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You do not necessarily need any formal training to become a church musician, though some sort of skill or talent in playing musical instruments is preferred. Options for complete amateurs are available as well, such as singing in a choir, but to become a church musician who plays a musical instrument, you will first need to learn how to play that instrument. Piano and organ are perhaps the most common instruments played at churches, though guitarists are also common. Other instruments that are less common are not necessarily precluded from church playing, either, so do not get discouraged if you play an instrument not commonly played at church.
If you are already proficient at playing a particular instrument and have the desire to become a church musician, approach the music director at your church, if one exists. Volunteer your services for masses, special events such as weddings or baptisms, and so on. It is likely that the music director will work with you if you are eager to learn and are willing to sacrifice your time to learn the songs, though some music directors may not be able to accommodate the musical instrument you play. Do not get discouraged; try to find ways to volunteer your services and perhaps develop a plan for incorporating your instrument into the musical scheme of the services.
Singers and pianists are usually in high demand, so if you want to become a church musician and are not picky about what instrument you are playing, consider learning the piano or developing your voice. While some church choir groups will teach you how to sing, others may not, so you may need to take voice lessons to learn how to sing properly. If the church offers lessons, attend choir practices and learn the songs as quickly as possible. Remember that plenty of practice will be necessary to become a church musician, so budget your time wisely and appropriate enough time during your week toward practicing with the choir and on your own.
Learning to play the piano can take a long time, and you may need to take years of lessons before you are prepared to become a church musician. Even if you already know how to play the piano, you will still need to be prepared to play in front of the entire congregation, and you will need to learn the parts of the mass so you know when to play and when to be silent. Attend church regularly and take note of the musical pieces, as well as when they are played.
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5th Dimensional Consciousness ~ Loving your Body: Loving what is NOW
By L'Aura Pleiadian, 09/04/2016
Loving what is unconditionally, is not a pause button, that we eventually Love when we "feel" good enough. That is the ego, that always lives in "conflict" where everything is never quite enough. Not quite enough. Where you desire something "other" that what is NOW.
Everything that you are shifting through, transforming through, include through the consciousness of the form.
The form exists as the holographic image, in a different dimension than your Higher Divine Self.
5th Dimensional Consciousness is the application of unconditional love from another DIMENSION into THIS dimension. Into and through the form.
Identification with the form as BEING YOU is identifying with the limited ego self that thrives on conflict, and exists only in the waiting. Never now.
Identification with your Divine Self (letting go of forgetfulness) and living as though you are your Divine Self (which you are) and applying the unconditional love that your Divine self, only knows. Is what shifts your conscious awareness and your form into Being fully Ascended.
This is the Transcendence of Limitation.
As you let go of your habits of complaints, judging, comparison, and VICTIM consciousness, you let go of the lower self being in control of who you think you are.
You then fully enter your HEART. Which only lives in the NOW.
This NOW is the only Dimension that your Ascension exists.
This Now is the only Dimension where you exist as your Higher Self.
To access this NOW you must APPLY 5th Dimensional Consciousness, unconditional LOVE to NOW. Consciously.
Now. No more victim, no more when….no more if only.
Are you going to go all the way with this? TRULY apply this LOVE.
To YOU. Face the parts you are not loving within yourself. Those are the areas your ego still has its hold on you.
LOVE yourself NOW.
Then you enter Eternity, now.
You enter your Heart Now.
You enter BEING Fully the experience of the Higher Dimensions merged with the consciousness of your Form.
You Enter the mystical Realms of Transcendence ~ set free from identification with being the ego.
Being Divinity EMBODIED in FORM.
All Now, ONLY Now. Enter this space of unconditional Love and then you will truly know your TRUE Divine Self.
Relax breathe and receive. (slow down)
I consciously Love my Divine Self, now.
I consciously love my form, now.
I consciously identify with my Divine Self, now.
I am grateful for my form, now.
I honour, Love, respect my being here, my vehicle (my form) in all ways, now.
I have let go of waiting till things are the way I want them to be, in order to LOVE myself, now.
I let go of the wants of the past and future, where my ego only exists (in conflict with now) I live through my DIVINE SELF that is ALWAYS present in the eternal NOW.
I love unconditionally Now.
And so it is! Loving what is NOW. No hiding in those areas of conflict any more. Being set free to truly KNOW yourself as the Divine Ascended Being that you are. The Alignment and Embodiment of YOUR Divinity. Now. I love you.
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| November 2008 »
Unpopular halloween costumes.
Knife-shaped coat hooks.
The skin cancer towel.
You can join this singles site if you are into the undead.
Very odd gravestones.
Spooky sounds from Saturn and Titan (via NASA).
Halloween codes for kids.
Supposedly haunted libraries.
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Jar Binks salad, which is a side dish from the dark side.
Lessons from the Mona Lisa for digital photographers.
Mother Jones has an interactive map depicting the presence of US military bases around the world from 1950 to the present.
Morford: What's your poison, citizen?
This site is a mess.
Hump day musical interlude: Oliver's Army.
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Sorry for the absence but I've spent the past two days in ICU with an atrial fibrillation. Ok now but I'm taking another day off and then back to the grind.
You've probably never heard of Don LaFontaine, but every one of you know his voice and have probably heard it hundreds of times. He died recently at the age of 68.
The science behind fly-swatting.
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Obama in Denver.
Confessions of a campaign hack is worth a read.
The Last Supper in 16 billion pixels.
Watch a demonstration of an unbreakable umbrella.
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This week's Green Thing is 25 ways to green your green.
Trophy kids go to work. (via Kevin Drum)
T-bone steak understudy for tots. The perfect toy for your little carnivore.
Take the caffeine click test. I clicked 150 times in 30 seconds, so my results show that I'm highly caffeinated, despite the fact that I haven't had any coffee in the past 12 hours.
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Don't know where it came from, but this photo is pretty amazing (click to embiggen).
Take a flight simulation over Antarctica with the Electric Oyster. Move your mouse to control your direction.
SNL with Tina Fey and Will Ferrell.
Opie supports Barack.
Blame the sycamore tree.
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Science made stupid.
Peak Metal. We are rapidly running out of of more elements than just oil compounds.
Wolves in New England. A friend swears she saw one in western Rhode Island the other morning.
Worst V.P. pick ever.
I don't want anyone cutting me up when I'm gone. Learn about autopsies and who gets sliced up after they die.
Don't smoke tea, drink cigarettes.
"Filter work like float."
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Cool. I'm a Jedi knight.
how jedi are you?
This is the part where everyone goes into the comments section and says "happy 44th birthday, Mark".
Gangsters: They don't make 'em like they used to.
Cool site of the week: More than you'll ever need to know about how the brain works.
If you've ever wondered what the earth would look like without soil, water, cities or anything else on its surface, wonder no more.
Stuff you should know: How not to install an air conditioner.
You know, if the country wasn't in such bad shape I'd be enjoying the antics of the hapless republicans and their savior flailin' Palin so much more than I am. $150,000 for the Alaskan nitwit's wardrobe is actually pretty funny.
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The Titan Arum has one of the largest flowers in the world. It is pollinated by flies and smells like rotting flesh to lead the insects to it. The flower alone can reach a height of ten feet. Here's a web cam so you can follow the annual growth and flowering event.
Strange animal facts.
A statue of Elvis chiseled 1800 years before he was born.
