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Editor's Summary
For best results in website architecture and operation, the process of user experience design and taxonomy and metadata development should be synchronized, not developed in isolation. Bringing the two work streams together enables full consideration of how users, represented as personas, would interact with the site, pursuing likely needs and preferences. The persona review informs the technical infrastructure and functionality as well as the terminology and content types. Analysis of the site design and comparison with similar sites can lead to better appreciation of the user experience and expanded vocabulary links to improve access to content. The Key Paths methodology used by the design firm Factor captures likely user journeys to define design elements, allowing for multiple routes to appropriate content. Metadata must be available to support design, and functional design and content tagging must take advantage of metadata. The dynamic interaction and mutual support of the sites content team and design team are keys to an effective product.
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Bulletin, December 2012/January 2013
Special Section
Building User Experiences: Synchronizing User Experience Design and the Supporting Metadata and Taxonomy Infrastructure
by Carol A. Hert, Gary Carlson and Bram Wessel
Despite their best intentions, user experience designers and taxonomy and metadata developers have often found that their work is not well connected, even though both are highly interrelated. For example, a design might be proposed that needs segmentation of content by user role, but there may not be metadata associated with content that captures the role, resulting in the need for detailed review of content and hand coding to create the experience. Taxonomists might build a taxonomy for roles without knowing which roles the design uses, leading to over- or under-specification of the taxonomy. In our recent projects, Gary Carlson Consulting and Factor have been tightly integrating these two different work streams, assuring that the experience design and metadata and taxonomy infrastructure and their governance and maintenance are synchronized and integrated (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Integration of design and information.
Why bring these two different work streams into conjunction? Gary Carlson Consulting (GCC) is often asked to provide a metadata and taxonomy infrastructure in a practice we call technical content strategy development. Essentially, the job is to specify the information model (metadata components, taxonomies and business rules associated with those components) and its governance to support business goals, including enhanced user experiences for search, online shopping and other tasks. Meeting these business goals often requires a coherent enterprise-scale content strategy that depends heavily on this information model. Many user experience projects are also driven by these exact same goals. Factors human-centered experience design practice drives towards building experiences that, along with being driven by user goals, are implementable and maintainable without heroic efforts; that is, they rely on metadata and taxonomic structures to guide navigation as well as assure appropriate content provision. For example, we might recommend that a website provide a Company in the News component that is populated automatically via usage of metadata about content (in this case, date of creation and a content type of news release).
GCCs work is dependent on knowledge of the design what is the organization attempting to accomplish via what experiences? What navigational structures and key pathways are proposed? What stakeholders need to engage with and maintain the model? Factors design work must present content in relevant and context-sensitive user experiences. To develop the most effective design Factor relies on a shared understanding of information modeling considerations such as how content can be tagged, what content types are in use and what structured data can be incorporated into the experience.
Both teams have found that working in isolation from each other means that relevant information does not get shared at the right time, the technical content strategy can be divorced from the end design and the end design either doesnt fully exploit available metadata or is reliant on information about content and users that is not easily inferred. The result of not integrating these two practices is often that a project may meet the defined goals in the short term, but that the long-term success is placed in jeopardy due to a lack of coordination of the user design and the information model. How does our approach work in practice? Well look at several examples of typical work products used by both teams to indicate the connections.
Example 1: Informing Technical Infrastructure through Persona Review
Personas represent the human in human-centered design. They are the means through which user goals, mental models and information needs are captured in believable narratives and expressed in effective experience designs. The technical content strategy team can also use personas to inform types of taxonomies to build and to identify metadata elements. Figure 2 shows a persona for a commercial site selling nutritional and health products without taxonomy.
Figure 2. Persona for a commercial site selling nutritional and health products without taxonomy
The technical content strategy teams review extracts potential taxonomies, content types and functionality that would support this personas experience. In Figure 3 below, we highlight insights from the persona that directly inform the information model.
Figure 3. Persona for a commercial site selling nutritional and health products with taxonomy
Example 2: Design Informs Taxonomy Development
As part of a recent web project, a taxonomy of audience types was needed for an educational institution that had a large and diverse undergraduate population. The technical content strategy team initiated the work stream by reviewing the existing website along with sites of comparable institutions and by conducting research interviews with the client project team. As the design team began developing personas, defining the design and modeling the user experience, the aforementioned research and analysis suggested that the undergraduate population was quite diverse and needed multiple entry points and paths through the content. This, in turn, led to further specification in the taxonomy to assure tagged content could support the experience as shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Revisions to the taxonomy of audience types
Example 3: Extracting Metadata Requirements from Key Paths
A methodology used by Factors design team is to model user journeys through content in order to articulate design components. The resulting key paths are critical to the technical content strategy team to confirm that the information model includes the right content types, taxonomies and related functionality to segment content for automatic provision. Below is a snippet of a key path modeling the journey of a medical patient who has some symptoms of a condition and wants to understand treatment options. The path indicates several possible entry points and types of content/experiences to be provided. From the technical content strategy teams perspective, the flow provides further insight into needed content types: articles on conditions, discussion groups and potentially a directory of doctors or an online form to input conditions, symptoms or treatments to find doctors. Additionally, the path indicates that taxonomies for conditions, symptoms and likely treatments will be needed and that they need to be related to each other and to doctors that specialize in those areas.
Figure 4. An example of a key path
These examples capture the synergistic relationship of the design and technical content strategy teams throughout the integrated process. The technical content strategy team determines the answers to questions such as:
- Can the information model support the information delivery specified by the design?
- Do all the taxonomies exist and are they up-to-date?
- Do the taxonomies support the design experience?
- When taxonomies are exposed in the design (for example, in navigational aids) is terminology appropriate for the users?
- Can the desired relationships between taxonomies and content be modeled?
- Are the relationships well enough defined to be applied to the concepts?
- Do we have the business rules needed to drive content to for the experience?
The design term is better able to answer questions such as
- Can the design be executed effectively and efficiently via available metadata?
- Is the content tagged and managed such that it can be implemented in the design?
- Are all the required taxonomies in place and up-to-date?
- Do the tags support the design goals?
- Are our templates for content creation synched to the content types?
- Do we have access to the correct metadata to support search, navigation and other design aspects?
- Does the correct information model exist?
- Does the technical infrastructure allow search and navigation functionality to access the information model in a viable and scalable manner?
- Are the systems using the information model synchronized appropriately?
These examples provide a very brief sense of some of our points of integration. We also work jointly on ongoing maintenance, including strategy and implementation of editorial and information model governance. Again, these two need to be synchronized to support our customers needs for appropriate and sustainable designs.
We have found that by tightly integrating our efforts both teams and clients benefit. The experience design team builds designs that are sustainable and manageable using available metadata, and the technical content strategy team has full access to the design considerations that drive its work. The customer gets a design that is resonant with the organizations goals and implementable over both the short and long term of the project.
The ideas referenced in this article benefited in part from work conducted by the authors under a brand-licensing agreement with The FatDux Group.
Carol A. Hert is senior taxonomist and business analyst at Gary Carlson Consulting. She can be reached at carol<at>garycarlsonconsulting.com.
Gary Carlson is the principal of Gary Carlson Consulting. He can be reached at gary<at>garycarlsonconsulting.com.
Bram Wessel is experience strategist and principal at Factor. He can be reached at bram<at>factorfirm.com.
Articles in this Issue
Taxonomies in Practice Introduction
Evaluating Classification Schema and Classification Decisions
Case Study: Developing the PLOS Thesaurus
Building User Experiences: Synchronizing User Experience Design and the Supporting Metadata and Taxonomy Infrastructure
Indexing Electronic Medical Records Using a Taxonomy
Building a Taxonomy for Auto-classification
Building Controlled Vocabularies for Metadata Harmonization
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President's Page: Andrew Dillon
IA: On What Assumptions Do You Base Your Thinking? Contextual Challenges and Strategic Possibilities
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09.23.12: The No. 12 ranked (NSCAA DI poll) CCRI women's soccer team faced off against the No. 6 ranked (NJCAA DI poll) Lady Tribunes of Monroe Community College from Rochester, NY on Sunday at the CCRI soccer complex in Lincoln. The Lady Knights lost to the Lady Tribunes 5-2. With the loss the Lady Knights drop to 5-2-1 on the season.
As play began in the first half CCRI couldn't seem to get on track as Monroe dominated play scoring two quick goals in the first 15 minutes of the game. In the 9th minute of play Lady Tribune freshman forward Alison Sharpe scored the first Monroe goal on an assist from Natalie Rogers making the score 1-0 MCC. Five minutes later Monroe struck again on a goal from Margaret Doyle giving the Tribunes a 2-0 advantage. In the 23rd minute Monroe put CCRI into a deep hole scoring their third goal of the half making the score 3-0. The Lady Knights fought hard and had some chances but the Monroe goalkeeper Chloe Crook made a great save laterally diving and palming the ball that was placed low and to the left corner of the goal.
As the second half of play began the Monroe forwards once again pressured the CCRI defense. Freshman Alison Sharpe connected for her second goal of the match in just the third minute giving Monroe a commanding 4-0 lead. However the Lady Knights did not give up continuing to work hard creating a corner kick opportunity. Sophomore Tri-Captain Cait McGarry (Warwick, RI) took the corner kick and fellow Sophomore Tri-Captain Brittany LeClair (Westerly, RI) scored off of a scramble in front of the Monroe goal getting CCRI on the board making the score 4-1 in the 10th minute of play in the second half. The teams battled back and forth for the next 20 minutes with both teams having chances. In the 39th minute of play freshman midfielder Betti Worth (Manchester, England) gave a nice pass to Cait McGarry who sent a perfectly placed shot low and into the left corner of the Monroe goal beating freshman goalkeeper Paige Buchholtz who had relieved Chloe Crook in the Monroe net. The Lady Knights seemed to have some life being down 4-2 but Monroe's sophomore captain Natalie Rogers put an end to the Lady Knights hopes scoring an unassisted goal giving the Tribunes a commanding three goal lead making the final score 5-2.
Head Coach Dennis Grassini commented after the game" Even though we lost today we are proud of our kids as they never once gave up. We had some quality chances today and the score at one point could have easily been 4-4. Betti Worth played just outstanding today winning every ball that came near her. In the second half she struck a beautiful shot from 30 yards out that rang off the top crossbar of the Monroe goal. If that went in I believe it could have changed the game. Our kids fought hard today but unfortunately came up short. Monroe historically is always a battled for us and today was not our day. Sometimes you need some luck and we didn't have any today".
The next game for the Lady Knights will be Wednesday the 26th when they will host the No. 6 ranked (NJCAA DIII poll) Cougars of Holyoke Community College for a Region XXI non-league game this will be a showdown between the top Division I and Division III Region XXI women's soccer squads.
The Community College of Rhode Island, New England's largest comprehensive community college, enrolls 17,760 students in credit courses and thousands more in non-credit and job training classes. Its athletic program boasts 12 varsity programs and an academic support program for all student-athletes.
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(BPT) - With colder temperatures forecast across the country, activities are moving indoors, and families are preparing to celebrate time-honored traditions and new beginnings.
Boxes of decorations, candles and strings of lights will be unpacked and spread throughout homes. Seasonal family feasts will be prepared. While intentions are great to keep safety top of mind when decorating and entertaining throughout the cold weather months, fun and frolic often take precedence.
A hazard that usually is the furthest from one's mind – fire – is one of the easiest home risks to address. More fires and fire deaths occur during the winter than during any other time of year. Before your company arrives this year, perform a three-step home fire safety check to ensure your family and friends aren't at risk.
Do you hear what I hear?
Six in 10 homeowners have left their smoke alarms without a working battery, according to a recent survey from Kidde, putting their families at great risk. Failing to replace batteries when alerted by a smoke alarm's low battery chirp could have tragic results. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) cites missing or disconnected batteries as the main reason smoke alarms fail to operate in residential fires. Two-thirds of all home fire deaths occur in homes with either no smoke alarm or no working alarm.
To take the burden of battery changing off consumers, fire experts recommend installing smoke alarms powered by 10-year, sealed-in batteries.
"Overall, smoke alarms have been cited as a great success story in this country's efforts to reduce fire death rates, but persistent problems continue to hamper our ability to reduce home fire deaths," says J. William Degnan, state fire marshal, New Hampshire, and president of the National Association of State Fire Marshals. "Consumers with battery-operated smoke alarms should use 10-year batteries in tamper-resistant units to help ensure that they will have that early warning if it is needed."
While cooking is the leading cause of home fires and injuries, only 25 percent of U.S. households have a kitchen fire extinguisher on hand to help contain or extinguish a small fire. With countless family meals to be prepared during the winter months, having a fire extinguisher within reach is a must. To select a fire extinguisher for your kitchen, look for a unit listed to meet the UL 711A standard, which indicates the unit has been tested on the oils that are used every day to cook meat and vegetables.
Escape to safety
With extra decorations filling rooms and many guests visiting your home throughout the winter, it's critical to have and practice a fire escape plan with your family. When placing decorations, never block exits and always know at least two ways out of your home. To ensure you are ready for the most difficult fire situation, practice your escape plan during the day and at night.
As you prioritize your holiday to do list, remember that a few hours of prevention today could save a life tomorrow.


