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What happens when you take one of the most complex music-production applications to be found anywhere and add a bunch of new features? Would you believe it becomes easier to use? With the addition of new setup and project-management features and a couple of new tools, Emagic's Logic 6.4 manages to do exactly that. To top it off, Emagic has bundled TDM integration and all of its virtual instruments — which formerly sold separately for well over $1,500 — for a measly $50 more than Logic Platinum 6.3 alone.
Gone are Logic's previous flavors of Platinum, Gold, and Audio or Silver, leaving only Logic Pro ($999) and Logic Express ($299). Logic Pro combines the application formerly known as Logic Platinum with ES1 and ES2 virtual analog synthesizers, EVP88 virtual electric piano, EVB3 virtual organ, EVD6 virtual clavinet, EXS24 mkII sampler, EVOC20 vocoder, Pro Tools|HD Extension, ESB TDM system bridge, and the new Space Designer convolution reverb. (You can read more about several of these plug-ins in the November 2000, May 2001, and June 2003 [see "Is It Real or Is It Emulated?"] issues of EM, online at www.emusician.com.) Because Logic's attributes have been covered in these pages before (most recently, version 5.5 in the March 2003 issue), I'll focus on what's new with version 6. Check out the sidebar "Space Designer" for details on that exciting new plug-in.
I tested Logic Platinum on a dual-processor Mac G5/2 GHz with 2 GB of RAM (see the sidebar "G5? Gee Whiz!"), which Apple graciously provided in order to demonstrate Logic's optimizations for the latest generation of Macs. The combination speaks well for host-based systems, to say the least.
The first thing anyone learns about Logic is that its Environment is a powerful and daunting tool for configuring your studio. Long-time Logic users scoff at the idea that it's difficult to learn, but Logic newbies scoff at the scoffing. At best, it's still a big part of the program's overall learning curve.
Dumbing down the Environment would risk limiting its power, so the good folks at Emagic instead came up with the Logic Setup Assistant to lend a helping hand (see Fig. 1). The Setup Assistant is essentially a "wizard" that asks a series of questions to determine how to configure new sessions. When you launch the Assistant from the Logic Preferences menu, it promptly closes Logic, queries you about your needs, and then launches Logic again with a shiny new Environment customized according to your feedback. Unfortunately for some users, Setup Assistant doesn't work under Mac OS 9.
Having to launch Logic first seemed a bit cumbersome to me, so I decided to put the Assistant right on the Dock. Because it's a hidden file in a hidden folder, though, I had some trouble locating it; consequently, the easy solution was to fire it up from within Logic. While it was running, I Control-clicked on its Dock icon and chose Keep in Dock from the pop-up menu. I can now launch the Assistant directly from the Dock any time I want. Of course, most users will run the Assistant once or twice to set up an Environment and then leave it that way.
The Setup Assistant prompts you first to choose your audio hardware from CoreAudio's list, and then to choose how many audio tracks, buses, audio instruments, audio inputs, and audio outputs you'll need in your Mixer. Three presets are available as a starting point, including Electronic, Acoustic, and Standard configurations that differ primarily in the number of audio and audio-instrument tracks they provide. You can choose key-command sets, configure which displays you want to use in Screensets, and identify your MIDI devices.
Of course, such details are just scratching the surface of what's possible in the Environment, but that's the point. The Setup Assistant brings together the essential ingredients to get you started — no more, no less. To top it off, it saves your configuration as the Autoload template so you will start from the same point with every subsequent new session.
The new Project Manager is essentially a smart database applet that recognizes dependencies between song files, audio files, video files, samples, and more. It lets you see exactly what assets belong to a given Project across multiple volumes and even lets you add one or two comments per file.
Building on that idea, Logic now offers a simple means to collect and manage the files associated with a song. The Save as Project function assembles song files, audio files, samplers, and other related assets into a Project folder (see Fig. 2). It lets you specify whether files should be copied or moved to the Project folder or left in their original locations. There's even an option to include any songs that share files with the current song, letting you back up multiple versions of a song in one step.
Various improvements have been made in the Arrange window that not only facilitate editing but also alleviate some of the window-hopping that was formerly necessary. The most obvious addition is the Arrange Channel Strip, a tiny slice of the Mixer window that now lives along the left edge of the Arrange window. It is literally a copy of the current track's channel strip that allows you to assign effects, change I/O, adjust pan and volume, and generally do anything you can do in the Mixer without having to toggle windows. In fact, you might find that the only time you'll need to open the Mixer is when you're actually mixing.
You can now zoom in to the sample level in the Arrange window, though sample-accurate editing still requires opening the Sample Editor. You can do time-stretching directly in the Arrange window, and Time Machine now has multiple algorithms optimized for different types of source material.
Smart Snap is a welcome enhancement to Logic's drag-and-drop behavior. The edit grid varies according to zoom level, with the assumption that the farther you're zoomed in, the smaller you want the grid. You can override the grid by pressing the Control key. With Control pressed, the grid is as fine as the current zoom will allow — essentially whatever time increment is represented by a single pixel.
Another new feature called Smart Loop Handling lets you split loops without messing up subsequent loops. For example, if you decide you want to snip a beat from the first iteration of a loop, Logic will first duplicate the looped clip and use that as the basis for the remainder of the loops.
The new Marquee Tool, represented by an unassuming little crosshair, allows you to select data in the Arrange window without regard for object boundaries. You simply lasso the data you want to copy, delete, mute, drag, or otherwise edit across multiple objects and multiple tracks. By default, the Marquee Tool respects Smart Snap grid increments, but the Control key overrides that behavior, too. Shift-clicking lets you shorten or lengthen a selection, and Control-Shift-clicking allows you to shorten or lengthen with fine resolution.
Another handy new function is the ability to hide tracks in the Arrange window. If you click on the Hide button at the top of the window, each track sprouts a Hide button of its own. Click on a track's Hide button and then click on the main Hide button again, and the track will go away. Click on the main Hide button, and hidden tracks will reappear. Although this is a welcome added feature, I found the clickety-click implementation a bit unwieldy. A quick trip to the Key Commands editor to find the hot key for the track Hide button and to create a hot key for the main Hide button left me feeling much more efficient, and the phrase "There's nothing wrong with Logic that can't be fixed by what's right with Logic" started running through my mind. By the time I set up a couple of Screensets with various subsets of hidden tracks, I was feeling pretty darned good about life.
Any Logic user who works with video will be delighted by the Video Thumbnail Track, which provides a visual reference next to your audio and MIDI tracks. In Mac OS X, you can also play QuickTime movies in DV format through a FireWire device.
The new Channel EQ provides eight bands of as much as 24 dB of boost or cut along with a cute overview of the curve displayed on the channel strip, even when the Editor window is closed (see Fig. 3). I rarely encounter something that really deserves to be called intuitive, but I found the Channel EQ to be exactly that. Its normal controls are laid out sensibly enough, but when I clicked on the graphic display to see whether it was editable, something special happened: I discovered that it's not only editable, it's smooth, sensible, and simple to tweak. Just grab the curve and start moving it up, down, left, and right until you hear what you want to hear. The one thing that requires a fraction of a second's thought is the little circle that appears now and then depending on your mouse position. Grab the circle just once and you'll see that it adjusts the band's Q. Enabling the Channel EQ is as simple as double-clicking on the blank graphic display just above the Inserts. Channel EQ is also available as a regular Logic plug-in along with the usual EQs.
Controlling your mix is easier than ever with the host of control surfaces that Logic Pro supports. Everything from the CM Labs MotorMix to the Radikal SAC-2.2 can be put in charge. Others include the Yamaha 02R96 and Mackie Control, and you can mix and match control surfaces.
