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(Nashua, N.H.) Rivier University junior Brett Iannazzo (Methuen, Mass.) smacked a two-out, two-strike single down the right-field line that cleared the bases and lifted the Raiders to a come from behind 11-10 win over Newbury College in non-conference action at Historic Holman Stadium. Iannazzo's hit capped a five-run rally in the bottom half of the ninth as Rivier improves to 6-22 on the season. Newbury falls to 12-21 with the loss.
Trailing 9-0, the Raiders mounted a slow methodic come back. It was led by junior James Magno (Gray, Maine) dazzled the Nighthawks with 5.2 innings of relief limiting the damage to just one unearned run on seven hits. Classmate David Pappalardo (Methuen, Mass.) smacked his first home run of the season – a majestic blast into the trees above the second tier of advertisements in left.
Senior Tyler Ferdinand (Middleboro, Mass.) then trimmed the deficit to 10-4 with a two-run triple in the fifth.
Two more runs were pushed across the plate in the seventh on a RBI base knock by freshman Frederick Kazalski (Dracut, Mass.) and a sacrifice fly from sophomore Brendan Sullivan (Manchester, N.H.) to make it a 10-6 ballgame.
In the pivotal ninth, Rivier loaded the bases on three consecutive hits before junior Jorge Martinez (Methuen, Mass.) drove in a run to make 10-8 on a throwing error. Fellow junior Kyle Flanagan (Bradford, Mass.) was inserted to pinch-run and scored the winning run on Iannazzo's walk-off single.
Senior Ty Seaton (Pawtucket, R.I.) was credited with the win as he pitched a scoreless ninth. Jim McGorry was saddled with the loss following a blown save opportunity.
Sophomore Brandon Thibault (Methuen, Mass.) went 4-for-4 for Rivier with two runs scored and a RBI. Kazalski finished 3-for-5 with four runs scored and Ferdinand added a 2-for-4, 2 RBI night. Martinez also recorded a multi-hit game finishing 2-for-5.
McGorry, Brian Cipolli and Dylan DiFillippo each had three-hit nights and Matthew Peluso finished with a 2-for-5 showing at the plate. Dante Serino pitched well for the Nighthawks as the left-hander was in line for his second win after tossing six innings allowing three runs (two earned) on seven hits while striking out six.
Rivier is scheduled to be back inside Historic Holman Stadium tomorrow evening as they host Norwich University in a Great Northeast Athletic Conference double-header beginning at 5pm. Newbury will travel to Dean College on Thursday afternoon for their next scheduled contest.


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When the Houston Aeros season gets underway come October, you truly are going to need a scorecard to tell apart the players. Because while it may be a way of life in the minor leagues to have roster changes during the off season, the Aeros, who made it into the AHL's Calder Cup Semi-Finals last season have been undergoing a rather massive changeover.
Gone from the club are leading scorer Corey Locke who signed a contract with the New York Rangers, human high-light reel Krys Kolanos who signed with the Philadelphia Flyers, Marco Rosa who signed with the Manitoba Moose, and Peter Olvecky who signed with the Nashville Predators. The team's second leading scorer, Jesse Schultz, is also a free agent, and it's thought that he will be signing a contract with one of the other AHL clubs located in Texas. And Matt Beaudoin, who turned into an offensive force in the playoffs, is still an unsigned free agent.
Fan favorite Mitch Love is also a free agent, and though he's hoping to return to the Aeros, and has such, there appear to have been no efforts made to get him under a contract. Forwards Benoit Pouliot, Danny Irmen, Robbie Earl, and defenseman Clayton Stoner, who were all free agents, will be returning to the club.
It's also looking as if last season's number one goalie, Nolan Schaefer, will not be returning to the team. The Minnesota Wild, yesterday, signed to a two-way contract goalie Wade Dubielewicz. Dubielewicz split last season between Russia's KHL league where he went 11-8-3 (2.77 goals allowed average and .892 save percentage) and the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets where he was 1-2 (3.56 goals allowed average and .870 save percentage). Dubielewicz is currently set to play in Houston where he would probably split time with last season's number two goalie, Barry Brust. But should the Wild trade back-up goalie Josh Harding, which has been speculated, then Dubielewicz would probably get the Wild back-up job, leaving Brust as the number one in Houston and playoff hero Anton Khudobin as the back-up.
The Wild yesterday made some moves to address Houston's offensive problems with the signings of forwards Jon DiSalvatore, Duncan Milroy, and Pete Zingoni. DiSalvatore, who spent last season with the Lowell Devils of the AHL and Milroy, who spent last season with Germany's Ingolstadt ERC, signed two-way contracts which could find them spending time with the Wild during the season. Zingoni, who played with the AHL Norfolk Admirals last season, signed an AHL contract which means he should be with the Aeros for the season.
New Aeros GM Jim Mill likes the signings, and told the Chron's Andrew Ferraro that DiSalvatore and Milroy are great character guys who bring leadership and offensive ability to the team: "(DiSalvatore) is a real versatile forward and can play the point on the power play," Mill said "I have known him a long time, and he brings with him great leadership. "And there is a tremendous upside to Duncan Milroy. He is a really good all-around player and a great character guy."
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While the Aeros might look to be less offensively coming into the season, the Wild did sign two defensemen who look to be spending most of the season in Houston. Jamie Fraser spent most of last season with the AHL Bridgeport Sound Tigers, and Jamie Sifers spent most of last season on the bench of the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs.
The lack of offense shouldn't be too much of a problem for the Aeros should the defense jell. Kevin Constantine is known as a defensive-minded coach -- last year's offensive-minded squad was kind of a different one for him -- and he got the 2007-08 Aeros into the playoffs despite a team that was so offensively inept that it had trouble getting the puck into an empty net. But that team, along with a good defense, had fantastic goal keeping from Schaefer and Brust. Brust, when healthy last season, was not as good as he was in the previous season. And while Khudobin has shown promise -- see his playoff play -- he can be shaky, and he is also coming off an injury.
A somewhat worrisome thing for the goal keeping is that assistant coach Luke Strand, who was in charge of the goalies, has left the team to become the head coach of the USHL junior league Sioux City Musketeers. Strand was the one who helped prepare four different goalies to play during the playoffs, and without his work with the goalies, it's doubtful the Aeros would have advanced as far as they did in the playoffs.
On a personal note, I dealt with Luke Strand a lot the past two seasons, and I'm really going to miss him. He didn't treat me as an idiot because I don't know hockey as well many others know it, and he was always in a good mood. I hope he's very successful as a head coach. (For what it matters, Kevin Constantine is pretty good to deal with, as well. I'm sure there have been many times when he just wanted to say that I had just asked the stupidest question in the world, but he always paused, thought, and gave an answer to the question I really meant to ask.)

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No MatterFriday, October 10th, 2014
"Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest — thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated." –Beau Taplin


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Auto Organize & Sort Large Files Before Backup With Capacity
How many hours have you wasted calculating the file sizes and trying to find out if they will fit in the spare CDs or DVDs you have lying around? Most of us make backup of all important files to the DVDs before formatting the hard drive and some users love to organize their files by date and file type. The procedure of manually calculating and organizing the files is usually quite tiresome, until today.
Capacity is a nifty little portable application that makes organizing the files as easy as possible. Just select drive or directory that you want to backup, select if you want to move or copy the target files, finally select the sorting criteria, and hit Go.
It will automatically sort the files according to the defined criteria. It can sort by file size, by month created, by month modified, and by file type. A perfect app for everyone who wants to make a clean backup without confusing themselves later.
At first we choose 'By File Size' option and selected the 'CD Size', the result can be seen in the screenshot below. Note the file size of each folder is exactly 700MB, you can however always define a custom size(in MB).
Next, I tried sorting by 'File Type' and result was brilliant as you can see in the screenshot below. Each folder contains files of one extension only, the pdf folder contains all pdf files, the exe folder contains all exe files, and so on.
The application automatically searches for the file types in each and every sub-directory and arranges them in perfect order. The move or copy option needs a little explanation, if you choose copy, all original files will remain intact and a new folder will be created where you will find all files neatly sorted ready to be backed up. The move option will move all files to the new folder(depending on your sorting criteria), thus they will no longer remain in their original location.
Our only wish is that there was a build-in progress bar since organizing large files can take some time and there is no way to keep check on the progress. Nevertheless, the app is brilliant and a must have.
Download Capacity
Since it is a portable tool, it works on all versions of Windows, including the latest Windows 7 operating system.


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Core Team
Ashish Verma
Founder & Director, Designer
Ashish founded International Travellers' Hostel in November 2012 out of his sheer love for travel. He worked as a Graphic Designer with renowned companies before starting ITH in Varanasi. Today Ashish lives with his wife and son in Germany. He remotely manages International Travellers' Hostel with the help of technology. Apart from creating policies and maintaining order, he also manages everything web-related.
Cristiane König
Co-owner, Editor
Cristiane checked into International Travellers' Hostel when she visited Varanasi for her volunteering programme as a student of Political Science. The following six weeks spent at the hostel changed her life forever. Today Cristiane, a Political Scientist and an Indologist, lives together with Ashish and their son in Germany.
CEO, Chef
Believer of the Brahma, a devout and bona fide meditator, Shubha, Ashish's mother, is a lovely woman. She cooks some of the finger-lickingly, lip-smackingly delicious foods served at the hostel. She also co-manages another business. And she is a charm among the travellers. She makes International Travellers' Hostel as awesome as it is today. She is a Superwoman!
Cook, General Maintenance
Rajesh is the man! Father of three, Rajesh has been a key member of our family for over 10 years. He's there to take all-round care of the hostel and our guests. Beware: His smile is contagious!
Cook, Kitchen Help
Susheela and her family have been with us for over three decades now. She takes care of our kitchen and also cooks some lip-smacking Indo-Italia fusion pasta from time-to-time!
Jeetu is the man on the streets of Varanasi! A very patient driver, he has been with us for almost 5 years already. He will most likely be the chauffeur for your airport transfer.