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Whether cooking with FlavorDoctor or shaking it on at the dinner table, it will melt into the food smoothly, enriching its flavor while helping to reduce the unhealthy consumption of excessive sodium.


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The Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems group SPECS is a multidisciplinary group founded in 2005 by ICREA Research Professor Paul Verschure. SPECS is part of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona. In 2012 SPECS became a member of the Centre for Neuro-Robotics and Autonomous Systems, N-RAS, a new UPF Research Centre coordinated by Paul Verschure. ....read more
In 2014 SPECS has created the spin-off company "Eodyne"


text: The fifth annual Mother's Day 5k Run/Walk, "Run for 'Her' Life," was held on Mother's Day (May 9). The event, sponsored by Moberly Radiology and Imaging, began with a Silent Auction on May 8. Bright and early Sunday morning, over 850 participants gathered outside Moberly Radiology and Imaging, as well as on the MRMC campus, to begin the walk/run west on Union Ave. Lori Turk is chairperson of the committee, consisting of Cheryl Spotts (a seven-year cancer survivor), Carol Schauffler, Neisha Haviston, and Shan Schauffler (known for wearing a pink tu-tu). Watch the MMI for a final tally of monies raised. Proceeds go to the Randolph County Health Department, providing mammograms to those who live or work in the county that are otherwise unable to afford testing.


