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Mercer Ellington (Washington, 11 maart 1919 - Kopenhagen, 8 februari 1996) was een Amerikaanse jazztrompettist, componist en arrangeur. Hij was de zoon van de beroemde bandleider Duke Ellington in wiens orkest hij ook heeft gespeeld. Voor zijn vader componeerde hij onder meer 'Things ain't what they used to be' en 'Blue Serge'.

Mercer Ellington was ook zelf bandleider: hij had een orkest in 1939, van 1946 tot 1949 en in 1959. Sommige muzikanten die bij hem speelden, werkten later bij zijn vader of werden zelf beroemd, zoals Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham, Idrees Sulieman, Chico Hamilton, Charles Mingus en Carmen McCrae. Zijn bands hadden echter niet al te veel succes.

Van 1940 tot 1941 componeerde hij voor zijn vader. Sommige composities werden standards: 'Things ain't what they used to be', 'Moon mist' en 'Blue Serge'. Hij werkte als roadmanager voor het orkest van Cootie Williams (1941-1943, 1954) en speelde  hoorn bij zijn vader in 1950. Van 1955 tot 1959 was hij voor diens orkest manager. In 1960 werkte hij voor Della Reese als musical director. Daarna was hij onder meer diskjockey voor een station in New York. In 1965 speelde hij weer in het orkest van zijn vader en was hij manager. Na de dood van Duke Ellington, nam hij de leiding van het orkest over. Het orkest, waarin ook zijn zoons Edward en Paul zouden spelen, toerde onder meer in Europa. Mercer Ellington had de leiding van het orkest tot zijn dood. Begin jaren tachtig was hij de dirigent van de Broadway-musical over de muziek van zijn vader.

Mercer Ellington stierf aan een hartaanval.

Discografie

Black and Tan Fantasy, MCA, 1958
Steppin' into Swing Society, Coral, 1958
Colors in Rhythm, Coral, 1959
Continuum, Fantasy, 1974
Hot and Bothered, Doctor jazz, 1984
Digital Duke, GRP, 1987
Music is my Mistress, Music Masters, 1989
Take the Holiday Train (kerstmis-songs), Special Music, 1992
Only God can make a Tree, Music Masters, 1996

Amerikaans trompettist
Amerikaans jazztrompettist
Amerikaans componist
Amerikaans jazzcomponist
Amerikaans bigbandleider

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2015 United Kingdom (UK) general election results: share of votes in England
This statistic shows the share of the total votes received by each party in the UK general election of May 7, 2015 in England. When comparing to the vote shares for the entire United Kingdom, it can be noted that the Conservative party, which won just one seat in Scotland, increases it's share of the vote by 4.1 percent.
United Kingdom (UK) general election results 2015 - share of votes in England, by party
Share of total votes
Conservative 41%
Labour 31.6%
UKIP 14.1%
Liberal Democrat 8.2%
Green Party 4.2%
TUSC 0.1%
National Health Action 0.1%
Others 0.5%
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Therefore, the damage on the skin caused by the tanning is considerably lessened. Another benefit of hemp indoor tanning lotions is the fact that hemp seed oil amplifies the tan, making it look more natural and darker. This is due to the natural oils contained in hemp that have the ability to intensify the UV lights penetrating your skin when tanning lotion is applied. Also, your skin will become healthier if it uses hemp lotions because they contain more of the needed nutrients that are not found in other tanning products. Another benefit of hemp indoor tanning lotions is the fact that hemp seed oil amplifies the tan, making it look more natural and darker. This is due to the natural oils contained in hemp that have the ability to intensify the UV lights penetrating your skin when tanning lotion is applied. Also, your skin will become healthier if it uses hemp lotions because they contain more of the needed nutrients that are not found in other tanning products.


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Nirma University (NU) is a multi-disciplinary university located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It functions under the aegis of the Nirma Education and Research Foundation (NERF). The Gujarat Government has granted "Centre of Excellence" status to Nirma University.

The university received the Centre for Excellence status from the Government of Gujarat in January 2022. The university has been recently awarded A+ grade by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in the third cycle of re-accreditation. This grade is a hallmark of very high academic quality, including education, research and extension.

Academics

The Institute of Technology offers B. Tech. programmes. The Institute of Management offers postgraduate, doctoral and executive programmes in management. The Institute of Pharmacy offers pharmaceutical education at the undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral levels. The Institute of Science offers postgraduate programmes in M. Sc. in the fields biotechnology, biochemistry and microbiology.

Rankings

Internationally, Nirma University was ranked at 756 in the SCImago Institutions Rankings for 2020. The university was ranked in the 101–151 band among overall in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2020. It was also ranked 131 in the engineering ranking, 44 in the management ranking and 17 in the pharmacy ranking in 2020.

Notable alumni
Pranav Mistry, computer scientist
 Jay Shah, Secretary of Board of Control for Cricket in India and son of Amit Shah
 Minal Rohit, Indian Space Research Organisation scientist who worked on Mangalyaan

References

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2003 establishments in Gujarat
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it also affects which style declarations override other style declarations.
Let's jump into the code and take a look at an example.
Okay, on the Sublime Text, and I'm looking at the file called styleplacement.html.
inside the style tag that sits inside of the head tag of our HTML document.
have the text color maroon.
As you could see that subheadings, the h2's, are, in fact, maroon.
However, there are other places that you could specify a CSS style.
the style attribute and the CSS styles that should apply to that style.
reason, since we're inside the element, so we don't really need a target any more.
just keep terminating them with semicolons.
In this case, this I am centered content, is text aligned center.
And as you can see in the page, it is in fact getting centered in the page.
this is the least reusable way of styling elements there is.
paste the styles somewhere else in order to achieve that.
you should really try to stay as far away from this as possible.
some very quick testing just to see what the style would look like.
location that we usually use in this class is a little better than an inline style.
target multiple elements with my selectors here.
I want them to look consistent?
is really not going to help me with the others.
are external to the HTML page and kind of link them back in into my HTML page.
Well, this is what external style sheets are all about.
its location using the familiar href attribute.
In this case, we're specifying it to be a relative URL.
So style.css better live in the same directory as our styleplacement.html file.
And in fact, it does, and this is what it looks like.
External style sheets are just styles with lists of CSS rules.
There's no particular tags that have to surround any of this.
the font size should be 130% of whatever the default font size is.
than usual, and certainly the background is gray.
That styling came from style.css.
you almost always want all your styles to be external to your HTML page.
file is actually the way to go.
try to avoid that if you're actually coding a real-world website.
and then you link it back in into usually several HTML pages.
also promotes consistent look throughout your entire website.
the CSS styles over and over again.
even that practice is a little bit questionable.
then specify it below the external CSS file that you have no control over.
that is exactly what we're going to talk about next.


