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Working with people is a crucial skill all entrepreneurs must have as it forms the basis of their success. At school you will come across scores of people who you have to deal with- You may or may not like most of them. You learn to adapt to the situation and it improves your networking skills.
In life there is competition everywhere. There is absolutely no field where success is a piece of cake. In school there will be healthy competition in academics and sports. In school, you learn how to face people, work hard and even accept failures.
Time is something that can be never recycled; it is a lost jewel that once gone is gone forever and also remember- Time is money. At school we have projects to complete and deadlines to meet. We learn how to cope with these parameters set up.
Every one is criticized once in a while. Some people just cannot take it in the right spirit. At school you will get criticized many times for the smallest of things. Thus you will learn to handle it and take in the right spirit.
At school, you may have failures and not be successful at all times. The same is going to happen in the future. 98% of all start-ups fail in the very first year, chances are yours will too. So school will teach you how to handle failures and start afresh. One quote that comes to my mind right now- "Failure is the stepping stone to success"
The article is short but I hope I have got my point across clearly. My message to all budding entrepreneurs is, please take your education seriously and never think of giving it up. Schools and all education institutions play a very vital role.
Hope you enjoyed reading this post. Have any more points to share? What do you think? Please feel free to comment below.
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Great comment! I loved it.Absolutely right that you don't need an MBA to start a business. Actually, I advise to take a MBA only after you have some experience in the market, as employee or as entrepreneur.As I said, the MBA may help to facilitate the solutions of some problems or in some cases may not help, but as you said, it does open your perspectives much wider.
A formal eduction is absolutely imperative for one to have entrepreneural success. Even though there have been the rare examples of dropouts going on to big successes, in today's super competitive environment, you just cannot afford to be lacking an education.
Till then,
You make a great point here Jean.
yes it couldn't be better for sack
Proper formal eduction is absolutely imperative for one to have entrepreneural success. Even though there have been the rare examples of dropouts going on to big successes, in today's super competitive environment, you just cannot afford to be lacking an education.
Till then,
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I would have have to agree with you
I love these lists. I myself have two degrees none of which I use. It just goes to show you that it takes more motivation and just getting things done than brains to make it in this world.
I too have a degree which I don't think will come into use anymore. Shame about all that time wasted in studying for that but you never know.
Till then,
Jean, although you may not use your schooling directly, I'm sure you have learned some life skills or matured as a person. Don't think of it as a waste but as a learning experience.
I guess you're right, Laptop. In the grand scheme of things in life, every bit of learning or experience is but another drop in the bucket.
Till then,
It doesn't matter where you learn all that matters is that you continue to learn and grow.
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Despite the facts listed over, there also entrepreneurs who has become successful without attending a school.
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There are many people who didn't need college to succeed. You do make valid points on some of the things you learn in college but you can learn those lessons elsewhere as well.
Yes there are many other places you can learn similar lessons as you would at school. Many people choose to learn those lessons traveling the world or going into business. Some people just need further maturing before going out and doing things like that responsibly.
Yes you are right. But some don't need to go to school they have just been told all their life that, that is what they are supposed to so. I am in no way saying you shouldn't go to college. If you can go to school do it is isn't a waste of your time it will only help you in the end. But it isn't for everyone.
I am sorry, I do have to disagree here. My father had 3 degrees, and his chosen path did not involve using any of them, but he had knowledge. I believe the cliche that knowledge is power. I know you do not use everything you learn in school, but it is a necessity. By learning to learn, you will soak up more information just by forcing yourself to do well in classes that you see no point in.
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the main reason for me would be that school is a great place to meet business partners and future costumers
A very nice story of how 3 girls with a zeal to study further negotiated and got a school to upgrade.
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I think this is an important point. We drum it into our kids that they have to go to school,study hard, go to university, study hard, get a great job, work long hours. We fail to tell them to do what they love even if it involves leaving school at 16.
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Your right about that. It is important to back up our kids and push them to strive for what they love. Not everyone needs school to be successful, but it doesn't hurt to have it either.
So, Now I will also pay attention towardsstudy
I loved it.Absolutely right that you don't need an MBA to start a business. 😀
Our goal is to create more entrepreneurs, and it's not clear that is happening. Consider the following related graph of outplacement agency data.
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@Car audio electronics, why is that our goal or is that your companies goal? Kinda of confused.
Great post. Now, I must concentrate on my studies.
I agree, I graduated from college with my BA in English. Even though I created my own start-up, the lessons I learned from college gave me the discipline and knowledge to really stick it through the rough times.
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Hi there an entrepreneur here and I agree with everything you said here. I strongly recommend school to everyone,, the only thing that maybe a lot of entrepreneurs like me that hate about school is that schools never teach students how to manage their finances.
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these are all valid reasons but it isn't impossible to do with out. While that is not what I am suggesting I just believe some people have to make and find there own way no matter how easy or difficult the path may be.
I have this to not be true and even in a few different areas. While working for an attorney, she said law school was worthless and to study the state code. The only thing it taught her was to write and she taught me that. I almost went for the bar and took classes to prep for it after studying state code. I did very well, but went another direction.
I still can not truly agree with this
I wish you would post some more great articles
I agree 100%! I wish someone had told me this before, I run my own business for about a year now and currently still going to school. There are a lot of things we all still need to learn and going to school might teach you that one thing you need to be a successful entrepreneur. I highly recommend not to skip out on it.
could not have said it better myself
Even entrepreneurs need a little bit of higher education to succeed in their future!
Every entrepreneur need some higher education to succeed in their future!
Your right about that. its fully important to back up our kids and push them to strive for what they love. Not everyone needs school to be acomplished, but it doesn't hurt to have it either.
An MBA is not required in order to be an entrepreneur, basic knowledge and honing your observing skills is. As an entrepreneur you should be able to determine which product best suits your customers and which ones they don't. Analyzing why this service is much preferred while the other is not. These skills are developed in school thus, making it important in becoming a successful businessman.
Great article your writing is inspirational.
I think it all depends on what you want to do, college isn't necessary for everyone, but it is for most.
frankly, I don't think there is any should or shouldn't, it's a case by case basis.
Although good in theory, I would recommend every attend school not just entrepenuers.
While I understand your position, school it isn't always necessary, but it does help.
My university actually had an 'entrepreneurship' major!
I think formal schooling has it's place it can be both a positive or a negative depending on the teachers. I see to many people indoctrinated but then maybe i would spell better.
Ya I agree your points. If we studied well means only our future will get bright.
While you ,make some great points I don't agree with all of them.
school is certainly good for that foundational knowledge. but you will learn 10x more after school
While I do believe school is very important for success, I won't necessarily say entrepreneurs must attend school. School is very important and increases your chances of success but no necessarily a prerequisite.
Your right about that. its exceedingly important to back up our young people and push them to strive for what they adore. Not everyone needs school to be successful, but it doesn't hurt to have it either.
This is a very good post, particularly because I love to read lists because they are much more concise and to the point, but also because it really speaks about who an entrepreneur is at their core. If I had to pick one characteristic that I found to be the most profound and helpful, I would pick the last one without a doubt. I truly believe that in order to be successful, a person need to allow themself to fail, and be able to rise above the "failure," because they are now just that much closer to success!
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These are the main concept for the being an experience like the generous person .so that i thing this is the necessary step for the development .
Great points you have made here. Very interesting information. While I don't necessarily agree with you on all points still it's an interesting thought.
Well what I think is that education is important but I am not agree with all steps that you have shared here. For example, you can take the example of bill gate. He hasn't graduate yet and see where is he standing.
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I agree that attending school can really make a difference in your whole attitude. I would wholeheartedly recommend it for all new entrepreneurs.
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We enjoyed a marathon Guitar Hero 2 on the 360 session at my house last night, and my friends had a great time. The issue of cost came up, but when I told them how much the game ran, there was some surprise. I think they may have re-appraised their buying plans somewhat: the game with an extra guitar runs $150. I think it's worth it, but that's a significant outlay of cash for any game. If we can believe Gamestop's early pricing though, it will be nothing compared to Rock Band. Let's take a look at what Gamestop is claiming the pricing will be:
- Rock Band (the standalone game?) - $60
- Guitar Controller - $60-$80 wired or wireless respectively (multiply by 2 for guitar and bass)
- Drum Set - $80
- Microphone - $40
Let's assume that you buy two guitars to handle guitar and bass: if you'd like a full set up of instruments, wired, it will run you $300. That's if you want the full set, but I think that most people will divvy up instruments among their friends. I expect few people outside of fanatics like myself to buy one of each. The good news is that, according to the Rock Band forums, your existing Guitar Hero controllers for the 360 will work on Rock Band. That is very welcome news and means that we'll be able to knock off $120 from that $300 price if you already own Guitar Hero 2 on the 360. Whether you'll be able to use the PS2 controllers on the PS3 is still an unknown.
Of course, Jason Booth also hinted at new features on the Rock Band guitars, so we'll see if using our existing controllers is going to mean we lose out on functionality.

