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There's a chill blowing off the Tuckasegee River. Fog hangs over distant mountains, as if it's the visible exhale of the forest's green lungs. A man gets out of his car and stretches his arms overhead before walking to a Bryson City riverbank, fishing pole in hand.
He approaches a ledge of crushed metal, salvaged automobiles that were stacked along the river in the 1950s and '60s to prevent erosion. It was an experimental recycling practice used on waterways across the country, and Bryson City has what some experts consider to be the best standing example. Along sections of the Tuckasegee, banks are held in place by cars that look like they've been transplanted from a classic drive-in movie theater. Chrome fins and side-view mirrors point downstream. The vehicles have been partially buried, turning the riparian zone into a slice of odd layer cake: jewelweed growing between flattened Fords and river water.
The fisherman steps onto the hood of a rusty sedan and casts his line. Almost immediately, it's taut. With nearly a single motion, he slips a silver trout into the bag slung over his shoulder.
The Tennessee Valley Authority altered the Tuckasegee when it built the dam that created Fontana Lake in the 1940s. Many communities in Swain County were forced to move before the area was flooded — gone were homesteads, schools, and bridges. Hundreds of the displaced moved to Bryson City. For some residents, the river still triggers stories of lost apple orchards and family cemeteries that can no longer be visited.
Bryson City, a town of roughly 1,400 year-round residents, has a long memory.
Dale Collins is watching the fisherman from a boat he purchased last year, soon after he and a partner opened the Tuckaseegee Fly Shop. (This river of many moods may show up with an extra "e" in its name.) Theirs is the first brick-and-mortar fishing outfitter to serve downtown Bryson City in more than a decade. "Fishing is a way of life, part of Appalachian culture," Dale says. Even so, some of their clients are walk-ins who've never untangled a reel or tied a fly. Regardless of experience, he says, "it's always an honor to get people out on the water."
This is where the warring river begins. But where does it end?
He drops anchor and inhales the smell of loamy earth. A mayfly floats above his head, delicate as a dandelion puff. Lulled by the sound of water moving over stone, Dale's quiet thoughts are interrupted by the whistle of a Great Smoky Mountains Railroad train, tracing the river's edge.
The fog is starting to burn off, but Dale isn't sure how long he's been on the river. "Around here," he says, "time flows a little bit differently."
Ashley Hackshaw was leaving Bryson City when she realized she wanted to live there. She was on a plane returning home when the captain of the overbooked flight asked if anyone was headed somewhere they didn't want to go. Many people on the flight, including Ashley, raised their hand. Everyone laughed. But for Ashley, it wasn't a joke. At the time, the Wake Forest University graduate and former investment banker was living in California with a lifestyle many would envy, but at a frantic pace. And in that moment, she knew she didn't want to go back to any of it.
"Thank you, Captain," she wrote in her journal, and later on her blog, Lil Blue Boo.
A series of personal challenges had left Ashley questioning her definition of the American dream. In 2011, she'd unexpectedly lost her father to a heart attack. Soon after, she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that required surgery and rounds of chemotherapy. She'd been stripped to the core, physically and emotionally.
So, where did she want to go? The answer was immediate: Bryson City.
Ashley had visited Bryson City's Hemlock Inn as a child with her family, and she remembered it as a place where her busy father always had time for river explorations. Being in the mountains had fostered a focus on what was important, and Ashley wanted to introduce her young daughter to a place that felt like a refuge from consumerism.
In the months following that fateful plane trip in 2013, Ashley and her family came to a decision: They would move to Bryson City, and she would be the writer-in-residence at the Hemlock Inn. Soon after, she and her husband sold their house and almost everything they owned to move across the country.
The Hackshaws lived at the Hemlock Inn for six months, and in that time, at least 100 guests spent the night there because they'd read Ashley's blog. Horace Kephart, the writer famous for his role in the founding of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, lived in Bryson City, but Ashley is its reigning scribe.
She remembered it as a place where her father always had time for river explorations.
She writes from a ranch-style house, which overlooks downtown from behind the Nantahala Brewing Company. The house is full of found art and thrift-store furniture, and there's a relocated train-depot-turned-chicken-coop in the yard. When she decides it'd be nice to have corn for dinner, she jumps into her refurbished 1982 Chevy — affectionately known as Ruby — and heads toward Darnell Farms' produce stand on the Tuckasegee. She cranks the windows down, since Ruby doesn't have air-conditioning. (Ashley bought the truck because its lack of electronics makes it easier to fix herself.)
Afton Roberts, daughter of the farm's founder, sees Ashley coming and points to a refrigerator. "I got some grape Nehi, because I heard you mention it last time you were in here," she says.
"My favorite!" Ashley says, popping the top off a cold bottle.
Afton points out her brother, who's working a row of tomatoes in a nearby field. "He's in a stage of making his own clothes," she says. "He's out there in a shirt he made last night."
Part of Ashley's success as a blogger comes from DIY projects, and living in Bryson City — where folks still drink medicinal tea made from roots gathered along the river — is like living in the DIY capital of the world. "Good for him," she says. "Not many people are self-sufficient anymore. Except around here."
Locals and visitors have been known to idle whole afternoons at Darnell Farms, lolling in the grass, eating peaches, watching one of the more rugged sections of the Tuckasegee roil. Recently, on a high mountain hike, Ashley felt like she was witness to the river's birth. The scene seemed as magical as Narnia — mist condensing on moss, trickling onto stone, gathering strength. She thought to herself: This is where the warring river begins.
But where does it end?
To find out, Ashley guides Ruby around hills, past an old farm that inspires her to shout above the wind whipping through windows: "I love that house! I love those silos!" A few miles down the road, she brings Ruby to a sudden halt and points to her left, toward the Tuckasegee.
"This," she says solemnly, "is the end of the river."
There, between the river currents and the gathering waters of Fontana Lake, is a swath of stillness just a few feet wide. It's an ending and a beginning, the visible confluence of past, present, and future. If you're brave enough to leap, you can even swim in it.
Ashley has made a career out of noticing things like this and sharing them on her blog. They're atypical tourist attractions that might otherwise be overlooked: A "See Rock City" barn blanketed in kudzu, the Chinese-born ginkgo tree planted downtown in 1940, rusty bottle caps found in Bryson City parking lots and arranged on linen.
They're wondrous in and of themselves. They're wondrous because Ashley gives her readers a chance to linger over moments of unexpected beauty.
She often finds her treasures by happenstance. "I like to wander. When you see someone walking around in the woods or along the river here, they don't ask what you're doing. They just say hello," she says. "In Bryson City, I always feel like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be."
There, between the river currents, is a swath of stillness just a few feet wide.
The Tuckasegee is as omnipresent in Bryson City as the sound of train whistles. But the water isn't always easy to reach. One of the only river-bound stairways downtown is behind Bryson City Outdoors. The store — founded in 2013 by Ashley's husband, Brett, and lifelong local Ben King — offers outdoor gear in a town that doesn't have a Walmart. It's located in a former pawnshop that's been retrofitted into an inviting space with exposed brick and wooden beams. Out front, there are hammocks for lounging.
Ben's grandmother told him stories about family members who'd lost property when the dam was built. The town is haunted by a history that was swallowed by water. But he's noticed a growing interest in what the currents of the Tuckasegee might bring to Bryson City's new generation. "Until recently, the river was an underutilized resource for recreation," Ben says. "I'd like to see this known as a river town, and we're moving in that direction."
Around sundown, Ben and Brett set out for a walk. What good is having your own business if you don't take time to watch the resident blue heron make his evening flight through town? Brett, like Ashley, is a former investment banker, but his new personal motto is: community over commerce. "Money isn't the most important currency here," he says. "The most important currency is time, family, and community. And that's really cool."
Bryson City is a haven for people who, in an increasingly distracted world, yearn to connect.
Scott Mastej, one of the owners of The Everett Hotel — a renovated bank that uses the former vault for wine storage — cracks a door to wave as the two men pass. This once-rustic town has clothing boutiques and — in The Everett Hotel's Cork & Bean Bistro — fine dining. But Brett thinks visitors are also drawn to the town's more subtle attributes. "Go to the coffee shop here and nobody's on their cell phone," he says. "Go to a coffee shop in Charlotte and almost everybody's on their cell phone."
Bryson City is a haven for people who, in an increasingly distracted world, yearn to connect. As Ben and Brett cross a bridge over the Tuckasegee, three of their friends appear below, standing on paddleboards. For a few minutes, there are men leaning over the flowerboxes that line the bridge, and men looking up from the water. It's the Bryson City version of neighbors chatting over a white picket fence. "It used to be rare to see people out on the section of river that runs through town," Ben says. "But not anymore."
Sometimes, Brett thinks about how the vehicles fortifying the town's riverbanks are like the sunken ships that become the framework for new coral reefs. "This is small-town America. You use what you've got," he says. "It doesn't have to be perfect when it's genuine."


