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Appetites: A Cookbook
Anthony Bourdain is a man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others. These days, however, if he's cooking, it's for family and friends.
Appetites, his first cookbook in more than ten years, boils down forty-plus years of professional cooking and globe-trotting to a tight repertoire of personal favorites—dishes that everyone should (at least in Mr. Bourdain's opinion) know how to cook. Once the supposed "bad boy" of cooking, Mr. Bourdain has, in recent years, become the father of a little girl—a role he has embraced with enthusiasm. After years of traveling more than 200 days a year, he now enjoys entertaining at home. Years of prep lists and the hyper-organization necessary for a restaurant kitchen, however, have caused him, in his words, to have "morphed into a psychotic, anally retentive, bad-tempered Ina Garten."
The result is a home-cooking, home-entertaining cookbook like no other, with personal favorites from his own kitchen and from his travels, translated into an effective battle plan that will help you terrify your guests with your breathtaking efficiency.
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All happy families are alike . . .
—Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Tolstoy clearly never spent any time with my happy family.
My eight-year-old daughter, Ariane, does a terrific imitation of my wife threatening to choke a taxi driver. It's something she's seen often enough to get dead right—my wife's Italian accent, her anger, her exasperation as the driver takes yet another wrong turn on the way to my daughter's school, and finally the kicker: "I'm going to keel you with my bare-a hands!"
It has been many months, maybe years, since anyone has seen my wife out of her regular attire of rash guard and spats. She's a martial artist, a purple belt in Brazilian jiujitsu, and she trains full-time, seven days a week. Most of her efforts are spent practicing horrifying new ways to quickly, forcibly manipulate opponents' feet, ankles, and knees in such ways as to permanently damage their tendons and ligaments.
I travel the world for a living. On any given day, I'm as likely to be found in a longhouse in Sarawak, Borneo; in a cafe in Marseille; or in an airport transit lounge in Doha as I am to be found at home. My daughter is used to seeing her father's face on TV and on the sides of city buses, accustomed to seeing him approached by strangers—and is decidedly unimpressed.
Her best friend, Jacques (pronouned
Jax), from whom she has been inseparable most of her life, is Filipino, part of an extended family who easily spends as much time in our home as anywhere else. English, Italian, and Tagalog are heard interchangeably. My daughter is increasingly fluent in Italian. I am not.
What is it that
normal people do?
What makes a
normal happy family?
How do they behave? What do they eat at home? How do they live their lives?
I had little clue how to answer these questions for most of my working life, as I'd been living it on the margins. I didn't know any normal people. From age seventeen on, normal people had been my customers. They were abstractions, literally shadowy silhouettes in the dining rooms of wherever it was I was working at the time. I looked at them through the perspective of the lifelong professional cook and chef—which is to say, as someone who did not have a family life, who knew and associated only with fellow restaurant professionals, who worked while normal people played, and who played while normal people slept.
To the extent that I knew or understood normal people's behaviors, it was to anticipate their immediate desires: Would they be ordering the chicken or the salmon?
I usually saw them only at their worst: hungry, drunk, horny, ill tempered, celebrating good fortune or taking out the bad on their servers.
What they did at home, what it might be like to wake up late on a Sunday morning, make pancakes for a child, watch cartoons, throw a ball around a backyard—these were things I only knew from movies.
The human heart was—and remains—a mystery to me. But I'm learning. I have to.
I became a father at fifty years of age. That's late, I know. But for me, it was just right. At no point previously had I been old enough, settled enough, or mature enough for this, the biggest and most important of jobs: the love and care of another human being.
From the second I saw my daughter's head corkscrewing out of the womb, I began making some major changes in my life. I was no longer the star of my own movie—or any movie. From that point on, it was all about the girl. Like most people who write books or appear on television, who think that anyone would or should care about their story, I am a monster of self-regard. Fatherhood has been an enormous relief, as I am now genetically, instinctually compelled to care more about someone other than myself. I like being a father. No, I love being a father. Everything about it.
I'm sure my wife has a different view on this, but if I could go back to the diaper-changing, wake-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night-to-soothe-crying-baby phase of fatherhood? I'd be overjoyed.
I recognize that I am, in some ways, overenthusiastic about this late-in-life move into responsible parenting. And that I have a tendency to try to make up for lost time. Since so many of my happiest memories of childhood—summer vacations at the Jersey shore, off-season Montauk, trips to France—are associated with the tastes and smells of the things I ate, I feel uncontrollable urges to smother the people I love with food. I've become the sort of passive-aggressive yenta or Italian grandmother stereotype from films who's always urging people,
Eat! Eat! and sulking inconsolably when they don't.
This pathology is further complicated by my time as a professional. I have developed work habits that, over three decades, imprinted on me the need to be organized, to have a plan, to rotate stock, to label prepared foodstuffs, and to keep a clean work area.
So on top of my desire to make up for lost time, and my psycho–Ina Garten–like need to feed the people around me, I am obsessive-compulsive in my work habits and anally retentive in ways that you'd find ideal in a professional brunch cook, but probably disturbing in a husband or parent.
That's our family. And this is our family cookbook.
These are the dishes I like to eat and that I like to feed my family and friends. They are the recipes that
work, meaning they've been developed over time and have been informed by repetition and long—and often painful—experience.
As happens in the restaurant business, I will, from time to time, make small incremental sacrifices in
quality for the often more important matter of serviceability. While it is a laudable ambition to prepare the best risotto in the world, that doesn't mean shit if your guests are sitting around with their stomachs growling, getting progressively drunker, while you dick around in the kitchen, interminably stirring rice.
Fish served on the bone is admittedly
better. You, uncertain of your knife skills, struggling to lift a fillet from a cooked Dover sole, tableside, in front of eight guests, might not be.
There is nothing remotely innovative about the recipes in this book. If you are looking for a culinary genius to take you to the Promised Land of next-level creativity, look elsewhere. That ain't me.
Mostly, these recipes are direct lifts from imperfect memories of childhood favorites: things my mom fed me, things I liked or loved to eat during the happier moments of my life—the kind of food memories I like to share with my daughter—along with a few greatest hits from my travels, and some boiled-down wisdom on subjects like breakfasts and Thanksgiving dinner, presented in an organized and tactically efficient, stress-free way.
One of the first things I discovered as I transitioned into my new
Daddy phase was that I was usually more frantic preparing a dinner party for five friends at home than I was cranking out five hundred à la carte dinners in a restaurant. The remedy for this anxiety, I've found, is to treat my friends or family just like another five-top in a sea of customers—until the food is served. Then I can sit down with them, relax, and enjoy their company. Just like a
normal dad.
A Note About My Daughter
My daughter, Ariane, is eight years old at the time of this writing. She is mostly obscured in the photos in this book. Being recognized by strangers is as weird and unnatural a thing as I have ever known, but I'm a big boy. I made my bed, and I won't complain when I have to lie in it. If I'm running through an airport, frantically looking for a bathroom, and a fan stops me for a photograph, this is a small price to pay for all the freedoms and the good things that being the sort of person who gets recognized in airports has brought me. It sure as shit beats working a busy brunch shift. I made an informed decision by writing book after book, by choosing to appear on television. At eighteen, my daughter will be old enough to make those kinds of decisions for herself. It would be wrong for me, or anyone else, to make those decisions for her.
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I am a very good breakfast and brunch cook. This was, during the darker periods of my employment history, both a blessing and a curse.
No matter how bad things were, how messed up I might have been, however disgraced, however unemployable by polite society, I could always get a job as a brunch cook.
And while it's nice to know that I can, in a pinch, fall back on a reliable income stream, the smell of breakfast to me will always be the smell of defeat and remind me of the low points of my life when I'd wake up early on Saturdays and Sundays to cook off the bacon, put up the home fries, beat up a shitload of hollandaise, and then sling eggs by the hundreds.
It is because of all those bad associations that, for a long time, I avoided cooking breakfast—at all.
I've lately had to draw frequently on those experiences, because I'm the father of an eight-year-old, who, like most eight-year-olds, digs pancakes, and breakfast in general. So now that I'm cooking for an eight-year-old and her friends, I've acquired more joyous associations with that meal.
For instance, I'm frequently called upon these days to provide efficient pancake service to sleepover parties involving numerous children. And on vacation, I'm more inclined than not to have breakfast ready for houseguests.
So, after all those years of cooking what was essentially—and often literally—short order breakfasts, here is what I've learned.
Escoffier was said to beat his eggs for scrambling with a fork, a secret clove of garlic affixed to the tines. I don't do that. I believe in eggs, salt, black pepper, and the whole butter that the eggs are cooked in. No milk or cream—or added water—will make a properly cooked order of scrambled eggs any better. I do, however, use a fork.