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Reading 3: A Place for the Living--Leisure, Learning, and Mourning
Mount Auburn Cemetery became a sightseeing destination as thousands of visitors from Europe and other American cities roamed its winding paths and wrote about its attractions. Many visitors were so impressed by the beauty and many features of the place that they returned home intent on creating similar cemeteries. Within 15 years, nine major cemeteries were patterned after Mount Auburn: Laurel Hill in Philadelphia (1836); Green-Wood in Brooklyn, Mount Hope in Rochester, and Green Mount in Baltimore (1838); Albany Rural in Albany (1841); Allegheny in Pittsburgh, and Spring Grove in Cincinnati (1844); and Elmwood in Detroit and Swan Point in Providence (1846). By 1849, the Auburn model had reached the Mississippi River (Bellefontaine in St. Louis), and by 1863, the west coast (Mountain View in Oakland). Closer to home, Mount Auburn inspired the spread of rural cemeteries throughout New England in the 1840s and 1850s. The rural cemetery concept had clearly struck a chord that vibrated throughout the nation.
Mount Auburn Cemetery provided its visitors passive, educational recreation. Couples frequented the cemetery for courtship walks. Visitors were thrilled by the beauty and mystery of the landscape and intrigued by the emotional verses and images engraved on the monuments. Teachers urged youth to visit the cemetery to learn from the praise-worthy lives of heroes buried there and to gain goals for their own lives.
Many people went to Mount Auburn simply to find relief from the increasingly hectic life of the growing city. Others came as tourists, having heard that a walk through Mount Auburn Cemetery was an indispensable part of a visit to Boston. According to the American Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge (1835), the cemetery was "justly celebrated as the most interesting object of the kind in our country." Mount Auburn's appeal in the early 19th century was not unlike the appeal to people today of contemporary museums, public parks, amusement parks, or even malls. Numerous guidebooks provided maps, suggested tour routes and descriptions of individual monuments, and provided appropriate contemplative and spiritual readings. As early as 1845, an omnibus provided direct access from Boston. In 1847, the Fitchburg Railroad established a station at Mount Auburn; after 1856, the street railway stopped at the front gate.
Observers both famous and obscure recorded their impressions after visiting Mount Auburn Cemetery. In 1831, Lydia Maria Francis Child wrote in The Mother's Book, "So important do I consider cheerful associations with death, that I wish to see our grave-yards laid out with walks and trees, and beautiful shrubs, as places of public promenade. We ought not to draw such a line of separation between those who are living in this world, and those who are alive in another." Harriet Martineau enthused in her multivolume Retrospect of Western Travel in 1838, "I believe it is allowed that Mount Auburn is the most beautiful cemetery in the world."
A letter written by then 16-year-old Emily Dickinson to a schoolfriend on September 8, 1846, captures the future poet's impression of Mount Auburn:
...Have you ever been to Mount Auburn? It seems as if Nature had formed the spot with a distinct idea in view of its being a resting place for her children, where wearied & disappointed they might stretch themselves beneath the spreading cypress & close their eyes "calmly as to a nights repose or flowers at set of sun."¹
As Mount Auburn Cemetery continued to mature, Andrew Jackson Downing mused about its impact on the country and the potential for recreation parks in The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste of July 1849:
One of the most remarkable illustrations of the popular taste, in this country, is to be found in the rise and progress of our rural cemeteries. Twenty years ago, nothing better than a common grave-yard, filled with high grass, and a chance sprinkling of weeds and thistles, was to be found in the Union.... Eighteen years ago, Mount Auburn, about six miles from Boston, was made a rural cemetery. It was then a charming natural site, finely varied in surface, containing about 80 acres of land, and admirably clothed by groups and masses of native forest trees. It was tastefully laid out, monuments were built, and whole highly embellished. No sooner was attention generally roused to the charms of this place than the idea of rural cemeteries took the public mind by storm.... Not twenty years have passed since that time; and, at the present moment, there is scarcely a city of note in the whole country that has not its rural cemetery.... If the road to Mount Auburn is now lined with coaches, continually carrying the inhabitants of Boston by thousands and tens of thousands, is it not likely that such a garden, full of the most varied instruction, amusement, and recreation, would be ten times more visited?²
Questions for Reading 3
1. Where were other cemeteries modeled after Mount Auburn started in the 1800s?
2. Name some of the visitors to Mount Auburn Cemetery? Why did they visit?
3. According to Andrew Jackson Downing, what impact did Mount Auburn Cemetery have on the country?
4. Where do you go to spend your leisure time? Do you look for the same things as 19th-century visitors to Mount Auburn?
Reading 3 was compiled from Karen Halttune, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982); Blanche Linden-Ward, "Strange but Genteel Pleasure Grounds: Tourist and Leisure Uses of Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemeteries," In Cemeteries and Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture, edited by Richard E. Meyer (Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1989); David Schuyler, The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986); John F. Sears, Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989); and Cynthia Zaitzevsky, Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982).
¹Letter from Emily Dickinson to a schoolfriend, September 8, 1846, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Emily Dickinson Selected Letters (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press, 1971), 7-8.
¹Letter from Emily Dickinson to a schoolfriend, September 8, 1846, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Emily Dickinson Selected Letters (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press, 1971), 7-8.


