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Friday, August 7, 2009
Interview - John Laurie
I first met photgrapher John Laurie through Megan Morton (TDF favourite person of the week/month/year - have you noticed?).
Here's the thing - after 15 years in the business of creating beautiful images, Megan knows a LOT about photographers, image-making and the magazine / print industry... and she reckons John Laurie is the next big thing. You heard it here first. If you're in print/advertising/media - take note! (And get him while you can still can!)
Aside from creating the most effortlessly raw, honest and beautiful photographs, I have to say that John is truly the loveliest, most relaxed and modest photographer in the business! I have had the pleasure of working with him twice recently, and each time John has rocked up to the shoot with just his camera and tripod - no assistant, no complicated equipment or heavy lights. (Both times he has also unsuccessfully tried to convince me it's because he doesn't know how to use them!). On set, John shoots in the most calm, thoughtful way - chatting and joking all the way through... asking my advice (as if I would have a better idea than him!), making friends left, right and centre, and generally making everyone feel completely at ease. It's a rare and beautiful thing in such a competitive and stressful industry!
It's been a big year for John Laurie. He's recently gone out on his own after assisting for a couple of years, and has also set up a brand new studio in Kensington with friend and mentor Mark Roper. He is currently in Spain shooting a feature for Gourmet Traveller (you can also see his beautiful work in the July issue!), and will also soon be welcoming a new baby into the family! However, as you can tell by his wonderfully candid responses in the following interview, John takes it all in his stride with an extremely level-head - and one eye keenly on the surf report!
Tell me a little about your background - what did you study and what path led you to what you're doing now?
First up I did a Bachelor of Business Management with a Marketing Major at the University of South Australia and ended up in the heady world of advertising agencies for a few years. It was ok but my creative side was being repressed a little so I hit the road and headed on the overseas sabbatical for a few years. I was always pretty artistic at school and the camera seemed like a pretty good outlet for me to capture things whilst I was away. It sort of evolved organically from there I guess. In 2003 I packed my things and came to Melbourne to study photography at Photography Studies College. I ended up majoring in Photojournalism but didn't complete the course, and started assisting Derek Swalwell and Mark Roper. I did that for about 2 years and finished up last December to be now doing what I'm doing.
What have been some favourite shoots / projects you've worked on recently?
Definitely the trip for Gourmet Traveller to France and Switzerland. It taught me a lot of valuable in-the-field lessons that I can certainly apply in the future. It was both really exciting and nerve racking at the same time, as meeting others expectations is always daunting. A recent trip around Australia for Monument Magazine taking portraits of up and coming designers was also fantastic. It was great to work solo and have interesting conversations with like-minded people in relaxing environments.
You've recently gone out on your own after assisting for a few years, and have also set up a new studio in Kensington. What prompted this courageous career move, and how is it going?
To date, the career has been going really well (touch wood). I've been pretty flat out and lucky to be doing loads of different stuff in a way that I like to shoot (medium format neg) so that has been great. The studio is definitely getting there. My business partner and I have been pretty busy with our personal careers so juggling setting up a studio and managing your own work load is a real challenge. We have really turned the corner though now and are putting a far greater focus on creating a great space / location focusing on a relaxed easy-going vibe. What prompted it? I guess I knew I was ready. Being a little bit older than most assistants and in my second career has given me good confidence to move on knowing that I can deal with clients pretty well, which is a really big thing in this industry. In terms of the studio, it was a real gift horse and I would have been foolish not to pursue it as I am really now starting to reap the benefits of such a beautiful space. Oh and I also needed to get out of the house as we have turned the study into a nursery!
Working for yourself can be really difficult for creative people. What are the challenges you have faced working for yourself – do you struggle with the business side of things, for motivation to get started on a project, or networking etc? How do you tackle these parts of your job?
I definitely do struggle with the business side of things. I'm reasonably rubbish at accounting and keeping on top of incomings and outgoings but I am slowly improving. On the motivation side of things I'm not too bad. I have loads of ideas and some get executed and quite a few don't. I am learning more and more that it is more about seeing the process from idea to creation through and if at the end of the day the results are no good it has still been worthwhile sticking at it and seeing it through. Working for myself has loads of challenges – definitely book keeping, definitely motivation to be proactive and get test shoots done, and to follow up leads, but aside from that it would be pretty hard to work for anyone else now. I'm a really great boss I think – I allow lots of breaks and if the surf is pumping I'm pretty lenient on myself!
Which photographers, artists or creative people are you inspired by?
The beauty and freshness of Thomas Campbell, the adventurous streak and nonchalance of Wolfgang Tillmans, the perfection and silence of Candida Hofer, the banality and simplicity of Alec Soth, the all round balance of Andrew Kidman, the mysticism and free - flowingness of Haruki Murakami, the cultural significance and timeliness of Dave Eggers, the smooth pared back melodies of Calexico and DJ Krush, the light and shade and awkwardness of Laura Letinsky and the freedom to create and capture things for what they are of Toby Glanville.
I'm constantly inspired by my family and my friends. They keep me wondering, wandering, honest and humble.
What does a typical day at work involve for you?
I'm either shooting on location (more often than not) or at the studio retouching images, scanning negatives, invoicing and quoting for jobs, organising my portfolio and updating my website (this doesn't happen as much as it should!), contacting people to arrange meetings to try and get work with either ad agencies or magazines, heaps of procrastinating, sending messages to my mates, listening to music, reading books and magazines and generally pretending to be much busier than I actually am.
What would be your dream photography project?
A tough question. I'm pretty into remoteness and vastness – to go to places that not heaps of people have been to that are still pretty untouched. Places that are rich in their own culture and relatively unchanged really excite me. That's why I like the old small villages of Europe with their traditional practices and old run down buildings. Beyond this, a road trip across the American prairies during Autumn would be pretty all time – loads of beautiful colours and stark landscapes. It's real Joel Sternfeld, Wim Wenders country out there and has always been a fascination for me. I love landscapes that have no interruptions along the horizon – just wide vacant scapes made up of colours and textures. Remote Japan would be really cool too, as would Mongolia and a little boat trip through the South Pacific – hanging out with locals and surfing lots of good waves and documenting the whole process would also be pretty life changing. So I guess I don't really have just one. It's more of a vibe than anything else that I really strive for. I could be anywhere as long as there is beautiful soft light and heavy shadows!
What are you looking forward to?
Being a dad again, going to Spain, shaping a surfboard, working with interesting and mellow people, eating and drinking good food and booze with friends and family, pushing creative boundaries and having an exhibition.
Melbourne Questions –
Your favourite art/design bookshop in Melbourne?
Tricky one. I used to work at Cosmos in St Kilda (now Readings) whilst I was studying photography so I have a real soft spot for it. I really like the Sun Bookshop in Yarraville, Metropolis and the Greville St bookstore. The NGV also has a great range of magazines.
What and where was the last great meal you ate in Melbourne?
A little Swedish speciality down at Flinders cooked by some friends. Perfect Sunday night food. On a commercial level, the dim sum at Lau's Family Kitchen last week was pretty spectacular.
Where would we find you on a typical Saturday morning?
Either down at the park chasing my little daughter Mackenzie around or if the surf is good down at Bells with the lads.
Melbourne' best kept secret?
I'm not sure if there are too many of them. I really dig the whole Sun Theatre experience in Yarraville. It's old, authentic and serves popcorn in paper bags and you can go and grab a blanket if you get too cold. It's never busy and everyone is super friendly. It's a good genuine experience.
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Great interview and I love John's work. Will defo be keeping an eye out for his stuff in the future.ReplyDelete
John;s photos are absolutely amazing - shame he doesn't need an assistant :) Thanks for the great interview Lucy.ReplyDelete
His images are absolutely beautiful.ReplyDelete
just gorgeous photographs.ReplyDelete
also, big fan of your blog
wow. I find a lot of photography all looks very similar, but there is something in these that stands out. Something raw about them that I love. Really fantastic.ReplyDelete
Lovely to see such great talent on the page (from a guy who seems quite modest and still energetic and enthusiastic about what he is doing). I love the wistful food pictures especially.ReplyDelete
Lee Tran
These are lovely, there is something different from other photos i have seenReplyDelete
Hey nice writeup! John is our studio neighbour in Kensington and lets us eat his food props from time to time (like that pear tart at the top - delicious!!). Nice one John!ReplyDelete


