On August 18th of this year, I presented my first-ever sermon, at my Unitarian Universalist congregation. The seeds for the service were stewing for the better part of a year before I forced myself to sit down and put the pieces together.
It all started with Harry Chapin's song, Circle, but the song wasn't sufficient to support an entire service, and I had to really think about what it was I wanted to communicate. I think I managed to convey what I wanted. Here's a compilation of all the pieces, with links to the songs (as I heard in my head when I selected them), and the links to the articles under Readings.
We are Unitarian Universalists with minds that think, hearts that love and with hands that are ready to serve.
for our nearest celestial neighbor.
and that experience has stuck with me ever since.
was a strange experience for me.
after an awful year of loss.
This service comes amid another such year.
Marty Gear, who died suddenly in July.
in my circle of adopted family and friends.
theirs was the only way.
or anger they may have had.
to guide them through the pain.
But what if you don't share those beliefs?
for a 48 year-old co-op preschool teacher, Miss Marie.
a turn of phrase, and suddenly I had an epiphany.
they would get there, too.
It was an interpretation I could live with.
We attended our first Goodloe service the following Sunday.
around the 28th anniversary of my mother's death.
You may notice I have a thing about death.
I hear something that helps me refine my view of the world.
in a single elevator speech.
I believe in community, and in sharing joy and pain.
I believe in treating ourselves and each other with dignity.
and to happiness and respect.
I believe in the moon.
as far back as the beginning of time as we know it.
The moon goes through phases every month.
but the moon remains solidly on its path.
long after my family and I are a distant memory.
The moon is a constant in a world of uncertainty.
It's a rock solid anchor, the same wherever you go on this planet.
The moon is the same for everyone, whether they believe it or not.
It is easier for me to define my beliefs by saying what I'm not.
I'm not Jewish, though both my parents were raised that way.
a heavily Hasidic Jewish part of Brooklyn, NY.
Grandma Florence was a teacher of English as a Second Language.
because it wasn't American enough for her taste.
Paas and a few other brands.
I heard he was an expert in Easter egg dyeing.
and was one of the most well-read men I knew.
really quite unusual for the 1930s.
when we came to visit.
and connected through their mutual love of theatre.
Dad taught English and Film but wanted to be a theatre photographer.
just before JFK's assassination in November.
because the other kids in school had him, too.
She liked fantasy novels and theatre.
And she was a redhead, according to all her family.
and my three year old sister.
We spent most evenings and weekends watching TV.
took over after the cartoons ended, around noon or so.
but eventually he got us a stereo of our own.
as long as it was Top Forty or Classic Rock.
and then eventually with him on the road.
We visited a great deal of the US and Canada.
I'd been in all but four of the continental states.
We even walked into Mexico once.
It was an awesome way to grow up.
and watching more movies on TV.
What there wasn't was religion.
when we were raised without Hebrew school.
and any other day at school.
to engage in the Jewish tradition.
that they knew she was ill but didn't say anything.
I understand my parents' decision too well in hindsight.
covering the mirrors and such.
as an opportunity to tour DC and Williamsburg VA.
even though I am culturally Jewish by birth.
all of whom I've encountered in my life.
Nope. What I am is Human.
and I try to remember that we are all connected.
That I could not share this with you makes me sad.
That you shared it with others makes me happy.
You are a blessing to the world, and all the forces of malice and avarice cannot change that.


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Nate Lepine Quartet
Chicago-based tenor saxophonist and composer Nate Lepine has been a steady figure of the city's music scene since the early 1990s, and as a frequent performer, is an important contributor to its active jazz community. The two working bands he leads, a trio and a quartet, are the primary vehicles for his compositional output, and in addition, he works as a sideman with the Nick Mazzarella Quintet, the Quin Kirchner Group, and Herculaneum. Lepine has also recorded, performed, and toured with several notable rock acts including Cursive.
The Nate Lepine Quartet is this month's artist in residence. They'll be debuting new material each week.
Nate Lepine — tenor sax
Nick Mazzarella — alto sax
Clark Sommers — bass
Quin Kirchner — drums
Quartet : Vortices by Nate Lepine
"[Lepine has] a brawny yet agile tone, full of soul and grit." —Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader
"The solos are scorching and the energy never flags; it maintains its breakneck pace with tremendous focus and resolve. Thrilling." —Robert Rodi, Newcity

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April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day. Autism is a brain development disorder which affects the social and communication abilities of the individual. Many children with autism also have mental retardation. Although the exact cause is not known, genes seem to play a role in this disorder which affects a child within 3 years of age. Diet, infection, vaccination and mercury poisoning have been blamed for autism but research is yet to prove this right.
Symptoms of autism may vary but generally autistic children show great sensitivity with anything relating to their sense organs. They may get upset when routines are changed or show unusual attachment to objects or perform tasks repeatedly. They lack imagination and are unable to make friends.
Treatment for autism is a combination of two or more forms. Apart from medication, behavior modification, special education, speech therapy, etc. are utilized. There are several claims made on other forms of therapy but not yet scientifically proven. Since autism cannot be cured, early treatment can help an autistic child to cope better. Support groups play a role in nurturing such children and helping parents to cope.


By the late 1950s, Alfa Romeo had become a top tier name in the world of sports cars with adequate performance both on and off the track. Despite the reliable power derived from the 2000 series inline four cylinder cars, Alfa Romeo saw the need for a larger, more powerful engine. The new flagship models the 2600, were introduced at the 1962 Geneva Motor Show. The coachbuilt Sprint by Bertone and the Spider convertible by Carrozzeria Touring in Milan were expensive and were rare even when new due to being constructed by hand. While the coachbuilt examples would represent the last of the hand assembled Alfa Romeos, it was the 2600 Spider by Touring that was fit for long distance driving. It offered drivers a sense of style, performance and comfort that could only come from Italy. The 2600 models would be the last inline six cylinder Alfa Romeos to feature dual overhead camshafts and as a result are some of the most sought-after classics by Alfa Romeo enthusiasts and collectors today.
Manufactured in 1964 at Carrozzeria Touring's new factory at Nova Milanese, this 2600 Spider is a rare Tipo 106.08 model, a factory righthand drive car supplied new to race ace Roy Salvadori's Alfa Romeo dealership Chipstead Motors on 19th June 1964 and is finished in stylish Grigio Grafite (AR716), the same colour as the car is today. Only 2255 of these cars were produced, with just 103 being righthand drive configuration. Little is known of this car's early history but its English owner took it to Spain in 1980 where it lived in Barcelona, moving again to Italy in 2008 when the previous owner imported the car. This matching numbers Alfa Romeo has had a photographically documented bare metal restoration carried out by Italian artisans in 2013 to 2015, since then around 4000 miles have been covered, so the car is now bedded in well and looks fabulous.
Eschewing reproduction parts, the quality of the restoration is exceptional and great care has been taken to produce an authentic car, down to the correct Solex PHH carburettors, often lost on these cars. The paint finish on this Alfa Romeo is sensational; a thin coat with a superb shine and is probably better than when the car was new. Every single item of trim has been re-chromed, again to the highest standard and the fit of all bright work is exceptional. The windscreen was replaced and all new rubber seals were fitted. The hood was redone using the finest mohair and is unmarked. All road wheels were blasted and repainted, shod with correct Michelin tyres and rounded off with a set of superb hubcaps. The chassis was stripped and any rust repairs seamlessly completed, the whole chassis receiving a protective anti rust treatment at the same time.
As part of the restoration, a major mechanical overhaul was performed seeing components removed and renewed or repaired as required. All the suspension was dismantled and refinished, with new bushes and shock absorbers fitted. All hydraulics were replaced and the entire braking system renewed. Under bonnet presentation is very sharp indeed with all the right finishes and pleasingly some original items have been retained including the lubrication sticker and fuse box legend.
The interior has been completely renewed, with the unique two-tone upholstery faithfully replicated. The car is presented with its original tool kit and the all important Alfa Romeo Classiche certificate. For concours, touring or investment, this is a first quality example in the best colour, just superb and probably the best 2600 Spider available today.