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Last-minute holiday shoppers will have some help from Macy's this year, as the retailer plans keep most of its stores open 48 hours straight the weekend before Christmas, from 7 a.m. Dec. 21 through 7 a.m. on Dec. 23.
The 48-hour shopping marathon coincides with Macy's final scheduled One-Day Sale of the year, which concludes at 7 a.m., Dec. 23. While the sale ends Sunday morning, 57 stores will remain open 24 hours or offer extended late hours until close on Christmas Eve.
With Thanksgiving falling on November 22, consumers this year will have a total of 32 shopping days, counting Christmas Eve, and no real excuse for last-minute shopping. But the holiday does have a way of sneaking up on some shoppers, and others simply like the adrenaline rush of a last-minute shopping marathon.
"For the first time ever, Macy's will keep most stores open around the clock for the last weekend of holiday shopping, an expansion of our successful marathon that began at select stores in 2006," said Peter Sachse, Macy's chief stores officer. "We hope to make it easy for our customers across the country to finish their shopping at any time of day or night, and with the benefit of the great deals and value they count on from our One Day Sale events."
Macy's began the tradition of keeping its doors open 24 hours with Macy's Queens Center in 2006. Macy's added additional stores in subsequent years, and last year offered customers the opportunity to shop outside regular store hours in 14 locations that were open 24 hours and in 27 locations that offered extended hours.
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eTalentTrak is a company that provides hourly workers assessments based on an online personality assessment test and directs them to what industry areas are best for them. The initial site is aimed towards commercial Human Resources companies, and not the workers themselves.
My client has provided mock up layouts that they would like. The mockups should only be used as a loose guide to how the site should actually be structured.
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They like the feel of http://www.hireright.comlayout, and would like the industry links layout similar to the http://www.jobappnetwork.com/ site.See the further descriptions below.
This design should include a standard horizontal header withthe logo and taglines at the top as shown in the mock up layout. Under the headershould be a horizontal based link section with the following six links andtitles:
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The layout under the links should be a two column layout,with the main content area on the left, and a smaller content area on theright. Both columns should be made to easily be able to be sliced for vertical stretching.The columns should be vertically alligned, even though the mock up layout has themoff. For a layout example see:
In the left column, under the main content area, will belinks to different service areas. These links should probably be laid out in atwo column layout as well, with a picture or icon for each industry. See http://www.jobappnetwork.com/ for howtheir industries are laid out.
Industries include the following (10):
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Colors: The company's colors are Red, White, and Blue. Theprimary color will be blue, and the secondary color red with the backgroundbeing the white.
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I have been doing web design for almost ten years now, and Ihave a solid programming background, so feel free to ask me for any input. I amnot very good at the art/design side and will be having that done solelythrough 99designs from now on. This will allow me to stick to thehtml/css/PHP/C# side of things. I have a computer science degree as well.
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This design is going solely through 99designs and isguaranteed to be awarded to a designer here. Now that I know the expectedrates, my future contests will very likely be for much more than this one.
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While I'm normally a San Francisco Peninsula or South Bay kind of girl, I've spent the last two weekends in the East Bay.
Last weekend, we went with our friends visiting from Seattle to Niles to hop on the steam powered Niles Canyon Railway train! What I loved about this train was that it made the *exact* noise that all trains make in cartoons... which, apparently, is unique to steam trains (and a sound guy was there recording it as it pulled into the station). And it had a great whistle, as well! It didn't go very fast, but that was all the better to enjoy the beautiful rolling hills and other quaint scenery from the open top rail car. The train took us to Sunol, where we had a picnic lunch in the park that is right across the street from the depot.
After lunch, we thought we'd get a cup of coffee in the Jazz Cafe. Unfortunately, a couple of lattes ended up being a complicated order. The barista had problems with the order... twice. The first time, she couldn't read her own hand writing, so we had to tell her the order again. After about 30 minutes with no coffee, we checked again, and she'd forgotten to make them. Fortunately for us, the train was running late so we had plenty of time to finish our coffees once we got them. The atmosphere was very cool, but not sure about the service.
We ran into some other women at the station that had such bad luck at the other restaurant in town that they'd missed their earlier return train. Apparently their waitress forgot that they ordered food, too. Strange little town, Sunol. I think when we do this again, we'll start out in Sunol and take our chances in Niles for lunch and coffees, as their looked like there was a lot more options there.
The train ride itself was very cool and unforgettable - hard to believe it is totally staffed and run by volunteers! Many paid employees at other establishments could learn a thing or two about customer service from these friendly folks! I can't believe I've lived in this area for so many years and had never taken that train ride before!
This weekend, we ventured to the East Bay again with a different set of friends - this time for an even more rugged experience - camping! Okay, it's car camping, and we ate like kings, but still, we were roughing it! We camped in Lake Chabot at a great campsite. The fire pit and picnic tables were well set up, bathrooms clean and well stocked and HOT showers! The big pluses of this campground: close to the bay area so we only had a short drive, and mountain bike friendly!I've had a cold, been traveling or just generally busy lately - that's kept me out of the saddle for more than a month! This weekend, I thought what better way to get back into shape than doing a long mountain bike ride! The trails in this park were totally my style: wide, shaded, not very technical, lots of good climbs. I could ride them for hours - in fact, we did: 5 hours of riding! *whew* and that's when the nice, clean, hot showers came in very handy!


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Lean And Green – Six Simple StrategiesMonday, August 3rd, 2009
We don't often think of losing weight and becoming healthier as a way to live greener and become a better steward of the planet, but becoming lean and going green go hand-in-hand. Here are some easy ways to slim down, become healthier, and take better care of our beautiful planet.
1. Shop the perimeter of your grocery store where all the fresh, healthy food is located, like fruits, vegetables, seafood, and meats. The packaged, processed, and frozen foods that often contain trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, and other unhealthy additives are typically found in the center of the store. This could also be a money-saving strategy, since fresh foods typically cost less than processed foods.


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The wind industry sees climate change as an opportunity. In a world where reducing carbon will most likely be the norm, wind power is seen as valuable, in part, due to its lack of greenhouse gas emissions.
However, climate change also presents risks and threats to wind energy in terms of wind resources. Is there a chance that wind could also become a casualty of climate change?
According to various scientists, the major risks for wind power fall into two basic categories – changes in the wind resource distribution and risks to infrastructure. All forms of renewable energy are somewhat sensitive to climate variation. While not as vulnerable to climate change as hydropower or biomass, wind resources will likely face some shifts in location, intensity, interval and duration.
However, those shifts are difficult to predict. While climate models do include air-circulation patterns, the models' outputs focus primarily on projected changes in temperature and precipitation, not wind flows.
'There is a long way to go in this research,' says Melinda Marquis, a scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 'Climate models could certainly be tailored and tweaked to better predict changes in wind. Wind research in general is just starting to ask these questions.'
Wind researchers often ask whether climate change will increase or decrease wind speeds. Recent studies give conflicting answers. Last fall, a University of Texas-Austin researcher estimated that global temperature increases of 2 degrees C to 4 degrees C could result in a 4% to 12% decrease in average wind speeds in some northern latitudes. A 2009 Iowa State University study found that average wind speeds across the country have already decreased .5% to 1% since 1973.
However, researchers at the University of California-Santa Cruz found that climate change might cause coastal winds to increase.
'Don't make too many assumptions," warns Johannes Feddema, a University of Kansas professor and scientist at the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 'The impact of climate change on wind speeds is very complicated.'
As Feddema explains, part of the complexity has to do with the definition of wind – whether scientists are talking about global air-circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere or local winds in the lower atmosphere.
In general, wind is the movement of air masses. For global air-circulation patterns, the main drivers are differing temperature gradients between the earth's equator and poles. In turn, these mammoth upper atmosphere currents provide – or dampen – energy for local wind patterns and weather.
However, as Feddema points out, global warming is already heating up pole temperatures (especially the Arctic) at a much faster rate than at the equator. The prevailing wisdom is that as the temperature gradient between the pole and the equator lessens, global air circulation will slow as well, especially in northern latitudes.
Local winds could also slow down, according to Feddema. However, in other areas, winds may actually increase, thanks to local temperature gradients becoming more influential than global ones. To add to the complexity, temperature gradients are not the only factors driving wind speeds. There are many other variables, including topography, land use, bodies of water, air moisture and land temperature. There are also many seasonal and daily variables.
Both Feddema and Marquis point out that climate change could alter the jet stream, completely rearranging global air circulation and ocean currents, therefore changing many local wind patterns. Marquis adds that there are also "interesting possibilities" of shifts in atmospheric circulation patterns such as El Nino/ La Nina Southern Oscillation.
A 2008 report from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (USCCSP) noted that wind power could see either "significant positive or negative effects" as a result of climate change.
The time frame for these changes is unknown. As Feddema observes, though, climate change appears to be proceeding faster than the original IPCC projections.
As noted in the USCCSP report, the entire energy sector is vulnerable to climate change. Extreme weather and storms damage the grid, hurricanes threaten offshore installations, and higher temperatures overheat equipment and pipelines. Many key infrastructures are located along coastlines or river valleys, where flooding and rising sea levels could become a factor.
The wind industry will also likely face difficulty with site selection and wind forecasting. For site selection, measurements of past wind speeds might not accurately predict future wind speeds under a scenario of rapid versus gradual climate change.
In an environment where local wind and weather patterns become more extreme and unpredictable, wind forecasting could also become more difficult.
'An increase in extreme weather means an increase in damaging high winds useless to the wind industry,' says Feddema. Likewise, a general slowdown in global circulation could also mean more slow days with less wind energy.
Climate change could have indirect effects on wind power (and the entire power sector) as well. For example, changes in water availability, growing seasons, crops, human health and air quality could eventually spur long-term population shifts. Such shifts might cause land-use changes that would in turn affect local wind patterns or force a redistribution of energy infrastructure.
When it comes to climate change, wind holds a significant advantage over other forms of power. Unlike natural gas, nuclear or coal, wind power does not compete for increasingly scarce water resources.
The wind industry also has strengths that will help it in climate-change adaptation. Turbine efficiency will result in turbines that can produce more power with less wind. In addition, storage technologies such as pumped hydro, compressed air energy storage, batteries and electric vehicles will become increasingly viable in the future.
Maril Hazlett is a freelance writer living in Kansas.


