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Gettysburg Requiem: The Life and Lost Causes of Confederate Colonel William C. Oates (Hardcover) by Glenn W. LaFantasie.
Lee, Grant, Longstreet, Sherman, Custer and other Civil War generals have many biographies for readers to enjoy. But it is rare for a biography of a colonel or in this case a lieutenant colonel to appear in the national Civil War library. Subjects such as these are too infrequent because of the lack of source depth and the amount of time it takes to put one together. Robert E. Lee or Grant have papers/letters in libraries and have and enormous biographical library behind them. So it is easier to write a biography of Grant but tackling the lesser known officers is a vein that historians need to hit more.
Author Glenn LaFantasie tackled an extremely difficult topic in his biography of William C. Oates (1833 -- 1910). LaFantasie's subject was a true man of his time and Oates should have had the nickname "Contradiction" for his attitudes and lifestyle. For example, he had a black lover (who mothered one of his three sons) but was a racist. Oates was a respected citizen, attorney, politician but murdered a man and beat up another on the steps of the Alabama legislature. He was wounded six times in battle but rose no higher in rank than lieutenant colonel of the 15th Alabama regiment. He felt that Lincoln could have made reconstruction easier but saw Lincolns presidency as a threat to the southern way of life.
LaFantasie's research is solid, straight-forward and is very detailed. He went through archives in several states, explored newspapers, magazine articles, periodicals and most of his citations are from primary sources. When I buy a Civil War book I really look at the sources that the author used because it is so vital to use primary sources. Too often you find books that use secondary sources and the only primary things that you see are the official war records. Today, the Internet makes things so much easier that authors can find things a lot easier than they did in 1901.
The research in this book reveals a man who struggled but was able to succeed during a difficult time in American history. Oates was a Confederate hero who dealt with the loss of his arm, struggled with his feelings of manhood and his regret at the loss of his brother John on Little Round Top. Throughout his life, Oates resisted everything but temptation which is characterized in his relationship with women. After losing his arm in 1864 Oates is nursed to health but a local family that in Alabama. The family gives Oates a black servant to help him to recover and he ends up having a sexual relationship with her that lasts a few years. This relationship ends up with Oates having a child. Later on he has a relationship with a 14 year old girl that produces another child. When he finally marries at the age of forty-eight it is to a 19 year old woman. So Oates was a man who had a lot of inner-conflicts that he took out on other people including the women in his life.
Glenn LaFantasie provides his readers with a full picture of Oates life. Besides the things that I previously mentioned he goes into detail (but not boring detail) about Oates career as a lawyer before and after the war. His experiences as a representative in the United States Congress is explored but since Oates spent 14 years in Washington D.C. one wishes that LaFantasie would have explored it more. His war years are explored in detail but LaFantasie doesn't overwhelm his readers with useless facts but does a good job by avoiding a pitfall that a lot of Civil War biographies fall into. The 15th Alabama's struggle for Little Round Top versus the 20th Maine could have taken up hundreds of pages. Glenn doesn't spend the entire book focusing on it and that is a good thing. He gives us what we need to know and maintains that focus for the entire book.
Although, the author spends some time criticizing the sexist and racist attitudes of the south he does provide an excellent picture of his subject. The best part of the book is Oates and his battle for a monument for his brother John and his 15th Alabama regiment on Little Round Top. I've always called this the 2nd struggle for Little Round Top because the United States government resisted any push for Confederate monuments at Gettysburg. Check out this book from your library or purchase a copy, it is well worth it and it is a great read.


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Poke literally translated from Hawaiian means "cut piece" or "to section" and is a traditional island dish combining cubed raw fish plus a touch of soy sauce for a light yet wholesome meal or snack. It's a way of life on the islands and has been a cherished part of Hawaiian culture for decades. In the last two years the poke craze has taken over in cities across the mainland.
Modern poke combines cubed fish, a grain, with toppings and seasonings into an easy, grab-and-go dish that's enjoyed at the dinner table, on the job, in the car, on a hike, in the sand – anywhere. Think fresh fish meets fragrant jasmine rice plus savory seasonings, and a slightly sweet sauce. It's no wonder they're wildly popular with everyone.
ACME'S SPIn ON POKE
Acme Smoked Fish is introducing a smoked fish twist on the island-style favorite under the Blue Hill Bay brand. These smoked fish Poke Bowls combine unique smoked flavors with Hawaiian traditions and modern convenience.
Acme Smoked Fish began in the early 1900's to become the finest smokers of fish for four generations. Acme is committed to bringing the highest quality products, combining artisanal traditions with the latest cutting edge advances in food quality and innovation. It is this expertise that brings the Blue Hill Bay Smoked Fish Poke to you.

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text: On Pretty Little Liars , Aria and Ezra's relationship may look normal - but in real life, having a relationship with a teacher is a serious offense. Have any of your teachers tried to contact you outside of school on Facebook? What did you do? Tell us about your experiences and how you stopped it in the comments section below.


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The Los Angeles Convention Center is host to many large conventions during the year such as E3, Anime Expo, Dwell and the LA Auto Show. The "South Park" area of Downtown has gone through a major transformation in the last 15 years starting with the building of Staples Center and most recently the LA Live complex. This area has many great restaurants and bars as well. Getting to the Convention Center from our property is simple by either walking (1.5 miles), driving (5-7 minutes) or by using the DASH bus system.
If you want to use the DASH bus, Route F will take you directly to the South Park area of Downtown LA. A stop for this route is located 3 blocks east of our hotel. The DASH bus is highly cost effective as it is only $.50 cents one way.
Closest Stop:
LAUSD Stop #6041 at 3rd St. & Beaudry
Get Off At:
Staples Center Stop #6143 Figueroa & 12th St.
Schedule For Route F:
Monday - Friday 6:30am - 6:30pm every 10 minutes
Saturday - Sunday 10am - 5pm every 20 minutes


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Commercial buildings house our most important businesses. Whether it's a downtown skyscraper, warehouse or new office complex, these commercial spaces all need secure parking lots, entrances, and common areas in order to provide a safe environment for their employees, guests and property.
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Drummond Ltd. Colombia, is one of the leading coal producers, having exported 25 million tons of coal to more than 30 countries in 2012. It currently has reserves of two billion tons. Today, Drummond Ltd. operates two coal mines near La Loma in Cesar, Colombia where it oversees hundreds of workers. With such expansive sites to regulate and personnel to manage, Drummond Ltd. needed to increase surveillance and operational control particularly surrounding its oil and gas wells.
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Oh I am thrilled to the hilt to find
! CP+D is on Style Me Pretty's Little Black Book. Thank you to them and to Sara at
for using me for all her paper elements and designs. I was honored to be a part of her anniversary day ... Sara is one amazing gal!
really did a great job in capturing the beauty of that day!


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What advantages and benefits do I gain with a membership?
- You benefit from inexpensive accommodation in our 51 Swiss youth hostels and in more than 4,000 international youth hostels
- You enjoy numerous discounts at our partners
- With your membership, you help us to support family-friendly social tourism in Switzerland
Is the membership card internationally valid?
Yes, membership of Swiss Youth Hostels is also accepted worldwide at all youth hostels belonging to the federation.
Do I have to bring a sleeping bag?
No, in all Swiss youth hostels bedding is provided as part of your stay.
Are bath towels and hand towels available in the rooms?
Rooms with their own bathrooms include one bath towel per person. For rooms with shared bathrooms, please bring your own towels. You can also rent towels at the hostel.
Are self-catering kitchens available in the youth hostels?
Only the group hostels include a kitchen where you can cater for yourself. On request, guest kitchens are available in the following youth hostels: Beinwil am See, Mariastein, Seelisberg, Sta. Maria and Zofingen.


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We are ramping up for several exciting new projects, including some experiential design work, and looking for talented Designers and Animators!
Most of the work will be infographic based
Skills in After Effects are a must, Cinema 4D would be great. You can work remote on this if you wish.
Please send reels and day rates to firstname.lastname@example.com


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Inexact title. See the list below. We don't have an article named DragonBallSuper/NightmareFuel, exactly. We do have:
- DarthWiki/Nightmare Fuel
- FireForce/Nightmare Fuel
- Fr/Nightmare Fuel
- Haiku/Nightmare Fuel
- ImageLinks/Nightmare Fuel
- Laconic/Nightmare Fuel
- Main/Nightmare Fuel
- PlayingWith/Nightmare Fuel
- Quotes/Nightmare Fuel
- TropeCo/Nightmare Fuel
- Webcomic/Nightmare Fuel
If you meant one of those, just click and go. If you want to start a DragonBallSuper/NightmareFuel page, just click the edit button above. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the Main namespace are tropes and should be created through the YKTTW system. Don't put in redirects for shows, books, etc.. Use the right namespace for those.


