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Why Would Ashton Kutcher Photoshop a Tweet About a Startup?
Yesterday evening, Ashton Kutcher tweeted out a photo of a "brain sensing headband" called Muse, telling his 16.3 million followers that he was: " Excited to learn from this incredible technology." Kutcher didn't mention that he's an investor, or why his name appears to be photoshopped onto the product.
Day 1 with @ChooseMuse . Excited to learn from this incredible technology. http://t.co/XTd78ByMtx pic.twitter.com/KweXLy8ZJG
— ashton kutcher (@aplusk) July 22, 2014
Our esteemed art director Jim Cooke could not say with 100 percent certainty that the image was doctored, but he did point out that by brightening the exposure, one can clearly see the letters "going over the headphones, or whatever those are." (Muse is a personal EEG device that sends readings to a user's phone or tablet because: "With a calm mind, you can do more in life.")
Cooke also said the angle of the text didn't seem right. Even if "Ashton Kutcher" was italicized, the those would have some perspective and shouldn't be perfectly parallel.
In response to questions, Jocelyn Umengan, senior manager of PR & Events at InteraXon, the maker of the Muse device, said the photo he tweeted "was all Ashton's initiative."
Hello there,
Thanks for your message.
We had nothing to do with the image.
This was all Ashton's initiative.
If you have any other questions please don't hesitate to give me a shout.
Jocelyn promised to forward our questions to Kutcher, who cofounded the prolific venture capital firm A-Grade Investments with Madonna's manager Guy Oseary and billionaire Ron Burkle. We will update the post if we hear back.
Kutcher name-dropped his portfolio companies on "Two and a Half Men," years ago without disclosure. According to Fortune, he tried to do something similar with Muse:
The company has raised about $7.5 million to date, [CEO Ariel Garten says]. It closed a $6 million round last year, on an offered $5 million. One of its investors is the actor Ashton Kutcher, who worked references to a company resembling Interaxon into an episode of the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men.
Pimping a product is the raison d'etre for celebrity startup investors. But couldn't Ashton fulfill his business contribution without scrawling his name on the "brain computer interface" like it was a 4th grade lunch box?
Update: Wearables expert Tom Emrich makes a great visual argument that Ashton appropriated the photo from an article he wrote for Betakit in June. Looks like the Muse investor hasn't responded to Emrich's questions either.
Hey @aplusk thought your pic looked familiar ;) why so shy about your Muse score? #photoshop http://t.co/LF38fWLrxl pic.twitter.com/iFzpAibv8g
— Tom Emrich (@tomemrich) July 24, 2014
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HP today announced the expansion of its "HP Planet Partners Program" to consumer and small business customers. Previously available only to its direct enterprise customers, the recycling program will allow consumers and small to medium businesses to drop off their broken and end-of-life HP-branded equipment at one of 10 locations around Australia for environmentally friendly disposal.
Accepted equipment includes broken and unused printers, computers, monitors and computer peripherals. These will be accepted in key locations in Australian capital cities, as well as the Gold Coast and Central Coast. HP says the initiative will allow the electronics manufacturer to reuse key materials like plastic and metal in new products.
There are some key differences between the enterprise program and the one for consumers and small businesses. Unlike the enterprise program, consumers and businesses are expected to drop off the equipment themselves, and only HP-branded equipment will be accepted. The program is free of charge, however.
"The environment is top of mind for consumers and businesses today," said HP South Pacific Environmental Manager Kok Wah Boey in a press statement. "HP believes in the shared responsibility of producers and customers in handling end-of-life products in an environmentally responsible way."
Consumers and small businesses can find their nearest drop-off point by e-mailing HP at firstname.lastname@example.com or calling 1300 325 961.
The program's expansion to consumers and small businesses comes after HP trialled a one-off initiative at two Dick Smith (DSE) locations in Sydney recently. HP said the trial was a success, with consumers dropping off 3228kg of equipment over the course of a week.
HP already offers several recycling programs for specific products and consumables in Australia. Consumers and businesses can safely dispose of printer and multifunction ink cartridges and laser toners through Planet Ark's "Cartridges 4 Planet Ark" scheme, which is available in various retail locations around Australia. The environmental organisation also collates recycling initiative information at its Recycling Near You Web site. HP is also involved in Byteback, a free scheme in Victoria which collects and recycles component equipment, components and peripherals.
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CHAPTER 27: The Pain of goodbye
It's been 2weeks since I sacrificed him…
Brian is finally my boyfriend.
When he returned, I said my I love you to him. I know it's not true, I'm sorry Brian if I have to do this to you. But don't worry, I know I could learn to really love you fully and truly. Who couldn't love someone as sweet and as caring as you, right?
And Cedric, he is back with Kyla. he did what I asked him to do. Thanks so much for everything & I'm very sorry for doing this to you but I know you'll eventually learn to love her too.
Tapos na rin ang klase.
"Bye Sai! Ingat!" tumingin ako sa seatmate ko sa kaliwa at ngumiti at nagwave.
New sem. new schedule. New subjects. New classmates. New seatmate.
Cedric changed some units, including the unit where we were classmates.
Yeah right, we have that d@mn restart. But thing just re-happened. maybe this must be our real destiny, NOT TOGETHER. he's not my happily ever after & I'm not his forever and ever. Sad, but that's how it got to be.
I went out of the room to see Brian patiently waiting for me, he went to get my things and gave me a peck, "How's my princess?"
"Eto, kinda sleepy, yung prof kasi namen eh." kinusot kusot ko yung mata ko para mawala yung antok tapos umakbay sakin si Brian at naglakad na kami paalis.
"Hungry?" I shook my head, "You sure?"
I nod. The more kindness and sweetness he shows, the more guilt I feel. Ano ba kasi heart,mainlove ka na kay Brian please!
We were heading to the campus' parking when I saw Cedric with Kyla, luckily, Brian didn't see them because I turned around as soon as possible and pulled him out of the park.
"T-teka, aren't we going home yet?"
"On second thought, I think I'm hungry. Let's eat first before going."
"Uh… okay?"
At the canteen, I bought so many foods and pigged-out on it.
"I thought you weren't hungry Sai?" ok, napa-stop ako sa pagkain. Yes, I wasn't that hungry but when I saw him, I just felt like eating.
You know the feeling that you're so hurt and you want to go crazy but you just can't so you ended up pigging-out on foods? That's what I'm feeling right now. Para bang pampawala ng sakit at sama ng loob 'tong ginagawa kong pagkain.
"Uh… nagbago ng isip ang tyan ko eh.. gutom daw pala.. ehehe…"
"naku, hinay-hinay lang sa pagkain ah, baka mabulunan." and upon saying that eh nabulunan nga ako. Inabot ko kaagad yung mountain dew ko at dire-diretsong uminom.
"ayan, nabulunan ka nga. Gimme a number."
"Uh.. why?"
"C'mon, a number."
"fine. Three?"
"Ok, A, B, C… someone who's name is starting with a "C" remembered you."
"C? hmm…" … Cedric?
Ok. Natahimik kami parehas dahil sa letter "c". very awkward. Yung "c" rin ata na iniisip ko ang iniisip nya eh…
I can't take this silence anymore kaya I decided to break the silence, "Ah! I know, it must be Cheska, my seatmate."
"Ah oo nga. Baka nga si Cheska." yeah… si Cheska. Marami namang "C" sa mundo right? And why the heck do I have to believe in such thing!
