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Berkshire Hathaway GUARD now writing personal lines in Ohio
By Bob Thomas, Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies
Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies has begun offering homeowners and complementary personal umbrella coverage in Ohio.
According to GUARD CEO Sy Foguel, "We have always relied upon independent agents to deliver our policies to consumers, so our goal is to feature products that fill a need within their offices. We believe our homeowners coverage, which provides the same high level of security and service currently enjoyed by our commercial customers, will do just that."
Senior Vice President of Personal Lines Dovid Tkatch explains that this new initiative has been designed to reflect a few core principles of the company by "providing a quality, easily understood product on a simple platform as well as a high level of service to both agents and policyholders."
Targeted markets include one- to four-family dwellings, renters, and condo units (both owner-occupied and those held for rental).
"In addition to standard exposures," Tkatch adds, "Berkshire Hathaway GUARD aims to provide a bridge between certain business and personal insurance needs by considering Homeowners coverage for residences owned by corporations and LLCs; dwellings held for rent; and residences where incidental business activities occur."
GUARD's Senior Vice President of Sales Dave Simmons says, "We believe we can provide a great service to agents that write both commercial and personal accounts. We feature a competitively priced product with a variety of available discounts, including one for insureds who have commercial policies with GUARD. We also believe certain aspects of our underwriting appetite are unique and will appeal to producers anxious to cross sell and achieve a greater client share."
GUARD's product is generally aimed at dwellings valued at $75,000 to $2,000,000.
By mixing and matching policy forms, endorsements, and optional coverages aimed at broader protection, each policyholder can obtain property insurance suited to his or her exact circumstances.
A personal umbrella with limits up to $5,000,000 can also be added.
According to Tkatch, "We've already introduced these personal lines coverages in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Illinois and have been pleased with the response. In 2018, we hope to expand into a few other states as the year progresses."
As a national carrier, long-range plans call for offering the product countrywide he said.
In October of 2012, GUARD was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. – an international holding company with diverse interests that include insurance and reinsurance. In 2013, GUARD unveiled a new identity as Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies.
GUARD offers a national footprint with a growing list of insurance products, including: workers' compensation, property/liability via a businessowner's policy, commercial auto, commercial umbrella, professional liability, disability, homeowners, and personal umbrella.
Each of the organization's insurance companies (AmGUARD, EastGUARD, NorGUARD, and WestGUARD) is rated A+ ("Superior") by A.M. Best – a leading source of independent rating information on the insurance industry.
Agents interested in learning more should visit guard.com/apply.
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OIA Welcomes Craig Niess to Agency Valuation Role
By Breanne George
GAHANNA, OH - Ohio Insurance Agents Association is excited to announce that Craig Niess has joined the association as Business Planning and Valuation Manager.
Growing OIA's vision to be a "change agent for agent change," Niess will lead the association's initiatives to build and develop business solutions in the areas of agency valuation, succession planning and business planning. As an expert advisor, he will help independent agents set up a plan for long-term success.
"I'm excited about the opportunity to develop and manage the consulting practice within OIA and bring much needed services and solutions to Ohio's independent agencies," Niess says. "In 2018, we want to offer high-quality business consulting to as many agencies as possible."
Niess shares OIA's passion for independent agents and the IA channel. He has more than seven years of financial and operational consulting experience with independent agents through his tenure at Marsh, Berry & Company. In this role, he launched new products, provided customized consulting services, developed and implemented business plans, and created financial models.
"Independent agents are pillars of the communities they serve," Niess says. "We want to empower them so they continue to thrive in an ever-changing insurance landscape. We want to help these agencies and provide them with solutions that will keep them viable for generations to come."
Recently, Niess also worked for a startup in Cleveland and brings his entrepreneurial spirit cultivated from that experience to his new role at OIA. He holds an MBA from the University of Iowa and a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University.
Ohio Insurance Agents Association
Ohio Insurance Agents Association (OIA) is the collective voice of 1,300 independent agencies that employ nearly 10,000 Ohioans. We promote, progress and protect the professional advice and guidance only independent insurance agents provide. OIA members write 82 percent of the commercial insurance policies and 44 percent of personal insurance policies in Ohio. OIA helps agents by providing agency valuation, succession planning, generational health, operational benchmarking reports, other business solutions and industry thought leadership.
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OIA empowers next generation of industry leaders at Next-Gen Summit
CLEVELAND, OH - Ohio Insurance Agents Association, Inc. (OIA) is taking bold steps to elevate, energize and empower the next generation of independent insurance agents.
Nearly 150 independent agents from across Ohio came together for the OIA Next-Gen Summit held June 22-23 at the trendy Metropolitan at The 9 Hotel in downtown Cleveland. The event featured two days of outside-the-box thinking, high-energy speakers and entertaining activities (risk-management tour of Progressive Field, anyone?). In other words, this unique event was not your typical insurance conference.
"I have been to at least 25 insurance conferences across the country over the last three years; none of them are similar to what I just experienced in Ohio," says Sydney Roe, Next-Gen Summit speaker and digital content manager at Agency Nation. "There was an assumptive awareness about what's happening in our industry shared across the whole crew, an unspoken drive that energized the entire event, a positivity about what can be grasped in the near future and a confidence in experimenting with creativity to stand out."
OIA brought in insurance industry visionaries Ryan Hanley and Sydney Roe from Agency Nation (TrustedChoice.com) who are taking the IA channel by storm with their quirky approach, no-holds barred advice and genuine passion for the IA channel. Hanley shared his expertise on how to sell insurance to millennials while Sydney talked about the importance of using social media as a relationship-building platform.
"I learned so much from Ryan Hanley's presentation on selling to millennials," says Brian Miller, independent agent at Mathews Insurance in Athens, Ohio. "I liked how his presentation was positive toward millennials and shed light on the unique buying behavior of this generation. All of the conference content was very relevant since everything is going digital nowadays."
Brandie Hinen, CEO and founder of Powerhouse Learning, inspired attendees with her passion for helping people break free of their comfort zones to create lasting, radical change. A former insurance agent, Hinen talked about critical factors for success, including learning how to say "no," overcoming daily adversities and creating a powerful vision.
Mike Strakhov, Executive Director with Live Oak Bank, talked about a critical area for independent agents: Preparing for agency ownership During an interactive agent/carrier panel discussion, industry leaders discussed the latest technology impacting the industry. Panelists included: Robert Dodson of Liberty Mutual Insurance, Patrick Jackson of Central Insurance Companies, Craig Welsh of Westfield Insurance, Luke Shipp of First Insurance Group, Matt Simon of Hill & Hamilton Insurance and Katie Berry of Insurance Agencies of Ohio.
The OIA Next-Gen Summit concluded with a risk-management tour of Progressive Field, home of the Cleveland Indians. Attendees, many of whom were Cleveland sports fans, experienced a behind-the-scenes tour of the potential risks of a Major League Baseball stadium and the many safety measures put into place to protect visitors.
"Content was absolutely phenomenal – I'm able to take so many new ideas back home with me and incorporate them at my agency," says Seth Marana, independent agent at Ramsburg Insurance & Financial Services in Uniontown, Ohio. "I'll definitely be back next year."
The Next-Gen Summit is part of OIA's larger mission to cultivate next-gen agents – those who aspire to be agency owners, industry thought leaders and have at least 20 years left in their career. OIA is committed to equipping Ohio's independent agents with the skills and resources necessary to thrive in a rapidly changing insurance marketplace. We are keeping up the momentum our all-new conference – IACON17 – Oct. 19-20 in downtown Columbus.
Ohio Insurance Agents Association (OIA) is the collective voice of nearly 1,400 independent agencies that employ nearly 10,000 Ohioans. We promote, progress and protect the professional advice and guidance only independent insurance agents provide. OIA members write 82 percent of the commercial insurance policies and 44 percent of personal insurance policies in Ohio. Our purpose is to help our member agents thrive in a modern insurance marketplace by offering them resources and content in four areas critical for success: digital marketing, recruiting and training, perpetuation and improving the customer experience.
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OIA partners with state associations to launch regional survey to rate agents' carrier experiences
GAHANNA, OH - Nine independent agents' associations, including Ohio Insurance Agents, launched a region-wide survey today to uncover carrier best practices. The goal of the Northeast Carrier Alliance Survey, a series of surveys, is to give valuable feedback to carriers, provide meaningful benchmarks to agencies and facilitate communication among carriers and independent agents.
The first survey will focus on personal lines carriers' technology usage and standards. Several thousand independent agents and brokers are expected to take the initial survey over the next two weeks.
The multi-state reach allows for a larger survey sample, adding credibility to the results. Participating associations will release the results on a state-by-state and collective basis.
The Northeast Carrier Alliance Survey is a first-of-its-kind collaboration among associations in Delaware, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. The next survey will be released later this year.
About the Collaboration
Nine independent agents' associations are participating in the Northeast Carrier Alliance Survey, including the Delaware Association of Insurance Agents & Brokers, Maine Insurance Agents Association, Insurance Agents & Brokers of Maryland, New Hampshire Association of Insurance Agents, Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New Jersey, Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York, Ohio Insurance Agents, Independent Insurance Agents of Rhode Island and Insurance Agents & Brokers of Pennsylvania.
About Ohio Insurance Agents Association
Ohio Insurance Agents Association (OIA) is the collective voice of 1,400 independent agencies that employ nearly 10,000 Ohioans. We promote, progress and protect the professional advice and guidance only independent insurance agents provide. OIA members write 82 percent of the commercial insurance policies and 44 percent of personal insurance policies in Ohio. Our purpose is to help our member agencies protect consumers and employers by offering them access to the best resources, tools and professional development programs available. OIA serves our members in four key areas: advocacy, professional development, business solutions and industry thought leadership.
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OIA Welcomes Megan Smith to Company Partners Role
By Becky Taylor
GAHANNA, OH - We are excited to announce a new staff member here at OIA – please join us in welcoming Megan Smith, CPCU, API, AINS.
We have big plans for Megan. She will lead the effort to collaborate with IA carriers to develop resources that will help agents be more successful in the modern insurance marketplace. Or stated another way, she's going to help build great programs that make it easier for YOUR agency to truly THRIVE now and in the future.
Collaborating to Make a Difference
From her roots as a personal lines underwriter for Western Reserve Group in Wooster to her most recent position as a sales manager at Grange Insurance in Columbus, Megan brings nearly 10 years of insurance industry experience to the Company Partners role.
In her new role at OIA, her focus is to build relationships with carrier partners and learn how OIA can leverage carriers' collective resources to deliver meaningful programs and resources to Ohio independent agents.
"OIA understands the challenges in our industry right now as well as the important role independent agents play in our community," Megan says. "I look forward to working together with our carrier partners to see how we can collectively bring value to Ohio's independent agents."
A Passion for Helping IAs
Megan has a strong background in helping independent agents grow their business, including advising them on perpetuation, digital marketing and customer experience best practices.
She is passionate about independent agents because of the vital role they play as a trusted risk advisor and insurance expert for both personal and commercial clients.
"Many consumers do not understand the importance of insurance and how it impacts every aspect of life," Megan says. "Independent agents provide a service that consumers may not necessarily want but absolutely need. When the unexpected happens, your independent agent is the first person you call."
With a solid understanding of both the opportunities and challenges in our industry, she is excited to be a part of the OIA family where she will help promote, progress and protect Ohio's independent agents.
"My number one goal is to help independent insurance agents – local business owners in Ohio – grow their agency and expand their market share in the industry," Megan says. "This has always been my passion, and I'm excited to have this opportunity to make a difference."
A graduate of The Ohio State University, Megan resides in Clintonville with her husband and two dogs. An avid runner, she races in distances from 5K to half marathon and serves on the 5K Committee for Girls on the Run of Central Ohio, a nonprofit organization that uses running to "inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident."
Questions? Contact Megan at (614) 552-3064.
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The Union of the Comoros is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean off Mozambique. This extremely isolated country is facing several challenges in meeting its population's basic needs.
Access to clean water presents a major public health challenge in the Comoros. The association 2 Mains has been involved in this area since 2012. In particular, the organisation has been working together with communities to develop a participatory structure for water services. Purification, management and awareness are the watchwords of the "Drinking Water for All" programme. By transferring the WATA technology developed by the Antenna Technologies Foundation to villages, the programme offers an effective, simple and standalone method enabling villages to produce their own sodium hypochlorite solution to eliminate drinking water contamination. Fifteen villages have already adopted this approach and have set up a water users association, with the aim of making the system permanent.
The association 2 Mains played a role in drawing up the country's first blueprint for water, for the East Mbadjini area. This document provides technical and financial guidance for local authorities and paves the way to begin construction work and draw up control systems suited to local conditions. A second blueprint for a different area of Grande Comore should be ready for use from early 2016, and the chlorinated water production programme that 2 Mains and Antenna Technologies have developed is due to be rolled out to existing supply networks, providing clean water to several different areas.
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Manuals are boring, but learning is necessary.
New contributors often have to figure out how to operate the tools of a project, like IRC, git, or svn, in a highly social environment: public communication between peers. When, for example, you post your first patch to a mailing list, it's intimidating to know that your mistakes with the tools might reflect poorly on your programming skill.
Some video games have a "training level" where you can get shot without dying. Open source could have a training level where you can learn the skills you need without getting burned.
Our community built one. The OpenHatch training missions are a group of interactive web pages for learning skills you would use when contributing to free software like using diff, patch, tar, version control, IRC, and so on. A training mission shuns "manuals" and long, boring blobs of text, and it protects its users against learning through trial by fire. We say, "Here's a short, concrete task to perform. Interact with our web-based robot, and it will tell you if you succeeded." You can build up your comfort in a space without embarrassment.
Project maintainers often end up teaching basic community skills to new contributors. If you can ask them to complete a relevant training mission, you can save time and have a more knowledgeable contributor base.
In this talk, you will learn about the current training missions and discuss as a group how they can be useful to the attendees. We will highlight the training mission for a version control tool in which you are an agent for Mr. Good trying to gain the trust of Mr. Bad. We will discuss the diversity ramifications of learning community skills in a safe environment. After a tour of the OpenHatch community that built them and the Django-based implementation, we will discuss the attendees' situations with new contributor skill levels and identify the most useful training missions to build next.