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Authorities Raid Cult After Former Leader's Death Sentence Upheld
TOKYO – Japanese authorities raided the offices Saturday of the doomsday cult that carried out the deadly 1995 nerve gas attacks on Tokyo's subways.
The goal was to pre-empt any violent reaction to Friday's Supreme Court decision upholding the death penalty against Shoko Asahara, the cult's founder and former leader.
Japan's Public Security Intelligence Agency dispatched 250 officers to 25 of the group's facilities around the country, inspecting files, interviewing members and examining computers, an agency official said. Nothing out of the ordinary was detected, he said.
The nearly blind Asahara, born Chizuo Matsumoto, was convicted and sentenced to death in 2004 on charges of masterminding attacks that killed 27 people. Twelve of those were killed in the subway attack, in which followers released sarin nerve gas on crowded commuter trains traveling to Tokyo's government district.
Asahara could still forestall his execution by applying for a retrial or an emergency appeal. If he does nothing, he will be executed within six months of receiving official court notice of Friday's ruling.
The Tokyo gassing was a severe psychological shock to Japan, a nation that had long prided itself on its orderly, highly secure society. The impact was heightened by the fact that the bearded guru had recruited graduates from some of Japan's most prestigious universities.
Asahara ruled with an iron hand, bewitching followers with a mixture of Hinduism, Buddhism and yoga. Initiates paid large sums to drink Asahara's dirty bath water or sip his blood. The disobedient were killed and incinerated in a huge microwave oven at cult headquarters.
Flush with cash, the cult amassed an arsenal of chemical, biological and conventional weapons in anticipation of an apocalyptic showdown with the government.


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Q: Possible to use ReadAllText with listBox.SelectedItem? I have a listBox in Winforms, that show text files from a folder on my computer. When I select a file/item in the listBox i want to be able to see the content of the text file in a textBox.
This is the code that shows the directory in my listBox:
  private void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
      DirectoryInfo dInfo = new DirectoryInfo(@"c:\testing");
      FileInfo[] files = dInfo.GetFiles("*.txt");
      foreach (FileInfo file in files)
      {
          listBox1.Items.Add(file.Name);
      }
  }

And then I try to show the content of the selected text file:
  private void Button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
      string curItem = listBox1.SelectedItem.ToString();
      string content = File.ReadAllText(curItem);
      textBox1.Text = content;
  }

Obviously the last part doesn't work, because I assume it wants the path to the selected file. But how can I give it the full path, if I don't know in advance what file will be selected on the listBox?
The exception that I get is this (I guess it's no surprise):

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: 'The file 'C:\Users\OldMan\source\repos\WindowsFormsTests\testing\bin\Debug\LICENSE.txt' was not found.'

A: using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;

namespace ListBox_57860008
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        BindingList<FileInfo> lstbx_DataSource = new BindingList<FileInfo>();
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            listBox1.DataSource = lstbx_DataSource;
            listBox1.DisplayMember = "Name";
            listBox1.SelectedIndexChanged += ListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged;
            fillDataSource();
        }

        private void ListBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            textBox1.Text = File.ReadAllText(((FileInfo)listBox1.SelectedItem).FullName);
        }

        private void fillDataSource()
        {
            foreach (string item in Directory.GetFileSystemEntries("c:\\temp\\", "*.txt"))
            {
                lstbx_DataSource.Add(new FileInfo(item));
            }
        }
    }
}

A: One way to solve this would be to add the array of FileInfo objects as a DataSource to the list box, and set the "Name" property as the DisplayMember and the full path ("FullName") as the ValueMember property:
private void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // Set the datasource property of the list box to the FileInfo array
    listBox1.DataSource = new DirectoryInfo(@"c:\testing").GetFiles("*.txt");

    // Set the display property as the file name and the value property as the file path
    listBox1.DisplayMember = "Name";
    listBox1.ValueMember = "FullName";
}

Now, the listbox will show the file names, but we can access the associated path using the SelectedValue property (which returns the FullName for the selected item):
private void Button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    textBox1.Text = File.ReadAllText(listBox1.SelectedValue.ToString());
}

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Revised Finding Aid for Carolyn Farb Papers Now Available
May 21st, 2012 |
Carey C. Shuart Women's Archive and Research Collection, Finding Aids
The finding aid for the Carolyn Farb Papers is now back online after briefly being made unavailable while the collection was being reorganized.
The bulk of the Carolyn Farb Papers primarily contains papers, photographs, and newspaper clippings, the majority pertaining to her fundraising activities. The material has been arranged into twelve series: Fundraising Events, Honors and Awards, Organization Affiliations, Creative Works, Speeches, Personal Life, Correspondence, Scrapbooks and Yearbooks, Memorabilia, Printed Material, Photographic Material, and Video and Audio Recordings.
Carolyn Farb is an internationally known fundraiser, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist. During the past thirty years, she has raised over $25 million for a number of charities and worthy causes, the majority of which are based in Houston and benefit local organizations. Her work and tireless devotion to others have earned her the nickname "the first lady of philanthropy," and she has received numerous accolades for her efforts. Farb's interest in helping others began early in her life; as a teenager, she volunteered at the snack bar at Texas Children's Hospital. Her beloved grandfather, Jake Freedman, a businessman in Las Vegas, fostered her spirit of giving.
A native Houstonian, Farb attended the University of Oklahoma, where she studied journalism. In 2003, in fulfilling a life-long dream she received an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Northwood University. She has written two books on fundraising: How to Raise Millions: Having a Ball, Helping Others in 1993, and The Fine Art of Fundraising: Carolyn Farb's Secrets for Successful Volunteers in 2004. She was the mother of one son, Jake Kenyon Shulman, who passed away in 2004. An avid art collector, she loans many of her pieces to museums around the world.
More information about the Carolyn Farb Papers may be found in the finding aid. To learn more about Carolyn Farb, visit her web site.


