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So last week, we covered a portion of the baseline Monk abilities in the upcoming Mists of Pandaria expansion.
This week, we'll be digging a little deeper into the tanking spec of the Monk class, the Brewmaster and looking over some of the signature abilities of the tanking spec and what sort of playstyle we can expect to see from it.
Many of the Brewmaster specific abilities seem geared towards not just a flat reduction of damage like the classes we work with now, but taking the damage dealt to you, dicing it up into more managable chunks instead of the big spikes and setting those up to hit you over time to make it a little easier to keep your health up.
For heading down the tanking spec, you're given the Stance of the Drunken Ox right away which reduces the damage you take and gives you a chance to stagger any remaining damage which will cut any incoming damge by 50% and then dealing the remaining 50% after a few seconds.
This provides an immediate benefit to survivability as there is a much lower chance of being unexpectedly spiked to death before your healers can react.
This theme of abilities and talents to give your healers a chance to catch their breaths continues with Drunken Haze which has an additional effect of giving your targets a small chance of redirecting their attacks upon themselves, which, again, usefully lessens the burst of damage you might take in a given moment.
They also borrow from the paladin textbook of tanking by bringing to the table a number of abilities that help to reduce damage taken by any nearby allies as well.
Avert Harm is an ability that has the fairly low cooldown of 1 minute and reduces all damage taken by nearby allies by a certain percentage and then redirecting half of the damage they take to be inflicted upon you instead, which can be suicidal if used without cooldowns but with a little preparation and coordination, can be a very useful tool when it comes to raid utility.
Brewmasters are also capable of dropping statues which function sort of like the holy priest's Lightwell, where allies can click on the statue to gain a short duration buff in the form of a bubble.
The Brewmaster is looking to be a bitmore of a raid utility focused tank.
While it definitely looks like the new tank will fill a certain niche role between the paladin and the warrior, it also means that they'll likely be quite a bit more effective in larger parties (raids) as opposed to smaller ones where there are less people around to take advantage of the benefits that the class brings.
Keep that in mind as well as your preferred tanking playstyle before you maybe think about deciding to reroll as a Brewmaster come the next expansion.


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Born in Tokyo, with dual French and Japanese nationality, Jun Yasumoto lives and works in Paris.
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A large field on the west side could soon be home to an 800,000-sq-foot distribution center that would create 450 jobs.
DAYTONA BEACH — A large vacant field on the city's west side could soon be home to an 800,000-square-foot food distribution center for a national retailer that would create 450 new jobs and give Daytona Beach a shot at luring more high-caliber warehouse operations.
The name of the company has been guarded by a tight circle of city and county leaders, and some government officials who've worked on the project — with square footage equal to more than four Walmart Supercenters — have heard it referred to only under its code name, Alpha.
Pending a small handful of loose ends that need to be nailed down, including incentive packages from the city and Volusia County, the company is expected to announce within the next few weeks that it's coming to town and giving Daytona Beach one more big-name business to add to its list of expected arrivals.
"It's looking extremely promising," said City Commissioner Rob Gilliland, who has been talking to officials with the company and the landowner. "I think we're very, very close; probably a few weeks away."
The targeted site is a treeless 76.5-acre property just north of Dunn Avenue between Interstate 95 and Williamson Boulevard. Members of the city's Planning Board will decide tonight whether to OK a zoning change that would allow the project to move forward.
City commissioners will take a final vote in early April on the proposed zoning change, from multifamily residential to planned commercial development, and approvals are still needed for site plans and permits. It's unclear how soon construction could start and the operation could be up and running.
The property, which is near Teledyne Oil & Gas and several apartment complexes, is owned by Consolidated-Tomoka Land Co. The plan for the site outlined in city documents calls for a 523,760-square-foot warehouse, 101,760-square-foot freezer building, 6,000-square-foot truck wash and 178,275-square-foot future building expansion. There is also mention of an 8-foot-tall chain-link fence that could be hidden by landscaping to comply with U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirements.
"The developer and end user of the distribution center will be investing more than $88 million in capital improvements to construct the project, thereby substantially increasing the ad valorem tax base which will provide tax relief to residents of the city," Rob Merrell, a Daytona Beach attorney representing Consolidated-Tomoka, wrote in a Feb. 20 letter to the city's principal planner.
"The project will also be a catalyst for similar future development in and around the city," Merrell noted in the letter.
Mark Soskin, a University of Central Florida associate economics professor, agreed the sprawling distribution center could prompt similar operations to take a look at locating in Daytona Beach.
"This is a signal this is a favorable environment for this type of development," Soskin said. "It's definitely a good sign."
Landing a company that supplies food — something much less vulnerable to market ups and downs than other goods — and getting the company to put a huge warehouse here would be a coup for Daytona, he said.
Distribution "is an area I've been pushing for 25 years," Soskin said. "We're so anemic in that sector. ... It's a critical sector that has blocked the further development of our economy while the rest of Florida has passed us by."
The average salary for employees of the distribution center — $28,222 annually, or $13.57 per hour — is lower than Volusia County's average annual private sector wage of $33,494 cited by the state Department of Economic Opportunity. But Soskin noted it's still a decent wage for the area and a chance for permanent employment in a town that has temporary jobs for special events.
With I-95 running through Daytona and I-4 on the western edge of town, the city is a great location for a distributor, Soskin said. He said he's cringed every time he's seen a big box store snatch up a spot near an interstate off-ramp, calling it "an obscenity and a blight" that "encourages sprawl."
Daytona has been competing with other cities for the company's warehouse, and being near I-95 and I-4 is an advantage, Gilliland said.
"There's only five places in Florida where interstates connect and we're one of them," he said.
The city, county and state are all trying to do their part to close the deal, Gilliland said. The state and the company worked out an incentive agreement a month ago, and the city is looking at offering property tax abatements over several years, he said.
County Manager Jim Dinneen said he and his staff are working on an incentive package for the project that's in the million dollar range and focused on public infrastructure.
Like other local officials, Dinneen wouldn't confirm the name of the company, saying he promised he wouldn't. But he did say he's excited about the prospect.
"It's a good company," he said. "These are good jobs."
"It's a huge economic development benefit to the community," Merrell agreed. "The hope is this project will have a ripple effect."
Staff Writer Andrew Gant contributed to this report.


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Safety and inside linebacker are universally considered among major needs for the Green Bay Packers in the 2014 NFL draft.
The Packers will likely enter this week's draft with only three pure safeties—Morgan Burnett, Chris Banjo and Sean Richardson—and another—second-year defensive back Micah Hyde—likely to play a hybrid cornerback/safety role. M.D. Jennings, last season's starter opposite Burnett, signed with the Chicago Bears, and former fourth-round pick Jerron McMillian was cut last December.
Inside linebacker is a little more settled in terms of overall depth. A.J. Hawk, Brad Jones, Jamari Lattimore and Sam Barrington are all expected to return and contribute, but most consider the position a prime candidate for a talent infusion. Jones was hurt for long stretches in 2013 and no one really knows if Lattimore or Barrington can be a full-time starter on a championship-caliber defense.
The 2014 draft provides potential options for the Packers to upgrade both positions, especially in the first few rounds.
In an effort to find the best pairing of safety and inside linebacker for the Packers, I asked a few of the people I trust most on the subject. The question to be answered was simple; which combination of players at the two positions—factoring in value, likely availability and fit in Green Bay—was the best fix for the Packers in this draft?
