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With summer almost over, the Summer 2013 Thieves' Quarry Blog Tour makes one of its last stops at Magical Words, the group blog on the craft and business of writing that I maintain with Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, Mindy Klasky, John Hartness, James Tuck, and others. Today's post is called "Quoth the Book: "Reports of My Death Are Greatly Exaggerated," and it builds upon an article by James Surowiecki that recently appeared in The New Yorker magazine on e-books, paper books, and the future of book selling. My post tries to tease out what his observations may mean for writers. I hope you enjoy it.
Confessions of a Material Guy
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I have a confession to make: I like to spend money. I like to buy myself cool new toys. I'm not always good at spending — I agonize over purchases and need some time to convince myself to buy a big ticket item. I'll do a ton of research to make certain I'm getting the right brand or model or whatever, and I'll look around for weeks looking for the best combination of good price and trustworthy vendor. And even when all that groundwork is done, I sometimes have trouble pulling the trigger.
Sometimes I wonder if it's more fun to want something than it is to get it. You know what I mean by that? Sometimes that research stage is fun, even as I obsess over the item in question. Anticipating the purchase, exploring all the possibilities, searching for that perfect deal — there's something really enjoyable about that part of the process.
But then there's also the fun in finally plunking down that wad of cash and getting the new toy.
Yeah, I like to buy stuff.
Not all stuff. Some guys are into cars or sporting equipment or expensive clothes. Cars don't really do much for me, and I don't usually need to look much beyond the L. L. Bean catalog for my next shirt. And though I have been known to spend a bit of money on a bicycle or a new golf club (back when I played golf regularly), that's not the stuff that makes me salivate.
So what are we talking about then? Well, I love to buy new music, and books, and I've been known to get excited about stereo equipment. But none of those is my current focus. As most of you know at this point, I'm a pretty avid photographer. Over the last several months as I've sold some of my pictures, I've squirreled away a bit of cash. Enough, at this point, that I'm looking at buying myself a new digital SLR. Yup. I've been looking online, and in magazines, and even in mall photography stores, though I'd never actually buy the thing at a mall store. Too much money; not enough service. At this point I know which camera I'm going to get and about how much I'll be spending. It's just about time to pull that trigger.
What about you? What do you like to buy? What are your favorite types of toys? Electronics? Clothes? Sports gear? Jewelry? C'mon and share! I won't tell a soul.
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The money is not a huge amount for Goldman, which last month reported over $900 million in second-quarter profit, and the investment promises a public-relations benefit for the Wall Street bank. For the city, the money allows the Bloomberg administration to demonstrate, and test, several of its priorities: enlisting private sector help in financing public needs, and tying program money to rigorous outcome evaluations.
The Goldman money will be used to pay MDRC, a social services provider, to design and oversee the program. If the program reduces recidivism by 10 percent, Goldman would be repaid the full $9.6 million; if recidivism drops more, Goldman could make as much as $2.1 million in profit; if recidivism does not drop by at least 10 percent, Goldman would lose as much as $2.4 million.
"This promising financing model has potential to transform the way governments around the country fund social programs, and as first in the nation to launch it, we are anxious to see how this bold road map for innovation works," Mr. Bloomberg said in a statement.
"Social impact bonds have potential upside for investors," he added, "but citizens and taxpayers stand to be the biggest beneficiaries."
In a twist that differentiates New York's plan from other governments' experiments with social impact bonds, Mr. Bloomberg's personal foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, will provide a $7.2 million loan guarantee to MDRC.
If the jail program does not succeed, MDRC can use the Bloomberg money to repay Goldman a portion of its loan; if the program does succeed, Goldman will be paid by the city's Department of Correction, and MDRC may use the Bloomberg money for other social impact bonds, said James Anderson, director of the foundation's government innovation program.
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"This will get attention as perhaps the most interesting government contract written anywhere in the world this year," Dr. Liebman said. "People will study the contract terms, and the New York City deal will become a model for other jurisdictions."
But social impact bonds have also worried some people in the nonprofit and philanthropy field, who say monetary incentives could distort the programs or their evaluations.
"I'm not saying that the market is evil," said Mark Rosenman, a professor emeritus at Union Institute and University in
Goldman approached the city after hearing that New York officials and MDRC were interested in social impact bonds. In an interview, Alicia Glen, the head of Goldman Sachs's Urban Investment Group, said the company was confident that the program would work.
"This is a new approach — no city has ever done something exactly like this before — and we were able to get comfortable with the risks, which other financial institutions may not have been," Ms. Glen said. "But we are confident that the city will identify enough savings that we'll get a reasonable return on the investment."
The Goldman money will finance a program called Adolescent Behavioral Learning Experience, or ABLE, as a part of the Bloomberg administration's year-old Young Men's Initiative, which seeks to improve prospects for black and Latino adolescents. The jail program, which will offer counseling and education for an estimated 3,400 incarcerated adolescent men each year, will be run by two nonprofit organizations, Osborne Association and Friends of Island
Currently, nearly 50 percent of young men released from Rikers reoffend within a year.
City officials said they hoped the concept of social impact bonds could also be used to finance programs on homelessness,
"Government is paying for outcomes that the government wants to achieve," Deputy Mayor Linda I. Gibbs, the program's chief architect, said. "This is designed to provide a template for other initiatives so we can do more."
New York's program is modeled, in part, after one in Peterborough, a
In Massachusetts, Jay Gonzalez, the secretary of administration and finance, is a proponent of social impact bonds. "We've got to change from the idea of, 'We just pay for stuff and hopefully get the results,' " Mr. Gonzalez said in an interview. "The beauty of this is if they perform to get the results, then we pay. If they don't, we don't pay."Continue reading the main story


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Stella Dam┬Łas┬Łus has graced the screens of many African liv┬Łing room TVŌĆÖs.┬Ā Her movies are watched through┬Łout the cor┬Łners of the African con┬Łti┬Łnent. She has carved for her┬Łself a diva image by tak┬Łing her act┬Łing seri┬Łously and always becom┬Łing a part of┬Āthe story she plays by bring┬Łing pas┬Łsion to the screen that is rem┬Łi┬Łnis┬Łcent only of Hol┬Łly┬Łwood movie stars. Stella is an indi┬Łgene of Asaba, Delta State, but she grew up in Benin City where she com┬Łpleted most of her pri┬Łmary edu┬Łca┬Łtion. She started her Uni┬Łver┬Łsity edu┬Łca┬Łtion with a stint in The┬Łatre Arts at the Uni┬Łver┬Łsity of Benin. She later moved on to the Uni┬Łver┬Łsity of Lagos where she obtained a HND in Busi┬Łness & Indus┬Łtrial Law. In Ghana she stud┬Łied lan┬Łguages for a year, before return┬Łing to Nige┬Łria where she obtained her BachelorŌĆÖs degree in the┬Łatre Arts with hon┬Łours from the Uni┬Łver┬Łsity of┬ĀLagos.
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The Harvard men's volleyball team had some early hiccups, but recovered to take control of the match, as it downed conference foe Rutgers-Newark, 3-1, at the Malkin Athletic Center on Friday night.
The Crimson (15-3, 7-2 EIVA) started out strong, taking a comfortable 25-20 victory in the first set. Co-captain Matt Jones doled out five of 15 kills in the opening frame, and Harvard appeared in control.
But the second set saw the momentum turn. The Scarlet Raiders (8-11, 1-8 EIVA) jumped out to a quick 8-2 lead through several Crimson attack errors and three service aces from Rutgers-Newark. Harvard began a 3-0 run as it searched for a foothold in the game, but the Scarlet Raiders responded with a run of their own. And despite two timeouts from Crimson coach Brian Baise, Rutgers-Newark appeared set to take the game with ease. But with the score at 20-9, Harvard ended the game on a 9-5 run, and appeared to regain energy despite dropping the set, 25-18.
