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Q: Task.Yield - real usages? I've been reading about Task.Yield , And as a Javascript developer I can tell that's it's job is  exactly the same as setTimeout(function (){...},0); in terms of letting the main single thread deal with other stuff aka :

"don't take all the power , release from time time - so  others would
  have some too..."

In js it's working particular in long loops. ( don't make the browser freeze...)
But I saw this example here :
public static async Task < int > FindSeriesSum(int i1)
{
    int sum = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < i1; i++)
    {
        sum += i;
        if (i % 1000 == 0) ( after a bulk , release power to main thread)
            await Task.Yield();
    }

    return sum;
}

As a JS programmer I can understand what they did here.
BUT as a C# programmer I ask myself  : why not open  a task for it ?
 public static async Task < int > FindSeriesSum(int i1)
    {
         //do something....
         return await MyLongCalculationTask();
         //do something
    }

Question
With Js I can't open a Task (yes i know i can actually with web workers) . But with c# I can.
If So -- why even bother with releasing from time to time while I can release it at all ?
Edit
Adding references :
From here :

From here (another ebook):

A: When you see:
await Task.Yield();

you can think about it this way:
await Task.Factory.StartNew(
    () => {},
    CancellationToken.None,
    TaskCreationOptions.None,
    SynchronizationContext.Current != null?
        TaskScheduler.FromCurrentSynchronizationContext():
        TaskScheduler.Current);

All this does is makes sure the continuation will happen asynchronously in the future. By asynchronously I mean that the execution control will return to the caller of the async method, and the continuation callback will not happen on the same stack frame.
When exactly and on what thread it will happen completely depends on the caller thread's synchronization context.
For a UI thread, the continuation will happen upon some future iteration of the message loop, run by Application.Run (WinForms) or Dispatcher.Run (WPF). Internally, it comes down to the Win32 PostMessage API, which post a custom message to the UI thread's message queue. The await continuation callback will be called when this message gets pumped and processed. You're completely out of control about when exactly this is going to happen.
Besides, Windows has its own priorities for pumping messages: INFO: Window Message Priorities. The most relevant part:

Under this scheme, prioritization can be considered tri-level. All
posted messages are higher priority than user input messages because
they reside in different queues. And all user input messages are
higher priority than WM_PAINT and WM_TIMER messages.

So, if you use await Task.Yield() to yield to the message loop in attempt to keep the UI responsive, you are actually at risk of obstructing the UI thread's message loop. Some pending user input messages, as well as WM_PAINT and WM_TIMER, have a lower priority than the posted continuation message. Thus, if you do await Task.Yield() on a tight loop, you still may block the UI.
This is how it is different from the JavaScript's setTimer analogy you mentioned in the question. A setTimer callback will be called after all user input message have been processed by the browser's message pump.
So, await Task.Yield() is not good for doing background work on the UI thread. In fact, you very rarely need to run a background process on the UI thread, but sometimes you do, e.g. editor syntax highlighting, spell checking etc. In this case, use the framework's idle infrastructure.
E.g., with WPF you could do await Dispatcher.Yield(DispatcherPriority.ApplicationIdle):
async Task DoUIThreadWorkAsync(CancellationToken token)
{
    var i = 0;

    while (true)
    {
        token.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();

        await Dispatcher.Yield(DispatcherPriority.ApplicationIdle);

        // do the UI-related work item
        this.TextBlock.Text = "iteration " + i++;
    }
}

For WinForms, you could use Application.Idle event:
// await IdleYield();

public static Task IdleYield()
{
    var idleTcs = new TaskCompletionSource<bool>();
    // subscribe to Application.Idle
    EventHandler handler = null;
    handler = (s, e) =>
    {
        Application.Idle -= handler;
        idleTcs.SetResult(true);
    };
    Application.Idle += handler;
    return idleTcs.Task;
}

It is recommended that you do not exceed 50ms for each iteration of such background operation running on the UI thread.
For a non-UI thread with no synchronization context, await Task.Yield() just switches the continuation to a random pool thread. There is no guarantee it is going to be a different thread from the current thread, it's only guaranteed to be an asynchronous continuation. If ThreadPool is starving, it may schedule the continuation onto the same thread.
In ASP.NET, doing await Task.Yield() doesn't make sense at all, except for the workaround mentioned in @StephenCleary's answer. Otherwise, it will only hurt the web app performance with a redundant thread switch.
So, is await Task.Yield() useful? IMO, not much. It can be used as a shortcut to run the continuation via SynchronizationContext.Post or ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem, if you really need to impose asynchrony upon a part of your method.
Regarding the books you quoted, in my opinion those approaches to using Task.Yield are wrong. I explained why they're wrong for a UI thread, above. For a non-UI pool thread, there's simply no "other tasks in the thread to execute", unless you running a custom task pump like Stephen Toub's AsyncPump.
Updated to answer the comment:

... how can it be asynchronouse operation and stay in the same thread
?..

As a simple example: WinForms app:
async void Form_Load(object s, object e)
{
    await Task.Yield();
    MessageBox.Show("Async message!");
}

Form_Load will return to the caller (the WinFroms framework code which has fired Load event), and then the message box will be shown asynchronously, upon some future iteration of the message loop run by Application.Run(). The continuation callback is queued with WinFormsSynchronizationContext.Post, which internally posts a private Windows message to the UI thread's message loop. The callback will be executed when this message gets pumped, still on the same thread.
In a console app, you can run a similar serializing loop with AsyncPump mentioned above.

A: No, it's not exactly like using setTimeout to return control to the UI. In Javascript that would always let the UI update as the setTimeout always has a minimum pause of a few milliseconds, and pending UI work has priority over timers, but await Task.Yield(); doesn't do that.
There is no guarantee that the yield will let any work be done in the main thread, on the contrary the code that called the yield will often be prioritised over UI work.

"The synchronization context that is present on a UI thread in most UI
  environments will often prioritize work posted to the context higher
  than input and rendering work. For this reason, do not rely on await
  Task.Yield(); to keep a UI responsive."

Ref: MSDN: Task.Yield Method

A: First of all let me clarify: Yield is not exactly the same as setTimeout(function (){...},0);. JS is executed in single thread environment, so that is the only way to let other activities to happen. Kind of cooperative multitasking. .net is executed in preemptive multitasking environment with explicit multithreading.
Now back to Task.Yield. As I told .net lives in preemptive world, but it is a little more complicated than that. C# await/async create interesting mixture of those multitasking mode ruled by state machines. So if you omit Yield from your code it will just block the thread and that's it. If you make it a regular task and just call start (or a thread) then it will just do it's stuff in parallel and later block calling thread when task.Result is called. What happens when you do await Task.Yield(); is more complicated. Logically it unblocks the calling code (similar to JS) and execution goes on. What it actually does - it picks another thread and continue execution in it in preemptive environment with calling thread. So it is in calling thread until first Task.Yield and then it is on it's own. Subsequent calls to Task.Yield apparently don't do anything.
Simple demonstration:
class MainClass
{
    //Just to reduce amount of log items
    static HashSet<Tuple<string, int>> cache = new HashSet<Tuple<string, int>>();

    public static void LogThread(string msg, bool clear=false) {
        if (clear)
            cache.Clear ();
        var val = Tuple.Create(msg, Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId);
        if (cache.Add (val))
            Console.WriteLine ("{0}\t:{1}", val.Item1, val.Item2);
    }

    public static async Task<int> FindSeriesSum(int i1)
    {
        LogThread ("Task enter");
        int sum = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < i1; i++)
        {
            sum += i;
            if (i % 1000 == 0) {
                LogThread ("Before yield");
                await Task.Yield ();
                LogThread ("After yield");
            }
        }
        LogThread ("Task done");
        return sum;
    }

    public static void Main (string[] args)
    {
        LogThread ("Before task");
        var task = FindSeriesSum(1000000);
        LogThread ("While task", true);
        Console.WriteLine ("Sum = {0}", task.Result);
        LogThread ("After task");
    }
}

Here are results:
Before task     :1
Task enter      :1
Before yield    :1
After yield     :5
Before yield    :5
While task      :1
Before yield    :5
After yield     :5
Task done       :5
Sum = 1783293664
After task      :1

*

*Output produced on mono 4.5 on Mac OS X, results may vary on other setups

If you move Task.Yield on top of the method it will by async from the beginning and will not block the calling thread.
Conclusion: Task.Yield can make possible to mix sync and async code. Some more or less realistic scenario: you have some heavy computational operation and local cache and task CalcThing. In this method you check if item is in cache, if yes - return item, if it is not there Yield and proceed to calculate it. Actually sample from your book is rather meaningless because nothing useful is achieved there. Their remark regarding GUI interactivity is just bad and incorrect (UI thread will be locked until first call to Yield, you should never do that, MSDN is clear (and correct) on that: "do not rely on await Task.Yield(); to keep a UI responsive".

