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2003 - Mickie Most, one of the top U.K. producers in the '60s and '70s, dies in London of cancer. He is 64. Most produced such hits as the Animals' "House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out of This Place," Herman's Hermits' "I'm Into Something Good," Donovan's<|fim_middle|> Birmingham, Ala., after months of hospitalization following a stroke.
1992 - Singers Paul Simon and Edie Brickell marry in Montauk, Long Island, N.Y. It is 24-year-old Brickell's first marriage. Simon, 50, was married twice before, including once to actress Carrie Fisher.
1988 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``One More Try,'' George Michael.
1987 - Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz is arrested for allegedly hitting a female fan during a concert in Liverpool, England.
1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``My Love,'' Paul McCartney & Wings. The song is McCartney's first No. 1 song with Wings, a group he formed after the breakup of the Beatles.
1963 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``It's My Party,'' Lesley Gore. | "Mellow Yellow," and Lulu's "To Sire With Love."
2003 - Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington is hospitalized in L.A. for "severe back and abdominal pains," according to a statement from the band. Due to his condition, 12 European tour dates are postponed.
2002 - A Houston jury sentences rap musician South Park Mexican (Carlos Coy) to 45 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl. Coy testifies that he is innocent in this case as well as in the seven other sexual assault cases pending against him.
2000 - Tex Beneke, who took over the Glenn Miller Orchestra after the bandleader's death during World War II, dies at his home in Santa Ana. He is 86.
1999 - A bomb threat forces the evacuation of more than 3,000 people at a Kenny Rogers concert at Royal Albert Hall in London. No bomb is found and no injuries are reported. "I'm extremely disappointed," Rogers states. "I don't understand who benefits from this. It's an unpolitical gathering of people who are out for a night of good fun."
1999 - Country superstar Tim McGraw opens a show for his wife, Faith Hill, at the Beacon Theater in New York City. McGraw's appearance is an unannounced surprise for all in attendance.
1998 - When he visits backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, the first thing pitching ace Nolan Ryan asks is, "Where's Little Jimmy Dickens? I want to meet Little Jimmy Dickens. I listened to the Opry as a kid growing up in Texas, so I always wanted to come to Nashville and go to the Opry."
1996 - Bassist John Kahn dies at the age of 48.
1996 - Trombonist Bob Stroup dies at the age of 58.
1993 - Jazz composer and orchestra leader Sun Ra dies in | 413 |
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It's our seven year anniversary on Monday. Seven? Really? That flew by really fast. We aren't quite sure what our plans are and seeing how we just got back from a road trip, we aren't sure we want to go on another. Whatever we decide, I just want to relax and be with Ben.
I am taking off from this space until Tuesday and will be back with some fun announcement (hopefully) by then. And in case you're wondering... no, I am not pregnant. Happy weekending friends!
Ours was filled with fun, family, food, and of course fireworks. No matter how old you are and how many times you've seen it, fireworks are still pretty captivating.
If you're stateside, I hope you had a good time celebrating too!
The tomatoes are growing like crazy and doing better at this time than any of our previous years. Ben attributes it to the special concoction he put in when they were planted. We finally picked<|fim_middle|> our MO. This was the first time with all 4 and it wasn't bad at all. I think the girls do really well on road trips. There were just 2 fights between the big girls, though there were several tantrums from #3. I think it's just that when it comes to nap time, Soul doesn't know what to do with herself, so she kind of combusts. And the baby, well, she did fantastic! Ben and I take turns driving, we had our special road trip playlist, so we did a whole lot of singing and I did a whole lot of dancing. Not to mention, I just love seeing all the different terrains we pass and simply admiring how beautiful nature is. All of these things combined make for lots of good memories and lots of smiles.
So tell me, what has been making you smile lately?
Not only did we get to see the town and farms of Abernathy, but we also got to spend time on a ranch in South Texas. I guess we were pretty much were all over Texas. The annual Castilleja Family Reunion, his mom's side of the family, was at Ben's cousin's ranch and it was a pretty amazing place. During our drive in North Texas and in South Texas, we would talk about how nice it would be to have a house on some land where your neighbor can't peer straight into your house to see all your business. This is kind of a funny thing because when Ben's dad passed, he left us some land (Ben shared it with his sister and his aunt) in North Texas that we sold and was pretty much the only reason we were able to ever buy anything in Southern California, so the fact that we talk about wanting land in Texas is kind of ironic. For now, we will just keep the wide open space dreaming conversations happening every time we drive through Texas. I think Ben and I are such homebodies and pretty much do all our shopping online that we could pretty much move to the middle of nowhere.
The reunion was so much fun and it was especially wonderful to see the girls running around everywhere and playing with their cousins. They don't have any cousins here, so it is so great that they were able to spend time to with some over there. In addition to little cousins, there were horses, chickens, roosters, cats (and kittens), dogs (and puppies), oh and lots of mosquitos (I look like a spotted leopard now). There were family meals, games, hay rides, horse rides, auctions, picture taking, swimming, eating again, and basically just a whole lot of family bonding. The fun this past weekend was pretty endless.
Ben's cousin and her husband, the owners of the ranch, would tell us all about ranch life and particularly the horses and we really loved hearing all the stories. We really just love hearing stories. You could tell they were so proud of this place they have built and the beautiful family along with it. We were in such awe at all of it. It is also evident that a lot, I mean a whole lot, of hard work goes into maintaining it, but it's what they love, so it makes it all worth it.
I am so happy that we were able to go to the reunion this year, especially since the last time we went was 10 years ago when we barely started dating. I would look at my girls throughout the day and smile because they were having so much fun being free and spending time with animals. Well, True and Brave were, but Soul doesn't care about animals so much, at least not yet. When we first got the email that the reunion was on the ranch, Ben and I knew we had to go because the girls would be all about it... and boy were we right!
Abernathy is a small town in North Texas and there is a family there that makes this particular town quite special... the King family. Ben's dad passed away a year before we got married, therefore he never ever met his grandchildren. We tell the girls stories about their grandfather and show them pictures from time to time, but it just isn't the same. Besides Ben, his mom, and sister, his father is survived by his sister and her family.
The last time we had visited Abernathy was the summer that his father passed away. Since the girls never got a chance to get to know their grandfather, we wanted to make sure they would get to know his family and so when we were planning our summer road trip, we made sure Abernathy was on our road map. It had been 8 years since we had seen any of them, so it was definitely about time!
We met everyone at the town pharmacy, which is run by Ben's cousins Mark and Laurie. Laurie knew exactly what the girls liked and had the perfect gifts waiting for them. Anyone who gives them My Little Pony is pretty unforgettable in their book. We chatted a bit, then had lunch at a little restaurant down the street, then went back to the pharmacy to spend more time together.
It was really cute to see the girls with them. There is part of them in my girls and I think that bond is really special. Family is just really special. Besides seeing the girls with their Grandma Mayna, Grandpa JD, Aunt Laurie, and Uncle Mark, Ben and I really enjoyed spending time with them and hearing old stories. I love hearing old stories.
One of my favorite things of the visit was seeing how cute Aunt Mayna and Uncle JD were with each other. It was a playful sarcasm and teasing, but you can definitely see how they have grown to love and appreciate each other through the years. And Aunt Mayna kept raving about how good Uncle JD is with this or that and that reminded me of how I am a bit biased with Ben and that I think he is best at everything too.
They live on a farm so we also loved hearing the farm stories. At 78, Uncle JD still tends the cattle and there is pretty much no such thing as retiring. Ben and I have dreams of a farm, but we can only imagine the real intense work that goes into having one and we don't think we are ready for that. It sounds ideal, but really to have one there is a lot of labor and love that is involved. Having a farm isn't for the faint of heart or fickle minded for sure. Maybe we'll stick to dreams of a blueberry farm or maybe a tomato farm, we get better at tomatoes every year after all.
We were only a few short hours in Abernathy, but there are for sure plans to go back. We are so glad to reconnect with them and can't wait for all of us to spend more time together. Life is busy and family who live faraway can easily get forgotten, but it is important to always stay connected. Ben and I will both be working on that. We both tend to be bad at that.
Dear King family, Thank you for sharing your afternoon with us and we love you guys and hope to see you again soon! Love, the CA Bratchers. | our first harvest and this is the first time ever we had any to pick in June. And boy are they good! Out of this first harvest, the snow white variety was my fave. It was so sweet. Sweeter than any tomato I have ever had. Get ready for all the tomato show and telling that will be happening this summer. I have a feeling there will be a lot.
What's your favorite type of tomato?
Kids are natural collectors. They really find the beauty and fun in the simplest of things. Their most favorite collection from this weekend... their "sleeping" beetles. Brave even took hers to church, kept it in her pocket and was showing everyone and kissing it. Yes, kissing it! She was also getting everyone to pet it. Not everyone was quite enthused about it, but they did it. Brave is so cute with her pet beetle!
What sorts of things do your kids collect or did you collect when you were a kid? I was a barbie collector and had a granite rock phase.
I am big picture kind of gal. Though with that, I think I have been forgetting to stop and enjoy the little things. The details. I am going to work on that. Can you tell by huzzah posts of late?
Since we got back home, I find myself just watching the girls a little bit more and savoring. Not that I am just staring at them and doing nothing, but still doing things that need to get done but really taking note of them and watching. Trying to memorize them in my heart. Then late last night when all was quiet, Ben had fallen asleep, I was thinking of all of them (Ben included) and prayed for them. I honestly feel frantic all the time. It may not look like it and may not seem like it in this space, but I do feel it. I want to be more still, in my heart and not actually physically, and just savor this time God's given me.
Melody is so smart. Justice who?! I think I better start educating myself on this stuff more.
I love this house. This will be on the must make this summer list.
A pink lake?!! Adding Lac Rose on my list to visit... one day.
Glow yells. For food at least. She jumps, scream, attacks the minute she sees that baby food come out. Sometimes, I even call her my little glanimal.
There will be some blog changes in the coming future. It's being worked on and I am pretty excited about it.
My friend Helen's wedding photos are amazing. This one... so good!
Behind in emails, if you're waiting for one. Getting to it soon.
I love all the color in this home. I love neutral palette homes and wish I could do it because it seems so clean, but I am really much more drawn to homes that have pops of color.
Ben goes back to work Monday, but is off on Wednesday... yay! Then we celebrate our anniversary next weekend. Have a jolly weekend friends!
This is the extra stuff we brought home from our road trip that got jam packed into our already full car. That chair has actually been sitting at my MIL's house for a year and a half now. I saw it for sale on a blog based near San Antonio, so I emailed to find out if they could drop it off in San Antonio (or meet my MIL somewhere to make the exchange), the seller happily obliged. It was $25 and a happy color, so I thought that was a pretty good deal.
We've done some tiny house fixing up since we've been home. Knobs are up in the kitchen now and we've got some new curtains hung, but once everything is settled, there will be a house tour. Promise. Until then, I still have a couple lights fixtures to buy and add.
Road trips definitely make me smile.
Whew! After 10 days of being gone, we are finally home safe and sound. Road trips are fun, but definitely intense. Though based on the number of smiles I got from my girls while trekking along, it was definitely all worth it. There were 3 major stops on the agenda (Abernathy, San Antonio, and South Texas) and over 4,000 miles now added to our car.
We really love road trips. The thought of planning another brings a smile to my face and gets me excited! Flying with all the kids can rack up some bucks quick, so getting in the car and going is pretty much | 928 |
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From Commentary To Classroom: CMC Professor Pitney Discusses His Political Party Shift
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Claremont McKenna College Government Professor John Pitney poses in front of his bookcase. Pitney has been quoted in many articles for CNN, NPR, and The Guardian. (Jaimie Ding • The Student Life)
"[I] was a Republican until election night 2016," Claremont McKenna College Government Professor John J. Pitney, Jr. said. "As soon as [Donald] Trump was declared the victor, I literally took out my laptop and immediately changed [my] registration to independent."
Although he has been a lifelong conservative, you wouldn't always know it from talking to him.
"[Trump is] a disaster. He's a disaster for the United States, he's a disaster for the Republican party," he said. "If we're really lucky, we'll avoid a nuclear war."
Pitney has been teaching at CMC for 32 years. Another C<|fim_middle|>this] a couple years ago, but I think it's important to have a Democratic Congress to serve as a check on Trump," Pitney said. "Because Republicans have fallen down on their constitutional duties."
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Pomona-Pitzer Golf Coach Fired | MC government professor, Charles Kesler, remembers voting for Pitney when he was being considered by the hiring committee.
"We always put a premium on … the teacher-scholar model," Kesler said. "I mean, you have to be good at both, and he is good at both. But his teaching is extraordinary, as any student who's had him would admit."
Pitney grew up in a working class neighborhood up on the west side of Saratoga Springs, New York. His father was a milkman, and his mother a homemaker; neither attended college. His interest in politics was sparked when his grandfather told him stories of local political machines and corruption in the 1920s and 1930s.
His interest was further piqued through his experiences working for Richard Nixon's presidential campaign in 1968, during which he developed what would become a lifelong fascination with the president. He graduated from Union College in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in political science and went on to get his doctorate at Yale University in 1985.
Pitney's political views and analyses have given him a broad national audience. He has been quoted on a variety of issues in articles for CNN, NPR, and The Guardian, and has also written columns for Politico and USA Today in the past year.
He attributed his popularity to several factors.
"I kind of have a knack for smart-ass remarks, and [reporters] like that," Pitney laughed. He also noted that he responds to phone calls promptly and speaks in short sentences.
A defining moment in Pitney's career was working on President George H.W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign, during which he made connections that later gave him the opportunity to contribute a paragraph to Bush's 1992 State of the Union address.
He still keeps in touch with his friends from the campaign, Pitney said, and he is writing a book about the 1988 election scheduled to be released later this year.
Before joining CMC as an associate professor, Pitney was a congressional fellow at the American Political Science Association 1983-1984 and a senior domestic policy analyst at the U.S. House Republican Research Committee 1984-1986.
However, "something in me always wanted to teach," Pitney said. He also desired the financial stability of a professorship, as opposed to the volatile career of a congressional staffer.
Pitney teaches classes such as "Introduction to American Politics," "Politics of Journalism," and "American Political Parties." It is difficult for him to choose a favorite, however.
"It's like asking which is my favorite child," he said. The class he has been teaching the longest is U.S. Congress, which is a simulation of Congress. Pitney said many former students from that class have gone on to run for office and told him the class was a valuable exercise.
Pitney's current and former students from across the 5Cs sing his praises.
"I think that Professor Pitney stands out because he cares so deeply about his students and he's very devoted to them," said Melia Wong CM '19, a government major. "That comes across of course in mentoring, his email list about internships and jobs, and also his faculty advising."
After teaching for so many years, Pitney has former students in a variety of impressive places. Their names flow off his tongue one after another.
"It's kind of like remembering family members," Pitney said.
An especially fond moment for Pitney was when Kathryn Pearson CM '93, a former student now a professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, placed the doctoral hood on another one of his students, Paul Snell CM '08.
"If I had to pick top ten proud moments of my career at CMC, that would be it," Pitney said. "It's also a reminder I'm getting old."
Another former student, Steve Bullock CM '88, is the governor of Montana and a potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Pitney said he believes putting Bullock on the ticket could help Democrats' weakness in rural areas.
Besides teaching, Pitney is interested in researching autism as a political issue and how public policy deals with autism. He authored the book "The Politics of Autism: Navigating the Contested Spectrum," released in 2015. He also maintains a blog, Autism Policy and Politics, which offers insights, analyses, and updates on recent events related to autism policy.
Outside of politics, Pitney said he only has one hobby: parenthood. Pitney spends his weekends going on Joshua Tree Girl Scout outings with his 11-year-old daughter and comic conventions with his 16-year-old son.
Pitney calls himself a "mouse spouse," since his wife works at Disney. The whole family loves Disney and they have two dogs named Mickey and Minnie. He often references popular culture and connects it to politics in his classes.
"I use a 'Star Wars' line: 'this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause,' and I relate that to the first Federalist paper," Pitney said.
With regard to the politics in the real world, Pitney said he is incredibly pessimistic about the impact that Trump will have on the world and conservatism in America.
"The stench of Trump will be on the conservative movement for years to come," he said.
So far, congressional Republicans have mostly fallen in line with Trump's policies, according to Pitney. In response, as an anti-Trump independent, Pitney said he will have to think more carefully about how he votes.
Voting Republican used to be his default option, but now he has to be "more selective," he said.
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Shia LaBeouf is superb in this otherwise muddled, manipulative war film.
Shia LaBeouf is a great actor. While his eccentric off-screen antics and time in Transformers are often the subject of people's attention, his brooding, charismatic turns in American Honey and Fury (not to mention the Rob Cantor music video Shia LaBeouf) have revealed him as someone who could be the next Marlon Brando, mat<|fim_middle|> an interview between Gabriel and a military therapist (Gary Oldman).
The back-and-forth structure is intended to build up both suspense and emotion, as we reach a dramatic climax, but the whole thing unravels the longer it goes on. Director Dito Montiel, who worked with LaBeouf on A Guide to Recognising Your Sants, and also helmed the excellent Fighting, starring a young Channing Tatum, draws an impressively intense performance from his lead. He also manages the jump from Drummer's softly-lit dream domestic life to the dark, bleak landscape of the home he's returned to with striking juxtaposition.
But rather than trust LaBeouf to bring the depth and nuance needed without words, Adam G. Simon's script overplays everything. At the same time, he's determined to hold back as much information as possible to manufacture twists and turns where a straight, chronological telling of Gabriel's story would be more effective. The result is a haze of heavy-handed metaphors, unsubtle PTSD and a title that feels increasingly manipulative.
Man Down is available to watch online on Amazon Prime Video as part of a £5.99 monthly subscription.
Where can I watch Man Down on pay-per-view VOD? | uring into a performer of real substance and depth. Man Down is proof once more of his serious chops. That, however, doesn't mean the film is any good.
Shia plays Gabriel Drummer, a marine who returns home from Afghanistan only to find that the USA has been turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. And so he does the natural thing and searches for his wife, Natalie (Kate Mara), and son, Jonathan (Charlie Shotwell). He's helped in his efforts by BFF Dev (Jai Courtney), a quest that's intercut with | 114 |
<|fim_middle|> SEO or maintenance – so narrow down on an agency accordingly. If you have the requirement of an application to be built for your service – start work on it right away as it is one of the preferred ways today for someone to interact with your business.
Making it easier for your prospects is step one and the most important step for your business. If you have been thinking about getting a website revamp or a design done – get your checklist out and be sure you have all the requirements listed down.
← Is your social media campaign your sharpest tool? | Getting the right kind of traffic on your website is of utmost importance to your business. With a website that is designed the right way, you can pretty much get your business soaring in no time. Since the digital age, there has been nothing as important as your website. Getting the right traffic can boost your business to new heights, but how do you get that traffic? What must you be doing to ensure that you are getting genuine and meaningful traffic onto your website? If you think about it, there are just too many different answers to this question – but the most legitimate and simple answers lie ahead.
Right from the second your prospect keys in your domain name, your website and business is in play. You need to ensure that the website speed is quick enough to load as soon as possible. Typically, you would want this to be under 2-3 seconds – it just seems like ages other wise and you would see drop offs right at the start. If you have a website already, speak to your web services agency to check the website load speed and the needed steps to bring it down.
Secondly, the website needs to be made in the easiest manner for a person to navigate. A clean navigation line should do the work to get this perfected. You would want a user to be able to get to their product or order execution page quickly enough and an easy subdomain structure would help greatly too.
With mobile traffic beating desktop traffic by a mile today, you would want to have your website mobile ready too. Google in fact gives great weightage on the mobile – readiness of your website and getting high traffic from SEO would become easier. Having a mobile app too plays a very important role in getting constant brand recall and interacting with your customers on a daily basis – most brands for that matter have shifted to a desktop, mobile and app version to keep it as easy as possible for their customers.
Lastly, you want your website to have the right content for a user to be able to grasp what you are offering in the right manner. Of course, you would want to keep separate pages for different offerings – especially on the SEO front to increase the unique visitors on specific pages. If you are able to get your website rank for the right keywords, there is no doubt that you would be able to get plenty of relevant traffic for your pages. Chalk out a plan with your web application development services agency right from the time you decide on domain registration on how to improve the delivery of your website. Most people look at a website as a one-time activity, in reality it is an ongoing task that would need constant improvements. If you have a website that would have frequent product updates and changes, speak to your agency on a maintenance contract for the same too.
It might seem like a lot to do, but with the right web application development company, it should be a walk in the park. You would want to keep your line of work as secure as can be when it has to do with your website design, | 602 |
Managing director of Celesio UK and regional lead for the Irish businesses, Cormac Tobin, has decided to leave the leading healthcare provider<|fim_middle|>06. He started at Superquinn aged just 13, becoming Superquinn's youngest store manager at age 23 and a board member by 2000.
Celesio UK is a leading provider of integrated healthcare services to the NHS specialising in medicines, pharmaceutical care and primary care patient services.
With almost 25,000 employees, nearly 1,900 community pharmacies, a UK-wide logistics network and dispensing in excess of 150 million items a year, Celesio UK works in partnership with the NHS, community pharmacies and medicines manufacturers to help UK citizens live longer, healthier and more positive lives. Celesio UK provides customers, the NHS and patients with high levels of service, value, efficiency and innovation.
Celesio UK is part of McKesson Europe and comprises LloydsPharmacy, AAH Pharmaceuticals, LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare, Masta, Online Doctor and Betterlife.
McKesson Europe is a leading international wholesale and retail company and provider of logistics and services to the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector. The proactive and preventive approach ensures that patients receive the products and support that they require for optimum care.
With strong brands and about 39,000 employees, the group is active in 13 European countries (thereof with own operations in ten countries; additionally McKesson Europe manages operations in three countries and participates in one country in a joint venture). Every day, the company serves over 2 million customers – at more than 2,100 pharmacies of its own, at about 300 managed pharmacies and at over 5,700 participants in the brand partnership schemes. With 110 own and seven managed wholesale branches in Europe, McKesson Europe supplies more than 55,000 pharmacies and hospitals every day with up to 130,000 pharmaceutical products.
McKesson Corporation, San Francisco, USA, is the majority shareholder in McKesson Europe AG. McKesson is a global leader in healthcare supply chain management solutions, retail pharmacy, community oncology and specialty care, and healthcare information technology. | after more than ten years with the Celesio group.
Brian Tyler, chairman of the management board of McKesson Europe, says: "Cormac has been an energetic and trusted leader of our UK and Ireland businesses. He has built a strong leadership team for Celesio UK and his warm and engaging personality made him many friends across community pharmacy and beyond. There is a genuine affection for him amongst our colleagues who value his ability to understand customers and patients and put them at the heart of everything we do.
During his tenure at the company (which includes LloydsPharmacy and AAH Pharmaceuticals), Cormac has overseen three major acquisitions, introduced the UK's first Prescription Assembly Solution (PAS) that has revolutionised off-site dispensing and embedded a 'customer first' culture across the workforce which now numbers around 25,000.
Cormac has left with immediate effect and the remaining members of the Celesio UK Board will manage the business whilst a successor is sought, reporting to Brian Tyler.
Cormac Tobin was appointed Managing Director of Celesio UK in early 2013 after successfully leading the Celesio Group's business in Ireland, DocMorris/Unicarepharmacy, for six years. He was appointed to the Leadership Team of LloydsPharmacy's parent company, Celesio AG (now McKesson Europe) in September 2014. This role included regional responsibility for LloydsPharmacy Ireland.
Cormac was Retail Director of Superquinn for 29 years from 1977 to 20 | 328 |
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<|fim_middle|> punctuates beds of eerily undulating synthesizers and murk. Even distant bird calls, which in other contexts might be a reassuring nod to life on Earth, somehow contribute to the atmosphere of creeping post-human dread."
http://www.vitalweekly.net/1177.html | "Classic episodes of "The Twilight Zone" are marked by an ironic twist at the end, and these three new albums by Mr Vital Weekly himself, Frans de Waard, have a surprise in store. Quest might be the name he's used for "ambient" music since the 1990s, but "Yesternights" is not the most ambient of his latest batch of releases! That honour goes to the Modelbau tape called "The Invaders", named fittingly after a nearly dialogue-free TZ story. Two 28-minute washes of glacial grey hush that unfold patiently, one on each side of a cassette, without calling much attention to the composer's moves. It's chilly and distant, rolling out like a fog on a city street after everyone's gone to sleep… or mysteriously vanished. The implacable techno-paranoiac threat continues with "The Lateness of the Hour", a relatively more active (which is to say: not particularly active) set of songs that robots might hum to themselves after they've taken over. Both tapes seethe with unnerving calm, ambient but in no way relaxing… foreground ambience that might keep you awake at night. The occasional ringing clang of metal junk | 252 |
Native advertising is the fastest-growing advertising technology and will continue to grow at an exponential rate owing to its ability to attract almost 60% more traffic than traditional advertising. This advertising technology has managed to find a balance between profitability and user experience by seamlessly integrating related ads with quality content. All major ad networks are taking native advertising seriously. Taboola, one of the oldest and largest native ad networks, enjoys a notable market share and is going to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Adblade is the largest content-style ad platform on the internet and their ads are distinguished from native ads only by the 'advertisement' label in the corner.
In this article, we'll do a comparative study of the two ad networks and try to figure out which ad network as well as which advertising technology is more suitable for a particular website or blog.
Taboola requires publishers to have at least 1 million monthly page views. After signing up, the publisher registration will be reviewed and the publisher will be asked to sign a NDA if a minimum traffic threshold is needed. The ad codes are set up once all this is done.
To become a publisher in the Adblade network, a website or blog requires a minimum of 500,000 monthly page views. Adblade is quite stringent when it comes to giving approval and they do not accept publishers with adult content.
Adblade offers 60% of the obtained revenue to publishers and keeps the rest 40% as charges for the services rendered.
The content-style ads from Adblade often end up having clickbait-style headlines which can sometimes give a spammy impression. Otherwise, Adblade has a standard ad quality.
Adblade ads are displayed on some of the biggest content driven sites like Yahoo!, Esquire, BusinessWeek and Fox News.
Adblade mostly offers 50 cents to $1 per click, depending on the vertical. The CPM rate is usually $2 on an average. CPA and CPM rates are lower for Asian traffic. Adblade also has a 100% fill rate for US traffic.
Publishers in Taboola network are paid on a NET 30 basis once they have managed to attain USD 100 in their accounts. The payment comes as direct deposit through Payoneer to Indian publishers, after their accounts and PAN details are verified.
Adblade pays publishers through Paypal or Wire Transfer on a NET 30 basis once they have accrued USD 100 in their accounts. Adblade also offers a 10% referral commission which is added when billing is done at the end of 30 days.
Taboola and Adblade are currently the two biggest advertising networks. In terms of ad quality, Taboola is very good and even Adblade has<|fim_middle|> hassle for publishers who draw significant traffic. Thus advertisers and publishers can look forward to using the services of these two ad networks as sponsored content keeps growing at a high pace. For publishers have traffic lower that 1-2 millions, we recommend Spoutable. | more hits than misses. The signing up and payment withdrawal processes can be quite arduous for Taboola. But that can be understood considering the kind of services they provide. Such is not the case for Adblade. Even though it is difficult to associate with Adblade due to its vague but strict guidelines, it is worth the | 68 |
A modern updating of the venerable Spectra Combi-500,<|fim_middle|> made to bring the meter up to compete directly against the better Sekonics and the Gossen Luna Pro series. The latter, in particular, was a system meter that accepted a range of accessories. Mine came with the 1° spot attachment, called a Photospot which is (of course) broken. You can also get attachments for a flexible probe, a ground-glass reader, an enlarger spot, and a couple of other things. | but with several important differences. The Combi-500 had two sensors, one CdS and one Selenium, sharing the same area on the rotating head, and the calculator dial was on the back of the head and a footcandle meter was on the base.
On this machine, the calculator dial has been moved to the base. The head still has two sensors but they are located opposite each other: one is for reflected light and the other for incident. The CdS/Seleniums have been replaced with two Silicon cells, and they run off a PX-28 battery which you can still get (my Canon AE-1 runs off a PX-28). The Photodisc/Photosphere have been retained, but they're now bayonet mount, and the unit will take a bunch of nice accessories. The base has also been tapered a bit and the head finessed. It looks much more modern than it's 1945-designed predecessor.
Oddly, this makeover makes it look a bit more like its cousin, the Sekonic L-28. It's very likely this update was | 227 |
<|fim_middle|> Morrissey makes an excellent Janis, as she finds the balance between the character's IDGAF exteriority and her underlying vulnerability. Morrissey's rendition of Janis's big solo "I'd Rather Be Me" is stunning; she nails every note and brings a great deal of energy in the second act.
If you're a fan of the original film or if you love contemporary pop musicals (think HEATHERS or LEGALLY BLONDE), the MEAN GIRLS national tour is a must-see. And beyond the material itself, this touring cast seals the deal with their performances of Fey's iconic MEAN GIRLS characters. So fetch!
Broadway In Chicago's engagement of the MEAN GIRLS national tour runs through January 26, 2020 at the James M. Nederlander Theatre, 24 West Randolph. Tickets are $30-$120. Visit BroadwayInChicago.com.
Photo Credit: Joan Marcus | The first national tour of the MEAN GIRLS musical has arrived in Chicago, and it's totally fetch. Original screenwriter Tina Fey has partnered with composer Jeff Richmond (her husband), lyricist Nell Benjamin, and director/choreographer Casey Nicholaw to create a show in line with its pop musical contemporaries. MEAN GIRLS has an unabashedly pop score, filled with a combination of big belty numbers and upbeat tunes. Benjamin's lyrics cleverly recreate many iconic moments from the original 2003 film through music, while Fey's book also introduces many new jokes—particularly when it comes to the use of social media. Cady Heron's initiation into the vicious halls of North Shore High, and her encounter with reigning clique The Plastics, will surely delight fans of the movie.
Nicholaw's production concept lends itself nicely to a tour. Scott Pask's set relies heavily on projections (with video designs by Finn Ross and Adam Young and which were flawlessly executed on opening night) to convey a range of different spaces, and the set pieces that make up North Shore High can easily glide on and offstage. Thus, this tour does not compromise at all when it comes to production value. Nicholaw's direction and choreography are similarly inventive; I particularly enjoy the use of cafeteria lunch trays in lieu of tap shoes during "Where Do You Belong?," a number in which North Shore High misfits Damian and Janis introduce newcomer Cady to the school's various cliques.
The touring cast is certainly on par with Broadway; they excel at finding opportunities for audiences to enjoy much awaited moments from the film onstage, while also making the roles uniquely their own. As Cady, Danielle Wade seamlessly transitions from naive newcomer to manipulative popular girl. Wade's malleability as a performer allows us to buy into Cady's transformation, while never finding her out-and-out mean. It should come as no surprise that Queen Bee Regina George's cruel high school reign translates to some powerful belting songs in Richmond's score; Mariah Rose Faith delivers on these mighty solos beautifully, and she also adds her own humorous flare to the role. As Regina's right-hand woman Gretchen Weiners, Megan Masako Haley delivers on the character's simultaneously frantic and vulnerable qualities. Haley is also one of the finest dancers in the company, executing Nicholaw's energetic choreography with ease. Rounding out the trio of Plastics, Jonalyn Saxer is a veritable scene stealer as Karen Smith. Saxer easily earns some of the biggest laughs of the night, particularly during Karen's big solo number "Sexy," in which she extols the virtues of Halloween. Saxer understudied this role on Broadway, and her understanding of the character clearly shows.
Cady and the Plastics are in good company. Eric Huffman is splendid as Damian, leaning into the musical theater tropes that make up the character without a false note. Mary Kate | 604 |
The Blitz: Bottom Line Business
The Week 17 slate is set and the Dolphins are kicking off at 1 p.m. ET next Sunday in Western New York. A win over the Buffalo Bills would give Miami their first 11-win season since 2008 and the fifth seed in the AFC playoffs. Miami can also qualify for the postseason with losses by either Cleveland, Baltimore or Indianapolis – all of those games will kick off at the same 1 p.m. start time as Dolphins-Bills.
Today on the Blitz, Brian Flores' singular-focused mindset and the glorious 2008 season finale at the Jets.
The first injury report for Dolphins-Bills will be available Wednesday.
Dolphins Head Coach Brian Flores is one win away from registering the third-best two-season turnaround in<|fim_middle|>'s first full season at safety, Xavien Howard joins Darius Butler's podcast, Dolphins staff coaching another All-Star game, Miami's Social Impact Committee and much more
The Blitz: Competition is Key
General Manager Chris Grier said the focus this offseason for Miami is creating competition at every position
The Blitz: Fuel for the Fire
A handful of Dolphins players were in agreement that the end of 2020 will carry motivation into the 2021 offseason
The Blitz: The Takeaway Streak
The Dolphins forced a turnover in every game this season, streak sits at 22 consecutive games
The Blitz: Tight End Production and Team Camaraderie
Durham Smythe, Mike Gesicki and Adam Shaheen have combined for the most receiving yards and touchdowns by a Dolphins tight ends room in franchise history
The Blitz: Pass Rush in Waves
Jerome Baker's enjoying a career year in the pass rushing department, but he gives the credits to Miami's multiple rushers
The Blitz: Jason Sanders Wins AFC Special Teams Player of the Week
With four successful field goals, including the 44-yard game-winner, kicker Jason Sanders captures his second AFC Special Teams Player of the Week award of the season
The Blitz: Beyond the Box Score
Though Dolphins defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah is filling up the stat sheet, it's his down-by-down impact that shines a light on his true value to Miami
The Blitz: Christmas Eve in Miami
Head Coach Brian Flores and safety Eric Rowe talk Christmas and we look at the latest updates for Dolphins-Raiders | franchise history. An 11th win would also even Flores' career record at 16 up and 16 down. His work in Miami, and unwavering confidence in his staff, players and decision-making, has earned the praise of local media.
Top News: Ten Need to Know Dolphins Items Following Primetime Win
Dolphins Win a Wild One 26-25, One Win from the Postseason
Myles Gaskin Scores Twice, Chews Up 169 Yards From Scrimmage
Dolphins Pull Off Improbable Late Win; Recap, Takeaways, Sound Bites from the 26-25 Victory Over Raiders
I don't always agree with his decisions, but Brian Flores makes some hard bold calls with 0 hesitation and more times than not they end up working. A lot of coaches say winning is all that matters but he lives it. Dolphins fans are in very good hands, IMO.
— Cameron Wolfe (@CameronWolfe) December 27, 2020
Those decisions are all based around one common goal – winning football games.
"The label is we're going to do what we've got to do to win," Flores said. "I owe that to the Dolphins fans, to the players in that locker room, the people in this organization. So that's what we're going to always do, so two-person, three-person quarterback, five-person quarterback; whatever we need to do to try to win, that's what we're going to do."
National Notes
Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer made it known who he is choosing as the coach of the year in the NFL.
Miami's Brian Flores is my Coach of the Year. And I say that with all due respect to Kevin Stefanski, who was facing a pretty impossible situation in Jersey on Sunday (more on that in a minute). It's just that Flores has Miami at 10 wins less than two years into a rebuilding effort that basically laid out as the equivalent to buying a house on a nice piece of land and taking it down to the studs. The speed at which Flores and GM Chris Grier have built is impressive. And so too is the job Flores is doing as a gameday coach who doesn't turn 40 until February.
Peter King chose a pair of Dolphins for Special Teams Players of the Week in his weekly Football Morning in America column.
Special Teams Players Of The Week
Clayton Fejedelem, safety, Miami. For the first 27 minutes of the vital game in Las Vegas, Miami's offense was putrid. Three points, 45 passing yards, a 10-3 deficit. On fourth-and-one from midfield, with Fejedelem the upback between the center and punter, the 205-pound backup took the direct snap and smashed into the middle of a clogged line. For a split second, it looked like he'd be stopped cold and Brian Flores second-guessed for a fake punt in such a narrow game. But Fejedelem, looking more like a running back than a DB, bounced to his right, found a hole, and rambled for 22 important yards. Miami had to settle for a field goal and a 10-6 deficit, but Fejedelem did his part. He also forced and recovered the fumble on the kickoff that ended the Raiders' last chance as time expired
Jason Sanders, kicker, Miami. We think of Justin Tucker as the game's state-of-the-art kicker. He is. But Sanders is forcing his way into Tucker's league. He was right down the middle on four field goals Saturday night in the 26-25 win over the Raiders, including the winner from 44 yards with one second left. Through 16 weeks, Sanders is 68 of 71 this year on all kicks (including 34 of 37 on field goals), Tucker 72 of 76 (25 of 28 on field goals).
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On this Day in Dolphins History
December 28, 2008 -- The Dolphins cap a 10-game turnaround from 2007 with a 24-17 victory over the Jets at the Meadowlands, giving the Dolphins a record of 11-5 and the AFC East title, just one year after finishing 1-15. The 10-game improvement ties the 1999 Indianapolis Colts for the largest in NFL history.
The Dolphins' 26-25 win over the Raiders on Saturday qualifies as a scorigami, a final score never before seen in the history of the league. It was the 1,064th unique final score in NFL history.
Content on Tap
Today, we'll go inside the numbers from Saturday's win by taking a look at stats, snap counts, team rankings and a whole lot more. We'll also cover the day's events on Top News.
In case you missed it, our recap content from the early hours Sunday morning is available on MiamiDolphins.com and on the Dolphins podcast network. You can catch Travis' recap edition of the Drive Time Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. John Congemi's three takeaways, the postgame story and spotlight piece taking a look at Myles Gaskin's breakout performance are all available on MiamiDolphins.com
The Blitz: Monday January 18
New names generate big production, Shrine Game coaching staff and a familiar looking two-point play over the weekend
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Q: Joda - Infer timeZone by only having dateTime in format "hh:mm:ss" So I have localTime string coming to the server in the format of "hh:mm:ss".
Is there a way to determine the time zone of the client?
So far I can convert the string to j<|fim_middle|> the timezone.
If you want a user's timezone then your best bet is to work from the IP address as that is more likely to give you a location.
