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|Gene Black - Holly Knight - Paul Engenmann
22B3 - 1986 (with lyrics)
- 'Device was the creation of Mike Chapman and I. I originally started out as a musician in a band and I was missing the rush of live performing, and working on my own records. Device signed to Chrysalis Records, and Mike produced our debut record (and only record), 22B3. Our first single, Hanging On A Heart Attack achieved mid chart success, and played on Heavy Rotation on MTV for four months. Unfortunately the band was short lived, we only did one record. The amazing thing is, the last time I check on You Tube, 'Hanging On A Heart Attack' had roughly 126,500 'hits' on it and quite a few comments…mostly postive and hilarious. So now, twenty years later, people are diggin it. In fact all the tracks from 22B3 are finally getting listened to. Go figure. -
- Device was a short-lived American pop-rock trio, formed by keyboardist, bassist and vocalist Holly Knight, vocalist Paul Engemann and guitarist Gene Black.
Device's only album, 22B3, was released in the spring of 1986. It produced a Top 40 single in the U.S. with "Hanging on a Heart Attack," which peaked at No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100. The band's second single, "Who Says," peaked at No. 79. Both of these songs were promoted by music videos which garnered MTV rotation, and both were released as 12" singles with remix and dub versions which received club play. A third single, "Pieces on the Ground" was released as a promo 12" single, while the album peaked at No. 73 on the Billboard 200 chart. The band's fourth and final single was titled "Who's on the Line". It was a remixed version different from the album track timing in at 4:03, however it failed to chart. Mike Chapman produced the album.
Better known as a songwriter, Knight started her career with the band Spider during the early 1980s. She wrote hit songs for Pat Benatar, Scandal, Heart, Cheap Trick, Tina Turner and many others. Turner covered Spider's "Better Be Good to Me" for her Private Dancer album, and had a hit single with the song in 1984.
After Device disbanded, Holly Knight released a 1988 self-titled solo album, featuring the single "Heart Don't Fail Me Now," and her own version of "Love Is a Battlefield," which she had written for Benatar, and continued writing songs for other performers.
Paul Engemann, who previously sang on soundtrack cuts produced by Giorgio Moroder, joined Animotion. He took over for the original lead singer, Bill Wadhams, and sang opposite Cynthia Rhodes on Animotion's 1989 Top Ten hit "Room to Move." Coincidentally, Knight had recorded the original version of Animotion's biggest hit, "Obsession," as a duet with Michael Des Barres; the two co-wrote the song, which appeared on the soundtrack to the 1983 film A Night in Heaven.
Gene Black continued to be involved in session work, including a similarly themed 1980's band, Wild Blue, best known for the aggressive dance-rock singles "Fire with Fire" and "International Language of Dance." Gene also co wrote two Top Ten hits with Holly Knight. Heart's "Never" and Rod Stewarts "Love Touch". Black recorded extensively with Tina Turner, and later joined Joe Cocker's touring band in 1997.
22B3 was re-released on CD by Renaissance Records in 2007, with the same track list as the original release. -
- The trio Device was formed around the skills of musician/songwriter Holly Knight. Although not a household name, Knight had become one of the most ubiquitous presences in music during the mid-'80s. Having appeared on three albums with the band Spider during the earlier portion of the decade (1980's Spider, 1981's Between the Lines, and 1984's Rough Justice), she became a prolific songwriter, penning hits for Pat Benatar, Scandal, Heart, and Tina Turner (among others). Rounding out Device was lead vocalist Paul Engemann and session guitarist Gene Black, who had worked with Cher and Tina Turner. With noted producer/songwriter Mike Chapman (whom had worked with Knight in the past) producing, it would have seemed that Device was destined for success, but to wasn't to be. Their one and only album, the futuristically titled 22B3, was released in the spring of 1986. Although it managed to produce a Top 40 single with "Hanging on a Heart Attack," which peaked at number 35, it had to be labeled a disappointment, considering the personnel involved.
Knight would go on to further success as a writer, including credits on hit singles by Aerosmith ("Rag Doll"), Lou Gramm ("Just Between You And Me"), Pat Benatar ("Invincible"), and Tina Turner ("The Best"). She would also release two solo albums during the late '80s. Engemann would join Animotion (who had, ironically, reached the Top Ten in 1985 with Knight's "Obsession") and appear on their 1989 Top Ten "Room to Move." Black would continue to be involved in session work, including contributing guitar work to Knight's self-titled solo debut in 1989. -
- Device were a Los Angeles based trio formed around the classically trained and talented songwriter Holly Knight. She first came to our attention in the band Spider from the early eighties, playing keyboards alongside Amanda Blue and co, followed by a stint of serious songwriting. The latter saw songs such as Pat Benatar's 'Love Is A Battlefield' and Tina Turner's 'Better Be Good To Me' become smash hits for Holly. She wrote many songs for a wide variety of artists ranging from Ozzy Osbourne to Kim Wilde. A talent indeed, and one only wonders what would happened if she'd saved those songs for her mid-eighties pop vehicle Device. Bringing in singer Paul Engemann and session guitarist Gene Black, the trio were formed, and quite a stunning looking trio they were too, with their futuristic clothing being a feature. The music is hi-tech, an array of electronic devices (excuse the pun) used throughout, whereby Holly does all the programming.
The Chrysalis label and Mike Chapman production team became involved, and the album '22B3' was released during the spring of 1986. The first single 'Hanging On A Heart Attack' was a top 40 hit during the summer of that year (the video was quite freaky too!). The hi-tech pop attack was relentless on tracks such as 'Who Says' and 'Tough And Tender'. Even on 'When Love Is Good', the choruses are soaring and guitars are absolutely swinging. My personal favourite is the dynamic 'Didn't I Read You Right', which draws it's influences from some of their mid-eighties pop/rock contemporaries. With 'I've Got No Room For Your Love', they manage to keep the energy at a danceable level while they get a little subdued and reflective on 'Who's On The Line'.
The album was not a commercial success by any means, surprising really considering the strength of the material available. In any case, '22B3' finally secured a CD release in the late nineties by back catalog kings Renaissance Records. Following on from this, Holly released a self titled solo album in 1988 (softer, poppier but still nice nonetheless), while Engemann went on to join Cynthia Rhodes (Mrs Richard Marx to you folk) in the second incarnation of pop troupe Animotion. -
- Releasing their sole album ''22B3'' in 1986, Device were a short-lived rock band. The band consisted of three members.
The most famous member was keyboardist/bassist Holly Knight, an extremely popular songwriter at the time who wrote hits like Pat Benatar's "Love Is A Battlefield", Heart's "Never", and Aerosmith's "Rag Doll" just to name a few.
Device's lead singer was Paul Engemann, who was already famous in the 80's for doing the lead vocals to "Push It To The Limit" from the ''Scarface'' soundtrack. He would later go on to sing with the band Animotion, singing co-lead with actress Cynthia Rhodes. During his time in the band, Animotion scored the 1989 Top Ten hit "Room To Move". A fun fact about Paul is that he is the brother-in-law to famed news anchor Larry King.
Lastly, there was Gene Black, who was a session guitarist and has played with acts such as Tina Turner. Black also played with a band called Wild Blue, who are known for the singles "Fire With Fire" and "International Language Of Dance".
Featuring a radio-friendly, danceable, high-tech, aggressive hard rock sound, the ''22B3'' album charted at #73 on the Billboard 200 and it was supported by four singles. The biggest hit was the album opener, "Hanging On A Heart Attack", which charted at #35 on the Billboard Hot 100. The follow up was the album's second track, "Who Says", which charted at #79. The two aforementioned singles were also supported by MTV videos which saw moderate rotation. The third single, "Pieces On The Ground", was only released as a promo-only single. The fourth and final single "Who's On The Line" didn't even chart at all.
After the release of the album, Device went on shows like ''American Bandstand'' to promote the singles, but the band didn't for very long. The band quietly dissolved after the release of ''22B3'', only being together for just a year. -


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I am pleased to announce that I will be publishing the short story, "Agoraphobic: Inside Out" this February for free!
"Twenty-eight-year-old Kade hasn't been able to make it past his sidewalk in eight years. In this chilling short story, you will be given a glimpse into the inner workings of his mind as he goes through the process of trying to face his irrational, but very real fears."
This story is dedicated to those who wage the silent war against this disorder each day, and to those who wish to better understand what their loved one might be going through.

