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Women's Fashions and Mass Shootings –
It's All About "Look at Me!"
Oct 9, 2017
A person doing outlandish things to get attention is common. Television people have even made programs about it, revealing dumb activities recorded by bystanders or accomplices in the dumb activity. From doing handstands on a balcony railing to attempting to jump over a car speeding at them, those seeking attention are increasingly daring in their attempts at fifteen minutes of fame.
We might assume this human propensity has been around for eons. And with the human instinct to look for ever more daring and dangerous exhibitions that drive those attention seekers. What might most people remember about Janet Jackson other than her 'wardrobe malfunction' at the Super Bowl halftime show?
In everything changes are incremental, unless it is the onset of global wars or Earth being struck by a giant meteor. For those seeking attention then, the stakes must be raised, the bar moved higher – or risk being called passé.
Women have used sexual allure to gain attention from men since recorded history began. Earrings went from the bottom lobe of the ear to the entire ear. Then jewelry, via piercing, moved to the navel, eyebrows, tongue and just about any part of the anatomy that would hold such an adornment. For some it has resulted in a body literally festooned with metal objects. But, that will get you attention – just like the hair colored purple or blue or tattoos.
Women's apparel has had to keep up with the ever-increasing attempt to show more and more of the female body. As time progresses women have chosen to show more of their bodies. The question is; how far will this advance, as something that seemed outrageous to our grandparents became hohum today?
In researching women's fashion it was common for women to be covered from the neck down in the late 1800's. Skirts and dresses began to inch upward over the next decades, coming above the ankles in the 1920's, just below the knee in the 1950's, above the knee in the 1960's, and today being just below the private parts on a female.
Note: Not all women dress this way, just the ones seeking attention.
Check out the TV shows broadcasting young girls less than six years old – made up with hairstyles and makeup that make them look like prostitutes – and they are given trophies for this!
Some female beachwear features no more than three little patches, covering the vagina and nipples. What will attention-seeking women do next to elevate men's eyes being cast their way?
And no, women's apparel is not dooming our nation but pointing out how in this one respect the means of getting attention necessarily means going to the next level – or the next extreme.
It's all about getting attention. That's why Antifa and Black Lives Matter cause such calamity. Just form a militant, racist group for black people and you earn an invite to the Obama White House. Of course those Social Justice Warriors of Antifa wear masks just to keep from getting sunburned.
And there is all too common person killed by a jealous ex-husband, ex-wife, ex-boyfriend, and ex-girlfriend – all for giving their attention to someone other that the killer.
After three Republicans blocked the Obamacare repeal and replacement they were sure to see a rush of cameras and reporters putting them on the evening news. Do something outrageous and you get face time on the media.
Every time a Liberal feels 'offended' they rush to the cameras – like Hillary Clinton – blaming Conservatives for everything from dish soap to sunspots. Get out there and bash our country – like the namby-pamby spoiled, millionaire athletes and here comes the news coverage.
After a hurricane devastates Puerto Rico, the mainstream media does not highlight the rescue efforts – instead having their camera catch those suffering and a Democrat Mayor bashing the American President. Want attention in today's media? Make up stories bashing the President – works every time. The mainstream media is guaranteed to give attention to anything negative about our current President.
Where has the entire disharmony ginned up by the Leftwing of America taken us? It has taken us to the point of a college student having a nervous breakdown over a banana peel in a tree. Liberals are dumb. They can't look at a situation and make a rational judgment. That's how they have been taught.
Add to the mix those who are mentally unstable but cognizant enough to assume how to get attention by killing as many people at once, ala a mass shooting.
Let's take a look at some of the competition the Las Vegas shooter was up against.
Orlando, Florida; 2016 – 49 killed
Virginia Tech; 2007 – 33 killed
Sandy Hook; 2012 – 27 killed
Killeen, Texas; 1991 – 23 killed
The Las Vegas shooter set a record for lives taken by one person in America at 50 killed. He got his attention. What will the next incident be – 100 killed, 500 killed? You've got to do something more sensational than the last person to get the attention.
That's why the next incident is probably going to reflect a higher body count. The bar has been raised in Las Vegas. What are you – the attention seeking zealot – going to do next to reach new heights of depravity?
While tragedies are becoming increasingly severe with greater losses of life, our culture has gone the opposite with a hangnail creating an uprising. Rest assured the next headline grabber would be more being killed for attention's sake.
Even now, another attention seeking lunatic plots and waits.
In spite of guns killing a record number of black people in Chicago, now exceeding 500 murders this year, where is the media attention – to the 'white' man killing 50.
Just to make one thing clear to Liberals – if you give attention to those hating our country it is 'free speech'. By not giving attention to truth – it is the same as it has been for centuries – Censorship.


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Students get hands-on tasters of career options in land industries
Press release • Jul 02, 2018 15:23 BST
Senior pupils from Moray had the chance to attend a 'Land Based Sector' day at Dipple Farm in Fochabers last week.
The students took part in a range of practical workshops led by local employers to get a taste of the types of careers on offer on their doorstep.
In the morning the pupils had talks and demonstrations by employers to highlight the vast range of opportunities available to them in the sector in Moray. This was followed by a series of workshops.
Moray Council's education support officer, Maxine Scott, said:
"This was a brilliant learning experience - the pupils were incredibly engaged and really enjoyed learning from successful local employers. We're confident that the day allowed the young people to get some hands-on experience and a greater understanding of the skilled jobs available in the sector, which they may wish to pursue."
The event was organised by the Land Based Sector group, part of the Moray Skills Pathway initiative. The group aims to get Moray's young students at least four experiences of each of the eight growth sectors before they make their subject choices for the senior phase
These eight growth sectors include: Early Learning and Childcare; Health and Social Care; Construction; Engineering; Food, Drink & Tourism; IT & Creative Industries; Business/ Professional Services and the Land based Sector.
Famous for its colony of dolphins, fabulous beaches and more malt whisky distilleries than any where else in Scotland, Moray is a thriving area and a great place to live. Nestling between Aberdeenshire and the Highlands, Moray stretches from Tomintoul in the south to the shores of the Moray Firth, from Keith in the east to Brodie Castle in the west.

