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Java Notes
Directories and Files
Put all source files into a directory, one class per file
When you start a new project, create a new directory for the source files. The directory name should be lowercase letters, with no blanks or other punctuation. The directory is used as the package.
Each class should be defined in its own .java file
Put each of your classes in its own file. It's easy to do. Here are a couple of minor rules.
- Make sure all classes (.java files) are in the same directory (folder).
- You need separate import statements for each class.
- You may have to compile a class that is referenced before the class that uses it. Whether you have to do this or not depends on which devopment system you're using.
- When you run the program, you may have to have the class that contains
main(. . .)be visible in your development system (depends on the development system.
There are some exceptions (inner classes), but this is the general rule that applies to almost all Java programming.
It's possible to put more than one class in a file and have everything work. I did this for a long time for small programs, but have given it up because it doesn't scale up as you create larger programs and use more better development tools. A common development tool, Ant, works best when each class is in its own source file.
Multiple classes of larger programs are usually grouped together into packages. See Packages - Defining for how and why to use packages.


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How can I avoid the probate process?
Though not everyone is familiar with the term probate, those who are aware of it know that it can be a very difficult and expensive process. Even if a person feels as though he or she has outlined the ways in which assets are to be distributed, there is always the chance that something may go wrong or that the process may be delayed. Without the original owner being present to resolve any disputes or questions, the process can take months or even years to resolve.
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Bulletin Letter from March 18
Dear friends,
As Spring Break wraps up, we head into the late days of Lent. Holy Week and Easter will be here before you know it. I hope that your Lent is going well, a time of grace and growth. My recovery from surgery continues to go well. My first post-op follow up visit with the doctor was routine and he was encouraged that everything looks good. I will have three more follow up appointments in coming weeks to measure the outcome of the surgery. About mid-week I began feeling myself again and having something approximating my normal energy. Having never had general anesthesia before, I was not aware how it really knocks you out and has a hangover effect for several days. Again, I thank you all for your well-wishes and prayers.
As we approach Holy week and the end of Lent, I would like to encourage the entire parish to plan to participate in the wide variety of liturgical and other opportunities that will be offered through the parish. Our holiest season demands extra efforts on our part to celebrate and commemorate the events that brought about our salvation.
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Pecha Kucha (20X20) presentation style
Originated in Japan – designed as venue for architects and designers to exchange ideas.
Now a world-wide phenomenon. See web site for local Pecha Kucha nights (similar to open
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- 20 slides
- 20 seconds per slide
- 6 min. 40 seconds total
- Automatically advanced
- Little text on slides (no bullet points)
- Presenter uses few or no notes
Why is Pecha Kucha good idea?
- No bullet points on the slides. Presenter cannot just stand and read bullet points to present.
- Little or no text. Images, particularly complex images take several seconds for viewers to
- process completely. Text distracts from this processing.
- Designed to inspire. You should feel a keen interest in the subject in order to inspire others.
- Most importantly … Because of the design, you must have real ownership of the material in order to present in this way.
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Podtech raises $5.5 million to create the "NPR" of podcasting
|John Furrier
John Furrier is a bit of a hyperactive guy you will see at technology conferences around Silicon Valley. He bounds around with a microphone, taking audio recordings of people, with seeming limitless reserves of energy.
He launched his own company, called Podtech last year, around the time we first bumped into him. He posts his audio recordings to his Web site, where you can subscribe to them as podcasts.
Podtech's site has seen about a million of podcasts downloaded, making Furrier realize he was on to something. People around the world wanted to listen to the recordings, and so he figured he should pull out the stops.
So today he announces he has received $5.5 million in venture backing from venture capital firms USVP and Venrock, both big-name Sand Hill Road firms.
This comes at a time when conventional wisdom says creating content like podcasts doesn't make much money.
You may have heard of Podshow and Odeo, two other services, which are creating advertising networks around podcasts.
But Podtech's Furrier is simply a guy doing podcasts. Granted, he says he's now got three other people working with him generating news podcasts, and ten employees overall. "We're a media company dedicated to podcasting," he told us. "We're not trying to build a network, or aggregate. We're just trying to create content."
He concedes: "It was passe. VCs said they don‰Ąút do content deals."
But there is a price for taking capital; the ramp-up begins:
1) He will be hiring a full podcasting news team, a sort of National Public Radio for podcasting.
2) He'll build out what he calls Infotalk. This is where other people produce podcasts in partnership with Podtech, and there will be some sort of split of the revenue generated from advertising running alongside or within the podcasts.
3) He'll build out a sponsorship network. These will be businesses like Intel (you will see Intel's feature channel on Podtech's homepage) which will pay Podtech to produce and host podcasts.
We asked Eric Copeland, venture capitalist at Venrock, how one makes money from content creation.
He said: "The answer is not so easy. If you‰Ąúre a producer, you‰Ąúll have a consulting business, and you‰Ąúll make money, but you won‰Ąút have a highly scalable opportunity. So the thing for John to do is to kick-start production, to prove the model and get others to produce." The plan, he said, is for Furrier to generate revenue from advertising, from hosting, from distribution of podcasts and from "syndication" -- with "corporate marketing" being a big part of that.
Links to blogs that reference this entry:
Podcasting news: PodTech.net's funding and TalkCrunch's first show
Excerpt: Busy evening on the podcasting front: first came the inaugural show of a new weekly podcast, TalkCrunch. Given the highly recognizable brand, you won't be surprised to listen to the audio extension of TechCrunch. The first show is about events and cal...
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Here's our take on news that matters for Monday, March 20. Today's theme is magic Monday , and here are a some links to headlines about technology that is changing the way we live and learn.
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PodTech Raised $5.5 Million of Venture
Excerpt: PodTech raises $5.5 million of venture announced on the PodTech.net site.ĺĘ Last week we closed a Series A financing in the amount of $5.5 million. Venture investors are Venrock and US Venture Partners and a handful of Silicon Valley angel investors. V...
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Granted, he says he's now got three other people working with him. "..
Matt: we have 10 employees now but I have three other people on the PodTech News team.
ThanksJohn Furrier on March 16, 2006 12:12 AM
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Thanks John. I've updated to add in the ten. Apologies.Matt Marshall on March 16, 2006 12:41 AM
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hi john,
what about getting a chinese version going as there's a lot of ipod users here?
i've left a phone mesg. with jennifer jones with my contact details.
george cheung on March 16, 2006 6:40 AM
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Awesome news John, congratulations! Now we will do that podcast at some point won't we?Gus Spathis on March 16, 2006 7:09 AM
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StreetIQ.com has been doing business podcasts for a while, too. Scottrade is its big corporate sponsor.Henry Peglar on March 16, 2006 7:18 AM
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Hey... I've had 300K or so downloads. I'll take a mill.Jesse Thorn on March 16, 2006 10:45 AM
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John -
Hearty congratulations to you and your team!Brian O'Shaughnessy on March 16, 2006 12:32 PM
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Hi Matt,
I have a recent post about Silicon Valley's VC China Race. I thought it may be interesting to your readers. Do you want to link it to your site? Please let me know.
