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Small business owners never really get a break, even when they decide to take a vacation there`s certain things that still need to be looked after. Whether you`re travelling for business or pleasure, here are some tips on how to successfully manage your business while you`re travelling.
Staying Productive In the Sky
A lot of travel time is spent in airplanes or waiting around at airports. You can take advantage of this and turn these waits it into productive endeavours rather than complete time sinks. The most practical way to do this is to have a laptop to bring with you while you travel that you can do work on. Airports have WiFi connections you can use, and thanks to the cloud you can have all of your important documents at your fingertips to work on while you`re away from the office.
Some flights have WiFi, others don`t, but you can still get a lot of work done without an internet connection if you plan ahead. If you will need to be doing some research, for example, you can find a pile of websites on the topic and save them for offline viewing. If you need to work on some copywriting or content for your blog, this is a great time. All you need to do is plan ahead and get yourself a little stack of tasks to work on while you`re offline and you can turn any flight into an incredibly productive chance to catch up on work.
Must-Haves For Working Remotely
You probably can`t take the whole office with you when you travel, but you can certainly stay busy and productive while you travel. Here are some must-haves for the small business owner on the go.
- A lightweight laptop is essential. A lightweight and portable device to work from and to access your files, such as an ultrabook or a tablet with a keyboard attachment, is something you`ll be very thankful for. They might not be as powerful as normal big, heavy laptops but when you`re travelling, it makes a big difference.
- Cloud storage software will keep you in sync. It will sync all of your important files across your portable device and your workstation, meaning any changes you make will be up to date, no need to worry about bringing the latest versions of files with you or replacing the old ones when you get back. Dropbox is incredibly useful for this, and free.
- Headphones to help you tune out the distractions. Wearing headphones on a flight will also let people nearby know that you`re intent on focusing on work rather than making small talk about the weather for a six hour flight.
- A good data plan for your phone. You can`t use your phone`s data on an airplane, however you never know when you`re going to get to a hotel where the internet connections are spotty at best, so rather than lose a night of productivity, you can simply use your phone`s data plan to power your laptop`s internet connection with tethering.
Miscellaneous Travel Tips For Small Business Owners
Now is the time to take advantage of that company card and all the points you`ve been building up, so don`t forget to double check your balance before booking your tickets.
Don`t forget to take a little time for you, even on a business trip. Grab a nice dinner, pry yourself away from the computer every now and then to live in the moment, it`s not all about work.


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None of the 12 lawmakers named to the congressional committee tasked with trimming the deficit by $1.5 trillion is considered a defense hawk, but defense proponents say there still are reasons to believe the Pentagon's budget largely will be spared a second round of deep cuts.
Their hopes primarily rest on the prospect that the committee will come to some sort of 'grand bargain' and avoid triggering up to $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, half of which would be imposed on DOD.
According to one House Armed Services Committee staffer's take on the selections of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the super committee will focus on entitlements, reported the Hill newspaper. "And that is entirely appropriate since there are no more savings possible in the DOD budget," the aide said.
Defense supporters also are pinning their hopes on two members from the Senate — Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.). They note that Murray is a strong advocate for Boeing and Kyl is a backer of Raytheon due to the presence of those defense manufacturers in their states.
Still, the largest risk to Pentagon spending lies in the likelihood that the committee deadlocks and the automatic spending cuts go into effect. That outcome is more likely than not, Bob Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, told GovernmentExecutive.com.
Three of the committee members — Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) — all served on the Simpson-Bowles commission created by the president, but voted against its plan to reduce the deficit through a combination of spending cuts and tax increases, Bixby pointed out. A fourth member, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), named after Bixby was interviewed, also voted against the Simpson-Bowles commission's $4 trillion deficit reduction plan, reported CQ Today.


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Services at Abbey Road Surgery are back up and running after recent disruption.
Following further investigations it has been decided that all but two consulting rooms can reopen.
The surgery kept many of its services running from the building, including appointments and prescriptions, but also used facilities at nearby premises to continue appointments.
The building has now been classified as safe but two consulting rooms are still out of use until some repairs can be made to the front elevation of the building. This means GPs will still be using the rooms at Murrays Pharmacy on Friars Lane for some of their appointments for the time being. Staff will continue to ensure that patients are told where their appointment will be.
Administration and nursing staff will be based back at Abbey Road by the end of this week.
Abbey Road Surgery Practice Manager, Janet May, said: "We would like to thank our patients for their support and patience during this time and we are pleased to report that we are now moving back to a near normal service. We still have some GP appointments taking place at Murrays Pharmacy but patients will be seen by their own doctor, and we will continue to contact any patients who are affected.
"We're really grateful to Murray's, Atkinson Health Centre and Bridgegate Medical Practice for their support and to our staff for their flexibility. Patients can contact the surgery on our usual numbers for future appointments or other enquiries."
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In order to test one of my own theories this morning, I decided to go to work without drying my hair.
Some of you may be gasping. Some of you may be shrugging.
Heretofore, I have always believed it to be a completely unprofessional look for people (read: women) to show up to work with a wet head. I know it's a double standard and it sucks but if a man has short hair and shows up to work with his hair neatly combed but still damp, it looks nice. Plus, you know the guy has washed at least one part of his body.
Not so for women, unless you also have a short boy cut. Otherwise, it looks like you were in a hurry and/or too lazy to bother with your hair. Normally I don't judge stuff like this because I don't regularly paint my nails, I don't wear heels a ton, and really, I vacillate back and forth between being high maintenance and not. Some days I really take my time with my appearance and others, I walk out of the house with nothing but SPF lotion on my face. (Is this against Girly Girl Credo? More than likely.)
But for whatever reason, wet hair on a woman has always signified to me a real lack of professionalism and I don't know from where it stems. It just doesn't look right to me.
This morning, I was in a particular rush so I decided to wing it and go to work with still-damp hair. I was a little upset with myself for breaking my own judgment/rule but I really couldn't lose another minute. I had even put some cream/mousse in my hair, hoping that it would dry with a nice tousled, effortless look.
