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I'm kind of a moocher. If I notice that someone is getting rid of something I run over to check it out like a greedy vulture approaches dead meat. Sometimes, it's worth the trouble – like in the case of my new library chair.
I assumed it would be smelly or broken, since someone was trying to get rid of it, but it's in very good condition. When I was inspecting it, someone came by and told me that it would look good next to a fireplace in a library. I told him I had the same idea. (Then I pulled out my knife and told him to get back and find his own chair; after a brief standoff he moved away. The world of furniture scavenging is very cut throat.)
The new chair fits in with my old misfit chair. When I was growing up my family had a wonderful red chair, and I always wanted to take it with me when I moved away. Little did I know that they really didn't care; taking it was not exactly like pulling teeth.
Anyway, the new chair is great. What have you ever gotten for free?


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Uber starts taking cannabis orders in Canada
Uber is riding high in Canada, announcing Monday it was starting to take orders for recreational cannabis—along with munchies—through its Eats service.
But for now, customers will have to go pick up their orders at retailer Tokyo Smoke. And the service is only available in Ontario province.
The ride-hailing giant said in a statement it had signed an exclusive partnership with Tokyo Smoke allowing customers to place orders for cannabis and accessories directly in its app.
After a few clicks and an ID check to ensure they are of legal age to buy pot, customers are directed to their closest Tokyo Smoke store for pickup.
"All orders will be fulfilled within an hour of the order being placed, so consumers are able to receive their items quickly," Uber said, describing the deal as "a global first for a delivery network company."
Tokyo Smoke, which is owned by Canopy Growth, operates 50 stores in Ontario, with plans for six more soon.
The Ontario government's online portal for cannabis purchases already offers courier deliveries right to peoples' doors within a few days, or pick-up at Canada Post outlets.
Several cannabis storefronts in the province also offer same-day local deliveries.
Canada in 2018 became the first major economy to legalize recreational cannabis.
According to the latest government data, almost 17 percent of Canadians, or 5.1 million people, reported in 2020 having used cannabis, up from 15 percent prior to legalization.


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We Wrote the Book on Connectors: the Snizz on Mustache Rock
5 Minutes with The Snizz
Q&A with We Wrote the Book on Connectors
Seattle band We Wrote the Book on Connectors make absurd, amusing rock and roll music. They write songs about gothic dance parties, mustache bears, vagina bombs and vegetable clocks. For one hundred and eighteen dollars, they will write and record a song about the topic of your choice.
Such odd behavior clearly qualifies them as excellent candidates for "5 Minutes with the Snizz."
NadaMucho.com: How would you feel about Guantanamo Bay residents being required to listen to your albums? Would the reviews be positive?
We Wrote the Book on Connectors: Our music would have the desired effect. It would swirl inside evildoers' heads like an American flag ice cream truck tune that you can't get rid of. In the end the joke would be on the USA, though, as a core part of our songwriting method is to veil a myriad of maximum security escape scenarios in lyrics about arms and chairs.
NM: That hippo on The Backyardigans sure dances suggestively, don't ya think?
WE: Anthropomorphism in general gets our motor runnin'.
NM: If vampires can be sparkly, why can't they be out of shape?
WE: Actually, the two are intrinsically related, and not just with vampires. Nothing sparkly can be out of shape. NOTHING. So you should become a vampire just to try to beat the system, kids.
NM: Which one of your songs would make me look the coolest on Rock Band?
T: Whoa, no promises. Since there is no keyboard, you could mime that and be like: "What? There's no keyboard? What am I supposed to do? I wish EA Games would get their heads out of their asses… (drink, drink)."
NM: I have no feeling in my feet. There are the makings to a song there, right?
WE: Absolutely. A lot of the best material comes from pain, or the lack thereof.
NM: What comes to your mind when you hear the term "Hot Yoga?"
WE: Twister.
NM: Why doesn't anybody use keyboard guitars anymore?
WE: People do actually, but Google censors the results unless you are in Hong Kong. You're not in Hong Kong are you?
NM: No. Say, do you fear public toilets? I sure do. If so, how do you manage that on tour?
WE: Oh…my… god. That is exactly why we don't go on tour. That's the only reason. I can't believe you brought it up. Secret's out. We feel better.
NM: Did you know the original Green Lantern's one weakness was wood?
WE: That's crazy. Sounds like the M. Night Shyamalan version.
NM: How do you think one of these pretentious douchebags writing for Nada these days would describe your sound?
WE: Nerd Rock Blip Pop Poop Rap.
We Wrote the Book on Connectors play Grudge Rock, a Family Feud Style Rock n' Roll Game show, on Saturday, April 24 against At the Spine. The show is at the Crocodile.


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Have greatly enjoyed all this huge day, sauntering and seeing, steeping in the mountain influences, sketching, noting, pressing flowers, drinking ozone and Tamarack water. Found the white fragrant Washington lily, the finest of all the Sierra lilies. Its bulbs are buried in shaggy chaparral tangles, I suppose for safety from pawing bears; and its magnificent panicle sway and rock over the top of the rough snow-press bushes, while big, bold, blunt-nosed bees drone and mumble in its pollen bells. A lovely flower, worth going hungry and footsore endless miles to see. The whole world seems richer now that I have found this plant in so noble a landscape.
–John Muir page 103, My First Summer in the Sierra
(guess who is dreaming of spring?)
The single greatest harm done by the story our culture tells comes from the divisions it enforces within each of us. We are assured in a million ways that the sensational intelligence of the body is not really worth paying attention to. And we find, indeed, that the more unmindful we become of our bodies, the more they appear to be mindless. And so we are persuaded to separate from the body and live in the head, assured by a culture that passes off this pathological dissociation as completely normal, natural and unavoidable. Once we are caught in the prison of our craniums, we are unable to join the world–though our hearts yearn to do so. Instead of joining it, we think about it, and analyze it, and judge it. That's just how we are, and it's what we imagine the normal human state to be.
The description of 'normal' we have been raised on may be as hard to detect as a chameleon in a landscape, but it is always there exerting its influence–and its effect can be felt in a sense of frustration or lack in our lives as we try to live a story that is at odds with reality. When we attempt to recover peace in our lives, our efforts more often resemble anxiety management than any kind of real peace. Being estranged from our bodies, we feel victimized by them–and so when they hurt or fall sick, we feel fear or annoyance or betrayal; and when we exert them or look in the mirror, we may feel guilt or vanity or anger about the shape they are in. And though we accept the fact of our essential solitude, we cannot bear the emptiness of our own company. To alleviate it, we surround ourselves with distractions: chat rooms, telephones, computer games, shopping, Web browsing, Twittering, and of course popular entertainment that wears meaning on its sleeve as an assurance to us all. We generally have neither the time nor the attention span for art that draws us into the unnamable ambiguities of life itself. When we try to improve our situation, we look about for answers that will help us connect and feel better about ourselves–yet none of the self-help prescriptions seems to work for very long. Our ability to escape that divided state is hampered by our difficulty in understanding that what holds us back are the very things we accept as the normal givens of the world.
As we relate to the body, so we relate to the world.
Philip Shepherd (excerpted from New Self, New World, Recovering our Senses in the Twenty-first Century)
"We were gone almost a month and everything was sensual. Everything was erotic. It's the gift of travel, where everything is infused with meaning, compressed, so you begin to see the golden strand that weaves life together. You are in a constant state of awe." ~Terry Tempest Williams
see you when I return. if you live in the south of spain maybe i will see you.
"When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn." ~Bruno Munari
I am officially obsessed with designer/illustrator Bruno Munari. I must get this book.
"To grow is to go beyond what you are today.
stand up as yourself.
do not imitate.
Do not pretend to have achieved your goal, and do not try to cut corners.
Just try to grow."
~Svami Prajnanpad
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work." ~May Oliver
"I want to know a lot of things I don't already know -especially as the things I do know, if written down, do not have the permanence I want in my mind." ~Richard Tuttle (sculpture collage artist)
things i am excited about…
this show.
this film on dvd.
this book.
this artist. (link via tania.)
this illustrator.
this school.
this boy, (photo by andrea scher)
(*i was going to trash this collage last night but today i woke up and found that i quite like it. what a difference a few hours can make.)
you cannot walk on the floor in my studio without stepping on collage or glue. my feet are covered in it.


