A quick-moving storm passed over northeast Philadelphia in August 1991. When lighting struck the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, no one was in the building. A malfunctioning alarm system was the initial symptom that something was wrong. The church security system had automatically dialed a list of numbers to say that the power was off.
Along with some members of the congregation, the police and fire personnel arrived at the church. Nothing seemed out of place on the outside of the building, so the police and fire personnel departed. Then a parishioner looked up at the cross, the highest part of the building, to see that it was no longer standing upright.
Lightning had hit the concrete covering of the cross, traveled down the steel rods reinforcing its center, zapped through the lead lines in a large stained glass window, and loosened every pane, and then spread out through the building's electrical system to blow out not only the alarm system but a television set in the basement at the far end of the basement. The force was so great that pieces of plaster from the wall were found at the other end of the sanctuary, over 100 feet from where the lightning struck.
Eight months later, the congregation received a check from their insurance company for $22,500. Payment was much slower than the lightning.
While each of us sees its force only occasionally, lightning actually strikes somewhere on the earth 100 times per second. For the United States, that averages 13 ground strikes per square mile annually. The average stroke is 25,000 amps and 30,000,000 volts. Compare that to our mere 15 amp circuits with 110 volts inside our building, which can also kill us.
We are slowly learning how to avoid getting killed by lightning. In 1989, sixty-seven Americans died from lightning while 149 died in 1965 and 340 died in 1940. Lightning kills one woman for every seven men.
But lightning creates other problems. It creates strong electro-magnetic fields which can charge nearby utility wires, and fry microprocessors. Inside our buildings, these jolts ruin expensive electronic, air conditioning and audio-visual equipment.
Lightning has been also associated with churches through the ages. An 18th century German book describes how, over just 33 years, lighting killed 103 bell ringers while they were at work.
The temple in Jerusalem, built by Solomon, survived 1,000 years of lightning because its metal dome and connecting metal rain spouts provided safe paths to ground for the energy from lightning.
Lightning seems instantaneous, but it actually happens in three steps. First, a stream of electrons flows toward the earth at about 60 miles per second. Secondly, a "stepped leader" of barely visible, negatively-charged air molecules strips away electrons near the earth. This creates a positively-charged "streamer" currents which reach up toward the leader. Finally, a branch of the leader comes in contact with one of these streamers, and bang! A massive positive return spark rises through a channel at one half to one tenth the speed of light. If we could capture the electricity, it would run one common light bulb for several months.
The diameter of a current-carrying core is one to two centimeters. Its temperature is about 50,000F degrees. The flash lasts for an average of two-tenths of a second, but the intense heat rapidly expands the air, creating thunder.
Thunder is rarely heard over 15 miles from lighting. The clap of the thunder is from the lighting strike. The rumble after the clap is from the air expanding from the upward channel of lightning.
Houses of worship ask for trouble when they build ungrounded spires into the sky. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) rates risk of damage from lightning. They point out that steeples and spires that are 50 feet higher than the surrounding buildings, on a high location, with historic contents, and covered by a wood roof over wood frame, as having the highest risk of expensive damage from lightning bolts. Over 30% of all destructive fires in houses of worship resulted from lighting. Lightning also can ruin expensive electronic, air conditioning and audiovisual equipment.
Ben Franklin flew his kite in a thunderstorm in 1752 to prove that steps can be taken to prevent harm from lighting. Lightning rods to this day are still often referred to as "Franklin Rods" and remain the best way to protect a building.
The area protected was thought to lie within a circle whose radius is the height of the rod. Recent research has redefined the definition of a protected zone as the area under an arc having a radius of 150 feet and is tangent to the earth while touching an air terminal.
When purchasing a lightning system, ask that it conform to NFPA 78, the Lightning Protection Code. Underwriters Laboratories UL96A specifies a Master Label Code. A third code was written by the Lightning Protection Institute, which now appears to be out of business.
To limit damage to electronic equipment, you may wish to purchase surge suppressors. Some people say that surge suppressors save energy while protecting equipment. They don't. Surge suppressors should be approved by Underwriters Laboratory following UL Safety Standard 1149, which covers both performance and safety guidelines. Surge suppressors are available for both telephone and electric outlets. Personal computers are often damaged by electric surges through connected modems.
Our thanks to Dr. Richard E. Orville of Texas A&M University, Patrick M. Moreland of Church Mutual Insurance Company, and Dave Goodwin of the Philadelphia Electric Company for help in preparing this article.


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The Certified Business Analysis Professional, or CBAP, and Certification of Competency in Business Analysis, or CCBA, are both credentials offered for business analysts. While they have a lot in common, there are also some key differences.
Here are the ways the two certifications are alike and how they are different.
Similarities Between the CBAP and CCBA
The CBAP and CCBA share the following similarities:
Oversight by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA). The IIBA sponsors these certifications and serves as a gatekeeper to make sure only those who meet certain standards have a legitimate claim to the designations. This organization is the best-known business analysis professional association in the world. IIBA acts in the same way the Project Management Institute, or PMI, does for the various certifications it offers to project managers.
Reference materials. The two certifications signify that a holder of either one has a requisite knowledge of and ability to apply the BABOK Guide. This publication serves as a handbook for the business analysis profession. The longer name for this book is "A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge." Employers may have their own standards for business analysis within their organizations, but business analysts in different organizations adhere to the BABOK Guide unless specifically directed otherwise. Colleagues use terminology from the BABOK Guide when speaking to one another instead of using their organizations' jargon.
Training requirement. To apply for either certification, applicants must take 21 hours of professional development training. This may not sound like a lot, but it's equivalent to the better part of three full workdays, and for busy professionals, that's quite a commitment.
Professional reference requirement. Along with the application, IIBA requires applicants to submit two references from a current or past manager, client, or CBAP recipient.
Agreement with a code of conduct. Applicants must agree to IIBA's code of conduct. They must attest to this with their signature.
Fees. All the fees for both certifications are the same. The application fees, exam fees, and recertification fees are equal for both. The application fee is the same for members and non-members of IIBA. Members get a price break on the exam fee and recertification fee.
Study preparation. IIBA recommends preparing well for its certification exams. It recommends strategies such as reading the BABOK Guide a few times, studying in groups, and taking practice exams.
Recertification process. The recertification process for both certifications involves obtaining professional development training, notifying IIBA, and paying a fee.
Differences Between the CBAP and CCBA
The CBAP and CCBA have the following two key differences:
Prestige. The CBAP is harder to achieve than the CCBA; therefore, the CBAP has more prestige.
Experience requirements. The CBAP exam requires applicants to have 7,500 hours of business analysis work experience within the last 10 years, including 900 hours in each of four of the six knowledge areas. The CCBA demands 3,750 hours of business analysis work experience within the last seven years, including 900 hours in each of two of the six knowledge areas. This is quite a difference, which also makes the CBAP more prestigious.
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Home is a small, New York suburb. White picket fences next to chain link fences next to white picket fences, containing yards of dual-level colonials of pale greens and tans. Clusters of houses are broken by entwining roads, spitting traffic into various shopping centers. The summers cover the landscape in a golden veneer. The winters cover the landscape in pale white snow.
Halftime. Even though yesterday could be confused with freshmen year, and the day before could be confused with senior year of high school, The Past is hanging out right where it belongs, and, in The Now, I realize that I'm approaching a major point within this specific bracket of my life.
See, the neat dividing of time isn't just for categorizing relationships, but for individuals to categorize personal lives—to bracket. The most common split is grade school/high school/college. Then there's graduate school, maybe, and then adulthood, maybe parenthood, but that's the thing: you don't know the brackets until you're moments away from walking into them.
