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Dear God!
I admire this guy for taking one for the team, but I don't want to imagine the gastaric distress he must have undergone. Not to mention the years he probably took of his life!
Dear God!
I admire this guy for taking one for the team, but I don't want to imagine the gastaric distress he must have undergone. Not to mention the years he probably took of his life!
It seems like that is the case as of late. Angry at things I cannot control. Angry at the state of the world. Angry at the state of my life. Angry that time passes way too quickly with no regards to anyone. Seething anger that sometimes has no reason or rhyme. Maybe it is part of getting older. Less patience, less tolerance. I don't know. I do know that the older I become the more I see the uselessness of most things. The day-to-day minutia at work. It feels so pointless anymore. When I was younger I did my job, tried hard and tried to work my way up. Two lay-offs later and too many articles read about how corporations have people by the short and curlies, I have come to the conclusion that it all just doesn't matter. All of this bullshit we go through, just to get by, it is frustrating. It all feels to meaningless. Shuffle paper, make duplicates, work overtime to impress a boss, it is a waste. This is what life has become and it has become that way because we desire things. I am as guilty of that as anyone. 2000 CDs later and 3 video game consoles can prove that. Life shouldn't be about working until you are too old to enjoy what time we have on this planet. Life should be about learning and exploring the world around us. We should be able to do without these distractions that we have become so dependent on. All we need are the basic necessities to get by, but our economy is so fucking dependent on us consuming things, that it has been forced down our throats that we NEED to have things. We NEED to keep up with everyone else. We have become slaves to gadgets and gizmos that provide only a veneer of necessity. We are sheep when it comes to the latest iPhone or iWhatever. We are led by the Shepard of Consumption. We blindly follow as we sip our lattes and wander through the fields of merchandise and hope that we are not left behind. We are a consumer based economy that has tied itself to the idea that we must work harder, make more money, buy more stuff and repeat. We are now defined by our career and what we own, instead of who we are. That makes me the angriest of all.
On a different tangent, but something that also makes me angry, is this age of political correctness and lack of common sense that plagues this world. People have lost the ability to use their judgment to make decisions. Although I will admit there is a reasoning behind this. Our society has become so litigious that we have to debate on whether to save someone's life if they are drowning, just because they might sue us if they get hurt in the process. We have become a society of "lawyers, guns and money" to quote the late-great Warren Zevon. It is not a good thing. We can't laugh at ourselves or anyone else because they might get their feelings hurt. Get over it. Your culture and my culture and everyone else's culture has done some pretty stupid things. Learn to admit it and laugh at it. One particular thing I want to vent about is the school system in this country. Specifically, their "Zero Tolerance" policies. Kids that are being bullied are being suspended from school for standing up for themselves. Hell I read an article where one kid was suspended just for being bullied. School are so scared of ignorant parents that are sue-crazy that these Zero Tolerance policies are running rampant. They rather not deal with a subject like bullying and just sweep it under the rug by blaming everyone involved and not the little bastards that are doing the actual bullying. I was always told, I better not ever start a fight, but if I am picked on, I damned well better finish it. That is how you deal with a bully, you stand up to one. School districts AND parents need to get together and come up with a better plan that zero tolerance. Common sense needs to be the ruling hand in these cases and not fear of a lawsuit. Also, parents need to get off their asses and do some actual parenting. Teach your kids that you do not need to pick on someone to make yourself feel good. Teach them right and wrong. Don't depend on some TV show to show them morals, do it yourself. Also, punish them if they break these rules. Everyone needs to learn wrong from right in this situation.
I feel if we do not change as a society, we will become working slaves to our corporate masters. We will be so caught up in working and buying that we do not do any actual living. We are becoming colder as a nation. We are being fooled by a corporate sideshow that promises happiness disguised as a home we cannot afford or as a car we don't need. Given the state of the economy and the dim view that the future holds, I don't see any of it changing. We owe it to the next generation to try and start changing the attitude about what life consists of. It shouldn't be a day to day rat race that never ends, but it should be something that is fun and that brings us together as a people. We do not need to be shackled by our work just to try and makes ends meet. We need to stand up for the things we believe in and make things better for future generations. Maybe this is just crazy hippy talk left over from a by gone age. I just believe we were not put on the world to work 40-60 hours a week just to be able to buy a new car and take a crappy vacation now and then and to make some shareholders richer. We have a purpose, we just need to be able to live within our means and be able to work towards that purpose. We need to use the common sense we have and try and work towards that change.
Thanks for reading,
For the record, I was the one that named this endeavour. (Actually, what I suggested was "Mid-Life Crisis Action Committee", but Rando suggested we shorten it to our current moniker.) I came up with it mainly as a joke; we were, after all, three friends in our early 40's who decided to take a stab at podcasting. All of us were regular guys (as much as anyone can be called "regular" anyway). We were all married, all working 40 hour days, and we were all getting older. Starting a podcast seemed like a mid-life crisis to me!
A rather turblent year kater and and I'm looking at things differently.
Soon after we got this podcast/blog going, I lost my job. It was a job I didn't like and was glad to see the back side of, but losing it stung nonetheless. Less than six months prior, I'd gotten a large and long overdue raise. To say I was not expecting to be out work before that same year was out was an understatement.
So, there I was. Forty-two years old and sitting at home all day, drawing unemployment, trying to dwell on the list of trips and purchases I'd planned to make that were now postponed indefinitely, and marveling at just how much cats sleep during the day. My main occupation was trying not to go stir crazy while looking for work in a tight job market. Eventually, I was offered a job I really didn't want. I took it anyway, cause it was tired of making my wife pay for everything. It was a job and I took it despite my reservations.
I lasted one day and never went back.
Soon afterward, I lost my unemployment benefits due to changes in my state's regulations. After a very nervous week of hunting for something, anyway, I found a part-time gig at the local movie theater. My first job at age 18 was in my hometown's theater. Now, twenty-four years later, here I was again. I tried hard not to let my siuation get me down. Other folks were a lot worse off than I was.
Finally, a month or so ago, I landed a full time job once again. It's nice to have that load off my back and to finally be able to plan for the future, but now a lot of the angst I felt before losing my last job is starting to return. Once again, I'm stuck in the rut of the workaday world and while I wouldn't trade my current job for the theater, I do need to find a way to not feel stuck anymore
Which leads me to the question I asked in the title of this post: what exactly constitutes a mid-life crisis? We all know the stereotype of the middle-aged American man who goes a little nuts after turning 40: he buys a converitible sports car, leaves his wife, gets a young girlfriend, and generally tries to act like he's 25 again. I don't want any of that, though! I've no interest in a flashy car, been married for 16 years and don't see myself changing that voluntarily, and I have absolutely no desire to be 25 again! But, I am getting to a point where I don't want things to continue as they are. I spent the majority of the last year in a state of flux. Looking back, I've come to believe I don't really know any other way to live. I'm getting to a point where I want things to slow down and start living a quieter, simpler life. Would thank count as a "crisis" or am I get just maturing? Is there even a difference? I wish I knew…
Sometimes when a member of a very successful group releases a solo album, it runs the risk of being proportionally as good or proportionally as bad as the group's work. This is not the case with White City: A Novel by Pete Townshend. It is a surprisingly solid record all the way through. With this album, Townshend gives us a glimpse of life in an area of London where he had grown up. All the songs are sung by Townshend and he provides a couple of high spots with "Brilliant Blues" and "Hiding Out". I believe the only song that got any radio play during its release was "Face The Face". This is one of those you either hate it or love it songs. The song is catchy in an embarrassing kind of way, but as far as serious writing, it is a throwaway song. There is also a corresponding film that was released with this. I have never seen it, but I would be interested in watching it.
This album can be labeled with the dreaded moniker of "concept album". I know that phrase makes some cringe, but don't be worried. If you are looking for a solid rock album with some catchy tunes and some really good music, this is the album for you. The songs can stand on their own and there is no comparison to the music of The Who. Townshend was always the driving force behind the lyrics anyway and he shows on this album that he hasn't lost his touch. It is an older Townshend reflecting on his past. There might not be an anthem like "Won't get Fooled Again" on this, but there doesn't need to be. It is a really good album from an artist, who at the time, was starting to change his direction of songwriting. Give it a chance and I am sure you will find it is worth a listen.
Thanks for reading,
Maybe I am feeling sentimental today or maybe it is the thoughts of Spring slowly creeping its way in that's got me thinking of the past. The change of the seasons has always made me a bit moody and this year is no exception. I don't want to go into this diatribe on how better things were when I was younger. I have never subscribed to that. I saw enough of that attitude with my father and it really annoyed me. His life was a series of clips from the past that made him feel old and unwanted. The actual truth of the matter was that he hated being old and he would rather live in the days gone by than in the present. It was hard on everyone around me. I don't want to be that person. I don't think I am. It makes no sense to mourn the past at the cost of your present. You get nowhere with that attitude.