Its Saturday night & I decided to go outside our house to take a walk. Going wherever my feet drag me. I feel so blank. Why can't I just be happy? Everything's at peace already right? Right?
"Ano ba! Watch where you're going! Tatanga-tanga!"
"Sorry po. Sorry." sabi ko habang nakayuko.
"Tss." At umalis na yung babaeng nabangga ko ng di sinasadya. I'm still as clumsy as ever. Geez…
Magpapatuloy na sana ulit ako sa kawalang hangganang paglalakad pero napatigil ako nang asarin ako ng tadhana at saktong nakita ko sa isang restaurant na malapit sakin na lumabas sina Cedric at Kyla, happily together while holding hands. I watched them walk away hand in hand. Having all the flashbacks in mind.
Starting from how Cedric and I met to how we became a couple, to our dates and happy moments until we broke up. Then the days were I cried and cursed him then it came to the part where I met kyla at the school gate and we became close friends and then she introduced me to her cousin Brian and we became close wherein I came to the point of liking him and then the flashback were the four of us where on the same table for a dinner date and Kyla's announcement came and same with Brian's. and also the time when Cedric and I had a restart and we were ambushed by those bad guys and then he confessed the truth to me and we both thought that everything was going to be okay again until Kyla heard all of it. And the flashback didn't stop there, it continued up to the point wherein I sacrificed the man I love for Kyla and also the part where I told Cedric that Brian was better than him. And the flashback ended at the part wherein I turned my back to Cedric...
"Hanggang dito na lang tayo diba?" a tear fell and after it fell slowly, another followed and another and another until the tears kept on flowing.
I am standing there, feeling so crushed. I feel so alone beside the fact that I am surrounded by people walking around not caring if someone like me is suffering for they have their own business to mind.
"STOP!!!" I want to shout it but I cant… I want them all to stop so I can say that I'm so crushed, I want them to know, I want them to forget what they're doing and comfort me. I want to be selfish… :'(
Brian's P.O.V.
November pa lang but I can already feel the spirit of Christmas, malamig na eh. Hmm.. buti nagjacket ako, I decided to have a walk kasi it was too boring sa house.
Chineck ko yung phone ko to see kung nagtext na si Sairyl. Bigla kasi syang di na nagreply. Hmm… nah, no reply pa rin hanggang ngayon. Nakatulog na kaya? That sleepyhead.
Haay.. I just can't help myself but to smile whenever my mind reminds me that the girl I've been always wanting to have is finally mine. Kahit medyo nakakabigla na sinagot nya ako agad eh it doesn't matter, basta, ang mahalaga eh I could tell the world that she's my girlfriend already. I'm the luckiest guy!
"Sairyl?" napatigil ako sa paglalakad nang mapansin ko sa malayo si Sairyl na nakahawak sa dibdib nya at parang nahihirapan. Pero nabigla ako ng bigla syang tumumba, hinimatay ata kaya agad akong tumakbo palapit sa kanya.
"Sairyl?! SAiryl?!" nagkagulo na rin ang mga tao, marami ng nakiki-usyoso.
"tabi, tabi." may biglang lumapit saking babae at pinaiisog ako, tinignan ko lang sya, "don't worry, I'm a doctor."
Pagkarinig ko non eh hinayaan ko na sya, chineck check nya si Sairyl tapos maya-maya eh may kinakapa sya sa mga bulsa ni sairyl at mula sa bulsa ng jacket ni Sairyl ay may nakuha syang bote ng pills and isang syringe na sa tingin ko ay may laman.
"Thought so. She didn't manage to drink this pill buti dala nya 'tong panturok." Binuksan nya yung takip ng panturok and injected it to Sairyl. After that tinapat nya tenga nya sa dibdib ni Sairyl, like she was listeng to Sairyl's heartbeat.
"ok, she's fine now. Next time, don't leave her alone. Whenever she have attacks, be sure to apply the medicine immediately."
"huh? What are you talking about?"
"eh? you mean you know her but you don't know her condition?"
"Condtion? What condition?"
"You don't know that she have a certain illness on the heart but I'm not quite sure what disease is that. I'm not her doctor after all."
I was dumb-founded as well as shocked.
She's sick. Since when?
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Nehera Tech
Heritage womenswear label Nehera was founded in the 1930s by Czechoslovakian entrepreneur Jan Nehera. World War II halted its production. In 2014, nearly eighty years after its inception, Nehera was revived by creative director Samuel Drira, who brings a decidedly minimalist vision to the house. Inspired by Nehera's history of innovation and artistry, Drira seeks to reinvent the staples of the modern woman's wardrobe. Familiar staples such as poplin shirts, t-shirts, and tailored trousers are reimagined in unconventional silhouettes and proportions. Nehera's Fall 2016 collection is a careful consideration of shape. Draped jackets, voluminous skirts, oversized knits, and cocoon coats in heavy wool and Japanese cotton lend themselves to endless layering.
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Finding software can be overwhelming. We've helped hundreds of construction firms choose the right project scheduling software so they can benchmark timelines and track actual progress.
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Contractors' views on project scheduling—and the contractor scheduling software that supports the process—vary widely. Some view scheduling as a necessary evil to satisfy the building owner's need for control. Others view it as an important discipline for delivering work on-time and on-budget. Typically, the larger and more complex the job, the more important scheduling becomes to both the contractor and the owner. Generally speaking, as jobs get more complex, job scheduling software for contractors becomes more important.
Regardless, scheduling tools available on the market range from a small desktop construction scheduling program to sophisticated multi-user systems integrated within broader project management systems. This guide attempts to parse through these offerings for the construction scheduling software buyer.
Here's what we'll cover:
What Is Construction Scheduling Software?
What Type of Buyer Are You?
The Vendor Landscape
Benefits of Project Scheduling
Market Trends to Understand
Construction job scheduling software supports management of labor, resource, material and equipment schedules. These programs allow a user to define phases and tasks, and then match them with the labor, materials and resources required to complete each task and phase. Of course, labor and resources introduce constraints and dependencies, which in turn affect the schedule and completion date. Construction schedule software runs complex calculations "under the hood" to account for these dependencies and constantly recalculate the project schedule.
Screenshot of Buildertrend user dashboard
Most project scheduling applications make use of the critical path method—an algorithm that calculates the minimum amount of time required to complete a project based on required tasks and dependencies. The user interface is typically visualized through a Gantt chart, which displays each task as a line item, and then illustrates its duration and order with horizontal bars. More sophisticated functionality includes network diagrams, percent completion graphs and what-if scenario planning.
When evaluating the best scheduling software vendors, it helps to identify yourself with one of the specific types of buyers we see in the market:
Major project scheduler. These buyers are focused almost exclusively on scheduling and are fully embracing the need to automate this function. Their schedules are extremely detailed, and they run multiple scenarios. They are often interested in sophisticated functionality like earned value analysis. These buyers will be best off with best-of-breed systems with enterprise-class capabilities.
Project manager. This type of buyer may also be a sophisticated scheduler, but is also concerned with other construction management functions, like cost control and document management. As a result, they prefer to use the scheduling application offered within their construction management system. Typically, they also want to publish some or all of the schedule to other participants over the Web.
