plugging now.
Check all of your insurance policies to see if you can raise the deductible. You can do this for your business as well as individual policies. My husband and I reduced our auto insurance by over $200 last year. Also, check with your agent to see if you qualify for any other discounted savings, such as low driving miles, good driver discount, customer loyalty programs and more.
Take a good look at all the memberships you belong to. List ALL of the benefits of each one. Are there some free benefits you could use to save time or money? For example, your Chamber of Commerce membership may include an online profile you should fill out and link your site to. Another membership may give you office supply discounts.
Scan last year's profit and loss statement and drill down to see your expense detail. You can also scan your credit card, and pay special attention to recurring charges. This is a good time of year to assess what needs canceling. Just this morning, I cancelled a $15 per-month fee on some tech that I never got set up right. I'd been ignoring it for months.
Does anyone owe you money from last year? Give them a call and collect those old receivables.
Shop around for new vendors that you might not be getting the best service from. I continually get new web design clients who have had lousy service from their old web design company.
Make part of your business green. Allow employees to stay home one day per week to save gas, adjust the thermostat to save heating or air conditioning, or go paperless.
What do you need to finish that would bring in some cash if you just got around to finishing it?
Enter free contests that will bring you good public relations exposure. One example is Insightful Accountant's Top 100 ProAdvisor Awards. Another is the Hubdoc Top 50 Accountants, and there are more where those came from.
Find events that are free in your area and that will teach you some new skills and sign up. You can find them through government agencies, the Small Business Administration, coaches and consultants, online via search, and looking at social media platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn event sections.
Cancel memberships, newspapers, and magazines that you are not reading or no longer need.
That's a baker's dozen tips for business. Here are a few more in case you need help saving money personally.
Look in your closet, car, garage, storage, or around your home to see if there is anything you can use, repurpose or sell for cash. eBay may be your best friend.
Do you have thousands of unused air and hotel miles? Sell them or start using them on trips you have planned.
Get to know the programs that your friends and family are associated with, and see if you can help them for mutual benefit. For example, if your cousin's job has an employee referral bonus of $4,000 and you have a friend who would be perfect for the job, make the connection. If you have a friend at HP who can get you a computer at a discounted rate (legally and morally), then go for it. Use social media to look for new connections where you both can profit.
If eating out is a big expense for your family, make a list of restaurants where kids eat free on certain days, and visit them on those days. You can do the same for 2 for 1 or BOGO meals. Eat at the "nicer" fast food restaurants instead of the more expensive sit down restaurants.
Look for unused gift cards that might be lying around in a kitchen or desk drawer and cash them in for things you need.
Call your utility companies and bargain. Renegotiate your cell phone contract. Cancel your cable and go to Netflix or Hulu.
What else can you think of? There are dozens more ideas to put some green back in your wallet. Add them to this list, and get them done.
Let me know what you saved! But wait, there's more.
Now here's the really cool part: Once you're done with these tasks for yourself, package them up into a service for your clients. They'll love you for saving them money and finding them more cash right now.
If you're concerned that you might not have enough clients to earn the revenue you desire and referrals are just not enough any more or you're just starting your business, then check out this webinar series that starts TODAY, February 5, 2019, presented by Sandi Leyva, CPA, of Accountant's Accelerator, that will help you acquire high quality clients, keep your marketing costs low, and take the mystery and uncertainty out of marketing, once and for all. Click here to get more information and register.


We are creating the environment of opportunity for tech skills for kids and teens.
In 2015, We taught over 800 children in games design & mobile apps development.
Children learn how to become creators, not just consumers of digital technology.
To provide the best STEM education school for kids and teens where children are given a sense of accomplishment in achieving their dreams later in life.
Survival in today's digital world is very crucial and we at WiFi Combat Academy (WCA) are equipping kids and teens from the ages of 5 to 16 years old with technical skills which can be applied in their adolescent years at the work place.
WiFi Combat Academy is to provide the highest caliber digital media/ programming technology for kids and teens providing a conducive environment for learning.
To give students a sense of empowerment, independence and self-confidence as they learn to articulate their creativity as they acquire technological skills through our projects . Students incorporate these skills into their school projects and become mentors for their peers.
Hosted the first Hour of Code 2017 sponsored by WifiCombat Academy. Students from schools in Lagos learnt to code with Alice & Greenfoot.
