It seems like a funny question to ask, doesn't it? Can we actually 'live in the moment'? But it's worth asking.
It's a phenomenon that's got a hold of my attention throughout this last couple of years and has had me questioning it. What really is the extent of our ability to actually experience this 'living in the moment' thing.
'Live in the moment.' That phrase is something that's spruiked all over the healthy living, martial arts and sports domains online and offline and has for a long time. I actually think it's great and the closer we can get to experiencing that, the better we'll be for it. However, I've recently learned about something that totally gets in the way of this ideal. You see, our conscious minds can never actually experience the present moment. Not at all. Not even a little bit.
Why is this? Well, I've done a fair bit of research into this concept and I believe I've found some answers that might explain this strange phenomenon quite nicely.
Things that we experience while being fully aware of them happening around us.
Eg: Watching an eagle soaring overhead.
Conscious experience is the result of our unconscious experience being heavily filtered and only allowing a very small fraction of reality to enter our conscious minds. This filtering takes a little bit of time and as a result is experienced after the moment has actually passed.
Things that we experience while being totally unaware that they are happening around us.
Eg: Not noticing that ant crawling over your bare foot while you're watching an eagle soaring overhead.
Unconscious experience includes massive amounts of data pouring in and happens instantaneously; In the moment.
The following table was published by Dylan William of 'Kings College London School of Education' and is based on research by "Zimmerman" in 1989.
What Zimmerman was saying here is that from our eyesight alone, the average person can only be consciously aware of 0.00004% of actual information gathered from the eyes. Where's the rest of the information go? Well, it's not deleted straight away. It's used as Exformation according to a researcher called Tor Nørretranders in his account of the nature of consciousness in 1998. Exformation is the stuff surrounding information that helps us to make sense of the information. It's context. Now think about this for a minute. If the rest of the information is context then that means 99.9996% of the information we actually sense using our eyes is purely context.
As for hearing, isn't it interesting that we're only wired to hear around 1% of the data of what we see. It's no wonder our eyesight is our dominant sense.
So understanding that this extraordinary filtering takes place, and this happens with each one of our many senses, it's not so surprising that the filtering process takes some time. In fact, it's amazing that it takes so little time. Here's an excerpt from Dylan William's essay explaining the research that took place to discover this.
"In an experiment reported by Benjamin Libet in 1979 … participants were asked to flex a finger whenever they felt like doing so. In order to answer the question as to the sequence of events, it was necessary to get data on three events—when the increase in readiness potential began, when the conscious decision was made, and when the finger moved. The first and last of these were easy to obtain. In order to get reliable data on when the conscious decision was made, the participants were asked to look at a clock face with a single hand which made one revolution every 2.56 seconds. Asking the participants to note the position of the hand when they decided to flex the finger provided a reliable measure of when the decision was taken.
So half a second, eh. That's as close as we get to living in the moment?
I wonder, though. If these experiments were done in different situations like, running away from a hungry tiger or after meditation or during martial arts practice, would the results have been different?
Can we decrease that gap between conscious awareness and reality? If so, how can we do it?
My instincts say it's possible. My experience also says it's possible. I have absolutely no science to back this thought but I can't imagine that given all of the knowledge we have about brain plasticity, body reflexes, muscle memory, mindfulness, etc, that this consciousness delay would remain a fixed value. Consider the reflexes of a master samurai or table tennis player. They have way less that half a second to see, judge and then make decisions. Watch this video of a swordsman cutting a bullet in mid-air with his sword and listen to Dr Ramani's response.
What kind of exercises can we do to decrease our conscious awareness gap, decrease our reaction times and bring us closer to living in the moment?
Matt Charnley, co-former of the Hoshiki Kiritsu mode of martial arts gives a great set of exercises to his students to prime their senses and decrease their reaction times using peripheral vision and hearing. I won't set it all out here but check out his article at Blitzmag.net.
Many describe movement practices such as Yoga, Nia or other dance arts as transformative and helping one to have excellent body and consciousness awareness.
But the standout way of becoming closer to living in the moment is Meditation. Mindfulness means to empty your mind of all but what you're currently experiencing through your senses meaning being more in touch with your unconscious mind. This does not need to be a spiritual practice in the traditional sense of the word and can be exercised at any point in the day.
At Observance Imaginate, I take that mindfulness practice one step further and while becoming more aware of all that I currently experience, I also take those senses and experiences and link them with my conscious mind, my memories, my logic, my imagination and my creativity. To get to this point of connection, though, I need to go through the process of mindfulness. This allows all of the conscious thoughts to happen more fluidly, more rapidly and more effectively.
It's great. I love it. It's also very energizing.
I'm about to head off to Karate tonight after a pretty substantial break and I'm thinking my reaction times are going to be somewhere around 1 – 2sec. Pretty slow. Maybe I could blame conscious awareness delay tonight, or perhaps I could try meditating and practicing some observing beforehand. Maybe then I won't come home with another broken rib. Ha!
I'd love to hear about how you practice living "in the moment" or any experience you may have had where you felt you were really "In the moment".
Leave a comment below to join the conversation.
This entry was posted on July 18, 2016 by Steve Nossiter in Observance.


Whether you've already got a smartwatch, are considering your first piece of digital bling or just wondering why the hell you need one – we're here to help.
There is a huge range of smartwatches available from Apple toSamsung, Sony, Tag Heuer and Pebble – the list goes on. But, which watch is the one for you? We've rounded up a few of the best models available to make choosing your new timepiece simple.
It's set the quality standard, but is it the best?
If you've got an iPhone – the Apple watch is the one for you. It's designed to work for iOS so it'll work seamlessly with your existing software and apps. It's got some great features like subtle vibrations when you get a call or notification, mobile payment capability with Apple Pay and over 10,000 watchOS apps. Plus, it's built well, comes in two sizes, looks good, and is surprisingly comfortable to wear. Overall, the Apple Watch is a solid choice.
Tag Heuer Connected is the George Clooney of smartwatches, it is ridiculously good looking and expensive. However, with smartwatches it's not just about looks, it's what's inside that counts.
It runs on Android Wear and has got some great features like a powerful Intel dual-core processor, unobtrusive notifications, and a day's worth of battery life. But, in my opinion, in terms of tech for the price (no heart rate sensor or GPS), it's a little lagging.
On the bright side, the Tag Heuer Connected is very comfortable to wear, it's got a slick turning bezel and a face of scratch resistant crystal sapphire glass (fancy!). The hefty price tag is matched by its quite large size, the Tag Heuer watch is bulky. But, if you're dropping that much cash on it – surely you want people to see it?
I'm loving everything that Samsung is doing lately and their newest smartwatch; the Galaxy Gear S2 is no different.
The round face is super cool and allows for an innovative rotating bezel control. The bezel makes accessing your watch features a breeze and it helps keep the face of the watch clean of fingerprints. Trust me – with a screen this sharp and vibrant you'll want to keep it as clean as possible.
It's got 4GB of memory, wireless charging, Tizen OS and up to 4 days of battery life. My only complaint is that it doesn't have as many apps as some of its competitors but it's the best all-rounder by far. It's compatible with a range of Android devices. So, if you're a Samsung fan then the Gear S2 will suit you perfectly.
The Pebble Time watch is well, to put it plainly – it's got the Dad bod of smartwatches. It's a little clunky and square but it's got its own charms.
The Pebble Time is simple and functional and it comes with everything you need. It's got a huge 7-day battery life, simple timeline feature, 30-meter water resistance and it works with both Android and iOS.
Basically, Pebble Time is an affordable and simple smartwatch that works really well. Plus, it reminds me of a retro my Casio watch – what's not love?
Say hello to your new wrist candy, the Moto 360. This fine looking (time) piece was one of the first smartwatches to sport a round face and is still one of the best-looking smartwatches around. In fact, it's a thing of beauty and it's pretty functional too.
It runs on Android Wear and works with both Android and iOS. The Moto 360 has 4GB of storage, wireless charging and up to two days of battery life. And, it's customisable so you can change the band to suit your style #swag.
The cons? From what I've seen the display isn't the best available and the black bottom spacing, housing the sensors, makes the round display look like a flat tyre which will bother some.
It's still the perfect fusion between a good old-fashion looking watch and wearable tech.
Once you have the Sony Smartwatch 3, you'll struggle to leave home without it. Its best features would have to be the built-in GPS connectivity and wireless Bluetooth headphone pairing to listen to music (that you can upload to the watch), that means it makes it perfect for running as there is no need to take your smartphone with you!
It's also got built-in Wi-Fi connectivity, 4GB of storage and a range of apps available from Android Wear section of the Google Play Store. It's compatible with Android devices and iPhone devices running iOS 8 and above.
Which smartwatch are you most excited about? I'd love to hear about your favourite, leave a comment in the box below!