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While calendars have been around since the Bronze Age, the appointment calendar for personal meetings is a more recent invention. Some believe it was invented by helping professionals such as doctors and lawyers to keep track of their appointments with patients and clients.
While it was first intended as a tool for coordinating meetings, one of the earliest calendars recorded indicates its use for quite a different purpose. Here is a page from a personal calendar published by Benjamin Franklin.
This outline he created to describe his ideal day includes no appointments at all. Instead, it's a personal plan for the day. The idea that a calendar could be used in this way probably wasn't invented by him. It's still in use today by Total Task Schedulers who, like Franklin, believe that making a written plan for the day is superior to the alternatives: having no plan whatsoever, or keeping only a mental plan.
It's not hard to imagine that each day, he wrote down a schedule that included the elements included in his ideal plus other matters that had arisen: his tasks, appointments, meetings, events, and reminders. This method of Total Task Scheduling probably remained unchanged until recently, on the advent of digital technology.
By then, the problems of using paper to schedule everything had become apparent.
As Alan Lakein stated in his 1973 classic, "How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life," "the overorganized person… tends to spend much time considering every possibility, planning every detail… He doesn't move without first planning the smallest detail."
He also described the "time nut," someone who is "overwhelmingly preoccupied with time… always rushing around to meet an impossible schedule." He warns against having too much scheduled time: "Rigidity in setting and following demanding schedules without variation creates the feeling of being regimented by the clock, and living your whole life with a constant eye on the clock can be unpleasant."
Looking back at his advice we must understand how the world had shifted since Franklin's advice shared three centuries earlier. My research shows that the number of tasks people were trying to manage using this method had increased dramatically. Like most productivity methods, it didn't scale.
So, paper is a fine solution for Total Task Schedulers who are trying to manage a small number of tasks. At a higher number, they become Lakein's "overorganized" "time nuts".
When the first digital calendars came into being in the mid 1980's they were not very popular. After all, Total Task Schedulers who couldn't carry around their calendars found themselves hamstrung. The perfect schedule stuck on a laptop was of little use.
Even though the design of paper planner improved to the point where carrying around a DayTimer or Filofax was a sign of being serious, they made only a marginal difference. The next big change came with the introduction of the first Personal Digital Assistants (PDA's) in the mid-1990's.
Now, for the first time, a Total Task Scheduler could bring his/her digital calendar everywhere. Use bulky cables and tricky synchronization, a calendar could be copied between a PC and PDA. Some were disciplined enough the teach themselves the discipline required to connect their two calendars new per day using an imperfect, slow technology.
Perhaps there should have been a steady organic increase in the number of Total Task Schedulers as these new capabilities came to be realized in everyday usage. However, this didn't happen – instead, there was a backlash.
With the publication of David Allen's Getting Things Done in 2001 came a new rule: don't use your electronic calendar for anything other than appointments with other people, or events whose dates cannot be changed. Over time, he has changed his thinking, but many of his readers have stuck with his original idea that the calendar is a sacred space which should only be used to track one's "hard landscape" of commitments that "must" be done at a particular date and time.
Certainly it should not be used as Ben Franklin recommended or Alan Lakein recommended.
It was a simple idea and even though it was offered in the original book with only anecdotal evidence, it became a mantra that continues to be repeated. Total Task Scheduling was wrong and should not be attempted by anyone.
However, even as this battle between opposing philosophies is being fought, extraordinary power continues to make its way into people's lives. They steadily replaced their paper tools with digital equipment of increasingly stunning capacity. Today, the sale of Internet-enabled mobile devices outpaces that of personal computers.
Cloud computing allows us to keep a single source of information, such as a calendar. Local devices are now used as points of access, rather than a permanent place of storage.
Also, Artificial Intelligence combined with raw, robotic computing power makes it easier than ever to perform tedious tasks en masse. The intersection of these and other technologies has dramatically expanded the possibilities for Total Task Schedulers.
Unfortunately, this new frontier remains just that… an unexplored wilderness. The calendar that most people use is just a digital version of the one found on paper, leading them to engage in the same practices Franklin probably used.
For the most part, Total Task Schedulers still enter their tasks one at a time in their calendar, and when there's a surprise event or emergency, they must manually reconfigure their calendars to keep up. This chore is somewhat easier to perform digitally, but it remains a hard, daily slog.
The "modern" calendar was hardly a radical improvement over the original idea.
In fact, it appears that most people who attempt to schedule everything give up when the real challenge of scheduling everything becomes evident. They surrender, and sometimes advise others to do the same.
In my 2014 book, Perfect Time-Based Productivity, I describe the fact that this widespread failure is only a part of the story. There are a small number of people who have persevered successfully. Some have full-time administrative assistance. But the majority have taught themselves the practices needed to become Total Task Schedulers regardless of the tool or platform being used.
In 2015 Kevin Kruse' book, 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management, shared his the results of his interviews with millionaires, top athletes, high-performing students, and entrepreneurs. Flying in the face of the published advice from Allen and other gurus was his discovery that they were all Total Task Schedulers.
At around the same time his book was published, I was introduced to SkedPal. It belongs to a class of apps I have dubbed auto-schedulers. They shuffle and optimize a user's calendar, reaching in to move tasks from one time-slot another.
It isn't the first auto-scheduler to be invented, but it has become my app of choice, plus I consult with the developers on a contractual basis.
During that year, Google purchased Timeful, another auto-scheduler, eventually releasing some of its functionality into Google Calendar in the form of Google Goals. Other apps like Sheldonize, TimeTo, Get Plan, and Todoist Smart Scheduling (the most recent entry) all perform auto-scheduling functions. They are specifically designed to make it easier to accomplish Total Task Scheduling, often working alongside traditional calendar apps like Google and Outlook Calendar.
They have broken through the limitations of Total Task Scheduling that have existed ever since the concept was first implemented.
My Predictions
I expect auto-schedulers to become ubiquitous. At some point, every digital calendar will offer an "Update Schedule" button, allowing users to bring all their tasks up to date with the click of a button. This capability will reside on all platforms and be fully mobile.
Also, the latest version of SkedPal points to a redefinition of "Total Task Scheduling." In prior versions, users were forced to assign due dates to each task, regardless of the need to do so. This thinking has changed. Now, a task may be stored with either a "fuzzy" due date (such as someday, or next week), without a due date at all, or with its own due date.
This new feature allows the user to create tasks in way that's more in line with the way they think about them on a daily basis.
So a Total Task Scheduler need not store his/her "total" complement of tasks in a calendar. In fact, the new thinking is that new feature will continue to blur the distinctions between a list and a schedule. After all, they come from old ways of thinking borrowed from the paper-based days. We are fast developing new ways to think about our tasks along with the best ways to represent them.