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On Rolfe's Poems about McCarthyism
Walter Kalaidjian
n his last uncollected and unpublished poems, Rolfe's dramatic monologue and epistolary forms parody the mad masquerade of political passing in the McCarthy era. Poems such as "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been," "Letter," and "A Letter to the Denouncers" dwell on the destinies of those who cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee in "recanting" their former lives and naming onetime comrades. In portraying the social casualties of the Red Scare, the poet reveals the ill fate of moral collapse, ethical compromise, and spiritual defeat that went hand-in-hand with the loss of the core social commitments forged two decades earlier in the Depression era. "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been' ironically reverses the discursive conventions and civic rituals of committee inquisition. The poem takes its title, of course, from the key question put to all those who were subpoenaed to appear before HUAC. In the early days of the Martin Dies Committee, the question was simply "Are you a member of the Communist Party of the United States?" To undermine this line of interrogation, the Party launched the countermeasure of automatically canceling one's membership upon having to respond so that one could truthfully answer "No" without risk of perjury. Making the line of questioning retroactive allowed HUAC, in turn, to circumvent this Ploy (Dmytryk 59, n.3). The famous nickname of this query, the so-called "Sixty-four-dollar question," reflects the Committee's theatrical politics borrowed from the spectacle of game shows that came into their heyday with the advent of TV. In Rolfe's poetic drama, the accused confesses to the crime of succumbing to "a moment of pity/ a vulnerable second of sympathy" (Collected 254). "My defenses were down," the speaker pleads to the charges of having supported clemency for six black defendants, made a modest donation for refugee relief, and demonstrated for rent control. Rolfe's poem stages how in the 1950s simple altruism, human empathy, and social solidarity, put one supremely at risk, framed as they are here as grounds for state sedition.
Tellingly, this defendant's plea for leniency internalizes the Cold War cultural logic that placed communal ethics and social commitment at odds with domestic conformity, self-reliance, possessive individualism, and traditional, family values:
but please believe me
everything I did was done through weakness if you will
but it's strange how weakness of this kind snowballs
before they approached me with that innocent petition
I was may it please the court exactly
like you like every other man
I lived my own life solely suffered
only my own sorrows and enjoyed my own triumphs
small ones I grant you
asked nothing from
gave nothing to
any man
except myself my wife my children (Collected 254)
The ideological clash between the privatized, nuclear family and the democratic polis persisted throughout the postwar era and could be heard, for example, in the 1996 Republican Presidential Convention when nominee Bob Dole insisted that "It takes a family" to raise a child, thereby signifying his party's contempt for the rhetorical figure of community featured in Hillary Rodham Clinton's 1996 book It Takes a Village: and Other Lessons Children Teach Us.
In a similar dramatization of the Red Scare's shaping of everyday life in the 1950s, "Letter" blurs the boundary between the public and domestic confessional in a husband's note to his spouse explaining the circumstances of his own impending committee summons. Employing the epistolary conventions of intimacy, privacy, and sincerity, Rolfe draws the reader into sympathy with the father's ethical concern for his family's well-being, faced with the impending fiscal hardships and civic scandal of committee interrogation. Here he advises his wife to "send the children up to Jim's in the country" so as to avoid "the cruelty of their classmates, possibly even their teachers" (Collected 256). Such familial care is ironically undercut, however, in the letter's final instructions that are telling in their social and self betrayals:
And third--and this is most important--
find out who those people were--
the people who asked me to sign that letter,
who asked me for that small contribution,
who prompted me to join the demonstration.
By the time I return
I want to know them better
I have lots of questions to ask
many things to find out
and they're the ones I have a hunch
who can tell me everything I want to know. (Collected 256)
In its turn to black humor as a psychic defense against Red Scare repression, Rolfe's late verse resists his moment's pervasive cultural pressure to disavow communal allegiances in favor of the socially restrictive simulacra of civic normalcy, sexual conformity, upward class mobility, as well as gender and race subordination that were all sanctioned in the new phenomenon of the suburban nuclear family. As an ideological figure of containment, the white middle-class patriarchal household of the 195os--as promoted, not insignificantly, by the spectacle of television and the burgeoning mass media--served as the domestic counterpart to America's emergent foreign policy doctrine of the containment of global Communism: the "malignant parasite" diagnosed as early as February 22, 1946 in George Kennan's so-called "Long Telegram" of eight thousand words from Moscow to the State Department. Moreover, as a habitas of social reproduction, the all-American family effectively displaced alternative identities whose social foundations rest on class, sexual, gender, and racial difference. Adopting the solicitous address of postwar advertising and bureaucratic speaking, Rolfe hails the would-be subject of upright civic virtue as itself a paranoid figure of state surveillance: "Sir, as you start for work each morning, please,/ check,your clothes-closet for skeletons,/ your dreams for inconsistencies,/ the radio in your car for microphones" (Collected 258). Not dissimilar to the kind of black humor we have come to value in Kenneth Fearing's caustic Depression-era verse. Rolfe's amusing parodies of middle-class phobias baffle the extreme, psychopolitical states of postwar cultural suspicion, paranoia, and terror otherwise registered in "Bal Masque" and "All Ghouls' Night."
In an era when poetic formalism served the New Critical mission of neutralizing socially committed verse, Rolfe's use of fixed forms to voice his most subversive commentaries on American life marks a key appropriation of traditional measures for political protest. Indeed, at the level of form, the rhyming couplets of "Little Ballad for Americans--1954" perform an implicit parody of the kind of poetic artifice that, in the fifties, defined the conservative New Critical hegemony in academic verse. Rather perversely, Rolfe turns such formalism against itself not only to capture the reigning paranoia of the Red Scare:
Student, student, keep mouth shut and brain spry
Your best friend Dick Merriwell's employed by the F.B.I.
but also, to succinctly push the mass-mediated spectacular logic of McCarthyism to its dehumanizing conclusion:
Give full allegiance only to circuses and bread;
No person's really trustworthy until he's dead. (Collected 260)
Similarly, in "Pastoral--1954" formalism drives home the point in Rolfe's ironic collapsing of two antithetical cultural moments, thereby clarifying the political divide separating Republican Spain from Republican America:
Who used to lie with his love
In the glade, far from the battlesector,
Now lies embraced by a lie-detector
And can not, dare not, move. (Collected 259)
In such savvy formalist measures, Rolfe masterfully marks the break between the passionate thirties and the paralyzed fifties: between the organicism of international socialist commitment and the paranoia of state surveillance.
Part of why Rolfe matters to 20th-Century American poetry is the sheer endurance of his political stances that bridge the interbellum and postwar decades. Moreover, Rolfe's evolving continuity of poetic strategies counters the persistent critical tendency to periodize modern poetry as a discrete domain cut off from contemporary American verse. In this shaping of American poetics, the postwar years typically belong to New Criticism, whose ahistorical formalism prevails up through the advent of the Beat and Black mountain movements anthologized in Donald Allen's The New American Poetry (1960). For too long that narrative of academic containment has backgrounded Rolfe's crucial linkage of the politically engaged project of Depression-era verse to the haunted cultural poetics of McCarthyism and the Cold War era. Edwin Rolfe: Collected Poems and Edwin Rolfe: Trees Became Torches will go a long way toward remedying that neglected literary history. The revival of the Rolfe corpus now restores a central voice to the American left--one whose speaking remains, for those of us who forward his work, "passionate, clean, untarnished by small fears" (Collected 248).
By Walter Kalaidjian. Reprinted from College Literature. Copyright © 1998 by Walter Kalaidjian.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 18 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
Intov8 is an industry leading software provider to the mining sector in Australia and world-wide. It offers a unique reporting and analysis platform to track mine data across multiple mine sites. Currently the majority of mines capture this data manually on excel spreadsheets.
Mining professionals - data analysts, management, engineers, line managers, boards, ceos. Mining professionals would rather be "out on the floor" of the mine in "operations" than stuck behind a desk capturing mine data (such as how much stock piles they have in reserve or how much stock they are moving per hour). They get caught in the administration because they do not know such software like what intov8 offers even exists. They waste a lot of time re-entering data into excel from multiple spreadsheets from multiple sources every month where human error is always a concern and data entry fatigue a problem. Intov8's software resolves all these issues and more.
Intov8 has two logos, a pixel based one with great bevelling/shadowing and a vector based one with less bevel effect because of Illustrator's inability to replicate the Photoshop effect.
The only existing branding is that of the website http://www.intov8.com.au however as this was created by a company no longer in the picture we do not have access to any print quality backgrounds/branding for use in our brochure.
Looking for a corporate design that appeals to the "rough" blokey mining male - follow the website as much as possible in the design of the overall look and feel.
CMYK colours are Orange 0 65 100 0 (Pantone 151c), Blue 87 66 0 0 (Pantone 285c).
Happy for you to be creative in either a 3 panel or 2 panel layout but please create on A4/A3 with bleeds, not Letter size. I will require the original InDesign or Illustrator source file. I have attached mining images for you to utilise in your design.
Five main sections to the brochure: About/Live Data Feeds/Central Data Management/xConnect/Support.
I like image based designs most, and you will see attached an example of our exhibition stand as an example.
Corporate fonts are Calibri and Cambria.
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Luxury Lodges and Mouthwatering Cuisine
What's better than coming home from a day of hiking to a hot stone massage or a soak in a bubbly natural hot spring? How about topping it it off with a sumptuous meal made with fresh, regional fare and a glass of fine local wine?
If you ask us, nothing.
We've found some gems
At Austin Adventures, we're constantly searching for the best accommodations each of our destinations has to offer. And by "best" we don't necessarily mean the most exclusive, the biggest or most expensive – we look instead for intimate, locally run inns, lodges, B&Bs and resorts whose unique charm and history give our guests a true feel for the region. Each of our properties offers surprising luxury with an absence of pretension. From claw-foot tubs to wood-fired saunas and overstuffed pillows, we'll indulge you in all the comforts – and then some.
A true taste of local flavor
Half the fun of an Austin Adventures vacation is our mouth-watering food! Jump start each day with a delicious, high-energy breakfast. In the evening, it's a 5-star restaurant, a campfire barbecue, a trip to a local hotspot or a candle-lit dinner in a private wine cellar. Typically, you'll order exactly what you want, right off the menu. A variety of selections will easily accommodate all diets, even for the pickiest of eaters. And if you enjoy a fine wine or local microbrew at the close of your day, you've come to the right place.
Even our trailside lunches are something special
Who'd have thought boxed lunches and trail mix could be gourmet? Our guides know exactly where to find farm-fresh produce, homemade breads, hand-churned ice cream and wood-fired pizza. Enjoy artfully-prepared picnics and snacks in the most remote and loveliest places.
"Excellent job of picking the restaurants and eating establishments. We appreciated that all of the dining choices were at local places and not chains."
~ Todd Shermon, Colorado
"The restaurant at Chico Hot Springs was amazing! The menu, service and ambiance were all 5-star!"
~ Leonard Nadeau, Florida
"The AA food was amazing! The guides put my home cooked meals to shame!"
~ Carrie Iafrate, Michigan
"Every time we take a trip with Austin Adventures, the locations, the food and the accommodations all come together to form the perfect adventure vacation. With perfection like this AA will keep us coming back for more!"
~ Ron & Sandy Kelly, Ohio
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News & Observer - Unless DC finds alternative to sequester, NC faces new budget cuts
By Renee Schoof
WASHINGTON — When Congress returns to Washington after Thanksgiving, budget negotiations will be getting down to the wire on a deal for next year's federal spending.
Without an agreement in December, North Carolina and the nation could be facing a second round of the automatic spending cuts known as sequestration. Those indiscriminate cuts have had ripple effects on the state in many areas, including Head Start, highways, research, meals for low-income seniors and the defense industry.
The impacts ahead are hard to predict. Budget negotiators from the Senate and House of Representatives could reach a deal. Congress also could change the terms of the sequester cuts. Or another stop-gap spending bill could continue the same level of cuts. A second year of automatic cuts could be deeper than the first because last year's cuts began March 1, but the second year's cuts under the 2011 Budget
Control Act would be for a full year, said Alexandra Forter Sirota, director of the Budget and Tax Center in Raleigh.
It also would follow cuts by the state legislature.
"The combined effect of federal and state cuts is going to be devastating," Sirota said.
Susan Reynolds of Fayetteville, whose husband is in the military at Pope Field, said she hears concerns about how the military must make do with less but still perform its mission.
"We are also seeing cuts in the military to family support, to facilities on post that need repair and may not be repaired as quickly as before, to lack of landscaping, longer waits at the clinics and hospitals, all of that too," she said in an email.
"I find it stressful," she added. "I really feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop."
Nationwide, sequestration reduced defense and non-defense spending by $80 billion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30.
Last year the White House Office of Management and Budget made predictions by state on the effects of the cuts. It's still too early to say to what extent those things happened on a state level, OMB spokesmen said.
But some impacts reported elsewhere include:
HEAD START – Last year 1,346 fewer children were signed up in North Carolina due to the cuts, out of a total of about 28,600 the previous year, the National Head Start Association, an advocacy group, reported.
In Durham County, Head Start, the federal government's main program for children from birth to 5 in poor families, serves 42 fewer children because of the cuts, said Laura Benson, executive director of Durham's Partnership for Children, a nonprofit group that runs the county's Early Head Start program.
RESEARCH – Less federal money for the National Institute of Health and other federal agencies cuts into what Triangle scientists can do.
Federal funding cuts were discussed earlier this month at a conference of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities in Washington.
Chris Brown, vice president for research and graduate education at the University of North Carolina, said grants to the university system were reduced by about $50 million last year.
"In some instances, a university can backfill, but not for a long time," he said.
MILITARY – Nationwide, the cuts reduced the military budget by $37 billion in 2013. If there's no deal to replace sequestration and Congress doesn't change the spending caps, the military budget for 2014 will be $52 billion below the president's requested amount, which was $527 billion, according to the Pentagon.
"Sequestration was very hard on this community when it happened last year," said Fort Bragg spokesman Ben Abel. The vast majority of civilian Defense Department workers were furloughed for six days with no pay.
There are about 109,000 active duty personnel, 27,000 defense civilian workers and 38,000 members of the military reserves in North Carolina, according to the state Commerce Department. The agency said it has not done any study of the impacts of the federal budget cuts.
Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Ray Odierno told the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this month that if Congress doesn't ease them next year and beyond, the Army will be forced to downsize. Further sequester cuts, he added, "will have drastic impacts across all aspects of Army readiness in training, equipment sustainment and modernization, military and civilian manning, and installation support."
AFFORDABLE HOUSING – If sequestration continues in 2014, 3,644 to 5,208 fewer families will receive housing vouchers in North Carolina by the end of 2014, compared to the number who got them at the end of 2012, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington estimated. The federal vouchers help low-income households be able to afford to rent modest housing on the private market.
Rep. David Price, D-N.C., a member of the House Appropriations Committee, said that more automatic cuts would be "devastating for many things in North Carolina that we care about."
"I'm not talking about indiscriminate spending. I'm talking about just the opposite of that," the Chapel Hill Democrat said in an interview on Wednesday in Washington. "I'm talking about a rational process that yes, has adequate resources but also makes those choices deliberately and doesn't just leave it to some kind of automatic mechanism."
Congress left Washington for a break that began Friday. The House returns Dec. 3, the Senate Dec. 9. That means that both House and Senate members of the budget conference committee will have about a week to get a final deal before a Dec. 13 deadline.
Obama and Democrats want what they call a balanced budget deal with both spending cuts and additional revenues. Republicans have insisted on no new taxes.
Rep. Renee Ellmers, R-N.C., whose district includes Fort Bragg, said in a statement she had voted for bills in the House of Representatives that would "prevent the military from shouldering the load of these cuts." Those measures, which were blocked in the Senate, would have continued non-defense cuts and allowed for them to extend to mandatory programs, such as Medicare.
The automatic cuts on defense and other types of spending were put in place under the 2011 Budget Control Act. The law set up a congressional committee to propose a deficit reduction plan. The committee failed, triggering a 10-year period of automatic cuts to reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion. Price and others on the Appropriations Committee would like the budget negotiators to give them a budget figure so that they could craft separate appropriations bills and roll them into one spending bill. Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and all 12 Republican subcommittee chairmen wrote to the budget conference committee on Nov. 18, asking them to agree to the annual spending limit so that their committee could get to work. The Republican appropriations leaders wrote that if an agreement can't be reached in time, "the likely alternatives could have extremely damaging repercussions." They said that these would include a possible shutdown or another stop-gap spending bill and another round of automatic cuts that "could have negative consequences on critically important federal programs, especially our national defense."