The book drive is organized by the BCMI Diversity Committee at PwC, a group of professionals who share the same goal of promoting diversity to better serve our Firm, clients, and society. We leverage our differences to connect individuals and groups from different backgrounds.
The employees at PwC highly value increasing literacy, empowering others, and are committed to a higher purpose. The Firm is committed to giving back through charitable contributions, and we sincerely believe that donating 1,000 children's books is an excellent way to accomplish this initiative.
The school that we are partnering with is Raruowa Kadera Secondary School, a public day school located in Migori, Kenya.
Our goal is to collect 1,000 new or gently used books by November 30th. Books should be at the U.S. Pre-K to 8th grade reading level and can be anything from children's fiction/non-fiction to young teen literature.
We will be reaching out to fellow colleagues, as well family and friends to collect books. If you are interested in helping on this project, feel free to drop books in donation bins placed on the 5th, 19th, and 29th floors, as well as the cafeteria, in the New York Office. Do not forget to spread the word! Tell your friends, families, and colleagues about this great opportunity to put those books to good use by donating them to this cause, right in time for the holidays.


We've been looking through HCR's archives and have asked our founder, Dr Ross James, to explain the story behind some of the photos.
An innate sense of survival is a key aptitude if you are thinking of applying for a position with HCR's international project workers. I won't talk about surviving the sniper (he missed), the bomb explosion (at the barber shop while I was having a haircut: close shave; yes, I've heard that one before), nor being tear gassed in the company of police (the police fired into the wind!). Nor will I talk about a client booking me into the second floor of a hotel and it taking me a few days to realise the smiling, prettily-dressed females on the landing of the first floor were offering a room service involving more than clean towels each day. No, I'm talking about the skill of making sense of signage and I'm restricting this to the Philippines.
The Kodak photography blow-up services sign takes on a different meaning when you're walking down the main street of Cotabato, the scene of decades of violence, killings, bombing and kidnapping.
Then, I'd like to know how the hotel, popular with travelling business people, determined whether a spouse was or was not 'instant'. Did they just add water and see what happened?
And if the hotel doesn't allow me an instant spouse to do my laundry*, then why pay laundry services to dry undies and socks when the air conditioner is perfectly adequate? And no sign forbidding me to do so!
Then there's the escape or exit route. Would I have the strength to do this on my own? With no instant spouse to help, I guess I could always call 'blow-up services'.


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La cronometro maschile Junior dei Campionati europei di ciclismo su strada 2016, ventiduesima edizione della prova, si disputò il 14 settembre 2016 su un percorso di 25,5 km con partenza da Josselin e arrivo a Plumelec, in Francia. La medaglia d'oro fu appannaggio del francese Alexys Brunel, il quale completò il percorso con il tempo di 35'58"76, alla media di 42,539 km/h; l'argento andò allo svizzero Marc Hirschi e bronzo al norvegese Iver Knotten.

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Let's look at the little things that add up by the time you zero in on the action. From a lot of trial and error, I can offer up the following pointers that have proven to bring pretty consistent results when it comes to "closing the sale." As always those results tend to materialize over time with a bit of practice and, whether intuitive or not, each is reasonably straightforward to perform. Keep in mind, you have other options that may suit you better.
Set the hook before each cast. You heard it right, and I catch an average of one or two fish per outing this way. It's very easy—just do a hook-setting motion every time you pick the line up out of the water to recast. Trout love to follow retrieves all the way in, then grab at the last moment. I always pause a second before picking up and then set the hook as if I got hit. A surprising number of times something will actually be there with its mouth around the fly.
On any miss, don't pick up right away. Instead, stay the course with your retrieve and hold steady for a follow and second take. (Remember that hook set when you recast!) In my experience, making the same cast can bring on a subsequent strike, and I've taken my share of trout this way. However, as a rule of thumb, the larger the fish and the more shallow its location, the lower your odds are on second cast. I usually make the second cast, move on, and then come back ten or fifteen minutes later for one last visit. That's a good way to find either success or closure.
Hint: Taking that second shot works quite well when trolling. On any hit or miss, do an about-face and troll right back over the same area. I find the odds to be even better for this method given the depth involved, since they're anything but bashful in that zone.
Unattached or unattended, either can be a costly mistake when water is involved.
Playing fish away from the reel. For smaller to average-size fish, I cannot tell you when I last used my reel to play and land a trout, lake or stream. By hand one can take in line much more quickly and also constantly adjust and control the tension depending on how the fish behaves. This is a very simple difference in method that brings great results and doesn't take tons of practice to get good at. Note that when the big one calls your name, all bets are off. Go straight to your reel and let it run when it wants. Here the threat of a break-off is much greater, and you'll want to afford the fish as much shock-absorbing latitude as you can. Like a lot of things, I had to learn this the hard way a few times. My worst was on the Yakima River when, without thinking, I elected to play the fish of a lifetime away from my reel out of habit. According to statistics, if I fish the Yak regularly I'll have another shot at one of those fish in ten years. I'll be sure to put it on the reel when that happens.
Following stubborn fish while hooked. Mostly for float tubers, take advantage of your mobility by moving toward any trout that refuses to give way in your direction. I have no problem going to them whenever necessary. The sooner I can fight the fish from a close distance, the more control I have during battle.
Landing from beneath. I prefer to land fish from underneath my float tube when it's an option. It takes a little skill but is well worth it in terms of avoiding a last-second loss. From directly below, you can usually lift the fish straight up to the edge of your tube with the net waiting a foot or two away. At the last moment simply make a swift scoop as the trout nears the surface. I can do this most of the time with relatively little fuss compared to landing it from an outward position.
Never set your rod down to multitask. The issue with that should be obvious, unless you have yet to catch your first fish.
Along the same lines, be conscious of anything not attached to you or your boat, especially your rod and reel. I have a few hundred bucks in equipment resting at the bottom of several lakes. I know right where it all is.
for Force Fins or similar costly gear make for great peace of mind.
Check rod connections often. The only thing better than watching a section of your rod fly off during a cast is hearing a female connection crack during a cast. I have written a couple of warranty checks from this one.
Check your fly often. One of my worst pet peeves, I really hate wasting twenty or thirty minutes out there thinking I was presenting with a functioning hook, only to find it fouled up somehow.
Always tether expensive fins. I've never lost a Force Fin and never plan to.
Never overinflate. That applies to everything.
When another angler is successful, ask about everything except the fly he is using. Not because it's a secret—you simply don't need that information. For what it's worth, I have yet to tell someone what fly I'm using or its color, and then watch them proceed to knock the lights out.
Remove your fly before you correct tangled leader and tippet. Nine out of ten times it's a lot faster to do this and just tie it back on.
Excerpted with permission from Stillwaters Simplified: 7 Lessons to Help You Catch More Fish on the Fly (Stackpole Books, August 2017). All rights reserved.


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Split verdict conviction tossed for ex-NFL star's killer
NFL Headlines
Rodgers leads Packers vs. Donald, Rams
Allen, Jackson face off in Ravens-Bills
Von Miller under investigation by police
Falcons pick Titans OC Smith as coach
Meyer: Jags 'perfect' situation to win
Browns star G Bitonio cleared to play
WR Josh Gordon's reinstatement rescinded
Bears' Edwards Jr. suspended 2 games
Jets hiring 49ers DC Saleh as coach
McVay confirms Goff to start vs. Packers
By KEVIN McGILL
The U.S. Supreme Court has thrown out the manslaughter conviction for the man who shot former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith to death in 2016.
Monday's order in favor of Cardell Hayes had been expected. In December 2017, a jury convicted Hayes by a vote of 10-2 on charges of manslaughter and attempted manslaughter in the death of Smith and the wounding of Smith's wife, who was struck in the leg by gunfire. But the Supreme Court has since ruled that such convictions must be unanimous.
A state appeals court gets the case next but, ultimately, it will be up to the new district attorney in New Orleans, Jason Williams, to decide whether to put Hayes, 33, on trial again. Hayes is serving a 25-year sentence.
The shootings followed arguments after a traffic crash. Hayes said he shot in self-defense. A state appeals court rejected that argument.
Surveillance video from the night of the shooting showed Smith's Mercedes SUV possibly bumping Hayes' Hummer, then driving off. Hayes followed them and rammed his vehicle into Smith's. Both then got out and argued in the street.
Hayes insisted at trial that he fired after a drunk, angry Smith retrieved a gun from his car and fired first. But Hayes was the only witness to say Smith held a gun or fired it. A handgun was found loaded but unused in Smith's car.
Williams' office issued a release noting the Supreme Court action on the Hayes case and another, lesser known, split-verdict case in Louisiana. It said both cases "will receive thorough review and a decision in the coming weeks on the best way to proceed under the law to deliver justice."
Smith, a 34-year-old father of three, was a defensive leader on the Saints team that lifted spirits in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. He helped carry the team to a winning season in 2006 and a Super Bowl victory in 2010.