Below are the answers, with my own opinion last. A vote tally is also provided at the end.
Brian Carriveau, Cheesehead TV
ILB: Ryan Shazier, Ohio State
S: Deone Bucannon, Washington State
Shazier has the speed and play-making ability that is missing in Green Bay, along with the potential to stay on the field all three downs. Bucannon, meanwhile, is the best combination of big hitter and turnover generator in the 2014 draft class at the safety position. Together, they'd instantly upgrade a Packers defense that is desperately in need of an infusion of talent.
Matt Miller, Bleacher Report
ILB: C.J. Mosley, Alabama
S: Terrence Brooks, Florida State
Both players fill areas of need, but they're also high-level athletes with versatile skills. For example, Brooks can play center field, but he's also a very good edge blitzer. If the Packers are truly going for a hybrid, versatile defense, these are the two best picks.
Wes Hodkiewicz, Green Bay Press Gazette
ILB: Ryan Shazier, Ohio State
S: Jimmie Ward, Northern Illinois
Keep hearing the narrative of "Oh no, not another Ohio State linebacker" and wish it would stop. That's not a metric. You can't judge Shazier based on the failed expectations of Buckeye linebackers before him. He's his own man and the top inside linebacker on my board. I love his athleticism and I get the feeling the Packers do, as well. No question he lacks size and bulk. I believe he played most of last year in the 220s, but he'd bring explosiveness to that position the Packers haven't had in years. I think A.J. Hawk has a couple more seasons in him and could bring Shazier along nicely. Plus, not as great of an injury risk as Mosley. There isn't as much depth at inside backer, so I feel you can plug a hole with Shazier and find a stellar safety prospect on the second day.
Let me get this straight – an undersized, athletic safety who isn't afraid to hit or play in the middle of the field? The Packers hit on a second-rounder like this in 2005 and he developed into a three-time Pro Bowler. Even if Jimmie Ward doesn't develop into Nick Collins, I'm intrigued by the possibilities. We all made the mistake of thinking McMillian would be the next small-school safety to man the Packers' secondary for years, but Ward is the real deal. Don't know if he'll be there at 53, but have him as the third safety on my board.
Ty Dunne, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
S: Calvin Pryor, Louisville
ILB: Kyle Van Noy, BYU
Both might not seem like exact fits for the Packers. But if Pryor falls, Green Bay can find a way to use him. The defense could use his violence on the back end. Van Noy played on the edge at BYU but has the versatility to slide inside. Mike McCarthy wants players who can handle multiple roles defensively. Van Noy, wherever he lines up, would provide exactly that. Plus, he's a playmaker (26 sacks, 11 FF, seven int.).
Paul Imig, Fox Sports
ILB: C.J. Mosley, Alabama
S: Deone Bucannon, Washington State
In an attempt to be realistic with the players who I believe could be available at Nos. 21 and 53, I'll say the ideal safety/inside linebacker combination would be: Mosley in the first round (I'd take Mosley over Shazier, but not by a substantial margin) and then Bucannon in the second round (I have Bucannon ahead of Ward by quite a bit as the third-best safety overall).
At safety, I think there's a clear top two players (Clinton-Dix, Pryor) and a clear second-tier (Deone Bucannon, Jimmie Ward), then a fairly steep drop-off. Therefore, if the Packers don't go safety in the first round, they had better get their calculations right that either Ward or Bucannon will be available at No. 53. If they don't get one of those four safeties, they deserve criticism (in my opinion) for not addressing their biggest positional need with one of this year's top prospects.
Similarly, if Green Bay doesn't get either C.J. Mosley, Ryan Shazier or Chris Borland, then there probably isn't another inside linebacker who would be a good value pick in the first two rounds.
Jersey Al Bracco, AllGBP.com
ILB: Ryan Shazier, Ohio State
S: Deone Bucannon, Washington State
While I'm one of the minority that would like to see Shazier as the Packers' other 3-4OLB, I would not complain one bit if the Packers drafted him and moved him inside. He's the impact player they covet with the speed to chase down the likes of Colin Kaepernick (He's my "Kaepernick Killer). Deone Bucannon is the most complete safety in this draft. In the box, deep zone, man coverage, blitzing, whatever role you put him in, he can handle it. Doesn't hurt that he's a heat-seeking missile either. May require trading up ten spots or so to land in the second round.
Justis Mosqueda, Draft Breakdown
ILB: Ryan Shazier, Ohio State
S: Jimmie Ward, Northern Illinois
If for some reason Shazier should fall to 21, he'd be a slam dunk pick. As the great Lou Tepper says, an offensive lineman isn't fearing the size of a 220-pound linebacker, but he's not fearing a 250-pounder, either. Shazier is ideal as a 4-3 WILL, but he's not a square peg as a 3-4 WILB, either. He's a coverage linebacker with great closing speed, which allows him to blitz and make tackles in the backfield efficiently. The problem is keeping a body off of him, but with Hawk playing that defensive fullback role, he could be very impactful. Essentially, you're getting Sean Taylor at linebacker.
Ward is my favorite safety prospect for the Packers for one simple reason: flexibility. He has traits of an Eric Weddle type free safety, but also played corner at NIU. He's a prospect who could play high, play slot strong safety, or slot corner. He and Micah Hyde would play off each other with complimenting skill sets that allow the "loser" of the free safety battle to still have an impact at SLOT2.
It seems like the media is higher on Ward than scouts (throw me in there), so if that seems like a reach that he'll be there in the second, I'll go with Terrence Brooks.
Aaron Nagler, Bleacher Report/Cheesehead TV
ILB: C.J. Mosley, Alabama
S: Jimmie Ward, Northern Illinois
Let's not over-think this. Mosley would provide the explosion, inside-outside speed and overall athleticism that the linebacking corps has sorely lacked the last few years.
I actually think he'll be gone by the time the Packers pick, but this is my fantasy world we're living in, ok? Ward would be about a thousand percent upgrade over anything the team threw out there last year, including Morgan Burnett. Ward's versatility should help the young safety get back on track. Ward's ability to drop down in the box or slide over to the slot is big as well.
Zach Kruse, Bleacher Report/CheeseheadTV
ILB: C.J. Mosley, Alabama
S: Terrence Brooks, Florida State
Mosley may not be available at No. 21, but if he is, he'll become a best-player-available pick and an easy choice. He has top-10 talent and represents a better schematic fit into the 3-4 than Ryan Shazier. I like Shazier, but I fear he's more athlete than football player at this point. He's also much more of a projection, and the Packers have been fitting square pegs into round holes far too often on defense. Mosley is plug-and-play as a three-down linebacker on Day 1.
Brooks is my pick at safety because I truly believe the Packers need a true centerfield-type safety. Also, I'm not confident Jimmie Ward will be there at No. 53 overall. Combining Brooks—likely the best true free safety in the second tier of safeties—with Morgan Burnett would free Burnett of some of his deep-half burdens and allow him to continue working closer to the line of scrimmage, where he's a better fit. Brooks can man the back as a poor man's Nick Collins and a serious upgrade over M.D. Jennings.
Add talented athletes like Mosley and Brooks to a defense that acquired Julius Peppers and that will getting back Clay Matthews, Casey Hayward and Nick Perry and the Packers could have serious rebound potential in 2014.