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Sometimes it takes a crisis to restore reason and equilibrium to the world, and so it is with the trade and capital imbalances that were arguably the root cause of the financial collapse of the past two years.
To economic purists, the changes now under way in demand and trade are inevitable, necessary and even desirable. Even so, dollar supremacy and the geo-political dominance of the West are both likely long-term casualties.
One, almost unnoticed, effect of the downturn is that past imbalances in trade and capital flows are correcting themselves of their own volition, the simple consequence of lower demand in once profligate consumer nations.
Current-account surpluses in China, Germany and Japan are narrowing, as are the deficits of the major consumer nations – primarily America, but also smaller profligates such as Britain and Spain.
The key question for G20 leaders as they meet in Pittsburgh is not bankers' bonuses, financial regulation and other issues of peripheral importance, but whether this correction in trade might be used as the basis for a permanently more balanced world economy.
In direct contradiction of US objectives, Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, accuses Britain and America of using the issue of trade imbalances to backtrack on financial reform and bankers' bonuses. "We should not start looking for ersatz [substitute] issues and forget the topic of financial market regulation," she said before boarding the plane to Pittsburgh.
To the big export nations, the primary cause of the crisis was Anglo Saxon financiers, whose wicked and avaricious ways created a catastrophe in the financial system, which led to a collapse in world trade. Once bankers are tamed, this one-off shock can be put behind us and the world will return to business as usual.
Blaming bankers is politically popular – Ms Merkel has an election to fight on Sunday – but the idea that the world economy will return to the way it was once this supposed cancer is removed is fanciful.
A seminal shift in behaviour is being forced on the deficit nations where, despite massive fiscal, monetary and financial system support, there is a continuing scarcity of credit and a growing propensity to save. Neither of these two constraints on demand will reverse any time soon.
This, in turn, is forcing change on surplus countries, whether they like it or not. Export-orientated nations can no longer rely on once profligate neighbours to buy their goods. Against all instinct, they are having to stimulate their own domestic demand.
The most startling results are evident in China, where retail sales grew an astonishing 15.4 per cent in August. Fiscal action has succeeded in boosting consumption in Germany, too, despite mistrust of what one German politician has dubbed "crass Keynesianism".
Unfortunately for him, Germany will have to persist with its Keynesian medicine for some time yet if it is to avoid a collapse back into recession. Tax cuts and perhaps the removal of fiscal incentives to save are essential to the process of supporting domestic demand.
The challenge for a developing nation such as China is a rather different one. In China, the propensity to export and save is driven by an absence of any meaningful social security net, in combination with the legacy of its oppressive one child policy, which has deprived great swathes of the population of children to fall back on for support in old age.
What's more, most Chinese don't earn enough to buy the products they are producing, so in what has become the customary path for developing nations, they export the surplus and save the proceeds.
Yet even in China the establishment of a newly affluent, free-spending middle class may now have gained an unstoppable momentum. In any case, the country can no longer rely on American consumers to provide jobs and growth. It needs a new growth model, which means ultimately adopting the
Henry Ford principle that if you want a sustainable market for your products, you have to pay your workers enough to buy them.
These trends – all of which pre-date the crisis but which, out of necessity, are being greatly accelerated by it – will eventually drive a move away from the dollar as the world's reserve currency of choice. As China takes control of its economic destiny, spends more and saves less, there will be less willingness both to hold dollar assets and to submit to the domestic priorities of US monetary policy.
None of this will happen overnight. Depressed it might be, but US consumption is still substantially bigger than that of all the surplus nations put together. All the same, that the dollar's reign as the world's dominant currency is drawing to a close is no longer in doubt.


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The Insatiable
Rachel collaborated with artist Jawshing Arthur Liou to produce The Insatiable. The atmospheric audio is comprised of miscellaneous field recordings (from the sounds of skyscraper construction to hydrophone recordings of rain on the surface of a lake), musical elements performed by Rachel, and human and animal voices stretched and manipulated to create additional textures of this piece.
The Insatiable is meant to be screened via HD video projection or HD flatscreen display, with either 5.1 or stereo audio in the dark installation space.


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Cyprus is a divided island in the Mediterranian sea with a large Greek and a smaller Turkish population, separated by a kind of iron curtain. In earlier years the island became notorious for the enduring fights between Greek and Turkish factions on the island. Fortunately, these fights are mostly a thing of the past.
More recently, however, the country came in the news, due to the instability of its banking system. This instability had a lot to do with the intimate connections that exist between the island and Greece. These connections caused a contagion of the Cypriotic banks, through the branches of Greek banks on the island.
Another factor to be reckoned with, is the fact that the island has been used as a safe haven, annex transit area for Russian black and 'almost white' money. Through fiscal constructs and letterbox companies, Russian black and grey money can be laundered on the island and subsequently be reinvested in Russia itself: white as linen!
The result of these financial constructs has been that Cyprus became one of those countries, of which the size of the financial industry is as big as or even bigger than the Gross Domestic Product, put together by the whole population.
This is nice in times of economic prosperity, when investments by such banks yield more than enough proceeds to keep all savers and investors happy, with a minimized amount of losses at the same time. However, when there are times of ubiquitous economic hardship, like nowadays, such a top-heavy financial industry can generate losses that cannot be borne anymore by the population of such a country. This was the case with the Cypriotic financial industry.
For the leaders in the European Council and (especially) the Euro-group, the question was this: should we drop the financial industry in Cyprus like a hot potato or should we rescue the country? It seems that the Eurogroup, in cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank (ECB), reluctantly chose for the second option.
However, they did so with a twist that will send shockwaves through the financial markets and that might give savers the willies.
Saturday, 16 March 2013 was the day that a plan was presented by the Euro-group, led by Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, to save the Cypriotic banks. The Financial Times wrote the following lines:
International lenders agreed to a €10bn bailout of Cyprus early on Saturday morning after 10 hours of fraught negotiations, which included convincing Nicosia to seize €5.8bn from Cypriot bank deposits to help pay for the rescue, a first for any eurozone bailout.
The cash from Cypriot account holders will come in the form of a one-time 9.9 per cent levy on all deposits over €100,000 that will be slashed from their savings before banks reopen Tuesday, a day after a Cypriot holiday. An additional 6.75 per cent levy will be imposed on deposits below that level.
Cypriot finance minister Michalis Sarris said his government had already moved to ensure deposit holders could not make large withdrawals electronically before Tuesday's open; Jörg Asmussen, a member of the European Central Bank executive board, said a portion of deposits equivalent to the levies would likely be frozen immediately.
"I am not happy with this outcome in the sense that I wish I was not the minister that had to do this," Mr Sarris said. "But I feel that the responsible course of action of a minister that takes an oath to protect the general welfare of the people and the stability of the system did not leave us with any [other] options."
While the levies fell short of the full-scale "bail-in" of all deposits larger than €100,000 that had been advocated by some bailout lenders, particularly the International Monetary Fund, it was still sweeping in its scale and unprecedented in the three-year-old crisis.
Officials who had resisted imposing losses on bank accounts, which included leaders in the European Commission and the Cypriot government, had feared forcing losses on ordinary deposit holders could spur panicked withdrawals in Cyprus and, potentially, in other eurozone countries with shaky financial sectors, like Spain.
Mr Asmussen justified the measure by saying it broadened the number of people who will shoulder the burden of the bailout. Without the measures, he said, much of it would fall on Cypriot taxpayers; by going after all large deposit holders – many of whom are Russian or British – outsiders would help fund the rescue.
While Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister who chairs the group of eurozone finance ministers that hashed out the deal in all-night talks, declined to categorically rule out hitting depositors in future bank bailouts, he insisted that it was not being currently considered for any other country.
Personally, I don't think that the events in Cyprus will lead to bank-runs in other countries. Unless the bank system in one's own country is at the brink of collapsing, people won't go to the bank to collect their savings most of the time. They have to put their money somewhere (physically or in a non-cash form) and there are hardly any banks that are really rock-solid in these trying times. So probably people leave their money where it is, currently, unless there is a real emergency situation. Still, the Euro-group takes a considerable risk by acting like they did in the case of Cyprus.
By itself, I can defend the measures that have been taken by the Euro-group in order to save the Cypriotic banks. It is fair, when not all expenses for such a rescue-action will be borne by the Cypriotic and European tax-payers.
Still, such measures always come at the expense of small, middle-class savers, who have to put their savings somewhere and don't want to lose a substantial share of it through an opaque deal between governments, the IMF and the ECB.
On top of that, there are some circumstances that make this Cypriot case slightly particular:
- It is clear that Cyprus received a 'treatment' by the Euro-group, that has not been administered at the time of the Irish banking crisis. This is quite remarkable, as both countries had a 'banking industry to GDP-ratio' that was about equal. In other words: with their banking industry, both countries took a bigger bite than they could chew. Savers in Cyprus will be punished for this, while the savers in Ireland got away with it;
- I can't take away the notion in my head, that the savers needed to be punished, because some of them were RUSSIANS with probably lots of BLACK MONEY. While everybody knows that black money is a global problem, with global offenders, it seems that the word 'Russian' is enough to restore some of those Cold War feelings and rethorics. "Those darn Russians need to be punished";
Understand me correctly: I personally pay my taxes and don't try to avoid or evade them. Consequently, I don't have much sympathy for tax avoiders and evaders, regardless from which country they come from. And I have even less sympathy for black money that comes out of real criminal activities, which could be the case with the Russian money.
Elsewhere, few European SIFI-banks (Systemically Important Financial Institution) ponder much upon the origin of the money that f.i. Greek or Italian savers bring in, regardless whether it is black, grey or white money. Banks go through the motions, when it comes to due diligence and 'know your customer' and accept the money with a pearl-white smile and a firm handshake.
When these SIFI-banks run short of funds, they are saved. No questions asked! And the savers are fully compensated up to €100,000 and beyond, when such a bank collapses. No doubt about that!
However, in case of the Cypriotic banks with their 'spooky' Russian customers, suddenly other rules are applied. Or, like Dutch MP Mark Rutte said in an interview to Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad:
"We support this financial aid program with considerable reluctancy and annoyance. Especially the presence of Russian money gives me a very bad taste in my mouth. We would like very much to drop Cyprus, because of the Russian money and practices of money laundering. Still, we can't, due to the intertwinedness of Cypres with the other countries in the Euro-zone".
That was our brave and strong Prime Minister Mark Rutte. He is the same MP that will do his fair share of driveling, when the Russian President Vladimir Putin visits The Netherlands soon, with pockets full of industrial orders and lucrative offers 'that Rutte can't refuse'.
He is also the same PM, who gave the black / grey money of f.i. Mitt Romney a warm welcome and who helps companies like Google, Starbucks, Pingo Doce and other multinationals to pay as little taxes as possible, through great fiscal constructs.
What a man…