For those of us who don't have even one control surface, the new One Fader Automation lets you attach any MIDI controller to an automation parameter. When Automation Quick Access is enabled, any slider, wheel, or joystick on your MIDI keyboard is immediately in control of the active track automation parameter. Nothing could be simpler (or more appreciated).
To join tracks for editing or mixing purposes, 32 groups are available. The Group Settings dialog offers an impressive degree of customization for groups, right down to which of eight sends will function as a group. You can assign a track to more than one group by holding down the Shift key, and you can apply the most recent group assignment to a track by holding down the Option key. Click again while pressing the Option key and you will clear all group assignments on that track.
In addition to the newly bundled soft synths, three new virtual instruments are included with Logic: ES M (monophonic), ES P (polyphonic) and ES E (ensemble). All three are virtual analog synthesizers and can produce interesting and useful sounds. As for third-party plug-ins, the transition to Apple's Audio Units plug-in format means that under Mac OS X, Logic doesn't recognize VST plug-ins. Fortunately, FXpansion's VST to AudioUnits Adapter will make many of your favorite VSTs feel right at home in the brave new world of Audio Units.
Logic 6.2 and later updates include a number of performance optimizations that enable the current version of the program to run more efficiently than prior versions. While some of the changes were aimed at Apple's new Mac G5 machines, some benefits were in store no matter which Mac you use. The code has been rewritten to take better advantage of dual processors on G5 and G4 machines. According to Emagic, having a second processor now comes closer to doubling the capabilities of having only one.
Of course, any processor eventually succumbs to a voracious appetite for processor-hungry plug-ins, so Logic lets you freeze tracks to reduce CPU load. Freezing entails bouncing a track with effects to disk, thereby trading CPU load for an increased disk-playback burden. Although some musicians have been doing that manually for years, Logic 6 was the first program to offer Freeze as a one-step function. What makes Freeze so cool is how simple it is: you click on the snowflake icon and hit Play, and Logic zips through the song, bouncing all newly frozen tracks. On the Mac G5, freezing multiple tracks is several times faster than recording in real time. You can specify that frozen tracks will be bounced to 32-bit floating-point format (so they will be sonically identical to their unfrozen state) or to 16- or 24-bit format (to keep down the strain on your hard drive). The track's appearance doesn't change, and you can unfreeze a track at any time.
Logic Pro comes with no fewer than 13 separate manuals, including one for each bundled instrument and three for Logic itself. The Logic Pro Reference Manual is almost 800 pages long. To top it off, one of the three installation discs is devoted entirely to PDF files of those manuals in German, French, and English.
This impressive volume of documentation mitigates some of the quirks of the online Help. For example, when you search Logic Help, you also search Help for every other application that uses the Mac's Help Center. When I queried Help for information about MP3 support, I got much more information about Apple iTunes than about Logic.
Emagic provides frequent updates whenever Logic's feature set or stability can be enhanced. Logic 6.2 offered ReWire 2 support, MP3 import and export (in Mac OS X only), and the ability to bounce faster than real time. Version 6.3 included support for the Space Designer reverb plug-in, and 6.3.1 added compatibility with Digidesign's new HD Accel hardware. Logic 6.3.2 enhanced Panther compatibility, enabled recording on track numbers higher than 128, and made various other improvements. Logic 6.4, the most recent update as of this writing, includes several enhancements to Space Designer. Because this review has focused on the new features, I haven't even mentioned Logic Pro's excellent surround implementation, scoring capabilities, extensive set of included effects plug-ins, and other goodies.
I applaud Emagic for making Logic Pro more user-friendly than previous versions of Logic, but beginners will still find it daunting. I can't think of another digital audio sequencer with as many multilayered menus or one that requires the use of so many different windows to perform basic functions. For example, the Arrange window has 12 different tools — yikes!
The fact that Emagic has decided to essentially give away its entire line of soft synths with Logic makes Logic Pro 6 one of the best values anywhere. If you're a Logic veteran, the newest version provides plenty to keep you excited. If you're considering becoming a Logic user, it offers some good reasons to give it a try now. Either way, Emagic has once again brought a considerable amount of careful thought and intelligent design to the party, and that's good news.
Brian Smithersis an Apple Pro-Certified Logic Trainer and a Digidesign-Certified Pro Tools Instructor. That's probably why his doctor says he's "certifiable."
Minimum System Requirements
Logic Pro 6.4
PPC/300 MHz; 256 MB RAM; 350 MB free
disk space; Mac OS 9.1 or Mac OS X 10.2;
free USB port for XSKey
Logic Pro 6 (Mac)
digital audio sequencer
PROS: Comprehensive MIDI sequencing and powerful digital audio production tools in an integrated environment. Extensive bundle of plug-ins, including several outstanding software synthesizers. New ease-of-use features. Track freezing and offline bounce. Extensive control-surface support. New editing tools and functions. Video Thumbnail Track and FireWire DV playback. Highly configurable and customizable. Integrated support for Pro Tools HD systems.
CONS: Many functions are still unnecessarily complex. Not all features are supported under OS 9. No native VST support in OS X.
Apple Computer
tel. (530) 477-1051
e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
Web www.emagic.de
Emagic's Space Designer is a real-time convolution reverb plug-in. It's one of the latest plug-ins that depends on a process that until recently was too complex to compute in real time. Convolution enables you to capture the reverberant characteristics of a particular space, such as a studio or concert hall, and apply them to an audio source. It accomplishes that by multiplying an impulse response (IR, the captured ambience) by the source audio, which requires some heavy number-crunching.
Because I tested Space Designer on a machine that's currently the fastest Macintosh with 2 GB of RAM, processor load was not an issue. A single instance barely moved the CPU meter, and four instances pushed the meter to about 20 percent of each processor. Using exceptionally long IRs or higher sampling rates will consume CPU cycles, however. Emagic recommends a G4 or G5 with 512 MB of RAM, but the more horsepower, the better.
Acting on impulse
Space Designer comes with over 1,000 IR files and many presets based on them, covering everything from stairwells to bathrooms to warehouses (see Fig. A). Because convolution can also model the behavior of effects processors (or any other audio device), many presets are devoted to emulating the sound of big-name reverbs; some of those, including some wonderful delays, are excellent.
The Outdoor category reproduces the ambience of forests and fields. When I applied those presets to classical concerts recorded in dry spaces, they sounded less claustrophobic. I was pleased that the outdoor sounds are useful, because the one glaring omission in the included IRs and presets is a complete absence of real concert halls.
You can record your own impulse responses and deconvolve them in Space Designer (under OS X 10.3). Because IRs can be AIFF, WAV, or SDII files, you can trade them with colleagues (even if they use other convolution reverb software). Space Designer also synthesizes IRs.
The plug-in includes a resonant filter that can operate in highpass, bandpass, or 6 or 12 dB lowpass modes. You can shape filter frequency with an envelope. The cutoff, which in the initial release had been expressed only as a percentage, is now properly expressed as a frequency.
Most Logic plug-ins have lots of parameters you can automate, but Space Designer has only three: direct (dry) output, reverb (wet) output, and Stereo Crossfeed, which can narrow or even reverse the source's stereo image. The reason for so few automated parameters is that after each parameter change, Space Designer has to recalculate the convolution, making you wait a few seconds before you hear the effect of your tweak. Once in a while I even heard a pop or click at the end of the recalculation.
Keeping it real — or not
The sound of Space Designer at its best is quite good indeed. With the right IR, it creates lively, interesting delays; warm, lush, natural-sounding reverbs; and stimulating special effects. I imported an IR of an old church (downloaded from a competing plug-in's user site) and applied it to a recording that was too dry. With a quick adjustment to the wet/dry mix, I was able to place the performers in the hall they should have played in.
