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Rewriting The Rules
I'll be at Readercon 29, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday–commuting down and back because I have foster kittens to take care of, and other responsibilities. But here's what I'll be doing at Readercon this year:
Thursday, July 12
8:00 p.m. (Salon C) Human Labor in the 21st Century. Automation is predicted to eliminate millions of jobs in the next several decades. Indentured servitude is making a comeback in the trucking and cruise ship industries. Numerous national and global factors will reshape workforces. A pandemic that targets working-age people could change everything; so could a large country implementing universal basic income. Our panelists will imagine what human labor might look like in the next 100 years, and what stories can be told about those laborers and their work. I'm moderating, with John Chu, Natalie Luhrs, Rob Cameron and Robyn Bennis.
Friday, July 13
2:00 p.m. (Blue Hills) Recent Nonfiction Book Club: Four Futures: Life After Capitalism. Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism, and exterminism might actually entail. Join us for a discussion of this book. I'm moderating, with David DeGraff, Robert Killheffer and Rob Cameron.
6:00 p.m. (Salon C) Witches in Legend and Folklore Why are witches such polarizing figures, both fascinating and repelling their neighbors? Why do they make such powerful symbols and captivating characters? Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman will examine witches through the lens of folklore studies, introducing a few traditional witch legends and exploring some of the ways that witches have been conceptualized, and then open the floor for a discussion of what witches mean to the panelists and audience. With Sara Cleto (moderator), Brittany Warman, Jenise Aminoff and Shveta Thakrar.
10:30 p.m. Meet the Pros(e) Party. Where all the writers mingle with sheets of stickers printed with a quote from their work, and everybody collects the stickers.
Saturday, July 14
10:00 a.m. (Salon 6) Reading and Life Stages, Part 2: 50+. Our notion of who readers are is often built on the image of readers in their teens and 20s, but as people age, their reading habits change. In this intimate and personal two-part panel, panelists will discuss their age-related shifts in reading speed and ability to focus, time for reading, interest in reading, book acquisition and deacquisition, use of print, digital, and audio books, and other related topics. Part 2: readers 50 and over. I'm moderating, with Judith Berman, Michael Dirda, Kathryn Morrow and Paul Levinson.
9:00 p.m. (Blue Hills) Author Reading. Haven't decided what to read yet but I think it will be something new.
Hope to see you there!
I'm going back to Readercon, after a long hiatus–during which they changed their venue and are now down in Quincy!
Thursday, July 13
8:30 p.m. (Salon B) Author Reading. I got a reading time! I'm still deciding what to read, but it will be something new, probably a short story.
Friday, July 14
11:00 a.m. (Salon 6/7/8) Writing Characters with Flawed Beliefs. Throughout history, many people held unquestioned beliefs we now consider ridiculous or even offensive. What should we do with historical characters who believe things that are now taboo or simply wrong, and how do we handle a protagonist who holds beliefs modern readers may find unbelievable or offensive? In addition, how do we integrate our own assumptions and beliefs into fiction while knowing that readers decades or centuries from now will find them flawed or risible? with Michael Dirda, Tom Greene, Jim Kelly, and Tracy Townsend (leader).
10:30 p.m. Meet the Pros(e) Party. Where all the writers mingle with sheets of stickers printed with a quote from their work, and everybody collects the stickers. I decided nothing could beat the opening sentence of "The Fishman and His Wife" (just released in the anthology Twice Upon an Apocalypse!), and hopefully it will fit on the stickers. To see what it is, you'll have to come to the party or buy the book.
Saturday, July 15
1:00 p.m. (Salon C) A Technology Not Traveled. Alternate history and historical fantasy often engage with technologies that once seemed like the way of the future: airships, clockwork, mechanical computing. There's a certain dreamy wonder around many modern depictions of early industrial inventions. Why are we fascinated with what became technological dead ends? There are many magical fantasies where wizards can't use computers; is this a different expression of the same anxieties about modern gadgets? Is there really a possible timeline where clockwork became ascendant while electronics never took off, or is it all just an excuse for some gorgeous cosplay? with John Chu, Chris Gerwel, Jeff Hecht, Sioban Krzywicki (leader).
3:00 p.m. (Salon 5) It's Shirley Been 100 Years. December 2016 was the 100th anniversary of Shirley Jackson's birth. She's best known for her story "The Lottery" (1948) and her novels The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle are almost as widely known. What is Jackson's legacy in modern horror and fantastical fiction? Which authors, particularly those who share her focus on domesticity, most clearly show her influence? with Elizabeth Hand (leader), Jack Haringa, Faye Ringel, Paul Tremblay.
Of these, I'm the most pleased to be on the Shirley Jackson panel. I've been a Shirley Jackson fan since I was in junior high school. Believe it or not, it was a while before I read the story that made her notorious, "The Lottery," and I didn't think it was that interesting. The first work of Shirley Jackson's I read was her novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle, followed by The Haunting of Hill House. But if I had to name one single piece of Ms. Jackson's writing as my favorite, it wouldn't be fiction at all, but the essay she wrote for her daughter, "Notes for a Young Writer," which contains the best writing advice ever. Shirley Jackson is one of two writers I like to credit with "teaching me how to write." (The other one is Peter Straub, who attends every Readercon. I've never spoken to him. I'm too intimidated by him. )
I'll be commuting to the convention and won't be there on Sunday. I procrastinated on getting a room in the con hotel before the block filled up, but there are alternatives. I decided even a budget hotel was more of an extravagance than I could justify at the moment (and Readercon isn't a party convention). But I hope I can see lots of friends while I'm there!
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Arranging your references
Once you've filled in the main sections of the UCAS Teacher Training form and prepared your personal statement, you'll need to provide two references. This is a compulsory part of the application process and you will not be able to submit your application without them.
It's vital that you choose individuals who know you well enough to highlight your potential as a teacher. Remember, it will take time for your references to be completed. To avoid any of your preferred choices closing while you're waiting for a reference, contact your referees in advance and ask if they can reply to the request as promptly as possible.
Referee requirements
You'll need to choose one 'principal' referee and one 'secondary' referee. The requirements for this depend on your circumstances, as follows:
Principal referee
- If you've been in education during the last five years, you should provide an academic reference from your principal referee – this could be a current or recent tutor
- If you've been out of education for longer than five years, you can provide two professional references if you think an academic reference won't be relevant
Second referee
- Your second reference should come from a professional – ideally someone you've worked for, or someone who can talk about your skills, personality and suitability for teaching
- If you're applying for a School Direct (salaried) course, one of your references must be from an employer. If you're self-employed and unable to provide a reference from a former employer, your referee should be someone who knows you from work, who can comment on your work and suitability for teaching
- If a reference is from a school the reference must come from the headteacher
UCAS will not accept references from family members, friends, partners or ex-partners.
Requesting a reference
The process is as follows:
- UCAS will send each referee a request for a reference based on the contact details you provide
- your referees will then need to complete the reference online via the UCAS website; UCAS will not accept paper or emailed references
- if your referee does not respond within 14 days, they'll automatically be sent a reminder by UCAS
- after this, you can use the UCAS Teacher Training site to send your own reminder
- if your referee doesn't respond you can change your referee details at any time
UCAS will send you a confirmation once your references have been received. You can then log in to your UCAS account and make a final decision on the places you want to apply for, before submitting your application.
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Bang On!: Many paths to construction career
You don't have to swing a hammer to work in the construction industry.
In fact, careers in construction include dozens of professional designations, including lawyers, accountants, engineers and architects. Skills or interests in math and science, could lead to employment as a structural, geotechnical, mechanical or civil engineer, or to framing, project management or truss design.
There are dozens of city of London personnel who are also part of the local construction industry — development approvals staff, city planners, plans examiners, building inspectors, engineers, urban designers and accountants as well as dozens more county, provincial, federal and conservation authority employees in a variety of capacities.
Construction in London also employs hundreds of licensed professional trades such as plumbers, electricians and sheet metal workers, and dozens more as flooring installers, drywallers, painters and siding installers. The list of jobs in the construction industry is vast with every stage of the design and construction process requiring hundreds of professionals, trades and customer service representatives.
There are four possible paths when choosing a career in construction. The most direct way is to go straight to work after high school. These jobs include the opportunity to learn alongside more experienced professionals in an informal way.
The second choice is apprenticeship that is the only way to earn a professional licence such as electrician or plumber. Young people can register for apprenticeship even before high school graduation through the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP). Depending on the profession, the duration of the apprenticeship can vary, but apprentices are paid by their employer throughout their education, which makes apprenticeship a viable education choice for those who are not able to be without income for long periods of time.
College is the third path where dozens of diploma, technician, technologist and management programs are available. London's Fanshawe College has one of the best construction teaching facilities and faculty in the province.
The fourth path is through university. Western and other universities offer programs in law, engineering and business. Professionals working in construction are amongst the highest paid in the province, and can look forward to a lifetime of job security.
There are a number of myths about careers in construction — let's dispel a few now.
Myth 1: Careers in construction are for people who fail at other jobs. Well, you should already understand from the info above, there are hundreds of jobs in construction for professionals and skilled trade workers that require high levels of skills and education as detailed above.
Myth 2: Construction jobs don't pay well. Again, not true. As recently reported by the Ontario Home Builders' Association in the 2011 annual report "The Engine That Drives Ontario's Economy," construction jobs averaged $1,016 weekly, while all other industries combined in Ontario averaged only $1,002.
Fact 1: The construction industry is one of the greatest contributors to local, provincial and federal governments. Last year, construction activity in London generated just under $40 million in fees and taxes for our city. This money was used to build and repair roads, upgrade or replace aging infrastructure and keep our city operating. Construction in Ontario generated 322,100 jobs and contributed 11.6 billion in income tax, GST/HST, CPP, EI and WSIB for the provincial and federal governments.
Stats for the London CMA sizes the construction industry workforce at 14,700, equalling 6.1% of workers in all industries and professions in our area.
Fact 2: The first of the baby boomer group have started to retire, meaning the drain of the construction industry has begun, ramping up the need for people to fill those jobs.
There are many uncertainties as our economy cautiously recovers, but the need to own, build, repair and renovate our homes, our cities and our infrastructure network never goes away. For this fact alone, choosing a career in construction is a strong decision for young people, and those wishing to change careers.
Having grown up in the construction industry, I can personally vouch for the personal satisfaction and quality of life that it can provide.