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Andreas is award winning interaction designer. He uses algorithms and machine learning to make unconventional connections between inputs and outputs, which allows people to play music using only eye movement and facial gestures, control games by making silly sounds and train algorithms to decide what is funny, funky or boring. His works have been published in New Scientist, Vice, Gizmodo, PSFK and Designboom. He has worked with Google Creative Labs, Carlsberg, Philips and LittleBits.
Joe has decades of product development experience across digital, physical and service sectors. Previously Joe was Head of Design at the award-winning studio Ustwo. He has spent 3 years on the Closure Experiences project researching, writing and publishing the Ends book. Founder of andEnd, the world's first customer ending business. Joe helps some of the worlds leading businesses understand and action better consumer off-boarding. This helps them align with new business models, increase consumer engagement, raise customer satisfaction, broaden business influence, pre-empt legislation, and maximise sustainability.
With a background in Interaction Design at Delft University of Technology, Emilie has an unlimited curiosity to human interactions and a passion for graphic design. She had started her working career as a digital designer at bunq, a new independent, mobile bank. At Koos she's translated many service concepts into finger licking UX prototypes in a wide variety of industries.
Founder and CEO of UXPressia and seasoned UX coach, Yuri is on a mission to help teams and organizations to become more human-centric.
He has co-founded and actively contributes to the three professional communities in Belarus: for UX specialists, Product Managers and Business Analysts. Yuri conducts workshops and speaks at different conferences related to UX, CX and Product Development all over the world: EuroIA (Dublin), UX Salon (Tel Aviv), World Information Day (Berlin), Product Development Days (Krakow), UXistanbul (Istanbul), ProfsoUX (Saint-Petersburg), etc.
Madara's objective at TET is to promote the culture of user-centered design. She improves digital products and inner processes of the company in providing customer-based services. Her faith is rooted in user-centered design solutions, which are based on qualitative and quantitative research. Madara has experience in working with corporative companies, where the main challenge is a collaboration between departments by providing service to an end user.
Co-Founder of a leading UX design event in Germany IA Konferenz with extensive background in journalism. In 2007 Jim published his first full-length book, Designing Web Navigation (O'Reilly, 2007). His second book, Mapping Experiences (O'Reilly, 2016), focuses on the role of visualizations in strategy and innovation. He blogs at experiencinginformation.com and tweets under. Jim has worked with large companies, such as eBay, Audi, SONY, Elsevier Science, Lexis Nexis, and Citrix. He is also very passionate about jazz.
Floor is Senior consultant with a masters' degree in International Law at the University of Leiden (NL). Because of her diverse background (law, recruitment, marketing, business process management, just to name a few), she adds a new flavor to the specialized Koos Service Design team. Having worked in large and complex organizations for the majority of her career, Floor can easily relate and empathize with the challenges her clients face. Her goal is to create tangible and actionable solutions, so her clients can have a real impact. For this reason, she is a strong believer in combining Service design and UX design: their complementary traits do just that for the client and for the end user.
Former product owner of RTL XL with 4+ mio users. Upon receiving his master in Strategic Product Design (TU Delft, NL) Hidde devoted his first years on delivering digital products. Back in the Service Design landscape he now combining his experience in both scrum and design to bring innovative concepts towards actual development.
Jaana is an experienced product manager with a passion of building teams and diving deep into the new and unknown. She has a diverse background in leading products in different sectors with very different business models. Starting with IT agencies, a fintech payment platform, competing with likes of booking.com and today developing Pipedrive to make salespeople unstoppable.
Ieva has over 10 years' experience in marketing. For the past two years, she has run her own marketing agency Marketingfans. Ieva has discovered that companies often struggle to find the right creative and strategic solutions. So she started to look for ideas how to help her customers and discovered the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method. This method is useful for fostering innovations, making strategic decisions, building teams and creating products. The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is a unique method as it facilitates engagement as well as hearing, taking the opinion of each and every member of the group into account.
Liga is passionate to introduce customer centricity into company cultures and also introducing UX to IT & digital product development routines. At If P&C Insurance, she is responsible for introducing UX and Service design in previously engineering-led, classical finance industry company in order to improve and innovate insurance digital services. In about a year design sprints, codesign workshops, team research sessions has become a common practice for digital product development in If and Liga is using her IT background, merging the outcomes of service design workshops with actionable outputs for Agile development teams.
A design-engineer solving large-scale design system problems. Mike leads the design systems team at SurveyMonkey, where they're building next-generation design tools that merge the gap between design and engineering. Previously, he led systems at Twitch, Amazon, and Quora. He has built two startups, nvite (acquired by Eventbrite) and Cage (acquired by bitConfused).
Rolands is software engineer passionate about customer centricity and feedback culture in software development. At If P&C Insurance Rolands is leading a team developing chatbot solutions for customers reporting accidents (insurance claims) in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. Rolands has gained a lot of knowledge and experience regarding building chat bots and dialog systems both in professional and academical fields.
Jana started her journey in Pipedrive working on Growth Projects in Marketing, eventually moving to Product Management building out the core of the product. She is currently leading a team of PMs working on time and communications, supporting meaningful and efficient sales interactions. Previously co-founded a senior healthcare marketplace, aiding with both business strategy and fundraising activities. It got the team to participate in TechCrunch Battlefield but also got Jana close to fainting on the stage. If you want to get along, talk product, music, and fitness.
Mark spent a number of years working in a variety of startups. In 2016 he discovered Design Sprints and fell in love with the process. He now works on Innovation and Business Development at the Design Sprint Academy. The Design Sprint Academy have been adapting and developing the Design Sprint Methodology and are today one of the leading practitioners running global training and facilitating sprints with customers like Google, Redbull, Adidas, Proctor and Gamble, and HSBC. His entertaining storytelling style helps to convey the value of the methodology and lessons learned from the DSA's countless Design Sprints.
A schedule at a glance is listed below. Check the program for this year's conference!
How to actually make Service design part of company's internal culture? We often hear about the internal struggles our clients face when implementing bigger service design projects. Because guess what? Culture eats strategy for breakfast! Floor shares the tools, ideas, and methods that her organisation added to their usual approach in case with KPN - Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company and Rijkswaterstaat - Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. Floor will share some examples as well as explore the term of 'culture', what can be learned from the behavioral design and how it interacts with implementation.
Can design have a greater impact beyond commercial settings? Jim shares his story of applying design thinking techniques and experience mapping to a very real-world problem: hate. Framing an experience map is tricky, as we have to determine what to show from research, as well as what to leave out. Jim shares his approach to these tricky questions as he delved into researching and facilitating a mapping workshop with ex-violent extremists.
WHY should you be using Design Sprints?
In this talk Mark will provide insight into WHY Design Sprints can help you to build better products that your customers will love, WHAT a Design Sprint entails and he will also tell you 3 ways HOW to implement Design Sprints in your company!
* The sprint is a five-day process developed at Google Ventures for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers.
Designers today are caught between shunning redline specs and being overwhelmed to learn new skills to bring their designs to life. Out of this tension comes design systems – not only a more efficient way to design, but a better way to collaborate together. In this talk, Mike will share his experience leading design systems for companies like Twitch and Quora, and deep dive on how SurveyMonkey's design system was built to empower design and engineering teams to come together to refresh their 20-year-old product.
While in theory Service Design and Scrum complement each other in an amazing way, putting it into practice is a form of art. We believe that the key role of future UX-designers is being the linking pin between both these methodologies. Taking up this crucial role, even the most talented UX-designers could use some help in their constant switch between the details of realization and the abstract of the design strategy.
Koos Service Design have created a tool aka product experience canvas that guides their UX-designers in their mission towards customer greatness. They believe this tool offers UX-designers guidance within their day to day job trying to bridge the two strongest methodologies of our time: Scrum and Service Design. During this workshop Hidde & Emilie will make sure to put the tool into context and show you the value by using it straight away.
Designing a solution to a problem can be a really long and drawn out process, but it doesn't have to be. Find out how to channel your inner Usain Bolt by learning the concepts, benefits, and process behind a design sprint from the fastest of the fast Pipedrive sprinters. Then, whether you fail or succeed, you can do it fast!
Who is this for? Any role involved in building products from problems to solutions, but mainly those who are involved early enough starting from the problem definition space (product managers, product designers, etc.)
The purpose of the session is to introduce the principles of Design Sprints and putting empathy and user research in it. We showcase tools and techniques to demonstrate this as an effective way of working. It will provide a method to bridge the gap between strategy and execution to solve big problems and test new ideas. This is a hands-on fast-paced workshop for those wanting to understand their audience, improve efficiency, reduce risk when investing in new products/services.
The workshop will highlight Empathy Mapping: a useful tool that can be used to get the information from the heads of participants regarding their customers, users or whoever they are trying to build empathy for. Participants will get familiar with the tool (they will fill in Empathy Map) and will see the benefits of it's usage by applying it right on the workshop. The aim is to show how simple technique (Empathy Mapping) might help to better understand your users or customers or even colleagues, their needs and problems, and via that understanding come up with a better solutions to these needs and problems.
Supported by UXPressia
How confident are we that the service we design meets user needs at all points of experiencing it? Service blueprint method helps to understand underlying resources and processes — seen and unseen to the user — that make service possible. And helps you to take small and large decisions about actions you can take to make the experience better for users. Madara will share practical examples of using the method in improving services. We will visualize existing services based on Service blueprint method, which helps to discover weaknesses and identify opportunities for optimization.
Supported by Tet
Rolands will briefly talk about building various types of dialog systems and tools to use. Participants will be able to build their own chatbots by trying out different conversation strategies to mitigate typical pitfalls, using machine learning principles to understand user intents. DialogFlow will be used as a main tool, other tools will be described and demo'ed. Rolands will also touch few UX considerations and challenges to keep in mind when designing chat bot conversations. Be ready to dig in hands on!
Supported by Oracle
Have you heard of the saying - we don't know what we know? This can be attributed to the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method. The aim of this method is to make it possible to visualize what cannot be said out loud, because our hands are connected to 70 to 80 percent of our brain cells.
Participants in the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshop will use the special selection of LEGO® bricks to solve a predefined challenge. This session will give the opportunity to experience how different are we and how differently we see answers to the same questions. LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® is also an amazing opportunity to experience that it is possible to put all those different opinions together within one common vision or strategy.
The overall aim of this LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshop is to give you an idea about how you can use this method to solve everyday challenges within your company. However the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method can only be used in the supervision of certified facilitator.
Andreas will talk about how machine learning became an integrated part of his personal practise and curriculum for teaching designer and artists about digital interactions. He will discuss four aspects of unconventional connections: inputs & outputs; his playful machine learning approach and how to train the algorithm without loads of data and expensive computers, as well as how to get started with machine learning.
The ills of consumption have a common source - endings. We design rich, emotional and meaningful experiences to on-board the consumer to a product or service. But, in contrast, the off-boarding of a consumer experience is barren of emotion and meaning.
Researching this theme over the last few years revealed a far more profound story. Its origins deep in hundreds of years of social history, with closer ties to religion and death than to business.
This presentation takes the audience through a remarkable story of why consumer endings have been distanced in the customer lifecycle. And why they are now vital to modern business.
What do you do with a map after it's created? After introducing a broad concept of mapping, this workshop will focus on how to facilitate conversations with your team or client. You'll learn concrete ways to bring maps alive and make your UX insight actionable through examples and hands-on exercises such as:
✅ Initiating a project;
✅ Conducting research;
✅ Creating an illustration;
✅ Engaging teams;
✅ Strategic alignment;
This workshop is suited for designers, product managers, marketing specialists, and business leaders looking to understand how to better get an overview of the customer experience. The course assumes some familiarity with product or service design and/or customer experience management, though that is not a prerequisite.
N. B. Tickets to the workshop are sold separately and limited to 25.
In this workshop interaction designer and digital artist Andreas Refsgaard will show you how to make simple websites that can be trained to react to costume inputs from users.
The workshop will work as a hands on introduction to machine learning with a focus on creating your own interactive applications that live on the web.
Learn how to:
✅ Make interactive websites that can learn and react to user input from webcam and microphone
✅ Train supervised machine learning algorithms in minutes
✅ Use the friendly ml5js library that builds on top of Tensorflow.js
N. B. Tickets to the workshop are sold separately and limited to 25.
When applying service design methods, the convention is to start with persona, journey maps or experience maps, and ideate on them, but the real challenge to make the change is to prototype and validate the new service or service improvements.
In this workshop:
✅ - Liga will briefly touch the service design fundamentals;
✅ - You will work in teams prototyping a service - in actual service design doing.
We will:
✅ - Look into quick ways to test & iterate on your customer experience as a holistic process or physical/environment experience.
✅ - Prototype a service process using desktop walkthrough, cardboard prototyping, and theatrical rehearsal methods.
✅ - Explore several other prototyping, also digital prototyping methods.
The workshop will be a mix of theory and hands-on experience, focusing on practice yourself.
Who is it for?
The workshop is targeted for product managers, product and service designers, UX designers - best if you are familiar with basics of service design and want to learn how to apply it beyond the screens and digital product design.
You might come from digital or finance, banking, telco, government, health or any other industry serving B2C or even B2B customers and willing to improve your service.
N. B. Tickets to the workshop are sold separately and limited to 25.
☝ For the first time in the history of UX Riga we are inviting everyone to participate, share their knowledge and experience at the UX Camp.
It's unconference - there is no programme - it will be formed by you during the day! Make your own experience by 1⃣ becoming a speaker or 2⃣ choosing from parallel sessions to attend.
It's your chance to participate in the creation process - it can be your first speaker experience - taking over the stage or just spend a day learning, networking and inspiring from others!
Everyone is invited to run a 20 min session!:
➡ Workshop;
➡ Discussion;
➡ Case study;
➡ Do a pilot meetup or conference talk;
➡ But first of all - be open minded & support others
You are invited to talk about digital product making, design, psychology, research or less professional topics, e.g. how to make a pitch, presentation secrets, or life / productivity hacking.
It's unconference, so make it quick, dirty, no polished slides required. It's a friendly environment with focus on sharing.
Don't miss exciting announcements about new speakers and workshops ever again!
UX Riga 2019 first day is going to be held in National Library of Latvia building, called also the Castle of Light
Liga was the crazy one, willing and believing there has to be a UX focused conference in Riga. Liga is curating the lineup and looks after attendee needs.
When not organizing UX Riga, Liga is leading the UX team at If P&C Insurance, and running service design workshops,
Since UX Riga day one, Renars is making sure that event is organized each year and is responsible for sponsor and partner management.
When not organizing UX Riga, Renars is the CEO of CUBE Systems. In his free time, Renars is dedicated to renovating his family house.
Inese is the production mastermind of UX Riga, making sure that everything at the event is at the right time, at the right place and taking care of our attendees' experience.
Alongside UX Riga, she is also part of Digital Freedom Festival core team, a board member at Transparency International Latvia, the Executive Secretary at the Latvian Public Relations Association.
Sanita is involved in curating UXRiga content, making sure our lineup matches the industry trends and attendee needs, but also brings some new, unexpected topics and thought perspectives. Sanita will also take care of our speaker experiences.
Outside UX Riga, Sanita is UX/Service designer or can be found somewhere outdoors trekking, kayaking, climbing or backpacking around unfamiliar terrains.


