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Bill Scott
User Interface Design & Engineering Evangelist
San Jose, California
Areas of Expertise:
Bill Scott has always enjoyed technology (25 years). And he has always enjoyed people (even longer). It was a natural to blend the two loves together. For a long time he couldn't decide if he was a designer or an engineer. He finally gave up trying to classify himself and just decided to live in both worlds as much as possible. This passion drove him to create one of the first successful Macintosh games (GATO, 1985), build wargaming interfaces for NATO, found user experience teams (Sabre), write Ajax frameworks (OpenRico) manage user interface engineering organizations (Netflix), publish design pattern libraries (Yahoo!), talk a lot about it (Ajax Evangelist) and even write a book about Designing Web Interfaces (O'Reilly). Follow Bill's tweets on twitter and his ramblings on his design blog. Bill is currently Sr. Director of UI Engineering at PayPal.
Bill blogs at:
Moving This Blog to from Blogger to Ghost
December 25 2013read more
August 30 2013read more
Key Position: Sr. UIE Manager for our Wallet team
January 31 2013read more
User Interface Engineering Disciplines & Skills
November 24 2012read more
List of Mockup/Prototyping Tools
November 24 2012read more
Three Key Principles to Operating as a LeanUX Team
September 09 2012read more
The Who, What, How of Satisfaction for Frontend Engineers
September 07 2012read more
Forming a new Accessibility Team at PayPal -- Welcome Victor Tsaran & Srinivasu Chakravarthula!
September 06 2012read more
Looking for "UI Engineer, Developer Experience"
September 05 2012read more
Why You Should Work with Me at PayPal
September 03 2012read more
July 29 2012read more
June 28 2012read more
May 12 2012read more
April 23 2012read more
My PayPal Update: PayPal Rocks.
January 28 2012read more
Shared Understanding Resource: Head First HTML5
November 20 2011read more
Join Me in Boston for User Interface 16!
October 06 2011read more
Check out the new Netflix Tech Blog
December 02 2010read more
New - Social Systems Engineering Team at Netflix
November 15 2010read more
Webcast: Kicking up the Dust with NodeJS and a Bunch of Other JavaScript Goodness
Webcast - Designing Web Interfaces: Principles & Patterns for Rich Interaction
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open source, open processes, and interoperability."
"A fabulous resource for companies looking to take advantage of the powers of the social web! This is a must-read for engineers and designers new to developing for social media, and an excellent reference for the seasoned designer.
"Erin & Christian have put together an astounding collection of the most important social design patterns in use today. I recommend it for anybody building a social web site or application...I wish I had this book three years ago! "
"With web interfaces using AJAX, Flash and Silverlight more and more, not only would designers would find this book useful, but also developers..."
"Each chapter covers a design principle making for an excellent in-depth focus highly recommended for web designers. "
"Once again, the mighty Thor, wielding the great hammer Mjollnir, has bested foul Loki and brought unto me a book which will give me the tools and knowledge to build or renovate a website to be truly Interactive! "
"The layout of the book is very easy to follow: plenty of illustrations and a clear examples along with various break-out boxes. This is a good reference book to keep around; the principals are good ones to keep in mind, even if your project doesn't quite fit into the cases provided, though I think anything larger than a personal website is going to get into areas where the lessons here are applicable. "
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Financial technology companies are now beginning to receive major funding from Wall Street. Addressing the lack of technological innovation in the finance industry, FinTech startups emerged to improve the way money is invested, managed and accounted for. At first, Wall Street banks considered FinTech startups a drain on their revenues, but that perspective has since changed. Increasingly, large players are partnering with startups to gain access to cutting-edge financial technology.
Wall Street invests heavily in FinTech startups
Business Insider reported on recent trends in the FinTech industry, noting that Wall Street banks are now investing heavily in startups instead of attempting to edge them out of the space. Over the past few years, especially in New York and London, bankers and investment professionals have witnessed the power of FinTech. A Goldman Sachs equity research report in March estimated $4.7 trillion in revenue for traditional financial services at risk of being displaced by new technology-enabled entrants. These include new solutions in funding, wealth management, and payments.
"First generation online financial services companies … traditional banks, asset managers, and payments companies are all working to adapt to these behavioral, demographic, and technologic realities," said the Goldman Sachs report, according to the news source. "We expect partnerships, acquisitions, and competition will be key to the way the vertical develops."
A Goldman Sachs equity research report in March estimated $4.7 trillion in revenue for traditional financial services at risk of being displaced by new technology startups.
The FinTech industry is growing rapidly
According to recent Accenture research, global investment in FinTech firms tripled from $4.05 billion in 2013 to $12.2 billion in 2014. Europe had the highest growth rate of any region, with a 215 percent increase in investment. The U.S., however, was the leader in terms of total capital committed to the industry. FinTech capital inflows grew almost three times faster than overall venture capital investment as well. Julian Skan, managing director at Accenture, explained how FinTech is helping banks and financial institutions to offer better services for their clients.
"The massive investment in FinTech shows that the digital revolution is well advanced in financial services, and it is both a threat and an opportunity for banks," said Skan. "FinTech is empowering new competitors and start-ups to move into parts of the banking business but, paradoxically, it is also helping banks to create better, more convenient products and services for their clients. It is also leading to increased cooperation between traditional banks and innovative startups and technology businesses in a way that can result in totally new business models and revenue streams."
FinTech startups are not the enemy
As the regulatory environment became stricter, many banks did not see it fit to dedicate large amounts of capital toward developing financial technology. However, as FinTech startups address the gaps in financial services and offer much-needed innovation in the sector, banks are increasingly realizing the potential of partnerships with these entrepreneurial entities. Hardeep Walia, co-founder of Motif Investing, explained how institutions are beginning to redirect their thinking and consider the future, noted Business Insider. By partnering with FinTech startups, they may gain insight into what customers will need a few years down the road.
"I think there are great opportunities to partner, even though a lot of these technologies may be disruptive," said Walia, according to the news source. "If you're going to get disrupted, smart firms are going to want to partner with companies that are most disruptive."
Regardless of whether banks see FinTech as being disruptive to their operations or not, they have no intention of being left behind. It is clear by the fast growth of the industry that the services these startups have provided have been immensely valuable. As such, banks really only have one option. Ophir Gottlieb, co-founder of Capital Markets Labs, reiterated this view.
"If you look at history, not innovating has not been a wealth-losing strategy," said Gottlieb, according to Business Insider.
Ultimately, whether banks truly believe that FinTech will transform the industry, or are simply investing to protect their own interests is irrelevant. The fact is innovation is necessary in all areas of business. Since the financial crisis in 2008, banks and financial institutions have not kept up with the times. Many interesting developments are sure to be born of these partnerships, which will likely be for the improvement of capital markets as whole.

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(Map on the front of the pocket book)
(Poinsettia Craft)
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Or please feel free to schedule an appointment using the link on the right.
NOTE: Peer tutoring will end on Dec. 12 so as to allow the tutors to prepare for their own finals, but limited appointments with the Director will remain available.
Why is writing so difficult? There are probably as many reasons as there are authors, but one of the biggest is that it is impossible to write clearly about an idea until you have had it clearly, and that itself can be extraordinarily difficult. Our best and deepest thoughts arrive from a thousand directions and often in surprising moments, and they don't work very hard to keep themselves in line. Some may even arrive as wordless feelings or intuitions that language seems sorely inadequate to capture. Once we start herding these mental experiences into a reasonable order on the page, new thoughts come along out of nowhere and disrupt the whole business again. In short, even for its best practitioners, writing is usually a messy process; for the rest of us, it can seem absolutely hopeless.
How We Can Help
The Writing Center understands these frustrations and is prepared to help you through them while also thinking more about where they originate. We offer guidance on everything from the most basic components of style and grammar to your highest aspirations to clarity, elegance, and originality. While we don't offer direct editing or proofreading on papers about to be submitted – in the end, the work must be yours, not ours – we are happy to read anything you have written, assess strengths and weaknesses, and identify ways you can improve, both short-term and long-term. This is not just for remedial help. Everyone can benefit from thinking more about their writing, and the best writers sometimes get the least feedback. Whatever your current talents as a writer, we are here to help you improve.
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What do you hear?
I was recently reading "God Is More Than Enough" by author, Jim Berg. His chapter entitled Unmasking the Source Of Your Noise had some great ideas about what it is that stirs inside of you. What makes noise inside of your heart and mind? He references 2 Peter 1:2-3. Here, Peter explains to us that increased and multiplied peace has something to do with the knowledge of God and the truth of God. This means that in some way, our noise problem is related to the absence of this knowledge and the absence of what is true about God in our belief system.