Space Designer's various controls, though much appreciated, rarely helped make a sound more natural. Rolling off some highs with the lowpass filter sometimes improved the sound, but everything else usually made the sound more artificial. That's not necessarily bad — for some sounds, shortening the envelope to gate the reverb or adding resonance to make a sound ring was very useful and appropriate. Using synthesized IRs generally yielded rich, dense, studio-style reverbs. Space Designer is equally at home with purists or experimentalists.
I have a few quibbles. The resolution of the reverb level slider works in 0.5 dB increments, which is too coarse. I got around that limitation by putting Space Designer on an Aux track, whose fader has slightly finer resolution; that is a more traditional use of reverb anyway. You can't change the delay time, because it's a function of the IR itself; that's not surprising, nor is it a design flaw, but it's a limitation unless you either create a set of IRs with different delay times or time-stretch an existing IR. I was also disappointed that Space Designer doesn't directly support surround sound.
All told, though, Space Designer is a welcome addition to Logic's effects palette. It's a different sort of reverb and requires some minor modifications to your expectations and approach, but it's worth the effort.
I always wince at Apple Computer's ads comparing the performance of its newest computers to that of PCs; they always sound shrill and almost desperate to me. So I approached the loan of a dual-processor Mac G5/2 GHz for this review with a tiny bit of skepticism. How could any machine live up to the hype that Apple has given the G5? After spending some time using one, though, all I can say is that there weren't enough hours in a day for me to drag this machine to its knees. No matter how many audio tracks, plug-ins, and virtual instruments I threw at it, the G5 hummed along as though it barely noticed me. I'm impressed — moreover, I'm more enthusiastic than ever about the future of host-based systems.
Apple briefed me on the technical details of the new machines. The short version is that between the new 64-bit architecture, the increased independence of the dual processors, and the increased memory and I/O bandwidth, there's a lot of oomph in that box. It will still take another OS upgrade to realize the full potential of the 64-bit processing, but significant gains are already in evidence.
The new enclosure is designed to be much quieter than recent G4s, but the review unit turned out to be the loudest computer in my studio. The main culprit was a pronounced whine that Apple suggested might be the fan on the upgraded video card it installed. It appears to be an isolated problem, though; the school where I teach has a classroom containing 25 Mac G5s, and it's pretty quiet in there.
More interesting is the inclusion of optical S/PDIF I/O on the back panel. It's capable of 24-bit audio at 44.1 or 48 kHz. If your software knows how to tell CoreAudio to sync to the incoming bitstream, it will lock up nicely for bit-accurate digital transfers. It also supports DTS and AC-3 streams.


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Dear Friends,
This week's dharma talk was given by Brother Phap Hai at the 2012 Mindfulness Retreat at Deer Park Monastery.
Known for his poetic and engaging dharma talks, he shares the Buddha's teachings about the three roots of our suffering; greed, ill-will, and delusion; and the eight winds or worldly dharmas; gain, loss, status, disgrace, praise, blame, pleasure and pain.
Brother Phap Hai challenges us to look critically at our lives and ask two questions: what is practice? and are we sure?
You will notice the sound of the wind and a lovely baby during the talk. Enjoy the imperfectness of the recording. =)
Enjoy this moment to stop and look deeply.
Direct download: PhapHaiWindsandRoots.mp3
Category:Dharma talks -- posted at: 10:30am CST
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ICD-10 Resources
ADL is ready for the transition to ICD-10, which has been mandated for everyone covered by the Health Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA).
ADL has assembled some resources to aid in the transition as a courtesy to our customers.
- Introduction to ICD-10: A guide for Providers, by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting 2012
- How to Document & Code for Hypertensive Diseases in ICD-10
- ICD-10 Spotlight: Know the Codes
- ICD-10 Key Performance Indicators at a Glance
- ICD-10 FAQs
- Quick References
- ICD-10 Basics for Medical Practices
- Talking to Your Vendors about ICD-10: Tips for Medical Practices
- ICD-10 and CMS eHealth: What's the Connection?
- ICD-10 Timeline Chart for Small and Medium Practices
- ICD-10 Timeline for Small Hospitals
- CDC: International Classification of Diseases, (ICD-10-CM/PCS) Transition
- 2015 ICD-10 CM and GEMs
- ICD-10 Reimbursement Mapping dx
- Draft ICD-10-CM/PCS MS-DRGv28 Definitions Manual


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After a lengthy hiatus I'm back to using this site. In the short term mainly as a mind-dump, although it would be nice to think I could begin to connect with people again via WordPress, which has always seemed to me a more charming and friendly network than some of the more image-led sites.
A dearth of suitable technology has largely been responsible for my absence, turns out you can't blog at length easily on a mobile phone, and a 40th birthday ultrabook gift heralds my return.
So I turned 40. Which means a revision of The List is due. It says something about my nature that I'm already thinking of the next to-do collection, especially since many items were left unchecked, but at least some can be rolled over to 50 things to do before I'm 50…..right?
So here are The Good (achieved), the Bad (not achieved/carried forward) and The Ugly (ditched) results.
- Reduce to part time working No, I haven't managed to reduce to part-time working, given our current circumstances that continues to look unlikely before retirement, but things are altogether more positive since The List was created. One of my biggest gripes at the time was the length of my commute, which added at least 10 hours to my working week. I've since switched to a college 20 minutes away (buses permitting). I'm working much more at home, which has allowed me to spend more time with the children as planned.
- Go glamping Carried over.
- Dance until dawn Not yet, although there are some planned opportunities before I need a zimmer frame.
- Learn how to ride a bike I'm ditching this. I've clearly had plenty of opportunity, but am now comfortable with my status as one of life's more stationary people.
- Host a swishing event Nope, although I have found one locally that I intend to visit before year end, which will tick this box, kinda.
- Watch all of the West Wing Only one season to go!
- Host a radio show I forgot this one completely. It does seem to run in the family- radio presenting not forgetting-I have an uncle and a niece who have their own shows, but the fact this wasn't even on my radar is enough to ditch it.
- Have an overseas family holiday Achieved! First one on the list at #8, I did worse that I thought. We had a wonderful week in Guardamar, Spain this July. The children relished flying, even though my poor husband didn't, meaning I don't think this will be an annual thing.
- Go on a Murder Mystery Weekend My husband took me to The Plough and Harrow for an organised evening. It was fantastic fun, and I spoke with one of the actors afterwards who was trying to convince me to get involved. I was tempted.
- Publish a knitting pattern I did actually come up with a very simple pattern, which felt way too simple to publish on Ravelry. I still could though….
- Decorate every room in the house A cursory poke at the plaster in my daughter's room revealed structural problems involving the roof – expense has limited this achievement. Definitely one to carry forward.
- Mow a lawn Errr, no. To be fair, my husband's barely mowed a lawn this year. I don't know what's happened to our garden, its a disgrace and we barely use it.
- Learn how to play chess Yes! Or at least the very basic basics. Turns out, I'm not well suited to game based on strategy, patience and logic. Who knew?!
- Read LOTR I tried. I really tried. The first book was SO turgid. I felt like I needed to be a 1930s schoolchild to get through it. There's just so many other tempting choices in literature. Ditched!
- Sleep under the stars Carried forward. Camping next year, definitely.
- Have a boudoir photo shoot I never did lose that two stones.
- Win a TV quiz show I went on to appear on another two shows after compiling this list, including a very popular one (Tipping Point), and a primetime one with a prize of 25k (Celebrity Squares). A combination of bad luck and bad performance means I haven't WON one, but I did come away from Squares with £300, so I'm counting this as achieved. One of my best goals of recent years; something I'll never forget.
- See a ballet My beautiful friend bought me tickets for The Tempest for my birthday. It was magical, and I found a new love; Prospero.
- Learn how to make a signature cocktail I've drank quite a few, but yet to decide. Carried over.