Hayes, 33, who owned a tow-truck business, had played semi-pro football and is the father of a young son.

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Not only this is Pomegranate of the most delicious fruits out there, but the number of benefits it provides us are innumerable. They have amazing properties like anti-oxidants, anti-tumor, and anti-viral.
In addition to that, they are rich in vitamins like vitamin A, C, and E, and it is also a great source of folic acid. This is a truly wonderful fruit that happens to have three times more anti-oxidants than Green Tea does.
Pomegranates are very good to you, they help to maintain a proper blood circulation reason why doctors would recommend an increase in the intake of this fruit if you are having blood regulatory issues. You can also eat pomegranate to help you recover from a long illness.
They are also great to help you clear your skin and fight off any inflammations. Do you have a sore throat? Then, a nice glass of pomegranate juice is great for you. But that isn't enough, they also happen to be a great cure for heart conditions, stomach issues, cancer, diabetes, anemia, arthritis, and even dental conditions.
There is truly a never-ending list of benefits we can get from eating pomegranates, as they are so rich in antioxidants, they help to oxidize all the LDL cholesterol in our bodies.
It doesn't matter if you consume your pomegranate as a juice, seeds, syrup, nectar, concentrated formula or paste, you will enjoy all the benefits all the same.
Doctors also recommend pomegranate to help your body repair damaged cartilage, and for pregnant women, it is useful to consume it in order to protect their babies brain's from any damage that may occur during labor.
You want more, huh? Well, see this way, the health benefits from pomegranates range between curing stomach issues to improving erectile dysfunction problems.
In order to treat stomach problems like diarrhea or other digestive issues, you could drink a tea made out of the leaves from the pomegranate tree. This tea is also great to deal with dysentery and cholera.
Drinking pomegranate juice on a regular basis, daily if you can, will help you to maintain a proper blood circulation through your body and it reduces the risks of suffering from heart attacks or strokes.
There is a large concentration of Flavonoids in pomegranates, which are a form of antioxidants, they have been proven to be very effective in eradicating those free radicals in our bodies.
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As we age, our eyes can change drastically. Even those who have perfect vision at 20 can have problems by 40, and the older you get, the harder it is to distinguish colors, see distances, and read small fonts. In order to remain active and independent, it might be necessary for senior citizens to update the lighting in their home. At Accent Lighting in Wichita, we have several fixture options that provide the light output that aging eyes need, and we would love to help you find the lamps, lights, and bulbs that give you the illumination you need.
Someone who is 65 needs approximately twice the light to see that they did at 20, and their eyes can be much more sensitive to glare, so it's important that those brighter lights have the appropriate shades and hoods on them. If you're noticing that's it becoming harder to see in a certain room or area of your house, or you've observed an elderly relative having trouble reading or seeing, there are upgrades you can make.
When you're younger, seeing while shaving or putting on makeup isn't too difficult, but as your eyes age, they'll need more lumens to see while getting ready in the morning. Picking new vanity bulbs with higher light output can make it much easier to see while standing or sitting at the bathroom counter, but be sure to check the fixture's wattage levels so you don't exceed it. Switching from incandescent to CFL bulbs can also increase your lumens while decreasing the wattage.
One thing that many people worry about as they age is falling and hurting themselves in their home. This can often happen as they're navigating a hallway, and they don't see an upturned corner of a runner rug, or they misjudge where the wall is when they turn a corner. By updating the bulbs in your hallway fixtures, you can eliminate shadows that can pose risks. Changing the paint color to a lighter shade can also help the area feel larger and easier to see down as one walks from the front door to the living room.
If you love to read, but have found it harder and harder as you age, consider adding another floor or table lamp in your reading nook, or changing the bulb to one with higher lumens. Even if you upgrade to large-print books for easier reading, more light is always better and can reduce the eye strain that will set in more quickly as you age. Also, don't forget that the sun is a powerful source of ambient light, so if you can sit in a sunny, comfortable spot to read, it might be your best choice!
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I've worked a few opening shifts in my time, not for the last few years but I've done it before. The first few hours at the tattoo shop are pretty quiet, usually. It's always only that slow trickle, starting out with people who have early appointments, a few random guys trying to sell something, maybe someone coming in to look at the books.
It's nothing like closing shifts at the tattoo shop. I prefer the night crowd. People in packs, flipping through the flash racks. Some guy showing me a pile of scribbles he got in his cousin's basement and asking to get it fixed. A couple arguing while they ask about getting their names tattooed on each other. People rambling, weirdos coming in and asking to use the phone, and always the last minute rush of people right before closing time asking to get party dots, tiny tattoos, something that "will only take a minute".
I like that. I like the spontanaety of the night crowd. The bustle. I like having to sit down and draw something right there in front of somebody. I like not knowing what's going to happen next. I like the people, people who just want a tattoo, I know some artists have a thing against doing that kind of stuff…hearts, roses with a name banner. Kanji. Lettering. I used to not like it so much but over time I've grown to like these clients a ton. They're simply getting a tattoo, they just want a good one, something cool they can look at.
They're not wrapped up in the process as much as the results, and I really enjoy that. I like my big work, my regulars, a lot. I like doing intense work that takes long hours of effort; but there's something to be said for the magic of just putting the tattoo on there and having it finished and done, right there.
The bigger stuff, the planned work, it is so much fun to draw, to play, to get loose with…I get to really challenge myself, the client is much more invested…that has its rewards too! Both ways are good for me. I think it's the balance of light-hearted and serious that makes my work so much fun for me to do.
Working the morning means I get early time to draw, to rebuild a machine, to putter around. But working the night means I get all that action, and I just can't resist it.
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Welcoming visitors through the doors of this year's exhibition was the Entrance Feature by Kipekee Studio, showcasing handcrafted furnishings by a Durban-based family. Organic elements alongside other 2019 décor trends – Surface Tactility, Abstract Art and Gen-Z Yellow – were then revealed in the Decorex Urban Living Trend House with SHF under the curative eye of Decorex Creative Director, Anita Bloom.
Designers were then given free rein to create a contemporary room setting of their preference, with a touch of Africa, in the impactful feature – The Designer Project. Three Generations Designs, Larkhouse Interior Design, Zingela S Interiors, Kirsty Badenhorst Interiors, and Trestle South Africa formulated iconic scenes using upcycled and handmade furniture, natural tones and textures, as well as clever design techniques.
Creatives were captivated by the latest addition to Decorex Durban – InStudio Trend Theatre by ABSA. Industry experts in business, design and finance shared ways to commercialise and expand business during this free-flow, CPD-accredited forum. Led by ABSA professionals who outlined financial trends, the forum welcomed trend forecaster and creative business consultant, Dave Nemeth; Interior design entrepreneur and owner of NT Design Box, Ntokozo Ntuli; design and creative industry professionals from Inscape Education Group; interior design visionary, Paige Waplington; Anita Bloom – Creative Director at Decorex SA; and former Springbok rugby player turned real estate entrepreneur, Butch James.
Literary influences in décor, music, fashion, design, cooking, lifestyle and television featured at the first-ever Library by EFAM – an innovative installation featuring magazines, autobiographies and designer coffee table books for visitors to peruse at leisure.


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Jimenez Maña Corporation was founded basis on a meaning of Mission that continues on labelling its history: at the service for people working with the values to be a reference of whole excellence
Jimenez Mañas Recambios SLU was born
Manuel Jiménez Maña starts with a spare parts store in Paseo de Colón in Seville. Jimenez Mañas Recambios SLU was born, the flagship of the current Corporation. Manuel innovated when choosing the location, far away from his competitors. A strategic point for its commercial activity and referent way of those entering or leaving the city.
First generational relay
Manuel Jiménez Maña Estrada, founder's son, assumes the direction of the company. It is a period to invest in store capacity, up to 3000 m2 in Arjona Street.
Inauguration of the new headquarters
The headquarters of Arjona Street is inaugurated. In these years the organizational model is redesigned, introducing specialized responsibilities for product families and a system of cards with all the parts of the warehouse is implanted
Manuel Jimenez Maña new Chairman
Manuel Jimenez Maña Carmona, grandson of the founder, takes over. That same year, a store model was adopted that combines its own stores and associated with a common commercial and logistics policy.
The company joins AD Parts
The company becomes member of AD Parts (with a total of 27 members), first automotive spare parts distribution in Spain and Portugal.
Inauguration of the 11,000m2 logistics center in the PI La Isla
Corporate governance is established. The Board of Directors and Administration is constituted and politics of ends are approved.
Diversification and extension of the business
New companies related to spare parts, motor, cycling and service sectors are born.
The Jiménez Maña Corporation is born
Jimenez Maña Corporation is constituted as a safety net for all the group companies. The Corporation emerges as the anchor for a common compromise with mission, vision and values of the company.
