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“We scored late. There were five minutes of added time but we couldn’t turn it around. I think the first match was key because four goals are a lot in the Champions League, but the team were focused on trying to reach the final. We scored two goals but we could have had four or five, Higuain, Ozil and I had chances in the first half. We showed that we are better than them. We’re a bit sad because we thought we could have been in the final (…) The team fought hard and the fans were amazing,.” - Cristiano Ronaldo (video) | 30-04-13
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“It is a shame, that’s football and when you lose it is better to perform they way we did. If we had gone out in Dortmund with half of what we did today … it would have been a different story. The crowd gave everything for us and it was a shame to have been so close. In the first half we had a lot of chances but we couldn’t take advantage of them and it wasn’t to be.” - Sergio Ramos (video) | 30-04-13
Iker Casillas consoles teammate Sergio Ramos after the UEFA Champions League Semi Final.
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If you have found yourself in the (un)fortunate position of having to use LinkedIn's shareArticle API to share a URL, you may notice that there is around zero articles detailing exactly how to utilize the API correctly. Even LinkedIn doesn't have an official developer support page which details exactly how to use their shareArticle API.
Too Long, Didn't Read:
Use proper meta tags and image combinations and just give LinkedIn the url parameter to their shareArticle API
Lucky for you I recently had to deal with this horribly under-documented share functionality at work and am going to outline exactly what to do to get it working!
Theoretically the shareArticle API should work like this, and actually this is how you want to use it:
You may notice that if you try this with your webpage, LinkedIn doesn't gather all the correct information about your page, or possibly it doesn't gather any information about your page except for its title and url. Where is the thumbnail? And where is the description? Lucky for you there's no documentation describing how you can get LinkedIn to pull that information save for a couple forum postings...that have no helpful information. But the shareArticle API also allows you to pass some GET params to the shareArticle API - to trick you, you see, into doing it the wrong way. For example, you can specify title, description, source and a couple other things (ooh this looks like it solves our problem!):...
Except...that if you try sending that URL to LinkedIn and your url-encoded URL is longer than approx. 700 characters, the LinkedIn script throws a Javascript error on IE6&7 on Windows XP, only! Because this is a Javascript error on the LinkedIn side, you have zero control over how it can be fixed, and if you are dealing with a dynamic length description or title, or source url, constructing this URL can be extremely problematic.
Solution
Ignore LinkedIn's red-herring extra GET parameters, and just specify the url GET parameter. This will cause LinkedIn to ping back on your URL and look for these tags (title, meta description, img...):
<html> <head> <title>The Title!</title> <meta name="description" content="This is the description of your linkedIn Article!"> </head> <body> <img src="/my/img/path.jpg"> <img src="/my/img/path2.jpg"> </body> </html>
If you're having trouble getting the images to work because your page is so cluttered, you can setup your page to skim the browser user-agent and look for 'LinkedInBot', and display an altered form of the webpage for LinkedIn specifically.
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Just reading Jimbo Wales' comment on the home page of the Search Wikia project which states that "search is broken" and then goes on to say:
Why is it broken? It is broken for the same reason that proprietary software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community, lack of accountability, lack of transparency. Here, we will change all that.
Why is it broken? It is broken for the same reason that proprietary software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community, lack of accountability, lack of transparency. Here, we will change all that.
We're going to see a lot more of this in the coming years where people flock to non-proprietary, collaborative systems (think Wikipedia, Linux, Flickr). If you don't know a lot about the economics of mass collaboration I'd really encourage you to grab a copy of this book:
I purchased the CD audio version and have listened to is a few times in the past couple of weeks - it really has my mind stirring with new ideas.
posted on 6/30/2007 7:53:18 PM ( 0 Comments )
This is good to see...
Brad Abrams : Visual Studio in Second Life
Brad Abrams : Visual Studio in Second Life
I wonder how long it will be before Readify has an apartment in there?
See you in there!
posted on 6/29/2007 10:15:03 PM ( 0 Comments )
There on 6/29/2007 2:37:49 PM ( 1 Comments )
An interesting read:
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - RE: Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - RE: Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective
Make sure that you follow the link from there through to the full phatbits article. Something that each of us may be confronted with at some stage I guess.
posted on 6/29/2007 2:22:18 PM ( 0 Comments )
Quite often I'll hear Readify referred to as a virtual company. The 'virtual' tag is applied to us by both internal as well as external observers - but what does it actually mean? And is it an accurate tag to apply to us?
To me the term 'virtual' means "not real" or "almost real" - certainly not something that I equate with our company. After all, it was only last week that I sat down for a meal with a bunch of our guys at Darling Harbor in Sydney. Heck, it even set me back 70 bucks... what could be more real than that? To me "virtual" is more of a SecondLife type of experience. Actually I believe that as mechanisms such as Ideagoras and Crowdsourcing start to play a bigger part in how we share knowledge that will start to see true "virtual" organizations start to take shape - maybe virtual organizations that look nothing like organizations of today but which look more like virtual swarms that exist to solve important problems and then disassemble and vaporize just as soon as they formed. But this is not anywhere near where we are at today.
I prefer to think of Readify from the viewpoint that we are highly distributed and decentralized. In this sense we are more like a "remote" (although I prefer the term "distant") company. Another, probably better term is that we are a highly mobile organization. You see, to me, "mobility" means that we are able to work from anywhere. This is closer to my real working model where I work from wherever I am at any given point in time. The slight (although significant) difference from "remote/distant" is that the latter implies that you are simply working offsite. A minor differentiation but one which is important when you live and work how I do each day!
Actually, according to this article, many more of us are at least migrating away from our ties to working from a central location. If the statistics quoted in that article are correct, 14% of the US workforce currently works "from home" at least 2 days per week. This is up from 11% in 2004 and is expected to rise to 17% within 2 years. Certainly worth considering in terms of the opportunities that will arise from this new growth.
The trick with a mobile organization is having the right tools to enable key scenarios - such as collaboration as well as communication at a human level. This article touches on some aspects of these key points.
At Readify we're experiencing all of these exciting new developments in our daily lives and it's an exciting place to be. Moving forward I can see further evolution in the mobility model. Increased mobility - and hence less dependence on location - will lead to us having:
posted on 6/27/2007 9:52:27 PM ( 1 Comments )
Phil writes about the fact that Microsoft appears to be getting more behind open source development:
Christmas For .NET Open Source Came Early This Year
Christmas For .NET Open Source Came Early This Year
This is going to be really interesting to watch. Is this the beginning of Microsoft opening up?
posted on 6/27/2007 8:44:09 PM ( 0 Comments )
At home I have this habit where, whenever I purchase a new article of clothing, I turf out an equivalent number of old items. Buy a new shirt - turf an old one. In with new socks, out with some old ones. New hanky in - old hanky out. You get the picture. The idea is to drive towards a wardrobe of clothes that always represent a current set based on what I prefer to wear. It's like survival of the fittest where each article of clothing has to compete to remain in the fold - although old jocks can only survive for so long .
I've started to actively do the same with my RSS subscriptions. I use the trigger of new subscriptions as a point of evaluation for items in my current subscription list. I don't unsubscribed from feeds on a pure 1-1 basis. What I do is to look at the number of items that the new feed will add to my reader each week and look to unsubscribe from a number of feeds that is representative of that number of individual reading items. This helps to ensure that the signal to noise ratio is always being fine tuned on a proper comparative basis.
Over the past 6 months I've started tuning in much more to feeds that focus on the theory knowledge management and less on individual technologies and implementation related blogs. As an example I've added blogs such as:
At the same time my interest in low level details about implementation has waned somewhat. In recent times, to match the intake from the blogs that I've listed above I've unsubscribed to some really excellent blogs about CRM, SharePoint, and design patterns:
It's not that these blogs are not a good read - they've served me extremely well in the past. It's just that, beyond a certain point, reading stuff can interfere with doing stuff. So hence the need for constant pruning and vigilance in maintaining the right level of signal to noise. By the same token, there's a couple of blogs that I've kept - mostly because they are friends - but who seldom update me with their articles these days:
Although they tend to clutter my reader I've kept a hold of them in the hope that they may one day again inspire me with their tales from the trenches
posted on 6/27/2007 1:35:51 PM ( 1 Comments )
I was having lunch with a colleague today and we were talking about the economics of mass collaboration. I was talking about how knowledge is the new commodity that is driving the phenomenon of mass collaboration. My colleague mentioned that this all sounded very socialistic. We continued to bash that thought around and I knew where he was getting at... he was looking for the weakness in this model (he's very good at doing that ). The questions were taking a familiar line, basically - what is the motivation for participation? Why do people give up their spare time to contribute on these community collaborations? And can we be sure that the motivations will always be there? Then he asked a question from a viewpoint that I hadn't considered before:
Isn't it unfair on the people who are investing their time and knowledge that there are leeches who take without putting knowledge into the ecosystem?
This is a great question and one that I'm not sure that I have a great answer for straight off the bat. I'll gladly listen to the thoughts of others on this question. I guess that the real question might be... do you think that this phenomenon is nothing more than an interesting social experiment and that it will last for as long as it can capture the imagination of its participants? Or do you think that all of this new found time and exchange of intangible goods is actually coming from a true and long-lasting source of economic activity?
posted on 6/26/2007 5:00:58 PM ( 4 Comments )
Here's an interesting article by Danah Boyd which talks about the growth of these 2 social networking sites and the battle that is currently raging between them to gain an ascendency:
Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
Some of the really important points that Danah raises are over whether these sites represent different classes of American youth. Could it be true that MySpace is the blue collar portal and that Facebook is for the white collar mob? Interesting discussion. Here's a snippet taken from the article to give you a taste for on 6/26/2007 7:02:07 AM ( 0 Comments )
I hadn't seen this before:
Current TV // The TV Network Created By The People Who Watch It
Current TV // The TV Network Created By The People Who Watch It
It's a global, public TV network where you can filter and vote for content. This is surely the future of TV where we can choose our own content and have much more of a say in how content is personalized for us but also with enough emergent behavior to influence what other people watch by voting for the most popular content.
posted on 6/25/2007 8:45:06 PM ( 0 Comments )
Here's a link to an on-demand copy of the Enterprise 2.0 debate between Andrew McAfee (he is credited with coining the term Enterprise 2.0) and Tom Davenport (he doesn't think we need the term) which took place at the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston:
Enterprise 2.0 Live Debate
Enterprise 2.0 Live Debate
The debate is useful for uncovering some of the major topics behind Enterprise 2.0 including:
There's a lot of good stuff in there about emergent technology and enlightened leadership. The beauty of this piece is that it looks at the topic from both sides of the argument.
posted on 6/25/2007 6:02:13 PM ( 0 Comments )
A while ago I mentioned the new themes that have been added to Google Portal and I thought that I'd write a quick note to talk what one of my standard days looks like these days...
In the morning I love to get up early and have a coffee with Paul Stovell while I read the paper and check my emails...
In the Dev Centre there's plenty of time in the morning for goofing around. Often Paul and I shoot water cannons at one another before we get stuck into our work...
... or practice a bit of karate...
... on other mornings it's nice to just kick back with a nice, gentleman-like game of badminton...
... the weather in Adelaide has been great so we tend to grab our sandwiches and head outside for lunch...
In the afternoon's Paul's favorite activity is water-sliding...
... but I much prefer a quiet game of croquet (Stovell never beats me at this )...
... anyway, when the day is done it's time to start preparing for the night. It's been a bit cold at night this winter so we generally prepare a bit of a fire...
... which, of course leads to marshmallows and Stovell's endless stories about his data binding feats!
.... then it's time to Sleep...
... and Dream - although I've been having some weird one's lately...
It's a busy life
posted on 6/20/2007 8:32:56 PM ( 0 Comments )
Leadership is the buzzword of today and as a member of the management team at Readify, I can confirm that it's been one of our most discussed topics of the past year. We've constantly looked for ways to both reward leadership behaviors and to provide better incentives for people to exhibit them. The pursuit of leadership is not only limited to management. This year I've been given the role of managing our Professional Development (PD) program at Readify and I've already observed that it's a hot topic among the rest of our staff too. People everywhere are demanding better leadership and at the same time they want to become better leaders themselves.
This has led me to try and learn more about leadership in the hope that I might better understand the role of PD in satisfying people's hunger for leadership. Overall I suspect that the emphasis on leadership is somewhat misleading. All the talk of leadership has served to distort people's own understanding of what they are truly after. I suspect that what people really want is to achieve a sense of empowerment as well as an ability to more fully realize their own true potential.
Because of this, my emphasis for the PD program so far has been to work with people to understand their goals and what motivates them. By focusing on goals it becomes easier to tailor a program of activities that leads to the ultimate goal - to allow a person to self-actualize goals and visualize growth in their own capabilities.
posted on 6/19/2007 7:34:53 AM ( 0 Comments )
Recently I managed to awaken myself to what I had previously overlooked about Web 2.0. As much as respectable magazines such as Time had tried to remind me, I'd managed to drift off into this state of Ajax'y unconsciousness. And so it was as I was using Twitter to monitor the activity of my social network when I totally jumped the shark and entered the following text into my Twitter account:
My last entry on Twitter
My last entry on Twitter
All that 1337 speak and talk of cats drove me to this moment of insanity and it happened. I just typed those words, closed my browser, and moved on. And in that single moment I proved it... I had missed the whole point of Web 2.0 applications like Twitter - which is that they are "Me" focused! To remove the noise I simply adjust the channels that I'm subscribed to and voila, problem solved. So Web 2.0 == You. Don't like something remove it; find something new of interest, add it; then rearrange the order of things until the information fits you. Then take that information and mash-it up with something else to turn it into a higher level of information and you start the process of turning raw information into knowledge.
When you think about knowledge and its value you immediately start thinking about "the enterprise" - and hence the concept of Enterprise 2.0 has come to the surface quite a bit in recent times. Mind you there's also Commerce 2.0, B2B 2.0, Security 2.0, IT Manager 2.0, and a whole raft of other * 2.0 idioms.
While I haven't explored the entire * 2.0 family my attention of late is very much centered around the concept of Enterprise 2.0 and its value to businesses. Currently there are many ideas and theories washing around in my brain about the kinds of applications and mash-ups we need to create "Me" centered applications within the enterprise. The prospects are very exciting indeed! Imagine the value to business around having an Enterprise 2.0 knowledge framework that was so powerful that employees dared not leave it for the fear that they would lose access to valuable knowledge.
posted on 6/16/2007 1:16:55 PM ( 0 Comments )
I've written about Shared Items on Google Reader before but wanted to re-post because they are so cool and I wonder how many people are making use of that feature. This has drifted back to my attention after yesterday, having had a chat about them with Warren Schaefer at Melbourne airport who agrees about their coolness.
How it works is that as I'm reading items within Reader, there is a "Share" button at the bottom of each item:
As I come across articles that I think are of exceptional value I click on that button and the item is then available to be shared. By sharing the item it is available via the following link which also exposes itself as an RSS feed:
There is also a nice web part that they make available so that I can present a view of my shared items on my blog:
I'm firmly of the opinion that each of us must read some incredible articles each day and without a sharing experience such as this, then this knowledge sharing opportunity is either lost or just poorly translated as time passes waiting for me to blog about it. Clicking on a share button means that the "cream of the crop" is always shared though and so the things that I read that are valuable are available as a filtered list for people to view.
If you are interested in * 2.0 (Web, Enterprise, etc) discussions, team based development, .NET, then I'd highly encourage you to subscribe to my shared items feed because that's where you will find the best knowledge that I see each day about those topics. And if you have a Shared Items link please add it as a comment to this post so that I can subscribe to yours - in your comment please let me know what content categories your shared items are likely to contain
posted on 6/16/2007 9:57:21 AM ( 1 Comments )
Yesterday I wrote an article which questions whether or not the daily Scrum meetings stifle creativity. Thankfully Richard added a comment which pointed me to an article by Martin Fowler about the Patterns of Daily Stand-up Meetings. Having been on a couple of highly functional teams in the past I can relate to much of what Martin is saying but some of it was a revelation to me and, although it's a rather lengthy article, I'd highly recommend downloading it and reading it over a coffee in an appropriately quiet place.
Reading the article actually made me wonder about the suitability of Scrum daily meetings to the Dev Centre. After all, the Scrum daily meetings are very much targeted at teams who are working on the same project whereas the Dev Centre is often a very different world. For one, the teams in the Dev Centre tend to be highly disrupted; people tend to come and go all the time. You might be working on a project in the Dev Centre today but in 2 weeks time you may not be there at all. Another significant difference is that it's actually quite common to have either very small teams or, even more commonly, just an individual developer working alone. How do you have a Scrum with just 1 regular developer? It's a highly disruptive environment and not one that I'm certain is well addressed by the "manifesto" laid out in Martin's article - particularly when you lay "remote/virtual" over the top.
I actually wonder whether the model that I'm working with is more of the norm - let's call it the "long tail" - as opposed to the large to mid-sized teams that Martin's article (and the daily Scrum meeting itself) is targeted at?
Having said all that I do know one thing... I definitely want to tap into the goodness that teams get from Scrum meetings. Shared ownership, better visibility, help with removing obstacles, team building. However this would all exist within the scope of the members of the group as opposed to distinct project teams.
Maybe there is another process which is targeted at these highly disruptive groups but which is similar to Scrum? Obviously I have more research ahead of me :-)
posted on 6/13/2007 6:46:04 PM ( 3 Comments )
For the past few years nearly every project that I've been involved with has run a Scrum-like meeting. I say Scrum-like rather than Scrum because none of these projects have had a certified Scrum-master... and I don't want to weaken my argument for the rest of this article on a mere technicality Anyway, regardless of the Scrum'ness of the meetings, we do stick to those well known 3 questions that are associated with Scrum meetings:
The idea of the Scrum meeting is that you get in, ask your questions, and get out. Very robotic and very focused.
In nearly all projects I've noticed a gradual decline in the level of interest that the team has for these meetings as time progresses and I think that it has something to do with the low level nature of the information that is exchanged during these meetings. They've tended to be very task-oriented. For example:
It seems to me that the repetitive, constant, daily grind of reeling off facts breeds apathy for the process and before long these Scrum meetings become "yet another meeting". When this happens I find that teams simply go through the motions and become less agile in their thinking about raising important issues or giving you information that could change and assist the process. So how do you change it so that you get the goodness that the Scrum meeting is designed to deliver while getting good information from your team about how things are going and what needs to be done?
Up until this week I've been running daily SCRUM's in the Dev Centre but as of this morning I've decided to change it so that the weekly meetings will look more like this:
Having meetings that are structured in this way will allow senior, responsible developers to become a little more self-managing and hopefully introduce enough creativity to produce a more creative culture.
Bottom line... take the blinkers off of your team. The opportunity to gather should be a learning experience. Use those precious moments together to learn from each other as to how you can improve... who knows, maybe you'll end up with a better culture because of it!
posted on 6/12/2007 2:23:47 PM ( 4 Comments )
Over the weekend I purchased 2 new books. I grabbed this one:
I'm hoping that this book will provide me with some useful tips for inspiring creativity within teams.
I also grabbed an audio CD version of this one:
I'm so in love with Wiki's at the moment that I simply had to buy this one. This is also the first audio book that I've purchased so I'm hoping that it will provide me with many hours of relaxed learning on my travels
posted on 6/12/2007 9:38:30 AM ( 0 Comments )
Another good news story for BlogML as the CCNetConfig blog is migrated from DasBlog to SubText:
Made the move to SubText
Made the move to SubText
posted on 6/11/2007 8:46:16 AM ( 0 Comments )
The Dev Centre was created by Readify to manage the software development requirements of the business as well as to harvest IP from our existing processes. Last week I started the process of setting the goals of the Dev Centre for the coming year. One of the major goals for next year is to turn the Dev Centre into much more of a factory for creating software by standardizing on processes and increasing the levels of automation.
Above all of the process and automation stuff, you also have to think about the things that are at the human level - such as creating an environment that people enjoy working in. Happy, mentally-active people are productive people, and it's these people who will add the most to the culture of your business. One of the things that comes up in this area on a fairly regular basis is pair-programming. That is, people regularly ask for pair-programming to be implemented as a standard part of how we do things.
I always find this to be an interesting request because I've long been a fan of pair-programming and I can attest that my most significant programming victories have taken place through pair-programming sessions. Within Readify I can immediately recount some major pair-programming victories with Francois Beaussier, Mitch, and Paul Stovell. So the fact that there's no sign hanging above the (virtual) door of the Dev Centre certainly doesn't mean that I don't want to encourage it - I really do.
Pair programming leads to the following highly desirable benefits:
The challenges in implementing pair-programming are almost never technology or environment based but are more than likely people based.
So if it's that difficult to get workers to pair-up in a standard office environment, what about when you have teams which operate within a virtual environment? Virtual pair-programming requires not only the trigger for the developers to connect but also a set of tools that enable a rich collaboration to occur. One of the tools that we've been playing with recently that might enable richer remote pair programming scenarios is Microsoft's new SharedView Beta. This is a very exciting tool in how it provides collaborative experiences and I can easily see it becoming very often used within the Dev Centre at Readify.
posted on 6/10/2007 10:43:30 PM ( 1 Comments )
posted on 6/9/2007 10:10:49 AM ( 0 Comments )
Update: FrankArr tells me that the actual numbers of MS staff as at now is more like 72,000 full time staff and another 30,000 contractors... do the math on that!
Last night I wrote a post titled "Where did the time go?" In that article I did some maths to highlight just how many hours are worked each week by a small 7 person team. After writing that article I went to bed thinking about the size of Microsoft and ran the maths over their bulk. I'm not sure exactly how many employees Microsoft actually have - but for the purposes of my exercise I used 60,000 as a number for the total pool of employees and contractors. So let's look at it:
Microsoft Each day: 60,000 * 8 = 480,000 hours Each week: 480,000 * 5 = 2,400,000 hours
Microsoft
Each day: 60,000 * 8 = 480,000 hours
Each week: 480,000 * 5 = 2,400,000 hours
This company has access to 2.5 million hours of time per week! What could you do with that? Well think about it... let's say you live to be 80:
You Your entire life: 80 * 365 * 24 = 700,800 hours
You
Your entire life: 80 * 365 * 24 = 700,800 hours
If you live to be 80, and you never sleep, and you never stop working, and you are productive for every day that you are alive... you will have access to 700,000 hours. So each week, Microsoft has access to a pool of resources which represents 3.5 times the sum of your entire existence!
posted on 6/8/2007 7:37:40 AM ( 0 Comments ).
I used to write that way. Lots and lots of words. Hard to read
Let's take another crack at that opening paragraph...
Be clear in your writing. Remove unnecessary words and write in a positive tone. Your readers will thank you!
Be clear in your writing. Remove unnecessary words and write in a positive tone. Your readers will thank you!
That's better
posted on 6/8/2007 6:52:28 AM ( 1 Comments )
I'm a DHSB
Take the test
Take the test
posted on 6/8/2007 6:23:51 AM ( 0 Comments )
Time is an interesting resource. There's no way to get more of it and so we have to make do with the time that we have. You can use your time in any way that you choose but remember that whatever you choose to do with your time, that's all that you'll get.
It's very easy to get caught up with the business of things and in the process believe that you are making good use of your time - but do you ever stop to analyze what you do with yours? How much time is spent on things that don't matter? How much of the time that you spend is spent actually moving away from your goals?
As a manager of people I believe that time is something that you should always be acutely aware of. Each week I stop to think of the pool of people that I have working with me and I stop to do a quick check of the numbers:
"7 people, that's 56 hours per day. 56 hours per day multiplied by 5 gives me 280 hours this week."
"7 people, that's 56 hours per day. 56 hours per day multiplied by 5 gives me 280 hours this week."
For a team 7 people that's 280 hours per week that can be used to move closer to the company goals... or to fritter away on email and drinking coffee. Stop and think about those numbers for a moment and the impact should dawn upon you. 280 hours is 35 days. At an average of 21 working days per month, that means that 1 week of a team of 7 people equates to nearly 2 calendar months of your time if it were laid out linearly. Now think of the conversations that you've had recently about the "things I'm gunna do", or "I thought about doing that but..." and you start to realize what a valuable asset such a block of time amounts to. So I suggest that each week when you arrive to work to meet your team of 7 that you should think about that week in the context of what you'd like to achieve if you had 2 months of focused time to work towards achieving your goals.
To truly maximize that 2 month block of time invest a little effort in working out what that activities that you do are which don't help you get closer to meeting your goals. Is it reading email? Is it surfing the web? Or is it the greatest time killer of all... procrastination? Whatever it is, you must change your environment to assist you in maximizing what you get out of your allotment of time. I'll say it again... "CHANGE YOUR ENVIRONMENT" to assist you in maximizing what you get out of your allotment of time.
If email is your killer habit - unsubscribe. If it's the Internet and the vast distractions of Web 2.0 - unplug. If it's procrastination - change your location.
