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Should we are what other people think of our dogs? Only minutes ago I was sitting on my porch while Oreo lounged in the spring-growing grass towards a neighbors dog that appeared from behind a car. The neighbors were taking their dog for a walk and emerged from behind their car with their dog on leash. I wasn’t expecting this, didn’t hear them as I was engrossed working on typing for a book I’m working on and of course Oreo lost it. Her threshold was over and there was no time to call her to attention or tempt her with treats. My laptop rolled off of my lap as I scrambled to pull her back on the leash.
At this point I knew I couldn’t bring her into the house since she weighs too much for me to drag her in, plus they nearly passed our house. “Attack dog huh?” was the question the neighbor asked through the loud barking as they passed. I was too entangled with my job of keeping my dog in control to answer. When the neighbor’s dog finally was out of sight I the barking stopped and Oreo did a few paces around then laid back down into her casual spot. “No, we don’t want that, ” I heard from the neighbor. I have no idea what they were talking about, but for some reason I think I know. The neighbor is due any day now, and they have been talking about putting a large wooden fence up (which I would love, then we could get a fence and save some money by connecting it!). I can only guess perhaps she was saying she wouldn’t want her child attacked (who would?).
Oreo was scared. She’s reactive, so she reacts. I failed in my job to get her attention before she reached her threshold. However, I’m not going to pine about it-there was nothing I could have done, animals and people always appear from behind objects, which Oreo reacts to the worst. She does not like surprises, especially big scary surprises that remind of her of the attack from her past.
So why did I care what the neighbors thought? Well I automatically felt embarrassed because I thought I looked like a fool as I scrambled to hold onto my dog. I grew up with a mother who definitely cares what people think. I don’t usually care too much, but with Oreo I am more protective. I wish people could see how caring, kind, and loving this dog is. She is all kisses and cuddling inside (with the occasional leave me alone stare or warning if she is sleeping). However, I know people who are knowledgeable about reactive dogs know exactly how I feel. I highly recommend a reactive dog class that is positive. Not only do you learn how to give your dog courage, manage, and train your dog, but you also find companionship and comfort knowing you are not the only one and people do understand.
It was beautiful this weekend! Oreo had so much fun hanging out around the yard as my husband & I did lots of work. We spent our Saturday mulching the entire yard. When we were deciding what kind of mulch to use my husband really wanted red mulch. However, we quickly learned that not all mulches are equal.
After some research I learned that many of the cheaper mulch are made from ground up construction material that sometimes contain arsenic. Not only were we thinking about human health, but pet health when we decided against going for dyed mulch. We decided on cedar instead. As a pup Oreo loved chewing & eating mulch. She doesn’t do that anymore, but you never know…if there was something tasty in the mulch she could easily swallow some mulch.
Sunday we decided to start our raised garden. Oreo really enjoyed laying outside and watching all of the action.
I always made sure I had some treats in my pocket in case walkers with dogs would pass. I didn’t want Oreo to be encouraged to continue barking at passers, this would only reinforce the behavior. She would think, “Oh, well I barked and they left, it must work.” Instead of barking, I would call her & have her provide behaviors and give rewards (example: sit, shake, target-the give treat or toy)-works like a charm! Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend!
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2019-04-26T09:17:13Z
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I'm so glad to hear you're beat, because I sure am. I can barely read the mss and the idea of writing something new leaves me dazed. Maybe I'll pull out the next few chapters of the same novel, revise using the crits I get, and submit that. That would be useful for me. Or I can try to write some of the opening of a new novel, but I'm slow.
Does it seem odd we're communicating by LJ when you're in the next building?
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2019-04-26T01:54:09Z
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The movie's greatest quality is probably the setting. The late 70s truly come alive in this drama. Costumes, cars, music. The writing team also concocted the classic crime drama you would expect in the 70s and even director Jacques Maillot directs somewhat with a 70s feel, down to police procedures, chases and gunfights. A word of warning: this isn't an action flick. The movie seems content exploring the two brothers and the lives they try to build for themselves as well as the clashes between them when their lives intersect. As such, it is more of a drama than anything else.
François Cluzet (who plays bad boy Gabriel) is his usual self: excellent. His character doesn't apologize for his nature and at the same time, Cluzet is perfect in capturing the somewhat pathetic, self-victimizing nature of his character. Guillaume Canet (playing François the cop) is also good. Canet seems to have made a name for himself and stars in a lot of French movies (particularly thrillers). The rest of the large cast is more than adequate.
What prevents this superb production from a higher rating is a somewhat flat story and a botched ending. There's this impression that the writers and director may chewed more than what was needed and couldn't tie this more appropriately. It's still a fun ride but something seems to be missing at times, which is a shame since the basics are solid.
Still very worthwhile if you miss old school crime movies of the 70s and early 80s.
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2019-04-18T17:48:55Z
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Website marketing tutorials, articles and tips. Learn how to increase your website traffic and make more money from your site.
In How to Measure Your Website’s Bounce Rate, I showed how you can use Google Analytics to measure various important bounce rates on your site, such as the overall site bounce rate, landing page bounce rates, and search keyword bounce rates.
Armed with this information, you have a good idea which areas of your site are performing well, and which parts could benefit from a lower bounce rate.
In this article you’ll discover many useful tips and ideas for reducing your bounce rates.
In What is Bounce Rate?, you learned about the concept of bounce rates and saw how they can be a useful indicator of your website’s success. Now you need to measure the bounce rate for your own site.
The bounce rates for traffic coming from different sources.
Web analytics tools such as Google Analytics can give you a lot of insight into how your website is performing.
A key metric that’s useful for any type of website is bounce rate. This figure can tell you whether your visitors are finding what they want when they arrive at your site, and whether they’re interested enough in your content to explore your site further.
Bounce rate is particularly useful for e-commerce sites, since it measures how well your visitors are engaging with your site, and hence how likely they are to buy your products.
In this article you find out what bounce rate is and how it’s measured. You also look at why bounce rates are important to your site, and how to tell if your bounce rate is too high.
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Your online store’s checkout is a critical point in the sales process. The design of your checkout can make a big difference to the success of your store.
It’s very common for shoppers to happily browse an online store and add products to their cart, then abandon their purchase when they reach the checkout page. Often, between 50% and 75% of shoppers give up during the checkout process.
So how can you reduce your checkout abandon rate? Fortunately there are lots of things you can do to improve your checkout process and increase sales. Here are 10 helpful suggestions.
All store owners want to increase their conversion rates. A higher conversion rate means more sales without having to spend money attracting more customers!
Sometimes, though, it can be hard to know which factors are dragging your store’s conversion rate down. Sometimes the seemingly tiny things, such as the colour of your “Add to Cart” buttons, can make a big difference.
In this article I explore, in no particular order, 25 factors that could be reducing your store’s conversion rate. As you work your way through the list, you’ll probably get some ideas for improving things on your current store.
It’s a good idea to use tools such as Google Website Optimizer to try out several variations of your store elements (such as different colours or sales copy) and see which combination delivers the best result.
So, without further ado, here’s the list!
An online store lets you trade over the internet, selling products and services via your website and taking payments from customers. Online stores are convenient for you as a retailer, and for your shoppers also. They’re also a great way to keep your costs down, since you don’t need to rent a physical store or hire a large number of staff.
If you’re setting up an online store then you’ll probably want to take credit card payments online. Most customers like to pay for online products and services using their credit card. Not only is it quick and convenient for the shopper, but it makes life easy for you too!
In this article you’ll find out how to take card payments via your online store.
Most online stores use some form of ecommerce software to display products and handle customers and orders. When you’re setting up an online store, you need to decide on the software that you’re going to use to run the store. This article helps you choose.
A hosted solution. For a monthly fee, you can host your online store with a third party.
Licensed ecommerce software. This is off-the-shelf software you download and install on your Web server.
Custom-built software. You can write your own ecommerce software (or hire someone to write it for you).
This article explores these 3 options and looks at the pros and cons of each solution.
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is a vast topic. There are whole websites and books out there devoted to the subject. The world of SEO is also constantly changing as search engines tweak their algorithms, and new search engines come and go.
However, there are some timeless SEO techniques that will always come in useful. Here are 10 top SEO tips that you can use to improve your website’s ranking on the search engines.
If you’ve just set up your online store, you’re probably tempted to rush out and submit it to the search engines, set up link exchanges and, maybe, pay for some online advertising such as Google AdWords. However, while traffic is certainly important for your online sales, it won’t help much if your conversion rate is poor.
In this article you learn what a conversion rate is, and why it’s important to improve your website’s conversion rate before building traffic. You also look at ways to increase conversion rates and measure the results.
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The most common aphid species found in tobacco is the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae). Tobacco is just one of many green peach aphid hosts. In cold climates, green peach aphids overwinter as eggs laid on woody perennial hosts, Prunus species, hence the common name. In the southeast, however, eggs are not produced, and only female aphids are present. These female aphids give live birth to new, female aphid nymphs, which quickly develop to adults. They overwinter on weeds and other crop hosts, including strawberry. It has been suggested that tobacco-feeding green peach aphids are more restricted in their host range than green peach aphids feeding on other crops and feed mainly on tobacco and related plants. Because they reproduce so easily and quickly, green peach aphids can rapidly increase their populations and may have up to 30 generations per year.
Because of their short generation time and reproductive strategy, aphids are a high risk insect for the development of insecticide resistance. Resistance to organophosphate, organochlorine, and pyrethriod insecticides resulting in insecticide failure has been documented in some aphids (see below), and neonicotiniod resistance has been detected in field populations of green peach aphids, although field failures of these materials have not been observed.
There are 3 color morphs of the green peach aphid in the southeast, but all of these are still the same species. The green color morph is often most common in spring and early summer, while the red color morph dominates in the late summer and fall. The red morph is more tolerant of higher temperatures and is also more prone to develop resistance to insecticides. This relationship between red color (due to the adoption of a gene from fungi allowing them to synthesize caratiniods) and resistance to insecticides is common among several aphid species, including potato aphids. There are also differences in predator preference between green and red aphids, with green aphids preferred by parasitoid wasps and red aphids preferred by lady beetles and their larvae. In tobacco, red morphs resistant to organophosphate insecticides were noted in the early 1990s. Other researchers have noted that red color morphs are more tolerate to dimethoate (an organophosphate), endosulfan (an organochlorine), and lamda-cyhalothrin (a pyrethriod). A third, orange, color morph began to appear in North Carolina in summer 2007. The orange color morph appears intermediate between the green and red morphs, but its biology has not been compared to the other morphs.
Aphids are a pre topping pest and prefer to feed on succulent new growth. Because of this feeding preference, aphids are typically localized at the top of the plant. They are also more attracted to plants grown in soil with high nitrogen levels, as this results in succulent, green leaves. After topping, tobacco leaves harden off and mature and are no longer attractive to aphids. In addition to being a less attractive substrate, contact treatments (fatty alcohols) applied to tobacco to limit sucker growth are also toxic to aphids.
As the use of systemic neonicotiniod insecticides (ie. Admire Pro and Platinum) in tobacco has become the standard, the need to foliar aphid treatments has diminished. Virtually all conventional grown tobacco in North Carolina is treated with a systemic neonicotiniod insecticide in the greenhouse, or less often, at transplant. These materials provide long term control of aphids, typically through topping, although there is long term concern about resistance management with these materials (see Biology).
Because systemic treatments are applied at or near transplant, they are necessarily preventative. However, aphid populations in North Carolina are variable and may not require treatment each year. Therefore, systemic treatments may be unnecessary. Systemic treatments are attractive because of their simplicity and efficacy, but their widespread use has the potential to encourage resistance development in aphids.
Rescue treatments for aphids are justified when 10 percent or more of plants have as many as 50 aphids on any upper leaf before topping. Because of their small size, it is useful to calibrate your eye by counting several leaves to get a sense of what 50 aphids look like. Do not wait until hundreds of aphids are present to count a plant infested. This threshold should be used carefully. Before topping, populations can increase rapidly beyond 10 percent infestation. Do not delay initiating treatment. There are several foliar materials affective against aphids registered in tobacco, many of which include the same active ingredients as the systemic neonicotiniods used at or near transplant. If these materials are to be used, be sure to following label resistance management strategies.
Organic aphid management is challenging. The registered organic insecticides in tobacco include soaps, oils, and pythrethum (the natural version of synthetic pyrethriod insecticides). All of these are non persistent, meaning that coverage is very important. This requires a fairly high volume of water per acre (a minimum of 50 gal) and drop nozzles to ensure good under leaf wetting. Limited efficacy data is available for organic aphid materials registered in tobacco.
Aphid biological control agents include parasitoid wasps, syrphid fly larvae, lacewing adults and larvae, and lady beetle adults and larvae. These beneficial insects occur naturally in North Carolina and can contribute to control. Organic tobacco growers will often seed skip rows with sunflowers and/or buckwheat. These flowering plants are thought to serve as nectar sources for wasps, flies, lacewings, and lady beetles. It is unclear how important these beneficial insects are to the tobacco agroecosystem, but they often do not appear until high populations of aphids are already present, limiting their economic significance.
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2019-04-18T12:41:45Z
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I’m a 3rd Yr PhD Student studying Organic Chemistry at The University of Melbourne. My research focuses on free radical atmospheric pollutants and their possible link to respiratory diseases. I am passionate about science communication and the public standing of chemistry. Follow me on twitter or instagram @lgamon. Feel free to email me at lgamon@student.unimelb.edu.au.
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2019-04-21T20:02:39Z
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An image signal generation portion 11 generates an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image. A signal generation control portion 24 drives the image signal generation portion 11 and generates image pick-up setting information IF to generate an image signal that is frame-synchronized with a generated image signal DVd. The generated image signal DVd is output in condition where the image pick-up setting information IF is inserted in it. When supplied with image pick-up setting information IFex, the signal generation control portion 24 controls the driving operations of the image signal generation portion 11 based on the image pick-up setting information IFex, to frame-synchronize the generated image signal with an image signal of a reference variable frame-rate picked-up image of a source that has supplied the image pick-up setting information IFex. If a plurality of image pick-up devices capable of varying a frame rate is used, the image signals can be frame-synchronized with each other.
The present invention relates to an image pick-up device and a synchronization-signal-generating device. More specifically, it relates to supplying an image pick-up device with image pick-up setting information from any other image pick-up device or a synchronization-signal-generating device, to drive image signal generation means which generates an image signal of a picked-up image with variable frame rate based on this image pick-up setting information, thereby causing the image signal generation means to generate a frame-synchronized image signal even if a frame rate of the picked-up image with variable frame rate is varied.
In conventional filmmaking etc., to obtain special video effects, scenes have been shot in condition where a shooting speed of a film camera, that is, the number of frames per second has been varied. For example, if a scene is shot at a higher speed than an ordinary one and reproduced at the ordinary speed, reproduced images are slowly seen. Therefore, fast motion of, for example, a water droplet falling into water can be observed easily and in detail. If a scene is shot at a lower speed than the ordinary one and reproduced at the ordinary speed, on the other hand, reproduced images can be fast seen. It is thus possible to enhance a sense of speed in a fight scene, a car chase scene, etc., thereby presenting images with an enhanced sense of reality.
Further, in TV program making etc., while an attempt has been made to digitize processing of shooting, editing, delivery, etc. of a program, an attempt has also been made to digitize processing in filmmaking etc. as fueled by an increase in image quality and a decrease in costs caused by progress in digital technologies.
It is noted that if images are to be picked up using an image pick-up device (video camera) due to digitization of TV program, filmmaking, etc., an image pick-up device described in Jpn. Pat. Appln. KOKAI Publication No. 2000-125210 and supposed to be capable of frame rate varying is used so that special video effects such as fast reproduction and slow reproduction can be obtained easily. By using this image pick-up device to pick up images at a lower speed than a predetermined frame rate and reproduce them at the predetermined frame rate, fast motion of the reproduced images can be obtained easily. By picking up the images at a higher frame rate and reproducing them at the predetermined frame rate, on the other hand, slow motion of the reproduced images can be obtained easily.
In a case where a plurality of image pick-up devices each capable of varying a frame rate thereof is used to pick up images of a target in different directions, by synchronizing the frames of image signals obtained by these image pick-up devices with each other, it is possible to obtain a fast motion reproduction image or a slow motion reproduction image that has the same speed and has been picked up in the plurality of directions. For example, if the target is shot at a higher frame rate and reproduced at a predetermined frame rate, it is possible to obtain a slow motion reproduction image picked up in different directions in which the target moves at the same speed. Therefore, by synchronizing the frames of the image signals obtained by the image pick-up devices with each other, it is possible to facilitate subsequent editing processing. However, if the frame rates of the image pick-up devices are varied during image pick-up, it is almost impossible to synchronize the frames of the image pick-up devices through user operations.
An image pick-up device according to the invention comprises image signal generation means for generating an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image, drive-and-control means for driving and controlling the image signal generation means, setting information generation means for generating image pick-up setting information to generate an image signal which is frame-synchronized with the image signal generated by the image signal generation means, and output means for outputting the image signal generated by the image signal generation means and the image pick-up setting information.
Another image pick-up device related to the present invention comprises image signal generation means for generating an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image, and drive-and-control means for receiving image pick-up setting information to generate an image signal that is frame-synchronized with the image signal of a reference variable frame-rate picked-up image, and controlling a driving operation of the image signal generation means based on this image pick-up setting information, thereby frame-synchronizing the image signal generated by the image signal generation means with the image signal of the reference variable frame-rate picked-up image.
Further, a synchronization-signal-generating device according to the invention supplies a synchronization signal to an image pick-up device having image signal generation means for generating an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image, the device comprising setting information generation means for generating image pick-up setting information which is used to frame-synchronize the image signal generated by the image signal generation means of the image pick-up device with a reference frame, synchronization signal generation means for generating the synchronization signal that corresponds to the reference frame, synchronization signal output means for outputting the generated synchronization signal with the generated image pick-up setting information being inserted thereinto, and control means for setting the reference frame.
In the present invention, the drive-and-control means drives and controls the image signal generation means that generates an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image. Further, the setting information generation means generates image pick-up information for generating an image signal, which is frame-synchronized with this generated image signal. The generated image signal is output from the output means with this image pick-up setting information being inserted into, for example, a blanking interval of the generated image signal. Further, if the image pick-up setting information includes frame rate information, a frame rate indicated by the frame rate information contained in the image pick-up setting information is set as a frame rate of the variable frame-rate picked-up image, starting from its frame that is given first after this image pick-up setting information is output, thereby generating the image signal. Further, when a frame rate is instructed according to a read frame rate alteration pattern to vary the frame rate of a variable frame-rate picked-up image, information indicating the read frame rate alteration pattern is contained in the image pick-up setting information and also the instructed frame rate is set as the frame rate of the variable frame-rate picked-up image, starting from its frame that is given first after the image pick-up setting information is output, thus generating the image signal. Furthermore, if a plurality of frame rate instruction means is equipped for instructing a frame rate of a variable frame-rate picked-up image, priority sequence is set to the plurality of frame rate instruction means, so that when more than one frame rate instruction is carried out, frame rate instructed by the frame rate instruction means having the highest priority is set as the frame rate of the variable frame-rate picked-up image.
When the image pick-up setting information is input, based on this image pick-up setting information, the driving operation of image signal generation means is controlled so that the generated image signal can be frame-synchronized with an image signal of the reference variable frame-rate picked-up image. If this image pick-up setting information contains frame rate information that indicates a frame rate of the reference variable frame-rate picked-up image, a frame rate indicated by the frame rate information contained in the input image pick-up setting information is set as a frame rate of the variable frame-rate picked-up image, starting from its frame which is given first after the image pick-up setting information is input, thus generating the image signal. Further, if the image pick-up setting information includes information for reading a frame rate alteration pattern, a frame rate instructed on the basis of the frame rate alteration pattern is set as the frame rate of the variable frame-rate picked-up image, starting from its frame which is given first after the image pick-up setting information is input, thus generating the image signal. Furthermore, if priority sequence is set to a frame rate instructed by the frame rate instruction means and a frame rate based on the image pick-up setting information and when more than one frame rate instruction is carried out, a frame rate instructed by the frame rate instruction means having the highest priority is set as the frame rate of the variable frame-rate picked-up image, thus generating the image signal.
Further, in the synchronization-signal-generating device, image pick-up setting information is generated for frame-synchronizing the image signal generated by the image pick-up device with the reference frame and a synchronization signal corresponding to the reference frame is generated, so that the generated synchronization signal is output with the image pick-up setting information being inserted into, for example, a blanking interval of the synchronization signal.
FIG. 12 is a diagram for showing a configuration of a synchronization-signal-generating device.
The following will describe one embodiment of the present invention with reference to drawings. FIGS. 1A and 1B each shows a configuration of an image pick-up system that can use a plurality of image pick-up devices each capable of varying a frame rate thereof, to frame-synchronize image signals generated by these image pick-up devices with each other, FIG. 1A of which shows a case where the system is constituted of a plurality of image pick-up devices 10 only and FIG. 1B of which shows a case where it is constituted of a synchronization-signal-generating device 50 and the plurality of image pick-up devices 10.
If no synchronization-signal-generating device 50 is used, the image pick-up devices 10 are connected as shown in FIG. 1A, one of which is set as a master side image pick-up device so that image signals generated by the slave-side image pick-up devices may be frame-synchronized with an image signal generated by this master-side image pick-up device. If the synchronization-signal-generating device 50 is used, on the other hand, the image pick-up devices 10 are connected to the synchronization-signal-generating device 50 as shown in FIG. 1B, so that this synchronization-signal-generating device 50 may frame-synchronize the image signals generated by the image pick-up devices 10.
FIG. 2 shows a configuration of the image pick-up device 10. On an image pick-up surface of an image pick-up element (not shown) that constitutes an image pick-up portion 111 in an image signal generation portion 11, an image of a subject is formed on the basis of light which is made incident upon the surface through an image pick-up lens (not shown). The image pick-up element generates image pick-up charge for the image of subject through photoelectric transfer and reads the image pick-up charge based on a drive-and-control signal RC out of a later-described drive portion 117 to convert it into a voltage signal. Furthermore, it supplies this voltage signal as an image picked-up signal Spa to a pre-amplification portion 112.
The pre-amplification portion 112 amplifies the picked-up image signal Spa and then performs processing to remove its noise component, for example, correlated dual sampling. Furthermore, it converts the noise-removed image signal into a digital signal to perform feedback clamp processing on it, thereby generating an image signal having a desired magnitude at a stable black level. Furthermore, it performs flare correction to correct a signal level of the image signal in accordance with a flare quantity. Further, the pre-amplification portion 112 performs correction-processing etc. on a defect of the image pick-up element. The processing by this pre-amplification portion 112 is performed on the basis of a synchronization signal SYe supplied from the drive portion 117, to supply a post-processing image signal DVa together with a synchronization signal for this image signal DVa, to a preprocessing portion 113. It is to be noted that, also at the preprocessing portion 113 as well as later-described frame-addition-processing portion 114, main-line-picture-processing portion 115, and monitor-picture-processing portion 116, their processing is performed on the basis of each synchronization signal (not shown) which is supplied together with each image signal, and each post-processing image signal together with each synchronization signal for the image signal are supplied to their following processing portions.
The preprocessing portion 113 uses the image signal DVa to perform signal processing operations, for example, white balance adjustment, gain correction, white shading correction, etc. An image signal DVb obtained by this preprocessing portion 113 is supplied to the frame-addition-processing portion 114. The signal processing operation to be performed at the preprocessing portion 113 is set on the basis of a control signal CTa supplied from an operation control portion 30, which will be described later. Further, when the signal processing operation is changed by using the control signal CTa from the operation control portion 30, using a decision signal DF supplied from a later-described signal generation control portion 24, this change is reflected after a frame addition period ends at the frame-addition-processing portion 114.
The frame-addition-processing portion 114 performs frame addition processing on the image signal DVb to vary a frame rate of the image signal DVb. This frame addition processing can be performed using a random access memory (RAM). For example, to perform 3-frame addition, a first frame of the image signal DVb is stored in an RAM-1, the signal stored in which is read and added to a second frame of the image signal DVb and stored in an RAM-2. The sum signal stored in this RAM-2 is read and added to a third frame of the image signal DVb and stored in an RAM-3. The signal stored in this RAM-3 thus makes a sum of the three frames of the image signal DVb, so that by reading this signal and multiplying its signal level by (⅓), a required signal level is obtained. Further, a fourth frame of the image signal DVb is stored in the RAM-1, the signal stored in which is read and added to a fifth frame of the image signal DVb and stored in the RAM-2. The sum signal stored in the RAM-2 is read and added to a sixth frame of the image signal DVb and stored in the RAM-3. The signal stored in this RAM-3 thus makes a sum of the three frames of the image signal DVb, so that by reading this signal and multiplying its signal level by (⅓), a required signal level is obtained. Similarly, subsequent three frames of the image signal DVb are added up to sequentially generate an image signal DVc having a required signal level.
It is to be noted that the frame addition processing can be performed also using a frame delay circuit. For example, the first frame of the image signal DVb is delayed by two-frame period through the frame delay circuit and the second frame of the image signal DVb is delayed by one frame period through the frame delay circuit. These delayed first frame of the image signal and second frame of the image signal DVb are added to the third frame of the image signal DVb to obtain a sum of the three frame of the image signal DVb, a signal level of which is multiplied by (⅓) as described above to obtain an image signal DVc having a required signal level and an original frame rate multiplied by (⅓).
By thus performing the frame addition processing, for example, if a frame rate of the image signal DVb is “60P” (where the numeral indicates the number of frames per second and P stands for progressive signal, which holds true also with the other cases) and the number of added frames is two, an image signal having a frame rate of “30P” can be obtained. If the number of added frames is four, an image signal having a frame rate of “15P” can be obtained.
Furthermore, not only by switching the number of added frames but also by controlling signal reading from the image pick-up element so that the frame rate of the picked-up image signal Spa can vary, the frame rate of the image signal DVc can be varied continuously.
The image signal DVc of a variable frame-rate picked-up image obtained at the frame-addition-processing portion 114 is supplied to the main-line-picture-processing portion 115 and the monitor-picture-processing portion 116.
The main-line-picture-processing portion 115 performs process treatment such as γ correction (gamma correction), profile compensation processing, and Knee correction, on the image signal DVc supplied from the frame-addition-processing portion 114. An image signal DVd obtained by performing the processing at this main-line-picture-processing portion 115 is supplied to a main line picture output portion 15.
The monitor-picture-processing portion 116 performs process treatment in accordance with an image display device connected for confirmation of picked-up images. For example, if an image is displayed using a cathode ray tube or a liquid crystal display element for confirmation of picked-up images, it performs process treatment in accordance with γ characteristics, gray-scale display characteristics, etc. of the cathode ray tube or the liquid crystal display element. An image signal DVe obtained by performing the processing at this monitor-picture-processing portion 116 is supplied to a monitor picture output portion 16. It is to be noted that process treatment operations by the main-line-picture-processing portion 115 and the monitor-picture-processing portion 116 are controlled on the basis of a control signal CTb from the operation control portion 30.
The main line picture output portion 15 converts the supplied image signal DVd into a signal that matches recording equipment etc. connected to this image pick-up device 10 and outputs it as a signal CAM. For example, if equipment that uses a component signal or a composite signal is connected to the pick-up device, it outputs the image signal DVd as a signal CAM that matches respective pieces of equipment. Further, if the image signal is transmitted via a serial digital interface etc. which is standardized as SMPTE259M or SMPTE292M, it generates a transmission signal in accordance with the interface standard on the basis of the image signal DVd and outputs it as the signal CAM. Further, if supplied with image pick-up setting information IF from a signal generation control portion 24, which will be described later, this image pick-up setting information IF is output with it being inserted into the signal CAM. For example, the image pick-up setting information IF is output with it being inserted into a blanking interval of the signal CAM. Furthermore, the main line picture output portion 15 supplies a synchronization signal SYout for the image signal DVd to a phase comparison portion 22 and the signal generation control portion 24.
The monitor picture output portion 16 converts the supplied image signal DVe into a signal MNT that matches an image display device for confirmation of picked-up images and outputs it. For example, if the image display device uses an analog signal, it converts the image signal DVe into an analog signal, which is then output as a signal MNT.
It is to be noted that by changing over a frame rate (hereinafter referred to as “image pick-up frame rate”) FRp of the image picked-up signal Spa generated by the image pick-up portion 111 and the number of added frames FA by the frame-addition-processing portion 114, it is possible to continuously vary a frame rate (hereinafter referred to as “variable frame rate”) FRc of a variable frame-rate picked-up image. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, to set the variable frame rate FRc into a range of “60P≧FRc>30P”, the number of added frames FA can be set to “1” and the image pick-up frame rate FRp can be equalized to the variable frame rate FRc. To set the variable frame rate FRc into a range of “30P≧FRc>20P”, the number of added frames FA can be set to “2” and the image pick-up frame rate FRp can be set to double the variable frame rate FRc. To set the variable frame rate FRc into a range of “20P≧FRc>15P”, the number of added frames FA can be set to “3” and the image pick-up frame rate FRp can be set to triple the variable frame rate FRc. By similarly changing over the image pick-up frame rate FRp and the number of added frames FA, it is possible to obtain a desired frame rate of the image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image.
To vary the frame rate of the image picked-up signal Spa, controlling a charge accumulation period and an image pick-up charge read timing, etc. at the image pick-up element using the drive-and-control signal RC supplied from the drive portion 117 to the image pick-up portion 111 allows the image picked-up signal Spa with the varied frame rate to be obtained. Furthermore, by varying the image pick-up frame rate FRp by adjusting a length of horizontal or vertical blanking interval on the assumption that the common data rate scheme (CDR: common sampling frequency scheme) is used, it is possible to generate such an image picked-up signal Spa that an image size in a valid screen period does not change even if the image pick-up frame rate FRp is varied. Further, by using the CDR scheme, it becomes unnecessary to vary an operating frequency of each of the components that use the image pick-up frame rate FRp in accordance with the image pick-up frame rate FRp, thereby simplifying the configuration thereof.
According to the CDR scheme, by adjusting a length of the horizontal blanking interval as shown in FIG. 4B or adjusting a length of the vertical blanking interval as shown in FIG. 4C with respect to such an image signal that the blanking interval and the valid screen periods are set as shown in FIG. 4A, it is possible to generate the image picked-up signal Spa having the varied image pick-up frame rate FRp without changing any image size in the valid screen periods.
A synchronization-separating-processing portion 21 shown in FIG. 2, when supplied with an image signal of a reference variable frame-rate picked-up image having a synchronization signal SYref which corresponds to the reference frame from the synchronization-signal-generating device 50 or a synchronization signal SYref from any other image pick-up devices 10, separates a horizontal synchronization signal HDref from the synchronization signal SYref and supplies it to the phase comparison portion 22. Furthermore, if the supplied signal contains image pick-up setting information IFex, it extracts the image pick-up setting information IFex and supplies the information to the signal generation control portion 24 and the operation control portion 30. Furthermore, it generates an information latch signal LCifex for latching a count value contained in the image pick-up setting information IFex. This image pick-up setting information IFex is used to frame-synchronize an image signal generated by the image pick-up device that is supplied with the image pick-up setting information IFex with an image signal of a reference variable frame-rate picked-up image generated by the image pick-up device which supplies the image pick-up setting information IFex or a reference frame set by the synchronization-signal-generating device 50.
The phase comparison portion 22 determines a difference in phase between a horizontal synchronization signal HDout contained in the synchronization signal SYout supplied from the main line picture output portion 15 and the horizontal synchronization signal HDref supplied from the synchronization-separating-processing portion 21, to control a frequency of an oscillated signal MC generated by a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) 23 so that this phase difference may be nil. It is to be noted that if the horizontal synchronization signal HDref is not supplied from the synchronization-separating-processing portion 21, the VCO 23 is permitted to run for itself.
The signal generation control portion 24, which serves as drive-and-control means and setting information generation means, uses the oscillated signal MC generated by the VCO 23, to count based on counter setting information STc supplied from the operation control portion 30. It further utilizes a count result to generate a timing signal PT and a synchronization signal SYd for driving the image pick-up portion 111 and supply them to the drive portion 117. It is to be noted that if the synchronization signal SYref is supplied, it is possible to generate the synchronization signal SYd in such a manner that it may go ahead of the synchronization signal SYref by as much as a difference in phase between the synchronization signals SYout and SYd, thereby synchronizing the synchronization signal SYout with the synchronization signal SYref.
Furthermore, the signal generation control portion 24 generates a pulse signal CRW for controlling, for example, writing of an image signal to and reading of it from the RAM so that the frame-addition-processing portion 114 can add the image signal DVb as much as the number of added frames in order to obtain the image signal DVc. Further, when frame addition processing is performed in the frame-addition-processing portion 114, it generates such a decision signal DF as to indicate a relevant frame addition period and supplies the signal to the preprocessing portion 113.
By thus generating the timing signal PT and the synchronization signal SYd and supplying them to the drive portion 117 and also generating the pulse signal CRW and supplying it to the frame-addition-processing portion 114, the frame rate FRp of the image picked-up signal Spa and the frame addition processing are controlled so that an image signal of the variable frame-rate picked-up image generated by the image signal generation portion 11 may have a frame rate set by the operation control portion 30.
Further, if the image pick-up device is set as a master side one, the signal generation control portion 24 uses an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image generated by this master side image pick-up device as an image signal of a reference variable frame-rate picked-up image to generate the image pick-up setting information IF for causing a slave side image pick-up device to generate an image signal which is frame-synchronized with this image signal and supply this image pick-up setting information IF to the main line picture output portion 15. This image pick-up setting information IF is generated by using a count value obtained through counting and frame rate setting information SFR supplied from the operation control portion 30.
If the image pick-up device is set as a slave side image pick-up device and the image pick-up setting information IFex is supplied from a master side image pick-up device, on the other hand, the timing signal PT, the pulse signal CRW, etc. are generated on the basis of this image pick-up setting information IFex to cause the main line picture output portion 15 to output an image signal which is frame-synchronized with an image signal of a reference variable frame-rate picked-up image generated by the master side image pick-up device.
FIG. 5 shows a configuration of the signal generation control portion. The counter setting information STc supplied from the operation control portion 30 is supplied to a counter setting latch portion 241. The frame rate setting information SFR supplied from the operation control portion 30, on the other hand, is supplied to an image pick-up setting information latch portion 248.
The counter setting latch portion 241 latches the counter setting information STc based on a setting latch signal LCa supplied from a latch signal generation portion 247, which will be described later. To this counter setting latch portion 241, an H counter 242, a V counter 243, an added frame counter 244, an image pick-up frame counter 245, and an output frame counter 246 are connected. The counter setting information STc is comprised of setting information that sets a count width of each of the counters, to set each counter's count width based on the latched counter setting information STc.
The H counter 242 counts the number of horizontal pixels based on the oscillated signal MC supplied from the VCO23 and supplies a count value Hct to the image pick-up setting information latch portion 248 and a pulse signal generation portion 249. Further, the H counter 242 has its count width set to the number of horizontal pixels for one horizontal scan period based on the counter setting information STc and, upon completion of counting of the horizontal pixels for one horizontal scan period, resets the count value Hct and supplies the V counter 243 with a signal HP indicating that the one horizontal scan period has ended.
The V counter 243 counts the number of scan lines by using the signal HP and supplies a count value Vct to the image pick-up setting information latch portion 248 and the pulse signal generation portion 249. Further, the V counter 243 has its count width set to the number of scan lines for one frame period based on the counter setting information STc and, upon completion of counting of the scan lines for one frame period, resets the count value Vct and supplies a signal VP indicating that the one frame period has ended, to the added frame counter 244, the image pick-up frame counter 245, and the latch signal generation portion 247.
The added frame counter 244 counts the number of image picked-up frames by using the signal VP and supplies a count value Fmct to the image pick-up setting information latch portion 248 and the pulse signal generation portion 249. Further, the added frame counter 244 has its count width set to the number of added frames based on the counter setting information STc and, upon completion of counting of frames for the number of added frames FA, resets the count value Fmct and supplies a signal FMP indicating that the one addition period has ended, to the output frame counter 246 and the latch signal generation portion 247.
The image pick-up frame counter 245 counts image picked-up frames by using the signal VP. The image pick-up frame counter 245 has its count width set to a value of the image pick-up frame rate FRp based on the counter setting information STc and, upon completion of counting of frames for the image pick-up frame rate FRp, resets the count value Fpct and supplies the output frame counter 246 with a signal FPP indicating that a period for the image pick-up frame rate FRp has ended.
The output frame counter 246 counts the number of times the addition period has been encountered by using the signal FMP and, when it has decided on the basis of the signal FPP that a period for the image pick-up frame rate FRp has ended, resets the count values and outputs a count reset signal RES that resets the count values of the other counters.
The latch signal generation portion 247, based on the signals VP and FMP and at timing when frames for one addition period end, generates the setting latch signal LCa that causes the counter setting latch portion 241 to latch the counter setting information STc.
The image pick-up setting information latch portion 248 generates an information latch signal LCif (not shown) and, at latch timing indicated by this information latch signal LCif, latches the count values Hct, Vct, and Fmct and the frame rate setting information SFR and supplies them as the image pick-up setting information IF in a predetermined format to the main line picture output portion 15. For example, the information latch information LCif is generated with respect to the synchronization signal SYout, to generate the image pick-up setting information IF and supply it to the main line picture output portion 15 so that the image pick-up setting information IF may be inserted to a predetermined position in the blanking interval. By thus determining the insertion position of the image pick-up setting information IF, the image pick-up setting information IF can be easily extracted from the signal CAM.
The pulse signal generation portion 249 generates the timing signal PT, the synchronization signal SYd, the pulse signal CRW, and the decision signal DF based on the count values Hct, Vct, and Fmct and the oscillated signal MC.