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Police are looking for clues at karaoke bars in Rasada that might shed light on the mysterious death of an Indonesian fisherman whose body was discovered at the Saphan Pla Fishing Pier in Rassada early this morning.
The body of 32-year-old Indonesian man, Supiyono, was found at about 6.30am about 100 metres from the boat he reportedly worked on, registered as Mann Horngj Inn No3 GTS-5393, belonging to the Indonsian Tuna Company.
The body of Mr Supiyono, which was lying on its backside, was dressed in a ripped red shirt, and blue fisherman pants. Police noted a gash on the man's head before having the body collected and transferred to hospital for post mortem examination.
Police believe he had been dead for no less than 2 hours when they had arrived, and said they'd been told that the man's boat had been docked in Phuket for three days.
Throughout his visit, the victim had allegedly been frequenting local karaoke bars to "pursue girls", police were told, and thus intend to continue their investigation based on this lead.
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Creative Stitching Summers Session
Another three month series is being added to the class rooster! We will go over all and anything creative, hand stitching, or embroidery. Our first series we focused on one source of inpsiration which got us all excited to branch out and dive deeper into the embellishment world!
We would love to guide you through the amazing process of hand stitching, join us for our twice monthly class meetings, hosted the second and fourth Thurday or Saturday, depending on the club section you sign up for.
When you sign up for the club for $50.00 you are automatically signed up for the first 4 class meetings and have first priority for the two remaing classes if you choose to attend all 6 meetings!
This is our Summer Creative Stitching club which goes from July to September. There are 6 class meetings during the Creative Stitching series-2 per month, the club is $50 for the first 4 consecutive classes and an individual meeting is $15.
Club meeting are non-transferable, you may not switch you thursday meeting time with a saturday time. Sorry for the inconvience this may cause, thank you.
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In 2013, the tight end position saw the Miami Dolphins Charles Clay and Washington Redskins Jordan Reed emerge. This season, fantasy football player will be targeting them in their drafts, but which players average draft position makes them the smarter, more valuable pick?
Clay was not supposed to be Miami's top option at the TE position, but free agent signing Dustin Keller suffered a season ending injury during the preseason. Clay ended up seeing the 3rd most targets (103) from QB Ryan Tannehill, behind Mike Wallace and Brian Hartline. That can be expected again in 2014, as well as leading the Dolphins in receiving TDs for a second consecutive season. He even added a rushing TD, which pushed him above Greg Olsen in total fantasy points. The only TEs with more points were Jimmy Graham, Vernon Davis, Julius Thomas, Tony Gonzalez, Jordan Cameron and Jason Witten. He even outscored WRs Torrey Smith, Marques Colston, Michael Floyd and his own teammate Wallace!
Reed played just 9 games for the Redskins in 2013, but managed to catch 45 of his 59 targets for 499 yards and 3 scores. Reed was effective on a Redskins offense without DeSean Jackson. With DJax and Pierre Garcon getting a lot of attention from the defense, as well as linebackers having to account for Alfred Morris and spying Robert Griffin III, Reed could see a lot of open field down the middle.
Check out our Washington Redskins Fantasy Football Outlook.
Check out our Washington Redskins Fantasy Football Outlook.
Average Draft Position
Original Post 7/10
Updated ADP 7/30
Charles Clay
- 15th TE (↓1)
- 147th overall (↓10)
- Drafted before Ahmad Bradshaw
- Drafted after Bengals Defense
- 20th TE (↓7)
- 165th overall (↓7)
- Drafted before Jerricho Cotchery
- Drafted after Alex Smith
- 12th TE
- 127th overall (↑10)
- Drafted after Mike Evans
- Drafted before Patriots Defense
- 16th TE
- 151st Overall
- Drafted after Jonathan Stewart
- Drafted before Johnny Manziel
- 12th TE
- 128th Overall (↑3)
- Drafted after Anquan Boldin
- Drafted before Ben Roethlisberger
Jordan Reed
- 7th overall TE
- 80th overall (↓3)
- Drafted before Darren Sproles
- Drafted after Matt Ryan
- 10th TE (↑1)
- 106th overall (↑5)
- Drafted before Trent Richardson
- Drafted after Jay Cutler
- 10th TE (↓3)
- 106th overall (↑1)
- Drafted after Stephen Gostkowski
- Drafted before Riley Cooper
- 8th TE
- 82nd Overall
- Drafted after Pierre Thomas
- Drafted before Marques Colston
- 9th TE
- 71st Overall (↓2)
- Drafted after Ray Rice
- Drafted before Colin Kaepernick
All the experts will rank Reed higher than Clay, and Fantasy Pros Who Should I Draft? machine gives Reed a 90% victory over Clay.
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We work with some incredible organizations to help us reach more participants. We encourage everyone to learn more about each of them and hope to provide additional resources to our participants.
Life Rolls oN
Founded by world champion quadriplegic surfer Jesse Billauer, Life Rolls On is dedicated to improving the quality of life for young people affected by spinal cord injury. Believing that adaptive surfing and skating could inspire infinite possibilities beyond paralysis. Life Rolls On began as a splash into the unknown on September 11, 2001; achieved 501c3 nonprofit status in 2002; and now touches the lives of hundreds of thousands.
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National organizations help us to locate and serve our veteran community. Our camps range from working 1:1 with veterans to family camps where spouses and their children are invited to participate in surf and stand up paddle camps. Events range from one day to week long camps.
More Life
MoreLife is a transformative outdoor adventure created in memory of Matthew Lempergel. A family member and paratrooper who lost his life to suicide on Jan. 22, 2012.
Matthew's service to our country and fatal battle with PTSD has driven our efforts to giveback.
MoreLife is a call-to-action to share our love for adventure with warriors and their families. We foster personal growth, service and family centered values to help warriors recommit to overcoming difficult life challenges.
Little pink houses of hope
LPHOH provides FREE week long vacations for breast cancer patients and their families.
They believe a cancer diagnosis does not just affect the patient, but the entire family. Every retreat is designed to help families relax, reconnect and rejuvenate during the cancer journey
Cape Fear Vision Resource Center
The Vision Resource Center enhances the lives of adults and children living in the Cape Fear Region who are visually impaired by: advocating for their needs, identifying and sharing information about community resources, providing education, skill development and socialization opportunities.
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Brightmore of Wilmington
Residents of Carolina Bay and Brightmore participate in our annual Senior Day camp.
Learn more about their communities here.
Adaptive Surf Project
A South Carolina based organization who believes that individuals who happen to have a disability can surf.
Brigade Boys and Girls Club
Their mission: To inspire and, through character development, enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Odysea Surf School
Odysea Surf School instructors give back by volunteering for our camps as instructors.
Odysea Surf School was started with the idea of teaching surfing lessons in a positive learning environment. We have adult instructors with over 10 years of continuous surf lesson instruction in North Carolina. The owners are avid water men with over 30 years of surfing and Lifeguarding experience between them. We only employ the highest quality surf instructors. In fact, over 75% of our surfing instructors are local certified school teachers.