On a foodie message board a while back, some insufferable food nerd was commenting on an episode of one of Jacques Pépin's PBS cooking shows, in which Jacques had cooked scrambled eggs in a nonstick pan and stirred them with a fork. The offended poster worried out loud that the metal fork would be destructive to the nonstick pan's surface.
You know what? If Jacques Pépin tells you this is how you make a fucking egg? The matter is settled, fuck nuts. Now go back to arguing about Bundt cake recipes.
Here's how to scramble an egg: Break a fresh egg against a flat surface, like a cutting board, and empty it from its shell into a bowl so that you can inspect it for bits of shell, which you should of course remove and discard. Beat it lightly with a fork, dragging the yellow and white through each other. Heat whole butter in a pan. Pour in the egg and work your fork through. Not too vigorously; you want to gently pile the layers as they cook. When the egg is fluffy yet still moist, plate it quickly and serve it immediately. Remember, the eggs will continue to cook out of the pan.
Use fresh eggs, and as with scrambled eggs, break them on a flat surface and into a small bowl. Season with salt and freshly cracked pepper. I do not add milk or water. Just before cooking, and not a moment before, beat the eggs vigorously with a fork, but don't overdo it. Texturally, you want a rippling effect between yolk and albumen—not strips of visible egg white running through your omelet (which you want in scrambled eggs), but not a homogenous, totally smooth consistency either. Beat just until uniformly yellow. No more.
In a nonstick pan, heat a little whole butter. Do not brown.
When butter is bubbling, add the eggs and immediately move them around. I use a (relatively) heat-resistant rubber spatula. Jacques Pépin uses a fork. Whatever utensil you use, move it in a figure-eight pattern, drawing the wet eggs to the center and north (twelve o'clock) of the pan, letting the empty spaces that you've created become filled in with wet egg. Incorporate any egg splatter from the edges, not allowing anything to get crisp or more cooked than any other part. Do not flip an omelet.
The center of the omelet should still be moist and a tiny bit wet when you remove it from the heat—what the French call baveuse.
Plating your omelet is a very important step, and while it looks tricky, it's actually not.
Using a towel to protect your hand from heat, grasp the pan's handle from underneath in a V grip with one hand. Lift it up. Holding your plate in the other hand, tilt the pan onto the plate like a closing door, flopping the omelet onto the plate so it folds shut on itself.
If it looks like a pile of crap, not to worry. Lay a clean paper towel over the omelet like a blanket—like you're putting a child to bed. With hands together almost like praying, shape the omelet into a neat crescent: fat in the center, narrower at both ends. This will also sop up any excess butter or oozing egg.
If you're using fillings in your omelet, cook
dry ingredients like onions, peppers, or ham in the butter in the pan before adding the egg, incorporating them into the actual omelet. Cheese, or anything else soft and likely to ooze, should be gently laid into the center of the cooking eggs just before removing from the fire and plating.
You should be able to make two omelets at once. Probably no more. Unless you're like me.
A couple of tips on eggs Benedict:
Toast your goddamn muffins. Everybody fucks up the muffin. Lazy line cooks everywhere neglect to toast their English muffins on both sides—they pop them under the salamander, broiling them on one side, and leaving the other side raw, spongy, cold, and tasting of the refrigerator. I hate that. Don't do it. It's a terrible food crime.
Be sure to grill or at least pan sear your Canadian bacon.
Make your hollandaise comfortably ahead of time—and store it, warm, in a wide-mouthed thermos for service. Nothing's more frustrating than having your hollandaise either break on you, or get too cold. (See Hollandaise.)
Poaching eggs is a challenge for most home cooks, and a lot of that stress and failure is due to the making of some bush-league mistakes, so:
Use a wide-based pot for your poaching water, not a deep one. A sautoir is perfect. You want to reach into your pot with your slotted spoon at a comfortable angle and lift the eggs out. You're not bobbing for apples.
Add about ½ teaspoon white vinegar to the water. It will help the egg whites coagulate and the egg to keep its generally roundish form once poaching.
Do not drop the eggs into the water. When the water is at a gentle simmer, slide your already-opened eggs, in individual cups, one after the other, into the water, gently, from the surface. Tilt the cup and let the eggs slowly and gently slide sideways into the water. When done, which is to say cooked until fully formed but still runny in the center, lift each egg gently out of the water with a slotted spoon and serve immediately. . . .
Unless you have made the hubristic decision to serve eggs fucking Benedict to a party of ten guests in your home. Presumably, your guests will want to be served all at the same time, or reasonably close to that ideal. And unless you're a mastermind of brunch with a lot of short-order experience, it's unlikely you will be able to successfully drill out twenty perfectly poached eggs in under two minutes. So what to do?
Now, I'm not saying you should do what I'm about to tell you. I'm just saying you can do it. I may or may not have done it when serving six hundred brunches (many of which included eggs bennies) during a three-hour period.
I may or may not have prepoached a shitload of eggs—undercooking them as much as humanly possible—just before service, then floated them in a bus pan filled with ice water.
For service, I'd finish them in seconds—or


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Whether you buy into the advertising or not, it's apparent actuality that 3D is everywhere these days. From movies and amateur to laptops and handhelds, appealing abundant every awning in the abode is activity to be 3D-capable in a year or so, alike if you opt not to affectation any 3D agreeable on it. Those of you who accept that aisle may stop account now, and arise aback a little afterwards aback you change your mind. Because if you accept kids or adore movies and games, there will be a point area you're convinced, conceivably by a audible standout allotment of media, that 3D is account it at atomic some of the time.
But 3D isn't as accessible to get acclimated to as, say, accepting a surround-sound arrangement or affective from 4:3 to widescreen. Why is that? Well, it's complicated, but account demography the time to understand. Moreover, like any added new technology, 3D is not afterwards its abeyant risks, and of advance studies will accept to be done to actuate the abiding furnishings of usage, if any. For now, though, it charge be acceptable to acquaint yourself of the attempt abaft it and accomplish your own decision.
Let's aloof accept a album in case you're not accustomed with how 3D works in general. There are a few aloft credibility account befitting in mind. We'll alpha with the basics. How do you see in 3D to activate with? Here's a blast advance on your beheld system.
Even if it feels silly, aloof acquiesce me here: aing aloof your appropriate eye. Now aloof your left. Now your right. It's like in Wayne's World: camera one, camera two. You charge accept noticed that things change position a bit. This, of course, is because your eyes are a few inches apart; this is alleged the "interocular distance" and it varies from actuality to person. Agenda additionally that aback you attending at article close, altar arise in bifold in the background. Attending at the bend of the screen. See how the armchair or window aback there is doubled? It's because you're actually alternating your eyes so they both point anon at what you're absorption on. This is alleged "convergence," and it creates a array of X, the centermost of the X actuality what's actuality focused on. You've apparently apparent a diagram like this one before:
So the altar at the centermost of the X are accumbent at the aforementioned credibility on your corresponding retinas, but because of the interocular, that agency that things in avant-garde and abaft of that X are activity to hit altered credibility on those retinas — consistent in a bifold image. You can see through the bifold angel because what's blocked for one eye is apparent by the other, admitting from a hardly altered point of view. Experimenting with this consistently gave me a array of baby joy: already you alpha acquirements the complete eyes and base of the beheld arrangement (as I did aback I was belief it), you lose all attrition about arena with it and examination your own mind's mechanics in action. Optical illusions are abundant for this, too.
Next we accept focus. Your eye focuses abnormally from best cameras, but the end aftereffect is similar. Try captivation your feel out at arm's breadth and absorption on it, afresh on article abroad that is anon abaft it. Obviously the focus changes, and you may accept noticed that while the abroad article was bleared while you looked at your finger, your feel (in double) was in focus while you looked at the abroad object. That has to do with the optic qualities of your eye, which I won't go into here, but it's still important. Added important, however, is this: try it again, and this time pay absorption to the activity in your eye. Feel that? Array of like something's affective but you can't acquaint actually what? Well, your eyes are alternating a bit, but alone a few degrees, in adjustment to assemble added out, but added importantly, you're activity your the analysis of your eye actually drove or amplitude out the lens of the eye, alteration the aisle and centralized focal alike of the ablaze entering your eye. Farsightedness and nearsightedness action at this stage, aback either the lens or the eyeball itself is misshaped, consistent in focus actuality skewed or difficult to dness one way or another.
