Spending the week with Grace in Montreal. Left my computer at home on purpose. Still have my phone for emails and chats but anything longer becomes an issue.
Which suits me just fine, as I want to work on Venus Occluded in my notebook. For me, notebooking is super for short stories, although for anything longer I tend to lose the patience to type it up and what it holds can languish for years (lookin’ at you, Perceptions).
Even though I want to focus on writing this week, I don’t expect my energy levels to miraculously improve (as anyone with chronic illness can relate). So as much as I want to avoid it I have been a bit low in spirits and the Weepies are creeping up on me.
This particular strain of Weepies is focusing on the fact that I don’t know what’s happening in Venus Occluded more than a scene or two in advance. Like an RPG fog o’ War.
There are a lot of advice articles out there–professional and non alike–that would have a Weeping pantser believe that the only cure is structure. Plot diagrams and charts. Bullet points for every scene. Archetype break-downs.
An actual arc. (Go search “writing” on Pinterest if you don’t believe me.)
Clearly this approach works for a great many people, which is super. But as in P.T. Barnum’s audience, some of us need something different than a formula to save a cat. This letter is for them.
My dear fellow write-by-the-seat-of-your-pantsers,
The Weepies are indeed a terrible force to be reckoned with. But as with any storm, it too shall pass.
The loudest voice for me in the wind is the one claiming my story is worthless, the characters unrealistic, the plot confusing. It’s easier, and safer, to follow the trailers (formulas, seminars) of those who came before us, who have claimed to have “cracked the secret”. But there is no secret, only experiment and experience (and editing).
And for that, the important part is to write what you love to write. To find the joy in the process and experience, whatever your process and experiences might be.
Experiment! Flail around! Follow the trail of breadcrumbs through the fog, without knowing where it leads.
Let yourself be surprised.
Don’t write what you think others want to read: write the stories that only you can tell.
Who else can do that? You’re the only one.


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When you are thinking of dog you wish to have as your family pet, then you need to conceder Alpine Dachsbracke which is quite perfect for your general needs and all your family members can be happy to have it around.
Alpine Dachsbracke breeds came into existence in the mid-20th century when the crossbreed between dachshunds and the bigger dogs occurred. They were first witnessed in Austria back in the year 1935. It was said that these breeds used to accompany the German royals. one of the fine days, they accompanied prince Rudolf from Habsburg as he was on his hunting trip to Turkey and Egypt.
Alpine Dachsbracke Temperament
Generally, this breed was born for hunting. They spend most of their time in harsh climatic regions trying to hunt all sorts of animals. they traced wounded bear, deer, hare, and fox in the area which were of mountainous terrains. Generally, if you wish to have Alpine Dachsbracke breeds as your pet, then be sure that it is very affectionate loving and very obedient. Its capable of taking care of your home and at the same time spend some times with your kids.
But a warning to anyone who owns this breed, it’s advisable to keep it away from other pets, this is because it may harm them. this is because its' hunting instinct may not allow it to stay comfortably with those other pets. if you ever wish that it takes your full command, then giving Alpine Dachsbracke adequate command will help you to train it effectively.
Alpine Dachsbracke Lifespan
Before you figure out how long Alpine Dachsbracke is able to live, it's advisable to be very keen on its medical needs. This can help to increase its lifespan. The truth behind its ability to live is that with proper care, it is able to spend about 12 to 15 years. This is true for such breeds which have the medium size. Just like other breeds, Alpine Dachsbracke actually has a little bit longer life expectancy.
Every person always gets interested in a certain kind of shedding whenever they make any decision to purchase pets. Well, this is very important because, with Alpine Dachsbracke, you will never get restricted to one color. Their coat have a double layer with a dense undercoat and a thick topcoat. When you observe the coat, you will discover it is very short with an exemption of tail and neck. The shedding for the common breeds may be brown, black and red. Others have a white coat on their chest
|Size:||Medium to Large|
|Life span:||10-12 years|
|Height:||13 to 16 inches (33 to 41 cm)|
|Weight:||33 to 40 pounds (15 to 18 kg)|
|Colors:||Dark deer red, sometimes black hairs|
|Litter Size:||3-5 puppies|
|Puppy Price:||Average $300 - $500 USD|


I have been meaning to get round to making a spoon rack for ages, so I finaly got round to making one over Easter. One reason that I have never made one is because I wanted to look into the different designs, There is alot of different styles over the years but one that I really liked was from a picture on Robin Woods blog of a spoon rack from St Fagans folk life museum.
I really liked how simple it was in design, and using found materials from my garden, Willow from my tree and an off cut of Willow from some fire wood creates such a functional but simple piece.
I used the bit and brace on the low bench and using some pins it stops the wood from spinning round as you drill.
I was totally amazed when after seeing me use the bit and brace, Elizabeth picked it up and started to use it perfectly! No bit in of course, I reckon she's a natural!.
I cut a shoot from my Willow tree to use as the handle for the rack and shaped the ends to fit the holes in the base.
I used a couple of thorns from the garden to secure the handle to the base of the rack by making a small hole for the thorn to go through.
And here is the finished rack.
I cut out slots rather than drill holes for the spoons to sit in as most of my spoons handles are quite wide.
I love this style of rack and with the spoons hung on it its design looks stunning yet so simple!.


Quinoa with Fresh Peas | Super Healthy Kids | Food and Drink Nothing says springtime quite like peas. This quinoa with fresh peas recipe is just the side dish you need this season. It’s light, tasty, and high in protein!
With these delicious smoothie recipes, you’ll have enough energy to be running around from work to dress fittings to meeting your vendors. I absolutely love a pre game boost shake before I go and play a lax game! Be healthy!
This triple berry smoothie is full of antioxidants and vitamin c to help keep you healthy this winter! INGREDIENTS 1 cup frozen strawberries ¾ cup frozen raspberries ½ cup frozen blueberries 2 kiwifruit, peeled and sliced 1 cup orange juice


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- No chicken (or poultry) by-product meals, corn, wheat or soy
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High-quality protein from delicious chicken to help build strong muscles.
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DHA, an essential fatty acid found in mother’s milk, to help promote cognitive development.
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An optimal blend of Calcium, Phosphorus and essential vitamins helps promote healthy bone growth.
|Crude Protein||11.0% min|
|Crude Fat||7.5% min|
|Crude Fiber||1.5% max|
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Refrigerate unused portion.
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Don't compare strings with ==, use equals() method. That's the main bug in your program. Or you might consider equalsIgnoreCase(), if you really want "b" to match "B".
Another bug is that you call nextToken() twice in a row, without checking hasMoreTokens() in between. If a line has only one token, you'll get an exception there, which I suspect is not what you want. [ January 23, 2008: Message edited by: Peter Chase ]
Betty Rubble? Well, I would go with Betty... but I'd be thinking of Wilma.
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Hi Peter, the '==' case was the issue...... loads of thanks...the problem is solved
Just to be sure, you are aware that the javadoc of StringTokenizer contains the following sentence?
StringTokenizer is a legacy class that is retained for compatibility reasons although its use is discouraged in new code. It is recommended that anyone seeking this functionality use the split method of String or the java.util.regex package instead.