- Restore and revive a piece of furniture My lovely desk
- Perform on stage again I still feel a long way away from this, and my confidence ebbs with each passing year. I came very close to teaching drama recently, which I hoped might spark something, but it was not to be. Carried over.
- Eat at a Michelin starred restaurant I documented our trip to Simpsons. Delicious, but not something I feel I need to make a habit of.
- Go bellydancing Not achieved, and I do worry (now I'm 40+) that the image of a fat middle aged woman bellydancing is a little cliche.
- Learn to read Tarot I've thoroughly enjoyed this, and its been a real revelation. I consider myself a secular reader and have found them a great coaching tool, as well as good fun with friends.
- Swim five lengths I honestly remembered this as two, and was feeling all proud that I'd achieved it. Oh well.
- Start a pension plan. Done! And thanks to salary increase, I'm managing to put a reasonable wedge in every month too. Success on this one.
- Get a colonic Not been brave enough yet.
- Practice basic yoga I did go to class, so this is achieved. However, I've had to come to terms with the fact my nose is not compatible with yogic breathing. The search for enlightenment continues.
- Cook every recipe from a cookbook I settled in my Gill Holcombe books, and would say I've managed this is a less-structured, roundabout way. But its been totally uninspiring.
- Go vegetarian for one month September 2015. I managed this fairly easily, and am toying with the idea of pescatarianism.
- Have my nails 'done' properly Yes, I've had a couple of manicures. Next step, shellac.
- Play poker My husband taught me. See also 'chess'.
- Drive on a motorway Driving still eludes me. Definitely carrying forward.
- Go to high tea in a classy hotel I've managed to rack up a few afternoon teas, its been quite trendy over the last couple of years which has made it easier. My favourite has been a trip to Betty's, with some dear old internet friends.
- Read the 32 books that will change your life I think what I never considered was how American this list was, and some titles just didn't resonate at all. Still, I've read a lot of them. I've rediscovered a love of reading this year, as well as developed an appreciation for the Goodreads site and a compulsion for watching Booktube.
- Plant a wildflower garden I continue to be an indoor girl. Related goals for the new list I think.
- Visit Scandinavia DESPERATELY carried over. I just couldn't budget for it in time. I did go to Bruges for my birthday. Nowhere near Scandinavia, but a stunning European city that I truly loved anyway.
- Sew myself a dress I'm ditching this. You can just buy so many lovely ones that are better than anything I could make.
- Play with some kittens How has this not happened? Just how?!
- See a West End show My auntie took me to see Les Miserables. I loved it just as much this time.
So there we are. 16 successes, 14 carried over into what I hope will be a fabulous decade. 10 ditched forever. What's clear is that single events are more likely to be achieved, particularly if they involve food. Self-improvement? Not so much. Still I'll be looking longer term than 18 months away this time, plus there are 10 extra slots. So, some smaller pleasures may be the way forward..


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There is a tendency for caregivers to try and make Alzheimer's patients act the way we do - in our own real world. In a sense, to convince the dementia patient that what they are doing is wrong, and they shouldn't be doing it.
By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room
There is a strong tendency for Alzheimer's caregivers to assume that they can't do anything about the often "odd" behaviors that dementia patients engage in.
Topic - How to Get An Alzheimer's Patient to Cooperate
If you read message boards on the Internet you will find that caregivers often complain about these sometimes challenging behaviors to anyone who will listen. This practice is often referred to as venting. Blowing off some steam.
A very common practice for caregivers, we all do it.
As a result, caregivers often come to the conclusion that nothing can be done about these strange, sometimes mean, behaviors that dementia patients engage in. As a result, caregiving becomes both stressful and burdensome.
- If we view the behaviors of Alzheimer's patients from our own "real world" perspective they do seem dysfunctional.
- They often make us feel angry, confused, and lead us to the conclusion that there is nothing we can do - about it.
It seems to me that Alzheimer's patients live in a different world much of the time. I call this place Alzheimer's World.
Topic - Living in Alzheimer's World
Lets assume for a moment that I told you all day long, day after day, that what you are doing is wrong. That you are wrong, and I am right all the time.
Would you like me? Would you be more likely to cooperate? Or, would you get angry and as a result conclude that there was something wrong with me?
One of the first things dementia carers must do is to start looking at the world from the viewpoint of the dementia patient. Why are they doing what they are doing? Why do they act the way they do? And, why do they continually engage in behaviors that make us sad, angry, and confused?
The answer to this is quite simple. Because they can no longer store the right now in their brains and this often causes dementia patients to become confused. Bent out of shape if you will.
Imagine for a minute how you might feel if you were constantly confused. Do you think you would be nice to those around you, or do you think you would be mean?
I suggest you take a quick look at
which are my mom's, Dotty's, 10 tips on communicating more effectively with a person living with dementia.
Alzheimer's patients tend to do the same things over and over. They even do them around the same exact time of the day.
One example, Alzheimer's patients tend to get angry and mean if you leave them alone for an extended period of time. They tend to feel abandoned by you. This happens because Alzheimer's patients have no real sense of time.
If you go out for a while, or hours, the Alzheimer's patient might assume that you are never coming back. Once they assume this, the internal angst within them grows. By the time you get back home they are already at the boiling point, and you are the one that gets to suffer their wrath.
You might conclude that it is unfair for them to be mean to you. But, that misses the point. The point is why are they feeling they way they are feeling? Why?
Now as a caregiver you can blame them for feeling the way they are. After all, it is really unfair for anyone to treat you like this in real world. Aha, you are operating in real world.
In Alzheimer's World dementia patients cannot be left alone. Not past a certain stage in the progression of the disease. They cannot be left alone.
Of course, you can leave them alone and then incur their wrath. This is going to happen every single time.
Who is to blame?
Is the Alzheimer's patient to be blamed?
This fear of being alone, and abandoned, is a common symptom of all dementia patients. Being left alone will cause the dementia patient to be mean, challenging, and downright impossible to deal with at times.
Are you to be blamed for leaving the Alzheimer's patient alone?
Yes. Why? Because you are refusing to accept the simple fact that a person living with dementia feels, lives, and operates in the world differently than you and I. They live in this other place, Alzheimer's World.
Simple really. They can't come back, so you must go in - into Alzheimer's World.
If you do, you will soon learn that most of the behaviors that are driving you 'crazy' are in fact normal behaviors in Alzheimer's World.
It is at this point you will realize that "you can do something".
Topic - Alzheimer's Activities Tips
This something is substituting new activities that Alzheimer's patients can and willing engage in. Examples include: exercise, music, painting, and activities they enjoyed before the onset of dementia.
In order to improve the behavior of Alzheimer's patients you must keep them engaged all day long. If you ignore them, you will suffer their wrath. If you leave them idle for long periods of time, you will suffer their wrath.
Of course, if you do this or leave them idle for long periods of time you will be proven correct - you can't do anything about it.
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Tamago (Spawn)
Posted on February 3rd, by David in Earth + Water, Fine Art, Panel, Tamago. Comments Off on Tamago (Spawn)
Tamago (Spawn): monotype, collage and stitching on panel, 29.5″ x 22″ x 2″, 2012, $1,450 (sold)
This piece is a tribute to the salmon that make incredible journeys to reproduce. (Part of the Earth + Water series.)


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I came across an article on Twitter recently, posted by @analyticbridge, on some of the misconceptions that entry level data scientists have, along with the reality of what the work entails.
Some of the points he details are, that consultants are usually brought on to data science projects when the project goes bad and people have left and are unable to help. Next, consultants should get paid upfront. Projects can take forever to complete, and they usually entail a lot of cleanup from data scientists. By getting paid upfront, you ensure you are paid for the work. @analyticbridge shares his experience of what can sometimes go wrong with clients.