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This week's update is a day late once more, because I went to Spa Resort Hawaiians yesterday with my good friends Jerry and Joe.
It was really nice to get into the pools and waterslides again. I have some great experiences with waterparks - both at Wet n Wild in Australia, and of course, who can forget Sunway Lagoon in Malaysia? So, I was understandably really looking forward to this place.
Fortunately, my good friend Steven Thompson (of Happy Steve, Angry Steve fame) got us some discount tickets for about 1,000 yen each. This was very fortunate, as the usual price of admission is around 3,000 yen. The second reason this was fortunate was because of the inevitable pay-wall.
At the resort, your price of admission covers the pools, the onsens, the "hulu show" and the "spa world" - a series of outdoor themed spas. What it does not cover, is the waterslides. Because who goes to a waterpark to ride on waterslides? The waterslides were 400 yen each ride, or 2,400 yen for a day pass. We arrived at around 2pm, and discovered that there was a special "half day" pass from 3pm for 1,200, so we ended up getting that, but were still pretty grumpy.
Pay-walls are a phenomenon i have complained about in Japan before. Back home, pay walls don't stand, because people will just refuse to pay them. Most folks would be willing to pay a slightly higher price of admission if it covers literally everything in the park. Japanese people are apparently willing to pay high admission and then still pay for pay-walls on top of that.
Pay-walls are particularly ridiculous when combined with things that should be free, like national heritage sites or temples. Seriously. Temples have a pay-wall. They are even considering pay-walling Mt. Fuji!
But besides that, we actually had a pretty good time. The slides were lots of fun, and the outdoor "edo-period onsen" was a really nice experience. I rate the park 7/10 because of the pay-wall and also because its too crowded (we went on a cloudy, random Saturday and it was super packed. I can only imagine how it must be during the summer vacation).
On the gaming front, nothing too exciting happened this week. Next week E3 kicks off, and I'm assuming that all the major players are waiting until then to make any big announcements. I'm personally covering the Ubisoft and Nintendo press conferences for the Escapist, but will most likely pick up other stories that my colleagues don't get to.
And here's last week's news:
- Penny-Arcade: OTRSPOD Episode 4 Out Now
- Assassin's Creed Creator Sues Ubisoft
- This is What The 1940's Thought 2011 Would Look Like
- Capcom Celebrates its 30th with Character Encyclopedia
- Sony Will Showcase Over 40 Games at E3
- Fates Forever Reimagines Hardcore Gaming as Tablet-Only
- AMD's "Unified Gaming Strategy" Makes Ports Smoother
- Diablo III's New Game Director Addresses The Minions
- Humble Bundle 8 Grows 4 Games Humbler
- Half-Life 2: Episode 4 Could Have Looked Like This
- Google Says "No" to Google Glass Porn Apps
- The Last of Us Multiplayer Pits Survivor Against Survivor
- Papers, Please is a Dystopian Document Thriller With a Free Beta
- Valve to Indie Devs: Don't Use Publishers to Bypass Greenlight
- Prey 2 Was "A Full Game" When Bethesda Cancelled it
Story of the week:
Okay guys, that's it from me for this week! Be sure to subscribe to my twitter for up-to-date news and blog updates, my youtube channel for gaming videos, and check back here every Saturday for a roundup of my Escapist news pieces!

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The Historical school of economics was an approach to academic economics and to public administration that emerged in 19th century in Germany, and held sway there until well into the 20th century.
The Historical school held that history was the key source of knowledge about human actions and economic matters, since economics was culture-specific, and hence not generalizable over space and time. The School rejected the universal validity of economic theorems. They saw economics as resulting from careful empirical and historical analysis instead of from logic and mathematics. The School also preferred reality, historical, political, and social as well as economic, to self-referential mathematical modelling. Most members of the school were also Kathedersozialisten, i.e. concerned with social reform and improved conditions for the common man during a period of heavy industrialization.
The Historical School can be divided into three tendencies[1]:
Predecessors included Friedrich List.[2]
The Historical school largely controlled appointments to Chairs of Economics in German universities, as many of the advisors of Friedrich Althoff, head of the university department in the Prussian Ministry of Education 1882-1907, had studied under members of the School. Moreover, Prussia was the intellectual powerhouse of Germany and so dominated academia, not only in central Europe, but also in the United States until about 1900, because the American economics profession was led by holders of German Ph.Ds. The Historical school was involved in the Methodenstreit ("strife over method") with the Austrian School, whose orientation was more theoretical and a prioristic.
In English speaking countries, the Historical school is perhaps the least known and least understood approach to the study of economics, because it differs radically from the now-dominant Anglo-American analytical point of view. Yet the Historical school forms the basis - both in theory and in practice - of the social market economy, for many decades the dominant economic paradigm in most countries of continental Europe. The Historical school is also a source of Joseph Schumpeter's dynamic, change-oriented, and innovation-based economics. Although his writings could be critical of the School, Schumpeter's work on the role of innovation and entrepreneurship can be seen as a continuation of ideas originated by the Historical School, especially the work of von Schmoller and Sombart.
Although not nearly as famous as its German counterpart, there was also an English Historical School, whose figures included Francis Bacon, Auguste Comte, and Herbert Spencer. It was this school that heavily critiqued the deductive approach of the classical economists, especially the writings of David Ricardo. This school revered the inductive process and called for the merging of historical fact with those of the present period. Included in this school are: William Whewell, Richard Jones, Walter Bagehot, Thorold Rogers, Arnold Toynbee, and William Cunningham just to name a few.


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While working on my latest draft based on the comments of my editor, Erin Stropes, I decided to check out the last novel that she had edited. "The American Book of the Dead" by Henry Baum was self-published last year and has won a surprisingly number of awards for a self-published title. Henry Baum is also the editor of the Self-Publishing Review and for those of you who remember, recommended Erin to me as an editor based on her work on "American Book of the Dead".
"The American Book of the Dead" tells the story of Eugene Myers, a father at the end of his rope, who discovers that the book that he is writing accurately predicts the end of the world. The novel follows his attempts to warn humanity, the apocalypse and the aftermath. In the meantime, Eugene must also deal with his dysfunctional daughter, a disintegrating marriage and a crazy president who believes that he is the messiah.
The strongest part of the novel is Baum's writing. Starting with the Douglas Coupland-like opening which straddles bizarre and absurd, the dread of the upcoming apocalypse, the bloody aftermath and the surreal lunacy of the American president, Henry Baum does show that he has some writing skill. Another strength is the uniqueness of the tale. Most stories follow a fairly predictable story arc, Baum on the other hand leads his story down some unpredictable paths. It's great because you never know quite what to expect.
That said, there are some glaring weaknesses with the text. Baum's characterization of the president, an obvious joke against George W. Bush, comes off as derivative and uninspired. I did not believe for a second that this individual could become president, or that he would be able to lead America willingly into a suicidal nuclear war. A disastrous war in Iraq, yes, but a world war, not believable. Baum needs the US President to be an idiotic buffoon to start the apocalypse but that is far less interesting than an antagonistic that is smart and cunning.
A final weakness with the novel is the ending, which seemingly comes out of nowhere. While I'm not going to describe it here, it does come off as Deus Ex Machina.
However despite its flaws, "The American Book of the Dead" is an entertaining read, most due to the excellent prose of Henry Baum. I look forward to reading his next book.


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Chicken Chettinad is a very spicy and delicious dish from my neighbouring state Tamil Nadu.Many ingredients go into this chicken chettinad but the process is simple.This goes well with rice and chappathis.
My husband had a misconception that chicken tastes best when eaten outside.Cannot blame him.Born into a Brahmin family he was introduced to non-veg only when he started sailing.In the first few months of marriage i never tried chicken at home either.But then i got Lakshmi Nair's recipe book as a gift and i tried this out. There has been no looking back.Now he loves chicken made at home!!!!And this is one thing he wants on the menu when he signs off.And he loves it with Jeera rice. I would recommend it.
This chicken is for people who love coconut.The gravy primarily is coconut which is ground to a paste.
Chicken Chettinad
Chicken- 1 kg( cut into medium pieces)
Onion 1
Oil-1/2 cup
Red chilli powder- 2 tablespoon
Star anise-1
Ginger( finely chopped)-1 tablespoon
Garlic(finely chopped)-1 tablespoon
Grated coconut- 2 cup
Khus khus( poppy seeds)-2 teaspoons
Saunf-1 teaspoon
Cinnamon-2 pieces
Turmeric-3/4 teaspoon
Garam masala powder-3/4 teaspoon
Tomato( finely chopped)-3 medium
Lemon juice- of ½ lemon
Salt-as per taste
Dhania leaves-1/2 cup
Curry leaves- 10-15
1)Grind coconut,khas khas,saunf,cloves,cinnamon,
2)Heat oil in a thick bottom pan and sauté onions in it till light brown.To this add ginger and garlic and also star anise.Saute well.
3)Add red chilli powder to this and when the raw taste is gone,add the coconut paste to it.Saute well.
4)Add the chicken pieces to this and sauté for 10 minutes.Add salt and the chopped tomato to this. Wait till the tomatoes turn mashy and then add 2 cups of water.Let the chicken boil in this.
5)When the chicken pieces are boiled and the gravy becomes thick and covers the chicken pieces,add lemon juice.Garnish with dhania and curry leaves.
Serve with jeera rice,plain rice or rotis. Bread and this curry and idlis with this curry will also taste good.
Yes idlis and chicken are a vow combination!!!
( If you do not have khus khus , skip it.. will still taste good)
Serve with jeera rice,plain rice or rotis. Bread and this curry and idlis with this curry will also taste good.
Yes idlis and chicken are a vow combination!!!
( If you do not have khus khus , skip it.. will still taste good)


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I realized that I haven't filled you in on some mountain travels we have had over the past couple of months. While I'm gathering up photos to show you how the Fair Isle is progressing, have a look at some gorgeous views!
In August we enjoyed a perfectly sunny Saturday hiking the Skyline Loop trail at Paradise with up close views of Mt Rainier. I just love all the wildflowers there.
In late September we spent a couple of days doing most of the Cascade Loop Highway and stayed over in Winthrop with views of the North Cascades. They have lots and lots of rocks over there!
Some of you know that Winthrop is a little Western town--so cute!
This was our hotel beside the Methow River, Hotel Rio Vista.
Then just this past weekend we headed down to a little town called Lyle, WA, where we took a left and wound our way up into the High Prairie region to stay in a yurt--a first for me! The yurt had a great view of Mt Hood across the Columbia River.
We saw her at sunset...
...and shrouded by clouds the next day.
This little wood stove kept us comfy warm in the yurt, despite some wind and rain and a considerable drop in temps. In fact, we experienced all kinds of weather while we were there.
And on the way home we wondered at the majesty of the Columbia.
While we try to make it over to Mt Rainier every year, these last two trips are a part of our ongoing exploration of Washington State. This state has everything from rocky seastack coasts to dry dusty deserts and I want to see it all. I lived the first eight years here never crossing the Cascade Range, in which time we travelled all over the peninsula, including most of the San Juan Islands. I've been up to Bellingham and down to Vancouver, from White Pass all the way over to Kalaloch, but until summer 2010 I had never been east of the Cascades. We remedied that by visiting Delia and Reed Rasmussen in Spokane, which is a great area. Then last summer we sent to Washington wine country down near Yakima. Once you pass over the mountains, the landscape changes to desert and things get a lot more cowboy. Cows and horses and farmland all over the place!
Now I want to see Neah Bay up in the northwestern corner and Kettle Falls and the Grand Coulee Dam over in the northeastern corner. Each region is beautiful in its own way, but these travels always remind me how much I love our wet, woodsy Puget Sound.
As I saw on a sign when we were on our way home...
Domus dulcis domus.
Home sweet home!