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Yet another mine is being proposed, this time in our own backyard. A Nickel strip mine within the watersheds of the Smith and Illinois rivers. In some of the most pristine habitat for salmonids left in the lower 48. Please take the time to sign a petition and send a letter to the Obama administration to forever protect these watersheds.
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There's something singularly awful about watching the worst environmental disaster in our country's history and knowing that, with all of America's wealth and technological prowess, nothing has been done to prevent the ongoing catastrophe that threatens an entire way of life.
Long before the earthquake that devastated Haiti hit in January, aid to the island country was in vogue in Evergreen. The latest chapter of the story is a heartwarming tale about how compassion and culture can help ease a terrible situation.
The new government in Great Britain is wasting no time getting down to business. Shortly after taking power, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition announced spending cuts totaling about $8.2 billion. According to The Economist, "this is a small first step on a long journey."
When legislative budget staffers were looking into ways to balance the state's budget during the 2009 session, they happened onto the fact that Pinnacol Assurance, the quasi-public agency that serves as the insurer of last resort for workers' compensation, had reserves in excess of half a billion dollars more than appeared to be necessary. When legislative leaders suggested taking some of the money to address budget issues, the reaction from Pinnacol, business interests and Pinnacol customers was swift. They said the state should keep its hands off.
Who among you is a card-carrying member of the Evergreen Park and Recreation District? Only a fraction of our Evergreen area residents actually are. Since our two rec centers are used only by a minority of our populace, do we really need them? On the other hand, can you imagine our community without them?
In less than two months, mail ballots will start to arrive for the 2010 primary elections, which means it wonít be long at all before the airwaves start to fill with wall-to-wall political advertising. And more than ever, those advertisements will come from groups with vaguely appealing names (ìColoradans for Mom, Home & Apple Pieî) that leave you with absolutely no idea who is behind them.
Do you screen your calls before answering the phone? Do you ignore calls if you don't know the caller? You should make an exception and answer a call from area code 540 if you get one in the next couple of weeks.
Christie Greene didn't have to marry Dan to get green. As a young child growing up in Florida, she felt a visceral connection to the environment, one that led her to Evergreen more than 20 years ago and honed her passion for sustainability.
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WASHINGTON, March 30, 2012 – A new report from USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) shows that with NRCS assistance Chesapeake Bay region farmers, forestland owners and other partners put conservation practices on more than 650,000 acres of working land between May 2010 and September 2011. That amount of acres nearly equals the land area of the state of Rhode Island.
The Chesapeake Bay 2011 Activities Report also states that farmers and forestland owners put nearly 61,000 conservation practices on agricultural land in the Bay region during NRCS' 2011 fiscal year. Popular practices included manure management, planting grasses along streams as well as other methods of preventing sediments and nutrients from entering waterways that feed into the bay.
These efforts support actions underway through the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative (CBWI). NRCS provides technical and financial assistance through CBWI to agricultural producers to help them apply conservation practices that benefit the bay and waterways in the bay watershed.
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In many ways, I've had an ideal writer's life for the last few years. For a while, I was very frustrated with myself, because I felt like I was doing the novel-writing process in the wrong way, and that I was missing some right way to be creative.
For the last six months, I've taken a different approach to giving birth to my novel. Rather than thinking of novel-writing as a project or task to be completed, I've begun to work with the soul of my book, and treat it as though it were a person rather than an inanimate object that will sit on a shelf or in the Amazon cloud.
One thing that has been helping me to move forward is to look even more closely at the parallels between creating a novel and giving birth to children.
My child-bearing experience was different from many women. I stopped working as much as possible when I had both my kids and enjoyed the pregnancy. I believed and still believe that women should treat themselves very kindly when they are pregnant.
On the whole I look back at my pregnancies as some of the most enjoyable times of my life, because I felt that I was doing sacred work. My belief was that my children were special people being sent by God to live in the world and take part in the Great Turning of our world. I still believe they are my greatest creations.
Yet, I also feel that the books that I'm writing could be contributions to changing the way we look at the world to support a Great Turning towards honoring life and the earth more than greed and materialism. Creating the novels has actually felt more difficult for me than having children. So, I'm starting to honor more and more what I did when I was pregnant.
Here are a few things I've noticed.
During both pregnancies, I had cravings for foods that I never liked before then. The one I remember the most is pink grapefruit juice. I couldn't get enough of it while I was pregnant with both of my children, and hated grapefruit juice before that time. I still like to drink it every so often, because it reminds me of that special time in my life.
My novel has different cravings.
While I've been writing my novel, I've had a strange desire to listen to Led Zeppelin music, which I didn't like at any other time in my life although, though I had always loved the song Kashmir. As I started writing more deeply, I started to get weirdly obsessed with listening to Kashmir, and then decided maybe I should listen to more Led Zeppelin and found I now like it.
It's the strangest thing to me, but I feel like somehow Led Zeppelin music has a certain kind of soul to it that the soul of my book craves. For someone who is fairly introverted and loves quiet, lyrical New Age and Classical music this attraction to Led Zeppelin music feels odd.
On top of that, I started writing my own music and lyrics. That has helped me to hear the book's story. I attribute these new connections with music to the soul of the book requiring me to be lyrical in a different way for it.
When I was pregnant with both of my boys, I had a certain way of living that I'm now embracing with novel-writing. While pregnant, I allowed myself to:
- Trust that something bigger than myself was working through me.
- Treat that time of giving birth as a holy gift and treasured it.
- Enjoy the process of listening to what the soul of my book needs to grow and flourish.
- Act upon what the soul of the new life in me needs.
- Appreciate that giving birth takes a lot of energy so I deserve to be kind to myself.
- Allow the new life to come forth when it is ready.
This is my way of giving birth to children and novels. It's not for everyone. Other people who I knew worked very hard while they were pregnant and it was not a big deal to them. They could multi-task. For the most part, I could only do one thing.
Other women's childbirth experience was very different from mine, but also good for them. Just like there are other people who work full-time and write great books, there are many ways to be a writer. Some people need quiet, some need to be writing around other people.
We all have to find the way to give birth that is best for us. There is no one size fits all approach to writing.
Have you found your own path to honoring the cravings and soul of your writing?
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Dennis Muren has been at the forefront of modern-day visual effects in moviesfor about twenty-six years. He started on nothing less than one of the mostinfluential F/X movies of all time, "Star Wars" and has sincecollected nine Oscar trophies for his work in the field. Now Ang Lee has chargedMuren and his team at Industrial Light and Magic with the most daunting task ofall, turning a CGI special effect into the lead character of the dramatic actionmovie, "Hulk"
Muren recently sat down with the press to talk about his work as VisualEffects Supervisor on the movie. At the roundtable interview, members of the press took turns asking questionsabout the development of the film. Comics2Film/CBR News is please to presentthis edited transcript of that interview.
Q: You've gotten so many Oscars. Where do you put them all?
Dennis Muren (DM): They're sort of all over the place: families, friends.
Q: You give them away?
DM: I give them away, loan them, they're kind of all over.
Q: Do you give them to friends or people who worked on the movie?
DM: Well, I don't give them away but they but they can have them for a while.My mom.
Q: When you win eight, does it get old? Was there one that was especiallysurprising?
DM: You gotta get dressed up. You gotta get the tux. You gotta fly down. Youknow, it' tiring. I won eight but I've had like fifteen nominations or somethinglike that, so I've gone to so many of them, but it's always fun.
Q: But what about those big gift baskets?
DM: Well, there's beautiful little gold Oscars that you get. You know,they're chocolate.
Q: We keep hearing what an artist, what a genius Ang Lee is. You started outworking for George Lucas. Would you compare the two?
DM: They're very different but they're both similar in that they're bothpassionate about what they do. They're both very reasonable men and they're nottyrants or anything like that.
They're deep thinkers and they're committed, so they'll put the hours in todo the work, and you can see it.
Q: Does the director just sketch out a little story board and expect you tofill it in, or is there more?
DM: Some do that. Ang doesn't do that.
Ang didn't even use storyboards at the start of the film. He eventually didsome.
He moved in with us, from New York for nine months, northern California.
Q: Up in San Francisco?