All that being said, I do long for a few things. I do long for the free time I had as a kid and teenager. I do miss my imagination. It was my best friend as a kid. We have long since parted ways and the thought of that does make me a little sad. I miss my mom. We were just getting to know each other when she died. I don't mean in a sense that she was missing in my life, just that I was finally out-growing that obnoxious high school demeanor and trying to find my way and appreciating my family. We were talking and caring about each other as adults. She was taken way too soon. I miss that innocence of a child. It is hard for me not to look at things with Cynic-colored glasses anymore. I do miss when all of my friends stood as one. Time and attitude has changed that and the less said about that part the better. I know who my close friends really are and I am grateful for them.
I don't want this to turn into this sad, "I hate my life" type of rant. I don't hate my life. I am in a rut at the moment, but I am better off in a lot of ways than I was as a kid. I am not this emotional train wreck that limps along feeling sorry for himself. I just would like for me to have more control over me. Time and age may change your body, but it shouldn't change your attitude. I might be growing older, but I am not growing up and I personally like it that way. I just find it harder to recapture that feeling of youth, but it is out there, just waiting for me to slip it on like an old favorite sweater. The sweater might be worn and faded because of time, but it does keep you just as warm and makes you feel as good as it always has. The thing is, you have to hunt a little harder in the closet to find it.
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At our session on 24th June, we were celebrating Refugee Week. This year was the 20th anniversary and to mark the occasion people were invited to take part by doing one of their 20 Simple Acts.
We chose to write some poems to express our feelings which resulted in some heartfelt, beautiful poems from the group. Read them below!
We all come from the same mother, earth as womb.
Nobody is a stranger. Come in.
Welcome, this is home.
Don't refuse a refugee.
They have their own feelings.
Refugees no choice, can be more choice.
With the pain you can gain a new future.
Who I am
I am a person who was forced to leave my county.
My family, my pretty house, my lovely friends, my memories behind.
I am a traveller, I came by plane, boat, sea.
I welcome!
I am hungry, tired, ill, frightened.
I know my way!
I can't sleep, I am restless.
I long for my family, memories and my country.
I believe that my dreams come true.
Do you know who I am?
I am a refugee!
If we can look in to our souls deeply, we can live free and peaceful together feeling powerful.
If we look in to our souls deeply, we can see a universe where we live together peacefully.
Knowing happiness gave me freedom to have confidence.
Made me feel free from fear.
I feel at peace.
I can make friends, travel and speak my own language.
I can have my own home and create love in it.
I have no fear to practice my religion.
My children will grow up to have a good job and education.

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The sub £100 drone market is currently flooded with inexpensive toy-grade quadcopters. Whilst models such as the Tiny Whoop offer quality, compact and responsive models, they do have a steep learning curve for complete amateurs.
Thankfully Ryze Robotics have teamed up with heavyweights DJI and Intel to offer as complete a drone as we have seen on a budget. The Tello promises a combination of high-tech flight autonomy (as seen on DJI's expensive prosumer drones) and a robust airframe, all controlled from a well-executed smartphone app. We unbox the new drone, have a closer look at it before taking it for a test flight.
What is the Tello?
Ryze's Tello is a small (10cm² without guards), lightweight (80g) quadcopter that you fly via wifi with your smartphone. It can fly for up to 13 minutes with a max speed of 8m/s and maximum range of 100m. Its onboard camera provides an electronically-stabilised, real-time video feed to your device and is capable of capturing 5MP stills and HD video at 30fps. Its advanced flight controller and propeller guards allows novice pilots to fly indoors or out with confidence.
Tello at a glance
- 13 minutes flight time from the 1100mAh 3.8v battery
- 17.2mph / 28.8kph max speed
- 100m image transmission distance
- 720p HD video transmission from a 5MP onboard camera
- Twin antenna, smart switching WiFi link
- Lightweight 87g including battery and propeller guards
- Advanced Intel chipset powered by DJI algorithms
- Auto takeoff/landing, and palm landing thanks to its vision position system
- Low battery and failsafe protection
- User swappable body 'lids' available in white, yellow and blue
Ryze Tello Unboxing
The packaging prominently features the drone, windowed in a clear plastic tray making it clear which colour you have ordered.
In the box
- Aircraft with Propellers and propeller guards already fitted
- Spare propellers (two pairs)
- Flight battery
- Propeller removal tool
- Quick start guide
Its worth noting that the Tello frustratingly does not include a Micro USB cable which is required to charge the unit.
The drone comes constructed, with the propellers and propeller guides attached. Tello's battery is separately packaged in the base of the box alongside the spare full set of propellers and the propeller removal tool.
As per the packaging, further accessories are available in the form of a battery charging hub and replacement shells.
Getting to know the drone
The Tello is a lightweight intelligently-stabilised quadcopter. It arrives with the battery only partially charged and separately packaged. Before your first flight we advise you fully charge your battery.
To get started, insert the battery (with the tab facing upwards) and slide it in from the rear of the craft.
The Tello is charged via the micro USB port on the port side of the craft as shown below.
On the front of the craft, to the right of the camera is the aircraft status indicator LED.
On the opposite side to the USB port is the power button. To turn the craft on just press firmly once and repeat this to turn the craft off again.
On the underside of the drone are the vision position sensors, sat behind the airvents like two big black glossy eyes.
How to charge your Tello
To charge the drone, ensure it is powered off. Insert a Micro USB cable into the side of the craft and attach it to a USB connector on your laptop/computer/television/powerbank or any USB adapter that is rated at 5v and 1.5Amp or above.
If completely 'flat' the drone can take up to 90 minutes to charge, although in practice we rarely noticed it taking even an hour. The LED on the front of the craft will slowly blink-blue and will switch to a solid blue light when fully charged. The drone cannot be powered up whilst charging.
Long charge times are common with USB power, thus we recommend purchasing at least one extra battery and charging before you head out. The standard lightweight 1100 mAh units are available for £19.
At time of press the battery charging hub is not currently available, but check our webstore for updates.
Connecting your Smartphone
The vast majority of pilots will be operating the drone via the smartphone app.
- Install the app. It is available from the iTunes store here and the Google Play store here.
- Press the power button once to turn on the aircraft (pressing it again will turn it off).
- Go to the wifi network selection screen on your device and connect to the Tello-XXXXXX network.
- Launch the Tello app. When the connection is established the light on the front of the drone will blink yellow slowly and you will get the live video feed on your smart device.
Tip: If you having issues connecting and getting past this screen, try placing your smartphone into airplane mode before activating wifi and connecting to the Tello network.
When you first load the app, it will run you through a simple tutorial demonstrating the 'mode 2' layout controls, introducing the telemetry data at the top, takeoff/land and settings controls, camera operation/playback controls before explaining the flight modes as follows.
Flying with your Smartphone
We were impressed with the responsiveness of the Tello. There will always be some lag in both the control and video feeds when relying on a wifi connection, but the flight-controller input smoothing isn't as bad as its competitors.
Its 'slide to takeoff' mode is pretty foolproof and the craft doesn't climb so high that it would hit the ceiling indoors.
Slow mode is fine for beginners or use indoors but when you switch to 'fast' mode it really opens up the performance of the drone; Fast banked circuits are easily possible even with the touchscreen controls.
The connection range was solid out in the park but dropped down when used in the interference-heavy office, but never to a level that made the craft unusable in any room. Should the wifi signal weaken, a popup will remind you to fly closer to your mobile device.
Tello is pretty powerful climbing steadily, but note that it has an artificial 10m 'altitude ceiling' from its takeoff location.
What really impressed was the accuracy of the vision positioning system. With the drone hovering you could physically push it away from you (by the prop guards) only for it to return to pretty much exactly where it was! When you consider this was calculated from IMU differential information and vision data instead of any GPS/GLONASS positioning, it is all the more impressive!
Fantastic Flight Modes
The advanced onboard flight controller is the real magic behind the Tello, allowing a complete novice to fly the drone in safety. You can access the flight modes via the quadcopter icon on the top left of the screen, it will present you with the following:
- Throw and go : Starting this mode will enable you to throw the drone into the air and have it recover and hover.
- Bounce : The drone will fly up and down from any surface automatically like a bouncing ball
- 360 : Records a 360° video as the craft spins in place
- Circle : Does the opposite, recording a video whilst flying in a relatively tight circle looking inward
- Flips : Flick your finger inside a marked box onscreen to have the drone flip in that direction
The flips are probably the most exciting mode for the drone. It can flip in any direction and re-stabilise itself automatically. Note that the craft will not perform flips if the remaining battery life is below 50%.
In standard usage the craft is set to 'slow' mode. To enable 'fast' mode, press the cog to the right of the flight modes button and toggle the flight speed slider. When engaged the onscreen sticks will have a light blue line around them and the speed indicator will be prefixed with blue FAST text as shown below.
The settings menu also has options for units, joystick mode, exposure adjustment and others in the 'more' sub-menu.
When the battery gets critically low the drone will auto land onto whatever is currently underneath it. A box will popup onscreen to warn the pilot that the cell is low on juice before this kicks in and that level is adjustable as shown above.
Once in the air the takeoff button becomes a 'landing' button offering you the option to land on a surface or land in your hand.