If you think that I will start a long review here, you are terribly wrong. For one very simple question. Minix 3 did not boot. At all! The only thing I saw on the screen was a blinking cursor in the top left corner.
I tried same disk on another laptop, Toshiba L500-19X. Same result. That's all.
Yes, that's all. As promised in the title, the review is super short. Nothing to talk about.
My previous shortest review was about BerliOS operating system. This review beats the BerliOS. But that's life.
Is it only me? Maybe Because there are other people who saw Minix 3 working.
If you have your own experience with Minix 3 Operating System, please share in comments below.
Whereupon Goodbye. See you next time! Stay connected!
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My minix 3.1.8 from the burned iso disk during installation on my desktop asked me as root if I will format my partitions. No other option was available. Of course I was afraid to continue and I gave up the instalation.
Thanks for pointing this out. Hope, the developers will look into this too.
Looking forward for your report! :) Will even welcome your guest post about this!


Evan Osnos has stuck his neck out bringing the world to his readers, whether that required him to barrel through war-torn Iraq in an amphibious assault vehicle or face down the secret police outside a Chinese dissident's house.
Now, after more than a decade of living overseas, Osnos is back on the East Coast, covering national affairs for The New Yorker while living in Washington, D.C., with wife Sarabeth Berman. This month marks the release of the thirty-seven-year-old's first book, Age of Ambition, which draws upon eight years of reporting from China for the Chicago Tribune and The New Yorker.
Subtitled "Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China," Osnos' book profiles various Chinese nationals finding their place in a society in rapid flux, yet tightly bound by a sixty-five-year-old Communist regime. Subjects include a young foreign-language student who retains his optimism amid a life of diminishing returns, a gambler who ran afoul of gangsters, and a noncommunist patriot whose YouTube videos criticizing the West captivate his compatriots.
"Looking at it [China] from far away, it's tempting to see it as threatening," Osnos says. "It's got this big military. It's growing pretty fast.
"The truth is that up close, China feels just as anxious and self-conscious and flawed as we often feel about ourselves as Americans. One of the most important things about being there was to try and convey the sense of what it feels like to be Chinese; they are just as concerned about getting their kids in the right schools and the right jobs.
A Harvard graduate with multiple journalism prizes and appearances on NPR and Charlie Rose under his belt, Osnos spent years immersing himself in the Chinese experience, which he can draw upon extemporaneously with discursive, professorial ease.
To look at his unsmiling head shot on The New Yorker website is to be struck by the stoniest expression since Buster Keaton. His eyes are gimlet-hard and penetrating, his mouth fixed in an expression of serious skepticism. Meeting him in person, at his parents' home on Round Hill where he has stopped in for a visit, requires an adjustment. He's shorter than expected and looks more than ten years younger than he is. His eyes radiate enthusiasm, and a broad smile never leaves his face.
The niceness is genuine enough, and also useful to his work. One point that associates agree upon when talking about Osnos is that he really likes people and brings an unusual degree of empathy to what can often be a cold job.
Asked about the foresight of choosing to study China at Harvard in the 1990s, he shrugs it off as the result of "wandering" into a classroom. Regarding his fluent Mandarin, he immediately recalls Western friends who speak it better than he. "The more you learn the language, the more humble you get," he says.
"One of Ev's endearing qualities is modesty to the point of self-deprecation," says his father, Peter.
The two sides of Evan Osnos may be personified by his parents, who met in Vietnam in the early 1970s while Peter covered the war there for The Washington Post and Susan counseled GIs in trouble for the Lawyers Military Defense Fund. He's sharp, voluble and clear in making his points. She's quieter, more relaxed and inclined to take a long view.
"She brings a real sense of perspective, a certain way you should treat the world around you," Katherine says.
Today Peter is editor-at-large at PublicAffairs Books, a publishing house he helped found; Susan is an independent communications consultant with various human- and women's-rights groups. It may be simplistic to say he supplied the storyteller in his son, and she the conscience, but it seems borne out in a conversation with them.
Newspaper work began with Evan writing for Greenwich High School's student paper, The Beak. Eventually he became The Beak's coeditor-in-chief. Osnos' journalism career began in earnest with a college internship at the Chicago Tribune, where he became a cub reporter after graduation. An early Trib assignment put Osnos on the trail of a law professor running for his party's nomination to represent Illinois' 1st Congressional District. His name: Barack Obama.
Osnos remembers the candidate impressing him up-close in one-on-one interviews, then delivering rambling speeches: "He hadn't figured out yet how to structure his narrative. You sort of had the feeling of a very talented athlete at a very new sport." His 2000 intraparty challenge against incumbent House member Bobby Rush would go down in history as the future president's first campaign, and the only one he ever lost.
Between stints at the Tribune, Osnos took photos for a West Virginia newspaper and made a documentary. His big break came when he was assigned the Tribune's New York City correspondent in June 2001. Then came 9/11 and the 2003 Iraq invasion. "As a result of being in New York, and as a result of being young and unmarried and having no kids, I was a prime candidate to go off and cover a war," he recalls.
For the next two years, Osnos covered the Middle East, starting out as an embedded correspondent with a front-line unit of U.S. Marines who drove into Baghdad by way of Kuwait.
His parents, naturally worried, still approved of his decision. They could hardly do otherwise, given the paths they had taken to find each other. "It made absolute sense," Peter says.
The country was China. Osnos' time in college had included a semester and a summer in Beijing studying Mandarin. Now he wanted to return, to cover China as a reporter.
At Harvard Osnos found himself attracted to what he calls a "spectacular drama" of modern China, a nation that as recently as 1979 was poorer per capita than North Korea yet reinvented itself as one of the world's great economic powerhouses. By the dawn of the new millennium, China's momentum had quickened considerably. It was a time of unimagined prosperity, yet the government remained firmly in charge, shedding blood when challenged, most memorably at the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in 1989.
What Osnos found in his years writing about China, and which forms the core of Age of Ambition, were people channeling sometimes political yearnings for freedom and independence into a society that welcomed individual initiative, as long as it didn't challenge the status quo.
Stories Osnos filed from China over the years run a wide gamut. Sometimes they cover major news, like a 2011 high-speed railroad crash at Wenzhou that killed forty people and exposed a serious vein of government corruption. More often, they are what might be termed human-interest pieces, like a retired soldier in southwestern China who discovered truffles growing on his farm and built a mushroom-shaped processing plant to satisfy his European clientele, or the secret house-churches of China's Christian population.
"I think you have to go out of your way to write a boring China story," Osnos notes.
Osnos and a photographer once hiked through Sichuan, a province in southwestern China famous for its spicy cuisine, to get a ground-level view for a series of stories in the Tribune.
One of the most exciting stories Osnos covered was the struggle of blind dissident Chen Guangcheng. Having learned about Chen's civil-rights activism, Osnos took a taxi to the village of Dongshigu, where he was greeted by a pair of plainclothes secret policemen. Osnos was told Chen wasn't in. Osnos insisted he was. Finally he was given an ultimatum: You can come to the police station in order to "rest," or leave right now and don't come back.
Osnos got his interview with Chen later. But then again he doesn't miss many opportunities. One of the striking takeaways from reading Age of Ambition is the access Osnos enjoyed in China to all kinds of people, and the candor with which they spoke of their lives and dreams.
Of all the people Osnos met in China, the one he talks about most eagerly is Sarabeth. She grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, and he knew her sister at Harvard; but they had to travel around the world before they met, twice in one day as it turned out.
"That was totally dumb luck, in a city [Beijing] of twenty million people," he says. "Even for me, who's a fairly practical person, I thought that had to mean something, and lucky for me, she did too." The second meeting that January day in 2008 was by a frozen pond where he had just happened to find a pickup hockey game. He recalls trying to impress her with his sporty interest, even though it had lapsed considerably since his days at the Dorothy Hamill Rink.
This time, Osnos found victory on the ice. They agreed on a first date and soon discovered much in common. They married in 2011.
Like her mother-in-law, Sarabeth is active in nonprofit activities, in her case as vice president of public affairs at Teach For All, an educational-advancement group. She marvels at her husband's work ethic. If he's writing a piece about a Chinese shipping magnate, for example, she will see him poring over dozens of books with titles like The History of Cardboard Paper.
The couple left China in mid-2013. He gives many reasons for that. For one thing, the couple is thinking about children, and air pollution in China is terrible. He also was eager to take on his present assignment, covering national affairs for The New Yorker, and to reconnect with family and friends after many years abroad.


