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Some information on how to navigate the website.
On the homepage there is a link to two identification program. The first program is trained with the photos of approx. 10000 species of which 5000+ are on the website or found in the surrounding states. The second identification program covers butterflies found in the United States and Canada.
The home page shows the various classes or orders that are shown on the site. Click on the picture and you will be taken to a page that shows the families for that class or order. Click on the family and it will show a set of thumbnails for all the species of the family that I have records. I have tried to show a pinned specimen and a live specimen for each species as the species can look different after pinning. You may select a month which will show only the species that have the records for that month. Go to the species page and there is an Iowa map which shows where specimens have been collected or photographed in Iowa, a graph showing when the specimens have been collected, photos and a list of specimen records for that species. If you click on the Lat/Lon, it will take you to a Google Map showing the location. At the bottom of the Google Map is a link to Google Maps which will show the location and give directions to the site. Some locations are not shown because the species is listed as special concern, threatened or endangered. Also some locations on private property are not shown.
The graph showing records dates now shows by week and the area below are the months with days colored to show what day of the week the records were obtained.
If you happen to select some record, mostly birds and there are a lot of photos attached to the picture, the reason that the photos are there is they are used for training the identification program. I am including a lot more photos than I used to do and there may be many that are not the portrait view that photographers normally show.
Clicking on the photos will give you a larger version of the picture.
I am using the Moth Photographers Group website listing for moths and the North America Butterfly Association checklist to define the Lepidoptera taxonomy on the site.
Records Menu
You will see a list of records that can be searched in a number of ways. Taxon can be entered in partially till you get the result desired. You can enter anything from the order level down to the genus level. State allows you to get a list of species for the state based on what taxon you entered. County can be entered partially. Locale can be partially entered such as Wanat ( for Wanatee Park). Collected By Can be entered partially and a popup will show names in the website records. Year can be entered as "2016". In the months between: windows a single month or a range of months can be picked. Date Allows you to see records for a specific date in case you are checking to see if a particular date has records. If you click on a record, you will see the associated data for the record and a google map. If you use more than one search item, you may not get results for the combination. For instance, Scott County and 2016, as there are no records for Scott County for 2016. You can can also choose to see only records that have been revised after a date and can also select ones that have had the taxon changed.
Records can be exported for the search criteria you select.
Also if you click on View Results as Species List, the data will be shown as a list of species for the criteria you specified. You will also see a breakdown into families, genera, species and subspecies. The resulting list can also be exported.The result can be printed.
Species Menu
If you go to the Species Menu, a list of the classes and orders is also shown. Clicking on the items will take you to the next level of viewing. You can also get a list of species for each county.
Submit Sightings
When the page comes up, you can drag a photo/photos to the window or by clicking on the window, go to a folder on your computer and select a photo/s to add to the record. If you have multiple photos from the same date and location, these can be mass loaded and I can split the record into multiple records.
Go to the species window and start typing the genus species or common name, a look up should show.
Pick the genus species. If unknown, leave blank.
If your photos do not have GPS, (if they do, the program will get the data from the file) enter the GPS for where the picture was taken. You can use one for the area if you wish. Google map allows you to pick a location. There is a search window in the Google Map display that allows you to pick a close location to start from.
Add notes if any like, a name for the location.
Add your name and email. After the first time, it should remember you.
Check the certify box and then submit.
I will email the identification to you when made.
Records will show on the website in a few days.
Under "More" is Additional Info which shows a list of Articles that tell about myself and the website and also various items dealing with insects.
Also under "More" the other menu items will appear if the size of the page is reduced.
Search Window
The search window allows for orders, families, genus/species or common name searches. Be aware that a lot of insects do not have common names. You can also look up moths by Hodges and the new Pohl P3 numbers.
Note Records with no date came from BOMONA and a couple of other places. The date that was assigned was 1/1/1950 as a place holder because the software they were using could not go further back. By doing this they do not show on the date graphs looking like they were collected in January.