Well, we reap what we sow, don't we? My hair dried lifeless with not very much curl or body to it, so it ended up just looking like ass instead of fluffy and bouncy – or even shaped, for that matter. I ran a brush through it hoping to give it some oomph but I think that just angered it. In the end, the saving grace became tucking my hair behind my ears and that'll just have to do. Now I know that when in doubt, although I don't see why I'd be in doubt after this, always blow-dry my hair.
In my younger years, I used to put my longer wet hair into one French braid or two regular pig-tail braids and then my hair drying flat on top was fine. It was super cute. I wish I had a photo of that. (Note: if I find one such picture, I'll come back and post it.) Then and only then is not blow-drying acceptable.
Edit: found the photo!
Heck, I'll post a poll, since there is just a matter of opinion and perspective. Whatcha think?
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The Indians started off their season with a win last night in Toronto. We know all about the new acquisitions and how the team was built. We also understand how the Clippers, Aeros and Lake County Captains fill out their rosters. But what about an independent league team like the Lake Erie Crushers?
The Crushers finished the 2012 season on September 2nd with a 6-2 loss to the Southern Illinois Miners. They were 2.5 games out of a playoff spot, with a 53-42 record. It was a winning season for the Crushers, but not a championship one. The Crushers won the Frontier League title their first year in the league, but haven't repeated that success since 2009.
As players cleaned out their lockers, many changes were ahead for the organization.
In a league designed for younger players, roster turnover isn't just expected–it's mandated. Eleven of the players on the active roster (teams may carry between 22-24) must be what the league considers "rookies". Those players are classified as R1 players, meaning they are making their pro debut in the current season, or R2 players which were R1's the year before. Basically, half your team needs to be in their first or second year of pro ball.
But there is more.
Of the up to thirteen remaining players, none of them can be older than twenty-seven years old as of January 1st. Well, except for one. Each team is allowed one "veteran player" who must have 100 Frontier League games under their belt prior to the season.
Did you follow that? The goal of the league is to give players who were passed up in the draft a chance to show their talent in hopes of someday getting a chance to play affiliated ball. That's why they have all the restrictions.
So as the season came to a close, the Crushers had some decisions to make. Which players would be invited back for the 2013 season?
A few were easy. Andrew Davis would be the designated veteran. Davis has been with the team since its inception. He was there when they won the title in 2009. He led the team in home runs last season, and is tops all time for the organization.
Davis was a draft pick of the San Francisco Giants in 2007 out of Kent State. He played two seasons in the Giants farm system and was released. He's been with the Crushers ever since, and will be again this year.
RHP Trevor Longfellow had the second most wins in the league and a 3.35 ERA. He'll be back. So will fellow pitchers Brad Duffy, Matt Smith and Mickey Janis. A dozen players got the good news that they will be back for 2013.
And then the biggest change occurred.
Manager John Massarelli was let go. The only manager in team history was replaced on December 19th by Jeff Isom.
Isom is no stranger to the Frontier League. He spent the first five years of his managerial career in the young Frontier League. He managed the Canton Crocodiles who played their home games at Thurman Munson Stadium in Canton. Former Indian Super Joe Charboneau was his hitting coach. He spent the last six seasons managing in the Brewers minor league system.
One of the things Isom likes about the Frontier League is the control he has over the roster. But with the late addition, he didn't have a say in which players were kept from the '12 team.
So how do you fill out the rest of the roster? Where do these players come from?
The answer according to Isom is "any way I can."
There is no scouting department. No player personnel department. No general manager.
"That's me" Says Isom. "And that's not unusual with independent baseball."
With Isom's 13 years of managerial experience, and 7 seasons pitching in the minors (with a respectable 28-28 record) he has been around and made some contacts.
He relies on coaching colleagues, as well as other players that he knows and trusts. One of the pitchers- Dale Dickerson, was actually recommended by teammate Alex Kaminsky. After calling some scouts, Isom decided to give Dickerson a shot at making the team this season.
The hardest part might be calling a player he's never talked to before and asking them if they'd like to come play ball for $600 a month. "If you're a college player and you didn't get the opportunity to get drafted though, and you want to play pro ball- you're jumping at the chance to play for $600."
For the record, $600 is the league minimum. The maximum is $2,500 a month. Those contracts are generally reserved for that one veteran player. But keep in mind the entire team has to come in at $75,000 for the season. If you want to keep 24 players on your roster, that means an average player salary of $700 a month. Handing out too much per player could mean fewer spots on the roster.
So Isom went about the task of filling out the Crushers' roster. In the Frontier League, that means finding the right rookie players.
"Rookies are key in this league. If you are going to have success, you have to have good rookies."
Also key is knowing the loopholes. If a player is under 21 years old, no matter how much experience he has in pro ball he is considered at least an R2 player. Which was good news for Isom and catcher David Roney. Roney has spent the last three seasons playing under Isom in the Brewers organization. The youngster still counts as a rookie R2 player for the Crushers.
"You could also go with a guy who is 30 years old, but if he has military experience for the last seven years, he could still be a rookie."
So what does Isom look for in a player, besides raw talent?
"There are two different players in this league, college players that didn't get drafted and are looking for the first opportunity to play professional baseball and showcase their talent. Then you have other guys that were in affiliated baseball and got released, and are trying to get seen again to get signed."
"I always tell my players if you're not here to get signed with a major league club, I don't want you. I want guys that have the desire to move on. I don't want guys that are complacent, that this is just a summer job."
If a player has talent and fits that description, they have a shot in the Frontier League.
There's the outfielder from McNeese State University. A pitcher from California Baptist University. The utility player from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. All of them are Lake Erie Crushers. Along with former Akron Aero Alex Kaminsky.
Kaminsky played last season for the Gateway Grizzlies, another Frontier League team. The Fostoria, Ohio native wanted to play for the Crushers, and so the team made the trade. Kaminisky had a very successful year for the Grizzlies. He went 10-5 with a 3.74 ERA and led the team in strikeouts by a mile. With his local connections, it just made sense for the Crushers to go after Kaminsky.