Selecting hand-landing will begin a 5 second countdown (onscreen), during which you need to place your hand under the craft. Once the object below the craft has been detected it will slowly lower itself down onto your hand and cut the motor power.
Tello image and video quality
As seen below, the Tello isn't going to win any awards with its camera and it designed for entertainment or fun purposes with kids or the family; As apposed to any sort of professional work.
One great feature it does have is the 'headset' mode where videos can be replayed on the device split (into an image for each eye) in a format for use in inexpensive headsets such as Google VR Cardboard.
Tello Device Compatability
In terms of Apple devices, the Tello requires iOS 9.0 or later. It is compatible with iPhone 5s, iPhone SE, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPad mini 4 and iPad mini 4 Wi-Fi + Cellular.
When it comes to Android OS, it is compatible with version 4.4.0 and later. This includes but is not limited to the Samsung S7, S6 edge, S5, Galaxy note 3 & 4,Huawei Honor 8 & 9,Huawei P8 Max P9 & P10, Huawei nova2,Xiaomi 6,Xiaomi Note3,Redmi 4A,OnePlus5,vivoX6,Google Pixel1 XL,Google Pixel2 and more.
Fly with a gamepad
The Tello app allows certain bluetooth or wired controllers to be used with your smartphone and drone. We tested ours with the iPhone gamevice which you learn more about here. Flying with hardware analogue inputs, really increases the level of control you have over the drone and as such is highly recommended.
When flown with a controller the onscreen touch 'sticks' are removed, allowing for a better view of the video feed.
The upcoming GameSir T1D is another alternative. Its a fantastic controller with a d-pad, traditional analogue sticks and more that connects to your smartphone via bluetooth, whilst cradling the device itself. You will recognise it if you have seen the official Ryze Tello launch video.
Removing and Fitting the Tello Propellers
Ensure the drone is powered down before touching the propellers! We recommend removing the battery to ensure safety.
Slide the supplied tool underneath the base of the propeller, resting ontop of the motor. Push the far end of the tool down to level the propellers up and off.
Take note of which props go on which motors! Its essential that the correct propellers are installed on the correct motors as incorrect fitment will prevent the drone from flying. If you find the drone flips on takeoff this is likely your issue. Two of the props have marks on the blades by the spindle and these should be fitted to the motors on legs with the matching markings.
As stated you get a full set of propellers, but if you bend or break a prop during a crash you can buy another full set for just £4.
Removing the Tello prop guards
To remove the prop guards pinch across the motors to the inner connecting beam using your forefinger and thumb as pictured below. Gently twist the lip away from the landing gear/motor.
We weighed them at 10g in total, a reasonable percentage of the total takeoff weight. Removing them has the potential of extending the flight time, if only very marginally.
Refitting the prop guards is simple, just line up the notch on the landing gear and snap them on. If you have (some absolutely savage) accident and manage to break your prop guards, replacements (sold as a complete set of four) are available for a very reasonable £5.
Removing and replacing the Tello top-cover or shell
Ryze have smartly offered customers optional snap-on top covers. These are available in white (As default) yellow and blue and cost just £8. Beyond just swapping over to a new colour, this gives owners the option to customise their drone by colouring in, painting, or wrapping this lid.
To remove the lid, simply grip the shell between the front arms and gently twist; It will release the front body clips above the camera. Work the shell upwards and away from the craft to release the rear clips.
Refitting is simple, just ensure the grey shell mounting rods that stick up into the lid are correctly aligned and lightly press down to re-seat the clips.
Taking a look inside : Tello Teardown
A 'single board' drone, we felt the Tello didn't warrant a full teardown blog, but we did take it partially apart just to see what was inside.As stated the lid requires no tools to remove, but the lower body cover is affixed with four crosshead screws.
The camera bracket is held in with a further two crosshead screws to the frame. It attaches to the mainboard via a push-connector that is secured in place with glue.
The mainboard cover can be removed from inside the frame revealing the rear of the circuit board. We also released teh motor wiring from the guide channels to demonstrate the wiring to the onboard speed controllers.
Getting technical
Tello is programmable with Scratch, a language developed at MIT to nurture coding skills in novice programmers. Its accessible for teens and even kids, introducing them to the basics with a simple block based visual programming language.
Ryze Tello : In Conclusion
In conclusion, we are big fans of the Ryze Tello.
We Like
- Quality, resilient, reliable drone.
- Highly capable yet flexible with beginner/indoor low speed mode.
- Simple, safe and reliable to operate. This one of the most user-friendly budget drones we've experienced.
- Personalisation, thanks to the user-removable lid
We're not fond of
- Electronic image stabilisation. Its limited, especially if there is any mild turbulence from an open window or flying outside.
- Lack of included hardware controls. Buying a game controller from Gamesir or Gamevice really unlocks the flight potential.
- Slow charging. As with any drone you are going to want to buy 3 or more extra batteries.
- Not suited for flying outdoors in any sort of breeze.
If we are honest, the majority of our complaints are nullified by the low purchase price. Yes you can go and buy a cheaper drone that has prop guards and flies via wifi; but the application experience is more-often-than-not terrible, the flight characteristics clumsy and the video feed is completely unusable.
At this price-point the Tello really is difficult to beat whilst maintaining such a slick end user experience.
Should I buy the Ryze Tello?
Looking for a starter drone for a teenager? Look no further! The Tello can teach the basics of quadcopter flight control with the safety net of prop-guards, intelligent autopilot in an inexpensive package. Expand the package with a hardware controller (the likes of gamevice or gamesir) and you have a quality quad-copter experience for a relatively small outlay.
Further to this, Tello is a fantastic gift for anyone casually interested in a drone. Its fantastic accessibility means that it has become our go-to recommendation for anyone looking for a drone-related gift.
You can pick up the Ryze Tello on our webstore here, and the accessories will be available shortly here.


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I went to Olive Garden for the first time ever because this guy that I know through this guy that I know through Debbie invited like forty people there for his birthday. "I'm inviting more people this year," he said. "I just don't want to go over a thousand, but last year it only came to about three-sixty."
When he wasn't around I asked someone, "How -?"
"His family owns oil fields back east," they explained.
There's something beautiful about a rich person with a heart of gold. Money can be such a corrupting influence and it's beautiful to see someone who resists that and shows that having a lot of it doesn't make you a bad person. Think Mitt Romney versus Donald Trump. I hope to be like this when I become successful as well. Anyway, I went to this thing with Debbie and she wore the necklace I gave her, and another girl complimented it, and that put to rest my worries that it wasn't something she would actually want to wear. Going with her seemed appropriate because the host thought, maybe still thinks, that we're dating, which is immensely flattering to one of us. She told him that we're not but he didn't believe her. So I guess he thinks that we're dating but that she's embarrassed about it. So we all went and filled up three tables and the manager came out and talked to us and said, "I assume this will be separate checks?"
And the birthday man said, "Nah, just one." It was awesome.
Then I went wandering at an activity and when I returned John was there and he asked, "Do you wander like me?" And then he started talking about "my disability". Of course, I already knew what it was and that it's the same thing I have, and I don't think of it as a disability, but that has nothing to do with positive attitude and everything with pride. So this word choice threw me for a loop but I immediately realized that of course something that impairs virtually every facet of my life qualifies as a disability. People who call it just a "difference", though well-meaning, are deluding themselves. Of course it has a few advantages. The two that I can think of are that it enables me to look down on most of humanity for the stupid and arbitrary societal crap that they follow, and that it gives me a unique writing voice. Being blind often gives one greater hearing, too, but that doesn't make it not a disability.
Sometimes I almost forget how hellish it can be until I hear or read someone else describe it. John talked about how he has no friends and no one who understands. I asked if he had any luck at dating, since I've heard rumors that some Aspies aren't forever alone and was curious whether he had discovered the secret. He's only been on one date and that was with a girl who asked him out first. "I don't think I'm ready for girls," he said. And I knew then that he was far wiser than I, because I had to learn that the hard way. Anyway, seeing him so vulnerable and stuff, I repented of having thought he was annoying. I decided to invite him to hang out with Debbie and her ilk after institute, because I knew that if anyone could help him, they could. I was like a shriveled, wilted flower before Debbie poured the sunshine and water and fertilizer of platonic love on me so that I could bloom in full splendor. She noticed my redeeming quality and brought it to the forefront.
So I invited him and promised that he would fit in and be treated like a person. I didn't mention his situation to anyone, not wanting to give them any preconceived notions before they met him. And I hoped that I hadn't made a terrible mistake. What if they let me down? What if he was different, and they would treat me that way but not him? Not that I thought they would be mean, of course, but I just worried that they would be less enthusiastically inclusive than I had promised. It did get off to a rough start when he asked Debbie a question and she didn't answer because she didn't hear him. My heart was stung on his behalf. Been there, done that. It shouldn't feel personal but it does. After all was said and done, though, he said maybe I could understand how much it had meant to him, that he had felt like he fit in better than for the longest time, and that he wanted to try again sometime. That was convenient because after he left but before I left, Debbie's friend who I really should get around to giving a pseudonym by now since he's my friend too, and shall therefore take to calling "Greg", asked me to see if he wanted to come next time.