A count latch portion 250, when supplied with the image pick-up setting information IFex from the synchronization-separating-processing portion 21, latches count values Hctex and Vctex contained in the image pick-up setting information IFex and resets a count value of the H counter 242 and that of the V counter 243 to the count values Hctex and Vctex, respectively. This count latch portion 250 latches them at timing of inserting the image pick-up setting information IFex to the position, based on the information latch signal LCifex.
Further, if the timing when the count values Hct and Vct are latched so that the master side image pick-up device may generate the image pick-up setting information IF does not agree with the timing when the slave side image pick-up device resets the H counter 242 and the V counter 243 to the count values Hctex and Vctex, respectively, that is, if these timings do not agree because of a lapse of time required by formatting or decoding of the image pick-up setting information IF, count values Hexct and Vexct are offset by as much as a difference in timing phase and supplied to the H counter 242 and the V counter 243, respectively. Thus, offsetting the count values Hexct and Vexct by as much as the difference in timing phase allows the H counter 242 and the V counter 243 of the slave side image pick-up device to be synchronized with the H counter 242 and the V counter 243 of the master side image pick-up device.
FIGS. 6A-6E each show one example of a count value of each counter in the signal generation control portion. If the variable frame rate FRc is set to “18P”, the number of added frames FA is “3” and the image pick-up frame rate FRp is “54P” as shown in FIG. 3. Therefore, the count value Fpct repeats itself in a range of “0-53”, the count value Fmct repeats itself in a range of “0-2” and a count value Rct repeats itself in a range of “0-17”. Further, if the number of pixels per line is 2200 and the number of scan lines is 1125, the count value Vct repeats itself in a range of “0-1124”. Furthermore, when the length of a horizontal blanking interval is adjusted in accordance with the CDR scheme, the count value Hct repeats itself in a range of “0-2439”, which is larger than the number of pixels, so that the image pick-up frame rate FRp may be “54P”.
The drive portion 117 shown in FIG. 2 generates the drive-and-control signal RC for driving the image pick-up element and supplies it to the image pick-up portion 111 based on the synchronization signal SYd thus supplied. Further, driving the image pick-up element based on the timing signal PT in accordance with the CDR scheme allows the frame rate of the image picked-up signal Spa to vary. Furthermore, the synchronization signal SYe for the image picked-up signal Spa is generated and supplied to the pre-amplification portion 112.
To the operation control portion 30, a user interface portion 31 is connected. When supplied with an operation signal PSa in accordance with a user operation through this user interface portion 31, the operation control portion 30 generates the control signals CTa and CTb based on this operation signal PSa, to control operations of the preprocessing portion 113, the main-line-picture-processing portion 115, and the monitor-picture-processing portion 116. Further, it supplies the counter setting information STc to the signal generation control portion 24 to control counting so that the image signal DVc having a desired frame rate may be generated. Furthermore, it supplies the frame rate setting information SFR to the signal generation control portion 24. Further, when supplied with the image pick-up setting information IFex from the synchronization-separating-processing portion 21, it generates the counter setting information STc based on this image pick-up setting information IFex.
Further, the image pick-up device 10 can insert the image pick-up setting information IFex supplied to itself into a blanking interval of the signal CAM and supply it to the subsequent-stage image pick-up device or supply the synchronization signal SYref supplied to itself to the subsequent-stage image pick-up device, thereby easily generating such an image signal as to have been frame-synchronized among the image pick-up devices even if the plurality of image pick-up devices is connected in a daisy chain.
Next, the following will describe operations for generating an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image in the image pick-up device. FIGS. 7A-7F show a case where the frame-addition-processing portion 114 performs frame addition processing by using RAM-1 through RAM-3, an adder, etc. For example, if the variable frame rate FRc is “18P”, the variable frame rate FRp is “54P” and the number of added frames FA is “3” from FIG. 3. It is to be noted that FIG. 7A shows a frame of the image signal DVb, FIG. 7B shows an operation of RAM-1 in the frame-addition-processing portion 114, FIG. 7C shows an operation of RAM-2 therein, FIG. 7D shows an operation of RAM-3 therein, and FIG. 7E shows a frame of the image signal DVc.
At time point t1, when frame “0f” of the image signal DVb starts, the frame-addition-processing portion 114 sets, for example, RAM-1 as a write RAM and stores the image signal DVa of frame “0f” in the write RAM.
At time point t2, when a frame of the image signal DVc starts, three frames of the image signal are not completely added up yet, so that the image signal DVc is rendered as a blank frame.
At time point t3, when frame “0f” of the image signal DVb ends and frame “1f” starts, RAM-1 where the image signal of frame “0f” is stored is specified as an internal read RAM and the write RAM is changed over from RAM-1 to, for example, RAM-2. Furthermore, the signal stored in the internal read RAM, that is, the signal of frame “0f” stored in RAM-1 is read and added to the image signal DVa of frame “1f” by the adder and stored in RAM-2, which is the write RAM.
At time point t4, when frame “1f” of the image signal DVb ends and frame “2f” starts, to generate a three-frame addition signal, RAM-2 in which the sum signal of frames “0f” and “1f” is written is specified as the internal read RAM. Further, the write RAM is changed over from RAM-2 to, for example, RAM-3. Furthermore, the signal stored in the internal read RAM, that is, the signal stored in RAM-2 is read and added to the image signal DVb of frame “2f” by the adder and stored in the RAM-3, which is the write RAM.
At time point t5, when frame “2f” of the image signal DVb ends and frame “3f” starts, the three-frame addition signal obtained by adding up three frames of the image signal DVb is generated completely, so that the RAM-3 in which this three-frame addition signal is stored is specified as an external read RAM. Further, RAM-1 is set as the write RAM, to store the image signal DVa of frame “3f” in the write RAM.
When the three-frame addition signal is generated and then a frame of the image signal DVc is timed to start, for example, at time point t6 when the frame of the image signal DVc starts, the three-frame addition signal is read out of the external read RAM and has its signal level multiplied by (⅓) and is output as the image signal DVc. Further, the frame of the image signal DVc generated by reading the three-frame addition signal out of the external read RAM is supposed to be indicated by an identify signal DJ shown in FIG. 7F as a frame of a variable frame-rate picked-up image. It is to be noted that if the three-frame addition signal is not completely written to the RAM yet or if the three-frame addition signal is read completely but the next three-frame addition signal cannot be read, no new frame of the new picked-up image can be generated. In this case, by repeating a frame of a picked-up image having a variable frame rate, a frame (blank frame) having no image signal of the picked-up image is avoided from being provided in the image signal DVc. Further, this frame is made of a repeated frame of the picked-up image with the variable frame rate and so rendered invalid by the identify signal DJ. It is to be noted that a blank frame, if any, is also rendered invalid. By thus generating the identify signal DJ, it is possible to decide a frame of a picked-up image having a variable frame rate by using the identify signal DJ. That is, by selecting an image signal of a frame decided valid by the identify signal DJ, it is possible to select the image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image.
Similarly, by using RAM-1 through RAM-3, the adder, etc. to add up three frames of the image signal DVb so that a three-frame addition signal may be generated and reading this three-frame addition signal at timing when a frame of the image signal DVc starts, it is possible to obtain the image signal DVc in which a valid frame is contained at the variable frame rate FRc. That is, as shown in FIG. 7E, it is possible to generate the image signal DVc that contains a frame which is valid at a desired variable frame rate “18P”, which is a recording frame rate (e.g., “60P”) corresponding to the signal CAM is supplied. It is to be noted that if a signal having the signal level of the three-frame addition signal multiplied by (⅓) is stored in a memory and read at a frame rate of 18P, of course it can be a signal having a frame rate of 18P.
By reproducing a picked-up image having the thus obtained variable frame rate FRc at a predetermined reproduction frame rate, it is possible to easily obtain fast reproduction images and slow reproduction images. For example, if the reproduction frame rate is “24P” and when the variable frame rate FRc is set to “24P” in image pick-up, motion of a subject in a reproduced image has the same speed as the physical subject. If the variable frame rate FRc is set higher than “24P” in image pick-up, on the other hand, the number of frames generated in a unit time increases, so that the speed of the motion of the subject in the reproduced image decreases. Furthermore, if the variable frame rate FRc is set lower than “24P” in image pick-up, the number of frames generated in a unit time decreases, so that the speed of the motion of the subject in the reproduced image increases. By thus varying the variable frame rate FRc, it is possible to display the subject moving at speeds different from an actual speed, thereby easily obtaining special video effects.
Next, the following will describe operations for connecting a plurality of image pick-up devices to each other to frame-synchronize image signals generated by these image pick-up devices with each other. Of FIGS. 8A-8N, FIG. 8A-8G each show an operation of the master side image pick-up device and FIGS. 8H-8N each show an operation of the slave side image pick-up device.
FIG. 8A shows setting condition of the variable frame rate FRc in the master side image pick-up device; FIG. 8B shows the count value Vct; FIG. 8C shows the count value Fmct; FIG. 8D shows the count value Fpct; FIG. 8E shows the count value Rct; FIG. 8F shows the setting latch signal Lca; and FIG. 8G shows the information latch signal LCif for latching the image pick-up setting information IF generated by the image pick-up setting information latch portion 248. Further, FIG. 8H shows setting condition of the variable frame rate FRc in the slave side image pick-up device; FIG. 8I shows the information latch signal Lcifex; FIG. 8J shows the count value Vct; FIG. 8K shows the count value Fmct; FIG. 8L shows the count value Fpct; FIG. 8M shows the count value Rct; and FIG. 8N shows the setting latch signal LCa.
At time point t11, when the information latch signal LCif indicates a latch timing, the image pick-up setting information latch portion 248 latches a count value from the counter and the frame rate setting information SFR from the operation control portion 30 and supplies this latched information to the main line picture output portion 15 as the image pick-up setting information IF. The main line picture output portion 15 inserts this image pick-up setting information IF into the signal CAM and outputs it.
FIGS. 9A-9D show the image pick-up setting information IF inserted into the signal CAM. It is to be noted that if the image pick-up setting information IF is large in amount, it is divided into a plurality of lines in a vertical blanking interval and inserted as shown in FIG. 9A. For example, in a first line, the image pick-up frame rate FRp and the count value Vct are inserted as shown in FIG. 9B. In a second line, the count value Fmct and the count value Hct are inserted as shown in FIG. 9C. In a third line, the number of added frames FA is inserted as shown in FIG. 9D. It is to be noted that to each piece of the information, parity PA is added for error detection.
Furthermore, each of the lines is provided with a flag EN indicating whether to validate or invalidate the information. Further, the first line is provided with a scheme decision flag P/I indicating which one of interlace and progressive schemes is employed, an output set flag OR indicating whether the signal CAM is constituted of a signal with a frame rate of 60P into which an image signal of a picked-up image in accordance with the variable frame rate FRc is contained or of a signal with a frame rate of 30P into which an image signal of a picked-up image in accordance with the variable frame rate FRc is contained (the output set flag OR may be arranged to indicate whether the frame rate is 48P or 24P), pattern operation information TR to which one or a plurality of frame rate alternation patterns is (are) set beforehand so that these set frame rate alteration patterns may be read to vary the frame rate, etc. By providing such the information, it is possible to easily change the frame rate automatically by using a variety of patterns. Alternatively, the count value Fpct may be supplied from the image pick-up frame counter 245 to the image pick-up setting information latch portion 248, to contain the count value Fpct in the image pick-up setting information IF as shown in FIG. 9B. Further, if the image pick-up device capable of switching a horizontal image size is used as a master side image pick-up device and a slave side one, horizontal image size information HW is to be contained in the image pick-up setting information IF as shown in FIG. 9D. In this case, the horizontal image size of the slave side image pick-up device can be matched with that of the master side image pick-up device.
At time point t11 shown in FIGS. 8A-8N, the slave side image pick-up device extracts the inserted image pick-up setting information IF from the signal CAM output from the master side image pick-up device by the synchronization-separating-processing portion 21 and supplied as the image pick-up setting information IFex to the signal generation control portion 24 and the operation control portion 30. Further, based on a synchronization signal for the signal CAM, the information latch signal LCifex for latching a count value contained in the image pick-up setting information IFex is generated by the synchronization-separating-processing portion 21 and supplied to the signal generation control portion 24.
The count latch portion 250 in the signal generation control portion 24 latches the count values Hctex and Vctex contained in the image pick-up setting information IFex, based on the information latch signal LCifex. This latched count value Hctex is supplied to the H counter 242 to reset a count value of the H counter 242 to the count value Hctex. The latched count value Vctex, on the other hand, is supplied to the V counter 243 to reset a count value of the V counter 243 to the count value Vctex. It is to be noted that as described above, if there occurs a difference in phase between timing when the count values Hct and Vct are latched to generate the image pick-up setting information IF at the master side image pick-up device and timing when the H counter 242 and the V counter 243 are reset to the count values Hctex and Vctex, respectively, at the slave side image pick-up device, the count values Hctex and Vctex are offset by as much as this difference in phase. By thus offsetting the count values Hctex and Vctex, it is possible to synchronize the H counter 242 and the V counter 243 of the master side image pick-up device and the slave side image pick-up device. That is, it is possible to match frame timing between the master side image pick-up device and the slave side image pick-up device. It is to be noted that if the count value Fpct is contained in the image pick-up setting information IF, image pick-up frame counter 245 also can be synchronized, so that it is possible to match the number of picked-up image frames in the master side image pick-up device and that in the slave side image pick-up device with each other.
Next, at time point t12, when the variable frame rate is set to “18P”, as described above, the image pick-up frame rate FRp is “54P” and the number of added frames FA is “3”. Therefore, the operation control portion 30 sets the count width of the added frame counter 244 to “3”, the count width of the image pick-up frame counter 245 to “54”, the count width of the output frame counter 246 to “18”, and the image pick-up frame rate FRp to “54P” by adjusting the length of the horizontal blanking interval in accordance with the CDR scheme, so that it generates the counter setting information STc that sets the count width of the H counter 242 to “2440” and supplies the information to the counter setting latch portion 241. It is to be noted that if the number of scan lines for each frame interval is fixed, the count width of the H counter 242 is fixed to a value that corresponds to the number of scan lines. Further, to vary the image pick-up frame rate FRp by switching the number of scan lines or adjusting the length of the vertical blanking interval, the counter setting information STc that sets the count width of the V counter 243 in accordance with the number of scan lines and the image pick-up frame rate is generated and supplied to the counter setting latch portion 241. Further, the frame rate setting information SFR that has the image pick-up frame rate FRp and the number of added frames FA when the variable frame rate FRc is set to “18P” is supplied to the image pick-up setting information latch portion 248.
It is to be noted that since the count widths of the added frame counter 244, the image pick-up frame counter 245, and the output frame counter 246 are based on the variable frame rate FRc, the image pick-up frame rate FRp, and the number of added frames FA as described above, they can be determined easily when the variable frame rate FRc is set. Further, since the count width of the H counter 242 is determined in accordance with the image pick-up frame rate FRp which is set by adjusting the number of per-line pixels and the length of the horizontal blanking interval through the CDR scheme, it is possible to easily generate the counter setting information STc by holding a table having a count width of the H counter 242 with respect to the variable frame rate FRc or the image pick-up frame rate FRp beforehand as shown in FIG. 10 so that it may be read as required.
At time point t13, when the information latch signal LCif indicates a latch timing, similarly at time point t11, the image pick-up setting information IF is inserted into the signal CAM and output. This image pick-up setting information IF is used to notify the slave side image pick-up device that the variable frame rate FRc has been set to “18P”.
At time point t13, further, similarly at time point t11, the slave side image pick-up device uses the synchronization-separating-processing portion 21 to extract the image pick-up setting information IFex from the signal CAM output from the master side image pick-up device and supplies it to the signal generation control portion 24 and the operation control portion 30. Further, it generates the information latch signal LCifex based on the synchronization signal for the signal CAM and supplies the signal to the signal generation control portion 24 so that the H counter 242 and the V counter 243 in the signal generation control portion 24 may be synchronized with the H counter 242 and the V counter 243 in the master side image pick-up device, respectively.
Furthermore, the operation control portion 30 in the slave side image pick-up device, similar to the mater side image pick-up device, generates the counter setting information STc based on the image pick-up frame rate FRp and the number of added frames FA contained in the supplied image pick-up setting information IFex and supplies it to the counter setting latch portion 241.
Then, at time point t14, when a frame addition period ends in the master side image pick-up device and the setting latch signal LCa is supplied from the latch signal generation portion 247 in the signal generation control portion 24 to the counter setting latch portion 241 therein, the counter setting information STc supplied from the operation control portion 30 is latched. This latched counter setting information STc is supplied to the H counter 242, the added frame counter 244, the image pick-up frame counter 245, and the output frame counter 246, so that the count width of each of the counters is set in accordance with the variable frame rate FRc. Therefore, the count value Hvt of the H counter 242 repeats itself in a range of “0-2439”, the count value Fmct of the added frame counter 244 repeats itself in a range of “0-2”, the count value Fpct of the image pick-up frame counter 245 repeats itself in a range of “0-53”, and the count value Rct of the output frame counter 246 repeats itself in a range of “0-17”, thus starting an operation to generate the image signal with the variable frame rate FRc as set to “18P”. It is to be noted that the count value Hvt of the V counter 243 refers to a count value of the scan lines per frame.
Similarly, in the slave side image pick-up device also, at time point t14, when a frame addition period ends and the setting latch signal LCa is supplied from the latch signal generation portion 247 in the signal generation control portion 24 to the counter setting latch portion 241 therein, the counter setting information STc supplied from the operation control portion 30 is latched. This latched counter setting information STc is supplied to the H counter 242, the added frame counter 244, the image pick-up frame counter 245, and the output frame counter 246, so that the count width of each of the counters is set in accordance with the variable frame rate FRc. Therefore, as in the case of the master side image pick-up device, the count value Hvt of the H counter 242 repeats itself in a range of “0-2439”, the count value Fmct of the added frame counter 244 repeats itself in a range of “0-2”, the count value Fpct of the image pick-up frame counter 245 repeats itself in a range of “0-53”, and the count value Rct of the output frame counter 246 repeats itself in a range of “0-17”, thus starting an operation to generate the image signal with the variable frame rate FRc as set to “18P”. It is to be noted that the count value Hvt of the V counter 243 is the same as that for the master side image pick-up device.
Next, at time point t15, when the variable frame rate FRc is changed to “13P”, this changed variable frame rate FRc is posted from the master side image pick-up device to the slave side image pick-up device at time point t16. Further, at time point t17, when the frame addition period ends, the count width of each of the counters is changed, so that an operation at this changed variable frame rate FRc is started by both of the master side image pick-up device and the slave side image pick-up device simultaneously.
The image pick-up setting information IF is thus supplied from the master side image pick-up device to the slave side image pick-up device, so that operations of the slave side image pick-up device are set on the basis of this image pick-up setting information IF. Therefore, an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image generated by the slave side image pick-up device is frame-synchronized with an image signal of a reference variable frame-rate picked-up image generated by the master side image pick-up device. Furthermore, even if the variable frame rate varies, frame-synchronized condition is maintained because this variation is synchronously performed in the master side and slave side image pick-up devices.
Further, if the scheme decision flag P/I indicating which one of interlace and progressive schemes is employed is contained in the image pick-up setting information IF, these schemes can be accommodated easily by holding information such as the image pick-up frame rate FRp, the number of added frames FA, and the count width of the H counter for the variable frame rate in condition with the information corresponding to each of the schemes.
If the pattern operation information TR is contained therein, on the other hand, the master side and slave side image pick-up devices can automatically vary the variable frame rate as synchronized therebetween, thereby improving operability of the image pick-up devices. In this case, the same frame rate alteration pattern is held in the master side and slave side image pick-up devices beforehand. For example, one or a plurality of piece (s) of frame rate alteration pattern information each for indicating the variable frame rate FRc which is set as image pick-up time elapses is generated and held in the operation control portion 30 or a memory (not shown) in each of the master side and slave side image pick-up devices. It is to be noted that by transferring frame rate alteration pattern information to be used from the image pick-up device that holds this information to the image pick-up device that does not have it before image pick-up starts, it is possible to hold the same frame rate alteration pattern information in a plurality of image pick-up devices that are connected.
If a held frame rate alteration pattern is read and a frame rate is instructed in accordance with this read frame rate alteration pattern to vary a frame rate of a variable frame-rate picked-up image, the master side image pick-up device outputs information that indicates the read frame rate alteration pattern as the pattern operation information TR with it being contained in the image pick-up setting information IF. Furthermore, pieces of counter setting information STc in accordance with variable frame rates indicated by the frame rate alteration pattern are sequentially generated and supplied to the counter setting latch portion 241. The slave side image pick-up device, if pattern operation information TR is contained in the image pick-up setting information IF, reads a frame alteration pattern that corresponds to the pattern operation information TR, sequentially generates counter setting information pieces STc in accordance with variable frame rates indicated by this read frame rate alteration pattern, and supplies them to the counter setting latch portion 241. In this case, a frame rate indicated by the frame alteration pattern is set as a frame rate of a variable frame-rate picked-up image to drive the image signal generation portion 11 starting from such a frame of the variable frame-rate picked-up image as to be given first after the image pick-up setting information IF is output from the master side image pick-up device or starting from such a frame of the variable frame-rate picked-up image as to be given first after the image pick-up setting information IF is input into the slave side image pick-up device. Therefore, the variable frame rate FRc is changed as synchronized between the master side and slave side image pick-up devices, so that these devices can generate such image signals that a frame rate of a variable frame-rate picked-up image is automatically changed in condition where their frames are synchronized with each other.
It is to be noted that instruction to set a variable frame rate FRc in the master side and slave side image pick-up devices is not limited to a case where it is performed on the basis of the above-described image pick-up setting information IF but can be performed also by a menu operation signal from an electronic viewfinder (EVF) 70, a remote-control signal from a remote-control device 80, a control signal from a camera control device 90, etc.
Therefore, the operation control portion 30 sets priority sequence to instructions to set the variable frame rate FRc so that the variable frame rate FRc may be set in accordance with the priority sequence. For example, it gives priority to the remote control-signal from the remote-control device 80 over the menu operation signal from the electronic viewfinder 70. Further, the image pick-up setting information IF is given priority over the remote-control signal. Furthermore, the control signal from the camera control device 90 is given priority over the image pick-up setting information IF. By thus allocating the priorities, the image pick-up devices can be operated properly even if the plurality of instructions to set the variable frame rate FRc is given simultaneously.
Further, it may be arranged that if a setting instruction having higher priority has ended, a variable frame rate FRc at the time of the ending is held or the variable frame rate FRc is returned to condition before the setting instruction having the higher priority is performed. For example, if the image pick-up setting information IF is supplied when the variable frame rate FRc is being set by the menu operation signal from the electronic viewfinder 70, such a variable frame rate FRc as to be indicated by the image pick-up setting information IF is set. Then, when the supply of the image pick-up setting information IF ends, a variable frame rate FRc at the time of the ending of the supply is held. Alternatively, it may be recovered to a variable frame rate FRc, which has been set by the menu operation signal. In such a manner, a variety of operations can be performed by controlling the variable frame rate FRc.
Further, although the above embodiment has been described with reference to a case where an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image generated by the slave side image pick-up device is frame-synchronized with an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image generated by the master side image pick-up device, the image signals generated by the image pick-up devices 10 can be frame-synchronized with each other by the synchronization-signal-generating device 50 as shown in FIG. 1B. In this case, the synchronization-signal-generating device 50 inserts the image pick-up setting information IF into a reference synchronization signal SYref and supplies it to these image pick-up devices 10.
FIG. 12 shows a configuration of the synchronization-signal-generating device. It is to be noted that components of FIG. 12 that correspond to those of FIG. 5 are indicated by the same reference symbols and detailed description of them will be omitted. To a control portion 51 a user interface portion 52 is connected, so that the control portion 51 generates the counter setting information STc and the frame rate setting information SFR in accordance with a variable frame rate FRc indicated by an operation signal PSb from a user interface. It further supplies the generated counter setting information STc to the counter setting latch portion 241 in a signal generation control portion 24 a, which serves as setting information generation means and synchronization signal generation means. Further, it supplies the frame rate setting information SFR to the image pick-up setting information latch portion 248.
An oscillation portion 53 generates the oscillated signal MC and supplies it to the H counter 242 and the synchronization signal generation portion 251. The synchronization signal generation portion 251 generates a synchronization signal SYz based on a count value of each counter and the oscillated signal MC to set a reference frame, which provides a reference for each of the image pick-up devices 10. This generated synchronization signal SYz is supplied to a synchronization signal output portion 54. Further, the synchronization signal generation portion 251 generates an information latch signal LCz whose latch timing is an insertion position of the image pick-up setting information IF which is set with respect to the synchronization signal SYz and supplies it to an image pick-up setting information latch portion 248 a.
The image pick-up setting information latch portion 248 a latches the count values Hct, Vct, and Fmct and the frame rate setting information SFR at latch timing indicated by the information latch signal LCz and supplies them to the synchronization signal output portion 54 as the image pick-up setting information IF in a predetermined format.
The synchronization signal output portion 54 inserts the image pick-up setting information IF into the synchronization signal SYz supplied from the synchronization signal generation portion 251 and supplies the synchronization signal SYref that corresponds to the reference frame to each of the image pick-up devices.
By thus supplying, from the synchronization-signal-generating device 50, each of the image pick-up devices with the synchronization signal SYref into which the image pick-up setting information IF is inserted, the same operation as the above-described slave side image pick-up devices is performed at each of the image pick-up devices, so that an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image which is frame-synchronized with the reference frame can be output from each of the image pick-up devices.
In such a manner, image signals of variable frame-rate picked-up images can be generated by the plurality of image pick-up devices in condition where they are frame-synchronized with each other, so that by picking up images of a subject in different directions using a plurality of image pick-up devices, it is possible to easily obtain such a plurality of reproduced fast images or slow images that the subject's motions are synchronized with each other and the images are picked up in the different directions. Further, these image signals are frame-synchronized with each other, thereby facilitating editing processing.
According to the present invention, the device comprises image signal generation means for generating an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image, drive-and-control means for driving and controlling the image signal generation means, setting information generation means for generating image pick-up setting information to generate an image signal which is frame-synchronized with the image signal generated by the image signal generation means, and output means for outputting the image signal generated by the image signal generation means and the image pick-up setting information. Therefore, controlling the generation of the image signal based on the output image pick-up setting information allows the image signal to be generated with this image signal being frame-synchronized with the image signal into which the image pick-up setting information is inserted.
Further, frame rate information is contained in the image pick-up setting information, so that starting from such a frame of a variable frame-rate picked-up image as to be given first after this image pick-up setting information is output, a frame rate indicated by the frame rate information contained in this output image pick-up setting information is set as a frame rate of the variable frame-rate picked-up image, to drive the image signal generation means. Therefore, it is possible to vary the frame rate of a variable frame-rate picked-up image in synchronization with the image pick-up device that is supplied with the image pick-up setting information.
Further, containing, in image pick-up setting information, information of a scan line position and a pixel position of an image signal to be generated allows the scan line position and the pixel position of the image signal generated by the image pick-up device that is supplied with the image pick-up setting information, to be synchronized. Further, if holding means for holding a frame rate alteration pattern is provided and when the frame rate alteration pattern held in the holding means is read and a frame rate that corresponds to this read frame rate alteration pattern is instructed, to vary a frame rate of a variable frame-rate picked-up image, information indicating the read frame rate alteration pattern is contained in the image pick-up setting information and, starting from such a frame of a variable frame-rate picked-up image as to be given first after this image pick-up setting information is output, the instructed frame rate is set as the frame rate of the variable frame-rate picked-up image, to generate an image signal. It is thus possible to change frame rates of image signals generated by the image pick-up devices supplied with the image pick-up setting information in condition where they are synchronized with each other. Furthermore, the plurality of frame rate instruction means for instructing a frame rate of a variable frame-rate picked-up image and the operation control means for setting priority sequence to the plurality of frame rate instruction means to set a frame rate instructed by the frame rate instruction means that has the highest priority as a frame rate of a variable frame-rate picked-up image are provided so that image pick-up setting information may be generated which is used to generate an image signal that is frame-synchronized with an image signal having the set frame rate of the variable frame-rate picked-up image, thereby properly setting a frame rate of a variable frame-rate picked-up image and generating image pick-up setting information in accordance with priority sequence even if the plurality of frame rate instructions is issued.
Furthermore, the image signal generation means for generating an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image and the drive-and-control means for receiving image pick-up setting information to generate an image signal that is frame-synchronized with an image signal of a reference variable frame-rate picked-up image, for controlling driving of the image signal generation means based on this image pick-up setting information so that the image signal generated by the image signal generation means may be frame-synchronized with the image signal of the reference variable frame-rate picked-up image are provided. It is thus possible to generate an image signal that is frame-synchronized with an image signal of the reference variable frame-rate picked-up image.
Further, if frame rate information indicating a frame rate of a reference variable frame-rate picked-up image is contained in image pick-up setting information, starting from such a frame of a variable frame-rate picked-up image as to be given first after this image pick-up setting information is input, a frame rate indicated by the frame rate information contained in this input image pick-up setting information is set as a frame rate of the variable frame-rate picked-up image, to generate an image signal. It is thus possible to vary a frame rate of a variable frame-rate picked-up image in synchronization with the image pick-up device that has supplied the image pick-up setting information.
Further, if the image pick-up setting information contains information of a scan line position and a pixel position, a generated image signal is synchronized with these scan line position and pixel position. Therefore, it is possible to synchronize the image signal generated by the image pick-up device that has supplied the image pick-up setting information, with the scan line position and the pixel position. Furthermore, if the holding means for holding frame rate alteration patterns is provided and the image pick-up setting information contains information which is used to read the frame rate alteration patterns, a frame rate alteration pattern indicated by this information is read and a frame rate is instructed in accordance with the read frame rate alteration pattern, so that starting from such a frame of a variable frame-rate picked-up image as to be given first after the image pick-up setting information is input, the instructed frame rate is set as a frame rate of a variable frame-rate picked-up image, to generate an image signal. Therefore, it is possible to alter the frame rate in synchronization with the image signal generated by the image pick-up device that has supplied the image pick-up setting information. Further, the frame rate instruction means for instructing a frame rate of a variable frame-rate picked-up image and the operation control means for setting priority sequence to the frame rate instructed by the frame rate instruction means and a frame rate based on the image pick-up setting information so that the frame rate having higher priority may be set as a frame rate of a variable frame-rate picked-up image are provided, to generate an image signal by using the frame rate of the variable frame-rate picked-up image as the set frame rate. Therefore, it is possible to properly set a frame rate of a variable frame-rate picked-up image based on the priority sequence even if a plurality of frame rate instructions is issued.
Further, the synchronization signal generation device comprises the setting information generation means for generating image pick-up setting information which is used to frame-synchronize an image signal generated by the image signal generation means of the image pick-up device with a reference frame, the synchronization signal generation means for generating a synchronization signal that corresponds to this reference frame, the synchronization signal output means for outputting the generated synchronization signal with the generated image pick-up setting information being inserted into it, and the control means for setting the reference frame, so that it is possible to frame-synchronize the image signals generated by the image pick-up devices connected to the synchronization signal generating device.
As described above, the present invention enables to be generated the image signals of a variable frame rate picked-up image which are frame-synchronized with each other by using a plurality of image pick-up devices, so that images of a subject are picked up in different directions by varying a frame rate, and could well be applied to a case of obtaining special video effects such as fast reproduction and slow reproduction.
control means for setting the reference frame.
16. The synchronization-signal-generating device according to claim 15, wherein the synchronization signal output means inserts the generated image pick-up setting information into a synchronization signal at a position of a blanking interval.
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I found the children’s Christmas book section at a store. And then under that is the Christmas Cake we bought at Baskin Robbins.
Well, today was not only my last school day, but also my big friend-going-away-party. It was a lot of fun. Yeah. I know. What original word choice. I got a whole bunch of cards (Around 50 cards, actually) and I’d say about 40-50 people showed up at the party. I also got a plate of cookies, some biscuit cookies, some chocolates and a bag full of brownies, which I shared with my World History Class.
That’s not all the people who came, it’s just the people I got group photos with.
Oh yes and I told Kayla I would give her a shoutout in my blog. Hi Kayla.
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↑ ক খ (আর্মেনীয়) Aghababyan, S. «Չարենց, Եղիշե Աբգարի» (Charents, Yeghishe Abgari). Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia. vol. viii. Yerevan, Armenian SSR: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1982, pp. 670-672.
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Since Inauguration Day, a documentary filmmaker has been embedded inside The New York Times, working on a film about the acclaimed news organization in the age of Trump.
The project, produced and directed by Liz Garbus, is being financed by the Showtime network, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the deal.
The tentative title, subject to change, is "The Fourth Estate." Showtime anticipates intense interest in the film, given the Times' many scoops and scrapes involving the Trump presidency.
The sources said Showtime envisions a multi-night television premiere for the film sometime in 2018. One of the sources said it will air in four parts, the same way Oliver Stone's "The Putin Interviews" recently did.
But first the Times film may go on the festival circuit. Garbus's two most recent films, "Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper," for HBO, and "What Happened, Miss Simone?" for Netflix, both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
A Showtime spokeswoman said the network has no announcement to make about the film, which indicates that it is still in production, without a definitive premiere date.
Sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said Garbus will continue filming through next January.
The project has been kept hush-hush inside the Times and Showtime. But interest was piqued when Garbus filmed some of the Times' daily editorial meetings.
Garbus has also been shadowing individual reporters in Washington, D.C. and New York who have been covering the Trump administration.
Politico's Hadas Gold first reported on the existence of a film crew inside the Times newsroom earlier this week.
The film is expected to explore both the political landscape -- with the newspaper covering a president who routinely calls the paper "failing," which it is not -- and the Times' evolution from a print-centric to a digital-centric production.
Reviewers said "Page One" was effective in peeling back the Times' heavy curtain.
Garbus has an opportunity to do the same thing.
Her other past films include "There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane," "Bobby Fischer Against the World" and "The Farm."
An interest in journalism runs in her family; her father, Martin Garbus, is an attorney who specializes in First Amendment cases. He was featured in her 2009 documentary "Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech."
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No matter how experienced you are at analyzing data, communicating about your results can be a tremendous challenge.
So it’s not surprising that “Effectively Reporting Your Data Analysis” was one of the best-attended sessions at the inaugural Minitab Insights Conference last month.
The presenters, Benjamin Turcan and Jennifer Berner of First Niagara Bank, have a great deal of experience improving efficiency and enhancing revenue at their organization. They’ve also mentored many new data analysts and helped them learn how to present the findings from their analyses. In their presentation, they raised 5 questions that can help analysts communicate more effectively.
The importance of knowing your audience was a central point of their presentation. When you deliver information, whether as a written document or as a presentation, it’s important to tailor it. Berner pointed out that we do that naturally when we talk to people.
You also need to call your insurance company. The agent will want to know if anyone was harmed, but doesn’t need to know you’ll be late for the picnic. (Nor that you didn’t really want to go to the picnic anyway.) She will need specifics about the cause of the accident, the contact information for the other driver, the license plate of the other car, etc.
Your presentation is different for your family and for the insurance company. You tailor the information to suit each audience’s needs and concerns. The same should be true when you present the results of your analysis. Think about who your audience is, what information is most relevant to them, and how best to deliver that information so they will have the best chance of understanding it quickly.
2. How much do they know about what you’re analyzing?
Imagine a friend calls to tell you he was in an accident. You know nothing about the accident until he tells you. You might assume that he was driving his usual car, but you don’t know that until he confirms it. Maybe he borrowed a friend’s car. Maybe he borrowed your car! (You knew you should never have lent him that key.) If so, he’ll be tailoring that information very, very carefully.
Similarly, if you’ve been analyzing a part-making process and you’re reporting your findings to the employees who actually make the parts every day, it’s probably safe to assume they’re going to intimately understand and care about every step of that process. You may need to share the detailed analysis you performed for each task. But your report to the C-level executives may require only a summary that provides the bottom line, quickly.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. An insurance agent calls a customer and says, “Sorry sir, but your car was a total loss.” To which the customer responds testily, “No it wasn’t! I got several good years out of that car.” The customer didn’t understand that in the vernacular of the auto insurance industry “total loss” means something very specific—that repairing the car would cost more than its value before the accident.
Similarly, when reporting statistical results, think about what the audience understands and what they do not. For example, if your audience is not familiar with capability analysis, reporting that Ppk was 0.80 probably won’t be clear. (“Is that good?”) Instead, you could say the data suggest there are about 11,000 defective parts for each million that you create. (That’s a rounded value for the expected “overall” PPM [10969.28], as shown below.) Clearly, that’s not good.
Similarly, if you’re reporting results that you know some people may not like, you should anticipate push-back and be ready to answers questions like, “Are you sure these data are valid?” or “Why should I believe you?” You may also want to look for ways to frame potentially negative information as an opportunity, rather than a problem.
How will your audience use the information that you deliver? I once lost a car to a collision myself. When informed, my son used this information to lobby hard for his preferred replacement vehicle. I explained that while “Bugatti Veyron” is a really cool name for a car, we were going to look at cars with boring names, because I cared about the price more than the name.
You spent a lot of time and effort on your project and your data analysis, and sharing what you learned should be a rewarding culmination of those efforts. Taking some time to think about your audience and answer questions about what they need to know about your analysis will help ensure a better experience and better outcomes. Benjamin Turcan and Jennifer Berner’s presentation at the Minitab Insights Conference provided a great reminder of how important these questions are!
By getknowledgespace in Best Practices on October 24, 2017 .
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Now this is just a fun pop-punk rock & roll album. Lit hit it big with “Miserable” and “My Own Worst Enemy” on their 1999 album A Place in the Sun, but as much as I loved “Miserable” I couldn’t be swayed to pick up the album. Well, the lead single here was “Lipstick & Bruises” and I simply had to get this album when it came out. I hadn’t listened to it in years and it actually takes me back to a weird time in my life when I was virtually living on my own, but I loved the album and upon listening to it again, I still love it.