Time's almost halfway up—with college, yes—but I'm just getting started. And, since I will not know the brackets before they are point blank in front of me, should I really worry then about The Future? It will happen regardless, and against my better judgment if I spend too much time thinking about it.
The question, therefore, becomes how to spend The Now (besides the obvious one, which is to take classes and learn, because being a student is my job, and your job). With a city of raw material that a suburb could never provide me, I must get out: out of the dorm and into the city. Where I go and what I do is just as important as what I see along the way. All of the time spent in the Museum of Fine Arts is matched by seeing the man sitting on the milk crate on the corner shaking a Styrofoam cup. All of the time spent tutoring at a charter school is matched by the mother on the T with shopping bags surrounding her feet and a baby in her arms that won't stop crying.
Every bit should be feverishly consumed—it should be gawked at—but it is in the city that a strange paradox emerges, where the proportion of raw material met with slack-jaws and bleary eyes is the highest. (Certainly a lot higher than in the suburbs.) It's in the city where nobody looks at anybody else, but instead looks down and silently comments on how very lonely the city is. Or blanks out on a cell phone. For a place so fundamental for the discovery of self, the city seems to breed a humdrum mass, where the most vibrant pieces of culture and human experience are ignored in favor of aggregation and emotional isolation.
The trick is realizing the roughness of the draft that is you in The Now. Boston should play as big of a part in the revisionary process as your actual education does—going to school near a city is, in this way, a buy-one-get-one-free deal. Cash in. If you're a freshmen who can't conceive of ever reaching the halfway point, cash in. It's never too early, not during this bracket. If you're a senior who is scared of how far in the rearview mirror the halfway point is, cash in. It's never too late. The trick is realizing you're even holding anything in the first place.


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THE Dragnet WEBB SITE
Jack Webb : The Man Who Makes Dragnet
by: Richard G. Hubbler
(from Coronet Magazine, September 1953)
(Many thanks to Ken Lanza for sending this in.)
Mature drama and true-to-life details are hallmarks of his unique crime show
The phone jangled in one of the 12 divisional stations of the farflung Los Angeles Police Department. A weary desk officer picked it up. "Police," he intoned.
A woman's excited voice cried: "The neighbors upstairs are having a terrible fight! I think you'd better send Sergeant Joe Friday over right away."
"He's not attached to this station, lady," said the officer, "we'll send a-"
"I want Joe Friday ! What station is he attached to?"
"Lady," said the long-suffering policeman, "I like Friday, too. But he's attached to the Los Angeles station of the National Broadcasting Company."devoutly attended little-theater
activities. He got a radio job filing transcriptions for nothing a day at KEHE (now
KECA) in Los Angeles. and acted as aide to an early-morning disc jockey. This brought
Webb considerably less than his $160-a-week steel job, and he felt conscience-stricken,
having a mother and a blind grandmother to support.
The draft cleared things up. Webb was in the Army Air Force for three years, first
as a captain piloting B-26's, then as instructor. He never got overseas and a few
months before VJ Day, in 1945, got out on a dependency discharge. In San Francisco he
corralled a stint as staff announcer on KGO, then fell into the lead on a show called
Pat Novak for Hire, portraying "a simile-spouting private eye," and lasted for
22 weeks.
When the writer, Richard Breen, left the show to go to Hollywood, Webb drifted
south, too. "My inherent laziness," he says, "worked in my favor until I was about
washed up in pictures."
Then the Dragnet idea came. Webb says he thought of it after playing his
first hit on the screen, the part of "Lt. Lee Jones" in a 1949 picture called They
Walk by Night . Ultimately he visited NBC and got them to cut a 30-minute record for
$2,000. It was accepted and went on the air. After eighteen weeks, Fatima cigarettes,
made by the makers of Chesterfield, sponsored the show, and Chesterfield took over two
years later when it began national distribution of its king-sized cigarette.
At first, the cooperation of the L.A. police was hard to get. Their closed-case
files had been used as research material for writers' flights of fantasy where the cops
were either dumb or super-sleuths. Webb won the good will of Sgt. Marty Wynn and two
additional LAPD sponsors: Sgt. Vance Brasher and Capt. Jack Donohoe. With this trio, he
started the series.
"The main result," says Webb ruefully, "is that Chief William H. Parker is now
called ' My Name's Friday ' when he goes to conventions."
Webb insists he chose the name " Friday " because he thought it was "anonymous," and
points out that his partner's name on the show is "Officer Frank Smith."
Other mystery-and-murder melodramas are baffled by the taboos Webb has successfully
circumvented: sex perversion, child matricide, juvenile delinquency, filthy
picture-peddling, dope addicts, crooked police. One on traffic accidents had 50 prints
requested by the National Safety Council for various showings. A Christmas program,
which told of a nine-year-old boy being killed by careless handling of a .22 rifle, was
snapped up by the National Rifle Association. Others are used regularly to instruct
police trainees and, sometimes, insurance salesmen.
One program telling the story of a baby "found" in a bus station by a girl who later
proved to be its mother, brought a flood of public protest. Her husband had been
overseas with the Army two years and the child was eight weeks old. The script's tag
line, spoken by the husband: "Take me to the hospital, I want to see my son."
The viewers complained that Webb had condoned adultery. "We didn't excuse it," Webb
says. "We just reported it."
The walls and halls of the Dragnet headquarters in Hollywood are covered with
scores of unposed pictures of Webb and his partner, along with virtually every TV and
radio award in the business, plus citations from such dissimilar organizations as the
International Association of Chiefs of Police and the Elks. "No other show of the kind
has chalked up such a record," says Webb proudly.
Shooting TV, Webb sits in a high director's chair labeled BOOBY TRAP. "I don't like
doubling," he says morosely. "I'd rather just act; I'm no Orson Welles with
chimes."
He is addicted to mordant remarks about others and himself. He calls his voice
"unspeakable." On the acting of an inadequate thespian: "I've seen better performances
through a glass-bottomed boat." He threatened to fire Bert Lynch, the photographer who
has been with the show from the start.
"A little late after 50 shows!" said the surprised Lynch.
"I never make snap judgments!" snapped Webb .
Only four of his original crew and cast are with him today, but all who have worked
with him boost the quality of his acting and directing. Their state of nerves, however,
can be gauged from the fact that the group drinks as much as 800 cups of coffee a
Webb rarely blows his top with actors, but does with his crew. Excuses either bore
or anger him—but a legitimate error never disturbs him. Once, the camera ceased
to function for two and a half hours before the breakdown was discovered. Webb reshot
the $1,800-hours without a murmur.
Webb 's insistence upon realism, which brings him awards as a TV pioneer, also
backfires. He gets dozens of traffic tickets from people who think he can "fix" them.
Shooting one show in the Skid Row section of Los Angeles, a soggy wino watched Webb
take in a suspect. "Oh, the poor man, the poor man!" he moaned, staggered in to
help—and ruined the scene.
The prime reason for Dragnet 's continued success—despite a record
number of imitators—lies in Webb himself. He has procured a free, limitless
source of material; and virtually his life is devoted to it. The sole time that Webb
dropped his infatuation was when his wife had her second child. The news came just as
Webb was about to finish the last two scenes of a show.
"He left right away and didn't come back for two weeks," says one of the crew.
Webb 's home life centers around two daughters—Stacy, 3 and Lisa, born last
November—offspring of a six-year marriage with Julie London, a 24-year-old film
actress.