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CEMEX Misses Where it Counts
Seth Jayson, The Motley Fool
CEMEX (NYS: CX) reported earnings on July 25. Here are the numbers you need to know.
The 10-second takeaway
For the quarter ended June 30 (Q2), CEMEX beat slightly on revenues and missed expectations on earnings per share.
Compared to the prior-year quarter, revenue grew. Non-GAAP loss per share dropped. GAAP loss per share shrank.
Gross margins increased, operating margins dropped, net margins grew.
Revenue details
CEMEX reported revenue of $4.01 billion. The six analysts polled by S&P Capital IQ looked for sales of $3.96 billion on the same basis. GAAP reported sales were the same as the prior-year quarter's.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Dollar amounts in millions. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
EPS details
EPS came in at -$0.13. The four earnings estimates compiled by S&P Capital IQ anticipated -$0.01 per share. Non-GAAP EPS were -$0.13 for Q2 versus -$0.16 per share for the prior-year quarter. GAAP EPS were -$0.12 for Q2 against -$0.16 per share for the prior-year quarter.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
Margin details
For the quarter, gross margin was 32.0%, 200 basis points better than the prior-year quarter. Operating margin was 8.6%, 40 basis points worse than the prior-year quarter. Net margin was -3.8%, 100 basis points better than the prior-year quarter. (Margins calculated in GAAP terms.)
Next quarter's average estimate for revenue is $4.15 billion. On the bottom line, the average EPS estimate is $0.06.
Next year's average estimate for revenue is $15.68 billion. The average EPS estimate is -$0.22.
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Q: How to know if users in my application already sent payment in Paypal? Can someone give me an idea on how do I know or validate that the user on my application already paid using PayPal? I want in my user table to set the payment_veried = '1' if the user already paid. I tried to search on youtube but the tutorial is not applicable on returning USER_ID after PayPal already verified the payment.