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Since 2013, the New York Cardiac Center (NYCC) has, in conjunction with the Michael Wolk Heart Foundation, supported a series of cardiac centered research projects aimed at investigating the efficacy of a number of treatment modalities. These efforts have been centered at the Weill-Cornell Medical Center (WCM) and have resulted in a plethora of exciting peer reviewed and published studies which have clearly advanced our knowledge in the field of cardiology. Now, these studies have prompted the launching of the Weill-Cornell Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Group (CORG). The CORG is led by Associate Professors of Medicine Luke Kim, MD, FACC, FSCAI and Jim Cheung, MD, FACC, FHRS.
Several recently published papers include:
Rate of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for the Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes and Stable Coronary Disease in the United States;
Comparison of Trends and Outcomes of Carotid Artery Stenting and Endarterectomy in the United States;
Association Between Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantion Volume and Outcomes in the United States;
Trends in Hospital Treatments for Peripheral Arterial Disease in the United States and Association Between Payer Status and Quality of Care/Outcomes, 2007-2011;
Comparison of Trends and In-Hospital Outcomes of Concurrent Carotid Artery Revascularization and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery; The United States Experience 2004 to 2012
Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Insights on a Unique Clinical Phenotype from a Nationally-Representative United States Cohort
The NYCC is pleased to have been associated with this wonderful research and looks forward to additional insights which will be provided by the WCM CORG.


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A Mercer Island police officer accidentally shot himself in the buttocks while on duty Thursday.
It happened while the officer was serving an arrest warrant in Shoreline in the 19200 block of Stone Ave. North., Mercer Island police Commander Leslie Burns said.
Police had taken a man into custody and were wrapping up at the scene when the officer accidentally fired his weapon, striking himself.
The unidentified officer was taken to Harborview Medical Center for treatment. Burns said he is a seven-year veteran of the force.


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Humanitarianism and Filming the Testimony of Trauma
Lecture | May 1 | 12-2 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Professor Meyda Yeğenoğlu, Visiting Scholar, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University
Department of Gender and Women's Studies
'Feminist Studies and Visual Media' Spring 2019 Gender and Womens Studies Lecture series
Cosponsored by Media Studies and Center for Race and Gender
Organized and Moderated by Professor Minoo Moallem
Auction of Souls: The Story of Aurora Mardiganian, the Christian Girl Who Survived the Great Massacres is a film that claims to recount the true narrative of the life of Aurora Mardiganian, a young Armenian girl held in captivity by the Turks during the forced deportation of Armenians in Anatolia before the First World I. The scenario was based on the Mardiganians own narration of her experience. The film was screened in movie theaters in Britain and in the US. It was screened with the title Ravished Armenia in the US. The Hollywood producer W. N. Selig claimed to be retelling the story of Mardiganians suffering of a Christian victims story of deportation, rape, and eventual escape in realist detail. The films mission was claimed to be a cinematographic reconstruction of the lives of the Armenians under Turkish rule. Claims of authenticity gave the film its authority. Mardiganian starred in the lead role in the film. The film was cast as part of the humanitarian effort on behalf of Ottoman Christians. The emerging discourse of humanitarianism has already made the public familiar with tropes of Muslim barbarity against Christian minorities. The medium of the film made extensive use of these accepted narratives and promised the viewer a vivid picture of almost unbelievable barbarism, persecution, and inhumanity such as the world has never before known. Representing the film as a realist drama (with its portrayal of graphic violence and sexual content) aroused a huge debate in Britain whereas in the US there was little debate while it was used in the humanitarian campaign to raise fund for Armenian refuge relief. The difference between the British and Armenian reactions had to do with British imperial politics as they were concerned that the film can needlessly inflame tensions between Christians and Muslims in the colonies and imperial unity would come under threat.
Problematizing the prevalent discourse of humanitarianism of the period, I examine whether Mardignaniass discourse has the status of fiction or testimony. Is it a non-literary account of what happened to an Armenian girl, hence has the status of a testimony, an autobiography or memoir, or does it have all the attributes of all these at the same time? Or does Mardiganian narrate an eye-witness account? Following Marc Nichanians and Primo Levis suggestion that neither an archive nor a witness of genocide exists, and the trace of genocide can only be found in the testimony of the survivors, I suggest that the truth vs falsity problematic is irrelevant to discuss the nature of Mardiganians narrative and emphasize the importance of literary modes of representations not because they provide evidence but a particular way of comprehending the trauma Armenians experienced. Event funded by Chau Hoi Shuen Foundation Fund in Gender and Women's Studies.
Bio: Meyda Yeğenoğlu is a visiting scholar at the Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. In the last three years, she has been a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Social Research, University of Tampere, Finland. Before her forced displacement from Turkey, she was a professor of Cultural Studies and Sociology at Bilgi University (2010-2016) Istanbul-Turkey and Middle East Technical University (1994-2010), Ankara-Turkey. She has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, Oberlin College, Rutgers University, New York University, University of Vienna and Oxford University.
She is the author of "Colonial Fantasies; Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism" (Cambridge University Press,1998) and "Islam, Migrancy and Hospitality in Europe" (Palgrave-Macmillan 2012). She has numerous essays published in various journals and edited volumes such as "Feminist Postcolonial Theory; Postcolonialism", "Feminism and Religious Discourse; Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism"; "Postmodern Culture"; "Race and Ethnic Relations"; "Culture and Religion"; "Inscriptions; "Religion and Gender"; "Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory; State, Religion and Secularization"; "Feminism and Hospitality". Currently, she is completing a book manuscript provisionally entitled "Mourning for Armenians: Testimony, Secrecy, and Islamization".
Event cosponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Funding provided by the Chau Hoi Shuen Foundation Fund in Gender and Women's Studies


