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Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation, and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults – and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age.
Yes, a happy adult that can problem solve is the outcome for a childhood filled with undirected free play.
According to the work of Robert Ditter, Ph.D., in a week a child will, on average, have less than 15 minutes of truly undirected unstructured free play. Please note that free time to play a computer game or board game is not undirected free-play. In today's world of standardized testing, TV, organized sports, electronic toys, helicopter moms and teachers, children have very little time for just being kids and engaging in real self-directed free play, to enjoy rough and tumble play.
Along with the work of Stuart Brown, MD, and Robert Ditter PhD, Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MS, Ed, Michael Thompson PhD, Anthony D. Pellegrini PhD, Peter K. Smith, PhD, Bessel Van Der Kolk M.D, Viktor Frankl, Daniel Coyle, Robert Ditter PhD, Stuart Brown, MD, Shawn Achor Ms, my own work, and of many others all show that free play is necessary for proper brain and physical development, social development, character development, interpersonal skills, complex problem solving, grit, can do mindset, success, and happiness later in life.
Happiness is a product of play, and free play and happiness is a habit and truly successful people are happy people that, on the most part grew up doing things that made them happy, they had time to play. Over the past 39 years of teaching and the past 18 years, we have emphasized the daily core routines of happy successful people in our own programs which in a large part is play.
AT NOLI, we walk the play talk; each Monday our students have at least 4 hours of continuous unstructured unguided free play and every other day of the week the days are broken up with at least 2 hours of unstructured and unguided free play. They have the autonomy to decide how to spend that time, rough and "stumble" play, free exploration of the forest and creeks, playing some game they make up; and the outcome? Parents tell us, "I don't know what you did but my son is walking taller," " she is smiling again," "I have gotten my child back", " my kids are physically and mentally more agile," "The kids have their sparkle in their eyes again." Yes, they walk taller, from a distance, they are easy to pick out of a crowd because they simply walk with authentic confidence.
A walk in nature without a destination or intent? Rough and "stumble" play? Making up silly songs? Making up their own games; making their own rules? Shooting trap? Throwing a hatchet? Time, resources, and the autonomy to explore their own interest? Are we serious? Yes, we are! Adult intervention does not add value to free play and free play is much more valuable than worksheets and homework in the development of a successful adult. Yes our participants play hard but our experience is they also work hard on their academics and they are ready to learn, their time in learning skills is much more efficient. Learning is making connections in the brain and wrapping those connections with myelin. Let me say that again; learning is making connections in the brain and wrapping those connections with myelin. What a great learning environment does is eliminates everything that puts up roadblocks to making those connections and wrapping them with myelin. Play is an integral and necessary component to effectively make those wrapped connections and giving the brain active downtime after the brain reaches a point that myelin wrapping can no longer occur. After those few minutes of downtime, learning can resume quickly.
Furthermore, studies have shown that intervention during the play by adults can only take value away from the benefits of free play and does not enhance play. Let me say that a different way. Let kids play without giving them direction or rules, just let them play. We let them make their own rules and solve their own arguments.
If you are stakeholders in a kid(s) and you truly want the best education for them to become happy successful adults watch Dr. Stuart Brown TED talk and take a good look at what we do.
Undirected free play does not mean unsupervised time. The staff positions themselves at seemingly arbitrary boundaries up and down stream and around the edges of the meadow and in the forest. They're close but not so close that the students feel their presence.
It is obvious when a kid is new to free play. At first they are awkward at running on uneven ground, go up to staff and ask if they can play some game and then awkwardly wait to have the staff person facilitate the activity, only to have the staff person tell them that they do not need any help to start a game.
That they can go into the forest but not so deep that they cannot see the meadow.
They are not to go past the staff members that is sitting up and down stream.
The campers are reminded that they are to repeat our return call when they hear it so that it is passed on, and that it means that they need to head back to where the creek crosses the trail.
They are reminded how to go potty in the forest.
On the first day of a session the kids drop their rucksacks and run off like puppies that have been in a kennel too long. In time the returning participants explore, climb trees, build forts, make paint from the rocks in the creeks, take off their shoes and wade in the water looking for crayfish, skip stones, make up games, balance rocks, imagine, tumble, and develop games. The kids play the way our ancestors did from the beginning of man. Yet the kids that have never experenced big blocks of free play have to learn how to play. They learn from trial and error.
Play is essential to development because it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children and youth. Playing a directed game with learning objectives is not enough. Children need undirected self-initiated free play.
Tag games teach high level social problem solving and interaction skills, I will address this in a later post.
At the end of the day in a group of 9 or less under the trees you will see the mentors ask the students what they did that day. They will not ask, "What did you learn today?" but rather "Who has something cool to share" They are given all the time they need to tell their story without interruption, interpretation, or judgment. With no other agenda but to hear the students' story, they all get heard.
If a child tells a story about seeing a lizard, at the end of the story a mentor or a student might ask, "What color was it? Was it smooth or rough? What did the feet look like? How many toes did it have? Did it have ears? Was the tail bigger or smaller than the rest of the lizard? Were there any ticks on it; And so on. These questions help the student tap into their awareness. If they do not know any of the answers there is no judgment, however, there is more curiosity and the child will be very excited to tell what they saw the next time they see a lizard.
The staff will not point out a lizard and announce that it is a Western Fence Lizard, but will ask key questions. The next time the child sees the reptile there will be a different level of curiosity, when they see a field guide or Google at hand they will seek out answers to their guestions. Now they will be on the lookout for the particular lizard they saw. Other times the staff will just enjoy hearing about their adventures. At camp fire these kids will also be excited to draw the stories from the staff. This is the way that our ancestors learned 100 to 100,000 years ago. This is just one example of a journey a child may take in their wander.
Check back here periodically for other stories of free play, wanders, and sit-spots.
"Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. Joseph Chilton Pearce "


As I mentioned in this post, a prevalent trend this fall is edgy western. If you're not comfortable strutting around in cowboy boots or flaunting rhinestone belt buckles, I've put together a more sophisticated look that hints at the wild west with a rock-and-roll flare.
My shirt and leather jacket are from Alice & Olivia! This is one of my absolute favorite brands because they innovate basic wardrobe essentials into trendy, statement pieces.
Leather jackets are a closet staple. I layer mine over tops, dresses, or sweaters and my outfit instantly becomes more sleek or edgy. It's my go-to jacket during the fall.
My jeans are from 7 For All Man Kind—they're super flattering and comfortable and the metallic finish is a bonus.
Now the real statement… the shoes!! These Jimmy Choo booties are stunning. The silver-gold glitter texture gives you the go-ahead to wear them with anything.
Everything I am wearing in this shoot is from Neiman Marcus! From the hottest trends, to classic garments, Neiman's has it and more.


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The RHONJ Are Heading To Jamaica For A $20,000 Dollar Cast Trip!
The Real Housewives of New Jersey are heading to the Caribbean for the first trip of season 10. The cast: Teresa Giudice, Melissa Gorga, Dolores Catania, Jennifer Aydin, Margaret Josephs and Jackie Goldschneider are all attending. They recently flew to Jamaica to celebrate Jennifer's 40th birthday, according to Page Six. However; friend of the wives, Danielle Staub, is not attending the RHONJ trip. The exact cost of the trip is unknown, but it's being reported that it is well over $20,000 dollars.