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Hopkins, Samuel,1721–1803, American clergyman and theologian, b. Waterbury, Conn., grad. Yale, 1741. He was a leading disciple of Jonathan EdwardsEdwards, Jonathan,
1703–58, American theologian and metaphysician, b. East Windsor (then in Windsor), Conn. He was a precocious child, early interested in things scientific, intellectual, and spiritual.
..... Click the link for more information. , whose theology was the foundation for his own system, later known as Hopkinsianism. For 60 years Hopkins held pastorates at Great Barrington, Mass., and at Newport, R.I. His preaching, noninspirational and severely logical, was less influential than his writings, notably his System of Doctrines (1793). His views remained potent in American religious life until after the Civil War. Hopkins was one of the first New England ministers to denounce slavery and the slave trade.


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3905 Franklin Avenue, Yellowknife, Website
Date of Visit – April, 2017
The NWT Brewing Company has the distinction of the being Canada's most northern brewery. I found it on-line just before a recent visit to Yellowknife and made it a point to visit so that I could sample their various brews. Their web-site only listed four varieties but it turns out they make quite a few more. As they also have a pub that serves food, I decided to make an afternoon of it…
This is the Woodyard Brewhouse, which is the drinking and eating section of the operation.
The restaurant-pub is very pleasant inside. I was there on a Thursday afternoon and it never got more than about half-full. There was a television playing, and there may have been background music, but neither were any louder than I like.
Here is the bar area. The number of draught taps will give you an idea of the range of different brews produced next door. During my visit, I sampled:
- Turbid Wit
- Kicksled Cream Ale
- Ragged Pine Ale
- Honey Bucket Nut Brown
- Bug Repellent IPA
- Double DEET IIPA
- Oatmeal Stout
The Oatmeal Stout was the only brew I didn't especially like (and I generally like Stouts), but the rest were all very good, with the Double DEET IIPA probably being my favorite.
The menu pretty much consists, as one would expect, of pub-style food. The one dish that really sounded interesting was Beef Short-Ribs braised in Stout but it looked to be a little bit too substantial for that time of day and so I went for the Crispy Buttermilk Chicken Wings with Chipotle Butter. I rather expected from the description that they would be fried in a buttermilk batter but it turned out that the buttermilk formed the base for the dill flavored dip. I am not a huge fan of buttermilk or sour cream in dips but this was not too sour and actually pretty good. As for the wings, themselves, I would never have guessed there was any Chipotle in the glaze and they came off as bit bland.. They were okay, I suppose, just not that interesting.
Overall, I can't say I was wowed by my meal but I wasn't really disappointed by it either and, when all is said and done, I really came for the beer. I liked the nice homey atmosphere of the pub and, if I lived in Yellowknife, I would likely visit often. I give the place a decent 4 out of 5.


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Greatest Gift from a child to his parent
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A proud parent moment remembered more than a decade later.
I was thinking about what I could give my kids this year for Christmas that would have more significance than the games or toys from last year that are not played with two weeks after Christmas.
Then I remembered something that happened many years ago, when my son was in preschool. The teacher gave the children in her class the opportunity to do something helpful and have a parent or another adult write a note that they would read aloud to the class.
It was supposed to be something that your child did that was helpful in some way without coaxing into doing it.
Pleasant surprise
I was pleasantly surprised one day when my son came home with a note written by another parent. A mom whose son has a mild case of cerebral palsy wrote it. The only thing different about this little boy is that he is a tad slower than the rest as far as walking goes. When the children line up to leave the classroom, they pick a partner to hold hands with, so they stay together.
My son apparently 'helped' his little partner in such a way that prompted the mother to write a note to let the class know about it.
The note said: "Your son, Jack, was Steven's partner today in a fire drill. He did not rush Steven in the hallway or down the steps. He also did not try to 'help' Steven down the steps by pulling on his arm.
He was patient with Steven when they walked down the stairs, even though Steven places two feet on each step. Jack knew that Steven was able to do it by himself at his own pace. I was very proud of Jack and wanted to let others know what he did."
Greatest gift to parents from children
I do not have to tell you how proud I was of my five-year-old at that moment.
If I could find a way to 'bottle' that behavior or to manufacture whatever my son was feeling at the time he did what he did, that is what I would like to give my children for Christmas.


