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Sony learned its lesson about releasing a digital-games only device in the PSPgo. Retailers didn't want to sell it as they couldn't sell the games. Existing PSP owners didn't want to upgrade because they couldn't bring their old games with them.
With the PS Vita, Sony threw gamers a lifeline for their PSP titles in the form of the UMD Passport program. It was touted as a way of getting your UMD-based PSP games on to the PS Vita in digital form. All it would take was a sign in to PSN and a small fee to get the same game on your Vita.
With the PS Vita launch happening later this month, I'm sure more than a few gamers are already deciding which UMD games they want to have available on their Vita memory card. Well, you can stop thinking about it because for U.S. gamers at least, it is no longer going to happen.
While Japanese gamers have been enjoying the UMD Passport program since December, Sony has canned the idea of bringing it West. I have to assume that no U.S. program also means no European program, meaning millions of PSP owners now have one less reason to consider an upgrade to the PS Vita.
No reason has been given by Sony as to why it has decided to do this. But the message is clear: if you want to play any of your PSP games on the Vita you will have to purchase them full price. Alternatively, keep playing them on your PSP and hope it continues to function.
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text: As the world moves into the twenty-first century, cellular systems, high-density data storage, and the Internet are but a few of the new technologies that promise great advances in productivity and improvements in the quality of life. Yet these new technologies also threaten personal privacy. A surveillance society, in which the individual has little control over personal information, may be the logical result of deregulation, globalization, and a mass data-processing capacity. Consumers report increasing concern over erosion of personal privacy even as they volunteer personal information in exchange for coupons, catalogues, and credit. What kind of privacy future are we facing? In Visions of Privacy: Policy Choices for the Digital Age, some of the most prominent international theorists and practitioners in the field explore the impact of evolving technology on private citizens. The authors critically probe market, ethical, global, regulatory and advocacy issues, as each answers the question, 'How can we develop privacy solutions equal to the surveillance challenges of the future?'


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BURLINGTON, Ont. – Ontario University Athletics (OUA) and Channel Zero are excited to announce that CHCH will once again be the official home of OUA this season.
"We're excited to be back on CHCH once again this season as we continue to bring the accomplishments of our student-athletes to a national audience," said Gord Grace, OUA CEO. "Last year was a highly successful return to television for our conference and we will look to build upon that with another great 2016-17 season."
Coverage on CHCH will begin at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 5 with a semifinal matchup, while the Quest for the 109th Yates Cup will conclude live on CHCH, Saturday, November 12 at 1:00 p.m.
"We are proud to partner with OUA for a second consecutive year," said Romen Podzyhun, CEO, Channel Zero. "The accessibility of CHCH province-wide puts us in a unique position to reach sports enthusiasts cheering for their alma maters. We're honoured to contribute to the rich history of university sport in Canada. "
Mark Lee and Justin Dunk will be returning to the booth again this season, as the pair of former OUA quarterbacks will have the call of both the semifinal and the 109th Yates Cup.
Gemini award-winner Mark Lee is a veteran Canadian sportscaster with CBC Sports and Rogers Sportsnet and is also a former quarterback for the Carleton Ravens (1975-78). While with CBC Sports, Lee was a host and play by play announcer on the CFL on CBC for 16 years from 1992-2007, calling three consecutive Grey Cups from 2005-2007. Lee is well known for his work as an athletics commentator and has reported on a variety of sports in his career.
Justin Dunk started at quarterback for the University of Guelph Gryphons from 2005-09 and he played in the 100th Yates Cup in 2007. He threw for the eighth most yards in CIS history (9,530) and tied for 11th all-time in Canadian university football with 63 touchdown passes during his Guelph career. Dunk closely follows OUA and CIS football and most recently was on the sidelines for City's CIS football broadcasts.
Now in it's second-year, the multi-year broadcast deal can also be expanded to include additional playoffs and championships. Details regarding potential winter championship broadcasts will be made at a later date.
Leading up to the 109th Yates Cup, OUA football fans can continue to follow their favourite teams at home or on the road throughout the regular season and playoffs, live on OUA.tv.
For more information on CHCH and the 109th Yates Cup, visit OUA.ca.
CHCH-TV started broadcasting in 1954 and is proud to be the news leader for Hamilton and the surrounding Halton and Niagara regions. CHCH produces over 24 hours of original local news programming each week. With a primetime line-up anchored by movies, news magazine shows, and hit dramas, CHCH is available to over 92% of Ontario households and is viewed by millions nationally each week. For more information, visit chch.com. CHCH News is produced daily out of its broadcast studio located in Hamilton, Ontario.
Channel Zero is an independent Canadian media company that owns over-the-air channel CHCH-TV and a growing bouquet of specialty channels including Rewind and Silver Screen Classics. Launched in November 2015, Bloomberg TV Canada is the first of several platforms under Channel Zero's leadership that will combine the best of Bloomberg's global branded content with Bloomberg original and local Canadian subject matter. Also within the parent company's portfolio are Channel Zero Digital, which owns popular sites Andpop and ChartAttack, and the digital companions of its broadcast brands; and Channel Zero World Media, which operates Bollywood Times, Mehndi TV and HallaBol – Canada's first South Asian HD TV channels. Channel Zero also operates Ouat Media, an Academy Award® winning film sales and distribution company. Channel Zero's head office is located in Toronto, Ontario.
Ontario University Athletics (OUA) and its 20 member institutions are developing Champions For Life. Giving 9,000 student-athletes the opportunity to excel academically and on the playing field, while preparing for life after university. For more information, visit OUA.ca.
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Today the Christmas spotlight shines on................................................Katrina, Dr Ringle and Molar
Christmas is the time for little gems of novels to make their presence felt and Kevin Alan Milne's latest release, The Paper Bag Christmas, is such a gem. Kevin kindly provided background on all three of his major characters so enjoy the insight:~
Brief physical description of your main characters:
Katrina Barlow is a contentious nine-year-old girl whose physical appearance has been marred by cancer and the intrusiveness of the medical treatments she has endured. Little remains of her once beautiful brown hair, and her scalp and face are scarred and withered. Her own outward appearance, along with the cruel stares and comments it draws from others, is more than Katrina can bear, so she hides her face beneath the safety of a paper bag. Most of the world sees her only as a pair of sad green eyes, looking out at the world through the holes in her paper disguise.
Dr. Christopher Ringle is Katrina's doctor, a pediatric oncologist who also happens to moonlight at the mall as a volunteer Santa. From the waist up, Dr. Ringle's graying good looks blend well with his gentle Scottish voice. Like his patients, he has also had his share of physical misfortune in life. The loss of his legs in war has left him confined to a wheelchair, which he merrily adorns during the holidays with red and green Christmas lights.
Molar Alan is an average looking pre-teen boy. He is a jeans-and-sneakers kind of kid who cares more about how other people feel about themselves than he does about what they think of him. He has brown hair, blue eyes, a caring smile, and a naïve concern for others that will melt hearts.
Actor/famous person who might resemble her/him
Prior to developing cancer, Katrina looked (in my mind) like a young Dakota Fanning. After the illness and surgeries? She still has Fanning's penetrating eyes, but the rest of her beauty lies dormant somewhere deeper within.
Dr. Ringle is the easiest character to visualize. Think of a legless Sean Connery rolling himself happily around in a wheelchair, and you've got it nailed.
Molar Alan could look like any boy you pass on the street. But since the story is Molar's personal boyhood memory from the '80's, let's jump back in time and tag him as a Jason Bateman look-a-like, circa 1981.
Strengths and weaknesses
Strength: Unwavering determination to carry on amid adversity
Weakness: Shuts others out for fear of being hurt
Dr. Ringle:
Strength: Compassion for others
Weakness: Candy Cane addiction
Molar Alan:
Strength: Knows how to be a true friend
Weakness: Naivety in a complex world
Inspiration for the character(s)
I won't name names, but growing up I knew an amazing girl whose life was deeply affected by tragedy. Her scars weren't outwardly visible like Katrina's, but the wounds she bore were every bit as deep and dark. Almost overnight she lost the happiness in her life. But through her trial, which continued for years, she did her best to soldier on, often all alone. I hope by now that she has found what was missing in her life, and that the happiness has returned. I wish I could have been her Molar.