DM: North of San Francisco.
Q: Was this kind of frightening to have somebody close and looking over yourshoulder?
DM: We'd normally just do our work, but this is like the star of the movie,like the title star of "Hulk" and no director should ever delegate theperformance to anyone other than themselves.
It is a director's medium and I've always followed a director. If you look atthe films I've picked I've looked at the director first and the script second.That's why I wanted to work with Ang.
Ang Lee's gonna do a comic book? What the heck? This gonna be pretty neat andit's got effects in it so I can work on it. And it fit.
He would be in there every single day. We also set up the editorial staff, soTim Squyres, the editor, moved out from New York also for nine months. The soundguys were at Skywalker sound. It was all there, within a block of each other. Iwas all great, there in northern California.
So Ang would spend probably three hours a day at ILM going over dailies allthe time, and then jump over with Tim and work the editing and stuff.
Q: Can you talk about the first meetings with Ang, in particular with how itrelates to CG being such a new part of his vocabulary?
DM: Ang didn't really know much about effects at all, at the beginning. Hewasn't terribly interested in how to do it. He wanted flexibility and didn'twant to have restraints from a guy in a suit, which would never work today, orrobotic thing, which would be limited, or something. He really wanted ...the guywho jumps three miles and the guy can run 100 miles an hour and he's fifteenfeet tall.
So CG gave him --
Q: You could have a real guy jump. We saw Tobey fly in Spider-Man. Whycouldn't you use a real actor to play the role?
DM: Well Tobey's hanging from his web, so it makes total sense in the film,but our guy is supposed to do it from his own strength.
Q: But couldn't you do that with an actor?
DM: You probably could have done something like that, but then you would haveended up with ...you would have had the shape of a character that would havelooked more like a person. The design that they came up with is more comic bookthan a Lou Ferrigno.
So you've got this comic guy...just look at him. He's got massive hands. He'sgot massive feet and it's not a body builder. There's nothing like that in himthat looks like a body builder.
No matter what you did, if you tried to get a person in that shape orsomething, it would look like a person. I think after about ten minutes it wouldbe pretty dull. You wouldn't be seeing anything new.
Ang was looking for flexibility and he also really like to direct. He lovesto direct. He did all sorts of takes on the actors and he did all sorts of takeswith our animators, so he could practically direct every little eye-lash if itwas important to get that moment across.
Q: Did you use a lot of new techniques and new software for this?
DM: There's a bunch of new stuff. There's always something new. We startedwith the stuff, for the skin, a lot of stuff we developed for "Harry Potter2", with the little Dobby character in that, to get the nice translucencyon the skin and get it to look like.
Then we had, the green caused a lot problems because your eye went right tohim. You wouldn't look at Jennifer. You're looking at this green, fifteen-foottall guy. So we backed off on the color and had to get him integrated in thefilm differently than what we had hoped. We wanted him to be a real vivid green,and it just over powered everything.
Then we got into programs on muscular things, so we didn't have to animatethe muscles by hand. The muscles would actually, if he was twisting, you knowthe bone structure, you could see that moving underneath the skin and allthat.
We ended up using the muscles almost as his voice. He didn't talk, but youneeded to see what he was feeling. He could do it with his body posture. Hecould do it with his facial expressions, but he could also do it with how beefedup he was.
So if he's just dealing with Jennifer, hiding behind a tree and sort ofdiscovered there, like a kid caught getting candy out of a cookie jar, we keptthe muscles down, really relaxed. So he looked softer and all.
Yet when he's in the desert, fighting everybody and lifting up a tank orsomething like that he really looked beefed up. So that became his voice. Itreally contributed a lot to it.
Q: Is the software all proprietary?
DM: No. We've got Alias, RenderMan, Softimage. We just really like stuffthat's got hooks in it. We deal with all the companiesto be able to can get our own stuff into it.
There was a lot of simulations that were done in this. Like when he jumps outof the helicopter and he brings it down, spiraling down. A lot of simulations onthat.
And a lot of simulations we got for the skin detail so we'd be able to getall the pores on the skin correct. That was more proprietary software than theother stuff.
Q: Did you model this character on a specific version of the comic book Hulk?
DM: You know the modeling was done down here and it was done by RickHeindrichs, who was the production designer, working with Ang and with Avi andall those guys. They did it.
We originally came up with some designs that were much more human. Theydidn't really want to go with that. They wanted to go with something that wasmore comic book.
Q: If they went with a human looking character they could go with a realperson.
DM: Yeah. I actually thought with Ang, he might want to go that way. It couldbe more of a human Hulk and maybe do it with somebody.
All the time he's balancing. He's Ang Lee and he's also doing a comic book.The movie becomes pretty Ang-y for the first two thirds, and then givesthe comic book people what they want, for the end of it. So he was going forsomething else.
Q: You've been referred to the father of this generation of modern effects.Joel Silver keeps saying, with "The Matrix: Reloaded" that it'schanging the way films are being made. Is there really anything different goingon now with so much more CGI? And we also see some filmmakers touting their"real" effects over CGI. So can you talk about that?
DM: We've been doing digital doubles since "Jurassic Park" andthat's kind of what's in the "The Matrix" stuff. Kind of, but they'redeciding their camera moves later on, and it's neat to be able to do that. It'sbecoming much more of a game.
We looked at that sort of stuff and is there any place in this film for any ofthat sort of stuff? No. It's not at all appropriate for this film. It works inthat type of film, because you're in the computer, so you can do all that stuff.
I don't think the day will come, or should come, when you've got a virtualworld, that you have real, emoting actors in, that you are using huge amounts ofmoney to move the camera into different positions.
Somebody may see it. I don't see it. I don't think that story sounds like agood story to tell. I love the visuals and I love looking at them. I thinkthat's really neat.
Q: Can you talk about the dog scene?
DM: That was one of the most important sequences to Ang. We started way, wayback on that, almost two years ago, going to wrestling matches, going to extremesports...what's that thing called where they put the guys in cages?
There was some sport like that, that was right here in the Burbank airport wewent to with video cameras, to see the visceral feeling of people and animals orwhatever, that are really enraged and how they're trying to defend themselves.We spent a lot of time studying animals and people to come up with that.
And we did an animatic of it, a real crude version of it to kind of work outthe blocking of it. We did some hand animation and an awful lot of real motioncapture with real dogs. So we got real dogs in.
We found some trainers, for these hunting dogs, and brought them in and letthe trainers know the shots we were doing and gave them a couple of weeks tocome up with these ideas that Ang had had for performances, that were prettyvivid. We put motion sensors on them and used them for probably two thirds ofthe motions on it.
Then we had to modify it to get it to work. It's all CG and really one of myfavorite sequences. I really like the look of it, being kind of a rough, organicdocumentary look to the sequence, and it's all dark and moody.
Q: We heard there was a big debate about whether or not the Hulk was going tobe nude.
DM: Originally it was going to be in that sequence.
I still think we could have done that with careful lighting and stuff likethat, but it just became too tricky and it just became easier to put someremnants of tattered clothes on him and then only at the end does he really loseall his clothes, but then he's hidden behind the car and you can't see it.
But yeah, we had a lot of talks about that and the pants and how do theystretch and all that sort of stuff. A lot of discussions.
And we did artwork and how tight it is, how tight the shorts are.
Q: But you're no stranger to creating creatures and stuff like that.
DM: That's true. But we haven't gotten much into sexual things before in thiswork, and we're getting there in this film.
Q: What was the most ridiculous conversation you had about this character?
DM: It probably was about the pants. We went on and on and on about that andwhat are we going to do with it? With him? What parts of him change and don'tchange and stuff like that.
Q: Purple and green work well. Were purple pants decided on because of thecomic books?
DM: Yeah, I think so.
Q: What do you look for in a director?
DM: Someone whose films I want to go see, that's going to do somethingdifferent. Or a different take on effects.
When I read the first script for "Star Wars," and I was over at afriend's house reading it, I said, "This movie is nuts. It's reallyexciting." It's like "The Wizard of Oz" and with all the running throughthe corridors and you've got this big dog and you've got these robots and I waslike, "what the heck's going on," and it's like a war movie...
And that was totally different. There was nothing like that around and it'sjust interesting. I'm not interested in seeing something I've seen before.
Q: What about Chewbacca coming back. Is that exciting?
DM: You mean coming back now? For the third one?
Q: Yeah.
DM: I didn't know that. See, you know more than me. I didn't know that.
Q: So you're not working on them any more?
DM: Oh, I've just been immersed in this film.
Q: Do you know what you're doing next?
DM: Vacation. I don't even think about what's coming up until I'm working onthe film.
"I've just got to get this done and keep my mind on this show."
Q: When did you finish the visuals on "Hulk"
DM: Two weeks ago.
Q: And you started two years earlier?
DM: Yeah. And we got this done on time. We had the chance to go back and redosome early shots that we'd done. It went real well.