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Nic Spencer needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 180 designs submitted by 39 freelance designers.
Reef Media, Reef Real Estate, Reef Development, Reef Capital
Reef Group specialise in corporate video and digital cinema. As well as this we are actively engaged in Property Development, Project Marketing, Development Finance (a bank) for other developers.
Top publicly listed company marketing professionals (buyers of media production services), creatives and agencies looking for high end film production. (Reef Media)
General Public (Reef Real Estate& Reef Development)
Property development professionals. (Reef Capital)
Would like to keep the existing blue theme colour in the logo. 3 new websites will be launched once the new logo is finalised.
Flexibility to explore concepts other than the obvious 'wave' device.
The word "REEF' needs to be prominent with the varying business units merely an alternative text in each logo. For ease of editing and adding new business units.
See http://www.reefmedia.com.au for existing logo and website.
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Notes from the trenches from a practicing pediatric occupational therapist -- because everyone is entitled to my opinion. With gratitude and appreciation to these visionaries: A. Jean Ayres, Barbara Knickerbocker, Sheila Frick, Patty Oetter, Colleen Hacker, Julia and Patricia Wilbarger, Jan Z. Olsen, Mary Sue Williams and Sherry Shellenberger, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Sally Goddard Blythe, Andrew Taylor Still, Lawrence Jones, and F. Matthias Alexander. RIP Steve Jobs.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
My Secret Weapon Revealed!
A couple of mornings a week, I see children at a little clinic in a very poor neighborhood in upper Manhattan. My treatment room is the size of a walk in closet, and instead of a beautifully equipped sensory gym with a large assortment of swings, a zip line, a ball pit, a climbing wall, a slide, and a loft, which is what I have available to me at my practice in Greenwich Village, I have a couple of collapsible tunnels, a small assortment of therapy balls, a little portable mat, a few puzzles and toys, a chalkboard, and whatever else I can scrounge from my own stash.
However, despite the lack of equipment, I have been able to help make remarkable changes in some of the children I treat, because I have a secret weapon up there: their mothers.
I've had some amazing turnarounds at that rickety little clinic, sometimes getting better results than I do at the sensory gym, mostly due to the children's mothers following through at home.
For instance, I recently started seeing a four year old boy who was referred by the district because he was having so many problems adjusting to preschool. I must confess that when I met him and his mother, my heart just sank. He looked like a thundercloud made flesh, he was so unhappy in his body. And his mother, who looked like she was still in high school, wore low cut, skin tight clothing and was pierced and tattooed everywhere.
My initial impression was that he seemed unreachable and unapproachable, and that she was scattered and not very bright. {Which only proves that first impressions are misleading, and that you really can't judge a book by its cover, etc. And I should have looked past that, and noted that he was beautifully groomed and dressed.}
This child was so sensory defensive that he was practically feral. Any time anyone came into his personal space, he screamed "NO!" and either lashed out with his fists or folded into himself and crawled under furniture. School was not going well at all. He threw things, hit, bit, kicked, hid, and would not participate in any activities. Because of his tactile defensiveness, he could not bring himself to touch glue or paint, and his ears were so sensitive that music class was a disaster. When he was upset, which was often, when he wasn't lashing out, he would hit himself, smacking himself hard in the head with a fist.
His mother told me that he fell frequently. When he wanted something from the floor, instead of bending his knees and squatting to pick it up, the way toddlers and small children so beautifully use their bodies, he had to drop down on all fours, or else he would collapse onto the ground and sit with his legs on either side of him.
When he wanted to pick something up, instead of using his finger tips, he used his hands like paws, and raked.
He had some language, but not much, and what he did have wasn't especially intelligible.
That first day, about 20 minutes into his treatment, he got so overstimulated that he punched me.
The second time I treated him, his mother casually mentioned that she had gone to Target in search of a collapsible tunnel like the one I had, but they were out of stock. "You want to do things with him at home?" I asked, surprised. She said she wanted me to give her a list of things to do with him every day.
I pointed out that he was quite weak in his legs, which made his balance poor, and that he needed to crawl a lot, not only to integrate and strengthen up his pelvis, but also to stabilize his shoulders and help his hands be ready to hold a pencil. I suggested that she put him on her back and give him piggy back rides without holding on to him, so that he would have to grip her with his arms and legs. This would give him some much needed joint stability, so that he wouldn't fall so easily. "Put on some music and dance with him on your back," I said.
We put him on a therapeutic brushing program, and gave him lots of blow toys. His mother bought a couple of therapy balls and duplicated the activities we did in his sessions. I urged her to keep him outside as much as possible. I suggested that she take him to a park and have him go on the swings, and, since he liked to spin, to twist the chains.
Since he tended to isolate himself, I taught her some basic FloorTime techniques, and asked her not to punish or threaten him when he was being obstinate, but to attempt to be patient and to remember that his sensory defensiveness and balance issues caused him a lot of distress.
I then spoke to his teacher, taught her how to brush him, and asked her to please stop trying to force him to learn to write his name, since {like all four year olds} he was nowhere near ready developmentally to do that. He was still only scribbling, could not duplicate a straight line or curve, and had not developed a three point pinch. I also requested that be be excused from attending music class, since it was so painful to his ears.
He's been coming to OT for about ten weeks now, making slow but steady improvements, beginning to be interested in the toys and doing some exploring. Last week, though, when they arrived, instead of hiding behind her, he walked into the clinic ahead of his mother, and grinned at me. Instead of forcing me to walk on eggshells while gently coaxing him against his will into the treatment room, he bounced right in and started talking to me a mile a minute.
As we settled down to work, his mother lifted up one of his pants legs, and showed me where skin on his knee was darkened and scuffed. "That's from crawling!" she told me. She had devised all kinds of crawling games at home, like putting his favorite toys under the sofa, so that he would have to frog crawl on his belly to get to them. She was playing with him on the therapy ball, doing all the foot activities, all the brushing, all the piggyback rides, tons of crawling, and spending time at the park every single day.
She reported that he had stopped falling. He was starting to use his legs to squat, instead of dropping to all fours or collapsing. And he was participating much, much more at school. He did not hit himself once during our session, and instead of hitting me and screaming when I started to remove his shoes so I could work on his feet, he helped to pull them off.
This child made his remarkable turn around so quickly because his mother was committed to helping him decrease his sensory defensiveness, which she did by diligently following through on his therapeutic brushing, and to improving his respiration, balance and strength, by doing the exercises and activities she learned in our sessions. Nothing she did was very complicated, she accomplished everything in a tiny little Manhattan apartment, and she was creative, improvising and expanding on what she had learned, making it challenging and fun.
If your child is seeing an OT, ask your therapist for activities you can do at home to improve his balance and strength. If you invest in a few small, inexpensive pieces of equipment, like a therapy ball and collapsible tunnel, and spend a few minutes every day working on core strengthening, you can make his therapy go much faster.
And make sure he gets outside every single day to play!
3 comments:
- Regula said...
Wonderful story!
- Thu Apr 21, 12:39:00 AM MST
great story? Thank you for sharing.
What is a name of the practice in Greenwich Village? I have been looking for a sensory gym in that area. Thanks
- Thu Jul 21, 06:31:00 AM MST
- Loren Shlaes said...
I'd be very happy to talk to you. The clinic where I have treat is shared by several practitioners who all maintain separate private practices , so it does not have a formal name. It's located near Union Square on 14th Street.
My email address is in my profile.
- Thu Jul 21, 10:09:00 AM MST


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EDITOR'S NOTE — Following is a statement from U.S. Wheat Associates President Alan Tracy and National Association of Wheat Growers Chief Executive Officer Dana Peterson:
"The Canadian parliament has ratified a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia that will, when implemented, allow Canadian wheat to enter that country duty free.
"The agreement gives a major wheat-producing competitor an immediate price advantage in a market where U.S. wheat exports had earned a dominant market share. It means that U.S. wheat producers could lose sales worth $70 million today to Canada at a time when they can least afford it. In fact, U.S. farm families now face losing a substantial portion of agricultural exports to Colombia worth nearly $1.7 billion, including $330 million in wheat exports, in 2008. Even more disturbing is the fact that our farmers should never have faced this dilemma.
"That is because while the United States government has failed to ratify a bilateral FTA it negotiated with Colombia in 2006 that would allow most American agricultural exports to enter Colombia duty free, Canada has moved ahead with its own trade agenda.
"For four years, U.S. Wheat Associates (USW), the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG), and many other agricultural organizations have strongly advocated for this agreement. In that time, USW brought influential Colombian millers to the United States who told government officials that if they had to pay duties on U.S. wheat and not on Canadian wheat, U.S. sales and market share would fall dramatically. USW also released a report on the impact of FTAs that showed U.S. wheat exports would be 20 million bushels greater and the farm price would be 10 cents per bushel higher under a ratified U.S.-Colombia FTA. The outcome of this situation should come as no surprise.
"As an industry dependent on exports for half its sales, export opportunities and free trade are essential. We were encouraged to hear President Obama's plans to give trade a more prominent role in his administration's economic recovery agenda and his goal to double exports in five years. We were particularly pleased that the President recognized that U.S. inertia on trade only allows other nations to fill the void while we lose the chance to create jobs on our shores. We urged the administration to commit to this initiative by submitting the U.S.-Colombia FTA, and pending agreements with South Korea and Panama, to Congress for consideration.
"Recently, we have seen some positive steps on trade. President Obama has now pledged to send the Korea-U.S. FTA to Congress by the November G-20 meeting in Seoul. Last week, the House Agriculture Committee passed H.R. 4645, the Travel Restriction Reform and Export Enhancement Act. If signed into law, it would clarify how U.S. farmers and agricultural businesses conduct sales to Cuba and remove long-standing travel restrictions, which together have significantly constrained wheat growers' market share there.
"Such steps are encouraging, but do not carry us far enough. Today, 126 trade agreements are being negotiated that exclude the United States, yet each involves current U.S. trading partners. If the likely fallout from the Canada-Colombia FTA is any indication, such agreements represent a grave threat to our economic recovery.
"We must change the situation and give American farm families and our rural economy a fighting chance. We urge the Administration and Congress to resolve any remaining issues with our Colombia and Panama FTAs and move the agreements forward to approval as soon as possible."