Melissa recently celebrated her 40th birthday with a glamorous party in New York City. She often takes trips to Jamaica and she recently stayed at the Iberostar Rose Hall Suites with 45 of her family members for her mother's 70th birthday. The trip was estimated to cost over $20,000.
I'm looking forward to seeing this on the show! I can't wait for next season!!!
Thoughts on the cast trip to Jamaica? Thoughts on Danielle not attending this trip? What do you want to see next season on the RHONJ? Where else do you want the ladies to vacation? Share below!
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For my project today, I have a fun Advent calendar that I made with a cut file from the Silhouette Online Store. I just love how it turned out, and it will definitely be a decoration in my house for years to come. However, I just have to warn you, if you decide to make one, that it takes a LOT of cardstock!
I designed an internal offset layer for each of the drawers so that I could have a patterned paper layer, using Echo Park's Season's Greetings. Each drawer has numbers that I cut from the number dies that are included in MCT's Stitched 4x6 Journal Die. I also used some pretty brads made by Recollections. For this section, I have a snowman made with the All Around Holiday Dies, a little postmark made from Postcard Add-Ons and stamped on a circle from Build a Banner Kit, a shopping bag from Classy Girl Accessories, and a postage stamp from Postcard Add-Ons.
Here I used a little star button from Stitched Button Dies and mittens from Classy Girl Accessories. I wanted to add an ornament from Warm Holiday Fun, but they were too big. Instead I took the ornament hanger from that set, but made my ornament with the stitched circle from Build a Banner Kit. The little "Joy" tag was made with Chunky Jar Accessories.
The tree is from All Around Holidays, "Noel" is from Postcard Add-Ons, the bell is from Warm Holiday Fun, and I paper pieced the coffee mug from You Are Perk-fect!
Here I have a flower from Stitched Button Dies, a heart from Stitched Layering Hearts, a cocktail pick from Stitched Cocktail Party, and a key from Chunky Jar Accessories.
The present is from All Around Holiday, and the Santa hat is from Classy Girl Accessories. I made another key from Chunky Jar Accessories, and Santa's boot was made with the Stitched Boot Dies.
Here's another little button (a heart) from Stitched Button Dies, a bell from All Around Holiday, the dog from Classy Girl & Furbaby, and a butterfly from Chunky Jar Accessories.
The topper is part of the tree cut, but I added the numbers.
Here's a peek inside. The fun thing about this Advent calendar is that the boxes get progressively larger, so Eric is in for bigger treats as the days go by!
Oh Katie you tree is amazing and so beautiful. WOWZERS~~~ You really outdid yourself here!! I really and truly love it. I am in awe of what you did with all of Miss Emma's goodies. WOWIE WOW!!!
oh my goodness! What an awesome idea!!
Outstanding job on this tree event calender! I'm in aw over all the little details you put on each drawer,some of those pieces are so tiny. Truly an inspiration on show casing Emma's products on this project!
This is so gorgeous...I had to have this file as soon as I saw it on the Silhouette site!!!
Your advent calendar is fabulous! TFS!
Oh my GOODNESS!! I am blown away Katie! What a fantastic Advent calendar!! I love how you used a ton of Emma's dies/stamps for the accents~they were the perfect addition to your already amazing calendar! Great job!!
OhMyGoodness! How long did this take? You're very ambitious! Amazing job!
Wonderful project! You did a great job on it; it must have taken a long time to complete. TFS!
WOWZERS!!!! Love this tree what a great advent calendar. I love it. Thanks for sharing.
This is incredible!!!! WOWZERS I just LOVE this Katie!!!!
Thanks for sharing and for the amazing inspiration!
Miss Katie..... This is AMAZING. I love all of it and the detail you put into this. Beautiful.
THUD! Jaw-dropping amazing! What a fabulous Advent tree...gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous! You and MCT = magic!
WOW This is fantastic!!!!!! I just love your Advent calendar tree!!!!
Wow, Wow and did I mention WOW! This is amazing. It looks like a lot of work but totally worth it. Thanks for sharing. Headed to the Silhouette Store right now!
Holy smokes Katie, you did an awesome job creating your advent calendar. I'm guessing that you won't be mass producing too many more. Looks like a lot of work, but well worth it.
OMG!! What a beautiful Christmas Tree, you did a great job, thanks for sharing.
WOW!! That tree is gorgeous. You have outdone yourself!!
Oh my goodness!!! I LOVE all the detail you put into this!! Amazing creativity! Thank you so much for sharing!!!
I like how you decorated this Advent tree.
Wow! This is great! You went all out and this is gorgeous!
Oh how cute, so detailed, gr8t job!
This is way too cute. What an awesome advent project.
WOW!!! This is OUTSTANDING!!! Look at ALL those details...AMAZING!!
wow this is beautiful and amazing! I love this and think you did incredible.
Your advent tree is wonderful. TFS.
OMG! Your advent tree is really amazing. The work that you put in this really paid off. I love it. Thanks for sharing.
Holy smokes....love your tree!!! This is AMAZING~your details are incredible!
Shut the front door girl! That is awesome! Wow, I can't even imagine how long it took you but I love it!
Very cute!! I love love this tree! I need to make one of these for our house. You did great!!
Katie ~ SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! OMG ~ there really isn't enough words in the dictionary for this ~ there really isn't! I LOVE, LOVE LOVE this and I cant wait for you to send it to me! LOL!! I LVOE al the details even the one you added yourself! BEAUTIFUL, GORGOEOUS and beyond FABULOUS!!!
Wow! This is amazing. Love the shape of the tree. That is a lot of little embellishments.
Your advent calendar is phenomenal!!! ;) How long did that take you?! I love all the dies & paper piecing using Emma's great products!
I bet this did take a lot of paper but so worth it as you will have it a long time. It looks very sturdy and it is beautiful. That Eric is one lucky boy to have you for a crafty Mom :D Super job!
Katie this is so cute. I've seen this file on Silhouette and I've put it in and out my cart so many times. Oh how I love what you did with this cut, MCT stamps and dies. AWESOME JOB!!


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India: 168 Stranded Migrant Workers Return Home from Qatar
The Indian National Building and Wood Workers Federation (INBCWWF), a BWI affiliate facilitated return of 168 migrant construction workers from Doha, Qatar to their home State – Odisha State, India. The workers were denied wages for more than two months and they had to struggle to meet their basic daily needs in Doha. The workers were hired to work in a road project on a monthly salary of 1,000 QAR with free food, accommodation and medical care. They reached Qatar in January 2017 and were housed in labour camp in Shahaniya area. Even after completion of two months of work, they were not paid any salary and their complaints to the management went unanswered.
The plight of migrant workers was brought to the notice of INBCWWF, Odisha State and their case was immediately taken up with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India and Indian Embassy in Qatar. The INBCWWF also outreach to their local contacts in Qatar and they met with the migrant workers and assisted them in filing complaints with the necessary bodies. With interventions at various levels, all 168 workers returned to India in last week of April.
Remembering their ordeal, Prakash, one of the workers revealed "It was a harrowing experience – we went to Qatar with a hope to have better life for us and family and instead we landed up in a situation where the company could not even pay regular salary to us. We are happy to be reunited with our family and we thank everyone who assisted us and now demand strong action against the agent."
