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Greybeard wrote:As many of you know I am a full time entertainer. I also note that I am not an ETA. I spend my weekdays entertaining some great people at assisted living facilities. I meet many great people in my travels and have seen some wonderful things.
Today I visited one of my regular stops. One resident there simply loves Elvis. He seems to know so many songs you'd never get a request for. He asks for many songs and I comply. Songs like Ask Me, Ain't that Lovin' You baby, Crawfish, I Was The One, Happy Ending, Doing The Best I Can and many, many others have been requested by him. Needless to say I enjoy seeing him whenever I go there. We spend extra time talking and singing Elvis tunes.
Today was one of those days and it had an extra special twist at the end of my performance.
When I finished my set and was talking to my friend Joe an elderly lady came up to me to compliment my delivery of the Elvis tunes we did . She paid me a great compliment saying that she enjoyed the way I did not try to impersonate Elvis but rather embodied the way Elvis sang the songs and delivered them vocally. To me that was enough to make my day. She also seemed to have a pretty good knowledge of Elvis & his music.
As our conversation progressed she told me that her son had made an Elvis documentary film. I asked her to tell me more never figuring it was a major documentary.
She asked if I had heard of THAT'S THE WAY IT IS and I acknowledged I had-turns out her son is Rick Schmidlin. I was aware that Schmidlin lived about 45 minutes from me at one point in his life. She told stories of how Rick loved Elvis as a young boy and how music was a big part of their world. She said they had a 13 room house and there would be days when the house would be quiet until evening when musicians who stayed there would wake and start making music. Apparently Rick worked on the road for some rock bands in his younger days.
She mentioned that he now lives in Nova Scotia and I asked if he should ever come to visit could they call me so I could meet him. She said she definitely would try.
We spent at least another 30 minutes talking about Elvis and music- just her, Joe & me. A simply wonderful and very surprising day indeed.
I love what I do and days like this just make it better. You never know who you may meet and whose life path you may cross.
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April declared CAAM by County
During their regular meeting on Monday morning, March 12, 2012 held at the Courthouse, the Nolan County Commissioners approved a contract with West Texas Centers to purchase all laboratory testing services associated with their services and for inmates covered under the county's agreement with the establishment.County Judge Tim Fambrough--as a member of the West Texas Centers board of directors--excused himself from the action item, prompting Precinct 3 Commissioner Tommy White to briefly preside over the meeting. This new agreement--as part of a current, revamped contract regarding crisis management--will reduce time travel to other establishments, increase coordination and will save money for the county in the long term.In addition, a proclamation in support of Child Awareness Prevention Month was approved by the commissioners. Executive Director of the West Texas Children's Advocacy Center (WTCAC) Teresa Zarate--who was at the meeting--noted that the agency hopes to bring awareness of this ongoing problem in and around Nolan County by hosting several local events throughout the month of April.Furthermore, an agreement with Coastal Technical Services to inspect, test and report on election equipment damaged by water leakage on February 1, 2012 was also approved. The equipment, according to county clerk Pat McGowan, must be inspected in order to be cleared for use in the upcoming elections. The cost is approximated at $3,000 and will covered by insurance.Approval was also given to advertise for bids for gravel and AC5 asphalt for the 2012 seal coating projects for Nolan County precincts, and with rain forecasted for the latter part of the week, the commissioners approved to leave the burn ban in Nolan County off for the next two weeks. Several reports were also received and approved from various department heads--including the Nolan County Auditor, Clerk, Treasurer and the Government Trapper, and the minutes from the regular February 27 meeting were approved.The minutes from the special meeting held on March 7 were additionally approved, where Commissioner White was appointed to investigate options for the purchase of land for a new jail and sheriff's office and sign preliminary, nonbinding documents to hold options on the land if necessary.However, several items on the agenda were tabled. Two items were delayed due to its incorrect wording on the agenda, while the other two were in regards to the new jail. The two items--the purchase of land for the jail and sheriff's office along with the hiring of a construction manager at risk for the jail and replacement of the exterior of the Nolan County Courthouse--will likely remain on future agendas for the commissioners' court meetings until enough information is gathered to be presented for approval.


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The state of Illinois decided last week for whatever reason that Route 31 didn't have enough construction and work zones.
Yes, Route 31 is torn up for work in McHenry, Crystal Lake, and Algonquin. But Gov. Pat Quinn announced a $5.2 million project to widen another part of the road.
So without further ado, let's start this week by running down all of the Route 31 work ...
• RAKOW ROAD TO TRINITY DRIVE: Work is set to begin next month to widen Route 31 to four lanes from Rakow Road in Crystal Lake south to Trinity Drive in Lake in the Hills. The project is one of the latest in the ongoing $31 billion Illinois Jobs Now! capital program.
• ALGONQUIN WESTERN BYPASS: Budget more time if your travels take you through downtown Algonquin on either Route 31 or Algonquin Road/Route 62.
Watch for workers and expect some delays at the bypass's intersections with Route 31 north and south of downtown, and on Algonquin Road west of downtown as workers build the overpass and its diamond interchange.
Key components of the long-desired $33.3 million project are the building of a 2.1-mile, four-lane highway around downtown to eliminate the infamous rush-hour bottleneck at the intersection of Routes 31 and 62. This is the second year of the two-year project, and work is expected to be finished this fall.
• ROUTES 31 AND 120: Work has started on a $7.2 million project to widen and resurface Route 120 from Front Street to Green Street and Route 31 from Route 120 north to McCullom Lake Road. It includes improvement of the intersection and replacement of the bridge over the creek that feeds into the Fox River.
Watch for lane closures and frequent stops. The project is expected to be finished by November.
• ROUTES 31 AND 176: Work is set to finish by the end of spring on the $10.2 million improvement to the intersections of Routes 31 and 176 in Crystal Lake.
• JOHNSBURG ROUNDABOUT: Work is beginning on a roundabout intersection at Johnsburg and Chapel Hill roads. The $2.7 million project scheduled to be finished in September includes decorative lighting, landscaping and brick-paved crosswalks.
Eastbound Johnsburg Road is now closed between Spring Grove Road and Fairview Avenue, and westbound Johnsburg Road will be closed from Fairview Avenue to Chapel Hill Road. The road will be open to local traffic to maintain access to local businesses.
A lengthy posted detour will take drivers around via Routes 31 and 120 and Chapel Hill Road. And yes, that detour takes you through the aforementioned mess at Routes 31 and 120 in McHenry.
The work is the second phase of a project to improve Johnsburg Road. The first phase, which improved Johnsburg Road from Route 31 east to the roundabout, was finished earlier this year.
• INTERSTATE 90: Budget extra time if your commute involves I-90, regardless of which direction you're traveling.
Work will continue this year to improve a 37-mile segment of the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway between Elgin and I-39 in Rockford. Eastbound lanes were improved last year, so traffic is being shifted to them so workers can improve the westbound lanes. That work should be finished by the end of the year.
But work has also started this year to improve a 25-mile segment of I-90 from Elgin east to the Tri-State Tollway. That work is expected to be finished by the end of 2015.
The total cost of the project, meant to widen and improve I-90 between Rockford and O'Hare International Airport, is $2.5 billion.
• ROUTE 176: Work is starting on an upgrade to the intersection of Route 176 and Smith Road in unincorporated Nunda Township. The $1.5 million project is expected to be finished by November.
• ROUTE 14 IN CARY: Watch for possible delays as work begins on a $1.5 million project to improve Jandus Cutoff from Route 14 to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. The project is expected to be finished by September.
• FUTURE MAJOR ROAD WORK: Bids are expected to be let in August to widen Charles Miller Road in McHenry between Route 31 and the recently-widened bridge over the Fox River. If you've noticed utility relocation work on Route 14 in Woodstock, it's for a project to widen it to four lanes between Woodstock and Crystal Lake. Again, an August bid-letting is anticipated.
Sources: Illinois Department of Transportation, McHenry County Division of Transportation


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Recent IP Publications
IP Osgoode Faculty Publications 2008 – 2011
Professor David Vaver
Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-marks, 2d ed (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2011).
With Marcel Boyer & M.J. Trebilcock, eds, Competition and Intellectual Property (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2009).
With G D'Agostino, C Ng & T Piper, eds, Intellectual Property Law in Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, Forthcoming).
With G D'Agostino, Copyright Law, 2d ed (Toronto: Irwin Law, Forthcoming).
Book Chapters
"Harmless Copying" in Rosemary J Coombe, Darren Wershler & Martin Zeilinger, eds, Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online (Toronto: Univ of Toronto Press, 2012, Forthcoming).
"Sir Hugh Ian Lang Laddie (1946-2008)", entry in Lawrence Goldman, ed, Oxford Dictionary National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, Forthcoming).
With Tina Piper, "Ownership of Medical Images in E-Science Collaborations: Overture or Central Plot?" in W Dutton & P W Jeffreys, eds, World Wide Science: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010).
"To Serve and Protect: The Challenge for Intellectual Property Law" in L Boy, J Drexel, C Godt, R Hilty & B Remiche, eds, Technology and Competition – Technologie et Concurrence: Liber Amicorum Hanns Ullrich (Brussels: Larcier, 2009).
"Does Intellectual Property Have Personality?" in Reinhardt Zimmerman & Niall Whitty, eds, Rights of Personality in Scots Law: A Comparative Perspective (Dundee: University Dundee Press, 2009) 403.
"Brand Culture: Trade Marks, Marketing and Consumption – Responding Legally to Professor Schroeder's Paper", in L Bently, J Davis & J Ginsburg, eds, Trade Marks and Brands: An Interdisciplinary Critique (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008) ch 8.