Desktop scheduler. These buyers value planning and create fairly sophisticated schedules, but do not have the same multi-user requirements. Their needs can be met with straightforward residential construction scheduling software for desktops, such as Microsoft Project or VirtualBoss.
Calendar manager. Some buyers just don't need to create complex schedules. They may manage smaller, less complex projects, or they may prefer to manage "by the seat of their pants." In these cases, a simple calendar application may suffice. Most solutions will include a calendar, which will address these buyers' needs. There are also options on the market that provide construction scheduling software free of charge.
The next step in selecting construction project scheduling software is to map your buyer type to the top-rated vendors that serve the market.
|This type of buyer...
|Should evaluate these systems
|Major project scheduler
|Oracle Primavera P6
|Project manager
|e-Builder, HeadsUp, Oracle Primavera P6, PMWeb, Procore
|Desktop scheduler
|Microsoft Project, VirtualBoss
|Calendar manager
|Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar
As we mentioned above, there is often some debate over the value of developing schedules—field supervisors sometimes find them burdensome, while most managers and owners view them as critical. We concur that schedules are very important, and we see the following benefits:
There are a few market trends that are playing out in construction project scheduling application market. Here are a couple that you should understand:
The move to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Project schedule software is a subset of project management systems, which vendors are offering in the SaaS model more frequently. In the SaaS model, the vendor hosts and maintains the servers, database and code for the application. This significantly reduces the upfront investment in a system.
Development of mobile functionality. In an industry where many employees spend a significant amount of time out at a jobsite, developing mobile construction scheduling programs is an area of increasing focus. With 58 percent of adults in the United States owning smartphones and tablet adoption growing, some vendors are focusing on building native functionality for the iPhone, iPad and Android-enabled devices. Of course, Web-based options are also accessible via the device's web browser even if a vendor has not developed native functionality. There is also a growing number of third-party free construction scheduling software apps to help improve contractor scheduling.


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Dark Chocolate Cashew Larabars
Alright. It's here. We're doing this. This is happening. No turning back now.
We said we were making March healthy dessert month here on Blue-Eyed Bakers so....you know....here goes nothing.
(For the love what have we gotten ourselves into??! Panic panic panic.)
So let's define healthy shall we? Wait no, scratch that, let's define OUR version of healthy. We're pretty simplistic when we're talking good for us foods actually, we just try to stick to unprocessed foods and less sugar.
Don't get us wrong, we'd be lying if we said that we don't think Fat Free Cool Whip is like nectar of the gods. Buuuuut, when we're trying (trying oh so hard) to be healthy, we avoid the deliciously processed stuff.
Soooo, in the spirit of health (yay) and simple foods (yay) we're kicking off with these homemade versions of one of our favorite store bought snacks. And bonus bonus bonus cookies, there are THREE ingredients! We mean, who said healthy had to be hard?!
And yes, we know, dark chocolate is one of the ingredients, but again, this is our version of healthy, we said less sugar, not no sugar AND studies show dark chocolate has numerous health benefits, so we're going with it. But these bars are fabulous without the chocolate also, so if you're like super duper going for it healthy, then leave it out. (And also, we're impressed).
Ok whew - so we made it through day 1! Go us!
We've armed ourselves (and hopefully you lovely things) with lots of healthy & delicious bars to snack on while we contemplate our next move in the name of overall health.
Gym? Jog? Yoga on demand in the living room? Hmm...maybe just one more bar...
Dark Chocolate Cashew Larabars
Makes 8 bars
8 ounces (about 1 1/2 cups) Medjool dates, pitted
100 grams (about 2/3 cups) raw cashews
2 ounces dark chocolate, roughly chopped
1 tablespoon water
In a food processor, combine dates, cashews & chocolate and pulse until the mixture is combined and very finely chopped - about 2 minutes. If the mixture has not come together on its own, slowly add in the water - only as much as needed to get the mixture to bind together just a little.
Empty the processor bowl & press mixture out onto a piece of wax paper. Cover with another piece of wax paper and roll out to desired thickness. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours (or freeze for 30 minutes). Once chilled, cut bars and wrap individually.


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[Per back of postcard, photo by Veryan Trewin]
The blue building at left is Woods of Windsor, which sells
fabulous bath and beauty products. Prior to this trip,
I'd received a WoW lavender soap (in its own tin),
so the store definitely had to be on the itinerary.
But castle touring and shopping wears a girl out...
I was in need of a sit down, so I toddled over to a bench
under the arches of the portico of the building at right,
Windsor Guildhall. Having no idea, of course,
that years later the Guildhall would be the scene
of the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla.
I've left the odd building in the middle for last.
That's the Crooked House, and it really does lean
to the left, the result of being built with unseasoned oak.
Like Drury House in the street behind it, it had a tunnel
(now blocked) to the castle that was used to provision
the castle's kitchens. That part I believe, but not
that it was used by Nell Gwynn to slip into the
castle to tryst with King Charles II. Hello...
The girl had a tunnel from her own basement!
Anyway, Crooked House must be structurally sound,
as it's been like that for several hundred years now,
and houses a popular restaurant and tea room.
Where, in hindsight, I should've had Afternoon
Tea instead of Dreary...uh, Drury House!
More about these Windsor treasures at:
Woods of Windsor
The Crooked House of Windsor
Windsor Guildhall
Happy PFF!


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"(The Brewers) tried to chirp and chirp and get to him, but he's too focused to get the out. None of that other stuff matters," the father said.
"It goes back to his determination and drive," Poisson said, in the New Hampshire Union Leader. "After the Blue Jays let him go, he sat down with his wife and cried and said, 'What's the next step?' Next thing you know, the Cardinals gave him one more shot."


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Philip Sidney: Astrophil and Stella 63 ("O Grammar rules…")
Sir Philip Sidney is a key figure of the Elizabethan era, the fountainhead of the modern poetic tradition. He was born in 1554 in Kent, England, around the same time that the first sonnets in English (by Sir Thomas Wyatt) were posthumously published. Sidney was the contemporary of Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, Fulke Greville, and William Shakespeare, among others: poets who occupied the vanguard of Tudor society as courtiers, soldiers, diplomats, and explorers. Poetry was almost inextricable from song—most gentlemen-poets could play a passable lute, much the way learning guitar is a rite of passage today—and the language itself was still young: unstandardized, mongrelized, and versatile. It lent itself readily to creative uses, and the challenge was met by poets who lived in a sparkling societal milieu where games—tournaments, sports, theater, dance—flourished.
That is to say, the Renaissance poets played games with language. They did so from the baseline of the Petrarchan sonnet, and Sir Philip Sidney stands out because he both played and commented on the playing—imitated Petrarch and criticized Petrarch—while mastering the form. His prose treatise, A Defence of Poesy, still influences what we perceive as the finest poetry, that which Wallace Stevens called the supreme fiction. This alone justifies Sidney's claim as the first major poet-critic in English; but what makes him particularly modern—or perhaps what makes us particularly Sidneyan—is that his landmark sonnet sequence, Astrophil and Stella, incorporates the conflict between the poet and the critic, the stylist and the chastiser of style, in the sequence itself. Detractors of the self-reflexive tendencies of contemporary poetry (epitomized by, say, John Ashbery) call it postmodernist, or deconstructive, and it has become common to deplore the artifice and playfulness of a poetry born from the premise that language is "slippery"—as likely to elude our meanings as give meaning to experience. But Sidney was one of our predecessors, and this is nowhere more evident than in Sonnet 63 of Astrophil and Stella.