(paraphrased from Jim Berg's "God Is More Than Enough")
What can we do?
As believers in Christ, we have a unique relationship with God through the Holy Spirit. We can worship the Lord through prayer, singing, study of the Bible, and through the service to others. David Platt explained at a recent worship conference that our worship is a response to a strong God that loves us. Our worship fuels our witness and fuels our drive to share the Gospel all around the world; In our living rooms, prisons, nursing homes, homeless shelters, and remote villages. There are people that have never heard the noise of Jesus' name or the noise of the words of the Gospel. We can hear the noise of truth of our God, but what good is that if we don't share the noise. We do this to build God's kingdom, not to merely entertain our emotions and feelings. What do you accept to be true? What is your belief? What have you encountered in life that makes a noise in you heart and mind? Are your beliefs rooted in fantasy, hatred, or divisiveness? Or, instead, are your beliefs in love, service, and kindness to all people that are made in the image of God?
I'd love to hear your answers to these questions!
Email me if you feel led to share.
Pray for Peace
Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and mutual edification. Romans 14:19
The Christian faith should help model the change that is possible in the lives of the people around us. When we are filled with the Holy Spirit, we become an example of what it means to live a holy life. Instead, we have recently seen people identifying with the Christian faith, but they are divisive and militant. We have to learn what it really means to love our neighbors in this current culture. We have to be aware that in order for this to happen, God needs to truly touch the hearts of people that are filled with hate, deceit, addiction, etc...
Certain world crisis issues are complicated and difficult to wrap our heads around. Other world crisis issues are not as complicated. There is a difference between compassion and justice; between grace and tolerance. Grace and compassion are simple. This is a conversation we should dig into in the church during our small group discussions. We need help from our pastors and elders to share with one another on how to make a positive impact in our communities.
Here are a few questions to ask to yourself, your spouse, your family, your church leaders:
What if we believed and lived like we do when we sing songs of praise in our churches?
What if we prayed to live life the way we proclaim that we do in our churches?
What if we prayed for a life of being brave and bold enough to set a better example for humanity?
What would it look like if we realized that our actions could have an impact on God's kingdom here and now?
How much could we influence the presence of peace if we lived a life like Christ?
Jesus modeled what it looked like to be dependent on God. He modeled what it looked like to depend on God's will and desire for us. He prayed to God and showed the need for prayer in our relationship with Him. We have the opportunity to experience this through prayer and our daily walk when influenced by the Holy Spirit. I encourage you to take some time to pray. Pray for eyes to be opened and hearts to be softened for the sake of learning what it means to be human. We have so much potential. Let's meet that full redemptive potential that is available to us. There is so much grace to be had. All we have to do is ask for it with a sincere heart.
I also urge you to be hyper-aware of your own attitude. As 1 Peter 3:9 says, "Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing."
Be kind.
Wisdom from Above - James 3:13-18
"Who is wise and understanding among you?
By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts,
do not boast and be false to the truth.
This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual,
demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will
be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure,
then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits,
impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown
in peace by those who make peace."
Jared Craft
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Hot flushes means sudden feeling of warmth or heat in the body especially around the face and neck. Hot flushes are very common in perimenopausal and menopausal women. More than 75% women experienced hot flushes.
Hot flushes along with symptoms like nausea, dizziness and general feeling of being unwell may experience in menopause. Sometimes hot flushes followed by night sweat or excessive sweat during the day.
Symptoms of Hot Flashes/Hot Flushes:
Hot flushes can occur any time of the day. We can't predict its frequency and duration of hot flushes also vary. It lasts from few second to several minutes. Hot flushes may continue after menopausal phase also. Hot flushes are responsible for reddening of the skin and also for excessive sweat.
Hot flushes doesn't cause any harm to health. However excessive sweating at nigh cause disturbance in sleep leads to dull, depressive feeling along with irritability and mood swings for the whole day.
Causes of hot flushes:
Hypothalamus control our body's temperature system. During menopause reduced Estrogen causes a glitch in the way the hypothalamus senses body temperature, making it think that you are too hot. Hence body's cooling mechanism get activated. So more blood circulation starts to flow to the skin and to the sweat glands, leads to menopausal sweat.
Some medical conditions which causes hot flushes:
- Hyperthyroidism
- Anxiety
- Medications
- Tuberculosis
- Fever
- Heart problems


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Search for Flight MH370 Widened to Malacca Strait and Andaman Sea
After five days of searching for the Flight MH370, which was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the aircraft is still missing.
The plane disappeared on Saturday with 239 people abroad.
The authorities suspect that the Flight MH370 changed its route, so the search for the plane has been widened to Malacca Strait and the Andaman Sea.
As BBC reports, around 40 ships and 34 aircrafts are included in the search offshore Vietnam and Malaysia.
The search area has been extended to 100 nautical miles from the last known location of the plane.
Until now none of the debris and oil slicks spotted in South China Sea and Malacca Strait have proved to be connected to the missing plane.
Malaysia Airlines' Missing Flight MH370 Could Be in Gulf of Thailand ?
Subsea World News Staff, March 12, 2014; Image: Wikimedia


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Washington (CNN) - A proposal to legalize same-sex marriage in the nation's capital won approval Tuesday in the first of two city council votes required for it to go into effect.
The measure was supported by a vote of 11 to 2, according to Doxie McCoy, spokeswoman for the council's chairman, Vincent C. Gray.
The council is scheduled to hold a second vote on December 15. If it passes, the bill would be given to Mayor Adrian Fenty, who has already expressed his support and vowed to sign the bill.
Here we go again. It seems the judiciary and politicians are out of touch with the populace. Remember, any time it has come to a vote, it has been turned down. Isn't that a clear message that people want marriage preserved "as is." Of course if you are opposed, you are a homophobe, or your church or organization will receive threats of violence or vandalism.
Civil rights issues should never be put on a ballot. The majority of people are too ignorant and lazy to research and to fully understand the issues.
Good! Now if we can get to the point when our lawmakers understand that civil rights are NOT subject to popular opinion, but are guaranteed by the Constitution . . . .then we'll be getting somewhere.
Equality for everyone? Sounds like an excellent idea and plan for the United States.
Way to go, DC!
Karl Rove, Lindsay Graham and Rick Santorum must be delighted to finally have equal rights!
Well, lets just legalize and condone everything. Lets not have any limits on anything. Everyone just do what you want, when you want, however you want, as openly and brazenly as you want and insist that everyone else agree with, fund, and proliferate what you want. Legalize marijuana, no bans on public nudity, or anything else for that matter, since its all a matter of personal rights, right? Surely that will make us a greater society......some things you can rationalize until you are blue in the face, but it doesn't make it ok.
Finally! A place where the pesky voter has no say!!
Oh wait..
Is America forgeting the foundation of her foundin fathers this is high level of immorality
Wonderful! I completely support it.
Can't wait to hear the flip side from you Republican's....idiots.
never never never
it is wrong wrong wrong
and you all know know know it
If it passes will they change the name to Washington AC DC?


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TRUST is a 10-part series about a perfect trifecta. The Public Trust Doctrine is a legal doctrine enshrined in the laws of every civilized government and holds governments accountable to protect the resources we share in common and depend on for our very survival. The principle of inter-generational justice is enshrined in international human rights law ? simply put, it means that the adults can't have a party on the planet and leave it a mess for the kids. Combine the Public Trust Doctrine with the principles of intergenerational justice and passionate youth, who are fighting for their future in the courts and on the streets, and we have the perfect trifecta. Why? Because youth across the country are bringing legal actions – based on trust – against the federal and state governments, so we will open our eyes and protect our atmosphere and our futures with smart strategies rooted in science. In this episode of the TRUST Series, meet Nelson Kanuk, a 17-year old who learned how climate change was affecting his community and felt he could best help by sharing his story. In this 8-minute film, Nelson explains that the main problem facing the northern parts of the world is that winter is coming later and later. This results in increased erosion due to permafrost melt, increased flooding due to warmer temperatures, and intensified storms because the sea ice forms later in the season and is unable to provide a natural barrier for our coastal communities. This, in turn, leads in the loss of homes, communities, cultures, and a way of life. Go to http://ourchildrenstrust.org/ to learn more about the campaign.