Dr. Ringle:
What modern Christmas story would be complete without some sort of a Santa figure? In this story, that part is played by Dr. Ringle, and I drew upon all the Jolly ole' Saint Nick stories I'd ever heard to create a character with a sleigh (wheelchair), a red suit (medical scrubs; costume at the mall), and with a ceaseless desire to give children the very best gifts (though not always what they had in mind).
Much of Molar's personality came from my own quirky slant on life, so in that respect I based him on me. But the rest of his character — things like his patience, understanding, and ability to see the best in people without judging—are more or less a reflection of the 'me' I'd like to become.
Background to the story
Several years ago a good friend, then a teenager, developed cancer. It was the first experience I'd had with someone going through the rigorous and painful treatments for the awful disease. As I visited him and his family in the hospital, I was astounded to see how many children were there, quietly going about their business, trying hard to regain their healthy dreams of youth. Parents wept, grandparents wept, brothers and sisters tried to be brave, and collectively they prayed and hoped for the very best. I passed by one room and saw a volunteer tenderly rocking a 2-year-old cancer patient to sleep, because the child's parents were too worn out from holding him all day long.
That experience triggered thoughts, feelings, and emotions that I just couldn't keep to myself, so I poured them onto paper in the form of the Paper Bag Christmas. The idea to make it a Christmas story grew out of the sometimes-forgotten truth that the material gift giving we usually associate with Christmas pales in comparison to the joy that comes from friendship, service, and helping those in need.
[Personal Note: The ultimate irony came only after the story had been written and was being prepared for publication: my own daughter, just two years old, had a tumor removed from her hand at the very hospital portrayed in the story. Life, as they say, sometimes imitates art.]
Thanks Kevin for sharing with us. Look for The Paper Bag Christmas in stores now, just in time for Christmas.
On Thursday, I will be spotlighting Christa Parrish's Sarah Graham from her debut release, Home Another Way.
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text: China has said that parts of the trial on stealing trade secrets will be held behind closed doors [Reuters] The men face up to seven years in jail if convicted on charges of commercial espionage and found to have caused extreme damage, and five years or longer in jail if found guilty of bribery. Rio Tinto has said the four men did nothing wrong. 'Great concern' On Monday the company's chief executive, Tom Albanese, was in Beijing for a forum on China's place in the world economy. Rio Tinto executives on trial Australian Stern Hu and Chinese executives Liu Caikui, Ge Minqiang and Wang Yong accused of bribery and theft of commercial secrets. If convicted they could face up to seven years jail on the commercial secrets charges and possibly up to 20 years for bribery. Australian officials have been told they will be barred from hearings related to theft of commercial secrets. The case has raised investor worries about doing business in China's murky legal environment. Australia has warned China that major economic interests could be affected by the case. In prepared comments on the case, he said Rio Tinto was "respectfully" awaiting the outcome. "This issue is obviously of great concern to us, as it would be for any company operating in China. I can only say we respectfully await the outcome of the Chinese legal process," he said. China has insisted the case will be handled by the book and it will "fully guarantee" the rights of the defendants. However Kevin Rudd, the Australian prime minister, told reporters on Monday that his government will be "monitoring the trial very carefully". "China has a different legal system to Australia, China has a different legal system to the rest of the world. "The world will be watching very closely," Rudd said, repeating comments last week. Greg Sheridan, the foreign editor of The Australian newspaper, said he viewed the trial as a political move by China. In video Greg Sheridan tells Al Jazeera why the Riotrial has put China in the spotlight "There is no reason to think that there is any substance to any of these charges," he told Al Jazeera from Melbourne. "These are clearly political charges, which is an attempt by China to intimidate Australia, in which it has been largely successful." Reporters outside the court said some journalists, mostly from Chinese state media, were allowed in to cover Monday's opening session. However, China has said the hearings on the industrial secrets charges will be held behind closed doors, raising questions from Australian officials over whether the men will get a fair trial. Australia has said its consular officials will attend trial sessions on the bribe-taking charges and it had asked China to reconsider the closure of the trade secrets hearings. In a statement issue over the weekend, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it was disappointed with the Chinese decision to bar access to some parts of trial. Disappointment "The Government's disappointment with the decision has been registered with Chinese officials in Beijing and Canberra," it said. "The Australian Government does not propose to make further representations on this matter." Rio Tinto has said its employees did nothing wrong [AFP] The department said Hu's lawyer, Duan Qihua, will be present throughout the trial. The four defendants were arrested last July during contentious iron ore contract negotiations which later collapsed, and after Rio snubbed a near $20bn cash injection from state-run Chinese mining firm Chinalco. Rio Tinto, based in London and Australia, is the world's third-largest mining company and one of China's biggest suppliers of Iron ore, one of the main ingredients for making steel. At the time of the executives' arrests Rio was acting as lead negotiator for global iron ore suppliers in price talks with Chinese steel mills. The case comes at a time of friction with the US over China's currency policies and doubts among some in the foreign business community over Beijing's commitment to building an open and fair business environment. Joerg Wuttke, the president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, told the AFP new agency the trial was being seen as a barometer of legal transparency in China. "It will be regarded as a litmus test of the status of the young Chinese legal system," he said. SOURCE: Agencies


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I love working. The joy of being productive, earning money, increasing knowledge and experience, and social contact are just a few of the reasons why I work. In just five short years I will reach the traditional retirement age of 65. I find myself asking "Why would I want to stop working then?" The answer is easy — I don't.
The idea of not contributing my skills, talent, energy, and experience in the workplace is incomprehensible to me. Yet, I am all too aware my physical limitations are increasing and my energy and stamina are decreasing. I have long been accustomed to being an energizer bunny – capable of working tirelessly to accomplish a task. Now, my energy levels are changing but I am lightyears away from wanting to put my feet up and embrace the lifestyle we call retirement.
I would like to continue to work for as long as possible. Not because I have to but because I want to. There are things I would like more vacation days, flexibility with my work schedule, permission to rest during the day when I become fatigued and the ability to pursue new interests. As someone who is self-employed, I have the ability to make those changes. But what options are there for someone who is not self-employed? Perhaps more than you might imagine.
A 2015 study from the Life Insurance Management Research Association found that 92 percent of employers are taking specific action to help older workers stay on the job. The study also said "two thirds of employers in the study offer flexible hours while 42 percent offer flexibility on where employees work such as, working from home or other locations. Other adjustments include job training/re-skilling and job sharing." http://www.limra.com/Posts/PR/Industry_Trends_Blog/Nine_in_10_employers_taking_steps_to_keep_older_workers_on_the_job.aspx
The reasons for companies accommodating older workers include the business benefits of a mature workforce and the desire of 80% of employers to retain experience, institutional knowledge and leadership. As more and more baby boomers leave the workforce and retire, employers that understand their contribution to the bottom line may provide incentives such as increased vacation, and flexible work hours to get them to stay working longer.
The current version of retirement, 20 or more years of leisure after working, has never existed in our country before and perhaps for good reason. Working is a fundamental part of living. With a few tweaks by employers baby boomers may have the option to work as much or as little as they want for as long as they like.


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Several JackTransport Sound SoundObjects can be placed on the Score Timeline, in order to start or stop Jacktransport. Jacktransport can be used to run other Jack-aware programs in parallel with Blue. The Master is Blue, the other program(s) must be slave. Other programs can be Midi editors and Midi sequencers come to mind.
My program of choice, a big counter showing the Jack Time as it progresses, is gjackclock. This is a Linux program, so you have to look for a similar program for your system.