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"she told me her name, the one she had chosen for herself: nadja, because in russian it's the beginning of the word hope, and because it's only the beginning." (andré breton, nadja)
i greeted the new year with my family in ohio, which was bleak and gray (just how i like it), with the occasional twenty-four-hour blizzard. the new year is enshrouded in mystery and fog, but i vow to be brave and sail ahead.


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This exploration into the Doppelganger theme has been combined with psychological research, in particular studies into delusional mis-identification syndromes and multiple personality disorders.
"We enjoy the relevance in the ideas of adopting new identities and personas, taking on new character traits for the moment that the camera is on us. With this in mind, we aim for the pieces to raise questions as to whether we are literally seeing a double or whether the twin becomes a metaphor for a singular identity split and battling itself; such as the ego versus the id, or the conscience versus the hedonistic.
"It is important to us that each piece can be seen as seductive to the senses and yet also allows room for repulsion or a darker interpretation. This idea of attraction and caution excites us."
The Jackson Twins, 2010
The Jackson Twins live and work in the West Midlands, both graduating in Fine Art at Birmingham City University in 2003.
The twins were awarded the Rhubarb-Rhubarb/Arts Council England Bursary in 2009 and have recently been showing The Cataclysmic Accounts from The Binary Institute in Sydney (Australia), Los Angeles and San Francisco (USA) and at venues across the UK.
Works by the Jackson Twins are also in private collections in the UK, New Zealand and USA.
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- Categoría Bellas artes
Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
58 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación may. 08, 2012
- Etiquetas The Jackson Twins, fine art, Rhonda Wilson, photography, art, twins, identity, drama, costume, performance, fairytales, folklore
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Our work pays particular focus to 'The Twin', what it is to be an identical being - to in essence, share an identity with your double. We explore the worldwide fascination with twins: in terms of the pop culture fixation of the 'evil-twin', the depths of the twin in folklore (The Doppelganger) and the themes explored through psychology and psychoanalysis. We aim to take advantage of the visual power - the awkwardness, the lack of fit and belonging, the freakish feel - of the twin motif. Within the performance of our self-portraits we illustrate the relevance of such an evocative motif in the context of a culture still fixated on the individual. We have always been interested in exploring issues concerning identity and 'twinship' within our artwork. While working individually, we both turned separately to photography and digital media as our main tools for creating artwork.


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Imagine if hitting the gym regularly could help you win a trip to Cancun, Las Vegas, or Hawaii. Your members might visit your club more often, right?
That's what Nautilus Fitness and Racquet Club in Erie, PA, is banking on with its Dozen It Feel Great! club that rewards its members for working out 12 or more times per month. And, surprisingly, the club's concept wasn't conjured up on a cold, winter's day when Nautilus' staff was daydreaming of sipping a Mai Tai on the beach; the idea sprung from a software program.
Over the years as software companies have developed more complete and advanced programs for tracking members and taking care of day-to-day operations, health clubs have been able to garner more information about their members resulting in new programming and creative, targeted marketing.
Nautilus is one example of a club that took its software to the next level. Its software-generated member tracking reports showed that a dozen visits a month was the "key number" when it came to retaining members.
"We did reports on people who canceled and what their check-in numbers were," says June Penniman, sales and marketing director of Nautilus. "We never had anyone cancel who worked out 12 or more times [per month]."
By partnering with a local travel agency, the club raffles off mini trips once a quarter with a seven-day trip to Las Vegas offered once a year. The lure of a retreat to sunny beaches or the glitzy Strip seems to be working. Four months into the program, Nautilus had 501 more members work out 12 or more times each month and 62 fewer cancellations than the same period last year, Penniman says.
"We're encouraging people to work out more," she says. "We couldn't do it without the software."
Road Less Traveled
When it comes to tracking members, software can do more than ever before. Major software companies have developed programs that can tell you the basics — who's coming in, what time of day has the most member visits, who your most active personal trainer is, the hottest selling item in your pro shop, etc. — along with more specific information such as quantifying the demographics of your 9 a.m. yoga class, tracking birthdays, comparing your memberships' age and gender from this year to last year, and much more.
However, don't be afraid to ask for more from your software company. Many are willing to help work with a club to develop highly customized reports.
Dozen It Feel Great! was one such tailored report. Previously Nautilus' software put members' use of the club into a grouped listing such as 0-3 or 4-6 visits per month. Their software company worked with them to develop reports with their key number of 12 or more.
In fact, most software companies welcome suggestions to improve their products. One company says that once a club requests a customization, they usually add it to their software's offering on a widespread basis if other clubs might benefit, too. It's not unusual for a software company to offer 50 to 75 reports.
And for most clubs, more information means running a better club — especially when it is used. For instance, most software has the ability to track why a member has come to a club. While most front desk staff won't have the time to ask each member and press the appropriate key to mark their response, some clubs have automated turnstile check-ins that require a member to choose an onscreen reason for their visit. This question takes only a second for the member to complete, yet can offer a wealth of information. Are most of your members coming in to go for a swim? Are fewer people hitting the cycling room than last year? Having hard numbers can help justify purchases (more noodles and kickboards) or heighten marketing efforts (posters announcing a new beginners' cycling class).
Tailored to Fit
Clubs also invest in these kinds of software programs to increase user-friendliness. Most programs are fairly easy to use with a little training (see Tracking Tips below) and are practically effortless versus pen-and-paper tracking, which can be cumbersome and time-consuming.
Manchester Athletic Club in Massachusetts uses its software for just that reason. The 100,000-square-foot facility clocks more than 800 adult visits and nearly 350 child visits per day. Besides its 11 tennis courts, two fitness centers, multi-sport court, day spa and physical therapy center, the facility boasts nearly 70 group exercise classes a week, a tennis academy and numerous kids' programs.
"The [software] program has allowed us to do a better job of registering our members for the myriad of programs that we offer and use this information to further market to them and also to manage payroll for the providers of those programs," says Keith Callahan, general manager of the Manchester Athletic Club.
Target marketing is one major benefit to member tracking. Not only can club owners identify trends, but many programs also can send e-mails to specific members. Whether it's thanking a member for coming to a class, advertising a new service or contacting senior members about the benefits of exercise, software can get club owners in touch with those they want to reach.
For the Dozen It Feel Great! club, Nautilus sends e-mails to members who have seven or eight visits for the month, encouraging them to come in a few more times to hit that magic number of 12. Besides being entered to win a luxury vacation, members of the club earn a T-shirt and a card for one free shake a month for a year. And, if members visit the club 12 times in more than one month, they get more entries in the vacation raffle bettering their chances. Nautilus also e-mails newsletters and audio postcards.
"We used to mail out a lot of things, but it got so expensive," Penniman says. "We do most of our marketing in house. We make PDFs and then e-mail all the members."
Nautilus is so invested in its retention efforts through software that they hired an employee to be in charge of integration member retention, Penniman says.
Manchester Athletic Club is also sold on its software. When asked if it was worth having, Callahan's response was, "Absolutely. We could not run our business without this or a very similar software program."
Tracking Tips
- Plan for the times
Your needs may change from year to year, so make sure a company and its programs are progressive enough to evolve as your club changes.
- Get your entire staff up to speed
Many clubs say it's worth it to have a software company representative do an on-site training.
- Expect hiccups
Install new software during the summer or your least busy time of year. It'll be a lot less hectic, and you'll be able to focus on learning the programs.
- Speak up
If there's a feature you wish your software had or a report you wish it could run, ask the company. They just might add it for you.
- Use it
Today's software can track just about anything. Don't let all that good information go to waste.
Software Companies
- ABC Financial
- Affiliated Acceptance Corp (AAC)
- Aphelion
- Aspen Information Systems
- CheckFree
- Conexion
- Club Runner
- CSI Software
- CSI Software
- Custom Design Systems Inc.
- eFit Financial
- iFitness Solutions
- KI Software
- Twin Oaks


