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Peter Matthiessen, one of the leading figures of American literature and a man whom many on the South Fork thought of as one of their own, died yesterday at his house in Sagaponack. He was 86. The cause was acute leukemia, his son Alex Matthiessen told The New York Times.
For many here, Peter Matthiessen seemed to live in several worlds. There was his long career as a novelist, paralleled by that of a naturalist and writer of nonfiction. There was the zendo he led on his Sagaponack property. He had once been an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency. And in the minds of people outside those circles, he was known as a champion of this area's baymen, the fishermen with whom he worked side by side in earlier years.
Mr. Matthiessen's death came on the eve of publication of his 33rd book, "In Paradise," a novel and Holocaust remembrance that centers on a Zen group's meditation retreat at Auschwitz in 1996.
He was awarded the National Book Award for fiction in 2008 for "Shadow Country," a reworking of his Watson trilogy of novels, which were published in the 1990s. A much earlier novel, "At Play in the Fields of the Lord," had been nominated in 1966 but did not win.
"The Snow Leopard," a highly personal account of an expedition in the Himalayas and of a spiritual journey following the death of his second wife, Deborah Love, was considered one of his finest books. It won the 1979 National Book Award in the contemporary thought category.
Locally, Mr. Matthiessen was perhaps best known for "Men's Lives: The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork," which amounted to an elegy for a fading way of life centered on South Fork waters. The book began as a photographic project for which Mr. Matthiessen was asked to write accompanying text. It was a natural choice. Starting in 1954, he spent three years working as a commercial fisherman, and was able to draw on ties from that time in writing "Men's Lives," which was published in 1986 by Random House. The book was adapted into a play by Joseph Pintauro that debuted at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor in 1992.
Unlike many writers who could only report about life of some of East Hampton's earliest families from the outside, Mr. Matthiessen could write with the confidence of someone who had worked alongside their members. His baptism of sorts to the ways of Bonac came from Ted Lester, whose ocean haulseine crew he joined. This put Mr. Matthiessen at the center of what was known as Poseyville, a community of neighbors, many related to one another that then, as now, was the hub of the baymen's way of life.
Mr. Matthiessen, who lived in Springs during this time, called himself a seasonal fishermen in deference to those men and the few women who were on the water year round. Still, it was hard, dangerous work. In "Men's Lives" he described an April day on the ocean helping to rescue two men from another crew who had nearly been lost in pounding, 40-degree surf.
His arrival with his first wife, Patsy Southgate, on the South Fork closed a vastly different chapter of Mr. Matthiessen's broad and varied life. As a Yale graduate about 1950, he was recruited by the C.I.A. and dispatched to Paris, where he was to report back on the activities of other Americans living there. He started The Paris Review in 1953, which, he said in a 2008 interview in The New York Times, provided him with a cover for his covert work.
His first novel, "Race Rock," appeared in 1954, after Mr. Matthiessen and Ms. Southgate and their first child, Luke, had left Paris for what was then the quiet and bucolic South Fork. Two more novels followed, then "Wildlife in America," a species-by-species account of North America's disappearing animals.
After Mr. Matthiessen and Ms. Southgate divorced, he married Ms. Love and bought a six-acre property in Sagaponack. It was there that he built the Ocean Zendo, becoming a Zen monk in 1981 and a Zen priest in 1990, leading others in the practice on his path toward becoming a roshi, or master. He recounted these explorations into Zen in "Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals, 1969-1985."
The roster of his books is perhaps unparalleled by another other contemporary writer for its breadth. It includes "Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in Stone Age New Guinea" from 1962, "The Tree Where Man Was Born" from 1972, which was nominated for a National Book Award, and "Far Tortuga" from 1975.
His nonfiction account of the F.B.I.'s aggressive response to events on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse," was published by Viking Press in 1983 but was withdrawn from circulation amid libel lawsuits from an F.B.I. agent and the then-governor of South Dakota, Bill Janklow. The suits were eventually dismissed.
Mr. Matthiessen was born in Manhattan on May 22, 1927, to Erard A. Matthiessen and the former Elizabeth Carey. He grew up there and in family houses on Fishers Island and in Connecticut. He graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut in 1945, going into the Navy and being stationed in Pearl Harbor. He then went to Yale.
In 1980, he married the former Maria Eckhart, a poet and onetime magazine editor. During the four decades of their relationship, Mrs. Matthiessen supported his prolific creative output by playing the traditional role of the great artist's formidable wife, running a household that was a gathering place for their many friends in the arts and letters, and lifting from Mr. Matthiessen's shoulders the mundane chores of the quotidien world. She survives him. He is also survived by a son and daughter, Luke and Sara Carey Matthiessen, from his marriage to Ms. Southgate; a son and daughter, Alex and Rue Matthiessen, from his marriage to Ms. Love; two stepdaughters, Antonia and Sarah Koenig, and six grandchildren.
As of Sunday morning, a private Buddhist gathering was to be held in his memory at the zendo adjacent to his house. A private family gathering was expected to follow within the week.
Memorial donations have been suggested to the Ocean Zendo, P.O. Box 392, Sagaponack 11962.


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Part of keeping your data safe means backing it up often. Often, site related issues may be resolved by simply restoring your site's data from a recent backup. This article outlines several options for backing up your Media Temple DV.
The Grid doesn't come with built-in backup functionality. In general, you'll want to backup your website data using a third-party FTP client or a specialized backup tool. Below you'll find a list of some common applications you can use. This list is not comprehensive; there are other tools available that would work equally well. These can range from manual to fully automated.
This article is provided as a courtesy. Installing, configuring, and troubleshooting third-party applications is unsupported by (mt) Media Temple. Please take a moment to review the Statement of Support.
Backing Up Files
- FileZilla - https://filezilla-project.org:
A free and easy FTP client you can use to download your website data.
- Cobian Backup - http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm:
A backup utility with some very advanced functionality.
- SmartFTP - http://www.smartftp.com/:
A stable FTP client with plenty of advanced features.
- WinSCP - http://winscp.net/eng/index.php:
A robust GUI frontend for the SFTP/SCP protocol for secure file transfers.
Macintosh OS X
- FileZilla - https://filezilla-project.org:
This free and easy FTP client is also available for Mac OS X.
- Transmit - http://panic.com:
An FTP client that is very POPular with OS X users.
- Cyberduck - http://cyberduck.ch:
A popular freeware FTP client.
Although there are very different ways you can backup your data in a *NIX environment, most choices are based on rsync. The rsync command is a very powerful shell tool that can be coupled with cron to provide an automated backup solution. We suggest looking at the wealth of online resources available for using rsync.
Backing Up Databases
More and more sites are database-driven these days. If your website relies on a database, then you have more to do than simply backing up your html files. There are several ways to backup a MySQL database; the most common are phpMyAdmin and MySQLDump. We go over these methods below.