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Recruit Developers: Must-Ask Questions
Have you ever heard the phrase, "it's not the idea, it's the people"? Every startup needs top talent to survive – especially top developers. But how do you find them? Interviews of course! I've interviewed multiple rounds of people to join an intensive coding community. We are looking for people that we can place into full-time developer positions at the end.
It is easy enough to find tough coding questions to test interviewees' technical skills, but what about questions to determine characteristics that are hard to measure? Here are a list of questions to help you find those key people who will make your team a success. Many of these questions are good for non-developer roles as well. Print them out and bring them to your next interview!
- Tell me about a project you worked on by yourself? What resources did you use? What was the outcome?
- What skills do you want to gain but don't have yet? How do you plan to get them?
- When in your life did you first learn the value of independence? How have you used that knowledge since then?
- Tell us about a manager you liked, what did you learn from them?
- Tell me about a project that you led? What worked? What was hard?
- What do you do when there is a disagreement between group members? How did you learn these skills?
- If you could lead any project, what would it be? Why?
- Growing up, what was the activity that taught you the most about the value of teamwork?
- What role do you normally take in a team environment?
- What role is hardest for you?
- What would past team members say about you?
- What would you want your next manager to know about you?
- What skills do you have that others may not? How do you normally teach other team members this skill? How do you utilize it to benefit a team?
Problem Solving
- Tell us about a time that nothing worked, what did you do?
- What online resource is your favorite for solving problems (other than stack overflow)?
- Tell me about a time you had to ask for help? Who gave it to you and what happened?
- What do you do to prepare for deadlines?
- How do you de-stress?
- What are your tips for handling pressure?
- Tell me about a time you missed a deadline? What happened? What did you do to fix it?
- Who do you know who handles pressure well? How do they do it? What do you admire about it?
- Tell us about the longest project you ever worked on?
- How do you decide it is time to move on to another opportunity?
- What project at our company would you like to be doing in 6 months? 1 year?
- Where can you see room for improvement in our startup that you can own? How long do you think it would take?
- Who is someone you admire? Why?
- Tell us about a friend or colleague who is the most different from you. How did you work together? What did you like about them? What was hard?
- What was one of the most transformative experiences in your life? What were you like before? How are you different after?
- What personality skill do you want to develop?
- What personality characteristics are hard for you to work with? Which are easier for you?
- What are the common characteristics of good managers?
- How do you give feedback to people with more responsibilities than you?
- How do you give feedback to people with fewer responsibilities than you?
- What tips do you follow to stay organized? What other systems have you seen work?
- We have this project coming up, how would you organize it? Who would you assign to what tasks? What extra resources would you need?
Ultimately, go with your instincts. Did you enjoy talking to the person? Don't overlook red flags, dive in. Invite other people on your team to join the interview or have them talk later and focus on anything that gives you pause. Be approachable and respectful. Even if this person is not a good fit for your company, they may have a close friend who is. It is essential to leave things on a good note!
Lauren Glass is an entrepreneur, data scientist, & developer living in Tel Aviv.
Check out more of her writing at CodingStartups
Follow her adventures on Instagram @ljglass


text: José Antonio (Ñico) Rojas Beoto was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1921. A civil engineer, guitarist and composer, he is one of the exponents of the so-called 'Feeling' trend in Cuban music, which brought about a revival in Cuban popular song in the 1940s. His works combine the sonority of the guitar with the complex rhythmic and melodic elements of Cuban traditional music. His language is defined by an improvisatory influence, and this is noticeable in re-expositions of themes and in passages where the melody combines with a free rhythm.


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FlashProg - USB serial flash memory programmer FlashProg is USB base flash memory programmer to work with 3.3V serial flash memory devices. This programmer is specifically design to read, program and configure 25x series, serial flash memory devices which are commonly used to store BIOS in PC mainboards. Originally we design this project to read and program BIOS of Foxconn G31MXP mainboard. Our version of G ...Read more ›
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HD-1410 is quiet popular iambic keyer which is manufactured around 1970's by Heathkit. The original HD-1410 keyer is designed using 5 commonly available 74LS series TTL ICs and 8 transistors. Other than iambic operation it has an option to adjust sidetone frequency and support for (external) single-paddle key unit. In this project we redesign original HD-1410 electronic keyer with today's commonly available ...Read more ›


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A Birth Story- Baby Ryleigh
I do not think it is possible to put in to words how much I love shooting births. I love the emotion of the day, the ups and downs, and of course, the moment when you get the big pay off and hold your baby for the first time.
I will never forget the first time I held my baby boy... the moment is seared in my mind. But I do wish I had some photos of that moment too. That is what I find so rewarding about this work. I KNOW how important this day is-- for me, it was the first day of me, the new me, the person I am now that I have someone else to care about. It taught me what is important, focused me, and mellowed me out.
The other part of this birth that was soooooo amazing, was Amber had the same doctor and delivered in the same room that I delivered my first born. It was almost eerie to be back there, almost exactly five years since I had my baby boy. It was a 'full circle' moment, for sure.
Amber was amazing. She had a natural birth, but she was so calm and collected the nurses thought she had had an epidural. They had already had a very long night before I arrived at 5:30AM, but she was so mellow, she was even able to take some naps between contractions. Way to go, Mama! I am in awe of you.


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This class features the circular saw (aka "skillsaw") in making sawhorses that are, in an unexpected plot twist, very useful when using a circular saw. Bring home new skills AND a pair of these sawhorses to "support" your DIY habits!
Skill level: Beginners welcome; no previous experience necessary.
Topics covered:
* How to measure and mark accurately
* Circular saw and chopsaw / miter saw, for straight and angled cuts
* Drilling and driving screws - getting it right