The Crushers roster today sits at 30 players. That means at least 6 will not make the club after the two week spring training in May. Versatility may be the difference between making the team and not.
Isom wouldn't have it any other way.
"That's what I enjoy about it. Putting the whole team together. It's almost like glorified fantasy baseball. You go out and find your players, trying to make everything work within that salary cap, and make the best team possible. But this is very much real life."
When the general manager and the head scout and on-field manager is the same person, there is nowhere to hide. It isn't just a failure because Isom signed the player, he also coached him. "I'm in charge of the roster. If the team sucks, it's all my fault. I take the blame."
"If you're in affiliated baseball and your team is no good, you can say the scouts aren't doing their job, or the parent club took my best players, but here it's all on me."
It's a good thing for the Crushers and their fans that Isom seems to thrive in this kind of situation. His record in the independent leagues is 337-291, in affiliated baseball his managerial record is 327-379. He'll have the team ready to play May 17th.
No matter who ends up on the final roster.


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Born into an equestrian family in 1983 Izzy started riding from a very young age, riding a huge variety of ponies and being out on the hunting field at just four years old put her in very good stead to become one of Britain's talented young riders.
The passion and natural talent for riding came from Izzy's mother's side of the family. Her Grandmother Jane Whiteley (nee Drummond Hay) evented herself, including being placed in Badminton Horse trials, while her great Aunt Anneli Drummond Hay won both Badminton and Burghley in her time. Not to be left out Izzy's mother represented Great Britain as a young rider. While Izzy's father only started riding upon meeting Izzy's mother he is now a great lover of Hunting, an infatuation that quickly rubbed off on Izzy, who believes that without the influence of the Bicester Hunt neither herself nor several of her horses would be where they are today.
Although being offered a place at both Bath and Loughborough University to study Sports Science, during a trip to Ballendenisk on the reserve pony team, where she finished third, Izzy decided her future was with horses and eventing. She started working at Hartpury College and renowned breeders Sam and Linda Barr, breaking in and riding the young Welton horses. Upon realising the importance of show jumping within eventing Izzy then went out to Holland to train with Anneli Drummond Hay. This provided her with some fantastic education and also presented the opportunity to work for Olympic Swiss show jumper Markus Fuchs, a true honour. During this time Izzy was fortunate to ride some quality show jumping horses, enabling her to gain great jumping experience and understanding, including realising the influence that flatwork plays. Izzy also did a small amount of eventing during her stay, but unfortunately in August of 2003 suffered a fall at Lummen, resulting in her fracturing two vertebrae and displacing another.
- By Boxing Day that year Izzy was out Hunting again, thanks to a fantastic surgeon, and spent the rest of the season hunting four days a week with the Bicester. This was the best rehab she could have had as her fitness improved at speed, together with her confidence and eye for a fence! Hunting the horse on which she fell soon put the pair back on track and they went on to win bronze in the Young Rider Championships, a great achievement considering many people questioned whether she should continue to ride him.
In the spring of 2004, Izzy started to work for Mr John Johnston at the Opposition Stud, John gave Izzy the break she needed and had the confidence in her ability and strength as a rider despite her injury. Izzy stayed with John for two and a half seasons, during which time she was second at Windsor International and third at the Young Rider Championships, as well as successfully competing a large number of John's Opposition horses and taking them up the grades through to Advanced level.
- In 2006 Izzy returned home to her mothers yard to set up on her own, feeling that was now was the time to go about establishing herself as a name. She soon picked up a number of rides – several through hunting and continued to compete, improving bit by bit. In 2008 Izzy got the catch rides on Briarlands Blackberry and Briarlands Matilda due to Tristram Owers unfortunately breaking his ankle. Izzy then kept the rides and came third on Matilda at Blenheim in 2009, the same year in which her first child Lily Tompkins was born and a move to a new yard near Chipping Norton.
In 2010 Izzy's second child Freddie was born but it was still a busy season with Izzy having over one hundred rides, including twelve internationals. During 2011 and 2012 Izzy returned home to her mother's yard, where her eventing career went from strength to strength. She was 7th at Burghley CCI**** 2012, 3rd at Bramham CCI*** 2012, and as a rider finished 11th in the British Eventing Rankings for 2012 with KBIS Briarlands Matilda 13th in the list of top 20 horses for British Eventing.
It was an exciting 2013 with Izzy on the World Class Elite Performance Squad and three horses on the World Class Equine Pathway. It was a year that also held so many 'first' in my eventing career, the first was to have been selected to join the Elite Squad with World Class funded by UK Sport and the Lottery. Then selected to join five FEI Nations Cup team events, on top of that Izzy made her debut as an individual with a European Championships with Team GBR in Sweden at the HSBC FEI European Championships in Malmo with KBIS Briarlands Matilda. At the end of the season, five of the horses that Izzy rode were in the top 100 horses for 2013.
2014 was just as eventful, Izzy was fortunate to continue on the World Class Elite Performance Squad and four horses on the World Class Equine Pathway. Izzy was a member of the 2014 GBR Team for the series of 'FEI Nations Cup Team Competitions' where Britain came 2nd in the series. Izzy selected to take part in three of the competitions, where she finished the highest placed Brit in all 3.