A: If the error margin is not greater than a few minutes, then you can subtract the UTC time from the received local time and round to the nearest hour to get the offset. You can probably use Minutes.minutesBetween, then divide by 60.0 and round. If you're concerned about :30 and :45 time zones, then you can divide by 15.0, round and multiply by 15 to get the offset in minutes.
However, once you have the offset, there may not be a unique time zone that uses it. And the list of time zones that correspond to that offset depends on the full date (because of DST). So if you really want the time zone, it is better to have the client send it.
Also see difference in seconds between two dates using joda time? and How can I determine a timezone by the UTC offset?
| oda DateTime using DateTimeFormatter and get the offset in relation to timeZone UTC but this might not be accurate as there will be a delay between the timeStamp taken on the client and the time that the calculation will take place at on the server (e.g. if time sent by client is 11:59:59 +01:00 in it arrived with 2 secs delay on the server the calculation will have roughly the following form: 11:59:59 - 11:00:01 = 0 hours offset which is wrong).
Any suggestions other than forcing the client to send timeZone instead of localTime?
A: There is no way in which you can calculate the timezone given a local time. You can calculate the offset from UTC, but that's not the same thing as | 169 |
Limo and Jepleting secure a Kenyan double in Venta de Banos
by RunMichigan Staff, Dec. 19, 2011
Provided by IAAF
Venta de Baños, Spain – Kenya's Philemon Kimeli Limo and his compatriot Priscah Jepleting clinched respective victories at the '32th Cross Internacional<|fim_middle|> Domínguez (Spain) 24:11
8. Dorotea Peixoito (Portugal) 24:13 | de Venta de Baños' held today on a less cold than usual day with the thermometer marking 6ºC by the time of races.
The men's 10.6km event witnessed the overwhelming dominance of the 26-year-old Kimeli Limo, a creditable 7th at last March's IAAF World Cross Country Championships held on Spanish soil in Punta Umbría. Reportedly, Uganda's Moses Kipsiro involuntarily collided with Limo in the first kilometre on that occasion which forced Limo to run without one of his shoes for virtually all the race!
The early stages were led by Portugal's Thiago Costa (16th at last Sunday's European champs in Velenje) but some 13 minutes on the clock the main group whittled down to six athletes in the guise of Limo, Eritrea's Adhanom Abraha and the Spanish quartet of the newly-minted European XC medallist Ayad Lamdassem, Javier Guerra (6th in Velenje), the 40! year-old reigning European Marathon silver medallist Chema Martínez and Juan Carlos Higuero, the 2008 World indoor 1500m bronze medallist.
Shortly afterwards Limo injected a much brisker pace and only Lamdassem and Abraha managed to hold off his rhythm. Following the first couple of laps in 6:44 and 6:22, Limo's 6:03 to cover the third circuit killed the race and found no opposition from the rest as Lamdassem travelled a lonesome second way back. With still 4000m remaining all seemed decided except for the minor spot on the podium between Abraha and Martínez.
At the bell (2.1km to go) Limo, a 59:30 Half Marathon performer, had built an 8-second margin on Lamdassem, himself 18 seconds ahead of Abraha and Martínez. Throughout the last lap, Limo increased his lead dramatically to no less than 120m over the Moroccan-born Lamdassem while Martínez could get rid of the Eritrean for the delight of the crowd.
The winner said "My plan was to run inside the main pack for much of the race to pull away over the last lap. Obviously, I'm delighted with my win today but I'm also a Real Madrid football team fan and I could watch on TV his 2-6 victory against Seville at the Spanish League last night so I'm doubly happy (laughs). I'll likely run in Seville XC (IAAF Permit on 15 Jan) on my build-up for the Praha Half Marathon in February" confirmed Limo.
WOMEN – Jepleting over a threatening Ejjafini
The women's 6.8km contest was billed as a clash between Kenya's 2006 World Cross Country silver medallist in the short race Priscah Jepleting and the in-form Italian Nadia Ejjafini, fresh from a fine 4th place at the European champs last weekend.
Jepleting, who finished fourth at last Worlds in Daegu over 10,000m, succeeded more clearly that what her one second advantage on Ejjafini at the tape might suggest.
It was the Moroccan-born Ejjafini – a commanding victor in the Llodio permit last 27 November – who set the early pace closely followed by Portugal's Analia Rosa, the Spanish duo of Dolores Checa and Marta Domínguez plus a conservative Jepleting, fresh from a convincing win in Alcobendas a fortnight ago.
Despite performing in front of her native village, the 36-year-old Domínguez could not follow that kind of pace and began to lose ground before the second kilometer as Checa did a bit later. Meanwhile, Jepleting and Ejjafini took turns at the top and Rosa was a solitude third ahead of the Spaniards.
Midway the penultimate loop a fading Rosa was overtaken by Checa (a 14:46.30 5000m runner), herself 14 seconds behind the leading tandem at the bell. It was exactly with 1400m to go that Jepleting found another gear to break away with ease from Ejjafini, her advantage ranging from 5 to 7 seconds but the Italian didn't surrender at any time to narrow the gap already inside the track, although Jepleting's win (22:47 for Ejjafini's 22:48) didn't seem in jeopardize at any time.
Spain's Checa completed a classy podium well behind (33s) the victor, while the European 3000m steeplechase silver medallist Domínguez came a distant 7th 1:24 adrift the winner.
Jepleting declared: "I had a clear advantage on Ejjafini but she closed the gap at the end. I'll come back in January to compete in Seville and Elgoibar XC races. Prior to today's event I had been told that a 10ºC below zero temperature is usual here so to run with 5ºC above zero isn't too bad! (laughs).
Emeterio Valiente for the IAAF
Men (10.6km)
1. Philemon Kimeli Limo (Kenya) 31:57
2. Ayad Lamdassem (Spain) 32:18
3. Chema Martínez (Spain) 32:26
4. Adhanom Abraha (Eritrea) 32:38
5. Juan Carlos Higuero (Spain) 32:44
6. Thiago Costa (Portugal) 32:51
7. Ricardo Serrano (Spain) 32:56
8. Javier Guerra (Spain) 32:58
Women (6.8km)
1. Priscah Jepleting (Kenya) 22:47
2. Nadia Ejjafini (Italy) 22:48
3. Dolores Checa (Spain) 23:20
4. Diana Martín (Spain) 23:56
5. Analia Rosa (Portugal) 24:02
6. Marta Silvestre (Spain) 24:04
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Podcast: The philosophy and application of data-driven manufacturing
July 10, 2017 /in Blog, Webinars & Videos/by Rashi Rathore
David McPhail in conversation with James D. Sawyer – Editor Emeritus, Advanced Manufacturing
A manufacturing concern can get the greatest return on its investment by optimizing its overall equipment effectiveness, or OEE. In this podcast hosted for SME, MEMEX CEO David McPhail details the relationship between OEE and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Data, he explains, is what drives this relationship. Data-driven manufacturing consists of keeping track of everything that happens on the shop floor, and software, including MEMEX's MERLIN Tempus solution, helps monitor and manage that data.
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Frost & Sullivan recognizes MEMEX Inc. as 2016 Global Product leader in Machine Monitoring System
January 19, 2017 /in Articles, Press Releases/by Memex
Frost & Sullivan Commends MEMEX's Impressive Technical Expertise in Developing its Flagship Machine Monitoring and Automation Solution, MERLIN into a Robust IIoT platform
SANTA CLARA, California, Jan. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Based on its recent analysis of the global machine monitoring systems market, Frost & Sullivan has recognized MEMEX Inc. with the 2016 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Leadership. With this award, MEMEX receives worldwide acclaim for its turnkey machine monitoring and automation solutions, especially its flagship product, MERLIN, a next generation scalable IIoT communication platform. The company continuously improves its products to stay relevant to a cross section of customers from the aerospace, automotive, and advanced industrial sectors. It further sets itself apart with its outstanding technical service, support, training, and software developm
By offering true shop floor to top floor communication and visibility at plant- and enterprise-level along with enhanced data collection, and tailored reporting capabilities, MERLIN presents specific data results that customers need to make strategic decisions reducing their overall capital expenditure. The MERLIN platform connects the shop floor with the top floor of any manufacturing facility by leveraging the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Mega Trend in its overall concept and design. Acknowledging the importance of user friendliness, MEMEX designed the system in a way that the installed communications base and open machine integration software collects and houses all machinery data in a single, easy-to-access control panel and displays the data on an interactive dashboard. Furthermore, MERLIN helps customers track and understand various performance metrics displayed on its system dashboard and performance trend charts.
"One of the distinguishing features of MERLIN is its operator portal, with its ability to perform machine-related operator inputs through a Microsoft Windows-based application," said Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst, Rohit Karthikeyan. "This parameter-driven software allows operators to quickly tailor the operator portal to display the information they need on their personal devices. It makes the machine information accessible while still channeling operator information inputs, commands, and notices through the plant's communication platform."
Underlining its commitment to innovation, MEMEX expanded MERLIN's offerings to include:
MERLIN Tempus, which supports enterprise-level machine connections and serves as a platform for shop floor communications
MERLIN MES, which enhances monitoring and browser-based graphical display capabilities for complete manufacturing execution systems
MERLIN DNC, which facilitates file transfers to machines from computer-aided drawing and manufacturing programs
MERLIN FOEE, which provides specialized financial overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) metrics to visualize real-time hourly profit contribution by product
MERLIN MTC-One, a circuit board hardware that connects machines to a network with multiple analog and digital inputs
MEMEX has taken innovation a step further by including product features such as the HTML-based widgets in the dashboard presentation layers of MERLIN. These widgets permit customers to smoothly tailor their data reporting to show only specific and relevant machine performance information to production teams. Combined, these features result in a highly scalable data reporting solution.
"MEMEX looks to make 'cross-industry machine connections' by providing machine and process monitoring, OEE, and communications functionalities," noted Karthikeyan. "No other machine monitoring system offers such a solution, and it helped MEMEX achieve its mission of measuring manufacturing excellence."
Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that develops a product with innovative features and functionality that is gaining rapid acceptance in the market. The award recognizes the solution quality and the customer value enhancements it enables.
Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for outstanding achievement in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research.
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OEE May Not Be Enough
December 8, 2016 /in Articles, Recent News/by Memex
Columns: 12/1/2016 | CONTRIBUTED BY DAVE EDSTROM ,Chief Technology Officer , Memex
Overall equipment efficiency (OEE) is a critical measurement of how well a manufacturing unit is doing. But shops should also focus on profitability, which is where Financial OEE comes in.
Analyzing FOEE helps a shop understand how machine performance is helping (or hurting) profitability. This insight provides guidance—and an incentive—to focus on the most appropriate productivity improvement efforts.
Overall equipment efficiency (OEE) is considered a critical measurement of how well a manufacturing unit is doing. The formula is simple: It multiplies the percentages of availability, performance and quality to yield a single percentage. This result enables similar units (one machine, one department, one plant or an entire enterprise) to be compared or rated against a target such as a plant's best record or a benchmark of world-class performance. Focusing on OEE enables manufacturers to pinpoint factors that hold back productivity.
Significantly, recent developments in data-driven manufacturing make calculating OEE easier, faster and more accurate—and acting on it more effective. For example, these benefits are an important advantage of connecting machine tools to a network for data collection and monitoring.
However, shops and plants must also focus on profitability. Managers have to balance decisions about maximizing the part-making capability of their equipment with decisions about the money-making potential of this equipment. OEE ratings alone provide an incomplete picture. One development that seeks to address this shortcoming is called Financial OEE (FOEE), a trademarked name for a new feature of MERLIN Tempus Enterprise Edition (EE) from Memex.
MERLIN (Manufacturing Enterprise Real-time Lean Information Network) is a communications platform for real-time manufacturing analytics. Tempus is the company's suite of applications for machine monitoring such as real-time views of the plant floor, custom dashboards, reporting, alerting and other functions related to data-driven manufacturing. Tempus EE adds OEE, job scheduling and other modules such as FOEE.
Memex has partnered with noted OEE expert and author Robert Hansen to develop this approach. FOEE answers the question, "What is the value of improving OEE on this particular machine for this particular product?" More to the point, it answers "How much profit is being left on the table by not performing at company-best or industry-best levels for that specific part?" Thus, the FOEE concept shows the power of data-driven manufacturing and the Industrial Internet of Things to transform decision-making not only on the shop floor, but also in the front office.
Tempus EE automatically collects the event details necessary to compute OEE. The first phase of FOEE applies to stand-alone machines making a finished product. FOEE requires three key financial input values for each product and the machine. These inputs are unit sales price, unit material cost and the hourly operational expense (OPEX) of the machine. This information can be derived from the ERP product standard and the income statement.
FOEE is the current-state hourly profit divided by a value representing a world-class level of profit. This ratio tells a company what profit it made compared to what profit could have been made at world-class levels. With this information, a company can see the financial value of improving the machine's performance.
In the figure on page 40, a product called P0006 is analyzed over 180 days. The product-run OEE data is correlated with the three inputs necessary for FOEE. It also associates important actionable data such as profit contribution per hour and current FOEE based on the machine's best FOEE percentage, as well as how much more profit would accrue by running the machine at its best OEE rate.
With FOEE, managers can look at jobs scheduled for a machine and make decisions based not just on utilization, but also on utilization and profit. This enables managers to compare a list of machines capable of running a certain job, and to determine which machine would yield the highest hourly profit. Just as the OEE figure related to each project or job is a key tool in prioritizing and evaluating continuous improvement projects, FOEE provides a quick view of the profitability opportunity for these projects. FOEE is a tool to make better business decisions for scheduling products, guiding continuous improvement efforts and giving important feedback to sales and marketing teams.
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Memex Inc. Presenting at the LD Micro "Main Event" Investor Conference
December 1, 2016 /in Press Releases/by Memex
BURLINGTON, ON / ACCESSWIRE / December 1, 2016 / Memex Inc. ("MEMEX") (TSX VENTURE: OEE) announced today that its Chief Executive Officer, David McPhail, will present at the 9th annual LD Micro Main Event Investor Conference on Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 2:30pm Pacific Time at the Luxe Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Mr. McPhail will also meet with investors.
"Our presentation at a recent U.S.-based conference generated significant interest and resulted in numerous meetings. I am excited to share the MEMEX story with investors at the LD Micro conference," said Mr. McPhail. "We believe the quality and breadth of tech companies attending the LD Micro Investor Conference will attract like-minded investors with whom our story will resonate."
View Memex Inc.'s profile here: http://www.ldmicro.com/profile/O<|fim_middle|> measuring and managing Real-Time data. This empowers MEMEX's customers to effectively quantify and manage OEE, reduce costs and incorporate strategies for continuous lean improvement. For further information, visit www.MemexOEE.com
Rashi Rathore, Marketing Specialist
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About LD Micro
LD Micro was founded in 2006 with the sole purpose of being an independent resource in the microcap space. What started out as a newsletter highlighting unique companies has transformed into an event platform hosting several influential conferences annually (Invitational, Summit, and Main Event).
In 2015, LDM launched the first pure microcap index (the LDMi) to exclusively provide intraday information on the entire sector. LD will continue to provide valuable tools for the benefit of everyone in the small and microcap universe.
For those interested in attending, please contact David Scher at david@ldmicro.com.
MEMEX, the developer of MERLIN, an award winning IIot technology platform that delivers tangible increases in manufacturing productivity in Real-Time, is the global leader in machine to machine connectivity solutions. Committed to its mission of, "Successfully transforming factories of today into factories of the future", and encouraged by the accelerating adoption and success of MERLIN, MEMEX is relentlessly pursuing the development of increasingly innovative solutions suitable in the IIoT era. MEMEX envisions converting every machine into a node on the corporate networks, thereby, creating visibility from shop-floor-to-top-floor. MEMEX, with its deep commitment towards machine connectivity, offers solutions that are focused on finding hidden capacity by measuring and managing Real-Time data. This empowers MEMEX's customers to effectively quantify and manage OEE, reduce costs, and incorporate strategies for continuous lean improvement.
Email: Sean@SophicCapital.com
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MEMEX President and CEO Presenting at StableView TECH16, Toronto
October 17, 2016 /in Press Releases, Recent News/by Memex
Burlington, Ontario, Canada – October 14, 2016 – Memex Inc. ("MEMEX" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: OEE) announces that President and CEO David McPhail will present the Company's investment thesis at StableView Asset Management Inc.'s TECH16 conference on Tuesday, October 18 in Toronto. Mr. McPhail will also provide a corporate update and participate in a Q&A session afterwards.
"StableView Asset Management has a successful history of investing in technology companies," said Mr. McPhail. "Their track record draws Toronto's capital markets community to their TECH16 Conference. We're excited to tell our story to these professionals at this forum."
The StableView TECH16 Conference is being held at the Arcadian Loft, located at 401 Bay Street, Simpson Tower, 8th floor. To attend Mr. McPhail's presentation, please register for the StableView TECH16 Conference at https://eventmobi.com/tech16/.
About the StableView TECH16 Conference:
The StableView TECH16 conference is Canada's premiere Technology Event in Canada curated by a buy-side firm. The event brings all capital market participants together including institutional and retail buy-side, broker dealers and service providers all under one roof. The goal of the event is to showcase Canadian Tech companies – both private and public and help further familiarize and educate the Canadian capital market participants to the investment opportunities in Canadian Technology.
The selected charity for the StableView TECH16 Conference is Diaper Bank of Toronto. They help fill a critical and otherwise unmet need for Diapers among the most vulnerable in our community. More information and donations can be made at www.diaperbank.ca.
About MEMEX:
MEMEX, the developer of MERLIN, an award winning IIoT technology platform that delivers tangible increases in manufacturing productivity in Real-Time, is the global leader in machine to machine connectivity solutions. Committed to its mission of "Successfully transforming factories of today into factories of the future" and encouraged by the accelerating adoption and success of MERLIN, MEMEX is relentlessly pursuing the development of increasingly innovative solutions suitable in the IIoT era. MEMEX envisions converting every machine into a node on the corporate networks, thereby, creating visibility from shop-floor-to-top-floor. MEMEX, with its deep commitment towards machine connectivity, offers solutions that are focused on finding hidden capacity by | 928 |
The World Won't Listen (The Smiths) – Album Review<|fim_middle|>themes. |
by Emilio Pérez Miguel on October 27, 2009
The World Won't Listen
This was the second compilation of A-sides, B-sides and rarities the Mancunian outfit released in its career. As you know, the first one was "Hatful Of Hollow". In this case, the compilation has something of a broader appeal as there is a fair slice of non-album singles featured, and these include the crucial "Panic", "Ask" and "Shoplifters Of The World Unite". The single version of "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side" is part of the compilation, too. And there are no radio sessions this time around.
Something that you can find here that was absent from "Hatful Of Hollow" is a handful of instrumental tracks. There are two of them: "Oscillate Wildly" and "Money Changes Everything".
The rest of the album is made up of tracks that work out mostly well like "You've Just Haven't Earned It Baby", the loud "London" and two songs that come across as an item: "Unlovable", and "Half A Person". And there is also a piano ballad named "Asleep" which depending on your mood will go down better some days than the others since it is one of the starker tunes within their catalog.
On the other hand, songs like "Golden Light" showcase that the communication problem Morrissey had with Marr sometimes as regards which songs to cover was getting out of hand, and that was something which exhausted Marr's patience in due time.
"The World Won't Listen" also includes the phenomenal album tracks "Bigmouth Strikes Again" and "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out". I am not entirely sure what they are doing here, but they are always welcome.
Also, note that this album was released in America under the moniker "Louder Than Bombs". The track list is quite similar, but there are some songs available only in each one. The most notable addition to "Louder Than Bombs" is the single "Sheila Take A Bow", one of The Smiths' most salient compositions in terms of chart performance.
Here we go again… this is something for fans and nobody else. The ones who want an overview should go for the "Best Of" and "Singles" packages. And you know which album I regard as their one pivotal contribution to the world of music.
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from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse # noqa
from django.template.defaultfilters import title # noqa
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
from horizon import tables
from horizon.utils import filters
forbid_updates = set(["PENDING_CREATE", "PENDING_UPDATE", "PENDING_DELETE"])
class AddIKEPolicyLink(tables.LinkAction):
name = "addikepolicy"
verbose_name = _("Add IKE Policy")
url = "horizon:project:vpn:addikepolicy"
classes = ("ajax-modal", "btn-addikepolicy",)
class AddIPSecPolicyLink(tables.LinkAction):
name = "addipsecpolicy"
verbose_name = _("Add IPSec Policy")
url = "horizon:project:vpn:addipsecpolicy"
classes = ("ajax-modal", "btn-addipsecpolicy",)
class AddVPNServiceLink(tables.LinkAction):
name = "addvpnservice"
verbose_name = _("Add VPN Service")
url = "horizon:project:vpn:addvpnservice"
classes = ("ajax-modal", "btn-addvpnservice",)
class AddIPSecSiteConnectionLink(tables.LinkAction):
name = "addipsecsiteconnection"
verbose_name = _("Add IPSec Site Connection")
url = "horizon:project:vpn:addipsecsiteconnection"
classes = ("ajax-modal", "btn-add<|fim_middle|> False),
)
id = tables.Column('id', verbose_name=_('Id'), hidden=True)
name = tables.Column('name', verbose_name=_('Name'),
link="horizon:project:vpn:ipsecsiteconnectiondetails")
vpnservice_name = tables.Column('vpnservice_name',
verbose_name=_('VPN Service'))
ikepolicy_name = tables.Column('ikepolicy_name',
verbose_name=_('IKE Policy'))
ipsecpolicy_name = tables.Column('ipsecpolicy_name',
verbose_name=_('IPSec Policy'))
status = tables.Column("status",
filters=(title, filters.replace_underscores),
verbose_name=_("Status"),
status=True,
status_choices=STATUS_CHOICES)
class Meta:
name = "ipsecsiteconnectionstable"
verbose_name = _("IPSec Site Connections")
table_actions = (AddIPSecSiteConnectionLink,
DeleteIPSecSiteConnectionLink)
row_actions = (UpdateIPSecSiteConnectionLink,
DeleteIPSecSiteConnectionLink)
class VPNServicesTable(tables.DataTable):
STATUS_CHOICES = (
("Active", True),
("Down", True),
("Error", False),
)
id = tables.Column('id', verbose_name=_('Id'), hidden=True)
name = tables.Column("name", verbose_name=_('Name'),
link="horizon:project:vpn:vpnservicedetails")
description = tables.Column('description', verbose_name=_('Description'))
subnet_name = tables.Column('subnet_name', verbose_name=_('Subnet'))
router_name = tables.Column('router_name', verbose_name=_('Router'))
status = tables.Column("status",
filters=(title, filters.replace_underscores),
verbose_name=_("Status"),
status=True,
status_choices=STATUS_CHOICES)
class Meta:
name = "vpnservicestable"
verbose_name = _("VPN Services")
table_actions = (AddVPNServiceLink, DeleteVPNServiceLink)
row_actions = (UpdateVPNServiceLink, DeleteVPNServiceLink)
class IKEPoliciesTable(tables.DataTable):
id = tables.Column('id', verbose_name=_('Id'), hidden=True)
name = tables.Column("name", verbose_name=_('Name'),
link="horizon:project:vpn:ikepolicydetails")
auth_algorithm = tables.Column('auth_algorithm',
verbose_name=_('Authorization algorithm'))
encryption_algorithm = tables.Column(
'encryption_algorithm',
verbose_name=_('Encryption algorithm'))
pfs = tables.Column("pfs", verbose_name=_('PFS'))
class Meta:
name = "ikepoliciestable"
verbose_name = _("IKE Policies")
table_actions = (AddIKEPolicyLink, DeleteIKEPolicyLink)
row_actions = (UpdateIKEPolicyLink, DeleteIKEPolicyLink)
class IPSecPoliciesTable(tables.DataTable):
id = tables.Column('id', verbose_name=_('Id'), hidden=True)
name = tables.Column("name", verbose_name=_('Name'),
link="horizon:project:vpn:ipsecpolicydetails")
auth_algorithm = tables.Column('auth_algorithm',
verbose_name=_('Authorization algorithm'))
encryption_algorithm = tables.Column(
'encryption_algorithm',
verbose_name=_('Encryption algorithm'))
pfs = tables.Column("pfs", verbose_name=_('PFS'))
class Meta:
name = "ipsecpoliciestable"
verbose_name = _("IPSec Policies")
table_actions = (AddIPSecPolicyLink, DeleteIPSecPolicyLink,)
row_actions = (UpdateIPSecPolicyLink, DeleteIPSecPolicyLink)
| ipsecsiteconnection",)
class DeleteVPNServiceLink(tables.DeleteAction):
name = "deletevpnservice"
action_present = _("Delete")
action_past = _("Scheduled deletion of %(data_type)s")
data_type_singular = _("VPN Service")
data_type_plural = _("VPN Services")
def allowed(self, request, datum=None):
if datum and datum.ipsecsiteconns:
return False
return True
class DeleteIKEPolicyLink(tables.DeleteAction):
name = "deleteikepolicy"
action_present = _("Delete")
action_past = _("Scheduled deletion of %(data_type)s")
data_type_singular = _("IKE Policy")
data_type_plural = _("IKE Policies")
def allowed(self, request, datum=None):
if datum and datum.ipsecsiteconns:
return False
return True
class DeleteIPSecPolicyLink(tables.DeleteAction):
name = "deleteipsecpolicy"
action_present = _("Delete")
action_past = _("Scheduled deletion of %(data_type)s")
data_type_singular = _("IPSec Policy")
data_type_plural = _("IPSec Policies")
def allowed(self, request, datum=None):
if datum and datum.ipsecsiteconns:
return False
return True
class DeleteIPSecSiteConnectionLink(tables.DeleteAction):
name = "deleteipsecsiteconnection"
action_present = _("Delete")
action_past = _("Scheduled deletion of %(data_type)s")
data_type_singular = _("IPSec Site Connection")
data_type_plural = _("IPSec Site Connections")
class UpdateVPNServiceLink(tables.LinkAction):
name = "update_vpnservice"
verbose_name = _("Edit VPN Service")
classes = ("ajax-modal", "btn-update",)
def get_link_url(self, vpnservice):
return reverse("horizon:project:vpn:update_vpnservice",
kwargs={'vpnservice_id': vpnservice.id})
def allowed(self, request, datum=None):
if datum and datum.status not in forbid_updates:
return True
return False
class UpdateIKEPolicyLink(tables.LinkAction):
name = "updateikepolicy"
verbose_name = _("Edit IKE Policy")
classes = ("ajax-modal", "btn-update",)
def get_link_url(self, ikepolicy):
return reverse("horizon:project:vpn:update_ikepolicy",
kwargs={'ikepolicy_id': ikepolicy.id})
def allowed(self, request, datum=None):
return not datum['ipsecsiteconns']
class UpdateIPSecPolicyLink(tables.LinkAction):
name = "updateipsecpolicy"
verbose_name = _("Edit IPSec Policy")
classes = ("ajax-modal", "btn-update",)
def get_link_url(self, ipsecpolicy):
return reverse("horizon:project:vpn:update_ipsecpolicy",
kwargs={'ipsecpolicy_id': ipsecpolicy.id})
def allowed(self, request, datum=None):
return not datum['ipsecsiteconns']
class UpdateIPSecSiteConnectionLink(tables.LinkAction):
name = "updateipsecsiteconnection"
verbose_name = _("Edit Connection")
classes = ("ajax-modal", "btn-update",)
def get_link_url(self, ipsecsiteconnection):
return reverse("horizon:project:vpn:update_ipsecsiteconnection",
kwargs={'ipsecsiteconnection_id': ipsecsiteconnection.id})
def allowed(self, request, datum=None):
if datum and datum.status not in forbid_updates:
return True
return False
class IPSecSiteConnectionsTable(tables.DataTable):
STATUS_CHOICES = (
("Active", True),
("Down", True),
("Error", | 786 |
The Young Leaders Farm Bureau State Conference was January 25 in East Pe<|fim_middle|> Plus it's good to see what's going on in the Farm Bureau around the stateand what they are doing for the whole Ag community. | oria, Illinois. At this conference, people from all over the state come to learn about different topics in the Ag industry it also provides an opportunity to see people from college and high school. Attendees from Logan County were:Sam Opperman, Blair Bruns, Kevin Tobias, Brent Gieseke, and myself.
First thing in the morning they have a speaker to start off the day, then several breakout sessions to choose from throughout the day. Ending the day with another speaker. This year, several of the breakout sessions were involved with the Ag business side of things.
One of the breakout sessions I went to was about grain marketing. Farming has a lot of risks that occur from year to year. Several of those risks involves finances that effect the bottom line. Spreading out the risks of when you sell is always a plus. Luckily, nowadays there are online resources and phone apps to help out with these decisions.
Soil health and cover crops was another session I went to. A lot of this has a long term effects of the soil and potential for crops. That, and being a farmer is also being a steward of the land.
Family farming and its challenges was one of the breakouts that I enjoyed. Not every family farming situation goes smooth, some can be a real challenge. With it being a business as well as a family heritage it can be complex. Sometimes emotions can override common sense. Which made me even more thankful to be in the spot that I'm in.
This conference is always good to go to. It usually has a variety of different Ag related topics to learn some insight on. | 324 |
FA Cup giant-killers Worcester City have sold<|fim_middle|> atmosphere should be brilliant."
He added: "It's not just the players who enjoy playing on these big stages. It's pretty special for the management too. And the supporters. This cup run is as much for them as it is for the players.
"Worcester City have a capacity to bring in big crowds. I've been lucky enough to experience it in my playing career, so it doesn't surprise me what is happening now." | out their full allocation for the second round trip to League Two side Scunthorpe United on Sunday week.
City fans were limited to 2,200 for the all-ticket game at the 9,088-capacity Glanford Park, but they have been snapped up inside a week.
The Conference North club were roared on by 3,220 travelling fans when they won 2-1 at Coventry in the first round.
But the Ricoh Arena's capacity is over three times larger than Glanford Park.
Worcester are up to 10th in Conference North following Saturday's 3-0 win at Harrogate, which extended their unbeaten run in league and cups to 11 matches. Before they face Scunthorpe in the FA Cup, they are at home to Barrow in the third qualifying round of the FA Trophy on Saturday, followed by a league trip to Hyde two days later on 1 December.
"Given the support we had at Coventry, I'm not surprised we've sold out our allocation," City boss Carl Heeley told BBC Sport. "The fans were incredible that day. They gave us such a tremendous lift.
"But what does surprise me is just how quickly we've sold out for the Scunthorpe game. It's a smaller, more compact ground and the | 279 |
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Segments of Virgil Cantini's mosaic is seen along the walls of a pedestrian tunnel Downtown on Sept. 13, 2018.
An<|fim_middle|> day and sits at eye level along walls of white marble. Light glinting off glass in the mosaic gives the impression of city lights. | Ohio art conservator this week successfully removed one piece of an historic abstract mosaic from the wall of a Downtown pedestrian tunnel scheduled for demolition, and city officials are hopeful the remaining 27 pieces can be preserved.
McKay Lodge Fine Arts Conservation Laboratory Inc. of Oberlin, Ohio, on Monday removed one of the panels created in 1964 by late Pittsburgh artist Virgil Cantini with little difficulty, according to Ray Gastil, who heads the city Planning Department. City Council previously authorized McKay Lodge to conduct the test for $8,857.
Gastil said McKay Lodge chiseled around the piece to get it out and crated it for storage. The company will prepare a feasibility report for removal of the remaining mosaic. Officials plan to preserve the entire work and find another city location for its display.
"I'm thrilled that they got the panel out without it being broken," said Cantini's daughter, Lisa Cantini-Seguin.
The Urban Redevelopment Authority in the early 1960s commissioned Cantini to create the mosaic for the 60-foot tunnel linking Chatham Street and Seventh Avenue as part of the redevelopment of the Lower Hill District, which included the building of the Civic Arena and Crosstown Expressway.
Officials are planning to demolish the tunnel as part of a $26.4 million cap and three-acre park over the expressway with construction expected start late this year. The city originally planned to save only several pieces of the mosaic until preservationists stepped in and lobbied for preservation.
Because the cap is being built through a $19 million federal highway grant, Pittsburgh was required to conduct a historic review of the area. In January, state officials classified the Cantini mosaic as an "historic resource," which requires the city to attempt to remove it intact.
Cantini, who died in 2009, was a prolific artist and his works are displayed in locations across the city. The mosaic is made of glass and imported Italian tile set in concrete panels. It represents a bird's eye view of the city at night and in the | 426 |
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Celine Dion Is Still so Much "in Love" with Her Late Husband That She Doesn't Think About Getting Married Again or Dating
She says that she is already in love and is not looking for it outside. She continues to see him through the eyes of her children.
By Ankita Mishra
Some love stories are so real that they start seeming unreal in this era of shallow romances. This real love not only empowers you into becoming a better person but also makes the bond with your partner so strong that even death can't break it.
Iconic singer Celine Dion has lived a similar story, in fact, she is living it! She met the love of her life very early on in her life. 12-year-old Dion met 38-year-old Canadian music producer René Angélil during an audition and what followed next was a journey of decades, together in love. While their love was not conventional, it proved to be stronger than many Hollywood relationships.
She loved, fought, won and lost in her glorious life but never did she ever lose faith in her relationship and her love. In a recent interview with Andy Cohen, she quashed all rumors and proved that just how much she is in love with her late husband to date.
On being asked if she is dating or plans to get remarried, she said, "I do not date, I do not have a boyfriend. If I do find someone, great. If I don't, great. Because I'm still in love, once you are in love so much... I have lived all my life with René, he is still within me. I see him through the eyes of my children every day. I'm so passionate about life. I'm so lucky to have my three beautiful children."
Now, this may sound unreal but if you knew what went behind making their love story one of the most painfully beautiful ones, you have to dive into her life that was filled with challenges and of course, divine love.
Angélil believed in Dion's talent from the very first time he heard her. So much so, that he had even mortgaged his property to finance her album and took the teen and her mother on tour in Canada, Japan, and Europe, reports Good HouseKeeping.
She<|fim_middle|> finally exchanged vows in December 1994. Thereon, Dion's career started soaring high and there was no looking back for her. Life, however, had many tests destined for the Oscar-winner. In the midst of a healthy personal life and successful career, a piece of harrowing news shook their world. Angélil was diagnosed with throat cancer. At this time, Dion took a decision that only a devoted wife could take.
She took a back step from her demanding career and spent her days by her husband's side, taking care of him. She did admit that they have gone through some tough times in their relationship but never had she ever thought of abandoning her husband, such was her devotion.
"We had tension between us. It's never easy being husband and wife but add to that we are in business together, dealing with all the added pressures of shows, concerts, tours, traveling. It was hard – a lot of hard work."
After a battle of two years, Angélil was declared cancer-free in 2000. The My heart will go on hitmaker went back to performing in 2002 and welcomed their first child Rene Charles in 2005. Life seemed to have given all its bounties to the couple for enduring through the hardships. They were happier than ever and stronger than ever.
In October 2010, the couple welcomed their twin sons Eddy and Nelson. Darkness clouded their lives once again when Angélil's cancer returned in 2013 and went on to become the final battle that they fought together as a couple. Dion put her career on hold again and went back to spending time with her husband and family.
Angélil lost his battle to cancer in 2016 leaving behind Dion and his three children with her and three adult children from his previous relationship. Since Angélil's passing, there have been many rumors about Dion planning to get remarried and dating one of her friends.
She had once said something only someone with unbreakable conviction could say, she said that they have to work on their relationship every day because they know that they want to make it last forever. And this advice of hers can prove to be an elixir for many many of us. "It's lessons that every married couple should know to hold their relationship together... We laugh. We joke. We kid each other. We want our marriage to last forever. Talk over everything and you'll find you are still on the honeymoon."
It would not be wrong to submit, that the 51-year-old singer has achieved everything in life that people dream about. And she could do it because she believed in herself and the power of love throughout her life.
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© 2019 Creative Expansions, Inc. All Rights Reserved. | started dating him after turning 19. Initially, they kept their romance a secret, fearing public judgments but when you are in love you do not want to hide it. "When you're in love, you want to scream it to the world," she said.
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Film review: Into the woods
A new twist on the Cinderella story
Friday, 9th January 2015, 8:00 am
Into The Woods: Meryl Streep
Traditionally in fairytales, the bedraggled heroine wins her dashing prince, evil stepmothers get their comeuppance and abducted children escape the clutches of a witch by pushing the treacherous hag into her oven.
Nothing epitomises Happily Ever After like the heady aroma of roasting human flesh.
Into The Woods keeps turning the pages on these archetypal characters, imagining what might happen as they come to terms with their actions and – in most cases – suffer the repercussions.
Light comedy and heartrending tragedy skip hand in hand in James Lapine's screenplay and Stephen Sondheim's music and lyrics, which are ambrosia for director Rob Marshall, who propelled the 2002 film version of Chicago to Oscar glory.
This has nearly as much razzle dazzle, including gorgeous costumes, picturesque sets and digitally enhanced magical effects.
Thankfully, Marshall tones down the swirling camerawork and snappy editing here, adopting a gentler rhythm, which is less exhausting on our eyes over two hours.
The Baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) yearn for a child but cannot conceive.
The Witch (Meryl Streep) next door promises the couple a family if they bring her four objects before the blue moon: a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as blood, hair as yellow as corn, and a slipper as pure as gold.
The Baker and his wife head into the woods with six magic beans and encounter 12-year-old Jack (Daniel Huttlestone), who is off to market to sell his cow Milky White, Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), who is fleeing from a ball thrown by a charming Prince (Chris Pine), Little Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford), who intends to visit her Granny (Annette Crosbie) but would make a tasty snack for the lascivious Wolf (Johnny Depp), and Rapunzel (Mackenzie Mauzy), who is consigned to a tower which can only be accessed by lowering her flaxen hair to a smitten lover (Billy Magnusson).
As the fated hour approaches, the childless couple resorts to desperate measures to collect the objects for the Witch.
Into The Woods establishes its mood with a dazzling overture, I Wish, elegantly introducing the characters before their fates intersect.
Streep is typically spellbinding. Her voice soars and our hearts break in her solo to motherhood, Stay With Me.