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Manly Man!
This was done for Tim Merks manly man competition. Tim is currently working on creating a short animated film and this drawing is based on his main character; Simon.
This was all done in Flash while I had some free time at work. Today is my last day at Studio Moshi (animation has ended for this project) and looking forward to the after party and whatnot. The project was tons of fun to work on and looking forward to seeing it on the big screen.
Next week I start freelancing on a couple of gigs and discussing another project with an old client. Very pleased that the timing has worked out nicely. I may be busy until Christmas! Wheeeeee!


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Chelsea Opera announces for June 2015:
music by Gary S. Fagin
libretto by Terry Quinn
June 21, 2015 - 2:00pm
SYNOPSIS - see below
Interviews with Margaret A. Hogan
former editor of the Adams Papers Massachusetts Historical Society and co-editor of My Dearest Friend
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Read the libretto
Channeling John and Abigail - the genesis of A Distant Love by Terry Quinn
Two chamber operas for which he wrote the librettos have received seven productions, including world premiere performances at the 92nd Street Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall in New York City (Hester Prynne at Death, with music by Stephen Paulus), and The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (John Adams in Amsterdam: A Song for Abigail, with music by Gary S. Fagin). A dramatic song cycle, titled A Distant Love: Songs of John and Abigail Adams, for which he wrote the libretto (score by Gary S. Fagin), had a three-performance world premiere at the Brooklyn Historical Society in the fall of 2009. Mr. Quinn is collaborating with composer Stephen Paulus on a full-length opera titled The Birthmark. He is also completing the librettos for a dramatic song cycle, Legendary Deaths, and a one-act opera, Oscar / Sarah / Salome, as well as a music theater work titled Georgette's Last Rehearsal, for which he is writing the playscript, lyrics and score.
GARY S. FAGIN has conducted, composed, orchestrated and arranged music for symphony orchestras across the country, ballet, Broadway and Off-Broadway, Public Radio, regional and repertory theaters and university and conservatory orchestras.
Mr. Fagin is Founder and Music Director of New York City's Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra and Music Director of the Bucks County (PA) Symphony Orchestra. He conducts the New Jersey Ballet's annual production of The Nutcracker and has appeared as conductor with numerous regional orchestras.
Mr. Fagin served as Musical Director and Conductor for seven years at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven and for three seasons at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge. His many theater conducting credits include The Three Penny Opera with Sting on Broadway and Stephen Paulus's Hester Prynne at Death at New York City's 92 nd Street Y. He composed, orchestrated, and conducted the music for Charlotte: Life? Or Theater?, a music theater work based on the life and work of artist Charlotte Salomon; his Dramatic Song Cycle, John Adams in Amsterdam: A Song for Abigail, with libretto by Terry Quinn, received its world premiere performance at The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam before Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands in April, 2005.
In January 2010, his And Bold To Fall Withal, Henry Hudson in the New World, composed to celebrate the 400 th anniversary of Henry Hudson's sail into New York harbor, was given its world premiere performance with tenor Jason Danieley and the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra at New York City's World Financial Center Winter Garden. In January 2011, a suite from Mr. Fagin's music theater work-in-progress, Robert Moses Astride New York, received its premiere performance at the World Financial Center Winter Garden, with the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra and tenor Rinde Eckert singing the title role.
In addition to his compositions for orchestra and music theater, Mr. Fagin has composed works for chamber ensembles, piano and voice and solo instruments. He studied composition with George Crumb and George Rochberg at The University of Pennsylvania; violoncello with Orlando Cole of The Curtis Quartet; and conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller at The Yale School of Music, where he received the first Doctorate Degree in Conducting ever awarded by Yale.
Mr. Fagin was Assistant Professor and Conductor at The University of Wisconsin-Madison and later Hofstra University. He has taught at Yale University, The Juilliard School, The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and New York University. He is Founder and Director of The New York Conducting Studio; his students conduct major and regional orchestras, on Broadway, and attend America's most prestigious music conservatories.
For four seasons Mr. Fagin's arrangements were broadcast weekly on Garrison Keillor's PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION on American Public Radio. He has orchestrated music for the Boston Pops, Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, Sandy Duncan, Tom Chapin and for recordings by Rob Fisher & The Coffee Club Orchestra and The Manhattan Rhythm Kings. Mr. Fagin's edition of Kurt Weill's HAPPY END is published by European American Music. His transcriptions of works by Duke Ellington are available through The Smithsonian Jazz Anthology.
Margaret A. Hogan is the former managing editor of the Adams Papers editorial project at the Massachusetts Historical Society. She was the lead editor for volumes 7�?1 of the Adams Family Correspondence series, and with her colleague C. James Taylor, coedited My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007). Before that she held editorial positions with the Ratification of the Constitution documentary editing project, Oxford University Press, and the Greenwood Publishing Group. She trained in history at Swarthmore College and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, specializing in American religious and women's history. Originally from Connecticut and following a lengthy detour in Wisconsin, she now resides in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Massachusetts, where she works as an independent editorial consultant.
Joining us on Saturday for a pre-matinee lecture will be Margaret A. Hogan, former editor of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society and co-editor of My Dearest Friend. Ms. Hogan's presentation will note:
Always articulate and candid, John and Abigail used letters to cement their relationship, debate literature and ideas, report news, raise their children, maintain their household, and engage in the political debates of their day. While famous for their partnership, the best-documented periods of the Adamses�?lives are, ironically, when the two were separated. Their misfortune is our good fortune, allowing us to trace the development of their relationship and their important role in the American Revolution and the formation of a new nation.
For more information on the Adams family and their letters, visit the Massachusetts Historical Society - Adams Family Papers
The portion of A Distant Love titled "John Adams in Amsterdam: A Song for Abigail�?was commissioned as a separate work, in 2004, by the John Adams Institute. It received its premiere performance at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw on April 13, 2005, with Queen Beatrice of the Netherlands in attendance. In that production, the role of John Adams was created by baritone Richard Lalli. Two subsequent productions were mounted at St. Francis College's Maroney Theater in Brooklyn Heights (2006), and at the Brooklyn Historical Society (2007).
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Here's the scoop, Sally "f-ing" loves yoga! She is a yoga teacher, yoga teacher trainer and life time student of yoga. Sally has been teaching over a decade and has studied with various yoga superstars over the years to create warm vinyasa classes that will bring strength, sweat and smiles all with a healthy dose of humor.
Sally recently returned from two Norway trips where she led a month long Teacher Training class. She loves to travel and to discover a yoga community in every little corner of the globe. We are all connected, we are all one.
Om Shanti and Peace Out!