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Have you ever wondered what goes through a business owner's mind when he's deciding whether to move some of his operations to a foreign country? If you assume the only consideration is profit, you'd be wrong.
Business owners "are not machines," and "many of them are emotionally conflicted when it comes to sending jobs overseas," Martina Musteen, a business professor at San Diego State University, told Bloomberg BNA Jan. 5. "Many of the managers do not follow strictly a cost-benefit analysis."
In a study of 22 businesses in the San Diego area, mostly startups and small companies, Musteen found that a feeling of patriotism made it harder for some business executives to offshore their work.
"I feel very strongly about building things here in America," Eric Reinhorn, one of the participants in Musteen's study, told Bloomberg BNA Jan. 4. He runs a small, family-owned manufacturing company in San Diego that builds ground support equipment for aircraft maintenance. Reinhorn said his company has never used offshoring.
Chinese businesses frequently inquire about doing some of his production, but "the amount of product that I build does not warrant it," Reinhorn said. His 10-employee company only builds "equipment in allotments of 50 or 100 at a time." Furthermore, he said, his contracts with the Defense Department limit the amount of offshoring his company can do.
Even if offshoring were feasible for his company, Reinhorn would have philosophical qualms. "It bothers me to take jobs overseas" because keeping jobs in the U.S. "puts people to work," he said. The "manufacturing base" is "what made our country great."
Paul DiPerna, a partner at Fuel Source Partners in Escondido, Calif., also has reservations about offshoring. "For a small startup, it makes absolutely no sense to go offshore," he told Bloomberg BNA Jan. 3. Problems inevitably occur as a startup develops its product, and offshoring presents "logistical nightmares" that can delay a company's ability to fix glitches at overseas production facilities, he said. By contrast, if the production facility is in the U.S., "you're able to get your engineering and operations teams over to make the rapid changes," he said. Therefore, it's easier to outsource an established product than an evolving product.
DiPerna previously ran a company called Tandem Diabetes Care, which made "a very complex insulin pump." At Tandem, DiPerna decided to outsource only the smallest part, to Denmark, because "it's too difficult to control what's going on as they build your product" in another country.
Patriotism and "a personal loyalty" to the suppliers he used previously also influence DiPerna. "I feel a certain allegiance to the people who got me where I am," DiPerna said. "It's difficult to abandon them for strangers miles and miles away."
DiPerna is not planning to offshore any of the work associated with a cardiac monitoring gadget being developed by his new business venture. "The cost is not worth it versus the unknown quality, the unknown language and culture, and the uncertainty about the design," he said. "If somebody down the street is making your parts and doing a good job, it feels very wrong to me to yank that product and send it to a foreign country."
By contrast, Lea Wolf told Bloomberg BNA Jan. 4, "I don't feel any guilt" about outsourcing. "I wish it could be different," she said, but she does "whatever it takes to be successful."
Wolf is the chief executive officer and founder of iclique-in technology inc., a San Diego-based company that owns "an app that connects blue collar workers with employers via bilingual text messages" in English and Spanish. It enables employers to contact workers who lack computer access and skills, she said.
Wolf's company, which has four employees in the U.S., offshores most of its work. It sends its software development work to India, Pakistan and Russia, and it has call centers in Mexico.
"The main reason is to save money," Wolf said. In the U.S., she would pay software developers $50 to $100 per hour, but in India, Pakistan and Russia, she pays only $15 to $25 per hour.
The second reason is the diligence of workers in other countries, who "work until they satisfy your needs," no matter how many revisions are required, Wolf said. By contrast, in the U.S., "the contracts need to be so detailed" and require "a lengthy negotiation," she said.
Now, for software development, "I go right away to other countries," Wolf said. "I don't even entertain to hire here." She is less likely to outsource website design because "design is a matter of taste" that varies among cultures. American designers are more "attuned to what navigates better" and pleases users in this country, she said.
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Launching seminar of the EU Aid Volunteers Capacity Building PHASE Project
As part of the project PHASE – Platform on Humanitarian Aid for a Sustainable Empowerment ADICE hosted the launching seminar between the 9th and the 11th of May 2016. This project is funded by EU Aid Volunteers program, managed by the Executive Agency Education, Audiovisual and Culture DG ECHO and the European Commission.
The three European partners ADICE, MONDO and ASPEm have had the opportunity to share best practices of volunteering management and work on the contents of the training PHASE 1:
- Security: to ensure volunteers' safety, how to act in a crisis and evacuation
- Needs Assessment: identify the real needs of the host organization, how volunteers can be involved and the skills requested to implement activities
- Logistics: tools and methods to ensure safety and avoid unpredictable situations
- Volunteering management: develop a common framework for the management of volunteers and ensure high quality management
The objective is to train the partner organizations acting in humanitarian context in the preparation and the monitoring of the volunteers during their activities with the local communities.
During the month of June there was Skype launching seminar with the other 11 partners from developing countries: Asociacion pro Derechos Humanos and Asociacion Pueblo Indigena en Accion Apu in Peru; Fundacion Munasim Kullakita in Bolivia; Human Rights Center Postup in Ukraine; Human Supporters Association in Palestine; International Volunteers for Social Development Association in Thaïland; Kongo Community Development Organisation in Ghana; Orissa State Volunteers and Social Workers Association in India; Uganda Pioneers Association in Uganda ; Volunteers Initiative Nepal in Nepal; Western Focus Community Organisation in Kenya. Thanks to these meetings the partners had the opportunity to know each other's and discuss on the objectives and activities of the project.
During the coming months, the European orrganizations will build up the training session PHASE 1 with the support of Non EU organizations needs and attempts. Then, at the end of September another European working seminar will be realized to finalize this training PHASE 1 and the implementation of the first training for partners Human Rights Center Postup ( Ukraina ) and Human Supporters Association (Palestine) will be realized in Italy last week of September 2016.


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Those looking to try out Riders of Icarus have another chance the week of April 21. Starting then — and running through the 28th — Nexon will be running a second closed beta test for the game. This new test comes with good news for several regions as Europe, South America, Australia, and the Oceana territories will be included. Signups for the beta are open now and players who participate can earn some stylish capes.
Phase 2 will also include a variety of changes to the game's mount system, UI, combat, and more. Full details on all of these are available in the beta announcement.
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nexon? nope.
Nexon? Nope! Nopenopenopenope! Nooooooope. NEXON IS TRASH!
When are you People going to stop playing Multiplayer games by publisher Company? Learn to stop holding a grudge on Publisher and Move back to the basic stuff like playing solo games before online games came out for the window versions.
(It a Very Simple thing to do without using a Computer playing online games and Community hated.)
Nexon….no thx.I dont play the games where publisher block ppl from different countries.
They all suck the same so deal with it.
Oh this looks interes-… Nexon? Nope! Nopenopenopenope! Nooooooope.
its pretty weird that this publisher is being really quiet about this game :/