At this point in the sequence, Astrophil has reached a pitch of bitterness at unrequited love. Starting at about sonnet 52 ("A strife is grown between Virtue and Love"), the paradox—of a Love that is supposed to be good but creates only pain, and Goodness, which is supposed to be rewarded with love but often isn't—is shown to be a source of metaphysical and erotic misery. He proceeds to play with a series of paradoxes that mock-reconcile extremes: "So sweets my pains, that my pains me rejoice," "Blest in my curse, and cursed in my bliss," and "Dear, love me not, that you may love me more." But by sonnet 63, it becomes apparent that language is utterly futile. To break this stalemate, Astrophel resorts to a bit of farce that pretends to trap Stella in a sleight-of-hand at the same time that it mocks his own tendency to take his love-logic game too seriously:
O Grammar rules, O now your virtues show;
So children still read you with awful eyes,
As my young Dove may in your precepts wise
Her grant to me, by her own virtue know.
For late with heart most high, with eyes most low,
I crav'd the thing which ever she denies:
She lightning Love, displaying Venus' skies,
Least once should not be heard, twice said, No, No.
Sing then my Muse, now Io Pæan sing,
Heav'ns envy not at my high triumphing:
But Grammar's force with sweet success confirm,
For Grammar says (O this dear Stella weigh,)
For Grammar says (to Grammar who says nay)
That in one speech two Negatives affirm.
Before we take a closer look at Sidney's sportive sonnet, we should step back and review the rules that governed the game. Astrophil and Stella is an innovative take on the Petrarchan sonnet sequence, and it inaugurated a craze for sequences that culminated in the crowning glory of Renaissance poetry: Shakespeare's Sonnets. Both Sidney and Shakespeare use the Petrarchan convention of addressing an anonymous lover by a nickname or pseudonym, which itself was inspired by the Roman poet Catullus. Over 2,000 years ago, Catullus wrote hendecasyllabics to his "Lesbia"; then, in the 1300s, the Italian poet Petrarch wrote 14-line sonnets to his "Laura"; and 200 years later, Shakespeare's addressees (there are two) remain the subject of intense speculation, but Sidney used allegorical pseudonyms: Astrophil (Latin for "star-lover," with a pun on his own name, Philip) and Stella ("star"), who is believed to be a stand-in for a married lady at court, Penelope Rich, with whom Sidney was infatuated.
Unlike conventional troubadour love poems up to that point, Astrophil and Stella does not extol and flatter the lady so much as refract the turbulent heart of the thwarted lover. Astrophil is center stage; the drama of the poem is enacted through his inner monologue, not through the action of the lovers. As we read through the 108 sonnets and 11 songs that form the arc of their relationship, we are treated to a series of modulating tones and arguments. But unlike Modernist stream-of-consciousness, Astrophil's thought process is governed by formal constraints and conceits. Each module is packaged in 14 decasyllabic lines (iambic pentameter as we know it was still being invented) that roughly break down into four rhyming quatrains and a final, epigrammatic couplet, though there is still the Petrarchan convention of having a voltaafter the first eight lines (known as the octave). But this is the general case; there are individual sonnets in Astrophil and Stella that vary the parameters. For instance, sonnet 89 alternates the end-words day and night in place of proper rhymes. And sonnet 63 gives us Petrarchan rhymes that interlock, creating couplets embedded in quatrains (rhyme patterns ABBA, ABBA) whose volta is marked by an impromptu couplet introducing a new rhyme (CC), before reverting back to the Petrarchan quatrain (DEED).
There are more famous sonnets in Astrophil than number 63—the opening sonnet ("Loving in Truth, and fain in verse my love to show") and 31 ("With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies")—but the mock sophistry of sonnet 63 is a little gem of Elizabethan wit. We usually speak of wit and wisdom, but here wit is totally subjugated to fancy: it is the logic of love speaking, masquerading as rationality to coax the beloved to surrender to passion.
O Grammar rules, O now your virtues show;
So children still read you with awful eyes,
As my young Dove may in your precepts wise
Her grant to me, by her own virtue know.
Astrophil is apostrophizing Grammar, turning it into a person, and an authoritative one at that. Personification is what artists all over the world do when they make animals and gods speak as humans; why not rules of grammar? Meanwhile, Sidney creates a little trompe l'oeil with grammar himself: when I think of how that quatrain might be parsed, or diagrammed as one sentence, I am first stymied by the ambiguity of O Grammar rules. Rules can be either noun or verb; which is it? It forms a parallel with the verb show, which tricks me for a moment into thinking that Grammar rules is a subject-verb construction instead of an adjective-noun construction. Sidney is conjuring the presence of a minor, reigning god, Grammar. Awful is the archaic term for "awe-filled," and the presence of child-pupils sets a scene of respect, wonder, and obedience; this second line is offered as an analogy to Stella (my young Dove), who is enjoined to respectfully obey Grammar's precepts (rules) as they do.
But again the parts of speech trip me up, and the different ways of reading this poem grammatically shape its possible meanings: in the third line, is wise an adjective modifying precepts (which makes sense, and is suggested by the integrity of the line), or is wise a verb? Up to the 19th century, wise was a verb meaning to guide, direct, instruct, or inform. If wise is a transitive verb, its object would be her grant, meaning her erotic submission to Astrophil, compelled by her own virtue to obey the laws of grammar (we'll see why at the end of the poem). Thus lines 3–4, "may in your precepts wise / Her grant to me,"seem to be enjambed.
But some versions of Sidney's poem contain a comma after precepts wise, which would make wise an adjective (wise precepts). In that case, the young dove's active verb, grant, is not modified by her. Her, in this case, is the object of the sentence: She is hypothetically granting herself to her lover with the realization that she committed an act of grammar that binds her. The strangeness and ambiguity of the grammar in these lines make the point that Grammar is, indeed, powerful and magical in its ability to seem double, and to bend even reason itself into all kinds of shapes.
For late with heart most high, with eyes most low,
I crav'd the thing which ever she denies:
She lightning Love, displaying Venus' skies,
Least once should not be heard, twice said, No, No.
Now the poem gets more straightforward. The syntactical muscularity eases up in this second quatrain, which starts to explicate Astrophil's strange proposition: After reaching a pitch of frustration in which he loses coherence (he raved, a verb that has associations with madness; the inversion of heart and eye, high and low, suggests a contortion), Stella has rejected him with "No, No."At this point the sonnet turns: the interlocking rhymes are replaced with a couplet that switches apostrophes from Grammar to his "Muse":
Sing then my Muse, now Io Pæan sing,
Heav'ns envy not at my high triumphing:
Instead of continuing to address Grammar, Astrophil addresses his "Muse," as in Homeric and Virgilian song—"Sing, Muse" is how Homer opens The Iliad; IoPæan is the Latinized version of it, a "hurrah" of victory. Why the sudden change to triumphalism? The rhythm and meter broadcast the uptick in Astrophil's pulse as he unveils his strategy; I have bolded the heavy stresses and underlined the light stresses to indicate the way the poetic language relaxes into easy regularity, mimicking the suavity of the lover's verbal chess move:
But Grammar's force with sweet success confirm,
For Grammar says (O this dear Stella weigh,)
For Grammar says (to Grammar who says nay)
That in one speech two Negatives affirm.