The IAC Chair and INBCWWF President, R.C. Khuntia who was actively involved in bringing back the workers stated "We need to intensify our outreach to migrant workers in country of origin and create mass awareness and undertake rights-based trainings to check workers getting duped often by unscrupulous recruiting agents and middlemen".
Khuntia has now approached the Ministry of Labour & Employment and the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India for strict action against the erring recruiting agent. The case of stranded migrant workers was widely reported in the media in Odisha State.
Ambet Yuson, General Secretary, BWI stressed the important role that unions in the country of origin play to ensure rights of migrant workers. "We support and urge the unions in countries of origin to strengthen interventions to uphold the rights of migrant workers and work with key stakeholders including Government and recruiting agents to promote safe migration."

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Stamford Bridge és un poble a la vora del riu Derwent a l'East Riding de Yorkshire, a Anglaterra, a uns 11 km de York. El poble és a banda i banda d'un antic gual al riu Derwent.

Els romans van establir-hi un fort al voltant de l'any 70 dC, al voltant del qual es va desenvolupar un assentament gran centrat en un pont situat a 1,6 km més al sud del poble actual. Es creu que aquest assentament s'anomenava Derventio. El 25 de setembre de 1066 s'hi va lluitar la Batalla de Stamford Bridge, que va suposar el final de l'era dels vikings a la Gran Bretanya. Els normands van anomenar l'assentament Pons Belli, o sigui "pont de la batalla".

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 British History Online: Stamford Bridge
 Derventione
 Campament romà
 Previsió meteorològica per Stamford Bridge
 Foto en 360° de Stamford Bridge i el monument recordatori de la batalla de Stamford Bridge

Ciutats d'Anglaterra
East Riding of Yorkshire


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We are sad to announce that a friend of Georgia Tech Rowing has recently passed away. Douglas Crucet was a great man with a kind heart who spent much time around the GT boathouse these past few years. You may remember him walking his dogs on the path or lending his tools and hands to fix up things around the yard. He was one of the most generous men the team has ever know. He was a mentor to the team and the coaches. He will be missed tremendously. Douglas donated the pairs boathouse and fours boathouse to the team (yes, there are multiple boathouses, sheds and shacks) as well as the six WinTech singles! There are no funeral services, but we know he will be missed and the team is creating a memorial for him.


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Reading The Pacific Northwest
Posted on April 29, 2017 by Abbie Lu
Expanding upon my Oregon reads, I thought I would dedicate to The Great Northwest as a whole. It's vast and natural splendor is astounding and I love literature that captures it's spirit, grit, and enchanting beauty.
I'll of course throw in a few well-known coffee roasters that are sure to impress.
Here are the books that I feel really showcase the quality of the NW:
The Orchardist
by Amanda Coplin
At the turn of the twentieth century, in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a reclusive orchardist, William Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man, he's found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the quiet, beating heart of the land he cultivates. One day, two teenage girls appear and steal his fruit at the market; they later return to the outskirts of his orchard to see the man who gave them no chase.
Rated 4.0 on amazon.com
Coava
on Hawthorne
Our espresso bar is about community.
The gorgeous shop expands on the simplicity of Coava's signature menu with direct-trade Cocanu mochas, house-made Madagascar vanilla, and elegant teas from Portland's Jasmine Pearl Tea. We always offer two origins for espresso based drinks alongside our rotating black coffees. Our pastries are crafted locally by the incredible folks at Little T American Baker. We always have fresh bags of our current coffee offerings. Whether for a gift, a special occasion, or just daily drinking, we can help find the perfect one for you.
The Boys in The Boat
by Daniel James Brown
It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington's eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not only to regain his shattered self-regard but also to find a real place for himself in the world
Rated 4.8 on amazon.com (out of almost 20k reviews!)
Victrola Coffee Roasters
Victrola Coffee Roasters We source premium coffees, roast them to highlight the natural beauty in bean and prepare them with care and intention as we tell the global story of coffee.
From the beginning, Victrola, named for the popular home phonograph of the 1920's, embraced the liveliness, exuberance and fun of the Jazz era. In our popular imagination the roaring 20's represent excess, prohibition, flappers, and speakeasies. The era's fingerprints mark much of what we do, from our passion for live vintage jazz to our cafes unique architectural charm.
The Good Rain:
Across Time and Terrain in The Pacific Northwest
by Timothy Egan
Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.
Ritual Roasters
San Fransisco, CA
Forty years ago, a cup of coffee was nothing more than a caffeine delivery vehicle. It didn't really matter how it tasted, it just had to slap you awake in the morning or prop you up through a long afternoon. But in the last decade or so, things have changed. A lot. A few people scattered across the country discovered how amazing a cup of coffee can be when you source the beans directly from farmers you know. When you roast the beans yourself in such a way that nothing intrinsic to the coffee is removed. When you brew the coffee with down-to-the-second precision.
by David Guterson
On San Piedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in Puget Sound, home to salmon fishermen and strawberry farmers, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial, charged with coldblooded murder. The year is 1954, and the shadow of WWII, with its brutality abroad and internment of Japanese Americans at home, hangs over the courtroom. Ishmael Chambers, who lost an arm in the Pacific war and now runs the island newspaper, is among the journalists covering the trial – a trial that brings him close, once again, to Hatsue Miyomoto, the wife of the accused man and Ishmael's never-forgotten boyhood love.
Espresso Vivace
Our charter is to research, develop, and prepare caffe espresso as a new culinary art. "Espresso Vivace" translates loosely as great enthusiasm and excitement for espresso, the new world coffee.
Vivace is a partnership founded by David Schomer and Geneva Sullivan in 1988. Since 1992 we have been roasting in the Northern Italian style: searching the world for the mildest arabicas and bringing each bean in our blends to the fragrant peak of caramelized sugar content. Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse has described Vivace espresso as the best coffee in the US, if not the world. Check out their Professional Barista Course as well.
The Absolutely True Diary
of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
This award winning book tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written; this story is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.
Sherman Alexie is Also the Author of 2 other great NW novels:
His first book "Reservation Blues" (winner of the American Book Award and The Murray Morgan Prize,) and "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fish Fight in Heaven" and many many others.
Starbucks Reserve
Roastery and Tasting Room
OUR LOVE AFFAIR WITH COFFEE KNOWS NO BOUNDS.
Introducing a one-of-a kind coffee shrine in our hometown that captures the past, present and future of Starbucks.
This is our Roastery, a place we had to create. The Siren called. We listened.
A Building as unique as the coffee.
At twenty-two, Cheryl thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone. Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.
Caffe Vita
We've been roasting coffee in Seattle since 1995.
We are an independent, locally-owned company. From our beginnings at the base of Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood, Caffe Vita now operates nine cafes in the Pacific Northwest, a roasteria cafe in New York City, and a cafe in Los Angeles.
We are pioneers of the Farm Direct movement, meticulously sourcing the best coffee available while developing long-term, mutually fruitful relationships with coffee growers in more than 11 countries.