The Webb home in suburban Encino is a 12-room early-American house. There are three
acres of ground—useful for the antics of Ben, a German police dog, and Patsy, a
dachshund.
Webb 's chief diversions at home consist of his remarkable 1,500-record jazz
collection and an ancient player piano with 200 rolls of vintage music. He has two
cars, both of them Cadillacs. His wardrobe is "mostly like that of a
cop"—consisting of slacks, three sport coats and two suits.
Webb even follows a typical cop's diet, mostly of meat and potatoes, and hasn't
gained or lost a pound of his 165 pounds for the last ten years. He is rarely sick:
"I've only been in a hospital once and that was for double pneumonia when I was five
years old."
Perhaps most symbolic of his drive are two decorations in his set dressing room.
Among the antique and modern furniture, Webb has an enormous map of the layout of the
LAPD ; and above his dressingtable is an ancient oil painting of Rudolph Valentino. His
best friends arc those associated with him in Dragnet , plus a couple of writers:
"I've always envied writers."
No other figure in radio or TV has such a fanatic energy, such specialized
knowledge, and such a will to participate and supervise. Webb and Dragnet arc
probably TV's first great love affair. And from the way they are rolling ahead today,
it will be a long time before they need to worry about any serious threat from competitors.
RICHARD G(ibson) HUBLER (1912-1981) wrote many articles for magazines such as Coronet and the Saturday Evening Post. He also wrote or co-wrote several books, including Where's the Rest of Me: The Autobiography of Ronald Reagan; Flying Leathernecks : A Complete Record of Marine Corps Aviation in Action – 1941-1944; and The Cole Porter Story .
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BoA inquest sheds light on intern hours
by Virginia Harrison @vharrisoncnn November 22, 2013: 11:58 AM ET
An inquest into the death of a former Bank of America intern shed light Friday on a culture of long hours and heavy workloads among junior investment bankers.
Moritz Erhardt was one week from completing a summer internship program at the bank's London offices when he collapsed and died at his home in August.
The inquest found that the 21-year old German, who suffered from epilepsy, had died of natural causes. It also heard that he had been working long punishing hours at the bank in the days leading up to his death.
"He never complained about [the hours] but my wife noticed in the last week that he just didn't get enough sleep," his father Hans-Georg Dieterle told the court via a translator.
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The last contact Erhardt had with his parents was via an email sent at 5 a.m. the day before he died.
Coroner Mary Hassell said his death was the result of natural causes following an epileptic seizure.
"It's possible that fatigue brought about his fatal seizure, it's also possible that it just happened," she said.
Erhardt was described in court as one of the firm's best interns. He was ambitious and well liked, and the bank was preparing to offer him a permanent position.
Testimony from three Bank of America (BAC)executives painted a picture of challenging conditions and potentially confusing work practices for interns.
Like other interns, Erhardt was assigned a "development officer" and "mentor" as part of the scheme. Both were in court Friday but neither appeared to have a clear idea of the workload he faced.
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"I never knew how much time he was spending in the office," said Juergen Schroeder, vice president and Erhardt's development officer.
"Interns work long hours and sometimes past midnight. You know about what to expect (from an investment bank) before you join in terms of hours," he said.
Bob Elfring, co-head of corporate and investment banking for EMEA, said the bank did not regulate interns' working hours.
"There is no formal monitoring system of the hours," he said. "I don't think there should be."
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Efring said he did not want to track staff via a clocking-on system, but he could imagine management reviewing information collected via employee "swipe cards" used to access buildings.
In response to Erhardt's death, the bank is reviewing its global practices for junior employees, which will address work hours and the allocation of work.
CNNMoney (London) First published November 22, 2013: 11:58 AM ET


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Thanks to Equestrian Aid Foundation, HOW, and Hyperbaric Services of the Palm Beaches.
Thanks to the work of TreatNOW Coalition partner Hyperbaric Services of the Palm Beaches, partner Help Our Wounded Foundation (HOW), and the Equestrian Aid Foundation, Jenn Miller (foreground) has made a full return to work thanks to HBOT, riding seven horses every morning and performing laser therapy in the afternoons.
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Concussion Discussion: Getting Back In the Saddle With the Help of Hyperbaric Therapy
May 25, 2021 – Wellington, FL – In December of 2020, career equestrian Jenn Miller was involved in a freak accident on a Florida farm and suffered her second major traumatic brain injury. The Equestrian Aid Foundation partnered with the Help Our Wounded Foundation (HOW), a South Florida-based nonprofit that funds medical grade hyperbaric oxygen chamber treatments for people with brain injuries, to help Jenn through her recovery and back into the saddle.
Having taken the necessary time off and completed a course of medical grade hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) treatments, Jenn has regained self-sufficiency and has made a full return to work. We caught up with her and Hilary Loftus, HOW's healthcare education director, to learn more about HBOT and its possibilities for equestrians with brain injuries.
What, exactly, is HBOT?
HL: Medical grade hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves an injured individual receiving a treatment of 100 percent oxygen under pressure. This is five times the amount of oxygen in the air we breathe, and because the treatment chamber is pressurized, the oxygen molecules penetrate the cells more easily. When the head is hit, brain cells are torn and twisted and some cells just die, but around the area, others are just stunned and cannot do their jobs. HBOT can awaken these stunned cells while also combatting the chemicals produced during the injury that cause inflammation. HBOT also enhances stem cell production and promotes the growth of new vessels and capillaries.
How long does HBOT take?
JM: I went every day, so I completed 17 sessions in just under four weeks.
HL: A session itself lasts 80 minutes on average. For those with acute brain injuries, if we can get them in when the inflammation is fresh (usually within a week of their injury), three to five sessions are frequently sufficient because the chemicals that cause inflammation haven't had time to run amok and create havoc in the brain circuitry. For those with chronic concussion symptoms, it takes longer—on average, 20 or more sessions—to undo the damage so the brain can repair its circuitry.
Is every equestrian with a concussion a good candidate for HBOT?
JM: I've seen the wonders a hyperbaric chamber can do on horses' legs, so I was open to trying it. Even though I've been able to move past my previous concussions, there's a lot of research out there on the negative effects of repetitive TBIs as a person gets older. If there's a chance HBOT can help my brain function for the long term, why not try it?
HL: In general, yes, but with some exceptions. For example, HBOT is not recommended for those who have a seizure disorder. It's important to realize that medical grade oxygen administered at this level of atmospheric pressure is essentially a drug. You need a prescription, and you need to treat it carefully. That's why it's so critical to be under the care of a doctor and the trained clinicians at a medically run hyperbaric facility.
Does HBOT speed up healing time?
JM: Every brain injury is just so unique, and my experiences have shown me there's no time frame for TBIs. But I can say that when I sustained my first major TBI in 2017, I was out for nine months. This time, I recovered more quickly.
HL: While there's no textbook timeline, medical grade HBOT—especially when administered within a week of a brain injury—shows incredible efficacy. It's also worth noting that HBOT has been shown to accelerate other treatment modalities athletes are using to recover, such as physical therapy.
What changes did you see as your HBOT treatments progressed?
JM: I definitely noticed a change in my ability to focus. After my fall, loud noises—any noises—could completely undo me. Also, compared to the pre-HBOT cognitive testing I did at HOW, my post-treatment testing showed improvement in almost all areas.
HL: Everyone and every brain is so different. When our brains are functioning well, they require 20 percent of our oxygen. When there's a problem, they require a lot more, which is why concussed people frequently feel so tired. As HBOT progresses and the brain heals itself, many people regain their pre-injury level of energy. One student athlete who suffered from chronic TBI symptoms told me that after he completed 15 sessions, his memory came back. Among other things, he could remember people's names, which started after his third session.