After an extended meeting in the locker room with Baise, the Crimson came out firing in the third, and though the Scarlet Raiders kept in close in the opening exchanges, Harvard's improved passing was evident as it charged to a 25-15 victory.
With an energetic crowd behind it, the Crimson continued the strong offensive play, as Rutgers-Newark fell to mental errors of its own, with Harvard taking the game and the match, 25-20.
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So, one glaring flaw in my LD22 game is that it had no music whatsoever. This was one thing that I wanted to fix for LD23. The problem is: since I'm not a musician, I have no idea whatsoever about how to use the many tracker tools available in the bar to the right side.
So today I decided to go on a quest for some simple music generators that I could use for my game. The conditions:
– Must allow me to use the generated music freely (so no wolphram tunes)
– Must be usable from the web, or runnable under linux/wine
– Must be easy to use by a total music noob like myself
– Must allow me to download my work so I can use it in my game
Luckly, in spite of all my rage and conditions, I managed to find some generators that fit the bill.
The first was "Aviary's Music Creator". It has a very wide range of sounds, but the sound sample has a very limited size, and you can't make it larger. I found that if you select some of the percursion, drum or bass sets, and ask for a "random" set of beats, it can create something rather cool, like this.
The second was Otomata. A very cool celular automata based music creator. You create cells on the board, and as they touch the borders, they play sounds. As they touch each other, they change directions. The cool thing about this site is that you can change the board while it is recording your song, which allows for you to add/remove cells to make your song more/less complex with time. Here is a sample I did while meddling with it.
Hope this can be useful to other sound noobs like me. Also, there is this really cool site called inudge, listed among the tools – the nice thing about it is that it lets you use multiple instruments at the same time, in arbitrarily large songs. But for the life of me I can't figure out how to save the output for a file. Other than pointing my microphone to my sound boxes, can anyone suggest me an easy way to save a song from inudge.net?


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The 4th line--there's been a lot made of it--but we've intentionally brought players in and out to give them experience, and to get them familiar with what goes on here and play in games here. We've used it as a little bit of a development tool, because we want to get these young players into game experience in the NHL. And, even if they're not ready to be as consistent as we'd like, you still want them to get familiar with everything that goes on: game days, how it works, getting on the plane, familiar with the training staff, familiar with their teammates. So we've used that as a little bit of an experiment the whole year, and now we feel pretty confident that we have young players [for whom] it won't be a big surprise if we have to use them down the stretch or in the playoffs. [...] Even though we might have wanted more consistency out of that line, we have used it for different purposes at different times, so it's a little unfair to say we've been searching for something.
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The Purpose of the Canucks' Fourth Line? Prospect Development
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Interesting take on the 4th line, I like it better than goons killing minutes.ReplyDelete
Paul Biz would say (4L)^2
@TBCF Definitely. The 4th line is often somewhat useless (see: lack of minutes in playoffs), but I think the Canucks are doing a good job reinventing its purpose.ReplyDelete
The purpose of the fourth line is to flip out and kill people. Oh wait, that's ninjas. Nevermind!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 7, 2011 at 1:48 PM
I'm surprised this 'revelation' is a surprise to some. (But I don't go on other boards and I don't read the frantic local media all that often, hence my ignorance of this 4th line 'issue'...) I just thought the reason for the rotation was obvious, given our lucky streak so far (knock on wood) for surprisingly few injuries. They'll surely come (knock knock knock), but I had always assumed this seemingly helter-skelter 4th line changing was preparatory. In previous years, the Canucks had inexperienced sudden call-ups to disastrous effect. This is just further proof they've been paying attention to all their errors: Trust in Gillis has been my mantra this season. I see I can continue to chant this right into the playoffs...ReplyDelete
Great Post!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 7, 2011 at 3:42 PM
You briefly mentioned Tanner Glass' leadership history: "begging the question of whether Glass is being intentionally utilized as a mentor, especially considering his leadership history."ReplyDelete
I'm totally unfamiliar with this history, is it good, or bad? Or is it ironically non-existent?
He once spelled "leadership" in Scrabble by adding "leaders" onto the already spelled "hip" on the board for a Bingo and a triple word score. In retrospect, it was a bit of an amateur move by Aaron Rome.ReplyDelete
@anonymous Daniel's hilarious joke aside, he's been in leadership roles through his career, and served as the captain of his Dartmouth team during his senior year there.ReplyDelete
- Rachel AucoinFebruary 8, 2011 at 1:52 AM
I liked the article. Thanks for this.ReplyDelete
But this kind of seems like Gillis is sort of using bogus hindsight in saying "yeah...we were giving new kids a look this whole time...didnt you know?" to make it seem purposeful when in fact, during the process, he was just throwing anything together to see if anything stuck. why wouldnt he just have said so from the beginning if this was the case? put it up on his twitter, perhaps?
also, I don't know if you can call "prospecting" meaningful when AV was consistently and regularly throwing the 4th line out there for 3-5 minutes a game. what is 3-5 minutes a game (with none of it in crunch time or anything resembling crunch time) going to show you about what a young, untried player has? furhter that puts more stain on lines 1-3. my comment has no real point, i'm just saying i think gillis is full of hot air on this one. this isnt nhl 11 GM mode...this is the NHL.
- Rachel AucoinFebruary 8, 2011 at 1:53 AM
sorry i meant strain. although i guess stain could also work, too.ReplyDelete
Looks like Maxim Lapierre is going to be tested as the fourth line center going into the playoffs.ReplyDelete


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BottleNeck Centrality
For each node v in the undirected graph, construct a tree Tv of shortest paths from that node to all other nodes in the graph. For a node v, nv is the number of nodes that are directly or indirectly connected to node v (i.e. the tree Tv contains nv nodes). So extract all nodes w on the above defined tree Tv of shortest paths from node v, such that more than nv/4 paths from v to other nodes in the tree meet at node w. Nodes w extracted in this way represent 'bottle necks' of the shortest path tree Tv rooted at node v, since at least nv/4 paths of the nv-node tree Tv 'meet' at w. For every node v of the graph, construct these shortest path trees Tv rooted at v, and extracted their 'bottle neck' nodes. Note that the same node may be a 'bottle neck' of different shortest path trees. So counted in how many shortest path trees each of the extracted 'bottle neck' nodes appeared [PRŽULJ, N., 2004].
Ps(v) = 1 if more than |V(Ts)|/4 paths from node s to other nodes in Ts meet at the vertex v, otherwise Ps(v) = 0.
For each node v in an interaction network, a tree of shortest paths starting from v is constructed. Taking v as the root of the tree Tv, the weight of a node w in the tree Tv is the number of descendants of w, that is to say, equal to the number of shortest paths starting from v passing through w. A node w is called a bottle-neck node in Tv if the weight of w is no less than n/4, where n is the number of nodes in Tv. The score of node w, BN(v), is defined to be the number of node v such that w is a bottle-neck node in Tv [LIN, C.-Y. 2008].
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It's a cheesecake!
It's an apple crisp!
It's so much graham cracker crust!
Apple Streusel Cheesecake Bars
For the crust:
2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 stick melted butter
1/4 cup sugar
For the cheesecake:
3 packages cream cheese
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
For the apples:
3 apples, peeled, cored, finely chopped
2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
For the streusel:
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup flour
1/2 cup oats
1/2 cup butter, softened
1. Preheat the oven to 350. Mix together melted butter and graham cracker crumbs. Press into a 13x9 inch pan. Bake for 10 minutes.
2. Wipe out that bowl and mix cheesecake filling together until smooth. Pour onto crust.
3. Wipe out the same bowl and mix the apples with cinnamon and sugar. Spread evenly over cheesecake layer.
4. Mix the streusel ingredients together until it resembles wet sand. Sprinkle evenly over the apples. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until filling is set and streusel is browned. Cool for at least 3 hours before slicing into bars.