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It's quite amazing how this wonderful discovery was the result of a kitchen disaster that looked like this:
They are Japanese-style buckwheat cookies, soba boro (recipes here and here), that went wrong. The cookie dough was way too dry and I ended up adding a lot more oil to the mixture and when they came out of the oven, they were rock hard. Well, still edible but aside from the unpalatable hardness, the unrefined buckwheat flour and wholewheat flour which I used produced a coarse, rough texture, and the cookies were pretty tasteless. I did manage to eat up half the batch by slathering them with cream cheese and occasionally drizzling honey-tasting Organic Blue Agave Nectar.
However my plan was to recycle them into a pie or cheesecake crust that's normally made with graham crackers or digestive biscuits. I wouldn't want to use any commercially-prepared biscuits and it would be a shame to use some delicious cookies I had gone through the trouble of baking, so this was an ideal opportunity to bake a biscuit crust.
This is adapted from the graham cracker crust recipe from Baking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America.
Ingredients (for one pie crust)
Recipe calls for 10-12 graham crackers – I used the amount of cookies I had, as shown in the photo above.
3/4 Tbs sugar [reduced from 2 Tbs]
4 Tbs/60g unsalted butter, melted
I crushed the biscuits in two steps. Firstly by putting them into a plastic bag and using a rolling pin to smash them into smaller pieces. As the biscuits were so hard, the sharp crumb corners tended to pierce the plastic bag, so I wrapped the bag with a towel whilst smashing the biscuits. The smaller biscuit pieces could then be ground into a fine crumb with a food processor.
As the required amount of crumbs was 1.5 cups, I made up the shortfall with okara (leftover from the last batch of soya bean milk I made), which I also crushed using the food processor.
I then mixed the crumbs together with the sugar and butter. It looked a bit dry so I added another half tablespoon of sunflower oil.
After greasing a pie pan (or rather the springform pan I was going to use to make a cheesecake), I compressed the crumbs into the base using the bottom of a glass. Voila!
In the final cheesecake, the crust tasted great with perfect texture :).
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Valedictorian Koh driven to make her mother proud
(This is part 3 in a four-part series on Detroit Mercy Valedictorian Sehie Olivia Koh. Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 4.)
Detroit Mercy valedictorian Sehie Olivia Koh was born in Wisconsin and lived there until she was 11, when her family moved back to South Korea. Koh lived there for more than five years, and while she enjoyed parts of it, she knew her future was in the U.S.
"The decision to go to school in the U.S. was up to me, but they knew it was best for me too, because I lived in Korea for five years, and it was very eventful," Koh said. "The culture was interesting, but I knew that wasn't where and how I wanted to live, for now at least. And I know my family knew it, too. It wasn't even really discussed. They were just like, 'You want to go to school in America? Then figure it out.' "
Koh's family moved to Lawrence, Kan., when she was 16. Koh's father moved back to South Korea after a year, and Koh's mother and sister followed him about a year later, leaving her alone for her final few months of high school.
She stayed at one house for a few months, but it didn't work out. That's when the Hodison family took her in.
"They didn't know me very well when I first moved in," Koh said. "Their son was a freshman and I was a senior, and we knew each other from student council. I needed a place to live because I was homeless. They were like, 'Oh, you should be living in a house.' They took me in when they didn't have to because they already have four kids of their own and a daycare of, like, six to eight kids. There was already 12 to 15 people in the house every day. But that's just who the Hodison are; a giving, driven, most-loving family. Even with the craziest, busiest of schedules and lives, they still took the time and energy to take me in and be there for me, and by doing so they, exemplified the exact type of person I strive to be."
Koh enjoyed her time staying with the Hodisons. She believes the daycare and support from the Hodisons, helped inspire her to work with children and become the person she is today.
"I had a lot going on at the time and I would play with the kids, and try to sort out what's going on in mind," Koh said. "The kids, they're so pure and so happy. They just want to give you a hug if you look like you need a hug. In a sense, I feel like I'm giving back to them when I work with kids because they were there for me. The whole environment and support that the Hodisons unconditionally gave was what I dearly held onto during that unforgettable period."
Koh keeps in close contact with her family, who remains in South Korea, but admits there are times she gets homesick. Part of the reason she's involved with so many activities at Detroit Mercy is to distract herself from being homesick. But the main reason is that she wants to do all she can to make her mother proud.
"When I do something, I would always think of my mom and the overall goal was to make her and my family proud." Koh said. "When I go home, the first thing I do after talking to her, is say, 'Here's everything from this year.' She can never be at any of these events, so she would never understand what any of these awards mean or what the fashion show did or what I did as part of whatever organization I was in, but those are the only physical things I can show her that I did something.
"Those awards don't really mean anything to me compared to what it felt like to have the fashion show or to have people come cry at the orphanage, that is what makes me feel alive. To her, she would never get that unless I try to explain it to her, but she would still never get that because she wasn't there. It's just these physical things I can show her and say, 'Here, you go.' I never keep any of my awards, they're all sitting at my house in Korea in my parent's room. It's just something I can give her to show her I'm doing alright by myself, and to not worry. I just want to give her more. You always want to give your mom the most. She deserves everything, and I just don't think I've given her everything, yet."
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Marcus McNeill was at Chargers Park for meetings Monday afternoon before heading off to get a physical that will, presumably, clear him to resume working with the team he said he hopes is his for a long time.
"Me and the Chargers, we talked and I feel real comfortable about my situation," McNeill said. "I felt assured when I got back I'd be able to play and hopefully receive something later on down the line. I feel more comfortable."
The two-time Pro Bowl left tackle ended a months-long protest over his contract situation Saturday by signing a one-year tender that is scheduled to pay him approximately $444,000.
While he lost out on more than $2.7 million by not signing his original restricted free agent tender in the spring, McNeill believes his sitting out accomplished something.
"I definitely feel I took a step in the right direction," he said. "I feel me and the Chargers feel good about our relationship, and we want to keep it for hopefully a long time."
McNeill has always been in the Chargers' long-term plans. They were waiting to begin negotiations with him until after they extended tight end Antonio Gates, which they did in July. But by then McNeill was sitting out. It is expected the sides will begin talks soon, and if those go well McNeill will have a deal by the end of the season.
In contrast to the contentiousness surrounding the dealings with receiver Vincent Jackson, also a restricted free agent who is sitting out, the McNeill impasse was always pleasant. Little was said publicly. In a face-to-face meeting in August McNeill and Chargers General Manager A.J. Smith expressed their mutual admiration.
"We never had any negative conversations," McNeill said. "That's why there was no reason for me to be in the media stirring up anything. It was always pretty cordial, just a little bit of disagreements … I never felt like it was anything malicious. I never felt me and the Chargers were on bad terms. I just felt like it was time for us to start talking about contracts and things like that, because I had finished out my first contract. It was business minded, not anything real malicious."
McNeill was offered $3.168 million in June but did not want to risk injury playing for an amount that paled compared to what he would be guaranteed in a long-term contract. When he did not sign by June 15, the Chargers slashed the offer to $630,000. The team placed McNeill and Jackson on the Roster Exempt List in August, which precluded them from playing in three games after signing and reporting.
Norv Turner said he expects McNeill to be ready to play Oct. 17 at St. Louis, the first game he is eligible.
McNeill appeared as fit and trim as he has since being the team's second-round draft pick in 2006. Still, he mist get in football shape and the Chargers have told him to take it slow.
"It feels good," McNeill said. "I feel real excited, ready to be back started. I was real bored sitting at home, working out every day, not being around teammates."


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Nother cool pic:
This one is by Noel, who works at the Cartoon Network.
What do you think, kids, T-shirt?
That's great!
I'd wear it as a shirt, and I'm probably gonna use it as an avatar at some point.
I was thinking somewhere along these lines:
_________________It finally happened. My conscience stopped working. I've never felt so free.
Ooooh, pretty!_________________Book: A garden carried in a pocket. Arabian Proverb
I love it!_________________To Learn is to Know
To Know is to Love
To Love is our aim
Why should we bother with immortality when we are eternal?