New humanistic vision of the Corporation
Manuel Jiménez Maña Carmona, together with Board of Administration, shares his humanistic vision of the company with a new corporate model based on Mission Leadership.
The Corporation is formed by ten companies of different sectors. The company employs more than 500 workers and is consolidated as a business and human reference.


Opposites attract, so there has always been something fascinating about mixing old with new in interior design. Modern lines and traditional details can be beautifully combined and used to create unique living environments.
This post exhibits interior ideas that mix and match various design styles. All projects are developed by KREATELIER – an emerging interior design studio from Bulgaria that specializes in home design for clients from all around the world.
This is a remodel project of an interior space that accommodates a living room with kitchen and dining areas. The living room area is furnished with a turquoise sofa and decorated with bright-colored throw pillows.
The L-shaped kitchen corner features walnut lower base units and all white upper cabinets with shaker doors. The countertop is set in black granite and the backsplash is finished with subway tiles. Stainless steel appliances are also a part of the design.
The dining table fits between the kitchen and the living room area. It is furnished with a dark wood round table and a set of upholstered dining chairs in light grey. A brick clad feature wall adds texture and depth to the design.
The hallway is also a part of the main living space. It is, however, separated from it by a stepped bookcase with cabinets and open shelves – the perfect place to display books and various collectibles.
The foyer is tight but that is not much of an issue, as it opens up to the main living space. It is finished in off-whites so it looks bright and welcoming. It is furnished with a shoe cabinet and a coat rack on the opposing wall.
The bathroom may be tiny but it has a lot to offer in terms of conveniences and style. It is finished in white and light brown tiles that make it more open and inviting.
The bathroom accommodates a shower area with a glass screen, a wall-hung toilet with a built-in tank, and a vanity counter with sink and mirrors.
This modern-classic design of a dining room with a kitchen area is cozy and sophisticated. The dining area accommodates a round table with four upholstered chairs. It is overhung by an elegant chandelier and decorated with a designer mirror.
The kitchen area is set in white and finished with a wood countertop and a tiled backsplash. It is equipped with a porcelain sink, a french-door fridge and built-in appliances. A wine rack is also designed to fit between the upper cabinets.
A large opening connects the kitchen and dining areas to the living room that is furnished with a white sofa, a coffee table and a TV unit. A reading corner is also designed beside the sitting area.
The reading area is furnished with a comfortable armchair and a footstool that fit under a vaulted ceiling with skylight windows. An arched floor lamp puts the finishing touch to the design and provides additional lighting.
The home office is the best place to work in peace and quiet. It is furnished with a large fitted bookcase and a computer desk. A two-seat sofa is also available on the other side of the room.
Large windows are sure to let in plenty of sunlight. A round chandelier and recessed lights, on the other hand, can be used to illuminate the room at night. A floor lamp is also available in the corner.
The master bedroom is packed with style and elegance. It is set in a perfectly balanced color palette in neutral grey and off-whites. The floor is laid with grey carpeting and the walls are finished in patterned wallpapers.
The middle part of the room is occupied by a queen-sized bed with a draped window behind it and a seating bench in the front. The bed is overhung by a marvelous cocoon chandelier.
A cozy reading area can be found at the far end of the room. It accommodates a fitted book cabinet and a pair of comfy armchairs under a sloped roof with skylights in it.
This princess-worthy bedroom design would be a dream come true for any girl. Elegance, luxury and comfort are the key ingredients in this exquisite interior in white, grey and pink.
Furnishings include a wrought iron canopy bed with a set of bedside tables, a fitted wardrobe with diamond-patterned mirror doors, and a study area with a desk and cabinets by the windows.
A fascinating chandelier hangs over the bed and makes a fabulous addition to the design.. Ornate details and a fine selection of accessories enhance the design by giving it character and a classic-modern vibe.
This kitchen design was created for an American client who was in need of a major kitchen remodel. The project proposal includes an improved layout scheme with all new kitchen cabinetry and equipment.
Furnishings include a whole lot of kitchen cabinets with plenty of storage space and worktop area. A breakfast bar counter is also designed to divide the kitchen from the more formal dining area on the other side of the room.
The kitchen cabinets are set in white and finished with shaker-style doors. The countertop is in granite, and the backsplash is tiled. Accent mosaic is also added right behind the cooking range.
This concept design idea is developed for a teenage boy with a flair for rock music. It is an eclectic design that combines traditional elements with modern details. The design is set in white, black and rusty brown.
The room is furnished with cottage-style wardrobes and cabinets, a wrought-iron bed and a desk. A fancy chandelier in black and gold puts the finishing touch to the design as it illuminates the room.
This home office accommodates a main study area with a cozy nook for relaxation on an upper level. The study area is nice and cozy. It fits behind a tall bookcase that separates it from the rest of the space.
The study area is furnished with a set of bookcases, cabinets and a large L-shaped desk with an office chair. A reading nook is designed by the window – it is finished with a yellow accent chair, a round table and a shaggy rug.
The master bedroom may be small, but it is packed with style and is bursting with color. It is set in white and brown, with bright accents in orange. It is furnished with a storage bed with a side table and a large wardrobe.
The bedroom also features a TV unit with a dressing table and a drawer chest along a feature wall that's painted orange. All drawers are handleless which gives a nice sleek look to the whole design.
The kids' bedroom is furnished with a pair of upholstered beds with storage. A large drawer chest is also available. A large brown rug is laid on the floor and matched with a dark-colored feature wall.
The kids' room is also equipped with a large wardrobe in white. It is placed in the corner of the room and is large enough to fit all clothes that the kids may need.
Have a look at KREATELIER WEBSITE and browse their projects and services for more great interior design proposals.


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The Sestiere of San Marco is the oldest, most famous, and unfortunately most touristy. For all these reasons it is the most difficult to really know because the surface layer has become so saturated that finding the real character through all the crowds can be challenging. However, it is well worth persevering, because within all this is yet another side to Venice. Once known for its fashion, extravagant parties, wonderful Operas and beautiful people, Venice led the way in so many things, and much of this originated in San Marco.
It is actually much bigger than we think, not to say that it is by any means the largest in terms of physical distances, but the sheer quantity of extraordinary places that come within the Sestiere boundaries, often come as a surprise. This is perhaps because when we first think of San Marco itself, two main places come to mind, the Piazza and the Basilica, casting the rest into a slight shadow. Whatever the reason, this brief introduction to the famous Sestiere is going to assume certain previous knowledge from your part about a few places and instead focus on the others, the ones in the shadow.
Partly located in what we can call more or less the heart of Venice, San Marco, stretches from the Accademia bridge all the way up to Rialto and outwards towards Castello. It is sculpted by the curve of the Grand Canal on two sides and the third looks out over the Bacino di San Marco. This frontier would have been the first sight that ships arriving after months at sea would have seen. Therefore, the façades that looked onto the water were grand even for Venetian standards. Something of this mentality has remained even today (although more often than not people arrive by train or plane). As you walk through San Marco, you will find that there is not really a 'back alley' atmosphere, it is made much more of wider streets that feel as if they were made to promenade through, and to be seen.
Fashion: The Venetians had their own fashion, mastering elegance with a slight twist that came about through an eye for practicality. However, you may also have noticed that there are not as many shops for clothes as one might expect. If you have been disappointed by this so far, then you will find the highest concentration of international shops in the San Marco area and also a strong contingency of Artisanal Ateliers. (Follow this link to find our selected list of local artisans).
Theatre: Whilst I am determined to dedicate a whole other article to this topic, it is impossible to discuss San Marco without also mentioning LA FENICE. Having witnessed some of the most storic musical events, it continues to awe, shock and inspire those who attend the performances, attempting to bridge the difficult gap between traditional and contemporary music.
of green hidden in plain sight. Between Piazza San Marco, and the traditional Salt Stores, lies the Old Royal Gardens that once belonged to Napoleons Palaces. They are often overlooked because it is the last thing you would expect, but it offers a welcome break to sit and recharge. The entrance looks out over the water and there is remarkable difference in the sense of a calm within the park in comparison to the stream of people just two steps away.
Whilst I said I would skim over Piazza San Marco and the Basilica I think there is one point worth mentioning. If at all possible, walk through the Piazza at 07.am (or earlier if you can manage it) or else at 23.00. At these times, there are very few people and you can appreciate the true marvel of what was achieved, occasionally I find myself walking home this way, or taking extravagant routes to make this happen, and every single time I am forced to stop, or at least slow right down. This is the way in which San Marco should be seen.


Figure 3 The casts are attached to the plaster mounts by placing impression plaster around the junction between the cast and the plaster mount. Impression plaster maintains a better bond and is quicker and easier to use than sticky wax.
Figure 4 The casts and their plaster mounts are returned to the articulator. Use the same articulator as each articulator may have small variations.