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20 Aug Private or Government-Subsidized Student Loans?
I recently spoke with a prospective client whose only real financial problem was student loans. In this particular case, all of the student loans are private student loans. It is a bit unusual to see that; many people borrow from private lenders when their government-subsidized student loans are insufficient to pay all their educational expenses.
There are two significant disadvantages to private student loans–they almost always carry higher interest rates (12 per cent in this case), and they accrue interest from the time of the first advance. In other words, interest is being added to the balance while you are still in school. A government-subsidized student loan generally defers the interest until you are out of school.
I was curious why private loans had been chosen. Of course, my first thought was that this was the result of a financial aid officer steering loans to a preferred lender in exchange for a kickback. But that was not the case. So why did my client choose the more expensive option? It was easy to apply online, and no complicated paperwork was required. And, he did not understand either the difference between the private and government-subsidized loans, or how much it would cost in the long run. After all, he was still a teenager when he started college.
It is not surprising that someone so young would fail to understand the difference that deferred interest makes; after all, credit card companies' stock in trade is the difficulty of calculating on the fly what interest on any given purchase actually costs. But here is an example. If you borrow $10,000 a year for four years of college, after graduation a deferred interest loan will have a balance of $40,000. The same $10,000 a year, at 12% without the deferred interest will have a balance of approximately $52,000 at the end of four years. Add to that the difference in interest rates, and you're talking real money.
Both private and government student loans are nondischargeable in bankruptcy–i.e., they survive bankruptcy. (See Kent Anderson's post on how much can be included under that umbrella.) The bottom line is that you are going to be repaying those loans, sometimes for as long as you would pay a mortgage. It's important to understand what you're getting into, and how much you'll have to pay back. It also makes sense to keep student loan borrowing to an absolute minimum.
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Four years ago we here in Kiev had unique possibility to listen your DJ set. I remember my girlfriend was upset you didn't play any songs of a Mountain Of One. But I remember it was a great very diverse set: Donovan and cocaine disco mixed with acid house and Plastikman. You should have a very rich musical background! Tell about it
Yeah that was a fun gig! crazy party, I think it was one of LOW birthday events? – Lots of vodka and strobes – I've never really made a habit of playing my own music productions out – don't know why, I find it difficult even doing playbacks for other people – So leave it for anybody else who enjoys it to play out.
I try and keep my sets as musically diverse as possible, as different styles of music can really capture different moments – as long as you have the balls and the music to follow those moments up, It kinda normally works out, and the crowd responds.
Most of the time they respond when they weird themselves out a bit by getting down to (as you mentioned) a "Donovan" record at 4AM. It's that mixed hit of being surprised, and a new experience with a certain song that they probably have not heard on a dance floor before.
That's the main enjoyment I get from DJing, shifting through musical styles I enjoy – if it's a lousy crowd with a narrow mind then I find the whole process pointless and would rather not play. So I try and pick parties as wisely as possible, keeps me interested and makes me really try deliver something special when I do play.
Where are you based now? How did you get there? What are +/- living there?
I'm based in Indonesia, (Jakarta). Then Bali from next month. I moved here with my wife who is from these shores. I really just had my fill of London after 20 years, the romance was properly over and badly needed a change of atmosphere to centre myself again as it were. So we decided to give it a whirl. Jakarta is an intensely suffocating place with a terrible infrastructure. But has its charms, Raw, wild and 1000 miles an hour. But no place to settle for sure. We spend as much of our free time as possible in Bali, and I record a lot of material there also with some great local musicians, there's some amazing traditional music from Bali, very heady, enigmatic and enchanting.
A close friend of ours calls Jakarta "Gotham City", he's not far wrong, but minus the Batman sadly. But it's all part of the master plan – so living in a place like this patience has been key really. I am launching a very unique cider company "SUNRAY" in a couple of months with beautiful exotic flavour profiles, then will properly settle down in Bali for a few years, see where that takes us.
I can think from your photos you are good friends with Thom Bullock. Are you a part of hidden mescaline community Thom curated?
Yeah Tom's a dear friend, we met 13-14 years ago I guess. I showcased his band A.R.E Weapons at one of my Electric Stew Events at the Great Eastern Hotel. A funny night where Brain the vocalist managed to trash a 20k chandelier within the first 5 minutes of the show by throwing his mic above his head.
We then met again the following year just after I moved to Berlin at a party we were both booked to play, and been close mates ever since. A unique guy with a unique talent – always pushing the boundaries and getting away with it! I've a lot of love and respect for him.
Yeah, I've had the Bullock Mescal experience, and have some very questionable photos from it, kinda reminiscent of a "teleport" accident. It's a wicked brew, to be treated with respect! And he's the no.1 man to spread the word for Mescal culture that's for sure!
You always include some psychedelic elements in your music, why? What do you think about drugs?
I think the term "psychedelic" is such a loose one and so banded around these days it's difficult to know what it means. I like to produce music that takes you somewhere unfamiliar and holds you there. Creates an atmosphere as it were. An emotion, trance inducing almost. That's what I aim to do as that's the feeling I get off on with the music I personally enjoy. But you know that can be any form of music, it doesn't have to be "out there" to get "you there"!
That relating to drug use is another thing altogether. Drugs are a life style choice and I still think the music is paramount to the majority of music loving public. I don't have to be under the influence to have any life changing experience from music. I've been to some heavenly places, been in tears and covered in goose bumps with a pair of headphones on and a cup of green tea on the go.
But… Also in my time have also had some mind blowing musical experiences with assistance from stimulants. But the two should never be really mentioned hand in hand as a matter of importance, it's a bit lazy to be honest. As I know which one I could never live without.
What's the story with Electric Stew?
Electric Stew was a club night and brand myself and an old friend Paul Potter set up. Paul was running things at the time in super club land through his executive role at Mixmag – the crazy mixmag golden years, big envelopes of cash, crazy fees, the big shift towards commerciality etc etc, the beginning of the end if you will. Paul had had enough of the B.S I think. So anyways, I was doing these small low key parties in central London called "Electric Stew" – Myself, The Psychonauts, Gramme (live) and some other weirdness, kinda cool – pretty poorly attended but the people there were all the "right people" in town. Paul came to one of the parties to see me – dragged me off for a few months (Potter style) both left our jobs, hatched some plans and Electric Stew "the brand" was born.< We launched it on a Sunday at (the now infamous celebrity hell hole) "China white", wasn't expecting much, we had about 1000 people turn up and turned away - it was magic. People really made an effort, really dressed up and showed out! We added live music, film, exhibition, fashion and literature to the mix with the hottest talents of the time and it just blew up very very quickly – We de-camped the events to a 5 star Conran hotel called "The Great Eastern Hotel", it was just as Shoreditch was really starting to bubble, and it exploded. We were getting 2000 people at the parties, over 4 or 5 rooms, then most people hired hotel rooms for private afters – the place was a total fucking mad house to be honest, god knows how we got away with it. We toured it around the world, launched fashion labels, sound tracked catwalk shows, launched stores, toured and launched magazines and brands and did really well from it. We were lucky to showcase art, film and have the likes of play for us.. Chris Cunnigham, Vincent Gallo, Jarvis Cocker, Harvey, Jane Birkin, Tracy Emin, Will Self, Spike Jonze, Isolee, Doves, Cash Money, LFO, Ivan Smagghe, Beth Orton, Trevor Jackson, A.R.E Weapons, Gerry Rooney, Nathan Gregory Wilkins, Mark Moore, Gonzales, Giles Deacon, Liquid Liquid, Isolee, Optimo, Badly Drawn Boy, Andy Votel, Derrick Santini, Danny Wang, Maurice Fulton, Irvine Welsh, Simon Owens, Man Parrish, Soul Wax, Tomato Design, Andrew Weatherall and Gilles Peterson. That's off the top of my head, the list goes on… And to be honest looking back at it, Its something I'm immensely proud of.