I'll take 3. _________________Socially irresponsible, morally irredeemable and pretty god-damned glorious to behold @mremann
can we add it on our fruitbat store?
Uh...wait....cartoon network? I work just across the street from it. Does this mean they are working on an ADJ cartoon? Can I go over and help?
YES chris!! and hell I would buy one... that would be awsome if one was a black T-shirt like that... but that is a brilliant image! use it and I will make sure my friens adn I buy one._________________current pics: drawings and some photos. http://www.dizzyhellfire.deviantart.com
Absolutely a T-shirt!
I probably wouldn't buy one, but I could see why others would
OOOhhhhh! Shiny!
That is so awesome! I would definitely buy that on a t-shirt. I can see that design on the t-shirt rack at a sci-fi convention. _________________Look, a Beta Male! Quick, hand me my dart-gun & tracking collar!


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FarmLogs Raises $4M Series A, Founder Named to Forbes List
The Ann Arbor, MI-based ag tech startup FarmLogs announced today that it has raised a $4 million Series A round of funding. The round was led by Ohio-based Drive Capital, with participation from Huron River Ventures, also of Ann Arbor, and Hyde Park Venture Partners and Hyde Park Angels, both based in Chicago.
The announcement caps a year of significant growth for the startup, which is also a 2012 Y Combinator alum. Co-founder Jesse Vollmar was also recently named to Forbes' annual "30 Under 30" list. The list "is essentially just recognition by Forbes that what we're doing is impactful on the world," Vollmar says. "Of course, when you get that mainstream recognition, you get more attention for your company."
What Vollmar has created is management software for farmers that allows them to manage risk while tracking the progress of their crops. It also helps farmers stay on top of expenses, profits, weather, and prices.
Vollmar says that in the past year, the team has grown to nine people, with customers in all 50 states and more than 120 countries. He's looking forward to rolling out the new version of the FarmLogs software in March to coincide with the 2014 growing season. The company estimates that 5 percent of all row-crop farms use FarmLogs.
"We learned a ton from our customers, and we figured out how to create more value for our customers," Vollmar says.
Vollmar has also noticed that ag tech is becoming a hot sector. He points to October's $930 million acquisition of Climate Corp, which underwrites weather insurance for farmers, by agribusiness giant Monsanto as evidence of the interest and opportunities to innovate in the ag tech space.


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Resting Heart Rate
The measurement of resting heart rate or pulse rate (the number of heart beats per minute) should be taken after a few minutes upon waking whilst still lying in bed. Give your body some time to adjust to the change from sleeping before taking your pulse (2-5 minutes). If you are not able to take a measurement first thing in the morning, make sure you lie down for at least 10 minutes before taking a measurement. Taking a radial or carotid pulse measurement (at the wrist or neck) is usually the easiest method. See Measuring your heart rate.
Get a baseline measure
You can monitor your resting heart rate over time, writing down the heart rate each morning for a few weeks. After a while you will get an idea of what your average resting heart rate is. Once a normal resting heart rate has been established, it becomes easy to determine your physiological state.
Changes in Resting Heart Rate
During a period of training, small changes in resting heart rate can reflect adaptation processes, or just a normal responses to the previous days training load. Resting heart rates can also be affected by ensuing illness, fatigue and overtraining. Also be aware that other factors such as smoking and caffeine, and some medications, can cause changes in resting heart rate. If your resting heart rate is 10 beats per minute or greater above normal then please let your coach know, and if it persists you may want to see your doctor.
According to the Guinness World Records, the lowest resting heart rate on record is 27 bpm belonging to Martin Brady (UK, b. 24 March 1969) - tested at the Guernsey Chest and Heart Unit, Channel Islands, UK on 11 August 2005.
What should it be?
Normal resting heart rates range anywhere from 40 beats per minute up to 100 beats per minute. Ideally you want to have a resting heart rate between 60-90 beats per minute. The average resting heart rate for a man is 70 beats per minute, and for a woman 75 beats per minute.
How Fit are you?
As you get fitter, your resting heart rate should decrease. This is due to the heart getting more efficient at pumping blood around the body, so at rest more blood can be pumped around with each beat, therefore less beats per minute are needed. See this resting heart rate chart which shows the expected heart rate for different ages and levels of fitness.
Any Questions?
See the Resting Heart Rate FAQ
Related Pages
- resting heart rate chart.
- Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Test
- All about Heart Rate and Exercise.
- Measuring Heart Rate — how to measure, using the manual and monitor methods.
- A discussion of What is a normal heart rate?
- Exercise Heart Rate — a measure of intensity and fitness.
- Maximum Heart Rate — how high can you go? and a table of maximum heart rate related to age.
- see also the table of Heart Rate training ranges.
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WordPress Split Testing Themes
WordPress split testing themes is an experiment that tests an original theme and one or more alternative (child) themes in order to determine which version is more effective in improving your WordPress site.
The Nelio A/B Testing plugin will perform the experiment and return real data that will clearly show which version of themes will optimize conversions by attracting more visitors to your goal page or post. A/B and Multivariate testing will give you confidence that each change made to your WordPress site is generating more revenue, more subscriptions, and more clicks! Start split testing themes after you have installed, activated, and configured your A/B Testing plugin.
Instructions for Split Testing Themes
Once you have installed, activated, and configured your A/B Testing Plugin, adhere to the following directions to begin split testing!
Create a New Experiment for Split Testing Themes
- Under the Nelio AB Testing menu, click Experiments to view and manage your experiments. Please note that the first time you access this page, you will not see any experiments.
- Three Different Ways to Begin:
- If you have not yet defined any experiments, click the Create one now!link.
- Click the Add New button placed beside the title, Experiments, in the upper left hand corner.
- Under the Nelio AB Testing menu, click on the Add Experiment option.
- You will now see a list with all the possible kind of experiments you can create. For each of them, you'll see its name, an icon, and a description.
- Click New A/B Theme Test.
Setting Up Basic Information
Fill out the Basic Information of an Experiment. In this particular case, the basic information includes:
- Name: a meaningful and descriptive name for the experiment that will help you identify it in the future.
- Description: any additional information about your experiment that will better help you identify it.
Select Alternative Themes
Under the Alternatives tab, select the Themes you want to A/B Test. As always, the current theme will be considered an "alternative" of the experiment too.
Please note that themes have to be configured before they can be used in an A/B experiment. In order to configure a theme, just select it using your WordPress dashboard (as if you were to manually change the theme), and set up the menu, widgets, and so on. The configuration will be automatically saved in your WordPress database and will be used by our plugin.
Please also note that plugins needed by any of your themes have to be enabled to (our plugin cannot determine which plugins are needed by each theme and, thus, it cannot enable or disable them automatically).
Goal Setup
In order to define and configure which actions should be counted as conversions, go to the Goals tab. Actions are organized into Goals*. You may add additional Goals by clicking the Add Additional Goal button. The first time you access this tab, you'll see the Default, main goal. Actions are added as follows:
- Click on the New Action you want to create (for instance, if you want your users to view the Basic Package or the Professional Package page, add a new Page action).
- Configure the action properly (in our example, you'd have to select the select the Basic Package page, or the Professional Package, as well as any additional info required by the action*).
- Repeat the process for all the actions you need.
* For more information about how goals work and the available actions, check our Conversion Actions and Goals page.
Start Experiment
Once you have defined the experiment completely (that is, you defined the basic information and added one ore more alternatives), you may start the experiment. In order to do so, just go to the Experiments page, hover over the experiment you want to start, and click on Start to launch it.
* Experiments cannot be edited once they're running. You may edit the contents of the alternatives, even though this is not recommended. Changing the definition of an experiment while it's running may impact on the performance of each alternative and, thus, invalidate the statistic results obtained.