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This week I sit curled up next to family, watching small siblings opening gifts. I lie on carpet squinting at economics and algebra textbooks, and watch the pilot episodes of a couple of shows people have instructed me to see, weighing whether I can sustain the commitment to finish their stories. I wake up late. I run. I sit cross-legged on my bed in the temperate glow of my single strand of Christmas lights and ponder things. What am I looking for? What do I need to manufacture for myself vs. find outside of me? What duties/joys am I shirking and why? Where am I needed? I read T.S. Eliot:
The lot of man is ceaseless labor,
Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder,
Or irregular labour, which is not pleasant.
I have trodden the winepress alone, and I know
That it is hard to be really useful, resigning
The things that men count for happiness, seeking
The good deeds that lead to obscurity, accepting
With equal face those that bring ignominy,
The applause of all or the love of none.
All men are ready to invest their money
But most expect dividends.
I say to you: Make perfect your will.
I say: take no thought of the harvest,
But only of proper sowing.
There are things you lose when you pursue a career: Worship as an obvious chief vocation. Time to be still. Motivations unaffected by the hope of rising higher.
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
I have lost the easy stride of a worshiper. I am like my brother who, untrained at piano, can play hymns in full harmony by ear– but when I straighten his bench and sit down to teach him note names and fingerings, inspiration is forgotten and he languishes in a tangle of thumbs and accidentals.
I am that child. Learning technique. Questioning my choice of direction and reminding myself what I leave behind. And still, still drawn to my work. But the work and the life get confused often because I think about density and walkability and sustainability and ecology and community and bake myself into a buzzword pie but forget to till my own land and speak to my own neighbors.
What life have you, if you have not life together?
There is not life that is not in community,
And no community not lived in praise of GOD.
And now you live dispersed on ribbon roads,
And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor
Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance,
But all dash to and fro in motor cars,
Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
I have given you hands which you turn from worship,
I have given you speech, for endless palaver,
I have given you my Law, and you set up commissions,
I have given you lips, to express friendly sentiments,
I have given you hearts, for reciprocal distrust.
I have given you power of choice, and you only alternate
Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
Many are engaged in writing books and printing them.
Many desire to see their names in print.
Many read nothing but the race reports.
Much is your reading, but not the Word of God,
Much is your building, but not the House of God.
And the wind shall say:
"Here were decent godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls."
I fight suburban sprawl and automobile-oriented environments. But imagine I win; who am I then? A decent godless person: her only monument the pedestrian-oriented streetscape and a thousand lost souls?
When the Stranger says: "What is the meaning of this city?
Do you huddle close together because you love each other?"
What will you answer? "We all dwell together
To make money from each other"? or "This is a community"?
Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.
Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
So I hear the questions and I am afraid because it turns out I am not good at walking this path, but I refuse to turn back. Like a fool, I wander forward into the unknown because I just want to HELP, but I don't know if I will. I want to be important, but I'm afraid it would destroy me. I want to be independent but I don't want to be alone. I want to worship AND be accepted in a secularized city. So it's a mess. But I believe I'm meant to wade through it.
In spite of all the dishonour,
the broken standards, the broken lives,
The broken faith in one place or another,
There was something left that was more than the tales
Of old men on winter evenings.
I believe Jesus will be faithful to complete a good work in and through me. Halfway in and halfway out of the dark, I will keep Christmas.
The work of creation is never without travail;
Lord, shall we not bring these gifts to Your service?
Shall we not bring to Your service all our powers
For life, for dignity, grace and order.
And intellectual pleasures of the senses?
The Lord who created must wish us to create
And employ our creation again in His service
Which is already His service in creating.
(Poetry taken from Eliot's Choruses from "The Rock"; I recommend the entire poem.)


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Not a masterpiece but at least it's pleasing for me to look at.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
don't know about you...
Not a masterpiece but at least it's pleasing for me to look at.
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ooooh i really like this Danette. :)ReplyDelete
I hadn't thought about it that way, but yep that's pretty much the way it is done.ReplyDelete
Pretty flower - we have snow today and the bright spot is lovely to look at. Thank you.
Love this visual peek at your process!ReplyDelete
gorgeous flower pic!ReplyDelete
Very nice, Danette. I like the comparison with photography. Such a happy pink, too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 25, 2012 at 8:22 PM
You've described the writing process brilliantly!ReplyDelete
I do a lot of that with my pictures too :) haven't thought about it in a writing sense, but I probably do that too! heheReplyDelete
I too play around in PhotoShop. It's a lot of fun to do so.ReplyDelete
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Babalu Cuts Ribbon, Joins Chamber Community
Elected officials, community leaders and Babalu's growing following converged at the Cuban bistro last week for a ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by the Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce.
Brian Yudewitz, chamber chairman, extended membership and congratulations to the new restaurant, just before the ribbon was cut.
"We want to welcome you to our chamber community and we're going to strongly encourage all our chamber members to attend your establishment often," Yudewitz said.
Babalu, which also incorporates Mediterranean-inspired cuisine, opened its 286 New York Ave. doors in April.
Assemblyman Chad Lupinacci (R-Huntington Station) also welcomed Babalu to Huntington village.
"We know this will be a great addition to the area, and we look forward to the good food. Congratulations to you and the family," Lupinacci said.
Huntington Councilwoman Tracey Edwards envisioned the opportunities before "young entrepreneur" Alan Gotay, who owns Babalu.
"On behalf of the Town of Huntington, and especially the Huntington residents who are going to love this restaurant and the family-rich history, I want to make sure that you all not only taste the food, but you walk through and see all the gems and pictures that tell this family's history," Edwards said.
Gotay, a 26-year-old from Huntington with a Puerto Rican and Cuban background, is also a professional boxer. He's fought at The Paramount 10 times.
"I appreciate the support immensely, I couldn't have done it without a lot of people here and a lot of people taking a chance on me. I hope to be here for a very, very long time and build as I live here and support the town," Gotay said.
He said the frenetic pace of the business has been an almost surreal challenge toward his passion and goals that he's embraced wholeheartedly.
"It's been fast, it's been hectic and it's been like a roller coaster ride — a good one at that."


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Every December we take the time to reflect on what worked, what didn't, what we loved, what we hated, what we could have done better, and what we effing rocked! The next step is to determine goals for the upcoming year. In determining what these goals are it is imperative to success that you also define the tools and resources you need for execution. I've put together a list of things that should be on every social media professional's Christmas list.
- Analytics: Take a look at the BI already in place at your company. Can you utilize existing systems to your advantage? Work with your SEO or online marketing team to determine tracking codes for your url's and use them every time. Track where you're driving traffic and then what they are doing once they get there. What kind of conversion rate do you have for the traffic you are sending? These analytics will help you identify where your successes are as well as what opportunities for improvement lay right under your nose.
- Data Visualization: So you have a fancy analytics tool set. Now what? Look into a data visualization suite to help you make sense and derive actionable meaning from the numbers you are tediously collecting. Tools like Tableau Visualization Software. Something like this offers deep levels of customization in an easy to use and understand dashboard. This allows a robust understanding of your demo and target market as well as the ability to report on value delivered from your utilized channels.
- Good Headphones: No seriously. Not kidding on this one. The social world can be a ridiculous place at times. Content flying at you all day. Tweets pop up. Google alerts landing in your inbox. Working in social media can be hectic if you are not skilled at the art of focus and organization. For me, a critical piece of this is having awesome headphones. Keeping the noise of the world out helps me stay focused on the task at hand. Also – turn off the pings and dings from your tools when reading and writing. That's a bonus tip from me to you. The constant distraction can hurt your work flow by bringing you in and out of attention on the task at hand.
- Dedicated Dev and Design Resources: In a perfect world you would have dedicated dev resources. Ensuring you have your graphics and visual elements in check and used consistently will help to improve your brand recognition. Having a visually pleasing site can help to improve bounce rate and engagement as well. In the real world, you probably have a team with 60,000 other things to do but we're building a WISH list here people so don't judge me! This is the team that can help you build out that viral content/widget/app. This is the team that can help you turn your brainstorms into tangible awesomeness.
- Monitoring Tools: Knowing what is being said about your brand is CRITICAL. Google Alerts are a good place to start. But that is not enough. Consider investing in tools such as Raven and/or Trackur for tracking and measuring brand and keyword mentions. This allows you to help track sentiment as well as respond to issues as they arise.
- Blog: For many of us this goes without saying. You. Need. A. Blog. If you don't have one, make this a priority. There are innumerable benefits ranging from increasing authority, traffic, and inbound links to helping to build and engage a community, if done correctly, around your site.
- Twitter Tools: Running a contest and need to select a winner at random from Twitter? Need to report up to management the growth in followers? Well there's an app for that. No really. Check out Pistachio's latest project over at OneForty.com It is an app store for Twitter related tools. Browse through the store by searching keywords or categories from analytics to networking tools. I guarantee you will find at least one time saving resource in there.
- Time/Project Management: There are lots of tools and apps for managing projects and timelines. Find one, or develop your own. Whatever route you take, this MUST be on your list. It is easy to get fragmented in your efforts. Having a solid organizational system helps to keep you and your projects on track.
- Brainstorming Time: It's hard to be creative and inspire genius while crunching numbers and evaluating analytics. Set time aside either daily or weekly for brainstorming time. Maybe it's a 15 min. coffee run in the afternoon. Maybe it's the yoga lunch class. Whatever it is. Put it on your calendar. Block that time off as busy. Dedicate time to your brain and let it do what it does best.
- Professional Development: That's a fancy term for books and coffee. The consumption of knowledge and caffeine are directly related to success. Directly. Not every book will be revolutionary for you. Not every latte will have the perfect foam. But it is critical to keep consuming. You can learn just as much from what sucks, as what does not, if you're thinking critically and constantly evaluating.
Like most of us your resources are probably strained. Unless you live a charmed life you probably aren't going to get everything on your Christmas list. But in my Winter Wonderland we get to have our candy canes and eat them too. Pick and choose from your list what will have the greatest impact on your success in the upcoming year and fight like Rudolph to make it happen!


