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Feel free to discover other available projects & music by ALEX TERZAKIS from 1992 until now.
Click each cover for direct access.
The sound of MILCHREIZ leads first to a neglected brain and food reaction straight to the dance floor!
This often results in the increased leakage of fluid, because the body does not know how to stop.
The thereby initiated milk flow finally and stops only, when all parts of the body go limp and the brain
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This was the first music project by ALEX TERZAKIS.
It starts in 1992 with the legendary Commodore Amiga Home Computer.
In 1994, the project FACTOR-4 started performing tracks on different live events in the regional area.
Time goes on and after stopping the project in 1995, it was in 2004 slowly re-animated.
FACTOR-4 was playing on many live events.
Acts on the German electronic festivals "Juicy Beats", "Ruhr in Love" or live acts @ "Versteck"
in Dortmund or the "Sleepless Afterhours" are only some marks in the
whole history.
FACTOR-4 was officially resolved in April 2011 by ALEX TERZAKIS.
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- Where are you hiding, my love?
Cast off like a stone.
Feelings raw and exposed when I'm out of control
Pieces were stolen from me
Or dare I say, given away?
Watching the water give in
As I go down the drain
I appear missing now
I go missing,
No longer exist
One day, I hope,
I'm someone you'd miss
Shock me awake, Tear me apart
Pinned like a note in a hospital gown
Deeper I sleep, Further down
The rabbit hole never to be found...
- I don't fit in with anyone now.
Not my family,
Not these new and friendly flatmates,
Not my (past) friend's, (past) friends' friends,
Not even my "best friend".
I'm the eternal outsider who doesn't fit in with the insiders.
It felt contrived and somewhat "poor me", regardless of how true it feels so I didn't publish it on it's own. I feel better about contextualising it here as part of a larger post.
There was a BBQ happening at the flat, but it wasn't suggested as a flat activity, it was just something that my flatmate said: "I might have a BBQ tonight." I read that as "I might have a BBQ tonight" and by the time I realised I was expected to be a part of it with my other flatmate, I was already down the rabbit hole of anxiety and confusion, my brain flipping out about my own stupidity and feeling like an outsider again.
I didn't want to move into a flat with other people, but I am financially unable to live on my own so felt forced into this position. That, I don't hate, nor regret, but there has been a feeling of being uncomfortable around my flatmates, maybe because they are younger than me, maybe because there are things that haven't been said, or that one of them is not expressing, therefore causing me to feel like I have to tip-toe around that particular subject matter because it hasn't been put out in the open. I don't necessarily begrudge the flatmate for not being more communicative on this subject, as I feel it is their right to either talk about it or not, but it has also made me feel like ... I don't belong / am not trusted. This, I don't blame myself or them for, since it is a reflection of the society we live in, but I do feel somewhat out of place nevertheless.
When I first went looking for flats, I found a house with an upstairs that was self-contained, but with house-kitchen downstairs where there were three more rooms and an orchard worker already renting one of the rooms. Upstairs was being rented for about $240 /wk and I was ready to jump on it since I had full-time work, and even on minimum wage I was willing to make sacrifices just to have that personal space to myself. Unfortunately, the house was sold within the week. This flat came along and I snatched it up after a really positive look-in, and although the flatmates are still positive people who I like, I can't help feeling I have little in common with people who do a lot of kayaking, trail biking, snowboarding, and are both skippers during the summer tourist months. And they love watching Rugby (audible groan).
And I like books.
I left music. I wanted no part in chasing something that gave nothing back. I gave everything I had to it, every emotion I felt, every spare piece of time to scrape and sculpt songs out of, but ultimately, I had no way of presenting these songs to the world. At least not without the support of others. That support seemed to come and go but never stuck around to help out in the long run. I just ended up feeling like I was at square one all over again, every time. Most musicians make steps that move their goals forward, but every step I took ended me up right back at the start like I was restarting a race I had already run many times and got nowhere with.
- The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
- Most of what you see my dear is purely for show
Because not everything that goes around comes back around you know
Holding on too long is just fear of letting go
Because not everything that goes around comes back around you know
One thing that is clear it's all down hill from here.
- 'Like Clockwork' (Qotsa)
Most of my adult life I've asked myself when do I get to sit down and write my novels? Dirteater of which has been in existence since 1997/8, but has only had notes and an occasional scene written for it, but of which the entire structure, characters, themes and narrative are all worked out; Welcome Home 1998; Deiaul 2001. In 2014 when I had no work but was given the chance to apply for a teaching job I had previously enquired about but hadn't manifested until now, I had begun moving into writing mode with Dim Day and I made a decision to pull my job application knowing I'd never be able to continue writing while teaching full-time (I know what my writing habits are like!). I was told by a family member that I was making a big mistake and would regret not going for the job choosing to work on my next novel instead. I don't regret it at all. I wrote more than I'd ever be able to write working full-time in a job where I had to care about other people's needs over my own. This is the frustrating reality I faced when I did finally take a teaching job in Canterbury during 2015 after my writing had slowed down (at this point I had already moved onto expanding 'The Future Unfolds' into Auralye on a Harp). In 2016 after the new year had started, work had become a minefield of bad communication from management and inadequate support for a Provisionally Registered Teacher who had travelled from job to job with inconsistent evidence of teaching being gathered.
- I couldn't be this person in their lives. I had to be me in my own life.
I love the classroom, I love the students, and I love being there for them and encouraging their talents no matter how big or small; but a part of me was dying from not being able to fully express itself, and I couldn't stand seeing Dirteater drift further and further into the distance as the years went by. Do I have to be an old man in retirement before I can sit down and write the novel I planned when I was just 21?
I made a decision. It was the right decision. Whatever poverty I face now is a result of that. I have no more music to give anyway; what exists just needs to be recorded and anyone can do that - it certainly doesn't need to be me!
The isolation isn't a problem. If I could have that, I would take it; it's the non-isolation that financial strain causes that is a problem and having to work around the issues in my head as they converge, conflict, and crash into situations I misunderstand and am misinformed about. It's almost ironic that the orchard work I have been involved in has allowed me to exercise responsibility through confidence in knowing what I'm doing and what is expected of me, and being unafraid to ask questions. But orchard work is coming to an end, and I aim to have time on my hands to write. Even if I'm stuck in this house with these flatmates I don't really relate to, I have to work to make that time to be alone to write.
To write the days and nights away.
Especially the Dim Days.

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As the sun set over San Francisco, I drove on down to Potrero Hill to the most contradictory of CrossFit affiliates that I have visited, CrossFit Potrero Hill. Why is it a contradiction you ask? Well, the second you pull up, as a CrossFitter, you would know. In the re-done, well-manicured area that clearly used to be just massive warehouses, you see the huge neon "World Gym" sign shining through the night. Yep, CrossFit Potrero Hill is located INSIDE a "dreaded" globo gym.
So, I strolled through the front doors, signed in at the fancy front desk just past the food and drink bar and began to make my way through the gym. Sure, it's you typical globo gym, but I definitely do have to give them a handful of credit, not just for the fact that they welcomed CrossFit into their space, but because for a globo gym, it was a pretty well equipped one. But I am not here to write about them, I'm here for the CrossFit! Head coach and owner Eric welcomed me into the cage and I instantly felt at home.
So, you walk down a hallway that the cardio equipment makes and you make your way towards a fenced in area in the back corner of the gym. Walk through the fence opening and you are instantly transported into CrossFit world. There's a sweet pull up rig wrapped around the back curved wall, there are stacks of bumpers, kettlebells, bars, med balls, boxes and all the necessary gear. It's not the biggest space, but it's perfectly organized and somehow felt like it was one of the biggest boxes I had been in.