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Salton Sea
I was recently reading an artical on Inhabitat talking about how it is the source for an awful smell in LA. Well to be honest I'm surprised anyone can smell a difference there. But it got me thinking about this documentary I saw by John Waters Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea. It really is a beautifully shot film, even though the subject matter is at best depressing. Basically you have a giant inland sea that was created by an accident and then just kinda went to shit. But we will get back to that later.
So years ago I had floated an idea with some intelectual types about reclaiming the Bonnneville salt flats, I was thinking how it used to be a large body of water but now its dry. So technically its like having a swimming pool that is dry, but still holds water. There are other locations around the world of dry or drying bodies of water.
So we are faced with some news from NASA that the surface ice of Greenland is melting and our real concerns isn't really the melting of ocean ice but on shore ice and glaciers. When they melt they add to the rising water, and floating ice displaces more water than it takes so when it melts is actually takes less space in the ocean. Now it's nearly impossible to make your own glacier btu maybe we can put that water somewhere else.
People have proposed pumping water into the Sahara, Gadafi was actually planning on a gigantic piplike to the center of Libya. But my concern is putting water where is hasn't been. An untested location that requires more than just a pipe.
So places like the Dead Sea and Bonneville can hold a bunch of water and so can the Salton sea. Those are three good starting points and then you can put in salt farm to maintain salinity. So what can you do with large bodies of water besides reducing sea level? The quick choice is fish farming and tourism, I really like the fish farming. Bonneville would be a large salt lake with no predators great breeding grounds for free roaming fish. But I think that is short sighted, we need to think bigger. Plankton farms they sequester CO2 and produce oxygen the area could even be used to reconstitute plankton in the oceans. But wait there's more.
Water is really interesting is reflects light not as well at snow and it also acts as and air conditioning unit for the air flowing over it. But again think bigger, here is a bit I remembered giving a glance at a while back. Basically if you can reflect light back it helps the planet not absorb as much heat and keeps the planet cooler. So what can we get from this? We remove and reduce the rising sea levels, we create CO2 sequestration sites and produce food and lastly we create giant mirrors in arid environments to reduce the local temperature.
Here is what I'm worried about, cloud seeding. These large bodies of water in arid environments will be victim of evaporation that was one of the problems the Salton sea had the water wasn't replenished enough and the salt levels rose and a lot of other issues. so you have to supply the area with more water on a regular basis. But that isn't the issue once the infrastructure is in place. No cloud seeding that's what I'm worried about. These will produces clouds and cool the cimate and I'm not sure if we can predict where those clouds will go and how that will effect the local and continental climate. The benefit of this it the production of clear water that can be recaptured.
So there it is a grand plan to move water around to grow alge and make mirrors.


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Owls But Like Nothing You've Ever Seen Before - Now Prepare To laugh, A Lot!
Let's face it, everyone likes owls. They seem so funny and cute, and the fact they have big human looking eyes always helps!
Owls are intriguing birds that easily capture the attention and curiosity of birders.
Before we get into the video, these facts may help clear up a bit of their mystery and reveal what a hoot owls really are, so here goes:
1.Many owl species have asymmetrical ears. When located at different heights on the owl's head, their ears are able to pinpoint the location of sounds in multiple dimensions. Ready, aim, strike.
2. The eyes of an owl are not true "eyeballs." Their tube-shaped eyes are completely immobile, providing binocular vision which fully focuses on their prey and boosts depth perception.
3. Owls can rotate their necks 270 degrees. A blood-pooling system collects blood to power their brains and eyes when neck movement cuts off circulation.
4. A group of owls is called a parliament. This actually originates from C.S. Lewis' description of a meeting of owls in The Chronicles of Narnia!
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I'm on and off planes at the moment, so I apologise for the poor lack of posts. (Last week involved a 2-day air marathon to get across the world: a 2-hr flight, then a 5-hr flight, then a 12-hr flight, then a 3-hr flight, then a 2-hr drive.) But I wanted to post about a few beautiful things I've seen lately – or am going to see – particularly the proliferation of 'white' in exhibitions, books, flowers and buildings.
Perhaps it's a reaction to the explosion of colour we've seen these past few years but white certainly seems to be making an glorious comeback. Understated, sophisticated, delicate, and diplomatic (it relates beautifully to every colour), white is the colour world's most timeless, most graceful shade.
Here are some places where it's been showing its elegant glamour lately....
"Style is... Charleston in South Carolina, Givenchy, the Paris Opera House,
white, Margot Fonteyn, any Cole Porter song, and English pageantry..."
– Noel Coward.
The new 'Pearls' exhibition at the V and A Museum, London
On show until 2014.
Just beautiful. Can't wait to see it.
The new Chanel exhibition at the London College of Fashion
Another lovely show.
Have you discovered some of the amazing vintage Chanel dealers around yet?
Vintage Chanel is worth more than new CC because it's harder to come by. It's slightly more expensive, but the designs are (in my opinion) more beautiful.
I've found a fabulous little vintage boutique near the Flatiron Building in New York that sources vintage Chanel from all the wealthy women on the Upper East Side. This same dealer sells vintage Dior and Schiaparelli jewellery too. The Art Deco pieces are amazing.
I'm currently writing a book about New York: will include the address of this Flatiron store in it for Chanel lovers out there.
Loved this temporary sign on Fifth Avenue
A new book about the divine Miss D
Bought this recently and can't put it down.
It's a collection of all her memos from her Harper's Bazaar days. Witty and very amusing.
A friend's guest cottage on Shelter Island
French Riviera: Living Well Was The Best Revenge (Assouline Publishers)
Have been trying to source this book for years. Years! (It was out of print for many years.)
Finally found it in the vintage fashion section of The Strand Bookstore in New York last week, and then discovered (ironically) from the manager of Assouline that they've decided to reprint it, because it was so popular.
One of the most glamorous books you will ever read. The photos alone are worth the price.
More from the French Riviera book.
Love this photo.
A wonderful fashion label from Melbourne called One Season
Everyone I know is wearing this label at the moment.
We're buying a new car early next year.
But I can't imagine it will be as cute as this.
Bunny Mellon's former townhouse on the Upper East Side
Snapped this as I was wandering past and then read on Habitually Chic that it was Bunny's former home.
The house is now up for sale for US$46M.
The pix are online if you're curious. [link here]
My favourite staircase in Paris
The home of a friend in the Marais.
Oscar de la Renta
As elegant as always.
A friend's riverback escape at the end of her garden on Long Island
This same friend's dining room
Carolyne Roehm's beautiful weekender in Charleston
We wandered past this last week. The restoration work is magnificent.
Ms Roehm's recently restored Victorian greenhouse in Connecticut
(This will feature in a future issue of the new magazine)
White geraniums
Have you noticed how these are very chic again? They're like hydrangeas: granny flowers that have been given a new lease of horticultural life. Carolyne Roehm had a whole greenhouse full of white geraniums: the effect was astonishing.
The former Pfizer Mansion, Brooklyn, New York
Several years ago I had the privilege of staying in this extraordinary Brooklyn mansion, which has been beautifully restored by an interior designer with a great eye. She kindly emailed me this week with a gracious note, and once again I was reminded of the beauty of white interiors. Jessica, if you're reading this – thank you. I was very touched. Will email you privately.
Look at the parquetry floors of Jessica's Brooklyn home. Isn't the detail incredible?
Caffe Storrico, New York
My favourite cafe in Manhattan.
Elizabeth GIlbert's much-lauded new book
The girls at Avenue Bookstore told me this was good, so I bought it.
Can't put it down. So completely different to Eat Pray Love. You'd never know it was the same author.
