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At 7am on Tuesday, Rachel, Ashley, and I made our way through the dusty streets of San Pedro. Dawn was breaking, and the outline of the Andes was visible. Just hours earlier, we had gazed at of the world’s starriest night skies. With extremely low humidity and cloud cover, Chile’s Atacama desert is a paradise for astronomers. And so we drove towards the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) the world’s most ambitious astronomical project. ALMA conveniently spells “soul” in Spanish, and the project will peer into the depths of space. Under construction, and with some US$1.5 billion invested, it already boasts 32 massive antennae. It will have over 60 when completed in 2014. ALMA will detect an unprecedented range of electromagnetic radiation to “see” even the earliest galaxies, and explore nothing less than the origin of the universe.
After passing the first checkpoint – and being granted special passes – we went up to the Operations Support Facility (OSF), the ALMA base camp, at 3,000m above sea level. To go up further, we needed to pass a medical examination. The array is located at over 5,000m, on the vast Chajnantor plain, deep in the Andes. At such altitudes, breathing becomes difficult, and health problems can arise. As fit 18 and 21 year olds, we easily passed the test. But just to be sure, the OSF safety officers gave us emergency oxygen tubes.
So we went up. The air thinned. Ashley fell asleep, and I felt a bit woozy myself. Vegetation disappeared. We saw snow. And after 40 minutes, the antennae appeared. The massive white antennae contrasted with the red desert and the snow-capped mountains. A Star Wars song immediately popped into my head. Driving into the heart of the array, we got out for photos. I felt sleepy, and had to take deep breaths. It was freezing, -2˚C, or less than 30˚F. The wind chill made it worse. But it was awe-inspiring, and I can’t do justice to the sight in words!
We returned to the base camp for lunch and an interview with Kertik Sheth, an astronomer. I half-expected space food, but lunch was normal. Over coffee, Kertik explained some physics concepts. This was a feat of explanation, since we knew nothing about astronomy. When we gasped at the first equation Kertik drew, he explained it all in layman terms: In brief, the dozens of dishes coordinate their observations and function like one huge dish, which captures a broader electromagnetic spectrum. To add up the thousands of observations per millisecond, ALMA is also building one of the world’s fastest super-computers.
Kertik told us a bit about life at ALMA. Engineers and astronomers work for 8-day shifts (working every day from 6am to 11pm), get 6 days of rest in Antofagasta or Santiago, and work for 8 more days. Some then return to their home countries for a few months. All in all, the camp lodges over 600 workers, scientists, and engineers from over 20 countries. We saw Kertik’s living quarters – a sparse, college-like dorm, with black shutters to sleep after nighttime observations. The hundreds of temporary construction workers stay in temporary cabins, but can take a bus to San Pedro for evenings in town.
At 4pm, time came for us to head back. Star struck by the project (excuse the pun), we said goodbye to our hosts, and glimpsed at the white antennae for one last time. They disappeared behind the red mountains, as we drove through the dry desert road towards San Pedro.
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Cross-correlation of North Atlantic Ocean and North Pacific Ocean SST.
The geographic areas chosen correspond roughly to those used for the usual AMO and PDO indices, however N.Pacific area is slightly smaller avoiding the coastal US regions that anti-correlates with PDO and having excluding the most northerly region of the Bering Sea that is lacking early 20th coverage.
To avoid unintentional distortion of the frequency spectra by various re-gridding, bias-correction and other complex processing the original ICOADS data are used.
Rate of change d/dt(SST) estimated as the difference of successive data points is filtered using a low-pass Lanczos filter . This filter has a reasonably sharp transition band and does not notably attenuate the pass-band, unlike the various running-averages and gaussian alternatives.
Using rate of change removes the auto-regressive AR(1) nature of the data.
A further consequence is that d/dt is also a kind of high-pass filter with a 1/f weighting that attenuates long periodicities. The combined effect being a broad, band-pass filter that retains inter-annual and decadal periodicities.
Annotations on the graph lack precision, the following peaks are extracted at higher resolution.
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This is the introduction to the introduction! tSQLt lets you unit test stored procedures (including functions) on SQL Server. For why unit testing is a good idea, see my article on unit testing. If you’re in too much of a hurry to look at lots of words and pictures, go to the tSQLt quick start guide. This article will give an overview rather than technical details, so you can decide whether tSQLt is for you or not, and so you’ll know whether it’s worth the bother to read the other articles for the details. If these articles don’t explain things in the right way for you, I recommend the tSQLt articles at DataCentricity.
Unit testing is a bit like pulling one cog out of a complex clockwork and somehow testing it in isolation. In all unit testing, code <-> code dependencies resist the extraction of one cog from the rest. In database unit testing, there are also table <-> table dependencies to deal with such as foreign keys.
Imagine that you are trying to test a stored procedure that needs data to exist in table A. However, table A has a foreign key relationship to table B, which has a foreign key relationship to table C and so on. This means that getting the database in the correct starting state can get very tedious. Chasing down all these relationships leads to an explosion in the quantity of data you need to get just so before testing can even start.
tSQLt has fairly painless mechanisms for mocking both stored procedures and tables (in a way that lets you choose which foreign keys you worry about). This is covered in a bit more detail in How the mocking works below, and then the technical stuff is in the article Anatomy of a test. The practical result of this is that in the example above the test would need only data in table A.
Unit testing with tSQLt would enable other things, like Test-Driven Development (TDD) for databases and Continuous Integration etc. for databases. However, you can still get a lot of value from tSQLt if you do neither of these other things and I recommend you give it a go.
and run the tSQLt script to enable CLRs (SetClrEnabled.sql) and the other to add the internal tSQLt stored procedures to your database (tSQLt.class.sql).
You can easily exercise all your stored procedures in the unit tests, rather than e.g. having to do exactly the correct series of clicking and typing on your website to get to the point where a particular stored procedure is invoked.
The tests are isolated from each other via mocking, so tests will be less brittle than those that depend on the true versions of all stored procedures in a call stack. Such tests would be brittle to both code changes and schema changes.
A consequence of both of these two is that you have a decent chance of detecting the scope of the impact on your system by e.g. a schema change. Which tests break? You can run tests for all stored procedures, and each one will report errors due to just local problems. There will be no noise due to problems cascading up from lower in the call stack.
You can test the schema itself, i.e. check that a table exists, has particular columns etc. I haven’t done this yet, but it’s possible. So far, all my tests have been on functions and stored procedures.
Tests of tSQL stored procedures are themselves tSQL stored procedures. This means that the technology and tools for tests are already available and familiar. While tests using e.g. C# might be more powerful or in other ways better, you would need to switch between technologies and possibly tools. For some people this is possible and easy, for others it won’t be.
Unlike e.g. C# unit testing, I have found no way of calculating code coverage metrics. If you name tests in a way that reflects the stored procedure they’re testing, have a separate file per test suite with a sensible name, then you can do a limited check by matching up file names, but it’s not brilliant.
You can’t test stored procedures that do things like import files.
Write your own integration test for just that stored procedure in e.g. PowerShell.
Split the stored procedure up so that there is a stored procedure that does nothing but the file import, and everything else is in one or more other stored procedures, e.g. reporting the status of the file import to the rest of the system, preparing a dynamic SQL string for the file import stored procedure to execute etc. These other stored procedures can be tested by tSQLt, so you would be limiting the amount of code that tSQLt didn’t cover to the minimum.
Each time it starts a new test case, tSQLt starts a new database transaction and then rolls this back at the of the test. For stored procedures that don’t involve transactions then there’s no problem. It is possible to test stored procedures that involve transactions, but it’s a bit of effort. This is covered in Dealing with transactions.
I haven’t found any short cut for setting up test data – it needs inserting into tables by SQL statements. You can make this less painful by wrapping the inserts in stored procedures and making use of default parameter values, so a call to the stored procedure only needs to pass values to do with how this row differs from normal. If a row in table A will often have a matching row in table B the stored procedure can insert both rows, taking parameters for all the data it needs and can’t default, plus possibly a parameter (that defaults to both tables) that says which tables should get a new row.
You probably don’t want to run tests that mock stored procedures or tables on a production database. The changes it makes during mocking are reversed, but I would still be uneasy. All tSQLt tests (on schema or code) are implemented as stored procedures, which are added to the database (in the normal way for stored procedures). You can tidy them away in their own schema, but you would still be adding code to the production database.
You can mock code or tables, and the mechanisms are similar but different. Both are based on the separate database transaction around each test case, created by tSQLt at the start and then rolled back by it at the end.
Creates a new table called A, using the schema it looked up earlier but without any of the foreign key relationships or triggers, and with all columns nullable.
Your test can then insert into something that looks just like A, but is actually this temporary stand-in created by tSQLt. The lack of foreign keys means that the test doesn’t need to worry about any other tables’ data.
The stored procedure under test will continue to be able to do insert, select, update and delete statements on table A as normal, because the stand-in looks just like the original.
At the end of the test, tSQLt rolls the transaction back. This means that the stand-in table is deleted, and the main table is effectively renamed back to its original name. I.e. the system is back to its original state.
If you want to test triggers or constraints such as foreign keys you can add them to the clone explicitly and individually.
There are two versions of mocking a stored procedure – a simpler one and a more complicated one.
Create a new version of B. The new version of B inserts its parameter values into B_SpyProcedureLog.
So A is now independent of B, but you can still check the ways in which A calls B by querying the table B_SpyProcedureLog.
This is great if B is just a sink of data, e.g. it inserts into a table on behalf of A. If B feeds data back to A then this isn’t enough – mocking B deprives A of its source of that data. This is where the more complicated version of mocking stored procedures is necessary.
The SQL string could then e.g. set B’s parameters to the values necessary for the particular test case you’re writing, which (assuming that the parameters are OUTPUT parameters and so feed their values back to A). Don’t make the mistake I made to start with and attempt to get the SQL string to set variables in A as these are not in scope – the SQL string can set B’s parameters which can in turn set A’s variables.
As with mocking tables, at the end of the test tSQLt rolls back the transaction it created at the start, and all these changes are thrown away.
Mocking a function is simpler to understand than mocking a stored procedure, but a little more effort. You supply an alternative function to execute, and the stored procedure under test is updated to execute the alternative rather than the original. It’s a little more effort because you have to write one or more alternative versions of the function you’re mocking.
The only alternative I’ve found (but not tried) is Chris Oldwood’s tool SS-Unit.
There is a free Visual Studio plug-in.
You can run the tests from the command line using SQLCMD.
UPDATED 3rd and 4th December 2017: Originally this article said that when you mocked a stored procedure, the calling stored procedure was changed. I discovered the hard way that it is the called stored procedure that’s changed, as the article now says.
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Electronic documents are the files stored on your computer and shared drives, such as word processing documents, spreadsheets and digital photographs.
Establish document-naming conventions within your office to facilitate file sharing, efficient retrieval and version control.
Adopt file names that are specific and relevant to everyone, especially if the file will be shared with others. For example, rather than “MinutesJuly3.doc” use “2010-07-03 VCCMinutes.doc”. Mark final versions as such, and use dates to keep track of draft versions.
Keep a consistent format for including dates in file names (Year-Month-Day).
Use standard file formats that are easily accessed and opened by others. For example, your office may decide to standardize use of .doc (rather than .docx) as some do not have the software to open .docx files.
See this York University tip sheet for more guidance on file naming.
Organizing your electronic workspace into a streamlined structure will ensure electronic records are managed in accordance with University policy and remain accessible, authentic and complete.
Folders on your local computer and shared drives should reflect your offices paper file plan wherever possible.
Use a hierarchical structure (folders and subfolders) to organize your files. Folders containing records documenting your major responsibility will have more sub-folders than those for which you have little responsibility.
Subdivide folders by year to allow for efficient disposition of records.
See the bottom of this section for sample folder arrangement.
While your office may have access to an abundance of server space for storing electronic documents, it is still important to dispose of electronic records whose retention periods have expired.
Do not retain draft versions of documents, unless they document significant changes in drafting a major policy or procedural document.
Follow the Victoria University Records Schedule for electronic documents, just as you would for paper documents.
Electronic records to be destroyed should be deleted. If recorded on disk, make sure to physically destroy the disk (do not just throw it out).
The Archives does not currently have the capacity to preserve electronic records. Electronic records destined for the Archives should be printed and filed. Contact the Records Manager for guidance.
This directory tree uses the top level functions of the Victoria University Records Schedule to classify records. This structure is effective for employees who will have many records that fall under multiple university functions.
This directory tree uses the second level of the Victoria University Records Schedule for the function that relates most closely to the employee’s responsibility (in order to provide quick access to these records). In this exmaple, the employee works in the Registrar’s Office, and so the student function (STU) constitutes most of the foldering. Records falling outside of this responsibility are then filed in folders using the top level functions.
See Classification: How to Organize Your Records, for more information on record classification.
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The threat of a sudden EMP attack that causes a widespread catastrophe is certainly nothing new. Consider this Cold War era quotation from a widely-read and highly-respected publication more than 30 years ago: "The United States is frequently crossed by picture-taking Cosmos series satellites that orbit at a height of 200 to 450 kilometers above the earth. Just one of these satellites, carrying a few pounds of enriched plutonium instead of a camera, might touch off instant coast-to-coast pandemonium: the U.S. power grid going out, all electrical appliances without a separate power supply (televisions, radios, computers, traffic lights) shutting down, commercial telephone lines going dead, special military channels barely working or quickly going silent." -- from "Nuclear Pulse (III): Playing a Wild Card" by William J. Broad in Science magazine, pages 1248-1251, June 12, 1981.
And oh yeah—yes, your Faraday cages DO need to be grounded. If it’s NOT grounded, then the Faraday cage merely becomes a reflector or an amplifier.
Because of the inevitability of a large solar superstorm, we have to accept the fact that the current electric power grid upon which our lives depend is only a temporary infrastructure. This temporary infrastructure has served us very well, and we now have entrusted our very lives to it.
Faraday cages are named after Michael Faraday who invented them in 1836. They block out external electrostatic fields and electromagnetic radiation. One mistake many people make when it comes to an EMP is to compare it to a lighting bolt. The effects of an EMP and a direct lightening bolt are very similar, but they are not at all similar in terms of their visibility, and affect on the body. An EMP is more like a radio wave, not a visible bolt of light or electric current.
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Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke B.A. (Bristol), D.Phil. (Oxon) (15 januari 1953 – 29 augustus 2012) was hoogleraar Westers Esoterisme aan de universiteit van Exeter en auteur van een aantal boeken over esoterische tradities.
Hij was tot aan zijn dood hoogleraar Westers Esoterisme en hoofd van het centrum voor de studie van esoterisme - Centre for the Study of Esotericism (EXESESO) - van de School of Humanities and Social Sciences aan de universiteit van Exeter in het Verenigd Koninkrijk.
The Occult Roots of Nazism: The Ariosophists of Austria and Germany, 1890-1935, ...1985 - ISBN 0-85030-402-4 .
Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism - ISBN 0-8147-3111-2 .
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity - ISBN 0-8147-3155-4 .
Unknown Sources: National Socialism and the Occult, co-authored with Hans Thomas Hakl - ISBN 1-55818-470-8 .
Enchanted City - Arthur Machen and Locality: Scenes from His Early London Years, 1880-85, ... 1987 - ISBN 0-948482-03-6 .
Helena Blavatsky, edited and introduced by Goodrick-Clarke - ISBN 1-55643-457-X .
G.R.S. Mead and the Gnostic Quest, edited and introduced by Clare and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke - ISBN 1-55643-572-X .
Emanuel Swedenborg: Visionary Savant in the Age of Reason by Ernst Benz, translated and introduced by Goodrick-Clarke - ISBN 0-87785-195-6 .
Paracelsus: Essential Readings, edited by Goodrick-Clarke - ISBN 1-55643-316-6 .
Swedenborg and New Paradigm Science by Ursula Groll, translated by Goodrick-Clarke - ISBN 0-87785-303-7 .
Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International by Kevin Coogan, foreword by Goodrick-Clarke, Autonomedia, Brooklyn, NY 1998 - ISBN 1-57027-039-2 .
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precisely why there is such a political vacuum and why the electorate are so hacked off, there is no ideaological blue water betwixt any of the original three that Harrogate is the natural addresser of where power lies to fill the void….
One wonders if the collective term for a group of Conservatives is a “cretin”. The mainstream party has all but surrendered and has morphed its detoxification into a shift leftwards. They’re a busted flush and finished. They’ve convinced themselves that somehow sucking up to the Beeb will change something, but it’s like any other abusive relationship. Nothing they say will make the beeb like them.
Patten and his “ilk” have nothing but contempt for the rest of us. Slotting the wretched Mr Hall into the top slot is a decision he may well come to regret. Time will tell.
Allow me to lower the tone of the conversation: I heard Tony Hall’s wife, Cynthia, described on Radio Four as a further asset to the package since she was a ‘leading educationist’ …. Ha! ‘Careerist robot’ more like! She was Headmistress of a private school in Abingdon, when I knew her. She had no rapport with the girls at all, being known unaffectionately as ‘frosty knickers’. Of course, Tony used to appear dutifully at various school functions, and at such times it was painfully obvious that she wore the trousers in the relationship. She had that sort of gaze when she shook your hand, rather like the terminatrix in T3, scrolling mentally through your attributes before destroying you.. The Beeb is in safe hands!
After today’s adventures in Rotherham, I wonder in how high esteem the BBC’s favoured party will be held much longer (and hence those who seem so keen to act as its PR agency on the public teat), and how relevant the no argument form me hapless Conservatives and their Coalition deadweights are going to be much longer.
I may not have much choice any more in politics (none with compelled national media), but come the ballot I still know what I don’t like.
The issue then becomes how long the BBC & its fellow ideological travellers remain content with swaying things via propaganda and censorship, and when (thanks in no small measure to them fouling up so publicly so often in this), and then move to readjusting democracy and free speech to hurry things along.
From the look of it, that is already well under way.
It might be due to the Conservatives leaning leftwards or wanting the BBC to see them as such – a fatal move if true – but I tend to think they just don’t have the political killer instinct necessary. They have now missed 3 opportunities to tame the BBC; on taking office, when all they did was freeze the licence fee, when they allowed the appointment of Patten and now with the appointment of Tony Hall. Soon and certainly by May 2015 they will bitterly regret their own gross incompetence. They are fools.
The fatal flaw of all aristocracies: inbreeding.
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2. Chems Eddine Chitour, Jeunes de France, si vous saviez…, revue Panoramiques n° 62. 2003.
4. François Maspero: L’honneur de Saint-Arnaud, éd. Plon, 1993. Rééd. Points/Seuil, 1995.
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In watching Real Time with Bill Maher last week, I’m realizing that polling of public opinion is inherently flawed.
This follows a string of other poll numbers that makes me wondering to whom they are asking these questions. I’ve yet to get a phone call or an email asking my opinion on anything. And, though I realize it is a logical fallacy to say what I’m about to, the majority of people I know were in favor of “Obamacare.” When a poll comes out that says that 20% of Americans still believe that Obama is a Muslim, despite all of the evidence otherwise, I wonder how the numbers would have turned out if different people, maybe people with some common sense who take a few moments out of the day to think for themselves.
Never mind that this sort of polling only does a random sampling of Americans. And never mind that public opinion of something can change as more information is gathered and processed. And never mind that, even within the random sampling, there is always a margin of error. The “70%” that Breitbart is talking about could really be 72%, which would be in his favor, or possibly 68%, which would be in the favor of everyone that can’t afford health coverage that now can under this reform.
70% is 70%, always and forever, the Gospel according to Pew.
It’s truly upsetting to me that people can spew out poll numbers without really knowing the context. Anyone who has ever taken a class that covered the basics of how to avoid bias know that there are several ways to state percentages: the majority or the minority. Each perspective puts people in a different mindset: “70% of Americans are against Obamacare” makes it seem like a bad thing, whereas “30% of Americans support health care reform” makes it seem like something positive that needs more support.
Even the percentage is completely wrong. In every study that I’ve ever seen or read about, there is never a clear cut “do you or don’t you” approach to responding to polls. There is always a spectrum, a scale of one to five, or one to ten, of how much you agree or disagree with a statement. Which means, how does that 70% break down? Are 50% strongly against, and the other 20% simply against? Could 10% be strongly against, 15% against, and 25% slightly against? Does the 70% include anyone who didn’t have an opinion either way?
Bottom line is, all polls have context. If you don’t know the context of the poll numbers, or even if you don’t consider the source, you are unwittingly spreading false information.
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Dr. Jean Gariépy’s team focuses on the design and evaluation of DNA aptamers, vaccines and protein-based therapeutics in the areas of oncology and inflammatory diseases.
Students typically develop and test new biologics or vaccines as part of their training.
The more recent focus of the laboratory is in the area of immune checkpoint modulators.
Dr. Jean Gariépy was originally trained as a peptide chemist and biophysicist at the University of Alberta (Ph.D.), and as a peptide/protein engineer at Stanford University, in the areas of bacterial toxins and infectious diseases (as a postdoctoral fellow). He is the Director of the Molecular Targeting and Therapeutics Laboratory at the Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI), and the SRI Research Chair in Biomolecular Engineering. Dr. Gariépy has had a long standing interest in developing new technologies in the field of biotherapeutics, being cited as an inventor or co-inventor on 8 granted patents and on more than 20 patent applications. He co-founded and was a director [2000-2008] and CSO [2000-2009] of Molecular Templates, Inc. (MTI; MTEM; www.moleculartemplates.com; Austin, Texas), a well-funded, NASDAQ-listed company that focuses on the development of protein-based biotherapeutics (Engineered Toxin Bodies) in the area of Oncology. Dr. Gariépy more recently co-founded, is a director and the CSO of D5Pharma (www.d5pharma.com), a Toronto-based discovery company focusing on the development of an immune checkpoint modulator in the field of asthma. More recently, his group has developed and is studying the mechanism of action of several novel protein-based biologics that behave as powerful immune checkpoint agonists. Finally, his group has been developing a preventive vaccine against metastatic cancer.
Our laboratory is interested in developing both in vivo imaging modalities and targeted therapies directed at inflammatory diseases and cancer (breast, colon, prostate, ovarian, lung, and pancreas). Our research program is a fine balance of both basic and applied research projects aimed at understanding how peptides, proteins and oligonucleotide templates work and how they can be engineered or utilized in developing directed therapies against tumor cells (either through the design of cancer vaccines, DNAaptamers and immune checkpoint protein biologics.) or as novel anti-inflammatory agents.
The spectrum of approaches taken by our group to address our design and discovery programs ranges from protein engineering, combinatorial protein or DNA library design/screening, cell biology/microscopy techniques to yeast genetics and mouse models.
Because of the broad nature of our molecular engineering efforts, projects in our laboratory are usually tailored to a student’s expectations and aptitudes.
Fischer,N, Prodeus,A., Malkin, D. and Gariépy,J. (2016). p53 Oligomerization Status Modulates Cell Fate Decisions Between Growth, Arrest and Apoptosis. Cell Cycle 2016 Dec;15(23):3210-3219.
Fischer NW, Prodeus A, Tran J, Malkin D, Gariépy J.(2018) Association Between the Oligomeric Status of p53 and Clinical Outcomes in Li-Fraumeni Syndrome. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2018 Jun 27. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djy114.
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Abdul-Wahid, A., Cydzik, M., Prodeus, A., Alwash, M., Stanojcic, M., Thompson, M., Huang, E.H.-B.,and Gariépy, J. (2016). Induction of Antigen-Specific TH9 Immunity Accompanied by Mast Cell Activation Block Tumor Cell Engraftment. Int J Cancer 139(4):841-53.
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Catia Ferreira, Melissa Cheung, Sotiris Missailidis, Stuart Bisland, and Jean Gariépy, J. (2009). Phototoxic aptamers selectively enter and kill epithelial cancer cells. Nucleic Acids Research 37: 866-876.
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Prodeus A, Abdul-Wahid A, Sparkes A, Fischer N, Marzena Cydzik M, Chiang N, Alwash M, Ferzoco A, Vacaresse N, Julius M, Gorczysnki RM, and Gariépy J. (2017) VISTA.COMP: an engineered checkpoint receptor agonist that potently suppresses T-cell mediated immune responses. JCI Insight 2(18):e94308.
Prodeus, A., Cydzik, M., Huang, E.H.-B., Khatri, I., Gorczynski, R., and Gariépy, J. (2014). Agonistic CD200R1 DNA Aptamers are Potent Immunosuppressants that Prolong Allogeneic Skin Graft Survival. Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids. 3:e190.
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Once again, the country’s youth has spoken.
Talking Points Memo recently published an article declaring voters between the ages of 18 and 29 were a “huge part of the President’s coalition.” 19 percent of voters in this year’s election comprised this demographic, an age group that proved — for the second time in a row — that they back Barack.
U.S. News even went so far as to say that Obama wouldn’t have won the election if it wasn’t for the young vote. Polls show that Obama won the group by margins as large as 25 points over Romney in the election’s big states, Ohio, Virginia, Florida and Pennsylvania and official exit polls show the Prez captured 60 percent of the youth vote to Romney’s 36 percent.
So does all this mean there’s hope for the political future of our youth? Or that we young people are becoming increasingly more invested in our country’s politics and policies?
For fear of sounding too much like a Negative Nancy, I do believe that this generation is much more well-informed about their candidates of choice than previous age groups who didn’t have the advantages of the Internet. However, I think whole campaign surrounding Obama is cleverly targeted toward the nation’s youth.
Let’s take Obama’s circle of friends. He counts Jay-Z and Beyonce as two close friends, who both performed at his memorable rock show inauguration in 2008. He has also been photographed at countless soirees with the likes of Will Smith and Jada Pinket-Smith, and counts Oprah as a dear friend. These aforementioned individuals are some of the most powerful celebrities in the industry, and hold a lot of clout with the current generation. Countless celebs have been photographed sporting a myriad of Obama paraphernalia (Katy Perry’s very “Forward” dress anyone?) and have been more than outspoken in support of the President.
So is it fair to say the Obama administration is built and supported on a solid foundation of young voters, uber-celebrities, and the under-represented and disenfranchised Americans?
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Windows Updates are an important part of computer security, and should never be delayed. However, system updates always patch the critical vulnerabilities which can be abused cyber criminals to infect machines with virus and malware, as well as increase the stability of the operation. Therefore, errors like 0x8024402c will always stop users from installing updates; this issue needs to be fixed immediately.
This Windows error code 0x8024402c is one of the several Windows Update errors. Users might encounter this error when Windows cannot search for any latest updates. Mostly, users have failed to update their OS because of the internet connection issues, as a constant internet connection is very important for the Windows Update Server to connect to the device.
Your computer system is connected to any local network.
Usually, this error occurred on Windows 8, 7 or Vista devices, but some Windows 10 users are also affected by this error. There are many solutions which can help you in fixing this error code 0x8024402c. So, before going through the steps, we advise you to make regular checks first, like as computer scanning.
Firstly, you should need to confirm that your computer’s time is synchronized with an Internet clock. And if it is not then you can easily fix this error code 0x8024402c by changing your time settings. Here’s a look to some other methods for fixing this issue.
Firstly, type Internet Options in the Cortana’s search box and hit the Enter key.
Then, check the box which is next to “Do not use a proxy server for addresses beginning with” field.
After that, click on the “OK” tab.
Type “cmd” into the search box to open the Command Prompt.
Once it is completed, the error code 0x8024402c should be fixed successfully. If not then try the next method.
Type “cmd” into the search box and choose “Run as Administrator” from the search result.
Again, type “cleanmgr” and hit Enter.
Now, wait for few minutes until the system completes scans.
Once it open results page then hit the OK tab to remove all the junk files.
Hopefully, above-mentioned method will help you in fixing the issue.
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Chair of the religious studies department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Bart D. Ehrman wrestles with faith and the question of if there’s an all-powerful and loving God, why do human beings suffer?
HERE is an exceptionally interesting radio interview with Terry Gross as well as an excerrpt from Ehrman’s new book ‘God’s Problem’. I encourage everyone to give this a listen.
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The capacity to endure an ongoing medical condition is a testament to the human body and spirit. That being said, however, there is a saturation point at which the Federal or Postal employee who continues to withstand the debilitating nature of a medical condition should not go beyond.
When a doctor advises that a Federal or Postal employee should seek Federal Disability Retirement benefits, such a “flashpoint” obviously has been reached. In all likelihood, however, the point at which the Federal or Postal employee should have stopped working, has probably been long overdue.
In preparing, formulating, and filing for Federal Disability Retirement benefits from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, whether under FERS or CSRS, the question is often asked whether a person “should” continue to work. That is ultimately a medical question which must be discussed between the treating doctor and the patient who is a Federal or Postal employee.
Ultimately, economic and financial decisions play a major role in making such a decision; as to the secondary question of whether the continuation will have an impact upon the Federal Disability Retirement application itself, is one which can only be answered on a case-by-case basis, depending upon the particular facts of each case.
Generally speaking, however, the answer is “no”. And so the enduring testament to the human body can be reinforced each day, as the Federal or Postal worker continues to endure the pain, medical condition, discomfort and progressive deterioration — contrary to the natural tendency to stop, even when we know better.
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I'm going to have to miss Passover this year, because there is an all-day gamelan rehearsal on the weekend that the East Coast Pony Family seder is being held. (Yes, I've bitched to the gamelan director about this.) The Pony Family is not happy, but they understand why I can't come home.
However, as I've said before, you just cannot keep the Ponies down when something is this important. It's the twenty-first century, we have technology, and by god, we are going to use it!
Therefore, here is the plan for Pony Passover this year: I will go to the gamelan rehearsal in Chicago, and then come straight home, fix me a plate of brisket and wait by the phone. When the East Coast seder is drawing to its singing climax, a speakerphone will be brought into the dining room, and they will give me a call. I will get to participate remotely in the singing by speakerphone.
Have I mentioned how awesome the Pony Family is recently?
I love the way your family lets you do what matters to you and still keeps you part of their lives.
Given a totally free choice, I'd choose the seder over the gamelan rehearsal any day and twice on Tuesdays. But this is one of the rehearsals with our out-of-town director, and it's the last big one before the concert, and I play key instruments on many of our pieces, so there's really no good way to miss it.
It's more a matter of "there's no way the Ponies will let something as piddly as a mandatory all-day rehearsal in Chicago keep us from having FP sing with us in Massachusetts that evening!"
Does someone on the MA end of things have a laptop and a Skype account? You could do it with video and without the long-distance charge, too boot. Might let you stay on longer and celebrate more of the Seder with the whole herd of ponies.
Total lamesauce of the director, though. Someone should schedule something that he can't miss on Easter, see how he likes it. And aren't there laws that prevent this kind of BS?
That's a good idea with the Skype. I'll check it out next time I call home.
And aren't there laws that prevent this kind of BS?
Not really -- the gamelan isn't a workplace or anything that could be covered by that kind of law. But it is total lamesauce, the more so since the gamelan director's wife is Jewish, and he really ought to know better. At the very least, I will require Passover food on the snack table during the day.
Well, I'll have to check to see if anyone at the seder has Skype. But that could be a good option.
Bummer about not being able to be home, but a creative solution from your family. Hope someone does have Skype so it will be even more wonderful.
Even if it's just speakerphone, it would be great to participate remotely.
Your family does indeed rock. I am mad about the rehearsal vicariously for you - that does stink - but am glad you have family that's working to include you.
The rehearsal is kind of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it means I can't go home for Passover, but on the other hand, it means that I can present papers at conferences the weekend before and the weekend afterward. And as long as my family is creative about including me, it works.
That's so lovely, to have your family try so hard to have you participate. It's a pity they can't send food over the phoneline.
It is a pity, especially since my aunt is an excellent cook. I'll just have to fix my own brisket, I suppose. To her recipe, of course.
That's an awesome plan. Good for you for working it out--you're a better person than me for sticking around for the rehearsal.
The prospect of leaving for England a few days later also helps in the decision to stay in Chicago over the weekend. But still . . . dayum!