A: I've only found Task.Yield useful in two scenarios:

*

*Unit tests, to ensure the code under test works appropriately in the presence of asynchrony.

*To work around an obscure ASP.NET issue where identity code cannot complete synchronously.

A: I think that nobody provided the real answer when to use the Task.Yield.
It is mostly needed if a task uses a never ending loop (or lengthy synchronous job), and can potentially hold a threadpool thread exclusively (not allowing other tasks to use this thread). This can happen if inside the loop the code runs synchronously. the Task.Yield reschedules the task to the threadpool queue and the other tasks which waited for the thread can be executed.
The example:
  CancellationTokenSource cts;
  void Start()
  {
        cts = new CancellationTokenSource();

        // run async operation
        var task = Task.Run(() => SomeWork(cts.Token), cts.Token);
        // wait for completion
        // after the completion handle the result/ cancellation/ errors
    }

    async Task<int> SomeWork(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {
        int result = 0;

        bool loopAgain = true;
        while (loopAgain)
        {
            // do something ... means a substantial work or a micro batch here - not processing a single byte

            loopAgain = /* check for loop end && */  cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested;
            if (loopAgain) {
                // reschedule  the task to the threadpool and free this thread for other waiting tasks
                await Task.Yield();
            }
        }
        cancellationToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
        return result;
    }

    void Cancel()
    {
        // request cancelation
        cts.Cancel();
    }

A: You're assuming the long-running function is one that can run on a background thread. If it isn't, for example because it has UI interaction, then there is no way to prevent blocking the UI while it runs, so the times it runs should be kept short enough not to cause problems for the users.
Another possibility is that you have more long-running functions than you have background threads. In that scenario, it may be better (or it may not matter, it depends) to prevent a few of those functions from taking up all of your threads.

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Situated in the middle of a residential grid and next door to a nightly buzzing playfield, at first glance, the Delridge location of SVP Investee Southwest Youth & Family Services gives the impression of a typical recreation center. Walk inside, though, and you quickly realize it is a nerve center for community support in southwest Seattle.
A hallway lined with private rooms provides space where families and youth can receive professional counseling services and meet with case managers, ensuring kids stay safe, stay in school, and get connected to the resources they need. A family center spanning a full corner of the building — and furnished with what seems to be more than one living room set — provides a comfortable setting for refugee and immigrant families to work one-on-one with multi-lingual advocates on navigating their new surroundings. Turn a corner and follow a set of stairs down to a row of back-to-back classrooms where a group of young people study to successfully transition back into high school.
SWYFS opened nearly 40 years ago as part of a citywide initiative to provide neighborhood-based services in West Seattle and White Center. Today, it continues to act as a resource hub to 3,500 residents in southwest Seattle.
And just as SWYFS has a long history in the region, they also have a long history with SVP. In 1998, SVP made its inaugural investment in New Futures, a nonprofit providing vibrant, on-site learning centers at apartment complexes in South King County. It was an eye-opening and impactful partnership as our first experience investing in the capacity of a nonprofit. Under the leadership of former executive director and now-SVP Partner Roxanne Hood-Lyons, in the span of five years, New Futures expanded from one site to four with an operating budget four times the size it was in the first year of investment. Later, in 2013, New Futures became a program of SWYFS, creating a stronger, more versatile organization primed to reach more families. Through New Futures and other services provided by SWYFS, staff provide on-site and in-home educational, family and youth support beyond the Delridge center and throughout White Center, Burien and SeaTac.
Shortly after the addition of New Futures to SWYFS, SVP began to recognize a systemic need in the social sector for effective data management.
"The demands [for data] were funder demands," explains SVP Partner Renee Russak.
Organizations struggled to work collaboratively and evaluate meaning as program staff dedicated a third of their time just reporting specific data points requested by funders — often using different reporting tools for each funder as required by their contracts. At SWYFS the strain on staff, as well as the missed opportunities, were hard to ignore. But beyond just staff needs, as an organization with well-established relationships with health, housing, and education agencies throughout the region, SWYFS presented the perfect testing ground for demonstrating positive funder support. SVP awarded a collective action grant in 2014 to help SWYFS implement a cohesive data system across their programs and locations.
Prior to the grant, Renee says, "It was a kind of zero-sum situation where they had to collect this data for these reports for these funders or they would not get funding again.
SWYFS staff were maintaining nearly 15 different systems for data reporting. The Youth Violence Prevention Program, entered information into the city's central database per their contract agreements. The family center also entered information with the city but into a different database since the city requires a separate data system depending on the department it feeds into. SWYFS' counseling services ran data to Navos which holds information to support a coalition of mental health providers in the region. The education center took attendance on excel spreadsheets but tracked grades on a secondary system. The New Futures program had their own database, grandfathered in after joining SWYFS.
Additionally every funding contract SWYFS interacted with required different language. Slightly tweaked demographic information and tracking standards amounted to perpetual one-off reporting and made it difficult to utilize captured data across SWYFS' departments.
SVP Partners Renee Russak, Terry Rhinehart and former partner Brad Struss joined together to conduct a case study of SWYFS' practices and systems. Each with many years of data evaluation experience, the team spent several months interviewing staff to understand the current conditions for reporting data, to discover how SWYFS can most benefit from a new platform, and to inventory each reporting system and their various flavors of data sets.
With their guidance, SWYFS purchased services from Foothold Technology, as well as hired a dedicated staff member (Kate Elias) to oversee their data goals and priorities, implement best practices, and steward the team's transition to a main data portal.
The study dug much deeper than funder demands, though. It unsurfaced and emphasized SWYFS' need to identify the data they would collect differently if they could.
"The ultimate goal for us is using the data system to advocate for contracts and grants that really reflect what we're doing and put our strongest foot forward with a strong identity behind it," says Kate.
The new system allows SWYFS to do the work of finding shared outcomes. Instead of treating a group as having the same needs, they are now in a much better position to track students in their education center who might also be involved in the Youth Violence Prevention Program, participating in mental health therapy, receiving immigration assistance, so on.
Keeping track of client progress gets complicated quick when you're a long-standing, multi-service organization, and the need will always be greater than the funds, staff and services. It's taken SWYFS a year to clean and move their four decades of history onto a single platform that's useable for a staff that works across issue areas.
In just the implementation phase, the team had to answer questions like: Should Hispanic/Latino identity be categorized with race or on its own? Is the term homeless or unstably housed best for describing a client's living situation?
To get there, two additional SVP projects helped form a guiding light. Just after Renee, Terry and Brad completed the data study, SWYFS became a multi-year investee for their efforts ensuring all students — regardless of income or race —graduate from high school ready to succeed in college or a career. One of the first projects SWYFS completed as an investee was a strategy session facilitated by SVP Partner Carla Fowler. This was closely followed by real-time strategic planning with SVP Partners Alexa Carver and Tim Schottman.
"There's no way to really have guiding questions on what you want to evaluate and what you want to be doing until you define that underlying foundation," Kate says.
In a design-interview process with Executive Director Steve Daschle, Carla helped draw out the opportunities and challenges SWYFS would face in the next five to 10 years. Bubbling to the top of that conversation, were SWYFS' need to follow their population south, as well as key ways to elevate organizational best practices. Her documentation has since served as a foundational document for the group's real-time strategic planning.
Meanwhile, Renee and Terry walked away from SWYFS with a template to take their efforts county-wide.
And the timing couldn't be better. King County Housing Authority (KCHA) was looking for consultants to create a new contract model between KCHA and seven community-based organizations that provide educational services for KCHA residents. In scoping the project, it didn't take long to realize that before making a recommendation, KCHA and the seven organizations had to have a common baseline for the data they could and should collect for a streamlined contract.
"My hope and dream is that this might result in a movement towards a common data model for out-of-school-time programs, starting by leveraging the data that's already in common across the seven organizations," explains Renee.
With support from the Youth Development Executives of King County, Terry and Renee are now in phase three of their work recommending data practices for KCHA's contracts: reviewing their findings.
"Our work with SWYFS helped raise the really important questions," says Renee. "The thing that became evident but then was reinforced and then highlighted and underscored by the later work with KCHA was the pain felt by line staff having to dedicate scarce time and labor to data they had no connection to.
If you are interested in volunteering your skills with an SVP Investee, contact Ben Mitchell at benm@svpseattle.org or check out our current opportunities here. You can also visit our website to learn more about SVP's grant committees.
"We're seeing the fruits of the work that has been done — taking hold and truly having influence on how this organization operates," emphasizes Steve.