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Latin America eyes Bitcoin adoption after El Salvador law
Sarah Hadley June 15, 2021 Adoption, Bitcoin, Featured, Strategy No Comments
The future approaches. Several counties in Latin America have expressed interest in Bitcoin, following the momentous development of El Salvador passing a law making the cryptocurrency legal tender.
These include countries like Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Panama, and Paraguay.
Even Tanzania and Tonga have reportedly expressed interest in adopting the world's most popular cryptocurrency. Officials from these nations are pressing for wider adoption of Bitcoin in order to facilitate new businesses.
As an example, Gabriel Silva, member of parliament in Panama congratulated El Salvador in a tweet when the Bitcoin law was approved, emphasizing that the move is teaching the government of his country entrepreneurship and technology, while betting on the knowledge economy.
"This is important, and Panama cannot be left behind. If we want to be a true technology and entrepreneurship hub, we have to support cryptocurrencies. We will be preparing a proposal to present at the assembly."
Likewise, Carlitos Rejala, a congressman and the national deputy of Paraguay has called for his government to take similar action to El Salvador. Same goes for officials in other countries showing interest in Bitcoin after the passing of the law.
Even JPMorgan, the US megabank recently said that similarly situated countries could follow El Salvador in making Bitcoin legal tender.
This much is certain that while this may be unchartered territory for the cryptocurrency, there has been no other time where nations eyed Bitcoin adoption in this fashion. If this picks up, then we could be looking at the digital coin that started it all in a whole different way.
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Jeter gets $12M from Yankees; Mets decline…
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Jeter gets $12M from Yankees; Mets decline Santana option
FILE – In this July 22, 2013, file photo, New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter laughs while standing in the dugout with teammates during a baseball game against the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas. Jeter and the Yankees have agreed to a $12 million, one-year contract on Friday, Nov. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
PUBLISHED: November 1, 2013 at 7:22 p.m. | UPDATED: September 24, 2021 at 6:47 a.m.
NEW YORK – Derek Jeter and the Yankees worked out a $12 million, one-year deal that kept the captain from going on the open market, while Joe Nathan, Jose Veras, Ubaldo Jimenez, Kurt Suzuki and Franklin Gutierrez were among the players who became free agents Friday.
The Mets declined their option on injured pitcher Johan Santana, while Boston exercised its option on pitcher Jon Lester.
Toronto exercised options on closer Casey Janssen, first baseman Adam Lind and infielder Mark DeRosa and declined an option on infielder Munenori Kawasaki.
Jeter, who turns 40 next June, was limited to 17 games this year after breaking his ankle in the 2012 playoffs. He spent four stints on the disabled list in the most frustrating season of his 19-year career. His deal had included a $9.5 million player option.
Across town, the Mets declined a $25 million option on Santana and will pay the two-time Cy Young Award winner a $5.5 million buyout. Santana, who turns 35 on March 13, went 46-34 with a 3.18 ERA while with the Mets, missing the 2011 and 2013 seasons because of shoulder injuries.
Lester, who gets $13 million, was the starting and winning pitcher twice during Boston's six-game World Series victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. The 29-year-old was 15-8 with a 3.75 ERA in the regular season. He went 4-1 with a 1.65 ERA in the postseason, including victories in Games 1 and 5 of the Series.
Nathan, the Texas Rangers' All-Star closer, declined his half of a $9 million mutual option. The pitcher, who turns 39 this month, was 6-2 with a 1.39 ERA and 43 saves last season and wants a multiyear deal.
'My expectation is that there are other teams that maybe have a bigger need in the bullpen and will put in more resources than we are,' Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said. 'We have some other areas that are a higher priority for us to address.'
Detroit declined a $3.25 million option on Veras, who receives a $150,000 buyout. The 33-year-old was 0-5 with a 3.02 ERA in 67 appearances with the Astros and Tigers this year.
Janssen will get $4 million from Toronto, Lind $7 million and DeRosa $750,000. Kawasaki, whose option price was $1 million, does not receive a buyout.
Jimenez became a free agent after the Indians picked up his $8 million club option and he exercised his right to void it.
After going 9-17 in 2012 and leading the AL in losses, Jimenez went 13-9 with a 3.30 ERA this season, including 4-0 in September. The Indians can make him a $14.1 million qualifying offer by Monday, and he would have a week to accept. If he declines, the Indians would receive a 2014 first-round draft pick if he signs with another team.
Also, the Indians declined their $7.5 million club option on outfielder Jason Kubel. He was acquired from Arizona on Aug. 20.
Oakland exercised its $7.5 million option on center fielder Coco Crisp, who hit a career-high 22 home runs in the leadoff spot. The A's also exercised its $8 million option on left-hander Brett Anderson and declined an $8.5 million option on catcher Kurt Suzuki and an $11 million option outfielder Chris Young. Young gets a $1.5 million buyout and Suzuki $650,000.
Seattle declined a $7.5 million option on Gutierrez and a $7.9 million option on left-hander Joe Saunders. Each get $500,000 buyouts.
Pittsburgh left-hander Wandy Rodriguez exercised a $13 million player option. The 34-year-old went 6-4 with a 3.59 ERA, missing the final four months of the season with discomfort in his left forearm. His deal originally included a team option, but it became his when the Astros traded him in July 2012. Houston will pay $5.5 million of next year's salary.
Williams introduced as Nationals manager
WASHINGTON – Matt Williams wants to combine what he learned as a player with newfangled analytics as he takes charge of the Washington Nationals, his first job as a manager in the majors.
Says Williams: 'Old school is old school, and that's great, but if you don't get along with the times, bro, you better just step aside.'
Williams was formally introduced as Washington's manager at a news conference Friday.
He will retain most of predecessor Davey Johnson's staff, including bench coach Randy Knorr and pitching coach Steve McCatty. Matt LeCroy replaces Jim Lett as bullpen coach, and Mark Weidemaier is being hired as a seventh coach, in charge of defensive positioning.
Weidemaier was with the Arizona Diamondbacks, where Williams was the third-base coach the last three seasons.
Expanded replay to be tested in fall league
NEW YORK – Expanded instant replay will be given a test next week by Major League Baseball at the Arizona Fall League.
MLB said the new video review procedures will be used during five AFL games from Tuesday through Nov. 9. AFL umpires will work the games and MLB umpires will observe. The contemplated procedures allow each manager one challenge over the first six innings and two from the seventh inning on. Challenged calls will be reviewed by a crew in MLB headquarters in New York City, which will make a final ruling.
Expanded video review, developed by Atlanta Braves President John Schuerholz, MLB Executive Vice President Joe Torre and MLB Special Assistant to the Commissioner Tony La Russa, is subject to approval by owners, the players' association and the umpires' union.
After rough finish, Jalen Hurts ready for next Eagles act
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Toward hybrid Macbooks with Apple and Intel CPU?
Rumors have been growing lately on Apple moving away from Intel chip to build Macbook laptop running solely on their own Apple-made CPU by 2020. Intel stock dropped as a result of those speculations.