800 children from ages 5 years to 16 years old were taught programming using Kodu for game design and Project Siena from April to June 2015;300 children at the Microsoft Code Week Nigeria and 500 children at the tech schools on wheels.
420 students from Lagos, Abuja and Cross River participated in the 2015 National Code Competition 2015. These students designed mobiles apps & games and submitted a marketing presentation with videos.
Code Week Nigeria Easter boot camp 2017 sponsored by brought about 48 schools with 300 children participating in the workshop. Children from the ages of 5 .
Our courses range from computer graphics design, illustration, web design and photography, animation, mobile apps design, film editing, computer programming and computer games.
We ensure that all pupils can understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of multimedia design and coding therefore a need for children to acquire life skills which can be applied later on in their lives.
We teach both multimedia design and coding which covers every aspect of a child's learning development skills that makes a learning experience more wholesome and thorough.
What makes our approach different in implementing the curriculum is the way it is approached.
We execute through projects; we don't want children just to learn the tool but how to apply what they have learned. We help children to discover more and be creative by developing unique content.
We combine Microsoft curriculum, Code Academy and Adobe the curriculum .
Emphasizes today in this digital world is for kids from a tender age of 5 should learn how to code. Why is it so vital that we teach our children to code? We are already living in a world dominated by software. Software is becoming a critical layer of all our lives and it is the language of our world. It is about promoting computational thinking and combines mathematics, logic and algorithms, and teaches you a new way to think about the world.
It's important that children are well grounded in the discipline of multimedia design which is also important tool for the front end design for games, mobile apps development and web development. Multimedia technology applies interactive computer elements, such as graphics, text, video, sound, and animation, to deliver a message. Children will be able to express information digitally which enhances life skills and learning experience.
Robotics can engage students in producing quality solutions to identified problems or opportunities across a range of contexts. Robotics can provide students with an opportunity to manage projects independently or collaboratively from conception to realisation and is also an ideal technology for use in STEM based (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) learning.
Transforming Education through Technology in schools , we organize coding & multimedia workshops in schools which can run during weekends for 5 weeks or the midterm-break. We can also provide laptops for the training. For this year we taught 400 students in both primary and secondary schools across Lagos, Abuja and Cross River state in their schools game design and mobile apps development for the National Code competition.
During the school holiday we can organize holiday boot camps for both coding and multimedia design. Our holiday boot camps run for 7 to 10 days depending on the season. We will provide the systems for the training.
Wificombat Academy - XMAS CAREER WORKSHOP FOR TEENS Making The Journey Visible"
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Official Journal of the World Federation of Neurology
The Journal of the Neurological Sciences provides a medium for the prompt publication of studies on the interface between clinical neurology and the basic sciences. Emphasis is placed on sound scientific developments which are or will soon become relevant to the clinician.
Its scope includes neuromuscular diseases, demyelination, atrophies, dementia, neoplasms, infections, and disturbances of consciousness, stroke and cerebral circulation, growth and development, plasticity and intermediary metabolism.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is a first-tier electronic journal devoted to understanding the brain mechanisms supporting cognitive and social behavior in humans, and how these mechanisms might be altered in disease states. The last 25 years have seen an explosive growth in both the methods and the theoretical constructs available to study the human brain. Advances in electrophysiological, neuroimaging, neuropsychological, psychophysical, neuropharmacological and computational approaches have provided key insights into the mechanisms of a broad range of human behaviors in both health and disease. Work in human neuroscience ranges from the cognitive domain, including areas such as memory, attention, language and perception to the social domain, with this last subject addressing topics, such as interpersonal interactions, social discourse and emotional regulation. How these processes unfold during development, mature in adulthood and often decline in aging, and how they are altered in a host of developmental, neurological and psychiatric disorders, has become increasingly amenable to human neuroscience research approaches. Work in human neuroscience has influenced many areas of inquiry ranging from social and cognitive psychology to economics, law and public policy. Accordingly, our journal will provide a forum for human research spanning all areas of human cognitive, social, developmental and translational neuroscience using any research approach.
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
JINS publishes peer-reviewed articles covering all areas of neuropsychology with either an experimental or clinical focus. Original research with an option for fast, short communications, critical reviews and dialogues that make a theoretical contribution to the field, and transactions of the annual meetings of the International Neuropsychological Society are published. Contributions reflect the interest of all areas of neuropsychology, including but not limited to development of cognitive processes, brain-behavior relationships, adult and child neuropsychology, disorders of speech and language, and very importantly the interface of neuropsychology with related areas, such as cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry.