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British heavy machineguns donated to Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant jihadists have been useless for months because of the U.K.'s failure to supply ammunition, military leaders have said.
The weapons given to Peshmerga fighters to confront ISIL extremists on the front lines of northern Iraq have been out of action since supplies dried up last year.
Pleas to London have so far failed to result in more bullets, Kurdish commanders told The Daily Telegraph, as they complained of being left with guns that are only "pieces of metal".
The Ministry of Defence said it would send more ammunition earlier this month, but Kurdish fighters said it had not arrived, while sources claimed that a shipment was held up by Treasury red tape. The 40 Browning.50 calibre heavy machine-guns were donated to the Kurds in September 2014. A team of British soldiers was sent to teach the Peshmerga to use the tripod-mounted weapons. Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, said they would "help the Kurdish forces in taking the fight to these barbaric terrorists."
But the fighters quickly used up the ammunition and found requests for more were fruitless. Gen Jabbar Yawar, secretary general of the ministry of Peshmerga, said his officials had written two formal requests to London. Whitehall officials had first blamed the delay on the general election, and then said they needed time to study the request.
Gen Yawar said Britain's effort to supply the Kurds lagged far behind that of other European nations. He said the Peshmerga were grateful for British Army training teams, but added that the ammunition shortage was critical.
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former Army officer now helping train Peshmerga forces, said: "Having given them these weapons that then fell silent for six months, that's a bit crass. If the Peshmerga do not hold the line and attack Mosul, then we are in absolute straits. They are effectively our boots on the ground and are hugely important for us."
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "We've committed to give over pounds 1 million of ammunition to the Peshmerga and this will be delivered soon. It builds on the vital support we are already providing."


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According to a letter from Peter Brand of Lotus Cars Ltd., SB2237 was manufactured in December 1967 and delivered to the customer in January 1968.
SB2237 was initially registered in Dudley, UK with the license plate PFD 550F (see the BW picture from 1968). The car had new owners in UK in 1969 and 1970 trading through the Caterham dealership.
A Hong Kong vehicle registration document shows that SB2237 was registered in Hong Kong in 1974 and had the same owner at least from 1980 to 1987, but no further record of SB2237 exists after 1970 until a garage in Happy Valley, Hong Kong in 1987 sold it to an English expat. According to the garage it had been raced in Macau (see photos where the car is white and red). At one occasion the car had an accident and was subsequently stored for some length of time in the 80es. Apparently, the garage acquired and rebuilt the car with the purpose to sell it. Any further information of SB2237′s Hong Kong history is most welcome.
In 1991 the car was shipped to Caterham Cars in the UK for a full restoration which was completed in 1993. The careful restoration was supervised by Simon Nearn, David Wakefield, and a well-known Lotus specialist, with full respect to the car's heritage as a 1967 Series 2 Lotus Seven.
After the restoration SB2237 was in storage until the owner sold it in 2004 with just a few miles on the odometer.
The car has the original braced Standard 10 rear axle (4.11:1) and the standard Ford 4-speed gearbox (see last picture from 2011).
This is the best knowledge we have of SB2237′s history. The information has been kindly provided by the Lotus Registrar, previous owners, and contacts to Vehicle Registration offices in the UK and Hong Kong. There are no apparent contradictions in the information we have gathered but there is missing information, e.g. who registered the car in Dudley in 1968 and who brought it to Hong Kong.


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Mercantile Bancorp in Grand Rapids, Mich., seems willing to trade asset quality for loan growth.
The $3.1 billion-asset company reported Tuesday that its loan portfolio shrank by $27 million during the fourth quarter, to $2.4 billion. Mercantile gave several reasons for the 1.2% linked-quarter decline; a $24 million commercial relationship was placed in syndication and $8 million of loans on the company's internal watch list were paid off.
The tradeoff was stellar credit quality. Nonperforming assets at Dec. 31 totaled $6.4 million, or 0.2% of total assets, and net chargeoffs were a minimal $600,000 during the fourth quarter.
Still, management said it expects loan growth this year.
The company, which originated $120 million of commercial loans in the fourth quarter, has another $102 million in unfunded credits it expects to fund shortly.
"We are confident that solid loan growth can be achieved in future periods in light of the robust current loan pipeline and [an] ongoing focus on identifying new lending opportunities," Raymond Reitsma, president of Mercantile's Bank, said in a press release.
Mercantile's recently announced mortgage banking initiative is paying dividends. The company generated $1.2 million in revenue from home sales during the fourth quarter, rising slightly from the third quarter and nearly doubling what it reported a year earlier.
"We expect [mortgage banking] to perform very well throughout 2017," Robert Kaminski, Mercantile's president and CEO, said during a conference call Tuesday. Kaminski projected $4.4 million of mortgage banking revenue in 2017, which would represent a 19% jump from last year.
A decline in loans cut into revenue, which fell 2.2% from the third quarter, to $31 million. But stronger-than-expected cost control helped the company's earnings increase 3% from the third quarter, to $8.1 million. Earnings per share of 49 cents beat the average estimate of analysts polled by Bloomberg by 3 cents.


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"Your Money or Your Life"
A book that changed my life:
'Your Money or Your Life.'
By Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin.
I almost didn't read it. The first time I flipped through it (when I was a teenager), I was appalled.
I had just happened to stop flipping and my eyes landed on the line at the top of page 106, which read, "C. Nonprescription, 'recreational' drugs."
The phrase was on a list as an example of expenses to keep track of, and I was going through a puritanical phase (which came right after my dress-like-a-slut phase), and thus, appalled.
Now, in my wiser adult years, I realize they were just keepin' sh*t real.


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Three days after the Supreme Court struck down anti-sodomy laws, the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, said today that he would ''absolutely'' support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in the United States.
''I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend and can extend to that legal entity of a union between what is traditionally in our Western values been defined as between a man and a woman,'' Senator Frist, Republican of Tennessee, told ABC's ''This Week.''
The high court on Thursday overturned a Texas law that had banned sex between homosexuals in a private home, saying the prohibition violated the defendants' privacy rights under the Constitution.
The constitutional amendment, which was drafted by Republicans before the Supreme Court's decision, would define marriage as strictly between a man and a woman. The proposal would require approval by two-thirds of the House and the Senate and ratification by by three-fourths of the states to become part of the Constitution.