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Mont-Saint-Michel: Like no other (Pt. 2) | TravelGumbo
Mont-Saint-Michel: Like no other (Pt. 2)
ArchitectureArtDestinationsFranceHistoryUNESCO World Heritage Site
PHeymont 10/23/145:00 AM
The Abbey and Monastery
Mont-Saint-Michel is, really, two places: the historic religious structures at the top of the island mountain, and the town below that supported it in ancient times and today. The town featured in Part 1; this time we're looking at the top, which is where it all began, with an 8th century church. The stairs above lead to the entrance of the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel itself.
At the beginning: about 800 AD
The island and surrounding area changed hands among feudal nobles a number of times, but eventually became clearly Norman; so Norman that its support for William the Conqueror was rewarded with land on the English side of the Channel, including a "daughter house" on St. Michael's Island off Cornwall.
Twelfth century
But playing in politics can be dangerous; during the Hundred Years War, English forces unsuccessfully besieged it twice. Although they were unsuccessful, they (and Breton allies of the French King) did serious damage to the Romanesque buildings. Afterwards, the King paid for repair and some Gothic facades.
The Abbey's wealth was based on its role as a major site for religious pilgrimage, but that waned over the years and especially after the Reformation. By the time of the French Revolution, which ended all monasteries and convents in France, it was nearly uninhabited. The new rulers made it a prison for religious figures who opposed the revolution, and then for high-profile political prisoners. and then ordinary prisoners.
The Abbey's fortunes took a turn for the better in 1836 when Victor Hugo and other influentials went to bat for it, campaigning for it to be preserved as a national architectural treasure. By 1863, the prison was closed; by 1874 it was declared a historic monument. Restoration work and additions (including the tower over the crossing) have been ongoing since.
Among the architects involved was Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, who also supervised renovations at Notre Dame. Today, there's even a new small community of monks in residence (but not often in evidence).
The buildings themselves are amazing, even to people like me (whose religious friends sometimes claim I'm in churches more than they are). For a start, most churches have the main sanctuary on the ground floor, most monasteries and convents have their cloisters there as well. Here, everything is upended: The cloister is on the roof, above three great halls, each of which is further down the hill (conceptually underground but actually not).
The church itself was designed by an Italian architect of the 12th century, William de Volpiano, who took a big risk: he put the transept crossing directly at the highest point of the mountain, leaving the nave and apse extending over...nothing. But of course, there can't be nothing under them; there are crypts and chapels built into the mountain below and supporting them.
This results in architectural surprises. The cloister, seen here, is much lighter in design and material than the usual stone arcades; it had to be that way to avoid unnecessary weight on the building whose roof it is.
Passing down to the lowest level of support, we find these huge pillars and arches. The heaviest of them are 5 meters in circumference; they are things of beauty in themselves, especially in contrasting light.
Between the light colonnade and the massive supports lie three large halls of surprisingly high ceilings and open feel. In order from the top, they are the refectory, where the residents and noble guests dined, the guest hall where pilgrims and other travelers of appropriate rank were lodged (not shown), and at the bottom the almoner's hall, where charity could be received by the poorest. That room is now the gift shop.
Of course, a feature of a hill-top location is stairs...lots of them, as was also noted in Part 1. Here are some more, and some more exterior views.
FOR PART 1 OF THIS BLOG, CLICK HERE
Tags: Abbey, Norman, Mont-Saint-Michel
PHeymontGumbo Guru
I'd not be surprised if the stones have been renewed; there is construction and reconstruction going on constantly (as it must have also in the Middle Ages). I cropped most of it out, but you can see some of the scaffolding in one of the pictures above.
PortMoresbyTG Guru
A visit to this church, almost exactly 30 years ago, is one of my fondest travel memories. I stayed on the island and went to mass, it was a dark and stormy night (really), the wind howled, we were welcomed in English, the only visitors present in the small congregation and I've never felt so included as a traveler.
Part of what I remember was a distinct dip worn into the stone of the stairs on the climb into the church. It appears from the beautiful photo at the top of this page that the stones may have been replaced since.