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AC, DC and Special motor service.
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With 81 percent of Riverside County precincts reporting, California’s June 3 open primary election night results show Prosecutor Mike Hestrin in the lead for county district attorney, while the outcome also looked favorable for Sheriff Stan Sniff’s re-election bid.
The results from vote-by-mail ballots and a growing number of precinct totals were last updated at 11:52 p.m. Tuesday by the Riverside County Registrar of Voters’ Office.
Polls closed at 8 p.m.
With 54.73 percent of the vote, Hestrin led incumbent District Attorney Paul Zellerbach, who garnered 45.27 percent of the vote-by-mail and early voting totals.
Sheriff Sniff had 63.04 percent of the vote to challenger Chad Bianco’s 36.96 percent.
In the governor’s primary race, Gov. Jerry Brown led his contenders with 54.9 percent of votes as of 12:04 a.m. Wednesday. His sole Democratic challenger, Akinyemi Agbede, had garnered .09 percent of the vote. Battling to face Brown in the November general election, Republican candidate Neel Kashkari had 18.4 percent of the vote to Republican Tim Donnelly’s 14.7 percent.
Incumbent Democrat Gavin Newsom’s 50.1 percent of the vote put him ahead of the Democratic pack for California lieutenant governor. Republican Ron Nehring had garnered 23.1 percent.
Also, it appeared California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris had secured her spot in the November election. Harris had garnered 53.1 percent of early results, with Republicans Ronald Gold (12.8 percent) and Phil Wyman (11.3 percent) currently battling to challenge her for the office.
The early results also indicated positive results for incumbent State Schools Superintendent Tom Torlakson, who had 47.9 percent of votes to Marshall Tuck’s 27.9 percent and Lydia A. Gutierrez’s 24.2 percent. However, Torlakson needs to secure 50 percent of the votes or greater to avoid a runoff election.
Riverside County Superintendent of Schools incumbent Kenneth M. Young led challenger Michael Martinez Scott in the early results—66.84 percent to 33.16 percent.
It was a closer race for the 28th District State Senate seat. With 76.78 percent of precincts reporting, Republican Jeff Stone was slightly ahead in the race, managing 21.67 percent of votes. Republican Bonnie Garcia had received 19.19 percent, while Democratic candidate Philip Drucker had 19.24 percent and Republican Glenn Miller, 19.37 percent.
The yes votes for Proposition 41 (Veterans Housing and Homeless Bond Act of 2014) and Proposition 42 (Public Records, Open Meetings, Reimbursements) both outweighed the no votes. More than 60 percent of voters lent their support to the measures as of midnight, with 70 percent of statewide precincts reporting.
Locally, Mark Cope, S. Suzanne Sykes and Sean Lafferty all had sizeable leads in their respective races for Superior Court seats.
Current Republican U.S. Congressman Ken Calvert was in the lead to secure another term representing the 42nd District. Calvert had 66.54 percent of votes to Democrat Tim Sheridan’s 16.17 percent, Democrat Chris Marquez’s 11.38 percent and Democrat Kerri Condley’s 5.91 percent.
Melissa Melendez (71st District) and Marie Waldron (75th District), who both ran uncontested, appeared to be on their way to securing another two years in the State Assembly.
Updated results can be found throughout the evening on the Registrar’s website, http://www.voteinfo.net.
June 3, 2014 Primary Election results in, Place Sheriff Sniff, DA Candidate Hestrin in Lead, by Maggie Avants for Temecula Grapevine.
This entry was posted on June 3, 2014 by Maggie Avants in 2014, News and tagged 2014 California Primary, Ballots, California Primary, DA Paul Zellerbach, Gov. Jerry Brown, Jeff Stone, June 3 Election, June 3 Primary, Kenneth M. Young, Mike Hestrin, Polls, Primary Election, Prop 41, Prop 42, Riverside County, Riverside County Registrar of Voters, Sheriff Stan Sniff, Tom Torlakson, Vote-by-mail.
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In this thesis, we consider exploring a 2-D environment with multiple robots by modelling the problem as a Potential Game rather than using conventional frontier-based dynamic programming algorithms. A potential game is a type of game that results in coordinated behaviours amongst players. This is done by enforcing strict rules for each player in selecting an action from its action set. As part of this game, we define a potential function for the game that is meaningful in terms of achieving the greater objective of exploring a space. Furthermore, an objective function is assigned for each player from this potential function. We then create algorithms for the exploration of obstacle-filled bounded spaces, and demonstrate through simulation how it outperforms uncoordinated algorithms by reducing the time needed to uncover the space.
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Can You Live with Justice?
Alexandra Sadler | 16 This may seem, at first, like a throwaway question. Of course you almost certainly desire justice – even demand it. And how could you not, when faced with a world in which the oppression of your loved ones and fellow man seems an almost inescapable reality? What the question asks, however, … Continue reading Can You Live with Justice?
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Nii Odartey Lamptey (born 10 December 1974) is a former Ghanaian professional footballer and current assistant manager of Sekondi Wise Fighters as well as the proprietor of a school in Accra called Glow-Lamp International School. During his career he played as a striker from 1990 until 2008 notably for Aston Villa, PSV Eindhoven, Coventry City and the Ghana national football team.
He is known foremost for his erratic career, in which he became a superstar as a teenager and then suffered a long string of failures which burnt him out well before his time. Lamptey has been used as a byword for a cautionary tale of putting too much pressure on young players to be successful.
He also played for Anderlecht, Venezia, Unión Santa Fe, Ankaragücü, União Leiria, Greuther Fürth, Shandong Luneng, Al-Nassr, Asante Kotoko and Jomo Cosmos.
Nii Lamptey was born in Tema, but grew up in the two biggest Ghanaian cities, Accra and Kumasi. He had a miserable childhood, as his parents abused and neglected him. His father was an alcoholic who often beat and lashed him and sometimes burnt his body with cigarettes. Lamptey often refused to spend the nights home and frequently skipped school, only finding refuge in football. Soon, he began to excel in this sport, despite his alcoholic father heckling him and hurling verbal abuse from the sidelines whenever he watched his son play football.
When Lamptey was eight, his parents divorced, and his stepfather threw him out of the household. Lamptey found refuge in a Muslim football camp and converted from Christianity to Islam to qualify for entry. When his stepfather found this out, he accused his stepson of sacrilege and often quarreled in front of the football camp. But soon, it became evident what talent young Lamptey had, and he was called up to Ghana's junior squads. He was eventually reconciled with his father – and readopted Christianity – in 1997, only to lose him to an alcohol-related illness.
Lamptey played for the youth team Young Corners in Accra, but wanted to move abroad to play. However, the Ghanaian FA refused and confiscated his passport, wishing to build a team around him in Ghana. He therefore was smuggled into Nigeria by a taxi driver, where he met Nigerian captain Stephen Keshi, who had heard of his skills. Keshi persuaded Lamptey to play in Belgium with him, and took Lamptey with him, giving him a fake Nigerian passport that stated Lamptey was his son.
Dutch football Coach Aad de Mos signed Lamptey aged 15 for the Belgian team R.S.C. Anderlecht.
He was hailed as the new Pelé and age limit rules in Belgium were changed to allow him to debut at the age of 16 for Anderlecht. Lamptey signed his first contract at Anderlecht when he was 16, becoming the youngest-ever player to play in the Belgian league.
His first season was a success, scoring 7 goals in 14 games.
He was loaned to Eindhoven, and quickly established himself as a prolific scorer, and continued to impress, scoring 10 times in 22 games.
Ron Atkinson bought Lamptey to Aston Villa in the summer of 1994. This move came as a surprise, as PSV was a more successful club than Aston Villa at the time and Lamptey was one of the star players at PSV. However, Lamptey had signed an exclusive marketing contract with an Italian player agent. The player's agent, Antonio Caliendo, would get 25% of whatever Lamptey's transfer fee was, and accordingly sold him to Villa as that would mean the largest commission for himself. Lamptey's illiteracy allowed Caliendo to take advantage of him, even pocketing a signing on bonus intended for Lamptey. He failed to impress at Villa Park, scoring just three times, all of which came in the League Cup against Wigan Athletic (once in the home leg and twice in the away leg).
Following Atkinson's dismissal as Villa boss, he re-signed Lamptey for his new club Coventry City. Again Lamptey would score his only goals in the League Cup, netting twice against Hull City (once in the home leg and once in the away leg). His time at Coventry further proved that Lamptey was not cut out for Premiership football. However, despite his failure at Coventry, his name was not forgotten. From the start of the 2012–13 season, a group of Coventry City fans launched a podcast entitled The Nii Lamptey Show in honour of their former player.
Lamptey joined Venezia in Italy and later Unión de Santa Fe in Argentina. There, he and his wife had their third child, Diego. But soon, Diego died of a rare disease. A major emotional blow was also the fact that Lamptey wanted to bury his son in Ghana, but the authorities declined. Heartbroken, Lamptey temporarily gave up football. After unsuccessful stints at Ankaragücü and União Leiria, Lamptey got himself a new German player agent who transferred him to SpVgg Greuther Fürth. However, Lamptey and his wife were unhappy there, unable to live through the culture shock in Germany. Lamptey was not entirely unsuccessful, being a reliable backup, but was found too fragile for the rough Second Bundesliga. He was also reportedly ignored by his German colleagues, and once, a colleague flat out refused to sleep in the same hotel room as him. This blatant racism shocked Lamptey, but even worse was the fact that his child Lisa also died soon after birth. Also Lamptey's second dead child was buried abroad, in Germany. The Lampteys soon left for Asia.
Lamptey then joined Shandong Luneng Tai Shan in China. He described his time there as the happiest time of his life, finally being accepted and loved by fans and experts again. He then moved to Al-Nasr and then back to Ghana to Kumasi Asante Kotoko, becoming the first Ghanaian star to return to his roots again as a player.
On 5 March 2007, Lamptey signed for South African side Jomo Cosmos, playing here until 1 December 2007.
Lamptey retired from football in 2008. He now breeds cattle and sheep on a farm on the outskirts of Accra. He served as a pundit on Ghanaian television during the 2014 World Cup.
He also founded Glow-lamp International School , so as to give back to society and ensure than children have the chance to learn to read and write: something he was never able to do. As of 2017, his school has almost 400 pupils. He also has a football academy he coaches at in Elmina.
Lamptey has said that despite everything, he does not feel like a loser, but rather as a hardened survivor who refuses to be destroyed, and whom God will not punish.
Lamptey married Gloria Appiah in 1993. The marriage was a controversial one, angering his brothers, as Gloria is from a different tribe (Fante) to his (Ga). He had five children, of whom two died to lung diseases. However, a DNA test revealed he was not the biological father of the remaining three children and he divorced her. Although she took him to court to get 50% of his assets in the divorce, this was refused by the judge.
As of 2016, Lamptey is engaged to actress and model Ruweida Yakuba with whom he has two children.
He has had a falling out with Ghanaian star Abedi Pelé, but refuses to say what about.
Lamptey first began to attract global attention in 1991 he led Ghana to win the 1991 FIFA U-17 World Championship with the team known as the Black Starlets after playing in the 1989 version as a 15 year old. He won the FIFA Best Player of the tournament – the Golden Ball award in a competition that also included Argentina's Juan Sebastian Verón and Marcelo Gallardo and Italy's Alessandro del Piero, Lamptey's star shone more brilliantly than them all, as he dominated everyone in the competition. He was subsequently touted as the next Pelé; by Pelé himself. He scored four goals in that tournament. Lamptey later stated that although appreciated, Pele's praise made life far harder for him, since everyone therefore had extremely high expectations of him that he was not always able to fulfil.
The adidas Golden Ball could only go to one of the members of the victorious Ghanaian side, and so it was, with Lamptey taking home a very special souvenir from his Italian sojourn. Lamptey was the beating heart of a very good side. His fast feet, speed of thought, and clever interplay with captain Alex Opoku and fellow midfielders Mohammed Gargo and Emmanuel Duah were on display for all to see. His willingness to get into the box was critical too, and his four goals made him joint top-goalscorer.
In recognition of his exquisite football he displayed at the FIFA U-17 Tournament, he was named the 1991 fifth best African Footballer of the Year. Lamptey's brilliance led an enterprising and unpredictable Ghana's U-20 team, known as the "Black Satellites" to win the African U-20 Cup of Nations and then lost the final of the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship held in Australia to Brazil, who came from a goal down to win the trophy at the death, 2–1. He also scored in the match against Portugal, which Ghana won 2–0. In the Summer of 1992, young superstar Nii Lamptey led Ghana to win a Bronze medal at the Barcelona 1992 Summer Olympics football tournament. Ghana, who had the youngest team by far in the competition (the average age of the squad was 18.8 years), were surprise bronze medallists, becoming the first African nation to earn a medal. They did so in a 1–0 victory over yet another surprise, Australia. Lamptey thus led Ghana to success at any Youth International Tournament in which he played.
At just 16 years, Nii Lamptey scored on his senior debut International for Ghana in a 1992 African Cup of Nations Qualifying home match against Togo in the 43rd minute. Ghana won the match 2–0.He became a regular International and his superb performances earned him a starting spot in the "Black Stars", forming a potent attacking force together with team captain Abedi Pele and Super striker Tony Yeboah. Ghana lost the final of the 1992 African Cup of Nations to Côte d'Ivoire on a marathon penalty shoot-out in Senegal, a game the mercurial Lamptey started at just 17 years. He continued to blossom at senior International level at such a young age, playing any and every Ghana International game since then.
His international career with Ghana dried up after he was sent off in the 1996 African Cup of Nations semi-final game against South Africa on 31 January 1996. The Black Stars finished fourth, after losing to Zambia in the 3rd Place play-off game without the suspended Lamptey. Lamptey did not play for Ghana again after they lost 8–2 to Brazil in São José do Rio Preto, 27 March 1996 in a Pre-1996 Summer Olympics friendly match. Many observers believe that the numerous back and forth travels to Africa for International matches, stalled his young career at Club level. His career later went into a slump.
On 19 February 2009 signed a contract as Assistant at Sekondi Wise Fighters; here he assisted the new Head Coach Charles Akonnor. He also owns a football academy in Elmina that he coaches at.
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“…In the great running dichotomy between hard grey tarmacadam or wet, brown mud, I lean decidedly towards the hard stuff. Actually I more than lean, I lie firmly down upon it. I am a road runner (baby). Cut me and I bleed blacktop. Running for me is about the rhythm, the even pace, the zoning out and tuning in; the eyes on the horizon. Whereas it seems to me that off-road is a never ending, series of millisecond micro-decisions weighing up every single step, eyes fixed permanently on the ground. It’s stop start, up down, over stiles and under branches (6ft 2 is not a good height for trail runners). It’s an opportunity for the fleet-footed and nimble, the graceful and agile to remind me how heavy, clumsy and lumpen I am. And okay, there’s all that pretty countryside to run through, but I never see the views, because there’s no opportunity to look up because every step is a potential death trap, what with rocks and roots and holes all vying for your attention and tempting your toes to tripping. In a nutshell, it’s stressful, not relaxing and I want my running to reduce my stress not add to it.” (The full review can be read here).
A man’s got to know his limitations. Running on the road can liberate me from those limitations, those demons that plague me, that I can recite at the least provocation. Running on the road gives me space to breathe, space to think and space to float away from life’s gravity for a moment. But off road running fails me in this regard and never ceases to remind me of my weight, height and all round disagility (which I know is not a word, but it is what I am, dis-agile). Some trails I like a lot (many of them in the Scottish Highlands), but I like them for training, not racing. Maybe that’s the real distinction here; it’s not about running, it’s about racing. I like to train the trails, even tame the trails, but I like to race the roads.
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I was approached by the author some time ago with the question if I wanted to read his thriller novella. Although I don’t read a lot of novellas in general, the summary caught my attention and I decided to give Lemon Sting a go. And I have to say that this novella has pleasantly surprised me. For its length, the main characters are surprisingly well developed as well as the general plot itself. The story is both fast-paced, entertaining and packed with intense action scenes and plot twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Lemon Sting has a lot of different POVs for a novella, but they are well executed and didn’t distract from the plot. In fact, the prose in general is easy to read and I can definitely recommend this novella to anyone who enjoys a good action-packed crime thriller.
Both Margaret and Lee seem to be trapped in a daily routine that never seems to end; her working at a restaurant and living life day by day, him working at an old electronics store and bored out of his mind most of the time. When Margaret breaks her routine one night and goes clubbing, she ends up too drunk to function at her neighbor Lee’s apartment. She doesn’t remember much about the night before, but it seems like her past has finally caught up with her… And Lee is dragged into the mess along with her. Things will soon spiral further out of control; will they be able to find a way out?
If you are looking for a fast-paced, action-packed and entertaining thriller novella, Lemon Sting is definitely a great choice. It reads almost like an action movie and both plot and characters are well developed, especially since we are talking about a short novella. This debut is without doubt very promising!
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A man often labelled a monster has just died. It’s hard to disagree with the label here: a creature who seemed to lack empathy and to enjoy cruelty.
Or is perhaps just big and scaly, or hairy and colossal, or blue and furry. Monsters come in many forms, human, animal and even alien. They also come in many films, so let’s hear about them.
I’ll kick off with the most powerful examination of a human monster I’ve ever seen, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act Of Killing.
What films about monsters would you recommend?
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May 27 Program: Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht is our featured speaker at our membership luncheon. Later that afternoon, we will meet more of our Tarrant County judges at our annual Meet the Judges Event (see below).
Spring has arrived and Fort Worth Republican Women have decided to become an independent Republican women’s club. But we need your help and input to chart our course for the future. To read more of our President’s message, click HERE.
Try our new $6.00 Breakfast Taco Bar!
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Farfur is dead! Murdered by Israelis….
The end of an era for Paladisney T.V.
Read the rest in THIS AP Report published on Ynet.
The ‘party’s over’ and now Abbas has to start proving that he is the man Washington really wants to act as their agent in the Palestinian Territories…Dubya likes the man it seems, but some of the Neo-Cons in Congress have their reservations…Another case of a ‘Divided House’, but in this case IT SHOULD FALL!
So poor Mr. Abbas has be careful with every move he makes for the next short while or his ‘allowance’ will be cut off again…. Right now he has to answer to the American and Israeli Governments…. just wait till he has to start explaining his sell out tactics to his own people… should be interesting.
The ElectonicIntifada published the following… it’s a good read….
The trial of one of the most highly respected leaders of the Muslim community resumed today in the District Court of Jerusalem. The man on trial is Sheikh Taysis Tamimi, who happens to also be the Chief Palestinian Justice. He is charged for ‘daring’ to pray at Al Aqsa Mosque without first obtaining a permit from the Israeli authorities.
The lawyer representing him, Azmi Masalha, argued that his visits to the Mosque were during the Holy Month of Ramadan, a time when all Muslims are permitted to go to Al Aqsa WITHOUT a permit.
The time period that the Sheikh attended prayers coincided with demonstrations against ongoing excavations in the Mosque’s compound. It is assumed by the authorities that he was there to lead those demonstrations.
The lawyer also argued that the Eastern Part of Jerusalem has been illegally annexed by the City of Jerusalem since 1967 and under International Law Israel has no jurisdiction there.
Sheikh Tamimi is one of the most influential and respected leaders in the Muslim community here. Aside from being Chief Justice, he is the Iman and Preacher of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. He is also an active member of the Jerusalem District Interfaith Council and has the respect of local Jewish and Christian Clergy in the area. He is seen here in the photo sitting with the late Pope during his visit to Jerusalem, and the Former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Israel Meyer Lau.
The trial was attended by International Observers from the United States and the European Union. A representative of the Executive Office of the President (Bush) was among the observers.
That fact makes it interesting with the present situation of the US (and Israel) backing the new Palestinian ‘government’….
It will be interesting to see what Israels position on the status of East Jerusalem will be after this trial is completed….
As mentioned in my previous post, we are in a ‘wait and see’ situation. Let’s wait and see!
CAN RELIGION LEAD US TO PEACE IN THE DESERT?
It seems my post of two days ago about Hatred in the Torah sparked quite a discussion….
From the Jewish perspective we have THIS article . It’s a good read and delves into the teachings of peace in the Torah. Hatred is a creation of mankind…. not sanctioned by Holy Books…. read and enjoy…. SHALOM!
The Koran also teaches us that war represents an “unwanted obligation” which has to be absolutely carried out with strict observance of particular humane and moral values and resorted only when it is inevitable. Those that carry out terrorist acts in the name of Islam do it only to destroy it. Read the passages in THIS article to see why the Koran is a Book of Peace….SALAAM!
From the New Testament we learn that Jesus was truly a ‘Prince of Peace’. His teachings show us the way to love and peace more than anything else. An essay about that can be read HERE. See for yourself that Christianity itself is not the enemy either …. PEACE!
It is not the Holy Books mentioned above that are to blame for the mess we are in as is so often heard. It is the governments that act ‘in the name’ of those Books that are responsible. Don’t blame God for the situation today…. it’s all man made.
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Now THIS is frightening news….. very frightening. The ‘judgment’ of the Israeli soldiers on who to shoot is bad enough…. now robots will be put in their place?
Will a robot be able to determine if it is a ‘terrorist’ or a young child approaching the fence? The soldiers obviously do not know the difference, will a robot?
Now in final stages of operational testing, the “See-Shoot” system will add weapons to the network of overlapping sensors already deployed along the approximately 60-kilometer border separating Israel from the Palestinian coastal territory. See-Shoot embodies the IDF’s goal of waging no-signature warfare along its border areas. It obviates the need to dispatch infantry to intercept intruders or to respond to probing maneuvers by enemy squads.
THIS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO GO INTO EFFECT!!!
Cindy Sheehan is, in true Talmudic terms, a Woman of Valor*. A woman whose dedication to peace cannot be questioned. A woman who paid a price for her principles.
Yet, when she ‘dared’ to respond to critics she was attacked in a way that is unforgivable. When the ‘right’ attacks such a woman it is expected, when the ‘left’ does, it is unforgivable. Look at what she did, look at what she sacrificed, open your eyes and minds and hearts and really look.
Think before you condemn, think of what this woman did for the nation, what she will continue to do. Listen to THIS interview that was done yesterday on NOW at PBS.. “We’ll Come Back Stronger” …. excerpts can be read HERE.
Cindy was not alone in this struggle as can be seen in this poem written by her younger daughter 3 years ago… as the old expression goes’ read it and weep’….
Walk a mile in this great woman’s shoes before you speak badly of her. Think of your own sons and daughters, then realise what she lost. Show compassion before you condemn.
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How often have you forgotton a name during a heavy pile up of chasers? Well for me it happens often, most liklely old age setting in I guess! Of course there are always the regular chasers and friends one remembers instantly, however sometimes there are those callsigns you just can’t put a name to. Maybe it’s a new or upgraded call or in the heat of the moment we forget who knows! Some would say “so what, just ask their name during the contact” True, however I find the pile up’s and the rhythm of the Summit activation tend to flow smoothly when you know the persons name. It becomes more personal for the contact too. Obviously I needed a solution to aid my memory, so I just compiled a list of names and callsigns from my activation log sheets. Ok job done, so now I need to record this information for quick recall. I thought of using an electronic device such as an ipad or a tablet maybe the phone. All good but now I would need to carry yet another piece of equipment to the summit and then try to use it whilst operating the radio equipment. Now we are talking about trying to do more than one task simultaniously. Hmmm, my usual operating position balancing the radio on a log or rock, sitting on the ground with a log sheet and clip board trying to write information whilst avoiding march flies and large ants is enough to do! Ahh its time for some old school technology, enter the good old double sided laminated name sheet.
As you can see from the images, the SOTA name sheet is just a word document with some tables inserted. (Note: Not all Australian Chasers/Activators are on this list only the ones I have logged) I find the sheet handy for recalling names instantly and easier than trying to operate an additional electronic device during an activation. I also included the recommended Australian SOTA operating frequencies. The sheet will require updating when new contacts with chasers or activators are made . I often place an astrik in my activator log sheet next to a new contact, then update the SOTA name sheet when I enter the data for the activation, otherwise I write on the SOTA name sheet with a sharpie pen then update the word document, printing and laminating when the need arises. The SOTA name sheet has been developed for Australian call areas however it could be adapted for other countries or call areas. The file is included here in .doc and .docx format should you wish to modify it for you own use.
Whilst I was making a SOTA name sheet, I decided to make a log sheet too. I managed to fit upto 30 contacts on the sheet, yes I know I’m old school but I do find it easier to write things down when trying to activate a summit.
I am interested in any suggested modifications or improvements you may have, please feel free to download the documents and make changes as required.
Sunday morning at Diner Plain and the rain was still bucketing down, nothing to do but cook breakfast (fruit toast) and try to salvage the day. Since it was no longer possible to gain access to the nearby summits, I decided to take a drive towards Omeo about 40Km from Diner Plain. I reluctantly packed the SOTA equipment and set off at 11:00am. About 12 Km from Omeo the weather started to clear, there was light rain however I could see the clouds dissipating, my luck was about to change. A quick check of the GPS showed I was close to VK3/VG045 Mt. Livingstone. I set the GPS to track towards the summit and continued.
Mt. Livingstone road runs off the Great Alpine road B500. It is approximately 8km from OMEO.
I turned onto the gravel road and drove until reaching a locked access gate, 4WD was not required . I parked at a small clearing to the right of the gate.
The road continues from the gate for 500 metres as gravel, then the remaining kilometre is bitumen. Nearing halfway towards the summit there is the first of the navigational beacons, a low frequency NDB. At the summit the road divides around the VOR site. As it happens this is a great location to setup the SOTA station, it’s within the activation zone and far enough from the VOR equipment to prevent interference.
Perfect! A handy post to strap the squiddy with a seat and operating bench.
This site also supports the local UHF CB repeater and mobile phone transmitters. There are plenty of RF noise generators nearby. Fortunately the location for my SOTA shack had very little noise.
After setting up, I heard Peter VK3PF working a pile up, I immediately thought there was an opportunity for a S2S contact, however as it happened Peter was activating a National park not a summit. After contacting Peter, I moved to another frequency and it wasn’t long before I made a S2S contact with Allen VK3HRA/P on VK3/VG-029 Mt. Seldom Seen, followed a little later by Adam VK2YK/P on VK2/HU-024. I managed another 9 contacts before the activity died out. Having now activated four out of a possible ten planned summits for the weekend, I was reasonably happy especially since the weather conditions had been so poor. After packing up I walked back to the vehicle (1.5Km) and drove on to OMEO for some lunch. There is a great Bakery at Omeo, what can I say? Thank goodness for SOTA and all the walking! OMEO would make an ideal base camp for a weekend of SOTA activity. There are many summits within easy reach of the town. One such summit is Sam Hill.
Leaving Omeo the Great Alpine Road (B500) turns to the right, at this point I continued straight ahead along Day Avenue until meeting the Omeo Highway (C543.) Approximately 2km along the Omeo Highway, Connelys Road appears on the left. Unfortunately not realising Connelys Road would take me to the summit, I continued a further 9km until reaching the Bingo-Tice Road.
I took the Bingo-Tice gravel road and followed it for 3.3km where I came to the first of five property gates. This is a gazetted road, asking permission to drive through the properties is not required. Just remember to leave the gates as you found them.
I continued passing through gates at the 3.9, 4.8, 6.4, and 7.6km marks. Finally at 1.2km past the last gate I found the access road to the summit on my left.
View looking towards summit access road.
A fire wood collection sign marks the start of the track to the summit.
Driving along the track for 600m, I came to a Y in the road and a large tree. This is the intersection with Connely’s Road. A left turn and a further 900m travel took me to the summit.
The site is equipped with two fire watch towers and plenty of communications antennas.
The shack at the shack!
Leaving the summit I made my way back to the Omeo Highway.
Intersection at Omeo Highway, turned left towards Anglers Rest.
It takes about an hour and a half to drive from Sam Hill along the Omeo Highway to the summit of the Knocker. The distance is only 54Km however the road consists of curves and hairpin bends most of the way. Once arriving at the hamlet of Glen Wills it is just 3km to the Summit access track.
The track to the summit is an operational logging road, it is narrow with only a few places to pull over and allow trucks to pass. It’s advisable to use a UHF CB on Channel 40 to monitor the movement of logging trucks and call out your position. A 4wd vehicle is not required unless the track is wet.
Fortunately the turn off to the summit is only 4km from the start of the track.
When I arrived, the track had just been graded, it was like driving on a highway! From the link sign it is only 700m to the summit. I drove to the summit unloaded the equipment and then drove back 500m for a walk to the summit.
I set up the shack attaching the antenna to the trig. The weather changed during the activation and became very foggy, however I managed 38 contacts and one Shack Sloth for Mike VK3XL congratulations Mike. Happy I had six summits activated for the weekend I headed back to Dinner Plain for the night.
The Mountain was named The Knocker during the time before the road was built, Apparently horses would pull carts over the mountain and “Knock up” their knees!
Monday morning, the last day of my long weekend. I decided to activate two summits on my way home. Heading back towards Mt. Hotham and along the Great Alpine Road, once again I turned onto the Twins Track.
This time I was intending to make it all the way to Mt. Murray, with a stop along the way to activate VK3/VE-023. The track appeared to be in good condition and fairly dry considering the heavy rain of the previous two days. I wanted to investigate the camping area between the saddle of The Twins and VE-023. Once I passed by The Twins it was only a short drive to the camping area, really just a patch of grass between two summits!
Actually this is a fairly good place to camp, close enough to climb two summits and access Mt. Murray comfortably in one day. Talk about a climb, VE-023 doesn’t look like much of a climb until you start! I could see a walking trail marker in front of the summit and decided to follow the track to the top. I think that was a mistake, it was quite steep and slippery with small rocks everywhere.
To make matters worse, once I set up the shack I found the band conditions were very poor. I could only find 10 chasers that could hear me, some of the reports were down to 5 by 1. I did manage one S2S contact with Paul Vk5PAS/3 on VK3/VS-045 Mt. Dundas. To add insult to injury the return trip was difficult with many slips and trips whilst trying to stay upright. There may be a better way to the summit from further around the road. As I drove past on my way to Mt. Murray, I noticed a ridge heading toward the summit, it might be a longer walk however it would be easier on the legs.
The drive to Mt. Murray takes about 40 minutes from the saddle of The Twins, or an hour from the Great Alpine road. Since there are steep inclines and declines to negotiate, a 4WD vehicle is required in all conditions. The track is narrow with only a few places to pull over and allow oncoming traffic to pass.
Sign near the summit parking/camping area.
The track ends at a car park/camping area some 500m from the summit cairn. Vehicle travel is restricted by a gate.
It’s an easy walk to the summit, with great views all around. What a shame the weather was cloudy on the day.
Looking toward the summit from the road gate.
I set up the equipment and lashed the squiddy to a very loose pole wedged into the cairn.
November 15, 2014 a mass SOTA activation had been organised for the weekend. What a great idea! It took me a micro second to decide I needed to participate. Good, but now I needed a plan of attack. My idea was to gain the best value for the weekend and activate as many summits as possible. I required summits I had not previously activated, that were close together and relatively easy to access. A quick check of SOTA mapping revealed a visit to the Victorian High Country may be in order. By my estimation, provided everything went to plan, I figured it would be feasible to activate 10 summits during a 3 day long weekend. I set about looking for a suitable location for camping and a base for the 3 day operation. I decided somewhere near Mt.Hotham would be a good place to base operations.
A work colleague (4WD enthusiast) mentioned a location where he had camped a few years earlier, it was about 5Km along the Mt.Murray trail and in his words “Its between two hills with a fantastic view” After looking at a map of the area, I found the camp ground and the “two hills” he mentioned, which turned out to be SOTA summits, VK3/VE-017 The Twins and VK3/VE-023. From here there are five nearby summits, Sometimes you can get lucky! Armed with the directions and maps, I planned to set off for Victoria on the Friday after lunch to arrive in plenty of time to set up camp.
The camp ground between two summits.
