40 years an RSPB Volunteer!
Jenni worked at John Dickinson's Home Park Mill, as did a Peter Lathwell, but joined Rank Xerox when the Mill closed in 1980. Both Jenni and Peter shared an interest in photography, and when Peter became involved in the newly formed Hemel RSPB Local Group in 1975 he persuaded Jenni to come along. It wasn't long before she was on the committee and the rest is history as they say. Peter became Group Leader soon after the group was formed, followed by Ann Farrer in 1989. Jenni was a great support to Ann, but subsequently for ten years to Paul Green and then another 10 years to Ian Wilson! Despite the daunting prospect of succeeding Peter and then Ann, throughout Paul's and subsequently Ian's terms of office, Jenni was a constant and reassuring guiding presence. Jenni still books the monthly speakers, sends reminders and thank you letters to them, and recently with Marion took over the provision of refreshments at the monthly meetings. Jenni has always been a source of sound advice and support throughout her 40 years of volunteering. We look forward to working with her for many more years to come.


I've been really enjoying reading other blogs that diligently review 2012, and set out goals for 2013.... but shirking doing either of those things myself!
Actually that's not totally true, but I'm approaching both in a haphazard way not suitable for sharing with my blog readers.
One of the things that has surprised me in 2013 is the burst of new people signing up for online calligraphy learning - I'm really delighted, but surprised as I'd turned off all the advertising other than its presence on my site (partly feeling a little despondent that no-one ever finishes a course). So my new recruits are getting 1st class service (as everyone has), but I'll also ask people for feedback so that I can work out if there's something in particular that causes people to fade away.
And an active plan for 2013 is to improve some of my photographs. Now I have a shiny iMac I am less than satisfied with some of the photos - luckily my husband has just treated himself to a super-fancy new camera, so I think he'll be up for helping me out!
That's more than enough intraspection for now. Here's a picture of my lovely fish (and tank) I got for Christmas!


Dual-port SRAMs with two sets of address bus and data IOs are widely employed in various applications to increase throughput. Conventional 8T dual-port SRAM suffers reliability issue at low voltages due to common-row-access disturbance. Specifically, a row is simultaneously accessed by two operations, which can flip existing data and cause incorrect read output. Previous work can address this stability issue by assisting circuitry at cost of timing. This paper presents a low voltage 12T 2RW SRAM featuring parallel access with suppressed disturbance to ameliorate the problem without performance degradation. The proposed SRAM cell suppresses the disturbance by separating read path from internal nodes and minimizing the probability of the worst case stability with area penalty of 6%. In addition, hierarchical bitlines and a virtual ground technique are employed to further lower the minimum operating voltage and power consumption. A 16 kb SRAM has been fabricated in a 65 nm CMOS technology and extended the operating voltage from super-threshold region to 0.4 V at common-row-access scenario.
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Microelectronics Journal, Elsevier Ltd. It incorporates referee's comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mejo.2017.01.003].


One of the bigger challenges in a small business' early days is attracting attention. If marketing and advertising budgets are small — or nonexistent — the business is at an immediate disadvantage.
Yet there is power in word of mouth, both in old-fashioned ways of people spreading the good news about a new business and more modern methods of sharing opinions online and through social media.
A study by Alignable, as reported by Entrepreneur, shows the importance of word of mouth. The survey asked "What's the best way to acquire local customers?" The overwhelming answer — with 85 percent of the 7,500 small business owners surveyed — was word-of-mouth referrals. The other answers (Google/Facebook ads, radio ads, newspaper ads and direct mail) pale in comparison.
Here's a look at how entrepreneurs can encourage customers to spread positivity about a new small business.
One criticism often heard regarding a new business is that of general disorganization. Take a restaurant just getting off the ground. If the wait time is longer than expected, if there is any menu confusion or if there is a negative attitude among any employees, customers will take note and potentially use that to determine if a repeat visit is desirable. On the other hand, a new business that places a premium on customer service may make an impression that creates an instant bond.
For businesses to make a strong connection with customers, it may require going even further than what we generally regard as good customer service. Kimberly de Silva discusses extra efforts in a story on Entrepreneur.com.
The power of networking is significant, and new small businesses should be on the lookout for opportunities to connect with peers and professional groups. This is a natural way for business owners to share their stories with others who could become clients or collaborators. Writing for QuickBooks, Kathryn Hawkins notes how this can become effective word-of-mouth marketing.
It's not hard to turn off a customer in a brick-and-mortar business with a poorly thought out presentation or less-than-desirable conditions. The same concept can apply to a web client: If the purchasing experience is difficult and the navigation is confusing, the customer will likely look elsewhere. And when these customers tell stories of their experiences, the negativity toward the business can grow.