Few musical stories are as steeped in folklore as Sibylle Baier's rise from obscurity.
Sibylle Baier, a housewife and mother, recorded Colour Green at her German home on a reel to reel tape machine between 1970 and 1973. Upon finishing the recording, she gave out a few copies and retired the master tapes to the attic of her home.
The tapes remained forgotten for 30 years until her son discovered them. He sent out cassettes of the recording, which led to the release of the album (in part courtesy of J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr).
Colour Green is an album never intended for wider public consumption. Listening to it is akin to eves dropping on a private performance or album by a talent equal to Leonard Cohen, Bridget St John or Karen Dalton.
Colour Green is one of the purest distillations of classic folk songwriting ever recorded. Aside from Baier's brittle vocalizing and timeless song craft, the lyrics are what is so affecting about the album. They traverse the spectrum of the everyday as heartbreak and insecurity remain buoyed by hope and an uncertain optimism.
Colour Green remains Sibylle Baier's only album so fans and critics commonly romanticize and mythologize it as the work of a reclusive savant. But this album is the work of a mother, a wife and a friend. This is perhaps why this album resonates with so many people.
The album is a remarkably intimate portrait of the songwriter. Although now recognized as an accidental classic, Colour Green remained critically unheralded – or more accurately, unheard – for its first 35 years of existence. It is only now finding an audience and, with the benefit of hindsight, is being acclaimed as one of the vital records of the 1970s folk underground.
While critics have sought to draw parallels between Baier and outsider folk artists of the era like Vashti Bunyan, there is something in her songcraft and story which suggests she is without contemporary.
Baier was a songwriter who sought only to write and record songs to satisfy her own creative wont.
Devoid of ego and thirst for recognition, Baier wrote and recorded an album on par with Nick Drake's Bryter Layter or Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate and then filed it away in her attic after giving a copy only to a few close friends (including filmmaker Wim Wenders).
There is a purity and innocence to Colour Green which, over the course of the album, is slowly eroded as one gets an insight into Baier's mindset. She, perhaps for the sake of song, clings to a very brittle version of happiness.
One of the few things we know about Baier is that, after a period of intense depression, friends forced her out of her bed to take a road trip to Strasbourg.
Upon returning from the trip, which took in the Alps, Sibylle wrote her first song, ‘Remember the Day'. It was an ode to being alive. The story of Baier's inspiration to write her first song attests to her ability to capture the beauty that lurks behind our most despondent moments.
Colour Green is a rare album that serves as a soundtrack for those in the midst of heartbreak, or in love, in ecstasy, or in depression. It is a feat few songwriters are capable of.
We know little about Sibylle Baier. Interviews are scarce and the outside world has been privy only to snippets of information.
We know she now lives in America where she emigrated with her family from Germany. We also know she featured in one scene of Wim Wenders 1974 German road film Alice In The Cities, in which she sings on a boat to her then small children.
Aside from this, we have only Colour Green. But it's a record that reveals more about Sibylle Baier than any interview could.
Few albums truly uncover the psyche of the songwriter at the helm quite so intimately. One can't help but feel that, in one album recorded 35 years ago, Baier revealed more about herself than most artists do over a traditional career.
Colour Green truly bares Sibylle Baier for the whole world to see. Its unreserved honesty, longing, desperation and stewing sadness perhaps stand to reason why it might be the only album we ever hear from the reticent Baier .
In an age that places narcissism, ambition and celebrity above actual art, Sibylle Baier is a reminder that timeless art and beautiful songcraft can emerge from the most unexpected places.
Hear Sibylle Baier's Colour Green in full from 9am AEDT Sunday 11 January on Double J.
Check out the rest of our Lost Albums series:
The Riptides – Tombs Of Gold by Andrew Stafford
Black Francis – Svn Fngrs by Sarah Smith
The Cannanes and Steward – Communicating At An Unknown Rate by Megan Spencer
Reverend Charlie Jackson – God's Got It by Dan Condon
Bluetile Lounge – lowercase by Andy Hazel


DISH NETWORK LAUNCHES OXYGEN NETWORK
Oxygen, the Only Television Network Owned and Operated by Women,
And DISH Network Satellite TV, Enter into Long-term Carriage Agreement
ENGLEWOOD, CO and NEW YORK, NY � January 16, 2006 � EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) announced today that Oxygen Media, the nation�s only woman owned and operated TV network, is now available to DISH Network satellite TV customers. Oxygen and DISH Network entered into a multi-year agreement and will provide 12 million DISH Network viewers with a free preview of Oxygen immediately.
Oxygen is a 24-hour television network on a mission to bring women (and the men who love them) the most innovative entertainment on television. From �Mo�Nique�s Fat Chance� which takes America�s average beauty competition and repackages it for America�s average size women to Oxygen�s newest hit �Campus Ladies,� Oxygen brings brave, original programming to women every day.
�Oxygen is a bold new network that is continually raising the bar in delivering important women�s programming and entertainment, and we�re pleased to accommodate our customers by providing the most requested channel over the last several years,� said Eric Sahl, senior vice president of Programming at DISH Network. �We�ve been working with Oxygen since last summer looking for ways to give our customers greater choice.�
With this agreement, Oxygen now reaches a total of 65 million homes. The network has enjoyed double digit ratings growth and has the second highest concentration of women 18-49 on cable and satellite television.
Oxygen airs a diverse array of original series including the spontaneous, unscripted �Oprah After the Show;� �Snapped,� a true crime series that explores the minds and motives of women who kill; �Girls Behaving Badly,� a hidden-camera prank show with the only all female cast, and Oxygen Original Movies. Oxygen also sponsors the �Mentor�s Walk,� a national movement to help bring along the next generation.
�This is a huge milestone for Oxygen,� said Geraldine Laybourne, chairman and CEO of Oxygen. �We�re adding millions of DISH Network viewers just at the time when we are on a ratings roll. Now with EchoStar�s DISH Network as a partner, we�ve got fantastic potential to reach women in meaningful new ways.�
DISH Network is offering a 30-day free preview of Oxygen, located on DISH Network channel 127. After the free preview, Oxygen will be available in DISH Network�s America�s Top 120 and DISH Latino Dos packages.
EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) serves more than 12 million satellite TV customers through its DISH Network, the fastest growing U.S. provider of advanced digital television services in the last five years. DISH Network offers hundreds of video and audio channels, Interactive TV, HDTV, sports and international programming, together with professional installation and 24-hour customer service. Visit EchoStar's DISH Network at www.dishnetwork.com or call 1-800-333-DISH (3474).
About Oxygen Media
Oxygen, the television network owned and operated by women, is currently available in 65 million homes. The network was launched in 2000 to fill a void in the television landscape -- creating a network targeted to younger women. Oxygen is rewriting the rulebook for women's television, with the most original programming of all the women's networks including Mo�Nique�s Fat Chance and Oprah After the Show. Geraldine Laybourne, the network's founder, Chairman and CEO, has led the company to be a strong advocate for women. Through programs like The Mentor's Walk, Oxygen's national program for bringing along the next generation, and "Who Cares About Girls," Oxygen's new documentary series -- Oxygen is creating The New Girls Network.