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I'm Phyllis Pollema-Cahill. My background is in graphic design and children's book illustration. I was a graphic artist and creative director for fifteen years. I began illustrating full-time for children in December 1995 and have illustrated over seventy children's books. More details about my illustrations are at phylliscahill.com. My degree is in illustration from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.
All my adult life I've enjoyed creating art for advertising or books which are printed on paper. Jewelry is a new and exciting world to me because it's three-dimensional! In addition to offering my original, hand-crafted jewelry for sale, I also offer matted and framed prints of my watercolor illustrations and photographs from my travels.
My husband and I live in the Colorado mountains. When I'm not creating, I like to read, garden, cook and travel. French is my second language et vous pourriez m'écrire ou me téléphoner et on peut parler en français.
My jewelry publishing credits:
June 18, 2018 Polymer Clay Daily
March/April 2018 International Polymer Clay
Feb. 6, 2018 Polymer Clay Daily
Feb. 3, 2018 StudioMojo
Jan/Feb 2018 International Polymer Clay
Nov/Dec 2017 International Polymer Clay
Fall 2017 The Polymer Arts magazine – article on polymer color shifting
July/Aug 2017 International Polymer Clay

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A pair of blue white football shoes, has central lace-ups
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Warranty: 3 months from the date of purchase against manufacturing defects
Warranty provided by Brand Owner / Manufacturer
These durable and fashionable Adidas sports shoes will keep him light on his feet. Team this blue pair with dark denims and a casual shirt when he's attending a sporting event.
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Welcome home…
Here at Dattilo Ristorante Italiano, voted the best Italian restaurant in the Inland Empire, you can enjoy a casual lunch or romantic dinner in a warm, festive atmosphere. Discover a variety of authentic, homemade southern Italian dishes prepared to order in our kitchen, where the Dattilo family works together. We make everything fresh from scratch: the bread, pasta, lasagna, ravioli, manicotti, salad dressings and tomato sauce. In addition to our food, we offer beautiful handmade cakes for all of your occasions!
Mention you saw us on the web and get a 10% Discount.
Gift Certificates are available, an excellent way to show your appreciation.


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If I had a pound for every person that has come up to me and asked "I've got a problem but I can't seem to find a solution – can you help me?" I'd be a very rich man!
In order to help a person with a problem, some questions need to be asked – but where do you start? Here are some tips to help others see the light.
Use a series of questions called the tunneling out technique. It's called tunneling technique because it is designed to help people with their tunnel vision and to help them remove the blinkers from their problem or challenge. Here goes:
Discover the Context – questions about the problem
Q What's the problem here?
Discover the Vision – questions about the desired outcome
Q What do you really want?
Set and Specify Expectations – questions to obtain evidence
Q How will you know when you have achieved what you want?
Investigate Avenues of Help – questions to identify resources that can help
Q What skills, resources, expertise etc do you already have which will help you achieve your outcome?
Options Available – questions to explore what is possible
Q What are your options?
Q What else could you do?
Q How else might you be able to achieve what you want?
This is a really useful technique, providing structure to your conversation – try it out for yourself!


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Though there is rampant speculation, there is absolutely no evidence Iran has a nuclear weapons program, as I've noted ad nauseam. Yet this hasn't stopped the Obama administration from repeatedly claiming Iran is actively pursuing nukes, just another example of Hope and Change morphing into More Of The Same.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, White House Press Secretary again distorted the intelligence about Iran's nuclear program — or more accurately, simply ignored it. And yet again, no reporter called him on it.
Asked whether the White House considers the Iranian president "relevant at all" or whether Obama officials are "more concerned about the relationship with the Supreme Leader," Gibbs offered this garbled response:
I think the — as I've also said in here before, obviously [the Supreme Leader is] the person who is — who has the authority to make decisions over national security and foreign policy and the primary national interests that we hold, as I've talked about, the nuclear weapons program and the support and sponsorship of terror are things that are directly under his purview.
It's a shame mainstream liberal organizations quit caring about the whole U.S.-government-distorting-intelligence thing soon after Bush left office. That said, their silence speaks volumes.


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Not sure how best to warn people but PWCC is knowingly listing a damaged 1989 Bowman Tiffany Griffey card here : https://www.ebay.com/itm/142303805845
I purchased this card last November and there was significant damage to an edge due to the card being loose in the holder. After going through eBay I was finally able to return it but it seems they have relisted it once it rolled of eBay's history.
I emailed them from a different account asking why they relisted it and they stated that it was due to a non paying bidder.
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When in doubt, slash the cost of goods...but can that help Windows 8?
One big component of the cost of PCs nowadays — especially those touchscreen notebooks, ultrabooks, and tablets most likely to play host to Windows 8 — is the fee from Microsoft for the OS license. That number may be declining soon, according to a report from Taiwanese publication DigiTimes entitled "Touchscreen notebooks to enjoy at least a 10% price cut after Windows 8 discount," (note: I had to visit the Google cache to read the report, because the URL on the preceding link returned a 404 error). Their research indicates that touchscreen PC prices could drop by 10% whereas "some entry-level and mainstream models may even drop more than 20%."
Will this be enough to prop up Windows 8's lagging uptake (see Steven J Vaughan-Nichol's excellent analysis in "Five reasons why Windows 8 has failed" on ZDNet)? Perhaps lower prices will encourage some improvements to Windows 8's fortunes, but there's a lot of ground to be made up (Vaughan-Nichol's analysis shows that usage rates for Windows 8 are only just over half of Windows Vista's at best, itself no paragon of marketing acceptance or product excellence).
To me what's interesting about this revelation is that Microsoft is actually willing to reduce OEM licensing costs to add some momentum to Windows 8 purchases. Traditionally, their posture on pricing has been more inflexible, because OEM licensing has been and remains the primary engine for desktop operating system revenues. This testifies to Microsoft's understanding that Windows 8 is in trouble (or at least, "failing to perform to its expectations"). Hopefully, the pricing changes will be enough to breathe more vigor into Windows 8 sales. That should make watching the sales numbers — and the corresponding usage rates (or as Net Applications calls them "market share") over the next half year more than ordinarily interesting.