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How Do You Compare to Serious Business Bloggers? [Infographic] – Are people spending more time blogging than before? Are people writing longer or shorter posts lately? Has publishing frequency changed for the typical blogger? We asked 1074 bloggers the same 11 questions. We learned that the business of blogging is changing. Some things are consistent, but a trend has emerged. Orbit Media Studios
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Joie Muscat
We tasted this wine at the store and instantly placed our order to the winery!
Notes from Joie: Muscat holds a fond place in our memories of travel to the north of Italy. There we found many different types of Muscat but we particularly prized the fine white and yellow varieties. For JoieFarm's estate vineyard, we chose to plant 2 acres of Moscato Giallo, also known as Goldenmuskateller or Yellow Muscat. Muscat is an intensely aromatic varietal, both floral and fruity. While most other grape varieties seem to be at their best mimicking a broad spectrum of diverse flavours, the true charm of Muscat is that it tastes as though you are actually enjoying the grapes themselves. That is why we call our Muscat "The Pure Grape." This wine is an amazing aparativo, delicious on its own or a great pairing to spicy aromatic food.


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Meridian, Mississippi It was a great night for entertainment in Meridian.The MSU Riley Center hosted "The Heart Behind the Music" concert, featuring several country greats.
Billy Dean, Deana Carter, Collin Raye, and Bryan White took the stage to a crowded theater and played fan favorites as well as new songs. The singer/songwriters told the stories behind some of their best songs.
Newscenter 11 caught up with Deana Carter and Billy Dean before the concert. Dean says this part of Mississippi is special to him. He attended East Central Community college years ago on a basketball scholarship: "I've got some old classmates coming," Dean told us. "That will be exciting because that was one of the most homesick times I've ever had, and the folks in Mississippi took me in and made me feel at home, so it's good to be back. "
Deana Carter was fascinated with the Riley Center. "It's rare for us to get to play in a place like this, that has the history, that they've kept authentic," Carter said. "And just being a part of The Heart Behind the Music, which is really the stories behind the songs, you know, and to be with these guys, just back to basics. Pick up a guitar and tell a little bit about where the song came from, and just play it!"
The big events continue at the Riley Center. Officials will announce the Fall and Winter Concert lineup this Thursday.


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Minutes of May 20, 2014 Meeting
Meeting was called to order at 7 PM. Eleven members were present.
Treasurers Report: Mike spent $149 for the following items; $50 for church rent, $67 for weed killer, and $32 for T-posts. We made $25 on the last raffle.
Minutes of the last meeting were accepted
Old Business:
Fun Fly will be posted on the Blog
The rent for the field was paid three years in advance and will need to be renewed in July 2015 @ $1/year.
Saturday August 16 is Model Aviation Day. John is checking into a table at WalMart and the soccer field is in use that day and will not be available to us.
The AMA says we will be covered at the Church field if we choose to use it that day.
A swap meet discussion was tabled for later. Hobby Proz will have a swap meet on June 7 at 9 AM.
Nancee Matthews has agreed on the wording for the "Brick" memorial at AMA.
Show and tell for the next meeting: Ralph has some videos. Future demo of repairing a crashed plane.
Fun Fly at Cochiti Lake to be scheduled in September for BARC only.
New Business:
A work party was discussed to throw the tumbleweeds over the fence.
We will have a fun fly on July 12, Saturday with pot luck.
The next gym fly is scheduled for June 6


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Soror Freyja is a Thelemite who associates with Blue Equinox Oasis in the Valley of Detroit, Michigan.
How did you hear about Thelema and what drew you to it?
Before we got married, my boyfriend had been searching around for a ceremonial magic community to join, and since he had been a fan of Crowley and the Thoth Tarot for years, it seemed a no-brainer for him to seek out OTO. We went to our first Gnostic Mass together, and right away as I was reciting the Creed, I thought to myself, "I already believe this." I initiated a couple years later, once I had seen a clear connection between the Book of the Law and the way I wanted to live my life.
What is Magick to you?
Spiritual hygiene. Self-transformation. Play. Communication. Sanctuary. Knowledge. Logos.
Why do you think Thelema is different from other philosophies? What makes it stand out to you?
The emphasis on self-responsibility.
What do you love about OTO? What drew you to it? What makes you stay?
The people; my brothers and sisters.
What do you think are most important Magick and meditation practices?
For me, it's not so important what you do, but that you do it regularly enough so that in all other areas of life, you can remain present to your Will and fulfill on it. Magick and meditation time is "me time," where we are not beholden to anyone or anything but our very selves. You got to be in that space as much as is necessary to sustain the life you're committed to.
What do you think is the thing that most people misunderstand about Thelema?
People still don't get that the freedom to practice your Will takes responsibility. Yes, it sounds like a broken record when we say "Do what thou wilt doesn't mean do whatever you want," but we still gotta get on the soapbox and scream and yell because now Thelema is more public than it's ever been and new people are finding out about it more and more. If you want to create space in your life for your True Will, you have to commit to getting every other distraction out of the fucking way. And that means HANDLE YOUR LIFE so you can do what it takes to fulfill on your Will. Support yourself so you have the means to do your Will. Eat well, and take care of your body which is the vehicle of your Will. Take care of your mind; feed it and stimulate it to keep a focus on your Will. Keep a schedule so you can make time for your Will. Be responsible in your relationships with others, because they are in the sphere of influence where your Will is expressed. Too many people use occult practices of all kinds to escape from responsibility, rather than move toward it as an expression of their magic.
Why do you think OTO is important to Thelema?
It provides community for people who want it. There are plenty of Thelemites out there who prefer not to associate or be a part of an organization, but there are others who would rather not risk feeling alone or isolated in their beliefs and practices, so OTO is there for them.
What do you think are the most important aspects of Thelema?
Freedom and responsibility. Freedom IS responsibility, and vice versa.
Do you have any stories from any experiences with Magick?
The particular system of Magick I use most is the Tarot. Discovering the Tarot has made the single biggest difference in my life – it GAVE me my life. It was the first taste of the occult I ever got, and it came in my early recovery from major depression. Once I learned how to use the Tarot as a tool for self-transformation, my hunger for occult knowledge just deepened from there, and my forays into folk and ceremonial magic brought me closer to myself than I had ever been before. From a nothing existence, I was able to get a job, a place to live, a wonderful man who eventually became my husband, an extended family of friends, new career choices….It's incredible to think back on it now. Everything I have in my life I owe to my work with the Tarot.
Where do you see OTO going in the next 10 years?
I would like to see self-sustaining lodges where there's little to no worry about where the money is coming from.
How do you see the world differently as a Thelemite?
I'm much more relaxed.
What is your favorite part about the Gnostic Mass?
What speaks to me most about the Gnostic Mass is, ironically, what doesn't "speak" at all: the great mystery and secret that lies hidden in plain sight throughout every inch of the temple and in every word of the text. I've been told that the ultimate secret of the OTO is hidden in the Gnostic Mass, and I totally feel that. I want to be precocious and find out what it is in a literal sense, but the more I explore and sink into the journey, the less literal everything gets. And the common denominator emerges again and again: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Suddenly I feel like the protagonist in Diary of a Drug Fiend when he basically says, "Fuck the Great Work; I'm gonna just do my Will."
How do you see Thelema evolving in its 2nd Century of existing (i.e. after 100 years)? How is it different or how is it going to be different? What has grown or changed?
The Order has become way more public now than when it started. Because there's more public awareness of alternative spiritual systems in general and Western occultism in particular, I think the veil of secrecy around our secret society has thinned out quite a lot. We're on the Internet alongside everyone else now, and there's a huge insistence to promulgate the Law not just by coming out of the closet but dashing out into the streets, basically advertising ourselves wherever possible. But what I think we're forgetting is that the Order exists to protect occult knowledge, not to give it away wholesale. In the same way that people have misconceptions around "Do what thou wilt," I think they also have misconceptions about what it means to promulgate the Law. A lot of Thelemites think that it means recruiting as many people into OTO as possible, but I don't believe that. I don't think we need everyone in the world to belong to OTO or be a self-identified Thelemite to have the Law of Light, Life, Love and Liberty as a possibility for all people. The Book of the Law also does not prophesize or propose a future in which all people on earth are Thelemites: "Let my servants be few and secret; they shall rule the many and the known." So I'm glad we don't have to go knocking on doors to "share the Good News of the Great Beast 666" (can you imagine what a Jackass stunt that would look like?). Let Christians and Mormons play that game. We don't have to. If you want to promulgate the Law, simply be the Thelemite that you are, such that you are fulfilling your Will in life. If someone then comes up to you and says, "How do you do that?" then be ready to make a new friend.
Is there anything else you would like to talk about related to Thelema, OTO, and/or Magick?
Thanks for letting me share!