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In the aftermath of the NCUA's release of second-quarter data, several interesting pieces made their way to my inbox last week. One analysis that stirred quite a bit of debate came from The Financial Brand, stating that if current merger and closure trends continue, there will be half the number of credit unions in existence two decades from now.
The stat just stands there, neither positive nor negative. It's simply exhibited naked to the world. The number of credit unions with less than $100 million in assets has declined by more than 2,200 between 2007 and 2012. Meanwhile, the credit unions with more than $1 billion in assets have increased by 71 to 194, but they only represent 2.7% of credit unions. Credit unions under the $100 million threshold represent 79.6% of credit unions, down from 85%, according to The Financial Brand.
The figures are what they are. The only way to change them is to increase the relevancy at the lagging smaller credit unions (and a couple of the larger ones, too) that members apparently feel are irrelevant. Simple denial that many smaller credit unions are unable to serve their members needs isn't going to fix the problem.
With strong and intelligent leadership and barring extreme situations, nearly every credit union of any size can be healthy. For example, Glatt Consulting's latest HealthScore showed the top 90th percentile of credit unions averaging $601 million in assets, but the minimum asset size for the healthiest of credit unions (based on 11 different criteria) was just $975,000 in assets. Survival isn't entirely about having scale–but it sure can help, as the trends of larger credit unions have demonstrated.
The bottom 10th percentile represented just 1% of the assets, so it's not a huge risk to the insurance fund, but it also represents more than 10% of the industry. Would these 754 credit unions be missed by anyone (other than the employees, unfortunately) if they were gone tomorrow?
The least healthy credit unions aren't all small, for those who think I pick on them. The largest credit union in this category holds more than $371 million in assets. Size isn't necessarily the savior.
Conversely, despite the number of smaller credit unions, The Financial Brand found that credit unions' overall membership growth of 1.5 million or 1.62% has been fueled primarily by the largest 100 credit unions. Approximately 84% of net membership growth occurred at the largest 100 credit unions. More than 30% of credit union members belong to these 100 credit unions, an increase from 28.6% just two years prior. Not surprisingly, these credit unions also represent 45.3% of the industry's asset growth.
If these credit unions are gaining so many members and assets, it stands to reason some are heading in the other direction. Membership at credit unions with less than $100 million in assets are losing members, to the tune of approximately 1 million per year between 2007 and 2012 (more than 2 million between 2009 and 2010) for a total negative growth rate of 6 million members.
That figure is before accounting for population growth in the U.S., which according to Wikipedia was 0.91% for the 12 months ending July 2011, based on U.S. Census data. That negative 6 million is even worse than it appears. And these credit unions have lost more than $5 billion in assets during that time.
Of course there are many really great credit unions with less than $100 million in assets, but for the others, small or large, negative membership and asset growth is not a sustainable business model.
That doesn't spell the doom for existing small credit unions. Certainly during that time some grew their way over the $100 million hump, including by merger.
Credit unions of all varieties are necessary to maintain a healthy system. As Ron Shevlin of Aite Group pointed on in his comments posted to Mt. Lehman Credit Union General Manager Gene Blishen's Tinfoiling.com blog in response to The Financial Brand's analysis, he refers to all industries and businesses as an ecosystem where symbiotic relationships abound.
The metaphor is particularly apt for cooperative industries where smaller credit unions get advocacy, compliance, back-office and other assistance from larger credit unions and third-party vendors, and smaller credit unions provide the mom and pop feel to take up to members of Congress and talk about legislative and regulatory burden. All are capable of being worthy and need each other.
As an aside, despite the predictions that the branch is dead, the larger credit unions are increasing their branch networks as the rest of the industry decreases its number of branches. In 2012, the number of credit union branches actually decreased for the first time. The Financial Brand rightly surmises that 2011 was the likely peak of the branch.