Voting Results
Ryan Shazier, 4
C.J. Mosley, 4
Kyle Van Noy, 1
Deone Bucannon, 3
Jimmie Ward, 3
Terrence Brooks, 2
Calvin Pryor, 1
Zach Kruse is a 25-year-old sports writer who contributes to Cheesehead TV and is the Lead Writer for the NFC North at Bleacher Report. You can reach him on Twitter @zachkruse2 or by email at [email protected].
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Planting your seeds in season
When it comes to planting, seeds can be a bit finicky about when they like to be introduced to the soil. Each state has its own set for weather patterns that vastly effects nutrients in the soil. Some seeds thrive from dry climates while others thrive from a moist nutrient climate. Knowing your seeds and when to plant them is the first step to a successful garden.
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There is a very weird thing: Five years after installation or release, TeX in various distributions seems to refuse to compile for no other reason than being old.
We've had a question here this morning: Lyx suddenly stopped working, completely lost
but there were more in TeX.se: LaTeX sourcefiles older than 5 years old. XeLaTeX fails
And have a look at this blogpost: http://blog.eddsn.com/2011/06/latex-source-files-more-than-5-years-old/ There are hundreds of people giving thanks to the blogger.
Can it really be the case that various TeX-Distributions are so evil to stop working for no other reason than being more than five years old?
Please, can anybody who understands TeX go and find out what has happend in those cases? If my assumption were true, this would be a really big, big minus for TeX & Friends which should be corrected.


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Rebecca Minkoff really knows how to get the party started. She recently designed four clutches that encase speakers (yes, you read that right), for the brand Stellé Audio Couture.
Available for $400 each at nordstrom.com, you'd never guess that these chic Rebecca Minkoff for Stellé Audio Couture "Clutches" were actually speakers. Cool, right?
However, there is just one minor downfall: Don't even think about popping your lipgloss right next to the volume button, because girl, there ain't room for anything else in these cool-girl clutches other than the mini music maker.
But, if you usually bring the noise to whatever soiree, bash, par-tay you attend, we assure you this "clutch" is right up your alley. So, we say go for it!
Will you soon be popping and locking to the sounds coming from your purse?
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Obamacare has done little in ailing Florida county
Despite high rate of uninsured, many falling through the cracks in Hendry County.
CLEWISTON, Fla. — In the city that calls itself "America's Sweetest Town," the smell of burning sugar cane pierces the 80-degree January air.
Steam billows from the 12-story U.S. Sugar Corp. factory that dominates the landscape and the economy in this region, halfway between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Some describe the aroma as sweet, others as sour — a metaphor of sorts for the Affordable Care Act and its impact on this South Florida county that has the state's highest uninsured rate.
Thirty-five percent of Hendry County's 33,000 residents under age 65 lack health insurance, much higher than Florida's 25% average, which is the nation's second highest rate among states, according to the latest Census figures.
If anyplace in the USA needs help getting its residents insurance coverage and a leg up on improving their health, this is it.
But nearly a month after the health law's expansion of coverage began, local health officials say little has changed for most uninsured residents.
"I kept hearing about Obamacare and how no American would go uninsured, but then I was let down," says Kelly Cody, 48, a diabetic with an inoperable brain tumor who has gone without health insurance for nine years.
Cody, along with many of Hendry's uninsured, is ineligible for Medicaid, which in Florida is limited to pregnant women and children, the disabled, some elderly and very poor parents.
But her $8,400 a year income — through a pension from her late husband's military service — is too small to qualify her for a federal subsidy to buy private insurance through the online insurance marketplace created by the law. Subsidies are available to individuals with annual incomes between $11,490, the federal poverty level, and $45,960, which is four times the poverty threshold.
Cody falls into a coverage gap created in Florida and 24 other states, which declined to expand eligibility for Medicaid after the U.S. Supreme Court made that feature of the law optional.
"I'm so frustrated that I fall through the cracks again," she says, describing how she sometimes injects insulin once a day, rather than twice, so she can afford to buy food.
The lack of coverage, combined with rampant poverty, push Hendry to near the bottom of state and national rankings for virtually every health indicator, including death rates from AIDS and pneumonia, hospitalization rates due to asthma, premature births, cancer screenings and prenatal care. Like Cody, more than a quarter of Hendry's residents fall below the poverty level — double the statewide percentage. Nearly 40% don't have a high school diploma and 25% say they don't speak English well.
"Most people in Hendry don't qualify for anything," says Lynne Thorp, a health law navigator for Health Planning Council of Southwest Florida, who gave Cody the bad news about her eligibility. "It's horrible and really sad."
There are no figures on how many residents enrolled in private plans or Medicaid since open enrollment began in October, but navigators and other health officials say they are aware of just a few.
Jashi Harper, a health benefits navigator at Florida Community Health Centers in Clewiston, says about 900 of the center's 4,500 patients are uninsured. But just about 20 have been enrolled in a plan at the center, she says, although some may have signed up on their own.
Another large group of residents for whom the health law will not change much are the hundreds of people living in Hendry County illegally, mostly to work agricultural jobs, and are therefore ineligible for any coverage under the law.
Those who want Florida to expand Medicaid coverage say they will again push the legislature to approve it this spring, but with opponents in the Florida House dug in, the prospects are said to be poor.
Last year, Hendry County's representative in the Florida House, Matt Hudson, helped lead the Republican opposition to Medicaid expansion. Although the federal government is paying the full cost of the expansion through 2016 and no less than 90% thereafter, he says the expansion would take money from efforts to improve education.
He also says there were not enough doctors to care for the 1 million Floridians who would have gained coverage.
"Those who would suffer most would be our most vulnerable residents, including our elderly population and those with disabilities," Hudson said in September.
U.S. Sugar, which employs about 1,600 people in the area, has educated workers about the new online marketplace, although it says its full-time workers already have coverage, spokeswoman Judy Sanchez says. She says the company employs about 100 to 200 seasonal and part-time workers in the fall who are not offered coverage and who might benefit from the law.
There are some successes in Hendry. One beneficiary is Laura Ann Martin, 31, food and beverage manager at her parents' business, Roland & Mary Ann Martin's Marina and Resort in Clewiston. Martin went without coverage for six years until she became pregnant in November. Before the law, she would not have been able to get coverage because her pregnancy would have been considered a pre-existing condition. Now she has a private plan that started Jan. 1.
Still, when asked about Obamacare, Martin had mixed feelings. She worries about who will bear the costs of expanding coverage, and she dislikes the requirement that employers with more than 50 workers must provide benefits.
"The law has its pluses and minuses," she says.
Kaiser Health Newsis an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit, non-partisan health policy research and communication organization not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.


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Biennale of Sydney Announces Joint Artistic Directors for 2012: Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster
Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster have recently collaborated at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
The Biennale of Sydney has today announced the appointment of Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster as Joint Artistic Directors of the 18th Biennale of Sydney, which will be held from Wednesday, 27 June Sunday, 16 September 2012.
We are delighted that Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster have accepted our invitation to become Joint Artistic Directors of the 18th Biennale of Sydney, says Marah Braye, Chief Executive Officer. For the first time, the Biennale has appointed a curatorial duo to direct the exhibition and program. Both de Zegher and McMaster are dynamic and respected figures in their fields and have previously worked together to great acclaim. This promises to be an innovative collaboration and we look forward to building on the success of previous biennales to present an exciting and multi-faceted 18th Biennale of Sydney in 2012.
Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster have recently collaborated at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, where they participated in the re-installation of the Gallerys collection in the renovated museum building by Frank Gehry. De Zegher led the reinstallation of the European galleries and McMaster led the reinstallation of the Canadian wing. They have also worked together on the exhibition Draw & Tell: Lines of Transformation by Norval Morrisseau/Copper Thunderbird (2001) at The Drawing Center in New York.
Catherine de Zegher is a curator and writer, and is currently Guest Curator, Department of Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York and Visiting Curator, Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona. Until recently, de Zegher was Director of Exhibitions and Publications, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. For many years, she was the Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Drawing Center, New York (19992006) and co-founder and Director of the Kanaal Art Foundation in Kortrijk, Belgium (198798).
De Zegher is the curator of widely acclaimed exhibitions, including America: Bride of the Sun. 500 Years of Latin America and the Low Countries (1992) at the Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp and Inside the Visible. An Elliptical Traverse of Twentieth-Century Art in, of, and from the Feminine (199496) at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Whitechapel Gallery, London and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. She has curated several award-winning exhibitions including Eva Hesse Drawing (2006), which received the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Award for excellence and 3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing by Hilma af Klint, Emma Kunz, and Agnes Martin (2005), which received the Best Show AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Award 2005. In 1997, de Zegher was the Belgian Commissioner to the XLVII Biennial of Venice.
Gerald McMaster is a curator and writer, and since 2005 has been the Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. He was also a member of the curatorial team for this years Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in Toronto. At the Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian, McMaster was the Directors Special Assistant for Mall Exhibitions and Deputy Assistant Director for Cultural Resources from 200004. McMaster was also Curator, Canadian Museum of Civilization (19812000).
McMaster was the Canadian Commissioner to the XLVI Venice Biennale (1995) and has curated many renowned exhibitions, including In the Shadow of the Sun (1988), Indigena (1992), Edward Poitras XLVI Biennale di Venezia (1995) and Reservation X (1998). While with the Smithsonian he co-edited and co-curated First American Art: The Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker (2004), edited and curated New Tribe: New York (200506) and co-curated Remix: Multiple Modernities in a Post-Indian World (2007).
Luca Belgiorno-Nettis, Chairman, says: De Zegher and McMaster will break ground for the Biennale of Sydney by being the first Joint Artistic Directors in our history. The Board has been inspired by their curatorial concept which, we believe, will also create a new direction for the exhibition. We welcome the distinguished duo to Sydney and to the challenge of the next Biennale, after having recently achieved record visitation (517,000) in 2010.
Catherine de Zegher says: With large shifts happening on a global scale, from West to East and North to South, I think Sydney and its Biennale are best positioned to epitomise the transition of divisive modernist structures and systems into the fluent dynamics of a 21st-century thinking that is connective and interdependent, and to showcase an art that shapes and corresponds to these recent processes of changing awareness. As Australia is on the verge of taking a central stage in outlining a new worldview for the future, I am extremely happy and honoured to be collaborating in Sydney with artists from here and around the globe!
Gerald McMaster says: Ive been coming to Australia for several years and each time its a different experience. A short while ago I had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit artists and curators in virtually every Australian city, from which I gleaned Australias zeitgeist its a macrocosm of history, spirit and a willingness to reach out to the world. I also saw many similarities with my own country of birth Canada. But it was the chance, given by the Biennale to Catherine and me, to work with artists from around the world and across Australia that finally attracted me, for which I am eternally grateful.
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A particular notation for formal specification developed principally at Programming Research Group Oxford University. It is based on set theory, with mechanisms to allow large specifications to be separated into parts and structured. See Spivy (1988).
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Models that can make a priori predictions of quantitative performance of users on an interactive system. The are called zero-parameters because no parameters need to be set from data collected on the system in question; all numeric parameters can be set through a task analysis and pre-existing data from prior research.
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Ruler, paper, scissors—Rosi Feist aka Thomas Müller doesn't need much more for his handmade paper collages. The freelance designer and photographer currently lives in Berlin, where he also runs the travel blog "Urban Tenting" together with his wife. Many of his motifs are inspired by trips to the USA—abandoned motels, desert cacti, secluded service stations and trivial objects are thrust into the spotlight through vivid colours. The result is a collection of minimalist pop art which reflects a nostalgic banality of everyday life, reducing the USA to a semantic, synecdochical Americana of barren topographies and consumerist signs.


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When Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback was still running for the office, he unveiled the Roadmap for Kansas. The five-part plan was ambitious and, in the governor's words, measurable.
One of the Roadmap's goals was decreasing the number of children living in poverty. Despite being a critical need in this state with almost 20 percent of young Kansans meeting the criteria, it was basically unprecedented.
"The day I saw his Road Map, I said, 'Wow, who let him put that in there?' " Shannon Cotsoradis, president of Kansas Action for Children, said at the time.
The Governor's Task Force on Reducing Childhood Poverty finally was created in November 2012, with the charge of "finding innovative and ground-breaking ways to reduce childhood poverty and improve child outcomes in Kansas."
Our optimism for this group to accomplish anything was diminished significantly because of a series of actions taken by Brownback and the Legislature in the past three years.
The governor's first budget proposed eliminating Early Head Start. That plan eventually was taken off the table, but many other tactics bound to increase childhood poverty made their way into law. During the massive tax overhaul, a child and dependent tax credit was eliminated that was utilized by 60,000 low- and middle-income families. Also deleted was a food sales tax rebate designed for poor families, and the homestead property tax refund for low-income renters.
The number of Kansans receiving Temporary Aid to Needy Families has almost been cut in half, not because their needs decreased but because the rules became more onerous and difficult to abide by.
The state sales tax, which was scheduled to decrease to 5.7 percent last July, instead was boosted to 6.1 percent. Sales taxes are inherently regressive, and even an effort to exempt food purchases from sales tax was rejected.
Individual welfare recipients were made subject to drug testing, although the much larger corporate welfare recipients were not. Some 240,000 low-income Kansans who could have come under Medicaid coverage through the Affordable Care Act will not because the governor refused to expand the program. Some 2,200 kids living in households that receive a portion of their income from an illegal immigrant lost access to the food stamp program. Just last week, the state decided not to renew an offered federal waiver that allows 20,000 unemployed Kansans to obtain food assistance. Finally, lawmakers are still working on reducing the Earned Income Tax Credit, which puts a few hundred extra dollars into the budgets of 200,000 poor residents.
"It is amazingly curious to people who work in the anti-poverty arena on a day-to-day basis," said Tawny Stottlemire, executive director of the Kansas Association of Community Action Programs. "The policy discussions are disconnected with the governor's policy objective. This administration seems to want to decrease poverty by making it harder to live in poverty -- not by assisting people."
Still, the governor promised something measurable to help decrease poverty for the state's children. We scoured the task force's 27-page report it released last week for something tangible. Not surprisingly, there was little substance to be found.
Of the 27 pages, six pages were dedicated to listing the biographies of the panel -- twice. Four pages were for the bios of the presenters. Ten pages were either title pages or meeting agendas and announcements. Take off the one-page executive summary, and suddenly the impressive-sounding 27-page report on this important issue was reduced to six pages.
Phyllis Gilmore, secretary of the Kansas Department for Children and Families and chair of the task force, admitted the group didn't agree on any specific reforms. In fact, there wasn't a single vote taken by the 12-member panel. But they did assemble some recommendations in three key areas: education, employment and family composition.