How do I find a HBOT center in my area?
HL: I can't stress how important it is to go to a medically run center. If you need help finding one, email or call the HOW Foundation (561-450-6213) or my cell (860-227-0352).
JM: The brain has amazing plasticity and it can heal, given the opportunity. When it comes to concussions and TBIs, we need to treat our brains like we would treat any other injured body part: take the necessary time off and do the required therapy so your body can heal itself. Treat yourself with the same amount of care and respect you show your horses. You can't give your horses all they deserve if you're injured and not thinking straight.
HL: You only have one brain to last yourself your whole life, which is hopefully going to be a long one. So pay attention when you fall or when your head gets hit. When in doubt, if you can get to a medical grade HBOT center with a prescription from your physician or the HBOT physician, do it. When your brain is messed up—and maybe subsequently your balance, emotions, and vision—you can cause more injury than you're already dealing with, both to yourself and your horse. Medical grade HBOT can help people fulfill their real potential rather than having to live with a diminished new normal.
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Former Synagogue on Princes Street
By NB - March 28, 2013
The first Hebrew congregation began worship in Auckland in 1843. Their first formal place of worship was located in Nathan & Joseph's Warehouse in Shortland Street. By 1853 the congregation had grown to 100 and worship was held in a small building in Emily Place. By the 1860s this building had become too small for the rapidly increasing Jewish population and funds were raised for the construction of a synagogue. In 1884, the Jewish Community purchased a section on the corner of Princes Street and Bowen Street. At that time the site was occupied by the former Albert Barracks Guard House, which overlooked a vegetable garden, which had formerly been used by soldiers. Ref: 1-W136, the Jewish Synagogue in 1900, Sir George Grey Special Collections
Location: 44 Lorne Street, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand
Henry Winkelmann
Henry Winkelmann (1860-1931) was one of the most talented photographers operating in New Zealand at the beginning of the twentieth century. Henry tried several occupations before deciding, at the age of forty to earn a living from his camera. In 1878 he sailed to New Zealand following his elder brother, Charles, who had emigrated three years earlier. Winkelmann lived initially in Dunedin, before moving to Auckland in the early 1880s. Times were hard though and in 1881, unemployed and desperate for money, he embarked with a companion on an expedition to remote, uninhabited Jarvis Island (midway between Hawaii and the Cook Islands). The purpose was to claim the island for the merchant shipping company Henderson and Macfarlane, who were keen to exploit the commercial possibilities of guano (the phosphate-rich excrement of seabirds, prized as a fertilizer). The two men were supposed to stay on the island for three months in order to validate the claim. However, the rescue ship was ve
Charles Heaphy
It is hardly surprising that Charles Heaphy (1820-81) excelled from an early age at painting and cartography, since he came from an artistic, well-connected, London family. His father was a professional watercolour painter and miniaturist attached to the staff of the Duke of Wellington. At 15, Charles began his working life as a draughtsman for the London and Birmingham Railway Company. Two years later, he joined Edward Gibbon Wakefield's New Zealand Company as an assistant surveyor. He was part of the company's first exploratory team, arriving in Marlborough Sound, aboard the Tory , in August 1839. He travelled around a lot during his early years in New Zealand, including gruelling expeditions across the South Island wilderness into regions never before seen by Europeans. During his travels, Heaphy painted a series of watercolour scenes that rank among the finest art from New Zealand's early colonial period. The Heaphy Track in Kahurangi National Park is also named in his honour
Captain Cook journal comes back to NZ
When the the Ocean liner Queen Mary 2 docked at Auckland Harbour on Monday 11 March, on board was a VIP in the form of Captain Cook's draft journal. Letters by Cook detailing the first voyage and his personal tea caddy and spoon were also on board the ship. The brief return of this journal marks the first time it has been in the country since it was written by Cook. Complete with scribblings and crossing outs, the handwritten account describes Cook's first circumnavigation of New Zealand during 1769-1770 and the infamous encounter with Māori at Poverty Bay. Captain James Cook was the first European to explore and map the coastline of New Zealand extensively. On each of his three voyages to the Pacific he was accompanied by artists and scientists. Accounts of each voyage were published both by Cook and others on the expeditions. Ref: 4-1347, Captain Cook, Sir George Grey Special Collections
Military mileposts reach a milestone
Read all about it, military mileposts are 150 years old! In March 1863, a series of mileposts were installed at one mile intervals along a 22 mile stretch between Auckland's CBD and the British Army Commissariat in Drury, mostly along Great South Road. They were placed to help Army contract drivers record their daily mileage and each triangular, totara post had the mile number chiseled into its two shorter faces. Automobile Association signs were added to many mileposts or their former locations in the 1960s and these have become popular features in their own right. Ref: 1-W92, Looking East from One Tree iIll with the Great South Road in the centre foreground, 1906, Sir George Grey Special Collections
Pinning cows - now on Historypin!
Ref: AWNS-19010322-8-1, Ploughing, 1901, Sir George Grey Special Collections You may remember a post called 'Pinning cows' from last month (Thursday 7 February). Well we have gone and done it and now have a shiny new Historypin collection dedicated to cows and the dairy industry in New Zealand! Don't worry no real cows or packs of butter were harmed in this process .... Ref: 2-V1223, Milk maid milking a cow, 1906-1908, Sir George Grey Special Collections
Pacific newspapers in Auckland
In recent years, a number of Auckland-based newspapers have sprung up to cater for local Pacific Island communities. The majority of these publications have been produced for the Samoan community. The first such title was Samoana , a Samoan-language weekly tabloid which was established in Mangere in 1979. This initially offered mostly Samoan news, but over the years included an increasing amount of news about the New Zealand-based Samoaon community. It ceased publication in 2006. In 1997 the rival Otahuhu-based Weekly Samoa Post also began publication. This lasted until 2005, being succeeded by Le Samoa Post until 2007. Like Samoana , the Post included mostly Samoan language material. Ref: Banner for Samoana newspaper, South Auckland Research Centre
It's all about the maps
Known also as 'panoramic' or 'perspective' maps, bird's-eye views of cities became popular in many parts of the world during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The idea was to depict street patterns, prominent buildings and other landscape features as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Sometimes the artists had recourse to hot-air balloons. More often, as was probably the case with this rendition of Auckland, they were reliant on observations made while trudging the city streets and the vistas available from taller buildings. Ref: NZ Map 374, bird's-eye view of Auckland City, 1886, Sir George Grey Special Collections The inscription on the lower left corner reads: 'This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886, by George Treacy Stevens'. Little is known about the artist. He might be the 'George Stevens' buried in Karori Cemetery, Wellingto
Originally known as City Park, Western Park in Freeman's Bay is one of Auckland's oldest civic amenities. When Governor William Hobson selected Auckland as the capital of the new colony in 1840, he set aside 75 hectares around an extinct volcano cone as the Auckland Domain. The seat of government moved to Wellington in 1865, but Auckland continued to grow steadily. Ref: NZ Map 4686, the winning entry, Sir George Grey Special Collections In 1873, having decided that the burgeoning populace required another reserve on the western side of town, the city councillors organised a contest with a prize of ten guineas for the best design transforming an eight-hectare site off Ponsonby Road, formerly used as a rubbish dump, into parkland. There were eleven entries. The winning design came from architect and surveyor William Francis Hammond and orchardist and gardener J. C. Blackmore, which can be seen above.