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If you've been following my random posting then you know I've been on a tidying rampage, pretty much cleaning out and giving away and hauling stuff to the dump in massive proportions. After living in Sweden for three years I've changed. I'm addicted to s p a c e . I love clean, sparse, unadorned environments. Yes Swedes, you've changed me. You've gotten into my heart and soul and I'm all the… Read More
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A couple of weeks ago I helped teach a Sunday school lesson to six-year olds–some of the wisest people around. On the table we had pictures for them to chose from; they were to pick something they were grateful for and share it with the class. One beautiful little Swedish girl with blonde curly hair and big blue eyes held up a picture of a frown. She said that she was grateful… Read More
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West Covina High School Bulldog Band & Colorguard Spaghetti Dinner & Fundraiser
- Date: 04/27/2018 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
- Location: West Covina VFW Post 8620
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Police say a Maine man was stabbed in the face at his home around 9 p.m. Thursday after getting into a fight with another man after they both crawled into a pit bull's dog cage.
Maine State Police said Alan Hartley, 38, of Glenburn, is being treated for a stab wound at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.
Jesse Merritt, 25, of Charleston, the man alleged to have stabbed Hartley, has been charged with elevated aggravated assault and is being held at Penobscot County Jail in Bangor.
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Police said the two men know each other and got into a fight after they crawled into a pit bull's cage. The dog is owned by Hartley and is kept at his Page Road home. They said it is not clear why the two men were fighting in the cage.
The dog was not involved in the altercation.


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Charging up the climb out of South Platte Canyon, I played leap frog with a team of cyclists and an equestrian couple through the mid-morning heat. I can't pretend I wasn't jealous of their various, faster mounts; particularly of Leslie's mule's dainty, sure hooves. Man, if I had a second pair of legs to trade out…well, I'd be unstoppable.
Happy for the bandana soaked in cool river water and my constant trail companion Rainbow Sun Hat, I moved into 12 miles of terrain which had been stripped by the 1996 Buffalo Creek Fire. Faces of 1.1 million year old Pikes Peak Granite emanated rosily from beneath domes of scorched earth, adorned by yucca, indian paintbrush, and other disturbance loving plants. But no shade, making the already hot weather even more challenging.
The bare earth made formations such as Long Scraggy Peak stand out in dramatic contrast. As I hiked along, admiring the massive, standing shards of rock, a hawk soared up from one particularly tall and unique formation. I laughed upon distinguishing the shape and realized, "that mountain just flipped me the bird!" Literally.
From only two ridges back a billow of smoke marked the High Park Fire. It coated the back of my throat, planting an interminable itch which neither water nor dirty finger could quell. As of today, "The High Park Fire has burned 87,284 acres and is 75 percent contained." As other fires spring up and tear across the state I watch the Trail Forum closely and give thanks for those fighting to protect us from such catastrophes.
Through the thickly forested lowlands the flowers: Columbines and skyrockets, clustered close into drying drainages. They demonstrate much my same impression of the low water conditions. Though I can smell it, and the green of the surrounding shrubs tell of water in the earth, it is trickling and muddy in most places, giving rise to the eternal hiker question: pump or purify? I've done fine with a bandana, wide mouth Gatorade bottles and Aquamira; but the mosquitoes love it.
At 8000 ft we encountered the first groves of Aspen. The largest living organism on the planet:
Aspen typically grow in large colonies which are clones derived from a single seedling, and spread by root suckers. New stems in the colony can appear 130 feet from the parent tree. An individual tree can live for 40-150 years above ground, but the root system of the colony is long-lived and can be thousands of years old. ~Dr. Joanne Stolen
Winding along ridges and up from valleys, the trail climbed slowly higher into the Lost Creek Wilderness Area where 2fer and I tackled the steep old fire roads and haphazard switchbacks. For a day we followed up a creek meadow alley which threw me back to the hike to Beaubien in Philmont. I reflected on my cousins, Brian and Travis who are out there this summer, carrying on a proud family tradition and forging their own bright futures. We are proud of you boys!


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To help keep your hearing aids working effectively for years to come, you'll want to learn about proper care and maintenance. And while it may feel like an additional burden, with the right approach your hearing aid care will come to be easy and automatic.
The trick is developing productive habits.
If you assimilate your hearing aid care into your daily and nightly routines, before too long it won't feel like any additional work at all.
Here are some tips for the daily care of your hearing aids (which your hearing specialist will also discuss with you):
Clean your hearing aids daily – Attempt to include your hearing aid cleansing into your evening routine, so it becomes as automatic as brushing your teeth. This is crucial because daily hearing aid cleansing can protect against the accumulation of earwax, dirt, and dust into the various parts of the hearing aid, which can lead to distorted sound over time.
You'll want to clean your hearing aid with a smooth, dry cloth, while averting any kind of fluids that could destroy the hearing aid electronics. Consult with your hearing specialist for special guidance on cleaning each kind of hearing aid.
You may also consider investing in a hearing aid sanitizer, which utilizes ultraviolet light to safely and completely kill hazardous pathogens. Hearing aid cleaning kits are also obtainable with all of the tools you'll require to safely and securely clean the device without harming the electronics.
Check the batteries – Hearing aid batteries should be checked and replaced regularly to ensure peak hearing aid performance. Consider using a battery tester in the morning to assure you have plenty of power for the rest of the day, and carry a spare set of batteries with you.
Before bedtime, when your hearing aids are not being used, turn them off and store them in a cool, dry spot with the battery door open.
Store your hearing aids in a safe and secure place – With respect to storage, you'll want to remember three things:
- Keep the hearing aids away from moisture. This means that storing your hearing aids in the bathroom is probably a bad idea.
- Avoid subjecting the hearing aids—and hearing aid batteries—to temperature extremes. You'll want to store your hearing aids in a cool, dry place.
- Avoid storing your hearing aids out in the open, where they can become damaged.
We recommend storing your hearing aids in a container or drying kit inside the drawer of a bedroom side-table. This will safeguard the hearing aids from moisture, temperature extremes, and damage from being bumped off the table.
In addition, remember to remove your hearing aids before taking a shower, swimming, or using a hair dryer or hair spray.
Maintain ear hygiene – Even though earwax has several favorable attributes, like protection and lubrication of the ear canal, it can cause severe damage to your hearing aids. As it becomes wedged within the hearing aid hardware, sound can become distorted.
Ensure that you're keeping up appropriate ear hygiene, and if you experience significant earwax, think about scheduling a visit with a professional.
Carefully put in your hearing aids – When inserting your hearing aids, lean over a table or soft surface in case that the hearing aids fall. Hearing aids come with fragile electronics, so a fall on a hard surface can cause significant damage.
Even with meticulous cleaning and maintenance, after a while the hearing aid will call for more thorough cleaning or repair.
To ensure that you consistently enjoy the best sound possible, we highly recommend having your hearing aids professionally cleaned by a hearing professional a minimum of twice per year.
Hearing care professionals can provide you with a deep cleaning, a tune-up, and will on occasion replace parts. Staying on top of this routine maintenance will prolong the life of your hearing aids and will assure that you achieve the best sound.


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I have family and friends with children in the Hillsboro School District. That this issue is taking place here, a rural community about 45 minutes south of St. Louis, is pretty unbelievable. A young man, a senior in high school, has decided to "identify" as a girl and was given use of the gender-neutral faculty restroom. It wasn't a good enough option; he demanded use of the girls's locker rooms and restrooms as well, a move which made the girls extremely uncomfortable. Many students and parents oppose:
There were so many people who showed up to Thursday night's school board meeting that they had to move it into the gym, something that has not happened for a regular meeting in the past. This topic was not even on the agenda, but it was clear why most parents were in attendance, judging from the thunderous applause and standing ovation after one parent spoke.
Parents said their daughters were uncomfortable, because even though Perry wears dresses and a wig, she is still physically a male.
Derrick Good, a parent of two girls at Hillsboro and an attorney, worked with other parents and a conservative advocacy group to draft a new school district policy on the issue, which he believes would be upheld in court. The policy calls for students to use a restroom associated with the gender they were born with, or a gender neutral restroom.
"They should have the ability to do whatever they need to do in the privacy of the bathroom without having a male in there," Good said. "They have a right to their own bodily privacy, and I've raised my girls, and many of these parents have raised their girls, to protect that privacy. They don't share that with members of the opposite sex."
Good said the school district is concerned about stripped funding if a civil rights lawsuit came their way, but he feels the school board should be more concerned with his daughters' rights to personal privacy.
(A programming note, Good will be on my radio program today which starts at noon central.)
Where is the consideration for these girls? For their parents? Why was the gender neutral restroom no longer suitable? The option still stands and is available for the young man's use.
[Perry] told teachers and administrators at Hillsboro High School, where she is a senior, that she would no longer be content to use a unisex faculty bathroom. She wanted to be treated like other female students, including access to bathrooms and locker rooms for girls.
"I wasn't hurting anyone. I didn't want to be in something gender-neutral," she said, referring to the faculty bathroom administrators encouraged her to use. "I am a girl. I am not going to be pushed away to another bathroom."
Unfortunately, he isn't like other female students because he isn't female. He also doesn't get to determine what's best for hundreds of young girls or judge their reaction. Hundreds of students walked out in protest. The young man claims the girls are bigots for wanting to be comfortable while undressing:
"I think this is pure and simple bigotry I think they are using their claim they are uncomfortable, to target me a transgender woman." said transgender student Lila Perry.
Said student Sophie Beel:
"I find it offensive because Lila has not went through any procedure to become female, putting on a dress and putting on a wig is not transgender to me." said student Sophie Beel.
She's right. The female gender is more than a wig and dresses. It's more than fake boobs and lipstick. It's offensive that the view of what it is to be a woman is boiled down to cosmetic appearances. Furthermore, it's offensive that this sexist, patriarchal attack on young, minor girls is a legitimate consideration with the school board. These girls have a right to bodily privacy. They have a right to modesty with their bodies and a right to feel comfortable in school and as they dress out for gym and afterschool athletics. It's horrific that a male is attempting to victim-shame these girls into giving up their right to a safe and comfortable atmosphere when they undress or use the restroom.