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The Store experience
We are sanitizing the store before opening and throughout the day.
We are wearing masks and so must you. Our hand sanitizer is available and encouraged for use throughout the store. We are letting 2 guests (or 1 group of people who are together) in at a time and will practice social distancing at all times. Our team will be behind plexiglass at our checkout until you need them.
You will receive a complimentary BIG SUR AFTER RAIN travel hand sanitizer with your in-store purchase of $50+.
We have dreamed up some fancy ways for you to experience our scents when you visit. While testers are for display only, all of the information of the scents will be displayed and a QR code in front of each will link you to a video of our perfumer David rambling on about the scent!
There are two browsing stations for each individual's added comfort. Please await testing instructions from our team.
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Don't want to wait? Email firstname.lastname@example.org to book a private shopping time at the store or a Zoom consultation with our sales staff or even our perfumer.
Don't want to come to the store or into the store? Browse from our website and call the store at 212-226-2981 for curbside pick-up or local delivery options.


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The following blog posts are part of a series I started recently that talk about my struggles with unhealthy relationships, weight loss, starting over, marriage, step-parenting, infertility, pregnancy loss, unhealthy coping mechanisms, balancing work and home life, and more. I am sharing my story now in hopes that I will find some healing in the process, but I mostly want to help encourage someone else by sharing the real life tough stuff that a lot of people are afraid to talk about. I mentioned this previously, but if you’re new here, please know that my life is full of amazing goodness, too, even in the eye of the storm in these struggles, but for the purpose of this writing, I’m mostly focusing on the hard times… but keep reading! I am getting excited to share how I’ve learned to cope, what has given me balance, and some pretty great stuff that’s come out of the darkness. If you want to start from the beginning of my story, check out Back to the Real Me. If you’d like to see all of the blog posts I’ve written that cover a variety of subjects instead, you can find those on the Blog page.


At some point or another, everyone has experienced the classic symptoms of a food coma. You know what I'm talking about. It's that overwhelming feeling of fullness after a buffet binge or too many servings of mashed potatoes at a family dinner. We laymen call it a food coma, but medical professionals have a name for the phenomenon: postprandial somnolence.
Medical experts agree that eating too much food results in a change in your body's circulation."It's real," Dr. Lisa Young, a nutritionist, tells the New York Daily News. "If the meal consumed is large enough, one can go into a food coma due to changes in circulation."
Essentially, that feeling of tiredness and sluggishness is triggered once food enters your stomach. Here, the gastrointestinal tract is activated and blood flow refocuses its attention to the stomach and intestines, to help with digestion, and away from muscles and the brain. With less blood in your brain, you feel sleepy.
The Type of Foods That Lead to Food Comas
Not only does the volume of food ingested play a part, but certain types of food can also bring about the food coma feeling faster than others. According to Dr. Young, high-carb meals with a high glycemic index will leave you feeling sluggish. This includes the likes of potatoes, white rice, and white bread.
Previous studies have also found that solids cause a drowsy effect more than liquids. "Our study found that in contrast to a liquid meal, a solid meal creates more sleepiness when compared to an equivalent volume of water," Dr. William Orr, a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, tells CNN Health.
Protein and salt are also culprits, according to a study published earlier this year. In the study, scientists looked at fruit flies and found those to consume the most protein to sleep the longest. Surprisingly, they also discovered that sugar played no role.
How Can You Avoid a Food Coma?
Food comas are usually accidental, but there are active steps you can take when you know you're in for a heavier meal. Eat smaller portions, pick low-glycemic-index carbs, and, if you know you'll be stuffing your face, opt for liquids over solids here and there to reduce the effects of a food coma. Also consider avoiding booze, as it can leave you feeling lethargic as well.


The simplest — and fastest — way to serve fish is to fry or grill it. Most people I know simply season the fish with salt and pepper then serve the fried fish with one sawsawan (dipping sauce) or another. In the Philippines, the dipping sauce is usually a mixture of vinegar and soy sauce, spiked with crushed chili and some minced garlic. I have nothing against dipping sauces. But I really think that one can go beyond salt and pepper to enhance the flavor of fish.
Granted that it is best not to overpower the natural flavors of fish with too many seasonings and spices. Still, there are herbs that can actually enhance the taste of fish. You may be thinking that adding herbs and spices to fish is simple if one were cooking a soup or a stew but how does one do it with fried fish? It’s simple — you coat the fish with the herbs.
We had fried talakitok for dinner tonight. The heads had been cooked as a soup earlier today so I fried the fish minus the heads. I made incisions on the flesh, about 1/3-inch deep, and rubbed them all over with salt. I let them sit in the fridge for an hour to allow the salt to penetrate the flesh. Then, while heating the cooking oil, I prepared the mixture that I intended to dredge the fish in.
Dried tarragon and thyme mixed with flour, pepper and sesame seeds. I stirred them all together (I should have used more herbs and less flour), dredged every surface of the fish in the mixture and I even stuffed the cavities of the fish with herbs. Then, I deep-fried the fish in very, very hot oil.
When the fish were done, I sprinkled more dried herbs over them. The moisture from the heat softened the herbs, releasing the flavors.
What can I say? We had a lovely dinner. :)


In New Orleans, when we think of construction, we think of laying nondrainable concrete and sacrificing jobs to nonresidents who are certified to lead the projects. What if improving infrastructure reduced flooding and provided jobs for the people who call New Orleans home?
Thrive was chosen as the National Disaster Resilience Operator by the city because we use a multifaceted approach to solve infrastructural and economic issues: train New Orleans residents to design and install flood-friendly infrastructure.
We saw the rising tide for “green infrastructure” in New Orleans: construction interventions that mitigate flooding. We needed to ensure that green infrastructure projects are in the hands of Black, Brown, and underserved residents.
Thrive started two new “green” programs through our pillars to equip people of color with specialized stormwater management skills and connect them to meaningful work and business revenue.
We paved a path specifically for landscapers and contractors that trains them to design and manage green infrastructure installations: the Thrive Launch Green Business Academy. In conjunction, we formed an educational training program that prepares people in need of employment with the specialized skills to install these Green Infrastructure projects: ThriveWorks Green.
We are proud to have the city’s support as we nurture a thriving relationship between New Orleans residents and our environment. With new federal investment in infrastructure, we are hopeful about the possibilities on the horizon for New Orleans workers and business owners in the green infrastructure space.
executive director, Thrive New Orleans