There was a pretty good sized class in for the evening, and each and every one of them seemed pretty pumped to get after it. It was a diverse group as well and I was really excited to sweat with them all, despite my complete fatigue from so many workouts to that point. With Eric leading, and coach Michael assisting, we all went through a great warm up while chatting amongst ourselves. We then prepared for the workout:
3 rounds of:
Tabata toe taps
20 ring push ups
100 double unders
This turned out to be a really cool workout. And actually it was the perfect burn out post crazy couple days of programming. The way this one was run was to do the toe taps (basically starting with one foot on a plyo box and then jumping up to switch feet. Each time your foot touches the box counts as one rep), then directly into the push ups and double unders. I swapped in wall balls instead of push ups as my shoulders were about broken in two. There was also about a minute or so break between rounds. Eric wanted us to attack this workout without counting reps or time, he just wanted us to get after it as hard as we could and see if we could handle the mental challenge of just pushing ourselves. I like this; I like the idea of not always working against a clock. We as CrossFitters get a bit over-involved sometimes in the classic "what's your time"/"what's your number" concept of training. I think that if you can every now and again turn the clock off and put your pen down and just get after a work out is a great test of where your fitness stands. Do you have the ability to work against yourself just as hard as you do against the clock? This is a key, not only for competitors, but also for any athlete out there. To make true gains in fitness, you need to be able to push yourself through self-motivation. Eric did a great job of getting all of us to understand this, and I was really impressed with the effort everyone put forth. Each person took it upon themselves to "get that number" on their tabata, and while I could not see the push up efforts because I was on the wall ball, I saw some pretty hardcore efforts with the jump ropes all around.
It was an interesting experience to be working so hard, with a group of people on ellipiticals watching us. It was the perfect example of being active for the hell of it, and being active for a reason. You can find endless articles and opinions from CrossFitters on globo gyms and none of them are in the least bit understanding and kind. Hell, I have been known to share my sarcastic and somewhat insulting words with people about the "benefits" of spending money at a gym like that. I don't really want to get into that topic here at all, but I will say I still share mostly the same opinion I always have towards what those places will do for you. But having a CrossFit affiliate literally inside one, well that just bleeds contradiction like I have never seen. It shocks me that people can really sit at their leg extension machines watching a group of divers athletes banging out 3 rep max back squats and getting after prowler pushes without feeling bad about themselves or getting up and actually working hard themselves. The way I view it, Eric and his crew have stationed themselves in the best place you could possibly be to share with the world how great CrossFit actually is.
CrossFit began as a grass-roots fitness concept and has grown faster then, well hell, it's like the Facebook of fitness! But most of these affiliates hide themselves; garages, warehouses, small locations in obscure spots. I love that about CrossFit of course, I love that if you are someone who wants to get fit, you have to find places that will help you do it. There's no advertising or anything like that, just go find it. But CrossFit Potrero Hill plops themselves right smack dab in the middle of everything that is wrong with the fitness industry and just do their thing. I applaud them for allowing themselves to stand out. I applaud them for showing, rather than saying, how great CrossFit is. I WILL be back there for a workout or two in the coming months, it was quite an experience!
CrossFit Potrero Hill
290 De Haro Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-5124
As I finish this post I have one more visit in the Bay Area. I am so pumped to be able to get back on my own program after so much unknown this past month, but I will miss being able to train with all these different athletes! I know I'll be getting back to a lot of them as I prepare for the CrossFit Games!
Never Stop, GET FIT.
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Guidelines & Procedures for Submitting Art Work
Exhibitions can include – but not necessarily be restricted to – the following major categories or artwork:
Wall Display: Paintings, drawings, photographs, and other wall hangings
Case Display: Sculpture, ceramics, and collections for display in case
The Pearl River Public Library Arts Advisory Committee, made up of artists, library trustees, staff and volunteers will review art at regularly scheduled meetings, times of which will be publicized in advance. Individual community members, artists, and craftspersons may submit their original work for exhibit at the Pearl River Public Library. Three (3) examples of each person's work, i.e. original artwork, slides, photographic prints or sculpture will be reviewed by the Pearl River Public Library Arts Advisory Committee at their regularly scheduled meeting before any exhibit may be scheduled. Artists will be notified by mail regarding acceptance status and scheduling. Exhibits will normally run for approximately four (4) weeks, approximately beginning and ending with the calendar month.
Groups sponsored by art or craftsmen associations may also submit requests to the Pearl River Public Library Arts Advisory Committee for consideration for exhibition. In this case, the sponsoring group is responsible for selecting the material to be exhibited.
The library retains the right to reject any piece or pieces of work which it deems inappropriate to the library setting.
Each applicant will be required to fill out an exhibit request form which can be picked up in the library at the Information Desk.
It is the responsibility of the artist to prepare a list of works on display for distribution to the public. The library must be supplied with a complete list of titles and prices for each piece of work to be exhibited. Items which are not for sale must be clearly noted on the list as NFS.
Exhibits will usually be scheduled for approximately four (4) weeks. The art staff of the library will plan the exhibit and hang the artwork.
Display Walls for Hanging Exhibits
In the large open area of the library just inside the front doors (hub Area) there is a display wall (37 feet long with picture hanging molding 8 feet from the floor). This area provides space for approximately 12 to 13 pieces of about 28 inches in width, hung in a single line or 24 to 26 pieces hung two deep. There is also a 7 foot wall by the community Room door that will hold 2 to 3 pieces in a single row. The Community Room has two wall spaces that may be used. These are 10 feet high. (There is no surveillance from the Circulation Desk of the Community Room.)
Paintings, drawings, and other fine art and photographs must be framed for hanging with eyehooks (1 to 3" from the top of the frame). Paintings on stretched canvas that are unframed with the correct hooks on the back will be acceptable. Each piece of artwork is individually suspended from a picture hanging molding by means of metal picture hanging S-hooks and nylon cord. The artist's name, title of the picture and media should be printed legibly on the back of the picture.
Display Cases for Ceramics and Collections
The library has one display case (36 inches long) with locking glass doors and six shelves.
All items must remain on exhibit for the duration of the show, and must not be removed prior to the end of the scheduled exhibition dates. All exhibited items must be removed on assigned day to avoid interference with the next exhibit. The library does not have available space to securely store items before or after a scheduled exhibition.
No works can be offered for sale by the Library. However, the artist can provide a list of work for sale which will be kept at the Circulation Desk, and can note in the exhibit area that interested parties may refer to that list and contact the artist directly.
After her/his work has been accepted for exhibition, the artist should prepare and present a brief statement of her/his background, education, types of work to be exhibited, etc., to be used for press releases to local news media. The Library will take responsibility for sending the press release providing that the information is received in time to meet publication deadlines (usually four weeks in advance of the publication).
The Library cannot provide a reception for the exhibit. Therefore, if a formal reception is desired, all refreshments must be provided by the artist. Beverages must be limited to nonalcoholic drinks. In the event that invitations are to be sent, these are also the responsibility of the artist.
Arrangements for any reception must be discussed in advance and approved by the Library Liaison member of the Pearl River Public Library Arts Advisory Committee. Dates for receptions should be cleared as early as possible since the Community Room where the receptions are held is quite often in use. A Sunday afternoon from 3:00-5:00 PM is usually the time set for receptions. Saturday afternoon from 2:00-4:00 PM is also possible. Saturday afternoon and Sunday are not available when summer hours are in effect (mid-June until after Labor Day).
The library can offer limited insurance coverage on items and artwork accepted for exhibit. Artist/exhibitors are encouraged to determine if their private homeowners insurance provides coverage for items and artwork while on display.


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I can think of many reasons I need two bunnies made in Soviet Union, probably in Ukraine.
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Flashing back to about a week ago
I had a great little reunion with some family
And enjoyed spending time with everyone
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The Second-Baby Baby Shower Question
Hi Amy!
You're great and I love your advice. I've scoured the internet and polled my friends and no one can give me a definitive answer. I'm pregnant with my second child and due at the beginning of July. I have a two year old son and I just found out that I'm having a baby girl! Could not be more excited! My question is simple…should I have a shower for Baby Girl or is that tacky?
I'll explain my thoughts and then you can tell me what to do, ok? I promise I will do whatever you advise.
My thoughts, in no particular order…
-am I shortchanging Baby Girl by not having a party for her? She's already going to be using her big Brother's hand-me-down items for big ticket stuff and the second child rarely gets the fanfare that the first did.
-if I do have a baby shower should I put on the invitation "no gifts"? But people want to buy gifts and frankly, there are a few things that I do want and I would rather have stuff that I actually need/want rather than a bunch of crap people bought because I gave them no ideas. For example, I want to cloth diaper this time around and I would love if people would by a diaper cover or such rather than 14 of the same teeny tiny tshirts.
-if I do have a second baby shower, should I invite only a handful of people? But what if others find out about it and think that I didn't want them there? Really, I just don't want people to feel obligated to buy me a gift. But again, no ideas/baby registry could lead to craptastic gifts.