In the spotlight: Albert Park's band rotunda
Strike up the band for Albert Park. The band stand was built in 1901 and is the oldest surviving band stand or rotunda in the Auckland region. It was designed by James Slater, who also planned the layout of Albert Park. One of most interesting features of the band stand is its onion-shaped, domed roof. It is made of sheet metal and topped by a pointed finial. Ref: 35-R134, Albert Park showing the band rotunda, 1910-1919, Sir George Grey Special Collections The band stand is a registered category II historic place under the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014 . But it is just one of a number of structures, monuments, artworks, trees and gardens that make this the region's finest Victorian public park. This is reflected in Albert Park's category A status as a protected heritage place in the legacy Auckland City District Plan (Central Area Section) (see pp.4-6).


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Daria Caraway Chats About Having a Generalist Skillset
Daria Caraway
Learn about the pros of having a more generalized set of skills!
Software development has always been a fast-paced sector. New and better technologies are constantly coming out and if companies don't keep up they'll soon be out of date.
Daria has experience with multiple teams who were upgrading their stack, and through that has discovered joy in being a generalist who is capable of working with a variety of technologies and able to see the big picture.
She has found having a generalist skillset both keeps her interested and gives her the ability to communicate with the front and backend teams in ways they both understand. With her ability to understand the different levels and keep everyone on the same page she is on the path to becoming an effective engineering manager in the coming years.
"Generalist" doesn't just mean full-stack developer, there are many more skill areas than front and back end. Maybe you could work on the CI pipeline, or maybe automated testing. There is a lot of value in choosing this path instead of building the deep knowledge of a specialist. They can't work in isolation, someone has to be able to coordinate and "be the glue" between the different parts of the stack.
Take five minutes to think about whether you want to be a generalist or a specialist, and then write down the three things you can do to get your career to go in that direction
Talk to your manager about your career goals
Kent C. Dodds (00:00):
Hello friends. This is your friend to Kent C. Dodds, and I'm joined by my friend Daria Caraway. Say hi.
Daria Caraway (00:06):
So Daria, I'm excited to join you. Actually, this is the first time we've actually talked, but I've been following you on Twitter for a while, and it's been just a pleasure. And I'd love for our audience to get to know you. So could you just give us an intro to yourself?
Sure. Yeah, my name is Daria. I'm a software engineer currently at Workday. I guess I'm a full stack software engineer. I've been working as a software engineer for about six years now. Previously got a computer science and business degree at university, and had to choose between which one of those I wanted to, and ended up in software engineering and been here ever since.
Well that's cool. I actually did information systems as a major because I felt like it was a good mesh of business and computer science. So yeah, that's interesting that are... related interest there. So when you first got into the industry, I'd love to hear about what that experience was like for you, switching from school to actually getting your first job and stuff.
Yeah, it was interesting. So my major at my university... My college had four different computer science majors. We had computer science games, computer science, computer engineering. I did computer science and business. And so I took the whole CS curriculum and then a couple elective shy of a business curriculum as well. And so a lot of people in my major were deciding what they wanted to do. A lot of my friends ended up being product managers, or manager managers, and I decided to go software route, and so I did the whole interviewing at all of the companies for new grad positions, but I really wanted to... I'm from Boulder originally in Colorado. And I went to school in California, and I really wanted to come home. So I ended up working for an ad tech company close to where my family is in Boulder, and it was a pretty small company. So I got to work on a bunch of different types of technology while I was there.
Cool. Yeah, And so naturally that led to the full stack idea for you where you're at a small company, you wear lots of hats. What was the tech you were working in?
Totally, yeah. At the ad tech company, it was in PHP at the beginning and JavaScript. It was like a PHP server and JavaScript on the client. I was there and helped move their big JavaScript client to TypeScript, and then we also moved it from AngularJS to Angular 2. And we also moved the PHP server to Scala. So it was like all in flight while I was there, which contributed to having to work on many different things. And that was a cool experience to just get exposed to so many different languages and learn them with all of my coworkers.
Yeah. Wow, that's awesome. That opportunity that you had to experience that migration. Most companies I think as long as they live long enough are probably going to have to migrate at some point and having the opportunity to migrate both the frontend and the backend all at once, I'm sure that you learned a ton from that.
Yeah. A lot. And it was interesting too, because it wasn't like we had a whole bunch of experts on our team of the technologies we were moving to. So we all had to figure it out together, which was a really nice learning experience.
That's very cool. And so would you say that... you're not on that company anymore you're at Workday, right? Is that right? Workday?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and so at Workday, was that your next company or do you have a couple of companies in between?
Yeah, no. I went from the ad tech company to Workday. The ad tech company was... I want to say about 300 employees, so it was pretty small. And then Workday is... I don't know, somewhere around 12,000. So it's a much bigger jump.
Yeah, yeah. And I'm guessing with COVID you've been full-time at home. Did you start at home or?
No, I've been at Workday for almost three years now. So I got some good time in the office before we all had to pack up and work from home.
How have you liked working from home?
It's not bad. I definitely miss seeing people in the hallways I guess. In Boulder, there's a big culture of going out during lunch to go rock climbing or on a hike and I definitely miss that aspect of it. But it's been okay. I'm definitely adjusted to it now. I say that, but we're a year in and my partner and I just rearranged our house so our desks could be in different rooms. So I don't know. I think we're still getting used to it.
Yeah, yeah. It definitely... so just the other day I was meeting with some people and we're local, but we have to meet virtually. And one of them said, "Hey, maybe we should start doing these meetings in person again." And originally, when we had first gotten started, I was like, "Man, I just love this. It's so convenient, just do it over Zoom and everything's great." But when they said that, I actually thought about it for second and I'm like, "No, no, I really want to meet in person again. I'll wear 12 masks if I have to, I just need to be in person." So I'm definitely the type of person... I don't mind being in my box down here in my basement, whatever but yeah, I'm totally ready to meet up with people again. So hopefully you'll get to go back to the office here pretty soon.
Yeah definitely.
I definitely prefer working remote full-time, but I just want to be able to see people. So anyway, when you switched over from the ad tech company to Workday, what were you hired to do? I mean, you have experience with PHP with Scala, with Angular 1 Angular 2. What did they hire you to do?
Yeah, it was kind of a jump. So I had been doing all of those full stack things for a while. And then I got hired at Workday to be a Frontend React Engineer. I had a little bit of experience with React. When I was in college, actually I interned full-time at a startup that was also doing a little bit of React. But it had been a while. So, I got hired at Workday to be a React front-end engineer. And it was interesting. I had been used to seeing the full scope of the stack. Not necessarily just backend, frontend, but all the way into data consumption and then data processing and then feeding that data back to the client so that your users can see it, and moving directly into React.
But it was interesting because the team I started on at Workday, they were actually also in the middle of migrating their AngularJS application to React. So for that reason, it felt familiar, they were migrating also from JavaScript to TypeScript. So it was another one of those instances where the code had been around long enough and they were ready to clean it all up and get it a little bit started over.
Yeah, totally. So I'm sure your experience really came in handy with that migration too. Because there good ways to migrate and not as good ways. I'm sure that you could... if you haven't already, you could put together a talk for migrating code basis. Because you seem to have quite a bit of experience with that. It's not always fun.
Yeah, yeah. It's a different kind of challenge I think. It's one thing to write your own code. It's another thing to be thrown in there in I don't know... a 10 year old code that has passed through hundreds of people's hands and try to figure out what is going on.