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This blog is initiated by Hans A.H.C. de Wit, a Dutch living in Istanbul with co-bloggers from Turkey, Greece, the Netherlands, India and the USA. Writing about: politics, cultures, religions, art, daily life, communications, etc. Enjoy! And...At least one post a day!
Friday, September 11, 2009
On Sept. 11, Armenian massacres, butterflies, the caliphate and the EU
A good friend, Orhan Kemal Cengiz, published today his opinion about 9/11, Turkey, Armenia etc.
Orhan is a lawyer and represent the families of the three men, tortured and killed in an attack at a Christian publishing house in April 2007 in Malatya Turkey.
He is a chairman of AI International in Turkey.
Orhan can only 'replace' himself with a bodyguard: 24/7/365
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If Turkey can recover its memory, if Turkey maintains peace with its Muslim identity on the one hand and its long history with Christians on the other, I believe this country will hold the key to the 21st century. Maybe I should write many different articles trying to explain what I am trying to tell you now, but let us view this column as an introduction to this vast area.
While the Ottoman Empire was disintegrating, it wasn't only the Christians who were massacred; the Muslim identity of this country was also denied completely. It appears paradoxical, does it not? This is what makes understanding Turkey so difficult. Christians were massacred to purify Anatolia, to create a nation-state. These massacres were carried out by the very people who tried to modernize Turkey. These "modern" people orchestrated massacres to create a nation-state that is based on a Muslim identity but also, in order to "modernize" society and to create a "modern state," they banned every kind of expression of religious identity in the public sphere and exerted extreme control over every part of religious life. During these massacres, many devoted Muslims disobeyed orders and tried to save non-Muslims, believing this was what their religion ordered them to do.
Today is Sept. 11, the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the twin towers in New York. Today our hearts will be with the innocent Americans whose only mistake was being in those buildings at the time of the attacks. It is not nice to speculate over incidents involving human suffering, incidents that are very tragic. But to prevent them from happening again, we should try to understand what conditions made their occurrence possible.
Read here the article.
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A Dutch-Moroccan man accused of circumcising his 5-year-old daughter with a pair of scissors has been acquitted by a court in the Dutch city of Haarlem. The public prosecutor had demanded a 6-year jail sentence and is appealing the acquittal. The father was sentenced to three months in jail for another offence, having physically abused his daughter by biting and hitting her. He was arrested last year after his daughter had told her foster mother that her father had "cut her with a big pair of scissors". When doctors checked the girl, they found that part of her minor labia and the clitoris were missing.
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Have Your Wedding in the Heart of It All
At The Manhattan Club at Rosie O'Grady's
It doesn't get more centrally located than this. The Manhattan Club at the landmark midtown spot Rosie O'Grady's is steps away from Manhattan's most iconic spots. This wedding venue is sure to create ultimate NYC experience for you and any out-of-town guests you're looking to impress. This catering and event space is close to Central Park, Columbus Circle, and Times Square.
Celebrate any joyful occasion with champagne at Flûte Midtown. Nearby exquisite dinner options abound: Nobu Fifty Seven, Quality Italian, the Russian Tea Room, and the massive sandwiches of Carnegie Deli (perfect for recovering the day after festivities). The Plaza and the Trump International Hotel and Tower are nearby for truly luxurious accommodations.
BTL DJS Provides the Right Experience for Any Event
No matter if you're holding a wedding or a corporate event, let BTL DJS work with you to create the best possible experience at The Manhattan Club. Colorful, freestanding uplighting will complement The Manhattan Club's tasteful, distinctive light fixtures, and your guests will be bathed by flattering light for photos instead of harsh overhead fluorescents. LED light shows and "Dancing in the Clouds" provide a dramatic first dance on the venue's dance floor. Add a photo booth or a monogram to the wall of your party with your name in lights for that personal touch. Check out videos of past events or the great feedback on our Yelp and Wedding Wire pages.
BTL DJS will take care of all your music and entertainment needs, with those extras that make an experience truly special. From ceremony ambiance to lounge furniture ,TV rentals, speakers, microphones, projectors.
A Classic NYC Experience
Your event will be held in either the airy, light-filled Manhattan Club, upstairs, or the famed Broadway Room below. There's space for cocktails, seated dinner, and dancing, but also capable of holding a theater crowd, a conference group, or a class setting.
Frank J. Rego is Director of Catering, runs a "first-class" venue. The food and attention given, by servers and staff, contributes to a fantastic wedding experience. Choose your customized menu weather it's a buffet, sit-down, or passed appetizers, with up to 280 guests.
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Why should you choose Javea as your relocation destination? Is it a good place to live? A lot of people buy properties for sale in Javea from Javea inmobiliarias, and relocate to Spain because of the relative beautiful weather all year round; others choose to relocate to Javea because of the Spanish culture but also because they are confident they will meet other countrymen or Expats living there and they will definitely offer help to other compatriots.
Javea is a town which has a complex mix of Spanish and European culture. The Arenal part of the town is where the British community mix but if you are the person who loves a bit of Spanish integration, the port and old town will without a doubt offer you with the experience you deserve. There are a few inland towns and villages such as Jesus Pobre, Gata, Benitachell just to mention but a few that offer the Spanish life with only a short drive to all comforts of home products.
The town of Javea also offers a wide array of activities ranging from clubs and societies to outdoor activities. For all the sport fanatics, there are football, rugby, tennis and other various tournaments. For those in love with water sports, scuba diving snorkel, windsurf, jet-ski or take a boat for a fishing expedition. In the summer, you can enjoy football and volleyball tournaments on the beach not forgetting the weekly outdoor cinema.
The Arenal beach has bars, clubs and discos that will cater for all who enjoy such hot spots. Restaurants offer their best dishes at around midday where the menus which include a three course and drinks included. The first months of living in Javea or any other foreign country can be daunting especially if you do not speak Spanish, then you are advised to find English speaking friends.
If you have children, there are several privately run English speaking schools that teach the UK curriculum.
Once you have sorted out your living requirements, it's time to sit back and enjoy the beautiful scenery Javea has to offer. One can start a business or be employed in Javea. Six months down the line when you have a job or started your own business, made friends and have a hangout spots, and have kids who probably will be speaking better Spanish than you, you are guaranteed to have a great life. Remember, work hard, play hard and enjoy your stay and retire in Javea haven.


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Do you know a child that has expressed interest in playing ice hockey?
Do you know a child that has expressed interest in playing ice hockey?
Are you curious if your son or daughter would like hockey but you don't want to invest the money is gear unless you know for sure? There is a GREAT opportunity coming up that addresses both scenarios and more. Tri-County Youth Hockey – whose home ice is SUNY Brockport's Tuttle Arena – is offering a "Try Hockey Free Day." Try Hockey with Tri-County will be held on Saturday, September 22nd. Ages 8 and under will take the ice from 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm. Ages 9 and older will follow at 1:45 pm to 3:00 pm. Coaches will be on the ice and all equipment will be provided. You can read more about Tri-County Youth Hockey in an article I wrote about the organization here.
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In the ArgoUML project we were hoping that we will be able to take part in Google Summer of Code 2011. The ArgoUML project has taken part before with great success. ArgoEclipse and the Profile handling are essentially student projects.
Unfortunately, ArgoUML was not a chosen organization for 2011.
Project ideas
Reading an UML 1 model into an UML 2 model
ArgoUML is still based on an UML 1.* model while some work has been done to support the euml backend for UML 2. Moving all the way to euml will make ArgoUML compatible with the whole range of euml-based tools i.e. all Eclipse-based UML tools as well as new Diagram types.
Currently this is implemented using two separate backends for ArgoUML.
To allow the ArgoUML Users to move their old models from UML 1 to UML 2 we need a way to read the old UML 1 models from within the UML 2 model backend preserving all the information (element types are changed, texts, relations, Uids, profile connections are preserved...). There is also a need to dig into the differences between UML 1 and UML 2 and decide how incompatible constructs are to be handled.
The diagram shows a possibility for placing the model conversion function and several options for reading the UML 1 model.
UML 2 Graphics
For the drawing of elements in the model, ArgoUML uses GEF (not the one that was a part of Eclipse but the tigris one (http://gef.tigris.org). GEF and ArgoUML stores the graphics in a non-standard way while UML 2 has a standardized ways of storing the graphics.
This project is to explore what it would take to make ArgoUML and GEF to store and read graphics using the standardized format.
Suggested by: Linus Tolke
The Students we are looking for
We are looking for enthusiastic students with a solid knowledge of Java, who are interested in software development tools and modeling, particularly the UML modeling language. A knowledge of UML is not a requirement but a interest and eagerness to learn is.
The projects we are looking for
This page include a list of suggested projects that the development team has thought of, but we are happy to consider projects which are not listed here. Our bug database (Issuezilla) and previous GSoC projects suggestions could be used as inspiration.
For inspiration you could also look at the lists of previous projects:
Please join the developers' mailing list (dev@argouml) to discuss your project with the team so that you can develop the strongest possible proposal for evaluation.
Quick intro of general information in the project
This wiki contains a lot of information on the design of ArgoUML and how we work in the project.
All discussions about the ArgoUML project, the ideas above, and other ideas, are kept at the developers' mailing list email@example.com that also is available as a discussion forum on this site (at http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewForumSummary.do?dsForumId=450). Join the list on the web site and start your discussions there. Your first posting to the mailing list will be manually approved so be patient (usually within 24 hours).