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Episode 21: Bart Bradshaw, VP of Strategy & Finance, Blip
Bart talks about building a business rooted in authenticity, building a career at any stage of life, mastering the art of the "side hustle" and having fun.
This week on The CoSell Show we are excited to have Bart Bradshaw, VP of Strategy & Finance at Blip.
Making 2020 the year of fun
Building a business built for long-term success rooted in authenticity
How to build the career you want (at any stage of your life)
Mastering the art of the "side hustle"
Bart's Projects & Contact Info:
bart@blipbillboards.com
London Littles
Built to Stay Podcast
Built to Stay - "Stand Your Ground" (discussed in this episode)
Ideal Job Venn diagram
Hello, listeners and welcome to this decade's first episode of the CoSell Show. Today we are going to discuss how and why you should make 2020 the year of fun. Why authenticity is the key to building a business for longterm success, how to build the career you want in any stage of life, mastering the art of the side hustle and more. Who better to kick off 2020 with than Bart Bradshaw, VP of strategy and finance at Blip. Welcome, Bart.
Bart Bradshaw:
Thank you, Taylor.
We are so happy to have you. Thank you for being here. So to kick things off, can you tell our listeners a little bit more about your background and your current role at Blip?
Sure, yeah. You being there in Austin takes me back, actually. That's where I started my career out of undergrad at Dell, which a lot of your people there probably have been there as well. Yeah, I was in sales at Dell. I have an interesting background. I find it interesting because I've always known that I was all over the place. I love every subject.
I started out in sales. I went into finance and accounting. I thought I might become a strategic CFO, but then I went to business school and translated my experience into innovation and strategy, and managing small ventures within bigger companies like Intel. And now I'm at a startup. I always knew that I would be going after that smaller startup scene. I just didn't know when. That's my career trajectory is lots of big companies, a few different functional roles within that big company atmosphere. I learned a ton there. And then now over the last few years, I've been really going after smaller startup types of things, either at a big company or now at an actual startup.
Oh man, I love working in startups. That's where my heart is. Currently, I'm VP of strategy and finance. Previous to this, I was a VP of partnerships and channels. We're going through interesting, changes. And growing quickly and you have to wear a lot of hats at a startup. That's the reason for the change someone needed to ... Basically, I'm raising capital and doing other things to get us to the next level of Blip.
Wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing. Listeners, Bart is my first fellow Longhorn, so he also did go to UT here in Austin. I'm really excited to have a fellow Longhorn on the other side of the night. So one of our favorite questions here to ask at the CoSell Show is, what is something fun about you that our listeners cannot find on the old LinkedIn profile?
So this is always a hard question for me. I spend a ton of time just thinking about startups and spending time with family. I think the most fun thing about me is that I have four little girls.
Ages like, what are they right now? Two, four, seven and nine. And so I'm one guy among ... I have girls in my house and we just have a blast. Yeah. And people ask me like, are you going to go for that son? One, for four kids is enough for me. It's a lot and I want to make sure that I have the time and attention to spend with the ones that I have. But two, I couldn't ask for a better life than living with my five girls.
Aww, that's really sweet. Thank you so much for sharing that. It's funny you're definitely not alone in the sentiment of a lot of times when I ask people this question they're like, "Well, I work all the time." So that's very, very common. But it's nice your silver lining of all your amazing work is your five leading ladies in your life.
Yeah, I can say that my wife and I decided that 2020 is our year of fun. So we're going to branch out a little bit. We've been workaholics for the last, I don't know, 14 years. And now we've layered on top of that family, but we're going to make sure that we have a ton of fun in 2020, and certainly, you and any of your listeners are welcome to join us.
Yes. Do you have anything in mind?
Yeah, we're going to prioritize friends and getting together regularly with friends. We're going to do in February ... We actually recently got together with some of our favorite people. We're going to do every other month or so, a unique and fun party. We're going to do an escape room at our house that we're going to create for our friends in February.
So that'll be fun. And yeah, other things to be determined.
Well, I mean, that's nice ... You have the monthly thing going for you and then you get to have the fun and the creativity of designing your own scape group. So that'll be really interesting. Very cool.
I know we have a short amount of time, so I want to get into some of your amazing history and insights. So Blip amplifies marketing results. So what are some of the biggest mistakes that you have seen companies make on the marketing and or advertising side of things?
Oh, I think there's so many because marketing and advertising is not easy. I think a lot of the time we as marketers or advertisers, we find ourselves thinking we've found something that works, and that's great. You need to find something that works. But thinking too narrowly is sometimes a problem where you find something that works, and then you don't continue to explore and invest in figuring out the next thing.
You may overspend on one channel or medium because of that. You don't know what you don't know with marketing, and that's always the hard thing. So yes, you need to find that one channel or medium that works, maybe two. But you'll always need to be investing at least a small part of your budget on exploring additional marketing channels and mediums. And when you find additional ones, you need to figure out ways to make them amplify each other and think about it from a funnel.
And when people aren't thinking about it from a funnel perspective and lining up those channels and mediums to different parts of the funnel, it starts to be less effective. Your return on ad spend is less than it could be. With Blip, like you said, it amplifies marketing results where at the top of the funnel we do billboards. It's a broadcast medium. And if people are just online, you certainly can have your whole funnel online, right? You can get the word out online. You can have engagement and then you can target, retarget, and convert online.
Ultimately though, you're spending more, especially at the top end of the funnel on that initial outreach, that initial awareness. So just thinking through, what is the right channel or medium for what phase of the funnel, and making sure that you never limit it just to one or two that seeme to be working because ultimately, you don't want to be reliant on that. You want to diversify. There's a lot to think about that.
So you mentioned a little earlier that you worked with Blip prior to your current position in partnerships. So how exactly does Blip engage in partnerships? Are you facilitating co-marketing relationships for your billboard advertisements? Or what kind of partnership gamuts you guys run in?
Yeah. Our biggest program that we set up this past year is we had a ton of organic interest from agencies, marketing and advertising agencies that work with clients and manage different campaigns for those clients. And they were starting to use Blip and our direct platform for their clients. And so we said, "Hey, we should create a partnership program that caters to their needs, that starts to create some product features for them, make it easier for them." And that's what we've built. That's probably the, I don't know, 70, 80% of what we've done so far.
And that's fantastic because it just makes sense for us to partner with agencies and vice versa. They use digital online Google, Facebook, other channels and mediums for their clients. And then if they can layer on some broadcast advertising through Blip and others, like I was just mentioning, it helps to amplify and really increase ROI for their clients. So that's a very natural partnership. We have done some co-marketing. We've done some sponsorship sharing, maybe doing some free advertising for various events and getting exposure that way. We've really tried to figure out where the right co-marketing relationships are. But we haven't built a robust platform around that yet. We've just dipped our toes.
Well, it sounds like you guys are having a lot of success organically. I mean, that's a nice first step for sure.
Yeah, absolutely.
So as listeners, as you can probably tell, Bart's sweet, sweet, smooth voice has definitely graced the channels of the podcast waves before. And he is a host on Blip's podcasts called Built to Stay where you have interviewed dozens of thought leaders in business and beyond. So what are some of the overlapping business, and honestly life in general, best practices that you have learned from your guests?
It's a great question. I'm continually floored by how awesome people are. And hosting a podcast and being able to invite really cool people who have done impressive things is just a treat. One of the things that I've noticed is you only see a very small part of somebody online or if they're a founder of a business and you see their online persona. You don't know a lot about them. Whenever I invite someone on, I'm always ... I can't think of one guest that I've been less impressed with after the interview.
And a lot of that comes down to just their authenticity, which is a huge thing right now. Like, oh, influencers and authenticity. Ultimately, I do think that success comes to people who are authentic, who are real with their relationships, who value a longterm perspective. And that's really what Built to Stay is meant to do is to parse out what are the things that help you build a business for longterm success?
And I think that one of the main things I've learned is these, a lot of people are really making good decisions based on a longterm perspective. So that may mean that they may sacrifice a little bit of ... On a transaction, they may give a little bit more than they need to, or they invest heavily to ensure that relationships are longterm positive and they're not trying to take more than they should from a situation where they may be have the upper hand. I'm being a little vague, but I guess I feel like those principles, more than anything, are what I've learned and really I'm trying to implement in my own work here at Blip and then also in my own life.
Bart, I have to tell you, I could not agree with you more. You are my 21st interview here at the CoSell Show. And every single person I've had on that's part of the reason we love asking that second question, what's something fun about you that we can't find on your LinkedIn? Because whether it's LinkedIn or Instagram or Twitter, whatever your vice is on social media, it is a highlight reel of someone's life and you can ...
The online persona someone has is so different than the actual human being on the other side of those photos and images. And every single person I've interviewed is constantly surprised me with something unique, or interesting, or just, in general, I've had long conversations about what social media has done to relationships. It's such an interesting and really privileged thing we both get to do here.
So on the contrary, what are some of the horror stories, maybe, that you've heard from some of your guests? Maybe mistakes, business faux paws that they've given your listeners and how they can avoid those same bad fates?