Louisa Jones' Garden Tours of Provence
Louisa cancelled her Provence Garden Tour this year but thankfully she's decided to reinstate it in 2014. I'm going to try and book a place with a girlfriend. The gardens – including Pierre Berge's garden and Nicole de Vesian's La Louve – sound astounding. louisajones.fr
Our scruffy dogs, looking as dishevelled as always...
Bon voyage for now.
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Series Spotlight - Legend of the Spirit by Mary Quast/
I'm delighted to welcome fellow Decadent Publishing author Mary Quast here today. She's celebrating a month of shifters over on her blog, and it conveniently coincides with this visit. I'll let her take it from here.
To celebrate Shifter Month, Mary is giving away a whole bunch of shifter-themed prizes, so don't forget to scroll all the way down to get to the Rafflecopter widget. Hit up her blog for photos of what you might win!
Shifter Month by Mary Quast
I spent my childhood summers at our family cottage on Coldwater Lake in Michigan. A friend of my uncle's and a member of the local Chippewa tribe rented the cottage next door for several summers. Indian Dave would thrill my cousins and me with legends and dances of his people. He taught us the importance and spirituality regarding the balance of nature. My favorite stories of people who could shift from human to animal at will influenced me to write my own versions. My cousin and I would often wonder if the fox or eagle we saw where Indian Dave or one of his friends. Who knows…perhaps they were!
Little did I know, those stories heard around a campfire would become fodder for the Legend of the Spirit series.
Crow Magic
Legend of the Spirit Book 1
Lucy Richards is tired of being timid around men. Hoping to overcome her fears and feel like a real woman, she turns to Madame Eve to find a man who will fulfill that goal. Eve arranges a one-night stand with a handsome Shawnee shaman who will teach Lucy to use her womanly power and take her to unimaginable heights.
Shape shifter Seth Crowe is a Keeper of the Spiritual Law who carries souls from darkness to light, and enjoys using his body to accomplish his magic.
Tucked away in the Castillo Poconos Resort, Seth helps Lucy find spiritual and sexual freedom, never dreaming he might find his own mate in the bargain.
Eagle Dance
Legend of the Spirit Book 2
Dyami Schafer, a Native American from the Chippewa tribe, leads a lonely life due to his large size and unusual appearance. When his nesting instinct sets in, he turns to Madame Eve and 1Night Stand to help him find his spirit mate. Or at least a woman who accepts him as an eagle shifter.
Amanda Collins never stopped loving the Chippewa boy she knew from her childhood. Maybe a night with a Native American man will help her forget the past and let her move on with her life.
Sometimes, it's necessary to take a step into the past before dancing into the future. With the help of Madame Eve, will the Spirit of the Eagle carry Dyami and Amanda?
Celebrate Shifter Month with me. I'm giving away some great Legend of the Spirit themed prizes. Enter the Rafflecopter for your chance to win! Visit my blog to see photos of the prizes.
About Mary Quast
Romance author and Artist Mary Quast lives in a log home affectionately named "Camp Run-A-Muk" located in the woods of Michigan with her husband, three sons, and a collection of animal family members. As a professional artist, Mary Quast answered the call to express herself creatively. With her descriptive writing style she has developed a knack for creating passionate characters and realistic settings. When she's not busy writing contemporary erotic romance novels, novelettes, and short stories, Mary Quast doles out sensual tips and yummy eye candy on her blog "Romantic Interludes".


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Jacob Oulanyah unleashed a barrage of sensibility this week, on his return from a trip round Germany and France, when he addressed a press conference at which he was reportedly so confused about the time of day that he kept saying 'Good morning' in the afternoon.
That is the only thing he was confused about – and as we have recently seen in public, people have made worse mistakes in this town.
Everything else he said was like the German national soccer team using words like a ball. Reading the news reports made me wish I had been there to watch him slam the volleys of points into our national mental goalmouth.
"Uganda's liberalised sectors are dominated by foreign investors; Ugandans should not be exploited; nationals should be charged lower bank interest rates; 80% of Uganda's time is spent discussing politics, which is too much; the media should practice responsible journalism; there are too many MPs compared to the size of the country; and most of the MPs that form that large number do not know how to debate, rarely do research, and thus the quality of their output is low."
Just reading that paragraph there you can imagine how the Parliamentary spokespeople and many MPs felt like a team of Brazilians on a small, overcrowded pitch, considering that Oulanyah is Deputy Speaker of the House.
Getting into the defence against an attack like Oulanyah's is not easy – but in the spirit of fair play let's consider this without rejecting his goals, and play all the way to the end:
Our Members of Parliament are representatives of the people. From a strictly grammatical point of view, those 385 or so ladies and gentlemen that the 35million of us have sent to the House are a sample of what we are, in general as a population. If we were a nation of 35 million loquacious but eloquent individuals with an excellent train of thought every time we activated our minds, then our representatives would wax lyrically in the chambers of that House and have the world balancing off everything that dripped off their tongues.
Mathematically, game theorists and statisticians would surely bear testimony to that reality as well; even proponents of the 80/20 principle would have us expect that only 20% of the eminent ladies and gentlemen that the Rt. Hon. Oulanyah declared to be (insert appropriate interpretation of his statement) at holding forth intellectual, high quality debate, should be good at it.
In fact, however, the Rt. Hon. Oulanyah should judge from a lot of the happenings that we see in our every day lives – from the manner in which we navigate through traffic with the impatience of nursery school children suffering pressing bladders; to the way some public officers manage responsibility like conflicted adolescents whose parents leave town after misguidedly entrusting them with shopping money over a long weekend.
The quality of debate in Parliament can only be a reflection of society – the way our representatives are a reflection of ourselves.
In the spirit of a Brazilian after the third goal, I will proceed to argue that our MPs, in general, are doing the best they can in a country where Bad Black and her boyfriends whose wealth and importance cannot be easily explained without lengthy questionable narrative, continue to occupy space on the front page (or any other) of a newspaper.
And on to the other of Oulanyah's goals, the need for responsible journalism is directly linked to the reason Bad Black and so many other characters of her kind get so much airtime – and again, that is our society.
If on an ordinary day on these streets you can find ten people capable of naming any of the people on the Kiira EV Project (including the Professor who mentored the students) then check the Constituencies of those ten people and name their MPs.
Serious MPs, reason would have it, should have constituents who could pass a test asking them to name any of the children featured in the newspapers as being the best in their national examinations.
The more serious MPs will have constituents who can even identify and even explain the importance of people like Joseph Mubiru, Ignatius Musaazi, Sir Tito Winyi, and others.
In fact, I want to meet people from Oulanyah's Omoro County because by virtue of the fact that they produced someone so eloquent and focussed from amongst their numbers, it goes to reason that there must be many more such people left behind.
And if anyone can fix the economy in the ways Hon. Oulanyah so passionately outlined on his return from his European epiphany, it should be more people like him.
And perhaps from Omoro, and via a couple of weeks in France and Germany; because obviously none of the formal education that has been going around for these many years has had this great an impact.


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Schools are soft targets because we don't want our kids spending every day in what appears to be a dreary, desolate prison. We want our children in an atmosphere where they can learn, grow, socialize, and develop to the best of their abilities. The downside of this is that we have put so many of our "eggs in one basket" that it makes for a "target-rich environment." Below are some of the many steps that schools can take (with possibly a great deal of urging from you) to keep your C.H.I.L.D. S.A.F.E.R. Click below for the full article:
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After George Clooney found out that Sony Pictures was bullied into canceling the release of "The Interview," he and his CAA agent Bryan Lourd put together a letter in support of Sony, hoping that heads of all major studios and agencies would sign.
The letter states: "
This is not just an attack on Sony. It involves every studio, every network, every business and every individual in this country. That is why we fully support Sony's decision not to submit to these hackers' demands. We know that to give in to these criminals now will open the door for any group that would threaten freedom of expression, privacy and personal liberty.