Then we just let it sort of die – we killed it before it killed us. But boy what fun!! I went off to concentrate more on my music and moved off to Berlin for a few years then AMO1 and Paul books, and tours major global talent and is doing very well for himself – and here we are.
Was it also a record label?
Yeah we had an "Electric Stew" label deal given to us through PIAS, it sort of came at the wrong time, the tail end of the good times, the after after after party! – We squeezed a couple singles and a great compilation out though which rounded the whole Electric Stew experience off nicely – a lovely colourful "full stop" to the madness.
I found amazing Ghost 12" there via Pasha Plastikk.
Yeah our first release was GHOST the 12" you mentioned – that was actually my first production job – weirdly enough Ghost was Zeben's band who went on to be the vocalist and my co-writer in A Mountain Of One many moons later.
And we come close to A Mountain Of One project…
I moved to Berlin for a questionable dance project I was involved in – we got a major deal with a heavyweight german label and all upped sticks and moved there – peak time Berlin madness !! – anyways – to cut a long story short all went tits up, band split, album never saw the light of day – and to be honest I'm glad as it's the only thing I've been involved in that makes me squirm – so I came home tail between my legs but a fire in my belly and a sound that I wanted to try and create and pulled in my old friends Leo and Zeben – and we just jumped straight into the studio and started demoing – within 4 months or so the first EP was written. It was magical how it just came together – I think we all had so many ideas that needed to come out and I had a big devil on my back that I needed to shake off from Berlin, it was a beautiful liberating experience – I loved every minute of those first sessions – proper magic in the air stuff, the magic stuff that makes it worth while.
How did you team up with Leo?
My first job in London in the mid 90s was as a label manager / lacky / someone to throw stuff at on a Monday / coffee maker / mail records at a major dance label (I'm not telling you the name) – one of our acts was "Chicane", this was Leo's band – so Leo was in our office all the time – we bonded over music / club culture / and our love of brogues at if I remember rightly – I left the label to start Electric Stew – he left Chicane – we hung out for years on and off – always shared the same taste in music and Leo has this lovely fascination and enthusiasm which was ace to be around.
So he was the perfect person that came to mind when I was scheming the AMO1 project in my head – so I just called him – I think it was from Croatia where I was DJing for a summer, then jumped on a flight home – Leo came met me from the airport and we literally went straight into his studio – full of beans and belly fire! As it should be.
You personal fave AMO song?
Freefall I think is perfect – it was missing something in the session so I was asking Zeb to try bring some funk sleaze to the track– (not easy to an ambient ballad btw), so he started chopping out this stabby heady clav riff over the top – post vocal and song – something just slotted perfectly. Well, I had to go and have a sit down in the garden – I knew this may be the happiest I could get so went and lapped it up on my own and get my breath – moments like that are worth all the sofa surfing poverty, false major label promises, stinky tour buses and general upset – I'd do it all again just for that moment! – I honestly would, no doubt.
Ride is something very special to me also – it captured this lush sense of freedom and innocence – summed up that time for me, and sound tracked a few others I think – Leo and I had a "moment" mid way through that coming together – happy accidents, majik, whatever you wanna call it – but when it hits – it really is the best feeling – bar none.
Why do you think your music is so emotional?
I'm not sure – I don't think ZSOU is so much that sound. AMO1 definitely leans towards the melancholy – Thing is I get a euphoric feeling from the melancholy – I used to zone out after clubs to Nick Drake, Pentangle and John Martyn albums at an early age – those artists and that sound is hugely uplifting and spiritual (for me) – so maybe that channels itself someway through the music I work on. I guess you're just trying to get out what turns you on and in some way it does through the creative process.
Tell about ZSOU project.
ZSOU is Merrick Adams and myself. Merrick and I met through a mutual friend, I was looking for a bass player for the 2nd AMO1 album tour and Merrick got recommended. We bonded straight away over music and wine. Did a couple of shows together etc.
Merrick has this incredible natural feel and flair on the bass and pretty much anything else he can get his hands on or bang/hit. Raw talent at its best!! Anyways. That really hit the spot for the AMO1 live set up. Then mid tour everything went tits up, Mezz left the tour, and then I decided to split the band for lots of reasons, everything felt tired, a bit sour and was all a bit of a mess, people were getting let down and I wanted out.
So Merrick and I jumped in the studio asap and started demoing some ZSOU ideas and generally having lots of fun. It felt right, was well needed and here we are. It's a lot slower creative process than AMO1 but worth it, it feels more fresh and natural as a process and a finished product – well for me anyways – other people may disagree.
New ZSOU single has just been pressed and will be out in a few weeks I'm told. From there hopefully another single and a ZSOU "long" player at the end of the year, although not sure how "long" it will be. Possibly some film work we will be involved in with a talented old friend of mine called Pablo Clements / Psychonauts / Unkle / Toydrum etc. And also a compilation / mix album of the weird and wonderful that a new label has just asked me to potentially put together… Oh and hopefully get the Balinese feeling some exotic cider! 🙂 x
ZSOU "Admiral Byrd / Admiral Dub" will be released on "Island of the Gods" in May
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A pop at the market open faded for Wall Street as the U.S. dollar firmed and investors pared back their bets on a 2010 rally. How should you be positioned? Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at Oppenheimer, shared his outlook with CNBC.
Belski described the path he believes markets will take:
"Over the short term, higher—and long term, higher."
"But," he added, "we are going to be volatile this year and markets are not linear for long."
Belski said the fundamental maturing of both the economy and the stock market will likely drive some volatility and cause indecision among investors, especially as the dollar continues to strengthen and international market volatility increases.
Overall, "the rate of growth in the U.S. is going to be greater than the rest of the world," he said.
- Watch Belski's Previous Appearance on CNBC (Dec. 21, 2009)
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Virtual machines offer numerous advantages over their physical counterparts. I'll summarize a few of them for you. First there is the flexibility with its hardware, you can easily add or reduce the server's memory, add or remove a processor, add a virtual disk or increase an existing disk's size by shutting the VM down and changing it's settings. Second is the snapshot feature that lets you save the state of the server in case you need to restore it later on. This feature can be a real lifesaver when patching or upgrading applications on servers. Manageability of virtual servers is also easier because you can easily connect to the servers console remotely without the need for special remote access hardware like HP's ILO. You can also easily clone virtual servers and create templates to quickly create new ones. Lastly virtual servers all see the same virtual hardware (except for processors) regardless of the physical hardware that they are hosted on. This ensures that your applications all run on similar hardware to eliminate problems that may arise from dis-similar hardware.
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On the other hand, virtualization does come with some performance hits, especially with I/O. For most server operations, CPU isn't going to matter, and the benefit of consolidation is going to outweigh the CPU overhead (especially since many servers would otherwise spend a lot of time idling, anyway). But very processor-intensive operations (eg some financial calculations) or I/O heavy servers (eg databases) are often not good candidates for virtualization.
You should also watch out for server sprawl, which is when departments make too many VMs. Because it's so easy (and cheap) to create a new server with virtualization, departments tend to be less careful about requesting them. If you're not careful, you can end up with dozens of servers (or more) that are now all taking up disk space and need to be patched and updated. Preventing this is largely a procedural matter.
VMs do make for good test systems, too; the added flexibility makes it easier to test the system with different configurations. And they can be a great way to move legacy servers to new hardware. Some legacy OSs or apps may not be able to run on newer hardware directly, but you can virtualize them and present them with an environment that looks to them like the old system.
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Tips for Backpacking China Alone
What's a girl to do when you're meant to be traveling to Shanghai, China with your boyfriend, but you break up two weeks before the trip?
You end up backpacking China alone, and learning a hell of a lot about solo female travel.
