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Hidden Gems: Meet Monique Hayward of DRISCOLL Cuisine & Cocktail Concepts
Today we'd like to introduce you to Monique Hayward.
Hi Monique, we'd love for you to start by introducing yourself.
A New York City native who also spent part of my childhood in Columbia, SC, I grew up pursuing my dream of being a journalist. I was the editor of my high school newspaper and idolized the fearless, intrepid reporters who I watched on TV every night and read their articles in magazines and newspapers. By the time I graduated from high school, I decided I wanted to be a political reporter at the Washington Post and enrolled at the University of Maryland College Park, a top-10 journalism school in the Washington, DC area. At age 18 in 1988, I was not prescient at all about how the internet would disrupt the newspaper industry, but I realized quickly that the best reporters don't usually start their careers "at the top" at the Washington Post or New York Times. Rather, you're expected to pay your dues, work your way up, and not make much money before even getting a chance to compete for those highly coveted jobs at big-city media outlets.
Determined to broaden my horizons and give myself more options, I decided to switch my concentration from newspaper journalism to public relations, which provided the foundation for me to pursue a career in Corporate America. I "sealed that deal" with an MBA in marketing from Case Western Reserve University in 1994 and was on my way to my first job as a marketing communications specialist for Tektronix in Beaverton, Oregon, a company and place I never heard of before a recruiter contacted me about the opportunity. As 1994 was a tough year economically for the country, it was my only offer in hand, and this East Coast girl took a chance on a brand new life in the great Pacific Northwest.
By my mid-30s, I wasn't entirely satisfied with my work in marketing and communications and wanted something more fulfilling. Having tried my hand at being a commercial model and spokesperson and serving as executive producer, writer, and host of my own talk show on a local cable TV station, I thought the next natural step would be pursuing entrepreneurship. When I was growing up, my late grandmother had a dual career as a nurse and beauty salon owner in New York City. As teenagers, my brother and I would visit her over the summers, and she'd take us to her salon in Harlem, where we'd sit for hours listening to the beauty shop banter and performing chores to help our grandmother out around the salon. While we were unappreciative and bored most of the time, enough of that experience stuck with me that I was inspired to start my own company, Nouveau Connoisseurs Corporation, alongside my corporate career.
My first venture was Dessert Noir Café & Bar, an award-winning restaurant in Beaverton, Oregon, and no one told me it would be so hard. Like a lot of would-be entrepreneurs, I bought into the conventional wisdom about having what it takes to be your own boss, following the step-by-step process to turn your idea into a viable business and working your plan to achieve success for your small business. However, when I, a woman of color, needed real-world, honest, practical advice about how to navigate the entrepreneurial terrain and to get the inside track on seizing opportunities, I had a very hard time finding it. Basically, the "School of Hard Knocks" taught me the lessons and that experience was the inspiration for my first book, Divas Doing Business: What the Guidebooks Don't Tell You About Being a Woman Entrepreneur, which includes a foreword from my longtime mentor and advisor, Oscar-winning actor and screen legend Morgan Freeman.
While the Great Recession of 2008-09 ultimately forced me to close Dessert Noir Cafe & Bar, it didn't extinguish my entrepreneurial flame. A few years later, I partnered with a former co-worker to launch Cerise Noire Software, a mobile software applications company that specialized in iPhone apps. Upon transferring my interest in that company to my partner in 2012, I focused on accelerating my corporate career and rising through the ranks to become a marketing executive at Intel and Microsoft. In 2014, I published my second book, Get Your Hustle On: It's Not Just About Getting a Job, But Building a Rewarding Career, where I advise today's young professionals and college students on how to chart a course toward a flourishing career path. In March 2019, a chance meeting with Brian Driscoll while I was on vacation in Scottsdale was the opportunity for me to bring another food and beverage venture to life.
Brian and I co-founded DRISCOLL Cuisine & Cocktail Concepts with the aim of taking in-home dining in Phoenix to a new level of indulgence and sophistication. We offer clients a unique combination of fresh, innovative food and drinks with an interactive, approachable experience that gives clients memories that last a lifetime. In short, we like to say, "Your home is your new favorite restaurant."
Along the way on my 25-year career journey, I've received many awards and accolades – 2008 Make Mine a Million $ Business, Portland Business Journal 2009 "40 Under 40" award, Diversity MBA 2010 "Top 100 Under 50″ – and I'm blessed to have made a living doing what I love. However, that's not how I define success or lay the groundwork for my legacy. Rather, I've made it my mission to arm current and aspiring entrepreneurs and professionals with the tools and firepower to tackle the unique situations that will test their resolve, strength, and spirit as they start and manage their businesses and careers. They may have a great idea, gut feeling, or vision to deliver a product or service to the market, but people may need a boost up the ladder to invent breakthroughs, rise above competitors, command the respect of peers, and pioneer trends. With that, as someone who's "been there and done that" and has battled my way to success, I am eager to share candid how-to advice combined with experience on the ground and in the trenches that can help others avoid the pitfalls, obstacles, and challenges they'll face. I've lived through the life of an entrepreneur and corporate marketing executive and now offer real-world experiences as lessons learned so others don't have to take the hard road.
Would you say it's been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you've faced along the way?