Lit’s pop-punk style got them thrown in with a lot similar bands from the same era such as Blink-182, Sum 41, SR-71 (What WAS up with all those numbered bands anyway?), Good Charlotte and Eve 6, but the difference is Lit had more of a hard rock edge than any of those other bands.
Good disc to spin when you’re in the mood for something light and fun. “Over My Head” features Steven Tyler on backing vocals and was originally from the Titan A.E. soundtrack. I don’t think it was originally written for this album and was only added on because of its success from the soundtrack. The initial pressing was a “Limited Edition” that featured a second CD with three tracks. One from Lit and the other two from bands signed to their Dirty Martini label.
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The Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers have been working on a sign-and-trade package to bring Pau Gasol to the Bulls on a multiyear contract that starts at approximately $10 million a year, league sources told Yahoo Sports.
If a sign-and-trade doesn't come together, the Bulls will sign Gasol to a multiyear deal with a salary starting in the $6.5 million-a-year range, sources said. To clear some salary-cap room, the Bulls will trade center Greg Smith to the Dallas Mavericks, sources told Yahoo Sports' Marc Spears on Saturday.
Smith will make $948,163 next season. He didn’t play for the Bulls after being signed late last season, but averaged 3.5 points and 2.5 rebounds for the Houston Rockets last season in 11 games.
Gasol announced on Twitter Saturday evening that he was leaving the Lakers to join the Bulls.
Once the Bulls began to believe they had lost out on free agent Carmelo Anthony in recent days, they moved to make the deal for Gasol. For the Bulls, Gasol joins a frontline that includes All-Star Joakim Noah and forward Taj Gibson. The Bulls are considering using the amnesty clause on the final year of forward Carlos Boozer's contract.
Gasol, 34, turned down a two-year, $22 million deal to stay with the Lakers in recent days, signaling an end to his seven-year run that included two NBA championships.
Gasol averaged 17.4 points and 9.7 rebounds for the Lakers last season. In 13 NBA seasons with the Memphis Grizzlies and Lakers, Gasol has averaged 18 points and nine rebounds.
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https://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--pau-gasol-leaving-lakers-to-join-bulls-190355581.html
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Imitation and R&D Incentives | Finance & Economics!!!
You see that process everywhere, even in the arts. For example, publishers saw how much money was to be made with vampire books, so publishing house started cranking out truckloads of them. All of these books, including the originals, were badly written. But you get the idea. It seems the only way a business survives in the wake of this will be customer service. If another company is going to reverse engineer your ideas, you have to differentiate yourself in some way to stand out. And a strong way to do this is your relationship with your customers.
Thank you very much for this clear description! I have never understood this issue very well.
One thing that has always confused me is copyright law: as you say, it helps the creators of certain material to not be copied, and it encourages innovation. However, I do not understand why, when an author or composer (or any other individual person who has copyrighted material) dies, their work doesn’t always become public domain. Instead, a family or a company can sometimes own that copyrighted work after the creator’s death. To me, that doesn’t suit the original intent of the copyright: to protect the innovator him/herself.
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2019-04-22T12:00:20Z
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https://justdan93.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/imitation-and-rd-incentives/
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The Moon. Mars. Asteroids. Deep space. These are all places that humanity would like to explore. So what's the holdup?
Flight hardware, money and politics aside, there's some major problems that need further study if humans are to visit or colonize anything other than Earth, most notably: habitation and survival. Humans are fragile creatures, and the environments found off-Earth are decidedly unfriendly. We've been in space for 50 years. The International Space Station has been occupied continuously for over 10 years. We know a little bit about the physiology and psychology of living in space, at least for a few months at a time.
But a round-trip mission to Mars, for example, would take much longer than even the longest-duration missions to ISS, on the order of seven months in each direction in the best case. That's not including an actual stay on the planet. And what's the point of going to Mars if you can't stay for a while?
NEEMO (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations) sends crews of aquanauts to an underwater facility called Aquarius (owned by NOAA and run by UNC Wilmington) for up to three weeks at a time. Aquarius is home base for many marine biologists studying coral reefs and the environment of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, where Aquarius is located 62 feet below the surface.
For NASA, NEEMO provides crews with an opportunity to experience some of the same challenges as they would in space. Aquanauts run experiments and go outside the spacecraft while living in close quarters. Since 2001, NASA has sent 14 crews to Aquarius. The first 13 were dedicated to general astronaut training, and the 14th specifically tested equipment and operations for space exploration. The next mission starts on October 17th and runs until the 29th, with the goal of testing equipment necessary for missions to near-Earth asteroids.
The first stage lasted 15 days (November 15 – 27, 2007), and aimed to test the equipment, facilities and operating procedures for the trip to Mars.
The second stage lasted 105 days (March 31 – July 14, 2009) and entailed six volunteer crew members living in an isolated living complex in Moscovw. The facility simulated all the necessary habitats for a trip to Mars, including the spacecraft, a lander, and the surface of Mars itself.
The final stage of the mission is still in progress, and is a full-fledged simulation of a 520-day trip to Mars, beginning to end. It is scheduled to end November 4 of this year.
To make the Mars500 study as realistic as possible, the two stages requiring crew isolation required that the participants communicate and work only amongst themselves. Communications to the "ground crew" included a 20-minute delay, which is about how long it takes for signals to reach Earth from Mars.
NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (RATS) team spends time in the Arizona desert every summer in order to test technology, robotics systems and extravehicular activity equipment. The desert's extreme temperature swings and rough terrain provide analogs to some of the conditions that may be encountered in space exploration. Including 2011, Desert RATS has conducted 14 missions.
This year, Desert RATS tested a habitat that may be used for missions to the Moon or Mars. Called the Deep Space Habitat (DSH), the facility contains living quarters, workspaces and labs. Two crews, Alpha and Bravo, spent several days inside the facility to see how well science experiments, medical procedures, and maintenance could be conducted. The crews were also testing to see how well the DSH supported daily crew activities, like sleeping, eating and socializing. These studies were conducted under varying conditions: switching up communications bandwidths to simulate delays between the crew and the "ground," changing crew sizes, and varying the presence or absence of rovers.
You are so awesome! I do not think I've read through a single thing like this before. So wonderful to discover someone with some genuine thoughts on this topic. Seriously.. thanks for starting this up. This web site is one thing that is needed on the web, someone with some originality!
We continue to waste billions of dollars that could be better used here on Earth.
What's the point of going to Mars if you can't stay for a while? Oh, are you just kidding us? How will we do or get there when we find there's a quite bit of earth-like planet at Space?
If we would use the money we are wasting on this nonsense to help our country, we could probably be out of debt.
It continues to amaze me how not just the public but also science has been deluded into believing in ET, with no proof or evidence, yet continue to refuse to believe in the Lord for the same reason. Kind of a double standard in that contradiction. So much that they're spending...I mean wasting...all this money on their science fiction.
The problem is this: humans break. Very easily. How many of us could survive in the wild here on Earth? That would be nothing in comparison to what we'd likely experience. Remember the early colonizing attempts in America? One winter and 10-20% of the colonists were left standing. I'm cool with this if proper training is prioritized.
Dieing in space would be a good death. Mission completed or not. At least we could say we tried!
Sounds good, but enough testing already SEND PEOPLE NOW.
There are people that will go right now and waiver any financial insurance to do so.
Science in the Universe needs to speed up a notch, religious people are starting to have barbaric feelings again.
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2019-04-22T18:38:08Z
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Did employee stock ownership drive the airline into bankruptcy?
In 1994, when United Airlines was on the brink of a financial crisis, the company's executives and its employees embarked on a grand experiment in corporate governance. In a marked departure from years of tension between labor and management, the parties came together to save the airline. Employees agreed to forgo billions of dollars in wages in order to keep down the airline's operational costs, so that United could more easily compete with low-cost airlines such as Southwest. In return, the airline would hand over half of the company to the workers, who would have a say in the direction of the airline and would supposedly directly benefit from its future success.
The deal, which created one of the biggest employee-owned companies in America, was seen as a new model for the airline industry, which has always been fraught with fractious labor relations. "Inevitably, other companies will stand up and take notice," Robert Reich, Bill Clinton's first labor secretary and a key supporter of the United plan, told the New York Times at the time. "From here on in, it will be impossible for a board of directors to not consider employee ownership as one potential business strategy." In an effort to show the public that everyone at United was now on the same page, the company changed its slogan from "Come fly the friendly skies" to "Come fly our friendly skies."
On Monday, United Airlines' corporate parent, UAL, filed for bankruptcy. While there's no end to possible reasons for United's failure -- the sour economy, the Sept. 11 attacks, competition from Southwest Airlines and its no-frills ilk -- the company's troubles have prompted some conservative pundits to decry the notion that employee ownership can steer a company to success. The syndicated columnist Bruce Bartlett, for instance, took the United bankruptcy as a sign that employee-ownership programs represent a "left-wing," essentially Marxist idea that "works a lot better in theory than practice." Bartlett wrote in a recent column that employees who have an ownership stake in companies often use their power to "block productivity-enhancing changes" rather than improve the bottom line, and he concluded that what happened at United proves that "employee ownership may still make sense as a way of privatizing government assets, but it is clearly no ticket to higher profits and productivity."
Bartlett's analysis is too simplistic by half. Advocates of employee stock ownership plans, or ESOPs, point out that United's plan was not typical of most employee-ownership situations and was probably doomed from the start. It was a strategy of convenience for United's management and its various labor groups, each of which had a different idea about what "employee ownership" meant. Indeed, a majority of the company's workers -- its flight attendants and its nonunion employees -- were never even part of the plan. As a result, say champions of ESOPs, employees at United never quite acted like owners, and management didn't run the company as if the employees had a say.
It's senseless to conclude anything about all ESOPs based on what happened at United, says Corey Rosen, who directs the nonprofit National Center for Employee Ownership. "I have yet to see a story that says investor ownership failed US Airways" -- which declared bankruptcy in August. "You could make a good argument based on that situation that investor ownership was a bad model at the airlines. But it would be a really silly point to draw from the experiences of one airline."
Still, after United's failure -- not to mention the problems at Enron, WorldCom and all the dot-coms, where employees saw the retirement and stock-option fortunes they'd invested in their companies melt away -- Americans may now be leerier than ever of the prospect of owning their bosses' companies. Should they be? Does it make sense to have workers telling companies how to behave?
It does make sense if the plan is right. If you study what was wrong with United, and what's right with successful companies in which employees have equity, one thing is consistent: When firms make employees feel as though they have a say in what a company does, and when employees feel as though they're working alongside managers rather than against them, companies work better. That might seem like a Pollyannaish notion. Owners and workers are bound to be at odds, goes traditional thinking -- that's basic capitalism.
But that's not true. Contrary to what some conservatives say, employee ownership can increase productivity, decrease production costs, and reduce the waste that comes with a bad labor-management environment. It can do a lot more, too. If the corporate world embraced employee ownership, we might see companies that were more accountable to their workers and to the world. We wouldn't see CEOs making 500 times as much as the average worker, we wouldn't see unions making obviously untenable demands of their companies, and -- with all the new wealth flowing to workers -- we could reduce the gap between the country's rich and poor. And we could still call it capitalism.
Critics of employee ownership have argued that the idea has a fundamental flaw: You're putting workers in charge of their own paychecks. "Somebody's crazy. It can't work," Lee Iacocca, the former Chrysler chairman, reportedly said about United's deal in 1994. "What do you think will happen when it's a choice between employee benefits and capital investment?"
Even though workers in an employee-owned company are also technically "owners," critics like Iacocca suggest that they won't act like owners. Employees will favor immediate pay increases over investments that will, in the long term, pay off even more. The critics aren't wrong; some of Iacocca's worries do seem to have played out at United. But the key to making sure that doesn't happen at other employee-owned firms, and the key to having ESOPs transform society, experts say, is changing the "culture" of an employee-owned company: disabusing workers of the notion they're "wage slaves" and persuading them to value the company.
In November, when it still looked possible for United to avoid bankruptcy, the company asked its employees to take deep wage cuts in order to save the firm. Most of the workers complied, but the company's 13,000 mechanics balked at their proposed share of the pay cuts -- about $700 million over five years. The mechanics said that they couldn't agree to the wage cuts because they were concerned with what they called "work-life" issues at the company -- for example, they were upset about United's refusal to let them choose which vacation days they were required to take unpaid.
Some mechanics seemed untroubled by the idea that United might end up bankrupt. "The general feeling among mechanics is, 'If we can't have it, then greedy executives can't have it either,'" wrote Jennifer Salazar Biddle, a United mechanic, in an Op-Ed on the Socialist Worker's Web site. "Everyone I know is saying, 'Full Pay to the Last Day!'"
Considering that a typical mechanic had paid about $80,000 in wages to buy a slice of United, the mechanics -- who eventually backed down, though not in time to save the company -- could be accused of acting irrationally. Their desire to stick it to "greedy executives" was so consuming that they seemed to forget that, in pushing for bankruptcy, they were also sticking it to themselves.
That sort of irrationality has been a hallmark of United's ESOP, and it hasn't always been confined to the employee side of the bargaining table, experts say. United's management has continually blamed workers for the airline's high cost-structure, and its dealings with workers have always been frosty. "Folks who are more toward the left like to point the finger at management and say they screwed up," says J. Michael Keeling, president of the ESOP Association. "Then people whose values are more to the right, they blame labor and they blame the unions and what the pilots did with that stupid flight slowdown in the summer of 2000.
But you can't blame either the management or the workers, says Keeling. Each side was simply playing its part in the adversarial game that has always characterized the relationship between workers at a company and the owners, especially at large, heavily unionized companies like United.
"If you really want people to behave like owners," says Charles O'Reilly, a professor of human resources and organizational behavior at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, "you have to make sure they have psychological ownership, not just financial ownership." What O'Reilly means by "psychological ownership" is straightforward: People have to care about the fate of the company. What's surprising is that research has shown that psychological ownership doesn't necessarily coincide with one's financial stake -- you can own a lot of stock in a company, but you might still hate everything about the place and try to enrich yourself in the short term even if hurts the company, and you, in the long term.
While it's easy for firms to design ways to hand over financial ownership to employees, there isn't a standard recipe for giving workers psychological ownership. But some things can help predict how well workers will take to their new role, experts say. One is the size of the company: Workers in a small company tend to have an easier time feeling as if they own the place than those in a large company. Most employee-owned companies are not publicly traded, says Rosen, and that helps as well. When workers feel as if the management is more responsive to labor than to a horde of anonymous shareholders, they're bound to feel more loyalty to the firm.
But perhaps the most important factor is the historic relationship between labor and management at the firm. "I remember when I heard of the United plan," says Rosen. "I said, Oh God, why do we have to have United as the company that everyone thinks of when they think of an employee-owned company?" That's because United had a dismal record of labor relations. "We knew that the best environment for employee ownership is one in which -- like Southwest -- the company says employees come first, customers second, and shareholders third," Rosen says.
Rosen adds: "Every company in America says that 'people are our most important asset,' but the tragedy that United illustrates is that that's not true. What we've seen is that when you treat your employees with dignity and respect, you get thousands of people in a big company sharing ideas and information about how you can do things better. And there are only a handful of companies who realize that the people who work for you are the most important asset."
The early thinker most associated with the idea that employees should have an ownership stake in firms was Louis Kelso, a lawyer, economist and philosopher who in 1973 persuaded Russell Long, the powerful Democratic senator from Louisiana, to support legislation legalizing ESOPs.
Kelso is something of a controversial figure in economics; his ideas -- outlined in his 1958 tome "The Capitalist Manifesto" -- represented, to some, an unholy mix of Marxism and capitalism, and he has never really been accepted by academics. But there remains a small band of Kelso devotees, including some in business and policy circles, who believe that Kelso's idea that workers ought to trade their labor in return for capital was nothing short of revolutionary. If we followed Kelso, they say, and pushed more owners to give equity to workers, we would have a more "just" society.
When economists talk about the ingredients required to produce an item, they outline two categories -- which can be broadly described as the workers and the machines, or, more formally, labor and capital. It's always troubled some people -- most notably Karl Marx -- that machines are always getting better and better, meaning that workers are always becoming relatively less and less valuable in comparison and are bound to eventually become, some fear, put out on the street. The communist solution to this was to give governments control of everything, an idea that hasn't fared well. Kelso's solution is more elegant: Let workers get paid for their work in capital.
"The gap between the rich and the non-rich was getting wider," says Norman Kurland, who runs a nonprofit called the Center for Economic and Social Justice and who helped Kelso lobby for ESOPs in the 1970s. "Kelso's idea was that there was a problem in the way we finance new capital. There are barriers to ownership -- it's very difficult to become an owner. If you want to buy a house or a car, you can go out and get credit. But it's much harder to finance capital" -- the infrastructure necessary to start a business.
To be sure, there are always some people who manage to get financing to start businesses. "There are always some geniuses who can break the barriers," Kurland says. "But you can't run an enterprise system as if everyone's a genius." And employee ownership was conceived as a way of transferring capital -- and the wealth that comes with it -- to the vast majority of us who aren't geniuses.
"Americans," Kelso told "60 Minutes" in 1975, "are a nation of industrial sharecroppers who work for somebody else and have no other source of income. If a man owns something that will produce a second income, says Kelso, he'll be a better customer for the things that American industry produces. But the problem is how to get the working man that second income."
For people who don't like the inequality in capitalist systems but who've nevertheless resigned themselves to capitalism, Kelso's idea can be charming. It softens capitalism without adulterating it, especially if it can be shown that companies that adopt employee ownership are, in the long run, more successful.
During the almost 30 years since ESOPs were introduced, they have become popular financial instruments, and champions of employee ownership say that United's failure will probably not do much to stem the employee-ownership tide sweeping over the American workplace. According to the ESOP Association, more than 11,000 companies in America, covering 8 percent of all employees, have ESOPs. In more than half of those firms, employees own enough equity to be a "major factor in the corporation's strategy and culture," the group says.
But what United's failure shows, Kurland says, is that workers have not yet adapted to their true calling, which is as owners. Americans too often measure their worth by the size of their biweekly paychecks, not by the wealth they're accumulating in capital. For this, he blames labor unions, who get their power from wages, and he blames management, who often think of their workers as being as dispensable as machines. He also blames academics -- economists mainly -- who have not yet pushed Kelso's ideas.
Louis Kelso died in 1991, without much fanfare. But Kurland says he's optimistic that Kelso's ideas will be adopted by mainstream business and academia, and he's not worried that what happened at United will give employee ownership a bad name. "When you have Enron situations, you see you need this," he says. "If every worker knew Ken Lay was taking money out of their pockets, he wouldn't be going to get away with it. This effort is a global effort. It must be done right."
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2019-04-21T22:41:24Z
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Today we received our brand new water/sand/sensory trays. The children could not wait another moment! They quickly filled them with warm water and got down to the serious business of water play straight away!
Water play releases energy, it can be both invigorating or relaxing and calming for young children. It increases their ability to concentrate on one activity when presented as a tranquil and repetitive activity (scooping, pouring and running their hands through the water). Gentle water play allows them to unwind, order their thoughts and relax.
Water Play also gives so many opportunities to develop fine and gross motor skills across all the age ranges. Children will improve their hand eye coordination through actions like pouring, squirting, scrubbing, stirring and squeezing.
It also encourages role play and crucial social skills like cooperation and sharing. They learn to work with one another, to take turns and share the space and accessories with their friends.
WE LOVE OUR NEW TRAYS!
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2019-04-20T07:18:26Z
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We arrived in Quebec City, driving in from Montreal. The city, at first, is like any other large city in North America, then suddenly, BOOM, 17th century. This is the closest thing to a European experience on the continent. The closer we got to our hotel we got, the more amazing it became. Then we saw the castle, Le Chateau Frontenac, an old railway hotel in the heart of the Old City, with a breathtaking view of the St Lawrence River. Stunning.
We pulled up in front of this magnificent building and then realized that we our hotel was directly across a square from it. We were staying a quaint B&B style hotel called Auberge Du Trésor. Once again we had lucked out and picked a wonderful place to stay.
We quickly dropped our bags, parked the car and headed out to take in some sights before nightfall. It was October and the days were shortening and we had arrived late in the day. It was also our anniversary and we had a supper set for later in the evening at the hotel restaurant. We were immediately taken with the “other country” atmosphere, right down to the language thing. Old world buildings, french being spoken, very different from anywhere else in Canada or the USA. Here are a few pics.
The famous Artist Alley. The wall on the right is the wall of our hotel.
Our hotel at night looks every bit as wonderful as during the day. Overall first impression of Quebec City, a spectacular place to visit.
A long day, time to enjoy our anniversary dinner, the big 31. The meal at the 1640 restaurant was very good, and we found our favourite wine on the list. Oyster Bay Merlot out of New Zealand. This is hard to do with tendency in Quebec to stock old world wines. The meal was great, so good in fact that I only remembered to take pictures of the appetizer and the soup and salad. Drool over these while I end the post with a promise of more Quebec City next week.
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2019-04-18T16:39:21Z
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In 1940 the French declared Paris an “open” city so the invading Nazi Army would not destroy it while capturing it. Today modern cities are starting to declare themselves “open” in slightly more trusting ways, by exposing their data and information to all citizens and, indeed, to anyone on the Internet. By declaring ourselves “open” we hope to marshal an army of citizens, developers and analysts to give us new insights into governing and better engagement with the people we serve.
I’ve had the opportunity to participate in a couple of fascinating conferences lately. One was the Open Cities conference sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation in Washington DC. The other was “Future in Review”, Mark Anderson’s FiReGlobal conference held in mid-October, for the first time here in Seattle.
The theme is consistent: city governments, by opening their information, their data, their engagement processes, can generate a wealth of new ideas and understandings which make them more efficient and effective, and more robust, exciting places, with improved quality of life.
The old model, used for 250 years or more, is for a City is to collect as much data as possible about problems, its responses, services it provides and the general city environment. Then the typical city hires analysts or consultants – experts, if you will – to pore over the data and discern patterns. These experts then make recommendations for policy, action or changes.
Oh yes, we try not to forget regular citizens in this. We’ll present the experts’ ideas to citizens in public meetings for their “input”. And citizens can give feedback, one at a time, for two or three minutes each, in a public forum. A terrifying (or wonderful) example of this is a recent Seattle City Council budget hearing, 205 minutes of 2 and 3 minute mini-speeches, most focused on just one or two topics (cutback of Library hours) out of a $4 billion budget. If you have a spare three+ hours, watch it here.
Most such public hearings are very one-way – experts or city officials talking at people, citizens talking back individually to elected officials and experts. This is extraordinarily inefficient as dozens or hundreds of people “watch” the mini-speeches, while waiting their turn to speak. Far too much air time is taken up by one-issue, professional gadflies (“citizens in comfortable pants”), often with off-the-wall opinions not representative of most people. Almost as bad, often the only people with time or interest to show up are often homeowners and others who NIMBY (“not in my backyard”) the ideas, a negative dynamic. And this whole process is virtually the same as the process we used at the birth of the nation, in 1776, when our largest city was Philadelphia with 50,000 people.
Enter the Internet, and, more specifically, enter Web 2.0. All of a sudden, now in 21st Century America, there is tremendous computing power in the hands of ordinary people – smartphones, desktop and laptop computers. And those devices are connected, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Now you hear ordinary people talk about formerly obtuse technology concepts like databases and spreadsheets and pivot tables and Wi-Fi. And suddenly (at least in historic terms) there are millions of people and trillions of dollars involved in computing and software and development of applications.
In Seattle, for example, 84% of homes have access to the Internet. Nationally, there are 255 million cell phones , 21 million iPhones , and 101,000 iPhone applications . Cities are getting on the bandwagon. Many are publishing detailed crime statistics and even the details of 911 calls on their websites. You can find restaurant inspections and building permits and census statistics.
Public engagement, however, is still broken. We still hold public meetings with death-by-PowerPoint presentations and long lines of people trooping up to the microphone to give their 2 minute NIMBY mini-speeches.
There are beginnings of better ways. Fedgov websites like Citizens Briefing Book and local sites like ideasforseattle allow some limited input online input from people – allowing people to post their ideas, view each others ideas, and rank them. More robust applications for engagement are emerging, from Seattle’s own Ideascale and companies like Athena Bridge. These applications allow people to shape ideas and develop them, commenting and ranking along the way.
But we need even more robustness – we need to bring such software to public meetings, so that, as officials or citizens are presenting ideas and talking, everyone in the room, or gee, anyone on the Internet watching the meeting, can be commenting, tweeting, and ranking, and the results are immediately displayed. The gadflies will quickly see their ideas have little public support.
In many other cases, obscure and even anonymous ideas and unique solutions to problems will emerge and be developed. Then, with open data feeds and citizen-developed applications, those solutions can be quickly tested against the real data published by a city which defines the problem. Almost as fast, options will emerge and consensus may develop on the right approach.
This new, emerging world of public engagement via the Internet and technology is not a panacea. It will take a lot of tweaking and mistakes before usable software emerges and public officials understand how to use it. And it won’t work in every case or to address every problem.
Yes, the hordes and armies of citizens are about to invade. So let’s declare our cities “open” and embrace them.
P.S. Those readers who are astute will make comments that Seattle is one of the major cities with no data.seattle.gov. Believe me, THAT will soon change!
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2019-04-26T13:42:09Z
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This imaginative, sensual picture is keyed to the indescribable essence of life: It's what movies, at their best, can be.
Anyone who has read Jean-Dominique Bauby's slim, extraordinary 1997 memoir "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is likely to wonder how it could possibly be made into a movie. In 1995 Bauby, then 43 and the editor of French Elle, suffered a stroke that left him incapable of speaking and barely able to move, the victim of a rare condition known as locked-in syndrome. The one part of his body he could control was his left eyelid, and so Bauby learned to communicate by blinking. He wrote the book by working with an assistant, who would slowly recite a special alphabet; Bauby would blink to select the letters he wanted. In this way, letter by letter, word by word, sentence by sentence, Bauby built "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" -- to say "wrote" seems barely adequate, considering the mental discipline and physical effort the book must have cost him. Bauby died just two days after the book's publication in France, but what he left behind is a small wonder of architecture, an intimate structure in which the reader and the narrator find a private, shared space with windows that open out onto the vastness of the world. It's the very opposite of locked-in.
So how do you make a movie about a man who can communicate only by fluttering his one functional eyelid? The painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel has given us two previous pictures, both of them also based on true stories of men who are no longer with us, the 1996 "Basquiat," about '80s wunderkind painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the 2004 "Before Night Falls," based on the memoir of the Cuban poet and novelist Reynaldo Arenas. "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" -- which was made in France, with a cast of French actors -- is only Schnabel's third movie, but it's hard to imagine that any other, more experienced director could have done it better. The picture is so imaginatively made, so attuned to sensual pleasure, so keyed in to the indescribable something that makes life life, that it speaks of something far more elemental than mere filmmaking skill: This is what movies, at their best, can be.
Mathieu Amalric plays Bauby, or Jean-Do, as his friends and family call him. As the movie opens, he has no idea what's going on, and neither do we: We see portions of blurry human figures, from oblique angles, incomplete portions of something so incomprehensible we can't even call it a puzzle. We hear a voice asking, "What's going on?" It's Jean-Do's voice, but it may as well be coming from us. In these early scenes, shot from a point of view that's baffling both to the audience and to the narrator, Jean-Do is us, and we are his John Doe -- not just witnesses to his journey but anonymous accomplices traveling with him.
A voice -- we'll later see that it belongs to an officious doctor -- asks, "Do you remember what happened?" Jean-Do answers, "Like I said, vaguely -- images," but the words are forming only in his head. He asks, "What's going on?" and gets no answer. He blinks, and the camera blinks with him.
That's the Jean-Do that was, but Schnabel and his team make us far more interested in the one who is. The early scenes of the movie are filmed not just from Jean-Do's point of view, but from behind his eyes: His blinking becomes the movie's punctuation, its commas and pauses. (Schnabel and Kaminski found that the best way to simulate a blink was to hold two fingers in front of the camera lens in a horizontal "V," closing it at precise moments -- an imaginative and brilliantly organic solution to a technical challenge.) At the beginning of the movie we're inside Jean-Do; later, we float outside him, although the distance between him and us has already dissolved. The Jean-Do we come to know is the one who's being held captive not just in a French seaside hospital, but in his own body. When he half-glimpses his reflection in a window, we see, with the same horror he does, what he really looks like: His head lolls on the cushion of his wheelchair, his mouth is askew, but his one eye is dazzlingly alert. "God, who's that?" he asks, but his next step is to find the gag lurking inside the horrific revelation: "I look like I came out of a vat of formaldehyde."
My mission, if I achieve nothing else, is to impart how resolutely undepressing "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" is, while acknowledging that it's also carried by undercurrents of sadness. In a filmmaking climate where screenplays are so often tinkered and monkeyed with that it's obvious they bear little resemblance to what the screenwriter originally put to paper, there's no doubt that Harwood's script is the backbone of this picture. When he was asked, at a press conference, about the biggest challenge he faced in adapting this complex little book, he said, "It took me a while to find a way in because I didn't want the entire film with a man in bed ... Then I found the way in, which was that the camera becomes the man."
That's how you make a screenplay, and a movie, breathe: This picture isn't about the limits of a life, but of its wholeness. We can see the closeness that develops between Jean-Do and his interpreter, Claude (Ann Consigny); the way he teases and flirts with his two pretty therapists, who skim into his room like earthbound angels, hoping to help him speak and move again. (They're played, wonderfully, by Olatz Lopez Garmendia, who is Schnabel's wife, and by Marie-Josée Croze.) Jean-Do is connected to life largely through women, and even though his body has betrayed him, his mind hasn't: He takes great pleasure in getting close-up views of their open-necked shirts (we're not even talking about anything so obvious as cleavage here). And in one deeply moving scene, his ex, Céline, acts as an unwilling intermediary between Jean-Do and his girlfriend. Seigner plays the scene with a faux-coolness that's heartbreaking; she has never been better.
The picture is so beautiful to look at that it's practically buoyant: Kaminski makes it look simultaneously dreamy and alive. And Amalric, who gave one of the finest performances of 2005 in Arnaud Desplechin's "Kings and Queen," is marvelous here, in a performance that's anything but interior: As Amalric plays him, Jean-Do's vitality has nothing to do with the shell of a body he lugs around with him. In a dream sequence, Jean-Do (because he quickly realizes that his useless body is no deterrent to his dreams) indulges in a sumptuous feast at Le Duc, and Claude happens to be there too: He beckons her to his table, where they slurp oysters and drink from fat, rounded goblets of wine. This Jean-Do is not the Jean-Do of "now," twisted in his wheelchair, nor is he the Jean-Do of "then," a dashing figure in a tiny sports car. He's a man in between: There he is, smiling, clean-shaven, beautifully groomed, but he's wearing his dressing gown in the middle of a chic Parisian restaurant. In this scene Amalric's face and his body language speak of the pleasure that the Jean-Do of "now" is still capable of feeling, even though his muscles no longer do his bidding.
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" suggests -- perhaps it even proves -- that our capacity for joy, and our ability to process it through whatever senses are available to us, are more durable than we think. In his book, Bauby wrote about how although his ability to hear the outside world had been somewhat impaired, the hearing inside his head had changed dramatically. He wrote of being aware of the butterflies "that flutter inside my head. To hear them, one must be calm and pay close attention, for their wingbeats are barely audible. Loud breathing is enough to drown them out. This is astonishing: My hearing does not improve, yet I hear them better and better. I must have butterfly hearing."
If you've ever seen Schnabel, in pictures or in person, you know he's a portly, unshaven, eccentric-looking guy given to tromping around in pajama-like garments. In interviews, he's Falstaffian, intelligent and a little nuts. But now we also know something else about him: He's a filmmaker with butterfly hearing.
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2019-04-18T18:20:40Z
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繼續閱讀 “【紐約14】紐約看戲流水帳The Diary of a Teenage girl & Avenue Q"
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2019-04-20T18:44:27Z
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I started roleplaying in secondary school. When I was "studying" in Cambridge, I continued. For my sins I was elected Secretary then Chief Caprine Entity for CURS (the Role-Playing Society). These two posts meant I spent a total of 5 years on the committee, which I believe to this day is still a record. In my time, I also represented the Society (and hence the University!) in the annual Varsity Match against Oxford. For this feat I earned the prestige of a Quarter Blue!
Also in Cambridge, I was somehow chosen to be Honorary Vice-Chair Thing in CUWoCS - the Cambridge University Worshippers of Cthulhu Society, a CURS spin-off.
Mike's Ars Magica game set at the covenant of Sagres. The library for the covenant is here. I play Paulus, a young Merinita in the game.
Steven's superheroes game The Powers and the Glory, where I play Minuteman, a patriotic hero with the power to grow and shrink himself.
A group of us have created a 1920s New England town called Unity, where various foul supernatural goings-on blight the local populace. My character Robert Johnson and his friends at the 122 Society work hard to save the world on a regular basis.
Tristan is running System of Thought, set in the Babylon 5 universe where the PCs are telepaths evading the Psi Corps. I play Greg, an asteroid miner.
We've just finished the third season of Rob's Messengers, using In Nomine. I have a Mercurian angel called William.
I'm Bo Gundersson, a seasoned medic/explorer in Catherine's far-future adventure/intrigue Diplomatic Immunity.
A one-off game based on Big Brother.
A Cthulhu-style adventure set in Newburgh, the village where I grew up.
A Feng Shui game run in Hong Kong (and across time and space!).
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2019-04-21T03:31:32Z
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http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/rpg/
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Is human agency, in some qualitative sense, different from the agency of other organisms? If it is, can we view the relationship between humans and other living systems from the perspective of agency? If we can, do we need to take more than one perspective, and also be prepared to view the relationship from the perspective of humans as living things, or even as simple elements (or relationships, energy flows, matter cycles) of a larger, more comprehensive whole (the universe, the planet, the ecosphere)?
Secondly, what kind of degree of agency might we, humans (or rather, persons), be said to have? How might we be said to be able to respond to the situation within which we find ourselves? We can wonder what we might be doing in three weeks’ time (and this seems a capacity unique to the species, or at least some members of it) and we feel as though we might be able to decide, to some degree, what we might do in three weeks time. However, can we really weigh up between plans? In anticipating, can we avoid?
Linked to this degree of agency is the notion that we have a certain amount of responsibility for our situation. If we have avoided the demise of our own species, for instance, it has been at the cost of biodiversity loss, pollution, species extinction, climate change and other human-induced changes to the biosphere. Yet much of this destruction has come about through either ignorance, or through an attitude which justified the exploitation of the environment as ‘other’.
What would it mean to respond from within a different framework to the one we now operate in? What would it mean to act in acknowledgement both of the constraints under which we operate (the realisation that natural laws apply to us just as firmly as they do to all other forms of existence) and of the ability we have to reflectively consider our situation, to the degree that this consideration itself emerges as a feedback process that influences which possibilities open as potential actions?
Interestingly, the notion that we are agents in this way is, empirical evidence suggests, more enabling of that concept than the notion that there is no such thing as agency2. Moreover, accepting just this degree of freedom in action implies accepting a corresponding degree of responsibility for that action. The rational argument concludes that this limited level of choice – the choice to actively self-reflect – is free, and therefore that conscious awareness does allow for some deliberation over how to weigh up certain interests. If, in the past, we have, as a species, failed to take into account interests beyond those of our immediate human ‘clans’ or communities, it is because we have not been in a position to realise, or wake up to an awareness of, this degree of choice. Many of the myths that have dominated our cultural thinking have been precisely those that have, by accident or by design, described a different kind of freedom, one that applied, first, only to human activities vis-a-vis other humans, and second, one that required more than any individual could possibly give in terms of autonomy, since no individual is autonomous to the degree required by the former myths.
This work is worth doing precisely because the research suggests a re-examination of who or what is taken into account when interests are being weighed up. If the range of systems that demand our response is much broader than we had previously realised, and yet our own voluntary activity is constrained to self-reflection, or reflection on the process of conscious activity, then it might be argued that we have no freedom to do what needs to be done. However, a little effort will show that this cannot be the right conclusion: all the freedom that we require is contained in the activity of realisation, of self-reflection, of awareness of the state that we are in. It is precisely this activity that loosens the inevitability of our reactions and gives space in which are created other possibilities. Both a recognition of our interconnected interdependence, and an acknowledgement of the role of conscious activity in shaping our responses, is required for us to open up to the altered potential that exists within a meditative awareness. This can then form a highly comprehensive basis for a strategy to tackle our ecological emergency.
1A second problem is that those of us prepared to take Evolutionary Theory seriously are not necessarily in a majority. Even if a reasonable case is made for a change of attitude, those whose beliefs are informed by their faith will still outnumber those who might be prepared to consider a shift in perspective.
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We are studying the book of 1 Corinthians in our Wednesday night Life Night class and so we have put together some reflection on the city of Corinth and on the different chapters that we will be dealing with. We hope these reflections help you as you study the book of 1 Corinthians.
One of the ways in which I believe that the city of Corinth described to us by Pausanias, an ancient writer of travel guides about cities he visited, effects the way in which we read the epistle, is how the city came into being. From the earliest day Pausanias tells us that the city was filled with idolatry. It tells of the origin of the city is said to have come from the Sun and the Sea. Although much of this had changed by the time Paul came to the city, it was still a root within the foundation of the culture. Pausanias also talks about the people that were brought into the remaking of the city. Freemen, that were a little better than slaves of the day, were sent to establish the city and because there was no old political group within the city, people that had never had political power or a voice came affluence within the city. This created a sense of independence and even pride. Both Pausanias and Strabo talk to us about the location of the city and the harbors that were built there. The city was a port city that was rich because all the goods from Asia and Italy interceded at Corinth. Strabo, more than Pausanias, deals with the sexual immorality of the city and though many believe that his numbers were inflated by the number of prostitutes that were working in the temple of Aphrodite, we do know that there was a great deal of sexual immorality in the church. Being a port city, there were all kinds of immorality that was available to those that came to a shore and for those that lived in the city. Pausanias also talks about the Isthmian games and how, not only did they bring money into the city, they were also competed in by women. Some being professional athletes and earning a great deal of money to compete.