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Logo Study: IRON MAN part 1
All images © Marvel except as noted
In 1962, building on the successes of THE FANTASTIC FOUR and SPIDER-MAN, Marvel writer/editor Stan Lee began creating other superheroes to star in existing Marvel books. Thus Iron Man debuted in issue 39 of TALES OF SUSPENSE rather than his own title. At the time the number of titles Marvel could publish was limited by their distributor, and that was likely the reason. While Lee's brother Larry Leiber worked on the script from Stan's plot, the cover was drawn by Jack Kirby, who created the "costume" or armor. Interior art was begun by Kirby and finished by Don Heck, who soon took over most of the art on the feature.
Most Marvel cover logos at the time were designed by production manager Sol Brodsky and finished or inked by letterer Artie Simek, who also did much of the cover lettering. All the captions and balloons on the cover above look like his work, and he probably finished the "IRON MAN' logo as well, using very square block letters and a pattern of small rivets. This was a time-honored technique for metal-themed characters and words in comics. Another, more artful one is this logo created for DC Comics by their staff designer Ira Schnapp:
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Simek's Iron Man logo above isn't very well-proportioned, but then again, it's not meant to be a real logo, and was only used on this cover, so I think we can cut him some slack. The character continued to appear in all subsequent issues of TALES OF SUSPENSE, but it wasn't until issue 53 that he gained an actual cover logo.
This one looks much better to me, with well-proportioned sans-serif block letters. They're so standard in form that they don't really relate visually to the character, though. The only points of interest are the slightly ragged ends on the straight strokes, but that's so subtle it's hard to see. The same font could be used for almost any character, and lacks distinction. The comic book logo as a whole is attractive, though. Interesting to see the word "featuring" very much in the style of DC's Ira Schnapp. Sol Brodsky must have been looking at the competition when he designed this one, assuming he did.
With issue 59 the character began sharing the book with Captain America, and the logo changed again to co-feature both. This time IRON MAN gained impact from much thicker block letters, though still very standard in form. The slight ragged ends are gone. Notice how each character's name fills the same amount of space, making the CAPTAIN AMERICA letters much thinner and horizontally condensed. It may have been accidental, but it gives the two names nice contrast. And a drop shadow is added to each, giving additional interest and a little more pop off the background shape.
Toward the end of the TALES OF SUSPENSE run, the two characters received larger logos, alternately, with the other smaller below. Here the same sort of letterforms are just expanded vertically for Iron Man. Cap's logo actually relates to him by using stripes of red white and blue, but Iron Man's is still very standard in style.
Iron Man left TALES OF SUSPENSE with issue 99, and appeared in this one-shot with Sub-Mariner, cover dated April, 1968, using the previous logo. Later in 1968 he finally gained his very own book.
Titled THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN, the logo is once again very standard block-letter forms, with IRON MAN redrawn and even taller than before. Aside from the open drop shadow there's not much about this logo that is different or better than what came before it, nor is it worse. Certainly it's very readable, and the name is short enough to make it memorable, though the character's costume has become increasingly less robotic and iron-plated over the passing years, and except for the mask and chest plate could pass as a typical superhero costume.
With issue seven the rivets returned, at least offering something that suggested metal, but it was a half-hearted attempt.
Finally, on issue 11, the logo was gained some additional elements: two-point perspective and telescoping that gave the letters width and weight. The rounded characters now had more appropriate beveled corners, too. The general effect isn't bad, but if you look closely, the shading on the telescoping is rough and unconvincing, not well done at all, and only barely conveying the idea of shadows. I'd call this logo a slight improvement in some ways, a step backward in others. As to who might have designed it, it doesn't look to me like the work of Brodsky and Simek. Probably someone else on staff at Marvel then did this one, but I have no idea who, not having been able to assemble a good picture of Marvel production staff for the time.
Would IRON MAN ever get a really good cover logo? It would take some years, but the answer is yes, and we'll see it next time.
More chapters and other logo studies on my LOGO LINKS page.
This entry was posted in Logo Studies on June 17, 2008 by Todd Klein.
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Pj Perez June 23, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Just found your blog and as a font design geek, I am fully intrigued by your explorations of comics logo designs! (And of course, a fan of your lettering work over the years. Oddly, I just pulled out "The Dark Knight Strikes Back" last night to re-read, lettered by … oh, but you knew that.)


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Minnesota has a rich Swedish history going back hundreds of years. Follow this three-day itinerary to make your visit a smorgasbord of Swedish and other Scandinavian culture, food, historic sites and shopping.
American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis Turnblad Mansion / Paul Crosby
Day 1: Find Swedish Heritage in Minneapolis
There's no better place to start your Swedish heritage tour of Minnesota than the American Swedish Institute (ASI), located just south of downtown Minneapolis. Half heritage museum and half cultural meeting place, ASI highlights Swedish, Swedish-American and Nordic cultures both past and present. The ASI's historic Turnblad Mansion features sculpted ceilings, intricately carved wood, beautiful rugs of Swedish wool and exquisite porcelain kakelugnar.
Adjacent to the opulent mansion, the Nelson Cultural Center's white walls, clean lines and high ceilings bring modern Scandinavian architecture to the ASI campus. After a few hours spent exploring, head to the on-site FIKA cafe for a traditional Nordic meal. A destination unto itself, FIKA serves traditional and contemporary Nordic fare like potato dumplings, meatballs and gravlax.
Ingebretsen's meat counter on Saturday afternoon in December / Stevesworldofphotos, shared under CC BY-ND 2.0
Continue your tour just a few blocks south at Ingebretsen's, a south Minneapolis market featuring fine Scandinavian gifts, food, needlework and clothing. For anyone seeking hard-to-find Swedish foods or gifts, there's no beating Ingebretsen's. The store has been open continuously since 1921, and stepping inside feels like walking into a time capsule. In addition, you can also register for classes in traditional Scandinavian needlework and knitting, how to make lefse, kransekake (a spectacular cake) or troll masks.
Other Scandinavian Heritage Must-Visits in the Twin Cities:
Hewing Hotel's ultra-stylish Tullibee restaurant in Minneapolis
The Finnish Bistro coffee shop and bakery in St. Paul
Norwegian cultural center, Norway House in Minneapolis
The water tower in Lindström resembles a Swedish coffee pot
Day 2: "America's Little Sweden" and Other Small Town Swedish Settlements
Now that you know what big city life was like for Scandinavians in Minnesota, head north to explore a few of the state's Swedish-settled small towns.
In Scandia, about an hour northeast of the Twin Cities, you'll find plenty of attractions that celebrate the history of Swedish settlement in Minnesota. The Hay Lake Monument honors the first three Swedish men who settled here in the early 1850s. Nearby, the Hay Lake School and the Johannes Erickson Log House Museum illuminate the lives of 19th-century Scandinavian immigrants. Tour the 11-acre Gammelgården Museum, a site with historic buildings built by Swedish immigrants in the 1850s. See Minnesota's oldest Lutheran church, a log home, barn, parsonage and cottage.
From there, it's just another 15 minutes north to Lindström, or "America's Little Sweden." Swedish heritage abounds in this town, from the water tower in the shape of a Swedish coffee pot, to the Glader Cemetery (the oldest Swedish burial ground in Minnesota), the stately Gustaf Anderson House and the Moody Round Barn built by Swedish farmers. You may already know Lindström as the fictional home of Karl Oscar and Kristina, characters in Vilhelm Moberg's popular emigrant novels. Tour the Karl Oskar House, a home that inspired Moberg's writing, and find statues in the town of Karl Oskar and Kristina. Go to nearby Chisago City to visit the Vilhelm Moberg statue.
Ready for some food? Stop into Gustaf's on Main Eatery, Lindström Bakery or The Swedish Inn for a traditional Swedish meal in a setting where you might hear the old Småland dialect still spoken here today.
Visit Minnesota's oldest Lutheran church at the Gammelgarden Museum in Scandia
Travel north through Isanti County, sometimes called the Dalarna of America (although technically its first Swedish settlers were from the province of Hälsingland). Stop in Cambridge and visit the archives room and pioneer cemetery at Cambridge Lutheran Church where you can learn more about the families who came here in the late 1800s. Several other sites in Cambridge and Stanchfield house memorabilia and genealogical records of Swedish immigrants.
Continue to Mora, home of the world's largest (25 feet high) dala horse, the Mora klocka (a Swedish bell tower), and monuments in the city parks honoring the town's heritage. Mora is also the home of the annual Vasaloppet ski race. Stop at Vasaloppet headquarters in the center of Mora to learn more about sites and the town's sister city, Mora, Sweden.
Day 3: Take a Little Swedish Heritage Home
To wrap up your Swedish Heritage tour of Minnesota, be sure to visit IKEA, the world's largest retailer of ready-to-assemble furniture and home products. The first IKEA began in the 1940s in a small Swedish village, and today IKEA stores are in more than 40 countries. The Minnesota store is located south of the Twin Cities in Bloomington, next to Mall of America (another exceptional shopping destination).
Plan to have a meal in the IKEA restaurant, which features Swedish meatballs, lingonberry beverages and a whole range of other foods, including a breakfast plate (with scrambled eggs, bacon and potatoes). Bring more edible treats home from the Swedish Food Market.
Visit the Jeffers Petroglyphs, Where Minnesota History Begins
Adventure, Relax and Retreat With a Women-Only Getaway