They also have the Public Brewing School A complimentary class that delves into the world of understanding and brewing better coffee at home. PBS focuses on manual brewing methods but is also an open forum to talk all things coffee!
by Richard Brautigan
Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. He came of age during the Haight-Ashbury period and has been called "the last of the Beats." His early books became required reading for the hip generation, and on its publication Trout Fishing in America became an international bestseller. An indescribable romp, the novel is best summed up in one word: mayonnaise.
The motivation behind our coffee is simple: uncompromising quality. We are a specialty coffee roasting company aiming to bring people a focused and an exceptional coffee experience.
We begin with some of the best green coffee from mainly Central America, South America, and Africa.
We roast our coffee to the ideal degree, while fully developing complex flavors, and bringing out delicate clarity. The coffee is then cupped in the lab and must pass the standard of excellence before reaching our customers.
We believe that starting with quality green coffee enables us to put the care into the roasted coffee we serve—from the source to the final cup. We love what we do and want to share it with you.
Take a seat, let it cool a little, and enjoy the difference in heart coffee.
Tibetan Peach Pie
by Tom Robbins
Internationally bestselling novelist and American icon Tom Robbins delivers the long awaited tale of his wild life and times, both at home and around the globe. His warm, wise, and wonderfully weird novels—including Still Life With Woodpecker, Jitterbug Perfume, and Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates—provide an entryway into the frontier of his singular imagination. Madcap but sincere, pulsating with strong social and philosophical undercurrents, his irreverent classics have introduced countless readers to natural born hitchhiking cowgirls, born-again monkeys, a philosophizing can of beans, exiled royalty, and problematic redheads.
In the early 2000s, in Oakland, California, a slightly disaffected freelance musician and coffee lunatic, weary of the commercial coffee enterprise and stale, overly roasted beans, decided to open a roaster for people who were clamoring for the actual taste of fresh coffee.
Using a minuscule six-pound batch roaster, he made a historic vow: "I will only sell coffee less than 48 hours out of the roaster to my guests, so they may enjoy coffee at peak flavor. I will only use the finest, most delicious, and responsibly sourced beans."
In honor of Kolshitsky's heroics
(see story here), he named his business Blue Bottle Coffee and began another chapter in the history of superlative coffee.
Winterkill
by Craig Lesley
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award: a deeply moving and evocative novel of fathers and sons. Danny Kachiah is a Native American fighting not to become a casualty. His father, Red Shirt, is dead; his wife, Loxie, has left him, and his career as a rodeo cowboy is flagging. But when Loxie dies in a car wreck, leaving him with his son, Jack, whom he hardly knows, Danny uses the magnificent stories of Red Shirt to guide him toward true fatherhood. Together, Danny and Jack begin to make a life from the dreams of yesterday and the ruins of today's northwestern reservations.
Columbia River Coffee Roaster
Coffee That Floats the arts
On the Coast, where we've been roasting fresh beans to order since 1992. We are ever-mindful of presenting a lovely cup of coffee to accompany our varied and ever-changing lives.
Our ongoing work includes a journey to expand our offering of direct-trade, organic, shade-grown, sustainably-harvested coffees, which also benefits the growers and their family of workers.
Our roasting facility makes its home below the Megler Bridge in the historic Uniontown District of Astoria, Oregon
The Curve of Time
The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest
by Wyle Blanchet
The fascinating true adventure of widowed Muriel Wylie Blanchet who packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat at the end of the 1920s, and acting as skipper, navigator, engineer and mother, took her family into the coastal waters of Vancouver Island, summer after summer, charting a world they made their own, encountering storms, fogs, rough seas, cougars and bears with the high spirits, the courage and the respect for native cultures and the natural world of a bona fida pioneer.
I am a proud Pacific Northwesterner and I hope these books give a, if not complete, at least true illustration of it's dazzling allure, strength, & character.
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Beach Books
Posted on April 8, 2017 by Abbie Lu
I am spending the weekend enjoying the gorgeous Oregon Coast while currently reading two sea-worthy books, and it's got me thinking about Beach Books; novels filled with the lore and adventure of the sea. So, as I pondered the ocean's beauty, I have compiled a list of books reminiscent of the vast and wonderful sea.
I have come up with a list of really great books that capture the ocean's beauty, strength, and wonder.
Here is my list of oceanic beauties, shore to decorate many beach bags:
The endearing story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway tells the timeless tale of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph.
by Hans Christian Anderson
After saving a prince from drowning, a mermaid princess embraces a life of extreme self-sacrifice to win his love and gain an immortal soul.
Over a century after its first publication, this tale persists as one of the world's most enduring works of fantasy for children.
by M.L Stedman
Australian Tom Sherbourne returns home after fighting in the western trenches of World War I in Europe. He and his wife, Isabel, move to an isolated lighthouse, where they remain for several years. While there they informally adopt a baby girl who washes up in a lifeboat. When the child is two years old, Tom & Isabel return to the mainland on leave. There they discover that "there are other people in the world", and keeping the child "has devastated one of them."
The Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss
Following a wild and raging storm, the Swiss family Robinson are stranded at sea. But the thundering waves have swept them off to a tropical island, where a new life awaits them. Their ship is laden with supplies and the island is packed with treasures, so they soon adapt and discover new dangers and delights every day.
by Yann Martel
Life of Pi, according to Yann Martel, can be summarized in three statements: "Life is a story… You can choose your story… A story with God is the better story." A recurring theme throughout the novel seems to be believability. Pi at the end of the book asks the two investigators "If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for?" According to Gordon Houser there are two main themes of the book: "that all life is interdependent, and that we live and breathe via belief."
Gift From The Sea
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Casting an unsentimental eye on the trappings of modernity that threaten to overwhelm us: the time-saving gadgets that complicate rather than simplify, the multiple commitments that take us from our families. And by lyrically recording her thoughts during a brief escape from everyday demands, Lindbergh helps readers find a space for contemplation and creativity within their own lives.
The Whale Rider
by Witi Ihimaera
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he is focused on his duties as chief of a Maori tribe in Whangara, on the East Coast of New Zealand; a tribe that claims descent from the legendary 'whale rider'. Every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of chief, but now there is no male heir, only Kahu. She should be the next in line for the title, but her great-grandfather is blinded by tradition and sees no use for a girl. Kahu will not be ignored and leads her tribe to a bold new future.
A classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax after he, his servant Conseil, and Canadian whaler Ned Land wash up on their ship. On the Nautilus, the three embark on a journey which has them going all around the world, under the sea.
by Matthew Kneale
In 1857 when Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contraband confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other side of the globe. The Reverend Geoffrey Wilson believes the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania. His traveling partner, Dr. Thomas Potter, unbeknownst to Wilson, is developing a sinister thesis about the races of men.
A castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. The story is widely perceived to have been influenced by the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called "Más a Tierra"
by Katherine Paterson
Sarah Louise, who lives with her family on a Chesapeake Bay island, grows up feeling less important than her beautiful twin sister. For once in her life, Louise wants to be the special one, but she must begin to find her own identity.
This is a great book (and movie) that I really love, think Hemingway meets Fried Green Tomatoes.
by Nathaniel Philbrick
This novel brings to life the extraordinary ordeal of ordinary men, in the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex. An event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. A wealth of whale lore and a brilliantly detailed portrait of the lost, unique community of Nantucket whalers. In a harrowing page-turner, Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history.