Once the two images accept been presented to your retinas, they canyon aback through the optic assumption to assorted beheld systems, area an abundantly able-bodied real-time assay of the raw abstracts is performed by several areas of the academician at once. Some areas attending for beeline lines, some for motion, some accomplish adjustment operations based on acquaintance and acquaint you that yes indeed, the actuality did go abaft that wall, they did not abandon into the wall, and that array of thing. Eventually (within conceivably 50 milliseconds) all this advice filters up into your alertness and you are acquainted of color, depth, movement, patterns, and audible altar aural your acreage of view, a mainly by the differences amid the images hitting anniversary of your retinas. It's important to agenda that eyes is a abstruse process, and these areas in your beheld case are "programmed" by acquaintance as abundant as by analysis and, for abridgement of a bigger term, instinct.
Why do I go into all this detail? Well, because I anticipate it's interesting. And additionally because if you appetite to accept 3D affectation technology, it's apparently a acceptable abstraction to accept your built-in 3D accretion tools.
There's a simple account actuality and a complicated explanation. The simple one first: 3D displays actualize the apparition of abyss by presenting a altered angel to anniversary eye. That's it. And that's article that all 3D displays accept in common, no amount what. In a fit of aberrant brotherhood amid media and electronics companies, standards were alike developed that encode a 3D beck analogously to accustomed stream, except with actually abstracted larboard and appropriate eye images broiled appropriate in. There are variations, of course, but it's a decidedly activated access they agreed on.
But how best to affectation it? Anybody differs in their opinions. Basically you accept three axiological techniques (and a few anachronous or artlessly bare ones I'll acknowledgment briefly) of sending the "right eye" angel to the appropriate eye and the "left eye" angel to the larboard eye (RIP Lisa Lopes). If you brainstorm anniversary angel to be tailored to its corresponding eye (it's adamantine to fake), a complete 3D affectation would appearance this:
In convenance that doesn't actually happen. Let's booty a attending at the techniques acclimated to almost it.
Filtered lenses
The original. The red-blue, red-green, or magenta-cyan (or "anaglyph," the coolest chat in this adventure afterwards "parallax barrier") glasses that came to betoken 3D breach a black-and-white (and later, color) angel into two commutual components. I won't get abysmal into the mechanics of it (Wikipedia has an able entry) but basically it creates an angel area allotment goes to one eye and allotment to another, and allotment to both — this aftermost allotment will be the screen's "normal plane" area your eyes are to focus, and appropriately accept agnate input. Troubles are mainly of the blush acumen variety; it's acutely adamantine to antithesis things so that your academician takes the broken-up colors and assembles them correctly. However, anaglyph is still in use and still accordant — I aloof watched Toy Adventure 3 application green-magenta and it looked great. A newer adaptation (by Infitec) uses avant-garde filters to breach anniversary blush into two components, sending bisected the red spectrum to one eye and one to the other, but these haven't bent on which is allotment of the Dolby3D arrangement (and which somehow I've managed to abstain actually and anticipate rare).
The best avant-garde adaptation of filtered lenses (bottom illustration) uses animosity — originally linear, now annular animosity (RealD) is used, aback it allows you to bend your arch afterwards affecting the image. The argument to this tech is that the accuracy of the angel is about halved. Annular animosity in accepted is actually cool, by the way. I abide that a atom may additionally accept a wave-based breakthrough polarization, crumbling in and out of existence. But that is neither actuality nor there. Literally! Oh, I able myself up.
Active bang glasses
This is the accepted adjustment of best for best 3D TV companies. The media is displayed at a aerial framerate, and the glasses rapidly about-face amid atramentous and bright application a brace of low-latency cellophane LCD screens. In this way, one eye sees annihilation (for as little as a hundredth of a additional or so) while the added sees its "correct" image, and a few microseconds later, the bearings is reversed: the adverse eye's angel is displayed and the LCDs accept switched. The account is that anniversary eye is accepting the "full" angel whenever it's accepting annihilation (unless they're cheating and accomplishing it via interlaced acreage switching).
There are a cardinal of objections to this technology:
As you can see, it's actually a list, admitting some of these flaws are actuality remedied. One wonders why so abounding companies accept gotten on lath with such a thing. Well, it offers abundant added befalling for authoritative money, for one thing, and they don't accept to adapt their screens in any way added than accretion the brace rate, for accession —saving them adored R&D money. My claimed assessment is this technology will abide on top until someone's bunco works analysis aggregation produces a applicable accession in the anatomy of circular-polarized TV affectation filters that don't affect the angel too much.
Autostereoscopic display
These accept been about for a while, at assorted levels of sophistication, and are now in the spotlight as the 3D adjustment acclimated by the Nintendo 3DS. You apparently saw article of the lenticular lens adjustment (a saw-tooth prism that directs ablaze in capricious direction) in "holographic" affectation in the 90s on a adorned CD jewel case covers (I bethink it from Tool's Aenima (yeah yeah)). The assumption is that by some adjustment or another, one pixel or accumulation of pixels has its ablaze directed to one eye, and accession accumulation to the other. This can be able in a cardinal of ways, but nowadays it is best acceptable to be a parallax barrier: a alternation of slits in the display, actually placed to acquiesce ablaze from every added band of pixels to go one way or the other. Alike curve of pixels go right, and odd curve go left, for instance. This enables the angel to be breach afterwards the use of glasses — a account not to be underestimated.
As you ability expect, there are issues with this adjustment as well.
Something not in battle is the affection of films created application 2D-to-3D conversion. These Franken-films are a assembly adversity and the bawdiness of their abyss cues would accord anyone a headache. Abstain at all costs.
One aftermost note: stereoscopic technologies usually accept acceptable eyes to some amount in viewers. A majority of bodies accept some birthmark in their vision, however, best about nearsightedness in one eye or the other, or accessory astigmatism. This can be difficult to acquiesce for, consistent in glasses breaking the 3D effect, and of advance the call of cutting 3D glasses over one's glasses is a deal-breaker for many. Apprehend this to be catered to in the aing bearing of 3D displays. They accept to airing afore they can run.
A brace months ago, Samsung anxiously issued a accessible admonishing apropos its 3D displays, and by association those of the competition. This admonishing apparently exists in the affidavit of every 3D affectation technology out there in one way or another, admitting some accept it worse than others. It's additionally apparently printed on the aback of your admission whenever you go see a 3D movie, admitting I doubtable that theaters aren't as alive as they could be in screening out abundant and babies from their audiences. Appearance at your own risk, I suppose. So why the warning?
Well, in Samsung's case it's specific to active-shutter glasses. I mentioned aloft that these glasses can aftermath seizures and added effects. What happens is this: accepting anniversary eye actuality actually blocked out thirty or sixty times per additional is the agnate of accepting a high-frequency strobe activity off in your face. You're apparently acquainted of the crisis this presents to epileptics and others: seizures, nausea, and fatigue are not uncommon. Furthermore, admitting this hasn't been abundantly advised to my knowledge, it seems to me that the connected strobing ability aftereffect in fatigue of your iris and lens muscles, which are consistently accepting adverse information. That's accepting better, however: the absorption is accretion and continuance of blackout decreasing, which agency your benumbed is beneath acceptable to "see" the blackout.
But there are objections to 3D that administer whether you're application bang glasses or not (if you'd rather accept Bill Nye explain this to you, bang here). The affair is artlessly this: you're tricking your eyes and your apperception into cerebration there is abyss area there isn't. But it begins to attending beneath like a ambush and added like a austere bamboozlement if we add two things into consideration: one, that acquainted abyss is an alive action that involves analysis and movement, and two, eyes is a abstruse skill.
Think aback to aback you were absorption on your finger, and afresh on the abroad object. Your eye "knows" that to focus on a added abroad object, it has to accomplish a assertive transformation on the lens in adjustment to accompany that article into focus. Aback you see an article in a movie, your eye anon tries to actual for that object's ambit by deforming your lenses— but annihilation happens! "Whaaat?" your beheld arrangement thinks, "That car should be advancing into focus!" But it doesn't and it won't for the accountable future, and meanwhile every time the focus changes, or the attempt changes, or the camera moves, or the characters move, your eye is attempting to refocus, to change its shape. This creates fatigue in the analysis and abashing in the brain.
When you about-face your absorption and boring to accession (out of focus) object, your eyes additionally artlessly change their point of convergence. This occurs aback you're watching 3D movies as well; you can alike see with your naked eye the basal of the 3D effect, in that altar abaft or in avant-garde of the alike of focus will be out of appearance with anniversary added (they'll arise bleared or in double; the further from what the alike of focus, the added so). Aback your eyes change convergence, they artlessly appetite to change focus, aback in a majority of cases, alteration the point you're attractive at agency alteration the appearance of your lens. Again, though, your eye and academician are tricked, and the act of absorption is not alone accidental but adverse to actual acumen of the 3D image. So your eyes reconverge but the focus doesn't change — an aberrant occurrence, admitting one that can be minimized by accurate abetment of the cinematography and advancement ascendancy over the audience's gaze.