Thanks,Helen Wang on March 16, 2006 5:13 PM
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He should have explained how podcasting makes money "from hosting" ...isn't it the other way around, paying out for leeched bandwith?
Or is this a hosting business with a podcast or a podcast with a hosting business?PJ on March 16, 2006 8:31 PM
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Why would a "for profit" VC firm invest in the "NPR of podcasting"?
Just how profitable is NPR?
Are the pledge drives just a sham to fatten up the profit margins? Is that what they pay bonuses out of?
Or is "NPR of podcasting" just unfortunate rhetoric?ELS on March 17, 2006 6:46 AM
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Congratulations and we here at Naughty Sheets applaud you! We would love to join your team!NaughtySheets on March 17, 2006 5:48 PM
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You raise a good point about "NPR of podcasting." To be fair to John, he used the NPR analogy in the context of his news component, which is only one of three areas he'll be targeting (see the three points I mentioend in post). And so perhaps I distorted things a bit by focusing on it in the headline. I did so because I thought it captured the essence of the "content" nature of this company. But I know he's trying to figure out how to go after the big marketing dollars from companies.Matt Marshall on March 18, 2006 11:04 AM
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A new Takashi Miike film playing Midnight Madness is always exciting, but for all of the times his films have screened, he's only been able to attend ONCE. That was all the way back when Fudoh: The New Generation screened in 1996. So... it's been awhile.
Miike returns to Midnight Madness with Yakuza Apocalypse, which by most accounts is one of his wildest to date! How can you not be excited?
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Pratto busts out, named All-Star MVP
Royals No. 2 prospect ends slump with homer, four RBIs
By Bob Sutton / Special to MiLB.com | June 19, 2018 11:22 PM
GREENSBORO, North Carolina -- One of the best things that happened to Nick Pratto at the South Atlantic League All-Star Game on Tuesday night might have been losing his bat.
A couple of pitches after his bat flew into the crowd and he had to use a backup, he slugged a two-run homer.
The Royals' second-ranked prospect has been searching for something to get him going, and that might be it.
"I needed that, for sure," Pratto said after driving in four runs to boost the Southern Division in a 9-5 victory over the Northern Division at First National Bank Field.
Pratto's fifth-inning plate appearance produced a low and a high against Hagerstown left-hander Nick Raquet. His swing and miss on the first strike sent his bat into the seating area behind the first-base dugout. A fan made a nifty maneuver to snatch it and wasn't interested in giving it back.
"The maker of the bat was here," Pratto said. "It had a little dent in it, so [not getting it back] wasn't a big deal . … I've never done that before. I swung a little too hard on that one."
A quick adjustment and it was the ball that was flying over the fence.
"I shortened my swing down and the guy threw me a curveball and I went with it," he said.
Pratto, a 2017 first-round pick out of Huntington Beach, California, went 2-for-5 and earned BUSH'S® All-Star MVP honors before a crowd that included his parents.
"I flew them out here and it's probably a good thing they were here, especially since they knew I've been struggling," said Pratto, who batted .238 in the first half and entered the All-Star break in an 0-for-11 funk that contributed to a .158 average in June.
"My last couple of weeks have been brutal," he admitted. "Just not good at-bats instead of bearing down and focusing."
He had other encouraging cuts Tuesday night, delivering a two-out, two-run single in the third to stretch the Southern Division lead to 4-1.
In the seventh, Pratto drilled a liner that knocked the glove off Hickory pitcher Tyler Phillips. But Phillips recovered in time to retire Pratto. In the ninth, he was retired on another line drive to right field.
Before the game, he told Rome Braves center fielder Drew Waters he'd been scuffling.
"He's full [of it]," Waters said. "He made one small adjustment and he's MVP. No surprise there."
Asheville Tourists second baseman Bret Boswell went 3-for-3 with a homer and three RBIs, giving Pratto a challenge for the MVP.
"Tried to do what I could with the three at-bats," Boswell said.
The Rockies prospect homered with one out in the top of the first and singled in two runs in the third. He came into the All-Star break on a .386 tear and leads the league with 48 runs scored.
"You're on a roll like that, you don't want to take a break," Boswell said. "It was just a lot of fun being here and being able to hang out with these guys."
It was quite a night for that right side of the infield representing the Tourists. First baseman Chad Spanberger won Home Run Derby.
"I told him earlier if I was in the Home Run Derby that I would beat him," Boswell said, making sure Spanberger heard the comment.
Spanberger wins Home Run Derby
Tate Blackman's homer in the bottom of the third inning got the North within 5-3.
Augusta GreenJackets shortstop Manuel Geraldo led off the seventh with a homer for the Southern Division and Jeremy Vasquez of the Columbia Fireflies did the same in the ninth. Those were the team's only runs not produced by Pratto or Boswell.
Delmarva's Trevor Craport launched a two-run shot in the seventh for the North.
Waters was on both sides of a couple of defensive gems. He made a catch in right-center field as he brushed against the wall to deny Blackman in the first inning. But in the eighth, Waters was robbed of a hit when Lakewood BlueClaws shortstop Nick Maton went deep in the hole and made a strong throw to first.
Maton, the brother of Padres pitcher Phil Maton, received the Defensive Player of the Game award. Not bad for four innings of work that also included a solid play on a slow grounder.
"Made the most of it," Maton said.
A crowd of 7,474 turned out for Greensboro's first All-Star Game since 2008.
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Highway 401 East or West to Yonge Street, South on Yonge Street to Dundas Street.
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Additional parking is also available in the vicinity at the Eaton Centre, Atrium, and Ryerson University garages.
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Each Metro Academy is a learning community made up of two linked courses each semester, pairing a general education course (such as English or math) with a discipline-specific course (e.g., health, science, ethnic studies, child development). Metro gives students personalized support for college success through in-class academic support and tutoring. Every Metro addresses real-world issues and brings social justice into the classroom. Although you can continue on into any major after you complete Metro, read about the different themes to find a Metro academy that best matches your interests!
Metro Academy of CAD was developed to support the next generation of leaders for early care and education in urban communities. Students will become strong advocates for early childhood education and social justice through learning to write effectively, speak powerfully, and think critically about early childhood education concerns. Participation in Metro CAD will help participants preparing for acceptance into the CAD Major.
For more information, contact Metro CAD at San Francisco State University:
Contact CAD Coordinator:
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Metro CAD FAQs
Please make sure to look through our frequently asked questions before contacting us. Many of the answers you man need have been compiled here already.
Who should apply/enroll in Metro CAD?
Metro Academy in CAD is for anyone who is:
- Interested in working with children, youth and families within a social justice context;
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In order to begin in Metro CAD at SF State in Fall of 2013, you must be accepted to SF State through their admissions process. Completion of the Metro application is NOT a substitute for completion of the SF State admission application. In order to participate in Metro CAD at SF State, you must be admitted to the university. Please visit the SF State website for entrance requirements and application.
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Metro CAD is for the first two years of school, what happens after I complete the program?
Completing Metro CAD at either SF State or CCSF you will be prepared to enter into the Child and Adolescent Development major at SF State in your junior year. You can also use Metro as a basis for entry to other majors; please see an academic advisor if you want to go this route. Many Metro students also choose to participate in the Promoting Achievement Through Higher Education (PATH) program. Click here to learn more about the PATH program.