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The Washington Redskins spending big money in free agency is a rite of Spring that rivals Opening Day or any basketball tournament. This year, Spring arrived a little later than usual.
Redskins fans will wake up Wednesday to the news that DeSean Jackson has agreed to terms, according to NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport. After one season stuck in salary-cap jail, owner Dan Snyder and general manager Bruce Allen are freely spending again.
The team has re-signed five players since February, and handed Brian Orakpo a pricey franchise tag. The 'Skins have signed 12 free agents from other squads, including a deal that awarded defensive tackle Jason Hatcher $10.5 million in 2014. But Jackson's deal is the move that will make the biggest impact.
No one can say that Robert Griffin III lacks weapons now. In Pierre Garcon and Jackson, the Redskins might have the fastest starting wide receiver duo in the league. (And the best Redskins tandem since Gary Clark and Art Monk.) We'd pick a few current pairs ahead of them overall (Chicago and Atlanta, to start), but no group has more big-play ability. New Redskins coach Jay Gruden is used to coaching a quarterback that can't deliver the ball deep. Griffin has a cannon, and will have a hard time overthrowing this group. And he knows it.
The Redskins also signed underrated slot receiver Andre Roberts from Arizona, who is one of the fastest inside route runners in football. Tight end Jordan Reed is basically a fast wide receiver. Left tackle Trent Williams is one of the most athletic players at his position, and running back Alfred Morris is another Pro Bowler. Throw in Griffin's running ability, and the Redskins have the makings of a fast-break offense that Jackson's old coach Chip Kelly would be proud of.
The pieces are in place, and they are mostly young pieces. As usual, the Redskins are going for it. It's on Gruden and Griffin to convert this annual offseason excitement into a more elusive autumn tradition: winning.
In the latest edition of the "Around The League Podcast" the guys do the news, open the mailbag and play "Win Wess' Toaster."


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Centre News Digest for June 9, 2021
Happy Wednesday, Centre County! Today's news is brought to you by Emily Treacy! Be sure to check us out on Twitter and Instagram.
Atlantic Broadband
Atlantic Broadband looks to expand internet and cell service in Penn Valley to help locals who were left without broadband internet during the pandemic. Story by Bret Pallotto for The Centre Daily Times.
Fiber technology to bring internet, TV and phone options to Penns Valley homes, businesses
"Adaptive Reuse Study"
Centre County Government is conducting an "Adaptive Reuse Study" for a former Nursing home in Bellefonte that is now vacant, looking to repurpose the property. Story by Gary Sinderson for WJAC.
Future options being studied for former Centre Crest site
Art La Carte
TODAY Art La Carte in Bellefonte is offering classes for those who are fully vaccinated, Classes will be offered through June Beginning today. Story from Bellefonte.com .
Art a la Carte~Capture the Skies in Pastels with Susan Nicholas Gephart. June 9 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Firework Show
This July 4th, State College Spikes will be hosting a firework show on their field after their 5pm game as Centre County tries to shift back into in-person events safely. Story by Geoff Rushton for Statecollegecom.
4th Fest Partnering with State College Spikes for Fireworks Show


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Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) was barred by a federal judge from using a court order blocking U.S. sales of Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer as evidence in a patent-infringement trial set to start July 30 in San Jose, California.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose ruled her order last month barring sales of the Tab is of "limited value" in the upcoming trial, and the "prejudicial effect to Samsung would greatly outweigh any relevance for the jury," according to a July 19 ruling made public yesterday.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday denied Samsung's request to lift a ban on sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer pending appeal. Koh also issued a June 29 ruling blocking U.S. sales of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus smartphone.
"Admitting these rulings into evidence would likely confuse the issues and waste time because it would likely devolve into a litigation within a litigation," Koh wrote in her ruling.
Koh's order stems from pretrial arguments in the case in which Suwon, South Korea-based Samsung and Cupertino, California-based Apple, the world's two biggest makers of high- end phones, have accused each other of copying designs and technology for mobile devices.
The companies are fighting patent battles on four continents to retain their dominance in the $219 billion global smartphone market.


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Since its inception, Kovair has achieved a deep understanding of users in terms of what they need, what they value and their feedback on the limitations of our products.
Kovair also believes that User interface design (UI) is directly related to user experience (UX), and it is important to have both of them right! The release of Kovair ALM 10.5 facilitates the ALM end-users with real-time access to information when and where they need. Kovair ALM 10.5 features a touch-friendly UI that is optimized for business users. This revamped user interface will help users retrieve information faster and complete the tasks quicker and more efficiently. The primary focus of the new UI is to ensure simple and quick access to content that ALM users are utilizing frequently and thus make that access more intuitive and minimize the clicks required.
Achieving the Work Faster
Better user experience leads to productivity improvements. When you consider increased productivity over the number of users and hours each user is active, the financial impact is readily apparent and substantial. Following are the areas where usage has been improved in Release 10.5:
Color Scheme
It has been observed that there is a significant impact on user behavior and emotions, depending on the application color scheme. With the new Kovair ALM 10.5, the entire application has been themed with a sober and pleasing color scheme.
Menu Navigation
Easy Navigation is a key aspect of an application in terms of user experience. Effective designing of the menu can facilitate users to navigate across desired interfaces smoothly. The current ALM interface is an icon-driven nested list where similar items are clubbed together in a bundled menu. Moreover, the menu is fully collapsible to provide end-users with the maximum work area.
View Attachments / Comments
The new interface facilitates viewing of attachments and comments from an attribute, directly in a list with just a single click. ALM users can perform actions like viewing comments or downloading attachments from a single interface.
View Items through a Preview Window
With the proper configuration in place, the system allows viewing the item details through a sleek preview window, without the need of going into forms. Moreover, the preview provides navigation of attachments and comments.
Upload Multiple Attachments
Uploading attachments for items is now made super easy – the application allows users to drag and drop one or multiple files from the local system.
One-Click Access to User's Own Setting
Every valid ALM User can check their settings like passwords and preferences from the application through a one-click interface.
Completion of Task
Kovair ALM supports task-based workflow. Task-based workflow is what the wording implies – a set of sequential steps or parallel tasks assigned to ALM Users. Now, completion of Tasks actually leads to the completion of the workflow. The new interface allows closure of tasks from the list directly.
Zero Click Notification
There are always some key notifications that are required to notify to the user, regarding the recent transactions. Currently, the new interface allows users to get information with zero interaction. The notification will be visible post-operation and will disappear automatically.
Common Context menu as Icon
For all the list interfaces, the common context operations now also appear as icons in a sleek menu thus facilitating one-click operation.
The Effective UI design contributes to a positive user experience, which is a must in the current competitive application world. The effort to provide an intuitive interface may be a brand factor differentiator. With all the enhancements that are done – it will ultimately attract new happy and satisfied users and consequently increase the usage of ALM tools.


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All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
Joshua 1:8
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Psalm 119:105
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 119:11
I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
2 Timothy 2:15
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
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We study the word of God, so we can know Him. "The people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits." Daniel 11:32
Todd White is a man who is serious about being like Jesus. He has a clear understanding of the gospel that prompts him to step out boldly, and do the works of Jesus. He has a multitude of videos available online that reveals his amazing testimony, and depicts his works as an ambassador of Christ.
He has studied the word diligently, and developed an intimate relationship with God; the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Now he preaches the gospel throughout the world, with signs and wonders following. The Apostle Paul stated, "My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God." (1 Corinthians 2:4-5). The power of God is available to all who will develop and maintain an intimate relationship with God through His word. Learn the word! Live the word! Love the word!
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text: Sep 10, 2015 Mosaik Solutions Empowers IoT Players with New In-Building Wireless Network Performance Testing Capability Signal Insights enables mobile operators, system integrators, venue owners and M2M players to better manage indoor cellular and Wi-Fi user experiences LAS VEGAS – September 9, 2015 – CTIA Super Mobility Booth #2422 – Mosaik Solutions, a leader in telecom business intelligence and visualization services, today announces the new Indoor Mode for Signal Insights. Launched at Super Mobility Week 2014, Signal Insights is the premier software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that analyzes the signal and throughput quality of cellular and Wi-Fi networks. The Indoor Mode is easy to use and scalable for companies that depend on quality cellular and/or Wi-Fi indoor connectivity for their guests, employees, customers or M2M services. These companies can now test the network performance across multiple venues, floors and buildings in minutes. "Poor indoor network connections and capacity problems cripple the end-user experience," said Bryan Darr, president and CEO, Mosaik Solutions. "With our latest in-building testing capabilities, companies can efficiently understand indoor dynamics that are hindering their ability to deliver the best possible network experience." The current issue with many testing solutions is an inability to accurately locate the device indoors. Signal Insights' Indoor Mode bypasses the need for GPS to determine the device's location by incorporating two unique features. First, a user may upload an image of a floor plan or photograph in the Android application. Second, the Indoor Mode includes an easy-to-use TAP-TEST-GO feature where users can "tap" a specific point on the floor plan or image to initiate a "test" and then "go" to the next location. Network performance measurements include signal strength, downlink speed, latency and other signal and throughput quality metrics on any current consumer Android device. The results are quickly visualized and analyzed using the Signal Insights online dashboard. With the business intelligence collected from the app and retrieved in the dashboard, companies can develop tactics for managing customer expectations and improving customer experience. To learn more about Signal Insights, visit the Mosaik Solutions booth (#2422) at CTIA Super Mobility 2015. Additionally, Todd Cotts, director of product management at Mosaik Solutions, will host a free webinar, sponsored by Mobility Development Group, titled "More Than a Network…It's an Experience" on September 16, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. CST. Mosaik encourages Mobile Network Operators wishing to learn how Signal Insights can help improve customer experiences to join the event. For more information and to register for the webinar visit www.mosaik.com/events. About Mosaik Solutions Mosaik Solutions builds world-class desktop and mobile applications backed by comprehensive network intelligence. It maintains the most in-depth network coverage and infrastructure database in the world, enabling clients to understand complex market dynamics, improve customer experiences with network performance solutions and track where competitors threaten their best customers. As an agile team of researchers, creatives and mapping experts, Mosaik develops intelligence solutions that help executives, marketers, engineers and analysts improve marketing and retention programs, competitive network planning and site acquisition efforts. To learn more about Mosaik Solutions, visit www.mosaik.com. Members in the News