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In 1983, two very green young guys had a dream. We wanted to open a store that would be the next L. L. Bean or Orvis. So with the help of some wonderful people, we rented a space in Powder Mill Square in Greenville, Delaware. We painted and made crude wooden fixtures and bought other fixtures at auction. With money scraped together from selling shares in our venture and loans from parents, we opened the doors to Country Classics on March 23rd that year.
From very humble beginnings with very little inventory, the store grew slowly but steadily. It soon became the place to buy anything "ducky." Country Classics sold everything from Duckhead khakis to risque ties to barware to shotguns to fishing rods and on and on. After years of being a non-profit organization, the black ink finally flowed around 1988 or so.
The store in Powder Mill could only hold so many chamois shirts embroidered with pheasants, so we began looking for a bigger space. We found it in 1990 at a new shopping center called Glen Eagle Square. With almost 2/3rds more space to fill we found ourselves experiencing deja vu all over again. We had to go back to the well for more financing and make more homemade fixtures. Back to non-profit status again. From a very scattered product line and with some difficult soul-searching, we decided to focus on outdoor clothing. We pledged to be the best outdoor clothing store in the area and changed our name to Trail Creek Outfitters. We were committed to offering exceptional customer service from knowledgeable, friendly staff. We identified the best outdoor clothing companies and stocked our shelves with their products. The quality of our merchandise was paramount in our inventory selection. We did not want anyone to say that they got bad information or bad clothing from Trail Creek Outfitters.
For the most part, we have been successful. However, we strive to constantly improve; always looking for new lines, receiving clinics from our vendors and greeting new customers. This brings us to you: one of the customers that we greeted however long ago. None of this would have been possible without your patronage. We sincerely thank you for 30+ years of support. We hope that we can continue to earn your trust and your business. We look forward to serving your needs for thirty more years and beyond. Thank you for making us not the next L.L. Bean, but the first Trail Creek Outfitters.
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Established in 2007, Honda Centre is Pakistan's largest authorized 3S dealership for Honda Atlas Cars Pakistan Limited, and your destination for a variety of premium workshop services. Located on the Peshawar Road, opposite Race Course Park Rawalpindi, our facility is built on six floors comprising of state-of-the-art workshops and equipment, and is run by the best minds and most capable hands in the country. The Honda Centre experience is designed to be as versatile and memorable as the car you drive away.
Happy Employees create Satisfied Customers.
Make continuous efforts for the best sales and after sales experience at our dealership through investment in latest technology and human resources.
From an exquisite showroom to state-of- the-art workshops, we have it all. We're six floors of the complete Honda experience – an experience that is designed to be as versatile and worth remembering as the car you take away.
Our certified service technicians at Honda Centre Rawalpindi are well-trained to keep
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How To Prepare An Illustration Research Package To Minimise Your Project's Cost?
In the previous articles I attempted to solve the mystery of illustration pricing and to guide you to your perfect illustrator. I have mentioned that one way to minimise your cost when hiring an illustrator is to prepare the necessary research for the illustration project.
In my experience and my friends' experience I find that regardless of our skill level all of us turn to Google before beginning any project. Let's say your project is set in 18th century France. Most people when they think of France would think of Paris with the iconic Eiffel Tower. However, Eiffel Tower did not exist until 1889! What did the Paris of the 18th century look like? What clothing did people wear? Did men and women mingle as we do today? What was the difference between the upper classes and the lower classes—is it just in clothing, or is there a way a servant would stand compared to the master?...
If you have plenty of money and are willing to pay an illustrator to spend a lot of time on research, please feel free to do so. However, if you are pressed for time and cash it is up to you to give your illustrator all the information he/she may need to begin illustrating the project. No one knows your project better than you, so before contacting an illustrator think about how many illustrations your project needs and what kind of visual and written information the illustrator may require. Then do the research and create an Illustration Research Package.
Illustration Research Package
Currently one of my projects is a fantasy novel called Warriors of Virtue. You would think that as the author I know what my own characters and settings look like. Let me see if I could explain why I do not.
The main character lives at Empyreal Castle, crafted by the most skilled dwarfs when her family came to power at the end of the Great War. Resting atop the Empyreal Hill, the castle is a tall red-roofed and white-walled structure. It has four main doors on each of its compass sides: gold to the North, silver to the South, copper to the West, and oak to the East.
Close your eyes and picture this castle.
Do your castle's walls make a square? Does it have a tower on each corner, each one of different height? Are there window corridors connecting the towers and the walls to the central circular throne room with a glass covered dome? Does the castle have outdoor terraces at the Queen's and King's living quarters? Are there walled gardens, kitchen gardens,… What about the stables and the grounds? Can a giant fit comfortably in the rooms?
I think you get my point; there is much more that I see in my head than I have written on the page. There is even more that I do not see, but I know that it should be there. Ardan, the land of the Empyreal Castle, is a fantasy kingdom. There it would not be unusual to encounter giants, dragons, sphinxes, mermaids… I know of these things, but I know little about them; therefore, I have to research. How can all these different peoples live in harmony in a single castle?
Settings are complicated, so for the purpose of this article, let's see how you would create an Illustration Research Package for a single character.
Designing Vert Swiftwing: Illustration Research Package Case Study
Character Description
Vert (vɛʁt) Swiftwing
Lives at Forbidden Mountain
Prince Diamond's Captain of the Guard and best friend
200 years old, but he looks 20
Race: dragon-people
Race Characteristics: extremely handsome/beautiful, look human, but can turn into dragons at will, straight hair, can have any natural skin colour, intensely coloured eyes
Vert can turn into a green dragon at will
Height: 6' 4"
Skin: Caucasian mix, flawless, permanent perfect tan
Body type: dancer
Hair: dark brown (looks black), slight wave (unusual in dragon-people who have straight hair)
Eyes: very green, ranging from light green to the colour of wet leaves
Characteristic feature: big smile that often turns into a grin or an amused smirk
Character traits: friendly, great sense of humour, brave, kind, loyal, generous
Character flaw: impulsive, over confident
Dragon: Green, long body, moves swiftly and as silently as a wind, blends with the tree canopy Parents: Classified
Sexuality: Bisexual
Clothing Reference: Dragon-people do not feel cold or heat as humans do; therefore their clothing tends to be of lighter materials. The cut is similar to what one would see in Medieval Western Europe; tights, puffy-sleeve shirts, tunics with embroidered coat of arms, leather boots, swords, cloaks… As the Captain of the Guard, Vert sometimes wears a light silver-plated vest that can protect his chest from most cuts and thrusts.
Costume colour combination: shades of green and brown, with gold embroidered accents
Photographic Reference
I usually find everything I need by Googling images with descriptive keywords. Two other great sources of images are Pinterest and DeviantArt. If these fail I go to the reference library and museums. Sometimes, I have to purchase books, too.
Even though I have an idea in my head of what the character should look like, until I find the appropriate reference it is just a vague, blurry image in my head. As I am doing this part of the research, I feel like a Casting Director asking myself: "Who would be the best person to play the part?"
Most of the time, I find a combination of images and blend all the people into my one perfect character. That is the beauty of art, we artists do not have to depend on an actual person to play the part.
Sometimes, as I did while searching for Vert, I would come across a photograph of a person that fits the character perfectly. That vague veiled image in my mind suddenly clarified as I looked at the following photograph and I said: "Oh my God that's Vert!"
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From his shaggy hair to the structure of his face the model Stephen Walker is the perfect man to play Vert. The only feature that does not fit are his eyes, but I found them on another man:
These are basic model photographs. As an illustrator I need to know how this character would move. Vert is someone who would fearlessly leap off a balcony and transform into a dragon. He is not human. Elements that influence his life are air, fire, and earth.
The closest humans could come to Vert's moves are male dancers. Therefore, I tried to find some pictures of male dancers to inspire Vert's movement.
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And here are some that should inspire his dragon's shape.
|Body shape fits Vert as a dragon.
|I like the humanity in this dragon's eyes.
Now that we know what Vert would look like and how he would move, it's time to clothe him. Since this is a fantasy novel, costumes do not have to fit reality. I can mix cultures and time-frames and it will still be acceptable as long as there is a reason for me to do so. When I think of the dragon-people they are dressed in costumes resembling those of Middle Ages. So, I Googled "men's costumes Middle Ages" and discovered a costume shop, "Dark Knight Armory".
|I like the shirt, and maybe the vest in this photo.
|I like the material of the sleeves. It almost looks like dragon scales.
Clearly these costumes are not of the quality or materials one would expect in reality, but they give me the shapes and designs to work with. When it comes to costumes and props, not only do I need to know how something looks like, but why it looks as it does. For example, if Vert was to carry a sword, what kind of sword would it be?
In the Royal Ontario Museum there is a room of various armour pieces and each piece had a function. The variety of swords had me taking notes and sketching for hours. There were single hand swords with a short hilt. Double hand sword with a long hilt. The groove down the middle of the sword was not just for decoration, it was to direct blood away from the edges. The swords for cutting are broader, the ones for stabbing have a sharper point. The really long swords that look as if no human should be able to lift them and spears were used to hold the front line and to prevent horses from getting through…
Vert moves swiftly. His costume and props should reflect that aspect of his character. Therefore, for everyday protection, I do not think that he would carry a heavy two-handed sword. He would most likely not even carry a sword on casual strolls, since he can turn himself into a dragon; maybe he would only wear a dagger? However, as a 200 year old man and as the Captain of the Guard he is able to wield any weapon known to man and is not afraid to take up the best to suit his needs.
I may have to do more research depending on which scenes with Vert I'll need to illustrate, but the character description and reference photos provided here are enough for me to start sketching. What you see above is the minimum of information you will need to provide to your illustrator for every single character.
Settings are even more complicated. If your illustrator needs to draw them, even if you want to leave your readers with only the description saying "opulent room", the illustrator will need to know the details: How many doors into the room? Is there a hidden entrance? A terrace or balcony? Is the room panelled or does the stone show through? Wall decorations? Furniture? Where are the windows facing? A light from a North window is different from that of a West window, especially at sunset. You need to provide visual reference and written information for everything!
HOOTs of Wisdom
Illustration Reference Package For Authors
Research.While you are researching for your project, keep in mind that your illustrator will not only need to know how something looks like, but also how it moves and why it exists. As you are writing your own notes, keep a separate file of relevant information that you will share with your illustrator.
List. Less is more. Time is money. There is no need for you to include pages and pages of writing. Point form list is more than enough.
Variety.Include a variety of images from different angles when possible. The best photos for drawing people are the ones when the subjects are seen in a ¾ view. If you can, also include the subject's profile, front, and back.
Organise. Create a main folder for your project, then create sub folders for settings, characters, and props. Within those folders create a separate folder for every individual subject matter. You want to include a copy of the prop a character is using within the character's folder as well as in the general prop folder. If your characters are related, make sure to include a note of their relatives in every description, because these characters will have to look alike.
As always, if you have more questions, please write them in the comments and do not hesitate to contact me on social media.
Mili Fay, a Toronto-based artist, classical animator, illustrator, writer, and singer, is an award winning graduate of Sheridan College and Art Instruction Schools. In November of 2011 she created Mili Fay Art determined to support the world one artwork at a time.
Her latest published work is Animals In My Hair; a story about a boy who goes for his first haircut only to find endangered animals falling out of his hair.
Currently, Mili is working on her first ever illustrated Fantasy novel, Warriors of Virtue, about a reluctant princess who must prevent a war with the dragon-people, while keeping her mission a secret from her over-protective mother.
Currently, Mili is working on her first ever illustrated Fantasy novel, Warriors of Virtue, about a reluctant princess who must prevent a war with the dragon-people, while keeping her mission a secret from her over-protective mother.
Join Mili Fay Art Fan Club to stay in touch with Mili Fay and to be the first to find out of her upcoming books and artworks.
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John Wooden's UCLA Offense
John Wooden's legacy as the best basketball coach of all time results not only from his unparalleled championship-winning record but also from his brilliance as a tactician and teacher. In John Wooden's UCLA Offense, Coach Wooden reconfirms his instructional genius in an unprecedented inside look at the offensive system that made his teams impossible to defend, including many never-before-published play options and insights.