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Date: 7 January, 2021
While 2020 presented the social housing industry with some of its toughest challenges to date, particularly in relation to COVID-19, it also offered significant opportunities for evaluation and improvement, particularly with regard to how fire safety systems are implemented, managed and maintained throughout a building. James King, FireAngel's Connected Home Director, discusses the important role digital technologies will play in realising these opportunities with Dan Daly, National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) Lead and former Assistant Commissioner for Fire Safety for the London Fire Brigade.
James King, FireAngel's Connected Home Director
No doubt, these technologies will also increase tenant engagement by providing people with the ability to access and understand information regarding their building, James and Dan discuss:
James King: The National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) is working with every Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) in the UK to drive changes that will stop an event such as the Grenfell Tower fire from ever happening again. How is the NFCC working to change the way that buildings — including high-rise homes — are constructed, refurbished and managed?
Dan Daly, National Fire Chiefs Council Lead and former Assistant Commissioner for Fire Safety for the London Fire Brigade
Dan Daly: In the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire, the NFCC worked alongside Government and other partners, carrying out some initial reviews of high-rise residential buildings where concerns existed about their external wall systems. This has led to a more comprehensive review of all high-rise residential buildings in a Building Risk Review process that will complete at the end of 2021, with NFCC coordinating and supporting Fire and Rescue Services across the country.
NFCC fed into the Dame Judith Hackitt review of the building safety regime, providing the knowledge and experience of all services in carrying out their regulatory role to help inform the necessary improvements required right across that regime. NFCC are playing a continuing role in the workstreams that are now in place to deliver the recommendations coming from that review. Allied to this work has been the development of the Fire Safety Bill, the Building Safety Bill and the associated guidance. The Fire Safety Bill seeks to clarify the scope and application of the Fire Safety Order. The Building Safety Bill will enable some of the recommendations from the Dame Judith Hackitt review and the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, but also provide transparent accountability for safety throughout the life cycle of a building.
NFCC have throughout been represented on the Government's Independent Expert Panel and now chair the Fire Protection Board, looking not only at high-rise buildings, but also developing advice to support the remediation of buildings with unsafe cladding systems and a mandate to look at other higher risk property types.
A major challenge post Grenfell has been the availability and reliability of information about the built environment. Whilst this has improved, there is still some way to go to ensure that if in the future there is a need to review large swathes of the current building stock, there is access to accurate information about the occupancy of buildings, the materials used in their construction, the safety systems in place and how they are being maintained and so on, to inform necessary interventions and actions. This is why Dame Judith's recommendations for a Golden Thread of information are so important.
James King: The Draft Building Safety Bill was released earlier this year, following on from the recommendations outlined within the Hackitt Report. What opportunities and challenges does the NFCC feel the provisions in the Bill present?
Dan Daly: The draft Bill is a really important milestone towards change, with much to be welcomed. However, it is the case that a lot of the detail for the secondary legislation is yet to be seen, and there are some areas where we think the Bill should go further.
We believe the scope of the Gateways regime for new-builds could reasonably be wider from the outset. The Impact Assessment identifies the Bill will capture around 400 new high-rise residential buildings per year. This is a small number proportionately, and we would like to see consideration given to including more premise types where vulnerable people reside, from day one.
To create the right incentives in the system, the ability for clients to choose their own regulator should also be removed for all buildings, not just a subset. In that regard, we have welcomed the recent report of the Housing, Communities, and Local Government Select Committee following their pre-legislative scrutiny.
In terms of new and emerging technologies, having better information about construction products, along with test and performance data is going to be key to support regulation of fire safety. The Bill would benefit from further clarification to improve confidence in the product-testing regime, to ensure that safe products are being used.
The regulation of construction products should also look to better scrutinise Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), an area where an understanding of materials and construction technique performance is vital for those specifying their use. Consistency in this area would better enable building control bodies to focus on checking that products that have been approved are being installed correctly. A shared platform will be essential for all regulators in the area to share data, and report deficiencies or instances of materials and products being used incorrectly or beyond their tested limits.
NFCC's submission on the draft Bill is available on Parliament's website
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James King: To successfully achieve this, how important do you think the transition from a paper-based approach, to a digitalised methodology that utilises Connected systems to support remote monitoring, will be?
Dan Daly: From a fire fighting perspective, it's imperative that we understand what the risk posed by any situation really looks like — and digital technologies can provide an understanding in real time of where people are within a building, what support may be required in the event of an emergency, what risk the building may present due to ongoing maintenance or failures in mechanisms to support fire fighting and what actions must be taken to mitigate against those risks. The real time availability of this information is crucial, particularly with regard to time critical stages of an emergency, but also to inform preplanning and general awareness for fire crews.
In Protection and Prevention terms, the successful implementation of technologies that support the capture and evaluation of relevant building information will provide an approach that is extremely efficient, especially when compared to traditional paper-based methods. It will help fire and rescue services target our prevention activities, such as home fire safety checks, at the most vulnerable in our communities, informing our risk based inspection programmes for protection activities and alerting us to changed circumstances in the occupancy or condition of the building to update what we know.
There is a real opportunity at relatively low cost to install fire suppressions systems, common fire alarms and monitoring systems during the build phase of buildings to improve their accessibility and suitability for all residents, regardless of vulnerabilities to future proof the building for changes over time. This would equally give developers the opportunity to market their properties using safety and accessibility as significant benefits. However, the challenge is to ensure we don't forget about the existing housing stock and work with the responsible persons for those buildings to consider how these systems can be retrofitted to support improved safety, and for the sector to continue to develop less intrusive and cost-effective ways this can be introduced.
James King: In response to the recent release of the Charter for Social Housing Residents Social Housing White Paper, which aims to ensure greater landlord accountability and enhanced tenant safety, what opportunities do you feel the digitalisation of data presents for individuals residing within these buildings?
Dan Daly: NFCC welcomes the paper and in particular the strengthening of the 'Resident's Voice'. Public safety goes beyond being physically safe, it includes feeling safe and secure, and the paper aims to ensure it is easier for residents to raise concerns and are kept informed about safety where they live and understand their role in supporting their safety and the safety of their homes.
The consultation on smoke, carbon monoxide alarms and electrical safety is also welcomed, and we would support the intent to bring about the same legal responsibilities in social housing as those that exist for the private sector.
The proposals will have implications for landlords and building owners and challenges to meet the ask. These are not dissimilar to what we discussed earlier about building safety information and data and there is an opportunity here to consider how digital technologies can connect residents with information about where they live, intelligent systems that support life safety systems in buildings and information to responders so that the building safety requirements and the intent of this paper are met in a cohesive, joined up way.
James King: Finally, COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the sector throughout 2020. Can you please share your thoughts on how the industry has adapted to the challenges of the pandemic, particularly with regard to the inability to gain physical access to a property and the increased requirement for remote monitoring?
Dan Daly: The pandemic and the subsequent restrictions that were implemented to mitigate against the spread of the virus saw businesses and services quickly adapt their service delivery models so that they could continue to operate. That challenge was met at pace and has continued to evolve and improve over time and lessons have undoubtedly been learned about how we can operate differently and how we can be better prepared to respond in the future.
Fire Services have adapted the way we conduct our prevention and protection activities, working with partners to continue to support our most vulnerable and target those premises that present the highest risk through virtual delivery and desktop approaches amongst other activities.
Connected technologies have and continue to play an essential role in how businesses have adapted, presenting an intelligence-led way for service delivery by using remote monitoring of residents, systems and facilities to reduce physical checks and only responding to issues that are identified.
It's important that we evolve to the challenges presented this year and that we take the opportunity to evaluate what worked well, not only so we are better placed to meet this sort of challenge in the future but also to improve the reach and coverage of vital services to vulnerable persons and targeting of risk for essential services.
For more information on how FireAngel can tailor a connected fire and CO safety solution for your housing portfolio, please visit www.fireangel.co.uk/connect or contact your local specification manager.
The NFCC is the professional voice of the UK fire and rescue service. NFCC drives improvement and development throughout the UK FRS, while supporting strong leadership — including for the devolved administrations. NFCC delivers an approach where everyone works together and offers up sector-led solutions. To find out more visit www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk.
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The United States Can Give Better Aid to Haiti
This commentary also appeared on The Huffington Post and Global Post
Last week at a United Nations conference, donors pledged more than $10 billion to finance reconstruction and development investments in Haiti. The United States promised a hefty $1.15 billion.
But pledging money is the easy part. The United States, the lead donor and friend with the greatest interest in Haiti's future development, can do much more, in two ways: its own aid programs can be more effective; and it can take steps beyond aid that are far more critical to long-run prosperity for Haiti's people.
When the Culture of Disbursement Meets the Culture of Corruption