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In an effort to optimize the manufacture of parts, we have designed Clonebots - a collection of devices and strains that aid in the synthesis and analysis of new parts. Building engineered biological systems requires cumbersome laboratory protocols that provide a significant impediment to the advancement of our field. However, there are some unit operations that can be cost effectively automated at scale in the laboratory such as small volume liquid transfers, fluorescence measurements, and heating/cooling steps. If we can reduce all synthesis and analysis methodology to these simple operations, it will be readily possible to automate all aspects of synthetic biology research - a cost-effective, BioCAD-friendly approach to large-scale projects. The Clonebots project is an effort to solve these basic technical problems of synthetic biology with the substrate of our own medium - a live cell. We initiated the construction of several genetic devices for protein purification and standard assembly. At the jamboree we will focus on two successfully constructed devices designed to automate sythetic biology: a genetic self-lysis device and a Gateway cloning device.
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From the age of 34 until nearly 40 I wore a badge and carried a gun. I worked as a deputy sheriff for the county of Los Angeles. I worked in the courts, the jail and drove around in a black and white police car. I was involved in pursuits, chased people with guns and patrolled the streets in Compton during the Rodney King riots. To become a deputy sheriff involved intense trainingwe were trained in self-defense, shooting handguns and shotguns, the use of pepper spray, Tasers, batons, even flashlights, but the most powerful tool I had at my disposal was my words. The sad thing is we were not adequately trained to use our words.
Fortunately for me I was a Christian who had spent many hours meditating and imperfectly living out the truths about words found in the book of Proverbs (see previous Musing for a listing of many of those verses). In this Musing I want to share with you the truth about words that proved to be my most powerful and reliable tool. The truth is found is Proverbs 15:1: A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
The first thing that strikes me in this passage is the imbalance of this statement. On one side of the scale we have an answer (which oftentimes may be quite lengthy) and then on the other side we have a single word! One word has the ability to stir the coals of anger so that it blazes forth causing untold destruction, escalating an interaction. I have witnessed the power of a single word to incite emotional reaction, even physical and deadly exchanges. I imagine that you can think of a number of such words that if spoken in our day and age would ignite a strong reaction in many. This truth does not only apply to face-to-face encounters but also to the exchanges on social media.
It is time to begin to own the destructive power of a harsh (i.e. difficult to endure, hugely critical, vindictive, hurtful) word. This involves not only giving our attention to our choice of words but also to the motive/goals of the word(s) we choose. In some instances the same word can be harsh or not harshmuch of it has to do with the why, the who and the circumstances of the interaction Thus it is helpful to know our self (reasons, motives, goals behind this exchange) and to know, as we are able, the person we are interacting witheven in a general sense that they are one created in the image of God and worthy of our love and patience.
The second thing that strikes me is that the first portion of the verse indicates that this is an already volatile situationwrath is being manifested. The person is coming into a difficult and charged situation, for wrath denotes great anger, often combined with a desire for vengeance. The turning away of wrath is no small feat but is possible through a gentle answer. The power to respond in gentleness flows from a trust of God and dependence on God, an internalized disposition of grace filled gentleness by the one giving the answer. The words must flow out of an inner settled-ness that does not get caught up in or derailed by the wrath, the verbal attacks that are coming their way. A gentle answer serves to deescalate a situation while a harsh word can stir the coals of anger within another.
This verse serves as a sobering reminder of the power of our words and the ability we bring into encounters with others to bring calm and defuse situations, or detonate them. The choice is yours.
Which is easier for you:
1) Confronting a volatile situation with gentleness? What can you point to in your life that would support your answer? Why is this one easier for you?
2) The ability to interact in a controlled way with another so that anger is not stirred up? What can you point to in your life that would support you answer? Why is this one easier for you?
Our ability to respond in these ways that defuse situations and bring the possibility of peace is a byproduct of walking with God, trusting God, owning that God is wise, powerful, loving and that nothing can separate us from Gods love. When we are firmly planted in the truth of who God is and who we arethe beloved of Godwe have the ability to be people of peace, full of grace and truth.


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Visual Leaders is available for purchase in English at Grove Tools, Inc or Amazon.
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In addition to English, translations of Visual Leaders are available for purchase in Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Visual Leaders by David Sibbet (Wiley, 2012) shows how leaders and managers can take full advantage of the visualization revolution. It explores seven essential tools that can vastly improve understanding and engagement across your organization: mental models, visual meetings, graphic templates, decision theaters, roadmaps, Storymaps®, and virtual visuals. Case studies demonstrate how visual practitioners and leaders use applied design thinking to foster engagement and align entire organizations on new plans.
Now available in six languages, Visual Leaders is loaded with examples of visual communications and formats that support visioning and strategy formation, planning, implementation, and organization change.