This richly detailed book and DVD presentation features the famous high-post and high-low attacks, many special play options, sideline and under-the-basket in-bound plays, and press-breaking tactics. This package gives you much more than just the standard Xs and Os. You'll gain insights on each facet of offensive play, the fundamentals for success as an individual and team on the offensive end, and the strategic nuances and teaching points that result in consistent, precise execution.
Featuring principles used in today's popular motion and triangle offenses, John Wooden's UCLA Offense is still as potent and unstoppable today as it was during the Bruins' dynasty years. Whether you wish to add only certain options and plays, or want to incorporate the entire package into your offensive arsenal, every facet and step in the process is provided. Score big with this special chance to learn the game from a legend, and see your team's offensive productivity rise to new heights.
Table of Contents
PART I The Foundation
Chapter 1 Origin of the Offense
Chapter 2 Principles for Offensive Success
PART II High-Post Offense
Chapter 3 Guard to Guard to Center
Chapter 4 Guard to Guard to Forward: Outside Cut
Chapter 5 Guard to Guard to Forward: UCLA Cut
PART III High-Low Offense
Chapter 6 High-Low: Guard to High Post
Chapter 7 High-Low: Guard to Wing
PART IV Solutions to Pressure Defense
Chapter 8 Half-Court Pressure Release
Chapter 9 Three-Quarter-Court Press Attack
Chapter 10 Full-Court Press Attack
PART V Special Plays and Options
Chapter 11 Special Half-Court Plays
Chapter 12 Out-of-Bounds Plays
PART VI Techniques, Tactics, and Team Play
Chapter 13 Fundamentals and Drills
Chapter 14 Game Preparation and Adjustments
Chapter 15 Teamwork
As the great teacher he is, Coach Wooden provides not only the "what" but also the "how" and the "why" of UCLA's legendary offensive attack. This book and DVD clearly detail the high post and high-low offenses as well as special plays and concepts that produced 10 NCAA Division I national championship teams.
Pat Summitt
University of Tennessee head coach, first women's coach to reach 800 victories
John Wooden's UCLA Offense is a must for coaches seeking to broaden and deepen their knowledge of the game. This book and DVD provide a special opportunity to learn from two of the game's best teachers.
Pete Newell
Coach of Olympic, NCAA, and NIT championship teams
John Wooden's UCLA Offense is truly much more than a textbook and DVD. Like Einstein and Newton, Coach Wooden was able to take a sophisticated theory and present it in its simplest, most useful form. In that way, his revelations about the components, continuity, flexibility, and creativity of the offense provide coaches with a tool akin to what the wheel and light bulb offered people in previous eras. Coach Wooden and Swen Nater ensure that you'll have everything you'll need to enlighten your offensive attack and get it rolling better than ever!
Bill Walton
Basketball Hall of Fame
John Wooden's UCLA Offense reminds me of just how meticulous the greatest basketball coach of all time was in teaching the game and devising winning tactics. Even more valuable than the detailed Xs and Os are the many insights offered by the coach throughout the book and DVD. Learn from the best to teach and coach your best.
Tom Izzo
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Sara K. Johnson
Daneen Bergland
Pop Culture SINQ
Success and Generation Y Women
Generation Y (Gen Y) consists of the demographic cohort of those individuals born between the early-mid 1980's and the late 1990's. There are an estimated 80 million Gen Y individuals who are beginning to enter the American workforce and they are redefining the true meaning of success ("Gen Y Women In The Workplace"). Gen Y is finally coming into it's own. These next few decades will be managed, owned, and maintained by Generation Y men and women who are taking the work force by storm and are reinventing what is means to be young and successful. In news articles and sociological texts there is a common expression that states "Gen Y doesn't work to live, they live to work". But this reality of ambition and success is hidden, there is a huge disparity between what is happening in the real lives of Gen Y persons and what pop culture is telling us. This disparity is damaging to all Generation Y individuals but most prominently to Gen Y females. Gen Y females are often depicted as incapable of controlling their careers let alone themselves and these inaccuracies should not be perpetuated any further. Generation after generation, women have faced endless obstacles in both work and life to inevitability overcome them, this social liberation cannot come too soon for Gen Y working women.
Gen Y females are fighting against long standing beliefs that they are self-obsessed, uncommitted, and in some extreme cases unemployable. These beliefs contradict the real nature of Gen Y female workers who are quoted to be "defining success in a variety of ways, customizing their own approaches and balancing personal demands with their desire to succeed" ("Gen Y Women In The Workplace"). Unfortunately this reality is being overshadowed by shows that are claiming to be the "voice of our generation" and "socially accurate" that are reinforcing negative stereotypes about Gen Y women. Pop culture is stuck in a rut, falling back upon archaic female archetypes instead of keeping stride with the actual lives of Gen Y women today. The upsurge of female oriented programs such as HBO's Girls or CBS's 2 Broke Girls have claimed to capture the lives of Gen Y women, but that is not the case. These programs use a number of tactics to draw in viewers, spark their intrigue and appeal to their emotion while still insisting that these young women are incapable or success. I am here to challenge that.
Many financial and socioeconomic articles have debated over "What Gen Y women have to offer" and over time there has been a consensus: they have a lot to offer. These women are challenging all norms, Forbes wrote that "75% of women of all ages [say] that they disagree that women should return to their "traditional" place in society and two-thirds of Gen Y women [say] they "completely disagree" with this prospect". This information clearly suggests that the seeds for change are already planted in the female Gen Y populous, which begs the question why are popular culture artifacts denying these ideas. These artifacts are not outright rejecting these progressive ideas, they are simply manipulating them to suit their agendas. These shows boast pro feminist dialogue but outright shame the feminists. They show young women rising up the corporate ladder only to inevitably crash and burn. These shows claim to liberate young women from the pressures of society while they themselves are adding weight to the shackles. These artifacts question the high expectations that Gen Y women have for themselves, especially for their careers. Attached is an infographic from an Accenture survey of Gen Y women. This resource gives a clear snapshot of what Gen Y women are thinking about their careers and their likelihood to succeed.
After reviewing so many pop culture artifacts, I found myself wondering, "What is the appropriate level of expectations for a Gen Y woman to have?" There is no clear definition. Generation Y females are on the cusp of great social change: There is continued feminist growth and economic change. We see that household norms are being broken and young women are putting their interests first. However Gen Y women, as a group, may feel lost or overwhelmed by the enormity of their own expectations. In all reality, this theme is present in most of my Gen Y female counterparts' lives. We want it all while having to fight for it. We expect things that may be unattainable or impractical while working our best to maintain the basics of living through other means, such as temporary remedial jobs. We were never taught what is the appropriate level of expectation for relationships or careers or life for that matter, we were simply taught to want it all. These high expectations are often shown as a weakness for female characters in shows such as Girls where characters like Marnie are struggling to find their own identities and success. The clip below is from the HBO show Girls. It shares a moment between Marnie, a woman who has lost her job and relationships for being too intense about her work and desiring too much, and her airheaded rival Soo Jin who has achieved all Marnie ever wanted by unspecified means. This clip is a perfect example of how these shows like to place their stronger female characters at their lowest. Girls took a strong character like Marnie and in some ways made her out to be a villain. This moment touches on the ideas of success and how it is always out of dedicated Gen Y woman's grasp.
This clip strongly affected me. I related very much to Marnie and her sense of purpose. She is career oriented and wants more out of life than her other Gen Y female counterparts. While she is firm with her principles she has slowly degenerated over the seasons into a whiney and uncooperative character (Settembre). Girls stripped her of her dignity and took one of the gleaming examples of a young and successful woman, and put her at her lowest. I understand that Girls wants to shows that not everyone is perfect and that Gen Y women do have some serious obstacles to overcome but the fact there there is not one single episode that shows a character succeeding and not having to grovel or cheat to earn that success is disheartening. This show exudes an air of young indifference but it touches on some very serious issues that I believe are perpetuated by the constant failure of their characters. Jeanette Setembre from the Daily News noted that in Girls "Hannah (Lena Dunham) is still working at Café Grumpy, Jessa (Jemima Kirke) is mooching off her grandmother for rent and rehab, and Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) is more focused on putting notches on her bedpost than beefing up her resume." I wonder when these characters will develop, if ever?
Many of these characters are being supported by parents or loans and are dependent on these support systems to achieve their goals. In pop culture however, these support systems have a habit of failing at the last moments before a Gen Y female character achieves success. this phenomenon is demonstrated in the clip below. It is an interesting trend that in shows like Girls, at the very last moment before a Gen Y female character achieves her goals, one of the many financial or emotional crutches that carries that character will crumble beneath her.
I have incredibly high expectations for my life while also struggling with self-doubt. After the economic crash of 2008 I felt like a lot of opportunities were taken away from both sexes of Generation Y. Growing up we were told "You can be anything you want to be" and we believed that to be the truth, but when the market crashed and we saw our parents and grandparents lose so much we turned that fear inwards and realized "We can't be anything we want". We had to be practical and complacent to this unseen entity that was the economy. We had to sit with our parents and discuss finances and job outlooks and what was the most practical choice for our future. We were young and confused and we had these lofty dreams that were suddenly marred by fear and doubt. There was no security to our hopes; in fact they were all the more elusive. A recent study found that "In a 1998 survey, 65% of 18- to 34-year-olds working full time or part time said they were extremely or very confident that they could find another job if they lost or left their current job. The share highly confident fell dramatically to 25% in 2009. It has rebounded somewhat since then (to 43% in the current survey) but is still nowhere near the 1998 level." ("Young, Underemployed and Optimistic").
My standards of living remain high but my fears keep stride. It's like the expression "The bigger they are, the harder they fall". Shows like Girls and 2 Broke girls highlight on these fears and use them as hubris for all Gen Y female characters. Doubt and fear, uncertainty and apprehension, however you say it these themes are ultimately what bring down even the most successful pop culture female characters. These weaknesses are what separate the women in pop culture from the men. Gen Y men are frequently attributed as being lazy, while Gen Y women are deemed something even worse: incapable. 2 Broke Girls touches on this idea of Gen Y women failing at even the most basic of jobs. There is a stigma now that Barista culture is taking over Gen Y women's lives and this clip both mocks and reinforces these ideas. While the character Max tries to beat back the reality that she is indeed working for a corporate coffee chain with sarcasm and insults, the truth is she is incapable of performing her job there. This again shows strong Gen Y women at their lowest.
Gen Y women want it all while having to fight for it. We expect things that may be unattainable or impractical while working our hardest to be as successful as we can be. We were never taught what are the appropriate levels of expectation are for relationships or careers or life for that matter, we were simply taught to want it all. There was no goal too high; we were all going to be the first female president. With the slow progression of change within the media for Gen Y women there comes a sense of futility to what Gen Y women are achieving. Gen Y women are an incredibly successful cohort, they have tipped the scales and will continue to reshape the workforce with their inventive and ambitious ideas. How long can these media trends persist? Will the next generation face these same insecurities that pop culture is forcing upon us when in fact it is growing further a further away from the truth? There needs to be a media revolution for Gen Y women, there needs to be change so that credit is given when it is deserved. Gen Y women are one of the most ambitious cohorts to enter the American work force in decades and I am proud to count myself as one of them.
Works Cited
"2012 Women's Research-The Path Forward." 2012 Women's Research. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 May 2014. <http://www.accenture.com/us-en/company/people/women/Pages/insight-womens-research-2012-path-forward.aspx>.
"Pilot- Season 1 Episode 1." Dunham, Lena. Girls. HBO. 15 Apr. 2012. Television.
"Incidentals-Season 3 Episode 8." Dunham, Lena. Girls. HBO. 23 Feb. 2014. Television.
"Gen Y Women In The Workplace." Young Careerist n/a (2011): n. pag. Business & Professional Women's Foundation. Web. 25 May 2014.
Henderson, J.. "Beyond 'Slut' And Shopaholic: What Being A Gen Y Woman Is Really All About." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 6 Mar. 2012. Web. 23 May 2014. <http://www.forbes.com/sites/jmaureenhenderson/2012/03/06/beyond-slut-and-shopaholic-what-being-a-gen-y-woman-is-really-all-about/3/>.
"And the Group Head- Season 3 Episode 4." King, Michael Patrick. 2 Broke Girls. CBS. 14 Oct. 2013. Television.
Settembre, Jeanette. "HBO's hit series 'Girls' is getting backlash for its depiction of New Yorkers as shiftless losers." NY Daily News. Daily News, 10 Jan. 2014. Web. 31 May 2014. <http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/hbo-girls-backlash-article-1.1571491>.
Williams, Ray B. . "Is Gen Y Becoming the New "Lost Generation?"." Wired for Success. Psychology Today, 8 Apr. 2013. Web. 29 May 2014. <http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201304/is-gen-y-becoming-the-new-lost-generation>.
"Young, Underemployed and Optimistic." Pew Research Centers Social Demographic Trends Project RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 May 2014. <http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/02/09/young-underemployed-and-optimistic/>.