"Does the Public Understand Intellectual Property Law? Do Lawyers?" in Meredith Lectures 2006: Intellectual Property at the Edge: New Approaches to IP in a Transsystemic World (Yvon Blais & Faculty of Law, McGill Univ., 2007); reprinted in K Grau-Kuntz & D Borges Barbosa, eds, Ensaios sobre o Direito Imaterial: Estudos Dedicados a Newton Silveira (Essays on Immaterial Right: Studies Dedicated to Newton Silveira) (Rio de Janeiro, Editora Lumen Juris, 2009) 375.
Journal Articles
"Snooping, Privacy and Precedent in Ontario" (2011) 23 IPJ 243.
"Clerical Errors in the Patent Office" (2011) 23 IPJ 131.
"Consent or No Consent: The Burden of Proof in Intellectual Property Infringement" (2011) 23 IPJ 147.
"Sprucing Up Patent Law" (2011) 23 IPJ 63.
"Recent Copyright Law Developments: More Reform?" (2010) 22 IPJ 1.
"Being Old and Obvious: Apotex v Sanofi-Synthelabo in the Supreme Court" (2010) 2 Osgoode Hall Rev. L. Pol'y 3.
"Reforming Intellectual Property Law: An Obvious and Not-So-Obvious Agenda" [2009] 1 IPQ 143.
With G D'Agostino, C Hinds, et al, "On the Importance of Intellectual Property Rights for eScience and the Electronic Health Record" (2008) 14:2 Health Informatics J 95.
"Copyright and the Internet: From Owner Rights and User Duties to User Rights and Owner Duties?" 57:3 Case Western L Rev 731 (2007) (first available in 2010).
"The Problems of Biotechnologies for Intellectual Property Law" (2004), reprinted in Spanish as "Los problemas de las biotecnologías para el derecho de la propiedad intellectual," in E Leon Robayo, ed, Propiedad Intelectual: Reflexiones (Bogotá: Centro Editorial de la Universidad del Rosario, 2011).
"Creating a Fair Intellectual Property System for the 21st Century" (2001), reprinted in Spanish (trans M Medina, M Pérez, L Flóreza & L. Sánchez) as "Recreando un sistema de propiedad intelectual para el siglo XXI", in E Leon Robayo, ed, Estudios de propiedad intelectual (Bogotá: Centro Editorial de la Universidad del Rosario, 2011) 3.
"Does the Public Understand Intellectual Property Law? Do Lawyers?" (2007), reprinted in K Grau-Kuntz & D Borges Barbosa, eds, Ensaios sobre o Direito Imaterial: Estudos Dedicados a Newton Silveira (Essays on Immaterial Right: Studies Dedicated to Newton Silveira) (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Lumen Juris, 2009) 375.
"Unconventional and Well-Known Trade Marks" (2005), reprinted in A V Narsimha Rao, ed, Trademarks: Concepts and Contexts (Hyderabad: ICFAI University Press, 2009).
"Copyright in Europe: The Good, The Bad and the Harmonised" (1999), translated into Ukranian in Y Kapitsa, ed, Copyright and Related Rights in Europe (2008).
For additional publications, see here and here.
Professor Carys Craig
Copyright, Communication and Culture: Towards a Relational Theory of Copyright Law (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2011).
Book Chapters
"Locking out Lawful Users: Fair Dealing and Anti-Circumvention in Bill C-32" in Michael Geist, ed, From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010) 177.
Journal Articles
With Joseph F. Turcotte & Rosemary J. Coombe, "What's Feminist About Open Access? A Relational Approach to Copyright in the Academy" (2011) 1 Feminists@law.
"Digital Locks and the Fate of Fair Dealing in Canada: In Pursuit of 'Prescriptive Parallelism'" (2010) J World Intellectual Property 503.
"The Canadian Public Domain: What, Where, and to What End?" (2010) CJLT 221.
"Perfume by Any Other Name May Smell as Sweet…But Who Can Say?: A Comment on L'Oreal v. Bellure" (2010) 22 IPJ 321.
For additional publications, see here and here.
Professor Giuseppina D'Agostino
Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010).
With L Bently & C Ng, eds. The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of David Vaver (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2009).
With D Vaver, C Ng & T Piper, eds. Intellectual Property Law in Canada (Toronto: Irwin Law, Forthcoming).
With D Vaver, Copyright Law, 2d ed (Toronto: Irwin Law, Forthcoming).
Book Chapters
"Net Rights" in Ryan Goodman et al, eds, Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009).
Journal Articles
"The History of Copyright Contract in Relation to the Freelancer" (2010) 22 IPJ 273.
With DA Woodward, "Diagnosing Our Health Records in the Digital World" (2010) 22 IPJ 127.
"Same Issues, Different Treatment: Common Law and Civilian Approaches to the Copyright Treatment of Freelance Works" (2008) 2 Int'l J IP Mgmt 88.
"Healing Fair Dealing? A Comparative Copyright Analysis of Canada's Fair Dealing to UK Fair Dealing and UK Fair Use" (2008) 53 McGill LJ 1.
"Copyright in Sound bites: Bidding for or against the Public Interest? (2008) 43 Sup Ct Law Rev (2d) 413.
With C Hinds, M Jirotka, et al, "On the Importance of Intellectual Property Rights for eScience and the Electronic Health Record" (2008) 14:2 Informatics Health J 95.
"Not All Sides Are Represented in Debate on Copyright Bill" Toronto Star, June 19, 2008.
For additional publications, see here and here.
Professor Ikechi Mgbeoji
Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants and Indigenous Knowledge, (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006)
Collective Insecurity: The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, and Global Order, (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003)
With Isabel Martinez, Wang Xi & Nazrul Islam, Environmental Law in Developing Countries: Selected Issues (Cambridge: IUCN, 2001)
Book Chapters
"Making Space for Grandma: The Emancipation of Traditional Knowledge and the Dominance of Western-Style Intellectual Property Rights Regimes" in Balakrishna Pisupati & Suneetha Subramanian, eds, Traditional Knowledge in Policy and Practice: Approaches to Development and Human Well-being (UNU Press, Japan: 2010) pages 130-146.
"The Colonial Origins of Intellectual Property Regimes in African States", in David Armstrong, ed, Handbook of International Law, (Routledge Publishers, London, 2009) 316.
"On the Shoulders of the 'Other'ed': Intellectual Property Rights in Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Persistence of Indigenous Peoples' Texts and Inter-Texts in a Contextual World" in Toshiyuki Kono, ed, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property: Communities, Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development (Antwerp: Interstitial, 2009).
"The Origin and Development of the Patent System" in Akira Iriye & Pierre-Yves Saunier, eds, The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (London: Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2009).
"The Civilized and the Barbaric Other: Imperial Delusions of Order and the Challenges of Human Security" in R Falk, B Rajagopal & J Stevens, eds, International Law and the Third World (London: Routledge-Cavendish, 2008) 151.


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During the morning announcements the students learned about the history of Dr. Seuss, whose real name was Ted Geisel. Seuss was born March 2, 1910 and grew up on 74 Fairfield Street, in Springfield, Mass.
He feasted on books and was wild about animals. Dr. Seuss lived three blocks from the library and six blocks from the zoo. He drew pictures of animals, even on his bedroom walls, as his mother encouraged him to be creative.
Seuss was his mother's maiden name.
No one on Fairfield Street would have guessed how Geisel would turn out, especially Geisel himself, said the announcement read to the students.
He didn't always fit in at school and couldn't find a job when he finished college, but he didn't get discouraged. Dr. Seuss started getting jobs writing cartoons for newspapers. The he decided to try writing a book.
Dr. Seuss became an amazing author of children's books, the announcement said.
"His books teach children about rhyming words and opposites, and most of all to have fun with reading."
Every year children across the country celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday with "Read Across America Day", an event developed by the National Education Association. Now in its 16th year, the year-round Read Across America program focuses on motivating children and teens to read through events, partnerships, and reading resources.
In addition to learning about the history of Dr. Seuss, students at Ayres Elementary got to make their own Dr. Seuss hat. They also participated in a variety of Dr. Seuss inspired activities in gym and music, from balancing "Green Eggs and Ham," on a spoon to bouncing on a ball in honor of Dr. Seuss' book "Hop on Pop."
Additionally, some retired teachers stopped by the school to read their favorite Dr. Seuss books.
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Title: Colonel Vorotovov memoirs
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Collection Number: YY599
Creator: Vorotovov, Colonel.
Collection Size: 1 item (1 folder) (0.1 linear feet)
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Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Memoirs, entitled 2-i Orenburgskii Kazachii Polk v 1918-1920 g.g., and V Zabaikal'ie i na Primorskom Frontie v 1920-21 g.g., relating to the Russian Civil War.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: Russian
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Memoirs, entitled 2-i Orenburgskii Kazachii Polk v 1918-1920 g.g., and V Zabaikal'ie i na Primorskom Frontie v 1920-21 g.g., relating to the Russian Civil War.
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Ira Glass always sounds as if he's got a bag of Cheetos just off-mic for between-sentence scarfing. At least, in my world of radio magic, that accounts for his strange, halting delivery. But Glass is up to something that's bordering on real brilliance with This American Life. Something that can't be undermined even by the machinations of Frito-Lay.