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Damian Lillard traded from the Trail Blazers to the Bucks in 3-team deal
FILE - Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard (0) celebrates after a shot against the Orlando Magic during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, March 5, 2023, in Orlando, Fla. Lillard is being traded by Portland to play alongside Giannis Antetokounmpo in Milwaukee, a person with knowledge of the agreement said Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, a move that ends a three-month saga surrounding his wish to be moved elsewhere with hopes of winning an NBA title and ending his 11-year run with the Trail Blazers.(AP Photo/Kevin Kolczynski, File)
Tim Reynolds, The Associated Press
Published Wednesday, September 27, 2023 4:45PM EDT
Last Updated Wednesday, September 27, 2023 10:54PM EDT
Damian Lillard was once asked to pick a player he'd want as a teammate, and Giannis Antetokounmpo was his answer.
It's about to happen.
Lillard was traded by Portland to play alongside Antetokounmpo in Milwaukee on Wednesday, a deal that ends his 11-year run with the Trail Blazers and a three-month saga surrounding his wish to be moved elsewhere in hopes of winning an NBA title.
The seven-time All-Star - a player so elite that he was selected to the NBA's 75th anniversary team - goes from the Trail Blazers to the Bucks in a three-team deal that sends Jrue Holiday from the Bucks to Portland, Deandre Ayton from Phoenix to Portland and Jusuf Nurkic from the Blazers to the Suns. The trade was finalized Wednesday night after NBA attorneys, as is always the case with trades, reviewed the terms and approved the deal.
"The casuals won't be addressed but the trailblazers fans and city of Portland that I love truly will be … and they will be addressed truthfully. Stay tuned," Lillard wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. "Excited for my next chapter!"
It became known on July 1 that Lillard asked the Trail Blazers for a trade, which he was long speculated to be considering given his desire to play for a contender and Portland not seeming to have much of a chance with its current roster.
He wanted to go to Miami and made that clear. Portland decided not to accommodate that request, and instead, it's the Bucks who now have an incredibly strong 1-2 punch of Lillard and Antetokounmpo heading into the new season.
"Damian Lillard is an elite player in our league and someone we've long been fans of," Bucks general manager Jon Horst said. "These opportunities are rare and hard to measure and execute."
Lillard was asked on Twitter in May 2022 to pick one current player he'd want to help him reach the playoffs. He gave a one-word answer: "Giannis."
Also included in the deal: Nassir Little, Keon Johnson and Grayson Allen are headed to Phoenix, and Toumani Camara goes to Portland. Portland receives a 2029 first-round pick and the right to swap first round picks in 2028 and 2030 from Milwaukee, and trading Ayton means that Devin Booker is now the lone player from the Phoenix team that played Milwaukee in the 2021 NBA Finals still on the Suns' roster.
The trade continues the Bucks' dramatic offseason makeover in response to their surprising first-round playoff loss to Miami.
They followed that by firing coach Mike Budenholzer and replacing him with Adrian Griffin, who spent the last five seasons as a Toronto Raptors assistant. Now they've traded away the two-time All-Star Holiday to acquire Lillard, a seven-time All-NBA selection.
The acquisition of Lillard comes after Antetokounmpo, a two-time MVP, told The New York Times over the summer that he wanted to see how committed the Bucks are toward winning another championship before deciding whether to sign a long-term deal to stay in Milwaukee.
Antetokounmpo's contract runs through the 2024-25 season, with a player option for 2025-26.
Bringing Lillard to Milwaukee certainly suggests the commitment is there. It also keeps the high-scoring guard away from Miami, one of the Bucks' biggest Eastern Conference challengers.
"Yo, NBA, man, y'all need to look into the Bucks for tampering," Heat star Jimmy Butler said in a video posted to Instagram shortly after details of the trade became known. "Y'all do. I'm just gonna put that out there."
When Lillard's request was made public by the Blazers, general manager Joe Cronin said he would do "what's best for the team" while grudgingly seeking to facilitate his wishes. One of the assistants on Griffin's staff in Milwaukee is Terry Stotts, who was Lillard's head coach in Portland from 2012-21.
In the end, the deal with the Bucks is what Cronin and the Blazers deemed best for all involved. It took a massive package to make the trade happen, especially because Lillard is owed a ransom over the next four years. He will make almost $46 million this season and could make as much as $216 million over the next four years if he exercises his option for the 2026-27 season.
It will be a large, and possibly very worthwhile, investment because acquiring Lillard figures to make the Bucks even more of a title contender. He averaged 32.2 points this past season, has averaged at least 24 in each of the last eight seasons and has an offensive ignitability that few players in the NBA possess.
"I want to express my gratitude to Damian for 11 storied years with this franchise and for his loyalty to the Portland community," Cronin said. "From becoming the all-time leading points scorer in franchise history to his dedicated commitment to youth across Oregon and the entire Pacific Northwest, Damian is and will remain a titan and a true trailblazer to this city."
Lillard became just the seventh player in NBA history to score more than 70 points in a game when he finished with 71 against the Houston Rockets on Feb. 26. The other names on that list are Wilt Chamberlain (who did it five times), Kobe Bryant, David Thompson, David Robinson, Elgin Baylor and Donovan Mitchell.
All six of the other players on that list were between 23 and 28 when they had their games of 71 points or more; Lillard was 32, a clear indicator that - even after 11 NBA seasons - he's far from past his prime.
He has been great. The Blazers have not. And evidently, he didn't see that changing anytime soon.
Lillard was beloved in Portland, but the speculation about his future with the team only intensified when the Blazers took point guard Scoot Henderson with the No. 3 overall pick in the June draft rather than package the pick for a proven commodity that could immediately help transform the team into a contender.
Portland won only four playoff series in Lillard's 11 seasons, getting to the Western Conference Finals once. The team went 33-49 this past season, the second consecutive year of finishing well outside the playoff picture.
That's not Lillard's fault. His career average of 25.2 points per game ranks 11th among all players in NBA history who have appeared in at least 500 games. He's had 17 games of at least 50 points in his career - two of them in the playoffs - and is a past rookie of the year, teammate of the year and winner of the NBA's citizenship award.
He's been an Olympic gold medalist, was the unanimous selection as MVP of the seeding games when the "bubble" season resumed at Walt Disney World during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and even won the 3-point contest at All-Star weekend in February.
And he has an absolute flair for drama. His series-winning shot to eliminate Oklahoma City from the 2019 NBA playoffs - a stepback 3-pointer over Paul George from nearly 40 feet as time expired - is one of the iconic postseason moments in not just Portland history but NBA history as well.
"His character, competitiveness, talent and experience complement our group and gives us the best chance to win at the very highest level as we create new memories together," Horst said.
AP Sports Writer Steve Megargee in Milwaukee contributed to this report.


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Jessica J. Lee is joined in conversation by Bathsheba Demuth to celebrate the publication of her book, Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family's Past Among Taiwan's Mountains and Coasts (Catapult).
"This is a beautiful book about the distance between people and between places, and the means of their bridging." —Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland
"Two Trees Make a Forest is glorious and extraordinary—in its language, in its setting, in its story. Jessica J. Lee has a brilliant eye for nature, an ear for languages, and a sensitivity to the poetry of the human heart. In these pages, she performs a subtle miracle: she retrieves lost strands of family, landscape, and history and weaves them together to create a surprising and soulful whole." —Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus
Visit our Crowdcast page to register for this event.
About Two Trees Make a Forest
A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew.
Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall. Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island. Joyously attentive to the natural world, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities.
Two Trees Make a Forest is a genre-shattering book encompassing history, travel, nature, and memoir, an extraordinary narrative showing how geographical forces are interlaced with our family stories.
About the authors
Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author and environmental historian, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author Award. She received a doctorate in environmental history and aesthetics in 2016, and her first book, Turning: A Year in the Water, was published in 2017. Jessica is the founding editor of The Willowherb Review. She lives in Berlin.
Bathsheba Demuth is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. Her first book, the prize-winning Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W.W. Norton), was named a best book of 2019 by Nature, NPR, Barnes and Noble, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal, and is out in paperback in August 2020. An environmental historian, Demuth specializes in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. Her interest in northern environments and cultures began when she was 18 and moved to the village of Old Crow in the Yukon. For over two years, she mushed huskies, hunted caribou, fished for salmon, and otherwise learned to survive in the taiga and tundra. A 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Demuth is starting work on her second book, a biography of the Yukon River watershed from colonization to climate change. In the archive or on a dog sled, she is interested in how the histories of people, ideas, places, and other-than-human species intersect. Her writing on these subjects has appeared in publications from The American Historical Review to The New Yorker.