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Monday, January 05, 2009
Volga animated
Volga from polyminthe on Vimeo.
I wanted to post this old stuff from 2005 for a long time, for which I have a special affection. It's the animated version of the background posted here a while ago. It was a special effects exercice co-directed with my mate Fabulon at gobelins. We had good time recording the sound of the trains at the train station!
16 comments:
- niok said...
ça dégoute
- Friday, January 09, 2009 5:41:00 pm
- Dave Howells said...
Bonjour Sylvain! This is absolutely amaaazing work! What materials/software/techniques did you use to do it - if you don't mind me asking? I remember you posting the background up a while ago and absolutely loved it. Pardon je suis désolé mais je ne parle pas le français bien! :)
- Friday, January 09, 2009 8:06:00 pm
- Hodges said...
very cool
- Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:08:00 am
- Mr Fabulon said...
Aaah c'était le bon temps
- Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:08:00 am
- Mr Fabulon said...
Les gouttes sont t-elles bien calées sur le rail ? Je me le demande encore.
- Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:12:00 am
- SHOo said...
Ah ouais! J'adooooore ce decor! C'est chouette de voir la video! Merci Monsieur!
- Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:30:00 am
- Polyminthe said...
-Dave: it's all 2D, hand animation, the bg is painted differently for the lightnings, then comped on after effects.
- Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:35:00 am
- Polyminthe said...
-Romain: ben non car on s'était trompé avec les histoires de pixel carrés et d'interprétation de métrage. Et en fait, le décors lui même est stretché..tu t'rappelle?
-Shoo: de rien, content de te faire plaisir :)
- Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:37:00 am
- RAWLS said...
Beautiful work my friend!!!
- Saturday, January 10, 2009 1:57:00 am
- Ben said...
Quel beau boulot. La bande son est superbe!
- Saturday, January 10, 2009 1:06:00 pm
- JP said...
loove it.first time I saw this image was on a visual inspiration wall in the development room at aardman. hope you got credited. Awesome work, as always.
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 6:08:00 am
- Polyminthe said...
Really? I don't think you get credited for inspiring people.But that makes me proud!
- Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:55:00 am
I've seen your work for a couple of days and I have to say: AMAZING!
- Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:00:00 pm
- Polyminthe said...
Thank you anonymous!
- Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:06:00 pm
- Dave Howells said...
Many thanks for your reply Sylvain. Absolutely looove your work. Keep em coming! I hope my French was right? It was supposed to be me apologising for not knowing very much French! :) Hope all's well.
- Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:56:00 pm
- Diane Pellotieri said...
Trop chouette :))
- Tuesday, December 01, 2009 5:11:00 pm


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Some comments on both Kylie's post and Terri's latest post suggest that this blog should really is overdue to host discussions on geek women who are oppressed or trapped by or feeling policed about issues to do with: body image, femininity, gender presentation and similar, or who want to question and deconstruct them, or opt-out.
I know it's a cop-out to say "we'd welcome guest posts", but here's why I feel it's appropriate in this case: our bloggers who are most sensitive to these issues from personal experience aren't able to be public about it in this venue at this time, or don't feel that they can deal with the issue sensitively enough or analytically enough for a satisfying respectful discussion with others. So maybe I should say: we need guest posts to address these issues in a satisfying way, and we're sorry that we can't properly address it otherwise (at this time, at least).
If you would like to guest-post on this issue, leave a comment here or on the latest Open thread (you're always welcome to offer a guest post on an Open thread). Otherwise if you'd like to share links, analysis and resources on these issues, or offer shorter comments, or angles that you'd like addressed on this blog by other writers, please comment.


text: WEEK 4 - April 23, 2014First Half #4Community Park, Channahon, ILTEES18 Holes - Short Tees - Par 54 The course is in great shape and it looks beautiful! CONDITIONSIt was a very chilly night with temps only in the High 40s to low 50s. The wind was blown pretty hard in the beginning of the night. All water area levels were up. The course was pretty dry. This winter weather really sucks! Where's the damn 80s!NOTES Once again Community Park is looking fantastic! As usual Paco is putting his heart and soul into making Channahon one the most alluring disc golf courses around. Please thank him when you see him. Kris Hutter & Al Hermosillo take care of business in the Pro/Adv Division. They shot a great round of 41 (-13). The both make huge jumps to the top of the points list. All alone Jeff Kinsella wins the playoff to take down the Am/Nov division. Jeff draws Cali and shoots a fantastic round of 44 (-10). He takes a big leap to the top of the points list. Wind conditions in the beginning of the round played havoc on all players. Kris Hutter nails a $192 ace on hole 12. Mutter Hutter!PLAYERS57 Players24 PRO/ADV 33 AM/NOV TOP THREEPRO/ADVHutter & Hermosillo take the top honors. They end up taking home 57 bucks each. Clayton Drake & Eric Fite take the second place spot shooting an extremely nice round of 42 (-12). They end up splitting 65 bucks. We had a tie for third with the teams shooting nice rounds of 43 (-11). Old man Johnson & Kevin Macuiba win the ctp playoff on hole #1 to take third place. They end up splitting $35.TOP THREEAM/NOVCali Kinsella takes the playoff and the top honors. He takes home 67 bucks and four points alone. Luigi Noe & Matt Oram end up in second and they split 36 bucks. They also shot a very nice round of 44 (-10). We also had a tie for third with teams shooting nice rounds of 46 (-8). Ken Hausser & Josh DeLucio win the ctp on hole #1 and end up in the third spot. They take home $12.50 each and an extra point goes towards their totals which could be big at the end.CTPSKyle Anderson - CTP Party Fund hole1 #3= $45Jeff Kinsella - CTP Party Fund hole2 #7 = $44Dave Kociuba - CTP Tournament Fund hole #13 = $43Tom Matesevac - CTP CFR Disc hole #18ACESKris Hutter aces hole #12 = $192 BIG MONEY NIGHTPro/AdvKris Hutter nails and ace and takes first place. Hutt takes home $247 for the night!Am/NovCali Kinsella takes first place and wins a ctp. Jeff takes home $117 for the night.Next Week -HIGHLAND PARK, JOLIETWE ARE BACK TO 5:30 STARTSDONT FORGET 4:30 REGISTRATION SHORT TEESSee You Later,Jesse