Journal of Neuroinflammation
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Neurobiology of Disease
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TV & Film News – The Flash halts production following positive...
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CKOC 'hitmaker' Nevin Grant dies at 80
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Nevin Grant, the longtime music director at Hamilton's CKOC, passed away Wednesday after a battle with Parkinson's. He was 80. Grant, who established CKOC as...
Pandemic shines spotlight on role of Hamilton community channel
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Submitted by Bill Custers, Senior Manager, Broadcast, Cable 14 Cable 14 in Hamilton, ON was in the midst of celebrating its 50th Anniversary Broadcast Season...
102.1 the Edge debuts new morning show "The B Team"
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102.1 the Edge (CFNY-FM) Toronto has launched the latest incarnation of its morning show, following brother-sister duo Ruby and Alex Carr's release at the...
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Canadian Music Week has announced that longtime CKOC Hamilton music director Nevin Grant will be inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame...
Investors eye Hamilton as film and TV production destination
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A coalition of investors and the City of Hamilton have signed a memorandum of understanding that would see the city-owned Barton-Tiffany lands developed into an...
Tucker & Maura return to mornings on rebranded Energy 95.3 (CING-FM)
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On-air duo Scott Tucker and Maura Grierson made their return to morning radio today as Tucker and Maura in the Morning kicked off the relaunch of...
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Humble & Fred will return to the terrestrial morning show airwaves on Monday for the first time since 2005. For the past eight years, the...


Kelly McWilliams has joined Proco Commodities to lead the Americas Risk practice.
Kelly has spent the last 2 years running Talent Acquisition for a multi-billion dollar private equity fund in Los Angeles, where she led the recruitment efforts for mid to senior level executives across the business.
She is a California native where she graduated from Cal Lutheran University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications.


It's time to take a journey through the human body with SJCS' fourth grade scientists! Our students recently tackled Body Systems, becoming experts in both the functions of human body and in researching skills. This two month long project took the students through the researching process, using both books and the internet. They then took that research and designed a PowerPoint presentation, incorporating not only the information, but technology skills, as well. Finally, the students built replicas of the body part they had researched – getting extremely creative! All of this culminated in presentations, where the students presented their projects and research to their family, teachers, and SJCS peers. From the knee bone to the ankle bone, and from the brain stem to the spinal cord, there was a lot of opportunity for students to explore of the unseen wonders of our bodies systems, learn new facts, and share their excitement about what they discovered.


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AI is helping treat healthcare as if it's a supply chain problem – MIT Technology Review
Global health groups are turning to supply chain software to help patients get better access to treatment and testing.
Running a healthcare system is like juggling bees. Millions of moving pieces—from mobile clinics to testing kits—need to be in the right places at the right time. That's even harder to do in countries with limited resources and endemic disease.
But getting stuff where it's needed is a problem big companies deal with all the time. Now global healthcare groups are adopting some of their techniques: a number of the world's poorer countries have started to use AI-powered supply-chain management tools to help people get better access to testing and treatment.
Healthcare organizations are using the software to help decide where to set up new clinics, how to allocate equipment and staff, and what spending to prioritize. And the same tools could soon end up helping to run health programs in the US, too.
Only 1% of clinics and 14% of hospitals in low- and middle-income countries have the equipment or staff they need to diagnose endemic diseases, such as HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, according to a 2017 report in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization. A commission set up by the medical journal the Lancet in 2021 concluded that nearly half of the world's population has limited or no access to testing services. Even when tests are available, the results are often inaccurate or come too late to be of clinical use.
Global health organizations have realized that if you zoom out far enough, these shortcomings start to look a lot like a supply-chain problem. "Why is it that Coca-Cola can deliver ice-cold cola to some of the most remote places in the world but we can't do something similar in health care?" asks John Sargent, a doctor and co-founder of BroadReach Group. The health care delivery organization manages one of the world's largest HIV care and treatment programs using AI software, including digital twins—tools that simulate complex processes by mirroring real-world resources such as goods, warehouses, and transport links. Machine learning algorithms can use these simulations to predict problems and propose solutions.