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No longer accepting applications to this program. Program information on this page is applicable to currently enrolled students only.
Program Overview
The Post Masters Advanced Certificate Program offers the Masters or Doctorally prepared nurse the ability to continue graduate education to specialize in another clinical area. This Advanced Certificate Program reflects state and national requirements for certification, as well as national trends. This provides the student with eligibility to apply for New York State Certification as well as national certification in their specialty. The Post Masters Advanced Certificate Program clinical specialties include Family Nurse Practitioner, Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Midwifery, Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner. Program credit requirements may vary depending upon program and previous graduate course level work.
Graduate Program Outcomes
- Integrate scientific findings from nursing and related sciences to improve nursing care across diverse settings. (Essential I)
- Demonstrate leadership by collaborating and consulting with key stakeholders in the design, coordination and evaluation of patient care outcomes. (Essential II)
- Apply quality and safety principles within an organization to be an effective leader and change agent. (Essential III)
- Integrate theory, evidence, clinical judgment, research and interprofessional perspectives to improve practice and health outcomes for patient aggregates. (Essential IV)
- Ethically utilize data, information and appropriate technology to evaluate and achieve optimal health outcomes. (Essential V)
- Demonstrate political efficacy and competence to improve the quality of healthcare delivery and health outcomes of populations. (Essential VI)
- Integrate the concepts of interprofessional communication, collaboration and consultation to effectively manage and coordinate care across systems. (Essential VII)
- Synthesize ecological, global and social determinants of health to design and deliver culturally relevant clinical prevention interventions and strategies. (Essential VIII)
- Demonstrate behaviors of professional engagement and lifelong learning. (Essential IX)
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- Completed application including current curriculum vitae/resume
- Master's or Doctoral degree from an accredited nursing program
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- Minimum of one year's recent relevant experience (preferred)
- Cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0
- Current professional Registered Nurse license
- Three online letters of recommendation
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- Three credit undergraduate course in Statistics (by advisement)
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The Low-Hanging Fruit
Hearing childhood teenage professional hero Andy Budd speak at #lwsux last month confirmed many things that I already knew, and introduced me to even more things that I needed to be more aware of (read my full write-up).
The one thing that really got me was talking about the "low-hanging fruit". It's a pretty simple concept, as a consultant, much of the benefit you will bring to an organisation, in improving a system's design, will be painfully obvious.
Take, for example, a client of mine. An old system based on 2003 technology, with even more prehistoric standards support. It used javascript everywhere, all links opened in new windows (complete with navigation) and whilst there were templates, from a programmers perspective, there may as well not have been.
What's the lesson here? Take the easy usability problems and solve them with best practices. Test as you go, there's no need for large-scale user testing unless there's a specific problem that you've been asked to solve. The simple solutions to simple problems solve most of the issues of user-friendliness within a system, and a good bit of IA generally does the rest.
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How to Stop Washing Machine Smells
Of all the appliances in your home, the one you really don't want to smell bad is your washing machine – after all, if it smells bad, so will all your clothes! In order to prevent that horrible mustiness from creeping into everything you wear, a little preventative medicine is in order – but if things have already gotten bad, fear not – there are ways of reversing the damage, and restoring your washer to its former fresh-smelling glory.
Use your washing machine's hot cycle
Saving energy is important, and many washes don't need to run any higher than 30°C, but temperatures slightly higher than that play a key role in ridding your washer of the sorts of bacteria you might associate with yeast fermentation. If you don't want your clothes to smell like rancid homebrew, treat your washer to the occasional hot cycle.
Let your washing machine breathe
A good way to get bad smells out of your washer is to simply allow them to leave – by leaving your washer open, you'll allow the interior to dry properly, and fresh air to circulate it. If you're going to do this and there's a cat in the house, be sure to check the drum next time you go to use the machine: some cats will happily jump in there for a snooze.
Remove clothes promptly
If you have the washer on while you're watching television in the evening, then you might be tempted to leave a finished load to sit while you wait for an opportune break to arise before you empty it. This isn't great for your washing machine, or your laundry. Get it out as quickly as you can!
Limit use of fabric softeners
Fabric softeners are useful for ensuring your clothes stay as soft as possible, but they're not all good news – they leave a faint residue behind that'll provide mildew with the conditions it needs to thrive. To avoid this, and the associated smell, skip the softener for a few loads. You can always use it on your towels – but your jeans probably don't need it!
How to clean a washing machine
If you're already noticing an unpleasant smell forming, don't worry – a quick clean with some caustic chemicals should flush those odours away. That said, this is best done pre-emptively every few months or so to keep odours from forming in the first place.
To clean your washing machine, you'll need:
- Baking Soda
- White vinegar (500ml)
- A sponge
- Combine equal parts baking soda with water. You won't need much of this – a couple of tablespoons should be sufficient.
- Add the mixture to the machine's detergent container. The vinegar should be placed straight into the drum.
- Run an empty cycle, on the highest possible temperature. This will blast any lingering stains and bacteria into oblivion.
- Once you're done, be sure to thoroughly scrub the interior and door, where stubborn stains might be lingering.
Failing all of this, maybe it's time to invest in a new washing machine. View our complete range here.
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Tips & Tricks
How to save energy (insulating hot water tank)
Fitting hot water tank insulation is so easy, and it can save you so much money on your energy bills, it's a bit of a no-brainer really. It means less heat escapes, and it takes less time to heat water up too, so convenient.
The jacket around your tank wants to be 75mm thick at least. You can put further top-up insulation around that, as well as foam sleeves around your pipes.
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Coca-Cola is widely known as the single most recognized trademark in the world. Neither Pepsi, Ford, nor even the golden arches of McDonald's have been able to unseat the cursive script of the bright red and silver hallmark Coca-Cola soda can when it comes to international recognition. So then, why would the soft drink behemoth be so interested in trying to obtain a word mark registration as simple as the word "zero"?
Tartan Wars - Burberry Sues J.C. Penney
Best known for its fashionable raincoats and winter scarves, European luxury retailer Burberry is suing against J.C. Penney Co., Inc. for copying its iconic checked pattern.
World of Warcraft - The Copyright Quest
If you were a teenage boy sometime in the last 20 years (or you were an adult male who wished he was once again a teenager), then you've undoubtedly heard of the popular massively multiplayer online game "World of Warcraft."
And the Award for Most Unusual Trademark Lawsuit Goes to.....
With the arrival of the Academy Awards, many in Hollywood have been obsessing about final preparations for what they're going to wear as they step out of their limousines and walk up the iconic "red carpet" or, better yet, what they're going to say in accepting an award (before being escorted off stage for being too longwinded). Others, namely highly-paid Los Angeles trademark attorneys, are filing infringement lawsuits.
Tenant Bankruptcy Proceedings - Part 2
Last month in part 1 of this discussion about tenants and bankruptcy we addressed two issues: (1) concerns arising out of the automatic stay and (2) whether a tenant will assume or reject the lease. This month we will focus when to seek relief from the automatic stay.


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American online retailer Zappos has removed the traditional hierarchical construction filled with managers, as this structure is deemed to be too bureaucratic and too rigid to function well. The hierarchy will be replaced with "a series of overlapping, self-governing circles".
From hierarchy to holacracy
"As we scaled, we noticed that the bureaucracy we were all used to was getting in the way of adaptability", according to John Bunch in an interview with The Washington Post. The Amazon subsidiary therefore decided to get rid of all managerial layers in order to keep its customer-geared company philosophy. It will now employ "holacracy", a system devised by former software entrepreneur Brian Robertson.
His system replaces the traditional decision pyramid with a series of overlapping, self-governing circles of employees. Each of these circles performs certain functions, with each employee possibly working in several circles. That way the company is built around the work that needs to be done and not around the people doing that work. In theory, it gives the employees a higher level of participation in how the company works.
First large company to adopt system
Zappos is the first large company to apply this "natural" organizational structure. The company has 1,500 employees, 10 % of whom have been introduced into the new system. Bunch believes the entire company will be working in the new structure before the end of the year.
Specialists point out that there may be flaws in the practicability of "holacracy", as the elimination of a hierarchical management structure may prove difficult to execute. "Show me any group of five human beings or five apes or five dogs, and I want to see the one where a status difference does not emerge", Bob Sutton, professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, said.
Sutton does underline that it is a good idea to eliminate friction and internal competition as much as possible, but he feels it is important to create "situations where you're clear who has decision authority." Without that, you "get more politics".