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First biosimilar mAb approved in Europe
Hospira's Inflectra (infliximab), which is a biosimilar to the reference biologic product, Remicade, has been approved by the EC for the treatment of inflammatory conditions.
Hospira announced that its biosimilar monoclonal antibody (mAb), Inflectra (infliximab), has been approved by the European Commission (EC) for the treatment of inflammatory conditions including rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis. Inflectra, the biosimilar to the reference biologic product, Remicade, is the first mAb to be approved through the European Medicines Agency (EMA) biosimilars regulatory pathway.
"The rigorous scientific review and approval process by the EMA and EC confirms that Inflectra has demonstrated similar quality, efficacy and safety to Remicade. For over a decade biologic medicines have been pivotal in treating a range of inflammatory conditions, so the granting of marketing authorisation in Europe is a major milestone for Inflectra, and for the future of biologic therapy," said Stan Bukofzer, corporate vice president and chief medical officer, Hospira, in a press statement.
The EC's approval of Hospira's biosimilar mAb was based on the safety, efficacy and tolerability data from a comprehensive clinical trial programme. Inflectra demonstrated therapeutic equivalence in a Phase III randomized, double-blind trial. Results from the study showed that 73.4% of patients receiving Inflectra had a greater than or equal to 20% improvement in rheumatoid arthritis symptoms after 30 weeks of treatment compared with 69.7% treated with Remicade. The safety and tolerability of Inflectra was also comparable to Remicade.
In 2009, Hospira entered into an agreement with Celltrion, a biopharmaceutical company based in South Korea, under which Hospira obtained rights to Inflectra in Europe and certain countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zeland.
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A survival sandbox type of game Star Forge, where you can hunt to eat, dig for resources, craft many items, build a fort, and fight enemies in order to survive.
Star Forge has both multi player and single player modes. Also many bugs!
This error is mainly related to the C++ program in your system. check for issues with that. Go to Control Panel and completely uninstall C++and resintall the one of the new versions, like C++ 2010. Your error will no longer occur.
To get rid of the FPS issue, you need to go to the game's setting and turn off the 'view distance' of all the things except HBAO and clouds. If this does not work, go to General tab and click "Set Launch Options", then type -nolog and click Ok. Now start Star Forge.
If you are facing an issue with the Star Forge, the very first thing is to update all your graphics and video cards drivers.
If you are getting the Star Forge error, the only solution is to install a new copy of Star Forge.
And if Star Forge is not running on your system, you need to install MS C ++ in your StarForge install folder.
Run this game on lowest possible settings from the Options/Graphics menu. If the problem persists, open the command prompt with administrator rights and type bcdedit /set increaseUserVa 3072. Then run the game it should solve the issue.
If you are experiencing the freezing issue for this game, download and install the 7.5 Patch for this game.
From the game's library, right click on star forge ans select Properties > Local files > Verify Integrity of game cache. If the issue persists, run this game on the lowest possible settings.


The surfacing of archived tweets containing homophobic sentiments by a slew of South African celebrities has opened dialogues about the toxic heterosexist landscape of the local entertainment business.
Just days after her first ever Hip Hop joint set the streets ablaze and earned the media-personality-turned-rapper her first number one on iTunes, Boity has had to apologise for homophobic remarks she tweeted almost a decade ago. She also acknowledged that while her views have changed along with her growth, she used to be quite the outspoken homophobe back then.
The apology comes after a series of old homophobic tweets resurfaced. She was only 19 years old when she vented her hateful spleen towards the queer community, but she has grown a lot over the years. Her views on sexuality were "warped" back then, but she knows better now.
She proceeded to apologise to everyone she has hurt in the old tweets.
The tweets in question were published over different occasions. In one, she is upset by what she perceives to be a surge in the representation of black gay male romance in local TV soapies.
In another scathing tweet, she leaves no shred of doubt about how she feels about the queer community.
Boity's apology was met with further debates about the unaddressed homophobia that goes on unchecked in the South African entertainment business.
Despite increasing visibility, what with the likes of Somizi and, amongst other Nakhane Toure proudly shining the spotlight on the existence of gay people in the creative industry, there's no doubt the business remains rigidly heterosexist.
Tweets allegedly published on Nadia Nakai and Rouge's Twitter years ago have also attracted some interest, but the two rappers are yet to take actual ownership. That remains to be seen.
While polarising, Boity's apology has been embraced by many as a good start at acknowledging the pain she has caused many people. She herself was young at the time, and how many of us wish we could have expressed ourselves differently ten years ago.


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Языково́й зако́н, лингвисти́ческий закон — общее правило, закономерность, характерные для данного языка, различных языков или языка вообще. Поиск лингвистических законов — важнейшая задача языкознания.

В различных лингвистических дисциплинах понятие закона конкретизуется:
 в фонологии закон рассматривается как закономерность фонетических изменений, приводящая к перестройке фонологической системы того или иного языка. Примерами фонологических законов могут служить:
 первое германское передвижение согласных, выделившее германские языки из индоевропейской семьи; второе германское передвижение согласных, затронувшее лишь определённые германские языки и диалекты и не произошедшее в остальных;
 закон открытого слога и закон падения редуцированных в славянских языках, отвердение шипящих, оставшихся мягкими в современном болгарском языке, и т. д.
 в семантике под законом понимается общая закономерность изменения значения, выводимая из сходных изменений значений слов в одном или разных языках.

Классификация
Лингвистические законы подразделяются на два типа:
 общие — характеризуют тот или иной уровень человеческого языка вообще. Иначе называются лингвистическими универсалиями. Примером может служить двуплановость языка — наличие во всяком языке плана выражения и плана содержания;
 частные — характеризуют эволюцию фонетических, морфологических, лексических и других особенностей конкретного языка в рамках глоттогонического процесса. Как правило, имеют определённые временные рамки и находятся на разной стадии завершённости.

Причины изменений
Изменения в языках, имеющие статус частных законов, вызываются как внутренними процессами (к примеру, фонетические процессы редукции, палатализации, ассимиляции и утраты флексий в народной латыни по сравнению с более консервативным классическим латинским языком), так и в результате внешних воздействий (иноязычные заимствования, двуязычие и т. д.) Так, после окончания эпохи романизации различные языковые законы в разных регионах Римской империи развились под влиянием субстрата, суперстрата и адстрата. Дифференция романских языков в Средние века была во многом обусловлена тем, что их общая по происхождению фонология была затронута разными языковыми процессами (ср:  > , , , , ).

Литературная норма может подавлять развитие тех или иных языковых законов, которые к тому же по-разному проявляются в диалектах того или иного языка. К примеру, в старофранцузском языке действовал мощный языковой закон, приведший к переходу латинского инфинитивного окончания -are [are] в -er [е]: cantare > chanter 'петь', при этом инфинитив фонетически слился с формой причастия chante''' 'спетый'. По аналогии подобный же процесс в устной речи начал постепенно охватывать все глаголы, в том числе III спряжения, что в результате привело к переходу finire > finir [fini], однако к этому времени консервативная письменная традиция при поддержке Академии французского языка отказалась признавать данное явление. В результате языковой закон не закрепился в отношении глаголов III спряжения, хотя и стал нормой для первого.

 Универсальность

Отличительная черта языкового закона — универсальность. Так, фонетический закон затрагивает все единицы языка, имеющие определённую группу гласных или согласных, с чётко определённой тенденцией к изменению. К примеру, в народной латыни Иберии под влиянием субстрата средиземноморских языков произошёл переход f > h > нуль звука в начале слова (ср.  >  'сын'). При этом, однако, звук  сохранился перед дифтонгом:  > .

«Исключения» в языковых законах имеют соответствующее объяснение. Так, в народной латыни Иберии латинские окончания существительных мужского и среднего рода -us/-um > -о (ср.  >  'небо'). При этом, однако, в ряде частотных церковных лексем этот и другие языковые законы, распространившиеся в устной речи, были реализованы лишь частично:  >  'дух' вместо гипотетической формы *espirito,  >  вместо гипотетического *biendicho, что соответствовало бы закону, что объясняется употреблением латыни в качестве языка богослужения. Иногда «исключения» формулируются в виде более частных законов: так, закон Гримма (первое передвижение германских согласных) был уточнён К. Вернером, и уточнение получило наименование закона Вернера.