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A while back we received a comment on one of our blogs from a customer, a wheelchair user, who vented his frustration with one of the more difficult aspects of a disability - finding and maintaining employment.
I've been a wheelchair user for almost 50 years and have been employed with BraunAbility on and off for the past 36 years. Finding employment with a company that's always been a step ahead when it comes to accessibility and equality for wheelchair users has been a true blessing. Even so, I've learned a lot over the years about dealing with society's stereotypes of a person with a disability in the workplace.
It may not be fair, but it's true: a person with a disability will have to work harder than an able-bodied person to find and maintain employment. The world has come a long, long way in how it views wheelchair users, but unfortunately, there are still stereotypes that persist, like that a wheelchair user is less dependable, less qualified, or can't handle the work load an able-bodied person can.
In order to get an employer to rise above these stereotypes, you have to do it first. You have to first get it out of your mind that your disability will affect your work performance before you can expect others to realize the same. This means no excuses and never coming across looking like a victim of circumstance. Sometimes it's easy to fall back on your disability as the reason why you came to work late or why you weren't able to complete a project in time, but it's dangerous to do or say anything that will reflect back on a stereotype. It's important to give the impression that you can handle the challenges that come up just as well - or better - than an able-bodied person can.
This is easier said than done. Some people just aren't comfortable interacting with a person with a disability. It can be difficult for them to look past the wheelchair and see the person sitting in it. For example, if I go to a meeting with another BraunAbility employee who is able-bodied, oftentimes the person we're meeting with will look at my able-bodied co-worker and avoid eye contact with me. When this happens, I'll move my chair in between them and try to tactfully (and literally) put myself in the middle of their conversation.
An injury or disability can dramatically change what we had planned for our lives or careers, but as the saying goes, "Sometimes when one door closes, another opens." There are still job opportunities available, although sometimes circumstances require a little "reinventing". When I was injured in 1960 at the age of 16, I thought the only careers available to me were invisible, behind-the-scenes positions, which is how I started out in accounting (a fate that would have been worse than death had I stayed there). It wasn't until much later when I began taking college courses that I realized I had more potential than I'd given myself credit for. I'd pigeonholed myself, and society did the same in those days.
"The three most important factors in overcoming any of life's obstacles - disabled or not - are attitude, attitude, attitude."
We're not a perfect society today, but we have come a long way. At BraunAbility we often hear stories of customers who have overcome employment odds thanks, in part, to help from our wheelchair vans and wheelchair lifts. I can remember a student who was injured in an accident during med school. Instead of quitting school, he switched paths and became a doctor in psychiatry, a field he could easily participate in from a wheelchair.
This is a complex topic with a lot of angles to consider, but it all comes down to this: if the three most important factors in determining the value of real estate are location, location, location, then the three most important factors in overcoming any of life's obstacles - disabled or not - are attitude, attitude, attitude. When it comes to finding and keeping employment, the real challenge is to develop an attitude that reflects the type of person they want to represent their business. If you can do that, it becomes much easier for an employer to look past the chair and simply see an asset to their company or organization instead.
I'll have more to say on a follow-up blog next week. In the meantime, we'd love to hear from the rest of you. Do you have any interesting stories about disabilities and the workplace? Any advice to share? Careers that defy the limitations of a disability? If so, please post a comment below!


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Q: WP Editor Issue in Backend I am stuck on silly issue of wp_editor function in WordPress backend in custom plugin page. See issue for wp_editor in attached images

I have called the wp_editor function like this
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There is also some js error in console in live environment when I click on link button in editor.

The link button should not pop out like this.
Any help in this highly appreciated.
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When I check in console there is error. See screenshot attached below