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DK: There is a strong representation of female butchers in the guild. Have you seen an increase of women entering the profession recently?
MG: Yes. Every day there are more women. And many of the women I know are interested in problem-solving, collaboration, and systems-thinking, which means they are shaping the industry.
DK: The theme of this year's Butcher's Guild Conference was "The Future of Meat." What trends or ideas in butchering are exciting to you right now and how do you see butchery evolving in the future?
MG: Changes in meat have a long arc because it takes a lot of time and money to build infrastructure. I'm excited about the progress of what we have been working on for years—the preservation of the craft of butchery, including the preservation and preparation of meat. Butchers keep local food systems viable.
DK: What kitchen tool do you think every RENDER reader should own?
MG: Good knife, naturally! And a dutch oven. And a pressure cooker! A great cutting board. A record player. A glass of red wine.
DK: Anything else you'd like to share with our readers?
MG: Cooking is revolutionary and beautiful. Making food in your home will naturally increase your health, your connections, and your pleasure.


text: The Artist Project Andy Musser December 15, 2012 A few months back, I was introduced to Jen and Chris Creed through mutual friends. Jen and Chris are photographers who work out of Nashville and in addition to their commercial clients they're working on a side project featuring artist. Much to my delight, they asked me if I wanted to be part of it. So when they're visiting in November I got to hang out with them, talk art, and feel like a movie star as they photographed me going about my daily routine. Check out all the photos on The Artist Project website. Jen and Chris are swell folks, I had a grande old time visiting with them. They also took some fine looking photographs! Thanks, amigos!


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Thief of Lies by Brenda Drake
Thief of Lies by Brenda Drake
Series: Library Jumpers #1
On Sale Date: January 5th 2016
Young Adult, Fantasy & Magic
Entangled Teen, 400 pages
Source: Publisher
My Rating: 3.5 Stars
Gia Kearns would rather fight with boys than kiss them. That is, until Arik, a leather clad hottie in the Boston Athenaeum, suddenly disappears. While examining the book of world libraries he abandoned, Gia unwittingly speaks the key that sucks her and her friends into a photograph and transports them into a Paris library, where Arik and his Sentinels—magical knights charged with protecting humans from the creatures traveling across the gateway books—rescue them from a demonic hound.
Jumping into some of the world's most beautiful libraries would be a dream come true for Gia, if she weren't busy resisting her heart or dodging an exiled wizard seeking revenge on both the Mystik and human worlds. Add a French flirt obsessed with Arik and a fling with a young wizard, and Gia must choose between her heart and her head, between Arik's world and her own, before both are destroyed.
THIEF OF LIES is the first book in author Brenda Drake's young adult series, the Library Jumpers. Readers are swept into the world where libraries are used as a mean of transportation and will find themselves leaping across gorgeous libraries, joining magic knights as they fight dangerous creatures that threaten to spill over into the human realm.
Who can resist a story featuring beautiful libraries as the settings for some fun and magical happenings - I know I couldn't. There're jumps from Boston to Paris, Dublin and even as far as Portugal before all is said and done. Each with yummy details for book and library lovers to devour.
I enjoyed getting to know Gia's character. She's a likable YA heroine - curious, snarky, daring, yet also practical - she realizes when she can't solve every problem (yay, for realistic teens.) As a fellow book nerd, it was easy to connect with her. I liked that she wasn't (completely) overrun emotionally by a cute guy, as Brenda Drake sent more than one her way. A diverse cast of characters, including some great best friends, also made this a fun read, adding humor and danger when needed.
There's a touch of romance and a few swoony moments in between all those jumps to enjoy. Though, I would have liked a bit more build up (romantic tension) between Gia and her love interest. It does seem like the future may hold some romantic complications, with love-triangle possibilities, but for the most part, I liked both guys with Gia having strong feelings for just one of them.
Thief of Lies boasts a strong beginning for what seems a series with lots of fascinating possibilities. Drake did a great job with this series opener. The world building left me curious with its magic globes and magical system. I'm eager to visit the next installment of the Library Jumpers. A fun and enjoyable start to a new series!