What sea-worthy book/s do you consider a beach bag must?
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The Most Brewtiful Cafes II
There were already so many stunning cafes in Part: I and yet
you will find in Part II that this world has many more incredibly
beautiful and interesting cafes.
Here is part II of The Most Brewtiful Cafes:
Bar Topolski (London)
Topolski gallery-bar-café-venue is a unique London space set in the railway arches near Waterloo Station, in the former studio of artist and illustrator Feliks Topolski RA (1907 – 1989).
Knoll Ridge Cafe (Mt. Ruapehu, New Zealand)
Knoll Ridge Cafe is the highest cafe in New Zealand and has incredible views over the upper slopes. Serving a wide array of meals, including a fresh salad bar, hot dishes from around the world, café style snacks and espresso coffees.
Cafe Central (Vienna, Austria)
The café was opened in 1876, and in the late 19th century it became a key meeting place of the Viennese intellectual scene. Until 1938 the café was called the "Chess school" because of the presence of many chess players. The café occupies the ground floor of the former Bank and Stockmarket Building, today called the Palais Ferstel. Palais Ferstel was renovated in 1975 and again in 1986 after closing post WW2.
Dreamy Camera Cafe (Yangpyeong, South Korea)
This incredibly unique cafe stands out on the hills of Yangpyeong as a red, rectangular building in the exact form of a Rolleiflex.
Balzac's (Toronto, Canada)
Balzac's Coffee Roasters micro-roasts the finest selection of Arabica beans at their roastery and serves some of Canada's best coffee at their Ontario cafés.
Callas Cafe (Budapest, Hungary)
The Art Deco style Callas Café & Restaurant has a prime location on Andrássy Avenue right next to the Budapest Opera House. Budapest is a city of cafés. Its famed historic cafés can still evoke a reflection of the lustre of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's past…
Cafe Majestic (Porto, Portugal)
Belle Epoque-era cafe with ornate interior featuring carved wood, mirrors & chandeliers. This gorgeous cafe is rich with luster and history. Click here for More on The Majestic
"The Majestic Café is a wonderful place, where muses, thinkers and artists can get together to live the best moments life has to offer: simply sharing communication through words and gestures,glances smiles and even a few tears sometimes." ~ Gloria Montenegro (President of the Paris Academy of Coffeeology.)
Well there they are, some of the most beautiful and interesting cafes in the world. I hope you enjoyed viewing them as much as I have.
Please share if you have visited any of these magnificent cafes.
Which ones would you want to visit?
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The Most Brewtiful Cafes I
Posted on March 31, 2017 by Abbie Lu
Part I of my little guide to some beautiful and unique cafes/coffee houses from all around the world:
The Grounds (Alexandria, Australia)
Located in a former industrial precinct from the 1920s, The Grounds of Alexandria is a landmark coffee roastery, café and sustainable organic garden known for its abundance of fresh produce and hands-on experiences.
Caffè Greco (Rome, Italy)
This café has a rich history; it has been around since 1760 and was a known meeting place of artists, poets, and writers of all countries. Byron, Shelley, Goethe, Keats, Thackeray, Thorwaldsen, Mark Twain, Canova, Gounod, Bizet, Berlioz, Gogol, Wagner, King Ludwig of Bavaria and many other world celebrities having been regular patron of the Caffè Greco.
Mirrors Cafe (Gifu, Japan)
Covered in beautifully polished mirrored surfaces this building reflects the landscape surroundings. A row of cherry trees is planted at an embankment at its basin. The best time to visit is during the cherry blossom season.
Cafe New York (Budapest, Hungary)
An ornate cafe/restaurant founded in 1894 with frescoes & chandeliers. A stunning cafe serving coffee, cake & Hungarian cuisine.
Truth Coffee (Cape Town, South Africa)
This cafe was phenomenally designed by Heldane Martin. It features a steam-punk theme; adorned with vintage typewriters, Singer sewing machines, old candlestick telephones, exposed copper pipes, as well as old extending mirrors and Victorian tap levers. They also pride themselves on roasting and brewing the best quality coffees.
D'espresso (New York, NY)
Decor designed by Nemaworkshop was inspired by nearby New York Public Library turned on it's side. This unique design is the backdrop for coffee, sandwiches & gelati.
Confeitaria Colombo (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil)
Its huge stained glass, tiled, and mirrored interior features materials from France, Portugal, and Belgium. Serving an array of classic Brazilian and Iberian cuisine, delicious pastries, and of course a cup of tea or famous Brazilian coffee.
The world is full of beautiful Cafes, I wish I could visit them all!
Have you ever been to any of these? Which are your favorite?
Stay tuned for Part II tomorrow!
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December 25, 2016 by Abbie Lu
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I love to read, write, and drink coffee. They are the bread and butter of my soul. I really enjoy discussing books, poetry, and the like. Another huge passion of mine is dancing, and for fun I am an avid volleyball player. I live in the NW and I am a hybrid city/country lover. I enjoy spending time hiking through our beautiful Oregon forests, and riding horses at the family farm. I also equally enjoy strolling the downtown waterfront with a latte, gazing the city lights, and/or sipping a Café con leche at my favorite Cuban eatery. Contact me if you would like me to review any products related to: Books, Poetry, and/or Coffee!
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I stayed there, un-moving for what seemed like an eternity, I almost felt a bit of peace come over me before I realized…


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You Can Stay At The 'First Dates Hotel' & OMG It's Seriously Swanky
First Dates Hotel/ Channel 4
By Aoife Hanna
You know when you watch a TV show, say a travel series or documentary, that's set somewhere super gorgeous, and you just think... gosh I would love to be there right this minute? First Dates Hotel is one of those shows. OMG that place is so lush. The brand spanking new venue in the current series is even more swish than usual and it's got me wondering, can I stay at the First Dates Hotel? Look outside, you deserve a holiday, so let's dig a little deeper and find out how you can book a room.
Last season was filmed in the super gorgeous French countryside of Provence. Guests sought love and LOLs in Le Vieux Castillon, a four-star hotel nestled in the village of Castillon-du-Gard, which is not only French but also Mediaeval. Wow, talk about romantic. This time around however, they've decided to spice things up a little with a new location. This season, the potential lovebirds and the usual crew will be holed up in the none-too shabby Aquapetra Resort and Spa in Italy. You had me at spa. It's situated an hour from Naples, so just imagine those pizza filled days when the cast and crew aren't filming.
Italy is incredibly beautiful and romantic at the best of times, right? You can't go wrong. But the First Dates hotel is positively drool-worthy, like next level. This particular resort and spa is a former 18th-century hamlet that has been restored with great taste and style, offering everything a guest could desire. It's set on a pretty ginormous 60 acres. If you do the maths, that's the size of just over 45 football pitches. And guess what, you don't even have to play or watch football. Thank goodness for that.
Instead there are various good—for—the—soul scented gardens and vineyards to explore, and more natural beauty than you could shake a stick at. I'm sure they also have heaps of sticks.
And just when you thought it couldn't get any better, wait 'til you hear this next one. There's even a Michelin-starred restaurant. OK, breathe. I've read the menu and good grief I'm hungry. It's called Locanda del Borgo and is described on the hotel's website as:
"Michelin starred contemporary cuisine [served] in a relaxed yet modern environment. Spread over four levels, it comprises three main dining rooms, a bar and conservatory as well a a private chef's table for groups of up to twenty guests".