His is a quietly subversive job. As media saturation becomes commonplace, what could be more absurd than inhabiting a medium without so much as a picture? I think it's the intimacy of radio that keeps it alive. I used to listen to This American Life in the dark, feet up, downing mind-rattling espresso. The glow of a lava lamp seemed necessary. You get comfortable with radio in a different way than television. You can stare at the spider web in the corner you should have swept away months ago while Glass sputters. Your mind can wander without being drawn to the flicker of a screen and into the dread soporific of its tunnel-vision luminescence.
When I had the pleasure of interviewing Glass last fall, I felt as if I was being informed by the magician just exactly how the tiger disappears. (Fortunately, I'm relieved to note, the tiger still astonishes.) Radio's particular glories aside, Ira Glass' show taps into something primal. At the most basic level, Glass is a crafter of story, and nothing mesmerizes us primate revelers like a good story. He gets that. And, as he notes, slathering on vast amounts of music like marmalade on toast never seems to reach a point of being overdone.
Contrast that with what happens (okay, at least to me) when I see something in a film that's too dressed up with music—it becomes instant Velveeta. And, as Glass demonstrated at his recent Calvin appearance, the power of music suddenly going away has substantial impact—whatever is said just then becomes "really, really important."
It's also helpful to know that this magic is not worked without effort—Glass said that, to get those three stories that really work, his staff might work on 10 or 12 any given week. In any case—when This American Life works, it really, really works. The stories are good stories regardless of their American-ness or lack of, but there is a certain wistful, "Home on the Range" quality that creeps in.
I've been pondering what that gorgeous wistfulness is, and how to work some of that kind of magic myself, because I've undertaken a sort of related project that has so far spanned years. I've known a man named Harris Mills since I was a boy and my father, then a full-time Baptist preacher, met Harris when he went to Horn Lake, Mississippi to preach a revival. Our familes became good friends, and knowing Harris was (and is) a grand thing for a young guy who'd known neither of his grandfathers.
Harris Mills (left) and the author at Graceland
Harris Mills is an extraordinary storyteller. His cadences are enormously Southern, and his rapid-fire, wide-eyed delivery—he's an imposing figure, even in his 80s—is by turns visceral, gripping and hilarious. There is much to be said for the preservation of American stories such as his for the most obvious of reasons: he was a gunnery sergeant in the Pacific during World War II, present at two of the bloodiest battles in our history, Guadalcanal and Peleliu (so bloody and caualty-ridden it wasn't widely discussed until well after the war). But as a musician I undertook, at the brilliant suggestion of the bassist I was then collaborating with, putting Harris' stories to music instead of just dropping the proverbial jaw.
Why I felt the need to do this I'm not entirely sure. It just seemed the proper move, on one level. But more than that, there is something about grand storytelling that invites participation. Obviously, I couldn't tell a story to match Harris' tale of trying to outrun a Japanese Zero on the runway at Guadalcanal. But I wanted to be part of the story. And that, I think, is the heart of the power of narrative, radio or otherwise. It is—I'm just going to state it as an absolute—what creates the context of being human.
But how do you enhance something as gripping as the tales of Harris Mills? What could or should music do? I decided that the main job of playing behind Harris, something I've so far only done live and only done solo, was not to be heard exactly, but to be felt. The human capacity to hear something and then relegate it to the background seems to me much like the progress of a strong smell, which can eventually be forgotten about. It is this, too, I think, that makes This American Life work so well. The music becomes a motor, moving you along at faster and faster speeds until, like a fly buzzing inside a car, you have no sense of motion. But stop the motor, and suddenly you sway forward, intensely aware that motion is happening. That kind of shift in art is a thing of power.
I don't know if I'll succeed in doing what I hope to with these stories. I'm still mixing up weird percussion, guitar, didgeridoo and theremin to build the momentum behind his tales. Am I joining the current, creating something of participatory narrative? Am I emulating the retro-uber-hip Ira Glass in his square frames, and/or grunting in chorus like a hominid around a paleolithic fire in an age-old grunty melody? I don't quite know, but it feels like the right thing to do, and it even feels powerfully human.
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Director of Region Ten ousted
The board of directors of Region Ten, the area's largest government-funded mental health service provider, fired its director yesterday. According to the account in the Daily Progress, which recently revealed that the director, Philip Campbell, failed to disclose a legislative report faulting the previous system he oversaw, the board's unanimous vote to oust Campbell was based on "arrogant management."Recent high-profile actions including locating one architecurally questionable treatment facility in a neighborhood opposed to it as well as the $4 million purchase of another property have raised questions about Campbell's leadership. The most recent brouhaha involved his failure to disclose a 1997 Massachusetts report alleging mistreatment of patients in a previous program under his control.
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There is no treatment facility being placed in neighborhood opposed to it. There is an existing apartment complex of subsidised housing, not treatment, which is having an addition put on to it of 14 more one bedroom apartments. The apartments are open to anyone with a disability and low enough income, not just Region Ten clients. Again, this is not a "Treatment facility" just because it is where some people who happen to be Region Ten clients live anymore than the home of a cancer patient is a treatment facility.


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This is part 2 of two guest cargo bike reviews from a Cambridge MA family with four kids. Parents are Katie and Josh. You can see their prior review of the Madsen here. Here Katie describes their experience with the Xtracycle Edgerunner:
Xtracycle Edgerunner Review
Although Josh had been commuting by bike and hauling the kids on the Madsen for a while, I was a car commuter for a variety of reasons. During Fall 2013, I changed jobs and my baby turned 1, and I was able to become a daily bike commuter as well. Josh does the full morning routine with the kids, and I do the pickups and afternoons. This posed a bit of a challenge for our bike commuting plans, since we only had one cargo bike. You know those logic puzzles where you have one boat and have to get all the people from one side of the river to another? That was sort of our situation, and we did eventually solve our logic puzzle with a system that involved leaving the Madsen at day care every day. We purchased a cheap used bike (known as "junk bike") which was parked overnight at the day care that Josh would take to work after locking up the Madsen. Then I would ride my bike to day care, lock it up, and take the Madsen home. In the evening, Josh would ride junk bike back to day care and then ride my bike home.
Even though this system was working out pretty well, there were a few issues with it. Josh liked having the option of biking the older boys to school, but with this plan he had to put them on the bus in the morning, which sometimes made him run late. Junk bike was pretty junky and Josh was not happy with that leg of his commute. I also was having a lot of difficulty carrying the cargo that I needed for work on a regular bike. I work between two locations and need to carry a lot with me every day, and would have to strategize which books I had room for each day, and make decisions when packing my lunch about what I could reasonably fit on my bike. I did have pannier bags but they split from the weight of the load after just a few weeks of use.
We started to casually look into other cargo bike options that could carry two kids. The older boys took the bus home from school, so we just needed a bike that could carry a 1-year-old and a 4-year-old. The tricky thing was that it also had to be a bike that was good for the rest of my commute. I work in Somerville, MA which is known as the city of seven hills. Before I started biking, I thought Spring Hill, Winter HIll, and Prospect Hill were just neighborhoods, but it turns out they are (not surprisingly) actual hills. The days I brought the Madsen into work were really difficult, so I knew I had to be careful about what sort of bike I got or my commute would be miserable. I needed a bike that would work well for the first 8 miles of my childless commute, and would also carry the two kids and all their gear home for the final 2 miles of our ride.
I spent some time looking into options at Bicycle Belle, the new cargo and Dutch bike store in Somerville. Based on my internet research, I thought the FR8 from Workcycles would be great for me. It had many nice commuter features I found appealing, like an enclosed chain, lights, sturdy kickstand, and front wheel lock for quick day care pickups. I tried it out with my 1yo on the back and my 4yo on the front saddle and it was an awesome ride. My 4yo son loved it and really wanted me to buy that bike. But I also tried it on some hills without the kids, and found it was not a great fit for a hilly ride, so decided that would not work out.
My kids were getting impatient with the bike trials, but before leaving I tried an Xtracycle Radish at the store that was not for sale. I found that it rode as well as the mountain bike I had been commuting with up the hills, and I had one of my big kids hop on the back and really liked how that felt as well. I had read a bit about the Edgerunner and knew they were not available at the time but would be soon.
Through our local bike email list, I was able to arrange a test ride of an Edgerunner. I tried it without kids and then with two of my kids, and decided that it would be perfect for my situation since it felt great with and without live cargo on the back. Since they were being released slowly, I was able to pre-order one from Bicycle Belle in their September shipment.
When the bike arrived (In October, not September) I had to figure out how to best configure it for my kids. Carice at Bicycle Belle was enormously patient as we tried a number of different options to see what would be the best fit. My initial plan was to do a front Yepp mini for the 1yo with a Hooptie on the back which could hold an assortment of big kids. I tried the bike with the Yepp mini and found that I didn't like it much at all. It felt fine when I was riding, but getting on and off the bike was very tricky and involved tipping the bike quite a bit, which would have been tricky with kids on the rear. So I opted for a Yepp Maxi seat in the rear. This does have the disadvantage of blocking some access to the side cargo bags with the legs, but it looked like there was still plenty of room for cargo, and I figured I could get a front basket if necessary.
At first, Carice set up the Yepp Maxi within the Hooptie, but to do this the Hooptie had to be on its largest setting. As soon as I saw that, I knew it wouldn't work out well. I park my bike in my office at work which involves manuevering it through some tricky doorways, and it was hard enough with a regular bike. So I decided to instead get stoker bars for the front rider, which were not yet in stock.
With the Yepp Maxi on the back and a space in front, the bike was well configured for my two normal commuting kids. While waiting for the handlebars to come in, my 4yo was content to hold to the front notch in the flight deck. But I had been hoping I could carry two big kids on the bike on occasion, and this wasn't going to work with this configuration. I tried putting a pad on top of the Yepp adaptor and riding with two, but the kid in the back did not feel very stable with nothing to hold onto. So the bike still wasn't just right.