The highlights of the 2014 season:-
- Izzy was the only rider to complete Badminton, both horses finishing in the top 20
- 1st in the CCI3* – Allercombe Ellie – Tattersalls
- 2nd in the CICO3* – Allercombe Ellie – Ballindenisk (1)
- 2nd in the CCI3* – Orlando – Bramham
- 4th in the CICO3* – Orlando – Aachen
- 4th in the CIC3* – Thistledown Poposki – Ballindenisk (2)
- 1st in the CCI2* – Call Me Maggie May – Ballindenisk (2)
- 7th in the CCI4* – KBIS Briarlands Matilda – Land Rover Burghley
- Allercoombe Ellie – Selected for TEAM GBR squad 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games
- Orlando – Reserve selection for TEAM GBR squad 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games
2015 Highlights:-
- 2nd in the CICI3* – KBIS Starburst – Strezgom
- 3rd in the CIC3* – Thistledown Poposki – Wellington
- 6th European Championships – KBIS Briarlands Matilda – Blair Castle
- 1st in the CCI2* – Be Touchable – Ballindenisk
2016 Highlights:-
3rd in the CCI3* – Be Touchable – Ballindenisk
- 8th in the CCI4* – Allercombe Ellie – Badminton
- 2nd in the CIC3* – Be Touchable- Hartpury
- Olympic Team Seletion – Allercome Ellie
- 2nd in CICO3* – Frog Rock – Waregem
- 4th in CICO3* – Trevidden – Waregem
- 7th in CCI3* – Trevidden – Boekelo
- 3rd in 6 year old World Championships – Jockey Club Fleurelle – Le Lion
2017 Highlights:-
- 1st in CIC3* – KBIS Starburst – Belton
- 5th in CIC3* – Frog Rock – Belton
- 2nd in CCI1* – Monkeying Around – Ballindenisk
- 1st in CIC3* – Trevidden – Bramham
- 1st in CIC3* – Perfect Stranger – Mallow
- 1st, 2nd 3rd in CIC3* – Trevidden, Be Touchable, Perfect Stranger – Camphire
- 1st in CIC2* – DHI Jet Set – Somerford
- 1st in CCI3* – Perfect Stranger – Millstreet
- 1st in CIC3* – Be Touchable – Millstreet
- 9th in CCI4* – Trevidden – Burghley
- 1st in CIC3* ERM – Be Touchable – Blenheim
- 2nd in CIC3* Frog Rock – Ballindenisk
- 2nd in CCI1* Newmarket Glider – Ballindenisk
- 1st in CCI1* – Monkeying Around – Le Lion d'Angers
- 2nd in CCI2* – Direct Cassino – Le Lion d'Angers
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Heinz K. Meier is a native of Zurich, Switzerland, where he was born in 1929. He was a member of the so called "free church". Heinz K. Meier was educated at the Evangelisches Lehrseminar and the University of Zurich and at the Alliance Francaise of Paris. He first came to the United States in 1955; he just had gotten married and wanted to see something. There was by chance an opening at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Somebody was on leave for a year and his wife's sister read about it and felt that if a French teacher is on leave for a year they probably need a replacement. He also started immediately taking courses in history. His wife suggested that he should study for a PhD. They didn't have a PhD in French nor in German at Emory, so the next best thing was history, which Meier also had studied at the University of Zurich. He was accepted in the PhD program at Emory. And he decided that one doesn't come to the United States to study European history, therefore, he would do American history, even so he never had one hour of American history. Within two years, Meier had his PhD. The Swiss-American Historical Society is probably the one organization Meier has been connected with where his participation was most important. The Society, which had been founded back in 1927, was practically dead at the end of the '5Os. It was revived in the early '60s. The person who was instrumental in getting it going again was connected with the Swiss Embassy in Washington, and he enlisted Heinz K. Meier's participation from the start. Meier was elected the president of the society and stayed on in that function for seven years. When the responsible diplomat left the Embassy in Washington, Meier took over the editorship of the newsletter as well.
Heinz K. Meier began teaching at Old Dominion College, Norfolk, Virginia in 1960. From 1967-1973, he was the director of the graduate program in history and then was the head of the department from 1973-1975. He has held the position of dean since August of 1975.
Source: Heinz K. Meier, The United States and Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century, 1963, The Hague and Oral History Interview with Heinz K. Meier in the Perry Library, Old Dominion College, interviewed by Kim Snyder, April 10, 1981, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA (edited and shortened by editor)
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WITH its bland office towers, 99-cent stores and endless noodle shops, Downtown Flushing in Queens is hardly a district that typically wins praise from architectural pundits. Its crossroads, a crowded commercial marketplace at Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue, is surrounded by charmless brick apartment buildings and several new towers rising simultaneously.
Where there is not scaffolding and steel beams signaling the imminent arrival of another new building, there are signs. Posters and advertisements and labels in loud colors seem to cover nearly every inch of the front of nearly every building: "Facial 1st Time $19.90." "Jimmy Zhong Insurance." "Shabu Shabu (Fire Pit) All You Can Eat $18.95." "Duane Reade." It looks like a neighborhoodwide billboard.
For escape, however, one need not look far. Just north of the Broadway stop on the Long Island Rail Road sits a peaceful collection of century-old homes. The area is a textbook of early 20th-century revival styles, with gracious Colonials and Tudors on nearly every block, along with many Arts and Crafts houses, even a little Art Deco.
And now for the first time, the city neighborhood with perhaps the largest number of dumpling houses and phone-card stands per square mile is on the path to becoming a historic district.
"This place has a historic significance," said Marjorie Ferrigno, who, with her husband, Nicholas, was a founding member of the Broadway-Flushing Homeowners Association.
"It's a gracious way of life that once existed in many places, where people cared for each other and had a sense of community," said Ms. Ferrigno, who has lived in the neighborhood for more than half a century. "That's what we're all about."
A recent stroll along the wide, snow-covered streets of Broadway-Flushing (so named because Northern Boulevard was once called Broadway) revealed signs of a courteous way of life. In front of every other house, someone was reshoveling the sidewalk, and children in snowsuits rode sleds down the slope of a neighbor's wide yard.
Not every house within the proposed historic area, which includes more than 1,300 structures in all, is a gem. Every so often, one encounters unfortunate multicolored faux-stone siding, and occasionally -- gasp! -- a McMansion. But it is the relatively recent arrival of such newcomers, which follow teardowns of more distinguished buildings, that has led the push for historic status.
"All of these areas that have kept very high-quality integrity of their historic housing all of a sudden have been under assault," said Paul Graziano, a local resident and partner at Associated Cultural Resource Consultants, which is helping the neighborhood secure the designation. He describes the effort for the Broadway-Flushing historic district as not about just one neighborhood, but as a statement to developers that Queens is not theirs for the taking.
Thus far, the district has received approval from the state's Historic Preservation Board, and this month Mr. Graziano and others led a tour for officials from the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission, which is reviewing the neighborhood's application.