Over the last few years, companies across industries from retail to manufacturing have started using digital twins to weather the worst of the world's ongoing supply-chain disruptions. "We wanted to step back and look at a country's whole health care network," says Heidi Albert, head of FIND South Africa. "That's what led us to supply-chain thinking." FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics) is a nonprofit based in Switzerland. Testing is one of the weakest links in global health care, says Albert: "Our aim is to make sure that everyone who needs a test has access to one."
That involves allocating a limited number of resources across an entire health care system, turning it into an optimization problem: how to make the most of what's available. By modeling resources and the dependencies between them, digital twins identify gaps in a service, anticipate disruptions, and tweak the setup to explore various possible scenarios.
How AI digital twins help weather the world's supply chain nightmare
Just-in-time shipping is dead. Long live supply chains stress-tested with AI digital twins.
FIND is working with US-based Coupa, a business-management software vendor, to build a tool for optimizing testing services. Coupa has been adapting its business software called OptiDx for health care applications for the last four years. By using a range of computational techniques to model and analyze complex processes, including machine learning, its tools predict demand and identify optimal setups to meet it.
OptiDx is designed to use that technology to help health care managers, from government officials to nurses, allocate resources effectively, making sure that equipment and staff are in the best locations. By simulating increased demand in the digital twin of a country's testing facilities, for example, the government can see what additional clinics and equipment it might need and tweak variables to explore hypothetical scenarios.
FIND and Coupa have already piloted the software in Zambia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Burkina Faso. In Zambia, the tool's recommendations cut the average distance HIV test samples had to be transported to three miles—11 times less than before.
FIND is now rolling OptiDx out to 15 more countries, including Kenya, Lesotho, India, and the Philippines. In the Philippines the software has shown that one clinic could conduct the same number of tests with fewer instruments than expected, allowing the clinic to reallocate some of its budget.
FIND is monitoring whether the tool's recommendations are useful as well as whether they are put into practice. "This needs to be something that countries can own themselves," says Albert. "A key thing is to put the power of the data in the hands of the people [who] need to make the decisions."
Catching up to smartphones
BroadReach uses a simulation tool called Vantage, built in partnership with Microsoft, to identify understaffed clinics and send health care workers where they are needed most. In 2020, during the first few weeks of the pandemic, BroadReach worked with FIND to assess how prepared two provinces in South Africa were for covid, flagging shortages in protective equipment and staff in more than 300 clinics in just three days.
Sargent says he learned about health care systems in Africa firsthand when working in refugee camps before he went to medical school. He later founded BroadReach with fellow doctor Ernest Darkoh, who grew up in Tanzania and Kenya. "You can go into rural clinics in places like Zambia, and you will see patient records sitting around on paper," says Sargent. Yet the technology is there: "The nurses are using smartphones and Facebook is suggesting posts they might like."
In addition to monitoring shortages, BroadReach tracks individual patients across more than a thousand clinics in several African countries, monitoring whether they are getting the treatment they need as well as continuing to follow it. Clinics already do that, but Vantage also uses machine learning, trained on hundreds of thousands of anonymized clinical records and social data, to identify people who are likely to drop out of treatment and suggest that health care workers check in with them proactively.
The Institute of Virology Nigeria used Vantage in 2021 to predict which of 30,000 people being treated for HIV across three sites in Nigeria were at risk of stopping their medication. The tool found that 91% of those who received a call or visit from a health care worker as a result were up to date with their medication, compared with 55% of those who had not been contacted.
According to BroadReach, health care workers at a number of HIV clinics have said that the tool helps them maintain closer relationships with their patients by helping them focus on those most in need of intervention.
The so-called developed world
BroadReach now wants to make its software available in the US. "Right around the time covid hit we sort of woke up to realize that a lot of quote-unquote developed-world health systems weren't that great, and large swaths of the population were being left behind," says Sargent.
BroadReach is involved in four pilot projects with US health care providers and insurers. In one, it tackled low rates of vaccinations in parts of Colorado by using machine learning to predict where vaccination sites should be set up and which communities should be canvassed. Local health officials had assumed that resources should be focused on urban areas to vaccinate as many people as possible. But Vantage revealed that focusing on low-income rural, minority communities would have a greater impact.
BroadReach is also working with an insurer in California that sees significant disparities in the way people in various groups keep to a treatment regimen of statins, drugs used to treat high cholesterol. By looking at the data, BroadReach wants to identify potential explanations for what the insurer is finding. Some communities have poor transport links to clinics, which may stop people from visiting their doctors to update prescriptions. Others simply have a longstanding distrust of the health care system, says Sargent.