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In February 2007, Melissa Etheridge celebrated a career milestone with a victory in the "Best Song" category at the Academy® Awards for "I Need to Wake Up," written for the Al Gore documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth. Over the course of her more than two decades as a performer and songwriter, Etheridge has shown herself to be an artist who has never allowed "inconvenient truths" to keep her down. Earlier in her recording career, Etheridge acknowledged her sexual orientation when it was considered less than prudent to do so. In October 2004, Etheridge was diagnosed with breast cancer, a health battle that, with her typical tenacity, she won. Despite losing her hair from chemotherapy, Etheridge appeared on the 2005 Grammy® telecast to sing "Piece of My Heart" in tribute to Janis Joplin. By doing so she gave hope to many women afflicted with the disease.
Born in Leavenworth, Kansas, Melissa Etheridge picked up the guitar at the age of eight and began playing in local bands in her teens. After completing high school, Etheridge was accepted as a student at Boston's Berklee College of Music, but left after only one year to make her way as a performer in Los Angeles. Her bluesy vocal style and riveting stage presence began earning Etheridge a strong following. Legend has it that in a chance encounter at a small club in Long Beach with music industry legend and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell she was signed on the spot leading Blackwell to confess that he felt "The future of Rock and Roll has a female face".
Melissa's first album, Melissa Etheridge (1988), was a critically-acclaimed debut that led to an invitation to sing on the 1989 Grammy® Awards broadcast. For several years, her popularity built around such memorable originals as "Bring Me Some Water," "No Souvenirs" and "Ain't It Heavy," for which she won a Grammy® in 1992. Etheridge hit her commercial and artistic stride with her fourth album, Yes I Am (1993). The collection featured the massive hits, "I'm the Only One" and "Come to My Window," a searing song of longing that brought Etheridge her second Grammy® Award for Best Female Rock Performance. In 1995, Etheridge issued her highest charting album, Your Little Secret, which was distinguished by the hit single, "I Want to Come Over." Her astounding success that year led to Etheridge receiving the Songwriter of the Year honor at the ASCAP Pop Awards in 1996.
Melissa continued to write, record, and tour throughout the '90s and into the new millennium, releasing Skin (2001) and the upbeat Lucky (2004) along with her DVDs Live And Alone (2002) and Lucky Live (2004). 2005 marked the release of Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled, which includes "I Run for Life," commissioned by Ford Cares as part of their cancer initiative in support of The Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure. The album was recently re-released in an Eco-pak, to include Melissa's Oscar® winning song "I Need To Wake Up." In April 2007, Melissa Etheridge received the distinguished ASCAP Founders Award and released her ninth studio album, The Awakening, selected by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of their Top 50 Albums of 2007. In 2009, Melissa released her 10th studio album, Fearless Love, to a Top 10 Billboard debut. 2011 was an exciting year for Melissa. She made her Broadway debut as St. Jimmy in Green Day's rock opera, American Idiot, and received her Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2012, she released her most recent album 4th St. Feeling. Melissa will perform sold out shows throughout Europe, Australia, and North America. When Melissa is not on tour, she records her syndicated Melissa Etheridge Radio Show for daily broadcast on stations throughout the US and Canada.


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Miss Samoa Pageant sponsorship
The McDonald's Family Restaurant has secured the naming rights for the Miss Samoa Pageant 2017. The $100,000 deal was announced during a press conference at McDonald's in Apia. the Samoa Observer reported yesterday.
McDonald's President and Owner, Tautolo Aogaleatu Tautolo, said the franchise's involvement in this year's pageant is the beginning of a long partnership with Samoa that will benefit all parties.
"I remain firm in my resolve that despite our different political circumstances the two Samoas are one," said Tautolo.
This is not the first time McDonald's has offered financial assistance to the Miss Samoa Pageant and the Miss South Pacific.
"This is our way of giving back to the community," said Tautolo. "After all it's the community that comes out and supports McDonald's and this is our way of giving back."
Samoa Events Inc. President, Laeimau Oketevi Tanuvasa, accepted the donation, saying the funds reflect McDonald's commitment to help the two Samoas.
"It also reaffirms that McDonald and S.E.I. are united when it comes to empowering women through the pageant to become assets to the society, community, family and country," said Laeimau.
A member of the S.E.I., Nanai Lave Tuiletufuga, confirmed there are nine contestants for this year's pageant.
In 2016, Samoa Events Inc. was awarded the Miss Samoa Pageant contract for three years, as a result of its successful Expression of Interest and Technical Proposal.
Samoa Events Inc. is a group made up of the 1981 graduating Form 6 classes from the different schools throughout Samoa.
This unique group of professional and talented individuals in their own respective fields began their journey as classmates at Apia Infant in 1969, then to Apia Primary School, Leifiifi Intermediate School and to different colleges with the majority attending Samoa College, St Joseph's College, St Mary's College, Chanel College, Avele College, Leulumoega Fou College and Logoipulotu in Savai'i. (Source: Samoa Observer)
McDONALD'S EXPANSION IN SAMOA
The chief executive Tautolo, said his company plans to spend $US3.5 million on an expansion.
He said the restaurants would be built in Apia and at Faleolo Airport, and also on Savaii in the Salelologa township.
Tautolo said the existing restaurant in Apia would also be renovated.
"It is going to take seven months and we didn't want to close the restaurant and so we will pick up the renovation while we still open the restaurant so we can still provide the jobs for our staff," he said.
Tautolo revealed his plans while presenting $US50,000 to sponsor the upcoming Miss Samoa beauty pageant. (Source: RNZI)