METHOD 1 - phpMyAdmin (Web GUI)
You can use phpMyAdmin to backup/restore your database if it is relatively small (~10MBs).
If your database is larger than 10MBs, please skip to METHOD 2 below.
Once logged into the Admin tool of the "Manage Databases" section of the AccountCenter, perform the following steps:
- Select the database you'd like to back up from the column on the left.
- Click on Export from the top set of tabs.
- Select the tables from the list that you would like to backup. If you want to backup the entire database hit "Select All."
- Select Structure and data from the bullet list.
- Selection boxes:
- Check the Add drop table box if you are moving the database to a new location and don't want to merge the old table with an existing one.
- Click the Save as file box.
- Use the Save as file zipped if you want to compress the backup before downloading it from the server.
- Click the "Go" button. When prompted, save the file to your local computer.
METHOD 2 - MySQLDump (SSH)
This method works regardless of the size of your database. You must have SSH enabled for the serveradmin user.
- Log into your server via SSH and cd into a directory where you have write access such as:
Enter the following command:
mysqldump --add-drop-table -h internal-db.s00000.gridserver.com -u username -p dbname > dbname.sql
* omit the '--add-drop-table' argument if you'll want to merge this backup with an existing database upon restore.
* Where 'username' is replaced by the MySQL username.
* Replace 'db00000' with the name of the database to be backed up.
* Replace dbname.sql with what you'd like to name the backup file.
- Enter your MySQL password at the prompt. If you do not know your password, you can reset it in your AccountCenter.
* If you get an error that looks like this:
ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'username@localhost' (Using password: YES)
You have entered an incorrect password. Please retype it carefully or change it in the AccountCenter.
- Use your FTP client or other means to download the file to your local computer.
Please do not keep copies of your database in any of your Domains/html directories as that content is accessible to your site visitors.
Snapshot Backup
The Snapshot Backup preserves the entire state of your server, from the core configuration files down to the emails. Recommended uses include the following.
- Preserve a working version of your server before making system-level changes, like upgrading PHP or MySQL
- Keep an off-server backup in (mt) Media Temple's secure Data Center in case your machine gets hacked or becomes corrupted
- Make a new backup weekly or monthly so your data stays current
Feature Summary
- Complete Backup. This includes customizations to the server configuration, all Plesk data, domains, emails, databases - every single file on the server.
- Allows you to roll back to an earlier server state, should you have no other available backups of critical data.
- You can pick and choose what files get restored. Or, you can roll the entire server back to its exact state at the time of the backup.
- Peace of mind that your backup is safely housed in our Data Center for quick and easy recovery through Plesk.
- Off-Server Storage - even if your server's host machine fails, your backup will be safe.
- Create a new backup at any time of your choosing.
- Hold multiple backups, up to 5, by purchasing additional slots. Each slot costs $20 monthly, and can be purchased via the AccountCenter. For instructions, please read this article: Purchase a Snapshot Backup.
Snapshot Backup Limitations
- You cannot schedule automated backups. It's only one button to click, but you do need to manually click it to make a backup. See Backing up your server using the Snapshot Backup tool for details.
- You cannot download the backup locally. Due to the large size of these backups (ranging anywhere from 4 GB to 60 GB), they cannot be sent to you. They can only be recovered through Plesk and are not available for direct download.
How to Purchase a Snapshot Backup
Please see Purchase a Snapshot Backup for details and screenshots.
Plesk Backup Utility for the DV
If you are in the Service Provider view (you have a left nav panel), complete the following.
Under Server Management, click Tools & Settings. Under Tools & Resources, click Backup Manager.
The Backup Manager displays.
- Under Server Management, click Tools & Settings. Under Tools & Resources, click Backup Manager.
If you are in the Power User view, complete the following.
On the Server tab, under Tools & Resources, click Backup Manager.
The Backup Manager displays.
- On the Server tab, under Tools & Resources, click Backup Manager.
- You can click Back Up or Scheduled Backup Settings, depending on whether you want to do a backup right now or set up a schedule. You can also set up a remote repository to store your data.
WHM/cPanel Backup Utilities for the DV
Backing up in WHM
You can use WHM to schedule a global backup of the entire server or individual backups for each account. Use the steps below to configure a backup in WHM.
- Log into WHM as the root user.
- From the Home screen, click on Backup.
Click on Backup Configuration.
- Click on Enable to turn on and start configuring your backups.
- Choose a backup type and configure a timeout.
- Next, you can set the schedule for your backups and choose how many backups to retain.
The next section is where you will choose what you want to backup. You can choose to backup everything or just individual accounts. If you wish to just backup one or two specific accounts, click on Select Users.
- If you chose to click on Select Users to only backup specific accounts, you will be able to choose to turn on and off backups for each user. If you chose to backup everything, continue to the next step.
- At this stage you can enable or disable backups for your DV's system files.
- You will also be able to choose to backup your entire MySQL directory, databases on a per account basis, or the entire directory as well as a per account basis.
- In the next section you can configure the destination(s) of your backups.
- You may also configure external backups to locations using sAmazon S3, FTP, WebDAV, etc...
- When everything is configured, click Save Configuration to activate your new backup schedule.
Plesk Backup Utility for DV 4.0 & DV 3.5
The Plesk Backup Utility will back up all of the data associated with a single domain, including website files, databases, and email. Recommended uses include the following.
- Automate backups of important data
- Protect against data loss
- Restore content for one domain without affecting the rest of the server (if a single-domain backup is made)
Feature Summary
- Choose all-server or domain-level backup: includes website files, databases, and email
- Store on the server or a remote FTP location of your choice
- Schedule automatic backups
- Free
This backup does NOT back up everything on your server, such as high-level configuration files. It backs up Reseller and Customer settings in addition to domain content.
From the Control Panel
- Log into the Plesk Control Panel for your domain.
Click the Server tab.
Under Tools & Resources, click Backup Manager.
Click Backup Manager.
- Then, you can click on Back Up or Scheduled Backup Settings, depending on whether you want to do a backup right now or set up a schedule. You can also set up a remote repository to store your data.
From the Server Administration Panel
You must have the Server Administration Panel enabled. For instructions, please see: How can I change my Plesk interface?
- Log into the Plesk Server Administration Panel.
Click Tools & Settings in the left panel.
Click Tools & Settings.
Click Backup Manager.
Click Backup Manager.
Then, you can click Back Up or Scheduled Backup Settings, depending on whether you want to do a backup right now or set up a schedule. You can also set up a remote repository to store your data.
If the Back Up option is grayed out, please open a request from the AccountCenter to have us set it up for you.
- Now, you will be able to choose which type of backup you want to make or set up a remote backup repository.
Other Plesk Options
There are quite a few ways to do batches of backups or single backups. For complete instructions, see the Plesk Documentation.
- This backup does not back up your high-level configuration files.