Understanding Progress Information and Results
Find the Results of Your Experiment
Running experiments are shown in the Dashboard as simple cards where relevant information is shown. For this kind of experiments, the following information is available:
- Page Views: how many times have your visitors viewed the tested theme (either the original version or one of its alternatives).
- Alternatives: number of alternatives defined in the experiment (original version included).
- Original Version's Conversion Rate: conversion rate of the original version.
- Best Alternative's Conversion Rate: among all the alternatives (original version excluded), it shows the highest conversion rate.
If you want to see more information about the Progress of the Experiment, either click on the experiment's card in the Dashboard or go to the Experimentspage, hover over the experiment, and click View.
General Information
The Progress of the Experiment page is organized in three different tabs. Each tab focuses on a different aspect of the test and provides the most valuable and relevant information related to that aspect.
The first tab is the General tab. There, you'll find:
- A Summary section, which shows the most relevant metrics of your running experiment:
- Big Icon. The icon helps you identify the progress of the experiment quickly. If it's red, then there's either not enough data or none of the alternatives is better than the rest; if it's yellow (with a clock on it), there's a possible winner, but we're not confident enough about the results; and if it's blue (with a #1 badge on it), there's a clear winner.
- Conversion Rate of the Original Version. How your current version of the tested element is performing. This gives you an idea of your current conversion rate.
- Best Alternative's Conversion Rate. The percentage of times that visitors went to the designated goal page o post when shown the best alternative* (without including the original version).
- A Timeline of the conversion rate for the original and each alternative, as well as the total number of conversions and page views that the experiment has.
- Some metadata about your experiment. In particular, you can see the name and the description of the experiment, how long has it been running for, and the finalization mode (if any).
- Finally, you have two additional graphics showing the conversion rates of each alternatives and the improvements of each alternative with respect to the original version.
* The best alternative is defined as the alternative that has the higher conversion rate.
Details of the Experiment Alternatives
The second tab contains information about the Alternatives of your experiment. The alternatives include the original version of your tested element and all the variants you have created. For each alternative, you'll have:
- A Screenshot of the alternative (if available), so that you can see at a glance how it looks like.
- Information (both visual and textual) about the conversions, page views, and conversion rates of each alternative.
- A set of Quick Action Buttons:
- View Content. Opens a preview of the selected alternative.
- View Heatmap. It allows you to view the heatmap and clickmap for the page that is being tested.
- Edit. It is shown when the experiment is running and allows you to modify the alternative.
- Apply. It replaces the Edit link when the experiment is finished. It allows you to override the original page with the contents of the winning alternative.
Conversion Goals and Actions
The last tab contains information about the Conversion Actions of the selected goal. You can change the active goal using the Target icon located at the upper-right corner of the user interface, next to the Stop button.
For each goal, you'll see the list of all the conversion actions it contains. These conversion actions are organized depending on its type.
Take a look at our analytics page for more about about conversion actions and conversion goals.
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It's double whammy Thursdays. On many Thursdays we bring a guest in – introducing you to what they do, let them they take the drivers seat and give us some wisdom of their own. Today's boss of the blog is coming to us all the way from Sweden, meet Cassandra – kitchen ninja, creative health-nut, wife and mother. She is is currently studying to be a health and nutrition coach. She likes surrounding herself with inspiring, kind and happy people – and we're blushing that she finds Prescribe Nutrition to be all of that!
Cassandra is a rock star in the kitchen and she's sharing one of her favorite soups and kitchen tips.
Can you say – YUM?
Cassandra is a rock star in the kitchen and she's sharing one of her favorite soups and kitchen tips.
Can you say – YUM?
|This is about as Swedish a picture can get! The berries on the straw are called smultron, a wild native berry.
Now, if you know the crew at PN and you hear the word cream you likely know there is something up their sleeve. To align with that promise, I'm bringing you (straight from Sweden) one of my FAVORITE Fall soups. The great news is that this soup is guaranteed to satisfy those fall cravings without an ounce of discontentment, but rather, a lot of nutrients that'll warm your insides and put a smile on your face even on those grey days. It's simple, fast and versatile – it's your classic tomato soup with a PN twist of course!
Now that I've put this soup up on a pedestal, let's get to the good part, right? The creaminess! We are going to use cashews to get that creamy, delicious and decadent flavor into our soup.
You may have heard of cashew cream being used in a variety of recipes, but in my soups, I like to just blend in the whole nut. It lends a thickness to the soups that I feel is more satisfying than just the cream. Plus, like all y'all, I don't just have time lying around to waste on going nuts over nuts and straining them through a cheesecloth or something…I just soak them overnight so they are nice and soft and blend them up right with the soup!
|I saved some of the cashew cream blend so you can get a real view of just how creamy it is. Magic for soups.
Before you divert to the recipe, let me just let you in on a little secret; don't limit this cashew creaminess to just tomato soup, oh no no no, go crazy and try to incorporate it into any of your favorite soups, for example, I also love it in my chicken soups.
Creamy Cashew Tomato Soup
Prep + Cook Time: 35 mins
Yield: 6 servings
What you need…
• 2 Tbsp virgin coconut oil
• 1 medium red onion, diced
• 1 large carrot, shredded
• 3 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 15 oz can tomato puree
• 2 15 oz cans crushed tomatoes
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• Fresh ground pepper
• 1 cup raw cashews, soaked
• 2 cups organic vegetable or chicken broth
*For garnish: fresh basil, balsamic vinegar and olive oil
What to do…
1. Soak the cashews in enough water to cover them. You can do this overnight and make the soup the next morning or afternoon, or you can put them in water in the morning and make the soup in the evening.
2. Drain, rinse and then blend cashews until smooth with 2 cups of broth
3. In the pot that you will make the soup in; sauté the onions, carrots and garlic
4. Once onion mixture begins to soften, add the can of tomato puree and simmer 15 mins until completely softened
5. Pour mixture into blender with cashew cream and blend until smooth, then back into pot
6. Add both cans of the crushed tomatoes and season with salt and pepper, just cook until hot
7. Garnish in bowl with a few splashes of balsamic vinegar, chopped fresh basil and a swig of olive oil (Note: I personally like to finely chop the basil and leave it in the olive oil while I make the soup to get a more infused flavor)
|The final product!
If you recall I mentioned that this soup is also versatile, and that's because you can easily switch out the flavors to accommodate leftovers or even just to satisfy your mood. Today was an Italian inspiration, however for Mexican, you could exchange the garnish for a sprinkle of cumin, fresh, chopped cilantro, a bit of lime juice, and maybe even some avocado. I frequently have leftover quinoa and chicken, so sometimes I just throw that in after the blending stage.


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A new week has started, happy Monday!
After a long week of vacation, it's time to kick everything back in gear. There are so many things to catch up on and new things to get started. So here's to to-do lists and lots of coffee, hopefully I can get everything done while looking as stylish as this lady here. I seriously need to get myself some glasses.
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IT jobs recovering faster than after dot-com bubble thanks to cloud
The bursting of the dot-com bubble left a long and lingering scar on the IT industry for many years.
Some would argue, rather successfully, that the industry never fully recovered after the 2001 implosion of an industry that had been propped up by the mad dash to prevent Y2K from changing life as we had come to know it.
Once disaster had been averted and the frantic race to the finish line was over, companies that had been spending big and living large suddenly had little money coming back into the business to support its ridiculous expenses, and the layoffs began.
Today's IT job market is not nearly as grim as what was being faced by the newly unemployed of 2001 ...
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Economists are warning that trying to raise $3 billion by taxing Canada's wealthiest citizens in order to give a tax cut to those in the middle may not work.
Speaking to The Globe and Mail, Michel Kelly-Gagnon warned that Trudeau's proposed 33% tax rate on those earning $200,000 a year or more could actually hurt Canada's competitiveness by driving the combined federal-provincial tax rate above 50% in several provinces.
"What's worrisome is the combined effects … It could affect the brand," Kelly-Gagnon said.