Now the question is how must one interpret this when reading Corinthians? I think that you cannot effectively read the book of 1 Corinthians without taking all of this into consideration. When Paul first goes into the city and begins to preach the “good news,” he must overcome all the obstacles in order to be effective with the gospel. Dealing with all the idolatry would be an issue that he would have to deal with repeatedly. Throughout the letter, Paul continues to bring out the point that Jesus is the only way that we can receive salvation. Corinthian was made up of so many different groups of people and religions that Paul had to show that teaching was false and that only through Jesus Christ could one be saved. The political climate of the city had promoted people that more than likely would have never been promoted in Rome, and now they come into the church and believe that they should be leading the church, even though they did not have knowledge or Godly wisdom to do so. The richness of the city of Corinth plays a part in how we read the letter because, like the United States, the people of Corinth seem to have everything they could want and so Paul has to show them that they have nothing and that only through coming to Jesus is one truly wealthy. In 1 Corinthians 11, he makes this point while using the Isthmian games and telling them that what they gain here is only temporal but what they receive from Christ is eternal and that it is much better to have the eternal.
The cultural immorality of the city, I believe, had a great impact on the letter. We see where Paul spent two chapters (5-7) talking about this subject. No matter if it was as large of an issue as Strabo wrote, or much smaller, we do know that it was an issue within the city and ultimately had to be dealt with in the church. This draws a parallel to what we are facing in the church today, where our culture says that two people living together is totally acceptable. When people that are living in that situation come into the church they have to be taught that this is unacceptable. Whereas twenty years ago, everyone, even those outside the church, understood this, many today have no understanding that this is wrong. In like matter Paul has to show them that sexual immorality could not be accepted and that Jesus had given them the power to overcome this in their life.
I believe that after reading Margaret Mitchell’s paper, the historical situation of Corinthian church matters in the way we interpret 1 Corinthians. So here are my three points that brings me to these conclusions.
First, Mitchell brings out the fact that Paul centered around the theme that Jesus was the only One that could bring you salvation, that there was no other that could do this and only by the crucifixion of Christ could we have any hope of coming into a new life. The city of Corinthian was made up of so many different sub-cultures and religions that the people, by nature, seemed to form groups. We see that this happened within the church as some of the people aligned themselves with Paul and some Apollo, which led Paul to make the statement, “I planted, Apollo watered, but it is God that gave the increase” 1 Corinthians 3:6. Paul was showing them that it was God and Him alone that had brought them into salvation. Because of the polytheistic society that they had been a part of they tended to want to see more, but Paul tells them no, that all things come from God.
Second, Mitchell deals with the fact that the people are now united in Christ. Paul takes time in 1 Corinthians 6 to show them they are all one body now. The city of Corinth was filled with different sub-cultures, ethnic groups, and religions. They were use to being divided up into these different categories but Paul shares with them that they are now a part of one body, not because of who they are, but because they have come to know Jesus, and through Jesus they are now one. All the other things no longer matter and the division of their culture is superseded by they acceptance into the family of God.
Thirdly, Mitchell briefly talked about the fact that the Corinth Christians were mentioned more than any others except the Romans. I believe that this was due to the historical situation of the city. Because the city was so sinful they were open to the message of the gospel. I mean where the darkness looms the most the light shines the brightest. I believe this helped Paul and the early church in winning people to Jesus because they were looking for something different and something that was real. The problem was the same thing that brought them to Christ was also the thing that held them back from maturing the way they should have. Rather than forsake all the things that they had left in the past, they seemed to want to bring some of that into the church with them. Because of this, we see the problems that Paul would have to deal with in his letter to them.
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2019-04-19T21:24:29Z
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After many talks with many different people, I have decided that marriage doesn’t have to be that one thing that makes me happy. (Mind you, I’m not talking about anyone else. I am talking about me, baby!) I truly believe, even if you do desire to get married someday, that you need to know how to be happy single first. Then you will have the tools you need to deal with whatever comes next. If you don’t do happy single first and you go straight to coupling up, you will have roadblocks or wasted time. The person you thought would be the answer to your happiness will disappoint you, the relationship will crumble and you will be onto the next relationship before you’ve had time to evaluate what happened. Then you find yourself on a merry-go-round you can’t get off of.
Now I understand that some people get lucky and meet that one person who may not have all the answers (because who really does, anyway?), but is willing to work with them on happiness, flaws, insecurities and everything in between, blah, blah, blah. That’s great. I just don’t believe it for me. It took me a long time to figure out what I wanted as far as coupling up was concerned, but once I did, I came to this conclusion: if I can’t get married to someone who will only generally increase my happiness, then I want to be happy single. Marriage should be something that adds to my happiness, not complete it, and certainly not decrease it. So, being a straight girl, I want a man, but I don’t need one. So if I don’t meet the right one, I will learn to be happy on my own. And it will take learning what makes me happy as a single straight girl first before I go down either one of those paths.
I met a high school girl once who imagined what her wedding dress would look like, down to all the dirty details. I’m not sure, but it makes me feel that younger girls all dream about their wedding day, before they dream about who they will be when they grow up. It’s like a “thing” for teenaged girls to get boyfriends, to hurry up and get that first relationship experience before getting dropped off at Jaded City. That is simply not true. When I was a teenaged girl, I didn’t think about weddings really, let alone what mine would be like. I was thinking about school mostly. But beyond that, I wasn’t doing much thinking about the future. I was doing a lot of doing, if that makes sense, to prepare for a future I couldn’t really see except for what was expected of me. I was never one of those girls, who on her free time, thought about her wedding dress, her wedding cake, her bridesmaids’ dresses, her groom, how the proposal should go, what the ring will look like, and so on and so forth. (I’m not even sure back then I knew what all those things were, to be honest.) Because I didn’t think about these things, I got used to being single and doing what was expected of me.
I have an older friend who not only knows a lot about relationships because of the one she is in, but also from the stories her friends tell her. Over the years she’s spilled numerous stories about single girls, married women and those who have it in between—relationships that don’t seem to be headed anywhere solid. I think after hearing all these stories I finally understood that marriage is not the answer to happiness. What’s the point of being married to someone who is basically still living a bachelor lifestyle and doesn’t spend time with you? Don’t you end up feeling more lonely than you ever did single? You really have to find happiness within yourself. After all, besides God and maybe your parents if they are still around, who else knows you better than you? I’m sure there are some things even your closest bestie doesn’t know about you.
On the other hand, I know part of the appeal to coupling up is having a plus one on hand for certain occasions that it seems more appropriate to go as a twosome as opposed to attending solo. But then that specific idea messes with my head and sense of individualism. If we feel like we cannot attend an event alone, what does that say about us? That we care about what other people think? Or that we are clingy and can’t go to any event by ourselves?
Then there’s the fear of dying alone or ending up lonely. If you have a healthy happy marriage, you can probably prolong your life. However, if you’re like me and don’t see yourself meeting someone suitable and not caring what the world thinks of that, then there are some things you should do if you want to live a long happy life. I think the most important one is to have a social life. Sure, you can get a cat or a plant, but it’s just not the same as having some sort of regular human interaction. Plus if you have no amount of human interaction at all, you risk dying alone in your apartment and nobody finding out until your corpse started to reek and your cat ate half your face. No one wants that much paperwork!
Even if you do get married, don’t you want the person to love you for you? How are you going to know who the real you is without being single first? After all, a relationship with yourself is the only one you can’t break up with and isn’t that the best kind of relationship to invest in?
Bottom line? Be free to choose your own happiness. You don’t have to get married. It’s not a requirement. They don’t actually shoot single people.
When we overanalyze other people’s words and actions, we tire ourselves out. That is a fact. Whether you are a guy or a gal, I’m sure at some point in your life you have overanalyzed what something someone either said or did to you. Or didn’t do. Maybe you even do it several times a week. Dare I even say several times a day? Some days are better than others.
Why can’t we just accept that whoever is a true friend, whoever truly cares about us, will find a way to show it and make time for us no matter what and leave it at that? We can’t, so we go right back to analyzing. It’s like we as humans need constant validation that someone cares about us, that yes, we are worthy.
But if we get to the point of overanalyzing, think about what we don’t accomplish. If we are overanalyzing, the situation is out of our control. If it is out of our control, we must accept whatever outcome comes out. I think acceptance is the hardest part of this process. If we can’t accept this fact, we continue down the path of overanalyzation. It’s right at the intersection of Acceptance and Insanity. How much time you waste by overanalyzing, yet you still do it!
the many bodies on my wall where the water runs to clean the shampoo container.
Neither have the bodies on the floor by the door corners have been talked about.
I guess I’m the only one who’s noticed.
Or no one else has been up here.
Happy 21 to Justin Bieber!
I like that video and felt compelled to share it. I think it’s useful for everyone, not just girls.
Can you believe two months of 2015 have already gone by? People say that every year (with the year changing of course), but this year I hope you live your life on purpose. 10 months left to make a change. Maybe all you will need to do is change one habit of yours. Either drop one or adjust one. Or maybe it’s add a new beneficial habit. One habit can go a long way. Don’t underestimate.
Maybe at the end of every two months you need to check in with yourself. Accountability. It takes at least 30 days to make something a habit, so tacking on an additional 30 will only help. Whether you like to do things one thing at a time or multi-task, work towards something every single day to get one step closer to where you’re meant to be. When you wake up in the morning, first be grateful you get another day on this planet to try.
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2019-04-25T00:55:19Z
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https://attheoutset.wordpress.com/2015/03/
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This song was written by David Allen Clark, Donald A. Koch and Mark R. Harris. It was recorded by 4Him… included on their album, The Season Of Love.
Don Koch has been a composer and producer for many top artists.
4Him was a Contemporary Christian group founded in 1990 in Alabama. The group has 10 Dove awards, a Grammy nomination and 3 certified gold albums to their credit. The group was inducted into Alabama’s Music Hall of Fame, following the awarding of The Governor’s Achievement Award.
Andy Chrisman, Mark Harris, Marty Magehee, and Kirk Sullivan originally met when they sang together in Truth, a Contemporary Christian vocal group founded in the late 1960s. Truth had a rotating roster of 4 male and 4 female vocalists. After 3 representatives from Benson Records attended several Truth concerts in the late 1980s – during which Andy, Mark, Marty, and Kirk performed, Benson approached the quartet saying that they wanted to use the guys to create a new male 4-member vocal group under the Benson label. They blended the traditions of Christian music’s past, with modern pop production and practical lyrics.
4Him disbanded in 2006 to pursue individual careers of ministry and music. They released 12 studio albums which produced 27 number one singles.
This song looks at Christmas from Joseph’s perspective.
‘cause never in a million lives would he have dreamed of Bethlehem.
Why me? I’m just a simple man of trade.
but, this is such a strange way to save the world!
But, Joseph knew the reason love had to reach so far.
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2019-04-20T00:24:27Z
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https://thescottspot.wordpress.com/2018/12/05/a-strange-way-to-save-the-world-1993/
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Europe emphasizes the moral rights of the author, but the US downplays them. The US is more inclined to separate law and morality when possible, perhaps in an effort to make sense of one of our greatest shames: if law and morality are separate, we can make sense of the claim “Slavery is universally and always was wrong, but it was legal at one point though it is illegal now.” Whatever the cause, we seem to like the idea of law and morality as distinct (it might also help us be more comfortable with issues in abortion, death penalty, gay rights, etc. etc. where people have strong views about the morality of an issue but need to reconcile those feelings with constitutionally recognized procedural and substantive rights). In my area, this means that intellectual property is not more special or important than any other chunk of property one might own.
My generation has struggled, at least since the days of Napster, to really accept that “Downloading media [without paying] is just like stealing it off the shelf.” Many of us would never consider shoplifting, but felt completely morally comfortable making a lot of use of a lot of P2P sharing. How can we explain the phenomenon of a generation that would never steal the physical, but cannot comprehend the notion of stealing the intangible?
Part of the answer has to do with how we understand the digital world. Perhaps, for many of us, Cyberspace is the frontier of the 21st century. Like the discoverers of new lands throughout history, as soon as we get to a new place we start claiming whatever is there. Ownership only resonates with us if someone is apparently going to enforce their ownership. We don’t wander into others’ houses and use their stuff because they’ll get mad at us (and take some kind of action, legal or otherwise, against us)! But we don’t feel nearly so bad wandering into abandoned places (except for safety concerns of dilapidated buildings) and breaking things, because although someone may own the facility, no one will enforce their ownership against us.
What does this have to do with moral rights of owners? Moral rights do not need enforcement to be wrong. If it is immoral to kill someone, it is immoral whether or not a killer is caught or punished. Some hold the view that “Laws are threats backed by force,” that is, that laws are largely dependent on [potential] enforcement. Perhaps a contributing factor for why my generation continually rejects the feeling that digital piracy is equivalent to physical theft is the feeling of unenforceability, which undermines its legal force in a society in which law and morality are distanced.
However, this entire view might face a fatal problem in admitting that Europe has substantial amounts of piracy despite the legal recognition of the moral rights of artists and authors. Perhaps the European view of morality is substantially different in ways that make my thoughts here irrelevant.
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The true experience of God is seeing God in Actuality, in our real walk of Life and to understand that our real Lives in the real World are the greatest Miracle and the Highest Heaven.
This is far more of the Truth about what the Hebrew word אבינו , pronounced Avinu, which is very partially and selectively rendered as our Father, contains than what the Christians have been told. I cannot demonstrate the whole Truth of it, because that is infinite. I will prove the most important points – the inclusivity of the term that speaks of the entire Holy Family.
This demonstration, and the Hebrew *proofs* of what is said herein, should be shared with experts in Hebrew who can verify that what I say is what the Hebrew language says about this term.
Try me. Consult with those who know Hebrew. See for yourselves if this is the Truth or not.
One more thing: The Hebrew word מלכנו, pronounced Malkeinu, which is translated as Our King, is equal to 146, which the value of the expression המלכה אמה, The Queen is Her Mother and קולי, which means my voice.
With this my moral obligation to the Christians is fulfilled. I have given over enough information for you to understand that you have not been told anywhere near the comprehensive truth and to *prove* that to you. Thank God this Generation has merited to be able to see the underlying alpha-numerical *proofs* of the true Torah. There is no need for “faith” or “belief”. God has given us the keys to the proofs.
Benoit Mandlbrot was a nice Jewish boy who had a traditional, Orthodox Jewish education.
Like many Jews who made breakthrough discoveries, Mandelbrot described his understanding mathematically such that many would be receptive to it.
But mathematicians will tell you that it is hard for them to describe what a fractal really is.
That is because it is not mathematical. It is Hebrew Alpha-Numerical.
One and the same Meta-Vision exists on an infinity of levels.
The various levels, are various iterations of God’s vision on various moral levels.
On the various levels they take on various forms and configurations.
It is not that the same shape repeats endlessly, getting infinitely larger and infinitely smaller, but remaining the same shape and containing endless iterations of that one shape in itself.
It is not that mathematical formulae produce “sacred geometry”.
The Gematriot of the Hebrew language create the various forms.
In that way it becomes clear that YisraEl can be the Right Eye, The Torah, The Land, One of our Progenitors and the People [Pupil] of YisraEl.
None of those expressions are in any way contradictory. They are not metaphorical. They are entirely actual on various levels of moral interpretation.
Those various levels are not being integrated. The gradation is less being marked by definitely demarcated level.
The Light of Wisdom of God’s Vision is reaching down to the very lowest levels. The Light of God’s Wisdom has now reached the abyss of the abyss and is illuminating it.
Keep your eye on the Mariana Trench.
There is so much I would like to say in response to this video, but I’m forced to boil it down to a few sentences precisely because there is so much to say – like all of History.
The key to understanding correctly is not to think dualistically. Remember the Jews are absolute Monotheists.
On the uncreated level Satan tired of all evil and became Good. The Creation itself is the celebration of that Accomplishment.
The Jews are Satan who has undertaken to become God in the Creation, which is the Highest of the Heaven because it is Actual, and so the transformation is all the more difficult – because it is. All of our Torah is that process.
All of our labor in understanding that which sounds evil in Torah, but contains hidden good, is that process. Hebrew is devised to allow us to do just that. Once Torah is translated into any other language, that which can only be seen in Hebrew is lost, unless someone who understands Hebrew breaks it down in another language. But you have no direct access to that for the time being. One of the effects of the final rectification is the ability to reveal Torah in all of the languages. We haven’t gotten there yet. We are getting close.
All of history is the process of Satan SelfTransforming into Goodness.
To glorify pain is a major error. Even the word for pain in Hebrew is God comes.
The transformation reaches very high levels precisely when the pain is transformed to joy. Pain is an indication that the level is still very low. Joy is the sign that we are making serious progress.
The Hebrew word for light is equal to the Hebrew word for rectification. It’s not about light, per se. It’s about rectification. Physical light is a function of the level of the Rectification. All wave phenomena are functions of Morality – from very low to very high. It’s not about “energy”. It’s about Morality.
The highest level of God is not that which is good in and of itself, but that which was evil and repented of evil, having understood there is no rest in evil, nothing to be gained from it and that it is only endless vexation.
The final stage of the Rectification is taking no pleasure whatsoever in evil. This is the level we call Ba’al HaTshuvah [masculine singular] or Ba’alat HaTshuvah [ feminine singular]- The Master of Repentance, The Master of the Return [from the paths that lead nowhere].
The highest level of God is the Unification of all of the Ba’alei Tshuvah – all those who have made the entire journey and succeeded Together.
Please see the Chilufim on my Blogger blogs.
Wondering Why Your World is Going Belly Up?
And this is the truth of the matter of The Son. The Son is also Sarah. The Son is the Daughter of Every Generation. This is Shabbat. This is the Sum of all Days. This is the Sum of all of the Generations.
See Hebrew proofs on my Blogger blogs.
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In Italy, it is unusual to ask the waiter of your restaurant for a bag to take away your leftovers. If you do that, you will often demurely say that it is “for your dog”.
The campaigns against food waste are now partly changing this trend, but still according to the Italian Farmers’ Association only one Italian in five will dare asking for a “doggy bag”.
Unfortunately you cannot do that at marriages, when the waste of food in Italy is embarrassing.
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Retranscription d’un article paru sur un site asiatique suite au World Gourmet Summit tenu à Singapour en avril dernier, auquel participait San (ainsi que quelques autres chefs tels Alain Llorca).
CHEF Sang-Hoon Degeimbre, 37, is one of the top exponents of molecular gastronomy in Belgium.
It earned a Michelin star three years later. In 2002, he ventured into molecular gastronomy, which is a school of cooking that uses scientific methods to create food with unexpected tastes and textures. He had trained under Herve This, a French scientist who first coined the term molecular gastronomy. A seven-course degustation meal at Degeimbre’s restaurant costs about 75 euros (S$153). He is married to Carine, a Belgian who manages his restaurant. They have three daughters aged nine to 15.
The polite, mild-mannered chef was in town last week for the World Gourmet Summit. He presented his dishes at the Grand Hyatt.
How many molecular gastronomy dishes have you created?
More than 1,000. We change our menu every six weeks. We’re like children, always excited to create the next new texture.
The 63 deg C egg. You immerse an egg in water at 63 deg C and what you get is egg white that’s like jelly and egg yolk that’s liquid. We serve it with truffle mousse or morel mousse, depending on the season. We also have green apple cigar. You whisk 99 per cent green apple juice with 1 per cent methyl cellulose. It’ll become a mousse and we roll it up with a ‘leaf’ made of apple pulp. Then we wrap it all up in candy paper so it looks just like a cigar.
Do your customers actually feel full after a meal, or is it just fun food?
They’ve told us that they’re not bloated but feel satisfied because they had the real pleasure of tasting food. So, no, there’s no need to go out and eat something else.
What’s the most surprising dish you’ve created?
Liquid ravioli of yogurt and verbena. It looks like a reverse egg – inside is a white-coloured yolk made of verbena-flavoured yogurt and outside is a yellow-coloured egg white made of mango soup.
What’s the biggest disaster you’ve had in experimenting with new dishes?
Without a doubt, using the siphon for the first time in 1999. It’s a canister with a nitrous oxide cartridge inside that helps turn things into mousse. When I first tried it, it turned out either too hard or too soft. I almost threw it away. But now I have 20 siphons in my kitchen. You can make mousse out of anything – beetroot, foie gras – as long as you know what proportion of ingredients to use.
Do you eat normal food?
(Laughs) Yes. My favourite dish is Belgian meatballs in tomato sauce. I make it only once a year because I’m too busy. But when I make it, it’ll take 24 hours to prepare. You need to marinate the meat to make it taste good. I also like Asian food like chicken rice and curry. To me, it’s really comfort food.
I love citrus smells like verbena and lemongrass. It’s so fresh and light.
A bottle of champagne. There’s always an occasion to celebrate. Even the passing of each day. But I’m not an alcoholic (laughs).
What do you like to cook for your wife?
Very easy. I just shuck some raw oysters and squirt some hollandaise mousse on top. She loves it.
It was in Holland in a three-Michelin-star restaurant called Oud Sluis. The food was beautiful, technical and very impressive. I don’t usually like dessert but I loved the one I had there. It had the taste of lemon in different forms – foam, biscuit, mousse, cream.
Potato chips, salt and pepper flavour. But don’t tell anyone.
Going somewhere I’d never been before and eating something completely new.
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One of the challenges of making home made pizza is to get both the base and the topping cooked correctly. It’s all too easy to end up with an undercooked base or a carbonised topping. A solution I like is to pre-bake the bases, and I recently came across a very good recipe, courtesy of the Fabulous Baker Brothers, which I have adapted below. The mix of ingredients make for a very good flavour, which is further enhanced by the very long and slow rises which I have used.
This light textured bread is subtly flavoured with rosemary and honey, and although it contains a lot of sultanas, is not overly sweet. I thought it would be ideal for this month’s challenge on Fresh from the Oven, hosted by La Cuisine de Sarah, which was to make a fruited breakfast bread.
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Creating Passionate Users: Do your graphics say the wrong thing?
Heh, my first reaction was exactly what you wrote, except I don't know my dog breeds. Your improvement still feels a bit off. It's clear that three dogs are a problem, but it's still not clear why. Are they just spread too wide across the trail? Or maybe the stickwoman is allowed to have her own dog, and allowed to let her dog interact with one other dog, but not allowed to let her dog near a crowd of dogs? I'm no graphic designer, but I'd start with the stick woman, and a dog on a leash to the right, then another dog on a leash to the left, then a third dog on a leash to the right.
Hmm. Scott, nice idea but the leashes would complicate the design (and the trail is leash optional).
Also adding to different sides doesn't read effienctly. When drawn, it looks more like a pattern puzzle, and perhaps is asking what is the correct third line - perhaps it was meant to be dog, person, dog, person.
Which is where the problem is... it _is_ a pattern puzzle. Hmm. I guessed it was something about the dog, wasn't sure it was the breed, maybe the last dog had fleas.
Man I like this blog. Get's you really thinking.
How do you clear away from the gender issue. Does your new sign mean men with 3 dogs are ok. Only kidding.
If you put: 1 (checkmark), 2 (checkmark) and 3 (big x) next to each line, I think it becomes very clear that 1 or 2 dogs is okay, but 3 dogs is not.
Anyway, "No more than 2 dogs per person" is way faster to parse than even the improved sign. I'd rather have 7 words than a thousand.
Just as another suggestion: maybe crunch it all down into one graphic - one figure with 3 dogs, the thrid w/ an X through it. Can't it be assumed that if two dogs are OK, so is 1?
When I read some of these comments, I think that lots of us have lots of time in our hands!!!
Maybe it's just me, but when it comes to information to be conveyed to a general public, I see no problem whatsoever in using good old plain text to carry a complex message that can't be explained in less than four words.
Graphical symbols are good to convey simple ideas but hopeless at more complex concepts. That's why we have "OK" and "Cancel" symbol buttons in a GUI but we do not have one for "re-format disk and re-install Windows".
Other than the BSOD - but that's STILL text!
"More than 2 dogs per person NOT permitted"
El problema con solamente usar el texto es que no todo al mundo hable inglés.
Which is this gringo's attempt at saying that signs are good when you can't count on everyone knowing how to read-- or read a single language.
Lloyd, Stephen: I had to laugh out loud at that one! It actually means, "People wearing DRESSES can have a maximum of two dogs."
Jake: I thought about that, and was on the fence. I wasn't 100% sure it said it all, but if it does, then your way would be much better.
2) Most of us don't have the problem of using graphics when words will do just fine. In the tech world, we use FAR too many words when graphics would be 1,000 times better for quicker and more accurate grokking, retention, and recall.
OK, so back to the exercise: suspend disbelief and imagine that you could not use words to say it. If you don't need practice in thinking and communicating visually, then you can help the vast majority of us who do!
Actually it implies that people wearing dresses are not permitted three black dogs (and there's no indication about four as professional dog walkers would no doubt seek to exploit).
Thus, in this case, it would be better to use actual photos of various combinations of gender specific walkers and varieities of dogs. Those combinations which are unlawful would be photographed receiving a ticket from a warden. What a wonderful country!
Yes, there would be grey areas for debate, but on the grounds that ignorance is no defence, all people too stupid to understand this simple premise would deservedly be fined.
I guess you don't even need the first line of your graphic (the one with just one dog). It's safe to assume that if two dogs are allowed, than there's no reason why one dog would NOT be allowed.
Although, this requires some thought on the part of the reader, and sometimes thinking is too much to ask.
What you can leave out from a graphic is determined by what you can assume the viewers implicitly understand. Without a common implicit understanding, any communication is ambiguous, even if you do use text. As a non dog-owner, I brought in an assumption that "under control" was a synonym for "on a leash", so even the written language above initially confused me. Can we assume that dog owners are used to rules about numbers of dogs on and off leash, and expect to see those kinds of instructions in signs? Otherwise who knows what it could mean, given a different implicit understanding: a future archaeologist might come up with the theory that the sign belonged to a temple in a dog worshipping society and that acolytes had to be accompanied by one or two dogs to proceed along the path.
Oh that is too too good, DL. I may never see the world the same way again now that you said that... what a fun way to look at signs. Of course you did make a key point that implicit understanding and previous context matter. And in fact, I actually do NOT understand all the dog rules at the trail (and once DID get a $50 fine for not having a leash ON me, even though my dog was under control... you still have to carry a leash even if you're not required to use it).
But for example, I'm not sure what happens when you have a combination of on and off-leash dogs, although it appears that you could have 247 on-leash dogs as long as not more than two dogs "under your control" were off-leash. Sheesh.
But I'm getting one lesson here... that even trying to communicate something seemingly so simple isn't always quite as clear as it appears.
strikes law. Three offences and the dog gets it!"
This is one of those situations where the law is getting in the way of itself, ironically due to what I assume is an attempt to be as lenient as possible. The intent of the law is that you be able to control any canine(s) you may bring to the trail. So the law SHOULD just be "no out of control canines," not "we assume you can control two dogs but not three dogs so you can have two or fewer but you have to carry leashes for them just in case you can't actually control them after all, and if you want other dogs on leashes that's cool too."
"Each human can have no more than two dogs under their control."
Drop the human from the graphic and show the dogs with collars attached. In the background place an image of a hiker carrying a leash to further imply control. The X on the third image is over both the dogs and the hiker.
DL, you can't assume anything about dog owners knowing and understanding the rules.
In all the examples given, only Chris even tried to address the second point of the sign. That is, that the up to two dogs off-leash must be under control. In my book that means can you keep your off-leash dog from running up to my on-leash dog? Can you get it to come by calling it once? Will your dog leave the hiker who really doens't like dogs alone?
The "future archaeologist" perspective is a good exercise.
It kind of makes my little Photoshop/Web design issues seem trivial.
"Hello. Excuse me. Can you tell me where I am?
In our country, we send pictures of people speaking our sign language in Outer Space. We are speaking our sign language in these pictures.
Do you think that They will think his arm is permanently attached in this position?
Oh, do you think They will read our signs? In our country, Goodbye looks just like Hello. Say Hello."
Sorry if someone had already mentioned this (didn't get a chance to read all the comments), but I'd say that the most effective way to pictorially represent the 'no more than two dogs per person' rule is to depict three people (stick figures), at the same level, from left to right. The leftmost person keeping one (abstract) dog in close proximity, the middle person keeping two dogs in close proximity, and finally the rightmost person keeping three dogs in close proximity. The third person and the three dogs are then crossed with a red X, or with a stop sign.
I know this is a minor quibble, but I think it makes a hell of a difference, because it implies walking with dogs. The original solution, with three people and their respective dogs lined up vertically, lose some of the trail context.
What about two people with four dogs - ok?
Here in open country on farmland or commonland loose dogs are liable to be shot by farmers concerned about sheep/lambs. And no dog is under control if off the lead/leash!
The best sign locally to deter bad behaviour with dogs, is the one showing the number of dogs shot year-to-date. It has several crossings out with numbers replaced with greater totals as the year progresses.
Visitors who like to let their dogs off the lead tend to have second thoughts after seeing that!
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This is once in a while chance.
you and i, we belong to two different worlds, classes and backgrounds.
something to watch. and think about.
i thought i could put this back in my mind for a while, until i stumbled upon this amusingly entertaining thread on VI-Control. It's certainly daunting to see the professionals having flame wars about piracy. Thing to consider that vi-control is internet largest hangout base for instrument vendors and composers setting up shop for their products. From lame trolls on Off Topic to top pros like Thomas Bergersen lurk here. This is where the 8Dio drama started, and Hans Zimmer's troll tag-team fiasco ended. I'm surprised they took piracy to the heart and finally come to the woke realization that anti-piracy will never end their hatred problems.
if you are interested in the never-ending cat and mouse game between both side of piracy, this is an interesting thread to read and learn from.
bad mouse is coming for your toothbrushes. i'm coming for your pricey production tools.
My name is Jacob, I am 21 years old, and what I am about to say is very personal. My girlfriend is in danger, from her own parents. They abuse her on a daily basis. They have hit her, insulted her, starved her, and have told her that her dreams are stupid and to give up.
This has broken her down so much emotionally, and for months I been trying to find a job to give her a new and better home. We have been together for over a year now, and she is my world, so I want to show her there is still hope. I cannot mention her name because the last time she went public about it, her parents made her take the post down.
I want her to live in a safe and loving home for a change, but I live in a small town where jobs are scarce, and need to move to Ohio to my friend's house so I can find a full-time job to help my girlfriend, as well as my disabled mother who has struggled with her health over the years. I love her so much.
I want to help the people I love, but to do that I need a little help to get to the location I need to be to find a good job. Any donations would be appreciated. Thank you for your time.
You can donate via GoFundMe or Paypal via Bandcamp. Even $1 dollar would help them and @RealFaction!
Humanity does not immune from their own ugliness even with the absence of belief. One of the worst atrocities in human history was committed by non-religious people. And the genocides in Afghan, Syria, Yemen and Iraq are supported by hypocritical roaches like Dawkins and Harris.
I have come very far to learn that religion is not the problem. Being an anarchist meaning rejecting all forms of hierarchies and authority. But being spiritual is not a crime. I see the universe and specifically Earth, as a mutual harmony of life and death. And that's very spiritual.
And I'm always amazed by the diversity of belief influenced by cultures. Whether it was Islam, where you woke up in Kabul hearing the breathtaking morning chants. Buddhism, peace of mind in a temple with silence. Christianity, the angelic sight of huge wide church decorations. Hinduism with people bathed in spiritual on the Ganges. Judaism, where Jewish people commune in silence to the synagogue.
They are all beautiful. And that's humanity.
It's important we cherish the goods and understand the wrongs.
We should not be blinded by hatred.
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I created this page for my readers that do not understand the Pidgin English used on the blog.
– Wetin You dey chop?
If there’s any word on the blog that’s foreign to you; place it in the comment box and I will translate it once seen.
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"Du Guesclin" redirects here. For the 1948 French film, see Du Guesclin (film).
Bertrand du Guesclin (c. 1320 – 13 July 1380), nicknamed "The Eagle of Brittany" or "The Black Dog of Brocéliande", was a Breton knight and an important military commander in the French side during the Hundred Years' War. From 1370 to his death, he was Constable of France for King Charles V. Well known for his Fabian strategy, he took part in six pitched battles and won the four in which he held command.
Bertrand du Guesclin was born at Motte-Broons near Dinan, in Brittany, first-born son of Robert du Guesclin and Jeanne de Malmaines. His date of birth is unknown but is thought to have been sometime in 1320. His family was of minor Breton nobility, the seigneurs of Broons.
Bertrand's family may have claimed descent from Aquin, the legendary Muslim king of Bougie in Africa, a conceit derived from the Roman d'Aquin, a thirteenth-century French chanson de geste from Brittany.
He initially served Charles of Blois in the Breton War of Succession (1341–1364). Charles was supported by the French crown, while his rival, Jean de Montfort, was allied with England. Du Guesclin was knighted in 1354 while serving Arnoul d'Audrehem, after countering a raid by Hugh Calveley on the Castle of Montmuran. In 1356–57, Du Guesclin successfully defended Rennes against an English siege by Henry of Grosmont, using guerrilla tactics. During the siege, he killed the English knight William Bamborough who had challenged him to a duel.
The resistance of du Guesclin helped restore French morale after Poitiers, and du Guesclin came to the attention of the Dauphin Charles. When he became King in 1364, Charles sent Du Guesclin to deal with Charles II of Navarre, who hoped to claim the Duchy of Burgundy, which Charles hoped to give to his brother, Philip. On 16 May, he met an Anglo-Navarrese army under the command of Jean de Grailly, Captal de Buch at Cocherel and proved his ability in pitched battle by routing the enemy. The victory forced Charles II into a new peace with the French king, and secured Burgundy for Philip.
On 29 September 1364, at the Battle of Auray, the army of Charles of Blois was heavily defeated by John IV, Duke of Brittany and the English forces under Sir John Chandos. De Blois was killed in action, ending the pretensions of the Penthievre faction in Brittany. After chivalric resistance, Du Guesclin broke his weapons to signify his surrender. He was captured and ransomed by Charles V for 100,000 francs.
In 1366, Bertrand persuaded the leaders of the "free companies", who had been pillaging France after the Treaty of Brétigny, to join him in an expedition to Spain to aid Count Henry of Trastámara against Pedro I of Castile. In 1366, du Guesclin, with Guillaume Boitel, his faithful companion, leader of his vanguard, captured many fortresses (Magallón, Briviesca and finally the capital Burgos). After Henry's coronation at Burgos, he proclaimed Bertrand his successor as Count of Trastámara and had him crowned as King of Granada, although that kingdom was yet to be reconquered from the Nasrids. Bertrand's elevation must have taken place at Burgos between 16 March and 5 April 1366.
But Henry's army was defeated in 1367 by Pedro's forces, now commanded by Edward, the Black Prince, at Nájera. Du Guesclin was again captured, and again ransomed by Charles V, who considered him invaluable. However, the English army suffered badly in the battle as four English soldiers out of five died during the Castilian Campaign. The Black Prince, affected by dysentery, soon withdrew his support from Pedro. Du Guesclin and Henry of Trastámara renewed the attack, defeating him at the decisive Battle of Montiel (1369).
After the battle, Pedro fled to the castle at Montiel, from whence he made contact with du Guesclin, whose army were camped outside. Pedro bribed du Guesclin to obtain escape. Du Guesclin agreed, but also told it to Henry who promised him more money and land if he would only lead Pedro to Henry's tent. Once there, after crossed accusations of bastardy, the two half-brothers started a fight to death, using daggers because of the narrow space. At a moment when they fought on the floor, Pedro got the upper side and was about to finish Henry. But then Du Guesclin, who had stayed inactive for he was compromised to both, made his final choice. He grabbed Pedro's ankle and turned him belly-up, thus allowing Henry to stab Pedro to death and gain the throne of Castile. While turning Pedro down, du Guesclin is claimed to have said "Ni quito ni pongo rey, pero ayudo a mi señor" (I neither put nor remove a King, but I help my Master), which has since that moment become a common phrase in Spanish, to be used by anyone of lesser rank who does what he is ordered or expected to do, avoiding any concern about the justice or injustice of such action, and declining any responsibility.
Bertrand was made Duke of Molina, and the Franco-Castilian alliance was sealed.
Du Guesclin's coat of arms.
War with England was renewed in 1369, and Du Guesclin was recalled from Castile in 1370 by Charles V, who had decided to make him Constable of France, the country's chief military leader. By tradition this post was always given to a great nobleman, not to someone like the comparatively low-born Du Guesclin, but Charles needed someone who was an outstanding professional soldier. In practice du Guesclin had continual difficulties in getting aristocratic leaders to serve under him, and the core of his armies were always his personal retinue. He was formally invested with the rank of Constable by the King on 2 October 1370. He immediately defeated an English army led by Robert Knolles at the Battle of Pontvallain and then reconquered Poitou and Saintonge forcing the Black Prince to leave France.
In 1372, the Franco-Castillan fleet destroyed the English fleet at the Battle of La Rochelle where more than 400 English knights and 8000 soldiers were captured. Master of the Channel, du Guesclin organized destructive raids on the English coasts in retaliation for the English chevauchées.
Du Guesclin pursued the English into Brittany from 1370 to 1374, and defeated again the English army at the Battle of Chizé in 1373.
He disapproved of the confiscation of Brittany by Charles V in 1378, and his campaign to make the duchy submit to the king was halfhearted.
An able tactician and a loyal and disciplined warrior, Du Guesclin had reconquered much of France from the English when he died of illness at Chateauneuf-de-Randon while on a military expedition in Languedoc in 1380. He was buried at Saint-Denis in the tomb of the Kings of France. His heart is kept at the basilica of Saint-Sauveur at Dinan.