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EAMCET Counselling was the most awaited session for all candidates expecting their admissions in top colleges of Hyderabad. Well, it was time to start the counselling for now, yet the cabinet panel to decide Hike in fee structure for Engineering before Counselling is conducted.
The deadlock on EAMCET engineering counselling is unlikely to be resolved soon as the final decision for a revised fee-structure has been referred to a nine-member cabinet committee by the chief minister. On adverse to the governments statement on starting the counselling by 6th of August, the officials say that a final decision will be reached only by August 10 and counselling may be delayed to mid of august.
The petition which was filed by the state was later dismissed by the apex court on Wednesday. Further, the government had to decide on a uniform fee-structure for 240 private colleges which had applied for free revision. But, still it is students who have been loosing their precious time till the government brings out a decision.
According to the court's decision, all individual colleges will have to implement uniform fee for 70% 'category A' seats and 30% 'category B' seats. The admissions will continue as per EAMCET rankings for 'category A' seats and intermediate marks and performance in EAMCET for 'category B' seats. The colleges may also hike fee for 5% NRI quota seats by up to 2 lakh per annum.
The General Secretary of the Consortium of Engineering and Private College Managements Association (CEPCMA) K.V.K Rao said "There was no clarity on whether the government will revise the fee for the 470 colleges which did not apply for the fee revision. Also, if the 133 colleges which are said to have submitted complete details regarding infrastructure and faculty details are allowed to increase the fee beyond Rs. 50,200 the remaining 107 colleges will also demand a revision of the fee".
However, yet to wait for the final decision. But, how would this react on students and their admissions? For more updates keep visiting.


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Just another day working in the studio.
We have Suhui for just one more day and she started on 2 new aluminium plates.
We really liked how they turned out, especially the last piece with wormy fingers.
Thank you Suhui for visiting our studio. We hope you will come back again. All the best!
Today we begin a private 2-day Alugraphy workshop with a visitor,
Suhui from Singapore. Here are some photos of the day.
Suhui who also goes by Anise, is a singer-songwriter who has a background in graphic design.
Have a listen to her recent release here.
Collective Society is now open for viewing at BEKRAF Space at Art Stage Jakarta 2016.
Please come and have a look if you're in Jakarta before they return home to us in Jogja!
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Curated by Dilla Ayu, BEKRAF or Badan Ekonomi Kreatif (Creative Economy Ministry of Indonesia) invites 6 local artist collectives from Jakarta, Bandung and Yogyakarta to show their projects at this year's Art Stage Jakarta.
Studio Grafis Minggiran happens to be one of the selected collectives from Yogyakarta showing printmaking works, together with Cut And Rescue (Jkt) , Gerilya Artist Collective(Bdg) , Grafis Huru Hara(Jkt), JWAProject(Jkt) and Kelas Pagi(Jkt).
Save the following dates:
5 August 2016, Friday : 3pm - 9 pm ( By invitation only )
6 August 2016, Saturday : 1pm - 9 pm
7 August 2016, Sunday : 11am - 9 pm
The venue :
ART STAGE JAKARTA 2016, Sheraton Grand Jakarta Gandaria City Hotel, 3rd floor
Jl. Sultan Iskandar Muda, Mall Gandaria City, Jakarta
Grafis Minggiran
Halo! We are a Printmaking studio & collective based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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The interest rate on consumer loans has declined over a number of years, and the level is now historically low. The average interest rate on consumer loans has fallen by 0.5 percentage points a year, whereas the mortgage rate has only fallen by 0.23 percentage points. This shows statistics from August 2018 issued by Danmarks Nationalbank.
The interest rate on consumer loans offered by banks and targeted at Danish private customers is currently historically low after a decline over a number of years. The interest rate on consumer loans, compared with other types of loans, is the rate that has fallen most.
Compare the loan options here We find the cheapest solutions!
The interest rate on consumer loans is, however, still higher than the mortgage rate. This is due, for example, to the fact that the bank agrees with a higher risk of consumer loans, as this type of loan is usually given by the borrower to provide some form of collateral. In connection with a mortgage, the borrower must, in many cases, make a form of mortgage if the offer for a loan becomes applicable. This is part of the total loan process. If you are not able to repay the money that the bank has borrowed you, they will take for example. Your home if you had chosen to pledge this.
What is a consumer loan?
A consumer loan, as the title suggests, is a loan that is typically taken in connection with consumption. For example, it may be that your motorcycle is too old and You need renewal. This electric bike has so far served as your daily transport to and from work, as well as when the training center calls. In addition to that, public transport is not your cup of tea, and you prefer to keep cycling and thus get the same amount of exercise and fresh air. Here is the intention to raise a consumer loan fine if you can not afford to pay the cash price right now and here. In the end, however, it's up to you how you want to spend the money as they roll into your bankbook.
Additionally, pay attention to not linking lending with consumer loans. The process for these loans looks very different, however, with some key differences. Typically, people choose lending to borrow 1,000 – 10,000, and as the name suggests, it's a "quick" way to borrow money – it's almost too easy. In the case of credit loans, there will usually be a high repayment amount due to credit costs, which should be one of the factors that prevent you from agreeing to such an agreement.
What is a mortgage?
A mortgage is taken for example in connection with the purchase of an apartment, townhouse or villa. Indeed, the few can afford to pay the total price of the property and therefore often end up with a mortgage. There are several types of mortgages, but the two primary types are a bank loan and a mortgage. In order for you to borrow a mortgage, mortgage banks and banks require that you have saved 5% of the purchase price. The law stipulates that, as a home buyer, you can borrow 95% of the value of the house.
According to Danmarks Nationalbank, the rate of mortgage is at its lowest ever. The interest rate fell to 2.19 percent in March, which gave the Danes a larger margin. This meant, among other things, that homeowners could deduct more from their debts.
Banks & households
Although the banks' mortgage situation is about 2.5 times larger than their total supply of consumer loans, banks lose more money on consumer loans than mortgages.
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From October 2013 to July 2018, banks' total consumer loans to households have risen from 114 to 121 billion. Of course, there are other options than mortgage banks and banks offering consumer loans to households. However, this is to a limited extent.
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Our podcast chat with game designer Zac Pierce about his multiplayer game Bombfest. We spoke about his background and where the original concept for the game came from. Talking more about the design, we focused on how the game was balanced while still providing crazy strategies.
When people talk about issues impacting game designers, one of the most popular terms is the "imposter syndrome": Where after completing a project, the person is unsure if they were really good enough to do it, or if it was just a matter of luck. For today, I want to touch on something that could be even more dangerous to someone wanting to make a career as an indie developer, or what I'm dubbing: The Fast Burn Syndrome.
I had a live talk with developer Nathan Meunier on YouTube for a excellent chat about the challenges of Indie development. We discussed designing the game Missile Cards and what he's learned entering the Indie game Market. The cast starts at about 5:18.
This week on the cast, we sat down with Martin and Andrej of Poetic Studio to talk about RPG design and how they're planning on developing their title Sacred Fire if it meets its Kickstarter goal.
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The debate over Maryland's oyster management is heating up, as watermen are pushing to open 14,000 acres of the state's extensive sanctuary network to harvest.
Only about 1,340 of those acres actually have oysters on them, Department of Natural Resources officials said. But they include opening to harvest part of a river that's undergone large-scale, publicly funded restoration of its reefs and oyster population.
The proposals, outlined at a meeting of the DNR's Oyster Advisory Commission in November, drew immediate pushback from environmentalists and scientists. And a federal fisheries official warned that granting watermen's request to open portions of the Little Choptank River could undermine oyster repopulation efforts under way as part of Maryland's commitment to the Chesapeake Bay restoration.
Natural Resources Secretary Mark Belton, who has indicated a willingness to tinker with the sanctuaries, called the watermen's proposals "a starting point." He told advisory commission members that he expected a "lengthy discussion" as they review these and other proposals to alter the state's management of its ecologically and economically important shellfish.
Over the years, Maryland has placed about 250,000 acres of the Bay and its tributaries in sanctuaries, of which about 30 percent is "historic oyster bottom"— areas charted as actively harvested in state surveys a century ago, when commercial harvests hovered around 4 million bushels annually.
Since then, many of the reefs that once harbored oysters have vanished, worn away by repeated harvesting or buried in silt. More recent surveys indicate only about 36,000 acres of viable oyster habitat remain. Of that "productive oyster bottom," as DNR officials call it, about 9,000 acres are in sanctuaries, with the other 27,000 acres open for harvest.
That breakdown is a sore subject with watermen, who opposed a significant expansion of the state's oyster sanctuaries under former Gov. Martin O'Malley, which they say took some of the most productive oyster reefs out of the public fishery.
Even though harvests have quadrupled since 2009, the industry has been pressing to open some sanctuaries since the 2014 election of Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican who vowed to end what he called O'Malley's "war on watermen." The Hogan administration has since shown its willingness to heed watermen's complaints, replacing fishery managers at the DNR viewed as unresponsive to the industry and temporarily halting federally funded oyster restoration work in the Tred Avon River, to which watermen had objected.
The industry's pressure for more places to harvest comes as the number of watermen oystering has nearly doubled since 2009. Annual harvests, meanwhile, which topped 400,000 bushels in 2014, have dipped the last two years and appear likely to be still lower this season.
If all are granted, the watermen's proposals would reduce the share of viable oyster habitat in sanctuaries from nearly 24 percent to 20 percent. That's the minimum level that Belton had set as a "guardrail" when he invited watermen to propose changes to the sanctuaries. DNR officials had said studies of marine conservation efforts elsewhere suggested that to maintain a sustainable oyster population, 20–30 percent of the state's viable habitat ought to be protected from harvest pressure.
Chris Judy, head of the DNR's shellfish division, said that while the watermen's proposals would remove a seemingly large amount of sanctuary areas, "what's important is the bottom where the oysters live." The bulk of the acreage covered by the watermen's proposals, though charted long ago as oyster bars, is now barren sand or mud, for the most part, he added.
The proposals, submitted by watermen's committees in 11 counties, seek to open sanctuary reefs on a mostly limited basis, allowing harvests only every three or four years or for just a few weeks at the end of each season. In most cases, they seek access to only a small portion of a designated sanctuary area.
"You've got some counties asking for 23 acres, 58 acres, 103 acres," pointed out Bill Kilinski, a Charles County waterman. "It isn't like a big wish list."
Belton had encouraged watermen to nominate other areas for sanctuary status in exchange for those they wanted to open to harvest. None of the county proposals offered any such swaps. Instead, they argued that they should get credit for improving the oyster habitat by putting a fresh layer of shells on the opened reefs, on which oyster larvae might settle and grow.
"Not one cent has been put in these areas," said Robert T. Brown, president of the Maryland Watermen's Association. "It's not necessary to get an exchange for them."
Some commission members, including non-watermen, indicated they thought at least some of the proposed changes were reasonable. But others said they were concerned that it would be more difficult to prevent poaching if reefs within sanctuary areas or just upriver of them were opened to harvest.
Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, noted that some of the reefs watermen want opened to harvest are in what the DNR staff had classified as "Tier 1" sanctuaries, where oysters appear to be thriving in the absence of harvest. The DNR's recent five-year review of state oyster management recommended keeping all of those as sanctuaries, with or without any state investment in replenishing reefs with shells or stocking with hatchery-spawned juvenile oysters.
"We need to protect those areas that are working," Boesch said, adding later, "If we're opening them up, then we're challenging the whole notion of sanctuaries."
Peyton Robertson, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Chesapeake Bay Office, cautioned the commission about a proposal by Dorchester County watermen to open up three areas with 86 acres of oyster habitat in the Little Choptank River.
The Little Choptank is one of three Bay tributaries that Maryland had designated for large-scale oyster restoration efforts to further its pledge to restore five tributaries by 2025. The work there is only partially complete. About $15 million — mostly state funding but some federal monies as well — had been spent through last year to restore 103 acres of reefs and "plant" more than 200 million hatchery-produced juvenile oysters.
The restoration plan for the Little Choptank calls for building a total of 440 acres of reefs and planting 1.9 billion seed oysters, at an anticipated cost of $29 million. A large portion of the river has been set aside as a sanctuary.
Belton said he would need to consult with the DNR's lawyers about whether portions of the Little Choptank sanctuary could be opened for harvest if they had not received any active restoration work.
But Robertson warned that opening even those areas of the Little Choptank sanctuary could affect the restoration effort. If federal scientists determined the changes undermined prospects for the joint state-federal project's success, he said, Maryland might be required to identify another tributary for large-scale restoration and start over.
Environmental advocates also have been invited to submit proposed changes in the sanctuaries, and they indicated they would seek new areas to be put off limits to harvest.
Ben Alexandro, with the Maryland League of Conservation Voters, reminded DNR officials that the General Assembly had ordered them to assess the sustainability of the public oyster fishery and determine whether overharvesting is occurring. A final report is not due until the end of 2018.
"Turning around and [allowing] harvesting in sanctuaries now, especially before the study is concluded, goes against legislative intent," Alexandro said. "Please," he urged the advisory commission, "leave a legacy for the Bay."