A: You can set the "custom" parameter/variable during the checkout process.
This "custom" parameter's value will be returned to you at the end of the checkout, and also via any Webhook event of PAYMENT CAPTURE if you have a need to implement that asynchronous service, and also IPN if you have a need to use that even older service.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend depending on asynchronous notifications when you could get an immediate synchronous notification from a server-side integration when you do the capture. Here is a demo pattern of the UI for that: https://developer.paypal.com/demo/checkout/#/pattern/server
The server side portion of that type of integration (particularly for the transaction set up and capture API calls) are discussed here: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/checkout/reference/server-integration/
If you do choose to implement a server-side integration, then -- once everything is working for the happy path -- don't neglect to implement funding failure error handling: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/checkout/integration-features/funding-failure/ ;  This will allow buyers to choose a different funding instrument if e.g. their first card is declined by the capture attempt

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Dog training is critical in successfully managing your dog's behavior. But, does it seem like your dog doesn't really care what you say? Does your dog ignore your requests when asked to do certain things?
If your dog has reached a point in his dog training with you where he seems to think any command you give is optional and subject to how he feels right that moment, then just maybe it's time to take a look at where to begin to regroup your thoughts and your approach to your dog training.
I have found that for most dogs like that, everything in life is and has always been, free for them. Their toys are on the floor accessible for play and with a demanding nudge, love and affection is available on demand 24/7.
Unlike their ancestors who had to forage for food, most domesticated dogs just keep one eye on the door and the other on the clock just waiting for your return so they can do the one thing that may be the highlight of their day: EAT. Worse yet they may not even have to work for their food. Some dog owners even free feed.
It's no wonder that dogs don't find their human owners "relevant" at all. And when it comes time for them "do what you say," they just don't "care what you say" enough– to really do what you say.
This can be very frustrating, can't it?
So let's start with the basics and that's a scheduled feeding. Food is instinctively thought of by most all dogs as a "Primary Resource." Even if you think your dog is a finicky eater, it's still true.
Controlling your dog's food is an excellent way to become relevant to your dog. And it's a really great way to teach your dog that listening to you and obeying your commands like sit and down is a good way to earn his food. If you are consistent with your feeding ritual twice a day, it can teach your dog that good behavior matters.
You are now relevant to your dog!
If your dog is a finicky eater, then you'll have to spice things up a bit. Let me explain because it all depends on how serious you are about becoming that relevant force in your dog's life.
If every morning for breakfast your mom put a box of cereal on the kitchen table and said, "The milk is in the refrigerator," that's not very appealing, right? And you probably would care much about breakfast.
On the other hand, if you knew your mom was in the kitchen cooking a hot breakfast every morning and each morning she surprised you with something different, WOW! Your mom would suddenly have relevance and you would know that she cared.
For the finicky eater (that's also a trouble-maker by not listening) spice up his meal. Add some canned food to his dry kibble. Put some beef or chicken broth (warmed from the microwave) over his food. Or, add a dollop of yogurt to his food. Keep it interesting. We add chopped spinach, chopped broccoli or sometimes a piece of sweet potato to our dog's food to make it interesting and they love it. Leila and I do have relevance at our house, do you? Well, you can!
On the other hand, if your dog is highly motivated by food then count your blessings. You have a highly trainable dog.
It's easier to monitor whether he feels well. You'll know the instant your dog goes off his food as a possible indicator that he is not feeling well. It's impossible to do that with free feeding.
Food guarding opportunities are kept to a minimum. Picking up his bowl after each meal helps to eliminate the possibilities of food guarding. Continuous feeding allows your dog to develop guarding instincts of his food bowl and the surrounding space. Don't forget to pick up the bowl after 15 minutes.
A scheduled twice a day feeding also keeps your dog from running on empty for half a day and helps to stave off hunger tension which could create other behavior problems.
Everyone wants a dog that listens because they know you have relevance and well, they just care about you and what you say. Try it I know you'll like it.


MTF - Are those the same seats you sell on your website?
Hoping the wheels will be here on Wednesday.
After talking with Boze yesterday, they don't sell the nuts and valve stems.
Should I have said lug nuts LOL.
Looking forward to seeing them on the car, Rich. How wide are those wheels?
I think it looks good as is. You have the caliper in the back. If they were mine and I was gonna add color to the wheels it would be the gray that the 427 sits in. The orange I think would be a bit over powering.
Then again if the car was mine I'd would have asked to have all the stainless on the grill, windows and such black.
sorry if it sounds like I am criticizing, I am not. It's an amazing machine. And yes on the 18s.
Cleaned and ready to head out Monday morning.
We have to order a taller set of Boze center caps, because the Willwood bearing caps are hitting. When we get back it will get aligned and the suspension turned.