As explained by a Kansas Health Institute report, the recommendations include:
* Expand job training and technical education programs;
* Find mentors for at-risk children;
* Improve fourth grade reading scores;
* Promote employment over dependence on government-funded programs;
* Launch a public relations campaign to stress the importance of marriage and fatherhood;
* Expand middle school and high school classes on healthy relationships;
* Reduce or eliminate marriage license fees for couples that complete an eight-hour course on healthy relationships.
"I'd say it's a good summary of what we already know," said Betsy Cauble, a social welfare professor at Kansas State University.
"There's nothing in here on early childhood development, which research has shown to be the most critical window for combating the effects of poverty -- that's the most glaring omission," said KAC Director Cotsoradis. "There's also no mention of shoring up the social safety-net programs that are keeping thousands of families together. There's nothing in these recommendations that's going to produce near-term results. That's unfortunate because these kids are in poverty now."
In short, there was nothing innovative or groundbreaking in the task force's report. Most of the recommendations either were lifted directly from Brownback's Roadmap, or were actions already taken by the Legislature.
The state will need a different approach if childhood poverty ever is to be reduced. The only thing measurable about the task force's report is the number of pages legislators undoubtedly will be reading when they convene in January. In the meantime, expect the poverty rate to keep going up.
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"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now."
Shanghai Roots & Shoots' Million Tree Project, which began in 2007, aims to raise community awareness of the Earth's precious environment while focusing on steps individuals can take to lessen their negative impact on the natural world. The project gives individuals and organizations an opportunity to fight global warming by planting oxygen-producing trees in Inner Mongolia, China. It also encompasses true capacity building as the local population is intimately involved with, and benefits from, every step of planting, maintaining and monitoring the trees.
The Million Tree Project is designed to improve both ecological and humanitarian conditions of Kulun Qi, Tongliao municipality, lnner Mongolia, We chose this project site because the area suffers severely from desertification and its consequential sandstorms. These sandstorms strike Inner Mongolia and its surrounding areas each spring, destroying local homes and forcing many people to flee their native land.
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Shanghai Roots & Shoots aims to plant one million trees in the Inner Mongolian desert by 2014. We have a long-term Memorandum of Understanding in place with the Forestry Bureau of Kunlun Qi to reach this goal, and have secured land for one million trees (planting an average of 1500 trees per hectare). As of April 2010, we have planted 400,000 trees. Learn how you can help at mtpchina.org


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text: Bats are the only mammals capable of true flight. Scientists believe flight may influence their immune responses to coronoviruses, which cause fatal diseases such as SARS and MERS in humans. (Shutterstock) November 23, 2017 Can bats help humans survive the next pandemic? Arinjay Banerjee, University of Saskatchewan dan Karen Mossman, McMaster University Scientific studies show that bats may carry "coronoviruses" causing SARS and MERS - without showing symptoms of disease. Could the bat immune system be key to human survival in future pandemics?


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well, me i'm really not a drinker, you know i'm zoot&bifterite, & if i drink i'm better on spirits or stout, at least for the first couple, & by then i'm away on the rampage & it's too late to care....
anyway, here's me 2p:
a lot of african & asian lager imho seems to have a lot of ethanol or something, altho is nae bad, especially the xport, tastes like bananas or coconut to me? mmmm
recently been seeing melotti around the place, from the eritrean brewery who also do lovely rhum, arak & gin
that said, ethiopian traditional beer is good too, they have tej - made of honey (like mead) which you can get in london, and tella which is like stout
(dunno if it was D&G, but there used to be this great jamaican alcoholic ginger beer called REDRAW, which was wickedly spicy, and dyed yer gob red, ain't seen itt about for ages, i think it got phased out by alcopops - shame)
yewkay beerz:
fuking rotten man - nasty nasty toxic beer, responsible for the decline in drinking culture, death of saturday nights, rant rant,
no wonder they call it the wife-beater yuk
gimme a nice (brewed in bedford), ta very much.
nice pint o bass that 's another matter - anyone who say they don't like bitter should try it (....served by the jug, upstairs in the star...) mmmm creamy, look for the red triangle
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From time to time, College personnel receive official legal documents. Examples include subpoenas requiring the College to produce copies of records in court proceedings, summonses notifying the College that a lawsuit has been commenced against it, notices of bankruptcy, and notices informing the College of its right to participate in consumer class action suits. Such notices are sometimes addressed to the College itself "Barnard College" or "Trustees of Barnard College," the College's legal name or to individually named officials of the College. In some instances, legal notices are received by mail; in other instances, they may be hand-delivered by a "process server".
In general, you should not accept a summons or subpoena that is addressed to another individual or department, unless that individual or department has specifically authorized you to accept it. If you do not have explicit and specific authority to accept service of a summons or subpoena addressed to another individual or department, you should tell the process server that you do not have authority to accept service of the document, that the document will not be delivered to the individual or department to whom it is addressed, and that the document should be taken to the Office of the General Counsel (3009 Broadway, Barnard Hall, Room 301), which will determine whether it can be accepted by the College.
If you do receive a summons or subpoena involving College business, please inform the Office of the General Counsel immediately, preferably the same day. You should also keep a record of the date, time and method (by hand or mail) by which you received the notice.
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Denizens of the malware underworld who sell access to compromised computers do so at varying rates depending on where the machines are located, researchers told the Usenix Security Symposium this week.
The researchers followed what they called the pay-per-install (PPI) industry, which obtains infected machines from which malware can be launched and sells access to these machines to parties looking for someplace to execute malicious code. Sometimes the PPI sellers hire middlemen to supply the compromised machines, and the PPI dealer retails them.
The PPI sellers sell access to compromised machines by region, charging more for those in the U.S. than for those in Asia, for example. The going rates are $110 to $180 per 1,000 machines in the U.S. and United Kingdom, $20 to $60 for countries in the rest of Europe and less than $10 for anywhere else.
The research, called "Measuring Pay-per-install: The commoditization of Malware Distribution," was awarded outstanding paper at the show. It was written by a team headed by Juan Caballero of the IMDEA Software Institute at the University of California at Berkeley.
In their analysis, the researchers say certain families of malware were targeted at specific regions. For example, Ertfor, SecuritySuite and SmartAdsSolutions families targeted the U.S. and Europe; Gleishug hit just the U.S. and Rustock seemed to scatter everywhere.
This seems driven by the type of activity the malware engages in, they say. Rustock, a spambot, requires little more than an IP address for spam to be sent to, and it was sent indiscriminately to compromised computers around the globe.
On the other hand, SecuritySuite, a fake antivirus scam, includes versions written in different languages, so attackers using it target specific versions for specific countries. The software may need to support specific regional online payment services as well, the researchers say.
The researchers sorted all the malware they found into families, 20 in all, with seven of them being distributed by more than one PPI.
The first step is installing a downloader, software that seeks and downloads malicious software to the victim machine. To avoid detection, PPIs use packer programs that mask the signatures of the downloaders. On average, the downloaders were repacked every 11 days, with some, such as SecuritySuite, being repacked twice a day.
Some downloaders connect with URLs hardwired within them to access malware. Others connect with command and control servers that decide what malware to send them.
During the course of their testing, the researchers found that command and control servers could be sensitive to the machines that connect with them. They found, for instance, that while the researchers were refining their code to eavesdrop on PPI vendors, some command and control servers detected that the eavesdropping code didn't represent real zombie machines and blacklisted their IP addresses.