I had in mind recently a topic along the lines 'why is there expansions anymore?', with an expectation that the forthcoming expansion would be priced about 1500-2500 TP in the store, oh how wrong I was on that prediction.
However, I'm still of the mind that expansions don't work with the free-to-play model. For a start the 'expansion' is now used as an excuse to charge subscribers for content, when the big selling point of being a subscriber is that all content is available for free* (yes there is fine print to the contrary, it's a clause that makes the constant ads on the loading screens something of a joke). By all accounts the RoI 'expansion' amounts to no more content than the mirkwood questpack, two questpacks would have covered it, one for dunland, then another for the Isen fords and Isengard, 700-1000 TP each. I would have prefered this method of delivering the content, if not only for the possibility of getting more timely updates (Dunland in July, Isengard with the delayed instances in November), but also it splits the amount of cash required needed in two portions. I was under the impression that smaller content packages are what is attractive to 'pay-as-you-go' premium players, it certainly appeals to me, buy one now then months later when I get an interest to play again buy the other. In addition, it's a worrying trend that content that was supposed to be in a free update before the 'expansion' and also content delivered later than the release date of the 'expansion' are also termed expansion content, and hence subscribers can be charged for two-thirds of the years content this year.
It certainly is contradictory now that the 'second-class' premiums have the chance to get the best deal by buying the 'expansion' for cash, while players planning to buy the game with saved up TP are having the squeeze put on them because of lifetimers I'm presuming. Codemasters didn't help matters much for offering such a cheap lifetime deal just months before F2P launched, it wouldn't surprise if most players that migrated from Europe were lifetimers, me I couldn't afford the €75 or was that the cost in pounds. It can't be a simple matter for Turbine to come out and say they made a mistake in giving lifetimers points every month, they'd already provided ample bonuses when F2P launched and all content free* in perpetuity. If a lot of the players invested in the game are lifetimers, it doesn't make sense to piss them off while providing more appealing offerings to the more fickle premium crowd, but where are new incomes going to come from then.
I think I'm at the stage where I'm constantly shaking my head at the attempts to see how far gameplay can be divided up and a pricetag placed on it and that players still find acceptable. I pay for content, but the very existence of convenience items is particularly off-putting when there is no onus on developers to streamline and improve the base experience. It's just getting pettier and pettier scrabbling over scraps, with the ethos of 'if we make good content then players will pay us for it' lost to the wind and now it's 'if you pay us we'll make the game enjoyable enough and then you can buy the content to play to your heart's content'. At least Turbine isn't as bad as Funcom, who expect subscribers to pay for non-expansion content or aren't they? With the latest stunt I'm just not sure anymore. It's probably the strongest reason to hope GW2 becomes the top contender when it is released.


Poor Carl was perusing the blog today when he came across a Das comment that made reference to “skeevy Carl”. He was both horrified and offended, despite the fact that he had no idea what “skeevy” actually meant. Well, my writing partner, Paul, was more than happy to provide him with the following wiktionary definition of the word: “disgusting or distasteful; Perverted, strange in a sexually unpleasant way” – ensuring that Carl was even more horrified and offended. Das, how could you?!!! Someone else was quick to point out that Das was simply following up a reference I had made to Carl’s attire in yesterday’s entry that read: “Whoa! And you thought I looked skeevy! I suspect Carl must’ve rolled a hobo for this inspired ensemble.” HOWEVER, in truth I bear no responsibility because, if you continue reading, I go on to state: “Oh, no, sorry. Check that. Those are his regular clothes. Please disregard this comment.” Please disregard this comment! In other words, having read the offending comment, you should have immediately deleted it from your memories. But you didn’t! Shame on you, Das! You made Carl cry! He was even considering boycotting this blog until a rather fortuitous comment popped up, this one compliments of Jeff O’Connor who wrote: “I’ll never understand why Carl didn’t just do a double and sign up as one of the actors for an SG while he was at it. He’s seriously the best recurring thing on your blog.” (Next to me, of course, but that was implied.) Catastrophe averted, but I think we’ve all learned a powerful lesson about the power of language and how words can prove as destructive as a slap or a punch or a puppy left unattended in a sea of new shoe purchases. Even a seemingly innocent offhand comment, a remark made in jest, can injure, leave scars, even kill! Well, maybe not kill, but certainly injure and leave scars – nasty, deep emotional scars invisible on the outside but all too present deep within, located somewhere between the aorta and the left pulmonary artery, a painful reminder that lingers like an annoyingly catchy pop tune you hear on the radio while you’re on your way to work in the morning. So next time, THINK before you make a comment – for YOUR sake, MY sake, and, most importantly of all, the sake of poor skeevy Carl.
Oh, and a bit of trivia. Script coordinator Lawren and Exec. Producers’ Assistant Ashleigh were actually good friends prior to Ashleigh’s joining the production. How good? Clearly their body language in the proceeding picture demonstrates a comfort level characteristic of the very best of pals:
Hey, remember way back when the U.S. led the way in technological innovation? It seems like not that long ago, every other country in the world was following the trail they blazed. Well, today, I came across this interesting article (http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5geVAigQHJyD1t4c76NfgHdhPfs8g) outlining Canada’s new method for gathering television ratings data. It’s called a Portable People Meter, a device capable of following people’s viewing habits wherever they are be it at home, a friend’s house, or a local sports bar. According to the article: “…there is an encoder in each and every radio and television transmission facility in Canada. It emits a code every four seconds into the station’s audio signal.” Initial results are impressive with this new system recognizing a significant number of hitherto undiscovered viewers. The season premiere of House, for example, drew an astounding 4.4 million pairs of eyeballs [as, er, opposed to just eyeballs which you’ve all been kind enough to point out amounts to the same number]. That’s roughly double the previous season’s average!