Given the large number of houses in the proposed district, one may wonder how residents have staved off new development for so long. The answer is rooted in the neighborhood's history, dating to 1906, when the Rickert-Finley company bought three farms there. As the company built homes, it set in place deed restrictions that mandated features like large yards and no front-yard fences. Through the years, Ms. Ferrigno and her cohorts have enforced those restrictions in court. But as legal costs rise ever higher, they are seeking permanent protection to ensure that their work was not for naught.
"If it wasn't for the diligent efforts of this group for the past 20 years to fight and enforce these regulations, there wouldn't be a community left to save," said City Councilman Tony Avella.
Mr. and Ms. Ferrigno are retired now, but they vividly recall their decision to move to Flushing. She wanted an easy commute to her job in Manhattan, and he needed to live near La Guardia Airport, where he worked for American Airlines. When they came to 163rd Street and saw the wide open spaces, the big front lawns and a house big enough for a family, they moved in and never left.
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Nguyen, Viet Thanh. Race & Resistance: Literature & Politics in Asian America. Oxford [England]: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Asian American Representation is in crisis! To Nguyen, in an ideological battle for hegemony, the Asian American intellectuals are continually misrepresenting As-Ams, creating a politics of exclusion under the guise of a homogenous ideological structure. Nguyen sees an ever rising danger in the way As-Am books are canonized and taught, consistently favoring the "bad subjects" and ignoring any "model minorities" who may see coming to the United States as an actual beneficial experience. He believes that Asian America is "obfuscating differences of power within Asian America…that ensue from an ideological belief that Asian American is only a place of ethnic consensus and resistance to an inherently exploitative or destructive capitalism" (11). Asian American critics then must turn their ideological lenses on themselves, and "engage in a self-critique that results in an understanding of Asian America's limits" (11).
Nguyen's main attack is on the discourse of the "bad subject," which in As-Am, is always presented as a binary opposition to the "model minority." The discourse of the bad subject ignores the Asian Ams who find themselves "adequate in pursuing the short-term goals of middle-class based project of nationalist assimilation" (24). The Bad Subject becomes a false, idealized vision of radical change, onto a society that most migrants do not feel it necessary to resist. His first example of these conflicting discourses is the first Asian American writers, Edith and Winnifred Eaton, one of which has been canonized and held to ideal heights within the Asian Am community for embracing her Chinese heritage and never becoming assimilated (Edith), while the other sister, Winnifred, assimilated quickly, claimed to be Japanese rather than Chinese, and favored capitalism. Though Winnifred was the first As-Am novelist, she is rarely recognized as such, and her books are viewed as conventional flattery toward the United States. But why shouldn't she? Having moved from China in the late 19th century, isn't it possible that she actually did not wish to be a "resistor?" Or must we blame US censorship?
Nguyen's concept of "panethnic entrepreneuriship" is a term he uses for Asian Americans who favor capitalism, and in fact attempt embody the American dream, but who are also ignored because they are not interested in becoming "sites of resistance." But even in "panethnic entreprenership," resistance is performed through Homi Bhabha's "mimicry." Mimics like Winnifred Eaton create instability, as one who "subverts the gaze of authority that observes her lack by returning that gaze" (53). The American "capitalist" then witnessing the Japanese entrepreneurs as their own self-identity rather than simple mimicry, displaces the ideas of origin and authenticity. It is similar with the Model Minority, who assimilates so quickly and so well that they can no longer be viewed as "unassimilated Asians," destabilizing once again what it means to be an "American."
Carlos Busolan and John Okada are interpreted by the As-Am intellectuals as writers of resistance, but Nguyen discovers how they blurred the line between these false binaries of "Bad Subject" and "Model Minority". In Busolan's case, the tortuous experience of migrancy resulted in his needing to become a model minority, yet Nguyen discovers the objects of desire in Busolan to be "American" values–the continual desire for "innocent" caucasion women, and the desire for freedom. So too does Okada's No-No Boy exemplify the model minority, for while Ichiro is a "Bad Subject," his best friend who went to war and lost a leg has the far preferred life, and Ichiro goes through the novel wishing to become more like his best friend, and when he isn't pondering that, he's incorrigibly materialistic. Interesting that in these novels, capital goods, freedom and "model minority" become the main "goals" for the characters, and yet these aspects of Busolan and Okada are continually ignored in favor of "resistant readings" such as Michael Denning, who reads "America is in the Heart" as "an expression of the Communist Party's Popular Front Rhetoric," a statement which Nguyen attacks, since Busolan didn't really discover communism until after the book was written, and in fact, "Busolan compromises with American pluralism in the conclusion, exercising a standard rhetorical trope of a feminized America" (70). America becomes the "mother" to these writers, rather than the "totalitarian father".
Nguyen calls for a new hermeneutical method that does not see As-Am in the binaries of "Bad Subjects" and "Model Minorities," since these are not only false representations, but that the "Bad Subjects" hold a hegemony over the racial formation of As Am intellectuals. By continuing these binaries, intellectuals ignore the fact that "Asian Americans can frequently occupy both situations simultaneously or, at the very least, alternate between them, as realized most graphically in the role of the panethnic entrepreneur" (144-5). The Entrepreneur utilizes their race in order to realize the American dream, and is able not only to switch from "resistor" to "assimilator," but is able to resist and destablize the American nationalist order by being assimilated into it (mimicry).
Finally, Nguyen discovers what may very well be the end of Asian America. While Lisa Lowe acknowledged the Asian Am's heterogeneity in experience, race, ethnicity and "body politic," what must now be recognized is the numerous ideologies within Asian Americans, and that no single ideology (such as the bad subject) can come close to creating a unity in the present era, which is more or less absent of "common suffering". What As Am intellectuals promise actually "run counter to the ideological beliefs of many Asian Americans," especially in the view of many post-1965 Korean, Chinese and Japanese embrace of global capital, and the intellectual's vilification of it (168). By continuing As Am studies in this way, intellectuals are interpellating As Ams to act in certain ways, to live by their ideological beliefs and to see themselves only in terms of their race. To Nguyen, the Asian American Racial Project is, in the heterogeneity of As Ams ideologies, an actual essentialist project, since it construes racial difference of the ideas of race alone: "the discourse of the bad subject is predicated upon the insistence of a fundamental racial difference from whites" (169). In other words, it is not ideology or experience that should unify Asian Americans, but only their racial differences from whites. Nguyen finds this the most insidious element of the Asian American racial project that must be abandoned.