Tom Toles: Watch out, Mr. Bush.
Traffic deaths rise on election days. What do you think?
Pet Corner: Flexpetz provides you with flexible pet ownership.
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McCain, fraud and the Keating Five. If you don't remember this mess involving congressmen and Lincoln Savings and Loan, watch this report featuring an actual '90's banking regulator's story. And McCain was never "exonerated" for his role, as the press and wingnut sites would have you believe. The facts are here.
Is our electorate learning? With Bush at 25% approval, it appears so.
Stuff you should know: All about muttonchops.
The Center for Orangutan and Chimpanzee Conservation.
Tuesday coonhound blogging: Squeeky the hedgehog, four minutes after being freed from his package, demonstrates why he was found in the $1 bargain bin at Shaws.
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October's architectural eyesore of the month.
Here are 66 stills from "The Simpsons" along with the movie scenes they represent.
Decorated sugar cubes.
Helicopter views of nighttime London.
Krugman (who won this year's Nobel prize in economics) sees McCain's health care plan as the destruction of health care it is. Let's look at this from the perspective of a small business owner: If I could provide my three employees with health care, I'd do it in a second. I tried a few years back, but even with the payments being tax deductible, I can't afford it. Take away the employer tax deduction and I wouldn't even consider it. And neither will many other small businesses.
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This week's Green Thing is the luna moth. I haven't come across one of these in at least fifteen years, but they are one of the most stunning living things you'll ever see.
Stuff you should know: 120 ways to boost your brain power.
Morford: Eighteen ways to know if you are an elitist.
A couple of people came out to see Obama and Biden in St. Louis the other day.
Swiftboat Willie.
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Cool Site of the Week: Pretty incredible photomosaics. Below is Obama made out of flags.
Ed Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon, doing so during the Apollo 14 expedition. If you wander through his website you'll see that he believes we've been visited by little green men.
I'm 16,075 days old.
Today's slide show is of the winners of the 1991 "small world" microphotography contest (click on "slide show" to view).
Imagine Sarah Palin in the Oval Office.
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Click image of this week's sign to embiggen.
And the undecided voters can't figure out which guy looks more presidential. And Americablog has already posted a photoshop contest. Seriously, how anyone can be undecided at this point seems pretty bizarre. Of course, how anyone could actually want four more years of Bush is just as pathetic.
Trivia (5 Biomes points): What was the last ship to be sunk by a U-boat in WWI? It happened on this day in 1918.
Reject McCain.
Stuff you should know: The art of working out alone.
Add your wish to the I So Wish wish list.
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The New York Times explains derivatives, examines Alan Greenspan's disastrous tenure as fed chairman, and once again proves that those in this country who voted for flightsuit boy because, even though they knew he wasn't very bright, they thought he would surround himself with smart people, were wrong once again.
You've seen the "candidate X = ..." meme, now here's the thread (via Maru).
The Codex, the oldest known copy of the bible, is being translated and will be available online next year. For biblical literalists, there are thousands of changes that have been made to what they believe is the inerrant word of god. Should be fun.
Bassets for Obama.
A ghostbike is a junker bike that has been painted stark white and affixed to the site where a cyclist has been hit or killed by a car.
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Animal of the Week: Long-eared jerboa.
If I had to pick my all time favorite animals, bats would place pretty high on the list. Still, I can't help but be very impressed with this orb weaver spider kicking some serious bat butt. Oh, and here's a proud mama.
Pet Corner: Gentle Giants rescue.
Stripes. It's a running tiger.
Ice skating chimpanzees.
Buy your ninja bunny hat here.
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If you're planning a road trip and you'd like to know how much it will cost to get from point A to point B, enter your destination and car model at cost to drive and find out.
Read the Newsweek cover story on Palin.
Morford: Licking the Zeitgeist.
"Apathy is the new polyester. Ennui is the new smoking. Willful belly button-pickin' ignorance of world events, environmental issues, energy policy is no longer considered cute and obvious and painfully American. Can you imagine? "
Who are these guys?
Bringing to life some drawings by kids.
Tuesday coonhound blogging: Creole and I took advantage of the nice weather last week to revisit the breachway.
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Buy your special effects contact lenses here.
Stuff You Should Know: How to calculate Pi by throwing frozen hot dogs (seriously).
Meet the Alaska Disasta.
Five myths about John McCain, a video interview with the Rolling Stone reporter who wrote that article I linked to the other day.
Glenn Greenwald on how journalistic balance leads to the distortion of truth.
Albino Monday: Wolf.
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An actuary who knows about this stuff explains very clearly why McCain's health care plan can't work.
"Another important aspect of McCain's plan is to deregulate health insurance. Now the states regulate it and provide consumer protection, solvency and other regulations. McCain says he will deregulate as``we have done over the last decade in banking.'' We see now how that turned out. It will be a huge mess."
Jon Stewart cracks me up. This is funny stuff.
Onion weather network: Absolutely brutal raking conditions.
Rock, Paper, Scissors animated.
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Geek Stuff: It appears that Obama's got the geek vote.
I would have never thought to look to Roger Ebert for one of the best takes on the Biden/Palin debate, but there you go.
Overcompensating muscleheads on steroids.
The world's smallest functional teapot.
Stuff You Should Know: How to wake up early.
Here are the electoral maps for every election going back to 1789. George Washington won that one, in case you were wondering. Some of those early elections are pretty interesting to look at.
Now that the silly season is in full swing (Obama is a terrist!!1!), Krugman reminds us just how insane the Clinton-deranged right wing was in the late '90's.
"What happens when Obama is elected? It will be even worse than it
was in the Clinton years. For sure there will be crazy accusations, and
I wouldn't be surprised to see some violence. The next few years are
going to be very, very tough."
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Happy New Year Card Messages 2020
Happy New Year Card Messages 2020 Whether you're making a photo card for friends and fam that recaps how fab your last year has been, or crafting a graphic stunner to wish your clients well in the next 365, here are some New Year messages perfect for your audience. Peruse them, choose a favorite or two, and add them to one of our designer-crafted templates. Then check "actually send New Year cards" off your resolution list and enjoy being ahead of the game this year!
- Thank you for giving us an opportunity to do what we love, and may you have a successful 2020.
- Wishing you a joyous holiday season and continued success in the new year.
- Wishing you a healthy, peaceful, and prosperous new year.
- Warmest wishes this holiday season. We look forward to making 2020 a successful year together!
- Wishing you continued inspiration and success in the new year. Happy holidays.
- Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. -Oprah Winfrey
- Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -Albert Einstein
- May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions! -Joey Adams
- And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. -Rainer Maria Rilke
- Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier.' -Alfred Lord Tennyson
- New Year's most glorious light is sweet hope! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one. – Brad Paisley
- Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller
- Wishing you beautiful moments, treasured memories, and all the happiness a heart can know. Happy New Year!
- A toast to you and yours in the new year.
- Wishing you holiday cheer and a happy new year.
- New year, new plans, new memories to be made. Wishing you all the best in 2020!
- May your year be filled with happiness, health, luck, and love.
- Wishing you love and laughter in 2020.
- May this new year be filled with love and cheer.
- May you have plenty of peace, love, and happiness in 2020.
- Wishing you a fabulous 365!
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Our South by Southeast virtual road trip heads into the home stretch, arriving at Lexington, KY, a several-horse town and home of the Kentucky Wildcats.