Corden and Blunt add to the film's emotional heft, while Pine and Magnusson are hysterical as regal<|fim_middle|> Billy Magnussen, Daniel Huttlestone, Lilla Crawford, Tracey Ullman, Frances de la Tour, Annette Crosbie. Director: Rob Marshall.
Released: January 9 (UK & Ireland)
Star rating: 7/10
(PG, 125 mins) Musical/Comedy/Drama/Romance
11th hour alibi given at trial saves Preston man from raid conviction | brothers in their chest-beating, thigh-slapping duet Agony, atop a cascading waterfall.
With such a large cast to juggle, the script occasionally feels disjointed and some gear changes from broad pantomime to heartbreaking grief are jarring.
But Marshall doesn't shy away from delivering bitter pills in the final act courtesy of a marauding giant (Frances de la Tour).
Everything has a price, especially your heart's desire, so be careful what you wish for.
Meryl Streep, James Corden, Emily Blunt, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp, Anna Kendrick, Mackenzie Mauzy, | 128 |
living the life of Grace, adding new strength and vitality to their Christianity.The purpose of the Via De Cristo is to develop in Christians a consciousness of their Power and Mission to become leaders in Christian renewal, and the desire to continue to live the life of<|fim_middle|> be 16-20 years old. They should be active in their church and have publicly confessed Jesus Christ as their Lord. Applications and fees must be received no less than two weeks prior to the weekend to be considered. | Grace, personally and together with their brothers and sisters in Christ.
Faith Quest is a non-denominational youth retreat held at Epworth Forest in N. Webster and is sponsored by the Brethren Church. The mission of Faith Quest is to guide mature Christian youth into a better understanding and deeper commitment to Jesus Christ to serve the world and Christian community through the example set by Jesus Christ. Teens should | 80 |
The industrial biotechnology sector is ever-growing and that couldn't be more apparent when networking at the welcome reception of the 12th annual BIO World Congress. Last week I was on tour with the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre in Montreal for one of the key global conferences on biotechnology.
There were people from all walks of life who had gathered together to celebrate the development of the biotechnology<|fim_middle|> Some get through this stage easier than others, take for example the Internet of Things, which has become commonplace to describe connected machines, winning out over machine-to-machine which was more commonly used in the early stages of the industry. However, other practices soon became aligned with a negative – Genetic Modification (GM) for one. This practice is at the heart of much of our agricultural and industrial practice in the modern world, but due to the lack of careful handling at the beginning, the phrase GM has been attached to a negative, unnatural and harmful connotation.
So how do we ensure that messaging is right for the industry as a whole?
The world is becoming a smaller place – we are all connected and technology is making that connection ever more prevalent. This also means there is a wider scope to collaborate and move the industry forward together. By exchanging knowledge, data, and best practice, the global economy can benefit, growing the market in all countries involved.
While issues of IP can mean that companies are resistant to share their innovations, we need to share successes as often as possible. This helps to raise the profile of the sector with political figures, investors, other researchers and innovators as well as the general public.
It also helps with both of the points above – success stories create a positive image of the industry and encourage others to work on similar areas to solve the spectrum of issues and challenges.
With the development of technology, we are seeing many new innovations in the marketplace and new sectors emerging. While it takes more than what is listed above, these are steps in the right direction. We are looking forward to seeing the industrial biotechnology market grow and what other sectors may develop in the coming years.
For more information on industrial biotechnology, visit www.ibioic.com.
For any questions or inquiries about the blog or our communications work, please contact me at bryony@proofcommunication.com. | industry and form global collaborations for business. There was a real energy in the room and the idea of international partnerships resonated from most conversations, showing how our Scottish delegation would really benefit from the trip.
Many of the sessions were based on best practice and real-life use cases, but given the number of thought leaders in the room, there were some clear messages for the industry.
As any industry develops there is the need to define practices and terms for processes and innovation. | 93 |
I had a fun time making my own Bluetooth Speaker out of reclaimed wood for the box. This project took roughly an hour and a half and cost about $45.00 to make.
There is an old saying, "wise as an owl". People are always saying that, but the truth is, owls were not always wise.
Listed, in no specific order, are five different groups of musical instruments.
Model train layouts come in a vast array of sizes, shapes, and length; it all depends on the size of room you plan on putting this miniature land in (and even then, who says you can't make tunnels through your walls at home... maybe mom...). My first layout (mind you I was only 8 years old) was a very simple circle. Later, I graduated to experimenting with a figure eight layout. What's wonderful about creating your own layout is that you really have unlimited options of items that you can add. For example; are you going to have your layout take place during the fall or summer? Will it be a coal freighter rolling through the country side or a passenger train traveling to its final destination in the city? The choice is completely up to you on how you want your layout look.
Sound as a warning that personnel will prepare to assemble for a formation.
Signals the troops to awaken for morning roll call. Used to accompany the raising of the National Colors.
Signals troops to assemble at a designated place.
Sound as a warning to turn out for drill.
Signals all officers to assemble at a designated place.
Signals duties or drills to cease.
Signals the end of the official day.
To the Color is a bugle call to render honors to the nation. It is used when no band is available to render honors, or in ceremonies requiring honors to the nation more than once. To the Color commands all the same courtesies as the National Anthem.
Signals all personnel not authorized to be absent to their quarters for the night.
Signals that unauthorized lights are to be extinguished. This is the last call of the day. The call is also sounded at the completion of a military funeral ceremony.
Today marks the 109th anniversary of the first organized scout camp. On August 1st, 1907, Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell gathered 20 boys from all different social backgrounds and tested his ideas for the book Scouting for Boys at Brownsea Island, England. The activities were centered around camping, observation, woodcraft, chivalry, lifesaving, and patriotism. The boys were arranged into the following patrols; Wolves, Ravens, Bulls, and Curlews. As this was the first Boy Scout event, the boys did not have uniforms. Instead, they wore khaki scarves and were presented with bras fleur-de-lis badges. Marking the beginning of the use of the scout emblem. The boys also wore a coloured knot on their shoulder indicating their patrol: Green (Bulls), Blue (Wolves), Yellow (Curlews), and Red (Ravens). The patrol leader carried a staff with a flag depicting the patrol's animal. After passing tests on knots, tracking, and the national flag, they were given another brass badge, the scroll with the words Be Prepared, to wear below the fleur-de-lis.
This location has since been a place of camping for scouts. In 1963, a formal 50-acre Scout campsite was open and in 1973, a Scout Jamboree was held with 600 scouts in attendance.
In planning our meals for camp, the scouts will request menu items that are usually not prepared at home due to most of the meals being cooked in dutch ovens. One of their absolute favorites is one called Mountain Man Breakfast. This delicious creation involves a pound of sausage, two pounds bacon, hash-browns, cheese, and 4 dozen eggs all in one dutch oven... it's no wonder the scouts always request it. The only problem is that after you eat this amazing meal, you tend to want to go back to your tent and hibernate until next spring.
When planning you meals for camp, you want to plan nutrient/energy packed meals. My opinion, Mountain Man Breakfast is not the best meal when planning on an activity/hike in the morning. First, it takes a very long time for this meal to cook as you need to have some hot coals/briquettes for the dutch oven. Second, it is extremely packed with so much starch, grease and fat that it will physically slow you down rather than give you the energy that is needed. Through experience, the best breakfast I have had while camping is granola with almond milk poured over and fresh banana's sliced into it. It's not extremely full of fat, but sticks with you until lunch and gives you the energy needed during your hike.
I am not saying to never make Mountain Man Breakfast... because it truly is a delicious breakfast. But, while working on the Cooking Merit Badge, plan your meals accordingly to the activities you have planned. If backpacking through the Uintas, do not plan any meals that involves a dutch oven (very heavy to pack in and out). And, if cooking for twenty scouts at your week-long scout camp, you probably do not want to use your backpacking stove to cook your group meals on. Use the right tool for the right job and always be prepared.
There are a ton of different brands, colors, materials, and varieties of paddles for canoeing... but<|fim_middle|> do not know where your going unless you know where you have been. This is very true when it comes to genealogy. You do not fully know who you are until you know who you came from. For some it might be knowing why and how your family is really good at making raspberry jam. For me, it's understanding why there is a love of working with your hands and gardening. Usually we tend to like and do the same things that our parents like and do... and where did they start? Traditions in my mind define our families. In a good way our traditions separate us from others (how boring would it be if everyone was good at everything) and make us unique in this big melting pot of a world.
Imagine crossing a swampy area in your canoe and you hear the distance rib-it rib-its. Do you know if it is a frog or a toad?... The hint is in the area where you hear the croaking. Since you are in a swampy area, the chances are extremely high that you just heard a frog. Even though frogs and toads are of the same animal group they are very different animals. Below are some ways to identify between a frog and a toad.
Not many predators. Their skin lets out a bitter taste and smell that burns the eyes and nostrils of its predators.
Awesome Critter Video posted on YouTube by NatureNorth of the 7 week hatching and growth cycle of a frog. | , they all have five things in common. The following is a list of the parts of a canoe paddle.
Here are a few tips from an old Scoutmaster that I have found to be beneficial while using a canoe paddle.
Make sure to never shove off, or store the paddle by the tip. In wood paddles, this usually results in the splintering of the paddle as it creates small little cracks that the water can enter the paddle, swell up the wood, and eventually crack the paddle as it dries out from your last adventure.
When paddling, have one hand covering the grip from the top and the other hand on the shaft. Doing so will result in the best leverage and increase your speed and control.
Place the blade fully in the water, up to the throat, when the water is deep enough. This will result in a longer draw and causing fewer strokes to conserve energy.
Do not paddle with your hand near the throat. This usually ends up with your hand or fingers finding out how hard and painful the sides of the canoe can be.
One of the ways to be a good citizen is to know your surroundings in your neighborhood or city. If you, or someone you know has an emergency and needs to rush to the hospital... do you know where it is? With requirement 2 of the Citizenship in the Community merit badge, you have the opportunity to map out your community. The tool I have found to work best for this project is Google Maps. Using your google account, and going to "My Maps" within the Google Maps platform, you are able to create, manipulate, and share your map with others. In my map I chose to focus on Provo, UT. What are some historical / interesting points of interest around your neighborhood?
. I have heard on a few occasions that you | 366 |
Icelandic lawmaker: Asylum for NSA leaker far from a sure thing
Birgitta Jónsdottír speaks in Berkeley along with famed Pentagon Papers leaker.
Cyrus Farivar - Jun 12, 2013 2:30 pm UTC
Daniel Ellsberg and Birgitta Jónsdottír spoke in Berkeley on Tuesday evening.
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BERKELEY, CA—On the final day of a nearly two-week tour of the United States, Icelandic Parliament member Birgitta Jónsdottír said that she wants to help National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden—but nobody knows where he is.
"We haven't heard anything from him—we've tried to contact him via the journalist [Glenn Greenwald,]" she said in an interview with Ars prior to a public panel discussion on Tuesday evening. "[We've said:] 'if you want further help, please be in touch and we'll do whatever we can to help you.'"
Jónsdottír is a member of the Althing, Iceland's 63-member unicameral parliament, though she wears a number of other professional hats. In addition to being a "poetician" and a spokesperson for WikiLeaks (she is involved in a WikiLeaks-related American court case), she's also the chairman of the International Modern Media Initiative (IMMI), an effort to turn the North Atlantic nation into a data and free speech haven by packaging together an all-star team of laws, regulations, and policies that would strengthen and enshrine data protection, freedom of speech, and other related values. Earlier this week, IMMI said publicly it was willing to support Snowden's stated desire to seek asylum in Iceland.
But Snowden has a long road ahead of him if he actually does want to make an official request to seek asylum. According to Jónsdottír, he would either have to fly to Iceland or make a formal request at the nearest Icelandic embassy, which would likely be in Beijing, as his last known location was in Hong Kong. Even then<|fim_middle|> a volunteer attorney in the case Hedges v. Obama, which seeks to halt a portion of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. In that case, the plaintiffs (including Jónsdottír and Ellsberg) argue that a portion of the law allows activists, journalists, and others to be detained indefinitely by the American military.
The panelists touched on a number of free speech and political issues—peppered with frequent jabs at President Barack Obama and Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA, and head of the Senate Intelligence Committee) along with cheers for Edward Snowden and Bradley Manning, currently on trial for distributing documents to WikiLeaks.
"Reassurances by high officials or by the president himself on the limits of the surveillance of this country—reassurances are worthless," Ellsberg added. "They carry no information whatever. Just as George W. Bush looked the country in the eye, through the television, and said we do not intercept any Americans without a warrant. That was a flat-out lie. When the president says everything that we're doing is constitutional and refers to interpretations of his own—you cannot repeal the Fourth Amendment by a president or by an act of Congress. The public should understand that the constitutionality has not been addressed."
The 82-year-old whistleblower also called the current system of NSA surveillance the "United Stasi of America"—referring to the East German secret police—and encouraged Berkeleyans to re-watch the 2006 German film "The Lives of Others."
"We are a turnkey away from a tyranny in this country," he added. "This is not a police state or we wouldn't be here in this meeting. But it could become a police state almost overnight. The notion of oversight has become a fraud, a hoax."
Act local, think global
Several times throughout the meeting, both the moderator and members of the audience wondered how they could make a difference, even locally.
Kayyali had the most salient point of the night, noting that local activists are the best positioned to lobby for changes to local policies and statutes. She said that thanks to the efforts of "five to six people," the city of Berkeley has become unique in changing how it shares information with so-called "fusion centers"—federally run nexuses of law enforcement data that receive information from local and state agencies.
"The way that this information is gathered right now [in fusion centers], it's a set of behaviors that are indicative of preoperative planning," she said. "The legal standards that we have are probable cause and reasonable suspicion of criminal behavior. The Coalition for a Safe Berkeley got the Berkeley Police Department to change the policy [of sharing such information with the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center] to reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. This is the only community in the country that has that standard."
Cyrus Farivar Cyrus is a Senior Tech Policy Reporter at Ars Technica, and is also a radio producer and author. His latest book, Habeas Data, about the legal cases over the last 50 years that have had an outsized impact on surveillance and privacy law in America, is out now from Melville House. He is based in Oakland, California.
Email cyrus.farivar@arstechnica.com // Twitter @cfarivar
71 Reader Comments
Delenda Est Carthago Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
I have the utmost respect for Iceland. They seem to be one of the very few states today that truly care about freedom and the dignity of not only their population but humanity in general.
Muon Ars Scholae Palatinae
Snowden picked the right corner of the world to disappear in -- lots of places in East Asia one can disappear in for months at a time. One of the Pirate Bay guys managed to evade the law for years in Cambodia for instance, and if the stories are accurate there are a number of US expats in Malaysia living on pocket change.
Iceland on the other hand denied asylum to Assange, which should have automatically taken it out of consideration. New Zealand is currently bending over backwards to please US law enforcement, and Ecuador is getting ready to kick Assange out of its embassy. Cuba, for its sheer proximity to the US and also hosting a naval base at Guantanamo Bay, is not a good choice either.
wolframium Ars Centurion
Muon wrote:
A big part of the difference might be that Snowden isn't wanted on sexual assault charges.
Boskone Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
I'm surprised Obama didn't realize that "Oh, don't worry, we won't use this on _you_." is one of the worst tacks to take in this instance. I mean, I think even "I didn't know about this program, and will order an investigation." probably would have been less damaging.
Anyone think we could swing a candidate for the Ars Brute Squad party? Run on the "Morally correct, not politically correct" platform. "We may troll and flame, but we won't drone or spy."
fitten Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
Maybe he could get a job with CCP
46734 posts | registered Jan 22, 2003
BoogerGooberBoober Ars Centurion
Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:02 am
Delenda Est Carthago wrote:
Thinking the same thing. That, the surprisingly nice climate and the impossibly beautiful landscape make me wonder why I'm not there already.
Scallywag Ars Scholae Palatinae
Not yet. Just wait, I'm sure a woman (i.e., a NSA employee) will come forward at some point saying she was assaulted by Snowden or accusing him of being a kid diddler.
wolframium wrote:
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Z1ggy Ars Legatus Legionis
while i sorta support what he did, i have a question. This man did break some laws(leaking classified documents is a crime, right or wrong its still a crime). then he runs and hides after he makes it known who he was. If he really wanted to change what is going on why doesnt he come back and actually face the charges?
The story is well known now, i dont think he will just 'disappear' if he came back to face the charges.
I mean the only way to change the laws is to challenge them isnt it? If he didnt believe that why would he bother leaking the info?
EDIT: knew those downvotes were coming. God forbid someone have a question.
12831 posts | registered Jun 5, 2009
hokiemac Seniorius Lurkius
I voted you up and yes, I agree with you that the key to civil disobedience is facing the charges and showing how unjust they are. Gandhi did that in India (he didn't exile himself elsewhere, as others in the Indian independence movement did). Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. Nelson Mandela did that in South Africa, and spent decades in jail, which ruined his eyes and his lungs forever.
Daniel Ellsberg says he was ready to face 115 years in jail because he believed in the rightness of what he did.
48 posts | registered Apr 11, 2012
Booger84 Smack-Fu Master, in training
A consequence of civil disobedience is potential jail or prison time. Snowden realized it, and Martin Luther King Jr. served it. What's apparent is that Ars readers cannot decouple morality from legality when it comes to internetarian values. If Snowden were a hero, he'd be ready to accept the punishment--a good martyr always helps the cause. He's neither hero nor traitor, and there is a lot more gray than people in either of the absolutist camps are prepared to admit.
Why, because most of the general public would actually give a shit? This week be forgotten in a month just like Swartz' death, there is no real disincentive to keep a three-letter agency from disappearing him.
YourOldBuddy Ars Scholae Palatinae
SIC...
Iceland on the other hand denied asylum to Assange, which should have automatically taken it out of consideration....
ngativ Ars Scholae Palatinae
I don't think that a lot of governments are going to feel comfortable with this guy. He should go to Iran or N Korea
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DNick Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
Here's the thing: what can one person do against the NSA? Even Rand Paul said that if you try to oppose them you go to jail - he can't legally release any classified data without risking prison, and without leaking the data, he can't raise the issue effectively because, if you didn't know what was going on, why would it concern you?
I understand that it's a crime and in some circumstances agree that it should be prosecuted as such. The way I view Snowden is that he came upon information that alarmed him about the unconsitutional activities of the US government. He had absolutely no way to effectively raise the issue, other than to do what he did. It's almost like someone who breaks every traffic law rushing an injured friend to the hospital - yes, it's illegal, but there's no other choice one can make in good conscience.
Edit: I don't really think he ran and hid. He's actively giving interviews etc and I'm sure the HK government can locate him easily if they choose to. If his goal was to run and hide, no one would know where he is, and you wouldn't be reading interviews in today's HK newspaper.
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2241 posts | registered Aug 4, 2009
BoogerGooberBoober wrote:
thats a bit different from whats going on now. didnt Swartz committ suicide?
skicow Ars Praefectus
Booger84 wrote:
I don't think he's a hero (or a traitor) -- he's a whistleblower. He released info about what actions the .gov is doing, but not any information that was gathered via those actions. Therefore he is different than Manning in what he has revealed -- IMO info Snowden released does not have the possibility to endanger anyone -- which Manning's info may or may not have done.
VagabondTom Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Well then just let me ask you back. Is giving up a good job, a beautiful girlfriend and entering a whole life on the run from now on, not enough "bravery" for you yet?! Or to put it differently: What have you done?!
Think about it before you ask even more of him!
(And no I did not down vote you)
130 posts | registered Nov 27, 2009
C Boy Ars Scholae Palatinae
Jail just makes the person into a matyr.
There are plenty of examples of whistle blowers that never came forth and served jail time (eg Mark Felt aka "Deep Throat").
Look at it this way: At least he did something about it. How many people does the NSA employ that were privy to this information that did nothing about it? Maybe he was hoping to instill outrage in American citizens so they would rise up and demand change from their elected representatives? I would have hoped it would have, but going by the latest Pew poll where ~45% of citizens are fine with this I'm not sure the U.S.A. even wants to be the land of the free anymore.
Nova Eclipse Ars Centurion
Yep, thanks to the ADD our newsmedia has. As soon as the story isn't hot anymore, they will move on, and he will be forgotten. He's already mentioned he's seen other things that he hasn't disclosed because it would put other people in harm's way, so the government isn't likely to give him any sort of fair shake no matter whether he goes or stays. I think he's running because he wants to stay alive, not because he doesn't want to effect change. All his actions point to someone who is fearful of his own life and the lives of his loved ones being taken. Don't know if he'll be able to find asylum anywhere, but that shouldn't stop him from trying.
286 posts | registered Aug 24, 2012
VagabondTom wrote:
No its not. because you can lose all those things by killing someone and fleeing the country.(not to mention that girlfriend seems like a wacko to me). Ive done nothing, but i dont have access to the kind of information he did. I would like to think that if i committed a crime knowingly because i thought it was wrong i would stay and see what i could do about that specific law. and how much money is he making from the continuing interviews? enough to live comfortably somewhere else? Or did he keep money hidden because he planned on doing this for how long?
You certainly got your downvote from me now! Stay classy?!
What is your problem with Snowden? Did he punch your cat in the face? What he did was a great service to the American public -- why are you deriding him over what he hasn't done?
I think this is what the NSA is truly afraid of. In the 80's Americans revealed state secrets to the Soviets for money.
Now Americans reveal state secrets on the Internet for reasons the NSA has trouble understanding. The usual response of defaming and destroying the reputation of the whistleblower is not working as in the past. This will force the NSA to use alternative methods.
voline Ars Praetorian
Neither is Assange. He is wanted for questioning by Swedish authorities. But don't let that stop you ...
skicow wrote:
quotes are getting too big.
I have no problem with the man. Im just curious.
Its easier to run than to stay and face charges. Its also easier to keep quiet than to blow the whistle.
He blew the whistle(the harder of the two). Im just curious why hes taking the easier way out on the other one.
The bit about murdering was just to show how either act can cause the same results(running away and losing access to everything)
prndl Smack-Fu Master, in training
He identified himself and documented his case. He did a valuable thing. There is nothing wrong with trying to stay out of the clutches of those he exposed.
Is it immoral to go into witness protection after helping to bring down a criminal?
Grimmjowww Seniorius Lurkius
hokiemac wrote:
Only Gandhi, Mandela or MLK are allowed to say that. Not you, definitely not you or any of us. Look at yourself first.
lXilEl Ars Scholae Palatinae
True, but that could change very easily and it doesn't even have to be true.
1079 posts | registered Mar 3, 2012
You mean something along the lines of either an "accident" or "Oh, look, he's escaping"? And, sadly, you're most likely right on both counts. For the doubters I'm pretty sure a few weeks ago you doubted your government would spy on you warrentlessly, or abuse the IRS to punish political dissenters, or the myriad of other evils coming to light.
WXW Ars Scholae Palatinae
If he really wanted to change what is going on why doesnt he come back and actually face the charges?
I mean the only way to change the laws is to challenge them isnt it?
How would facing the charges change anything here? The problem is that the government was spying on their citizens without them knowing about it, so the way to change that is telling everybody what's going on.
I think you are mixing things here. There are so many ways to change laws, but even if we assume that the only way is challenging them, as far as I know he wasn't protesting against the imprisonment of people for publishing government secrets; actually, he wasn't even protesting against any law, was he?
Grimmjowww wrote:
Agreed. Lets see how eager you'd be to risk the near certainty of spending the rest of your life (barring execution for treason) in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for doing what is right. Kudos to the guy for speaking up and I wish it didn't have to ruin his life to do so.
Because he doesn't want to go to jail, I guess!
eda104 Seniorius Lurkius
Apparently someone hasnt been paying attention. Warrantless wiretapping is quite old, and in February SCOTUS decided that the ACLU did not have standing to present the case to them. In other words it was done ages ago and it is still being done.
IRS punish political dissenters? How by reviewing all the applications for a non profit status and a non political status by entities that are clearly political? You may have missed this in the rabble rousing but they also reviewed political groups with the words Progressive in them. In fact the only they are truly guilty of is DOING THEIR JOB.
As for the rest of the silliness about how they could make it look like an accident, that all plays into a rather sad bit of paranoia that is delusional at best. It is in their best interest to keep him alive. If he were to die, it would add more fuel to the fire.
The idiot is probably in Chinese custody now.
WXW wrote:
well isnt that the problem. the laws as they are now say its ok for the government to do this. He doesnt think its right, so he grabs what he can and goes to hong kong and then has these interviews. He knows that he is breaking the law and doesnt want to face the consequences of breaking that law. Breaking a law to show that another law isnt right is still breaking a law, if he wants to change law A(the gathering of information) shouldnt he say that he broke law B(leaking confidential documents) and face those consequences? Unfortunately there really is no other way for him to try to change law A without breaking law B and that sucks(or maybe there was i dont know).
hes effectivly saying the government shouldnt get to break law A(which is what he is saying) all while breaking law B. he wants the government to face the consequences while running from his own.
You dont tell a kid not to lie by lying to someone.
Yeah, you'd have to ask the man himself for an answer to that question. Honestly I would like to think, if I was in his shoes, I would have exposed PRISM and stayed to fight the good fight, but you never know what you're going to do unless you actually are facing the consequences. Maybe he thought he was protecting his loved ones by doing it this way? It sounds like his girlfriend and family had no idea what he was planning...maybe he didn't either until he actually decided to do it.
Oh I see. Can you me why, of all the assorted low level, non violent sex offenders wanted in Sweden, only one is being internationally hunted to the extent that he can't even set foot outside an embassy that's not even on Swedish soil? Just everyday law enforcement I guess.
Sobels Ars Praetorian
That entire argument is an ad hominem fallacy. The validity of an argument is not impacted whatsoever by the arguer's qualities.
if he wants to change law A(the gathering of information) shouldnt he say that he broke law B(leaking confidential documents) and face those consequences?
Nope... seriously, I really fail to see why is it needed to "face the consequences" for a law to change.
But anyway, aren't these government actions supposed to be against the American Consitution, and hence the law? | , though, it's not a sure thing.
"Immigration is not really great in Iceland," Jónsdottír noted, adding that she would raise it with the parliamentary foreign affairs committee when it convenes on Friday. "We are known for being complete jackasses. We just shipped off 30 people from Croatia that applied for asylum—all these people want to work. In my opinion, I don't see a huge difference for granting political asylum or economic asylum—it's just a slower and more painful death."
"If I was his legal counsel I would urge him to look at many countries, not just Iceland," she added. "Maybe New Zealand, Ecuador, Cuba—many countries."
Still, the Icelandic parliament does have the power to bestow citizenship on applicants by a simple majority vote—most famously this happened with chess champion Bobby Fischer in 2005. Fischer, a native-born American, had run afoul of sanctions laws when he played a match in then-Yugoslavia in 1992. Once he became an Icelander, Fischer flew from Japan, where he had been held in prison, directly to Denmark and on to Iceland. (He lived in Iceland until his death in 2008.)
"Reassurances are worthless"
On Tuesday evening, Jónsdottír joined three other local Bay Area activists for a spirited panel discussion held at St. John's Presbyterian Church in Berkeley, just a half-mile south of the University of California, Berkeley campus. The talk, which was entitled "Our Vanishing Civil Liberties," was organized by a number of local progressive and liberal political groups, including the Berkeley chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Alameda County Against Drones (ACAD), the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, and others. The event also served as a fundraiser for the Bradley Manning Support Network—attendees were asked to make a $10 donation at the door.
The Icelandic lawmaker was joined on stage by one of the most high-profile leakers, Daniel Ellsberg, who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers and faced a potential sentence of 115 years in prison for doing so. (A federal judge eventually dismissed all the charges against him in 1973.)
Specifically, Ellsberg addressed what he would have told Snowden if the younger leaker had come to the elder for advice.
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The two headliners were also joined by Norman Solomon, a Bay Area anti-war activist, and Nadia Kayyali, a legal fellow, attorney with Bill of Rights Defense Committee, and executive vice president at the National Lawyers Guild.
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Jonathan Clements | August 11, 2018
WE HAVE FINALLY hit rock-bottom. Last week, Fidelity Investments announced that it was introducing two index funds with zero annual expenses, while also slashing expenses on its other index funds and dropping the required minimum investment on all funds, both actively managed and indexed. All of this raises five key questions.
1. Why is Fidelity doing this? I view Fidelity's move as both bold and borne of desperation. When I started writing about mutual funds in the late 1980s, Fidelity's swagger bordered on nauseating, as it relentlessly pedaled a slew of star fund managers, notably Magellan's Peter Lynch.
But like almost everybody who plays the market-beating game, the odds eventually caught up with the Boston behemoth. Today, its reputation for minting winners is all but forgotten. The upshot: After decades of pooh-poohing index funds, Fidelity has clearly decided they're its best bet for getting new investor dollars in the door.
2. Is this a bait-and-switch? When Fidelity, iShares and Charles Schwab started slashing expenses on their broad market index funds to compete with Vanguard Group, I initially feared that they were looking to lure unsuspecting investors into their funds and then, once the funds were bloated with assets, they'd jack up the fees. It wouldn't be the first time this has happened. We've seen it before with both money-market funds and S&P 500-index funds.
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Instead, investors need to be leery of a subtler bait-and-switch. Fidelity's zero- and minimal-cost index funds are open-end mutual funds, not exchange-traded index funds. Why go that route? Fidelity wants folks to open accounts at Fidelity itself, rather than having an account at, say, Schwab and using that to buy a low-cost Fidelity ETF. Fidelity's hope is to build lifelong relationships with customers, who might start out with index funds that make no money for Fidelity, but end up owning Fidelity's pricier merchandise. My advice: If you have a fondness for your financial future, stick with the cheap stuff.
3. Is Fidelity's move significant? It isn't clear that paying nothing in fund expenses is a whole lot better than paying, say, 0.04%. There are other issues that are also of importance, like skill in replicating the underlying index, which index is tracked, and how much the fund makes from lending out the securities it owns and whether that money is credited to fund shareholders. Earlier this year, I looked at the performance of some major index funds in 2017. Tiny differences in annual expenses didn't necessarily show up in fund returns.
While Fidelity's lower expenses may not be significant, I think its scrapping of investment minimums is hugely important. Mutual funds are supposed to be the way for everyday Americans to tap into the financial markets, and yet lately the price of admission has become too steep for my taste. I think it's great that Fidelity has dropped its investment minimums. Schwab, too, has no required minimum—at least for its index funds—which I also find admirable.
We need to make it easy for folks to get started as investors. Cash-strapped families, who might be deterred by the $1,000-plus minimum required by so many fund companies, now have two great choices.
4. What does all this mean for Vanguard? I have all my investment money at Vanguard. I love that the firm operates its funds at cost and I trust the folks there to act in my best interest. But there's no doubt that Vanguard is in a bind. Fidelity, iShares and Schwab can only offer super-low-cost index funds because other parts of their business are subsidizing these funds.
Vanguard doesn't operate that way. It manages each fund at cost. If it were to mimic Fidelity and these other fund companies, it would be forced to subsidize its flagship index funds with its other funds. The fund complex would still be operated at cost, but not each fund—and that would be contrary to what investors expect of Vanguard. The price war among total market index funds is hardly an existential threat to Vanguard, but it does mean the firm may grow a tad slower.
5. Should you move your money to Fidelity? I'm not. In my taxable account at Vanguard, I have funds with large unrealized capital gains and selling would mean big tax bills.
But if I were starting out, I might well favor Fidelity or Schwab over Vanguard, especially if I had a modest sum to invest—and especially if I was investing retirement account money. If either firm jacked up expenses, it would be easy enough to move the money elsewhere, with no taxes owed, thanks to the tax deferral offered by retirement accounts.
As I see it, minimal-cost index funds are sort of like rewards credit cards. If you pay off your balance in full every month, you can collect your cash back and travel points, with those rewards effectively subsidized by folks who foolishly carry a balance. Similarly, Fidelity, Schwab and others are offering the chance to buy low-cost index funds that are effectively subsidized by other investors. If you can resist the temptation to buy the higher-cost merchandise these firms offer, you'll get your reward—and others will pay the price.
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His play in Miami actually indicates Tannehill might be able to follow up his amazing season. Tannehill had a passer rating of 92.7 or higher in three seasons with the Dolphins, and he had three seasons completing at least 64.2% of his passes. When Miami traded him to Tennessee in March, Tannehill joined a franchise that had gone 9-7 the previous three seasons.
He only got more comfortable with the Titans' offense as the season progressed. He had a 124.6 passer rating in December, when he threw 12 touchdowns and only two interceptions – best in the AFC.
Being with the Titans gives Tannehill a chance to replicate his success. Derrick Henry is back after leading the NFL in rushing behind an offensive line that returns four of five starters, and the right tackle is the only offensive starter who must be replaced.
And Henry is another player who faces the challenge of proving he didn't have just one great year with his 1,540 yards rushing.
The first-time Pro Bowl back carried 303 times, followed by another 83 carries in the playoffs for the kind of load that can take a toll. Henry spent his offseason training to become stronger and better, and he even found a steep hill in Dallas to test himself.
Henry has simple goals for his follow-up.
"Continue to try to elevate my game each time I step on the field …," Henry said. "That will always be my focus."
Perhaps an odd choice given that he lost his job with the Buccaneers. But the quarterback led the NFL with 5,109 yards passing last season for Tampa Bay. Now he's in New Orleans backing up Drew Brees, and the only way he can lead the league again in 2020 would be if Brees gets hurt and misses most of the season. On the plus side, that also should keep Winston from leading the league again in interceptions after having 30 last season.
Brees' backup in 2019, Teddy Bridgewater, won all five of his starts, so the personnel is on hand should Winston need to step in.
RAHEEM MOSTERT
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Mostert averaged 6.34 yards per carry in the playoffs, an increase from the 5.64 yards he averaged over 16 games during the regular season. But he's had only one 100-yard rushing game in his career to go with his NFC championship production.
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The safety made an impressive debut with Pittsburgh with a career-high five interceptions after Miami traded him away after Week 2 last season. The Dolphins used the No. 11 draft pick overall on Fitzpatrick out of Alabama, and he had two picks as a rookie.
ANTHONY HARRIS
The safety went without an interception through his first three seasons with Minnesota, but Harris did pick off three passes in 2018 before he had a career season with six interceptions in 2019. It helped that he started 14 games, the most of any season in his career. The Vikings bet merely a franchise tag that Harris can do that again.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)The Tennessee Titans are confident enough Ryan Tannehill can repeat the best season of his career, or close enough, that they gave him a four-year, $118 million contract.
The rest of the NFL needs to see Tannehill do it again to believe he really is the quarterback who led the league in passer rating.
Tannehill has heard he has his doubters.
"My process doesn't change," Tannehill said. "How I go about getting ready for a season, getting ready for a football game, how I work in practice and prepare, that process doesn't change. So, I'm doing everything I can to play the best football I can and whatever happens after that happens."
Tannehill has plenty of company among NFL players trying to prove a career season wasn't a one-hit wonder but a preview of coming attractions.
He posted a 117.5 passer rating, averaged 9.6 yards per pass and ranked third in the NFL by completing 70.3% of his passes. The Titans went 9-4 and reached their first AFC championship game in 17 years after Tannehill took over as the starter. He also was | 294 |
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As the House of Musical Arts opens its doors, another historic milestone is reached in the implementation of His Majesty's vision and patronage of arts and culture. This is undoubtedly an exciting new addition to the Royal Opera House Muscat, which was launched eight years ago to promote the arts, intercultural dialogue and relationships with countries rich in heritage, and reveals Oman's capacity to host world-class artistic and cultural events with the use of innovative technologies. Since the inauguration of the Royal Opera House Muscat, a wide repertoire of operas, concerts, musicals and other artistic and cultural events have been presented with huge success, both through collaborative relationships on an international scale and with the Royal Opera House Muscat's own expertise, not least in programming a vast array of acclaimed performances.
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By Mike Yawn Dec. 30, 2016 Updated: Dec. 30, 2016 2:34 p.m.
Seymour Morris Jr. studied history and business at Harvard before moving into international business, consulting and political polling. In "Fit for the Presidency? Winners, Losers, What-Ifs, and Also-Rans," he uses both his educational and occupational backgrounds to evaluate 15 presidential candidates from the perspective of an executive recruiter.
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A: I've been in business for a long time, so I've had a lot of experience hiring people, and I was intrigued in applying this to presidential candidates. What were their qualifications? And I think if you look at the subject in this manner, you can come up with some interesting or creative insights, and that is what I tried to do.
Q: How is this "personnel management"approach different from those qualities focused on by the media?
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Q: In your book, you try to separate what is now known about the candidate from what was known at the time, and you focus on the latter. How difficult is it to create that wall of separation?
A: In the case of someone like Lincoln, it is difficult because he has ascended to a Pantheon-like level. But just by focusing on primary sources available at that time, you can focus on what it was like to assess the candidate at that time, which is what I am trying to do. It puts you in a "you-are-there" situation. You are there in 1812; you are there in 1860.
Q: But even when looking at the same material, people with different partisan predispositions reach different conclusions. How do you cut through the partisanship that is contemporary to a candidacy?
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Q: How did you decide whom to include?
A: It's a mix of insiders and outsiders, liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats, people who won and people who didn't. I wanted people with an interesting story to tell. People should make no value about a particular candidate's inclusion or exclusion.
Q: Apart from the candidates, what was the most interesting thing you learned from the book?
A: Well, in researching DeWitt Clinton<|fim_middle|>' pluses and minuses. We can disagree. But I offer facts, and I let the readers draw their own conclusions.
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Chrissy Teigen hits up El Tiempo while in Houston | , I learned a lot about the Erie Canal. (As governor of New York, Clinton was the driving force behind its construction.) I was unaware of the magnitude of that achievement. For most of my life, I also considered William Henry Harrison a minor historical figure, but in researching this book, I learned about his role in securing the land rights in the American West.
William Gibbs McAdoo did so many jobs well. He developed a subway system linking Manhattan and New Jersey, and he also created the Federal Reserve System. Or everyone knew that Herbert Hoover was a humanitarian in World War I, but he was such a cold fish as a human being. He wouldn't mingle with people; he wouldn't shake hands. That's a pretty big job requirement for the president.