Carice had mentioned that a Yepp seat for older kids was coming in April, and when searching online I found that these Yepp Jr. seats for ages 5+ were already available in Europe. This was appealing to me since it is compatible with the Yepp adaptor, and could be swapped out with the Yepp rear seat to allow an older kid to sit back there since it is so easy to get the Yepp seats on and off. I found one European retailer that was willing to ship the U.S. for a hefty fee, but the price of the seat was so reasonable that it seemed worth it. Then I realized how great it would be to have two Yepp Jr. seats, since I could have two adaptors and switch up the order of the seats when it made sense to (moving the Maxi in front if I just had the youngest or was carrying a lot of cargo and needed more access to the bags). This would also give my 4yo a real seat on the bike. Having him sit on the deck was fine, but he had an annoying habit of saying on the ride home "I'm tired" and then getting really quiet, which was a little worrisome, and I liked the idea of something holding him in. So I ordered two Yepp Jr. seats and one adaptor from hollandbikes.
The Yepp Jr. seats arrived after just a week, and have been a great fit for the bike. My large 4yo fits great in the seat and we attached the footrests to the front. At first, his feet would sometimes bump into mine, but eventually we discovered that if he tucked his feet behind the footrests, his feet stayed in place for the whole ride with no trouble, and he found this equally comfortable.There is a single buckle that goes around his chest (under the arms) which provides a bit of security. Unfortunately I got to test the strap when I fell off the bike going up on a curb with the two little kids on the back, and my 4-year-old was completely unharmed since he didn't hit the ground in the fall, as was my 1-year-old who was protected in the Yepp seat. Neither kid even whimpered and we all hopped right back on.
I've swapped out the rear Yepp Maxi seat for the Jr. to carry two large kids, and even with my two biggest kids on the back, the Edgerunner handles well with both kids. This means we can now seat any combination of two kids on the back of the bike, which will make the bike much more versatile. I know it is technically possible to have more than two kids sit on the back of the bike, so we have limited capacity to only two by installing the Yepp adaptors, but if I ever need a bike for 3-4 kids, we have the Madsen for that. I have noticed when I have two big kids that there is a very slight wobble to handlebars and I grip them a little tighter (also true with the Madsen when fully loaded), but it handles fine with smooth stops and starts. Xtracycle has recently updated their FlightDeck to allow for Yepp seats to be installed directly on it, and I am considering this purchase since it would bring the weight of the kids down a bit, which I think would make for an even smoother ride. I haven't tried significant hills with kids on the back, but from the mild hills I can tell that it is much easier than the Madsen to get uphill since the bike itself weighs so much less.
We are loving this new addition to our fleet. My commute is great with the bike and I can load it up with everything I need for the day, and then still fit all the kids day care stuff in when I pick them up. Josh and I swap bikes sometimes when I need the Madsen to pick up the older kids at school, and the bike fits him well too. With the electric assist on the Madsen, it is a nice bike to ride with multiple kids, but I'd still go for this bike with one or two kids since it really still just feels like a normal bike with a bit of extra weight on the back.


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Ipiales is a city close to the Ecuadorian border in Colombia. It is a obligatory stop over on your way to Ecuador. There is nothing much to see except the spectacular Iglesia de las Lajas (See Get Out).
Get in
The bus station is a bit out of town, but there are collectivos the center.
There are frequent busses to Pasto and further north. Collectivos will bring you to Rumichaca for the bordercrossing if you go to Ecuador. The bordercrossig is quite easy and straightforward. The Colombian DAS-office is on one site of the bridge and the Ecuadorian office in on walking distance on the other side. From there are collectivos to Tulcan. Don't sell your dollars on the border, the exchange rate is bad.
Get around
The colourful Saturday Market at the "Plaza Los Mártires", 10 minutes walk from the town center.
Wonderful Jugo bar just off the main Plaza to the north west -- try the Uvillo Completo (COP$3.000, and worth every penny) or the Alfalfa (COP$1.300). The "Completos" are made with home made honey, and the owners are friendly.
Get out


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The past 25 years have brought a digital age of Internet, massive computing power, high-speed data transmission, mobile communication, and more recently, the cloud, which brings it all together. Over the next 25 years, as technology advances and infrastructure increases, cloud computing will continue to change our world.
According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, about 70% of Americans will be using cloud-based applications as their primary tools by 2020—both at work and in their free time. It's already happening, of course—people accessing cloud-based applications like email and social media from their smart phones, streaming movies from Netflix®, and hosting their family pictures online—but just imagine what is on the horizon.
1. The Internet is everywhere. Really.
The true potential of the cloud will only be realized with universal, high-speed, broadband Internet. We are getting there. Airlines are adding satellite based wi-fi to flights. Downtown areas across the country are wired with hotspots. But speed is the real roadblock.
Median access speeds in a few countries are as high as 50 Mbps (2-5 Mbps in the U.S.), but the cloud possibilities for healthcare, education, entertainment, and entrepreneurship will bring a demand for improved infrastructure. Over the next quarter century, deregulation and technology advances could bring 100+ Mbps service to almost everywhere that can receive a radio signal.
2. No more software updates.
Tired of chasing the latest version of Microsoft Word or Adobe Reader? Then maybe you'd welcome all software living on the Internet, on cloud-based servers. Whether you're checking your email at work or adding to a spreadsheet in a taxi, the Google Docs trend will continue—software as a service (SaaS) will provide business applications and a repository of documents sitting far from our laptops. The IDC recently predicted that SaaS revenue will grow 5 times faster than traditional software such that soon, a third of all software will be delivered over the web. Imagine what things will be like in 25.
3. Hardware optional.
If most software is taken off the computer then surely data is also in the running. As cloud-based storage becomes the norm, people will no longer buy bigger and more robust hard drives to store all their videos, files, and music. Is buying a 1 terabyte external hard drive really the best way to protect your data? Probably not.
Eventually all data will live on the Internet—with full security and backups, of course. So, wait, what's left of the PC or Mac if you take out the storage space and RAM for large software applications? It becomes simply an interface to interact with the cloud. So any screen, keyboard, or brain wave reader will suffice.
4. Games, baby!
And with the hardware gone, there is no limit to the entertainment possibilities. Upgrading expensive video cards, RAM, or even whole machines to play the latest games will be ancient history. Services like OnLive® have opened the door to this wonderland, and the next couple of decades will bring mobile 3D games and virtual reality to occupy the kiddies on long trips.
5. New medical treatments.
The promise of the cloud isn't just about gaming and the ability to safely store all those photos that you wish you hadn't ever taken. Many of the most promising cloud-based applications also require massive computational power. Searching a database of global DNA samples requires abundant, scalable processing power. Modeling protein folding is another example of how compute resources will be used.
Protein folding is linked to many diseases including Alzheimer's and cancer, and analyzing the folding process can lead to new treatments and cures, but it requires enormous compute power. Projects like Folding@home are using distributed computing to tackle these modeling tasks. The cloud will offer a larger, faster, more scalable way to process data and thus benefit any heavy data manipulation task.
6. Is it going to be hot tomorrow?
Like protein folding modeling, climate simulation and forecasting requires a large amount of data storage and processing. Recently the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) installed a climate calculating supercomputer that is capable of analyzing 60 petabytes of data (roughly 13 million DVD's) at over 158 teraflops (trillion calculations per second).
In the next couple of decades, this level of computing power will be widely available and will exist on remote hardware. Sophisticated climate models combined with never before seen compute power will provide better predictions of climate change and more rapid early warning systems.
7. Education for the world.
A few years ago, MIT created a site called MITOpenCourseware to offer course lecture videos and notes online, free for everyone. It had great promise and hype, but it does not offer the texts or materials that are needed to truly learn a subject. The costs of education have skyrocketed, and recently, student loan debt has surpassed credit card debt in America. There is no need for the antiquated system of higher education to continue in the digital information age.
All of the materials and recorded lectures to get you from Freshman to PhD could easily be stored and accessed on the cloud for less than the cost of a single textbook. These resources will become more available and will make education an inexpensive global commodity. Want to learn to be a computer engineer? There will be a website for that.
8. Space, the final frontier.
Space is big. Really big. And the data that we collect about space is really big. According to Computerworld, once active, the Square Kilometre Array, a multinational radio telescope project, is expected to generate an exabyte of data every day, that's more than the daily global Internet traffic, and we know how many times Justin Beiber videos get watched!
Cloud based resources will be the solution for such astronomical problems. Seeing the potential, NASA has recently launched Nebula, an open-source cloud computing project that provides instantly provisioned computing, storage, and network resources to NASA's research community.
9. No more wallets! No more purses!
Mobile devices and the cloud have helped to replace many of the bits of paper that you used to carry around in your back pocket. Contacts and appointments don't need to be kept in a stack of napkins and Post-it® notes. Your smart phone can access it all, along with pictures of the kids and your vacation. The cloud will complete the replacement of the wallet.
A company called CardStar™ already offers a service that stores customer loyalty discount cards for stores like CVS and Best Buy®, just have the cashier scan your iPhone. In the future, you will be able to pull up your credit/debit card, electronic business cards, and your driver's license, all viewable and scannable from your mobile device. However, the makeup dispenser add-on may be another 25 years.