If Trudeau wins October's election and brings in his proposed tax hike, the top rate for high income earners in Quebec would hit 58.75%, in Nova Scotia the top combined rate would be 54%.
Other provinces would hover around 50%.
That is a threshold economists often warn should not be crossed.
The higher the tax rates simply encourage people to find ways to avoid paying such high taxes, or they move.
Philip Cross, the former chief economic analyst at Statistics Canada, told The Globe that Trudeau's proposal won't bring in the $3 billion expected.
"Not a chance," he said. "These are the people who are best positioned to take advantage of loopholes in the system. The idea of soaking the rich to pay for benefits for other people never works out."
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The battery is the main power source of the phone. Without it your Galaxy S5 will be just another expensive paperweight. It is located underneath the back cover and is removable, needless to say, it is also replaceable. The company touted of the phone's better power-saving mode and that might be one of the reasons why it only gave the new flagship 2,800mAh battery, a slight upgrade from S4's 2,600mAh batty.
For power-related issues, the battery should be the first one to be checked and to guide you in your troubleshooting, ask yourself the following questions:
- Is the battery charged?
- Is it properly mounted?
- Are there any liquid elements present?
- Does the battery have physical deformities like lumps or signs of swelling?
To make it simpler, here are the things you should do if your phone refuses to power on:
- Plug the charger in and let the device charge for, at least, 10 minutes and while waiting for the time to elapse, look for signs that the phone is properly charging. You should see the LED glowing red and the usual "charging" symbol on the screen.
- If the phone doesn't show the usual charging signs, remove the back cover, pull the battery out and try to mount it properly, and then attempt to charge again. For a totally depleted battery, it would take several minutes before the indicators light up, so try to wait that long.
- After several minutes have elapsed and the charging signs don't show or the phone won't power on, pull the battery out and check the liquid damage indicator (LDI), the little sticker in the battery compartment. If the little sticker is white, then the phone doesn't have water damage, however, if it turned pink, red or purple, the liquid found its way inside.
- It is also wise to check the battery for swelling, lumps or leaks. A battery that manifests any of those needs to be replaced as soon as possible. Defective or damaged batteries have a tendency to over-charge and explode.
WARNING: Do not attempt to open or repair the battery. Just don't!
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Browse News Websites Quickly Using Google's 'Fast Flip'
Author: Damodhar | Filed Under: Entertainment, Google
Google has launched a new service called Fast Flip that lets us to read online magazines and newspapers quickly without any unnatural delays.
Highlights of Fast Flip Service:
- Provides news articles from top media sources like BBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
- Also contains articles from top magazines like Atlantic, BusinessWeek, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire, Newsweek and Popular Mechanics and online news sites TechCrunch, Salon and Slate.
- It allows us to browse articles by topics or by popularity like 'most viewed', 'most popular' and even 'recommended'.
- By using the big arrows we can flip through the news content very fast and in very natural way.We can also click on the topic to dig into deeper.
- We can also share content with friends and social networking members.
- Google is also planning mobile version for the same service.
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OTTAWA — Former CTV personality Seamus O'Regan will seek the Liberal nomination in the riding of St. John's South—Mount Pearl.
O'Regan was mum about the bid on Twitter Monday but several sources told The Huffington Post Canada his run has been planned for months.
A member of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau's team described the news as "exciting."
The Liberal Party of Canada was not prepared to comment Monday.
"We let candidates announce normally their candidacy when it best fits their campaign strategy," said a spokesman from party headquarters.
O'Regan, a friend of Trudeau's, toyed with the idea of running in Toronto, where he lives, but finally decided on St. John's where he was born.
VOCM News reported that local realtor Jim Burton, who had announced in January he would seek the Liberal nomination, backed out of the race Sunday.
The St. John's South—Mount Pearl seat is currently held by NDP MP Ryan Cleary. Cleary beat former Liberal MP Siobhan Coady in 2011. Coady told HuffPost earlier this year she would not run again federally. She is now seeking a provincial seat.
This wouldn't be O'Regan first foray into politics. He worked in Ottawa as an assistant to Jean Charest during his time as a Progressive Conservative environment minister in the early 1990s. He later worked as a speechwriter for Newfoundland Liberal premier Brian Tobin.
O'Regan spent almost a decade hosting CTV's flagship morning show "Canada AM" before moving to CTV's National News amid much fanfare. He quietly left the network in 2012.
He told the journalism website J-Source in 2013 that he had been working on a new program for CTV that he suggested it didn't pan out.
"[I] just needed a change. All good," he wrote them in an email.
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My BF was craving lasagne, so it was time for me to come up with one for myself as well. As you may know or maybe not. I cook 2 different meals every night; 1 for the BF and 1 for myself. I try to use as many of the same ingredients for both, so that's why you'll find ½ amounts of things in the ingredients, sorry! Then I add meat, cheese and hot spices for him and for me (extra) veggies and vegan cheese, if using.
Now about this recipe; this is of course my version of the lasagne. It wasn't really hard to come up with one for myself actually. I love veggies and putting them in the oven with pasta and cheese can only make them taste better, right?! Well, at least that's what I thought haha. So here is my first ever vegan lasagne recipe.
Serving 2
- 2 Sweet peppers
- 2/3 Zucchini
- 35 gr Tomato Puree
- ¼ tsp Salt
- ¼ tsp Pepper
- ½ tsp Garlic Powder
- ½ tsp Paprika Powder
- ½ can Tomato Cubes
- Lasagne sheets (Gluten free if necessary)
- Vegan Cheese
- Heat up oven to 220 degrees Celsius.
- Cut peppers in half, deseed and grill in air fryer for 7 min on 200 degrees Celsius. (On a grill is possible as well)
- Heat up a grill, coin zucchini and put on the grill.
- Heat up a skillet, put in some oil and let it get warm. Put in the tomato puree and spices, sauté for a couple of minutes. Don't let it burn
- Add in the tomato cubes, let sit for 5 min on low heat. Taste and add seasoning to your likings.
- Grab an oven safe dish, put in one spoon of the sauce. Spread it all over the bottom and lay one layer of lasagna sheets on top. I had to break mine and used 1 ½ for each layer. It will depend on how big your dish is.
- Now put another layer of sauce on top, add 1 layer of peppers, sprinkle some cheese on top and top off with another layer of lasagna sheets.
- Now put a layer of sauce, zucchini and cheese on top. Repeat with the rest; make sure the top layer is sauce and cheese.
- Put in oven for 20-25 min.
Let it cool a bit, otherwise you're gonna burn your tongue for sure. I may or may not speak from personal experience, haha.


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"The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation." -The Palermo Protocols
Human trafficking is a modern-day scourge that shames us all.It is incredulous that after 150 years since the abolition of slavery,millions of people worldwide are still held in one form of slavery or the other.There is estimated to be about 20-30 million slaves in our world today.Men,women and children are trapped in exploitative situations of forced labour and sexual exploitation.
The situation in Africa is compounded by the reality and effects of poverty,making it easy for traffickers to lure victims into a life of slavery by false promises of non-existent jobs and untold riches in foreign lands.
Four countries in Sub Saharan Africa rank within the top 10 countries globally for slaves.A significant percentage of victims are within the West African sub-region with Mauritania alone accounting for the highest proportion of people in modern slavery,a whopping 4% of its population are slaves.
Shockingly, a good number of victims are children who are being used for child labour and for prostitution to service men in squalid conditions.Our fieldwork in Africa has brought us into direct contact with some of these unfortunate victims.We have heard tales of woes from girls whose movement were restricted to simply going out to earn money for their pimps and getting brutalised when they fall short of expectations.Two victims told us of how their hands were tied to their backs and French baguette stuffed to their mouths to restrict them and prevent them from crying out.We have seen nasty physical scars that were left on the bodies of these girls by their slave masters.A girl showed us pictures of bodily harm that was done to her back from one such flogging.