Clooney then told Deadline the bad news... no one signed the letter. "
[The petition] was sent to basically the heads of every place. They told Bryan Lourd, 'I can't sign this.' What? How can you not sign this? I'm not going to name anyone, that's not what I'm here to do, but nobody signed the letter.
It turns out that Clooney wasn't being very truthful. The Hollywood Reporter reached out to the heads of Disney, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Lionsgate, WME, UTA and countless other companies, and all said that they were completely unaware of the letter.
I never heard of it until I saw press about a petition not getting signed,
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Who cares?
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So basically Clooney says someone did something and the recipients of that something say they didn't receive anything.
Okay. Maybe Clooney is lying, but I doubt it. Depends on who operated as the middle man between him and the heads of the studios. He might be lying. Or just mistaken. Either way, again I ask, who cares?
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@ Minkowski, obviously YOU care since you made two comments about it. You freaking turd.
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According to dealers' interactions with analysts, cement prices have gone up Rs 15-30 per 50 kg bag in the north and some parts of the west in February. This rise in cement prices can be attributed to two factors. One, marginal pick up in construction activity in the northern region. Two, players in the North have also supplied cement to the central region, which is in the vicinity and where demand is stable.
In the western and central regions, cement prices rose by 2.5 per cent and 1.8 per cent respectively in the range of Rs 210-300 per 50kg. However, in the eastern and southern regions, cement prices have been stable
In the recent months, due to focus on volume growth by large cement firms, cement production has improved. According to the recent core industry data, cement production increased by 3.2 per cent in December 2015 and dispatches rose by 4.5 per cent on a year-on-year basis.
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Invest is a verb. It means to contribute money to a company to help it grow.
Incest is a noun. It means sexual relationship between family members. In many cultures, including the US, this is illegal and/or morally frowned upon.
The following story uses both words correctly:
Ingrid, once a victim of incest and physical abuse herself, invested in businesses and donated to charities seeking to prevent abuse and help victims heal.
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Crufts is, as for everyone else who attends, our biggest dog show of the year! So much thought and planning goes into it but we are quite professional about it now and start early.
It is not just about getting ourselves and our collars there - it is about advertising and display and new designs and lighting.... and where to stay.... and who will come and work at the show... and who will look after the shop. AND who will look after Holly and Augustus and Nixon, my own animals.The tortoises are not such a problem as I plan their hibernation around Crufts so they snooze through and get their wake up call on my return, in mid March.
The first thing to do is book the stand, that usually happens in Autumn the year before, with final payment in the January. We were very lucky to get accepted in our first year of business. They try and balance out who is there so even competition. Truly and as modestly as possible, I do not think there is that much Made in England collars of our originality and quality there. Many people will come to us at start of the day and think they will check out the rest of the show and find something as nice and maybe cheaper... They never do and come back.
We never agonise as to where to go as we have always been HALL 2, STAND 12. It is not the busiest Hall but with only 3 of us it suits as Crufts can be a shark attack. Crufts has to be one of our favourite shows too as it is for real dog people - who GET US and our quality. They may have been buying cheaper collars for years and can get through 3 or 4 a year!?!?!? That does not happen with Holly&Lil so they seem to love us. We try and get to the Hall before the show opens as many people want to buy before their classes and the day gets too busy.
Then we have to book our advertising. We tend to use the same ad with variation each year. Same idea as the stand number really. Change and freshness is vital to Holly&Lil but tradition is important too and often things can get changed simply because we feel it is old - not the customer. This year we have added on to our ad the fact that we have won the Kennel Club award for Somewhere on the High Street 2014.
This is the ad that will appear in several papers.
And this will appear in the Show Guide. Getting the balance on spend is crucial as, though we seem a huge brand, we are not. If the chips are down buying leather is more important the an ad. BUT we do need to spread the word.
In days gone by when we first started Sarah and I would sit together and make our plans.
Then we would often pack up the dogs and run away to Scotland for long talks, price breakdowns, Collar making and picture taking. Holly and Lily adored it there and would have fabulous walks then crash in front of the aga while we worked. What fun we had!
Now El's Angels do all the background prep whilst I sit and sew as many collars as I can. We never have all we would want but I do try to do a wonderful display. This may be the first time people have had a chance to see and touch the collars they have seen on the website so important. As once you see and touch them people GET the quality.
Chelsea takes the brunt of it with checking we have everything from light-bulbs to till rolls to dusters to chairs to window cleaners and ladders. In days gone by we would hire everything from lights to night sheets to muslin roof. Now, except for the electrical socket we are 'all our own work'. Which saves us money but adds to the pressure. And Alex has the huge responsibility of ensuring we have the balance of stock at show and in the shop just right.
So this week we hit the final 2 week countdown... and the loading of floats begins and the list tick off starts.... and the big question DO WE HAVE ENOUGH VELCRO....?


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WAR heroes are facing a bleak future as Scotlands proud veterans charity are being forced to axe jobs.
The economic climate has forced the Erskine organisation to enter a consultation with workers, many of whom are wounded veterans.
But the charitys organisers have pledged to do everything to prevent further losses and appealed to people to help them fight for survival.
The Record are today backing their appeal.
Erskine care for 1300 service veterans and their families across five care homes, care partnerships and cottages.
They provide employment for those who served their country and channel profits back into services. But bosses have been left with huge financial losses run up by Erskine Print and Erskine Furniture two of the five social firms they run in Bishopton, Renfrewshire.
Erskine Print have closed, while Erskine Furniture are battling to survive. A total of 31 employees are at risk in Erskine Furniture, while six staff at Erskine Print have already been told that the operation will close.
Of the six, two workers are ex-forces.
Bosses say the combined losses of the businesses are running at around s500,000 a year and will get worse unless action is taken. The charity have invested heavily in the enterprises in recent years, including new printing technology and a range of childrens furniture.
Erskines chief executive Steve Conway said: It is regrettable that, despite our best efforts, we cannot continue to operate Erskine Print.
But we are affected by the economic situation that so many organisations are dealing with.
These two social firms are costing us a large amount of money to run so we need to take appropriate action to reduce the financial deficit.
We have a good reputation for providing care to veterans and we must do all that we can to safeguard this.
Our concentrated effort will focus on turning around Erskine Furniture and I hope that people will support us in doing so.
A source within the charity who were set up at the height of World War I, three weeks before the first day of the Battle of the Somme said: In this economic climate, there has been a significant downturn in orders for Erskine Print and Erskine Furniture.
The whole manufacturing sector has had a very hard time. We want to increase orders for Erskine Furniture and thats what we intend to do. But at the end of the day, we are not IKEA. We do not have the resources that commercial operations have to put into marketing.
We have a duty to make sure the money raised for Erskine across the board is used to its maximum impact to benefit the people were here to care for.
Steve an ex-Royal Marine lieutentant colonel took over as chief executive last year.
There is no suggestion that any of the charitys care homes will be affected, nor will their three other social firms Erskine Garden Centre, Vanishing Willows Cafe and the Reid Macewen conference facility.
Bosses will try to redeploy the workers from Erskine Print and are mounting a campaign to save Erskine Furniture.
An Erskine spokesman said: We can announce that there are changes to the future of two of our social firms.
The reasons are numerous, including poor economic conditions, a shrinking market place and tougher competition from larger commercial companies. The two social firms ran up a deficit of s495,000 combined.
In line with the partnership agreement with the trade unions, we have been consulting on the closure of Erskine Print and a restructure of Erskine Furniture.
One worker who has psychological and physical disabilities was seen crying after being told the news of the closure.
A source said: Goodness knows what the future holds for him. When the staff in other Erskine departments heard the news, many were in tears.
They know the people who work there and what this means to them.
We need to save Erskine Furniture at all costs but we also need things to change.