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Tucked away amidst lush landscapes at the former Bukit Timah Fire Station along the Rail Corridor, Spruce at Fire Station is the casual dining extension of the original restaurant located at Phoenix Park.
Serving a mix of Modern American comfort fare, with a dash of local favourites. Spruce caters to a laidback crowd and larger groups. With live music playing Tuesdays to Fridays between 7.30pm to 10.30pm, Spruce at Fire Station is a gem in the West.
Your favorite dishes, made available all day long! Our Signature Pastas, Burgers and mains will leave you coming back for more!
Start your weekends with us! Our Brunch Menu features hearty favorites and culinary creations that help create the perfect weekend escape from a long week.
Come by for the lively yet relaxing ambience and generous servings of comfort food done right. Make your reservation online or call +65 6466 5582 to book a table. Free parking is available.
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From weddings and luncheons to offsite catering and private chefs for hire, our events specialists are on hand to assist with all your occasion needs. To find out more, write to us at email@example.com
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We are here to provide Service and help with Decorating and Designing your home.
Our Service includes Design Consultation, Colour Selection, Personal Curator Service, Custom Pillow Collections, and Personal Sourcing. We are here to Design, Curate, and Style for you!
Principal Designer: Adrienne Shields | Bachelor of Fine Arts | Bachelor of Design
Over the last 13 years of working in the design service retail business I have gained much experience working directly with clients. In both large and small projects, I have helped them focus on their own personal spaces, selecting colors, patterns, furniture, rugs, lighting, linens, and art pieces. My focus is on careful listening to each client's specific wishes, asking questions and working together with them to select items within their budget. I work to curate each client's space with function and beauty in mind. I am aware of trends, colors, and current styles of interiors. I have developed a style that is current but with a classic sensibility, I am eclectic with a mid century leaning.
Design Consultant and Writer: Carmen Shields | Educator and design aficionado
I am a self-taught, passionate design aficionado. My first recollection of my appetite for design came when as a ten year old I took advantage of my parent's absence from home to rearrange our living room. The memory of their surprise upon opening the front door is still vivid. That same look of surprise has been replicated over the years by my daughters whose help I have enlisted to choose fabrics, move furniture and even entire rooms in our home as I have replicated that same desire to make a room the most pleasing and comfortable it can be.
I never pass an opportunity to buy and read new books on design from cover to cover and in this way, I keep current with trends from around the world while also keeping my more traditional self alive. I enjoy bringing what I have learned to others, helping them with their design solutions.


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Contemporary A Cappella Society Announces 2014 Board of DirectorsPosted by CASA Communications on 01/02/2014
Greg Rubin Elected President; Promises Increased Outreach, Fundraising and Focus
CASA Expands Board Changes: Alexander Named Director of Development; Ryan, Member-at-LargePosted by aasuaje on 01/02/2013
Changes are certainly afoot throughout CASA, and we couldn't be more thrilled about them!
CASA President Julia Hoffman Steps Down; Other Board ChangesPosted by Amy Malkoff on 12/26/2012
Like contemporary vocal music, CASA is an evolving organization, which means that its leadership inevitably periodically changes.
Congrats to CASA's Greg RubinPosted by CASA Communications on 05/06/2012
CASA wishes congratulations to our own Director of Development, Greg Rubin, whose new baby arrived May 4. Details are scant but that the new parents are already sleep deprived!


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Similar -- Yet Different
A comparative analysis of John Shimkus (IL-19) and Judy Biggert (IL-13) gives the appearance that they are the same person just in different congressional districts. An anonymous visitor to the cyber world proves otherwise and corrects a past comment:
Actually, in 2004, Ms. Biggert 65% of the vote against a candidate who only spent $42,000. Can you imagine what would happen if a well-funded campaign challenged her?At the very beginning, the anonymous person provides Gloria Andersen's financial information and vote totals from her 2004 campaign against Rep. Biggert and an excellent question regarding a well-funded campaign (e.g., DCCC support similar to the Tammy Duckworth (IL-06) campaign). Therefore, gerrymandering does not hurt in keeping the congresswoman in office. It is the price of doing political business.
I too shudder at the "conspiracy theorists", but I still want to be represented by someone other than Ms Biggert.
Let me count the reasons . . .
I believe the exact opposite -- there is no conspiracy here, just common sense about what is the correct tack for the bulk of the people. Ms. Biggert is not representing ME. Please support Bill Reedy.
- She consistently votes and believes in "Faith Based Funding" without the usual amendment forbidding the recipient from delivering services or hiring using religion as a criterion. This means Federal funds can go to support specific religions. Hmmmm -- Some first amendment difficulties.
- She believes people should have more of a say where to invest their Social Security taxes (AKA she believes in privatizing Social Security).
- She co- wrote the impossible-to-be-compliant No Child Left Behind Act. Even her beloved Hinsdale schools failed -- school systems who believe in educating all students will ultimately fail.
- Leading to vouchers and charter schools which Ms. Biggert does believe in.
- She was one of the authors of the bill that would have taken away overtime for emergency workers like policeman, fireman, nurses, etc. I do not expect unions love her.
- She was very proud of obtaining a $2 million Port Security Grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), for the CITGO Lemont Refinery received in June 2004. I recall 400 plus companies from around the country received the 2 million. That money should have gone to the New York Port authority. I am more concerned about what is coming into our major cities via shipping containers.
- Check the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) site for her record on environmental issues.
- She truly believes in the importance of us being in Iraq.
- She also believes tax breaks to those in the upper 1% will spur on the economy and the estate tax is too high.
- Do we mention September being made Life Insurance Awareness month? Do we mention her hubby's investments in the industry and that Ms. Biggert sits on the Finance committee? (see Mother Jones September 2005)
- She votes the way she honestly believes . . .
There are close similarities between the two members of congress, yet they are two different people. The final statement proves that difference. The congresswoman's true belief in her Calvinist legislation is so destructive to the quality of life for her constituents and all U.S. residents.
John Shimkus has a different motive: John Shimkus.


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Excited to be spearheading #WorldCreateDay #2017
It's official, World Create Day is on April 22nd. Get together with hackers in your area and create something! This is best way to meet all the Hackaday readers in your area, and a great excuse to carve out a few hours of your busy life to have fun working on a project.
Link to our local event:
Austin Event RSVP Here: https://goo.gl/P52PGt
Hackaday Austin community group https://goo.gl/GGMSXk
-- Updated Agenda --
0.) OPTIONAL - 12:00 Noon to 12:45 PM; We are having an optional Coffee Clutch Warm Up Social at "Figure 8 Coffee Purveyors" located at 1111 Chicon Street
1.) 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM MAIN EVENT - We move South down to the Chicon Collective at 301 Chicon St, Suite B (good free car park and on street)
1.) 1:00 to 1:30 PM Dan Vogler will speak on the creative method of "Design Fiction" that uses Sci-Fi as a product design tool and give numerous examples from Science Fiction that are reality today.
2. ) 1:35 to 1:55 PM Anil Pattni will present the current state of the art in Tiny Homes and then his preliminary vision of his Tiny Hacker House evolving as something different in the booming Tiny Home movement.
3. ) 2:00 to ~ 3:15 PM Anil Pattni will lead WORLD CREATE DAY with The Hackaday.io maker group and moderate an open invitational show and tell for local "Techno-Makers" that have true futuristic innovations somewhere between idea and startup they will pitch.Dan Vogler will list the over 30 different various "MAKER" groups in Austin, that are empowering a thousand creative agents of change right here in River City {Austin}.
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These are really easy to organize, but we can't do it without you. Sign up now to our meetup!
The Hackaday community around the world will meetup and spend time building together on Saturday, April 22nd. If you're like us you have a long list of projects you want to do 'some day', this is the day. Pack up your current build (or grab gear to start a new one), get together with some old and new friends, and hack on your projects with each other.
It's traditional to block out a bit of time at the end for lightning talks to show off the builds each of you has been working on. Don't forget to take pictures and post the story of your World Create Day meetup. We enjoyed getting a great look at many of last year's meetups this way and want to expand the builds we feature on the front page this year.
Meetup Organizers Wanted
Fill out this form to let us know you want to volunteer at our meetup.
This is the second year of World Create Day. Last year we saw meetups in 64 cities. Many of those will happen again this year, but we also need you to organize an event in your area. We'll help you get things set up and put your event up on the big map so others in your area will plan to join in. Do it now, if we get your shipping info early we'll send you stickers and other swag to hand out at your gathering.
Build Something that Matters
The core of World Create Day is to stop making excuses and just build something. Since you're already getting together with other people consider forming a team to enter the 2017 Hackaday Prize. Currently we're in the idea phase: Design Your Concept means tackling a problem and planning a build to solve it. When you get a bunch of creative people together in one place, great ideas begin to flow. Seize the moment by turning that creativity into an entry for the Hackaday Prize and see where it takes you!
Look forward to celebrating with you at the event.
Anil :o)