It's your time. You have 1 shot at what you will do with it. Whatever you do with your time is what you will be remembered by.
posted on 6/7/2007 10:35:55 PM ( 0 Comments )
The other day I wrote about creating a new website and mentioned that I was favoring a move to Squarespace. I've continued to think about what I want to get out of this new web home and have decided that a pure blog product won't meet my needs... I really need a Wiki to do what I want. I started looking around for a hosted Wiki offering and none really stood out. I've applied for an account with JotSpot although they are currently offline after acquisition by Google and so I now have to wait until they let me know that I can proceed. Oh well, this will give me more time to really think about what I want my Wiki to be
Or maybe the world is ready for SUW... sorry, bad joke, just kidding
posted on 6/7/2007 8:45:11 AM ( 3 Comments )
One of the customs that we have in the Dev Centre at Readify is "the daily SCRUM". This involves everyone who is working on a Dev Centre project to submit an email by 10AM with their answers to those 3 well-known questions. Paul Stovell is a little different in that he tends to submit 2 SCRUM's - 1 which reflects the stuff that he does during his mild mannered daytime hours and another one which reflects the activities of his better known night-time alter ego SuperPaul. Recently while Paul was working on one particular project he started spewing out colorful charts which reflected the level of testing that his code had achieved when measured against Requirements. On those few evenings a couple of weeks ago was born "Scenario Coverage Analyser for TFS" and you can/should learn more about it by reading Paul's post on it here:
Scenario Coverage Analyser for TFS
Scenario Coverage Analyser for TFS
Cool stuff! We've now released this and you can grab it from our website at the following location:
Who knows, maybe soon your automated builds will be producing lovely charts such as this:
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If there's one thing that I've been really crappy at over the years it is documentation - but it's definitely something that I'm getting better at! It's when I go back through all of the 1300 or so posts that I've written over these last few years that I realize what an unstructured gaggle of information I've created. Contrast the tangled web of data that I've created with other more valuable online resources such as Wikipedia and you soon get a good feel for the potential that lies behind information that is properly maintained and structured. The cool thing about Wiki's is their organic nature and how they tend to grow outwards. This gives you the ability to link articles in a manner which allows a reader to pivot around on a piece of information.
In addition to my growing admiration of wiki's I've also been giving a lot of thought to what I can do to improve the value of what I post online. This thinking has been greatly aided by the timely reading of the following two articles:
Scott Hanselman's 23 way's to keep your blog from sucking The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs
Scott Hanselman's 23 way's to keep your blog from sucking
The Definitive Guide to Semantic Web Markup for Blogs
All of this thinking has made me realize that I need a website which:
So I've decided that I'm going to start a new blog and start adding articles to it on a regular basis about a more narrow range of topics and with all of the rants removed (that's what this blog is for ). I initially thought that I might start up a Subtext blog and host it on my server but then decided not to head down that path so that I'm forced to only focus on the content management and not on the technology.
Last night I started playing around with a few of the major online blogging providers to see how they work and to get a feel for them. Here's some screen shots of what I tried out - you can actually click through to see them for yourself if you like:
Squarespace
WordPress
Blogger
Squarespace is the blog provider that Grant uses and so far it's the one that I like best. I've set it up in such a way that my name is more prominent and it will use keywords, tags, and themes that better represent the types of topics that I'll be writing about. Hopefully over time this will pay dividends in the way of better Google page rankings.
I'm going to leave all of those blogs up and running, but if you are interested in my thoughts about Knowledge Worker topics then please subscribe to my Squarespace blog.
posted on 6/6/2007 2:22:38 PM ( 10 Comments )
In the past week Google has announced Google Gears, an offline data storage solution for web applications. This has been implemented by Google Reader so I can now take my blog reading offline to read offline:
In addition to adding offline reading support for Google Reader, Google have added cool new themes to their portal. Here you can see that I've added the theme called "Seasonal Scape". During the daytime the little critters can be seen at play...
But at nighttime things are much quieter...
posted on 6/4/2007 7:22:24 PM ( 1 Comments )
Here's a great quote found via this link:.
This is another core requirement for all projects within the Dev Centre at Readify. Having systems that ensure that your projects are always in a known state is the thing that will allow you to sleep peacefully at night... trust me on that!
posted on 6/3/2007 9:03:30 PM ( 3 Comments )
Hrmm, just found this entry from a blogger who says that BlogML failed him. I'll have to do a bit of research into this:
Five Years Blogging at Theoblogical at Theoblogical
Five Years Blogging at Theoblogical at Theoblogical
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Tag Archives: Kauai
A Queen’s Bath.
Where souls leave this world
On one of my last nights in Kauai Janette took me to Polihale State Park. We went on Halloween night. A time when some believe the line between our world and the spiritual world becomes its thinnest. We decided to camp and I’ve never seen so many stars.
A cluster of stars created a rip in the sky which traveled to the other side of the sand dunes that surrounded our tent. We decided to head to the beach and see where this rift ended. At the end of the horizon a green glow beamed like portral way. According to author Agnes “Aggie” Marti-Kini His Holiness the Dalai Lama wanted to visit Polihale because it is where souls leave for the next world.
It surely seemed that way.
Ladies on the water
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Issues
Mark on the issues in the community:
Keynote Address at the Texas Regional Collaborative's 21st Century Education Sixteenth Annual Meeting - June 29, 2010
Watch 21st Century Education speech by Mark Strama in News | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
Policy Primer: Fostering Innovation in Texas’ High Tech Industry at the Texas Public Policy Foundation - April 7, 2010
Where I Stand
Let's ensure the legislature places the public interest above special interests in addressing our critical education, health care, transportation, and economic needs: Read more »
Texas Political Accountability Act
Let's make government accountable to voters, not special interests: Read more »
2009 Legislative Accomplishments
The last session saw an opportunity for progress in District 50 and the State of Texas. Read more »
2007 Legislative Accomplishments
The 2007 session saw an opportunity for progress in District 50 and the State of Texas. Read more »
2006 Special Session
Legislative Update and FAQ on Special Session: Read more »
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SOUTHERN SON
Born on the Hudson, twenty-two years gone
Bred and raised in the City
From my daddy's knee I learned the Union songs
Grandma sang lullabies in Dixie
And though the Northern winters fills my heart with joy
It's the Southern sun that shines down
On this Yankee boy
Well mama dreams of Paris nights and boatin' on the Seine
She said, we're gonna make it there too soon as Papa comes home again
She'd speak to me in broken French dressed like a painting of Lautrec
At night she'd clutch me to her breast and say, well make it outta here
And though Parisian ladies strut so fine down the Eiffel morning
It's a Southern one I sing my songs for
Well with the local bunch of do-good boys and an old man from the West
We crossed the land in the caravan we traveled with the best
W saw circus acts and vaudeville hacks and a Mississippi Delta Queen
She told me the news and sold me her blues in an alley in New Orleans
And though the Western plains are still stained
With the blood of great cowboys
It's a Southern sun that shines down on this Yankee boy
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Edition Two
Hello all! And Welcome to the second edition of Yankee Yapping. I hope you all enjoyed my last rant about the Hall of Fame game, but now it’s time to do some Bronx Bomber blabbering. Away we go!
My thoughts on…
This Past Weekend
It was a bad weekend to be a Yankee fan, that’s for sure. It was disgraceful. Coming off that sweep in Minnesota, I had a good feeling about our chances in Anaheim. The Yankees were certainly carrying momentum, and it showed in the first few innings of Friday night’s game.
When the Yanks took that early 4-1 lead, I felt like they were going to win. But of course, Joba Chamberlain had to toss too many pitches and get himself taken out, not pitching past the fifth inning. Then the bullpen just couldn’t get the job done.
Saturday and Sunday were just as bad. Saturday was another game like Friday–getting a lead and squirreling it away. And Sunday we just kept trying to come back from deficit after deficit and couldn’t do it.
After this weekend, I truly know how it feels as a baseball fan to be burned by a former friend. It seemed every time Bobby Abreu was stepping into the box against us he was either hitting an RBI single or double. We just couldn’t get our former teammate out.
Abreu went 6-for-14 this weekend with six RBIs and three runs scored. I couldn’t stand it. Every time he got a hit I kept saying to myself, “we should have just re-signed him. He could be doing this for us rather than against us.”
Even the guys who aren’t hitting this season killed us. Robb Quinlan was batting .219 with no home runs and four RBIs, and yet he managed to start hitting in the series against the Yankees.
The Angels just seem to have the Yanks’ number. They eliminated us in the first round of the playoffs in 2002 and in 2005, and no matter what we do we just can’t seem to take them out.
What’s done this weekend is done. But I hope the Yanks can figure out a way to beat the Halos before October, because God help us if we’re facing the Angels in the first round. They have not been very kind to us in the past.
All Star Break
Despite the Yanks’ recent struggles against the Angels, they have played some incredible baseball to this point. They find themselves at 51-37 this year, 14 games above .500 at the half way point.
They are three games behind the Red Sox for first place in the American League Eastern Division, and the leaders by two-and-a-half games in front of Texas for the AL Wild Card.
Last year they were 50-45, only five games above .500 and six games out in the division race. As compared to last year, they are in a much better place.
If the season ended today, we would be in the playoffs, and it has to stay that way. Historically, the Yankees have great numbers after the All Star break, and usually come out of the gate swinging, so-to-speak.
CC Sabathia and Robinson Cano are two Yankees I can think of that are “second half players,” usually putting up their best work after the All Star break. I’m expecting both of these guys to continue that this year.
It’s safe to say the Yankees are doing a lot better than last year around this time, still in the hunt for a division crown and the leaders in the Wild Card. They have to make the playoffs this year, because Joe Girardi might be done as manager if they don’t.
Home Run Derby
Since it first began in 1985, the Home Run Derby has provided an enjoyable night for every baseball fan, and I am no exception.
In recent years I have kept score of who hits how many home runs in each round. It’s a little nerdy, but I am baseball fanatic, so I guess it’s normal.
The only thing I usually don’t like about the derby is the lack of pinstripes. There have only been two Yankees that have won the Home Run Derby, and ironically enough they have both been first basemen.
Tino Martinez (my favorite player during the Yankee Dynasty years) blew everyone out in 1997 at Jacobs….errm…Progressive Field in Cleveland. He put on such a great display of power and beat out the likes of Ken Griffey, Jr., Jim Thome, Mark McGwire, and Chipper Jones.
Martinez even said he was more nervous about competing in the Home Run Derby than the actual All Star Game because he didn’t feel he was really a home run hitter. He didn’t want to compete in the derby and not hit a home run, but wound up winning the contest.
Jason Giambi became the second Yankee to win the Derby in 2002 at Miller Park in Milwaukee. I remember watching it, and just being happy another Yankee won the contest. I never really liked Giambi as a player, but I’ll give him his due.
Giambi beat out his future teammate Alex Rodriguez, the current home run king* Barry Bonds, and Sammy Sosa–all of whom were amazing home run hitters at the time. And he did it wearing pinstripes.
This year Brandon Inge (Detroit Tigers), Joe Mauer (Minnesota Twins), Ryan Howard (Philadelphia Phillies), Nelson Cruz (Texas Rangers), Adrian Gonzalez (San Diego Padres), Carlos Pena (Tampa Bay Rays), Prince Fielder (Milwaukee Brewers), and Albert Pujols (St. Louis Cardinals) will all be taking their hacks for the Home Run Derby crown.
If you want my prediction, Pujols wins this easily.
He is leading the majors this year with 32 homers and 87 RBIs, and some people are going as far as saying he could win the Triple Crown. He is also playing in his home park in St. Louis, thus giving him a distinct advantage over the other participants.
Earlier this season, Pujols smashed a home run that went so far, it knocked out the “I” on the electrical McDonald’s “Big Mac” sign at Busch Stadium. He can hit and hit comfortably at his home park.
In my view, Pujols wins it by a landslide.
All Star Game
The mid-summer classic is always a fun night. The fans get to see the best-of-the-best playing on the same field at the same time.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend the game last year at Yankee Stadium, but at least the American League won it.
The AL always seems to hold down the National League in this game. The last time the NL won the All Star game was 1996 (If you don’t count the 7-7 tie in 2002).
These last few years have showed the AL’s dominance over the NL, and I expect the same this year.
My prediction is the AL over the NL, 5-3.
The only thing that would make this great would be to see Derek Jeter or Mark Teixeira or Mariano Rivera win the All Star Game’s Most Valuable Player Award. The last Yankee to win it was Jeter in 2000, and it’d be nice to see a Bomber take it home to New York again.
I’d also love to see Rivera close out the contest and get the save. He has saved three All Star Games in his career (1997, 2005 and 2006) and is tied with Dennis Eckersley for most All Star Game saves.
There would be nothing more special than to see the greatest closer in baseball take first place for most All Star Game saves the same year he recorded his 500th career save.
Whichever way it goes, I have a feeling the AL will have home-field advantage in the World Series this year because of an All Star Game win.
Roy Halladay to the Yankees? Why?
As most baseball fans know, rumors have been swirling about Roy Halladay. Blue Jays’ General Manager J.P. Ricciardi put Halladay out there saying that he would be accepting offers for the ace.
ESPN’s Buster Olney reported that the Yankees, Red Sox, and Phillies are the only three teams that could possibly wind up with Halladay if he is dealt.
Olney said the Yanks and Sox have the prospects to trade for Halladay, but not the interest and the Phillies have the interest, but not the prospects.
The Yanks should generate some interest, seeing as how two of their starters could not make it out of the fifth inning this past weekend.
Joba Chamberlain is too unpredictable. He can give you seven innings with eight strikeouts, a couple walks, and maybe two runs.
Or he can give you four-and-a-third innings with no strikeouts, four walks, and five runs. He can either put us in a hole or dominate the opposition.
As good as Pettitte has been this year (8-4 is not a bad record) he often struggles at home, and in that start against the Angels this weekend, he looked bad.
Then there’s Chien-Ming Wang, who was once an ace but now an injury-ridden nobody. Alfredo Aceves took his spot in the rotation, but Girardi doesn’t want Aceves to be in the rotation. He said they will need to make a decision on what to do about that fifth spot.
In my view, the Yankees need to make a trade here. They are contenders and struggling a little bit with some pitching. Although certainly not as bad as the makeshift rotation last year, they could use one more solid pitcher.
If I were Brian Cashman, I would think about packaging some minor leaguers and maybe some back-end bullpen pitchers to Toronto for Halladay.
There are a few guys that I’d be willing to part with, namely Sergio Mitre, Kei Igawa, Edwar Ramirez, David Robertson, and Brian Bruney. If you gave up some of those guys, the Yanks would be a lot safer, and here’s how:
If they give up Mitre, it’s fine. They’re not losing anyone important to the Major League team. Igawa is the same way, and so is Ramirez. Robertson has been useless, a la walking two batters with the bases loaded in Minnesota and pitching even worse against the Angels.
Bruney could go and we could ‘pen Chamberlain again. If he is going to be as unpredictable as he is, he should go back to where he was lights out: the bullpen. We could then use Chamberlain as the eighth inning set-up man and put either Phil Hughes or Aceves into the fifth spot.
So let’s say for hypothetical the starter goes six innings. The Yanks can put Hughes/Aceves in for the seventh, Chamberlain in for the eighth, and Rivera for the ninth.
If they received Halladay in a trade, they wouldn’t have to worry about re-signing him until the end of the 2010 season when his contract expires. I think that was the reason the Yanks waited on getting Sabathia and Teixeira.
Both Sabathia and Teixeira were traded mid-season last year, and both players’ contracts were up at the end of the year.
If the Yankees had traded for both guys, they could’ve lost them to free agency after giving up their best prospects to get them. When Sabathia and Teixeira went to the Yankees, both the Brewers and Angels lost.
Milwaukee and Los Angeles lost Sabathia and Teixeira, respectively, and the players they gave up for Sabathia and Teixeira.
The Yankees wouldn’t have to worry about losing Halladay at the end of the season because he’d be locked up for at least another year before having to worry about re-signing him.
Even if you don’t have an extraordinary fifth starter, you have four guys that can carry you through a playoff series with Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Pettitte, and if we were to get him, Halladay.
I hope they do make a decision and opt to negotiate for Halladay. But they have to make up their mind soon–the trade deadline is at the end of the month.
Well that’s all for this week’s edition of Yankee Yapping. I’ll be back next week with more analysis. Enjoy the Home Run Derby and All Star Game, everyone!
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MIA: Comintern Archive: CP Great Britain: The Communist Review
Contents By Issue
Volume 1, May 1921, No. 1
Books and Pamphlets: Explaining the Communist Position
The Heroic Sailors of the Russian Revolution, Larissa Reissner
Ireland and the Social Revolution, Fred Willis
What Are the Soviets? (Part I) W.E. Harding
The Class War in Germany, Charles Rappoport
Power or Persuasion?, Wm. Paul
The Practical Problems of World Revolution, F. Maharadze
How Lefebvre, Lepitet and Vergeat Were Drowned?, Frederick Strom
The Communist International (Report from the Executive Committee)
The Third Congress of the Communist International (Copy of the Agenda)
Reports and Manifestos from all over the World:
A Circular of the Russian Central Committee
A Decision the Executive of the Communist International
An Appeal of the Communist Party of Georgia
France: Propaganda By Word
Georgian Workers and the R.T.U.I.
Summary of the Resolution adopted by the United Communist Party of Germany
The United Communist Party of Germany and the Trade Unions
Volume 1, June 1921, No. 2
Review of the Month
Our Imperial Responsibilities, John Langland
Russian Biographies in Little
What Are the Soviets? (Part II) W.E. Harding
Art and the Worker, W. McLaine
One Step Back, Two Steps Forward, L. Petrovsky
Capitalist Mexico
Manifesto of the Communist International
The Crisis in the Communist Party of Germany
Book Reviews
The World through Communist Spectacles
Volume 1, July 1921, No. 3
Review of the Month
America and Europe, Louis C. Fraina
What Are the Soviets? (Concluding Article) W.E. Harding
Martial Music (Poem)
Communism in South Africa, David Ivon Jones
Book Reviews
A Communist History, Charles Roebuck
Gaol for a German Comrade
Towards the Socialist Republic
International Review
Volume 1, August 1921, No. 4
Review of the Month
Tactics of the Russian Communist Party, Lenin
The Irish Situation, Wm. Paul
W. Hewlett’s Last Speech
Revolutionary Tactics
The Communist International and the Organisation of Trade Unions, G. Zinoviev
Communism in South Africa
International Review
Some Leaders of the Communist International
Volume 1, September 1921, No. 4
Guns, Bombs and Benzine, Norman Matson
Origins of the 1914 War, Rene Marchard
Progress of the Revolutionary Movement in South Africa, David Ramsay
Revolutionary Socialism in Action
Allies Attempt to Crush Russia (translated from Pravda)
Initiative in the Class Struggle, Umberto Terraccini
International Capitalism and the Third International Congress, Professor Varga
Clara Zetkin’s Birthday
Book Reviews
International Review
Volume 1, October 1921, No. 5
Review of the Month
Rosa Luxemburg, Eden and Cedar Paul
Capitalism in the Near East, J. T. Walton Newbold
Report on the Communist Party of Great Britain, T. Bell
The Communist Party Conference at Jena, M. Philips Price
Lenin’s Letter to the Jena Congress
The Problem of Communist Organisation, G. Lukacs
Earth Bound, Lydia Shield
Vicious Pacifism
Clare Sheridan on Russia
Women’s Work in Germany, Bertha Braunthal
France and Germany, Paul Frolich
Trade in Soviet Russia, Prof. E. Varga
Report of Red Trade Unions Congress, J. T. Murphy
Aggressive Tactics, Bukharin
International Review
Volume 2, November 1921, No. 1
Review of the Month
The Realism of Revolt, R.M. Fox
The Soviet Republic in the Capitalist Encirclement, L. Kameneff
Women’s Movement in Soviet Russia, Ellen C. Wilkinson
The Solidarity of Anarchism and the Fight against the Left, D. Ivon Jones
The Young Proletarian Movement: Its Origins, Character and Aims, Alexandra Leontieff
Observation on Scientific Education and the Proletariat, B. Fogarasi
Statement of the Executive Committee of the Communist International on the Washington Conference
Communist Tactic, Victor Stern
The Rift in the Entente, J. T. Walton Newbold
Theses on Unemployment
International Review
Volume 2, December 1921, No. 2
A Personal Testimony
Radek’s Criticism of the Communist Party of Great Britain
The Intellectuals and the Russian Revolution, S.J. Rutgers
The Conquest of Mexico, Louis C. Fraina
Songs of the Revolution
Direct Action in Finance, C.H. Norman
The Struggle for Central Europe, Walter and Margery Newbold
International Review
Volume 2, January 1922, No. 3
One Year Old
White Guards in America: Truth About the American Legion — A Warning to Parlimentary Democrats, Arthur Warner
Women’s Review
Unemployment: The Responsibility of the Labour Party, Wm. Paul
The Present and Future Prospects of the South Wales Miners, John Thomas
Communism & Christianity, Mark Starr
Review of the World Situation, Karl Radek
Britain, Holland & Germany, J. T. Walton Newbold, M.P.
Poland: The Fight Against Communism, L. Georges
Volume 2, February 1922, No. 4
Review of the Month:
Legacies from the Past, Wm Paul
Communism and an International Language, Mark Starr
On Leading the Masses, J. T. Murphy
Communism or Reformism—Which? Maurice H. Dobb
Russian Women at Work, Henriette Roland Holst
The International of Money Bags, J. T. Walton Newbold
Book Reviews
International Review
Volume 2, March 1922, No. 5
Review of the Month
The Single Front, J. T. Murphy
The New Theses
Women and the Two November Revolutions, Clara Zetkin
Hidden Hands, C.H. Norman
The Moplah Rising, Abani Mukherji
Belgium—Lawn or Player? J. T. Walton Newbold
Book Reviews
International Review
Volume 2, April 1922, No. 6
Review of the Month
Dynamics of Social Change, R. M. Fox
The Struggle in Scottish Coalfields, A. Ritchie
Water, Water Everywhere, Wm. McLaine
Investigations of Famine Conditions in the Region of European Russia
Programme of the African Blood Brotherhood
The Engineerings Crisis and the United Front, J. T. Murhpy
Book Review: Property and Political Power
International Review
Egypt
Russia, Moscow Conference
Red Calendar
Index to Volume 2
Authors
Subjects
Volume 3, May 1922, No. 1
Wm. Paul, Editor
Review of the Month:
Our Birthday
May-Day is Labour Day, T. O. Wiginton
Revolt of the French Fleet in the Black Sea, Maurice Paz
The Industrial Heroes of “Don Bas”: What We Saw in the Ukraine, Ivon D. Jones
Does the World Need More Money?: A Reply to Major Douglas, Maurice H. Dobb
A “Red” Book to Be Read, H. Wynn Cuthbert
German Trade Unionism Since the War, J. Walcher
The Comintern: Resolutions on the United Front
Volume 3, June 1922, No. 2
Wm. Paul, Editor
Review of the Month:
Genoa, Wm. Paul
The Lesson of May Day, L. Trotsky
Politics in “The City”, J. T. Walton Newbold
We Have Paid Too Much: Regarding the Berlin Agreement, Lenin
The Fall of the Paris Commune, R. W. Postgate
Lenin’s Wife, Henrietta Roland Holst
Book Reviews
Review of “Left Wing Trade Unionism in France”, J. T. Murphy
“The A.B.C. of Communism”, William Paul
“The British Empire”
“In a Russian Village”
“The Restoration of Agriculture in the Famine Area of Russia”
The Fourth Anniversary of the Red Army in Moscow, E. Roy
A Discussion on the Douglas Proposals: A Reply to Dobb, Hilderic Cousens
The 11th Conference of the Russian Communist Party
Volume 3, July 1922, No. 3
Wm. Paul, Editor
Review of the Month:
The Real Conspiracy Against Labour, Wm. Paul
A Day in Moscow, A. Rosmer
The Struggle Against New Imperialistic Wars, Clara Zetkin
Current Phases of the Class Struggle in the United States, William D. Haywood
The Asiatic Revolutionary Movement & Imperialism, Kinsic Kim
Implications of the Transition Period, T. Bell
High Finance and Foreign Politics: Putting the Ottoman Empire into Pawn, J. T. Walton Newbold
Book Reviews:
Social Struggles in Antiquity, by M. Beer
Between Red and White, by L. Trotsky
More Production and More Poverty, by J. P. M. Millar
Communist Cartoons, by Espoir and others
Les Responsables de la Guerre, by Alfred Pevet and Un Livre Noir
International Review: Japan
To the Soldiers of the Japanese Army in Siberia, Sen Katayama
Volume 3, August 1922, No. 4
Wm. Paul, Editor
The Rising Tide of Revolution, A. John
The Famine in Russia: How the Capitalist States Helped, E. Roy
Pacifism or Class War, E. Varga
The Crisis in Germany: Responsibility of 2nd International, Wm. Paul
Bolshevism & Church Property, D. Ivon Jones
An Anarchist on Russia: A Reply to Emma Goldman, William D. Haywood
Egypt & the Entente, J. T. Walton Newbold
Book Reviews
International Review
Volume 3, September 1922, No. 5
Wm. Paul, Editor
Review of the Month:
Freedom and Justice, Wm. Paul
American Imperialism and the Negro, D. Ivon Jones
On the Role of Criticism During the Revolution, Karl Kreibich
Questions to Vandervelde & the Second International, P. Stuchka, President of the Latvian Communist Party
Indian Labour Movement: A Review of the Situation, Abani Mukherji
The Cauldron of the East:
I. The Greek Grain Kings, J. T. Walton Newbold
II. The Fight in Constantinople, A. Rosenberg
American Coal Strike: Peace Reigns at Herrin, K. Haessler
Soviet Russia at the Hague: Report of Russian Delegation to its Government
International Review
Volume 3, October 1922, No. 6
Volume 3, November 1922, No. 7
Wm. Paul, Editor
The Fifth Year
The End of the Romanovs
The Spoiling of Turkey, J. T. Walton Newbold
The Debacle of Gandhism, E. Roy
The Forum:
On the Theory of the Social Revolution: Reconsideration of a Marxian Prediction, David S. Reiss
Re-birth of the French C.P., E. Verney
Why Lloyd George Fell, R. W. Postgate
International Review:
I. The Split in Italian Socialist Party, G. Zinoviev
II. The Significant of the Split, A. Bordiga
Book Reviews
Volume 3, December 1922, No. 8
Wm. Paul, Editor
The Election and After
What Will Happen in Europe, E. T. Whitehead
The Negro Problem in America
A Cold Inferno, O. W. Kuusinen
The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement in S. China, H. Maring
The Contradictions of the Soviet Policy, L. Trotsky
The Class War in Japan, G. Voytinsky
Volume 3, January-February 1923, No. 9 & 10
Wm. Paul, Editor
The Old Year and the New, Wm. Paul
British Capitalism in 1922, M. H. Dobb
Red Petrograd, Charles Ashleigh
The Heritage of the Bolsheviks, G. Allen Hutt
Five Years of Revolution in Russia, Clara Zetkin
Franz Mehring, J. B. Askew
Discipline and Centralised Leadership, Bela Kun
Survey of the Class War, G. Zinoviev
Volume 3, March 1923, No. 11
Wm. Paul, Editor
The Old Revolutionist & the New, Wm. Paul
London Residences of Karl Marx, John T. Winter
How to Help Russia, E. T. Whitehead
The Crucible of Revolution, Karl Radek
The Re-birth of the French Communist Party, E. Verney
The 4th Congress: A Special Report on the Recent World Congress of the Comintern, J. T. Murphy
The Forum:
A Reply to David S. Reiss, B. Tamarkin
Book Reviews:
Among the Books
Volume 3, April 1923, No. 12
Wm. Paul, Editor
Review of the Month:
The Betrayal, Wm. Paul
The Party Organ: What it Can Do for the Movement, C. M. Roebuck
Communism and the Co-operative Societies, Karl Bittel
Henry Ford’s Methods, John T. Winter
A Workers’ Government: The Need for a Programme, W. E. Harding
Georgia: A “Free” and Social-Democratic Republic, G. Allen Hutt
Book Reviews
Volume 4, May 1923, No. 1
Wm. Paul, Editor
A Chance for May Day, Wm. Paul
Erratum, John T. Winter
A Great Marxian Party, N. Bukharin
The Sverdlov University: The Russian Communist Party & Working-Class Education, Wm. Joss
The Political Situation in Great Britain, J. T. Walton Newbold, M.P.