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Summer means lots of outdoor time and perhaps a few visitors from around the neighborhood to your house. You don't want them to have to fight through a bramble of overgrown weeds and bushes, so making your front yard presentable should be a goal this summer. How so? Get inspired with this short list of to-dos.
Bolster Curb Appeal with a Well-Manicured, Green Lawn and a Garden of Gorgeous, Well-Tended Flowers
The most enticing front yards are beautiful with well-manicured, bright green lawns and gorgeous, well-tended flowers. You don't have to hire a professional to make your lawn look that good either—unless you want to. Take up gardening to learn how to make your lawn grassy, green, and perfect for your choice of springtime blooms.
Keep Your Front Yard Tidy but Add Leading Décor, such as Stepping Stones to Your Front Door
Leading décor are stones and things that you use to lead guests to your front door. Kind of like a red carpet for celebrities or a footpath of flower petals for newlyweds. For the front yard, you can use stepping stones to invite guests to your door. You could even get your kids to color a few of them to make the concept stand out from other homes on your block.
Give Your Mailbox a Classy, Colorful Makeover
What's your favorite color? Have you ever seen the mailbox and handprints scene in the Disney movie UP? Personalizing your mailbox with classy colors, and perhaps a unique design, can add a touch of curb appeal to your home.
You and your family each could add a handprint on a colorful mailbox, complete with your family name on the sides in beautiful cursive. Or you could decorate your mailbox with the holidays. You'd be surprised how easy it is to turn your mailbox into a snowman just in time for winter.
Build a Front Porch or Deck Where You Can Sit with a Glass of Iced Tea and Watch the World Go by on Hot Days
Watching the world go by is an old Southern United States saying that means sitting and being in the moment. This act is best done on a well-built front porch or deck with a nice glass of iced tea and some good company.
Living in an apartment instead of a home? Present these ideas to FIDI apartment brokers to better the curb appeal of the whole complex.


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On Sunday June 7th, the New York Times published an 8800-word epic article called "SEAL Team 6: A Secret History of Quiet Killings and Blurred Lines." The online version of the piece features GIFs, maps, large photos, video set, a glossary, a video interview and no less than six reporter bylines. That's a huge amount of information about a unit that doesn't officially exist.
While the reporters are careful to give a lot of background on SEAL Team 6's notable sucesses (taking out Osama bin-Laden, rescuing commercial sea captain Richard Phillips, Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch and Dr. Dilip Joseph), what they're really investigating is JSOC's use of SEAL Team 6 in an intelligence role in cooperation with the C.I.A. and whether those missions have adequate oversight.
That's a complicated question with no easy answers and a discussion that conflicts with the popular culture image of SEAL Team 6 as the military equivalent of the Avengers or the X-Men. Should a unit designed for tactical rescue be involved in "advance force operations" (a/k/a military intelligence)? Should there be outside oversight of Team 6 or should the operators be trusted to make their own decisions about appropriate field methods?
Whether or not you agree with the newspaper's conclusions, this is a must-read piece for anyone who cares about U.S. Special Operations. Check it out and come back here to discuss below.


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Some Theses on the Church in North America Today (2)
2. Because the church is identity and DNA-deprived it cannot get from where it is to where it ought to go. Indeed, it cannot even understand where it is much less imagine "where" it ought to go.
a. "But our entire nineteen hundred years of Christian preaching and theology are built on the "religious a priori" in human beings. 'Christianity' has always been a form (perhaps the true form) of 'religion.' Yet if it becomes obvious one day that this 'a priori' doesn't exist, that it has been a historically conditioned and transitory form of human expression, then people really will become radically religionless—and I believe that this is already more or less the case (why, for example, doesn't this war provoke a 'religious' reaction like all the previous ones?)—what does that then mean for 'Christianity'? The foundations are being pulled out from under all that 'Christianity' has previously been for us, and the only people among whom we might end up in terms of 'religion' are 'the last of the knights' or a few intellectually dishonest people."[1]
b. That "religionless" age has arrived. The "Churchianity" long mistaken for Christianity has lost is credibility and viability and it passing away (see #1). This is in part what Bonhoeffer means by a "world come of age." This is where we are and we must come to terms with that and begin to discern the possibilities for new forms of church within that reality.
c. The forms and structures of religious Christianity which are dying/dead do not facilitate but indeed hinder forming the relational infrastructure intrinsic to and necessary for the church to be and do what God wants in the "world come of age."
d. "Business as usual" will no longer work. Working harder, doing "church" better, new programs or techniques will not help. We are in new territory, new conditions and what we think we know will mislead us.
e. The attitude we have to have in facing this crisis is reflected by Rod Dreher[2]:
[1] Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison: DBW 8 (Augsburg Fortress. Kindle Edition.) Kindle Locations 10242-10249.
[2] Rod Dreher, "Christianity in the Brave New World," http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/christianity-brave-new-world-benedict-option/.