Author Malcolm Gladwell said, "A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle." We've all had one of those "the-last-straw-is-breaking-the-camel's-back" moments. Mine came in early November 2006, when my entire life seemed to be falling apart. My restaurant venture, Dessert Noir Cafe & Bar, was creating extreme financial problems for me, including a multi-thousand-dollar lawsuit that jeopardized my credit rating and threatened my ability to secure additional financing. Add to that, my executive chef/general manager's personal and family issues were affecting his ability to focus on running the restaurant. My husband, who had been extremely patient and supported me through both good times and bad, was at his wit's end and was ordering me to shut my business down. At the same time, the demands of my day job were mounting as the company announced a major restructuring initiative that resulted in workforce reductions. I was laying off employees on my team, managing performance issues with those who remained, and taking on more responsibilities after our group fell into line with the rest of the company to do our jobs with fewer resources. Clearly a low point in my life, for sure.
Fast forward to 2020, and I don't even have to tell you that a global pandemic forced a reckoning for DRISCOLL Cuisine & Cocktail Concepts. Our business launched in late 2019 with lots of interest from potential clients and a steady stream of inquiries that led to reservations on our books. By March 2020, that all came to a screeching halt due to stay-at-home orders and forced business closures. We had to shut down for almost four months without any path to recovering that revenue because once a client's birthday passes or a holiday comes and goes, there's no going back and making that up for most people.
In both cases, I overcame the struggles by going back to the original plan, revisiting the "why" of being in business in the first place and staying true to those intentions. I also sought the advice and counsel of my closest advisors, who could help me remain rational and strategic rather than emotional and panicky because no one makes good decisions when they're not thinking clearly. Finally, like with most things in life, you make adjustments and create space for the most important things, and it's amazing what you can do when you have the right priorities and proper focus on your goals.
Alright, so let's switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
The idea for DRISCOLL Cuisine & Cocktail Concepts was 20 years in the making. Co-Founder & President Brian Driscoll prepared a special evening for a wife who wanted to surprise her military husband coming home from an overseas deployment. After witnessing their reunion, Brian knew he wanted to create more moments just like that one. He knew the minute the husband walked through the door and he locked eyes with his wife that he could build a business one day to serve clients looking for a unique, personalized experience at home.
DRISCOLL Cuisine & Cocktail Concepts is a standout personal chef company in the Phoenix metro area, creating an atmosphere and experience for small, intimate celebrations and special occasions in your home that rival your favorite restaurant. In short, we offer a variety of service options, including multi-course tasting menus with wine pairings, small plates and appetizers with cocktails, family-style dinner, and brunch. We also offer cooking demonstrations and work with clients on corporate parties and special events.
A strong network of experienced, award-winning chefs, servers, and bartenders differentiates DRISCOLL Cuisine & Cocktail Concepts. These culinary rock stars are artists who offer their "palette for the palate" of classy, contemporary, cool, and creative food and beverages that they exclusively tailor for each client. We deliver above-and-beyond service that creates memorable and engaging experiences and lays the foundation for long-term relationships with our clients. We're proud of our 100-percent five-star ratings on Google and Yelp. That's the testimony for our passion about this business and the experience we want our clients to enjoy when they work with DRISCOLL Cuisine & Cocktail Concepts.
Can you talk about how you think about risk?
I believe in the old adage, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." In both my corporate and entrepreneurial careers, I've taken significant risks. In some cases, the risk paid off, and in others, the result was a failure from which I learned and grew from the experience. In my early days as a corporate marketer, I was determined to build my career in a business unit that was responsible for major products that drove the company's growth. At one point, I got the opportunity to get off that track and pursue my first managerial role on a marketing and communications team in human resources, a support function that wasn't even on my radar at the time. Upon consulting with the company's CEO and other mentors, I decided to take that risk for the benefit of learning a new area of the company and using my marketing and communications skills in a different context and to "build new muscle." The result was a tenure that lasted more than five years, and I received two promotions.
From an entrepreneurial perspective, my restaurant venture, Dessert Noir Café & Bar, was risky by definition as restaurants are notorious for their high failure rates. Even though the odds were against me, I decided to take the risk, which ultimately didn't work out in the end because the headwinds from a financial crisis and its resulting economic downturn proved to be too much to survive. I learned so much from that experience that sticks with me to this very day, and there's so much about how I have managed my latest venture, DRISCOLL Cuisine & Cocktail Concepts, that wouldn't have been possible without my experience with the restaurant.
Email: driscoll@driscollcuisine.com
Website: https://www.driscollcuisine.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DriscollCuisinecocktail/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/driscollcuisine
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DriscollCuisine
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPAghEFvaUtcjKeeRfsuQBw
Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/driscoll-cuisine-and-cocktail-concepts-glendale
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Q: How to share content from my iOS app onto BBM? I am trying to allow users of my app to share contents from my apps on their social timelines and within their chat messenger apps.
Recently I came up with the fact that BBM is actually one of the most common messenger apps in my target countries. Therefore that integration is majorly important in my case.
I found some posts around about the URL scheme of BBM on iOS, however nothing really useful as there is not a sound documentation for it at all. I even wonder whether there is a solution through their API using and SDK or alike.
I am much thankful for any help on this topic!