♦ Fun Facts about Lexington, Kentucky:
- 2010 Population 299,803 (metro area 687,173)
- Lexington is known as the Thoroughbred City or the Horse Capital of the World)
- In 1833, 500 of the 7,000 residents died in a cholera outbreak
- In 1958 Lexington became the first city to establish an "urban growth boundary", in order to protect the many horse farms and bluegrass landscape that are key to the tourism industry. This boundary is, not surprisingly, the subject of continual debate and tinkering by the city and county government.
|Brady Deaton
Kentucky alum
♦ Thoroughly Horse Crazy (visitlex.com)
There are many indicators that Lexington is Horse Capital of the World. Some are obvious. More than more than 30 national, state and regional equine organizations are head-quartered here.
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But there are other, more subtle indicators. Here's one recently discovered while trying to find a friend with the last name "Thornton" in the phone book: Lexington companies use "Thoroughbred" in their name, in many cases for no reason other than, well…it's Lexington. There are the obvious companies related to the horse industry, of course-- like Thoroughbred Times or the Thoroughbred Center. But what about Thoroughbred Internet Services, presumably not meant to be internet services FOR horses, or Thoroughbred Barbershop, presumably not a barbershop for horses? You'll find Thoroughbred Auto Sales, Thoroughbred Chem-Dry, Thoroughbred Energy, Thoroughbred Homes and Construction and Thoroughbred Masonry. Perhaps Thoroughbred Allergy and Asthma caters to people allergic to horses? And then there's Thoroughbred Limousine, when your horses wants a night out on the town in high style. We have Thoroughbred Mortgage for horses wanting to refinance. Thoroughbred Painting (maybe that's how the Visitor's Bureau got their infamous blue horse) Thoroughbred Publications, Thoroughbred Restaurant…..well, you get the idea.
♦ The Lexington Ice Center includes a miniature golf course featuring Biblical themes.
♦ Kentucky is the only state among the longstanding SEC states that did not officially secede from the Union at the time of the Civil War. Like Missouri, Kentucky was a deeply divided border state.
♦ According to DumbLaws.com, in Lexington it is is illegal to transport an ice cream cone in your pocket
♦ The SEC Guide to Kentucky's Home Turf offers several suggestions for feasting and relaxing in town, including this grammatically mangled list:
The must-do lists when visiting Kentucky: Keeneland during the Spring and Autumn meets. When dining at a local establishment, you order Bourbon, not whiskey. Try visiting local wineries, Kentucky is known for having the first commercial vineyards in America. Eat a Hot Brown. Visit the Bourbon Trail, to see how Bourbon is made and even sample a taste.


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Our Western bean cutworm (WBC) catches sharply increased last week, with many of the adults being caught in northwest Ohio. Although it difficult to use trap counts to predict damage, a general rule of thumb recommends scouting for egg masses when multiple moths are caught over consecutive nights. A few traps are averaging more than 1 moth caught per night, so egg scouting should begin.
To look for WBC eggs, inspect 20 corn plants in 5 random locations. Inspect the upper 1-2 most leaves because WBC prefer to place eggs on leaves that are more vertical in orientation. WBC egg masses start out as white, and are laid in clumps of 25-100. As they mature, the eggs turn tan, and then dark purple. Egg hatch should occur within 24-48 hours once the eggs turn purple. Economic threshold is recommended when 5% or more of inspected corn have an egg mass.
Although we are seeing increased catches, we are probably not at peak flight just yet. Therefore, scouting for eggs should continue at least until past peak flight (in other words, when the numbers decrease from the previous week). Because of the heat, we may see peak flight soon, possibly during the 2nd week of July. If high numbers of WBC egg masses are found, please contact state entomology specialists or local extension educators (we are in the need for egg masses for efficacy work).


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Safety is of the utmost importance when transporting horses. If you are a first-time driver, practice driving the combination before you ever put a horse in it. Backing a trailer can seem intimidating, but it really isn't too hard if you know the secret. Put your hand on the bottom of the steering wheel and turn it in the direction you want the back of the trailer to go. If you want the trailer to move sharply, turn the wheel before you move the vehicle. If you want to turn more gradually, turn the wheel as the vehicle is moving.
This works for either a gooseneck or a tag-a-long trailer. A tag-a-long with a long tongue is easier to back than a trailer with a short tongue. A tag-a-long trailer that has a dressing room is also easier to back than a trailer without one.
If you are only hauling one horse, put him on the driver's side. If you are hauling more than one horse, put the heavier one on the driver's side. Roads are usually crowned higher in the middle so putting the heavier load on this side will help balance the trailer.
If you have a friend with you, and you really should not haul alone, familiarize him/her with your rig. If you should become incapacitated, for some reason, your friend may have to take over.
The Pre-Drive Safety Check
Before you leave for a trip, take the time to check over the rig.
- Check the tow vehicle.
- Check and replenish engine fluid levels and wiper fluid. Towing puts extra stress on the radiator, brakes, and transmission, so make sure everything if in top working order.
- Make sure the ball on the tow vehicle is the correct size for the trailer.
- Check tire pressure in the tires on the tow vehicle and the trailer. Improper tire pressure is one of the most common reasons for trailer sway.
- Check lug nuts on the wheels. Wheel nuts and bolts should be torqued before first road use on a new trailer and after each wheel removal. Check and retorque after the first 10 miles, 25 miles, and again at 50 miles.
- Check the inside of the trailer for bees and wasp nests.
- Check over your hitch, coupler, breakaway brake battery, and safety chains. Make sure all lights and the brakes are working properly before you load the horses.
- When the horses are loaded make sure all doors are latched properly, and horses are tied.
- Drive down the driveway and before you drive onto the road, get out and check your hitch assembly again. Take a look at the horses too, to make sure they're good to go.
- If you happen to stop somewhere where the rig has been left unattended, check everything all over again. Someone may have been tampering with the trailer or the horses.
Driving Tips
Driving a horse trailer requires some special precautions. The extra weight will make stopping and starting distances longer, and you will not be able to accelerate as quickly as if you did not have the trailer, especially if you have a downsized vehicle. So drive at least 5 miles under the speed limit and stay a good distance from the vehicle in front of you.
- Change lanes gradually and always use your turn signals.
- Use a lower gear when traveling up or down steep grades. On long grades, downshift the transmission and slow to 45 mph or less to reduce the possibility of overheating.
- Always consider the horses in the trailer. Give them time to prepare for stops. Don't accelerate quickly, and make sure the trailer has cleared the turn, straightened out, and the horses have regained their balance before you return to normal speed. Travel over bumpy roads carefully.
- If you hear or feel anything that isn't normal, stop and check it out.
- Carry an automobile emergency kit with you and an emergency kit for the horses. A human emergency first-aid kit is also a good idea.
- Carry a cell phone or CB.
- There is an emergency road service available called US Rider for people who are hauling horses. A membership can give you some peace of mind.
Remember that if you have an accident, and you become incapacitated for one reason or another, the emergency personnel and police will most likely not have a clue how to handle your horses. In a visible place in your tow vehicle and/or trailer, put a list of emergency numbers for them to call - your veterinarian, friends, or family members who would be able to help make decisions about your horses.
Whether you are traveling one mile or 500 miles, once you leave your driveway you are at risk. By taking these precautions you have increased your chances to have a safe and enjoyable trip with your horse.