Another aftereffect is parallax, which is the way altar move about to anniversary added aback you move your head. The antagonism created depends on the ambit from the screen, aback altar don't move abundant aback you move your arch a bit if they're 40 anxiety away. But no amount what, aback your eyes move, your academician expects the angel to move if it's acquainted depth. [thanks to the commenters who adapted me on these points]
There is accession aftereffect which at this moment is alone theoretical, but is still alarming for all that. Aback you're born, your academician is alone set up for eyes the way an abandoned adamantine drive is set up to abundance data. The basement is there, but you charge to ample it. Babies are built-in into "one abundant blooming, alive confusion" as William James put it, and boring apprentice to apperceive and assort objects, patterns, tendencies, and so on. Assertive portions of the beheld arrangement are set up from the alpha to assignment against assertive ends, but it's safe to say that if you confused aboriginal on to a apple with no accumbent lines, the horizontal-line-detecting allocation of your academician would be replaced by article added useful. You accept a abundant accord of bendability in the acoustic portions of your brain, admitting arguably not as abundant as in beneath specialized cortex.
Anyway, the point is that the beheld acquaint you apprentice can be unlearned. Yeah, it sounds affectionate of asinine at first, but there are already letters of bodies accepting abyss acumen agitation afterwards watching a 3D cine at home or in the theater. 3D gaming may alike aggravate the problem, aback you're not artlessly examination a basal 3D amplitude but interacting with it. It's believable that your beheld arrangement could become partly rewired in adjustment to bigger accept how a 3D beheld apple can abide on a 2D concrete plane.
I don't appetite to complete alarmist, though: afterwards all, who hasn't acquainted balance furnishings from this or that acquaintance for anon after? One could altercate that the brief disorientation afterward a 3D media examination is as controllable as the accepted motion aftereffect, the Tetris effect, or any added apparition consistent from around-the-clock acknowledgment to an aberrant stimulus. Experiments accept been performed in which capacity wore vision-flipping prism glasses for an continued aeon (up to a week, I believe), and aback the glasses were removed, their perceptions to alternate to accustomed afterwards some hours (either a decidedly continued or reassuringly abbreviate aeon depending on your perspective).
Consider, though, that your eyes allotment to accustomed afterwards a aeon of acknowledgment alone because it has a "normal" to which it can return. The crisis isn't so abundant to those of us with accustomed beheld systems, but to those who are still learning. I haven't apprehend any of the literature, and I doubtable there is abundant altercation of aback the beheld arrangement alcove "maturity," but I anticipate it's safe to say that a toddler of 4 or 5 is aing it but not actually there. Actuality crisis lies.
If a child's beheld arrangement is accomplished with a cogent allocation of its ascribe actuality a basal 3D ambiance on a 2D concrete plane, the academician will anatomy with such a arrangement actuality "legitimate," possibly to the accident of accustomed vision. And this is afterwards reckoning the abeyant accident from the abridgement of beheld array such a adolescent would experience. I'm no naysayer aback it comes to agenda agency of ball for kids, but arena alfresco and in the absolute apple fulfills a all-important allotment of our concrete and brainy development. A adolescent apparent to boundless amounts of 3D media may not alone advance clumsily due to abridgement of stimuli, but may advance afield due to the attendance of ambiguous stimuli.
It's a austere consideration, but to be honest, not one that seems to me to be a abundant accident at the moment. The admeasurement of the child's time committed to 3D media would accept to be huge, and would apparently announce added acute problems than best of entertainment. It may about-face out that all this annoying was for nothing, but it can't aching to be accomplished about it. And it's account advertence as able-bodied that a "native" compassionate (i.e. committed academician space) of 3D/2D displays is not necessarily a bad thing. I myself accept (if I may say so) rather acceptable hand-eye allocation and reflexes partially attributable to arena Ninja Gaiden II and Mario Kart aback I was younger. Alike so, it's account actuality acquainted of what is accessible and why.
Unfortunately, there's not a hell of a lot you can do to abate your risk. The problems are inherent in our own architecture and the actuality that 3D displays actualize alone the apparition of depth. What you can do is ascendancy your exposure.
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Source:http://rt.com/ Mesut Ozil facebook wall page
Mezut Ozil donated about $400,000.00 of world cup prize money to charity
Edited time: July 17, 2014 03:23
The World Cup may be over for Germany and Argentina, but players on both teams are putting their cash winnings to good use by donating them to worthy causes.
According to the UK-based Express, 25-year-old German football star Mesut Ozil has donated his World Cup prize money – totaling more than $400,000 for winning the tournament – to various charity projects in Brazil. The hefty sum is reportedly going to fund surgeries for 23 Brazilian children.
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Ozil made the announcement official on his Facebook page, where he wrote the following:
"Dear fans, prior to the #WorldCup I supported the surgery of eleven sick children. Since the victory of the #WorldCup is not only due to eleven players but to our whole team, I will now raise the number to 23. This is my personal thank-you for the hospitality of the people of Brazil."


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The Sperrin Choir returns to the Burnavon to celebrate the special season of Christmas. Join this popular Mid Ulster Choir as it sings a range of traditional, modern and sacred Christmas music, a highlight being a selection of specially chosen John Rutter arrangements.
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'I need the stage': McAfee will run for president 'in exile,' with 1,000s of masked doppelgangers
Antivirus magnate and cryptocurrency evangelist John McAfee says he'll run for president in 2020 in exile, utilizing masked doppelgangers to marketing campaign within the US. McAfee has been filmed crusing to Venezuela, fleeing indictment. Learn ...
Masked 'Rodchenkov' accuses IBU of overlaying up doping
Posted On Sunday, April 15, 2018 By Russian Opinion. Under Sports Tags: accuses, covering, doping, masked, Rodchenkov
Norwegian broadcaster NRK has launched an interview with a masked man who claims to be former Moscow anti-doping laboratory head Grigory Rodchenkov, through which he accused the Worldwide Biathlon Union (IBU) of overlaying up doping. Learn ...
Masked men tried to attack the building of Roscomnadzor in Moscow
Posted On Wednesday, July 19, 2017 By Russian Opinion. Under RUSSIA Tags: attack, building, masked, Moscow, Roscomnadzor, tried
Earlier, it was reported that the founder of the messenger Telegram Pavel Durov agree to submit to the registry of the organizers of the dissemination of information of Roskomnadzor
Two masked men robbed a bank in Tuapse 300,000. Rubles
According to preliminary data of law enforcement, two masked men entered the premises of the bank branch, which is located in the street. Gogol, and threatened the cashiers object, like a gun, stole money from the cash register.
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If you are reading a blog post about why you might want to consider hiring a wedding planner, then the chances are you are about to pop the question, or you've just got engaged. So, if either apply, a huge congratulations are in order! Moss Bros have asked me to pop over to their blog and introduce you to the world of wedding planning; which let's be honest, probably doesn't sound that appealing but stick with me…
Your engagement should be exciting and fun but it can become overwhelming and stressful. Some people love the idea of planning their own wedding but if you have no experience in events, have a young family or have a busy career then perhaps a wedding planner could be for you! You may even be asking yourself "do I need a wedding planner" or even "why do I need a wedding planner".
I had written a long essay about the benefits of hiring a wedding planner, as it's a topic I am hugely passionate about, but I realised you'll fall asleep half way through. My husband's response to our wedding planning was "what ever you want", "how much does it cost" and "let's add more booze!". Does that sound familiar?
Planning a wedding is by no means an easy task. I have made a successful career out of planning peoples weddings and I only take on a handful of clients each year due to the sheer amount of time it takes. So, for a couple to be tackling seating plans and supplier contracts whilst juggling either family or work life, the thought of planning a wedding can be incredibly daunting.
If you think about it, your wedding day will most probably be the biggest and most expensive party you will ever host. But this party isn't a straight forward dinner party! Oh no! This party may have multiple locations, with potentially hundreds of guests and a long list of suppliers to orchestrate. A party stretching over a full day with different components, a tight schedule and lots going on!