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Category Archives: Digital Media
Airport Announcement in Manila
Love Divine — Opens
Love Divine — Official Release Date
[LD] Love Divine — Premier Date Soon
[LD] Love Divine
Update #6 – Super News! Explode – The Writer's Environment is a Winter 2019 Experiential Network (XN) Project Sponsor – for Northeastern University!
Explode is a platform for content buried on several levels encouraging the user to earn points for discovery. It's a platform for curated and commercial content, using digital media — in an immersive and interactive meta-environment. Like Seth Godin's Purple Cow — The Writers Environment is remarkable — because it has to be. Or, it's just another brown cow — an ordinary website — with ordinary content. But Purple Cows need Purple Cows to be Purple Cows! Explode facilitates purple content, purple website design and development, and purple product placement — for purple people.
In the words of Sam Altman (Y Combinator): "Initially get the small group of people who really love the product vs. a lot of users that like it a little bit… We can build on a lot of love, but we cannot build on a little bit of love. Make something your users love. Start with something simple…"
Deliverable Vignette:
When content on Explode tells a story about a beautiful woman swimming in a pool – we want you to see her. We want you to stumble for points on a link you cannot see, fall down a rabbit hole — and land in an environment with a beautiful woman swimming in a pool, on the inside of a glass house — in Hollywood Hills…
© 2019 E Maria Shelton Speller. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
It is my pleasure to introduce the next level – the NU XN Winter Team 2019 for Explode – The Writers Environment:
Qili Ou
Master of Professional Studies, Informatics • Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Xiaoxing Chen
Master of Professional Studies, Informatics • Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Hongzhi An
Master Informatics • Northeastern University, Boston MA
Han Xiaoguang
Master Informatics • Northeastern University, Boston MA
Xiao Yang
Master Informatics • Northeastern University, Boston MA
Watch this Space!
[The Godforsaken]
Before the godforsaken
had time to swallow…
They knew who first
judged what out of dreams
came truly real*
and he was fastened to a rock
and they knew who
stirreth up the people and dippeth his hand**
in the dish with Judas
and he was nailed to a cross
And they read books within books
about wise and foolish virgins
and signs of the end
and love and judgment
and they heard God talk
through the mouths of men
who talked about him
his son and the holy ghost
When spectators provided the notion of reality
Christ and Prometheus
were objectified and subjectified allegory
spheres of hope and rebellion
courage and prudence
temperance and justice
and how they chose to read it
in the time before terror
depended on what level
they chose to see it
Before the godforsaken
had time to swallow…
They reused and refashioned the heads
of emperors in their own image
because they could
They reinforced power and authority
with legitimate political imagery
like the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses
and General Holofernes
They respected the classical past
in fertile crescents of greed
and rejected classical design
in the center of ruins
They housed the rock in the dome
on which Muhammad ascended to heaven
and hung the Virgin Mary's blue robe
in Chartres Cathedral
When denizens of form said
Nothing is new…
The godforsaken asked
Since when?
since the Lion Gate
since the Great Sphinx of Giza
since Doric and Ionic orders
since the Palette of King Narmer
since the Parthenon
since Stonehenge
Since when?
They stood in the light of starry nights
in the drum, coffers, and concrete cylinders
of uninterrupted space in the Pantheon
and made no apologies for ripping off
master tracks from the past
and heard the hip hop train
sampling every post-hit
with unripe music and blood
and mounted the heads of gods
on the manifest
like the catalog of procreation
in Genesis
They heard his Mother
three blocks away
on parallel streets
screaming redundantly
You won't take my child!
You won't take my child!
at the vigil where transvestites
whispered how many times
her child was stabbed in the neck
Lord have mercy!
Who are these motherfuckers?
on the bottom rung of the Ladder of Descent
trying to climb up
on the backs of allegories
floating in fleeting and airy hope
part of the story
part of the sin
Before the godforsaken
had time to swallow…
They knew
that love ends
as it begins again
on rocks and crosses
in books and dreams
and politics and imagery
under domes and temples
in music and song
and blood and death
in stories and sin
and in the hands
of God
The swallows are building.
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*Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound
** Matthew 26: V21,V22,V23,V25
For more visit: https://www.trenchpeople.com/
[Untitled WIP — The Triptych Roman à clef]
Triptych: A set of three associated artistic, literary, or musical works intended to be appreciated together. Mash it up! Press play at the same time…
Directing the Master Scene in the Mirror
We're standing behind you
The window is your mirror
We're filming your reflections
In the window
You can see
The teardrop on her cheek
The other tear — is in your hair
Reach up and wipe the tear
With your thumb
Roll the tear on your fingers
As if water — is on the wings
of a butterfly_
Now, your face is dry
You point and say something
Insignificant like
"See that gas station down there."
Copyright © 2018 E Maria Shelton Speller
Last Thirty Days on Top (Untreated Pin Impressions)*
*Note: Prose Poem and Literary List (Prosody, Parataxis, Blank Verse, Free Verse, and Found Poetry) based on E Maria Shelton Speller Pinterest Analytics as of June 6, 2019 10:00 PM (EST), for 15 Muse Boards and 5K Pins.
All You Want To Know…
Beautiful and vibrantly dyed locs_
[The [Dollhouse] with the Red Corvette]_
Kanye West's Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy…
[Point Him Out]…
[Wait… there's a surprise at the end]…
I'm not Shy…
A Windy Summer Day — Vogue Italia_
[Skylar — Look at that face… that stop…those eyes!]_
[Blue Chip Stalk]_
Five Weak Words…
Ten Iconic Fashion Photographers_
[An Allusion to CAROL Coming Soon to Explode…]
[Champagne and Balloons in Gothic City]_
[I have a story to tell]_
Swan Queen_
[Marilyn Monroe and James Dean Smoking on a Balcony…]_
Portishead — Glory Box_
Elizabeth Taylor — Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award_
A Queen's Torque_
[Love Divine]_
[Andy's gaze. Edie's eyes.]_
The Queen of Bollywood…
This is Why I Like Art_
White Hot_
Idris Elba_
Purple! Beautiful!_
Diar in Sassoon_
Denim Corset_
Bartolini's Nymph With the Scorpion_
[Int. — Boudoir — Late Afternoon]_
Anthony Thornberg_
[Pluck & Aplomb]_
The Russian Tea Room_
Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase_
Brooks Casamance_
[Legs in the air like you don't care]_
Paul Robeson and Master Julian Bond_
Visualize your highest self…
Water Sculpture_
Look Like Barbie_
Michael Maczuga_
"The Name of the Rose"_
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Happy New Year Poets — 2018!
Happy New Year Poets!
Let's make it happen.
I hope you know, I couldn't move forward — without thanking you for your super support, and lucid/receptive imaginations. I am so glad we are in this environment together!
Have a happy, prosperous, and blessed New Year
and thanks again from Explode — The Writers Environment!
Update #5 — Soft Launch! Explode — The Writer's Environment — Spring 2017 Experiential Network (XN) Project Sponsor — for Northeastern University!
Explode — The Writers Environment
Soft Launch!
Thank you Girl Band of STEMs. You rock!
"Life is lived forward, but can only be understood backward." Kierkegaard
Explode — is a platform for curated content in an interactive meta-environment. The Environment facilitates content and other stories using digital media to redefine how artists, their audience and visitors experience real and virtual content. Explode is not a 'mule' as one follower proffered, with too many components — in a dream too big to bring to fruition. Explode is a spacecraft – and this soft launch is focused on development, functionality, and adjustments before a wider release — that accommodates the Team's good counsel and the Project Manager's concerns: security, budget, data backup, thousands of lines of hard coding and tuning using three.js — the best candidate in a 3D environment; node.js for interactivity; an engine to loop data in response to commands; a requirement for different headsets to present the same effects in virtual space, labor demands — every part of the project divided into sub projects — interface, infrastructure, and content, and finally the project needs a whole project team (5-10 people) and technical professionals to build up the spacecraft in a hard launch for product development. This glib paraphrase, to the Girl Band of STEMs dismay — is necessary to protect what Explode want's to be and how we get there – working backwards.
See prototypes linked below for the conceptual articulation and submergence of the ceiling, walls, and floor of the arcades, the arch, atrium, footprint, and oculus
designed for Explode – The Writers Environment!