From Kraal to Goldmine, L. A. Motler
The Reaction in Bulgaria, Ch. (Khristo) Kabakchiev
International Review: Against Fascism
Communism & the Labour Party, J. T. Walton Newbold, M.P.
The Red Calendar
Volume 4, June 1923, No. 2
Wm. Paul, Editor
Curzon’s Chance, Wm. Paul
The Work of the Health Authorities in Soviet Russia, N. A. Semashko
The Indian National Congress, M. N. Roy
The New Economic Policy, D. Ivon Jones
Canterbury Cant, Wm. Paul
Russia’s Reconstruction, G. H. Allen
Strategy and Tactics of the Russian Communists, I. Stalin
Volume 4, July 1923, No. 3
Wm. Paul, Editor
Russia Pays for Our Cowardice, Wm. Paul
The Baldwin Ministry, J. T. Walton Newbold, M.P.
The Anti-Communist International, R. Page Arnot
The Crisis of the French Communist Party, P. Vaillant-Courturier
Russia in 1905, G. H. Allen
Where Labour Rules, J. Fineberg
The Soviet and the Peasant, D. Ivon Jones
Sverdlov University and its Lessons, Winifred Horrabin, Hon. Sec., Plebs League
Industrial Co-Orgination and the New Organisation, S. Francis
The National Union of Journalists, John S. Winter
Struggle of the French C.P. Against Poincare
Volume 4, August 1923, No. 4
Wm. Paul, Editor
The Labour Party Conference, Wm. Paul
Five Years’ Struggle, Victor Serge
Under Kemalist Rule, Eric Verney
The English Parliment: Its Origin, Growth and Functions, J. T. Walton Newbold, M.P.
The Labour Party Conference, J. T. Murphy
The Norwegian Labour Party
The “Workers’ Life Page”, D. Ivon Jones
Book Review, G. A. H.
Volume 4, September 1923, No. 5
Wm. Paul, Editor
Special Number
A Workers’ Government and Food Supplies
The Dockers’ Strike, Wm. Paul
Democracy and the Second International, C. Rappoport
Tasks of a Workers’ Government: Two Contributions
I. Agriculture & Food Supplies, Wm. Joss.
II. Fishing Industry & Food Supply, James Johnstone
A Polish Prison, Thomas Dombal
The International Red Aid, W. Budich
An Impression of the New South Wales Annual Labour Conference, Annonymous
Book Review
Volume 4, October 1923, No. 6
Thomas Bell, Editor
The Editorial View
The United States of Europe, Leon Trotsky
Ourselves and the Labour Party, Thomas Bell
Lessons of Plymouth: Its Challenge to our Party, Harry Pollitt
The Gang Behind the Steel Trust, J. T. Walton Newbold, M.P.
The European Crisis and British Labour, J. T. Murphy
A Mass Party in America, O. Carlson
Co-operatives & Trade Unions
Victims of the Class War, By the Information Bureau of the C.I.
The Forum, A. D. Vertise
Volume 4, November 1923, No. 7
Thomas Bell, Editor
The Editorial View, Thomas Bell
The Empire Conference and the Workers, J. T. Murphy
Nikolai Lenin: A Brief Biographical Sketch of a Great Leader, Thomas Bell
Unemployment and the Coming Winter, M. H. D.
Soviet Russia and the World Crisis, Wm. Paul
The Crisis in Agriculture, William Joss.
The Tasks of Communist Education, L. Trotsky
The Case for the Y.C.L., J. J.
Pacifism and Communism, J. Epstein
The Forum:
Thoughts on Trotsky’s “The United States of Europe”, S. Muscovitch, Y.C.L.—Stepney Branch
Book Review
International Review
Volume 4, December 1923, No. 8
Thomas Bell, Editor
The Editorial View, Thomas Bell
The General Election, J. T. Murphy
Agriculture: A Sweated Industry, E. Batten
Inflation & Deflation: An Analysis and Criticism, H. D. Dickinson
Hands Off Workers’ Germany!, Part I, J. V. L.
Russian Peasants’ Assistance to the German Proletariat, E. Wagner
The Forum: The Literature of our Movement, T. Q.
Book Review
Volume 4, January 1924, No. 9
Thomas Bell, Editor
The Editorial View, Thomas Bell
The Second Wave of International Revolution, G. Zinoviev
The Nationalist-Labour Pact in South Africa, V. Danchin
Karl Liebnecht and Rosa Luxemburg: Last Hours
Hands Off Workers’ Germany!, Part II, J. V. L.
The Party Conference, J. T. Murphy
Real “Economic Science”, R. Page Arnot
International Review
The Forum:
Response to Trotsky on Darwin, W. E. Lyte
Book Review
Volume 4, February 1924, No. 10
Thomas Bell, Editor
The Editorial View, Thomas Bell
Death of Comrade Lenin
The Coming Dock Strike, G. Hardy
The ”Crisis” in the Russian CP, Thomas Bell
Jute Industries, Ltd, D. J. P.
Agriculture: The Subsidy Proposals, E. Batten
The Party Conference, Harry Pollitt
A Textbook of Revolution, R. P. A.
International Review
Book Review:
The Posthumous Writings of Marx and Engels, by D. B. Ryadanov
“January Fifteenth” [YCL memorial booklet for Liebknecht and Luxemburg]
Volume 4, March 1924, No. 11
Thomas Bell, Editor
The Editorial View, Thomas Bell
The Message of March: The Commune—And After, T. A. Jackson
The Political Mind of Ramsay MacDonald, J. T. Murphy
Lenin’s First Book, D. Ivon Jones
Programme of International Land and Forest Workers
Jute Industries, Ltd., D. J. P.
International Review
The Forum
Volume 4, April 1924, No. 12
Thomas Bell, Editor
The Editorial View, Thomas Bell
The Labour Government or the Class Struggle, C. M. Roebuck and R. Palme Dutt
The Unemployed Worker’s Charter: An Examination, E. Stanley
The ”New Trend” of the Bolshevik Party
Mayakovsky, Poet of the Russian Revolution, Henri Guilbeaux
The Party Conference, T. A. Jackson
International Review
Book Review:
Bloody American Capitalism: Its Murder by Labour, by Joe Walker, W. T. C.
Volume 5, May 1924, No. 1
Thomas Bell, Editor A. H. Hawkins, Business Manager
The Editorial View, Thomas Bell
The First of May, T. A. Jackson
Trade Unions and the Workers’ Struggle, J. R. Campbell
The Unemployed Workers’ Charter, Wal Hannington
Scottish Trade Unions in Congress, Thos. Bell
Lenin the Happy, Mary Talland
James Connolly, A. McManus
International Review
Volume 5, June 1924, No. 2
Thomas Bell, Editor A. H. Hawkins, Business Manager
The Editorial View, Thomas Bell
Comintern’s Message to C.P.G.B.
The End—or the Beginning, T. A. Jackson
Lenin’s First Newspaper, D. Ivon Jones
Factory Groups, C. M. Roebuck
Draft Programme of C.P.G.B. to the Comintern
International Review
The Forum:
Shall We Combat Religion?: A Reply to Balwin, H. W. Davey
Shall We Combat Religion?: A Reply to Balwin, D. C. Corrie
The Conflict Between Communism and Religion, Leslie Mason, Barrow Branch
Review of Books
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Last - held at a bowling green in Hobart it was a day filled with laughter, champagne and lots of barefoot bowling.
This couple were watching a tournament being played on the top green, murmuring about the game. I asked how long they had been together.
" About two years," she said. " Our partners both died some time ago and we were all great friends - and now we are together."
On Sunday we drove through the lush green of the Lachlan Valley. Tall poplars lined the road side as did vibrant wildflowers. The air was still and only the call of a child playing in a paddock disturbed the silence.
We had been uncertain about going to MONA. We are glad we did. Yes there is art that is confronting but there are also waterfalls of words, sculpures made of delicate foam, tiny bees and butterflies strung on spider web fine strings. A goldfish swimming in a bowl on a chair. A white room filled with white books. A giant worm in a graveyard of marble headstones which mutters and breathes as you walk past. Or stop and stare.
We will return.
Stunning images, as always. Hobart seems to be such a unique place. I would love to visit.
Posted by: Melinda | 10/30/2012 at 11:19 AM
Beautiful, beautiful photos.
We stayed at the Islington Hotel many years ago...I think it has been renovated since then.
And MONA! Love it.
Posted by: Fairlie | 10/30/2012 at 12:02 PM
Beautiful, beautiful photos Mary - you are so talented.
Posted by: Andy O'Doherty | 10/30/2012 at 06:16 PM
I love seeing your world through your eyes and lens.
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HIPPY is a home-based early intervention program that helps parents provide educational enrichment for their preschool children. The program stresses the vital role that parents' play in their children's early education and is designed specifically for those parents who may not feel confident enough in their own abilities to teach their children what they consider "school knowledge". The basic HIPPY program model addresses directly the first National Educational Goal that by the year 2000 all children will enter school ready to learn and, more specifically, the second objective which states that parents will have the materials and support they need to help their children at home. By supporting parents, the primary goal of the HIPPY program is to increase vulnerable children's success in school and, ultimately, in adult life.
To learn more about HIPPY, contact Barbara Scherr, Specialist, Program Planning and Special Projects. She can be reached at the Maryland State Department of Education, 200 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, or by calling her at (410) 767-0291.
For more information, call 410-767-0600 in the Baltimore area or Toll-Free at 1-888-246-0016
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The short answer is that they want it to fail. There seems to be an underpinning of glee to get to deadpool it, and no one has told them it's no longer trendy to call podcasting a failure anymore.
The long answer has to do with a lot of factors. The subject is brought to my attention by Ian Lamont, who's written another weekend article that takes a hit out on podcasting as an industry due to the failings of a few. In an editorial published today, Ian talks about the black eye podcasting as a whole has recieved as a result of the failure of PodTech to sell for more than half a million.
Just as I predicted at the end of that article, the myopic analysis on the "death of podcasting" is beginning anew. Ian pontificates:
"...[M]y original thesis: Podcasting is failing as a business platform, and has failed to make a mainstream impact [...] But even if the stars had stuck around to the end, and the management and board problems were addressed earlier, I have to wonder how well this venture would have done. This was a hyped business built on one of the most hyped technologies of 2005. Once the."
When it comes down to it, though, Ian only has a few points to prop up his diagnosis of podcasting: PodTech more or less failed in the end, podcasting was overhyped and his analysis of a podcasting survey from two years ago shows that there's no growth in podcasting.
The problem is that his analysis has little basis in reality. Podcast).
Even for those wanting to start from nothing in the business, there are a number of established podcast companies that are out there. Some of them have some very impressive revenues, and some are squarely profitable. There are even a number of folks outthere doing a full-time living just with indie podcasting alone, many of which we've covere
d here at Mashable.
In case you need to review proof podcasting isn't dead:
Wizzard has a great 2007, and a superb Q1 2008. In 2007, they grossed over $5 million, and in the first quarter of 2008, they increased revenues by 130%.
Leo Laporte hauls down a chunk of change. In June, we reported that Leo Laporte landed a $100,000 contract with video streamer Stickam. Leo left us a comment to correct us - it wasn't a $100k check, as we made it sound, but a revenue sharing agreement that he had hopes would bring down much more than that (this, of course, in addition to all the other money he brings in with his podcasting mini-empire).
BlinkX Hits $60 CPM on Video. Granted it's a select segment of the market, but showing hard proof that podcasting can be big business is harder to
better exemplify elsewhere.better exemplify elsewhere.
Smartassed Ninja Makes $50,000 in Eight Months. Everyone's favorite wise-cracking ninja made a nice chunk of change before going on to make the millions with official sponsorship and millions of video views per episode.
Podcasting isn't dead, it isn't a failure, and it isn't impossible to build a business around. It isn't necessarily what we thought it was when we first started up with it. A lot of us early adopters got stars and money signs in our eyes when we first started playing with podcasting. PodTech did a lot of adapting to the realities of the business, and the VCs ultimately didn't care to make those adaptations with them, which is a big reason why it failed.
Again, though, to say that PodTech's ultimate failure is somehow an inherent failure to the concept of podcasting is about like blaming the hammer for fall of London Bridge and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
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Imagine a world in which a convocation of observers made your every decision — from what you eat to what job you hold to who you date. Well, there's a cadre of people out there who are currently living in such a state, and they're not players in some lost Orwellian drama. No, they're members of a burgeoning social media trend: Crowd sourcing your life.
Over the past few months, several projects have emerged that play upon the theme of relinquishing control of one's life as a form of entertainment: From amateur productions to professionally produced web shows. Each is fascinating in its own right — an intimate glimpse into someone's life that you as a viewer can actively participate in.
Living in the public eye is nothing new when it comes to web trends. Folks like Justin Kan — of Justin.tv — have been launching projects like this for several years, and reality shows have carved out a sizable niche in the realm of TV programming.
Still, the added element of strapping on the puppet strings and turning over one's life to the masses makes this trend different from the Jennie Cams of old.
So why the proliferation of projects that tap into the ethos of the masses in order to create entertainment? "We are naturally inclined to like the idea of living someone else's life or controlling someone else's life or physically being inside of someone else's body," says Jamie Wilkinson of Know Your Meme. "That even goes back to the spookiness of ventriloquism. That theme of control and possession is a really common storytelling trope that touches on human nature."
Also, the accessibility of the necessary technology has aided in the spread of average people becoming "Internet famous." Still, novelty is always an issue when you're aiming to cut through the clutter and emerge as a legitimate addition to the viral firmament.
"Things like that are interesting only when they're unique," says Justin Kan. "It's becoming a lot easier to produce this content. For us, we had to produce [on] this 25-pound broadcasting device [to film Justin.tv]. Now we're releasing an app that will broadcast from your iPhone or Android. Now more people are able to do this. I think there's going to be a trend of more people creating video mobiley, on the go."
We've taken a look at four instances of crowd sourcing one's life — all of which launched around the same time, but include their own set of hardships and rewards. We've included glimpses into each project below, demonstrating the stresses and oddities inherent in handing over the reins to the world wide web.
1. David on Demand
David on Demand launched back in June, when David Perez put his life in the hands of his Twitter followers in order to snag the chance to attend the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in France. Perez works for the ad agency Leo Burnett, who promised to send him to the fest if he undertook said task.
The 29-year-old recruiter agreed to don a pair of glasses complete with webcam, and follow the commands of his Twitter follows via @davidondemand for a full six days, during which he posted video of the proceedings to his website.
The most challenging task? "Have you seen my tattoo? That was a trying challenge," Perez says. The recruiter got a tat of the Twitter Fail Whale at the behest of his followers. "In all seriousness though, there were more than 3.5 million Tweets coming in through @davidondemand, so it was challenging to keep up. I ended up completing about 20,000 requests. I also drank enough pink wine to kill a small horse."
Despite the permanent reminder of the whole experiment now scorched into his arm (see the video above), Perez found the experience to be less trying and more eye-opening: "The Internet –- as I affectionately call all the people following the project –- surprisingly treated me wonderfully," he says. "I went into this guided by the assumption that they would be my tormentors. Quite the opposite. They tweeted me water, a massage, naps, food and a chance to visit the seminars — which was why I was in Cannes.... I am continually floored at how the Internet personified itself. It's amazing to me that something so deceptively cold could turn itself into a very real and human thing."
Of course, the whole project was not just about personal discovery — it also served as a form of advertising for Perez's company (he completed tasks during the conference itself). The idea of hitching one's wagon to a viral trend is becoming more and more commonplace these days (see: The Old Spice Guy, etc), and Perez sees real promise in such endeavors.
"Crowd sourcing programs like David on Demand are effective for brands because they let people actually interact with brands," he says. "People are starting to demand more spontaneous, real-time relationships with brands and these types of projects do just that. I think the world also likes being 'talked to' and not 'talked at.'"
2. Dan 3.0
Dan Brown has achieved a goal that many can only dream of: He has leveraged his YouTube presence into a career. Brown first hit the video-sharing scene back in 2007 when he posted a tutorial to YouTube that showed viewers how to solve a Rubik's Cube. "That won the 2007 YouTube Award for best instructional video; I was 17 years old at the time," says Brown. "I decided to try to turn video blogging into a career after that and I guess it's worked."
This past August, Brown partnered with Internet television network Revision3 to launch a new web show called Dan 3.0, during which the 20-year-old (yup, he's only 20) plans to record a daily log of his life for one year, the path of which will be left up to the whims of his followers. Revision3 fashioned a "decision engine" for the project, which allows viewers to submit tasks for Brown to execute.
So where did this idea come from? Back in January, Brown found himself in a kind of limbo when it came to novel vlogging ideas. It was 2 a.m. and he was in his customary blogger’s uniform — half-naked in a Snuggie — when he came upon a documentary called Us Now, which detailed the state of the Internet, looked to its future, and the collaborative nature of the online space.
Struck by this concept, Brown decided to follow suit, launching a web show where he would take suggestions from viewers on how to live his life. “The more control you can give to communities, the better,” he said, explaining the prudence behind letting a gaggle of strangers run the show.
Brown didn't have that many rules in place when it came to what he was willing to do. "There are a few hard and fast rules," he says. "1). Can't change my girlfriend, 2). I'm not going to change my family, 3). They can't change where I live permanently. 4). I'm not going to break any laws, 5). I'm not going to do anything that has a significant impact on others. We decided that I have veto power, but the agreement is, obviously, if I veto something that the viewers don't think should be vetoed, I lose credibility."
"We wanted to show the viewers that I am committed to this," he says. "It's not just a fleeting thing. It's not just a cute little idea. I really am seriously excited about this and it's a project that I consider to be deeply personal."
Since the project launched this summer, Brown has hit a few bumps in the road. At one point, he disappeared for a stretch of time, which raised concern and ire among his followers (see above), and he doesn't exactly update daily. Still, he's been faithfully documenting of late and has even scored advertisers like Netflix and GoDaddy.
The videos that Brown has been creating, though rather lengthy in web terms, have been captivating. Yes, there's a hefty amount of complaining and angst in the first few videos but Brown ultimately manages to present a unique coming-of-age narrative — moving into his own place, visiting his girlfriend and muddling through the (perhaps overly ambitious) project that he has locked himself into for an entire year.
Brown doesn't hide the fact that creating a daily web show is a huge undertaking and that a less-than-polished aesthetic makes the show worth watching. It's more honest than your average reality show.
3. Dating Brian
We introduced the world to Brian Moore back in July by making fun of his pants. The 23-year-old had just launched a video announcing his intent to date 30 girls in 30 days, all chosen by Twitter and Facebook.
"Even negative press is good press. [My capris] became like a talking point for the project," Brian told me, after I apologized for the ill-fated crack once the project had wrapped. "It became one of the main talking points, and my [fellow] interns and I laughed about it constantly. There were drawings made of it in the office. Some guy drew a mood chart between sad to happy, and it would show different stages of how far up my pants would be rolled. Sad would be all the way down."
His pants weren't the only thing that went viral; the concept of a month of crowd sourced dating spread across the web post haste — which was a good thing for Moore, considering it was part of a project to be completed during his internship at ad agency BBH. The goal of the project? Make something — anything — famous. Needless to say, Moore and his cohorts succeeded.
Still, it wasn't all about fame for Moore. "I had been in a long relationship that had ended about just over a year ago now," he says. "So I was single, I had just come to New York. So I thought, why not do something crazy like that?"
"It started as a joke," he says. "I was with a couple of friends, a couple of my fellow interns, over brunch one day, and I think I actually tweeted it: 'What if I crowd sourced my dating life?' Like reality show meets Web 2.0, meets dating, meets performance art, meets me."
Although Moore — like Brown — got sidetracked a few times during the experiment (he didn't manage to make a video for every date), he was successful in the end. Still, it was taxing to go on dates, hold down his internship and create videos of every single one of his outings. "If you're going to be doing something almost reality show-like, and there are people's integrities on the line, get somebody in between you and that person," Moore recommends for would-be life bloggers.
"I did everything. I did all the video. I did all the web — the design of everything," he says. "If it's going to be something so personal like that, get someone in between that. Because I don't want to say anything bad about any of my dates or anything like that. You might need to be a bigger a**hole than me to make it more interesting, to keep the drama going — because I just don't like drama too much."
And that's the element that made this experiment so genuine: It could have been a hell of a lot bigger. Moore was even approached by VH1 and MTV, but he preferred to keep the project going on his own terms. "I wanted to keep it as real as possible," he says. "Because, sure, it's online, I'm in this internship and everything like that, but behind it all, I'm actually myself. I mean, I wasn't being anyone different than who I am. Because I know how reality shows are — I wanted to distance myself as far from that personally and the project as a whole as I possibly could."
Although Moore didn't actually find love during this endeavor, he did take a lot away from the experience. "The first question that people ask me is: What was the worst date? But there really wasn't one," he says. "I got to see all these different parts of New York that I had never seen before and meet a lot of interesting people."
Moore would even do the whole thing all over again — for someone else, that is. If you're looking to have a slew of digital matchmakers at your beck and call, hit Moore up.
4. ControlTV
If you're still hungering for some crowd sourced action, you're in luck — there's currently a professionally made web show on the scene in which a hapless 20-something has relinquished his life to you, the viewers.
The show, which launched on October 6 and will run for six weeks, follows Tristan on his quest for self-improvement... at the hands of the voting public. Tristan's life is live streamed 24/7 on the ControlTV website and then edited into 3-minute webisodes, which run on the site and across co-producer DBG’s content network of 2,600+ sites. Viewers can sign up to be informed of polls that will sway Tristan's life, and have the opportunity to vote throughout the day on his decisions.
Before the show was even cast, we chatted with executive producer Seth Green about the goal of this project. "This is not Aldous Huxley, this is not Animal Farm. This is a lighthearted premise and we are trusting the audience not to tread dark," he told us. "It's comedic, but we want to offer people the opportunity to help this guy improve his life. Find a job, find a girlfriend, figure out who he is in the world and we're looking for people to offer their opinions and help him."