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Heads up to those who are on the cusp on buying a new device on AT&T. According to this screen shot sent through the Android Central app, AT&T's getting ready to double it this Sunday, Feb. 12, from $18 to $36. That's not a whole lot of money, we suppose, but it's still 100 percent higher than what it is currently, and nobody likes paying more.
The reasoning? According to AT&T's talking points here, it's because "overall costs associated with upgrading to a new device have increased," and that "devices today are more sophisticated than ever."
AT&T has confirmed the upgrade fee increase to Android Central and tells us that it's actually the first time it's increased the fee in nearly a decade. Said an AT&T spokeswoman:
Wireless devices today are more sophisticated than ever before. And because of that, the costs associated with upgrading to a new device have increased and is reflected in our new upgrade fee. This fee isn't unique to AT&T and this is the first time we're changing it in nearly 10 years.
Clock's ticking if you want to get in before the change, folks.
Thanks, anon!


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I threw the bear to the stage (did I mention I played softball, was in fact one of the few girls who could hurl a ball from left field to 1st base) and hit Jon right in the.... well..
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Are You Tough Enough....
I threw the bear to the stage (did I mention I played softball, was in fact one of the few girls who could hurl a ball from left field to 1st base) and hit Jon right in the.... well..
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Say Hello to My Little Friend
This my dear people is my little friend.. These beautiful one inch square bites of rich delectable bitter sweet dark chocolate are not only my friend.. they are my salvation...They are the things of which poetry is written, sonets are sung, rainbows are created...
Not only are they a mouth watering slice of heaven.. they bring wisdom and insight!!
I jest you not! The Proof lies below...
No Truer Words Have Ever Been Spoken!
Is it now? Do you Promise??
Ahhh if I'd only read THIS ONE
before I read the LAST ONE.
I wouldn't need the NEXT ONE!
So much easier said than done..
Don't you agree?
What other creation offers so much.. while asking so little in return??
~Stuck in a job you hate because you're the only female in an office of 3.. the other 2 occupants being 2 men so overly stuffed with testosterone you struggle not to choke on it??
Have a Chocolate
~Roommate tells you she's moving out in 2 weeks because she's getting back with her husband. You can't afford rent by yourself and have no prospects in sight for a replacement roomie??
Have a Chocolate
~After 4 plus years of self imposed solitary confinement (because boys are stupid) you finally take a leap of faith & play nice with a boy, who's everything you ever dreamed of & could easily and joyfully see yourself bearing his children.. only to have it all fall apart because HE has more issues with the nice nice than YOU do?? (I was right.. boys ARE stupid)
Have a Chocolate
~Stuff yourself so full of Taco Bell that you swear you'll projectile vomit a chihuahua because you tried to drown your shattered heart and the loss of everything yo quiero in refried beans and red sauce?
Wait 3 Hours.. Then Have a Chocolate
And guess what.. a serving size.. is FIVE GLORIOUS PIECES!!!
That's five catastrophies, stresses, hurts, angers and general crappiness a day that can all be made better in one sumptuous little piece of nirvana.
Ok maybe they don't make everything really BETTER, but man.. for those few almost orgasmic minutes.. while the bitter sweet richness is slowly melting on your tongue..... you have a moment of hope that everything just might be ok..
1 People who coughed on a furball
Thursday, January 24, 2008
In Your Own Way
I posted a bulletin on myspace this morning of a video I found while browsing blogs that I thought was really cool.. Although I'd watched the video I had the volume off on my computer so I didn't realize there was a song playing in the background..
A friend messaged me to thank me for posting the video - said it touched him.. and asked about the song. So I watched it again.. listening this time.
I'm not sure which touched me more.. the video or the song... the song.. it seems to so perfectly describe something that someone I care deeply about is currently going through.. so to the friend who thanked me for the video.. thank YOU.. if you hadn't asked I'd have missed the song.
Here is the song and lyrics... below the lyrics is the above mentioned video.
I dedicate this to the special man in my life...
You'll find your way through this.. and I love you
In Your Own Way ~ Caleb Kane
Tear out your hair if you can't bare anymore
It's the same as yesterday it stays around
Locks the door
See, now here is the fear
That you live with every year
And you wonder if you'll make it out alive
A change'll do
A change of scenery'll free you
But there's never one way to roll
So find a way to take a picture of a moment
That you know you can't control
And take a minute to reflect in your own way
Take your time and connect in your own way
I know it's good to be alone some days
But you got a long face in your own way, baby
I know you got a big heart in your own way
Independent and smart in your own way
And even though you get along somehow
You're missing out now in your own way, baby
Straight from the gate
You were told not to relate
Or reveal the feelings that could only more complicate
You turned to stone just to feel
Somehow permanent & real
And you hate all those who'd ever dare remind
A lotta little things are coming into focus
And you hope you don't see 'em all
A matter of a certain better situation
Lean your weight against the wall
Am I the same as you to a degree?
You stay to wave me through, you make me free
Are we the last ones, then, to see that place,
and when I fall down on my face am I home?
The Video
I drove to work this morning in the rain.... and remembered to breathe the entire time..... Almost... =)
Monday, January 21, 2008
The Unbloggable Blog
Here's to the most wonderfully indescribable 2 days I've ever had in my life, the details of which I will always cherish, never forget and hopefully repeat. =)
I couldn't find the words to describe how I feel.. but I found a song that came pretty close...
Bubbly - Colbie Calait
I've been awake for a while now
you've got me feelin like a child now
cause every time I see your bubbly face
I get the tinglies in a silly place
It starts in my toes
and I crinkle my nose
where ever it goes I always know
that you make me smile please stay for a while now
just take your time where ever you go
The rain is fallin on my window pane
but we are hidin in a safer place
under covers stayin dry and warm
you give me feelins that I adore
It starts in my toes
make me crinkle my nose
where ever it goes I always know
that you make me smile please stay for a while now
just take your time where ever you go
What am I gonna say
when you make me feel this way
I just........mmmmmm
It starts in my toes
make me crinkle my nose
where ever it goes I always know
that you make me smile please stay for a while now
just take your time where ever you go
I've been asleep for a while now
You tucked me in just like a child now
Cause every time you hold me in your arms
I'm comfortable enough to feel your warmth
It starts in my soul
And I lose all control
When you kiss my nose
The feelin shows
Cause you make me smile
Baby just take your time now
Holdin me tight
Where ever, where ever, where ever you go
Where ever, where ever, where ever you go
Where ever you go, I'll always know
Cause you make me smile here, just for a while
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Fear & Flash Backs
OK so most of you know that I was in a car accident on Nov 21st. It was raining, there was an accident in front of me and when I tried to stop my brakes locked and I slid into the accident. It had been raining all day, the roads were wet.. it was the first accident I'd ever been in.
Today is the 2nd time I've driven in the rain since the accident. I'm shaking, my stomach is so tense I feel like I'm going to be sick.. my heart is beating so hard it I can see it through my chest. It took every deep breathing exercise I knew not to break into hysterical tears and pull over to the side of the road.
I HATE IT! I've always been a very cautious driver.. always on the offensive, paying attention to what other drivers are doing, checking for places I can pull off if there is an accident or I need to get out of the way of the car behind, beside or in front of me. I've always felt very safe and confident driving.. I may not trust the people in the cars around me, but I trusted myself and I knew I had my safety in mind.