Because of du Guesclin's allegiance to France, 20th century Breton nationalists considered him to be a 'traitor' to Brittany. During World War II, the pro-Nazi Breton Social-National Workers' Movement destroyed a statue of him in Rennes. In 1977 the Breton Liberation Front destroyed a statue of him in Broons.
^ Vernier, Richard (2003). The Flower of Chivalry: Bertrand du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-84383-006-1.
^ Jones, M., ed. (2004). Letters, Orders and Musters of Bertrand Du Guesclin (1357–1380). Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-088-7. p. xviii, n. 19, citing Marius Canard (1929), "L'origine sarrazine de Bertrand du Guesclin", Revue Africaine (Algiers), pp. 1–26.
^ Guesclin "100000 francs - My library - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
^ Michael Jones, ed. (2004), Letters, Orders and Musters of Bertrand Du Guesclin (1357–1380) (Woodbridge: Boydell Press), p. 56, doc. 150.
^ Vernier 2003, pp. 138–146.
^ "Histoire de Du Guesclin" (in French). Broons.fr. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
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The World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty (WIPO Copyright Treaty or WCT) is an international treaty on copyright law adopted by the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 1996. It provides additional protections for copyright to respond to advances in information technology since the formation of previous copyright treaties before it. The WCT and WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, are together termed WIPO "internet treaties".
During the earlier stage of negotiations, the WCT was seen as a protocol to the Berne Convention, constituting an update of that agreement since the 1971 Stockholm Conference. However, as any amendment to the Berne Convention required unanimous consent of all parties, the WCT was conceptualized as an additional treaty which supplemented the Berne Convention. The collapse of negotiations around the extension of the Berne Convention during the 1980s saw the shifting of the forum to the GATT, resulting in the TRIPS Agreement. Thus, the nature of any copyright treaty by the World Intellectual Property Organization became considerably narrower, being limited to addressing the challenges posed by digital technologies.
The WCT emphasizes the incentive nature of copyright protection, claiming its importance to creative endeavours. It ensures that computer programs are protected as literary works (Article 4), and that the arrangement and selection of material in databases is protected (Article 5). It provides authors of works with control over their rental and distribution in Articles 6 to 8 which they may not have under the Berne Convention alone. It also prohibits circumvention of technological measures for the protection of works (Article 11) and unauthorized modification of rights management information contained in works (Article 12).
There have been a variety of criticisms of this treaty, including that it is too broad (for example in its prohibition of circumvention of technical protection measures, even where such circumvention is used in the pursuit of legal and fair use rights) and that it applies a "one size fits all" standard to all signatory countries despite widely differing stages of economic development and knowledge industry.
The WIPO Copyright Treaty is implemented in United States law by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). By Decision 2000/278/EC of 16 March 2000, the Council of the European Union approved the treaty on behalf of the European Community. European Union Directives which largely cover the subject matter of the treaty are: Directive 91/250/EC creating copyright protection for software, Directive 96/9/EC on copyright protection for databases and Directive 2001/29/EC prohibiting devices for circumventing "technical protection measures" such as digital rights management.
^ a b c d e "Contracting Parties > WIPO Copyright Treaty- contracting parties". World Intellectual Property Organization. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
^ "WIPO Copyright Treaty". World Intellectual Property Organization. Retrieved 12 February 2012.
^ a b Mort SA, 'The WTO, WIPO & the Internet: Confounding the Borders of Copyright and Neighboring Rights' (1997–98) 8 Fordham Intell Prop Media & Ent LJ 173.
^ 'The New WIPO Copyright and Phonograms Treaties: Steps Toward Harmonized Protection for the Digital Age | Publications and Presentations' (Arnold & Porter, 1 October 1996) <https://www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspectives/publications/1996/10/the-new-wipo-copyright-and-phonograms-treaties-s__?keyword=> accessed 17 May 2018.
The full text of the WIPO Copyright Treaty (adopted in Geneva on December 20, 1996) (in English) in the WIPO Lex database — official website of WIPO.
This page was last edited on 4 March 2019, at 17:32 (UTC).
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Thanks to by brother, Larry Wade, for the beautiful background photo from the the Central Andes of Chile. The mountains are Torres del Paine.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been healing with the help of my source. Sometimes the past comes and has to be dealt with. My source, family, and dear friends helped me through. Spiritual healing is like looking up at these beautiful mountains, and it can be challenging, too. As I continue to heal, I now feel freer and more connected to my source. To grow and learn I had to be still and listen. To be still I had to SLOW myself down.
I am glad to get my energy back, and I was thankful for the time that I had to follow the four letter word: REST, along with my source. I had no other choice. So often in life before now, I would pick myself up so quickly, the word REST was not something I had ever known. In that state while I was healing, I could even be more aware of how good a shower felt, or how good a dinner tasted, or how beautiful the clouds are. Life became very simple. I could only do ONE thing at a time.
I found out that on my journey within that I was never alone. My source, family, and close friends were always there for support and comfort me. Learning this at a deeper level of understanding and feeling it in my heart was truly the greatest gift to me!
I am very grateful for the words on the graphic for this blog. They came from “One Fit Widow” from September 9, 2014. Thank you!
I have the good fortune to have good friends who are younger than I. Along with my own daughter, I love to hang out with them on the phone or face to face. We teach each other; we learn together; we share ideas and observations of our world. One of the things I know my younger friends and daughter teach me is how to be BRAVE and speak up for myself. When I grew up that was discouraged, yet, today these strong women teach me how I can stand up for myself with their lives and actions. What a gift.
I also have had the good fortune to teach people from other countries as an English-as-a Second Language (ESL) teacher. I also “hung out” with them while I taught them because with ESL you have to learn to talk about yourself and your life and culture. We had lots of parties over my years of teaching. I came to care a lot about my students and their families, particularly at one of the jobs where I taught for nearly 2 years. My students were very generous to me when I was forced out of my job.
In my family my father married out of his “social class” and I did, too. In 1925 my own grandmother was a single parent to twin girls (my mother included). Life was hard for my struggling single parent grandmother.
So many factors contribute to class. Health problems, business mistakes, and things like divorce can change everything about which “class” we are in. Most Americans work hard, but wages are not fair for most people in this country. Education used to make a difference for people as to how much they could earn. However, today so many young people are stuck with high loan costs and often can only get low paying jobs. Hey, about 99% of us are in a similar situation, so it is time for us to speak to each other!
In the past, I had to get out of my comfort zone to relate to others who were not the same race, ethnicity, gender, age, or class. I was shy when I was young, but found out as an adult that I am actually an extrovert. I labeled myself and believe the label for a long time. Sometimes others labeled me, too. By questioning my “labels,” I found out how false they were. You too, might be doing the same thing to yourself and others. When I freed myself and learned to appreciate myself more, I began to fear others less, too. I am and my life is very different now. That is possible for you, as well.
When we relate and speak from the heart to each other no matter our gender, class, color, age, we learn how we are both different and similar. We learn from each other if we are willing to be open and listen. Our differences do not separate us from each other as much, and together we can work on so many of the problems that are plaguing our world today and get to grow as people, too.
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Eliminating high-carb foods can cause cravings to develop.
1 What Are Negative Results from Eating No Carbs?
4 What Can Happen From a Lack of Carbohydrates?
Gluten intolerance covers a number of specific gluten issues, including wheat allergy, celiac disease and non-celiac gluten sensitivity. People with gluten intolerance generally need to avoid cereals, most types of bread, pasta, cakes and many different processed foods. This limitation placed on food intake -- particularly from carbohydrate-dense sources -- can cause those with gluten intolerance to crave carbohydrates.
Whenever you start a diet that bans or severely restricts foods you're used to eating on a regular basis, it can kick off cravings. According to the University of Rochester Medical Center, those on restrictive diets often experience extreme cravings for the foods they're not allowed to have. This is particularly true when restricting simple carbohydrates like cookies and sweets, as you may well have to do on a gluten intolerance diet.
The symptoms of gluten intolerance do not include specifically craving carbs. Symptoms do include diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, indigestion and constipation, mouth ulcers, tiredness and bloating. If you do find with a gluten intolerance you crave carbs, it's more likely that this is due to the type of diet you're following, rather than the condition itself.
While a gluten-free diet may initially seem strict and cause you to crave carbs, this will likely pass in time. A study published in a 2011 edition of the "Obesity" journal found that over a two-year period, obese subjects on a low-carb diet experienced reduced hunger and fewer cravings than those on a low-fat diet. Given time, any cravings you experience may well desist.
You can avoid carb cravings when switching to a gluten-free diet by changing your food choices. Cutting out all gluten-containing products and not replacing them with anything else may make you crave carbs. Finding healthy, energy-boosting alternatives, however, will severely reduce these cravings. Eat more fruits and root vegetables for carbs and look for gluten-free breads, cereals and pasta.
The University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center: What’s the Difference Between Celiac Disease, Gluten Intolerance, Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity and Wheat Allergy?
Obesity: Change in Food Cravings, Food Preferences, and Appetite During a Low-Carbohydrate and Low-Fat Diet.
Samuels, Mike. "Do People With a Gluten Intolerance Crave Carbs?" Healthy Eating | SF Gate, http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/people-gluten-intolerance-crave-carbs-11265.html. Accessed 18 April 2019.
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Freedom of Information Act (FOIA): The President’s January 2009 Memorandum on the Freedom of Information Act and Attorney General Holder’s guidance, which stated that agencies should adopt a presumption of disclosure. These memos have resulted in more information being released to the public and the reduction of FOIA backlogs by 10%.
Open Government Directive: The Administration’s January 2009 Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government and the subsequent Open Government Directive, which resulted in the online Open Government Dialogue and the release of the first-ever Agency Open Government Plans.
Classification: The President’s December 2009 Executive Order 13526 on “Classified National Security Information,” which streamlined the classification process and created the National Declassification Center at the National Archives and Records Administration, and his November 2010 Executive Order 13556 on Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), which established a program for managing all unclassified information.
Recognizing the challenges ahead, the White House today released its Open Government National Action Plan, building on the Open Government Initiative. The Plan is part of the Open Government Partnership, a global initiative that supports transparent and accountable institutions around the world.
Reform Records Management Policies and Practices Across the Executive Branch. We will launch an initiative that will recommend reforms and require reporting on current policies and practices. The initiative will consider changes to existing laws and ask how technology can be leveraged to improve records management while making it cost-effective. The initiative will seek a reformed, digital-era, governmentwide records management framework that promotes accountability and performance.
The White House will also continue to work to improve the administration of FOIA; support the declassification of the backlog of 385 million pages for public release by December 2013; work to ensure agencies implement their Open Government Plans; strengthen whistleblower protections for federal government employees; improve public participation on Regulations.gov; and involve the public in developing new policies to reform federal websites.
We commend the Administration for its commitment to open government and its continued work to ensure greater government transparency, public participation, and collaboration.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 at 1:29 pm and is filed under White House. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.
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On October 31, the IRS issued Notice 2017-67, detailing requirements for the qualified small employer health reimbursement arrangements (QSEHRAs) implemented last December by the 21st Century Cures Act. The law removes from the definition of “group health plan” reimbursement arrangements that follow the law’s requirements. Removing such plans from the definition of “group health plan” means exempting them from the requirements of Affordable Care Act's market reforms, including the “no annual dollar limits” and “no cost sharing for preventive health services.” Thus, by following the requirements of this law, eligible small employers may offer stand-alone HRAs to their employers without being subjected to onerous excise penalty under section 4980D of the Internal Revenue Code.
Note: Although QSEHRAs may be useful for some small employers, for others they may not. The plans are likely most beneficial if employees have individual health insurance under a grandfathered plan. If employees must buy coverage on the Marketplace, the QSEHRA may make them ineligible for a premium tax credit (PTC) or merely reduce the PTC to which they would otherwise be entitled. If an employee has insurance coverage through a spouse’s employer, the QSEHRA may reimburse for those premiums. If the spouse can pay those premiums on a tax-free basis, however, the QSEHRA reimbursement is taxable. In other words, the employer could provide the same economic benefit to the employee by raising wages.
The arrangement is provided by an eligible employer, defined as one (1) with fewer than 50 full-time equivalent employees that (2) does not provide group health care coverage to its employees.
Notice 2017-67 sets for the requirements for this proof of coverage, including a sample attestation. If the employer fails to obtain proof of coverage, the plan fails to qualify as a QSEHRA, and the employer is subject to the excise tax.
The amount of payments and reimbursements made by the employer for any year do not exceed $4,950 ($5,050 in 2018) for the employee or $10,050 ($10,250 in 2018) for family coverage.
Notice 2017-67 reiterates that if the requirements for a QSEHRA are not followed, the plan is a “group health plan” subject to market reform requirements and a penalty up to a $100/day/employee.
An arrangement that reimburses premiums will not fail to qualify as “providing the same terms to all eligible employees” if the benefit amount varies only (1) because of the age of the eligible employee or family member or (2) because of the number of family members of the eligible employee with respect to the same insurance policy. Likewise, an employer may offer a single benefit to both single employees and employees with a family, or the employer may offer a single benefit to single employees and a family benefit to employees with a family.
Notice 2017-67 clarifies that an employer may provide a QSEHRA to its employees and contribute to an employee’s HSA. This is possible, however, only if the QSEHRA reimburses premiums only. Employees with an HRA that reimburses medical expenses are not eligible for an HSA.
Notice 2017-67 specifies that there are no employee opt-outs when it comes to QSEHRAs. Section 9831(d)(2)(A)(ii) requires that the eligible employer provide, rather than offer, a QSEHRA on the same terms to all eligible employees. A QSEHRA is provided to an employee, whether or not the employee receives any reimbursements under the plan. This is impactful to employees who purchase their insurance on the Marketplace.
Small employers must understand that employees covered by a QSEHRA will be ineligible for a premium tax credit on the Marketplace if the QSEHRA is deemed to be affordable employer coverage. Specifically, a premium tax credit will be denied if the cost to the employee to purchase the second lowest cost silver plan for self-only coverage on the Marketplace MINUS the amount of the QSEHRA reimbursement does not exceed 9.69 percent of the employee’s household income (for 2017).
Note that the affordability is calculated only with respect to the cost of the self-only coverage. The cost of the family coverage may be much more expensive, but the employee will still be ineligible for the premium tax credit if the cost of the self-only coverage (after factoring in the reimbursement) does not exceed 9.69 percent of the employee’s household income.
If the QSEHRA is not affordable coverage, the PTC will be allowed, but reduced by the amount of the permitted benefit.
In January, an employee’s permitted benefit will be shown in W-2 Box 12, Code FF. Notice 2017-67 affirms that the full amount permitted (not the amount actually reimbursed) is shown on the W-2.
Warning: Notice 2017-67 states that the Marketplace is not considering QSEHRA amounts when calculating Premium Tax Credits. This means that employees covered by a QSEHRA may go the Marketplace and receive an APTC unaware that they may have to pay that credit back if the QSEHRA is affordable coverage.
Practitioners will be responsible to reconcile overpayments of the premium tax credit via Form 8962 when filing returns for the tax year in which the overpayment was made.
Employees covered by a QSEHRA must have Minimum Essential Coverage or else reimbursements from the QSEHRA will be fully taxable to the employee. If the employee is covered by MEC (equivalent to a marketplace Bronze plan), the reimbursement provided under the QSEHRA will be excluded from income under IRC § 106.
Employees must substantiate all reimbursements or they will be taxable.
Willfully failing to provide notice to eligible employees subjects the employer to a $50 per employee, per incident penalty, up to a maximum of $2,500 for all violations in a calendar year. Notice requirements were temporarily delayed by IRS Notice 2017-20.
(b) 90 days before the first day of the plan year of the QSEHRA.
A sample notice is provided in the guidance.
The law extended the transition relief provided through Notice 2015–17 to any plan year beginning on or before December 31, 2016. The provision specifically excludes QSEHRAs from ERISA and COBRA requirements. Notice 2017-67 specifies that employers providing QSEHRAs are not responsible to file a Form 1095-B. They must, however, file Form 720 and pay the PCORI fee.
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Write a tribute to those family members who birthdays/anniversaries occur around this time of the year.
A post-Christmas birthday party...not neglected at all.
Alas, alack, it is not such a joyful thing to have a birthday in the six weeks across Christmas to the end of January though ’twas never a neglected birthday. It may not be such a bad thing in the northern hemisphere where the holidays are shorter but not in Australia where this is the height of summer and the longest school holidays of the year. Unless your family takes their annual holiday during this time (ours didn’t) then you are destined to spend many birthdays with other kids who haven’t left town for the festive season. Actually that’s not really fair, at least some of my friends were in town most years so a small party was always possible but perhaps this is why I don’t really like parties?
On the plus side of the ledger, I was lucky that on most occasions my friends and family didn’t think it was a good excuse to roll up the two events into one gift: I nearly always got separate presents or I’d have been most dejected. Another plus, I never had to go to school on my birthday and could just chill out and do whatever I felt like….such as reading all my birthday and Christmas book presents.
I don’t know about other festive season “babies” but New Year is just one step too far in terms of celebrations in a short period of time. Anyone else out there with their birthday at this time of the year?
Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories: 14th December 2011: Fruitcake – Welcome Friend.
Advent Calendar: 14th December – Fruitcake –Welcome Friend.
My hand is already declared – fruitcake is my friend not my foe. Our family has a long tradition of homemade Christmas fruit cake. This is one task my mother often left close to Christmas but it never seemed to make any difference to how good it tasted! Mostly I do mine a few weeks out from Christmas. For decades I used my mother’s Christmas Cake recipe which she tells me came originally from Isla Kerr at the Gas Company in Brisbane, but known far & wide as her cake. Then, oh traitor, one day I saw a recipe in the Australian Women’s Weekly that I thought would be worth a try…a Green Peppercorn fruitcake made with spices and Cointreau. Sounds odd to you? Trust me, it isn’t, unless you don’t like anything slightly spicy. For years I was like a dual citizen in Christmas Cake land…I’d make one of each. Eventually I aligned my loyalty with just one and settled on the Green Peppercorn cake and that’s now my faithful choice. Most people like it, and those who don’t, well they’re out of luck at our house over the Christmas holidays and just have to settle for shortbread!
One year at work my husband won the Christmas raffle to our collective astonishment …we never win anything. It had the usual huge variety of Christmas delights including a fruit cake. That may be the only time we’ve re-gifted fruit cake….just not in the league with our homemade specialty.
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I'm not liking what I'm hearing. If I restrict the viewability of my LiveJournal posts, it's for a reason. It's become pretty clear that FriendDitto doesn't respect those reasons.
I can't stop people on my friends list from using this service, but I can say that if I find out that someone on my Friends list is using it, they'll be bounced from my Friends list quite promptly.
*nods* I've been trying to figure out a bit more about it before I post, but I'm in agreement. I'm hoping no one on my friends list would use the service, but I guess you never know what people will do.
NOTE: I know I'm spelling it wrong; the correct spelling is only one 'd'. It's semi-intentional, as it seems that the operators of the service in question have some supporters and trolls that deliberately look to provoke flamewars in the comments.
I figured. I saw the flamage on other LJs last night.
You can go here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ditto_cops/ to see whose names are listed. Then you can remove them at your leisure.
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The website also has other knitting related items. Just scroll to the bottom of the page.
I can’t resist needlework goodies, especially when they are cute~!
“If KNITTING IS THE MARCIA BRADY of crafts, crochet is the Jan: Misunderstood, overlooked and often perceived as nerdy as a stitched-up granny-square vest.” This has been so true for so very long, BUT this article goes on to talk about how recently, things are finally starting to change for crochet~! And it is definitely about time! Alot of the crocheters I know in this business object to crochet being called The New Knitting, but I feel that any positive publicity we get is good~!
Thanks to Kathy Cano Murillo for a great article!
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It's been a while, but I've been busy enough not to devote time to really summarizing Worldcon until now. As I've just completed another section of Boundary, I'll pause here and do that.
The Bad: Really only two things, one of them just an annoyance: walking to the Con from the hotel wasn't fun, as noted earlier. And the second ... probably due to the late decision and no idea of how things would be organized at Worldcon, I did not get to run anything at Worldcon, alas, though I did speak to some people in the gaming room.
Oh, and for various reasons I'm never going to a Con again where my family can't attend. Takes too much out of us, and it seems I just can't pretend I'm 19 again, I keep getting distracted.
Lawrence Watt-Evans: I've loved LWE's work since I first encountered "The Lure of the Basilisk" many years ago, and in addition I've come to know him as a well respected and level-headed resident of the Net. I'm going to be ordering Wildside's new re-issue of the Lords of Dus series, because my old copies are kinda messed up (and one of them, I think was a stripped copy, so he never got the money for that one). He did hand me a cover for his newest (Dragon Venom) but didn't have any copies at the time.
Gabriel, my younger son, was making unhappy noises upstairs. When we all gathered around, we found that he had hurt his arm. When I straightened it, something seemed wrong. Which, now, after about seven hours at the hospital, we know was true; his elbow is broken and he'll be having surgery Monday or Tuesday to repair it.
Now where was I? Oh, people.
Larry Smith -- well, I've of course met Larry before, but this time I was able to bring HIM books, which he was happy to take. I'm not sure if he'd sold ALL of them before he left Worldcon, but I know he'd sold many of the copies I gave him.
Elizabeth Moon: I finally got to meet this wonderful lady in person; I'd exchanged a number of Emails with her in the past few years; this time I confronted her at the "Answer To Your Characters" forum, in which people brought charges against the authors for their character abuse. I of course asked her to defend her horrid treatment of Paks, among other things. (the defense was just as spirited as the prosecution, I should note. This was, by far, the most FUN panel I've ever been to). She then signed Deed for me.
I finally met Jim Butcher, whose Dresden Files often come up in comparison with Digital Knight and with whom I had a short mediated correspondence while trying to pitch DK to the Sci-Fi channel. He seemed pleased to meet me, and we then swapped books, me giving him a copy of DK and he handing me the first of the Dresden books. I hope I get time to read this one soon!
The "big name" of the Convention to others may have been Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman, but to me, it was Robert Silverberg. Not only did he give a marvelous History of the Hugos speech (he is, apparently, the only known living person to have attended each and every Hugo), he also demonstrated a marvelously dry and incisive humor while on panels. I finally got to speak to him after the panel on the boundary between super-science and fantasy and he signed a hardcover copy of Lord Valentine's Castle while I got to tell him how very much I loved that particular book and that I re-read it quite often. He grinned and said "I've re-read it a few times myself."
I've mentioned the Doc Smith Exhibit. I purchased Stephen Luchetti's book on Doc ("Doc: First Galactic Roamer") and got him to sign it (I also gave him copies of Mountain Magic and DK as thanks for, well, just making that exhibit. I seriously cannot say I have ever been as affected by anything not involving living people as I was by that exhibit.). In addition, Al Trestail -- known in his youth as "Kim", obviously after Kimball Kinnision -- showed up at the convention; he signed the book as well. He is a charming man himself, and clearly has fond memories of his grandfather and is pleased by the fact that there are still those of us who hold Doc's name in high esteem.
I had lunch before the Hugos with Zyxwvut (known best to me as the Green Adept back at SUNYA, something like 17 years ago) and attended the Hugo ceremony with him. I left before the end, but not before I'd seen quite a bit of the ceremony (including, as I said, Robert Silverberg's retrospective). I then went to two important parties (important for me, anyway) -- one for Albacon, where I saw my own face from last Albacon on their tape of selected events (neat!), and the Baen party, which of course was most livened by the arrival of Lois McMaster Bujold and her Hugo Du Jour. I got to touch it.... precioussss, we wantsss -- HEY you, get OUT!... This year's Hugos are a lovely design, the base and copper/brass flames being particularly artistic.
Speaking of parties, on Friday I dropped in on a couple -- the one for Japan's (later successful) bid to host Worldcon, and then on the League of Evil Geniuses party. Both of these I saw Ellen... (many groveling apologies, I cannot recall the last name, but she and her other half were wonderful people and helped get me the courage to actually ENTER the parties at all, which, for me, is a VERY not-easy thing) at. The League of Evil Geniuses party was particularly amusing, showing their wide-ranging tastes in Evil (Dr. Miguelito Loveless, Bun-Bun, The master, Kagato, Mojo-Jojo, and Barney all on the same walls...), and also present was a charmingly perfect Dilandau cosplayer who happened to also be marvelously good-looking (and was accompanied by her two lovely daughters, both of whom also Cosplay.). (were I unmarried, I'd have probably would have been bird-dogging her all night; as it was, seeing her there cosplaying with her kids ended up just making me think of Kathleen and MY two kids NOT being there to wear silly costumes -- somewhat depressing, but not her fault, and I did appreciate talking to her and seeing someone with real craftsmanship in her costumes) (there is actually a VAST amount of costuming talent in fandom, and I doubt it gets much better than at Worldcon. It's a good thing the American anime fans aren't competing with some of these people, they'd get their butts whipped).
Overall, a hell of a convention. Good work and congrats to the hundreds of people who made it happen!
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Anderson Cooper’s yearbook photos hit the blogosphere yesterday and he is nothing short of a cutie pie.
And that quotation? How sharp. I bet everyone else just had weak Grateful Dead lyrics or Emerson B.S.
So last night’s 60 Minutes was pretty bitchin’. I learned about how computer hackers are rigging online poker games and got the chance to see Anderson Cooper get smoked in race against mer-man Michael Phelps.
But the best part was my favorite old-man Andy Rooney. His commentary on saving money was two parts practical and three parts hilarious. His thrifty nature can be only be described as “grampa-esque.”He steals rolls, he takes the bus, he blends his own gas. It’s nothing short of adorable.
Take a few minutes to indulge yourself in what has to be his best rant in years.
I imagine coming out of the closet is a sensitive and highly personal issue. And as a successful news anchor at the top of his game, Anderson Cooper may not want the extra attention he’d undoubtedly get should he ever decide to discuss his sexuality. But since Cooper’s sexuality is the worst kept secret in Hollywood (though it was temporarily one-upped by that Wentz/Simpson baby) it is funny to watch others dance (not so delicately I might add) around it.
Everyone’s favorite commotion-starter, Al Sharpton was on Anderson Cooper 360 last night with some other folks talking about religion and politics. In one fell swoop, Sharpton outed the newsman, sort of doomed him to hell, then forgave him. One of the other panelists also got in on the fun of talking about just where Cooper would end up in the afterlife. Ever poised, Cooper played the very awkward moment off with humor and grace.
You can watch the whole thing go down right here.
Did you guys pick up your “Anderson Cooper, you’re not my boo” t-shirts yet? No?
Have no clue what I’m talking about? I need to start blogging in the morning.
Take a gander here and see what all the fuss is about.
Here’s hoping this hubbub puts Usher’s underrated duet with Alicia Keys, My Boo, back on heavy rotation. That was my jam!
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But now she is gone and i can say, for all the times other than those periods of illness, she used to be the best mother on earth, I don’t know if she loved me as much as she loved her beloved son, but i know she was the best. For what i have done, for not knowing the value of that treasure I had when it was with me, I am suffering now, i feel lonely, i feel I am being punished.
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My well-decorated house that reflects my style and personality. I love it!
Coffee…warm, delicious coffee. I love it.
I have to say, making this list really got me into the spirit of being in the present and being thankful. It’s amazing how just being conscious of the the things you are grateful for can instantly boost your mood. Try making your own thankfulness list!
Being that I live in New York, 9/11 is an especially tough day for many people I know who lost loved ones on that fateful Tuesday we all remember in 2001.
This morning, as my alarm went off at 5:45, I thought about how many people were waking up for work at that time on this day 12 years ago…not knowing it would be their last day on this earth. So even though I was tempted to hit snooze and tell myself I’d go for a run after work, I decided to get out of bed and do my 6am workout. As I laced up my sneakers and pulled my hair into a ponytail, I reminded myself of how precious and fragile life is. Every day that we wake up is a gift. It’s a chance to be better than we were yesterday. It’s a chance to make a difference in the lives of others. It’s a chance to treat our bodies with the respect they deserve…because some people aren’t lucky enough to see another sunrise, to feel their hearts beating as they hit the next mile marker on the treadmill, to feel their sweat beading as they push through that last set of bicep reps.
This morning’s workout was for all of those people who lost their lives in the senseless acts of September 11, 2001. As I write this, family members are reading their lost loved ones’ names at the 9/11 tribute in Downtown Manhattan. It is heartbreaking, but thinking of their tragic ending reminds me to not take my own life, and my own health, for granted. And I hope what I’ve written here inspires you to do the same.
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Phillip Johnston and friends create music that’s unpredictable but rooted, surprising but deeply immersed in his own versions of the jazz tradition. I had the good fortune to sit right in front of his Silent Six (a whimsical monicker) at Smalls in Greenwich Village last November, and can share with you a number of wonderful highlights.
Phillip described the compositions and arrangements of that period as “that amazing music,” completely modern, larger than categories. Hearing the Silent Six, you realize that he is also (without being immodest) describing what it does in this century.
The Silent Six is Phillip Johnston. soprano and alto saxophone; Joe Fiedler, trombone; Mike Hashim, baritone saxophone; Neal Kirkwood, piano; Dave Hofstra, string bass; Rob Garcia, drums. Philip originally formed the NYC-based Six to perform live in WORDLESS!, his multi-media film/music/lecture collaboration with Pulitzer-Prize winning illustrator and graphic art historian Art Spiegelman that had its 2013 debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and continues to tour worldwide.
And now for some music from Smalls. Attentive listeners will hear deep roots: blues, shuffles, variations on familiar harmonic patterns, all performed with vigor, looseness, and wit — over irresistible dance rhythms, the result a series of surprises that immediately become comfortable.
Phillip also has two new CDs for us — DIGGIN’ BONES and THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED. You can read reviews of them here. Learn more / buy DIGGIN’ BONES here; for more about ACHMED, visit here.
This post is for Maurice Kessler, gig-friend extraordinaire.
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Motherhood has given Erica Blevins Nye a new perspective on a person’s relationship to the welfare of others.
One year ago I worked for International Headquarters as our Young Adult Ministries specialist. On any given day you could find me at my desk, busily connecting with Community of Christ young adults to lend ministry and support. You could find me at an airport, traveling to meet with young-adult ministers around the globe and to hear their vision for the future of the church.
And the staff meetings! I loved the meetings (if you can believe it) because at our best we would discuss how we could influence the mission of this church I love.
Now, one year later, on any given day you can find me reciting my alphabet. Or frantically scrubbing crayon off my furniture. Or cutting peanut butter sandwiches into bite-sized squares. Or hurrying to a potty chair.
In the last year I have transitioned from full-time minister to full-time mommy.
Letting go of career and ministry expectations. Letting go of my personal plans, priorities, and timelines. Letting go of some ego. Letting go of part of my identity.
This life shift isn’t uncommon, especially for young-adult women, but it still hasn’t been easy. I have been learning to re-center my life off my own hopes and onto those of someone else. It’s scary, and it feels a little out of control.
It is dangerous to invest so much of oneself into someone else. To love and invest so deeply in another lays a person open to receive authentic joy. But it also leaves one exposed to the potential of searing heartbreak.
I have discovered my own welfare is deeply, inextricably linked to the welfare of my child. I now understand the power of this concept in a way I hadn’t before.
Though this new journey has been a challenge, I am learning and growing. I’m gaining fresh perspective on the nature of a God who is Creator and Caretaker. And I’m gaining insight into what it means to be a disciple in a faith community called to live in service to others.
I thought it must be lonely to work in a place where no one even acknowledges your presence. I, too, have experienced that to some extent, being older than most students.
I introduced myself to Rosemary and began speaking to her whenever I saw her. That seemed to cause a transformation. She went from avoiding eye contact to her face lighting up. Then she began starting conversations with me. At first we just engaged in “small talk” such as the weather. Now we share more about our families and challenges in our lives.
Many times I have failed to respond appropriately in similar situations, but I’m glad I had the courage to speak to Rosemary and then say she was my friend. All people matter to God, no matter what their job or life circumstance. Every person should matter to us. Treating others with love, kindness, and respect—wherever we happen to be or whatever the uniform—is what Christ did and would do today. He expects the same from us. Can you make a difference today to a person made invisible by their position?
For children in poverty, water from a borehole, or well, can be life changing.
Years ago I was in an overcrowded city to share in a congregation. It was in what some describe as an urban slum. As I plodded toward the church, it seemed this was not my first visit. Yet I had never been in the city. What was so familiar?
I saw buildings, signs, markets, and people. All were new…yet everything tugged at my inner being—I’ve been here before.
Finally I stopped, closed my eyes, put my hands over my ears, and realized: It was the smell. It was the stench of poverty. The odor had filled my nostrils in many parts of the world. The people and languages were different, yet the smell remained. The experience repeated over and over for years.
That stench remains with me today and causes me a dilemma. On one hand there is a passion that the stench of poverty be gone forever from all places. On the other hand is a passion that the stench permeate every worship service, business meeting, conference, reunion, and retreat—whenever two or more gather in his name—so decisions are made and actions taken to replace the stench with the hope of the peaceable kingdom.
Each worship service I am reminded of the stench when I realize about 29,000 children under 5 die each day from poverty-related causes (http://www.unicef.org/mdg/childmortalityhtml). What is being said and prayed in that worship that challenges us personally and collectively to confront the evil at the heart of hunger bred by poverty?
Action with and for those who suffer is the concrete expression of the compassionate life and the final criterion of being a Christian. Such acts do not stand beside the moments of prayer and worship but are themselves such moments. Why? Because Jesus Christ, who did not cling to his divinity, but became as we are, can be found where there are hungry, thirsty, alienated, naked, sick, and imprisoned people. Precisely when we live in an ongoing conversation with Christ and allow the Spirit to guide our lives, we will recognize Christ in the poor, the oppressed, and the down-trodden, and will hear his cry and respond to it wherever he is revealed.
The studio in the Temple will buzz with activity during President Steve Veazey’s address in April.
Opportunities to come together as a worldwide church through the Internet continue to grow. On April 6 we will take advantage of this with an online-only, interactive event. President Steve Veazey will share a live webcast address with the worldwide church. Afterward, he will take your questions live through e-mail, Twitter, and Facebook.
During his address, President Veazey will take us deeper into the words of counsel given at the 2013 World Conference, focusing on the first six paragraphs. Prepare by studying and reflecting on this portion of the words of counsel found in the May 2013 Herald and http://www.CofChrist.org/presidency/041413wordsofcounsel for video and text.
During the live question-and-answer session following his talk, you can e-mail questions to AskSteveVeazey@CofChrist.org or post them on Facebook or Twitter with #AskSteveVeazey. You don’t have to wait for the live event to send your questions. Feel free to send or post them early to get them into the queue. He will answer as many as possible during the live event.
The April 6 President’s Address is one of two interactive, webcast-only addresses President Veazey will make in 2014. The second will be October 5. Both will be webcast live at http://www.CofChrist.org in English, French, and Spanish.
Find the webcast time for the April 6 event and other details on how to receive a live webcast at http://www.CofChrist.org/broadcast/upcoming.asp.
Wages are static, but the basic cost of living, food, heating, and electricity are rising above inflation. A recent report from The Guardian newspaper suggested that hundreds of thousands of families have used up all their savings. They’re just one unexpected bill away from falling into debt and poverty.
This is where Clay Cross Foodbank comes in.
Clay Cross Foodbank shows the compassion of Jesus in offering food to people going hungry. We offer three days’ worth of nutritionally balanced meals. We provide a stop-gap, non-judgmental listening ear and referral to other organizations, charities, and churches.
We collect our food from public donations, engaging the community in becoming part of the solution. In one weekend we collected over 1.6 tons of food by asking shoppers, as they entered a supermarket, to buy an extra can or two for us. We are persuading schools and churches to collect, too.
We empower 30 professional agencies to refer families and individuals to Community of Christ, where we operate Clay Cross Foodbank.
The result of all this is reflected in James, who has a wife and two children. He works, but at a low wage. He arrived at our church in Clay Cross on his motorbike. We accepted his food voucher and offered him soup and bread.
He and his wife have mental-health issues. They were having problems claiming benefits. I called his case worker, who explained the family had applied, but there had been a delay. The family had spent all its savings and had not eaten properly for four days.
We were able to help. There were so many bags that James had to take what he could and come back for the rest. He returned with a friend and son. The boy exclaimed, “Look Daddy—food!” James just grinned!
It all started when my wife, Helen, and I had the vision of doing more to aid our communities after I attended the Tackling Poverty Together Conference. Many churches were represented. The event showed me churches could regain relevance in our communities and start to fulfill the mission of Jesus.
So with new vigor I started to look at the community’s needs. I learned about the Trussell Trust, a Christian organization that heads the largest network of food banks in the United Kingdom. My congregation was amazingly supportive. A World Hunger grant through the Mission Initiative of Abolish Poverty, End Suffering ensured we could make it happen.
I have begun to realize how all the Mission Initiatives have to fit together to complete the picture, and how one project can give so many opportunities.
Running the food bank has been a steep learning curve. We have had to learn to accept people as they are and to train our members and volunteers. We face challenges at each step. As we coach our volunteers, I realize we’re practicing the Mission Initiative of Develop Disciples to Serve.
Our whole congregation is involved. Through this we Experience Congregations in Mission.
At Clay Cross Foodbank we get to know our clients. We are attracting non-Christian volunteers who value what we’re doing. We offer both groups a chance to become part of our church family. It’s a step toward the initiative of Invite People to Christ.
When I meet care professionals, counselors, and church leaders they sometimes say our food bank is letting the government off its welfare promises, and that it’s not our responsibility. But we believe we are carrying out Christ’s mission. Doing nothing is not an option. The Trussell Trust uses our data to campaign nationally to bring justice to the people we serve at food banks across the United Kingdom. We help to Pursue Peace on Earth.
A wonderful by-product is that for the first time in years churches are starting to work together. We meet other Christians and encourage them to help.
Our volunteers come from several supporting churches, non-Christian friends, and local people. We are starting to attract previous clients who want to give something back.