A few month's ago, Ruth Levine recommended that I read Steve Berkman's book "The World Bank and the Gods of Lending" and yesterday I had the chance to listen over the phone while he gave an informal talk about it at the Center for Global Development.
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Tim Geithner and Lawrence Summers - Good Picks for the U.S. and the World's Poor
We at CGD warmly welcome president-elect Barack Obama's appointments of Timothy Geithner as Secretary of Treasury and Lawrence Summers to head the National Economic Council. Both are members of the CGD Board of Directors. This is no coincidence.
Be Careful What You Wish for: Fighting Corruption Is Good, But Not If It Means Stopping Development Assistance
Senators Lugar and Bayh are again on the anticorruption warpath. Yesterday they issued a press release calling for "a Government Accounting Office (GAO) probe of the World Bank's anticorruption efforts." They want to make sure that the U.S.'s $950 million contribution to the International Development Association is not being "misspent and enriching corrupt foreign regimes." Certainly sounds reasonable, but is this really the right focus for a review of World Bank operations?
Folsom's Departure Creates Opening to Fix The World Bank Fight Against Corruption
Suzanne Rich Folsom, the controversial head of the World Bank's internal anti-corruption unit, resigned yesterday to return to the private sector. With Ms. Folsom's departure almost all of Paul Wolfowitz's inner circle has now left the Bank. I expect that some of the Bank's critics will cast this turn of events as victory of the bank bureaucracy over the forces of good in a fight for truth, justice, the American way, and, most especially, zero corruption.
Washington Post Editorial Gets it Wrong on the Volcker Report on Corruption and the World Bank; Financial Times Does Better
A Washington Post editorial today ( A Fight Over Corruption ) says that the new report by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker on the effectiveness of the World Bank's anti-corruption department, (the Institutional Integrity Department or INT)) "reserved its toughest language for the bank bureaucracy itself." The editorial then quotes from the report:
So What's New? The World Bank Takes Another Stab at Governance and Corruption
The World Bank recently posted the outline of its "new" approach to fighting corruption (pdf) and has invited comments from interested parties both inside and outside the Bank.
More bad news for oil transparency in Congo-Brazzaville
According to Reuters, two anti-corruption campaigners have been arrested in Congo-Brazzaville, allegedly for embezzling funds. If true, it is disturbing that people tasked with overseeing fiscal transparency are themselves involved in fraud, and bodes poorly for Congo's chances of breaking its cycle of wasting public money.
Fight against corruption needs balance, patience -- Dennis de Tray
Dennis de Tray, a former senior World Bank official who became CGD vice president on Feb. 1, has urged the Bank to maintain a balanced perspective and exercise patience in the fight against corruption in developing countries.
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Prof. Renana Peres
Vice Dean for External Affairs,
Renana.Peres@mail.huji.ac.il
Renana Peres is an associate professor of Marketing in the Hebrew University Business School.
Her areas of research address the interplay between brands, consumer social interactions, and firm decisions. She studies the determinants of brand perception, how word of mouth and social interactions are generated on brands, and how social interactions eventually translate into sales. She uses methodologies such as agent-based models, image processing, content analysis, machine learning, and diffusion models.
Prof. Peres has served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Marketing at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and NYU's Stern School of Business. She has published her works in the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Scientific Reports, PhysicaA, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, and Journal of Computational Neuroscience.
She is a Senior Editor of the International Journal of Research in Marketing, and a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Marketing Research and the Journal of Marketing. She has been selected as one of the DocSig list top 50 productive researchers, and is a winner of the Marketing ScienceInstitute's Ideas Challenge competition. Her work has been echoed in press by The-Marker, YNet, Globes, Israel Today, Calcalist, Times of Israel, New York Jewish Week, and Makor Rishon.
Prof. Peres earned her PhD in Marketing from Tel Aviv University's Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration. She holds an MSc and BSc in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an MBA from Tel Aviv University. She teaches the courses Marketing Management; and Modeling Social Phenomena Using Exact Sciences Tools. Her published books are Innovation Diffusion and New Product Growth
Prof. Peres is the founding CEO of PerSay, Ltd., an Israeli high-tech firm focusing on development and implementation of voice recognition algorithms. She serves as a board member of Haatid Provident Fund, and is a member of Haatid's Committee for Alternative Investing.
The universe dances to a very small number of tunes. I am always excited to see how the rules and regularities that we know from exact sciences apply also to social and market phenomena.
Professor Peres's research focuses on the interplay between brands, consumer social interactions, and firm decisions. Having been trained as a physicist, Peres applies modeling tools such as agent-based models, text and image analytics, diffusion models, and complex system modelling to revisit fundamental questions in marketing. She studies how brand perceptions are formulated and explores ways to quantify brand associations; she explores social network interactions among consumers and studies how these interactions are generated, and how they influence firms' decision making. She has been studying the growth of innovations under various market conditions, and focuses on irregularities, spikes, defection, and disruption.
Daria Dzyabura, Siham El Khial and Renana Peres (2021), "Image Analytics in Marketing", in Handbook of Market Research, Christian Homburg, Martin Klarmann, Arnd E. Vomberg, Eds. Springer, forthcoming.
Martin Schreier, Renana Peres, David Schweidel, Alina Sorescu (2021), "IJRM 2021–2024: Innovation, speed, diversity, let's push things forward together." International Journal of Research in Marketing, forthcoming.
Dzyabura, Daria, and Renana Peres (2021), "Visual Elicitation of Brand Perception." Journal of Marketing, 85(4), pp.44-66.
Dvir, Tom, Renana Peres, and Zeév Rudnick (2020). "Modelling the expected probability of correct assignment under uncertainty." Scientific reports 10(1) 1-9.
Renana Peres, Sunali Talwar, Liav Alter, Michal Elchanan and Yuval Friedman (2020), "Narrowband Influencers and Global Icons: Universality and Media Compatibility in the Communication Patterns of Political Leaders Worldwide," Journal of International Marketing 28(1), pp.48-65.
Mitchell J. Lovett, Renana Peres and Linli Xu (2019), "Can your advertising really buy earned impressions? The effect of brand advertising on word of mouth," Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 17(3) 215-255.
Eitan Muller and Renana PeresI (2019), "The Effect of Social Networks Structure on Innovation Performance: A Review and Directions for Research," International Journal of Research in Marketing, 36(1) 3-19. Lead Article.
Mitch Lovett and Renana Peres (2018), "Mobile Diaries - Benchmark against Metered Measurements: An Empirical Investigation," International Journal of Research in Marketing, 35(2) 224-241.
Sarah Gelper, Renana Peres, and Josh Eliashberg (2018), "Pre-release Word-Of-Mouth Dynamics: The Role of Spikes," Journal of Marketing Research, 55(6) 801-817.
Mitch Lovett, Renana Peres, and Ron Shachar (2014) "A dataset of brands and their characteristics," Marketing Science, 33 (4) 609-617.
Renana Peres (2014) "The impact of network characteristics on the diffusion of innovations," Physica A, 402 330-343.
Renana Peres and Christophe Van den Bulte (2014) "When to Take or Forego New Product Exclusivity," Journal of Marketing,78 (2) 83-100.
Mitch Lovett, Renana Peres, and Ron Shachar (2013) "On Brands and Word-of-Mouth," Journal of Marketing Research, 50 (4) 427-444. Lead Article.
Barak Libai, Eitan Muller and Renana Peres (2013) "Decomposing the Value of Word of Mouth Seeding Programs: Acceleration vs. Expansion," Journal of Marketing Research, 50 (2) 161-176. Lead Article. Final nominee for the Paul Green award.
Renana Peres, Eitan Muller, and Vijay Mahajan (2010), "Innovation Diffusion and New Product Growth Models: A Critical Review and Research Directions," International Journal of Research in Marketing, 27 (2) 91-106. Lead Article. Final Nominee for Best Paper Award.
Stefan Stremersch, Renana Peres and Eitan Muller (2010), "Does New Product Growth Accelerate Across Technology Generations?" Marketing Letters, 21 (2) 103-120.
Lilien, Gary L., Rajdeep Grewal, Doug Bowman, Min Ding, Abbie Griffin, V. Kumar, Das Narayandas, Renana Peres, and Raji Srinivasan (2009), "Calculating, Creating, and Claiming Value in Business Markets: Status and Research Agenda," Marketing Letters, 21 (3) 298-299.
Barak Libai, Eitan Muller and Renana Peres (2009), "The Effect of Within-Brand and Cross Brand Word of Mouth on Competitive Growth," Journal of Marketing, 73 (3), 19-34.
Barak Libai, Eitan Muller and Renana Peres (2009), "The Diffusion of Services," Journal of Marketing Research, 46 (2) 163-175. Final nominee for the Paul Green award. Finalist for O'Dell long term impact award.
Jacob Goldenberg, Barak Libai, Eitan Muller and Renana Peres (2006), "Blazing Saddles: Early and Main Markets in Product-Life-Cycle in High-Tech Industries," The Economic Quarterly, 53, 249-271.
Barak Libai, Eitan Muller and Renana Peres (2005), "The Role of Seeding in Multi-Market Entry," International Journal of Research in Marketing, 22(4), 375-393. Lead Article.
Renana Peres (2001), "Beyond the Equal Error Rate – About the Inter-Relationship between Algorithm and Application," Proceedings: 2001- The International Workshop for Speaker Recognition, Special Issue of IEEE, 3-7.
Renana Peres and Shaul Hochstein (1994), "Modeling Perceptual Learning with Multiple Interacting Elements: a neural network model for describing early visual perceptual learning," Journal of Computational Neuroscience, vol. 1, 323-338.
Renana Peres and Shaul Hochstein (1993), "Modeling Perceptual Learning with Multiple Interacting Elements," Israel Symposium on Neuroscience Abstract 2:73.
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Awards and Memberships:
Track Chair – Marketing Science Conference 2021 (the first ever Israeli).
Organizing the EMAC 2019, 2020, 2021 Doctoral Consortium (the first ever Israeli).
Organizing Marketing Science 2019 Women Symposium.
Organizing the Summer AMA 2019, Chicago (the first ever Israeli).
Since 2015 – a senior faculty at the Sheth AIM Doctoral Consortium.
Chosen as one of the top 50 productive researchers, as part of the DocSig list of Author Research Productivity in the Premier AMA Journals (2009-2013).
Finalist for the Paul Green award, for the paper "Decomposing the Value of Word of Mouth Seeding Programs: Acceleration vs. Expansion", Journal of Marketing Research, 2013.
Finalist for O'Dell long term impact award for the paper "The Diffusion of Services", Journal of Marketing Research, 2009.
Organizing the "Homoconnecticus - Technological Evolution or a Social Revolution" session in the 4th Presidential Conference, Israel. 2012
Winner of the Marketing Science Institute research proposal competition for multichannel marketing in 2010.
Winner of the "Ideas Challenge" competition of the Marketing Research Institute, 2011.
Finalist for the Paul Green award, for the paper "The Diffusion of Services", Journal of Marketing Research, 2009.
Israel representative in EMAC, the European marketing council, 2005-2010.
Outstanding Lecturer Award, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, fall and winter semesters 2003; fall semester 2005.
Board member of the ISCA SPLC (the European branch of IEEE) interest group.
Chairman of the International Workshop for Speaker Recognition in Crete, 2001.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Workshop for Speaker Recognition since 2001.
Member of the Organizing Committee of Marketing in Israel since 2006.
Dean's list for 1989, 1990, 1991, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.