That all changed after the accident. Even during the accident, up until the moment of impact I was calm. I saw the cars in front of me, knew I needed to stop - I'm a certified emergency responder.. my brain goes on auto pilot when I see an accident. Stop, pull over, direct traffic, get my bag from the trunk -gloves, first aid kit, cones, reflective vest.. make sure everyone is ok, call 911. Just automatic relfex.
So when I saw the accident I ended up in, the thought pattern was the same. Even when my brakes locked and I started sliding I though - ok I'll swerve to the left, there are barrels where road construction is being done, the impact will be less. Still rationalizing. Until I realized that once in a slide - turning the wheel doesn't turn the car anymore. I was completely calm until the second I realized I had absolutely no control over what was going to happen and I was going to hit the truck in front of me.
The last thought that went through my head was ah hell this is going to suck! After that.. well I was a wreck - my mind was still trying to do the rational thing - make sure everyone is ok - I was the only person hurt.. and I seemed to have more difficulty than I could understand trying to think through the pain. People kept trying to help me and I couldn't quite get it that I needed to stop and make sure I was ok rather than worry about everyone else.
So today.. on my way to work.. it's raining pretty heavily. The roads are a mess, people are driving like morons and I'm white knuckling the steering wheel the entire way to work. Doing everything I can think of to remember to breathe and not cry. I'm sure I pissed off everyone behind me the entire way to work. I stayed a good 3-4 car lengths behind every car in front of me the entire drive. Even if it meant going a few miles under the speed limit. I've been sitting for 25 minutes now and I'm still shaking. My heart is still pounding so hard my chest hurts. My stomach is in knots. And I hate it.
I hate that one stupid accident has stripped me of the cool calm confidence I've always felt behind the wheel. I hate that something I do every day.. have done every day for the past 15+ years has now become something I have to struggle through if the weather isn't right. I HATE not being in control.. and I hate being afraid.
A really good friend told me this morning - when I was texting him in a panic trying to get my thoughts on anything other than driving in the rain - "At least you didn't let it stop you - It'll get better".
I hope and pray... Lord I hope and pray that he's right...
Thursday, January 10, 2008
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008
The Ins & Outs of ME - per eHarmony
At the suggestion of a friend (after much conversation and debate!) I've decided to embark upon the dreadfully fearful world of internet dating. I've been single for almost 5 years now and well.. it's time.
Words that describe you:
Fair,Considered, Collaborative , Responsive , Sensible, Diplomatic , Contemplative , Indulgent, Rational
A General Description of How You Interact with Others
You are important. So are other people, especially if they are in trouble. You have a tender heart, but you know how to establish and keep personal boundaries. You are empathetic and compassionate, but you also believe that it's best if people solve their own problems and learn to take care of themselves, if they are able.You are deeply moved by the needs of others, but you know that if you don't take good care of yourself, you'll wind up being of no use to anyone. So yours is a thoughtful compassion. You strive to be fair and sensible, taking care of others while also taking care of yourself.When someone really is in trouble, you like to collaborate with them toward a solution; they do their part, you do yours. You consider carefully, and respond in a sensible way; they do their part, and together you move through the difficulty. You seldom act impulsively; rather, when a problem arises, you take your time to think through the situation. This contemplative quality usually means that you'll arrive at a diplomatic solution, one that's fair for the other person and also fair to you. It's frequently a win/win situation.
Negative Reactions Others May Have Toward You
For people who are ruled by tender-hearted compassion, your more diplomatic response to problems might seem too cool, too focused on fairness and not filled enough with sympathy and selflessness. For them, when someone's life is on fire, what is needed is not collaboration but rescue. And the person who experiences their life on fire may resent the time you take to contemplate. "I need you, and I need you NOW! This isn't about fairness, it's about the fire." "All deliberate speed" may seem too deliberate and not fast enough, either to the more compassionate or to people in genuine trouble. At the other end of the spectrum of compassion, those who believe people should take care of themselves may find even your thoughtful sympathies too soft. They expect people, themselves included, to work their own way out of trouble. They are convinced that the helping hand you lend just fosters dependence and is not good for the development of character, either in you or in the person you assist.
Positive Responses Others May Have Toward You
Many people, perhaps the majority, will come to appreciate your balance as a compassionate person. The more they get to know you, the more they will admire your thoughtful compassion for others and its compliment in the sensible ways you take good care of yourself. Those whom you help will appreciate the way you leave them with their dignity by expecting them to collaborate in their own rescue. Those who are more tender-hearted will find in you a balance they lack; when they've run out of energy because they fail to take good care of themselves, you will still have enough compassion left to lift others out of trouble. Even the tough-hearted, those who believe people should solve their own problems, might come to admire your tenderness which they don't find in themselves. So the people you help will be grateful, and the people who see your balance between self and others will admire you. Certainly, balanced is not bad at all as a way to be known among your friends.
On the Openness Dimension you are:
Words that describe you:
Original, Inventive, Thinker, Brave
Eccentric, Avant-Garde, Out-of-Touch, Unique
A General Description of How You Approach New Information & Experiences:
You think like an artist. Or better, you SEE like an artist. While most people look at life's straight lines, its height and depth and width, you're bending the lines with your imagination and turning black and white into shades of blue and yellow. And in conversations at work or with your friends you want to ask, "Do you see what I see?" A few might, most don't, but you've piqued everyone's curiosity with your own original and inventive ways of thinking. You can, if you must, think in conventional ways. But left on your own, you'll usually opt for the eccentric or avant-garde; in fact you're usually bored with what everyone else is comfortable with. You learn from reading, talking, watching people and other fauna and flora, and simply sitting in the soft chair of your mind and wondering how people would learn how to count if they could only use uneven numbers. You are out in front of conventional ideas, bravely originally defining true and false, right and wrong, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Negative Reactions Others May Have Toward Your Style of Thinking:
You drive through life faster than the speed limit, and when you hit speed bumps, and you hit a lot of them with your mind distracted from the straight line ahead your wheels leave the ground. For people who like life at a safer speed, you move too fast and lose touch too often with the solid ground they prefer, hence their discomfort with you. As odd as you might find this, many people feel safe in the shelter of the world they already know. They like the familiar. They breathe easily and sleep deeply knowing with more certainty how the world works. So although they might enjoy your company and be curious about your latest notion of how to count backwards by threes, they can only take you in small doses. And they wish you'd quit trying to push the boundaries of their personal and social cosmos.
Positive Responses Others May Have Toward You:
Even those whom you make uncomfortable know, as just about everyone does, that you're not a flake. You think well, and even your wildest fancies have their roots in the deep soil of sound ideas and tested beliefs. So even if some people don't want to drive at high speed with you, they will respect you for your courage as an innovative and unconventional thinker. You lend color and imagination to what would otherwise be the straight black and white lines of their work world and social environments. A few more daring people of your circle might even learn from you to take a risk they would otherwise never consider. As comfortable as they are on solid ground, they may be curious about what it would be like to go faster than the speed limit, or paint the living room two shades of blue, or question ideas or beliefs they've fingered like sacred beads since they were children. After all, they watch you do it, and you seem no worse for the risks you take. In fact, your eyes are wider and your breath quicker, and maybe they can find at least a bit of this for themselves. To be certain, they don't want their wheels to leave the ground, but maybe the next time they approach a speed bump they might just brace themselves and speed up just a little bit.