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Why Wyandot
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There are trend watchers, and there are trendsetters. Then there are the game changers. After more than 80 years in business, Wyandot Snacks has honed its skill sat all three.
Who would have guessed that a family-owned company in rural Marion, OH, was once one of the largest exporters of raw popcorn? That was, at one point in history, the distinction that Wyandot Snacks hung its hat on. But for this company — and the Brown family, which founded and still owns Wyandot — success does not end with a crowning achievement. It's only the beginning. Evolving from raw exporter to cooked popcorn producer to snack manufacturer requires something special. It takes the grit, determination and entrepreneurial spirit inherent in a family business' DNA.
Then what comes next?
That was the task for Rob Sarlls when he took his post as president and CEO of Wyandot Snacks in late 2015.
"Wyandot had all the elements of a fantastic business," said Mr. Sarlls, a plant-based snack industry veteran whose experience spans decades in the food industry. "It's always had a reputation of being the smart people in the snack food space. They're the brainpower, and the focus on technical expertise has always been well-known and respected."
The other quality Wyandot's known for is its "can-do attitude," as Mr. Sarlls described it. "It was always, 'Go to the ends of the earth to make the customer happy, get the job done and get it done right,' " he recalled.
That ethos led Wyandot on a path to developing packaged goods and corn-based chips, and it didn't stop there.
"Like every multi-generational family business, [the Brown family] was very opportunistic. Someone would knock on their door and ask, 'Can you make this?' and the answer would always be yes," Mr. Sarlls said. "They built a beautiful business this way."
But as Wyandot's business grew, so did the snack industry. And they've both evolved, too. When Mr. Sarlls joined the company, he spearheaded a four-month strategic initiative that resulted in the decision to focus mainly on co-manufacturing better-for-you — also known as BFY — snacks. "We really narrowed it down perfectly," he said. "We had all the capabilities in-house, but this crystallized and turbocharged it."
Based on its innovation expertise and technological capabilities, Wyandot's new emphasis now drives most every aspect of the company. "At one point, private label production was the supermajority of our production, but working with brands is very rewarding on every level," Mr. Sarlls said. "It's now the supermajority."
The innovators' innovator
Mr. Sarlls was drawn to Wyandot for several reasons, not the least of which was the company's propensity to fearlessly go after new opportunities that led its transformation so far. To him, that was lightning in a bottle. All it needed was a bit of focus.
With contract manufacturing better-for-you snacks comprising the supermajority of the business, that focus is now laser-sharp, thanks to Wyandot's product development expertise. "The brands are the ones typically doing most of the innovation," Mr. Sarlls observed. With his marketing background, he was quick to point out that brands have the resources to tap into social media and word-of-mouth campaigns to engage social influencers. "Those early adopters are looking for exciting brands with an essence that resonates with them," he said. "That's why the groundbreaking innovators are typically the brands, and that's who we've been working with more. They're the ones changing the landscape and the whole feel of what snacking is all about."
Wyandot operates on the formula of food consumption growing at population growth, and snack consumption expands at 2- to 4-times food consumption, with better-for-you snacking growing 2- to 4-times snack volume. "Based on this rule of thumb, we wanted to focus on the people bringing the best new ideas to market," Mr. Sarlls said.
And that's another differentiator: Wyandot's alignment with emerging brands. With the innovation expertise that comes with a team of nearly a dozen food scientists and R&D experts, paired with its highly developed extrusion technology, Wyandot has the chops working with innovators, entrepreneurs and startups along with the big brands.
"We have become the first call," Mr. Sarlls said. "We're not one of many; we are the first."
For every current or potential customer knocking on the door, Wyandot has one strict requirement: The value proposition must be authentic. "It has to ring true to the brand essence they're trying to deliver, and it has to be a product that tastes good," Mr. Sarlls insisted. "We make good things taste great. That's easier said than done, and what I'm really proud of is that our team can make snacks that contain fun, unique ingredients and great nutritional attributes."
In Marion — and the surrounding Wyandot County — Wyandot Snacks is a pillar, not only with its reputation as an employer of choice but also for its commitment to the community through 40 different charities and various sustainability initiatives.
But Wyandot is known for its products, too. And for many people in Marion, old habits die hard. Mr. Sarlls recalled a time when he had attended a community golf event wearing a ball cap from a nut company where he had previously worked. "Someone asked me, 'Why is the president of Popped Right (that's one of our older corporate names) wearing a Fisher Nut hat?' " he recalled. "Fisher doesn't compete with Wyandot, but our community still often thinks of us as Wyandot Popcorn."
The truth is, Wyandot still makes popcorn, but it's now only a small portion of the business. "We've now become primarily an expert extrusion company," Mr. Sarlls said. "I'm very proud of our private label business, but when I hear people refer to us as a private label manufacturer, I remind them that we are a contract manufacturer that also does some private label."
Strategic business decisions are rarely the easy ones, but Wyandot has learned that these are the choices that drive a business forward; they're the game changers.
One example Mr. Sarlls recalled was a private label cheese crunchy that Wyandot used to produce. "We didn't make very much of it, so the line sat unutilized much of the time; we may have run a couple shifts a week," he said.
But in accordance with the strategic plan, everything coming through the door needs a better-for-you angle to it. "That makes our decisions easier in terms of what new business to bring in and let go, and what equipment to buy or retire. We've done a lot of shifting of our capabilities to focus on the best opportunities," Mr. Sarlls said. Eventually, the company replaced its cheese crunchy line with a Clextral twin-screw extruder to produce toddler and organic pulse snacks. "Now that line is busy 80 to 90% of the time," he said.
Wyandot's strategy streamlines the business and maintains efficiency; it also impacts how the operation handles its ingredients and raw materials. "There are so many different variations we're running that it doesn't really allow us to go to a bulk system," Mr. Sarlls said. "When we did a lot of private label, we had one formula that we could say, 'Take it or leave it.' When you're in contract manufacturing, each customer has its own preferred ingredients."
Properly managing these customer complexities is one key to success, which is why it was so important that Wyandot narrow down the customer list to fit a specific profile. "Having a limited number of customers means we can pay attention to them all, and we can give each of them as much focused attention as possible," he noted.
Art of the process
In its 250,000-sq-ft facility that rose from the devastation of a fire in 1996 that essentially melted the production floor, Wyandot now houses 10 proc essing lines and what seems like a never-ending row of 40 packaging lines.
In this space, Wyandot's can-do attitude is seen in rapid motion. "I'm always amazed at how we can make things and then live-load a truck," Mr. Sarlls said. "I love that. It's coming off the line, and then like 6 hours later, it's leaving us. That's huge."
But in snack food manufacturing, attitude isn't enough. To get products down the line and out the door, Wyandot must streamline the process and equipment to focus on the end result. The company partnered with Clextral to install a total of three twin-screw extrusion lines in various areas of the plant, with another set for installation this spring. "When you get really good at a certain type of equipment, when you develop a good relationship with the OEM, you want more of it," Mr. Sarlls said. "When it works, you want to multiply it."
One of the first Clextral installations is still going strong producing toddler snacks, a key piece of business for Wyandot. To accommodate the line, the blending station was relocated in accordance with the customer's food safety requirements. "The customer said, 'Get the blending out of production so we can reduce possibilities for foreign materials,' " said Mike Wells, senior vicepresident, operations. Now, ingredients are brought in and blended in the room next door, and supersacks are transported via forklift to all extrusion lines.
For every product, all ingredients are barcodescanned upon entering the facility. "It doesn't hit our warehouse without printing a ticket," Mr. Wells said.
After the sacks are unloaded into a loss-in-weight feeder, the ingredients are run through the twinscrew extrusion. "That's when all the mixing happens," Mr. Wells observed. Once the meal is formed, it's run through a die — Wyandot has a full library of die shapes for extruded products — and is cooked after being cut. Once dried, the snacks receive a seasoning, either wateror oil-based, depending on the product.
Flexibility is key for Wyandot's extruded products as well as its other traditional snacks like tortilla and corn chips that are produced with Casa Herrera ovens and Heat and Control fryers and seasoning drums. The company has seemingly innumerable roller dies to create any shape of chip imaginable, and the same can be said on the extruded lines. "We can make just about any shape a customer wants," Mr. Wells said. From dime-size tortilla chips to whale-shaped snacks, the possibilities are endless.
Packaging possibilities
While co-manufacturing is the supermajority, Wyandot still has some private label business, and popcorn — the legacy product — is still on the menu. To get this many different products out the door, packaging automation is a key factor. And flexibility is the battle cry.
In any food manufacturing facility with a limited footprint, when the rows of packaging machines have stretched as far as they can, operators will typi cally look upward. At Wyandot, a mezzanine level houses Heat and Control FastBack systems that convey, portion and weigh products such as corn and tortilla chips before they are packaged into bags on Kliklok-Woodman or TNA packaging lines.
After being placed in bags, chips are automatically placed in one of two BluePrint Automation (BPA) case packers, the most recent entry into the company's extensive packaging operation having been added in 2017.
With just one production facility, Wyandot's strategic packaging equipment purchases, such as with the case packers, help the company remain mindful of its space constraints. "Technology has advanced even from just a year ago," Mr. Wells said.
"The footprint continues to shrink on equipment, which is good for companies like Wyandot, where space is a little tight. The technology is getting to where we'll be able to automate more than what we do today."
The BPA equipment was Wyandot's first foray into automating this area of the operation, but the company's propensity to work with incubator snack producers lends itself well to the prospect of new automation technologies that allow Wyandot to increase its volume without having to expand its footprint … at least for now. As part of the next phase of the company's strategic plan, Wyandot is looking at some point to open a second plant on the West Coast.
Food safety is a pillar for Wyandot, and that shines through in its recent appointment of SQF Level 3 certification. But the standards don't stop there; with a culture of continuous improvement, Wyandot is always upping its game. "It used to be that Level 2 was such a high bar, but now, Level 2 is often the minimum level required by brandholders and retailers," Mr. Sarlls said.
Level 3 certification is a defining quality for the type of better-for-you snack production Wyandot wants to be known for. "It builds trust and affirms our commitment to customers and consumers alike," Mr. Wells said. "It also reflects engagement at all levels of the company, from the board to the manufacturing floor. Our entire food safety and quality system — from formulation to material ordering through processing, packaging and shipping — is covered in the scope of the SQF audit process."
A co-manufacturer often sets the baseline for food safety and quality protocols on the standards of its most stringent customer. For example, Wyandot's toddler snacks customer is the gold standard for food safety and requirements, which are so rigorous that they will usually ensure full compliance with any other standards or audits.
For instance, X-ray and metal detection are both used on this line, whereas in other areas of food production, it's often an either-or scenario. For toddler snacks, a Mettler Toledo X-ray machine helps detect clumps for quality control while the Safeline metal detector will identify foreign materials, which adds a layer of foodsafety assurance.
In fact, any workers entering the toddler snack production area from another part of production must first use a lint-roller on their clothing to reduce the risk of foreign materials hitching a ride.
Sometimes, though, certain standards might actually be too high for a customer not interested in the betterfor- you market. "Maybe they don't need to be that high, but we can't run our organization by saying, 'We can be at a high level today and medium or low tomorrow.' The whole house has to be at the highest level," Mr. Sarlls said, noting that Wyandot has at times lost or turned down business because of it. "It's not a level of quality that everyone wants, and that's fine. People make those decisions every day."
Whether on the extruders or any other production line in the facility, allergen control is always top-of-mind for Wyandot. "All of our ingredients are stored onsite in our warehouse, and they're all stacked differently depending on the allergens," Mr. Sarlls explained. "You don't want 'allergen A' falling in with 'allergen B,' so we barcode everything."
Changing the landscape
Wyandot's success has always come from its work ethic and ability to identify and adapt to emerging market trends. Today, the company uses that foresight to empower the industry.
With a heavy emphasis on better-for-you snacks, Wyandot is poised to educate the industry through its involvement with SNAC International, for which Mr. Sarlls is second vice-chairman.
"Over the past several years, we've played the part of torch bearer, the rally-crier to say, 'BFY is here. It's real, and consumers demand it.' As an industry, we need to address it. We all need this. We're not just making corn chips or potato chips and going to sleep. The world is changing, and we've got to change with it."
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Wyandot Snacks is a privately held, national snack manufacturer supporting the continued evolution in better for you plant-based snacking. Our products range from well known branded baby snacks to the fastest growing chickpea snack in the industry's fastest growing segment. Wyandot fully supports the continued growth and commercial success of our customers, and for 82 years we have treated their brands as our own. Wyandot is based in Marion, Ohio – within one day's drive of 60 percent of America's snack consumers. We provide turnkey support to brands, from conception to development all the way to the shelf or the doorstep. Our success is made possible through strong manufacturing support and the expert guidance of our seven food scientists and two trained chefs.
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Hothouse Earth – A Last Missed Opportunity?
in Climate Change — by Bill Henderson —	September 5, 2018
Hothouse Earth is this summer's Uninhabitable Earth, a chilling reminder of how close we are to possibly fatal climate change. The Steffen et al PNAS paper is a review of the climate science concerned with the interplay of ten potential tipping points which when triggered by temperature rise due to anthropogenic warming could potentially push the Earth out of it's present supportive climate and into a 4 or 5C warmer state where civilization as we know it would collapse and, with much of the planet uninhabitable, humanity's very existence would be threatened.
"There is a risk that feedback processes intrinsic to the Earth System could form a "tipping cascade", in which the feedbacks act like a row of dominoes," lead author Will Steffen told Newsweek. "Such a cascade would very likely take the trajectory of the Earth System out of human control and towards much hotter conditions that we call "Hothouse Earth"".
This compelling new science paper should prompt demand for real, effective climate mitigation. Don't legislators and those in government whose duty it is to prepare for disaster and emergency read climate science? But instead of igniting debate about needed effective climate mitigation after at least three decades of failure, this latest warning from the science community is being ignored. The death of all we know and love could be as close as another decade or two of inaction but the powers that be don't want to know.
It is important to remember that almost all of the world's nations have agreed to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in climate mitigation agreements signed on to from the Rio Summit in 1992 to the Paris Accord specifically to prevent the irreversible runaway global warming that the paper warns about. Our governments have recognized the existential danger and promised to reduce emissions – but only a few have actually instigated effective mitigation.
The paper should be a wake up call about how close we are to unimaginable catastrophe and to question the present pretend mitigation and implement real emission reduction instead. The planet is dangerously close to Hothouse Earth but the global rightward shift on climate change ignores the science and the power people in our society don't know what they don't know. Paris targets are not being met. Governments are backing away from even cosmetic mitigation efforts pushed by rampant fossil fuel development and continuing petrostate politics. Moderate climate action is failing.
With time running out after decades of denial and procrastination, effective mitigation now must be disruptive. "A fast, emergency-scale transition to a post-fossil fuel world is absolutely necessary to address climate change". "It would mean an immediate, sustained global mobilization of a sort that has no precedent in human history". "We cannot afford to pursue past strategies, aimed at limited gains towards distant goals. In the face of both triumphant denialism and predatory delay, trying to achieve climate action by doing the same things, the same old ways, means defeat. It guarantees defeat."
The paper's authors stress that mitigation is still possible but "a deep transformation based on a fundamental reorientation of human values, equity, behavior, institutions, economics, and technologies is required".
But this scale of disruption is not allowed. Solution aversion rules and realists studiously ignore the emerging climate science. Lukewarming is the new climate denial. Media coverage of the Steffen et al paper has ebbed to just attacks on climate alarmists from entrenched deniers. There has been no leadership from anyone significant in government or business using the Hothouse Earth paper as an opportunity to press for needed climate action to prevent runaway warming.
Considering what is at stake and the urgent mitigation timeline, we should be having an open and informing debate about climate as an emergency and with consideration of all possibly effective mitigation paths, but instead there is only news of new pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure investment.
Those who recognize the runaway warming danger are like patients with a diagnosis of a very treatable cancer who have been repeatably blocked from timely, effective treatment so that their cancer is now probably fatal. Hopefully there is still time for effective climate mitigation but unless there is leadership – especially from business which arguably has the most to lose and must free up government ability to act – soon all of us will be in a place where action to protect all we know and love is no longer possible.
Bill Henderson is a frequent contributor on Climate Change