That sounds like a whole load of yes please, if you ask me. The drool-worthy sample menu includes dishes like gnocchi with vegetable ragù, smoked silano cheese and basil. Ugh so good. I wonder how the chef felt about being asked to make spag bol on last night's episode, though.
And if all that wandering around the beautiful grounds and eating wears you out? Worry thee not, they have a spa. Aka the perfect opportunity to treat yoself. They have multiple pools, a steam room, and sauna to get your mind, body, and soul feeling incredible.
BRB, just going to pack my suitcase... But how much will a night there set me back, I wonder? Well, it's not exactly cheap, unfortunately. Prices for a one-night stay in a Classic Room (classic meaning least expensive) start at £164.65. Maybe for a birthday treat or an anniversary celebration?
Now if first daters are going to fall in love anywhere, it's going to be here. Just waiting for that Lady And The Tramp spaghetti scene.


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Nvidia drops Tegra revenue forecast as Windows RT woes loom
Nvidia Will Shun Mainstream Phones with Tegra 4i, CEO Says
Nvidia Says Tegra 4 Devices Will Be Announced This Quarter
Nvidia Targets Low-cost LTE Smartphones, Tablets with Tegra 4i Chip
Nvidia's Tegra 4i Certified for AT&T, First Products Due in Early 2014
Nvidia's new processor for midmarket smartphones is marching toward launch in the first quarter of next year
By Martyn Williams
Senior Correspondent, IDG News Service |
Nvidia's Tegra 4i processor, the first of its chips with integrated support for LTE cellular data, is on course to appear in products early next year, the company's CEO said Thursday.
The Tegra 4i is smaller than the current Tegra 4 and aimed at mainstream, midmarket phones. Despite its integrated LTE modem, it's not as powerful as the Tegra 4, which is aimed at high-end phones and devices such as tablets and gaming handhelds.
Speaking to reporters and analysts on a conference call, CEO Jen Hsun Huang said the Tegra 4i has been certified by AT&T, the number-two wireless carrier in the U.S., and that products should be appearing soon.
"We are excited about that," he said of the AT&T certification. Nvidia expects the first products with the chip to be announced in the first quarter of 2014 and to ship sometime in the second quarter.
However, he left the door open to confusion by adding that the rollout "will likely be global, but not U.S."
"You really need to have CDMA in the U.S. to be successful, so we're not targeting the U.S. with respect to phones," Huang said. "We're targeting outside of the U.S."
A spokesperson for Nvidia declined to clarify the CEO's remarks.
AT&T's network isn't based on CDMA, so it could still offer phones or tablets running the new chip. Huang may have meant the impact of Tegra 4i phones will be limited in the U.S. because of their incompatibility with the networks of Verizon and Sprint.
He didn't give a detailed timeframe for the devices, but it's likely some will be unveiled at January's International CES in Las Vegas or February's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Tegra is an important part of Nvidia's product line-up and is playing an instrumental role in helping the company expand into new business areas. Chief among these is automotive, which already accounts for about a quarter of Nvidia's Tegra business, said Huang.
During the quarter from August to October, the company's Tegra business more than doubled from the previous quarter thanks to demand for the Tegra 4.
The chip was used in 15 mobile devices, including Nvidia's own Shield gaming handheld and Microsoft's Surface RT tablet.
The Shield is an Android-based gaming device that looks like an oversize game console controller, but also packs its own display. Huang said Nvidia developed the Shield to help grow the Android gaming market.
"We have to create devices that enable great gaming on Android to happen," he said. "Our investments are modest, our expectations are modest and our distribution is modest. We're going to let the market tell us how they like it, and we'll take it from there."
Martyn Williams covers mobile telecoms, Silicon Valley and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Martyn on Twitter at @martyn_williams. Martyn's e-mail address is martyn_williams@idg.com
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ROS is powering the future of robotics in industry, in the enterprise and for developers
Ubuntu has been the primary platform for ROS from the very beginning, thanks to its flexibility and user-friendliness.
ROS is led by Open Robotics, similar to how Canonical supports Ubuntu; Open Robotics steers the ship but it is driven by the community.
As the robotics industry grows, companies and developers continue turning to Open Robotics and Canonical to help make their vision a reality.
Get started with ROS
What is ROS?
The Robot Operating System (ROS) is an open-source framework that helps researchers and developers build and reuse code between robotics applications. ROS is also a global open-source community of engineers, developers and hobbyists who contribute to making robots better, more accessible and available to everyone.
What is ROS 2?
ROS 2 is a complete re-design of the framework, tackling the shortcomings of the first generation, effectively bringing it to industry needs and standards. ROS 2 contains new sets of packages that can be installed alongside ROS 1 to ease migration to a more secure platform. ROS 2 takes advantage of new technologies and newly updated APIs asked for by the community.
Get started with ROS 2
Who uses ROS?
ROS has been adopted into some of the biggest names in robotics. The majority of organisations are either using ROS as it can be installed by anyone or a fork of ROS in some form.
And the use-cases are still growing. ROS is used across numerous industries from agriculture to medical devices to vacuum cleaners but is spreading to include all kinds of automation and software-defined dynamic use-cases.
These are some of the companies openly using ROS today and the list only grows and diversifies as time progresses.
Why use ROS?
ROS was built with cross-collaboration in mind. The base code and knowledge can be applied across all robotics platforms (arms, drones, mobile bases, etc.) You'll be able to reuse what you already know and stop reinventing the wheel.
It can be built into your product. Most of the core ROS 1 packages are under a BSD license and ROS 2 packages are under Apache. This license allows for the modification of code for commercial purposes without having to release your code with an open-source license.
ROS robots can speak any language. You can communicate easily between Python and C++ nodes, get libraries to allow you to use most other languages or install rosbridge and use any language that can speak JSON.
ROS is here to stay. ROS and the community around it have been growing since 2007 thanks to contributions from an incredibly smart and open community. With the market share ROS has acquired and the ongoing development of ROS2, robots will be the future.
There is a package for everything. Whether you want to compute trajectory, conduct SLAM algorithms or implement remote control, there's a ROS package for that.
Digital twinning. ROS allows developers to easily simulate their robot in any environment, before deploying anything in the real world. Tools like Gazebo even allow you to create simulations with robots you don't possess.
It's open-source. ROS has contributors all over the world using ROS for countless different purposes. Every contribution feeds into continuously developing, leading stack that ROS is.
ROS is more than 10 years old, and in that time has grown to be the biggest robotics developer community on the planet. There are annual ROSCon events where developers and robot enthusiasts of all kinds come together to learn new things, present their projects and network with each other. There are even several official national events you can attend such as ROSCon Japan or ROSCon France.
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After a short confusing walk from the train station, we found the Domus Victoria Guest House – our home for Two Days in Rome. The guest house entrance was a simple wood door beside the MAS store with the hotel name in tiny letters on the buzzer. The staff at Domus Victoria Guest House was eager to use their English. A map and detailed directions were very helpful. The Domus Victoria Guest House had free internet, very nice air conditioning and lovely cappuccino delivered to your room with breakfast each morning.