Neva Scheve is a recognized authority on horse trailer safety and author of, "The Complete Guide to Buying, Maintaining, and Servicing a Horse Trailer." You can learn more about trailer safety at EquiSpirit Horse Trailers.


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Video of AoIP on Governors Island
As many of you know, we host a gallery show of our students work every summer and this past summer we were out again on Governors Island. Sepia, one of our associate instructors, has created a video capturing the spirit of our … Continue reading
'A Taste of Cuba' – Solo Show – And Contest!
Two months ago I went on a trip to Cuba. Do you know I love coffee? Cuba has some great tasting coffee. However, when I'm home in NYC, one of my favorite coffee places is Joe Coffee. Last night I hung … Continue reading
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text: Some lights have made it year after year. Others haven't. It's the (natural) selection of decorations, a species subject to fashion, style, fleeting moods, or the unexpected and mysterious disruption in the electric circuit that occurs at any given moment of those 350-odd days when lights are confined to cardboard boxes, tiny light bulbs popping at decibels below our hearing threshold on, say, 20 March, 17 May, 5 August, 30 September, 25 November… The little bears with multicolored bottoms – those had survived the fall of the Soviet Union! – broke down unanimously during a storm. Then the myriad flowers, one by one, were reduced to five still glittering, three dimly lit, and eight all gone. There have been ivy-like streams of light in the shape of pinecones, cookies, candles, stars, suns, moons, circles, triangles, spheres, angels, dogs, owls, doves of peace and leaves of life. And some have lasted a bit. And others just haven't.


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Manage with Measurement / Create with Feeling
Examples of yin-yang, the notion of opposites being interdependent, are all around us. Examples include dark / light, north / south, and Iron Man / Iron Lady (I'm not too sure about that last example, though).
Creative businesses regularly have an interesting example of yin-yang to accommodate; the often opposite concepts of business management and creation.
"Management by measurement" is not a new concept, but it's one in which I strongly believe. Businesses, especially those experiencing change or growth, generally find it beneficial to follow key business indicators, and the more objective these indicators, the better. In other words, measurements of hard data such as margin, return rates, and debt to equity ratio offer companies the ability to quantitatively answer the "How are we doing?" question.
In contrast, creative businesses are also dependent on entirely subjective measurements. The costumes for a theatre's new production may be described as "pretty", "sexy", or "Elizabethan" and the lead track on a band's album may be called "dark", "upbeat", or "baroque". It's critical for a creative business to design their product by subjective means.
Where creative businesses often experience difficulty, though, is in the balance between objective and subjective measurements. For instance, I think we can all agree that describing a theatre company's debt to equity ratio as "sexy" would be neither an objective or helpful business measurement technique.


text: Tuesday 30 June 2015 Catching up with Alan Robert, BEng Yacht and Powercraft design graduate Since graduating from the BEng Yacht and Powercraft design course in 2011 alumnus Alan Roberts has made waves in the sailing world with four UK National Championship Titles and two Endeavour Champion of Champions wins. Not only this, but Alan has just completed a 2000 mile solo offshore sailing race, the 2015 Solitaire du Figaro. Alan took 9th position in the single-handed race- the highest British position in the last 40 years. Only one other sailor in the 46 years the race has existed has taken the top British spot, Claire Francis, who finished 5th in 1975 when the fleet consisted of just 14 boats. Alan has been competing in a fleet of 39 skippers including a total of eight Brits and past winners of the race. A fantastic result for British offshore sailing, specifically as this is just Alan's second attempt at the race. The Alumni team caught up with Alan as he was training to set sail before the month-long race. Backed by local Hampshire title sponsor Magma Structures and supported by the Artemis Offshore Academy, Alan has been based in France (Lorient) since November 2014 as he had been training among the French sailors and working hard towards his goal of the closest one design single handed offshore racing in the world. Tell us about what you have got up to after leaving Solent? After graduating I worked on a small project doing the detailed design for a small free-standing rotating carbon fibre rig for a pretty extreme boat. During the summer I sailed with great success, winning the XOD centenary year nationals at Cowes week and the RS 200 nationals in Weymouth. I then went on to work for Ker Yacht design in Valencia, Spain doing CAD work and composites structural design. In 2012 I moved back to the UK and worked for Discovery yachts designing Blue water cruising boats (but mainly on the design of a new Discovery 57). In 2013 I worked for myself, designing and building a small competitive racing dinghy (international 14 foot skiff) setting up a set of mold tools and building the first boat. Towards the end of 2013 I joined the Artemis Offshore Academy to start my single handed offshore sailing career where I was based in the UK till 2014 then moved down to France to train in Lorient. A great start to your career Alan! So has any moment been a particular highlight? I have been very content with every project I have been lucky enough to be involved with so far. A particular highlight would have to be the design and build of an international 14 as this is a class of boat that has always had a special place in my life. It was an honour to have to opportunity to run this project and a great opportunity to get hands on building as well as sitting behind the computer screen. Have you got any favourite memories from your time at Solent? I thoroughly enjoyed my course at Solent both in and out of the lecture room, one of the reasons I selected to study in Southampton was to be able to keep sailing – the south coast been the best place for the type of sailing I was after.Particular highlights was graduating from my course, a great sense of achievement! Winning the student yachting nationals in my first year as tactician then been selected to compete in the Student yachting worlds. Coming 3rd in Busa Team racing championships in my 3rd year, also winning the Top gun trophy. Been awarded colours for my sporting achievements. Find out more about the race and Alan here. Share this article Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Print


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Keystone Foundation
The challenge and the organization
Most people would not associate geospatial information systems (GIS) with protecting water access, but GIS and Google Earth are helping to ensure that indigenous people in the Nilgiris mountain region of southern India and beyond have sustainable access to the water that has sustained their communities for generations.
Keystone Foundation is integral to this effort. Keystone is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that works to improve the environmental conditions and protect access to water and biodiversity in the Nilgiris, with the ultimate goal of enhancing quality of life for all who live there.
Keystone's founding journey began in 1994 when three friends set out to perform a survey of honey-gathering. They surveyed the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, carrying backpacks as they walked through mountain paths and backroads. They saw firsthand the conditions in which 11 indigenous communities lived. Together they started Keystone and decided to forge a new approach to preservation: using eco-development to improve people's lives while preserving the natural environment.
How they did it
Keystone uses maps for a variety of campaigns related to water access, biodiversity, conservation and land and water use. It first creates localized maps using satellite images from Google Earth, the GPS capabilities of Android devices and handheld GPS units and freehand maps drawn by community members. It then layers data onto the maps using GIS, including information about water resources, land use and ownership, biodiversity, wildlife movement and interactions between humans and wildlife.
Keystone shares learning, data and resources with partner NGOs, research groups and state governments as part of the Springs Initiative. These partners work together to mitigate the water crisis in India by conserving springs, which are safe sources of drinking water for rural and urban communities across the country.
Springs are especially important in hilly regions, where they are often the sole water sources for local communities. The foundation and community volunteers mapped the springs in the Nilgiris region of India and is creating a first-of-its-kind atlas about each spring in the region."
This map shows an inventory of springs in the Coonoor area"
T. Balachander, program coordinator for information and communication at Keystone explains that protecting springs can help ensure water security and improve the management of land and water resources. "Changing land use, ecological degradation, exploitation of natural resources and climate change are cutting down on the number of springs and the amount of water that flows through them," he says.