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An Obsession of a Widow
About An Obsession of a Widow
One morning, a recovered alcoholic widow and single mother Sarah Renshaw, wakes up to hear her five-year-old son declare he was once a girl from a past life. But is there something here to be understood? Or, is there something more sinister to explain this ordeal?
Sarah's life attracts more complications when her husband's best friend (David Norcross) returns to the city for the first time in four years. Despite not being able to prove it, he is the man who she accuses of killing her husband.
During her quest to unravel her son's reincarnation story, Sarah gives in to David's recurrent attempts to explain his behaviour before he ran out of town. Are his explanations legitimate? Or, has she fallen for an obsessive man she formerly thought he was?
Follow Sarah's gauntlet of hassle and turmoil as she becomes a victim of deceit & betrayal.
Who can she trust around her?
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Joshua Henshall was born and raised in Swindon, United Kingdom and attended Canterbury Christ Church University where he achieved a BA degree in American Studies. He is currently waiting to move to Los Angeles, California where he will live with his fiancé, Monique.
For the last few years Joshua has been working as a supervisor in A print and distribution company during the day and writing in his spare time.
From 2015 – 2016, he ran his own blog called JH Film Critic. In it he critiqued, past and present films, and talked about others that were in the making. He achieved thousands of viewers and hundreds of subscribers, earning a 'writers you must follow page' on twitter.
Now, Joshua has moved away from blogging and has completed his first novel, intending to write more in the future.
In his spare time he enjoys reading, with James Patterson and Stephen King being his favourites and main inspiration for writing. He also likes mountain climbing, watching movies, travelling, and is a huge fan of Liverpool FC.
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Obituaries: Wells, Quattlebaum
By: Matt Chaney	July 11, 2018
(AP) James Wells, a prominent Rock Hill attorney and member of a South Carolina civil rights protest group known as the Friendship Nine, died July 8 at his home. He was 77.
Mr. Wells spent a month in jail in 1961 after he and eight other black men were charged with trespassing at a whites-only lunch counter in Rock Hill, The Herald of Rock Hill reported.
The men, who were attending Friendship Junior College in Rock Hill, chose to spend a month in jail rather than pay a fine in what was called the "Jail, no Bail" movement. Their time on a chain gang in York County encouraged protesters to stay in jail to fight segregation, Jim Crow laws and other forms of racism.
The convictions of Mr. Wells and the other members of the Friendship Nine were overturned in 2015. York County prosecutors apologized to the group for their arrest and time in jail.
"Jim Wells was one of our quiet leaders, an inspiration to all of us," said David Williamson, another member of the Friendship Nine. "He was so smart and gentle. A great, great man."
Mr. Wells and other members of the Friendship Nine are honored with stools at the former lunch counter where the protests took place. There also are signs and markers about the group around the city.
"Jim Wells was a friend of mine my whole life," said Willie McCleod, another member of the group. "He believed in what we were doing back then, and was willing, like all of us, to go to jail for what was right."
Mr. Wells eventually went on to graduate from Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte before going on to law school at the University of Illinois. He practiced law in Columbia before returning to Rock Hill, where he grew up, to open his solo general practice firm. He worked there until his retirement.
Monique Ramseur with the Robinson Funeral Home said she was meeting with family members July 9 to make arrangement for the funeral. She did not know the exact cause of death.
Mr. Wells, an Air Force veteran, is the third member of the group to die. Robert McCullough died in 2006 and Clarence Graham died in 2016.
Mr. Wells told The Herald in 2011 his rationale for participating in the protest.
"It was clear to all of us that segregation was unjust, unfair, and wrong. None of us wanted to go to jail for a month, but the protests showed people what the real truth was in Rock Hill," he said. "What we did, hopefully it reminded young people afterward, and still does, that one has to sacrifice for the rest of society to change and become better for all people."
David Quattlebaum III
David Quattlebaum III, who practiced law in Greenville County for over 50 years and served as a county bar president, died June 27. He was 82.
Mr. Quattlebaum was born on Nov. 28, 1935, and grew up in Bishopville. He graduated from Duke University in 1958 then went on to receive his LLB degree from Duke Law in 1961, where he served on the Duke Law Review.
Following law school, Mr. Quattlebaum took a job at the firm of Leatherwood Walker Todd and Mann, now known as Smith Moore Leatherwood. He remained at the firm until his retirement.
He was a member of the American College of Trust and Estate Lawyers and was active in both the South Carolina Bar and the Greenville County Bar, serving as its president.
In 2001, he received the Greenville County Bar's Tommy Thomason Award. The award is given annually to recognize the area lawyer who best exemplifies compassion, integrity, strong personal values, dedication to the community, humility and diplomacy.
He is survived by his wife Mary Jane Quattlebaum and his children David Quattlebaum of Charlotte, Elizabeth Newman of Durham, J. Derrick Quattlebaum of Greenville and John Quattlebaum of Washington, D.C., along with 11 grandchildren.
He is also survived by his brother, U.S. District Judge A. Marvin Quattlebaum of Greenville and his sister Virginia Lacy of Ridgeway.
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Thank you for checking out the inaugural episode of the Health Fit Business Podcast.
Dr. Anthony Gustin and I are very excited to bring this podcast to you guys and share with you things we have learned that can hopefully save you time, stress, money, and speed up your path to success.
In this first episode of the podcast, Anthony and I discuss the idea of helping 10 or 10,000 people a day. This idea drives us to do what we do.
While helping 10 people or 20 people a day in a clinic setting or gym setting is great and necessary, there are SO many people in the world who desperately need help.
The idea of 10 or 10,000 is about your focus, your aim. Is your goal to help 10 people a day over and over and over again, day in and day out? There is absolutely nothing wrong with doing that, and in fact, I think one on one time with people is extremely valuable.
Or is your goal to expand beyond your walls, expand beyond the limits of your time.
What if you could help 10 people a day physically and 10,000 people a day through the internet or through a product?
This episode is about expanding the way you think about your capabilities.
The challenge for you this week is to consider: what avenue can I take to help 10,000 people?
This is a mental exercise. Put 20-30 minutes of dedicated time aside at some point during the day or two following listening to this podcast and jot down what your unique background is and what you can offer the world beyond your one on one services.
Ryan: I'm Dr. Ryan Debell. Thanks for tuning in to the inaugural episode Health Fit Business podcast. This is a podcast as the name describes. Business as it relates to fitness industries that I'm doing jointly with my friend and colleague, Dr. Anthony Gustin. Anthony and I went to school together. We graduated together. He's currently a sport-chiro in San Fran as well as started and run the supplements company pureWOD. I, myself, I'm a sports-chiro north of Seattle and run The Movement Fix, which is the name of my clinic, my workshops that I teach, my blog and my podcast.
Anthony and I were hanging out recently and decided that we wanted to start a podcast about business to share things that we've learned along the way that we hope can help others and each episode is about 10 to 20 minutes long covering one specific topic with a challenge at the end to motivate change in either your thinking, your action or how you are doing things. This first episode is titled 10 or 10000 and it essentially… Well, I don't want to spoil it. We'll have to listen in. But before we do that, make sure to head over to healthfit.biz and on the website, you'll see at the top a place to sign up for notifications of the newest episodes and blog post. So, make sure to head over there and enter your email address so you get notified and without further ado, let's listen in to episode #1.
Ryan: I'm Dr. Ryan Debell from The Movement Fix.
Ryan: I'm here with my good friend Anthony. Introduce yourself.
Ryan: We are outside the CrossFit Games and we met up. We went to school together and we haven't seen each other for a while. We're actually in a poolside with some background noise because this is raw. This is real life. And we both have, as we have gone through the years, after graduating.
Anthony: I think we kind of, each of our businesses really evolved from the clinic perspective and trying about this weekend, we both came to the same conclusion about why that model is broken and what we could do to help way more people than we do in our clinics.
Ryan: So, we got. As were talking this weekend. We thought we should record some of these conversations because there's a lot of people out there who will change the way they think about what they're doing.
Anthony: If I had an information when I was in school, I would probably approach my career after school completely differently.
Ryan: From a get go rather than go through years and years, a couple of years figuring stuff out without like a lot of guidance, you would have been able to go this is just a little bit more strategic right off the bat and you could really start helping people. Isn't why we got in to what we are doing?
Anthony: Yeah! Absolutely. I think, the biggest thing that changed our mind was, I think any health and fitness professional, anyone who's working with a one on one person to improve their health and fitness goes in the same conundrum of being limited by their own time. And how do I reach more people? Right?
Ryan: So, one of the things I'd like to think about is this. Let's say theoretically, depending on how long you work with someone, you could see 10 people a day. Okay. Whether you're training them or working with them as a patient, I'm helping ten people a day. If there's 10 people that you can help a day, there's 10,000 people out in the world who could be helped from the same stuff.
Anthony: How many people would you rather help as a health and fitness professional, 10 or 10,000? I know the answer for me, it'd be 10,000.
Ryan: And that's where our mentality is really shipped. We used to be about how can I get a new patient? How do I thought my schedule? And that's great and that's noble and it's awesome to help people which you can still certainly do but I think having the mindset "how do I help instead of 10, how do I help 10,000 people?" because the general population of our country isn't healthy. They are in desperate need in health – general health, fitness, device.
Anthony: There's so much misinformation out there and if you've spent the time and money to acquire an insane amount of knowledge that is obviously very valuable, that people are willing to pay money for – a lot of money – then I believe that you have an obligation as a clinician or therapist or trainer to scale that as much as possible and help as many people as you can.
Ryan: That's interesting. An obligation.
Anthony: Yeah. I think you'd do disservice if you have a very specific tool set that you're not sharing with people that help them.
Ryan: I agree. I think that there's so… there's so many problems out there that if we are not looking at bigger solutions maybe we are missing some of the point of why we got in to what we are doing in the first place which is to help people.
Ryan: And so tell us the story. Where you are now and what you are currently doing?
Anthony: Yeah, because Ryan has The Movement Fix.
Anthony: That kind of morphed in to a lot of requests about "How do I take supplements? Which supplements do you recommend?" And researching as much as I could, there was nothing that I could find as responsible suggestion to anybody else I was working with.
Anthony: All of them were filled with crazy amount of chemicals or artificial colors or binding agents or all this garbage so I just did that hard work and trying it out and making one myself. That has then kind of went to another level of "Oh my God! Now I can scale this to even more people!" Right. And so, having a product like that for me is a gateway to be able to educate as many people as possible on what they are putting in to their bodies.
Ryan: So essentially, the company now is called pureWOD.
Ryan: And essentially, pureWOD was built out of necessity from people asking you for help and there was no solution that you'd had.
Ryan: You even do it. Will not be able to recommend something.
Anthony: Instead of just telling one person, "Oh! You go just do this solution, do that but there's no prize (sounds like 00:07:46) available for you. I realized a need to be able to scale something and provide people with something that literally did not exist from a nutritional stand point.
Ryan: They want to put stuff in it for almost no reasons sometimes, right?