I feel like I should have been doing things like this more often throughout my whole life, but I've typically been the one in need of support just to get by, and not in much of a position to extend it to anyone else. It's a nice change. Actually, most of my emotions are kind of dead at this point - foul play is suspected - so I didn't really feel much sorrow for him or much warm fuzziness after helping him out. I just did it because intellectually I knew it was right. I guess that makes it as purely selfless as a person can get, and there better be some huge blessings in store for me. Just kidding. Totally kidding.
The Mormon Section
I was astonished that someone was saying so exactly what I had thought for a long time. I assumed there was just something wrong with me for not getting this concept that other Mormons apparently consider so obvious they never bother to explain it.
She continued, "Then I took this institute class called 'Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel' and I finally understood."
So, based solely on that recommendation, I took the class. It's one of the new required classes for graduation but I didn't have to take it since I started the program before that. In fact I'm pretty sure I met the graduation requirements three years ago and just keep forgetting to do the paperwork. Anyway, this class fully lived up to my hopes. It ended last week and I found that not only was my Savior more real and tangible and personal to me than ever before, but I had regained a testimony of God's love overall, which I lost a long time ago and thought was gone forever. I couldn't honestly be more than an agnostic on that point, notwithstanding how crucial it is to the framework of everything. Anyway, it would be impossible to encapsulate everything covered in the class or convey the same feelings in this little space, so I'll just say that everyone who has the opportunity needs to take it.


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Rackspace's cloud future in question
IT shops that rely on Rackspace cloud wonder what will come of the company, which is actively seeking new partnerships or a sale.
After years of industry consolidation, one of the last major independent cloud providers in the U.S. may follow suit. But it remains unclear just who has the resources and the need to acquire it.
Cloud and managed hosting provider Rackspace Inc. has been approached by multiple parties interested in either partnering with or acquiring it, the company said in a statement filed last week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Morgan Stanley has been hired to evaluate these proposals and other options.
The sale of Rackspace would be the culmination of years of cloud providers being swallowed up by other vendors, according to Carl Brooks, analyst with 451 Research based in Boston."You see this sort of stuff marching up the chain to where these things provide additional value, and Rackspace hasn't been a part of that until now, possibly," Brooks said. "It marks kind of an apex of consolidation in the servers- and storage-as-a-service market."
The news is concerning for Rackspace cloud users, but not that surprising, said Aaron Rankin, CTO of Sprout Social, a social media management startup based in Chicago.
Robert MahowaldIDC analyst
Rackspace has always trailed Amazon Web Services (AWS) in acceleration and overall cloud product development, and now it has added competition from Google's cloud services.
"It' just feels like Rackspace doesn't have it in their DNA to be a good product company in that sense," said Rankin, who runs most of Sprout Social's business on Rackspace.
Sprout Social has used Rackspace for a number of years, and inertia has kept the company from another vendor. Rankin said his willingness to continue with Rackspace will depend on what type of deal the company makes.
"If [Rackspace] is compromised or in jeopardy in any way, that's a big problem for us," he said.
Rackspace's successes, challenges
For years, Rackspace straddled the line between managed hosting and on-demand, hands-off automation, and it wasn't until last year that Rackspace had a fully integrated infrastructure platform up and running that matched the growth potential of AWS, Brooks said.
The company remains profitable, but it's had its share of struggles recently. CEO Lanham Napier retired suddenly in February following a year of slowing sales. And after peaking at more than $78 per share in January2013, the company's stock fell by more than half, even with a spike late last week following word of the SEC filling.
Rackspace's overall revenue grew 16% year-to-year to $421 million in the first quarter of 2014 according to an analysis by Hampton, N.H.-based Technology Business Research (TBR). Nearly 29% of that can be attributed to its public cloud business, but that is expected to decelerate over the next two quarters.
The Rackspace cloud is differentiated by its Fanatical Support managed services, according to Jillian Mirandi, a senior cloud analyst at TBR. But the company is getting squeezed at the top and the bottom through the lower prices of AWS, Google and Microsoft, and the robust professional services of IBM, HP and Accenture in the hybrid space.
"Rackspace is a great company that would make a very strategic business unit for a larger IT vendor looking to quickly expand their public and private cloud IaaS space, looking to hire on top-notch managed services professionals, support OpenStack and grow their cloud-enabling data center presence," Mirandi said.
Rackspace is more of a niche player in the cloud market, Mirandi said, but as a piece of a broader cloud strategy it could succeed. She sees the most likely acquirers being HP, Dell, AT&T or a provider such as CenturyLink looking for cloud growth. She said Google might also be a player as it gets serious about the enterprise.
Two of the company's six U.S.-based facilities are identified by Framingham, Mass.-based IDC as software-defined data centers that would benefit a larger vendor in the same way the acquisition of SoftLayer buoyed IBM last year.
"Rackspace is ideally suited to help somebody compete against a behemoth," said Robert Mahowald, an IDC analyst.
Operating as an infrastructure-only provider will become increasingly difficult, so this could also be a move by Rackspace to partner with someone else and expand its offerings, Mahowald said.
Purchasing Rackspace's cloud would inject the buyer with hundreds of thousands of servers and customers, with a fairly solid guarantee that it wouldn't be a loss leader for some time, Brooks said. But that still doesn't mean there's an appetite to buy out there.
"There's no sort of North American telecom that doesn't already have a Rackspace of its own," Brooks said.
Five years ago it would have been easy to come up with a list of potential buyers, he said, but it's difficult to guess which vendor is capable of spending billions on Rackspace while still having a serious lack of infrastructure services.
In its SEC filing Rackspace didn't provide a timeline for any decision and said it would provide no further specifics until a deal is reached. A Rackspace representative declined to comment for this story.
Trevor Jones is the news writer for SearchCloudComputing.com. Write to him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Meagan Johnson
I was born + raised in the St. Paul/Minneapolis area with my 6 sisters and 1 brother. After graduating high school in 1997, I spent the next 17 years living in other parts of the country finishing school and supporting my husband while he established his career as an attorney. My husband, who is also from Minnesota, and I were so happy to move back to the twin cities in 2014. I am a Midwest girl through and through and am happy to stay at home to support my family as they work and grow!
My family now consists of my wonderful husband, three boys Isaac (16), Luke (13), and Jasper (7) and one sweet little baby girl named Frances (born July 2017). We also love our large extended family and are happy to live close to both sets of parents, several siblings, and nieces and nephews.
The way I use Project Life has been to record our ongoing craziness as a family and, with the ease of the app, do it basically in the moment, usually in bed! I have been using the app since it was available in 2014. I have made over 1500 pages for my immediate and extended family since then. I love taking pictures! Project Life is the quickest way for me to link those photos to their story in a simple yet creative way before the details are forgotten.
To me, documenting life is a way to slow it down just a little bit! It helps me hold on to those little moments, the fun and the difficult, that are fleeting yet essential to my story. It is also my way of cultivating stronger relationships with those I love and the world around me.
Three things on my bucket list are:
1. Donate decorated Christmas trees for children's hospitals at the holidays
2. Tour the locations where the Jane Austen movies were filmed.
3. Retake piano lessons and actually practice this time!
Cultivating a good life means learning of your strengths and then finding out how to utilize them to best serve and love those around you.


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Written by: Jennifer Friberg, Cross Endowed Chair in SoTL and Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Illinois State University
Later this week, I have the opportunity to facilitate a workshop on peer mentorship in SoTL at a nearby university. I solicited questions from mentor faculty as part of my workshop planning process. In doing so, one of the most interesting questions I received was the following: In studying student learning, how can teacher/learner perceptions be considered a reliable data source?
This question gets at an important consideration in the planning of a SoTL project. What is my source of evidence? Will I use data from focus groups, surveys, student reflections, or something else? Will this evidence focus on student self-reports/perceptions of learning or will the evidence be more objective? The best guidance is that your evidence should match the purpose of your SoTL study. If you are seeking to understand students' perspectives on a learning experience, then the evidence you collect should align with this. If, however, you are seeking to measure student learning, other forms of data may be more advantageous.
When SoTL-ists talk about their data, they can generally ascribe one of two labels to their evidence: direct or indirect. Direct evidence comes from objective sources such as classroom artifacts (e.g., exams/quizzes, projects/assignments), systematic observations (e.g., video/in-person observations, photographs), or student reflections that tell the story of their own attitudes or beliefs. Indirect evidence is sourced from more subjective sources – student reports of their own learning, teacher reflections of student learning (Vanderbilt, 2013). So, to return to the excellent question posed to me above, teacher/learner perceptions CAN be a reliable data source if the SoTL work in question seeks to understand how teachers/learners feel about their learning. That said, if a researcher is seeking to identify changes in student learning, perceptions alone are not a strong form of evidence to study (see this blog post from 2015 for an expanded discussion of this notion).