For our first adventure on our two days in Rome, we walked to the Colosseum & Forum. We then joined the hordes of tourists. Two mistakes started off our self guided tour – we didn't buy tickets in advance and the Colosseum & Forum are at their busiest around noon. You can also buy tickets at the Forum, but the lines were just as long there too. So, we spent an hour lined up in the heat of the noon day sun to get our tickets. We started our two days in Rome with a self guided tour of the Forum. The Forum is impressive, no matter what your mood is after a long wait. The grounds are extensive and the viewpoint over the ruins is fabulous.
Next we made our way back to the Colosseum. The line up had decreased significantly. The stone ruins are gigantic, but for some reason I wasn't overly impressed with the Colosseum. By this point, we needed to get out of the sunny, hot spring day. So, we walked back to the Domus Victoria Guest House. We asked about places to eat dinner, as everything in the square was boarded up like a massive economic foreclosure. The B&B staff told us it was afternoon and that everything closed at that time. Dinner time is around 8pm in Italy. Luckily a great place to find a late afternoon meal was the main train station nearby.
After a late lunch at the Roma Termini train station, we took the A Red Line subway to the Spanish Steps. The subway in Rome was fast and inexpensive. We got off the subway at the Spagna station, which overlooks the top of the Spanish Steps. The Spanish Steps are intriguing, because of all the people who come just to sit there. We then followed our map with difficulty to the Trevi Fountain. The Trevi Fountain was pleasant in the shade of evening, but very busy with tourists. Then we went to the Pantheon and got seriously lost, despite the map. Plus the Pantheon was closed. Clearly I need to step up my game if I was to be a successful at my own self guided tours.
We walked back to the Domus Victoria Guest House from the Panteon and had an unexpected pleasure. Our route went past the Colosseum & Forum. These attractions were now both closed, but you can get great views down into the empty grounds of the Forum. We wandered the edges of the Forum and got great views of the empty spaces at the sunlight faded. The Forum has a completely different atmosphere after the tour buses leave. Try to visit the Colosseum & Forum early or late in the day.
Our second day in Rome started with a lovely breakfast in our room. Then we took the A Red Line subway again. This time we stopped at the Cipro station and walked to St Peter's Basilica. St Peters Basilica was the highlight of our trip to Rome. The basilica is magnificent and peaceful. The tombs of the Popes underneath make your aware of its importance and the depth of time. People were gathered at the tomb of Pope John Paul II to pay their respects. The main floor of St Peter's Basilica is immense and absorbs numerous lovely carvings and tributes to the numerous Popes who have led the Catholic Church. Faint singing from a service echoed through the building and its various caverns.
I ended up taking two trips around and paused a long time to simply listen to the service. Then we paid to take the elevator up to the outside top of the dome (cupola), which was great too. The views of the city, St Peter's Square were fabulous. You could also look down into the grounds of the Vatican and the roof of the Sistine Chapel. The refreshing breeze made it hard to leave.
We had reservations booked on the Vatican site and it was wonderful to pass to the front of the the crowds lined up in the hot sun. Unfortunately our Vatican experience didn't match our glorious self guided tour of St Peter's. Our Vatican reservation included an hour of pre lecture on the drawings of the Sistine Chapel. Standing still and listening drove me crazy, as I just wanted to get on with the tour. The four Raphael rooms involved lengthy descriptions by our guide too.
After 2.5 hours on our guided tour, we finally made it to the Sistine Chapel. What a weird experience. A large dank room crammed with full with people to every corner. A uniformed official presided and continually made hissing noises at the crowd to maintain silence. At times he would clap too. The murmur from the crowd never ceased and quickly built to the point of another reprimand.
It reminded me of the Dog Whisperer or a lion tamer controlling animals. When we finally got to the exit, a security guard waved his hand to indicate we could not leave, but did not speak. We had no idea why we couldn't leave. I had the strangest sensation that the heathen had all been caged and we were about to be dealt with. Then someone in a wheelchair came in through the exit, making it clear why our exit had been denied for so long.
The guided tour was finally over and we were on our own. We next stumbled on the nicest piece in the museum in my opinion, which is a life size stained glass of mother and child. After the disappointment of the tour, this item lifted my spirit and I wasn't ready to leave the Vatican yet. We headed to the Etruscan Museum and something remarkable happened on the way. The crowds thinned and we started to have entire rooms to ourselves. We wandered through the painting gallery and the Etruscan Museum. The two large halls of statues, that were crammed with people earlier, were now empty. We strolled around as if we owned the place. I thoroughly enjoyed this time on our own at the Vatican.
After our tour of the Vatican, we took our own self guided tour through the city center. We crossed the Tiber with views of Hadrian's Tomb. As we made our way east toward the Pantheon, we came across Navona Square. The Fountain of the Four Rivers by Bernini was wonderful. The open space and fountains of Piazza Navona were just as impressive as the Trevi Fountain. Nearby we arrived at the Pantheon. The Pantheon peaked my interest due to the movie, Angels and Demons. Rafael and Italian Kings (Vittorio Emanuele II and Umberto I) are buried in the Pantheon. Our self guided walking tour finished by wandering past the Trevi Fountain to the Spanish Steps. Then we caught the subway back to our B&B. Our two days in Rome were a great success.


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Facebook 'Blocklists' Raise First Amendment Issues at Public Colleges
By Jason Collins
Public universities are using Facebook filters to censor and block student speech, raising critical First Amendment questions, experts tell Digital Privacy News.
The "blocklists" limit student comments on Facebook when accounts are accessed via university networks. The institutions' filters flag certain words, automatically hiding the comments that contain them.
"State universities are preemptively censoring large swaths of protected speech and altering the public discourse with just a few clicks of the mouse — and Facebook gives them all the tools they need to do it," Robert Shibley, director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), told Digital Privacy News.
Facebook did not immediately return requests for comment nor did the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU).
What Are Blocklists?
Blocklists are filters that control what goes through a network's data. Everything is allowed through, unless it's specifically denied access via a list of predetermined elements.
With Facebook, the company's software provides a basic list of terms it generated within the company, but universities create their own lists — usually based on university controversies, sports teams and local issues.
The terms are selected by university public-relations staffers, based on a customized list of prohibited words curated by the institution, said Adam Steinbaugh, director of FIRE's Individual Rights Defense Program.
"Institutions have a tendency to resist controversy — and that's often true when you have PR people running the Facebook accounts."
Adam Steinbaugh, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
Blocklists work just as they sound: If a banned word is in a student's post, the entire comment is automatically removed. The student is never notified of the action — and the conversation in the feed continues, according to report FIRE released in April on the controversy.
The report found 198 public colleges and universities nationwide using blocklists to filter or censor student speech and expression.
The document collected 1,825 banned unique words and phrases, including "holy," "dog," "cat" and "PETA."
"Institutions have a tendency to resist controversy — and that's often true when you have PR people running the Facebook accounts," Steinbaugh told Digital Privacy News.
But the universities argue they are only utilizing the tools Facebook provides to everyone.
According to the FIRE report: "These tools include Facebook's automated content filters, which allow state institutions to automatically 'hide' users' comments if they contain words included on Facebook's undisclosed list of offensive words or the government actor's customized list of prohibited words."