So far, episodes have centered around finding a personal trainer, a girlfriend (via Skype conversations with various girls) and a profession (perhaps something in the music business). Tristan, like Dan et al., certainly has his moments of anguish, but the show mostly presents the whole thing as a positive experience. Still, it is a much slicker production — what with the blatant product placements for Snickers and Ford. (Tristan eats a Snickers after every workout, like some kind of highly caloric granola bar.)
The fact that there's actually a super polished EdTv-esque show out there only contributes to the idea that projects of this nature are gaining traction. "It's relevant in this moment in time because we as a culture have become judge, jury and executioner of our fellow man in a really interesting way," says Green. "If you look at the way pop culture has extended and the way the tabloid culture has been [taking] life, people are very interested in the public and private comings and goings of any celebrities and they take on a collective point of view... There's an interest in making someone do what you want and holding them accountable for what the public feels are the moral standards. So this kind of concept is really relevant in my opinion — in that sense, people are very interested in having some control over another person. Having their opinion be rewarded. Having their perspective and their insight being the law, in a way."
"We're just really excited to see what happens," he says. "This is one of those moments where you stand on the precipice and you hope for the best, but we really just don't know. And that's kind of what's so exciting about it. We have no idea how the audience is going to react to this guy. We have no idea how much they're actively going to take an interest in making his life better. And we have no idea — within reason, because we'll have some degree of control of how much this guy is tortured or not — we just don't know what he's going to take away from this experience and neither does the guy. And that to me is really exciting."
More Web Video Resources from Mashable:
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- 10 Killer Tips for Creating a Branded YouTube Channel
- 5 Indie Films that Couldn't Be Made Without Social Media
- 10 Incredibly Inspirational Moments on YouTube [VIDEOS]
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Removing Red Links: See below
Supporting links or images:
Other NotesEdit
So I'm sick of seeing red links. There's no reason to have them because they are removed on sight anyway in main space articles, but there are a bunch sitting around that no one can get to because of current restrictions. As it stands, all users are prohibited from editing the user pages and talk page comments of other users for any reason except to revert obvious vandalism edits, making it impossible for many red links to be removed. This proposal is meant to change that. I believe that it's reasonable to give administrators, who already have a wide range of powers and the implicit trust of the community to use them, the power to remove any red link anywhere. I realize that this is an invasive power for admins to have, but someone has to be able to do it and I don't see any other solution to the red link issue. Hence this proposal; nothing ventured, nothing gained. -- Commdor (Talk) 03:11, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
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- As proposer. -- Commdor (Talk) 03:11, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
- Sounds good to me. Arbington 03:22, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
- I now also fully support. SpartHawg948 03:34, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
- Here is my support to this as well. Lancer1289 04:34, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
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Change the 'registered users who've commented within 30 days must be notified and given 7 days to comply' to 'all users must be notified and given 7 days to comply' and you'll have my vote. SpartHawg948 03:20, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
- Done. -- Commdor (Talk) 03:33, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
- Rog-o! SpartHawg948 03:33, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
- Maybe this will prevent needless articles from being created over and over, and then we have to deal with deleting it. Lancer1289 04:35, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
I'll support this if instead of deleting the link the admins simply adds the <nowiki></nowiki> tags. It leaves the comments as they were originally written but without any obnoxious red links. Bastian964 05:10, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
- But the current proposal would leave the comments the way they were originally written. All we'd be doing is removing the brackets, so basically turning (for example) Omega to Omega. I would have to oppose a proposal to do it with tags, as I hate using those tags. Just removing a set of [[]], on the other hand, is A-OK in my book. SpartHawg948 05:19, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
- Indeed why add the nowiki tags when removing the brackets is much easier, faster, and instead of adding code, removes it. Lancer1289 05:23, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
- (edit conflict)I guess we differ slightly on a semantic issue. I would like them how they were originally written with <nowiki></nowiki> added, whereas you want the comments to look how they originally did but without the links. I'm not horribly against your method, I just think my suggestion is more in keeping with the spirit of the current policies. Bastian964 05:27, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
- But again, the way Lancer and I (the people who would actually be doing this) are proposing would, as you say, keep the comments looking like they do originally. How is that not in keeping with the spirit of the current policies? SpartHawg948 05:30, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
- Like I said we differ slightly on semantics. If that is the way people want that is fine with me, I'll just remain neutral. Also please note I said "more in keeping" indicating your way was in keeping with the original policy, just that I didn't think it followed the spirit as well as my option. Bastian964 05:37, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
- I dunno. I think the option more in keeping with the spirit of the current policies is the one that keeps the comment looking as nearly identical to the original as possible, which would seem to be the one that only changes the color of the text from red to white. SpartHawg948 05:39, August 9, 2010 (UTC)
And the voting period has concluded. The final vote is four in favor, one neutral, and zero against. The proposal passes. -- Commdor (Talk) 00:41, August 17, 2010 (UTC)
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Let?
I'm not talking here about characters with a mental illness. Depression is technically a mental illness. (All right, it's a mental disorder, but you get the idea.) You feel sad with no actual reason; you don't say up at night painting the walls with honey so that the bees can hear you and sing your songs of praise to the bee-mother.
The relevant point is that this is big, dramatic madness, not the sort of thing that you add to a character after you've taken an Introduction to Psychology class. We're talking about characters who don't perceive reality in the same way as everyone else, characters whose fundamental ability to deal with the world is broken. They're not quirky, they're not funny, and they sure as heck aren't there to dance for the amusement of anyone else. These are characters that give you a skin-crawling sensation and a sense that something is very, very wrong here.
In other words, this is about cinematic insanity, not the ever-growing and important field of mental health. (If you have to be told not to use this stuff as a key to understanding real mental issues, I'm very disappointed.) Your character's mental disorders aren't under discussion, just the fact that he or she is now several cards short of a full deck.
Why do I want to use it?
For starters, madness provides an important function by giving other players a problem that they cannot punch out of. This is kind of a big deal because most MMOs take place in a setting where problems can be dealt with via weaponry, and player characters carry obscene amounts of weaponry. Giving players a problem that doesn't go away with a few determined rounds of combat is a major asset, and "the one person who knows something important is completely crazy" is certainly such a problem.
But there's also the very simple fact that William Shakespeare understood: Madness is dramatic. Mad characters lead allies on wild goose chases, cause harm to others more or less at random, and start rumors inadvertently. Plus, sometimes the maniac turns out to be completely right in the end, which is even more of a mind screw. A character with altered perceptions of the world makes for a lot of interesting conflict, provided that the character is used for conflict and not just wacky antics.
I'm glad you asked, section header. Madness for dramatic purposes tends to have one of four sources mostly because the fact that "aberrant brain chemistry controllable via pharmaceuticals" is a really boring conclusion.
He hurts too much: There's a certain amount of loss that the human brain can cope with, but too much damage throws it into tumult. Get hit with enough trauma at high enough speed, and a mind might just shatter from the impact. Characters like this have been dealt a horrendous blow, either through tragedy or malicious torture, and as a result, they've broken off ties with reality altogether.
In most fiction, this is the sort of blow dealt to a character seen as being particularly solid, a sound mind in a sound body. Expect to have a character talking to dead friends, lost relatives, or even going from a titan of a man into a sniveling wreck within moments. It's not pleasant.
He knows something he shouldn't: Also known as Lovecraft Syndrome, this is when your character picked up more knowledge than he could handle. Maybe he learned some horrifying fundamental truths about the universe, maybe he found out his real father is someone awful, or maybe he just isn't prepared to deal with the truth of point nine repeating. The point is that he's become a babbling shell as a result.
Usually, this works best in a setting that allows for sanity-blasting revelations, but you can also do just as well in more benign settings by overfilling a character's head. Imagine if your character in Guild Wars 2 managed to absorb the entirety of all human knowledge over the past 200 years at once. He's going to go crazy because the human brain simply can't process that much information.
There's an external force: This reason is blessedly simple. Aaron has gone crazy because Ben used the Crazy Macguffin to make him crazy. Stop Ben, and Aaron goes back to normal. Or doesn't.
Technically, trauma counts as an external force, but here we're talking about a much more push-button madness. Some external set of circumstances is basically entirely behind everything, and removing those external circumstances either negates the condition or makes it curable.
He's just like that: In some cases, there's no reason to be found. The character is just plain mad. He might not have always been like that, but at this point, trying to untangle the path back to a reasonable human being is a fruitless endeavor. He's out of his mind, and the best you can do is cope with all the crazy.
Mad but north-northwest
I've got a lot more to say on this topic -- as it turns out, enough to put it into another column. I hope the anticipation doesn't drive you batty.
Feedback is welcome in the comments or via mail (eliot@massively.com), just as always. Next week, I'm going to talk about the oddity of roleplaying with people who know you better than they know your avatar, and then I'll finish up the madness column.
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This storm met the 2 criteria set by the National Weather Service that define a blizzard. The first condition is that the snow has reduced visibility to less than a 1/4 of a mile. The second criteria is sustained or frequent wind gusts of 35 miles an hour or greater. These conditions must last 3 hours or longer.
Publications on this topic in the State Library's collection include the following:
1. Annual report. Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.
MR 355M3 M37 1996-
2. The blizzard of '88. Cable, Mary. QC 929 .S7 1988
3. Comprehensive emergency response plan. Massachusetts. Civil Defense Agency and Office of Emergency Preparedness, 1988. MR 355M3 .C65
4. Blizzard of 78 : after-action report to Governor Michael S. Dukakis . Massachusetts. Military Division. MR 355.6M3 B54 1978
Naomi Allen
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image: Beacon Hill after the 1/23/2005 snow storm from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather service.
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The Association was formed in December 1994 as a professional association for
mathematics teachers and other mathematics educators. The Association has more
than 350 individual members, mostly mathematics educators and some parents.
Schools and interested organisations can join the Association as corporate members
and we have more than 125 corporate members.
The objectives of the Association are:
The Association organises talks, conferences, workshops,
seminars and activities for students with the intentions of disseminating information on current events and issues in mathematics
education to members as well as providing forums for discussion among mathematics educators.
The Association also publishes The Mathematics
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Yearly subscriptions will cover membership for one financial year of the society, generally
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MathTeamHosting is a web hosting and application development service taylored to the unique needs of math leagues. Considerable secretarial and data-entry work goes on behind the scenes to make a math league run. Our developer will work with your league to reduce that work and get score reports to schools more quickly. To discuss a web based data solution for your league, contact LaSpina@mathteamhosting.com
Why does a math league need a web site?
- Organizations are expected to have some on-line presence. The question has shifted from "What do we need a web site for?" to "Why don't we have a web site yet?"
- Students and teachers want to see results. After a contest, most students naturally ask "How did I do?"How long does it take to see how students and teams scored relative to each other? With MathTeamHosting, the answer is about 3 days, because that's how long it takes most coaches to send in their scores.
- Statistics on item difficulty are easy to generate when the scores are in a database. Contest authors, students, and teachers all benefit from this information.
- Students and coaches will appreciate having an archive of past contests to use.
What will it look likeThe result tables will look similar to the Mandelbrot competition with a few differences:
- On the results table, the coaches will be able to sort students by name, graduation year, school, or score.
- Coaches can download results as an excel (CSV) file
- Statistics are generated for each contest. View the Nassau County Interscholastic Math League stats.Here what you see is just plain text, but a nice histogram can also be created. Next year's version will look even better.
Would you like your site to look like The Math League? We think their data entry form is poorly designed and time consuming to use, but if you want a bad design we will make it for you (after we try to talk you out of it)!
Would you like a site like The continental math league? No problem. MathTeamHosting is a hosting and application development company, so everything will be customized to meet your needs. You decide what you want and we build it. We take care of hosting the site, whcih means setting up usernames and passwords and deciding what parts to restrict access to.
How does on-line score reporting work?
Each school in the league will be given a username and password. Coaches log-in to register students and teams before the first meet. They can type the names into a web form or upload a list from a spreadsheet. Once the names are in the database, scores can be entered in a matter of minutes. The Nassau County league appreciated having an eMail reminder sent a few days after a contest was given. After all, the system can only report results if the teams send them in. A number of leagues have had problems with this and an on-line system can help.
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Deploying and running Django apps on Heroku is really a no-brainer, except for one thing — serving static files via
collectstatic.
I run
collectstatic as usual, using
heroku run command just like how I did it for
syncdb. It worked but I’m getting 404 error when serving static files.
It turns out that running
collectstatic via
heroku run spins up a new dyno and
collectstatic is running in an isolated environment. So, all the collected static files are deployed to that location and only for this new dyno and the dyno attached to our Django app can’t access that. — Heroku support staff
Solution
The dead simple solution would be to run
collectstatic as part of the Procfile before starting the app. We need to “chain” together our Procfile commands for the web process, like so:
OK there you go, no more 404 error when serving static files from your Django app on Heroku. Plus, every time you deploy your app, newly added static files will be collected automatically.
Update
There are a lot of questions about the configurations. Cross check with my settings.py here
Important thing here is your STATICFILES_DIRS. Make sure to include your project_name/app_name/static here. In my case, I have project_name/staticfiles for the STATIC_ROOT. Change STATIC_URL = ‘/static/’ if you want to serve from Heroku, same goes to ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = ‘/static/admin/’
Finally add this to your urls.py in order to serve from Heroku.
urlpatterns += patterns(”,
(r’^static/(?P.*)$’, ‘django.views.static.serve’, {‘document_root’: settings.STATIC_ROOT}),
)
Files could be access as such:
/app/project_name/staticfiles/style.css >.
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I’ve just been looking into Heroku for hosting myself… I had read that the Cedar filesystem was ephemeral, i.e. wiped whenever the dyno is restarted. I thought that would preclude serving Django’s static files.
But do your commands above automatically run collectstatic when the new dyno is spun up, to reinstate them?
So it would just be user-uploaded files I’d need to run from S3 instead?
Sorry for the late, late reply.
It will run every time you do git push heroku master.
FYI, I’m using django storages & django compressor to serve static files via Amazon S3. In order for compressor to work, you’ll need a temp file system cache on Heroku, thus the solution above.
Hi there, am running into the same problem.
I wonder how you’ve setup your STATIC_URL, STATIC_ROOT and STATICFILES_DIR as I’m almost hitting my head on the wall now
Post has been updated. Check the settings.py
I have a question. I tried your snippet to get static but for me it doesn’t work.
What do you have in settings file? What is STATIC_URL and STATIC_ROOT?
With regards
Kamil
I’ve included a sample of my settings.py. Cross check with yours
Thanks
It’s working now. Founded solution.
So I have:
In Debug:
STATIC_ROOT = ‘static/’
STATIC_URL = ‘/static/’
and in urls.py
urlpatterns = patterns(”,
…####
#### urls urls urls…
)
+ static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
And it’s working great
Bingo!
Even with Kamil’s writeup, I’m not sure what you’re proposing here. Sure, running collectstatic gets all the files in one place.
But have you configured gunicorn to serve that directory separate from the Django staticfiles app?
(If you’re willing to run the staticfiles app with DEBUG on, there’s not even a need to collectstatic; it seems to serve things fine from wherever they are. But that’s “probably insecure”, says the Django docs. So I’m trying to figure out if what you Kamil is describing somehow gets heroku-nginx or gunicorn to serve the collectedstatic directory…)
With more research I’m guessing you’ve each settled on some variant like this in urls.py:
if not settings.DEBUG:
# screw the vague FUD and django doctrine against non-DEBUG static-serving
urlpatterns += patterns(”,
(r’^static/(?P.*)$’, ‘django.views.static.serve’, {‘document_root’ :settings.STATIC_ROOT}),
)
The comments for ‘django.views.static.serve’ include more of the usual admonitions about how one ‘SHOULD NOT’ do this in a ‘production setting’. But these similarly-worded-but-never-explained warnings have echoed across Django comments/docs so much they’re beginning to look like superstitions to me rather than actual best practices.
Yup. Check my updated post.
Thanks for this post! It was very helpful in getting django static files on heroku running.
However, I’ve noticed that every time I deploy a change, even without adding any new static files, collectstatic has to run every time and causes the app restart to be longer. This is sort of annoying because any users on the site would experience a long response if they made a request while this process was happening. Do you have any advice for this problem?
This is because the collectstatic command is part of the Procfile. Quick solution will be creating two versions of Procfile, one with the collectstatic command.
I can’t think of other cleaner solution.
Nice post but I have a problem. I can’t get this done. I’m getting:
unknown specifier: ?P.
My urls.py looks like:
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns(”,
…
…
)
if not settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += patterns”,
(r’^static/(?P.*)$’, ‘django.views.static.serve’, {‘document_root’: settings.STATIC_ROOT}),
)
Ok I did it. But still, heroku can’t find my static files
Make sure your STATIC_ROOT & STATICFILES_DIR are pointing to the right place.
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I replace ’^static/(?P.*)$’ for just ’^static/(.*)$’ and now is working.
Don’t forget to import your settings file in your urls.py.
from yourapp import settings
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Hey Mathew,
I followed what you have suggested, but I’m hitting an error: Could not import settings ‘my_django_app/settings.py’
More details here. Would appreciate any help!
Check my answer here
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Hi! Thank you for the blog post. However, I encountered this issue when running ‘foreman start’
13:59:40 web.1 | started with pid 2060
13:59:40 web.1 | Usage: manage.py collectstatic [options]
13:59:40 web.1 |
13:59:40 web.1 | Collect static files in a single location.
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13:59:40 web.1 | manage.py: error: no such option: –noinput;
13:59:40 web.1 | process terminated
13:59:40 system | sending SIGTERM to all processes
I used this line in my Profile:
web: python manage.py collectstatic –noinput; gunicorn_django –workers=4 –bind=0.0.0.0:$PORT
It seems to be an issue with chaining the commands together on one line…any idea?
Seems like it’s an issue with foreman only. I pushed it to the Heroku repo and the app ran fine..very strange.
Yup, the chaining is meant for Heroku only.
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Thanks for the post!! Question– how would I handle serving just a handful of static files on Heroku, and the majority via my main backend on Amazon S3? There are just a few files that I need on Heroku (to be on the same domain name… it’s related to browser compatibility issues), but I still want the rest of my files to be served via S3.
Any suggestions on how to go about this?
Hey Janelle,
I think that is possible. Just don’t use the {{ STATIC_URL }} template tag on the files that you want to serve from Heroku because it points to S3. Instead, use the absolute URL for these files.
For example: /app/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/css/login.css >
I wrote a bit about how to do this here:
So what’s stopping you from committing the changed static files after running a collectstatic locally? Seems to work for me so far.
In my settings.py I have:
PROJECT_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)
Then I use that in settings.py and urls.py to set the static directory… (Rather than a path starting in / as the manual insists on using…)
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, ‘static’)
for example…
Also, the procfile didn’t work. I got it working with:
web: python manage.py collectstatic –noinput; gunicorn -b 0.0.0.0:$PORT -w 4 [project name].wsgi:application
[project name] is the folder containing wsgi.py
The following was enough if I committed the static files:
web: gunicorn -b 0.0.0.0:$PORT -w 4 [project name].wsgi:application
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Thanks,
I wonder how you would handle static files versions, the best I could have come up with is –
Sorry but after updating your urls.py to serve the static files doesn’t that mean that every static file requested will have to be served by both the Dyno and the Django app instead of just the Dyno.
This will push extra load on your app and that is the reason why it is marked as not good for production in the docs.
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Profiteroles are one of the most popular desserts at Cafe du Soleil, especially during the hot summer months. They have the elements of any great ice cream dish – ice cream, whipped cream and chocolate sauce. The French add a nice crisp “pate a choux” (which literally translates to “cabbage pastry” , based on the shape of the cooked product). It’s an easy dough to make at home once you get the hang of it. There really are few pitfalls so please try it with confidence. Even though the recipe may look complicated – it’s not. At Cafe du Soleil we serve them with two sauces – white and dark chocolate, but you can just as easily serve it with one.
After seeing the beautiful photo above done by Philippe Touitou I dare you not to try this recipe!!
Profiteroles aux Deux Chocolats
Serves 6 – Pastry recipe makes about 12 large “Choux Puffs” so you will have an extra 6 for another round of profiteroles, or fill with whipped cream and dust with powdered sugar for cream puffs! They freeze well but you should “recrisp” them in oven after defrosting.
Pastry:
1/2 cup water
2 ozs butter, unsalted
pinch salt
1/2 cup (about 2 1/2 ozs) all purpose flour
2 large eggs
Profiteroles:
6 large scoops of your favorite vanilla ice cream
2 cups whipped cream
strawberries, powdered sugar, and mint for garnish
Chocolate Sauces:
Dark:
4 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped (better quality chocolate = better sauce)
1/2 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup light corn syrup
White:
4 ounces white chocolate
1/2 cup heavy cream
Method:
Choux pastry:
Preheat the oven to 450°F.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. spatula or wooden spoon until the dough pulls away from the sides of the pan and the bottom of the pan is clean, with no dough sticking to it.
Enough moisture must evaporate from the dough to allow it to absorb more fat when the eggs are added. Continue to stir for about 2-3 minutes, adjusting the heat as necessary to prevent the dough from coloring. A thin coating will form on the bottom and sides of the pan. When enough moisture has evaporated, steam will rise from the dough and there will be the nutty aroma of cooked flour.
Transfer the dough to the mixer bowl and mix for a minute to release some of the heat from the dough. With the mixer on medium speed, add the eggs, one at a time, beating until each egg is completely incorporated before adding the next one; scrape down the sides of the bowl as necessary.
Place the dough in a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch plain tip. Pipe 12 disks about 2 1/2 inches across and about 1/2 inch thick on the baking sheet, leaving about 1 inch between them, as they will expand when baked. You may need an additional baking sheet in order not to crowd them too much. Sauces:
Technique is the same for both sauces (minus the corn syrup in the white chocolate sauce) -
Place the chocolate in a metal bowl.
Combine the cream and corn syrup in a small saucepan and bring to a simmer. Pour the liquid over the chocolate and allow it to sit for 3 to 4 minutes, or until the chocolate has melted. Whisk to combine. Allow the sauce to cool slightly, then pour into a bowl or other container.
To serve:
Preheat the oven to 300°F.
Warm the chocolate sauces in a double boiler or a microwave. Split each profiterole in half, and warm on a baking sheet in the oven until crisp.
Place bottom half of each puff on serving plate. Place a large scoop of ice cream in the bottom half of each profiterole and top with the lid. Spoon the sauces over and decorate each plate with a generous amount of whipped cream, a few strawberries, powdered sugar, and mint.
Now tell me what could be bad about that?!!!
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Worldcon 2012: FragmentsSeptember 12, 2012 at 5:17 am | Posted in Essays | 10 Comments
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Last week, I flew to Chicago for the 70th World Science Fiction Convention. It was my first Worldcon. Among other things, I was looking forward with the chance to talk to other people who read science fiction.
It’s Wednesday evening and my roommate, a veteran of more than ten previous Worldcons, is unpacking the books he hopes to get signed. He has brought 10 Robert Silverberg books. I break the bad news about the signing policy (only 3 books per trip through the line) and then, with some embarrassment, I admit I haven’t read any Silverberg. He suggests a novel that would be a good place to start, then asks what I’ve been reading lately. I tell him I read and enjoyed Kameron Hurley’s God’s War on the flight to Chicago. He’s never heard of it.
A week and a half later I am writing the first draft of this post and trying to figure out what novel he recommended, but I didn’t write it down. I have Silverberg’s Wikipedia article open in another tab. My monitor is not even close to large enough to display the published novel list on one screen. Reading Silverberg’s backlist would probably take me multiple years. Just reading the ten books my roommate wanted signed would put a substantial dent in a year’s reading schedule.
According to a post by Gary K. Wolfe, in 2008 alone Locus recorded the publication of 254 science fiction novels and 436 fantasy novels. The rise of electronic publishing and the erosion of barriers to self-publishing seem sure to increase these numbers by an order of magnitude or more soon if they haven’t already.
For the most part this is a good thing. As the genre fragments, readers can find novels aligned to their specific tastes, novels that wouldn’t be viable if less SF was published. Although more bad novels are published, more great novels are published as well. None of this is in any way unique to SF, or even literature. The same process is much further along in music and not as far along in movies and television, but entertainment of all kinds is moving in the same direction, or rather, is moving in all directions simultaneously.
Yet if you like talking about genre fiction as much as reading it, shared context is harder and harder to find. As Wolfe puts it elsewhere in the same post: “To claim a title as the best SF or fantasy novel of the year seems to me to imply a core readership with a common set of values and assumptions, but as far as I can tell that readership has been dismembering itself into various caucuses for several decades now.”
It is Wednesday afternoon, the day before the convention starts, and I have just registered and am putting mental breadcrumbs between important locations in the labyrinthine hotel. As I walk the hall, I hear the words “fen” and “mundanes” used unironically for the first time in my life. The big nametags make it easy to identify other people here for the convention, but in most cases it isn’t necessary. Convention people dress differently, talk differently, and act differently from ordinary guests. I’m amazed that people from all over the country, and indeed in some cases all over the world, seem much more like each other than they are like the people I see every day in my normal life.
From the outside, Chicago’s Cloud Gate presents a coherent (if in places distorted) skyline.