Hard Launch Coming in 2018
E Maria Shelton Speller
Project Sponsor
Interface Designer
Yingqian "Selina" Jiang
Project Manager
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The [Dollhouse] with the Red Corvette
The [Dollhouse with the Red Corvette] is a lateral, vertical, linear, horizontal, and spherical art installation. It is a poesy puzzle for verse or graffiti, with sublime imagery. It functions like a mnemonic, a telltale pastiche for found poesy — in a digital world. Some of the pieces fit, and some are misfits — that lead to other immersions… in this stained-glass heaven — this society in the machine…
Copyright © 2017, 2018 E Maria Shelton Speller. All rights reserved.
Woodstock! (WIP (x Bars)) [Reserved][Reserved] 3.0
Overture: Woodstock is an ensemble. There are two voices and the beat in this WIP… the Narrator's voice, Hitchcock's, and "That Yoni" by JuseBeats!
In a walk through Whole Foods like Hitchcock
In his magnum opus
about a world… full of extras
in architectonic loops and links, alliteration and reverie, force, ballast, fancy partitions, linear renderings, systems of reckoning and more — of her…
He wants
Beddo, Caprini, Dolce Sardo
Zufi, the Saperavi
He nods
I'm thinking
Disappointed… in us!
[There's no other way to say it — I can't dress it up]
Caught between a slumbering scream and Vertigo
Cruising isles and isles of sweet and sour
People who think they are special
People who know they are not
People who wish they were
He wants
Beddo, Caprini, Dolce Sardo
Zufi, the Saperavi
Whispers prologue
Guess what we did?
A party of twenty
Three couples played before
winking and willing
shills playing in the round
Lovely trips on the Hill
in augmented VR
I'm thinking…
Baby boomers had their turn Woodstock!
Barefoot bell bottomed hippies
Denim sweeping the ground
Revolutionary hair — fists in the air
Dragging us back in the mud
Blunt antiquity
Move on Woodstock!
Take your shades, caps, change and loose articles
Bombs in black holes!
[Where did you go?]
We should be sunning in the Bahamas
chilling on hemp swings and
chairs swiveling in immersive environments
Higher than kite fights
A soaring for points experience
Get off the ride Woodstock!
You had your turn — at freedom
Exit signs are easy to find — look
The dragon is in the window
Freedom is accessible
Wonder is a trip
with walk through assistants
Dreams of power and prizes
Fall out and Jack into
a walk through Whole Foods like Hitchcock
in his magnum opus
about a world… full of extra
architectonic loops and links, alliteration and reverie, force, ballast, fancy partitions, linear renderings, systems of reckoning — and more — of her… virtually surreal
He wants
Beddo, Caprini, Dolce Sardo
Zufi, the Saperavi
Whispers song
We don't want to feel we're high…
We just want to think we're high
in Dubai
We don't want to feel we're high…
We just want to think we're high
in Dubai
Copyright © 2016 E Maria Shelton Speller. All rights reserved.
I've toyed with a conundrum, for too long. [Reserved][Reserved] functions like a digital art installation in Woodstock! (WIP (x Bars)). I could render [Reserved][Reserved] a mechanism – to catch That Yoni's beat in perpetuity. I could close the brackets with bars that fills your loins with blood. I could leave redundant emptiness here — like tautology or romanticized art, or structural language — in this bifurcated space, like stars.
I could invite Poets to fill the empty bars for [Reserved][Reserved]
Woodstock! (WIP (x Bars)) [Reserved][Reserved]
Overture: Woodstock is an ensemble. There are two voices and the beat in this WIP… the Narrator's voice, Hitchcock's, and "That Yoni". See Side Bar by JuseBeats!
[Reserved][Reserved] — An Invitation to Dine
Dear Poet, [Yes, you!]
I've toyed with a conundrum, for too long. [Reserved][Reserved] functions like a digital art installation in Woodstock! (WIP (x Bars)). I could render [Reserved][Reserved] a mechanism – to catch That Yoni's beat in perpetuity. I could close the brackets with bars that fills your loins with blood. I could leave redundant emptiness here — like tautology or romanticized art, or structural language — in this bifurcated space, like stars.
I could invite Poets to fill [Reserved][Reserved] with dope poesy and select a date for submission. However, if we receive one hundred thousand and one couplings, we'd read them… but frankly, why not do, all of the above.
The empty brackets function like missing endings now — lacking only your bylines, pseudonyms, and ghosts — in translatable bars that work in Woodstock! (WIP (x Bars)).
Poets make this space immersive. Explode – The Writer's Environment is an interactive environment — and this is the first foray for interactivity in this community — that links back to you!
Starting August 15, 2017 — let's finish this poem with the best bars — curated for Woodstock! (WIP (x Bars)) here… Bon appétit.
The Chelsea Hotel, Manhattan
PS: No Spam — Balls in the air! An experience for us and them.
Copyright © 2017 E Maria Shelton Speller
Update #4 — Super News! Explode — The Writer's Environment is a Spring 2017 Experiential Network (XN) Project Sponsor — for Northeastern University!
Explode — The Writers Environment
Spring XN Project
E Maria Shelton Speller
Project Sponsor
Interface Designer
Yingqian "Selina" Jiang
Project Manager
Girl Band of STEMs
Girl Band of STEMs, is a lark, a careful ruse about a writer, who comments on her own stories. It is metafiction in a digital world. This, I would argue. The author writes a story about herself, writing a story about her Band, and the Band knows they're in the story, about a story that interacts with you. She writes a story, where her audience is her muse – may demand she change the ending, in an installation we build in space — for dreams, on a loop…
The Band asked me to write tags for my work. Tags! But, opportunity or obstacle… the Muse is insatiable — until it works. Poets know that tick, when everything becomes art – in a second glance. Woodstock, was absolute freestyle in a digital world. I worked on it for weeks… and wrote it Live one Saturday afternoon – five hundred revisions at least. Poets know that tick. I changed commas to periods and back again – metaphors to imagery, slowed it down, sped it up. Reminisced. If you were there on that Saturday afternoon, Woodstock was a writer's tick at work. I wrote the hook on the 7th Street Bridge. Installed [Reserved][Reserved] when I lost my way. Found the beat, marked the spot, and then it looked like a digital art installation, in spite of the implications — for structural functionalism in space. But, my muse is pissed…
Tag: Woodstock. A Band for Immersive Content. A Woodstock Experience.
Tag: The Foreword to Insomnia's Istanbul — The Voice of an Unreliable Narrator in Medias Res: Unlike the neighbors next door, who desperately moan for us all, in the back of a dolmus — sex is existentialism. It is earnest copulation, a period of decline in a carriage drawn by a wild-eyed spooked horse — and I hoped she felt the sharp turn, at the corner of the Soup Kitchen of Lady Nilufer, in her throat.
Tag: Love Divine: Tadao bathes Tess in a black granite tub. Then he slips behind her like an ice cream scoop. Blood spills like a waterfall in a Japanese dream over the side of the tub. Red water on the porcelain floor looks like a strawberry swirl.
Tag: Metafiction — [The Dollhouse] with the Red Corvette: [Vous êtes contrarié parce que je suis sorti du lit. Ce n'était pas ce que tu imaginais – dans le film dans ta tête. Je ne peux pas aller aux toilettes, quitter la pièce ou fumer une cigarette. smh]
Tag: Tagging Dystopia: [OdamnIwantedtheopportunitytocomefrommichelleO]
Tag: Aristotle Michelangelo and Louis Picasso's Parallel Discussions: Come on baby. All you have to do is dream — from the end of a pen.
Tag: Luda's Second Soliloquy — Miles Language II. [Metaphor].
Tag: [For The Purple One]
Tag: [The Life of Pie] He thought/Big Blue was a deeper trip/Absurd space looked/Absurd from here/He looked around the virtual/And mad shouted/Who read the pieces first?/Anyone?/How did it ring?/How did it feel?/How did it resonate?/She said, I started at the slices/Chaos, straight out the gate/When Big Blue was just/The sky.
Tag: Picasso The Bohemian (Les Demoiselles d' Avignon) "…She told halcyon tales of life — uninterrupted by death and chthonian sex — like the brazen whore in the fore — riding the fugitive cube — with the wasp waist and black aft — Eucharistic grapes, and the curl of the rind — pointing to glorious thighs — and with eyes in the back of her head — she watched the spectator off center… watching — Picasso The Bohemian — who lived in Barcelona — standing behind the curtain — wearing a mask…"
Tag: Explode [Am I awake, or are you a dream?]