For many, hiring a professional is an easy decision to make. So, to keep it short and sweet the three mains reasons why you might want to consider hiring a wedding planner are; they can save you time, money and stress…
Hiring a professional planner is a little bit like having a bridal personal assistant on hand throughout your engagement. Reading contracts, completing booking forms, chasing guests that haven't rsvp'd, creating schedules etc and then assisting with the set up and clear down; a planner can carry out a vast array of tasks that are a little tedious, a tad boring and incredibly time consuming. Allowing you to catch up on Netfilx rather than spending your evenings doing "wedmin".
Pulling off a perfectly planned and beautifully styled wedding can be quite stressful, especially if you haven't got any experience of planning. There are an awful lot of components to consider, a huge amount of cross-checking and lots of details to remember. Creating a picture of your wedding day isn't as straight forward as deciding what you want and booking it. There are so many details, logistics and timings to consider. Your planner will have experience of the industry and will know what will work and what wont, will be able to problem solve, will know what to book and when to book it and will know to cross check everything to ensure nothing is missed. In addition to a stress-free engagement they will also assist with the set up and clear down of your wedding and will coordinate the whole day itself, meaning you guys can relax and fully enjoy the day, without having to sort out anything that may crop up.
So, if you didn't think saving you time and stress was worth it's weight in gold, perhaps the thought of financial management, discounts and cost savings might intrigue you! For those people who just see the big picture and think it's daft to spend money on a planner when that could be spent elsewhere you should definitely keep reading… In addition to the time and stress we save you and predominantly your other half (imagine how calm and easy your life could be with a wedding planner assisting your partner!), we can actually be financially beneficial.
I didn't have a wedding planner when I got married. I plucked a figure out of my head when I started my planning and not knowing what a wedding was going to cost I ended up doubling it. Now, I need to add that I got married before I became a professional wedding planner, so I was inspired to set up a business to help other couples avoid the mistakes I made. If I had spent a little on a planner I could have saved thousands by having them manage my spending. I always start the process by talking about the budget; you can't spend what you haven't got, and I strongly advise my clients to plan their finances first before we commit to anything.
Next – discounts! A lot of suppliers offer my clients discounts for booking through me; which they wouldn't be able to get going direct. We also have an extensive recommended supplier list so can put forward an incredible range of suppliers at different price points; a far better selection than you'll get from carrying out an internet search for going to a wedding fare – which let's face it, you can't be bothered to be dragged around on your day off!
And finally, our experience and knowledge of the industry also means we know what you need and don't necessarily need. We have ways to achieve your dream wedding in a more cost-effective way and we can search for the best prices for you before you buy!
If I have successfully inspired you to consider a planner for your wedding, I have a few final pieces of wisdom to pass on: do your research on wedding planners before you book one. Request testimonials, have a look at their portfolio's and even meet them. You are going to work closely with this person for the duration of your engagement, so you need to not only trust them, but you need to also like them.
And finally, in the UK, wedding planners aren't audited, so please make sure you book an experienced one. Visit the UK Alliance of Wedding Planners website who have a directory of professional companies who have been pre-vetted and selected as members. It's a great way to find talented, reliable and awesome planners to create your dream wedding day.
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UNC Asheville's swimming pool is a 6-lane, 25-yard pool located on the lower level of the Student Recreation Center. The pool is home to Campus Recreation programs and the UNC Asheville Women's Swim Team. Lap swim and open recreation swim times are available to current OneCard and recreation pass-holders only. The pool may also be reserved by organizations or groups.
Visit our Hours of Operation page for pool hours.
Age Policies
- No children younger than 4 years old are permitted in the pool.
- Children ages 4-15 must be supervised by parent/guardian at all times.
- Infants and toddlers must wear appropriate attire and diapers at all times.
- Pool use requires the use of approved swimming diapers.
- If child is wearing a floatation device, it must be U.S. Coast Guard Approved and must have a parent/guardian within arm's reach in the pool.
- Children ages 4-15 must pass swim test to swim without parent/guardian in the pool.
- Must be at least 16 years to be unsupervised in pool with dependent membership.
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Minecraft Pokemon
My son has been making Pokemon statues in one of his Minecraft worlds.
Puzzles and Paintings
I got a good deal on Pokemon 3-D puzzles from Woot.com and they just came in the mail 🙂
It is kind of hard to put this kind together because the picture keeps seeming to move as you are putting the pieces together.
My daughter and I also painted for a bit.
We Found Them!
Our Pokemon cards and bags, that is 🙂
We discovered they were missing on the way to a friend's birthday party awhile back and I just couldn't figure out where they were. I called my dad and one of the moms we hang out with asking if we had somehow left them at their homes. I searched the house over and over, wondering aloud how they could possibly be missing in a house the size of ours which had been recently cleaned. In the end, I gave up.
Then, today, it occured to me that we HAD taken the decks to those houses. And that I had probably packed them for the way home. (You see, I generally tote loads of snacks, craft stuff, etc. with us and wind up doing most of the carrying to and from the car) I thought a bit about how I had been carrying stuff and remembered my milk crate full of wool felt and crochet stuff I had been using while making holiday gifts. I opened the cabinet where it was stashed and sure enough- there they were! Right in amongst the felt and a crocheted bag I had forgotten I was ever working on. Of course! Why wouldn't they be?
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Baobab Trees, Butterflies, and Blossoms: Nature's Cure for Digital Overload
I have found a place where I do not need to answer my cell phone, read emails or feel chained to my computer. Here I can savor the delicious tropical breeze coming off Biscayne Bay. Entering this green hideaway, I am serenely transported to a refuge where I can relax and enjoy its sights, sounds, and fragrances in slow-time.
A Hidden Gem in Northwest Florida
As I woke up this morning to the sound of chirping birds, I looked outside my tent at the towering pine trees, it looked like paradise. No traffic sounds or sirens, just the sound of nature outside. I couldn't wait to explore this hidden paradise.
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Do you ever dream of being in a tropical paradise but worry it's too expensive and you don't have enough vacation time to go? There is a hidden oasis within reach that will give you that paradise-feeling without costing a bunch. Your dreams will come true when you visit Peanut Island, situated about 125 miles east of Arcadia, Florida. It's one of those hidden gems you absolutely need to go see to believe!


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Disparaging. a person who advocates a progressive orthodoxy, often on the Internet, especially involving the treatment of ethnic, racial, gender, or gender-identity minorities. Abbreviation: SJW
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Origin of social justice warrior
First recorded in 1990–95
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Does your child seem to have, um, selective hearing? You tell him (or her) to do this or that and you're very lucky if one little smidgen of it gets done? Yeah, that can be infuriating to a momma. Ask me how I know. It turns out that there can be an honest-to-goodness reason and maybe, just maybe, he really isn't ignoring you. Auditory attention and auditory processing are important cognitive skills that may need a little work. Luckily, there are loads and loads of quick and fun brain training activities that can boost your child's ability to listen, remember, and act if necessary. What are auditory attention and auditory processing? I'll remind you quickly about one of ... Read More
Brain Training Activities for Visual Attention and Visual Processing
Brain training activities are good for everyone because they build neuron connections. Who couldn't use a few extra neuron connections, right? I've gone into some depth about the what, why and how of brain training before, so I'll spare you the details about all the cognitive skills brain training improves and how it helps ALL learners. Today we're going to focus on two cognitive skills: ATTENTION and PROCESSING. Actually, we're going to focus on one subset of each: VISUAL ATTENTION and VISUAL PROCESSING This post contains affiliate links. What are visual attention and visual processing? The word attention refers to the ability to stay focused on a particular thing. You ... Read More


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Dental implants are an excellent restoration option for patients who suffer from tooth loss. They stimulate healthy jawbone growth, and their tooth-colored aesthetic makes differentiating them from your natural teeth impossible.
Beyond enriching your smile, dental implants will boost your self-confidence because you won't have to worry about them sliding or shifting around in your mouth while you eat and socialize, like dentures.
Use Gentle Products
One of the many advantages of dental implants is their natural care regimen. You clean them the same way you clean your natural teeth—with daily brushing and flossing. We recommend brushing after meals and snacks as well, but that applies to both, dental implants and your natural teeth.
When caring for dental implants, we advise our patients to choose soft, non-abrasive hygiene products. If you avoid this advice, you could scratch your implant and irritate the soft gum tissue that surrounds them.
Choosing the Right Toothbrush & Toothpaste
Selecting a toothbrush that's ideal for dental implants boils down to finding one with soft or extra soft bristles. The soft bristles will decrease your chances of scratching the porcelain crown or titanium implant. Both electric and traditional toothbrushes are acceptable, as long as you brush for the correct amount of time and cover all surfaces of your teeth.