Zelený Les Artist Residency: Works 2011-2013 features three years of documentation and work by resident artists in video, sculpture, photography, sound, writing, and performance.
The Good Festival hosted by Local Roots NYC celebrates one-of-a-kind local music and food initiatives. It inspires New Yorkers to make, cook, and do right in their own kitchens and backyards. Throughout the night, bands will perform barside in the brick-walled Brooklyn Fire Proof. In the backyard from 5 – 7:30pm, artisans and food producers will share their skills, inspiring sustainable living and home cooking. This year we are honored to present Maria Molteni's Inflatable Beehive, a 12 foot tall skep-inspired pneumatic structure where human beeings intertwine to share ideas, research, and other musings.
Tickets are sold at the door and are $7 or $10 to donate a portion to Local Roots NYC's CSA in the Classroom, a youth program that teaches business skills through the management of a CSA and discusses local food and nutrition.
Resident beekeepers and bloggers, Sadie Richards and Addy Smith-Rieman of Herban Honey, will begin the day by talking briefly about their beekeeping philosophy, opening a hive for curious onlookers (veils will be available), and sampling various local honeys. Local beekeepers Stephanie Elson and Emile Bruneau of The Benevolent Bee will be selling their beehive products as well!
Festooning is honored to offer children's programming at Golden Rule Honey's 2013 Northeast Treatment Free Beekeeping Conference. Join us at the Fraternal Order of Eagles, 456 Litchfield Street Leominster, MA 01453 for several levels of events. Register for Beginners Intensive, Field Day, Main Conference, and Childrens' Programming at the link above. Confirmed Speakers include some of the most progressive and natural beekeepers from across the country: Dee Lusby, Michael Bush, Les Crowder, Dr. Paul Arnold, Sam Comfort, Dean (deknow) Stiglitz, Laurie (Ramona) Herboldsheimer, and more!
Topics to include Treatment-Free Models, Bee Breeding, Queen Rearing, Langstroth Management, Top Bar Hive Management, Honeybee Microbes, Flower Nectaries, and more!
The 2013 Field Day will take place on Saturday June 22nd at the University of Massachusetts Agronomy Farm in·South Deerfield, MA. Field Day is an opportunity to learn from experienced beekeepers the practical tasks of hive management.·Expert beekeepers·volunteer their time to share techniques on pest & disease management, Queen rearing, swarm prevention, and a variety of practical skills.· It is an opportunity to learn and ask questions from some of our best state and New England beekeepers.
Workshop sessions·run from 9:00AM until 4:00PM. and are approximately one hour in length.·Participants can choose·four sessions·from the twenty or more that are scheduled each year. FESTOONING will be bring the inflatable hive out to host a Queen Rearing Workshop presented by Golden Rule Honey.
The Boston Beekeepers have just launched tickets to participate in their 3rd annual Tour de Hives, a biking tour of honey beehives in Boston scheduled for June 9, 2013. Festooning will host picnic festivities in and about the beehive including tastes of delicious treatment free honey courtesy of Golden Rule whose community hives are situated in the Victory Gardens. More information and a schedule of events may be found at the facebook and meetup event postings.
Meet us at the Fenway Victory Gardens from 12:30-3pm for Picnic Inflation!
The 3rd Annual Boston Tour de Hives will engage, educate and enchant you with a first-hand look at honeybees in hives across the city, and will be guided by the humans who tend them. Downtown Boston, the North End, the South End & Fenway Victory Gardens will all be stops on this year's tour, which you will visit by bike (or other means of transport if you prefer). Join us for one stop or the whole day!
We are pleased to re-present Kathryn Spilios PHD as part of Festooning programming this Wednesday at 1pm. We were sad that she was lost from our lineup during wintry mix-ups, but the BU Beekeepers will host her wonderful presentation on Waggle Dancing inside of our installation. Come visit us at 808 Commonwealth Ave on March 20th!
This Sunday, March 17, we invite you to huddle inside of the inflatable beehive for a performance and reading circle. Join artists Hermione Spriggs (UK/San Diego) and Susan Sakash (Providence, RI) in a creative cross-pollination and conversation combining respective projects Telling the Bees? and Where's Your Honey?
We'd like to keep some surprise but as we muse upon Hermione's Birth of the Apiary, Heather Kapplow will be the subject of an intimate stick and poke. If you are so inspired Spriggs has provided a participatory element that's a bit more temporary. We will engage in a discussion with the artists on the issues from trust to corporeal/psychological control, economic objectification to invested gratification, pain to sweetness and beyond in this durational performance. To learn more about their projects view the text below!
View more info about the artists and their projects here: Telling the Bees? & Where's Your Honey?
Please observe the new and improved schedule for our February 23rd Apisocial Saturday, 11:30am-5:30pm at Boston University's 808 Gallery (808 Commonwealth Ave, Boston). Last week's blizz put a damper on our buzz, but allowed us to consolidate both events into one! Both of our special out-of-town guests will be presenting with a handful of amazing local beekeepers. We have added a reception where you may sip some local meade and nibble at home-made treats. Check out our poster below and invite your friends!
As the chilly season approaches don't succumb to brainfreeze or anti-socialites. February 23rd you are called to cluster, honeybee style, in Boston University's 808 Gallery to learn a little something new about beehavior, community, and contemporary environmentalism. Keep the energy and ideas circulating as you rub elbows and antennae with an exceptional array of beekeepers, designers, community builders and apicultural experts.
5:30-7pm // Reception // We invite you to stick around after lectures. Meet the presenters, pick some bee brains to celebrate the end of our series. Special guest musician Borey Shin will set the tone with experimental DRONE!
I am a beekeeper and a visual artist who has done a lot of work with printed images of bees in both installations and in artist books and prints. Alas, I have to bee in NY this weekend. I hope this is a great event. I am really sorry to to be able to attend. Loved the ideas of the people from the netherlands.


Sawigun, C; Serdijn, WA; (2012) A modular transconductance reduction technique for very low-frequency G m-C filters. In: (pp. pp. 1183-1186).
This paper presents a modular technique for transconductance reduction of a sub-threshold transconductor. This technique employs an ordinary differential pair circuit as a module to build a linear attenuator and to be the main transconductor. By applying the linear attenuation, the input linear range expansion and transconductance reduction are simultaneously achieved by sacrificing around 33% of its dynamic range compared to the ordinary differential pair transconductor. A 2 nd-order G m-C low-pass as an application of the proposed transconductor has been designed and simulated using 0.18-μm AMS technology. Compared to existing designs, post-layout simulation results show that, with a smaller active area (including bias circuitry, transconductors and capacitors), this design provides greater dynamic range, wider tuning range and lower power consumption. © 2012 IEEE.