Tag: The Gaze (WIP) I know I needed to stay in and listen to music like Paz did and avoid humans — he said, "To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears." Instead, I left my home and this is what happened… Apparently, a new and poorly trained employee provided incorrect information over the phone. Consequently, I arrived unprepared, and had to return to my vehicle. Because, I had to return to my vehicle (in the rain) parked around the corner — I ultimately, received a ticket for expired meter! A ticket. What should have been a $26 transaction is now $76 in this crowded, greedy — unimaginative city!
Tag: Directing the Master Scene in the Mirror. It's impossible to write poetry, without libido. Without libido, there's no passion and without passion, there's no pluck.
Black Marnie
Looked like [Mardou Fox]
through Kerouac's eyes_
Remember… those puffy lips?
Yakuza found her in Tokyo
and lost her — in the Philippines….
[Wait… There's a surprise at the end]_
They stole Alexa
She had all the poetry
Yakuza chased her through Tokyo
to the Phillipines
Alexa, was everything to him
Cream like the color of his skin
Ahh, the poetry
He lost everything
Fell in love with a haunting hunt
Baby, come back to me
Copyright © 2017, 2018 E Maria Shelton Speller All rights reserved.
Update #3 — Super News! Explode — The Writer's Environment is a Spring 2017 Experiential Network (XN) Project Sponsor — for Northeastern University!
We have the solution, information architecture, documentation, literature, and wireframe design for Explode – The Writer's Environment! Like Da Vinci's sfumato – you can't see it, but you know something's back there!
The information architecture is flat, the wireframe is behind a VR scene/mechanism that looks non-logical for locating functions — but still has consistency for navigating users. Yingqian Jiang "Selina's" design accommodates content – not just Explode's content — any content.
To bring the project to fruition — Ms. Jiang and Northeastern University have agreed to a seamless hand-off of this milestone to the Northeastern University's Experiential Network's Spring Term 2017 — for ideally — two students:
- One Computer Science Student (PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript)
- One Game Development Student (make videos interactive)
Selina designed an unprecedented prototype for content delivery. To share the documentation – and absolute vision at this juncture would be premature when we are striving for an immersive dynamic environment, with a game development engine, and a Storyboard to make the website rich and interactive on Go Live. This project is pushed back to the summer of 2017.
Thanks for hanging in here with us! Stand by for updates.
Escapades and Props (WIP)
Its Manhattan...
Istanbul's Muse Board
June 2, 2017
Explode — The Writers Environment Experiential Network Project — has a girl band of STEMs! Stand by for updates.
May 19, 2017
You never appreciate home
As much as when you come home
Where God lives… with you
May 11, 2017
Haiku #13
Name baby something
Something easy to retrieve
Then share Me with friends
About a Prisoner of Love (Props to Christopher Logue's War Music)
Look at the smile on my face. I knew you were selfish. Abandoned, you left me on the side of the road. Gone. Put yourself in my place. Left, on the side of the road. Naked. I knew you would own me — broken and falling to pieces — in halcyon swirls, dark storms, and faints. I would let you stand me on my head, spin me like a top, a dreidel — and catch me, before I fell. Then, you said you would sleep with her because, "Why not? It's not a competition — though you might win. Its not about… us." That's balls. CUT!
April 9, 2017
Notes on Manhattan: This is not a Warhol ~ Basquiat Installation. I curated the Opening and a still – not the fucking gorgeous film. While it is lovely — I did not curate Manhattan. Not my composition — not my triptych. This space is for art — for the sake of art — unaltered. It's Explode: The Writer's Environment!
To curate content in this space, please contact me.
April 25, 2017
Thanks Halo Music!
Last night, a friend and I
took the Kimye Tour
in Cuba
I was a voyeur
A friend took him there and there and there
Unbeknown to him
I asked him if he knew where Kimye went
in Cuba
We roared and stumbled on together
Please please paint a picture…
Funny, you asked!
Copyright 2017 by E Maria Shelton Speller. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Update #2: Super News! Explode – The Writer's Environment is a Summer, Fall and Winter Experiential Network (XN) Project Sponsor — for Northeastern University!
The XN project for Explode is conducting a poll to gather feedback on your experience and expectations for Explode – This Writer's Environment. The poll should take no more than 4-5 minutes. Be assured all answers you provide will be kept in the strictest confidentiality.
With much gratitude and appreciation, please take this opportunity to participate in this XN project poll for Explode – This Writer's Environment. Your voices are a critical component for the successful launch of the writer's environment! Thanks!
The poll is located here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsGtw6V4ituIBM33Hw_EcITxxOXo3wcEbZ9IF BZvsJICRvhg/viewform?embedded=true
Update #1: Super News! Explode – The Writer's Environment is a Summer, Fall and Winter Experiential Network (XN) Project Sponsor — for Northeastern University!
It is my pleasure to introduce Yingqian "Selina" Jiang. Ms. Jiang is the NU XN Winter Term student for Explode – The Writer's Environment! Selina, MS in Project Management with a concentration in Finance, and MS in Informatics – graduates this fall. Her academic projects include the Peking University Science and Engineering Building, the Movable Sidewalk for Logan Airport Terminal E, and the Casino in Mashpee. She is also a volunteer for the Japan Festival Boston Committee and the Mulan Non-profit Organization.
Ms. Jiang would like to conduct Voices of the Customer (VoC), or surveys if you will, to inform the project completion and launch of Explode – This Writer's Environment in March 2017!
The XN survey would gather feedback on your experience and expectations for Explode, and should take no more than 4-5 minutes. Be assured all answers you provide will be kept in the strictest confidentiality.
Your voices are a critical component for the successful launch of the writer's environment. With much gratitude and appreciation, please take this opportunity to participate in the survey, and join me in welcoming Ms. Jiang to the writer's environment!
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Super News! Explode – The Writer's Environment is a Summer and Fall Experiential Network (XN) Project Sponsor — for Northeastern University!
XN is a new initiative from Northeastern University (NU) that offers graduate and professional students and sponsoring organizations experiential opportunities to collaborate on short-term, real-world projects in the best co-op program in the country, and positions NU as the global leader in experiential learning! Organizations move forward on project-based work and connect with rising professional talent while students gain real work experience and valuable learning opportunities.
Students have a range of skill-sets including digital media and marketing, data analytics, corporate and nonprofit project management, regulatory strategy, communications management and the Creative Digital Solution for a VR/Game-Inspired Concept for Explode – The Writer's Environment during the Summer, Fall and Winter Terms of 2016!
Details included the Project Description:
Explode – This Writer's Environment is a Kick Starter Project 2.0. The first launch is what Rita Gunther McGrath calls, "failing by design". The launch was admittedly, a treatment to direct investors to Explode, as well as a serious foray, to define content while using the Writers Environment as a springboard to other experiences. That unsuccessful project was a lost opportunity, but an intelligent fail. Explode — The Writer's Environment is space for visionaries — Poets, Writers, Coders, Programmers, Filmmakers, Thespians, Graphic Designers, Artists, Musicians, Directors, Cinematographers, Designers, Educators, Historians, Actors, Conceptual and Performance artists, Photographers, and finally, Virtual Reality Developers and Designers. It is a platform for curated content, in an interactive meta-environment – that pulls and pushes information. The Environment facilitates content and other stories – using digital media for curated art to redefine how artists, their audience and visitors experience real and virtual content. The project details included problems to be solved, goals, and deliverables — scheduled for completion March 2017.
Please stand by. See updates! Thank you for your continued support! Let's rock and roll!
Aristotle Michelangelo and Louis Picasso's Parallel Discussions
Aristotle Michelangelo and Louis Picasso's
Parallel Discussions (In Medias Res) Overtaken by Events
Behind Pushkin's Coffeehouse, Aristotle Michelangelo and Louis Picasso sat on the remnants of a barge, trading barbs in Ibiza… swinging high top leather sock hip hop sneakers, and creeper boots in blue green virtual water, with Rick Owens' reflection in the pool, burning fat ones – away from the beautiful ones — in a Period Piece. The Darlings of today's literati — visionaries during the Harlem Renaissance, play themselves in a satirical throwback in VR.
Louis Picasso: "In RL, it's 6 P.M. You just got home from work or you work from home in your virtual office. You decide to spend the evening in space! You scan Balmain for your Avatar – dope fashion — with as much audacity as Hype Williams' black lacquered Keisha in Belly — wearing Versace!