A: You can invoke BBM with a draft message for the user to send and this is supported on BBM for iOS, BlackBerry 10 and Android.  I recently wrote a blog post about this on the BlackBerry Developer Blog.  You can find all the details here:
Cross Platform Sharing with BBM

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Dover Food Pantry ~ In 1992 First Parish Church purchased the former drug store on the corner of Central and Silver Streets. Since that time, that building has provided space for many outreach services to our community and its citizens, including the Food Pantry, Thrift Shop, AA and Al-Anon. The Dover Food Pantry came into existence in 1979 as an outgrowth of the Food Pantry and is supported by local churches through Dover Cooperative Ministries.
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criticism ▶ Dispatches
Sculpture and Painting on the Line: Analia Saban at Sprüth Magers
by Paul Carey-Kent
Dispatch from London
Analia Saban: Interiors at Sprüth Magers
February 27 to March 28, 2015
7A Grafton Street
London, +44 20 7408 1613
Analia Saban, Draped Marble (Fior di Pesco Apuano), 2015. Marble slab on steel on wooden sawhorse, 99.1 x 177.8 x 91.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Spru?th Magers.
The tradition of paint on canvas can act as a provocation to contemporary artists, who may do without either the liquid (e.g. Binky Palermo's cloth) or the ground (e.g. Lynda Benglis's pours). The Los Angeles-based Argentinean Analia Saban doesn't just challenge the conventional role of paint and canvas, she also undermines the "on" with her hybrid painting-sculptures. Her first London show, at Josh Lilley in 2010, featured Acrylic in Canvas with Ruptures (2010): paint was stored in bags of canvas, with some of it bleeding through laser-cut holes while most of it dried into sculptural substance. Saban explained then that she wasn't looking to oppose painting but to enable the viewer to appreciate the elements in a different way by demonstrating how much information and structure they hold. "It's a dialogue," she said, "not a fight." Saban adopts fresh strategies for each project, but her questing yet playful way of thinking remains a connecting thread.
Saban's latest solo sees her upsize — indeed, she shows across all three floors of the gallery's quasi-domestic space — but without reducing the commendably perverse metaphysical wit with which she pushes her materials further than they can be expected to go. The townhouse location plays into the theme of "Interiors," such that Saban gleefully ignores distinctions between not just painting, sculpture, and photography, but also furniture and design. This fertile show contains, by my count, nine different strategies for making a painting of sorts, none of them what a traditionalist would expect.
"Analia Saban: Interiors," installation view, Spru?th Magers London, 2015. Photograph by Stephen White.
Claim (from Chesterfield sofa), from 2014, looks at first sight like a settee with a painting resting on top of it. A closer inspection reveals that the painting is joined to the chair, and that the chair is actually part of the painting: Saban had a custom-made couch covered in canvas, leaving enough fabric for the excess to be pulled clear over stretcher bars. This teases any collectors who might want a painting to match their furniture, as well as challenging any po-faced definition of the difference between art and design — and their relative values. And what's the painting on? A chair?
Draped marble (Fior di Pesco Apuano) (2015) sees a substantial block of stone draped over a wooden sawhorse as if it were a towel or, in Saban's skewed world, perhaps an abstract painting hung out to dry. (What's it on? The line.) Here the refusal to accept conventions takes on the natural assumption that marble is inflexible, and slyly suggests through the historical resonance of its central material that the art of the past can also be interpreted more flexibly than we might assume.