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Here we go again – it's time for another adventure. This time we're doing a ten-week self-drive camper tour of South Africa.
Here's the very approximate plan of what we intend to do:
Flying into Cape Town, we booked an apartment for three nights, then ten weeks' vehicle hire (we're expecting to do around 9500km in that time, so an average of around 136km / 85 miles per day) followed by one night back in Cape Town before flying home at the end of March.
We left home on Thursday 10th January; train to the airport then a flight to Heathrow followed by an overnight flight to Cape Town. Our journey was pretty uneventful apart from one minor incident whilst going through airport security in the UK. Mark's hand luggage was pulled aside for further investigation of what turned out to be his bean bag, which he'd packed to use with the telescope he's brought along. "OK, I'll just have to swab that", said the security chap. "Oh *#@*%", thought Mark. It's the beanbag he takes shooting, of course…. Who knows what residues they might have found? By some miracle, he got away with it. Phew!
On arrival in Cape Town, we got an Uber to our accommodation, having received a discount code for new users. Imagine, our first ever Uber! We'd used Lyft last time we went to the States, so we had a bit of an idea how it might work. Uber's big in Cape Town and we used it a couple more times during our stay. It worked great, so much so that Mark is also planning on becoming a new customer, just in time for our return trip to the airport at the end of March…. The discount code is just the name of the company we booked our accommodation with, so it's not specific to our booking and is unlikely to change very often.
Our apartment was well situated, within easy walking distance of the V&A Waterfront area, so after checking in around 2pm and sorting ourselves out, we headed out for a late afternoon wander. It's very plush, a far cry from the townships (aka shanty towns) we saw on the way in from the airport. We checked out where we needed to go on Saturday morning for our trip to Robben Island. There were big signs on the doors explaining that all of Friday's tours had been cancelled due to sea swells. It was probably a good move to have booked ahead – no doubt many of Friday's disappointed customers will have tried to immediately rebook for Saturday…..
We got a few chores done in the large V&A Wharf shopping complex – cash, SIM cards, and food shopping being our three main requirements. Mark was quite surprised to learn that V&A does not, in fact, stand for Victoria & Albert. It's Victoria & Alfred. The Alfred Basin, completed in 1870, was named after Victoria & Albert's second son Alfred who visited Cape Town in 1860 (as a 16 year old midshipman in the Royal Navy). A larger outer basin, completed in 1905, was named after his mother Queen Victoria – hence the V&A Waterfront.
Back at our apartment for the evening, the weather took a very British turn……
Thankfully, Saturday was much warmer and sunnier. We acted like good tourists on the V&A Waterfront on our way to our Robben Island trip.
Thankfully, the Robben Island trips were running on Saturday morning, although as we queued to have our tickets checked, there was a sudden announcement that they would be turning 40 customers away. They'd had a technical problem with the boat that morning so were using a different boat with a smaller capacity. There was a second or two of panic before we ascertained that there were definitely more than 40 people in the queue behind us. Phew! It turned out to be a good thing to show up early….
Despite the benign weather, there was quite a swell on the crossing to Robben Island – not nice on one of those catamarans. Let's just say that the guy handing out sick bags seemed to be doing much more trade than the on-board cafe. Even Mark, with 18 years at sea under his belt, said he noticed the effect of all that lurching around. So it perhaps wouldn't be a good idea to book an afternoon Robben Island trip and go for a slap-up lunch beforehand!
We got a coach tour round the island which pointed out some of the key features – some buildings and a graveyard from the island's time as a leper colony in the 1800s, later buildings from its use as a military base, the rock and lime quarries where prisoners were made to work etc. Then it was on to the prison itself, where we were given an explanatory talk and guided tour by a former political prisoner who was himself imprisoned at Robben Island as a young man in 1984. Ten former prisoners work as tour guides at the site.
Nelson Mandela's cell, his "home" for 18 years:
The journey back to the mainland was thankfully much smoother! It was after 4pm by the time we got back, the change of boats having caused some delays, so the rest of the afternoon was spent raiding the tourist information office for any useful brochures, hunting down a bookstore for a suitably sized map of South Africa on which to mark our route, and sourcing a couple more bits and bobs in the supermarket.
On Sunday morning, we headed up to the Table Mountain cable car station. We had a coffee overlooking a nice view of Cape Town but didn't pay to go up the cable car in the end – it seemed that all we'd see up there was the inside of a cloud!
Oh well, we're keeping our fingers crossed for the mountain to be cloud-free when we get back to Cape Town at the end of our trip.
Mark picked out the IZIKO South African Museum as a place he'd like to visit given that we weren't going up the cable car, so off we went.
The museum was quite dated in parts but it had plenty to interest us as newbies – lots about rock art, displays on South African dinosaurs and LOTS of stuffed South African animals and birds.
The museum sits at one end of the long thin "Company Garden" which we walked the length of back towards the V&A Waterfront. The Dutch East India Company set up a "refreshment station" here in 1652 to supply fresh fruit and vegetables to passing Dutch trading ships – so it was more of a "company allotment" than a "company garden" back then.
Then it was back through the town centre to the V&A Waterfront, dealing with our second homeless person asking for money as we went. The strategy in Cape Town seems to be to walk alongside you and hassle you for as long as it takes for you to give up and hand over some cash. They do give the impression that they've got all day and they're really not going to give up. It's very sad that people have to do that, and it's all a far cry from the upmarket area nearby. It does make you consider getting an Uber for even the shortest distances in future…..
We checked out of our apartment first thing on Monday morning and were collected for our transfer to the motorhome depot. Then it was the usual – a mountain of paperwork to sign, a hard sell on the "Super" insurance cover that we'd already declined (I did think that the statement "the Standard Cover doesn't cover you for ANYTHING" was overdoing it a bit; I flourished the top-up policy we'd bought elsewhere at half the cost and the guy gave up, admitting that it was part of his job to try to sell the extra insurance), and finally, a cursory handover. To be fair, the girl doing the handover was clearly quite new. She looked mightily relieved when she launched into her memorised explanation of the 4 wheel drive and Mark said "it's OK, I drive a Hilux at home", then again when she opened the locker door and started to explain the toilet to me and I pointed out that we have the exact same system (the new Thetford blue-cap cassette) on our motorhome back in the UK. And then we were finally on our way….. hurrah!
It's now Wednesday evening, so this is our third day in the van. Here's our route so far:
Overview: 3 days, 263km
Our first stop was a shopping centre at Hout Bay on the western coast of the Cape Peninsula. Our bags needed to be unpacked, we needed some lunch, and then there was grocery shopping to be done.
The van is, in motorhome hire company language, a NAVI by the way – so Mark has already christened it the NAVI-SOK. I'll include some pics of the interior in a later post. Amazingly, everything fitted into our little home for the next ten weeks really well!
Mark then had to spend a bit of time doing some initial DIY armed with no more than some empty wine boxes we'd scrounged and a bread knife. We now have some fantastically usable kitchen storage space (motorhome hire companies really don't seem to concern themselves with the practical details of storage!).