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There are very few mainstream news channels or news organisations that cover developmental issues with the aim of promoting 'public service journalism'. Most organisations are lost in their need to retain profits, achieve targets in terms of audience, agenda-setting certain issues and themes which are 'dominant' in the political economic structure of the way news is produced in the media industry, points out Navodita, critiquing media literacy, exclusively for Different Truths.
Media literacy is often discussed with reference to the use of several media and technological aids to disseminate messages and generate meanings for a large audience. In 'information society' such a task entails a lot of responsibilities. In the realm of web 2.0 and user-generated media content on social media, the responsibility is doubled as a 'producer' of content. In this regard, the United Nations recently came up with seventeen sustainable development goals to be achieved with the help of media literacy and media education by the year 2030.
There are very few mainstream news channels or news organisations that cover developmental issues with the aim of promoting 'public service journalism'. Most organisations are lost in their need to retain profits, achieve targets in terms of audience, agenda-setting certain issues and themes which are 'dominant' in the political economic structure of the way news is produced in the media industry. In short, there are too many limitations on the media to retain their own agendas irrespective of the pressures they have to face in running a 24×7 news channel. This definitely leads to a lack of 'proper' themes that need room in the media space and culture.
However, alternative media, thanks to social media and blogging, has emerged as a potent tool to promote issues of development that get left out or are neglected. These issues mainly relate to promotion of roti, kapda, makaan, bijli, sadak, paani and shiksha, swasthya, safai as Professor B.K. Patnaik says. There are many indicators of sustainable development goals that suggest that areas like crime, corruption, mortality, healthcare delivery, education level and literacy need to be worked upon with the right use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
There has been an increase in the mobile phone penetration in villages of the country with some places even having an internet access (that can be accessed through smartphones) but no access to water or sanitation. This requires that methods to use digital literacy for empowerment should be devised in ways that can assist such marginalised communities which do not have adequate means and standards of living.
This task has been made possible by a few activists and workers to generate employment and create self-help groups for women in terms of financially empowering them through the appropriate use of ICTs. Since the trickle-down is not happening in terms of economic growth and development in the country, some goals of development as mentioned by the United Nations are poverty eradication, removal of gender inequality, ensuring food security and hunger, promoting healthcare and education, conserving environment among other areas.
Communication research, thus, can be separated into multiple approaches that can be used to view media literacy and sustainable development. While the convergence approach focuses on policy-making around media and digital literacy, it also talks about how all forms of ICTs and internet usage fall under the larger purview of 'new media'.
This approach explains how one needs to imbibe the right meanings generated through 'online media content' as multiple media messages are being generated out there, some of which maybe distorted as well. The human rights approach discusses how certain media content even in mainstream channels violates certain codes around human rights, especially pertaining to violence and resistance and protests. A lot of visuals and pictures on the web promote a lot of stereotypes or propagate a certain traditional mould which need to be questioned in the larger context of social and economic rights of women, tribes and marginalized communities. Then we also have an empowerment approach which discusses how new media maybe used for empowering citizens in a world full of inequalities and injustices.
The models here discuss ways to socially and economically empower citizens to change their lives with the right amount of media education imparted to them. While knowledge-societies approach discussed the 'information economy' and devising ways and tools to decipher various media messages in social media, it questions the way meanings are imbibed by diverse audience.
Finally, we have the gender-based approach which talked about how a sexual identity is one thing, while gender as a 'social construct' another. Due to social media activity, lot of stereotypes are created around gender roles in different communities. One needs to have the maturity and literacy to look beyond the definitions of what it means to be male or female in the society they live in. It is maintained that in majority of instances, inequalities are promoted due to such stereotypes around gender roles, which may possibly not exist in certain tribal communities. This brings us to the question around 'global culture', 'cultural chaos' as opined by Brian McNair or 'global village' by Marshall McLuhan.
Since lot of media content is generated by experts within mainstream media, youngsters maybe lost about how to look into meanings being generated for them, for their identity formation and for their personalities as individuals. Right from video gaming to watching uncensored content on YouTube or Instagram, youth are using the internet more than ever.
Sometimes the content is violent, sometimes outrageous, while at others plain and simple unsafe for them to watch. With news of certain youngsters getting trapped in the mindless 'Blue Whale' gaming spree, or even incidents of some committing suicide in group suicides associated with certain chatrooms, youngsters need to be educated about how to differentiate 'good' from 'bad' on the internet; or how to separate 'valuable content' from 'useless content'.
Moreover, media literacy is important to gauge the levels of stereotypes it can promote in a society. In today's age of globalisation, is cultural homogenisation really needed or we need to retain the culture of local communities and groups? At the same time, does the promotion of stereotypes within the media generate a sense of intolerance and hatred between different communities?
Hate crimes are on the rise and there is a need for peace, intercultural and non-violent communication that should be encouraged in order that it should truly work as a 'fourth pillar' of Indian democracy. The voices need to be heard, not shut down or crushed as promoting 'dissenting voices' within the media generates a sense of freedom of speech and expression as ascertained in Article 19 1 (a) of the Indian Constitution.
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Is Meningitis a Side Effect of Vaccines?
Most folks know that there are several meningitis vaccines.
Hib, Prevnar, MMR, and the meningococcal vaccines, for example, all protect folks against meningitis.
So why would some people think that vaccines could actually cause meningitis?
Is meningitis listed on the package insert of any vaccines?
Meningitis is listed as a possible adverse event in the package insert of some vaccines, but only in the section that includes spontaneously reported data from post-marketing experience, where it "may not be possible to reliably estimate their frequency or establish a causal relationship to vaccine exposure."
It is just like when folks find autism or SIDS in a vaccine's package insert and think that it is evidence that vaccines are associated with autism or SIDS.
SIDS and autism are listed in Tripedia package insert, but are not causally linked to the vaccine.
These adverse reactions are listed "because of the seriousness OR frequency of reporting." They are not included because they are serious AND frequent, as some anti-vaccine sites like to proclaim.
How Could a Vaccine Cause Meningitis?
When you think about it, how could a vaccine actually cause someone to develop meningitis?
Why would you even think this is true?
Meningitis is typically caused by a virus, bacteria, parasite, or fungus, etc.
While a live virus vaccine might rarely be able to cause an infection, few of the meningitis vaccines are live virus vaccines. Prevnar, Hib and the meningococcal vaccines are all sub-unit vaccines. Since only a part of bacteria (antigens) is actually present in the vaccine, it is not possible for them to cause an infection.
What about the live virus vaccines, like MMR, chicken pox, and rotavirus?
Since these viral infections rarely cause meningitis, except for mumps, you wouldn't expect the rare vaccine induced infection to cause meningitis either. A natural measles infection, for example, is more likely to cause encephalitis instead.
"…there is no evidence to link Jeryl Lynn mumps vaccine to aseptic meningitis."
MMR Package Insert
What about the chicken pox vaccine? There is a case report of a vaccinated child who later developed shingles and meningitis, caused by vaccine strain chicken pox virus. He recovered fully and it is important to note that folks with natural chicken pox are thought to be even more likely to develop shingles, and they too can develop meningitis.
The bottom line is that if someone has meningitis, even if they were recently vaccinated, you shouldn't be blaming the vaccines.
Like they do with VAERS reports, misusing package inserts is a common method that anti-vaccine folks use to scare parents away from vaccinating and protecting their kids.
What to Know About Meningitis and Vaccine Package Inserts
Although included in some vaccine package inserts, except for rare circumstances with some live virus vaccines, none actually claim that vaccines cause meningitis.
More on Meningitis and Vaccine Package Inserts
Do Vaccines Cause Meningitis or Encephalitis/Encephalopathy?
Package Inserts
Study – Risk of hospitalization because of aseptic meningitis after measles-mumps-rubella vaccination in one- to two-year-old children: an analysis of the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) Project.
Herpes zoster and meningitis due to reactivation of varicella vaccine virus in an immunocompetent child.
FDA – Draft Guidance for Industry: Postmarketing Safety Reporting for Human Drug and Biological Products Including Vaccines
FDA – Guidance for Industry: FDA Review of Vaccine Labeling Requirements for Warnings, Use Instructions, and Precautionary Information
Argument by Vaccine Package Inserts – debunking myths
Package Inserts – Understanding What They Do (and Don't) Say
Vaccine Package Inserts: Not all you should be reading
Anti-vaccine parents and the package insert paradox
Debunking anti-vaccine arguments: VAERS, package inserts, and the VICP do not prove that vaccines are dangerous
The vaccine package insert paradox
Myths That Keep People From Vaccinating Their Kids
How to Read A Package Insert
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meningococcal vaccines
VAERS
How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Takes Advantage of Dead Children and Their Parents
Do Kids Really Get 72 Doses of Vaccines?
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They don't believe me when I show the data proving SIDS rate is at an all-time low. They are nonsensical.