Saving Erskine Furniture is the first priority and if we do, in future there must be more emphasis on sales.
Last night, Erskine were holding consultation meetings with workers and their trade union Unison.
Caring for vets from the Somme to Iraq ERSKINE began life as a hospital to aid wounded Great War soldiers on June 6, 1916, and was officially launched in October that year.
It was a response to the appalling casualty rates and new types of treatable though devastating injuries suffered by soldiers on battlefields in World War I.
On July 1, 1916, the British Army suffered the worst day in their history when more than 20,000 soldiers were killed and 40,000 wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
The hospital provided rehabilitation care for ex-service personnel throughout the rest of the war and colonial conflicts and the devastating effects of World War II.
Since then, wounded Scots veterans from Malaya, Borneo, Singapore, Brunei, Korea, Suez, Aden, Northern Ireland, the Falklands, the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan have all benefited from services offered by the charity.
As well as care homes with full medical support, Erskine provide cottages for ex-servicemen and women and their families.
All services from physiotherapy through to dementia care support are offered by the charity.
Their social firms have a budget of s34million per year.
But the bulk of the s24million raised by the charity through donations and their own sales last year went directly on the care of ex-servicemen and women and their families.


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Designing Our Headlights and Tail Lights
The ZBoard has built in super bright LED headlights and tail lights which allow you to see the road in front of you during lowly lit rides, and make you more visible to drivers and pedestrians. The LEDs are built into our front and rear risers, which are positioned between our deck and trucks, meaning that these parts not only had to last for thousands of blinks, they also had to be able to take a pounding.
The headlights and tail lights have three modes: On, Blink, and Off. To cycle the modes you press the power button on the ZBoard's nose.
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Our rear tail lights are equipped with red LEDs and a diverging, red lens. They are designed to spread the light from the LEDs to make them visible from a wide angle.
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I am proud to be part of Century 21 and of our office, Century 21 Liberty Homes in Mililani, Oahu, Hawaii. I am proud to be a Realtor Associate® and what I stand for in the Real Estate Industry. I AM a Professional.
A Professional Attitude.... Brings a "Professional Salesperson" to the Table
But....that's not what this is about anyway.... :)
Over the weekend I got a head/chest cold/flu and had someone else work in Admin. for me yesterday (I also work part time for our office :) I spent all day printing out Holiday Cards for clients, family and friends, set appointments for showing a buyer property today and called the client back to let her know what time to meet me. Utilizing my time...even though I'm sick.
I must be sick. :)
I also put together a Hawaii Relocation Packet together to send out today to clients who are relocating in a few months from Alexandria, VA. WOW! Who do I know from Alexandria? Why Brian Block! No, I didn't meet them through Brian.
They actually typed in Military Relocations Hawaii and found me on the internet. In any case, I set them up with automatic notification of listings with the property criteria, neighborhood, price range, bedrooms, schools and such. We have been fine tuning for over a month and I now was able to print out listings with pictures for certain neighborhoods.
Following is what I included in my Relocation Packet:
- Cover Letter
- The folder is white and on the front is a gold embossed raised lettering of Century 21. (Very white looking! Hard to keep clean but sure looks nice!)
- Hawaii Buyer Advisory: Includes information about zoning, the transaction process, links for government and pertaining info sites such as school districts, pet info, title info, County Assessor, Ocean Safety, Volcanoes, and much more!
- Loan Process Info
- Escrow Process (The life of an escrow)
- Map of Oahu
- Packet with VA Homebuyer info
- BAH (Housing Allowance in Honolulu County) Chart for 2007
- 7 Full Length Customer Reports for Listings from three different neighborhoods that they are interested in along with color pictures from each property.
- A few articles I wrote from my blog on Median sales prices, Relocating to Hawaii, Military Relocating to Hawaii etc.
- Buyer Brochure with tips for Hawaii Homebuying
- A Hawaii Calendar for 2008
I try to be thorough in giving information although once they arrive it seems it was never enough. I want to make sure they understand everything and therefore explain away anyway. The written word is never enough, is it?
So..... what's in your relocation packet?


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Shattering Our Broken Stories
Valerie Wolpe
This past Shavuot I was invite to speak at the Sermon Slam at Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles. The theme was how we can find healing in a shattered Torah, in a shattered world. When Moshe broke the tablets at Sinai, the Torah says "asher shibarta," which you shattered. Resh Lakish interprets this to mean that God said, "Yasher Koach Sheshibarta," thanking and congratulating Moshe for breaking the tablets (Shabbat 87a). This teaches us that there are times when the shattering of Torah is actually its foundation, that there are moments when our stories and texts must be broken.
This prompted me to contemplate the tropes in our society that need shattering, and I honed in on a particular story that is crying out to be remade. To support the "slam" vibe of the evening, I wrote the sermon in a spoken word form often utilized at poetry slams. Here is a video of my slam, with the words below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lacBpuTd_Bs
Have you heard about Rabbi Joseph and the Sorcerer?
Well one year, in Saltzbug, on the eve of Yom Kippur,
three Jewish maidens disappeared,
and then the next year, three more,
until the town arose in a frenzy, begged their rabbi find
the source of their women's decline.
he went in search of a great rav
who could travel long distances in a moment *snap!*
who sight was unbound by time
and he described a most heinous crime -
a sorcerer had turned the women into asses.
as they neared his home,
they could hear them braying from their lonesome stalls
stamping their hooves against the walls
praying with desperate donkey calls.
The great Rav uttered a sacred name
and the sorcerer dropped dead, the donkeys turned back to ladies
and returned to the synagogue as they began Kol Nidre.
Isn't it nice when it turns out our way?
There is another tale, about a wizard wedded to Lillith, versed in dark magic
who captures a beautiful queen from her bed
spreads her long legs, and takes her for himself.
or as the book puts it, "plucked the flower of her beauty."
But never fear, the king and his soothsayers fashioned a trick
the curse was flipped
the wizard slipped, and fell to his death.
oh that reminds me, that in the first story,
the sorcerer transformed the asses to maidens at night
and ravaged them, out of earshot, out of sight.
which conjures up a contemporary scene,
you might have watched on your tv screen
where a young lady whose parents have died
in fact, she believes only she has survived,
marries a Lord with an evil mind and wicked games,
and after she takes his name
he rips her dress and bends her over
forces her brother to watch, who cries in the corner.
another dramatized rape of a show,
running short of ideas of where to go.
Is this the best magic that hollywood knows?
We know,
that these are not just tales - there is a real crisis
from world-wide women imprisoned for reporting their rape
to the horrors of women escaped from Isis,
to 1 in 5 american women sexually assaulted in their life, this
is our world. But you probably know the statistics
they haunt me when I look at my sisters and realize their risks
and i wonder back to my Jewish tales.
Were they also angry that God missed her cue -
that only magic and sacred words could subdue
the demons that haunted their lives?
Our ancestors must have identified with the damsel in distress
shamed, brutalized, and oppressed by
the countries of their exile. They cried for mercy but only
a powerful Rav and prophetic dream
could offer a scheme to redeem their losses-
God is cut from the scene.
probably smoking cigar behind the screen
wondering when shell get her big debut
God, don't you know we already signaled you?
Instead, we'll fill our plots with spells and magic,
to turn our endings a bit less tragic.
And in real life, use new sorcery to change our reality
we send out energy and transform our mentality
cast up hands and reconstruct our
Because its these stories themselves that make rape real
as we portray sex as something to steal
sexual violence as way to entertain, an erotic appeal.
we need to reveal these fantasies
as toxic, forceful fallacies
that gift each generation a fresh ordeal.
Come, help me shatter these tropes to start anew
imbue each other with respect for women
violent urges - subdue
trust and love - pursue
It is upon us all to undo what we've been handed,
it is upon us together, and it is upon you.