You have not been selected for the job opening ' Ghost Writer'.
The undeniable underlining hope was that it would take me closer to a successful freelance writing career. I was yet to learn the tricks of the freelancing trade. I did not know then that I was wasting my time and effort applying for some of those 'freelance content writing openings' that were very clearly saying 'DO NOT APPLY'. Surprised? Don't be.
The signs were all there. The thing was I did not know how to read all those signs then. I do not claim to be any wiser now. But then I think I am better off from where I began working on oDesk, having spent more than 50 productive oDesk hours (you can check my oDesk history) and made some pretty decent money with freelance writing. It included, website content writing, product descriptions (more about it in future), press release news, ghost writing for employment related blogs, some Internet research apart from other jobs.
Those little known ways that helped me, didn't they? So I would like to share them with you so you too can save some time. You can invest that time in improving your chances of quickly finding 'paying jobs' and make some more money.
I subscribed to "Job alerts" a feature that you will find under your 'My Profile" tab. Half the clutter is out.
I get my job alerts into my inbox. The jobs of my choice walk into my 'inbox'.
If the buyer is not 'verified' then you need to think twice before applying. Is this buyer really serious about the job? IMHO, I do not think this buyer is either professional or serious. Out goes this from the list.
I check the 'Buyer Facts'. If this buyer became a member and posted this job the same day, this buyer too is 'out'.
The reason? Well, I think this buyer doesn't need my attention because, this buyer is not willing to tell me how she is going to pay me and when she is going to pay me, if at all she is going to pay me.
So, there you have a buyer, who is not "oDesk payment verified" and the 'oDesk Buyer Facts' has nothing to tell you, so what would you do?
You love the gig and want to 'do' it. Go ahead. Be my guest. You can always give this gig a try and may be you will be introducing a great buyer to all of us here at oDesk.
The bonus is you can avoid all those "Candidacy Ended", "project was canceled", "Project expired" messages and unnecessary disappointments that keep crawling into your in box.
* With thanks to Brian Clark, the Copyblogger.


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Where is Walter Cronkite in the Hall of Famous Missourians?
Walter Cronkite was named the "Most Trusted Man in America" for more than half a century. Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, he moved to Kansas City and then to Houston, where he began his journalism career as a campus correspondent for the Houston Post.
Cronkite covered virtually every major news event throughout his more than 60 years in journalism. Beginning in WWII as a UP correspondent, followed by the Nuremberg Trials and then, in Moscow, where from 1946 through 1948 he served as Bureau Chief. Cronkite built a solid foundation in print journalism that prepared him to assume a central role in television news.
In 1954, he moved to New York City where he pioneered the first evening news broadcast as "anchorman", and later, Managing Editor, for the CBS Evening News. For the next three decades, he covered such history-making events as the U.S. space program; the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert Kennedy; the Watergate scandal; the hostage crisis in Iran; the Vietnam War; and conducted his landmark interviews with Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin.
Among his numerous honors and awards are a special George Foster Peabody Award for his contributions to broadcast journalism, and induction into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' "Hall of Fame". In January, 1981, President Jimmy Carter awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest award to a civilian. Two months later, he retired as anchor of the CBS Evening News.


Alcohol Free Forever teaches you about how to stop drinking instantly without going to expensive meetings and alcohol experts. Well, drinking can cause many serious problems in your life, it may be that you meet with any road accident due to drunk driving, it may be that your relationship with your wife and children may break. It is good time to hear what experience alcohol counselor says about stopping drinking.
It is seen that an alcoholic takes alcohol at work, this is really very serious and bad habit, and due to this drinking habit you may lose your high paying job as well. If you are feeling that your drinking is out of control, you must consider any treatment, consultation with experienced alcohol doctors. People feel uncomfortable to stop drinking, they feel inadequate when they are sober and drinking cause them many problems in their life.
If you are facing any problem in your life because of your drinking habit, you must seek any solution to stop drinking now. And the solution is before you, the Alcohol Free Forever is a proven program that already helped thousands of people. The program helps you fully so that you can take control of your life and you can live your life in your own way without the bad habit of drinking and other related habits.
The worst thing about alcohol habit is it affects you, your family and the whole society as well. And I wills say that alcoholism is destroyer of family, relationship and society.


DoGone Fun offers a wide range of dog grooming services in a comfortable setting. These services are provided by groomers who have years of training and experience, as well as a commitment to continuing education in order to offer the best care possible. For added convenience, we allow both new and returning customers to make grooming appointments online.
Three -cycle baths with shampoo, conditioner, hand drying and brushing or combing out. Nail trimming and ear cleaning are also included with each bath.
Styling or cuts to accompany baths. We take special requests for the style of your choice so long as it is not detrimental to your dog's health. If you do not have any specific instruction we will cut according to breed-specific standards.
Continuing education is a requirement for employment.
Our dog grooming artists and bathing technicians provide high-quality services. Dan, our Grooming Manager, is a Certified Master Groomer who has participated in national grooming competitions and received extensive training in grooming and behavior modification.
Our other grooming artists have prior experience working as dog groomers and place a lot of value on continuing to learn the latest techniques in dog grooming. Our bathing technicians have previous experience bathing dogs and excel at making sure that dogs feel comfortable as they're being washed.
Requirements: Current rabies, distemper, Bordatella vaccinations.
For your convenience we offer online dog grooming reservations. Schedule a dog spa treatment today!


Ranbir Kapoor starrer Sanjay Dutt's biopic Sanju is going to release on June 29th. People are eagerly waiting for the movie because of its interesting and controversial subject. The main reason of the excitement among the people is Ranbir Kapoor who is playing the role of Sanjay Dutt. Ranbir has done a hard work to play Sanjay Dutt and to look like him. He is looking impressive as Sanjay Dutt in the trailers.
But do you know? Ranbir was not Vidhu Vinod Chopra's first choice to play the lead character of Sanju? You read it right. Vidhu wanted another actor to play this role and he was non other than Ranveer Singh because he has the madness, flamboyance and emotional depth to play this complicated, conflicted part but according to the director of the movie, Rajkumar Hirani, Ranbir Kapoor would be the perfect choice.
Ranbir Kapoor himself was very excited about playing the part of Dutt on big screen. He even said that when Raju called him up he hoped it was not about the Sanjay Dutt biopic. Ranbir was mesmerized after reading the script. Later, Ranbir made a remarkable transformation and impressed Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Vidhu stated that he had to eat his words as the Kapoor scion became Dutt with both: swagger and soul.
Sanju stars Sonam Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Manisha Koirala, Dia Mirza, Vicky Kaushal in lead roles along with Karishma Tanna, Jim Sarbh and others.


Have you ever wanted to write for an MMA site? If so then this could be the perfect opportunity to get involved as MMA Insight is currently looking for new writers.
Whether you are just starting out, are already experienced in blogging or would like to expose your writing or podcast then we could be the perfect fit for you.
MMAInsight.com has been at the forefront of the sport for the past nine years and reaches millions of MMA fans every year, ensuring you will be read when you post on the site.
It's great exposure and experience for anyone looking to get a start in MMA journalism. If that sounds of interest to you then please feel free to get in touch.
MMAInsight.com will only publish original content.
All links in contributor articles will be "nofollow".
Links must be highly relevant to the article or they will be removed.
Articles must never contain affiliate links or promote a product/service.
You will get a profile on the site with links to your social media accounts or personal website.
We currently are not paying any new contributors, but this may be negotiated in the future.
Complete the form below and provide as much detail as possible with links to some of your work, where possible.
If successful, we will create an account for you on the site and you can start submitting your content.