Over the next few days I will revise this first impression. Certainly the sample was skewed by the day of the week, as for a variety of reasons the people I saw on Wednesday afternoon crowd were older and much more “fannish” than the actual convention average. But also I soon realize fan culture isn’t as monolithic as it seemed at first, something I should have realized just from reading the program. How many people at the convention were interested in filk? In costuming? In table gaming? In anime? These and many more hobbies could be pursued to the exclusion of anything else if the attendee desired. Alternatively, one could (and I did, I’m afraid) ignore them entirely.
Beneath Cloud Gate the image splits into diverse but overlapping fragments.
In the convention’s pocket program, the convention chair’s welcome message included the following reassurance: “I promise you, there are several folks you haven’t met yet who are *exactly* the kind of geek you are.”
In this day and age there’s no need to settle for being friends with someone who is almost the same kind of geek you are. It’s not just entertainment that’s fragmenting, it’s culture.
On Sunday morning, I am listening to a panel titled “Historical Reality in Fantasy”. Two of the panelists turn out to have run pen and paper roleplaying games. When they spend a few minutes discussing fantasy roleplaying game settings and answer a question about them from the audience, another audience member raises his hand and objects that while he enjoys roleplaying games, he comes to Worldcon to hear about literature.
I sympathize, but he is one person out of an audience of a hundred or more. Should his concept of the panel prevail over that of the person sitting next to him? By the relentlessly democratic logic of Worldcon his opinion is, by itself, without import. Had he asked for a show of hands, the panel might have paid attention.
It’s Sunday evening and I am sitting in a room with several thousand people waiting to hear the results of the genre’s most prominent show of hands, the Hugo Awards. The Hugo Awards ceremony is the only event without anything programmed against it (on Thursday I went to a panel instead of the opening ceremonies), yet the entire convention population isn’t there. Not even close.
Still, it’s a large group, and toastmaster John Scalzi uses this to make an appeal to unity. The Hugos, he says, bring everyone together. He then builds a description of the breadth of the genre community out of allusions to the nominees. It’s a clever and well-delivered little speech, but do the Hugo Awards really bring everyone together? Is that even possible?
It’s earlier on Sunday evening and I am in the same big room with almost the same number of people twenty minutes before the Hugo awards ceremony will begin. I am saving the seat beside me for my sister, but on the other side of me are two middle-aged men. When I notice they are talking about Ken Liu’s short story “Paper Menagerie” I begin eavesdropping on their conversation. They seem like old friends, and after they both agree Liu’s story was their favorite, they go on to discuss this year’s Hugo-nominated novels. Deadline is faintly praised, Among Others is agreed to be fantastic, but then it turns out one of them hasn’t read a single China Mieville novel even though Embassytown is another of the ballot’s novel nominees.
It is the Friday after the convention and I am back home plowing through an enormous Google Reader backlog. I get to popular British blogger Adam Whitehead’s short post about the Hugo awards. After listing the winners of some of the categories, he takes a backhanded swipe at the fact 2,000 people voted, a number he seems to feel is too small to justify the awards’ reputation as the most prestigious in the genre.
In fact, not everyone votes in all categories. Only 1664 votes were cast for Best Novel, for example. We can’t know how many of those votes were cast by people who, like the man sitting next to me at the awards ceremony, have only read some of the nominees, but it seems safe to assume it was a significant percentage. The numbers are even smaller when one considers ballots cast for nominating works to the short list: only 958 in the novel category. The novel nominated the most times, Jo Walton’s eventual winner Among Others led the field with 175 votes while Hannu Rajaniemi’s debut novel The Quantum Thief received 70 nominations and missed the short list by a single vote.
So Whitehead actually overstated the size of the voting population, but that’s not to say he’s right that the small scale of the voting, and the small breadth of the voters’ reading, should decrease the awards’ prestige.
It is Sunday evening again and the Hugo ceremony is nearly over. Jo Walton is accepting the award for Best Novel. Afterward the talk about her speech will center on her thanks to disgraced Readercon volunteer Rene Walling for suggesting “Among Others” as the title for her novel, but her first words at the microphone are an apology to George R. R. Martin, as if she has received the award through some irreversible clerical error and not the will of the voters. People laugh as if this is a joke, but she may not have been joking.
If the Hugo voting population was greatly expanded in the way Whitehead implies would provide greater legitimacy, it seems safe to say A Dance with Dragons would have won. In sales of actual books, the most democratic measure of a book’s worth, there would be no contest. Longtime genre award watcher Nicholas Whyte noted in April that even among users of the site Goodreads, a group surely biased toward reading more widely than the general population, four times as many people owned A Dance with Dragons than the other four nominees combined.
The only possible solution to this tangle is to be content to have multiple awards for the best genre novel of the year, each determined by different means. Prestige can then accrue organically. Happily this is already the case. One could argue that the Nebula Awards, given to authors by other authors in a manner similar to the Oscars, ought to in fact be the most prestigious awards, but strange choices and an even more problematic voter pool make them a distant second to the Hugos.
As a side note, as easy as it is to point to a few books and call them bestsellers, it is preposterously difficult to determine what the bestselling genre books of a given year actually are, and someone with access to those numbers could do the field a service by providing the answer. Unfortunately Amazon treats sales numbers the way dragons traditionally treat treasure, so this may be impossible.
It is Thursday evening and I am in the hotel bar surrounded by people with access to at least some sales numbers. My sister, a fantasy author whose first novel was published last year, arrived in the afternoon and has been introducing me to her friends, almost all of whom are authors here primarily to promote their writing and network with other people in the industry. There are exceptions in any group but for the most part they rarely attended conventions before they were published, have few of the cultural tics of longtime fans, and when pressed most admit that since they began writing they hardly have time to read.
One might think that being an author at a literature-oriented convention would be glamorous. Perhaps it is for superstars, but I don’t meet the superstars. Most people I meet are authors who have published their first novel in the last three years or so. These are the 99% of authors, the ones for whom the exposure of sitting on a panel, even if it’s a panel about writing attended almost exclusively by authors and people aspiring to be authors, might make a noticeable difference in sales. Although the names often strike me as familiar, in almost every case I haven’t read anything they have written.
Introductions work differently in this networking-oriented population. People don’t merely say the person’s name, they add something to indicate why people should care about them. Typically it goes “X, author of Y” but there is a “spouse of” present in addition to me, a “brother of”. After an hour of this, I use the fact I have published all of four reviews with Strange Horizons to promote myself to “Matt, reviewer for Strange Horizons“. My sister deservedly laughs at me for being status conscious, but I think I detect a change. Not in the willingness of people to talk to me, for everyone is surprisingly friendly and easy-going, but in their comfort level at the initial introduction. An author’s brother could be anyone: a writer, an agent, an editor, or…just a brother. A reviewer is known quantity.
Later, I am introduced to SF Signal’s John De Nardo. I don’t really know him, but I feel like I do, for his links to SF Signal content made up 90% of my Google+ feed even when I still checked it regularly. Unlike everyone else I’ve met so far, he at least pretends my name sounds familiar. Perhaps it does: I commented on one or two of those Google+ items, and while I’m not sure I think he might have linked to my blog once or twice. But even at Worldcon this blog is obscure enough that I expect to meet no one who reads it.
It’s Friday night, and I’m waiting for an elevator with Strange Horizons editor Niall Harrison. While vacationing in the USA he has been rereading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy and tells me that he was reading my review of it on my blog. He very much disagrees with it, he adds, in the friendly manner of someone hoping for a stimulating discussion.
I blink. I reviewed the Mars trilogy? I know I read it in the late 90s, and thankfully for all of us I wasn’t reviewing books online at the time, but all I recall is that I enjoyed some of the political machinations but found the prose drier than I would have liked. Ever courageous of my convictions, I mutter that I’ve been posting reviews online since 2003, that I’ve become a lot more sophisticated as both a reader and as a reviewer since then, and in general I throw my past self and his opinions directly under the bus.
On Saturday morning I am using Google to locate the review Niall mentioned, half-expecting he had me confused with someone else. It turns out I did review the Mars trilogy in 2006. Reading the review in 2012, the language is recognizably my own but much of the content is new to me, in particular the half-hearted discussion of the role of executives in the story. I think I was trying to say that no matter what one thinks of executives, accurately presented most of their activities make for dull reading, but I can’t say for sure. The review reads like something dashed off in thirty minutes and posted without being read over, which was generally my practice at the time.
In one sense, I “know” Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy. When it comes up in conversation I have things to say: I have read it, I can describe features of its narrative and style, I can name elements that some people find attractive and elements that some people find alienating. But it is a shallow knowledge, the sort of knowledge people write guides for faking at dinner parties. The details are lost to me until I reread it.
In cognitive science there is a concept of a working set, the amount of information we can hold in short-term memory at once for use in solving problems. How many novels can I recall enough about to discuss in depth? Not very many. It was to avoid the loss of this information that I began to write reviews. By writing down what I think, I can have access to those thoughts in the future! The brief, incomplete nature of this site’s older posts derives partly from their intended use merely as notes to stimulate recall. But whenever I revisit my reviews from before the last couple years, I run into the problem that I am no longer the same person. Six years ago I was someone else, a person who remembered different books than I do today. It’s not easy for us to have a conversation.
It’s Friday night and I am at the Night Shade party having the most free-flowing conversation I will have at the convention. I am talking with reviewer and anthologist Rich Horton, and I can cite stories and novels by name and continue to make my point without worrying he might not have read them. Eventually while discussing K.J. Parker I bring up historical fiction author Dorothy Dunnett. Even this succeeds, for like many genre readers he’s also a Dunnett fan, and we talk about her Lymond and Niccolo series. It’s only when we move still further from the genre that we run aground on the contextual rocks: I haven’t read Raymond Carver and he hasn’t read Faulkner.
It is Monday and I am flying home. I am thinking of the conversation with Horton, and how while I was able to toss out the names of short stories and be perfectly confident he would know what I’m talking about, he was not in the same position. Me talking to Rich Horton about short stories is like the friend at work who talks to me about science fiction having only read Ender’s Game and Dune.
This line of thinking develops into the beginnings of an idea for an unusual sort of convention wrap-up post, a present tense narrative that jumps around in time while following thematic threads. I have a hazy idea this is a standard form for feature articles in magazines, but I don’t read enough conventional magazines to have a good feel for the way such stories are written. I know that if I write it, I will end up aping the Doctor Manhattan issue of Watchmen more than respectable journalism. I decide that while this resort to genre is slightly embarrassing, it’s also more than a little appropriate. Doctor Manhattan’s narrative is intended to underscore his inhumanity by illustrating his nonlinear experience of time, but this is not as foreign from the human experience as we tend to think.
First person novels typically present us with a linear narrative, but this is a conceit that is nothing like how the human memory functions. Not only can I not reproduce the exact words of a conversation I had last week (the way first person narrators often authoritatively provide exact words for conversations taking place years in their past), I have trouble even remembering when in the sequence of half-remembered events a conversation happened. In writing this post I frequently had to resort to the convention program just to determine the day on which something happened. The experience was linear, but the memories that endure are only fragments.
It is Monday morning, the last day of Worldcon, and I am packing. “How was your con?” my roommate asks me. His phrasing is considered. We have been at the same convention, yet my con is not the same as his con. In five days of programming I ran into him outside our room exactly three times: twice at the only two panels we both happened to attend and once in the aftermath of the Hugo awards. In almost all respects, we have been at two different conventions superimposed on one location: different panels, different readings, different conversations, different parties. And there are far more than just two: each attendee experiences a different convention. But how could it be otherwise? Each attendee has been reading a different genre, though they are all called science fiction.
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While there’s plenty to unpack out of that post I just wanted to say that that was an astonishing piece of writing. Thank you.
Comment by Ian Mond— September 12, 2012 #
Thanks for the thoughtfull post about your worldcon expierence. I’m very aware that, even at much smaller conventions, the convention I attend is very different then the same con a writer or fan attends. Your emphasis on the splintering of the genre/culture is an important point that I grapple with daily, both as a publisher, and as someone who feels deeply engaged in the genre’s “long conversation.”
It was nice meeting you, if only briefly. Hopefully you will find your way to other conventions, and be able to provide compairsons and contrasts to world con. Id love to read your impression on world fantasy, and/or readercon, or wiscon… all of which are radically different than worldcon and each other.
Comment by jlassenjlassen— September 12, 2012 #
Thank you, Matt.
I particularly like the photos of Cloud Gate, too. I’ve been curious about it ever since SOURCE CODE.
Comment by Paul Weimer (@PrinceJvstin)— September 12, 2012 #
Wonderful post. I feel cons have always existed in a kind of fragmented continuum (how’s that for an oxymoron) in which the gamers might never meet the costumers who might never meet the filkers, and yet somehow it all weaves together to make up conspace. There’s just enough crossover from subgroup to subgroup and just enough commonality of sources to make it one fabric and not just a patchwork quilt.
Comment by ctanwriter— September 12, 2012 #
Wow, what a fantastic read. I’m three-quarters of the way through, and it occurs to me, “This is reading just like the Doctor Manhattan issue,” (I just read WATCHMEN for the first time last month) “I should write a comment about that.” Then I read the next section and laughed.
And only as I type this do I notice it fitting right in with your theme of commonality…
Comment by Chris ("Salt-Man Z")— September 12, 2012 #
As everyone else has said, this is a fascinating account: thank you for writing it. (It reminds me of some things I wrote about my first cons, particularly the point about having a role, being a known quantity.) And so far as the Mars trilogy goes, I think your write up is still worthwhile, or I wouldn’t have mentioned it! You put your finger on some things about the trilogy that are worth discussing — not just the executives and transnats (which I’d argue don’t feel so outdated now, post financial crisis), but the strong sense of national types (which is disconcerting, but which I’d argue is there so that there is something obvious to break down and leave behind as the characters become more natively Martian). So there.
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Paul: I went to Cloud Gate expecting to be aloof and unimpressed. After all, it’s just a big mirror. But it is really is cool, and in a way that pictures (though I did take a lot; put two more on Twitter) can’t really capture. I haven’t seen Source Code yet but I’ve been meaning to check it out.
Jeremy: I may go to Capclave next month since it’s so close to where I live and that certainly would be quite a contrast. However, close though it is, I don’t think I know anyone else going, and I’m the sort of person who needs introductions to meet people.
Niall: “It reminds me of some things I wrote about my first cons”
Links?
Niall ctd: “You put your finger on some things about the trilogy that are worth discussing.”
I just wish I’d done more to discuss them then, since I can’t today. Well, can’t do so with any accuracy. I won’t let that stop me, though!
About the executives, I guess what I would say now is that if you are writing a novel about how humans on Mars evolve toward new and hopefully superior forms than what exists on benighted old Earth, you should put forward and defend a thesis about what those problems on Earth were and why they are no longer controlling on Mars. I don’t remember to what degree KSR did this, but at the time I thought the villains caricatures.
The national stereotypes are also caricatures, and in both cases I don’t think they are necessary. This isn’t a short story, it’s a trilogy, quite a long trilogy even by modern standards, I believe. Surely there’s time to give the bad guys and the bit characters–and therefore the problems they represent–some depth?
I guess the answer, to be blunt, is probably no, not when there are massive descriptions of sand taking up so much space. But while I would have liked the books a lot more without so much scenery, I’m sure many people who loved the books wouldn’t love them without it.
Comment by Matt Hilliard— September 13, 2012 #
Really enjoyed the way you framed write-up; it captures the way cons always feel so dissociative to me. I find the transition from convention time to post-convention time jarring. At the con, I have my schedule grid, highlighted in multiple colors, a clear path through the day, A then B then C then D. Afterwards, it all blurs: did I have that conversation Friday or Thursday? When did I play that game or see that costume or have that book recommended to me–or was it at a different convention altogether? Having the schedule grids on hand to reconstruct my memory is less helpful than I think it should be; so much of what happens is interstitial, not on the page. And the moments of connection–”Oh, you’ve read THAT!”–stand out against a backdrop of almost-but-not-quite-my-tribe. By the next con, they’re all I remember, and I’m enthused again. But immediate after, they feel too sparse, too few.
If you’re going to a con not knowing anyone, you could do worse than Capclave. It’s at least small enough that you’re likely to run into the same people over and over again through the weekend.
Comment by ambyr— September 13, 2012 #
[...] genre. Where was it twenty years ago? Where is now? People’s answers will differ, for they haven’t read the same stories. In 1960 people at least agreed about what science fiction was, allowing them to productively argue [...]
Pingback by No More Falconer: Science Fiction’s Past and Present « Yet There Are Statues— September 19, 2012 #
Belatedly, I wanted to echo what other commenters have said: I really enjoyed this piece. Thanks for sharing it.
Comment by Nic— September 19, 2012 #
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The Warriors have gotten back-to-back 3-pointers from Anthony Morrow and own a 65-60 lead with 7:30 left in the third.
No matter whether the Mavericks rally or not, they’ve already made life miserable for themselves tonight and, most likely, again tomorrow when they play for the second time in 24 hours, visiting Houston.
For Golden State, Vlad Radmanovic already has season highs in points (14) and rebounds (nine).
The Mavericks need to wake up and take this game seriously.
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One of the most frequently asked questions I get is, "What kind of workout should I be doing for MMA or BJJ?" This same question, of course, could apply to any sport.
Sometimes you'll see magazine articles by strength coaches outlining workout programs for various sports and martial arts but I have a problem with this cookie-cutter approach: these programs end up being one-size-fits-all...but-me!
Creating workout programs is as much an art as it is science. Before slapping numbers into arbitrary sets and reps on paper you have to know something about the athletes with whom you're working because, in many cases, the wrong exercise prescription can do more harm than good. Martial arts and grappling are especially strenuous activities and the people who participate in them tend to be extremists already prone to falling into the dreaded overtraining. Participation in these arts provide, for the most part, the specific conditioning needed for same, i.e., if you want to be a good grappler, you've got to grapple; if you want to be a good boxer, you've got to box, etc. The smart strength coach analyzes his athlete to find the chinks in his armor. For example, if I have a BJJ player demonstrating better-than-average flexibility, with good muscular endurance, but lacking strength, it makes no sense to put him on a yoga-based conditioning program or endurance training. What makes sense is to bring his absolute strength up as high as possible. By the same token, if I have a fighter with great strength but no gas, and worse, tight connective tissue, I'm going to put him on an endurance-building program and work on freeing up his joints and increasing his mobility. This is how it's done, and following a program from a magazine may not suit your particular set of weaknesses. I want to work to the athlete's weakness--not his strengths--and no two athletes should have the same exact program (unless they happen to be twins.)
I'm going to give you another example: a program I created for myself. I've been in Philly for the past month, training at Maxercise in BJJ and submission wrestling. The workouts have been brutal. Lots of sparring and live drills. In the team practice sessions, there are times when everyone in the room has placed in the top 3 in the world, in their respective categories--we're talking about some truly elite training. As a 55-year old athlete, training with these kids takes a toll and I must be very careful in the way I add supplementary training. I noticed my shoulders and elbows were bothering me, in fact, both my shoulders were tweaked. I decided to create a program that would be shoulder-strengthening while simultaneously mobilizing, brief in time, without overtaxing my recovery and still allow me to practice the basic kettlebell skills needed for my upcoming seminars. Here's the prgram I settled on, which met my specific weaknesses:
1) Screw Press aka Bent Press
*this is an old-time lift that really hits the upper torso and works the shoulder at an odd angle you might just find yourself in when training BJJ. It's the only press I know that thoroughly works and stimulates the lats, which are major shoulder stabilizers.
2) Clubbell 3-Movement Kinetic Chain:
a) shield cast
b) mill
c) 45-degree angle lockout
*this kinetic chain puts your wrist, elbow and shoulder into all the submissions you might find yourself in during a jiu-jitsu match, thus strengthening the tendons and muscles at odd angles and producing freedom of motion, as well as strength.
3) One-Arm Long-Cycle Clean and Press
*this adds a whole-body element of conditioning. It's shoulder/arm intensive but with repeated, explosive leg drive, thus providing an overall metabolic effect.
None of these exercises are especially strenuous, when compared to double-kettlebell drills, so they don't interfere with my recovery from the heavy, live-grappling sessions. They specifically mobilize and strengthen my joints where I need it and allow me to recover from a heavy training schedule. In other words, this workout is basically a form of active recovery.
The sister workout is a heavy, low-rep, strength-based workout consisting of two movements:
1) a super-slow reverse Turkish Get-Up
* a standing, one-arm clean and press, then very s-l-o-w-l-y lying down, taking an entire minute to get down on the floor, then getting back up, taking a moment to pause in each position.
Included in this super-slow get-up were a side-plank and, once in the recline, an arm-bar.
One repetition of the entire exercise, using the 24 kg, took 2 minutes.
I super-set this with a set of:
2) Weighted Pull-Ups
* done slowly from a dead hang with a 10-second pause at the top with the throat over the bar.
I alternated these two exercises for three sets of each.
When I finished, I felt refreshed and recharged. My shoulders felt worked from every possible angle and I felt what I can only describe as a healing circulation of blood flow through the joints. I didn't need any more endurance work (I'd already had it with over an hour of live training, including takedowns and throws) so doing swings, snatches, and so forth would have been redundant. In weeks previous, I'd been doing sprints and stair sprints but the sudden increase in BJJ volume and live matches also made that type of training unneeded.
This is how I also analyze each of my personal training clients. In my next blog, I'll share how I analyzed my own son, world-class BJJ fighter Zak Maxwell, and the specific program with which he currently trains.
Yours in Strength & Health,
Coach Steve
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Fantastic Blog Steve, I just recently found it after reading the "Naked Warrior" and searching your name. I spent the rest of that morning reading all the past entries. Thank you for taking the time to write it and for sharing your vast experience and expertise. It was great to see the accomplishments of your son, who is of course mentioned in TNW. A wise man once said you can judge a tree by its fruit and you can see the good fruit produced by the training methods you have developed in both you and your son. Looking forward to your thoughts on training kids as I am a father of three with another on the way.
Thanks again,
Scott
Hi Scott, Thanks for writing and the especially kind comments. I'm very proud of my son. Keep reading, we've got got a lot of ground to cover...Steve
I'd say great post Steve but I don't want to repeat myself all the time ;)
Just kidding - fantastic work.
And I have some BJJ related Q for you
- could you write something about your work with Saulo? How did your cooperation look like. What was your job exactly? Was he low-carber that time? BTW - did you work with Xande too?
- have you ever worked/trained/fight with Rickson? Is he really THAT good?
I remember - I guess Roleta while visiting Poland - said that Rickson is like from outer space and all those black belts from Gracie Barra didn't really know what he is doing to them. I wonder if that's true
thank you for your fantastic blog
Rafal
Hi Rafal, Sorry, I can't tell any details about the private training I did with Saulo and Xande because I was under contract with them and there are privacy issues.
Re: Rickson, I saw him in action at the Gracie Acadamy during the early 90's and yes, he's every bit as amazing as what the people say. Thanks for reading, Rafal.-Steve
OK, thank you Steve
I was asking about Saulo's diet coz I wonder if you know some other athletes who use some sort of low-carb dietes. We all know you do. I've heared dr Ellis worked with some good triathlon guy. Aajonus states he did it with some Karate guy too. But it's very hard to shift that paradigm that carbs and carb loading are essential for any athlete.
And I was kinda surprised reading here " If you're low-carbing, be sure to replenish glycogen with a post-workout carbohydrate/whey solution." I thought you dont do loading of any kind
Once again best regards from Warsaw, Poland
Hi Rafal, I've been using post-workout carbs for over a year now. My gf turned me onto it and I really liked the results. Very low carb diets make it near impossible to do HIIT but with PWO carbs it's not problem. I spoke to Ellis about it and he doesn't approve but it works for me. Read Anthony Colpo's suggestions. How's it going in Warsaw? I'm in Reykjavik right now. Steve
Iceland? Cool! What are you doing there Steve? Do you know that Icelandic men have the longest life expectancy in the world, living an average of 79.4 years. And it's funny that you are there, 'coz on polish low-carb forum we were talkin' like a week ago about Iceland and there native diet - and it looked a bit like Inuit I guess. Do you know what they like to eat and how it looked like in the past?
And Iceland is on my list of future visitations ;)
About carb loading - I'm in touch with one guy who is cyclist and low-carber. Every day he goes like 120km with average speed over 30km/h. He states he can generate 5,7W per kg for 30min! But - he eats 1gr of protein per kg of his body, coz over 1gr makes him weaker and fatigue kicks in. So his diet looks like that - 50-60gr of P, 30-40gr C and rest from saturated fat. Every time he tried to go like 100-120gr of protein he felt worse.
Do you know anything about this more protein > fatigue thing?
PS - It's ok in Warsaw and weather is getting better :)
Hi, Steve!
How heavy is your clubbell ?
Best,
Rainer
Hi Rainer,
15#-Steve
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We're eating dinner outside again! We've had two days in a row of nearly 90 degrees! Phew! Because it's still May, the evening air cools down quickly. It's wonderful to have a breezy meal at the picnic table, rather than in a hot kitchen. Sometimes I'll prepare dinner in the morning, so that I'm not stuck at the stove at 5pm. This is the same salad I served to my printing class for lunch on the barn deck. A one bowl meal my entire family is excited about! I've been making variations of it since I managed a vegan restaurant in Marin County (California) 17 years ago. Did I just say 17? Is that possible!? Well, I guess I can honestly tell you that it's tried and true!