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Over the last 30 years Tom Murphy has ventured out into Yellowstone's winterscape to experience the ecosystems harshest of seasons. In part 1 of a series on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, join Tom Murphy as he journeys into the backcountry and communicates his insight into this special time of year. Tom's winter travels have allowed him to connect to this place in a unique and deeply meaningful way. His photographs and his philosophy convincingly argue that we must do all we can to ensure this place and its inhabitants continue to exist well into the future.
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text: Another japanese compilation with the awe-inspiring Crück on it! They are definitely among my favorites when it comes to late eighties thrash bands from Japan: super fast, primitive and catchy with a cool singer! Hell, yeah! Me♀ss are more metallic; one of their songs (Wreck Of Maggot) even sounds so rocking, it could almost have been written by bands like Mustang or Clown. Mad Conflux definitely have the most vicious production on this LP. Their compressed sound makes their thrashing sound even more urgent and ominous. Last are Acid whose songs are the most punky (and who sound almost tame compared to the rest…).


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Bangalore: Microsoft Ventures in India today announced the launch of its two new accelerator programmes while unveiling its Summer 2015 batch. The two new programmes – Accelerator Plus and Scale Up, will focus on helping later stage startups in growing traction.
At the launch, Ravi Narayan, MD, Microsoft Ventures in India along with Samir Kumar, MD, Inventus Capital and Phanindra Sama, Cofounder, Redbus.in unveiled the Summer 2015 batch. The batch comprises of 11 new technology start-ups – AdPushup, Frilp, iReff, DailyRounds, Uninstall, iBot, FortunePay, CustomerXPs, FlamencoTech, WAGmob and UberLabs.
"The startup ecosystem in India has evolved and with that, comes new challenges. A key issue we've identified at the last All India Accelerators & Incubators Meet was that there was little help available for later-stage startups in India. This concurred with similar observations made during the pilot of Accelerator Plus, where we noticed that the 10 later stage startups who went through the pilot program benefitted more from the mentoring and showed better results, faster. This prompted us to bring in new accelerator programmes to help the later stage startups," said Ravi.
The final 11 emerged after several rounds of shortlisting from the original list of 1,400+ applicants. "Two-third of the applicants have been referred by VCs, Angels and organizations like Nasscom and TiE. This shows that they too feel that we are on the right track, and have the resources and expertise to help these startups." Ravi added.
Samir said, "India is witnessing an unprecedented surge in entrepreneurship, as a large number of new companies are launched every day. The angel and seed ecosystem has matured to help them get a good start. However, today, scaling up is the real challenge for an Indian entrepreneur. With Microsoft Ventures' Scale Up & Accelerator Plus programs set to address the requirements of middle to later stage start-ups, we'll see the mature startups propel themselves faster to the next orbit. As an investor, I believe, this is a very important step in the maturing of the start-up ecosystem."
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IHRFG recently held a daylong training on digital security for funders, led by the Tactical Technology Collective. Following the event, we will share reflections from the grantmakers who came together to explore this question. Click here to read more lessons and join the conversation! – Contributed by Isaac Kaijankoski, Manager, Workplace and HR Operations, The Christensen … Continue reading