Eventually he wants to see Vantage predict risk factors for individual patients. For example, for a Spanish speaker who does not live near a clinic, the software would recommend that the insurer provide a Spanish-speaking social worker and a voucher for a taxi, he says.
But it's difficult to get hold of the data needed to train AI to make such predictions accurately. In the US, health care data is typically not shared between providers. Sargent says BroadReach is getting around this by combining medical records with socioeconomic data, such as people's ZIP codes and credit histories. "We have partnerships with consumer data companies, because you can tell a lot about a patient if you know their patterns of behavior and what conditions they live in," he says. "We stitch all of this together to get a view of an overall population and a view of each patient."
How people feel about this kind of surveillance will depend on what benefits it actually brings them. A range of bodies—including credit companies, hiring agencies, the police, and more—already use the socioeconomic data BroadReach draws on to predict the likely future behavior of individuals. Biases in these systems have rightly led to strong pushback from civil rights groups.
Government proposals to share medical data in several countries have generated backlash, including in the US, the UK, and Australia, says Nicholson Price, who studies legal and ethical questions around the use of personal data at the University of Michigan. But that hasn't stopped companies from combining medical and consumer data. "Companies have been doing this for several years, just at a lower profile," says Price.
"There's a sense of resignation that it's happening and we appear to have no ability to stop it," he says. "That said, maybe there's a silver lining that some good stuff will come out of this, too, instead of just being advertised at and manipulated."
Article link: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/03/09/1046976/ai-is-helping-treat-healthcare-as-if-its-a-supply-chain-problem/
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Across Wisconsin, over a third of households struggle to afford the basic necessities of housing, child care, health care, food, and transportation.
Despite recent reports of overall improvement in employment and gains in median incomes, the economic recovery in Wisconsin has been uneven. Many families continue to face challenges from low wages, depleted savings, and the increasing cost of basic household goods. The total number of Wisconsin households that cannot afford basic needs increased 5 percent between 2010 and 2016.
This Report also shows what has changed in Wisconsin since the first United Way ALICE Report for Wisconsin was published two years ago. It updates the cost of basic needs in the Household Survival Budget for each county in Wisconsin, and the number of households earning below the amount needed to afford that budget (the ALICE Threshold). The Report delves deeper into county and municipal data and looks at the demographics of ALICE and poverty-level households by race/ethnicity, age, and household type to reveal variations in hardship that are often masked by state averages. Finally, the Report highlights emerging trends that will affect ALICE households in the future.
To learn more, read the full report online or visit the ALICE interactive website to see county-level data from throughout Wisconsin. Then, take the challenge and try the ALICE simulator to see some of the tough choices ALICE families make every day.
The United Way ALICE Project is a nationwide effort to quantify and describe the number of households that are struggling financially.
The Project began as a pilot program in New Jersey, and has expanded to include 16 states, which represent nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population. United Way ALICE Reports use standardized measurements to calculate the cost of a bare-bones household budget in each county in each state, and to quantify the number of households that cannot afford even that. It is an alternative measure to the outdated Federal Poverty Level, which grossly underestimates the number of struggling families.
Rent or electric bill? Food or prescription drugs? For too many hardworking households, impossible decisions such as these are a way of life. When ALICE is forced to make difficult choices, the entire community faces consequences. The ALICE Project provides a framework and language for stakeholders to reassess public and corporate policies and implement changes that improve the lives of ALICE and their communities.
The 2016 ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) Study of Financial Hardship in Wisconsin characterized 29 percent of Wisconsin households as ALICE. Due to an error in calculating the tax budget line, that number should have been 23 percent. More information can be found here.
Can you survive 30 days? Making Tough Choices is an ALICE simulator, putting you in the shoes of an ALICE household. You'll face obstacles such as affording childcare, finding transportation to work, and putting food on the table. For the next few minutes, you'll experience some of the tough choices that these families have to make every single day and how United Way is doing all that we can to help them along the way.
ALICE is among the 42% of Wisconsin households that can't afford the basics of housing, food, health care, child care, and transportation, despite working. ALICE—which stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed—is a way to identify our families, neighbors, and colleagues (men and women) who work hard, earn above the federal poverty level, but don't earn enough to afford a basic household budget. There are more than 670,000 ALICE households in Wisconsin, more than double the official poverty rate.