Figure 5 The incisal pin of the articulator does not contact the incisal guide table when the dentures are remounted. Usually there will be 1 to 1½ mm. of pin opening if the proper techniques have been followed throughout the investing and packing procedures. Excessive pin opening is an indication that the flasks were not closed before the dentures were processed. If the pin touches, the dentures may have been under-packed.
Figure 6 The materials required for selective grinding are a dental handpiece, suitable stones, articulating paper (preferably red and blue), and milling paste.
Figure 7 The teeth are checked visually before articulating paper is inserted between them.
Figure 8 A piece of red articulating paper is inserted between the teeth and they are tapped together gently but firmly. This is repeated on both sides.
At this time it must be emphasized that the articulator has to be handled correctly to insure that the teeth will follow the movements of the articulator. While checking for centric occlusion, the articulator must be locked in the centric position. When moving the articulator in subsequent steps, it must be handled as shown in the illustrations in Section 7.
Figure 9 This illustrates that the first contact occurs on the maxillary right second premolar and the maxillary left second molar. It must now be determined whether or not the maxillary or mandibular teeth will be ground.
Figures 10, 11 and 12 Blue articulating paper is next inserted between the teeth and the teeth are moved in lateral and protrusive excursions. It must now be determined whether the cusp or the opposing fossa should be relieved.
It is a relatively simple matter to make the foregoing determination. If a cusp is high in centric and also in excursive movements, the cusp is ground. If the cusp is high in centric occlusion but is not high in excursive movements, then the opposing fossa must be ground. It is particularly important to check balancing and protrusive movements before grinding is begun.
Figure 13 In this denture, the maxillary interferences are reduced, as these points are "high" in centric and excursive positions.
Figure 14 Centric occlusion is refined as described above until the pin touches the incisal guide table and the posterior teeth touch uniformly.
Figures 15 and 16 This illustrates the distribution of the markings which occur on the teeth after centric occlusion has been refined through selective grinding procedures. Note that the marks are distributed evenly throughout the teeth. This is the general pattern which is desired after centric occlusion has been refined.


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Authors: Roy Peter Clark
Writing Tools (10 page)
BOOK: Writing Tools
Fisher's restraint stands in sharp contrast to the hallucinatory wordplay in
Act of the Damned
by Antonio Lobo Antunes:
At eight a.m. on the second Wednesday of September, 1975, the alarm clock yanked me up out of my sleep like a derrick on the wharf hauling up a seaweed-smeared car that didn't know how to swim. I surfaced from the sheets, the night dripping from my pajamas and my feet as the iron claws deposited my arthritic cadaver on to the carpet, next to the shoes full of yesterday's smell. I rubbed my fists into my battered eyes and felt flakes of rust fall from the corners. Ana was wrapped, like a corpse in the morgue, in a blanket on the far side of the bed, with only her broomhead of hair poking out. A pathetic shred of leather from a dead heel tumbled off the mattress. I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth and the heartless mirror showed me the damage the years had wrought, as on an abandoned chapel.
Even those who prefer a much plainer style need an occasional swim in a surrealistic sea of language — if only to cleanse us of our word complacency.
All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words. The writer sees and hears and records. The seeing leads to language.
"The writer must be able to feel words intimately, one at a time," writes poet Donald Hall in
Writing Well.
"He must also be able to step back, inside his head, and see the flowing sentence. But he starts with the single word." Hall celebrates writers who
"are original, as if seeing a thing for the first time;
yet they report their vision in a
language that reaches the rest of us.
For the first quality the writer needs imagination; for the second he needs skill.... Imagination without skill makes a lively chaos; skill without imagination, a deadly order."
1. Read several stories in today's newspaper. Circle any surprising word, especially one you are not used to seeing in the news.
2. Write a draft with the intention of unleashing your writing vocabulary. Show this draft to test readers and interview them about your word choice and their level of understanding. Share your findings with others.
3. Read the work of a writer you admire, paying special attention to word choice. Circle any signs of playfulness by the writer, especially when the subject matter is serious.
4. Find a writer, perhaps a poet, whose work you read as an inspiration for writing. Circle the words that interest you. Even if you know their meaning, look them up in a historical lexicon, such as the
Oxford English Dictionary.
Find their etymologies. Try to locate their first known use in written English.
Novelist Joseph Conrad once described his task this way: "by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you
see."
When Gene Roberts, a great American newspaper editor, broke in as a cub reporter in North Carolina, he read his stories aloud to a blind editor who would chastise young Roberts for not making him see.
When details of character and setting appeal to the senses, they create an experience for the reader that leads to understanding. When we say "I see," we most often mean "I understand." Inexperienced writers may choose the obvious detail, the man puffing on the cigarette, the young woman chewing on what's left of her fingernails. Those details fail to tell — unless the man is dying of lung cancer or the woman is anorexic.
St. Petersburg Times,
editors and writing coaches warn reporters not to return to the office without "the name of the dog." That reporting task does not require the writer to use the detail in the story, but it reminds the reporter to keep her eyes and ears opened. When Kelley Benham wrote a story about a ferocious rooster that attacked a toddler, she not only got the name of the rooster, Rockadoodle Two, but also the names of his parents, Rockadoodle and one-legged Henny Penny. (I cannot explain why it matters that the offending rooster's mother had only one leg, but it does.)
Before the execution of a serial killer, reporter Christopher Scanlan flew to Utah to visit the family of one of the murderer's presumed victims. Eleven years earlier, a young woman left her house and never returned. Scanlan found the detail that told the story of the family's enduring grief. He noticed a piece of tape over the light switch next to the front door:
BOUNTIFUL, Utah — Belva Kent always left the front porch light on when her children went out at night. Whoever came home last turned it off, until one day in 1974 when Mrs. Kent told her family: "I'm going to leave that light on until Deb comes home and she can turn it off."
The Kents' porch light still burns today, night and day. Just inside the front door, a strip of tape covers the switch.
Deb never came home.
Here's the key: Scanlan
the taped-over switch and asked about it. His curiosity, not his imagination, captured the great detail.
The quest for such details has endured for centuries, as any historical anthology of reportage will reveal. British scholar John Carey describes these examples from his collection
Eyewitness to History:
This book is ... full of unusual or indecorous or incidental images that imprint themselves scaldingly on the mind's eye: the ambassador peering down the front of Queen Elizabeth I's dress and noting the wrinkles;... the Tamil looter at the fall of Kuala Lumpur upending a carton of snowy Slazenger tennis balls.... Pliny watching people with cushions on their heads against the ash from the volcano; Mary, Queen of Scots, suddenly aged in death, with her pet dog cowering among her skirts and her head held on by one recalcitrant piece of gristle; the starving Irish with their mouths green from their diet of grass.
(I could find no surviving record of the name of Mary's dog, but learned that it was a Skye terrier, a Scottish breed famous for its loyalty and valor. Then a kind reader, Annette Taylor, messaged me from New Zealand to reveal that the name of the "wee doggie" was Geddon. It was a detail she remembered from helping her daughter with a term paper.)
The good writer uses telling details, not only to inform, but to persuade. In 1963 Gene Patterson wrote a column mourning the murders of four girls in the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama:
A Negro mother wept in the street Sunday morning in front of a Baptist Church in Birmingham. In her hand she held a shoe, one shoe, from the foot of her dead child. We hold that shoe with her. (from the
Atlanta Constitution)
Patterson will not permit white southerners to escape responsibility for the murder of those children. He fixes their eyes and ears, forcing them to hear the weeping of the grieving mother, and to see the one small shoe. The writer makes us empathize and mourn and understand. He makes us see.
The details that leave a mark are those that stimulate the senses. Feel how Cormac McCarthy begins the novel
All the Pretty Horses:
The candleflame and the image of the candleflame caught in the pierglass twisted and righted when he entered the hall and again when he shut the door. He took off his hat and came slowly forward. The floorboards creaked under his boots. In his black suit he stood in the dark glass where the lilies leaned so palely from their waisted cutglass vase. Along the cold hallway behind him hung the portraits of forebears only dimly known to him all framed in glass and dimly lit above the narrow wainscoting.
He looked down at the guttered candlestub. He pressed his thumbprint in the warm wax pooled on the oak veneer. Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That was not sleeping. That was not sleeping.
Such prose demands the close attention we'd apply to poetry, starting with that glittering collection of merged nouns ("candleflame," "pierglass," "cutglass," "candlestub," "thumbprint"). More powerful is McCarthy's appeal to the senses. He not only gives us color — black and yellow — for our eyes, but also gifts for our other senses: the smell of burning candles, the sound of creaking floorboards, the feel of wax and oak.
1. Read today's newspaper looking for passages that appeal to the senses. Do the same with a novel.
2. The name of my dog is Rex — and he is the king. Ask a group of colleagues or students to share stories about the names of their pets. Which names reveal the most about the personalities of the owners?
3. With some friends, study the collected work of an outstanding photojournalist. Pretend you are writing a story about the scene captured in a photo. Which details might you select, and in what order would you render them?