In the first 2½ months, we fed 150 people with 1,350 meals. We are changing lives in our community and showing people what being a Christian is all about.
We are called to be at the forefront of such organizations. I now feel other Christians judge Community of Christ in Clay Cross by what they can see us doing.
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From July 10th until August 9th, the New Theatre presents Lanford Wilson’s “The Book Of Days”. The play is just as complex, engaging and entertaining as to be expected from this Pulitzer Prize winning playwright. Not only does the New Theatre respect the play and it’s themes, its goes beyond to create emotionally intricate characters and production-wise, this performance was excellent, all aspects considered.
This fast-paced play is quick witted, even linguistically poetic, revealing character, and plot twists. It’s a dialogue heavy play, often using monologues to drive the plot and character complexities. Commendations to the cast for embodying their characters, giving passionately convincing performances and for delivering the rich dialogue flawlessly.
The plot follows a small town in Missouri in the aftermath of a violent tornado and the death of a prominent town figure. In a Dylan Thomas-esque approach, we see all the lives of the townsfolk entwine as we become privy to their secrets and relations. The release of information is perfect and the production team have done justice to the rise and fall of tension, I was glued the whole time. I feel that this play can often be geared to focus on the protagonist, Ruth Hoch (played by Kate Fraser) and her crusading allusions to Bernard Shaw’s “St Joan”. However, this particular performance gave equal weighting to all the townsfolk and this, in my opinion, gave the play a richer, deeper complexity.
The play is a social comment, a magnification on human corruption and interactions and as expected, the ending is, on the whole unsatisfactory. I left the theatre irritated by the outcome. This is a true testament to the cast and production team because over the course of the play, I became emotionally invested in the characters due to the stellar performances from the cast.
The use of space was seamless and economical. Having all cast members kept on stage made the play dynamic and their interactions with the set and props was effective, even innovative, (stage interaction possibly reminiscent of the Sydney Theatre Company’s recent season of “The Secret River”). The lighting was evocative of atmosphere and on the whole, this performance was entertaining, accessible and I thoroughly enjoyed the night.
On the 28th and 29th of June, the Renaissance Players present the 36th Annual Runnymede Pop Festival in the Great Hall at the University of Sydney. This is a wonderful concert that takes you back to times as far back as the thirteenth century, in an accessible, humourous setting, with some modern twists.
I’ve previously seen The Renaissance Players perform, yet they never cease to amaze me. If you’ve ever considered listening to Medieval music, in fact even if you haven’t, I recommend these players. They are so on point, so talented at what they do, in can’t help but be impressed at their skills and finesse. Not only do they present a professional performance, but they also work in sync, so much so that I feel completely at ease in their hands. If you aren’t accustomed to period pieces, it’s interesting to know that most of the music is a little bit tedious and monotonous, and there little to no hummable beat or tune for the mind to latch onto for novices (like me). Yet what the Renaissance Players do is create an entertaining space with a dynamic atmosphere and personality, which in turn manages to keep your attention, if not impress you, (not to mention their incredible mastery of some period instruments I haven’t come across before).
Winsome Evans is totally engaging with her harp and Jessica O’Donoghue is an intoxicatIng soprano. Her voice echoed through the Great Hall in an ethereal a capella performance of Sa sibilla, which was followed by mesmerising organ work in Beata viscera virginis. Special mentions of Unter der linden and [Rubin] Salterello showcased how such music can be both complex and tranquil, and so perfectly balanced. The atmosphere fluctuated between Lord of the Dance-esque, to Robin Hood soundtrack, and even dreamlike. We navigated our way through the middle ages with the help of God’s Fool- a mime providing comic relief, as well as Geoff Sirmai’s theatrical poetry readings, exploring Frederick May’s linguistic emporium.
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The Dead Ones is a performance piece written and performed by Margie Fischer and is showing at the Seymour Centre from Wednesday 18th until Saturday 22nd of February.
Its a personal exploration into a universal story, with themes that resonate with all members of the audience. Our journey began in WW2 Austria and followed her parent’s plight to Shanghai as Austrian-Jewish refugees. After 10years in China, her parents moved to Australia and built a life in East Lindfield. Yet, the tale is more than a simple refugee story.
In retelling the lives of her parents, Fischer explored her family history in what seemed to be a moment of catharsis. The presentation- lecture style with corresponding images, held such a genuine tone and clarity in some of the most emotionally distressing times. Fischer explored themes of family, personal identity, memory, death and hope. Her storytelling wasn’t particularly captivating, however it was the way Fischer managed to draw us with subtle humour, rhetorics and universal questions that I was able to identify with, for example, what happens to our memory when we are gone? Are we manifest in objects, space or is it enough to live in someone’s mind? What’s role do photographs play in context or out of it? Her selection of photos and images for the presentation seemed like archive material and soon enough, I was feeling quite at home learning about her family life and their dynamics.
The Dead Ones is definitely a time-of-life piece. I think it was a piece that formed part of Fischer’s grieving process and showed how storytelling is vital in understanding, and later arranging, one’s milestones into a conceivable structure. Commendations to Margie Fischer, who was able to hold her audience for the full duration, with a topic that must’ve been extremely difficult to research and confront.
The Short and Sweet festival has expanded beyond theatre and cabaret into dance and this week, I saw the Short and Sweet Dance heats at the New Theatre in Newtown. The Company C heats showcased 12 dance performances to a full house. The quality of each performance and the variation from dance to dance had me pleasantly surprised. I did enjoy myself and I think choosing a People’s Choice to go onto the finals this Sunday will be difficult. Personally, I tend to value the performances that are thought-provoking, insightful or they tell me a story. In other cases, the dance itself was enough to captivate me.
STRING was beautiful and artistic. As a video, it focused on Black and Whites, lighting, movement and the human body. The bio reads that the piece was a collaboration between fashion photographer Konstantin Kochkin and Australian dancer Joseph Simons. The fashion photography element really came through, it was a very beautiful piece.
TESSELLATE was a contemporary, street art pop piece that told a story, with clever visual aids and elements of hip-hop. Three talented dancers testing the themes of Innocence, Confidence and Maturity.
WE STEP focused on the lines of the body with the stage washed in golden lights. A contemporary piece exploring themes of birth and exploration, exploration of the body and movement, testing the boundaries of the body. For me, it was memorable and beautiful. A little bit reminiscent of the recent production of Frankenstein at the National Theatre in London. The rebirth of a human, exploring the movements and functions of a body. Oddly stunning.
NO, I WOULD NEVER was a clever little piece of experimental performance. Blending audio confessions of people, whose initial reactions to various situations are just downright wrong. The sole dancer and choreographer, Hayley Raw, was exceptional in her literal storytelling. The performance seemed to be a collaboration of mime, dance and movement, as she reacted to each tone, nuance, background noise in the audio clips. It was eclectic, esoteric and incredibly memorable.
SEPTEMBER was a really wonderful dance. Professional use of lighting and costuming made the entire performance rather effective. There wasn’t an underlying story, but the dance was really beautiful to watch. The chorography focused on lines and synchronicity, silhouettes and shadows. It was stunningly visual as all the dancers were connected.
MAY I PLEASE was a whimsical frivolous look at the pull and grasp of temptation. Incredible use of props and colour, the piece had elements of humour and was very creative. The dancer, Mariana Parazio, gave everything to her performance. It made me question whether the piece was as simple as yearning for an endless supply of jelly beans, or whether it had an underlying message about temptation.
FROM HERE was fierce look into conformity and rites of passage. It seemed like a blend of contemporary, hip-hop and pop & lock. It effectively told a story as each person became a character and each character contributed to the company. Very effective.
THE FEAR OF… was a performance about phobias and was to the standard of Rock Eisteddfod. I found it chilling, scary at times and that’s a real testament to the choreography and performers. A special credit to the dancer who opened the piece for really setting the scene. From contemporary dance to high-intensity tap, the performance was symbolic and successful in conveying it’s message.
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SALT seemed to me to be a social commentary. Very thought-provoking, this experimental piece was eclectic and very interesting to watch. The choreographers were the dancers and their synchronicity was impressive.
/LU:P/ was an incredibly clever piece using knowledge of environment, space and connection to the audio track. The dancer/choreographer was exceptional in her fluidity and movement. The synopsis states “a cyclical process that we are always experiencing- within each loop, different information is revealed”. I understood exactly that from the piece.
SWINGDANCIN’ finished the night with a bang. Vibrant energy and overwhelming enthusiasm had the audience in the palm of their hands. Over thirty dancers on stage performed a blend of classic swing, jazz, hip-hop, Fosse Charleston and the jitterbug. The synchronicity made it a visual spectacular and it was a great way to end the night.
From the 24th of October until the 2nd of November, The Tap Gallery in Darlinghurst hosts the world premiere of Ron Elisha’s Love Field; A Flight of Fantasy. In this very interesting account of experimental history, playwright Elisha explores a very tense flight on Air Force One to Washington just after the assassination of John J Kennedy. The play imagines a conversation between Lyndon Baines Johnson and Jackie Kennedy over the still-warm coffin of her husband, President Kennedy.
The play hinges on character dynamics and the play shifts in power very easily. In portraying character, we see a distraught Jackie Kennedy in her overwhelmed state of grief, still covered in the blood spatters from the assassination. We are drawn into her closeted world of being first lady, love of America and doting wife. From there, we see her demise as she realises all the hopes for her future and the future of America have gone down with her husband. Meanwhile, LBJ has just had greatness thrust upon him in a very untimely manner. We see his character development shift and change along the play, according to his interactions with Jackie; his apprehension towards this new role, his vulnerability and finally his newfound Presidential confidence.
Lizzie Schebesta and Ben Wood performed with so much power, conviction and passion as Jackie Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Schebesta was feisty, like a live cracker and her performance seemed very akin to the characterisation of a grieving First Lady. Schebesta is very powerful on stage and has a lot of control, attention to gesture, detail and movement. Wood performed LBJ with such consistency. This man had stage presence and confidence and he was so easy to listen to.
In my opinion, the play was rather rushed to come to a conclusion. At times, I wasn’t sure where the plot was going because the audience was only peering in on an in-flight conversation between the two leads. Then the characters shifted and I felt the power seemed a little unbalanced. I think the ending was believable and the actors carried the play with their passionate performances, however I think had there been time for an interval, the final character twists may have seemed less rushed.
Apart from that, I was wholly impressed with the production. The set was perfect and the use of space was economical and rather clever. The sound and lighting was carefully managed, with interjections of multimedia. Actual archival footage from that fateful day in November, 1963, coupled with authentic sound bites really added to the play. I was very impressed. Furthermore, the Tap Gallery was a very amiable host for this event. Comfortable for an intimate audience, the Tap Gallery is a nice fusion of art and culture in the one centre.
I’d recommend catching Love Field in commemoration of the Kennedy assassination’s 50 year anniversary and I’d recommend it to people who are interested and curious at all things historical. It was a great experimental history.
Just a short walk from Town Hall is a quaint little church, a late nineteenth century sandstone chapel which upon first appearance, is nothing less. That is, until you walk inside where lo and behold, you’ve stepped into the arms of a small but grand theatre. The stage is rustic, the auditorium seats are deep red and the whole theatre experience is intimate and homely. The Genesian Theatre has been so since 1954. From the 18th of October until the 16th of November, the Genesian Theatre hosts the play “Daisy Pulls It Off”.
When reading the synopsis, I gathered the preconception that this play would be not unlike “St Trinians”; the coming-of-age story following a middle class school girl in her plight to make a name and prove her worth as scholarship winner at Grangewood School for Girls. The play is archetypal in the sense that it’s set in a British boarding school, the plots are foreseeable and it covers Dickensian themes, like the importance of blood or good heritage. The story itself was not necessarily original.
In saying this, however, I was pleasantly surprised by the way The Genesian produced this play. I’d like to give credit to either the playwright, Denise Deegan, or the director, Mark Langham, for their excellent stage directions and comic timing. I believe it would be very difficult to script or direct helter-skelter comic timing. The play was very well choreographed and teetered on the edge of satire in sending itself up.
It did so only because each of the actors gave more than 100% effort to their roles, the passion really shone from each of them. It was because they played their characters with great conviction and overwhelming confidence that I began to laugh along with the outrageous shenanigans of the plot. Rather than taking themselves too seriously, the whole production was rather relaxed and this made me, as an audience member, quite comfortable.
I thoroughly enjoyed the production. The set design and props were highly appropriate. More so in the second half than the first, I found myself appreciating the clever and sparing use of such props. I’d like to commend all the cast members on their tremendous effort in holding together such a long play with quick wit, fast dialogue and effortless British-isms, as well as their ensemble performance as a whole.
Lastly, a quick side note of admiration for La Kutchina, a nearby café/restaurant. I had wandered up to The Genesian a little too early and needed somewhere to hide away out of the bitter wind for a while. La Kutchina opened its doors with warm hospitality, excellent coffee at a good price and complimentary homemade shortbread. Sitting in their deep arm chairs, I felt welcomed and not a pest at having to bide my time before the theatre opened. I would definitely return to try one of their main meals before a show at The Genesian.
The audience roared with laughter in all the appropriate times of “Daisy Pulls It Off” and I feel that audience enjoyment and engagement is paramount to the success of a performance. There weren’t as many in the audience as I hoped there’d be and I’d like to see more people appreciate this amateur theatre in their future productions.
From the 19th of September, The Ensemble, Kirribilli hosts “Camp”, a crazy comedy following the antics of a group of families on their Boxing Day camping holiday. Each family is dysfunctional in their own right, so spending time trapped in a communal camping ground is the perfect place to set a comedy, while magnifying some of the more relevant human experiences.
In hindsight, the plot isn’t outlandishly unique and the character development, conflict, climax and resolution are all evident as a formulaic stage text. However what makes this play very clever is the fact that playwright Gary Baxter has managed to flawlessly script chaos, which is a very difficult thing to accomplish. His dialogue is balanced, heavy with implied humour, satire and the taste of the production is inherently Australian, which in my opinion is rather refreshing.
To further the success of this production, Baxter’s heavy chaos wouldn’t have been possible without the passionate dedication of such a high calibre cast under the great direction of Mark Kilmurry. The dynamics of the cast were perfect, their power was raw when necessary and they had total believability when performing their roles- I believed they were who they said they were and I believed we were at a campsite in the sweltering heat. I thought the actors and the script were very crafty in being able to highlight small idiosyncrasies and heighten character and nuance, and these are indicative of great theatre because for that moment, as you sit in the dark, you leave your own world behind and escape for a while.
The play didn’t need your involvement, it didn’t ask you to decode or work for anything. As the audience, you were only asked to be open to the journey ahead. There were people who roared with laughter and people who sat horrified at the sickening reality of campsite claustrophobia. For some, well for me at least, the play came a little too close to home in their portrayal of the typical Australian camping experience.
In terms of production, The Ensemble delights me every time. The set was perfect, astro-turf, washing line, doggy-poop and all. Their attention to detail in the prop and lighting department really authenticates the play. I’d also like to mention that there was a mix-up at the Box office and the office staff were more than helpful with my tickets. “Camp” is a play that is fun, relative to our own experiences, as happy campers, or even just as Australians. It’s a nice break from reality for two hours and it’s well-executed, light-hearted fun.
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Last post was just a general rundown of things to come – outlines, timelines and storyboards all included, but this time I want to focus on storyboarding in particular. Now, I am new at this and am getting better and better, but still, it’s good to look back occasionally and see how far you’ve come at doing something.
At first, I started out with simple pencil sketches of camera shots put together to tell a story for a particular cutscene or the trailer for the game. I’m a bit embarrassed by them now, but that feeling is GOOD. It means improvement has happened. Once I began getting more comfortable with the process, I acquired better creative drawing software in which to take over the process, favoring the sketchy, general look of them. [I shall leave the finer details to those more practiced and artistic than I am! XD] But what I have coincides with the cutscene scripts for the voice actors/actresses, and gives the artists an idea of how the scene would play out, so they could have a visual foundation for the scene flow – a foundation that they could improve upon!
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My stepson decided he wanted a Pokemon birthday this year. The Pokemon figures are pretty hard to make into a cake so I decided to make the Pokeball, which is just a round ball, half red & half white.
I’ve been wanting to try my hand at decorating a cake with fondant after washing billions of hours of Charm City Cakes’ amazing creations and ‘the Cake Boss’. Obviously this would not be anywhere in the same league as the cakes they create, but you have to start somewhere, right?
I have to say that even after making the fondant, I was still surprised at how heavy it was when it came down to decorating the cake. It’s not like pie dough where you can roll it onto itself and move it. You actually need to decide ahead of time to bring the cake closer to you. I found this out after having finally kneaded the fondant so it was just right and then rolling it to just the right thickness and then trying to get it to my cake… And having it rip apart and fall on the floor… Thus having to start all over with a new piece. And I did this TWICE before moving the cake. Ugh. Sometimes my brain doesn’t work!
Anyway, once I moved the cake and got a feel for the fondant, it went pretty smoothly.
Then I went to add the final touches, which I thought would be the easiest part… I had that icing in a can with the writing tips. That’s what I used for the black lines I needed. It came out in globs and made a mess. Then I tried to ‘fix’ it by making another line so maybe it would look like it was supposed to be thicker. It looked awful! Oh well. It was black, it’s not like I could take it back off and start over (the fondant instantly took on the color!). I decided to just be happy the fondant worked.
But then, because I can’t just leave well enough alone, I had to write on the cake. I used that same icing in a can, this time in blue. Maybe it’s just me. I don’t think I can write on cakes. The writing was awful and I was very upset about it. I do have a really nice set of cake decorating tips so next time I’ll see if I can do any better with the decorations using homemade icing.
The actual cake was just a white box cake, I made a blue and a green layer and then I cut each layer in two so it would be a 4-layer cake. I made a delicious vanilla buttercream to frost it. I also added a layer of sprinkles :). I wish I could post a pic of the inside but it was so late after trick-or-treating last night, it never got cut!
I think I’m going to go eat the leftover vanilla buttercream!
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2015’s poster from the Veterans Administration, for Veterans Day — tomorrow!
2015 Veterans Day poster from the Veterans Administration. Veterans Day always falls on November 11, this year on a Wednesday.
Both high-res and low-res versions are available from the VA’s poster site.
Remember to fly your U.S. flag tomorrow, to honor veterans.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 10th, 2015 at 4:14 pm and is filed under Flag etiquette, Fly your flag today, History, veterans, veterans day. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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I have always held the opinion that, public office is a public trust, and that public officers and employees must, at all times, be accountable to the people, serve them with utmost responsibility, integrity, loyalty, and efficiency; act with patriotism and justice, and lead modest lives worthy of emulation.
The service delivery by public officials is so poor and nothing to write home about lately. These officials are largely unaccountable to the Ghanaian people who have voted them into public offices and who are also taxpayers, paying such officials. This poor service delivery; which manifests itself in very high levels of poverty, thievery and unemployment, is a direct consequence of widespread mismanagement and endemic corruption on the part of the uncountable public officials as well as little or no active citizen participation in the conduct of public affairs.
It is in the best interest of all Ghanaians to ensure that elected and or appointed public officials manage public resources in an efficient, transparent and accountable fashion. These resources belong to all Ghanaians. When public resources are abused through mismanagement, maladministration and blatant corruption, it is the ordinary members of society, and, in particular, the marginalized, poor and unemployed women, youth and members of indigenous minorities who suffer the consequences.
We must SPEAK-UP to ensure that elected and appointed public officials are accountable to the people of Ghana, and also ensure effective service delivery in the country. The promotion of active citizen participation in the conduct of public affairs is a necessary tool. We must all speak-up. Ghana must get involved and SPEAK-UP! for God and Country.
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How should we understand the effects of the Fall on the mind and brain? We know our bodies age and die. We know all of our organs are susceptible to disease and deterioration. We have “norms” for the frequency, duration, onset, and prognosis of these effects of the Fall; what are the equivalent expectations for the mind and brain?
When engaging a difficult and highly personal subject, it is better to start with good questions than a list of answers. The better our questions are, the more responsibly we will utilize the answers of which we are confidant, the more humbly we will approach areas of uncertainty, and the more we will honor one another in the process of learning.
As I’ve read, counseled, and thought about the subject of mental illness, here are some of the questions that have emerged.
The purpose of these questions is to expand our thinking about mental illness. We all bring a “theory of mental illness” to this discussion. This theory, whether we can articulate it or not, shapes the questions we ask. Exposing ourselves to important questions from other perspectives is the first step in becoming more holistic in our approach.
Don’t allow these questions to overwhelm you. All of these questions existed before you read them. Speaking them didn’t create them. Actually, an appropriate response to this list would be the generation of more questions. Take a moment to write down the additional questions you have.
Is mental illness a flaw in character or chemistry? Is this the best way to frame the question? What do we lose when we fall into the trap of either-or thinking?
Why do we think of genetic influences as if they negate the role of the will or personal choice? Substance abuse can have a clear genetic predisposition, but every addiction program – even those most committed to a disease model – appeal to the will as a key component to sobriety.
In the modern psychological proverb, “The genes load the gun, and the environment pulls the trigger,” where is the person? How do we best understand the interplay of predisposition (genetics), influences (environment), and the individual making choices (person)?
What percent of those who struggle with “normal sorrow” are labeled as clinically depressed? What percentage of those who think their sorrow is normal are actually clinically depressed? How do we communicate effectively when the same word – depression – has both a clinical and popular usage?
Would we want to eradicate all anxiety and depression if we were medically capable of doing so? What would we lose, that was good about life and relationships, if these unpleasant emotions were eradicated from human experience? Would that be heaven-on-earth or have unintended consequences that are greater than our current dilemma?
This entry was posted in Christian Living, Counseling, Culture, Ministry, Opinion/Commentary on February 19, 2018 by Truth2Freedom.
I pray it will be a blessing brother!
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Hungary-based artist Judit Rita Rabóczky playfully molds strips of wire cables together to create her series of energetic human figurine sculptures. She welds the colorful pieces into acrobatic and seductive poses, that seem almost lifelike. As a result, the work is filled with a lively energy that emanates from each body. Rabóczky pays close attention to detail in shaping the outlines and curves of her sculptures. She uses either a single metal or a rainbow of colors to show the flexibility and stretch of the human form.
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Well, we just got through another hunting season where lots of men and a few women go out into the wilderness, or their backyards, with big rifles and shoot various creatures. Including (but not limited to…) elk, deer, antelope, mountain lions, ducks, geese, mourning doves, partridges, pheasants, rabbits, squirrels, and coyotes. Oh, and don’t forget the occasional cow, horse, llama, and other hunters (by accident of course).
It seems every season hunters shoot each other and also non-hunters out for a stroll. National statistics are impossible to find, but it looks on average that every hunting state has 8-10 shooting incidents. That’s not much of a statistic considering there are millions of hunters out there across the country.
By the way, hunting shootings have declined drastically since the mandatory “hunter’s safety programs” were initiated. Well, if you’ve got to shoot something, be safe about it.
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Home » Columns » Ruthie Richardson's Memory Lane » Rest in Peace, Hal David.
Rest in Peace, Hal David.
By ruthierichardson in Ruthie Richardson's Memory Lane on September 2, 2012 .
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After the tumultuous events of Seeing Evil (haven’t read it? You need to!) Michael and Sam have earned a little quiet time. But, sadly, peace and quiet aren’t on their horizon.
Plagued by new nightmares, Michael seems to be withdrawing further into himself and Sam, despite bringing Michael into her home, can’t seem to cross that mother-figure bridge and pull him out. When “The Whisperer” starts to enter Michael’s dreams and visions things take a frightening turn. Michael’s past is coming back to haunt him. Literally. Meanwhile Sam’s work lands her smack-dab in the middle of a frightening gang’s bomb-riddled hostage-taking jailbreak. Can I just point out what a bad@$$, determined woman Sam is? She’s my idol!
Hearing Evil was quite the roller coaster ride. Did I like it as much as Book 1? Just about. It was really close! And will I be anxious to read the next installment? You betcha! Jason Parent has created two very likable characters I’ve become quite invested in. Bring on more Evil.
You can check it out for yourself HERE, free to read for Kindle Unlimited subscribers.
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for some time now, but it’s been on hold due to other priority projects. I hope to write and release it this year, depending on my schedule.
What qualifies me to predict the future? In the past decade, I taught a number of my proprietary Feng Shui courses and did lots of consultations, in addition to writing about Feng Shui and spirituality for various publications around the world. As part of my speaking and writing, I made predictions about certain events in society and our lives, as well as advised clients on various real estate and investment-related matters.
My various predictions usually came true. As a quick example, I sold my own real estate property in 2005 – at the top – and advised my clients to do the same. Those, who followed my advice, cashed in very nicely. To find out more about me, check out my bio.
My predictive methodology is complex and consists of several parts.
As a former financial consultant with Smith Barney (Citigroup,) I understand the market movements.
Having lived in various countries, under various social systems, including socialism and capitalism, and having observed and studied the geopolitical mechanisms that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as those in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America, I understand the driving forces in the world today.
I also draw on Western Astrology, which, together with other predictive methods, is a great tool.
Feng Shui, especially the Theory of Five Elements, along with Chinese Astrology, is also helpful.
An important element in my predictions is the powerful Oriental System of Long Cycles, very little known, and even less understood today. Feng Shui, in its most profound and true manifestation, shares the same philosophy. I studied this system with revered Hong Kong Masters of Feng Shui. Since space in a blog post is limited, I intend to talk more about it in the upcoming BOOK OF PREDICTIONS.
Last, but not least: While I do not consider myself psychic, although some may beg to differ, in my predictions, I rely heavily on my intuition, which has never let me down.
Without further ado, let’s get to the core of the issue. The Year 2012 is the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese system, and it also has been called the Year of Elections. So, what does this year hold in store for us all?
First, something that has been done to death (no pun intended) in books and film: Should we expect the End of the World on 12/21/12?
The short answer is – ABSOLUTELY NOT! The above date, when Earth forms a direct line with the Galactic Center, will be a non-event and will go absolutely unnoticed by most humans. Some may feel more emotional and high strung, but it could be because these people are feeling the nervousness of others around them. However, the world will keep spinning, and life on Earth will go on.
The long answer is more complex. There are very powerful, LONG TERM changes at work. Those of us who are currently involved with, say, Indie Publishing, or Social Media, and some other areas, are actually at the forefront of these changes.
Suffice it to say that humanity is going through a massive transformation of consciousness, which will last for the foreseeable future, and at times, may be painful and confusing.
But these changes are gradual, although some manifestations are visible in cataclysms and events of today. Examples include: Japanese tsunami and Fukushima disaster, Gulf of Mexico oils spill, the Occupy Movement, Egypt Revolution, US/Europe Economic Problems, The BRICS, Kindle and Indie Publishing Revolution and many others.
Read more about the powerful Dragon in my tomorrow’s post, right here, on Lada Ray Blog!
2012 is called THE YEAR of ELECTIONS, with something like 40 countries going to the polls to elect new Heads of State. This includes the big three: Russia, USA and France.
My friends will tell you that I could talk for hours about geopolitics, but due to the confines of the blog space, I’ll be brief and discuss the big three. Also, just to mention, I am a ‘political atheist’ and do not participate in any political party. My analysis is based on logic, facts, intuition, Chinese Astrology and Theory of Long Cycles.
I will go with plus 2, minus 1.
RUSSIA, Presidential Elections, March 4, 2012: Vladimir Putin will win easily enough, although, due to the crowded field and according to the Russian electoral rules, he may only get clear majority in the second round. Protests on part of the Communists and assorted opposition will continue, and electoral fraud will be alleged again, whether it took place, or not.
In short, USA will remain sharply divided along partisan lines. Obama will narrowly win another 4-year term.
Meanwhile, various protests will continue and intensify. Emergence of a third party is very possible, fueled with disillusionment with the establishment and election results.
What happens during Obama’s second term is another story altogether, and I’ll discuss it later in my BOOK OF PREDICTIONS, as well.
France, Presidential Elections, April 22-May 6, 2012: French President Nicolas Sarkozy, together with Angela Merkel of Germany (whose re-election is not until 2013, and I’ll talk about her chances on another occasion) will do everything in their power to reassure the Europeans and the markets in 2012, and will pull a rabbit out of the hat, if necessary. Watch for various announcements from the Eurozone, directed at flooding the system with cheap money, more bailouts, etc.
However, the Eurozone crisis will deepen, with more countries teetering on the brink of collapse, and French elections will happen at the most inopportune time for Sarkozy. Openly right wing and considered the only neo-con, able to win the election, he’s deeply disliked in his country, and will lose.
Again, in case anyone’s wondering, Sarkozy’s sign is the HORSE. Maybe, that’s why the long face. 😉 Just kidding, all you, fabulous Horses, out there! The Horse is a very cool and fortunate sign!
Wishing you a terrific and auspicious Year of the Dragon! Please like and comment to let me know what you think about my predictions!
P.S. On 1/13/12, only two days after I posted my prediction about Sarkozy losing the French elections, S&P downgraded French debt, stripping it of it’s coveted AAA rating. France was downgraded along with 8 other Eurozone countries. This move, as analysts unanimously agree, spells disaster for Sarkozy in the upcoming elections. And it also signals that the Eurozone problems are bound to intensify this year.
Russia and France voted exactly as I originally predicted on 1/11/12, GOP nominated Romney, and there are clearly 3rd parties emerging in the USA. Two Third Party Presidential debates are being hosted by Larry King and aired by RT America (First debate took place several days ago and is available on Youtube; second – foreign policy – debate will air and be posted on Youtube on 10/30).
Upcoming US Presidential Elections: no change from the original 1/11/12 prediction! Obama wins narrowly, with less than 5%, possibly less than 3% advantage.
It is interesting to note that, while in the USA the vote will be very close, abroad it’s not even a contest. Based on multiple surveys and polls from over 20 countries, Romney gets more support only in Pakistan, which is attributed to the Pakistanis’ irritation with deadly drone strikes, not so much to their preference of a specific candidate. Most countries have Romney in single digits, with Western Europe, especially France, favoring Obama by the widest margin.
My prediction: while Obama is far from ideal, no world leader (except, perhaps Israel’s Netanyahu) wants Romney as US President, in fact he scares everyone with his bellicose posturing. Foreign perception is that his angry rhetoric, lack of reason and restraint would make his presidency into Bush 2.0. By the way, this is also perception of much of the international investment community – and international investment community is seldom wrong.
It is naive to think that American elections happen in a vacuum. In our globalized and interconnected world, it should not be underestimated how much influence other countries and global community hold over any country’s policy and elections. In fact, I noticed that global opinion is the most accurate barometer of presidential election results in any country. For example, the international community at large (excluding USA and UK) wanted Putin to win (of course, there was really no contest anyway). In France, both the country and international perception were against Sarkozy, and sure enough – he lost.
Read my follow up articles/predictions regarding the elections in Russia, France and USA.
I will be posting a follow up after the US elections, including my new predictions regarding the very important for the Eurozone German Chancellor Election 2013, including Angela Merkel’s chances.
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Is ban-aisteoir Ioruach í Liv Johanne Ullmann. Rugadh í ar an 16 Nollaig 1938. Bhuaigh sí an gradam Ban-Aisteoir is Fearr i gCoiméide nó Ceoldráma sna gradaim Golden Globe i 1973.
Tugadh an leathanach seo cothrom le dáta an 11 Eanáir 2019 ag 01:18.
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Banna rac-cheoil, nó rac malartach, as Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá é Pixies. Bhailigh an banna fuaimeanna punc-raic agus ceol traidisiúnta le chéile, chun a stíl sainiúil féin a chruthú. Níor bhain an banna aon rath mór amach ar dtús, ach d'imir siad tionchar mór ar a lán bannaí a tháinig ar an bhfód níos déanaí. Cumadóir an-tréitheach é Black Francis, agus bhí cáil aige mar cheoltóir ina aonar chomh maith. Cé gur bhanna beag neamhspleách a bhí ann, tá a dtionchar le cloisteáil fós i rac-cheol nua-aimseartha.
D'aontaigh baill an bhanna ar ais le chéile sa bhliain 2004, agus chuaigh siad amach ar chamchuairt domhanda. Níor thaifead siad aon ábhar nua, agus ag tús na bliana 2008 bhí Black Francis ag rá in agallaimh éagsúla go raibh an ath-aontú thart.
Bunaíodh Pixies i mBostún, Massachusetts sa bhliain 1986, nuair a bhuail Charles Thompson (Black Francis, nó Frank Black níos déanaí) leis an ngiotáraí Joey Santiago ar an gcoláiste. Le David Lovering ar na drumaí agus Kim Deal ar an dord-ghiotár, thabhaigh siad clú agus cáil thall sa Bhreatain, agus ansin níos déanaí abhaile i Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá freisin.
Bhriseadar suas sa bhliain 1991, nuair a nocht Francis in agallamh go raibh sé críochnaithe leo. Bhí deacrachtaí idir eisean agus Deal, a bhí ag fás agus ag méadú thar na blianta. Chuir seisean tús gan mhoill le gairmréim aonair, agus bhain Deal roinnt cáil amach leis a banna nua The Breeders, in éineacht leis a deirfiúr Kelley.
Tugadh an leathanach seo cothrom le dáta an 27 Lúnasa 2017 ag 23:57.
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Automated identification of plastic compositions is desirable for a variety of applications, such as recycling, tracking the manufacturing source, antipiracy protection, and others. A variety of identification methods of plastic materials are known, including X-ray and infrared spectroscopy. The use of tags in plastic materials, e.g., UV and near-IR fluorescent dyes added to polymers for identification purposes. Fluorescence lifetime of an embedded dye can also be used for the identification purposes. In addition to the use of organic fluorophores, inorganic tracers were used such as yttrium vanadate, zinc sulfide (ZnS) associated to one metal, and organometallic materials.
It is noted that the terms “first,” “second,” and the like, herein do not denote any amount, order, or importance, but rather are used to distinguish one element from another, and the terms “a” and “an” herein do not denote a limitation of quantity, but rather denote the presence of at least one of the referenced item. Additionally, all ranges disclosed herein are inclusive and combinable (e.g., the ranges of “up to 25 wt %, with 5 wt % to 20 wt % desired,” are inclusive of the endpoints and all intermediate values of the ranges of “5 wt % to 25 wt %,” etc.). The modifier “about” used in connection with a quantity is inclusive of the stated value and has the meaning dictated by the context (e.g., includes the degree of error associated with measurement of the particular quantity). The notation “±10%” means that the indicated measurement may be from an amount that is minus 10% to an amount that is plus 10% of the stated value. Compounds are described using standard nomenclature. For example, any position not substituted by any indicated group is understood to have its valency filled by a bond as indicated, or a hydrogen atom. A dash (“—”) that is not between two letters or symbols is used to indicate a point of attachment for a substituent. For example, —CHO is attached through carbon of the carbonyl group. It is also noted that “medical” as used herein, includes dental, pharmaceutical, and the like.
Example of color changing species includes organic color matter (e.g., organic molecules) that undergo a color change following an oxidation process. In one embodiment, the color changing species will be added to a resin during the formation of the article. Optionally, the color changing species can be materials having enough heat stability to be processed with the plastic material such that the plastic pellets used to form the medical article will have built-in color changing capability. The color changing specie can be present in a separate layer (e.g., film) that is applied to the device (e.g., by an IMD (in-mold decoration) process). In such case, the additive can be dispersed in the film material, and/or applied by a coating process, screen printing process, or the like, on top of the film. Such process may be useful when the color changing specie has a heat or processing stability that is not sufficient to be compatible with the extrusion/injection molding process used to produce the device. The color changing species can be in a non-ionic form, e.g., that can be transformed into an ionic form of a different color, e.g., upon exposure to a color change activator. The color changing specie can be in a form that is not oxygen sensitive. In a further embodiment, the color changing specie can be in a non-ionic form that is a blocked reduced form of a colorant. Essentially, the color changing specie can be in a stable form while being handled. The stable state can be a permanent state (e.g., no specific shelf life for the additive) or could be limited to a certain period of time (e.g. core-shell encapsulated activated additives). Organic color changing species can in a leuco form that has been made stable by blocking and/or encapsulation thus allowing the color changing specie to be handled in the presence of the color change activator during the manufacturing process. The blocking group can maintain the molecule in a blocked leuco form (i.e., in a state where the electronic conjugation in the chromophore is interrupted). After an activation/deblocking step, the leuco form becomes sensitive to the color change activator (the electronic conjugation is no longer interrupted) resulting in a visible color change after exposure to the color change activator.
In Formula I, X in Formula I can be O or S. R1 to R8, individually, represent a halogen atom, a hydroxy group, an amino group, an alkyl group, an alkylamino group, a dialkylamino group, an alkyl ether group, a cycloalkyl group, a cyclic ether group, an aryl group, an aryl ether group, a heterocyclic group, a sulfonyl group, a carbonyl group, an ester group, a carbonate group, or the like. Adjacent substituents may also be part of a fused ring. R can be, for example, a substituent that forms a urethane, amide or a thioamide bond with the leuco dye, and can have sufficient heat stability to sustain the manufacturing process (e.g., an extrusion and molding process). Non-limiting examples of substituents include acyl groups ester groups and thioester groups (e.g., —CO— M, where M represents an organic substituent such as an alkyl, aryl, an alkoxy, an aryloxy, or a sulfonyl substituent), and so forth. In one embodiment, R is a benzoyl group. Formula II represents benzoyl leuco methylene blue (BLMB) a blocked leuco dye that is gamma radiation sensitive (i.e., deblocked) during gamma irradiation.
In another embodiment, the R group on the leuco dye can be a peptide moiety or a peptide substructure such as —CO—CHR9—NR10R11, wherein R9, R10, and R11, can be a hydrogen atom, an organic substituent (linear or cyclic) that can, optionally, contain a heteroatom (e.g., Cl, Br, F, N, S, P, O, and so forth, as well as combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing) and can, optionally, be unsaturated; and so forth, as well as combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing. It is noted that peptide moieties typically contain proteases that cleave peptide or protein moieties into amino acids or their derivatives, and can, therefore, be the blocking group to detect the exposure to enzymatic cleaning solutions.