With limited income, ALICE families are forced to make tough choices, such as choosing between quality childcare or paying the rent. This has long-term consequences for ALICE and our communities. The future success of our communities is directly tied to the financial stability of ALICE households.
Learn more about what United Way of Racine County is doing to help ALICE and how you can get involved.
UPDATE: The 2016 ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) Study of Financial Hardship in Wisconsin characterized 29 percent of Wisconsin households as ALICE. Due to an error in calculating the tax budget line, that number should have been 23 percent. More information can be found here.
In September 2016, United Way of Wisconsin unveiled its first statewide ALICE Report, a data-driven, comprehensive research project upending the conventional view of Wisconsin. The fact is that the number of Wisconsin households who are unable to afford life's basic necessities far exceeds the official federal poverty statistics. Before this report, ALICE was a population and community issue without a name or face. While it is true that ALICE has existed long before this study, it was not until the release of this Report that there was any way to discuss the plight of these households, nonetheless quantify them.
By comparing real incomes with real expenses, the United Way ALICE Project reveals this stark reality: 42% of Wisconsin households are living on the edge of financial insecurity.
In Wisconsin, 42% of households live below the ALICE threshold – about 13% live below the poverty level and another 29% are above poverty but below the basic cost of living.
ALICE households are working, but struggle to afford the basics of housing, food, health care, child care, and transportation.
There are nearly 670,922 ALICE households in Wisconsin, more than double the official poverty rate. Together, with those in poverty, there are nearly 960,131 households unable to make ends meet in Wisconsin.
Despite working and receiving financial supports, ALICE still faces a 21% gap in the income needed to be able to survive and afford the basics in Wisconsin.


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The Other End of the Line
By Andrea Camilleri
Translated by Stephen Sartarelli
Part of An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
Category: Suspense & Thriller | Crime Mysteries
Sep 03, 2019 | ISBN 9780143133773
About The Other End of the Line
"Wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction… altogether transporting."–A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author
A WASHINGTON POST BEST MYSTERY OF 2019
A BEST BOOK OF 2019, NPR's Book Concierge
A wave of refugees has arrived on the Sicilian coast, and Inspector Montalbano and his team have been stationed at port, alongside countless volunteers, to receive and assist the newcomers. Meanwhile, Livia has promised their presence at a friend's wedding, and the inspector, agreeing to get a new suit tailored, meets the charming master seamstress Elena Biasini. But while on duty at the dock one late night, tragedy strikes, and a woman is found gruesomely murdered. Between managing the growing crowds at the landing, Montalbano delves into the world of garments, in the company of an orphaned cat, where he works to weave together the loose threads of the unsolved crimes and close the case.
Also in An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
Also by Andrea Camilleri
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About Andrea Camilleri
Andrea Camilleri is the bestselling author of the popular Inspector Montalbano mystery series, bestsellers in Italy and Germany, and adapted for Italian television and translated into German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish. He lives in Rome.
Published by Penguin Books
Sep 03, 2019 | 304 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143133773
Sep 03, 2019 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780525505617
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"You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven't read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. Aglow with local color, packed with flint-dry wit, as fresh and clean as Mediterranean seafood — altogether transporting. Long live Camilleri, and long live Montalbano." —A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
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I've really seen the snow twice in my life.
Publicado: Jue Mar 07, 2019 2:29 am Título del mensaje: I've really seen the snow twice in my life.