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Rowing at the 1980 Summer Games: Previous Summer Games ▪ Next Summer Games
Host City: Moskva, Soviet Union
Venue(s): Canoeing and Rowing Basin, Krylatskoye Sports Complex, Moskva
Date Started: July 20, 1980
Date Finished: July 27, 1980
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Norwayâs participation in the American-led boycott meant that whoever won the menâs double sculls event at the 1980 Summer Olympics would earn a qualified victory at best. This was due to the fact that brothers [Frank] and [Alf Hansen], the defending Olympic champions and winners of three of the last four World Championships, were excluded from competing. This meant that the only World Champion at the Games was [Chris Baillieu] of Great Britain, one half of the 1977 championship duo and runner-up at the 1976 Olympics. Baillieu was considered a slight favorite, however, even without his traditional partner [Mike Hart], because he had won three of the last four Double Challenge Sculls at the Henley Royal Regatta. In Moscow he was partnered with [Jim Clark], a 1976 silver medalist in the coxed eights.
The opening round, however, was dominated by East Germany, who finished nearly five seconds ahead of the other heat winner, Great Britain. The German pair consisted of [Joachim Dreifke], bronze medalist from the 1976 Olympic single sculls and half of the 1975 World runners-up, and [Klaus Kröppelien], a successful international rower in other disciplines. In the final, the East Germans claimed gold by a comfortable margin, leaving silver and bronze for Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia respectively. The formerâs crew consisted of [Zoran PanÄiÄ] and [Milorad Stanulov], a bronze medalist in the single sculls at the 1978 World Championships, while the latter was represented by [ZdenÄk Pecka] and [Václav Vochoska], both 1976 Olympic bronze medalists in the quadruple sculls. Great Britain, meanwhile, faltered in the final and finished fourth.


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President Obama did not come right out and say it. In his position he cannot really afford to explicitly choose one faction of the Democratic Party over another. But in a lengthy Politico interview released on Monday, Mr. Obama all but endorsed Hillary Clinton for the presidency.
"She's extraordinarily experienced – and, you know, wicked smart and knows every policy inside and out," said Obama in his interview with Politico's Glenn Thrush for a new podcast.
The occupant of the Oval Office has to handle many problems that come blasting through the door every morning like water from a fire hose, Obama said, in essence. You can be sitting down, drafting a speech, when an aide sticks their head in and says some American sailors have just been captured by Iran.
He implied that Mrs. Clinton, with her long experience in government, is the candidate best prepared to handle that aspect of serving as president.
"[The] one thing everybody understands is that this job right here, you don't have the luxury of just focusing on one thing," Obama said.
This does not mean the president knocked Bernie Sanders. To the contrary, he sounded admiring of the Vermont senator as an outsider who blasted into the Democratic primaries via strong, authentic beliefs about the nature of economic inequality.
"Bernie came in with the luxury of being a complete long shot and just letting loose," Obama said.
But when asked whether Senator Sanders's insurgent 2016 campaign bears any resemblance to his own 2008 outsider effort, the president said, "I don't think that's true."
Will Obama's non-endorsement backing of the Clinton campaign make a difference? After all, to some extent, it may not matter whether he's explicit here or not.
Clinton has carefully cast her effort as a continuation of what Obama has started. For instance, she's attacked Sanders on health care by pointing out that his ambitious plans for a single-payer government-run US system would necessarily entail the dismantling of Obamacare, the hardest-fought domestic political victory of Obama's term in office.
To the extent that Democrats believe Clinton to be the chosen successor, the quasi-nod may matter. Obama's middling approval ratings mask the fact that he remains very popular in his own party. Among Democrats, his approval rating has averaged between 82 and 84 percent during his time in office, according to Gallup.
However, in a general election Obama might weigh Clinton down. His approval rating among Republicans is only 13 percent. Among self-described independents it is 34 percent.
And some Republicans claim that Obama's Clinton endorsement proves he was never serious with his "Hope and Change" theme in 2008. Facing a choice between one Democrat who's promising more of the same, and another who wants major alterations in the United States political system, he's choosing the former, goes this criticism.
"Obama's seen the future and . . . he apparently prefers the past," writes right-leaning Ed Morrissey of the "Hot Air" blog.


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Which experience have you had that was extremely painful, yet it yielded great benefits for you? For me, it was an eye operation that I had on this date in 1995. Previous operations to lower the pressure in my right one didn't help much so I had little hope that this operation would work for long.
My eye trouble started a week previously when my vision fogged up and I saw rainbows around lights. I knew that was the signal that my pressure was high. When I saw my ophthalmologist, Dr. Casey, he fast-tracked me into surgery. Usually, it took, and still takes, months to get a surgery date.
I rode the bus to the University Hospital after lunch on the day of my surgery and waited for my turn in surgery. Wearing that hospital gown while lying on a stretcher in the rotunda made me feel naked. I had heard of overcrowding in hospitals but this was ridiculous. At least we had white sheets hung around us to keep us out of sight from the public.
Instead of a general anesthetic, the doctor gave me a local as well as something to relax me. Even so, the operation hurt like nothing I ever felt in that eye before. As the doctor moved my eyeball to insert a tube, called a bleb, he explained that it would drain the excess fluid out of my eye and it wouldn't seal itself up. Past operations were merely holes cut into my eyeball. The bleb would ensure that I wouldn't need another operation for years. That's what Dr. Casey said as he worked on my right eye.
After what seemed like hours, though it wasn't more than thirty minutes, the torture ended. I lay on the stretcher in the rotunda again until a friend came to drive me home after he left work. Because of a shortage of beds, patients were released as quickly as possible. What a vast difference from when I was a child. I had my cataracts removed when I was four years old and I stayed in hospital for six weeks.
As a result of that bleb insertion back in 1995, I haven't needed any eye drops or pills to control my right eye's Glaucoma. It has remained at the proper level year after year. I'm grateful to Dr. Casey for rushing me into surgery and inserting that bleb. It has preserved what little vision I have left for all these years.
Because How I Was Razed: A Journey from Cultism to Christianity was a memoir about God leading me into the light of his truth, I mentioned this operation only in passing. This newly-published memoir is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Virtual Bookworm Publishers.


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At the beginning of May, Ginger Calem did a guest post on Myndi Shafer's blog about taking Kristen Lamb's blogging to build a brand course and the 100 word exercise. This is where you list 100 words that could be used to describe you. It's designed to help you get an idea of who you are as a brand.
I remember doing that exercise and being as enamored by it as Ginger. It was fun and enlightening to sit down and think about how to sum myself up. What words describe me, my interests, my activities, my delights, my struggles, my style, my passions etc. I loved it. And like Ginger's experience, when reviewing those of my classmates, it was easy to see why a number of us connected and became instant BFFs.
But then Ginger took it to the next level. She did something that really got me thinking.
Whittle those 100 words down to 10 to tell someone exactly who you are in a matter of seconds. Essentially your elevator pitch. What are the most important words that sum you up in a nutshell.
Seriously? Me….in 10 words? You've got to be kidding me.
With 100 words, I had no issue. But pick only 10 that truly define me? That was one hell of a task. I am a big person with a big personality and a vast set of interest, activities, and passions. I am complex and a constant surprise to even myself so to pick ONLY 10….wow!
In the comments of Ginger's post, I could only narrow it down to 14 words but I am determined for y'all to get that list down to 10…so here goes nothing!
- Writer
- Bedazzled Pink
- Stiletto
- Flip Flop
- Camping
- Golf
- Beach
- Love
- Authentic
I tried to do a combination of my favorite activities and a few choices descriptive words for my personality so that you could get an overall sense of who I am and what I love to do.
This is a great exercise whether you are a writer, a painter, a dancer, or a regular Joe Blow going for a job interview. Being able to sell yourself in today's world is key to your overall success. Mind you, keep in my your target audience when coming up with your 10 words. I'd likely pick 10 different words if I was going for a job interview in my field.
Did you feel like you got an overall picture of who I am? Feel like you know me better? What are your 10 words? Come on…share the wealth…
More blog deliciousness here:
- Loved this post by August McLaughlin on keeping your life fresh and alive by trying new things.
- Did you read Kassandra Lamb's guest post on Ginger Calem's blog? Fabulous 10 tips on keeping yourself healthy from the neck up.