10. Read my lips: no more paper tickets.
We all know people who've disavowed paper, maybe even thrown out their laser printer. As airlines continue to allow iPhone bar code scans for boarding passes, and mobile ticketing becomes the norm, this trend will have us waxing nostalgic about when we used to get rock concert tickets in the mail. A paperless society will continue to evolve in the cloud beyond downloading books to your iPad™. With the help of apps like EchoSign™, electronic contracts, security documents, tax forms, everything will be stored and transacted in a secure cloud.
11. No more cart rage in the grocery store.
Does anyone like going to the grocery store to battle it out on a Sunday night? What if you could just drag-n-drop your groceries into your cart from virtual shelves on your iPad and then wait for the delivery? Some businesses have made Internet-based grocery shopping a reality, but it's still in its infancy. Soon we will see delivery or pick-up services available locally as well as through the mail. Look out for a revolution in the way we buy food.
12. Where am I?
How will location services affect the future of the cloud and handheld technology? Foursquare™, a location based social networking site—just raised $20 million in venture capital. So location services must be hot! The site helps people explore their city by seeing what their friends are doing—and where exactly they are—at any moment. Location services will continue to evolve through the cloud, from tracking your children to helping emergency services find you in the event of an accident.
13. Digital media—movies, music, books, magazines.
The coming cloud will be fertile ground for independent artists and content entrepreneurs. The biggest current providers are rather restrictive and media access is often proprietary. As competition grows, an open market for global creativity will flourish.
The beginnings are happening now with companies like Jingle Punks, which has revolutionized the music licensing model. But established artists and catalogs of content will benefit too as larger and larger libraries become easily accessible. Soon, one fee will give you access to every movie, every song, every book, every magazine ever made, with new content added every minute. The days of getting DVDs in the mail or lining up at the Red Box seem numbered.
14. Saving lives with the cloud.
Okay, that sounds a little melodramatic. But medical records are fast coming onto the cloud. In the future our medical records will be secured in a single, digital repository that resides on the cloud. Say you need to see a doctor while on vacation in London, with a few clicks and authentication, everything from your X-rays to blood test results will appear. Home testing services, like 23andMe, already let you check for DNA predisposition to diseases. More such services are already here or rapidly on the way: blood analysis, paternity testing, and even remote diagnosis.
15. Criminals beware.
As we have seen, massive data storage and computing power are the promises of the cloud. This will not be a good thing for those who break the law. Before police even pull over a car, the license plate will be scanned. No matter what state the car is from, vehicle and owner details including driver's license, insurance status, and complete criminal history will be displayed instantly. Records of all types will no longer be tied to specific agencies and local resources. Fingerprint and DNA records will be accessible globally, and search results will take minutes instead of days.
16. Where is all that oil going?
Researchers at the University of Texas are using a supercomputer to model in 3-D the movements of the recent Gulf oil spill. Cloud computing will expand the available resources for such projects. We will be able to respond to and recover from both man-made and natural disasters faster than ever before.
17. Monte Carlo? The city in Monaco or the car?
No, we're talking about Monte Carlo simulation methods. Monte Carlo experiments are data analysis models that include random factors. They have been effectively used for applications involving business risk, economic trends, artificial intelligence, and chemistry. As on-demand computational power becomes widely available, Monte Carlo simulations will be used to make decisions on everything from company startups to telecommunication networks.
18. Search and Rescue.
As mentioned above, with the advances in location services, emergency teams will be able to locate you more easily if you get in trouble. But what if you are in the boonies or sailing around the world? There are currently emergency beacons that send a signal to satellites to alert authorities of your location, but if you don't have one of these devices, imagery may save your life.
Satellite and aerial imagery can be analyzed by volunteers to find a plane crash or missing boat, but this analysis can be partially automated and will be speeded up with cloud resources. We will be able to find a 40 footer in the South Pacific in minutes or hours, not weeks.
19. I think I'll start my own business.
The cloud can make anyone an entrepreneur, and it will. The cloud simplifies the IT problems of any startup, whether it be a new web app or a new real estate office, but it also brings entrepreneurship into the home or a teenager's basement. If you have a skill, perhaps dog grooming, you can film it, and put it on YouTube™. If enough people view it, you may be offered a partnership and get a portion of the advertising revenue.
These opportunities will be endless. Whether you are an artist, blogger, or want to sell your knitted footies, you can market to the world. This will continue to grow, and it will help our economy and developing countries more than any stimulus package.
20. Warfare and Big Brother.
Defense and national security are moving into the cloud. From the Cloud Computing Journal, the Defense Information Service Agency (DISA) has implemented cloud based infrastructure for defense agencies. Moving to a cloud based model will reduce defense support costs by millions of dollars. Last year, the National Security Agency (NSA) moved into a geographically distributed cloud to allow sharing, search, and analysis of intelligence data. The locations include Omaha, Texas, San Francisco, and the North Pole. According to an NSA spokesman, the on-demand scalability of the cloud will allow cooperation and advanced recording operations. In the next 20 years, defense, security, and government as a whole will be working off of cloud based architecture.
21. Served up just for you.
For quite some time, ASP and similar tools have allowed content providers to serve web content customized for each customer. The future will take this way beyond MyYahoo!®. News, magazine articles, music catalogs, movie lists, all content will be customized and delivered in a style and format specific to each individual. Companies like Flipboard will replace the newsstand and even online magazines. Aggregators will gather your specific content and deliver it without you needing to do a thing.
22. I wish I had turned off my AC.
The cloud will make smart grid technologies ubiquitous. Smart grid technologies allow two-way transmission for electricity delivery. With sensing and metering built in, it allows control (including remote shut-off) and tracking of appliances to cut costs and save energy. With the ability to respond more efficiently to supply and demand, the smart grid may allow us to have energy resources for 25 more years.
23. Speaking of grids . . .
Gridlock has become the norm in every urbanized area. Traffic and alternative transportation modeling is essential as we plan and improve our travel networks. We are headed for a major overhaul of our transportation systems. The current systems simply cannot support more vehicles. The cloud will be there to solve these problems. However, we should still be skeptical if the simulations suggest roundabouts for efficiency.
24. A viable standard of living for all.
Online peer-to-peer lending has been around for a while thanks to sites like Prosper®. But as technology and Internet access spreads, microfinance organizations will expand further internationally offering sound, secure financial services to all in the form of loans, savings, investments, and insurance. The cloud will be used to establish and track these services, and it will bring prosperity to the many.
25. Oh, and we will all be driving flying cars!
You simply can't write about the future without throwing in flying cars. However, with the difficulty we have with roundabouts, it is unlikely we will ever have flying cars. But, on the bright side, the cars we have are going to get really cool. Cloud based apps are being developed that let fellow drivers share map routes, restaurant suggestions, and road hazard information. Or maybe you would like to calculate and share your fuel economy stats and compete with others.
These services will be available shortly, but the next quarter of a century will see the cloud providing movies for the kids to watch in the back seat, instant traffic reports, and it may even be driving the car for us.
Seems like these guys have quite a convincing case saying that cloud computing will be the way forward. What do you guys think?


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Two bottles of Dragon Fruit Enzymes and a bowl of Dragon Fruit "Jam"
A small cup consisting of 2 to 3 tablespoons of Dragon Fruit Enzyme, mixed with water.
To be had first thing in the morning, on an empty stomach for better absorption.
(Please read the comments below for feedback on my family's health after we started drinking this)
Good evening, dear friends 😀
Ah, finally…. I am posting my recipe for making enzymes for drinking. All thanks go to my blog visitor, Jessica, who so graciously shared with me her recipe for making drinking enzymes at Comment # 14 at my cleaning enzyme post HERE .
I did some reading over the Internet to find out more on drinking enzymes .
Some links with good information, recipes and tips on fruit enzymes :-
1) here, from e-How
2) here, from Leah's Cafe
3) here, from Penang-Island
4) here, from Cooking Momster – this site has some background on a Chinese recipe for fruit enzymes using "San Cha" used to make Haw Flakes. There are some interesting recipes there as well as the benefits of the various fruit enzymes. 😉
Different sites have different information on the recipes – like how much fruit in proportion to sugar/honey, when to shake the enzyme during fermentation, how long to wait before harvesting enzyme (period ranges from 2 weeks to 6 months), and how to take the fruit enzyme for health. So, I would suggest that you gather as much information as you like on the Internet before you start making your own enzymes.
In general, it was reported that drinking fruit enzymes improves our vitality, ensures regularity in our bowel system, aids in digestion and enhances body absorption of nutrtients.
Initially, I was going to buy a large glass jar to prepare the enzyme in, but at the last minute, I decided that I would just use the inner pot of my slow cooker – the reason being, I didn't know how much of liquid enzyme would be yielded and I wanted to get the size of the jar right. 💡
I had used my crockpot to prepare the enzyme. My fruits all layered with the last topping being lemon and sugar. After that, I poured in 1 cup of apple cider and 1 cup of Australian honey
I covered my crockpot with the glass lid and a piece of aluminium to keep out the light. Beside it is a new glass jar that I had bought to prepare more Fruit Enzyme the next time.
Some tips to share with you :-
- make sure that the fruits, chopping board and knives are completely dry as even a drop of water can spoil the enzyme. I washed them thoroughly and left them to dry overnight. But, if you are rushed for time or you find that your items are not 100% dry, do like what Jessica does – she uses a hairdryer! 😉
- as you cut your fruits, it is best to place them straight in the jar – this is to ensure that the fruits are not contaminated or exposed to fruit flies
- you have to use a glass jar for safety reasons because we are going to drink this enzyme. If plastic bottles are used instead, it is feared that the fermentation process may leech out some unhealthy stuff used to make the plastic bottles
- the fruit enzyme needs a dark, cool place to ferment. You can also wrap a piece of aluminium foil or an old t-shirt or cloth around the glass jar
- shake or stir the fruits often to prevent build-up of a whitish mould at the surface. Don't worry, the mould is safe and is a sign that fermentation is well underway.