-I actually don't have any little girl stuff nor do I have piles of money to buy little girl stuff. I'm totally fine with using boy-themed swings and bouncers and the like but I can't very well dress Baby Girl in the same things her brother wore. I mean really, there's frugality and then there's just meanness.
Bottom line, I feel like Baby Girl's birth should be celebrated just the same as we celebrated for my son. I just don't want people to think I'm a gift whore.
Please help me. My pregnancy brain really can't take any more of this.
Misconceptions about Second Baby Showers
So somewhere along the way in my life, I picked up on the idea that a woman got ONE baby shower, for her first baby, and that was it. Subsequent pregnancies did not get a shower, and to do otherwise was tacky. I honestly have NO IDEA who told me this or why I clung to it like gospel, because OH WAS I EVER CORRECTED during my second pregnancy.
Many people suggested it's a regional thing, since in the South, every baby gets a shower, no matter what. And multiple showers, if geography prevents anyone from traveling to one central location. I wonder if it's different for people who view the shower for what it really is — a PARTY, a celebration of mother and baby — versus people who do see baby showers primarily as gift grab extravaganzas, where it's all about the baby registry and not much else.
Anyway, I have come around on second baby showers.
Like you said, second- and third- and etc.-born babies don't quite get the fanfare of first-born, and there is nothing EVER routine or humdrum about the birth of a new baby. And on the practical side, stuff gets broken, lost, or given away. Plus, you're having a girl. I think your friends and family understand that you might want a few non-blue items around. (My family's been waiting for someone to have another baby girl for 21 years now. Instead, we've had a total of six boy grandchildren. If a girl ever does arrive, hoo boy, it's gonna look like a Pepto Bismol hurricane flew through the house.)
Baby Shower Etiquette
But. BUT BUT BUT. Here is what is still considered rude and tacky: Throwing yourself a shower. Sending out the invites yourself, having it at your house, or anything that suggests you organized it. Some formal etiquette sticklers also extend this to immediate family, like mothers and sisters, but this has mostly fallen out of fashion and isn't a big deal anymore. Throwing your own shower, however, is still a big old NO.
(My second shower was SUPPOSED to be a surprise, with my best friend plotting with my husband about how best to get me to put together an Amazon wish list or something without me knowing why…but that got ruined when my husband asked me to find an email for him on his phone and I accidentally saw a subject line like AMY'S SHOWER SHHHH!! And then the invite was online and I linked to it because it was kind of an unusual Mostly Internet People Thing involving Another Event That I Was Already Supposed To Invite People To. And some people thought that was terribly tacky and gift-grubby and told me so to my face. Er, to my blog comment section. However, as any mildly good etiquette-conscious person knows, telling someone that they've broken an etiquette "rule" is generally considered to be even worse. So there. Or something. In other words, I get that real-life tends to be a lot more complicated than the etiquette books allow for.)
Your email isn't clear on this point, though. Has someone offered to throw you a shower? If so, tell them you're up for it and let them take the lead about shower location, how many people to invite, what to include on the invitations. Then you go ahead and register at a baby store and a cloth diaper website and share the info with your shower organizer. It's her responsibility to pass it along to guests…IF THEY ASK. (I'm really still not a fan of invitations arriving with registry info printed on them, but realize I'm slowly becoming a minority in that. It's convenient for both guest and hostess, yes, but also TOTALLY WHY wedding and baby showers are getting this bad, grabby reputation.)
I'm predicting most people will bypass your baby registry and buy you baby clothes though. Probably lots of tiny pink girly ones. Just a hunch.
If someone hasn't offered to throw you a baby shower…
I think you have two, actually three, choices.
1. You put all of this on the back burner and proceed as if you will not be having one. No registry, though it's completely fine to give specific ideas (cloth diapers, clothing, other essentials) to people who ask. Perhaps someone will offer closer to your due date; perhaps not, if you do live in an area where second baby showers just "aren't done."
2. You ask someone — or a couple, to minimize the responsibility load — to organize a shower on your behalf. Plenty of women do this. Emphasize your desire to celebrate Baby Girl, not your need for New Stuff. If they agree, you hand over the reins and proceed as I described above. Collaborate on the guest list and size, give them your registry info, let them handle the invites and everything else.
3. One last option: it's becoming really common for the second (or third or whatever) baby shower to be a "couples shower." Instead of the traditional flock of women oohing and aahing over twee little clothes, you have a party that includes spouses and already-born children. Sometimes these don't happen until after the baby is born. I like these, since they just seem so much less about the gifts and more about the entire family. If you feel strange about asking someone to organize a shower, you can TOTALLY THROW A PARTY like this and just leave the word "shower" out of it.
Go ahead and create some pink invites that say something else: We're celebrating Big Brother and the upcoming arrival of Baby Sister! Send it to friends and include spouses and children's names on the envelopes and NO REGISTRY INFO. "No gifts" is certainly an appropriate, polite option (and one that will be ignored by exactly half the guests, making the other half feel stupid and WHY DO PEOPLE DO THAT? AT LEAST GIVE THE GIFT OUT OF SIGHT OF PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED DIRECTIONS GAH.). Then have everybody over for a big ol' barbecue or something, and promise me you won't make anyone play the melted-chocolate-bar-in-a-diaper game.
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"I am struggling with a team playing up a year in age U12 Boys moving to U13 Boys in soccer. What are your thoughts? And do you know of any lawsuits. I am on the board and I want to be able to answer any questions."We invited a guest expert to respond to that for us. Gil Fried is an attorney and professor at the University of New Haven who provided the following answer:
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Tanabe City Gourmet Map
The entertainment area in front of the JR Kii-Tanabe station is called "Ajikoji" and is packed with over 200 restaurants and Japanese style pubs (Izakaya) . It is considered to be the most concentrated of its kind for a city of this size in the entire country of Japan. Every alley is full of quaint places to eat and drink. The Tanabe City Gourmet Map features 29 of these establishments including 26 with English menus. Look for a small sign by the entrance like the one to the right. The number on the sign corresponds to the number on the map.
Tanabe is a safe place for non-Japanese speakers to fully experience delicious local cuisine in an authentic environment. Unlike most tourist areas Tanabe's restaurants are geared toward locals, so the food is always fresh and cheap. The fish market even takes place at 3 pm, instead of the morning, so the seafood is world class. Enjoy!
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Sam and Corey are currently travelling around the Nordic countries on a mission to explore Nordic café culture and to eventually publish a book about the project. We wrote about Takk when the project was being funded on Kickstarter. Kalle Freese caught up with the two of them in Helsinki to have a chat about them, Takk and Nordic coffee culture.
Could you tell us a little bit of your background. Where are you from, what do you do?
Sam: My background is a mix of film studies, business school, and working in different cafés, from Seattle to Thingeyri, Iceland. I've grown up mostly in Seattle but am originally from Liechtenstein and have a deep connection with Europe, especially the Nordic countries (since living in Denmark and Iceland). I love playing music in a band I'm in with my brother, and before starting this project, I had been preparing to open my own café in Seattle. I hope that this will happen upon returning to the Seattle!
Corey: I have been studying design for the last six years, and just received my Bachelors of Architecture. Photography was initially a tool I used to document the built environment, but then became a way to investigate my surroundings and experiences. It became much more of a hobby than anything else. I bought my first film camera from a thrift store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn four years ago, then a higher quality film camera from a fair in Arizona about a year later, then I used my Father's old, but very beautiful Nikon FE2, and now I have finally began to shoot digital for this project. I am from the American Southwest, but share Sam's love and fascination with the Nordic countries, especially after living and studying in Copenhagen.
Why Nordic cafe culture? What's special about it?
There are so many elements to this big question. First of all, to us, Nordic café culture is special because it is different from the cafe culture we grew up in. This somewhat religious act of gathering around coffee is one that isn't found in the States (or Seattle specifically) like it is in the Nordic countries. Yes, coffee is highly consumed in a city like Seattle, and there is an array of cafés with incredible coffee, but we wanted to showcase a different culture's view and interaction with coffee. Our discoveries in Sweden and Finland have been so rich, and the history of each place has become so apparent through the investigation of each café.
What's the difference between cafe culture and coffee culture?
The first café owner that we interviewed in Sweden, Oskar Alvérus from Drop Coffee, put it so well. He said that any place where people gather together could be considered a café. Therefore, our definition of a café ranges from an outdoor market stall, to a caramel confectionary shop, to a standard espresso bar. Although we both appreciate good coffee, our focus is to find spaces that are extremely unique and provide a great place to gather.