A few days prior to my departure, the weather forecast predicted a cold front and thunderstorm activity across the state, conditions not favourable for camping. The high country is one place you definitely don’t want to be caught camping during bad weather, it can change from fine and sunny to gale force winds and freezing in an instant! Disappointed my luck finding a suitable camp location was short-lived I decided to try for accommodation plan B.
Since Mt Hotham is a winter ski resort, there is an abundance of available accommodation especially during the Spring and Summer months. I managed to find an excellent well equipped and comfortable two-story apartment in the small hamlet of Dinner Plain. The price was very acceptable at $83 per night. Actually after being spoilt at this location I decided to stay again next year, “blow the camping!” Since camping was now off the agenda, I left my departure until later in the day. I travelled via Albury and stopped to stock up on food and supplies, as I pulled up in the car park of Wollies a 4WD vehicle identical to mine (Isuzu Dmax) parked next to me. I asked the driver (Dale) his opinion of the vehicle, this led to a enthusiastic conversation regarding all manner of things Isuzu 4WD related. During our conversation, Dale noticed my radio antennas and said he was friends with a ham operator but he could not remember his call.. At that point Dale phonned his friend who turned out to be Chris, VK2XHV and of course Chris and I had a phone contact on the 850Mhz band. Chris mentioned whilst he was not into SOTA his work colleague, Bernard VK2IB was very active. http://vk2ib.wordpress.com/ There you go what a small world! I did eventually arrive at Dinner Plain later in the evening and managed a good sleep.
Saturday morning early, I headed off for Mt.Hotham a 14Km easy drive from Dinner Plain. Arriving at site, I left the vehicle at the carpark directly opposite the summit and proceeded to walk 500m across the road and up to the summit.
Carpark with Mt Hotham in the background.
I actvated the summit at 22:35Z ,First contact was Paul VK5PAS/p3 in the Lower Glennell National Park, followed by a S2s contact with Andrew VK1NAM/p2 on VK2/SM-036. Robbie, VK3EK/p called in later with another S2s contact from VK3/VG133. All chaser calls finished at 23:00, since I had a hour to changeover I decided to pack up and head back to the carpark and on to Mt. Loch.
Back at the carpark it was time to head away from Mt.Hotham towards Mt.Loch. Upon arrival at the Mt.Loch carpark you are greeted by an information shelter. There is a day book where you can log the details of your journey. Date of travel, people in party, destination and expected time of return.
The shelter has information regarding the type of trail, the grade of difficulty and the expected travel time. I had an easy 3.5Km, one hour walk to the summit. It would be great if all summits had such information!
Information signs at the trail head and a suggestion box with Mt.Loch in the background. I walked around the snow making water storage area and continued along the track toward the summit.
Along the trail there is a small monument dedicated to Charles Derrick.
Nearing the summit only 900m to go!
Looking toward the summit, still a small amount of snow laying around.
Finally the track to the summit. Or so I thought!
Actually this track has a small sign laying on the ground requesting people not access the summit via this route. I continued along the trail to another signpost which is closer to the summit cairn. A quick stroll up the rocks to reach the summit.
My first contact (01:06z) was Andrew VK1NAM/p2 on summit VK2SM-033.Andrew had just completed his last contact and was moving on to 20metres. So he handed the frequency over to me, or was that threw me to the lions! Hi Hi. By this time of the day the bands were well and truly crawling with summit activations, National Park activations and of course chasers looking for both. I must say everybody was very courteous and patient taking their time to call in and log my activation. Congratulations to all operators. I managed S2S contacts with Robbie VK3EK on VK3/VG133, Phil VK3BHR on VK3/VN016, Peter VK3FALA on VK3/VG114, Ron VK3AFW on VK3VC/031, Ian VK3TCX on VK3/VG114,Bernard VK2IB on VK2/SC025, Peter VK3PF on VK3/VG153 and Tony VK3CAT on VK3/VC005. By the time all chasers and contacts had be exhausted is was 02:33Z. Time to pack up and try for another summit. On the way down I came across a black snake sunning itself on the trail. Once I approached it slithered away into some ground cover.
After an hour I made it back to the carpark, signed out of the logbook and decided I would have time to access another summit. I loaded the equipment into the vehicle and headed toward The Twins trail.
The Twins trail is about 10mins drive from the Mt.Loch car park along the Great Alpine road. The track appears to the left next to the Dargo High Plains road.
There is a sharp switchback near the start of the trail. I followed the trail until reaching the National Parks gate. A 4WD vehicle is required.
The trail is subjuct to seasonal road closures. The road is narrow and two vehicles have trouble passing easily. It’s always a good idea to carry UHF CB and call out on CH40 for oncoming vehicles. Since the trail was open I continued along the ridge until reaching the twins summit in front of me. I drove past the summit to my left until reaching a hairpin turn in the road. I parked here. At this point there is an old 4wd track leading up to the summit. There are many fallen treess across the track and it is quite a climb. I walked along this track until reaching the summit where the wind was in full force.
Once on the summit I decided to head back down the activation zone to seek shelter from the wind. I managed to setup the squid pole on a nearby tree and set about activating at 06:22 Z. My first contact in the log was MAtt VK1MA followed by S2S contacts with Robbie VK3Ek on VK3/VG133, John VK2YW on VK2/SW015, Gerard (CW, he forgot his mic) on VK2/IL001, Andrew VK1NAM on VK2/SM053, Tony VK3CAT on VK3/VN030 and Peter VK3PF on VK3/VG041. A rather quick activation finishing at 06:51Z. The weather had started to change with light rain so after a good days activating it was time to head back down the track to the vehicle and home. Made it back to Dinner Plain just as the rain started bucketing down, wind squals were nasty too. It rained all night, the result, no access to wet trails and no ten summit activation weekend . At least I managed three summits before the rain.
Satellite image for the 15th.
Batteries for portable radio operation are always an interesting subject for discussion. I have been asked many times which batteries I use. My battery of choice for portable operation is the LiPo (Lithium-ion polymer ) battery.
I find the 4 cell 5 Amp variety suits my situation very well. The operating voltage can be up to 16.5 volts with no load when fully charged. However the stated nominal operating voltage is 14.8V Most operators would be concerned these voltages may cause damage to sensitive 13.8v radio equipment. This is correct in some circumstances. I operate a Yaesu Ft-857 for SOTA activations, this is a radio designed for in vehicle operation where voltages may exceed 14.5v. The specifications for the FT-857 state the normal supply voltage is 13.8v +/- 15%. This equates to an operating voltage range of 11.73-15.87V. Even better for the FT-817 being specified at 8-16volts . Ok so I hear you say ” Your 16.5v battery is outside that range!” This is true, however by making use of a full wave bridge rectifier in circuit (I use a MDA3504, 35Amp 400piv variety) the voltage will be lowered by 1.2-1.4v. (remember silicon junction theory 101) There are two advantages, a lower voltage and polarity protection. Ensure you wire the rectifier correctly in circuit, the Battery wires are connected to the “AC” input terminals on the rectifier, Do not be concerned which battery wire connect to what “AC” terminal it makes no difference. However it is critical the Radio positive (RED) wire is connected to the + (positive) terminal of the rectifier and the Radio negative (BLACK) wire is connected to the – (negative) terminal of the rectifier. I recommend using an in line fuse between the rectifier and radio for protection. Once the bridge rectifier is in circuit the no load voltage is 15.1V from a fully charged LiPo battery. There are some heat losses via the rectifier however mine is mounted on a small heatsink and becomes luke warm at 100w output on SSB. I would not recommend a full duty cycle mode such as SSTV or FM for long periods at this output level.
How long does this battery last on the FT-857? That depends on what output power is used. For my SOTA activations I set the output to 30% , (approximately 30w) at this level I have successfully activated 3 summits of about 20 contacts each and still had plenty of power left. There are precautions with LiPo batteries, they can be easily damaged by incorrect charging and balancing. They have also been known to catch fire under certain circumstances. I have not experienced any such issues with the batteries I use, however I follow the documented procedures for this type of battery. It is always a good idea to monitor the individual cell and combined voltage when using the battery. There are many voltage monitoring devices available for purchase, I use a fairly simple unit which emits a loud screech when the cell voltage reaches a pre set level. Mine is set to sound the warning when any cell reaches 3.5Volts.
This setting will ensure the alarm sounds when the battery reaches less than 14 volts. The limit can be set lower, however I prefer to err on the side of caution maintaining the battery condition since replacement cost is not cheap. There are several brands and styles of LiPo battery available, I use the Turnigy brand, they have a very good reputation especially with the Radio Control crowd. I prefer to use the hard case variety, they are a little more robust out in the field. There are lower voltage (12.3v) 3 cell LiPo batteries available for those who want to connect directly to the radio equipment. Hobbyking is a good source for these batteries. I tend to avoid ebay as a source of cheap batteries, usually these batteries are cheap because they are older stock and have not been regularly charged so have degraded over time. Dealers who have a high turnover of stock do not have this problem.
As can be seen here the battery voltage indicated is 16.4v and the display on the radio is 14.9v after the rectifier. Transmitting at full power (100w) reduces the voltage to 13.2v on peaks. The LiPo battery is able to provide bursts of high current when required, in some cases up to 30 times the charge current to 150A. Charging can be easily managed with the many charges available on line. The charger I use allows an input voltage of 13.8volt perfectly suited to charging batteries whilst driving between SOTA summits.
Radio operating at full power with 13.2volts indicated. The battery recovers quickly after transmitting making it ideal for portable operation. In comparison to Sealed lead Acid batteries the LiPo battery is about quarter the weight for the same current, perfect for lugging to the top of summits! As always ensure you read the instructions and follow the precautions for using LiPo batteries with your equipment.
One evening whilst looking for summits in my local region (Snowy Mountains) to activate, I noticed Mt. Tumanang appeared under the VK2/SM group on SOTA mapping. Although Mt. Tumanang is on the outskirts of the Snowy Mountains region and a long way from Tumut, I decided to attempt an activation. Not being familiar with the roads around that area, I decided to call Rod VK2TWR to ask if he knew which roads would allow access to the summit. Rod was very interested, he suggested a co-activation and access would be easy from the Anembo Rd. A few days later Rod and I met in Cooma where we left his vehicle parked safely at McDonalds, with local knowledge and an eager passenger on board we set off for the hills! From Cooma we drove along the Monaro Hwy for 62km to Michelago. At Michelago we took Burra Road over the railway crossing until turning right into Tinderry Road. After following Tinderry Road 26km, we met the intersection with Jerangle Road at Jingera. From Jingera we travelled the Jerangle Road for 5km until reaching Anembo, then turned right off Jerangle Road into Anembo road. Following Anembo road for 6km we met the junction of Bald Peak Road.
The junction of Bald Peak Road and Anembo road.
We stopped at the junction for smoko prior to turning left into Bald Peak road and entering the Tallagandra National Park. Once on Bald peak road we drove for about 700m before reaching another Tallagandra National Park sign and the Tumanang trail on the left. Note: Logging trucks use Bald peak road regularly, caution is required!
The track requires 4wd in places along the way, there are two creek crossings, the first requires a bit of negotiation since there is a steep departure angle. At 9km in we met the Crowbilly Creek.
Crowbilly Creek crossing, a steady flow about 400mm deep on the day.
After crossing Crobilly creek the track started to climb for 4km to the summit. The track winds around the edge of the summit as it climbs passing the summit on the right. We drove past the summit to a point where the track turns toward the right. There is enough room to park at this point. Across the road is the start of a saddle up to the summit about 300m. An easy 20 minute walk.
I placed a few rocks on a tree stump to mark the trail to the summit.
The trig marker at the summit. Both Rod and I had enough chasers calling to allow the minimum 4 contacts each to claim the activation. A good day was had by all and we both agreed to return next year to re-activate the summit.
I set myself a challenge to try and activate all three in one day. Starting with the hardest first and finishing on the easiest.
The Tantangara road starts from the Snowy Mountains Highway 71Km from Cooma and 111KM from Tumut.
The road is unsealed and can be quite potholed, however it has recently been graded.
Starting out early I arrived at the Tantangara Road around 7:00Am on a cool but clear day. I drove along the road passing SM-036 and Blackfellows Hill, under the power lines several times until reaching the Tantangara Trail at 13Km from the Snowy Mountains Highway. I decided to leave the vehicle here since there is enough space to safely park off the road.
The track winds up and across the ridge through a mix of wooded area and ground cover, there is a large cleared area on the way up which is a good place to rest. Nearing the summit a small amount of easy rock climbing/ negotiating was required. I managed to arrive at the summit after a leisurely 1 hour 40 min. stroll!
There are two trig markers at the summit, the original laying on the ground and the replacement made of pipe. View towards Mt. Jagungal in the distance.
A green canister at the summit, it contains visitors log entries. I was happy to make an addition to log right under VK2TWR and VK3PF.
After descending from Mt. Nungar, I walked back to my vehicle and drove along the Tantangara Road back towards the Snowy Mountains Highway. At 6.3Km on the trip meter (6.7Km in from the Snowy Mountains Highway) I met the trail to “Wares Yard Camp Ground” on my right. Following this trail for 500m I arrived at the camp ground and car park.
Wares Yard Camp Ground. I parked near the gate at the start of the trail.
The start of the trail heading up to Black fellows Hill.
I followed the bridle/MTB trail from the gate in a southerly direction towards a saddle after crossing a small creek. At the saddle the trail turns towards the northwest and climbs towards the summit to the north. As I approached the top of the ridge before turning toward the summit I discovered an old wooden trig, it is about 1KM from the summit. I continued towards the summit and set up near the highest point. I looked for a trig but could not find one.
The shack setup at the summit. Tree stumps make very useful squid pole supports. After activating I descended back down the trail to the car park. Even though this summit is a fairly easy walk about an hour, My legs were starting to let me know I had done enough for the day, so now it was time to head for Tantangara Road and SM-036.
A view of Mt.Nungar from near the summit.
Travelling along the Tantangara Road for 1.6Km from the Wares Yard Camp Ground (5.1Km in from the Snowy Mountains Highway) I saw a track to my left at the top of the ridge heading toward SM-036. There is a yellow road safety sign at the track indicating “S” bends approaching.
This track heads toward the North following the power lines after crossing under the power lines there is a 4wd track heading toward the ridge. I drove to a spot near the summit and walked the rest of the way. There are no trig points here and the summit is about 150m from the top of the track. I operated from the top of the track near some rocks and a fallen tree which is inside the activation zone.
View from the summit and the fallen tree.
After activation I headed back down to the vehicle and drove back to Tantangara Road and home to Tumut. The day was great and 30 points certainly made it all worth while. My legs were tired and I was please I had tackled the hardest summit first up especially when I was rewarded with the easy SM-036 at the end of the day.
Having recently activated some tough summits in the Snowy Mountains area, it was time to allow my body to rest and recover. I decided the next summits attempted should be of an easier access variety. Looking into the mapping program it soon became apparent there were quite a few summits in my local region (Tumut) which have vehicle tracks nearby. The Brindabella Mountain area seemed like a good place to start.
To make the most of daylight savings and the good weather I decided to activate 4 summits, any more would be a bonus. I planned to attempt VK2/SW-024, VK2/ST-005 Webb’s ridge, VK2/ST-004 Dingi Dingi Ridge and VK2/ST-003 Devils Peak.
All of these summits appeared to be close to existing fire trails and fairly short walking distance for activation. I contacted Matt VK1MA to ask about access to Webb’s Ridge and that’s when the plans went out the window. Matt informed me the track to Webb’s ridge from the Tumut side; (Gentle Annie Trail) was quite hard going and suggested I try another trail for access. He also told me Devils peak would take quite some time and referred me to VK1NAM’s blog.
Not to be discouraged and aided with some GPS information from Matt, I made a change of plans. A short drive along the Brindabella road from Tumut takes you to the first trail towards VK2/SW024 a summit about to be removed from SOTA since it does not meet the criteria (Advice from Ian VK1DI).
The Top Flats road heads towards the summit, along the track there is an old fire trail which takes off left it is very overgrown and leads to the base of the summit. alternately stay on the Top flats road until you reach a large tree across the road. From either way there is a serious amount of walking and scrub bashing to reach the summit. After activation I returned to the Brindabella road and continued on towards the intersection with Mt. Franklin Road.
From Tumut travelling along the Brindabella Road it takes approximately 1.5 hours to reach the intersection of Mt. Franklin road.
At this intersection turn right and follow the road for 24Km until reaching the access road to Mt.Ginini. The road has several gates along the way which are usually closed during the winter months.
There is a 30Km/h speed limit and the road is unsealed, it becomes narrow in places so proceed with caution as vehicles travelling the opposite direction may be encountered. There is parking available near the access road to the summit or if the gate is open there is parking at the summit. From the lower car park you can also access Mt. Gingera VK1/AC-002 it is a further 7Km walk along the road.
To activate I walked around the back of the transmitting site and set up on two concrete bricks.
There is a lower noise level at the rear of the building and a handy tree to attach the squid pole. I made several contacts just before 00:00 and then activated again after 00:00 UTC for the new day. After the activations I packed up and headed back towards the Brindabella Range.
Back at the Brindabella road intersection I took the Two sticks road towards Mt.Coree.
Two sticks road starts directly across from the Mt.Franklin road. Two tracks appear at the track head take the road to the right of the sign.
The road is unsealed and has many potholes however the drive is easy and it’s not too long before Mt. Coree looms right in front of you.
My first thoughts were “How am I going to get up there?” I did not have to wait too long until reaching the access track. A right turn off the Two Sticks road approximately 8.5 Km in from Brindabella Road.
There is a nice picnic ground at the start of the track, a good place to stop and have smoko prior to heading up to the summit.
The track up to the summit requires a vehicle with good ground clearance and 4WD. There are dangerous cliffs and no safety barriers.
At the summit I attached the squid pole to a nearby structure and set up the shack on the rocks overlooking the cliff.
This summit is a popular location, there were people visiting the site on a Monday! A few curious onlookers enquired about my activities.
The Trig and Fire watch tower at the summit.
From this summit I travelled back down the trail until meeting up with Two Sticks road and turned right towards Dingi Dingi Ridge.
Continuing along the Two Sticks road from Mt.Coree trail for approximately 3KM I saw a track towards Devils Peak on the right and also found the Dingi Dingi fire trail to the left, following the Dingi Dingi fire trail I arrived at the intersection of Baldy Range Road.
Taking the left hand trail I drove a short distance until finding a suitable location to park and access the summit. Dingi Dingi ridge is only a short walk to the summit however it involves a bit of scrub bashing through some wattle regrowth, towards the summit it thins out a little. I found a suitable clearing in the activation zone and set up the shack.
Once the activation was complete I back tracked to the vehicle, it was at this point I decided to drive back to the nearby Baldy Range trail.
From the intersection of Dingi Dingi Ridge trail I drove along the Baldy Range trail for a few kilometres until reaching Baldy Range. There are some spectacular views from this location, a shame it was a foggy day.
The trail to Baldy Range is easy going with a few valleys and rocky outcrops along the way. A standard 4wd will make it easily. Having made it to this summit in a short time I decided to have a quick activation with the intent to try for VK2/ST-005 Webbs Ridge. I quickly set up the shack and antenna just inside the activation zone near the highest spot along the trail, after a few contacts I packed up and headed back along the trail to the Dingi Dingi trail. The Dingi Dingi trail is very steep and rocky in places and there are some sharp bends. I recommend using a vehicle with good ground clearance and low range 4WD to access Webbs Ridge via this track. I made it to Webbs ridge after what seemed to be a long time, however I managed to set up and activate the summit with just enough time to travel back the way I came. (Sorry no photos battery expired! 😦 ) One big day out with 6 summits activated! I will return next year and do it all over again, but next time I will miss SW024 and head for Devils peak instead. I would recommend activating Dingi Dingi ridge and then travel to Webbs Ridge before activating Baldy RAnge. Thanks to Matt VK1MA and VK1DI Ian for their information on these summits. From the Dingi Dingi fire trail it took me 1 hour 45 minutes to drive back home to Tumut.
I had been looking at this summit for some time and finally managed to organise a day to make the assent. A small amount of planning was required since there are two river crossings involved. Not wanting to get too wet I decided (after a suggestion from Rod VK2TWR) to acquire some waders.
I met Rod at the old Kiandra Court house off the Snowy Mountains Highway 90Km NW of Cooma. After some equipment swapping between vehicles we headed North on the Snowy Mountains Hwy towards Tumut for 11Km where we met the Bullocks Hill Fire Trail to the right.
Taking the trail we travelled for 1km until reaching the first road gate, which is locked during winter. (May until long weekend in October) We continued on for another 4.7Km to the intersection of the Tantangra Creek and another locked gate. We had to park the vehicle here since this gate is always locked. Ok so now the first challenge, crossing the icy waters of Tantangra Creek.
Time for the waders, (2nd challenge putting them on!) and making sure our packs are well secured. The creek was knee-deep with a reasonable flow and slippery rocks, even with waders the water was very cold on my legs, lucky it was only a short crossing. Once across the creek we decided to remove our waders, we were not keen on walking the trail wearing them.
Across Tantangra Creek the track turns uphill towards the right and continues 200m to a Y in the road. At this point we took the trail to the left and walked another 1.6Km down to the Murrumbidgee River. There is a river gauging station and flying fox at this point.
We walked along the river bank for 200m until we came to a bend and some shoals , a perfect spot to cross the river directly in front of the ridge heading up to the summit.
Now challenge No.3, putting on wet waders and crossing the Murrumbidgee River. Again we were met with a steady flow and slippery rocks whilst crossing. This time after crossing the river we decided to leave the waders hanging in a small tree since they would not be required until the return trip. I marked the tree as a waypoint on the GPS just to make sure we would find it again.
Rod could not resist taking this photo of me crossing the Mighty Murrumbidgee!
Once across the Murrumbidgee we followed the ridge up and across to the bottom of the summit about 2Km. This summit is an old volcano and the ridge on the side of the rim is where we were heading for.
Looking from the start of the ridge toward Mt Yarrangobilly in the distance. Then looking at the summit through the scrub.
When we arrived at the top of the summit we were disappointed to find there was a further 2Km walk around the rim to make it to the highest point as indicated on the GPS. At the summit we were greeted with a great view of Blackfellows Hill and Mt Nungar . We setup the SOTA station, Rod kicked off at 23:50 and I followed at the new UTC day we contacted 15 chasers each,not too bad for a weekday.
The antenna setup and operating position with the view across to MT Nungar.
This description is part 2 of a three summit one day activation from Tumut. To continue from Tumorrama Hill to Wee Jasper, go back on Lee Archers road for 3.5Km until you meet Fairview road.
At Fairview road turn left and head 800m towards Wee Jasper road.
Turn right at Wee Jaspers road and continue for approximately 17Km to McPhersons Swamp Loop (Swamp Road) road on the right.
Turn right into McPhersons Swamp Loop road and continue for 6.5km till reaching the intersection of Wee Jasper road.
Turn right into Wee Jasper road and continue approximately 1.2Km to Pheasant Creek Rd.
Turn left into this track, follow for approximately 1Km to a T intersection. The track is very muddy in wet weather use of 4wd is required.
Turn right at the T intersection and follow for approximately 1.8Km a track will appear on your left.
Take the track on your left and follow for 600m where there will be a Y junction.
On your right will be a track into a pine Forrest take this track and follow for 1Km.
There will be a sign in front of you (Hume & Hovell track) the summit Mt. Wee Jasper VK2/ ST-017 is a short 700m walk from here. For a more detailed description I suggest reading VK1NAM’s Blog on this summit.
From Wee Jasper go back approximately 1Km to the intersection, turn left and continue to Pheasant Creek road.
Turn right into Pheasant Creek road and continue approximately 2Km to Wee Jasper road.
Turn right into Wee Jasper road and continue approximately 2.2Km to T intersection.
Turn right and continue approximately 9Km to Nottingham Road.
Enter Nottingham road and continue for approximately 18.5Km via the small hamlet Micalong Creek then a few mountain tops (One of them is High Cone VK2/ST-014 not enough time in one day for this one) finally a cattle grid entering the State Forrest and eventually reaching a point under the power lines near the summit.
Nottingham road continues off to the right at this intersection. There is a track to the left of this sign which takes you to a CAA VOR Communications Site.
Walk around the gate and up the ridge for 800m on the sealed road. The no trespassing or (human) interference refers to the site at the summit. It is an Air Services Australia site containing an operational VHF Omni Directional Radio Range There are active antennas on site which would be effected by human interference, the site is fully fenced to keep people out for safety.
(VOR). This is a type of short-range radio navigation system for aircraft, enabling aircraft with a receiving unit to determine their position and stay on course by receiving radio signals transmitted by a network of fixed ground radio beacons. It uses frequencies in the very high frequency (VHF) band from 108 to 117.95 MHz.
Reaching the summit you are greeted by more fencing and signs, I would recommend not transmitting on 6 or 2m from this site. I operated 40M only from the far rear of the site maintaining a suitable RF safe distance. There is a stump near the rear fence to attach the squid pole.
A nice rock operating position is also nearby.
There is also a nearby NDB site on Nottingham road, low frequency low power HF does not effect the VOR.
I hope this information is useful for others.
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My name is Monica and I am the later half of Yeti and Meow. My husband Erik (Yeti) is my collaborator and creative culinary consultant. Yeti and Meow is a blog based out of downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, where we live with our son Maxwell and our cats, Jean Claw Van Dame, Bukowski, and Whispers. Yeti was born and raised right here in Utah, while I am a transplant from Arizona. I’m a lover of food, wine and creative writing. I eat a lot of cheese, I love classy cocktails, and desserts that are too pretty to eat. My partner in crime enjoys pickling, smoking, curing, and fermenting. Max is a fiend for fresh fruit and peanut butter.
Our blog is food-centric with an emphasis on the local Salt Lake City area. Much of our inspiration comes from friends and family, many of which are restaurant professionals and food lovers.
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On the thirtieth of September, Laura and I were picked up in Tegucigalpa by the van from Montaña de Luz. David, the hired van driver and a Honduran who had lived in Ohio for three years, Kristen, the in-country director and the only US employee of Montaña de Luz in Honduras, Amanda, a US volunteer who will be here through December, and Dunia, a Honduran volunteer, met us at the Clarion Hotel. Montaña de Luz is preparing for an Open House on October 19th. The staff and the volunteers have been busy delivering invitations to organizations and individuals with connections to the orphanage, such that they were taking advantage of picking us up to hand deliver the invitations. Hand delivery is the only secure means of delivering anything in Honduras. We met a sixty year old motorcyclist who belongs to a motorcycle club at a grocery store as we headed out of Tegucigalpa. He and his motorcycle “gang” have made a number of trips to Montaña de Luz to be with the kids and give them rides on their bikes. They’ve done this at a lot of the orphanages, generally referred to as “hogares,” homes. Whereas Montaña de Luz concerns itself with abandoned or at risk kids who are HIV +, Honduras has a vast number of kids living in institutional settings; abandoned, neglected, or simply labeled as “at risk.” As we made our way out of the rim of the crater which encircles Tegucigalpa and down the mountains, we were about to meet some of the most “at risk” kids in Honduras.
But one of the most promising and inspiring realities of this world is that kids, from whatever culture, speaking whatever language, always express the greatness of our humanity in their capacity for love and trust. They gathered with a banner that read “Welcome Laura and Paul” and “We love you” to greet us upon our arrival in the van. They all tried to speak English, but were relieved to learn that we spoke sufficient Spanish that they didn’t have to. We were exhausted the first day and did little more than acquaint ourselves with our quarters and went to bed. We learned that we will be living on campus here for about a month before moving down to town. Both Laura and I have felt a little insecurity. What will we do? Do they really need us here? What if they don’t really like us, or want us? But the next day the kids gathered around us. We have been reading with them, coloring with them, and learning their names – trying to distinguish one from the other. They have been climbing all over us. Laura and I have enjoyed walking with them to school in the morning, and walking back down into the town with them in the afternoon to see the progress of their bicycles. A local mechanic is fixing them. They have been wonderful; a joy and a privilege to get to know.
We have also been trying to figure out what our work will be. We have been reading and organizing files. They were in something of a neglected state, and we are trying to give them a semblance of order. As you might imagine there are horror stories contained in those files. We will probably be working on meeting families and other agencies of support in the community, developing some plans to return these children safely and securely to the communities. We have already begun laying some of the foundations for this. We will probably also work closely with a new psychologist who was hired six months ago, again developing plans for the adolescents and perhaps figuring out a means of further training for the staff here. There is plenty of work to be done. We won’t be bored.
In one week we’ve been anything but bored. I have personally killed three scorpions. Last night we witnessed a tarantula climb over one of the walls where we are living and disappear into the room where the psychologist has been staying through the weekend. We can’t be sure if it was the same tarantula, but tonight after returning from a trip to visit another hogar, one hung high on the wall in our kitchen. I wasn’t scared or anything like that, but not knowing the protocol, and not wanting to insult anyone by taking away his job, I told the vigilante (watchman) here, and he came and killed it. He was very appreciative that I called upon his skills and talents. Yesterday, I spent the day running to the bathroom, perhaps because I accidently drank some water, but today I seem fine. Our meals have been, well, the word ‘interesting’ comes to mind. Some have been great, but last night’s scrambled eggs with a side of sour cream will probably not win any culinary awards. There aren’t many cars here, and the lack of them must convince the horses and cows that the roads were placed there for them. We have running water at Montaña de Luz, but there is not any in the town. The electricity has gone out only once. There have been a few challenges, but we love it and we’re still smiling. But then again, what else would we do?
I am generally a fan of spiders, but then I’ve never encountered any of that size, so I don’t know how much of a problem they are. I imagine they’re not as dangerous as scorpions, though.
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Of all those nearly four hundred,000 searches on the average per month in Google within theU.S., solely thirty-nine % of them happen on a pc. meaning that sixty one % — regarding240,000 searches a month — occur on smartphones and can be considerably compact by Google’s mobile-friendly formula update on April twenty one.
Sixty-one % of searches for keywords containing “formal dresses” happen on mobile devices.
If a client is looking out on a mobile device for a product sold-out specifically by your ecommercewhole, my prediction is that your whole can still rank at the highest despite mobile friendliness. as an example, for site-branded keywords, like “macys formal dresses,” mobile search results area unit unlikely to vary dramatically. There’s no thanks to recognize sure till April twenty one,however logically Google ought to respect the searcher’s ecommerce whole direction search intent.
First, verify if Google sees your pages as mobile friendly. It doesn’t matter if you think that they’re mobile friendly or your agency tells you that they’re. What matters is what Google determines algorithmically as a result of it’s 100% management over however your website ranks.
Google has provided a mobile-friendly testing tool that analyzes every page that you just enter and tells you whether or not it’s mobile friendly or not. The image below shows a page that’s not mobile friendly, and also the resources that Google recommends to resolve those problems.
Google considers this women’s dress page not mobile-friendly.
Resolving the problems may be as straightforward as asking your developer to update your robots.txt file to get rid of a block on sure files (your developer can recognize what this means). Or it may be as tough as a plan to implement responsive style or mobile website best practices.
How this affects your ecommerce business depends a good deal on your mobile search performance these days. bear in mind that the sole traffic and sales in danger here is organic search driven via a mobile device (smartphone and tablet).
Analyze the chance in any amendment which will impact computer program improvement in terms of worst-case state of affairs.
The worst-case state of affairs is that each one of the sales-driven organic search traffic via a mobile device disappears instantly once the amendment happens. That’s the worst case. It can’texasperate than losing it all. all told probability, the worst case won’t really occur, and also thedecrease would be additional like eighty %, or fifty %. however activity the worst case helps you opt if the difficulty very is critical enough to act on forthwith.
Start by activity the number of affected traffic and sales these days and verify the importantimpact of losing it all. Remember, filter the visits and sales so the information solely contains organic search-driven traffic via a mobile device. Then verify the impact to your ecommerce business if those traffic and sales disappeared utterly on April twenty one.