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Homeowners are being Encouraged to Invest in Smoke Hoods!
By FIREMASK UK
Published: July 12th, 2019
Homeowners are being encouraged to invest in smoke hoods to help protect them from breathing in toxic fumes if they are stuck inside a burning building.
Ian Batcheldor and Russell Bremner, from Gravesend, Kent have launched Firemask.co.uk to sell the masks to help find a solution to potentially saving the lives of people caught in a fire in the future.
According to figures smoke inhalation is the leading cause of death in fires.
It's been reported it causes between an estimated 50 and 80 per cent of fire fatalities.
The smoke hoods provide 60 minutes of filtered, breathable air even if the air filled with toxic fumes and thick smoke.
Co-owner Ian Bacheldor said: "Smoke inhalation is the biggest threat to life in a fire, and our masks are designed to combat exactly that.
"for every minute someone is in a smoke-filled environment, the chance of survival decreases by 10% so our masks greatly improve the chance of survival"
"The clear visor improves visibility when surrounded by smoke, and the RPD60 model comes with gloves that can be used in temperatures up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit, making the possibility of escaping rooms with red-hot handles much easier.
"Not to mention being able to breathe for up to 60 minutes courtesy of the filter!
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This eastbound freight is working upgrade in Echo Canyon towards the summit, as seen from the northeast side of Echo Canyon Road. The left-handed running will continue until just south of Wahsatch, where the eastbound track crosses below the westbound just before a pair of tunnels. Echo Canyon Road used to continue paralleling the tracks for a distance, but now terminates shortly past the locomotives.