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Logitech just revealed its lineup of hardware for the forthcoming Google TV.
Its primary offering is the Revue -- a $300 box and keyboard combo.
But, if you want to upgrade you can spend $130 on the Logitech Mini Control. It has a small keyboard, a swirly wheel, and other controls. It costs a stunning $129.99.
We suppose some people will want to shell out for this thing, but it's hard to see why. The iPod Touch works with the Logitech system. That means if you wanted to spend an extra $100 you could get a much nicer remote with many more functions.
Both Logitech controllers are pretty ugly and complicated, not too unlike the Sony Google TV remote we saw earlier.
Logitech is also offering a video camera for $150 which would allow video chat on the TV through Google TV.
And here's the Revue, with keyboard remote.
Get the latest Google stock price here.


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Alastair CreelmanSpecialist e-learning
E-learning specialist, business intelligence, project leader based at the University library. Distance/net-based learning, quality in e-learning, open educational resources (OER), MOOCs, social media in education, virtual mobility (global classroom).
Member of the Lnu Global Classroom project, promoting virtual mobility and internationalisation.
In June 2017 was awarded the title of EDEN Fellow (European Distance and E-learning Network) and elected to EDEN's NAP (Network of Academics and Professionals) Steering Committee.
Very active in social media, primarliy through two blogs on educational technology - a reflective blog in English, Corridor of Uncertainty, and a news blog in Swedish, Flexspan. Active on Twitter as @alacre.
Course leader on an open course for teachers, Open Networked Learning, in collaboration with colleagues from Lund University, Karolinska Institute, KTH and Varsity College, South Africa.
Also teaching assignments in teacher training programme and workshops in aspects of e-learning.
Involved in the ongoing Erasmus+ project MOONLITE (MOOCs for social inclusion & employability) and n EU South Baltic project FOCUS (Facilitating blue growth with open courses by utilizing R&D products and virtual mobility).
I have also worked in several completed Erasmus+ and Tempus projects (eg LangOER) Also a member of two Nordic (Nordplus) projects (Effective webinars, Silent learners).
Member of an ISO standardisation committee (ISO 21001 Management Systems for Educational Organisations).
Swedish representative in the Nordic Council's NVL Distans network.
Member of the steering committee of the Swedish network for IT in higher education (ITHU)
Article in journal (Refereed)
- Creelman, A., Ehlers, U., Ossiannilsson, E. (2014). Perspectives on MOOC quality : An account of the EFQUEL MOOC Quality Project. INNOQUAL - International Journal for Innovation and Quality in Learning. 2. 78-87.
- Creelman, A., Reneland-Forsman, L. (2013). Completion Rates – A False Trail to Measuring Course Quality? : Let's Call in the HEROEs Instead. European Journal of Open and Distance Learning. 16. 40-49.
- Ossiannilsson, E., Creelman, A. (2012). From proprietary to personalized higher education : how OER takes universities outside the comfort zone : [ La formazione universitaria da proprietaria a personalizzata : come le OER potrebbero portare le Università fuori dalla loro comfort zone ]. Je-LKS : Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society. 8. 9-21.
- Ossiannilsson, E., Creelman, A. (2012). OER, Resources for learning – Experiences from an OER Project in Sweden. European Journal of Open and Distance Learning.
- Creelman, A., Molka-Danielsen, J., Carter, B. (2009). Empathy in virtual learning environments. International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations. 6. 123-139.
Conference paper (Refereed)
- Creelman, A., Breznik, K., Špur, N., Frumen, S. (2019). Didactical Use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Modern Teaching Practices (MTPs) in Higher Education. Proceedings of the 2ND International Scientific Conference: »Teaching Methods for Economics and Business Sciences«. 29-50.
- Creelman, A., Löwe, C., Diedrichs, P., Kulmala, L. (2018). Mainstreaming virtual mobility - helping teachers to get on board. Telecollaboration and virtual exchange across disciplines : in service of social inclusion and global citizenship : Book of Abstracts. 24-24.
- Creelman, A., Jansen, D., Zourou, K., Löwe, C. (2017). How Relevant is Open Education for Refugees? Experience and Discussion from the Erasmus+ Project MOONLITE : Workshop. 26th EDEN Annual Conference Diversity Matters! 13-16 June 2017, Jönköping.
- Röthler, D., Creelman, A. (2016). Learning Design and Conceptual Issues : Is there a conflict between open and closed learning spaces? Can closed facilitate openness?. Proceedings of the EUROPEAN STAKEHOLDER SUMMIT on experiences and best practices in and around MOOCs (EMOOCS 2016). 515-519.
- Creelman, A., Schneider, M., Slåtto, T., Röthler, D., Nørregaard, L., et al. (2015). Webinars for effective collaboration. The need for change in education. Openness as default? : Official Proceedings of the International LINQ Conference 2015, Brussels, Belgium, 11th-13th of May 2015. 93-94.
- Creelman, A., Ossiannilsson, E. (2011). Quality improvement in the use of OER in higher education - challenges and consequences. PROCEEDINGS EADTU ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2011, Eşkisehir, Turkey, 3 & 4 November 2011 : Universities and regional development in an open knowledge society; sharing innovation and knowledge in European universities. 180-197.
Chapter in book (Refereed)
- Creelman, A., Löwe, C. (2019). Mainstreaming virtual mobility – helping teachers to get onboard. Telecollaboration and virtual exchange across disciplines : in service of social inclusion and global citizenship. Voillans, Research-publishing.net. 15-22.
- Creelman, A., Falk, P., Ossiannilsson, E. (2014). Förändringar, utmaningar, gränslöst lärande. Interaktiva medier och lärandemiljöer. Gleerups Utbildning AB. 31-45.
- Creelman, A., Ossiannilsson, E. (2011). Quality indicators within the use of open educational resources in higher education. Education in a technological world: communicating current and emerging research and technological efforts. Badajoz, Spain, Formatex Research Center. 372-382.
Conference proceedings (editor) (Refereed)
- Stracke, C.M., Ehlers, U., Creelman, A., Shamarina-Heidenreich, T. (2014). Changing the Trajectory: Quality for Opening up Education : Official Proceedings of the International EIF / LINQ Conference 2014. Berlin, Logos Verlag Berlin. 247.
Article in journal (Other academic)
- Creelman, A., Árnason, H., Röthler, D. (2017). Webinars as Active Learning Arenas. European Journal of Open and Distance Learning.
- Creelman, A., Akhmetova, D., Morozova, I., Zaynullin, A. (2013). Facilitation as a method for a more inclusive approach to online learning / ФАСИЛИТАЦИЯ КАК ОДИН ИЗ МЕТОДОВ РЕАЛИЗАЦИИ ИНКЛЮЗИВНОГО ПОДХОДА ПРИ ONLINE ОБУЧЕНИИ : Article in English and Russian. Ideas of inclusive pedagogy in the context of modern requirements for preschool, school and professional education. 66-80.
Conference paper (Other academic)
- Creelman, A. (2019). ОНЛАЙН-ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ ДЛЯ БЕЖЕНЦЕВ – БАРЬЕРЫ И ВОЗМОЖНОСТИ : Online education for refugees - barriers and opportunities. ПРЕЕМСТВЕННАЯ СИСТЕМА ИНКЛЮЗИВНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ: ПРОЕКТИРОВАНИЕ ИНКЛЮЗИВНЫХ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫХ СИСТЕМ [Successful Systems of Inclusive Education: Designing of Inclusive Educational Systems] : Материалы VIII Международной научно-практической конференции 21–22 марта 2019 г. [Proceeding of the VIII International Scientific and Practical Conference March 21-22, 2019]. 30-35.
- Creelman, A., Gerestrand, A., Uhlin, L., Kvarnström, M., Hedberg, M., et al. (2016). Open courses as virtual mobility and the role of collaborative literacy in staff development. EDEN 2016 Annual Conference. Re-Imagining Learning Scenarios : EDEN 2016 Annual Conference Budapest, Hungary 14-17 June 2016 BOOK OF ABSTRACTS Including the Collection of "Synergy" Synopses.
- Grubbe, J., Creelman, A., Árnason, H. (2016). Is lurking working?. EDEN 2016 ANNUAL Conference : Re-Imagining Learning Scenarios : Budapest, Hungary 14-17 June 2016. Book of Abstracts. 102-102.
- Kvarnström, M., Hedberg, M., Ossiannilsson, E., Åbjörnsson, L., Creelman, A., et al. (2015). From awareness to participation : student engagement in an online environment. MOOCs in Scandinavia, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 11-12 June 2015.
- Ossiannilsson, E., Uhlin, L., Creelman, A. (2014). Building your own personal learning network. NGL 2014, Next Generation Learning Conference, Conference Summary : March 19-20, 2014, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden. 63-67.
- Creelman, A., Pawlowski, J., Ossiannilsson, E., Titlestad, G., Pirkkalainen, H., et al. (2013). The Nordic Alliance for Open Education - State of the art, challenges and opportunities. The Joy of Learning Enhancing Learning Experience - Improving Learning Quality : Proceedings of the European Distance and E-Learning Network 2013 Annual Conference Oslo, 12-15 June, 2013 ISBN 978-963-89559-3-7.
- Ossiannilsson, E., Creelman, A. (2012). OERopoly:A game to generate collective intelligence around OER. Next Generation Learning Conference 2012. Conference Proceedings.. 75-82.
Chapter in book (Other academic)
- Creelman, A., Witthaus, G. (2018). Facilitated MOOC support - closed bubbles in an open sea. The 2018 OpenupEd TrendReport on MOOCs. Maastricht, Netherlands, EADTU. 31-34.
- Creelman, A., Shamarina-Heidenreich, T. (2014). Changing the trajectory - An Introduction. Changing the Trajectory: Quality for Opening up Education : Official Proceedings of the International EIF / LINQ Conference 2014. Berlin, Logos Verlag Berlin. 8-14.
Report (Other academic)
- Creelman, A., Witthaus, G., Rodriguez, B.C.P. (2018). Refugees' educational resources – RefER project final report. Open university, UK. 28.
- Creelman, A. (2014). Utvärdering av medicinska utbildningsresurser på internet : en översikt. eHälsoinstitutet, Linnéuniversitetet. 15.
- Creelman, A. (2011). OER - en resurs för lärande : Projektrapport till Kungliga biblioteket, Programmet för Open Access.se. Kungliga Biblioteket. 15.
Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
- Creelman, A. (2015). A new ecosystem for learning. Adjacent government. May. 275-276.
- Bourelius, L., Creelman, A., Forsberg, Å. (2012). OER – an international trend with slow development in Sweden. Sciecom Info: Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication. 8.
- Creelman, A. (2012). Public libraries as learning spaces. Scandinavian library quarterly. 45. 16-17.
- Creelman, A., Forsberg, Å. (2010). Open Educational Resources – a resource for learning. ScieCom info – Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication. 6. 9-12.
Conference paper (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
- Slåtto, T., Creelman, A., Schneider, M., Röthler, D., Árnason, H. (2016). Effective Interactive Webinars : Methods to facilitate learning in open collaborative learning environments. A toolbook for practitioners/facilitators. EDEN 2016 ANNUAL Conference Re-Imagining Learning Scenarios : EDEN 2016 Annual Conference Budapest, Hungary 14-17 June 2016 BOOK OF ABSTRACTS. 98-98.
- Creelman, A., Petrakou, A., Richardson, D. (2008). Teaching and learning in Second Life - experience from the Kamimo project. Online Information 2008 Conference Proceedings : Information at the heart of the business. 85-89.
Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
- Bacsich, P., Pepler, G., Frank Bristow, S., Ossiannilsson, E., Creelman, A., et al. (2015). Adult education and open educational resources : Directorate-general for internal policies, Policy department B, Structural and cohension policies. European Union. 142.
Collection (editor) (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
- Creelman, A., Árnason, H., Creelman, A., Eklund, C., Grubbe, J., et al. (2018). Silent learners : a guide. Oslo, Nordiskt nätverk för vuxnas lärande (NVL). 28.
Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
- Pawlowski, J., Hoel, T., Varis, T., Lounaskorpi, P., Johannessen,, Ø., et al. (2013). Towards a Nordic Alliance for Open Education – a Position Paper. elearningeuropa.info.