Each of these men has an interesting backstory and were intriguing men in their own way. For example, did you know that George Washington proposed to Martha on their second date?
Q: Not until I read the book. I guess it helped that she was the wealthiest woman in the area?
A: George was a man who knew what he wanted.
Q: You didn't include Eisenhower in the book, but he is my favorite, so I have to ask: How would he have fared under your system?
A: He would have ranked quite high. He was in a career wilderness for many years, but he was pulled out of obscurity by George Marshall. It was a lucky break, but he made the most of it and proved that Marshall was a good judge of men. And, of course, his performance as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe was superb.
Q: Some might be surprised you didn't rate Bobby Kennedy higher.
A: Bobby Kennedy was admired for the goals he spoke for - the civil rights movement, greater rights for African-Americans, for women. Arthur Schlesinger, who wrote a halo-biography of him, eulogized him largely for his aspirations. But at the time of his candidacy, he was criticized for his ruthless behavior and had virtually no chance of winning: Humphrey had the party elders solidly behind him, along with the vast majority of uncommitted voters. But over time, we overlook the negative aspects of a person and extol their virtues.
Q: Lincoln was a man who came in with fewer accomplishments than many of our presidents. How did he turn into a great president?
A: He was the right man at the right time, as you can see by my comparison of him with Jefferson Davis, whom I also include in the book. Davis had an incredible résumé, but he was not the type of man to do well in a crisis. He was an intellectual and a loner who always thought he was right.
Q: Is there any candidate whom you wished Americans had elected?
A: Yes, DeWitt Clinton. He was a man of great accomplishment, did not use power to line his pockets, and had he been elected, I think the U.S. would have averted a Civil War.
Q: Taking the approach that your book does, what will historians say about the election of 2016?
A: Well, that's still raw in many people's minds. I would rate Donald Trump substantially higher on accomplishments than Hillary Clinton, but neither candidate is addressed in my book. My book is about history, and I'm trying to make a point about historical candidates | 690 |
The benefits of educational games for developing minds
Written by Sam Butterworth
Games Based Learning
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Games have long been included in childhood educational techniques, as a means to enhance and expand upon more traditional methods. With the advancement of modern technology, the scope of educational gaming has increased to make room for additional platforms such as PCs, laptops, tablets and even mobile phones.
"Mobiles, puzzles and physical games such as ball-throwing can be used to encourage manual dexterity, balance and a range of other physiological and cognitive functions."
Most children enjoy the challenges posed by engaging in various forms of play, and it is fair to say that most games include some learning element. However, it is also very true that there are games that have been specifically designed to promote learning through play, and it is these Game-Based Learning (GBL) methods that truly fit into the educational category<|fim_middle|> gained by children who engage positively with reward-based video games may encourage them to take productive risks elsewhere in their lives.
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Games for Infants and Toddlers
At a very basic level, GBL can be used to promote the development of motor skills in infants and toddlers. Mobiles, puzzles and physical games such as ball-throwing can be used to encourage manual dexterity, balance and a range of other physiological and cognitive functions. Two-handed play is particularly encouraged, as using both hands has been shown to develop interactivity between brain hemispheres, which is absolutely essential for early years development.
As children grew, so too does their capacity to understand and use more complex educational games. At this point it is fluency that must be encouraged – fluency of physicality as well as language, memory, attention and understanding. Games that equate learning with positivity and fun are to be preferred, as these will grab the student's attention and help them to turn information into meaningful content.
Educational games for primary and middle-school children tend to place an increased emphasis upon social interaction than games for younger children; the latter of which may, however, be shared with if required. "Encouraging social interaction at primary and middle-school age is essential, and can be of particular benefit to shy or developmentally disadvantaged children."Nevertheless, encouraging social interaction at primary and middle-school age is essential, and can be of particular benefit to shy or developmentally disadvantaged children. At this age, consequence-based games allow students to form a better understanding of the ramifications of their own actions, which in turn leads to better decision-making and increased accountability. Popular forms of the type include board games such as Monopoly, skill games such as football management simulations, and certain computer games.
Games for Teenagers
Game-playing is not the sole domain of younger children and infants. Employing games as a method of promoting education for older children and teenagers can provide numerous benefits to learning. For example, just as simple rhymes may have been used during infancy to promote primary language acquisition, so too can more mature games be played to encourage the development of secondary language acquisition or to promote learning retention through the use of mnemonics and similar language devices.
The Controversy of Video Games
Video games have been much maligned by both parents and educators, who have observed the negative effects of overindulgence and the influence of violent gaming on the behaviour of suggestible children. However, it is important to make special note of the positive influence that video games may exert on a dexterity, cognitive function and even self-esteem in children. In particular, a study conducted by Dr. Mark Griffiths of Nottingham Trent University seemed to show that the feelings of accomplishment | 526 |
Definitions: This indicator includes the 4-year Adjusted Cohort Dropout Rate, reflecting students who entered<|fim_middle|>, Cohort Outcome Data - List of Counties (Sacramento, CA: California Department of Education) (Accessed July 1, 2015). Counties with fewer than 10 cases are not reported.
Footnotes: 4-year Adjusted Cohort Dropout Rate - This is the rate of students that leave the 9-12 instructional system without a high school diploma, GED, or special education certificate of completion and do not remain enrolled after the end of the 4th year. The formula is similar to the formula listed in 1.2, but the numerator is replaced with the number of students in the 4-year cohort that dropped out by the end of year 4 of the cohort. Low Number Event (LNE): Data not reported when fewer than 10 cases exist or when applicable % is based on fewer than 10 observations. | the 9th grade and did not receive a high school diploma within 4 years.
Data Source: California Department of Education, Education Demographics Unit | 30 |
Store First to appear at Chester Business Show
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Our Ellesmere Port self-storage team will be exhibiting
Store First is set to exhibit at Chester Business Show next Thursday, 5 March.
The event, which will be held at the Chester Crowne Plaza hotel, will bring together business contacts from all over the region.
Returning to Chester for the 9th time, organisers have tipped next week's show to be a hugely successful event.
Our Ellesmere Port self-storage team will be attending the Chester Business Show, after previously exhibiting at the last event in October 2019.
Keen to discuss self-storage solutions to a host of Chester businesses and individuals,<|fim_middle|> will also feature free seminars, networking and more. There is parking available at the hotel and there's a cafe service which will run all day.
The event will run from 10am - 3pm on Thursday 5 March.
Attending Chester Business Show is free - simply book a ticket online here. | our storage team is excited to be returning for the spring show next week.
Ellesmere Port Store First centre manager Chris Hawker said: "We had a fantastic time talking all things storage with Chester business representatives at the autumn show, so we are excited to take part in the next Chester Business Show next week.
"It's a great event and we made some brilliant new connections last time.
"Businesses may not realise the numerous benefits self-storage can offer to them - whether you're a sole trader or part of a huge global corporation, business storage is for everyone and comes with a host of additional perks.
"Come down to the show next week and we'll be able to tell you all about what we can offer to anyone looking for home self-storage or business storage!"
As well as a variety of businesses exhibiting on the day, Chester Business Show | 170 |
A Grammy-nominated husband-and-wife duo will be the second act to take the stage for the Levitt Amp Chattanooga Music Series Thursday, Aug. 30, inside the Bessie Smith Cultural Center.
Marcus and Jean Baylor — performing as The Baylor Project — have taken the American jazz<|fim_middle|>erved basis. Levitt Amp concerts are usually held on the lawn of the Bessie Smith Cultural Center. Due to a forecast of inclement weather, Thursday's show will take place inside the performance hall.
Tailgating is not permitted; food and beverages will be sold in the vendors area. | scene by storm. Both children of pastors, the two create gospel-inspired arrangements that feature her soulful jazz vocals and his R&B rhythms.
Both were involved in music before they began collaborating. Marcus was the former drummer for Grammy-winning jazz fusion quartet The Yellowjackets. Jean was half of R&B duo Zhane, which was part of Queen Latifa's Flavor Unit Collective.
The Baylor Project's 2017 debut album, "The Journey," peaked at No. 8 on Billboard's Jazz Music Charts. It received two 2018 Grammy nominations: Best Jazz Vocal Album and Best Traditional R&B Performance.
In their shows, The Baylor Project pays homage to wide-ranging musical influences, and in so doing, generates an eclectic sound whose overall effect is spiritual, buoyant, feel-good music.
Seating for Thursday's concert is on a first-come, first-s | 180 |
Aug. 31, 2007 — Paulo Barros of Orlando, Fla., defended his men's open title at the $5,000 United States Professional Tennis Association Grass Court Championships Sunday at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Philadelphia after defeating James Kohr of York, Pa., 3-6, 6-<|fim_middle|> Sept. 17-22 at the Saddlebrook Resort in Wesley Chapel, Fla. | 3, 6-4. Marine Nizri of Boca Raton, Fla., earned the women's open championship title by going undefeated in round-robin play. Nizri defeated Jane Savage of Newburgh, N.Y., 6-1, 6-1 to be crowned the women's open champion. Both singles champions later teamed up with the opponents they defeated in the finals to win the men's and women's open doubles.
The tournament, which was held from Aug. 24-26, included events in the following categories: men's and women's open singles and open doubles competition, and men's 45 singles and doubles categories. The competition featured many of the top men and women tennis-teaching professionals in the country.
Paulo Barros, Orlando, Fla., and James Kohr, York, Pa., def. Mike Curran and Scott Harrington, Fort Myers, Fla., 6-2, 6-4.
Marine Nizri, Boca Raton, Fla., def. Jane Savage, Newburgh, N.Y., 6-1, 6-1. Nizri def. Shareen Lai, Morrisville, Pa., 4-6, 6-2, 6-1. Nizri def. Sophie Alriksson, Maitland, Fla., 6-0, 6-0.
Marine Nizri, Boca Raton, Fla., and Jane Savage, Newburgh, N.Y., def. Sophie Alriksson, Maitland, Fla., and Shareen Lai, Morrisville, Pa., 6-4, 6-3.
The tournament was the second of five in a series of national tournaments on several court surfaces that the USPTA offers each year to its members as part of the USPTA National Surface Championship Series. Up next is the USPTA International Championships from | 392 |
Auxiliary bishop: Diocese will not bail out…
Auxiliary bishop: Diocese will not bail out Lorain Catholic
By Phil Helsel |
PUBLISHED: March 25, 2004 at 9:31 a.m. | UPDATED: July 16, 2021 at 1:16 a.m.
"The student enrollment simply isn't there," Quinn said. "It wouldn<|fim_middle|>'t return calls seeking comment.
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Phil Helsel | 't be fair to try and keep the high school open. Teachers have a right to go out and look for work, and students have a right to go out and look elsewhere." Quinn's remarks were made in response to questions about a meeting he had on Tuesday. Leaders of the Save Our School committee had said they were pinning their hopes on the diocese after unsuccessful attempts to get Lorain Catholic's board of directors to alter its Feb. 13 decision to close the school at the end of this academic year because of low enrollment and budget problems. Two committee members who Quinn said approached him as private citizens and not as representatives from Save Our School were in the meeting on Tuesday, and Quinn said he told them not to expect help from the diocese. "I tried to explain to them that the diocese is in no position to come up with further subsidies. We really aren't," Quinn said. "They want to know how to do it (keep Lorain Catholic open), but we're not going to do it." Quinn said it costs about $4 million to operate Lorain Catholic for one year, and, before the high school became independent from the diocese last year, the diocese had spent more than $2.2 million over the past 10 years subsidizing it. Quinn said he met with two people, including Steve Luca. "I'm not even indicating that I was at the meeting," Luca said. "I have no comment." Mary Springowski, one of the committee's co-founders, said she heard that the news about the meeting was good and she said the committee is still developing its next course of action. "He (Quinn) gave us the first rays of hope we've had in a long time," Springowski said. "He said we need to develop a few things to show that we can be viable and present something to him. The diocese is not against what we're trying to do here." Quinn said he said in the meeting that the diocese might listen if there was a solid plan and some money to back it up, but he said he doesn't see a way that would happen. "Their plan is to borrow money through a bond, but you have to pay that back," Quinn said. "They keep saying, We know we can get students, and we know the support is there,' but it's not like those people (the LC board) haven't tried to get students." He pointed to Lorain's dwindling population — more than 80,000 in the 1980s, compared to 68,652 in 2000 — as one reason for declining enrollment at Lorain Catholic. The diocese decided to close Lorain Catholic in 2003, but the school's advisory board went independent in a last-ditch effort to turn sagging enrollment numbers around, Quinn said, and the hope was that they would be able to boost enrollment to 275 students by 2005. Lorain Catholic currently has 202 students enrolled, with 47 seniors scheduled to graduate this year. There were only 26 freshman applications for next year. Ron Cocco, chairman of the school's 14-member board of directors, said yesterday that while the closing is regrettable, the board is sticking by its decision to close the school. "It was a difficult decision; we were saddened that we had to make it," Cocco said. "But there's been nothing put forward at this point that would make us change that decision." Save Our School co-founder Kara Afrates didn | 742 |
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We take pride in crafting an inventive array of meads and melomels from locally sourced ingredients. All our meads start with pure wildflower honey, harvested in the foothills of the North Cascades. We use 55 gallons of honey -- about 640 pounds -- in every batch, and the quality of this essential ingredient is paramount. We are fortunate to work with a beekeeper in the Skagit Valley who has a particular knack for staging his 1500 hives amid profusions of blackberry and fireweed blooms, and the resulting honey is light and delicately flavored. Our goal is to preserve the balance of that gorgeous liquid -- subtle floral aromas against a rich, earthy background -- in every bottle. Our signature Mead is beautifully simple, made from just honey, water and yeast. But simplicity lends itself to endless variation. Apples and berries from around Whatcom County, rhubarb and herbs from our own backyard, as well as the occasional imported spice blend -- we're continually experimenting with new combinations, cultivating new relationships, discovering delicious new possibilities. Read on for more<|fim_middle|> there, and proceeded to get very happy. At Honey Moon, while we certainly appreciate primordial serendipity, we're much more systematic in our approach. We begin by dissolving pure wildflower honey in water, gently heated just to the point of dissolution. When this mixture has cooled we transfer it to a stainless steel fermenter and add yeast, usually a winemaker's cote de blanc. Then it's a process of watchful waiting, monitoring the progress of fermentation, measuring specific gravity and racking at least three times. It generally takes 3-6 months before the mead is ready to bottle or blend. Each batch is unique, with variations dependent on the initial character of the honey, the particular strain of yeast, and the intended final product. After fermentation is complete flavoring may be added -- either by infusion, as with our Orange, Wassail, Rhubarb or Fleurs Ameres meads, or by blending with fruit which has been fermented separately, as in the case of our Raspberry, Blueberry and Strawberry meads (also called melomels). Our Special Reserve Mead has been conditioned in oak for up to three years. Each 55 gallon drum of honey yields approximately 180 gallons of finished mead, or about 75 cases.
How sweet is it? Ah, sweetness! We desire it in life and in love, but in wine, it's not everyone's cup of tea. Honey is sweet, obviously, but it doesn't follow that mead is equally as sweet. As with any other wine, it's all about fermentation. Mead can be anywhere from teeth-achingly sweet to bone dry, depending on the character of the honey, the strain of yeast, and the mead maker's choices along the way. But, unlike grapes and other fruits with high tannic concentrations, honey has little to no acid profile and thus no molecular structure to support flavor in the absence of residual sugars. In other words, very dry mead doesn't taste like much of anything. At Honey Moon, we strive to find that proverbial "sweet spot" where we can taste the nuance of the honey in the glass -- a drink that is delicate and flavorful, sweet, but not too sweet, with a rich mouthfeel and a smooth finish. For you wine geeks out there, our signature Mead has a final gravity of 10.15.. The content of our flavored meads and melomels varies, with Rhubarb and Raspberry typically being the driest.. Of course the experience is completely subjective. What is delectable to one may be cloying to another. That's ok. We get it. Sometimes we like a good IPA ourselves.
What's the best way to drink it? We recommend serving our meads lightly chilled . Then again, sometimes the occasion calls for gentle warming, as might be the case with a mug of Wassail or Hot Spiced Mead blend by a fire on a winter's night. Speaking of blends, mead is a natural ingredient for inventive craft cocktails. Try a raspberry mimosa with equal parts chilled Raspberry Mead and champagne. For a citrus stinger, blend two parts Orange Mead with one part bourbon and serve over ice with a twist. Feel free to experiment, and do let us know about your favorite combinations. We'd love to include them in our upcoming recipe page.
What shall I serve it with? All our meads work beautifully either before meals as an apertif, or afterwards, with dessert. Also delicious with cheeses, particularly of the chalky, salty variety. Try our signature Mead or Orange Mead with a sheep's milk pecorino, or Manchego. | information about mead and how best to enjoy it.
Mead history & Lore Mead, or wine made from honey, is the world's most ancient and storied alcoholic beverage. Archaeological evidence suggests consumption of drinks made from fermented honey could date as far back as the Neolithic period, some 7,000 years before grape wine was introduced. Certainly mead is the stuff of myth and legend. It was the nectar of the gods on Mt. Olympus; the inspired gift of wisdom and poetry from Odin; the exclusively royal quaff of Egyptian pharaohs and English kings. The word mead comes from medhu, the Sanskrit term for honey, and reference to its presumed ecstatic properties can be found in the Vedic texts. Indeed, mead has long been sought after not merely as a wine but as a magic potion of sorts. In medieval Europe, common wisdom ascribed all sorts of benefits to the mead drinker: good health, longevity, prosperity, happiness, and (wait for it) the birth of sons. Our modern idea of a honeymoon derives from the practice of giving newlywed couples honey wine to drink every night for a lunar month -- presumably to encourage the aforementioned desirables. Don't say we didn't warn you.
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How is it made? Some ethnologists like to speculate that our ancient forbears found an abandoned hive in a hollow tree, perhaps one that had been exposed to the rains, sampled what they found | 306 |
<|fim_middle|>ussell | Running for Russell
Three village women are training to take part in the June Blenheim Triathlon to raise money for the cancer charity Melanoma Focus.
Anna Horton, of Tony's Handyman in Barnt Green, Karen Flowerdew and Caroline Green have no previous triathlon experience.
"When we entered six months ago it seemed like a really good idea but with the event looming, it doesn't seem so clever now," says Anna. They are competing in memory of Russell Neale who died from skin cancer last September. Russell was well known around the village as one of the earliest runners with Barnt Green Chuggers.
Completing the Sprint Triathlon will be no mean feat – a 750m open water swim followed by a 20km bike ride finished off with a 5km run.
The trio, who confess their fitness level was more coach potato than runner bean, have been training hard to learn how to ride racing bikes, and run faster. But the skill they have found most challenging was to master an efficient front crawl.
"The front crawl has been a nightmare," says Karen. "Drowning in the middle of Blenheim's lake seemed a strong possibility."
Luckily, local swimming expert Mike Dickenson has stepped in to give the girls training. "Mike has the patience of a saint; not only has he three very poor swimmers to teach but getting us to stop chatting has been a real challenge," Karen added.
Anyone who would like to sponsor the girls can either call in to see Anna at Tony's Handyman or visit:
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Jacob Rader Marcus
In United States Jewry, 1776–1<|fim_middle|>History, Jewish Studies
Copyright © 2019 WayneOPEN. Powered by WordPress. Theme: Spacious by ThemeGrill. | 985, the dean of American Jewish historians, Jacob Rader Marcus, unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry's cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and indivisible unity; and of its role in the making of America. Characterized by Marcus's impeccable scholarship, meticulous documentation, and readable style, this landmark four-volume set completes the history Marcus began in The Colonial American Jew, 1492–1776.
Volume I focuses on the American revolution and the early national period, from 1776 to 1840. Marcus examines the role played by Jews in the revolution and discusses important historical and social themes such as politics, commerce, religion, Jewish and American culture, anti-Jewish prejudices, and the phenomenon of assimilation.
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UCL Energy Institute
Delivering world-leading learning, research and policy support on the challenges of climate change and energy security.
Our approach blends expertise from across UCL to make a truly interdisciplinary contribution to the development of a globally sustainable energy system.
The recognised quality of our teaching and research in energy demand and energy systems modelling owes itself to this unusual cocktail of specialisations.
Our research, spanning the entire demand system, from consumer behaviour and household technologies to policy-making, has five core themes:
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UCL Energy Institute is a world-leading centre of<|fim_middle|> up-to-date with @UCL_Energy on Twitter | research and teaching excellence and has received a series of awards, grants and accolades to confirm this.
The QS World University Rankings places UCL Energy Institute's faculty as the #1 for Architecture/Built Environment in the World. In the latest national research assessment (REF 2014), 46% of UCL Energy Institute's faculty's research was rated 'world-leading' (4*), with a further 35% recognised as 3* internationally excellent.
Through its work with the Complex Built Environment Systems group, the Bartlett School of Energy, Environment and Resources has been awarded a historic three EPSRC Platform Grants, prestigious awards of funding given to what the EPSRC calls 'well-established, world-leading research groups'.
Visions and Principles
Our aim is to help to build a globally sustainable energy system, by bringing to bear multiple disciplinary perspectives to observe, analyse, model and interpret energy use and energy systems.
In all our activities, we promote excellence, rigour and impartiality.
We address intellectually challenging problems with creativity and innovation.
We conduct research that has impact and can make a positive difference to society.
We promote diversity and equality of opportunity, and nurture an environment where people of all backgrounds feel valued and respected.
The UCL Energy Institute supports all 4 of the UCL Grand Challenges:
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The UCL Energy Institute was officially launched on 29 June 2009, but our roots lie much further back in the university's history.
In his 1865 book, The Coal Question, the leading economist WS Jevons made an observation that flew in the face of common intuition. Jevons noted that improving the efficiency of a technology using a resource such as coal tended to provoke an increase in the consumption of that resource, rather than a decrease. The Jevons paradox, as the effect became known, has since become central to the study of energy demand and environmental economics. And since Jevons took up the professorship of political economy at UCL in 1876, it has been central to energy research at the university.
Until the institute was set up, that research, which also included work on fuel cells, nuclear power, efficient buildings and buses, was spread across traditional science and engineering departments. The institute has brought together in one place UCL-wide research and teaching in the vitally important area of energy demand, and given it focus, coherence and visibility.
The institute's rapid growth suggests it answered a pent-up demand of its own. By the end of its first year, it had a portfolio of over £8m, £3m of which was won through an EPSRC grant for a Centre for Doctoral Training. Confirmation of this funding allowed us to pursue a much bolder course of sustained growth in our teaching. Our intake of students to our Masters programmes has grown year by year, and UCL-Energy has become one of the most successful academic departments in the UK.
The UCL Energy Institute is a cross-faculty initiative within the built environment, set up by the Provost of UCL to unify and strengthen research and teaching efforts in the field of energy. The institute has five core research themes and a multidisciplinary team of more than 60 researchers and students.
Director of the Institute, Prof Neil Strachan, and Deputy Director, Prof Paul Ruyssevelt, are supported by the Directors of Research, Teaching, Enterprise and Ethics and by the Management Advisory Group made up of senior members of research and administrative staff.
Prof Neil Strachan, Director
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The internal Board of Energy Directors is made up of representatives from departments involved in energy-related research across UCL and aims to join up research and teaching efforts in this field.
The external International Advisory Board is formed by leading figures in the world of Energy, including the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency and the Chairman of Shell UK Ltd and Chaired by Lady Barbara Judge
Full list of UCL Energy Institute academic staff, students and support staff.
The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources
The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources (BSEER) is home to the Faculty's Institutes that specialise in energy, environment, resources and heritage, and the staff and students that work within them.
Its role is to help the Institutes establish themselves and grow, enabling them to focus on and develop their academic direction and strategies.
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Like Mattress<|fim_middle|>ocative as her previous work, but with a heftier kick to it, taking it out of the realm of hazy electronica into a veritable club stomp. | Mick, I'm back with a bang. Trying to avoid "pop nihilist manbient and portlandia 'field recording modular ambient noise' over & over". Thanks Matt.
May as well start here. Montreal's Jaclyn Kendall gathered a group of artists to put together a compilation to raise money for Adalah, a Palestinian-run non-profit organisation dedicated to defending the human and legal rights of Arab minorities in Israel. This is immediately in response to the killing of Palestinian protesters by IDF forces but more generally responding to the conditions for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. It features music from Bandcloud favourites Via App, object blue and Experimental Housewife as well as a host of others, and covers ground from blistering techno and other-worldly electronica to political commentary, both abstract and explicit.
I don't even know where to begin with this one. This artist responded to a tweet I was tagged in and I checked out their SoundCloud — seems this release is actually a few years old but the material is timeless. Beautiful crunchy techno noise, swooping synth material corroded and distorted by any means and some utterly incomprehensible titles.
Last year this label brought us the weird and wonderfulTonal Rotors by Patrick Cosmos. This is also weird and wonderful, but in different ways. I take it the track titles ('Bubblewrap', 'Static', 'Radiator') have something to do with their creation, but it's hard to tell. I tweeted that 'Static' gave me Twin Peaks: The Return vibes, and the artist responded "Aaah the sweet sounds of a '96 Toyota Starlet..." Noise, but with a sense of humour.
Sweet sweet jams from Analog Tara for the Extended Family series. Tara is a wearer of many hats — she's an artist and composer, a historian and author, as well as being the founder of Pink Noises, a project that promotes the work of women in all aspects of music, from performance and composition to sound design and tech. She's got a release coming on 1432 R and this mix, which features all the tracks from that release, is both powerful and soothing, darting effortlessly from pulsing grooves to ethereal spaces.
This split release comes from The Wormhole, the free-form arm of cassette label The Tapeworm. It's a recording of two live performances, one each from the two artists named above. The first side is full of powerfully distorted melodies, soaring above with great yearning, while still bathing in the sludge beneath the ground. The second side starts off almost amelodic, a swirling pool of sound, but then feedback and circuitry invite calming serenity.
Here we have a set announcing a compilation for the 100th release on Lillerne Tapes. At the time of writing it features some jungle from Beta Librae, some ambient from Clearing and fun, breaksy house from Angel1. No idea who either of those are — I've asked but no word yet. If I find out I'll let you know! Excited to see what else is in store from the label for this landmark release.
You know I've never featured Peach before? Can't fathom why. This mix for ZeeZout is a summation of her skills and tastes, running through an hour of bouncy, exciting club music. Electro, house, techno, it rumbles and grows from subtle beginnings to a brilliantly euphoric finale. Don't think I know anything in here but this mix bangs. One for the weekend.
Mmmmf, this is some amazing sad manbient (sorry Matt). Released on Opal Tapes, it's a beautifully morose tape of jams from Hainbach. We've got haunting melodies, understated whines, maudlin drones — it's perfectly for muggy weather, tiresome commutes and evenings that go on just too long.
This is the first new music from Boreal Network in a while, and is apparently the title track from a new EP. It's just as lush and ev | 830 |
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Hope you had a beautiful Thanksgiving!
Hope you all had an amazing Thanksgiving:) We had a lovely one filled with warm fires, amazing food, hilarious games, and good people. My parents had us for a big brunch today and we literally sat around all day by the fire talking and hanging out, it was perfect. Later in the evening, Kevin and I ran out to a few stores for black friday, and it was insane. I'm sticking with online shopping from now on, haha!!
Tomorrow we drive up to the mountains with friends to cut down our Christmas tree! We used to do this tradition as children, and i'm so excited for Kevin to cut down his very first tree:) It's supposed to be snowing all day, so it will be a bit of a winter wonderland…woo hoo!! I'm planning on making some peppermint hot chocolate to fill our thermos:) yum!
This picture has literally nothing to do with Thanksgiving (ha!), it was actually taken in Bora Bora this summer, and just found it on my hard drive and thought i'd share<|fim_middle|> but they were so cute when they found out! A few of them offered to sew me blankets for the baby, ha! The dress i'm wearing is from here.
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Introducing our British friends to Halloween! | . I was about 2 months along with our baby, and all the old ladies on the cruise started asking me if I was pregnant. How they knew I have no idea (as I wasn't showing at all!), | 44 |
To see the beat. To hear the moment. For Katja Ruge, photography and music, portraits and pop are inextricably linked. A personality like hers – photographer, DJ and music producer – seems to have risen from a secret code book for coolness, style and passion.
Studying Katja Ruge's intense photographs, it feels like you are discovering the inner core of the person portrayed, deep down even to their hidden character traits. It is a skill based on craft: Katja Ruge has learned her profession from scratch at graphic/design school and as a photo lab technician, besides working as photo assistant, music promoter and art director, before turning full-time self-employed photographer in 2000.
Her trademark is her bright blonde bob, a possible reference to her early fascination for wave and electronica, her Northern German roots or her incredibly positive charisma – something you best find out for yourself. When working with Katja Ruge, you get to know a very empathic yet deeply professional person. " I build up a relationship with the other person at once," she says, sending a flood light smile through the Hamburg flat she shares with her two cats lounging in her living room. As a photographer, she is an accomplice on equal footing who listens very closely and finds out at once whether the person in front of her is in need of an energy kick or rather a kind word. With clear specifications and warm-hearted motivation, sensitive power of observation and an intuitive feel for image composition, she has created iconic portraits of hundreds of artists: rapper M.I.A. is pictured in body-building pose, DJ Helena Hauff emitting dark energy, house duo Âme in black sobriety, clarinettist Andreas Ottensamer in quiet optimistic mode, DJ Koze ironically dreamy in a flowery shrub, avantgarde musician Björk sitting on the grass with a twinkle in her eye. A great deal of her female artist portraits was shown in her critically acclaimed and repeatedly prolonged exhibition "Ladyflash". Other photos appeared in magazines, for instance in Groove, Intro, Missy or Libertine. Katja Ruge's pop culturally sharpened view originates in the fact that she herself is living music history. In the 90s, she lived in Manchester, at the hub of the rave culture that developed around the legendary Hacienda club. The years in England had a deep impact on her and inspired her renowned book Fotoreportage 23 – In Search Of Ian Curtis", a black and white<|fim_middle|> transforms to a nonchalant turntable queen. Her parties file under the name "Kann denn Liebe Synthie sein?" – "Can Love Be Synth?" – and were inspired by a photo session: After photographing a range of vintage synthesizers, she created huge collages of the pictures for another exhibition. It became an international success and was shown at the Kunsthaus in Graz/Austria, at the SXSW in Austin, at Hamburg's Reeperbahn Festival and other locations. | study following the tracks of the late Joy Division singer. The reason for the immediate rapport between Katja Ruge and the person in front of her lens lies deep within the personal history of this remarkable woman. As a child, she played in her grandfather's supermarket, as a teenager she helped her parents at their farmer's market stand. It was continuous training in how to get in touch with other people, and in gaining knowledge on human nature.
This is a trait Katja Ruge also uses to the fullest as a DJ. Creating her mix, ranging from synth pop to Italo disco, she | 120 |
This Could Be Heaven
A young woman leans on the barricade facing the stage. She resembles Bjork. Short ginger hair. Blank expression. She wears a tight sweater, cowgirl skirt and saddle shoes.
To her right, an older man, perhaps my age. White beard. Bald. He wears a tan suit with brown tie. He reaches for the young woman's hand. Squeezes it. She smiles, stares ahead.
I don't know if they're lovers, relatives, doctor and patient. There's a coolness to their affection. They say nothing to each other, but seem close.
I wasn't sure who would show up to see Public Image Ltd. While the band, in its prime, represented post-punk experimentation, PiL has long been John Lydon's solo act.
Lydon's evolved past the snot-faced caricature that defined his early years. Genuine passion remains, though it surfaces in unexpected ways.
His tearful reaction to Donna Summer's death might have surprised those still hooked on his Rotten persona, but in the long view made sense.
Summer and Lydon hit the zeitgeist at roughly the same time, yet back then, you wouldn't have connected the two. When Lydon praised Summer's originality and power, he meant it. One wonders if young Rotten secretly listened to "Last Dance."
The club fills up. Middle-aged fans in PiL t-shirts. Young people with spiked dyed coifs in black leather jackets, plaid pants,<|fim_middle|>.
After an extended encore, PiL finally stops. Lydon, who has said very little between songs, tells us, "We do this because we love it. We're happy you shared it with us. Goodnight."
Love is an energy, too. Tie me to the length of that.
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The Light Dreams Are Lit With
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Sorkinlandia | Doc Marten boots.
It's the kids who make me smile. Not only are they latching on to their parents' music, they resemble mascots at a punk rock theme park.
Few people I knew back in the day could afford such threads. There were some who adopted the safety pin look, but most wore what they owned: t-shirts, ripped jeans, scuffed boots.
Lydon has consistently dismissed the standard punk uniform, urging his fans to be individuals. Clearly, many of these kids either missed or simply ignored Lydon's pleas. They want to play punk dress up, based on the stereotypes from that period.
Why not? Given what young people face, there are more destructive modes of escape. Besides, in our post-post-post world, what is timeless and what is tired?
Lights dim. The reggae playing overhead fades. PiL takes the stage. The audience loses it.
I'm right in front of Lydon. Maybe 20 feet away. This is the first time I've seen him in person. I'm genuinely thrilled.
PiL plays songs from their new album. Many people around me, primarily the kids, sing along. They know the new stuff.
But I'm not really listening to the music. I'm studying Lydon.
For a man in his mid-50s carrying a paunch, Lydon's spry. He attacks the mike, voice soaring, crashing, screeching along. He uses every octave he owns, sometimes reaching for sounds that defy categorization.
Whatever else you can say about him, Lydon doesn't phone it in on stage. His facial muscles clench and twist. His eyes pop open, his hard stare impossible to deflect.
We lock eyes a lot during that two-hour show. For Lydon, I'm sure that most audience faces are interchangeable. For me, it's exciting and a bit nerve wracking.
Staring into Lydon's eyes is not a calming experience. You plug directly into him, get a taste of his mad energy.
I search for early Lydon in those eyes. Johnny Rotten as the Pistols fell apart. But my projection is thwarted by Lydon in the moment. There's no nostalgia present. He is as you see him. And that's plenty.
PiL launches into "Albatross," "Flowers of Romance," "Religion" and "Chant." Nostalgia overtakes me. I sing along, heavy bass vibration pounding my chest. I cease staring at Lydon and let the music consume me. For the first time in ages, I'm transported among strangers.
Then the band plays "Rise," one of my least favorite PiL songs. But I'm in an extreme minority. The crowd screams, applauds, and led by Lydon sings to the rafters.
"ANGER IS AN ENERGY!" they shout again and again as Lydon conducts them. But they aren't emitting anger. They're deliriously happy.
In this space, anger is a lyric. A concept that applies elsewhere. Everyone is in a smiling, wavy trance | 631 |
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Eddie Howe has insisted that his Newcastle players are not worried about being liked by other teams in response to the criticism aimed at the Magpies by some Arsenal fans after Tuesday's goalless draw between the two clubs. Newcastle held firm to claim<|fim_middle|> I would back that and support that, because you don't want to see the ball out of play continually. Certainly, that wasn't our intention against Arsenal.
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"There are certain times in the game where you have to manage situations, depending on how the game is going and where the momentum is in the game. You have to be streetwise and smart, and find a way to get a positive result for your team, and, certainly, I think that's been a really good aspect of our play this year.
"But, on the other side of that, I think we've been very proactive and tired to keep the ball in play in the vast majority of our games."
Tensions boiled over during the closing stages of Tuesday's game when Arsenal were denied a last-gasp penalty after what appeared to be a handball by Jacob Murphy inside the area. Mikel Arteta was left furious and ended up squaring off with Howe on the touchline in a confrontation that was somewhat out of character for the latter, who went on to address the incident by underlining the importance of sticking up for his team.
"I have to be very strong at certain moments for my team, for the club, I've got no problem doing that as long as I don't lose my discipline and control," added Howe.
"But, certainly, I have to stand up for what I believe in certain moments. I have to give the referee a big compliment against Arsenal. I thought he was very strong when he needed to be at the end of the game under immense pressure. I thought he made the right decisions in those moments, so I've got no issue doing that."
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Newcastle were widely accused of employing time-wasting tactics in the latter stages of the match, with many Arsenal supporters taking to social media to criticise Howe's game plan after the final whistle. The Magpies boss issued a blunt response on Friday, though, by insisting that his players do not care what others think of them as long as they keep picking up regular points.
"We're not here to be popular, and to get other teams to like us," said Howe. "We're here to compete and, to compete, we have to give everything to try and get a positive result. I've got no issue saying that, that's our job and that's what we're going to try and continue to do.
"I'm all for the people that going to watch football matches getting value for money and getting to see the ball in play. I'm a big advocate of that, and | 219 |
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We had another weekend of +5 °C and rain… Lots of the snow has melted, even on the mountains. So no skiing this weekend! But to avoid being stuck inside the flat all weekend, we did go for a drive this afternoon and walked along the beach for a while. It was nice to get some fresh air, to smell the sea and even smell soil and plants – wow! The wind was very strong and the rain pouring down, it made the landscape look really wild.