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It was the kind of achievement worth celebrating, or at least acknowledging.
But when Cowboys tight end Jason Witten broke the franchise record for receptions last week, it barely made a ripple.
Of course, it came on the road, near the end of a loss that dropped them to 3-5, which is why Witten himself didn't realize it until afterward. Witten topped Michael Irvin's 750 catches in the middle of a no-huddle drive in the fourth quarter.
"One day when I look back at it, I want to show this record the respect it deserves," Witten told Alex Marvez of FOXSports.com. "I am humbled to break it. A lot of great skill players have worn the [Cowboys] star on their helmets.
"To say I'm the leading receiver is special, but my focus has always been on the team and helping us win."
If they don't win tomorrow's game against the Eagles, the goals they set this year will be hard to meet, as the two 3-5 teams share a desperation.
"We're still a confident group," Witten said. "We've had three or four really close games and were just barely on the losing end. We have to execute better, obviously. It's going to be a fight going to Philly because we know their backs are against the wall, too."
If Witten can find open spaces the way Saints tight end Jimmy Graham did Monday night (eight catches, 72 yards, one touchdown), the Cowboys will have a much better chance.
Witten still leads all tight ends with 58 receptions for 538 yards, amazing considering the lacerated spleen he suffered in the preseason, and an early stretch of out-of-character drops.
"I've played well," Witten said. "I had a couple of drops early on after my spleen injury, but since then, I've put that behind me. Tony and I are completing a high percentage of passes between us. I'd like to have more opportunities in the red zone to score, but I feel like we're locked in."
Now with the individual goals checked off, turning around a season gone awry remains his first priority.


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Cookie Monster has a deep, growly voice, and generally speaks with simplistic diction, saying everything with "me" - for instance, "Me want cookie!", as opposed to "I want a cookie!" (though in early seasons, Cookie spoke the other way around, and only occasionally would "me" slip in). Cookie occasionally displays an unexpectedly complex vocabulary, however, and is at his most gentrified when in his Alistair Cookie persona, hosting Monsterpiece Theater.
Jim Henson's Designs and Doodles explains Cookie Monster's early life: "In 1966, Henson drew three monsters who appeared in a General Foods commercial that featured three crunchy snack foods: Wheels, Crowns and Flutes. Each snack was represented by a different monster. The Wheel-Stealer was a short, fuzzy monster with wonky eyes and sharply pointed teeth. The Flute-Snatcher was a speed demon with a long, sharp nose and windblown hair. The Crown-Grabber was a hulk of a monster with a Boris Karloff accent and teeth that resembled giant knitting needles.
"These monsters had insatiable appetites for the snack foods they were named after. Each time the Muppet narrator, a human-looking fellow, fixes himself a tray of Wheels, Flutes and Crowns, they disappear before he can eat them. One by one, the monsters sneak in and zoom away with the snacks. Frustrated and peckish, the narrator warns viewers that these pesky monsters could be disguised as someone in your own home, at which point the monsters briefly turn into people and then dissolve back to monsters again."
As it turns out, the commercial was never aired — but all three monsters had a future in the Muppet cast. The Crown-Grabber was used in an Ed Sullivan Show sketch, in which he ruins a girl's beautiful day. Known from then on as the Beautiful Day Monster, he made a number of appearances on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show. The Flute-Snatcher turned into Snake Frackle, a background monster from The Great Santa Claus Switch and The Muppet Show.
And then there's the Wheel-Stealer, who was destined for greater things.
In 1967, Henson used the Wheel-Stealer puppet for an IBM training film called "The Coffee Break Machine." In the sketch, the monster devoured a complex machine as the machine described its purpose and construction. His greed gets the better of him, however, as the machine's recording continues (within his stomach), announcing that it is wired to self-destruct. The monster promptly explodes. This sketch was also performed in October 1967 on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Two years later, a similar-looking puppet (sans teeth) was used for three commercials selling Munchos, a Frito-Lay potato chip. This time, the monster was called Arnold. After the three ads were produced, Henson had the opportunity to renew the contract. He chose not to, because at that point he was working on Sesame Street -- and that monster puppet was moving on to the next stage in his career.
Sesame StreetEdit
The monster gained his signature blue fur when he first appeared on Sesame Street as a generic unnamed character with an undefined personality. Early on in the show's first season, he often played the role of a toddler who got in the way of everything without thinking, acting fussy when he didn't get his way, and was scolded whenever he ate Kermit's property during lectures. Ironically, in these early appearances, Cookie seemed somewhat scary to younger viewers, as he personified the childhood fear of "being eaten by a monster."
A defining moment in Cookie's evolution was a skit written by then head-writer Jeff Moss, in which the googly-eyed monster kept nipping at Ernie's milk and cookie. Sesame Street Unpaved, Another breakthrough, according to Jon Stone, was a game show sketch where the winning contestant (who was actually a different furry blue monster) chose a cookie over other luxurious prizes. Ultimately, this craving would be fully integrated into his character (and his name) by the second season. With that, Cookie Monster quickly became one of the most popular and beloved characters on the show. Cookie Monster's theme song, "C is for Cookie," is one of the most famous songs from Sesame Street.
In Sesame Street Magazine (May 1985), CTW's associate research director Istar Schwager allayed the fears of some parents about Cookie Monster's bad habits: "Each of the characters on Sesame Street is designed to exaggerate a familiar human foible, and Cookie Monster is babyishness personified... When parents object to Cookie Monster's grammar, we remind them that children learn from a variety of sources -- including other Sesame Street characters who speak properly. Cookie's eating habits, too, are a point of concern for some parents. The inedible things that Cookie eats (a car fender!) make it clear to children that his behavior is out of the ordinary. Other characters, such as Captain Vegetable, of course, are vocal advocates of good eating habits."
Arlene Sherman recalled in a 1998 Museum of Television and Radio seminar; "We used to have a typist that corrected Cookie Monster's grammar!"
When Sesame Street's format changed in 2002, Cookie Monster hosted a regular segment called "Letter of the Day." In each episode he is presented with a cookie, upon which is written the letter of the day, in icing (and later, actual foam letters). Despite his best intentions, and various implausible schemes, he always succumbs to temptation.
To counter concerns that the character encourages poor eating habits, a number of "Healthy Habits for Life" segments and plotlines were introduced in Season 36, in which Cookie encourages viewers to eat a balanced diet, and enjoy cookies as a "sometimes food." However, the idea of Cookie Monster setting a good example for children with respect to their eating habits has been used since the 1970s, with public service announcements and individual sketches (most notably the rap spoof "Healthy Food").
However, the move toward highlighting healthy eating habits in 2005 led to a persistent rumor circulating in the media and on the internet that Cookie Monster would be dropped from the show, or renamed "Veggie Monster." Sesame Street poked fun at the media firestorm in a Season 37 episode. In a sketch in a 2006 episode, Matt Lauer of The Today Show confronts Cookie Monster about the rumors that he's giving up cookies and becoming a "Fruit Monster." Cookie Monster refutes the rumor, explaining that he eats the fruit first, and then has cookies for dessert. Cookie Monster also says that the media is always blowing things out of proportion. (See Is Cookie Monster now the Veggie Monster? for more.)
In a 2004 Sesame Street episode, Cookie Monster revealed in song that before he started eating cookies (and became "Cookie Monster"), he was called Sid. In a post on the Sesame Street Twitter feed, Cookie Monster tweeted: "Me wasn't born with name 'Cookie Monster'. It just nickname dat stuck. Me don't remember me real name... maybe it was Sidney?"
In an interview with NPR, Cookie Monster explained he eats everything, demonstrating by eating his headset and a plate of broccoli. However, upon being served sardine ice cream, he says he draws the line at sardine ice cream. In a later interview, he added that he also drew the line at eating bugs.
Currently, Cookie Monster stars in a series of segments called Cookie's Crumby Pictures, where he spoofs various movies.
Casting HistoryEdit
Main Performers
- Frank Oz - 1969 to 2000 (and occasionally since)
- David Rudman - 2001 to present
Alternate Performers
- Jim Henson - in The Ed Sullivan Show and commercials
- Joe Raposo (voice) - in "Everyone Likes Ice Cream"
- Caroll Spinney - in a 1969 sketch in which various monsters whisper the letter C.
- Cookie Monster appears on episode 518 of The Muppet Show, and there's a gag about how he and guest Marty Feldman both have googly eyes.
- Cookie Monster's birthday is November 2nd.
- Very rarely does Cookie Monster actually "eat" real cookies on the set. He mostly gobbles on rice crackers, which are sometimes decorated to look like cookies.
- In the Ready To Learn parody of Mission: Impossible, Agent Cookie's entire body is shown. Other instances where his feet are shown include The Street We Live On (when he pretends to be a baby), episode 4075 (as he sits on a throne during his story), and Abby in Wonderland.
- For the 2005-2006 season, when the Dutch co-production Sesamstraat received new sets and scenery, Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster and Elmo flew over to Holland for this special occasion. It was the first time the American characters visited the Dutch street.
- In the 1995 video Cookie Monster's Best Bites, it is revealed that the letter C is "the favorite letter of all Cookie Monsters everywhere". However, in a 1976 episode, he claims to be the last Cookie Monster left in the world.
- Cookie Monster appeared in the June 19, 2008 episode of The Colbert Report defending his new position that cookies were a "sometimes food". He ended the episode by eating Stephen Colbert's Peabody Award.
- Unlike most other Muppets of Sesame Street, Cookie Monster has four fingers and a thumb. Sesame Street Muppets Drawing Guide; Nancy W. Stevenson, Illustrator; Sesame Workshop: New York, NY, 2001, p. 7.
- Munchin: Impossible is a proposed spin-off series with the character.
- In A Muppet Family Christmas, Animal observes Cookie Monster eating Janice's cookies in his signature manner, and comments, "That my kinda fella!"
- In response to the Facebook campaign to get the character to host SNL, Cookie was the guest in the monologue with Jeff Bridges. During the monologue, the two sang "Silver Bells".
- In a season one sketch, in which Cookie Monster used Ernie's phone, Cookie Monster referred to himself by the name "Tiny" and also mentions having a brother named Fred.
- Occasionally, Cookie has been referred to as "The Cookie Monster". Some instances include a sketch with Ernie, the book Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree and a season 43 episode.