Oh man. Probably the worst horror story that we heard recently was someone who had a bad partnership and almost lost his business because of this. The partner really like took advantage of him and tried to basically take all the profit and the business when he tried to expand overseas. And ultimately, it was a two or three-year battle that he ultimately got the company back.
But man, to be connected to a bad partner over a long period of time is a horror story in my mind. Being partners, partnerships are important, and they are so important, in fact, that we need to all make sure that we have the right partnerships in place at the front end, put maybe in place the right structure that allows for, if something turns out to be wrong, it's not the end of the world.
So that's one horror story. Another one that's very common in terms of just something that almost everybody, I asked the question, what would you do differently to most of my guests? And almost everybody at one point or another realizes that they should have hired an expert sooner. They should have brought on somebody with the knowledge to get them to the next level faster, which is always interesting because it can be expensive to bring on experts. It can be an investment. And ultimately, a lot of us like to learn as we go. We're just like, "Well, we can do that."
But at the same time, if you can bring on the right people, bring the right people on the bus, as some people say, you can really accelerate things and take advantage of their experience, their relationships, their strategic expertise and accelerate things. So the horror stories that you just spin your wheels for years and years when you could've just easily gotten to the next level without doing that.
Oh sure. So I am a little curious, and I have to dial back a little to your first horror story that you shared there. Do you know what went wrong? Were they maybe a poor partnership pairing from the get go? Or was there something where maybe the guy just revealed something about themselves throughout the partnership? What was the point when he knew it was bad?
Well, he knew it was bad when ... What basically happened was he started a company. It's a food, what do you call it? It's a full meal replacement. And he partnered with somebody who had a warehouse that he could do the food production in. And this partner was fine for the first year or two or so. But when he decided to move overseas and open a US entity, he basically said, "Hey, can you keep the lights on and keep this running here and I'm going to ..."
Well, here's what he did wrong. I think he resigned from his place as CEO so that the other could lead it, his partner could lead it, while he went and spent all his time in the US building the new US business. But what happened was once he resigned, the partner stopped paying him, or stopped paying him almost anything. I think he paid him a pittance and then he increased his own salary like crazy. Then he started to ... He built another business that he started to do all distribution through. So his funneling basically all of the revenue through his own separate business.
So it was just, I think, two things. One, you made some bad decisions about how to structure this expansion overseas. And then two, he trusted this partner and put a lot of the decision making power in these hands maybe too early or in a way that he just shouldn't have so that the other could do some nefarious things behind his back.
Yeah, sounds like it. I've had a lot of guests share little tiny versions of that. That's just like, "We started and we ..." A big overarching theme I get is you need to have aligned values and the baseline. And most people are like, "We didn't. And then we went our separate ways." But I have not had anyone be like, "Someone tried to steal my entire business through a partnership." Yikes.
Yeah, it was a little crazy. If you want to hear the full story, it's on Built to Stay. It's called Standing Your Ground and it's Joey Van Koningsbruggen, if I said that right.
That is definitely a mouthful. Don't worry. We'll find that episode and link to it so you guys can hear more about that. Interesting. And actually, very true to the name horror story. So something that is very prominently featured on your LinkedIn that I was a huge fan of, it said you are passionate about solving a very interesting problem, which is people selecting and pursuing, as you call it, a sub-optimal career path. How exactly are you hoping to solve this problem?
It's a huge problem. So I don't know that I alone can solve it. But it is something that I am passionate about and I have been thinking about for many years because when I graduated from undergrad, I had felt like I was pretty successful in most areas of my life. At school, I was good at academics. I had been in student government. I had done sports and all that kind of thing. All over sudden, I realized ... I had thought of a couple of potential career paths and everything, but ultimately, when I got to the next level of exploring those, I realized they weren't for me.
And so all of a sudden I was like, "Holy cow, I have this world of possibilities, a world of opportunities out there. So many different career paths I could go down, but I don't know which one's right for me. And I don't know what I'm passionate about. And I don't know what the market really needs." And ultimately, I can get good at anything if I try. But I didn't have a ... My undergrad was in comparative literature. I had done some internships in finance and a few other things. So I had some stepping stones.
But I was looking from joining the CIA to being a doctor and doing premed stuff and shadowing doctors. I actually fainted twice. But they told me that's not a problem and that I could still be a doctor. Plenty of people do that. Ultimately, though, I felt like at a time when I should have been super excited and happy, I felt more stressed and out of it than I ever had. I was like, "Oh wow, I was not prepared."
And I think that there's a lot of others. At Blip here we have a ton of awesome people who work here. And when I managed them and talk to them about their careers and where they want to go, and this has been the same wherever I've worked in the past 15 years. They're like, "Yeah, I don't really know what I want to do, or how I can get the career that I want."
So ultimately, how do you solve this problem? There's a lot of companies that are trying to build solutions around how to transition from where you are to where you want to be. There's companies that are trying to get the best fits for a company. So hiring, getting the right fit candidates there are schools that help you transition. There's MBA programs, all those kinds of things are solutions to this problem. There's tons of online education.
Ultimately, though, I think that I want to go back. I want to go earlier in our education. I love education. I have three different degrees from UT, BYU, from Duke. I love education and I'm good at it. But man, I can make the most of that education if I were more prepared. And I found that each time that I did do a degree, the better prepared I was to take advantage of that degree, the much more effective and efficient and wonderful it was for me.
So ultimately with my little girls bringing it back, I've already started to introduce careers and have them do little entrepreneurial things. I'm exploring design with Adobe Illustrator with my nine-year-old daughter. It's just super fun. And what I want her to do, and all of my girls, is to have a little bit more exploration of their own passions, their interests, their skills, get to a level that is beyond what I did in terms of any specific marketable skill sets at a younger age.
And this is not to guide them to a specific path. Not at all. It's more just, I'd say, layering on a level of exploration that goes one level, two levels, three levels deep so that they are better prepared. And instead of getting to college and being at a college level academically but not at a college level career-wise and skill-wise and knowing yourself, and how you might impact the world. Getting to college and you're at a college level on that side as well. I've now mentored a few people through the process and they hit the ground running and they're loving it. It's just so fun to see people meet their potential earlier and be able to make the most of it.
Absolutely. So what do you think is the driving force leading people down these wrong, as it were, a career paths? Is it the lack of structure or tools or adventures leading up to it? Or do you think it's maybe something like, "I chose this career because I thought I would make a lot of money but I'm not happy doing it"? What do you think is leading people down these paths?
I think that if you think about ... There's a Venn diagram that's really useful to think about. The top circle is your passions, your interests, your values. The bottom left circle is your capabilities, your skills, and the bottom right circle is what the market needs and will pay for. I think that most people don't really know their interests, passions, values to any real degree because they haven't done a lot of exploration. I was like, "Oh, what am I passionate about? I love movies. Maybe I could be ... No, I don't really want to take notes during a movie. I just want to watch it and enjoy it. It could be a movie review. I love going to the lake and boating."
At that age, I just had no idea what I loved or what I was passionate about in terms of how I could impact the world. So I think that's a big problem is like there's not a lot of ... In academics, you explore academics and you don't necessarily ... Some people do and they do a great job. There's projects. Engineers start doing computer science or electrical engineering at a young age with their parents or with friends.
Some people do. I did not. And I think there's a lot of others who don't also explore those interests to any great degree. And then also developing those skills. The third part is really knowing the market. And this is where today is different than ages past. We can do anything. The internet, our technology, our ability to move anywhere, we can do anything. The options are endless.
And so, in order to really make it a good decision, you should understand your options and alternatives. And if you don't have a good perspective on all of the things out there that you could do, it's hard to make a really good decision. I mean, you might come across one thing and be like, "Oh sure, yeah, I want to be a dentist because my dad's a dentist, or I like my dentist." But ultimately, can you compare that to the thousands or tens or hundreds of thousands of other options with any real degree of context?
And the answer is generally no. So some people are okay with that. The way my brain thinks, I have to see the big picture. I have to understand my options before I can really dig into something and be fully all in and committed. I think that if you just think about that Venn diagram, it's exploration. Your own passions and interests, your own capabilities and skills, and lastly, understanding really what kind of opportunities are out there and having a framework to think through.
I think that's really great advice. Also, a big issue is, I suggested towards this a little bit as far as maybe some people choosing a career path because of, "Oh, I think I'll be happy because I'll make a lot of money doing this." But I think a sub-level side to that is, are you pursuing something for the right reasons?
You mentioned movies, for example. I have a film degree, which is definitely, I actually had a teacher in college referr to it as an application. My film degree being an application to work at Kirby Lane, which is a popular cafe here in Austin. And I was like, "Wow, really inspirational. Thank you." But I think I found a lot of people they would go into, especially in guys like film they're like, "Oh, I want to be Steven Spielberg. I want to be famous."