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Tips for running Ansible playbooks on large networks/
Since our recent migration from Puppet/Mcollective, Ansible has proven to be an amazing tool. It has simplified a lot our orchestration/configuration layer and has removed the headache and complexity of managing the management system.
Most of our interactions with the network are peer-to-peer (meaning from a central API server to a single machine in our vastly distributed network). This works great and we have been able to get even better results (speed wise) than what we were getting from Mcollective.
But every now an then we run a network wide process (deploy a given package, restart a given service, critical patch deployment to all systems ...). With a network with over 4000 servers, it presents some challenges.
The main issue we have faced when running playbooks over our large network has been always related to memory. Playbook would run fine initially but after a while you would start getting errors like:
Process Process-132: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 258, in _bootstrap self.run() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/process.py", line 114, in run self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 81, in _executor_hook while not job_queue.empty(): File "<string>", line 2, in empty File "/usr/lib/python2.7/multiprocessing/managers.py", line 758, in _callmethod conn.send((self._id, methodname, args, kwds)) IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
And out of memory errors once resources on the Ansible machine are depleted.
Ideally Ansible should be able to fix these issues somehow, in the meantime we have come up with a way of being able to successfully run playbooks against large networks.
When you run a playbook, facts are gathered for ALL the machines the playbook will run against as the first step in the playbook execution process. For very large networks, this poses the first problem, as memory consumption can be huge.
So the first thing we do is to avoid fact gathering at the start of the playbook execution:
gather_facts: false
Then we want to limit the number of servers that will be processed in parallel. We use the serial parameter for that
serial: "10%"
Finally, we use the setup module to gather facts from the "serial size" batch of servers chosen for processing (thus limiting the number of servers we get facts from at once).
A full playbook example could be:
--- - hosts: all remote_user: test sudo: yes gather_facts: false serial: 20 tasks: - name: Get facts setup: - name: Find patching date debug: msg="Server {{ inventory_hostname }} was last patched {{ ansible_local.patching.status.last_patched }}"
We then execute the playbook limiting forks to the max number of servers in each batch (20 in this example):
ansible-playbook -f 20 -T 10 patching.yml
This ensures smooth execution of the playbook across the whole network (although you need to be a bit patient for it to complete!).


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As the new school year draws near, we find ourselves looking for more distractions from Miami's impending traffic increases and irrepressible heat. Summer will stay with us in the form of perpetually peeling sunburns, but we can only enjoy afternoon trips to the beach for so much longer. (It's likely people with non-school related jobs never had these mini-cations, but they're too depressing to mention.)
This week, events at Electric Pickle, Sweat Records and Bardot are calling our name. Read on for more info on where to catch the best happenings.
- A Shirt's Story: HistoryMiami presents its exhibit on the ever-popular men's shirt in "The Guayabera: A Shirt's Story." If you're the kind of person who knows what a guajiro is, you'll want to stop by.
- Emerge First, Laugh Second: Emerge Miami hosts its weekly meeting at Sweat Records to discuss social activism around the city. Make sure you stay after the meeting for Casa de Ha-Ha, Sweat's stand-up comedy showcase.
- Skinny Velvet: Alongside Run Sevim Run, Skinny Velvet entertain the crowd at Bardot.
- Little Beard: Ladies Night at Camp Ricochet features music by Little Beard and DJ Mr. Feathers.
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- Dolphins Practice: Fancy yourself a football fan? You can catch the last open practice of August at Nova Southeastern University's training facility in Davie.
- No Name #6: L. Sangre, Juan Tapia and Gio Ardito bring haus techno and more to Electric Pickle.
- Female Hu$tle: Rosemarie Romero and Heather K. Wilson-Miller collaborated to create pieces like "Gold Mirror" and "Porn Nails" at Locust Projects.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
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The commercial I directed for Ruby Tuesday, the one that features four tiny Mini Coopers, is finally online:
The Great Race (direct from rubytuesday.com)
Would you believe that the single largest source of traffic to this blog is this thread on motoringfile.com, a Mini Cooper news and info site? I'm sure more than one Mini fan has scratched his head at some of the articles here, but rest assured you have found the home of one of your own—the 2005 Cooper S used for the interior shots in the commercial belongs to my wife, and yes, she occasionally lets me drive it!
For those who missed it, here's the article about the automatic animation system I rigged up in After Effects to enable rapid tweaking of my animatic for the spot, and here's the article on fxguide where you can see some frame grabs.


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The all-new 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid made its debut today at the 2011 New York Auto Show and as expected, it will be the most fuel-efficient model in the Civic lineup. The 2012 Civic Hybrid is powered by the newest-generation Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) system and this means we will find a 1.5-liter i-VTEC 4-cylinder engine mated to a more powerful electric motor and to a Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT).
A Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery pack stores the electricity for the electric motor, which delivers 23 hp.
The new Lithium-Ion battery is more powerful, lighter and more compact than the nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) battery it replaces. The total output delivered by the car is 110 horsepower at 5500 rpm and 127 lb-ft of torque at 1000-3500 rpm. The new Civic Hybrid has the same amount of power as the previous model, but achieves it at 500 fewer rpm.
Moreover, the new car is capable to deactivate the gasoline engine when breaking and the electric motor acts as generator to replenish the Li-Ion battery pack. Regarding the fuel consumption, the 2012 Honda Civic Hybrid delivers a combined city/highway EPA-estimated fuel economy rating of 44 mpg - an increase of 3 mpg from the previous model.
The new MY2012 Civic Hybrid presents a new interpretation of the "one-motion" mono-form shape of the current Civic. The new Civic Hybrid features a sleekly raked windshield and wide stance, as well as exclusive styling. For instance, the front of the Civic Hybrid dons a distinct hybrid grille design with blue accents. For better distinction, blue bulb covers can be found within the sleek headlight assemblies.
Likewise, the vehicle comes with special five-spoke alloy wheels, a decklid spoiler and LED brake lights – all helping differentiate the Civic Hybrid from other Civic models. The cabin of the new Civic Hybrid offers a seemingly different environment than the previous-generation Civic's highly functional two-tier instrument layout. Drivers now have better view of the most frequently referenced information as the vehicle's Multi-Information Display (i-MID) is now placed up high and close to their line of sight and can present audio system information like album artwork.
The i-MID also allows the setting up of personal wallpapers on the screen. The Civic Hybrid's i-MID also features a driver-feedback Eco Guide screen that monitors driving style, thereby displaying how one's driving affects fuel efficiency.
Along with the blue/green Eco Assist indicators placed at the sides of the digital speedometer, the i-MiD helps drivers become more aware of their driving styles and to develop one that is more fuel efficient. The Civic Hybrid's i-MID also features an exclusive hybrid power-flow meter display.
The cabin of the Civic Hybrid features exclusive seat fabric and distinct door panel covers for a unique appearance and feel. Customers can still expect to find high-quality materials inside the cabin, just like in all Civics. Customers could also opt for leather-trimmed models that feature a leather-wrapped steering wheel and gear shift lever. The Civic Hybrid has an automatic climate control system as standard.
The vehicle's hybrid-style air conditioning compressor can still operate using electric power even when the engine is in idle-stop mode. Available as standard on the vehicle is a 160-watt AM/FM/CD audio system with six speakers while models equipped with the navigation system include XM Radio.
Customers can avail of the Honda Satellite-Linked Navigation System 2 with voice recognition, which comes with a 6.5-inch touch screen that can be accessed by the driver and passenger. Drivers also benefit from the navigation screen as well as the i-MID display turn-by-turn direction information.
The system features a 16 GB flash memory database for quicker response time as well as FM traffic, a no-charge service that presents freeway traffic information and incident data on the map display in certain metropolitan areas.


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In our aim to achieve our Best Year Yet®, a close knit circle of supporters and allies can be critical. This may take the form of family members, friends, and coaches. I propose the simile of storks preparing for long-distance travel. As they leave the ground, they fly wingtip to wingtip, watching one another, for the one that hits the thermal: the one that lifts the entire flock to higher air and saves energy for the long voyage.
Facing a life-threatening medical diagnosis, I have focused much of my energies watching for the uplift. Left to my own devices, it's tempting question my success. Am I doing too much or too little? Am I on track? Did the thermal pass me by? By relying on the Best Year Yet® plan - and a network of committed supporters - I stay focused. This mental shift has helped release me from the rigidity of "this is a failure, this is progress." I can rely on the strategy and approach I can believe in - a critical shift.
My 2014 Best Year Yet® plan focused on "attending to what is most important." Of course this included the diagnosis, but encapsulated every area of life. My annual plan empowered me to return - again and again each month - to define and embody "most important." From deepening personal relationships, to optimal health, to enriching the inner landscape, I relied on a close knit team of family and friends, with whom I could share the daily and weekly efforts of this strategy. In setting my 2015 plan, my new paradigm is "I am a master at living." This reframing proved the thermal I've been seeking.
Who are the people in your life who serve as storks, flying wingtip to wingtip? What support do you need? How do you measure hitting the thermal? Each month, the PRO process affords us the opportunity to take stock of where we are with our annual plan. Are you still on track with where you wanted to be? Do you need to make course corrections?
By trusting the Best Year Yet® process, you are buoyed by a constant uplift of support. The daily "weather" of challenges or shortcomings can be seen with a fresh perspective. The storks are undeterred as they lift higher and higher. And so the close-knit supporters around you invite you to the blue skies above.
Click here to learn more about creating your own best year yet!
About the Author
Patrick Kelly is a certified Best Year Yet coach. He has served as Deputy Director of the Society of Fellows at the Aspen Institute, is an Honorary Faculty at the US Air Force Academy.