 Хронологические рамки
Языковой закон имеет определённые хронологические рамки. Их определение путём лингвистического анализа помогает узнать многое об истории самого языка, даже если не сохранилось письменных памятников. Так, румынский язык имеет множество подобных примеров. В балканской латыни II—V веков активно действовал целый ряд языковых законов, основанных на влиянии субстрата и собственно латинской фонетике. Так, начальный латинский v > b (бетацизм), интервокальный l > r (ротацизм), сочетания an/am > ын/ым и др. Массовая миграция славян в VII—IX веках и распространение старославянского языка в Дакии привело к прекращению действия языковых законов балканской латыни, действовавших до этого. Так, ротацизм интервокального [l] потерял свою актуальность, поскольку был чужд речи славян. Поздние заимствования типа слав. сила →  уже не превращаются в гипотетическое *сирэ, как того требовали тенденции в балканской латыни (по аналогии с  → соаре в исконной лексике), слав. воздух > вэздух, а не гипотетическое *бэздух, славянск. омовение > амвон (а не *ымвон'') и т. д. По мере расширения славянского ареала на юге Европы влияние славянского языка становится всеобъемлющим и ощущается на всех уровнях балканской латыни, которая окончательно изолируется от общероманского ареала и интенсивно контактирует со славянской речью, постепенно развиваясь в проторумынский язык.

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Сравнительно-историческое языкознание


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In an interview with Replay author Tristan Donovan which Gamasutra has now published in full for the first time, 32-year game industry veteran Rob Fulop describes how virtual pet genre progenitor Petz was indirectly and surprisingly inspired by his previous work on controversial Sega CD game Night Trap.
In the interview, Fulop recalls the embarrassment he felt when 1992's Night Trap -- which featured scenes of scantily clad women being attacked by monsters -- was held up by Congress and others as evidence of the harmful effects games were having on minors.
"Friends of mine, my parents and my girlfriend, didn't really get games," he said. "All they knew was that a game that I had made was on TV, being talked about as being bad for kids. And, you know, Captain Kangaroo came on TV and said, 'This is bad for kids.' It was horrible."
After that experience, Fulop said he was eager to make a game that "was going to be so cute and so adorable that no one could ever, ever, ever say that. ... What's the cutest thing I could make? What's the most, you know, sissy game that I could come out with?"
"'It's still the same, the most popular thing that kids ask for every year is a puppy. For the last 50 years.' So the two just came together. It was make a puppy. That was really how the idea came out."
Fulop also admits that he wasn't above appealing to players' emotions to sell his game. He recalled giving the game away with five days worth of virtual pet food, then using the virtual pets themselves as bargaining chips in asking $20 for a lifetime supply.
"It's not little puppies that don't cry, you know," he said. "They'd whimper and cry and then you have to delete it and it asks, 'Do you want to delete me?' I mean who can say yes? No, you sit there with it whimpering and your little puppy would say, 'Do you want to delete me?" And who can delete it?"
The full interview also includes Fulop's thoughts on his time at Atari, trying to get funding at Imagic in the '80s, and his experience working on Hasbro's odd VHS-based NEMO console.


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HP Laptops Found to Have Pre-Installed Keyloggers Creating Potentially Dangerous Security Risk
Hidden keyloggers have been discovered pre-installed on Hewlett-Packard (HP) laptops, creating a potentially dangerous security risk.
Meg Whitman Leaving HP; Ready for Next Deal
Meg Whitman is leaving as Hewlett Packard CEO after a successful six-year turnaround, and seems ready to take on her next Silicon Valley Fortune 500 deal.
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Report: Pitzer College Overturns Boycott Israel Student Resolution
The Pitzer College board of trustees announced on Friday that, following "careful consideration," it had decided to "rescind…and declare…to be of no effect" a student government vote held during Passover to add an anti-Israel boycott into its bylaws.
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After major tech corporations slashed jobs, and start-ups slowed to a crawl in 2016, employment growth in the nine-county region known as Silicon Valley seem set to expand rapidly.
Clinton Blasts Israel Boycott Ahead Of Methodist Church Vote
TEL AVIV – Hillary Clinton reiterated her position that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement was an impediment to peace, ahead of her Methodist church's bid to join the Israel boycott, The Times of Israel reported.
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Ted Cruz Defends Carly Fiorina's Outsourcing Record
On Fox News Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz found himself on the defense, explaining what his VP pick of Carly Fiorina signals for his campaign's views on outsourcing.
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Fiorina: Unlike Trump, I Never Hired Illegal Immigrants, He's Trying To 'Game the System' In Nominating Process
Carly Fiorina, the running mate for Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, stated that, unlike Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, she never hired illegal immigrants when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and accused Trump of only complaining about nominating rules when
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Fiorina: I Had Lobbyists at HP and Used the Tax Code, That Doesn't Work for Small Business
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said that she "hired armies of accountants and lawyers and lobbyists" during her time at HP to use the tax code for her advantage, but small businesses can't do that and that she's different from
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Carly Fiorina's Unique Skills Can Fix the Dysfunction in Washington, Revive the Economy
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Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina defended her record as CEO of Hewlett-Packard and her involvement with the Clinton Global Initiative on Friday's "Sean Hannity Show." Regarding her record at Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina said the facts of her record were "clear and
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Carly Fiorina, a Republican candidate president and the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, presents herself on the campaign trail as a hawk on Iran. She's promising to take a hardline on the regime in Tehran. However, during her time as the chief executive of HP, she "sold hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of products to Iran through a foreign subsidiary, despite strict U.S. export sanctions," Bloomberg reports.
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HP Dumps 30,000 Jobs, But Still Cranking Up H1B Guest-Workers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPQ) announced on Tuesday that the company will cut about 10 percent of its 300,000 member workforce, but appears to be moving "forward" with expanding its use of H1-B foreign immigrant visas.
Fiorina: Non-Criminal Illegals 'Can Earn a Pathway to Legal Status' After Border Is Secured
Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina stated that after the border is secured, non-criminal illegal immigrants "can earn a pathway to legal status under certain circumstances" on Thursday's broadcast of CNN's "New Day." Fiorina discussed the GOP's loyalty pledge and said
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Carly Fiorina's closing statement in the presidential debate on Thursday was leaked onto social media hours before she took the stage, after the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive–or her staff–left the text on a printer.
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Exclusive–Carly Fiorina Hits Hillary: If Clinton 'Faces a Woman Opponent, She Will Get a Hitch in her Swing'
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This movie is about Jenny, a kindergarten teacher, and her boyfriend Steve, escaping for a romantic weekend away. Steve, planning to propose, has found an idyllic setting: a remote lake enclosed by woodlands and seemingly deserted. The couple's peace is shattered when a gang of obnoxious kids encircles their campsite. Reveling in provoking the adults, the gang steals the couple's belongings and vandalizes their car leaving them completely stranded. When Steve confronts them, tempers flare and he suffers a shocking and violent attack. Fleeing for help, Jenny is subject to a brutal and relentless game of cat-and-mouse as she desperately tries to evade her young pursuers and find her way out of the woods.
From the reviews I read about this movie, I was expecting it to be alot better than it really was. The movie starts off slow to build up the storyline and then starts to get good. Once the kids are chasing after Jenny through the woods, it starts getting boring. Most people with common sense would use the woods to their advantage and get revenge but apparently, not this movie. I saw about 3 or more opportunities where the girl, more so than the guy, had an advantage of killing or hurting one or more of the kids. I guess the 2 main people were too stupid to think of making weapons to fight back and just run away. I guess that's a movie for you.
As for the story, itself, I thought it was quite good. You can see how this could be based on something that might happen, since now days the kids are out of control and have more power than the parents (thanks to the government with their new laws). As for the actors, I thought everyone did a great job on their roles. Well, there were a few scenes where the guy and lady don't show too much emotion, when being hurt.
This movie was more of a thriller than a horror movie. If anyone says this movie was scary, then they must have only watched Disney films all their life. Overall, it was worth watching but I really wished the ending played out better, where she killed all the kids to get revenge.
If you haven't seen this movie and are wondering if you should see it or not, it's worth seeing, at least once.