One of the best resources I've found to explain the difference in various evidence types in SoTL was published by Vanderbilt University's Center for Teaching. This resource, Gathering Evidence: Making Student Learning Visible, outlines the difference between direct and indirect evidence clearly and cogently, providing examples and brief explanations to understand these concepts well. For my upcoming workshop, I adapted and converted the information shared on this resource (giving ample credit to Vanderbilt!) into a decision tree to share with the SoTL mentors I'll be working with. As SoTL mentors, they will need to be well informed as to the pros and cons of direct and indirect evidence. I'm hopeful this visual will give us a good starting point for that discussion!
As a plug for upcoming blogs, additional information is coming in October and November on methods to consider evidence in new and different ways…stay tuned! I am certain that most of the methods that will be covered will apply predominantly to analysis of direct evidence in the study of teaching and learning.
Blog Reference
Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. (2013). Gathering evidence: Making student learning visible. Available at: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/sotl/files/2013/09/4SoTLEvidence.pdf


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Pain is one of the commonest symptoms of patients admitted to ICU. This should be managed safely and effectively not only from humane and patient comfort perspective but also for better overall care and healing of critically ill patients.
There is heightened attention to pain management particularly after surgical interventions and procedures in recent times as we have better understanding of acute pain physiology, its complications and management modalities (1).
Paracetamol is an effective and safe drug for managing mild to moderate pains (2). The oral and rectal form of this agent is widely used for pain and fever management in ICUs (3-6). The use of IV Paracetamol for pain management has gained some recognition in literature since its development with recent addition of this agent in formulary of many countries (7-13).
NSAIDs are generally added to decrease thetotal doses of narcotics required for effective pain management. This is not without its harmfuleffects including GI bleeding as an added risk to ICU patients who are already prone to stress related gastric ulcer bleeding.
Aghamir and coworkers compared IV Paracetamol with IV tramadol and demonstrated that Paracetamol is an effective and safe analgesic for acute postoperative pain management (14).
Peterson et al demonstrated that IV Paracetamol utilization can decrease the doses of narcotic analgesics in postoperative period of CABG patients (15).
Rod et al. undertook a study of the analgesic effects of morphine and IV Propacetamol for the management of postoperative pain compared in 239 pediatric patients. The analgesic effects were verified according to the physiological (Blood Pressure and Heart Rate) and behavioral response in this group of patients. This study indicated that IV Propacetamol could reduce doses of morphine amongst children during their postoperative period (16).
In another comparative study between intravenous Para cetamol and intramuscular meperidine in children after tonsillectomy, Alhashemi et al. showed that children treated withParacetamol were less drowsy and discharged earlier from the hospital as compared with meperidine group (17).
For the purpose of this study we used intravenous form of Paracetamol which was recently approved and registered by Pharmacopeia Committee of Ministry of Health in Iran.The comparative agent was Fentanyl which is the narcotic agent of first choice in our ICUs.
Patients and methods
Forty postoperative ICU patients with mild to moderate pain entered this randomized prospective, single blinded study. After approval by the Institutional Review Board and obtaining informed written consent from patients or their surrogates they were randomized into two groups. First group received intravenous Paracetamo l1 g in 100 mL normal saline (Uni-Pharma pharmaceutical company, Greece) givenin 15 min every 6 h and IV Fentanyl (Hameln Company Germany) 25 μg every three h, both for 48 h. Patients who had breakthrough pain or any need for supplemental analgesics were excluded from the study.
Patients had to have adequate mental status to be evaluated for severity of pain with mild to moderate pain based on a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS 2-5) (Diagram 1). Midazolam was the sedative agent which was used with equal doses as needed, for both groups.
The exclusion criteria were history of allergy to Paracetamol or Fentanyl, contraindications to Paracetamol or opioids use, severe pain (VAS ≥ 5), GCS ≤13, renal disease (Serume Creatinine> 1.5 mg/dL), liver disease (liver enzymes >1.5 normal), chronic lung disease, hemorrhagic conditions, coagulation abnormalities, alcoholic patients, history of addiction to opioids, pregnancy and lactation.
The analgesic effects of the drugs were measured on the basis of VAS and physiologic factors like PR (Pulse rate), RR (Respiratory rate), BP (Blood pressure) and perspiration assessed by clinical examination. Pain wasassessed by ICU medical staff under supervision of ICU fellows and using VAS at the time zero i.e. before the analgesic administration and following study drugs administration every 6 h for 48 h. Other neurologic signs such as restlessness, hallucination, insomnia were recorded on hourly basis.
Blood pressurewas measured and recorded 5 min before drug injections using non-invasive blood pressure monitors at 15, 30, 45, 60,120, 180 and 240 min after the injections then q4h for 48 h. Other Signs such as heart rate, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation and tympanic temperature were measured and absence or presence of perspiration was recorded.
All patients had to have normal liver, renal and coagulation profiles before entering the study. The laboratory investigations including CBC, BUN, Creatinine, Na, K, PT, PTT,ESR, INR, ALT, AST, FBS, BS, Bilirubin (total and direct) and Albumin were performed before and thereafter on 3rd and 6th day following drug administrations.
Statisticalanalysis of the collected data was performed on SPSS (version 15) with theT-test method. Fisher exact test was used for comparative testing. The statistical significance with a p < 0.05 was considered valuable and all the results were recorded on the basis of percentage of the patient numbers or mean and standard deviation.
A total of 40 patients were studied with 11 males and 9 femalesin Paracetamol group and 12 males and 8 females in IV Fentanyl group (p = 0.74). The age of patients were 42.4(± 16.2) and 41.7(± 15.4) in IV Paracetamol and IV Fentanyl respectively (p = 0.89).
The pain score based on VAS prior to the administration of analgesics (day 0) were 4.40 (± 0.8) and 4.35 (± 0.8) in Paracetamol and Fentanyl group respectively with a p-value of 0.84. Twenty 4 h after administration of study drugs the pain scores were 2.60 (± 1.2) and 2.40 (±.1.5) in Paracetamol and Fentanyl groups respectively (p = 0.64). At 48 h the pain scores were 2.25 (± 0.96) and 2.05 (± 1.1) in Paracetamol and Fentanyl groups respectively (p = 0.54). Improvement in the pain scoresin each drug category at 48 h reached statistical significance with a p-value of < 0.0001 (Table and Figure 1).
Table 1. Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for pain assessment in two groups of IV Paracetamol and IV Fentanyl during day 0, day 1 and day 2 of the study.
Variable VAS
IV Paracetamol
Mean (SD)
IV Fentanyl Mean (SD)
(Day 0)
4.40 (0.82)
4.35 (0.81)
24 h after Injection
(Day 1)
2.60 (1.18)
2.40 (1.53)
48 h after injection
(Day 2)
2.25 (0.96)
2.05 (1.09)
Day 0 to 48 h
< 0.0001
Figure 1. Percent of potential drug-drug interactions in post-CCU ward of a teaching hospital (total 3360 PDIs).
VAS at 48 h in Paracetamol group was 3 in 7 (35%) patients, 2 in 8 (40%) patients and 5 (25%) patients were pain free. Whereas in Fentanyl group VAS was 4 in 3 (15%) patients, 3 in 3 (15%) patients and 8 (40%) patients were free (Figure 1). The measured vital signs did not indicate any significant variations in heart rate, blood pressure, temperature or oxygenation, between the two groups during the course of study.
We did not notice any significant differences in the laboratory values between the two groups during the study period (Table 2).
Table 2. Important laboratory parameters observed in IV Paracetamol and IV Fentanyl groups on day 0, day 3 and day 6 of the study.
Lab Test
Drug for Infusion (IV)
Day 0
Mean (SD*)
Day 3
(3 day after infusion)
Day 6
(6 day after infusion)
42.9 (32.3)
42.3 (30.2)
41.2 (27.5)
42.0 (41.5)
41.4 (35.9)
43.5 (36.8)
p= value
30.9 (27.7)
40.2 (29.4)
41.5 (29.9)
36.4 (37.9)
39.7 (38.0)
41.5 (38.1)
p = value
Bilirubin Total
1.01 (0.89)
0.87 (0.48)
0.78 (0.3)
0.98 (0.78)
0.87 (0.51)
0.74 (0.35)
Bilirubin Direct
0.31 (0.27)
0.35 (0.28)
0.28 (0.16)
0.31 (0.28)
0.35 (0.27)
0.38 (0.28)
14.0 (1.8)
14.6 (3.3)
15.6 (4.3)
13.4 (1.02)
13.4 (1.2)
13.5 (1.04)
36.9 (11.0)
34.9 (7.9)
34.7 (6.1)
34.7 (3.8)
35.5 (3.8)
34.5 (4.7)
1.17 (0.28)
1.3 (0.45)
1.2 (0.39)
1.17 (0.15)
1.16 (0.15)
1.15 (0.16)
Adverse drug reactions such as fever, hypotension, gastrointestinal bleeding, headaches, agitation, hallucinations, skin reactions, liver and renal complications were monitored closely. One patient in Paracetamol group developed transient skin rash which resolved without treatment. We did not observe any significant neurological adverse reaction in either group.