All sorted, we paid the small fee to do the Chapman's Peak Drive, a scenic route which hugs the coast for a few km south of Hout Bay.
The view back toward Hout Bay from a nice picnic area:
We'd booked two nights at our first South African camp site at Miller Point, just south of Simon's Town on the east coast of the peninsula, the aim being to stay reasonably close to Cape Town for a while to check all was well with the van before heading off further afield. Everything does seem tickety-boo, mind you it should – the van only had just over 8,000km on it from new when we picked it up. We've been lucky this time; our transfer driver did tell us that they'd sent out a very tired NAVI with over 170,000km on it the day before…..
On the beach by the camp site:
View of Simon's Town from above:
On Tuesday we drove down to the national park at the tip of the Cape Peninsula:
The reason that Mark is looking so pleased with himself is that the little green card he's waving is our "Wild Card", which gives us free entry to all the national parks in South Africa. It cost 3830 Rand (about £219 at 17.5 Rand to the Pound) but he's beaming as we'd just "saved" 606 Rand (£34.63) and it's only our first day….. You know what he's like for "savings"…..
The two main "sticky outy bits" down here are the Cape of Good Hope, which is the most southwesterly point in Africa…..
…. and Cape Point, which is altogether more dramatic-looking and has two lighthouses on it (the lower one was completed in 1919 to replace the higher one. Putting a lighthouse on top of the point must've seemed like a good idea at the time, but apparently it's too often covered by mist and cloud).
Walking to the furthest viewpoint on Cape Point, Mark spied a whale:
We're not in whale season, so this was a bit of a surprise, but hey ho…. At the viewpoint, we came across a park ranger so Mark asked about the whale – only to be told firmly that he couldn't possibly have seen a whale! Mark concluded that he must've been "a gopher, not a proper park ranger".
All I can say is that I didn't get a great photo but it's good enough – the camera never lies:
Mark, looking at it through binoculars, said it was definitely a rorqual whale and it had two parallel ridges running down its head – so we're pretty confident that it was a Bryde's whale (and having checked online, yes, they are to be found in the region….).
After a fabulous few hours wandering around the trails, we zoomed off back to Simon's Town for a late afternoon visit to Boulders Beach. Imagine Mark's delight when he discovered that this was also "payings"! The Wild Card was waved and – kerching – another 304 Rand (£17.37) was instantly "saved".
The residents of the Boulders Beach penguin colony were as fabulous as you'd expect. Apparently, we are to call them African Penguins nowadays not Jackass Penguins (though I can confirm that yes, they do indeed bray like donkeys).
We also spotted a few dassies (rock hyrax, closely related to the elephant though you'd never guess from looking at them) and even a tortoise!
We left the Cape Peninsula this morning (Wednesday) and drove east around the coast of False Bay. Not a bad spot to stop for lunch:
I know we saw penguins yesterday at Boulders Beach, but there was no way we were going to drive past the Stony Point penguin colony at Betty's Bay without stopping to take a look. There were a lot more penguins here than at Boulders Beach, and it was much much quieter.
We should point out that Stony Point is also much much cheaper than Boulders Beach – 25 Rand per person versus 152 at Boulders Beach……. Mark was upset that we couldn't use our Wild Card here though, so we actually had to pay (if you recall, there are about 17.5 Rand to the Pound, so 25 Rand each was hardly going to break the bank).
Apparently this is one of very few places in the World where you can see four species of cormorant in one place (Crowned, Cape, Bank, and White-breasted). This kept Mark busy with his binoculars for quite a while. I think he managed two of the four.
The rocks on the beach here were riddled with dassies, including lots of young……
A dassie – penguin standoff. Mark is captioning this photo "I fart in your general direction":
Finally, who said penguins can't fly?
We're now parked up for the night just a few km further up the coast at a place called Kleinmond. Although it's officially high season until the end of January, the camp site here is almost completely deserted. We're hoping this means we can pretty much make up our plans on the hoof (wheel?) as we continue further up the coast, rather than having to book ahead. We'll let you know how we get on…..


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BioCarbon Engineering is a UK-based start-up that has the aim of planting 1 billion trees a year. And they say they can do so by using drones. The company's CEO, Lauren Fletcher, has said that hand planting is not a feasible way to achieve this goal: "it's slow and really expensive, and just can't keep up with industrial-scale deforestation". He hopes that his company's "technology is going to provide opportunities to really scale up the reforestation and replanting rates."
Fletcher, who has long studied climate change, is interested in the very critical question of how to reverse the immense damage that we've caused to the environment.
The scale of deforestation
Forests cover about 30% of the planet, but deforestation is clearing away these essential ecosystems at an alarming rate, with devastating consequences. Every year, forested areas half the size of England are destroyed. It is estimated that, at the current rate of deforestation, the world's rainforests could completely disappear.
One of the biggest contributors to deforestation is animal agriculture, with farmers cutting down trees to either make room for grazing livestock or to grow the crops in order to feed them.
The most dramatic impact of deforestation is the loss of habitat for millions of species. Around 80% of Earth's land animals and plants call the forests their home. Deforestation also drives climate change. As a case in point, trees play a crucial role in absorbing the greenhouse gases that lead to the warming of the planet.
Reforesting the planet is a necessary solution. And BioCarbon Engineering believes that we need to harness technology – specifically, drones – in order to save and sustain these precious and delicate ecosystems.
BioCarbon Engineering's solution
When restoring an ecosystem, the company will select an area using satellite imagery and then carry out a mapping phase, with the help of a fixed-wing drone. The drone uses onboard sensors to gather as much information as possible about the area in question, including data such as surface topology and slope angles, surface composition and obstructions, existing biodiversity, and soil type and moisture.
Then, using this information, an optimised planting pattern is created. A trajectory is devised to ensure that the drones doing the planting can avoid obstructions, unplantable soil areas, and existing trees. An analysis of the soil, including its moisture and density, will also help in deciding which seeds should be planted. One of BioCarbon Engineering's planting drones can carry 300 biodegradable seedpods, covering 1 hectare in 18 minutes, which is extremely fast and efficient in terms of planting.
After the planting, the site will be monitored, and this information – along with the mapping information – is combined so that planting can be improved in the future.
This is a highly scalable solution to the problem of deforestation and can be implemented in all kinds of ecosystems for the purposes of restoration. This technology could even have applications in terms of the colonisation of Mars.
If we want to be able to set up a human colony on Mars on a long-term basis, then we need to terraform the Red Planet. This involves changing the surface and climate of Mars in order to make it hospitable to human life. Once the Martian surface has been made suitable for life, we could use drones, just as BioCarbon Engineering does, to grow vegetation – both quickly and sustainably. Indeed, drones could very well help save Earth's key ecosystems, as well as make the colonisation of Mars a whole lot easier.
About the author: Sam Woolfe @samwoolfe
Sam is a freelance writer who is particularly interested in space exploration, sustainability, tech, and agriculture.


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Seattle Fall Family Portraits at Volunteer Park
There's something so about the beautiful soft light in Seattle in the fall.