Regarding toothpaste, we recommend avoiding any that contain harsh ingredients to protect your implant and its surround gums. Abrasive ingredients are found in whitening toothpaste, as well as any that include baking soda. Baking soda—when used continuously—can damage your enamel. Furthermore, baking soda lacks fluoride, which prevents cavities by strengthening your teeth.
Selecting Appropriate Dental Floss
Moving on, the next oral hygiene product to think about is dental floss. Daily flossing is crucial for maintaining good dental health. It removes plaque and debris from hard-to-reach spots that your toothbrush can't reach. As you floss with dental implants, be sure to use nylon-coated floss because it's designed to glide against your teeth and gums, minimizing the risk of damaging your implant. Multiple companies sell floss that's used solely with dental implants.
Picking the Ideal Mouthwash
Finally, the last hygiene product we'll discuss is antibacterial mouthwash, which helps your mouth fend off unwanted bacteria and gum disease. For the same reason that we recommended avoiding whitening toothpaste, the same goes for whitening mouthwash. Furthermore, mouthwash that contains alcohol can cause dry mouth—saliva is your mouth's first line of defense when fighting off dangerous bacteria.


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External Sounds Present...NYE Party 2009-2010 Will Tramp (Manchester), Trenchtown (Live) & External Sounds Djs, Thur 31st Dec
External Sounds Present...Bill Brewster, Stephen Downes (Milk) & External Sounds Djs, sat 12th Dec
External Sounds Present...Halloween Warehouse Party 2009, sat 31st Oct
External Sounds Djs @ DEAF Festival 2009
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Groovement Soul Djs, Sat 3rd October@ The Purple Room
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Post Picnic Party, Sat 12th September@ The Purple Room
EXTERNAL SOUNDS @ Electric Picnic 2009
EXTERNAL SOUNDS DJS @ FREITAGS, COMMON, MANCHESTER, Fri 21st August
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Residents Night, Sat 2nd August@ The Purple Room
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Motor City Drum Ensemble, Sat 4Th July@ The Purple Room
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Intinn (live), Sat 20th June @ The Purple Room
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External Sounds Vs Scribble, Sat 6th June @ The Purple Room
External Sounds & Drogheda Arts Festival Present...
Norman Jay (MBE), Sun 3rd May @ The Purple Room
External Sounds & Drogheda Arts Festival Present...
Super Extra Bonus Party, Sat 2nd May @ The Purple Room
External Sounds Present...Electric Elephant Festival Irish Launch Party. Luke Unabomber (Electriks,Uk), Sat 4th of April @ The Purple Room
Dj Shakey (Shakey's Record Fair, Warper, Rubulad NYC), Barney Iller (NYC) & external sounds djs, Sat 7th of March
External Sounds are bringing a piece of the Big Apple to The Purple Room on Saturday March 7th, in the form New York's Dj Shakey and Barney Iller. Dj Shakey aka Julie Covello, is part of New York City's dj elite and has spun at virtually every metro area nightclub that contributes to the culture. She created and directs "Shakey's Record Fair", the "Warper Party" (NY's largest monthly electronic music showcase), and the world reknown clothing swap "Thrift On!". She has written about music and more for Wax Poetics, Sweet Action, and Bust magazines. She also has a legendary record collection, performs with her bass and laptop duo "FreebassBK", and volunteers to teach young women to dj at the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls.
DJ Barney Iller specializes in the funky side of things, from vintage soul and funk, to breakbeat, glitch bass, jungle & dubstep, and beyond. He has played at top venues, lowly dives, and underground lofts throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan. Check out his productions and mixes at his site below.
Fudge Fingas (Firecracker/Prime Numbers) , House of Traps (Firecracker), & external sounds djs, Sat 7th of February
At this time of year most people are taking it easy and trying to repent for their overindulgence's at Christmas. Having no regard for such sentiment, External Sounds are serving up another fat helping of our monthly club night in The Purple Room on Saturday 7th of February. After Dj Andy Smith's brilliant performance on New Years Eve, we want to keep the standard high for the following gig. We think this has definitely been archived with dj sets from Prime Numbers & Firecrackers 'Fudge Fingas' & 'House of Traps'.
Fudge Fingas & House of Traps are at the forefront of the music genre tagged 'Detroit House'. This genre is proving more and and more popular in the underground club scene at the moment with artist such as Trus'me and Motor city Drum Ensemble making big breakthroughs with this sound in the past year.
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From footprint to footfall: how the experiential workplace is set to take over the world 0
by Freddie Steele • Briefing, Facilities management, Premium Content, Property, Workplace design
The culture within which we work determines how effective, successful, fulfilled and well we are in both our professional and personal lives. The organisations for which we work – on whatever basis that might be – the physical surroundings they create, and the other places in which we choose to work are now woven into the fabric of our lives as never before. The technological immersion that allows us to work in new ways also means that each day becomes a series of experiences. Because we are free to work wherever and whenever we choose, we are increasingly able to determine the nature of those experiences. For those who design and manage offices this represents both a great opportunity and an unprecedented series of challenges.
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White Paper: the magic of disruption and what it means for the workplace
by Anthony Brown • Briefing, Premium Content, Technology, Workplace design
In a 1973 essay called Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination, the science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke sets out Three Laws regarding our relationship with technology. Only the third of these is well remembered these days:. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. He was one of the first writers to coin the sort of law that have now become commonplace on the subject of the way our world, including the workplace, can be disrupted by technological developments. They include a corollary to Clarke's: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced (Gehm's Law)
July 5, 2018
White paper: How the workplace is pioneering the use of data in organisations
by Anthony Brown • Briefing, Features, Premium Content, Technology, Workplace design
In 2017, a content creator called Oobah Butler decided that he wanted to do something with the experience he'd gained writing fake positive restaurant reviews on TripAdvisor. What if, he wondered, he set up an entirely fictitious restaurant based in the shed in his garden and then started to manipulate TripAdvisor ratings? What happened surpassed his wildest expectations. In just six months, The Shed at Dulwich became the top-rated restaurant in London, even though nobody had ever actually eaten there, based solely on fake reviews, fake pictures and the word of mouth created by a complete inability for anybody to book a table.
November 24, 2017
White Paper: intuitive design and the changing face of workplace interactions
by Oliver Ronald • Briefing, Features, Premium Content, Workplace design
In his famous 1988 book The Design of Everyday Things, the cognitive scientist Donald Norman suggests that the way we interact with objects and our surroundings is determined almost entirely by their design. People cannot be the primary reason things succeed or fail, because they are constant, while the design of the object itself is the variable. People can expect to learn how to use things better, but without an underlying people-centric and intuitive approach to design, the design will fail to some degree or other. He concludes that the designer should focus their attention on the interaction between people and the design of objects and surroundings. This principle becomes more relevant with each passing day, as the number of interactions we have with designed objects increases. This is most obvious with regard to our interactions with technology, but it is also apparent across our entire lives.
September 28, 2017
Insight Briefing: the business case for design and build 0
by Charles Marks • Briefing, Facilities management, Insight Briefings, Premium Content, Workplace design
The best way of getting what you want is invariably to follow the simplest route. Research, experience and common sense tell us that in most cases, simple systems achieve better, faster and less expensive results and that the success of any project will often be in inverse proportion to the number of people involved in the system used to implement it, the number of decisions these people have to make between them, and the number of times they have to communicate with each other. Complexity is the enemy of success. Simplicity is all. And it is this that is the underlying principle behind 'Design and Build'; often the best, fastest and least expensive method of developing and implementing an office design project, yet also one of the least understood, especially with regard to its ability to deliver exceptional design. This White Paper is aimed both at those who want to find out more about this uniquely effective method of completing a project, but also at those who may have mistaken preconceptions about Design and Build. This is an idea whose time has come and it is all based on the most fundamental of all fundamental principles: by keeping things as uncomplicated as possible, it can often deliver the best value, best design and the best response to a brief in the quickest time and at the lowest cost.
Charles Marks is the Managing Director of office design and fit-out company Fresh Workspace. www.freshworkspace.com
February 24, 2017
White paper: a new world of learning environments 0
by Oliver Ronald • Briefing, Insight Briefings, Premium Content, Workplace design
The traditional structures of work and education were forged in the fires of the Industrial Revolution. They shared many characteristics. They were rigid, hierarchical and based on a patriarchal approach to achieving their aims. In education, this manifested itself in the traditional didactic form that was, until recently, seen as the ideal model, based on teachers, tutors and lecturers imparting knowledge and learning to their pupils and students as part of an agreed curriculum and to an approved timetable. How well this process turned out was checked with periodic testing. For some time now, people have been questioning this structure and, with it, the design of learning environments. Over the past few decades, we have not only developed the technologies to allow us to learn in new ways, we have also developed a far better understanding of the processes involved.