My friend Mary got married in June. Lovely wedding at St Luke's in Chelsea and a brass band marched us all to the town hall for tea afterwards. Splendid. What is less splendid, however, is that the wedding was nearly three months ago and I am still to write my thank you letter. It's got to the point where I think about the letter every morning when I wake up and the guilt is so bad that I am seriously considering bludgeoning a nanny over the head, faking my own death and starting life all over again in a thinly populated spot of East Africa, disguised by a big hat.
What have I been doing in the past three months, you ask? Well, I wish I could say I've mounted an expedition to the Antarctic and found myself there without pen or paper. Or that I've been an early guinea pig for Elon Musk's inaugural trip to Mars. Or had my head down writing the follow-up to War and Peace.
But don't all rush to the book shop, because to be totally honest I've done none of those things. Apparently I've just found it entirely impossible to carve out half an hour to sit down and write the bloody letter. And so the shame mounts but still the Basildon Bond pad of paper lies unopened. Then I think 'Oh I'll write that this weekend, when I can properly think about it and sum up appropriately lavish adjectives for such a happy day.' But the weekend rolls round and I need to watch Doctor Foster on catch-up and my ink pen lies motionless, like a fallen soldier, on my desk.
And yet, even though I am researching inflatables to make my get-away across the Channel, I hope that, in centuries to come, we are still sending thank-you letters. I hope that small children are still forced to spend hours at the kitchen table in that lull between Christmas and New Year, little foreheads creased with concentration as they wonder how to spell 'Sylvanian'. Because even though thank-you letters are a bore to write and there's always something else to do and even though, once you've finally written the letter, it will spend several weeks rattling around your handbag getting grubby before you remember to put it in a post box, they remain the benchmark of civilisation.
Because although we have become a nation which loses its mind over six-year-old boys coming wearing a dress to school and although the apocalypse will probably come any day now, there's something reassuring about the fact that we still feel the need to write a letter, by hand, to thank someone effusively about the lasagne at their wedding – no matter how long it takes.
Also, a final defence plea, writing too late is better than writing too early. A family friend, quite an annoyingly efficient friend, often used to write her thank you letters before going to the event in question. She'd post them on the way to the party, incredibly smug, so the letter would arrive before anyone else's. And then, one day, she posted a letter which quacked on about the 'wonderful music' and the 'delicious food', but then there was a power cut at the party. So there was no music and the food was cold. There's a fable along those lines, isn't there? Something about tortoises and hares.
An update to the above: THIS WEEK I am going to sit down and find time to write to Mary. But I've also just realised I don't have her new address so that will take another two or three weeks to sort out. Then I will need to remortgage to buy a book of stamps. Then I will spend another five months looking for a postbox and so on. So it remains highly likely that one or both of us will die of old age before the letter is delivered.