As per usual, I hadn't researched Shanghai at all. Was it safe to be travelling to Shanghai alone as a woman? Did the Chinese speak English? Are the hostels of a reasonable standard?
Mostly, no, mostly not.
This was my first international trip solo. Prior to that I had spent a week by myself in the Coromandel but that was my own back yard, and China was a little different. Traveling to Shanghai alone was the complete opposite of doing so in New Zealand.
I booked my hostel the night before I flew out. I decided to stay at the Blue Mountain Youth Hostel. From the pictures on the internet, it looked clean, comfortable and social.
Travelling to Shanghai alone was an unforgettable experience
It took roughly 14 hours to get to Shanghai from Christchurch, with a brief stopover in Sydney. By this time I was keen to get my luggage and put on a fresh set of clothes. I waited patiently by the carousel. I waited and watched bag after bag that wasn't mine pass me by.
My bag didn't show. Feeling deflated, I went to the baggage services desk. My bag was still in Sydney.
"How long until it can get here?" I asked. Luckily I had packed a few necessary items in my carry on luggage, including a change of underwear, toothbrush, deodorant and a spare shirt.
"It should be here within a week," the very nice, English-speaking Chinese man responded.
Stupidly I had decided to wear heels on the flight over. My feet now ached, and I had that terrible long-haul traveller smell.
With nothing to do but make my way to my hostel, I jumped in a taxi.
I handed the taxi driver a scrap piece of paper with the hostel address scribbled on it in Chinese. I had asked the man at luggage services to translate for me after discovering the majority of people in China know very little English.
According to the internet it would take me 47 minutes via taxi to get to the hostel. Feeling skeptical due to my experiences with taxis in Bali, I followed our progress on Google Maps. My taxi driver seemed to be driving the long way around. Next thing I know we were headed west, when my hostel was north-east, according to my map.
I showed him my map, and we somehow managed to understand each other enough that we were now heading in the correct direction.
Was he about to take me to some black market?
I'd heard some of the taxi's at the airport are illegal. I just hoped I wasn't sitting in one of them.
To say I was relieved when I saw the sign that read 'Blue Mountain Youth Hostel' was an understatement. I paid the 180 yuan I owed the driver, too tired to feel annoyed he took me the long way around.
From the outside, I was skeptical of the hostel. The only thing that gave me any reassurance was the sign showing me I was in the right place. Once I was inside it was a lot cleaner.
"There's no booking under your name," the friendly receptionist with a mass of blonde curls said.
I handed her the printed reservation.
"Ohhh, okay you're in the wrong place hun! There are three Blue Mountain hostels in Shanghai. We're the Bund, and you've booked in at the Hongqiao hostel."
Finding this somewhat humorous, I asked if I could book a room for one night so I could figure out how to get to my real hostel the following day. As luck wouldn't have it, the hostel was fully booked. My best option was to get a taxi to the other Blue Mountain hostel.
When I got there, I waded through hundred of boxes that were dumped outside the entrance. I navigated around black plastic rubbish bags that had spilled half of their contents onto the street. My opinion of China was this thus far: it was dirty. It was stinky. It was my introduction to China.
The view from my hostel. Fantastic, no?
I saw a cockroach scurry under one of the chairs in the living area. Oddly enough this didn't gross me out. What did gross me out was the amount of mold that coated the walls of my room. The big, black spores covered almost two thirds of the wall my bed lay against; the room was in such bad condition that my sheets were damp to the touch. I slept with a singlet wrapped around my face that night to ward off any bugs that would later penetrate my respiratory system.
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What did 2013 look like? An extension of 2012 this was a year mostly surrounding my academic life, with most of my travels associated with with academic adventures around the world.
Since I'm always behind on my blogging, and the previous summary of 2012 still had a lot coming I'll start off from a the summaries of the 2012 adventures:
The year started with my family in New York City and the morning after we took a flight down to Florida and did over a week venturing across the beautiful sunshine state.
New York City
Florida family trip
Saint Augustine (combined with previous visit in 2012)
For the SPSP conference in New Orleans I did a road-trip from Tallahassee stopping in Alabama and Pensacola along the way…
During this month I was mainly wrapping up things in Tallahassee and getting ready to head back. As a summary of my wonderful time in Florida I spent a few days in gorgeous Miami and visiting the Everglades :
In March I had the opportunity to do a quick visit to Israel and spend some time with my family and my sister's new born.
Right after Passover night I returned to Hong Kong and experienced a real reverse culture shock.
The professor who hosted me in Florida came to visit Hong Kong and we toured around a bit. This was mostly a month of readjusting back to Hong Kong reality.
After harsh April, I needed a getaway and May offered a nice surprise, with Xiamen as a gate to the wonderful Taiwanese Kinmen Island where I celebrated the City God birthday festival, and made my way back through Shanghai with some of the local campuses :
Shanghai stopover:
And, also got to do a few things in Hong Kong:
Spent most of the month teaching a summer course for the second year. Was an intense month with very high pressure.
Still, got to do a few things around Hong Kong :
And visit the nearby Shenzhen and Guangzhou on weekend daytrips :
After the long teaching month was able to get away for a bit longer to a weekend+ getaway to the charming Diaolou village in the nearby Guangdong province:
Meanwhile, in Hong Kong :
University decided that I need to move out of the university apartments and most of July was spent looking for an affordable contract free place in Hong Kong. Luck brought me to a wonderful apartment in Tiu Keng Leng with a great flatmate:
Was able to do a weekend getaway to the nearby Shenzhen and explore the eastern lesser-known parts:
Towards the end of the month was able to do a longer getaway and revisit Beijing :
Still more to come from that Beijing visit.
Had the most amazing vacation in the area of Tokyo Japan.
Still have lots more from that visit.
Also got to revisit Macau :
And do a few more things around Hong Kong…
Didn't get a chance to do much away from Hong Kong, but still, was able to explore Hong Kong a bit :
More to come later.
This month was an intense data collection month, and the month I defended my thesis proposal. Not to mention that I decided to try my luck with the job market. One of the most intense months of my academic life.
(had a trip to Peng Chau, more on that to come later)
Intense academic life continues, pressure rises and so does the uncertainty. Had a few visitors to Hong Kong, and revisit Beijing to see Beijing University. More on that to hopefully come later.
Overall, this year I've been to the Unites States (New York, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana), Israel, Taiwan (Kinmen Island), China (Beijing, Xiamen, Shanghai, various places in Guangdong province), Macau and Japan, with lots of explorations of Hong Kong. A much slower year than 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009, so I hope 2014 will bring lots of new adventures and interesting places.
This will hopefully be the last year of my PhD. I aim to find an academic job as a next step and that may take me anywhere in the world. After almost 5 years in Hong Kong, it might be time for a change. There's no doubt that I'm somewhat tired of student life and definitely ready to upgrade my life to something a bit more stable. But, we'll see how things work out. You can never know…


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Alex Jones - yes, he's crazy, but it's hard for me to not listen to him. He had Lindsey Williams on yesterday talking about some incredible predictions concerning the financial crisis, oil & OPEC, the global elite- we know the entanglement.
Anyway, I wanted to take the Alex out and share what L. Williams was saying. If I can find the interview without Alex's spiel, I'll post it. For now, this link is what I found on Youtube from Williams. It's long, but very interesting, I think.
We've been hearing the warnings, but has anyone else heard Lindsey Williams or read his book from 1980 (I think)?---About how those who control the oil control the world, no longer in print. Again, there are some extremely incredible and alarming claims in the video attached.
What do you guys think about Alex Jones? Lindsey Williams?- He's a pastor and I'm seriously, honestly not trying to start another completely unproductive bash-all rabbit trail debate of apologetics. Religion aside or included, the claims in this video are spreading in viral fashion all over the internet.