That’s the way to verify the particular value. What’s tougher to live, however, is that the chancethat this formula update represents.
How many of your competitors are boosted by the mobile-friendly update? what number aredemoted? are you able to take advantage of their loss? is that this a chance to surpass the competition?
Keep in mind, receiving few visits and sales via mobile search these days doesn’t in any mannerindicate truth size of the chance.
Head to the Google Keyword Planner and determine the particular chance that mobile search represents. take a look at your assumptions mistreatment keyword analysis and verify truth size of the mobile search chance before dismissing it as a useless channel.
I was skeptical, as an example, that “formal dresses” would drive any real mobile search traffic. i used to be wrong.
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NaPoWriMo Prompt – Our prompt for the day (optional as always) takes its cue from Notley’s rebelliousness, and asks you to write a poem that involves rebellion in some way. The speaker or subject of the poem could defy a rule or stricture that’s been placed on them, or the poem could begin by obeying a rule and then proceed to break it (for example, a poem that starts out in iambic pentameter, and then breaks into sprawling, unmetered lines). Or if you tend to write funny poems, you could rebel against yourself, and write something serious (or vice versa). Whatever approach you take, your poem hopefully will open a path beyond the standard, hum-drum ruts that every poet sometimes falls into.
Good morning and welcome to day twenty of #NaPoWriMo two-thirds complete today. And guess what, last night teachers in Arizona voted to walk out; they’re not allowed to strike, but it is pretty much the same thing. The walk out will start on Thursday the 26th, giving the governor a chance to respond. Ducey did promise teachers a 20% pay raise by the 2020 school year. When other people looked at his math they said it wasn’t feasible and even though the governor said he would increase teacher pay without moving or decreasing school support money (support staff, building, bussing, etc) teachers and other school officials have no idea if he’ll hold true to that statement. The teachers know they can’t do their job well without support staff, quality buildings, busses and educational materials. The last month of this school year maybe interesting.
This is the first article I wrote that was accepted on ritro.com. Note – At Rachael’s first parent/teacher conference, her kindergarten teacher said for the first two weeks of school your daughter would only answer to Peter Pan. LOL! Mom saw nothing wrong with this. Last night Rachael told me their prom theme this year is Neverland. 😉 It couldn’t be more appropriate.
Have you ever suffered from Peter Pan envy? There are times in our lives when it is a lot easier to say, “I don’t want to grow up”, than it is to face change. Who doesn’t, from time to time, reminisce about their childhood and the adventure your life would take?
It seems as if life is simpler to a child. All one needs is faith, trust, and of course pixie dust and anything is possible. Your wildest dreams can take flight. But as one grows up, faith begins to wobble; trust is hard won; and let’s face it who really believes in fairies? It’s impossible to fly!
Once you stop and think about it, however, Peter Pan envy is a healthy way to deal with change and growing old. I know what you are saying, “What? Is she crazy!” But think back to when you were a child and think about all the dreams you had for when you grew up. Now, what happened to those dreams?
Most of us upon reaching adulthood put our childhood dreams aside. Reality takes a huge bite out of our imagination and as our innocence fades with age so do our dreams. All I’m saying is don’t let this happen, because dreams are what make us who we are. Once we put our childhood dreams aside, our lives become uninspiring. If there is no inspiration to guide us down our path in life, how do we remain equipped to handle all of life’s obstacles?
This May, my daughter will be turning 5 years old. This is a big change in her life. Next year she will be starting kindergarten, or as she puts it, “Big kid’s school”. Luckily she still has the imagination of a child to help her handle this transition. Think back to when you started school; did it make you feel grown up, as if you were leaving childhood behind?
I tell my daughter quite often she needs to stop growing up, and she always laughs. “You can’t stop growing, Mommy. Everyone does” is her reply. Okay, you can’t stop growing unlike Peter Pan. But why is it we believe once we’re grown up we have to give up on our dreams?
Are you thinking about how you felt upon starting school? Now think about the aspirations you had for yourself then. Have you accomplished any of them? If not, maybe it is time you took a lesson from Peter Pan. It is a good way to help conquer your fears. Children believe they can do anything. They don’t have any fear of consequences holding them back.
May is an excellent month to change your life. Spring is in the air. Flowers are blooming, and all around us the earth is renewing itself. There is no better time then the present to change your life. Remember your childhood dreams and make them a reality. Forget about the consequences and do what your heart tells you. Nothing can hold you back if you believe in yourself.
Think like Peter Pan and fly!
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Before bringing a Malamute into your family please do some research and carefully evaluate the breed’s characteristics to decide if they are the right dog for you. Malamutes are beautiful dogs, however under that stunning exterior lies the heart and soul of an working sled dog. This breed developed in the harsh reality of an arctic environment and some of the survival characteristics which allowed Malamutes to thrive under those circumstances can prove challenging to live with in modern day society. As with any breed of dog there is a range of personalities in Malamutes, however a number of characteristics are an intrinsic part of the breed and are present to one extent or another in almost all individuals.
This characterization remains one of the best and truest statements ever made about Alaskan Malamutes. Written in 1914 by Hudson Stuck, this quote describes the Malamutes he ran in harness during the early 1900’s throughout Alaska. It is important that anyone considering adding a Malamute to their life embrace this statement and truly develop an understanding of its meaning.
Malamutes firmly believe that they and they alone are the center of the universe and everything else revolves around their wants and needs. A Malamute is always going to want to be wherever the “action” is, which usually means right by their owners side and in the middle of all family activities. They have big boisterous personalities, wicked senses of humor, keen intelligence, and opinions that are very much their own. They do not live to serve their owners, and sharing your life with a Malamute is a partnership where there is an open exchange of ideas. Malamutes can be very pushy, and given an inch they will take a mile and then some.
This makes owning and training a Malamute a very different experience than working with a breed who actually cares what you think and that will make some effort to do as you wish just because you ask them to. For most Malamutes it’s all about “what’s in it for me”. Though their intelligence and problem solving abilities make them easy to teach, Malamutes are easily bored, will often become inventive if asked to do something repeatedly, and are renown for their acts of “creative disobedience”. Malamutes can never be trusted off leash in an unfenced area because, though they may know they are supposed to come when they are called, they are just as likely to make the decision not to do so.
The Malamute’s sheer physical strength and size as well as their independent attitude makes them extremely difficult to manage unless some time and energy is put into teaching them good manners and basic obedience. It is the responsibility of their owner to provide them with the training and guidance necessary to become canine good citizens. Through training their energy can be directed, and while this breed never becomes slavishly obedient, the partnership that develops while training your Malamute becomes an incredibly strong bond. Basic obedience training leads to a Malamute who is a pleasure to live with.
Developing in a nomadic culture where only the most personal of property was truly considered private, there was little need for Malamutes to be protective or develop territorial instincts. It is likely that a dog who showed any aggression towards humans would have been considered a liability and of more use as a fur coat than as a sled dog.
Malamutes love people - all people. To most Malamutes there is no such thing as a stranger, but instead just a new best friend they haven’t met yet. These are friendly, outgoing, extroverted dogs who enjoy physical affection and who will happily crawl into a guests lap to both give and receive attention. Though their size and general appearance may give a stranger pause for thought, Malamutes can not be counted on to guard property or protect your person. They are, in fact, far more likely to invite a stranger in and show them where the cookie jar is located.
Malamutes tend to be very intolerant of pushy or rude behavior from other dogs. While they aren’t usually actively looking to start fights, Malamutes will finish them without any hesitancy. They will not back down when challenged or threatened, and most of the time they won’t exhibit the ritualistic signals many other dogs use to avoid physical confrontation. This is not a breed that is a good candidate for visiting dog parks or for the owner who expects their dog to participate in unsupervised or casual interaction with strange dogs.
be prepared for the possibility that it will not work out, and have a plan in place should it be necessary to physically separate the dogs for life.
Malamutes are a high prey drive breed and the instinct to catch and kill anything that acts like prey is still very strong. Cats, rabbits, other small pets, livestock, and even sometimes small dogs all behave and are perceived as prey animals to most Malamutes. It is normal and expected that Malamutes will be attracted to these kinds of animals, and will chase and kill them given the opportunity. While sometimes Malamutes can be conditioned to live peacefully in a home with a cat, particularly if raised with one, that does not mean they won’t kill the neighbors cat when it runs across the yard. They should never be trusted with other small pets, and getting loose in a rural area is often a death sentence for a Malamute because they are drawn to and will kill livestock.
Malamutes require a remarkably small quantity of food for a dog their size. Though their food requirements are small, they are bottomless pits as far as what and how much they will eat. Anything that has any possible food value (and some things that don’t) will be happily eaten by most Malamutes. Things like leather gloves, shoes, socks, and underwear are all fair game.
they know full well that you do not approve of their actions. The best way to correct this kind of problem is to roll up a newspaper and hit yourself over the head with it while repeating “I will not leave things where my Malamute can get them”.
ride, or pretty much anything else that combines either physical or mental effort and spending time with their owner.
Working dogs are happy dogs, and tired dogs are good dogs. Malamutes who are not provided with a job to do will find one of their own. Most likely it is not going to be a job their owner approves of. Malamutes are master re-decorators and can rip through couches, drywall, carpet, and other flooring with amazing speed. They can turn a landscaped yard into a re-creation of the moon, and can dig malamute size craters with ease. Malamutes are extremely social creatures. They need to be an active part of the family “pack”, and often become extremely destructive or vocal if isolated and ignored with little human companionship. This is not a breed that can be put out in the back yard and expected to entertain themselves on an ongoing basis.
Malamutes are designed to survive in brutally cold temperatures. In order to protect them from the cold their coats consist of a soft, fuzzy layer of undercoat designed to insulate which is protected by a course waterproof guard coat. Though not long, the coat is very dense.
For a good part of the year Malamutes have low maintenance and easy to maintain coats. Weekly brushing and the occasional bath keep them looking presentable, and they rarely if ever smell “doggy”.
Twice a year, however, Malamutes provide their own snowstorm by “blowing” their coat. The entire coat cycles out while new coat grows in and the resulting volume of hair is truly amazing. You can bathe and brush and brush and brush the dog, vacuum the house, and 10 minutes later there will be a trail of hair. Anyone visiting in black pants will go home looking like they have been attacked by a Christmas tree flocking machine, and there is usually so much fuzzy undercoat floating around that Malamute owners often joke that dog hair is a condiment or a food group.
So in answer to the question….Yes Malamutes DO shed. Not all the time but whey they do they attack the problem like they do everything else. In a BIG way. And there’s no way around it – Malamute owners just bide their time and wait for the resulting storm to pass, pushing their vacuum cleaners to maximum capacity while collecting what usually seems like enough hair to make a dozen or so new dogs in the process.
puppy into a member of the family who is a pleasure to be around. For this reason many Malamutes end up in rescue looking for new homes, or worse they end their days at an animal shelter. This is not the breed for a timid individual, nor is it a good choice for those who feel a dog must be physically dominated or who expect absolute devotion and obedience. If any of what is written above made you cringe, or if you at any point thought “I’ll just teach my dog not to do that”, please consider that a Malamute is probably not the breed for you.
Remember, these are characteristics inherent in the breed and part of what makes them what they are.
On the other hand, if you are drawn to the idea of adding a family member rather than a “pet” to your life, and if a dog with a “big” personality, great deal of intelligence, and love for physical activity would fit well into your home and lifestyle, the Alaskan Malamute might be a good breed for you. This breed by their very nature are challenging to live with, and many successful Malamute owners find that embracing that challenge is a major part of the enjoyment they get out of sharing life with another species.
An ideal Malamute owner leads an active lifestyle and is willing to make their dog a part of their everyday activities. They enjoy the challenge of training a dog who thinks for itself and works “with” rather than “for” them. They also have the physical and mental constitution to insist on proper behavior in a firm manner without being confrontational, and can laugh at themselves when their dog makes them look like a fool.
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Is all of this too much to ask? I’ve been extra good and only slightly naughty this year.
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The first three descriptions make me think of biological responses – just like babies will cry if they hear another baby cry.
I know, this might sound so narrow-minded, but I’m a psych student so that’s my main perspective.
With number 4… I’m exactly the opposite. With people I dislike I sustain myself easily; only when I like the person I would (subconsciously?) start copying their accent.
Thanks, I knew there must be some kind of scientific answer.
That must be the single most ambiguous, perplexing and puzzling comment I’ve ever gotten.
Re: copying someone’s actions (facial expression, position, voice, etc): this is a known phenomenon, some folks made an experiment, I find it interesting; check out the movie “BBC_The_Human_Mind-Making_Friends” (visit your local torrent tracker).
The experiment shows that people will replicate the behaviour of a person they like; and they will NOT do that if they interact with someone who is not pleasant, rude, etc.
Re: #1, perhaps this is an attempt to “establish contact via reverse engineering”. You see their face, set your face setting to their setting, thus they find themselves looking just like you, therefore it “must” mean they like you (not everyone is careful enough to notice that you replicate them, and not the other way around).
Re: Aporia’s statement on babies. I don’t think these are the same, babies cry if they hear another baby cry , maybe it is a very low-level function (because no thought is given, they just do it), while the copycat phenomenon is a higher level thing.
High level, because it involves some sort of decision-making logic (ex: you don’t copy anyone). Of course this is not that high-level, because it does not happen consciously, but still – it is above the “biological layer”.
I’ll definitely check out that movie.
I used the baby example only because the author consistently mentioned the “difficulty” in resisting the copying act. Such as, without an intention or predisposed purpose. It sounded like it couldn’t be helped.
I know I might be completely wrong but at the time of commenting, that’s what I thought at least.
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Costume World's web site began in August 1999, although we have been in business since 1986. There will be changes weekly until the site is completed.
9/4/99 The About Us page is now completed. Read a brief history of Costume World and see how far we've come since our first Halloween.
9/6/99 The Directions page is now completed. Find out how to get to Costume World.
9/10/99 The Makeup Tips page is now completed. You'll find makeup instructions for a variety of characters for Halloween, Face Painting, or costume parties.
9/16/99 The Rental Costumes page is now completed. Check here for complete details on our rental policies and a copy of our Rental Agreement that you agree to on our contract. Click on the hyperlinks in the first paragraph for SOME costume photos. There are eight pictures in Medieval also.
10/01/99 The TV Appearances page is now up. However we will be adding more to it later.
Future plans for the site include an Online Photo Album of our Rental Costumes, special Halloween tips, some great links, lists of our sales items, and much more for Costume World located in Michigan City, Indiana. Currently our rentals are only available through the shop, however in the future we MIGHT offer them through the internet.
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I love how light the sky is directly behind the bird. Beautiful!!!
I’ve tried to photograph our hummingbirds before, but always came out with blurry wings. What settings did you use?
I use a Nikon D90, and I think it was set on automatic focus. It’s hard because the birds are so quick, and your camera needs to be close by, or you may miss it.
I’m glad one turned out! Very nice photo!
I love hummingbirds! Your photo came our very nice!
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Thousands of forms describing cases of child maltreatment have come across Barbara Fallon’s desk.
For over 20 years, the associate professor in the University of Toronto's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work has been gathering data, both provincially and nationally, to help front-line workers address the needs of kids in the child welfare system.
In one study, she and her co-authors found that just four per cent of maltreatment cases involved physical abuse requiring medical attention. They suggested child welfare services may be focusing on rapid intervention to prevent physical harm instead of a broader assessment of a child’s needs.
More recently, she and her colleagues have looked at the overrepresentation of First Nations children in care. The rate of child maltreatment investigations is more than four times higher among First Nations children, the researchers found, using data from 2008. “The root cause is colonialism,” she says.
Fallon gathers information knowing that behind the statistics are real children and families in need of support.
“The data that I collect represent a significant burden of suffering experienced by children and families who are identified to a child protection system or organization,” she says.
A look at the sources cited in her research shows she doesn’t rely only on social science literature.
She draws on an array of medical research and collaborates with scientists like Dr. Steven Miller, head of neurology at SickKids and a professor of pediatrics in U of T's Faculty of Medicine.
Miller says experts will typically stick to references within their field, but that doesn't work when it comes to complex problems such as child abuse and neglect.
Scientists have known for a long time that socioeconomic status is a key predictor of health.
“Not surprisingly, when we look at how populations of children who are at risk of development concerns, born prematurely or with congenital heart disease, we really need to think about the environment children are developing in,” he says.
A back-and-forth between social workers like Fallon and medical researchers like Miller wouldn’t be possible without sufficient funding. They both support Canada’s Fundamental Science Review, which recommends dedicating $1.3 billion more to research-funding agencies over four years. The panel, led by U of T President Emeritus Dr. David Naylor, stresses that Canada has slipped in measures of research competitiveness.
Fallon says researchers still have much work to do to answer questions in her field, including why there is an overrepresentation of Indigenous and racialized children in care. She and her colleagues are gathering more data this year to delve into these important issues. She is the principal investigator for the Ontario Incidence Study, a sweeping review conducted every five years that collects information about children and families investigated by child-welfare services in every jurisdiction in the province.
“As the Naylor Report underscores, research is fundamental to unlocking many of the pressing societal issues we face including how to help families and children who struggle with multiple adversities,” Fallon says.
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India Days 2 : Laxmi to the rescue…really?!
Thank you so much Hemendra.
Thank you. Will check your site.
Beautifully written, and heartbreaking. It is merely each other that we yearn for, not things.
Yes it’s so sad. We are so busy building castles that we forget to create a life with the person we wish to share it with. It’s lovely to know you felt the pain, reading the poem.
Ben🙏. You are a true motivator. Thank you so much. Your comment means a lot.
Beautiful poetic composition of words, Smitha.
Thank you so much Kamal for the appreciation. It’s so good to hear from you.
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Sarah Koenig (/ˈkeɪnɪɡ/; born July 9, 1969 in New York City) is an American journalist, public radio personality, former producer of the television and radio program This American Life, and the host and executive producer of the podcast Serial.
Koenig was born July 1969 in New York City to Julian Koenig and his second wife Maria Eckhart.. Sarah is Jewish. Her father was a well known copywriter. After her parents' divorce, Sarah’s mother married writer Peter Matthiessen.. Koenig graduated from the University of Chicago in 1990 with A.B, majoring in Political Science. She attended Columbia University for her postgraduate degree in Russian history but she left after two weeks.
After graduating from college Koenig began working as a reporter at The East Hampton Star. Then she worked in Russia as a reporter for ABC News and later for The New York Times. She covered the State House (politics) for the Concord Monitor and later for the Baltimore Sun.
She began working as a producer for This American Life in January 2004. She co-produced the 2006 Peabody Award-winning episode of This American Life titled "Habeas Schmabeas."
In 2013, she began work on a spinoff podcast of the This American Life radio program titled Serial, which debuted in October 2014. Serial was honored with a Peabody award in April 2015, noting that it took podcasting into the cultural mainstream.
TIME magazine named Koenig one of "The 100 Most Influential People" on April 16, 2015. Also in 2015, she was named as one of The Forward 50.
Koenig is the daughter of advertising copywriter Julian Koenig and Maria (Eckhart) Matthiessen. Her stepfather was novelist Peter Matthiessen.
Koenig attended Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts. She lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Ben Schreier, an associate professor of English and Jewish studies at Penn State, and their two children.
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Today, negotiations between the Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu and his counterpart from Turkmenistan Colonel General Yaylym Berdiev have been held in Ashkhabad.
Heads of defence departments discussed counterterrorism policy, military and technical cooperation.
According to the Russian Defence Minister, a wide range of issues of cooperation in fields of military education, military medicine and culture are to be discussed today.
General of the Army Sergei Shoigu also added that issues of military and technical cooperation with friendly Turkmenistan were to be discussed.
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A lot could be done for a unit/theme study about dental hygiene.
Could do by themselves or with your help.
A lot of things are listed but believe me it was not overwhelming.
Some activities took no more than 10 minutes to do!
questions throughout the day and as we progress with the unit.
Create a cut and paste activity booklet.
Let children play outside drawing "teeth" on the ground with chalk.
Or let them draw "teeth" in the snow. We had snow on the ground that day!
Show the children how to brush their teeth properly.
Help them and then let them show you how they do it.
to do it and you'll see how excited they get about doing it!
Listen to songs that talk about body parts and food.
Help the children with the motions.
Make up some silly songs about teeth brushing.
The children had fun playing with the "Food Pyramid" puzzle.
Use them to show children the types of food that are good for their bodies.
Different foods provide different vitamins and minerals.
animals they are looking at.
5 A Day by Dole Food Company, Inc.
You can go to their site and order the necessary materials.
This page was created in February 2002, by Lara.
Copyright © 2002-2006 by Lara. All rights reserved.
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Everywhere I look, someone (like Bill Simmons) is trying to “fix” the NBA playoffs. I can go on a rant here… but Winning The Turnover Battle already did… and theirs is pretty good. Here’s my contribution to it: Start rooting for sports… and stop rooting for stories.
At some point recently… people seem to have forgotten that sports has provided great stories since their inception. Yet people are starting to get more and more upset when sports don’t come up with the story THEY want to see.
Isn’t that why people were so pissed at the Suns suspensions? Deep down… everyone understands what the rule is and why Amare Stoudemire was suspended. But you didn’t like it because “it ruined the series.” You wanted to see two teams… at full strength… go 7 games no matter what. It would have been nice… but we don’t always get that. You were rooting for the story… not the sport.
The Spurs sweep the Cavs. Yes, it was boring. I barely watched (and I was apparently not alone). It happens from time to time. Teams get swept. But now people want to do things like scrap seeding by conferences and just seed everyone from 1 to 16. Or they want to re-seed after the first round. But these things won’t fix the sport…. they’ll fix the story.
What all of these people don’t understand is that the sport gives us the stories. I agree that there’s a problem in the NBA… but it won’t be fixed by trying to force us to watch the Suns and Mavs in the finals. You have to fix the problem in the NBA by fixing the NBA. I know I keep going back to the NFL… but they’re doing it the right way. Tweak the rules a little. Don’t make fundamental changes to the sport… but don’t be afraid to tinker with it to make it more paletable. I’ve already made some suggestions, and while my suggestions may or may not work… they’re at least aimed at trying to fix the sport. Fix the sport… and the stories will come.
Ok… rant over. How about some basketball news, huh?
The Celts worked out Jeff Green and liked what they saw. They’ll look at Julian Wright on Monday. Also noted in that link is a disheartening item about Shawn Marion: The Suns will want to move some other “bad” contracts along with him… which makes it even more difficult to make a move like that AND clear enough financial space to resign Al Jefferson. More on Green’s workout from the Globe here.
Also noted: any Rashard Lewis talks can’t happen until July 1… which makes a “Theo Ratliff and the 5th pick” kind of deal pretty much impossible. You can’t just draft someone for Seattle at 5 and sit on him for a week with the hope of working something out with Lewis… because you’re screwed if it doesn’t work out. Plus… Seattle’ new GM has had the job for a couple of weeks and he still needs to find a coach… so he’s a little busy. However… he’s not so busy that he can’t consider a trade for Ray Allen.
Kobe Bryant still wants to be traded… Will it be to Chicago for Ben Wallace, Ben Gordon, Luol Deng and the #9 pick? (that’s a dumb trade for Chicago) | Larry Brown interested in Kings job | Raptors trade for Carlos Delfino | Nevada’s Sessions staying in draft | Cavs looking to trade into this year’s draft?
Okay we may have jumped the gun earlier, but this time we mean it. Donovan and the Magic have split.
(AP)The Orlando Magic finally released Billy Donovan from his contract late Wednesday night. The team would not explain any details of the agreement.
Still no word if Donovan is permitted from coaching in the NBA for 5 years.
The Magic have missed out on Stan Van Gundy. Wow… they really got screwed here.
And our buddy… Emerson College alum Sam Presti… will officially be announced as Seattle’s GM tomorrow. Keep working at it Sam. I know I’ve been out of Emerson 4 years more than you have… which means that maybe in 4 years you too will have your own NBA blog. Keep reaching for those stars, baby!
30 year olds are supposed to be just entering the prime of their professional careers. They’re supposed to start making the moves that prove their worth… and that will someday lead them to a pretty good position in their chosen field. They’re not, however, expected to have already reached the top.
Let’s go over that again. He was an intern 7 years ago. Now he’s going to run the Sonics. Interns don’t get paid. GM’s get paid close to a million bucks a year. He’s personally responsible for Tony Parker’s career (which includes marrying Eva Longoria). Now he’s going to run Seattle… which, oh by the way, is going to get either Greg Oden or Kevin Durant. Yeah… he’s good at what he does.
Hey Danny Ainge… what have you done over the past 5 years while some kid in his 20’s was helping construct the NBA’s current dynasty? Dismantling a once proud franchise to point where we all let ping pong balls dictate our future? Umm… yeah… that’s something to be proud of too.
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He visto el video del documental y es fascinante. Me encantaría saber más a cerca de vivir pono. Sería muy gratificante que me enviaran documentación sobre la cultura hawaiiana, la agricultura y sus métodos. Vivo en Tenerife y aquí intentamos conservar nuestras tradiciones con la agriculltura, nuestro pueblo guanche, la forma de vivir en nuestras islas antes de que llegasen los españoles a conquistarnos.
I’m excited to announce that the first public screening of our work-in-progress cut has been included as part of the 2008 Hawai’i International Film Festival and will take place on Sunday, October 12th at 1PM at the Regal Dole Cannery Theater in Honolulu. I hope some of you may be able to attend–please pass this note along to friends, family and neighbors!
Thank you for your interest, and please stay tuned!
I was wondering if this documentary is for sale, or is there some way for others to see it that don’t live in Hawaii?
I believe the film is still in production so won’t be released on DVD for a while yet. The screening at HIFF was a “work in progress”.
Check with Rick at http://www.LivingPono.com.
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Dworkin was a member of the royal family of Chaos until he rebelled and drew the Pattern - the supreme artifact of Order. It was he who was Amber's first king and the father of Oberon. Somewhere during this time, his humanform became hunch-backed, though he still retained the power of shapeshifting. A sorceror of unimaginable power, he was rendered unstable for awhile because of his intimate link to the Pattern - drawn using the Jewel of Judgement and his own blood. By the time Merlin meets him in Roger Zelazny's Knight of Shadows, Dworkin had recovered from his malady and was still enigmatic.
Neat new icon, too, <lj-user="mister_sunshine">!
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I am glad to say that most things are sorted, my bag is probably about 80% packed, I got my CoE and Visa, and more or less organized my accommodation during the time before the sem houses open for orientation week…that being said, I still feel like I have so many things I still need to do before I go.
Actually the day before I start my flight to Japan is actually my 21st birthday, so I guess I am also a little preoccupied with that as well.
So I am gonna take advantage of this goal now and sleep, before I go I should have at least on eupdate entry as well as the final entry for memories of the past.
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I was born in Rustington, West Sussex, England (1971). I’ve three brothers and two supportive parents.
In the 1990’s I completed degrees at Leicester Polytechnic and Kingston University.
From then on like many artists it was a matter of survival, trying to earn enough while finding time to work. I worked at Kingston College and Brunel University as a drawing lecturer; travelling around signwriting blackboards and decorating houses.
Around 2000 I moved to France for 4 years, painting and drawing full time. Initially the small village of Cambieure, Aude took me in and then I bought a small house in nearby Limoux.
I was luckily enough to meet my wife Natalie in 2002 and her daughter Effie. We all now live together with our youngest Jessamy in the South-West corner of London.
For many years I worked towards solo exhibitions and completed commissions. Since then I’ve been looking after the children and have adapted my work schedule to include more group exhibitions and illustration work.
Since 2010 my interests revolve around exhibiting in public spaces using magnets, documenting recording sessions and gigs for musicians, making animations and album cover images for Jazz Cats but always with a dedication to drawing from Life. Getting outside and being involved in the moment is what keeps me going.
Gerry from Try Twickenham would like to have a chat about using one of your images.
Hi Albin – It’s Sara from TwickFolk. I brought your ‘biscuit’ print at at the Twickenham Jazz exhibition. Please can you contact me re commissioning a matching ‘coffee’ print. Thanks.
Please could you contact me regarding commissioning some work?
Yo Albs – its Jeff, i need your email address.. just found an early A.Low original and want to know how much it’s worth.?
I didn’t recognise you at the Turks Head on Wednesday … we liked the hat !
I have just seen your drawings from the evening, BRILLIANT ! … your style is evolving nicely.
dear Alban, I am Patsy Belmonte, I teach art at the Yehudi Menuhin School. You met Robert Aldous who was acting as supply teacher and Alice. I look forward to speaking to you about your upcoming exhibition in the Menuhin Hall. Please contact me on 07941898929 as soon as you can to arrange a convenient date for you to hang your work. patsybelmonte@hotmail.com. I could not find your contact details on your website. That is probably me just doing five things at one.
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← Funny and Fashionable Men’s & Women’s t-shirts from @HerroHachi at local-E BAZAAR!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged #shoplocal, BAZAAR, Biltmore Cabaret, daub + design, local-E, swimsuits, vancouver. Bookmark the permalink.
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You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘discover’ tag.
Danny gets into big trouble in Chapters 2 & 3. I’m not going to give you a synopsis, you can download it for FREE and read it for yourselves. However, a couple of things inspired parts of these chapters.
My RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) buddy, Wing Commander ‘Trackless’ Millsom, restored a 1940s Buick from a bare chassis and it was the inspiration for the get-away car in this chapter. I remember the floor in Trackless’ two spare bedrooms covered with chrome-plate parts for ages. His missus, Cherril, was very patient.
Burning sugar-cane prior to harvest no longer occurs in Australia, but I’ve stood next to a cane-fire south of Townsville and it’s an awesome experience. The noise, heat and flames are truly daunting. I flew passenger jets up and down Eastern Australia and the cane-fires were a spectacular sight at night. The setting for this chapter came from those images.
There was once a peasant who daily left his wife and children in the valley to take his sheep up the mountain to pasture; and as he watched his flock grazing on the mountain-side, he often had opportunity to use his cross-bow and bring down a chamois, whose flesh would furnish his larder with food for many a day.
While pursuing a fine animal one day he saw it disappear behind a boulder, and when he came to the spot, he was amazed to see a doorway in the neighbouring glacier, for in the excitement of the pursuit he had climbed higher and higher, until he was now on top of the mountain, where glittered the everlasting snow.
The shepherd boldly passed through the open door, and soon found himself in a wonderful jewelled cave hung with stalactites, in the centre of which stood a beautiful woman, clad in silvery robes, and attended by a host of lovely maidens crowned with Alpine roses. In his surprise, the shepherd sank to his knees, and as in a dream heard the queenly central figure bid him choose anything he saw to carry away with him. Although dazzled by the glow of the precious stones around him, the shepherd’s eyes constantly reverted to a little nosegay of blue flowers which the gracious apparition held in her hand, and he now timidly proffered a request that it might become his. Smiling with pleasure, Holda, for it was she, gave it to him, telling him he had chosen wisely and would live as long as the flowers did not droop and fade. Then, giving the shepherd a measure of seed which she told him to sow in his field, the goddess bade him begone; and as the thunder pealed and the earth shook, the poor man found himself out upon the mountain-side once more, and slowly wended his way home to his wife, to whom he told his adventure and showed the lovely blue flowers and the measure of seed.
The woman reproached her husband bitterly for not having brought some of the precious stones which he so glowingly described, instead of the blossoms and seed; nevertheless the man proceeded to sow the latter, and he found to his surprise that the measure supplied seed enough for several acres.
Soon the little green shoots began to appear, and one moonlight night, while the peasant was gazing upon them, as was his wont, for he felt a curious attraction to the field which he had sown, and often lingered there wondering what kind of grain would be produced, he saw a misty form hover above the field, with hands outstretched as if in blessing. At last the field blossomed, and countless little blue flowers opened their calyxes to the golden sun. When the flowers had withered and the seed was ripe, Holda came once more to teach the peasant and his wife how to harvest the flax—for such it was—and from it to spin, weave, and bleach linen. As the people of the neighbourhood willingly purchased both linen and flax-seed, the peasant and his wife soon grew very rich indeed, and while he ploughed, sowed, and harvested, she spun, wove, and bleached the linen. The man lived to a good old age, and saw his grandchildren and great-grandchildren grow up around him. All this time his carefully treasured bouquet had remained fresh as when he first brought it home, but one day he saw that during the night the flowers had drooped and were dying.