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When attending auctions for repossessed Toyota motorcars, there are quite a few auction venues you can attend that are run by Standard Bank, Wesbank, ABSA and Burchmores. A few of the Toyota vehicles that you are sure to find at any typical event include the Fortuna, Camry, Yaris, Hilux and Corolla. Burchmores often have more of a variety when it comes to repossessed cars, especially if you are looking for a specific make of car like Toyota. Repossessions are extremely popular these days as many people can't afford to buy cars new out of the box, so they go for the cars that have been repossessed from their owners as they are normally cheaper.
If you want to find out about auctions for repossessed Toyota motorcars from the banks, then the best thing for you to do is contact your nearest ABSA, Standard Bank or Wesbank branch and ask them for the details you require in order for you to attend an auction of theirs. While you are at it, you can also enquire about applying for finance with the bank if you need it. There is no point attending an event with the intention of purchasing vehicles when you don't have the cash to do so. Therefore, there is affordable finance that you can apply for before the auction is due to take place, to ensure you have the necessary funds available when you find a vehicle you are interested in making yours.
As there are many different types of Toyota cars available on the market, from the old school Corolla and Camry to the newer models like the Yaris, Fortuna and Hilux; you have to be specific about what you are looking for. Find out about as many auctions for repossessed Toyota motorcars as you can, incase you can't make one of them; you can always make sure you get to the next one.


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Color in black and white
The world is not black and white, but until fairly recently, photography was. For most of its history, the art was an art of silver on paper, spread from inky blacks through velvety grays into pristine whites.
There had been attempts to add color, either by painting on top of the monochrome image, or by various experimental techniques to capture the color directly. But even after the commercially successful introduction of Kodachrome in 1935, photography as a museum-approved art continued to be primarily in black and white.
(In cinema, Technicolor predated Kodachrome by about a decade, but that process was essentially three different black and white negatives overlapped through color filters to create the effect. It was an expensive and difficult process and relatively few films, percentage-wise, were made with the process until after the commercial success of Gone With The Wind and The Wizard of Oz in 1939.)
I have been a photographer for at least 50 years. I have had shows and my work has been published. But for most of that time, I worked in monochrome. I "saw" in black and white. My photographic heroes worked in B&W, the techniques I mastered were silver techniques. I became an excellent printer. But I seldom used color film. It seemed an unnecessary noise to bring to the purity of the medium.
I was hardly alone in this. When I was younger, even museums shied away from color photography. It was seen as not "permanent." It's images faded over time (I'm sure you all have old family snapshots turned rather magenta with age). The real artist-photographers used silver or platinum and made glorious images.
Back then, art in general was seen with more precious eyes. We thought of "archival processing," and even paintings were carefully preserved and curators looked down on some artists — such as Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko — who used non-archival pigments or unprepared canvases and whose works, therefore, had begun to deteriorate.
In current times, few artists or galleries worry much about such things. Art can be made on newsprint, or can even purposely self-destruct. Concern for the permanence of an artwork is seen as elitist. After all, no matter how careful you are, the art is going to be gone eventually, even if it lasts till the sun explodes.
And besides, color is now no more or less permanent than black and white: Now they are both nothing but ones and zeros. Silver is dead; long live digital.
Yet there is still a difference between color photography and black and white. It is a difference not simply of technique, but of thought. Thinking in color is different from thinking in black and white.
The part of vision that deals in color is processed in a different area of the brain than the part that concerns itself with darks and lights. (Vision is ridiculously more complicated neurologically than you might think — the information on the retina is broken down into many separate components, processed by differing regions of the brain and then re-coordinated as a gestalt.)
And so, some people pay closer attention to the hue, others to the forms they see.
The fact is, black-and-white photography and color photography are two different art forms. To be successful in both requires a kind of bilingualism. Most of us have brains that function best either in seeing forms and shades, or in seeing hues. The two photographies emphasize those different talents.
One has only to consider the work of Stephen Shore or William Eggleston. Most of their meaning comes through the color. Take one of Eggleston's best-known images and suck the color out. What have you got?
He made this photo of a ceiling and light bulb. The red is overwhelming. But imagine it as a black and white image.
He also made a similar image of a brothel ceiling painted blue. Also overwhelming. The two are nearly the same image, but with very different emotional and sensuous meanings.
But if we make them both black and white, they very nearly merge into the same thing.
Color can by itself separate forms. Here are four squares in four colors; as distinct as can be. But the exact image, unaltered except for the draining of all color from it, leaves a confused mess, barely a separation between grays.
Black and white photography requires the separation of parts not by hue, but by contrast: Lights agains darks. It's what makes great silver prints sing. Where color photographs separate forms primarily by hue, black and white shapes form with contrast.
I am not saying a color photograph has to be garish. Far from it. But the color will carry a good deal of the meaning and emotional resonance of the image. Even in a color photo that has hardly any color in it.
Many years ago, I tried an experiment. Like so many others, I loved the waterlily paintings of Claude Monet. But I wondered if they would make as much sense in black and white. Is there a structure holding the pictures together, a design or composition, that didn't depend solely on the rich color.
So, I began making photographs in black and white of water lilies.
The most successful of them clearly relied on bright highlights and strong shadows. The shapes made the picture.
If I tried an overall design, like Monet's the picture lost its strength.
I did the same experiment with one of Monet's paintings, rephotographing it in black and white.
Did it hold up? It is certainly a very different beast.
Then I went back to one of my own color photographs of his waterlilies in Giverny, a photograph that imitated Monet's paintings, with color, sky, reflection, shadow and lily. In color and side-by-side, in black and white.
What I discovered shouldn't be a surprise: Monet was much more effective in color. But I also noticed that because my photos were well-focused rather than impressionistically fuzzy, they translated better into black and white: Black and white is meant to clarify shapes. Color identifies "areas" rather than discrete textures.
And so, while I have spent the majority of my photographic career making monochrome images, along with many others now working in digital media, I switch back and forth between color and B&W. They do, however, require different vocabularies. They are different languages.
While I have always made visual art, I made my career in writing about art.
As an art critic, I had the unusual need to be bilingual in an odd sort of way. As a journalist, I needed to be good with words, but in writing about art, especially visual art, I needed to know how to use my eyes.
I discovered very early on how these two talents were seldom granted to the same person. All around me were reporters who knew a gerund from a copulative, but who often seemed almost infantile when discussing pictures. They could name the subject of the image, but not go much further than that.
A photo editor of my acquaintance once explained photojournalism this way: "I need to know it's a house; don't trick it up with 'art.'" This was image as ID photo.
But on the other side, so many artists I knew couldn't explain themselves out of a paper bag. They effused in vague buzzwords, words that changed currency every year or so. I once taught a graduate course in writing about art for art students who needed to prepare so-called "artist statements" for their exhibits. Most of what they wrote before the course was utter blather, obscure and important-sounding without actually meaning anything.
Words and images: Worlds seldom interpenetrable. I call the talent for riding both sides a form of bilingualism.
I do not know if the ability to deal in multiple "languages" is something you are born with, or that you learn early on the way you acquire language before the ability to do so closes off in adolescence. But somehow, I managed to do it, at least well enough to write about it without embarrassing myself.
The mental juice necessary to process each seems walled off from the other, except in rare cases. One either runs a literary program, based on sentence and paragraph structure, linear words building a whole out of alphabetic parts; or one comprehends shapes, lines, color, size, texture, and frame as carrying the information required to convey meaning.
This doesn't mean that visual people are illiterate, nor that literary people can't enjoy an art gallery, but that their primary modes of understanding vary. The squishiness of an artist's gallery talk can drive a writer bonkers; the flatness of a word-person's understanding of a painting can leave an artsy type scratching her head: "Can't you see?"
Nor does it mean that either side can't learn, although it will remain a second language, without native understanding of idiom and customary usage. A word person can be trained to see shape and form, but it will always remain as I learned Spanish. No one will ever confuse me with a native speaker.
This split between word and image, though is only one of the bisections. Musicians can think in tone the way painters can think in pigment. Yes, there is a language that can describe the music, but for non-musicians, that language is usually impressionistic and often visual — what the music "makes you think of," or the "pictures in your mind."
For the musically trained, there is also language, but it is completely opaque to the civilian: Dominant-seventh, voice-leading, timbre, reed trimming, tenor clef, Dorian mode, ritornello, de capo, circle of fifths. But even these are merely words to describe the non-verbal reality of the music itself, which can convey meaning through sound alone. The words are not the music.
The ability to think in the terms of each mode is essential to create well in that form, and a mighty help in understanding it for the audience. If you are not in love with words, the rich cream of Gibbons or the organ tones of Milton can leave you cold. If you have no eyes for color, the nuance of Turner or the pears of Cezanne can zip past without notice. If you think of pop tunes as music, the shifting tonal centers of Schubert are inaudible, the orchestration of Mahler merely noise.
We each have a frequency our sensibilities are tuned to, and can receive it loud and clear; we may think we understand the rest, but too often we are only fooling ourselves. Do you really inhale the contrapuntal movement of a Balanchine chorus? Do you notice the rhythm of editing in a Spielberg film? Each is a language that its practitioners and connoisseurs understand profoundly, but zip past the mass of those sitting in the cheap seats.
It's a different language
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Had a rollercoaster weekend last week. I was so stoked about the National Day photo opportunities, I couldn't even sleep proper. Slept so late, that at the last moment, thought about backing up my portable hard drive to DVD archives, just in case. Figured nothing would go wrong, and my eyes were heavy anyway, so I called it a night so I could wake up as early as possible for the drive to Bandar. Bad mistake.
After taking all these pictures, I went ahead and backed up my 2GB SD card to my Photomate, this handy device that has memory card slots and a hard drive built in so I can just backup my cards in action. It took 30 minutes for it to back up the whole card, and the device felt hot to the touch as well. Had my reservations about the heat, but thought nothing of it.
When I was heading home, I had the niggling feeling that I should check my hard drive as soon as possible, so when I got home, I did, and to my horror, all my backed up photos, totaling around 7000ish couldn't be accessed. Oh the horror. I had some backups of earlier stuff I took before I got the 80-200mm, and had some DVDs I passed to other people, so I could recover some of them back, so that's my agenda for the next few weeks.
My immediate concern was to recover some images from the 2GB, and thank god I still had the program Recover My Files to recover the areas on the card that I haven't written to. So if you see images named Recovered_JPEG Digital Camera_XX, yes, those are recovered images. And they still have their EXIF data. Phew.
The next day, my friend's wedding at KB, and that was the first time I drove my Civic outside State limits, but for all intents and purposes, the car performed admirably. Took some pictures, jostling with some guy with a D200 and some dudes with Canons.
After coming back to Brunei, went ahead to go to Gadong, and saw a little commotion going on at the mall. Immediately remembered that UcingItam is doing a shoot for the Kristal Kids Idol, so went ahead and got my Off Trail out. Had my Nintendo DS clamped onto the belt, so I figured it wont drop off so I merrily walked from EGM towards the mall. Upon reaching the mall, felt back and reached for my DS, and to my horror, again, I lost the damn thing. I felt numb. Seriously. Went around Gadong looking for it, praying no car would run the sweet thing over, but can't even find it.
I feel so hollow right now.
I've had a lengthy post on Bloggar, which I decided to delete, because there were some features missing. This was due to Blogger moving to the New Blogger service, and Bloggar not fully supporting it yet.
So the gist of my deleted post?
Jealous because a mate found one.
I want one, but I still can't find it.
Maybe Vino Classic will have to do?
My major concern? I can't fit my camera bag anywhere.
So, what say you? Yay or Nay?
Along with Bruneian, and Ber, I met the others who make up the local photography blogosphere for a light rainy day's shooting of the simple ceremony to raise the National Flag.
RezaFaizal has captured most of the guys that was in our little group yesterday, while KantaLensa brought his compadre along, Zul273, also met Puzian and UcingItam, and also Reeda at the after-shoot at Jing Chew. RezaFaizal also managed to capture Sufri and his lovely companion. Now that's what I call one heart, one love.
Of course me and Bruneian brought out the monopods for the day. Even though we got stares from the other photographers, but it was awesome shooting with a stable platform. Even then, my right arm was tired 3/4ths in. Too much clicking methinks.
Got to test out my new gear as well, my new Lowepro Off Trail 2. It was either this, or the SlingShot 200AW which I have been drooling over for so long. After careful perusing, I decided on the Off Trail 2 because all I needed was a top loader, and more importanly, a top loader that can fit my D80 + 80-200mm f/2.8 attached. The SlingShot can only manage to fit a medium zoom lens, if at all. My Mini Trekker would've gotten in the way yesterday, so in all honesty, the Off Trail performed wonderfully.