Analia Saban, Bulge (Vertical) #1, 2015. Encaustic paint on walnut stretcher bars, 34.3 x 26.7 x 15.9 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Spru?th Magers.
The two Bulge paintings here, both from 2015, are a spin on — perhaps even a deconstruction of — Saban's earlier acrylic-in-canvas works. The wall seems pregnant with a protruding bag of paint; but there is no canvas or other container. The skin results from using encaustic, which dries to a solid and glossy finish. That evocation of the body, by the way, can also be traced through Saban's work. There is a palpable physicality to her processes, distancing her from drier conceptualist approaches.
Saban has also won an award as a photographer. That may seem a strange way to introduce a series in which she paints on canvas — but, of course, her 2014 Markings series doesn't do that in a straightforward manner. Saban took photographs of variously colored paint cans stored on shelves, had them developed as large C-types and then poured boiling water on the surface so she could scrape away parts of the images. She then used those scraps of color to make an abstract collage attached to the photograph. These diptychs, then, make a photograph of paint, and then paint with the photograph. Paint, once more, is Saban's subject and object, but not in any orthodox sense her medium.
Saban, then, is a humorous conceptual artist who plays around with the structures of representation. If that sounds like a description you could apply to John Baldessari, fair cop: Saban happily identifies herself as a former student and still assists him, though as she explains, "There were no rules there — he is not at all dogmatic, and was always pushing me to do whatever I wanted."
"Interiors" is most enjoyable, but is there also a serious point beyond the ingenious fun? I'm inclined to read Saban as opposing categorization: the sheer number of ways she finds to confuse the distinctions between mediums accumulates into an argument that the very idea of such classifications is unstable and inappropriate. And if that's true in art, might it not read across into life? We should be far more reluctant than we are to pigeonhole people according to superficial characteristics. I emerged from Saban's show thinking: we must be pluralist, multi-cultural and non-judgmental. Art may not change the world, but it's nice to think that, if it could, it would be for the good.
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: The Histories of Rupert Goldsworthy
The Fall: Bas Jan Ader at Simon Lee, London
Richard Diebenkorn at the Royal Academy: Six Painters on a Painters' Painter
Absolutely Curtains: Karla Black's Diaphanous Walls at Modern Art
Dallas in Wonderland: Chuck and George at CentralTrak
More articles by Paul Carey-Kent
The Fall: Bas Jan Ader at Simon Lee, London "Surprising Conjunctions": Paul Carey-Kent and Bella Easton Discuss the Collateral Drawings Series Looking Back: A Retrospective of German Figure Painting Richard Diebenkorn at the Royal Academy: Six Painters on a Painters' Painter
The Fall: Bas Jan Ader at Simon Lee, LondonRichard Diebenkorn at the Royal Academy: Six Painters on a Painters' PainterDallas in Wonderland: Chuck and George at CentralTrakAbsolutely Curtains: Karla Black's Diaphanous Walls at Modern ArtEvery Love Story is a Ghost Story: The Histories of Rupert GoldsworthyReverberations: Revisiting David Ireland's "Skellig" WorkGo Vegan!: Jonathan Horowitz at the Brant FoundationMaking Glorious Something Slight: Paul Lee at Maccarone, Los AngelesThe Common Methods of Commonwealths: An Exhibition by Alice KönitzLittle Boxes: Samara Golden at Yerba Buena
Flows of Light and Form: The Life and Work of Emmanuel Cooper Letter from Leeds Vitality Amidst the Ruins: Lower Manhattan's gritty golden age The New Jerusalem: Israel Museum reopens
Other articles in "Dispatches"
"Here one can be both modest and ambitious": Report from the Québec City Biennial Made in L.A. 2018: A Provocative, "Woke" Biennial for Los Angeles Strange Intimacies: A Survey of Paula Rego in Cascais, Portugal Is Buffalo the Next Berlin?