4. Most writers appeal to the sense of sight. In your next work, look for opportunities to use details of smell, sound, taste, and touch.
A fondness for interesting names is not a tool, strictly speaking, but a condition, a sweet literary addiction. I once wrote a story about the name Z. Zyzor, the last name listed in the St. Petersburg phone directory. The name turned out to be a fake, made up long ago by postal workers so that family members could call them in an emergency, just by looking up the last name in the phone book. What captured my attention was the name. I wondered what
stood for: Zelda Zyzor? Zorro Zyzor? And what was it like to go through life last in line?
Fiction writers get to make up names for characters, names that become so familiar they become part of our cultural imagination: Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, Hester Prynne, Captain Ahab, Ishmael, Huckleberry Finn, Jo March, Scarlett O'Hara, Holden Caulfield, Forrest Gump.
Sports and entertainment provide an inexhaustible well of interesting names: Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Johnny Unitas, Zola Budd, Shaquille O'Neal, Venus Williams, Tina Turner, Spike Lee, Marilyn Monroe, Oprah Winfrey, Elvis Presley.
Writers gravitate toward stories that take place in towns with interesting names: Kissimmee, Florida; Bountiful, Utah; Intercourse, Pennsylvania; Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan; Fort Dodge, Iowa; Opp, Alabama.
But the best names seem, as if by magic, attached to real characters who wind up making news. The best reporters recognize and take advantage of coincidence between name and circumstance. A story in the
revealed the sad details of a woman whose devotion to her man led to the deaths of her two young daughters. The mother was Sierra Swann, who, in spite of a lyrical name evoking natural beauty, came apart in a grim environment, "where heroin and cocaine are available curbside beneath the blank stares of boarded-up windows." The writer traced her downfall, not to drugs, but to an "addiction to the companionship of Nathaniel Broadway." Sierra Swann. Nathaniel Broadway. A fiction writer could not invent names more apt and interesting.
I opened my phone book at random and discovered these names on two consecutive pages: Danielle Mall, Charlie Mallette, Hollis Mallicoat, Ilir Mallkazi, Eva Malo, Mary Maloof, John Mamagona, Lakmika Manawadu, Khai Mang, Ludwig Mangold. Names can provide a backstory, suggesting history, ethnicity, generation, and character. (The brilliant and playful American theologian Martin Marty refers to himself as "Marty Marty")
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Fishing Terms Glossary
News for the New England Region
Federal ocean planning effort met with skepticism
June 19, 2016 — NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — No commercial fishermen attended a Wednesday meeting about a new ocean planning initiative, and a local port leader warned that mistrust of the government — widespread on the waterfront — could be spurring skepticism about the federal effort to gather and utilize public input.
State and federal officials including Betsy Nicholson of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) led the event, which drew about 20 people to a third-floor room in New Bedford's downtown library. The intent was to hear public comment on the draft Northeast Regional Ocean Plan. The plan culminates a four-year effort to compile input from numerous marine industries, environmental groups, public and private officials, tribal entities and others, across all six New England states, for a document that could guide future ocean planning.
Neither the final plan nor the regional group that created it will have law-making authority, but Nicholson said Wednesday that NOAA is "committed to using this information in our regulatory and management decisions" in the future.
David Pierce, director of the state's Division of Marine Fisheries, acknowledged that there could be doubts about how much weight NOAA will give to public input used to create the plan.
"Can the commercial and recreational fishing industries actually trust what comes out of this plan when it's in its final form? That's an understandable concern," Pierce said at the meeting. "It's going to be hard to convince the fishermen that they should trust the federal government. … We're all going to have to work on that."
A key part of the initiative, for example, is the Northeast Ocean Data Portal, which is envisioned as a tool for the collection of ocean data from numerous sources, government and otherwise, to guide planning decisions.
One contributor is scientist Kevin Stokesbury, of UMass Dartmouth's School for Marine Science & Technology (SMAST). Stokesbury said he worked with The Nature Conservancy to contribute scallop survey data from 2003 to 2012, and link it with oceanographic data from SMAST professor Changsheng Chen.
"It's a way to bring everyone to the table and make sure they all have a voice," Stokesbury, who was not at the meeting, said by phone Thursday. He then raised a caveat.
"I'm always optimistic they're going to use my data – they don't always do it," he said.
Read the full story at the New Bedford Standard-Times
UPDATE: Coast Guard Recovers Body of Missing Fisherman off Nantucket
June 20, 2016 — The following was released by the U.S. Coast Guard:
BOSTON — Coast Guard rescue crews located and recovered the body of a missing fisherman from the 42-foot boat No Regrets Monday at approximately 1 p.m. near Nantucket.
The search lasted nearly 4 hours and included a 47-foot Motor Lifeboat crew and 29-foot rescue boat crew from Station Brant Point, a 42-foot rescue boat crew from Station Chatham, an Air Station Cape Cod HC-144 Ocean Sentry crew and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew. Other agencies involved in the search included the Massachusetts State Police, Harwich Regional Dive Team, Nantucket Harbormaster, Chatham Harbormaster, Chatham Fire Department Dive Team, and three good Samaritans.
"Our thoughts go out to the family of the victim and the entire fishing community who is affected by this tragedy," said Cmdr. Marcus Gherardi, Chief of Response for Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England. "Anytime we are not able to accomplish our goal of saving lives, we are deeply saddened as we also take it to heart."
Read the release at the U.S. Coast Guard Newsroom
The push is on to develop fishing ropes that won't kill whales
June 17, 2016 — The 45-foot creature might not notice when the rope first snags its mouth, its tail, or a flipper. But when it realizes what has happened, the whale will panic, thrashing and spinning underwater. This is the critical moment: Will it break the rope and swim free?
For the North Atlantic right whale, the answer most often is no.
In an effort to aid the endangered animal, the state is awarding $180,000 to the New England Aquarium to help develop whale-friendly fishing ropes that would help save them from entrapment and often painful deaths.
On Thursday, Massachusetts' energy and environmental affairs secretary, Matthew Beaton, held a news conference outside the aquarium to announce the Baker administration's support for the aquarium's work, which emphasizes saving the dwindling North Atlantic right whale population.
Scientists say 83 percent of right whales show evidence — usually deep scars or unnaturally arched backs — of having been entangled in fishing rope, which over the past 20 years has been manufactured to be stronger.
Researchers at the aquarium are trying to create ropes that whales would be able to breakif they are entangled. Beaton said the ropes would be "workable for the industry and could minimize the severity of whale entanglements."
Read the full story at The Boston Globe
Rep. Bill Keating to file bill to resolve dispute between Chatham and feds
June 17, 2016 — CHATHAM, Mass. — U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-Mass., has agreed to file legislation that town officials hope will end a dispute over who owns and manages the ocean off the Nantucket Sound side of Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge.
"We think, once and for all, it will put to bed any contention about the boundary issue and we can continue as we have for over a hundred years to manage that area," Chatham Selectman Seth Taylor said Wednesday after he and town manager Jill Goldsmith left a meeting with Keating and his staff.
When it released its draft management plan for the refuge in April 2014, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service claimed it owned more than 717 acres of beach on the Atlantic side that the town believed it owned instead. Service officials also argued the refuge includes waters that fall within what it considers its western boundary.
The Fish & Wildlife Service and the town were able to agree on most of the disputed portions of the management plan. They settled on a boundary on the Atlantic side that returned much of the 717 acres to the town; the service decided to allow almost all of the fishing activities it had originally claimed were detrimental to the protection of shorebirds and wildlife.
But the two sides couldn't find common ground on the western boundary.
The town and the state contended the legal documents that took the property in 1944 to establish the refuge, and a subsequent wilderness declaration in the 1970s, defined the boundary as the mean low water mark. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey threatened litigation, arguing the refuge never controlled anything below the mean low water mark.
Read the full story in the Cape Cod Times
Ocean Drifters Aid University Study of Currents
June 17, 2016 — A team of scientists and teachers last month deployed a small fleet of devices off Lucy Vincent Beach in the hope of tracking their journey to Narragansett Bay. Most of the 10 devices, known as ocean drifters, sailed past Noman's Land and across Rhode Island Sound, confirming a link between Narragansett Bay and the waters south of the Vineyard.
Chris Kincaid, a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, and his colleagues have been trying to understand circulation within Narragansett Bay, which lies about 25 miles west of Vineyard Sound. Among other things, they hope to reveal the origin of the currents, along with the critical nutrients they carry.
"We know that there is a lot of nitrogen in the bottom water of Rhode Island Sound," Mr. Kincaid told the Gazette this week. But he said those nutrients are mostly trapped at the bottom by changes in the water density. "To get marine growth, you need nitrogen to be where the sunlight is, near the surface," he said. "Our hypothesis is that there's a lot of material that fuels the ecosystem that comes in this coastal current from the area of Martha's Vineyard."