Anthony: Yeah. I can go on forever about the supplement industry and how disgusting it is but that is just another level where I saw the impact I can make not just the one person or 10 people but 10,000 people. Not having to have me be in four walls working on people, one on one. I can be doing this podcast right now and there could be plenty of people figuring about nutrition and what to put in their body based upon price (sounds like 00:08:42) that I provide to them.
Ryan: So, you are essentially expanding beyond the clinic to go from helping 10 to 10,000.
Ryan: And you are even thinking about, "How do you reach even more? How do you reach more general health population too?" The answer may change your decision making along the way as well, hasn't it?
Anthony: Yeah, exactly. So, going forward, we are going to do a lot of educational pieces and things to help people with their health and nutrition not just selling supplements. It's just a good place for me to start the conversation. I think this progression, you can't really skip the steps and I think Ryan you went through the same thing with The Movement Fix as well, right?
Ryan: Oh, that's what exactly happened to me. So, I had my clinic where I've seen patients, well I mean, I still do. I still do that but I have had to sort of condense the time that I'm in there. Because what I found was I would see multiple times, over and over and over again the athletes that I was working with. They would, they'd have pain in certain place, they'd be moving in a certain way. We'd work on that and they will feel better. And I said, "Well, this is happening to me two times per week. The same problem. Why don't I just make a video about it, post it on the internet so other people could be like "Oh yeah, I've never thought to look for that." " Oh yeah, I see this too," or something goes "Oh I do that! I can just, I make that a sort of mistake or training error." And suddenly, it's just going "Oh, I helped that one person not one day which is great because that person need it." But there might be 10,000 people out there who are doing the same thing but they don't know. No one's telling it. 'Because a lot of times I think from our side of things, it doesn't seem like it's the right thing to do to go get educated and not focused on helping people one on one. Would you agree with that? Because it almost like I feel guilty like I'm "supposed to be." Because that's the norm is in society.
Anthony: Right. But the bridge for both of us was the realization "Oh, I'm meeting this problem over and over again." There must be other people out there not in San Francisco, not in Seattle, have the same problem.
Ryan: Exactly. And people who maybe they, maybe they would not have discovered you to help them from a Yelp search.
Ryan: But if you can, make either like you did a product or a brand that provides something then they might find that at a much higher percentage of the other time than they would find a clinic where they randomly go there and they get the help that they really need.
Anthony: Right. And so, you started with all these videos and that obviously morphed to workshops all over the world. And any plans for future scalability with helping more people?
Ryan: Well, I think eventually. You know the stuff that I teach "Oh! Only Ryan knows that stuff!" You know what I mean? It's not, I don't own how to move. Just like you don't own nutrition.
Ryan: I think the difference is I'm doing it. It's not like "Oh, Ryan is special!" but I think that what I have to do eventually to expand is beyond is I again have to expand beyond myself because I only have 52 weekends a year. I can't be gone on like Christmas and New Year's. I also have like a wife so I can't be gone like 48 weekends. So how do I do that? Well, I have to find other people that are motivated, that have the educational background, that have the passion. And then I'm going to have to start strategically having other people teach the same materials that has been helpful for many others and started expanding that even more so beyond myself. Which is sort of hard to do because we're not trained how to think like that or do that in school – like expanding beyond yourself. We feel like "Only I can do this. I'm the only person who can do this." And that's not true. There's many capable people out there and if you start surrounding yourself with them in a way that can grow this thing, that you feel so passionately about. I think that's the next strep that has to be taken.
Anthony: Right. And even if you do come up with a noble system of evaluation or training somebody or a treatment technique that you think is superior. Holding that for your own patient base is extremely selfish. You are limiting that to only people that could come to your clinic. So why would you not bring the people in your ecosystem if you believe that such an effective thing and add it to their repertoire so they can help other people as well.
Ryan: I think that if you found something that could be helpful for some people that other people don't know about, you should find a way to share that information. Go ahead.
Anthony: I think that's the whole kind of summary of what we're talking about here is you feel that you have very valuable information that is helpful, you should try to use that to help as many people as possible.
Ryan: I think there's a few reasons why people don't do that. Number 1, it's scary to post stuff on the internet.
Ryan: You have a thick skin. You are very thick skinned. Anthony is one of the most confident. You have the highest confrontational tolerance of any human being that I've ever met.
Anthony: Even without being said though, the first couple of posts that I wrote I had sort of a negative comment.
Ryan: I remember you like calling me, messaging me, "Dude, oh my gosh! People are writing these stuffs" because you put your stuff out there trying to share things you think is valuable and then have many people like tear it apart or be mean. You can take it personally when you are not used to it.
Anthony: Yeah. That's the age of internet so get used to it.
Ryan: Yeah. But that shouldn't be a deterrent. You have to focus on. And I think this is where the mentality of 10 or 10,000 comes in.
Anthony: Yeah. And even if, say somebody post negative comment that make you thinks at certain way either validate your point of view already or it will help you change your mind and grown and learn something new.
Ryan: One of things that… So obviously yesterday, we were at the Bender Village.
Anthony: CrossFit Games 2016 (sounds like 00:15:04).
Ryan: Watching you it was eye opening to me. You would go around 2 different nutrition booths and talk to the owners and give them samples of your product.
Ryan: Why would you do that? Explain what the mentality is behind that.
Anthony: There is always a big enough pie to have a slice from. Right? There is no way, unless I am somebody like Johnson and Johnson, you can capture the entire world or country population that I can provide for as many people. I want as many people that are trying to do the same thing as me, basically create awesome products and awareness in nutrition to exist. I mean, this is the thing with "rising tides raise all ships" mentality.
Ryan: I love that. I love that mentality. That saying.
Anthony: Exactly. And that is scarcity mindset and I think that it harms us in the long run and most of all, it harms the potential people that you could be helping.
Ryan: If your goal is to help those 10,000 people, you can't be worried about "Oh what's other company doing." "Oh I can't let them help other people." How do those goals in line? "I have to make, I can't share what I know or I can't work with somebody else because that will make them successful and me not successful." Well then your goal isn't about helping people. Your goal is about you being successful. And I think depending on what you are focusing on, that will dry you one way or another. You will have to self-evaluate.
Anthony: Right. Exactly. So, the question I guess for everybody that's listening probably about 2 or 3 people, is your goal to help people and if it is do you have specialized knowledge and if you do, do you want to help 10 or 10,000 people? It should be as simple as that.
Ryan: And we mentioned two examples. My example is online videos workshops. Anthony's is clean supplements and education.
Anthony: Completely different even a social media page where anybody could follow and doing it well is helping reach more people that you could reach in your clinic.
Ryan: There's multiple. There's maybe a hundred, I mean who knows, how many different things there are. Like what I do is just a thing, what you do is just a thing. How many things are there because everybody has different background knowledge. Everyone has different life experience. What is the thing that you can do that will reach 10,000 people? Now, do you have to neglect the 10 people that you see in your clinic today or 20 or whatever it is – however your practice- to reach 10,000? I don't think you have to.
Ryan: You don't have to sacrifice one for the other but do you have an extra hour per day? We are talking about this yesterday. How long does it take me to put together the material that I put together? 30 minutes a week, 45 minutes a week?
Anthony: (unclear 00:18:04) …loose on the internet.
Anthony: Billions of people can access potentially that is evergreen, at least forever. It's not like we worked on one person at one time that knowledge sits there. Right?
Ryan: Yeah. It sits there and it can never be reused because it goes with them and that's great. But if it takes 30 to 45 minutes per week for me to make a video, make it nice looking, put it on YouTube and I can help thousands in addition to the ones that I help in person. If your goal's to help a lot of people, I just don't see how you cannot do that.
Anthony: Right. And even if people who are motivated about money, if you help more people you get theoretically get more money in return. If that's your main goal. If you want to be really selfish and talk about just pure monetary value, even if you can provide to a hundred thousand people. That's more valuable to just 10 people.
Ryan: Right. So monetarily, there's also huge incentive. If you can help 10,000 people that was worth $1, you don't have to be charging people thousand dollars.
Ryan: And I think until you thought in that way, "How can I get beyond myself? How can I get beyond the physical presence, in the world of internet where information could flow?" Until you kind of have that switch in your mind, it's like one of those holy crap moments. I never thought about this as a possibility. So hopefully, to those of you listening are having one of those moments right now of 10 or 10,000. That's the mindset. Hopefully you can get from this. So, this is what we're going to do, if you guys have found this valuable, shoot us an email or comment. Let us know what you think. We're kind of doing this right on the cup.
Anthony: Yeah. This is a terminal project. If people like it, finds this valuable, we'll keep doing it and if not, well thank you to the two people who listened.
Ryan: And at least we helped.
Anthony: At least we helped you guys.
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Great podcast guys. It's awesome to hear what motivated you to do what you're doing. Definitely a reminder that we're here to serve and help people, and refreshing that you've created outlets to help more than most of us imagined; my mind's working hard now! Keep up the good work!
Thanks 🙂 Hope you've been doing well!
Great information! Definitely good food for thought. Thinking about ways to get information out beside just my blog. I look forward to listen to the rest of them.
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Lancashire County Council signs for 40 Faxi groups
University of Essex launches Faxi journey sharing social networks
Parking permit distribution prioritised for Faxi car sharers at Clifton education centres
Published by Guthrie Watson at February 2, 2015
Since Bristol City Council has recently announced its introduction of resident parking restrictions in Clifton and thereby reducing the amount of car parking spaces for local businesses.
Clifton High School and other local educational establishments have been provided with Faxi journey sharing technology by Bristol Council in an effort to encourage sustainable transport alternatives.
Now Clifton High School and other educational institutes (comprising over 1000 staff) have adopted a policy where car parking permits will be issued as a priority for those engaged in car sharing. Only members of the Faxi group will be able to obtain a parking permit to provide staff members with alternative transport options and to enforce localised sustainable travel.
Guy Cowper, Director of Facilities at Clifton High School, is liaising with Bristol City Council and Faxi to explore the future possibility for parking permits to be automatically allocated to those engaged in car sharing.
Guy said: "Clifton High School is well known in the city as a dynamic organisation that's responsive to change. We have been first to have responded positively to the Faxi service and see this as the best way of helping colleagues plan their journeys more effectively and sustainably."
As Faxi develops its patent technology which relies on GPS and geo-tracking to confirm when car sharing has taken place, the opportunities for prioritised parking spaces and permits allow companies to adopt enforceable sustainable transport initiatives.
Faxi is working with numerous other nationwide organisations, local authorities and institutions to provide a similar solution over the next six months.
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Colombières-sur-Orb (okzitanisch: Colombièiras d'Òrb) ist ein Ort und eine südfranzösische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Hérault in der Region Okzitanien. Die Gemeinde gehört zum Arrondissement Béziers und zum Kanton Saint-Pons-de-Thomières (bis 2015: Kanton Olargues). Die Einwohner werden Colombiérois genannt.