- if black spots or black moulds are seen, it would mean that the fruit enzyme is contaminated. Some people recommended that the black moulds be scooped out and the fruits left to ferment further. For me, I would prefer to throw the whole batch away and start a new one, for fear of food poisoning from the contamination.
- upon harvest, pour the liquid enzyme into old, clean wine bottles. The leftover fruit can be used as jams, or it can be fermented further to be used as a facial wash or plant fertiliser. I gave half of my fermented fruit to a friend, and the other one is kept in the fridge to eat as a jam with my toasts.
This is my one day old Fruit Enzyme
Because 2 of my dragon fruits were over-ripe and there were some worms inside (I am terrified of worms 😯 ), I had a paranoia that my other fruits may have eggs that will turn into worms! 😆 So, I decided at the last step of the preparation to add 1 cup of apple cider (I thought that should kill anything inside and of course, I had thrown away the worm infested fruits!) and for added fragrance and to cut down the sugar level, I replaced one cup of sugar with Australian honey. 💡
I had read that the apple cider will speed up the fermentation process, and that was also another reason that I added the apple cider.
This is after a week – there is more liquid produced and there is some white bubbles on the surface – a sign of fermentation in progress
My Dragon Fruit Enzyme ready to be harvested – 2 weeks after preparation 😀
My Dragon Fruit Recipe
3 kilos or 6 1/2 pounds of Pink Dragon Fruit
8 lemons
1 kilo or 1 3/4 pounds slabs of brown sugar (or loose brown sugar)
1 cup apple cider
1 cup honey
Remove skins and cut to slices about 1 cm or 1/2 inch thick
Arrange dragon fruit starting at the bottom, alternating with slices of lemon and sugar
The last layer at the top must be sugar
Pour apple cider and honey over everything
Cover and keep for 2 weeks, shaking gently the contents in the first few days, and stirring thereafter occasionally
The fruit enzyme was harvested exactly 2 weeks after preparation and there was just enough to fill 2 wine bottles. Half a bottle was consumed immediately for a few days, while the rest will be left for a further duration until 4 to 6 months, with a taste test at every 2 weeks.
In a few days, my enzyme will be exactly 1 month old, and I will see how the taste goes. A website had mentioned that the ph of the enzyme improves over time, especially after 4 months. I'm not sure exactly what that meant and I just assume that the enzyme will not be so acidic after a longer period. I guess it is like wine, which tastes better over time! 😆
Also, new enzymes are more alcoholic in nature and some websites do not recommend that the enzyme be consumed at this stage because the alcohol is not good on the liver. My opinion is the new enzyme should be fine for consumption as we are not drinking large amounts of it enough to damage our liver. We are just having 2 to 3 tablespoons a day as a tonic for our health. 😉
The 2-week old fruit enzyme tasted like a mild apple cider mixed with alcohol, with a hint of apple cider and honey. My children hated the taste of it and I had to tell them to pretend that it was Ribena! Anyway, they never liked apple cider either! 😆
It is best to drink the enzyme first thing in the morning on an empty stomach, rest for half an hour before taking breakfast. I mixed the enzyme with 2 times its amount of room temperature water. For me and my second daughter, the dragon fruit enzyme tasted absolutely delicious – like a fruity wine! It didn't smell bad or rotten at all as I had thought it to be.
The period that we consumed the dragon fruit enzyme (5 days all in) was too short to notice any significant improvement in our vitality and health. But all of us reported easier and better bowel movements, as if the enzyme is removing toxins faster from our bodies. Another reason why I stopped drinking the enzymes after 5 days was because I developed a mild food poisoning from eating some bad curry at a mamak shop. My husband and second daughter continued to take until 1 week and they didn't report and adverse side effects in their health.
In summary, I would definitely recommend to everyone that they should try to make some fruit enzymes to drink. I think the enzymes will do more good than harm. I have seen some stalls at the TTDI pasar (markets) selling the homemade dragon fruit enzyme for RM39 (USD10) for a 750ml bottle. My cost was only half of that and by making my own enzyme, I can be sure that I use good quality fruits and there is hygiene in preparing them.
My next post will be how to make our own rice enzyme for washing dishes. A friend gave me a bottle to try and it is really effective in cutting grease!
Do have a lovely week ahead!
With best wishes for good health,
choesf 😀


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Before I introduced the Montessori bell game to the elderly at The Bridge, I thought long and hard about it. I watched how each of the seniors moved from one place to another. Too, I considered the therapeutic use of it. How would a control of movement activity serve a senior population? The term "purposeful movement" returned to my thoughts over and over again. This is exactly what needs to be exercised and sustained in the elderly - control of and purposeful movement. I found a bell that I thought would be perfect for the introductory game when I was going through my Christmas ornaments. The bell was shaped like an Irish cottage with clovers painted on its sides. Beautiful, of a light weight and it had a loop of ribbon on it for holding. It was ideal!
I waited till afternoon snack was over and our population was much smaller. Too, none of the seniors present used walkers. I went and got the bell from my bag and then invited the seniors to join me for a new activity that used something old. The old was the bell. Before long everyone was seated, including my boss (the man in the plaid shirt above).
I carefully revealed the Irish cottage bell. I explained that one person would be given the bell and that they would then walk across the room and give it to someone sitting opposite of them. I also said that they were to do it without letting the bell ring. I added that if the bell rang, even if it was when they were handing it to the other person, they would have to return to their seat with the bell and try again.
I was the first to go. I exaggerated my careful movements. I handed it to one of the seniors and returned to my seat. She looked at the bell with all seriousness and said, "I like this bell. I think it would look great on my Christmas tree. I think you should give it to me." She then started laughing, as did the others, and said she was just kidding, but that she did like the bell.
She rose to her feet and hunched over slightly as she held the bell from its ribbon in one of her hands. She moved slowly and with purposeful movement. She took a few more steps and then reached the hand holding the bell out to the one she had chosen to pass it on to. His arm reached out from his seat and the bell was silently transferred to his hand.
It was so deeply moving when their hands briefly touched and their faces lit up with the joy of giving and receiving.
After each person had a turn, we continued for a second, a third and a fourth round. Here the woman in the above photos takes her second turn. She is walking towards a woman sitting a little further from her than the person she chose the first time.
Later, she took a third turn and chose someone even further away. Her face shows her absolute concentration on the bell and moving without causing it to ring.
There was something both lighthearted and deeply spiritual when one participant reached out to the other and acknowledged the gift of the bell.
All participated and yes, the bell did ring a few times. These were moments of exquisite joy! Just when you thought that the bell was going to be given without ringing, it rang. And when it did, it startled everyone and all broke out laughing. The bell carrier returned to their seat and tried again a second time. One of the seniors, in a moment of absolute hilarity for all, spanked the bell after it rang and told it to behave. She did so with a generous smile. She then rose and walked the bell across the room, again, without it ringing. She returned to her seat with a look of victory spread across her face.
Another senior carries the bell:
It became like a dance. All of the seniors moved gracefully across the floor. There were moments of absolute silence and there were movements filled with laughter.
There was a trust between the giver and the receiver that bore witness to a deep fellowship.
The bell will be passed again.


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According to Jim Hightower, "even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building."
Progressive Texas populist author, commentator, and orator Hightower -- perhaps our country's most celebrated champion of the common folk -- was our guest on Rag Radio, Friday, April 6, on Austin's community radio station, KOOP 91.7-FM, and streamed live on the Internet.
You can listen to the show here.
We discussed populism as a political movement -- and what Jim Hightower sees as a "populist moment" existing in this country today.
"Populism is about confronting money and power in our society and realizing that too few people control too much money," Hightower told the Rag Radio audience. "The few are doing extremely well, but they seem to think that they can separate their well-being from the good fortunes of the many."
Hightower, who served two terms as Texas Agriculture Commissioner, is a New York Times bestselling author. His weekly newsletter, the Hightower Lowdown, goes out to 135,000 subscribers, he writes a weekly newspaper column for Creators Syndicate, and his radio commentaries air on stations around the country, including Austin's KOOP.
A former editor of the Texas Observer, Hightower has been involved in progressive politics for decades and has established himself as one of the country's most influential consumer advocates, especially focusing on corporate power in the food economy.
Jim Hightower's latest book is Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow.
Rag Radio, hosted by longtime alternative journalist Thorne Dreyer, editor of The Rag Blog and a pioneer of the Sixties underground press, features hour-long in-depth interviews and discussion about progressive politics, history, and culture.
The show is broadcast on Austin's KOOP 91.7-FM, a cooperatively-run community radio station, on Fridays, 2-3 p.m. (CST) and is rebroadcast on WFTE-FM in Mt. Cobb and Scranton, PA, on Sundays at 10 a.m. (EST). It also has a widespread internet audience and podcasts of all shows can be downloaded at the Internet Archive.
Populist moment
Jim Hightower said on Rag Radio that he thinks "we have a strong populist moment, a strong populist possibility, to make fundamental change."
He says that the Wall Street bailout "was the initial spark for the Tea Party movement," but that it got captured by former Texas Congressman and Koch-funded Washington lobbyist Dick Armey, and was turned into a "right-wing hugging organization."