Nguyen's acknowledgment of ideological differences leaves much to be said about the future of Asian American studies. To Nguyen, it must first abandon this false binary of "Bad Subjects" and "Model Minorities," but taking into account that a type of "full assimilation" is possible and in fact already underway. Nguyen uses the examples of the Irish, who in the late 19th century were surely not white, and in polls were always described as a different race entirely, but because of their assimilation and history, they are now under the banner of "whiteness." The same example he uses for the Jews and Italians, who like Asian Americans, were exploited and abused in the first century that they arrived in the United States. By "discovering" the limits of Asian American studies, Nguyen doesn't seek to end it, but to parse out its ideological beliefs to reflect the heterogeneity of the Asian American ideologies, rather than combining every Asian American experience into a rubric that always demands "the bad Subject."


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Twenty demonstrators arrested and booked into county jail after a violent protest in the Financial District on Saturday may be tied to last month's violence in the Mission District, police said Monday.
The protesters, self-described anarchists, were part of a group of 100 that took part in Saturday's action. Though the suspects did not claim affiliation with the Mission violence, San Francisco Police Department spokesman Gordon Shyy said the tactics they used mirrored those used in September.
Most of Saturday's protesters dressed in black and hid their faces behind dark masks as they marched down Market Street. They threw road flares and bags of paint, some with rocks, and targeted officers, according to Shyy.
"It's our investigation that led us to believe that they were associated," Shyy said, adding that the protesters were given numerous opportunities to disperse.
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During the protests that followed the Barceñas shooting, the Mission District's Farina restaurant and Live Fit Gym were vandalized.
Shyy said that Saturday's arrests were in light of neighborhood concerns about long-term safety and inadequate police patrols, voiced at two Mission community meetings on Sept. 24 and at other events.
"We heard their concerns about the last protest, where business owners had property destroyed … they were in a sense criticizing police for not taking action," Shyy said. "We changed our tactics. As soon as [Saturday's protests] became violent, confrontational and [engaged in] vandalization, the police stepped in."
The 20 suspects — 11 men and nine women — were charged with conspiracy; riot; refusing to obey a lawful order from a peace officer; resisting, delaying or obstructing a police officer; and assault and battery on a police officer. When police searched the suspects, they found hammers, an ice pick, road flares, illegal fireworks and bags of paint.
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TOPO Marketing Council #11 – A Recap
Over 25 demand generation leaders from the Bay Area's fastest growing companies gathered last Friday for TOPO's eleventh Marketing Council. These Councils offer a unique forum for marketing leaders from high growth companies to learn from each other and share best practices. Each Council features three speakers who share the processes, plays, organizational elements, and technologies they use to drive key revenue metrics.
As usual, we started Council with a lightning round of introductions and asked attendees to share a "hot-button" issue. Some hot-button issues that were raised include:
- Attribution for touchpoints in multichannel orchestration.
- Balancing metrics for success dependent on different market segments.
- Scaling back MQL language and measurements while implementing Account-Based programs.
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TOPO Senior Marketing Analyst, Eric Wittlake, started off the council with a deep dive into TOPO's recently published Account-Based Funnel.
Takeaways from his session include:
- How to measure success at an account by replacing the MQL with the Account Engagement Score.
- Using Target Account Pipeline and Revenue Based Metrics when forecasting.
- There is no such thing as a simple handoff between teams anymore, and processes need to be adjusted to reflect that.
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- The challenges of measuring engagement objectively and developing a system of attribution that works for all teams.
- How to orchestrate between sales development and marketing for more effective prospecting messaging.
Our second set of speakers were Beth McCullough, Director of Demand Gen, and Avi Bhatnagar, Director of Digital Marketing, from WhiteHat Security who walked us through their phases of ABE implementation in their team.
Discussion points included:
- The challenges of measuring engagement objectively and developing a system of attribution that works for all teams.
- How to effectively build your technology stack to minimize function overlap and ensure high quality ROI.
- Build an account-based workflow in order to ensure the organization is on the same page about which teams own which touchpoints and handoffs
Our third speaker was Maria Pergolino, SVP of Global Marketing at Apttus, who led a highly interactive session on the challenges of implementing ABM at Apttus.
Discussion points included:
- Building better attribution models by source to help understand marketing ROI for target accounts.
- Changing rhetoric around success by measuring Life Time Value and Target Account Pipeline based on Target Account List.
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Joan Walsh has written a terrific piece about the false equivalency the media is trying to create between Hillary Clinton's speech on Donald Trump's white nationalism and Trump calling Clinton a bigot: "The Media Are Doing an Abysmal Job of Covering Donald Trump's Racism."
Now, you can dislike Clinton's speech. You can fact-check it, and perhaps find something wrong—although to my knowledge nobody claimed any inaccuracy. But what you really shouldn't do, if you are a journalist of any kind of conscience or capacity, is act as though Clinton had somehow gotten down in the gutter with Trump—merely by describing what Trump is doing.Yes, yes, and more yes.
Yet that's the kind of coverage we got. Some commenters got it right, but the reporters and editors charged with "objectivity" immediately equated Clinton's clear-eyed exegesis of Trump's racially divisive campaign with Trump's calling her a "bigot."
Meanwhile: The press continues to harangue Clinton about not doing more press conferences, despite the fact that they don't deliver similarly sustained outrage over anything Trump does, or fails to do, which is evidence of their double-standard routinely applied via the "Hillary rules," which is nothing more than rank sexism.
How do these two things relate? Well, here's how: The function of pressers in a typical election is to help distinguish the candidates. In this election, however, the candidates are observably different. And what the media is trying to do is make them seem more similar than they are, to create a horserace.