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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Technology stocks ended lower on Tuesday, capping a month of stout gains, but shares Novellus Systems Inc. and Google Inc. both made further advances.
The Nasdaq Composite Index $COMPQ closed lower by 7.5 points, or 0.4%, at 2,068.2. The tech-rich index finished the month of May with a 7.6% gain, and closed last week higher by about 1.5% on the week.
Novellus NVLS stood out from the overall tech sector, rising 77 cents, or 3%, to $26.69 after the maker of semiconductor-manufacturing equipment raised its financial targets, citing stronger demand from Japanese customers and for tools to make flash chips. See full story.
The company's gains helped limit declines for semiconductor stocks overall, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, -0.60% dipping 0.3%.
Among other chip-gear stocks, Applied Materials Inc. AMAT, -0.81% slipped 23 cents, or 1.4%, to $16.42 and KLA-Tencor Corp. KLAC, -0.13% gave up 16 cents, or 0.4%, to $45.41.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD, -3.38% rose 19 cents, or 1.2%, to $16.40 after the chipmaker launched its first version of a computer chip that uses new technology to improve the performance of personal computers. The move came a week after larger rival Intel Corp. INTC, +0.42% rolled out a competing product. See full story.
Intel lost 43 cents, or 1.6%, to $26.96 after a string of recent daily gains.
LSI Logic Corp. LSI, -0.02% added 45 cents, or 6.5%, to $7.36.
Among Internet shares, Google Inc. GOOG, -0.18% rose $11.27, or 4.2%, to $277.27 after Piper Jaffray raised its target price on Google to $300 from $275. The stock earlier touched a high of $278.40.
Analyst Safa Rashtchy cited the potential benefits of the Web search company's rapid expansion into non-Internet search services, which should help extend Google's brand.
Yahoo.com Inc. YHOO lost 7 cents, or 0.2%, to $37.20 and eBay Inc. EBAY, +0.48% gave up 30 cents, or 0.8%, to $38.
Meanwhile, Tibco Software Inc. watched its shares TIBX trade under water throughout most of the session, before recovering to close up 1 cent at $6.34. The business software firm said it would likely miss out on several large deals during the second quarter.
Tibco lowered its financial outlook for the period to below the current average of analysts' expectations. See full story.
Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.84% closed off 27 cents, or 1%, to $25.80 amid word from European regulators that they will decide by the end of July whether the company is complying with its earlier antitrust order against the company. If the regulators find that Microsoft isn't complying with the earlier landmark ruling, it could face hefty fines. See full story.
Among other tech stocks seeing active trading, Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, -0.81% lost 39 cents, or 2%, to $19.40; Oracle Corp. ORCL, -3.47% eased 5 cents, or 0.4%, to $12.80 as its quarter drew to a close; and Sun Microsystems Inc. SUNW, -2.50% gave up 6 cents, or 1.6%, to $3.81.


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Raiblocks is one of the newest cryptocurrencies to enter the market, and it continues to break records unbeknownst to the crypto world. The market cap of the currency has managed to explode over the course of the past few weeks. The coin has managed to shoot up from under $0.22 to over $35 per share, with a market capitalization of over $4.6 billion. This kind of pricing isn't unusual towards the lower end of the crypto market, where currencies can regularly jump up 30% or so, but to consistently do so is something that not many other crypto's can compete with.
Bitcoin Price & Blockchain Technology Have Investors Hungry For Opportunity
The coin known as XRB, is not in the top 20 of over 1,000 coins and continues to find its place in the market. Many currencies that come out now a days are meant to replace certain aspects of coins that do not fully meet consumer expectations. One of the main issues with most coins continues to be that of scalability. This issue is present highly in bitcoin and most other currencies. XRB has combatted this by having a network that can push transactions through almost instantly with little to no fees. This is something that most coins wish they could have, but sadly, most do not. One of the most well known of the new cryptocurrencies is one known as IOTA.
IOTA is groundbreaking of course, but the two are being compared now more than ever. With the new system that XRB uses to replace the older system of mining, it seems as though the possibilities are endless. The hopes are high that this new currency can continue to break barriers, as well as provide very solid gains for investors willing to take a chance at what could be the future of crypto.


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I blame Paris Hilton for The Goldbergs.
This could be a long review.
A family sit-com that looks back at life in the '80s, The Goldbergs takes inside a household before cell phones and the internet, and back to a time when dysfunction was something you held up like a coat of arms. Murray (Jeff Garlin) and Beverly (Wendi McLendon-Covey) – because that's the sort of names people had back then – are the parents of a very mixed bag of personalities, and we're on board to watch by way of youngest son Adam (Sean Giambrone – voiced as older Adam narration by Patton Oswalt) and his new toy, a video camera. Our family drama is mostly spurred on by our teen children – Barry (Troy Gentile) and Erica (Hayley Orrantia) – and Grandpa (George Segal).
The premise behind this show, which you might expect to be something from the official synopsis, like, "The Goldbergs are a loving family like any other — just with a lot more yelling. Mom Beverly (Wendi McLendon-Covey) is a classic "smother," an overbearing, overprotective matriarch who rules this brood with 100% authority and zero sense of boundaries," is actually very simple – reality television is doing pretty well.
Here comes Paris Hilton.
Many reality television historians blame the fact that every show (competition shows especially) aims to make sure that we have at least one participant who is a complete ass, thus ensuring lots of drama as the go mental at the other participants, on The Real World's Puck. Similarly, I blame the fact that we now have countless shows that exist purely on the basis of finding a group of extraordinarily stupid people willing to be filmed on Paris Hilton. She was one of the key forerunners of, "Look how stupid I am" television, and she changed the dynamic of putting together reality television ever since.
Now we've got The Goldbergs. It's a blend of media which follows directly from the idea that someone looked around and thought that what people like to watch is people who are really stupid. If we can find people who are, to some odd extent, cognizant of their own stupidity, and moreover have a sort of self-congratulatory ego directly related to their own stupidity (see Jersey Shore), so much the better.
Patriarch Murray is "funny," because he does things like walk in the front door and drop his pants so he can watch TV in his underwear, pays virtually no attention to anything, and screams about everything. Beverly is funny… well, mainly because she's generically the poster child for "embarrassing things your Mom did when you were a teen," and has '80s clothes and hair – because, you know, those websites with hilarious pictures of '80s hair and clothes are really popular.
The kids move things along, funny or not, just based on straight-forward, random acts that display the brains of a bag of hamsters and all the charm of a really obnoxious customer in a department store screaming bloody murder as you stand in line giving God a really serious talking to. Once in a while Adam pops up to continue our gag, and, as the show itself says, "with a video camera to capture all the crazy." What they mean is, "to capture the fact that you can grow up with complete morons (those people on reality show really do exist!), and somehow come out the other side in order to provide narration."
On the plus side, where a lot of comedy pilots get lost in managing the necessary establishment, which makes it unclear exactly how things will play out down the line, The Goldbergs lets you know right where you are, and where you're going to be.
I suspect that there is something about this crossbreed that will be off-putting to most viewers. The wonderful charm of watching real idiots does not seem to translate well when it comes to watching fake idiots. On the other hand, as the old saying goes, I'm led to understand we're working a serious demographic here.
It would, perhaps, be another matter if there was a pattern to the writing that made it possible to point to "the jokes," but since that isn't exactly how reality television works, it isn't how it works here either. If we broaden "jokes" to mean simply "whatever it is that it seems we're supposed to find funny," everything is the same joke, and it is, "Look, these people are obnoxious and stupid." Huzzah.
The Goldbergs Teaser
You can watch the full pilot episode of The Goldbergs right now here.
Before there were parenting blogs, trophies for showing up and peanut allergies, there was a simpler time called the '80s. For geeky 11-year-old Adam (Sean Giambrone), these were his wonder years, and he faced them armed with a video camera to capture all the crazy. The Goldbergs are a loving family like any other — just with a lot more yelling. Mom Beverly (Wendi McLendon-Covey) is a classic "smother," an overbearing, overprotective matriarch who rules this brood with 100% authority and zero sense of boundaries.
Dad Murray (Jeff Garlin) is gruff, hot-tempered and trying to parent without screaming. Sister Erica (Hayley Orrantia) is 17, hot, terrifying and not one to mess with. Barry (Troy Gentile) is 16, an overly emotional teen with severe middle child syndrome. Adam (Sam Giambrone) is the youngest, a camera-wielding future director who's crushing on an older woman. Rounding out the family is beloved grandfather Al "Pops" Solomon (George Segal), the wild man of the clan, a shameless Don Juan who's schooling Adam in the ways of love. When Pops buys a new sports car and offers his Caddy to middle child Barry, it's enough to drive this already high-strung family to the brink of chaos.
"The Goldbergs" stars Wendi McLendon-Covey ("Bridesmaids") as Beverly Goldberg, Patton Oswalt ("Ratatouille") as adult Adam Goldberg, Sean Giambrone as Adam Goldberg, Troy Gentile ("Good Luck Chuck") as Barry Goldberg, Hayley Orrantia ("The X Factor") as Erica Goldberg, with George Segal ("Just Shoot Me") as Pops Solomon and Jeff Garlin ("Curb Your Enthusiasm") as Murray Goldberg.