And there are so many amazing Seattle parks to choose from!
Volunteer park even has a great rain plan in the form of the gorgeous conservatory.
It's always good to have a rain plan for your Seattle Session.


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Slusher Plumbing is a full-service plumbing company that services Chester, Lake Almanor, Susanville, Westwood, Honey Lake Valley, Greenville, Quincy, Mineral, and other towns in Northern California. The company works on new construction and remodel projects, provides sewer and drain services, and they are specialists in winterization and radiant heat systems. Slusher provides professional, big-city service in a small town setting, where other companies fail to provide adequate service. Slusher Plumbing is a family operation, started by David Slusher, Sr. and his wife Constance over 30 years ago that continues to grow as they brought their son, David Slusher, Jr., into the business.
When the Slusher family made the decision to purchase a building for their business they turned to NSDC and the SBA 504 loan program to finance a warehouse with office space. NSDC loan officer Lenny See walked them step-by-step through the loan process and they got a 20-year loan with a very low, fixed interest rate.
Now the Slushers have enough room for their operations and administration all under one roof and are no longer paying increasing rents to a landlord, but working towards being commercial property owners themselves.


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Okay, so what is this mess of a pic above? Pure goodness, thats what! I swear…do not be scared of the ingredient list. It is a mis-match of salty, spicy & sweet and turns out to be the perfect combination!
On to the weird but amazing concoction…
- With a vegetable peeler make long thin strips from 2 large summer squash & put strips in bowl (skin & all)
- In a side bowl mix: 2T almond butter, 2T Braggs Amino Acid, 1T chopped fresh basil leaves, 1T fresh minced rosemary & 2t curry powder – stir until all is blended well
- Then slice up 1 small jar of anchovy filets that are packed in oil (Trust me, super tasty!) & 3/4C pitted kalamata olives to the squash bowl
- Combine liquid bowl into the squash bowl & mix with hands – get messy & make sure the juice gets over every little last piece
Serve immediately or keep in an air tight container in the fridge. This will last several days & flavors keep on forming! And honestly this could be served as a summer side salad at a party or a just a main dish like I did it! Hope you enjoy.Nutritional Info Per Serving (Serves 4): 150 calories – 11 grams of fat – 7 carbs – 5 grams of protein
Continue reading for the ingredient list & original recipe.
Ingredient List for Three Taste Noodles:
- 2 summer squash
- 3/4C pitted kalamata olives
- 1 jar of 1.5oz flat fillets anchovies in olive oil
- 2T almond butter
- 2T Braggs Amino Acid
- 1T fresh basil
- 1T fresh rosemary
- 2T curry powder
Awhile back the hub & I did a cleanse based on the book Clean, written by Dr. Junger. This recipe comes from one of the Clean programs. Click here for the original.


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The cumulative sales for the period of January-June stands at 61,895 as against 23,346 in the corresponding period last year, thereby registering a growth of 165%.
The company's month-on-month sales has reported growth of 41 percent. The company's domestic sales in May 2016 were up by 132 percent.
Together with its product offensive strategy to drive volumes in India, Renault is also substantially increasing its sales and network reach in India. From the current network strength of more than 210 sales points, Renault aims to increase its reach to 270 facilities by the end of 2016.
It is also aiming to raise its national market share to 5 percent by the end of 2016.
In addition to this, Renault is also foraying into relevant automotive business services to best suit the Indian customer. These include Renault's pre-owned car business; Renault Finance; Renault Assured - enabling cashless accident repairs at all Renault Dealer workshops with faster claim settlement; and Renault Secure - covers Road Side Assistance and Extended Warranty.


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Waterfield bags look new and last for decades. But can this beautiful new backpack hold as much as a messenger bag?
Can it convince frequent travelers, business commuters and others to switch from a messenger bag to backpack?
We review the Waterfield Staad Leather and bulletproof Cordera Laptop bag (the Stout version)
Company/Manufacturer: Waterfield Bags
Website: http://www.sfbags.com
Product(s): The Staad Laptop Backpack in waxed canvas or ballistic cordera, in slim or stout (reviewed here) versions is just one of many great bags from Waterfield.
Cost: $319 USD (slim) or $329 USD (stout)
Our Travel Gear rating: ****1/2 (Four and a half stars out of five) Highly recommended.
The bag reviewed in our article is made of black ballistic 100 denier cordera body with grizzly leather flap, accents and handle. Video review at bottom of page. And DON'T MISS OUR LOAD-OUT VIDEO to see how much this bag will hold.
The Staad from Waterfield is a beautiful bag with a fully tanned heavy leather flap meant to make this backpack attractive to business people carrying it into boardrooms and executive offices without embarrassing themselves, or looking like the intern fresh out of school. For this reason, I like the black body of the bag more than the lighter brown waxed canvas – although I admit to loving waxed canvas products in general over cordera, even ballistic cordera. The tanned leather flap is meant to look distressed and actually does look better over time. It is heavy and sewn onto another inner piece of leather and comes in three colors: Black, Chocolate and Grizzly (which is pictured here).
Much has been made of Waterfield's new clasp which comes from the military and can be easily opened and closed one-handed, and is very secure. While I like Waterfield's use of unique buckles and closures (My airline seatbuckle on my older Cargo bag by Waterfield still gets rave compliments!), one issue I quickly discovered was that there is no room to adjust the flap or buckle for larger loads. This is a problem if you'd like to stash something like a jacket under the flap for carry, or are used to overloading your bag and adjusting the flap to ride higher, since this bag cannot do so. When it is fully loaded, it can be a bit difficult to close, although otherwise the easy pull-and-release buckle works as advertised.
When you lift up the flap, You'll notice one vertical zipper down the middle of the bag, plus two slash pockets. These slash pockets are meant for easy access when the flap is closed and the bag is slung on your back or shoulder – for easy access to boarding passes, wallet, ipod, phone, keys or ?, and they work surprisingly well. Waterfield always thinks about and places very useful pockets on their bags that travelers especially appreciate and you never think about till you use another bag by a different manufacturer and all of a sudden realize that they aren't anywhere near as convenient or well-designed.
The yellow ripstop, waterproof fabric inside the bag is meant to help you quickly spot items stashed deep within your bag and works extremely well. I have been using a Waterfield Cargo bag for more than a decade with similar inside lining and can testify that it is both extremely durable as well as useful when rummaging for a receipt or cable dongle, at the bottom of my bag.
Interior pockets are placed on either side flap, above the outside slash pockets, and can hold hard drives, power cords, or even a square DVD burner. They are about 7″ square and larger than the outside slash pockets. They are held shut by velcro tabs but those may not be necessary since I can't imagine carrying the bag sideways or upside down where contents might spill out. (The only item ever to wear out on my Waterfield cargo bag was a similar velcro closure after 8-10 years, although true to their lifetime guarantee, Waterfield has repeatedly told me to ship them back the bag so that they could replace it-I have been simply too busy using it to ever want to part with it long enough to mail it in!)