You decide to download your brand new Porsche designed by Porsche and Atari for Microsoft, on the Pacific Coast Highway — Malibu on the left, Pepperdine University on the right, you're on your way to virtual LA in the fast lane — your thighs are burning. Other avatars and their cars share the PCH too — driving Vipers, Corvettes, the white BMW X6 and you are speeding at 100 MIPS, streaming Coltrane.
Aristotle Michelangelo interjects: "Then you decide to go to BET's virtual Nuyorican Café in Gotham City for the Open Mike – Saul Williams and Jessica Care Moore are featured (as themselves) tonight. You hand the keys to the valet — pay at the door with your password, sit front row center no matter what time you arrive, sign up to read your poem — because you can start over from the beginning or resume. Gender! Lame. Race is unimaginative in Space. Ethnicity is a brand — at best. The Open Mike is over at 10 P.M. but there is still time to go to Bar Pitti. You walk in and Claude McKay is at the bar in a heated debate with Ralph Ellison about literary ownership — by Netflix.
McKay shouts and then nearly whispers to Ellison, 'It takes more than creative androgyny to "embody" the opposite sex. The storytelling responsibility of all writers, whether female or male is to fill the void. When a woman creates a man, she must imagine the sensation of "owning" a penis. When a man creates a woman, he must imagine the sensation of "owning" a vagina. It is a void, not a vacuum. A vacuum would imply the all-consuming black hole — the feminization of sex. It is not trained comprehension or chromosomes — it takes pure imagination to get the story straight…'
Louis Picasso: "Then, at Midnight, you blow kisses and wuggles to your friends, and log off. You stand and stretch your back, and your bladder is bursting because you forgot about your biological realities. The television is off; it has been off for weeks. Why watch television when you can be your own audience? Randall Walser said it best, "The filmmaker says, 'Look, I'll show you.' The space maker says, 'Here, I'll help you discover.' We will be our own creators functioning like actors in high culture — tools of the taste public! We will create our own universes — our own planets. We can superimpose our images circa 6 BC – AD 30, and follow Jesus to the Promised Land, witness the crucifixion – and how we feel and what we think is utterly private and without commercials! Because, global messages with common appeal will forever change with today's technology, the challenge is to make communication visual, images symbolic, and still sell product… I want to propose arcane ideas…"
Aristotle Michelangelo interjects: "I want to develop, manage, and direct vision. My goal is to be where imagination and business are indistinguishable, because imagination without business, and business without imagination is as incongruous as capitalism without consumers… I found a dope quote dog!"
"When, she was still in her teens, well before she met Caesar, Cleopatra already had slept with Antony… though Caesar was fifty-three and she but twenty-three or so she proved ready enough to bed her third Roman. It is said that Cleopatra was a woman of lively turn and enticing talents. She also had a keen sense of the political. That this Roman [Caesar] conqueror had the power to secure the Egyptian throne for her must have added to the attraction she felt for him…Caesar established her in a sumptuous villa across the Tiber, from which she held court, while political leaders, financiers, and men of letters, including the renowned Cicero, danced in attendance." Michael Parenti
Louis Picasso: I'm reading the same book, and I have a better one!
"In a prologue to Caesar and Cleopatra [George Bernard Shaw] that is almost never performed, the god Ra tells the audience how Rome discovered that 'the road to riches and greatness is through robbery of the poor and slaughter of the weak.' In conformity with that dictum, the Romans 'robbed their own poor until they became great masters of that art, and knew by what laws it could be made to appear seemly and honest.' And after squeezing their own people dry, they stripped the poor throughout the many other lands they conquered." Michael Parenti
Aristotle Michelangelo: Shrugged his shoulders unconsciously, "Chez Bricktop in Paris?"
Louis Picasso: Not now. I am having a violent reaction to prescription drugs! My body is like, 'Don't put that shit down here again!' They gave me all this medication for Acute Caesarion whatever — and I took it! Of course, you don't exhaust the shit. You're not an idiot. But, what the fuck? Where the weed at?"
Copyright 2016, E Maria Shelton Speller. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Aristotle Michelangelo: I think it would be dope to channel Kerouac's apology for automatic writing.
"He likened writing to dreaming and fantasizing, as a substitute for life. So, he wrote The Subterraneans, in three days and nights of speed typing energized by Benzedrine — to imitate the rhythm of Bebop like free energy flow, and unrestrained association, to reveal the unconscious… because he wanted to flow from inside out in spontaneous prose!" Dystopia, Explode 2015 2.0
So, here goes… They called her Marnie — behind her back. I was torn. I played with variations of Marnie. Black Marnie. Brown Marnie, Tortilla Marnie. It's the language of found art. Bansky, Kehinde, Jazz, Hip Hop… They teased each other. Hitchcock's Margaret, Mary, Marnie, teases Mark, so she could get the combination, to his company safe, and steal the money. She was a Kleptomaniac, a compulsive thief. A killer. She disappears. On the run! He tracks her like an animal, and finds her at a Lodge, riding her horse to the stables. He orders her off the horse, tells her she'll walk — he'll ride. He interrogates her. She tells him a bullshit story she can't keep straight. He calls it, manure! Tells her to start over from the beginning, and this time — tell the truth. Back at the Lodge – he tells her to freshen up, change her clothes so he might take her to the police – she thinks. She does not know… It's Tippi Hedren in RL! The white woman of a black man's dreams – when he dreams about white women. Blonde, pearly white teeth and skin — Barbie! Beckie! He tells her, they will return to 'the house' and announce they are engaged, would to be married within the week and then cruise around the world. Of course, she thinks he's "Out of his mind!" He told her, it was either marriage or the police, old girl. Black Marnie. Who would play her?
They get married. Eventually he takes her virginity. She tries to commit suicide. I don't think I want to go there… Suicide. Who should play Mark? [#nomoreslavestories.] Does he catch her?
Louis Picasso: I remember that story. He said, I caught a real animal this time. I had to train her… to trust me.*
Aristotle Michelangelo: Pussy Riot danced in the cathedral — goes to jail, and the artist nailed his scrotum to the Red Square. She's a prisoner of love. That kind of love makes me uncomfortable, racked, and anguished like a pet must be around possessive people. The energy is ignitable like the choice between blowing up and letting go. I don't want to belong to anyone. But, what do I know about love?
Louis Picasso: Black people don't like black people. That's why we're in this — hole… barrel, bucket, duck it, fuck it… We know it's true. Listen to the tonal center of this beat!
Aristotle Michelangelo: In sixty revolutions a minute, if it's not organic, I can't get with it. Hate is not organic. Hate is a social construct. I want to live the life I swam to the egg for… A social construct is like zoon pushed to the egg, by stronger swimmers behind it. It's still goal niggaz. I want an organic experience on this gridiron. A certain freedom, mere man can't give, conceive or contrive. I want freedom Divine. You want to be free — you have to fuggin' work for it. Zufi?
Aristotle Michelangelo: You need money, software and rigs in the virtual world. Bombs are obsolete. Race and gender is a pastiche — game challenges for points.
Louis Picasso: Beauty and power is iconography and homely stamps are hiccups – and brick and mortar is a path to experience the destruction of daredevils and matadors — in coliseums of pestilence and poverty – empirically.
Aristotle Michelangelo: Why go there? When, life is a perfect dream in a virtual world.
Louis Picasso: IJS. Get on board with — evolution. Evolution is not physical space. It's the diamond life in our heads on a loop. Its VR not the moon…
Copyright 2016, 2018, E Maria Shelton Speller. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
*Alfred Hitchcock, Marnie


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How to Set Up a Soundbar for Maximum Sound
Mr. John's recently owned an apartment with a 10 ft × 12 ft bedroom. His new apartment is filled with almost all the nice aesthetics, especially his TV that costs more than two thousand dollars.
He's happy with everything he bought, except the sound quality of his television. That's the thing that sucks. He often airs his discontent on it. He thinks his expensive TV is good for nothing. Now he's up to sell it off.
No doubt that's a wrong decision which will cause him a big loss. He can be relieved of this by spending even no more than hundred bucks.
Know how???
Keep reading. We are about to share a secret!
Why You Should Consider Buying a Soundbar?
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Our televisions usually have the speakers in the back, and they project sounds behind the TVs instead of towards those who are watching. Thus, the sound is bounced off the ceilings and walls around the TV set resulting in poor quality of sound and forcing us to turn the volume up.
Here comes soundbar, a simple booster speaker with a built-in amplifier, easier to install. You'll be amused with your TV sound quality changed by it as compared to the built-in speakers.