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There's a man with his knees in my back
I just got a nasty concussion
When his suitcase fell down from the rack
I yearn for the romance of flying
With passengers treated like kings
But sadly my ticket's with Ryanair
And I'm stuck in a cattle-truck with wings
But I have worse news for the traveller!
If you didn't go on the ground!
For the privilege of spending a penny:
They're going to be charging a pound!
They've taken away the bad movies
And the plasticky food on the tray
Next they'll be taking the poky wee room
That's usually covered in spray
I have some advice for the flyer
Desperately needing to go
Sneakily crap in the sick bag
And send it to their CEO
I have bad news for the traveller!
So if you're caught short while you're flying
You'd best will the pilot to rush
Cross your legs, hold it in 'til the airport
Unless you're feeling… flush!
You can find an MP3 here.
There's a war in your heart over me
Why they're fighting, no-one can see
You don't have to be the one casualty
Of the war in your heart over me.
There's a storm in your soul over us
And you're reeling with every gust
We'll both be crushed unless we adjust
To the storm in your soul over us.
I don't have the solution
I don't even have an idea
The one thing I know is that you don't have to go
If you need me, I'm here.
There's a thorn in your side and it's this
That you're hurting, no-one could miss
But please don't you kiss me goodbye and dismiss
The thorn in your side that is this.
And it's obvious why you might flee
I don't want you to be the sole refugee
From the war in your heart over me.
People are forever asking me why I don't sell my songs. Partly, I'll concede, it's laziness – I don't have the business guts to hawk my wares around the record companies or really to do anything to make money out of this hobby. I played a few gigs for a few quid a few years ago, sold a few CDs, but really felt that the business side of things, even at that modest level, was eating into my enjoyment.
So, rather than hum and haw for any longer about whether I should start doing this, I've decided to license all of the songs, articles and other ramblings written by me on this site, under a Creative Commons attribution/non-commercial/share-alike license. What this means is, you're allowed to take any of the material here, rewrite it, re-record it, perform it, mangle it, or (as the license says) produce derivative works, so long as you attribute it to me ('this is a Kensson song' is fine, I'd be grateful for a link if you're putting something on the web) and don't make any money off of it*. Also, if you release any derivative works, you need to slap the same license on them – you can pick up the html here.
As Woody said: "This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
*If you have a good reason for wanting to use material under a different license, drop me an e-mail and we can talk.
Song for the Shy
(I'm In Love With Her) Record Collection
Romeo's Tune
I'm disappointed at my new guitar technology (I put a pickup in my lovely, old, tobacco-brown guitar, but it wasn't registering on the H&F electronics), and that I only got to play three songs (the organiser always plays for half an hour, whether there are three people behind him or ten), but glad that I know how to play four upside-down chords. I could see the guitarists in the crowd thinking 'what on earth is he doing?'.
A couple of really interesting other acts – one, Tawly (my best guess at the spelling), was a tiny girl in crocs who didn't look old enough to be in a pub. But if you're good enough, you're old enough (even if you're wearing crocs), and she was good enough to silence a rowdy pub. Incredible control of the guitar, incredible control of a surprisingly big voice (where does she keep it? there's nothing to her!), and a really good choice of songs, including Mama You've Been On My Mind and Eric Idle's Universe Song (on the ukelele). I wanted to be an A&R man so I could sign her up on the spot. Three parts Joan Baez to one part Nick Drake and one part Jeff Buckley, possibly some Janis in the mix too – I hope she goes on to big things and ends up living more like Joan than the other three.
There was a floppy-haired guy doing quite funky versions of Fire and Rain and Itchycoo Park. There was an older guy who did a folk cover of Purple Rain, which took me until the chorus to pick up. And there was me, banging out my standards upside-down. None of which came close to Tawly.
In case you're interested in the results of the NaNo time trial, these 468 words took a little over 20 minutes to produce. Assuming a constant workrate, that makes a full NaNo about 40 hours of work.
It was as if I'd stumbled on El Dorado. It started as a flash of dull green somewhere between the many decaying boxes of my mum's attic – a dull green I half-recognised but couldn't immediately place. I tunnelled my way betweeen boxes of stuff – hoarded stuff, stuff too ancient to be of any use ever again, but too close to someone's heart to throw away. There are boxes of 1980s computers up there, books on how to mend long-obsolete motors. And there was a typewriter.
In the brilliantly cruel way my mum's attic has of kicking you when you're down, the typewriter came back into my life the day somebody left – she being a girl (now a woman, of course, do the maths) I'd had a crush on for the better part of two decades. The typewriter and she were originally part of my life at the same time, more or less – on the roller, there are a number of obtuse declarations of desire, there in black ink on tipp-ex.
I used to write everything on the typewriter – letters, essays, songs, diaries, abortive attempts at novels (I plan to rectify that this November – this ramble is partly a NaNo time trial) – and then, at some point, I got a proper computer and abandoned it to the loft.
It was a lucky find. The case had a sticker on it marked 50p, almost certainly implying that my mum had unsuccessfully tried to offload it at one of her many car boot sales. It's not in great shape – the fabric that used to cover the case is patchy at best, the N and G keys are – actually, no longer missing, I just shook the machine and found them – but even when replaced on their relatively blunt stands, tend to fall off within a handful of keystrokes.
For all its flaws, though, it's a marvellous machine. It smells of journalism and epistolary novels. It sounds a little like a train when it's being used properly. It takes a genuine effort to press the keys hard enough to make a mark on the paper, and some coordination to avoid jamming several keys together. Somehow it brings you closer to your writing, knowing that it's relatively difficult to delete paragraphs wholesale, and knowing that the typewriter is going to be responsible for about as many misprints as you are (the space bar is a little shaky, occasionally printing two spaces, sometimes none at all).
Above all, the typewriter is a machine designed solely for producing words on. A computer has a thousand functions, each further removed from writing than the last. There's no pinging e-mail on this, only the ping of reaching the end of a line. There's no internet dragging you off to research obscure rock bands. It's like being in a '60s newsroom, and almost makes me want to start smoking.