The Springs Initiative promotes awareness of the importance of springs, and protects "springsheds" — the ecosystems around springs — across India."
T. Balachander, program coordinator, Keystone Foundation
Keystone creates maps that show, in detail, the ways in which springs are endangered by changes in the countryside near them. For example, a spring may dry up when new developments nearby pump too much groundwater from wells. In other instances, Keystone's maps have illustrated how sewage upstream endangers springs and wetlands downstream, or when agricultural runoff pollutes groundwater that feeds springs. Based on those maps, communities and government can take actions to protect the springs."
A map of the wetlands in the Nilgiris district"
Keystone has used mapping technologies to improve access to water and support related initiatives that impact 4,000 families. These initiatives protect springs and wetlands, promote sustainable livelihoods and help indigenous people gain title to traditional lands.
The maps offer other benefits as well. In a number of communities, testing water samples from springs and wells has shown the presence of faecal contamination. Mapping the nearby wetlands and springsheds revealed the sources of contamination and is helping the communities mitigate health risks.
Balachander says countless problems, particularly those revolving around access to water, can be solved using mapping information. "We've found that maps, GIS and data are liberating tools, and we're trying to make them available to everyone," he says. "We hope that we'll be able to use maps to protect access to water, indigenous communities, the environment and biodiversity. India and the whole world will be better for it."


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Here's an opportunity for the ladies out there. On Wednesday, May 30 at 7PM Round House Sports in Bozeman is holding Women's Only Bike Maintenance Clinic. A great chance for all ladies.
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Here's an opportunity for the ladies out there. On Wednesday, May 30 at 7PM Round House Sports in Bozeman is holding Women's Only Bike Maintenance Clinic. A great chance for all ladies.
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Greetings Tritons!
On Saturday, June 9, the Tritons are sponsoring a Chi Running clinic with local instructor Damian Stoy.
What is Chi Running? This from his web site:
Chi Running combines the inner focus and flow of Tai Chi with modern physics to create a revolutionary running technique that reduces pain, injuries and effort while increasing joy, mental clarity and performance. The benefits of Chi Running are similar to the benefits of running barefoot with many additional advantages including postural and alignment corrections, relaxation techniques, more efficient breathing and other practices to keep you running healthy and in balance. Also, the benefits of Chi Running will last your entire life!
Check out his web site for complete information: http://wholisticrunning.com/ We've been hearing great things about his clinics and wanted to make sure that you have the chance to try it out.
The 4-hour workshop will be held Saturday, June 9, 8:30AM – 12:30PM. Cost is $125/person, but Tritons members will receive a $20 discount! The clinic is capped at 12 participants, and we already know of some interest, so make sure you sign up quickly!
Sign up at: Chi Running Workshop <http://wholisticrunning.com/bozeman-chirunning-services/wholistic-running-workshops/> .
-Tony and Laurie Thatcher
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Here's a repost from the race website (http://www.bozemantritons.org/tritonstri/). Check it out for more information!
Hello all! We are having a spectacular Spring in Bozeman! Temperatures in the 70's and even some 80's are bringing people out of the woodwork and training. Three weeks ago there were even folks swimming in the pond! Last year we might of even had ice on the pond still.
I took a nice drive on the Long-Course bike route this weekend and can report that it is in fantastic shape! The views of the snow on the Bridger Mountains with the contrasting green in the foothills is providing inspiration for folks to put in some perfect long, Spring miles.
Registrations continue to roll in. At last check we were at 150 total, so sign up now so you don't miss your slot.
Our sponsors continue to treat us well. Baja Fresh will once again be providing great food for after the race. Rudy Project is on board with big shopping spree certificates ($220 value!) for the top three men and women in both the long-course and sprint races! Hammer Nutrition will be keeping everyone fueled on the course! REI Bozeman is once again letting us go on a big shopping spree to ensure that the raffle is loaded with quality swag. It will be another grand day of racing in Bozeman! See you in July!
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Sprint Distance Training:
From beginner to beginning to wonder how the heck you win the race.
Planning to race the Bozeman Tritons sprint distance triathlon this July, or the Grizzly in April? This clinic taught by Elliot Bassett, coach of Ironman champion Ben Hoffman and co-director of the Grizzly triathlon, will help you get there. If you have never done a triathlon before and your goal is to finish the race, or if you are an experienced triathlete looking for a faster race time this clinic is for you. We will compare and contrast training techniques for athletes on both ends of the spectrum. Please join Elliot and the Bozeman Tritons to get inspired and motivated for this years race season.
Location: REI Bozeman
When 6:30-8:00pm Thursday February 2nd
Please RSVP Julie and firstname.lastname@example.com to ensure you have a seat.
We will have refreshments and SWAG bags
Half Ironman Training:
Training your way to the start line, eating your way to the finish
Many people say the Half Iron distance is the perfect blend of speed and endurance. But how do you blend the training?At this final clinic hosted by the Bozeman Tritons coach Elliot Bassett we'll discuss the swim, bike, and run training to get ready for a personal best at the distance. He'll explain how to incorporate nutrition strategies in training that will be come part of your game plan on race day.
Location: REI Bozeman
When 6:30-8:00pm Friday February 3rd
Please RSVP Julie and email@example.com to ensure you have a seat.
We will have refreshments and SWAG bags
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Here's a breakdown of the prize purse for the top three overall places in both women's and men's :
Total $3,000 ($1,500 women / $1,500 men)
1st $750
2nd $450
3rd $300
Age Group:
The top three competitors in each age group will qualify for Team USA for the 2012 ITU Winter Triathlon World Championships in Jämijärvi, Finland on March 24-25 2012 and will take home some valuable hardware, too!
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If any of the Bozeman Tritons are interested in performing a lactate threshold test, please let me know. We can do this either on the bike (computrainer at 4800 or elsewhere) or during a run session as well. I have even helped people with swimming and nordic skiing as well. Regarding the bike, this can be an option when you have your functional threshold power determined along with power profiling. Yes, there is a fee for this service. Typical session lasts 90 minutes for a more comprehensive test! I have a flexible schedule; evenings and weekends work as well. I'd like to hear from you if interested. Contact Info: Matthew Parks USAT Level 1 Triathlon Coach at 406 580 7987.
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Marriott data hackers could have made off with 500 million guests' personal and payment details
More worrying the internal investigation carried out by the hotel chain suggests the data breach may have started as far back as 2014. This is likely to make the chain's promise of notifying every one of the estimated 500 million guests they estimate will have been affected a difficult task to fulfil.
The Starwood name is an umbrella for multiple brands including W Hotels, Sheraton, Le Méridien and Four Points by Sheraton while all of the Marriott hotels are managed by a separate reservation system on a different network. A spokesman for Marriott said they had been alerted to an unauthorised person trying to get into the system by an internal security tool and having acted upon that alert they soon discovered an "unauthorised party had copied and encrypted information" from the underlying database, a database that in total holds a great deal of personal information on around 500 million customers.
When asked exactly what was included within these guest records the group said approximately that would include "some combination" of name, mailing address, phone number, email address, passport number, account information, date of birth, gender, and arrival and departure information for around 327 million of the guests.