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Sony has confirmed that it will offer a 1-terabyte edition of its PlayStation 4.
The new 1TB PS4 Ultimate Player Edition will launch in select European and PAL territories -- including Australia -- starting July 15, Sony said in a blog post published Monday. PAL is the video standard used across most of the world, with the exception of North and South America, which use a standard known as NTSC. Sony didn't reveal when the 1TB PlayStation 4 would debut in the US or other non-PAL regions.
The new model will cost £350 in the UK, Sony announced in July, which converts to around $540 or AU$730.
Offering double the storage capacity of the current PS4, the terabyte edition will closely follow the June launch of a. Both consoles come as both digital and disc-based games are getting larger, which means hard-core gamers who have a huge collection of titles can more easily run out of space.
The PS4 has been clobbering the Xbox One in sales. However, at last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, the video game industry's biggest conference, Microsoft announced several new features designed to attract more users, including a lineup of new games, theand the ability to finally .
Sony, meanwhile, is also launching a new model of the 500GB PS4 starting the end of this month. Initially rolling out in Japan and then other Asian countries as well as North America and Europe, this PS4 will weigh 10 percent less than the current edition and consume 8 percent less power. The new 500GB edition will sell in the US for $399.
Why a new edition of the 500GB PS4?
"We introduced the new system to further accelerate the expansion of the PS4 platform," a Sony spokeswoman said in an email. "We continuously refine individual PlayStation platforms so that users can continue to enjoy the same features on new models, and we recognize the importance of reducing environmental impact when developing and manufacturing our products."
Available in either jet black or glacier white, the new version will have a matte finish, which Sony says will give it a "more casual look." The company is also promising a new lineup of titles from its own game publishing studio as well as popular third-party developers. New titles due to hit the market include Capcom's Sengoku Basara 4 Sumeragi and Konami's Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Sony will kick in such games as God Of War III Remastered, Until Dawn and The Tomorrow Children.
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Parties, reunions, vacations, bonuses and presents – the Holiday season is indeed a great time to be merry! But with blessings and gifts coming in, it doesn’t mean we should now be in a spending spree! We can always celebrate sans the excessive spending and unnecessary wastage on food, clothes and other items.
Earlier this year, Electrolux embarked on the Do More With Less campaign to spread awareness about simplifying your life at home so you can have more time and resources for things that matter most.
Doing More With Less never stops most especially this Holiday Season so let’s continue to be home smart and earth friendly!
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How quick was that! I ordered my new orange ceramic stool 2 days ago and here it is. Not sure about where its new home will be but at the moment I like it here, next to my white chair and cushion I bought from Etsy.
Isn't this picture just gorgeous from Ada and Darcy. I love the way they have matched it with so many vibrant colours. When I started this blog, I had no idea how difficult I would find it to co-ordinate every single element in a room in order to look the way I had always imagined. Always I in awe of talented, creative designers who appear to throw colours together to create stunning interiors.
I am sitting here writing this piece, very frustrated as to what direction I should go. I know the style I like, the colours, fabrics but its like I have writers block...how do I put it together? Stay tune for my next post.
Mrs B xxx


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WGPA exists to better the lives of glaucoma patients by encouraging the establishment of and cooperation among Glaucoma Patient Organizations worldwide.
The WGPA, created with the encouragement of and under the auspices of the Association of International Glaucoma Societies, is designed to assist glaucoma patients worldwide in managing the disease that is silently stealing the eyesight of so many. We see our charge as being an umbrella or framework to dispense useful information to individuals, health care providers, and support-type bodies that are devoting their efforts to the fight against glaucoma.
The information offered may take many varied forms, and prove to be useful individually or in combination. We may be creating awareness, serving as an advocate body and/or directing people to educational information available from local or national support groups in a wide breadth of areas. In a broad-brush fashion, we believe that our efforts will highlight the need for appropriate and timely eye care as well as elevate the understanding of glaucoma as a dangerous eye affliction. Outreach to both patients and ophthalmologists will assuredly accomplish this objective.
There are so many areas and countries in the world that do not have patient support groups and sorely need them. We serve as advocates to encourage both ophthalmologists and their patients to step forward to assume these critically needed roles. We feel strongly that every country should have such a group and that a primary group can be the umbrella for said country.


Knowing exactly what you want……
“I know that I need a strong person. Someone whom can hold their own and stand beside me; not in front or behind, but right next to me.”
Corrupting old ways…….
An initial meeting with someone does not determine or negate a relationship. Having texted, instant messaged or emailed, Twitter followed, Face Book status message liked or daily page comment negates a relationship. Going out, and experiencing each other’s culture, friendship, personality and likes and dislikes negates the start of a friendship, with impending ideas and possibilities towards developing a further romantic future and relationship. As an adult we must face the reality of sex and how sex has positive and at times negative meanings associated with casual sex, dating and relating.
Ideas on Casual sex:
I am not approving or denying anyone’s assumed sexual experiences, however, for this matter I am only focusing on my personal experiences and instances in my life where I deemed casual sex as a good thing, and then again not so good thing. At times we think with our most intimate and private parts. We become so spun and hot and bothered over our attractive interest that all morals, principals and self signed and sealed responsibility act falls out of the window. If you are looking more toward the future and stability and getting yourself and personal life passions adjusted, casual sex will not get you anywhere for too long.
“I may have loved you passionately throughout the night. I may have guided you more than once inside of me. I may have kissed and looked at you deeply so, but all I was and could ever be to you was a flame fading out in the wind.”
Lesson Thirty Two: More than a lover….
I will meet you my friend. You will enter my life at a point where all is balancing and moving forward. I will embrace the concept of many failed attempts and mistakes at the dating and relating experience, however, I am not bitter or soured on future relationships. I have gathered a respect and self fulfillment on achieving happiness. You will knock, I will answer.


This may be just the media's method for keeping score in a crisis. A few countries dig in their heels. Much more rarely, some powerhouse countries, like Germany recently, send a signal that it is willing to reconsider previously dismissed options.
Reports during the weekend said Chancellor Angela Merkel told members of her own party, the Christian Democratic Union, that "under no circumstances" would she get behind a eurozone bond, called the eurobond. Other reports quote the chancellor as saying there is one possibility for Germany to accept eurobonds and the concept of regionwide protection for bank deposits -- an international version of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., if you will.
"The more that other member states get involved with this development and are prepared to give up sovereign rights to get European institutions more involved, the more we will be prepared to play an active role in developing things like a banking union," she said in an interview.
The treaties governing the European Union and the eurozone would have to be amended to allow for improved fiscal integration. Part of the shared currencies' greatest failings is the lack of collective protections, including a regionwide tax -- a federal tax, if you want to call it that -- and a collective protection of banks. As such, when the financial crisis hit, the EU had to start from scratch developing programs from scratch. A banking union is the logical next step: a system that would remain in place. Bank failures -- just ask the FDIC -- come with the territory. Using a bes-practices approach, an international agency that protects depositors is, at least, the leanest rescue plan that would work. Let the industry take care of its executives. Let collective policing take care of the liabilities and assets.
Just before the weekend, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called for a central authority that would oversee each member's budgeting decisions. In Ireland, a stark contrast to Greece, voters approved the EU rescue plan, confident the country would recover, even though it was time now to quit dancing and pay the fiddler.
Greece is preparing to hold national elections a second time because as the recent election failed to produce a coalition government. The surprise dark horse is Alexis Tsipras, the president of the Synaspismos political party and head of a coalition of left-leading groups bound together as the Syriza party.
Tsipras is backing a host of common-sense proposals that are too far outside the box for Greece to remain a member of the eurozone. He would prefer to raise taxes on the wealthy, whom he calls tax evaders. He would also suspend payments to the so-called troika -- the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Union -- until the Greek economy begins to grow again, and skip some critical steps to which previous administrations agreed, such as reducing the minimum wage 22 percent.
Greece has set the next election for June 17. That miniseries will have serious consequences for the soap opera as a whole. A few days later, the EU will hold a summit to look at a banking union and a eurobond, provided by then the chaos hasn't escalated too far.
In international markets Monday, the Nikkei 225 index in Japan fell 1.71 percent while the Shanghai composite index in China dropped 2.73 percent. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong lost 2.01 percent and the Sensex in India rose 0.15 percent.
The S&P/ASX 200 in Australia slid 1.94 percent.
In midday trading in Europe, the DAX 30 in Germany declined 0.71 percent. The CAC 40 in France rose 0.89 percent while the Stoxx Europe 600 was off 0.2 percent.