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Q: Extremum of $\frac{ax+by+c}{\sqrt{(1+x^2+y^2)}}$
Find the extremum of
  $$\frac{ax+by+c}{\sqrt{1+x^2+y^2}}$$
  where $a^2+b^2+c^2>0$.

I managed to find critical point - ($\frac{a}{c}$,$\frac{b}{c}$) if $c \neq0$, and no points otherwise. Value of function at this point looks great: $\sqrt{a^2+b^2+c^2}$ if $c>0$, and $-\sqrt{a^2+b^2+c^2}$ otherwise. I suppose it's maximum and minimum, but checking it by calculating determinants looks like suicide. Is there easier way?

A: You can get it by the well know Cauchy inequality, see here for a proof.
Since by Cauchy's inequality we have
$$
(a^2+b^2+c^2)(x^2+y^2+1)\geqslant (ax+by+c)^2.
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Blackest Night (Event)
Blackest Night: Superman
Blackest Night: Superman #3 Review
Another Blackest Night tie-in project falls short in the end.
By Dan Phillips
Updated: 9 May 2012 7:04 pm
Posted: 22 Oct 2009 2:11 am
I'm almost as tired of writing about these mostly inconsequential duels between DC heroes and Black Lanterns as I am reading about them. In his review of the finale to Blackest Night: Batman, Jesse pretty much hit the nail on the head when it came to describing these tie-ins' fundamental flaws. Each of these projects offers little more than the cheap thrill of seeing popular DC heroes battle undead versions of their loved ones with little resolution or consequence. At first, that cheap thrill, coupled with the mystery behind the Black Lanterns, was enough to make these tie-ins enjoyable. Now, after three issues and some major developments in the main Blackest Night series, that thrill is gone.
What Blackest Night: Batman #3 lacked in resolution it made up for in terms of the emotional resonance of its conflicts, particularly in Tim Drake's reaction to his Black Lantern father. Blackest Night: Superman #3 can't boast the same. Other than Supergirl's run-in with her own undead dad, there's little emotional weight to these prolonged slugfests, and even Kara's dilemma is all too conveniently brushed aside by a poorly explained dues ex machina. That the involvement of Pyscho Pirate, a character who elicits unwilling emotional responses from his victims, fails to give this story enough emotional weight should tell you a lot about the project's shortcomings.
The way the writers of these tie-ins have tried to slip in some minor reveal about the weaknesses of the Black Lanterns at the last minute almost seems like a consolation prize and an admission that there was never enough substance to these stories to begin with. As was the case with Blackest Night: Batman #3, this issue again tells us a different way in which the Black Lanterns can be defeated. It's not enough. Another fundamental flaw of these tie-in projects is that it became clear very early on that these stories would have little impact on the main story. More problematic is that we know these Black Lanterns are little more than flesh and bone turned into weapons, and worse, the characters know that as well.
I have no doubt these projects seemed like strong ideas when they were first conceived. With so much great stuff going on in Blackest Night, Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps, surely it seemed like there was enough room to explore certain A-listers as they reacted to their undead loved ones. But again, it wasn't enough. I don't care how well Robinson writes these characters or how far Eddy Barrows has come in his portrayals of dynamic, over-the-top action scenes. What we were given with Blackest Night: Superman wasn't enough to fill or even justify three issues. To paraphrase Jesse's review yet again, let's hope the next batch of tie-ins does a better job living up to the quality of the event's three flagship books.
Throughout the decades, death has plagued the DC Universe and taken the lives of heroes and villains alike. But to what end? As the War of Light rages on, the prophecy of the Blackest Night descends upon us, with Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps at the center of it all.
Have you read Blackest Night (Event)?
More Reviews by Dan Phillips
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #2 Review
Justice League: Generation Lost #15 Review
The Flash #7 Review
It's Not a Console War, It's a Content War
Should Xbox Make Activision Games Exclusive? IGN Readers Are Almost Perfectly Split
DC Comics Will Kill the Justice League in April 2022
9h ago - The mightiest heroes in the DC Universe are being taken off the board.
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Q: NumberFormatException resulting from java conversion The goal is to convert a String to int in java.
My declarations:
String [] dataIn = new String[100];
int [] binVals = new int[100];
int i;
String toBinary;