If that wasn't bad enough, they also added that for many of those there would also be encrypted payment card details and they couldn't discount the possibility the hackers had also stolen the encryption keys that would unlock all of those card details.
Now that the government's new data protection regulations (GDPR) have come into force, it is more vital than ever that you provide a safe and secure environment for your data to avoid a data breach like this.
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I first wrote about Christophe Happillon, the "Oyster Gourmet," from a visit to one of his Friday night stints at Joe's on Abbot Kinney. Little did I know how far he would expand the gospel of his seafood – and it turns out that he has dedicated his weekly efforts on Tuesdays to Downtown Los Angeles at Church & State.
On Tuesdays, he'll be serving up his favorite oysters after shucking them each personally. The West Coast varieties include Carlsbad Luna, Totten Virginica, Kumamoto, Malpeque and British Columbia Fanny Bay oysters. They'll have the benefit of a pairing by Church & State Sommelier Jeremiah Henderson with crisp, cold Muscadet, such as his 2007 Domaine Tourmaline "Saint-Fiacre†or a 2007 Michel Olivier Crémant de Limoux Tête de Cuvée.
Not a bad way to kick off a meal featuring Chef Joshua Smith's French Bistro fare…
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Lilium 'Ceb Dazzle' /Ceb Dazzle Lily
Bright yellow flowers with cinnamon colored stamens
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Bright yellow flowers with cinnamon colored stamens
Typical flower cluster the first year after planting
Produces many flowers per inflorescens thie second year after planting
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Many buds and flowers produced by each plant
In second year after planting bud and flower count of over 20 is common for established plants of this variety
A scape with many flowers in zone 8 the second year after planting
Flowers in Coastal South the second year affer planting
Flower on three year old plant deep in Dixie
Three year old plants in heavy bud and flower
Flowering the thrid consecutive year in the deep South
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Spark LMS is extremely flexible and can be configured easily to deliver exactly what your organisation needs.
Spark is flexible enough to be tailored to your needs, from what is displayed on the dashboard to the URL trainee's use to visit, as well as how your employees receive notifications.
This also includes your business's branding, colours and logo and even allows for different branding at different levels of the company hierarchy - perfect if you have multiple brands, locations, etc.
The trainee record system can be configured to have exactly the fields you want from job titles, addresses, start dates, job roles or anything else you need. You can choose whether those are mandatory fields or optional and even includes the ability to add trainee photographs.
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The permission system allows you to create different managers at different levels of the organisational structure, each with their own set of permissions to view and/or maintain data. You can even devolve the creation of additional managers and the system will ensure they can't create permissions above the level from which they were allocated.
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"Facebook gave me the opportunity to do things literally for free" – Nook Flowers
We use Google, LinkedIn and perhaps NationBuilder. They are all information-based businesses and depend on user-generated content through crowdsourcing, an internet technique. If Henry Ford's moving assembly lines created the modern factory and increasing productivity 10 times, crowdsourcing is the equivalent, creating an information age factory, using data as raw material, culled from us consumers as factory hands and manufacturing informational, quasi-informational and information-linked products increasing productivity more. Since most crowdsourced content is free, 'free' now has value. The largest new companies, Facebook, Baidu are based on this business model. In time, crowdsourcing will be recognised as equal with Ford's invention, as impactful. It will be one of the most significant tools of the information age.
Online, most content and consumer services are free. Yes even HBO's Game of Thrones, the most pirated show in television and no matter what lawmakers say! Anything that can be datarised over the internet will be similarly affected. The next post will explain datarisation, briefly it is how content is made into data packets before being transported around the internet. When datarised, content becomes either free or drops in value. Photo albums online are free as are road maps. One day, all paid software will go the way of the dodo. Material goods cannot be free but costs are reduced. You can buy cheaper books and hotel rooms online. These have to do with how things work in an internet economy.
As an aside, will movies ever be free? No says conventional wisdom. Plausible says the internet. If you ask anyone walking on the street 20 years ago if telephone calls will ever be free, conventional wisdom then will say no. Then it was unthinkable. A lot of free calls are being made now and this trend is increasing (the next post on the impact of the internet on the telco industry makes a case that it is only a matter of time before all calls become free and within 10 to 20 years). The internet economy changes values. Of course teenagers have been feasting on 'free' movies through the internet for yonks. But this is not conventional, not yet! This is not the place to discuss this topic but I intend to ponder this question in a future blog by applying 'internet rules'. Off the top of my head now, I'll say no but it'll be very much cheaper.
How did 'free' become a business model?
'Free', hardly unique in its use for business (until the web, used only sparingly) is today a key business driver for the iconic online companies. Free search (Google), free news (Yahoo), free email, free sms have made billions for these innovative companies. There must be something with 'free'.
A short history on 'free'. Commercially, the first to catch the eye was Netscape, offering their browser free before their IPO. This IPO also set off the dot.com boom. But of course, the internet service providers (ISP) were already using free software for their operations. There were already free content (newsgroups), free services before the Netscape IPO. The culture of free was already firming below the iceberg. 'Free' started almost as soon as the internet became. Newsgroups appeared quickly. They are discussion groups displacing the electronic bulletin boards popular in the 1980's. From these newsgroups, you can get advice by posting questions and more. This was how the technical team at Technet, the first ISP in Singapore built new services when expertise on the internet was almost non-existent in the region then. I was pleased with the free consultancy and was amazed at the quality. Then in IT, as is now, you pay for services or consultancy which is often disappointing. 'Free' continued with the early search 'gopher' to 'wais' to email. Later many did not want to pay for music and thus the invention of peer-to-peer music sites, much maligned but may proof to be inspirational in future. Free video came along with YouTube and the list goes on. The business of 'free' was forming.
How does 'free' create value? Nothing is really free. The services are provided gratis in return for data.
Crowdsourcing induces consumers to do things, out of their free will mostly with no expectation of remuneration (but gives them social value). A service is rendered in the process and through this, value is created. LinkedIn's data is crowdsourced as we supply its plant merely by posting our details and making pronouncements. The data is 'mined' and refined into nuggets of informational products or services. Most web 2.0 companies utilise crowdsourcing in one form or another. It works because we get something in return. Will you stop using social media or email? This is an age where society (and websites) compels people to do things that are useful without being paid for it. Society does derive value from it, just that they are not necessarily monetary.
Open Platform as the term implies is a mode of an organisation to openly allow outside access to its content. It deliberately taps into crowds of consumers, partners and customers. The Guardian newspaper in Britain allows access to their articles and applications. They organise their data, build engagement platform, make tools available to access the data and provide training. By providing basic data, they get enhanced data back; processed information, different interpretation of data, enhancing the newspaper without spending much. Like money generating more money, the Open Platform begets more data from data, from which you monetise. The model that works in the old world, of closely guarding its property, is changing as power shifts to the consumers.
Other value creating models include open source, co-creation and web services.
All these methods are generated mostly from human behaviour, of us being social creatures sharing, conversing, showing off, being busybodies, being community spirited and transferring these activities online. They are all greased in part by the open culture of the internet which provokes a sense of freedom to do things. Or simply to be entertained, anytime (unless you are working), in anonymity or authenticated that is so liberating, fuelling creativity, a high value activity. Clever websites then induces you to do more. Volunteerism was the bedrock during the formative years of the internet, now this culture pervades the online consumers. The internet (and the clever websites) makes it very simple to do so. This convenience factor made taking part a cinch even for couch potatoes. It is also enabled by what I call the 0.001% effect. You only need a very small percentage of the like minded from the massive number of internet users to kick it off. Even crazy ideas can have an interest group!. Natural selection does its part. Then the networking effect takes over, accelerating content build. From this, value is extracted via data mining and orchestrating the data to attract viewers (portals), users (social games), subscribers (media), consumers (eBay), find things (search).