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Maintain Browser Compatibility with Adobe Edge Animate CC
Adobe Edge Animate CC works in all modern browsers — including the most recent versions of Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer 9. It also works on all tablets and smart phones that have modern browsers installed. For audiences that don't use modern browsers, Edge Animate does provide a fallback option that you can use so that your animation does not appear broken.
Compatibility is important for web content; if a browser doesn't support your code, then your animation won't work. No wonder Adobe Edge Animate CC creates code that works in all modern browsers.
Concerns with HTML5 and older browsers
Many web developers are concerned that not all parts of HTML5 are compatible with all browsers. This is especially true with Internet Explorer. Where many features of HTML5 will work in browsers such as Chrome and Firefox, they will not always work in Internet Explorer.
This leaves many web developers questioning how widely they should start using HTML5. It isn't in a web developer's best interest to create web pages that don't work in all browsers — but the future is still a bit murky, and lots of folks are content to use old browsers.
Adobe has addressed these issues with Edge Animate. You can feel safe and secure knowing that your Edge Animate web compositions will work in all modern browsers, including the current versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer 9.
You don't need to know HTML5, or even HTML, to use Edge Animate. But the more you know, the better off you'll be if you need to use the code to help implement it for viewing. The Edge Animate software creates the code for you while you build your web animation.
When you save your Edge Animate file, the software creates several different files. One of those files has the .html filename extension. The HTML5 code is within the .html file. You can view this file with any plain text editor such as Notepad. After you're done creating your composition, you can view the animation in a web browser — either from within the software, or by double-clicking the .html file, which opens and plays your animation in your default browser.
Desktop browser compatibility
Compatibility with the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser is an issue that web developers have to contend with when developing sites. Microsoft has been slow to update Internet Explorer to be compatible with HTML5 — and code that works perfectly fine in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox doesn't behave well in earlier versions of Internet Explorer.
For example, if you code a border to have rounded edges, then your corners will appear rounded off in Chrome and Firefox; but view that same site in IE and suddenly your rounded edges appear square. Issues like this can ruin a website's design.
Browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera already support many aspects of HTML5. There are no concerns with Adobe Edge Animate CC compositions working perfectly in these browsers. These browsers also have built-in automatic updates for their users. Because of that, web designers and developers can feel certain that their users are most likely using the most current version of that browser.
What to do for Internet Explorer 8 and older versions
In an ideal world, everyone would upgrade their browsers regularly. Unfortunately, not everyone can do that, for whatever reason. Even though Internet Explorer 9 has opened the door to HTML5 compatibility, which means Edge Animate works in that version of the browser, not all IE users have upgraded their browsers.
It's still not uncommon for many IE users to use versions 7 and 8 — and (to many designers' horror and dismay) IE 6 is still in use by many people.
Adobe Edge Animate CC compositions will not work in Internet Explorer 8 and older versions, just as HTML5 doesn't work in IE6.
However, the good news is that more and more web users are upgrading their browsers, and usage of IE6 is slowly dwindling. With that said, though, Edge Animate works in all modern portable browsers. If your main goal is to create animated applications for use on smart phones and tablets, then you're very much in luck.
If you're creating web animations for an audience who still uses IE8 and older browsers, that lurking obsolescence can be a concern when you're using Adobe Edge Animate CC. Say that you spend countless hours developing the perfect web animation and then put it online. You tested it in Firefox and IE 9, and it works perfectly.
Then you walk across the hall to show it to your boss — and to your horror, it doesn't work because your boss is using IE 6. Well, in the real world, there's a good chance many of your clients and customers are also using an earlier version of IE that isn't compatible with Edge Animate.
Fortunately, Edge Animate has you covered with at least two options: You can (a) use Google Chrome Frame support or (b) use down-level browser support — a feature that enables you to create a poster (a static image), or to use static HTML, to replace the animation — which keeps your website from appearing "broken." Your audience sees an image that looks the way it's supposed to look, even though it's not animated.
Google Chrome Frame support
Edge Animate has a feature that enables you to use Google Chrome Frame support for browsers that don't support animation. As a next step to down-level browser support, you can publish Edge Animate content so that your audience can view it on IE 6, 7, or 8 using Google Chrome Frame. For the user who doesn't already have Google Chrome Frame, you can also control the experience of installing it.
Edge Animate has down-level Stages
The down-level Stages in Edge Animate are versions of the Stage that you can use to create and publish a down-level version of your composition that will be compatible with browsers that don't support HTML5 animation. The down-level Stages offer only minimal creation tools, but you can
Import graphics and create text elements.
Import a poster from the main composition.
Basically, the animations that you create and place online can detect the browsers your audience is using. If the code detects that someone is using a non-compatible browser for your animation, then it reverts to showing a poster image instead of the animation. This saves your website from appearing broken. Instead of seeing an animation that doesn't work, the audience sees a poster — a still frame — that you create from the animation.
Again, you don't have to know code for the down-level Stage support to work. Although coding for browser detection can be tricky, Edge Animate has that capability built in — and it's an option you can choose when you're ready to publish.
Compatibility with tablet and mobile browsers
Where Adobe Flash fails, Adobe Edge Animate CC works. It's well known that Apple doesn't allow Adobe Flash animation to work in its portable devices — and that includes the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Steve Jobs, before his passing, stated that Flash had too many security vulnerabilities and other negative aspects for Apple to allow Flash to work with iOS.
Edge Animate, on the other hand, doesn't suffer from those issues. Your Edge Animate compositions will work just fine on Apple products — and on Android devices — whether tablets of all types, smart phones, and other devices that use modern mobile browsers.


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A Different World
Don't fall for the hype: No 'massacre' in Myrtle Beach, no evidence church burnings were hate crimes
It makes sense that rhetoric would be white hot right about now, given that in the not-too-distant past, a young white man named Dylann Roof allegedly went into a Charleston church and executed 9 black people for the sin of being black; the final funeral was just last week.
That doesn't mean we should allow ourselves to get carried away by it.
There have been headlines since the Charleston shooting about a string of fires at black churches. According to what we now know, they do not seem to be related or motivated by racial hatred.
Over the weekend, I was getting questions from readers about an alleged "massacre" in Myrtle Beach. A group of white supremacists had allegedly killed two black teenagers with bats during the Fourth of July weekend. That did not happen.
Let me repeat that again: That did not happen.
Let's not allow ourselves to get carried away during a time like this. Because of the Charleston shooting and Confederate flag debate and headlines about church burnings - all on the heels of a nationwide discussion about the abuse of police power and a couple of riots among dozens of protests - it is exceedingly easy to get sucked into hoaxes and other false stories.
Don't fall for it. There is a good bit of change happening seemingly all at once, which can upset anyone's sense of reality, no matter if you believe that change is good or a sign of the End of Days. That makes us all more vulnerable to subterfuge.
That's why we need to be more careful than ever when consuming information, especially when it seems to be too good - or bad - to be true.
Despite the seeming upheaval at the moment, the unemployment rate is at a 7-year-low, the abortion and teen pregnancy rates are at all-time lows, the national deficit has been cut by two thirds since 2009, the divorce rate is falling, the crime rate has been dropping for two decades, the uninsured rate is at the lowest level on record, and even gas prices are at one of its lowest levels during the summer in several years, among many other things. And though there remain problems and challenges, including a too-high gun violence rate and too many instances of deadly clashes between police and young black men, most interaction between those two groups are cordial, not confrontational.
In other words, don't fall for the hype. We're fine. This country is as outstanding - and imperfect - as it has ever been. That's all.


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Texture and Shader Building combined
This training is primarily aimed at users at an intermediate level.
This training is a continuation of the Texture Building Series.
In this series we take a look at how to convert shader trees into usable Digital Assets. The purpose of the training is to help simplify the material building process in Houdini. We take the PBR shader nodes and convert those into usable Digital Assets that we can then use in production. We also make digital assets to help make the day to day workflow of shader building simpler.
The training is split in two parts.
In the first section we start by converting the daily mapping tasks in Digital Assets such as, UV mapping, Gradient Ramps and other maps. We then also look at creating a Digital Asset out of a more custom built map/texture.
The second section of this training looks at the Surface model. We recreate the functionality of the surface model by using the PBR nodes and convert those into perfectly usable production shaders that can be used for day to day tasks. We end the series by building a few complex materials using all the various digital assets that we have created throughout the series
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Content Details - 5 Video Chapters (with Audio)
Duration - 1 hrs 34 mins
Price - $20
Lesson Plan
- Introduction - A simple introduction to the central focus of the training
- UV and Position asset - Creating a digital asset for handling uv mapping and uv distortion
- Maps - We create a singular node that combines a large amount of 2d patterns that are available in Houdini
- Gradient Ramp - Creating a gradient ramp similar to 3dsmax with in built gradient types for Linear, radial and falloff. We also learn how to expose the ramp parameter at VOP level
- Tiles asset - We create a custom tiles map to replicate the Tile map functionality from 3dsmax and them convert it into a usable Digital asset.
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Content Details -4 Video Chapters (with Audio)
Duration - 1 hrs 37 mins
Price - $20
Lesson Plan
- Diffuse, SS and Self Illumination - We start by creating a combined node for Diffuse, SSS. Self Illumination and Opacity.
- Specular Shader - Creating a usable Digital Asset out of the PBR Specular node.
- Refraction Shader- We create a fully usable Refraction Shader which also includes Attenuation Density and Fake Caustics.
- Thin Film Refraction - Adding Thin Film Refraction to the shader model
- Material Tests - In the final lesson we create a few complex shaders using all the various shaders and maps that we have built over the duration of the training.
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text: Last week we answered the challenge laid down by Tony Wong to build a plan to ship a MVP (minimum viable product) of the ThisWeekIn website redesign in under six hours, and today we start working! Watch as Tony and Jose guide us through the first hour of work: Aure will select a Drupal template from several vendors and Jacob Pittassi will take you through a Drupal 7 install. The goal by the end of today's episode? Have a basic ThisWeekIn Web Design page with a functional episode ready for viewing!