- The files are stored in a special Plesk format, which makes them less than ideal for migrations. See Manually extract Plesk backup files for a possible workaround.


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|Diversity Dictionary
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|Diversity Mini-Grants
|This link leads to the Diversity Mini-Grant application as well as information on previous winners of the Grants. The Diversity Mini-Grants are awarded to align with the definition, mission, and vision of diversity at UNI. Anyone working at or enrolled at UNI may apply for up to $1,500 to support diversity-related projects and initiatives.
|Gifts, Grants and Contracts
|This provides links to full abstracts for diversity-related gifts, grants, and contracts that the University has received.
|Greater Cedar Valley and state of Iowa Resources
|This is a compilation of state and local resources, including government center and offices as well as community initiatives that are directly involved with diversity issues.
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|This page addresses considerations that should be made when needing to make an event more accessible.
|Online Resources
|This resource clearinghouse includes information gathered from across the Internet related to diversity in high education, hiring, etc.
|University Centers and Offices
|This is a compilation of University centers and offices that are directly involved with diversity issues.
|University Programs and Initiatives
This page provides a brief description of, and links to, programs and initiatives that are enhancing diversity at the University of Northern Iowa, including the campus climate studies.
|Updated Publications on Employment Rights of People with Specific Disabilities
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Build from the bottom using a solid base - A solid base includes planning for life's unexpected twists and turns. Consider the importance of protecting yourself and your family with life, disability, health and critical illness insurance. A will and power of attorney are an essential part of your financial plan.
The next layer includes financial products that can help accommodate a comfortable lifestyle now and a carefree retirement in the future.
Once the elements of your investment plan are in place and you've begun to reach your financial goals, it's important to explore a new range of investment opportunities. These opportunities can provide the potential for further portfolio diversification, growing your investment savings and reducing taxes.
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Pinecrest, CA.- Dodge Ridge and DC Shoes have finalized a partnershipagreement for a new snowpark at Dodge Ridge for the 1999-2000 season. "TheDC Rhythm Zone" will be an all new, BMX and moto-style snowpark, designedfor top-to-bottom riding with multiple lines. Dodge Ridge snowparks designerJames Kelly's idea is for "less stopping and sitting, more of a freerideexperience with longer hits, higher berms and rhythm sections, just like theSupercross tracks." This one of a kind, motocross-inspired park is scheduledto open when the resort opens in mid-November.
DC Shoes, makers of high-performance snowboard boots, will sponsor the parkand provide equipment, team rider design & input, and event sponsorship forthe new park. Dodge Ridge's other major park, the Santa Cruz Snowpark, isfeatured in this Fallís new Standard Films release, "TB8/Infinity", and wasthe host site for Snowboarder Magazineís 1998 "Superpark".
Dodge Ridge is located south of Lake Tahoe, just 30 minutes from Sonora onall-weather highway 108, and less than 2 hours from most Bay Area cities.It is the closest ski resort from San Francisco Airport and most CentralValley destinations.


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Hubs shares my love of hot baths and candle light. We have an entire cabinet packed with tapers, columns, pillars, votives, tea lights, and every manner of candle-holding vessel imaginable. Every room in our house, aside from Huxley's room, has candles, too. When the power goes out, we're set. When evening rolls around and we're dining on the porch, candles are burning. During dinner parties and cookouts and all sorts of other get-togethers, candles are 'a blazing.
My Small Measures post tomorrow on Design Sponge will offer a tutorial on making all-natural beeswax bug-repelling candles at home. I used Rebecca Ittner's Candlemaking the Natural Way when creating the candles and can't recommend the book enough. It's packed with essential information on handcrafting beeswax, soy, and palm candles, including 31 projects to whip up, whether you're hoping to light up your own space or gift to your nearest and dearest.
Lark has graciously offered one small measure reader a copy of Candlemaking the Natural Way! You're going to love it, I promise. To enter the giveaway, leave a comment below detailing your favorite way to use candles, or candlelight memory. For me, it happened two winters ago.
We lost power for 5 days and relied on our candle stash to light up the night. Though it was rough going (the forecast had called for 3-10 inches of snow, not the 17 we ended up with, so we were seriously caught off guard), huddling around the wood stove, listening to NPR play Charlie Brown's Christmas on a battery-powered radio while eating cookies from my recent cookie exchange and sipping on rum-spiked eggnog (we buried coolers in the snow outside and filled them with the contents of the refrigerator and freezer) made the whole ordeal slow, and sweet, and precious in a way I'd never have thought possible.
I'll run the giveaway for one week, concluding next Wednesday, July 4th at midnight EST. Per Lark's request, the giveaway is open to U.S. residents only. Sorry, international buddies! PLEASE leave a means of contacting you in your reply, either by linking back to your blog/website (which will need somewhere on there telling me how to contact you), or by leaving your email address with your comment (if you'd like to keep your email private, just make a comment with your name and then send me your email at: ashleyadamsenglish(at)gmail(dot)com).
Either way, win or no win, do check out Ittner's book. Candle-making is a serious blast, feeling something like alchemy as you stir the pot, watch the wax melt, and shape-shift it into the candle holder.


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John Shipman reports on today's market action and what effect Fed Chairman Bernanke's testimony may have. Photo: Getty Images.