You can help us to fight this barbarism and evil by donating to our cause.Please click on the WHERE AND HOW YOU CAN HELP link to see other ways of supporting the cause.


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Happy Tuesday everyone!
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish to help book bloggers get to know each other a little better while talking about what we all love- books! This week's official theme is Top Ten Blogs/Sites You Read That AREN'T about Books. Well, I don't visit too many blogs that aren't book blogs so I'm going to mix it up a bit today.
Two weeks ago I held the school's Spring Book Fair in my Media Center. It was a successful fundraiser for the Media Center and I always end of buying new books to catalog. In fact, if I could I'd buy the whole Book Fair! But I cannot…alas!
Since I did spend some money on new books (as usual) my theme for the week is Top Ten Books I Recently Bought for my Media Center.
The Loser List #2: Revenge of the Loser by H.N. Kowitt
Danny Shine might have gotten his name off the Loser List in the girls' bathroom, but he's still got problems — like the new kid, Ty Randall. Ty seems perfect: handsome, serious, committed to worthy causes — everything Danny's not. Will out-of-control jealousy wreck Danny's life, or can he undo the damage before it's too late?
Lost in the River of Grass by Ginny Rorby
A science-class field trip to the Everglades is supposed to be fun, but Sarah's new at Glades Academy, and her fellow freshmen aren't exactly making her feel welcome. When an opportunity for an unauthorized side trip on an airboat presents itself, it seems like a perfect escape—an afternoon without feeling like a sore thumb. But one simple oversight turns a joyride into a race for survival across the river of grass. Sarah will have to count on her instincts—and a guy she barely knows—if they have any hope of making it back alive.
Ruby Prosser dreams of escaping the Congregation and the early-nineteenth century lifestyle that's been practiced since the community was first enslaved. She plots to escape the vicious Darwin West, his cruel Overseers, and the daily struggle to gather the life-prolonging Water that keeps the Congregants alive and gives Darwin his wealth and power. But if Ruby leaves, the Congregation will die without the secret ingredient that makes the Water special: her blood. So she stays. But when Ruby meets Ford, the new Overseer who seems barely older than herself, her desire for freedom is too strong. He's sympathetic, irresistible, forbidden—and her only access to the modern world. Escape with Ford would be so simple, but can Ruby risk the terrible price, dooming the only world she's ever known?
Vietnam #2: Sharpshooter by Chris Lynch
Of all his friends, Ivan is the only one looking forward to war. That's because Ivan has never backed down from a fight–especially when it comes to fighting for what's right. He has protected his friends from bullies for years. And now, as war erupts in Vietnam, Ivan wants nothing more than to fight for his country, just as his father did in World War II. Enlisting in the United States Army, Ivan is trained to be a sniper. And he's good at it. Very good. But Vietnam is not the war he was expecting. Somehow the glory and heroism of his father's war stories do not come so easily in the jungle.
The Summer Before Boys by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Julia and Eliza are best friends. Julia's mother is serving in the National Guard in Iraq, and Julia spends all of her time trying not to think about what could happen. So the girls lose themselves in their summer, hanging out at the resort where Eliza's father works. But when they meet a new boy, neither of them is prepared for how it impacts their friendship, and Julia has to cope with the possibility of being separated from yet another person she loves.
Wahoo Cray lives in a zoo. His father is an animal wrangler, so he's grown up with all manner of gators, snakes, parrots, rats, monkeys, snappers, and more in his backyard. The critters he can handle. His father is the unpredictable one. When his dad takes a job with a reality TV show called "Expedition Survival!", Wahoo figures he'll have to do a bit of wrangling himself—to keep his dad from killing Derek Badger, the show's boneheaded star, before the shoot is over. But the job keeps getting more complicated. Derek Badger seems to actually believe his PR and insists on using wild animals for his stunts. And Wahoo's acquired a shadow named Tuna—a girl who's sporting a shiner courtesy of her old man and needs a place to hide out. They've only been on location in the Everglades for a day before Derek gets bitten by a bat and goes missing in a storm. Search parties head out and promptly get lost themselves. And then Tuna's dad shows up with a gun . .
The False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen
In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. Sage knows that Conner's motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a sword's point — he must be chosen to play the prince or he will certainly be killed. But Sage's rivals have their own agendas as well. As Sage moves from a rundown orphanage to Conner's sumptuous palace, layer upon layer of treachery and deceit unfold, until finally, a truth is revealed that, in the end, may very well prove more dangerous than all of the lies taken together.
Thirteen-year-old Olivia Hughes knows what she wants to do with her life—be an actress. And she's already on her way. She just landed a national ad campaign that should get her noticed. But then her luck runs out. A little pimple turns into a full-blown case of acne, with serious side effects for her career, relationships, and budding romance with J.W., the new guy at school. Now all Olivia wants to do is hide, but she can't. She goes from being the girl at school everyone wants to be…to Zitface, a girl who is teased, dumped, and even fired. What do you do when you've lost control of everything in your life? Olivia has to find out the hard way. And maybe what she finds isn't so bad after all.
The Boy on Cinnamon Street by Phoebe Stone
A story about a wounded girl and the boy who won't give up on her. Seventh grader Louise should be the captain of her school's gymnastics team – but she isn't. She's fun and cute and should have lots of friends – but she doesn't. And there's a dreamy boy who has a crush on her – but somehow they never connect. Louise has everything going for her – so what is it that's holding her back?
Azalea and her younger sisters dance in the mysterious silver forest every night, escaping from the sadness of the palace and their father's grief. What they don't understand—although as time passes they begin to get an inkling of the danger they are in—is that the mysterious and dashing Keeper is tightening his snare with deadly purpose. Luckily, Azalea is brave and steadfast. Luckily, a handsome young army captain also has his eye on Azalea. . .
Aren't these a great looking bunch of books?! I can't wait to read them all and share them with my students!


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Ha HA! I got it. Many thanks to Joe, who emailed to tell me that Safari + Typepad = no image upload in posts. I'd meant to load Mozilla/ Firefox anyways, but I never would have thought that Typepad's Upload Image feature wouldn't work in Safari.
This whole changeover bit is actually pretty thrilling. I tend to see myself as pretty computer saavy, but Mac is a new thing for me- I know just enough to get by. It's exciting to figure this out- what's different, what's similar, what is smarter- and there's a lot of that, I'm so loaded down with PC workarounds, it always strikes me as funny when I find things laid out logically. I'm still spending a lot of time trying to do things the hard way, but I'm learning, and my friend Hal leant me an OS manual, which helps a lot, too.
Now that I can post images, it's time for a long- overdue gratitude post to my friend Andrea, who sent me the most thoughtful care package last week. (If ou don't know Andrea, and you're in the Baltimore/ DC area, she runs the sweetest yarn shop in town- focused largely on organic yarns and indie dyers, Spinster Yarns and Fibers in the Lauraville neighborhood of Baltimore, right below The Red Canoe. There's a killer knit & crochet night Saturday evenings, which I miss very much.)
Check this out: this is what I saw when I opened the box.
So many amazing things in there, and best of all, most of them came from home. There was some yarn from my good friend Kate, of Dragonfly Fiber Designs, which made me so happy.
This is Red Rocket:
… and this is Tangled Up In Blue:
There was also some sock yarn handdyed in Spinster colors!
And tea from Zeke's, with a tea ball to go with it. Hooray, Zeke's! (Also some coffee in Red Canoe blend, but that went to the office before I got a chance to photograph it- everyone sends their thanks for that one in particular, Andrea.)
There were some books, which are always welcome; Ruth has been telling me I needed to read Three Cups Of Tea for a while now, too.
And chocolate, too, of course; not just any chocolate, but a boxed set of those amazing odd mixes. The milk chocolate + sweet indian curry bar is my absolute favorite- who would have thought? From Rock Candy, in Baltimore, of course.