The laptop pocket is lined with extremely soft material and easily fits a 15″ MacBook, even with a "speck" cover (http://www.speckproducts.com/) which adds width. There is also an ipad pocket, which unfortunately will only hold one magazine if you don't carry both a laptop and an iPad at the same time, and I wish this extra pocket was the full width of the bag rather than so much narrower like it is. The vertical zipper easily allows one to get down into the depths of the bag (which is about 6″ wide at the base) and access everything. If you've ever used a deeper backpack, you realize how hard it can be to access things at the bottom.
The zippers on this bag are all made extremely well and the bag has a nice taper so that even holding as much as it does, it doesn't look bulky or cumbersome. There is a matching leather grab handle at the top and wick away material on the insides of the backpack straps and on the back of the bag. Unfortunately the straps are thin, like many inexpensive backpacks out there your kids might carry to school. They seem out of place on a bag of this quality. I would have expected much better carry straps for the price of this bag, like you see on bags at REI.
The back padding likewise is not very thick and when loaded, the laptop's stiff shape can be felt on one's back. Maybe this is because I am not used to carrying a laptop on my back versus carrying a messenger bag, but it is clearly not as comfortable an experience and makes me consider returning to trusted messenger bags from Waterfield (cargo) or Greenroom136 (Junkmonkey)! – Especially if you are doing lots of travel, this suspension may become an issue.
Fully loaded the bag still appears slim and, compliments to Waterfield, it holds everything I usually carry in a messenger bag which was a surprise for this size of backpack. If you prefer a backpack, but need a dressy, classy- look running through airports, or having meetings on the road, this bag fits the bill. You will not be embarrassed at all walking into meetings, or sitting with it in a suit at Starbucks. We created a load-out / packing video so you can see how much it holds and how I carry it.
At the end of the day, I still like messenger bags over backpacks. That said, most backpacks either do not look very professional or do not hold very much. There aren't many that can do both well and we have bought and tried dozens upon dozens. Am I proud of this bag? Yes. Will I use it? Of course. However at the price, I would have expected the ability to load more items under the flap (with an adjustable buckle), better straps and even a large hidden pocket on the outside of the bag hidden under the straps and wick away padded area to stash and secure items such as passport, plane tickets, etc. – Lacking these I still gave it 4.5 stars. I love it.
One thing I am sure of, this bag can probably be handed down to children and they might even be able to pass it down to their children as well. That is how good Waterfield bags are made. I am a huge fan of the company and their products. Anyone who raves about Tom Bihn or Timbuk2 has never owned a Waterfield bag – Once they do, they will never go back.
The only reason for 4.5 stars on my rating is due to the minor items above – The price tells me this is a classy upscale bag – Fixing these few items would indeed make me feel like I got a bargain for the price.
LATEST UPDATE: Almost two years later–
After almost two years, not of daily carry, but often carry, I offer the following observations. I still love this bag and it still looks like a million bucks. For the price it has held together well, although I still think the shoulder straps are a little thin and a little "short" (not very adjustable). Granted this isn't meant to be a "trail pack" so I understand.
However, I also tend to overpack/carry a bit more than I should and this pack simply does not have much flexibility so I find myself switching back and forth much more than I should. Let me explain: If I am going on a trip, I change out my bag. If I need to carry my plugs/wires/dongle pouch, I change out bags. If I have any reason to think it is going to rain, I switch out bags.
I wish this bag had an adjustable dart/strap closure. What I mean is that the plastic dart that cleverly latches the bag shut is not adjustable so if the bag is even full, not overstuffed, it is impossible to latch shut. I have asked Waterfield (whose products I love!) to consider making the plastic dart/latch slide up and down on the nylon strap so there is a bit of adjustment when the bag is full and then latch it and cinch it down like so many bags I own. Even a little bit of adjustment would help greatly. So this limits the bag IMHO and causes me to switch bags frequently. This cool closure is actually a liability in my opinion because of it's limitations and lack of adjustment.
The other issue I have is also with the design of the center latch/closure and how it is affected by the two inner pockets. The pockets are on either side of the vertical zipper and hold hard drives, ear buds, pens and more keeping these items up high in the bag where they can be accessed easily without everything falling to the bottom of the bag. So what's the problem? These two pockets tend to create bulges, leaving open space right in the center of the bag where the latch closure is, making it almost impossible to press the hook over the bar so that the dart can slide through and secure the flap. Sorry for the "technical description," but I'm not sure how to best describe what is happening when you have the bag loaded and are sitting in a coffee place or at the airport and trying to shut this bag so you can get up and go…you close the flap and press in the hook but the whole center of the bag depresses and you cannot push the hook in far enough to allow you to slide the dart into the hook/hole and secure the flap. In my mind this is a design flaw on an almost flawless, well-made bag. I have gotten to the point of trying to shove something into the center area right behind the zipper to press against when closing the flap. Unfortunately, things in the bag move around and shift and I cannot easily close the bag once again. Even when you lay the bag on the ground and even when you use two hands. This is clearly not convenient when running around and so I switch bags. It almost makes you look pretty lame at a business meeting as well when you pack up to leave and cannot close your bag and stand there struggling to pack up and go. I will try to post a video of the problem so it is easier to understand my issue and you can then decide if this will affect you or not.
Overall, still looks new, very well made tough bag that looks very urban, very professional, very executive-like, but limited in space (even the stout) without adjustment or flexibility to load for travel, and that has some issues based around the closure – No adjustment and being centered between the pockets that cause problems when trying to latch it shut even using both hands.
Is it worth $300+? In my opinion, No. Due to the reasons listed above. For that kind of money, I expect both a beautiful, well-made bag, AND convenience when I am required to carry a few more items ,or wish to close the bag with one hand when on the move.
UPDATE: Concerns about scuffs and scratches to the tanned leather flap–
One of the beautiful things I like about the Staad is that distinctive, nostalgic, distressed leather flap and how it tells the world you are experienced, well-traveled, classy but not seriously worried about how others see you. However, what about when you have to give a board presentation? You've already buffed the shoes, starched your best shirt, and are concerned about your leather Staad? (See pictures of our distressed flap above.)
Here is an easy fix.
All you'll need is a soft bristle toothbrush, a rag, and a good-quality leather conditioner made of beeswax and lanolin – (I found mine at an automotive store for premium auto leather seats.)
- Softly brush the scuffed areas with the toothbrush to soften lines and remove dirt, etc.
- Apply leather conditioner using the soft rag or hand towel, again in a gentle circular motion starting with the scuffed areas but then continuing to apply the same amount over the entire flap. There shouldn't be any excess when done.
- Let the leather dry overnight since it will have a "wet" look at first (like my image here).
- SHOW OFF YOUR "NEW" BAG TO THE WORLD – No more scuffs!


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Centralised service for triple-0 calls
The Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority says it will now handle all triple-0 calls across Victoria.
The statutory body has taken over emergency call-taking and dispatch services from police, ambulance and fire services.
The general manager of operations, Andrew Welwood, says it will allow faster response times and more police and ambulance officers to focus on other duties.
Mr Welwood says Victoria is the first state to centralise the service.
"One of the key things is that with the consolidation of our services here through our regionalisation program we're now really providing a standard of emergency capability comparable to that in metropolitan Victoria, which I think is fantastic for the regional community," he said.