Stella has inadvertently fallen into a linguistic trap: double negatives grammatically work out to a positive. This is Astrophil's clever variant on the seducer's timeless formula: "No, No means yes!" The stubbornness of the sonnet's first quatrain unravels beautifully as the revelation occurs to Astrophil (coded in that lovely lightning image) that Stella has verbally betrayed herself. His heart lightens, and he triumphantly dances out the iambs. The last line is sing-songy if read as strict iambic pentameter; if read with natural emphasis, the rhythm is nicely varied while still alluding to the pattern.
Aside from the teasing sophistry of the rhetoric, the salient formal device here is the doubling embedded in the poem—the two "O" phrases in line 1, the hearts and eyes, the repetition of "sing" and "for Grammar says"—all reinforced by the presence of rhyming couplets and sealed at the end with the finality of the repeating rhyme, -firm. All this doubling is a kind of amplification and mockery of Stella's "No, No." It's as though the poem, by black magic, put on the power of grammar to ravish her. ("To Grammar who says nay"? Astrophil asks rhetorically. The answer: nobody. Grammar rules.)It is an elaboration of the previous sonnet (62), which declares, "Deare, love me not, that you may love me more," but hints at the dark side of paradox, its ability to stymie and silence one's interlocutor.
It would be an exaggeration to call sonnet 63 dark. Again, Sidney is playing a game, signaling that he is emerging from the lover's funk that extended from sonnet 52 to 62. You can argue that sonnet 63 is a caprice, a light bit of froth. Basil Bunting had some harsh words for Petrarch, and by extension Sidney:
To Petrarch love was mainly an excuse for displaying his skill as a versifier and his knowledge of classical mythology. He hardly ever pays any real attention to Laura: he focuses the reader's attention on his own cleverness, and that cleverness is far too often trivial, quite often a matter of puns. (Basil Bunting on Poetry, p. 48)
Of all the Renaissance poets, Bunting asserts, Sidney is the one who "rarely" breaks from Petrarch's example. (Ibid.) But Bunting, also a great poet, did not place a premium on games in poetry, and Sidney's audience did. Sonnet 63 is a language game and a love game, whose obstructive rhythms loosen as the poet's excitement mounts; it's hard to call this poem inauthentic just because it is clever. Its rhythm betrays emotion. Besides, Sidney was obviously of two minds about everything in Astrophil and Stella. It is a complex, dense, and innovative work at the same time that he periodically argues against artifice: "'Fool,' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart and write'" is the dialectical opposite of "inventions fine" (sonnet 1); then, in sonnet 90, he proclaims, "Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame, / Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but thee. . . ." Sincerity and ambition are in flux; claims to speak from the heart are at odds with lyric's homage to itself. "Poetry," wrote Wallace Stevens, "is a scholar's art."
The scholastic overtones of sonnet 63 echo at other nodes in the series. For instance, sonnets 4 and 10 apostrophize Virtue and Reason, respectively (and the final line of the latter, "By reason good, good reason her to love," anticipates the grammatical snare in 63). In sonnet 11, Cupid is compared to a child enthralled by a beautiful tome he cannot read; in sonnet 19, Cupid makes fun of Astrophil's academicism: "'Scholar,' saith Love, 'bend hitherward your wit.'" Sonnet 35 is about the inadequacy of language and wit: "What may words say, or what may words not say, / Where truth itself must speak like flattery?"
In his Defence of Poesy, Sidney defended the intellectual strain of poetry as against a naturalistic or realistic mode:
Only the Poet disdeining to be tied to any such subjection, lifted up with the vigor of his own invention, doth grow in effect into another nature: in making things either better then nature bringeth foorth, or quite a new, formes such as never were in nature . . . not enclosed within the narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely raunging within the Zodiack of his owne wit.
In other words, the true poet doesn't reflect the world as it is but invents a newworld from the imagination. Of course, many poets from Coleridge to Keats to Stevens to Ashbery reinforced this poetics, and we often think of them before we think of Sidney. By his logic, too, "It is not rhyming and versing that maketh poesy. One may be a poet without versing, and a versifier without poetry." Sidney would not be amused to know that debate still rages—over 400 years later—as to whether poets are being trivial or inauthentic when they engage in ludic play, or whether their unrhymed efforts deserve to be called poems.
Sir Philip Sidney, in fact, left us perhaps the most inspiring curse in the annals of English literature, directed at those who have no ears to hear:
But if (fie of such a but) you bee borne so neare the dull-making Cataract of Nilus, that you cannot heare the Planet-like Musicke of Poetrie; if you have so earth- creeping a mind that it cannot lift it selfe up to looke to the skie of Poetrie, or rather by a certaine rusticall disdaine, wil become such a mome, as to bee a Momus of Poetrie: then though I will not wish unto you the Asses eares of Midas, nor to be driven by a Poets verses as Bubonax was, to hang himselfe, nor to be rimed to death as is said to be done in Ireland, yet thus much Curse I must send you in the behalfe of all Poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour, for lacking skill of a Sonet, and when you die, your memorie die from the earth for want of an Epitaphe.
He himself died too young, at the age of 32, after being wounded in battle in the Netherlands. On his deathbed, he called for a tune known as La cuisse rompue. It translates, basically, as "The worn-out thigh guard." Now here was a poet who could balance contradictions to the bitter end: suffering mortal pain, he wanted a comic song. Sonnet 63, ludicrous as it may seem (and ludicrous of course shares a root with ludic), serves as a lens to read Astrophil and Stella in its most modern light.
Ange Mlinko was born in Philadelphia and earned her BA from St. John's College and MFA from Brown University. She is the author of five books of poetry: Distant Mandate (2017); Marvelous Things Overheard (2013), which was selected by both the New Yorker and the Boston Globe as a best book of...
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I am trying to find the ideal skincare range for me at the moment – lets just say my skin can't take anything too complicated or it itches and flakes like crazy.
One thing I am always buying is Cleansing Oils. I've tried so many and to be honest, most of them are pretty decent irrespective of price.
Thus, I always pick up a new one each time I run out just to try everything out. My newest Cleansing Oil is from Biore (Japanese Launch).
This oil is quite runny, and is clear. I think it is lightly fragranced and rubs into the skin quite easily. It is quite an 'oily' oil – some Cleansing Oils feel quite light (the Pink Shu Uemura one), some are quite thick (RMK). This one feels runny and oily at the same time.
When getting make up off my face, it did ok. I only use cleansing oil when I have tons of slap on (it dries me skin out if I use it every day). It struggled with waterproof mascara and it wasn't great with waxy lipstick.
After washing off, my skin felt just a tiny bit dry (which is does with nearly all the cleansing oils I've used anyway.
– The price is good in comparison with premium cleansing oils.
– No real allergies
– Gets most of your make up off
– Smells nice
– Struggled with waxy products
– Feels very oily – may not be great if you already have oily skin
– Contains Mineral Oil
– No good if you don't like scents in your cleansers
At around £8 inc. shipping for 150ml its not bad value although I paid a marked up eBay price – I am sure that its a lot cheaper if you bought it from the store yourself.
I won't be buying this again next time though – it wasn't amazing enough for me to stick with.


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Friday, October 21, 2011
The Back Cover
I hope all of this isn't coming across as a big SCREAMING commercial BUY MY BOOK but once again I have to show y'all something. This time the back cover with the teaser blurb.