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In order to import data from JSON to Core Data there exist quite a number of ready solutions. However, neither of them fits the definition of the optimal tool we suggest to consider in this article. What we were looking for is something fast and flexible in the first place. But such tools as MagicalRecord, MagicalRecord fork, Mantle, and EasyMapping fail to provide high-speed performance. And that's an essential requirement to the product development.
Enough talking. Let's post some numbers!
We did a test to see how long the data import takes once you apply each of the tools by experimenting with both an empty database a database that includes objects.
Testing environment:
- Test example
- Build scheme: Release. Environment: Xcode 5.1, iPhone 5s
- Unique entities: 3000, total: 3000. Entities relationship: Person <->> Phone
- Number of runs: 5
- Cold - import into an empty database
- Hot - import of already existing objects (i.e. update)
The results show that existing tools are far from being fast.
What can we do about it?
We can fork EasyMapping!
Why EasyMapping and not any other existing framework? It turns out to be the simplest and most extensible framework as for me. The author of EasyMapping points out, that the idea he came up with grew from RestKit's mapping and that of the Mantle's.
However he notes: "RestKit's problem is that it doesn't transform custom values (such as a string value to an enum)". According to the author's idea, in EasyMapping you don't need to inherit from any class, like in Mantle's mapping.
That's why I chose EasyMapping as a platform for the performance improvement (and not only that). In general the rules that describe mapping in EasyMapping are quite simple. For more info see EasyMapping or our fork.
Shortly, the object mapping itself is described as a separate object. The same is applied to the property mapping and relationship mapping (in our fork). Therefore, by combining the property mappings and relationship mappings with the object mapping you can describe the majority of the mapping cases.
Back to performance troubles
The main drawbacks of all of the above-mentioned tools, except the fork of MagicalRecord is that they trip to database in cycles and create NSPredicate and NSDateFormatter. In order to find an existing object in the database, NSFetchRequest is performed. What does Apple say in the CoreData guidelines? They propose to use the pattern "find" before the actual import and only after that "or create" instead of "find or create" for every iteration. This can be done by using the predicate IN:
[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"primaryKey IN %@", arrayOfPrimaryKeys];
Why is it so important to do? Apple highlights that the complexity of "find or create" for every iteration turns into O(n^2), which leads to inappropriate import time, as you have seen above. So what have we done with our EasyMapping fork? Implemented Apple's recommendations, that's all. In order to implement "find before import" pattern we have to somehow collect a set of primary keys from JSON.
Collecting primary keys and objects caching should be performed by a separate class. Let's name it EMKLookupCache.
What does EMKLookupCache need to have to be able to operate? We need to know the rules of mapping to collect the primary keys from JSON. In our case they're represented by EMKManagedObjectMapping. Definitely, we would need NSManagedObjectContext to work with.
@interface EMKLookupCache : NSObject
@property (nonatomic, strong, readonly) EMKManagedObjectMapping *mapping;
@property (nonatomic, strong, readonly) NSManagedObjectContext *context;
- (instancetype)initWithMapping:(EMKManagedObjectMapping *)mapping externalRepresentation:(id)externalRepresentation context:(NSManagedObjectContext *)context;
externalRepresentation is JSON itself.
Also, we need to somehow retrieve the cached object. Let's add the following into the @interface:
@interface EMKLookupCache : NSObject
(id)existingObjectForRepresentation:(id)representation mapping:(EMKManagedObjectMapping *)mapping;
Implementation. Init
- (instancetype)initWithMapping:(EMKManagedObjectMapping *)mapping
context:(NSManagedObjectContext *)context {
self = [self init];
if (self) {
_mapping = mapping;
_context = context;
_lookupKeysMap = [NSMutableDictionary new];
_lookupObjectsMap = [NSMutableDictionary new];
[self inspectExternalRepresentation:externalRepresentation usingMapping:mapping];
return self;
It is quite straightforward - you can see the allocation of the internal variables. A much more interesting part is inspection of input JSON, which is implemented here:
- (void)inspectExternalRepresentation:(id)externalRepresentation usingMapping:(EMKManagedObjectMapping *)mapping {
// 1
id representation = [mapping mappedExternalRepresentation:externalRepresentation];
// 2
if ([representation isKindOfClass:NSArray.class]) {
for (id objectRepresentation in representation) {
// 3
[self inspectObjectRepresentation:objectRepresentation usingMapping:mapping];
} else if ([representation isKindOfClass:NSDictionary.class]) {
// 3
[self inspectObjectRepresentation:representation usingMapping:mapping];
- Since the object(s) representation cannot guarantee to become the root object, we need to extract one. It's simply done by
[NSObject valueForKeyPath:]
- To avoid the need of the client's code to specify the expected object representation container
NSArrayor NSDictionary, we should automate the inspection.
NSDictionary, we should automate the inspection.
- And that is the method that does all the job.
- (void)inspectObjectRepresentation:(id)objectRepresentation usingMapping:(EMKManagedObjectMapping *)mapping {
// 1
if (mapping.primaryKey) {
// 2
EMKAttributeMapping *primaryKeyMapping = mapping.primaryKeyMapping;
// 3
id primaryKeyValue = [primaryKeyMapping mappedValueFromRepresentation:objectRepresentation];
// 4
if (primaryKeyValue) {
[_lookupKeysMap[mapping.entityName] addObject:primaryKeyValue];
// 5
for (EMKRelationshipMapping *relationshipMapping in mapping.relationshipMappings) {
[self inspectExternalRepresentation:objectRepresentation usingMapping:relationshipMapping.objectMapping];
- It may happen that nested mapping does not have the primary key. So we will need to filter out such mappings. As I've already mentioned, every mapping is represented by a separate class whether it's an object or an attribute or a relationship. In the case of @
EMKAttributeMappingis used.
EMKAttributeMappingknows how to transform the data (i.e.
NSNumberby using internal properties, such as
keyPath, which extracts a required value from the object representation and the map performs the actual transformation (i.e.
- In case we found a primary key, we should place it into the store divided by entity names. Why so? Our JSON potentially contains more than one entity. Therefore we need to distinguish primary keys' sets by the entity.