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Duke and Navy Agree to Enroll Nuclear-Trained Naval Officers in Master of Eng. Management Program
Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program have agreed to establish a partnership that will enable nuclear-trained Navy officers to enroll in Pratt's Master of Engineering Management degree program.
The agreement signed February 9 formalizes a cooperative effort that began last semester. Two Navy officers are now students in the Master of Engineering Program, which integrates engineering and business principles to develop future leaders of technology-based organizations.
Under the agreement signed by Pratt Dean Kristina M. Johnson and Thomas H. Beckett, deputy director of Naval Reactors, Navy students will receive a partial fellowship from Pratt and advanced standing for prior Navy work for up to 12 credits.
"There is tremendous strategic advantage for the Navy to have people with technical degrees in our leadership ranks," Beckett said. "This partnership creates a beautiful mix of technical and business skills that will form the future leadership of the Navy."
Added Johnson, "This strategic alliance is an excellent fit for the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and the Pratt School of Engineering because both are committed to advanced educational opportunities to train and develop future leaders. Both Pratt and the Navy understand the critical role of leadership and technology to be successful in today's world. The Master of Engineering Management Program mission is equally applicable to military leaders and leaders in the corporate world."


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About GFPA
GFPA news
In 2009 Refilwe Ledwaba founded Southern African Women in Aviation and Aerospace industry (SAWIA). Though formally established in 2009 and registered as an NPO in 2011, SAWIA was conceived in 2007 when we recognised the need for an organisation to represent Southern African women and girls in the aviation and aerospace industry in the SADC region.
The organisation established GFPA. We wanted to create a platform that educates girls about aviation and aerospace at a grassroots level. We also wanted to empower them with information and access to other women in the field addressing one of the enablers of gender equality in the STEAM field. With the success of GFPA, our focus shifted from SAWIA and we registered GFPA independently as an NPC and PBO. The Foundation is currently operating in Botswana, Cameroon, Kenya and South Africa. In 2020 we established a global fund, an independent trust to support our operations and programmes in Africa.
To create an Africa where every girl is educated, included and empowered.
Our annual programmes are varied, exciting, stimulating, engaging and challenging educational initiatives that:
Develop and support programmes that encourage innovation and shaping of mindsets.
Make aviation and space a viable career choice for girls.
Cultivate a culture of community building through volunteerism.
Create equal opportunity through skills development and scholarships in the aviation and space industry.
Founding of GFPA foundation under Southern African Women in Aviation and Aerospace Industry (SAWIA).
Hosted the first-ever aviation days in both Soweto (Gauteng) and Adams College (Kwazulu-Natal).
Hosted the first aviation and space camp in Africa.
Participated in various outreach programmes throughout Southern Africa.
Featured in various media platforms including morning live SABC 2 and ETV.
Founding of GFPA foundation Botswana.
Founding of GFPA foundation Cameroon.
Featured on BBC innovators in Africa programme.
Featured on a Beautiful news segment.
Participated in the first Global gender summit in the world.
Received various awards through the founder Refilwe Ledwaba.
GFPA foundation independently registered as an NPC, PBO and operating under Women & Aviation umbrella.
Featured on CNN changemakers programme.
Established GFPA Global fund.
Featured in Malalfund Foundation Newsletter.
Featured in African Pilot Magazine and Air news Magazine.
"Education for girls is about more than access to school. It is also about being supported in the subjects and careers they choose to pursue – including those in which they are often under-represented" (UNICEF), such as careers in the STEAM field. 75% of future jobs are going to require STEAM. It is necessary to make STEAM subjects look desirable to girls earlier in life if we hope to retain women in the STEAM fields later. It is also important to have interventions that help increase girls and women's interest in, and engagement with STEAM education.
With our phased approach, we ensure that no girl is left behind by creating a pipeline system through focussed programs that grow in intensity and become tailored to our developing learner aspirations in the STEAM field.
We shape the mindsets of the next generation using maker spaces through our STEAM clubs. These are multifunction spaces were learners could gather to create, invent, tinker, explore and discover all sort of things using different materials ("Learning through doing). We are creating an environment where they can learn how to think as the first step to innovating solutions for their communities.
Empowering the next generation has been a key component of GFPA's mission. Our programme starts by creating awareness in the STEAM industry with a focus on aviation and space. Through our STEAM Programmes and workshops, we help tomorrow's leaders meet new challenges.
We enable the next generation by offering scholarships and other skills development programmes. GFPA's scholarships directly support the professional development of women who intend to follow a career in the STEAM field with a focus on aviation and space. We will be partnering with local universities and aviation organisation to provide excellent candidates who have a passion for aviation and space, with scholarships and learnership opportunities.
We support the next generation through our mentorship and Internship programme. Our mentorship matches up student with mentors in the aviation and space industry to advise and assist in career development. Our internship matches applicants with member companies to provide excellent opportunities for professional growth and practical experience.
GFPA is made up of GFPA Foundation and GFPA Global fund and together we work to make a lasting change in our communities and around the world. We support SDG4, SDG5, SDG8, SDG9, SDG10 and SDG17
A link to the UN sustainable goals
We positively impact and change lives through our strong values of
influences and informs all we do:
We Empower our youth, ourselves and our communities through education and information, in support of SDG 4. Each one, teach one.
We enable young minds to think creatively and solve their community problems using designing thinking and technology, in support of SDG 9 and SDG 8.
We believe in service before self for an impactful existence entrenching Ubuntu amongst ourselves with our strategic partners, in support of SDG 17. Pay it forward.
We Advocate for STEAM education and inclusive society in support of SDG 5 and SDG 10.
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Q: How to move my local WordPress site (on my PC - webmatrix) to live? I am new so please forgive me if I am not posting the question correctly.  I installed wordpress with webmatrix.  I created a new wordpress install and now I am ready to go live.  I have read a few posts but I am still lost.  I am using go daddy already have domain and web hosting economy plan - linux plan.  I have searched until I am blue in the face.  I have called go daddy, they cannot help me.  They want me to install a new wordpress site.  WHY.  I already have my site built,  it's on my local PC machine.  I need to get it from local to the web host.  I do not have my php admin. as everyone talks about.  I have web matrix, a PC.
I am looking for clear guidance/instructions.
1. Why do I have to install a new wordpress site from go daddy?
2.  If I do not, then,
    A.  Do I... login into my go daddy cpanel, create a new sql database?
        i.  If so, this is where my confusion is.  steps are not clear on different sites.  Nothing is clear for webmatix, unless of course I missed it....  if so,                where do I the new sql database I created in go daddy cpanel, on my local pc hard drive?
    B.  Once I am clear on A.  Do I then go to my filezila ftp and move my wp local files - these would be the files from the local site I created, correct?  I               then put them in cpanel.
    C.  What next.  the database?  the database confuses me.  I do not have myphp admin., wamp, lamp, etc. How do I get my local database files from webmatrix – to go           daddy and once there, what do I do?   I have a PC I'm using web matrix (because the class I took said since I had a pc this is what I had to do to install              wordpress, they also said we had to use wpengine - so I have no idea how to deploy to another host - I cannot afford wpengines $29.00 month fee).          The database instructions are very confusing, export what and where, import what and where, rename - confused.  I cannot move my webhosting from go daddy, Paid for a year in advance and they will NOT refund my money, I already tried.  I cannot afford anything else at the moment.  So, I am stuck with them...
Can any one please help?  Thank you and I am sorry for the long question.