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Nat is a product architect at CogniToy LLC. He can be contacted at [email protected]
Item 31 of Scott Meyers's book More Effective C++ (Addison-Wesley, 1996) discusses the problem of making a C++ function virtual on more than one of its arguments. To paraphrase Meyers's example: Say you're writing a simple game program set in space, using a collection of polymorphic GameObjects: SpaceShip, SpaceStation, and Asteroid, that move around and sometimes collide. Clearly, it matters a great deal which two objects are colliding. An Asteroid colliding with a SpaceShip might do major damage, whereas a low-speed collision between a SpaceShip and a SpaceStation could be regarded as a successful attempt to dock. So when you discover that two GameObjects are colliding, how should you invoke the appropriate code to process the collision?
Meyers presentsand dismissesa couple of obvious, but unfortunate, approaches: using the C++ virtual-function machinery on each argument and writing a series of if statements that test runtime type information (RTTI) from typeid(). From a maintenance perspective, each of these is far too similar to the dreaded "Big Switch Statement."
Instead, he suggests the clever technique of initially using typeid(type).name() on each argument type to obtain a distinct string, and building a map<pair<string, string>, function_ptr> to register each processing function. Then, given a pair of actual arguments, Meyers uses typeid(reference).name() on each argument to get the strings with which to perform a map lookup.
He points out that there is a drawback to this techniqueit doesn't deal with inheritance. In his example, there's a registered processing function, shipAsteroid(), that expects actual parameters (SpaceShip, Asteroid). If you derive CommercialShip and MilitaryShip from SpaceShip, you might expect that when a MilitaryShip collides with an Asteroid, you'd call shipAsteroid() as before. Alas, it doesn't work that way. "Even though a MilitaryShip can be treated like a SpaceShip," notes Meyers, "lookup() has no way of knowing that. Furthermore, there is no easy way of telling it."
In Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied (Addison-Wesley, 2001), Andrei Alexandrescu also discusses multiple dispatch. "I am convinced," he writes, "there is a solution to the inheritance problem. But, alas, writers of books have deadlines, too."
I am indebted to both writers for most of what follows. I have found that with a somewhat different container, you can get reasonably good results.
Consider a small class (Listing One) to represent an arbitrary pair of GameObject subclass types. You can define a subclass to represent the types (SpaceShip, Asteroid) as in Listing Two, where you take advantage of dynamic_cast to do the type matching. It's important to work with pointers because dynamic_cast produces a zero pointer if the actual object in question cannot be downcast to the specified pointer type.
When you generalize that subclass (as in Listing Three), you just construct a container of such objects and search that. The important point is that, even for a subclass object myMilitaryShip, dynamic_cast<const SpaceShip*> produces a nonzero pointer. The catch is that this test is ambiguous. You still have the general-purpose processing function shipAsteroid(SpaceShip&, Asteroid&)but suppose that MilitaryShips get special treatment (maybe they're more heavily armored) and need a special routine such as militaryShipAsteroid(MilitaryShip&, Asteroid&). Every MilitaryShip object actually matches both routines, so this registry can't rely on unique lookup.
The problem resembles catching an exception of a particular type. Suppose you have an Error base class with a subclass ErrorRuntime, which in turn has a subclass ErrorBounds. You could write incorrect code like that in Listing Four where, if dubiousRoutine() throws an ErrorBounds exception, it will not be caught by the ErrorBounds clause. Every ErrorBounds object is an ErrorRuntime as well, so that exception will be caught by the ErrorRuntime clause instead. To distinguish between ErrorBounds and all other ErrorRuntime exceptions, the classes in question must be written like Listing Five.
In the same spirit, you can construct a sequence container (a list) of EntryBase objects and perform a linear search. Invoke the first Entry for which matches() returns truethus, the burden is on you to populate the list in a reasonable order.
Naturally, you can't just construct a list<EntryBase>: That would slice every Entry subclass object, which is hardly what you want. To be properly polymorphic, your list must store pointers to EntryBase. But that raises uncomfortable questions about the life span of the EntryBase objects: When the list is destroyed, what happens to all of those objects?
This is what smart pointers are all about. std::auto_ptr can't be used in STL containers. But the Boost Library (http://www .boost.org/) provides a couple of varieties of smart pointers, and boost::shared_ptr seems ideal for the job. For convenience, I'll typedef boost::shared_ptr<EntryBase> as EntryPtr.
The container, then, is a list<EntryPtr>; see Listing Six. How will you actually search it? Well, you'll be called with two specific GameObject (subclass) references, as in Listing Seven.
boost::bind() is so cool that it deserves more discussion than I can give it here. For our purposes, the boost::bind() syntax in Listing Seven essentially says: For each item in mDispatch, call matches(param1, param2), and stop when it returns true. boost::bind() automatically handles the fact that the items in mDispatch are smart pointers, as well as the fact that matches() is actually a member function of the referenced class.
Once we've found the right EntryPtr, calling it isn't hard. You must bind some sort of function or function object (called a "functor"); see Listing Eight. Any class with an operator() method accepting two GameObject& parameters works.
Since each Entry subclass already knows its Functor's parameter types, you can also equip it with a virtual method to perform the appropriate downcasting, as in Listing Nine. Therefore, you can provide a function like Listing Ten. This lets you code each Functor using the specific GameObject subclasses that it expects to process. For example, you can write shipAsteroid(SpaceShip&, Asteroid&) rather than shipAsteroid(GameObject&, GameObject&) with internal downcasts.
All that remains is to populate the DispatchTable. You want to provide a function to append new Entry objects to the existing container. Naturally, since this function must instantiate a template class, it must be a template function.
The template function must accept two "types" as well as a Functor. While it should be possible to provide those types as explicit template parameters (for example, add<SpaceShip, Asteroid>(shipAsteroid)), the Microsoft Visual C++ 6 compiler (to name one example) doesn't support that construct.
But you can borrow again from Alexandrescu and wrap these types as lightweight objects:
template<typename T>
struct Type {};
This lets you pass these types to the template function as extra parameters; see Listing Eleven. Then, as both Meyers and Alexandrescu suggest, you can add support for symmetry. Your collision-detection algorithm might turn up a given pair of colliding GameObjects in either order, (SpaceShip, Asteroid) or (Asteroid, SpaceShip). You don't want your collision-processing code to have to be sensitive to that.
Listing Twelve shows an add() function that supports inserting symmetrical Entry objects. This usage of boost::bind() simply reverses the Functor's actual arguments. Having symmetrical entries in the registry lets you write Listing Thirteen without worrying about whether the collision pair was actually detected as (Asteroid, SpaceShip). Both cases are handled by the same code.
I generalized the resulting DoubleDispatch class (available electronically; see "Resource Center," page 7) as a template so that you need not constrain the client to use a specific parameter base classor a specific return type for the registered functions.
To illustrate how you can use this class, I've included a test program (also available electronically).
The excerpt in Listing Fourteen shows the calls that instantiate and populate the dispatcher, along with some hardcoded test collisions. That program produces the output in Listing Fifteen.
A number of refinements are possible:
- It would be useful to be able to erase() a specific Entry from the DoubleDispatch table. This is relatively straightforward: The Entry template class can capture its parameter types' typeid() values and implement an operator==() method that compares them directly. I wanted to avoid cluttering this discussion with that mechanism, though; the lookup and dispatch code does not depend on typeid() comparisons.
- Not every C++ compiler accepts void as the ReturnType template parameter because of the constructs shown in Listing Sixteen. There's template magic you can use to address that, but for present purposes, it only obscures the code.
- A more serious limitation is the need to register processing functions in a specific order. That implies that all registration calls are made by a central piece of code, which means that adding new GameObject subclasses requires maintaining that code.
I've also built a Java variation on DoubleDispatch (available electronically) where you need not break out EntryBase and Entry: Each Entry simply references the Class objects representing its two parameter types. And given the Class.isAssignableFrom(Class) method, I built an Entry.shouldPrecede(Entry) method that permits DoubleDispatch.add() to search the existing list for a good place to insert the new Entry. So in Java, you can call DoubleDispatch.add() to register new processing routines from many places in your program.
I would like to do the same in C++, but it's hard to compare two Entry template objects constructed at different times. I want to be able to examine the class types embedded in each Entry object to discover inheritance relationshipsbut I know of no way to do that without actually attempting to instantiate an object of one of the parameter types, which seems like a bad idea.
It's worth noting that Alexandrescu describes template magic that you can use to discover the inheritance relationship between two classes. To do that, however, both class types must be available at the same point in the code. And if you're willing to stipulate that the relevant types must all be available at the same place, then you don't need to extend DoubleDispatch because you can simply write the add() calls in an appropriate order.
Listing One
class EntryBase { public: virtual bool matches(const GameObject& param1, const GameObject& param2) const = 0; };
Listing Two
class Entry: public EntryBase { public: virtual bool matches(const GameObject& param1, const GameObject& param2) const { return (dynamic_cast<const SpaceShip*>(¶m1) != 0 && dynamic_cast<const Asteroid*>(¶m2) != 0); } };
Listing Three
template<typename Type1, typename Type2> class Entry: public EntryBase { public: virtual bool matches(const GameObject& param1, const GameObject& param2) const { return (dynamic_cast<const Type1*>(¶m1) != 0 && dynamic_cast<const Type2*>(¶m2) != 0); } };
Listing Four
try { dubiousRoutine(); } catch (const ErrorRuntime& e) { ... } catch (const ErrorBounds& e) // whoops, never reached! { ... } catch (const Error& e) { ... }
Listing Five
try { dubiousRoutine(); } catch (const ErrorBounds& e) // better { ... } catch (const ErrorRuntime& e) { ... } catch (const Error& e) { ... }
Listing Six
typedef boost::shared_ptr<EntryBase> as EntryPtr; typedef std::list<EntryPtr> DispatchTable; DispatchTable mDispatch;
Listing Seven
// Look up the first matching entry. EntryPtr lookup(const GameObject& param1, const GameObject& param2) const { DispatchTable::const_iterator found = std::find_if(mDispatch.begin(), mDispatch.end(), boost::bind(&EntryBase::matches, _1, boost::ref(param1), boost::ref(param2))); if (found != mDispatch.end()) return *found; return 0; }
Listing Eight
template<typename Type1, typename Type2, class Functor> class Entry: public EntryBase { // Bind whatever function or function object the instantiator passed. Functor mFunc; public: Entry(Functor func): mFunc(func) {} virtual bool matches(const GameObject& param1, const GameObject& param2) const { ... } };
Listing Nine
class EntryBase { public: ... virtual void operator()(GameObject& param1, GameObject& param2) const = 0; }; template<typename Type1, typename Type2, class Functor> class Entry: public EntryBase { Functor mFunc; public: Entry(Functor func): mFunc(func) {} ... virtual void operator()(GameObject& param1, GameObject& param2) const { mFunc(dynamic_cast<Type1&>(param1), dynamic_cast<Type2&>(param2)); } };
Listing Ten
void call(GameObject& param1, GameObject& param2) const { EntryPtr found = lookup(param1, param2); if (found.get() == 0) return; (*found)(param1, param2); // call the Functor we found }
Listing Eleven
template<typename Type1, typename Type2, class Functor> void insert(const Type<Type1>&, const Type<Type2>&, Functor func) { mDispatch.insert(mDispatch.end(), EntryPtr(new Entry<Type1, Type2, Functor>(func))); }
Listing Twelve
template<typename Type1, typename Type2, class Functor> void add(const Type<Type1>& t1, const Type<Type2>& t2, Functor func, bool symmetrical = false) { insert(t1, t2, func); if (symmetrical) insert(t2, t1, boost::bind(func, _2, _1)); }
Listing Thirteen
void shipAsteroid(SpaceShip& ship, Asteroid& rock) { cout << rock.stringize() << " has pulverized " << ship.stringize() << endl; }
Listing Fourteen
typedef DoubleDispatch<int, GameObject> DD; DD dispatcher; dispatcher.add(DD::Type<SpaceShip>(), DD::Type<Asteroid>(), shipAsteroid, true); dispatcher.add(DD::Type<SpaceShip>(), DD::Type<SpaceStation>(), shipStation, true); dispatcher.add(DD::Type<Asteroid>(), DD::Type<SpaceStation>(), asteroidStation, true); // Instantiate a few GameObjects. Make sure we refer to them // polymorphically, and don't let them leak. std::auto_ptr<GameObject> home(new SpaceStation("Terra Station")); std::auto_ptr<GameObject> obstacle(new Asteroid("Ganymede")); std::auto_ptr<GameObject> tug(new CommercialShip("Pilotfish")); std::auto_ptr<GameObject> patrol(new MilitaryShip("Enterprise")); // Try colliding them. dispatcher(*home, *tug); // reverse params, SpaceShip subclass dispatcher(*patrol, *home); // forward params, SpaceShip subclass dispatcher(*obstacle, *home); // forward params dispatcher(*home, *obstacle); // reverse params dispatcher(*tug, *obstacle); // forward params, SpaceShip subclass dispatcher(*obstacle, *patrol); // reverse params, SpaceShip subclass
Listing Fifteen
class CommercialShip Pilotfish has docked at class SpaceStation Terra Station class MilitaryShip Enterprise has docked at class SpaceStation Terra Station class Asteroid Ganymede has damaged class SpaceStation Terra Station class Asteroid Ganymede has damaged class SpaceStation Terra Station class Asteroid Ganymede has pulverized class CommercialShip Pilotfish class Asteroid Ganymede has pulverized class MilitaryShip Enterprise
Listing Sixteen
ReturnType operator()(ParamBaseType& param1, ParamBaseType& param2) const { EntryPtr found = lookup(param1, param2); if (found.get() == 0) return ReturnType(); // return void() ?!? return (*found)(param1, param2); //return (value returned by void function) }


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Tue, 31 May 2016
Adron talks with voice actress Linda Ballantyne, who is best known as the voice of Sailor Moon from the english language version of the anime television series. She has also provided voices for Air Master, Avengers: United They Stand, Care Bears, Ying! Yang! Yo! and many more series and movies. They discuss how she got the job on Sailor Moon (replacing the original voice actor), working in the fast-turnaround environment of adapted cartoons, and why original animation programming is far more lucrative for voice actors than adaptions.
Direct download: n4al64-linda-ballantyne.mp3
Category:Voice Acting -- posted at: 12:01am CST