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In today's world the LGBT community is finally gaining the freedom to express its beliefs to the fullest. With US finally legitimizing gay marriage we only hope that the global community start moving towards solving other painstaking questions and moving towards a more unified and happy form of coexistence. We decided to put together a post featuring some of the biggest names in the entertainment business that are gay.


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Coal mine collapse in northern Russia kills 2
Twenty-eight miners are still stuck under the rubble, as rescue efforts continue, RT's Roman Kosarev reported.
At least 80 miners have been successful evacuated since the collapse, which occurred at the Severnaya coal mine in the northern Russian Komi Republic.
The mine is beyond the Arctic Circle and is difficult to reach.
The mine is located above the Arctic Circle, and is hard to reach. A source in the Russian Emergencies Ministry has told RT that the situation is being managed by local rescuers, who are now taking the miners to the surface in small groups.
All operations at the facility have been halted. According to the latest data from the mine's operator, there were 105 workers underground at the time of the incident, 81 have already been pulled up. Most of the miners were working at a depth of 1 kilometer, when the suspected pressure burst took place.
No major damage or fire resulted from the rock burst, a rescue official told RIA. Ventilation and electricity have not been interrupted.
Earlier reports suggested there were 88 miners inside.
"The top priority now is to pull people out of the mine, and then we can try to determine what exactly happened," mine dispatcher Elizaveta Nakhtigal told RT.
The stricken Severnaya coal mine belongs to Vorkutaugol, an integral part of the industrial giant Severstal.


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Willow Smith opens up about battle with self-harm
"A lot of adolescent girls struggle with self-harm"
Willow Smith has opened up about her past battle with self-harm in an emotional new interview.
The actress and singer, 17, is the daughter of rapper Will Smith and actress Jada Pinkett-Smith. She released her first single, 'Whip My Hair', when she was 10-years-old.
Speaking on Red Table Talk with her mother, she spoke about how the pressures of fame at such a young age pushed her to extremes.
"It was after that whole 'Whip My Hair' thing and I had just stopped doing singing lessons and I was kind of just in this grey area of, 'Who am I? Do I have a purpose? Is there anything I can do besides this?'," she said.
"A lot of adolescent girls struggle with self-harm."
Willow added that she didn't tell her family about what she was going through, and that only one of her friends knew that she was self-harming.
"I never talk about it because it was such a short, weird point in my life. But you have to pull yourself out of it," she said.
"One night I was like, 'This is actually psychotic'. And I just stopped."
For help, advice and more information on self-harm, visit here.
This comes after Willow made headlines last year when she spoke out about how she struggled with the attention of fame during adolescence.
"I'm going to be completely and utterly honest, it's absolutely terrible," she said."Growing up and trying to figure out your life… while people feel like they have some sort of entitlement to know what's going on, is absolutely, excruciatingly terrible— and the only way to get over it, is to go into it."
She continued: "You can't change your face. You can't change your parents. You can't change any of those things. So I feel like most kids like me end up going down a spiral of depression, and the world is sitting there looking at them through their phones; laughing and making jokes and making memes at the crippling effect that this lifestyle has on the psyche."
Signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation, Willow Smith released first album 'Ardipithecus' in 2015, followed by 'The 1st' in 2017.
- 'Am I depressed?' – Help and advice on mental health and what to do next
- YOUNG MINDS – The voice for young people's health and wellbeing
- CALM – The Campaign Against Living Miserably for young men
- Time To Change – Let's end mental health discrimination
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The Best Ways The Digital Revolution Changed My Life-Part One
If you went to architecture or environmental design school back in the day (when you had to use punch cards to enter data into a room-sized computer), you have witnessed the great shift from analog to digital in the design industry. You're also old enough to have begun taking for granted the many ways the digital revolution changed our professional lives.
As 2013 draws to a close, seems like a reasonable time to share a personal list of "best ways the digital revolution changed my professional life." Since I tend not to use CAD--arguably the tool that has had the most influence--my list will be different from yours, but please add your own list in the comments section below. (And no, you don't have to be an architect to play along.)
So here we go: my list of the best ways the digital revolution has changed my life:
The internet. Thank you, Tim Berners Lee. Thank you, DARPA (although you also brought us the NSA. Why does every sword have to be double-edged?). Let's just agree that the internet is the background noise of the new universe described below.
Email. The reigning game changer. Email could have retired after killing the fax machine (bonus points if you knew "fax" was short for facsimile) but it didn't. It just kept getting better. As the most universally adopted feature of the internet (remember, email preceded widespread use of browsers), it changed the way we communicate, and importantly, it prepared the way for other innovations, including the "cloud" (Gmail, Hotmail), viruses (Y2K) email newsletters (Constant Contact), and addictively checking our email ("You've got mail" first, and now the bold text that signals new mail in the present era) but mostly, it just works.
Netscape (i.e. the browser). What did we do before the browser? Admit it. We used AOL (as in email@example.com). Then along came "open" Netscape, the first autonomous browser that didn't lock you into its own ecosystem of content (though you had to pay $29 for that freedom). Later it became free as others sniped at its heels, causing Microsoft to worry about Netscape's market share, see the writing on the wall and build Explorer, and Mozilla (the non-profit made possible by the $billions earned by a Netscape founder) to create Firefox, and others to build Opera and Safari and Chrome and...well, if none of this had happened you'd still be logging on to AOL or some other "content" company which would keep you captive consuming only the content they provided...and that really sucked.
The scanner. The professional quality scanner truly made it possible for self-employed old school artists to "work at home." (It also led to there being several boxes full of original watercolor renderings in my basement, gathering dust and mildew, waiting to be sold on ebay as the last of my deluded schemes to make some spare cash, or doled out to particularly sweet grandchildren in need of something to hang on the wall of their incredibly small first apartments.) Before the scanner, one had to finish a rendering, then either take it to Mailboxes, Etc (subject for a separate blog post on the history of bizarre 1990s franchise opportunities) to be packed and shipped overnight or, as was more typical given the usual need for more time, take a round trip train ride to NYC the next morning and hand deliver the finished work to the client. Not that that was a bad thing. I can't tell you how many additional jobs I got because an architect from a nearby cubicle strolled by during those deliveries and asked "Hey, are you available to do a rendering next week?" But still, once I got my first scanner there was hardly ever a need to go to a client's office. I could work up to the deadline, scan the finished work in the comfort of my studio, juice up the colors in Photoshop and zip off a 2MB scan via email which, admittedly, sometimes took an hour or more due to the constricted bandwidth of the commercial internet of the time.
- Overnight shipping. Fedex. Wait, maybe that's actually the innovation making all of this change possible and I've only mistakenly remembered it as being the internet? That would be embarrassing. Anyway, to reward you for reading this far, here's a game. Picture, if you will, what would have been required to start Fedex. What was the cost of setting up a private air force and advertising the concept before you could even serve your first customer? Can you imagine Fred Smith's pitch to investors, or their reaction? "So Fred, not that this will ever work, and not that any of us actually believe your name is "Fred Smith," but if we did, how much do you need to get this started?"
(to be continued)
(Author James Akers is a registered architect and freelance traditional architectural renderer who collaborates with some of the world's most admired architects to create inspired architectural designs, house portraits and architectural renderings in all media, including watercolor, pen and ink, pencil, photoshop and computer.)