What's the role of great coffee in Nordic cafes?
Coffee plays different roles in each café, but we have noticed that offering great (or specialty) coffee to customers is a value more reserved to the younger generation. Many of the older customers, or coffee drinkers, are more interested in this act of gathering; or taking a break, than they are in the newest brewing technique, or single origin espresso.
So, in a lot of ways, the trends of great/specialty coffee don't seem to have been so important in the historical shaping of café culture in the Nordic countries. This seems to be changing, however, maybe due to a higher sense of consciousness, maybe due to the trendiness of specialty coffee, or maybe just due to taste, but it seems less important as a role than it does as a character of café culture in the Nordic countries.
We all know the social aspect is very important in Scandinavian coffee culture. Why do you think that is so?
There probably isn't one 'right' answer to this question, and we have only just begun our project – and are trying to find the answers to this question ourselves. We do know that the social aspect of coffee drinking is big in Scandinavia for many reasons. One reason may be the light and climate – one that lends itself well to staying cozy indoors with a hot cup of coffee to warm your bones and a light flickering on the table. Another reason is its historical significance. There is a rich history of gathering around coffee that has been passed on through generations, even during times of war and hardship. Each Nordic country has its own unique baked goods and pastries, and these are often eaten together with coffee, on certain occasions and during certain times of the year. Each culture has made this simple act unique to their tastes and needs, and have kept these traditions throughout the years. That says a lot about its significance and importance.
How is Nordic black coffee different from others, American for example?
Hmmm, well, this is a touchy subject and we don't want to offend anyone! It differs so much from person to person, from café to café and depends very much on personal taste.
What do you want to achieve with your book?
Our personal manifesto, in its purest form, is to investigate how people gather in cafes and over coffee in order to inspire others. If we achieve that, we will be happy.
How did you come up with the idea of writing the book?
This is, in essence, one of those crazy "you-only-live-once-so-why-not-do-it" ideas, but was of course inspired by many factors. Our first experience with the Nordic countries came from living and studying in Copenhagen (at different schools and different times in our lives) and our extended love for the Nordic countries catapulted from there.
One of Sam's friendships in Copenhagen led her to spending the summer in the tiny village of Thingeyri, Iceland, where her Danish friend and classmate built a small café in the West Fjords. Corey worked at the community run café Mellemrummet in Copenhagen and met many of her closest friends while working there. Our communities were formed in cafés and were a big part of shaping our experiences abroad. Also, our various backgrounds and interests make for a unique partnership in this project. We are just so excited by having the possibility to do this and fulfill this dream.
Where have you been so far? Where are you up to next?
We started in Sweden, where we spent time in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Dalarna. We then traveled to Finland, starting in Turku and making our way to Helsinki. It's been an incredible journey so far, full of surprises, new friendships and many, many cups of coffee.
How long will you be travelling? When are you planning to publish the book?
We are traveling for three months in total; as much as our travel visa allows, and hope to have the book out at the beginning of the New Year.
What are you planning to do in the future, after publishing the book?
Sam will open her dream café in Seattle and Corey's future will most likely lead her towards the architecture/design field. Her dream is to work at an architecture firm in Copenhagen.
What new have you learnt about Scandinavia, its people, coffee and cafe culture?
We learn something new about Nordic coffee, its café culture, and the Nordic people everyday. This is such a hard question to answer because we've met so many amazing people, all with their own stories and opinions about coffee and café culture. What has shocked us a bit is the fact that many Scandinavians don't recognize that such a rich café culture exists in their own country, or they haven't properly reflected upon it… until we meet them and get them to talk! Then, once they begin to discuss their experiences with coffee, their eyes begin to open a bit wider, and they realize that café culture is a very special part of their lives. Knocking people into a sense of realization has been the best part.
If you'd like to learn more about the project and read about what Sam and Corey are up to, check out their blog or their twitter, @NordCafeCulture!


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Virtual Reality You Can Feel (w/ Greg Bilsland, HaptX)
We're joined for a special interview with Greg Bilsland of HaptX to talk about VR for Commerce and how touch in VR isn't as elusive as you may believe. Impossible technology worth paying attention to now: how realistic haptics will add another dimension to our immersive experiences in retail and training.
What is HaptX?
Jake Rubin founded HaptX in 2012. HaptX's vision is for a full body system to deliver realistic touch to VR users.
The ultimate promise of virtual reality is to open up impossible worlds and experiences to you and experience them with unprecedented realism.
What is the specific definition of symbolic and realistic haptics?
It's the science and Technology of touch.
It's understanding how our body interacts with all the things around us.
Most people experience it in your phone, the touchpad in your mouse, or the rumble in a gaming controller.
Remember the Nintendo Rumble Pak? That was early haptics. That technology was an offset motor spinning around to create vibrational effect: that's symbolic haptics. It's only representing something happening in an abstract way.
Realistic haptics delivers the actual sense of displacement on your skin when you touch something.
Tactile feedback: Imagine putting your finger against the tines of a fork and you see all those points that are physically displacing on your finger. That's where you're actually feeling those points.
Force feedback: imagine trying to bend a spoon: you're pushing on it and feeling resistance.
Combine those two things and you get realistic haptics. A sense that you're touching a real object even though you're in the virtual world.
This seems like far future technology, but you're talking about it as current technology. Where do the technologies come from and what are its current and practical uses?
Jake Rubin found that you could leverage the current game engine tech, Unity and Unreal, to bring touch to them.
It turns out is has huge implications across commerce and retail and training.
Imagine flight simulators taking VR and using haptic gloves to utilize training for pilots.
Any professional role that needs training can utilize haptics in VR.
What is the broad industry specific use of this tech? Is there anything currently existing? How do you see haptics being applied in the consumer space?
Long term, haptic devices are going to make their way into the consumer space because VR will be part of retail experience.
Short term, It's more of an enterprise tool.
Companies doing commerce that benefit the most from haptic: a large physical space where consumers do their shopping or a large physical space they have to store something.
Consider companies like Lowes and Home Depot. They have huge stores that are expensive to lease and keep tstocked.
They're looking to VR to reduce that footprint so that their customers can have the whole store experience brought to them in a small package.
Ikea is doing the same thing.
You'll see more consumers using VR and haptics when at locations that can install VR and haptics.
What's your endgame goal for seeing retail applying haptics?
- The long term vision is doing things and navigating immersive environments using your hands instead of using controller. We're a long way off before the price point makes that a feasible scenario.
Can you tell us the price point? Do you have a new product?
HaptX gloves: we have the first haptic glove to deliver realistic feedback all in one package.
It's the first hardware product to debut at Sundance since Oculus. We're only selling a LImited amount of these products to strategic investors and companies.
Will you see your product initially showcased by different companies showing off their tech to customers?
Experience centers will be initial major way for consumers to interact with this technology.
You might see them at VR arcades at places like malls or experiential centers.
Entertainment will be a space for consumers to use haptic experiences.
Branded experiences: the brands doing VR right are companies like Disney partnering with Nissan to do a Star Wars experience.
To be successful, they create a real sense of value among the consumer. They're delivering utility to customers.
Future Policy with Danny Sepulveda
President Trump's proposal is to close the borders to competition and do something on the tax side to put more money in people's pockets. And he's executed on that.
Two relevant books: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance.
JD Vance theoretically explains the destruction of the low wage white Appalachian culture.
Coate's book is about what it means, and what it takes, to grow up black in America.
The reason these issues are important is because the policy decisions we make occur within not just economics and commerce, they occur within the four corners of law, human ingenuity, and regulation.
How we react to how commerce is changing fundamentally affects the manner in which human beings live within their communities, govern themselves, and view themselves.
As we look to struggling communities, like the ones described by Coates and Vance, we see centers of production, wealth, and commerce concentrating in specific places and the rest of the country living of off it.
It's unsustainable because of what it means to the American promise that birth is not destined.
Once social mobility is restricted we lose the american promise.
That is the fundamental problem.
The concentration of power, wealth, and authority will be central to our conversations going forward and what that means for people's everyday lives.
Could you address any critics that say your technology only further isolates people from having real world experiences?
Haptics ultimately have the ability to bridge distance and bring touch to what would normally be an isolating experience.
Consider using Skype to give your parents a hug or hold their hand while you're talking to them. The isolation criticism has always been there going back to the argument that TV would rot our brains.