I'm like, "Well, why do you want that? Do you want that because you want to be rich and have a lot of money and people adore you? Or do you genuinely want to change people's lives through the art of film?" I think the same goes really for any career path. You have to want it for the right reasons. And circling back to that authenticity, you have to be authentic about why you want something.
Yeah and I think the reason there is just a false passion, or a false interest like, "I just want to make money." Ultimately, that's not going to drive you, unless you really are truly passionate about money somehow. Most people are not passionate about money. They're passionate about what it can do for them. It's really more about ... A false passion is not going to get you through the hard things and challenges that make a career successful at the investment that has to go into it.
The things that are going to make most people successful are real passions, real values that align your work and your challenges and everything with what you truly believe in and want to accomplish. And so, yeah, I think that ... Again, the Venn diagram helps and the exploration of your passions and interests really should come down to, "Well, what do you really want in life? And it can be tempting to think it's money. Certainly money is a part of life and you have to provide. But ultimately, the people who are most fulfilled are fulfilled because they're doing something that they truly value.
Oh, absolutely. So on that note, a sidestep to it, you talk a lot also about side hustles. So as the co-founder and COO of a company called London Littles, you are clearly doing a great job of managing a full-time career at Blip in addition to one of many other side hustles. How do you manage and balance your career with these, as you like to call them, side hustles?
Yeah, I call it side hustle because I do think it's important to ... Especially for me in a situation where I'm a full-time, I have a full-time role at Blip. I need to make sure that for myself and for others that they see that London Littles, for example, is a side hustle. I want people to know that I'm here. I'm in it to win it for Blip and you can expect my full-time best effort.
I actually am all about side hustles even for the people that work on my teams and anyone really because I think side hustles are a great way to continue to explore and learn and be engaged in other ways that can help you I think be better on your day job as well. So managing all of that is hard and it takes some sacrifices. Like I don't get to watch Netflix as much as a lot of people. But it actually aligns with my values, which my values are all around startups and improving the economy and learning and growing, and creating opportunities to work with my children. Like my nine-year-old is helpful with London Littles as well. And it's so fun to see her helping us do some of the quality check of our little kids, rain boots and things.
I just find a lot of value from that. Yeah, it's hard to manage and ultimately we could have grown London Littles a lot bigger by now if I were spending more time on it. But you just have to pick and choose and decide where are you going to put most of your chips and then you have a few other chips in other places and time and ... It is a balance.
I completely understand that balance and that side hustle. So how exactly though do you determine what has the makings of a side hustle versus what's a career like? Obviously, I mean, you're already on that road where you have this job at Blip and then you started London littles. But maybe not using that specific example, but at what point would a side hustle be like, "Oh, well, now I'm going to go do this instead"? How do you manage those expectations?
I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur way back when I was graduating college. But I had also just gotten married and we were talking about what's the right way to go after it to be ... I asked my wife the question, do you want to support us for five years while I build a startup and try to make enough money to support us? At the time, that didn't make sense for us.
And what we've talked about a lot over the years is for a lot of people, it doesn't make sense to go all out on a startup. There's limited runway. You know you're going to have challenges. You know you're going to have to adapt and adjust. And so a side hustle can be, one, it can be great just in and of itself, but it can also be the right way to start something that has the makings of a full blown startup or a career for you.
The way I look at it is right now Landon littles is a side hustle. If, for some reason, I stopped working at Blip, which is not my plan at all, but if I did, I could certainly start to put more time into London littles. And I think that it could become a bigger, more exciting startup. But it just depends for me is London Littles my next startup? I don't know. It's super fun. I love it as a side hustle. The question just becomes, is that the one I want to put the majority of my effort into? Or is it going to stay a side hustle and be a super fun thing with my family and everything? But ultimately, I'm going to continue to work on these potentially higher leverage tech startup sort of opportunities.
But yeah, I think that you define is it a side hustle or not? And you decide, or let the market decide too depending on demand and traction and everything, is this the next thing? Because if London Littles was just taken off, and if it was doing many, many millions a year, I would have a harder time justifying I'm not putting more time into it. And I think you learn fairly quickly once you start a side hustle how much effort it takes, and whether or not it's just going to take off.
A lot of people are like, "Ah I started this as just a side thing and then Holy cow, the demand was crazy and we got picked up by all these news outlets and all of a sudden we had to just go for it." That doesn't happen in the majority of situations, but when it does happen a lot of the time, that's when you choose, "Okay, we're going after this."
Sure. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of the dream, I guess, right? And having someone be like, "All right, let me put this for you on a silver platter. You're getting all this publicity. You're doing really well."
Yeah. And sometimes it takes time for that to happen too. More and more I recognize usually it takes about five years for anything to really start to take off.
Oh, absolutely. And especially this is very, very common in the entertainment industry that people recognize overnight success when somebody wins an award or gets a claim for something. But everyone is always like, "No, no, I've been working really hard for 15 years and this was just the first time anybody's ever heard of me."
Wonderful. Well, Bart, you have been a total dream. Do you have anything exciting coming up that you want to share with our listeners?
Oh man, that is an interesting question. For me, everything's exciting, but what's exciting for your listenera? Like I said, 2020-
It could be exciting for you.
... 2020 is the year of fun. So everyone should do that with us. Blip is introducing subscriptions and really catering to the needs of customers. That's exciting. We're also growing quickly. So if you're in the Utah area or want to be, reach out to me for opportunities to work here. What else is exciting, Taylor?
I mean, I think the year of 2020 being fun is pretty exciting.
That's probably the most exciting thing. Making sure to prioritize the things that mean the most, which are people and relationships, especially now that we have some things started. It's a great time to reprioritize and hire the right people to keep things going and then spend the time that we need to have a full life, right?
There's only a certain amount of time that you can put certain things on the back burner. I realized yesterday I was thinking about this. Two things I never want to put on the back burner, one is my own health, and two is my kids. Maybe a couple of days out of town or whatever. But ultimately, they can never be on the back burner. Everything else, for a certain amount of time, can be put on the back burner. And we've done that for many years. Like I mentioned, Netflix, not that I want to take that off of the back burner.
But for me now, coming into the season that I'm in, prioritizing those relationships and making sure to have some of that fun and those hobbies that enrich your life, I think that's actually really exciting to take off of the back burner and start to explore more so that we can live that full life.
Absolutely. I'm really, really jazzed to hear you say that. And I've been getting that a lot more have having my guests talking more about trying to have an actual work/life balance and not just work, work, work, work, work, work, work.
Yeah. Yeah.
So I'm really happy to hear that it's finally happening nationwide. That people are like, "Oh wait, maybe I shouldn't be answering emails at 11:30 at night."
I actually had a fascinating interview with a woman named [Claudia 00:36:31] Higgins yesterday who is Irish and she's done a lot of work internationally and currently lives in Ireland, but is in South Africa right now. But she was saying one of her clients that she works with there company-wide, they do not receive emails after 6:00 PM. If you try to email someone after 6:00, they won't receive it until the following morning.
Oh, that's cool.
I was like, "What? That needs to be so much more common everywhere." I'm really happy to hear you prioritizing. It's amazing how many people are like, "Oh, my health isn't a big deal. Let me focus more on this." But it's good that you're prioritizing your health and your family.
Yeah. If you understand your priorities, it helps a lot.
Absolutely. I'm sure our listeners are going to have some followup questions for you. How can they reach you?
Easiest way is just Bart, B-A-R-T, @Blipbillboards.com. Yeah, I'm happy to chat about any sort of partnerships. I also do a little bit of a career coaching. I love working with people along a lot of different lines. So feel free to reach out if anything in this sounded interesting or you want to just start a conversation.
Of course. And don't worry, listeners, I will link to his email as well as his podcast, and all the other amazing things we've talked about today. Bart, thank you so, so very much. You have been a wonderful guest. And I'm really excited that our listeners get to hear your awesomeness.
Thank you, Taylor. It's been a pleasure.
And to all of our listeners out there, thank you for listening and be sure to tune in next week for even more exciting co-selling content. Now, go get your partnership on.
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Q: Texture Projection in GLSL I'm trying to implement texture projection based directly on this example at oZone3d.  My environment is OpenGL ES 2.0 on Android 2.2.
Matrix math has never been my strong point and I suspect that my problem lies somewhere in the texture projection matrix setup (texGenMatrix).   I have tried everything imaginable to get this working but the projection doesn't come out correctly.   I'd greatly appreciate some extra eyes on my code.   Thanks.
Not shown here is my geometry (a horizontal plane through the origin), and some other plumbing like shader uniform/attribute binds.
Camera Setup :
// Set the camera projection matrix
Matrix.frustumM(cameraProjMatrix, 0,
    -nearPlaneSize.x, nearPlaneSize.x,  // near plane left/right
    -nearPlaneSize.y, nearPlaneSize.y,  // near plane bottom/top
    nearPlaneDistance, farPlaneDistance // near/far plane distance
);