The study has a number of applications, including the tracking of oil spills and floating garbage. But the ultimate goal is fisheries management. The study has received funding from Rhode Island Sea Grant, a partnership that includes URI and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which regulates offshore fisheries.
Read the full story at the Vineyard Gazette
ROB MOIR: Expanding the fisherman's voice
June 17, 2016 — Gloucester's fishing industry knows all too well about the complexity of our oceans. Through my years of working with groups like the commercial striped bass fishermen and the Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association, I have seen our fishermen adapt to the highs and lows that come with fishing these seas. That complexity has multiplied as new demands are placed on our ocean and coastal areas. From wind power to aquaculture, there are more and more people making a living off our waters.
And while we all agree that New England should make the most of these opportunities, we can't do it at the expense of our fishermen's livelihood, the health of our ocean wildlife or the places where our families go to play. It is now more critical than ever for us to effectively protect our oceans.
That is why I'm proud to see the years of compromise come to fruition with the release of our nation's first draft regional ocean plan. Following the establishment of the National Ocean Policy in 2010, a planning body made up of New England states, local tribes and federal agencies came together to coordinate the efforts of all agencies that work on ocean-related issues. The result: a draft plan that streamlines ocean management at all levels of government.
I applaud the Northeast Regional Planning Body for a great first draft. I'm happy to see that the first goal focuses on maintaining healthy ocean ecosystems. This connects so well to my many years of working with fishermen and other ocean users to adopt a more ecosystem-based approach to ocean management.
For those in the fishing industry, this plan provides many benefits. But what tops the list in my mind is the ability to have all of this robust data and information in one place. With 150 species of marine life, the data portal is full of science and research that has been thoroughly validated. Anyone reading the plan can add comments or observations, and make note of any perceived gaps in the information. It allows us, for the first time ever, to break down siloes of information that have existed across the numerous state and federal agencies that manage our oceans.
Read the full editorial at the Gloucester Daily Times
Fish Pier's seafood business evolving with the industry
June 16, 2016 — BOSTON — They dress much like their fathers and grandfathers before them, fish-stained slickers over well-worn jeans, thick gloves nicked by countless fillet knives.
And as the once-empty neighborhood around them closes in with new office towers and luxury apartments, the Seaport District's fishmongers still make their living off the ocean.
Just often not the one that laps at the docks outside their doors.
After years of struggle in the face of a declining local fishery, the Fish Pier in Boston is again bursting with seafood businesses. But with New England fishing stocks tightly managed, the Fish Pier dealers are now more reliant on fishermen from distant oceans, their catch arriving by truck after being shipped through Logan Airport or the Conley Terminal.
"Just like a Ford has parts from different parts of the world, I think Boston is becoming this seaport hub, and that allows us to be very successful," said Richard Stavis, chief executive of Stavis Seafoods, a Boston-based national seafood distributor with offices on Fish Pier.
Regulators close scallop fishery southeast of Cape Cod
June 16, 2016 — NANTUCKET, Mass. — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is closing one of the key fishing areas off of New England where fishermen seek scallops.
The administration is closing the Nantucket Lightship North Scallop Access Area to scallop vessels that fish under "limited access general category" rules. The closure goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday.
Read the full story from the Associated Press at the Portland Press Herald
NOAA Fisheries Announces Closure of Nantucket Lightship North Scallop Access Area for Limited Access General Category Fleet
June 15, 2016 — The following was released by NOAA:
Effective at 0001 on June 16, we are closing the Nantucket Lightship North Scallop Access Area to the Limited Access General Category (LACG) Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) scallop fleet.
As of June 16, 2016, no scallop vessel fishing under LAGC IFQ regulations may fish for, possess, or land scallops in or from the Nantucket Lightship North Access Area. The scallop regulations require that we close this area once we project that the LAGC fleet has fished all of the 485 trips allocated to them in this area.
Vessels that have complied with the observer notification requirements, have declared a trip into the Nantucket Lightship North Scallop Access Area using the correct Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) code, and have crossed the VMS demarcation line before 0001 on June 16 may complete their trip and retain and land scallops caught from the Nantucket Lightship North Scallop Access Area.
Justice asks for details in fish monitoring suit
June 15, 2016 — The final judgment in New Hampshire fisherman David Goethel's federal lawsuit against NOAA Fisheries concerning at-sea monitoring will be further delayed after the judge in the case requested additional briefs and memoranda from both sides.
"In consideration of the parties' cross motions for summary judgment and conducting the attending legal research, the court has identified points, authorities and (to some extent) arguments that were unfortunately not cited or raised by the parties' legal memoranda," U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Laplante wrote in his procedural order.
Prior to ordering the supplemental filings, Laplante, who sits in U.S. District Court in Concord, New Hampshire, held a June 9 conference call with attorneys to discuss "whether, and the extent to which, any delay caused by additional briefing would increase, extend or intensify any claimed economic hardship" from the federal mandate shifting the costs of at-sea monitoring to the industry.
"Counsel assured the court that neither party had objections or reservations in this regard with respect to additional briefing," Laplante wrote in the order issued June 10. "The court therefore orders counsel to supplement their arguments in support of their summary judgment motions."
Read the full story at the Gloucester Daily Times
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20 years at the cutting edge: BMW ConnectedDrive.
Aravind Sasidharan May 9, 2018
The BMW Group has led the way in intelligent connectivity for 20 years, courtesy of BMW ConnectedDrive. Customers and their mobility requirements – in the vehicle and beyond – have been at the heart of everything the company has sought to achieve here. It was back in 1998 when the BMW Assist package was introduced under the product heading of "BMW Telematics". The first built-in SIM card to be fitted in a BMW followed in 2004, and in 2014 it became possible to book and pay for online services from the comfort of the car by visiting the BMW ConnectedDrive Store. And the company's latest solutions, like the all-encompassing digital concept encapsulated by BMW Connected, continue to showcase the ongoing development of connectivity. For example, since 2016 customers have been able to link their smartphones seamlessly with their car via a connection with the Open Mobility Cloud. The numerous touchpoints now available and the ability to use services anywhere have been the key enablers in creating a 360-degree digital customer experience and bringing drivers and their vehicles even closer together.
Highlights and awards.
The first major foray into the connected future took place in 1998 with "BMW Telematics" and the introduction of the BMW Assist package comprising Concierge Services, as well as the up-to-date traffic information service and Intelligent Emergency Call. At that time, the customer's telephone was still used for establishing the online connection. In 2004, the SIM card was embedded into the vehicle, enabling customers to access news, weather services and office functions while on the move via BMW Online. A web browser was introduced in the new BMW 7 Series four years later, followed by the launch of the ConnectedDrive Store in 2014, which allowed customers to book and pay for services – such as Real Time Traffic Information and Online Entertainment products – directly from their car.
BMW ConnectedDrive is currently available in 45 countries and there are already over 10 million connected BMW vehicles on the world's roads today. Over the past ten years alone, the BMW Group's unstinting efforts in driving forward digital connectivity through BMW ConnectedDrive have earned it 37 national and international awards. These figures underline the BMW Group's international standing as a pioneer in the field of digital development.
Milestones of the present and future.
Meeting demands for intelligent and connected mobility via its BMW ConnectedDrive and BMW Connected technology is not only a future goal for the BMW Group but a very real objective of the here and now. BMW Connected already has more than 2.3 million users worldwide. The digital services cater to the demands of mobility today and are constantly redefining the very concept of mobility in a way that benefits the customer.
2018 is an important year for the future of connectivity. The new Remote Software Upgrade feature will enable vehicles to be automatically supplied with the latest software "over the air" at any time, just like smartphones can. June will also mark the full-scale in-car integration of the Alexa voice-controlled assistant – including access to over 30,000 Alexa Skills – allowing customers to use it in the vehicle just as intuitively as they do at home. Yet another highlight will come in the form of the Digital Key, which uses the customer's smartphone as the only means of locking and unlocking the car and starting it. Besides dispensing with the need for a conventional car key, this will additionally pave the way for a new form of private car sharing, as the Digital Key can be shared with friends and family via BMW Connected. And then there is the new BMW Operating System 7.0. This next-generation display and operating system, which is being introduced into production models this year, responds digitally – and even more closely than ever – to the driver's individual requirements.
BMW celebrates 20-year anniversary with price reductions for digital services.
BMW's digital services have provided customers with unprecedented flexibility when it comes to integrating new functions in their BMW either from home or with ease while on the road. To celebrate this achievement, all services –including Real Time Traffic Information, Concierge Services and Remote Services – will be available at a 20 per cent discount from 8 May.
Source : BMW
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Fictional characters confronting fictionality is one of my favorite tropes – and this time it wasn't even Moffat!