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I am a little bit uncomfortable to tell to much about what bothers me, but it has something to do with habitual sins and it is the ghosts in my closet from my old. Have let my priest know that i need to talk to him about this and getting some advices-help-hope.
Trying to pray every day morning and eve, read the scriptures, praying the Jesus prayer and live as fully as possible. But sometimes i hit the ground so hard and one feel so guilty, shameful and sometimes even in despair.
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Saturday, March 01, 2003
Unruly dogs are terrorizing a Pritchard neighbourhood and stealing the simple pleasure of an evening stroll.
"It's my little ones who are really scared," said Victor Nickerson, who's lived in the Pritchard Development subdivision for 15 years.
He estimates problems began about four years ago. Since then, he's cataloged a litany of delinquent dog problems, particularly mutts chasing bikes, cars and pedestrians through neighbourhood streets.
"If they stayed off the street and stopped biting that would be better," Nickerson said. "Barking is third on my list."
Nickerson has children aged 12, five and four years old. After being nipped last year, his five-year-old daughter is too scared to bike ? under her parents' watch ? a block down the street to her grandmother's house.
Not only was his daughter bit, but Nickerson had to place a bicycle between his family and a menacing dog to keep it off on another occasion.
"It's all through the neighbourhood," he said. "At a friend's house he counted 14 dogs in one corner. They bark all the time."
Nickerson turned to the Thompson-Nicola Regional District for help, but discovered it has no rules regarding dogs.
Greg Toma, planning director for the TNRD, said most regional districts don't have an animal control bylaw because their areas are too large to police.
"We as a local government have chosen not to go into animal control. The area is too huge. The resources needed would be insurmountable. People couldn't afford the taxes."
Toma said it's not the first time homeowners outside a municipality have turned to the regional district with frustration over unruly dogs. The TNRD has one bylaw officer who covers an area stretching from Blue River in the north to the Coquihalla toll booth in the south and from Chase in the east to Big Bar on the west.
His duties include unsightly premises complaints, but not animals.
"You look at problems inside the city (with dogs)," Toma said. "We have a 45,000-square-kilometre area."
Toma noted that many residents live outside municipalities for a reason ? the lack of rules and bylaws.
Nickerson doesn't know where to turn next to gain some control over neighbourhood dogs.
Six months ago one man in a truck who'd been repeatedly chased by a dog came back armed with a baseball bat. He doesn't want the problem to sink to that level, or worse, to the point where a dog is shot.
"You have to take care of your own. How do you do it with no rules?"
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Most of the great achievements throughout history in the fields of art, culture, science and technology have been by teenagers. This may be because they are able to think in new and innovative ways, or their thinking is not hidebound by discredited nostrums. It may be due to the emergence of God-given talent at an early age, and the natural open-mindedness of young people before they may experience attempts to indoctrinate them towards certain worldviews. Biologically the rate of brain development, and according to some studies IQ, reportedly peak in smart individuals just prior to their teenage years.[1]
Achievements, listed by age at which they were made
- 7 - Yehudi Menuhin gives his first solo violin performance with the San Francisco Symphony in 1923.
- 8 - Frederic Chopin plays his first public piano performance, having already composed two polonaises (G minor and B flat major) at age 7.
- 10 - Mark, author of the Gospel of Mark, witnesses the arrest of Jesus and develops the first Gospel.
- 12 - Blaise Pascal had secretly worked out the first twenty-three propositions of Euclid by himself.
- 12 - Jesus presents His wisdom in the temple in Jerusalem.
- 12 - William "Willie" Johnson earned the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Seven Days Battle and on the Peninsula Campaign during the American Civil War. [4]
- 13 - John wrote the first draft of the Gospel of John, the greatest written work of all time.[2]
- 13 - Joan of Arc was inspired and led France five years later to victory over the English in the Hundred Years War; was martyred at age 19.[3]
- 13 - Anne Frank began writing her diary, later published as "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl."
- 14 - David slays Goliath.
- 14 - Ismail founded the Safavid dynasty and became its "shah" (military and spiritual ruler)
- 14 - Bobby Fischer became an International Chess Grandmaster.
- 14 - Mozart wrote the opera, "Mitridate Rè di Ponto."
- 14 - Nadia Comaneci "achieved in her sport what no Olympian, male or female, ever had before: perfection."[4]
- 14 - St. Theresa of Lisieux rejected by Bishop Hugonin, pleads with Pope Leo XIII so she may enter the Carmelites. Became Carmelite nun at age 15.
- 14 - Bernadette Soubirous (St Bernadette of Lourdes) has a vision of the Virgin Mary
- 14 - The publication of Charles Schulz's first drawing of a dog, which became an inspiration for his cartoon strip Peanuts about a dog named Snoopy[5]
- 14 - Aaron Swartz develops RSS. Swartz would go on to contest the private ownership of data by trying to liberate millions of academic articles from a corporation.
- 15 - Jack Andraka developed a new method to detect pancreatic cancer. [6]
- 15 - Louis Braille invented the Braille system.
- 15 - Christopher Paolini writes the first draft of his Eragon trilogy which is published when he is 19.
- 16 - Jean-François Champollion, can speak a dozen languages and delivers a paper on the Coptic language to the Grenoble Academy. By 20, he can speak another 13 languages and at 32 he deciphers the Rosetta Stone.
- 16 - Boy sailor Jack Cornwall, of HMS Chester, is awarded a posthumous VC for gallantry at the Battle of Jutland.
- 16 - the average age of 58 homeschooled teenagers who founded Conservapedia, so that the light of truth would continue to shine and darkness would not overcome it.
- 16 - Sun Myung Moon writes Crown of Glory.
- 17 - Cassie Bernall defended her faith in front of an atheistic gunman at the Columbine massacre, and was martyred for it[7]
- 17* - Mary accepts God's will to conceive Jesus by the Holy Spirit, and gives birth nine months later.[8]
- 17 - Shawn Fanning develops the first large-scale peer-to-peer file sharing program, Napster
- 17 - Private 1st Class Jacklyn H. Lucas, United States Marine Corps, earned the Medal of Honor five days after his 17th birthday during the Iwo Jima battle in World War II; he was a Marine for three years. [5]
- 17 - Pele scored six goals in four games in the 1958 World Cup, including perhaps the finest goal ever in the finals, leading Brazil to the championship.
- 18 - Lila Rose, a UCLA student who had been homeschooled, goes undercover and does a stinging expose of an abortion clinic.[9]
- 18 - Shawn Goldsmith from Long Island has earned all 121 merit badges offered by the Boy Scouts. [10]
- 18 - Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus), later published when she was 21.
- 18 - Garry Kasparov, considered the greatest chess player ever, won the U.S.S.R. championship.
- 19 - Captain Albert Ball, VC, MC, DSO & 2 bars, commences his career as a fighter pilot. By the time he is killed, aged 20, in 1917, he has become one of the First World War's greatest air aces, accounting for at least 44 German aircraft.
- 19 - was the average age of front-line US service personnel fighting to defend democracy in Indochina during the Vietnam War.
- 19 - Evariste Galois applies group theory to the unsolvability of polynomial equations, before his death in a duel at age 20.
- 19 - Babe Ruth began playing for the Boston Red Sox, in what would become the greatest baseball career in history.
- 19 - Kirani James won the first Olympic gold medal for the small nation of Grenada, as the first non-American to run 400 meters in less than 44 seconds.
- 19 - John D. Rockefeller starts a new company, turning an enormous profit in its first year, and became the most influential businessman in history.[11]
- 19 - Steve Jobs begins collaborating in electronics with Steve Wozniak[12] in electronics, and developed the personal computer within two years.
- 19 - Mark Zuckerberg commercializes Facebook, which later became the leading social networking system on the internet.
- 19 - Jim Ryun broke the world record for running the mile.
- 19 - Bill Gates co-founds Microsoft.
- 20 - Carl Friedrich Gauss makes his first mathematical discoveries, which will lead to the completion of "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae", his magnum opus, at the age of 21.
- 20 - Willis Carrier invents air conditioning.
- 20 - Trevor Bayne, who had been homeschooled, became the youngest driver to win a Daytona 500 race.
- 20 - Tim Tebow, who had been homeschooled, became the first sophomore and also the youngest person to win the Heisman Trophy.[13]
(add more, sorted by age and then alphabetically)
See also
External Links
- ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/2006/mar/30/science/sci-brain30
- ↑ Mystery:Was John a Child?
- ↑ http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/History/Joan_of_Arc.shtml
- ↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/events/1996/olympics/daily/july25/flashback.html
- ↑ http://www.ripleys.com/weird/daily-dose-of-weird-wtf-blog/unbelievable-but-true/charles-schults-snoopy-was-first-a-believe-it-or-not/
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Two witnesses, Craig Scott and Joshua Lapp, confirmed a question-and-answer confrontation; others said Cassie was praying when murdered.[2]
- ↑ Mary's exact age is not known, but she was old enough to marry under Jewish law and was almost certainly a teenager.[3]
- ↑ http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2007/may/07051504
- ↑ Boy Scout Earns All 121 Merit Badges AP, December 30, 2008
- ↑ http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pu-Ro/Rockefeller-John-D.html
- ↑ http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/jobs.htm
- ↑ Subsequently, in 2009, a 19-year-old won the trophy also.