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... the the ... good morning welcome to the New Saab I'm Ralf Winkler stocks are in a holding pattern ahead of Fed Chairman Ben burning keys testimony in Congress leader today John Shipman ... to tell you P the market's action right off the top nine morning ... yet this week we've seen ... essentially quietly ... trading ahead of the chairman's testimony until ... today ... and this isn't no big surprise is expected that the market always wants the praise for ... when the queue in a rolls around and what what what questions of how we might answer the question is when ... he gets grilled about ... whether or not the Fed is going ... the timing of when the feds can ... just one year early lead with ... a second change the way treaters approach to date ... well in this of course it depends on what he stands right I'm obviously a building you prepared to to ... sort of sport through the headlines before the market opens but whether or that the pipeline's column with a thirty or ten o'clock I don't think it's been a huge difference to the complex and overweight rating ... ok ... ok we shouldn't we should note that Sudeep Reddy ... one of our of buyer economics correspondence will be joining us and it seemed to dig through what we expected to say ... aam ... moving on ... we got ... earrings reach ... the earnings week this week ... big earnings weaken America was the day to day work of the stocks of will that this morning via date will be essentially show you what other big banks are shown school already in this earnings season ... on pre strong trading revenue ... on typically in equities ... second-quarter was a pretty good quarter for the stock market so that benefited from that a notably at the Osaka my colleague gave rallied on Heard St asking you mentioned ... it's a clean quarter that's there's not enough we get off all message on inside your family from Bank of America we get as much of that one I think that's it said ... were the first things that you notice visitors all all ... very limited amount ... of salute the sun free of charge is and and special items that ... we've seen in B of A's earnings for the quarter after quarter ... China's increases to infertility I would think that I think that some other source or to get out of four km on business ... of the consumer business still is really clicking ... on a ... retail banking records of eighteen in the mortgage business the actually on increase their provisions for loan losses on ... as credit quality of theirs which has been improving based on improving it ... as of the stock and pay some to look for and will have more on that later today ... on MoneyBeat to come back IBM ... is another stock we have more earnings IBM reports that the only reason why one of the top five units because of its hefty stock price that has an outsize influence on the Dow Jones industrial average ... price weighted index sells the stock trading near two hundred dollars in an the the interesting thing about IBM's earnings it's had eight straight quarter where ... the stock is either rallied strongly for lunch ... fortunately so ... you know ... last quarter ... it was reported one Q earnings ... stock launched ... in J where were report four Q earnings have rallied ... it's been that this pattern is no one basically for two years so ... on Friday and reports after the bell today ... it's as if the pattern holds its due for a rally tomorrow to seventy had outsized impact on exactly and the stock was hit pretty hard last week when Goldman downgraded the US so it sort of in a position you could argue two to rally okay ... last another Dow component McDonald's McDonald's this which is a dollar of ... hefty ... off ... of priced stock in the Dow Jones industrial average ... aam near all-time highs and the genie said he would downgrade the stock had its earnings next week ... they do a survey of their own proprietary survey of franchisees in their little bit worried ... that this treaty is overly optimistic about U S same-store sales ... and it even if off McDonald's just ... sort of meets expectations on


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GREENBELT, Md., Feb. 20 (UPI) -- NASA says it Solar Dynamics Observatory has detected a giant sunspot that has grown to over six times the diameter of Earth in the last two days.
Sunspots form on the sun's surface as magnetic fields rearrange and realign.
Beginning Tuesday, instruments on the solar observatory detected a sunspot that grew to giant proportions in just under 48 hours, the space agency said Wednesday.
The spot has quickly grown into what astronomers call a delta region, in which the lighter areas around the sunspot, known as the penumbra, exhibit magnetic fields that point in the opposite direction of those fields in the center, dark area, NASA said.
This is a fairly unstable configuration that scientists have confirmed can lead to eruptions of radiation on the sun called solar flares, it said.


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Jennifer McDougall necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 31 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
A simple logo that conveys an approachable, casual yet thoroughly professional company.
567 Web Marketing Inc.
Logo for '567 Web Marketing' that places visual emphasis on the '567' rather than the Web Marketing. We will often use the '567' logo without the words 'Web Marketing' so the '567' must be produced separately as well as in conjunction with 'Web Marketing'.
For font, we prefer something that has a close match to any font that is available 'out of the box' in Word 2007.
We strongly prefer simplicity. We are using Stick People to convey ideas and emotions on our site (refer to the StickPeople contest under Other Graphic Design). So a logo that matches the StickPeople theme will work well.
The logo must display well on our website and in print format. The '567' portion must display well at small sizes (as small as 50 pixels square).
We intend to re-produce this logo in a variety of colors so it will probably work best in flat colors, 2 or 3 at most. It must also look good in greyscale.
We would like to convey the fact that our company is approachable, casual, and has a sense of humor. Careful, though, we can't look like we are a drawing out of a kid's coloring book. We are also professional and very serious about what we do.
We will evaluate the contest entries on these criteria:
1. The logo (the 567 part) is instantly recognizable at a glance (a large number of extraneous graphic elements are going to hurt you here).
2. The logo is not visually at odds with our commitment to our Stick People.
3. It does not depend on color to be effective.
3. The logo scales well (large and small).
- 567 logo and 567 with words: Web Marketing
- Color and Greyscale Renditions
- Vector Image in AI and PNG format
- Identify the font used
- Complexity
- fancy graphics that don't mean anything
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Yallourn power station workers accept pay deal
Workers at the Yallourn power station, in the Latrobe Valley, have accepted a final wage agreement after more than a year of failed negotiations with the plant's operator .
The operator of Yallourn power station, Energy Australia, says workers have overwhelmingly voted in favour of the final wage and conditions agreement.
The deal includes a 22.5 per cent pay increase and a strengthened dispute resolution clause.
It has been a long and bitter dispute, which culminated in the 75 Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union workers being locked out of the site.
The 100-day stand-off ended last month when the workers agreed to an in-principle agreement with the plant operator.
Energy Australia says the final enterprise agreement will be sent to the Fair Work Commission to be finalised.
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All of us have gotten used to the beheading of people in the Muslim world. Sadly, it was often the real people who were beheaded – such as Western visitors or this 12-year-old boy. Our ancestors enjoyed similar exercises some 700 years ago – and in some cases, much more recently. The Muslim world is still socially living in the Middle Ages so we shouldn't be surprised that certain practices look disturbing to us.
Some two years ago, this culture has spread to a country that is much closer to us, Ukraine. Here, in Ivano-Frankivsk, Western Ukraine, people burn an effigy of Putin and children were happily dancing around the burning man. Ukrainians are almost people just like us. They speak a Slavic language that Czechs partly understand and Ukraine is the most important source of gastarbeiters in our economy. But their homeland lives in a different atmosphere. You may find numerous videos about badly treated effigies of Putin in Ukraine.
OK, the Daesh territory and Ukraine still belong to the "East". This is not how masses of people train their children in the West, is it? Oh, wait a minute.
Here is the animated GIF from an RT story.
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A former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was speaking at the political institute of University of Chicago and this is how he was welcome. A piñata resembling Donald Trump was created. Kids were encouraged to beat it to death with their first and one of them happily beheaded it or him, earning the applause of others.
The children clearly don't know what they're doing and why they're doing it. They've been brainwashed by some adults. I do think that the adults should be sued and punished for children abuse. This may be worse than a kid that is physically raped. By these exercises, one is producing people who may grow up into insensitive retarded left-wing mental cripples who are incompatible with the Western civilization.
With this striking similarity of the rituals in the Islamic State and in front of the building in Chicago, it becomes much more comprehensible why and how some people in the West may be defending the Islamic political culture. They defend it because their degree of humanism is rather close to the Islamic one. In particular, they simply don't possess certain conscience that may be found in every truly Western human. They are always ready to behave as animals.
Every individual person may have the tendency to do something this weird at some moment. But collectively in our environments, he almost always faces some majority that would stop him. It may be fun now but you shouldn't really behead people – and not even effigies resembling real politicians. Among the anti-Trump fanatics, a critical mass threshold has been surpassed. There are whole communities where it's a majority opinion that they should behave just like the Islamic State animals.
Various people, including those in the Academia, are overtly or covertly encouraging this kind of wild behavior. I am sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but you may be turning into a real pain in the aß, a credible threat for the Western civilization that isn't quite as dangerous or illegitimate as the jihadists – the extent is different – but whose qualitative logic is analogous. For that reason, you may easily find out on a sunny day that you simply have to be treated in a qualitatively similar way as the members of Daesh, too.