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String Theory and Causal Dynamical Triangulations
Causal dynamical triangulations' biggest flaw in comparison to string theory is that it doesn't tell us anything about where matter comes from, whereas matter arises naturally in string theory from the interactions of fundamental strings.
The causal dynamical triangulations (CDT) approach consists of taking tiny building blocks of space, called 4-simplices (sort of like multidimensional triangles), and using them to construct the space-time geometry.
The result is a sequence of geometric patterns that are causally related in a sequence where one construction follows another (in other words, one pattern causes the next pattern). This system was developed by Renate Loll of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and also by colleagues Jan Ambjørn and Jerzy Jurkiewicz.
One of the most important aspects of CDT is that time becomes an essential component of space-time, because Loll includes the causal link as a crucial part of the theory. Relativity tells us that time is distinctly different from space (the time dimension has a negative in front of it in relativity), but Stephen Hawking and others have suggested that the difference between time and space could perhaps be ignored.
Loll then takes her causally linked configurations of 4-simplices and sums over all possible configurations of the shapes. (Feynman used a similar approach in quantum mechanics, summing over all possible paths to obtain quantum physics results.) The result is classical space-time geometry!
If true, CDT shows that it's impossible to ignore the difference between space and time. The causal link of changes in space-time geometry — in other words, the "time" part of space-time — is absolutely necessary to get classical space-time geometry that is governed by general relativity and matches what science knows of standard cosmological models.
At the tiniest scales, though, CDT shows that space-time is only 2-dimensional. The model turns into a fractal pattern, where the structures repeat themselves at smaller and smaller scales, and there's no proof that real space-time behaves that way.
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text: "Above all, one can only bow before the audacity and the risk taken by this young saxophonist who, for her first album, proposes a live recording of free and improvised music. Some of the tracks last almost 20 minutes. This crazy audacity corresponds to an unquestionable thirst for freedom that refuses marketing, formatting or career plans and places artistic sincerity beyond everything. Let's also greet the talent, originality and pugnacity of this 28 years old musician who, like a warrior, fights and gives everything she has without considering any formalism or aestheticism. Alexandra Grimal plays music in its rough state without effects or cheating. She can play from tenor to soprano and back to tenor in the same piece with as much frenzy and ebullience, sustaining the same tense flux. A coherent and dense music, remarkably served by the complicity she has with her musicians. It is an exemplary and organic trio that tells the same story with different voices in the same space-time, constantly developing the content through the material and sound texture. An organ or a clavinet that generates a tense, dirty and toxic climate and a drummer who plays asymmetrical rhythms, which generate hypnotic and unsettled effects. They embark you on an experimental and extremist journey and tackle jazz with independence of mind and total integrity."


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Hi…My name is Jaime. I am a 41 year old stay-at-home mom. I started Linda's Small Wins Program in April and I did NOT go willingly! Let me back track so you have an idea of where and how this journey started for me.
I have been a stay-at-home mom of 3 for 19 years. Last fall my oldest went off to college. That transition was much more difficult for me than I ever expected. My identity as a mom was changing…well, it had been for years as the kids were getting older but this just sort of cemented that fact for me. My role was changing whether I liked it or not. They didn't need me in the same way they did before. I still had the other two at home with me but things felt different. I felt very anxious and unsettled. Around this time, my aunt, a second mother to me, suddenly got sick and passed away 3 months later. It was a very hard time for me. Looking back now, I can easily see I was depressed during this time. I don't think I realized it then. I just knew I felt lost, not like myself and very alone. I would love to say I quickly got my act together and did productive and positive things but this is not a fairy tale. Although, if you hang on long enough you will see that it does have a happy ending. I don't think crying most days and becoming best friends with Pinot Grigio constitutes doing productive things. The winter was very very long for me. I was very unmotivated. My BFF and I were together almost every single day. The wine was becoming a habit at this point. Things were a blur and I was a blur.
One of my friends (a good one, not the Pinot Grigio) kept trying to convince me to try Small Wins. She raved about Linda and she, herself, had great results from attending the classes. I thought great for her but it just isn't something for me. When you are stuck in a rut it is very hard to see your way out or even believe there is one. I came up with every excuse not to go to the class. I have never been one for gym settings or group classes. My friend had finally had enough of me and my excuses so she picked me up and pretty much dragged me from the car pushing me through Linda's door (yes, I love over dramatizing things but that's how it felt!). I had no idea just how much my life was about to change or just how much I needed that push! (Thank you friend-pusher/you know who you are.)
It can be intimidating seeing Linda for the first time. She looks like she walked right off of the cover of Shape magazine! Then she smiles and starts talking and you are instantly at ease…phew, she is human after all….I've gone on to find out that she is actually super human not just physically but mentally and emotionally as well. It took me a while to get the hang of things. I couldn't jump rope for more than 10 seconds at first but now it is one of my favorite exercises in class. I slowly started to build some confidence in myself, something I had not had for a long time or maybe never had to begin with. I was starting to see some results little by little. I was still having my wine at this point because, after all, I deserved a reward for my hard work. Little did I know that it was working against all of the hard work I was putting in. As the weeks went on I started questioning my relationship with wine. A lot of people can have just one glass of wine but I am not one of those people. If you know me and you are reading this, you know this is the absolute truth! I started to think that if I can do this class 3 times a week and weekend bootcamps, maybe, just maybe, I can stop drinking and see how I feel. I am proud to say that I had my last glass of wine 10 weeks ago today! I can not tell you how much my life has changed and how much better I feel. I didn't realize how foggy my brain felt until it started to feel clear again. I am happier, more patient. I feel light and free and grateful. I don't have the anxiety I had before or the drama most of which I think I created for myself. Life is just easier. I feel like I can handle anything that comes my way now.
Sorry, this was much longer than I intended and it's not a PSA for quitting drinking by any means. That was something personal I needed to do for myself but I would not have been able to do it without taking the first step. I believe that was going outside of my comfort zone and taking Linda's class. That's when the confidence started to build and I started to believe in myself; heck, I even started liking myself! I didn't need my BFF, Pinot Grigio, anymore. I had me now and I was becoming my own best friend for once in my life. Linda was there to motivate me every step of the way. Not only was she there to help me with my physical issues but she helped me with my internal struggles also. I can not believe how much my life has changed for the better in the last 4 months. Linda was a major part of that. She is not only an amazing trainer but an incredible friend. Also, as an added bonus I have lost about 10 pounds and many inches but it pales in comparison to what I have gained!