Welcome to the first installment of The Digital Village. In this new column we will try to become a reliable source of information on modern digital network technologies, particularly from the client side, and the use of those technologies for the betterment of society. We will strive for a balance between depth and breadth, currency and perspective, which most Communications readers will find interesting.
Occasionally, as in this installment, we'll wax philosophic. But mostly we will attempt to provide information on cyberspace and its tools, which we hope will be useful to our readers in maintaining currency and perspective. Occasionally, we will ask others to join us as guests.
We are at the dawn of a new digital era - the age of cyberspace and cybermedia. We may think of cyberspace as an infinitely dimensioned, invisible, digital information substrate made possible by modern packet-switched, networking technology.
As with other computing venues, the physical aspects of cyberspace are relatively uninteresting and unimportant from the point of view of their information content, and content is everything. Cyberspace is infinitely and arbitrarily extended in a sort of "information_space-time continuum." On this analysis, a Web animation is seen as a two dimensional space-time phenomenon embedded within the broader information_space-time continuum. An interactive, participatory VR experience would be an embedded phenomena in four (albeit virtual) dimensions. Finally, cybermedia denotes the digital, multimedia material which "resides" in cyberspace.
in a sort of information_space-time continuum"
Of course, we could just as well express these same concepts in terms of clients, servers and files, but that would diminish the uniqueness of the cyberspace experience and underestimate the importance of the computer revolution which it is ushering in. Even more than the earlier mainframe and microcomputer revolutions, this revolution promises to invade every aspect of our life.
It is the social dimension of the cyberspace revolution that will make it unique. Previous advances in computing technology, even the most significant ones, tended to be oriented toward classes of problems. They were even passive in their approach: if one didn't want to take advantage of a computer technology, one could pretty much ignore it - at least outside the workplace. Digital photography could be avoided if one preferred negative images on celluloid. Email could be dispensed with were one willing to accept the delays in post. Dishwashers without microcomputer controllers exist, and there remain un-automated offices.
But cyberspace is fundamentally different. It draws us in to its digital resources. It is a unifying technology which both brings together digitizable media and provides a common social framework in which these materials may be enjoyed and used. It has already begun to influence the nature of our interpersonal communication, our consumption of entertainment, the way in which we view the educational process, and the way we perform our office work. It is entering our homes and offices through our cable boxes, our phone lines, via microwave and infrared transmissions and through conventional magnetic and optical media. It is leaving no aspect of our lives unaffected. It is both pervasive and invasive.
One consequence of this experience will be a new sense of community - the digital village.
On our view a digital village is a community brought about by the real-time, interactive and participatory capabilities of cyberspace. In some ways they are like their material counterparts, but in many ways they are not. The most important similarity is that both involve connecting individuals with shared interests and objectives. The most important dissimilarity is that digital villages have no location.
We may now join digital villages just as earlier generations became members of professional societies, lodges, civic and social groups. It is the '90's thing to do. It is where we find and exchange information, gossip, learn, espouse, preach, display, and so on. In fact, digital villages offer much the same range of experiences as other social organizations did. Except that the interpersonal aspect is not in-person. It is in this sense that digital villages are different from terrestrial communities and groups. One of our great challenges for the next century will be to harness the advantages that these new digital institutions will provide without losing the ability to function well in the more mundane, off-line and analog world.
Part of that challenge will be to understand these digital villages and to learn how they may be used toward full and positive effect. The utility to society will be a function of how well they are understood. This is a non-trivial and intriguing challenge because they will function with a different set of operational metaphors than traditional, in-person forums. We can even see this taking place with email as society learns to exchange information in real time in the absence of such customary response cues as gestures, voice pattern, eye movement, and so forth. Email has actually become the proving ground for developing skills for inter-personal but not in-person communication. Digital villages will provide us with even greater challenges and opportunities.
The real essence of digital villages include the following characteristics.
Digital villages will have real-time membership. Unlike social organizations built upon in-person contact, digital villages require little or no infrastructure and will frequently be ephemeral. Joining or resigning membership will be based on impulse, and the digital villages which are predicated on such dynamic membership will have the best chance of producing something of enduring value. The operational metaphor will come from the field of networking rather than organizational behavior. It may be very difficult for an outsider to determine who the constituency actually is.
Digital villages will be in a sense self organized and self administered. Membership will change constantly as interests wane and attentions shift. The criteria for the administration of digital villages will also change through time. They will appear as if in anarchy, when in fact they are really quite democratic, even though the rules of governance will appear as a moving target to outsiders. Individuals won't really organize digital villages so much as they will initiate them and impart momentum to them.
Digital villages will be dynamic. They will change focus constantly as both the membership and the members' interest changes. This will give them their vitality. A corollary to this will be that initiators of digital villages will be unable to control them as they would with conventional organizations. Those who recognize this fact will be able to make use of them; those who do not will face frustration. Outsiders may not always see the point of convergence that defines digital villages.
Digital villages will have focus; but the focus will be a moving target. It will change as the members and their interests change. It will be at the same time coalescing and diffusive - coalescing for some members, diffusive for others. It will mean different things to different people at different times. The essence of the digital village will be the constancy and externality of change. It will be as if we compressed decade's worth of group interactivity into a few minutes. From the point of view of a digital village, the transformation of conventional organizations would appear as if done in geological time.
Digital villages will be inherently interactive. The appropriate model of this interactivity may be seen in network gaming: Dooming and Mudding come to mind. This interactivity will draw the member to the community and provide his or her reinforcement. It is in the interactivity that the sense of community resides. It is in this that the social experience may be found.
All digital villages are potentially global. They cannot be thought of in geographical terms because digital networks are dimensionless with respect to information transfer. Connectivity, not location, is the key. At this moment everyone who has access to the Internet is a potential full and equal partner in each digital village. Over time we may even be forced to embrace the concept of digital demographics.
Digital villages eventually will become fully participatory. The participatory nature of the community will be an outgrowth of its inherent interactivity. Instead of interacting with a computer system or program, future users will participate at the level of community activity in ways which are currently unimaginable. We are beginning to see some of this realistic, participatory interactivity in modern virtual reality technology.
The ultimate achievement of cyberspace will be digital villages which are intrinsically indistinguishable from their veridical counterparts. We might think of this as the 21st century equivalent of the Turing Test for cyberspace. It will a confirmation of effectiveness much as the willing suspension of disbelief is for virtual reality.
century equivalent of the Turing Test for cyberspace."
This is what we think digital villages are. However, this does not address what they have to offer or what they will look like.
Like many in-person activities, digital villages will typically form around members with common interests, programs which those members wish to participate in, and services which will be offered to some constituency. The most noticeable difference will be that this takes place in a highly-accelerated process of evolution.
Being digital, the offerings will be information-rich and will focus on engaging digital activities on the networks. Standard modes of information exchange will be present: text, graphics, sound, animations, 3-d, VR, etc. As mentioned above, these will be done in real-time. Not all ranges of services will be found useful to all members. As with in-person activities, individual members will have interest in only a subset of programs and offerings.
Whatever cohesiveness there is to be found in a Digital Village will be a product of the perceived value of the topics, programs and services found therein. The original interest and enthusiasm may be found in the glitz and glamor of new technology, but this will soon wear off.
The community memory will tend to be recorded in some ongoing, self-documenting process. Conventional techniques like newsletters, bulletin boards, and talk channels will eventually give way to automated techniques which will record, edit and make available sub-parts of the digital activities for later recall.
The practical aspects of digital villages will be directly related to their success. By practical, we mean something of direct, personal or professional benefit or value - ranging from entertainment to employment services. As with all other aspects of inter-personal communication, a wide variety of motives will attract participants.
The most difficult aspect of future digital villages to predict will be the nature of governance. Traditional "cast in stone" codification will be impossible. In an environment of ever- changing members and foci, a parsimonious approach to governance will be a necessity, and allowances will have to be made for dissonance in real time.
So that's what this column is about - the digital villages and cyberspace of the future. This column is intended to be a companion for those who wish to participate in the settlement of these digital villages. We'll attempt to track new technologies as they emerge and predict their likely impact. We hope that you will join us in this excursion.
Next month we will eschew cyber-philosophy and discuss the quintessential digital village, the World Wide Web, and deal with the thorny issues of HTML compliance and client-server compatibility.
In the preparation of earlier drafts of this column I have particularly benefitted from discussions with Joe DeBlasi, Peter Denning, Dave Oppenheim, Bill Poucher and Gio Wiederhold, though weaknesses in the current version are my own. My thanks to CACM Editor-in-Chief, Jacques Cohen, for encouraging me to develop this column, and to CACM Executive Editor, Diane Crawford, for making it a reality. I also thank my colleague Susan Mengel for suggesting that I give the column its present name.