But It depends on the content makers and their users to discipline themselves to how they use that technology.
Brian says that the more realistic we can make them and mimic the real world, the closer to a real world experience will enhance that connectedness.
Touch is something we've been missing from media. How do you foresee CMOs and marketers building out branding experiences with this?
VR is still a novelty for a lot of consumers and so brands will try to use experiences to wow their consumers to create a really strong brand impression.
Eventually consumers will become savvy enought to recognize the good from the bad VR experiences.
That's when marketers are going to want a deeper level of immersion to create a competitive edge over their competitors.
Imagine going to REI and be able to try on gear and ascend Mt Rainier. It's easy to see how immersion helps sell the experience.
So how much can you feel? Can feel something slimy? Can you feel weight? Texture?
Slimy and textures are challenging simply because they're a function of vibration.
When you run your hand over something, the sensation is actually your hand vibrating at various frequencies.
That's something we're working on to get the actuator technology.
Actuators are little bubbles that inflate and deflate that create the sensation of texture.
Slime is a little ways off.
But running your hands over wheat, or a rocky surface, or even over a wall is something we can do really well.
Weight is an interesting challenge: to feel something truly weighty, you need a full body exoskeleton to apply the downward pressure on your arm.
Are you heading toward full body suits?
Our original vision was to create full body suits, and that remains a goal, but our expertise is in touch.
We're really good at translating the digital into tactile experience.
Other companies doing really awesome exoskeleton systems.
Long term training, if you want to give them a true fully immersive experience, that's where we'd probably partner with a company who could do the exoskeleton type experiences to create the "climb eht mountain" experience.
Does haptics add to presence illusion?
There's a lot of progress to be made.
While we've been able to simulate touch better than any other company, it's going to take time to continue to progress.
Example: when black and white TV first came out, it was amazing. Then color arrived and black and white was no longer interesting. Same with HD television, our standards increase.
The goal posts are always moving.
We're always going to try to move with the advancements in the field.
VR is still a novel experience
Retailers are starting to understand that certain tech can only be utilized and work in certain mediums. Are you enabling experiences and interfaces that couldn't already be realized?
- We want to create areas where you are able to use your hands in an immersive environment to interact with 3D objects in a way that feels intuitive.
Have you explored the medical community as well?
We've had a number of universities and medical communities reach out to us, especially in the training field.
Imagine how much more comfortable you'd feel going into an operation that a doctor has already performed on you with VR and realistic haptics?
What's the use case for Augmented Reality and HaptX?
Haptics and AR are compatible but it's a much bigger technical challenge due to the way that most AR hardware works.
AR uses a kind of inside out tracking, taking a lot of snapshots of the environment and using complicated math to tell the relative position of the device so an object can remain locked in the virtual environment.
Where that gets tricky is that haptics requires a really high level of precision to be able to deliver a realistic experience.
If you're going to reach out your hand and poke a button, you need that button to push back against you at precisely where you see that button, otherwise it's going to feel wrong.
You need submillimeter accuracy to make that work.
AR isn't there yet with the tech. Until we hear more from customers demanding haptics from AR its not something that we're going to focus on.
Any advice to our merchant listeners about when they should be investing in this?
Is there anything we should be doing in this coming year? Anything about VR? What should we avoid? What about next 5 years? What should we be prepared for?
VR is still a novelty for most consumers so merchants can rely on that to create experiences that are memorable.
Adoption curve for VR that's more like the 90s cell phone market. I don't think in 5 years we're going to turn around and see 90% of Americans owning VR headsets.
It always comes down to thinking about your business and how you're solving your consumers' problems. If you're in the travel industry: give them a 360 or VR experience to help solve your customers problems. But that's not going to be true of every industry.
The branded AR and VR experiences are going to have a real long tail for brands and merchants who invest in delivering utility and value to their customers.
The 5 year outlook is thinking about how VR and Haptics are going to apply to how you're going to train your workforce and how you're designing products.
How you're using the new tools of VR and Haptics to build prototypes.
Look at what the big companies are doing and if they're not investing in AR and VR then it might not be time to make those investments yet.
If you're interested in VR now, then you're ahead of the curve.
Immersive and wearable computing is going to be the next wave of technological adoption. It's worth paying attention to even if it doesn't match your business right now.
Thanks, Greg Bilsland. Go check out HaptX.com for more information on this new technology.
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Friday, September 24, 2010
Obamacare Began Yesterday---I'm feeling Ill Today
They say if you want a friend in Washington DC---get a dog.
It could be said if you want a friend in New York City, be far left, get elected to the presidency, and you'll have The New York Times.
And they were wagging their friendly "tale" yesterday as Obamacare officially started.
"For many families," they wagged, "health care relief begins today." As I read the article, I began to feel a little ill. But I can't find relief in the plan.
"Sometimes lost," they continued, "in the partisan clamor about new health care law is the profound relief it is expected to bring to hundreds of thousands of Americans who have been stricken by disease and then by a Darwinian insurance system."
Key words: Partisan clamor. Profound. Expected.
In which partisan clamor is the truth about Obamacare lost?
The Washington Examiner editorial board created a list of "clamor".
* Obamacare does not decrease health care costs for the government as promised. Medicare's own actuary confirms it will increase, not decrease costs.
* Obamacare does cover elective abortions, contrary to the President's promise that it wouldn't.
*Obamacare won't allow employees or most small businesses to keep the coverage they have and want to keep.
* Obamacare will increase insurance premiums. In some places, it already has. Insurers will now be forced to cover client's children until age 26. Insurance will be forced to raise premiums.
* Obamacare will force seasonal employers to pay huge fines or cut hours or lay off employees.
*Obamacare imposes a non medical tax compliance burden on small businesses. They are now required to mail IRS 1099 tax forms to every vendor from whom they make purchases of more than $600 in one year, with a duplicate form mailed to the IRS.
*Obamacare allows the IRS to confiscate part or all of your tax refund if you do not purchase a qualified insurance plan. It also funds 16,000 new IRS agents to enforce these policies.
The "partisan clamor" has begun and The Times and other enablers will tell you Obamacare has brought profound" relief to the country.
Another key word in The New York Times story is "expected." You will see and hear this word often. Why? Because it is non committal and requires no facts.
Yesterday, I wrote about and quoted people who voted for and supported Obama, but have now grown very weary. "Exhausted" was how one supporter explained it on national television, personally speaking to the President.
There expectations have not been met. Even to a small degree.
Neither will those of anyone expecting Obamacare and the policies of the President, Pelosi, Reid and their enablers such as Senator Patty Murray.
The NYT story is merely a foretaste of what is to come over the next 25 months. From now through the November election and right on into the 2012 election we will hear the partisan clamor.
President Obama is already reconstructing his campaign structure and he has never really stopped campaigning since he was elected. But they will avoid the facts and realities.
Build expectations.
They make much about the fact that children with pre-existing conditions are now covered by their parent's plan, but don't mention that major insurance companies have dropped their child only insurance plans---as reported last week in the Washington Post, as a result of these new mandates.
The NYT highlights people, "who have been stricken first by a disease and then by a Darwinian insurance system." Carefully avoiding facts that diminish their case.
Even National Public Radio reported that although the state high risk pools have been up and running for months now, very few people have signed up or seem to need the program.
Clearly, there are special needs in these areas and they must be addressed.
We need health care reform. But not one that is imposed under the guise of helping people while advancing a socialist agenda.
How do you justify the greatest act of wealth re-distribution in the history of our country and the dismantling of the world's best medical care, for this?
You'll see. Just watch. The "wag" is well underway. On many fronts.
Politicians across the country are running from what they just helped pass.
As Pilate, they will wash their hands and say, "I had nothing to do with it." Yet their actions have been destructive to many.
The first local example is the tagline on a Patty Murray TV ad.
With a straight, mom in tennis shoes face, she says, "And every penny counts."
This is from a woman who has been recognized and applauded for her assistance in helping the Obama, Pelosi, Reid "remaking" of America with the passage of Obamacare. It has been said she is the fourth most powerful woman in Washington DC. She has helped this administration ram Obamacare through Congress, creating debt our kids will never be able to repay and trillion dollar stimulus packages that didn't stimulate anyone other then unions and close associates to this administration. They have racked up more national debt than all preceding presidents combined.
Every penny counts?
How many pennies are in a trillion dollars? She's suggesting restraint?