In the last 15 years, the number of Kiberan children who have ever attended school has risen from about 15% to about 90%.
In the last 15 years, the number of Kiberan children who have ever attended school has risen from about 15 percent to about 90 percent. This is a remarkable achievement, due primarily to the emergence of low-cost private schools, now numbering 300.
Even so, few Kiberan children stay in school long enough to learn the skills they need to pass the primary school completion test known as the KCPE (Kenya Certificate of Primary Education). Accurate statistics are nearly impossible to obtain, but we estimate that only 25 to 50 percent of children pass. And those rates don't include the very many children do not attempt the KCPE. That means 4,000 or more kids each year do not even qualify to begin secondary school. With our foundational belief in education as critical to long-term social change, we cannot let this situation continue.
CFK's Best Schools Initiative (BSI) has been formed to put an end to this tragedy. Over the last two years, we have conducted extensive research in Kibera to learn what affects student attendance and success. We have interviewed over 1,000 parents, 30 school Head Teachers and Directors, and 20 local education NGOs through surveys at over 40 schools.
We identified a number of factors greatly affecting student success including continuous student attendance, teacher training and retention, effective student to teacher ratios, access to textbooks, reliable feeding programs, parent or guardian involvement, extracurricular activities, classroom facilities encouraging learning and student worth, and school fees that are stable and affordable.
5) Continuously monitor and evaluate practices and schools to ensure that schools are maximizing student attendance and success.
The children of Kibera – just like kids all throughout the world – have the right to receive a quality education. Our Best Schools Initiative believes the process of partnering together to discover and implement the most effective, efficient, and cost effective practices for a community to educate its children can lead, in a few years, to children in Kibera getting the opportunities they deserve.
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Mikko Helevä (b. 1970) has been the organspecialist of the Finnish jazz scene since the late 1990s. The organ of Helevä, also the bass lines, has played an important role in Bronson, Big Brother, So So, Soi Ensemble and Tonight at Noon. Currently Helevä is finishing his doctoral studies and, besides active performing, he teaches organ and keeps workshops in i.a. Sibelius Academy and Pop & Jazz Conservatory.