Not bad<|fim_middle|> Norwich in 2005-2006, but then Nicole moved back to the States (haven't seen her since!), Paola left for Spain and then back to Mexico, and Tanja moved to Cambridge. I'm really excited about going there, spending time with them, attend the wedding, see Mexico City… and enjoy some sunshine of course!! I'm leaving this Wednesday and coming back on Friday the 13th (hmm). I'm not taking my laptop, so I don't think there will be any updates until I'm back in Tromsø – but I am sure I will have LOTS of photos to share then! | !! I'm going to Mexico City for a week, to attend Paola's wedding. Tanja and Nicole will be there too. We were all PhD students in | 33 |
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Competition Continues at 2016 Nutrena® USEA American Eventing Championships presented by Land Rover With Second Day of Dressage and Inaugural Opening of Cross-Country Track (Views: 629)
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Mill Spring, NC – September 1, 2016 – The highly anticipated first day of cross-country competition commenced at Tryon International Equestrian Center (TIEC) today, as riders at the 2016 Nutrena® USEA American Eventing Championships presented by Land Rover (AEC) took to the course designed by Captain Mark Phillips at the Beginner Novice, Novice, Training and Preliminary levels. Competition in the dressage arenas also heated up as the Merial Open Intermediate division, the largest division hosted at the venue this week, began with the first phase, while the Adequan® Advanced Gold Cup Finals division will kick-off tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow's competition will feature all three phases of the eventing discipline including dressage, cross-country, and show jumping, as riders are set to start in the dressage rings at 8:00 a.m., while cross-country will continue through 5:50 p.m. Show jumping will run until 7:40 p.m. Please click here to find daily ride times and live results for the 2016 Nutrena® USEA American Eventing Championships presented by Land Rover (AEC). Competition, which began on Wednesday, August 31, and continues through Sunday, September 4, will highlight Beginner Novice through Advanced divisions, as well as the "Sounds of Nashville Concert" presented by Coca Cola® featuring country music stars Julia Coles and Mitch Rossell on Saturday, September 3, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Merial Open Intermediate
Marilyn Little and RF Scandalous (Carry Gold x Richardia) owned by Jacqueline Mars, Robin Parsky, Phoebe Manders and Michael Manders, returned to competition in fine form this afternoon at TIEC taking a commanding lead in the competitive Merial Open Intermediate division on a score of 22.3. The pair, who won an individual and team gold medal at the Pan American Games in Toronto in 2015, found their stride in the dressage phase of competition today, besting Clayton Fredericks, who holds third and second place aboard FEI Money Made (Conteur x Statbuch 1 Arcadia) and FE Bowman (Balloon x Con Corde) with a 27.0 and 28.2 respectively.
Little and Scandalous, an 11-year-old Oldenburg mare, put together a fabulous test that was relaxed and smooth, earning them nearly a five point lead ahead of the competitive class, which featured 54 entries. The pair have quickly become one of the top combinations in the United States and their test today proved that they're back on their game after a few months away from competition.
"It's a pleasure to ride Scandalous in any major dressage test. She's a real dancer and she was beautifully focused and smooth today. This is only her second weekend back competing in eventing since early June. She had a bit of a break of Boekelo last year," said Little. "She's been back in work since March and we had the privilege of competing at the July jumper shows early this summer."
TIEC is a familiar destination for Little, who is only one of two riders competing this week who have also contested FEI CSI show jumping competition at the venue. Little has competed in numerous "Saturday Night Lights" Grand Prix classes, earning top finishes in the show jumping discipline, with high hopes for a strong performance this week.
"When I look out into that ring, I see 'Saturday Night Lights'. It's very interesting to see the same venue through the eyes of two different disciplines. I'll be back here for the 5* in October, but Mark [Bellissimo] was kind enough to take me on a tour this past summer, which really got me chomping at the bit for this week," she explained. "There's nobody like Mark to bring a dream to fruition and for an event in its first year, my goodness. I think there is a lot more to come here."
"There are only a few places in the world that could host an event like this. Hopefully in the future we will see something like this in Wellington where eventing will take more of a hold. It's very exciting for horse sport in general. It's not just about promoting one discipline. You really have<|fim_middle|> her own Just Dew It earned a 27.8 to finish just behind Calvin, while William Barclay and his own Stormn Hudson KD received a 28.3 for third.
Broadstone Beginner Novice Horse
In the very first division to head out on the cross-country course, Lauren Chumley and Nikolas (Novalis T x Capina Mia) held onto their lead of the Broadstone Beginner Novice Horse division. Melissa Dowling's eager Westphalian-bred 5-year-old jumped bold and clear without even a second thought. They remain on their dressage score of 27.3.
"He ate up the cross-country. He's about the bravest thing on the planet," Chumley said, and added that he's maybe even too bold throwing in a few bucks in the warm-up. "He's figured the whole eventing thing out now. He's a little bit cocky."
Despite the stellar run today, Chumley is a realist and has no hesitation in sharing their shared weakness: show jumping, and she's not excluding extreme measures to keep her lead. "I saw Doug Payne on cross-country. He's in second behind me. I tried to pay him off but it didn't work," she joked. "I thought about pushing him off his bike, but Andrea Davidson, my trainer, told me that was probably also a bad, so I didn't do that. Unfortunately, now, I'm going to have to actually jump the jumps," she laughed.
Doug Payne and Stephen Blauner's Mr. Mitchell, a 4-year-old Irish Sport Horse, follow Chumley on a 28.3, so she must jump clear to tomorrow to finish as the winner of this division. Payne also lacks any cushion in his score as Susan Thomas and Leslie Allen's Tango are right behind them with 30 penalty points for third place.
The Land Rover Test Drive Course will be open to the public from Wednesday, August 31, to September 4, and registration is located in the parking lot in front of The General Store at TIEC. Click here to learn more about this one-of-a-kind test drive opportunity at TIEC during the week of the AEC. The "Sounds of Nashville" Concert presented by Coca-Cola® is open to the general public and will feature country music artists Julia Coles and Mitch Rossell on Saturday, September 3, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Click here to purchase VIP tickets for the night of the event. The "Celebrity Bartender Showdown" and Silent Auction to benefit Brooke USA will feature top U.S. event riders testing their skills behind "The Brooke Watering Hole" bar to raise awareness for the "Buy A Donkey A Drink" campaign started this past summer in an effort to ensure access to drinking water for donkeys and mules in Ethiopia. Donations from the evening will help provide the livelihood of 13,500 working equines, which will also benefit 67,500 of the world's poorest people who are dependent on them for their survival.
To learn more about the 2016 Nutrena® USEA American Eventing Championships (AEC) presented by Land Rover please click here and to learn more about Tryon International Equestrian Center (TIEC) please visit www.tryon.com.
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The Nutrena® USEA American Eventing Championships (AEC) presented by Land Rover is the pinnacle of the sport for the national levels. Held annually, this event draws together the best competitors from across the country vying for national titles from the Beginner Novice through the Advanced level. This year's AEC is being held at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, NC, from Wednesday, August 31, to Sunday, September 4.
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Looking forward to tomorrow's competition, Little feels that RF Scandalous has the skill to contest the difficult track, but also feels that cross-country will change the standings around quite a bit.
"We've brought her back slowly with her return to competition, but that was only because of the time of the year. We worked on her show jumping and got her a bit more confirmed since she has only been in this sport for two years," she commented. "I think the course suits her quite well. She's very handy to ride, but she's very smart and looks for the flags, which I think will be important, especially at the beginning of the course."
The Merial Open Intermediate division will head out on the cross-country track at 2:20 p.m.
Preliminary Horse
The Preliminary Horse division saw a shake up of the leaderboard as Boyd Martin and Barry, a 7-year-old gelding owned by Windurra USA, took over the lead after the second phase of competition, heading into show jumping tomorrow with a 26.0.
"It was an amazing cross-country course. The course really opened up to be galloping and open towards the end. The first part of the track tested accuracy and control and then the horse's stamina," commented Martin.
Boyd Martin and Barry
Martin and Barry added nothing to their dressage score of 26.0, which they earned yesterday, while Martin also piloted Contessa into the top ten after a speedy trip around the course.
"I think that the cross-country will be a very influential phase here at the AECs, which is good. Here, at Tryon, they've built a pretty stiff cross-country course. It's very interesting for the Intermediate and Advanced divisions because if you try to go slowly around the course you'll get around, but you'll pick up quite a bit of time penalties," he explained. "You've got to be quick and take a chance out there to win."
The division will head into show jumping tomorrow at 8:00 a.m., as Martin will look to keep a tight grasp on the lead ahead of Ryan Wood aboard Sarah Hughes' Shannondale Percy, a 6-year-old Irish Sport Horse by Shannondale Sarco, who currently are in second place with a 29.1 and Maya Black aboard her own 6-year-old Thoroughbred, Mowgli (Our New Recruit x Night Siren), who sit in third place on a 29.2 after cross-country.
Professional's Choice Training Amateur
Anna Kristin Paysinger and her own 8-year-old Oldenburg mare, Luistana (Linton x Espersica), continued to hold their lead in the Professional's Choice Training Amateur division after finishing a double clear trip around the cross-country track and will look to take top honors in the division after their completion of show jumping tomorrow. The duo will move forward to show jumping still secure on their dressage score of 25.0.
The pair have led both phases of the division to this point in the competition and Paysinger was proud of their confidence around the tough track. She noted, "I thought my mare was really brave throughout the course. I was fretting the most about jump six, but she jumped it fine and didn't seem to notice all of the people at all and went right into the water after that."
Anna Kristin Paysinger and Luistana
Encountering a hold on course, Paysinger discussed her mentality shift after she was cleared to continue around the track. The horse and rider combination who initiated the hold were able to walk off course on their own, but Paysinger was tasked with to refocusing Luistana to prepare for the remainder of their run.
"I think my mare thought that she was done and decided that she wanted to head back to the barn," she explained. "Before we started back I asked if it was okay to trot around and canter a bit and they were nice enough to let me jump the novice jump to let me get back into rhythm. I thought we both handled the situation really well and I'm very proud of her."
The duo will conclude their week of competition after show jumping tomorrow while Patricia Hildalgo and her own Sapphire Storm (Orchard Park x Sailor's Gold) are currently placed within striking distance on a 26.4, while Natascha Erschen and her own Emerald Lion, a 6-year-old Irish Sport Horse by Keltic Lion, secured third place with a double clear effort and a score of 26.8.
Preliminary Amateur
Ruth Bley and her own Rodrigue Du Granit maintained their lead in the Preliminary Amateur division, mastering the track and only adding .4 time faults to their dressage score of 27.2 to hold top honors heading into show jumping tomorrow with a 27.6. Nita Sanfilippo piloted her own Alarmabull to second in the standings, collecting an additional 1.6 time penalties for a 30.1. Randa Sorzano and Pleasant Rendezvous secured third, after crossing through the finish with a double clear trip to sit on a 30.5.
The Preliminary Amateur division will conclude tomorrow, as horse and rider combinations complete the final phase of competition at 10:55 a.m. in the George H. Morris Arena.
Novice Horse
Heading out on the course with an inexperienced young horse, Lucia Strini didn't know what to expect from Plain Dealing Farm's Cooley Daydream (by Chacoa) in the Novice Horse division. This competition is only the fifth event for the 5-year-old Irish Sport Horse, and the atmosphere here is unlike anything they've seen before. The mare rose to the challenge and the pair remain on their dressage score of 24.3 after a double clear finish today.
Lucia Strini and Cooley Daydream
"Whenever she saw the jumps she settled a bit," Strini explained."She was really bold and brave. By the time we came into the derby field she was super full of herself. She finished more confident than she started, which is always good."
Looking toward tomorrow's show jumping, Strini feels prepared and believes her experiences today have set them on the path to another clear round. She doesn't have a rail in hand as the second and third placed pairs are only one point behind. Ashley Phillips and Bayni Slade (Doneraile Court x Klagenfurt) and Dominic Shramm and Cooley Renaissance Man (Eurocommerce Washington x Storm) were tied on a 25.3, but Phillips finished closer to the optimum time, which gave her second place.
Professional's Choice Master Training Amateur
Sandra Holden and her own Cano Cristales (Conteur x Haupstupbuch Konny) kept a strong hold on their lead today in the Professional's Choice Master Training Amateur division after the cross-country phase, finishing on a score of 21.6. The 13-year-old Hanoverian gelding laid down a confident round with Holden piloting from the irons and the pair head into show jumping tomorrow with a 1.8 point lead ahead of Ruth Bley and Spartacus D'L'Herbage, a 10-year-old Selle Francais, who are sitting in second on a 23.4. Nanette Schumaker and La Cosa Nostra (by Kevekka), a 9-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding, rounded out the top three, adding nothing to their dressage score of 24.6 around cross-country today.
The division will conclude tomorrow in the George H. Morris Arena as competitors will begin their show jumping portion of competition at 3:20 p.m.
Broadstone Master Beginner Novice Amateur
Letha Calvin and her own Look Cody Look rose to the top of the class in the Broadstone Master Beginner Novice Amateur division with a score of 27.5. The division, which featured 40 entries, will head out on the galloping track tomorrow, and Calvin, looking forward to contesting the course.
"I rode two horses today and I felt that I lost both of their right shoulders at the beginning of the year, but in the last month I found them again," she smiled. "It felt pretty good to have two solid tests today. I'm super proud of both of them."
Letha Calvin and Look Cody Look
Piloting her second mount Quigley O'Higgins to a tenth place finish in the dressage phase, Calvin was thrilled to be back atop the leaderboard, as she won the division in 2010 and returned to AEC this year to prove to herself that she could repeat her past victory.
"I wanted to convince myself that I wasn't a one-time-wonder. I wanted to prove to myself that I knew how to ride and that I could come back and do well again. The person that I most like to compete with is myself," she explained. "I want everyone to do well, but I always think about what I can do better than the last time I was in the ring."
Calvin and Look Cody Look will leave the start tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m. and will look to maintain their lead heading into the final phase of show jumping on Saturday. Tracey Tapman and | 1,966 |
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<|fim_middle|> Senior Night! | The Lady Tigers soccer teams took on San Angelo Central last night at Tiger Field and Wilson Kerzee. The Varsity team came out strong in the first half finding the back of the net off a cross from Tiarra Hodges and was finished off by Abby Cargile. The second goal came off a free kick that was earned by Tiarra Hodges after taking the ball at their outside defender. Tiarra's shot was placed very effectively through the wall, and curved inside the near post. The second half, the lady Tigers had a few let downs on defense and ended up giving up two goals, and ultimately, tied the Bobcats 2-2.
The JV team took on San Angelo at Wilson Kerzee and fought dillengently, but were unable to pull out the win as they gave up a goal in the last 10 minutes of the game. The Lady Tigers will be taking on Ellison for the last district game this Friday night at Tiger field at 5:30 and 7:30 pm. Please come out and support our seniors in their last district game on | 225 |
Thank you for sharing! What an amazing experience. I am sure your little boy will be so grateful that you made the choice you did. Plus, you aren't THAT old. If you lived in LA there would be tonz of people around you, the same age and older having their first :)!
Thanks for sharing that special experience with us. You are such a good mom and I am excited for you to have a new baby in your home soon. Dont let others get you down you are awesome.
Thanks for sharing this, Melanie. For me, the decision to open things up to having this sixth baby that I am carrying was also an initially difficult, but sacred experience, and I am glad that you played a small part in how that came about. We had always had a feeling that six was the right number of children for us, but my own struggles with mental illness gave everyone plenty of reasons to question just how wise having more children would be for me. Pregnancy itself has never been particularly difficult for me, but I delayed taking medication that I needed for years because I was afraid of the risks that taking the medication while pregnant might cause, and adjusting to the stress and added work of taking care of a new baby can be hard on anyone. I followed my dream of having more children and had Ana, working closely with my doctors on the medication concerns, and for a while we felt like our family was complete. I thought that the miscarriage that I had had years ago might have been meant to be that sixth child we had always felt would be part of our family, and even if I never saw that child in this life, I clung to the hope that I might still have another one in the eternities. At 39, I had made the decision to sort through and get rid of most of the baby clothes in the basement, and then I found out about you Jonathan having your sixth child, despite whatever concerns you might have about age (you are a bit younger<|fim_middle|>. Maybe she was afraid we would change our minds if we thought about it too long. I'm glad she's on her way, though. I just wish that the finishing the basement project were a bit further along. I'm glad that you are enjoying having your little one with you now. | than I am, just like Jared is younger than me, but Jonathan and I are the same.) Knowing how genuinely happy I was to hear your wonderful news opened that little door in my heart that I had thought was closed, and gave me a powerful dose of hope that perhaps we might be meant to have our sixth child in this life, too. It helped me realize that despite my fears and concerns, THAT was what I really wanted to happen, and it helped open that all important discussion with Jared that established that he still might want another child, too. "Father of the Bride II" is such a great film to watch if you are trying to put your concerns about being an "older" Mommy in perspective. We started out trying to take things slow, but once we were both sure that this was the right decision, it all went pretty quickly. That little seed of hope and faith just grew and grew once it started getting a bit of nourishment, and our little girl grabbed the first opportunity we gave her to come into this world | 210 |
Isn't it funny how the simplest sewing project is always your kid's favorite?
of the t-shirt you slapped together in 15 minutes one afternoon. That's exactly what happened with this dress.
The next thing I know Reli has pulled it from my mess, and begged me to turn it into a "wiggle" dress.
How can you say no to a request like that?
In less than a half hour she's got a new favorite<|fim_middle|> stop back tomorrow for the tutorial.
It could be one of the easiest dresses that your girly ever adores!
I love your dress! I like what you did with the hemline and also how you closed up the neck opening a bit on the sides. I'm pinning it! Lovely job!
Thanks Mary Jo! I really like the hem too, and was lucky enough that it was original to the shirt so I didn't have to do any extra work. Gotta love that! | dress that she'd happily wear every day if I'd let her.
And since it's just a thin t-shirt, she's even taken to wearing it as a nightgown!
But if I'm honest, I think I love it too. It's a very simple "me" kinda style.
And why not make a dozen if they are so easy to whip up, and they make her this happy?
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The Reynolds Youth Soccer Club (RYSC) was formed many years ago to serve the kids of the<|fim_middle|> All of our board members are volunteers and have kids playing within the club. We have no paid administrative staff nor paid coaches. This has been our decision to get parents involved. Many of our coaches have played in the past and many are learning the game along with the kids. The smiles on their faces tells us it works!
We play in the spring and in the fall. Registration for spring begins in January and June for the fall season. | Reynolds School District. Over the years, our decision has been to focus on the recreational side of soccer. As such, we have become one of several premier soccer clubs in East Multnomah County.
Our primary focus has always been to help the kids of the club develop a love for the game of soccer. | 62 |
A speak up culture is an important component of a company's commitment to organizational justice. All of the pieces of an internal justice system have to fit together and are interdependent. When one part does not work, the whole system does not work.
A robust internal investigation system is a critical component of organizational justice. Companies often pull together the basic components of an internal investigation system but fail to fine-tune the system to maximize efficiency and minimize resources.
Most internal investigations resolve human resource issues. Approximately 80 percent of employee concerns relate to human resource or complaints about supervisors. However, employee concerns are critical to unearthing conflicts of interest and potential significant issues like FCPA or sanctions violations.
An important reminder of the importance of an employee hotline was the Goodyear FCPA enforcement action from last year. The FCPA issue was raised through an employee hotline call.
A company's internal investigation system has to be consistent, timely and fair. There are several important aspects to these requirements. A consistent internal investigation system requires transparency as to procedures and policies followed for conducting internal investigations.<|fim_middle|>perienced investigators tend to veer off on tangents or waste time and resources on questions and inquiries that have little relevance to an investigation.
The key to focusing an internal investigation is to focus on the elements of the offense – whether a legal or Code of Conduct violation. A company has to break down the elements of each offense so that investigators focus on the important issues in an investigation.
Similarly, witness interview and report writing templates are important to focus an internal investigation. Keeping focus on the real and significant issues in an internal investigation is critical to efficient internal investigation systems. | A company should publicize internally the specific policies and procedures to govern internal investigations.
The old adage that justice delayed is justice denied applies with equal force to the internal investigation function. Routine internal investigations should be completed in 60 to 90 days. Further delays beyond 90 days undermine the effectiveness and trustworthiness of internal reporting systems.
An internal investigation system has to dispense justice that is fair. Consistency in meting out discipline is an important requirement. Similar violations have to be punished consistently. Whether an employee is senior executive or a lower-level employee, the punishment for equivalent violations has to be consistent.
As to the internal investigation system, companies wrestle with a big issue – who is going to conduct an internal investigation. Many companies leverage existing resources by using employees in the field as part-time or occasional investigators. These investigators have other responsibilities and usually are trained in a multi-day program on how to conduct investigations.
The danger of such an internal investigation program is the loss of quality control over the conduct of internal investigations.
Another key technique to promote consistency is the creation of internal investigation templates for witness interviews, report writing and elements of potential violations. Inex | 236 |
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There is a number<|fim_middle|> July, 2014 [08:48:06 UTC] by Wurster. | of operations that allow for the interaction of CindyScript with files that are stored elsewhere on the computer. Please note that these commands will not work with applets in HTML pages.
Description: This operator takes the argument <string>, which is considered to be a file name (possibly preceded by directory information). If the file name is legitimate, then the entire information contained in the file will be returned as a string. This operator is particularly useful together with the tokenize operator, which helps to analyze structured data. The data are read from the currently active directory, which can be set with the setdirectory operator.
The following code reads the data and creates a list by tokenizing it with respect to ";" and ",".
Description: This operator takes the argument <string>, which is considered to be a file name (including directory information). If the file name is legitimate, then the whole content of the file is assumed to be able to be parsed by CindyScript code, and it is immediately executed. In this way, one can load libraries with predefined functionality. It is advisable to use the import operator only in the "Init" section of CindyScript, since otherwise, the file will be read for each move.
Description: This operator sets the directory for all subsequent file operations.
It is also possible to write files by a sequence of Cindy script commands. The usual cycle for writing is: Open a file — write to it — close the file. This can be done using the following commands.
Description: Opens a file with the specified name. The function returns a handle to the file that is needed for subsequent print operations.
Description: Identical to the println(...) command. However this command prints to the file specified by <file>.
Description: Identical to the print(...) command. However this command prints to the file specified by <file>.
Description: This command finally closes the file.
Description: Opens a browser with the webpage given in <string>.
The TCP commands of Cinderella are rudimentary at best, but they provide the basic functionality necessary for simple networking. You should be able to send and retrieve data over the internet.
Description: Opens a bidirectional tcp connection to the server specified by the first argument and the port specified by the second argument. The return value is a handle to this network connection.
Example: In the following example we open a connection to a web server and read the HTML code from there.
Description: The print and println functions not only support writing to a file, but also to a network connection created by openconnection.
Description: Flushes the output buffer of the given connection.
Description: Reads a line from the given connection. If no data can be read, this command times out after 5 seconds.
Description: Closes the connection given by the handle.
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Tips on Surviving in the Wilderness
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Things Needed to Survive in the Wilderness
Y<|fim_middle|>, shelter offers protection and warmth when sleeping in the outdoors. As the sun sets, cooler temperatures usually set in. Mosquitoes and other creatures are also more active. A thunderstorm may erupt. When you're not staying in a cabin or camper, suitable forms of shelter include a tent and/or sleeping bag. If an alternative shelter site is needed, look for a temporary natural setting, such as rocky crevices, caves, large trees with low-hanging branches or clumps of bushes.
Dry Clothing
Keep warm, stay healthy and protect your skin with dry clothing when enjoying the outdoors. Choose layers of natural, light fibers against the skin and waterproof garments for outer layers. Hats also offer protection from the elements.
From antiseptic wipes to bandages for wounds, a first aid kit comes in handy for campers and hikers, especially if they lose their way or separate from their camp for a couple of days. Easily portable, a first aid kit helps treat a wide range of medical concerns, including headaches, nausea, upset stomach, burns, cuts, infections and splinters.
Map or Compass
Becoming lost in the wilderness places your life in danger, as food and water supplies decrease and the risk of encountering threatening wildlife increases. Pack a map that illustrates the nearest ranger stations, water sources and other helpful locations in the region. Learn how to identify north, south, east and west on a compass. Some compasses attach to the thumb, are held or fasten to a map. When you have no map or compass, take advantage of the North Star or follow the shadow of the sun, which moves from east to west in the sky.
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Under ideal circumstances, hikers, hunters, backpackers and campers venture into the wild with the necessary supplies for survival. At any given moment, an outing in the wilderness can turn into an emergency situation. To stay healthy and alive in the outdoors, it is important to become familiar with essential materials and skills.
An adequate supply of water is essential for survival in the wilderness. Bring an ample amount of bottled water and purification materials. Replacing fluids lost during hot weather, stress and activity is crucial. Aim to consume a minimum of 2 liters of water per day to maintain strength and energy. To obtain water from natural resources, use clean containers to collect rainwater or water found in lakes, ponds, streams or springs. Avoid diseases and harmful organisms by boiling the water for at least three minutes.
Pack plenty of high-protein, non-perishable food for a trip into the wild. When facing a food shortage or wilderness survival dilemma, nature provides a handful of edible options. Insects are high in protein and easy to catch. In damp humus soil or after a fresh rain, capture worms for a boost of protein. Look for beetles, grubs, termites and ants under rocks or rotting logs and in grassy areas. In freshwater, seek crayfish, shrimp, clams and fish, which provide a decent source of protein and fat. You may steam, boil or bake mollusks in the shell. Cook freshwater fish to kill any parasites.
In the wilderness, build a fire to keep warm, light the darkness, purify water and cook food. When preparing to stay in the outdoors, bring waterproof matches or a lighter. Tinder, kindling, dry leaves and grass, logs and branches serve as suitable materials to build a strong fire. The convex lens from a camera, magnifying glass or binoculars can create a fire on a bright, sunny day.
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Each large oak dining table top is built using single solid pieces of oak in our unique design. Not only does that mean that the oak's colour and grain flows unbroken along the entire length of the table, but also that the solid oak top will age naturally and never become shabby with age.
Most other oak table tops are made up of many short pieces of oak that have been glued, or laminated, together to make up the length and thickness of the table. This is because it is much cheaper material and the result is an oak top which looks more like floor-boards.
You can easily identify a cheaper laminated oak top; just look for the many square joints in the table top where the oak suddenly and unnaturally changes colour and the grain stops and starts.
Because oak is a natural material that breathes as the air humidity changes throughout the year, it contracts and expands slightly every year. The Komodo design allows each beam to breath without the small seasonal movement straining the joints and prematurely weakening the table.
We protect the oak's beautiful appearance with a highly durable stain-resistant finish, which keeps the oak looking and feeling completely natural.
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The edge of the table takes the shape of the natural curve of the tree that it came from. A refined hand-finishing technique leaves the table's natural edge and top surface beautifully smooth to the touch.
The Komodo table's structure will never become weak or wobbly because of its unique locking-plate structural design which holds each part of the table together independently<|fim_middle|>20 x 60mm so extremely strong. Then a 5mm thick stainless plate is fillet welded onto the top of the horizontal cross-member so it can't bend or break under any amount of household stress.
This layout plan shows the standard table options, each size showing 2 optional settings. Firstly a more spacious setting for the number of people who could regularly and comfortably eat at the table and secondly the maximum number of people that could eat at the table.
For example, if you're seating up to 8 people regularly but may need to seat 10 occasionally, I'd recommend the 2400mm table which is the table featured on this page. | .
This large oak dining table can take any amount of weight or everyday use because of the immense strength of the thick oak top and base, locked together with this simple but innovative structure.
Even if there is any natural movement in the oak over the years, the table parts can still remain locked tightly together because the table base is designed to allow for any degree of natural movement.
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ENERGY DIMENSION: We have learned much about our bodies through old wives' tales handed down from our moms and grandmothers and even in school, but not all of it is correct. Here we look at 10 misconceptions that might surprise you.
Human warts are caused by a virus that affects only humans, the human pappiloma virus. They cannot be caught by animals with warts and certainly not by toads whose bumps are not warts but glands.
False! Twelve controlled, double blind trials have shown that there is absolutely no connection between children's behavior and their sugar intake. One thing was found, namely that parents rate their child's behavior as more hyper when they thought they had been given a sugary drink. "The studies included sugar from sweets, chocolate and natural sources. Even in studies of those who were considered "sensitive" to sugar, children did not behave differently after eating sugar-full or sugar-free diets," said Vreeman and Carrol who undertook the retrospective study.
William James, a psychologist in the 1800s, once metaphorically used the idea of 10% of the brain being all that was used at one time. This grew into the rumor that it was all the brain was overall and most of the rest was not understood or used as far as we know. Actually, the inactive neurons are just as important at any given moment as the ones actively firing at a point in time, and the 10% comes from varying areas at different times.
The idea that taste buds in different areas of the tongue correspond to sweet, sour, savory and salty has been floating around for decades but is false. Every area of the tongue can taste every type; the idea that there was a tongue map came from a mistranslation by a Harvard professor, of a badly written and discredited German paper.
It would make it hard to concentrate on needed things such as work if this were true, so good thing it isn't. Even though there is no way of measuring this properly, studies scientists have done show this is a huge exaggeration.
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Sleepwalkers are often confused and/or disoriented when awakened but this is far better than the danger of injuries that are common from tripping over things, walking into dangerous areas and more. Thus, wake them gently and help them get back to bed.
As we see here, what we think we know is not always accurate! So don't worry about your child having that extra cookie, at least from a hyperactive point of view, and don't spend a lot of money on products that supposedly cure split ends! | anything purporting to heal them should be looked at with the same eye as you would look at snake oil.
Another falsity: Uncut hair is tapered, so doesn't appear as thick as cut hair. Also, uncut hair has more exposure to the sun, which lightens it a little, making cut hair appear darker at first.
Neither continue to to grow. What does happen is that the cuticles and skin shrink after death, making it appear as if the nails and hair were lengthening.
There is no evidence to support this misconception at all. Viruses are more common in the low humidity time of winter and of course, people are gathered indoors more, so they spread easily but the only thing that going out in the cold does is perhaps lower your resistance to an infection you already have | 162 |
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Depressed? Look for help from a human, not a computer
by Opinion Contributor November 15, 2015
Almost 8 percent of Americans 12 and older dealt with depression at some point between 2009 and 2012. With that many of us feeling blue, wouldn't it be nice if we could simply hop on the computer in our pajamas, without any of the stigma of asking for help, and find real relief?
Online programs to fight depression are already commercially available, and while they sound efficient and cost-saving, a study out of the U.K. reports that they're not effective, primarily because depressed patients aren't likely to engage with them or stick with them.
The study, which was published in The BMJ journal on Wednesday, looked at computer-assisted cognitive behavioral therapy and found that it was no more effective in treating depression than the usual care patients receive from a primary care doctor.
Traditional cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is considered an effective form of talk therapy for depression, helping people challenge negative thoughts and change the way they think in order to change their mood and behaviors. Online<|fim_middle|> that do-it-yourself treatments like cCBT can still be effective. But they're more likely to succeed when people have relatively mild symptoms of depression or are in a recovery stage – the participants in this study were mostly in the category of moderate to severe depression, he says. Computerized CBT is also more likely to succeed, he adds, if the patients are open to seeking help on a computer and when they have a "reasonable amount" of guidance as they go through the program, preferably from a therapist. In this study, he says, participants each totaled roughly six minutes of telephone support and guidance.
Being depressed can mean feeling "lost in your own little small, negative, dark world," Dowrick says. Having a person, instead of a computer, reach out to you is particularly important in combating that sense of isolation. "When you're emotionally vulnerable, you're even more in need of a caring human being," he says.
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A team of researchers from the University of York conducted a randomized controlled trial with 691 depressed patients from 83 physician practices across England. The patients were split into three groups: one group received only usual care from a physician while the other two groups received usual care from a physician plus one of two computerized CBT programs, either "Beating the Blues" or "MoodGYM." Participants were balanced across the three groups for age, sex, educational background, severity and duration of depression, and use of antidepressants.
After four months, the patients using the computerized CBT programs, or cCBT, had no improvement in depression levels over the patients who were only getting usual care from their doctors. "Uptake and use of cCBT was low, despite regular telephone support," the study authors wrote. Almost a quarter of participants dropped out within four months, and patients noted the "difficulty in repeatedly logging on to computer systems when they are clinically depressed."
"It's an important, cautionary note that we shouldn't get too carried away with the idea that a computer system can replace doctors and therapists," says Christopher Dowrick, a professor of primary medical care at the University of Liverpool, who wrote an accompanying editorial. "We do still need the human touch or the human interaction, particularly when people are depressed."
The lack of patient engagement in this study means these programs aren't the panacea that busy doctors and cost-conscious health care officials might be hoping for, Dowrick wrote in the editorial. Yet it's important to note that the study was conducted in a primary care setting, he says, because many other studies on cCBT that show some benefit have been conducted in psychological settings, where patients might be more motivated to engage with these kinds of online programs.
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The SWPL have appointed Fiona McIntyre as the organisation's first ever managing director.
By Joel Sked
12th Jul 2022, 11:54am
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She will be joined by Liam Tait and Robert Wilson as the competitions officer and communications and marketing manager respectively. The trio will form the new executive team of the SWPL.
Previously executive officer at Scottish Women's Footbal, McIntyre is a popular figure within Scottish football and the women's game. She has been working as the interim managing director from earlier this year, while also being in position as the Scottish FA's head of girls' and women's football since March 2021.
"I'm honoured to be appointed as the SWPL's first managing director, especially at such an exciting time for the women's game," McIntyre siad. "Working together with the 20 SWPL clubs and the newly appointed board members, we have the potential to radically transform the women's domestic game in Scotland. This is a period of exponential growth and possibility for women's football globally, and it is a privilege to lead the SWPL as we strive to maximise the potential of the game in Scotland.
"Liam and Robert bring with them a huge amount of experience of the women's game and will hit the ground running when they join us later this month."
Tait joins from Badminton Scotland but has a wealth of football administration and operations experience and worked as a team services executive at UEFA Euro 2020.
As for Wilson, he is a familiar figure within the women's game having spent six years with Scottish Women's Football as its marketing and communications officer. He joins from Scottish-based charity Include.
SWPL chair Mary Galbraith said: "Fiona was the unanimous choice of the SWPL Board to be our inaugural managing director. She brings with her the enthusiasm, commercial acumen and experience we need at this pivotal time."
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To honor the passing of Jim Rohn on December 5th, 2009, I will be sharing some of my favorite quotes throughout the week. Jim Rohn was a powerful influence in my thinking beginning with my introduction to his teaching in early 1981. See more about Jim Rohn at www.jimrohn.com.
the poor spend their money and invest what's left."
and turn investment into financial independence."
"I used to say, "Things cost too much."
"The problem isn't that things cost too much.
The problem is that you can't afford it."
that the problem wasn't it--the problem was me!
How many times I have heard excellent advice about money and finances and have decided to do as I had done so many times before. Somehow, I would think that it would all work out and that I could get to the point where I could start properly and make a go of it when I had enough to start or the perfect right time. That day never came. No surprise to most of you probably, but many people I know were in the same poor thinking that I had accepted.
Jim Rohn suggested that the first 30% of your income should be allocated like this: 10% for investment, 10% to give away, and 10% for savings, then the rest could go to take care of living expenses and desires. I used to think that the way to do that was to start over and do it right from that point. A total fantasy. There is only one way: to start from where I am now and do it. If I wait for things to change, I will be waiting all my life.
Jim's ideas about money and investments is backed up thoroughly by hundreds of successful people. I've read many of them and have seen similar concepts. Most of them include 10% as a give away, whether it is tithing to a church, or giving to a favorite charity, or giving it directly to people in need. The grand idea is gratitude. It is a way of expressing abundance and gratitude at the same time. In effect, we are saying that we have plenty to give this away.
Today is the last day of 2009 and many will be writing out resolutions for the new year like losing weight, getting control of finances, getting a better position, etc. It's a great time to make a change we think. Out with the old and in with the new. Wipe the slate clean and start again. The beginning of a new year sounds so like a wonderful place to start fresh. You know what? Today is Thursday and tomorrow is Friday. That's it. Just another day. . . unless. . . we really are serious and follow through. Don't I know this! How many times have I thought a day or a time frame would make a difference. There is only now.
Whether it is Jim Rohn's ideas or another wise person, we can take that wonderful advice and make the change anytime we decide. Maybe it is me. Maybe it is now.
Spread Some Joy Today--Feel as if you've made the major change you've wanted to make for so long. Feel as if it has been in place and the change has been made. Other people will see your new confidence. It is unmistakable!
"Pity the man who inherits a million dollars and isn't a millionaire.
Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't."
you will always have what you've got."
and can't change, like your fingerprints.
and must take responsibility for forming."
You've read about it and maybe seen some examples on television where someone won a huge lottery and within a short time, they were broke. "Pity the man who inherits a million dollars and isn't a millionaire. Many of us have always thought it was about money, but it isn't really.
I've also heard the thought that if the country's wealth was gathered and divided equally, it would be back in the same places in a very short period of time. Again, because it is the thinking, not the money that creates the accumulation or the spending.
Personal development is too soft a phrase to use here. A better one is growing as a person as in expansion, enlightenment and character building. Jim used to like to say, "watch what you become in pursuit of what you want." Or he might say, "It's not becoming a millionaire that matters as much as what you become in order to get the million." It was expressed sort of as a warning but really was an encouragement.
I've been in sales management in one capacity or another for about 35 years and I've seen a lot of people who wanted to be the sales manager--to be in charge. Almost none of them would do what it took to get there. Those that got there without the willingness to become what you must become to do well as a sales manager, were obviously poor at it. I found as Jim said that it is more important what I became as a result of the job.
You've probably heard the three bricklayer story. One is laying one brick on top of the other with mortar in between. The other is building a wall so long and so high. The last is building a school where children will learn and play. You could use the word attitude. That word has taken a beating over the last 20 years or so, but it is true. Attitude is so important because it makes such a difference in what you become in pursuit of what you want.
Of course, the way of all of this is that in order to change, we have to change. Seems like such an obvious thing, but how hard it is to get to that final decision point and then move beyond it to the actual change. The really good news is that we all can do it and have the power. All we really need is the desire.
It seems like I have always been in a state of becoming. I have grown to love that state. It is a powerful thing to become, don't you think? We'll just keep going down the path of becoming together. I have realized as you may have that it is not a destination, but a journey. There's actually a lot of peace and comfort in that. I hope you feel that as well.
I'm On A Journey Of Becoming!
Spread Some Joy Today--Pretend that you have a million dollars in the bank today. Feel as you would feel. Is there a smile permanently etched into your face? A joy welling up inside? Or just a calm, confidence that others can feel? Share it.
"Life is part positive and part negative. Suppose you went to hear a symphony orchestra and all they played were the little, happy, high notes? Would you leave soon? Let me hear the rumble of the bass, the crash of the cymbals, and the minor keys."
I love this quote about the positive and the negative and using the orchestra to make the point that both are necessary and desired.
Many people call me Mr. Positive or some other less endearing names, and it might seem like a dichotomy to accept the idea of the negative mixing with the positive being a good thing. I absolutely focus on the positive whenever I can, yet what would positive be without the negative? What would solutions be without problems? What would success be without failure? I don't think it is possible to be one and completely exclude the other. I think excluding one would automatically exclude the other, then there would be nothing.