Knowing what this portended, and that he too must die, the peasant climbed the mountain once more to the glacier, and found again the doorway for which he had often vainly searched. He entered the icy portal, and was never seen or heard of again, for, according to the legend, the goddess took him under her care, and bade him live in her cave, where his every wish was gratified.
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« Antievolution music: did Charlie make a monkey out of you?
The winner of the alter-your-cat contest!
The judges have deliberated long and hard about the winner of the “humiliate-your-cat-by-altering-his-visage” contest. In the end, it came down to a scruff-and-scruff race between Bobby (owner of Barbara) and Kink (owner of Doc Bill). Intensive rumination, following a stiff dose of prayer to Ceiling Cat, has led us to declare the winner as. . .
Bobby was a tiny kitten, ten to twelve weeks old when she came to live with us. My daughter and I were fostering her, along with a feral kitten, Pepper. Of course, when it became time to adopt both of them out, we decided to keep them. Bobby, who used to be the tiniest kitten, is now the biggest one of our three cats and a very talented model.
And here’s the runner-up, Kink, submitted by Doc Bill (I don’t feel too bad because Kink already won a contest). Doc Bill receives my warm congratulations.
Thanks to all who entered their cats. I’m sorry that the rest didn’t win (this isn’t a website, though, where “all must have prizes”!), but you have the consolation of having amused many readers, and my appreciation for your fortitude in getting your moggy to sit still long enough for a picture!
This entry was written by whyevolutionistrue and posted on January 9, 2013 at 5:30 am and filed under contest, felids. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
I’m disappointed of course but congrats to Bobby and Barbara!
Too bad Shubin doesn’t have competitions. Just saying.
Oh, and Kink says “Congratulations, Barbara,” although he didn’t mean it. Kink is polite if not sincere.
Ahem… latso and I both mentioned Wiseman’s Abracat Lincoln!
Well, you’re better off than I. I have both–just no imagination!
Flippy and Kitty are upset because they’ll never get to read WEIT. (They had their library cards revoked after the “Cat Fancy” incident).
Can I quote-mine you on that?
Congrats to the winner, but that was my least favorite one.
You know, featuring those who didn’t win as a cat-of-the-day would make for a pretty awesome consolation prize….
Congrats to Bobby and Barbara! A most deserving entry!
Oh, that’s quite a good one. I’d have tracked down and molested my friend’s cat for that. Particularly since the English five pound note (or is it a tenner? I’m not sure and don’t have either to hand to check) … hang on … Gimping … nah, totally ineffective. I’d do better printing the images, cutting and pasting (in the literal sense, involving a brush and paste pot. Well, to anyone who’s seen a tenner, the idea is pretty obvious. Getting the whiskers to line up is the tricky bit (digitally).
A wise judge and a creative entry. Congrats Barbara!
Thanks All – I look forward to my first copy of WEIT.
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My Godson and his very clever, lovely wife had their first baby today! There is always a touch of apprehension waiting for a new arrival, but she arrived safely and Mum, Dad, and baby are doing very WELL!
and a vintage flower button.
I have adapted a Debbie Bliss pattern.
I really like it as you knit the whole thing, back and both sides together, from bottom up and decrease for a raglan sleeve effect.
Then all you have to do is sew up the side and sleeve seams – magic!
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A Chinese poaching ship of jewelry coral (red coral), which became a big problem by the large fleet ravaging the waters of Ogasawara in 2014, appeared again!
On February 2, a chinese fishing boat was navigating in the Japan’s EEZ (exclusive economic zone) off Hahajiman island, ignored the orders of the Japan Coast Guard patrol boats and ran away. The captain was arrested for violation of the fishery sovereignty law (evasion of on-site inspection). Authorities are seeing the possibility of coral fishing due to the shape of the boat.
Please see here for the incident that occurred in 2014.
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...and an anime in an astro city.
Hee! It is a pretty good fit.
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday are upon us, check out the great deals and unbelievable pricing at Executive Essentials this holiday season: sales, sales and more sales; coupons; clearance items; free monogramming; and many free gifts with purchase!!
Clearance Waterford, Jaguar, Ducati Pens and many other fine pens!
Fine Pens! Laptop Totes and Briefcases! Leather Duffels! Agendas, Writing Pads, Wallets, Desk Accessories and more…..all on sale at Executive Essentials! Executive Essentials the holiday gift center for all your favorite professionals.
Happy Holidays from Executive Essentials!
For the next several posts we will be featuring guest blogger Tracy McCusker.Tracy is an avid pen buff & unrepentant word-slinger. Fascinated with pens from a young age, she converted to fountain pens in 2000 after being introduced to the Parker Frontier and Parker Vector. Today her pen collection numbers in the hundreds. Tracy is a staunch advocate of “going analog” for writing & creative brainstorming. When she’s not hanging out at her local fountain pen shop, her digital presence can be found guest posting at the Surly Muse.
While pens are seemingly becoming obsolete by touch-screen technology and ever-smaller keyboards on everything, time spent away from all of the screens that clutter our lives can be invaluable…and a pen can always be an invaluable part of that time. Writing longhand has its own pleasures, which for brevity’s sake, I won’t try to sell you on here.
If you are thinking of giving a luxury gift this holiday season, a pen can be a splashy, yet thoughtful, gift for a loved one or friend. A pen need not cost an outrageous amount. While there are some expensive pens (and some very much worth their sticker price), buying a pen doesn’t mean busting the bank.
A pen is a very individual tool. What works for one person may not be optimal for another. A buyer should ask themselves some questions to find the pen that fits their recipient best. If you’re familiar with basics of pen-buying (how thin/thick, how heavy, what type of pen, for what type of writer etc), skip on down this introduction for the Penaholic Gift Guide Picks. If you are daunted by the thought of selecting a good pen as a gift, read on.
Locate your favorite pen. You know the one I’m talking about. The pen that you reach when you need to write a check, sign a document, or jot down a sticky note.
If you are planning to give the pen as a gift, try to scope out your recipient’s usual writing instrument.
Take a moment to examine this pen. If the recipient likes thin to medium pens (e.g. a standard office-supply store Bic), you may want to stick to thin or medium pens. If the recipient uses a thick pen, a pen with a cushioned grip, or complains about uncomfortable thin pens–you should avoid buying a thin pen at all costs. Images may provide a clue to the thinness or thickness of a particular pen, but pictures don’t tell the whole story when comparing two pens against each other. You may want to hold one of these pens for yourself at a local pen shop. A good online pen shop will provide a description of how thin/thick a pen is to help you decide which pen is right for you.
The second factor to consider is the weight of a pen (whether light or heavy). How heavy a pen is may not matter to someone who uses a pen to sign checks; in fact, the heavier a pen feels in the hand, the more important it feels. If you are buying a pen for an avid journaler, a student, or an office worker who prefers to work non-digitally, lighter pens are preferable because they can be held longer without hand fatigue. Sometimes it takes a bit of research to find out how heavy a pen is. A good pen store may provide a description of the pen’s weight or of the material the pen is made from. Resin and plastic barrels tend to be on the lightest pens. Pens with chrome or brass barrels that are lacquered are usually on the heavy end. Depending on how heavy the pen is, you may prefer to write with the pen cap posted (on the end of the pen) or unposted (off). If losing track of small objects is a concern, it may be prudent to look for pens that are balanced (and feel comfortable) with the cap posted securely on its end.
The third factor is the type of pen you are looking for (ballpoint, rollerball, fountain pen, pencil). Does your recipient prefer a type of pen—the smooth ink-to-paper feel of rollerballs over ballpoints, for example? Is your recipient interested in trying a fountain pen for the first time, or maybe they are a fountain pen only collector? Ballpoints are the most-used and most-gifted types of pens. Most people are intimately familiar with ballpoints: they write uniformly; they don’t dry out; their refills are easily available at most office-supply stores. Fountain pens are nibbed pens that are used mostly by enthusiasts who like the richness of their ink and the feel of the nib against the paper. Rollerballs are somewhere in the middle; smoother than ballpoints, they lay down a thick, wet line. Rollerballs do this without the hassles and joys that come with a nib.
Once you have settled on the type of pen to buy, then the color, brand, and “look” of a pen be the final set of decisions. The Penaholic’s Gift Guide will help you narrow in on the right pen.
Traditionally, a gift guide is broken up by budget range. I have selected pens for every kind of budget. A good gift pen generally is a pen that writes reliably, has a solid reputation, and/or is stylish or colorful enough to be a pen worthy of gifting. At the same time, a good gift pen will likely please any and all recipients. If you know that your recipient has certain tastes (dislikes the color blue, enjoys colorful pen barrels, wants something high-tech), be sure to check out the entire line of a pen that strikes your eye.
Pen recommendations also can differ based on the type of person who is receiving the pen, so this guide provides further recommendations depending on what kind of recipient you are buying for.
For a fountain pen under 50 dollars, it is impossible to beat the Lamy Safari. With a distinctive large metal clip on its cap, the Safari has a modern, functional aesthetic. Its thick plastic barrel is light, yet resistant to denting/scratching. The Safari has one of the smoothest steel nibs on any fountain pen; the nib has a generous give (more than the gold-plated steel nibs on Parker Sonnets), rendering a line with subtle variations. The biggest draw is that the Safari has one of the least-scratchy extra-fine (EF) nibs for those of us searching for the holy grail of both a thin line and smooth pen-to-paper experience. Unlike some other pens of its size, The Safari is actually balanced to write with the cap posted or unposted. Its faceted grip provides a comfortable grip that is larger than a standard ballpoint/gel pen, but still comfortable for note-taking or journaling. Though the Safari range comes in multiple colors (including the Al-Star which is a very attractive purple), the clear Safari Vista demonstrator is the pen of note in the line. Not only is the feed system to the nib visible, you can also see how much ink is left in your cartridge/converter through the clear pen body. Demonstrator fountain pens are themselves a collector’s item; for the money, the Vista is the cheapest demonstrator that a budding pen aficionado can get on the market. This pen would be perfect for prolific writers, or recipients that enjoy functional German design.
It is hard to find a good rollerball below 50 dollars, as my previous favorite rollerball on the market was bumped up to the next price bracket thanks to the upward creep of prices. I was, therefore, more than surprised to find two selections for under 50 to replace it. The Tombow Object has a brushed aluminum body that resists smudges and other minor blemishes. It’s tapered grip with rings make holding the Object easier than smooth, but the rings may begin to bite if you grasp your pens too tightly (I cling to mind like I’m drowning). The bright color of the Object makes it a cheerful companion for long study sessions, and the two-tone black Object looks just slick enough to be a fashion statement, just formal enough to use in the office.
If you have a few more dollars to burn, Parker offers a slightly more upscale rollerball in the Parker Urban. The curving line of the pen body, coupled with its signature arrow clip, is the kind of touch that I have come to associate with Parker. Parkers tend to be on the heavier side, and while I have never held an Urban in my hand, I would bet that the Urban (with its chrome appointments) would feel more solid in the hand than the aluminum Towbow. The Urban looks awkward with its posted cap; it is probably meant to be used with the cap unposted. The Parker also gets a thumbs up for its refill track record. Parker rollerball refills are usually superb; they aren’t finicky, or spotty like Waterman rollerball refills traditionally are.
Overall, I would recommend the Tombow for fans of brightly-colored pens or technical pens. The Urban is recommended for recipients looking for a more executive touch to their pen (and who aren’t likely to lose pen caps).
This is the pen that I would ask for from my loved ones. The Aviator is a lovely twist-action ballpoint that clocks in on the smaller side (around 5 inches), with a substantially thicker body than most ballpoints of similar size (the Aviator is thicker than the Cross Century or the Waterman Hemisphere). The thickness is slightly less than the Lamy Safari. The body is made of resin, making it lighter than the metal/chrome pens at the same price point. The Aviator has no dedicated pen grip, so maintaining a comfortable grip over long writing intervals may be tricky. The Red, White, and Blue Tie are, to me, the signature colors in the line. The tuxedo look of the single band of color below the clip is appealing—and quite unlike any other pen luxury/executive pen that I have bought. It looks elegant (reportedly even lovelier in person) and would not be out-of-place in a shirt pocket or a leatherette pen case. Like many international pens, the Taccia uses Parker refills, making it easy to find a refill that will match your writing style (Monteverde and Visconti ballpoint refills will fit this pen). Parker also offers gel refills that can make your ballpoint into a rollerball, making the Aviator one versatile pen.
I recommend the Taccia Aviator for someone looking for a classy ballpoint to replace their cheap pens at work or to find a pen that looks equally good signing a contract as writing in a personal notebook.
Up Next, Pens From $50 to $100.
This is part two in our three part series by Tracy McCusker.Tracy is an avid pen buff & unrepentant word-slinger. Fascinated with pens from a young age, she converted to fountain pens in 2000 after being introduced to the Parker Frontier and Parker Vector. Today her pen collection numbers in the hundreds. Tracy is a staunch advocate of “going analog” for writing & creative brainstorming. When she’s not hanging out at her local fountain pen shop, her digital presence can be found guest posting at the Surly Muse.
In an effort to help our loyal fans and customers find the perfect pen gift this season, Tracy has put together an in-depth guide culled from the experiences of her own pen obsessions. Last week she talked about buying pens in the up to $50 price range. This week she tackles luxury pens in the $50 – $100 price range. Take a look at her suggestions.
For the 50 to 100 dollar range, most fountain pens start to have steel nibs that are worth writing with. The Lamy Studio and the Libelle Nature Mosaic are both pens that come from well-respected pen companies. The pens mostly differ in their outward aesthetic. The Lamy Studio is a reserved German modernist design that prioritizes smooth lines over outward flashiness. The Libelle Nature Mosaic, on the other hand, has a glorious retro flourish from its chrome Grecian-inspired trim and its inlaid pearlescent resins. The Nature Mosaic from Libelle Pens is most likely similar to the Regatta or Paloma from Monteverde Pens which also use inlaid resins—a heavier pen, more likely to be used for shorter tasks… or to sit on a desk as a piece of functional art rather than to be used as a heavy workhorse.
The Lamy Studio would fit comfortably into an artist, designer, or writer’s hand. The Libelle Nature Mosaic would be a great gift for someone who liked a retro touch of elegance on their home office desk, or in front of their yellow legal pad.
The Cross ATX Rollerball (and its smaller cousin the ATX Ballpoint) are the number one gift pen that I give out to friends and loved ones. I have given these mostly on the occasion of graduations—their serious exterior brings to mind the idea of future success—but they work as holiday gifts too. The ATX gently tapers at the ends to create a subtle and beautiful profile that is reminiscent of the Cross Verve (a discontinued pen; it would have otherwise earned its own spot on this gift guide). The ATX’s chrome appointments don’t overwhelm the pen’s final weight; it feels very comfortable in the hand. I have heard a few complaints about the chrome grip being slightly too slick for some folks with damper palms, but I have personally never had a problem with the pen being slippery or hard to hold, even after marathons of frantic note-taking. Cross pens are quality instruments. My oldest ATX has taken 10 years of beatings from being shoved into bags, jammed between desks, and run over by my office chair with little wear or chipping. Still, the ATX should warrant gentle treatment; with good care, this pen could easily last me another ten years. Cross rollerball refills are some of my favorite; they are dark, quick drying, and provide a reliable line.
The ATX is an all-purpose pen to give to anyone who enjoys writing. I’ve given mine to grads; the pen will look equally classy writing out notes to the latest novel as it is for doodling proofs to Fermat’s Last Theorem during lunch break.
It should come as no surprise that this guide is biased towards thicker pens; however, for the lover of thin pens, there is the Cross Spire. Cross’ classic style thin pen is a staple amongst luxury gifts. If you’re familiar with a thin, silver or gold pen, adorning pockets of office workers around the world, you know what the standard Cross has to offer. However, Cross has recently revamped its classic look in the Cross Spire; even I am tempted to return to trying thin pens (even though the fat ones are much better for my carpel-tunnel addled wrists). The Gold, Black, and Silver cross-hatched Spires are like dressed-up Cross Century pens; hardly any weight, and a bit tricky to hold for long periods of time. The Black & Red Spires are the ones that really catch my eye. They’re like the classier big brothers to the Cross Sport, with an eye-catching triple ring around the twist-action mid-section and the glossy lacquer that makes me such a big fan of the Cross ATX.
The Cross Spire is useful with calendars, planners, journals, or any other leather accessory that might have a pen loop. The Spire, as a thin pen, fits well into compact spaces. If your giftee is a fan of thin pens, the Cross Spire is a must-buy.
So take the time to browse the Executive Essentials catalog to see these great gift pens. Also, remember to come back and hear Tracy’s suggestions on pens over $100. Not to be missed!
This is part three in our three part series by Tracy McCusker. Tracy is an avid pen buff & unrepentant word-slinger. Fascinated with pens from a young age, she converted to fountain pens in 2000 after being introduced to the Parker Frontier and Parker Vector. Today her pen collection numbers in the hundreds. Tracy is a staunch advocate of “going analog” for writing & creative brainstorming. When she’s not hanging out at her local fountain pen shop, her digital presence can be found guest posting at the Surly Muse.
We’ve come to the part of the guide where the gifts are a little more expensive as we explore pens in the $100 to $200 range. So sit back and enjoy as Tracy reveals some of her favorite pens in this range.
The Cross C-Series is a pen which does not get nearly enough love. It is my favorite pen under two hundred dollars. The aggressive chrome stylings on the C-Series have been called a masculine, an ode to chrome obsession. There is a mechanicalness to its design, but the C-Series strikes me more as “modern design” than “masculine.” The cap screws on in one of the more innovative systems I’ve seen. If you or your intended recipient can get their hands on the pen at a showroom or store, I’d recommend giving the pen a test-drive. The Cross C-Series is a very heavy pen. It is one of the heaviest I own, rivaled only by two very heavy Waterman pens (the L’Etalon and the Carene). I was sold after writing with the Monaco Blue C-Series and comparing it against every other pen in its price range. None of the others felt as smooth on the page. The C-Series rubberized grip is also a novelty at this price-point, but it keeps long writing sessions comfortable despite the pen’s weight. As a word of caution, Cross steel nibs can start off a little scratchy (toothy we call it), but a good nib will become smooth with use.
The Pelikan M205 is the smallest of its numbered series (which spans from 200 to 1000). It fits perfectly in my hand (which is diminutive). The larger numbered series (for example, the 600 @ $304.00) may be a more comfortable fit for larger-handed folks; however, the price increases as the pen size does, so it’s always important to ask, can this smaller pen work for me? While the grip area (delineated by the notches where the cap screws into the body of the pen) is the smallest I’ve seen on a pen when the cap is posted it feels like an average-sized pen. The M205 has a steel nib that has a bit of tooth that gives the nib character. The M200 sometimes can be found with a smoother gold-plated steel nib; however, the nibs in the 205 should be interchangeable—and can be ordered separately from the pen if it doesn’t suit the user’s taste.
The Cross C-Series is recommended to everyone, even though its appearance may put off giftees (and givers) at first. This pen may need to be tried in-store before the giftee appreciates the workmanship of the pen. The C-Series is especially recommended for persons who love aggressively-styled pens.
The M205 is recommended as a good value pen, as it is made with the same precision as its more expensive brethren. As an added bonus, the M205 can be found as either a demonstrator or a highlighter pen (which uses its own special highlighter ink). If your giftee likes luxury pens for a purpose other than just taking notes (who doesn’t love a good highlighter?), the Pelikan M205 might be the right choice.
The Visconti Rollergraphic, or Eco-Roller as it is known in other circles, and the Parker Ingenuity are both unconventional rollerballs. The Visconti is filled with a cartridge or converter like a fountain pen, thus able to use your favorite inks (or to allow you to enjoy/try a much wider range of colors or inks that would normally be available to you). The Visconti Rollergraphic is inside the resin body of the Rembrandt line. Like the Van Gogh line, the Rembrandt has a light resin body that has a rich depth of color when held up to the light. No picture will fully capture the play of subtle colors in the resin, so if you can see a Visconti in person, do so! The “Eco-Roller” is thusly titled because if you are using the pen with a converter, you are wasting less plastic/metal/ink by not buying and disposing of refill cartridges.
The Parker Ingenuity, on the other hand, is not a rollerball at all. It uses its own unique refills that are like a combination of the rollerball, porous point, and fountain pen. The pen has a metal nib (that really serves like a hood). If I had to peg what this pen was closest to, it would be a rollerball since it is trying to have “the best of all worlds,” as the rollerball was between the ballpoint and the fountain pen. I have no experience with the Parker Ingenuity, aside from my favorable experiences with Parkers in the past. What the Parker Ingenuity is, is exciting. It’s a new piece of pen technology. The conversations that it might start when someone asks to borrow it might be worth the price alone.
The Visconti Rollergraphic is recommended for eco-conscious giftees who don’t want to make the leap to fountain pens. The Parker Ingenuity is recommended for early-adopters willing to take the leap without long-term feedback on how the “5th technology” of this new pen works.
The Waterman Carene is one the most elegant pens that I’ve laid eyes on in the past fifteen years. Compared to any pen on this list, or in a high-end pen catalog, the Carene has a stand-out design. Its barrel is a heavy brass overlaid with lacquer that tapers into a rounded end. The characteristic Carene black button isn’t featured on the ballpoint; nevertheless, it retains the curvy, graceful profile distinctive to the line. The Carene ballpoint is heavy, but it has gotten lighter with successive generations. My chrome-trimmed Carene from 2007 is noticeably lighter than my gold-trimmed Carene from 2002. The pen comes in two different kinds of lacquers, the glossy lacquer featured on the Amber Shimmer and the matte lacquer featured on the solid-colored chrome trim pens. These lacquers create two different kinds of pens. The glossy lacquer pens are a bit slicker to hold. The glossy lacquer has some self-healing properties that hide small scratches. My ten-year-old glossy Carenes show remarkably little wear. The matte lacquer pens, on the other hand, feel more comfortable when writing at length because there’s a bit more “grip” to the surface. The downside is that the matte surface shows nicks and scratches very easily. Two of my matte-lacquered pens have started chipping badly due to poor care. If you decide to invest in a matte lacquer Carene, please do yourself a favor and purchase a pen case for it! Unlike some of the other workhorses on this list, the Carene needs to be given the care that a luxury item deserves.
The Carene is recommended for pen lovers, avid writers, and those that can give appropriate care for their writing instruments. This is a pen that needs to be taken care of!
Gifts are sometimes the best way to introduce an avid writer (or someone who could become one) to fountain pens. There is a great joy in putting a nib to paper. But we don’t all rocket from the ballpoint world right into the 18K top-of-the-line fountain pens. For a young writer (or someone who just likes big bright colors), the Pelikano JR is a good introduction to pens that aren’t the standard mass-produced disposables. The Pelikano JR has a smooth Pelikan steel nib (reportedly the same nib on the slightly-more-expensive P58). At such a low price-point, it’s not a big deal if the Pelikano nib suffers some wear & tear… actually, maybe you should consider buying two.
For a teenager/student looking to get into pens, the Parker Vector is a good jumping-off point into one of the major pen manufacturers. The Vector has a nice black & chrome modern styling in its latest offering, a steel nib that can take the punishment of a heavy hand. Starting fountain pen users often write more heavily (or too lightly) than the pen requires. The Vector is very forgiving as the writer experiments with their writing. The Vector isn’t perfect—make sure to flush the nib before filling it (look up how to do it before putting the nib under running water). The Vector will be scratchier than most good pens. If the Vector isn’t visually appealing, the Lamy Safari always can make a good entry pen too.
The Namiki Vanishing Point is expensive for a starting pen. It is over a hundred dollars. However, the Vanishing Point is aimed at those who might already be comfortable with fine pens. Specifically, with click-push ball pens that are a staple of the office since the arrow clipped Parker Jotter was introduced in the 50s. The click-mechanism of the Vanishing Point makes the fountain pen much more familiar to the average writer. The VP’s nib is semi-hooded—it writes uniformly and doesn’t dry out quickly. Namiki-Pilot sells replacement nib for these pens, so mishaps from dropped pen are minimized (as a side note: be sure to make friends with your local fountain pen repair shop!). It’s a good place to get a ballpoint enthusiast on the fountain pen wagon or to at least dip a toe into the world of nibs, converts, and ink bottles.
The Visconti Impressionist Collection and the Visconti Opera are stunning pens. Visconti’s resins are, in a word, amazing. When you hold the Impressionist under the light, the layers of resin create a depth of color with a touch of translucence. The Visconti Opera’s swirls are equally striking. Unlike other pen companies that use plastic resins, Visconti uses vegetable resins as their color base, creating unmatched beauty. I know. I’ve held them. My Visconti Van Gogh constantly surprises me with its richness in color compared to the lacquers and resins of other brands. Impressionists are pieces of art to display on a desk, in the hand, in a pen stand. The resins of the Visconti barrel are by no means delicate, but they’re not as up to the rough-and-tumble as metal-bodied pens are. If you insist on using them at the local coffee shop / on the slopes of Mount Lassen, be sure to protect them adequately from loose change or other small objects that could scuff their surfaces.
The Carenes, on the other hand, beg to be displayed everywhere. Take them wherever you go; write with them wherever you write. I’ve already gone on at length about the ballpoint so I will keep my comments short. The Carene fountain pen is a pen for the ages. Unlike stiff Visconti nibs, Carene nibs are impossibly buttery. The inlaid nib on the pen body means that the nib is protected from drying out quickly. I have owned three Carene fountain pens, and each one was of fantastic quality. Carene gold nibs don’t need to be broken in. They write like champions out-of-the-box. The word of caution is for the weight of the Carene. The fountain pen is heavy and is meant to be used unposted. Nevertheless, I am confident that if the look of the pen entices you, the Carene will likely become your favorite pen.
If you have your sights on a Waterman rollerball, may I politely suggest otherwise? Waterman rollerball refills are notoriously erratic. While you may be able to find alternative refills that fit the pen, I would just as soon recommend Visconti rollerballs over Waterman.
The giftee who loves pens (or more generally) out of the ordinary, there are pens that may fit their personality. This list is by no means extensive; I encourage you to shop around to find something that fits their personality (do they like beads? Crazy colors? Strange patterns?). I’ve selected three pens which fit three different types of giftees. These pens throw traditional pen wisdom to the side.
The Fjader Ballpoint looks like a feather. I’ve never seen a pen quite like it—bulging to one side and tapering to a point; it certainly stands out from the crowds of tube-pens or fish-eye cigar-shapes. Being a ballpoint, the Fjader is a giftable pen to any and all who write. The Fjader low-price makes it tantalizing as a stocking stuffer, or as a gift to those who already collect pens and might appreciate how this harkens back to crow quills.
The Monteverde One-Touch & Stylus reminds me of the bright colors of the Tombow Object and the stylings of Retro 51. What earns it a spot on this guide is that until other traditional pens, it acts as a stylus for modern touch screens and it provides handy ink-based writing when the stylus won’t suffice. Even though I don’t have any touch screens, the small knob on the end of the pen actually seems to make the pen look better than the One-Touch without the stylus. For the tech-heads who need a stylus, or the design-heads who just think a pen might look funny without one.
The Lamy Dialog Ballpoint had to be included because the pen looks like the future. Twenty-five years in the future, pens probably will continue to be modern, retro; doughty and elegant; restrained and loud as they do now. However, with the Lamy Dialog, your giftee can pretend to live in a different future twenty-five years from now. One that’s boxy, white-on-gray and more than bit retro-futuristic–much like 60s architecture in LA. Check out the other Lamy Dialog pens. There is a different design for the ballpoint, rollerball, and fountain pen. The ballpoint is my favorite, but perhaps another might strike a chord with you!
It’s probable that there is someone on your gift list that has pain in their hands. Sometimes after a long day typing, the most relaxing thing to do is to unplug from the computer. Maybe catalog the day in a journal. But it’s hard to do this if you have carpel tunnel, arthritic joints, or other pronounced hand pains. My go-to pen of choice after long days of typing is Sensa’s Cloud 9 ballpoint. The gel grip on this pen feels angelic; it is a comfort after hours of hitting hard plastic keys. The cushioned grip is also quite thick, forcing a looser grip to be used when writing. For giftees who have deeper problems than stiff joints, the Yoropen may be an appropriate tool for them. The Yoropen has a unique (and kind of crazy-looking) design that relieves pressure on the hand by changing how your grip transmits pressure to the tip of the pen. If someone you know is suffering carpal tunnel or other joint-related problems, the Yoropen may be the best choice of pen for them. I can think of no greater gift than giving the gift of pain-free writing to a benighted writing enthusiast.
Phew. And that’s it for this holiday pen gift guide. We hope you’ve enjoyed Tracy’s in-depth gift guide as much as she enjoyed writing it. Don’t be shy about asking questions or leaving comments. Both are appreciated. And good luck out there finding the perfect pen gift for that special someone in your life this holiday season.
Hey, folks! Guest blogger Tracy McCusker is back again. This time with some great suggestions for graduation gift pen ideas with a step by step outline of what to look for and a list of favorites at the end. Take a look.
The graduation season is upon us. Big box stores are sprouting pyramids of seasonal pen sets. Pen shops, usually empty but for pen connoisseurs, welcome the flocking parents & loved ones looking for the traditional graduation gift: a respectable and luxe pen to signify success and future professionalism.
In my opinion, pens make for the best graduation gifts for high-schoolers, college grads, professional school grads and beyond. Pens are more practical than similarly-styled “executive” items like watches, journals/planners or silver-cast desk stands which in this day and age are style/status statements your graduate may not share. As a parent of a graduate, what looks professional or managerial to you may look outdated or stuffy to them. Luckily, pens can successfully bridge the style gap between “old-fashioned” and “stylish”. Even the most paperless adherent can use a good pen to prop up on their desk, or a pen/stylus to interface with paper and technology. A gift pen can embody any range of moods (restrained, luxurious, playful, flashy) that the gift-giver wishes to convey to their graduate.
Despite the burgeoning supply of pens at this time of year, buying a pen does not become appreciably easier during graduation season. The effusion of gift pens aimed directly at graduation gift shoppers if anything makes the choice harder. With these issues in mind, I have cribbed a short list of pitfalls that you should avoid to help you select the best pen possible for your grad. And because what guide would be worth their salt without some suggestions, I will give a few suggestions at the end of the article.
1. Don’t buy a fountain pen. Do buy a ballpoint or rollerball pen.
If you read enough of this blog, you will know that I am the leading cheerleader for introducing writers to the joys of writing with a nib & ink. However, for a graduation gift, a fountain pen should be off the table. A fountain pen is an investment in time, money, and effort. Fountain pens require upkeep. They also have so many variables that relate to the nib & the writing style that the owner will need to keep in mind, you want to leave all of this baggage for a different purchase. For this purchase, give fountain pens a pass. If you see a fountain pen that has a style you can’t tear your eyes away from, consider buying the rollerball for your graduate instead.
2. Don’t shop by price. Do shop by form/function.
The biggest mistake I see when parents set foot in a pen shop for the first time is that they come in with a set budget (100, 200, whatever dollars) and ask to see pens at the maximum of that price range. Many will confidently exclaim to be taken to the most expensive pen in the store. This is a huge mistake! Not only will the most expensive pen be in the thousand dollar range (rather than the hundred dollar range), expensive does not automatically mean “better looking” or “better writing experience”. Instead, shop by the look and feel of the pen. Look at pens across a range of brands and prices. Try out a skinny Cross Century, a fat Waterman Expert against anything in the Montblanc line.
If you are looking at pens in an online shop, there are usually guides that break pens by price and other categories (like unique pens or luxury pens). If you are using prices guides, make sure to look at more & less expensive ranges than what you’d ideally like to spend. You never know if the perfect gift may be more or less expensive than you imagine them to be.