And some spinning fiber, 4 oz of tencel and superwash merino from Mama E's c*eye*ber fiber, an indie dyer from Baltimore; I made the Dhub Scarf from some of her roving, actually; I'm a big fan. A good fix for my recent obsession over greens.
Andrea; thank you so, so much. I know I've said this via email, but damn, girl. This was beyond sweet.


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NISENNENMONDAI – "Sorede Souzousuru Neji" (2004)
Drowned in Sound sez:
On paper, treatment Nisennenmondai are the stuff of indie boy wet dreams. Three cute Japanese girls, men's health unexposed to Western rock music until a decade ago, who picked up their instruments and wrapped chiming kraut rock up with pulsing disco beats and shredded feedback. Learning their instruments by playing along to Silver Apples, Sonic Youth, Neu! and This Heat, their intensely mechanical outsider take on Western musical history has garnered them mass appeal from an army of beard scratchers and musical orientalists.
So, raise your hands those of you who still have dry skinny jeans?
This EP dropped a little more than five years ago, and I still give it regular spins whenever I'm not gobbling up something new in my pile. Somehow, though, I've missed out on all their other releases. I'm sure they're up to snuff, if this disc is any indication.
Nisennenmondai – "Sorede Souzousuru Neji" EP (ZIP file)
Nisennenmondai on Amazon.com


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Friday, February 24, 2006
Facts about Successful Yoga Teachers, Part 2
By Paul Jerard
How do you define success for a Yoga teacher? Each Yoga instructor will have a different answer. What is important to one Yoga teacher may be of little importance to another. However, each Yoga teacher has the passion for Yoga within him or her.
This is the common denominator within all instructors of Yoga.
Is success measured by your contribution to the common good? If you are helping people through teaching Yoga, then it must be so. Yoga has many aspects, but all of them are for healing and helping people.
If you have a student who is financially unable to pay, would you turn him or her away? Most Yoga teachers would find a way to help a student in need, regardless of the finances involved.
However, there is a big difference between a student who cannot afford to pay you and one who does not want to pay you. The difference is the perceived value of Yoga and his or her present financial circumstances. The poor see a value in Yoga, if they need it, but cannot afford it.
Here is an extremely special case: There was a potential Yoga student who told me he was "financially strapped" and could not afford to pay for Yoga lessons, but he desperately needed them for his back problems. He explained his case and had me convinced that I should help him at an extreme discount.
Unfortunately for him, one of my students, (his neighbor), recognized him on the way out. My student was almost in tears holding back his laughter. He told me to look down the street for the poor man's car. You could not see it from my office, but I made it to a different window in time to see his "brand new" Mercedes S Class drive off.
Upon further investigation, this potential student owned many luxury cars, a home with a garage the size of a house, a vacation home, and a thriving business. So, why did he do it?
Why did he waste my time with a fabricated story? It is quite simple: Although his character may be in question, he saw Yoga as worthless, of no value, and it was just something that might be fun to "steal." In fact, he "toyed" with my compassion, my passion for Yoga, and my need to be needed.
This is an extreme case, and I am not trying to create cynicism. However, always be aware of the difference between those people who truly need you and those who see your time, contributing to the common good, as worthless.
© Copyright 2006 – Paul Jerard / Aura Publications
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FREE CONTENT: If you are a Yoga teacher, Yoga studio, blogger, e-zine, or website publisher, and are in need of quality content, feel free to use my blog entries (articles) – Please be sure to reprint each article, as is, including the resource box above. Thank you and Namaste, Paul
Facts about Successful Yoga Teachers, Part 1
By Paul Jerard
Should a Yoga teacher take money for classes? How do you define success for a Yoga teacher? Is it your contribution to the common good? Is it by producing successful teachers? Is it by technical prowess? Is it by how many students you have? Or, is it a combination of these factors?
First things first: Are you "selling Yoga?" If you accept a fee for teaching Yoga, no matter how small or large, you are selling Yoga. If you do not like my frank approach to this issue, then teach Yoga for free. This is not a problem, and that is good Karma Yoga.
However, do not open next to a commercially aggressive Yoga studio or ashram. If you decide to do this, you will see your finances "crash and burn" - while your students flock to the wealthy Guru down the street. Yoga students often think that free Yoga is "junk."
Once upon a time, I taught free Yoga too. It is not easy to explain a passion to your family, which drains your finances and challenges the quality of your life on a daily basis. If you keep teaching Yoga for free, you will lose a lot of sleep, before you live on the street, with the homeless, or finally, start charging for Yoga lessons.
It is amusing when very wealthy Yoga Gurus claim Yoga is not for making money. My answer: "Excuse me, how did you acquire all that wealth?" Why would a rich Yoga Guru lead anyone to think that taking a payment for teaching Yoga is wrong?
This is why we should appreciate Bikram Choudry's candid remarks. He says what he thinks and makes no secret about living a life of luxury, due to teaching Yoga. At least, he is honest about his ideas, and he is not a hypocrite.
Therefore, if you accept payments from your students, be honest with yourself. You can always use the money to help others, but you need to pay your overhead costs, eat, and sleep with a roof over your head, first.
If you still feel bad about taking money for teaching Yoga, please open a studio down the street from my North Providence location. We will regularly donate toward your meals at the local soup kitchens. I hope you clearly see my point. So, please do not listen to anyone who tells you that taking money for teaching Yoga is wrong.
Whether a Yoga teacher is rich or poor, a successful Yoga teacher does not worry about money – the universe will supply it.
© Copyright 2006 – Paul Jerard / Aura Publications
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FREE CONTENT: If you are a Yoga Teacher, Yoga studio, blogger, e-zine, or website publisher, and are in need of quality content, please feel free to use my blog entries (articles) – Please be sure to reprint each article, as is, including the resource box above. Namaste, Paul
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Find the Right Yoga Teacher and Yoga Class for You
By Stephen Kreutzer
Though there are most likely at least half a dozen yoga studios and gyms that offer yoga classes in your neighborhood, finding the one class and the right teacher to suit your needs is not always easy. Start at the beginning with these steps and when you have completed all of them you are sure to have located the best yoga class and teacher combination for your schedule, location, interest, and temperament.
* What are your choices? The telephone book, the internet, community newspapers, ad boards at your local health food store or organic grocery store – all of these are great ways to find out what is available to you. Spread the word that you're looking for a good class. Your dental hygienist may turn you onto a class you've never heard of or your librarian may moonlight as an instructor on the weekends. You never know until you start looking.
* When would you like to take your yoga class? Some people prefer to start their day very early with an energizing yoga class. Others like to wind down after work with a long, relaxing class and still others prefer to pop in a 20 minute yoga class every day during lunch or once a week on Saturday mornings. Determining when a class will best fit into your schedule will help you narrow down your choices.
* Which yoga classes are most convenient to you? After you have chosen the best time for you to take your class, consider where you will be just before then. Are you coming from home or work? Do you need something to fill the time while your youngest takes his gymnastics class and therefore need a class near there? Finding one that is close to where you are at the time that you want to take the class will help you maintain an effective, consistent practice.
* What type of yoga is taught at the schools that are close to where you want to be when you want to take your class? If you're a beginner, you may not want to jump into a dynamic Ashtanga yoga class. If you're more advanced, then a mild Kripalu yoga course may not be what you're looking for to push your limits. Call the schools and centers that are left on your list and ask them to send you a list of classes they have available. From these, you will be able to see what is available during the time slots you have open.
* Try them out! Most yoga schools and centers allow you to take one class without signing up for 10 weeks worth of practice. Experiment and try out all the classes that interest you. If you find more than one that appeals to you, maybe you can switch back and forth. If none are what you're looking for, then go back to your original list and expand your parameters or see if there are any yoga schools that you've overlooked. Soon you'll find the perfect class and the perfect teacher for your yoga practice.
About the author: Stephen Kreutzer is a freelance publisher based in Cupertino, California. He publishes articles and reports in various ezines and provides yoga resources on http://www.justyoga.info/
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