// Set the camera view matrix
Matrix.setLookAtM(cameraViewMatrix, 0,
    0, 100, 100,  // eye
    0, 0, 0,  // center
    0, 1, 0 // up-vector
);

// Translate the model as needed
Matrix.translateM(modelMatrix, 0, x, y, z);

// Calculate the model * view matrix
Matrix.multiplyMM(modelViewMatrix, 0, cameraViewMatrix, 0, modelMatrix, 0);

// Calculate the inverse camera view matrix (needed in the vert shader)
Matrix.invertM(inverseCameraViewMatrix, 0, cameraViewMatrix, 0);

Texture Projection setup :
// Set a texture projection matrix
Matrix.frustumM(texProjMatrix, 0,
    -nearPlaneSize.x, nearPlaneSize.x,  // near plane left/right
    -nearPlaneSize.y, nearPlaneSize.y,  // near plane bottom/top
    nearPlaneDistance, farPlaneDistance // near/far plane distance
);

// Set the texture projection to point down at the origin
Matrix.setLookAtM(texViewMatrix, 0,
    0, 100, 10,  // eye
    0, 0, 0,  // center
    0, 1, 0 // up-vector
);

 // scale bias
float[] scaleBiasMatrix = new float[] { 0.5f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f,
                                       0.0f, 0.5f, 0.0f, 0.0f,
                                       0.0f, 0.0f, 0.5f, 0.0f,
                                       0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f, 1.0f
};

// calculate the TexGenMatrix
Matrix.multiplyMM(texGenMatrix, 0, scaleBiasMatrix, 0, texProjMatrix, 0);
Matrix.multiplyMM(texGenMatrix, 0, texGenMatrix, 0, texViewMatrix, 0);

The vertex shader :
attribute vec3 aPosition; // vertex x y z

uniform mat4 texGenMatrix;
uniform mat4 modelViewMatrix;
uniform mat4 cameraProjMatrix;

varying vec4 vProjCoord;

void main() {
    gl_Position = cameraProjMatrix * modelViewMatrix * aPosition;
    vec4 posEye = modelViewMatrix * aPosition;
    vec4 posWorld = inverseCameraViewMatrix * posEye;
    vProjCoord = texGenMatrix * posWorld;
}

Fragment shader :
uniform sampler2D projectionMap;
varying vec4 vProjCoord;

void main() {
    vec3 finalColor = vec3( 0.5, 0.5, 0.5);
    if (vProjCoord.q > 0.0) {
        vec4 ProjMapColor = texture2DProj(projectionMap, vProjCoord);
        finalColor += ProjMapColor.rgb;
    }
    gl_FragColor = vec4(finalColor, 1.0);
}