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by Tim Kay
Short form improv is typically improvisers' first introduction to the art form. I know it was for me. 'Whose Line' blew my adolescent mind and I couldn't get enough of it. These adults were on T.V. playing theater games! How cool is that?!? I still have a huge soft spot for it and worked hard to explore the form and help others find their footing.
I've put together a few basic tips that could help kickstart your approach to short form:
Start with Scene Work
Many inexperienced improvisers often forget to create an actual scene in their short form game. Establish the who/what/where of the scene immediately. Since short form games are typically really quick, it's even more important to develop your scene immediately. Don't forget, even though you are playing a game, the scene still matters. Often, the details that you've worked hard to set up will get dropped once the game element begins. If things start to unravel because of some funky game rules, remember, the scene is still your backbone.
Know The Games
This needs to be said, even though it seems obvious. If you are playing in an improv game, it's best to actually know how to play it. I've seen audiences turn on performers because they were simply not playing the game correctly. Keep up on game rules by rehearsing and talking to your show hosts about the games. Knowing the rules inside and out will also allows you to bend the rules on occasion. This will help you surprise the audience and ultimately make you more successful.
Listen to Your Audience
A short-form audience will tell you what they want, sometimes with raucous laughter, other times with shocking, deafening silence. They'll let you know if you've gone too blue, too smart, too dumb, or too young. Feel out the crowd and learn to shift gears. They didn't go crazy over your Star Wars scene? Maybe steer clear of the Nerfherder jokes for a bit and find something else they respond to.
Perform, Watch, & Suck
It's difficult to advance in improv if you are only performing in class or in rehearsal. These are both incredibly important but remember, improv is a performance art. You'll need to eventually be comfortable playing in front of audiences all the time. Your best bet is to go to jams and play in as many games as you can, or put together a troupe and jump into the Itty Bits tournament. This goes hand in hand with bombing. Yes, you need to suck. And you will suck. But know that this is ok and perfectly normal. In fact, learn to love bombing. Everyone has crap shows. As your experience grows, learning to shake off the bad sets quickly will help you get back to your kick-ass self.
Play with Confidence
Take your improvising to the next level by mustering as much confidence as you can for your performances. Initiate your scenes with conviction and offer up bold choices for your partners. This will help make your scenes more active and more fun. Audiences will appreciate your moxie too! If the crowd believes that you are on stage for a reason, they'll have a harder time judging you as an 'amateur'.
Be Bold
Speaking of making bold choices...make bold choices. (Woof, terrible segue. Whatever. IDGAF.)
No one gets partial credit for waiting to see what your scene partner will do, so make a character choice as soon as the game begins. You've all seen it. The scene that just won't start and ends with zero connections or identifiable elements. (that who/what/where again). Often, improvisors fall into the habit of being too supportive. Obviously we want to yes, and our scene partners, but it can be disastrous when that's all a scene becomes. Your scenes will be stronger if you start with bold choices, even if it feels like you aren't supporting.
Be Yourself
Originality really shines through in comedy and the easiest way to get there is to simply be yourself. Keying into what makes you, you will help make you more comfortable on stage and more entertaining for audiences.
Mastering any one aspect of improv will take years of practice.
Hopefully a few of these tips can help you up your game.
Tim Kay is a Resident Artist at Go Comedy with over 10 years of experience in improv and sketch comedy. He is has been with Go Comedy since the inaugural cast and has been in countless productions and roles ever since. He lives with a wonderful girl and a delightful dog.


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The Day The Music Died
I stumbled across an article on digitalmusicnews.com this week: "The Music Industry has 99 Problems. And they are..." It was, as the title suggests a very comprehensive list of all of the things wrong with the music industry today. It was nothing new or surprising - in fact, as I read it I realized how tired I was of hearing about all the problems facing the industry these days.
Believe me, I get it. Working in artist management gives me a very real view of the challenges facing modern musicians.
There is a reason why the term 'poor struggling musician' has become part of our vocabulary. For generations artists around the world have struggled. What separates the 'struggling' from the 'successful' is not the mechanics of an industry that yes, is changing, but the creativity to overcome the challenges presented by this new world.
"Most of the great achievements of mankind have started life as conundrums and been turned into triumphs by creative, determined people. These people do not just overcome obstacles, they don't see them. They see the potential in every person and every situation. Once you start looking for opportunities, it's amazing how many you find." – Richard Branson
So can we overcome the 99 Problems? Perhaps not. Perhaps as Branson suggests they aren't actually problems at all, but are instead potential triumphs in disguise.
It's a matter of perspective. The rise of the digital era isn't killing music, it is ushering in a new wave of creative thinking that will lead to artistic and commercial successes over the coming decades.
Thriving in this changing landscape brings the focus squarely onto new ideas, new partnerships, and different ways of doing business. It means innovation instead of falling back on routine processes and archaic mechanisms that worked previously. It's certainly not boring!
I find myself imagining what an industry veteran like David Geffen would say or do if he was starting out in the music business today. Now an enduring heavyweight in the music industry, Geffen started out in the mailroom of US booking agency the William Morris Group, then progressed from being a talent agent to a band manager, then the founder of a record label and finally a film producer. You get a sense that Geffen realised the need to be pragmatic and open to evolution in his industry. I'm pretty sure he never once wasted his time writing doom and gloom lists about all the things standing in his way.
Maybe we could all use a little more passion in our bellies, and channel that passion into finding the opportunities that exist, opportunities that are in fact, being birthed by the changes we might otherwise whine about.


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Obituary: Carole A. Borges/
Carole A. Borges, at 74
Former Hull resident Carole Ann [Goodlander] Borges passed away peacefully on Aug. 2. She died at her home in Knoxville, TN, surrounded by her loving family. She was 74.
Mrs. Borges was a writer, former Wellspring teacher, college professor, social worker, taxicab driver, poet, and reporter, among other work. She was the proud author of the book "Dreamseeker's Daughter."
She was always politically active. She built two ferro-cement boats from scratch. She appreciated all forms of art and practiced many herself. She had fabulous gardens. She brought people together within her community in all that she did.
Former wife of the late Joseph Borges and Jeffrey Rosen; she was the dear mother of Gary Borges, the late Angela Galbraith, Cindy Borges-Peralta, and Joshua Borges. The dear big sister of Gale Whitbeck, Gary Goodlander (aka Captn Fatty), and Morgan Goodlander; she was cherished by her very special four granddaughters, three grandsons, one great granddaughter, two great grandsons, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins, whom she adored. Her sweet dogs Karma and Krishna, and her handsome cat Mr. Dunwoody are gratefully left in good hands. Last but not least, she leaves her many, many special friends throughout the country whom she has connected with and touched throughout this adventure called her life.
A memorial service will be held Sunday, Aug. 28 at 10 a.m. at the James Avenue pier in Hull.


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I've tried to tell you that fat free is a very misleading weight loss scam and to avoid those products at all cost.Perdue University published a study recently regarding the effects of synthetic fat substitutes on lab rats and discovered that these substitutes are linked to weight gain so I thought I would mention it once again.
"Our research showed that fat substitutes can interfere with the body's ability to regulate food intake, which can lead to inefficient use of calories and weight gain," said Susan E. Swithers, PhD, the lead researcher and a Purdue psychology professor.
Olestra is the synthetic fat substitute found in most fat free potato chips. The researchers found that the Olestra passed though the system undigested. This basically means that the body takes no nutrients from this food and interferes the natural response of the body like metabolic reactions. What happens is that you are not satiated and you get hungry again quickly. This is not new information. But it is important that you understand that good fats (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats like nuts and olive oil) are essential for your health in small doses and synthetic fats do not belong there at all.
The only fat free products you should consume are dairy products. Fat free in dairy means that the fat has been removed but there is no chemical substitute to replace the fat.
Please, stay away from the chemicals. They will bite you in the bum in the end.
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Polyvinyl 4-track Singles Series
Box set of 12 vinyl singles. Bands include Blikk Fang, Crooked Fingers, David Bazan, Deerhoof, The Dodos, Ducktails, Jacco Gardner, Jonathan Rado, Kishi Bashi, of Montreal, Saint Pepsi and Telekinesis.
The records come together to form a unified image. My failed attempt at organizing my series became my inspiration for the artwork of this series. On the outside of the box are a bunch of seemingly random shapes. It's chaos, much like trying to organize bands. However, inside the box becomes order. Those elements on the outside come together to build the figure inside.
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Skirt: F21 (similar) | Blouse: Sanctuary (love this dress from them!) | Shoes: Kohl's
Hi Everyone!
I recently received a letter from my Godmother that my mother wrote her in 1976. She was my age and in the letter, chatted about trying to navigate life in her twenties. It was an awesome reminder that my mom was (and always will be) a bad ass. I also saw a lot of myself in her writing and to be honest, it puts a major smile on my face.
Along with how we both speak, I've adopted a lot of her style too. From our shared love of paisley to button up denim skirts, we swap stories about what was popular then and now. It often comes full circle.
This outfit for me is a nod to my mom back in the Seventies. While we may not look exactly alike, I'd like to think my mom wore this on her way out on the town, drinking a PBR and listening to The Who.
Photography via Tory Putnam