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July 14, 2014
June 2014 – Rockville Works for Me
In June, Rockville Works for Me ad campaign in the Gazette featured two local businesses.[caption id="attachment_2731" align="alignleft" width="180"] VariQ, Founder and CEO, Ben Edson[/caption]
The first ad appeared in the June 6th edition of the Gazette. The ad featured Ben Edson, Founder and CEO of VariQ. VariQ is an award winning government contracting company, providing IT services to federal and state governments in the areas of cybersecurity, IT infrastructure and program management. VariQ is headquartered in Washington, DC and have an office in Rockville, MD. Click here to see the full ad – RWFM – June 6 2014. For more information on VariQ, visit their website.
[caption id="attachment_2733" align="alignright" width="123"] Phoenix Trading Inc., President, Mike Sethi[/caption]
On June 20, we ran our second ad for the month which featured Mike Sethi from Phoenix Trading, Inc. Phoenix Trading, Inc. is an established supplier of parts and equipment to government agencies including the US Military. They source factory genuine parts from thousands of manufacturers around the world. Phoenix Trading is based in Rockville. For more information, visit their website. Click here to see the full ad – RWFM – June 20 2014.


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The international award-winning British vocal ensemble Apollo5 delights audiences with versatile and engaging performances on the concert platform, singing repertoire ranging from renaissance, classical and contemporary choral music to folk, jazz and pop.
Frequently performing in their home city of London they have sung in venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Kings Place (London A Cappella Festival), the Barbican, the Houses of Parliament and Wembley Arena. They regularly give concerts at their home in the heart of the City of London, the Gresham Centre.
As well as concerts across the UK Apollo5 has enjoyed giving performances internationally. Last season the five outstanding vocalists undertook a month-long debut tour of the USA and in 2016 they made their south Asian debut, taking part in the Taipei International Choral Festival. Over the last two years they have given performances in Italy, Germany, Holland and France. This season includes international performances in France (Via Aeterna Music Festival), Poland (for La Folle Journée) and a collaboration with the Academy of Ancient Music.
Apollo5 is part of the VCM Foundation, and leads its innovative education programme aiming to inspire creativity through music. Working alongside vocal ensemble VOCES8 and Paul Smith the programme reaches 40,000 young people annually in the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, the USA and Asia.


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If you're anything like my mother, you have a few shoe boxes and plastic bags full of old photos in a closet somewhere. You remember film cameras right? Considering that most of the photos are blurry and overexposed, why not take a trash can and go through them. Get rid of all the horrendous shots and end up with a box or folder of "keepers."
After all the trashing and sorting, get yourself some photo albums, preferably with acid-free paper. I recommend the Pioneer bi-directional album that has acid-, lignin-, and PVC-free archival-quality paper and holds 300 photos. How you sort the pictures is up to you. A general chronological order is an easy method that makes a lot of sense. You could also sort into categories (i.e. College, Vacations, Childhood, Family, etc.).
Another thing: what do you do with all those negatives? Trash them. Unless you're a pro or hobbyist photographer, you won't need them for archival purposes. What if your photos get damaged, I hear you say. Well, the negatives are next to the pictures, so it's not like they'll fare better in a flood or fire. You don't need negatives to make duplicates since there are tons of places, starting with the local discount store, that can duplicate from a print. You can even skip prints by going digital.
If you want to go all the way and really minimize, skip the physical albums altogether and go straight to digital. There are a number of services out there like DigMyPics.com that will scan your negatives or prints and return them to you on a CD-ROM or DVD. Then you can trash all your old physical media. Don't feel guilty about it. Any time you want a print you can just make one.


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With the newSRT Viper GTS-R unveiled at the New York Auto Show last week, Dodge is preparing to return to the legendary American Le Mans Series (ALMS) race. The American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patron has unveiled a very cool documentary that takes a look back at the history of the Dodge Viper in the American Le Mans Series.
The documentary starts with the race of 1999-2000 when the Viper GTS-R won six straight races and held the fastest lap times. The car was driven to success by Olivier Beretta who took home the Drivers' Championship title.
The 2013 Viper GTS-R is based on the road-going version Viper also unveiled in New York. It is powered by a 8.4-liter all-aluminum, V10 engine that delivers a total of 640 HP and 600 lb-ft of torque.


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CEDAR RAPIDS — Cedar Rapids middle school educators are betting on a new tool to better identify struggling readers in grades 6, 7 and 8.
The reading screener and diagnostic tool, called iAsk, is one of few that focuses on middle school students — rather than young children in kindergarten through third grade, where learning to read is a top priority.
The Iowa Assessment of Skills and Knowledge — or iAsk — was developed by the Coralville-based Foundations in Learning and tested in Cedar Rapids middle schools.
Foundations in Learning researcher Carolyn Brown said the tool can help middle school educators better serve their students — two-thirds of whom are not proficient readers, according to test scores from the National Assessment of Education Procurement.
"Middle school teachers and administrators expect that when kids come into middle school, they will have these reading foundations in place," Brown said. "General testing tells them they're failing to reach proficiency and fluency and comprehension, and they don't have the tools to easily and quickly say these students lack these foundational skills."
The online iAsk tool can quickly identify students' areas of deficit, she said, replacing otherwise labor-intensive assessments.
"When we went out to show what we were doing, middle school teachers were desperate and hadn't seen anything like this," said Foundations in Learning researcher Jerry Zimmermann. "They had issues with readers but didn't know why."
The tool's testing ground — the Cedar Rapids middle schools — opted to continue using the tool, said Carlos Grant, the school distric's executive director of personalized learning and middle level education.
The cost to the district for the curricular tool — which went on the market earlier this month — is about $13,500, he said.
"We did that research last year, and the findings of that research were great," Grant said. "A lot of our kids made a lot of growth."
When research began, about 14 percent of the sixth-grade students in the tool's experimental group were considered at-risk for reading comprehension, while about 55 percent were considered proficient readers.
Afterward, Grant said only 10 percent were considered at-risk while the rate of students' reading proficiently jumped to 76 percent.
"When you show 20 percent growth, it's a sign it can really make an impact on what you're trying to do," Grant said.
Students at McKinley and Wilson middle schools are the first schools to implement iAsk, Grant said, as the district works to improve adolescent literacy.
"Traditionally, the idea was that we teach literacy and reading in a kindergarten through third, kindergarten through fifth-grade setting, and then when we get to the secondary level, we transition to talking about literature," Grant said. "We're missing a big gap of students who are coming from elementary to middle school."
The new iAsk tool allows schools to identify those students and work on their skills, he said.
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you make a plan to leave out some bowls for your salad, but in your packing frenzy you completely ignore the plan and pack everything….. you're left eating salad out of a pot. Awesome salad, by the way, but way too much fit in that pan.
I know, not great pictures of the two of us, and just so you don't think I eat more than Brandon (notice my pan is much fuller than his) , his pan is much bigger than mine (you can't tell from the picture).
This is what happens when you leave everything out to make delicious mini-quiches for breakfast and realize you packed the bowls and I mean all the bowls. Yes, that is a red vines tub. What can I say, we were hungry!
I guess you better pray for me…. hopefully I won't accidently pack one of the kids.