Paracetamol is a safe and effective analgesic agent for mild to moderate pain. The oral and rectal forms of this drug are commonly used for pain management. The intravenous form of this agent passes easily through the blood brain barrier and shows its central analgesic effects within 15-20 min which starts to decline after 4 h of administration.
Although this agent represents a relatively good safety profile, there is scarcity of studie sregarding its IV use in critically ill patients of ICUs.
We undertook this prospective randomized study to examine the efficacy and side effect profile of IV Paracetamol compared to IV Fentanyl in postoperative patients with mild tomoderate pain in ICU.
Our study did not indicate any statistically significant difference between the IV Paracetamol and IV Fentanyl groups in pain scores at 24 or 48 h. Neither did we note any significant difference in physiological parameters nor side effect profiles both clinical and laboratory, between the two groups.
Of note there was no neurological or liver function abnormalities of any significance in the Paracetamol group with doses used in our study.
In a study comparing one g IV Paracetamol and 2 g IV Propacetamol which showed comparable efficacy, less pain and discomfort was observed over the injection site with Paracetamol (6). We also did not observe any pain over Paracetamolinjection site in our study.
In another study, it was demonstrated that administration of 1 g Paracetamol intravenously before hysterectomy resulted in better postoperative pain control and lead to decreased use of morphine (18).
A study in patients undergoing lower segment cesarean section, in which IV Paracetamolwas compared with oral Ibuprofen, as the analgesic supplementation agent to morphine, indicated that patients in IV Paracetamol had better pain control compared to Ibuprofen group (19).
According to another work conducted by Cakan et al. on 40 patients in a randomized double blind clinical trial, studying post lumbar laminectomypain management, in addition to morphine administration, one group received one g IV Paracetamol every six hours and the other group received IV placebo. The amount of IV morphine used did not show any significant difference in the two groups. Vomiting was observed less frequently in the placebo group. The Paracetamol group had better pain management profiles than the placebo group (20). In another work carried out by Sabetkasaei et al. the role of alternative agents to opioids-based drugs inacute pain management was highlighted again (21).
Our study, utilizing VAS, indicated similar pain scores between the two groups of intravenous Paracetamol and Fentanyl on days 1 and 2. However at 48 h, more patients were pain-free (VAS 0-1) in Fentanyl group which did not reach statistical significance. We did not observe any adverse effects such as vomiting in our studied patients.
Limitations of our study such as small sample size, lack of case diversity, lack of placebo arm, single blinded nature, short follow up duration and absence of baseline analgesic agent to compare IV Fentanyl and IV Paracetamol over its use, were reasons we could not draw further conclusions as to the other characteristics Paracetamol use in ICU.
However this small study indicates similar pain management properties of IV Paracetamol and IV Fentanyl in mild to moderate pain management in ICU.
Intravenous Paracetamol appeared as effective and safe as Fentanyl in the management of mild to moderate pain in ICU patients. In doses used in our study, we did not observe any significant intolerance or hepatic dysfunction in the Paracetamol group.
IV Paracetamol could be considered another analgesic agent in ICU pain management armamentarium.
Financial disclosure
Paracetamol injections (APOTEL)® were provided by the manufacturer Uni-Pharma pharmaceutical company, Greece. This research has been supported by Behavior Sciences Research Center of Shahid Beheshti Medical University, Tehran/Iran.
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V1066291 MLS 936 W14th Avenue, Vancouver For Sale
Blog by Arnold Shuchat | May 24th, 2014
I have just re-listed 936-938 W14th Avenue in the Fairview area of Vancouver for $2,200,000. This property is on the Heritage B list of the city and is zoned RM-4 allowing conditional zoning of up to 1.45 FSR. For more information, email me at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 778-227-7325.


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Wayne has more than 30 years' experience of work across a broad range of sectors, including government, finance, capital markets and infrastructure.
Wayne begun his career with ANZ in institutional banking and worked in Melbourne and in London. Prior to joining Maddocks as a Consultant in the firm's Government group, Wayne was Executive Director of the NSW Government's Asset Management Taskforce. His role was to lead the Taskforce team, which included setting priorities to meet the government's objectives, providing advice to Government departments and managing stakeholder relationships by being the central point of contact for advisors, bidders and for the businesses' Chair / CEO that were offered for sale. That includes included NSW Lotteries, NSW Environmental Solutions and the RTA's number plates business.
Wayne has also been the Managing Director and Vice Chairman, Asia Pacific of RBC Capital Markets, as well as the CEO of NSW Treasury Corporation (T Corp) from 1995 to 2005. Before joining NSW TCorp, he was the founding Managing Director of Treasury Corporation of Victoria. Wayne successfully applies such broad experience from both the public and private sectors at Maddocks in advising clients on business development strategies, and providing introductions for those companies' government practices.
Legal Expertise
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets and private equity
- Energy and resources
- Funds management
- Major projects and PPPs
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Superannuation
Relevant Experience
- Chairman of Plenary Social Infrastructure Fund responsible for Melbourne Convention Centre, Berwick Hospital, Defence Homes and other government assets
- As Managing Director, advising a North American bank and its clients on establishing a new business in Infrastructure Finance
- As Managing Director, advising a bank on the sale of a Wind Farm in Queensland
- As Chief Executive Officer, advising a Central Borrowing Authority on managing its $12bn investment in a variety of funds
- As Managing Director, advising a Victorian State Government department of its wholesale funding activities
- As Group Treasurer, advising a Big 4 bank on a large bank merger which transferred the funding operations of the acquired entity's operations to Sydney.


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Save Money on Heating and Cooling: HVAC Costs and Energy-Efficiency
Whether the temperature dips well below freezing or it's sky-high, your utility bills constantly seem like they're climbing. No one wants to pay the utility companies more than they have to. Unfortunately, if your HVAC system (and your home) aren't energy-efficient, you may need to. Luckily, this doesn't mean you're stuck with high energy bills forever.
What can you do to lower the costs and make your home more energy-efficient? If you have steadily rising bills, feel like your home's temperature isn't comfortable (even though you blast the AC or the heat) or are just looking for a way to shave some of the costs off of your monthly home budget, take a look at the top ways to make your home's heating and cooling more energy efficient.
Your HVAC System
How efficiently does your HVAC system run? If it seems like your rooms aren't heating or cooling evenly, it needs constant repairs or your energy bills keep increasing, your system may need an upgrade.
Yes, installing a new HVAC system is an expense, but it's also an investment. Compared to the money that you're losing in high energy bills, and constant repairs, you may end up saving in the long-run. For example, newer heating systems have AFUE (annual fuel utilization efficiency) percentage ratings. The higher the percentage rating, the more efficient the system is.
New, high-efficiency furnaces and boilers typically have an AFUE between 90% and 98.5%. Compare that to the 56% to 70% that an older, low-efficiency model has. Not only are newer heaters more energy-efficient, but so are newer AC systems. A new ENERGY STAR qualified AC system is about 15% more efficient when compared to older models and those that aren't considered "high-efficiency."
Home Insulation
Do you feel a draft when you get near your windows? Does your basement, attic or crawl space feel cold in the winter and hot in the summer? If your home isn't well-insulated your HVAC system needs to work harder to heat and cool it.
Replacing old, single-pane windows (and repairing or replacing leaky or broken frames) is one way to keep the air inside where it belongs. If that's an expense you're not ready to invest in, adding plastic window film or storm windows can help to seal some of the air leaks and reduce your HVAC-related energy costs.
Along with windows, make sure that unheated and uncooled spaces have enough insulation. If your ductwork doesn't extend into the basement, attic or some other space, call in the pros to insulate the area appropriately. This will help to the hold the heat or cooling in your home, keeping the temperature stable.
System Maintenance
Your HVAC system isn't old…but you're still seeing rising energy bills. What's going on? If you haven't had the system serviced, you may have a problem that you don't know about. Regular service allows you to catch problems before they go from minor to major. The technician can identify worn parts or find equipment that's in need of repair. The better your HVAC system works, the less money it costs to run it.
The same goes for keeping your HVAC system clean and debris-free. Regular maintenance also includes a professional cleaning. If your ducts are clogged, the filters are dirty or the system itself has grime and gunk clogging it, your heater and air conditioner have to work extra-hard just to heat or cool your home.
Do you need an HVAC upgrade or pre-season maintenance? 333-Help can assist in making your home's energy-efficiency. Contact our professional team today to see what we can do for your home.


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KatzaStar Cooks
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51 Recipes Created by KATZASTAR
I have been cooking since age 12 and believe in eating fresh wholesome food. I chose a picture of Our Lady of Pointmain to represent me because I think it is so beautiful.