The far left elite in elected office and their very best friends in the media are about wage the greatest war of words and deception most of us have seen in a very long time---if ever.
Be Vigilant. Be Discerning. Be Prayerful. Be Active. Be Blessed. There is a better day coming.
We are doing our best to inform and involve people. We are seeing a significant response. Thank you for supporting our efforts.
Gary Randall
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- RALPHINEVERETT7:35 AM, September 24, 2010
A sick child's health trumps corporate profits.ReplyDelete
* Obamacare does not decrease health care costs for the government as promised. Medicare's own actuary confirms it will increase, not decrease costs.ReplyDelete
Yes, according to their study the costs to cover 34 million additional adults will increases costs by 1 percent!!! The GAO still says it will slightly reduce costs.
* Obamacare does cover elective abortions, contrary to the President's promise that it wouldn't.
What does that even mean? It lets people buy their own private insurance - of course there are plans that people can buy that cover abortions in the same way your tax dollars do the same when anyone getting a government paycheck privately pays for one. This isn't socialized medicine, its just making sure that everyone has health insurance through some private agency.
*Obamacare won't allow employees or most small businesses to keep the coverage they have and want to keep.
If by that you mean 'none', actually it does. The bill doesn't even cover business with less than 50 employees (what most would consider a 'small business').
* Obamacare will increase insurance premiums. In some places, it already has. Insurers will now be forced to cover client's children until age 26. Insurance will be forced to raise premiums.
But they are capped at a % of income when the full bill goes into effect. And since most 20 somethings will be in jobs that will offer health care that 26 cap is more for students that are taking extensive schooling and have not yet entered the work force.
* Obamacare will force seasonal employers to pay huge fines or cut hours or lay off employees.
Huge fines? The fine for not having proper coverage of employees works out to 9.6¢ an hour for a full time employee and 4.8¢ an hour for a part-time 'seasonal' employee. That means the fine is about 1 or 2% of the salary for minimum wage employees, far less for people paid more.
Do we see the continuing trend here? Sure I can see someone making a reasonable argument that even 1 or 2% potential increase in costs is a negative, but to go on a rant about how horrible the program is because it might cost that amount? Really?
How many of you really get red faced angry about a cost that might be a tiny % more than it was before especially when it means that many more Americans will also have health care coverage when they didn't before? How many bankruptcies and home foreclosures will that prevent from people with sudden catastrophic medical bills? How many more families will be able to financially survive in the face of illness and injury?
Again, for the good of America take the rhetoric down a notch. We can have reasonable discussions about health care reform especially when the two sides differ in cost, at most, by such a trivial amount can't we?
- Anonymous10:26 AM, September 24, 2010
Osher, you are quoting Huffington's talking points but missing many of the facts. I'm surprised FFN even approved your post. They are more fair than I would have been.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6:22 PM, September 24, 2010
The president's health care agenda is unconstitutional.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:37 AM, September 26, 2010
Government in attempts to run too much can not know what it does, nor can it be fair.ReplyDelete
One light bulb doesn't fit all as if the construction worker can do just as well with the delicate expensive bulbs that may work well for others.
I am in favor of much less government. All one has to do is look at the mess we are in.
If gasoline at the pumps were a dollar and a half a gallon again, do you think the economy would be moving better than it is today? I think so, but do you think they would know to pay off the national debt and cut government way, way down to size?
I hope so. I think they should quickly begin to undo most of what they have done since Roe v. Wade and start making real cuts in government especially when prosperity starts coming in.
Faith and Freedom welcomes your comment posts. Remember, keep it short, keep it on message and relevant, and identify your town.


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By Andrew Liszewski
The last couple of iPhone remote solutions we brought you have managed to either reduce the size of the extra hardware to an easy to deal with dongle, or removed the need for anything to be attached to the iPhone altogether thanks to Bluetooth. Sadly that's not the case with the VooMote ONE from a German company called zero1.tv.
To say the sled-type dock that adds IR functionality to the iPhone or iPod Touch has a lot of 'junk in the trunk' is an understatement. On the plus side it allows the device to be used in the proper upright orientation (not upside down) it's able to learn IR codes for devices not included in its database and you're still able to place and receive calls, but the added bulk down where the sled attaches to the dock connector is a bit much. It's supposed to ship in December, and even though no pricing info has been announced, something tells me it's not going to be cheaper than the My TV Remote's $9.99 price tag.
[ VooMote ONE ] VIA [ The Gadgeteer ]


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We made the switch from RCN to Verizon FiOS for our connection needs a few weeks ago, after getting fed up with RCN's prices. RCN used to be a good deal for us (especially in here Arlington, where they compete with Comcast and don't have an exclusive license), but over the years the prices have inched up and up. Also, O wanted some channels (like ESPN U, which carries college hockey) that RCN doesn't seem to carry. Verizon is making it pretty attractive to switch right now as well, and if you live in eligible area, installation is very fast.
So now we're getting phone service from what used to be The Phone Company ! This is progress ! (And our mobile phone service is taken care of by another spawn of The Phone Company. But I digress.)
The big deal about Verizon FiOS is that it delivers fiber optic cable to the home. Now, RCN says the same thing, but I think what RCN actually delivers in most places is fiber to the street – then there's a box on the utility pole that turns fiber into coaxial cable, which then is connected to your TV or cable modem. (This might vary depending on when RCN did the installation.) The speeds and latencies of FiOS compared to RCN's way of doing things don't seem to be much different, but as a company with newer infrastructure, Verizon offers more TV channels, apparently full-quality high-definition channels (unlike, notoriously, DirecTV), and will probably promise more net bandwidth in the future. We chose the 20 Mb/s download-5 Mb/s upload service level, which is only marginally more expensive than the base 5/2 service. Is it really that fast ? I haven't seen anything more than 12 Mb/s on the download side so far, but I have noticed the upload improvement when I post photos to flickr. Speeds like this also make backing up your files somewhere else more practical.
Installation involves a bit of hardware. A technician needs to install a box called an ONT (Optical Network Terminal), which in turn needs a battery backup. The ONT has connections for coax and good old copper wire phone connections. Like a modern broadband cable installation, the coax handles both data and TV. On our basement wall, we now have three boxes with the Verizon logo and a nicely mounted power strip. So at our house, the fiber optic cable goes in, gets sent back outside the house using the existing coax cables and splitters.
One of those coax cables goes back into the underground lair, where it's connected to the Verizon Internet router. For all I know, it's mostly a cable modem and wireless router (with the usual controls for firewalls, port forwarding, DMZ, DHCP, etc.). The wireless part of the router, apparently of the 802.11g standard, is configured to use a network name with a generated ID, and WPA (i.e., an infernally long passcode is required for access) as is. I suppose you could turn off the wireless part and installed your own access point (like an 802.11n Apple Airport Extreme), but you still need to run their router. For one thing, if you peek into the router client list, you'll see that the TV set-top boxes are listed there. While the video data is probably not pushed using packet network protocols, the boxes probably need to maintain contact with the Verizon Central Scrutinizer or they stop working.
So, how does it stack up ?
PhoneWell, it's phone service. We got caller ID and home voice mail with RCN and Verizon too. We've got one of those phones which blinks when you have messages with this kind of service, and it works with Verizon as well as RCN.
I used a web order form to set up initial installation, and either I didn't see an option for phone service, or it didn't exist, so we didn't have it installed until yesterday, about ten days after the initial appointment. (Note: we do not want an IP phone service until the whole E-911 thing is worked out – we have kids, so this matters. Plus VoIP can still, ahem, perform suboptimally.)
One annoyance: with RCN, you can check your voice mail by dialing *9 and your passcode. With Verizon, you have to find out the local access number and dial that.
InternetRCN was pretty reliable; I think I had to recycle the connection once in the last year. FiOS has a reliable reputation but I hope fixing problems is just as easy. The Verizon router can talk to dyndns.org, so if you use that, no problem. BitTorrent seems to work just fine, but you did not hear that from me.
TVAhh, the tube, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems. Video quality on standard definition channels is noticeably better than RCN on some channels; audio quality seems to better too. Some music channels look very blocky on both services when there's significant movement; I guess the feeds just aren't that good. High definition looks great, but NESN gets a little blocky with fast action; apparently it's not Verizon's fault – sports on Fox, ESPN, etc. look great all the time. ESPN's in-studio shows are hyperdetailed/active in HD and should not be viewed for more than a few minutes at a time.