Consider very closely what kind of function this pen will serve in the next few years. Will this pen be going to a high school grad who has years of note-taking and dorm-hopping ahead of him/her? Will this pen be going to a college graduate who is looking to go into high-status professional training for business or law? Will this pen be going with a college graduate out into the workforce? What kind of functions will be most useful for each of these scenarios?
3. Don’t buy a pen set. Do buy a single good pen.
Pen sets are aimed at graduate gift shoppers looking for a “dignified” pen at a low price. Although these pen sets appear to be nice to graduates who are used to using chewed-up Bics, pen sets are usually fairly cheap-looking affairs. They show their wear easily. While their prices might sway you into thinking that they are a good bargain, I am more wary of the fact that you are usually buying a second-tier brand (like Franklin Covey) that has put a mediocre (and rather bland) pen and pencil together. Pen sets that actually would be worth your money are generally expensive because they are two well-made pens (or pen and pencil) together. A good pen set could be hundreds of dollars more than you will be willing to spend.
Rather, a better use of your gift-buying dollars would be to research a single pen that has been well-engineered, and will still look classy years down the line. If you happen to find this pen in a pen set (Retro 51 has pen sets that are quite classy) and the price is right, then by all means.
4. Don’t buy a pen without seeing reviews.
Buying a pen online can be a tricky affair. Pens that appear fat/large/heavy online may turn out to be thin/small/light in person. Even experienced pen buyers can be surprised. A case in point: I have been buying pens for more than twelve years. When I picked up the Cross Sauvage for the first time in a pen shop, it was surprisingly light and small in my hand. I was, honestly, disappointed by it. I expected heavier and flashier, as most Cross pens fall on the extremes of thin/feather-weight or thick/lead-weight.
If you can, make a trip to a pen shop to view, hold, and compare pens. If a pen shop visit is out of the question, then look for pen reviews that compare the pen’s size and comments on its weight. Or, if you are dealing with an independent seller, ask questions about its feel/size compared to an average hand.
5. Don’t buy a pen whose refills will be impossible to find.
This “don’t” has become less important with time, now that online pen shops offer the ease of refill purchases for most to all of the major manufacturers. It is still a truism that Cross, Parker, Waterman and Montblanc refills are the easiest to find in big box retailers like Staples. Other pen manufacturer refills may be harder to lay hands on. One of the important things to check is what kind of refills are used by the pen. Some second-tier pen brands use Cross refills (as they are actually manufactured by Cross for the mass market but put under a different brand to not tarnish the “luxury” Cross brand). Certain brands of luxury pens like Libelle and Monteverde are compatible with Parker refills, and can easily be refilled.
But some brands that might be found at vintage pen sellers, or from second-hand retailers may be nearly impossible to track down. A vintage Cross may not be refillable with modern refills. Recife, a French pen brand that does not sell pens in the United States, refills are as common as unicorns. Handmade pens may have similar difficulty—unless the pen maker specifies what kind of refill he or she bases their pens on. Be very wary of “no-name” brands. If you don’t know what a no-name brand might be, do a quick Google search on it.
6. Don’t buy a pen that will be good for one circumstance. Do look for a pen that will be at home in a range of circumstances.
A “one circumstance” kind of pen is a pen that is usually bright, colorfully, and “moody”—maybe it’s a good note-taker, but it doesn’t look particularly attractive. Or it’s beautiful enough to put on a pedestal but not practical enough to use. Or maybe it’s made from a novelty material (sewed-up leather, chain mail) that only the recipient can appreciate, but isn’t interested in using it in public. A good graduation pen will be one that will be functional for a variety of circumstances: taking it to an interview, using it to take notes, admired on a desk and in their hand.
This is a high order for a single pen to fulfill. It’s one of the reasons that graduation pen sets all start to look the same. A pen that can be used across a range of circumstances usually has a fairly restrained style: a lacquer body, a classic pen profile, chrome or gold appointments. Although I will normally advocate pens that off the beaten path, a graduation pen can be both classically beautiful and fairly unique.
7. Do consider one of the following pens.
This list is by no means extensive. How could it be? Your graduate will have his or her own sense of style, and practical needs. Do take these into account when selecting a pen. But ultimately, remember, the choice is up to you. Nothing is more surprising and rewarding than a well-thought-out gift.
Tombow Object. Good for note taking. Can stand up to abuse. Colorful yet restrained with good lines. Catches the eye with its clean, modern design. It is not a luxury pen. Its silhouette recommends a person that is more interested in design, functionality, practicality than an unnecessary luxury.
Tombow Ultra. Good for note taking. A step above the Tombow Object in terms of price. With its chrome body, it has more of the classic pen look/feel to it. However, it is clearly not a luxury pen. It appeals to someone who is interested in a pen built to last.
Cross ATX. My personal choice of graduation pen. I’ve given at least ten of these away to friends over the years. Cross is easy to refill, well-manufactured, able to stand up to decades of abuse. They look classic in any situation.
Visconti Rembrandt. A luxury pen that clocks in around 150 dollars. Their arched clip is distinctive and sets them apart from the field. A Visconti is impossible to forget. The subtle resin in the Rembrandt means that it is a touch playful, even as its styling is at home in the most professional of settings.
I also recommend that you browse around this blog, which has buying advice aimed at other situations but may still yield good recommendations. Check out my previous gift buying guides for Christmas. Just keep in mind that a graduation pen has a different kind of weight attached to it—a quiet dignity, a sense of pride and hard work. A gravitas. Failing that, you could always buy your graduate an Acme pen shaped like a No. 2 pencil.
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It’s an unwritten law that Bavaria will have more holidays than the rest of Germany. I know this because today is ‘Corpus Christi’. whatever that means. Its not a set day, but falls on 60 days after easter. This year it is also known as a ‘Brückentag’ (Bridge-day) Yup. It is exactly what it sounds like. People ask for Friday off, so they can squeeze in another 4-day weekend. More Here.
It’s a good thing these Bavarians can strike a good balance between Jesus-time and beer-time, otherwise I would be completely and utterly “over it.” I mean, where else can you have Oktoberfest, where it is expected that you get so piss-drunk that you actually will piss yourself, as well as so many christian holidays, where you can go out and get ripped, and no one will care? Drinking is good, and combined with good german beer, well… There is no better time to visit that right now. Get your tickets while they last.
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Yes – and there is a Corpus Christi in Texas, and in Texas they likes Tejano music which is a mixture of Mexican and German styles, oh yeah and they brew Shiner Bock beer.
Yeah, my wife can’t believe there is a place called “body of christ”… nowhere but texas, eh? And Shiner is awesome. Drank plenty of that when I still lived in the states. Funny thing, the guy who started Shiner is Bavarian. The Wheat is not my favorite.
My mom still lives in Ft.Worth, where we grew up.
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Laura Marano plays the brilliant yet shy songwriter Ally.
It’s a Laugh Productions, which is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, has been given a season pickup for the multi-camera live-action comedy series “Austin & Ally” by Disney Channel. The announcement was made on May 25, 2011. Auditions and casting calls are taking place for the series regulars. Casting for guest stars, day players and extras will continue throughout taping season one in Summer, 2011.
Cate Blanchett reprises her role of the mightiest and fairest Galadriel.
MGM, New Line Cinema, and WingNut Films are currently in production on J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”. The film’s extras casting directors are hiring general background actors, photo doubles, and stand-ins for the film’s stars throughout filming, which will continue into late spring, 2012. Some smaller speaking roles will also be cast during the shoot as script changes occur.
Beautiful and Talented Selena Gomez was discovered at an open casting call in Austin, TX.
Disney Channel and Disney XD is holding an open casting call in Austin, TX this June, 2011. They are seeking talented, young actors, actresses, singers and dancers between the ages of 10 and 18 (or look like you are 10 – 18 years of age) to be considered for roles in upcoming Disney Channel and Disney XD Original Movies and Televisions Series.
Embeth Davidtz is among “The Amazing Spider-Man” stars needing a stand-in.
“The Amazing Spider-Man,” now in the New York phase of production, is seeking SAG members to work as stand-ins for the film’s starring actors. “The Amazing Spider-Man” is being shot entirely in 3D. The film stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Embeth Davidtz, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen, and Sally Field.
Bradley Cooper will play rookie cop Avery Cross in “The Place Beyond The Pines”.
The casting director for “The Place Beyond The Pines” is holding open casting calls for actors and extras in Schenectady, NY in June, 2011. The film needs all types and ages. There is one lead role available for a multiracial teenage boy, other speaking roles, and numerous extras, stand-ins, and photo doubles are also needed.
Jon Heder will play grown man Gulliver Quinn enrolled in 7th grade.
Turtle Rock Productions, the company behind such Disney hit TV series as “Jonas” and “Zeke and Luther“, is currently in pre-production on a new 1/2 hour single camera pilot comedy series for Disney XD. The show will be executive produced by and starring Napoleon Dynamite‘s Jon Heder. Casting for the series regulars is taking place, and shooting will begin in July, 2011.
It’s A Laugh Productions is currently in production on season 2 of the top Disney XD hit teen sitcom “Pair of Kings“. The show is a Multi-camera series videotaped before a live studio audience at Sunset Gower Studios in Los Angeles. Guest stars, day players, and extras will be cast throughout this Summer, 2011.
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The first MSPaint animation to make me laugh.
lol thanks a lot dude! I dunno how to work Adobe Flash yet. I'm learning it for my next video. I promise it'll have it.
I really enjoyed your directing.
Thank you for giving an HONEST review unlike the three 0's below me.
+ (I forgot the word): I cringed when the Huge puzzle was being disturbed, because it was clear there was a lot of effort put into it.
+ Clear voice acting, sound effects and BGM didn't distract from the movie.
+ Style, & non distracting background.
? The guy says the puzzle is 'All human knowledge" but doesn't human knowledge change?
? Are you thinking about updating the logo?
+ bg doesn't steal focus.
- shorter than the ad.
- No sound or music.
I absolutely agree. Thank you for the ideas and I shall fix and release a new version ASAP. I am already working on another project, should be done soon. it's a much better idea with replay capability, and intended for replay. It's another demo with only 1 level, that will have more levels as time goes on. It is a platformer. Tell me what you think about that one. I think you'll like it!
+I enjoyed the fast pace & challenge.
+ Crisp and clear sound with dimension.
+ I appreciated the (mixing it up) towards the end.
- I prefer a finish to songs; anybody could put in a fade-ending afterwards.
I agree that more thought could have been put into the ending. I feel that your opinion might be slightly different if that sort of ending was not so overused.
You should tint the background items.
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In a flat 2015 market, Berkshire fell about 12%, its worst decline since 2008. Buffett focused on the company’s 6.4% gain in book value -- the financial metric that he’s always used as an indicator of his conglomerate’s progress. Even though this was below the 13% average book value gain since the recession, it outpaced the 1.4% gain in the S&P including dividends.
Buffett reiterated his previous assertion that Berkshire will repurchase stock if the value of Berkshire trades at or below 1.2x book. Currently it is trading at about 1.3x book, which perhaps limits downside of the shares.
Berkshire now owns 10 ¼ companies outright (including the 27% Kraft Heinz stake) that would be listed on the Fortune 500 were they independent.
“That leaves just under 98% of America’s business giants that have yet to call us. Operators are standing by."
Berkshire’s large insurance operations -- which earned $4.9 billion in 2015 versus $5.2 billion in 2014 -- put some downward pressure on results. However, an increase in “float” to $88 billion in these businesses can allow the company to fund investments. Buffett reminded investors why insurance has been good for Berkshire over the five decades he’s run the company.
In 2015, all of Berkshire’s other businesses -- including a railroad, utilities and energy, financial products, manufacturing and retail -- were more profitable than the previous year.
Buffett highlighted the turnaround in the company’s biggest non-insurance business, BNSF railroad, which improved its service to customers after $5.8 billion of capital spending.
Don’t look for any mentions about oil, China, foreign currency excange rates, or monetary policy in the Berkshire letter-- you won't find them.
“It’s an election year, and candidates can’t stop speaking about our country’s problems (which, of course, only they can solve). As a result of this negative drumbeat, many Americans now believe that their children will not live as well as they themselves to. That view is dead wrong: The babies being born in America today are the luckiest crop in history."
American GDP per capita is now about $56,000 -- six times the amount in 1930 (the year Buffett was born) in real terms. “America’s economic magic remains alive and well."
Buffett said the insurance business would not be affected by climate change in the near term. However, he believes even a small threat to our environment should be met with action.
The webcast can be found at https://finance.yahoo.com/brklivestream and will begin with a half hour of interviews with managers, directors and shareholders followed by a livestream of the event.
Buffett said the recent limits on capacity in Omaha motivated him to webcast the event. But, in addition, he said that it’s the age of Buffett, 85, and vice-chairman Charlie Munger, 92, that motivated him. All shareholders, Buffett says, should be able to see how the two men look and sound and to make sure they haven't "drifted off into la-la land."
Their life-prolonging diet seems to be the secret: "During the meeting, Charlie and I will each consume enough Coke, See’s fudge and See’s peanut brittle to satisfy the weekly caloric needs of an NFL lineman. Long ago we discovered a fundamental truth: There’s nothing like eating carrots and broccoli when you’re really hungry – and want to stay that way."
How Much Of FLSmidth & Co. A/S (CPH:FLS) Do Institutions Own?
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Christmas is over. January is a bit of a difficult month. It's mid-winter and this year we've had a lot of cold weather. Snow is welcome but in Paris we haven't gotten much of it and the type we get doesn't usually stick, it either melts straightaway or turns into ice. The city looks grey and smells faintly of smoke and twigs, it's hardly worth the effort to go out, considering all the layers that we still have to pile on. So we're staying indoors, to read, to sew, to play games on the parquet floor, and to eating very simply.
Most mornings I wish only to eat a bowl of creamy oatmeal porridge. I still cook, mostly from scratch, but it's very simple stuff. Our weekly dinner menus might read like this: Pork rib with dried scallop congee/juk on Monday, steamed chicken and vegetables on Tuesday, grilled scallops or salmon with pasta on Wednesdays and braised minced pork with potatoes and carrots over rice on Thursdays. Some days it's just steamed rice, salad and cold cuts, minimal work but still gratifying. Just familiar favourites to get us through the month until we board the plane for a month-long stay in KL and Singapore.
Off-focus photo above is of oven-braised pork belly from Les Papilles, where I joined a group of local foodbloggers for dinner a few weeks before Christmas. Their charcuterie was rather good, it was my favourite course. Otherwise the roasted pink garlic that garnished the pork belly was the high point for me, but everyone got just one clove. Pink garlic is quite expensive, I buy one head each week and it costs nearly 2 euros each time, but it roasts to a beautiful mellow sweetness. Smeared with butter on toast, it's pure deliciousness, come to think of it I might buy more next time.
What I would also be eating more of would be galette des rois. This year the patisserie houses have gotten more creative, and playing with non-traditional ingredients like hazelnuts, apples and even rose petals. More details when I'm done with our researches.
Last weekend I went to Tang Frères and bought a lot of desserts and sweet snacks- glutinous rice cakes, coconut and red bean puddings, peanut and sesame brittles. They were delicious and on hindsight, a little too rich. Coupled with yesterday's lunch of not one, but two souffles, the collective toll on the system became too heavy. I am now paying for these excesses with a bad case of indigestion.
Food is the last thing I want to see, touch, smell or eat. I want only to lie down and sleep, maybe for the next few days or the week. There will be no food blogging for the moment. I am putting up instead a non-food picture- it is a log-cabin quilt, or maybe two, in the making. It will be sweet, the final result, yet will pose no strain on the digestive system.
Yesterday was the hottest day we've had the whole year. 31C in the shade. I decided to have sushi for lunch and when I tried to pay the bill I realised I had left my wallet in my other bag at home. Husband drove out to bail me, a 15 minute trip in normal circumstances but yesterday it took him 45 minutes because of the terrible traffic jams all over the city. In the evening, he was stuck again because they closed off most of the roads around Champs Elysee and his 10 minute car journey turned into a 2 hour nightmare. Moral of the story: leave the car at home.
June came and went in a flash. We had looked forward to welcoming friends and family and before we knew it, they had arrived, conquered and waved us au revoir. Weylin and her boy-boy made us sumptuous breakfasts while we slept, and one night there was even a laksa gravy bathed fish! Mummy and Aunt L enjoyed the shopping- this year discounts run deeper and earlier, many stores slash at least 50% off and 70% is not unusual- as well as the pastries, chocolates and Iberico pata negra.
The eating, well, it has been really too hot to eat much. We get by on granitas and frozen grapes and other fruits including canned longans by Aroy-D (their longans and stuffed rambutans leave the competition in the dust). The cherries have not been fantastic, the weather had been too rainy this year. Flat peaches and strawberries are slightly better. Asparagus was good, one day I even found wild asparagus selling at 3 bunches for 1 euro! Zucchini flowers appeared, and we grabbed a trayful, they started curling within a few hours but were still very tasty fried up with or without stuffings of goat cheeses. We are easing into tomatoes and more salad leaves: cold tomato soup with mint cream and a hint of sweet peppers served at kitschy Findi's (24, Ave George V in the 8th, T: +33 1 47 20 14 78) was one of the best thing I ate recently.
Next week Barcelona. I need to starve a bit before going, our champion gourmand travelling companion has earmarked 4 major meals a day at all the greatest hits places in the city and beyond. Will I be able to wear any of my new dresses by the evening of THE dinner remains a big question.
Also, in August we are going to Singapore from 4-8, and then KL from 9-21. I am planning our itinerary in Singapore but KL is still a big blank. Fellow food bloggers in KL, please email me if you organise any makan sessions I would love to meet up with y'all.
It's Election Day in Malaysia and results show the opposition taking at least five states. It's absolutely fantastic and I didn't see it coming so I am really moved and happy.
I've never voted in my life before, due to various reasons I have always been out of the country during elections but my parents and most of my dad's family in particular have been long-time DAP supporters. I remember my fourth aunt telling us of how my late paternal grandmother would ride in BN buses to the election booths because everyone knows that BN has bigger budgets and therefore more comfortable buses and provide Milo and biscuits whereas DAP buses are never that comfortable. But when she comes out of the booth she will tell my aunt that she voted for the 'rocket' party.
My dad advised us not to be involved in politics, and even my friends would not openly say who they would vote for. This year though, people have been wearing red t-shirts in public to show their DAP allegiance; we have definitely come a long way. For many generations we have accepted the deplorable state of affairs with resignation and hunker down to look after our own. Perhaps after today, with the BN majority hanging in such precarious balance things will improve. I hope the new MPs would work hard for the rakyat and be able to make a difference. Malaysia Boleh!
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On Monday 14 December 2015, the team met in the House of Commons with the sponsorship of Oliver Colville and his office.
The group has been going for over 2 years now and the work that they have done has advanced over that time. The 2 key things that were discussed, along with the general progress of the group, was a framework and the GPS trackers.
The GPS trackers is the work that I have been most closely involved. Colin Sturmer from Dartmoor Search and Rescue talked about the trial that was undertaken in November, when Ian Sherriff & I got “lost” and role played someone with a dementia. The feedback was that even if someone takes a device off, it shows where they have been. Without a GPS tracker, Dartmoor Search and Rescue (and no doubt other Rescue teams) can be given a 10 mile square area to search, with them, they have around a few hundred yards to search. When teams of rescuers go out, depending on the weather conditions, they can search for 6-8 hours and then another team has to come and take over. Their search is methodical and planned. Colin explained that it is not at all uncommon for someone to be found during the time of the relief team and not during that first 6-8 hours. With a GPS tracker, that time is reduced down to about 20-30 minutes. That time difference means a lot to someone out in poor weather conditions. A huge number of their searches are for people with a cognitive impairment, who can be difficult to find, as they often don’t know that they are lost! Colin’s overall respond to the experiment with GPS trackers “there is no down side” (other than of course the cost).
So now the work can begin to raise awareness of the use of GPS trackers in the hope that people with a dementia will choose to use them. We can also look to see if this should be included as a form of social care or social prescribing, but in order for that to happen, there will have to be some cost analysis and research done into this subject.
The other part of the meeting was taken up discussing a framework/protocol/covenant/best practise. There was quite a bit of discussion about what it should be called, as the words have implications and the group will have to consider the implications of the word that they finally choose. However it should be a summary of the work done to date by the group, which should form a document of best practise, which communities can adopt. Different communities will need different regimes and it should not put off hard to reach groups. So anything standardised, monitored and governed is likely to reach groups that are already engaged. There will be a simple set of “wishes” of things to be achieved, which is expanded upon in more detail and the final level of this will be the research that has been done. It will take careful thought to make this happen and bring it to a meaningful reality that will make a real different to those living with dementia and there are very passionate people involved in this group that will work hard to make this happen.
The future is very exciting and it is getting better for people living with dementia and their carers. I’m proud to be part of this team.
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Colin Higgins’s 1980 film is the latest to be adapted to the stage as a musical in this Dolly Parton-led venture, currently doing the rounds. I’m not against film adaptations as such – Sister Act, I think, actually improved on the original incarnation – but others like Legally Blonde for example did nothing for me.
The show wisely keeps the setting. There is a front cloth covered with faces from the era. I had fun naming them before the curtain went up: Rocky, Burt Reynolds, Donna Summer, Barbra with a perm, the Ayatollah Khomeini… It all helps to set the tone. The score has a late 70s vibe to it and the wigs and costumes are all perfectly in keeping.
It begins with a video of Dolly Parton, projected onto a giant clock face. She reminds us to turn our phones off before watching over the opening number (the famous theme song) like a pneumatic goddess. She reappears at intervals to deliver a patronising kind of narration we don’t really need.
The chorus make a song and dance about working in an office. They pirouette around, clutching memos. It’s hardly Jean Valjean on the chain gang. The three main characters are singled out. We have Jackie Clune in the Lily Tomlin role as Violet, a bossy widow, frustrated by being overlooked for promotion yet again. There is Amy Lennox in Dolly’s part as Doralee, the boss’s secretary and subject of office gossip; and best of the crop, Natalie Casey as newly divorced and new to work, Judy, the role played on screen by Jane Fonda. The women each get their solo numbers to give them emotional depth. The songs are serviceable but there is nothing of the calibre of the theme song or Parton’s other classics like Jolene and I Will Always Love You. I can’t see any of the numbers working outside the context of the piece.
When the plot gets going, the screwball comedy aspects of the film come to the fore. The women fantasise about getting their revenge on the boss and then events transpire to make their dreams come true. What should be madcap and farcical is continually interrupted as they break off to perform another song. When they should be cranking up the comic tension, they’re swanning around with the chorus.
The boss, Ben Richards, is a pre-David Brent monster, a sexist womaniser and a crook. Richards has a touch of the Tom Jones in his vocal stylings and makes an affable villain. He wouldn’t get away with it, one hopes, in this day and age.
The women, like the Witches of Eastwick, bring about a paradigm shift in the office. They instigate job sharing, childcare and even rehab for the office drunk, but they have to go through kidnapping and attempted murder rather than working to rule or striking to gain the working conditions we take for granted today. The show at least points out how far we have come, although some of the lines about inequality of pay for men and women doing the same job still ring true.
I came away amused and impressed by the quality of the performances. Natalie Casey is particularly good but I couldn’t help feeling it would have been better as a play. Unfortunately, if you ditched the musical numbers, you would be denied the absolute treat of seeing Bonnie Langford as frustrated frump Roz, letting her hair down and stripping to her underwear in a raunchy show-stopping routine that involves her doing the splits upside down on a sofa. Langford is an old school all-rounder who can belt out a song and moves like a dream. She exudes razzmatazz – there must be a show out there that can capitalise on her considerable talents.
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Yesterday (8/4/2013) Tan Sri Muhiddin Yassin met Tamil school teachers and headmasters from all over Malaysia in SRJK (T) Simpang Lima, Klang. Teachers from all over Malaysia had left their teaching responsibilities and their students to do their own work and had to travel to Klang just to be ordered to support BN in the forthcoming general elections. He further reminded them not to make any anti-government statements in Facebook and other social media and not say anything negative about the government. He had also ordered them to vote for BN in the forthcoming general elections.
Voting is a democratic choice of a citizen. The former DPM has no business to order anybody to vote for a particular party. Besides it is secret and nobody will know whom anyone votes for. Tan Sri MuhideenYassin is no more minister of education to issue such undemocratic orders that restricts the citizen’s right to vote for his/her choice of candidates in the coming elections. As a caretaker minister his business is to conduct only ordinary matters of administration and not to abuse the government machinery by subtly ordering teachers and other government servants. Isn’t it a waste of government money and abuse of power to have called for such a meeting for political purpose?
After losing 2/3 majority in parliament and 4 states to Pakatan Rakyat, BN is superficially courting Indian votes by making promises on more handouts to Tamil Schools. Tan Sri Muhiddin Yassin is duty bound to explain how education quality has improved in Tamil schools during his tenure in the ministry. What structural reform has he made to include Tamil school’s development into the mainstream of education framework? UMNO will never accept vernacular education into the mainstream of education system. But MIC will bend backward to accommodate and tolerate UMNO’s step motherly attitude.
Indian contractors who submitted quotations for tenders on renovation work in Tamil Schools are disgusted at the education ministry’s flip flop policies and procedures. Can Tan Sri Muhiddin Yassin inform the Malaysian Indians how much of the RM100 million announced by Prime Minister in 2012 and 2013 budget delivered to schools and given to Indian contractors? There is no information and transparency in this allocation announced by the prime minister. UMNO/BN has deprived Tamil Schools and Indians their equal opportunity for facilities and scholarships.
Can Tan Sri Muhiddin Yassin reveal why nearly 65% of Tamil school students go to remove classes? What has the ministry of education done to reduce this figure? Most remove class students drop off before completing secondary schools. Did Tan Sri Muhiddin Yassin call for urgent meetings to resolve this issue? By removing remove class without addressing the weakness in syllabus content will only transfer the problem to from one. Ministry of education officers have no clue or rather will and wish to handle this issue.
For the information of Tan Sri Muhiddin Yassin, Indians are no more BN’s fixed deposits. Indians want equal rights as citizens of this county. Is it agreeable to you Tan Sri? Will you redress these denied justice and rights of Malaysian Indians? Election gimmicks are observable and people are more aware of the parochial and racist traits of UMNO/BN. At least one term as opposition party, will transform UMNO/BN into a more inclusive and a party for all.
This entry was posted on April 10, 2013 at 6:54 am and is filed under From the desk of Senator S Ramakrishnan. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.
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Memories of the Orient Express, Part 3: Why did Constantinople get the works?
Where last we left things (in my 1994-5 run-through of Horror on the Orient Express), my players had arrived in Constantinople, having recovered the whole of the Sedefkar Simulacrum from the Fenalik and the Brotherhood of the Skin.
I really disliked the whole Mehmet-as-Hakim (that was his name, yes?) plot. There was a lot of mustache twirling going on during the campaign, wasn’t there? Were I to do it again, I’d definitely cut that bit out. While the cistern scene was interesting, most of the set-pieces, like the graveyard sequence and Beylab the Perspirer were far too scripted for my taste. The ideas were good but the execution frustrated my players since they quickly sniffed out the fact that the campaign was leading them around by their collective noses. Beylab in particular was so clearly a trap, down to the gigantic speech I had to read, that some of my players interrupted him to make a break for the door. Hopefully that fight will be more Eastern Promises than Blue Brothers in the second edition.
The mandatory capture and escape sequence from the Red Mosque again proved a frustration to my players. They had little to do but wait through a series of scripted scenes and gloating monologues. Let me just add that very few of my players were surprised that Dr. Smith wasn’t quite himself. The climactic conflict went a little better and seeing the Simulacrum in action was thrilling.
I’m still working on a draft of my next installment of “Memories of the Orient Express”, but in the mean time I thought I might suggest two other blogs to check out whilst I’m otherwise engaged.
Top of my list is Adam Gauntlett’s Ephemera. Adam’s written for Call of Cthulhu (“Spare the Rod” and “See No Evil“) as well as for Trail of Cthulhu (“Not So Quiet“, “Flying Coffins“) but he is perhaps best known for his book reviews that appeared on the late lamented Yog Radio, “The Bookshelf“. He’s well-read and offers a lot of great ideas, especially for for Trail of Cthulhu and Bookhounds of London.
I’ve talked about Dean Englehart’s Cthulhu Reborn (and especially his interview series “State of the Tentacle” interviews). He is also put together loads of great free scenarios and an awesome program to create your own newspaper handouts. His most recent post described his process in crafting newspaper articles and is a must read for those looking to make their own.
First off, Golden Goblin Press have announced a Kickstarter for their first book Island of Ignorance. Three scenarios and a whole bunch of articles are planned for the book. I have also volunteered to be one of the six potential authors for a bonus scenario for the book (though I suspect one of the other six authors, including Stuart Boon and Jeffrey Moeller, will win). The PDF only option is but $12 – you get a book at $30 (and a Golden Goblin Statue at $500).
Chaosium have just announced the release of The House of R’lyeh, with scenarios from Brian Sammons, David Conyers, and friend of Tomes in Progress Brian Courtemanche.
That will teach me to post something.
There’s been a post on YSDC that someone been selling an art book using images stolen from Yog-Blogsoth, whose site I’ve mentioned previously. There are few things worse that having someone steal your work, save perhaps having someone profit from your stolen work. See here for more details.
There have been a few new podcast episodes so I’m sure I’ve missed a few… nevertheless the Miskatonic University Podcast gang have put out a few episodes this month that are worth a listen – April 1 & April 14 episodes.
Speaking of Necronomicon, I shall indeed be there (baring asteroid impact or ailing homunculus). Hopefully they’ll have a schedule available before too long so that I might plan my adventures efficiently. Anyone else going?
London teasers, gravestone news, etc.
A few odds and ends have been piling up here at Tomes in Progress central- lets clear out the inbox, shall we?
The London Boxed Set cover?
Stuart Boon at Cubicle 7 has been dropping ‘hints’ of a less-than-subtle nature that a kickstarter for the long-awaited London Boxed set is close at hand. This is a mockup of the cover. Awesome.
Time to start setting aside a few pence so I can afford whatever deluxe edition they offer. A pre-bloodied tube map? A pass for the reading room at the British Museum? A genuine brass hackney medal? The mind boggles and the wallet cowers in fear.
I’ve done a little research regarding the subject of the gravestone photo I posted recently. I can’t wholly confirm it, but it seems likely that it was the footstone for one James Hayward, killed in a duel just after the Battle of Concord on April 19, 1775. Oh, that little dust-up… His remains were moved to Acton center and buried at the monument there. Nifty.
I’ve also updated my RPG CV, updated the list of 2013 Lovecraftian RPGs, and added some entries to the Yog Wiki about privately published CoC books. Next time, I hope to have more to say about my playthrough of Horror on the Orient Express.
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Hufftington Post | Evolution is the key!
Today’s Huffington Post came out with this article on their home page. Although it merely explains the matter, it looks as if authors Nedra Pickler (who appears to have had numerous blunders so far… click here and here) and Matt Apuzzo are trying to criticize the President’s standing on the issue of Afghan detainees, not to mention its title whose purpose, of course, was to make people read the article but it appears to have certain side effects (we can tell what).
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March 21, 2018, by Jack Dziamba. New Post Goes Up Every Wednesday.
How well does a museum use New Media Technology to fulfill its mission to make Art accessible to everyone, everywhere. In a number of prior posts, we focused on the theme “Can You See It From Here?” to see how much of an exhibition a museum would put online so that it may be seen by everyone. The range has been from a few examples of the work to a full display on-line of all of the works in that exhibition.
“To mark the centenary of the deaths of Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) and Egon Schiele (1890–1918), the MFA [Boston] presents an exhibition of rarely seen drawings by the Austrian artists on loan from the Albertina Museum in Vienna.” The exhibition consists of a curated selection of 60 drawings by Kilmt and Schiele.