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This activity allows participants to build a paper model of the GPM Core Observatory and learn about the technology the satellite uses to measure precipitation from space. Directions explain how to cut, fold and glue the individual pieces together... (View More) to make the model. The accompanying information sheet has details about the systems in the satellite including the Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR), the GPM Microwave Imager (GMI), the High Gain Antenna, avionics and star trackers, propulsion system and solar array, as well as a math connection and additional engineering challenges. (View Less)
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Students will design, build and then test a rain gauge to measure precipitation. By sharing their results, they will recognize the need for standardization and precision in scientific tools. All background information, student worksheets and... (View More) images/photographs/data are included in these downloadable sections: Teacher's Guide, Student Capture Sheet and PowerPoint Presentation. This activity uses the 5E instructional model and is part of the Survivor Earth series of one-hour lessons. (View Less)
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Do you descend from someone who fought in the American Revolution or helped in any way? If so, you may be eligible for memberhip in the Daughters of the American Revolution or the Sons of the American Revolution.
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Oh, I love these! I have some of my kids, but they are no where near as nice as these. I agree, they are certainly treasures! :)ReplyDelete
I remember every kindergartner had these done...maybe for Mother's day? I remember the teacher lining us up and we sit still while she ran a pencil over our profile.
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- Please start with 9 inch squares (Jennifer uses 5 inch squares but it will be easier for me to put quilts together if the squares are bigger) this will yield 5.75 inch HST's.
- One 9 inch square should be a white or off white solid or print fabric--the other 9 inch square should be a baby themed fabric (boy or girl or neutral for quilts going to Haiti) OR boy themed fabric (blues, reds, green, browns, blacks for quilts going to the boy's home in Honduras).
- Make as many HST's as you want, send them to me and they will be put together into quilts.
Monday, January 2, 2012
January/February Project HOPE--Half Squares for Haiti and Honduras!
12 comments:
- Lynn said...
How about that, I'm just putting the binding on a quilt to send to you. Thanks as always for the oppurtunity to join in and make some blocks (and use up some fabric too).
Love the orange and blue quilt!
- January 2, 2012 at 11:44 AM
- Rosa-Munda said...
I've just made you a stack of HSTs and they will be on their way to you later this week. Good luck with this project. God bless you. Ros x
- January 2, 2012 at 3:33 PM
- Amber said...
This is perfect! I'm 7 months pregnant right now and don't have the physical ability to make an entire quilt (and I'm sure I won't have the time to commit after he is born), but these will light and easy! Your quilts look great :)
- January 2, 2012 at 6:11 PM
- Katie said...
Why have I never seen that technique before?? Easy! I think I'll look through my scraps. If I make the whole quilt myself is flannel OK or do you think that would be too hot for Haiti? I have a lot of baby-themed flannel scraps.
- January 2, 2012 at 7:00 PM
- Sara said...
Are you saying that the ONLY size HSTs you want are 5.75 inches?
I have some left from previous projects that are different sizes. Could I make them up into TOPS? If so, what size tops are you aiming for?
Sara in GR, MI
- January 3, 2012 at 7:55 AM
- marilyn said...
I'm going to start filling a box of finished quilts for you today!
- January 3, 2012 at 8:35 AM
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- January 8, 2012 at 9:51 AM
- Carol said...
I've got an envelope ready to put in the mail to you in the morning with a bunch of HST's...thanks for letting me play! It was lots of fun. Look forward to the next project.
- January 22, 2012 at 12:34 PM
- Barb in Mi said...
Just read Amandajean's post, came here and got to work. Envelope soon on its way to you!
- February 22, 2012 at 6:42 PM
- Debbie said...
Just found your website and am loving to help. Envelope on its way this weekend. I have you bookmarked to help all year. God Bless, Debbie
- February 23, 2012 at 5:53 AM
- Megan said...
I'm seeing this very late. Are you still collecting blocks and quilt tops?
- February 23, 2012 at 6:03 AM
- Suzanne said...
I am so glad you shared this link. I will hope to check back and see what March brings for the mission. Good luck with January/February.
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A dad who was not allowed to see his infant son hanged himself, an inquest heard.
Tragic Jamie Nightingale, 22, took his own life at Hazlehurst Lane, Chesterfield, on August 23 last year.
Chesterfield coroner's court heard how Mr Nightingale was banned from making contact with his partner and four-month-old son as part of bail conditions imposed after he was arrested for various offences at the beginning of August.
His dad, David, who found his son hanging, told the court: "In the last three weeks he was a different person – he'd get angry."
His mum, Tracey, added: "He used to be such a bubbly person who enjoyed life. He just wanted to see his son."
Coroner Dr Robert Hunter concluded Mr Nightingale took his own life while the balance of his mind was affected.
Dr Hunter said: "It's a tragic case. When you're in love and break-ups happen, emotions can run high."


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Confessions Of...A Rome Tour Guide
Guiding visitors around a city known for its passion and romance can be tricky. We've got the inside scoop on what it's like to be a tour guide in the Eternal City.
Our anonymous Confessor led private walking tours of Rome's museums, ruins, and churches from 2006 to 2008, and again in 2010.
Your tour company is "top-rated"? Ha!
A high TripAdvisor ranking translates into fat profits, and tour companies will do almost anything for glowing reviews—besides run great tours. The first company I worked for pressured its employees to solicit raves from its customers. Guides who were frequently praised by name were rewarded with better pay, but one of my colleagues was axed because she hadn't been mentioned on TripAdvisor enough. Then she sent her résumé to a rival tour company, which contacted her with an unusual business proposition: She'd get paid for every phony, positive review she planted abouttheir tours. Given such underhanded tricks, praise for brand-new operations by online reviewers is especially dubious.
Some travelers could learn a lesson or two about boundaries
My most awkward tour involved a client who was on a two-week honeymoon—by himself, after being stood up at the altar. At lunch, he downed an entire bottle of wine while blubbering over his ex. I felt sorry for him until he began licking a scoop of gelato and staring at my chest, mumbling, "I bet you get lots of guys like me on your tours." Resisting the urge to tell him jilted creepy drunks were, in fact, anomalies on my tours, I said, "Actually, I get a lot of families." Most of what he said next can't be repeated...because I've blacked it out from my memory. But I do remember that he called me "sweetie," mentioned he was "frustrated," and said he was all by himself "in a honeymoon suite with a big Jacuzzi." The silence broke only when he quickly apologized, shoved a sweaty €100 tip into my hand, and melted away with his gelato across Piazza Navona.
First rule of tour guides: Never say, "I don't know"
I always strive to maintain my integrity. But I know of tour guides in Rome who pull facts out of thin air whenever they're stumped by a question. Travelers seldom check, for instance, whether Vatican City has only 232 residents as their guide says. They simply nod. (In case you were wondering, Vatican City has 829 residents.) Myths and authoritative-sounding details are often more entertaining anyway. One classic ditty passed along by guides has it that the tyrannical emperor Nero played a fiddle while Rome burned in 64 A.D. But the fiddle wasn't actually invented until centuries later.
"What luck! We've stumbled upon a store that sells authentic crafts!"
Tourists sometimes wind up paying for a lot more than the fee and a tip. A former colleague of mine was a master of the swindle, bringing retired couples to lunch at an "authentic" restaurant—so authentic there weren't any menus or listed prices. The restaurant just happened to be owned by the guide's friend, who gave him kickbacks. After a two-hour feast, the guide excused himself to the bathroom just before the €500 ($660) check hit the table. Another colleague mysteriously morphed her tours of the Vatican Museums to include stops in a nearby fashion district to visit boutiques she knew all too well. Every time I complimented her on the new purse in her arms or a new pair of heels on her feet, she winked and said, "Compliments of the client!"
We get back at obnoxious travelers in ways they're not even aware of
Occasionally, we mislead clients or make fun of them behind their backs—but we do this only to the few who are rude. One woman hijacked my tour with painful stories about her energy-drink business. When the Arch of Constantine came into view, she took a break from her ramblings to say, "Oh! The Arc de Triomphe." I happily let her think she was seeing the famous Paris landmark. "Indeed it is," I breezed, before she started yet another longwinded anecdote. My least favorite clients are the loudmouths who feel compelled to make lewd commentary. To that annoying couple from L.A, if you're reading this: Please don't joke about "defrocking" priests the next time you're touring Roman churches. It's disrespectful. Likewise, I never want to overhear another joke about the pop celebrity Madonna while guiding travelers through a gallery of artistic representations of the Virgin Mary.