The standard and HD set-top boxes are from Motorola and feature a non-ugly interface. (RCN did a recent update which was OK but was buggy for us for weeks.) Switching channels is really fast. We did not go with a DVR (recorder) because they have a bad reputation at the moment, from what I could glean online. Annoyance: all listed channels are enabled at first; to disable most, you need to browse the ENTIRE LIST the first time. The HD box has HDMI, component, and even standard (RCA or S-) video outs, along with digital audio out (both optical and coax). It works fine with our HDTV; the optical out tends to deliver sound in either Dolby Pro-Logic II Cinema or 5.1 depending on what's playing. As mandated by the FCC, it has FireWire outputs for the video data, but I haven't seen what they can do yet.
The standard definition box has a digital audio output, which is often missing even when an illustration for it appears in the user's manual. That way, you can get theatre sound even with a normal TV, as long as you have a surround-sound setup.
Content comments:
- There's a lot of free on-demand, especially music videos. I like the IMF music channel, which has lots of artists from all over the world, so if you're tired of US and UK pap, you can experience German and Hindi pap.
- There are channels I never knew existed, such as:
- CNBC-World
- The Pentagon Channel
- CNN Internacional Para los Wombats (en Español)
- High-definition still has limits when it comes to fast motion, so the very best detail shines when it comes to art and near-still-life – there's a show on Discovery HD Theater called Sunrise Earth which slowly explores a landscape as the sun comes up. Wonderful.
ServiceVerizon assistance by phone is remarkably chipper, or maybe I've just hit them on good days. The automated menus for FiOS installation are creepily
natural-sounding, but you're back to the usual maze of options when dealing with phone service.
Our standard-definition set-top box was having problems pretty much from the second day we got it (tiling, sound and picture blinking out occasionally). That was strange because you'd think the HD box would be more sensitive to video signal problems and it's been perfect in contrast. Verizon likes to try to solve these problems remotely at first, but resetting the box and reloading its software didn't help.
I tried to combine fixing that box with our phone installation that happened yesterday. When the VZ guy came to do the phone, he couldn't help me with the box because it needed replacing and he didn't have one. But he contacted another guy out in the field who could help me, and he showed up with a replacement about half an hour later. Nice !
ValueOne of the reasons we switched was to spend less on all this stuff. With RCN, we had HBO and Cinemax. For Verizon, we said goodbye to those channels and just got the
Movies And Sportsbundle so that O could get college hockey on ESPN-U (and maybe the Fox collegiate channels); most of the movie channels are from Showtime. For some reason, the only way to get Sundance and IFC is to get a Movies bundle. If you have an HD box, you get all the HD versions of the things you're already paying for. If you want to see Alton Brown's face in extremely detailed fish-eye-lens close-ups, you're going to love it.
Verizon has some good introductory deals right now that are very attractive. One of the annoying things about RCN was that they were changing their packages all the time, and it was hard to figure out how they compared to what you currently had before. So when the RCN customer service person called me up after I ordered my phone service to be switched, and I complained about the constant prices increases, he asked why I didn't switch to one of the newer bundled package of services.
Well, gee, I'd think RCN would know their own product line better than me. If they wanted to me to use a new package, why not just automatically change mine to ones with the more features and less cost when they came up ? But of course, they don't mind it when people pay more than they have to because, hey, it's more money for them, right ? Other companies don't keep around plans or pricing that is not good for the customer when something better is available: Netflix, for example, has let us keep better deals, and I think even some mobile phone companies (perhaps the lowest form of subscription service providers in business) will
downgradeyour plan for a month if a lower-cost plan would have delivered the same amount of service. So there. Let's just see if Verizon is any better about this…


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Our friend MOCRE recently shares a couple of new digital illustrations with us entitled – "Xólotl, Lord of Underworld" and "Ilhuicamiztli". More images and background information about the illustrations after the jump!
Tag / Conceptual
Frédéric Bouin – Death
Frédéric Bouin is a multidisciplinary designer and maker concentrating primarily on handmade graphic images. His background is in illustration and graphic design but has slowly turned towards set building and prop making. In his artistic practice Frédéric blends those influences and blurs the lines between illustration and photography. Frédéric recently sent over a killer new project entitled "Death" that will have you mesmerized if it's digital or reality. More images and information after the jump!
Bizarre Beyond Belief Magazine – Issue #24
We are back with our 24th instalment of Bizarre Beyond Belief Magazine, which includes image features from Jeff Mancilla, BIP, Sasha Blot, Sabek and interviews with Ernest Doty, Dee Skulls, MEDIAH, SHOK and Mear One. Click on the image or link HERE to read for free.
Pineum – Soundreaming
Pineum is a design studio based in Warsaw, founded by Ewa Doroszenko and Jacek Doroszenko, a combination of fine arts and graphic design specialists. Together they work for a range of clients, focusing on visual identity, web design, graphics and photography.
Soundreaming is an interactive Internet presentation that documents site-specific compositions and sound impressions. Soundreaming attempts to translate selected audio events, taking place on the outskirts of the city, to the visual language. This project is a joyful rediscovery of various urban places, sort of an affirmation of soundscape and sense of hearing the World. The project has been produced as a part of the Artist-in-Residence programs at Fundació AAVC Hangar in Barcelona, Spain (2014) and at Atelierhaus Salzamt in Linz, Austria (2016).
Archan Nair – New Works
Archan Nair is a self- taught visual artist, illustrator and Digital Artist, specialising in mixed media, illustration, and digital art. His visual expressions are part of a journey which is really influenced by the mysteries of our existence and how every action, emotion, and our interconnectedness in a universal scale sets of a chain of reactions, which we experience from the micro to the macro scale.
We posted up Archan's work before but he just recently reached out to us with some stunning new pieces. These new digital illustration works range from simple and vibrant animals to unworldly landscapes.
Bizarre Beyond Belief Magazine Issue #20
After a brief digital hiatus to complete some print projects and events, we are back with our glorious 20th issue consisting of an image feature from Stephen Ormandy and interview features from Patch Whisky, Sight One, Hannah Stouffer, Vilx, Fucci and Kwest. Click the link HERE or image below to read!
Walk Bump – Fist Bump to Cross
Art director Alfredo Adan has taken his creative vision to the streets by creating Walk Bump. Walk Bump is essentially a recreated cross walk button that you fist bump before you cross instead of pressing a button. It's only in Los Angeles now as far as we know, but we could definitely give daps before crossing the street up in the 6ix.
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Tuesday, April 12 at 2 pm ET
NASCIO & NIEM Working Together:
Advancing Information Exchange Efforts
Across All Levels of Government
Join NASCIO and NIEM for a discussion on strengthening government through better collaboration and information sharing. Examples of intergovernmental collaborative projects will be shared by state and local government recipients of the Best of NIEM awards.
What is NIEM?
What is NIEM? What should you know about the power of NIEM? As highlighted in NASCIO's 2016 Advocacy Priorities, many, if not all, federal, state, local, tribal and territorial (SLTT) government agencies require some form of information sharing. To address this growing need, the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) is being utilized by all levels of government to advance information sharing efforts and improve the combined performance of agencies and jurisdictional that share information. State government agencies in justice, law enforcement, human services, emergency management and others can reap the benefits of a common framework for information exchange.
NIEM can save organizations time and money by providing consistent, reusable, and repeatable data terms, definitions, and processes. Although NIEM is ten years old, more awareness, education and broader adoption is needed.
Join us on April 12th to learn more about the NIEM Program and ways organizations can leverage NIEM for its information exchange needs. We will also announce the Best of NIEM 2015 winners and share their stories of how NIEM has helped their organizations improve performance, increase efficiencies, and advance their mission.
For more information on NIEM, visit NIEM.gov.
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Heating in Food Processing
The following processes in food processing have scope for integrating solar heating:
Solar Drying
Drying is a part of most food processing industries and currently expensive fuels like electricity or diesel are used for drying. Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) technology can be used in conjunction with the existing drying system to reduce the fuel consumption.
CST systems are versatile and can be integrated with drying systems that use steam or hot water or thermic fluid.
Pressurized Hot Water with Solar
Solar Compound Parabolic Collectors (CPCs) can be used to generate pressurized hot water that can be used for pre-heating Boiler Feed Water (BFW).
Pasteurization uses steam or thermic fluid for generating temperature around 90 Deg C to 150 Deg C using fossil fuel based heating systems. Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) technologies can be used to provide the heat required for pasteurization process without any change to the process.