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Another interesting day in the bay today, with more mating on the nest, a fish delivery that didn't quite go to plan, and a bit of nest destruction to cap it all!
Here are some photos that John took yesterday at Manton Bay.
This afternoon, 28 went fishing, ate half the fish and arrived at the nest with the other half, as would be expected. Then he left without giving the fish to the female! She was not impressed! However, when he took off he accidentally took a few sticks with him, including the awkward one the female disliked but couldn't shift!
Keep an eye on the website tomorrow afternoon, as we will be revealing the name of the Manton Bay female!


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text: How To Email & Messaging Choosing Between an ATA or a Router for Your VoIP Network Share Pin Email Print Michael Bodmann/E+/Getty Images Email & Messaging VoIP Basics Guides & Tutorials Installing & Upgrading Tips & Tricks Key Concepts By Nadeem Unuth Freelance Contributor Nadeem Unuth is a former freelance contributor to Lifewire who specializes in information and communication technology with a focus on VoIP. our editorial process LinkedIn Nadeem Unuth Updated August 01, 2019 31 31 people found this article helpful Many people considering VoIP as a communication solution get confused about whether to use an ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter) or a router for deploying VoIP at home or their office. Let us see where to use what. First, we need to make it clear that an ATA and a router are different in their functions and capabilities. What Is an ATA? An ATA does not provide you with internet access. It only gets your voice ready to be transmitted over the internet, by converting the analog voice signals into digital data signals and subsequently fragmenting this data into packets. The packet contains important information about its destination, along with the voice data. When an ATA receives packets, it does the contrary: it reassembles the packets and converts them back to analog voice signals which are fed to your phone. What Is a Router? A router, on the other hand, primarily connects you to the internet. A router also does fragmentation and reassembly with packets. Another main function of a router, from which it takes its name, is to route packets to their destinations. Unlike the ATA, a router communicates with other routers on the internet. For instance, the voice you send over the internet passes through many routers before they reach a destination. Which Do You Need? So, if you deploy VoIP at home or in your business without really needing internet access, a simple ATA would suffice. If however, you need internet connectivity with your VoIP service, then a router is needed. For example, if you have a LAN and want to connect it to the internet, then use a router. It is very likely that devices will emerge in the future which will include both the functionality of a router and that of an ATA and maybe even the functionalities of other devices like gateways and switches. In the meantime, make sure that the hardware you choose is compatible with the service that your service provider is offering. Continue Reading


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Startups are hard. There are long hours. Endless to do lists. An overwhelming pressure to be "killing it" all day, every day. At Reboot, we work with leaders and teams to unwind this suffering and to build companies that are free of this all too often unrecognized, but all too often felt, violence. To build companies that help their employees to not only be great team members, but their fullest, actualized selves.
We're honored to be partnering with UP Global to share entrepreneurs' experiences and the transformational work they do that is revolutionizing their companies. This, and subsequent posts by me, are inspired by episodes of the Reboot podcast. You can learn more about the podcast here.
For Episode 16 of the Reboot podcast Jerry was joined by Zelle Nelson and Maureen McCarthy, cofounders of the The Center For Collaborative Awareness and creators of The Blueprint of We, a collaboration process used to build and sustain healthier, more resilient business and personal relationships.
"Hell is other people". – Jean Paul Sarte
A relationship is a contract, written or unwritten; spoken or not. When we first enter into relationship with others we instinctually construct contracts. We subconsciously engage neural pathways around protecting ourselves and our safety. We utilize forever as the time frame. We start our relationships under the premise that we have to protect ourselves. The contract is created with the expectation that the relationship will end. When we construct contracts in this way, we are drafting the relationship from fear.
The Blueprint of We is different in that it is about building a foundation based on being in a good place in relationship, on building a relationship for today. A Blueprint asks participants to consider things such as, "Why do I want to be in this relationship? How are we going to interact with each other? Here's what I need in the moment, that I may not be able to ask for in a stressful moment." When you enter into a relationship in this way you are entering from a place of hope. It's mindfulness meditation for relationships.
When Jerry and Fred Wilson were launching Flatiron partners, Jerry asked Fred to make a deal that if he ever did anything to piss Fred off, Fred would promise to tell him. Jerry knew that due to a painful experience in his previous partnership, he may otherwise waste time in worry or trying to figure out what was going on.
20 years later Jerry and Fred are still friends. They have had many disagreements, but have never had an argument. When Jerry was vulnerable with Fred in the earliest stage of their relationship and shared his fear, it became a very conscious conversation. This set the tone for their relationship.
"Stress is not a bad thing. It is a messenger." – Maureen McCarthy
When we learn to pay attention to even small feelings of stress, we can catch problems early. We can get the message of what the stress is trying to tell us. You can use stress for clarity.
Should your partner do something that pains you, that stress is pointing to something in your subconscious that you have a painful story around. If you have taken the time to structure a blueprint, you can use this stress as a signal to come back to what you have already articulated. You have the experience to bring that up and make a change to the way you are thinking about it.
One of the benefits of working with a blueprint as your underlying structure is that your partners or colleagues know how you may behave when you are in stress or fear. Through this collaborative awareness space other people are helping to look in to you.
"I don't just go to work to earn a living. I go to work to grow and become a better human." – Jerry Colonna
In his book A Hidden Wholeness, author Parker Palmer shares that through work we are looking for three things, "We are seeking the ability to pay our bills, we are seeking the ability to express our soul, and we are seeking the ability for community".
Completing a Blueprint of We, or a Blueprint of Me, or any inner work helps us to not only become better colleagues, cofounders, employers or employees, it helps us to become better humans. This work empowers the best version of you to show up. When we are able to show up as our best selves and to unleash our passions, we do our best work.
You can learn more about the Blueprint of We and mindful partnershps by listening to the full episode of the Reboot podcast.


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HELPING to set a new Guinness World Record and raise money for charity, 940 school students lined out to perform the biggest rugby scrum ever.
Primary and secondary-level students from Willow Park and Blackrock College, Dublin, took to the pitch yesterday to crouch, touch and successfully set a new record.
They also raised 3,000 for the Irish Youth Foundation's Children's Hour. This is the college's second world record this year, having broken the record for the largest shamrock in aid of GOAL last March. Yesterday's on-field attempt was overseen by internationally recognised referee Alain Rolland, with the support of pundit George Hook and Leinster rugby players Ian Madigan, Luke Fitzgerald, Jordi Murphy and Eoin Reddan.
Blackrock is the alma mater of many of Ireland's rugby greats, including Brian O'Driscoll.
Scrum-half Redden is a patron of the charity and told the Irish Independent that each of his Heineken Cup-winning team-mates will donate an hour's wage to the cause, which provides services for disadvantaged children, on November 20.
"I've been involved in the foundation for two years and it's so important because it plays a huge part in kids' lives, especially in trying to help disadvantaged children into secondary, but also in managing the transition from primary to secondary.
"The amount of work they do behind the scenes all the time is amazing," Reddan said. "Blackrock is always great to get involved in things like this and even since I've been a pupil here, they've been doing more and more," 22-year-old Murphy added.