Living on the farm means that every day is an adventure. As Forrest Gump said, "you never know what you're going to get".
Last Thursday evening, at midnight, the Great Pyrenees began to bark with a cadence and volume that indicated a serious problem. The llama began to trumpet. The guinea fowl began to "buckwheat" inside their coop. The ducks and geese quacked and honked.
I grabbed a flashlight and ran out to the barnyard. A pack of 12 coyotes was circling the alpaca paddock, howling at the top of their lungs. There were old, adolescent and young coyotes all making menacing movements toward the alpaca.
The coyotes and I have a tenuous relationship. Like other predators, I know they are the top of food chain and play a valuable role in the ecosystem. I'm a vegan and do not want to kill/injure any living thing.
When a single coyote appears in the barnyard I chase it away (or the guineas gang up on it). With a pack of 12, I was a little less sure of myself. I immediately began yelling at the top of my lungs I broke a few thick branches across a tree trunk, making a very loud noise. I do not own a firearm (although Kathy and I are licensed to do so), and recognized my options to defend the animals were limited.
I threw rocks at the trees/bushes in their general direction, further creating noise. They backed off.
Did I know what I was doing? No? Was it the right thing? Per WikiHow, I did everything right when encountering a coyote pack.
The coyotes have not returned and all the animals are safe.
that we had been raising in our mini-coops from 1 day old chicks.
They are running all over the property (including a rest on the air conditioners) and each night have come safely home to the coop.
With the mini-coops empty, we moved the last of our baby chicks (Ameraucanas) to the mini-coops and we moved 7 pheasants to the chicken pen, where they will mature until they are 16 weeks old and we can release them to the forest.
The bees continue to make honey, capturing the last of the summer nectar from the wildflowers around the farm, including this grove of mint.
We've completed the picking of our strawberries raspberries, gooseberries, and early blueberries for the season. The mid-blueberries should be picking next week and the late blueberries in August.
Our coursework at Umass is going well. I'm learning a great deal about the role of temperature, humidity, ethylene, O2/CO2, and physical handling of vegetables post harvard.
As Kathy and I think about our strategic plan for the year, we've both agreed that we must be careful not to produce too much of any one commodity and find that farm life has become a burden instead of a joy. We're working on refining our daily routines, automating processes, reorganizing workflows, and thinking about the right tools that will simplify our tasks. At the moment, I'm adding a 16 cubic foot trailer to the barnyard so that we can more easily haul manure to windrows in the orchard instead of composting thousands of pounds of manure for months then moving it in mass. I'm considering another hoop house just to keep the farm equipment organized and out of the elements. I'm refining the layout of the barnyard.
Just as a hospital would re-engineer its business using toyota production techniques (LEAN, six sigma etc), we're doing the same. Who would have thought that engineering ideas would be so useful in an agricultural setting!
In my various state, federal, and international roles I interact with a large number of policy makers from the executive and legislative branches of government. I testify to them, write policy papers, and call their support staff frequently.
At the moment in our society, there tends to be a general proclivity to be a criticizer rather than a doer, to tear down rather than build up, and to have hearings instead of taking individual action.
Everyone talks about what has not been done instead of examining the progress made.
A great deal of leadership time is spent defending the actions of the past, making promises for the future and filling the present with powerpoint instead of programming.
How do we break this cycle of negativity?
My view is that we must believe in incremental progress, communicate broadly, and focus on our trajectory not our position.
Is your HL7 2.x implementation guide better than mine?
Should LOINC coding of labs be required?
Can clinicians code problem lists using SNOMED-CT?
Are electronic public health submissions even possible?
In 2015, none of these items are debated. The dialog has shifted beyond controlled vocabularies to such topics as building trust fabrics across organizations, refining transition of care standards and embracing new architectures based on FHIR/OAuth/REST.
John Kotter taught us that all change requires a sense of urgency. I agree that there is an urgency to improve healthcare IT usability, workflow, and functionality.
However, there is no need to panic. We are in the biplane era of healthcare IT. Flying cars are better than biplanes but that does not imply we can widely deploy flying cars without inventing jet aircraft first. There are logical steps from our current state to our future state.
When I testify, I listen intently to questions and commentary. Often there is limited domain understanding of the nature of healthcare data, existing regulatory requirements, and clinical workflow. Rarely is technology the rate limiting step to innovation - the challenges are policy, psychology, and culture.
At age 53, my personal medical data is electronic. That was not true when I was 43.
At age 22, my daughter has never encountered a paper based record as an adult. She has always had access to 100% of her healthcare data on her iPhone. That was certainly not the case for me.
Since 1996, our ability to respect patient privacy preferences has improved immensely. See this twenty year review of HIPAA that illustrates how far we've come.
Some people call me overly optimistic. I tell people I am even tempered and predictable. I will neither over promise future progress nor use hyperbole to over simplify the complexity of the process issues involved in IT transformation.
I look at the experience of three generations of my family. The trajectory of IT over the past 10 years has been overwhelmingly positive. The next 10 years will continue to improve data liquidity, patient access, and usability.
Let's all be doers. Our position will be imperfect because there will always be room for improvement. However, looking back after years of effort I can say that our trajectory vanquished many IT dragons along the way.
It's a week for strategic planning. Just as I wrote a basic draft framework for FY16 BIDMC information systems, I've written a draft plan for the next year at Unity Farm.
It is meant to be a labor of love, not a profit center or large supplier of any one commodity. It will be diverse, experimental, and manageable without requiring a permanent staff.
Alpaca/Llama - we have the barn facilities for housing no more than 14 camelids i.e. 5 male alpaca, 8 female alpaca, and 1 llama. Our breeding program will be limited to keeping the herd vital. We will not breed camelids for sale.
Dogs - the Great Pyrenees dogs are our companions and have successfully kept predator losses to a minimum. Recognizing that their lifespan may not exceed 10 years, we'll have to plan for replacement/possible overlap of young/old but will only keep two dogs at steady state. We will not breed dogs for sale.
Cats - the cats keep our indoor rodent population under control and provide a vibrant presence inside the house.
Ducks - we have the facilities for housing no more than 12 water birds. They provide eggs, fertilizer, and insect/slug control. We will not breed ducks for sale.
Geese - we have the facilities for housing no more than 12 water birds. They eat weeds and guard the barnyard against predators. We will not breed geese for sale.
Guinea Fowl - we have the facilities for housing no more than 100 land birds. They provide tick control and guard the barnyard against predators. We will only sell guinea fowl when the population exceeds 60 birds.
Pheasants - we have a property size that can accommodate 6 pheasants. They will be released at maturity and propagate in the forest as nature allows.
Bees - we have the nectar sources that can accommodate 12 hives. We will maintain 22 hives by keeping bees at multiple local properties.
Pigs - We have space for 2 pigs. Pigs can efficiently process our fruit waste/pomace, vegetable waste, and edibles that would otherwise be composted. We will not breed pigs for sale. They would be companion animals.
Others - we will not add sheep, goats, horses, donkeys, or cows to Unity Farm.
Vegetables - We'll grow four seasons of vegetables in the hoop house for Unity farm friends/family and creatures. We will not sell fresh vegetables.
Orchard - We'll grow apples, stone fruits and berries for Unity farm friends/family. We will sell not run a U-pick.
Mushrooms - We'll grow Shitake, Agaricus, Winecap, Nameko, Oyster, Lion's Mane, and Ganoderma for Unity farm friends/family. We will sell Shitake.
Cider and beer - We'll make hard cider and beer for Unity farm friends/family. We will sell cider.
Honey - We'll make honey and wax products for Unity farm friends/family. We will sell honey and wax.
Mead - We'll make mead for Unity farm friends/family. We will sell mead.
Eggs - We'll have eggs for Unity farm friends/family and sell eggs.
Fiber - We'll harvest fiber yearly and sell yarn.
Permaculture - We'll experiment with paw-paw, ginseng, and other produce to determine what works in our environment.
I sometimes joke with my daughter that I finished 25th grade, doing 2 bachelor's degrees, 2 masters degrees, an MD, and a fellowship. As a Harvard Professor, you'd think I would be done with sitting on the student side of the room.
For the next year, we're enrolled in the 15 credit UMass Sustainable Food and Farming Certificate Program, an online/evening curriculum. The core course is Organic Vegetable Production (3 units). We'll also be taking Backyard Homesteading (3 units), Introduction to Permaculture (3 units), Farm planning, marketing, and management (3 units) and Post Harvest Handling (3 units).
Life is about continuous learning and with each passing year we are polishing our life skills.
We can now make near perfect hard cider, mead, and honey lager.
We can raise numerous mushroom species from spore to farmer's market.
We can keep 100 animals happy and healthy, protected from predators while free ranging over 15 acres.
However, we still have much to learn about packaging, preserving, and marketing farm goods. I look forward to the year of classwork ahead. We'll fill the time previously allocated to House of Cards and Game of Thrones.
The Summer continues to be a busy time on the farm with planting, harvesting, and maintenance activities still continuing at full tilt.
We've planted more peppers, eggplant and tomatoes. We're harvesting peas, carrots, strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries this week. We'll plant daikon radish, standard radish, chard, lettuce, and spinach this weekend for early Fall harvesting.
We kegged our honey lager this week and racked our mead. Honey production is ramping up and we extracted 25 pounds of honey over the weekend. If we're lucky, we could bottle 500 pounds of honey this year. Each 10 gallon batch of mead takes 35 pounds. We age our mead for a year, so watch for it on the Unity Farm Store website next year. Next week we'll brew a summer wheat beer.
We dried 100 pounds of fresh Shitakes (which became 20 pounds of dried mushrooms). Not only does drying preserve the mushrooms for several years, it concentrates the flavor. A rehydrated dried mushroom makes better mushroom soup than a fresh one.
Our new baby alpaca continues to thrive. Mom is very protective and hums whenever he leaves the barn to play with the other alpaca.
This week, we'll set the geese free to range in the forest. They are now fully feathered, nearly full grown, and have acclimated to the idea that the duck pen is home.
We've decided, based on the advice of experts, to free range the pheasants in the Fall, once they are older and stronger.
We continue to harvest guinea eggs from all over the property, hopefully reducing the fecundity of our growing guinea population.
I've trimmed and re-cut all our trails. The burst of summer growth, especially vines, has narrowed all our paths. They're now back to their original 6 foot wide design.
And yes, on July 4 we've committed to sitting under the pergola, sipping a honey lager, and watching the clouds roll by. As Kathy says, if there is a time when we sit down, we'll be sure to memorialize it with a picture!
I took my first job at age 13, building model planes and skateboards at Palos Verdes Hobby Shop. Over the past 40 years, I've reported to over a dozen people. Some were inspirational and charismatic. Others were more task delegation oriented. Some were problem solvers. Others shunned detail. Some were great listeners. Others were talkers.
Every leader is different and working for them requires an understanding of their preferences. Although I've never "managed up", I have adapted to the needs of the various people I've worked for.
Here's my advice on thriving in complex hierarchical organizations.
1. Assess your peers and your superiors frequently. Imagine yourself on a balcony watching the people in your organization as if you were watching a play. Understand the self interest of each character. Just as personalities would be described in a work of fiction, you'll see the self-interested careerist, the servant leader, the manipulator, the fair weather friend, and the person you'd want in your foxhole during battle.
3. Determine the information flow needs of your superior. Does the person want a detailed progress report with an honest assessment of delays and goals not met? Does the person want a single high level powerpoint slide with green, yellow, red? Do they want any communication at all? Will they offer to remove barriers/accelerate enablers, solving problems? Will they shoot the messenger? Based on the style of your superior you may produce an elegant project summary documenting progress or adopt a 'don't ask, don't tell' approach.
5. Recognize that 10-20% of your work life will be spent on non-value added activities. Your organization will likely have standing meetings that may not be relevant to your area, but your presence/visibility reinforces your place on the team. Such meetings may feel like an interruption in your ability to do creative work, but maintaining a supportive environment for real achievement requires the buy in of your peers and superiors. Convince yourself that investing 10-20% of your work time in the meetings required by your superiors will pay dividends over time. And if you find a particular standing meeting to lack value, remember that with senior leadership turnover every 4-5 years, the meetings will change soon enough.
Life is short and none of us will have a gravestone that says "I managed up and lost 10-20% of my productivity". However, part of maturing as a leader is realizing that to accomplish the things you like, you have to actively manage the things you don't like. Managing up, adapting to your superiors and peers of the moment, is an advanced leadership skill.