A: There are two options

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*(Best) Create a wordpress account in godaddy, import all your sites data and database to the new site. This is relatively easy to do and you can get Godaddy to walk you through it.

https://www.godaddy.com/help/move-your-wordpress-site-manually-12371

*(Worst) On you home router, NAT ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS) if you would like email you cannot get that working as all ISP's block outbound 25 traffic.

Setup a DDNS account as your home IP address is probably dynamic.
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Hey there! My name is Kari and I'm so happy to be on the SouthCoast. I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, went to college at Washington State University, and most recently moved to the SouthCoast from Utica, New York. I'm definitely a big football fan, and being from Seattle, I'll always be a Seahawks fan who's bitter about the ending of Super Bowl XLIX. I'm brand new to the area, so feel free to share your favorite things to do, places to eat and bars to grab a drink on the SouthCoast. If you have any recommendations, feel free to shoot me a message on the Fun 107 app.
Country on the Rise: March 13, 2021
Miranda Lambert and Elle King are leaving us drunk and not wantin' to go home with their new single!
My Letter to Central New York: Thank You For Everything
Thank you for the riggies. Thank you for the conversations. Thank you for the kindness, Central New York.
Syracuse University Planning For Safe, In-Person Commencement in May
Officials at SU are aiming to host an in-person commencement for graduates this May for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Young Aspiring Officer From Jordan Connects With Syracuse Police
The five Syracuse officers took a photo with Yusef and gave him a badge of his very own to hopefully help him in his journey to become an officer.
Guilderland Resident Believes Aliens Want to Access Wormhole in Their Basement
This is far from the first encounter this person has had with the paranormal in Guilderland, especially after living on the same road for more than 50 years.
Let's Be Honest: No One Actually Knows Where Upstate New York Is
Do you actually know where Upstate New York is? Does it even exist?
'A Quiet Place II' Will Release in May After COVID Setbacks
The wait is almost over! The sequel for the widely-popular thriller, 'A Quiet Place,' will finally be released in 2021.
New Paltz's Laila Mach Puts an Angrier Spin on Gabby Barrett's 'I Hope' For Idol Audition
Mach accompanied herself on the piano for her audition, wowing the judges not only with her beautiful vocals, but also with her dark lyrics.
Country on the Rise: March 6, 2021
Ingrid Andress challenges what it means to be "Lady Like" in this weekend's episode of Country on the Rise.
Family Reunited With Old Photos Found in Abandoned Syracuse House
Thanks to the kindness of a stranger in Syracuse, Darlene Priest and her family now have precious memories back that they thought were lost forever.
Trooper Provides Blankets, Food For Driver Broken Down on Thruway Near Syracuse
Trooper Sacco of the State Police in Syracuse recently showed a great deal of compassion while assisting a driver whose vehicle had broken down on the Thruway.
New Paltz Teen's American Idol Audition Will Air This Sunday
After months of anticipation, New Yorkers will finally get to see one of their own enter the judges' room on American Idol and sing her heart out.


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What's Keeping Me Sane: April 2020
Posted on April 15, 2020 by nanmonroeauthor
Over the past few years, I've tended to preface my posts about things that make me happy with some variation of, "We're living in hard times, so the things that give us joy are all the more precious." Since I've gotten into that habit, times haven't gotten much better. Instead, they've gotten worse. Right now, they're about as bad as they've ever been in my lifetime. I don't know of anyone who isn't suffering, at least on some level, as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. Beyond a doubt, our lives have changed, and we've been seeking out ways not only to stay healthy but to make life bearable within our social-distancing cocoons.
My surest lifeline has always been, and (I know now) always will be, fiction — stories that become a part of my consciousness even as they direct my focus outward, away from the anxieties that threaten to cripple me. When stories take my imagination on journeys beyond the here and now, I feel how much more there is to life than this present moment. Even though it can sometimes seem like it, I — we — won't be stuck here forever.
My husband, the best quarantine companion I could ask for, has suggested to me that we should each share with one another movies and TV shows that the other hasn't seen. First up (I'd seen it, he hadn't) was a DVD set of the late 1970s classic miniseries I, Claudius. I'd forgotten just how involving this superb piece of historical fiction is. If it were fantasy, it would doubtless be labeled grimdark, since the ancient Rome it depicts is smotheringly decadent, all its characters are deeply flawed (Derek Jacobi's noble but often foolish title character and Brian Blessed's blustering but good-nature Augustus being the most sympathetic), and most of them are downright evil. But the series is so well-acted, and the dialogue so smart and often darkly funny, that I love it anyway. Perhaps I just find grimdark more entertaining on the screen than on the page. After we'd finished the series, Matt showed me Robert Altman's The Player, a story nearly as cynical and bitter, set in modern-day Hollywood. Though I'll never love it quite as I do I, Claudius, I found it fascinating.
Now, however, we've started binge-watching a series as different as can be imagined: Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock. I still find it the most delightfully girl-friendly family show of the 1980s, with the absence of gender prejudice in the Fraggle community and the presence of fun characters like the hyper-energetic Red, the dreamy Mokey, the lore-keeping Storyteller, and, perhaps most unique of all, the oracular Marjory the Trash Heap. Marjory is like the Sibyl of Greco-Roman mythology, but she also happens to be a gigantic sentient pile of garbage with a heart of pure gold. She gets some of the best moments in the first few episodes.
And, of course, I have my books.
Two I have recently finished, Alix E. Harrow's The Ten Thousand Doors of January and Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire, are Hugo nominees for Best Novel, and I can confirm both nominations are richly deserved. I would be happy if either won. January, with its sparking prose, its flawed but smart and imaginative protagonist, and its story of doorways between worlds and a struggle between those who would open the doors and those who would see those doors destroyed, has my heart. Empire, with its more mature and level-headed protagonist trying to navigate a labyrinth of I, Claudius-like politics while remaining true to herself and her mission as Ambassador, has my head. Both have set a high bar for my remaining reads of the year.
Yet all the books I'm currently reading stand a chance of meeting that bar, or at least coming near it. Here's a run-down:
The Sword of Kaigen (M.L. Wang)
Fantasy readers tired of the same old medieval-European settings should find much to intrigue them here. In Kaigen, we find technology akin to modern- day but cultural mores that resemble medieval Japan. It is, alas, one of those fantasy cultures where simply being born a woman is a great misfortune, and the degrading misogyny to which heroine Misaki is subjected by her repellent husband and even more loathsome father-in-law is quite painful to read about. But Misaki has iron within. Husband and father-in-law don't succeed in wearing away her sense of self-worth. Just when it seems like they might, help enters the scene in the unlikely form of her cheerful, indomitable sister-in-law, Setsuko. I'm admittedly not far in — around 30%, and it's a long book — but already Wang has depicted relationships between women as powerful. That, the strong prose, and the protagonist keep me reading, despite my discomfort with the misogyny level.
The Winged Histories (Sofia Samatar)
This is one of those books that envelops a reader slowly. It takes time to figure out just what plotline its characters are moving through. We learn names, but only over time does it become clear how they fit into the larger picture. Samatar's interest is, first and foremost, character — specifically, four different women affected by a military conflict. Through their voices and their observations, she shows us who they are, employing some of the most exquisite prose I've ever had the pleasure of reading. I'm taking my time with this one. Samatar's writing style, much like Patricia McKillip's, demands an observant, reflective read.
A Brightness Long Ago (Guy Gavriel Kay)
Kay's prose is not quite as intricate as Samatar's, but it's nonetheless beautiful and involving. He takes a broader approach to the military conflict in his story, so that it's the least intimate of my current reads. Yet I'm intrigued by the canvas he unveils and the characters that move through it. To my satisfaction, Kay has improved at writing female characters since the days of the not-that-great-in-this-regard Fionavar Tapestry trilogy. In one sequence, a female healer saves the life of an injured woman who has just assassinated a perverted, murderous aristocrat. As the recovered patient takes her leave, the healer reflects: "It was a good thing. . . that there were women working to widen the world in different ways. They could nod at each other in passing, in recognition, then carry on expanding what was allowed" (105). It's one of the most hopeful passages I've read from a book set in a society with limiting gender roles.
The Unspoken Name (A.K. Larkwood)
(SPOILER ALERT)
Csorwe is not your usual female protagonist. For one thing, she isn't exactly human. (She has tusks! Tusks, I tell you!) For another, at the start of her story she's closer to anti-heroine than heroine: she's not quite sure what she believes in, and her sole emotional tie is to a mentor of rather dubious character. She works to help him accomplish his goals without bothering to question whether those goals are right or just. But that's what makes her so intriguing. She has a moral journey to make. In the latest scene I've read, she is forced to choose between claiming the object her mentor sent her to retrieve or saving the life of an innocent captive. It's her "All right, I'll go to Hell!" (Huckleberry Finn) moment, in which she breaks the code she's been trained to obey and shows us she has the stuff of heroes in her before she sees it herself. I can't wait to see where her journey takes her next.
I'll let A.K. Larkwood herself have the final word.