Cold Miso Noodles with Asparagus
Ingredients
Make
Miso Cream Sauce
Blend on high speed:
any leftover sauce can be diluted with a little more vinegar and used to dress salad greens.
I'll be back on Tuesday (Monday is Memorial day in the states)... hope your weekend is all that you want and need it to be!
- soba (buckwheat) or udon noodles
- favorite vegetable in season (tonight we had asparagus from a farm down the road)
- cubes of baked tofu
- carrot matchsticks
- mung bean sprouts
- chopped green onions (or chives)
- miso cream sauce- recipe follows
- Prepare noodles according to package directions. Add fave vegetable in the last minute of boiling to blanch it. Drain and run under cold water to prevent overcooking.
- Add all other ingredients and pour on miso cream to taste.
Blend on high speed:
- 4 heaping tablespoons white miso
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons rice vingar
- zest of fresh ginger and a clove of garlic
- 1 1/2 cups water
I'll be back on Tuesday (Monday is Memorial day in the states)... hope your weekend is all that you want and need it to be!
This looks and sounds delicious. I will definitely give it a go. A manager of a vegan restaurant , very cool and just goes to show there is so much we still don't know about each other.
Have a super long weekend. It looks like you guys lucked out with the weather. Our long weekend was the last one when it was almost snowing .
Sounds very yummy!
That looks wonderful! Thanks for sharing the recipe. And the red tablecloth looks beautiful - perfect for an outdoor dinner.
What a beautiful picture. I've never had miso, but should give it a try. Your meal looks delicious.
I also adore your sewing machine. What a dream find.
mmm, that dish looks divine, and eating outdoors is the best! Just curious..where in Marin (I'm from there), from vegan restaurant, I'm guessing Fairfax? happy weekend!
Amber, the restaurant was called Garden of Eatin' (affiliated with the organic chip company) and was located in Larkspur. It was open in the early 90's. I loved Fairfax when I lived in Marin... vague but happy memories of seeing Zero play in some little park there.
The farmers' market is this afternoon--we are definitely having this for tomorrow's lunch!
yum! i always mean to make more cold noodle-y salads for dinner, and making it in the morning is a great idea! i'll have to try this; the sauce sounds divine...
yummm, this is SO on my list for dinner next week. Thanks for sharing it!
Lovely - I am sooo adding this to the summer din-din rotation...especially as most of the ingredients are floating around the kitchen anyhow. Amazing - that never happens. Thank you!
This looks delicious!! Thank you for sharing a recipe that stands the test of time :)
Happy Memorial Day weekend Maya!!
Thanks for sharing the recipe! I can attest that it is one of those meals that is light but also satisfying, and very easy on the tummy.
Mmmmmmmmm, lovely twist on the Japanesey! XXxx
Oooh YUM.
Have a gorgeous weekend Maya. It's cold & dark here.
YUM...these have always been my favorite....I remember you making these when I was little!!
It's so pretty with the chive flowers in it.
Ana- you remember them! You were 13! love you!
xox
I found you in the Artful Bloggers Mag. this weekend. Way to go!!!
Marin huh? Not far from me now.
yummy! cooking is the last thing i want to do when it's 90+ outside; soba noodles are very tasty cold though. i'll have to give this recipe a go. your lavender sachet is very easy on the eyes, the blue with the natural linen looks striking and goes along beautifully with the bee print.
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Thanks again for posting this recipe! I made it last night. Delicious and perfect for a warm summer day, ahhh. So, I've never commented on your crafty posts but I love reading your blog and look forward to your updates.
Thanks for sharing!
This sounds delicious! Thank you for sharing it and I'm super jealous of your warm weather!
Just made a variation of this sauce last night. The only difference is a little toasted sesame oil and a little less water. Yummm!
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Rebecca Ambrosini's invitation at the Creamery.
Windows on Main St opens next Saturday, August 8. Installations have already started going up. I caught up with Will Walker on Friday as he was installing his work at M&T Bank.
(editor's note: I can't express how pleasant it is to have August roll in, and not have to be scrambling about with WOMS related tasks.)
I will, however, be participating in a panel discussion organized in conjunction with the Windows exhibition that will focus on the topic of public art. "Public Art, the Economy and Our Community is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Aug 8 at 2pm at Dia:Beacon. I don't know this for a fact, but I imagine the talk will take place in the Learning Lab above the bookstore. I'll verify that detail. The other panelists include:
Steven Evans, Assistant Director of the Dia Foundation at Beacon,
Sara Pasti, Director of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, and Beacon City Councilwoman,
Garin Baker of the Orange County Arts Council,
Cabot Parsons, Chairperson of the Beacon Arts & Cultural Committee
Dan Weise of Open Space Gallery, and Electric Windows here in Beacon.
A peak into the office area at M&T Bank which will be bathed in an elecctric emerald
glow for a month, courtesy of Will Walker and Jesse Lebwohl-Steiner.
Later in the evening, there will be an opening reception for WOMS on Saturday at Chill wine bar at 173 Main St. from 6-9pm.
The exhibit will close on September 12. On that day, there will be a panel talk featuring some of the exhibit's participating artists speaking about their projects. The talk will take place at Zuzu's (453 Main St) at 12pm followed by a closing reception from 2-4pm.
Here are your 2009 Windows on Main St Participating Artists:
- Rebecca Ambrosini - Muddy Cup Coffeeshop, 129 Main Street
- Kathleen Anderson - Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, 324 Main Street
- Elizabeth Castagna - 500 Main Street
- Carla Goldberg - Beacon Rivers for Estuaries & Rivers, 199 Main Street
- Theresa Gooby - 259 Main Street
- Elia Gurna - 502 Main Street
- Beth Haber - River Winds Gallery, 172 Main Street
- Jason Hahn - 504 Main Street
- Peter Iannarelli & Keisha Luce - Moxie, 544 Main Street
- Jesse Lebwohl-Steiner & Will Walker - M&T Bank, 200 Main Street
- Beth Lewis-Jackson & Edward Vermehren - Hudson Beach Glass, 162 Main Street
- Teresa Marra - Chill Wine Bar, 173 Main Street
- Eileen McTiernan - Mount Beacon Fine Art, 155 Main Street
- Dana Devine O’Malley - Zora Dora, 201 Main Street
- Joe Pimentel & Melissa Toth - Fire Lotus, 474 Main Street
- Keely Sheehan - Echo, 470 Main Street
- Vickie Raabin - Mixture, 209 Main Street
- Steve Rossi - Artisan Wine Shop, 180 Main Street
- Dan Rigney - BEAHive/American Burnish, 291 Main Street
- Emily Sylvester - Poppy’s Burger’s & Fries, 184 Main Street
- Catherine Welshman - Jacqueline’s, 478 Main Street
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jakefromstate-farm: why fall in love when you can fall asleep
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there is a huge difference between genuinely liking someone and liking the attention they give you and it took me a long ass time to realize that
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KylMss wrote: If the kids are worthy of playing, they'll have no problem beating out a bum like Cedeno. You can't just hand over a roster spot to Kozma or Jackson. They haven't earned that privilege. If they want to open the season in the big leagues they better show up and take a roster spot. One the things LaRussa and Jocketty always did well was creating camp competition by bringing in seasoned veterans. Cedeno's been in the big leagues for several years. I'm sure he knows how to prepare for spring training. We'll see if any of the Cardinals younger infielders have been putting in their work in the off season.
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pugsleyaddams wrote: ------------------------------------------------ nathanleopoldjr wrote:If all you can do is sign mediocre bums then just let the kids play.---------------------------------------------Lol!!! For all of you new posters who have joined us here at The Cardinal Nation this winter, this funny fellow was only joshing.....as he will do often once the season commences. His name is Nathan, or as many of us around here refer to him as, Homer. Nate here may be the biggest Cards homer east of the Mississippi River as you will see once he gets into full swing come April. The Redbirds....and especially Mo and Mr. DeWitt can do no wrong in Homer's eyes. And speaking of the season that looms just right around the bend now, all of this joking around that you see out of guys like Homer, CardinalNationHouston, Bling, Booyah and a host of others, comes to a screeching halt once that first pitch of the regular season is hurled.....so hang in there.
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pugsleyaddams wrote: ------------------------------------------------ cardinalnationhouston wrote:Did i ruin my shot at the Homer award by pointing out some of Hollidays shortcomings back in November?---------------------------------------------Nope you're still a homer, CardinalNation. "Homer" is not a bad word. I know that Slappy had aspirations of jumping ship to become a Cardinal fan and then in turn a Cardinal homer.....but I think he blew it by accusing the above mentioned player of being a roider.
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Domeboys wrote: Cedeno told Rick Hummel that no other club really had expressed interest in him this off-season.
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United Way
Due to generous funding by the United Way, the Y continues to help youth become productive and engaged citizens. Early childhood and youth development programs at the YMCA open the doors of opportunity for education, leadership training, personal growth, service to others and social development.
Last year more than 15,000 youth participated in leaders clubs, Youth in Government, literacy services, after-school enrichment programs and other YMCA youth service activities.
Expanding programs for teens in particular is a priority that was identified in the Y’s 2009 strategic plan and as a result, the Y will continue to invest considerable capital and staff resources in the Carondelet, Downtown, Emerson, Monsanto and South City urban core branches to provide programs and services for youth.
The challenging economic environment has placed so much stress and strain on families in the greater St. Louis area. Those families are experiencing job losses and coping with increasing financial dilemmas.
Many YMCA families are forced to withdraw their children from child care, sports programs and other YMCA activities because it is no longer affordable. And yet, these families need Y programs now more than ever. Thanks in part to United Way funding, the Y continues to come to the aid of these families.
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To investigate whether before and after chemoradiotherapy (CRT) positron emission tomography (PET) predict for pathologic response after preoperative CRT in patients with locally advanced rectal adenocarcinoma.
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9:49 a.m. | Updated HarperCollins appears to have prevailed in a legal tussle with Gawker over the Web site’s posting last week of lengthy excerpts from Sarah Palin’s book “America by Heart,” a move that HarperCollins said violated copyright law.; Carmel, Ind.; Little Rock, Ark.; and Houston.
Ms. Crum said that a federal judge in Manhattan.”
Asked if there was a financial settlement, Ms. Crum declined to comment.
Remy Stern, editor in chief of Gawker, said in an e-mail: “HarperCollins’s.”
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Associate Professor of Pharmacology and of Comparative Medicine; Co-Director, Program in Integrative Cell Signaling and Neurobiology of Metabolism; Director, BBS Minority Affairs
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Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS):
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Signal transduction; Protein tyrosine phosphatases; Cancer; Diabetes; Obesity; Muscle stem cells; Muscular dystrophy more...
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- Diano, S., Liu, Z., Jeong, J. K., Dietrich, M. O., Ruan, H., Kim, E., Suyama, S., Kelly, K., Gyengesi, E., Arbiser, J. L., Belsham, D., Sarruf, D., Schwartz, M., Bennett, A. M., Shanabrough, M., Mobbs, C. V., Yang, X., Gao, X., and Horvath, T. L. (2011) Peroxisome proliferation-related hypothalamic control of ROS sets melanocortin tone and feeding in diet-induced obesity. Nature Medicine, 11: 1121-1129.
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The allure of skin care products and treatments is a powerful one. If you watch TV, read magazines, or use the Internet regularly, you see dozens of daily advertisements for makeup, cleansers, “age-defying” creams, and beauty-enhancing treatments like tanning. Unfortunately, some of the ingredients in the skin-care products that you regularly use to look great […]
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. dollar is widely accepted at most tourist areas.
Meeting participants should be advised to exchange only the amount needed. In the Dominican Republic, for example, travelers can only exchange 30% of pesos back into dollars, even with receipt of exchange.
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Nominations are now being accepted for the IMEX Green Awards 2009, to be presented at IMEX 2009, the worldwide exhibition for incentive travel, meetings, and events, May 26-29 in Frankfurt, Germany.
The annual awards, which have become increasingly popular as environmental awareness in the industry grows, include three category prizes and the Commitment to the Community Award, which recognizes an outstanding contribution to a local community.
The Green Meetings Award, the first category, is attracting more and more entries each year as corporations and agencies worldwide embrace the principles of green meetings and thereby demonstrate detailed environmental improvements and savings.
The IMEX Green Exhibitor Award was launched to educate and encourage exhibitors to employ a "reuse and recycle" strategy for their exhibit stand design and build.
The IMEX Green Supplier Award was launched last year as a way to publicly acknowledge meetings industry suppliers who play a critical role in helping the rest of the industry to achieve environmental objectives.
An independent judging panel made up of industry representatives and environmental experts chooses the winners.
For nomination forms, deadlines, and more information, visit.
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If you are planning a meeting for the year 2000, you need to address the so-called Y2K problem. In brief: Most computers cannot properly process a post-1999 date field. The result is that without significant reprogramming, most computers could reject a date such as February 1, 2000 altogether, or erroneously interpret it as February 1, 1900.
In comparison to its potential impact on national defense or air-traffic control, the Y2K problem for the meeting planning industry is relatively minor. Nevertheless there are plenty of nightmarish scenarios to consider.
If the software used to track hotel reservations or meeting registration is not Y2K compliant, registrations could be lost, housing records could be wrong, and overbooking and/or undercounting could result. Indeed, hotels simply might not be able to process reservations accurately, which could lead to room-block errors, mistakes in food-and-beverage calculations, and erroneous attrition charges. Billing software glitches could lead to confusion over payments and credits.
The more complex the meeting the more likely it is that Y2K problems could increase exponentially. While you can be thankful you're not an air traffic controller, you've still got your work cut out for you.
Y2K Assurances It is increasingly common for customers to demand--and receive--written assurances that their suppliers are compliant, and that Y2K problems will not prevent them from performing their obligations. An unwillingness or inability to provide such assurances, particularly at this comparatively late date, is a red flag.
Assurances or representations concerning Y2K compliance also can be incorporated into written contracts. For example, meeting planners should try to get written assurances that the vendor:
* has reviewed its operations for Y2K compliance;
* has developed, or is developing, a program to address Y2K problems in a timely fashion;
* has made a related inquiry of its relevant suppliers and vendors; and, based on such review,
* is satisfied that Y2K problems will not cause material adverse effects on the performance of the contract.
Such representations should be backed up by a clause in which the meeting planner is indemnified against any losses arising from a Y2K problem.
What Goes Around Of course, turnabout is fair play. Meeting planners should be prepared to respond to similar requests from their own customers or others with whom they have contractual agreements. If it hasn't been done already, now is the time to review computer operations, determine Y2K compliance, and identify and address potential problems.
When responding to requests for Y2K compliance assurances from third parties, be sure only to make representations that are completely accurate. Ideally, any such responses should be reviewed by legal counsel. Whenever possible, seek to limit your organization's Y2K liability to third parties by excluding certain types of damages (e.g., lost profits) or, better yet, by excluding potential liability for Y2K problems altogether.
Late last year, President Clinton signed into law the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act. Its purpose is to encourage companies to share Y2K compliance information about their products and services. Thus, the act limits the circumstances under which Y2K disclosure statements can be used against the persons making them and imposes strict proof requirements in legal actions claiming fraud or defamation from a Y2K statement.
For the protections of the act to apply, the Y2K disclosure statement must be specifically identified as a "Y2K readiness statement." In addition, the act provides that exchanges of information that take place before 2001 and are designed to correct or avoid Y2K problems are not subject to antitrust laws.
Neither the meeting industry nor any industry that relies on computer-based information systems (and what doesn't?) is likely to make a completely trouble-free transition into the year 2000. With some planning and preparation, however, the Y2K bug's impact can be kept to a minimum.
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The new $500 million Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman hosted two programs for insurance and financial services planners in early January: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co.'s first insurance advisory board, held January 4 to 8, followed by an educational event January 8 to 11. Both included a variety of educational sessions and gave attendees the opportunity to experience the spectacular 365-room resort, targeted for high-end meetings and incentives.
Concurrent with the eagerly awaited gala opening, 10 industry veterans gathered for the insurance advisory board. “We deliberately kept it small and intimate so participants could share their thoughts,” says Pam Ferguson, director of insurance sales, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. LLC.
Rather than listen to formal presentations, the advisory board met in closed-door sessions to talk about their perception of luxury in the hotel marketplace. Led by professional facilitator Bob Joselyn, president and CEO, Joselyn Tepper & Associates Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz., they participated in various interactive exercises, including one that involved designing their ideal hotel chain. Also, they discussed such industry issues as the new seller's market and the challenges of flat-line budgets. “Interacting with a group of such seasoned professionals is an education in itself,” says advisory board member Sharon Chapman, CMP, CMM, travel and corporate events planner, Berkshire Life Insurance Company of America, Pittsfield, Mass.
The program concluded with an update by Ritz-Carlton's Bruce Himelstein, senior vice president, sales and marketing (see sidebar, below). “Educationally, it was very helpful to learn about Ritz-Carlton's strategic direction for the future,” notes Chapman, “and good to hear how much they value financial services and insurance business.”
Program Highlights
A larger group of industry planners (including some advisory board members) met January 8 to 11 for an event that included presentations by property developer Michael Ryan; General Manager Jean Cohen; renowned tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, who developed the resort's tennis center; and Alynne Hanford, global sales manager, group and meeting travel, American Airlines.
In her airline industry update, Hanford noted the rising cost of fuel — the greatest challenge to all carriers — as well as initiatives by American to “streamline the group process so it is easy, efficient, and productive.” American still offers refundable, changeable, zone group fares, she said, with a 154-person department dedicated to group sales, and another roughly 200 group reservationists. Among recent technology enhancements is a new online booking feature for groups that gives 5 percent discounts off the cheapest online rates.
In other highlights, planners toured the resort's 13,000 square feet of event space, experienced the 20,000-square-foot, $10 million Silver Rain spa; and learned about Ambassadors of the Environment by Jean-Michel Cousteau, an eco-educational family adventure program that introduces children to the natural wonders of the island. They also had a bit of their own adventure, sailing to Stingray City and swimming with the stingrays.
Participants enjoyed learning about the new resort, and learning from each other. “As a meeting planner, I am often invited on fam trips,” says Leanne Acton, CMM, director, conference planning and travel services, Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., Horsham, Pa. “Generous offers to beautiful places, but who has time? Attending the Ritz-Carlton educational event was time well spent outside of the office because of the educational components — not just the speakers, but the opportunity to interact with my peers. My company benefited from my participation.”
In the Pipeline at Ritz-Carlton
Bruce Himelstein, senior vice president, sales and marketing, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. L.L.C., shared company news at Ritz-Carlton's first insurance advisory board in early January, and at the educational event that followed. The events marked the opening of Ritz-Carlton's 60th hotel. By 2008, Himelstein said, 14 more Ritz-Carlton properties will have opened, primarily in Asia and Europe. All will reflect a local “sense of place” in their design. Himelstein also reviewed new company standards for guest rooms, already incorporated into new hotels and to be included in upgrades of existing properties. Among them are “rainforest” shower heads, 400-thread-count sheets, flat-screen televisions, and Bulgari amenities.
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Coast and Midwest editions are held each year.
The airline symposium, slated for February, is designed to bring together airline and hotel and lodging companies looking for a piece of the estimated $41 billion spent annually on lodging for airline crews and distressed passengers. Robert Gilbert, president and CEO of HSMAI, says this event would be the first of its kind. Twenty major airlines have signed on for the conference, says Gilbert. The date and location have yet to be announced.
The international show, called WorldQuest, will be held in three U.S. cities--New York, Chicago, and Washington--and will be for domestic meeting planners taking their meetings overseas. Twelve international hotel companies have already confirmed their place as exhibitors, says Gilbert. Dates and venues have not yet been determined for the WorldQuest shows.
HSMAI also announced that the 2004 Affordable Meetings West Coast show, slated for June 9 to 10, will be held in Long Beach, Calif. The 2003 show was held in San Jose.
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New Hera: Layer 1a: University District The district located in Top Triangle of New Hera, top floor
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Posted 13 March 2012 - 09:29 AM
Mercury watched the exchange with a knowing grin. She'd picked up on Ryuta's comment, and was amused by it. Was he afraid she'd be going bonkers right there and then? A viral Maverick, perhaps would- though they'd started way earlier than that. She, however... Had more self-control than that. "No worries: I'm free-will. I could even shake hands with one of them if there was any reason to," she stated when he stepped back and turned to address her again. "Might chat with them a bit if I don't find enough data elsewhere- that girl sure looks like she knows a lot," she added casually. It was clear by this Reploids behaviour he was no Maverick and knew her to be one.
Mercury's face stilled into a blank one when she was told what was happening. Bits and pieces, only? From His DNA? That was so... Underwhelming. It was a far cry from the real Sigma coming back, more powerful than ever, ready to rally all Mavericks into an all out war. To fool the Hunters into fighting one another, or further destroying themselves in an elaborate scheme. "... I guess that's the next best thing..." she conceded, releasing a sigh. This was the answer to the question she was prioritizing; but not the answer she would have liked to hear.
The nanite colony blinked in confusion, her head snapping to the side. "What the...", she hissed. Something was wrong. She'd just received a bunch of nonsense data from her smaller colony, before the connection was lost altogether. Had her backup just been attacked? Jammed? Downstraight malfunctioned? Each possibility was grimmed than the prior, and she strode purposefully, wanting to check on what the hell had gone wron with that parked taxi. She was... Upset, angry. If it was those feds shooting randome EMPS at anything that moved, she'd mess them up this time: it wouldn't do to have such dangerous weapons being shot so randomly.
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Posted 13 March 2012 - 07:26 PM
Still he had little more reason to be here other than waste time needed to get more of the city out of the line of fire and possibly awakening themselves to their mistakes. He also wants to see what the colony would do once she encounters the culprits responsible for screwing with her loose pieces. Taking one more look at the fair, he starts to wander off after the colony, making sure not to cause more stress to her than what she was already witnessing from her own kin.
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Posted 13 March 2012 - 07:52 PM
"Attention all festival goers, anybody who went to the Amusement Park today and can prove it by providing the mandatory bracelet admitting entry OR the stamp shall receive VIP Tickets to an exclusive event. The following people are admitted based on the fact they can prove their ID's when asked by the bouncer at the Lobby of the University: Mr. Teech Ordarium, Mr. Pen Cloud, Mr. Akamachi Tenzo, Mr. Ryo-Zero, and Mr. Kenji Nobuyuki. That's free admittance to the University district's exclusive event that happens in 30 minutes. Have a nice day." the speaker shut off.
It was obvious. IT was a sheer call out to five individuals. Teech Ordarium was way obvious, but after... Pen Cloud was "Penber Stratus", Akamachi Tenzo was "Chiba Masato", Ryo-Zero was Ryuta/Bionic Zero and Kenji Nobuyuki was Nobuyuki Kazuo... the soul-bound Reploid. It wasn't an actual invitation, but a call out to discuss something. Dr. S knew Ryuta was still in New Hera and had to speak to him from his remote location.
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Posted 13 March 2012 - 09:16 PM
She arrived where she'd left the smaller colony... Only to find that the taxi wasn't there anymore: it'd gone away, leaving behind a small puddle of silvery liquid where it'd been parked, and drops of a similarly colored liquid along the road. It must be that new fuel that most machines and Reploids in this city used... Ordanium, right? Supposedly, it was a very efficient fuel... Mercury, thus far, had avoided coming into contact with any of it, though. Frowning, she walked over to the puddle, and knelt down beside it, watching the inert nanites. She could scan some pretty high residual energy reading from them: they'd been in the middle of helping themselves to the taxi's energy source when they'd been deactivated... Mercury tilted her head and dipped her left hand's index finger in the middle of the pool, attempting to restart some of the nanites and have them join up to her again.
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Her entire forearm fell off, segmented as if it'd been cut clean, just as Mercury shrieked and jumped back, her eyes wide and her light trims flaring in alarm, watching as the puddle of inert nanites had grown, the empty carcass that'd been her hand now liquated aswell. What was that about? Shocked, the Maverick didn't even think about readjusting her arm again, craddling it like a wound instead.
That... Wasn't good: her own nanites had just been used against her: she didn't know how, but it had just happened: she'd lost more, by simply attempting to retrieve and restart the lost ones. She was in danger. Anything and everything could be a threat.
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Posted 21 March 2012 - 11:51 PM
Keeping neutral to avoid enticing such attention, Ryuta makes his way towards the person, expecting something to happen upon arrival to where he stands.
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Posted 27 March 2012 - 09:58 PM
Making sure not to raise suspicion from the unfamiliar passerby, he waits for the guard to take him to the location of the "event".
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 12:28 AM
"Uh, stop Maverick scum." he said, exactly like a bad actor before yanking Ryuta into the doors.
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Posted 03 April 2012 - 07:03 PM
"You either have a lot of balls, are stupid, or have an amazing plan but the doctor has one task to ask while you're in New Hera. He apologizes he can't be here, but he's yet again fixing his Maverick creation up." the guard said. "The task is pretty simple. If you EVER see Elzareth again, in the next ever, give him this note." he said, handing a small note over to Ryuta.