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With the web community complaining about prices being driven down by inferior competition, perhaps its time to talk publicly about a base rate.
I recently received an email from Eugene, a Boagworld reader. He suggested an excellent topic for our debate podcast season that I would like to explore further.
His suggestion was:
This house proposes that web designers ought to make their rates publicly visible.
What really captured me was Eugene's reason for this suggestion.
I hear some web designers and agencies lamenting about clients gravitating towards cheaper services. They complain that cheap design undermines the true value of what is a very involving profession. However, agencies and freelancers alike shroud their costs in mystery … while at the same time complaining about cheap competitors. How can there be a cheap when there isn't a standard bracket?
He goes on to write:
If low prices are destroying the market, surely educating up and coming designers on what is considered the "norm" in terms of cost and quality can only help the industry as a whole.
It's interesting that Eugene raises this issue, because I have long argued that Headscape should post an average project value and how much we charge per hour, on our website.
We receive a continual stream of email from people who simply cannot afford our services, but have no way of knowing that. Dealing with these enquiries costs both us and the enquirer time. This could easily be dealt with by posting some guide pricing.
Interestingly both Marcus and Chris disagree with me over this issue. They believe that pricing is commercially sensitive and shouldn't be publicly shared.
I have also heard others express concerns that publishing rates and guide prices may drive away potential clients who might have been a good match. After all guide prices and rates are not always a good representation of value. Some companies charge more, but in turn generate a better return for clients.
It's an interesting discussion and I would love to hear your perspective on it. Would you be willing to publish rates if you saw others doing the same? What is holding you back? Do you believe that having a more open conversation about pricing would lead to some industry norms emerging? Would that be a good thing? If you are a client, would you like web designers to be more upfront about their pricing?


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Job Description
Copyeditors basically read the content completely and ensure that they are free of errors. They also make sure the writing is easy to read and fits the publication's editorial style. Some copy editors are employed at magazines, newspapers, and online publications, while other copy editors work on a freelance basis.
Copy editors begin the editing process and attend to both style and language editing. In terms of style, they ensure that the design/layout is followed and that all scientific conventions are handled correctly. They also ensure that references are fixed consistently. In terms of language editing, they read the text and correct gross errors in spelling, punctuation, word choice, grammar, and the like. They also add queries to the author as appropriate.
Each publisher has one's own style guide, which outlines their style preferences and word choice. Copy editors ensure that articles comply with the publisher's style guide. They work closely with writers, suggesting changes to enhance articles' readability, conciseness, and style.
The job demands an eye for detail, patient analysis and reading of the text, good English language skills, and ability to spot mistakes and correct them as appropriate.


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On March 13th the Olympus Tours Foundation, within the framework of the "Camino Compartido" (Shared Path) program, donated clothes, shoes and various household items collected during our fundraising campaign among employees and customers to Manos de Apoyo and Vida.
Manos de Apoyo and Vida ("Hands of support and life"), is an organization, located in the region 236 of Cancun, whose mission is to provide support and services to low income people, through programs and projects that motivate them to realize their potential to develop meaningful and lasting changes in their lives.
"Shared Path" is a program that aims to support, through financial donations and or in kind, to civil society organizations working with children and young people of Cancun living in vulnerable conditions.


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When a company such as Life Time Fitness has good news to share, such as its promising year-end financials, it usually takes advantage of the opportunity to promote its other initiatives as well.
Life Time is certainly not holding back. Today, the Chanhassen, MN-based company announced it is launching its first adult running camp in nearby St. Louis Park, MN, led by Olympic runner Carrie Tollefson. Last week, Life Time turned its attention to kids with a 12-week summer camp offering. Also last week, Life Time announced a partnership with sports and entertainment giant AEG to promote the Amgen Tour of California amateur cycling events.
And don't forget Life Time's annual quest to break the world record for the largest static cycling class. This year's event is March 6 at the Saint Paul River Centre in St. Paul, MN. Last year, Life Time set the record in Minneapolis with 1,052 participants.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
One Stroky's Journey: Beach Benefits
9 comments:
- Glenda said...
I so admire your determination! You are making great progress!
- April 19, 2012 at 9:37 PM
- Ginny Hartzler said...
It looks like this is the perfect place for you to be! And I KNOW you will not only accomplish your goals, but even beyond them!
- April 19, 2012 at 10:19 PM
- Arkansas Patti said...
I am so impressed with your goals but also in your walking buddies who try to expand those goals. Kudos to you both.
- April 20, 2012 at 7:30 AM
- maddie/cadesmimi said...
What a wonderful place to walk and accomplish your goals! I'd love to be there with you :)
- April 20, 2012 at 8:00 AM
- Sandra said...
you are blessed with friends to help and love you and it made me smile to read your story. i like the goals you have set, you are a very determined lady. some would have given up and just stayed in a chair. good job and keep walking. a beautiful spot for it. i have never walked a bridge and here it is a very dangerous thing to do.
- April 20, 2012 at 8:17 AM
I think it is wonderful you have people who are willing to help you. Where would we all be without them?
- April 20, 2012 at 9:15 AM
- photowannabe said...
Little nibbles of tasty challenges...
I love that attitude Linda.
Keep nibbling!
What a great place to walk with the pavement and glorious things to look at as you amble along.
You are an encouregment to all of us.
- April 20, 2012 at 12:58 PM
- photowannabe said...
- April 20, 2012 at 1:00 PM
- schmidleysscribblins,wordpress.com said...
Good for you. How fortunate that you have friends who are assisting in your recovery. I love those flat flat spaces. Miles and miles of horizon. Looks like home to me. Dianne
- April 21, 2012 at 11:30 AM