- Since every
EMKMapping(superclass of
EMKManagedObjectMapping) can contain relationships, let's go through them. To summarize what we have just seen here - by traversing JSON we're collecting primary keys and storing them in
NSMutableSetfor each entity separately. Therefore, at the end of this method we have a full set of primary keys we can sort out from.
How does retrieval of the cached objects work?
- (id)existingObjectForRepresentation:(id)representation mapping:(EMKManagedObjectMapping *)mapping {
// 1
NSDictionary *entityObjectsMap = [self cachedObjectsForMapping:mapping];
// 2
id primaryKeyValue = [mapping.primaryKeyMapping mappedValueFromRepresentation:representation];
if (primaryKeyValue == nil || primaryKeyValue == NSNull.null) return nil;
// 3
return entityObjectsMap[primaryKeyValue];
cachedObjectsForMappingreturns a dictionary of the cached objects, where the key is a primaryKey.
EMKAttributeMappingknows how to retrieve a requested value from the object representation. Therefore, retrieval of a primary key from the object representation is very simple.
- Final statement: return the cached object for the specified primary key.
Let's go deeper and reveal the implementation of
- (NSMutableDictionary *)cachedObjectsForMapping:(EMKManagedObjectMapping *)mapping {
// 1
NSMutableDictionary *entityObjectsMap = _lookupObjectsMap[mapping.entityName];
if (!entityObjectsMap) {
// 2
entityObjectsMap = [self fetchExistingObjectsForMapping:mapping];
_lookupObjectsMap[mapping.entityName] = entityObjectsMap;
return entityObjectsMap;
- By passing entity name into
_lookupObjectsMapwe retrieve objects for the specific entity mapped into a dictionary, where the keys are the primary keys.
- This is the most interesting place.
Let's reveal the implementation below.
- (NSMutableDictionary *)fetchExistingObjectsForMapping:(EMKManagedObjectMapping *)mapping {
NSSet *lookupValues = _lookupKeysMap[mapping.entityName];
// 1
if (lookupValues.count == 0) return [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [NSFetchRequest fetchRequestWithEntityName:mapping.entityName];
NSPredicate *predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"%K IN %@", mapping.primaryKey, lookupValues];
[fetchRequest setPredicate:predicate];
[fetchRequest setFetchLimit:lookupValues.count];
NSMutableDictionary *output = [NSMutableDictionary new];
// 3
NSArray *existingObjects = [_context executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:NULL];
for (NSManagedObject *object in existingObjects) {
output[[object valueForKey:mapping.primaryKey]] = object;
return output;
- If there are no primary keys collected - return immediately.
- As Apple says: "IN predicate fits best for "find" pattern." lookupValues contains a list of
primaryKeys, that were collected during JSON inspection.
- Again no rocket science here. We're just turning an array of fetched objects into a dictionary with primary keys set as keys.
What's next? It turns out that objects, which are missing in our cache should be created. These objects should be added to the cache. Otherwise we get into a situation where a newly created object can be duplicated many times during its import. Let's implement it:
- (void)addExistingObject:(id)object usingMapping:(EMKManagedObjectMapping *)mapping {
// 1
id primaryKeyValue = [object valueForKey:mapping.primaryKey];
NSAssert(primaryKeyValue, @"No value for key (%@) on object (%@) found", mapping.primaryKey, object);
// 2
NSMutableDictionary *entityObjectsMap = [self cachedObjectsForMapping:mapping];
[entityObjectsMap setObject:object forKey:primaryKeyValue];
- Nothing special here.
- Simply add objects to the prefetched from the database objects.
At this point we're done with the cache implementation.
To recap, let's see what the import looks like:
- Client passes Mapping scheme and JSON to Deserializer
- Deserializer passes it to
- Lookup cache collects all the existing primary keys using a mapping scheme.
- For each entry in JSON deserializer asks a lookup cache for the existing object. If not found – create one.
Almost the end of the story
I hope, you noticed an interesting trend for MagicalRecord, Mantle and
EasyMapping but there wasn't the one for
MagicalRecord fork during the update (i.e. a hot test)? It turns out that update and save takes even more time than create and save. Why so? During my research on
MagicalRecord performance I found an interesting comment posted by the author of MagicalRecord 2.2 fork:
"...There were also a few quick and easy wins, one example being not modifying attributes and relationships that didn't need to be changed. On updates this can remove a good number of SQLite statements as by simply touching a property forces core data to update the version number of the object. You end up seeing a bunch of "UPDATE ZENTITY SET Z_OPT = ?, Z_ENT = ?;" statements otherwise."
In short, if we don't update object's attributes to the equal values - we can omit a bunch of sql UPDATE queries.
@implementation NSObject (EMKKVO)
- (void)emk_setValueIfDifferent:(id)value forKey:(NSString *)key {
id _value = [self valueForKey:key];
if (_value == value) return;
if (_value != nil && value == nil) {
[self setValue:nil forKey:key];
} else if (![value isEqual:_value]) {
[self setValue:value forKey:key];
Please see the original implementation.
The end of the story
Don't forget to RTFM and you will save billions of microseconds for CPU.
Definitely, Mantle wasn't designed to work with
CoreData directly ("Mantle doesn't automatically persist your objects for you… If you need something more powerful, or want to avoid keeping your whole model in memory at once, CoreData may be a better choice") but it gives you the ability to map JSON to objects without any headache and gracefully as ever.
The way Mantle utilizes
NSValueTransformer, implements error handling and decomposes responsibilities between objects should become standard in modern Obj-C development. MagicalRecord was one of the first tools to simplify the work with CoreData. Also I love numerous categories which give you the ability to fetch objects or setup the whole CoreData stack in one line.
Why is the efficient import missing in the implementation? I really don't know.
EasyMapping was something new to me. It is light and powerful. It is worth using.
What else?
Some of you can say: "Hey what about
NSPredicate and
NSDateFormatter caching?". Yes, it does make sense but not in the
EasyMapping case. It turns out that here the mapping scheme is static, so
NSDateFormatter /
NSPredicate are used throughout the entire life cycle of the object.


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