And if you want to skip the financial crisis and just laugh at Alex- look for his rant on Justin Bieber. I still love Alex and Justin, too. If you listen to this and don't mind Alex so much, look for his L.Williams interview from 2/22/11, too.


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Every Wednesday in May we will be serving homemade pulled pork on fresh Ciabatta buns from Brick Street Bakery and a side of pasta salad. Drink included for $6.50!
Staring in May, we will have fresh brewed tea daily. As the weather heats up, come cool down with a glass!
We now have homemade egg salad available each day for sandwiches and wraps. Add a dollop of egg salad to take our delicious sandwiches and wraps to the next level!
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The 14 women and four other passengers were heading to a funeral in a village near Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu state, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
The auto-rickshaw, a three-wheeled, open-sided motor vehicle commonly used to transport passengers, had broken down as it crossed the track, A. Amalraj, the local superintendent of police, was quoted as saying.
The auto-rickshaw was dragged for more than 165 feet before the train stopped.
Rail crossings in India generally have attendants who manually raise and lower the guard gates. Smaller crossings are mostly unmanned. Rural buses and other vehicles are often hit by speeding trains.
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Trait ascription bias is the tendency for people to view themselves as relatively variable in terms of personality, behavior and mood while viewing others as much more predictable in their personal traits across different situations. More specifically, it is a tendency to describe one's own behavior in terms of situational factors while preferring to describe another's behavior by ascribing fixed dispositions to their personality. This may occur because peoples' own internal states are more readily observable and available to them than those of others.
This attributional bias intuitively plays a role in the formation and maintenance of stereotypes and prejudice, combined with the negativity effect. However, trait ascription and trait-based models of personality remain contentious in modern psychology and social science research. Trait ascription bias refers to the situational and dispositional evaluation and description of personality traits on a personal level. A similar bias on the group level is called the out-group homogeneity bias.


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I posted a more detailed article at Daily Kos yesterday, titled in the format used on The Big Bang Theory, The Vaccination Intervention. I was pleased to see the comment section, now 500 strong and climbing, didn't degenerate into an all out flame war. But there were a few commenters whot were making claims that sounded like they'd been piped straight from an anti-vaxxar website or seminar. Per usual, these individuals appeared impervious to evidence and reason.
As the evidence mounted that the link to autism was a dead-end, anti-vaxxars did what most pseudoscientists do. They upped the ante with ever more elaborate conspiracies, and moved the goal posts by making claims that were less and testable. Too many too soon is a good example:
Respectful Insolence — As I'm so fond of saying, the vaccine-autism hypothesis is not "pinin' for the fjords." It is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If antivaccinationists hadn't tried to nail it to the perch it'd be pushing up the daisies! Its metabolic processes are now 'istory! It's off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! It IS AN EX-HYPOTHESIS!!
BTW, I keep waiting for my Big Pharma payoff to arrive, but so far, nada. Cheap bastards.
There's some religious angles to this deal. Some vaccines were developed using fetal tissue, then there's the general distrust of government, fanned by series like X-files and nurtured by the religious right whenever there's a democrat in the WH. But by and large we're lucky there's not a ton of industry money or verses in the Bible fueling this particular anti-science racket. There's a critical point in any population beyond which large scale epidemics of preventable disease can flourish. We may be pushing in that direction in some communities, but so far at least, we haven't exceeded that line. Much to our benefit, whether you accept the science or buy into the nonsense.


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Greg Lubar: First Davos experience5 Comments
It's hard to describe the anticipation of coming to Davos for the first time. With a month of preparation trying to understand the dynamics of those who will be attending, events to participate in, who I wanted to meet with and working out the logistics, when January 18 arrived, I was already exhausted. Traveling from Washington D.C. to Davos is an adventure in and of itself. After flying through Amsterdam to get to Zürich, there is another two-hour drive through the most beautiful mountains I have seen outside of the Colorado Rockies. As you start to approach Davos, it is clear something big is going on. There are several security checkpoints along the final few miles of a two-lane road leading to a little village at the base of a magnificent ski resort.
The town is as you might expect a ski village to be. There is a main street that, for 51 weeks of the year, is bustling with shops and restaurants. However, during Davos the corporate influence literally takes over the retail operations. Most of the stores have rented out their entire space to companies like Facebook, Salesforce, Microsoft, all of the major investment banks and just about every other Fortune 100 company you can imagine. Hospitality events and parties are nonstop along this road.
As you enter the main conference center, it is clear that the building has evolved over time. It is quite a maze of hallways, stairwells, different rooms and large meeting areas. The security is at epic proportions with checkpoints, armed guards, cameras and clearly undercover officers constantly evaluating the situation. With attendees like Vice President Joe Biden, CEOs from all of the major companies, heads of state and other influential people, they don't mess around with keeping us safe.
Today started with a 7 AM JLL-hosted breakfast that had a very nice turnout of companies and clients from all different sectors. The official Davos event kickoff was at 9 AM, and ever since it has been meetings, presentations, seminars, and an occasional snack to keep the energy up. The conference center shuts down at around 7:30 PM, but that's just the beginning. Then the evening events start with dinners, hospitality suites, special events and networking. It's now 9:15 PM as I write this blog, and I am about to enter an event sponsored by the Ministry and Cultural Tourism Department from the Republic of Turkey. It looks like they have gone all out – clearly a promotional event to attract business to their country. Assuming this ends around 12:00 AM tonight, my goal will be to get to sleep by 12:30 and be ready to start it all over again at 6 AM tomorrow.
I must admit, the entire experience is a bit humbling on your first day. The level of talent, brain power and representation from global companies, academic types, scientists and NGO's is almost surreal. Originally anticipating a traditional business development conference, I have already learned that Davos is far beyond that. There is very little talk about direct business, and much more about global issues, global business and ideas at a macro level that will help to make the world a better place both for humanity and in terms of economic prosperity for all.
I look forward to sharing my experience with all of you through this blog over the next few days.


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Within a month, the aspiration to send humans to Mars seems to have reached a new level of media exposure. First Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin disclosed its plan to build the New Glenn, a rocket with the potential to send humans into space. Then SpaceX CEO Elon Musk presented his vision of how we could shuttle to and from Mars within a couple of decades. And two weeks later, President Obama wrote an op-ed calling for America to set its sights on sending humans to Mars by the 2030s with the ...
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Energy Companies Benefiting from Polar Ice Melting
Energy companies are the punching bag of choice for environmentalists, given the alleged impact of fossil fuels on the Earth's climate.
Ironically, it appears the very businesses they blame for melting icecaps stand to benefit, as they now have easier access to the wealth of resources in the Arctic.
Related: Gianluca Tognon Announces a New E-book About the Consequences of Global Warming on Food Safety and Human Health
According to The New York Times, companies like Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), Statoil ASA (NYSE: STO) and Total SA (NYSE: TOT) stand to profit from historically-recent developments in the Northeast Passage.
The report highlighted that the China National Petroleum Corporation, Russian energy company Novatek and Total are already building a $20 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant called "Yamal LNG" on the central Arctic coast of Russia.
The New York Times noted that this is one of the first major energy projects to capitalize on thawing in the Northeast Passage, which opened for regular international shipping four years ago and will be used to ship the gas to Asia. The tankers used to haul the gas will no longer require icebreakers except for the most northerly straits, according to the report.
Related: UPDATE: Jefferies Raises PT on Exxon Mobil Following Free Cashflow Handicap
Another benefit to energy companies, according to the Times, is that the Arctic Sea floor has become increasingly open for exploration. It noted that Exxon Mobil and Russian state oil company Rosneft are already in a joint venture to drill the Kara Sea off the coast of Siberia as well as seven new exploration blocks in the Arctic. Norway is also drilling in Arctic waters, albeit over much less territory, as notes the Times.