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Founded in 1970 and enjoyed just as much today. We attract dancers from all over the Central Coast from Patonga to Lake Munmorah.
Easily accessible from both Newcastle and Sydney, dancers from both areas come to our socials and our members attend dances both to the north as well as to the south.
Our Annual Social is held on 4th Saturday of February each year at the East Gosford Progress Hall, Cnr Henry Parry Drive and Wells Street, East Gosford.
For FITNESS, FUN and FRIENDSHIP GOSFORD SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCERS hold a class every week beginning on the last Wednesday in January and ending on the first Wednesday in December.no experience or partner necessary no special clothes – just flat soft shoes lively music
Church of Christ Hall299 Henry Parry DriveWyoming
Wednesday nights7.00pm to 9pm – General class9.30pm to 10pm – Advanced dancing
$7 per night - supper included
Sandra – Phone: 4392 8716 orKathryn – Phone: 4392 7758email: Secretary
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To continue the story about the notification events integration of Oracle BRM, we will present the integration of Oracle BRM with the JBoss 5.0.2GA Enterprise SOA Platform, which is being used as middleware in a mid-sized mobile operator company. Prior to this notification events integration, we had also used JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform to integrate Oracle BRM with some other third party systems (ERP, CRM, WEB and WAP portal, USSD…,) so it was a logical step to implement this notification event integration in the same way.
As mentioned in the previous article, Oracle BRM is capable of publishing events in the database, through http requests or in some other way, by implementing custom connectors. After some investigation and prototyping, we decided that an http requests approach would be the most suitable in our case. We dismissed a database approach because of the very frequent requests to the DB (it was requested that some specific notification events be provided to third party systems in a matter of seconds.) So, we used the ESB functionality of JBoss and exposed the http interface through an http_gateway.
This configuration allows us to handle a huge number of notification events without any performance dropdowns on the Oracle BRM side. All notification events are stored in a queue through the http_gateway and then handled appropriately using a rule engine. With defining rules in the rule engine, events are properly categorized and sent to specified services for further processing and further third party notifying.
One quite complex task was configuring rules for proper event handling. Our approach was to uniquely create messages according to event types, system ids, and other specific parameters. In this way, we were able to define priorities and specific routes for the messages. Also, we had to use several channels for sending notification events to third party systems. As is the case in many other companies, this mobile operator utilizes some legacy systems which do not have interfaces used in most modern systems. Notification events for those legacy systems are routed to special services, which communicate with them in specified way. For other systems, (SMS Gateway, CRM, ERP, WEB and WAP portal…) we used standard communication methods, such as web services and http interfaces.
In the current configuration, we are able to handle several hundred events per second from Oracle BRM to JBoss middleware. However, because all unwanted events have already been removed by the Oracle BRM Payload Generator EM, up to now there have been no such high loads on the production systems. On the other hand, we have noticed performance issues when communicating with some of the third party systems. For example, ERP is very problematic during the processing of payments, and, during this time, there should be no interference from other systems. So, for handling such bottlenecks, we are also using queues for outbound messages. All messages for those systems are put in a queue and sent out at an appropriate rate (in some cases, only one message every 5 seconds).
Such a design allows us to add new notification events or to extend notification event service to another third party system with a very limited number of changes and without affecting currently running services. In most cases, it requires only changes in the configuration files. For example, sending an additional notification event would require a change in the Oracle BRM payloadconfig.xml file and adding a rule for routing this new message in the JBoss Rule engine.
With the successful implementation of this solution in a production environment, we have proved that the integration of Oracle BRM with third party systems is very efficient and reliable, using Oracle BRM EAI on the billing side and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform with ESB on the middleware side.


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They say failing to plan is planning to fail; this is true for most things, including construction. When the decision is made to embark on a commercial construction project, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and stressed. To mitigate these feelings, we find it's helpful to break the planning process up into three broad categories: preliminary, bidding, and scheduling.
The first step of the preliminary planning is to decide what you need and what you want. Once you have made a clear distinction between the two, you can proceed with fine tuning the budget and timeline. Getting these two items right is incredibly important, as they will be the two main parameters your contractor will operate within.
You'll also want to consider methodology in this phase, such as green construction. There are lots of options for how the building is built, and you'll need to have a general idea of your preferred method.
Now that you know what you need, how much you can spend, and when it all needs to be done by, you can start talking with contractors. Look for commercial construction companies who have been around for a while and have a reputation for completing projects on time and on budget. Get a few bids and see if your budget and timeline are realistic or if you need to readjust some of your preliminary planning. To avoid having to make adjustments, it can be helpful to bring in a construction company once preliminary planning has started.
Once you've officially hired a contractor to complete your project, you can start to work with them on scheduling the different phases of your project. There will most likely be a lot of logistics involved in this process, which is why it's important to hire an experienced commercial contractor.
One thing to look for when making this schedule is transparency. A contractor who doesn't let you know what they're doing or when they're doing it isn't a contractor you want to work with. You don't necessarily need to know every detail of what's going on, but you need to have a broad overview what's happening when.


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Contemporary Romance
Gallery Books
August 2, 2013
Drew Evans is a winner. Handsome and arrogant, he makes multimillion dollar business deals and seduces New York's most beautiful women with just a smile. He has loyal friends and an indulgent family. So why has he been shuttered in his apartment for seven days, miserable and depressed?
He'll tell you he has the flu.
But we all know that's not really true.
Katherine Brooks is brilliant, beautiful and ambitious. She refuses to let anything - or anyone - derail her path to success. When Kate is hired as the new associate at Drew's father's investment banking firm, every aspect of the dashing playboy's life is thrown into a tailspin. The professional competition she brings is unnerving, his attraction to her is distracting, his failure to entice her into his bed is exasperating.
Then, just when Drew is on the cusp of having everything he wants, his overblown confidence threatens to ruin it all. Will he be able untangle his feelings of lust and tenderness, frustration and fulfillment? Will he rise to the most important challenge of his life?
Can Drew Evans win at love?
Tangled is not your mother's romance novel. It is an outrageous, passionate, witty narrative about a man who knows a lot about women…just not as much as he thinks he knows. As he tells his story, Drew learns the one thing he never wanted in life, is the only thing he can't live without.
Our Take on It
"Newsflash ladies: We can't read your thoughts and frankly I'm not entirely sure I'd want to. The female mind is a scary place to be."
On the very first page we meet Drew Evans. He is in the restroom of a nightclub and he is receiving "attention" from a busty redhead. He is crass and a disgusting male pig. And I love him. Finally, an honest man. He is hot, wealthy and extremely spoiled. He knows it, embraces it and is not one bit ashamed. He is only interested in women for one night stands. Hell, one hour stands are even better. Women are too complicated for him. He likes things simple in his life and is so used to getting his way that anything more would require too much work.
"Edward Cullen can take his stupid heroine and OD on it. Kate is my personal brand of Viagra"
Enter Kate Brooks. She is smart, beautiful, ambitious and his newest coworker. And she is also totally engaged. Of course this only makes Drew want her more. She is a challenge, but again Drew is so used to getting what he wants that he never even entertains the thought of her being unattainable. Sure she is attracted to him, but she wants to remain professional and faithful. She is also aware of Drew's reputation, and knows that he is only interested in one thing. Their close working environment makes the sexual tension build even faster.
Having a male narrator is pure genius. It is validation to women about the way men think. Drew is completely honest with his thoughts. So much of his thoughts and actions are driven by sex. I laughed out loud at his brazen honesty. To be able to put so much humor and heart into a romance novel was fantastic. And Kate is completely his female counterpart. She sees through his charm and bullshit, and gives it right back to him. Of course this is what eventually makes Drew realize that he wants more from Kate than just an hour of her time.
I loved everything about this book: Drew's honesty, his relationships with his friends and family, his interactions with women, all of it. The fact is that he was just an extremely sexual and spoiled man, and aware of it. He is not broken; no childhood trauma caused him to seek out sex as his medication. He is simply hot and privileged and unashamed. The build up of their relationship was great. Yes, he was immediately attracted to her, but he did not have some innate need to be with her, their relationship grows and evolves.
"Sex doesn't get old. Not if you're doing it right"
Oh and the sex scenes are great! Drew is such a man. Even in his crass moments he makes you want him. You are just wishing that you could be one of his one hour stands. You would be willing to part with your first born to be Kate. The sexual tension and build up between them is unparalleled. By the time these two get together, you already know what he is capable of. Drew is going to ruin Kate in the best possible way. Of course, she ruins him right back. I cannot wait to read more of their story in Twisted!
5 very blazing hot stars and bottle of smooth bourbon! Enjoy!
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Generalizations are harmful, I should know, but the real problem is our species. We're aggressive primates, much more dangerous than gorillas or chimpanzees; we carry cruelty and the will to dominate in our brains, and we get the oldest part of the brain from our reptile ancestors. It's all in Darwin, to our misfortune. I know the theory that's going around, that in the evolution of the species the instinct for cooperation has served us better than the law of survival of the fittest. Except that some primates cooperate to wipe others out. Look how well the Nazis and Communists cooperated, how many millions of dead they left behind. But it's not just them, think of Bosnia, of Rwanda just a while back, only yesterday, a million people murdered in a few months' time, and with machetes and clubs, not the technology the Germans had. Who knows what evil is perpetrated this very moment while you and I are talking?
From: Sepharad, Antonio Muñoz Molina


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there are days I wonder if I've made more mistakes than lived well.
"have I filled my mistake jar too full"? I ask.
Have I lived just outside of wellness to come back and be honorable?
Am I worth Loving?
Am I?
In my rush to run the field,
have I pushed away the last blade of grass
and watched the fishes last sparkling scales under my callused feet?
Is Love mine still to cling or
have the mistakes added up past the level?
What sage can answer me now
I'll quest if you can help me rest.
there is only one answer
either the one I know or the one I won't believe.
I push you away in my longing to be Loved and I am as confused as anyone at strange logic.