In use, a packaged medical article comprising a color changing specie can be removed from the packaging. Once the article has been removed from the packaging, it is considered “used” since is may no longer be sterile, or otherwise usable, even if the article was only removed from the packaging without any further use thereof. The “used” article can then be reprocessed to clean and/or sterilized the article for subsequent use. If the article comprises a blocked color changing specie, the reprocessing can deblock the color changing specie such that, upon subsequent exposure to a color change activator, the color changes.
Prior to UV exposure, samples using t-Boc as the blocking group for the LMB dye were stable (little or no shift in UV-vis spectrum) to heat (55° C.). There was some deblocking (formation of LMB λmax 360) when stored at 55° C. in the presence of camphor sulfonic acid. When exposed to UV, the t-Boc LMB samples showed deblocking (Abs360 increased) with exposure to UV (and not heat). This indicates that there was either more deblocking in samples with no camphor sulfonic acid or LMB was converted to methylene blue prior to inspection. There was also a higher Abs660 upon UV exposure. The greatest change in Abs660 (indicative of the formation of methylene blue) was seen in samples containing camphor sulfonic acid and with pre-heat (storing samples at 55° C.), which was consistent with the larger color change observed in the sample.
Color data was reported in the CIELAB color space, using a 10 degree observer and a D65 illuminant light source. Chips were measured after molding and exposure to air at ambient temperature. (The chips were shielded from light by an aluminum pan while being exposed to air.) The color and spectral data were recorded as a function of air (i.e., O2) exposure time on an average of 5 chips. The results are presented in FIG. 4 and clearly show that the chips were darkening (decrease in lightness L* value) as a function of time, thereby confirming the visual observations (see pictures in FIG. 4). Because the decrease in L* value appears to be linearly dependent on the square root of the exposure time, the mechanism seems to be driven (i.e., limited) by the diffusion of oxygen in the polycarbonate chips. Hence, the kinetics of the process can be accelerated, decelerated, and/or delayed, for example, by using a resin matrix with different oxygen properties or by adding a reducing agent. After only 8 hours, the L* value (which was originally relatively high (L* greater than about 87)) dropped by about 3 units, which is a clearly visible change. After about 1 day, the L* value decreased by about 10 units. After two weeks of exposure, the part became extremely dark (L* of about 14), e.g., to the point that it was very difficult to perceive any visual color change. At that point, it was almost impossible to see through at the 3.2 mm thickness gage.
The following temperature settings were used for the extruder (in ° C.): Feed/Z1/Z2/Z3/Die=250/260/270/270/270. Pellets, which were almost colorless, were packaged off the line into Foodsaver bags sealed under vacuum. The material was then molded into 5.08×7.62 cm chips (3.2 mm thickness) on a Boy 15S molding machine using the following temperature profile: Feed/Barrel/Nozzle (° C)=260° C./280° C./280° C. The chips appeared almost colorless after molding illustrating the better heat stability of the benzoyl blocking group as opposed to the t-Boc. The chips were packaged into individual sleeves and placed in a vacuum-sealed FoodSaver bag to protect them for light and/or oxygen exposure. Color and spectral data were collected on a MacBeth 7000A spectrophotometer in transmission mode. Color data are reported in the CIELAB color space, using a 10 degree observer and a D65 illuminant light source. Chips were measured after molding and then exposed to air at ambient temperature. The chips were shielded from light by an aluminum pan while being exposed to air. Some chips were stored. The changes light transmission in 3.2 mm chips were recorded as a function of air (i.e., O2) exposure time on an average of 5 chips. The results are presented in FIG. 7 for a loading of 0.1 phr of benzoyl LMB. Similar results were observed for the chips molded from a resin containing about 0.5 phr benzoyl LMB (see FIG. 8). A more significant spectral changed was observed with an increased loading of benzoyl LMB for a given air exposure time. Interestingly, a higher loading of benzoyl LMB did not seem to significantly affect the initial color since the molded chips still appeared colorless before being exposed to air.
The spectral curves clearly show that the chips were changing color as time evolved (which is consistent with visual observations: the chip went from colorless to dark blue-green over time) from the oxygen exposure. From the curve, it can be seen that there is no methylene blue (MB) initially present in the chip (no specific absorption at about 650 nm). Also, the relatively flat curve seems to indicate that there was little, if any, MB formed during the extrusion that degraded during molding. It is noted that the oxygen sensitivity observed for the benzoyl LMB was a rather surprising result since benzoyl is one of the most stable blocking group. Not to be limited by theory, because of the theoretical stability of the benzoyl, one could have expected no color change at all after extrusion/molding in response to oxygen only (i.e., blocked leuco form totally intact).
Note that the color shifts observed correspond essentially to a negative shift in the b* value, which is consistent with the fact that the parts visually turn to a blue color. When looking at the changes in the spectral curve as a function of time, it appears that this shift in the b* value is essentially caused by the increase in absorption at about 650 nm which corresponds to the formation of methylene blue in the material. It must be noted that such color shifts greater than 10 units, and especially greater than 20 units can be immediately picked up by an untrained eye. It must be emphasized that the color differences observed for parts that have been exposed to gamma radiation are significantly larger (6 to 7 times larger) than those observed by only exposing the molded parts to oxygen in the absence light. This examples illustrates the fact that it is possible to create resins containing blocked leuco dyes that will get deblocked during gamma radiation sterilization and could be used as a built-in open package/usage indicator for medical devices when combined with a oxygen barrier (and/or oxygen scavenging) packaging material.
Some of the blocked leuco dyes described above that produce a blue/violet color in their oxidized form and can be incorporated into a polycarbonate resin, such as the benzoyl-leuco methylene blue, loose their blocking group during gamma radiation sterilization and become highly oxygen sensitive. If exposed to oxygen during and/or after sterilization, the oxidized (i.e., blue/violet color) form of the dye is obtained.
This technology can be employed in pharmaceutical applications (e.g., medicine containers such as bottles, bubble wrap packages, and the like), medical articles (e.g., instruments (e.g., trocar, syringe, scalpel, tubing (e.g., suction tubing, intravenous tubing, and the like), packaging around sterile items (such as bandages, gauze, instruments (scalpel, mirror, pick, drill, and the like), and the like, as well as many other applications. Based upon the location of the color changing specie, and the state of the color changing specie (blocked or active), different activities can be identified.
a protective layer capable of inhibiting exposure of the medical article to the color change activator prior to use of the medical article.
2. The medical article of claim 1, wherein the color changing specie comprises a leuco coloring matter selected from the group consisting of leuco azine coloring matter, leuco aryl methane coloring matter, leuco indigo coloring matter, and derivatives and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing leuco coloring matter.
3. The medical article of claim 1, further comprising a kinetics controller in communication with the color changing specie.
4. The medical article of claim 1, wherein the color change additive is in a coating on the plastic portion.
5. The medical article of claim 4, wherein the coating is on an inner surface of the medical article.
6. The medical article of claim 1, wherein the color change additive is disposed in the plastic portion.
7. The medical article of claim 1, wherein the color change additive is disposed in the plastic portion.
8. The medical article of claim 1, wherein the plastic portion is opaque.
9. The medical article of claim 1, wherein the protective layer comprises removable packaging.
10. The medical article of claim 9, wherein the protective layer has an oxygen permeability of less than or equal to about 1.1 Barrers, and further comprises an oxygen scavengers.
11. The medical article of claim 1, wherein a period of time of 12 hours after an initial exposure of the color changing specie to the color activator has a CEILAB ΔE* of less than or equal to 4 units.
12. The medical article of claim 11, wherein the period of time is 24 hours.
13. The medical article of claim 1, wherein the color changing specie is capable of a sufficient change in color to obscure a marking on the medical article.
14. The medical article of claim 1, wherein the medical article is selected from the group consisting of medicine containers, medical instruments, and medical packaging around a sterile item.
15. The medical article of claim 14, wherein the medical container is selected from the group consisting of bottles and bubble wrap packages.
16. The medical article of claim 14, wherein the sterile item is selected from the group consisting of bandage, gauze, syringe, and instrument.
17. The medical article of claim 1, wherein the color changing specie is encapsulated.
18. The medical article of claim 1, where an color changing specie further comprises a blocking group selected from the group consisting of carbamate, thiocarbamate, enamine, imine, acetal, sulfenyl, sulfonyl, phosphoryl, alkyl, imide, amide, benzylic moiety, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing blocking groups.
19. The medical article of claim 1, wherein the color change activator is selected from the group consisting of light, oxygen, rinsing/cleaning solutions hydrogen peroxide, ethylene oxide, body fluids, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing.
20. The medical article of claim 1, wherein the color change activator comprises oxygen.
21. The medical article of claim 1, wherein the color changing species comprises an organic color matter.
23. The medical article of claim 22, wherein the post-processing is selected from the group consisting of ethylene oxide sterilization, enzymatic cleaning, gamma radiation, disinfecting solution, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing re-sterilizations.
27. The medical article of claim 26, wherein the blocked color changing specie comprises a blocking group selected from the group consisting of —CO-phenyl, —SO2—C6H5, —CO—C—(CH3)3, —CO2C2H5, —CO-phenyl-NH2, —CO-phenyl-alkyl, —CO-phenyl-alkoxy, —CO-phenyl-halogen, —SO2C4H9, -tosyl, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing blocking groups.
28. The medical article of claim 22, wherein the re-sterilization is selected from the group consisting of heat, cleaning solution, steam, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing re-sterilizations.
29. The medical article of claim 22, wherein the blocked color changing specie is photosensitive, and further comprising a light blocking packaging, wherein the light blocking packaging is capable of preventing exposure of the blocked color changing specie to light.
30. The medical article of claim 22, wherein the color change does not affect functionality of the medical article.
31. The medical article of claim 22, wherein the blocked color changing specie further comprises a blocking group selected from the group consisting of a carbamate, thiocarbamate, enamine, imine, acetal, sulfenyl, sulfonyl, phosphoryl, alkyl, imide, amide, benzylic moiety, peptide moiety, protein moiety, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing blocking groups.
sterilizing the packaged medical article to form a sterile medical article.
33. The method of claim 32, wherein the processing activates the blocked color changing specie.
34. The method of claim 32, wherein the blocked color change specie remains blocked after the manufacturing processing, and wherein the blocked color changing specie is capable of being activated in a post processing that is different from the manufacturing processing.
35. The method of claim 33, wherein the post processing is selected from the group consisting of ethylene oxide sterilization, enzymatic cleaning, gamma radiation, disinfecting solution, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing post-processing.
36. The method of claim 32, wherein the post processing is selected from the group consisting of heat, cleaning solution, steam, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing post-processing.
37. The method of claim 32, wherein the blocked color changing specie is photosensitive, and wherein packaging the medical article comprises disposing a light blocking material around the medical article.
38. The method of claim 32, wherein the packaged medical article further comprises a packaging material that inhibits exposure of the sterile medical article to a color change activator such that a CIELAB ΔE* of greater than or equal to about 5 can occur after the sterile medical article is removed from the packaging and exposed to the color change activator.
39. The method of claim 32, wherein the packaging material comprises an oxygen permeability of less than or equal to about 1.1 Barrers.
40. The method of claim 32, wherein the blocked color changing specie is packaged prior to deblocking.
wherein the color changing specie has a CIELAB ΔE* from the first time to the second time of greater than or equal to about 10.
42. The method of claim 41, wherein cleaning and sterilizing the used medical article further comprises deblocking the color changing specie.
deblocking the color changing species in the used medical article.
44. The method of claim 43, wherein deblocking the color changing specie further comprises post processing, wherein the post processing is selected from the group consisting of ethylene oxide sterilization, enzymatic cleaning, gamma radiation, disinfecting solution, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing post-processing.
45. The method of claim 43, wherein activating the blocked color changing specie further comprises post processing, wherein the post processing is selected from the group consisting of heat, cleaning solution, steam, and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing post-processing.
ES2277354T3 (en) 2007-07-01 Composition having improved fluorescent response.
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The Neighbourhood Planning Group is a group of volunteers who have joined together to form a sub group of Wray with Botton Parish Council to assist in the preparation of a Neighbourhood Plan for the Parish.
After extensive consultation the Neighbourhood Plan has been drawn up and is now available for the stage known as Pre-submission Consultation. The consultation runs from Saturday 30 September until 5.00 pm on Friday 10 November 2017.
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You can register until August 31th 2014 (see also Registration information below).
In this master project, you will experience Software Engineering in a larger team in a practical context. In the context of this project, John Deere as well as Insiders will be your customers, for which a software product needs to be developed.
This project provides you with the chance to experience development in an industrial context, gain domain knowledge (i.e., agriculture and document management), and get in touch with new technology (i.e., Google Glasses).
The master project will be performed en block from September 29th 2014 to December 12th 2014.
You are working full time before lectures start and part time during lecture time.
Upcoming information will be announced via this project website.
Registered students will also be informed about any upcoming news via email.
If you have any further questions, please contact Dr. Kai Breiner (kai.breiner@iese.fraunhofer.de).
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Search Engine - Writing but not as we know it.
I happened to be searching livejournal for a UK politics community because I seem to be obsessed by it at the moment. Found uk_lolitics . As the name suggests it is a bit of an irreverent look at UK politics.
While browsing the various entries stumbled across a link for the lolitics anonymous fic meme After (accidentially) clicking the link I discovered that one pairing appears to be extremely popular. They have been open about a week or so and seem to have over 600 comments. Who knew that UK Political RPF was so popular?
brb getting lost in the fic meme D: I can't believe how popular it is.
Have fun! It's scary how popular it seems to be.
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The illustrated Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt covers time period from the 3150 BC to 30 BC. Easily access the maps, timeline, information about the dynasties, pharaohs, laws, culture, government, military and more.
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- Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway.
Given the tradition of segregation of the sexes practiced almost universally in Muslim countries, most women’s work tends to take place in the informal sector. In the countryside and in urban poor families women are frequently job holders, employed in all kinds of farm and household work in rural localities. Carpet weaving is an attractive occupation, since women can remain confined to the home and limited to an exclusively feminine sphere. Women also work in factories and elsewhere in cities.
In the Middle East, women’s employment patterns are largely shaped by the political economy of the region. Women’s employment patterns have been constrained by overall limited industrialization. Oil economies poor in other resources, including population (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Libya), have seen fairly limited industrialization which has served to limit female labor force participation. In the non-oil industrializing economies(Israel,Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey), female employment is higher than elsewhere. Even then, men predominate in the industrial sector. There seems to be a widespread Middle Eastern attitude that factory work is not suitable for women.
Valet parking, red carpet/roped access - who knew Chili's was so cool with the Egyptian rich kids.
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I was taking pictures for the FilterCam contest and this one didn’t make it in to be entered for the contest, so I Photoshopped & Photoscaped it to death. LOL A little something different from all the hearts & pink & flowers that will be around today. 🙂 If you want to see my entries for the contest, feel free to go to to my Flickr page.
So Valentine’s Day is tomorrow. Whew. LOL I had a lot of different blog posts in my head for what I’d do for the 14th. I’d find a valentine and surprise them every day for a week with something cute, and then blog it. I’d set up a friend with someone that they may like, and then blog it. I’d check out all the “winners” over at AvMatch, and then blog it. But life and SLife happens, and none of these came to pass. And maybe that’s for the best. I have been surprised with a couple of wonderful gifts from friends in SL, and that is more than I ever expected.
In my physical world, I do not expect anything tomorrow. I learned about 6 years ago that expecting anything was almost a sure sign I’d be disappointed, so I stopped. And although I do agree that nice things & feelings should be expressed all year round, the simple fact is that often, they are not. Sometimes you need that one day to remind your guy “Hey, I’m a GIRL. I’m a GIRL who likes ROMANTIC THINGS once in a while!” But anyway, that’s a story for a different, and much more private, journal.
So in SL tomorrow I will settle in at home, perhaps work on my yard, or just enjoy the home I’ve created for myself. It’s funny, but I almost never just sit in the one really decorated room of the house and just enjoy it. I’m usually stuffed away in my “dressing room” sitting on a posestand, surrounded by boxes. And well, that just shouldn’t be.
Like my pic? I took that with FilterCam. I went to FilterCam class earlier today. I adore Codie, I would pay anything for an ounce of her brain. But I did discover today that if you use the Restrained Life Viewer thingy [I enabled it in my preferences on Emerald], then if you make a Windlight preset and name it after one of the FilterCam presets, when you go to that preset, it changes your Windlight setting too! So cool! And bless her, Codie probably told me that one night when she was telling me all about the features and how to change filters, but teaching me anything is not very easy. Anyway, the class was awesome, and I caught this photo. No fancy FilterCamming, just the default.
Don’t forget, there’s a contest going on using FilterCam too!
Last night I headed over to the aQuatria Gallery, which is own by my friend Raven Haalan. Raven was out there when I went, so he gave me the tour. I’ve never been a huge art girl. I can appreciate it and think it’s pretty, but I won’t say that I ever really GET it or look for deeper meanings. But, I’m trying to expand my horizons. The gallery is really awesome and there’s a LOT of great art out on display. But my favorites were all in the “Mer” level, which is underwater. I was so so so taken with this mermaid sculpture by Risusipo Jun. It is just so pretty!
A closer shot of the face. She BLINKS!
You guys really need to go out there and check things out. You may even recognize some of the artists’ names!
Codie gave me a sneak preview of the new FilterCam that will be coming out soon. I immediately went to a vignette filter. The only Photoshop work I did on this pic was cropping. Total love.
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Given the winter weather, you might wonder how I could be doing another insect story, but right now I’m hosting an extra house guest. The beetle first showed up wandering the hallway at school, near the back doorway. Carabids are generally hunters, and many of them are beneficial to us because they eat pest insects. Chances are you’ve seen the ordinary sort of brown-legged, large black ground beetle running across the sidewalk in search of prey, or maybe hanging around your porch light at night.
Carabids can be distinguished by a couple of characteristics: firstly, the pronotum (the dorsal plate of the prothorax, meaning the section on the back of the beetle that’s between the head and body) is wider than the head but narrower than the rest of the body, and secondly, on the third (hind) legs the trocanter makes a rather distinctive lobe between the femur and coxa (diagram). Like many sorts of beetles, the elytra are striated, which is a fancy way of saying that the wing-covers are grooved.
There’s certainly no lack of beetles in the world; with about 40% of the species, Coleoptera is the largest of the insect orders. But once you get to know my guest, you won’t forget it — this is one smashingly gorgeous hexapod!
The Caterpillar Hunter (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Calosoma scrutator) also has another common name, the much more exciting Fiery Searcher.
Ground beetles are so named because that’s where they live; they like the cool damp spots, and hang out underneath rocks and bark and other debrís. Females lay individual eggs in the soil, where the larvae will return to pupate. But being caterpillar hunters, they are also found climbing trees in search of gypsy moth or tent caterpillars, especially during the spring.
After a couple of uneventful (read, “boring”) weeks, I took it home. Adults can live two or three years; I’ve no idea how old this one is, but it might be here some time. Today I waggled a waxworm right in front of its jaws, which prompted a quick response. My eldest described it as a “dedicated feeder”, as the beetle spent quite a while steadily consuming the caterpillar that was nearly as long as it was. It was, I noted, also a fastidious eater, as it only ate the insides of the moth larva, finally abandoning the rumpled exoskeleton, much in the way that we leave shrimp shells on our plates. It then wandered over to the side of the cage by the desk lamp, and sat in the warmth to better digest its dinner.
Like the rest of the Thanksgiving diners, my house guest is currently snoozing off its repast.
we live in northern illinois, getting ready for bed last night we saw this creature sitting on our bed. we will share our bed only with our kids, beetles no. i google searched and found this article. he has currently been released into our garden area. he was scary looking and to know that it may bite, i will search our beds every night.
i live in albuquerque, nm and encountered several of these while riding through the bosque. i found your article by trying to find out what these beetles are.
Hi! I just found one of our fiery friends when I was with my students on the playground. Wow- and they are STUNNING. I couldn’t believe it was so beatiful. So i too brought it home with the intention of keeping it… It must be a teacher thing :-) Thank you for your post, otherwise I’d be at a loss as to how to begin taking care of “Dora ” (named by my students). Since its late and petstores are no longer open, I wondered if Dora might eat a moth. Not long after turning on my outdoor lights, I captured a moth, and placed it I front of Dora. She fervently grabbed it and has been happily chomping away since. So again, thank you! Dora appreciates it as well!
I too was bit by a fiery searcher last night and went searching for info as it hurt pretty bad! lol. I found your site and must say, its really interesting! thanks for the great info.
I have to add this here in case anyone else has the same problem I did with these bugs. I was in 4th grade when I went to put on a girl scout uniform that was hanging in my closet. I felt a stinging bite. I removed the shirt and discovered a cocoon. which I put in a milk jug, and capped. within 3 hours I was covered in dots, had a fever and vomiting. I had to stay out of school for over 3 weeks to recover. the doctor said I had an allergic reaction to this bug. he also said that if I was ever bit again it would likely kill me. this isn’t something you want to give to kids to play with. you see after I got better I took the milk jug outside and dumped it out. this bug is what crawled out of it. it had gone into the cocoon of the moth to eat it and thats how it bit me in my shoulder. not everyone is allergic but I sure wouldn’t chance it again.
i just moved to an apartment in a very old building. im feeding the mice poison for 3 or 4 days and i notice this beetle and he goes in where the mice are. then its in my tub getting a drink of water. its now in a butter bowl w lid. i live on the 2nd floor and there are 3. is the beetle eating the mice laying babies will i have an explosion of beetles?
What kind of beetles do you have? The same as pictured, or something else? There are an incredibly large number of families and genera, not to mention species.
How large is the beetle?
As for whether or not you’ll have more beetles, that depends upon the sexes (assuming there’s not a pregnant female) and their life histories.
A bite from any animal (including humans) has the potential to be dangerous. Your son’s bruise would simply be from the strong jaws.
These beetles do NOT have venom, so the main concern would be from a (secondary) bacterial infection; simply wash such wounds with running water and antibacterial soap. Depending upon the person, putting a bandage on to keep dirt from getting in, or to keep them from picking at the wound may be helpful.
And remember — many beetles (and other insects) are herbivores, or plant eaters, and pose no direct danger to us. In fact, ONLY ONE PERCENT of the million–plus species of insects are even pests!
I SEE YOU MENTIONED ABOUT THE NASTY BITE. MY SON WAS BITTEN BY ONE. I HAD TO REALLY SWAT AT IT A COUPLE OF TIMES TO LET GO. IT LEFT A BRUISE ABOUT THE SIZE OF A QUARTER ON HIS LEG FOR ABOUT A WEEK. I AM WONDERING, CAN THESE BITES BE DANGEROUS?
I have mealworms and my kids LOVE them! They think the beetles are great and are constantly watching them. Also, the lifecycle is relatively short so its fun to watch.
Raymee, they are predators, not herbivores. Go to a pet store and get some “wax worms” or find some caterpillars out in the yard.
I think fiery searcher beetles are fasanating insects. I caght one the other day.
Thanks for an informative post about a fascinating creature.
The wicked oppressing shall cease from distressing. Thanks for a most interesting post.
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Decked out in feathered gowns from Jason Wu, Dsquared, Gucci, Christopher Kane, Emilio Pucci, Erdem, Dries Van Noten, and even Christian Dior. 17 year old German Beauty, Esther Heesch Looks as if coming from a Cotillion, posing in front of a bridge in the city of New York, in Vogue Turkey‘s Isikla Vals. Meaning Light Waltz in Turkish, Esther Heesch definately looks ready to do the waltz, in the mist of light on a cold December night.
I’ve always admired Longchamp for their Classic handbags, that come in any color that you can imagine. Making their campaigns always exciting, especially in the Springtime when candy coated handbags are plastered throughout the whole entire campaign. I also enjoy the Supermodels and Actresses seen in their campaigns, happily showing off their handbags. As excited as I am, Alexa Chung has been tapped the face of Longchamp’s Spring 2014 Campaign, as the campaign had been released earlier today. For me, I feel Chung fits the brand of Longchamp very well, and I’m excited to hopefully see Chung do more work with the brand.
Do you remember back in early October when Estée Lauder’s Resilience Lift Campaign, Starring Arizona Muse, was released?
If so, the commercial has officially been released. Right in time for the Holidays!!!!!!!
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Yes, there are sensible folk here in Indonesia, and a lot of them live on the Isle of the Gods, Bali, where I’ve gone for a break almost every year since i came to this fine country.
The story on that interesting Bali website I often use concerns the latest demented outburst from the Jew-hating fanatics of the Hizbut Tahrir. I quote – Accusing the contest of “selling women’s bodies” the Hizb ut-Tahrir Group is vowing to hold demonstrations against the contest.
Such idiotic intolerance – just what this lovely above had to face when she visited West Java a year or two ago. The pig-ignorant Islamists there didn’t appreciate her feminine charms – do any readers reckon she’d look better as a bag-head?
Disgusted Balinese might well teach the sectarian freakos a hard lesson in tolerance.
Hard-line Islamist groups seemingly find any public celebration of female beauty as offensive and immoral and are saying they will settle for nothing less than the cancellation of the event. The Islamic Reformist Movement (Garis), which is affiliated with the notorious Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) who have been involved in a number of violent street protests in the past, says a ban on bikinis is insufficient.
Multi-purpose haters, these swine. Yeah, and like all true nazis, they hate Jews too!
He must be a real sicko.
What on earth is offensive or immoral about these pretty English contestants?
Here’s the one I meant! Mind you, England has changed a lot since I lived there, so who knows?
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This time Florence, November 2007. Actually she’s a… she.
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The eagle eyed among you will have seen that on the right hand side of the blog this title is my book of the month. I normally give this accolade at the end of each month and review those I have read in the last few weeks and pick a title, but pretty sure that I am not going to find another book that I will enjoy more than this in the next few weeks so up it goes.
When The Last Telegram dropped through my letterbox last week I thought it looked promising and right up my street. I then took a note of the author and thought 'Gosh I used to know a Liz Trenow very well' and when I checked and saw that she lived in Colchester realised it was the Liz I used to know - our children went to schoool together, played together, we belonged to the same babysitting group, Liz sang, probably still does, in one of my ex-husband's choirs and for some years our lives were intertwined. I was simply delighted to see that she had written her debut novel, but then had a sudden qualm. 'Oh my God, suppose I don't like it'. I need not have worried - within five minutes I knew I was going to love this story and so I did.
Set at the outbreak of the Second World War it tells the story of Lily Verney forced into becoming an apprentice at her father's silk weaving factory as her original plans to study in Geneva had to be abandoned because of the international situation. At first resentful, she gradually becomes fascinated with the silk making process .."it was heavy, the texture of matt satin, the colour of clotted cream and wonderfully sensuous. It felt deliciously soft and warm, like being stroked with eiderdown, and almost without thinking I lifted it to my cheek......I realilsed I'd never before properly appreciated silk, its brilliant lustrous colours, the range of weaves and patterns....I was already hooked, like a trout on a fly-line, but I didn't know it yet"
With the departure of her brother John who volunteers to fight, Lily is drawn more and more into the running of the mill with her father and takes on a greater share of responsibility for the production of the parachute silk which is helping the company survive where others had closed. During this period Lily persuades her father to sponsor three 'Kindertransport' Jewish boys who have come to England , one of whom is Stefan "...he hadn't shaved for a couple of days and a dark shadow grew thickly on his slim face. His voice was more baritone than tenor and deep set eyes peered out warily through his floppy fringe of untidy hair". He and Lily fall in love but with the outbreak of the war this is frowned upon and Stefan is taken away and interned and they endure a long period of separation.
While their love for each other is at the heart of the story, it is Lily who takes centre stage. Lily, who grows in stature and authority as the years pass by and who ends up running the company. Nervous and unsure of herself at the beginning of the story she is accepted in a male world and proves her worth - this journey is not without tragedy and heartbreak along the way and I freely admit that I had a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye on a couple of occasions.
The story begins in the present day at the funeral of Lily's husband and then the narrative slips back in time. As all readers of Random know by now, mainly because I keep telling you, this is one of my favourite devices - we meet Lily at a point in her life on page one and then learn the story of how she got there and then the denoument when a secret heartache and sorrow which has haunted Lily all her life is resolved.
A really excellent story, beautifully written and beautifully told with a grip on the reader than does not let go and made me unable to put the book down until I had read the final page. Simply delighted to hear that a second is in the pipeline and looking forward to it already.
I know comparisons are odious, but there was something Rosamund Pilcher'ish about this book and I do assure the author that this is a compliment as far as I am concerned. Anybody who has read The Shell Seekers or Winter Solstice knows the lovely feeling of being totally immersed in a wonderfully told story so that the outside world goes away and all that matters is the events in the lives of the characters in the book you are reading. I found this in The Last Telegram and loved every word of it.
Do get hold of a copy - I know you will love it.
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Living Loved – Braving the Busyness of Life with High Hopes.
Braving the Busyness of Life with High Hopes.
A (much) needed break from the dreaded finals week.
The month of May is crazy. Life is filled with things like graduations, finals, weddings, and the start of summer. My google calendar is overflowing with plans and coffee dates with friends as I try to squeeze the potential out of every day.
Waking up every morning praying that God would bless every moment and talk that I encounter in that day. Then as I lay down for bed that night, I check my fit-bit to see if I made it to 10,000 steps that day and realize how drained and exhausted I am.
In that exhaustion however I feel the peace of how grateful I am for the constant king who in the midst of our craziness still cries out for us to acknowledge his presence in all of it. His hand is steady in our daily plans and if we ask for him to guide us he will.
In this season I am waiting for the next event, wedding, and phone call. My world is spinning but finding joy- even in this time- isn’t challenging.
I see my constant king extending his hand out to me.
Today I am thankful because I have chosen to take his hand in the midst craziness and slow down for a moment, and rest in the peace he offers us daily.
Drained, exhausted, and crawling over the finish line is my current status. Taking multiple deep breaths as I try to type out every last word to every paper. In the midst of this comes the chaos of plans made previously to my current stress status. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I am so grateful these plans were made because I needed the break.
A group of about 15 of us went to the Lany concert in Little Rock Arkansas in the Rev Room. Small venue with a fun group of people.
Before the concert all of the ladies went to Samantha’s Taproom in downtown Little Rock (a place with a wonderful memory of mine) where we celebrated a birthday.
The night was much-needed. I was reminded that amongst the craziness that is finals week in college, sometimes all we need is a break and breath of fresh air. ( And maybe even some cold stone ice cream cake). The night didn’t lessen any of the other stressors on my mind, but a night out on the town sure did help.
Today I have 10 days of school left before the end of my junior year. My strength is being stretched, my patience is being stretched, and my motivation is being stretched. Nothing that I am working on in school right now is any harder than assignments at the beginning of the semester. However- the major difference is that I have a fraction of the motivation that I had at the beginning of the semester.
Im writing about this because I have to believe I am not the only one who feels like this! Falls in motivation are normal and an abnormal love for the summer time is something many of us can understand. This is something to care about because maybe, just maybe, something I have learned could help you as well.
This is titled the final stretch because in this season of my life, it is a type of “final stretch.” Relationally, educationally, and emotionally I’m being stretched. My heart is praying for summer but simultaneously praying for peace and patience in the present season. Thankfulness is something I find most helpful and challenging in the final stretch. Thats why I am holding on as tight as possible to thankfulness.
Ready to concur this as best as I can, will you join me?
"See what great love the Father has lavished on us..."
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I don’t think the jumpsuit trend will ever end for me. It’s just too easy. Even when it goes back to just being for babies and little kids, I’ll still be here, wearing my jumpsuits, being more comfortable than you. Yes, it makes using the restroom more of a chore, especially if I have a jacket on, but I think the all day comfort wins. I don’t even rush to change into my sweats when I get home if I’m wearing a jumpsuit because it already feels like I’m in them. It’s genius, really.
And these platform sandals are everything to me and I’ve owned them for les than 48 hours. I wasn’t sure if they were silly or cute, but at this point, I don’t even care because I get the height of heels and the comfort of flats and they are everything I didn’t know I needed and now I don’t want to take them off. Also, I feel like a Spice Girl. You know they were all about the platforms.
So that’s my life right now.
Oh, and we got a puppy. Scroll to the bottom to see the cutest little girl ever!
Meet Phoebe. The sweetest, tiniest Dachshund/Chihuahua mix. And yes, I have to look up the spelling to both of those every. damn. time. But she’s worth it.
Guys, she’s two pounds. That’s how much butter goes into one frosting recipe. How much do you want to cry right now at this tiny two pound puppy that only wants to give you kisses? So much, right?
I have been living in basics lately. Basics are easy, easy, easy! They are easy to accessorize, they are easy to mix and match and they are easy to stay on trend with. With my new styling job, I need to wear outfits that are comfortable and let me move in. I’ve been out wearing my sneakers, boyfriend jeans, any breathable pants, and tees or bodysuits. See? Easy.
This is a very typical work or last minute errand outfit for the weekend; or in this case a run to Shake Shack to cure a Sunday afternoon hangover. Whatever gets me through the day!
What is your go to basics outfit?
If you don’t follow me on any other platform (Um, what are you waiting for? See above or below for links!), be sure you follow the Crossroads Trading Post blog; I contribute new posts every Tuesday and Thursday. I promise you will be entertained. Or, at the very least, not exposed to complete mindless drivel. Just partially.
The countdown is officially on for Christmas; 10 days! I’m not quite down with my gift shopping just yet. Traveling for the holidays make it a bit hard to shop. So far, I’ve bought everything online and shipped it home, but there are a few things I may only be able to get in stores, so I will need to wait on those and cross my fingers! I head up to Sacramento this weekend for a very well deserved 10 day break from real life. I am so excited to relax and spend time with family and friends for Christmas.
We have no plans for New Year’s and I think we might keep it that way. We’re already the boring, old married couple and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I am totally obsessed with this hat. We went to a vintage flea market a few weeks ago and I instantly snatched it up. It definitely makes a basic outfit a bit more than it is. And these sunglasses? I had to think about them for a minute, but I picked them up at the Melrose Trading Post for the same reason as the hat.
I hope you are enjoying this Christmas season and are able to spend it with loved ones.
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Look like Tarzan, play like Jane!
Vernon Gholston: say this name when he was at Ohio State and he strikes fear into offensive linemen. Say this name during his time with the New York Jets and he doesn’t even strike fear in the practice dummies. Gholston is yet another NFL bust that not many saw coming. He played at a college with an NFL pedigree under a coach he put countless first rounders in the draft, put up monster numbers his senior year, and had the potential to go with it all. I mean, he did end up being drafted 6th overall in 2008. He was eased along with the Jets or at least you thought until you realized that he was amounting to nothing and rarely seeing the field. There’s no denying that he’s a physical freak; he’s almost all muscle all while running a 4.58 40 yard dash with the ability to bench press 225 pounds 37 times; he just hasn’t found a way to put everything together (or kind of together at this point). He’s the epitome of the phrase “look like Tarzan, play like Jane”. Maybe he’s just a late bloomer like Jason Babin was, but until then I doubt it. Let’s put it this way: if Rex Ryan can’t get him to perform I can’t see any other coach doing so either.
We skipped/were too lazy to do a June Has Been Of The Month so I have anointed Jason Giambi the honor. He was a complete badass during Oakland winning the AL MVP honors as well as helping Oakland into the post-season. It wasn’t long before he signed a massive contract with the Yankees (go figure). However, he was busted for steroids in 2003 and has seen a stead decline in his numbers ever since.
My buddy Ryan sent me a link showing some of the funniest sports signs and I thought I’d share a few.
Check out more at The Chive’s 20 Greatest Funny Sports Signs.
Photos courtesy of The Chive.
Pujols out 4-6 weeks with fractured forearm…now what?
Can the Cardinals stay afloat now that All-World first baseman Albert Pujols looks to be out for at least a month?
If you’re a Cardinals fan, this is the devastating news you did not want to hear. Albert Pujols has been diagnosed with a small fracture in his left forearm and is scheduled to miss 4-6 weeks because of it. The injury happened yesterday after an errant throw from 2nd baseman Pete Kozma forced Pujols to come off the bag. Wilson Betemit, who had hit the chopper up the middle, ran into Pujols resulting in the aforementioned injury.
The Redbirds, who sit at 40-33 and are tied for 1st place in the NL Central with the Brewers, have got to be wondering how they are going to ride the ship for the next month or so without their best player. My take is that since David Freese is scheduled to come off of the DL next Tuesday against Baltimore, they can now shift Lance Berkman from right field to first base and have Jon Jay as an everyday-er until Albert gets back.
The Cardinals ended up winning the game yesterday against the Royals after Pujols left (up to that point, Pujols had gone 3-3 with his 17th HR of the year), 5-4, and have now won 2 in a row after dropping 7 straight for the first time since 2008. But are they going to be able to keep up in the Central now that the best hitter in their lineup, or anybody’s lineup for that matter, is no longer present? Luckily for them, unless the Cards go all Florida Marlins over the next 30 days, I do not foresee them having enough time to give up a lot of ground to the Brewers (or even the Reds) in the division. I still expect St. Louis to be sitting pretty for the second half of the season.
No single failure: No team is a sacrificial lamb to the Powers That Be in the current AL/NL East. If they want to have a bidding war over 1 Free Agent, let them.
14/16: keeping the even numbers in both divisions removes the need for a constant Interleague series.
Balance: Look at each of the new divisions… now try and predict which team will win each of the next 10 division titles. Pretty tricky huh?
Red Sox/Phillies/Yanks: 54 times a year? How can ESPN not like that?!
Traditional rivalries are broken up, but that might make them more important/exciting.
Still 1 division that has 6 teams.
Designated hitter – Should it stay or go?