Interestingly, as the Times noted, if Russia is able to ship large volumes of gas to Asia, it could put a damper on plans to build LNG export terminals in the more navigable Gulf of Mexico. Naturally, Asian demand for U.S. gas would decline if more Russian gas hits the market.
One caveat to the story is that, despite the changing climate it represents, less fuel will be required to transport energy around the world. For example, as the Times mentioned, Rosneft has negotiated a swap deal with Qatar to fulfill the Middle Eastern nation's contracts with European customers during the summer in exchange for Qatar filling its Asian orders in winter.
The move will save fuel and time for both, given the fact the Arctic is still treacherous in winter and the geographical constraints of each nation.
If others make similar arrangements, a win-win situation could develop for both environmentalists and investors. Thousands of miles can now be shaved from trips using routes that were once impassible and, since fewer icebreakers are needed, even more fuel can be saved.
Humans will always need energy, so the reduced fuel consumption for transporting it may represent a small victory for the former while padding the wallets of shareholders.
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I started my first dream journal at age 8. I have accumulated volumes since that are filled with images, feelings, symbolism and characters that never fail to educate and inspire me and elucidate my waking world. Working with people and their dreams is all about pulling in the pieces the unconscious hands us in our dreams and integrating them into waking life to add dimension and arrive at that "ah-ha" meaning.
As a professional art therapist and active member in the dream community for over 35 years, my approach to dreamwork is both intuitive and eclectic, and is sensitive to each person based on my toolbox of knowledge and experience of working with individuals and groups. A creative approach to dreamwork via expressive means can be done through journaling, art, dance, writing or Gestalting with dream imagery or any expressive method meaningful to the dreamer.
Marlene served on the board and was a regular contributor to Dream Network Journal for nearly two decades. Her column, "Dream Times," appeared there and in the North Kitsap Herald. You can visit her blog, www.thedreamplace.wordpress.com, that contains inspirational true stories and reflections from her life.
Her inspirational novel, The Rainbow Watchers, released in the fall of 2018, is spiritual fiction based on a true NDE (near-death experience) that explores the possibilities life has to offer on both sides of the veil. To learn more, visit www.therainbowwatchers.com
Marlene holds a B.A. degree in Art History from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an M.A. in Art Therapy from Marylhurst University. A member and affiliate of IASD since 1984.
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Veeco's Chemical Vapor Deposition Systems allow the conformal metal deposition process to enable next-generation TFMHs and areal densities greater than 400gb/in².
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When it comes to insurance, transparency is vital. This is to ensure that your policy does not become null and void.
When taking out insurance, your provider will ask you a series of questions. This is for them to understand your circumstances and offer you a quote based on what you have told them.
If you give false information, or fail to tell them about a recent change in your circumstances then this can result in the following:
- Any claim you make subsequently could be rejected or reduced
- Your policy could become redundant altogether
With this in mind, once you've set up insurance always remember to tell your provider about any changes that may affect your insurance cover. These may include, for example:
Change of address
If you move house you will need to let your insurer know – your new address could have an impact on your home insurance premium, as well as other insurances. In addition, your provider will need your correct address to send through any insurance correspondence via post.
- Decline in your health/condition
It's likely that you'll be asked about your physical and mental condition. If your circumstances have altered since you took out your policy then your provider will need to know what has changed and how you've been affected.
Illness and injury can make a difference to the overall cost of your premium, so make sure you get in contact with your insurance company to check if your circumstances will make a difference.
- Modifications to insured items
If you are making any sort of modification, for example adding rooms or extensions to your home, this will need to be declared too.
Premiums can be affected if the items you have insured have changed or altered. In some cases, this won't necessarily impact your premiums, but you still need to check first.
The worst case scenario would be if you made a change to your home without notifying your insurer. If this was to happen and you made a future claim, you may discover that your insurer can't pay out. Avoid this by being transparent with your insurance provider.
- Adding valuable items to your contents insurance
If you purchase a new expensive possession, such as a bicycle or a sparkling necklace, then you'll want to protect these should the worst happen and they get damaged or are stolen.
If it's possible to include them under your home contents insurance policy then your insurer will need to know their value first.
In some cases, further details will be required for items that are over a certain amount and classified as "valuable". This can be determined by calling or emailing your insurer and making them aware of the new items you wish to insure.
- New occupation
As your circumstances have a direct impact on your insurance premiums, the same applies if you change occupation.
As a result, you need to declare this too. The principles apply if you change your job, if you move to a new role within the same company, and even if you are retired and you start part-time work.
- Change in marital status
As some policies will apply to couples, you should also declare if your marital status ever changes. If you've recently got married, or you are soon to be divorced your insurer will need to know.
If you're enjoying your marriage, or going through a difficult time with divorce, telling your insurer about your circumstances might not feel like a priority. However, make sure they know so that the relevant circumstances can be reflected in your insurance.
- Leaving your property
In most cases your provider will need to know if you are leaving your property unoccupied for a specific amount of time.
This will vary for each insurer, although with Inusre4Retirement the unoccupied time frame is in an event where you are leaving your home for longer than 60 days.
The insurer needs to know this because they may need to impose specific terms on your policy. For example, if you are going away for the winter, you might be required to leave your heating on to avoid frozen and burst pipes.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif., November 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As Hispanic culture permeates mainstream America, a new research study by Conill reveals where the effect is most concentrated and which groups are most receptive to its influence.
"The Hispanic Influence on American Culture" details how people across all demographics see the country changing as a result of the infusion of Latino culture. The influence is fueled by the sheer size of the Hispanic population — now roughly one in six Americans, and the recognition, acceptance and consequent organic adoption of aspects of the Hispanic culture by non-Hispanics.
"We set out to better understand how Hispanic identity might evolve over time," said Conill Chief Strategy Officer Verena Sisa. "For example, do Hispanics see themselves as agents of change? What are their views on balancing their distinctive heritage with the pull of the mainstream? We also wanted to know where their perceptions diverged from non-Hispanics."
The study revealed surprising and not-so-surprising truths:
• Food, music and sports were confirmed as the greatest areas of influence by Hispanics and non-Hispanics alike.
• Discrepancies arise when it comes to beauty and style.
• Hispanics and non-Hispanics agree that the diversity of Hispanic culture in the U.S. is not well understood.
• Despite the fact that Hispanics over index in the use of technology, the two areas where Hispanic influence is perceived to be the weakest by non-Hispanics are technology and the internet.
• Only 1 in 10 of all respondents believes that Hispanics are "Extremely Safe" living in the Unites States.
"The Hispanic Influence on American Culture" contains an abundance of insights into an increasingly complex consumer marketplace. It is freely available for download at http://bit.ly/RUgGFY
About Conill
Conill is among the most highly awarded Latino agencies in the U.S. and is a four-time recipient of the prestigious American Association of Advertising Agencies' O'Toole Multicultural Award. It was named Multicultural Agency of the Year by leading industry trade publication Advertising Age in 2010 and 2007. The agency's roster of clients includes Kraft, Procter & Gamble, Sony PlayStation, T-Mobile and Toyota Motor Sales.
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Comté, Sweet Potato and Fig Tart
- Serves 6-8
- Preparation time: 30 minutes
- Chilling time: 50 minutes
- Cooking time: 55 mins – 1 hour
For the pastry:
- 150g white spelt flour, plus extra for dusting
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 75g organic unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
- 30g walnuts, bashed to a fine crumb
For the filling:
- 4 large eggs
- 100ml milk
- 150g crème fraiche
- 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 2 small sweet potatoes (approx 300-400g weight)
- 3 small, ripe figs
- 100g Comté cheese, grated
- 4-5 sprigs fresh thyme
- 3/4 tsp sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
To make the pastry:
- Place the walnuts and half the flour in a food processor and blitz until fine. Add the processed mixture to a bowl with the flour and salt. Rub in the butter until you achieve a breadcrumb texture (or blend in a food processor). Add enough cold water to make the mixture come together to form a firm dough, and then rest it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface and line a 22cm/8½inch well-buttered tart dish. Place the pastry gently into the dish and chill in the fridge for a further 20 minutes whilst you preheat the oven to 180 degrees/Gas 4.