What do y'all think?
21 comments:
- jjdebenedictis said...
I think it's awesome! Can't wait to get my hands on it. :)
- October 21, 2011 at 2:23 PM
- Cloudia said...
looks great!
Aloha from Waikiki;
Comfort Spiral
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- October 21, 2011 at 4:23 PM
- Old Kitty said...
It does what it says on the tin! Or back cover! Yay for you!!!
Take care
- October 21, 2011 at 4:46 PM
- Jackee said...
That is awesome! Congrats! I love the art: it's just the kind of truck I want. :o)
Thanks for sharing!
- October 21, 2011 at 4:59 PM
- Pearl said...
Pearl's? Great name!
- October 21, 2011 at 6:32 PM
- sybil law said...
- October 21, 2011 at 6:54 PM
- Mr. Shife said...
Like I said on FB it is awesome. How can it not be awesome? You mentioned well-hung bulldogs.
- October 21, 2011 at 8:43 PM
- Debra She Who Seeks said...
Love it! And I'd say "love you too" but I'm scared of your wife.
- October 21, 2011 at 10:56 PM
- Miriam Forster said...
I thought could top your cover. I was wrong. *snicker*
Sounds awesome!
- October 22, 2011 at 1:05 AM
- Anne Gallagher said...
This has got to be one of the best back cover blurbs I've seen in a long time. Love it Love it.I so want to read this book now!
- October 22, 2011 at 6:40 AM
- B.E. Sanderson said...
It sounds awesome, Travis. I hope you sell a ton. =o)
- October 22, 2011 at 7:20 AM
- Travis Erwin said...
I appreciate y'all weighing in. I really like how the back cover came out and I think the blurb captures the tone of the book very well.
- October 22, 2011 at 9:43 AM
- Charles Gramlich said...
I like it. I'm already sold on the book, of course, but this seems like it will bring in readers.
- October 22, 2011 at 9:56 AM
- Deanna said...
Two thumbs up.
You should be touting your book - that's your job!
- October 22, 2011 at 5:11 PM
- alex keto said...
I feel honored that I was there, so to speak, when much of your immortal language on the back page about your book was created.
In other words, I remember when you popped the words of to Nathan Brandford (did I get the name right?) and asked us to kibbitz.
Well, it was right then and right now.
My, my, my but the time do fly.
- October 22, 2011 at 10:17 PM
- Anita Page said...
No way to read this and NOT buy the book. It's terrific.
- October 23, 2011 at 10:05 AM
- Barrie said...
Very enticing!
- October 24, 2011 at 2:41 AM
- Dawn Anon said...
I came to check in to see if there was new news about the book. Thank you for sharing the process with us! I like the back cover art and blurb. Can't wait until it's out.
- October 24, 2011 at 7:52 AM
- Dizzy Ms. Lizzy said...
- October 24, 2011 at 1:37 PM
- David Cranmer said...
Big "SCREAMING commercial(s)" are necessary and that's a terrific back cover, Travis.
- October 24, 2011 at 2:39 PM
- Phats said...
I like it looks great!!! :)
- October 24, 2011 at 10:10 PM


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Some people follow and then unfollow others — after they get a follow back — and through the use of third-party apps that promote inauthentic likes, follows and comments.
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"Every day, people come to Instagram to have real experiences, including genuine interactions," the company notes. "It is our responsibility to ensure these experiences aren't disrupted by inauthentic activity. Starting today, we will begin removing inauthentic likes, follows and comments from accounts that use third-party apps to boost their popularity.
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Facebook at large, of course, has been hampered by a slew of bad news lately, with the company's ham-fisted response to inauthentic activity across its family of apps increasingly coming under scrutiny. Instagram, for its part, says it will be ramping up its efforts along these lines even more so than what it included in the announcement today.
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The main aim of this app is to get 359 crystals then boost your account to gain followers. However, you can either follow other people to get crystals or simply buy the crystals but in this tutorial I'll be showing you how to trick the system a bit.
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Currently the packs only include static Stickers, animated Stickers will be available in the near future.
Sticker categories have also been added that allows you to search for a sticker from a specific category.
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Donald E. Shank, 83, Huntington, died at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 1 at his home.
Donald was born April 25, 1930 in Whitley County, the son of Harvey and Letha (Michael) Shank. He graduated from Bippus High School in 1949. He married Helen Jane Wine on June 11, 1950 at Huntington Church of the Brethren. He retired from Zollner Corp. on April 21, 1992 after 31 years as a machine operator. He was an active member of the Huntington Church of the Nazarene.
Donald is survived by his wife of 63 years, Helen Jane Shank; two daughters, Kathy (Kim) Snowden, Huntington and Carol (Bob) Ewing, Churubusco; four grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren. His parents and his son, Terry Eugene Shank, preceded him in death.
Family will receive friends from 3—7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 6 at Huntington Church of the Nazarene, 1555 Flaxmill Road, Huntington. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7 at Huntington Church of the Nazarene with one hour of visitation prior to the service. Pastor Keith White will be officiating. Burial will be held in Fairview Cemetery in Servia.
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Executive Summary
Global Automotive Relay Market industry valued approximately USD 11.50 billion in 2016 is anticipated to grow with a healthy growth rate of more than 8.7% over the forecast period 2017-2025. The rising industrialization and real estate developments are the major reason behind the market growth. Additionally, environmental friendly and energy saving characteristics of curtain walls are also likely to drive the market growth over the forecast period.
The objective of the study is to define market sizes of different segments & countries in previous years and to forecast the values to the next eight years. The report is designed to incorporate both qualitative and quantitative aspects of the industry with respect to each of the regions and countries involved in the study. Furthermore, the report also caters the detailed information about the crucial aspects such as drivers & restraining factors which will define the future growth of the market. Additionally, it will also incorporate the opportunities available in micro markets for stakeholders to invest, detailed analysis of competitive landscape and product offerings of key players. The detailed segments and sub-segment of the market are explained below:
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Furthermore, the years considered for the study are as follows:
Historical year – 2015
Base year – 2016
Forecast period – 2017 to 2025
Some of the key players involved in the market are; Coto Technology, American Zettler Inc., Deltrol Controls, IDEC Corporation, Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. (HELLA), NEC Corporation, Littelfuse Inc., Omron Corporation and Panasonic Corporation. Key companies are highly investing into R&D for energy efficient relays. They are also trying to dominate the market by offering upgraded versions of currently being used devices.