It read "羨望は自尊心を打ちます。 嫉妬深いか。".
He looked around, noticing the others openly talking smack about Sigma and on top of that, actually plotting against him.
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Posted 03 April 2012 - 07:19 PM
"If you're done telling me what to expect, could you please let me go, or at least act like you're kicking me out of the University?" he mutters low enough for the guard to hear, "I may be mostly machine, but I still need to breathe normally."
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Posted 18 April 2012 - 11:59 PM
Keeping an eye out for anymore unwanted encounters, he eventually makes his way towards the university exit and back into the near insecure population of the city.
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#96
Posted 11 April 2013 - 06:42 AM
Ryuta stayed at the outskirts of the University, remembering their earlier warning to stay away. It probably didn't matter anyway as the bleeding had stopped and his cybernetic implants were busy mending the wound caused by the glowing prop.
Figuring it best not to risk the life and plans of the University for the sake of his own recovery, he turns around and leaves, deciding to find the detective and keep a distant watch to make sure no other hooligan attempt to ruin his investigation into Kazuo's true origin.
The attempt, however, was going to be hard due to how limited his spiritual senses were. He can sense the detective still within the city, but can't figure out where he wandered off to this time, or if he even left the area where he encountered that overblown anime adaptation. The best chance he has of staying on the detective's tail was to find out where Kazuo lived and head there to see if he was snooping around there.
He was certain Kazuo's abode was somewhere in the city, given the amount of presences that were familiar with him as a regular human being, so it would only be a matter of stumbling about until he found the place to get what he needed for the remainder of the time before Sigma comes bursting into the city. As much as he wants to stay focused on getting the civilians out of harms way, he knew not everyone was going to willingly choose their own life over that of a genocidal war machine, and forcing them was only going to cause more turmoil than maintaining the happiness of those who want more out of the upcoming future than to become another stain under his foot.
Keeping this in mind, and hoping Dr. S would at least understand his reason for not wanting to force the entire city to accept an offer they would rather not be apart of, Ryuta continues back towards the city, deciding to start with the outer ring and work his way inward to find where Kazuo originally lived.
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Posted 06 May 2013 - 04:23 AM
Some minutes later, Lion was at the entrance to the school district. He could see people coming and going, something quite unusual compared to the quietness that left the rest of the city in a near-deserted state.
"Movement here is different from the rest of the town. Maybe I can get some real information?", Lion thought, as he stepped to the gate of the Top Triangle.
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Posted 06 May 2013 - 04:32 AM
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Posted 06 May 2013 - 04:41 AM
"Well, if I have to look like I'm not from here, now seems to be the perfect time.", Lion thought as he approached one of the students.
"Excuse me", he said, "I came to visit the city today, and I'm curious about the theme of the festival you guys seem to be setting up here."
If it went pulled out the right way, Lion could get some explanations about the events around the city.
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Sunday Sweeties- Recipe Linky #29 – Christmas Feast
Christmas has been and gone for another year, though it still feels like Christmas to me.
This year we celebrated my side of the family’s Christmas on Boxing Day, due to people working, and everyone having the in-law sides to visit and spend time with. So rather than make everyone rushed and some people missing out, we moved our celebrations to Boxing Day.
Presents were first, with Santa (AKA Poppy) making a brief appearance with a gift for the three children.
Then it was time for lunch.
There was the usual overflowing table of food that was thoroughly enjoyed by all. And with full tummies, it didn’t matter how much time we left before dessert, there wasn’t a lot of room for more.
Do you think that stopped us though?
Tradition was followed. There was Pavlova, Christmas pudding, ice cream and custard. My mum made an amazing Trifle, and my Sister-In-Law made some White Christmas. There was also a sneaky Chocolate Bavarian in there somewhere. A plate of fresh fruit salad and a bowl of cherries helped us to feel a little better about our indulgences.
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Dessert is my favourite part of any meal! Yours looks amazing!Reply
AngDecember 30, 2012 at 12:19 pm (139 days ago)
Thanks Ann. How was your dessert on Christmas day? Did you do some over indulging yourself?
AliciaDecember 30, 2012 at 5:50 pm (139 days ago)
Your desserts look delicious. I didn’t have any dessert after christmas lunch, the sight of it made me feel sick lol. I was so full!Reply
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AngDecember 31, 2012 at 4:09 pm (138 days ago)
Yeah I felt like that after dinner that night. I never eat so much as I do at Christmas time.
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Hi Evelyn. I will try to find some time to stop by. Thanks for the invite.
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"My favorite little mountain town." Rollinsville by caffeine_induced78
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It's not hard to find the quiet little mountain towns in Colorado. You just have to pick a place on a map that does not have a ski area close by. Rollinsville is a town like this. For me it is the start of my favorite little corner - the Upper South Boulder Creek valley. If you think that only the big cities have anything to do in them then this is not the place for you. Here you will find some small workshops, a post office, a bar / restaurant, and a general store. In the future I would love to visit the town called Wingello that Jen (craic) has made famous on VT. In the meantime this is how I imagine Wingello - except Rollinsville has more snow and less horses.
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Sorry to say, but as of May 2008, the restaurant has been closed and it is for sale. Too bad, hopefully there will be new owners soon, it is such a great location for this bar/restaurant.
yes there is way too much snow for it to be Wingello.....BTW you`ll love it there, especially when it rains and the frogs sing
(303) 258-3270... I dialed this number and some Jennifer Compton answered the phone. I´ve order couple of dozens of Buffalo Wings.. extra spicy... They are DHL´ing them over here. I think she was blonde.
you would probably like Donaghadee!
I thought this page might give something.sure did, outright down to earth perceptions...like that
Quite a rave review for the chicken wings! Chicken wings and a beer. Mmm. Must be dinner time.... that sounds good.
yea, dude, i dig your philosophy on that. what's with everyone adoring the urban environment, like we all forgot where we come from
Cool place. I could use a drink right now.
wings beer snow lol awesome looking hillbilly ville
Golly. I felt like I was right there. And right at home.
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This is a beautiful city with plenty to see and do; we really enjoyed our stay here. The first two days were really quiet, everything was shut, we guessed it must have been a public holiday but we never found out for sure. On the third day everything came to life, the city became a busy metropolis and the visitor attractions were open to the public.
As with any major city there are plenty of places of interest to visit and anyone who is reasonably fit could reach most of them on foot. We bought a 72 hour Budapest Card from the hotel reception which cost HUF 6,500, this gave us unlimited travel on public transport and free or discounted entrance into many attractions, although to be honest, most of them were museums which were free anyway. Getting around the city was very easy with the card, the buses and trams are very frequent wherever you are aiming to go.
Budapest is not in the same league as Prague when it comes to nightlife, but it does have a good variety of restaurants and bars. I always like to try the local dishes when I am visiting a foriegn country and I am happy to say I thoroughly enjoyed every meal I had here. Every restaurant we went into concentrated mainly on traditional Hungarian dishes which we were more than happy with. There are a lot of boats moored along the river that have been turned into bars and restaurants, we had a very nice meal in one of them, unfortunately I cannot remember which one it was.
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I'm on my way to Budapest tomorrow. I can't wait to see the sights. Thanks for some great photos, they have only increased my interest. ~M
That`s what I call a night pic! I`ve also tried to photograph from this place the Chain bridge and the Royal palace, but your one is much better>;-)
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Don't go there without a map or a brochure of things that you can visit in Kongsberg because it can happen that you have no chance to enter the tourist office. It happened to me!! I went there at 1 p.m. and the office was closed; strange because in Italy most of the offices stay open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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I stopped into Brass Door for lunch one afternoon. It’s one of those places that everyone seems to have tried except for me. I have heard great things about both the food and the atmosphere, so it was time to give it a try.
Since I went in during the week and on off hours, it was pretty slow. Other than one table of lingering businessmen (who obviously didn’t want to go back to work), Scott and I were the only people sitting in the place.
You could tell immediately this was an Irish Pub. Other than one or two beers, all the drafts were Irish. There was Celtic music playing over the loud speakers, and, with the decor, you feel like you just walked into Ireland. Someone obviously did their research before opening this place up.
Our server greeted us immediately, told us about the specials and got our drink order. He was very sweet.
I ended up choosing the I opted for the Grilled Chicken Sandwich, described as “Grilled marinated chicken breast, with lettuce, tomato and onion on toasted Ciabatta with Guinness mayonnaise”. They had me at Guinness mayonnaise. Instead of “hand-cut chips”, I opted for the sauteed veggies as a side.
The sandwich was great. The chicken seemed right off the grill, and the Guinness mayo gave the sandwich a different kick than other traditional chicken sandwiches one may consume. It tasted fresh, and the bread was warm and soft. My only qualm were the veggies. Yes, they were sauteed. However, they were sauteed in copious amounts of oil. I couldn’t even taste the veggies due to so much oil. After a couple of bites, I quit. These couldn’t be any healthier for me than fries, and, if that’s the case, I would rather have the fries.
Scott ordered the Tam o’ Shanter, which is their traditional Irish sandwich. It is describes as, “Warm ham and smoked turkey on toasted brioche bread with Swiss cheese, Mornay sauce, tomato and bacon.” He opted for the chips.
That is one big sandwich. There was so much to it, that it was almost impossible to eat. It was also greasy to the max. Translated, that means this is the perfect hangover sandwich. The fries were great. They were crisp and had a fresh herb seasoning on them that made them different than normal fries.
After we ate, our server invited us to their Wednesday Open Mic Nights. He says the artists are usually pretty good. There is a big turnout, and they have great drink specials during that time. I have not had a chance to go back yet, but I plan on it soon.
Overall, Brass Door is the place to go if you are looking for a good pint or some greasy bar food. The nightlife also seems to be kicking, but I have not experienced that first hand yet. The service is snappy and friendly, and they make you want to come back.
For more information on The Brass Door, visit their website, Facebook page, or Twitter. You can also check out other write-ups about them in Memphis Daily News, Eat Local Memphis, Paul Ryburn’s Journal, and Travel Host. Find more reviews at Yelp and Urbanspoon.
You mentioned that someone must have done their research about the Irish Pubs. The reason it seems so genuine and spot on is because it is – the investors hired a guy named Seamus that organized the place, menu, everything – he runs it. He’s the real deal. So better than research, someone that actually knows Irish Pubs.
Well, that totally makes sense! It is definitely the most authentic place in town. It reminded me very well of my trip to Ireland. Now, if only they hired a wait staff with accents.
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1. Brevity Brotha!
Keep it short and sweet. Any successful professional has a lot going on. You’ve heard it before… time is money. If your proposal isn’t short, you run the risk of it being ignored, skimmed or sent to the back of the bunch for review later. The best idea is to create simple bullet points highlighting benefits and keep the entire proposal to a couple pages.
2. Layout is key!
If your portray before you can expect them to want to buy it. Make sure you ALWAYS have pricing directly next to any type of numbers such as traffic. If you show them the value, they’ll show you the money… well usually.
5. Who?!
Always include demographics. Some people are ONLY interested in demographics. In other cases, if you have a special demographic, you might peek someone’s interest in what you’re offering just because you called out the specialized population. Including demographics shows that you know what you’re offering.
6. Don’t be a dummy!
Remember to proof read. proposal. Maybe on their phone, maybe printed out, maybe at a computer. Even though any prospect will likely already have your information from your email, make sure to include the contact information on the [...]
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11 Word of the Year Candidates That Didn't Catch On
Mobile out-of-office workers earned their own noun in 2008, when "moofer" was a candidate for the Oxford American Dictionary (OAD) Word of the Year. The suggested verb form? Moofing, as in "I won't be at the meeting Thursday, I'm moofing from Starbucks."
2. Deleb
Voted 2009's "Novelty Word," a deleb is a dead celebrity. It was listed by OAD alongside the arguably more useful "tramp stamp."
3. Googlegänger
Lots of people have a Googlegänger. That's the person with your name who shows up in search results when you google yourself. ("Google" as a verb was recognized as 2002's "Most Useful Word" by the American Dialect Society.)
4. Mellencamp
A woman who is too old to be a cougar can be called a mellencamp, thanks to 2011's ADS "Most Outrageous" Word of the Year, inspired by singer John Cougar Mellencamp's multiple name changes.
5. Sardoodledom
This selection from Merriam–Webster's Word of the Year list in 2004 is a one-word noun which describes a stage play with an overly dramatic or morally objectionable plot, derived from the name of French dramatist Victorien Sardou.
6. Infobahn
Just as the autobahns are Germany's coordinated federal expressway system, the infobahn is the information superhighway (the winner in 1993). The term was voted 1994's "Most Promising" Word of the Year by the ADS.
7. Blamestorm
Another M-W pick from 2004, blamestorm describes a meeting or discussion held for the sole purpose of assigning blame for a failure.
8. Pecksniffian
From Charles Dickens' character Seth Pecksniff, a pecksniffian is a person who hypocritically affects a high moral standing or practices pecksniffery, the universally irritating art of being sanctimonious. "Pecksniffian" and its derivatives were chosen by Merriam–Webster as one of 2007's Words of the Year.
9. Heaven-o
Because 80% of "hello" is from H-E-double-hockey-sticks. The entirely useless "heaven-o" was elected "Most Unnecessary" by ADS in 1997, never to be mentioned again (until now).
10. Flog
"Flog" has been a verb meaning "to beat or to whip" since the 17th century, but in 2006 it was a runner-up in the Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Year list as a noun: fake+blog, or a website that appears to be real but is actually just a form of marketing or advertisement for a company.
11. Carrotmob
A carrotmob is the opposite of a boycott: A group of people gather to support a business by descending upon it en masse and shopping there all at the same time. The word was one of those shortlisted by Oxford Dictionaries in 2008; it comes from the name of the website used for organizing such things.
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Just when you think you’ve got it all sorted out in your head – and just when you’ve been nationally recognised! – there’s a curve ball thrown at you!? Typical.
Incidentally, this has happened to me before … I spent a year writing a proper mental health policy for my force in 2005/6. In doing so, I solicited officers’ views about ANY and ALL questions and queries on mental health so that I could ensure they were addressed in the policy. I carefully listed everything they asked to ensure that what they wanted addressing in operational guidance was included. I considered it a job well done when I published it until a sergeant rang me up to complain that the situation he wanted advice on wasn’t mentioned at all and that my new policy “wasn’t very much use, really”. Thanks, Sarge!
Today, an AMHP presented a situation to me that I’ve never encountered before, albeit I have read about “guardianship”. I read about it partly to try to understand why the police never seem to get requests in connection with it. By definition, guardianship involves patients who remain at liberty and therefore a reduced need for coercion reduces the need for the police. << That’s one of the saddest sentences I’ve typed on this blog, as the police should not be just the coercive arm of the mental health system.
In fairness to the AMHP who I know well, he hadn’t dealt with this kind of situation before either and his need for police support caused me to think I should cover the subject, in case some officers across it.
WHAT IS GUARDIANSHIP?
It may be that some think of the legal status of mental health patients as being either “inpatients” or “outpatients”. Inpatient in a psychiatric hospital, either voluntary or detained under the Mental Health Act; OR “outpatients” under community mental health teams.
Guardianship is something in between, but in my experience, the police service hear of this very rarely indeed – probably because by definition of it, patients are prepared to engage with it and considered able to live in an arrangement where their physical liberty is not totally restricted. It should be noted in particular, that guardianship is totally different to Community Treatment Orders, and should not be confused with it, although both are options for community care which impose restrictions or limitations of various sorts.
Under Section 7 of the Mental Health Act, a person may be placed in to guardianship upon the application an AMHP or the patient’s nearest relative if they have received the medical recommendations from two doctors. A criminal court can also instigate guardianship under section 37 of the Act, if two medical recommendations suggest it is appropriate after a conviction for an offence or a finding of the act being done.
A patient received into guardianship may be required by the guardian to do certain things: “reside at a specified place, attend specified places at times for medical treatment, occupation, education or training; to ensure access for any registered medical practitioner or Approved Mental Health Professional.”
TRANSFERS AND WARRANTS AND AWOLS
Where a patient is received into guardianship in one local authority, it may become necessary to transfer them to a new guardian in a new area, much like inpatients are occasionally transferred between hospitals. All of this is covered in s19 of the Act and if need be, that transfer can be effected by the use of reasonable force.
Where access to a premises is not enabled, a warrant can be sought under section 135(2) to force entry in order to transfer a patient under guardianship. << This is what the AMHP was asking for, in the example which gives rise to this post.
If a warrant is secured for this purpose, then the police will need to be involved because only the police can execute the warrant. Of course, any conveyance which is subsequently necessary, should be done in accordance with the Code of Practice which presumes ambulance transfer.
If a patient absents themselves from the care of the guardian, then they become AWOL for the purposes of the Mental Health Act and may be re-taken by a police officer, an AMHP or anyone authorised in writing by the guardian or the local social services authority. If entry to a premises must be forced, in order to re-take someone received into guardianship, then a warrant under s135(2) is required.
This is no different to the re-detention of an inpatient AWOL from hospital under the MHA. Of course, guardianship being less restrictive on a patient’s liberty, having been re-detained and returned to the guardianship from which they were AWOL, they cannot be then compelled to remain there, unlike an inpatient under a section like 2 or 3.
REFERENCE MATERIALS
- Mental Health Act reference guide from the Department of Health
- Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act
- MIND – an outline guide to the Mental Health Act 1983.
The Mental Health Cop blog won the Mind 2012 Digital Media Award, in memory and in honour of Mark Hanson.
The Awards celebrate the “best portrayals of and reporting on mental health in the media.”
Devil’s Advocate; An ungrateful relative who may be ‘Acting In Bad Faith’ could provide embellished/misinformation to police regarding the relatives mental health. Police on the side of caution may take the person in question for a mental health assessment. If that detainee is refused call to lawyer & refuses to see psychiatrist until call provided to lawyer, the medical staff may deem that as non co-operating and force the detainee to remove clothes, force them to take medications against their will. Think it doesn’t happen, guess again.
Police need to ensure they are not taking the wrong person for a psychiatric examination. This article on “Guardinship” scares the hell out of me when I vision capable seniors.citizens attempting to defend themselves without a call to lawyer against someone presenting misinformation to police for personal gain, be it to gain control over the person’s estate, financial affairs, or have control over where they are to live and what medications they are forced to take.
A citizen’s life could be adversely affected needlessly. Nothing like opening a can of worms, but if it gets people talking together in forums and Blogs I’m all for it, we all learn, I hope!
If it gets people talking together in forums and Blogs … well, here goes. As a mental health service user, it comforts me that due to presumably to limited funds there are less psychiatric beds than many ‘carers’ and healthcare workers would like. I won’t get a knock on the door by the police and three people sent by my consultant psychiatrist if there aren’t any beds!
It is, however, of concern that psychiatrists can control citizens in the community, through the police. What is the upper limit of the numbers affected other than the unsatisfactory criterion of their being deemed a ‘danger to themselves or to others’?
“deemed a ‘danger to themselves or others’” there lies the problem, at least in Canada, not sure about policy where you are, here in Canada some provinces like British Columbia where I reside, police are not required to see a citizen do anything, they can just rely on information provided to them from a caller or rely on verbal information from another person.
We take no issue with police involuntarily detaining and treating incapable citizens who may be at risk of harming themselves or others. Even if the police are unsure, and erroniously assume the person is incapable and a risk to self or others, the detainee (which could be capable and not at risk) could in fact be institutionalized and drugged because they refuse to meet with psychiatrist, (because medical staff refused them their requested call to lawyer to determine if detention is lawful and to inform lawyer where they are, and for lawyer to inform a family member to make arrangements for their (the deatinee) obligations in caring for family members etc.).
I hear so often from police that it’s not a police decision to have the proposed patient detained and treated, that’s up to medical staff to decide, then police leave hospital and are finished with the person, not knowing what exactly happed to that citizen.
No person with a mental illness, or a person being treated as such can be discriminated against. So when society allows criminals a call to lawyer without delay, and refuses detained citizens being held under mental health law their requested call to lawyer, then I see that as clearly discriminating against that person.
Maybe to treat everyone as equal we should deny criminals their call to lawyer, but then what kind of Society do we want to live in.
Please don’t misread this comment, Citizens at Risk of Harming Themselves or Others Must be Detained and Treated if Necessary. I did mention in my last post it’s a can of worms.
I live in the UK and have had contact with more than one British police force in connection with the Mental Health Act. I should like to acknowledge firstly that the police officers I have met have almost without exception been very helpful and good humoured, despite their patience being occasionally tried). Given my respect for the police it is embarrassing to have had them involved. On one occasion I was watching TV and there was a knock on the door. I opened it to find two policemen, a psychiatrist who worked for my consultant, a social worker and a GP from a neighbouring town. The latter GP explained I didn’t seem to be quite myself. I replied that her observation surprised me since I didn’t believe we had met before. This she conceded but went on to assure me that she had read my file. That exchange was almost the full extent of the ‘assessment’ and I was left to be driven in a police car to a psychiatric ward (all obviously pre-arranged). The whole thing was farcical or would have been except that it was a waste of police time. (The waste of time they might have expected because on a previous occasion I had been escorted to hospital, just as reluctantly, by my community psychiatric nurse on the bus and over my entire history I have never physically resisted involuntary detention).
I am not convinced that citizens at risk of harming themselves should always be restrained (but that view is probably too risky for professionals to abide by). I certainly agree that society has a right to protect itself from persons at risk of harming others. But then surely you might as well lock up everyone who has had a few drinks too many!
Hi, I have always thought your posts were both thoughtful and thought provoking, as is this one. However one slight disagreement,you state that the situation described is no different to the AWOL of an inpatient from hospital. But such an AWOL patient would still be “liable to be detained”,this is not the case with a person under a Guardianship. Which is a bit weird as they can be compelled to return but not to stay? Unless they have also been made subject to the DOLS prevision of the Capacity Act. Alex Davis
I can see the point you are making and I will ammend the wording to reflect what I meant – I meant “liable to be detained by the police in order to be returned.” You are obviously quite correct that they cannot be required to then remain detained. The wording was intended for the police officers managing a re-detetention, as opposed to the Guardian themselves keeping the person detained.
Good point, well presented!
Thanks,hope to see you at the Mental Health Action Group meeting on Monday. Cheers Alex Davis.
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Number of books read in July: 19
Number of books read in 2012: 85
Number of books read in 2012: 85
■ The Age of Miracles (Karen Thompson Walker) Fiction. I loved this quiet work of post-apocalyptic fiction, even if others didn't. There is something about summer reading for me, though: It's more... forgiving.
■ The Group (Mary McCarthy) Fiction. Robin at 52 Books challenged folks to read a NYT bestseller from the week and year they were born. As it happens, The Group was #2 during my week. It was a dated but compelling read.
■ Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Joshua Foer) Non-fiction. This was our audio accompaniment for our ill-fated trip to the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Related entry here.
■ Amped (Daniel H. Wilson) Fiction. Entertaining if thin sci-fi from the author of Robopocalypse, which I enjoyed last summer.
■ Happy Endings Are All Alike (Sandra Scoppetone) YA fiction. My Chapter 8 -- "Him She Loves: Romanced, Rejected, Affianced, Dejected" -- choice for Girl Detective's "Summer of Shelf Discovery" reading project. Related entry here.
■ Falling for Hamlet (Michelle Ray) YA fiction. I wanted this to be better than it was. Sigh.
■ A Thousand Cuts (Simon Lelic) Fiction. "But trust me. Being bullied: it bites." Quite possibly the best book I've read this year. Related entry here.
■ The Tale of Paradise Lost: Based on the Poem by John Milton (Nancy Willard) Fiction. With the Misses. This abridgement has both fans and foes. I will simply say that it's serviceable.
■ The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need (Andrew Tobias) Non-fiction. Rudimentary but helpful.
■ Brain Power: Improve Your Mind as You Age (Michael J. Gelb and Kelly Howell. Non-fiction. A repetitive retread of the same ol' "feed your mind, eat right, exercise" advice you've heard before. Neat bit of synchronicity, though: Tony Buzan, whose memory empire is featured in Moonwalking with Einstein, penned the introduction.
■ Things We Didn't See Coming (Steven Amsterdam) Fiction. I know I've heaped superlatives on this month's reading, but Amsterdam's collection of related short stories set in utterly recognizable and believable post-apocalyptic world was, in a word, brilliant.
■ Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? (Anthony E. Wolf, Ph.D.) Non-fiction. Read this as "research" for a piece You know what? This book actually frightened me. Apparently, some teenagers are really quite awful. Note to self: You won the parenting lottery. Thank you, LCpl M-mv and Misses.
■ Pariah (Bob Fingerman) Fiction. Gratuitously violent and crass. Cardboard characters. A thinly explained "twist." The illustrations were the most compelling aspect of this otherwise mediocre bit of zombie fiction.
■ The Paleo Diet (Loren Cordain) Non-fiction.
■ The Primal Blueprint (Mark Sisson) Non-fiction. Others have probably already observed that these seem like a rehash of Atkins. If, like me, you're late to the low-carb discussion, The Paleo Diet was the more readable text. Sisson's presentation was repetitive and poorly organized.