Today is Day 5. Otherwise known as Bar Day. I’m affectionately labeling this as bar day because I’ve done some poor meal planning through the week and now what I’m pretty much left with is bars to eat. I’m not against bars or anything, but they are indeed easier to eat when you’re on the go. And I’d love to have to eat less of them as frequently, so in the future, I’ll weigh my options more carefully.
I think this is just how it goes with week 1 of Nutrisystem, too. I think they just give you a lot of bars to keep you moving and getting used to the portion sizes. Who knows. This was also the first day that I’ve hit all my items in the Numi app. Every vegetable, too…and pretty much on time.
I’ll be honest, I think this makes a difference. If you’re going to do Nutrisystem, the Numi app has little reminders that you can turn on. I’d recommend it. It reminds you to eat.
So, let’s start with the beginning.
Breakfast was the Peanut Butter Granola Bar. I’m not a fan of peanut butter, but this is pretty good. I think I will be okay eating more of these in the future. There’s a good combination of granola in there and it’s chewy, but not powdery. With this, I had a cup of coffee and I tried to find a few options of milk/creamer to put in. I scanned my Silk Almond Vanilla milk, but this has 13g of added sugars. Kind of a lot. So, I grabbed the heavy cream instead. No sugar, but tons of calories and fat of course. I looked in my pantry and found some sugar-free vanilla coffee mate and noticed 1 tbsp was only 30 cals and no sugar. Score. I was a little hesitant about coffee and creamer with no sugar, but I did it anyway. It was actually good!
I really think about now I’m noticing something with my overall palette. I haven’t been craving the sugar. Perhaps that’s a win for Nutrisystem? I’m not sure if that’s normal or not. I am however, very tired. I normally eat a ton of carbs and sodas so right about now, I’m feeling like I want to crawl in a bed and just take a 10 hour nap. But, I’m pushing through it.
Snack was my FreshStart chocolate shake and I also decided to have my veggies here, too. I warmed up a bag of Steamers mixed veggies with garlic sauce (not sure what’s in it) and threw some Tillamook Mozzarella shredded cheese (1/4 cup) on it, too. The calories in 1/4 cup of this is 80, but I was okay with this since I didn’t have any heavy cream in my coffee. I do like the shakes. They are rewarding enough to feel like a treat and they are a nice reward after eating those veggies to curb the sweet tooth I usually have. I downed my water, too, so that was easy. I’ve found I can usually drink water, as long as it’s filtered. I know they say water is water, but y’all, it’s not. Certain bottled water tastes different.
Lunch was the Double Chocolate Caramel bar. I was uber hesitant about this one because it looked like it had the consistency of a PowerBar, and I literally hate those. I did kind of like this. It has a nice crunch on the inside and while the consistency is dense and very chewy, I found it easy to eat while I was in a meeting. I would note that this probably isn’t something you want to choose if you need to chew and enjoy food. It’s a good on-the-go option. But, the taste was pretty good.
Snack for the evening was a Chocolate Caramel Bar – and I believe this one is more of a granola type bar. Think about those types you’ve seen from Quaker and this is about the same, but a bit more dense. By this time, 3 bars in for my day, I was pretty done with bars, but I managed to eat it and get it down and was just glad it wasn’t the BBQ Seasoned Chicken in a pouch. I’ve also noticed that I drink a lot more water with bars, so that’s important. I think this helps me get my water intake down for the day. I’ve also found that if I can’t get my water down, I’ll add those little sugar free/calorie free Mio water mixes. I like the lemonade one quite a bit. I also like sparkling water and I specifically like the Waterloo Strawberry or Watermelon. I find this is a nice change of pace. However, I also find that they make me feel bloated, so I limit my intake on these.
Dinner was the Hearty Beef Stew which smelled like a can of Beneful wet dog food and pretty much tasted bland and boring. I’m glad I ate it in the dark while watching a movie with my husband because if I had to eat it and look at it, I might not have been okay with it. I do find that while these portion sizes are quite small, I’m okay with them now mostly because I know I am eating because I have to, not because I want to. I’m trying to shape the way I’m thinking about food as a necessity and not a luxury. Perhaps that will help change the way I feel about food in general, too, in the future.
Tomorrow, we have my son’s birthday party. Pizza and cake. Tomorrow is a 2 bar day (breakfast and lunch) and then I think I have one more bar left. Tomorrow is also the last day of my first week! Yay!
I’ve decided to weigh in only on Wednesday’s to keep myself motivated about my weight loss. Otherwise, I find myself getting discouraged by the scale.
I ordered some green food mix online, too. I’ll be reviewing that, once it gets in!


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"Two novels set in the Liaden Universe whose society invokes the air of a Regency"
Pilot's Choice contains two novels set in the Liaden
Universe. Liad is a planet inhabited by a race who is
slightly smaller in stature than humans and far more
concerned with social customs and what they call melant'i,
which is one proper code of conduct for the societal role
in which one is currently acting.
In the first novel, Local Custom, Master Trader Er Thom
yos'Galan has been ordered to choose a wife, but he has a
serious problem: he is in love with a human woman whom he
met on a trading expedition. Most Liadens believe humans
are beneath them, and a Liaden of good birth would never
sink so low as to marry a human. Er Thom knows he should
put the woman from his mind, but instead, he goes in search
of her, thinking that if he sees her one more time, he will
be able to say good-bye and do his duty to his family. But
complications arise, and Er Thom has to choose between
following his heart and following duty.
In the second novel, Scout's Progress, a young math genius,
Aelliana Caylon, decides to escape from Liad and her
abusive brother who plans to use her to gain power for
himself by taking a pilot's license and earning her passage
off world. After winning a ship in a game of chance, she
must to learn to fly, and one of her instructors is Er
Thom's cousin and cha'leket (heart brother), Daav
yos'Phelium. Daav, as Delm (or clan leader) of the
powerful Clan Korval, is in a position to help Aelliana
escape from her brother's clutches, except for one problem:
she is unaware of his identity. As the two grow closer,
her brother's schemes and Daav's duty to marry and produce
an heir threaten to pull them apart.
The details such as language and descriptions of
complicated social customs that the authors included in the
portrayal of Liaden society give it such an authentic feel
that I am surprised I can't actually travel to Liad.
Excellent character development is another strong point in
both novels. As each one came to an end, I found myself
wishing I didn't have to say goodbye to the fascinating
personalities that I had gotten to know.
My husband was thoroughly convinced that I would love this
book so when I said it would be awhile before I got to it,
he decided to read it aloud to me. I was skeptical,
because I do not usually read sci-fi, but he was right: I
thought it was wonderful. The emphasis on manners and
proper conduct in Liaden society invokes the air of
Regency. In their introduction, the authors cite Georgette
Heyer as one of their inspirations, and I think anyone who
enjoys Heyer, Austen or other books written in a similar
style should try Pilot's Choice.
Sarah Neal © Copyright 2002
Reviewed for PNR Reviews
Reviewed by Sarah Neal
Posted February 9, 2002