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Moero Crystal H Review – Good For All The Wrong Reasons
TL;DR If you've played Moero Chronicle, then you've already played this one. It's literally a copy-paste of the previous game, but with different characters and dungeons. And also, it somehow runs worse than its predecessor. It's still just as fun as the last one, but it doesn't necessarily fix...
If you've played Moero Chronicle, then you've already played this one. It's literally a copy-paste of the previous game, but with different characters and dungeons. And also, it somehow runs worse than its predecessor. It's still just as fun as the last one, but it doesn't necessarily fix any of the problems that I had with the previous game. If you enjoyed Moero Chronicle, then you'll have fun with Moero Crystal too. However, don't expect anything beyond just more of the same.
I was really excited to get an early copy of Moero Crystal H, since I loved the previous game Moero Chronicle. It was a fun Pokemon-esque romp though silliness and slice-of-life moments with attractive and adorable monster girls. I even revisited the game for a little bit to refresh my memory. However, when I booted up Moero Crystal for the first time, I was almost confused thinking that I had just launched Moero Chronicle again by mistake.
Jokes aside, I do sincerely feel that the game felt identical to the last one, with almost no significant changes to the formula to distinguish itself from the previous iteration. It's simply more of the same, which was never bad, but some steps forward wouldn't have hurt. Because of this, I fear that this review might be fairly short, since my thoughts on Moero Chronicle essentially echo my thoughts on its follow-up. I will mostly likely end up focusing more on the things this game does differently.
Sexy Pokémon 2
Moero Crystal H, just like its predecessor, is a dungeon crawling RPG where you can recruit a ton of cute and sexy monster girls into your team that you can then socialize with and level up in various ways. It's fun to explore dungeons and finding a ton of them along the way. Enjoying their personalities and how they all communicate with one another is also very fun. Most of the monster girls you find tend to be more interesting than the main cast, funnily enough.
The protagonist this time around is named Zenox, whose appearance and name both come off as some sort of villain, but it's far from that. He is actually the most normal guy out of all normal guys. If there was an award for being the most average and "whatever" person ever, Zenox would win by a landslide. Even with this said, he is already miles better than the pathetic loser that was Io in the previous game. However, one advantage that Io had over Zenox is that he at least had some sort of internal conflict going on and had a much better reason to go off on the adventure that he does. In Moero Crystal, Zenox is a country boy going to a big city looking for his dad, but that is quickly forgotten and thrown out the window when he gets thrust into this quest by accident. What quest, you may ask? Well, it's a quest to find the Bra of Darkness that needs to combine with the Panties of Light to bring balance back to the world. That is seriously what the story is, and I'm laughing just typing this up.
A World of Bras and Panties
Yes, the story and world of this game is just as silly and ridiculous as always. Absolutely nothing in this game is taken seriously and is constantly entrenched in comedy. A lot of it is very predictable and not that different from the previous game, but it's still an element of levity that makes the game quite pleasant to get through. Speaking of comedy (or a lack thereof), Otton's back! Voiced the Tomokazu Sugita yet gain, and now with the addition of a dark version of him called Dark Ottonias. This particular character is voice by Yuichi Nakamura, who is one of Sugita's closest friends, making this new character a joke in and of itself for those that are informed on who the voice actors are. Needless to say, Otton is the same cringey, disruptive and annoying character as before, and Dark Ottonias isn't much different. As expected, most of the fun will come from the monster girls in situations that have nothing to do with the main story at all.
Capturing monster girls is the same as before. You get them into a boss fight, tear their clothes off and then do a scratching mini game to fully get them to join your side. This scratching mini-game is identical to the last game, in that it can range from easy and fast or infuriating after a ton of tries with no results. The game tried to relieve the scratching mini-game of its shortcomings by creating a special crystal item that seals the monster girls inside of them. That way, you can skip the scratching game and save it for later on a training ground, with the crystal acting like a literal Poke-Ball that catches monsters. This sounds fine, except for the fact that even if you do this, you can still fail the scratching mini-game, in which case the monster girl will run back into the dungeon, so you'll have to go back and look for her again anyway. It's a waste of time that adds an extra step to something you can get done right then and there. I never needed to buy these overly expensive crystals, so I wouldn't bother if I were you.
Fan Service Deja Vu
After recruiting your girl, here is where we can see the biggest amount of changes, or rather, additions to the game. The combat, dialogue, story, and even a lot of the music, is identical from Moero Chronicle, but the main hub for the game has a bunch of new things now. Like usual, there's the shop and the inn, where you can visit all of your teammates and socialize with them. But then, there are these new areas that can be used for training, boosting up stats and enhancing accessories. There's even a top down shooter within the inn that grants you access to optional dungeons to explore. It's a lot of optional areas that can help you be better prepared for the dungeons ahead. Other than an environmental change and a few obstacles here and there, the dungeons are identical to the last game.
Before you know it, you'll be going back and forth from the dungeons to the town as you spend hours just talking to your team and preparing to take a deep dive into the dungeons and their annoyingly high encounter-rate ahead. You can expose weaknesses, build up your party, use different builds and pretty much do all of the same things that you did in Moero Chronicle. You kill the same enemies, and even recruit the same monster girls from previous games. None of this is particularly bad, but definitely disappointing. I like to think that sequels are opportunities for developers to further improve upon what was done before and the take the gameplay to the next level.
Copied Homework
However, I feel an enormous sense of complacency throughout the whole game. It's as if the team cynically thought that they could get away with just doing the same thing again because pervy players like me would fall for the attractive girls and not notice anything else. Well, as much as I love building my relationships with all of these cute monster girls, I would've appreciated more new things than just more of the same. This game is still good and fun to play with a ton of hours of gameplay time in store for people that really want to take full advantage of every monster girl at their disposal. However, the only reason for why this game is good is because the previous one was good. There's literally nothing here that gives Moero Crystal an identity of it's own. The ultimate summary for this game is, "It's like the other one, which was good, so this one's good too, I guess."
If there is anything else that truly baffles me about the copied homework that is Moero Crystal is that this game somehow runs much worse than its predecessor. All of the menus are slow and run at a terrible frame rate. The sound effects of your movements within these menus are delayed by a lot and every press of a button feels like the game might crash at any moment. This is in stark contrast to Moero Chronicle, a much older game that has menus that run at 60 frames per second and are very responsive. Pausing the game to heal your characters or simply look at their information is always a chore to get through because of this. As I said before, this game is literally a Super Smash Bros. Echo Fighter of Moero Chronicle, so I don't understand what is different here that makes these menus run so slow, and by extension making the game less fun to play.
Samey, But A Goodie
In conclusion, if you have already played Moero Chronicle, you have already played this, except they somehow managed to make it run a little worse and put even less of an effort into improving any part of it. If you have enjoyed what you played previously, then you will enjoy yourself just fine with this new title. It doesn't distinguish itself in any way to its predecessor, which I find really sad when there were many opportunities here to elevate itself into something truly great.
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Movie Review ~ Frozen
by Joe Movie Review	• Tags: Alan Tudyk, Chris Buck, Ciarán Hinds, Edie McClurg, Frozen, Idina Menzel, Jennifer Lee, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Kristen Bell, Maia Wilson, Santino Fontana, The Snow Queen, Walt Disney Pictures
Synopsis: Fearless optimist Anna teams up with Kristoff in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna's sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom in eternal winter.
Stars: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana, Alan Tudyk, Maia Wilson, Ciarán Hinds, Edie McClurg
Director: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Trailer Review: Here
Review: Perhaps it's the kid that still bounces around within me, but I still get a little twinge of excitement every time a new Disney film is about to open. Though I've long since given up hope that the hand drawn animation of the late 80's/early 90's age of Disney films will ever truly make a comeback, I find myself remaining interested in what projects the studio is working on.
The latest output from the House of Mouse is a wintery musical (very) loosely based on Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen, refashioned as a tale of sisterly bonds and the embracing of our own individuality. Featuring a welcome return to the musical roots of the Golden Age of the studio, Frozen boasts some very appealing tunes by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez heartily sung by a roster of Broadway actors that help to keep the movie afloat during several slow stretches.
After their royal parents are lost at sea, sisters Elsa (Idina Menzel) and Anna (Kristen Bell, Hit and Run) are left to rule the Nordic land of Arendelle. The sisters rarely speak due to a childhood accident involving Elsa's powers to turn anything she touches to ice. With the help of some magical trolls, the royal parents and Elsa decide to keep her away from Anna, adjusting her memory so that no harm can come to Elsa or the villagers that may not understand her powers.
This separation has come at a price, though, because Anna doesn't understand why her sister has cut her off. That all changes when Elsa comes of age to inherit the throne and accidentally unleashes a massive winter freeze on the sunny village and hills of Arendelle. With Elsa fleeing to a wintery castle of her own creation, Anna treks after her to bring her sister home and end the chill of a winter without end.
Bell gives Anna just the right amount of pluck and spunk, not to mention a clarion singing voice that is a nice fit to the various musical styles of the Lopez/Anderson-Lopez score. There's some classic Disney princess-ey whimsy going on here and Bell skips right along with it. Whether she's dealing with a handsome prince (Santino Fontana, also lending strong singing chops) or bumping heads while climbing a mountain with the local (and now unemployed) ice delivery man (Jonathan Groff), Bell keeps Anna in good spirits and great voice.
While Menzel brings her Broadway belt with her for the Act 1 power ballad "Let it Go", there's something about her voice that doesn't match up with the character that's been animated for her. The booming timbre and slightly raspy tones sound great on the CD but strangely feel awkward and out of place when you see it onscreen. It's a disappointing wrinkle and the fault lies with the concept animation, not in Menzel's performance.
I'm not a huge fan of Josh Gad (Thanks for Sharing, jOBS, The Internship) but I have to say that this is probably the most I've enjoyed him in anything so far. As charmingly daft snowman Olaf, Gad pretty much walks away with the movie thanks to his stellar timing and easy-going approach to what could have been a much sillier role. There's a welcome tenderness to this particular character that gives the movie extra oomph.
While the 3D animation is, as usual, crisp and intriguing I found myself less interested in it than I have in previous efforts like Tangled. As pleasing as the voices are and as soothing as the snowflake heavy animation is, it all feels vaguely familiar…and not as original as I wanted it to be. On the other hand, there's something to be said about the magic of a Disney film and how it can somehow overcome its shortcomings. Though initially pleased but not overwhelmed by the film, I find myself humming the tunes and thinking about the characters…and that's nice when you consider how rare animated musicals are nowadays.
A special note, Frozen is preceded by a brand new neat-o Mickey Mouse animated short that gives a nice nod to the black and white cartoon origins of Disney before breaking through (literally) to a more modern day feel. Don't be late…and stay through the end credits of Frozen too!
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2 comments on "Movie Review ~ Frozen"
Austin Gorton says:
Aw, I left towards the end of the credits – what did I miss at the end?
Hey Austin…it's not a huge Marvel-esque ending but
****SPOILER ALERT****
there's a tiny tag with the Artic Snowmonster finding the discarded tiara and putting it on.