The deal is, where do I focus my attention? I focus on uplifting and exciting! I am well aware of downgrading and boring. I have no use for them except as a contrast to what I desire. Yet, without them, what would uplifting and exciting mean? It would mean nothing. If I were to focus my attention on downgrading and boring, I would achieve a different result. I suppose a good question then is which would you choose? How would you like to feel? Choosing to focus on one is not excluding the other, but acknowledging it.
Now, here's what I really get from this quote: My goal is to be neutral, centered. Think of it like stereophonic music where you hear different parts through the right and the left, yet you are centered and can experience them both and reap the rewards of the combination.
I absolutely love music to the degree that I can become absolutely lost in it as I experience the different sounds. I can totally appreciate them together while at the same time hearing them as separate. I love a good sad song once in a while, but I find that happy, uplifting, powerfully expressed, moving beat music is my preference. The main reason is how I feel when I hear it. Or, better said, how I want to feel.
How do you want to feel? Choose your focus. Don't exclude anything, but choose your focus and then you get to feel how you want to feel. Isn't it so awesome that you get to choose all of that? So powerfully enabling!
I Love Music! I Love Joy! I Appreciate All!
Spread Some Joy Today--You know, there is just no better way to show how you feel than a smile from knowing you are loved so deeply that it is the love of God. Smile that way today for others to see. It is incredibly powerful and yet so simple.
To honor the passing of Jim Rohn on December 5th, 2009, I will be sharing some of my favorite quotes throughout the week. Jim Rohn was a powerful influence in my thinking beginning with my introduction to his teaching in early 1981. See more about Jim Rohn at http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ikjbgfdab.0.0.jddxifcab.0&p=http://www.jimrohn.com/&id=preview.
"Don't let the learning from your own experiences take too long.
I would suggest that's long enough!"
he doesn't need motivation to speed him up.
What he needs is education to turn him around."
"Learning is the beginning of wealth.
Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins."
has already been written. And guess what? It's all available."
There was a time when I couldn't wait to get out of school. Now, I can't wait to learn something new. One was a requirement and the other a choice. What kind of education does one get when it is a requirement? What kind does one get when it is a choice?
Learning from your own experiences is one way to go about living. Another, more efficient way is to at least add other people's experiences to the mix. A really fast way is to learn from other people's experience. Why make all the mistakes yourself just to learn when you can see all the mistakes others have made and how they fixed it? And getting several different perspectives might be a good way to go about it. There are so many people who have written about their mistakes and successes. There is so much to learn from them in order to avoid having to learn from the School of Hard Knocks.
Jim Rohn taught me much about learning and what is even better is that he taught me the desire to learn. He made it sound so delightful. He was such an encourager of reading and learning. He was a master of journaling, recording lessons learned, ideas found, inspirations received, and wisdom gained. The way he talked about this created within me more of a desire to learn.
What is more is that he taught me to learn more about philosophy. He's been called "America's Foremost Business Philosopher." Why was even more intriguing to him than what. He would ask his audience, "what is it that makes the difference from being average to fortunate? I don't know. . ." Then, he would make some suggestions for you to consider. Not edicts, but suggestions. He always left it open enough to let you come in and look for yourself and then make up your own mind.
His audiences brought notebooks and took copious notes. The audience (even several hundred at a time) would be so quiet as he spoke his bits of wisdom because they were absorbing the thought and writing it in their notebook for review later. He was absolutely a great teacher, and yet, he was a friend and mentor to them as Earl Shoaff was a mentor to him, and he was quick to give the credit to his mentor.
It is the desire to learn through Jim's masterful philosophical talks that caught me and encouraged me. Every day is a new day to choose more wisely and Jim has given me the wisdom. I have taken the notes. I need to review them periodically to see where I am in the process. I am so blessed to have accepted Jim's challenges. There is always today to get back on track and do it well this time. I will rise to the occasion!
Learning Is So Exciting! I Can't Wait For What's Next!
Spread Some Joy Today--Spread the joy of learning! Share your enthusiasm! Realize the joy that your enthusiasm creates in others. It is truly contagious.
"Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom. You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills."
"Don't say, "If I could, I would." Say instead, "If I can, I will."
"Don't join an easy crowd. You won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high."
Isn't it so easy to focus on the problems, what is wrong, to want to know why it is not working out and to long for a time when these do not exist. I've been there and have thought that as well. Trouble is, it doesn't help, does it? Nothing changes. All I saw was more problems, more challenges and more frustration.
It reminds me of John Mayer's very popular song, Waiting On the World To Change. Jim Rohn knows a better way: magnify your skills and become the best you can be.
Hanging around the easy crowd is nice, but it is a pleasant passtime at best. Better to hang around people who challenge you to think, to do, to improve, to be creative, to excel. These people will be so influential in your life--and so much more fun.
Jim Rohn taught me to develop my own philosophy. I accepted that challenge in 1981 and am still in process today. It is a life-long challenge. There is always more to learn.
Spread Some Joy Today--Smile as if you enjoy your own company and every moment of the day. People are bound to ask you about why you are so happy. What will you tell them?
"You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?."
Excellent questions. The people around us will always have an influence. The question is what kind of influence? Of course, that question does go both ways, doesn't it?
Being around people who are always complaining, talking down about things, and just generally disagreeable has an effect on me. After a time, I start talking like them and even thinking like them, then I am them. I don't really want that though! As a result of wanting more for myself than this, I have stayed away from people who have that disposition. I want to be around uplifting, encouraging and exciting people. It is so much better! It is so much more productive as well.
When I first started out in sales at a car dealership at age 22. I used to hang out with the guys and just talk about stuff. It was pretty ugly. I learned to use the f-word in just about every sentence as an adjective, a noun, an expletive, a pronoun, virtually every way possible. Once I realized how ingrained it had become, it was a challenge to get rid of it. Now I say it less in a whole year than I used to in a paragraph. That's how powerful an effect people can have on you and not even see it immediately. You just want to be one of the guys. No problem. Choose the guys wisely.
Who do they have me reading? In the past it would have been the newspaper, and sports magazines, but certainly not books and certainly not non-fiction books. Being in sales there would be a great need to read about how to be good at that and get better. I wanted more, so I had to move away and go it alone.
What do they have me thinking? Well, you can tell by the last two paragraphs that it wasn't exactly inspiring. It was fun for a while until the jokes got too bold, but I started seeing no value in being in this group. I wanted more.
So, the most important question was, "was this okay?" It was not. I wanted more. That is really the key right there: I wanted more. When you want more, you go where you need to go and find new friends, or even go it alone for a time to get there.
People absolutely have an effect on us. Who do we want to emulate? If not them, I will be moving on to find those that I do want to emulate.
Spread Some Joy Today--Make a list of great questions to periodically ask yourself. Then ask them. Here's a good one to ask your real friends: Have I told you I love you lately?
To honor the passing of Jim Rohn on December 5th, 2009, I will be sharing some of my favorite quotes throughout the week. Jim Rohn was a powerful influence in my thinking beginning with my introduction to his teaching in early 1981. See more about Jim Rohn at http://www.jimrohn.com/.
"There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens up the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way."
"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you."
"One good customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising."
"It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current direction, we have to change our philosophy not our circumstances."
I am so thankful for Jim Rohn and all that he left for us that will benefit millions for many years to come. He has left a very powerful legacy.
"It is our philosophical set of the sail. . ." This quote sums up Jim Rohn as good as any could. He was a philosopher. The interesting thing that I've learned over the years is that it is our thinking that causes and creates. It all starts and ends there. So what he says is so true. It is also the way that change becomes permanent. When you understand what you do and why and what you can do to change and keep the change, it will always be philosophical, or your thinking and consequent beliefs. It is not a means to an end as much as a life long study that gets better with age and accumulation.
One of my favorite books by Jim Rohn is Leading An Inspired Life. I can also highly recommend another favorite of mine, The Seasons Of Life. Both are available in softcover for a few bucks. Both of these are so inspiring and uplifting and that is what Jim Rohn does so well.
Of all that I have heard from Jim Rohn, one idea stands out above all others. I don't remember what tape set it was, but I'm thinking it was Take Charge of Your Life. He said something like this: "There's two ways to have the tallest building: One is to become known as a builder and the other is to be known as a destroyer by tearing everyone else's building down. You might tear a few down, and then they'll be out on the street saying, 'I've heard of you!'"
That thought has really helped me beyond measure to stop messing with other people's lives or how I think they should be and concentrate on being the best I can be. But, it is even better than this. It has really helped me see that there is really no such thing as competition. If there is no competition, there is no need to worry about what others are doing.
Another so powerful idea that I have totally accepted is being self-motivated. What if no one shows up is right. That's a big problem. When I accept the challenge myself, I am empowered to live fully. I can't succeed alone. I need other people and other people's ideas, but I cannot wait for them to move me to action, or even to fill me with knowledge or skill. I rely on myself for all of that. Thank goodness.
Being grateful is a piece of magic. There is nothing so powerful as gratitude and it costs nothing, yet pays so well. The best thing is how it multiplies and expands without any coaxing. The more it is practiced, the more it expands. There is an unending supply of it to give away and unending joy in return. What a gift for this Christmas day.
I Am So Thankful For Every Little Thing!
Spread Some Joy Today--See how many times you can show gratitude to someone today. Count all of your blessings and watch them grow!
"Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change."
"If you don't like where you are, change it! You're not a tree."
"One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease."
"We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend minor time on major things."
Jim Rohn was many things in one grand package. Of those many things, one great one is that he wasn't just an encourager and full of wit and wisdom, but he also had a bit of an edge in an attempt to move you from learning more knowledge to moving into action. Sometimes he might say, "you know enough, now is the time to move." The 'disgust and resolve' quote is like that. It's like he's saying, "which would you rather have?"
I'll never forget on a tape he was talking about getting going and he said something to the effect of this: "Pick up a rock and drop it on the ground. That is where you start. The next person that comes along, tell him, 'Sir, you're the first person after the rock.' That will get the conversation moving!" Or, he would say, "I can do anything for about 30 days. Work 12-15 hours a day? No problem. For 30 days, I can be endure much to get the goal."
One of my all time favorites is him saying that "learning, learning and not doing is not good. That would be like a construction site to build a tall building and then every day you're bringing material to the site. Day after day, you bring more material, but you don't build anything. They'll come and take you away!"
"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure is simply a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgements that leads us to either fortune or failure."
Another very famous line was "Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons." And, don't we all know it as being 100% true. Yet another is "don't major in minor things" idea. That makes perfect sense. Why don't they teach this stuff in school? Of course, it's true, we all know it.
Yet, at the same time of using such common sense and encouragement to action, he encourages you from where you are right now with things like this: "Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals." Don't we all know that we all have the capacity to do that. A hard working stiff gets that just as readily as a upper level business executive.
Thank you, Jim! You take a thing that it is natural for us to make complicated in our head and find a way to simplify it so a child can get it, yet never once talk down to us. That is not easy, yet extremely valuable.
I Am Called To Action! I Know I Can. I Will. I Do.
Spread Some Joy Today--See everyone you meet today as your mirror. What can you do to see what you want to see?
"Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It is not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out."
"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude. Be kind, but not weak. Be bold, but not a bully. Be thoughtful, but not lazy. Be humble, but not timid. Be proud, but not arrogant. Have humor, but without folly."
"Learn to help people with more than just their jobs; help them with their lives."
You must learn to discipline your disappointments. I have said that so many times and until I found this quote again, I had forgotten where it came from. It is so true. This was a big learning experience to really understand that it isn't what happens but how we think about what happens that makes the difference in how we feel and how we either react or respond. Ultimately, it directs our lives--one way or the other.
Jim was such a powerful leader and I think it is better said that he was a "world mentor." I considered him my first real strong mentor and I studied what he had to say. Sure he was a leader, but a mentor is so much more to me. I think of a leader as the President of the United States or some company, but I think of a mentor as someone much more personal to you though you may never have met in person. I forget the human part of them and consider the message as transcending all of that because it is so useful to me in becoming more, living more and loving more.
Jim's quote on the challenge of leadership is so good. I have met so many so-called leaders in my past that could not be classified here. I will have to call them 'managers' instead of leaders. Leaders are all these qualities: strong, not rude; kind not weak; bold, not a bully; thoughtful and not lazy; humble, yet not timid; proud, not arrogant and have humor without folly. It doesn't come from a magnetic personality but from experience, dedication and constant learning.
The last quote is something I have tried to do well since I first became a manager at 25 years of age--to help people with their lives not just their job. I've never been just an employer, but a friend. It isn't a personal thing so much as being an encourager and uplifter. I try to inspire as I am inspired. To me, there is nothing so special and so welcome as words of encouragement, whether verbally or in writing. I know how special it feels to me, so I want to give that same feeling back to everyone I can. It is far more valuable than money and lasts forever. I can remember encouraging words way back and I endeavor to forget and erase any and all discouraging mentions.
"The most important question to ask on the job is not "What am I getting?" The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"
I want to help people become more, because that is what I want for myself. Let's call it the Golden Rule of leadership: Lead others the way you want to be led.
Leadership Is An Art. Jim Rohn Is A Masterpiece!
Spread Some Joy Today--Begin becoming an encourager: Start encouraging someone this very day.
"The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you." Now I say, "I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me."
"Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for.
Happiness is something you design."
while you pursue all that you want."
These three quotes are all so much a part of my life now and at one time I thought very differently. Personal development is so critical in my life that I find it hard to imagine not studying it well and thoroughly. It is logical: the more I am, the more I have to share. It's also personal responsibility in making the decision and moving down that path. It's also deductive reasoning: I can't change anyone except myself. Let me tell you that this was the hardest lesson I have ever learned and it took me a very long time to really accept it fully. Not that it was hard, but my resistance was like granite!
Then I've found that happiness is not something that is really attached to anything. It is not an exterior event, but an internal design. If it were accidental, it would be a really tough world. Fortunately, it is as easy as choosing it moment by moment and any moment will do just fine. Then, expand it by designing more ways to enjoy it.
Learning to be happy with what I have in pursuit of what I want has been a tough one to accept as well. The reason it was tough was because I used to always focus on what was wrong and how to change it; what was missing<|fim_middle|>, depression. None of those are any good at all.
On the other hand, what do feelings of optimism, excitement, enthusiasm, cheerfulness, joy and confidence create? Feeling great, empowered and in control. What good comes of this? Everything! Is there a requirement to feel joy when things are not going your way? If there were, life would be a joy! Is there some kind of benefit to feeling great? Absolutely! Is it going to change anything to have these feelings? Absolutely! Will the answers to change things come? Absolutely.
So, the answer is very clear. Feeling good is the way to go and the way through. Is the next question, how do I have that feeling when things are not the way I want them? Here's the key: Practice. Yes. Try it, do it, do it again, do it again and again and again and again. At first you need to use your memory to go back to a place where you felt great and hold that thought and feel it and spend some time in it. After a lot of practice, you just change your thought and you're done.
Lucille Ball learned the hard way. I suppose that we all have, but many of us have never decided to move away from it. That is the first step. You do have the power and you can do it. You must choose it.
Focus on how you want things to be and then live there in that fantasy as much as you can. Your mind works on pictures and will go to work to make that picture happen. If someone tells you that you're denying reality and living in a fantasy world, tell them, "Absolutely!" Next time, don't tell anyone and keep what you're doing to yourself. If they want to know why you feel so good, tell them, "I just felt like feeling good, so I did." It's okay to keep people curious. Worst case scenario is you will feel great when others are feeling crappy. How bad can that be? Best case scenario, you will arrive in your fantasy for real!
What kind of self-confidence do you have now?
I Will Choose To Feel Good--Because I Can.
Spread Some Joy Today--Feel yourself feeling like a million bucks! It's better than money. Money doesn't bring happiness. You choose happiness. It's FREE!!!
"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."
Many people think they know, but really do not understand what affirmations are. When I'm complaining about anything for whatever reason, that is an affirmation. If I say, "this is going to be a 12-hour day and I'm running low on energy and I'll be dragging by the time it's over," that is an affirmation. If I say, "I feel great today and I am looking forward to each and every experience I find today," that is an affirmation. Which do you think brings results? Both. Indeed, they will bring different results, but results nonetheless. The question is, which results do we want? To be tired and frustrated, or excited and optimistic? They are equally in our power.
I just told my business partner this afternoon that "things are not what we want right now, but the interesting thing is that I am awash with optimism! I am absolutely excited about what is yet to come!" He agreed that he had the same thoughts. We get to choose how we are going to feel and we can have bombs going off all around us and choose to look forward with optimism.
When people ask me, "how are you?" I always say something like, "awesome!" or "I'm over the edge with excitement!" Words have a lot of power and choosing the ones that empower you rather than disempower you is worth the effort.
I absolutely love Anthony Robbins book, Awaken the Giant Within. In that book, he has a list of empowering and disempowering words and phrases. Each have a tendency to achieve a different feeling or attitude. For example, rather than saying, "I'm pissed at so and so for doing that!," instead you could say, "I'm a little bit tinkled about that person's choice of actions." Pissed and tinkled have a completely different sound and feel. I'm choosing tinkled because it serves me better. Being pissed doesn't serve me, it distracts me.
Tony has several pages of word and phrase transformations on pages 226-231 of his book, such as changing from disgusted to surprised, or overwhelmed to maximized, or anxious to expectant, or terrible to different. Then he suggests we even pump up the positive words and phrases like from comfortable to smashing, energized to turbo-charged, good to vibrant, pretty good to coolamundo, strong to invincible. These small changes are extremely powerful.
Words, words, just a bunch of words. What does it matter? What we say to ourselves matters so much because it molds us into who we are. Look around you at someone you know who is an angry person. Listen to the words and phrases they use. It is really clear where they are and who they are. Maybe you also know someone who is generally happy and upbeat. Listen to the words and phrases they speak. I'm sure there is a dramatic difference.
Choosing different words and phrases will be hard at first, but with practice it will be a good deal of fun. Begin today. Pay attention to what you say and how you feel. Start by finding some different words and try them out. I think you'll be amazed how much of a change it will create in you. I only know that because of what it did for me.
I Will Pay Attention To What I Say Aloud.
Spread Some Joy Today--Share some of your new found responses with others today! Watch their faces. Feel the fun of it. Feel yourself feeling good!
It is a selfish world after all . . .
I Will Become A World Changer, One Day At A Time.
Spread Some Joy Today--Try a little kindness. Strike that. Share a LOT of kindness today. It is such an easy thing and so rewarding.
climb over them, or build with them."
Oh, the choices. . .
I Will Become A Builder.
Spread Some Joy Today--Being on Facebook is one way to build. If you don't Facebook already, now is a great time to try it.
"You have your way. I have my way.
and the only way, it does not exist."
This is the first time I've seen this exact quote; however, I learned this message many years ago. I have stated many times, 'There is no right way or wrong way, there is my way, your way and their way.' This phrase has helped me immensely over the years to put things into perspective.
Every time someone tries to tell me that there is only one way to do a thing, I remember this phrase. Any time someone uses the word 'should,' I think of it again. The truth is that there is no right or wrong way. Those are purely judgments by the person stating it is right or using the word should. It is their belief (assuming they state it with conviction). Almost all of Europe thought the world was flat at one time, so that is an indication of how beliefs can ebb and flow.
I truly believe that there is no right way or wrong way, but a way. As a result of this, I find that the word 'could' to be much more appropriate in making 'suggestions' to people about things they 'might consider' in case they are looking to change their results. If I state it any other way, it is my ego chiming in.
Don't we all know by now that the only way to convince anyone of anything is to speak in a way that allows them to convince themselves? Any other way will likely be unproductive.
I love suggestions and a bit of time, then I allow it in.
I thought it was my way. . .
I Will Listen To Your Way and Their Way, And In The End, I Will Do It My Way.
Spread Some Joy Today--Let other people have their way today. Just coast for one day and let everyone have their way.
to admit that there is something wrong with it."
to focus on and constantly expand on what's right about it!"
Sorry Norman, I know you mean well and you have far more education than I; however, I have to disagree completely with this quote. Frankly, it is a piece of cake to admit there are things wrong with a company, or a person, or a situation, or life, or the world, or whatever. It takes no brains at all to do that. Line 10 employees up and ask them what is wrong and you will get a serious earful. If they feel free to talk, that is. And if they do, look out! Here comes the judge. . .
What is really needed to move a company forward (or a person, situation, life, the world, or whatever), is focusing on what is right and constantly expanding on that. Who cares what is wrong? Focus on what you do well and expand on that.
I tell you this from long experience: naysayers are a dime a dozen. You can find them anywhere anytime and any quantity. And, I'll tell you this from experience: they don't do anything to help anything. They are anchors and sinkers and balloon poppers. My best advice is to move quickly away.
Here's a great question to ask all the employees: What are we doing well? Then, some follow-up questions, like, How can we do more of that? How can we expand that? What do you hear our customers say that is good about us? Can we give better service? How? How can we give such great service that our customers will rave about us? How can we lower prices and still provide more value? How can our company be a better participant in the community? How can our company have employees to rave about working here?
What's even better than this is to ask your customers and prospects: What is your experience like with us? What do you like about what we do? What do you think we could add to make it better? For you to tell all your friends about this company, what would we need to be doing to have you that excited about doing business with us?
Focus on successes not failures. Leave the failures for history to sort out. Get the enthusiasm rolling and the excitement arcing and the fun laughing. Turn it on and watch it glow. It just needs a spark and some insight and ideas. Let's rock it out!
I Focus On What I Am Good At And Get Better.
Spread Some Joy Today--There is almost nothing better than giving someone else some encouragement. Find something to encourage someone else and don't keep it to yourself--TELL THEM--NOW! To their face is okay. . .
"Feelings are much like waves.
but we can choose which ones to surf."
In the early 1970's, I studied T/A (Transactional Analysis), a self-help method of understanding psychology. It hit the public with the launch of a book, Games People Play, by Eric Berne, MD and was followed by another very popular book titled, I'm OK, You're OK, by Thomas A Harris, MD. The first one was copyrighted in 1964 and the second book in 1967. It is interesting that these books are still available new today on Amazon.com and elsewhere. I was certainly not alone in finding them extremely helpful and instructional, as I still believe they are equally today.
One of the things I learned that has never left me is to "own my own feelings." The premise is that no one can 'make' you feel anything, but that you 'make' yourself feel. There is a great deal of truth in this. I have used this for myself for almost 40 years, and I use it all the time. Whenever I feel something, I pretty much automatically now think that I need to own that feeling and not blame it on someone else. This helps me to understand what is really going on instead of reacting to others. I'm not a robot, it is a constant work in progress, and I get better at it all the time.
So, here's the deal: I can 'feel' the emotion, but I don't have to 'feel' the pain if that makes sense. This is why I love this quote above so much because I can feel the feeling so that I'm not like a stone, but I can choose which feelings I want to 'surf,' or plug into or explore.
In other words, I don't have to agree with someone who may be saying something to me. I can choose a different thought about that. Sally Field said it this way: "It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes." Taking charge of which emotions to surf is critical in an entertainers life for sure but just as important on our own.
People only have the power that you elect to give them based on what you think of yourself. Frankly, it is a wonderful thing to realize this and take charge of it and control it myself. Even if something someone says that I don't like rubs off on me and I feel little crappy for a while, it will be a very short while until I realize what I've done and then turn it back around and be back in charge of my own emotions. Believing in yourself, your value, your worth is awesome and you will be rewarded with an uncrushable self-image.
That kind of self-image is unstoppable!
I Choose My Emotions. I Do Not Allow Others To Choose Them For Me. I Am In Charge Of Me.
Spread Some Joy Today--Today I Want You To Choose Happy Thoughts About Yourself All Day. Have A Lot Of Them On Purpose. Smile As They Pass By. Feel The Joy Inside. You Are Awesome! You Are Exceptional! You Are Wonderful!
". . . there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
Judgement. It is a tough thing to give up. We're so used to it and many of us use it so often, even many times in every day. It becomes our own righteousness that we defend for judging others as wrong automatically makes us right. We think. Or does it?
My experience is that this quote doesn't really affect Christians very much. It's like it is meant for something other than every day life. Again, we're so used to judging, that it is so darn hard to let it go.
But that is what it takes: letting it go. I'll give you a challenge: for the next week, do not label anything bad or wrong, no matter what it is. You can acknowledge that it is, but not that it is bad. It's not bad weather, it is the weather. It's not bad news, it is the news. It's not a bad situation, it is what it is. They didn't do it wrong, they did it. If you can give up labeling things bad, or wrong, you're halfway to paradise.
It doesn't matter if the things are big or little, the key is not judging them as bad or wrong. It is probably counter to everything you learned growing up--I know it was for me. The list of bad and wrong things was very long and constant to the point there was so little right in the world. Big Brother, Uncle Sam, the Republicans, the Democrats, the Unions, the Corporations, the Wealthy Aristocrats, Taxes (on many levels), Prices, Wages, Global Warming, Receding Hairlines, Yellow Teeth, Scratchy Toilet Paper, and as you can see, this list could go on indefinitely.
I am willing to bet, that if you can really do it for a week, you will find yourself feeling better about all kinds of things and I am sure that then you could make it two weeks, a month, a year and the rest of your life.
Of course I am speaking for myself since I am a recent convert. You're probably way ahead of me praising everything. . . Rock On!
I Am What I Am. It Is What It Is. Deal With It.
Spread Some Joy Today--If a co-worker starts down Negative Lane, or Wrong Avenue, encourage them to Peaceful Place. You have more power than you think. | and try to find it, and last a general association that more things equals more success, which equals more comfort, which equals more happiness.
What is interesting now is that I am in the pursuit of more than I have ever even dreamed of before, but the big difference is that I am completely happy with what I have now, where I am now and who I am now. The pursuit is not a need, but a desire. There is a world of difference.
"We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are."
I Can Become More . . . And I Am!
Spread Some Joy Today--If you get a chance, get a copy of Jim Rohn's Challenge To Succeed tape sets. You can get it new on Amazon or many other places including www.jimrohn.com. It is an awesome teaching and among his most popular.
"It isn't what the book costs; it's what it will cost if you don't read it."
"Most homes valued at over $750,000 have a library.
That should tell us something."
My real learning began by reading books starting at age 22. When I was first heard a Jim Rohn tape at age 30, he kicked that desire for knowledge up dramatically. His words from tapes and his books are with me today so much that he is a part of me. My actions on those words haven't always been focused, but his wisdom and guidance remain faithful. The rest has always been up to me.
One of the powerful things Jim taught me was to read well, create my own library and to be self-eductated. This I have done. Prior to starting a book business in 2004, I had about 2,000 books in my personal library (I recommend you don't move very often. . .). Adding the cost of that is a sizeable number; however, they were acquired over a long period of time, and besides, the value is hundreds of times the cost anyway!
Share them. I have given away several hundred over the years to special people I wanted to encourage. What goes around, comes around. I've been blessed, so I pass it on in many ways.
If you haven't already, I encourage you to build a great library of books that move you and instruct you and inspire you. 100 would be a good number. I have a partial list to get you started on our blog: http://commercialtrucksuccess.blogspot.com on the right side.
I Don't Need A Library Card. I Have My Own Library!
Spread Some Joy Today--Share a great book with someone. It will be a great joy for you afterward. A cheap thrill and a lasting benefit. Way cool.
"You can be either a hunter or a fisher. In terms of influence, most people try to hunt. They're going to come at you, they're going to influence, they're going to persuade. What does an animal do when it's being hunted? It runs! Many salespeople say, 'I just can't close the deal.' Stop hunting! What happens when you fish? You put out attractive bait, and then the animal comes to you."
Isn't this like dating? Or job hunting?
Spread Some Joy Today--Try this different approach this week and see what results you might achieve.
Isn't that so much better than this: "Go to school, get good grades, mind your elders, get a good job, work hard, get married, have a family, plan for retirement, retire."
A larger purpose makes all the difference, doesn't it?
I Choose A Larger Purpose!
Spread Some Joy Today--Think of all the exciting things you can do to help someone else. Ain't it fun? Now do some of it today!
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. . . it does."
It's easy for us to think what we do is just a job and that it isn't important. If you have ever felt that way, go out and rent the Australian movie, Kenny, starring Shane Jacobson. Kenny is a guy who delivers and cleans portable toilets for a living and he is quite good at it and really takes pride in his work. It is funny and heartwarming and educational. Great movie.
Whatever you do, it probably isn't nearly so challenging as what Kenny does. He really makes you feel that he gives 100% every day, regular or overtime, rain or shine, through challenging days and easier days. What a different world it would be if everyone gave the service with the great attitude that Kenny has.
What Kenny does for a living makes a difference. If you're at an event needing a toilet and wanting it to be clean and ready, it makes a huge difference. What you do makes a difference and how well you do it makes a huge difference.
Maybe you sell cars for a living. That is a worthy task and in my experience, that job has a lot of levels of expertise and knowledge. Let's say you went out to buy a car and you weren't exactly sure what vehicle you wanted and you go to the car lot. How would you like to be treated? What kind of sales person would you love to get? How good of a car sales person you are will matter a great deal to the potential customer and if won over and taken good care of, that could lead to a very long and profitable relationship.
Maybe you work in an office doing something with papers and computers. All we have to do is picture all that being done extremely poorly and we can imagine that having talent at doing these things matters. Frankly, I dislike filing and consequently, my desk is a disaster. I need someone who excels in this area!
Whatever you do, there is obviously a need for it or you wouldn't be doing it. That means that you make a difference! And, if you happen to have a great attitude and do what you do well, you make a heck of a difference.
Thank you for what you do and how well you do it!
Spread Some Joy Today--Give yourself a little private reward today for making such a difference in what you do. You're special, and it's time to appreciate that more. Have a private party! Thank you!
"The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes. . . otherwise he is sure to be mediocre."
I've made a lot of mistakes over the years, but I rarely worry about them. I feel like it is best to give it your best shot with the best intentions and then learn from that experience however it turns out. The good news is that I have made a lot of successes as well. Indeed, some of the so-called failures were movements toward eventual success.
Then, who is the judge of the failure or success? They say that a spaceship fails its way to the moon with many mid-course corrections and in those, it succeeds on hitting the target. Without those little 'failures,' it would not arrive at the destination. That's a fair way to look at our own lives and actions, don't you think? We can 'fail' our way all the way through life as long as we learn from the experience and we have a destination in mind. This might give a whole new definition of succeeding.
So, the morale of this story: Get out there and make some mistakes! Give it your best shot. Learn from the data. Keep on keeping on. It's all good!
Here's to your success at failing!
I Fail, Yet I Succeed! Kind Of Like Babe Ruth!
Spread Some Joy Today--Is there something you've been holding off doing for fear of not getting it right? Today is a good day. Go for it!
There is abundance all around us and most of us focus on the lack instead. We are so easy to see what is missing, rather than what is there. It is only after we 'tune into' abundance being there that we begin to see it and have it enter our lives in a way that has never been before.
There is an abundance of air to breathe. There is not only an abundance for you, there is enough for over 4 billion and counting. If we get it dirty, we can clean it, but it is there and we are breathing it and there is an abundance--virtually an unending supply of it and it is constantly being made.
There is an abundance of opportunity. There is opportunity all around us and until we open ourselves to that possibility, we believe in the lack of opportunity. Change your thoughts about that and opportunity is virtually everywhere in unlimited supply.
There is an abundance of water, sand and soil. That is, after all, the surface of this entire planet. We could never get around to using it all.
There is an abundance of love. You have an infinite supply available to you. It will never run out. You can choose to withhold it, but the source is unlimited. The same would be true of hate. It is a choice.
There is an abundance of ideas. Just when you think that everything that can be invented has already been, there are millions of them waiting outside for you to open the door and let them in.
Kind thoughts. Uplifting thoughts. Encouraging thoughts and words. There is an abundance of these available for immediate use. You don't need to stand in line and wait your turn, just push the button and there they are.
Truth is, there is abundance everywhere and all we need do is think that is true and it is. As the eyes are opened, they can see and there is an abundance to see.
Spread Some Joy Today--Since you have so much, why not give some away today. It will be replaced in an instant. How cool is that?
but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
Blame is justification, isn't it? Whether we blame a person or a situation or an event is all the same. I've been a failure several times in my past, but I have rewritten history now and I am not a failure, though I have failed many times. The difference is who I pin it on.
I used to pin it on the economy, the lack of capital, the conservative lenders, the list goes on and on. Now that history is rewritten, I don't blame anyone or anything in particular. It is just what happened. The key to that is to learn from what happened to see if there is anything worth learning and benefiting from. The key to that is that there is always something to learn and there is always a benefit.
Once we get to this point in our enlightenment, there are no failures at all. Each event is purely a learning experience. Doesn't that make sense?
Based on that, there is nothing but success!
I Am A Success! I Learn Continually.
Spread Some Joy Today--It might be time to rewrite some of your history. You didn't know you could do it before, but now you know. Write it so it suits you!
it is what you are continuing to do with what you've got."
I've studied a number of extremely successful people. They all accomplished many good things and made a lot of money. The difference that stands out to me is what they did or didn't do when they stopped doing what they did that made them successful. Some made bad investments and lost everything, some retired to an easy life and died shortly after, some kept on creating, giving and living.
As an example, William C Durant, the founder of General Motors and Chevrolet who was rich and famous, lived on a small pension in later life and managed a bowling alley before he died. Another example was Andrew Carnegie, who sold his business in 1901 at age 66 and went on to create a system of public libraries throughout the country that were commonly called Carnegie Libraries--over 3,000 of them! One gave up and the other shifted gears. It wasn't a matter of money, it was a matter of spirit, attitude and purpose.
On a more personal scale, I think it is incredibly beneficial to continue to grow and seek and change and expand--not just in knowledge and experience, but in gratitude and generosity. It seems like sometimes life is a lot of working on getting, whether it is knowledge in school, experience in work, money from employment and that a fully successful life would include that, and also include giving much, if not all of that back.
This was Andrew Carnegie. He did both getting and giving back exceedingly well. William C Durant was good at getting while times were good. He never got around to giving back. Even if I amassed a pittance in comparison to Andrew Carnegie, I have so much I can give back from other attributes that I have gathered.
Isn't that just as true with you? We can start giving it back now. There's no need to wait. I think getting and giving go together so well that there need be no separation between them. It is all part of the same experience by just opening ourselves to that possibility.
Ain't it grand how great our capacity is? It is endless!
Grow Baby Grow! There Is So Much Living To Do! There Is So Much Giving To Do!
Spread Some Joy Today--While you're getting what you want to get, what can you give today that will make a difference? It is as easy as a smile, as thoughtful as a kind word, and as profound as a voice of encouragement.
Sounds like a vacation in Tahiti. . . or a real life Fantasy Island.
Henry was a thinker, and a great one.
I Choose To Live Life Boldly!
Spread Some Joy Today--See how many times you can think of something that causes you to smile or laugh. Way cool.
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
This was me until age 22. How did I get through school? It hasn't stopped since.
Spread Some Joy Today--Go buy a book you've been meaning to read. Here's a suggestion: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
"If you had a friend who talked to you like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?"
Isn't this a great question!
I've always wondered where that negative talk comes from. Maybe you have experienced this as well. I can't find something and the first thoughts in my head are that someone moved it, took it, discarded it, or otherwise made it become missing. I search my memory for the culprits. Then, I remember, I put it in the drawer so I could find it. It reminds me of the "I didn't do it" syndrome from childhood and I'm still looking for someone to pin it on.
Many times I've thought of what instantly was a great idea in my mind, only to have the conversation in my head questioning my ability, my finances, my intelligence, how others will perceive it, the risks and on and on tearing it apart shred by shred. Trouble is that it has operated automatically this way all my life until late and I've found out who the culprit really is: The Ego.
In Dr. Wayne W Dyer's book, The Power of Intention, Dr. Dyer talks of Ego being made of six primary ingredients that account for how we experience ourselves. The top three are these: 1. I am what I have. My possessions (or lack of them) define me. 2. I am what I do. My achievements (or lack of them) define me. and 3. I am what others think of me. My reputation defines me. The phrases in parenthesis are mine.
Until I read that, I didn't really think about the Ego much, but that really had it make better sense to me; sort of an ah-ha experience. Now, when I hear that voice in my head trying to talk me out of something or put me back in my place, I see what the Ego is trying to do. It is trying to protect me and keep me safe from harm. Trouble is, it is making that decision much of the time without my permission. I've just let it have control when I really didn't think that through.
Now, I say, "thank you! I know you mean well, but I will take it from here this time." I have to say that the Ego is persistent in its efforts to keep me from harm. You gotta appreciate that kind of care. But, I'm either in charge or it is, and though I appreciate its efforts, I know this opportunity is right for me and I am going ahead even at the disapproval of my Ego.
This has all been so helpful for me and gets easier every day. I hope your Ego was better trained at letting you be in charge. You probably had nice parents who encouraged you and loved you and guided you. You probably lived in a nice neighborhood and rode in nice cars and got taken and picked up at school and didn't have to ride the bus. And you went to college and. . .
Oops. Sorry. That wasn't your Ego at all, was it?
Go create your world! Nobody deserves it more than you!
My Ego Serves Me. Not The Other Way Around.
Spread Some Joy Today--Listen to that self-talk today and take over for the well intentioned, but misdirected Ego and do it so it serves you well.
"We are not retreating--we are advancing in another direction."
This is a great quote regardless of how you might feel about Douglas MacArthur because it demonstrates a different outlook on what most would call defeat or failure. It's a very good one!
I'm just a few pages from finishing rereading Failing Foreword - Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones For Success by John C Maxwell. If life has been a little challenge of late, the first few chapters of this book should help to give you some renewal in your spirit. John Maxwell says, "The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure."
In his book John tells stories of many well known people and the mistakes that it seemed that they made, and each one of them makes it clear that it wasn't so much a mistake as an activity that didn't produce the results they imagined, and yet, it was really a stepping stone toward their objective though that was not necessarily clear to them at the time.