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PPC, the secret acronym that can give your business the visibility online that it needs
Pay-per-click advertising is nothing new, but how and where you are using it makes all the difference.
PPC advertising via the top notch Google Adwords interface can either sink your online marketing budget or make your business stand out head and shoulders above the competition.
However, that being said here are a few important things to note first – Ad formats:
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The Relationship Between the Mid-Point and Most-Prominent Point on the Labial Curve of Upper Anterior Teeth
R.N. Smith*, A.H Brook, M. Karmo
Identifiers and Pagination:Year: 2009
First Page: 167
Last Page: 172
Publisher Id: TODENTJ-3-167
Article History:Received Date: 26/9/2008
Revision Received Date: 6/11/2008
Acceptance Date: 8/6/2009
Electronic publication date: 28/7/2009
Collection year: 2009
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestrictive use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objectives: This study investigates coincidence of the most-prominent point and the mid-point on upper anterior teeth in relation to the use of straight-wire appliances.
Materials and Methods: Alginate impressions of the upper jaw were obtained from forty Caucasian patients. Impressions were cast using hard dental stone. The teeth on each upper study model (canine to canine) were marked along the facial axis of the clinical crown (FACC line) then separated using a very thin diamond disc. Each tooth was mounted on a glass slide using sticky wax and cut into two halves down this FACC line. Images were acquired of the sections and a straight line connecting the gingival margin and the incisal edge was drawn on the flat cut surfaces (now the proximal crosssectional view). From this line, perpendicular lines were drawn at the mid-point and most prominent point to the labial curve. Coincidence rate was calculated or whether the most prominent point was gingival or incisal to the mid-point.
Results: Approximately 80% of upper central incisors had coincident mid- and most-prominent points. Upper lateral incisors and canine teeth had approximately 50% coincidence. The vast majority of cases without coincidence showed the most-prominent point incisal to the mid-point for all tooth kinds with just 5% or less gingival.
Conclusions: The high proportions of non-coincident examples found suggest that clinicians should be aware of individual variation and that this may possibly effect 3rd order alignment.


gas oil fired burning steam boiler factory
In recent years, the increasing popularity of Yichun City, Jiangxi Province comprehensive energy saving coal-fired boiler upgrade project, plans to eliminate 75% of the downtown 10 steam tons / hour and below the coal-fired boilers, a ban on new 20 tons of steam / hour and less fuel coal boilers; the rest of principle, then the new 10 steam tons / hour of coal-fired boilers.
Following this, Jiangxi Province Department of Finance issued a special subsidy fund boilers, Yichun downtown 2015--2016 phase-out 10 steam tons / hour coal-fired boilers companies grant. The subsidy standard is: 2 out of steam tons / hour and coal-fired boilers, subsidies to 10,000 yuan / Taiwan; out of steam 2-10 t / h coal-fired boiler, subsidies for 20,000 yuan / Taiwan.
About hot water boilers including hot water boiler electric water boilers, hot water boiler fuel, gas hot water boilers and coal-fired hot water boilers, hot water boilers that produce hot water boilers, is the use of the thermal energy released from fuel combustion or other thermal energy (e.g., electrical energy, solar energy, etc.) the water was heated to a nominal temperature of a thermal device. "Special Equipment Safety Supervision Regulations" as defined in the boiler is the use of various fuels, electricity or other energy sources, the costumes, the liquid is heated to a certain parameter, and external heat output devices. Which is defined in a range equal to or greater than the volume of the pressure of the oil fired burning steam boiler factory 30L; outlet pressure is greater than or equal to 0.1MPa (gauge pressure), greater than or equal to the rated power and the pressure of the hot water boiler 0.1Mw; organic heat boiler. From "Special Equipment Safety Supervision Regulations" Uses People's Republic of China: There are heating and hot water boiler bath for two purposes. Hot water boiler by circulating hot water circulation pump hot water holding tank, the tank hot water heating cycle can be achieved bath object; hot water boiler by circulating hot water circulation pump heating conduit, through the heat sink (radiator) people can achieve heating requirements; hot water boiler and hot water circulating pump with heat exchanger can achieve the dual function of bathing and heating using inspection items include: checking in the internal boiler inspection and ready to use, furnace and flue boiler inspection accessories check check, auxiliary equipment automatic control system, check the combustion equipment, check the auxiliary heating surface of the hot water boiler must be done before running some tests, these tests are quite a lot of us, it is possible because of our neglect causing very serious consequences. Therefore, we must forestall, be sure to carefully check the following before the hot water boiler operation. 1, including the use of internal inspection and boiler ready. 2, inspection, and furnace fouling and debris inside the flue in the furnace and flue should be cleaned. Flue duct and damper, the shutter must be complete and compact, flexible switch, opening and closing accurately indicated. 3, check the boiler accessories, check the safety accessory is intact; cock is rotating flexible, easy to use; all kinds of instruments and controls should be complete, good, clean. After passing the examination, should the gauge cocks in working condition. 4, check the automatic control system. 5. Check the accessory device. 6, inspection of the combustion apparatus, the combustion apparatus is intact inspection; mechanical transmission system, coal handling system, the ballast system test switch normally; spring-loaded safety level of a gearbox should be appropriate, well lubricated; coal shutter indicate the correct scale. iron eagle neat, well, turn the ballast plates full, flexible movement. 7, the auxiliary heating surface of the inspection, check the auxiliary device (fan, blower, pump, etc.) are firmly connected coupling; proper belt tension triangle; oil should be good enough; cooling water flow. After passing the examination, installed security guard, respectively, commissioning, and note the current when idling.
Water Tube Oil Gas Fired Boiler is D Type in which water circulates in tubes heated externally by the fire. Fuel is burned inside the furnace, creating hot gas which heats water in the steam-generating tubes. D Type Water Tube Oil Gas Fired Boiler in ZBG is designed with a large steam drum at the top, vertically connected to a smaller water drum (or “mud drum”) at the bottom, via multiple steam-generating tubes which carry feed water (providing the main heat transfer surfaces for the production of steam). These are surrounded by walls made up of larger water-filled tubes, named membrane water wall, and all of them form the boiler.
Fuel oils burned in boilers include the heavier oil, diesel oil and others. As a liquid, fuel oils are relatively easy to handle and burn. In most oil boilers, the oil is atomized with air, steam, or pressure to enhance combustion. The characteristics of atomized oil approximate those of natural gas. The heating value of fuel oil is derived primarily from its two major constituents, hydrogen and carbon. Most fuel oils have a hydrogen content that ranges between 10 and 14%, and a carbon content that ranges between 86 and 90%.