Another way to look at the value-of-free is the monetisation of unwanted or excess things like personal belongings (eBay), spare rooms (AirBrb), unused resources (yet2.com find buyers for underutilised patents). Yet another example is un-information, that is, information that has value if it can be found. InnoCentive and Eureka Medical locates expertise. MMC identifies music talents.
Finally, the 'free' model has variations. Wikipedia is an example of unconditional free while others do so with monetisation plans. Both provide value. In between, open source software is free but with a commercial model around it.
Physical products cannot be free but prices of many goods have been reduced. How did this happen? The traditional trading system relies on layers of middlemen to make goods or services available for the populace. Each layer adds a cost. The direct model of the internet reduces the layers, lowering the final consumer price. Ultimately it is the easy availability of information (farmers in rural India for example now know market prices when previously the layers of middlemen hid it from them), ease of connectivity (and low cost) enabled by the internet say for product producers to talk to buyers, and the speed of relaying information.
It is interesting to compare the differing B2C (online retailers) model between Amazon.com and Alibaba.com (Taobao division) to lower prices. The business model of both reduces the number of layers of middlemen and decreases the number of them. Amazon owns warehouses (thus higher costs) and forces suppliers to sell at lower margins and thus works more like a traditional trader, buying, stocking, resell. Most of the suppliers are the original product producers though some products are from middlemen. Alibaba.com uses a direct seller-buyer model ie. Alibaba.com does not take a cut from the products sold unlike Amazon.com. Instead Alibaba.com uses a subscription model, having the suppliers pay an annual fixed fee. The buyer buys directly from the sellers and although some of them may be middlemen, this model reduces them, continuously over time. Alibaba.com in fact adheres to the direct model of the internet. Amazon.com's is a variation acting as one giant online middleman. Both are direct (or to be more exact - more direct than the past) in that the number of layers are reduced. Both forces prices down. For central bankers, this direct model as it takes hold will reduce inflation.
In the industrial age, factories produced the most value for the global economy. Crowdsourcing will be a contender in the information age but unlike factories, crowdsourcing does not create value directly. One cannot sell crowdsourced data. The internet business models create value from this raw data indirectly. Because we are in the early stage of the new age, industries must be transformed. Businesses with goods that can be data-rised will be most affected. This includes telco (subject of the next post), media and software industries. The value-of-free will be used by the others to remain competitive in an internet-enabled economy.
Ultimately, the internet economy brings out new values. 'Free', one of them is now significant.
Now, would any business not too long ago give us anything for free as Nook Flowers at present enjoy?
See who else is using 'free...http://internetbusinessmodelasia.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-value-of-free-companies-using-free.html
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1. Overview
This article explains the Dundas BI versioning convention and describes how license files work with different versions.
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All versions of Dundas BI are specified as four numbers (A, B, C and D) with the following format:
A.B - Represents the Major version of Dundas BI
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Examples: version 2.0, version 2.5, version 2.6
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Partnership, one of the fastest growing private equity companies of recent years, specialises in annuity provision for people living with health conditions.
It has been owned by Cinven since 2008 and is expected to list next year, with the winning bank being told tomorrow. Barclays, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank are all thought to have pitched for the business, which could help buck the trend of difficult private equity IPOs in London.
Cinven, which began life managing the pension funds of miners and railway workers, has already looked at selling the Partnership via an auction after receiving approaches from a number of trade buyers. However, it is now thought that the best strategy would be to float the company as it looks to expand its intermediary customer base.
Partnership's clients include Lloyds Banking Group and Standard Life. It was bought at the height of the financial crisis for €200m (£174m) with a follow-on acquisition made in the interim.
Because the company has proprietary underwriting manuals and mortality data, it is able to assess a customer's likely life expectancy, rather than just calculating the average. This system takes into account a wide variety of health conditions, from the relatively minor such as high blood pressure, to the more serious such as heart failure, stroke, diabetes, kidney failure and cancer.
The business was formed in October 2005 following the management buy-out of the Pension Annuity Friendly Society. In 2011 the company wrote £892m worth of premiums before reinsurance costs and made profits of £64m.
Cinven has a relatively strong track record compared to its private equity peers when it comes to IPOs. It successfully bucked the gloom and took Dutch cable operator Ziggo public this year.


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Often we might not be even aware of the ideal exercise equipments that surround us and could enhance the weight loss process. The Hula Hoop exercise benefits would open our eyes to the importance of a regular workout routine that besides keeping our metabolism on top speed can also grant us with a flawless silhouette. Find out the basic steps to adopt a similar super-fun exercise plan and still stay healthy. Grab your Hula Hoop and play your way to a dream health condition.
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rope jumping we practiced in our childhood hula hoops managed
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it also lose some extra-weight from the most delicate spots of the
body. Hoopdance is the latest craze in this domain as it provides
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revolutionary steps paving the way to a dream silhouette as well as
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Arm Toning
Shape your arms and chest as well as keep them in their best shape with hooping. Roll the hoop around your arms in a well-defined patterns and do it quicker if you would like to keep the exercise on high intensity.
This would not only help you lose weight from your arms but will also tone the muscles creating an alluring shape to this spot. Moreover it is also a fact in order to roll the hoops you'll use also your abs muscles which is also great to work your six pack with mastery. Keep on with the arm rolling for at least 4-5 minutes during your workout session.
Dainty Hips
Some might wish to focus on their hips, in this case hula hoops are perfect to grant you with a worth-admiring tushies. Place the hoop around your waist and start the circular motions gradually than increase the speed if you wish to make the workout more exhausting and efficient.
In this case all you have to do is repeat the standard motions for at least 3-4 minutes depending on your preferences. Make sure you build up your exercise routine by taking into consideration the areas you would like to work on and devote more time to the critical spots.
Well-Toned Legs
There's no need to be a pro hoopdancer in order to embed a step that would exercise and tone your leg muscles. Instead lie on the floor in your room then lift one leg in order to form a smaller angle. Then place the hula hoop on the leg be it on the knees or ankles and start spinning it with increasing speed. Make sure you keep your balance as well as control over the rolling. This way you'll banish the difficulties that might appear earlier on in the first sessions. Polish your techniques and make it an efficient Cardio exercise routine. Go on with the spinning for 2-3 minutes then switch legs and repeat the exercise as many times as you wish in the course of your workout session.
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Our waist can define the whole silhouette and is one of the most attractive and eye-catching spot on our body. Therefore millions long for the secret recipe to have a fab waist with an efficient exercise plan. Indeed hula hoops can be used as the best means to fuse some fun into a serious and well-defined workout.
In this case all you have to do is spin your hoop around your waist with the well-known technique. One of the secret tricks however is to try to place the feet one in front of the other as it would increase the gorgeous toning effect of the exercise.
Do this exercise for at least 6-7 minutes according to your physical strength as well as experience. One of the guaranteed benefits it offers is indeed burning 200 calories with a 30 minutes workout and even more if you struggle with overweight.