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This week's assignment: Lots going on. Pick your own topic.
To see bias in action, watch how a story changes over successive retellings. A woman calls a university football coach and discloses a two-year history of serious domestic violence by his assistant. The coach tells the athletic director, who tells the chancellor. Each man's retelling dilutes and whittles away the woman's story. Her third-hand suffering has now shrunk so small that the chancellor considers it unnecessary to notify the office designed handle such things — people trained to listen to her story and help the chancellor avoid the trap of bias into which he has fallen.
The story hits the media and explodes. Panicked, the university begins another retelling. It hires a team of lawyers who write a thorough and harsh report — which a second team of lawyers later digests into something softer and blander. That second version gets even further masticated by the university president and regents. With each version, the tumor of personal culpability seems to shrink. So it's no surprise that the punishments prescribed at the end are little more than a heartburn pill before the main meal: the coach's $14.85 million contract extension.
Thus the university's response to the Tumpkin fiasco replicates the conduct giving rise to it, proving again that CU prioritizes football over women's safety, gender equity, and its own integrity.
I've always loved CU and valued my degree. But if two decades of scandal, anguish, investment, and "reform" have brought us back to this ugly charade, then I've lost faith — and I'm losing allegiance.
John Tweedy, firstname.lastname@example.com
I'm not really a gardener. Last spring I hired Jerri's Gardens to design and install all new landscaping at my house. The yard had been destroyed during a massive remodel.
When asked what plants I wanted and how I wanted things laid out, I replied, "I like pink and daisies and those big white puffy flowers." Jerri was pretty much on her own. The plan included a patio, grass and a raised vegetable bed. There were trees, little paths and lots of perennials.
Last summer it looked nice, but this year — wow, it really filled out. Every week something new starts to bloom. Today it was the daisies. A yellow rose and a honeysuckle are racing to see who can climb from the yard to the back deck first. The peonies and the lilacs are gone now, but I haven't forgotten their distinct smells and subtle colors.
After a day filled with worry about work, family, and world events, it is a simple pleasure to arrive home and see this winsome place. The garden has a life of its own. Each plant wants to set down roots so it can thrive and grow. They have a plan for surviving through the winter. They adapt to the soil and the sun in the place they find themselves. The beauty they create is integral to their survival.
There is a lesson in this garden. I hope I figure it out before too long.
Judy Amabile, email@example.com
Let's put a lid on name-calling.
Violence of any kind, particularly gun violence, is horrific. Several days ago a politically disgruntled person shot up a Republican baseball practice with an assault rife. This sort of violence doesn't just happen. It is the result of pent-up anger and frustration in weak minds. This violence is triggered by endless hateful words spewing back and forth between our two polarizing political parties and reported endlessly and mindlessly by cable television networks.
A month or so ago I got rap on the knuckles from the editor. It seems that in one 240-word piece I called a major industry miscreants, hoodlums, and thugs. I don't apologize to the industry but I do apologize to you.
Here's why. Dave said, "...take it easy on name-calling...I use outrage as an occasional editorial method when I think it's the only way to draw attention to something . . . well . . . outrageous, but as a steady diet it can make a writer seem unhinged."
Thinking about being called unhinged by an editor made me smile, but he was right and I have tried to tone down my rhetoric. It is all too easy to shout epithets at one another. The mean-spirited words accomplish nothing positive and just perpetuate the divide among us all.
Let's make an effort to put a lid on the rhetoric and move forward using a civil tongue with one another.
Alan Stark, firstname.lastname@example.com
Two weeks ago, I was so excited about the new Baseline underpass that I got up early to ride it the first day it opened (and make a video of that ride for my out-of-town dad). It was then that I had a startling realization: I can't figure out what the underpass connects exactly, other than some CU trees and a semi-occupied shopping center.
CU, we recently learned, is where football and reputation trump ethics. All I can say for the Tumpkin case is the Sports Gods were already harsher arbiters of justice than President Benson wound up being if you consider the Buffs' 38-8 defeat with the alleged abuser calling the defensive plays.
A closer score was in my second-June-weekend-in-Boulder Twitter poll : "Who wins in a fight? Ironman triathletes or deadheads?" (Triathletes won: 56-44). Unfortunately, national politics being what they are, I am ashamed to admit to even using Twitter. Sometimes it all just exhausts me.
But: There are peas and cherries at the Farmer's Market, where a Boulder program that doubles the value of SNAP food assistance dollars has expanded statewide. This enables purchase of local fruits and vegetables and supports farmers at a free community event accessible to all demographics. This simple program makes so much clear sense, and it is thriving. I love it. There's hope.
There must be hope in a world where the Rockies are playoff worthy. And guys...this year they just might be.
Mara Abbott, email@example.com
What's up with the push to eliminate the four-body review process contained in the Boulder Valley Comp Plan? The issue at hand is who is going to make decisions regarding land use in Gunbarrel, Twin Lakes, East Arapahoe and CU South (i.e., Area II). Mind you, all of these areas are outside city limits. Yet the city of Boulder has dictated to the county that they will no longer tolerate the involvement of the county Planning Commission in any decision regarding Area II.
Unincorporated Boulder County residents shake their heads at another instance of the county commissioners doing whatever the city tells them to do. Even if it violates state statute. Colorado Revised Statute 30-28-106 clearly states that "it is the duty of a county planning commission to make and adopt a master plan for the physical development of the unincorporated territory of the county."
The really sad thing though is that both the city and the county have simply lied about the reason for making this change. They both claim that Area II is almost completely built out (really? CU South looks like a field to me) and that the city could simply annex Area II (no they can't without the consent of the affected residents). Maybe the real reason is that county residents need to be taught a lesson about what is going to be built in Twin Lakes. Or about who is going to control the Xcel substation in Gunbarrel.
Chuck Wibby, email@example.com
The Camera's editorial advisory board members are: Mara Abbott, Judy Amabile, Rett Ertl, Michelle Estrella, Fern O'Brien, Cha Cha Spinrad, Alan Stark, John Tweedy, Chuck Wibby and Don Wrege. (Steve Fisher is an emeritus member.)


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It has been raining for the whole week, with occasional thunder and hailstones. Yesterday was the first fully sunny day and finally I could take a few photos. We went out for lunch and my look was rather simple and casual: a white cotton top over baroque print cropped pants. The pants are a recent purchase as well as the sandals. The purse was gifted to me some time ago but it was the first time that I actually used it.
The moonstone choker consists of stones of a blue and white sheen. My design brought to life by local Nepali jewelers.


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Employees stole or lost at least $1.5 million in government property at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and lab supervisors later warned their staff to "resist the temptation to spill your guts" about the wrongdoing, according to an Energy Department investigation released Thursday .
The probe by the Energy Department's Office of Inspector General represents the first official confirmation of widespread financial fraud at the New Mexico nuclear weapons research lab and management's failure to address it. The facility is operated by the University of California under contract with the Energy Department.
The report corroborates the concerns about weak internal controls and property management issues first raised by two whistle-blowing investigators, Glenn Walp and Steven Doran, who were fired by the lab in November after reporting the thefts. The report terms their dismissals "incomprehensible."
The two men were reinstated by UC this month after their allegations of a cover-up were made public.
The report comes as the Energy Department is reviewing whether it should break UC's contract to manage Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the nation's two nuclear weapons labs with combined annual budgets of more than $3 billion.


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I was so proud and excited about my new $20 running shoes. At Scheel's, the cheapest running shoes they sold were $100. I was laughing in Scheel's face as I put on my new shoes, stepped out the door, and headed out for a run.
I started off on my usual one-mile loop. Man, these shoes feel great! I was really patting myself on the back for this great find. Then I hit mile two. And the discomfort started to set in. I told myself to push through, it was just temporary. My feet weren't used to them yet. But as I rounded the corner of the second mile, I decided I had better just quit before I really hurt my feet.
I had developed big blisters on both of my arches. After giving the shoes one more chance, and experiencing the same result during my first mile, I headed back to the mall and got myself some real, high-performance running shoes.
So far, so good with the new kicks, and I still only spent $50. I'm less than six weeks from the race now, and hit a wall at eight miles, so I really need to pick up the pace, literally!


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The end of spring & beginning of this summer were strangely quiet (business-wise) for me. There were some initial requests for pricing & availability, but nothing resulted from them, and even those requests were fewer and far between than this time last year. It was a little scary, but it was only a few months and I didn't worry about it too much. Any longer and I would have started sweating.
Thankfully, last week changed that, I had an influx of design requests and even better new customers! Yay! I was so involved I didn't have time for, or completely forgot about, blogging and checking social media and checking in on all my favorites in Bloglovin'. I'll post some updates this week on my new client work. Yay, again!
Back to the "business is slow" issue… Here are some things to do to help you through that, while still remaining engaged and profitable.
- Revamp your website and/or blog.
- Redesign & get new business cards.
- Write blog posts.
- Take an online class, or a small business class in your community.
- Check in on past clients via email.
- Round up some testimonials or share testimonials from your favorite clients on Twitter and Facebook.
- Identify three areas of life/business where you can start saving money.
- Host a giveaway for your business and promote, promote, promote it!
- Create a free resource for your website visitors to download and love you for.
- Create an e-course or write an e-book. Nothing like a little passive income to cushion the blow of down time.
- Expand your product line, or improve on what you already have.
- Find someone to collaborate with.
- Check Google Analytics and see which posts and pages are your most popular.
- Then update and improve on those popular posts from your archive, especially any outdated content and the images & featured images.
- Find yourself a peer group. I joined a few Facebook groups recently for bloggers and designers.
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So I use VS2005 VB.Net to develop essentially a hello world COM component. It works fine on my machine. But when I tried to execute the following VBA code:
Sub Test()on another machine with identical version of Excel 2000, the above code in line L1 fails with a HRESULT of 0x80070002. Strange I thought! It is complaining that it cannot find the assembly.
Dim x as MyComClass
Set x = MyComClass ' L1
x.SayHi( "Paul" )
End Sub
My initial reaction is to perform a RegAsm /codeBase. This still fails. Then I install it into the GAC and it still fails.
That's odd. Finally, firing up Process Explorer reveals the reason.
It turns out that some components are loaded before me that required CLR1 and since only one version of CLR is permitted per process, my demo COM component, a CLR2 assembly, is not compatible with CLR1. Hence it is reporting the correct error message - file not found as CLR1 cannot understand the CLR2 meta data.
Once this becomes obvious to me, the logical thing to do is to give Excel.exe its own config file which specify the supported runtime to be of version 2. This forces those CLR1 components to run in CLR2.
The morale of the story is that: if you can considering writing COM component in .Net, it is wise to write it in CLR1 because in this way, it can be pulled up to CLR2 automatically and you do not need an application configuration file to do that.