Yeah, I can only imagine. So I actually had a similar switch over from AngularJS over to React. I never built anything in Angular 2. I was starting to get into it and give talks and stuff, but I never really actually had the experience that you did with Angular 2. But I did decide "I'm done with AngularJS, I want to move on to React." And so I had switched companies and switched frameworks in the process. But most of my career has always been consuming backends. So I never really wrote much backend code, I did some in school for little projects that I would do. At PayPal, I did write plenty of Node and backend code stuff there, but it was always like this middle tier. So we had the [inaudible 00:09:10] down backend, they were doing database stuff, and we were just marshaling calls to them.
So we were basically frontend, just a little bit on the backend side, and we would make some of our own APIs to hit, but I spent most of my time on the frontend, and I decided I wanted to be primarily frontend. I would grab all of the things, all the tickets and stuff that were front end. I'd volunteer for those. What's it been like for you? You had plenty of experience on the backend and front end and you come into Workday doing mostly front end. Has that been a pleasant change for you or where do you feel you prefer spending more of your time? You like to specialize just in React or would you like to be more general?
Yeah. So it's funny. I'm actually on a different team in Workday now doing full stack work again. So I think that I definitely learned that I prefer to be more general and see the whole picture. But at the same time, even though I've worked on backends and frontends in different intervals of my career, JavaScript is always the common denominator. Right? I've worked in I don't know... five or six backend languages, but the frontend is always in JavaScript. So in some ways I feel like I'm special... like I'm a little bit of a specialist in JavaScript, which a lot of my content and talks and stuff will be, catered towards the frontend. But I definitely prefer being able to see the whole picture and architect the solution from the top to bottom. I found myself getting a little bit antsy, just consuming things that I have no control over if it wasn't in the best format for the client, like instead of going and making it work from the full stack, just having to make it work on the client. I definitely prefer to kind of architect it from the whole, the whole picture.
Yeah, it definitely is frustrating from a consumer standpoint to work with APIs that aren't great. And not really have too much to do about it. You can file a ticket or something, but who knows when that's going to get prioritized? So being able to just fix it yourself, I'm sure is nice.
Yeah. And I don't... this isn't everyone's experience, but I've just found that when I can speak both languages, it makes the collaboration a little bit easier. There's less of trying to translate from what this person cares about to what we care about. It's more of like we're all building it together. And that might just be from the circumstances I've been in, I'm sure that you can be a front end specialist and also have that great open collaboration. I've just found that it's easier for me when I can fully speak to everything that's going on.
I think that's really critical. I'm definitely on the specialist side of things, I made a conscious decision to specialize and I feel like... I've actually said this on another podcast where I feel like being a full stack developer is very difficult to do because you just... you can't go as deep on whatever part of the stack, you have to be more... yeah shallow sounds bad, but that's not what I mean. But yeah, you can't go as deep. And so that's been my reasoning for going as a specialist. But even regardless of whether you decide to specialize or generalize, I think that it's really important that you understand your level of abstraction and then one level below it, and then all the levels... at least the connection points of all other things that you talk to.
And so that means for a JavaScript developer, you understand React and then you also understand the DOM. And have at least a conversational idea. And then you also understand HTTP. And so you know how to integrate with whatever it is that you're talking with. So I totally agree with you. It's really important to at least be conversational. It sounds like though being a generalist has been really effective and useful for you. So can you speak to I guess a little bit on some of the reasons that you feel like it's really useful to be a generalist? Or maybe there's engineers listening in, or even new engineers listening who are trying to make this decision on whether they want to go deep in something specific or be general. So what are some of your thoughts and experiences?
Yeah, I think for one, I just prefer it. It keeps me interested. I feel like whichever one is more interesting to you, that is the more important one, because that means that you'll be more curious and you'll be willing to dive in deep. Even if you're only learning a language and you're only going to use it for six months, you'll be more willing to do a deep dive in that six months as opposed to just getting the job done and moving on. So that's something that I've had to learn is even if I'm picking up a language for six months a year. The server I work on right now is in Kotlin. And that is a completely new language to me. And I've been working on it for about a year now. It's important to take the time, even if it's a short pass by, to really understand how things work.
And then in that case, you can almost become a mini specialist in lots of different areas. Also too I mentioned how JavaScript has always been the constant. So it's not... when you're a generalist, you don't have to just know everything. You can pick a couple of things to know better than the other things you know. And for me, that is JavaScript and in the most recent past been React. But yeah, I think it just helps me in general to be able to communicate with everyone in a way that everyone else understands. I've been in a lot of situations where it feels like we have frontend people, or backend people, maybe we have data people and machine learning people, and it feels like we're all having six different conversations, and nobody can really find that common ground with each other. I've figured out that one of my strengths in my career is being that person in the middle that can communicate with the ML team and connect them with the data team. And connect the data team to the frontend team and the backend team. And it's been great. Yeah, it's been fun.
That really sounds invaluable actually. And you mentioned that you don't mind, even if it's going to be a couple months really learning and understand. For me, if I have to do something that's outside of my specialization, it's basically like I'm shopping, where I'm in and out as fast as I can possibly be. And I really don't feel comfortable outside of my specialization, and I just don't want to be there. And I don't want to be the one to do it. And so I often wasn't. And luckily for me, any company that I worked at, there were other people who could fill that space and I had plenty of stuff to do. Now, it could have gone the other way where, "Oh, well, if you're not willing to do this, then what are you even here for? What would you say you do here?" But yeah, for me, that's actually worked out.
But I can see how being a generalist and just having a generalist mindset, being willing to say, "Okay, it's only going to be for a few months, but I'm really going to get this and I'm going to do a really good job with this." I think that's valuable. Maybe a lot of my problem has been just a character weakness of being impatient and wanting to move on, do what I want. But you also mentioned something else I thought was interesting, is that because you have a pretty great understanding of these different levels, you're able to facilitate communication and help everybody get on the same page. To me that sounds a lot like the sort of thing a manager would do. And I'm interested to know whether that's ever something that you're interested in in the future, or if you really just enjoy being a coder all the time.
Yeah. It's interesting. I watched a pretty popular talk where I finally for the first time, it clicked what my role was and it is described as this idea of doing glue work. Right? And I think in some ways, pushing myself to be a generalist, I've almost made myself the glue between lots of different groups of stakeholders and maybe not even technical. In the same ways that I can communicate to people in different parts of the stack, I also find myself pretty good at talking to non-technical stakeholders. I'm my team's Scrum Master, so in my role, that means being able to talk to all of these different stakeholders, managing timelines between different groups of people, which does sound a lot, like being a manager. I think I'm on that path, and I think I'm on that path in some ways because of how much different type of work I've picked up. But yeah, I think probably in a year or two years, I'm probably looking at becoming an engineering manager, which I'm excited for but that is a whole other adventure I think.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And I think the interesting thing that I'm taking away from what you're saying is, it sounds like this has been pretty intentional for you. Or you've been at least thoughtful about the type of work that you pick up. I think that you could probably be a generalist and still be a coder all the time, but it sounds like you have intentionally put yourself in the way of these different opportunities to be the glue between these different layers.
Yeah, that's very kind of you to say. I think it didn't feel like that at the beginning, I think in the same way that you mentioned just always picking up the frontend tickets because that's what you felt most inclined to do, I have a character flog never being able to say no. So when my manager would come to me and be like, "There's this integration we have to do, nobody knows anything about the code. It's not documented anywhere, by the way it's in Scala. I think you should do it." I can't say no. I have to do it. And so after enough of those experiences, I ended up where I am and then realized that I like it.