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Remembering Helen Chavez: 'Are We a Union or Not?'
June 11, 2016 by Source
She played a vital role with husband Cesar Chavez in birthing our country's first enduring farm workers union
By United Farm Workers
Eloisa Chavez Carillo, Maria Garcia, Helen Chavez, Gloria Serrano-Medina
See Return to Delano: the 50th Anniversary of the Delano Grape Strike
After they were married in 1948, Cesar Chavez would return home after experiencing a fresh injustice toiling in the fields and tell his bride, Helen, "somebody's got to do something about it."
Helen Chavez nurtured her husband's dream of organizing farm workers. She and their eight small children gave up a middle class lifestyle in 1962, embracing a life of voluntary poverty to support her husband's labors.
During the earliest years when he would sometimes return home to Delano, California after days on the road feeling alone and demoralized, not having recruited anyone into his new union, she would encourage him, saying, "Cesar, you have to have faith in God that what you're doing is right." He would feel better, go out and try again.
Helen Fabela Chavez, 88, who played a vital role helping her husband give birth to what became the first enduring farm workers union in U.S. history—and sustained him during the 31 years he led the United Farm Workers of America—passed away of natural causes on Monday, June 6 at San Joaquin Community Hospital in Bakersfield surrounded by many of her seven surviving children, 31 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
Helen, a humble woman from Delano, used her fierce determination to help change the lives of thousands of farm workers and millions of others who were inspired by La Causa. Born Helen Fabela on Jan. 21, 1928 in the Imperial Valley town of Brawley, to Eloisa and Vidal Fabela—one of Pancho Villa's colonels during the Mexican Revolution—the family soon moved into a converted horse barn on the Myers Ranch outside McFarland near Delano. She worked the fields with her family.
Helen was eight years old in 1936, when the family moved to Delano. Her father died when she was 12, leaving her mother to raise six children. A good student, Helen dropped out of Delano High School in her sophomore year to help support the family. She worked at the DiGiorgio Fruit Corp.'s fields and packinghouse. Helen was known growing up for dancing the Jitterbug with her friends—including Richard Chavez, Cesar Chavez's younger brother—on Saturday nights at the Honorifica Mexicana Hall in west Delano.
Helen met Cesar in the mid-1940s inside a malt shop at 11th and Glenwood in Delano. They began courting while she worked at People's Market and were married in 1948, after his discharge from the U.S. Navy. The Chavezes had eight children: Fernando, Sylvia, Linda, Eloise, Anna, Paul, Elizabeth and Anthony. Helen and the children frequently moved around California with her husband as he organized chapters of the Community Service Organization civil rights group from 1952 to 1962.
Cesar and Helen decided to leave a comfortable middle-class life in East Los Angeles in 1962, and moved into a small two-bedroom house at 1221 Kensington Street in Delano to begin organizing farm workers. Having given up his regular paycheck, it was a time of great hardship. Helen often had to raise the children by herself while Cesar was on the road. She returned to fieldwork while Cesar organized up and down the state's vast Central Valley; on weekends Cesar and some of the older children joined her.
Helen and Cesar Chavez, Photo: UFW
Quiet and humble but fiercely determined and strong willed, Helen didn't speak in public, but held deep convictions. In September 1965, while Cesar's young Latino union debated whether to join a grape strike begun that month by members of a largely Filipino union, Helen in her quiet, no-nonsense way settled the debate by asking, "Are we a union or not?"
During the Delano grape strike Helen joined vineyard picket lines before dawn and then worked all day running the Farm Workers Credit Union for more than 25 years before retiring. It loaned more than $20 million to farm worker members over the years.
During this period she not only raised her own kids, but also became a surrogate mother to many young volunteers who came to Delano and later to La Paz, UFW headquarters in Keene, Calif., to work with the movement. Helen was known for her prowess in the kitchen and good food. She cooked for countless union events and conventions as well as weddings, baptisms and Thanksgiving and Christmas meals for movement volunteers who couldn't make it home. Like all union staff, including Cesar, Helen made $5 a week plus food and housing.
A genuinely modest person, Helen had an arrangement with Cesar: She let her husband become an international public figure and he respected her privacy. Helen never spoke at public events or granted interviews to reporters.
Yet she was with Cesar at a private audience with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican in 1974. She accepted for her husband a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor, from President Bill Clinton at the White House in 1994. She Christened USNS Cesar Chavez, the U.S. Navy's latest Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship on May 5, 2012 in San Diego. She greeted President Obama on Oct. 8, 2012, when he visited Keene to dedicate the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument, the 398th unit of the National Parks Service.
Walking away from her husband's gravesite at Keene on President Obama's arm, a frail Helen Chavez asked Mr. Obama, "Mr. President, will you promise you will do something on immigration reform?" "Yes, Mrs. Chavez," he replied, "I promise I will."
Helen met Anthony Quinn, Coretta Scott King, Robert and Ethel Kennedy, Charlton Heston, Valerie Harper, Martin Sheen and many others. But she was most comfortable spending Saturday afternoons with family and friends enjoying a barbecue and a cold Olympia beer or two, listening to oldies and rancheras, and occasionally belting out a grito.
Her consistent humility, selflessness, quiet heroism and fiery perseverance were at the heart of the movement she helped build.
Services will be held Sunday June 12 and Monday June 13.
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Gloria and I were on the way home from Delano and stopped in Bakersfield for a late lunch. Gloria spotted Mrs. Chavez and her daughter having lunch. When they finished we went over and asked permission to take a picture. She was so kind, so humble. and friendly. My admiration for her work and her support will live on forever.


Boil water, add rice (to amount of people eating), allow to cook.
Put oil in a pot and allow to heat (medium to hot), add chopped onions until soft, then add broccoli, baby corns, pepper, green beans, garlic and salt & pepper allow to cook for a while longer. Mean while begin chopping your chorizo.
Add a tin of tomatoes to the oil pot (with vegetables in), followed by your prawns, chopped chorizo and vegetable stock cubes. Continue cooking and stirring until it simmers, (around 5 minutes).


My food processor came today. Thanks, Amazon!
First on the agenda? Peanut butter.
I bought a 3 pound bag of salted peanuts. My first mistake. The peanut butter is way too salty, but I can deal with that.
My second mistake was buying un-shucked peanuts. Shucking half the bag took an hour and now my fingers are dry and sore.
In to the processor went the peanuts. As well as some canola oil and honey. You don't have to use honey, but I prefer my peanut butter to be a little less au naturale.
After processing for 20 seconds I add the oil and honey. If it's too gritty, process for more time, if it's not spreadable enough, add more oil.
And there you are. Organic peanut butter you can make yourself for about $2 per 8oz jar.
Goes great on toasted blueberry bagels.
Another great thing about making the peanut butter today was 1. I got to do something I've never done before and I'll learn from my mistakes mentioned above and 2. Micah now knows you can make your own peanut butter with peanuts and oil. He finds it fascinating. I don't think we'll ever go back to store bought.


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FROM ubuntu:14.04

RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y software-properties-common
RUN add-apt-repository ppa:vbernat/haproxy-1.5
RUN apt-get update -y && apt-get install -y haproxy golang git mercurial supervisor && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

ENV GOPATH /opt/go

RUN go get github.com/tools/godep
RUN go get -t github.com/smartystreets/goconvey

ADD . /opt/go/src/github.com/QubitProducts/bamboo
WORKDIR /opt/go/src/github.com/QubitProducts/bamboo
RUN /opt/go/bin/godep restore
RUN go build
RUN ln -s /opt/go/src/github.com/QubitProducts/bamboo /var/bamboo

RUN mkdir -p /run/haproxy

ADD builder/supervisord.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/supervisord.conf
ADD builder/run.sh /run.sh
RUN chmod +x /run.sh

RUN mkdir -p /var/log/supervisor
VOLUME /var/log/supervisor

EXPOSE 80 8000

CMD /run.sh

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Q: Confused about the script embed in ng2-charts I'm trying to get started with ng2-charts. I've never seen a .js embed from the node_modules directory before, as they specify here:
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I'm using Angular CLI. As far as I understood, the node_modules directory isn't served, and if it is, I do not know how to access it.
I did try duplicating those packages and linking to them in src/, but I get:
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    at chart.js:4

I have no clue how this is supposed to work, so I tried to find a working example. Even in the project on Github, the only examples of this embed are in the ReadMe files.