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Chapter 1. Research Methodology
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1.1.1. Data Mining
1.1.2. Analysis
1.1.3. Market Estimation
1.1.4. Validation
1.1.5. Publishing
1.2. Research Assumption
Chapter 2. Global Automotive Relay Market Definition & Scope
2.1. Objective of The Study
2.2. Market Definition
2.3. Scope of The Study
2.4. Years Considered for The Study
2.5. Currency Conversion Rates
2.6. Report Limitation
Chapter 3. Executive Summary
3.1. Key Trends
3.2. Global & Segmental Market Estimates & Forecasts, 2015-2025 (USD Billion/Million)
Chapter 4. Global Automotive Relay Industry Dynamics
4.1. Growth Prospects
4.1.1. Drivers
4.1.2. Restraints
4.1.3. Opportunities
4.2. Industry Analysis
4.2.1. Porter's 5 Force Model
4.2.2. PEST Analysis
4.2.3. Value Chain Analysis
4.3. Analyst Recommendation & Conclusion
Chapter 5. Global Automotive Relay Market by Product
Chapter 6. Global Automotive Relay Market by Vehicle Type
Chapter 7. Global Automotive Relay Market by Application
Chapter 8. Global Automotive Relay Market, Regional Analysis
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22.214.171.124. Financial (Subject to Data Availability)
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9.3.2. Coto Technology
9.3.3. American Zettler Inc.
9.3.4. Deltrol Controls
9.3.5. IDEC Corporation
9.3.6. Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. (HELLA)
9.3.7. NEC Corporation
9.3.8. Littelfuse Inc.
9.3.9. Omron Corporation
9.3.10. Panasonic Corporation
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With continued success in both racing and street production including a 2012 German Touring Car Masters (DTM) title sweep, BMW has carried over racing expertise to its M3 road cars since 1986. Successes continue for the brand with the recent reemergence in DTM where the M3 GT2 scored several victories in its last American Le Mans Series season, seven to be exact. This took BMW Team RLL to five titles in two seasons.
The BMW M3 coupe started production in 2007 and since then has exceeded 40,000 units, while the sedan has added 10,000 and the convertible has achieved 16,000 built to date. And while all three may have different body variants, the powertrain and chassis technology remain the same. Equipped with a 4.0-liter V8 engine, the cylinder banks are positioned at a 90 degree angle to one another. Max output comes out at a claimed 414 hp while generating 295 lbs-ft. of torque with a max rev output of 8400 rpm. Taken directly from BMW's racing effort is an engine that utilizes electronically controlled individual throttle bodies, ion current knock control and a dynamic optimized oil supply. Such technology helped the M3 engine win the 3.0 and 4.0 liter class of the International Engine of the Year Award five times in a row.
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Several limited run examples of M3s were produced. One was the M3 GTS, which was developed as a road-legal clubsport oriented model. The V8 was increased in size to 4.4 liters while power also received a bump to 450 hp. Racing components such as a bespoke chassis and aerodynamics as well as a two-seat cockpit made the M3 GTS perfect for track use. Only 135 examples were built.
The M3 CRT (Carbon Racing Technology) came into production in 2011 with a limited production run of 67 units. This model featured exclusive lightweight parts and 450 hp, like the GTS with modified chassis technology. Carbon Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) was used on the hood, seats, rear spoiler and an air- channeling element integrated into the front apron.
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In a year when margins are tight, every dollar counts. And keeping accurate financial records can be key to getting a hold on your expenses and making smart input buying decisions this coming year.
There are basically three ways to get there. That's assuming you've already graduated from the Hushpuppy method of keeping books where you keep all your receipts in a shoebox and pull them out in December in a mad scramble to do your accounting records before visiting your lender the first of the year.
One way is to buy off-the-shelf small business accounting software. A second way is to get an ag-specific accounting package, commonly called a farm management system. The third is to hire an accountant or service bureau to do your books.
Here's a look at each of these accounting options to help you decide which one is best for your situation.
Off-the shelf software Greg Wolf, ag consultant with the financial firm Kennedy and Coe, says that if there's one thing worse than the Hushpuppy method, it is choosing a system that is beyond your means or capabilities.
For that reason, Wolf and many other experts recommend you start with a mass-market small business accounting software package such as Quicken, QuickBooks, or Microsoft Money. "It doesn't mean [this approach] is my favorite," Wolf says. "But there are a lot of producers who are not ready to make the commitment to a more complex system."
How do you know if you are one of those producers? Wolf says it comes down to general computer literacy and whether you have any knowledge of double-entry accounting, which recognizes both sides of a business transaction by debiting the amount to one account and crediting it to another account so the total debits equal total credits.
QuickBooks, for example, is technically a double-entry system, only you don't have to understand accounting terminology or debits, credits and general ledgers to balance your books. It works like a checkbook register in that you simply enter all the data for your business on forms that you are already familiar with, such as checks, bills, invoices and purchase orders. QuickBooks takes all the information you enter and does the accounting for you. You can then generate basic accounting reports, such as profit and loss statements, cash flow and forecasts. The numbers can be used in federal and state tax reports to ease filing.
One downside with this option is that you may be limited to the amount of information you can put into the program compared with an ag-specific package. For example, the program may allow you to enter dollar amounts of each transaction but not quantities, which would enable you to determine your costs of production on a per-bushel or per-acre basis.
However, a software package designed specifically for agriculture, called ManagePlus by Flagship Technologies, works as an add-on to Quicken and QuickBooks to solve that. Contact Flagship Technologies, Dept. FIN, Box 130, Madison, MO 65263, 800/545-5380.
This category of software also is a good, low-cost way to determine what you want in a software package. Packages generally cost less than $200 and can be purchased at most computer or discount stores.
Ag-specific software However, if you do decide to start with a mass-market software program and later decide to move to a more ag-specific package, transferring the data is not easy and sometimes not even possible, warns Mark Machtemes, agricultural product manager with Red Wing Business Systems. "There are too many versions out there, and the data may not be compatible," he says.
For that reason, Machtemes recommends that if you know you want to do more than track expenses and income, you should start with ag-specific software.
Four big names in this category are Red Wing Business Systems, FMS/Harvest, Farm Business Software (FBS) Systems and Agro Systems, although there are other smaller, regional companies. The software produced by these companies costs a little more than mass-market small business software, typically $500 or more. But it has more power and flexibility to fit the business of farming.
Ag-specific software can do everything that the off-the-shelf products can do plus the following:
* Track information to a per-unit basis to get at cost of production on a production-cycle basis. * Track multiple quantities for each transaction, such as number of head and weight. * Track both book and market balance sheet information and do comparative analysis between the two to determine how you are performing given current market conditions. * May provide up to 16 specialized financial ratios defined by the Farm Financial Standards Council, such as asset to liability and short-term to long-term debt. * An accrual option allows you to see how changes in crop and livestock inventories, prepaid expenses and accounts receivable affect both your balance sheet and income statement. Having this information is the only way to tell if you are making money, and it makes planning purchases easier and more accurate.
On the downside, ag-specific packages take more time to learn because they are set up as double-entry accounting. The learning curve can be as short as two months to as long as six, depending on your level of commitment, according to Mike Fassler, vice president of Salisbury Management Services and a reseller for Red Wing software.
Dale Nordquist, faculty member of University of Minnesota's Center for Farm Financial Management, says a farm management class offered by your local college can help ease the transition.
Connie and Steve Webb, owners of Computers and Technology and resellers of FMS/Harvest products, recommend that, before purchasing any system, you should try a demonstration version or arrange for a free limited use period, which is typically 30 days.
During that time, try to learn the system and see if it meets your needs. Also, make a point of calling the software company and asking for support. "See how long it takes to get a response," offers Connie Webb. "See if the person is friendly and knowledgeable. Do they make you feel as if you are competent at what you are doing?" Such checks are important, she says, because you need a support person who "is going to be that lifeline to help you when you think you are drowning."
Service bureau Maybe you feel you just don't have the time to learn any software system and key in all your receipts each month. Or maybe you don't like computers. Yet you still want to have good financial records.
If that's the case, then hiring a professional to do your books for you may be your best bet. This service may be provided by an accountant or a service bureau. Costs will vary, but expect to pay at least $100 a month, according to Salisbury's Fassler.