You can also buy an expensive setup like surround sound speakers, but you can avoid all those expenses with a fine soundbar.
Different Kinds of Soundbar:
There are many ways to improve your TV sound quality. Depending upon strengths and weakness there are different type of soundbars– the speaker-only soundbars, the soundbar with surround expansion option and the soundbar with wireless subwoofer.
We're describing them below.
Speaker-only Soundbar
It spreads far better sound than the TV speakers you usually hear. It can meet all that you'd expect. It's placed under the TV.
You could even use a subwoofer output with a separate wired subwoofer. Moreover, you'll have various choices in upgrading the quality of your TV sound.
Soundbar with Surround Expansion Option
Left, center and right- these three channels are handled by this soundbar, letting you experience 5.1 surround sounds. You can also use small surround speakers which are hardwired to subwoofer located at the back of the room where the surrounds are to be placed.
Without buying an AV (audio/video) receiver, you can have a cool way to get 5.1 surround sound with the soundbar.
Soundbar with Wireless Subwoofer
You won't get very high bass but enough punch and boom in the low end with it. This system is wireless and can be placed anywhere you want. All you need to do is to plug it in.
This soundbar does not only maintain beautiful look in your room but also provides you with extra low-frequency you didn't experience before.
It'll really make you enjoy any movie you watch. These aren't so expensive, and you can have subwoofer and soundbar both in a package.
Placing a Soundbar
While you're selecting a soundbar, you need to get answers for the following questions-
- What type of inputs and outputs does your TV have on its back?
- How big is your TV?
- Is it wall-mounted, or does it sit on a stand?
- Is there enough space left behind its stand or room for a subwoofer?
You can put the soundbar on the same stand just in front of your TV or mount it on the wall below the set. But the TV's infrared (IR) receiver may be blocked by the soundbar in case of HDTVs and large soundbars placed in front of the set; otherwise, there's no problem.
If such problem arises as the bar comes in the way, the easiest solution is- to put inexpensive sound bar brackets above your television.
Although many soundbars operate without the support of any hardware or software, you might want to consider using additional speakers. Yes, there are some other bars coming up in the market with a companion subwoofer. Before making a purchase, look if the models are labeled "2.1". That means the system will offer two channels of sound with a subwoofer.
There are also sound pedestals or wireless satellite speakers people use to experience a different quality of sound. Sound pedestals have a similar profile like other bar brethren, but they take an entire base for the TV to sit on. You can get better bass from them than subwoofer-less soundbars.
Wireless satellite speakers belong to a new area while our aim mainly is to upgrade the cheap and simple plug-&-play soundbar for getting maximum sound quality.
Make sure you select the soundbar with the right connections for your TV and other gears while you're going to buy one. If you can't connect it to your television, no matter how cool it is it's worthless.
Most of the users find the HDMI ports and optical audio ports very useful. If your TV doesn't have any optical audio ports, plug the devices you use like cable box, game console and Blu-ray player into the soundbar and send the video through to your TV. If your TV has optical audio ports, you may use this way or plug all devices you use into the TV and let the audio go out to the soundbar.
Read Also: How to Connect Soundbar to PC
As a simple receiver for many devices, multi-port models like Yamaha YSP 2220 are extremely good as you can pipe in sound from multiple high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) sources with the HDMI ports or from older video game system with the analog ports.
Other Traits for Maximum TV Sound with a Soundbar
There are lots of models in the market which have this feature. You may want to stream music instantly to the soundbar with this ability. Bluetooth pairing is one of the common features that enables you to connect your phone or another Bluetooth device to the speaker for audio playback. Maybe you cannot avoid it.
There are some soundbars that have built-in support for Wi-Fi connectivity and clients for popular streaming services like Spotify, Pandora etc. Depending on the speakers and other key factors, soundbars are marked with various features and they provide smart TV functionality like supporting Netflix etc.
Summing Up
In the end, we say if you aren't fully satisfied with your amazing expensive TV only because of the bad sound it spreads, then don't plan to get rid of it. Just buy a suitable soundbar and see how it turns your gloomy face happy. A proper soundbar can make your television sound much better than a defective speaker.


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UC Davis Tournament Central | Sacramento State Tournament Central
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – A trip to play in the Capital Classic, which is being played at UC Davis and Sacramento State, is up next for Santa Clara softball. The Broncos will play Rider at 9:30 a.m. and UC Davis at noon on the UC Davis campus Friday. They will play Rider at 9:30 a.m. and Sacramento State at noon on the Sacramento State campus Saturday. Sunday they will play Marist at 12:30 p.m. at Sacramento State.
In the first midweek game of the year, Santa Clara fell to Bucknell 8-4 Tuesday evening at San Jose State.
Santa Clara (4-13) is hitting .242 as a team with 19 doubles, four triples, and three home runs while scoring 50 runs.
Sammy Needham leads the team with a .435 batting average and eight doubles. She also leads the team with a .527 on-base percentage and a .652 slugging percentage. Regan Dias is hitting .386 with a .509 OBP and a team-high nine RBIs while scoring 11 runs. Eleni Spirakis' 12 runs scored are the most on the team and she is batting .321 with five doubles, a triple, and a home run.
Lauren Anderson has thrown a team-leading 48 1/3 innings in 12 games, including nine starts, with two complete games and a save. Dias also has two complete games in five starts and has come out of the bullpen three times for 33 innings. Lauren Schiek has pitched in 10 games covering 18 innings and Aubree Kim has tossed 15 1/3 innings.
Rider (0-12) has been outscored 97-9 on the season. The Broncos are batting .147 as a team with seven doubles and a home run. They have a 9.48 team ERA with 30 strikeouts in 65 innings.
UC Davis (18-4) has outscored its opponents 122-59. The Aggies are batting .299 as a team with 23 doubles, eight triples, and 17 home runs. In the circle, they have a 2.45 ERA with 131 strikeouts in 146 innings.
Fairleigh Dickinson (5-12) has been outscored 75-39 this season. The Knights hit .196 as a team with 13 doubles and two triples. They have a team ERA 5.67 with 64 strikeouts in 108 innings.
Sacramento State (11-10) has outscored its opponents 97-85. The Hornets are hitting .262 as a team with 24 doubles, four triples, and 18 home runs. They have posted a 3.30 team ERA with 89 strikeouts in 138 innings.
Marist (5-6) has been outscored on the year 50-45. The Red Foxes are hitting .274 with 21 doubles, two triples, and four doubles. They have a 3.38 ERA with 60 strikeouts in 74 2/3 innings.
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Comments, a new feature available thanks to a free trial of One-on-One Plus, is designed to improve preparation and follow-up at BIO
A brand new feature is now available in One-on-One: Comments. Using the Comments feature, attendees can collaborate with their colleagues to better prepare for their partnering meetings and for the post-meeting follow-up. The feature is a part of One-on-One Plus, available to BIO attendees through a special free trial.
One-on-One and One-on-One Plus are the next-generation partnering system, powered by BIO and Inova. One-on-One is the new conference module launched for the 2015 BIO International Convention. One-on-One Plus is an advanced scouting module powered by Inova. This secure, private environment is seamlessly integrated with One-on-One and enables enterprise-wide collaboration on partnering meetings and opportunities.
Full access to One-on-One Plus won't be available until June 22nd, but the Comments feature has been made available early to help attendees get the most out of BIO 2015. Any One-on-One user can activate and use this feature.
Using the Comments feature, attendees post comments, suggest meeting prep questions, and submit replies to their colleagues without leaving One-on-One. These discussions are kept in a single secure place, helping attendees conduct high quality meetings and keeping key insights right at their fingertips, accessible from their tablet or laptop. After the conference, attendees can reference Comments as they assess the opportunities they found during the event and plan their follow-ups.
When full access to One-on-One Plus opens, Comments will be part of the full suite of features available in that module. These features include the ability to share BIO partnering data internally (including with colleagues that did not attend BIO), quickly create meeting minutes, assign tasks to colleagues, attach documents, emails and notes to meetings and more.
To learn how to use the Comments feature, watch the tutorial video below:


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Teen Prayer Breakfast
Teen Prayer Breakfast meets every Wednesday morning when school is in session. We kick the morning off at 8:00am with devotions and prayer for all of the teens, this is followed by a "big" breakfast. Then it is time to get everyone out the door and on their way to school. Transportation to school is available if needed.
Questions? Call Jason at 294-2405 or 580-0581.
Questions? Call Jason at 294-2405 or 580-0581.