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Bald Head Walking Track, Torndirrup National Park, Western Australia
Great Walks of Australia member, Walk into Luxury, will show you the best of Western Australia with these incredible guided treks.
By Walk into Luxury
Walk into Luxury's guided trek along the Bibbulman Track covers 43 kilometres (27 miles) of winding cliff-top coastline, pristine bays and native bushland between Albany and Denmark. The four-day itinerary showcases the must-see sights of Greens Pool King George Sound, the Gap, the award-winning Denmark wine region, and the National Anzac Centre in Albany.
In addition to the Bibbulman walk, Walk into Luxury also offer two incredible experiences on the Cape to Cape Track — the three-day Walk into Luxury at Cape Lodge and six day Best of the Cape to Cape Walk.
Bibbulmun Track walk
This is Walk into Luxury's first walk based on the Bibbulmun Track in Western Australia's Great Southern region. The new luxury walking tour includes a private four day/three-night walk and an extended four-night option. The four-day Bibbulmun Walk covers the 43 kilometres of coastline between Albany and Denmark, allowing guests the luxury of retiring to luxury accommodation each night at two of the region's best properties – the Beach House at Bayside and Cape Howe Cottages.
Gourmet food and wine and feature dining experiences are included, with highlights including sunset drinks overlooking King George Sound and an in-villa private chef dinner showcasing local produce. On day four guests may add a relaxation experience at Denmark's Floating Forest, before enjoying a celebration lunch with wine matches at Pepper and Salt Restaurant, overlooking Forest Hill Estate. Luggage, track and airport transfers are included, along with maps, a custom backpack and other items required to complete the walk.
Bibbulmun Track itinerary
Lights Beach, Bibbulmun, Western Australia
Day one
On your first day, you'll arrive at Albany Airport in the early afternoon and be transferred to Torndirrup National Park for a short walk with afternoon tea on the track. This section is five kilometres (3 miles) with both challenging and easy options available. After tea you'll get a chance to experience the natural attractions, "The Gap" and "The Natural Bridge".
After the walk, you'll be transferred to Mount Clarence for welcome drinks overlooking Albany, King George Sound and the surrounding islands and bays.
After drinks, check-in to The Beach House at Bayside.
Day two
Start your day early with breakfast provided by The Beach House. Hop on the transfer to the Bibbulmun Track and walk from Sand Patch to Muttonbird Beach taking in Albany's windmills, sweeping coastal vistas and Shelter Island (a nature reserve frequented by shearwaters and penguins). This walk is 12 kilometres (7.5 miles).
Spend the afternoon relaxing or venture out to one of Albany's many attractions, like the National Anzac Centre or award-winning Limeburner's Distillery. The night is free to enjoy dinner at a venue of your choice in Albany, or order from room service menu.
Day three
Start your day early with breakfast provided by The Beach House. Then transfer to Shelley Beach and walk the Bibbulmun Track through West Cape Howe National Park to Lowlands Beach before journeying the last kilometre up the hill to your accommodation. This walk is 18 kilometres (11 miles).
Check-in at Cape Howe Cottages where you'll get to enjoy a private villa chef dinner with wine in your cottage.
Day four
Enjoy a gourmet breakfast hamper in your cottage before going to Lights Beach to walk the Bibbulmun Track to beautiful Greens Pool and Elephant Rocks within Williams Bay National Park. This walk is 8 kilometres (5 miles).
Transfer to Forest Hill Estate for a four-course lunch with wine matches at Pepper and Salt, where you will be personally looked after by renowned local chef, Silas Masih. After lunch, you have time for wine tastings at Forest Hill cellar door.
After Forest Hill, you'll get a return transfer to Albany airport for a 5.40pm flight back to Perth.
Cape to Cape private walks
Cape to Cape walking track, Margaret River region, Western Australia
Complementing the new Bibbulmun Walk, Walk into Luxury offer a suite of private Cape to Cape walk options in Margaret River.
The six-day Best of the Cape to Cape walk includes amazing food and wine experiences plus the relaxed pace and flexibility to add a winery tour, massage, private chef dinner and choose your preferred accommodation package, including Gilgara Retreat - the historic Margaret River homestead.
For travellers with less time, the three day/two night Walk into Luxury at Cape Lodge pairs two days walking the Cape to Cape Track with a five-course lunch and wine matches at Vasse Felix and two nights at exclusive Cape Lodge.
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Help Support Oakland Strokes
The Oakland Strokes runs on the generosity of our donors. All donations, no matter the amount, help us improve our facilities, buy equipment, fund financial aid for our athletes and operate day to day.
The Oakland Strokes uses world class equipment to allow our rowers the opportunity to compete at the highest level possible. This equipment is continuously maintained to keep it in top working shape. However, all equipment has a finite lifetime and will be in need of replacement after enough years. Donations by our generous members and extended family help keep the Strokes equipment fleet up to speed!
Financial Aid
Oakland Stokes is committed to ensuring no youth is turned away because they can't afford the full standard fees. Last year, we awarded more than $60,000 in financial aid, and we are budgeted increases over the coming years to help make rowing more accessible to all. Your donations make this Financial Aid possible.
Giving Levels
The Oakland Strokes gladly accepts gifts of all sizes. We have created the following giving levels to help guide your decision making. All donations are tax deductible. Many employers have matching gift programs that can double or triple your charitable contribution!
Tax Deductible
Donations are tax-deductible, provided that you have not received any goods or services in exchange for your gift. Oakland Strokes is tax-exempt under IRS section 501(c)3 and our tax ID is 94-3132016. You may give to the Strokes via the following methods:
- via Classy/WePay link below
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- mail a check made out to Oakland Strokes, 4096 Piedmont Avenue, PMB 308, Oakland, CA 94611 Attn: Fundraising Chair
To donate to our annual fundraiser, please click the link below, scroll down to the squad or individual you would like to support, and click the "Donate" button. We appreciate your support!
To make other financial contributions or if you have questions
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For Eligibility Workers ONLY: California State Department of Social Services is requesting our direct feedback on how to improve our eligibility system for Medi-Cal and CalFresh!
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Hats off to Sewell!
The Department of Workforce Services conducts an annual celebration
that rewards employers who "listen to employees and strive to create
and maintain a culture of equity and opportunity in the workplace. The
Award recognizes best practices and promotes their implementation in
the business community."
We were recognized as one of the best micro companies to work for in
Utah. We were acutally the only winner (out of all the categories) from
Utah County.
Here are a couple of the areas in which we were recognized:
Best Work Environment:
Sewell Direct has a very popular company ping pong area,
and although the intention was relaxation and light exercise, the
tournaments can be pretty fierce.
Best Company Culture:
A rare move in this 24/7/365 world, full-time employees at Sewell
Direct are not expected to nor encouraged to work more than 40 hours a
week. When employees travel for work, Sewell Direct pays for
spouses/partners to go along on business trips.
Click here to read the press release http://jobs.utah.gov/edo/press/2006/032306.asp.
Here is a scan of Sewell's page in the 2006 Utah's Work/Life Award


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It was probably hard to spot seeing as her hands spent the majority of the night caressing her knight in shining armour (Zayn). But the most epic detail of Gigi Hadid's Met Ball look was her custom chrome nails to match her boyfriend's robot arms.
According to KISS Nails, Gigi's manicure by Mar y Soul involved chrome nails on the surface 'with hidden crystals' underneath, which were valued at over $2,000.
Seems like a crazy amount of money for such a small and 'secret' detail. But it seems when it comes to Met Gala, the overall consensus is 'Why the hell not?!'