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Elliot Benjamin Jacobson is an American drummer, songwriter and producer. He was the producer and cowriter of Vérité for her first EP, Echo and the majority of her second EP, Sentiment. He plays drums for the New York-based singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson. He also plays drums for Jenny Owen Youngs, Elle King, Emily Kinney, and Wakey! Wakey!.

Elliot was born in Houston, TX and moved as a teen to Buffalo, NY. Elliot started playing drums in his middle school band, later playing with A New Easy Way. It was while Elliot was attending Wagner College on Staten Island, NY that he met Ingrid Michaelson and her bassist Chris Kuffner. Ingrid invited Elliot to play drums on her first album Slow The Rain. He later played drums on Girls and Boys, Be Ok, Everybody, Human Again, Lights Out and other separate releases.

Elliot has performed on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Good Morning America, The Rachael Ray Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, The CBS Early Show and others.

Elliot uses Vater drumsticks, Yamaha Drums, Sabian Cymbals, Evans Drumheads and Gator Cases.

Elliot has performed live with Regina Spektor, Anya Marina, Katie Costello, Greg Holden, David Garza, and many others.

As a popular session drummer, Elliot has recorded with Emily Kinney, Greg Laswell, The Vamps, A Great Big World, Lenka, April Smith, Dan Romer, Hayley Taylor, Nick Howard, Samantha Ronson, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Abigail Breslin, Sarah Blacker, John-Allison Weiss, Jay Stolar, He is We and many, many others.

In 2010, Elliot was voted as #1 Up and Coming Drummer in the Modern Drummer Magazine's Readers Poll.

When he is not touring, Elliot currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

References

External links
Jacobson's Official Website

American drummers
American singer-songwriters
American male singer-songwriters
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)

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Rehab: Party at the Hard Rock Hotel is an American reality television docudrama on TruTV that premiered on November 11, 2008. It focuses on the staff (bartenders, cocktail waitresses, security, etc.) of the Rehab pool party hosted at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and also chronicles the staff as they attempt to keep the partygoers under control while trying to do their jobs well and avoid their bosses' anger.

The series ran for 3 seasons until its cancellation in December 2010. Main cast members include Matt Minichino, Julia Velotas, Chantel Corradino and Sharon Meyers

Cast

Recurring Cast
Matthew Minichino — Director of Nightlife
Sharon Meyers — Special Events Security Supervisor
Julia Velotas - Lead cocktail server
Chantel Corradino and Jessica Snook  - Bartenders
Amanda Caldwell and Jonna Mannion — Cocktail Servers
Jake - Security Guard
Doug Hayes

Lawsuit
In September 2010 the owner of the Hard Rock brand filed a lawsuit against the company which acquired the rights to the name of the hotel, Morgans Hotel Group, stating that the show has damaged the company name by associating it with "drunken debauchery, acts of vandalism, sexual harassment, (and) violence." Despite the lawsuit, truTV ran the third season. Morgans Hotel Group argued that "This show and the lively behavior it portrays have already been on the air for two years... it has brought enormous popularity to the Hard Rock brand.

Undercover drug sting
In 2010, undercover police officers investigated security guards and VIP hosts who were allegedly selling drugs to guests and allowing (at least on one occasion) an undercover officer to smoke marijuana in a public restroom after bribing a security guard. These stings occurred at the now-closed Body English and Vanity nightclubs also on the Hard Rock Hotel property and featured on the show. Hard Rock Hotel has reportedly fired all employees listed in the complaint, and agreed to pay a $700,000 fine.

References

External links
Rehab: Party at the Hard Rock Hotel on TruTV.com

2000s American reality television series
2010s American reality television series
2008 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Television shows set in the Las Vegas Valley
TruTV original programming
Hard Rock Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas)


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Q: jQuery document.ready() not firing for dynamically loaded content I've got a PHP file (called aboutMe.php) that contains some HTML as follows:

My gender is:

Please select your gender.

                        <input id="gender-male" name="the-gender" type="radio" value="1" />
                        Male
                        <input id="gender-female" name="the-gender" type="radio" value="2" />
                        Female

The aboutme.js file contains a function as follows:
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {.....does stuff to the tags in the HTML});

This all works fine if the page is loaded directly. However when another page wants to load this dynamically as follows:
$("#load-aboutme-here").load("aboutMe.php");

...the document.ready() event doesn't fire and things don't get tagged.
I've seen similar posts but can't quite get what I need from them. Have done things like substitute the document.ready() for window.load() but then it doesn't even work at all when the aboutMe.php page is loaded directly.
Any ideas much appreciated - this is driving me nuts although I suspect it's an easy fix!
Thanks
Iain

A: If I understood your problem correctly, I believe you could just create a callback for the .load() function like so:
$("#load-aboutme-here").load("aboutMe.php", null, function()
{
    // Code to be executed when aboutMe.php is loaded.
    // i.e. The code in aboutMe.js
});

A: Note that the document is the main page...not subsequent files you retrieve
The document was ready long before the ajax is done so any $(document).ready() that is called after it is ready will fire immediately. In your case it will fire before the elements exist
Move the script tag below the html that the code is referencing

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(Gateway Pundit) – Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch revealed on Wednesday that the DOJ is colluding with Hillary Clinton email scandal witnesses to thwart court-ordered discovery to stop the watchdog's efforts to gather evidence.
Earlier this month, a federal court blasted the DOJ and State Department on Hillary Clinton's emails and ordered a discovery plan in 10 days as to whether Hillary's private email system was intentionally set up to evade FOIA requests and lawsuits.
Although Judicial Watch refuses to back down, the Justice Department is actively working to stop the watchdog's efforts to gather evidence in federal court.
Tom Fitton was furious that the DOJ is working to block their discovery efforts.
"Outrageously, this Justice Department is colluding with Clinton email scandal to stop our efforts to gather evidence in federal court. President Trump should ask this Justice Department why it's still protecting Hillary Clinton," Tom Fitton said Wednesday.