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Hot Air Balloons will set up and launch from 6-7 a.m. See them launch and then run/walk through the flat, scenic Southeast Neighborhood!
Registration Fee includes timed race, packet including t-shirt AND pancake breakfast following race. Spectators are welcome to join in the pancake breakfast for $7 per person.
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Registration will be available online and via hard copy starting March 1. Please register by June 30 to guarantee yourself a t-shirt.
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DATE: Saturday, July 14, 2018
TIME: 7:30 a.m. Race Starts. Walkers/Strollers In Back Please.
No Dogs Are Allowed.
LOCATION: Wausau Downtown Airport
REGISTRATION: $25 pre-race registration
(credit card fees apply). ONLINE REGISTRATION CLOSES AT 10PM ON THURSDAY, JULY 12. Registration Deadline is June 30 to guarantee a t-shirt! Day-of registration will be $30 and a shirt is not guaranteed. Event will be full at 1,000 entries. Event will benefit Wausau Events which is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
Register Online Here!
PACKET PICK-UP: Packets can be picked up Friday night at the Camper at the Balloon & Rib Fest from 5-7pm or Saturday morning from 6am to 7:15am. Packets will include your race number with chip, race t-shirt, pancake breakfast ticket and more!
COURSE: The course starts and ends at the airport. It is flat, fast and scenic! View the 2018 Route here!
AGE GROUPS: There will be Male & Female Age Groups. Awards will be given to the top overall male and female runners as well as the top 3 finishers in each age group and gender. Awards will be handed out around 8:30am. Your race number must be clearly visible in order to register a time.
Age Groups Defined:
-14 & Under
PARKING: Parking is limited around the Airport. Please park on the EAST side of the neighborhood (closer to Grand Avenue) as the race will run along the west side. Please obey all no parking signs on the streets!
WEATHER: The race will be ran rain or shine unless there is severe weather. There are no refunds due to race cancellation.
PANCAKES: Participants will receive a complimentary pancake breakfast as part of their registration. Family members, friends, spectators are welcome to join the racers and pay for a pancake breakfast as well for $7 per person! The breakfast is put on by the Kiwanis Club and runs from 6am to 11am.
BALLOONS: The Hot Air Balloons will set-up and launch between 6 and 6:30am, as long as the weather is right for them. Be sure to arrive for the spectacular site!
RESULTS: 2018 Results
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The race begins and ends at the Wausau Downtown Airport. Parking will be limited so be sure to arrive early. Parking is at Airport Park a few blocks away or on the city streets. The Wausau Downtown Airport is at 725 Woods Place, Wausau, WI 54403


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I made this sweet first birthday cake for the sweetest little boy. The jungle theme was really fun and gave me the opportunity to not only make some awesome gumpaste figures but extend the theme by adding animal print to the cake rounds. Happy Birthday Ade!
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Plaza Project in Phase I, applications revised, goals presented
The Thursday meeting of the Urban Renewal Board held some important components and one live confrontation on the dormant property ordinance. Bob Offutt of Ordway bought TO's Tavern property at tax auction. He appeared to answer questions and give his opinions to the board. The board questioned him about his plans for the property, since the city has been trying to acquire it for the improvement project on Santa Fe in the block from the highway to second street.
Offutt said the building has been buttoned up to the point that it may not be entered. He also said he had intended to rehabilitate the building but his business prospects had backed out when they saw the condition of the building. Asked by Ed Vela about his opinion of the dormant property ordinance, which requires payment increasing in amount for years no effort is made to improve the property, he was against it and felt that it decreased the tax delinquency sales.
Mayor Jeffri Pruyn said: "Pardon me, I am Jeffri Pruyn. I was recently elected mayor and I would like to explain the reason for the dormant property ordinance. We do not want people to sit on property until it crumbles. We want a vital downtown area that will attract investors, not discourage them." She went on to tell him that we really want people who intend to improve property and put it to use. She said she believes he is one of those people, and that Urban Renewal is willing to help him. On this, Chair Nancy Bennett concurred.
Offutt said he understands their position now and can see how a city would not want its downtown to deteriorate. Pruyn said she was sorry that the ordinance puts some people in a hard position, but is glad it requires them to make decisions about their property.
At the beginning of the meeting, Board Member Rebecca Goodwin had reported on the status of the Plaza Building Project, which is the city's own derelict building rehabilitation project. The grant money for the first phase of rehabilitation, stabilization, has now been received by the Southeast Colorado Creative Partnership and the buttoning up process will begin on the First Street building that has been the subject of so much local controversy. She also explained how the tax credits from that project are probably a couple of years off.
Joe Ayala presented a revised version of the loan/grant application, requiring thorough reports from everyone along the lines of reports presented by Taler Stokes for the Sign Shop Building, including back-up information such as contracts and correspondence. Also, if the applicant sells the building within one year of completions, the URB recovers 100% on money advance - within two years, 60%, and within three years, 33%. The report and changes were accepted by vote.
The Wilsons appeared on their own behalf, asking to purchase a lot owned by the city in the old Antelope Trail area, 18th and Adams. They offered the appraised price from the county assessor, $3,686, since the lot is in the county but not in the city. It is in an area that needs cleaning up. George Larsen moved that the offer be accepted, and the group so voted.
Urban Renewal/Economic Development Director Cynthia Nieb presented a list of goals for Urban Renewal which were suggested by Board Member Ed Stafford. They are as follows: 1. Organize a Citizen Corps for volunteer construction, cleanup, and beautification. 2. More signage on 1st Street (Front Street - Hwy 50). 3. More Murals on 1st street depicting things unique to La Junta, especially Bent's Old Fort. 4. Create a transportation hub for buses, trains, and transport to local attractions. 5. Alter the already-constructed gateway to Santa Fe Plaza to become a modified welcome center. 6. Repair sidewalk on southeast side of 5th and Colorado. 7. Promote Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site more. 8. Ride the trail into La Junta from south or east and observe backs of buildings. 9. Restore Old West idea to buildings getting facelifts. Nieb and Stafford believe in volunteer effort, correcting proglems, creating attractive facades and approaches, and promoting the town.
She urged complete transparency and an active plan to become a full member of Downtown Colorado. Larsen, referring to the problem of pricing real estate, suggested the group needs a member who is an active real estate person, familiar with commercial as well as residential prices and commercial development. Board member Susie Sarlo agreed that persons with certain needed skill sets be recruited.
Pruyn reported on the Saving Places conference and reaffirmed her commitment to developing the downtown area, including upstairs living quarters above businesses and advancing the affiliation with Downtown Colorado. She also affirms a Downtown Travel Hub, and more recreation activities, such as a splash park on Santa Fe Plaza. "The ball is rolling," she said. "There's foundation work that has to be done."