"Giving back is a vital part of the community and also of the Leinster squad."
For more information on Children's Hour and how to donate, please visit: www.childrenshour.ie.
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Happy Valentines Free Printables and New Years Resolution
A lovely friend of mine gave me the sweet Valentine card this year that is the first image and I just had to share it with everyone. She knows I love vintage cards. I am also offering a larger version of thee Valentine Gift card that I offered in 1910 that you can also find on one of my blogs smaller as a previous free image. You can right click on the images to same them for printing or you can so to my 4shared site to download them as larger files. http://www.4shared.com/folder/ILtK6LJE/_online.html
If you do a search on my blog for Valentines, you will see other freebies I have offered for Valentines in the past.I also put a larger version of the first Valentine gift card if you prefer to right click and save.
My New Years resolution this was to learn something new in Photoshop and my other programs everyday. I would say that this resolution has had the largest impact on my life of any I have made. I usually use the same painting techniques and creating techniques in the programs. Corel Draw, Photoshop, Painter and Corel PSP are my favorite programs and each has so much to offer. To learn some of the techniques, I creating photomontages and collages from stock photos in Photoshop recently. It has been very exciting and so creative. I use Photoshop all the time for my digital downloads but like any computer program there is always so much more to learn. Here are a few I have been working on, the last is a freebie Valentines card too.
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Fundamental rights
Validation of knowledge
Fundamental rights
The Alliance wishes for an evolution of fundamental rights, inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, to explicitly take "suffering" into account, with the goal of making the alleviation of suffering the ethical priority of the international community.
Validation of knowledge
The Alliance supports democratic, public institutions that validate knowledge.
These institutions have the mission to establish the collective degree of validity of information: data, proposals, arguments, hypotheses, theories, etc.
– Ignorance can be a major source of suffering for various reasons;
– An individual is not always capable on their own to establish the value of information, and public institutions are necessary to assist them;
– Discussion among individuals is only possible if there is a consensus on the relative value of arguments;
– Collective decision-making through discussion creates less suffering than decisions not based on argumentation, taken for example through force;
– Institutions that validate knowledge are more credible if public and democratic, as each member of the community will have confidence in them.


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Seven Faces of Information Literacy in Higher Education This is a good Australian page on information literacy from Christine Bruce at the Queensland University of Technology. It takes a good look at the issue as it applies to higher education.
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Information literacy is usually described as the ability to locate, manage and use information effectively for a range of purposes. As such it is an important 'generic skill' which allows people to engage in effective decision-making, problem solving a nd research. It also enables them to take responsibility for their own continued learning in areas of personal or professional interest.
Whilst there is growing advocacy for information literacy in higher education, comparatively little in known about how it is experienced by those who use information. The various faces of information literacy described here are drawn from the experienc e of higher educators in two Australian universities. They provide a picture of information literacy that is very different from the lists of skills and attributes that are usually found in literature on the subject.
As a phenomenon, information literacy includes the full range of experience, and students need to be enabled to experience information literacy in these ways. They also need to reflect on the variations in experience which they encounter and understand which forms of information literacy are relevant to different situations.
Learning to be information literate could be seen as coming to experience using information in these ways.


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Sunday, November 10, 2013
Veteran's Day 2013 in New Haven
What's Up New Haven would like to take a moment and say THANK YOU to our local heroes who served in the military. Their bravery and commitment to our country will be honored tomorrow, November 11th, 2013, at the following places. As always, please feel free to comment and contribute your own findings:
Downtown/Long Wharf
At 11am, there will be a ceremony at Center Church on the Green, 311 Temple St. Remarks by Mayor John DeStefano, keynote address by Korean War veteran Army Col. Kenneth Gertz, musical selections by the Unity Boys Choir under direction of Lillie Perkins, solo by Ruth Rosa. Wreath-laying at War Memorial on lower New Haven Green and Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Long Wharf follows.
University of New Haven
At 11am, the University of New Haven will offer its campus community the opportunity to recognize and honor our past, present and future veterans at our annual Veterans Day Ceremony. The 12th Annual Veterans Day Ceremony will be held at 11:00 AM in the Maxcy Quad.
Specials for Our Troops!
Starbucks - Downtown
Veterans, active duty military and their spouses get a free tall brewed coffee at participating U.S. company-owned stores. New Haven has two Starbucks locations downtown: 1068 Chapel Street (cross: Church Street) and 896 Chapel Street (cross: High Street).
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LIFE with Patti Boulaye – s1e3 – His Holiness Radhanath Swami – Part 1
In this new exclusive series, Patti Boulaye will look at the other side of success from people from all walks of life, who have lived and breathed it including mental health concerns that everyone faces.
For the third episode of "LIFE with Patti Boulaye", Patti is joined by Spiritualist Teacher His Holiness Redhanath Swami. His Holiness Redhanath Swami was a monk for 40 years and lives in Mumbai. His Holiness Redhanath Swami set up the hospital in Mumbai which started with students having a spiritual wakening over the body, mind and soul. In this episode Patti and His Holiness Redhanath Swami talk about how to find contentment and spiritual care.


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Traffic Cone Two
I settled in as a student at Newcastle, living with five other undergraduates who were either first or second years. They were okay to hang around with, but not exactly mates-for-life material. We had a really drunken night out one evening at the Student Union bar and walked back to Summerhill House through shadows interspersed with street lights. Two students picked up a traffic cone each and put them on their heads. All jolly jape student stuff. Off they went down the middle of the road, drawing too much attention to themselves.
"Whhheeeeyyy. Come on!"
"Whoohhoooo. Yeeaaaah!"
The rest of us held back and watched as they shouted their way back to our student digs. As the noise faded into the distance, lights flicked on amongst the first floor flats ahead and skinheads looked over the balconies to see what was going on. One jumped, followed by several others and they ran after the now not so tremendously jovial students.
We walked up to a patch of grass beside the pavement where the Traffic Cone Two were cornered and on the receiving end of a good beating. Spotted and clearly not local-looking, they guessed we knew these clowns.
A big skinhead grabbed me in a headlock, punched me in the face a few times and snarled,
"It's not you we want, so don't fucking make any noise!"
I kept my mouth shut.
Another held one of the Traffic Cone Two and growled, "Get some rope, I'm going to hang this fucker!!"
After a few minutes, I moved my head sideways and saw a rope being slung over a tree branch. A noose was slipped over a terrified student's neck. I had to think quickly. Letting my legs buckle, I fell to the ground and made a choking sound. I writhed around the pavement like I was having a fit.
Everyone looked on and the skinhead who headlocked me blurted out, "I didn't fucking touch him!"
It must have looked realistic because the skinheads ran off. Students gathered around and peered down. Someone shook my shoulder.
"Callum? Are you okay?"
I leapt up and ran like the wind toward Summerhill House. The students ran after me and one drew alongside, laughing.
We all got safely back, except for a few bruises and a rope mark around one neck. They shouted and laughed excitedly in the flat. I felt distanced and wanted none of it. Without a word, I went to bed. Maybe they'd be more careful in the future.