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Our company aims to restore balance to the environment for a sustainable & organic future (which is exactly what our product helps to do)
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Apple has begun sending out invitations to select members of the media for their upcoming October 23 special event, widely considered to be focused on the iPad and Macs. Jim Dalrymple of The Loop has the details:
Apple on Tuesday announced a special event to be held on October 23, 2012 in San Jose. The event is scheduled to take place at 10:00 am PT.
The invitations read "We've got a little more to show you". Nice. In addition to the iPad mini, and perhaps an updated iPad 3 with Lightning cable and international LTE, we should also be seeing the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro as well as new iMacs and Mac minis. We should also see the final version of iTunes 11, and perhaps a bump to iOS 6 to support the new devices.
Less than a week away.
Source: The Loop


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kirk wrote:NJ5934 wrote:wm0712 wrote:lets get real guys... brooks is going nowhere, he'll be here next year when he might be able to be the 6th dman... it will probably be gonchar whitney eaton welch letang and orpik... looks alot better without melichar and scuderi
It would look even better without Gonchar. I can only hope that as soon as Malkin gets on his feet, Gonchar is out the door.
Phoenix is hurting big time.....how bout' Gonchar for Ballard.
I'd go the other way myself and see if Wayne could be persuaded to take Malone and Orpik for Boynton . . .
How about Malone, Gonchar and.......Mango Salsa for Comrie and Ballard (and all our problems are solved!!! woo hoo!!!)


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You often find that cars the automotive media hype endlessly, never live up to that billing. Few cars in the last two or three years have been hyped as much as the Audi A6, and, while the car has been out for almost a year now, and few bad things have been said about it to date. We had the new A6 come in for testing recently and had the opportunity recently to findout for ourselves just how good this car could be. Have a watch, and enjoy!
Here is the full range of pictures that we shot fo the car.


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I apologize for my irregular blogging lately. It's a combination of regular everyday busyness and a bit of a light existential crisis. I'm not sure exactly what my blog is supposed to be doing! I veer between the politics and the aesthetics of food- sometimes I want to get on my soapbox and go on and on about various idiocies and injustices in the world, and sometimes I just want to admire delicious, healthy food. So every time I start to think up a post, I undermine myself by fearing it will be too repetitive, irrelevant, preachy, or boring.
BUT. I don't want to stop blogging, so I hope you'll all bear with me as I work out the kinks. Whatever the purpose of my blog, one thing I most certainly don't want to give up is getting to be in touch with so many fascinating and talented fellow bloggers all around the world! I'm sure all of you who blog also go through extremely productive periods as well as periods when you scratch your heads and thing, "what am I doing? and why?"
This post is way too long in the making though, so I'll get right on to it. My mom's birthday was September 30th, so Daiku and I headed down to the Northern Virginia/Metro D.C. region that weekend. Aside from the fun of getting to see family, the weekend was also filled with wonderful food.
First up: Burmese food. I had read about Myanmar Restaurant on The Veg Blog and could not wait to try this cuisine for the first time. My mom is always game for trying new foods, so she, Daiku, and I headed here for lunch. And it was spectacular! I have to admit, being ignorant about Burmese food, I expected it to have deep similarities with Thai or Vietnamese food, but it definitely had unique flavors and textures all its own.
Here's a green tea leaf salad. Cabbage, tomatoes, sesame seeds, peanuts, and crispy garlic in a tangy green tea dressing. The flavor is very hard to describe- it hits you first as almost like pesto, but then a deep, woodsy flavor lingers. The flavors played nicely off of one another, and each bite delivered something crisp, something crunchy, something chewy, and something nutty all at the same time.
I decided to go for a jackfruit curry. I'd never tried jackfruit before, and I thought it was good! I'm glad I didn't go for something familiar as I so often do. The jack fruit reminded me of artichokes in flavor. The curry was unusual if you're used to any other type (Indian, Thai, etc.)- it was a tomato-based broth, with a nice acidic edge.
Jackfruit is made of all kinds of awesome, as you can see by this close-up photo.
Here is a plate of rice and curry, topped with some intensely hot chili flakes. The thing about Burmese cuisine that stood out the most for me was the sour flavor. This comes from something called "sour leaf" or "sour vegetable," which is unique to Myanmar, as far as I could tell. It gave the food an unforgettable flavor, and made my mom a fan, since she dislikes foods with sweet flavors but adores anything sour. So do I, for that matter.
Here was dessert, shweji, a mildly sweet wheat cake with raisins and poppy seeds, with almost a baked cream of wheat taste. It was a very mellow ending to a delicious lunch.
Check it out- white poppy seeds! I've never seen that before!
Of course, the entire time we were eating lunch, we were aware of the strife going on that very moment in Burma itself. It's times like these when I don't have a ready answer to what exactly the relationship between food and revolution can look like. While we enjoy the delicious food of a country, half a world away, peaceful demonstrators in that very country are being killed. Where's the connection? What is our role?
The next day, my grandmother and aunt and uncles were coming over for brunch, and everyone agreed to have me make a huge vegan brunch! (New vegans, take heart: this would not have happened a few years ago!)
I made two kinds of tofu scramble. The one you see above was my normal mix of veggies: mushrooms, red peppers, onions, and garlic, garnished with cilantro and scallions.
The second one was a vaguely "Iranian-style" version. In Iran, what most people imagine when they speak of "omelette" is a mixture of tomatoes and eggs, often with plenty of garlic and pepper. I found that tofu mimics the texture of eggs in this dish pretty well, so I kept the second scramble pretty simple- just tomatoes, garlic, chili pepper, and tofu.
We also had oven fries and vegan sausage. I thought I had made too much food, but everyone ate the stuff up. I was especially happy that the food impressed my grandma, since she is the origin of many of my food memories, and her seal of approval meant a great deal to me. She told me that she would try experimenting with tofu herself soon- squeee!
I also baked my mom's birthday cake, by doubling a cupcake recipe from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. (Thanks to the PPK forum for the tips!) My mom wanted something citrus-y, so I picked the coconut-lime cupcakes with lime buttercream dressing. Check out my awesome (NOT) decorating job! Do I know how to dot an "i" or what?
The blowing out candles shot.
The close-up shot with coconut flakes.
The inside shot.
We finished up the weekend with a trip to Atlantic City.
Here I am on the beach, saying goodbye to summer.
Here's a sunset on the boardwalk.
The best food we found in Atlantic City? In one shop, fresh-baked pretzels sold 3 for $1, and came with an awesome mustard selection. In another, we found veggie philly cheesesteaks! (No photos of either, unfortunately)
One last funny picture:
Daiku and I experienced some hometown pride upon seeing a local upstate New York wine in a Virginia supermarket: Bully Hill. Not only is it a local and very cool company, not only do they make delicious wines with cute goats on the labels, but I recently found out that all their wines are indeed vegan. Double yes! And how funny is the wine next to it- Beauzeaux? The 12 year-old in me loves that name!
This weekend, Daiku and I are headed to Boston for the Vegetarian Food Festival. I am super excited to meet some fellow vegans and bloggers, and will be sure to report back with plenty of photos and stories. If you're going to be there and see us, come up and say hi! In the meantime, here is one of my Boston VegFest posts from last year.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
Restaurant Information:
Myanmar Restaurant
7810-C Lee Highway
Falls Church, VA 22042
(703) 389-0013