On Emotional Stability you are:
Words that describe you:
Open, Accessible, Too Sensitive,
Reachable, Candid, Unguarded
A General Description of Your Reactivity
You are an emotional person. In some ways, we are all emotional; we feel joy, anger, sadness and fear; some of us more powerfully than others - and you more powerfully than most. Your emotions are closer to the surface, and your feelings more obvious to you than is the case with most people. You've got your life in a good place, your dominant mood is upbeat, and unless life has been particularly trying for you, you greatly enjoy the richness and intensity of life that being so open with your emotions brings you.Sure there are times when your feelings come very close to the surface, and life becomes more complicated. At these times you may grow self-conscious, or feel a bit anxious. But all in all, you much prefer being open with your emotions, breathing in all that life offers, than shutting down any part of your emotional experience. Granted, there may be times when these emotions are hard but you realize that is part of life. And more often than not you feel enriched by your emotions, by your ability to be open to all that life brings you. You know that even when you have those times that get you down, there will be even more times when you see life in ways that others just can't.
Negative Reactions Others May Have Toward You
Undoubtedly you have met some people who get uncomfortable being around you because your feelings are so close to the surface. They may keep a bit of distance, especially around any subject that might trigger an emotional topic they are uncomfortable with. Over time, they might even stay away from you more and more. You will find you have decisions to make; do you temper your style for their comfort or do you hope they will find ways to become more comfortable with emotional expressions? Given the richness that seems to stem from your emotional life the most meaningful response is probably very apparent to you.
Positive Responses Others May Have Toward You
You are a cherished companion for those friends who can handle emotions well. They will appreciate the candor with which you express even difficult feelings like anger and fear. Your openness will make intimate conversations even more intimate, and make the connections between you as friends deeper and stronger. Some people who have trouble expressing their feelings might find in you a good example of how to be more vulnerable and more open. Your willingness and ability to share your emotions could encourage them to share theirs, and invite them into ways of being friends that will help enrich their lives.
Your approach toward your obligations is:
Words that describe you:
Orderly, Duty-bound, Driven, Single-minded, Self-disciplined
Cautious, Strategic, Controlling, Logical
A General Description of How You Interact with Others
You are very goal-oriented and driven to achieve your goals. Whether at work or around the house or in small tasks or large projects, you want to know what the goal is. Once you know, you give single-minded attention to developing a plan; you gather and organize resources in an orderly fashion, and discipline yourself to work until the job is done. You will get it done, and done correctly; your attention to detail is one of your most striking characteristics. Whether organizing the garage or the kitchen cupboards or rolling out a new product line at work, you define the goal, think strategically about how to achieve it, and work in an orderly and self-disciplined way to get the job done. You are this way in relationships as well. You know where each person fits into your life, whether as a work colleague, a distant friend or one of your carefully chosen intimate circles. You are usually quite careful to keep each person in what is for you the comfort-zone of your relationship with them. Within that space, you are very loyal to them; you feel duty-bound to take responsibility for your part in the relationship, and you work hard to fulfill whatever you perceive is your obligation to the other person. You get uncomfortable when relationships get messy, such as when someone crosses the line from colleague to friend without your invitation, or when an intimate acts irresponsibly and compromises your trust in them. With people, as with work, you prefer an orderly world.
Negative Reactions Others May Have Toward You
For some people, the first thing that comes to mind about you is "control freak." They see your careful plans and your disciplined drive to accomplish your goals and worry that there's no flexibility in you, either toward yourself or toward others. Being duty-bound and single-minded, two of your strongest qualities, may seem to others to slide too easily into rigid and unbending; what you experience as appropriate caution they might experience as your intolerance of someone else's novel plans or less-than-orderly route toward of strategies aimed at achieving a common goal. Friends with a more psychological bent might look at you and think "fear." They could see your desire to control yourself and your encounters with others as an unwillingness to let what is inside you come out spontaneously, as if there's something dark in there that you don't want to look at. They may also conclude that you are afraid of others, especially those who are different from you in temperament or self-discipline. They may come to believe that you want to control your interactions with others out of fear that what's inside of them is too messy or too disorderly.
Positive Responses Others May Have Toward You
Almost everyone will agree and admire you for getting stuff done; when you set your mind to something, you move with controlled energy toward a goal and accomplish it. So if they need someone to do a job, they know they can count on you. Others may be very comfortable with your predictable temperament and behavior. With you there are few surprises, either in your work world or your social life. You show up on time, ready to take part, and you work hard and stay the course until the end, whether in a job, a committee meeting or a gathering of friends. Many people will admire the quality of your character. There is no mess in you or around you. You say what you believe, live by what you say, and are as consistent as the sunrise. This clarity will make you easy to be with for those who are comfortable with an orderly, somewhat predictable world.
When it comes to Extraversion you are:
Words that describe you:
Moderate, Amiable, Laid-back, Temperate, Relaxed
Poised, Civil, Uncommitted, Pleasant
A General Description of How You Interact with Others
Lucky you! You enjoy your own company as much as you enjoy the company of others. You are a great conversationalist and thrive in the wonderful kinds of connections you know how to have with your family and friends. You also equally enjoy your own company, whether sitting in a favorite chair with your book and soft music playing or meandering in the woods by yourself. You like coming home to your family or your roommate; but if no one is home, you find quiet, solitary time to be just as pleasurable. What a great combination to enjoy being outgoing and to be just as comfortable being reserved. Lucky you!! Because you are so amiable and relaxed, you are comfortable with almost any group of family or friends. Whether they are pumped up and lively or calm and subdued, you remain at ease. If someone needs to take over the conversation, you are comfortable taking the lead; you can also lay back and let someone else be in charge. If the conversation gets rowdy, your moderate demeanor will often draw it down to a more temperate level. If someone in the group loses their cool, you will most likely maintain your poise, and if they get nasty you know how to keep a civil tongue. You may find yourself out of balance on occasion. If you're alone too much, you may need to get in touch with someone. If you spend too much time with your family and friends, you may need to sneak off for a day by yourself, to putter and read and clear your head of the noise of too much conversation. When you're at your best, you live with a rhythm of time with others, time alone, time with others, time alone It's a satisfying, comfortable balance. Lucky you!
Negative Reactions Others May Have Toward You
You may occasionally run into problems with other people. Since not everyone is as balanced as you are, close friends and family may get frustrated with you, or you with them. They may be more sociable and outgoing, and find you too laid-back and relaxed. They want conversations to be lively and passionate while you keep things amiable and civil. Or others may be more quiet and reserved than you, and when you're in one of your more animated moments they may wish you would back off. You may be ready to put more energy into a conversation than they are comfortable with. And your balance may be a problem. Other people may be consistently more sociable or more reserved than you, and find you to hard to read, some may even say you ride the fence. Others may find themselves envious of your ability to be outgoing at times, and at other times comfortably reserved. If you pay attention to pick up these cues you will be in a better position to know how you want to interact with such folks.
Positive Responses Others May Have Toward You
Most people will truly appreciate your flexibility in social situations. They will like you for your amiable warmth and your willingness to engage, and for your ability to sit back and let others take the lead or the spotlight. They will appreciate ways in which you temper what could become intemperate moments; by remaining poised and relaxed when others; temperatures are rising, you keep things civil and sane. You are as good at listening and following as you are at talking and leading, and people will often appreciate your ability to adapt to the situation. Because you are sometimes outgoing and sometimes reserved, you will make most people comfortable in your presence, and they will truly enjoy your company.