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A video taken inside a secret Syrian facility last summer convinced the Israeli government and the Bush administration that North Korea was helping to construct a reactor similar to one that produces plutonium for North Korea's nuclear arsenal, according to senior U.S. officials who said it would be shared with lawmakers today.
The officials said the video of the remote site, code-named Al Kibar by the Syrians, shows North Koreans inside. It played a pivotal role in Israel's decision to bomb the facility late at night last Sept. 6, a move that was publicly denounced by Damascus but not by Washington.
Sources familiar with the video say it also shows that the Syrian reactor core's design is the same as that of the North Korean reactor at Yongbyon, including a virtually identical configuration and number of holes for fuel rods. It shows "remarkable resemblances inside and out to Yongbyon," a U.S. intelligence official said. A nuclear weapons specialist called the video "very, very damning."
Nuclear weapons analysts and U.S. officials predicted that CIA Director Michael V. Hayden's planned disclosures to Capitol Hill could complicate U.S. efforts to improve relations with North Korea as a way to stop its nuclear weapons program. They come as factions inside the administration and in Congress have been battling over the merits of a nuclear-related deal with North Korea.
Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha yesterday angrily denounced the U.S. and Israeli assertions. "If they show a video, remember that the U.S. went to the U.N. Security Council and displayed evidence and images about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I hope the American people will not be as gullible this time around," he said.
U.S. officials said that Israel shared the video with the United States before the Sept. 6 bombing, after Bush administration officials expressed skepticism last spring that the facility, visible by satellite since 2001, was a nuclear reactor built with North Korea's assistance. Israel has a nuclear weapons arsenal that it has never declared.
But beginning today, intelligence officials will tell members of the House and Senate intelligence, armed services and foreign relations committees that the Syrian facility was not yet fully operational and that there was no uranium for the reactor and no indication of fuel capability, according to U.S. officials and intelligence sources.
David Albright, president of Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) and a former U.N. weapons inspector, said the absence of such evidence warrants skepticism that the reactor was part of an active weapons program.
"The United States and Israel have not identified any Syrian plutonium separation facilities or nuclear weaponization facilities," he said. "The lack of any such facilities gives little confidence that the reactor is part of an active nuclear weapons program. The apparent lack of fuel, either imported or indigenously produced, also is curious and lowers confidence that Syria has a nuclear weapons program."
U.S. intelligence officials will also tell the lawmakers that Syria is not rebuilding a reactor at the Al Kibar site. "The successful engagement of North Korea in the six-party talks means that it was unlikely to have supplied Syria with such facilities or nuclear materials after the reactor site was destroyed," Albright said. "Indeed, there is little, if any, evidence that cooperation between Syria and North Korea extended beyond the date of the destruction of the reactor."
The timing of the congressional briefing is nonetheless awkward for the Bush administration's diplomatic initiative to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear program and permanently disable the reactor at Yongbyon. The CIA's hand was forced, officials said, because influential lawmakers had threatened to cut off funding for the U.S. diplomatic effort unless they received a full account of what the administration knew.
Also, the terms of a tentative U.S.-North Korean deal require that North Korean officials acknowledge U.S. evidence about its help with the Syrian program, and so the disclosures to Congress are meant to preempt what North Korea may eventually say.
Following talks with the South Korean president last weekend, President Bush said that it was premature to make a judgment about whether North Korea was willing to follow through with a commitment to publicly declare its nuclear-related programs, materials and facilities.
Washington and Pyongyang still differ over what should be included in that declaration, a State Department official said. Sung Kim, the State Department director of the Office of Korean Affairs, is in Pyongyang for discussions about the contents.
Syria's top envoy to Washington said the CIA briefings were meant to undermine diplomatic efforts with North Korea, not to confront Syria. Why, Moustapha said, are "they repeating the same lies and fabrications when they were planning to attack Iraq? The reason is simple: It's about North Korea, not Syria. The neoconservative elements are having the upper hand."
He added, "We do not want to plan to acquire nuclear technology as we understand the reality of this world and have seen what the U.S. did to Iraq even when it did not have a nuclear program. So we are not going to give them a pretext to attack Syria."
Before the site was bombed, the facility included a tall, boxy structure like those used to house gas-graphite reactors and was located seven miles north of the desert village of At Tibnah in the Dayr az Zawr region, 90 miles from the Iraqi border, according to photographs released by the ISIS, a nonprofit research group.
The White House and the CIA declined to comment on the briefings.


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In late 2015 I started to seriously consider working full-time on Vue since its growth was very promising, and I had many ideas that I thought would push the project even further. In February 2016 I started a Patreon campaign where users and companies could make monthly pledges to support my work on Vue. To my surprise, the campaign got traction quickly, and now I'm able to work on Vue full-time. I'm extremely grateful to the community for making this a reality.
Over time many wonderful community members have joined me and we now have a core team and other active community members helping me with all aspects of the project. Vue is currently funded by the community through Patreon.
Working on Vue was how I grew as a developer: It motivated me to research and learn whatever it took to implement the features I wanted, and I had to hold myself up to decent engineering standards to keep the project maintainable. When the project got bigger and more opinions started to surface, I started to understand the art of trade-offs in software engineering and how different goals can lead to different design decisions.
As Vue grows in popularity, comparisons with other frameworks have led to long debates. Being the maintainer of Vue actually allowed me to look at all this from a different perspective and realize how important it is to keep an open mind and embrace the fact that having choices is a good thing.
Properly prioritizing different types of tasks. For a very long time I tried to fix issues as fast as possible and only work on planned features after. My experience so far is that this model isn't sustainable. My work schedule became very ad-hoc because issues can arrive at unpredictable times, and it's hard to know how long it will take to triage and fix certain bugs.
I'm now experimenting with a different model: I have unsubscribed from most of the projects' notifications and only triage issues in batch with a fixed schedule. The core team members filter the incoming issues and only ping me when something is critically wrong. This allows me to take better control of my time and stay focused.
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Monster Energy is Coca-Cola' s best performer in current value growth terms, ranking third in value share terms, after losing one position to Hell in 2018 within FF Energy drinks.
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Sales of alcoholic drinks grew by slightly over ##%, driven in particular by the increased sales of beer.
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Go to a financial adviser for help, instead of a broker. Insurance brokers earn commissions from the sales of life insurance policies. Financial advisers earn the same fee, no matter which policy you decide on. Because of this, a financial adviser will be far less driven to make a sale, and is more likely to be honest with you.
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@implementation JRParagraphStyleView

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
    // Drawing code

	// Initialize a graphics context in iOS.
	CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

	// Flip the context coordinates in iOS only.
	CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0, self.bounds.size.height);
	CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1.0, -1.0);

	// Set the text matrix.
	CGContextSetTextMatrix(context, CGAffineTransformIdentity);

	CFStringRef fontName = CFSTR("Didot Italic");
	CGFloat pointSize = 24.0;

	CFStringRef string = CFSTR("Hello, World! I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.");

	// Apply the paragraph style.
	NSAttributedString* attrString = applyParaStyle(fontName, pointSize, (__bridge NSString *)(string), 50.0);

	// Put the attributed string with applied paragraph style into a framesetter.
	CTFramesetterRef framesetter =
	CTFramesetterCreateWithAttributedString((CFAttributedStringRef)attrString);

	// Create a path to fill the View.
	CGPathRef path = CGPathCreateWithRect(rect, NULL);

	// Create a frame in which to draw.
	CTFrameRef frame = CTFramesetterCreateFrame(
											   framesetter, CFRangeMake(0, 0), path, NULL);

	// Draw the frame.
	CTFrameDraw(frame, context);
	CFRelease(frame);
	CGPathRelease(path);
	CFRelease(framesetter);
}

NSAttributedString* applyParaStyle(
								   CFStringRef fontName , CGFloat pointSize,
								   NSString *plainText, CGFloat lineSpaceInc){

	// Create the font so we can determine its height.
	CTFontRef font = CTFontCreateWithName(fontName, pointSize, NULL);

	// Set the lineSpacing.
	CGFloat lineSpacing = (CTFontGetLeading(font) + lineSpaceInc) * 2;

	// Create the paragraph style settings.
	CTParagraphStyleSetting setting;

	setting.spec = kCTParagraphStyleSpecifierLineSpacing;
	setting.valueSize = sizeof(CGFloat);
	setting.value = &lineSpacing;

	CTParagraphStyleRef paragraphStyle = CTParagraphStyleCreate(&setting, 1);

	// Add the paragraph style to the dictionary.
	NSDictionary *attributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
								(__bridge id)font, (id)kCTFontNameAttribute,
								(__bridge id)paragraphStyle,
								(id)kCTParagraphStyleAttributeName, nil];
	CFRelease(font);
	CFRelease(paragraphStyle);

	// Apply the paragraph style to the string to created the attributed string.
	NSAttributedString* attrString = [[NSAttributedString alloc]
									  initWithString:(NSString*)plainText
									  attributes:attributes];

	return attrString;
}

@end