Whether or not you think I’m a genius or idiot, the fact that the MLB is seriously broken is undeniable. The ability for a small market, small salary team to win on a consistent basis is next to impossible. Until that major problem (along with the salary cap) is fixed, the team(s) with the most money will be the most consistent contender in the World Series for years to come.
Week 2 was finished; the Red Sox sat at 2-7. To some, the post season looked like a figment of the imagination – 2 months later, after posting a 32-19 record they lead the Yankees by 2 games (depending on today’s play), the Red Sox are back in old-but-new form. The Sox lead the Majors in Runs Scored (336), 2nd in Batting Average (.274) OBP (.347) and Slugging (.443) and 2nd only to the Yankees in Run Differential (-6). David Ortiz is back to his old ways. Current AL Ranks: 4th in BA, 5th in HR, 2nd in OPS and 2nd in SLG%. Carl Crawford is cementing himself in the Sox lineup, after hitting .155 in April, he is hitting .308 since May 1st. Adrian Gonzalez… well, do I even have to go there? In May alone he hit 9 HR, had 31 RBIs and hit .341. Although A-Gonzo’s Walks and BB/K are down from the last 2 seasons, he is on pace for a career high in Extra Base Hits.
So a couple of guys are having a good season…look at their line-up: 5 players have more than 5 HR/30 RBI, 6 players with SLG% of more then .400, 10 players with OBP of over .300. There is no denying that by simply looking at the line-up an opposing pitcher could have a bowel movement in his pants.
From all the pre-season expectations to the humiliation of starting 2-10 to a current 9-game win streak, these Sox have seen it all. The question that will rise now is: Will they be able to keep going? Can they handle the pressure of the AL East? I think they can and will. I won’t get my hopes up but a 95-100 win season isn’t out of the question yet.
WWBD: What Will Bubba Do?
A constant decision high school athletes have to make when heading to college is which of the many sports they lettered in do they wish to participate in college? Will a school let them play football and run track or will they have to decide between two like football and basketball? Rarely however do athletes have the decision to make that Bubba Sterling does. Will he begin a career as a top 5 baseball player or will he go to Nebraska as a 4 star QB? As a football player he destroyed teams on the ground running for 2,471 yards, throwing for another 812 yards, and was responsible for 39 touchdowns. Taylor Martinez has proven that this type of athlete flourishes in Bo Pelini’s system. However, he’s also a 5-tool threat who has a cannon of an arm with the ability to hit for power and at a high average. It seems like he’s leaning towards football, but he’s better off going for baseball.
Think about the worst case scenarios for both baseball and football. Worst case scenario in football is that he fails and has to fall back on baseball. Players like Pat White have proven that’s not as easy as it seems. Worst case scenario if he fails at baseball is he goes back to school for football much like James Casey, Chris Weinke, and Brandon Weeden all have. The ironic thing is players going from baseball back to football have had much better times. The Dallas Cowboys traded a 3rd rounder for the rights to Drew Henson after spending 5 years away from football. It also doesn’t hurt that players in the MLB can have much longer careers and make much more money since there is no salary cap in baseball. His style of football also tends to lend itself well to injuries. He can’t really go wrong either way, but his best bet is taking the money and running. What 18 year old would pass up $6 million after all and the chance to play professional sports in his home state?
1. Did Jim Tressel make the right decision of stepping down as head coach?
Today, Jim Tressel officially resigned as head coach with the Buckeye nation continuing to draw heat for players receiving improper benefits during his tenure. It was earlier this week when former Ohio State receiver Ray Small told the school newspaper that he (and many of his teammates) sold Big Ten Championship rings and other school memorabilia for cash. Many players also received “special” deals on cars. Jim Tressel knew about this but failed to neither act nor inform NCAA officials. He later lied to the NCAA about his knowledge regarding this matter and that has brought him all sorts of heat. Tressel received an email that disclosed information about his players selling items for cash, but he decided to turn his head.
I believe Tressel made the right decision. He had no choice but to step down. Lying to the NCAA is never excusable as a coach. We saw what happened to Bruce Pearl in Tennessee. I even think Tressel knew this was going on long before Pryor getting caught. Why would he lie to the NCAA if he wasn’t doing anything wrong? It’s good to see some setbacks in the Ohio State football program since Michigan sell off like no other. Perhaps Big Blue might win a game for a chance? As for Tressel, he has a very impressive football resume (106-22 in ten seasons at OSU) and should have no problems finding a job in the new future.
Who will become the new Buckeye head coach to open the 2011 season?
2. Should baseball do more to protect its catchers?
There have been talks and speculations that the MLB needs to think about protecting its catchers and base runners after witnessing Buster Posey’s season-ending injury. Posey ended up fracturing his tibia and tearing ligaments in his ankle in a collision at home plate with Florida’s Scott Cousins. Now the face of the Giants’ franchise is lost for the year.
Changing the rules to protect the catchers? Are you serious? I think this whole idea is a complete JOKE. This injury is nothing more than a freak accident, yet people are looking into more than it should be. The NFL is about to become a flag-football league, so let’s not mess up the MLB too. IMO, none of this talk would have even stirred if it were anyone else instead of Buster Posey. Collisions at the plate are part of the game and shouldn’t be tampered with. Right?
3. Would you consider him ballsy or just a retard?
Who am I talking about? The one and only; Jason Terry. Reports and images have surfaced of Terry’s newest tattoo that he had done back in Oct. Apparently, Terry guaranteed to win the NBA Finals before the season began and proceeded to even get a tattoo of the Larry O’Brien trophy on his right bicep. Don’t believe me? Check it out.
Personally, I think Jason Terry is an idiot. He is nothing more than a poster boy for the Dallas Mavericks, symbolizing their underachievement. I hate all of his little childish, stupid antics on the court. The fact that he got a tattoo of the championship trophy before the season began doesn’t surprise me one bit. I really hope Dwayne Wade makes you his poster-child Jason Terry.
4. Is there a dynasty brewing in Barcelona?
Barcelona became the kings of Europe for the second time in three years as they outclassed Manchester United to a 3-1 win. With already classified as the champs of Spain and Europe, can we consider this Barcelona squad one of the best clubs of all-time?
After seeing Barca pick-apart my favorite team, I am convinced that Messi and Co. are one of the best starting XII’s to ever see the pitch. The fashion in which Barcelona plays is nearly impossible to beat. Barcelona’s midfield has been simply unstoppable for the past three seasons. Sir Alex Ferguson said it in the simplest of words, “In my time as a manager I would say yes, this is the best team I’ve faced.” This is coming from one of the bests, if not the best, soccer manager in the world.
5. Did Dan Wheldon win the Indy 500? Or did J.R. Hildebrand lose it?
J.R. Hildebrand had the win in his sights, but he crashed on the final turn, making way for Dan Wheldon to steal the victory.
I’ll admit I’m not a huge Indy/Nascar fan. Hell, I’m not a fan at all. But, with this being the 100th anniversary of the running of the first 500, all eyes were on Indianapolis Motor Speedway. With Hildebrand choking the race away, what do you think Wheldon’s response would be if one would ask if Hildebrand lost the race, instead of Wheldon winning it? I have a feeling this dude got lucky and he will never hear his name again.
This could be the biggest choke-job in Indy history. Remarkable finish regardless.
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2019-04-25T23:51:37Z
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https://thehasbeenssports.wordpress.com/category/baseball/
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The GPAC will have a special 2-day Arts for All activity during the Native American Heritage Day. We will celebrate the sculpture traditions of the Northwest, Iroquois and Cherokee woodcarvers by creating works of art inspired by Native American bentwood boxes, totem poles and ceremonial dance masks. Each visitor will get the chance to carve their own bar of soap using kid-safe tools in our Visual Arts studio. Stop by with your family and take home a unique artwork!
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2019-04-22T14:52:31Z
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https://gpacarts.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/arts-for-all-native-american-carving/
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Folklife: Come for the music, stay for the people-watching.
Flickr is crashing right now, so I suppose I'll have to upload a small handful of photos and video clips later. I guess everybody had a fun 3-day weekend and is now busy posting about it on the internet, heh.
1. slydevil wasn't kidding about the tie-dye chainmail. My mom enjoyed reminiscing about all the various things acquired at previous Folklifes as she browsed among the booths this year.
2. Mmm, festival food. I had some obligatory shortcake. It was very sweet.
3. My heart lifts a little as I watch hordes of small children jumping up and down to the music at the Fountain Lawn Stage. Someone had chalked in "Universal Healthcare" in giant rainbow letters around the fountain.
4. A church member's daughter is in a "Latin Pop Surf Sounds" band called The Pazific, which played today in the KEXP Gathering Space. The theme of the day is, when the music starts playing, people get up and dance in front of the stage.
5. Norwegian folk dance. Admirable knickers. Much more sedate.
6. I was hoping to see some Diwali dance, but apparently it was scheduled to start at 3:30, not 3 pm, as listed in the program, and there were other things I wanted to see starting at 3:30.
7. Instead, I caught the tail end of Pachanga Alert!, nice Latin American music, and then got to hear the Simba Youth Marimba Ensemble, followed by the Anzanga Marimba Ensemble. Lovely, upbeat Zimbabwe marimba music. Apparently the Azanga Marimba Ensemble has been performing at Folklife for over 30 years. Some beautiful, complex tunes mixed in there. I favor classical music played on marimbas, but the traditional marimba music is all right, too.
8. Bumped into my parents, eating dinner while sitting on a bench. Scarfed down some Kenyan vegetable curry, then scurried off to watch some flamenco dancers, with stomping, tapping shoes, twirly skirts, and an impressive fringed shawl.
9. Then off to hear VamoLa!, a Brazilian Drum and Dance Ensemble. Oh, they made my heart so happy. I guess it was a preview show in advance of HONK! Fest West. Best part of the day, hands down.
10. Listened to Filthy Femcorps for a little bit after that (all-woman marching band), but started getting tired and VamoLa! is a hard act to follow, so it was time to take the bus home. Also, all of the marijuana smoke was really starting to get to me. I wish people would just do that stuff at home and not in public (illegally) where I have to breathe it. Blech. Worse than cigarette smoke, and that's saying something.
As someone commented at some point during the day, Folklife restores one's faith in Seattle. I hope it persists for at least another 47 years.
This entry was originally posted at https://rebeccmeister.dreamwidth.org/1228340.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
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2019-04-21T22:57:32Z
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https://rebeccmeister.livejournal.com/1231796.html
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This is the actual book and the little card that accompanies it in various guises. Looks OK. Thank you, Martins the Printers, you have done a grand job. Official launch will be in July; but to me, the appearance of the book is when it really starts to feel real.
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2019-04-21T01:19:50Z
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https://caralockhartsmith.wordpress.com/2018/06/
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As the average Wellesley homeowner meanders around the town’s many residential neighborhoods, often times the most visible manifestation of Wellesley’s character is the aesthetic appeal of different homes’ attractively manicured lawns. But hidden beneath their apparent beauty, many of these lawns contain a potentially-dangerous secret: the presence of toxic pesticides.
Luckily for Wellesley residents, the majority of dangerous pesticides are banned on NRC- and school-owned property in town, with the exception of “safer” pesticides under the National Organic Program and others classified by the federal government as “minimum risk.” Alternatively, applicable areas are maintained by processes including “tall” mowing, deep and infrequent watering, aerating, reseeding, specified fertilizing, and the planting of native species.
Unfortunately, however, these protections do not extend to private properties in Wellesley. At the risk of every person’s health, Massachusetts law overrides the Town’s ability to regulate the pesticides that homeowners use in their backyards.
The dangers of this deficit in environmental regulation present a risk to passerby throughout town. Symptoms of exposure to the toxins in pesticides can include lethargy, dizziness, headaches, loss of breathing, and more. The results of the inhalation, ingestion, or skin absorption of pesticides over time can range from hormone disruption and fertility problems to cancer, Parkinson’s disease and outright death. Small doses of pesticides at critical stages of a child’s growth can produce attention disorders and learning disabilities.
Furthermore, the NRC’s prohibitions do not extend beyond NRC and school land within Wellesley’s confines. To date, land governed by the Board of Selectmen, Police Department, Fire Department, and Library is not required to adhere to the same standards, and consequently pesticides have been used on their grounds in recent years. If these groups were to sign on to the same restrictions present on NRC and school lands, the regulation could become a town-wide ordinance, carrying more weight than the policy that stands now.
There are many ways that Wellesley residents can implement the effects of pesticides at lower cost and without using the dangerous substances. Aphids, for instance, insects that often populate gardens to the detriment of plant growth, are repelled by marigolds, geraniums, and alliums, all attractive flowers that fit right in with a garden scheme. Many fungi and other insects are also available for purchase as predators on typical pests, acting as alternatives to dangerous pesticides. Seeding in the fall also prevents the interference of weeds in grass growth, and watering infrequently in the spring and summer reduces the chance of grub infestation.
Sustainable Wellesley and the Natural Resources Commission are also gathering addresses for inclusion on a map of Wellesley that visually shows how much of Wellesley is “pesticide-free.” Homeowners can send their address to nrc@wellesleyma.gov or info@sustainablewellesley.com for inclusion on the map.
What’s up with the overgrown grass at Morton Circle?
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2019-04-26T09:54:12Z
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https://wellesleygreenpages.wordpress.com/2015/05/25/the-killer-lurking-in-your-front-yard/
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Thank you to everyone who voted for the “Introducing Social Capital Value Add” proposal at www.changethis.com and to the conference organisers, twemes, friends and connections who tolerated many appeals over the last month.
“Introducing Social Capital Value Add” topped the list for the month with 380 votes. That is almost 200 more than the second place idea and it is the 8th most demanded manifesto proposal in ChangeThis history.
If everything goes well, the “Introducing Social Capital Value Add” ChangeThis manifesto should be released to over 20,0000 “influencers” in September. Sign up to the SCVA email list or grab this blog’s RSS feed to help develop SCVA thinking and get a copy of the manifesto upon release.
Anywhoo, I am grateful for the support. It ain’t like winning America Idol er somethin’, eh, so I don’t want to come off as makin’ too much fuss about this, but to be honest it does mean a lot to me. From the moment I headed off to Paris last summer I have been dedicated to taking this idea as far as I can. Now I am working to follow this idea as far as I can.
I am developing SCVA case studies with publicly traded corporations. If your company or client is interested in collaborating on this please get in touch.
The fact that many of the votes came through personal connections is a very pure illustration of the value of social capital.
At the same time, getting to the right metrics to measure social media and social network valuation are very hot topics right now. Technology’s most influential blogger, Mike Arrington, made a post over at TechCrunch a few days ago entitled, “Modelling the Real Market Value of Social Networks” and has received over 160 comments. There are hundreds of messages flying around on these topics in the list serves and forums that I visit and at least part of the support for my proposal may evolve out of a need for corporations to get a handle on the risks to earnings associated with social media and a general desire to make the corporate form more socially motivated.
Again, I hope that I am not coming across as making too much of all of this. If you want to do something really meaningful please hit this link and click up a few votes on the Harvard Business Review List of Breakthrough Ideas for 2008 in support of “Sick Transit Gloria”. Mark Kuznicki, Eli Singer, and Jay Goldman have evangelized the “camp” approach to collaboration that started here in Toronto. You can read more about that here. It is working to improve the transit experience in Toronto and can be applied to any challenge.
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2019-04-21T20:55:08Z
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https://socialcapitalvalueadd.wordpress.com/tag/goldman/
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Please select the month you were born.
Please select the day of the month you were born.
Please select the year you were born.
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2019-04-24T22:20:41Z
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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYrk-cvapP6tbef5A6M0tdVzRms94HIaHzzzwt3iFsqVjUVg/viewform
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It's just for you! This stunning matching set is perfectly designed with the inspiration and desire to integrate Mandarin dignity with modern fashion. It achieves the goal by connecting the top and skirt with mandarin style frog buttons as the media in the middle waist. What an ingenious idea! Unique yet elegant, wear it in every day life or for special occasions, it will make you the focus with compliments.
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2019-04-22T07:17:09Z
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http://chinadress.tripod.com/chinese_dress.htm
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Over the past couple of years regular yogurt has taken a back seat as the go-to product, while Greek Yogurt has taken the spotlight.
Greek Yogurt started becoming popular a few years ago, and is now seen everywhere in grocery stores with sales growing rapidly. Greek Yogurt has been strained to remove the whey more than regular yogurt, leaving it creamy and tasty. Regular and Greek Yogurt both carry natural bacteria and probiotics that aid in a healthy gut, but Greek Yogurt has even more health benefits including higher protein and lower carbohydrates and sodium.
When comparing one brand of Greek Yogurt to regular yogurt, the Greek Yogurt had 18g of protein compared to 8g in the regular. This can make a big difference in feeling full and satisfied for a longer period of time. When recommending snacks to clients I emphasize getting a good balance of protein and carbohydrates to hold you over in between meals. With the amount of protein found in Greek Yogurt it is a great snack or addition to any meal to round it out.
Another reason why Greek Yogurt is a good choice is because of its versatility. Because of its taste and texture, it is a great replacement for sour cream or mayonnaise. I often use plain Greek Yogurt in place of sour cream when eating quesadillas or chili. It tastes great, adds a nutritional punch and won’t give you any unwanted calories! Another delicious option is to add it to smoothies to increase protein more naturally. You can also use Greek Yogurt in baking in place of butter and oil, and as a replacement for mayonnaise when making potato salad.
So which brand to buy? My go-to’s are Chobani and Fage. They are both great products that taste delicious. Fage has an authentic taste and a very creamy texture. I also like that with Fage the fruit flavors are on the side so you can add as much or as little as you like. Chobani is a great brand with a good variety of flavors and a delicious product.
When it comes to cost of Greek Yogurt it can be much higher than regular yogurt ($1.20+ for one yogurt). This is due to customer demand and the extra labor that goes into straining the yogurt. Chobani often has good deals in the grocery store and they also have a 4-pack that sells for $4.00 at Wegmans.
Another option is to buy the store brand versions of Greek Yogurt. I often buy these because they have the best deals. Compared to $1.20 or more, the store brands are usually around $0.80-$0.90. I buy the store versions from Wegmans and Giant and am pleased with the taste.
When it comes to dairy, low fat or fat free are better options. It is also best to buy plain versions since they are lower in sugar and add your own toppings. I enjoy flavored Greek Yogurts, which can be a little higher in sugar, so a good rule of thumb is to find a flavor with about 16g of carbohydrates or less. If you are not a Greek Yogurt lover, don’t fret. Regular yogurt is still a good option to help you get your dairy servings for the day.
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Sometimes I add plain yogurt to pasta sauce to thicken it up and add protein. It’s really a great substitute for any recipe that calls for sour cream!
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2019-04-21T22:00:34Z
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https://haveityourweigh.wordpress.com/2014/05/07/why-you-should-try-greek-yogurt/
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Sharon Osbourne has confessed to spending a staggering 120,000GBP on plastic surgery - and says it was worth every penny. The 51-year-old star claims she was forced to go under the surgeon's knife after a stomach-stapling operation helped her lose weight dramatically - but left her with sagging flesh. Sharon, who weight dropped from 16 to eight-and-a-half stone, recalled: "After losing half my body weight I had flesh hanging everywhere. I had the sort of breasts you normally only ever see in the pages of National Geographic magazine. "So much needed doing that it couldn't have been done in one operation." Sharon started with a face-lift and brow-lift, before undergoing a series of other operations. She revealed to Britain's Night and Day magazine: "I had liposuction on my neck and had it lifted, too. I had my breasts lifted, my arms lipo-ed and my tummy tucked. I had my bum lifted and implants inserted. And I had my legs lifted. "The total cost was 120,000GBP and it was worth every last penny. I love cosmetic surgery." Sharon even admits she hasn't ruled out further procedures in the future.
She confessed: "I don't mind getting older.
But if it all started sagging, I 'd have the whole lot done again."
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2019-04-23T14:45:44Z
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https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/Sharon+Osbourne-627.html
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American soldiers already prep for war using virtual worlds. One day, the Army hopes, you'll join the GIs in a military-approved digital realm.
In the Army's latest call for research proposals, the service is looking for ways to develop a "Virtual Laboratory of Aggregate Behavior," or VLAB. Put simply, the program would yield a digital domain wherein hundreds or thousands of civilians could assemble and partake in "randomized controlled trial experiments" of the Army's design.
But if you're thinking Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – think again.
The Army's not looking to train civilians in the ways of war-fighting. Instead, they want a platform that can offer more robust testing for behavioral theories. For example, how a community is apt to react during a crisis, or how and why certain social networks end up coalescing while others fall apart. Right now, the Army's solicitation complains, behavioral hypotheses often depend on small-scale tests of five or 10 people. Those tests are then extrapolated, via logic or computational models, to yield society-wide conclusions.
Of course, the military's already been making efforts at better understanding the social, cultural, and behavioral aspects of conflict. The Pentagon's Minerva program is still tapping scholars in an effort to bridge cultural divides. And the Army's Human Terrain System, after a series of early missteps, is embedding social scientists into combat units.
But neither one of those initiatives has exactly been a groundbreaking success. That's in part, the Army's solicitation states, because "none of the programs [can] generalize findings from work on individuals or small groups to aggregates of societies." Trying to get a bird's eye view on an entire community, of course, is a tall order. Unless, perhaps, those community members have been turned into tiny, trackable, online avatars.
The Army's virtual lab would be modeled on gameplay, though the experiments themselves don't exactly sound action-packed. Players would partake in "a range of activities [based on] real world settings," that'd include cooperation, coalition building and – ooh! – commerce.
The lab would let researchers test hypotheses about how groups behave, but it'd also let them "pre-test candidate courses of action." From there, military leaders could glean some insight into how, if different courses of action were implemented in the real-world, a community might react.
It's an interesting idea. But there are still plenty of uncertainties about how VLAB will work. For one, the Army doesn't mention whether different labs would be populated by participants from different countries or regions. Obviously, that'd make a big difference in the lab's results: A lab populated by Pakistanis is going to react differently to a scenario than a lab of Texans would. Even the decision-making processes of large groups, which the Army hopes to study, are starkly different around the world. The Army might want "generalizable...social theories of mass behavior," but one theory can't possibly be applied to groups worldwide.
Even if the Army's not entirely sure how the labs will be populated, they've at least figured out who they're hoping to omit. And Wired readers, you'd best take note. "Experienced gamers," the Army warns, "May introduce types of nonsensical, deceptive or strategic participation not likely in real empirical settings."
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2019-04-23T18:48:03Z
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https://www.wired.com/2012/02/army-lab-rats/
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is that duck swimming in the pool?
this was the same year . no one knew what had happened to chandra & they were blaming condit. there was a story about some guy running around attacking women jogging in rock creek parkway, while listening to music. that’s what chandra was doing. but our stupid laws let murderers run around too long.. the newspaper said this guy attacked two women but he didn’t kill them.apparently, that means you have to do the exact same thing every single time or you aren’t a suspect. i knew it was him from the beginning. it wasn’t that hard to figure out.it took years….
boyfriend from ” two jews and a cowboy cafe ” , said one day , he was signing fake names , when he came to visit me & my answer was apparently a haiku & we laughed , but it wasn’t funny. when he said that i thought , at least there are cameras everywhere in this building. my cab driver / policeman had a talk with him, the first day, but i was from s.c. & he was from boston & all i could think of was gary condit , when he said that.i didn’t want to be paranoid. no one had mentioned the murdering criminal in the park yet. maybe he thought his real name was too famous.
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2019-04-26T12:09:24Z
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https://errinspelling.wordpress.com/2014/04/
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When I do weddings throughout Savannah and the surrounding area, I often notice that total strangers will stop and watch. What is it about a wedding that makes total strangers stop and take note?
I believe it is the fact that all of us want to believe in love. We all want to see love in practice. We all believe in the commitment that takes place at a marriage.
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2019-04-20T16:26:24Z
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https://savannahweddingminister.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/wedding-hope/
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I admit that I have done a poor job of posting about the 2011 UEFA U21 European Championship, but life is short, and I can only cover so many tournaments. I have chosen the Gold Cup, the Women’s World Cup and the Copa America (tournaments that actually count for something beyond grooming talent.) Nevertheless, I cannot let the U21 Euro pass by completely without comment.
Spain beat Switzerland 2-0, avenging (I guess) the senior side’s loss to Switzerland at the World Cup, which, it turns out, only galvanized the Spanish. Spain is now the World, European, and U21 European Champion, the first time any nation has ever held all three titles simultaneously. True to form, U-21 Spain tiki-taka‘ed their way to the title. Granted this side starred two World Cup winning players (Javi Martinez and Juan Mata), but the new generation is proving to be just as dominant as the current one, and that should alarm the rest of the world. What’s more, this side has proved that when their game plan of possession football doesn’t work, they could adapt, which is downright terrifying.
In 2008, Spain permanently threw off its label as the Sick Man of Europe (at least in football terms) and since the World Cup has opted instead to embrace another stereotype: The Conquistador. One hopes that the reign of Spain that stays mainly on the terrain produces the warm memories that Brazil did in its 1958-70 heyday.
I have not completely come down from my high of last week. Barcelona won the Champions League, and they won it their way. Pass-pass-pass-score. Beautiful and exciting football, possession and pressing, no drama, just dominance. Like in Rome two years, Manchester United dominated the first ten minutes, taking advantage of nerves and a slow start from Barcelona. Also like in Rome, after ten minutes it was almost all Blaugrana.
There is no question that this Barcelona side is special, easily the greatest side since the Milan of the late 80’s early 90’s. They are arguably better. There is no doubt however, that this Barça side has joined the pantheon of great clubs sides.
Future generations will recite the names of the Barcelona starting XI: Valdes-Alves-Pique-Puyol-Abidal-Xavi-Busquets-Iniesta-Pedro-Messi-Villa. Pep Guardiola has locked up the manager of the year award, and it is virtually certain that Messi will win his third straight player of the year award, thereby tying Platini, Cruyff, and van Basten. (Some with a sense of irony might say that the award should go to Wesley Sneijder.) Individual awards are silly though and meaningless. Football is a team sport, and no club represents this more than Barcelona. Barcelona would not be the team it is now if not for Messi, but Messi does not do it alone. If he has achieved immortality, it is because he stands on the shoulders of (tiny) giants.
During the first ten nerve-wracking minutes, I sat hoping against hope that this match would be a repeat of Rome. Sure enough, my wish came true. I remember exactly when the momentum changed, and it was well before Pedro’s goal. Barcelona began stringing passes together, weakly at first, and then stronger. To absolutely no one I started saying “Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.” The beats of a metronome, the precision of a Swiss watch, the gears of the machine running smoothly. That is how reporters, pundits and commentators describe Barcelona’s greatness: machine-like. Calling Barcelona a machine is too easy, and it’s dead wrong.
People called that legendary team “The Machine” because of its precision plays. Dubious praise: these strikers had so much fun playing they’d forget to shoot at the goal. They had nothing in common with the mechanical coldness of a machine. Fans were fairer when they called them the “Knights of Anguish” because those bastards made their devotees sweat bullets before allowing them the relief of a goal.
This description of a side that played nearly seven decades ago also suits the Barcelona of today. Barcelona have revived the flair of the old Argentinian style via Ajax and Holland. Johan Cruyff, the link between Barcelona’s tiki-taka and Total Football, once said, “Simple football is the most beautiful. But playing simple football is the hardest thing.” (Or something like that. I have seen many variations of that quote.) Barcelona is the proof of just how difficult simple football really is.
At its root, football is a game of running, passing, and shooting. Tactics and formations are additions that have built up and evolved over time. What works better, a 4-4-2 or a 4-3-3 or a 4-1-3-2, etc? Additionally, in the age of the super clubs and expansive squads, a starting lineup can be different in every match. Sir Alex Ferguson, for example, changes his XI and his tactics to fit the opponent. Against weaker opponents, Manchester United may attack more, but against a more offensively minded team such as Arsenal, United might depend on the counterattack.
Except in the cases of injuries, suspensions, and meaningless matches, Barcelona uses the same starting XI. Regardless of the on-field personnel, Barcelona never changes its style of play. Barcelona’s philosophy (when was the last time football had a philosophy?) is based on a very simple premise: if I have the ball, you cannot score. Putting that philosophy into action though is extremely difficult no matter how easy Barcelona make it look (just ask Arsenal.) If possession is everything, players need to be constantly aware of their teammates positions. Passing must be more than accurate; it must be precise. And when the ball is inevitably lost players must be able to play an intense press to get it back. Therefore the entire team must (a) be in peak physical condition, (b) be skilled, and (c) have a good football brain.
Although most renown for its attacking capabilities, tiki-taka is actually as defensive a style as the dreaded catenaccio. For example, at the World Cup Spain conceded two goals throughout the entire tournament and none during the knock-out stages. Nevertheless, Spain in the knock-out round Spain won each match 1-0, the complete opposite of tiki-taka‘s popular image. For the most part, the personnel was almost entire the same, as the majority of the starting XI was from Barcelona, and the Spanish side played remarkably well. The was one significant difference in personnel between Spain and Barcelona, but it was a crucial one. Messi is the uncontrollable element that opposing teams fear. When opposing defenses park the bus, Messi tears them open. Therefore Spain had to eke out a series of 1-0 victories, a stat that unfairly maligns the World Cup victory, but underscores the defensive prowess of tiki-taka.
Goals scored does not the real story however. The goals allowed and the goal differential show exactly how dominant Barcelona was this year. For the entire 38 match season, La Liga opponents scored a mere 21 goals against Barcelona, or just over half a goal per match. Therefore, Barcelona’s goal differential was a ridiculous +74. Compare that number to Real Madrid (33 allowed for a differential of +69), or the other league winners in the top European nations: Manchester United (37 allowed for a differential of +41), AC Milan (24 allowed for a differential of +41), Lille (36 allowed for a differential of +32), and Borussia Dortmund (22 in 34 matches for a differential of +45).
Tiki-taka is the logical next step in the evolution of Total Football, a philosophy that, in its 1970’s incarnation, could not combat the modern defense. In Total Football, players alternated positions depending on who could do the most damage where. It was a system tailor-made for Cruyff. Tiki-taka employs fixed positions but each role is a crucial part of both the offense and the defense. That is why in both Champions League finals against United, Barcelona was able to play defensive midfielders as makeshift center backs (Yaya Touré in 2009, Javier Mascherano in 2011) without any repercussions.
Since the rise of this Barcelona squad, Barcelona’s youth academy has attracted a fair share of media attention, and deservedly so. Of the usual starting XI, La Masia produced eight: Valdes, Puyol, Pique, Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta, Pedro, and Messi. This is unusual for any club especially for one of the world’s biggest. Yet, if you look at the list, La Masia has produced not just some of the world’s greatest active players, but also some of the greatest ever. Even Ajax in the 1970’s did not have so many starters from its youth system. Ajax now probably doesn’t either, and the Ajax Academy is the model for La Masia.
The youth system is the stumbling block for the Barcelona wannabes. Even the great Barcelona teams were never this good, not the team of the late 50’s/early 60’s, not the Dream Team, and not the team from five years ago that featured Ronaldinho in his glory. If Barcelona has never before reached this heights, what chance is there for imitators who do not have the youth system? Tiki-taka (like Total Football) is too complicated a philosophy to be picked up easily in training. It is rare to find a player who fits in easily. Dani Alves, Eric Abidal, and David Villa are the only starters to came from outside La Masia.
That is what makes Barcelona great. The Blaugrana have taken football to a new level. Hopefully it will last a while, because great teams–truly great teams–do not come around often.
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2019-04-24T22:40:06Z
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https://tracingthetree.wordpress.com/tag/spain/
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Since I happened to have this bounty of homemade ricotta cheese (pats self on back), I was anxious to put it to work in a fabulous recipe. And what better way to showcase it than in these delicious, fall inspired ravioli. For me, making ravioli is like making lasagna. When I make them, I spend an afternoon assembling as many as I possibly can (within my budget and time constraints) and freeze them to be used as a quick, delicious, homemade meal later on down the road. It takes a little bit more time now, but I save myself a great deal of time and energy in the future, which I am always extremely grateful for, when life becomes a little too hectic to spend much time in the kitchen.
I begin by making the filling by combing one cup of homemade ricotta cheese, one cup of canned pureed pumpkin, a half a cup of grated Parmesan cheese, one large garlic clove (grated on my microplane zester), a third of a cup of toasted pine nuts, one egg yolk, a small dash of salt, a pinch of cayenne pepper, some freshly ground black pepper, and a dash of freshly grated nutmeg. I then taste the filling and make any necessary adjustments.
Next, I make an assembly line on my cutting board. I line square won ton wrappers up six at a time, brush the entire surface with water, place a a small dollop of the pumpkin filling (about a rounded teaspoon’s worth) in the center of each, then place another won ton wrapper over the tops. I gently work out any air bubbles, and press around the filling, to ensure a good seal. I then cut each ravioli out using a medium, fluted biscuit cutter, and crimp each along its outside edge with tines of a fork. I repeat this process until I run out of filling.Once you get into the rhythm of it, it really doesn’t take that long to assemble all of them.
To freeze the ravioli, I place them in a single layer on a parchment lined baking sheet and freeze, uncovered, until they are frozen solid, and then transfer them to a zip lock freezer bag. For those that I wish to serve right away, I gently place them in a pot of boiling, salted water, and boil for about two minutes or until they float (you will want to add a minute or two to your cooking time when you are preparing them from frozen).
Meanwhile, in a small sauce pan I melt one stick of butter over medium low heat, and allow the butter to brown. When it is fragrant and nicely golden brown I toss in a small handful of fresh sage leaves (either whole or coarsely chopped depending on your presentation preference), and allow the sage to sizzle away in the butter for a minute or so before adding the cooked ravioli.
The ravioli are rich and unbelievably creamy with the homemade ricotta cheese. The toasted pine nuts, and salty Parmesan really round out the subtle pumpkin flavor, and it all beautifully harmonizes with the nutty brown butter and sage. All of the fabulous flavors of fall on a plate. This is elegant comfort food at its best. Simple to prepare in advance, and extremely quick to bring together before serving it is also perfect for entertaining. Enjoy!
I heard about this idea of making gnocchi with ricotta cheese instead of potatoes or rice some time ago, and have been eager to try it ever since. I found myself this morning with extra ricotta cheese, and thought that the time had finally come to do so. I combined one stick of melted butter with sixteen ounces of ricotta cheese (homemade ricotta cheese really is better… and it’s easy to make…seriously, it will ruin you for life), a half a cup of Parmesan, one egg, a little salt, a dash of freshly grated nutmeg, and a pinch of cayenne pepper. I then added just enough flour (read: as little flour as possible) to make a soft dough that is no longer sticky, working it as little as possible. I cut the dough into fourths, which I then gently rolled into long ropes, cut them into half inch segments, and rolled each down the back of the tines of a fork, creating those classic gnocchi ridges. I boiled them in gently simmering, salted water for about three minutes. Meanwhile, I melted a stick of butter in a sauce pan and cooked it over medium heat. When it was nutty, fragrant, and a nice chestnut brown, I added a tablespoon or so of fresh thyme leaves (I love the sound as the leaves pop and crackle in the hot butter). I then combined the sauce with the cooked gnocchi, and finished it off with a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese. These gnocchi are rich and cheesy. Not quite as feather light as some others I have made, but a great pairing with the nutty browned butter and thyme. Pour yourself a glass of Chianti, close your eyes, and you would swear that you were in Italy. Enjoy!
I think we all have our own macaroni and cheese recipes that we come back to time and time again. I, myself, always start by making a béchamel sauce, and melting in my favorite cheeses. I always add nutmeg, salt, freshly ground black pepper, and a pinch of cayenne. Depending on my mood, however, I might also add a teaspoon or so of Dijon mustard (which adds a nice background acidic note that is really lovely), a tablespoon or so of pimentón (since I apparently cannot cook anything without it), any number of different fresh herbs, and really, whatever else sounds good to me at the time. Here I took slightly undercooked penne pasta and tossed it in the thick and creamy cheese sauce (made with extra sharp cheddar, Gruyère, and a little bit of Gorgonzola, for that amazingly delicious, complex, picante flavor). I then added a handful of chopped fresh basil, some cooked bacon (the fat from which I used to make the base of the béchamel), I portioned the pasta into individual gratin dishes, and topped them off with some fresh bread crumbs and a few dots of butter (to ensure browning). This is really macaroni and cheese dressed up for company. Serve it with a simple green salad, and you have the makings of a perfect dinner party. Enjoy!
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KUCHING, Sept 4 ― Bandar Kuching Member of Parliament Kelvin Yii today urged the state government to initiate a Bill in the State Legislative Assembly to monitor dog ownership through pet microchip implants to contain the current rabies outbreak in Sarawak.
He said the issue of proper disease and rabies outbreak control is a matter of public importance and also an active issue on the ground affecting the lives of the people and the children.
“I believe the members of the State Assembly including those from the Opposition Bench will be fully supportive of this and will show their support if it is needed to contain the outbreak and stop any more lives to be affected,” he told Malay Mail.
He said since the outbreak last year, 13 people have died of rabies, including a five-year old boy from Mile 6 Penrissen Road as the latest victim.
He said the microchip is a radio frequency implant that provides permanent identification for pets.
“This is to properly identify the pet owners so that we can hold them accountable and or pet dumping contributing to the increase of stray dogs.
“This is important because, no matter the decision made by the state government to control the population of strays, the issue will repeat itself if irresponsible owners continue to dump their dogs,” he said.
Yii said it is important to address the core issue of irresponsible owners on top of any act of population control that will take place.
He added the local council should further enforce dog licensing on top of the required licensing, so better control can be had in the event of an outbreak.
Yii suggested important elements of the Federal Animal Welfare Act 2015 should also be incorporated into the state laws including the State Cruelty to Animals (Prevention) Ordinance 1963, especially those aimed at fostering more responsible pet ownership.
“These provisions and other provisions in the Act is also important are important to make sure no inhumane treatment of dogs or animals even during the event of a disease outbreak,” he said.
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