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Set your alarms, LBRmy! Tuesday, December 6th, 2016 at 4 p.m. PST/7 p.m. EST, Limit Break Radio will be guests on State of the Realm live at Twitch.tv. (Psst.. That's today!)
Limit Break Radio has been invited to State of the Realm, live at Twitch.tv/MrHappy1227. Not familiar of State of the Realm? I'm sure you have heard of the hosts, Mr Happy and Sly a.k.a. Grey Fox! Both are good friends of LBR and fellow Final Fantasy XIV Twitch streamers!
Mr Happy is a YouTuber and Twitch streamer. You may have ran across one of his Final Fantasy XIV guides. He streams daily on his Twitch of a variety games, mainly Square Enix games. Follow him on YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and Twitter!
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) - more commonly known as C.P.E. Bach - was a German musician and composer of the early Classical period. The second of eleven sons of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, C.P.E. Bach was born in Weimar on 8th March 1714. He was one of the founders of the Classical style, composing in the rococo and classical periods. Through the latter half of the eighteenth century, his reputation was very high. This was mainly because of his clavier sonatas, which marked an important development in the history of musical form.
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UE Kara Grill
819 C Street, Downtown San Diego(Has gone out of business since this article was published.)
Is it Japanese? Or Mexican?
"Yes," says Arturo, the chef. I know what he means: both.
"I use more jalapeño and lime," he says, "and less wasabi. I do things a bit spicier than traditional sushi. I use fruit, like kiwi and mango."
But, but, Ue Kara, where we're at — it's a sushi joint, right? Yet the sushi specials are things like mole roll and adobada roll. Maybe I just don't know enough about sushi and fusion, but I'm confused.
This little lunchtime eatery is a funny space for a meeting of two giant cultures. Then again, it's a funny space, period. Ue Kara (Arturo says it means "from above" in Japanese) sits cheek-by-jowl with a taco shop (Rolando's) and next door to that is a Middle Eastern restaurant (Haji Baba's). They're huddled in a kind of oasis in the desert between Eighth and Ninth, between downtown and City College. East Village hasn't quite taken off at this location, and these places face trolley tracks, a parking lot, and the beginning of Bankers Canyon. It seems just beyond easy walking distance for the hungry suits who pour out of nearby high-rises at midday, looking for lunch in, uh, all the right places.
Me, I pass these three restaurants every time I whisk by on the trolley, and I wonder how any of them will make it. The Churchill Hotel sets the mood, a big ol' dowager of a place that's closed, condemned, not exactly lighting up the area. And yet these three restaurants have survived even though, after two-and-a-half years in business, Ue Kara's sign is still a temporary plastic banner.
Today, heading up C Street toward City College, I finally decided: Why not stop? Arturo was outside, leaning against his patio fence and watching the trolleys trundle by. Taking five, I guess, because, basically, there was no one inside. I mean, it's already 2:00 p.m. But, yes, he told me, he was open till 3:00.
Inside, it's all gray and black: gray walls with a black end-wall and ceiling. Black tables, cream-tiled floor. Some colorful Japanese prints hang along the left wall.
At the cash register at the end, Iris has a menu ready. "Sit wherever you want," she says.
Hmm…deals aplenty.
For starters, those appetizers: you can get an egg roll for a dollar, fried soft-shell crab for $4.95, wakame salad for $6.99 (turns out, wakame is a kind of edible seaweed). A chicken teriyaki bowl is $4.25, and a chicken katsu ("cutlet") with rice and salad goes for $5.25. So, now I'm kicking myself. How come I haven't been here before?
"We have lunch combos, too," says Iris.
Combo #1 is two egg rolls, two gyoza, and chicken teriyaki, with rice and salad, for $5.99. Number 2's a four-piece California roll (crab, avo, cucumber, sesame seeds), plus a four-piece spicy-tuna roll and a four-piece crunchy roll, all for $6.99. Combo #3 is miso soup, edamame, vegetable tempura (fried veggies), rice, and salad for $5.99.
I order #2. When it comes, it looks pretty, and it's pretty tasty, too.
Talk about fusion: I discover that the California roll was a 1970s invention in L.A. Seems the oils in an avocado make the perfect substitute for fatty tuna (toro). The chef who spotted this, Ichiro Mashita, also had the brainwave of turning sushi rolls inside-out: putting the seaweed (which Angelenos had a problem facing and eating) in the middle and the rice on the outside. In two strokes, Mashita started sushi on its voyage to American cool. You could say the California roll has led the charge to fusion-sushi worldwide — it's the number-one roll everywhere.
Mine tastes great, but the crunchy roll (it has battered and deep-fried shrimp) is the standout.
It's while I'm chowing away that I notice they have rolls with names such as "The Hank," and the "Haji Baba." The Hank seems to have everything in it, from crab, shrimp, yellowtail, and soft-shell crab, to lime, Sriracha, and chopped jalapeño.
"Well, Hank is a regular customer, and this is the combination he likes best," Arturo explains. "And ones like 'Haji Baba' are to honor our neighbors."
I guess Hank must like the Mexican connection, with all that lime and jalapeño. But how come Arturo is leading the Cali-Japanese–fusion charge here?
"I was taught by a Japanese sushi chef," Arturo says. "But the guy who was my supervisor was Mexican-American. He started giving me these ideas."
So, Arturo makes sushi specials like his mole, or adobada rolls with salsa in the middle. "I get away with it," he says. "It's a good time to be making sushi. People are always scratching their heads about what new kind of roll they can make. I try to keep them around $6."
All this talk is getting me hungry again. I go for a piping-hot vegetable yaki-udon (stir-fry): a steamy bowl of broccoli, mushrooms, onions, cabbage, and carrots, all laced with thick noodles (perfect face-whippers if you suck 'em up too fast) and a sprinkling of sesame seeds.
When I come out, I've spent nearly $13, but I could have totally filled up on the $5.25 vegetarian udon alone.
I want to come back soon for the deals, but also to learn more about different kinds of sushi, this whole galaxy of food I've been avoiding, mainly because, I guess, it seems like a whole 'nother universe. Like learning a foreign language. I didn't know how to handle it. Now I want to learn quick, before it gets so fused with the West, you won't know which side of the Pacific you're chowing into.
Bottom line: I've been coasting on California rolls for too long. Arturo: bring it on!
Prices: Egg roll, $1; fried soft-shell crab, $4.95; seaweed salad, $6.99; chicken teriyaki bowl, $4.25; chicken katsu (cutlet), rice, salad, $5.25; lunch combo #1, two egg rolls, two gyoza, chicken teriyaki, rice, salad, $5.99; #2, four-piece California roll, four-piece spicy-tuna roll, four-piece crunchy roll, $6.99; #3, miso soup, edamame, veggie tempura, rice, salad, $5.99
Hours: Monday–Friday, 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.; open till 5:00 p.m. for takeout orders only
Buses: All downtown
Nearest Stop: Ninth and Broadway
Trolleys: Blue Line, Orange Line,
Nearest trolley stop: Fifth Avenue
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- More stories by Ed Bedford
- Chicken climax — Dec. 16, 2015
- A whole lot of lunch — June 18, 2014
- Leave it to me — Nov. 20, 2012
- Sushi Secret — Jan. 28, 2009
- Up in the Air — Dec. 17, 2008