It has been said that everyone has 20/20 hindsight because you can see the whole path from here to there. That's really kind of a good way to look at it. Pretend that you're looking at a Google map, maybe a satellite map and as you zoom out, you can see from here to there really well. Pretty soon, as you continue to zoom out, you can see where everything leads and where everything is in relation to one another. When you zoom back in all the way, you can only see what is in front of you.
Next time something happens and you think it is a mistake or a failure, try zooming out in your mind and see if you can see a different picture. For example, I've lost jobs in the past and it was the best thing that could have happened to me for a list of reasons, yet at the time, it seemed so terrible. As I zoom out and look back and around, I can see that it was a stepping stone to where I am and what I have become. And today is the same. I am on a path of stepping stones from one place to another. As I am able to zoom out enough to see more of my path, I am satisfied and excited and appreciative of where I am at the moment. It is that power to be okay with where you are that helps make where you are going next so much better.
I am not failing. I am succeeding in another direction!
I Am Enjoying My Journey!
I Can't Wait To See What Will Come Next.
Spread Some Joy Today--Try zooming out on some of your past experiences and see if you can see how great it all worked out. Try it on some happening now.
and there is nothing you have to do."
My goodness! There is such power in that statement. There is freedom in that statement. There is peace in that statement. I think it is worth writing out of a banner and putting on our office walls, but phrase it in the present tense, like so: "I choose everything I do. There is nothing I have to do."
It is incredibly empowering to learn how to think this way. To take away all the silly little things that we make up about why we do things will be a huge blessing. Even the simple, everyday events will change color. For example, rather than saying, "I have to go to work today," say instead, "I choose to go to work today." What a difference between those two statements. It is like night and day.
How about, "I hate paying so much in taxes." Change that to, "I choose to pay these taxes and be grateful for the benefits I receive throughout the year." You could even have some serious fun with this change in thinking, by kicking it up several notches, to, "I love paying these taxes. I love all the benefits that I receive that I only pay a tiny fraction of and I get the full benefit of!" Yo! It might change your life!
How about this: "I love getting up early and I am choosing to have one of the best days of my life today. I don't know why really, but I just feel it in my bones this morning. I am going to rock out and feel the music today!" So much better than, "man, I hate going to work. I can't wait until I can retire and be done with all that. I just want to kick back and take it easy. I've been working all my life and I'm ready to relax." Some people are really dead, but just haven't fallen over yet. How about some living! Some enthusiasm! Some fun! Lots of Joy!
It's all good. I don't want to get you too excited. You might start a new Facebook or Wal Mart or something. Be rich and famous and drive a car that cost what you earned in your previous entire life. Be cool. It's okay. You go on and mellow out and get ready for retirement. Gotta supplement that Social Security you know. Sixty-Five and all that.
Are you crazy??? No way!! Let's rock on right through the end! With gusto and bravado and silliness and excitement.
Dang. Ain't it exciting that you get to choose?? So cool.
I Decide. I Am In Charge. The Buck Starts Here!
Spread Some Joy Today--Totally feel the excitement of having 100% power of decision in everything you do. It's a responsibility you've been waiting for!
I hear a lot of people that are discouraged about a lot of things. What good comes of that? Is there a requirement to feel discouraged when things are not going your way? Is there some kind of benefit to feeling crappy? Is it going to change anything having this feeling? Will the answers to change it suddenly appear after feeling it for a while? No. It's all downhill into more and more crappy feelings, like frustration, disappointment, anger, despair | 4,828 |
Jeff Tyson will take over the women's volleyball program at EMU. Tyson comes to the Royals from Indiana Wesleyan University where he has served as an assistant volleyball coach. Photo provided by EMU athletics.
Tyson To Head Women's Volleyball
May 14, 2012 Last updated May 25, 2012 by James De Boer
Eastern Mennonite University has announced the hiring of Jeff Tyson as head women's volleyball coach. Tyson comes to EMU from Marion, IN, when he has been heavily involved in the region's volleyball scene, including four years as an assistant coach at Indiana Wesleyan University.
He will become the EMU program's ninth head coach when he officially starts on July 1, replacing interim Lauren Reznik. The Lady Royals finished 7-20 last fall with a roster featuring just two upperclassmen.
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During his seven seasons as a coach or manager with NAIA Indiana Wesleyan, Tyson was involved in all facets of running a successful program, from recruiting and public relations to weight and individual skill training. The Wildcats compiled a record of 108-66 in his four years as an assistant, including three campaigns with a winning percentage .643 or higher.
King pointed to that experience as a strength for Tyson.
"Having been both a player and coach, Jeff brings a thorough understanding of the game and what it takes to create a winning program," said King. "I believe that his approach to player recruitment and development will produce immediate results in key areas of the women's program."
Tyson graduated cum laude from IWU and added a Master's Degree from Ball State University in physical education with a coaching specialization. King said his personal character has stood out wherever he has been.
"I know that Jeff is looking forward to working in a place where he can integrate his faith with coaching and I believe that he will be a good fit for our situation," King explained. "Jeff is a person of high integrity and character, has a strong work ethic and will always put the team first."
Heading into his first collegiate head coaching job, Tyson is looking forward to starting with the basics and giving EMU fans something fun to watch.
"I am passionate about developing teams that focus on the fundamentals and the details of the game of volleyball on both offense and defense," he said. "When fans come to a match they can expect to watch an exciting volleyball match with a cohesive team that plays hard and hustles for every point."
Jeff and his wife Ruth will move to Harrisonburg in June. The Lady Royals open their 2012 season on the road on August 31, with the full schedule to be released later this summer.
Posted in Athletics, Student life, Women's volleyballTopics David King, Jeff Tyson, women's volleyball | Mennonite Director of Athletics Dave King said Tyson was the right pick to lead the program.
"Jeff's experiences as an assistant coach at Indiana Wesleyan have prepared him well for the head coach position at EMU and I'm sure he will continue the building process for our women's volleyball program," explained King. "The strengths he brings in recruiting strategies and use of social media, along with his ability to analyze player development and game strategy should help us increase roster size and develop confidence in young players."
Tyson, a native of Elizabethtown, PA, felt both appreciative and well-fitted for this position.
"Thank you to EMU and the search committee for their belief in me and for their commitment to developing the entire student-athlete," he said. "I am excited to work for an institution that is committed to athletic excellence as well as holistic student-athlete growth. I look forward to leading a passionate and dedicated group of athletes as we look to embark upon the journey of success together | 204 |
I am proud to call Adela Mendoza my friend. She is a remarkable woman who is making a difference in our community by opening many doors for others. Mendoza is an international professional skilled at building strategic collaborative partnerships, facilitating cross-cultural relationships, and leading diverse teams and coalitions. She is a Liberty Fellow and an Aspen Institute Ideas Scholar serving as the executive director of the Hispanic Alliance of South Carolina. You can find Adela at almost any leadership table in Greenville where the discussion is focused on our emerging Hispanic population.
The Hispanic<|fim_middle|> collaboratively to understand and serve the complex needs of our growing Hispanic population and ensure its inclusion and success in a growing global economy.
The Alliance does much of its work through its cross-sector strategic partnerships and community teams focused on key priority areas: education, financial stability, health, and access to legal services. These teams are the pillars of the organization. Within their priority area, each team identifies the gaps between needs and resources, avoids duplication of services, and builds collective capacity to serve the Hispanic community.
The Education Team, chaired by Julio Hernandez, the associate director for Hispanic Outreach at Clemson University, has more than 80 active team members aligning collective strategies to build access and opportunity. The goals for this team are increasing the high school graduation rate for Hispanic youth and building collaborations with local higher education institutions to increase Hispanic enrollment and graduation.
An innovative initiative stemming out of this team is the Student DREAMers Alliance (SDA), a leadership accelerator launched in 2016 to empower and magnify a voice from within immigrant student communities. Its mission is to increase awareness of education inequity and advocate for changes in state legislation to achieve equal access to public, post-secondary education for all youth.
SDA was inspired by the Aspen Institute's and Liberty Fellowship's approach to fostering enlightened, values-based leadership. The program, funded by the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina, is an intensive, six-session intervention for a select group of high-achieving Hispanic youth facing barriers to higher education. SDA provides students a space for self-discovery and the resources needed to unleash their potential, develop resilience, and position them for success and leadership.
SDA brings together emerging young leaders with established national influencers and Aspen moderators to deepen students' understanding of social challenges, broaden their perspective, and explore their role in building a better society for everyone in our state.
The SDA was featured at the Aspen Institute this summer as an innovative model to accelerate access to post-secondary education and diverse leadership in South Carolina. One of the key aspects of the model is its holistic approach to building an infrastructure to connect these students to national DREAMer networks and local exemplary student leaders such as Keny Murillo.
Keny is a senior at Furman University, where he is majoring in biology and serves as the current vice president of the Hispanic Organization of Learning and Awareness (HOLA). He encouraged the SDA students by openly sharing his personal journey. Originally from Honduras, Keny made his journey to the U.S. from Honduras at the age of nine and settled in Durham, N.C. In high school, he was a straight A student earning honors, holding offices in a variety of organizations, and graduating in the top 10 of his class. Unfortunately, even with all of his accolades, Keny was not able to afford college after graduation due to his immigration status.
Nonetheless, Keny didn't give up on his pursuit of education. At times, Keny held three jobs while attending his local community college to get a step closer to his dream of attending medical school. Keny worked as a medical interpreter at Duke University Medical Center to save money for college while applying for scholarships.
His perseverance paid off, and he was selected as a recipient of a Golden Doors Scholarship, an extremely competitive fund with a pay-it-forward approach to sustainability. Since 2013, Golden Doors has awarded scholarships to 158 exceptional undocumented students with more than 3,500 students applying. Keny received a full ride to Furman.
He maintains an excellent GPA to support his dream of going to medical school. This summer, Keny successfully completed the Medical Education Development (MED) Program at UNC School of Medicine - an intensive program that mimics the first semester of Medical school. Keny will graduate in December and is involved in the community as an intern with the Hispanic Alliance, as a volunteer interpreter at the Greenville Free Medical Clinic, and as an advocate for DREAMers.
This young man's story exemplifies the leadership qualities the SDA program is seeking to develop in its program participants. Keny was able to open their eyes to the possibilities and inspire them as they plan for their futures.
It is important to our state's success to develop these future leaders. The SDA students are true assets, and if given the opportunity, they will build strong, inclusive, and thriving communities. SDA is helping them build a support network to empower them as advocates and help them blossom as leaders in their communities and beyond.
Debbie Nelson is the President of DNA Creative Communications, an inspirational marketing and public relations firm for nonprofits. She is the founder of Shine the Light Nonprofit Forums in the Upstate and at the state level she coordinates Together SC's Knowledge Network. Debbie is also an adjunct professor at Presbyterian College and Clemson University. | Alliance is an exciting social enterprise created to serve as a vehicle for communication and collaboration between the Hispanic/Latino and the broader community. It convenes the largest network of agencies and individuals in the Upstate to work | 43 |
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Southern Deviled Eggs - Easy and Delicious!
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Southern Deviled Eggs – Easy and Delicious!
Southern Deviled Eggs are creamy with a touch of sweetness from pickle relish and a sprinkle of paprika on top. Very simple and tasty!
A Southern gathering isn't complete without a plate of deviled eggs…and that plate is always a deviled egg plate. Every good Southern hostess should have one, usually passed down from her Mama.
Deviled eggs are a nice accompaniment to any roasted meat, such as turkey or pot roast, and especially good with fried chicken!
Southern deviled eggs are a quick and tasty way to use up Easter eggs or just to take something to a party. And these days, they have become quite a fancy addition to restaurant menus, with all kinds of variations and flavors.
Have y'all had fried deviled eggs? We had some at a restaurant in Pigeon Forge and they were delicious!
Have you ever wondered where the name Deviled Eggs came from? According to History.com, a form of deviled eggs was served in ancient Rome. The recipe and technique changed over the years, with the first known printed mention of food as "deviled" in Great Britain in the 1700s.
The term referred to food that was spicy or highly seasoned. And mayonnaise didn't even become part of a traditional Southern deviled egg recipe until around 1940!
You'll find lots of variations of deviled egg recipes and even Southern Deviled Egg recipes can vary from person to person. Nobody's Grandma followed a recipe so everyone has their own little tweaks, but the basic ingredients are usually the same.
You do not want soft-boiled eggs for these Deviled Eggs because they would be too runny.
I place my eggs in the pot, cover with cold water, and then bring the water to a boil and boil for about 1 minute.
Then turn off the heat, cover, and let them sit for 10 minutes. This produces perfect hard-boiled eggs, which is what you want for Southern Deviled Eggs.
Let's talk about that deviled egg platter. Mine was given to me by my Mama when I first got married and I'm pretty sure it came from her Mama or Grandma. A deviled egg platter used to be a rite of passage or a traditional wedding gift.
If you don't have one already, I suggest this clear glass one or this one for easy transporting of the deviled eggs. They are inexpensive and give just the right nostalgic touch to your table.
How Do You Make Deviled Eggs? Easy Step-by-Step Instructions!
I usually start with a dozen eggs. After your eggs have rested in the hot water for about 10 minutes, rinse them well under cold water and then peel.
Once peeled, slice eggs in half and pop out the yolk.
Add the mayonnaise, mustard, pickle relish, and salt and pepper and just mash it all together until the consistency is however you like it.
**Pro Tip: Some folks like their deviled eggs more creamy, so if that's you then add a little more mayonnaise. I like mine slightly less creamy and with a little more mustard to give some tanginess.
Use a spoon or fork to scoop the mixture back into the egg whites, or you can even use a pastry bag or a plastic bag with the corner cut off.
**Pro Tip: Use two spoons, one for scooping and one for scraping the mix into the egg white.
You can leave the deviled eggs plain or lightly sprinkle with paprika.
Keep the deviled eggs in the refrigerator.
You can make these eggs up to two days in advance.
Do not freeze deviled eggs.
Place eggs in a large pot and cover with cold water. Bring water to a boil, then cover pot and remove from heat. Let eggs sit for 10-15 minutes then rinse under cold water and peel.
Slice in half and remove yolks. To yolks, add mayonnaise, mustard, relish, salt and pepper. Mash together with a fork.
Spoon mixture into egg white halves or use a pastry bag. Sprinkle lightly with paprika.
Add more or less mayonnaise to get the consistency you want.
Use two spoons, one for scooping and one for scraping into the egg white.
Make up to two days in advance.
Update Notes: This Southern Deviled Eggs post was originally published April 1, 2013, and on November 20, 2018, was updated with one or more of the following: step-by-step photos, video, updated recipe, new tips.
It's all about the relish! Yum! So good!
I like to add a little white sugar to my ingredients.
I made deviled eggs the same way! and they are awesome, everyone loves them! one day I was making deviled eggs, with mayo, mustard, salt, pepper and paprika for the top, as I was mixing the yolk mixture I wanted to try sweet relish, so I add relish to the mixture, and bingo! I loved them! now I don't make deviled eggs with out relish, it give it that extra | 1,065 |
Reporter's notebook: Another baby, another dramatic labor, two happy outcomes
Catharine Richert
May 7, 2019 3:18 p.m.
Zein Ibrahim, left, poses for a picture with his baby brother, Fen.
Courtesy of the Ibrahim family
When I first met Yvette and Tamer Ibrahim in December, it was in the living room of their cottage deep in the woods a half-hour north of Grand Marais, Minn. I was there to hear the story of the birth of their now 2-year-old son, Zein.
Because the nearest hospital in Grand Marais had stopped deliveries, they endured a harrowing four-hour drive through a blizzard to a hospital in Duluth.
Their story is growing increasingly likely to repeat itself as rural hospitals shut down their obstetrics units for a variety of reasons, primarily involving financial constraints and quality of care concerns.
Minnesotans share their stories:Traveling for labor and delivery services
Rural hospitals retreat from delivering babies:Small towns pay the price
Share your story:What are the challenges of pregnancy, giving birth in rural Minnesota?
The Ibrahims wanted to avoid their initial nightmare with their second baby's birth.
So, they devised a plan that would allow for a home birth in Duluth, a short drive from a fully equipped obstetrics unit.
It didn't turn out that way.
Check out this Twitter thread for the story:
📻 If you're listening to MPR News right now, you're probably hearing a familiar voice.
Remember Yvette and Tamer Ibrahim and their harrowing, 4-hour drive through a snowstorm for the birth of their first baby? https://t.co/y1WWmCotow
— MPR News (@MPRnews) May 7, 2019
When we last heard from them in January, they were preparing for their second baby's arrival. pic.twitter.com/y7EfWuynAo
They live off the grid, north of Grand Marais near the Canadian border. And they wanted to have a home birth, but also wanted to be near a hospital, just in case. pic.twitter.com/OMEr1lByt5
The hospital in Grand Marais no longer offers obstetric care, and only delivers babies in emergency situations. It's a part of a larger trend that's left rural clinics and small-town leaders frustrated across Minnesota -- and across the country.
Between 2000 and the beginning of 2015, 15 of the state's rural hospitals stopped delivering babies -- a nearly 38 percent decline.
So what does that mean for pregnant moms in rural Minnesota? pic.twitter.com/rdvi5gm0nv
For Yvette Ibrahim, it meant planning -- lots of it.
This time, they figured, things would be different.
And at first, they were.
They arranged to deliver their new baby at a house in Duluth, not<|fim_middle|> to leave for Duluth confusing.
When they finally did leave, they made it as far as Grand Marais to the midwife's house. Yvette said when she got there, she walked in, kicked off her boots and said, "I'm not going anywhere."
Baby Fen, a boy, was born healthy and without complications about an hour and a half later in her midwife's house. If they'd left for Duluth, they likely wouldn't have made it. pic.twitter.com/4juDlDTp3D
Yvette said in some ways, this delivery was less stressful than her first, even if things didn't go as planned, because they ended up being so close to home. pic.twitter.com/ctHKm4p2UC
And as for their older son Zein, Yvette and Tamer say he's pretty excited to be a big brother. pic.twitter.com/rof7BlhjAY
When reporter @CatRichert first reported the Ibrahims' story in January, lots of other moms across the state told us their own stories: of endless searches for midwives, of preparing for the possibility of a roadside delivery, of planning and logistics https://t.co/7q0BQ0C8Xk
And if the trend continues and more rural hospitals close their labor and delivery services, it's likely more parents in more rural parts of the state will have similar stories to share.
Did you opt for a home birth because you live far from a hospital? Why and what was that experience like? As @CatRichert continues to report this story, she'd love to hear from you: crichert@mpr.org | far from the hospital.
Their own midwives would join them, and they'd all leave for Duluth as soon as Yvette was in labor. pic.twitter.com/8Siu6Jq9cJ
But labor can be unpredictable.
Yvette said she'd twice gone into false labor in the weeks leading up to her second son's birth, so it made deciding when | 77 |
In a free, public lecture entitled "look now away closely," David Gersten, professor at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, will address questions of transformation from a number of perspectives, specifically looking at the interdependence of our conceptions of risk and our spaces of education.
"Today, in these early days of the 21st century, the ubiquitous observation is transformation: Cultural, technological, biological, social, political, economic and ecological transformation. We are in the midst of unprecedented re-alignments and re-articulations of every aspect of our lives. Perhaps our greatest risks are not individual threats or even multiple agents creating specific hazards towards specific vulnerabilities. Perhaps our greatest risks today lie in our capacity to comprehend transformation. Education in the broadest sense holds the capacity of developing new pathways of interaction and forms of knowledge that address the challenges of our increasingly complex world."
David Gersten is an<|fim_middle|> of The Cooper Union, since 1991, where he has served as the Associate Dean under Dean John Hejduk and the Acting Dean of the School of Architecture. Gersten is the founding Director of Arts Letters & Numbers, a non-profit arts and education organization dedicated to creating new structures and spaces for creative exchange across a wide range of disciplines including: Architecture, Visual Arts, Theater Arts, Film, Music, Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences. He has lectured and been a visiting professor at numerous universities and cultural institutions through out the world. Gersten's works include: buildings, drawings, stories, essays, films, performances and constructions. His works have appeared in numerous international exhibitions and performance spaces and are held in the collection of the Canadian Center for Architecture, the New York City Public Library's print collection and many private collections. He has published extensively in national and international publications on diverse areas of research including: The spaces and structures of education, emergent disciplinary geographies, the financial markets and collective judgment, nuclear weapons and debt, global resource distribution, ethics and technology, the poetic / material imagination, social justice and the linkages between: embodied experience, memory, perception, language and space. Gersten is a graduate of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. He has also pursued studies in phenomenology at the New School for Social Research as well as Islamic Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary. | architect, artist, writer and internationally recognized educator based in New York City. He has been a Professor in The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture | 31 |
Cook<|fim_middle|> Free Oats: Are They Safe for Celiacs? | ing for a gluten free diet can seem daunting at first because everything seems different. Don't be afraid of failure, you'll soon be gluten free diet wiz cook!
When faced with a gluten free diet for the first time, many people think "I can't eat anything! What am I going to eat now?" Faced with new ingredients and new recipes, many fear their new culinary creations will fail.
Actually, starting a gluten free diet is the start of a new culinary adventure, and a healthy one too!
If you should have any fear of failure at all, it should be of ingesting gluten. If you have a gluten allergy or celiac disease, the consequences of eating any gluten can be severe.
That part isn't so fun. So accept that you must drop many foods off of your personal menu, and focus on what you can eat.
The above list is general and doesn't even cover everything. Most of the food types listed above can be expanded into dozens of individual raw ingredients.
What is true is that some recipes you are used to must be adjusted.
For example, you can't use regular soy sauce. So what? You can get gluten-free tamari sauce (San-J in my favorite), or you can use salt instead, and adjust other seasonings.
Let's say you adjust the seasonings and what you come up with doesn't taste quite right. So what? I'm sure you'll be able to eat it, and better luck next time.
Experimenting is the key. The worst that can happen is that you may produce something truly inedible. But this is an extreme case. It won't be poisonous. Maybe you need to save your biggest experiments for the weekend when you have time to make a second meal, in the unlikely event that the first attempt was beyond redemption.
On the other hand, most of what you make will be just fine.
Besides, bookstores are full of gluten-free cook books. You'll find gluten free recipes on this website and others on the internet.
Do not let your gluten free diet intimidate you. Focus on what you can eat, and go ahead and make lots of delicious gluten free food!
What are your challenges with gluten free cooking? Leave a comment and hare your experiences.
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Dear Fang, with Love
By Rufi Thorpe
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Lucas and Katya were seniors when they made the impetuous decision to have a baby. Seventeen years later, Lucas is now only a weekend dad, newly involved in his daughter Vera's life after a decade of absence. But when Vera suffers a terrifying psychotic break at a high school party, Lucas makes another impulsive decision: he takes her to Lithuania, his grandmother's homeland.
Here, in the city of Vilnius, Lucas hopes to save Vera from the sorrow of her diagnosis, but while he uncovers a secret about his grandmother's WWII past, Vera searches for answers of her own. Why did Lucas abandon her as a baby? What really happened the night of her breakdown? And who can she trust with the truth?
A bold, spellbinding novel featuring one of the most fascinating protagonists in recent memory, Dear Fang, With Love tells the story of seventeen-year-old Vera—ravishing, troubled, wildly intelligent—who travels to Europe with her estranged father, hoping that an immersion in history might help them forget his past mistakes and her uncertain future.
Lucas and Katya were boarding school seniors when, blindingly in love, they decided to have a baby. Seventeen years later, after a decade of absence, Lucas is a weekend dad, newly involved in his daughter Vera's life. But after Vera suffers a terrifying psychotic break at a high school party, Lucas takes her to Lithuania, his grandmother's homeland, for the summer. Here, in the city of Vilnius, Lucas hopes to save Vera from the sorrow of her diagnosis. As he uncovers a secret about his grandmother, a Home Army rebel who escaped Stutthof, Vera searches for answers of her own. Why did Lucas abandon her as a baby? What really happened the night of her breakdown? And who can she trust with the truth? Skillfully weaving family mythology and Lithuanian history with a story of mental illness, inheritance, young love, and adventure, Rufi Thorpe has written a breathtakingly intelligent, emotionally enthralling book.
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RUFI THORPE received her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2009. Her first novel, The Girls from Corona del Mar, was long-listed for the 2014 International Dylan Thomas Prize and for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. A California native, she… More about Rufi Thorpe
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"A hauntingly beautiful novel about a father and daughter. . . . The story grapples with absentee fathers, legendary matriarchs, mental illness, theodicy, adolescent love, and the persistence of hope in the face of suffering, and somehow, Thorpe weaves all these threads together into an enthralling narrative that has me desperate to keep turning the page." —Robin Wasserman, Miami Herald
"A deeply-detailed, beautiful, often hilarious novel. . . . Utterly original." —The Huffington Post
"Beautiful. . . . A family vacation narrative with far more depth and nuance than a typical beach read but a perfectly welcome addition to a beach tote all the same." —The Washington Post
"Blends the cultural history of The Tiger's Wife with the madcap energy of Dave Eggers." —BookPage
"Thorpe is a major talent, and reading her work will bring to mind other writers … like Donna Tartt or Ann Patchett." —The Seattle Review of Books
"Vera and Lucas and their tour companions will live on in the reader's imagination, all of them longing for something that seems out of reach. . . . Definitely an author to watch." —The Washington Times
"Refreshing and impressive." —Brooklyn magazine
"Thorpe manages to tackle dark issues—estranged families, mental illness, and failed relationships—with a unique sense of humor and big-hearted empathy." —Electric Literature
"This book weaves an emotional web that will draw you in completely." —Bustle
"Tremendous. . . . Showcase[s] Thorpe's fabulous versatility, insight, and humor. . . . An absolute winner." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Q: Can you describe your visit to Lithuania, and what about the country stuck with you enough to set DEAR FANG, WITH LOVE there?
A: I went to Lithuania as part of a writing program with Summer Literary Seminars, run by Mikhail Iossel. I had absolutely zero knowledge or understanding of Lithuania, so I just sort of arrived in a haunted city in the middle of a forest. Lithuania, and Vilnius in particular, is an exceptionally strange place and has a certain reputation and self-image as a pagan, unearthly, magic place. The history is very complicated, the cultural roots are both tangled and deep, the violence and political oppression the country has seen are a bit beyond the American imagination. And there I was, just sort of stumbling through it, thinking, "Why didn't I know about all this?" I fell in love with it. I suppose setting a book there was just an excuse to learn more about it, a refusal to let the trip end when after a few weeks I had to return to the US.
Q: You undoubtedly have a strong connection to California–you were raised there, much of your first book took place in Corona del Mar and now you are raising your family there. What was it like to write about an entirely new place in this book?
A: In a lot of ways, even though the action of the book takes place almost entirely in Vilnius, I think it is still secretly a book about California, or at least about Californians. I could never have written authentically about Lithuania as a Lithuanian; I am inherently an outsider, and part of my identity as an outsider is my very Californian-ness. My own experience of California centers around a peculiar kind of amnesia, which is partly cultural—the lack of historicity, the newness of the buildings and freeways and houses, the abandonment of tradition—and which is partly metaphysical, some kind of pscyho-spiritual trance state induced by the pounding ocean and the indifferent sun. The lack of weather makes every day seem the same as the one before it, so that time seems not to exist. The constant physical beauty, the coast, the flowers and plants, are distracting and make human problems seem more trivial. It is easy to become forgetful here, and I saw in Lithuania a very different kind of forgetfulness, the amnesia of repression and trauma and even censorship, and I thought: these two kinds of cultural amnesia could create a kind of interesting tension if they were brought together.
Q: Descriptions of Vera's psychotic break are very real and intense, especially when she calls herself "the immortal light." Did you find it challenging to create this scene?
A: Yes and no. I have known and loved two people, both of whom have experienced psychosis as part of their bipolar I disorder. I have never been with them when they were having a full on psychotic break, but I have seen both of them have minor episodes, and I have had the chance to listen to their stories, about episodes, psychosis, but also mental hospitals, treatment protocols, medications. I also, of course, did a lot of reading and research. But I suppose I don't find that kind of delusion very foreign, which is perhaps part of why I found myself<|fim_middle|> Vera's life and then steps in during a time of crisis, now attempting to serve as a reliable father figure. What was your inspiration for him?
A: I suppose I was my inspiration for him. None of those events are autobiographical, and yet, the way in which Lucas is a loser is one I relate to very deeply. Lucas is a man hesitating, not knowing how to jump into the double-dutch of his own life. All of his intentions are extremely good, but he fails to act. I find that kind of folly endearing for some reason.
Q: You touch on some very serious issues relating to mental illness—suicide, bipolar disorder, effects of antidepressants. What led you to include them in the book?
A: I am always interested in the ways in which realities are constructed. I find it very alarming that my moods can change. One week, I can be convinced that my life is a failure and everything I have accomplished is meaningless, and just a few weeks later, I can see my life as beautiful and productive. So for me, madness is just one lens for viewing a very ancient and simple problem, which is the fallibility of human consciousness.
Q: You always do a beautiful job of weaving mythology into your novels—in The Girls from Corona del Mar, it was the story of Inanna, in Dear Fang, With Love, it's the myth of Lucas's grandmother. What kind of research goes into developing these threads in your novels?
A: I am always reading and getting interested in something. I think that's really the best part about being a writer: it gives you license to learn about whatever interests you. So in a sense, I am always researching, but the term research sounds so official. What is actually going on is more like a fat, drunk bumblebee making helixes through the blossoms.
Q: What's next for you?
A: My next book is about a woman who sails. So, boats. Boats are what is next for me!
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Q: Can you talk a little about what it was like to switch between the voices of Vera and her father Lucas? More specifically, what was it like to write Vera's letters to Fang, during which we see her unraveling?
A: Vera was the easy one for me. Her voice is a joy to write and seems to be much less under my control. The things she says just pop out and I often do not know before hand what she is going to say or do. Lucas is a much more studied character, in part because he is the one who has to carry the task of the main narration of the book. As for Vera's unraveling, I mainly had to write it all and then cut most of it. Ironically, madness is actually extremely boring.
Q: Lucas is also a complicated character. He has been absent for most of | 231 |
Why Gin Is So Popular On The Rugged Scotland Island Known For Its Whisky
Go for the whisky, stay for the gin on Scotland's beautiful Islay, which is a botanicals goldmine, writes Andy Lynes
Islay is the southernmost of the Inner Hebrides islands. Photo / Supplied
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Islay may be a mere 45-minute hop in an alarmingly small twin-propeller plane from Glasgow, but it feels like arriving at the edge of the world.
In a way I have; head due west from the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides and the next time you'll hit land will be 3200-odd kilometres away in Newfoundland. With just 3000 or so inhabitants scattered across 620sq km, there's a lot of open space.
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Every direction offers a photo opportunity of rugged landscape dotted with free-roaming cattle and sheep (on more than one occasion the car was held up on the mostly deserted roads to allow a ewe to cross) or dramatic coastal views.
I'd been invited to stay at Bruichladdich in the whitewashed village of Port Charlotte on the shores of Loch Indaal, one of nine distilleries on the island world famous for their whisky, with its distinctive smoky flavour derived from barley dried over fires made with peat, an abundant resource. But not one drop of the hard stuff passed my lips. Instead, the point of my trip was to find out about The Botanist gin, made at the<|fim_middle|> Inner-City Work Lunches In Auckland
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James Donaldson, Bruichladdich's full-time forager, was my guide to the island's flora. He runs foraging trips for the public at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds' Loch Gruinart reserve in the northwest of the island, but for our session we headed to the scenic Bridgend Woods, a 10-minute drive from the distillery around the top of the loch.
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With a degree in botany, years of experience as a tour guide and a wit far drier than Islay's climate, James is an engaging presence. Standing in a field listening to someone extolling the virtues of nettles is an odd way to spend a morning, but entertaining and educative, nevertheless. ("They've more vitamin C than oranges, more protein than soya and more iron than spinach. Don't eat them raw, though; the little hairs on the leaves are like hypodermics full of formic acid, but nettle and parsnip soup is delicious.")
Bruichladdich distillery's chief forager James Donaldson. Photo / Supplied
We picnic at tables in the adjoining Islay House Community Garden, run by volunteers, where you can pick fruit and vege, including broad beans, fennel and strawberries and leave payment in an honesty box. We sip gin cocktails with homemade nettle cordial and rosemary sprigs cut there and then in the garden.
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Having identified and tasted everything from lemony wild sorrel to fruity red clover flowers, I'm feeling like a foraging authority. But when James tells me Islay is also full of hemlock water dropwort which, with its white umbel flowers, can be easily mistaken for other plants in the carrot family but can "kill you stone dead in seconds", I decide only to forage with an expert.
Back at the distillery, I take a tour and get a look at Ugly Betty, a rare 15,500-litre copper "Lomond" still, built in 1959 and originally intended for whisky but now used to make gin. It's a beautiful piece of engineering with a steampunk style that wouldn't look out of place in the engine room of Captain Nemo's Nautilus.
Bruichladdich distillery gin is flavoured with 22 varieties of the plants and herbs that grow wild on Islay. Photo / Supplied
For each distillation, James prepares sacks of the carefully dried foraged plants and herbs including apple mint, chamomile and creeping thistle that act like giant herbal tea bags, infusing the vapours of the heated neutral grain spirit that form the base of the gin with complex flavours and aromas. The resulting syrupy concentrate is mixed with pure spring water from nearby Octomore and more neutral spirit to make the finished gin.
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I end my trip with gin and tonics and local seafood in the cosy bar of the Port Charlotte Hotel with views out over the loch. Undoubtedly, tourists will continue to be drawn to Islay (and to neighbouring Jura) for the whisky, but they'll be missing a trick if they don't stay for the gin.
• Tours of the Bruichladdich distillery are available throughout the year and cost between $10 and $50 per person. For details and bookings visit Bruichladdich.com. James Donaldson will be running The Botanist — Foraging Walks at Loch Gruinart, Islay on Aug 15 and 22. The two-hour walk costs $20 per person. For bookings visit Rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-events
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By: Anne Wallace Allen June 11, 2018 1 Comment
With new sponsors and a much larger budget for its June 15 and 16 event this year, Boise Pride Fest has moved into the Idaho mainstream.
Local LGBTQ groups have long been on the fringes in Idaho's largest city, and Idaho's LGBTQ individuals often say their community, like those in other cities, is fractured into different camps.
But the board of Boise Pride Fest is finding its moment in the corporate world. Michael Dale, president of the Pride Fest board, and Andrew Bunt, the VP, took leadership of the organization last summer and set out to promote Boise Pride Fest as an organization that focuses on generosity, sustainability and social responsibility. Under Dale and Bunt, the leadership is steering sharply clear of politics. The group's mission statement emphasizes that the LGBTQ community is part of the larger local community.
Both Dale, who works for Target, and Bunt, a Boise native who has worked in finance and supply chain management, have the heart of salesmen, not political activists. The two have secured support from corporations and local businesses that have never sponsored before. Bunt said Boise Pride Fest has $250,000 worth of in-kind and cash donations for the festival, $160,000 of that in cash, a jump up from the $80,000 secured for last year's event.
Micron is a new sponsor, as are Albertsons, Zions Bank, Target, and Chobani, said Dale. Also new this year: Paylocity, Happy Family Organics, Holland & Hart, Tito's and Mike's Hard Lemonade. Existing sponsors include Citi, T-Mobile, AT&T, Umpqua Bank, HP and Bacardi Brands. The Grove Hotel is acting as a partner, with special room rates for participants. Wells Fargo, which has sponsored Boise Pride Fest since its earliest days, is paying for about one-quarter of the festival this year and offering 250 volunteers. The city, which has contributed in the past, put up 50 Pride Fest rainbow banners downtown this year, a first-time contribution that cost $3,000.
Bunt and Dale expect about 50,000 people to attend the festival over the two days – up from 35,000 last year. They have sold tickets to some of their concert events to visitors from Portland and Seattle.
Pride's organizers want to use any money raised by the Boise Pride Fest to spruce up the city's gay community center on the Boise Bench, but they are steering clear of supporting other LGBTQ initiatives. They envision a time when Boise Pride Fest raises money for the Boise community at large, not just the LGBTQ community.
"This year, the LGBTQ community center; next year, a group that is not affiliated with LGBTQ at all, that is struggling, that we can go to and say, 'Thank you for supporting us in the past or whatever. We want to give,'" Bunt said.
This apolitical, corporate-oriented approach has alienated some members of the area's LGBTQ community. Boise Pride Fest has come in for sharp criticism on social media, and a group is holding an alternative Boise Pride Fest in Julia Davis Park. Bunt and Dale are not deterred.
"We can't always be complaining about what we don't have," Bunt said. "Let's celebrate what we do have — the victories we have won; that we can get married now. There's more work to do. I get that, but let's celebrate and help the other groups, like refugees."
The organization needs money to pay for things like using the park and hiring security, Dale noted.
"People want a free Pride, but it doesn't pay for itself," he said. "Our stage alone costs almost $40,000. Corporate involvement allows us to do that."
Meanwhile<|fim_middle|> Chelsea Gaona Lincoln, said Add the Words will participate in the Boise Pride Fest and at the alternative fest at Julia Davis Park.
"I have personally been a very vocal proponent of the need for Boise Pride to be focused on the LGBTQ community, not just because of my personal beliefs, but because I've been approached by so many other folks in the community as the chair of Add the Words," Gaona Lincoln said. "They're asking for someone to advocate a different vibe from Pride, which would include less corporate sponsorship and more of a focus on what Pride is actually about."
But Gaona Lincoln said her group will work with both groups.
"There are so many layers to our community," she said. "I don't look at it as fractured. I look at it as continued progress and growth and development."
Meanwhile, Boise Pride Fest, which has no paid staff now, is looking for a paid executive director, and Bunt and Dale are hoping the festival will help them find new board members who represent more aspects of the LGBTQ community.
"Pride is a festival, but it's more than that; it's time for us as a community to come together and share our differences," Bunt said. "We get so nit-picky about our differences that we forget to share the things we have in common."