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Loukoumania … the taste of Greece
Rupee Lane St., Villanueva Village, Paranaque City
The blues and the whites … the sun and the sea … my name, Vanessa (butterfly in Greek) … it is all about Greece and more .
Have you ever loved a place you have never been to? Have you ever loved something but can't touch it? It is in my bucket list … and as part of my journey , I'd stop and dream awhile … in a Greek nook just outside the Villanueva Gate of Multinational. This is owned and managed by Michael Winn , a Greek but born and bred in Brisbane, Australia. He is fun, hospitable and generous.
SOUVLAKI (pork or chicken) Php 95 ala carte / Php 150 platter w/ salad, chips, tzatziki
"Souvla" means skewer . This is a popular Greek fast food consisting of meat usually pork in skewers. It is eaten in the skewer or with pita bread with a sauce called tzatziki. This has been said to be a fave among the ancient Greeks and earliest references are found in Homer. In Santorini , excavations enearthed skewers which could have been used earlier than 17th century.
Souvlaki is usually marinated in oregano, pepper, olive oil, garlic and lemon juice then grilled for 5 minutes each side.
GYROS (pork or chicken) Php 100 ala carte / Php 155 platter w/ salad, chips, tzatziki
"Gyros" means turn. This is meat roasted vertically srved in a pita bread with tomato, onion and tzatziki sauce. This is akin to shawarma.
GREEK SALAD – this salad shouts summer – all crisp, fresh and lemony. This is usually consisted of feta cheese, tomato, bell pepper , onions, olives, salt, dried oregano and olive oil. This is palate cleansing. This is Greek goodness without the guilt.
(*) Greek DIP PLATTER WITH 2 PITA bread Php 240
My 1st encounter with this is in Mati in Rockwell . It is when I 1st fell in love with the Greek cuisine.
Pita Bread – "Pita" means solid or clotted . This flat slightly leavened wheat bread which is either round or oval is usually a staple in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean countries. This requires high amount of heat to cook. Php 11 per order
Tzatziki (garlic yogurt w/ cucumber) This is made of yoghurt which is usually served cold with cucumber, lemon, salt, garlic, olive oil, dill or parsley. This is the sauce for souvlaki and gyros.
Melitzanosalata (eggplant) This is made from mashed eggplant usually roasted mixed with olive oil and lemon juice.
(*) Hummus (chick peas) This is mashed chick peas (my fave) with lemon juice, thini, olive oil, salt and garlic.
PATATES TIGANITES Php 60 – this is fried potatoes which is crispy and delightful . This is usually a meze, a side dish in Greece but can also be eaten as a main dish for a light meal. Most Greeks don't usually drain the oil in absorbent paper towels but it is always a matter of choice.
LOUKOUMADES (honey puff) Php 50 . "Lokma" means mouthful or morsel. This is a fried-dough pastry served with confectioner's sugar and chocolate syrup.
Traditionally , this is usually soaked in sugar syrup or honey and cinnamon and served with sesame seeds.
BAKLAVA (walnut) Php 65 – Not in any way related to a good friend of ours. This traditional Persian dessert is made of layers of filo pastry filled with nuts (walnuts or pistacchio) and sweetened with honey . This is an oily dessert.
This word means "to pile up" bayla in Mongolia.
(*) KOURABIEDES (Greek Short Bread) Php 65- This is light short bread made with almonds. This is crescent in shape and dusted with confectioner's sugar. This is usually called polvoron in Spain and the Philippines. But unlike our typical polvoron this is harder. This is my fave in this restaurant when it comes to dessert.
You get FREE kourabiedes for every 250.00 purchase.
RIZOGALO (Rice Pudding) Php 50 – this is made from mixing rice with milk and water . Usually cinnamon is sprinkled on top. In the Philippines, this is champorado but without the cocoa.
GREEK COFFEE – this is akin to the Turkish Coffee which is "muddy" . The ground beans are boiled in a coffee pot usually with sugar and served in a cup to allow the grounds to settle. This is similar to our rice coffee but ours is better. This is not as strong as our coffee.
(*) MOSTRA RED WINE – Php 360 – 500 ml bottle – Greek Wine – this is a red semi-sweet wine. Soft in the mouth with cherry and sweet vanilla notes. I found my red wine . Ya Sou!!!
There is always a good thing around the bend …. a good find amongst the unsuspecting places … I found this when everything else is in limbo … when too confused , just throw your cares to the wind and say "Ya Sou!" Cheers!


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Hi, Love your site and stories especially those from older women, as I can relate more to those being in my mid 60's. My one experience you posted was about a train ride when I was way younger! I enjoyed reading the 'story' of older women who enjoy masturbation, and would like occasionally a man for oral. I have never had sex with a woman, but on few occasions have seen women who...well, I'd like to try first time. But...did not feel they were "approachable" oh well! Maybe one day!
I love having orgasms...at least once a day and quite often alone with my various 'toys'. But most of the time just gently rubbing my clit (lot of time in middle of night, when I am alone and...well, just decide to see if I can get aroused (I do most of the time!). No planning just decide to..cum!
Also, my boyfriend does not get hard enough to penetrate unless he has Viagra (fortunately using part of pill i.e. cutting it in half) works. However, we both get great sensations from masturbating usually ourselves as...we know how to how to get best pleasure. However, I do love it when he does oral on me frankly (and he knows this!) I get really big orgasms from oral, and not from intercourse (though of course I like him in me!)
Fortunately my clit is large or larger than ones I have seen on internet sites, which makes more for him to suck on, MmmMmm. As I get so much satisfaction from oral (I don't cum a lot but the feeling is so damned intense never like this when he is in me!). I'd like to cum more but never found out how i/we could make this happen, and I do try by really squeezing myself as I cum. If other women do manage to cum more this way- please let woman like me know!
He just likes me to stroke around his scrotum area as he masturbates (I tend to be bit rough, and he is circumcised), and this way we find gets him really aroused. He cums even if he is not as hard as he'd like (oh well!) Our fave technique is for him to cum just fingering me. Then, once I have short 'recovery' period ---a few minutes, he does the great oral on me. After I cum I then work on him as by this time he really is aroused, and we get him a nice orgasm.
So, guess if you have an older guy who does not get really hard at times have him practice oral (if he has not already!) and yeah, needs practice to get best technique! And like the 'anonymous' woman, I often wonder how many woman at my church (and other places where I see women of my age) also self indulge! Wish more older women would 'share', as I'd like to think that I am NOT one of the few older women who self indulges. Having written this, and getting somewhat aroused, and alone, I think I will get my fave dildo and give it and me a work out!


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Niittymaki making most of his chancesby Brian Compton
|Flyers goaltender Antero Niittymaki took advantage of a rare start by making 38 saves in Philadelphia's 1-0 victory over the Florida Panthers on Sunday.
Niitty Gritty -- He doesn't get the starting nod probably as often as he would like, but Antero Niittymaki certainly made the most of his rare appearance Sunday.
In just his 10th appearance of the season, the Flyers' No. 2 netminder stopped all 38 shots he faced -- including Radek Dvorak's penalty shot late in the first period -- leading Philadelphia to a 1-0 win over the Florida Panthers at the BankAtlantic Center. It was Niittymaki's first shutout of the season.
"It's not too tough," Niittymaki said when asked how difficult it is to stay focused as the backup goalie. "I've been doing it for a couple of months now. You kind of get used to it. You just have to work hard and try to be ready when you get the call."
Another unlikely hero, Derian Hatcher, scored the lone goal in the contest midway through the third period. Hatcher entered the game with just one goal on the season and 79 in 1,021 games.
He certainly made No. 80 count.
"It's always nice to score. What more can I say?" Hatcher said.
And now, deep thoughts … by Jack Handy.
Just kidding, Derian.
|Brendan Shanahan scored 66 seconds into overtime as the New York Rangers earned their third-straight win with a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens at Madison Square Garden.
Rally Nice Win -- Another game, another come-from-behind win for the Rangers.
The Blueshirts erased a late 3-2 deficit and beat the Montreal Canadiens on Brendan Shanahan's overtime tally at Madison Square Garden Sunday night. It was New York's third-straight win and its 20th of the 2007-08 season.
Congrats to Shanahan, whose tally was the 641st of his Hall-of-Fame career, as he passed Dave Andreychuk for 11th on the all-time list. It was a goal that also allowed the Rangers to pull to within a point of first-place New Jersey in the Atlantic Division.
"It builds a lot of confidence and character with the team," Shanahan said. "Not only to get the wins, but the way that we're able to get them. The second period was kind of awful. For whatever reason, we really didn't have any flow. As it turned out, we kind of, as a team, got off of our rhythm. We were able, in the third period, to come out and kind of get that feeling that you're back involved in the game again."
Back In Business -- Looking to end 2007 with something to smile about, the Los Angeles Kings have followed up an eight-game losing streak with back-to-back road wins at Colorado and Chicago.
It took a rally to end the year on a winning note, but Dustin Brown and Kyle Calder erased a 2-0 deficit in the third period before Brown scored again in overtime to give the Kings a 3-2 win at the United Center.
"It feels real good," Calder said. "It was a tough there for eight games and it's not what you want to go through, but the team stuck together.'"
It certainly will be interesting to see how the Kings perform as we head into 2008. Their first test will be on New Year's Day, when they complete their two-game series with the Blackhawks at the STAPLES Center.
Speaking of Chicago, the Blackhawks dressed their first-round draft picks from each of the last five years, dating back to the selection of Brent Seabrook in 2003. How nice is it to see a team not only keep its first-round picks, but develop them?
Such a scenario has worked out for teams like Detroit and Ottawa, hasn't it?
Stay Out Of The Box! -- Ryan Getzlaf was pretty cut and dry following Anaheim's 2-1 loss at Vancouver: If the Ducks can find a way to stay out of the penalty box, they'll have a much better chance of climbing up the Western Conference standings.
Back-to-back penalties to George Parros and Sean O'Donnell in the opening period Sunday night proved costly, as Daniel Sedin cashed in with a power play goal 10:28 into the game.
"We are taking a few too many penalties at times," Getzlaf said. "Tonight it wasn't that we took too many, it was a matter of taking a couple at the wrong time, and they were able to score a goal."
Nonetheless, the Ducks had chances to tie the game in the third period, but couldn't get any closer after Getzlaf made it 2-1 with 10:17 to play. Roberto Luongo made 21 saves for the Canucks, who are 10-0-2 in their last 12 games at General Motors Place.
"When you've got a goalie playing like that, you've definitely got to get in front of him and get those second and third opportunities to get it past him," Getzlaf said of Luongo. "We had two or three shots in a row and he was able to scramble around and find the puck."
Anybody else think Luongo hasn't forgotten about what happened in the 2007 playoffs?
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This week we continue our series on the MySQL Utilities. In this week's Ear Candy, we talk about a path problem installing MySQL Utilities on Ubuntu, and At the Movies is a preview of the SkySQL data suite.
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Percona University is coming to Washington, DC on Thursday, September 12th.
This week we start to discuss the Openark Toolkit. Ear Candy talks about how to estimate the size of MySQL's working set, and At the Movies is a backup presentation from Open Database Camp.
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OpenSQL Camp Lightning Talks. Topics include:
MySQL Sandbox - Giuseppe Maxia (MySQL Community Team)
DBMS talk - Dr. Richard Hipp (SQLite creator)
Libraries for testing purposes - lib"mallocfail", lib"eatmydata", etc - Stewart Smith (MySQL)
How to use LVM to take snapshot backups - Baron Schwartz (Percona)
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