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Colorado Sundown
This is the first singing Western I've watched and it may very well be the last: I have finally found a genre of Western movies that I do not like.
Rex Allen was the star of this 1952 black and white film but Slim Pickens, who plays his sidekick, was the ASJ connection (he was Mike the bartender in Exit from Wickenburg, and the sheriffs in The Man Who Murdered Himself, The Day They Hanged Kid Curry, and The Strange Fate of Conrad Meyer Zulick). In Colorado Sundown, his character's name was also Slim Pickens but--get this--the character's real name was Joshua! Although thinner, he was immediately recognizable and his voice was the same, too. Pickens does do some fancy riding in a few places in this movie, proving that he was indeed a rodeo star, as was mentioned in a bonus feature on another Western I watched some time ago.
Colorado Sundown apparently was supposed to be a comedy but to me, it came across as melodramatic and unbelievable. The plot is about a family who owns a lumber mill and forests and who want to cut down the trees, to the detriment of the cattle ranchers on the land below. The brother and sister inherit, or so they believe, a ranch, but to their dismay, there are other owners, too; one is a naive young girl who is accompanied by her African-American maid (played stereotypically, which was often uncomfortable to watch), and the other is Slim Pickens' hillbilly cowpoke.
Things get nasty and deadly about 35 minutes in, but they also get silly: a goat provides slapstick interludes and, during a heavy rainstorm when men are working frantically to prevent a levee from bursting, they suddenly burst into song, singing "Down by the Riverside." I burst out laughing. Fortunately, Colorado Sundown is only 66 minutes long.
Two bonus features do their part in the silliness department. Both are the first episodes in sci-fi serials. One is called Radar Men from the Moon, with Commander Cody, and the other is Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe. Each was about 15 minutes long and was interesting to watch only to see what the mid-20th century view was of aliens from outer space.
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Whether it's the 1957 black and white film, starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, with a supporting role by Ford Rainey (who made appearances in six episodes of ASJ, in all three seasons) as a town marshal, or the 2007 color remake starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, both versions of this movie are great! Having recently read the Elmore Leonard short story upon which 3:10 to Yuma is based, I wanted to see both movies again.
What's interesting is that the basic plot is the same but with each succeeding iteration, the details are fleshed out more and more. The 1953 short story was only fifteen pages long, the original movie was 92 minutes and the remake was 122 minutes, so clearly additional details had to be provided. But the 2007 movie never seems too long--it is so full of action, and so well-paced, that one doesn't notice its duration. Neither version is better than the other; each fits perfectly the time period it was made in.
Another interesting fact: Although part of the beginning in both versions of 3:10 to Yuma is set in Bisbee, Arizona, those towns looks nothing like the Bisbee I visited! The landscape of the movie Bisbee is flat and scrub desert--just like the countryside around Tucson--whereas the real town of Bisbee is situated on a mountainside, with hilly terrain all around it. Fort Huachuca is also mentioned in both movies but it is never seen.
The original 3:10 to Yuma was filmed at Old Tucson Studios. (I had thought the remake was as well but the end credits to that movie state it was filmed in New Mexico.) A scene in the 1957 movie shows gang members riding into Contention City and in the background, a mountain range is a prominent part of the landscape. During the tour I was on, the guide noted that all Westerns made at Old Tucson Studios included a view of the three close-set mountain peaks in their movies; it is one way to determine if a Western was produced there. Here is a screenshot from 3:10 to Yuma (see top photo) and a picture I took (see photo underneath). The three mountain peaks in the center left of both photos are the ones that symbolize the movies made at Old Tucson Studios. Fifty-three years later, they look virtually the same.
The 2007 version of 3:10 to Yuma includes four bonus features. Besides the typical features about the making of the movie and deleted scenes, the two others are well worth watching. The first is a short documentary entitled Outlaws, Guns, and Posses, in which historians of the Old West describe several outlaw gangs and what happened to them. The other excellent DVD extra features historians expounding on the significance of the Western in American culture.
Article about Elmore Leonard protagonists in his stories and in movies
Posted by S. L. Schwartz at 8:49 PM
Moab: Which Episode?
In addition to the other ASJ items in the movie museum at Red Cliffs Lodge, this picture was included in the section about sets that were used for productions filmed in the area (see photo at right). I am not sure which episode this building was in, and would like to ask readers for their opinions. In any case, it's great that the movie museum had so much information about ASJ!
Here is one possibility: High Lonesome Country. In the first case, the picture resembles the Archer ranch. Since Castle Valley is in the background of the scenes when Heyes and Curry arrive at the ranch, it seems possible that the ranch was indeed located in Castle Valley (see ASJ screenshot at right of Archer ranch). The view of the building in the screenshot is different from that of the picture but the landscape in the background--the cliff with its solid rock at the top and the talus underneath--looks almost the same.
The other possibility, suggested by a reader, is the Haney inn in Only Three to a Bed. Even though the building is seen from the front and not from the side, as in the picture of the Pace ranch, the buildings looks very similar to each other, with only some minor differences (see ASJ screenshot at right).
Although I never saw anything that looked like the Pace ranch when I visited Castle Valley, I by no means explored the entire area and could easily have missed it or, after almost four decades, it might not even exist anymore.
If you have an idea about which episode was filmed at this location--whether it be one of the two mentioned above or a different one--please respond in the comment section for this blog entry. Thank you!
Read all about ASJ in Moab in Alias Smith and Jones: The Story of Two Pretty Good Bad Men:
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West Coast's forward Josh Kennedy has stepped up to kick seven goals while Fremantle fell away in the second half of the 44th Western Derby to go down to the Eagles by 46-points at Domain Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
Fremantle entered the game with determination as Shane Yarran got first points on the board and they fought on for a six-point lead at the first break, but it was shortlived with the Eagles surging ahead late in the second quarter and they never looked back.
Nic Naitanui and Aaron Sandilands returned from their injuries to take their spots in the middle of the ground with 26 and 23 hit outs respectively, they both eased into the game.
While Hayden Ballantyne also returned from injury donning a helmet after his broken cheek forced him out of the last two games.
'It would've been nice to score a bit more heavily in the second quarter, but I really liked what we did, the way we moved the ball:' Lee Spurr spoke with us after the game.
'I'm certainly glad he [Josh Kennedy] is on our team… he's an outstanding player:'150-gamer Will Schofield spoke with us after the game.