Recipes in this Collection
You can vary fresh and frozen fruits according to your preference. I usually freeze peeled bananas wrapped in wax paper. You can add some sweetener if you like.Submitted by KATZASTAR
I tried to make this as low calorie as I could by cutting back on oil. And was I surprised to find out how many calories were in flour! Submitted by KATZASTAR
I love this soup and eat it all the time! It is super easy to make. I use home cooked pinto beans. You can substitute canned, but the sodium count will be different. You can also substitute any other canned or cooked bean of your choice.Submitted by KATZASTAR
Serve with Pineapple-Yogurt Topping. Yummy!Submitted by KATZASTAR
My version of Dutch Apple Pancake is not very sweet. You can increase the honey if desired or use agave nectar or sugar. You can use regular milk of your choice in place of the soy milk. I use a small cast iron skillet to saute the apples and then transfer to the oven. Submitted by KATZASTAR
Serve with vegetable sticks, pita bread, and/or whole grain crackers, or use as a spread for wraps and sandwiches.Submitted by KATZASTAR
A healthy way to get your chocolate fix. Jolyn uses agave nectar and/or Splenda. I like to use agave nectar and different flavored Torani sugar free syrups, usually half chocolate and half whatever I have on hand. I have used coconut and raspberry so far. The calorie count is based on 2 tablespoons agave nectar and Torani sugar free syrup. Using 1/3 cup agave nectar, the calorie count increases to 224 calories per serving. Submitted by KATZASTAR
You can add or substitute other diced vegetables as you desire, such as cucumber and carrot. Sesame oil would be a nice touch, but I am trying to eat as little fat as possible right now. Submitted by KATZASTAR
Serve with Cottage Cheese Pancakes, or your favorite pancake or waffle. You can experiment with different sugar-free Torani syrups -- I like peach -- or add sweetener of your choice if you desire.Submitted by KATZASTAR
An easy, delicious way to prepare asparagus. Submitted by KATZASTAR
You can add salt or rosemary (fresh or dried) as desired. Submitted by KATZASTAR
I divided this into four servings, but you could divide into more if you did not want to eat so many calories at once. I use different flavors of Torani syrup. This batch I made half chocolate and half orange. You could make this totally sugar free by substiting Splenda for the agave nectar.Submitted by KATZASTAR
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This turned out really yummy. Definitely going to make it again.Submitted by KATZASTAR
A simple, savory mushroom soup using beef broth.Submitted by KATZASTAR
I like this for breakfast. Submitted by KATZASTAR
You can use baguette slice instead of gluten-free hamburger bun. I make my own beef broth without salt.Submitted by KATZASTAR
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I used cranberry sauce made with sugar and not corn syrup.Submitted by KATZASTAR


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It's giveaway time! One winner will win $300 to shop Manon Baptiste at Navabi! Navabi is a one stop shop for premium plus size shopping.
Navabi was the first global retailer to offer premium shopping for women size 16+. When will retailers get it?! Big girls love fashion too and we want the same fabulous fabrics, frocks and frills as a stylish smaller contemproaries.
I love being to explore their different designer collections, including Navabi's own in house designs (size 12+), but have fell in love with one in particular, Manon Baptiste.
In collaboration with Navabi I'm hosting this amazing giveaway for you ladies! I get to share some of my favorite fashion brands and you get $300 to shop! Win/Win!
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This dress is Manon Baptiste for Navabi and is unfortunately sold out. I know, shortest horror story ever. Head to Navabi to shop more styles.


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PORTLAND, Maine — The Bangor Daily News and the monthly news and arts publication The Bollard have begun a partnership aimed at strengthening community coverage in the Portland region.
The BDN will feature a new weekly column by Bollard Publisher Chris Busby and will serve as host to thebollard.com website, which will also be featured on the homepage of bangordailynews.com. The BDN will provide Web development services and will build new features for the site, such as an upcoming music player featuring local artists.
Busby's commentary will offer a look at both Portland and statewide political events.
"The Bollard has built a much-deserved reputation for insightful reporting and commentary about Portland, so we're very pleased to be working with them," said Todd Benoit, BDN director of news and new media. "It's another way for us to offer local coverage the Portland community deserves."
Busby said he sees the partnership as a way to reach a new audience statewide. "This partnership provides an excellent opportunity to make the BDN's readers throughout Maine, especially those in the northern part of the state, aware of The Bollard and the topics we cover in Portland," Busby said. "Furthermore, our readers in Greater Portland will benefit from the BDN's strong coverage of statewide issues. It's a win-win situation."
The Bollard, published since 2005, is distributed throughout the Greater Portland area monthly and is now live on the BDN site. Busby's commentary will appear each Thursday online and in print on Fridays.
The Bangor Daily News is a family-owned, independent daily newspaper covering Maine since 1889. Its website, bangordailynews.com, is Maine's leading source of news and information — and now of Portland commentary.


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Black Ops 2 Surprise
Activision has been promoting Call of Duty®: Black Ops 2 with "Surprise", a live action trailer directed by Guy Ritchie. The Black Ops 2 Surprise video takes us into the year 2025, exploring the high-speed world of near-future weaponry, with cameo appearances from Zach Steel, Danilo de Julio, iJustine (Justine Ezarik), Robert Downey Jr, Omar Sy and FPSRussia (Kyle Lamar Myers).
Click on the image below to play the Black Ops 2 Surprise video.
Black Ops 2 Surprise Credits
The Surprise trailer was developed at 72andSunny by chief creative officer Glenn Cole, creative director/copywriter Joan Norcross, creative directors/designers Matt Murphy and Peter Novosel, senior designer/writer Rey Andrade, senior writer Josh Fell, designer Patric Franz, copywriter Jorge Brandão, director of film production Sam Baerwald, senior producer Dan Ruth and junior producer Peter Williams.
Filming was shot by director Guy Ritchie via Reset with executive producers Jeff McDougall and Dave Morrison, line producer Aris Mcgarry, assistant director Peter Kohn, director of photography Claudio Miranda, production designer Dominic Watkins, and costume designer Kim Bowen.
Editor was Work Post Rich Orrick at Jump with assistant editor Healy Snow, executive producers Jane Dilworth and Erica Thompson and producer Lisa Ashe.
Visual effects were produced at The Mill, Los Angeles, by executive producer Sue Troyan, VFX producer Christina Thompson, shoot supervisor/creative director/3D lead artist Robert Sethi, shoot supervisor/creative director/2D lead artist Chris Knight, shoot supervisor/3D animation lead Steve Beck, shoot supervisor Chris Bayol, 2D artists Becky Porter, Nick Tayler, Jake Maymudes, Ben Smith, Gareth Parr, Eugene Guaran, Remedy Huynh, Daniel Lang, 3D artists Justin Wentz, Andy Wheater, Phil Mayer, Yorie Kumalasari, Meng Yang Lu, David Hackett, Per Bergsten, Andrew Romatz, Eric Sibley, Michael Panov, Adam Carroll, Martin Rivera, Nick Lines, Carl Harders, Dan Kruse, Kenzie Chen, Juan Zavala, Rick Fuentealba, Jason Jansky, Bridget Warrington, Tom Graham, assist team Andry Jong, Hartwell Dufor, Olivier Dubard, Blake Sullivan, James Ma, Matt Bohnert, motion graphics team Alex Van Dyne, Justin Sucara, Kasey Allen, colourist Adam Scott, art department head Scott Wilson, production coordinator Gabriel Libitsky, colour producer LaRue Anderson, colour coordinator Sarah Laborde, 3D DMP lead Gawain Liddiard, 3D CG support/lighting lead Chris Bayol, 3D FX lead Josh Hatton, 3D co-modeling/texture lead Felix Urquiza, 3D co-modeling/texture lead Miguel Guerrero, smoke producer Kiana Bicoy, and smoke artist Robin McGloin.
Music is "Back in Black" by AC/DC.
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Salary Overview
There are a number of different statistics and estimates for the projected annual salary of someone employed as a chemical engineer in the United States. According to statistics provided by the Bureau of Labor, there are approximately 29,000 chemical engineers working in the country, and the mean annual wage is $91,670. The middle 50 percent of people employed as chemical engineers obtain an annual wage of $88,280 with an hourly wage of $42.44. The lowest 10 percent obtain an annual wage of $56,090 with an hourly wage of $26.97, while the highest 10 percent obtain an annual wage of $132,980 with an hourly wage of $63.93. The industries with the highest employment rates in chemical engineering are architectural engineering, basic chemical manufacturing, and scientific research and development areas. The highest paying industries for chemical engineering involve oil and gas extraction, management, technical, and scientific consulting, and motor vehicle part manufacturing.*
*According to the BLS, http://www.bls.gov/oco/
Job Description and Outlook
The job of a chemical engineer is to use different principles, concepts, and theories related to chemistry and engineering to solve novel problems that involve how chemicals may be produced or used or combined with other products. Chemical engineers may be involved in a number of processes in chemical manufacturing, such as designing equipment and procedures, or planning and testing methods involved in products and byproducts. They are also likely to be involved in supervising the production of items manufactured through the manipulations of chemicals and plastics. Chemical engineers may also work in a number of industries related to manufacturing besides chemical manufacturing, such as industries involved in the production of electronics, energy (in particular, oil and gas), food, paper, and clothing. Chemical engineers can also find employment in health care, education, and bio technology.