Arriva Danmark has extended the requirements of its contract with Damen Shipyards Group in order to account for longer ferry routes in the city of Copenhagen. Arriva originally contracted Damen to deliver five fully-electric Damen Ferry 2306 E3 vessels to cover passenger routes in the central metropolitan area of Copenhagen. Since agreement of the contract in July 2018, Danish public transport agency Movia has extended the intended routes of its ferry service to the port area by roughly 50 percent.
To provide a fully-integrated system, Damen representatives spent ample time analyzing the conditions in which the ferries would operate and the demands placed on them in their operation. The vessels needed to fit in with the existing service currently in place, without requiring adaptation on the side of the service operator.
Damen conducted extensive studies into numerous contributing variables including requirements for the vessels' environmental performance, cost-efficiency, continuity with the existing transport framework, optimal passenger experience and reliability. The ferries are designed to match Damen's E-Cross label. The E-Cross range of electrically-powered ferries is designed with the philosophy of being environmentally friendly, efficient in operation and economically viable. The E-Cross ferries are zero-emissions vessels boasting excellent maneuverability, low maintenance and modular deck arrangements. Their adaptability allows Damen to provide a fully-integrated shore and ship solution for Copenhagen's ferry service.
Dynamic water conditions in the port area added a layer of complexity to the charging process, as Bastiaan Vink, Design and Proposal Engineer at Damen, explains. "According to the motion report we produced, the ferries must be secured to the jetty in order to access the fully integrated battery charging system." Damen's solution to this challenge was to develop an auto-mooring system for the vessels. Developed in-house, the auto-mooring solution largely increases the safety around the integral system while simultaneously saving more than 10 percent of a vessel's energy usage per day.


Bryant Gumbel and his estranged wife, June, had a tense face-off in court yesterday as they attempted to hammer out a preliminary divorce agreement.
The warring pair — she's charged he's a "serial adulterer" — and their lawyers met behind closed doors as Gumbel attempted to convince a judge he should have equal access to his northern Westchester home.
That would allow him to brazenly parade his blond girlfriend, Hilary Quinlan, in front of his wife and kids, who now live there.
As the hearing began in White Plains Superior Court, the $5-million-a-year host of CBS's "Early Show" looked uncomfortable as he sat a mere 15 feet from his wife of 26 years.
He carefully avoided her glances and stuck to quietly chatting with his lawyer, Stanley Arkin.
June — who yesterday told The Post's Andrea Peyser that Gumbel had "shot me through the heart" by two-timing her since Day One of their marriage — seemed pensive.
After a short meeting in open court, which was packed with reporters, both sides retired to Judge John LaCava's chambers to negotiate.
The judge will rule next week on Gumbel's request for access to the house. LaCava will also tell the talk-show host what he must shell out in support for the couple's 16-year-old daughter and 21-year-old son until the bitter divorce is finalized.


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Scots significantly underestimate calories in popular snacks, survey finds
Scots significantly underestimate the number of calories in popular snacks, a survey has found.
By Elsa Maishman
10th May 2022, 4:55am
While most Scots were broadly correct when asked to guess the calorie count of meals and drinks, they were "way off" when asked the same question about snacks, a poll on behalf of innovation charity Nesta has found.
This lack of awareness could be contributing to Scotland's obesity crisis, the charity warned.
Some 95 per cent of people in Scotland underestimated the number of calories in half a branded sharing packet of crisps, Nesta found, some by as many as 300 calories.
Three quarters of people thought there were fewer calories in a sausage roll than the true amount, with most out by at least 100 calories.
Even healthier choices were underestimated, with 97 per cent of respondents incorrect about the number of calories in a packet of dried mango slices.
Scottish restaurants could be forced to show how many calories in meals
And more than half of people were wrong about the calorie count of two chocolate digestive biscuits.
The poll found 95 per cent of people underestimated the number of calories in half a sharing packet of crisps. Picture: Shutterstock
Some 2,000 adults across the UK were polled in April and May, with an addition of just over 500 adults in Scotland.
Frances Bain, healthy life lead for Nesta in Scotland, said: "Snacks and small bites to eat like these are often grabbed on the go or on impulse when we are at the shops, travelling or at work.
"Not only are they often much higher in calories than the public understands but they are the kinds of foods that are heavily promoted and given priority placement by retailers at counters and checkouts to push people towards buying them."
She added: "Our obesity crisis is urgent and we need to see action to improve the availability, accessibility and affordability of healthier snacks in the places we are making quick, on-the-go purchases."
It comes after the Scottish Government launched a consultation on mandatory calorie labelling on menus, after the same measure was introduced in England last month.
Public health minister Maree Todd said high rates of obesity are a key factor in these proposals, which should help people make "healthier choices" when eating out.
But eating disorder charities have raised concerns that the measure may have a negative impact on those with and without eating disorders.
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