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Apple iMac Desktop - 27 inch - Intel Core i5, MacOS Sierra
Apple iMac MNE92 Desktop has a 27inch Retina screen that displays content at an incredible 5K maximum resolution. This Apple iMac desktop has 8GB RAM. The Apple iMac MNE92LL/A Desktop has one of the best displays on the planet. It has a 27inch Retina 5K screen that will make your jaw drop with its visual display. This desktop has 5120 x 2880 resolution with support for one billion colors, 500nits brightness, and wide color. The result is ultra-clear, sharp, illuminated, detailed visuals that makes everything on it look better. And since it's a retina display you can look at the screen for hours continuously without exerting too much strain on your eyes. The 3.4GHz Dual-Core, Intel i5 processor and 8GB RAM let you navigate, open apps, and multitask quickly, smoothly, and efficiently.
Iconic design. Advanced engineering. Talk about modern art.
iMac has always been the ultimate in form and function: An all-in-one computer that puts everything — display, processor, graphics, storage, memory, and more — inside one simple, stylish enclosure. The new iMac includes the most advanced, most brilliant desktop display we've ever built, and it's filled with all-new technologies that take power and performance to a whole new level. Yet it's still just 5 mm thin at its edge.
Accelerate your every move
This Apple iMac MNE92 Desktop is incorporated with a 3.4GHz Dual-Core, Intel i5 processor and 8GB of DDR4 RAM. This powerful CPU and RAM combination delivers unbelievably fast and glitch-free performance, especially when you are handling intensive applications or heavy multitasking, the Turbo Boost lets you heighten the processor's speed further. The 1TB Fusion Drive gives you plenty of storage space for important documents, and media files.
Double the speed and bandwidth of the previous generation.
Two Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports come standard on all iMac models, each delivering up to 40Gb/s data transfer for external drives and cameras and twice the bandwidth for video and display connectivity. Four USB 3 ports give you plenty of options for connecting peripherals, including your printer, iPhone, thumb drive, and more. And with ultrafast three-stream Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth 4.2 wireless technology, you're instantly connected to all your favorite content
It's why there's nothing else like a Mac.
What's a Mac without macOS? This device is preloaded with the revolutionary, smart, Mac OS Sierra operating system that's unlike anything you've ever experienced. It simplifies each and every task. It is also integrated with Siri that lets you issue commands to the device with your voice. Spotlight removes the stress of finding what you need from the vast expanse of documents with a simple search. Take calls that you receive on your iPhone on the Mac.
- Brand: Apple
- Model: iMac
- Color: Silver
- Processor Type: Intel Core i5
- Processor Speed: 3.4GHz Dual-Core
- RAM (Memory): 8 GB
- Display: 27-inch (diagonal) Retina 5K display
- Graphics: 5120 x 2880
- Audio: Stereo speakers
- Operating System: mac OS Sierra


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Life at the Heaslip house has been pretty crazy the past week. My beloved son Lucas "flushed away" – since the movie, he's been obsessed – a toy down the upstairs toilet, which flooded the house and caused upwards of $10,000 damages, that's right, all from one toy. So we've had crews in all week tearing out baseboards, ceilings, etc. and now we're surrounded by giant industrial fans that sound a bit like jet engines – between 4 and 5 of them on each floor. To boot. This is somewhat frustrating because being pregnant in my last trimester, I'm pretty obsessed with getting things around the house ready for baby, and winter, and Christmas, etc. etc. Nevertheless, good has come from this, the basement (rec room) which has been a project that I never had the energy to tackle since dad passed away in the spring (he lived down there) – has started, the workers had to remove a bunch of furniture (that we didn't want anyways) – pack up all his things in the living room (saves me doing it), replace lights (which needed replacing), etc. etc. So it's been good overall, just not enjoyable having the whole house upside down.
We finally got our van on Monday, and I finally got to drive it Wednesday, after we brought it home Monday, the radiator had a problem so in it went to get fixed, but hurrah, it's here now, and I can't be happier. I went to IKEA yesterday just to celebrate.
Some of the finished projects in the house are that the baby's room is pretty much done, except for putting the dresser (from IKEA) together, and the curtains, which my blessed mother in law will do for me on her next visit in a couple weeks. The boys room is done too – and I've officially gone through all the summer clothes and switched them around. I'm about 50% done with Christmas shopping, and most of what I need for the boys to have a fun Fall is together too, so I keep reminding myself to relax, it'll all come together, right on time. A peaceful heart is a gift. A peaceful mind is a choice.
So, I should move along today and get the boys going, what to do on a rainy day in a windy house…


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Bürgermeister Kuchen
Since I moved out of my parents' house about 10 years ago, I have regularly called home to Mom for many, many reasons. Some have been "bad" calls: I got my first C in a class, my heart was broken by a stupid boy, I needed more money, my roommates were insane, and the list goes on. On the other hand, many of the calls were good: I got my first "real" job, I no longer needed financial support, I made it back from a Tijuana trip alive, etc., etc. Sprinkled in between all of these calls to home, one in particular has remained a constant: "What's the recipe for <fill in the blank for about a million dishes here>?"
Through the troughs and crests of growing up, I have learned to cook many family recipes. In honor of Mother's Day, I called home yet again last week and got the recipe below, for Bürgermeister Kuchen, which I'm pretty sure directly translates to little bars of almond heaven.
The best part? I got to share it with my Mom and Oma in my new home, on Mother's Day. Here's to three generations of family recipes!
Cake Ingredients:
1 cup sour cream
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
Topping Ingredients:
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup butter
1 1/2 cup sliced almonds
3 tablespoons milk
1 beaten egg
1 tablespoon flour
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Mix all of the cake ingredients together and spread on a well greased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes. While the cake is baking, combine all of the topping ingredients into a medium saucepan over medium-high heat and bring to a boil. Remove cake from oven and spread topping to cover entire cake. Bake for additional 10 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool completely before slicing into bars.
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YUM! Not only do I absolutely LOVE anything almond (which I think we all know by now), but it is made with sour cream, too? Not sure there could possibly be a more "Jenna" food! 😉
A delicious cake that only takes 20 to 30 min. to make but tastes like you worked on it for hours! The Kuchen was great, Mothers Day was wonderful, and the whole family together was nice.