July 16, 2015
More evidence to dispel the idea that 'sitting is the new smoking'
by Mark Eltringham • Briefing, News, Wellbeing
The apparently compelling idea that 'sitting is the new smoking' is given yet another shoeing by new research which confirms that long term standing at work can be harmful too, in both the short and long term. The study, "Long-Term Muscle Fatigue After Standing Work" is published in the journal Human Factors and available to read in full here. It found that prolonged standing is associated with a range of health issues including fatigue, leg cramps, and backaches, which can affect performance and cause significant discomfort in the short term and develop into something more in the long term. Over time, this type of sustained muscle fatigue can result in serious health consequences, according to the academics who carried out the research behind it. It confirms previous research which shows that health problems are associated with a lack of variation in working position, not a specific position.
June 1, 2015
New report lays out its 2040 vision of the workplace of the future
by Mark Eltringham • Briefing, Facilities management, News, Workplace design
By 2040 knowledge workers will decide where and how they want to work, according to a new report on the workplace of the future by Johnson Controls' Global Workplace Solutions business. The Smart Workplace 2040 report claims that 25 years from now, work will be seen as something workers do, rather than a place to which they commute. According to the study, work patterns will be radically different as a new generation of what it terms 'workspace consumers' choose their time and place of work. Most workers will frequently work from home, and will choose when to visit work hubs to meet and network with others. There will be no set hours and the emphasis will be on getting work done, while workers' wellness will take priority. Technology will bring together networks of individuals who operate in an entrepreneurial way, with collaboration the major driver of business performance.
March 25, 2015
Report identifies the challenges and opportunities of workplace wellbeing
by Mark Eltringham • Briefing, HR, News, Wellbeing, Workplace design
Much of what has been called workplace strategy in recent years has been more about cutting costs than supporting people, often to the detriment of the latter. That is the central claim of a new report authored by Kate Lister and Tom Harnish of Global Workplace Analytics and sponsored by office furniture maker Knoll. The paper, What's Good for People? Moving from Wellness to Well-Being, explores how better workplaces, processes and practices can improve workplace wellbeing, employee engagement and organisational performance. The study starts from the premise that people are dealing with unprecedented stresses and pressures in the workplace which now need to be addressed in the context of a recovering economy, the limits of an approach that focuses on doing more with less and an increasingly scant pool of human resources and talents.
December 9, 2014
Government must beef up the way it manages outsourced contracts
by Gary Watkins • Briefing, Comment, Facilities management, Public Sector
Any poorly-performing facilities management contract can result in financial and reputational loss, but where a government contract has been mismanaged, and there is a thirst for information on how the public purse has been spent, the repercussions can be major and the casualties high. The UK Government is the biggest spender on FM services, with £40 billion of outsourced contracts each year. However, in a recent report from the Public Accounts Committee and National Audit Office, contract management came in for stinging criticism. Evidence of overbilling, capacity issues, and poor governance and recordkeeping led to a very clear message that the Government must beef up its contract management. Procurement and contract management have been viewed traditionally as low-status in the civil service and, as a result, have been at the mercy of administration cuts and lack of investment.
September 26, 2014
HOK releases new workplace benchmarking report for financial services sector
by Mark Eltringham • Architecture, Briefing, News, Workplace design
Architectural practice HOK has released a new benchmarking report that examines design and work-style trends at leading financial services firms over the past three years, including the finding that space is underutilised across the sector by nearly a half, meaning that growth can easily be accommodated within the existing facilities of many firms. The HOK Benchmarking Report claims to provide information on recent trends affecting the industry, an analysis of how organisations are using office space and metrics for space standards based on recently completed workplace projects for financial services firms in New York, Toronto and London. The authors claim that because 'companies are eager to understand the link between their work environments and organisational performance, the space standards and findings in this report can provide a baseline to help corporate real estate and facilities professionals identify and respond to opportunities for improvement.'
September 24, 2014
'Overwhelming evidence' of link between office design, productivity and wellness claims report
by Mark Eltringham • Briefing, Knowledge, News, Workplace design
A new report from the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) claims it has "overwhelming evidence" that office design significantly impacts the health, wellbeing and productivity of staff. Health, Wellbeing and Productivity in Offices: The Next Chapter for Green Building reports on a range of factors – from air quality and lighting, to views of nature and interior layout – can affect the health, satisfaction and job performance of office workers. Understanding the link between workers and their workplace helps to drive the business case for higher quality, healthy and greener buildings, valued by investors, developers and tenants alike. With salaries and benefits typically responsible for 90 percent of an organization's expenditure, any higher construction or occupation costs are far outweighed by even small improvements in staff performance.


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Mike Cass to Teach at MN Real Estate Seminar
Jacobson Elected VP of Minnesota Association of City Attorneys
Swenson Lervick attorney Tom Jacobson was elected as 2nd Vice President of the Minnesota Association of City Attorneys at the group's annual meeting held February 7-8 in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Jacobson to Chair Legal Specialist Certification Committee
Swenson Lervick attorney Tom Jacobson has been named Chair of the Criminal Law Committee of the Minnesota Board of Legal Certification.
Donahue Performs in ND
Lest you think that attorneys only pursue justice, here's a fun fact - Swenson Lervick attorney Greg Donahue is a very accomplished violinist. Not only is he a violinist with and President of the Board of directors for the Central Lakes Symphony Orchestra, but he also recently performed in a Hankinson, ND dinner theatre performance of In Pursuit of a Dream.
Swenson Lervick Welcomes Katelyn Steffel Spangrud to Legal Team
The Swenson Lervick Law Firm is excited to announce that attorney Katelyn Steffel Spangrud has joined our legal team.
Serving up Smiles
Swenson Lervick attorney Greg Donahue (left) and Adam Becker of Viking Bank helped serve pork chops at the Alexandria Rotary Club's Pork and Corn Jubilee August 15 at the Alexandria Fire Department.
Tom Jacobson and Mike Cass Selected to Super Lawyers Lists
Tom Jacobson has been selected to the 2018 Minnesota Employment and Labor Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the Super Lawyers' research team to receive this honor. This is the third time Jacobson has made this list. Certified by the Minnesota State Bar Association as a Labor and Employment Law Specialist, Jacobson is a shareholder at Swenson Lervick.
Swenson Lervick Helps Bring MN Supreme Court to Alexandria
Swenson Lervick is happy to have helped bring the Minnesota Supreme Court to Alexandria. The Court was in town on October 4 and 5 as a part of its outreach program designed to not only give students a close look at how the Court works but also to give them a chance to observe the oral arguments in a real case (State of Minnesota v. Heinonen).
Swenson Lervick Congratulates Gretchen Tvrdik on her Retirement!
The Swenson Lervick Law Firm toasts Gretchen Tvrdik upon her retirement! Gretchen started with the firm in February, 1976 as legal assistant to attorneys John Lervick and Gary Syverson. She later worked as a real estate assistant, and in 1989 she became the firm's office manager, a position she held ever since.
Tom Jacobson Appointed to Board of Legal Certification
The Minnesota Supreme Court has appointed Swenson Lervick attorney Tom Jacobson to serve on the Minnesota Board of Legal Certification. The board's primary responsibility is to regulate the process through which attorneys are permitted to represent themselves as specialists in Minnesota.


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The year 2014 was when consumers came to fear the data breach for real. According to the Identity Theft Research Center, there were 761 breaches in 2014 affecting more than 83 million accounts. Big names like Sony, JP Morgan Chase, the US Postal Service, Target, Home Depot and, most recently, Chic Fil A are some of the notables that proved that even companies with deep IT pockets are at risk.
If you fear for your money, you're not alone. According to the ISACA IT Risk/Reward Barometer, 94% of consumers have read about or heard of data breaches and 61% say they have a take-charge attitude rather than waiting for something to happen. (See 7 Ways To Protect Against Credit Card Hacks and Credit Card Breach: How To Stay Safe.)
But what does "taking charge" mean? Each additional company that has your payment information puts you more at risk. If you enjoy the convenience of a PayPal account – using it makes it quicker to handle online purchases and other payments, such as charitable donations – are you increasing the chance that your information could be stolen?
How safe is PayPal? Should you have a PayPal account or should you pay for all online purchases with a credit card and not add one more company to your list?
The PayPal Pros
According to PayPal your data is safe. (But who wouldn't say that?) PayPal states that your information is encrypted with the highest level commercially available. Its servers check your browser to make sure it employs the latest encryption technology and your data is stored on servers that aren't directly connected to the Internet.