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Topic Page: Porter, Noah (1811 - 1892)
Born: 1811, Farmington, CT, USA Died: 1894 Nat: American Ints: History of psychology, philosophical psychology Appts & awards: Clark Professor of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics, Yale, 1846-71; President, Yale, 1871-86; Hon. DD, University of Edinburgh, 1886
At first glance Porter was an archetypal US mental and moral philosopher of the kind to which the 'New Psychologists' of the 1880s and 1890s (and most disciplinary historians prior to the 1980s) expressed so much antipathy. Closer examination of such works as Human Intellect and The Science of Man versus the Science of Nature, however, reveals that he was fully cognizant of the contemporary European work of figures such as Wundt, Fechner and Bain. Far from rejecting the German introspective experimental school, Porter, and other mental and moral philosophers of the period, actually saw it as an ally, since they read its message as a defence of the autonomy of psychology against the reductionist and physiological orientation of the evolution-influenced British school. Human Intellect is a complex and, in places, sophisticated work in which such issues as the nature of psychological language, the requirements of scientific introspection and the goals of the discipline are all treated. Porter's opposition to evolutionary and physiological trends was no mere blinkered dogmatism but argued in considerable depth. He argues quite subtly (especially in The Sciences of Nature versus the Science of Man) that, given the foundational position of the human intellect in the generation of scientific knowledge, its own operations cannot themselves be understood within the terms of concepts drawn from specific fields of scientific endeavour. His image of the 'Intellect' is of an ascending hierarchy of 'powers' from sensation up to reason, but to this fairly orthodox sequence he added a differentiation between 'natural consciousness', shared by all, and 'reflective' or 'philosophical' consciousness, the prerogative of but a few and attainable only by special dedication and discipline. A crude 'energy-distribution' model is invoked to explain this. Belief in God and the validity of seeking final causes are, he argues, conclusions which the rational, reflectively conscious person must eventually draw despite the pitfalls and temptations of scepticism. His system thus remained subordinated to a broader moral and religious agenda.
As President of Yale, Porter earned a reputation for adamant conservatism, resisting all measures for university reform. He also earned a regular place in the footnotes of works on the history of evolutionary theory for banning William G. Sumner from using Herbert Spencer's Sociology as a texbook. His best-known cultural role was as editor of successive editions of Webster's Dictionary. As far as psychology is concerned, however, the validity of the stereotyped image is further undermined by the fact that, following the establishment of friendly informal relations, he invited G.T. Ladd to Yale to take over his courses in 1881. Ladd's own theoretical position, moreover, bore many affinities to Porter's.
Human Intellect and its abridgement for long remained the most important menial and moral philosophy course textbooks in US colleges and universities. Along with that of James McCosh, Porter's case should, if nothing else, alert us to the risk of a too facile condemnation of the pre-'New Psychology' US tradition, and a too easy acceptance of the notion that the 1880s saw a radical break with this. Furthermore, Porter showed himself conscious of certain theoretical problems related to the reflexive nature of the discipline and the nature of psychological language which are only now resurfacing, even if his religious convictions prevented him from exploring and resolving these in a manner which would be acceptable today.
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June 16, 2019
SaaS companies
When you're in sales and you need new leads *NOW*, you really can't wait for the results of content marketing and SEO to kick in. And when on top of that, your marketing department is failing on you or you're a small startup and you don't have a budget to spend on advertising, outsourced telemarketing or buying lead lists, well… than this blog post is for you ! If you spend 10 minutes reading this blog post and a couple of hours on executing one of the strategies below, I promise you will have instant new B2B leads to prospect on ! Did I say a couple of hours ? Strategy number 6 takes only 5 minutes. Here we go !
Strategy number 1 consists of creating your own lead list, in 2 steps:
Step 1 is to define companies that you would like to sell to. Since we assume you have no budget, buying lists is out of the question. But no worries, you can easily start building your own list. Google will be your best friend, but there are other sources:
Now that you identified companies, the next step is to find individuals within these companies, that you can contact by email, phone or via social media.
Most importantly, you need decision makers. One thing I like to do is make a list of relevant job titles. I typically search a bit on Linkedin, and note all the interesting job titles I encounter until I have a pretty complete list. And then I use that list to search on Linkedin.
Linkedin is the de facto go to, to identify individuals. Except when you're selling in Germany that is, where Xing is very popular. You can use Linkedin search to find people based on country, company name and job title. Alternatively you can join Linkedin Groups on topics on your target market and check out the members of these groups.
For each individual found, you need to try and find contact information. This can be time consuming, but tools such as Salesloft or Salestools.io can help out. These tools make it e.g. easy to copy profiles found on Linkedin to your own list and they will try to guess an email address of an individual by trying combinations such as firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com and many others.
This strategy works especially well if you're in a replacement market or you have a good competitive comparison between your product and the competition. Find customers of your competitor by looking at their website. Look for testimonials, logo's etc. Perhaps your competitor has a Linkedin group you want to check out. Or make a list based on their followers on Linkedin, Twitter or Facebook.
If you're in a SaaS software business, a tool such as Datanyze may help to discover prospects based on the tools they currently use.
Exhibiting on a tradeshow is out of scope for this article, because we assumed there's no budget for that. Instead you can attend an event to meet potential customers. Find conferences or tradeshows in your target market, and register as attendee.
Make sure not to make the mistake of looking for events in your own space. Instead, focus on the events in your target market. If you're in cyber security and you want to sell to medical companies, search for events that will attract decision makers in medical IT, don't attend security tradeshows !
One important thing to remember is you cannot sell to exhibitors at a tradeshow. I repeat: do not try to sell to exhibitors on a tradeshow. These people are in 100% sales mode, and not open to a sales pitch from a booth visitor. The only thing you may try is talk to someone in charge of partnerships (see strategy 4 below).
Instead of focussing on the exhibitors, focus on the visitors of the tradeshow. Try to talk to people and collect business cards. Here are couple of things that work:
As opposed to a tradeshow, a conference will provide more opportunities to socialize and exchange business cards. The downside is that conferences are typically more expensive to register. Even if you don't collect a high number of business cards, a conference has the added benefit that it allows you to learn, which may be very useful in your future interactions with customers.
Granted, this strategy number 4 does not really fall under the "instant new leads" category, but it can still be a pretty short term solution. Why not close a partnership with another company that sells a product or service in the same target market as yours, and which is of course not competing. Reach out to them and propose a partnership. Or if that is out of your control, reach out to an individual sales or business development person and propose to work together, e.g. by sharing customer contacts.
Partnerships can take many forms, here are a few forms of partnerships, ordered from "ad hoc" to more strategic:
Did you ever ask your customers if they would like to refer you to someone they know ? Nothing as powerful as word of mouth ! Call them, send them an email and ask for help. And you could even throw in a gift or a discount if they bring a referral that becomes an actual customer.
Did you know that your own mailbox is a goldmine of potential B2B leads ? And I don't mean your contact list, I mean the thousands of emails that you received over the last months or years. These emails contain hundreds or thousands of individuals that you are probably not aware of or forgot about. Think about contacts from your previous job, people you once communicated with, but also people that were in cc of email threads and you don't know at all.
And you know what's even better ? As opposed to Linkedin, you will not just find names in your mailbox. No, you'll find names with email addresses, in many cases email signatures with contact details and above all, context ! Your old emails provide context and allow you to get in contact with a concrete story: "Hi, last year we were both involved in project X" or "I'm a friend of your colleague Bob".
Weeding through all your old emails is time consuming, but there are tools that will go through your mailbox, and list all the contacts found.
Happy hunting !
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About SciFit Personal Training, Redcar, Cleveland
After over twenty years working for ICI as a Research Scientist I'm now applying my scientific skills and knowledge as a Physical Specialist. I have been educated via the NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine) in Personal Training and Corrective Exercise which are considered to be the gold standard in the field, and I'm currently a REPS (Register of Exercise Professionals) Level 4 Advanced Instructor and Level 4 Sports Massage Therapist.
Physical Specialists offer more detailed and prescriptive exercise coaching and are for those who are dedicated to achieving the very best results or those with injuries / special considerations.
Using the most advanced postural and movement based screens and assessments, a Physical Specialist will identify their clients' dysfunction or injury and will coach them through every step on the road to top-level performance or simply back to full fitness.
I apply the NASM OPT™ model to exercise programming delivered in four weekly phases of systematic progressive training over twelve week time frames. The progressive, systematic approach ensures a safe journey for any client to their fitness goal encompassing flexibility, cardiorespiratory, core, balance, reactive, resistance, and speed agility and quickness training.
Training has to be periodised as the body will adapt to specific movement and routines so that they become easier to perform and further continuation of the same training stimulus will not cause further improvements. The training stimulus must be varied as detailed below to ensure continued progression.
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NASM OPT™ Model demonstrating the phases of periodised training.
Phase 1 – Stabilisation Endurance Training
Focus: Muscular Endurance & Stability while developing optimal communication between ones nervous & muscular system (Neuromuscular efficiency).
Research shows that insufficient stabilisation can negatively affect the way force is produced by the muscles, increases the stress at the joints, overload the soft tissue, and, eventually cause injury.
Phase 2, 3 & 4 – Strength Training
P2 – Strength Endurance
Focus: Enhance stabilisation endurance while increasing prime mover strength through performing a super-set sequence with similar joint mechanics.
P3 – Hypertrophy
Focus: Maximal muscle growth.
P4 – Maximal Strength
Focus: Maximal prime mover strength by lifting heavy loads.
Phase 5 – Power Training
Focus: The development of speed and power through performing a super-set sequence with similar joint mechanics.