But Hightower believes that the Occupy movement could connect with the Tea Party rank and file, and "turn into something real, something that does try to decentralize power down to the grassroots level for ordinary working people."
He sees lots of things going on in the country that make him hopeful.
He believes that all the Republican anti-union activity has reinvigorated the labor movement. AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka "declared that he was going to make [Wisconsin Gov.] Scott Walker the 'organizer of the year.'" All the anti-union rhetoric "has given them their own sense of history back, and their own spirit back, and the recognition that the public is with them."
Hightower spoke before 150,000 people in 20-degree weather last February in Madison, at a rally opposing the Wisconsin anti-union legislation. There were people "just as far as you could see."
"It was just a beautiful, spirited moment."
And he sees more positive signs.
People are working on a grassroots level for a "bevy of new and good candidates running for office all across the country" -- like Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin, Norman Solomon in Northern California, and Eric Griego in Albuquerque -- and to overturn Citizens United ("the grotesque absurdity that a corporation is a person").
"As we say here," Hightower reminds us, "a corporation is not a person until Texas executes one."
Jim Hightower supports a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.
"We don't have to convince people that Citizens United's unleashing unlimited amounts of secret corporate money into our elections is a bad idea."
"If we get that to a vote, we win."
"There's a movement, and the Occupy people are involved in this, to confront every candidate for every office in the country, at their public forums... at their political rallies... or just go to their office, and say, 'Do you think a corporation is a person? We want you on record."
Coops and food economy
Hightower also believes that the fast-growing coop movement "is extraordinary in this country [and] there's very little coverage of it."
"[It gives us] models that we can go to... and say, here's another way to organize it. It doesn't have to be the CEO getting $50 million a year and workers having their wages knocked down and their health care and other benefits taken away."
Another -- and related -- area of encouraging activity, Hightower said, is in the food economy. "We've had a revolution in food in America... It came from farmers saying, there's gotta be a better way than all these pesticides... and making bad food and poisoning our animals and genetically manipulating our animals."
And the consumers are saying, "We don't like industrialized, conglomeratized, globalized, capitalized food. We want real food."
"And the two found each other."
"It began with ex-hippies selling bad tomatoes out of broken-down VW buses in the 70's." But then came the food coops and the farmers' markets. "We helped to establish more than 100 of them [in Texas], just by putting the tools in the hands of local people."
"It's a tremendous movement," he says. In Austin, "we have a dozen farms... linking up with chefs and linking up directly with restaurants and directly with government institutions to buy food."
Privatization and the commons
An issue that Jim Hightower is especially concerned about is the alarming spread of privatization and the resulting impact on the public sector, on the commons.
He has recently written in his Hightower Lowdown about the move to privatize the post office, about the "corporate foreign legion" that "has taken over America's intelligence and military functions," and about the closing of state parks around the country. ("By axing parks, politicos are stealing the people's property," he wrote.)
"It's dangerous. It's dangerous for our democracy, it's dangerous for our health, it's dangerous for our economy," he said on Rag Radio. "Because it allows a few profit-seeking organizations to take charge."
They're saying that the post office is "wasteful, they're broke, they're bankrupt... and that they can't compete with the internet and Fedex, etc... Well, as we say out in Lubbock, that's bovine excrement. The post office last year had... an operating profit of 700 million dollars."
"This is about the common good... The post office is in every community in America... They deliver by pack mule. They deliver by planes, they deliver by boats."
"They get the job done."
"And it is the most popular federal agency in all of government. People feel an attachment to their post office... because it is a community center."
Hightower says that the move to privatize parks is happening all over the country.
"The workaday people... don't fly to Aspen when they need a weekend. They don't summer in France. They go to their parks."
"These parks are jewels. And yet, we're abandoning them. [Gov. Rick] Perry and the legislature just whacked the hell out of them" in Texas. The state parks director has been forced to make public appeals for support of the park system. "We're out there with a tin cup on the side of the street saying, anybody got a nickel for a state park?"
"It's a complete abdication of long-term responsibility to the people of this state and future generations."
And now, Hightower says, privatization has moved, with almost no public notice or discussion by lawmakers, into the military and into the military intelligence agencies.
He says he was "stunned" when he researched the issue for the Hightower Lowdown. "I had no idea it was this big, this extensive."
"We have roughly 80,000 troops in Afghanistan. And now we've got 113,00 contractors... And they're not there just to do administrative chores. They're doing war planning, they are targeting the enemy, they are killing."
Hightower says we are giving up "the government's most sensitive activities to corporations" whose "loyalty is not to the United States of America. It is to the bottom line, to the profit of the shareholders."
Texas and the populist movement
Jim Hightower reminded Rag Radio listeners that the populist movement actually started in Texas -- in Lampasas -- "with four farmers sitting around a kitchen table over there in 1868, saying, this is killing us -- [with] the railroad monopolies, and the bankers putting the squeeze on them."
"They had to find some other way."
"So they established what became the Farmers Alliance." It failed at first but eventually, it "spread through Texas, all up through the Plains states, went through the South, went all the way to New York State, all the way out to California."
"They created cooperatives, the financing mechanisms so farmers could get capital without being gouged by the banks, and then a holding mechanism for their crops, storage facilities, so that they could be in charge. And then a market mechanism."
"And all of it was cooperatively-run."
"And it was also a cultural movement," Hightower added. "Because rural people were illiterate. They didn't know how to write. They hadn't read history. So they had educational courses, they had cultural programs, they created choirs, and concerts, and they had parades, and fun.
"Everybody could join it. And 'everybody' included African-Americns. Back in that day, in the 1870s."
"It was a huge people's movement."
"In fact, Thorne, the original Texas constitution outlawed banks... They hated 'em. Because we were settled by debtors, people fleeing out of Tennessee and Alabama and Mississippi."
We concluded by asking Jim Hightower if he plans to ever run for office again.
His firm "No" came with a satisfied smile. He's having too much fun just being Jim Hightower.


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Continuing to watch Felix Pie stumble and bumble his way around left field night after night lead Drew Forrester and I to come up with an idea for this week's Tuesday Top 7.
This week's topic was The Top 7 "Faces of the Orioles' Dark Ages." The "dark ages" would be the time between 1998-present where the Baltimore Orioles have failed to post even one winning season.
Drew and I agreed that we wouldn't include Pie on the list, mostly because at this point we would just be piling on.
Glenn Clark's list…
7. Travis Driskill
6. Garrett Atkins
5. Jose Morban
4. Daniel Cabrera
3. Freddie Bynum
2. Rafael Palmeiro/Sammy Sosa/Vladimir Guerrero
1. Marty Cordova
Drew Forrester's list…
7. Matt Riley
6. Mike Gonzalez
5. Jay Gibbons
4. Sammy Sosa
3. Adam Loewen
2. Brian Roberts
1. Justin Duchscherer
If you missed the explanation of why these players made the list on "The Morning Reaction" Tuesday on AM1570 WNST, hit the BuyAToyota.com Audio Vault here at WNST.net!
Flexing my mic muscles since 1983…


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WESTFIELD - Robert E. "Bob" McCormick, age 76, of Westfield, and formerly of Fluvanna, N.Y., died January 7, 2013, at St. Vincent Health Center of Erie, Pa.
Bob was born on Jan. 9, 1936, in Jamestown, the son of the late Ralph E. and Katherine (Young) McCormick.
He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War from 1958 to 1960. Bob was a 41-year member of the Loyal Order Of Moose Lodge 118, and a former member of the John W. Rogers Post 327 American Legion and the Wm. P Jackway Post 6764 VFW, all of Westfield. He was also a former member of the Dunkirk Yacht Club and served with the Fluvanna Fire Department for nine years.
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Robert E. McCormick
Bob was raised in Fluvanna and the Jamestown area and was a 1954 graduate of Bemus Point High School and attended Jamestown Community College.
He had been employed by Marlin Rockwell Corp. and then the former Ajax Flexible Couplings as a vice president and human resource manager, and retired from Jamestown Metal Corp. as the human resource manager. Most recently he had been the owner and operator of Robert McCormick Property Management and Maintenance.
In his youth Bob was a powerboat racer and belonged to the Erie Tri-State Boat Racing Association. He enjoyed golf, boating, sailing, fishing, and pen-and-ink drawing. He had a great love for family and country alike, and his proudest time was watching his children grow up and become wonderful adults and spending time with his grandchildren. Bob's lifetime goal was "to have a wife who loved and stood beside him throughout everything and be a father and a grandfather" for which he accomplished all.
He is survived by his wife of 23 years, Gloria J. (Spehar) McCormick; his two daughters, Sherri (Barney) Roush of Sweetwater, Tenn., and Julie (Eric) Battershell of Uniontown, Ohio; and his two sons, Randy (Soni) McCormick of O'Fallon, Ill., and Kevin McCormick of Park City, Utah. Bob was the proud grandfather of Megan Seyler of Salt Lake City, Utah; Amber Jones of Green Bay, Wis.; Macy Battershell of Uniontown, Ohio; Eric (Stephanie) Seyler of Laveen, Ariz.; and Kyan Battershell of Uniontown, Ohio; as well as his great-granddaughter, Sophia Marie Seyler of Laveen, Ariz. Many nieces and nephews also survive.
Family will be present to receive friends on Sunday, Feb. 17 at the Loyal Order Of Moose Lodge 118, Clinton Street, Westfield, from 1-4 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Honor Flight Buffalo. P.O. Box 338, Buffalo, NY 14223 or to the Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue, 7540 North Gale St., Westfield, NY 14787.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to the MASON Funeral Home, 37 Clinton St., Westfield, NY 14787. Log on to www.masonfuneral.com to send Bob's family a message of condolence.