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Home always breaks up when the mother goes. Fifteen children he had. Birth every year almost.
Rates are at historic lows of 3.53% for 30-year mortgages. Rents are at record levels all over the country, hitting highs in 74 markets tracked by real-estate-data provider Reis Inc. And housing prices appear to have finally begun increasing, with gains posted for three months in a row according to the index put out by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. So why aren't more Americans buying houses?
The answer to that is rather complex, but one major factor is that trade-up buyers — folks who upgrade from smaller, cheaper "starter homes" to pricier properties, and who classically are a pumping piston in the engine that drives the housing market — are finding it difficult, if not impossible, to trade up right now. This key segment of the market is especially likely to be "equity poor."
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Stella Creasy MP
This week I have also secured a debate in Westminster Hall on 7 June to highlight my concerns about heritage and in particular the need for stronger powers to protect the future of two Walthamstow heritage assets, the Dog Track and the former EMD Cinema. By convention government ministers have to respond to the points raised in these debates so it gives me an opportunity to hold them to account for their actions to date on these issues. I am concerned that communities need stronger powers to not only prevent damage to heritage assets but also ensure they are open to enjoyment for generations to come. If you have strong views on this issue please do get in touch: firstname.lastname@example.com
SOS view " L&Q had the chance to walk away with their reputation in tact and do the right thing for the community but they chose to ignore residents and the greyhound industry . They must now pay the price as this is now a national issue before Parliament which provides L&Q as a group with funds. The Directors should realise that they cannot act as property developers and speculate on the property market with tax payer money " When L&Q put an option on the stadium in July 2007 while the stadium was still viably operating and paid well over the odds for the land that had no planning permission they destroyed the heart of the community of waltham forest and are responsible for putting hundreds on long term unemployment benefits. They must now be made to pay for the misuse of public funds and their actions as a group.
SOS will return greyhound racing to it's primary historic home without fail and urge all supporters to email Stella


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REVIEW: 'Exit West': A Slender, Powerful Novel About the Refugee Experience/
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Riverhead Books)
By Margot Singer
In an unnamed city on the brink of civil war, a young man named Saeed meets a young woman named Nadia. Saeed works for an outdoor advertising firm, Nadia for an insurance agency. Like young people everywhere, they listen to music, smoke a joint, fool around, go out for Chinese food. But just as Saeed and Nadia begin to fall in love, the city in which they live erupts into violence. Mortar fire and bomb blasts turn the streets to rubble heaps. The power is cut. No one can work. Bodies hang from streetlamps; drones buzz overhead. The blood of an upstairs neighbor, his throat slit by the militants, stains the ceiling red. Saeed and Nadia decide to flee.
Mohsin Hamid's slender novel Exit West takes us into the heart of a city that could easily be Lahore, Aleppo, or Kandahar. "Geography is destiny," Hamid's narrator states, and but for geography, Saeed and Nadia could be you or I. Exit West makes visceral how quickly and easily life as we know it can come to a terrifying end. "One moment we are pottering about our errands as usual," the narrator states in the novel's opening pages, "and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does."
Although the reader yearns for a love story's happy ending, Saeed and Nadia have nothing but "transient beginnings and middles" as their attempts at intimacy are strained by the migrations they must brave. Hamid's terse, spare third person narration anatomizes the impossibility of commitment and connection in a world with no stability, no freedom, and no safe space. Nadia hides her free spirit behind black robes; grieving and helpless, Saeed can only pray. Migration, in one of the novel's sharpest insights, is not just spurred by violence, but constitutes an act of violence in itself. As Nadia reflects after Saeed's father refuses to emigrate but makes her promise to stay with his son: "by making the promise he demanded she make, she was in a sense killing him, but that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind."
In Exit West, refugees escape through surreal dark doors that transport them to real places such as London and California and Greece. Through this device, Hamid handily dispenses with the mechanics of getting his refugees from place to place (there are no unseaworthy skiffs or lethal desert treks), focusing instead on the experience of arriving on the other side. Saeed and Nadia crawl out of their door to find themselves in a West awash in refugees. They huddle in a migrant camp on Mykonos, cram into an abandoned London mansion. Threatened by "nativist" mobs, the refugees are confined to a third world-like "dark London," off the grid. "That summer it seemed to Saeed and Nadia that the whole planet was on the move"; caught up in this mass of unmoored humanity, struggling for survival, they are left "adrift in a world where one could go anywhere but still find nothing," not least a way back to who they were and what they might have been.
As the only surreal aspects in an otherwise realistic fiction, the novel's doors—opening and closing unpredictably, guarded by "agents" taking bribes—remain little more than a contrivance. Likewise, the vignettes interspersed throughout the narrative, each featuring a different refugee emerging through a door, gesture toward the multifaceted experiences of global migration, but are more disruptive than revealing, and never really come to life.
The first half of Exit West is deeply moving in its close and tender observations of Saeed and Nadia coming together as their world is coming apart. The latter part of the novel, however, loses some momentum as Saeed and Nadia slowly separate. By the end, living in a solar-powered shanty overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge in a futuristic Marin, they seem more urban homesteaders than refugees. Hamid wants to make a universal point: as Saeed and Nadia forge new romances and merge into their peaceful Californian community, they must leave their younger selves behind. We are all migrants, the novel suggests, traveling through time.
Exit West is an important, moving, and timely book. As tensions over the current refugee crisis rise around the globe, Hamid's novel helps us empathize with those compelled to flee. And despite its contemporary resonance, it leaves us with comforting reminder of the age-old promise of immigration: to open a door onto a better life.
Margot Singer, a professor of English and creative writing at Denison University, is the author of Underground Fugue, published this month by Melville House.


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From the Rows with Brian Grete
The final day of the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour took my route west and north out of Iowa City through crop districts 6 and 3 through Iowa -- in the counties of Benton, Buchanan, Black Hawk, Bremer, Chickasaw and Howard. Corn yields ranged from 109 bu. per acre to 212 bushels. The average yield on my route through Iowa today was 173.7 bu. per acre.
When the samples from all 12 eastern Tour routes were tabulated, the Iowa corn yield came in at 178.75 bu. per acre, up 4.0% from year-ago and 13.2% above the 3-year Tour average. The extreme consistency we saw in Illinois was not seen in Iowa. In fact, the route my group had in Iowa today saw extreme variability in eastern Iowa.
For soybeans, the average pod count in a 3'x3' square on my route through Iowa today came in at 978.3. In general, Iowa pod counts on my route were average to below average for the areas we sampled.
The soybean pod count in a 3'x3' square for all Tour samples in Iowa came in at 1,173.59, which is up 26.6% from year-ago and 11.8% higher than the three-year Tour average.
In Minnesota, my route only took one sample today. For corn, we got a yield of 190 bu. per acre. For soybeans, we had a pod count in a 3x3 square of only 610.
I'd like to thank all of my scouts on the eastern leg of this year's Crop Tour for all of their hard work over this week. I've said it repeatedly, but we couldn't do Tour without all of your hard work and dedication. Your countless hours of crop scouting this week are greatly appreciated.
For More Information
See full coverage of the 2014 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour, hosted by Pro Farmer.
Follow the tour on Twitter with the hash tag #pftour14.
Corn Advances on Speculation U.S. Yields Will Be Near Estimates
From the Rows -- Day 4 Mark Bernard


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As a specialist recruitment agency working with multiple clients in the project services realm, we are consistently engaging with candidates and clients to discuss their experiences in end to end project management and what their view is on the "best fit" to deliver projects. From our understanding, the two main methodologies utilised for project delivery are; Waterfall and Agile. There are various opinions on both methods and on what will deliver the best solution, however it seems the general consensus is that it all depends on the type of project being delivered and its needs.
Waterfall methodology is where each phase of the product's life cycle takes place in sequence and progress in transitions. It's the traditional way in which projects have been delivered often following the PRINCE2 or PMI PMP framework.
As it follows a single linear process, Waterfall methodology is seen as being easier to understand and more manageable, especially for those who are new to software development and when non-developers are involved. In conjunction to this, waterfall allows for a greater emphasis to be placed upon documentation. This provides reassurance to organisations as it highlights any discrepancies that could cause potential risks during the development phase and therefore removed during the design phase.
Whereas, Agile methodology avoids taking a sequential approach in favour of an incremental, iterative one, commonly referred to as "Scrum". Agile allows for changing requirements over time by using cross-functional teams which work on successive iterations over fixed time periods. Prioritisation follows an exact priority order based on business value and the work is organised into a backlog. Teams using agile are self-organising and will always include a business representative and have emphasis on efficient face to face communication and short feedback loops. The nature of a Scrum due to the rhythm it creates can help to build highly motivated teams where productivity increases over time.
Each iteration has the goal of producing a working product which can be demonstrated to the stakeholders and then feedback can be incorporate into the next or future iterations. The method of agile has evolved from a number of different lightweight software philosophies which were developed in the 1990's to counter heavyweight methodologies like waterfall.
What is the best method to choose?
Arguments suggest that an agile methodology is best adopted for software development based projects as technology, markets and business is changing so fast software needs to be able to adapt to this. Agile is seen to potentially allow for more flexibility than the waterfall method, as even when components change, there is a consistent focus on value. This means what has been delivered already should be worthwhile.
Comparatively, large scale infrastructure/hardware based projects whereby the requirements are guaranteed not to change and a small amount of uncertainty is present or the project is very simple would warrant a waterfall method. There is belief that these type of projects are becoming more and rarer though. In conjunction, if an organisation is not in a mature enough state a more traditional Waterfall methodology would align better than Agile.
However, some clients and candidates that we have been speaking to of late have expressed a hybrid approach incorporating both Agile and Waterfall approaches into the delivery is now the way forward. The feeling is that this approach gives the best of both worlds and for large scale transformation projects where there are many different elements this has seen benefit.