I often get nice compliments like “where did that insight come from?” or “how could you rattle off so many case studies around that technology trend?”
In reverse, I find myself disagreeing with fellow bloggers and analysts and when I examine why, it’s usually because we look at the same problem from very different lenses.
My “guides” are spread across 4 quadrants
I like to study how non-tech enterprises embed technology into their products and services. And in reverse how tech companies become leaders in operational, non-product areas. So, It could be a restaurant using iPads as menus and as bathroom mirrors or it could be a city with smart parking with sensors embedded. Given a choice I would rather spend a day with software engineers who are part of Mercedes product engineering than software engineers who support its SAP systems. There is a certain thrill in hearing about a project or product which little of the media/analyst world will ever write about. In reverse, while most attention goes to their products, I love to examine Apple’s retail channel, Google’s clean initiatives, Amazon’s Kiva robots in its warehouses. To me, “switchhitters” – enterprises which consume and produce technology equally well - are really interesting.
I stay in touch with a group of VCs, professors, journalists, executives who are not very active on social networks or the conference circuit, but have over time shown me they are always in the thick of emerging technology trends. I also like to go to 2-3 new conferences (to me) a year. One coming up next month is the MIT Sports Analytics event. Every sport is taking the Moneyball ethos to new levels as they analyze athlete performance. They are leading the way in facilitating social analytics. I bet a Borders or a Blockbuster could have learned from how many of these teams continue to fill their “brick and mortar” stadiums when the digital competition via TV and web is so compelling.
Horizontal, Large tech vendors
These tend to be large tech vendors which typically show up in the top right of Gartner Magic Quadrants for their software, hardware, outsourcing categories. These are obviously important – and I go to many of their briefings and events - but find they get more than their fair share of coverage from Gartner, Wall Street and bloggers. Even smaller analyst firms who could differentiate themselves will pack their webinars and events with reps from these “safe bets”. Many of my disagreements with fellow bloggers and analysts stem from the fact that they spend much of their time in this box. So, they will continue to watch for what IBM Watson is doing 3 years later when there are so many other fascinating advanced analytics projects to follow. Often that leads them to extrapolate quarterly results of vendors to project where the industry is headed as with this Social Enterprise conversation.
Vertical and “Offbeat” tech vendors
Some of the most interesting innovation is happening in vertical markets. Look at retail and you see depth sensors to manage shelf space. scanners to give customer better fitting clothes, next-gen POS, Big Data to manage product mix and so on. Same with insurance as they use advanced analytics to cover risks around crops and ski trips they could not a few years. I love to get to know products and vendors who help with these innovations. Also other vendors “off the beaten track”. It could be a disruptor – someone who offers third party software maintenance, cheaper global mobile roaming etc. It could be an outsourcer in E. Europe or Africa. It could be an innovator in a new category like NetSuite was in 1998 way before any one had thought about cloud computing.
Yes, my insights can be different. Some would argue what I hear from so many sources is a lot of noise. I like to think I am blessed with a curiosity antenna which can pick up many varied signals. If my little iPhone can keep Bluetooth, GPS, voice, data and many other signals straight, so should I.


John Stafford, director of Residential and Community Development, was selected to present on budgeting, strategic planning and chief housing operator skills before 350 collegiate housing staff members at a conference for the Mid-Atlantic Association of College and University Housing Officers (MACUHO), an organization that advises institutions on residence and dining hall issues.
Residence Director Kate Berry will also be presenting at the conference, on what to do in housing when a college’s apartment complex does not get finished on time.
Stafford, selected as a consultant in residence, is honored as one of three major speakers – two consultants in residence and a keynote speaker – at the conference, a long trip away in Wheeling, W. Va.
“A consultant in residence is a worker in the field of housing, residence life or student affairs considered an expert on some given topic,” Stafford said.
“How they picked me, I don’t know. I just got the phone call and I said, ‘Yeah, dude, that’d be fun,'” Stafford said.
Although he does not know exactly what will be in his speeches yet, Stafford has been working for the past five weeks on his two-hour speech on the importance and steps for strategic planning and budgeting. He said he is gearing it toward college housing departments with budgets between 20 and 25 million dollars.
“One of the foundations of strategic planning is what to do when the plan does not go the way you thought,” he said. He added that construction in general has been disappointing, and the apartment complexes are “just one domino” that will affect the future of construction and renovations.
Strategic planning is also about doing the best you can for the most people, he said.
“Many issues were caught beforehand, but with any new program issues will come up,” he said, regarding the implementation of the Carte Blanche program.
Stafford will also be giving a 60-minute presentation for entry to mid-level professionals, such as resident and area directors, on necessary skills for a chief housing officer.
“He’s a very strong director,” Berry said. “His experience will get (the College’s) name out there and also give other schools the benefit.”
Berry, who has been working at the College for three years, will be presenting at the conference for the first time thanks to the extra work she did over the summer as a go-to person about the Apartment 1 construction delays.
“With everything we went through this summer with the apartments – not a unique situation, but one other colleges could experience – we can give the steps we took and the issues we ran into. We can look back on that and see if others encountered the same situation,” Berry said.
Berry, Stafford and Gretchen Reyes Cseplo, assistant director of Residential and Community Life, hope to use the experience of the unfinished apartments at the conference either to learn more or to share the experience with other colleges in similar situations.
“The students don’t know we cried and suffered as much as students did,” Reyes Cseplo said. “We were just as devastated when this happened. We take pride in giving the best to the students, and the students think we didn’t care – we did care. We were working nights and weekends to make sure to find spaces for apartment students as well as new transfer students.”
The College is actively involved in MACUHO, with a residence staff member typically presenting annually at the fall conference.
“It gives the professional staff a chance to make contact and to experience what other schools are going through,” Berry said.
Berry said she hopes to bring back ideas for an upper-class experience program similar to the College’s First Year Experience and the College’s unique Sophomore Year Experience program, which staff members presented at the conference last year.
“Especially now with everything with the apartments going on, I’d like to see what the upper class needs, what the upper class wants,” she added.
“Not a lot of students know how much work outside of the institution we do to make them look better,” Reyes Cseplo said. “Do things to make sure we’re the best we can be.”


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This isn’t to say that the sport has to be on primary or superficial stage, however to say that it should feel and look intuitive and have simple-to-understand guidelines and levels although it’s strategic video games you might be building. This means anyone who pledges at a degree that earns the Beginning Traces game will now have 24 Beginning Line playing cards as an alternative of 18.
Instead, it needs to supply a large coverage of potential experiences to slot in totally different gamers’ Movement Zones. In 1989 Sid Meier described games as “a sequence of interesting selections.” XCOM 2 is the purest expression of that ethos that Firaxis has yet produced.
Most video games require multiple gamers. The whole cavalcade of designers, challenge managers, developers, thought leaders and testers should kind a singular, synchronized structure that complies with greatest trade practices to in the end give a shape to a stunning Android game app.