This wild behavior looks amazing especially when it is compared to the restrictions that very similar and sometimes the same people were imposing on everyone else when they were in charge of the U.S. They found it unacceptable for university presidents to suggest that there could be natural reasons why women are less likely to be top mathematicians – what a blasphemy to say something that every sane person knows. But beheading the democratically elected leader of the Western world is just fine, isn't it? Leftists' hypocrisy is staggering. And maybe it's not really hypocrisy. Maybe they're acting in this way because they can't help themselves and they really don't belong here, because they simply are closer to the animals in Daesh than they are to us.
You may find tons of badly treated Trump effigies on YouTube. I believe that almost all of them are videos recorded before the election and none of them shows children abuse, at least not this clearly.
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Children trained to behead Western men... in Chicago
All of us have gotten used to the beheading of people in the Muslim world. Sadly, it was often the real people who were beheaded – such as Western visitors or this 12-year-old boy. Our ancestors enjoyed similar exercises some 700 years ago – and in some cases, much more recently. The Muslim world is still socially living in the Middle Ages so we shouldn't be surprised that certain practices look disturbing to us.
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- S can be an open interval. For an open interval S, define f(x)=0 if x∈S or x∈Q and f(x)=1 otherwise. Then the continuous locus of f is exactly S.
- S can be the complement of any countable set. Let T={t1,t2,t3,...} be a countable set, and let ∑ai be some absolutely convergent series all of whose terms is non-zero (like ai=1/2i). Define
f(x) = ∑i such that ti < x a_i.
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- Can S be any open set?
- Can S be non-measurable? (if f(x)=0 if x∈S and f(x)=1 otherwise, what will the continuous locus be?)


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Hey Ladies, I am seeking advice from moms that have been in similar situations as I or bad a** moms who are attorneys or of the like. I will try to keep it brief with short detail otherwise I could be still writing this blog when my two year old is graduating college.
First things first, I have obtained an attorney and have listened to her legal advice but with as concerned as I am it would help to hear from you ladies as well.
I was dating the father of my child for two months and one week after our mutual breakup I found out I was pregnant. Previously, I was told it would be difficult to get pregnant due to past medical issues so finding this out was a grab bag of emotions. We decided to get back together and my LOs daughter was very involved and we even started searching for a house but when I was 5 months pregnant-he bolted. I was obviously heartbroken but sought out therapy and got to the point right before my daughter was born that this indeed happened for a reason and she was a blessing. I have multiple screenshots from her father stating she was a mistake, and that his new GF would be in the picture right away if I ever wanted him in our daughters life, etc. I must add, that after he bolted he never was involved in OBGYN appts or preparing for the baby. When I was in labor I asked him multiple times to come to the hospital for her birth and he gave every excuse in the book, but best of all I have a lot of work to catch up on, do you know how much longer you have. After she was born I invited him to the hospital but he would not come unless his GF was invited into the room. Fast forward, I obtained an attorney for child support because he became unreachable- he ignored every motion, petition and document my attorney sent and we finally wound up in court where he was ordered child support and to pay 70% of my attorney fees. Months later he was engaged to the girlfriend.
Fast forward a year with no word from him or meeting my daughter (except at the DNA clinic for the paternity test) I receive a text that he wants to meet up. We meet up for coffee and he apologizes, tells me he ended his engagement because he knew our daughter was more important than his fiancé, apologized to me, and asked to be part of his daughters life. I forgave him and we sat there for two more hours going through pictures of our daughter, telling stories of the past year, and planning when they would meet. Over the following 2 months, he saw her almost every weekend except two weekends. Him and I forged a close bond and decided to start dating. After a month, he went to court for his 2 DUIs he received in college 2 years prior and lost his license. Because he lives 50 mins away from me he started to catch a ride to work with another female coworkertwo weeks later he left Kelsey and I for his coworker. This obviously brought back past emotions, he started to resentment me again for child support and him having to pay my attorney fees (these were his excuses) and he did not see Kelsey for 6 more months.
In late January of this year, he asked if we could go to lunch and set up a plan for him to see Kelsey more. We met and he apologized again and we decided to work together to be great co-parents. He wanted to start taking Kelsey on his own but I explained to him how emotionally disturbing that would be to her with her being so young and with his time with her has been nothing but consistently-inconsistent. AND lets not forget he still does not have a license. We created a plan that every weekend I would drive to his house that is 50 mins away, his live in GF would leave for the day, and I would sit back and let him learn who Kelsey was and how to be a father and give guidance when needed. Every weekend we all had a great time together and we were becoming great friends. (At this time I pushed him to legitimate her and I scheduled an appointment at our bank for the papers to be notarized. We completed this ---he never filed them within the following four months.) In this time, I also took Kelsey to his parents house 2 hours away from me and spent the night there with my daughter so she could have time with her grandparents. I would offer to swing Kelsey by his office when she had doctors appts by it so he could see her, etc. There were three of these visits with her dad over a 6 week period, and on the morning of our 4th visit I woke up with the stomach flu and text him at 9am saying I could not drive but that he could uber or find a ride to my house or if we could plan for the next day. He was IRATE-saying he made his plans for this weekend around kelseys visit and I should have told him on Friday (how was I to know I was going to be sick??) and that him and his GF had plans for the next day. I told him that I was sorry but I just couldnt make the drive and that if Kelsey was his priority he needs to cancel his plans for the following day so he could see Kelsey.
That was four months ago and he has not seen Kelsey since or asked to see Kelsey up until 2 weeks ago when he text a couple days before her birthday to see if he could pick her up and take her to his parents house that weekend to celebrate her birthday (keep in mind he has no license)-I told him we already had plans with my family at the lake and wouldnt be home this weekend. I didnt go into detail about all the other reasons why that was not going to happen. He never suggested another date but I did receive a NASTY email from him Mom stating I was keeping Kelsey away from her dad and that Kelsey was going to resent me and that they were going to make sure she knew who the real Me was. I laid out a two year period with all the times I had offered him to see Kelsey and the times he forgone the opportunity. I never received a response.
A few days ago I received an email from an Attorney he obtained filing for Joint custody-every other weekend, Mondays, and all the holidays including summer break on all the even years of her age. Without me going into detail of all the reasons why this is not okay, I will just say that he is treating this as if our two year old who he is a stranger to is like a vacation home and he wants half the time to vacation at the beach house. It is clear he does not have any regard to how Kelsey would feel and is only thinking selfishly about what would be easy for him. I spoke with my attorney and she calmed my fears and basically said he doesnt have a leg to stand on---especially because he does not have a license until January 2018. I advised her that I DID want Kelsey in her life and will continue to support their relationship but it needed to be at a thoughtful pace with regards to her age and the situation. She let me know that most judges rule for a step up parenting planthis is exactly what I offered him when we started the visits at his house and that we would gradually increase the time without me there as long as they formed a relationship and he was consistent.