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Clipart Gallery Extension HowTo
The present status of including clipart extensions in OpenOfffice.org is not very easy, and there are a few pitfalls and bugs to avoid.
Create a new Clipart Gallery Theme
If you already finished your new Gallery theme, just skip this paragraph...
Creating a Gallery theme for your local usage is quite easy, but in most cases the images are not embedded, but linked. To embed them you have to follow three steps:
- Open Draw or Impress (it doesn't work with Writer because there images are included in frames)
- Add the images you want to include in the gallery to the document with "Insert" - "Picture" - "from file" or just copy&paste - but take care that you not only add a link (like c&p from Internet).
- Open the Gallery, create a "New Theme" and name it according the topic of your images.
- Click on one of the images in your document, keep the mouse button pressed for about 2 seconds (until the mouse turns to a rectangle) and drag it to the gallery.
- Change the new gallery item's name from "dd<number>" to a better name.
- Repeat the last two steps until you added all the images to the gallery.
- Get the theme's name (sg<number>) from the theme's properties.
- Search the gallery files with this name in your file system (probably to be found under <your_openoffice.org_path>/3/users/gallery/ )
- copy them to the folder where you want to create your extension.
If you want to include more than one gallery theme in your extension, just repeat these steps.
Create an extension
OpenOffice.org extensions are XML based containers that provide additions to our application whether these are code, UI changes or gallery content as in our case. For more information please have a look at the Extensions wiki page.
Clipart Gallery extensions must contain some information like the gallery files, but they should contain some additional content too.
A very simple gallery theme can be created by usage of this file, where you only need to add your sg<number>.sdg sg<number>.sdv sg<number>.thm files to the folder "gallery" included in the archive file (unzip and zip it or use an archive manager).
But if you want to provide more information with your extension, like a name different from the file name, a version numbering, license agreement, description or icon, you should give this extension a try. It contains a short version of this HowTo, so you might work on it without continuous Internet access...
You'll need to modify this extension a bit, but it's not so hard, if you can use a text editor:
- Extract the extension on your file system.
- Add the gallery files to the folder /gallery/ inside this extracted folder.
- Decide on a few points:
- Which license do you want? The folder contains two license files: license_LGPL.txt and license_PDL.txt. If you want to use one (or both) of them, just remove the one you don't want to use. In case you use PDL, the file license_PDL.txt will have to be edited: You'll have to provide: the TITLE of the extension, your PRENAME and NAME, the YEAR of release and your EMAIL@ADDRESS. If you prefer a different license, just replace both of the files.
- Do you want to provide a specific icon that shows up at the extension manager? If so, just create a png file (48x48 pixel), name it icon.png and replace the current file.
- Edit the file "description.xml" with the editor of your choice.
- add a version number (necessary for automatic update feature)
- provide an extension name (mandatory)
- optional changes:
- license agreement: If you want the user/admin to accept a license during installation, uncomment the paragraph <registration> and put the license text in the folder /resources/ (file name: license_en.txt or any other file you specify here).
- icon: You might change this paragraph instead of renaming your file...
- description: A short text that shows up in the extension manager - if you don't want to provide it, remove/comment the paragraph <extension-description>, otherwise you should modify the file "description_en.txt" in subfolder /description/.
- finally zip compress the folder, rename the archive to <MyExtensionName>.oxt and test the new extension with a version of OpenOffice.org that doesn't contain the gallery theme (probably you will have to remove the gallery theme(s) you created on building the extension...).
Upload and Promote Your Extension
After such hard work you'll probably want to share your extension with other OpenOffice.org users. The best way to do so, is to upload the extension to the extension repository. As there is no graphical overview on existing Clipart Gallery extensions at the repository, you might want to add a link (with image) to your extension to the Clipart Gallery page at the wiki. It's easy - just copy the way other extensions are presented.
Shortcomings, Bugs and Backdrafts
The present Clipart Gallery in OpenOffice.org needs major rework, but even if this work is just going to start, we don't want to wait for several months or years until the release of a new version. Therefore it is necessary to avoid the same file names (sg<number>.sdg etc) inside one instance of OpenOffice.org. Otherwise the new gallery will not show any images.
To reduce the risk of double naming, all extensions presented at the Clipart Gallery page show the <sg>number in their file name. Please change the sg<number> of your gallery files in /gallery/ , if they interfere with the sg<number> of any other extensions presented on the wiki page.
There is no possibility to add language dependent names to the gallery theme or the single items. This will have to wait until the "new" gallery...


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Thanksgiving Day in the USA is traditionally a day for families and friends to get together for a special meal. The meal often includes a turkey, stuffing, potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, pumpkin pie, and vegetables. Thanksgiving Day is a time for many people to give thanks for what they have.
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The Captain's Charge Beard Wax
Description: Made with the same rich beard oil blend as Mariner Jack's, well, beard oils, this is a firmer version of their beard balm.
Balsamic wood notes with hints of a peppery spice make the base of this scent. Beautifully complimented with a rich and decadent sweetness, lifted with the addition of a masculine and herbal evergreen tone to finish.
Tips from the Barbers: Best used in a dry beard or mustache for maximum hold.
Size: 1 oz
Brand: Mariner Jack
Ingredients: Cera alba, Butyrospermum parkii butter, Ricinus communis seed oil, Argania spinosa kernel oil, Prunus amygdalus dulcis seed oil, Simmondsia chinensis seed oil, Perfum, Boswellia carterri oil, Cupressus sempervirens, Tocopherol, Hexyl Cinnamal, Citronellol, Alpha-isomethylionone, Coumarin, d-Limonene, Cinnamol, Geraniol, Benzyl Benzoate , Linalol, Eugenol. WARNING CONTAINS NUT OILS.


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Bruce Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and humanitarian. He is best known for his work with his E Street Band. Nicknamed "The Boss", Springsteen is widely known for his brand of poetic lyrics, Americana, working-class and sometimes political sentiments centered on his native New Jersey, his distinctive voice and his lengthy and energetic stage performances, with concerts from the 1970s to the present decade running over three hours in length.
Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 64 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million records… Read all
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5 Content Ideas to Boost Employee Engagement
According to a Gallup report, as few as 33% of employees are engaged – yet, unsurprisingly, engaged workers care more about the products and services their organisation delivers - and perform better. So, if engagement is directly linked to performance, engaging employees needs to be a key priority for organisations.
But thinking about what actually makes an 'engaged employee' can be challenging. According to the same report, there are twelve elements of engagement, which include everything from employees knowing what's expected of them, and their opinions seeming to count, to understanding the mission of their organisation and having the materials they need to do their job.
When considering what might positively impact these elements, the underlying theme is communication. This might be between staff and managers (such as in day-to-day work, or as part of performance reviews), from leadership (such as CEO statements or company mission and direction communications), even policies or product/service information (product information, HR handbooks).
With that in mind, content is an excellent tool for engaging employees. When combined with powerful content delivery platforms, it can really help organisations communicate with staff. In this blog, we'll look at 5 ways to build engagement using content.