Overall this is a cracking story. It moves fast for its era with no especially notable padding. The interactions with Gulliver and Rapunzel are great fun – Rapunzel is adorable, and I don't understand why this is her only television role. I also particularly enjoyed the comic-book superhero from the future: grounding Zoe as a character and legitimizing comics as literature in one fake-muscle-bound stroke. However, neither Jamie nor Zoe is at their best in this story, each having little use for their strengths and both being repeatedly and too easily fooled.
A couple of things confused me as well. The title didn't click for me at first, though after some thought I managed to put it together – the Doctor's mind was needed to continue creating the fiction, and could not be got by legitimate means. The intent of the primary villain – to empty the earth via stories? never quite made sense. (The secondary villain's motivation of looking for a replacement so he could retire worked much better.) And then there was that credit at the end of episode 1: The Master, though no new character had been introduced and the Master himself does not appear until the Third Doctor's era.
I have never even heard another Master mentioned. In story, the character is more accurately called "the Master brain" or something like that – the alien intelligence that kidnapped the human "Master" for its inexplicable purpose. There is no (apparent) relationship between this Master and the Master. Still, I can't imagine that fandom hasn't tried to create one.
The story picks up right where the previous story – "The Dominators," which I haven't seen – leaves off. It also ends on a cliffhanger, but as far as I can tell that one does not resolve: the following story, "The Invasion," begins on the moon, and I recall no reference to a prior story. However I haven't seen it in some time; perhaps in a few years when I get to this spot in my Classic Who (re)watch, I'll learn better.
In the #MeToo era it doesn't look good. There's no story value in Zoe's bum no matter how glorious. We get no corroborating up-skirt shot of Jamie. (A disappointment to be sure.) And truthfully, had this been most any other companion – any modern companion for sure, or any more helpless companion such as Victoria, or more thoroughly sexualized character like Leela – it would be nothing less than crass. But something about Zoe makes it work. One, she is rarely sexualized in the series, and rarely less than fully clothed from chin to sole. And two, according to the stories at least, Wendy Padbury was more than able to hold her own on set. The boys' club of Troughton and Hines was known for practical joking, generally at the expense of their younger female co-stars. (Deborah Watling reportedly had a difficult time on the show for this reason.) But it's been said that Padbury could give as good as she got, and was undeterred by any juvenile antics.
I don't know what Padbury thinks of the shot, or what her young fans at the time felt. For me, I'm reminded that sexuality can also be empowering for women.* I'm reminded, in spite of her detractors and of course Moffat, of Amy Pond.
*This is a complex arena, but I have acquaintances who are strippers and burlesque dancers, and they are anything but disempowered by a glorious bum.
Announce a new project: it's a sure way not to have any time to put into the project.
Almost a month has gone by since "An Unearthly Child." Travel, overbooked weekends, nights at home that got hijacked for other events… with one thing and another, it still took two separate attempts to get through all 7 episodes of "The Daleks." That's not even a comment on the quality of the story; it really just takes a long time.
"The Daleks" was the second ever aired Doctor Who story. The concept was originally rejected by Sydney Newman, who famously opposed any "bug-eyed monsters" in his show. However, as it was the only script ready to shoot at the time, Newman was stuck with it.
In spite of Newman's assessment, something about the strange pepper-pot aliens captured the national imagination. By the end of the story, the number of viewers per episode had topped 10 million, and Doctor Who was a television success. I like to imagine that the scene from "An Adventure in Space and Time" in which Verity Lambert witnesses children on a public bus shouting "Exterminate!" literally happened. Without the Daleks, Doctor Who as we know it today would probably never have existed.
The story opens exactly where the prior story ends: the TARDIS arrives on a new, unknown planet and the radiation dial quietly creeps into the red. Typically of early DW, each episode plays directly into the next, whether they're part of the same story or not. In fact, "The Daleks" was not known by that name at the time: instead, each episode was provided its own title, its own mini-arc, and its own cliffhanger – even the last one, which sets up the following story.
Ian is unmistakably the hero of the show. He leads the action and looks after his fellow travelers. Barbara, a good character in most ways, gets heavily damseled in this story: hiking through swamps and under mountains in open-toed sandals, clinging to the hand of a male admirer throughout the "scary parts," and then nearly getting him killed. Susan has a moment or two to shine, but mostly she's an overplayed stereotype of a horror-movie girl. (I can relate to Carole Ann Ford's disappointment.) The Doctor is self-centered and callous: he damages the TARDIS himself so the others are forced to let him visit the city that interests him; declines to help the pacifist Thals face their mortal enemy; and then, when he can't abandon them, tries to force the Thals to help his party. Ian is the good guy of the group: he apologizes to Susan for disbelieving her, drops everything to rush to Barbara's side when she cries out in fear, and refuses to manipulate the Thals to put themselves in danger for his party. He also has a thing or two to teach the Thals – and the Doctor – about courage.
Overall, the pacing of the story is typical for its time. Episode 1, titled "The Dead Planet," is edge-of-your-seat intense, with a creepy stone forest, mysterious faraway city, and no sign of life – until someone lays a hand on Susan. The final two episodes, featuring the assault on the Dalek city, are similarly gripping. In between, we spend a lot of time running down corridors, attempting escapes, making terrible plans, having redundant arguments, and generally wandering back and forth over and over again. Not to mention being threatened with extermination!
Does not occur in this story.
Chestright: The Ian/Barbara ship is well sailed in this story, in spite of the momentary infatuation of one Thal whose name I do not recall.
Susan and the Doctor also make a delightful pair on their own: the giggly pre-teen and her indulgent grandfather gleefully sabotage a city.
The settings are pretty good for the budget. The petrified forest looks amazing; the swamp is convincing; the "city" is more a collection of odd-shaped bits of junk and a string of endless corridors than a city, but it works well enough.
The final cliffhanger: The Doctor runs around the console, banging switches and buttons from every angle, until it explodes – a familiar sight to any fan of 10.
In the end the Daleks lose, of course. The Thals' hope of cooperation is shattered, but with the visitors' help they defeat their enemy utterly. The Daleks' fear of anything different from themselves is established, and it destroys them.
Of course the extermination of his incredibly successful creation did not prevent writer Terry Nation* from shopping them around. Within a year they returned to DW in "The Dalek Invasion of Earth," and shortly afterward in an alternate version of the story featuring Peter Cushing as the human Dr. Who. Since then they have featured in at least 20 televised stories and remain the most popular DW villain of all time.
Not bad for a bunch of bug-eyed monsters.
*Rhyming is entirely unintentional on my part. Not sure about Mr. Nation.
Some time ago I observed a commonality between Le Guin's "Omelas" and "The Beast Below." Now, having just finished "Tehanu," #4 in Le Guin's Earthsea series, I've got another one.
In "Tehanu," the wizard Ged is a secondary character. He arrives in the story fresh from losing his magic – magic he's possessed since childhood, magic that has defined him all his life – in a battle to save his world and all its people. Without it, he no longer knows who he is, or what purpose remains for him. Wizard was everything to him; now, he has nothing.
I was reminded of the Metacrisis Doctor, sent off to live with Rose in Pete's World – particularly, in a series of stories I wrote when the official version ran out.
The Metacrisis Doctor is a secondary character. He appears in the story having been split off from his Time Lord self – a self he's been for 900 years, a heritage that has defined him – in a battle to save the multiverse and all its people. Human, he no longer knows who he is, or what purpose remains for him. Time Lord was everything to him; now, he has nothing.
But the man's idea of himself is limited. Ged learns, as the Doctor must, that he is more than his magic. He still has his heart: his passion for teaching and learning, his goodness, his love for his people. Though the Metacrisis Doctor's story stopped when he was left behind on Pete's World, fans know that he too must come to terms with his new reality. He must find that he is more than his TARDIS and his extra heart. He still has his brilliance, his curiosity, his drive. Like Ged, he laments his loss – but in the end discovers a whole new life he never imagined before.
Like Ged, the Doctor is brought back to himself by the grounded, sensible, passionate love of a woman, and the real world in which she needs him.
and can I love you?
create something new here together?
as unreal as if it had never happened.
Safe inside she turns to him.
his blood ablaze as blood ne'er burned in him before.
a body so alien, so strange.
victim to all its whims.
so much more than I can take.
the constance of that extra heart.
the intoxication of your touch.
No wonder you loved that life so much!
and then shrunk again to nothing.


I haven't been able to post much art here recently--I've been pretty busy with my studies and with commissions. I really liked this challenge--a few years back there was a 15 minute challenge, and this seemed like a good way to gauge how far I'd come with quick composition. I've been wanting to do more LPC stuff, so doing an LPC-styled monster seemed like a good idea. I managed to get a flying animation in but that was it. I may come back and do some more later.
Not sure I like the animation, but otherwise it looks great.
The sideview is kinda wonky. Just goes to show how much of the time goes into polishing rather than makking an animation. I'll have to revisit this later.
Great work man I am loving it !!
Thank you Redshrike. Using for winged blurble creature in Stendhal.