All you basically do is collect your receipts and send them into the bureau once a month. You will then get financial reports such as profit and loss statements, accounts payable and receivable and other forms you request.
The time it takes to collect your receipts about equals the time it would take to enter them yourself into a computer software package like Quicken. For that reason, Salisbury says many customers eventually opt for software that allows them to do it themselves.
Another consideration is that you may become less in touch with your numbers because you are not working with them directly. Experts stress the importance of studying the numbers once you get them back not only to stay in touch but to make sure the reports are accurate.
Larry Johnson, president of Johnson Computer Consultants in Clara City, MN, says a service bureau is a good option for farmers who have two or more business operations, such as farming and a repair garage.
"One of our farm clients has 10 different businesses, scattered all the way from sugar beets to corn to motels and cattle," Johnson says.
He adds that if you're still unsure of which option to use, ask your accountant. He states, "If they have been doing the farmer's work for a number of years, they should have a good idea of what he or she is capable of doing."
Which option should you buy? Off-the-shelf small business accounting software
Capabilities: For the farmer who wants to do basic accounting, primarily for tax reporting purposesCost: Less than $200Brand names to look for:* Quicken , QuickBooks, and Microsoft Money
Contact: Your local computer software or discount store
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Capabilities: For the farmer who not only wants to do basic accounting and tax planning but also collect farm management information
Cost: $500 and up
Agro Systems, Dept. FIN, Box F, Jerseyville, IL 62052, 618/372-3000.
Farm Business Systems (FBS), Dept. FIN, 1855 55th Ave., Aledo, IL 61231, 800/437-7638.
FMS, Dept. FIN, 1105 E. Lincoln Hwy., New Lenox, IL 60451, 800/992-2814.
Red Wing Business Systems, Dept. FIN, Box 19, Red Wing, MN 55066, 800/732-9464.
Service bureau
Capabilities: For farmers who want to keep good financial records but don't have the time to do it themselves, don't like computers or run more than one business operation
Cost: Typically $100/month or more
Contact: Your local accountant
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B.S., Wisconsin State University (1967): Chemistry
PhD, Kansas State University (1971): Physical/Inorganic Chemistry
NIH Postdoctoral Associate, New Mexico State University (1971–72)
Department of Radiology, UT Southwestern; Director
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Our chemistry group at UT Dallas is involved in the design of novel MR imaging agents that respond to physiology and metabolism, including targeted Gd3+-based agents that respond to binding events in vivo and paramagnetic CEST agents that offer multi-color imaging of metabolic events and that can be turned off and on by application of a radiofrequency pulse.
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"Noninvasive MRI of β-cell function using a Zn2+-responsive contrast agent", AJ Lubag, LM De Leon-Rodriguez, SC Burgess, &AD Sherry, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 108, 18400-18405 (2011).
"Imaging the Extracellular pH of Tumors by MRI after Injection of a Single Cocktail of T1 and T2 Contrast Agents", GV Martinez, X Zhang, ML García-Martín, DL Morse, M Woods, AD Sherry & RJ Gillies, NMR in Biomed., 24, 1380-1391 (2011).
"Europium(III) DOTA-tetraamide Complexes as Redox Active MRI Sensors", J Ratnakar, S Viswanathan, Z Kovács, K Green, A Jindal & AD Sherry, J Amer Chem Soc, 134, 5798-5800 (2012).
"PET and MR Agents for Molecular Imaging of Cancer Metabolism", Y Wu, X Sun & AD Sherry, in Principles of Molecular Diagnostics and Personalized Cancer Medicine, edited by Dongfeng Tan, MD, and Henry Lynch, MD, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2012.
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Darius Lantz, who says his age is "40 years timeless," is a Germantown poet and "acting patient" for medical students who provides "family friendly" events featuring poetry and live music during "Coffee after Dark" every Thursday, 6:30 to 10 p.m., at DeLink Social Club, 4172 Germantown Ave. The idea was conceived while Darius lived in Texas. While working as a masseur there, the graduate of Atlantic City High School and the Philadelphia School Of Massage Therapy supplemented his income as a barista at a local café. (He is an "Unofficial Coffee Master.") He moved to Killeen, Texas, in 2007 to pursue a personal relationship but returned to Philly in 2009 when that relationship broke up.
The partnership between coffee houses and spoken word was birthed at Darius' first event held during a spa retreat in 2007. After re-settling in Germantown, Darius created Clef Poetry Plethora at the historical Clef Club in South Philly for eight shows. It was so popular that he realized he needed a new location.
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Although Darius was born in Atlantic City, he spent his early years in North Philadelphia and Germantown. He is a middle child with an older brother and younger sister. He returned to New Jersey to attend high school, but after graduation, "I always felt compelled to come back. Philadelphia is home to me."
His love for words and poetry was inspired by his older brother, who was a hip-hop DJ. "I always wanted to impress him by writing lyrics and 'raps' on brown paper bags." These rhymes transformed effortlessly into poetry later. His poetic influences have been "the great Sonia Sanchez, who is from my (Germantown) neighborhood, and I love her poems because they seem timeless. Also Amiri Baraka, Saul Williams, Ezra Pound and many of my poet peers who inspire me by doing this for a living."
When Darius performs his poem entitled "I Have a Bright Idea," the audience is transported into the mind of a barista working at a high-end coffee shop. The customers see him as someone who is simply there to make coffee, although he believes he is worth so much more. It speaks directly to the plight and feelings of those who work in service professions.
"The Last Piece of Cake" explores the idea of not being chosen or selected. Darius' poems all examine and diagnose in one way or another the ideas of "family, spirituality and love." He brings his 9-year old son to all of the events. ("His name is Mehk'I, even though since the age of 3 he has told me that his real name is Xten.")
"The Pursuit Of Poetry" is Lantz' mantra; he urges audiences (and his son) to pursue their passions with the same zeal that he pursues his own poetry. "It is the journey I am on to sustain myself and my son through my art as a single parent," he explained. "The movie 'The Pursuit of Happiness' (with Philadelphian Will Smith and his son) spoke to my challenges as a single parent, seeking to evolve in my art and still take care of my family."
Is it possible to actually make even a meager living as a poet in Philadelphia? "One can make it as a poet in Philadelphia," said Lantz. "I just have not 100 percent figured it out, so part-time I am a 'standardized patient' (pretending to have a certain ailment, as in the famous Seinfeld episode) working with medical students at the Philadelphia School of Osteopathic Medicine. We make sure medical students are on their p's and q's in assessing and physically examining patients so they can become the best doctors possible."
"Organic Expressions," another weekly poetry performance event involving Darius, convenes every Tuesday, 6:30 to 10 p.m., at East Eden, 5600 Germantown Ave. The restaurant features organic wine and vegan food selections. Darius describes it as a "creative village featuring a mixed-age group of poets, musicians and audience members who are all encouraged to create in the moment if they choose to."
Organically, this environment has emerged as a result of the loyal following for poetry "jams" (dramatic readings). "Art bridges the young and the old because it connects us and allows us to learn from each other," said Darius. "Both events pay a feature poet anywhere from $50 on up, depending on the artist's following, and almost any poetry event in Philly that has a feature poet does pay him/her something."
When you attend "Coffee after Dark" or "Organic Expressions," you simply feel at home and honored to be in the presence of local artists. For more information about either event, email firstname.lastname@example.com


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