And if I didn't like it, I maybe would have been better at saying no to some of these opportunities. But yeah, yeah. I think there's definitely cognizant decisions that you can make on a daily basis to guide yourself in whichever path that you want. When I'm doing scrum mastery things for my team, I always try to make sure that we have work in our sprint that interests everyone. And if there's someone who wants to take on more backend work and maybe they haven't done, so we give them space to pick up a backend ticket and feel like they can take it all the way through and be successful. And so there's definitely depending on your situation room to make these decisions, to figure out which one you want to be.
That's a great point. And something else you mentioned makes me think of something else I think is important. And that is, you just said "If there's somebody who wants to do more backend, then we'll give them some more of that." How would you possibly know that that's what they want, unless they're communicating with you about what they want? So is that something that you have done you maybe through actions? It sounds like at the beginning you were just mostly, "I'll just do whatever." And so you were the go-to. Or do people tell you, "Hey, I want to get more into the front end stuff. Can you give me more of those tickets?" Or how does that typically work?
Yeah, sometimes it's tricky because... like I was when I started, I don't think people necessarily know which they want to do especially if it's a language you've never used before. Like maybe you're on my team and you're doing a lot of TypeScript, Kotlin seems like a big jump. And so it can seem scary and maybe that person needs a little bit of a nudge to get over there. And then once they are, they really like it. I try to just flat out ask when we have new people on our team, like, "Hey, we're a full stack team, but you don't have to do anything. We can find work that you enjoy, whether it's on the backend or the frontend." And I'll just flat out ask.
And a lot of times they'll be like, "I mean I really... I think it'd be cool to do backend work, but I'm a little bit nervous and I don't want to slow the team down." And just making sure that they know that that's not an issue. We have enough time, we have enough resources to help them learn. And I think that's not the case for everybody. That's a really... I think our team is in a really privileged situation to be able to take the time to learn something new that we're not necessarily familiar with. So if you are interested in being a generalist, maybe being on a team that has space for you to be able to pick up new technologies, I think might be an important feature to look out for.
Yeah, that's a feature of a team. Yeah, that makes tons of sense. And I think that it's really awesome of you as a Scrum Master to take time and ask... I've had Scrum Masters and also managers who were really interested in me and what I wanted in my career and everything, and others that just... I'm sure they were well-intentioned, but they just obviously did not care at all. Our one-on-ones were basically status report, it was just not useful at all. And so yeah finding a... it sounds like you'd be a great manager. I guess is what I'm trying to say.
Thanks. I'll tell my manager you said so.
Yeah, that's great. Yeah, so communicating I think is really valuable. Especially when we're trying to be intentional about our career choices and what direction we go. Whether we want to be a generalist or a specialist. Has it ever been... Have you ever tried to make the decision or make a change in the direction your career is going like, "Oh, I'm starting to go in this direction, I actually don't want my career to go that way."
Yeah, yeah. When I first started on the frontend only team at Workday, I was on that team for about a year. And so that's where I racked up on my React knowledge and newer features of TypeScript or JavaScript that I hadn't seen before. And so I spent a year really in React land. And I liked it and I liked being able to do a deep dive and become more of a specialist in that area. But at the end of the day, I went to my manager and I was like, "Hey I don't know that I want to be a frontend engineer for much longer. This has been really great, but I just personally feel like I am much more interested in being more of a generalist."
And I got to look for a new position on a different team that was structured a little bit differently at the same company with full support from everyone around me. And so that was a really nice opportunity because I love the company that I'm at and I didn't have to jump ship in order to change my direction. But I'm sure that that wouldn't be the case for everyone. And sometimes maybe it is necessary to jump ship in order to change direction. Because depending on what company you work for, what organization you work for, sometimes the way teams are structured just might not be the way that you want it to be in order to be happy and successful.
Oh, that's a great story. Thank you for sharing that. I'll share one of my experiences that made me think of and it was the first company that I worked at, I'd been there as an intern for about a year and a half before I graduated from college and converted to full-time. And it was very difficult. I was only there for four months after I graduated. In large part because it was very difficult for people that I worked with... who were all amazing by the way. All of the engineers that I worked with were amazing. I should say. But it was just very difficult for me to get any of the really interesting tasks. Because I was always seen as the intern, even if they like, "No, no, you're not an intern. You're great." But I was just seen as... and aside from that, there were just some really brilliant engineers that if there was a hard task, it was always going to go to the brilliant engineers.
And maybe there was also a little bit of fear on my part of even asking, and I might've been able to make my way around asking. But part of the reason that I left so soon was I realized, "Here I am never going to be able to do the really awesome stuff that I'm seeing them all do." And so for me I had to make a job change to start leveling up and different things like that. So yeah, definitely, I think it's a good idea to occasionally just stop and think about, "What do I want? And are the things that I'm doing now going to get me to where I want to go?"
Definitely. Yeah, that's a good point. I've definitely been in, and seen situations like that where you feel like the seniors or principals on your team are getting all the cool work and you're just also there doing things sometimes. That's why I feel like having space to learn and being in an environment that really supports learning whether or not you choose to be a generalist or a specialist is going to help you go in either one of those directions. Something too that came to my mind, you were talking earlier about being on the frontend, but doing the frontend of the backend in some ways. And for a long time, I saw myself as full stack, but I didn't really do the front, frontend of the frontend. I was more of a backend of the frontend.
We were both maybe in the middle, but in different ways. And so even within being a backend or frontend, there's so many different things that you can specialize in or generalize in. Is that the word? Also too, it doesn't even necessarily have to be a backend language or a frontend language. I just spent a month on my team working on our continuous integration pipeline and learning Groovy for Jenkins and Gradle, which is a build tool. There's so many parts of what we do as software engineers that is so much broader than just being like a React expert or a Java expert. There's so many other pieces that always need to be done. And if you're looking to put yourself out there, like working on the CI pipeline might be a good example, or trying to spiff up the test automations might be a good example. There's just so many opportunities in what we do to step out of your comfort zone.
And I think it's really useful, especially early on, but even at any time, because this industry changes so fast, to step outside of your comfort zone. Admittedly, I'm very bad at that. I really like my comfort zone and I like to stay where I'm at. I don't mind being on the edge of whatever... I'm talking specifically about React or testing stuff. I don't mind being on the edge of that stuff, but it's still within my specialization. And there's probably... I know I would benefit from reaching out beyond my comfort zone a little bit more. So maybe this is a reminder to me too.
Maybe. But honestly I don't... I feel like it's up to you. There's no right answer. People might try to convince you that there's a right answer but I feel like it's just about if you want to be in your comfort zone, you feel like you're successful in your comfort zone. Maybe that's a nice place to live.
Yeah. I like it pretty well here so. Cool. Well, Daria, we're reaching the end of our time. Is there anything else that you wanted to talk about before we give folks their homework?
No. This has been really great to hear it from your perspective as someone who's more of a specialist. And I hope that anyone listening has heard something that made them analyze or think about what position they're in and what position they want to be in.
Awesome. Yeah, very good. And that leads in perfect to our homework. So we're not saying that you should be one or the other, but we are saying that you should be intentional. And this can change over time. None of this is set in stone, but here's your homework. We want you to take five minutes to think about whether you want to be a generalist or a specialist, and then write down the three things you can do to get your career to go in that direction. So if you're not already getting yourself all of the backend only tickets or whatever it is, write down some specific things. And one of those things, just as an idea, is to talk to your manager about your career goals. Then I think they can help you a lot. If they're a manager that's worth their salt, they will help you accomplish that goal. So anything to add to that Daria?
Yeah, yeah. I love that. Even just sometimes, like you said, just starting the conversation, because there might be space for you to do whichever one you want, but if you haven't verbalized it... there might be an opportunity sitting there for you that you don't realize yet. So just starting that conversation is a great first step.