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Difference between Nikon D7100 and Nikon D610
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Nikon D7100 vs Nikon D610
Whenever it comes to a comparison between DSLR cameras, Nikon is a trusted brand. The recent few models which have stirred quite a chaos and appeal in the DSLR market, are the Nikon D7100 and D610 models. Both of these great versions feature unique characters and can be compared in the light of professional photographic terms. Let's check out the main differences between these two mid-level DSLR cameras from Nikon.
The D610 features a 24p cinema mode, which is not available in the D7100 model. The D610 also has a built-in focus motor, which is not sported by the D7100. It has a built-in High Dynamic Range mode, which allows automatic picture shooting under the HDR settings. This is also not found in the D7100. The D610 offers a little more megapixels standing at 24.3 compared to the 24.1 megapixels of the D7100. The resolution is also a little higher when it comes to the D610. The sensor in D610 is measurably larger than the D7100 sensor. The video quality was also found to be a lot better when shot with the Nikon D610. If you're a fan of video shooting along with having a passion for taking still snapshots, this is a better model for you than the D7100.
Now let's check out the sections where the Nikon D7100 simply beats the Nikon D610. The D7100 has a lot more focus points than the D610. This is extremely crucial when you're looking for standard art form of photography. The D7100 is a little shorter than the other model and the volume is also less than the D610. The shutter speed is almost twice faster in the D7100 than the shutter speed in D610. There are 2 microphones compared to the single microphone in D610. The optical image stabilization is built in in the D7100, but the D610 does not have this feature. The pixel density is reasonable higher standing at 500 pixels per inch compared to the 442 pixels per inch in the D610. The microphone is stereo and the form factor is much thinner than the D610. The weight is also much lighter than the D610. The best part of this model is that it features Wi-Fi, allowing it to instantly share the photos taken to the internet, which is not available in the Nikon D610.
Key Differences between Nikon D7100 & Nikon D610:
Nikon D7100 has more focus points than D610.
The D7100 has a smaller form factor than the D610.
The shutter speed is higher in the D7100.
The D7100 is lighter in weight.
The D7100 features Wi-Fi connectivity, which is not available in the D610.
The D610 allows 24p video capturing mode, but the D7100 does not.
There is a built in HDR mode and focus motor in D610, but not in D7100.
The screen resolution is comparatively higher in the D610.
The sensory is larger in the D610 than the D7100.
The video recording quality is a lot better in the Nikon D610.
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