I first convert a hex string to a binary string.
static String hexToBin(String s) {
        return new BigInteger(s,16).toString(2);
    }
.....
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toBinary = hexToBin(dataIn[i]);

try{
    int temp = Integer.parseInt(toBinary);
    binVals[i] = temp;
    System.out.println(temp);
} catch (NumberFormatException ex){
    System.out.println("Not gonna work");
}

toBinary is a String value of 32 bits i.e. 00011100...01
I printed the result to the console to make sure it is valid for an integer conversion. Yet, using  Integer.parseInt(toBinary);  still throws the exception. What am I missing here?
Updated
According to what you guys said, I now no longer receive an exception, but when I convert the binary String into an integer, it seems to become a decimal integer.
if (i % 2 == 0)
{
toBinary = hexToBin(dataIn[i]);
System.out.println("Binary in String: " + toBinary);
try{
    int temp = Integer.parseInt(toBinary, 2);
    binVals[i] = temp;
    System.out.println("binVals[i] in int" + binVals[i]);
} catch (NumberFormatException ex){
    System.out.println("Not gonna work");
}
    //System.out.println(temp);
} else {
    System.out.println("This should be a timestamp: " + dataIn[i]);
}

Output:
Binary in String: 1001010101010101010101010100000
binVals[i] in int1252698784
This should be a timestamp: 2068a40

A: The problem is that Integer.parseInt without a radix will interpret the string as a decimal number, not binary.  Most such "binary" strings will represent numbers that are over the maximum integer possible, a little over 2 billion, e.g. 111,000,101,010,001.
Pass in a radix of 2 (binary) to Integer.parseInt:
int temp = Integer.parseInt(toBinary, 2);

However, if the first "bit" is set, then the represented number will be over Integer.MAX_VALUE, and then only Long.parseLong will work.

A: Try Integer.parseInt(toBinary, 2);. the 2 specifies that the string is in binary (base 2)
Edit: for your new issue, the problem is that Java will by default print integers as decimal, so you need to turn your (decimal) integer back into a binary string. You can use Integer.toBinaryString(int i) for this.

A: For parsing and formatting integers you should consider using BigInteger.
Converting to String in any radix use BigInteger.toString(int radix).
For parsing use new BigInteger(String s, int radix).


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The C language has three ancestors: CPL, BCPL and B.
The C language was developed by Dennis Ritchie, who first thought of doing only a New B or NB. But in addition to the characters, Ritchie added the tables, the pointers, the floating-point numbers, the structures... 1972 was the most productive year of development and probably the year of baptism of C. In 1973, language C was sufficiently developed that 90% of UNIX could be rewritten with. In 1974, Bell Labs licensed UNIX licenses to universities, and the C language began to be distributed.
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There are several ways of designing and implementing programs. There are usually two ways. Either by using a compiler, which will transpose the source code into binary executable, directly comprehensible by the machine. Either by interpreting the code, the source code is read by an interpreter, which transposes the source code into instructions that can be understood by the computer.


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I wish my kids would eat healthier. How can I help them do that? What should I focus on?
Children are malleable beings. Sometimes that means we have a handful on our hands, but sometimes that works in our favour. In the case of trying to help your kids adopt healthy lifestyle habits, this malleability can work in our favour.
Many of my patients will give up on getting their kids to eat vegetables after they refuse veggies once or twice. In my experience, if kids are given a variety of options and different preparation styles, then they will then start to accept the vegetables. They may not love the vegetables, but they start to accept the fact that they must eat them.
I recommend keeping different vegetables in various dishes. However, if you feel like you've tried everything you can — and repetitively — but find that your children still refuse vegetables in a natural format, you may want to puree them into your sauces (like spaghetti sauce) so that they can get the nutrients of the vegetables without having to taste the texture.
Next, you need to encourage movement and exercise as a daily habit, as well as making sleep a priority for your kids. As a family, encouraging outdoor or indoor activities that keep their bodies moving is a good thing. If they grow up feeling that being active is a natural thing, they are more likely to stay active as adults. Going for hikes and bike rides on the weekends and going indoor skating or working out with your kids are good ways for them to see how much fun exercise can be.
The saying "seeing is believing" is true for most healthy habits. If you want your kids to make sleep a priority, you need to do so as well. Many of my patients will set a "lights out" time in the house for every one so that their children can see how important sleep is. Many issues such as ADHD, mood fluctuations and stress can be tempered by a good rest. Sleep helps the body's ability to manage stress hormones, as well as to balance and repair neurotransmitters.
Finally, avoiding processed foods and drinks is just as important as eating vegetables because what we eat defines how healthy you are. Even if you are eating a lot of vegetables, your body is still likely to be inflamed if you are eating refined and processed foods. Processed foods can put your kids at risk for any genetic predisposition they may have towards various diseases, so make sure you stock your house with healthy real food options instead of foods that come in packages, wrappers or tin cans.
You have to be a good role model because kids will look to you for what is normal behaviour. Keep that in mind the next time you are at the grocery store and deliberating on what to buy.
When it comes down to it, you'll never go wrong if you are doing the right things. Your body will benefit and your children's health will too.
RECIPE: You might try this apple and carrot soup that kids seem to love!