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Craftsy Pattern Shop
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Craftsy allows pattern designers to upload and sell their patterns from a personalized pattern shop for free! These are downloadable patterns so you once you buy them, you can instantly download them and get to creating!
Craftsy is a really great company. In addition to taking tons of classes, I love the fabric they offer! The pattern shops are just another great service this company is doing for the art and craft community. Check out the Crafty Cat Studio pattern shop or view the "My Patterns on Craftsy" widget in the right side bar to see what I've got for sale right now.
The patterns up in my shop are the redesigned versions of the patterns I made while working at Sew Many Blocks. They've been updated, refreshed and now rereleased under my new business title Crafty Cat Studio! Right now you'll find four patterns for sale which include:
Fractured Triangle Bag
This pattern has been my top seller! It's a clever bag design that is made with two fat quarters. It's fun to make and a beginner friendly pattern. Make one for yourself or as a gift! My local guild has made and sold these for their fair booth two years in a row so far and they sell out quickly. I love seeing my designs enjoyed by so many people!
Modern Card Holder
A versatile and functional card holder design. Make one to hold your business cards, shopping cards, or coupons.
This pattern was created because I needed a card holder for my business cards. I wanted something compact, it finishes at 4" x 2" folded, and quick to make. I also love it if I can use up scraps on small projects like this so this pattern is very scrap friendly! I also made it compatible with the AccuQuilt GO! fabric cutting system, but the instructions for traditional rotary cutting are included as well.
Tumbling Fun Baby Blanket
I needed a baby blanket for a friend's first baby and I love tumblers so this pattern was born. I picked out some really cute baby fabric and set out playing with layouts. This blanket works well in the crib or on the child's first bed. I wanted it to be big enough so it could be used for awhile but also cuddly and easy to clean. I kept the quilting simple and used flannel on the back! The finished size is 43" x 49". This is also an AccuQuilt GO! friendly pattern, but I also include a template for the tumbler shape so you can make it without the special cutting system.
Cats Squared Table Topper
Add a bit of fun to any room with these cute cats adorning your wall or table! Save your furniture from the pet hair or fill it with catnip for a fun toy. Make one for your child to cuddle with. Its small size means you can take it anywhere!
This pattern was a bit of fun I decided to make for my cats. They were needing new blankets and I wanted to make something that was a bit more interesting than the usual square. I started playing with abstract cat shapes and ended up with this fun pattern. I liked it so much when I was done that it ended up on my dining room table as a table topper instead of as the cats' new blanket. I ended up making a few more so my cats could each have one too.
This is also an AccuQuilt GO! friendly pattern and the rotary instructions are included as well.
New Patterns
Now that I'm done with these rereleases, I can get back to my new patterns. I have several new patterns in various stages of completion and I'll let you know when they are ready for you to enjoy! So keep any eye on my blog!
* Crafty Cat Studio is an affiliate of Craftsy. If you click on the provided links and purchasing an item, Crafty Cat Studio will receive an affiliate commission. However, I only recommend products and services I use personally and believe will add value to you, my readers.


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Special Prayers
The Firefighter's Prayer
Oh Lord, please help this firefighterTo
be skillful and brave.Please let me never falterWhen there are lives to save.
Be with my fellow firefightersAnd
ride with us each run,From the moment we "suit-up"Until the job is done.
Be with me as I guide a childThrough
the dark and smokey hazeGive me strength and courageAs I fight the deadly blaze.
Lord, I put my safety in your hands,But in the chaos and the strife,Help me act with selfless courageGod,
just let me save a life.
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Bob Woodward accepts 4th Estate Award for lifetime achievement in journalism
September 22, 2012 | By Will Lester | firstname.lastname@example.com
Bob Woodward accepted the Fourth Estate Award for lifetime achievement in journalism Friday night, four decades after his investigative reporting on the Watergate scandal disrupted the first event honoring Walter Cronkite.
Press Club President Theresa Werner described the scene at the Club's first Fourth Estate Award honoring CBS Newsman Cronkite in 1973 when reporter after reporter left the celebration as news of the "Saturday night massacre" broke. President Richard Nixon had fired the Watergate special prosecutor and the attorney general and deputy attorney general resigned in protest.
That development followed months of reporting by Woodward and Carl Bernstein at The Washington Post about the Nixon administration's role in a burglary at the Watergate and a subsequent cover up.
Woodward's colleagues at the Post told of his unmatched work ethic that led to what author and Post Associate Editor David Maraniss called "a sustained act of investigative journalism" not likely to be matched. Maraniss said that in the era of blogs, Twitter and Instagram it was more important than ever to practice Woodward's brand of tireless journalism.
Donald Graham, chief executive and chairman of The Washington Post, said many people who achieved success and fame at such an early age would have "kicked back." But he noted that Woodward has since written 17 books, 12 of them best-sellers.
"The measure of a reporter's life is not how many prizes has he won, how much money has he made," Graham said. The measure, Graham said, is how much his readers have learned.
Katharine Weymouth, publisher of The Washington Post, recalled that when she was growing up that "for a long time I wasn't sure whether Bob was Robert Redford or Robert Redford was Bob." Redford played Woodward in the movie "All The President's Men."
She noted: "There is one man who strikes fear in the hearts of leaders everywhere and that man is Bob Woodward."
George Solomon, a longtime Post colleague and now director of the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism at the University of Maryland, recalled how Woodward would always get his way when dealing with the boss. He started the conversation with "you're a great editor" and he "always got what he wanted."
After all the tributes, Woodward told of how he was once called by a man claiming to be the representative of a Saudi arms dealer whose gave his name as something like "Averell Fullsday." Woodward went to his scheduled lunch on April 1st. He dined alone that day.And he showed a slideshow of famous photos where Woodward's image is always present in the background of history, like the Woody Allen character Zelig.
Woodward's coverage of Watergate and his subsequent work have been credited with inspiring a whole generation of journalists.
And he's still at it, Weymouth said. One comment from Woodward captures his relentless drive, she said: "Every morning I wake and think, 'what are the bastards trying to hide today.'"


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Do you ever wish your children thought of others more? Perhaps they don't know what that looks like, so here's a challenge: Serve and Volunteer together as a family. When you lead your family to serve together, you are actively showing them how to think of others more and yourself less. You are saying it is a priority for us to be involved in building others up. If most of our family time revolves around TV, vacation, or other entertainment, we may be showing them how to serve themselves. Make a conscious effort today to serve others together. For ideas and other resources visit my blog at WeSellBCS.com.
Here are several ideas for you and your family to serve others together:
- Visit the elderly in nursing homes (build relationships)
- Invite one of the many international students in Bryan College Station over for dinner
- Visit at a hospital
- Do a community garage sale for charity
- Prayer walk
- Help transport others to events (especially those without a car)
- Do a board game night at a homeless shelter (build relationships)
- Mow the lawn for a disabled or elderly person
- Volunteer at the food pantry
- Serve food at a local soup kitchen
- Look for needs everywhere and find creative ways to meet them
- Host a backyard movie night in your neighborhood
- Go on a mission trip together
In general, it all comes down to looking for needs and filling them together. If you will train your children to think this way, their entire life outlook will be altered forever. So how should you start?
- As parents, come up with some options for your entire family to be involved in.
- Discuss the options with your children and pray for God to show you where to serve and to supply all you need to do it.
- Go!
- Discuss the experience as a family and remember to build reationships and follow-up. It's about people, not just doing something once to feel good.
- Thank God for allowing you to serve Him and ask him to show you the needs of those around you and how you can serve.