My questions are, (if you have dedicated an hour of your time to reading this J )
1. If your situation was similar what was the outcome with mediation/judge ruling-do you think he will get joint custody or just visitationhow much?
2. Do you think I have a chance to get all or some of my attorney fees covered because I can clearly show I have done everything possible to forge a relationship between the two
3. What are some requests you would add when I create my parenting plan, or added stipulations to their visits
4. Anything else you can think of that I need to keep in mind: advice, legal formalities, etc.
THANK YOU SO MUCHhaving the support and guidance from you ladies really will keep my mind at ease during this time. I hope you have a great day J
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I nearly forgot! I made a haul about 10 days ago:
This was from the bargain bucket in John Lewis – I got this Meteorites compact which is usually about £100 for £50 and a Kiss Kiss lipstick in Lychee Shine for £7.50.
I would never pay £100 for this compact! The refills are about £29 so once you have the compact the upkeep is not too bad. The powder has a nice amount of oil control and give a nice glow.
Lychee Shine has a nice glossy texture but is a little bit too light on me – still, its ok, perhaps better for the summer? (oh, it is the summer)
Have you found any bargains lately?


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ahhhh...not a fail, just a creative solution!
I like the magnetic idea so they can change it up and do it different. At the science museum here in Pittsburgh they have one with heavy duty velcro on PVC pipes. James loves playing at it. We have never had a marble run toy either.


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Reviewed by L. L. (age 7)
I liked this book because it didn't have many illustrations. I usually like to use my mind to see pictures of the story, but I don't like books without illustrations. I also liked it because it was like two mysteries in one, and I sort of like that kind of story. It was an exciting adventure. It made me feel ready for the next chapter when I had to stop.
I think probably third to fourth- graders would like to read this book because it is sort of scary. Fifth graders might think it's not scary enough. The part of the book they would probably enjoy the most is the part where they solved the mystery.


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If you are building a web application, don't expect the RWD you read about to be the RWD you will use. RWD is going to be about abstraction, code management, and using the right methodologies
A while back, when I was a frustrated architect leading a talented team of web application developers on several initiatives with multi-screen targets, I claimed that Responsive Web Design (RWD) is not the Holy Grail of write once/deploy everywhere.
So, what has changed since then?
Still frustrated. Still working on mobile/tablet/desktop projects. Still think RWD is chasing a dream.
Since those early days of RWD (back in May), a lot of things have changed. More libraries. More JQuery plug-ins. More people claiming the virtues of RWD. More carousel plug-ins. My god, how many carousel plug-ins do we legitimately need as an enlightened society?
I tried, I really really tried, for a recent customer to get my team to build a relatively simple web application using RWD design principles — media queries, plug-ins that handle some of the heavy lifting (Masonry is actually quite excellent).
Keep in mind that my team builds web applications for Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries, primarily working on analytics applications and other business intelligence solutions. We are a small consultancy group with engineers that have, each, over 20 years of software development experience and considerable subject matter expertise. All of us self-taught hackers. All of us love researching new ways to do things and then using them — and, of course, on the customer's dime. Don't tell anyone.
I'm in charge, because I can talk to customers that aren't tech-savvy. None of my other team members are in charge, because they can't. We all play Quake, and I'm very good with the railgun.
The point is, we're not beginners.
So we had a relatively simple (actually, extraordinarily simple) request from a publishing company — build an interactive web application for a customer of theirs that allows users to select categories of content and display products that match those categories. The app had to work offline on an iPad and an iPhone, and had to work on the desktop as well.
So — cool stuff. The product database was relatively small, a few hundred products. We decided to store them in a JSON format on the client, and check for updates when the client was on the network. Data storage: check. Offline caching: Check. Well, sort of check — the application cache is a prickly pear in and of itself, but that's a different topic. Didn't even need a database server to deliver the product catalog, the customer was anticipating only quarterly changes and were more than happy to fund us to support that in an engineering way.
On to the front-end. We had two different UI's in mind, one for the iPhone, and one for the iPad and desktop. As an aside, we've been doing a lot of that recently — we use the iPad experience to inform the desktop, and our customers have been very pleased with the results.
So — two different UI's. Shouldn't be hard, right? Figure there has to be a good methodology for handling this, some good frameworks, a plug-in or two that'll help us.
The was some marketing-type content that we had to put up front — an introduction to customer's products, some instructional content, author information, and so on. We laid it out, threw Masonry at it, and voila — it looked… Pretty good. Okay! On to the app portion of the application.
At it's most basic, the UI was sort of like the iPad email application. On the iPad, a pane on the left for the product categorizations, and the main pane showing product details with various information groups along the top arranged in tabs:
There are maybe 15 different attributes that a user could refine their product search with, so it fit easily into the left pane in a nice list, pretty list, and when you click on the items, they had a nice little effect that showed you that attribute was being used in the product filtering.
And as you tapped, basic product information for each of the products would appear in the main pane, with a little thumbnail of the product, the name of the product, and a brief description. If you tapped on a selected filter, the product list would gently fade and refresh with your new list.
A series of tabs along the top would also appear, categorizing product information into buckets. The first tab would default automatically, and tapping the tabs would show the different sets of information — instructional data, pricing, contact information, and so on — for each of the selected products.
So — we have CSS driving the layout and Javascript handling the various interactions. Perfect start.
Then one of the guys took the iPad and rotated it. Not so perfect.
So, we took step one of RWD. But the first challenge presented — we wanted to hide the left pane when the user was done filtering attributes so that we could show more product data on the screen. We introduced a swipe feature on that pane, so that the user could select multiple attributes and then, when done, swipe the pane almost completely off the screen, leaving a little bit available so that the user could swipe it back.
But we didn't want this to happen on the landscape orientation. So, in JavaScript, our first IF/THEN. If iPad AND Portrait, then add this swipe event.
OK. No big deal so far. We also had to enable scrolling on the tab list, because there were too many tabs to fit in portrait mode. But that was OK, too — we could do that for the landscape orientation as well, so this was just a CSS change.
But the attribute pane looked weird. It only had the 15 items, and so half the pane was empty. Making the item selections taller made it look like we were simply trying to fill up space. So, enter our first CSS media query — set the height of the left pane based on whether we were iPad portrait-oriented or landscape-oriented. Make the left pane sort of hover over the main pane, at half the height of the screen in portrait mode:
OK, so we've got a minor JavaScript branch and a few CSS media queries. Not bad, but we've only handled the same device so far. And looking into the crystal ball, we started to sweat.
RWD is, as I've suggested, primarily geared towards brochure-style sites: sites that are geared primarily towards content delivery and not interactive application functionality. The experience on an iPad can't simply be reformatted to work on an iPhone — the experience often has to be completely different.