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For over a year now a series of short documentary films documenting the day to day life of LeSean Thomas has been streaming on Creative Control TV. The final instalment (there's only 5, don't worry) landed a little over a week ago and I enjoyed seeing that other side of animation that we all know exists but always forget to think about.
You may or may not know that the majority of animation for pretty much everything is done in South Korea. Lately a lot of it has been moving out and about to other countries, still predominantly Pacific Asian ones, but South Korea is still the powerhouse of animation the world over. THe problem is that we never hear about it. We know that the US, France, Japan and so on all make cartoons in various guises but the fact is that they just do the creative bits, the fun stuff, whereas the Koreans are the ones doing all the heavy lifting.
I first heard about LeSean Thomas when he did a TED talk about moving to South Korea and what he'd learnt there. It's a pretty amazing, yet also kind of obvious, story of somebody realising that all the work he's doing is being effectively outsourced and wanting to actually get in the thick of it and learn what it's all about. It's a fun and inspirational talk about the value of experiences and also pokes a lot of fun at learning new languages and analysing culture, which I'm all for.
The Seoul Sessions, however, get deep into how the animation process itself works. It's fascinating to see the people involved and how they actually go about their craft. I, for one, am amazed at how much of the work is still done on paper. Sure it all ends up on a computer eventually but I expected the studios to be awash with Cintiqs instead of never ending reels of paper and sticky tape.
I think you can make any documentary interesting but as a reviewer I appreciate seeing these things so that when I do my artistry sections I'll be able to keep in mind that there are real people doing a lot of hard work in here, not to mention seeing what the animators themselves consider classic and inspirational cartoons. But more importantly, you know how I always rag on DVDs for having nothing interesting on them? THis, this is interesting.
Sort it out.
So, you go watch that, I'm off to see what else is on (the answer is everything because all the first episodes are starting to land at once).
(I was going to just leave you with the link to the official page but the official page has the videos out of order and is missing one so you can just watch them here)


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We would like to thank you for your interest in Calvary Baptist Academy. We are excited about the possibility of having your child attend CBA.
Admissions Process
Let us know that you are interested by submitting a request for more information. You can do this by clicking the 'More Info / Apply' button on the bottom of any page.
After receiving and reviewing the additional information about CBA, schedule a tour of the campus. This is the best way for you to meet our faculty and staff, see how the school operates, and to get a feel for the spirit and culture of CBA.
After the tour, parents/guardians will be given an Application Packet to look over, fill out, and return. A student will be considered to be in process for admission when the following items are completed and received:
- Application for Admission
- Handbook Agreement Form
- Pastor's Reference Form
- Non-refundable Application fee of $35
- Signed Release of Records (1st - 12th)
- Copy of report cards from last year, transcript, and standardized test results (1st -12th)
* For students going into 1st-5th grades, admission will generally be decided without the need for an interview or diagnostic testing. For children in these grades, skip down to Step 6 - Acceptance.
For students going into 6th-12th grades, once the application process is completed, an interview will be scheduled with the potential student and their parents.
If a student passes the interview, the parents will be contacted to schedule a date and time for diagnostic/entrance testing (6th-12th grades).
After the above steps have been completed, and upon the review by CBA's Admissions Board, parents will be notified on whether or not their child was accepted.
Upon acceptance, parents will work with the school office in finalizing all paperwork and anything else needed in preparing for the start of school. The following items will be included with the Letter of Acceptance or with the Application Packet. Final admission is contingent upon the receipt of all the following items within twenty-one (21) days of notification of acceptance.
- Extended Family Information
- Media Release Form
- Handbook Agreement Form
- Student Standard of Conduct (6th-12th)
- Medical Release Form
- Annual Parental Permission & Release Form for Field Trips
- Smart Tuition Enrollment Form (obtain from office)
- Copy of the applicant's Birth Certificate
- Current, up-to-date Immunization record
- Non-refundable Registration fee (1st-12th): $125


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Event Details
October 4-5, 2018
Hyatt Regency Hotel, 601 Loyola Ave, New Orleans, LA 70113
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What to Expect at the Clio Cloud Conference
The Clio Cloud Conference is a two-day immersion in legal tech, with big-name keynote speakers. And you have the option to spend two days immersed in training on Clio and its integration partners.
If you use Clio, it's a no-brainer. The energy and excitement Clio brings to this conference is probably unlike any other legal conference you've been to, and the whole point is to take good care of Clio users (which is why your ticket is worth much more than the price of admission). You'll learn a ton, and the conference will probably pay for itself over again when you get back to your office and apply what you learned.
If you don't use Clio but you are considering it, the Clio Cloud Conference is also a great idea. If you decide to use Clio, you will get a big head start. If you decide not to, you won't have any doubts because you will have seen it, tried it, and talked to other lawyers who use it every day. And you will still learn a lot and take home a bunch of ideas inspired by the keynotes.
If you don't use Clio and don't want to, the Clio Cloud Conference is, I admit, less obviously compelling. But you'll still get inspired by the keynotes, learn lots in the breakout sessions, and have a great time at the after-hours events. After all, I don't use Clio and I look forward to this conference all year.
Disclaimer: Clio wants us at its conference so badly that every year so far it has flown us to Chicago, put us up at a nice hotel, and left wine and snacks in our hotel room.
Tips for First-Time Attendees
Here are five tips for getting the most out of your first Clio Cloud Conference:
- If you don't use Clio, don't worry. Just stick to the legal technology and business of law tracks. The Clio-specific content is all in CEO Jack Newton's opening remarks and the Clio University tracks.
- If you do use Clio, bring your problems. Clio developers will be on hand to do the hardest thing I can imagine: watch people use their product. They can help you solve problems on the spot, but they are also looking for opportunities to cure users' pain points. By the end of the two-day conference, Jack will probably announce updates the team has made during the conference in response to feedback.
- Go to the after-hours events. The optional Clio After Dark events are awesome. Look for details when you check in so you don't miss out. At least one is included with your ticket, and the optional events have been worth the extra cost.
- Grab a hangover kit in the morning. Speaking of after hours, Clio throws excellent parties after the sessions are done for the day. Plan to go out and stay out. To help you freshen up in the morning, there will be hangover kits.
- Leave your family at home. Or if you do bring your family, make sure they know they won't see you for two days. Day or night, there isn't really anything you will want to skip.


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Alexis Tsipras: Latest so-called 'Leftist' to sell-out to the bankers — RT Op-Edge
For the so-called 'radical leftist' from Greece is only the latest in a long line of 'radicals' and 'leftists' to betray the people who had voted for them and cave into the demands of imperialist international finance capital.
The only surprising thing about Alexis Tsipras' capitulation to the troika is that anyone should be surprised by it.
In Britain, we had our own version of the Greek 'crisis' in 1931. And like today, it was a politician nominally of the 'left,' the Labour Party leader Ramsay Macdonald, who eventually sided with the bankers against ordinary working people. A 'banker-led coup' occurred that replaced the democratically elected Labour government with a new capital-approved National Government, which moved to introduce steep cuts in public spending and slashed unemployment pay. The new government was dominated by the Conservatives, but had the turncoat 'socialist' MacDonald at the helm and another Labour traitor Philip Snowden as Lord Privy Seal.
The London bankers told MacDonald: "The cause of the trouble was not financial, but political, and lay in the complete want of confidence in His Majesty's Government existing among foreigners," records the historian A.J.P. Taylor, citing Keith Feiling's biography of Neville Chamberlain. In the general election campaign in October 1931, Philip Snowden (soon to become 'Viscount Snowden'), viciously turned on his former comrades in the Labour Party, saying that their anti-austerity program was "Bolshevism run mad."
via Alexis Tsipras: Latest so-called 'Leftist' to sell-out to the bankers — RT Op-Edge.


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