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When I left to have the entire park to myself the forecast said occasional thunder storms, which is just what to expect everyday up and in the mountains, and snow on Thursday. I asked what snow on Thursday meant. I've been in dire situations before because of intended ignorance and wanted a nice comfy and cozy trip. I was told it's too early in the year for it stick. Cool. I was off. Wednesday came and I was the only person on Earth. No one else was around aside from some birds, and some bear tracks, surreal mushrooms the size of personal pizzas and smeared with bloody jam DeAndre Hopkins Jersey , and the constant ringing in my ears reminding me it's just me, and only me. I climbed out of the forest, damp and frigid, and went through a mountain pass composed of a long multi-colored meadow, angelic dandruff covered mountains, and the majestic, this is way too beautiful to be on this Earth glacier fed waterfalls that fall into a glacial lake so clean and clear that it reflects the landscape around it. In this state, I was just consciousness. I was no longer trapped in these legs and these bones and strewn inside all these guts. A water faucet was all I was. I climbed up and out of the pass. I came back to. I could feel my legs and my shoulders gently sobbing with weight. The sky was blue up ahead, the perfect contrast with those old gray and crumbling mountains. With a storm at my back I hurried through the valley below so I could set up camp warm and dry and climb inside if the afternoon precipitation was anything more than rabbit turd sized ice. During the scurrying, the mountains to the left sucked up the storm. I was in the clear. I hiked up to my own private green and teal lake Authentic Kevin Johnson Jersey , made my little home, and hiked to the source of the lake, another glacier fed waterfall. Soaked from water holding bushes I went to bed before the sun went down. I woke up Thursday after night time trampling over my head. Warm in a fancy bag. I expected hail and rain and maybe a little snow. It wasn't a little snow. It was more than enough snow to stick. I was inside of a snowglobe. Fat white globs came down from the sky. The mountains surrounding the lake were hidden among snow clouds. Think only of now. Don't think of what's ahead. Pack up and get going. Following the up and down of the creek through snow covered pine trees, which is the only good pine tree aesthetic, I crossed a gate, damp and warm, and eventually came to the intersection of get out of there now or go up and ahead and for it. I felt strong and warm and fast. After forty miles on the trail I could see the lowered section and where it follows. My eyes were sharp for cairns and orange ribbons. All that snow walking made everything was zen. I opted to be the cowboy. The next section was of course uphill snow trudging. Just me and the snow and another sublime mountain pass. Constantly forced to take my hat off to prevent sweating, trying not to die in cotton clothes, being confused in this swirl of foreign slush, in an alien land Youth Lamar Miller Jersey , I caught snow flakes in my hand. Reminding me of folded white paper cut at various sections. A river the color of childhood bath water. I kept climbing up and up waiting for the trail to break flat and even, and cut like a smeared bird to the right into the next valley. When it did I couldn't see. The snow went up to my mid calf. The trail was swallowed up. Everything was so bright, it was blinding, it was like a videogame when the protagonist you control gets knocked out and comes to under a burning overhead light, it's the bright light I expect to see once this incurably healthy body no longer is. There was no trail. Just a comical amount of snow. I couldn't see. The white strained my eyes. I saw rainbow spots and thought I could faint. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen.Confused, my hands were on my side. The map showed the trail started at a creek. I saw a creek, but couldn't be 100% sure this was it. I tried to be the cowboy, but I wasn't the cowboy. Walking back through my old foot prints I slipped and slided. I stepped on a bannana peel and fell on my back. Ashamed and soaked, I checked my pack. My tent was missing. This could become a nightmare. I dropped everything, and trudged back up to the top of the pass. Where I just was. Rocks looked like my tent. Hunks of trees looked like my tent. Nothing was my tent. My tent was all the way back up where I turned around. Exhausted http://www.texansauthorizedshops.com/authentic-nick-martin-jersey , and starving, I put my tail between my legs and slipped back down. Everything was ho-hum from there. I stepped in my old footprints. The snow kept plopping down. Crunch, crunch, crunch, the snow started to harden. I put my hood on and kept eyes low and focused only what was in front of me. I was back at the intersection. I headed downwards from there. I was out by 7:30. A twelve hour day, an 18 mile hike or so, chocolate milk and a $50 room at the YMCA. I always thought I hated the cold and the snow. I know now that I don't. I hated this WInter version we have down here. Everyone who lives where the sun is a novelty and not a constant fixture in their lives has something they hang onto during that time of year. Whether it's snow shoeing, or skiing, or ice fishing, or snowboarding Ryan Griffin Jersey , or ice skating, or hockey, or snowmobiling, there's something that gets them up and out outside the door to enjoy what I thought to be an impossible to enjoy time. For me, the thing I hold myself to once everything is dark by 6:00 p.m. is locking myself in my room and not eating and staying in on Friday nights and spending my time with my words and other people's words. But now, I'm ready for the cold. I think I can seize it and enjoy it. Find fun in the windy gray. Savor the flannel sheets and Brazos jacket. Laugh at crunchy hair from morning showers. I won't just wail around and plod and plot for what I'll do once the sun is back again. Anyways that's all I got. The floor is yours to talk about whether it's Texans related or not. 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