Regarding university staffers who select the banned works, Steinbaugh told Digital Privacy News: "Their interest is in protecting the institution, but the user's interest is sometimes criticizing the institution.
"So, when Facebook gives them that tool, they're going to wind up abusing it."
More broadly, private institutions also have been found to use blocklists, Steinbaugh said, but their students are not protected under the First Amendment.
According to the Freedom Forum Institute, which runs the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., "There is a fundamental distinction between public and private school students under the First Amendment."
"You shouldn't treat students as children who are supposed to be protected from 'dangerous ideas.'"
Michael Suman, UCLA.
While Facebook is a private company and is not violating the law in providing the blocklists, public universities are under different legal constraints because they receive government funding.
"If someone says something that upsets the university, the university should come back and tell them why they think that they are wrong and go back and forth in a debate," Michael Suman, a sociology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), told Digital Privacy News.
"You should be forming them to be mature, responsible citizens of our democratic society, where it's important to debate all these ideas," Suman said.
AACU'S Statement
The AACU has a "Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure" posted on its website.
Liberal education, according to the statement, should "foster agency in thought, speech, and action, serving as an accelerator for the emergence of a diversity of informed perspectives and for the development of critical listening skills that invite the broadest possible range of voices to engage in more speech, not less."
In addition, Facebook's privacy policy says the platform takes it upon itself to enhance "the security and safety of the service" by "investigating suspicious activity or violations of applicable terms or policies."
Zuckerberg Letter
FIRE's results led the organization to write Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in April. The Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco also joined in the communication.
"Unfortunately, FIRE's survey revealed that many institutions abuse Facebook's tools to censor critics and activists, including students, family members, and the general public," the groups said in the letter.
To date, Zuckerberg has not responded, Steinbaugh told Digital Privacy News.
The groups also suggested that Facebook could help public institutions avoid First Amendment violations by removing filters and alerting users when comments were sifted.
However, UCLA's Suman said the institutions should be held accountable for using the software, not Facebook for providing it.
"That doesn't remove the responsibility," he told Digital Privacy News. "That's a copout."
Jason Collins is a Las Vegas writer.
Zuckerberg on Freedom of Expression
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg long has espoused his beliefs on freedom of expression, most notably in an October speech during a "Democracy in the Digital Age" conference at Georgetown University.
Here are some of his words:
"More people being able to share their perspectives has always been necessary to build a more inclusive society."
"While the world's attention focuses on major events and institutions, the bigger story is that most progress in our lives comes from regular people having more of a voice."
"Rules about what you can and can't say often have unintended consequences … . In everything we do, we need to make sure we're empowering people, not simply reinforcing existing institutions and power structures."
— Jason Collins
Sources (external links):
AACU: Free Expression, Liberal Education, and Inclusive Excellence
SURVEY: 77% of colleges use secret social media blacklist to censor the public, in violation of First Amendment
FIRE and EFF Letter to Mark Zuckerberg, April 22, 2020.
Facebook (about.fb.com): Mark Zuckerberg Stands for Voice and Free Expression
Daily Digest (7/2)


Businesses operating in the 21st century work in a world where data has never been more readily and publicly available. Thanks to the evolution of the Internet, general information about almost any market sector – whether it's competitors, market trends, industry legislation or new product development – is just a few clicks away.
But although top level industry information is now freely available, it can be harder to obtain information relevant to a business' niche and locality. The real power of market intelligence is the data that can be collected and analysed specifically for the purpose of making confident, progressive business decisions based on market development and market entry opportunities.
If used well, market intelligence can help a business gain a foothold in a market or further increase its existing presence. Keeping track of the competition is fundamental to the operation of any growing business. Market intelligence also helps to stay one move ahead of the competition; identifying their capabilities, liabilities and long term intentions.
Market entry and expansion studies are carried out by businesses looking to enter new markets or expand their presence in markets they are already established. This research is geared towards giving you enough information to decide whether to invest in new sectors or invest further in existing markets.
The research will help to outline the demand for products and services; the most efficient means of getting products and services to market; understand the market's likely response to a new entrant; and get qualified feedback from industry experts and associations.
Market assessments tend to be carried out to as part of due diligence to support a business decision that's already been made. For instance, an acquisition study – used to cross-check the foundations of an acquisition target – is more qualitative than quantitative research, with interviews carried out with customers, competitors and the acquisition targets themselves to understand the characteristics of the market.
With more choices and options available to consumers than ever before, it's never been more important for businesses like yours to meet the needs of customers. One of the most interesting market intelligence studies investigates the gap between what a particular market wants and what it currently gets.
Needs assessment research is usually a combination of qualitative and quantitative data to measure the extent of a need within a market. From focus groups with target customers to quantitative questionnaires and online surveys aimed at specific demographics, it's all geared to helping businesses build value propositions that meet the needs of your customers and ensure business longevity and growth.
In business a brand means so much more than just a logo or slogan. It's the overall identity of the company that sets the tone for the quality and service that customers come to expect. B2B branding research is therefore crucial in helping new businesses to establish and maintain a distinctive corporate identity, both internally and externally.
Brand strategy research can assess the existing value of your brand, measuring levels of consumer penetration and advocacy. Intelligent branding research will not only help you ascertain the strengths and weaknesses of your own brand, it will also highlight opportunities to attack competitors where they are found to be weak.
Segmentation is an alternative means of differentiating your business from the competition, with the goal of increasing profitability. Needs-based segmentation based on quantitative data of your target audience can ensure you meet the specific needs of a particular demographic – whether it's gender, age, race, location or attitudes and interests. Segmentation studies can therefore have direct input into digital and offline marketing strategy as well as product development.
A key to the success of any type of business is its ability to make well informed business decisions. At the Business & IP Centre we can give you access to a broad range of sources of reliable and relevant industry information to help your business keep abreast of emerging technologies, industry legislation and how your marketplace is developing as a whole. Sign up to 'Introduction to using the Business & IP Centre' workshop to receive practical guidance in using key British Library sources for market research, law, scientific research, industry news and arts and culture.


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Review: 38 North Yankee
On March 5, 2020 By coilerxiiIn Review
38 North Yankee
Ed Ruggero's debut novel, 38 North Yankee, tells the story of an American infantry company in a Second Korean War. It has its issues, but works a lot better than his later book, Firefall. That had a ridiculous setup it didn't need. This is more grounded and plausible.
Ruggero's legitimate veteran status both gives the book a degree of verisimilitude and makes it diverge too often into Herman Melville territory. Most of the "box checking" elements are done right. There are viewpoint characters but not too many. There are things that realistically go wrong. Unlike John Antal's significantly worse Proud Legions, he doesn't overemphasize the important of the main character's unit. This is one of the most grounded "big war thrillers" I've read.
However, it also has the weaknesses of being grounded. The viewpoint jumps and the over-detail (including maps) clashes with the fog of war inherent in such thing. And by aiming for the plausibility it does, it sometimes stumbles into the trap of "military action can be written in a plausible or engaging/exciting way , but it's very hard to do both." It's a problem that neither writers of truly serious fiction nor Mack Maloney have, but which something of this nature does.
That being said, none of these are deal-breakers and the book is very much worth a read. It might be the best Second Korean War novel I've read, even more than Red Phoenix.
Another (but similar) opinion can be found on the Books That Time Forgot blog.
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