Instead of displaying the drawings and counting how many you may see online, we’ve chosen to present one drawing by each artist.
However, we want to focus not only on these two drawings, but to examine what the MFA says about the artists, and their styles to see whether these two elements are meaningful, that is meaningful for someone in Asia, Africa, Australia, South America, Russia, China, Europe, and someone in Boston itself who, for whatever reason, cannot attend the exhibition.
First, examine each drawing above and below for yourself, for however long you want, to form a visual, emotional, and intellectual sense of the works. Actually, its how you see the work which is the most important aspect of looking at art.
Then, read the brief test excerpts from the MFA’s website, and determine whether they add to or hinder your view of these two works. Note: These are not the lengthy wall tags that often distract the viewer from the art.
The MFA: Why These Two Artists?
What do you think of the method of this post, showing one work from each artist, along with brief quotes from the MFA?
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Our garden is the fruit and labor of my dear hubby’s hard work. For the past five years, he has cultivated a small area of our side yard into a garden (and compost too) that feeds us all summer long. I, sadly, have nothing to do with this project other than I water the plants when my hubby is away on business, and of course to pluck the tomatoes, lettuce and cucumbers for the evening’s dinner.
Several weeks ago, Hubby began this seasons’ crops. Together, with the children, they seeded and prepped tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, green beans, watermelon and not shown in the photo, herbs – including cilantro, rosemary, basil, oregano and parsley. This morning, to the delight and glee of my children, the corn and green beans began to sprout. Soon, my horticulturists will transplant these baby sprouts into our garden.
This season, I plan to document their project and share with you photos, stories and recipes. Join my family in planting a garden. Even if you don’t have a plot of land to spare, big planting pots (Christmas Tree Shops sells just the perfect size) can be easily substituted and are very beautiful to look at. Not only is the a fun project for the entire family to participate in, it’s healthy too! Happy Planting!
Decide if you are going to plant in a garden or in several potted pots. This will determine how many seed packets to purchase.
Select seeds of your families veggies and herbs. I recommend one packet per veggie or herb.
Purchase multi cell biodegradable seed pots. Home Depot, Lowes and Wal-Mart sell them.
Follow directions on the seed packets and watch seedlings grow.
My hubs bought a bunch of seeds and wanted to start seeding them indoors. I thought it was too early, but I guess not! You’ll have to take snappie of the garden throughout the summer so we can see how it grows!
Absolutely! The Green Garden Grow will explain the space needed to garden and the compost too!
Great article, especially for this time of year. I will check back often!!!
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ROCKY MOUNT, North Carolina (CNN) -- Like for many Americans, Memorial Day for Lynn Hughes is about giving back to veterans. The 61-year-old will be placing flags on the graves of fallen soldiers at Rocky Mount Memorial Park gardens.
Lynn Hughes' organization has helped more than 650 veterans receive the benefits due to them.
What sets Hughes apart: He volunteers for veterans almost every other day of the year, too.
Hughes, a Vietnam veteran himself, fights to help uninsured veterans receive the benefits they're entitled to.
"The veterans just don't know what to do; they don't know where to go," Hughes said. "If we don't give them the information that they need so they can get help, they won't get help."
It's an experience Hughes understands firsthand.
Wounded twice during two tours of duty, Hughes was awarded two Purple Hearts and three Bronze Stars. But despite his medals, he fought for six years to get disability compensation because his service records were lost.
Without the proper documentation, he could not receive assistance and was forced to try to piece together his records. His wife, Robin, kept the family afloat as a nurse while Hughes, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, struggled to keep a job.
"I limped around for a long time, depressed," Hughes said. "I felt guilty and wanted to kill myself."
Get involved: Eastern North Carolina Veterans Development Corp.
After a grueling process, his records were reconstructed, and he finally got the help he needed. Now he uses what he learned from that experience to help other veterans navigate the bureaucracy through his Eastern North Carolina Veterans Development Corp.
Since 2003, his organization has helped more than 650 veterans tackle a complicated system.
He and his wife, who are both on disability, spend more than 60 hours a week assisting veterans for free.
"We give out a lot more than we bring in," Hughes said.
Although most of their work involves helping them complete the necessary paperwork for their benefits, Hughes often drives veterans to VA centers for medical care. In addition, he has assisted with benefits appeals, helped spouses with funeral arrangements and paid mortgages to keep vets from losing their homes.
He has been credited with preventing at least two suicides.
Hughes, recognized in 2007 as a CNN Heroes honoree, continues to raise awareness of homelessness in the veteran community.
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, about one in three homeless adults in the country has served in the armed forces; current population estimates suggest that more than 150,000 male and female veterans are homeless on any given night.
"It's getting worse," Hughes said. "We're putting in more hours now more than ever because of the increase."
Hughes visits schools, churches, veterans' organizations -- such as Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars -- and other functions to speak about patriotism and veterans issues; he also spends countless hours making and receiving calls.
For five years, he hosted a TV show called "Veteran's Corner" that aired weekly on WHIG, a local channel in Rocky Mount. The show went off the air this year, but he was able to reach thousands of viewers during its run. It featured a number of people who had helpful information regarding veterans' benefits, including members of Congress and veterans from World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
He also took calls on the show, including one from a veteran threatening suicide.
"I said, 'Don't do this. This is not a way out,' " Hughes recalled.
He talked to the man and later picked him up in his truck. He drove the other veteran 60 miles to a suicide prevention center.
Today, the man credits Hughes with saving his life.
"He told me, 'I would have killed myself if it weren't for you,' " Hughes said.
To Hughes, all of his work is just his way of giving back; he credits his own life to a friend who died to save him in Vietnam.
"Maybe that's why God let me live ... because he had this in mind for me. He wants me to fight the fight."
Want to get involved? Check out Eastern North Carolina Veterans Development Corp. and see how to help.
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I test dyed a few things this morning, this is my favorite! I have several colorways available on starlight sparks right now. This new one will be up soon too! Shop the sparkly collection here.
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Entering an era of new public architecture?
Superstar architects become the latest group formerly blessed with an embarrassment of riches now starting to hit the skids, as high end residential projects in New York are cancelled. Talk is turning to engaging these renown designers in infrastructure projects the next few years.
Every major architect in the world, it seemed, was designing an exclusive residential building here. With its elaborate faux-graffiti barrier, Herzog & de Meuron’s 40 Bond Street was among the most indulgent, but it had plenty of rivals, including projects by Daniel Libeskind, UNStudio, Mr. Koolhaas and Norman Foster.
Together these projects threatened to transform the city’s skyline into a tapestry of individual greed.
This is a positive development. As an architect you should be happy when your work positively affects the greatest number and variety of people as possible. Many of the people who would love a park, bridge, library or music hall would never get near one of the condo buildings, unless they worked there as a servant.
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Ordinary Objects, EXTRA Ordinary Lives !!!
Take good look at the Image below. What is it to you ? A picture showcasing a plastic object. Of course, just a spoon. Its an ordinary Object of daily use for many of us.
But not to me ! I Adore this Spoon with all my heart.
2011 , February 26. I marched into the kitchen shouting for tea, with camera dangling around my neck. It was a busy day at home where I was the photographer for the seasonal party with cousins , their brat children, old aunties and uncles. So Naturally, because it had been such a tiring time, Pakistanis can only yearn for one thing at such a moment. A good big mug of black tea… made by none other than their all time favorite person. Mum.
I found her in the kitchen and Thank God She was already making some . The water had been boiled and as she was standing holding a spoonful of Lipton’s crushed tea leaves ”chai ki patti” as we call it, ready to throw in it.
I sighed and passed a comment on the spoon she used everyday to do that.
She turned back and asked what was I referring to. And once she knew, she started laughing at me.
‘It says …Um…it says Meiji.’ I read the name on it and still no extra ordinary reason popped up into my mind , so important as to keep it. But mothers – Ah. Our lovely dear and Wise mothers always have wisdoms in their Kitchen — and in every utensil that they keep. It took her only 1 minute to make this spoon look extra ordinary from just an ordinary one to me. Let me tell you it’s story as it was told to me.
And ‘PATHAAKK’ , She threw me out of her historic Kitchen. I wonder what’s more in there. You’ll me amazed If I tell you what was next.
There’s a historical Cooking range as well. But my mother has kicked me out of the kitchen and wouldn’t let me distract her more.
😀 Go ! explore your own kitchen or your room ! You may find something cool – Perhaps a diaper.
Mian Adnan Ahmed – Director and Writer of HEAL!
How I met him? … stick around… it would be revealed soon!
Wait wait! I know the food looks delicious and if u’re a Pakistani , ogling the dish above with mouth watering condition, I’m bound to give u its recipe pal, really , no problem! Just make some ‘Dahee ka Raita’ aka Yogurt Twist and throw in some lazeez ‘Tasty Tasty’ meat balls in the mixture! finish off with a desi ‘tarka’ using garlic n ginger! and WOALLA! there you go! Eat it with Roti or just with your fingers !
Yogurt Twist! My mom’s version!
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along with melted ghee.It very rich in calcium and protein.
1)Heat a heavy bottom pan on a medium to low flame and dry roast the lentil until it is golden brown in color.
2)Allow the lentil(urad dal) to cool down completely before you you use the blender to make it into a fine powder.
3)Mix lentil powder,powdered sugar,cardamom powder and hot melted clarified butter mix everything together.
4)Make 10 equal portions of ladoos and store it in a air tight container.
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The increasing mental-health needs of military children are taxing both the military and civilian health care systems.
The Army psychiatrist in charge of the Military Child and Adolescent Center of Excellence at Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort Lewis, Wash., told Army spouses and support group leaders about the issue at the third Family Forum of the Association of the United States Army annual meeting Wednesday.
Col. Kris Peterson explained that eight years of repeated, lengthy deployments have resulted in higher rates of anxiety and depression among Army children, as well as misbehavior in school.
For example, yearly mental health visits for children under the age of 15 have increased from 800,000 in 2003 to 1.6 million in 2008. One out of three school-age children are at risk for psychological problems and about 30 percent of children have significantly increased anxiety.
"So what we're dealing with now is the cumulative impacts of parents, moms and dads, gone for not months but years," Peterson said.
"Those impacts are now clinically significant to the point where it's not psycho-educational, it's fact and prevention all the way to clinical support and clinical interaction in an office, for instance, to be able to address increasing levels of depression and anxiety. And that's across the spectrum of preschool, school age and adolescence.
"And it's also our spouses who are left behind during the deployments. There's depression and anxiety in each of these categories."
The increased need has led to a severe shortage of mental-health-care facilities for families, both on post and off, especially as post behavioral health centers are already filled to capacity with Soldiers.
"The long-term impacts are unclear of all this. We know from the literature and data on depression in adolescents that outcomes are poor in this group who are untreated or unhelped -- are left dealing with depression, anxiety on their own. There's issues of drop-out rates, there's issues of school failure and difficulties with socialization," Peterson explained.
In an effort to deal with that trend and provide a central place for Army children to get mental and physical help, Peterson and other experts at Madigan developed the Military Child and Adolescent Center of Excellence.
The multidisciplinary team - pediatricians, psychologists, social workers and child and adolescent psychiatrists at the center -- looks at the latest research, strategically plans the way forward for caring for Army children and tries to sift through the many grassroots programs to find what actually works.
"A lot of people put their heads together and said, 'Look, we really need to develop some strategic thinking to identify what the impacts are, what the gaps are, what the programs that we can vet and we can propagate through the system and look at it in a strategic way.
"It's the same thing with research. We really are saturated and it makes it difficult to think along those lines. The leadership got this very readily, and said 'Let's dedicate people to strategically think and plan and move a way forward,'" he said.
Peterson hopes the center will continue to build and become a one-stop resource for behavioral and mental programs for military children. He also said that he wants to take their best practices and export them to the rest of the Army.
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Yesterday was April Fool’s Day, and I must admit I used to love it. Those that know me know that I love to laugh and have a good time. I was always a prankster and I used to love “getting” people. Remember the sour gum? The dollar attached to the string? The buzzing handshake? The squirting Flower? The fake lottery scratch off? The list goes on and on. These were tricks on those that were not prepared, those that were caught “sleeping”.
With age comes Wisdom. Looking at April Fool’s day in my new mindset, It leads me to think of how Satan, Lucifer, the Devil (insert any name here) is the ultimate Prankster, the ultimate Deceiver. He makes that car, that job, or that woman, or that man, look so good!! He wants us to pursue those thoughts, or desires to attain that person or possession, he wants us to go down that road he made so that he can trick us and make us fall for it. All this so he can laugh at us when we have to pick up the pieces from the damage he has done. So he can enjoy watching us have to dig ourselves out of the ditch he has led us in to.
Brothers and Sisters, we need be alert so that we can stand in the Day of Judgment . Let us not be the April Fool’s of this world. Stay close to Jesus Christ, seek him daily in your prayers and bible study so that you will not be deceived. The things of this world are temporary.
Be Blessed my Friends. Until Later…..I’m just tryingtobeamanofgod.
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This is the introduction Page for our online discussion forum.
To provide our members with a 24 hour access to participation in the group activities.
To allow for ongoing discussion and debate in regards to topics addressed in general assembly.
To allow for cyber members to remain active in the group and gain the benefits of participation without the need to attend campus meetings.
To provide a social interactivity for all group members in which they might get to know one another more personally and form friendships.
Non-Members are permitted, but only at the discretion and approval of current coordinators and members of the organization.
No hateful, disrespectful, or otherwise inappropriate material is permitted.
Discussions must remain "ON TOPIC" for their given discussion thread. This means that in responding to posts, all members are expected to be responding to the subject and theme of that post. All new subjects should be introduced as NEW TOPICS.
No sexist, racist, or otherwise disrespectful comments.
No harrassment of fellow members.
With all that out of the way, Please proceed to the online discussion forum.
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Ryan Seacrest and Oprah Winfrey have secretly joined together in an unholy alliance to slowly take over all of television. I have no concrete proof to validate my claim. But, it will be only a matter of days until TMZ confirms my suspicion by showing the dynamic duo having lunch together at the Ivy. Oprah has succeeded in her mission of mesmerizing all of womanhood. Now it is Ryan’s turn to capture all of the Momma’s Boys in the world. Ryan, I beg of you to just stick to the metrosexuals and leave the rest of us alone.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that on Tuesday, December 16th NBC will roll out “Momma’s Boys” which the Frosted Tipped One is executive producer. The basic premise of the show centers on a group of mothers who must help choose the perfect woman for their complacent sons. The question the series tries to answer is: Who is really the most important woman in every man’s life?
Males can contract this horrible disease if the doctor fails to cut the umbilical cord at birth. Leaving the cord uncut prevents growth in males and causes them to be dependent on their mother. Other symptoms include the inability to handle pressure, make decisions or deal with their insecurities. The disease attacks the emotional development by fostering dependence on the mother. It has also been known to affect vision, as males will see every woman through their mother’s eyes.
For 30 years I have been living with “mommie-wipe-my-pattotie-itis.” I attempted to ignore the symptoms throughout my adolescence even though I saw the signs early on: mom dressing me up in turtleneck sweaters in 6th grade, having her cut up my steak, fold my laundry, make my bed and my tendency to pout when I didn’t get my way. Looking back at it, I never found it odd that the first time I learned how to use a washer and dryer was the day my parents dropped me off at college freshmen year. This disease is tricky because there are attractive symptoms like the constant coddling and meeting of your every need.
Learning how to manage the disease after meeting Jenn proved tricky. The indicators of “mommie-wipe-my-pattotie-it is” kept going off like a store’s security sensor when Wynona Ryder is shopping. The only way I knew how to live life was for a woman to make decisions and determine its’ direction. It should come as no surprise that this caused a decent amount of friction when Jenn and I began dating and eventually in our marriage. Jenn was looking for me to be her knight in shinning armor only to find a stable boy terrified of getting on the horse. She needed a leader and often what she got was an indecisive follower. Over time, I’ve begun to deal with my disease. But, the doctors say the only cure is a painful procedure that involves cutting the cord. The month of December is when I go under the knife. Ripa out!
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My heart aches to be there with him.
If your feet are nimble and light You can get there by candlelight.
It would be a long while because, quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage. I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later—because I did not belong there, did not come from there—but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs. I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month. I was making only $65 or $70 then a week then (“Put yourself in Hattie Carnegie’s hands,” I was advised without the slightest trace of irony by an editor of the magazine for which I worked), so little money that some weeks I had to charge food at Bloomingdale’s gourmet shop in order to eat, a fact which went unmentioned in the letters I wrote to California. I never told my father that I needed money because then he would have sent it, and I would never know if I could do it by myself. At that time making a living seemed a game to me, with arbitrary but quite inflexible rules. And except on a certain kind of winter evening—six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in the bright windows of brownstones and see cooks working in clean kitchens and imagine women lighting candles on the floor above and beautiful children being bathed on the floor above that—except on nights like those, I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it. I could write a syndicated column for teenagers under the name “Debbi Lynn” or I could smuggle gold into India or I could become a $100 call girl, and none of would matter.
It is relatively hard to fight at six-thirty or seven in the morning, without any sleep, which was perhaps one reason why we stayed up all night, and it seemed to me a pleasant time of day. The windows were shuttered in that apartment in the Nineties and I could sleep for a few hours and then go to work. I could work the on two or three hours’ sleep and a container of coffee from Chock Full O’ Nuts. I liked going to work, liked the soothing and satisfactory rhythm of getting out a magazine, liked the orderly progression of four-color closings and two-color closings and black-and-white closings and then The Product, no abstraction but something which looked effortlessly glossy and could be picked up on a newsstand and weighed in the hand. I liked all the minutiae of proofs and layouts, liked working late on the nights the magazines went to press, sitting and reading Variety and waiting for the copy desk to call. From my office, I could look across town to the weather signal on the Mutual of New York Building and the lights that alternately spelled TIME and LIFE above Rockefeller Plaza; that pleased me obscurely, and so did walking uptown in the mauve eight o’clocks of early summer evenings and looking at things, Lowestoft tureens in Fifty-seventh Street windows, people in evening clothes trying to get taxis, the trees just coming into full leaf, the lambent air, all the sweet promises of money and summer.
This entry was posted in America, Culture, Innocence, Life, Literature, Travel and tagged 1960s, america, city, creative nonfictione, essay, joan didion, lit, literature, love, new york, new york city, nostalgia, nyc, travel. Bookmark the permalink.
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to invite readers (and myself) into the repellant landscape (hidden, but not completely; deliberately buried, but not forgotten) was to pitch a tent in a cemetery inhabited by highly vocal ghosts.
Writers all devise ways to approach that place where they expect to make the contact, where they become the conduit, or where they engage in this mysterious process. For me, light is the signal in the transition. It’s not being in the light, it’s being there before it arrives. It enables me, in some sense.
I husband that moment on the pier, the deceptive river, the instant awareness of possibility, the loud heart kicking, the solitude, the danger. And the girl with the nice hat. Then the focus.
The focus after the vision. If Morrison teaches us one thing from her process, it is this: See clearly. Imagine the characters fully. Really inspect them. Know them beyond the page. Then write—every morning. Write until the light finds you. Write until your words glow, or step from a river fully formed after years of haunting, wearing a beautiful hat.
See also Jack Kerouac’s advice on writing as told in his voice.
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Stylistic structure taken from the first few pages of Morrison’s Beloved.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Vintage, 2004, p. xv – xix.
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Just back from a three month Arts Council funded research and production trip to Canada and the USA, Zierle & Carter will give a unique insight into their experience and work with a presentation on their current 6 month project ‘Through The Heart: Works on Love, Life, and Laughter’ – http://www.throughtheheartperformances.com. Featured will be works made during their trip for exhibitions, at international festivals, and on residencies, such as The Banff Centre in Canada, and in New York with The New York Times acclaimed artist, choreographer, and director of thinkdance Jill Sigman. This will be followed by the premiere of a UCF commissioned site specific, interactive performance and networking event entitled ‘Ways of Water’, that responds to, and celebrates the theme of generative change within Cornwall, and the emergence of a ‘new landscape’. Collectively sewing seeds, bridging spaces, and crossing divides, ‘Ways of Water’ gives an opportunity for dialogue and exchange, and explores the power of communal acts of intent, continuing their current research on love and community building through a shared experience. Both events are free and open to all ages.
Artist Presentation: Studio A, 3.00pm to 4.30pm.
Networking Event: Performance Centre Lobby. An opportunity to meet other practitioners and look around the Performance Centre until 6.30pm. Food will be available during this time in the Koofi Café on campus and from Falfalafel, a hot food stall serving falafels outside The Performance Centre.
Performance: Studio A, 6.30pm to 9.30pm.
This two-person exhibition presents the sound recordings of Chris Watson with Phoebe Cummings’ site-specific installations of unfired clay.
Creating an immersive acoustic environment within the gallery Chris Watson’s pieces record the haunting sounds emanating from telegraph wires as the wind interacts with them. details from the Cornish landscape in Phoebe Cummings’ sculptural installation, commissioned specially for this exhibition, create an interplay of exquisite miniature scenes and life-size fragments of landscapes.
Both artists investigate the passage of time in relation to specific geographical locations; revealing aural and visual elements that are often overlooked. This experiential exhibition is an invitation to explore poetical documentations of landscapes, histories, technologies and communications.
The partnership between Newlyn art gallery and MA Curatorial Practice at University College Falmouth offers exceptional opportunities for students to develop a curatorial practice through a live project.
code-hackers and documentarists form ensembles. Artists try to.
No previous experience necessary. Materials provided.
This project is supported by The Co operative Community Fund.
Beauty in art – like death – causes contention. Both are linked with truth, both are linked with duplicity. Both are universal. Tastes Like Arsenic brings these artist’s work together in an exhibition context for the first time, highlighting the parallels between their oeuvres, and the connections that can be drawn between their preferred subject matter, working method and connotations. There is an inherent shared attraction to aestheticising the absurd, the darkly comic, the beautiful grotesque.
Sunday, May 1, 1:00–4:00 p.m. This spring the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) presents 13 exhibitions and projects, including work by more than 25 leading and emerging contemporary artists such as A.K. Burns, Terence Koh, Marysia Lewandowska, Tevor Paglen, all curated by second-year students. Presented in two groups, these projects focus on diverse concepts and themes and represent an international body of artists working in a variety of media. These exhibitions are the culmination of the students’ work for the master’s degree.
Featuring a new film by Jenny Perlin, the exhibition results from research into the life and influence of Eleanor Roosevelt. The work draws inspiration from the literature and film that inspired Roosevelt, as well her own political and social rhetoric.
Artist Jon Rubin’s new, site-specific project aims to catalyze a more direct relationship between the CCS and its potentially broad local audience, who are invited to share in the care of homing pigeons trained at Bard College.
Not Necessarily in that Order is a publication that explores the curatorial implications of The Barnes Foundation’s announced move from Merion, Pennsylvania to Philadelphia.
Dear Pratella, what do you hear?
Dear Pratella, what do you hear? is an exhibition-as-experiment that investigates the critical potential of sound-based art in various social, spatial, temporal, and discursive contexts.
For his first commissioned project in the United States, Brussels-based artist Jimmy Robert will collaborate with New York City-based choreographer Maria Hassabi to revisit and restage the third iteration of his live performance and installation work, Counter-relief. The performance will take place at the opening reception on Sunday, May 1st at 2pm; an Artists Talk will take place on Monday, May 2nd at 5pm.
Double Session presents projects initiated by Mary Walling Blackburn and Douglas Paulson: a parasitic library of impossible sound and a public sculpture re-visioned as production space.
(Re)Move/(Re)Frame presents three performances occurring at different times and places and explores the possibilities of exhibiting performance documentation inviting viewers to participate in the documentary process via the project’s accompanying website at: http://www.r-e-m-o-v-e.info—which will launch May 1st in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition at CCS. Brody Condon’s performance already took place, and the video of the performance will be on view at CCS the first week of the exhibition. Yemenwed will be performing on May 7 at Bard College, and Shana Moulton will perform on May 13 at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Artists A.K. Burns and MPA select a series of works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection in order to create an evocative context that informs both their overall practice and their latest projects. On May 1st, 2011 MPA will present a live performance that responds to works from the Hessel Collection.
Student-curated projects at CCS Bard are made possible with support from the Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg Student Exhibition Fund; the Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Family Foundation; the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation; the Board of Governors of the Center for Curatorial Studies; and by the Center’s Patrons, Supporters, and Friends. Additional support is provided by the Monique Beudert Award Fund.
The CCS Bard Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College are open Wednesday through Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. All CCS Bard exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public. Limited free seating is available on a chartered bus that leaves from New York City for the May 1 opening. The bus returns to New York City after the opening. Reservations are required; call 845.758.7598 or email ccs@bard.edu.
Please see our website, http://www.bard.edu/ccs for all related programming and further information.
CLAP is a curatorial collaboration between CCS Bard graduate students Nova Benway, Michelle Hyun, Nathan Lee, Dylan Peet, and CCS Bard Executive Director Tom Eccles. Featuring works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection—greatly expanded since the inauguration of the Hessel Museum of Art in 2006—the exhibition includes many recent acquisitions on view for the first time, as well as a new commission by Tony Oursler. The title takes its inspiration from minimalist composer Steve Reich’s Clapping Music (1972), an early example of “phasing” in which repetitive patterns or phrases of music fall in and out of unison with each other based on the subtle shift of one note. Rather than seeking to draw out the inner psychological life of artworks, CLAP asks what we can discern from their outsides—and what they can find in each other. Looking to gestures instead of identities, connections rather than histories, encounters versus explanations, CLAP is less about applause; rather it brings things together, making noise.
For more information, please call CCS Bard at 845.758.7598, write ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.
Still, despite these enormous expenditures millions of people soon lost their homes and livelihood, and the economic and social damage has not yet ended. The cost of these bailouts is staggering. States borrowed capital to rescue financial institutions resulting in growing national debt and virtual insolvency for some countries. Managing these budget deficits might have been possible if wealthy transnational corporations were forced to assist the economy, but neoliberal governments instead chose to introduce belt-tightening programs that radically reduce public services and social welfare. Needless to say, these austerity measures do not necessarily reflect the will of the majority, and increasing voter apathy is one serious side effect of such top-down decision-making.
It’s the Political Economy, Stupid brings together a group of superlative artists who focus on the current crisis in a sustained and critical manner. Rather than acquiesce to our current calamity this exhibition asks if it is not time to push back against the disciplinary dictates of the capitalist logic and, as if by some artistic sorcery, launch a rescue of the very notion of the social itself.
The exhibition It’s the Political Economy, Stupid will be continued with different works in an upcoming show at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, from January till April 2012 (http://www.acfny.org <http://www.acfny.org/> ).
The title It’s the Political Economy, Stupid is a re-phrasing by Slavoj Žižek of the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid”, a widely circulated phrase used during Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign against incumbent President George Bush Senior.
As part of the International Women’s Day Centenary celebrations, tactileBosch brings you Wunderland. Selected eclectically like the wunderkammer of a wanderer through exotic lands, this is a female, sideways look at how things are or might be. Elliptical, sometimes obtuse, but definitely more Paula Rego than Lewis Carroll; Eva Hesse meets Herman Hesse. The women in this show bring their …own particular take on matters surreal, serious and sublime, bound together by a light curatorial thread that weaves together these extra-ordinary perspectives.
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This is the beginning of the most boring month in the year. All we are doing is moving from one corruption scandal to another. Nothing achieved, we talk, discuss, criticize, debate, analyse and get frustrated. Our Government sits with the noise Buddhist fashion, leaves us to ruminate as if we know what we are talking about, leaves it there with us. In spiritual parlance, we “sit with the silence”, JDM and his team “sit in jest”, waiting for time to play out as we forget the last antic and move to the next.
We just do not have redress mechanisms in Ghana to shift Government backsides into action.
I listened uneasily the other morning when the Deputy Chief at CHRAJ clearly told us CHRAJ is only beholden to itself. Surrounded with so much fraud, it is embarrassing that Gallup should tell us we are now ranking corruption member in the recognized free press world. 3rd in pole position, and that was in early 2012.
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The land theft was egregious, a litany of broken promises and failed efforts to make things right. The Cheboiganing Band descendants still fight for justice today. When settlers stole their land, they lost their federal recognition as a Native nation. They want it back.
The Cheboiganing (Burt Lake) Band had lived in the same area for thousands of years, in what is now the northern tip of Michigan. As was the story for many Native American nations, those in present day Michigan first fought the British, then the United States, then made peace through treaties.
Broken Promise #1: In the 1836 Treaty of Washington, the Anishinaabe (or Chippewa) ceded nearly 14 million acres to the U.S. government. The treaty was supposed to provide the Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa a 1,000-acre reservation on Lake Cheboigan.
In the late 1840s, the Band started using its treaty annuity payments to buy land, eventually securing 375 acres around the lake. The state of Michigan held the land in trust.
Twisting Treaty Language: The 1855 Treaty of Detroit allowed the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians to select individual allotments of land in the area around where the Band already had purchased lands. Implementation took more than a decade.
Meanwhile, a separate treaty provision dissolved the combined organization of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. Government bureaucrats would later interpret that language to mean the nations had lost federal recognition, essentially terminating them. While various Bands of the Ottawa and Chippewa would later regain federal recognition, three did not, according to Wikipedia: the Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians, the Swan Creek Black River Confederated Ojibwa Tribes of Michigan and the Burt Lake Band.
This interpretation had devastating consequences.
The Swindle: “Reservations” are sovereign nations; they don’t pay property taxes to local unites of government. As Burt Lake was not federally recognized, Cheboygan County officials decided they could impose property taxes. The dispute over taxation simmered for decades. The Band eventually lost its land due to “back taxes.” A man named John McGinn acquired the rights; he is described in historical accounts variously as a banker and timber speculator, and someone who was well connected.
Violence: The Burt Lake Burnout: Burt Lake Band members refused to leave their lands. On Oct. 15, 1900, with the help of Sheriff Fred Ming and other white settlers, McGinn set out to take the land by force. The Band’s website describes what happened next.
Herding the women and children out into the cold autumn rain, they doused their houses with kerosene, set them on fire and ordered everyone off.
The homeless Indians walked 35 miles in the rain to the mission settlement at Cross Village, the closest place where they could find shelter.
One Burt Lake Band descendant recalled, with irony, that while the white settlers burned all the homes, they spared the Band’s church, because “that would be wrong,” according to the Michigan Public Radio story.
The resolution concluded by stating that Michigan would set aside up to 400 acres of land “for the benefit and use” of the Band.
Further Federal Failings: In 1911, the United States sued in federal court on behalf of the Burt Lake Band, seeking to regain control of the land, according to a Congressional Report. In 1917, a federal court ruled against Burt Lake.
The Burt Lake Band applied for federal recognition in 1935, according to the Michigan Public Radio story. They had no land, a prerequisite for recognition. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) never responded.
Recent History: The Band applied for federal recognition again in the 1980s. After an almost 20-year wait, the BIA turned it down.
According to the Michigan Public Radio story: the Burt Lake Band sued the BIA in 2017 for recognition. The case — now 119 years after the land swindled — is still pending.
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Voiceover acting, and acting in general, is a vocation you simply cannot “phone in.” You might be able to drag your tired self out of bed to drive your kids to school, answer phones, run a cash register, or even attend a boring five-year strategic planning meeting with your boss, but you cannot bring anything less than your A-Game to an audition and expect to find success. No matter how much you love what you do, sometimes you need that extra oomph to get you going, to get in the zone, to do a stellar job, and to land a gig.
I’ve found Twitter to be a great place for advice on the subject of staying physically and emotionally motivated while pursing work in the voiceover world. Lots of VO pros and newbies alike often tweet their thoughts about what keeps their VO mojo going. There are a lot of nuggets of wisdom out there. Let’s start with the easiest method: Coffee.
No surprise that coffee is at the top of the list of motivators. We are a heavily caffeinated society here in the United States. In fact, you are probably drinking some coffee as you read this blog!