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Meet Brain Food
Brain Food is a tool that teachers and parents can use to ignite creative thinking in school or at home. It is an exploratory activity deck for kids. Each card in the 50-card deck combines easy-to-find materials, a school subject, and a unique exploratory activity. Activities integrate regular school subjects with an artistic approach, modeling the kind of whole-brain learning that The Right Brain Initiative promotes. With the Brain Food deck, kids create a choreographed dance out of sports moves; learn the art of subtractive poetry; make pop-up museums; and imagine their own food carts.
Brain Food is the result of a special partnership between AIGA Portland— the professional association for design—and The Right Brain Initiative. The Right Brain Initiative is a Portland non-profit program that believes the arts enhance every aspect of education from reading to critical thinking, social skills and motivation. The arts are woven throughout the curriculum as teachers and artists engage students in a creative process that integrates with other subjects. Their goal is to give every K-8 student in the region access to the arts regardless of neighborhood, language, or income.
Motivated by Right Brain's inspiring mission, AIGA Portland's team asked, "How can we help?". The result is this collaborative project that promotes a new vision of active and creative learning. Brain Food is about designers making real-life community change. We're going beyond ideation and going into schools to make a real-life impact on the community.
Highlights of some Brain Food Activities:
1. Create a Native Tongue.
Invent your own language — It can be written, spoken, or physical. You can investigate one of the languages spoken on earth today, any one of many official sign languages in use, or even animal communication. Will your language have an alphabet for sounds or symbols for words? You get to make up all of your own rules. Create your own dictionary. What words have you included and what words were unnecessary?
2. Curate an Exhibition.
Make your own museum. Find or collect "artifacts" or works of art that are interesting to you. Some people collect shells, postcards, buttons, pictures, or figurines. Decide what you think is important about each artifact or work of art and make labels or signs to go with them. Arrange your objects or art in a special space, on walls, tables or surfaces where they look good to you. You can lead tours through your museum to talk about the objects with your visitors.
3. Design your Own Food Cart.
Visit a neighborhood food cart pod for inspiration and observation. Once you have an idea for your own theme, draw a sketch of your food cart and create a logo sign and brand name. Next, create a menu with descriptions and prices for customers. Using a shoe box and found materials (buttons, cardboard, fabric, string, postcards, ribbons, paper) make a 3D model of your food cart.
More Brain Food highlights here.
Brain Food cards have been beautifully and originally designed by ten local illustrators, volunteering their time: Josh Balleza, Allison Berg, Halle Cisco, Melissa Egan, Jamie Letourneau, Forrest Martin, Sara Sjol, Jenny Tiffany, Tom O'Toole and Brooke Weeber.
The creators and designers have done great work in getting this project off the ground. Now we need your help.
Our Goals
We want to give away Brain Food to 44 (and counting) Portland metro area public schools that Right Brain serves. We want to offer Brain Food to every teacher within these schools, inspiring them to bring creativity into the learning process, and feel supported by the creative community.
We want to put Brain Food in your hands as a tool to inspire your kids or yourself (we all could use a little child-like discovery once in awhile).
We want to sell the decks in local Portland retail shops as an added funding stream and promotional tool for The Right Brain Initiative.
The Production Plan
We have design files 95% ready to go pending final editor review. With the money raised on Kickstarter, we plan to print 2,500 decks and pay to ship and distribute!
Our printing partner is B&B Print Source in Portland. We have received a generous paper donation by Hansol and the decks will be printed on Titan Dull 111# Cover provided by WCP Solutions. WCP is an amazing local partner, and a third generation Portland family company. We sincerely appreciate their generosity! www.wcpsolutions.com
The Implementation Plan
Together we have a ready action plan for how to best introduce Brain Food to teachers and schools, sell locally and promote to a national AIGA audience.
Highlights of Right Brain Initiative's plan:
Provide order forms for free decks to all teachers in Right Brain partner school districts.
Provide online resources for educators and parents, including a Users Guide, local resources for obtaining project supplies, and platforms for Brain Food users to share how they have engaged with the activities and to interact with each other.
Encourage schools to use these activities at school evening events and get parents involved.
Give the decks to our parent advocates to help integrate the activities into the school building.
The hundreds of decks we don't give away will be sold, creating a sustainable and ongoing revenue stream for Right Brain, supporting their work bringing creativity to 14,000 children in the 2013-14 school year.
AIGA Portland's Plan:
Record results and promote the project and its successes/failures to the national AIGA community through AIGA.org, AIGA Design for Good, and inspire the board leadership of 67 national chapters.
Thank you
Thank you for giving back to our youth, jump-starting future generations of designers and standing up for the arts.
Additional thanks to volunteers:
Design for Good team: Melissa Delzio, Brittany Hanson, Darren Cools, Tina Snow Le
Right Brain Initiative team: Kendra Yao, Rebecca Burrell
Videographer: Peter Hayden
Illustrators: Josh Balleza, Allison Berg, Halle Cisco, Melissa Egan, Jamie Letourneau, Forrest Martin, Sara Sjol, Jenny Tiffany, Tom O'Toole, Brooke Weeber
Risks and challenges
Our biggest challenge is fulfillment.
We will be ready for success with the volunteer power of two non-profit organizations at our fingerprints to help with collation, mailing and distribution.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
Funding period
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I've been getting a lot of questions lately about my designing... and I thought I'd do a few posts answering some common curiosities... I get the accountant question quite a lot, probably because, in general, accountants aren't your most creative people. Stereotypes aside, I think it's kind of fitting for me that I am both.
Growing up, I was your typical type B personality. While my sister was studying, I was cruising through high school having a good ole time. I made good grades, just not perfect grades. A 'B' was good enough for me. I was pretty laid back until I went off to college and realized that I couldn't do nothing and do well, so somewhere in there, I learned how to study. I was in the business school, so I was leaning towards a Marketing degree, but at the time, jobs were nowhere to be found… except in accounting. Not only were there jobs, but the companies came into our college town to wine and dine recruit us. Since I 'got' the whole accounting thing, I decided that I would take that route and after 5 years of school, I graduated with my masters and passed my CPA exam (shocking anyone who remembered me as the aforementioned highschool student). I think it was safe to say that I wasn't really all that laid back anymore, but then again, not too many accountants are.
After graduation, I moved to Dallas and started working for an oil and gas company, where I still work today. My husband and I got engaged a couple years later and even though I was never the type of girl that always dreamt of her wedding day, I quickly fell in love with the planning. I discovered the world of wedding blogs and I was a goner. I was engaged for a year and half, so I had to keep the excitement alive. I am pretty sure I planned the entire time!
When it came to my wedding invitations, I just wasn't seeing what I wanted. I've always been creative and pretty resourceful when it came to crafty projects, so after a lot of hours with google, I decided I was going to take a stab at designing my own… and I ended up designing all the little details for my wedding and completely falling in love with it. Here are a few photos of my wedding and you can take a look at some more on my facebook page. We got married in Carillon Beach, Florida, which is to this day, my favorite place in the world. Our photos were taken by Paul and Mecheal Johnson of Paul Johnson Photography. Best money (my parents) ever spent!
Designing my invitations didn't turn into a business overnight. I started a blog right before I got married, opened an Etsy shop, and slowly took on projects for friends and friends of friends. Last year, I got brave enough to enter my first Minted challenge and credit the design community for helping me take my designing to another level. I have learned so much and I love thinking back to the days when I was trying to figure out what the heck I was doing with my wedding invitations. (To be honest, sometimes I still don't know!) What's funny is, if I could do it again, they probably wouldn't look that different... well, maybe a little... my font collection has come a LONG way.


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"Impulse decisions, especially impulse purchases have been widely discussed in psychology and economics as a phenomenon of deviation from rational behavior." (Vohs and Faber, 2007) We all seem to be guilty of impulse purchases once in a while, but consistently doing this can put one in the proverbial dog house, especially with lovers or spouses.
A poll of 2,000 British men revealed that men apparently do more impulse buying than
A common behavior, one woman explains:
Whenever I'm feeling lonely, stressed or bored, I go to the Mall. It makes me feel
good to buy something—shoes, cashmere sweaters, cosmetics and jewelry,
sometimes even something for the house. I just can't pass up a sale. Last year I
bought another Channel suit on sale. Even if it's not the right size, I can have it
What harm is there in buying something to feel good? I work hard all week, and
I deserve a little glamour. Besides, I'd rather go to a store where people pay
attention to me than go home and feel ignored or lonely. So what if I have a lot of
credit card debt—doesn't everybody? At least I have some beautiful things to
show for myself. In this world, image is everything. . .
According to finance advisor Katheryn Amenta, Impulse shopping is caused by the inability to control the emotionally motivated urge to buy things." She recommends that you make specific short-term and long-term financial goals. "With specific goals, you will be better equipped to resist buying things that have lesser meaning in your life."
To stop impulse buying you have to have be able to give up what you want now to have something that you want more than anything later.
Top Twenty Impulse Buys
- Food
- Clothes
- Magazines
- Bottles of wine
- Books
- DVDs
- Shoes
- Holidays
- Beer
- Toiletries
- Home furnishings
- Music
- Clothes for the children
- Jewellery
- Accessories
- Gadgets
- Garden accessories
- Flowers
- Toys
- Day trips
What are your most common impulse buys and how do you resist them?


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