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Home Living Holiday Happiness: It's in the Giving
Holiday Happiness: It's in the Giving
by Amy McCluskey
Making cookies or other baked goods for local charities is another way to include children.
The holiday season brings many opportunities for families to come together. Volunteering together is a great way to connect with the community and each other.
For the Pelletiers, Mike and Katie and their sons Jude, 10, and Luke, 13, volunteering together is a way of life.
Katie volunteered as a child through Girl Scouts and her church, so it was natural for her to continue those acts of service into adulthood and to share the experience with her children.
"I think it's important to instill that in our kids and for us to have that connection with the community," said Pelletier.
The Pelletiers moved to Williamsburg two years ago and found volunteer opportunities through St. Bede Catholic Church. One of the family's favorite holiday activities is to go caroling at local assisted living facilities.
"It was really nice to mix the generations and spread holiday cheer to the elderly who may not have family members in the area," she said. "I think it was great for our kids to see and to be a part of."
Julie Bauer and her family are active all year long with volunteer opportunities through Williamsburg Community Chapel but also reach out personally to assisted living facilities to find ways to help.
"We went as a family and played Bingo at one of the homes," said Bauer. "Our family was really excited about that. I think a lot of people there don't have many visitors, so they really appreciate us coming out."
The Bauer family also participates in the Lend a Paw program offered during the holidays at Berkeley Middle School where they can select a number off the Lend a Paw bulletin board, which corresponds to a child in need, and then purchase items the student has listed.
"Lend a Paw is special to our kids because they know it's someone at school that they are helping," said Bauer. "Even though it's anonymous, we can leave a personalized note and our kids will do extra chores so they can use money they earned to help purchase the gifts."
Volunteering is important in any community, but it also can benefit a family by increasing connectedness and communication and teaching empathy and team work.
"I feel like volunteering is not only special because you are impacting the community, but it's important for me that my kids grow up not feeling entitled and that we should all share and help one another because we are a part of a greater world," said Bauer.
The Heritage Humane Society shelter typically sees a huge increase in adoptions during the months of November and December. While that is a good thing, sometimes it's hard for the staff and volunteers to keep up with certain "extras," such as handmade blankets for all adopters.
Through their Precious Pieces program, volunteers can donate handmade blankets, which don't have to fancy knitted creations, but could be hand tied, said shelter Director Kimberly Laska.
Laska suggested another way for families to help those in need during the holidays is to ask friends and family to bring in items on a non-profit's wish list.
"It's a great way for children to feel like they are a part of something bigger," said Laska.
Another way to include kids is to make cookies or other baked goods for local charities. Hospice House accepts donations of freshly baked goods throughout the holidays and Grove Christian Outreach Center has events where cookies would be appreciated. Several organizations, including the local fire departments, Grove Christian Outreach and Avalon, also accept party leftovers such as pastries and sandwiches.
Last year Amy McCluskey's son Elia asked for donations to the Heritage Humane Society in lieu of presents for his 12th birthday. He raised $680. Despite being the parent, Amy finds that she learns how to be a better person just by watching her son. Editor's note: Brandy Centolanza also contributed to this story.
Heritage Humane Society • heritagehumane.org • 757-221-0150
Avalon Center • avaloncenter.org • 757-258-5022
United Way • uwvp.org • 757-873-9328
Community of Faith Mission • cofm.info • 757-634-6787
Greater Williamsburg • volunteerwilliamsburg.org
Salvation Army Williamsburg • virginiasalvationarmy.org/williamsburgvacorps
Grove Christian Outreach Center • groveoutreach.com/index.html
Hospice House • williamsburghospice.org
Providence Classical School – Feed the Need • pcsvirginia.org/pcs
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