- Remove the pastry case from the freezer and line the base of the pastry with baking parchment and then fill it with baking beans. Place the dish on a baking tray and bake blind for 20 minutes. Remove the beans and parchment and return to the oven for another five minutes to cook the base.
For the filling:
- Meanwhile, peel and chop the sweet potato into 1-inch sized cubes. Steam the potatoes until soft.
- Once the base of the tart is cooked, place the cheese on the bottom first, then the sweet potato cubes. Whisk together the crème fraiche, milk, eggs, thyme leaves and mustard. Season generously with a couple of pinches of sea salt and a good grinding of black pepper. Pour the egg mixture over the top. Slice the figs into quarters and place on the top. Return the tart back to the oven.
- Cook for 30-35 minutes, or until the filling is just set. Leave to cool slightly, for 10 minutes before serving.
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Raw honeycomb
Categories: Product of the week
Delicate, honey-filled, nougat-like and found at From Field and Flower
A sweet, crunchy, melt-in-your-mouth bubbly waif of deliciousness, found atop ice creams, Bread Ahead doughnuts and in chocolate bars—or at least that's how we thought of honeycomb before Sam, co-owner of From Field and Flower, enlightened us.
"That sort of honeycomb is simply sugar that has been cooked in a certain way to look like the honeycomb you'd find in a hive—it's not actually honeycomb," she explains. "Both are delicious! But the raw honeycomb you'll find here is much less sweet, more delicate, and chewy rather than crunchy in texture."
That hexagonal waxy grid we imagine when we think of beehives? That's the real deal. "It's what the bees make with their bodies at the start of the season to put their pollen in, basically, which eventually they make into honey. It's entirely natural and edible."
Last through winter
To extract honey, the honeycomb 'tray' is usually taken from the hive, spun in a centrifuge, then put back whence it was found. "The bees work hard to make it and they need the honeycomb to last through the winter, so to take it without knowing what you're doing would be unfair"—which is why we haven't seen it on the stall until now.
The Wallace family from South Molton in Devon—from whom From Field and Flower get their honeycomb—are highly experienced, having been in the beekeeping business since the 1940s. "They have enough hives to take some of the honeycomb without disturbing the bees, and the expertise to know how and when they can take it."
The honeycomb is removed, divided, boxed and sent straight to the Market, "unprocessed and unfiltered" and still full of delicious Devon wildflower honey, which you'll also find on the stall in jarred form from the same producers.
Light, floral and delicate
"The bees collect pollen from right across the county," Sam continues. "It's light, floral and delicate, with a slight hint of lemon." The honeycomb is similarly well-balanced—"not too chewy, we wanted it to be accessible. It's more like a nougat"—and delicious with just about anything you'd use ordinary honey for.
"You could put it in the fridge so that the honey crystallises and hardens, meaning it will no longer be runny and making it easier to simply slice it up thinly and have on toast. The wax will melt and become butter-like in texture, and has a warmer, richer flavour than just ordinary honey. It's delicious."
Use it to top cakes—"let the honey drizzle out into air holes for a moist sponge"—or even in a chai tea. "The limit is your imagination, really. Just be aware that while it can be used to replace confectionary-type honeycomb, it will have that chewy texture."


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The Secondary Education commission often known as Mudaliar Commission was appointed by the federal government of India in term of their Resolution to deliver adjustments within the current schooling system and make it better for the Nation. After incomes your masters in secondary education degree, you'll have the talents and credentials it's essential to change into a licensed junior high or highschool teacher, and effectively handle a secondary schooling atmosphere. The submit-primary stream of schooling is additional categorized into four types in terms of curriculum: normal education, madras studying, and technical-vocational studying along with expert scholarship.
Graduates with a level in Secondary Schooling who full all other requirements for an Arizona Instructing Certificate can look forward to finding employment within the State in any of a variety of instructional environments — conventional public, constitution, or non-public schools.
The difference between performance and training is that, at first, the students aren't being taught how one can be musical as a result of they aren't quite capable of comprehend that in beginning band, choir, or orchestra.
To improve the quality of science schooling and promote scientific mood, as envisaged in the Nationwide Policy on Education, 1986 this Scheme was initiated throughout 1987-88. After the Grundschule (major/elementary school lasting four to 6 years), teachers suggest every pupil for one in all three different types of secondary training.
Till the establishment of this agency, nearly all analysis has to supply both applied sciences on the secondary degree or in 4 or 5 12 months college diploma program. You'll be able to elect to teach in a personal, public or constitution school with this secondary training degree program.


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Try to make small changes in your lifestyle to achieve your weight goals. These 3 simple habits will make a huge difference in the long run.
These are just guidelines.The food you eat is completely upto you. This video is about healthy habits and not about what you should be eating:)
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Monday, January 26, 2009
FELICITATIONS ON OUR 60th REPUBLIC DAY
WELCOME to the first cut of our wee contribution ...Animesh may probably disagree :-) ....to the collective national good .
In the coming days we are hopeful of making this entity into a zestful and informative repository of newsworthy material and a forum to lock-horns :-) on topical issues.
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Yesterday, Molly and I were generously invited to tag along with the group of William & Mary students currently studying abroad in Montpellier on a day trip to Aigues-Mortes and a local beach. We've visited Aigues-Mortes before (you can read about that trip here), but when opportunity knocks -- and especially opportunity happens to be a free trip to a beautiful historic seaside town -- you answer!
Look familiar?
Since Molly and I had already done the touristy thing, we opted out of another tour of the city ramparts. Instead, we walked around the interior of the city, popping into souvenir shops and -- of course -- stopping for sugary snacks. We decided that after a long morning of walking (and twenty-one years of penny-pinching), we deserved two scoops ... I'll have framboise and caramel buerre salé, please!
We ended up with two pastries from a local boulangerie. The first, pictured on the left, was a chocoframboise and struck me as the equivalent of a nutella-and-banana crepe ... that is, something utterly unauthentic concocted particularly for sugar-seeking tourists. However, the combination of chocolate and raspberry is never anything to scoff at! Molly and I scarfed down the chocoframboise -- which actually tasted a lot like the strawberry-and-chocolate-chip scones I make at home -- like it was our job.
The second pastry, pictured on the right, was called a concorde. It, too, was a total surprise and Molly and I had no idea what to expect when we unwrapped the box. As it turns out, a concorde is basically a mousse-filled meringue ... all the little swirls on top are just shavings of chocolate meringue! Although it was a little crunchier than we had expected, the whole thing was the perfect chocolaty mixture of bitter and sweet. Two thumbs up!!
Molly knows that when in an ancient walled city, there is only one acceptable place to eat delicious pastries. But hey, it says interdit de monter ("climbing forbidden) not interdit de manger ("eating forbidden"). WHICH REMINDS ME -- PLEASE NOTE THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION, AKA THE BEST I'VE SEEN IN FRANCE YET. "Do. Not. Stair." Just don't do it. Don't stair.
After illegally stair-ing (on Molly's part) and doing a little souvenir shopping (on my part), it was time to head out to our next destination (la plaaaaaage) and leave Aigues-Mortes behind. It was sad to say au revoir to what just might be one of my favorite little places, but the view from the bus made me feel a little better...
After a short bus ride in which Molly and I failed to complete a French crossword puzzle, we got to the beach. I don't have anything to say about this beach. I'm not entirely sure where it was located or what happened there in the past or what type of sand is found there, but I am entirely sure that it doesn't matter. What matters is that I walked across the sand, laid down on my towel, and dozed off while listening to the waves and the seagulls.
And what matters even more is that it looked like this...