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Deeper Understanding of the Condition of Street Children
There are millions of street children in India – unfortunately, the number has only spiked in the last decade. There are many reasons why children become runaways, hawkers, thieves, work odd jobs, or do absolutely nothing in life – nothing productive anyway. Most street children spend their lives on the streets of big market areas […]Read More »


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Friends of Gordonbrock (FOG)
Friends of Gordonbrock (FOG) is a voluntary fund-raising organisation run by parents, carers and friends of Gordonbrock. We raise money from events throughout the school year that are made possible with the help of staff and children.
Our events include the summer fair, the Christmas fair and the spooky disco. We also run cake and fruit day and the year six leavers party. We will increasingly be holding social evenings and quiz nights. Please check the new playground notice boards for information.
The funds raised have contributed to the school library, school trips, black history month, playground clocks, the climbing frames, the picnic tables and ESOL.
Please email us on firstname.lastname@example.com
Follow Us:
Did you know that whenever you buy anything online – from your weekly shop to your annual holiday – you could be raising a free donation for Gordonbrock Primary School?
There are nearly 3,000 retailers including Amazon, John Lewis, Aviva, thetrainline and Sainsbury's, who will donate a percentage of the amount you spend to Gordonbrock to say thank you for shopping with them.
It's really simple, and doesn't cost you anything. There are no catches or hidden charges and we will be really grateful for your donations.
All you have to do is:
1. Go to FOG easyfundraising page
2. Sign up for free
3. Get shopping – your donations will be collected by easyfundraising and automatically sent to FOG. It couldn't be easier!
There are no catches or hidden charges and we will be really grateful for your donations.
Thank you for your support.
FOG Needs You
FOG exists to raise funds to support Gordonbrock Primary School and to encourage the growth of the school community.
Did you know that all staff, parents & carers are automatically part of the FOG? You can come to meetings and help at events whenever you are able, there is no expectation that you would come to every meeting or commit to every event.
Any and all support makes a difference - even 30 minutes can make a big difference. Drop us an email using the form below if you are able to help out.


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Rebecca Couture Millinery
More about this designer
Rebecca is a creatively talented milliner specializing in creating couture headpieces for any occasion, using the finest quality materials.
Fabulous Wide Brim Hat with Modern Trim
Elegant black sinamay wide brim hat adorned with beautiful hand-sculpted multi-colour buntal trim.
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This piece is handmade, expect slight variations.
This style is worn on a headband.
This hat is 'one size'
Product code : RC603
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Now that the Stones are on tour- it's time to resurrect their grand musical extravaganza- The Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus! The current tour is only hitting a select group of cities & probably not yours. So let's recreate the past, when Mick was the ringmaster- wearing glam makeup and holding a whip.
Let's start with the big top. Find an old ice cream container- the tub kind with the convenient handle. This is awesome because you- I mean the kids- can store the Stones inside when it's time to put everything away. Grab an old juice jug- the circular kind is preferable, but a rectangular shape will do. Carefully cut it off with a serrated knife. Cut an opening for the entrance into the big top. Place the juice top onto the ice cream lid, keep it in position with tape or hot glue. Now you are ready to begin the papier mache.
Use the recipe for papier mache listed here for the Skrillex Train project. Cover the lid with long strips of paper, keeping in mind that it should resemble a big top. Then cover the main tent. Allow to dry. Paint with acrylic paint. You can add a curtain to the entrance for added ambiance.
Next time we will work on The Stones themselves, well- clothespin versions of the Stones. Maybe a couple special guests will pay them a visit- Clapton, Tull, Lennon, did someone say Yoko- just like in the original Rock & Roll Circus.
Tin-Can Stilts
Now that it is Spring, and right around the corner, Summer, make something that kids can use outdoors- Tin Can Stilts! Better yet, grab a seat in the shade & make these sparkly stilts from start to finish outside.
Two 28 ounce Tin Cans
A Tin Can Hole Punch Device
Rope or heavy duty twine
Elmer's Glue
Wide Paint Brush or Assorted Sizes
Glitter or decals
Clean cans thoroughly. Remove paper label. Punch two holes opposite each other on the side that still has a metal surface in tact. Figure out the length needed for each child by measuring the string against them, then cut it. Make the second string the same length. Tie the string through the two holes and tie in a secure knot.
Now it's time to decorate! Dip the paint brush into the glue bottle and paint onto tin can. Douse with glitter. Repeat. Create any design imaginable- for thin stripes use a fine brush. Add Zig-zags or polka dots if you want to get fancy. Smaller children can decorate their with stickers or decals. The possibilities are endless.
Check out another awesome tin can project that kids love- Tin Can Telephones!
Blowout! II | Ferndale
Blowout was held in both Hamtramck and Ferndale this year! This weekend it was Ferndale's turn to host the awesome music event. Bands in both cities got down and dirty, but Ferndale managed to hijack the vibe once exclusive to Hamtramck alone.
Ferndale came ready to rumble. The Ferndale Public Library rocked it out. One witness of the Rogue Satellites performance- after Detroit Party Marching Band blasted through- emptied out of the venue exclaiming "that was so badass!" And it was. Ferndale was in your face. People were screaming "Blowout" at the tops of their lungs- from the sunroof while rolling through town, while walking down Woodward, from the mic as they performed on stage at the WAB.
Lively banter hit the streets. An opera singer randomly joined pop-up band St. Zeta for a session, someone dressed up in a Grizzly bear costume, people complained about Jack White. Now that is the Blowout I remember.
Monkey Tales™
Monkey Tales™ is an evolving collection of things to make, places to go + more. All images and content ©Monkeys & Mayhem.
Please Note: None of these activities, field trips or events are sponsored. This is just stuff we do + places we go irl.
November 2018
Read "The Story of Buntings" to discover what buntings are and what they mean to our family!


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Thermopolis Hot Springs County Economic Development Company (EDC)
Located in Thermopolis, Wyoming
The EDC was formed not only to attract and help start new organizations in Thermopolis, but to help facilitate the growth and expansion of current businesses. In doing so, we hope to increase the amount of jobs available and the overall economic wellbeing of the residents of Hot Springs County.
Quick Introduction to Thermopolis:
- Nestled along the Owl Creek, Big Horn and Absaroka Mountains
- Home to Hot Springs State Park, featuring one of the world`s largest mineral hot springs
- Friendly, small-western town attitude
- Diverse indoor and outdoor recreation opportunities
- Low cost business start up and operation
- Rapidly diversifying economy
- High-speed, broad bandwidth wireless telecommunications
- Affordable commercial and residential real estate opportunities
- Enthusiastic labor force of more than 15,000 within one hour
- Excellent schools, Health care facilities, and world class museums


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The child struck by a vehicle that then left the scene in Union earlier this week has died of his injuries, and the case is now being investigated as a vehicular homicide, acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo and Union Police Chief Daniel Zieser jointly announced Friday.
The victim has been identified as 12-year-old Jeremy Maraj of Union.
Union Police Department patrol units responded to a report of a pedestrian being struck by a vehicle just before 8 p.m. Wednesday in the area of Forest Drive and Galloping Hill Road in Union, according to the preliminary investigation.
Maraj was rushed to University Hospital in Newark, where he was pronounced dead late Friday morning.
The vehicle involved in the incident has been described as a white commercial van. This matter is now under joint investigation by the Union County Homicide Task Force and Union Police Department. Anyone with information is being urged to contact Task Force Detective Sean Holcomb at 908-358-8377 or Union Police Officer Michael Salerno at 908-851-5070.
The Union County Crime Stoppers also are offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment in this case; tips can be given anonymously by phone at 908-654-TIPS (8477) or online at www.uctip.org.