On an iPad, relative to an iPhone, the information and experience hierarchy is flat. If you refer to the above images, particularly the landscape one, you'll note that everything is on-screen, all at once — the filter attributes, the product lists, the tabs. This is even the case on the portrait version, with the user having the added ability to swipe the filters away — so a slight bump in the hierarchy, if you will.
The iPhone User Experience Hierarchy
On an iPhone, the experience hierarchy can be deep. You only need to look at the Settings app on an iPhone versus and iPad to see glaring examples of how deep you might have to go on an iPhone's navigational hierarchy as opposed to on the iPad. Go ahead and try it.
So, there were a few challenges now from a UI perspective. We needed to plan the information hierarchy — we would go from a user selecting one or more filters, and then to a user selecting a desired product (since it was only feasible to show a single product on the screen at a time), and then to the product details, separated in some fashion by the data categories previously represented by tabs.
At this point, we seriously considered doing what we thought would be best, and what we've done in the past — abstract out the JavaScript and CSS that could be leveraged by both the iPad and iPhone versions of the UI — and then have form-factor-specific CSS and JavaScript files.
But we didn't. I wanted to forge ahead and see if there wasn't something to this RWD thing. Is it as easy as people make it out to be?
Spoiler: It ain't. Maybe for an online brochure it is, or a news article. But not for a web application. At least, not one you'd be proud of deploying, or one that your customer is likely to accept.
So, the first step — the left pane of filter attributes becomes the first full screen of the web application, taking up all the real estate. We do a CSS media query to handle the positioning. Turns out that the 15 or so filter attributes that fit so nicely in the pane on the iPad don't fit on the iPhone without scrolling.
Well, in for a penny, in for a pound. We decide to use an accordion for the filter attributes, and divide the attributes up into groups that would make sense to the user. These were the same group names that separated the attributes in the left pane of the iPad user experience, so we didn't have to think too hard.
So, we did a JavaScript branch for the iPhone — adding an accordion. We had to also re-factor some of the attribute-selection/deselection code so that it worked properly in the accordion, and also add some additional ability to indicate to the user that at least one filter attribute from the accordion group was being used in the filter. We were able to leverage that code in the iPad version as well, but it took some time to re-factor that.
Because the goal of the filter screen was to allow the user to select one or more filters, we couldn't just display the matching products until the user was done selecting filters. Also, the user was given positive feedback in the iPad experience: as they selected filters, the products matching their criteria would appear automatically. They knew that what they were selecting was resulting in matching products.
So, we decided to show a product count — how many products matched the criteria you were selecting — and then a button that would take you to the products that matched when you were done with your selections.
Okay. So, another JavaScript branch, draw the button, add the logic for doing a product count when a filter was clicked, update the button. Add the button to the CSS file. No need to do it in a media query, really — but we were thinking that we might have to make changes in the future, and we could group by media queries, so we put it in.
Just a couple more IF/THEN's, a couple more media queries… And our code is starting to look… Complicated.
Now, before anyone says "why didn't you use Sencha or JQuery Mobile" or any of those other frameworks that at least handle the paging that I'm describing above, it's because of this: if I used either of those, the app would look the same on the iPhone and the iPad; just smaller on the former, and larger on the latter. We would've had the same issues forking in the accordions and laying out the pages. In short — no way it would've worked and provided the optimal, device-specific user experience that we wanted to deliver.
Back to the task at hand.
So we have page 1 working. Now we have to show a simple product list of products matching the criteria from the filtering. We already have code that derives the product list, but the product listing itself is much different from the main pane display on the iPad. Much.
So we IF/THEN in JavaScript again. We show a simple scrolling list of products, we tack on a "Back" button so the user can get back to the filters, and we create a new action handler on the product list that will take us to the third page, where we show the product details.
Another IF/THEN in JavaScript. More CSS specific to the iPhone that had no analogous entries for the iPad, adding it to the same file as the iPad CSS.
A Brief Aside
By the way — at this time, we were showing our progress to the customer. They were happy with the direction, but wanted to change some colors and things, some global to both user experiences, some to one or the other. Our fault for thinking this was going to be simple, so I had my team re-factor the CSS and use LESS, parameterize the various colors and gradients they wanted to change, and embedded them with the media queries. Fortunately, LESS supports @media with nested rules, so while we probably should've used it from the start, it helped us out as the customer iterated on the UI.
Back to the story.
So, we have page 2. It's a page that didn't have an analog in the iPad version, so was brand new. Everything related to it was in a JavaScript IF/THEN or CSS media queries.
More branches. More queries.
On to page three. This is a completely reformatted version of the main pane in the iPad application. Once again, we had too much data to show all at once, so we converted the tabs to an accordion, and put the product information in their appropriate accordion group.
Oh, and a back button to get back to the product list. And a "Start Over" button so the user could.
And I haven't even mentioned all the transition effects and so on, all stuff that didn't exist in the iPad version. All in CSS. And JavaScript. In those branches I keep referring to.
So now page 3 is working. The display is great, we've got the transitions down pat.
And, as you can imagine, the app looks nothing like the iPad version. It couldn't be more distinct. And the customer loves it.
But our code was grotesque — a rats nest, a rabbit warren of branching logic throughout each of the front-end components. All using so-called RWD techniques and approaches espoused by people that know little to nothing about web application development and user experience. We considered it a failure. A relatively simple application, particularly when compared to the enterprise tools we've delivered in the past, would cost us double-time to support in the future. Unacceptable.
So, we re-factored again. We shifted all cross-screen JavaScript and CSS to their own files. Our single-page application index.html file referenced the appropriate, form-factor-specific JavaScript and CSS files during page load. We eliminated virtually all branches in JavaScript related to screen or orientation.
And all was good again.
We presented the final application to the customer for review. He held his iPhone and said the application looked great. As he put the iPhone down on the desk, he rotated his hand ever so slightly. By the time the iPhone had hit the desk, the web app was in landscape mode.
It did not look good. But we smiled, knowing that we'd already done the heavy lifting in our re-factoring and abstraction. So when he asked if we could support landscape on the iPhone, we said "Sure."
What RWD Is
So that is what RWD is all about — good programming practices, not the expectation that one size fits all when it comes to a web page, not just an accumulation of responsive widgets, and sure as heck not as simple as everyone makes it out to be.
If you are building a web application, don't expect the RWD you read about to be the RWD you will use. RWD is going to be about abstraction, code management (i.e.), and using the right methodologies. Not about a carousel.
I would really love to hear from anyone who has had similar experiences or differing opinions and approaches… We are also on the hunt for code organization tools that help specifically with this type of challenge. Submit your comments!


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THIS, is amazing! If only I could step my foot in.
Happy weekend all! May yours be light-filled.
I'm off to Seattle for the next few days . . .
Do you know what that means?
Amazing guest post line up! Stay tuned.