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Battlefield 4 Naval Strike Trailer: Mayhem on the High Seas
We have received some of the latest details about Battlefield 4's next expansion pack just as a new trailer for Naval Strike has landed ashore.
According to Polygon, the Dragon's Teeth expansion pack for Battlefield 4 will include a two-handed ballistic shield. Originally, the developers at DICE intended for the combat shield to be one-handed, offering the player the ability to shoot a handgun while carrying it like in other first-person shooters. Instead, they realized that to make it really standout, it should exist as a massive piece of protective cover.
Little else is known about Dragon's Teeth except that it will focus on ground-based, urban warfare (which makes sense considering the themes of the previous expansions).
As with previous expansions, both the Naval Strike and Dragon's Teeth expansions will be free to those with a Battlefield 4 Premium account. Dragon's Teeth is estimated for a Summer 2014 release while Naval Strike is due out by the end of March (Premium members gain early access to all expansions of Battlefield 4).


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Are You Aware of Subliminal Messages Controlling You?Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
The word subliminal means below the perception of the conscious mind. Subliminal messages can be presented as visual, audio, or in the form of electromagnetic waves. The ultimate goal of any subliminal message is to manipulate a person by altering their perceptions to produce a change in thinking patterns resulting in modified behavior.
Some people may choose to modify their own behavior with self-help tapes which use subliminal messages to change negative behaviors or thinking patterns. On the other hand, subliminal messages can be used by others to alter a person's behavior through a type of mind control. This may seem harmless enough, however, in the wrong hands these techniques can be used to control more than just purchasing choices.
Types of Subliminal Messages
One type of visual subliminal message consists of images with a logo, word, symbol or action depicted within it that eludes conscious perception. Another type of visual subliminal message contains stimuli repeatedly flashed across a screen at fractions of a second which is too fast for the brain to consciously perceive.


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Whitecaps 1 – 2 Timbers
The Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps squared off on Saturday night in yet another episode of the 2012 Cascadia Cup.
Vancouver, who began the night in 5th place of the MLS Western Conference with 37 points, was looking to regain momentum in the MLS after suffering a 2-0 defeat at the hands of the Seattle Sounders a week before and three straight in MLS play.
Portland, looking to win their first game since July 3rd, was looking to salvage something out of their dismal 2012 season and claim sole possession of first place in the Cascadia cup.
And, after putting together a series of impressive performances without being rewarded with a victory, the Timbers edged the Whitecaps 2-1 in front of an outstanding crowd a JELD-WEN field.
Portland took the lead in the 41st minute on a goal by Darlington Nagbe. The goal was Nagbe's third in three games and continued a streak of impressive play by the Portland midfielder. Vancouver equalized the score just five minutes later on a strike by Kenny Miller. Portland would then take the lead for good on a brilliant set piece goal by Franck Songo'o. The goal came in the 55th minute of play and just squeezed past Whitecap's goalie, Joe Cannon.
With a victory by the Timbers over the Whitecaps, here are this week's love 'em and hate 'em.
Love 'em
Goals Keep on Coming
After an impressive performance against the Whitecaps that generated two goals, the Timbers have now scored two goals in each of their past three games.
These strong offensive trends and performances have signaled a shift away from the dismal offensive play the Timbers were generating in the months of June and July.
The Timbers will need to continue their offensive prowess down the stretch of the season as they face the toughest portion of their schedule.
Out of the Cellar
With the victory the Timbers were able to move out of the last spot in the MLS Western Conference as the Rapids assumed that spot.
Though they are still out of playoff contention, the Timbers could see themselves experiencing a resurgence that may propel them into the playoff race as the end of the season draws closer every week.
Portland currently has 27 points in 26 games, placing them 10 points behind current 5th place team, the Vancouver Whitecaps.
Cascadia Front-Runners
Besides jumping out of last place in the MLS Western Conference, the Timbers also jumped into first place in the Cascadia Cup standings.
The Timbers' victory over the Whitecaps gave them seven points in three games played in the Cascadia Cup, three more than the second-place Seattle Sounders who currently have four points in three games played.
Hate 'em
Defending Still in Question
Though the Timbers did limit the Whitecaps to just one goal, Portland's defending was still in question throughout the entire game as Vancouver was able to generate numerous opportunities early and late in the game that could have easily equalized the match.
Especially later on in the game, Portland needs to find a way to solidify their defense if they want to really become a well-rounded team and have any shot in resurrecting their 2012 MLS campaign.


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Sincere thanks to everyone who joined us for the "Developing using the BlackBerry® WebWorks™ SDK" Webcast series. The recordings for each session of the webinar are available to access online. If you haven't already done so, please schedule some time to set aside and watch them at your own convenience.
During this series, attendees were presented with a variety of topics, code samples and best practices. The goals of each of these sessions were to provide developers with new information they can use to build great applications for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet, as well as enabling them to share the knowledge they learn within their own development communities. Here's an overview of what each webcast covered:
Webcast Part 1 – Getting Started: Discover the purpose and capabilities of the BlackBerry WebWorks platform. Learn how to setup your development environment and build a "Hello World" application. Understand how to configure and deploy applications to a BlackBerry® Tablet OS virtual machine.
Webcast Part 2 – My First App: Learn how to add visual enhancements and application functionality to your BlackBerry Tablet OS applications using BlackBerry WebWorks. Discover how easy it can be to leverage existing assets in constructing your application. Become more confident and efficient at using the development tools.
Webcast Part 3 – BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Integration: Understand what platform features and supported APIs exist that can be used to add functionality to your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet applications. Discover how to use the BlackBerry WebWorks JavaScript® APIs to integrate your application content with the underlying BlackBerry Tablet OS.
Webcast Part 4 – User Interface Guidelines and Best Practices: Learn how to design great BlackBerry PlayBook tablet applications that optimize the experience for your end users. Incorporate best practices and habits in your development processes to help reduce overall development and troubleshooting time of your BlackBerry WebWorks applications.


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