The outlook for chemical engineering as a profession in the United States is healthy; the profession is projected to grow on a rate comparable to the average growth rate of most professions; however, the specific growth rate will vary by the specialty of chemical engineering an individual works in. Chemical engineers involved in the chemical manufacturing industry may actually face a slight decline in employment opportunities over the coming decade, although there will continue to be a number of chemical companies that employ chemical engineers for research and development purposes. Chemical engineers will continue to be in demand in applications and industries involving energy, particularly the industries involved with extraction and refinement of oil and natural gas from the world's oceans. There will also be a need for engineers versed in safety practices to reduce the likelihood of disasters occurring from industrial incidents, such as oil spills and chemical fires and explosions. There is also expected to be employment growth for chemical engineers who participate in industries related to the provision of services, such as technical services, scientific services, and professional services. The fields of nano technology and bio technology are in rapid development, and chemical engineers will likely be able to seek employment in these fields due to their credentials in engineering and expertise in the manipulation of chemicals and related products.*
*According to the BLS, http://www.bls.gov/oco/
Training and Education Requirements
The typical terminal requirement in most areas of employment for a potential chemical engineer is a doctoral degree. There are some areas and fields where it may be possible to find employment without a terminal degree, such as in the Federal Government, but the default expectation is for candidates to have completed their education with a Ph.D., and in certain sub industries, having real life work experience is also desirable.
It is possible in many cases to work with a bachelor's degree in supportive roles as a chemical engineer, depending on the setting and the needs of the employer. In fact, chemical engineers earn among the highest starting salaries of any workers with bachelor's degrees, and chemical engineers who obtain experience in petroleum engineering may be able to negotiate higher salaries and more opportunities without much trouble. Many employers will pay their employees to further their education.
It is usually not necessary to obtain certification to begin working as a chemical engineer. However, there can be benefits to seeking voluntary certification from different professional organizations, such as higher salaries within current locations of employment and access to more lucrative employment opportunities. There are a number of professional associations and organizations from which certification as a chemical engineer may be obtained. The specific requirements for obtaining certification as a chemical engineer will vary from one association to the next. Many organizations request a particular amount of formalized education and post doctorate work, while others are more interested in years of work experience. Still others may ask for a combination of work experience and degrees accumulated through formal education and schooling.
Professional Associations
There are a number of organizations and associations in the chemical engineering industry that offer certification to chemical engineers.
- The American Chemical Society
- The American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- The Electrochemical Society
- The National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers
- The American Hydrogen Association
- The Association of Energy Engineers
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Welcome to Lainford Butchers, we are a traditional butchers, offering professionally cut meat to a very high standard. We use primarily UK products and purchase carcass meat to be able to supply customers with all types of cuts. we bring the traditional cutting of meat into the modern way of life, producing a wide variety of unique products to offer something different for your meals.
Lainford Butchers has been a big part of the local community for over 50 years, and under the current owner for the past 5 years.
We supply the local community as well as reastraunts, schools, clubs and event organisers.
You can get directions to our shop by entering your postcode in the box provided below the map.
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Ever wondered 'Who made my clothes?' Find out by taking this free online course
Fashion Revolution week finished yesterday. It's call to arms is the question 'Who made my clothes?' Here's how you get involved, do this yourself.
On June 26th, there will be another way to find out 'Who made my clothes?': that's when a free 3 week online course led by our CEO Ian begins. Here's the trailer. You can sign up here.
Follow the… Fairtrade Fortnight 2017
'Would people still love a bargain if we bought these issues closer to home?'
'Money is the journey we send it on.'
It's fairtrade fortnight, the time of year when companies and NGOs make the relations and responsibilities between the producers and consumers of everyday things mainstream news. In this post we highlight two contrasting videos in which these relations are a) brought close to home through the delivery of food and b) stretched out through investing money (perhaps the most fascinating commodity) in an ethical ISA. Watch and discuss…
Follow the produce: the home delivery service they weren't expecting
Follow the money: the most rewarding cash ISA in the world
Brandjamming the John Lewis Christmas ad to #stopfundinghate
We're brandjamming the John Lewis Christmas ad! Please share & urge @JohnLewisretail & @Waitrose to #StopFundingHate #bustertheboxer pic.twitter.com/drYlgKNt6j
— Stop Funding Hate (@StopFundingHate) November 10, 2016
Our Arts & Activism Symposium @exetergeography today
Today is an exciting day in the university module that powers our website. It's our annual Arts and Activism Symposium, funded and hosted by the Department of Geography at the University of Exeter. Here's the line-up and some background info on the projects our speakers will be talking about. After this, our students develop their own commodity activist work.
1) Orsola de Castro: watch this
New publication: Teaching media literacy and the geographies of consumption
How can encouraging students to cut up, rearrange and otherwise mess with adverts' imagery and messages help them to better appreciate the complex geographies of consumption and international trade? How can the teaching of controversial issues build on students' senses of injustice, mischief and creativity? We have a suggestion…
Earlier this year, a booklet called Medialukutaitoa vastamainoksista became a booklet called Teaching media literacy and the geographies of consumption. These booklets come from a series of workshops developed by former followthethings.com intern Eeva Kempainnen in a variety of educational settings in Finland. The hands-on and entertaining methods she sets out are suitable for a variety of ages, and the booklets are crammed with 'how to' advice and excellent examples of student work. Watch our cheaply produced promo, download the booklets by clicking the links, and find out more about Eeva's work here.
Thanks to Mary Biddulph and Alan Parkinson for their help in this process.
Our 4th #followtheteachers post: on subvertisement workshops
A couple of weeks ago, we published a guest post from Eeva Kemppainen describing the ways in which her work for followthething.com and her masters thesis on trade justice pedagogy in the UK and Finland, had led to her work on a 'Closing the Gap' project with Finnish pro-ethical trade NGO Eetti . This is Eeva's second post, in which she describes how she works with diverse groups of students (using followthethings.com as a resource) and shows the kinds of subverts that her students create.
Sodastream studies…
Overnight, [Scarlett Johansson] has become the Marie Antoinette of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, smiling regally and offering: "Let them sip soda." (source)
We've been following carefully how actor Scarlett Johansson (a.k.a Scarjo) was forced last week to choose between her role as an Oxfam Global Ambassador and as the face of soft-drink machine maker Sodastream.
This is the banned TV advert that was due to be shown at half time during Superbowl 2014, the 'most watched' TV show in the US. What values are expressed here?


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Baked Swiss Chicken Salad With Mini FarfalleFrom gkwillow 9 years ago
- 1/2 cup uncooked mini farfalle pasta shopping list
- 2 cups cooked chicken, sliced or cubed shopping list
- 1/4 cup slivered almonds, toasted shopping list
- 2 green onions, sliced shopping list
- 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice shopping list
- 11/2 cups shredded swiss cheese, divided shopping list
- 1/4 tsp poultry seasoning shopping list
- salt & freshly ground black pepper, to taste shopping list
- 1/2-3/4 cup mayonnaise shopping list
- crushed wavy potato chips (I just crushed them with my hands and guestimated the amount) shopping list
How to make it
- Cook pasta in salted boiling water as directed on package; drain.
- In a large bowl, combine pasta, chicken, green onion, toasted almonds, lemon juice, 1 cup shredded cheese, salt, pepper, and mayonnaise.* Transfer to a greased 2-quart casserole or baking dish. Top with remaining swiss cheese.
- Bake at 350° for 20 minutes. Sprinkle with crushed potato chips and continue baking for an additional 10 minutes, until chicken salad is bubbly and potato chips are golden brown.
- *don't forget about the salty potato chip topping when adding salt to the chicken mixture!
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Gifts can comprise of all sorts of things, shapes and sizes but none more special than a personalised gift from a jewellery store. Ryans Jewellers have been in business over 55 years and every year is like a new year with new products, new ranges, new ideas for us humans to spoil our loved ones. Some of the most popular gifts years ago are not what people give to eachother now although the gift of diamond engagement ring and a special wedding ring has never gone out of fashion and we hope it never will !!! Ever :)
The types of gifts we specialise in are in the diamond and wedding variety but earrings, pendants, chains, watches, baby gifts such as christening mugs, baby bangles, little bracelets even cufflinks for the little boys that will see them to their 21st Birthday's are all ideas we always get asked for. We carry giftware for men (especially for those lovely dads, brothers, groomsmen, husbands, grandads etc), silver chain and leather products are always a good option with the fab SECRID leather wallets a constant hit - purely becuase all men like a bit of technology and with this wallet, it saves their credit and bank cards getting scratched and it has a protective aluminium foil where the cards can't be scammed with the contactless part of their plastic cards.
The Irish public are always great at "gifting" - everything from a god-daughter's birthday to an employee leaving work, to someone's retirement, a 40th wedding anniversary or simply we are getting better at treating ourselves - whatever the occasiion, whatever the item, our Ryans Jewellers Staff will be really happy to advise you in what is best suitable for the person, occassion and budget.