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IPS Africa, with support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is holding a reporting on inequalities workshop from May the 22nd – 23rd. The workshop seeks to enhance journalists' understanding of and reporting on inequalities to enable them to write analytical and thought provoking stories on this key issue. According to the U.N. Research Institute for Social Development, income inequalities between and within countries have worsened in recent decades, with citizenship and location continuing to determine life chances despite globalisation. Meanwhile, in Africa, the number of people living in poverty has doubled since the 1980s. Join the conversation on twitter, using the hashtag #incomegap
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CheapChips needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 58 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
This self introduction section is irrelevant. I can be some broke guy, some rich guy. Who cares? It's a design contest!
The target audience for our type of products may include: aviation enthusiasts, automotive or motorcycle enthusiasts. Or it can just be a novelty gift.
On a planes, they often have protective devices that use while the planes are parked (like wheel chocks, air speed pitot cover, etc.). But those devices are suppose to be removed before flight for safety. So to remind and make them visible, they attach bright red ribbon with the words "REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT".
Go ahead and just google the term "REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT", and you'll have a better understanding of this product.
The logo needs to incorporate red and white as its main colors. The use of black can be used as well, but as a secondary color. The website is "RBFstore.com", so that needs to be incorporated into the logo.
I don't have a specific type of logo design I'm looking for, so it's pretty much open. Let's see what you can come up with.
I'd like to see something with a fighter jet as well, so that's not out of the question.
The files I will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
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USA Today (7 April 2009) is reporting that a DNA study has extended the branches of Alex Haley's family tree.
The clue came when a "78-year-old man in Scotland named Thomas Baff, … took the DNA test to help his daughter" who was working on the family history.
You may read the story here.
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In addition to master's degree programs, UMass Lowell's Health Informatics and Management Program offers graduate certificate programs in three areas:
A four course certificate program is available to individuals who are not ready to pursue a master's degree. The certificates are designed to help professionals take advantage of advanced studies beyond the bachelor's degree and acquire new knowledge and skills. It gives other individuals the opportunity to explore graduate education without committing to a full course of study for a master's degree. However, all courses completed in the certificate programs are applicable to a master's degree. Students completing the certificate program with a 3.5 GPA do not have to take the GRE exam. A bachelor's degree is a requirement for admission.
The certificate is designed to meet the growth in management opportunities arising in the health care industry due to medical-technological development, the increasing percentage of older people in our society, and the demands to provide efficient yet high quality patient care. Employment opportunities for trained managers in teaching and community hospitals as well as with other providers such as rehabilitation hospitals, nursing homes, and homecare agencies are increasing. Positions are also opening in ambulatory clinics, insurance companies and health maintenance organizations. Each of these organizations provides expanding employment opportunities and career paths for professional growth for clinicians and non-clinicians alike. The certificate program is designed to provide students with a solid foundation to go on for a masters degree.
The management of information in health care is growing in importance. Applications include: electronic medical records, physician order entry systems, pharmaceutical systems and financial applications. This certificate is intended for individuals with a background in health and health care who wish to apply current computer technology to the management of health care services in clinical, financial and record keeping areas.
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Integrated platform for videoconferencing, remote real-time image diagnosis and whiteboard for medical images sharing
The main challenges of any public or private Health System are based on the continuous quality improving of the healthcare services while reducing the associated costs. The ICT developments and applications can play a key role in order to enhance the healthcare service efficiency, allowing quick remote emergency diagnosis, real-time medical collaboration or online patient monitoring, thus performing time savings, better patient care, and reducing unnecessary transfers among hospitals.
Technology Description
As a result of several R+D+i project developments, i2CAT has deployed different eHealth applications such as videoconferencing (ViewCat) or platforms for clinical diagnosis and radiological images sharing. Adding the know-how gained over years in terms of eHealth standards (HL7 and DICOM) to the already developed applications, the telemedicine offers the following features:
- Collaboration Tools: web videoconference, DICOM images sharing with whiteboard, online collaborative medical report generation
- Diagnosis Tools: real-time HD videostreaming with remote control (movement, zoom), video and image recording
- Interoperability: HL7 integration with Hospital Information Systems (HIS), integration with DICOM image repositories and Clinical Data Repositories.
- Customization: Look&Feel, Branding.
Key Advantages
- Safety and privacy: encrypted communications and NAT/Firewall traversal solution
- Two simultaneous real-time media flows: web videoconference between physicians and HD video streaming for diagnosis purposes, with bandwidth management and optimization
- Collaborative medical report: DICOM image and whiteboard sharing, online clinical report
- Remote camera control: HD video camera controlled by the remote physician/specialist
- Ease of use: simple web-based interface, cloud SaaS platform, minimal installation requirements, seamless integration with HIS
Key benefits
- Videoconferencing
- Clinical diagnostic & Radiological images sharing
- Integration with current clinical his
- Remote emergency diagnosis
- Online collaborative clinical reports
- Real-time media and whiteboard
Current stage of development
Pilot platform available and deployed in Public Hospitals
Applications and Market
Telemedicine, B2B medical communications. The platform is initially developed for dermatologic purposes, but it can be spread to other specialities with small adaptations.
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Based on the documentation at www.mprotator.com, I've got to respectfully disagree. This is one of MP Rotator's selling points, that all of thier products have matched precipitation rates so that you CAN mix them on the same circuit. Assuming square spacing, here's the precipitation rate ranges for the different products:To maintain matched precipitation rates (MPR), best not to mix MPR 10's 20's and or 30's on the same zone. The MPR denotes matched within a certain coverage, so all MPR 10's are matched, as are all MPR 20's but not a combination of 10s and 20's
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Off hand, can not think of a clean layout with even coverage with out placing heads on the street border. Maybe someone else can
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Russian Hacker Gets a Taste of His Own Malware
Oct 31, 2012 10:52 AM PT
After a persistent series of attacks on its government computers by a Russian hacker, the Republic of Georgia got mad and refused to take it anymore.
Source: Georgian CERT team report
In a reversal of roles, members of the country's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) suckered the cybermiscreant into downloading a file infected with his own spyware that allowed CERT to photograph the alleged hacker with his computer's webcam and ransack its hard drive for files.
The Georgian CERT team discovered the hacker's activity in March 2011. He was planting advanced malicious software on computers in Georgia and elsewhere that collected sensitive, confidential information about Georgian and American security documents, the team said.
"After investigating attackers' servers and malicious files, we have linked this cyberattack to Russian official security agencies," Georgian CERT reported.
Targeted Attacks
In the course of his espionage campaign, the report notes, the suspected Russian cyberspy infected 390 computers -- 70 percent of them in Georgia, 5 percent in the United States and another 10 percent in Canada, Ukraine, France, China, Germany and Russia.
Organizations targeted in Georgia included government ministries, its parliament, critical information infrastructures, banks and non-governmental organizations, the report says.
The attacks were highly targeted. For example, Web pages at Georgian news websites were infected based on content. Stories about NATO and Georgia, meetings and agreements between the United States and Georgia and Georgian military news were popular targets of the hacker.
The infected pages transferred malicious software to the computers of anyone who visited them, according to the report. When executed, the malware took control of an infected computer, searched documents it held for sensitive words, and captured video and audio from any computer that had a built-in camera and microphone.
Russian Secret Service Connection
The attacker had connections to the notorious Russian Business Network, a well-known perpetrator of nefarious activities on the Web, as well as to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, which includes the Federal Security Service (FSB), formerly the KGB, CERT alleged.
This site used by the hacker to control computers infected in Georgia belongs to the Russian Business Network, the CERT report asserts. A link to the network was also found embedded in the malware code used by the hacker.
In addition, the domain used by the hacker to send infected emails to Georgian targets during the phishing phase of his campaign was registered to someone with an address in the department of logistics at the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the report says. Prior to launching a military campaign against Georgia in 2008, the Russians subjected the country to a cyberattack.
The phishing phase of the spy campaign began after Georgian CERT blocked the connections to the servers receiving documents stolen by the hacker's spyware and cleaned up computers it had infected, according to a report by the IDG News Service.
Obscure File Evades Detection
The infected attachments in those phishing messages, IDG reported, were in a file format, XDP, that didn't raise red flags in antivirus scanners. XDP -- XML Data Package -- allows PDF files to be represented as XML. An XDP file can be opened in Adobe Reader and viewed as if it were a PDF file.
"It's a clever idea," Sophos Security Advisor Chet Wisniewski told TechNewsWorld. "It's a really obscure format. It's not used commonly, which means it's unlikely that an administrator would explicitly block it from an email."
The PDF specification supports many different functions and features, explained Kaspersky Lab Senior Researcher Roel Schouwenberg. Just the base PDF specification document is about 800 pages long.
"What the bad guys try to do is find and use features which aren't yet supported by the anti-malware PDF scanners," he told TechNewsWorld.
Antivirus Free Pass
Ironically, if the hacker had embedded his malware in a PDF file, most antivirus programs would have likely identified the attachment as malicious, because PDF files are often used to deliver malware, and antivirus programs are conditioned to treat them with suspicion, Wisniewski explained.
"Because XDP is still read and interpreted by Adobe Reader," he continued, "if there's a vulnerability in Adobe Reader that you might exploit in a PDF you can put that same exploit code into a XDP file, but an antivirus scanner would most likely not know what it was, and pass it through."
XDP has been linked in the past to targeted attacks, like those in Georgia. In his analysis of the format in June, security researcher Brandon Dixon discovered a number of infected attachments that appeared to be focused on sensitive government targets. The attachments had filenames like "military planning.xdp "and "secret service training.xdp."
"These were never disseminated through crimeware," he told TechNewsWorld. "It appeared to be targeted malware."
"It was someone trying to compromise a specific target, as opposed to a larger audience, such as your typical computer user," he added.