Coffee is a cheap and readily-available commodity that has grown into a daily ritual for most Americans. Already a global phenomenon, coffee got its lucky break into North America during Colonial times, when revolutionaries wanted an alternative to highly-taxed tea. No doubt that the Founder Fathers were hopped up on caffeine as they debated and eventually penned the Declaration of Independence, right?
Like all things in life, coffee has its pros and its cons, its fans and its haters. Recent research suggests that the benefits of drinking one or two cups of coffee each day may in fact be beneficial. For example, WebMD notes that coffee drinkers are less likely to have type 2 diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, and dementia, and have fewer cases of certain cancers, heart rhythm problems, and strokes. Coffee has also been used to help treat depression and severe cases of I-don’t-want-to-go-to-work-today-itis.
And now for the sad news: According to the Cleveland Clinic, the caffeine in coffee may cause increased stomach acid production and acid reflux, which can irritate the voice. This is bad news for voiceover actors who suffer acid reflux. After all, what good is it to have your mouth awake and ready to work, only for your vocal cords to sound lousy?
Luckily, I haven’t had this experience. I drink coffee, the caffeine kicks in, and then I’m awake and ready to rock n’roll… for a while. The problem I personally have with caffeine is the crash and burn that follows. Today, for example, I drink the equivalent of three cups of coffee, and then had a two hour phone call. Afterwards, I was physically exhausted. I crashed hard. Fortunately, I was at home and had a couch nearby. When I awoke a few hours later, I was refreshed but ready for more caffeine, which is fueling my writing of this blog and will shortly fuel this evening’s recording session.
Maybe, if we all committed to going to bed on time and getting enough sleep, we wouldn’t need all that caffeine in the first place. We would all be well-rested, fine physical specimens with clear heads, focused minds, and crisp voices. And we would all have extra funds for voiceover classes or that new mic in no time by skipping the daily Starbucks trip.
I used to drink a pot of coffee every morning. Then after a friend lent me “Master Your Metabolism” by Jillian Michaels I discovered that I was actually craving the sugar and creamer in the coffee. So instead I added a piece of toast or some oatmeal to my usual breakfast of two hard-boiled eggs, and I was able to function fine without the coffee.
I think people underplay the role of nutrition in overall health. People eat too much junk and then wonder why they feel junky. Well, you wouldn’t expect your car to run very well on poor-quality fuel — your body needs the best fuel to work at its best.
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Last week we were delighted to have some special visitors to the Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust collection. A group of avid raranga harakeke (flax weaving) enthusiasts, mostly students, had arranged to come in to research techniques and examine customary methods of toi raranga – the art of Māori weaving.
The manuhiri (visitors) were keen to view the tāniko and raranga harakeke items in the collection. Tāniko is a uniquely Māori variation of whatu (twining). The weavers counted and measured sections of work to establish how things were done back in the day. We can say for sure that the raranga experts of the past were incredible mathematicians and designers. We looked at a variety of woven harakeke items, including whāriki (floor coverings), kete (baskets) and kahu (cloaks).
We have some really special examples in our collection and it is always a privilege to “give them life” by bringing them out from their protective storage and sharing them with people who are truly excited to view them up close. All the books and photographs in the world do not give you the look, smell and “age” of the real thing.
Māori weavers developed tāniko by using coloured horizontal threads with the whatu technique. By weaving the colours together detailed geometric patterns can be created. Tāniko is a very complex technique. On cloaks tāniko is only used as a border, making use of the same threads as the cloak’s main body, so weavers plan the entire cloak before beginning to weave. Tāniko is also used to make pari (bodices), tīpare (headbands), tāpeka (sashes), tātua (belts), and taonga whakapaipai (jewellery).
Kia ora to our generous visitors for their enthusiasm and sharing of knowledge. Your visits make our job really enjoyable and worthwhile.
and Karen Roberts (Whanganui) who are studying with Te Wānanga o Aotearoa for Te Maunga Kura Toi – Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts, majoring in raranga.
Both studying with Te Wānanga o Aotearoa for Kawai Raupapa Diploma in Māori Visual Arts majoring in raranga.
Ani McGuire (Heretaunga, Kohupatiki te marae) who is undertaking a weaving commission for Tainui.
Kahra, Jahana and Shaatchi Te Whaiti, Alyson’s daughter and mokopuna; the next generation of raranga enthusiasts.
Karen and Alyson travel to Te Kuiti each month for study, Debbie and Wiremu travel to Te Papaioea (Palmerston North) but all live either in Ahuriri (Napier) or Heretaunga (Hastings).
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They are really scared little boys when they are all alone.
See details. Can she #metoo me?
Are there Gender Differences in Antidepressant Behavior?
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Divorce and the Home Inspection.
I am celebrating 29 years of marriage with my first wife in April so I don’t know about divorce other than second hand knowledge. I can’t imagine how it feels to go through it. What I do know is that often one spouse or the other gets the house while the other get the pension, savings or other assets they have accumulated together. If you end up with the house don’t get the short end of the stick…get a Home Inspection before you agree to your final terms. Here’s why.
Regardless of the age of the building there can be serious defects that may devalue the property. It’s not unthinkable that portions, let’s start with the roof, could be nearing the end of its useful life. Replacing a roof can cost thousands of dollars. A Heater, AC or Heat Pump is also a major expense. These things, according to Murphy’s Law, will happen just when you can’t afford it. A divorce is basically a business transaction, so treat it as such. Keep the emotions out of it and make sure you know what you’re getting.
If you have lived in the home for a while, it is likely that the major house systems have worked just fine, and most people don’t contemplate replacing big items until they fail. Nothing lasts forever, things break or wear out.
Worse than the things that you might expect to replace and may have even taken into consideration, is the unexpected. There are many potential issues with foundations. Unless you know what to look for, a seemingly minor issue may lead to substantial costs. It’s not uncommon for structural repairs to go into the tens of thousands of dollars.
Don’t mistake an appraisal for a Home Inspection. Appraisers don’t necessarily take into account repairs that may be needed. You need a Home Inspection!
There is a lot of information available and more Lawyers and Realtors are becoming aware of the value of a Home Inspection before a divorce is final. Consider one for your peace of mind.
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A few months ago I wrote on this blog about my pre-MFA experience (traveling and writing before beginning my studies at NYU). And now, if it’s alright, I’d like to update you on how my first semester went… I intend to focus on detailing the poetry culture surrounding the MFA program at NYU.
So, the program is situated within the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House. The house is located in the heart of Greenwich Village with a plethora of shops, cafes, restaurants, and bookstores around. Aside from one “Master’s Class” offered to undergraduate students (and taught by Marie Howe this semester) there are no other undergraduate classes or departments using the Creative Writer’s House. Thus, it’s only your poems and your MFA cohort occupying this private Greenwich Village townhouse, along a quiet tree-lined street off Sixth Avenue. So cute!
Some of my favorite memories from this semester have been merely writing and reading in this house. I find myself delving into books of poetry, next to a classmate in the common room, our attention only broken by the footsteps of Sharon Olds walking down the stairway. She will comment on the weather or the shine of the freshly polished handrails or just say a quick “hello” before we, students, immerse ourselves back into our books.
Anyways, in NYU’s MFA program a full course load is 8 credits per semester (one craft course, one workshop course). Classes are usually held Mondays, Tuesdays, or Wednesdays. This semester I took Charles Simic for my workshop (on Monday evenings) and Major Jackson for my craft (on Tuesday evenings). Each class meets once a week for three hours, so the course load is not too overbearing. Most everyone in the program is very self-motivated and has great passion for poetry. So the light course load is seen as an opportunity for independent study, not an opportunity for laziness. It is a place where intellectuality and creativity are cherished and encouraged. So the seats are usually filled before and after scheduled classes with students doing independent work.
The program staff, and faculty, and your classmates will let you know about journals that are accepting publications, upcoming readings in town, books that you must read, fellowships and retreats that you should apply for, they will help you workshop your poems outside of class, anything you need. I have found the community of poets at NYU to be extremely hospitable, informative, and also pretty damn diverse (for academia).
In my cohort there are people of different genders, sexualities, races, ages, economic classes, from geographical locations, everything! It seems as if everyone comes from vastly different lived experiences, is writing in different forms, and emulating/challenging different parts of the poetry cannon. We support each other in our diversity and promote a culture that celebrates each other’s differences and similarities.
When not in class, or doing independent work, students often congregate at the plethora of readings at the Writer’s House. The readings hosted by the MFA program usually occur every Thursday and Friday evening and bring in a menagerie of your favorite poets. You’ll find yourself sitting next to Philip Levine listening to Yusef Komunyakaa recite poems, or chatting with Sherman Alexie over wine and cheese in the reception area after his reading.
On Friday nights, there is also the student run reading series at the KGB Bar. So after the Writer’s House events on Fridays, people walk over to KGB together for some drinks and to mingle in a bit more rowdy of an environment. Those readings are usually filled with more grunts, and moans, and heckles and laughs than the prim and composed readings at the Writers House. But both are equally enjoyable. NYU students also frequent readings at Columbia, the New School, and throughout the other boroughs of NYC. Oh, and there are also sporadic panels/presentations/classes by visiting poets and publishers on Friday afternoons.
Many students also run their own reading series, or journals, or work for a publishing company or any variety of other literary organizations. Some students also get involved with Washington Square Review, the literary journal at NYU.
After a few weeks in the MFA program, it will begin to seem as if every writer (and publisher) lives within a few miles of you. And for the most part, it’s true. Several times, I’ve found myself finishing up a book and looking at the author bio to see that they live in Brooklyn. Several times I’ve emailed such poets and met up with them for lunch. There is so much community to discover and explore in NYC, I find it quite invigorating.
Lastly, I’d like to close this article with advice for prospective MFA students at NYU (or any poet seeking candidacy in another MFA program or any poet trying to “make it” in NYC or…). Remember that you are not building a network, you are building a community. You are excited to meet all of these poets and publishers because you appreciate their work and share a mutual admiration for the craft of poetry. Remember to not use people as a means to an end, to not look at them for their “network.” Remember that (even with your MFA degree and fancy new poetry friends) you will likely not be making money off of poetry. You will likely not become famous because of your poetry. But in the odd chance that you do become “famous” and make “money” off your poetry, remember that isn’t what you went into your MFA for. Remember that you went into your MFA to learn more about poetry, to be around other people who were also passionate about poetry, and to write the best damn poems you could.
Christopher Soto (aka Loma) is a queer latin@ punk poet who is concerned with dismantling patriarchy and white supremacy. They are currently curating Nepantla, an e-journal dedicated to queer poets of color, in collaboration with The Lambda Literary Foundation. They have work forthcoming from Columbia: A Journal, Acentos Review, Anti-, and more. They are an MFA candidate in Poetry at NYU.
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Come out and join us for EPIC's class where experienced teachers and communication partners will teach nonnative speakers substantial speaking practice!
$15 fee for course material at registration on Tuesday, January 29, 2019 @6:30 in Wells Hall B-wing near B110.
Classes are every Tuesday and Thursday from March 12 - April 18.
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Regression analysis is a field of statistics. It is a tool to show the relationship between the inputs and the outputs of a system. There are different ways to do this. Better curve fitting usually needs more complex calculations.
Data modeling can be used without any knowledge of underlying processes that have generated the data; in this case the model is an empirical model. Moreover, in modelling, knowledge of the probability distribution of the errors is not required. Regression analysis requires assumptions to be made regarding probability distribution of the errors. Statistical tests are made on the basis of these assumptions. In regression analysis the term "model" embraces both the function used to model the data and the assumptions concerning probability distributions.
Regression can be used for prediction (including forecasting of time-series data), inference, hypothesis testing, and modeling of causal relationships. These uses of regression rely heavily on the underlying assumptions being satisfied. Regression analysis has been criticized as being misused for these purposes in many cases where the appropriate assumptions cannot be verified to hold. One factor contributing to the misuse of regression is that it can take considerably more skill to critique a model than to fit a model.
The first type of regression analysis was linear regression. The Method of least squares was first published by Legendre in 1805 and in 1809 by Gauß. Both used the method to predict the movement of planets around the sun. Gauss published an improved method in 1821.
↑ R. Dennis Cook; Sanford Weisberg "Criticism and Influence Analysis in Regression", Sociological Methodology, Vol. 13. (1982), pp. 313–361.
↑ A.M. Legendre. Nouvelles méthodes pour la détermination des orbites des comètes (1805). “Sur la Méthode des moindres quarrés” is an appendix.
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I can’t really pinpoint anything that helped me. I think my eating disorder started for two reasons. 1. I lost a ton of weight after having jaw surgery because I couldn’t eat and it was the only time people complimented my appearance. 2. My life was out of control with depression and other issues (being a teenager was one of them). Being anorexic made me feel like I was in control of something.
I think I started getting better when I deluded myself into thinking I had control by substituting it for another unhealthy behavior. I would also emotionally binge eat, which doesn’t solve anything. I finally got over that by working out. That has been key as well as trying to stay on track with eating about every 3 hours because I work out so much.
The two behaviors feed into each other. Working out de-stresses me. If I don’t eat enough, I perform poorly or not at all. Then I get depressed and stressed out. So that’s how I make it work. There are still times when I think about being anorexic again, but I like being strong and happy versus thin and depressed. It’s taken a long time to get my head that way.
It’s a relief to hear you say you eat about every 3 hours! Lots of people say every 4 but I’m so hungry if I wait that long, but I feel so ashamed of being hungry then (why would being hungry make me a lesser person? – twisted mind). Regular consistent eating really is key – thank you for the reminder!
Structured eating for me is key. Breakfast 8am, Lunch 12-1 and tea at 6. Maybe a snack if I’ve got a busy day in terms of work. As soon as I skip any meal, I then make bad food choices and improvisation leads to a whole heap of mayhem. I also plan what I am eating the next day and send it via text to a person who has suffered with food difficulties. She acts as a witness and I am therefore more likely to stick to the plan. I also have erradicated certain food from my diet because they are trigger foods and as much as I hate to admit it, it’s as deadly for me to even take one bite in the same way that giving an alcoholic a single shot of gin in madness. No cake, no biscuits, no chocolate – it always ends in the gut wrenching need for more, never satisfies, always ends in purge.
Also, I don’t weigh myself. Because that brings on the insanity and behaviors. Without the scales, I am free to live and experience my day authentically without a number dictating the state of play.
I know you may not want to hear this but your post is exactly the type of posts I need to read before going into treatment. You may feel worse off due to behavior but your *attitude* gives me huge hope of recovery after treatment. I’m under no delusion that I will be fixed. Treatment is simply to break the cycle of behavior and then I’ll have to do the real work and build a real foundation “after” I get home. Your actions are probably more amazing then you may realize.
1. I need a treatment center to break the cycle. You have “chosen” to go to a friends to break the cycle.
2. I need to learn what the hell self-care looks like. You “are” doing self-care by doing what you need to do regardless of comfort.
3. I fear I’ve lost the rational voice of recovery. Your rational voice is loud and clear.
Can you see the example you are for those of us still really, really struggling? I don’t want to negate your struggles though and I know it is like a living hell at times. I have been in recovery before but this time I hope will be different and a part of it is this community on wordpress I’ve been so fortunate to bump in to.
Also, I live alone, have always lived alone. It is extraordinarily difficult because, in essence, we have to be accountable to ourselves. Right now I can’t so I’m going into treatment. You recognize that you can’t either so you’re going to a friends. And even though she won’t know you are being accountable to her, you are. I was starting to do that. I would put myself with people I knew I’d be safe with. It’s almost like a half step toward self-accountability.
Living by ourselves is a necessary step but the bigger step is in becoming our own parent, if you will. I was never parented so have no idea what that looks like. Your post though show’s a wee bit of it. I’m so happy I’ll be able to have my phone with me so I can continue to read posts like this. That isn’t to say you won’t have tantrum posts, like I just did, lol… but even those are helpful because the reality of recovery is that it isn’t all peaches and cream.
One thing on eating. I eat small meals all day long when I’m in recovery. It works better for how my body operates. I simply can’t do the 3 meals a day and a snack thing. It’s too restrictive and formal.
Yes! Thank you for this visual! I guess I’m following suit with the action I’m taking… how does that saying go?
Inch by inch everything’s a cinch, yard by yard everything’s hard.
Just realizing that you need a little more guidance right now, even in the form of simply being around someone, is incredibly strong. It shows that you are really trying to get on top of it, and it’s inspiring.
Living with someone does help me, but I think I started to make little changes, like staggering medications so that if I were to purge, I would throw them up, and I really do need them to feel OK, or when I felt like bingeing I would drink tea and do something else with my hands. CBT had helped a lot.
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A neurological assessment is an evaluation of a person’s nervous system, which includes the brain, spinal cord, and the nerves that connect these areas to other parts of the body. A neurological exam is done to assess for any abnormalities in the nervous system that can cause problems with daily functioning. A complete exam includes evaluation of an individual’s speech, awareness of environment, motor function and balance (walking ability, muscle strength, and tone), sensation, reflexes, coordination, and the 12 cranial nerves of the brain. These nerves are involved in smell, vision, pupil activity, eye movement, taste, hearing, swallowing, and movement of the face, neck, and shoulders. The health provider will use tools such as lights and reflex hammers to test these various functions of the body; the typical neurological exam will also include a general physical examination and discussion of symptoms and medical history to put any neurological abnormalities into context.
A neuropsychological assessment is conducted if a person has experienced trauma or head injury, or reports a range of symptoms that may include dizziness, blurry vision, confusion or difficulty with motor functions. It often includes non-invasive measures of brain activity including an EEG (Electroenchephalography), which captures brain wave activity; an EMG (Electromyography), which captures nerve activity from the brain or spinal cord to a peripheral nerve such as in the arm or leg, and brain scans such as fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging). If a neurodevelopmental condition such as Autism Spectrum Disorder or a neurodegenerative disorder such as Alzheimer's Disease or Parkinson's is to be ruled in or out, an assessment may be paired with neuropsychological tests, which involve pen and paper tests and clinical interviews.
Can Cognitive Testing Really Measure Our Brain Function?
A new generation of online cognitive tools are able to measure how specific regions of our brain are functioning, rather than just how good we are at any one test.
Performance on a test at the end of a course does not always correlate with long-term learning. But we found a brain marker that does.
Have you ever confused left and right? It is more common than you might think.
Your primary care provider may not have all the answers. Seek out a specialist if, after seeing your doctor, you are still concerned about your memory.
I got up at 5:30 a.m to walk my dog; the next 8 to 10 hours are a complete blank. I did not have a stroke or other malignant event; here's why I did not see it coming.
Find an expert in neurological assessment.
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I´mm writing a book of ufology, and i would like to ask for your permission to reproduce some of the pictures of your web (some photos of german saucers and their sketches). If you can´t grant the permission because you are not the owner of the images. ¿could you let me know who is the owner to do the same with him/her?
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Sally is now available. Get your copy before the printing press catches fire from trying to keep up with demand. Ms Sara is a writer with unique stories that mix a little John Steinbeck, Zane Grey, and Danielle Steele in the telling of a young woman who transforms her life outside of the demand of the old paternal hegemony.
I just received my print copy and it’s excellently done. Sally really goes through a lot as the story unfolds. She comes to rely on herself and the story really takes off at a gallop.
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2019-04-22T02:29:57Z
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Backtrack two years, and I’d never even heard about blogging. At that point. I’d started writing my first book: a collection of Short Stories and vignettes, which ultimately became ’25 Stories of Life and Love in Australia’.
Writing a book was one thing: blogging, quite another. And I had no idea that authors were expected to share their life with the rest of the world, by way of writing a blog.
But, once I’d tasted it, I began to relish blogging. It has so much going for it.
Blogging allows for immediate publication. There’s no need to wait: and many posts are so much better for being relevant to current circumstances. Flowers, seasons, new literary releases, current affairs: the list is endless.
More: results can be almost immediate. Within minutes, I’ve had positive feedback: thoughtful comments, or even a simple ‘like’ bring their reward.
Linked to this is the associations: even friendships: that can be engendered between bloggers and their readers. Meaningful conversations can be had, and information transferred between blogger and commentator. What other medium allows for such easy and potentially valuable communication?
Sure, social networking sites also have this application, yet blogging seems to me to have greater potential. Don’t the other sites tend to have much scantier development of ideas?
Lastly, there’s the ever-present potential to be nominated out of the blue for Blogging Awards. I’ve been nominated twice: The Versatile Blogger and The Sunshine Award. Fun!
If you’re thinking about starting your own blog: well, think no more. Just do it!
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jackmac456 I typed in bobobo XD.
no star because you may have chosen possibly one of the best songs anyone can get there hands on but all and all this is suppose to be a demonstration of your animation skills to create a video that will make people want to watch, not some music player with a screen saver. Look I don't know who did, but if it was blammed 5 times you might want to take into consideration maybe there is something about this that just doesn't fit in place here.
My final flash to Newgrounds.
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Nobody likes to think about what life would look like should disability occur. But the reality is one third of all Americans between the ages 35 and 65 will become disabled for more than 90 days, according to the American Council of Life Insurers. Loss of income can devastate families. Long Term Disability Insurance is designed to cover lost wages in the event of a disabling accident or illness. Different policies have different stipulations but nearly all require a waiting period before disability payments begin and will reimburse for a pre-defined percentage of your income, generally 45% – 60%. There are two broad categories, Long Term Disability (LTD) and Short Term Disability (STD). Premiums and waiting periods will differ between the two types along short term and long term category lines. Essential Insurance Concepts offers competitive plans and can provide valuable assistance in this area.
Many people don’t consider disability protection because they don’t think they would need it, or it is covered under employer health plans or workers’ compensation. Yet the need for disability protection is greater than for life insurance, at least when considering the probability of becoming disabled for some significant interval versus dying prematurely. Individual coverage is available, so contact Essential Insurance Concepts today.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Healthcare Reform, will have an impact on all employers in Texas. With the election over, it is almost a forgone conclusion that the Act will be implemented over the next several months.
There is no question that there will be significant issues facing employers over the next number of years. These issues will most likely mean higher health care costs and more administrative time.
The (PPAC) creates many questions for employers and we are here to help you design a plan of how to respond. Essential Insurance Concepts understand this and is pleased to announce the formation of our Benefits Group which will help our clients and prospects work through the new law. We now offer a wide range of life and health services and have access to a number of competitive providers.
Although many of the provisions of PPACA don’t take effect until 2014, the law — along with the continuing trend of skyrocketing health costs — is prompting many employers to take major steps during this enrollment season. Yet as employers begin to create strategies to adjust plan design and costs under PPACA, many still remain in the dark as to how to fully implement the law.
One drawback of the reform, is that there are no caps on health insurance premiums, so expect some rate increases. If you have more than 50 employees, you will have to provide coverage or pay a fine beginning in 2014. As of 2013, there will be new taxes on income for small business owners; we recommend you consult with your tax professional.
Employers with more than 200 full-time employees that offer health coverage to their employees will be required to automatically enroll new and current fulltime employees in one of the plans offered, with employees having the option to opt out.
Essential Insurance Concepts has already developed strategies for our clients. If you are concerned about the effects of reform please contact our office.
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Should I be a Trucker?
I have had many folks IM, email or phone me asking about a career in trucking. Is it a good time to become a driver? I was laid off and hear driving pays well. Should I do it? These and other similar questions often come my way.
Honestly, right now I would have to say no. First, the pay is generally no where as good as one thinks it is. Second, the hours are long. You are gone from your family and friends for weeks on end. This means missing the ballgame, birthdays, holidays and other events….as well as dinner with the family or tucking the little ones into bed. You “work” about 100 irregular hours a week and log about 60. Be real, anyone making out there knows you do. Work can range from driving, loading or waiting on dispatch for a load just to name a few. Third, the economy is just supporting the need for drivers at this time. Companies have hiring freezes on and go talk to a driver. Stop by a truck stop and have a chat. Buy him/her a cup of coffee and talk to them. Miles are down for most drivers. O/Os are hanging on by threads unless they are a rare, well established “lucky” one.
Need more proof – read on……….
Trucking Jobs Fell 2.5% In Feb.
Teamsters strike. Since October, trucking employment is down 6.4 percent.
January 2007, according to BLS figures.
New US entry ID required June 1-Do you have the proper ID?
More paperwork and documents needed for air travel.
On June 1, 2009, all travelers entering the United States will be required to present a single document denoting both citizenship and identity.
According to information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), many cross-border travelers already have the necessary documents such as a passport, passport card or a trusted traveler card (NEXUS, SENTRI, and FAST), or an enhanced driver’s license (EDL) currently issued by the states of Washington, New York, and Vermont and the Province of British Columbia. The State of Michigan and additional Canadian provinces will be issuing EDLs in the coming months.
The document requirement already is in place for all air travelers, and applies to travelers entering the United States who were previously exempt, including citizens of the US, Canada, and Bermuda.
The requirement is part of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative prompted by security concerns following the terrorists attacks on the United States in 2001.
DHS announced recently that all statutory criteria required by the initiative have been met so that the program implementation can begin June 1.
Be sure to subscribe to the RSS from Words of Wisdom found at http://thedotdoctor.com/the_dot_doctor_speaks to stay current on all the industry news and happenings.
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2019-04-21T18:19:21Z
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https://dotdoctor.wordpress.com/2009/03/
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This entry was posted on 0, 17 de novembro de 2018 at 10:03 and is filed under Sem categoria. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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2019-04-23T22:30:03Z
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Reality just hit me out of nowhere and it hit hard.
Yesterday Morning, I thought of writing a post about how I live in a Dream World and now, the reality is slowly hitting me. And how my life is going from bad to worse. But I’m glad that I didn’t write about it.! Because, I’m Back in the Dream World! Its amazing how some Quality time with friends can change you.
Running away from the Reality.
This entry was posted in About me, friendship, post a day 2011 and tagged dream world, dreams, friends, postaday2011, reality. Bookmark the permalink.
I always love dreaming. I was born to be a dreamer maybe. Hahhaha.
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2019-04-25T22:40:18Z
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https://heyitzindu.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/hit-n-run/
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I spent a week (re)learning about organization(al) development (OD) last week. It seems there is some disagreement in whether or not you include the “al” when naming the discipline. I infer it depends upon when and where you first began studying OD. For me, it began studying at George Washington University’s School of Education and Human Development (GSEHD). I received my Masters Degree in Ed. and Human Development in 1997. My studies emphasized Organizational Development. It doesn’t really matter. What really matters is that GSEHD still claims its purpose is that “Transformation Begins Here.” That was its purpose back then too.
We spend a lot of time these days in church committees and leadership programs talking about change, evangelism, vitality, stewardship, sources of transformation . We contemplate and make decisions about important topics relating to God’s mission and purpose for contemporary human beings and the systems they abide in. This is powerful stuff. The Feast of The Transfiguration is upon us in a few days. Seems like a great time to do more than just preach, talk, or otherwise diddle about changing our world.
The College of Congregational Development, (CCD) claims that a Christian congregation’s primary purpose is to be Christ’s Body. With God’s help, creative Christians live and act as God’s loving presence. Such discipleship renews the faithful as well as this world. How does this happen? Well, CCD teaches that transformation unfolds through concerted and contextual efforts (interventions in OD language) to be God’s messengers of forgiveness & hope. Resourceful Christians affirm compassionately that communities believe life is graceful and difficult. Our churches are responsible for promoting the further in-breaking of God’s realm of justice, grace, and vitality. Such sacred spaces, and people faithfully strive to incarnate reconciliation, courage, compassion, justice, peace, and hope.” (College for Congregational Development Manual – Year A, 2017, p.29). That’s a lengthy purpose statement. It takes more than a week, perhaps as much as an entire lifetime to even begin to comprehend, analyze, and engage it all.
Let’s see if I can sum it up.
Such faithful discipleship is chips all in, bare-naked belief in a God who willingly, joyously, hopefully invites us to participate in the creation of a world where other people’s needs are as important as our own. Being a Change Agent in the Church these days isn’t merely about increasing average Sunday attendance. Transitioning congregations from one way of life to The Way isn’t about improving stewardship. Transformation begins inside of everyone who, however meekly and uncertainly, says yes to God’s soulful bidding to redeem the world’s brokenness, within our own contexts. It requires a lot of laughs with friends. Sitting with someone on the threshold of deep, deep grief is a mandate. Personally, I need time in God’s Creation by myself, usually early in the morning. I reacquainted myself last week with the realities that vital Christian communities require people with all sort of personalities. I personally am striving to spend more time in all 16 rooms of the Myers & Briggs Personality Types. As I’m aging, I’m reacquainting with my need for introverted renewal as well as for more spontaneity. I’d like to believe that God delights in such random wanderings. Jesus stayed on task for almost all of his documented life. Oh well, I believe as best I can in Jesus Christ and … I’m not him.
Anne Lamott published a phenomenal book entitled Traveling Mercies about two years after I graduated from GW. Anne shares her life stories about her addiction, her faith, and miraculous stumbling pilgrimage to sobriety and wellness. She writes: “When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.” 18 years later, in her TEDTalk, she says: “You’re going to feel like hell one day if you wake up some day and you never wrote the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves of your heart.” … your truths, your versions of things in your own voice. That’s all you really have to offer us. And that’s also why you were born.” (Anne Lamott, April 2017, 8′, 20″).
I’m musing about transformation alot. I want my life, my relationship with my spouse and our three cats (abiding in two separate houses because it is just easier that way) to be heavenly. I want to develop crazy-like Petrine courage and jump into the water for Jesus. I don’t have it yet and I may never gain it. I would prefer that the Episcopal Church’s existence is indeed more than a rumor. I show up at organizational design meetings and congregational development programs because these values are important to me. I think it is purposeful to be risky as a spiritual and human being. Trying to get it done at the poker table of faith is better than sitting in the audience.
Resurrection – My What for.
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2019-04-21T22:45:19Z
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https://cmecmusings.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/going-all-in-or-at-least-a-lot-of-the-way/
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My fellow passengers seemed to be enlivened and excited.
If only my friend’s pain had been neck ache, not cancer.
If only people cared about their impact upon others.
If only you could feel some of my angst too.
If only we could go back and start again, when your dad blew his load into a dirty old sock, blue.
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2019-04-18T10:17:36Z
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https://svetkasamizdat.wordpress.com/category/if-only/
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El Cuartito – Buenos Aires, Argentina | rubybeanx.
Pizza isn’t hard to find in Buenos Aires thanks to the huge Italian immigrant community living here. Think Lygon Street mixed with Jersey Shore on crack. And damn these Argentine Italians make good pizza. We hit El Cuartito, a staple in any tourist’s or Congreso inhabitant’s diet. Celebrating its 75th year in operation, El Cuartito has wall to wall covered with soccer memorabilia. It reminds me a little bit of Rocky’s La Porchetta in Carlton, but way cooler and just as cheesy (pun half intended). Walking in at the tourist’s dinner time of 7pm instead of Argentinian dining time of 8pm and onwards, the diner was full of tourists and old guys. The waiters were all old men who looked like they’d worked there for the entire 75 years of the pizzeria’s existence.
Service was concise, friendly and efficient – the pizza was spectacular. Delicious thick based thick crust pizza, covered in its entirety with luxurious ‘muzzarella’ cheese. It makes so much sense to me, I don’t get the point of leaving the crust uncheesed on an eat-in pizza. We asked for The Atomic, and while Argentines are notorious for not adding chilli to their foods, our pizza had a thick layer of what looked like chimichurri but minus the oil and plus a tonne of chilli flakes. We also had a delicious empanada frita and a slice of faina – an Argentine style pizza made from chickpeas and flour. The faina was brilliant yellow and weirdly addictive, it made for a yummy appetizer. Old Italian guys living in Buenos Aires sure know how to impress a girl with a hungry appetite, and they provide an excellent break from the meat eating scavenge of the city.
OK to bring a date? no, much better for casual eats.
Tags: Buenos Aires, cheap eats, pizza. Bookmark the permalink.
Mmm, I love the pizza al Quartito!
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