Slava Gomzin, author of "Hacking Point of Sale: Payment Application Secrets, Threats, and Solutions," supports their contention. "If you have a choice on the Web, always select PayPal," Gomzin says.
PayPal even pays hackers if they find vulnerabilities in its systems. According to Dean Turner, director of security intelligence at PayPal, "If you care about the product [and] you care about your customers, you care about your customers' security – this is what you have to do."
What About Credit Cards?
Credit cards aren't as straightforward. Cybersecurity advocates routinely blast the U.S. credit card industry for failing to phase in chip cards. Already used in European countries and many others, these cards offer an added layer of security not present in the United States. The lack of these technologies is a major reason the United States is such a big target for cyber thieves, according Gomzin. (For more, read What You Need To Know About EMV Credit Cards.)
Nearly all credit cards are issued by banks – an industry more guarded and resistant to some of the cybersecurity practices that PayPal employs. According to the Financial Services Roundtable, the banking industry does not pay hackers to alert them to security flaws, for example. This year's successful attack on JP Morgan Chase is proof that the banking industry is vulnerable despite their large teams of security experts.
PayPal, however, is the Holy Grail for hackers. Just because the company hasn't been hacked doesn't mean that it won't be. Hackers are constantly trying to break in to PayPal's servers.
Protect Yourself
The best and brightest team of cybersecurity experts can only do so much. The rest is in the hands of the consumer. One study found that only 45% of consumers changed their password this year, and the most popular passwords are still "password" and "123456." If your password is easy to remember, it's probably easy to hack. It's time to change it.
You have to check your bank and credit card statements as often as possible, don't use the same password for everything, and don't click on any link in an email, even if it looks legit. Instead, go to the company's website yourself or call.
The Bottom Line
Should you use PayPal or your credit card? Because many of the data breaches came from physically swiping the card, and because PayPal gets high marks for its security practices, experts advise using PayPal when possible. However, don't link it to your checking account. Instead, link to a credit card so you get your credit card's fraud protections in addition to PayPal's.


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The Legend of the Firewalker gets an early release!! The first book in this series is now on sale exclusively through Amazon as a paperback ($8.99) and as an eBook ($0.99).
The official release date is still October 31, 2013 and the Release Day Blog Party/Giveaway for that day is still scheduled. Also, the October 02, 2013 Goodreads giveaway is well underway so enter now for a chance to win an autographed copy of the first book.
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Good Morning all!
Those of you who know me personally know that I have a severe love for for my blog. It isn't just something I do to pass the time, it is a tool to help me explore and celebrate my passion in food. Long before A Boston Food Diary began I was obsessed with food- and remember many a times bringing elaborate dishes to Saturday night parties where food wasn't perhaps the main attraction. I did this because my brain never stops thinking about food, and A Boston Food Diary has been a great outlet for that.
Over the weekend I posted an entry titled Ready, Set, BLOG! This entry is part of a contest sponsored by FoodBuzz (whose ads you see on the site) for which I am a featured publisher. The contest is to name the next Food Blog Star, and with the winning prizes in fame and fortune (seriously- top prize is $10,000). If you have a few moments today- would you please vote for me? http://www.foodbuzz.com/project_food_blog/challenges/1/view/341
Thank you all so much!!!
Monday, September 20, 2010
Project Food Blog- Please Vote For Me!
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Hey Fiona,
Just wanted to let you know that all three members of the Tieuli family have enthusiastically casted our votes for you! Good Luck!
- September 21, 2010 at 12:45 PM
- Boston Food Diary said...
You three make me SO happy! Thank you 1,000,000 times over :-) I really REALLY appreciate it!
- September 21, 2010 at 12:47 PM
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Franklin D. Roosevelt had it, as did John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Barack Obama has it too—charisma, that rare and elusive quality that enables a leader to excite and motivate voters and capture the popular imagination.
A charismatic leader is someone who sways followers with a dynamic, magnetic personality, usually through inspiring speeches. Martin Luther King, Jr, is a great example of a charismatic leader. One way to explain charismatic leadership is to contrast it with thought leadership. The former is the triumph of style over substance while the latter is just the opposite. For thought leadership, substance or content is king! People follow charismatic leaders almost regardless of the content of their message while thought leaders have to provide hard evidence (solid content) to influence people.
In his unfinished treatise "Economy and Society", German sociologist Max Weber defined charisma as "a certain quality in an individual personality by virtue of which he is set apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities."
Weber made a distinction between charismatic authority, which is purely personal, and legal (or rational) authority, which is derived from position, and also traditional authority, typically based on lineage. What makes charismatic authority so rare, and so potent, was that it -unlike the other two- entails an emotional element. In charismatic leadership followers think of their leaders as being endowed with qualities so special that they deserve devotion and even blind faith.
Charisma was one of the most discussed aspects of Obama's presidential campaign, in fact, has been his ability to create a sort of political rapture in his followers, especially young people. Obama is playing a role of regenerative healer, he says: we are hurting, Our schools are crumbling, There are lines in the emergency rooms of the hospitals, millions of Americans are struggling with life's difficulties such as high gas bills and insufficient health insurance. The solution, he says, lies in a political reformation. Unless we "begin the process of changing politics and our civic life, we will bequeath to our children a weaker and more fractured America than the one we inherited".
On that ground, Obama's mantra was "Change we can believe in", Obama's charismatic doctrine begins in belief of radical change, he believes in the possibility of a transformative politics to heal America's pain and change American lives, radically and for the better, he says: we can replace a politics that breeds division, conflict, and cynicism with a politics that fosters unity and peace. His charisma is grounded in empathy and sympathetic power rather than authority, confessional candor rather than muscular strength.
The question that remains to be answered is whether president Obama is really capable of translating his promises into reality? and if the answer is yes, then to what extent he can realize the elusive change, not only for Americans but for all people around the world who have been inspired by Obama's charismatic qualities? Only time can give us answers.


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Kyro posted a topic in Website BugsHey! Just like the title says.
What do you feel about Naica?
Kyro replied to MALWARE's topic in General DiscussionReally interested in it, but we will see when the time comes.
Kohs, but Naica won't be p2w. It will have a store though, but with items that don't provide any advantage in stats, so you don't have to worry about p2w stuff here.
Well, good that you asked the question then, I guess. Although you could just enter the Discord server for a while and ask it + get a bit more information about the game since probably every information about it is probably posted there. Also, I don't know what languages you meant considering just your question, so instead of saying what I did wrong you could just precise it, so I could apologize for my mistake and give you the information I know (wrong category to ask such questions tho!) Going back to your question and my answer: We don't know about any other language (besides 4 main ones) that are going to be in the game or the community for now, but if any language will be going to be added to the game or community we will be informed about it! You can, of course, wait for the staff's answer if you want to. Got a little bit irritated here, but have a great day!
Heyo! Like I said in the title - when you enter the same e-mail in the registration you get no information if it was entered before. I checked it on PC and Android. The problem occurs on both and it's probably the website's error. Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/Y1RWNzJ Have a great day! ~Kyro
I'm against it. If I would like to recommend the game to someone - I would do it without a referral system. Also, I would like every player to be equal with each other when it comes to taking advantage over others.
[Design][Gameplay] Monster Rank
Kyro replied to Phanta's topic in SuggestionsSounds quite good to me!
Record and Stream Naica
Kyro replied to Push's topic in General DiscussionYou will be told about it before a playtest. Here is a quote from information for the playtest that happened October 17 (it's also the same for the playtest that happened December 7): "→ You can live stream or record video from the test but you'll have to indicate that this currently a Pre-Alpha/Work In Progress version (release of the Alpha early 2019) → You can indicate Naïca as your streamed game on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Naïca" As you can see you can stream or record gameplay from the game, but you have to indicate the game's current state.
Worst, are you serious right now?
How did you find Naïca?
Kyro replied to Worst's topic in General DiscussionFB!
What will be your nickname in Naïca?
Kyro replied to MALWARE's topic in General DiscussionKyro or KyroKyro.
I can help you with translation into Russian
Kyro replied to MALWARE's topic in Localization/TranslationThey will probably refuse your offer for now at least since for, as far as I know, Russian language isn't going to be implemented to the game any time soon, but wait for the answer.
It was 9000 ;-; How could you forget that?! >.>
[Announcement] We are 100 000: thank you!
Kyro replied to ZeddOTak's topic in Announcements & UpdatesAyeeeee!
I'm just waiting because I don't want myself to be disappointed because I was hyped too much.