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Tree nearly kills man
A Claremont man is lucky to be alive after storms caused a large tree to fall on his car Sunday.
Brandon Pennell, 26, was driving down First Avenue South in Conover on Sunday night when high winds uprooted a 200-year-old oak tree onto the top his 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
The large tree crushed the car, pinning Pennell in the driver's seat briefly before being taken to Catawba Valley Medical Center. After doctors tested him for serious injuries, Pennell was released with a sprained back and minor lacerations to his knee and hand.
"I must of had an angel watching over me," Pennell said Monday.
An off-duty emergency medical technician, who was driving behind Pennell, originally called the incident in as a "fatality."
Pennell said he was driving down First Avenue South at about 9 p.m. Sunday when he heard a "loud popping noise" that he thought was a tree branch. Moments later, he was pinned against the steering wheel.
Conover Fire Department Chief Mark Hinson said Pennell was out of the car when firefighters and paramedics arrived.
"It was unreal how messed up my Jeep was," Pennell said.
Conover police and fire departments and Conover Public Works responded to the accident immediately, with the tree and car being removed from the road by 3 a.m. Monday, said Jimmy Clark, Conover Public Works director.
Clark said when the tree fell, it also knocked down a power pole in the same vicinity—putting several homes without power on the 400 block of First Avenue South.
"Duke Energy came out and were working on the power until early (Monday) morning," Clark said.
Clark added that there was "tree damage in a couple of different areas throughout the city."
Karyn Yaussy, Catawba County Emergency Management coordinator, said Sunday's storms caused more than 3,000 county residents to lose power temporarily.
"There was a lot of fire and rescue (Sunday) night, and some power outages, but everything seems to be coming back on," Yaussy said.
Yaussy said as of Monday morning, only a "couple hundred" residents were without power.


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William Henry Cox
William Henry Cox, MD, 79, of Big Spring, died Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011, at his residence. A vigil service will be held at 7 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011, at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel. Funeral mass will be held at 2 p.m., Monday, Aug. 22, 2011, at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church with Monsignor Bernard Gully officiating. Interment will follow at Lamesa Memorial Park, Lamesa, Texas. He was born Jan. 31, 1932, in Lubbock, Texas.Dr. Cox was a former physician at the VA Medical Center. He was an ambassador for the Big Spring Chamber of Commerce for several years; a volunteer at the Big Spring Comanche Warrior Tribe Triathlon; a volunteer with the Howard County Library Adult Tutoring Program and manned the gift shop and greeted people at Hangar 25 on the weekends. He was a former member of the Howard County Historical Commission.He was a member of Holy Trinity Catholic Church and a member of the Knights of Columbus.Survivors include four sons, W. Jeffrey Cox and wife Shirley of Massachusetts, Steven Cox and wife Julie of Virginia, David Cox of New Jersey and Thomas Cox of Texas; two daughters, Kathleen Chang and husband, Kevin of Washington and Linda MacDonald and husband, Robert of Washington; a brother, Robert Cox and wife Nancy of Austin; and seven grandchildren.Arrangements are under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring. Online condolences can be made at: www.npwelch.com


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Leaders from Financial Services, Travel & Entertainment, Publishing, Technology, Education and others signed up to learn about high performance, scalable NoSQL
NEW YORK, New York – June 2, 2014 – Couchbase, provider of the most complete NoSQL database, has announced that more than 400 industry leaders plan to attend Couchbase Live New York 2014 today. Couchbase Live (#CBliveNYC) is a one-day, two-track event and developer hackathon that offers attendees a unique opportunity to learn why businesses around the world run mission critical applications on Couchbase Server.
"We continue to see exponential growth in the interest for Couchbase products, including our flagship NoSQL database Couchbase Server and our newly launched Mobile Suite," said Bob Wiederhold, CEO Couchbase. "Businesses come to our events because they want to learn how customers like Beats Music, McGraw Hill, Neiman Marcus, Nielsen and more gain competitive advantage by running mission critical apps on the world's most scalable and reliable NoSQL platform."
NoSQL Hands On Training
In response to swelling participation at Couchbase Live New York 2014, Couchbase has expanded the agenda to include two new hands-on NoSQL administration and NoSQL application development training courses. The courses will be held on Tuesday June 3rd and on Wednesday June 4th. Technologists interested in learning how to administer NoSQL, build apps on NoSQL and develop mobile NoSQL can sign up today.
Industry Leaders Share Best Practices
More than half the sessions at Couchbase Live New York 2014 will be led by customers and partners. These sessions will include best practices for deploying Couchbase in an enterprise setting. Customer and partner sessions will include:
- Beyond the Data Center: NoSQL at Global Scale with AWS, presented by Matt Yanchyshyn, Ecosystem Architect, Amazon
- JavaScript Grows Up in the Enterprise, presented by Christopher Tse, McGraw Hill
- Scale and Performance at the Edge Using Couchbase XDCR, presented by Ben Wyckoff, Chief Architect, Mirror Image
- Managing Big Data Challenges with Couchbase, presented by Darrell Pratt, Architect Leader, GPS, Nielsen
- Performance at Scale: Viber Keynote, presented by Amir Ish-Shalom, System Architect, Viber
- How WebMD Maintains Operational Flexibility with NoSQL, presented by Matt Wilson, WebMD
In Depth Technical Sessions Designed to Build and Sharpen NoSQL Skills
Sessions led by Couchbase product management and engineering will include best practices and technical deep dives. These sessions will provide how-to examples for Couchbase products including Couchbase Mobile in addition to previewing Couchbase Server 3.0 and Couchbase N1QL, a completely new SQL-like query language for NoSQL.
Technical sessions will include:
- A N1QL for Every Query, presented by Gerald Sangudi, Architect, Couchbase
- Brace Yourself! Your Document Model in Couchbase, presented by Matthew Revell, Technical Evangelist, Couchbase
- Visualizing a Couchbase Server in Flight, presented by Matt Ingenthron, Director of Developer Solutions, Couchbase
- Couchbase on the JVM beyond Java: Scala, Play, Clojure and More, presented by Matt Ingenthron, Director of Developer Solutions, Couchbase
- Enabling Always Available Mobile Apps: Couchbase Mobile, presented by Wayne Carter, Chief Mobile Architect and Chris Anderson, Co-founder, Couchbase
Lightning Hackathon Challenges Developers to Build for Big Data Scale Requirements
In addition to the track sessions, Couchbase is challenging the best of the best to put Couchbase Server to the test. Developers from the entire Eastern seaboard are invited to build on the power of Couchbase Server. In this fast-paced, two-hour hackathon, developers will have a chance to show off their NoSQL skills by leveraging the power of Couchbase Server. They will compete to see who can mine the most data the fastest. The more data they mine, the further they can scale; the further they scale, the more data they can mine!
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Southwest (United States of America)
The southwestern United States contains more than its fair share of natural wonders: The Grand Canyon, Arches National Park, and Mesa Verde are only three of the most famous of dozens of red rock attractions that draw people from all over the world.
Despite the Southwest's image as a sprawling flatland desert, it is one of the most geographically diverse regions in The United States. The Southwest starts high in the Wasatch and Rocky Mountains and descends into dramatic bluffs and mesas before opening up to the vast basin and range province of the Rio Grande and Colorado river watersheds. The region's dry climate and dramatic red rock landscapes tie the region together, despite the drastic differences in elevation.
The region experiences a wide spectrum of temperature extremes, ranging from 100-125 degrees Fahrenheit (38-52°C) in the summer, to below zero in the northernmost locales in the winter. The dry, cold conditions in the north make for what is arguably the best skiing in the world.
Other destinations
Although English is the predominant language spoken throughout the Southwest, Spanish is historically common in hispanic regions of New Mexico, West Texas and smaller localities such as Tucson. Numerous indigenous tribes throughout the region speak a myriad of languages; however, this is a trait most particularly observed within reservation boundaries. Linguistic diversity is more prevalent in larger metropolitan areas such as (Phoenix, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Tucson, and Albuquerque). The larger national parks and museums in the region provide signage and reading materials in languages such as German and Japanese.
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The southwestern United States is the original home territory of Southwest Airlines, a "regional," low-cost (and low-frills) carrier notable for its widely distributed network of minor hubs in contrast to the hub-and-spokes approach used by most airlines in the United States. Not only as a result of Southwest's approach, but also because its competitors in the region have adopted its ways to some extent, the major cities of the region (Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas) tend to be connected very well by air, and fares are relatively low. Intra-regional air service to the lesser cities can be much more expensive, due in part to the fact that Southwest has no agreements with commuter airlines that service the smaller airports.
The imposing obstacle of the Grand Canyon limits road and rail traffic within the region. South of the Grand Canyon, Interstate highways 40 and 10 connect New Mexico and Arizona cities reasonably conveniently. I-40 basically follows the route of historic Route 66 in the region. I-15 and I-80 serve a similar function for Nevada and Utah. However, getting from north to south, or vice versa, by road is a more challenging proposition. No railroads make this connection (the only one in the region is the Amtrak line that mainly parallels I-40 west of Albuquerque), and the few highways connecting Arizona to Utah or eastern Nevada are minor, generally two-lane, lightly traveled, and frequently far from traveler services. If you're driving north-south in this region, pay careful attention to your fuel level, and make sure your vehicle is in good mechanical condition.
Be warned that alcoholic beverages are forbidden in the Navajo Nation and in many other American Indian pueblos and reservations.
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