P.S. Recs for places to visit in SEA are always welcome. ;)


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|Aerial view of Beccles and the River Waveney
If I look back another generation, to my great-grandparents' idea of what home meant to them, it differs quite dramatically. For example, my maternal great-grandparents Albert and Elizabeth, were born in the exact same town in London. They were both from working-class families and both were baptised at the same church. Their families possibly knew one another and shared a similar social history. Albert was restless though, even as a young boy. He wanted to travel and see the world, stretch his wings and leave Putney well behind him forever. He lied about his age to get into the Royal Navy and his only reason for returning to Putney was to marry his sweetheart, Elizabeth, in 1905. After that they lived in Southwark, Fulham, Tooting, Bloomsbury and later, Sutton (where they settled and remained until Elizabeth's death in 1951).
|Putney, in Greater London


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BY ROBERTA NAAS | February 6, 2013 |
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The elegant Ulysse Nardin Classico Lady Luna ($22,800) is a 35mm timepiece crafted in 18k gold with a mother-of-pearl outer dial set with eight diamonds and three pearls. The self-winding movement features a precise moon-phase indicator disk that revolves around the entire inner sunburst-motif dial twice daily.
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From Corum, this Admiral's Cup Legend 38 Mystery Moon ($14,500) features a natural mother-of-pearl dial engraved with a sunburst pattern and a round moon-phase indicator aperture set within a sub-dial of diamond-set stars. The dial rotates so that the date and moon-phase indicators complete one revolution in 31 days. The inner disk of the moon-phase indicator changes every 23.5 hours for exact precision in replicating the phases of the moon.
This Harry Winston Midnight Moon Phase ($26,700) is the first Midnight to house a mechanical quartz movement with moon-phase indication and date. The watch is bedecked with brilliant-cut diamonds on the case and features a satin sunburst dial with a tree etched onto its surface. From behind the tree, the moon-phase aperture is visible.
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This Patek Philippe Ref. 4968G-001 moon-phases and small-seconds watch ($58,600) houses a part mechanical manual-wind movement. The bezel and case are set with 273 diamonds graduated in size and weighing 2.12 carats. The dial of the extremely precise moon-phase watch is black Tahitian mother-of-pearl that yields lustrous color. The moon-phase sub-dial is surrounded by stars.
For decades, mechanical watches created specifically for women took a backseat to the ever more important category of men's mechanical timepieces. Today, however, women have their rightful place in the watchmaking world, as savvy luxury brands design timepieces for women who dress for success and value fine craftsmanship and engineering. Among the most coveted are mechanical moon-phase watches.
Long a symbol of romance and eternity, the moon has enraptured us for time immemorial and served as the inspiration for much folklore and poetry. This may well be why so many watch brands put time and research into the development of specialty watches for women that depict the phases of the moon in increasingly creative renderings. "Women deserve their own complicated watches. The moon phase is the perfect function to offer because it is both visually arresting and mechanically precise," says Patrik P. Hoffmann, CEO of Ulysse Nardin, which recently released its Classico Lady Luna for women.
Typically, a moon-phase display operates via a small disk within the mechanical watch that slowly rotates, showing the waxing and waning moon cycles. While this system continues to be utilized, new inventions such as the aforementioned Ulysse Nardin model operate differently. The Luna moon-phase timepiece was years in development and is the concept of scientist Ludwig Oechslin, longtime watch innovator for Ulysse Nardin. Famous in the mechanical watch world for creating extremely complex movements, Oechslin uses a technology for the Luna that he first invented for the much more complicated Ulysse Nardin Moonstruck watch.
The alluring Luna watch features a moon-phase sub-dial, which is unlike other watches with a stationary sub-dial moon-phase aperture because it is situated on an inner center sunburst-motif dial and rotates around the center dial (meant to portray the earth) once every 12 hours on its journey to fulfill a complete moon-phase cycle in 29.5 days. The always moving, extremely accurate moon-phase indicator needs an adjustment just once every 3,800 years. The women's Classico Lady Luna also features an outer dial of mother-of-pearl with eight diamond markers and three inset pearls. (Ancient legend has it that pearls were formed as a result of the moon's tears falling into the sea.)
Other brands are also bringing captivating new ways to display the moon phases—and advanced designs—on the wrist. Corum, for instance, offers its Admiral's Cup Legend 38 Mystery Moon timepiece with an endlessly rotating mother-of-pearl dial. Made expressly for women, the watch is a dance of poetry and mystery—the moon-phase display and a sunburst date indication opposite it play a fascinating game of pursuit without ever catching each other. The exclusive Corum-patented complication is a technological advancement that was several years in development. Powering the watch and driving the hour, minute, jumping date, and jumping moon-phase functions is the self-winding Caliber CO384, which is endowed with a 42-hour power reserve. The mother-of-pearl moon-phase disk appears in a satin-brushed metallic sub-dial that is studded with stars, six of which are gem-set.
In addition to offering advanced technological indications, some brands display the moon phase in simply beautiful contemporary designs. Harry Winston has unveiled the automatic Midnight Moon Phase watch, which features a meticulously engraved tree on the dial and a crescent-shaped aperture stretching behind it from 8:00 to 1:00, from which the moon and stars peek out. The delicate design offers an ultrafeminine statement. Other enhancements on today's finest moon-phase timepieces include adding a motif to the outer sub-dial of the moon-phase aperture (most often stars) or creating superbly decorated moon-phase disks in lacquer, enamel, mother-of-pearl, or semiprecious gems that highlight the eternal allure of the moon.
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Derek Hough has been wowing American audiences with his talents for years. From Dancing With The Stars to Hairspray Live, this man on many talents has done it all! Now Hough heads out on his first solo tour, Derek Hough: LIVE! The Tour.
The Emmy Award Winning dancer brings his magnetic stage presence, high-energy choreography and technically brilliant moves to fans across the US in this two month long run. Brining you routines inspired by tap, salsa, ballroom and hip-hop, Hough demonstrates his extensive versatility, making this show perfect for everyone!
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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
Is Connectivity a Human Right?
"For almost ten years, Facebook has been on a mission to make the world more open and connected. Today we connect more than 1.15 billion people each month, but as we started thinking about connecting the next 5 billion, we realized something important: the vast majority of people in the world don't have access to the internet.
Today, only 2.7 billion people are online -- a little more than one third of the world. That is growing by less than 9% each year, but that's slow considering how early we are in the internet's development. Even though projections show most people will get smartphones in the next decade, most people still won't have data access because the cost of data remains much more expensive than the price of a smartphone.
Below, I'll share a rough proposal for how we can connect the next 5 billion people, and a rough plan to work together as an industry to get there. We'll discuss how we can make internet access more affordable by making it more efficient to deliver data, how we can use less data by improving the efficiency of the apps we build and how we can help businesses drive internet access by developing a new model to get people online." READ MORE


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