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- DNA replication, epigenetics and stem cells
- Telomeres, genomic instability, aging and cancer
- Genetic analysis using single cell Strand-seq
Asymmetric cell divisions are essential for the development of all multicellular organisms. Many mechanisms are known to help secure differences in cell fate between daughter cells following the division of a parental stem cell. We are interested in possibility that programmed epigenetic differences between sister chromatids contribute to gene expression differences during development [1]. Such differences may arise when the deposition of parental nucleosomes onto replicated DNA following replication is asymmetric because replication of one of the DNA template strands is delayed because the replisome encounters a problem on one of the template strands. Strand-specific DNA replication problems are not theoretical. We showed in 2002 that the replication of guanine-rich DNA requires a specialized helicase, which we called Dog-1 for Deletion of guanine-rich DNA [2]. We subsequently identified RTEL1 in the mouse as a major regulator of telomere length [3]. DOG-1 (aka FANCJ) and RTEL1 are iron-sulfur cluster helicase proteins that can unwind secondary structures of guanine-rich DNA called guanine quadruplex (G4) structures [4]. G4 structures were recently shown to regulate gene expression [5]. The presence and role of G4 structures at specific genomic locations as well as the enzymes required for resolving G4 structures in genome stability, gene expression and differentiation are areas of special interest. For such studies we recently developed techniques to identify and study sister chromatids in single cells [6, 7]. Current studies in the Lansdorp lab focus on three questions that can only (!) be answered using our single cell sequencing technique called Strand-seq [8]:
1) Investigate the molecular mechanisms that regulate stem cell self-renewal and differentiation. By combining single cell Strand-seq with the analysis of transcripts in the same cell we are addressing an aspect of stem cell biology that has not been subject to experimentation before.
2) Elucidate molecular mechanisms involved in DNA repair and epigenetic asymmetry between sister chromatids. By mapping the location of sister chromatid exchange events [9], genome copy number variations [10], polymorphic inversions [11] and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) events [12], we have a unique capability to study DNA events at the level of single cells. Studies with cells before and after specific genetic alterations are providing new insight in cancer, specific diseases and aging.
3) Map polymorphic inversions in human chromosomes [11] and combine this information with haplotype information [12] to generate completely phased "personalized genomes" for "precision medicine". Ongoing studies have revealed that Strand-seq by itself, but especially in combination with other sequencing approaches, yields unprecedented precise information about individual genomes. Apart from proof of principle studies we are exploring better ways to increase the throughput and decrease the cost of our methods.
- Lansdorp, P.M., Immortal strands? Give me a break. Cell, 2007. 129(7): p. 1244-7.
- Cheung, I., et al., Disruption of dog-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans triggers deletions upstream of guanine-rich DNA. Nat Genet, 2002. 31(4): p. 405-9.
- Ding, H., et al., Regulation of murine telomere length by Rtel: an essential gene encoding a helicase-like protein. Cell, 2004. 117(7): p. 873-86.
- Bharti, S.K., et al., Specialization among iron-sulfur cluster helicases to resolve G-quadruplex DNA structures that threaten genomic stability. J Biol Chem, 2013. 288(39): p. 28217-29.
- Papadopoulou, C., et al., Nucleotide Pool Depletion Induces G-Quadruplex-Dependent Perturbation of Gene Expression. Cell Rep, 2015. 13(11): p. 2491-503.
- Falconer, E., et al., Identification of sister chromatids by DNA template strand sequences. Nature, 2010. 463(7277): p. 93-7.
- Falconer, E., et al., DNA template strand sequencing of single-cells maps genomic rearrangements at high resolution. Nat Methods, 2012. 9(11): p. 1107-12.
- Falconer, E. and P.M. Lansdorp, Strand-seq: a unifying tool for studies of chromosome segregation. Semin Cell Dev Biol, 2013. 24(8-9): p. 643-52.
- van Wietmarschen, N. and P.M. Lansdorp, Bromodeoxyuridine does not contribute to sister chromatid exchange events in normal or Bloom syndrome cells. Nucleic Acids Res, 2016. 44(14): p. 6787-93.
- Bakker, B., et al., Single-cell sequencing reveals karyotype heterogeneity in murine and human malignancies. Genome Biol, 2016. 17(1): p. 115.
- Sanders, A.D., et al., Characterizing polymorphic inversions in human genomes by single-cell sequencing. Genome Res, 2016. 26(11): p. 1575-1587.
- Porubsky, D., et al., Direct chromosome-length haplotyping by single-cell sequencing. Genome Res, 2016. 26(11): p. 1565-1574.


text: [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBTM-2369?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Michael Musgrove resolved JBTM-2369. ------------------------------------ Resolution: Done > Include output of the hardware used when reporting benchmark results > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: JBTM-2369 > URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBTM-2369 > Project: JBoss Transaction Manager > Issue Type: Task > Components: Performance Testing > Reporter: Tom Jenkinson > Assignee: Michael Musgrove > Fix For: 5.next > > > Anything we can get from the OS would be useful. If we can't get vendor and spec automatically we will need to identify these manually and maybe have a document somewhere that we can link to in the results. > e.g. ran on haverstraw, haverstraw spec is http://narayana.io/perfmachinespecs/haverstraw.html > Or something like that. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)


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I passed Christmas Eve 2009 lying in bed, in pajamas, from dawn until dusk, reading adoption and infertility blogs. After reading two years of posts from one specific blog I wrote a comment that went something like "Thank you. I've just spent Christmas Eve with you/your blog archive. I'm so sad, can't get out of bed, etc etc." That must have REALLY made the author's holiday merry and bright. (By the way I didn't know her at all.)
This Christmas Eve there was no time for pajamas and blogs and wallowing in self-pity.
This Christmas Eve there was a tiny striped sweater dress filled by a tiny excited girl who couldn't stop jumping on the chair and laughing.
There were candles, carols and cookies at church.
And potato crab soup for dinner.
There were grandparents with gifts.
Fresh owl pajamas. And a complex play kitchen to assemble.
It went by too quickly. I would have liked to make it last until midnight. But there is only so much you can ask of an 18 month old. After dinner we could only get through a very rapid round of Away in a Manger and the fastest version of the Night Before Christmas ever read before someone had to be packed off to bed.
The next morning Ariam received far more presents than she currently knows what to do with. Most are packed back into her closet for future boring afternoons. Two talking/moving babies, a baby stroller, and a gigantic play kitchen topped her favorites list. (She took her mothering/cooking job very seriously as you can see from the photo below. J says we set the feminist movement back at least a hundred years.)
Daddy received a grill. Ariam was very helpful.
Last year my baby was spending her last days of 2009...somewhere else. Not with our family. Not yet in Addis Ababa. I wonder who else is thinking of her this week.
(Notice her eyeing the kitchen set? She couldn't be bothered to smile for a group pic.)


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How to integrate Hubot with Rocket.Chat
i am reading github Rchat hubot adapter installation instruction from https://github.com/RocketChat/hubot-rocketchat
i still couldn't completely understand how to integrate Hubot to RChat.
All i need to do is to install Hubot and Add adapter to hubot? I am running Rchat on Digital Ocean Ubuntu 14.04 right now. What else do i need to do ?
Is there a document/tutorial that lays out all the steps in terms of how to integrate hubot to Rchat?
Thanks in advance!


text: The user-friendly Prism™ Mini is a reliable, compact, and economical personal microcentrifuge ideal for quick spins that can be used for a wide range of molecular biology protocols. Prism™ Mini works out of the box with a maintenance-free drive system and advanced design providing quiet operation and proper ventilation protecting temperature-sensitive samples. Prism™ Mini includes two (2) quick release interchangeable rotors with a max speed up to 6000 RPM.