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Rock Garden
Rock Garden, a creation of Nek Chand is a world famous fantasy
located in the city of Chandigarh. Situated in the thick forest
area, this garden holds its own charms for the visitors. It
is full of objects built from household and industrial waste.
There are no flowers or plants in this garden. The object
to be seen there are the figure made of raw cement resembling
humans and animals. These figures have been decorated with
broken but colourful odds and ends of China clay.
The Museum and Art Gallery
This museum itself is a great work of art. Historical and
modern paintings and sculpture of vast range are housed in
this museum. Apart from these rich collections of rare pieces
of art the complex also houses museum of Evolution and the
exhibition gallery housing interesting features.
The Open Hand Monument
One of the most significant monuments planned by Le Corbusier
in Chandigarh is the Open Hand. Rising 85 feet high from a
sunken trench, a giant hand in metal sheets is designed to
rotate like a weather cock, not to show the incertitude of
ideas, but to indicate symbolically the direction of wind.
It is also meant to convey a message of peace "open to
receive." Amongst the other monumental places to visit
in Chandigarh are the Tower of Shadows, Geometric Hill, and
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Barn Owl Skeleton
Barn Owl Articulated Skeleton. 30.5cm/12in.
* Museum quality
* Cast in durable polyurethane resins
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The Barn Owl (Tyto alba) is the most widely distributed species of owl, and one of the most widespread of all birds. It is also referred to as Common Barn Owl, to distinguish it from other species in the barn-owl family Tytonidae. These form one of two main lineages of living owls, the other being the typical owls (Strigidae). T. alba is found almost anywhere in the world except polar and desert regions, Asia north of the Alpide belt, most of Indonesia, and the Pacific islands.
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Why Good Roofs Go Bad
Could it be that the Pareto principle applies to commercial roofing? It's not uncommon to find that approximately 20% of the roof — meaning the penetrations — can cause roughly 80% of the problematic issues.
Penetrations are among many potential failure points in a roof system. It is prudent to be particularly aware of potential failure points when specifying, installing and maintaining a roof, because many of them can be managed proactively — or avoided entirely — due to new and emerging technology.
Common potential failure points include:
- Penetrations
Penetrations in this case are any instances where holes are put in the roof. Typically on a commercial roof that includes HVAC components, vent pipes, drains, skylights, roof hatches, antennas, etc. It stands to reason that holes in the roof — when not properly sealed — are the most vulnerable spots for water to find its way in. While penetrations are unavoidable, how they're sealed and maintained can differ. Most roofers will use metal flashing around penetrations as a way of keeping water out. But how effective are these solutions over time? The act of bending, heating and manipulating metal to conform to penetrations by definition breaks it down and weakens the material, as well as can pose risk of corrosion.
- Flashing
Not properly installed and maintained, metal flashing can be a common originating point of roof failures. Liquid-applied waterproofing materials, conversely, conforms to the shape of the penetration upon application, and can be layered to produce even greater water resistance.
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We start previewing the season opener against Washington State with the help of WSU beat writer Christian Caple of The Spokesman-Review. He talks about the arrival of Mike Leach, the implementation of the Air Raid offense, and the leaky bucket defense. Matt then comes on to preview WRs, TEs and OL. Other podcast topics include: PED use at all levels of sport; why Dr Pepper is better than whatever Matt's drinking; and what Austin Collie's repeated concussions could mean for his NFL career. Read more and listen below the jump!
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An Open Wood at 32' pitch, often duplexed from the 16' rank.
Osiris contains eleven examples, the oldest of which are listed below.
Double Open Wood 32', Pedal; Abbey, Bath, England; Hill 1868.
Double Open Wood 32', Pedal; Chapel, The Queen's College, Oxford, England; Walker 1866.
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It's been a long time since I did a Tech Round Up/Research Links & Info post (16th April 2015). There's been an accumulation of tech stuff in my personal inbox recently, time to clear them down.
3 sections below:
- DevOps Stuff
- NetApp HCI
- NetApp Random Stuff
DevOps Stuff
1) Play with docker classroom
One of my colleagues sent me this awesome link:
2) DevOps Tools
Image: Periodic Table of DevOps Tools
The same colleague sent me this link to Periodic Table of DevOps Tools. Whilst it's very cool and all clickable with excellent links, I'm not quite sure why it's presented as a Periodic Table. If you're boring like me and would like to see simple lists of the DevOps Tools, here they are:
SCM (Source Code Management):
Open Source: Git, Gitlab, Subversion, Mercurial
Freemium: Github, Bitbucket
Enterprise: ISPW
Database Mgmt:
Open Source: Liquibase
Enterprise: DBmaestro, Redgate, Datical, Delphix, Idera
Open Source: Maven, Grunt, MSBuild, Gradle, Gulp, Make, Rake, ANT, Broccoli, CMake
Free: SBT, Packer
Open Source: FitNesse, Mocha, Cucumber.js, Gatling, Jasmine
Free: Cucumber, Junit, Selenium, JMeter, Karma, Qunit, TestNG
Repo Mgmt:
Open Source: NPM, Artifactory, Nexus
Free: DockerHub
CI (Continuous Integration):
Open Source: Jenkins, Continuum, Travis CI, CruiseControl
Freemium: Codeship, TeamCity, Shippable, Continua CI, CircleCI
Paid: Bamboo, Visual Studio, Solano CI
Config / Provisioning:
Open Source: Ansible, Vagrant, Consul, Salt, Bcfg2, CFEngine
Free: Terraform
Enterprise: Chef, Puppet, BladeLogic
Open Source: Docker, RKT, Mesos, Kubernetes, Nomad
Free: Swarm
Cloud / IaaS / Paas:
Open Source: OpenStack
Freemium: Amazon Web Services, Heroku
Paid: Azure
Enterprise: Google Cloud Platform, Rackspace, OpenShift
Release Mgmt:
Enterprise: XL Release, UrbanCode Release, BMC Release Process, CA Release Automation, Automic, Plutora Release, Serena Release
Freemium: Trello, HipChat, Slack, Flowdock
Paid: Team Foundation, Jira, Pivotal Tracker
Enterprise: ServiceNow
BI / Monitoring:
Open Source: Kibana, Nagios, Zabbix, Elasticsearch
Freemium: New Relic, AppDynamics
Enterprise: Dynatrace, Datadog
Open Source: Logstash
Freemium: Logentries, Sumo Logic
Enterprise: Splunk
Open Source: Snort, Tripwire
Enterprise: Fortify
NetApp HCI
NetApp released their NetApp HCI (Hyper Converged Infrastructure) product on 5th June 2017. This looks like a great product and I hope to get my hands on some in the future. It is based on their SolidFire platform. A few links:
And especially check out the following videos:
NetApp HCI Demo (You can be up and running in about 30 minutes!)
Finally VMware Vvols start to make sense!
Image: Provide Granular Control at VM Level with NetApp HCI!
A bit more on NetApp HCI...
NetApp HCI allows you to start small (with just two chassis); and grow as needed, on-demand, and non-disruptively; to Enterprise Scale-Out levels.
Guaranteed Performance: Deliver All Your Applications with Confidence
Flexibility & Scale: Scale On Your Terms
Automated Infrastructure: Transform & Empower Your IT Operations
Image: NetApp HCI allows Enterprise levels of Scalability
NetApp Random Stuff
1) NetAppDocs-Lite for Customer Collection
It's no secret that NetApp have an awesome tool for creating 7-Mode and ONTAP as-built documentation called NetAppDocs. The full tool is only available to NetApp partners and internal staff. Customers can download the NetAppDocs-Lite version to collect the XML for NetApp partners/internal staff to process into as built documentation. Check out this link:
2) One specific UNIX account is failing to access its NAS data on NetApp Clustered ONTAP 8.3.2 post 7 to C transition
We had a UNIX account that's failing to access its data post 7 to C transition. Just one UNIX account was affected. Running::>*
diag secd authentication translate -node NODE -vserver VSERVER -uid UID
Results in "Unable to retrieve UNIX username for UID". It turned out that the following 7-Mode option was disabled (it's hidden by default):
options nfs.authsys.extended_groups_ns.enable
But the SVM had it configured. Disabling it fixed the problem::>
vserver nfs modify -vserver VSERVER -auth-sys-extended-groups disabled
3) CN1610 Cluster Switches Hung to Management (Telnet, SSH and Serial)
I've known the CN1610's become unmanageable a few times; telnet, SSH, serial - none of those work. There is a way to break-in to the Linux shell and collect logs for troubleshooting (so don't just reboot the switch and accept it as a quirk). Understandably this information is only available to NetApp partners and internal staff. This is the link:
4) End of Engineering Support for Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.x on 31st October 2017
A date to make a note of if your ONTAP systems are still on 8.3.x. Engineering Support ends on the 31st of October 2017 (I understand that the end of limited support is 30th April 2019.) This is a great excuse to get your systems upgraded. Check out this link:
What does end of 'Engineering Support' mean?
- Requests for bug fixes on the Data ONTAP 8.3.x release family will no longer be accepted. Fixes for issues that are found on AFF, FAS, and V-Series systems that run Data ONTAP 8.3.x will be delivered only in patch derivatives of ONTAP 9.x.
- Interoperability testing with Data ONTAP 8.3.x and updates to the NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool will stop.
- Manufacturing and SAN qualification PVRs that are specific to the Data ONTAP 8.3.x release family will not be accepted.
- For systems that cannot be upgraded to ONTAP 9.x, specifically FAS3240 and V3240, for the remainder of the customer's current support entitlement, NetApp will provide critical updates if NetApp determines that they are necessary and commercially reasonable.
5) NetApp is No.1 in current quarter with 32% quarterly revenue share in EMEA AFA (All Flash Array) market
Image: EMEA - Top 5 Vendors AFA Dashboard
6) NetApp Data Fabric Solution for Cloud Backup Resources
Link to help plan, prepare and execute an ONTAP to AltaVault Snapshot strategy, managed and catalogued using SnapCenter software:
7) AFF A700s Console Port
Important! Remember to set your "console port to 115'200 baud with N-8-1."
7) AFF A700s Console Port
Important! Remember to set your "console port to 115'200 baud with N-8-1."