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Be the first to help to someone in need.
Be the first to ignite a conversation.
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Be the first to be generous, without expecting anything back. Ironically, it's not just the right thing to do, but also pays off more often than not.


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Q: what is the input of the depth-first search and how does the structure work? I have the following depth-first search code:
class Employee:
    def __init__(self, id: int, importance: int, subordinates: List[int]):
        self.id = id
        self.importance = importance
        self.subordinates = subordinates

class Solution(object):
    def getImportance(self, employees, query_id):
        for e in employees:
            emap = {e.id:e}
        def dfs(eid):
            employee = emap[eid]
            return (employee.importance + sum(dfs(eid) for eid in employee.subordinates))
        return dfs(query_id)

It is the solution to the following bfs Leetcode problem: https://leetcode.com/problems/employee-importance/
And I just need some help understanding what is happening. I understand the initiation of class Employee.
For getImportance function I need some help. So I can see we are mapping the employee id to each employee in a hashmap?
Then in our dfs we define employee to be the mapping of employee to their id?
Finally we return the employee's own importance score together with the sun of all of their subordinates' score.
what does query_id do?


Creating art can be a messy business. As an artist, I can personally vouch that we need a lot of stuff. We need stuff to paint on, stuff to paint with, objects to paint, scraping tools, masking stuff, taping supplies, drawing stuff, pencils, paper, glue, cutting tools, frames, wire, hanging supplies, books, magazines, cameras, and computers, just to name a few! Do we organize it? Rarely. Right, artists?
Then I had the huge task of organizing what was left. I purchased a few plastic tubs and tried to fill them according to use or subject. Pretty difficult, given that I use many items for different end products. But organize I did, as best I could, and ended up with class tubs, greeting card supplies, and collage bins grouped and easily accessible. All my notebooks for contacts, galleries, licensing, and exhibitions line the top shelf for quick reference. Show supplies are on the bottom shelf.
Studio shelving organized. For now. Not bad, huh?
At last, I got down to my day-to-day stuff; the supplies that I used every time I went into the studio to paint. That would be tubes of paint, paint brushes, and other supplies needed close at hand.
My boys had each taken a ceramics class in high school. I inherited their self-made vases. They make perfect holders for brushes, and remind me of their high school days. The little boots were given to me as a gift. Instead of holding flowers, I use them for brushes and pencils. The little nifty ceramic thing to the right is something my son made me to allow my brushes to dry on a slant. Pretty cool, huh? These items always sit on top of my drafting table.
I had been storing my tubes of paint in Safeway nut containers (handy little things) and old plastic tubs. This, I decided, just would not do. They were all different sizes and varieties. They didn't stack, and, more importantly, didn't look pretty. Right? Am I really that concerned with container beauty? In my studio? I guess so.
I ended up at a craft store nearby and came home with a prize for organizing my tubes of paint. It is a wooden box with four small drawers and a top lid. It feels old-fashioned, antique-like, and I cannot tell you how thrilled I am each time I reach for a tube of paint, to pull open a cute little drawer and select a tube of paint. It feels…I don't know…somehow more rich and authentic!!
Organized paint tubes in a wooden drawer box! Neat, huh?
After all this, I was curious. What did my artist friends use? Did they grab any container available? Or did they carefully select an "artsy" container that gave them joy to use? So I put out an email to them. What do you use to organize your paints?
Janice's studio. Beautiful, isn't it!!
What a beautiful studio. Ah, Janice. Amazing.
See? That's what I'm talking about. We artists use anything and everything we can. We are usually big into recycling, and as you can see by Susie's space, she has boxes, recycled food containers, and maybe just a couple of purchased items specific for organizing. She produces amazingly creative work in this delicious studio of art supplies. It begs to be used. There is no fear here. As are her paintings: Fearless and beautiful.
My friend Cindy Briggs, cindybriggs.com, an accomplished watercolor artist and instructor, has a special way of organizing her watercolor tubes. I first noticed it when we had a workshop together. The small mesh plastic bags provide an easy-to-see, organized method for traveling with your paints. Out of these plain, unpretentious and simple plastic bags of paint arise Cindy's gorgeous watercolors.
Does it make a difference to have a beautiful organizer for tubes of paint? I can assure you that it does not, as far as painting creatively. Reaching for that tube and squeezing out the juicy color for a luscious application of pigment on a canvas is all that matters. But there is a little something that goes "ping!!" when I have depleted cobalt blue on my palette, reach for it, but instead, pull open a cute little drawer full of blues (hah…pun), and select my cobalt. It's pleasure, people. Pleasure for beauty.
What do you use? Does it make a diffence how you store your tubes or other supplies? Have you recently changed or organized? Does it work? Do you hate it/love it? I'd love to hear about your system.
In the end, it seems I wore out my little cat. Next time, little one? My clothes closet, I promise.
Exhausted from all the organizing.
Cheers, everyone! Keep creating to Feed the Beast! And thank you so much to the artists who sent me photos of their studio paints.


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Each day there are more social networks and the amount of different email accounts that can be needed to stay in contact with all your friends and family is vast. But thanks to tools like MultiMi this is a task that is much easier.
All this means that from a single application,and by means of an elegant interface divided into side tabs, you'll be able to access all these online services without having to open the browser, something that can save plenty of time.
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Furthermore, thanks to MultiMi you can search for information within documents, emails and even comments on social networks, to be able to quickly find anything. And all this can be made with a very simple configuration in which all you have to do is type in the user accounts and passwords for the different services.
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