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Colombières-sur-Orb liegt etwa 31 Kilometer nordnordwestlich von Béziers am Orb. Umgeben wird Colombières-sur-Orb von den Nachbargemeinden Rosis im Norden, Combes im Osten und Nordosten, Le Poujols-sur-Orb im Osten, Les Aires im Süden und Südosten, Mons im Südwesten sowie Saint-Martin-de-l'Arçon im Westen.

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Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Kirche Saint-Pierre
 Kapelle Sainte-Colombe
 Turm mit viereckiger Grundfläche aus dem 14. Jahrhundert
 Schloss Colombières aus dem 17. Jahrhundert

Persönlichkeiten
 Jean-Claude Carrière (1931–2021), Drehbuchautor und Schriftsteller

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Defeated Dennis 'happy' with tech, performance as he starts Olympic year
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Credit: Cycling Australia / Con Chronis / Zac Williams
It was a second consecutive year for Rohan Dennis (Team INEOS) of finishing with the silver medal in the time trial at the Australian Road National Championships time trial, posting a time 17 seconds slower than winner Luke Durbridge.
It was a defeat in a time trial in an Olympic year but world champion Dennis was far from disheartened after the finish.
"Happy with the ride, the result could have been better," said Dennis. "I did everything I went out there to do. I held the power I knew I could hold and in the end I was beaten by a better guy.
"Durbo is absolutely flying at the moment and I think with that ride he would have been at least top five at the worlds in Yorkshire. That ride hurt me more than Yorkshire to be honest.
Dennis moved to new squad Ineos after a combative season at Bahrain-Merida, complete with a mid-race break-up at the Tour de France. INEOS were out in force for Dennis at the time trial – often WorldTour teams leave lone riders to fend for themselves or rely on friends within the peloton to offer support – with DS Brett Lancaster there in support of the world champion.
"Really well. It's honestly a breath of fresh air," said Dennis of the new environment within INEOS. "Super professional and at the same time, super relaxed as well. They're really doing anything to make sure I'm feeling at home and I appreciate everything with what they've been doing so far."
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The issues with Dennis and Bahrain-Merida seemed to reach a head around the provision of sub-standard time-trial kit and equipment by the team. In 2019 at nationals, Dennis talked of a disconnect between the wattage he put out and the result, but he was quick to praise the set-up with INEOS.
"Really happy," said Dennis. "It's the same set-up that I've had, wheelset, groupset, saddle… the only difference is really the frame. They've nailed my position.
"I'm really happy with the equipment that we're using and we're always going to push to get it better and better every time. We're working on that from today."
With the Tokyo Olympics on the horizon, the nationals is normally regarded as an important selection race. It seems inconceivable that selectors would leave the reigning world champion out and so Dennis wasn't perturbed by the lack of a win against a potential rival for the two-time trial spots available for the Australian men's team.
"It's a long season," said Dennis. "At the moment I'm hitting the numbers I need to hit. I've hit the same numbers every year in January, in the end I think I'm in the right spot. I'm usually doing quite well when it comes into July and September with this sort of form in January.
"Having Durbo beat me today… that got him a gig last year in Yorkshire and it's more than possible that he could be there (at the Tokyo Olympics) as well. Look, more the merrier. If he's there and we can get more guys on the podium, I hope that I'm on the podium as well."
Dennis will head to Tokyo with unfinished business, after a snapped time-trial bar during the Rio Games meant that the South Australian star lost all hope of a gold medal, having to settle for fifth in the end after a late bike change. He'll head in as the presumptive favourite and has already conducted a reconnaissance of the route with the Australian Cycling Team.
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An N-heterocyclic carbene as a bidentate hemilabile ligand: A synchrotron X-ray diffraction and density functional theory study
Vladimir K. Dioumaev, David J. Szalda, Jonathan Hanson, James A. Franz, R Morris Bullock
The N-heterocyclic carbene ligand IMes was shown by synchrotron crystallography and DFT computations to adopt a hemilabile bidentate coordination mode in CpM(CO)2(IMes)+B (C6F5)4 - (M = Mo, W), with a C=C bond of one mesityl weakly coordinated to the metal.
Chemical Communications
Synchrotrons
Discrete Fourier transforms
carbene
Dioumaev, V. K., Szalda, D. J., Hanson, J., Franz, J. A., & Bullock, R. M. (2003). An N-heterocyclic carbene as a bidentate hemilabile ligand: A synchrotron X-ray diffraction and density functional theory study. Chemical Communications, 9(14), 1670-1671.
An N-heterocyclic carbene as a bidentate hemilabile ligand : A synchrotron X-ray diffraction and density functional theory study. / Dioumaev, Vladimir K.; Szalda, David J.; Hanson, Jonathan; Franz, James A.; Bullock, R Morris.
In: Chemical Communications, Vol. 9, No. 14, 21.07.2003, p. 1670-1671.
Dioumaev, VK, Szalda, DJ, Hanson, J, Franz, JA & Bullock, RM 2003, 'An N-heterocyclic carbene as a bidentate hemilabile ligand: A synchrotron X-ray diffraction and density functional theory study', Chemical Communications, vol. 9, no. 14, pp. 1670-1671.
Dioumaev VK, Szalda DJ, Hanson J, Franz JA, Bullock RM. An N-heterocyclic carbene as a bidentate hemilabile ligand: A synchrotron X-ray diffraction and density functional theory study. Chemical Communications. 2003 Jul 21;9(14):1670-1671.
Dioumaev, Vladimir K. ; Szalda, David J. ; Hanson, Jonathan ; Franz, James A. ; Bullock, R Morris. / An N-heterocyclic carbene as a bidentate hemilabile ligand : A synchrotron X-ray diffraction and density functional theory study. In: Chemical Communications. 2003 ; Vol. 9, No. 14. pp. 1670-1671.
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