Solar Pasteurisation in Milk Industry
Solar Boiler
Parabolic Trough Concentrator (PTC), like the one shown below, can be used to generate temperatures up to 350 deg C and can be used as solar boiler. The heat generated from such solar boiler can be used for various food processing needs.
Heat from the PTC field can be provided to the processes using any of the following steps:
- Use thermic fluid in the PTC field and use hot thermic fluid to generate steam in a heat exchanger.
- Steam can then be given to the process directly or can be integrated into a common steam header.
Since the output from solar field will vary depending on the radiation available, it is critical to design appropriate controls for efficient integration of solar and conventional boiler outputs.
Solar Heat can also be stored in an appropriately sized storage system for extending the usage of heat to non-solar hours.
Solar Sludge Drying
Oorja's Solar Sludge Drying solution enhances the drying rate of an open pit sludge drying. Reducing the water content from the sludge significantly reduces the associated hauling and disposal costs.
Oorja's solution integrates its expertise in solar heating, radiant heating and heat pumps to offer a unique solution that can help organisations reduce the drying time of the sludge significantly.
About Oorja Energy Engineering
Oorja Energy Engineering is a complete Cleantech Heating & Cooling solutions company. We offer energy efficient and renewables based products and solutions for industrial and commercial heating and cooling requirements.
Oorja is a Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) approved manufacturer of Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) systems. We can design & implement cleantech heating and cooling solutions for your specific requirements.


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Jonny Greenwood and LCO Soloists: Wapping
"It was live music at its most electrifying."
Jonny Greenwood performed five pieces of new material at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station last night (February 23). Switching between the ondes martenont, tanpura and electric guitar, he played with soloists from the London Contemporary Orchestra. It was live music at its most electrifying.
The programme – Xenakis, Messiaen, Bach, Purcell and a couple of pieces by the young composer Edmund Finnis – augmented and made sense of Greenwood's sonic evolution. The first new piece, Miniature, is sweet, diaphanous and piano-based. Fight With Cudgels, as its name would suggest, is much more muscular and bracing. Microtonal Sketches is a hypnotic and disorientating work made out of notes with intervals less than a semitone. It sounded like some kind of bat ultrasound.
Loop saw Greenwood take up the electric guitar which was, yes, looped and built on, blooming and pulsing. It had more in common with the Radiohead idiom than anything else on the menu. Before Self-Portrait With Seven Fingers began, the audience were directed to a web page with a message saying there were 7×7 chances to chime in with the piece using our mobile devices. Soft, pacific bleeps were released all over the power station like an audio constellation. It was a potent way of bringing the crowd into a mutual experience, common to rock gigs but unusual at traditional classical concerts
The five pieces suggest Greenwood's creativity is at a particularly fertile and interesting point. Though he's only been publishing classical music for a decade or so, I imagine there's a lot more to come. The pieces premiered last night are, in my mind, some of his greatest works.


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Meena W. Shatby, M.D.
Meena W. Shatby, M.D.
Meena W. Shatby, M.D. is a Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon with extensive training in sports medicine and trauma. He is fellowship trained in the management of lower extremities, with focus on knee, foot and ankle and other sports injuries. He attended Clear Lake High School in Houston, TX, then graduated at the top of his class with highest honors, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Texas in Austin with a degree in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, and was selected as an Engineering Scholar.
After nurturing his passion for medicine in Austin, he pursued his medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. There, he was awarded multiple awards including "Outstanding Academic Achievement", and "Outstanding Student in Orthopedic Surgery". He then completed his internship and residency at Baylor College of Medicine, where he developed a special interest in sports, trauma, and reconstructive orthopedics. His interest in gait and ambulation pathology led him to complete a prestigious fellowship in foot and ankle, encompassing sports and knee disorders at Union Memorial Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview in Baltimore, Maryland. Upon completion of his training, he returned to Houston and The Woodlands to practice with passion in Orthopedic Surgery.
In addition to adult and pediatric orthopedics, Dr. Shatby specializes in lower extremity pathology, with emphasis on knees, ankle, and feet. Dr. Shatby utilizes the latest proven methods of non-operative and conservative management. In addition, if surgical management is indicated, then "Proven" and "Minimally Invasive" procedures are utilized. He has authored and co-authored several articles and book chapters with emphasis on clinical studies and evidence based medicine. He believes that education and early prevention are major components of successful treatment. Dr. Shatby has received multiple awards in his practice including "Patient's Choice Award", "Texas Favorite Physician", and "Compassionate Doctor Award". In addition to providing care, he also provides "second opinions" regarding recommendations provided by other medical physicians, and non-physicians including podiatrists, and other "foot specialists". Dr. Shatby is a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, a member of the TMA, Montgomery County Medical Society, and AOFAS. He has served as Vice Chairman of the Orthopedic Surgery and Peer Review Committee and the Medical Board of Managers at Memorial Hermann Hospital in The Woodlands, and a member of the Medical Executive Committee and the Medical Board of Managers at Memorial Hermann Surgery Center Woodlands Parkway. He is also on the medical staff at St. Luke's Community Medical Center of The Woodlands.


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As mentioned earlier, because it's so small, the challenge is even greater to make an impact with such a limited amount of graphic "geography!" Thus, every inch counts, and we'll be pulling every component (both graphics and hardware) out of our bag of tricks to make the table top presentation effective.
1. LARGE GRAPHICS: The last post stated the importance of maximizing the size of the table top providing a larger graphic area. Fewer graphics that are larger produces a bolder statement increasing your chances of capturing the attention of the attendee from the trade show aisle. If ever the phrase "less is more" is true it is defiantly the case when it comes to exhibit graphic presentation. And yes, "size does make a difference" when it comes to graphics!
2. COVER YOUR TABLE WITH A LOGO THROW COVER: Think of the table top display from the floor up as one visual unit. By that I mean the table itself is part of the display! The standard table size is either six or eight foot long, and thirty inches high; Tables are sometimes included with the cost of the booth space along with the cardboard sign and waste paper basket, other shows; the table has to be ordered from the show's decorator. Sometimes, the table is topped with plastic and then a thin plastic or fabric skirt stapled to the edge. And it looks sooooo cheap! Because the show decorator provides the cheap throw-away plastic drape, doesn't mean you are required to use it!
The printed throw cover is another opportunity to brand your booth with company's logo and tag line, and it doesn't cost a lot to take advantage of this graphic presentation area! Think of it this way: There is approximately eighteen to twenty four square feet of "graphic presentation geography" going to waste if you use the decorator's cheap plastic skirt.
3. LIGHT IT UP: "It's just a table top, we don't need lights." Every now and then I hear an excuse for keeping displays in the dark. A few years ago, I recieved a call from a young intern who said, "My boss said we don't exhibit at night, so we will not need the lights." It was all I could do to keep a straight face and laughing out loud! Another excuse: "the lights in the hall are bright enough."
The simple truth is that you went to this event to be seen and to stand out in the crowd of other exhibitors. Be bold and remember that the ambient light of the hall or ball room is same on everyone; no one stands out until their booth is "spotlighted." Nothing is more deflating than to be working a booth and you are dull and dim while the booth on the left and the booth on the right is illuminated and drawing attention as the proverbial "moth to a flame."
Darkness is the absence of light, light attracts, and it's a fact of nature! How important is lighting for a stage or screen production? You are showcasing your message, light it up! Like the Good Book says: "Let your light so shine that others can see your good works…." Matthew 5:16. I know, a table top display was not the message of the Sermon on the Mount, however this verse really says it best.
Like most creative efforts it's not just one "thing" that makes a successful display for your event, it's a combination of a lot of small "things." If you need some help with the details of producing an effective table top display, Shabang! Exhibits, has one of the largest selections of table top displays and accessories to be found. Check out www.shabangexhibits.com or by phone 214-340-2885, they'll be glad to help you with all those "little things" to make your table top display a success.
BTW, if you're exhibiting in Las Vegas, check with ShaBang. There are special rules and restrictions regarding the lighting you'll need to know.
Large and small companies are finding the Shabang Exhibits website a good resource for information in planning a successful trade show. Check out the Trade Show Tips at: http://www.shabangexhibits.com/industry-links/show_tips.asp
ShaBang Exhibits,Inc. Dallas Fort Worth Garland 214-340-2885


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