text: ARX Systems ships Blue DI Bluetooth Direct Box for audio Products 26/11/2015 ARX Systems, an Australian designer and manufacturer of digital and analogue interfaces as well as signal processing units, is now shipping its Blue DI Bluetooth direct box.The Blue DI, part of the AudiBox range of tools, is a professional interface for smartphones, tablets and computers. It features 44.1& 48 Khz sample rates at 32 bits, is compatible with Bluetooth Version V2.1 EDR, 3.0 and 4.0, can be powered by +48VDC phantom power from a mixing consoleor an external DC PSU and features industry standard balanced left and right line level XLR outputs.Essentially the Blue DI provides a wireless method for connecting the plethora of Bluetooth enabled devices to the balanced line professional audio world via Bluetooth. Low noise and distortion circuitry as well as electronically balanced XLR outputs are also part of the package."Smartphones, tablets and other Bluetooth enabled devices have rapidly become the program source of convenience for corporate AV presentations, seminars, musicians, DJs, entertainment venues, system demonstrations and testing, and many other audio playback applications,"says ARX's Managing Director Colin Park. The Blue DI is intended to target these applications and provide them a wireless method of playing audio from smart devices.


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Making of Home: Day 1 Reflection
Ruth 1:1-18
Naomi Loses Her Husband and Sons
1 In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. 2 The man's name was Elimelek, his wife's name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there.
3 Now Elimelek, Naomi's husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. 4 They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, 5 both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.
Naomi and Ruth Return to Bethlehem
6 When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there. 7 With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.
8 Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you, to your mother's home. May the Lord show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me. 9 May the Lord grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband."
Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud 10 and said to her, "We will go back with you to your people."
11 But Naomi said, "Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands? 12 Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me—even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons— 13 would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord's hand has turned against me!"
14 At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.
15 "Look," said Naomi, "your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her."
16 But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me." 18 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
Think of people you have known, Who, like Naomi, felt that the "hand of the LORD" had gone against them. Why do you think some people feel that way while others with similar losses or difficulties do not?
Something made Ruth willing to leave her home, her family, her culture, and her religion to go with Naomi. Yet Naomi described herself as a bitter person Who felt that God had turned against her. How might you explain Ruth's love for this bitter woman?
Imagine that you are Orpah, watching . Naomi and Ruth depart. What do you want to say to them as they leave?
When have you made a decision that required turning your back on a place or experience in your past in order to move into the future you felt God wanted for you? Were you aware at the time that you were doing something important? Is there anything that you want or need to leave behind this Christmas season?
Think of all the people around the world who are refugees, having left their homes because of hardship there. Hold these people before God and ask God to be with them.
Pray a breath prayer
Until your next reflection time, pray a breath prayer on behalf of people Who are traveling. You may mention particular people or pray a prayer such as this, "O God, be With those traveling today."


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Hi folks! I feel like Silver Mine Head Path doesn't get enough credit: more serious hikers may not want to hike such a short trail (at only 2.3km). But it does get a lot of day hiker traffic, given its location, and for good reason; the scenery is really spectacular, with cliffs and crashing waves along the length of the trail, not to mention Middle Cove Beach itself.
Today was about saying I got out for a hike as much as anything, since I had a busy day but didn't want to skimp on the hiking with the weather like it was and the summer winding down. I had a spectacular day weather-wise: sunny, bright, not too hot. Things were looking great, until I got to the beach and started packing up my gear, and realized I had (boneheadedly) forgotten my camera… so it's potato camera pics this time around. The weather was so nice that even my potato camera was good enough for a few decent pics. Well, sort of decent… I don't know how to work my phone. It's alien technology.
I passed a lot of young kids on the trail today… this is a perfect little hike for a family for sure! Great to see kids out enjoying nature too!
A few pics below. Enjoy!


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Ok, we love The Simpsons – yes, even current Simpsons (though admittedly not as much) – and this item has us all abuzz in the office; Homer J Simpson. As Mr Potato Head. Or is that the other way round? Anyway, it's a gem of an item and we love it soooooo much that we want to give one away.
Yes, thanks to the lovely people at PPW Toys and Forbidden Planet UK we have one to give away to one lucky FTN reader – think how cool he'll look on your work computer
It's Homer "Starch" son! Celebrate 25th years of laughter and hijinks of The Simpsons with this Homer Simpson Mr. Homer Simpson!
America's greatest TV dad comes in his classic white shirt, blue pants, black shoes, and his MMmm…donut! This Simpsons 25th Anniversary Homer Simpson Mr. Potato Head will make any Simpsons fan go, "Woo Hoo!" Homer stands about 6-inches tall and comes in a window display box along with the classic couch background as a diorama setting.
So, do you fancy a chance of celebrating 25 years of The Simpsons in style thanks to PPW Toys, Forbidden Planet and Following the Nerd? Of course you do! Well, here's how.
Everyone knows Homer's wife and kids – Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie – but what is the full name of his dad? (we won't accept Grandpa)
Think you know? Then drop us an email with the answer plus your full name and address, marking your entry simply as 'D'OH!'. We'll pick one lucky winner and Homer will make his way to your front door.
Competition closes on July 1st and is open to UK contestants.
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Microsoft UK plans 'open and honest' Linux debates
Says here, anyway...
The latest stage in Microsoft's quest to establish The Facts regarding open source software is a series of seminars to be held throughout the UK, and tantalisingly billed as "Microsoft Windows and Linux - An open and honest technology discussion." Feedback The Register has received from (admittedly partisan) spies at previous Microsoft attempts to engage the subject suggest that they might perhaps have been just a tad less than open and honest, so it's nice to see that Microsoft UK must have been getting the same message from its own feedback.
There are four seminars, kicking off in London on June 10th and rolling through Edinburgh, Manchester and Newport. They're free, aimed at "Technical Decision Makers", and will discuss the "pros and cons of Microsoft's technology platform in relation to Linux and Open Source. We want to share with you the latest information we have, from all sides." Looking at the cast list we do have some small difficulty in identifying the representatives of all of the sides. As far as we can see there's two people from MS UK, a speaker from an ISV partner (we think we can guess whose), and an independent analyst from Meta Group, which we understand has worked for The Beast on the odd occasion.
And we should perhaps put Microsoft UK's PR handlers on notice that in the next couple of days we propose to call them up and ask for a list of those "cons of Microsoft's technology platform." Lists of pros we have a-plenty, but we don't recall Microsoft ever giving us a con-list. Get compiling, people, we'll be in touch.
You can register for a seminar here, and in the interests of the new Redmond glasnost we strongly urge you to do so. ®
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