Absolutely. There could be a thing that your manager's like, "My goodness, who am I going to get to write this Groovy, great old build pipeline thing, man." And then you come around and you're like the answer to their prayer so.
Very good. Well, Daria it's been a pleasure chatting with you. We have another episode that we're going to record, so folks look forward to that. We're going to talk about TypeScript and It'll be fun. But for now, we'll just say ta-ta. Thanks, Daria.
Ta-ta.
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My complexion is still not perfect, but my cystic acne has pretty much disappeared. My skin is no longer in pain. It's a happy ending for this chapter of my battle with my insecurities, and a new beginning on my journey of getting to know myself.
Back in October, I wrote about my struggles with self esteem because of my imperfect skin. I wrote that piece to encourage others to find confidence without feeling like they have to buy into the multi-billion dollar beauty industry. And I also wrote it to help myself maintain positive thinking.
But it's difficult to think positive and be confidence one hundred percent of the time. Only a couple weeks after I wrote that article, I broke down into tears when I woke in the morning and felt five new, painful cysts forming underneath my skin. I called my mom sobbing. She encouraged me to go back to the dermatologist.
It was well-intentioned advice. But a dermatologist probably would have either put me on an antibiotic or offered me Accutane, neither of which I wanted. I wanted a solution that didn't involve medication.
So instead, I started keeping a food journal. Each day I wrote down what I ate, and how many cysts I had. I used this technique several years ago to figure out that my chronic migraine headaches were actually caused by all the cured, processed meats I was eating. When I stopped eating so much salami, pepperoni and bacon, the migraines went away.
I also started drinking a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar every day. My boyfriend swore to me that apple cider vinegar keeps his skin flawless, and while I was skeptical, I figured it couldn't hurt to try it.
Lo and behold, my skin started to get better the first five days I was drinking the vinegar. However, on the sixth day, the cysts returned, and I figured that the improvement must have been just a coincidence. But when I looked at my food journal I discovered that the night before the cysts came back, I had eaten a bowl of ice cream.
Armed with the theory that sugary foods could be the cause of my problem, I went to the Internet to try to find more evidence. Sure enough, I found one article which explains how insulin causes acne, and another which explains how drinking apple cider vinegar can help control insulin production.
And thanks to Katie Couric's documentary, Fed Up, I know that your insulin levels increase dramatically when you ingest sugary foods like ice cream, pastries, soda, even fruit juice. And I know that sugar is in an awful lot of things where you wouldn't necessarily expect to find it. There's sugar in salad dressing. There's sugar in marinara sauce. There was sugar in the Eggo waffles I was eating for breakfast every morning. Seventeen grams of sugar to start my day. No wonder my skin was suffering.
As soon as I concluded that sugar was probably the cause of my problems, I quit sugar cold turkey. For the last two months, the only sugar I have consumed is the natural sugar contained in fruits and vegetables. I have been drinking apple cider vinegar every day. And my skin has never looked better.
I'm writing this piece not as an advertisement for apple cider vinegar or for a sugar-free diet. I still stand behind my argument in my last post about my skin--buying fad beauty products does not bring you confidence. I'm writing this piece not to encourage anyone to go in search of an unattainable beauty ideal; I'm writing it to encourage everyone to listen to the poignant and powerful ways that your body has of communicating with you.
If you are in pain, your body is probably trying to tell you something. My migraine headaches were a message that the chemicals in cured meats were hurting my body. My cystic acne was a message that sugar was doing the same.
The crucial flaw of western medicine is that the body does not even get to participate in its own healing process. If I had gone to the dermatologist and gotten a prescription for Accutane, my acne may have gone away, but I never would have addressed my excessive intake of sugar. Similarly, if you take an Ibuprofen for your headache, you are probably not addressing the root cause of your headache: dehydration, hunger, fatigue, stress, etc.
In the western world, we like immediate, easy solutions to our health problems¬--instant relief without having to do much work for it. Our pharmaceutical industry encourages us to have this mentality. The more pills that a drug company can convince us that we need (or convince our doctors to prescribe), the more profits they can make. Who's really benefitting here?
Of course, this is not to say that we should entirely relinquish western drugs. We should be grateful for the medicines that keep us healthy, but at the same time, we should more frequently ask whether they are really necessary. Oftentimes, a drug only provides temporary relief, while lifestyle changes like cutting sugar, exercising, and practicing mindfulness can permanently improve your health. Figuring out which lifestyle changes you need to make may involve some trial and error. But as soon as you find the right answer, your body will tell you. Trust me.
Refusing pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving this year was one of the hardest things I've ever done. But my body is thanking me for the dietary change I have made. My complexion is still not perfect, but my cystic acne has pretty much disappeared. My skin is no longer in pain. It's a happy ending for this chapter of my battle with my insecurities, and a new beginning on my journey of getting to know myself.


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Duchess of Cambridge battles horse allergy to learn to ride
The Duchess of Cambridge is learning to ride despite being allergic to horses, it has emerged.
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The Duchess of Cambridge has taken up the favourite Royal pastime of riding, disclosing she was learning after finding a passion for horses.
Despite allegedly being allergic to the animals, she told Paralympic medallist Lee Pearson she had now taken up the sport.
Speaking at a Buckingham Palace reception for Olympic and Paralympic athletes, Mr Pearson disclosed he had even offered the Duchess of Cambridge dressage lessons after she confided in him.
Mr Pearson, who won his tenth Paralympic gold medal this year, said: "Kate said she's learning to ride so I offered to give her some lessons.
"She held my medals and said how heavy they were, and asked if me if I'd been riding all my life."
He added he had even given the Duchess advice after the Countess of Wessex made him aware the novice rider was allergic to horses.
"I said 'so am I - but anti-histimines are wonderful'," he disclosed.
The Duchess of Cambridge has previously displayed an affinity for horses after admitting she was moved to tears while watching the theatre production War Horse.
She was also seen enthusiastically supporting Zara Phillips at the Olympic Games, as she competed in the equestrian event.
Mr Pearson was just one of the Olympic and Paralympic medallist who spoke to the Duchess and other members of the Royal family at a reception last night.
The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of York, the Princess Royal, and the Earl and Countess of Wessex, greeted athletes and praised them for their achievements.
David Cameron hailed Great Britain's "incredible summer" of sport as he spoke at the event last night.
Cyclist Jason Kenny said had spent time talking to the Duchess of Cambridge but could not remember a word she said.
"I just spoke to anyone who came up and wanted to talk," he admitted. "It is amazing and it is something that does not happen every day - that is for sure.
"Everything is a bit of a blur. I was a bit nervous."
Wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft admitted that she was "so scared" as she waited in line to speak to the Queen, who commented that her medals must be heavy.
"It is amazing to be here because there are so many people who are dying to meet her," she said.
"I was told not to talk first so I just sat there smiling at her. I probably looked a bit of a numpty but that was alright because she is a nice lady - can you say that about the Queen?
"It does just finish the Games off nicely. If you know that the top lady in Britain is proud of you, then you must have done pretty good."
Cyclist Sarah Storey said: "To have the Queen throw a reception in our honour makes everything that has happened even more amazing.
"The British public has been so supportive over the Paralympics and it has captured everybody's imagination."
The Duchess of Cambridge also met 12 members of Team GB's women's hockey team.
Emily Maguire, from Glasgow, said afterwards: "The Duchess just said how much she enjoyed watching our games. She's lovely, she's just so easy to talk to and because she herself played hockey she has a real connection to the sport."
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