Later 19th century multi-gabled 2-storey, irregular-plan house in the style of a shooting lodge (built reputedly as the dower house for Cluny Castle) set on an elevated situation with former servants' wing built into slope to NW, former servants' wing enlarged with a subsequent block built in the late 19th century.
Rubble with dressed openings, long and short quoins, timber sash and case plate glass windows. Entrance set in re-entrant angle of advanced gable to principal SW elevation, raggles of former 19th century conservatory visible above doorway. Distinctive tall conical roof to small 2-storey circular-plan tower set between main house and lower former servants' wing to principal elevation; bellcast eaves with fish-scale and banded slates, crowned by weather-vane Slightly advanced gabled section to NE garden elevation; windows set within chamfered arises at ground, moulded detail above returning to original line of arris. Former servants' wing to NW set below house with 2-storey, circular-plan observatory to N corner (no longer functioning as observatory, 2004), service courtyard set infront. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafters, steeply pitched gables and dormer windows, grey slate roofs.
INTERIOR: impressive hall leading to large drawing room with original features including simple cornices and 4-panelled doors.
Built in the style of a shooting lodge and set in dramatic scenery Craig Dhu was most likely built as the dower house for nearby Cluny Castle. It was probably enlarged at the time Caroline Catherine Macpherson of Cluny Castle married George Dartmouth Fitzroy in 1874, as it became their official residence (their grave is set to the NE of the house). It is of interest to note that George Dartmouth Fitzroy was a relation of Robert Fitzroy, who captained the HMS Beagle when Charles Darwin made his voyage of discovery in 1831.
accommodation was built as an observatory probably at the time George Dartmouth Fitzroy took up residence. The present owners recall the tower containing machinery, most likely a turning mechanism for a platform where the telescopic instruments would have been located, none of this remains, and it has been converted to bedroom and kitchen accommodation (2004). The house was a clinic for recovering alcoholics in the 1980s with some original features being lost, it has however been sympathetically converted back to domestic use. The house is surrounded by grounds, much of which are wooded, there is a large formal lawn to the NE of the house. A converted steading and lodge stand to the W of the house.