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Would you like to be a token representative of the diverse population of LGBTQ people in Idaho, but still avoid the burden of having to come up with ideas? Good, because Pride organizers will dismiss your ideas anyway. We need you to make these self-martyring white boys look inclusive. Join the pride board now! | , Bunt and Dale are also facing exactly the same kind of quandary their corporate sponsors are working to overcome: a lack of diversity in the leadership. Boise Pride Fest's board is made up of three gay men and one straight woman — along with one trans drag queen who is on a committee.
"We're not diverse," said Bunt. "We don't have a lesbian at the table or a bi person or a trans person. Without them on the board, it's hard for me to create an event or atmosphere for them."
Bunt served as an LDS missionary in Venezuela and said his training with the church has come in handy as he energizes his large volunteer base. Apart from the helpers sent by corporate sponsors, Bunt also has 120 individual volunteers who are committed to working the two-day festival.
To encourage them to show up, he has put together a package with T-shirts and other swag, and he'll house a few at the Grove Hotel after they work late into the night Saturday. He's having sit-down meetings with all the volunteers to convey to them the Pride Fest's mission and how to communicate it.
"Mormons teach you how to get people to commit to something," he said. "If you tell people to do something but don't give them a reason why or an incentive, they're most likely not going to do it. I tell people, 'You are valued; you are needed.'"
As for the criticism about forging such a close relationship with corporate sponsors, Bunt says he'd like the Pride Fest to be an opportunity for dissident members of the LGBTQ community to come together. The other large LGBTQ group in the area, Add the Words, is the campaign lobbying state lawmakers to update the Idaho Human Rights Act to include protection from discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodation for all, including gay and transgender people. That group's organizer, | 383 |
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Over time, the aim is to create a network of junior colleges across Scotland. In every instance these will work with local authority, neighboring schools, businesses and the local community to provide something that is additional and strengthens the public education system in the area.
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Scotland has excellent schools. Most young people leave well prepared for adult life and work, but some do not, and among those are young people with much to offer. However, for some reason, the normal school experience has not inspired them and they become demotivated and likely to fail.
NJC has been specifically designed with these young people in mind. Its intensive individual support and strongly vocational curriculum provide a different experience that can re-engage them and set them on the road to success. NJC is not for everyone; it provides a specialist service for a very specific group of students.
NJC aims to provide Scottish education with an additional resource. It is not in competition with comprehensive secondary schools, it aims to work closely with those near to it to ensure that every young person receives the kind of education best suited to their needs | 194 |
Can there be a world without malaria? World Malaria Day 2015 marks the beginning of the World Health Organization's call for a high-level commitment to this vision. The ambitious goal is to reduce malaria<|fim_middle|> refrigerator strength magnets and a laser point to diagnose malaria. With only a drop of blood and a drop of tap water, the test is complete in ten seconds to a minute, with an accuracy rate of 94%. It is portable and low cost, which allows the test to go to the person, increasing accessibility and the likelihood of use. It can detect an infection among asymptomatic individuals, a vital component in reducing mortality.
Beyond these strategies, it is also important to maintain awareness in regions where malaria is becoming less common, and to learn from history and one another with open source research. Achieving a world free from malaria will take a concerted, committed and cooperative effort across the globe.
To learn more, visit the websites for World Malaria Day, or follow #WorldMalariaDay on Twitter.
Africa, diagnostics, Disease, health, Malaria, mosquitoes, Sub-Saharan Africa, Technology, UN. Bookmark. | cases and deaths by 90% and eliminate the disease from 35 additional countries by 2030. Achieving this target will require an expansion of current strategies, as well as innovations to increase their impact and effectiveness.
This year's focus is on addressing the gaps in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malaria. While there have been dramatic gains in the fight against the disease since 2000, it remains the cause of half a million annual deaths. Of these, 90% are in Sub-Saharan Africa – 40% alone in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo – and 78% occur in children under the age of five. 3.2 billion people – half the world's population – are at risk of contracting malaria.
Malaria costs USD 12 billion annually in direct losses, but the real financial challenge lies in acquiring the USD 2.5 billion deficit in funds required to make tools for prevention and treatment available to those who need them. With increasing insecticide and drug resistance, any level of complacency could lead to a resurgence and loss of the gains achieved in the past decade.
A live Q&A with many of the leading experts on malaria, hosted by The Guardian, showed a variety of strategies required to eliminate malaria. This list includes the most commonly heard solutions, such as insecticide treated nets, which can reduce up to 50% of cases, and increased access to treatment with effective medicines. However, these alone are not enough in rural regions, where there isn't sufficient healthcare and where tribal and slum living conditions limit the effectiveness of mosquito nets. Even one of the most economical solutions, killing larvae, is ineffective "where every water-filled cattle hoof print is a potential breeding site for Anopheles gambiae, [a] predominant malaria vector." With limited funding, understanding and tailoring interventions to specific regions.
Innovative perspectives and approaches to facilitating community involvement, ownership and adaptation are one way of ensuring current strategies are more readily and accurately adopted. The use of insecticide coated mosquito nets as fishing nets by hungry families is an example of the unintended consequences when community members are not adequately involved.
Malaria Consortium's inSCALE project recognizes the importance of community based interventions, but also the challenge of having and retaining properly trained, supported and motivated community health workers (CHWs) in low resource, rural settings. They believe that the impact and coverage of these programs can be extended with innovative solutions for these limitations. They are furthering community engagement with village health clubs and using mobile phone technology to provide CHWs immediate performance feedback and access to a closed user group for support and communication.
Increased diagnostic ability is an additional focus, especially with the increase in drug resistance. PhD student, John Lewandowski, of Disease Diagnostics Group, developed a handheld Rapid Assessment of Malaria (RAM) device that uses | 582 |
A living van is a portable caravan, used by the itinerant crew of<|fim_middle|> from their outset.
In his last TV series, Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain, Fred Dibnah travelled around industrial Britain with his traction engine drawing its living van — although, owing to his advanced illness, he was no longer able to live in it.
Construction
The vans were constructed of wood, usually vertically matchboard panelled, on a wooden chassis. Traditionally they were painted dark green outside, white inside for lightness. The roof was curved, of canvas over a wooden frame. This would be tarred or treated as oilcloth for weatherproofing. Shepherd's wagons were often of corrugated iron, although this does not seem to have been used for wagons that were regularly towed on roads. Some small windows were provided, for light and ventilation and often too high for a view out. They had a four-wheel chassis, the front axle having simple single-pivot platform steering. Steering followed the drawbar from the engine, rather than being steered. Distinctively from earlier horse-drawn wagons, no driver's position was needed at their front. There were no brakes fitted, although wheel chocks were always carried.
Wheels were of cast iron, sometimes wooden artillery or cart wheels for early examples. Fowler, builders of ploughing engines, built riveted steel-spoked wheels, as for the engines themselves. Their large vans differed distinctively from other makers in numerous details: side doors rather than rear, horizontal panelling and also common use of a clerestory window above. Later vans, from around 1900, carried solid rubber tyres. Modern examples have sometimes been refitted with pneumatic tyres. Living vans for steam roller gangs on road construction began using pneumatic tyres in the 1930s, to avoid damage to newly-laid asphalt.
Living vans often included a coal stove for heating and cooking, depending on the seasonal nature of their work. Otherwise a paraffin stove would be used for cooking. Unlike railway locomotives, the engine's own firebox was rarely used for cooking 'on the shovel' as it was too cramped and also provided no way to make a first cup of tea in the morning, before lighting up.
Showman's wagons
Agricultural living vans were plain, even when occupied by owner drivers. In contrast, showmen became known for their opulent and beautifully decorated wagons. These were distinguished by cut glass windows, lace curtains and even more engraved glass inside fronting display cabinets for china, ideally Royal Crown Derby.
Showman's wagons are sought after today and are still used by new circus families.
See also
Carriage
Great Circus Parade
Wagon
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Traction engines
Portable buildings and shelters | a traction engine.
Living vans developed from the earlier shepherd's wagons, used to provide portable accommodation following a flock as they were moved between pastures.
Traction engines in the Victorian period represented an expensive capital investment in the latest agricultural technology of the period. Many were owned by contractors who would move them from farm to farm for hire, as required. Typical work included threshing after harvest time. A rake of engine, threshing machine, a living van and often a water wagon would travel from farm to farm as needed, stopping at each for a few days. The first engines, from around 1840, were portable engines: movable steam engines that were horse-drawn to move them, unlit, between farms. From the 1860s the locomotive traction engine appeared, now capable of moving under its own power. The engine's crew would include a driver, a steersman, and often a boy. Other agricultural labourers carrying out the threshing work would already be resident on the farm. Threshing an average-sized farm of would take about two weeks, so the capital cost of the investment in an engine and 'drum' encouraged farms to purchase such a rig as a jointly shared investment, or for others to establish themselves as itinerant contractors. Threshing would continue after harvest and into the winter, with the corn stacked in ricks until then. The first locomotive threshing teams were local and did not require living vans, the driver walking or cycling from home up to . Use of vans did not become widespread for threshing until the 1880s, some years after they were popular for ploughing.
Larger engines, working in pairs, were also used as ploughing engines. These too were itinerant and would pull a living van and the balance plough behind them. Ploughing teams travelled longer distances, with living vans, | 391 |
Countries that Expand Internet Access and Use Can Spur Digital Economy Growth.
Greasing the Wheels of the Internet Economy is a new report by Boston Consulting Group, commissioned by ICANN. The report takes a look at Internet access and use around the world, and the economic importance of an open single Internet. The report's "e-friction" index describes and quantifies factors that inhibit the growth and maturity of the Internet economy. It measures obstacles to access to, and engagement with, the Internet for both individuals and businesses across four components; Infrastructure, Industry, Individual and Information.
Easy access and use of the Internet can dramatically affect the growth of national economies, according to new research by The Boston Consulting Group. The research, described in a new BCG report, measured the constraints on Internet use in 65 countries and found that those with fewer limitations on online activity can have larger digital economies. The difference can amount to 2.5 percent of GDP.
The new report introduces the Boston CG e-Friction Index, which ranks countries according to four types of e-friction: infrastructure-related frictions that limit basic access; industry and individual frictions that affect the ability of companies and consumers to engage in online transactions; and information frictions that involve availability of, and access to, online content.
• The countries in the top quintile—those with the lowest e-friction—tend to score well across all four components: they have strong infrastructures and supportive business and regulatory environments.
• At the other end of the scale, issues of basic access, price, and speed—common problems in developing economies—are widespread, as are shortcomings related to capital, labor, and consumers' ability to conduct business online.
• Among small and midsize enterprises (SMEs), Web users are 50 percent more likely to sell products and services outside of their immediate region and 63 percent more likely to source products and services from outside of their region.
• SMEs encounter a range of frictions that slow or prevent them from fully exploiting the Internet's potential. Their biggest single concern is the protection of consumer data online—a prevalent issue for consumers as well.
The report argues that good policy in a few key areas can have a significant impact on e-friction and speed the development of Internet use and individual countries' Internet economies. Policies that promote investment, especially in infrastructure, are essential. Policy responses that fail to take into account how quickly technologies and the innovations they enable are evolving can cause more, rather than less, friction.
Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea, Vista pública sobre el ejercicio de derechos frente a buscadores.
El Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea (TJUE) celebra el próximo día 26 de febrero en Luxemburgo Vista pública para tratar las cuestiones prejudiciales planteadas por la Audiencia Nacional en marzo de 2012 sobre el ejercicio de derechos frente a buscadores de Internet.
A través de la cuestión prejudicial, la Sección Primera de la Sala de lo Contencioso Administrativo de la Audiencia Nacional solicita el pronunciamiento del TJUE sobre cómo interpretar la directiva europea de protección de datos en relación con los recursos interp<|fim_middle|> oposición y de cancelación de datos personales de ciudadanos frente a buscadores en Internet. | uestos por el principal buscador de internet contra las resoluciones en las que la AEPD ha amparado los derechos de | 27 |
UPPER DECK OFFERS VIEW WHILE YOU WAIT
By SUZANNE FAIR<|fim_middle|>THE UPPER DECK
Address: 14 Ivy Home Road, Hampton
Phone/Web site: 723-8111
Specialty: Seafood
Prices: Appetizers: $3.50-$6.95; Entrees $8.95-$46.95
Hours: 4-10 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday
Dress: Casual
Payment: Major credit cards
Reservations: For parties of 8 or more
Alcoholic beverages: Full bar
Nonsmoking section: Yes
Wheelchair accessible: Yes
Noise rating: Conversational
Additional information: Sunday brunch with the full menu available
Star rating: Food ****, service ***, atmosphere ****
Suzanne Fairbank can be reached at 247-4773 or at sfairbank@dailypress.com | BANK Daily Press
Don't be discouraged if you have to wait for a table at The Upper Deck. The food and waterfront setting more than make up for it.
Service, on the other hand, needs considerable work. Reservations are only accepted for parties of eight or more. For the rest, it's first-come, first-served. That might explain the understaffing and slowness we encountered on a Saturday night visit.
Prom-goers and large parties contributed to the frenzy, but there were a number of four-top and two-top tables in both dining rooms of the second-story establishment. It seems hard to gauge the level of business during an evening, without accepting reservations for smaller parties.
We're not talking buffet-style dining here, either. The scenic view and nautical theme of the former Fisherman's Wharf are still intact, but the similarities end there. An extensive menu features a variety of appetizers and entrees. Seafood dominates, but there's plenty for "land lubbers." A majority of the selections are reasonably priced and served in sizeable portions. In addition, a few nightly specials are offered, and all entrees are served with a house salad and choice of baked potato, French fries or rice pilaf.
We were seated within 15 minutes, but we waited for what seemed like an eternity for someone, anyone, to acknowledge our existence. Finally, our server sashayed up to apologize and promised to be back shortly for our order. True to his word, he reappeared with water and a basket of bread, and we quickly rattled off our drink orders before he could disappear again.
All the while, we studied the menu and enjoyed the view from our window seats. I must say that if you have to wait in a restaurant, The Upper Deck is a fine place to do it. This is a fabulous place to go for a romantic setting -- especially after the sun sets and the twinkling lights are visible across the Chesapeake Bay. But rest assured families and large parties are equally welcomed.
Our drinks -- a glass of merlot ($3.95) and a Corona ($3.25) -- arrived, and our waiter suggested we go ahead and place our food orders as the kitchen had been backed up all evening. He promised our courses would be spaced out to give us ample time to relax and enjoy each one.
I started with she-crab soup with sherry ($3.95) and went with the surf and turf ($28.95) as my entree. Dave ordered the jumbo shrimp cocktail and opted for one of the dinner specials -- grilled red salmon with crab and lobster sauce ($14.95).
Our appetizers didn't take too long to arrive. Served steaming hot, my crock of rich and creamy soup was flavorful, but lacked the crab it needed to live up to its name. The shrimp cocktail consisted of four jumbo shrimp hanging on the edge of a metal serving dish. The accompanying cocktail sauce was kicked up with horseradish, which added a nice tang to the tender steamed shrimp.
Two mighty big house salads followed in due time. A simple mixture of greens, tomatoes, onion, cucumbers and celery came with a deliciously zesty oil and vinegar house dressing. It rated quite high as house salads go.
We never needed to worry about being inundated with food. We waited quite awhile before our server zipped back by to tell us our entrees were on the way.
At last, the piece de resistance. Dipped in drawn butter, the succulent pieces of lobster melted in my mouth, as did the tender pieces of filet. I requested medium but the generous portion of meat was rarer than I expected, but nevertheless it was moist and flavorful. The baked potato on the side was fine. Dave's salmon flaked apart with the touch of a fork and paired nicely with the creamy shrimp and lobster sauce. The side of seasoned rice along with the sizeable piece of fish made a substantial meal.
I ordered the tiramisu ($4.25) to-go and was pleased I waited until later to enjoy the rich layering of marscapone cheese and lady fingers, topped with grated chocolate, whipped cream and a cherry.
Overall, our experience was an enjoyable one, and our meals were delicious. From the beginning, our server made it clear he was stretched too thin, but he made an effort to keep us informed and give us good service. At least he gets to wear a black tuxedo while working instead of the nautical get-up that makes the women servers look like clowns. What's wrong with black and white outfits for all?
It would be a better reflection on the overall ambience and an enhancement to the atmosphere.
| 974 |
Brokering Intercultural Exchange
A Research Network Exploring the Role of Arts and Cultural Management
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Winter School 2019
Seminar 1: Framing Arts and Cultural Management
Seminar 2: Dominant Ideologies
Seminar 3: Higher Education and Training
Seminar 4: Practice
Network News and Research
Special Issue on Cultural Inequalities for Arts Management Quarterly
This section includes reflections, impressions and considerations from individuals who have participated in network seminars and topics related. Particular attention is being given to how the cultural and creative sectors in Europe, Africa, the Mediterranean, the Americas, Asia and all around the world are addressing the many challenges provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic which, while common to all, has created different difficulties and is generating varying discussions for action according<|fim_middle|> a short amount of time only allows you to scratch the surface, but the Winter School has me itching for more, and I look forward to watching the program progress in the years to come.
Lesley McBride has a background working with young people through the visual arts, and is originally from the United States. Currently, she is enrolled in the Innovation and Organization of Culture and the Arts (GIOCA) program at the University of Bologna.
Participants from Seminar 2 on bringing practitioners, researchers and policymakers together
Dr Karsten Xuereb, independent researcher and lecturer
Victoria Durrer, Lecturer in Arts Management and Cultural Policy, Queen's University Belfast
Leonie Hodkevitch, Founder of Clearly Culture and Director of the Cultural Management Postgraduate Course at the University of Vienna
Antonio Cuyler, Assistant Professor of Arts Administration, Coordinator of Internships, Department of Art Education, Florida State University
Tania Cañas, Melbourne-based arts professional with experience in performance, cultural development, events, communication and research
Nisha Tandon, OBE. Founder & Executive Director of ArtsEkta
Kayla Rush, PhD candidate in social anthropology at Queen's University Belfast
Ali FitzGibbon, researcher, independent consultant and programmer/producer with over 20 years experiencing of leading arts and cultural organisations and projects
Javier J. Hernández-Acosta, Assistant Professor on Entrepreneurship and Marketing at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico
Call for Papers ARTS MANAGEMENT QUARTERLY ON "FOREIGN ARTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM" June 5, 2019
Annual Gathering of the Network February 2, 2019
Winter School review on Arts Management January 30, 2019
ART MATTERS Reclaim the Discourse November 16 – 17, 2018 October 29, 2018
Introduction to International Arts Management – Book Review October 16, 2018 | to the realities and contexts of different territories. You are welcome to advise us of any particular texts or audiovisual material you would like to share by contacting us. Keep well.
This article collects views from practitioners around the world who collaborate on cultural diversity and UNESCO matters who explore the current situation across several Asian, Latin American and European countries, in English & Spanish. It continues here with a look at civil society actions.
The Biennale of Young Artists of Europe & the Mediterranean has collected various perspectives on envisioning post-COVID-19 scenarios, in English.
The Istanbul Foundation of Culture and the Arts have issued this international review with a focus on Turkish issues, in English.
This is the NEMO report on the impact of COVID-19 on museums in Europe, in English.
This is a review by the Agenda 21 / UCLG Committee on different global situations you may find useful in your research.
This is a conversation between Ferran López, director of Teknecultura & Àngel Mestres, director de Trànsit Projectes in Spanish.
You may find this long read by Daniel Christian Wahl on the links between rethinking culture and education stimulating (English).
Michael Wimmer shares his views on culture and democracy (English).
This provocation by Tommaso Montanari challenges to consider priorities in dealing with the future of education, culture, heritage, museums and tourism (in Italian).
This position paper outlines the current status of measures being taken across Germany compiled by Initiative Kulturschaffender in Deutschland in German.
This is a reflection in English from Malta on Euromed contexts by Karsten Xuereb.
The first Winter School Brokering Intercultural Exchange in cooperation with Heilbronn University, MitOst e.V and the Robert Bosch Cultural Managers Network
From November 27 – 30, 2018 the network hosted the first Winter School Brokering Intercultural Exchange in cooperation with Heilbronn University, MitOst e.V and the Robert Bosch Cultural Managers Network. This three days event taking place in Berlin was generously supported by the Würth Foundation and brought 30 participants from 16 countries together.
Due to the enormous success of this format, we immediately agreed to have another Winter School in November 2019. More information on this will follow. Stay tuned!
Find a review of the participant Lesley McBride here:
At the end of November, I had the great honor to attend the inaugural Winter School on Brokering Intercultural Exchange within Societies, a program organized by the international and interdisciplinary network Brokering Intercultural Exchange and Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with MitOst e.V. and the Robert Bosch Cultural Managers Network. Over the course of three full days in Berlin, nearly 40 practitioners and academics of arts and cultural management gathered to discuss related topics through an interactive workshop approach. The theme of the Winter School was hinged on intercultural/transcultural exchange, and how arts managers can and should respond to the challenges and opportunities presented in our changing world, by fostering social impact and leveraging participatory practices. The experience was nothing short of pivoting—we reflected on prominent implications and responsibilities of being an arts manager, then spiraled out, diverging into layered subtleties.
Presenters included Dr. Antonio Cuyler, Prof. Dr. Raphaela Henze, Dr. Victoria Durrer, Shaimaa Atef, and Krystel Khoury, among other guest speakers who brought personal insight from both research and practice. Amid lectures and guided group discussions, we explored how to remove paternalism from arts engagement, how to negotiate power structures both inside organizations and at broader levels of policy and society, how to measure impact without subjectivity, and how to engage in an ethical community arts practice. Admittedly, these are Herculean feats to accomplish in three days; however, dripping water hollows the stone.
Two behind-the-scenes excursions to the Barenboim-Said Akademie and the Haus Schwarzenberg offered a candid window into how organizations balance priorities and needs of different stakeholders, and how they build communities both external and internal to the organization. Woven throughout the session were informal opportunities to discuss with fellow participants about current personal challenges faced through work, study, or research. The atmosphere was inviting, but attentive, and the energy cultivated by the group allowed for honest sharing free from stigma, which proved to be a valuable exercise in self-care as well as in education.
The participants of the Winter School were a hybrid of people from 16 different nations at various stages in their career, all with diverse focuses, which nurtured an environment that encouraged exchange and support through peer based learning. The relatively small size of the group also allowed relationships to form quickly. The discussions were particularly nuanced given the variety of national backgrounds of the participants, many of whom are studying or working in countries other than their birth origin. This synthesis provided a versatile means for exploring transcultural art management.
For me, the Winter School provided a mid-semester energizer to continue pressing forward and served as a healthy reminder of why I choose this line of work. Simply put, doing good work in the world was the original motivation for most of us to choose this career path, and it was particularly encouraging to be reminded of that. I admire art managers for our glass half full approach to our work, despite the often gloomy predicaments of the world; I find that kind of determination inspiring, and being surrounded by likeminded people during the Winter School was a great booster shot to keep nudging the world further in the direction toward creative justice. Like many things that get under your skin, | 1,174 |
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Tributes for Mike Kelly
We share below tributes for Mike Kelly. A mighty tree has just fallen in our forest so as we grieve this loss, we pause to remember the great contribution Mike has made to our Dominican whanau. See below for three tributes.
Dominican Preaching Team – tribute from Joan Hardiman and Judith Crimmins
Mike Kelly was a man of Faith and Conviction supported by a good sense of humour; a sound, enthusiastic member of the six-member Dominican Preaching Team which presented Mission weeks in many Parishes throughout New Zealand and Queensland for several years.
Mike's faith was based soundly on Scripture and the reforms of Vatican Two, especially the role and involvement of lay people in all aspects of Catholicism. His preaching was direct, to the point and relevant, with a strong challenge to political and economic justice. He talked about the sacred role of the family, parenting and especially marriage. He dreamed of having "mission sessions" around a barbeque with people sharing and supporting each other in the ups and downs of life and faith. Thus passing on their own lived and practical faith to each other and to youth especially.
We of the Team offer our love and sympathy to Jenny and the family.
Jenny, you were a great support during the Preaching days; taking the phone calls and negotiating the bookings. We were always grateful for that.
Mike, may you be resting in Eternal Peace.
Dominican Group – tribute from Jenny Collins
Mike and Jenny were part of a group – largely from St Bens – who met on a Friday night – usually at our place or at Mike and Jenny's -over a number of years in the 1990s and 2000s. Members included Ruth and Tony Spelman, Faith Mahoney, Peter Murnane, Mary Anna Baird, Catherine Casey, Joan Hardiman, Teresa McNamara, Robin Kearns & Pat Newault and others I probably have forgotten. We also had many visitors from the wider Dominican Community and friends when they were in town. The aim of the group was to support the lives and work of members particularly MaryAnna and Peter who were part of the Asia Pacific Dominican outreach at the time.
We gathered for a shared meal, prayer and a reflection on scripture or other writings.
Preaching team:
Mike and Jenny were part of the Dominican preaching team as you know. Mike and Judith Crimmonds were the only 2 lay members of that group. Others included Peter Murnane and Sr Genevieve OP and they travelled from the far north to the far south and as far as Australia preaching in parishes. I understand from talking to Joan Hardiman that she is putting something together so I'll leave that story to her.
St Bens Parish life:
Mike and Jenny were integral to the life of our parish at St Bens in those years. Jenny was an energetic and inspirational member of the pastoral team and Mike led the parish council for about 6 years and preached regularly in the Crypt for our 5pm Mass. We remember Mike as a wise person with a keen sense of humour – we well remember his infectious laugh. He came from that generation who were inspired by Vatican II always seeing the importance of the people of God in the Church and the World. We had many debates about who was Church and how we could all be part of a wider vision of Church in the World. He recognised things in people and encouraged them to step forward in leadership. Mike brought a good dose of common sense and a keen sense of humour to any discussion.
Last time we saw Mike and Jenny:
We visited Mike and Jenny a couple of times once they moved to the Wairarapa. The last time was completely serendipitous and happened in January last year when we were visiting with John's family. We stopped for lunch at Lake Ferry and there, to our amazement were Mike and Jenny who were with a group from their retirement home. We had a lovely catchup with them.
Such lovely memories of our good friends Mike and Jenny and sending our prayers and thoughts to Jenny at this sad time.
Jenny Collins
Laying the foundations for the renewed lay Dominican movement in Aotearoa – Tribute from Susan Healy
Mike Kelly had a great love for the Dominican Order, national and international. He believed that lay people could make an important contribution to the Order's charism and mission.
In 2008, Mike and Jenny hosted at their home in Masterton a small but representative group of laity interested in fostering Dominican life in Aotearoa New Zealand. One outcome was the initial wording of a Vision Statement for lay Dominicans in this country. Another was the setting up of a data base and the start of a newsletter. It was a really fruitful meeting and just as we were leaving<|fim_middle|> Jenny convened the first very successful, national Gathering of Dominican laity in 2010. It was held at the Sisters of Compassion centre in Wellington and was a truly happy occasion. Mike was always a man of vision and those of us who attended that Gathering remember his desire that we set up a formation programme for those interested in taking on a Dominican commitment. While some effort has been made in this direction, Mike's dream on this count is yet to be realised.
Mike, along with Jenny, laid the foundations for the renewed lay Dominican movement in this country. We owe so much to him for his dogged determination, his generosity and hard work, and for the encouragement he gave to so many of us.
Moe mai ra, e Mike, e te toa kaha mo te whanau arahi rongo pai.
Note: This photo of the Aotearoa Dominicans on and around our own Dominican Tree was taken at the first national gathering in Wellington in 2010
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(c) Dominicans Aotearoa New Zealand This site is a cooperative effort by the Friars, Sisters and Laity Group of the Order of Preachers (known as the Dominicans). | , we caught sight of a beautiful rainbow in the sky. It seemed like a sign of blessing on this humble beginning.
Mike put tremendous work into the lay Dominican newsletter over several years – sharing some of his own insights but mainly gathering in contributions from Dominicans across the country. It was inspiring to read how different ones were living out their commitment to prayer, study, community and mission – the four Dominican pillars. Mike also kept us in touch with some of the international news, and especially when this applied to the laity.
Mike and | 107 |
Girls Battle With Savage Shark
Man-Eating Monster, After Hour's Battle,<|fim_middle|>. It measures seven feet and three inches in length.
Both Miss Lauritzen and Miss Pratt are justly proud of the feat, for real man-eating sharks are very seldom seen in this section of the bay, and are but seldom captured.
—Oakland Tribune, August 15, 1914
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I am guessing the Lauritzen Channel near the Port of Richmond is named after the Captain? I believe this body of water is still the most polluted area in the entire bay. Nobody should eat any fish caught from it, though I see families do it all the time, mainly smelt.
I'm pretty sure you are right. A hundred years ago it was polluted in other ways, today it is the remnants of the various chemicals used by industry over the years. And unfortunately, we can tell peope all the time and post signs throughout the area about unsafe fish to eat but some simply do not care. | Captured by Two Fair Heroines
Richmond, Aug. 15.—Battling for almost an hour with a seven-foot shark of the man-eating variety two Richmond girls yesterday afternoon captured their prize off the wharf of the Richmond Navigation Company. The girls were Miss Marguerite Lauritzen, daughter of Captain H. P. Lauritzen, head of the navigation company, and Miss Gladys Pratt, who is visiting at the Lauritzen home. The fish, after being exhibited for several hours on Washington Avenue, was later tethered by a line to the wharf, where it may be viewed by curious visitors.
Miss Lauritzen and Miss Pratt watched the huge fish for several hours before they made up their minds to capture it. They then secured two large hooks, which they spliced to long poles. The torment then commenced. Finally one of the young women managed to hook the shark in the gill, and they almost landed it when the splicing broke and the hook was released.
The fish then dived out of sight, but soon reappeared. With a quick and steady jab one of the hooks was thrust into the side of the shark about a foot below its side fin. The combined strength of the two young women was required to land the fish, which struggled for its freedom. Without enlisting the aid of anyone, however, they finally brought the monster to the wharf.
Captain Lauritzen was then informed of the catch. When he viewed the fish he almost collapsed. Loading it onto a large auto truck, he carried it into the city, where he had it weighed. The fish, which is apparently about ten years old, tipped the beam at 149 pounds | 350 |
This recipe turns a venison steak into a meal for four. I use homemade pizza dough, but you can simply buy it.
Stir yeast<|fim_middle|> fish and game recipes, subscribe to Ontario OUT of DOORS today. | and sugar into warm water and set aside. Mix flour, salt, and olive oil in a large bowl, then pour in the yeast mixture. Stir until dough forms. Spread flour over a working surface and knead dough for about 10 minutes, working in up to ½ cup of flour, as needed.
Roll dough into ball and place in bowl; cover with cling wrap. Let rise for 30 minutes, until dough roughly doubles in size. Flatten with a rolling pin into a large circle, until you can almost see through it. Place on an oven tray brushed with olive oil.
Lightly coat one venison steak with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Pour ½ cup olive oil into a plastic bag. Add 1 tsp. salt and 1 tsp. pepper. Cut one red onion and one seeded red pepper in quarters and toss in olive oil mixture. Remove. Grill vegetables and steak. Cook meat to medium rare. Grill vegetables until sear marks appear, but remove while still crisp.
Top pizza dough with thin layer of sauce. Add light coating of both cheeses. Top with steak and vegetables. Add a second layer of cheese. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, as desired. Bake pizza for 15 to 20 minutes in a 425˚F oven or until crust is cooked and cheese bubbling.
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MAMMA MIA! Good-Times on {and off} the Stage
WORDS Claire Bradshaw
Whether you've seen the hit musical on West End, Broadway or the big screen, or you're simply a lifelong member of the ABBA fan club, there's one event you won't want to miss at the Civic Theatre: Mamma Mia. In fact, non-diehard fans or strangers to the show should grab a ticket, too – because if one thing's for sure, it's that you'd be hard-pressed to find a more feel-good local production.
Coming to Newcastle for the first time this year, Mamma Mia will be staged by local theatre outfit The Very Popular Theatre Company. For those who aren't familiar with the show, here's a quick rundown: ahead of her Greek island wedding, a young woman invites three men from her mother's past to attend in the hopes of discovering which one is her birth father. What ensues is a feel-good story about family, told with the aid of flares, frills, fluoro and good old-fashioned fun. Oh, and did we mention the whole thing centres around the music of ABBA?
More than 40 years after hitting the big-time, the 70's Swedish pop sensations still have millions of fans around the world – partly thanks to Mamma Mia and its continued success on stage and screen. So it's no surprise to hear that many involved in the local production have personal connections with the band and its music.
"I'm a bit of a diehard ABBA fan," confesses lead actor Rachelle Schmidt-Adnum, who plays Donna in the show. "My mum always told the story that when I was literally in nappies, sitting in<|fim_middle|>'s the most wonderful thing: that we can honour this beautiful story that has been around for twenty years."
So who's the ideal audience for Mamma Mia? Well, don't feel you need to know every word to ABBA's greatest hits to have a great time.
"This show is for everybody because it is such a party – it's a celebration of family, it's a celebration of love, it's a celebration of music.
"Audiences can expect amazing performances, fantastic vocals, and just a wonderful party atmosphere," Erin says.
Rachelle agrees. "I don't think you need to be an ABBA fan; I don't think you necessarily need to be a musical theatre fan, either. You can bring little tiny kids through to your great-grandma. There's literally something in it for everyone," she says. "I would be disappointed if there isn't a whole lot of on-your-feet dancing by the end of the show every single performance!"
Catch The Very Popular Theatre Company's production of Mamma Mia at the Civic Theatre from 25th October to 9th November. Click here for tickets and further information. | the highchair, ABBA would get me grooving! And then I just stayed a fan for my whole life – I still played the albums, and I would still jump around my bedroom with my hairbrush to 'Dancing Queen'. So it really has been a part of my musical life, my life in general, for my whole life."
The production's director, Erin James, feels that these personal links are part of what makes Mamma Mia so special. "That's what's wonderful about the show itself – everybody has some sort of connection or journey with the music of ABBA because they've been around for such a long time and they're so enduring," she says. "Whether it be someone in the company, in the cast, in the audience – everyone has a connection."
With such popular, upbeat music at its heart, the show can't help but be a jubilant experience for those both on-stage and off. Audiences can expect to hear twenty-two of ABBA's hits peppered throughout the production, including 'Take A Chance On Me', 'Money, Money, Money', 'Thank You For The Music' and many more, including the title track. But it's also the story itself that gets people smiling. "We're telling a joyful story – you can't help but do most of it with a massive smile on your face," Erin says. "It's a show about family, about having connections and discovering them. Everybody has a question that they're asking in the show, and because it's set to such incredible music, you can't help but be happy."
For Rachelle as an actor, Mamma Mia's appeal also lies in its portrayal of relationships (romantic, familial and those between friends), as well as its representation of women. "This musical is so full of life and energy and fun, and it's really nice to see women across a broad age range being represented, but then also having this other side of it: the stories about these lovely relationships. Friendships, the mother-daughter relationship, our intimate relationships as women," she says. "And I love how Donna is represented. It's not the stock-standard 'a woman's got to fall in love with a man, and that's who she's stuck with for the rest of her life' – she's paved her way, and she's done things a little bit against the social norms."
For Erin as a director, Mamma Mia has allowed her to return to her hometown, bringing her interpretation to a show that's known and loved around the globe. "I am honoured to be able to bring such a well-known beast of a show into the Civic Theatre for local audiences," she says. "We're not replicating anybody else's production; this is our show, but it's still the same message that is universal. I think that | 580 |
Punctuation Matters Redux
Leave a Comment / Punctuation, Style Guides / By Ellen
The title of this post can be read two ways – that it deals with matters or topics about punctuation, or it deals with why punctuation is a matter of concern, or of importance.
Most people would include period, commas, semicolons, and question or exclamation marks in this section, relegating parentheses, quotation marks and capitals, for instance, to an area called mechanics, the conventions governing the technical aspects of writing.
This section should more properly be called graphics, since the term means the devices that are used only writing, not speech. And this brings us to the second topic of concern – does punctuation matter?
In speech, punctuation does not matter because punctuation and all graphics deal with the rules of written language. Thus, it is not possible to make a mistake in punctuation, capitalization, or quotation marks when speaking.
The conventions of graphics developed slowly and unsystematically. As Alberto Manguel says in a piece on the period or full stop: "For ages, punctuation had been a desperately erratic affair."
Prior to the development of printing, punctuation was light and haphazard. By the seventeenth century, there was increased efforts to standardize the use of certain marks of punctuation. As usual, handbooks of grammar and punctuation, one of the earliest being written by the playwright Ben Jonson (1572-1637), put forth recommendations and rules for punctuating prose. Styles and fashions varied, with heavy or excessive punctuation being favored in the 18th century, and later trends favoring a light punctuation (www.britannica.com).
Writing handbooks and manuals of style generally follow the same rules, though they can differ on certain ones, such as the use of the Oxford comma or the capitalization of proper nouns; for example, New York State (Gregg Reference Manual) or as New York state (Associated Press Stylebook). And as discussed in the post on punctuation with quotation marks, the conventions can differ between American and British usage, two main styles of English punctuation. (The American or North American Style is followed in the United States and Canada, while the UK, Australia, and New Zealand follow the British<|fim_middle|>Thomas Sheridan qtd in LeTourneau 481).
Taking the time to understand the concepts and constituent parts of sentences is valuable enterprise for writers. As LeTourneau asserts, "The connection between grammar and punctuation is one of the most direct ways that grammar can support writers" (English Grammar 475).
(Resources: Manguel, "Point of Order"; English 3200; Britannica.com on punctuation; proofthatblog.com; LeTourneau, English Grammar; Martha Kolln, Rhetorical Grammar.) | Style.)
Both students and experienced writers can struggle have problems with graphics usage. Sometimes these problems arise because they were encouraged to memorize the rules, rather than to understand the concepts behind the rules. In English Grammar, Mark S. LeTourneau proposes a useful approach in learning and teaching punctuation: to show how punctuation marks set off syntactical constituents. Martha Kolln in Rhetorical Grammar agrees: "It's important to remember the purpose of punctuation: to give the reader information about the kind of structure that follows" (84). Even in the 18th century, some grammarians recognized that "[c]ertain parts of speech are kept together, and others are divided by stops, according to their grammatical construction, often without reference to the pauses in discourse" ( | 158 |
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