■ How to Retire Overseas (Kathleen Peddicord) Non-fiction.
■ Where to Retire (John Howells) Non-fiction. I keep returning to this topic, making new and improved (tentative) plans, running the numbers with all sorts of scenarios in mind. It's not so much that I read such books as pore over them, adding notes to my "Retirement" file, daydreaming, and reading sections aloud to Mr. M-mv.
■ The Outsourced Self (Arlie Russell Hochschild) Non-fiction. Related articles here and here. The Time Bind and The Second Shift fascinated me, but this one... not so much. It may be partially my fault, though: I've been reading it in fits and starts for about six weeks.
■ Epic Fail (Claire LaZebnik) YA fiction. Loosely patterned on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, this was almost painfully cute.
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I requested Things We Didn't See Coming, A Thousand Cuts, The Wave, The Project, Wool Omnibus, and The English Teacher from the library.
Thank you. :-)
Heather
Based on the above, check out Maureen McHugh's AFter the Apocalypse story collection, and The Four Hour Body.
Get Out of My Life has been recommended to me for years. I own it, got it for 50 cents at a library sale years ago, but never read it. Yesterday while unpacking I found it and put it aside to read, finally. Funny you mention it here. I have no clue what the book has in store for me, can't wait to see if after reading it I will think I hit the parenting lottery also.
Heather, you're welcome. :o)
Kristin, I loaded the collection onto the Kindle when you first mentioned it on your site.
Christine, you did. Hey, and best wishes in your new home.
MFS
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While your handbook is your primary resource, the links below can help you learn Swimming Skills. See the Disclaimers. ► Videos show you key skills.
While your handbook is your primary resource, the links below can help you learn Swimming Skills. The only resources recommended by the BSA are those in the BSA materials. See the Disclaimers.
► Swimming Lesson Videos - How to Swim
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This is a draft for a blog post that the Wikimedia Foundation published on May 25, 2012 to support the Access2Research petition. The FAQ is available on enwiki and has been reviewed by the communications committee.
The Wikimedia Foundation endorses mandates for free access to publicly funded research [edit]
Scholarly information is often too expensive to access. Academic publishers sell journal subscriptions for thousands of dollars per journal per year. Typically, only universities and large libraries, not individuals, are able to pay those fees, which limits access to researchers and others affiliated with institutions with money.
Are these costs justifiable when the underlying research is publicly funded and the underlying goal is public knowledge? If you're a taxpayer you've already paid to fund the research, so why should you pay essentially another tax to read the findings of that research?
On May 20, a team of longtime advocates for public access to scholarly information launched a campaign to urge U.S. President Barack Obama to "require free access over the Internet to journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research." Opening up publicly-funded research will "provide access to patients and caregivers, students and their teachers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and other taxpayers who paid for the research." This is consistent with Wikimedia's non-profit mission "to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally."
Wikimedia project volunteers, who are among the taxpayers, should not be denied free access to this information. They should be empowered to read it, report on it, and cite it. Wikipedia and its sister projects depend on the energy and unselfish dedication of this team of contributors—volunteers, researchers, and amateurs—who read and investigate sources as they work to compile accurate, up-to-date, verifiable knowledge. Each month, hundreds of millions of global readers view, and have the opportunity to evaluate and contribute to, Wikimedia content. Many do not have the means (nor should be required) to pay for knowledge, including useful economic, health, and scientific information, when their taxes fund the research.
We believe in open access and free licensing as fundamental forces to disseminate knowledge, support education, and accelerate discovery.
Today, the Wikimedia Foundation is endorsing this petition, joining thousands of individuals and organizations expressing support for free access to taxpayer-funded research articles. We hope you will join us, too—anyone over 13 can sign.
Please consider signing this petition to mandate that all research funded by U.S. taxpayers be made freely available to the citizens of the Web.
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Grizzly G0516 Combo Mini Lathe with Mill
Like all Lathe/Mill combos, it fills the job of 2 machines in 1 and will be very suitable for small shops and definitely kinder on the credit card than buying both a lathe and a separate milling machine.
Although, if you can afford the outlay, having lathe and mill as separate pieces of machinery will save time as you won’t have to switch adjustments swinging from lathe over to mill.
But how often will you be turning something down and need do some milling?
If it’s not often, then go for a combo mini Lathe/Mill.
The Grizzly Lathe GO516 Technical Details:
- Distance between centers: 21″
- Lathe motor size (Single-phase, 110V): 3/4 HP
- Lathe spindle bore: 3/4″
- Mill/drill motor size (Single-phase, 110V): 1/2 HP
- Swing: 9-3/4″ (lathe), 12 3/4″ (mill/drill)
- 6 speeds
There is a full review by an expert over at Amazon, and though this lathe/mill stacks up well, for a few extra dollars you may find the Shop Fox M1018 a little sturdier and more straight forward to use.
Still, the Grizzly GO516 will handle most projects that a smaller shop will attempt plus save money and space.
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Half Blood, the new Horseback album, has just been released on their Relapse Records Bandcamp page. This is an album that takes you on a journey. Starting with americana black metal; twisted boogie grooves, repetitive twangy guitars, and harsh blackened vocals. Ending with full on krautrock droning; gorgeous layers of organ and guitar, and the gentle tick-tock of electronic drums. Here's a couple of reviews from AllMusic and The Inarguable, and here's an interview Invisible Oranges did wth Jenks Miller, the man behind Horseback.
[Go to the post to view the Bandcamp player]
On first listen, I didn't really like the harsh vocals mixed with the groovy guitars, but then I found myself wandering around singing "Ahriman" for a full week, so I guess it worked its charms on me.
It is strangely addictive music. What do you think of the electronica / krautrock / droning parts?
It's one of those things that, on paper, shouldn't work at all, but yet it does. I've heard other, more americana/alt country-type bands bring in krautrock influence (The Jayhawks' "Dying on the Vine" immediately comes to mind, which they said was inspired by the band Can), so it can definitely be done and done well. Having listened to the Horseback album a few times now, I think the variety of influence is what makes the droning part work. They manage to blend it all together, so it doesn't sound like a ridiculous genre mash-up, and it keeps the drone parts from being a never-ending slog of boring.
Yeah, the album sounds remarkably cohesive despite the variety of influences. Or, as you say, because of that variety.
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Tossing my horrible review title aside, this album is a great piece of power metal mastery. I know I’m only echoing other reviewers here when I say this album is incredible. The entire band is in top form here and every song is a classic. There are no dull moments at ALL in this album. My favorite track is of course the 13-minute epic “Halloween.” The double guitar tremolo melodies in this track keep me coming back for more. The remaster definitely sounds better than the previous release. If you already have that, then throw it in a dumpster or give it to a used CD store, because you won’t be needing it anymore.
Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. 1 is Helloween’s greatest album and no metal fan should be without it. Be sure to check out Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 2
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NUCLEAR BLAST has issued the following:
„Manala“ – the new album of Finnish traditional folk metal pioneers KORPIKLAANI that’s in stores since the 3rd of August – has entered the German album charts at # 47. This marks the best German chart entry in the band’s history!
Accordionist Juho Kauppinen states happily: “This is a great achievement for all of us. We are sincerely grateful to everyone who has bought the album!”
Haven’t bought the album yet? Don’t hesitate to do so at the Nuclear Blast web shop: !
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Written by theflyingmachine on 16.09.2011 at 05:17
After last album, I'm going to just wait to see what the reviews are like before listening.
Written by Rulatore on 19.02.2013 at 02:47
I was expecting to like it, at least a bit, but after listening to it, I can't remember anything : (
Written by Dethking26 on 28.02.2013 at 02:32
Not a bad album by any means, but the only memorable songs for me are As Grace Descends and Beginning of Sorrow.
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On Thursday, November 18, the Bar Association of San Francisco will present The Supreme Court Take on Environmental Law: Annual Review in a brown bag luncheon.
It will run from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the BASF Conference Center, 301 Battery Street in San Francisco.
Speakers Alice Kaswan, professor, University of San Francisco School of Law, and Eric Biber, professor, UC Berkeley School of Law, will participate in this discussion moderated by James H. Colopy, Farella Braun + Martel LLP. They will discuss environmental cases decided by the Supreme Court during the 2009-1010 term.
For information see CLE Events on The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel website at.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kieron Moore (born Ciarán Ó hAnnracháin Anglicised Kieron O’Hanrahan) (5 October 1924 – 15 July 2007) was an Irish film and television actor whose career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s. He may be best remembered for his role as Count Vronsky in the 1948 film adaptation of Anna Karenina opposite Vivien Leigh. Description above f rom the Wikipedia article Kieron Moore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. Expand Collapse
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the just released schedules were a flat-out statement that the B10 doesn't believe SOS will matter in playoff selection
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the just released schedules were a flat-out statement that the B10 doesn't believe SOS will matter in playoff selection.
Another kid that felt at home, ya gotta love it.
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"My KUNG FU is the best, baby."
I wish I could fast-forward into the future to see this kid on the field. I'm loving the 2012/13 classes.
Another good interview. I like that he and the other o-line recruits describe themselves as aggressive and good run blockers. Manball!
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M v. NMU BBall replay on BTN at 4pm today....(the more you know)
Man, now only 4 hours of tailgating.
UM vs osu 2011 bring your keys and make noise (get it keys!)?
You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course..
You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course.
why would you want to talk to flirty drunk girls once they sober up?
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is never get involved in a land war in Asia - but only slightly less well-known is this: Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!.
You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course.
Everyone on the West coast?
The world looks better through maize mirror tint..
Blank.....Blank......You're not looking at the big picture here.
I hope this post is a troll. The November night game issue has been covered ad nauseum. There is no such B1G rule.
This is MICHIGAN
I was hoping one of the last two games would be 330
-UM class of 2018.
"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."
Follow the random tweets of a Michigan alum -.
HAIL..
Blank.....Blank......You're not looking at the big picture here.
We've had enough 3:30 starts for the year to make me happy. Much better than last season.
"Ohio is like a giant turd that Michigan just can't pinch off"
Considering how late I've been showing up for work lately on saturdays I guess this ensures they won't fire me for showing up late once again this year. So yay!
"I can pick leaves of tree in the backyard."
-Tom Strobel.
When the ADept sells special jerseys and gear, you'll see my picture next to the targeted customer crowd. A sheep.....but a Blue one.....
on a black and white 13" Zenith TV with tin foil around the rabbit ears right? Cuz that's the way Bo would want it. You're so off base. If Bo recognized both the recruiting advantage and the crowd advantage of later games, especially under the lights, he'd play them all at night. To assume otherwise proved to me you've never met Bo, nor do you understand the intricacies of college football.
FWIW: LSU has played 37 home night games since 2005, and have averaged a top 5 recruiting class ever since. Les knows Bo!
I prefer noon games. And we've had too many 3:30 or later games this year anyway.
Also good news not having this on the BTN.
Go Blue! Always!
I prefer noon home games and 330 road games.
If an OSU fan divorces his wife are they still brother and sister?
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Kansas State coach Ron Prince has taken a liking to his black cowboy hat. But it was probably buried underneath play charts and statistics this week as the No. 25 Wildcats prepare to face Big 12 South co-leader Oklahoma State at 6:05 p.m. Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium. Prince knows his team must be on top of its game as the Wildcats seek their fourth-straight win against a South opponent.
"We're going to play an opponent at a place that is always very tough," said Prince, the second-year coach who will travel to Stillwater, Okla., for the first time. "From what I can ascertain it's getting tougher and tougher with the way they're building their environment."
While Oklahoma State students spent the week pomping floats for their Homecoming celebration, construction crews were finishing up concrete work to connect the newly-erected bowled western section of the stadium with the north stands to form a unified look for the stadium. At 46 percent complete, a project manager told The Associated Press earlier in the week that construction was ahead of schedule, thus making it only a matter of time before the 44,700-capacity stadium grows into one of the largest in the league.
Meanwhile, the Cowboys, 4-3 overall and 2-1 in the Big 12, who come off a historic win at Nebraska, hope to be on schedule for a massive three-game homestand.
K-State, 4-2 and 2-1, will mark first of three ranked foes as the Cowboys host No. 19 Texas and then No. 15 Kansas.
"Everybody's glad to be home because obviously we enjoy playing here and there's just generally a comfort zone when you're not traveling, not in airplanes, not in hotels," said Gundy, who has won nine of his last 11 home contests. "But when they watch tape of this team, they won't have any problem looking past this team."
K-State has already made two strong showings on the road in a 23-13 loss at then-No. 18 Auburn and in a 41-21 win against then-No. 7 Texas, which marked the program's first-ever road win against a Top 10 opponent and the Longhorns' worst home loss since 1997. The Wildcats will try to do something they have failed to do in their last three opportunities (2005, 2003 and 2001) and beat two South teams on the road in the same season. They last did so by beating a ranked Texas team and Oklahoma State away from Manhattan in 1999.
The Wildcats' three straight wins against South opponents is the longest current streak by a North team. Colorado has won its last two against the South.
K-State has won 10 of the last 11 against Oklahoma State, including four of the last five in Stillwater. After posting a 44-21 victory there in 1999, the Wildcats lost 38-34 in 2003.
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After she briefly spoke to the press last night, Michele Bachmann took a little extra time with the conservative blog The Shark Tank to back Karen Harrington, a Republican who's running in a primary against candidate Joe Kaufman. They're hoping to unseat U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. That's a tall feat. Wasserman Schultz is highly popular in overwhelmingly Democratic Broward County and she's the Democratic National Committee chair.
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The combined IQ of Broward residents must be around 28 if they reelect a retard like Schultz...absolutely the dumbest person in Congress and that is hard to do.
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I can already hear the shrieks and imagine the flying spittle at The Family Foundation ("TFF") over Terry McAuliffe's endorsement of same sex marriage. For those not in Virginia, McAuliffe is the apparent Democrat candidate for Governor of Virginia who will likely face off against the frighteningly delusional and religious extremist extraordinaire Ken "Kookinaelli" Cuccinelli. As Attorney General, Kookinelli has done all in his power to issue legal opinions that leave LGBT Virginians with no legal protections of any kind whatsoever. One can be certain that TFF will be sending out hysterical missives across its network to endeavor to rally the knuckle draggers and religious fanatics to rally to the GOP standard. The Washington Blade looks at McAuliffe's statement. Here are highlights:
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe on Friday publicly backed marriage rights for same-sex couples for the first time.
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“McAuliffe will be the first Virginia gubernatorial candidate to support same-sex marriage,” he noted to the Washington Blade. “I’m pleased to see that voters will have a clear choice to make.” . . . . A spokesperson for Cuccinelli’s campaign did not immediately return the Blade’s requests for comment.
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What is an Annotated Bibliography?
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The Global Argument for the Keystone Pipeline March 2, 2013Posted by geoff in News.
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Reading about the latest environmental impact report for the Keystone pipeline (no effect on global warming) made me wonder why the President and his administration hate other countries. You see, the report apparently goes on to say that we don’t really need Keystone to meet America’s energy needs:.
Let me just outline the following argument:
- We’re teetering on global recession
- Lower oil prices help economies
- More oil generally means lower oil prices
- Building Keystone makes more oil available
- …and creates US jobs and increases exports
- …which I thought was part of the master plan
- So WTF? Build the damn pipeline and promote other oil projects, and help the world dig itself out of this recession while lining our own pockets along the way.
Unless you hate those other countries, that is.
Added global argument: we import more oil from Canada than from Saudi Arabia. Canada is our largest energy importer.
And also the United State’s hat.
If the US was as hot for invading countries for their oil as the liberals have claimed for the last 20+years they’d be speaking American in Toronto by now.
Teetering? I’m pretty sure we’re already inside the rabbit hole now.
So WTF? Build the damn pipeline and promote other oil projects, and help the world dig itself out of this recession while lining our own pockets along the way.
If there’s a chance that human beings will benefit generally, or the US will benefit spefically, it is wrong and evil and not gonna happen.
Environmentalism is just Marxism with pimp threads and a walking stick.
Comment of the year, Dave.
Michael?
Also, one of my comments went to spam bucket.
Did it get fished out?
That’s why I never trusted the climate change/global warming/ice ager goal post movers. They have the same agenda, it’s always been the same. Junk science and outright lies. Same answer: hobble capitalism and control the serfs.
No it is still missing. It was that article on how cheap oil is good for poor people.
Couldn’t find it, Laura. By any chance are you “whole house filter system”?
Well, at least I got Comment of the Year.
And yes, cheap energy is the best weapon there is to fight poverty.
Hmmm. I wonder if this was one of those comments that I started in another window then got interrupted by work and accidentally closed out.
Never mind.
hmmmmm
So, we can meet our energy needs without this pipeline.
Does that mean that the 20,000 jobs that would be created by building his pipeline are superfluous?
We could totally do without mid-east oil if this was built.
Whose ox is being gored?
Follow the money….”
He sure talks gloomy, doesn't he?
We can burn less carbon based fuels if we restrict electricity to the environmentalists. First, they have to be registered…kind of like what they want to do to gun owners. Next they can only have electricity generated by solar and wind and when the wind stops blowing or the sun goes down the electricity stops flowing.
That has to be worth millions of tons of unburnt coal and natural gas. Of course the enviros wouldn’t be able to have reliable cable television, hair dryers, air conditioning and refrigerator thingies. That’s a small price to pay to keep Canadian oil in Canada.
Bunch of woosies wouldn’t last a week with warmer temperatures in July!
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Don’t look now, but the Middlesboro Yellow Jackets are closing the season on quite a hot streak.
Wednesday’s 10-8 win at Clay County was Middlesboro’s fifth straight victory and tenth in their last twelve games and the Jackets are now 20-9 on the season.
Coach John Smith said more players taking on leadership roles has been a key to the team being able to sustain their success.
“We pulled some different guys over and talked to them, some guys that had played last year as sophomores. We just told them that they have to step up and be leaders for the team — whether that means being vocal or leading by example,” he said.
“I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging or anything, but we’ve got a really good coaching staff. All of us played college baseball and we’ve got quite a bit of knowledge about the game we’re trying to pass along. The big thing is just getting them to buy into what’s going on. They’re doing that and they’re starting to believe in what we’re telling them.”
The game at Clay was originally scheduled for Thursday, but with a chance of rain in the forecast the teams moved it up a day.
Jake Brock led off the game with a base hit to right and just never quit hitting. He went 4-for-4 with four singles and four stolen bases on the night.
Middlesboro led 6-0 after two innings. The Tigers took advantage of a few errors and rallied to take a 7-6 lead. But Yoakum held his own in a tough environment and the Middlesboro offense came through to pull out the win.
“We jumped on them pretty good and got up 6-0 after two innings and then we kind of relaxed and kicked the ball around a little bit in the third and fourth and they took a 7-6 lead,” Smith said. “Our defense didn’t help him out a whole lot, but Tyler Yoakum threw a heck of a ballgame for us. He went the distance and we wound up winning 10-8.”
Yoakum’s effort continued a string of strong pitching performances by the Jackets. Last Friday he went seven strong in a 6-1 win at Whitley County. Monday it was Lucas Crawford firing a shutout in an 8-0 win at Williamsburg.
One recent change that has paid dividends for Middlesboro is moving junior Jesse Hoskins up to the number two spot in the batting order. Early in the year, Hoskins served as a kind of super utility player for the Jackets. He saw time at second base, shortstop, third and the outfield.
“We had a couple of guys leave the team early in the season that were outfielders. Jesse has played some at second base and filled in at shortstop when Brian (Hale) was pitching. Now he’s pretty much our everyday left fielder and has done a great job out there for us,” Smith said.
The coach added that having Hoskins hit second has been a boost both to him and the entire offense.
“First of all, Tyler (Yoakum) was struggling a bit in the two hole and we talked about what we should do there. Jesse can bunt and do some other things with the bat when Jake gets on base, plus he’s got quite a bit of speed himself. We’ve moved him up there for the last four or five games and it’s worked in our favor.”
Hoskins had four hits as the Jackets swept a double-header against Barbourville and Bell County last Thursday. Brock’s bat has also taken off over the last couple of weeks and Yoakum has taken well to hitting lower in the order.
Middlesboro has won the first three of their four-game road swing to close out the regular season.
“We’ve pitched well. We’ve played good, solid defense for the most part. On offense, we’re just doing a much better job of hitting the ball behind runners,” Smith added.
The Jackets finish up the regular season at North Laurel on Friday. The 52nd District Tournament starts on Monday with Middlesboro taking on host Harlan in the first game at 5:30 p.m.
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Jay Compton
Sports Editor
HARROGATE, Tenn. — The Cumberland Gap Lady Panthers evened their record at 5-5 with a 13-3 win over Claiborne Friday.
Five different Lady Panthers had two hits each and all nine batters had at least one as they pounded out 13 hits in the game.
Oliva Price tripled, singled, reached on an error as she drove in two runs and scored three. McKayla Hamilton drove in three runs with two singles, including a bases-loaded shot to right-center to bring the 10-run rule into effect in the bottom of the fifth.
The Lady Bulldogs jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead as Davidson walked ahead of an RBI double from Ickes in the top of the first. With two down, Williams tripled and Walker reached on an error to push the Claiborne lead to 3-0.
Cumberland Gap’s Danielle Caldwell held the Lady Bulldogs to just two base runners the rest of the way as Williams walked and Walker reached on an error in the fourth inning. Caldwell allowed three runs, two earned, on two hits over five innings while striking out nine and walking two to get the win.
The Lady Panthers rallied to take a 4-3 in their half of the first. McKenzie Miracle led off with a single and stole second. Price reached on an error to put runners at the corners and Kaitlyn McCarty brought Miracle home with a ground out to second. Lindsey Elliott reached on an error as Price scored and with two out, Genna Lake singled, Jordan Thacker walked and Hamilton followed with a two-run single to left.
In the second, Miracle singled and scored on Prices’ triple. McCarty reached on an error as Price scored and Elliott followed with an RBI double to make it 7-3.
Cumberland Gap made it 8-3 in the fourth as McCarty singled and stole second and third. With two out, Lake blooped an RBI single into shallow center.
The Lady Panther put the game away with five runs in the bottom of the fifth. Chelsey Williams started the rally with a double and scored as Miracle reached on an error. Price singled and Miracle scored on the front end of a double-steal to push the lead to 10-3. With one out, Elliott walked and Caldwell singled to bring Price home. Walks to Lake and Thacker forced in another run and Hamilton followed with her walk-off single.
Cumberland Gap (5-5) will play at West Greene on Monday.
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Potter League: Camp Happy Tails Registration is Open
The Potter League shares details on its annual summer camps.
The Potter League For Animals has announced that registration for the 2012 Camp Happy Tails camp is now open.
The theme for the 2nd & 3rd grade age group will be “Talk like an Animal.” Campers will go into the shelter to decode some animal communications first-hand. The older group, grades 4-6, will learn how to use a clicker to train different kinds of animals, during the “Click and Treat” themed week. The group will start some of the shelter dogs off on the right paw before their adoptions, and the children will be assigned to a cat to train.
Younger children can also learn about and interact with different kinds of pets during the shelter's “Best Friends” week or learn about Potter League's unique, smaller friends during the “Crazy Critters” theme. Older kids can learn about jobs with animals and what goes on at the Potter League during “Behind the Scenes” week. During “Paws for Animals” week, kids will learn ways that they can make a difference in the lives of animals, including projects to help pets right here at the Potter League.
Grades 4 - 6
July 9 – 13…half day…Click and Treat
July 16 – 20…full day…Behind the Scenes
July 30 – August 3…full day…Click and Treat
August 6 – 10 …half day…Paws for Animals
Grades 2 & 3
July 16 – 20…full day…Talk like an Animal
July 23 – 27…half day…Crazy Critters
July 30 – August 3…full day…Best Friends
August 13 – 17…half day…Talk like an Animal
For More Information and Registration Forms
Phone: Anastacia Spang, 401.846.0592 ext 114
Website:
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Test-built
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My next step was to build a working core (lpc17) with some DINs and DOUTs. After some troubles ... I succeded.I am really astonished, this device is the least troublesome device I have encountered so far. No extra drivers, just plug and play, and the controller can be unlugged and reconnected while traktor is running, no crash, not even a lag!By the w...
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Novels
Short stories, poetry, even songs – they’re great to write, and I love doing it. However nothing compares to the joy of writing a long story and sharing an adventure with characters who you get to know so well that they become part of your family. I’ve spent a lot of time working on some writing projects; and know the characters so well that they could be real people. It’s a totally unique experience to write novels in this way. I’ve enjoyed major triumph with character victories, and even shed tears when certain characters have died.
While the original novels I’m working on will not be published here, I will be posting up synopses and extracts to tease your anticipation.
On top of that, though, I have several concepts that I am working through for ‘Webnovels’. These exist in very small chapters – only around a thousand words in length – detailing scene-by-scene storytelling. I’m well aware that reading too many words on a computer screen can be a difficult thing to do, hence offering smaller amounts to read.
The first Webnovel that I have started publishing is a Fan fiction (fanfic) of an older TV show called Dark Angel. This was easily my favourite show when it was on television and remains one of my favourites to this day. In time, the selection will increase.
Freak Nation (Dark Angel Fanfic)
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