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Global Legacy Expert & Coach
Liz Stern's seminars and presentations, are engaging and thought provoking. She shares 'learning points' to ensure audiences obtain real value from and can take away content in the most personally beneficial way.
Liz guides her clients to develop their Legacy Plan to live even more fulfilling and abundant lives, drive social impact and global change. She shares tools to understand that "Legacy is about how you live your life today, how you will be remembered and that your life mattered."
Business Coach
Liz Stern has coached and advised business clients on the importance of a Legacy Plan with the tools developed from her travel to over 90 countries and from her experience working with diverse, multigenerational companies.
Liz provides individuals with a clear process empowering them to shift their current paradigm and focus their goals to achieve a shared consensus, resulting in greater personal, business and financial success.
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As the philanthropic advisory arm of LizStern.com, Global Giving Advisors, LLC works with individuals, families, foundations and corporations on strategic and effective philanthropy. We help identify goals and strategies, structure grant making initiatives, analyze giving options.
In addition, we work with legal and financial advisors, investment counselors and wealth managers to integrate innovative philanthropic solutions for our mutual clients.
Keynote Speaker
"We won't be remembered for our degrees or jobs, or how much money we made, instead our legacies will be tied to the things we did for others and more importantly, how we made them feel." - Liz Stern
As a speaker Liz Stern inspires listeners to reflect and consider their Legacy. She helps them to envision what their Legacy could be and how the power of Legacy allows us to live fully in the present. Clarifying your purpose, your values, and your life's journey is a powerful tool to creating your Legacy Roadmap.
"Liz Stern's participation on The Haiti Crocs Project, supplying 10,000 pairs of shoes to those in need, was quite moving and a testament to her compassion and courage to alleviate poverty. That project made me think about my legacy and the impact I want to have. Our work together, developing my philanthropic portfolio and helping me realize the impact I will have, has been rewarding."
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You know, the filing racks that normally hold and organize your file folders, papers and things.
I used mine in one of my lower kitchen cabinets.
Here it is empty...
and here it is full of cookie sheets, plastic cutting boards and cupcake pans...
Neat, organized and easy to see which one you need.
If you remove one, all the others still stay in place!!
Try a filing rack somewhere in your kitchen...you'll love it!!
Happy Organizing!!

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Following last week's arrest of a 52-year-old Watchung man who allegedly videotaped children in the bathroom at the Land of Make Believe amusement park in Hope Township, Sen. Kevin O'Toole (R-Bergen, Essex, Morris, Passaic) is proposing new legislation that would make the recording of minors a third-degree crime, according to a statement from the Senate Republicans.
According to the statement:
After Patrick T. Deck was arrested Sunday, Aug. 12, O'Toole urged Senate Judiciary Chairman Nicholas Scutari to immediately post his protection measure (S713) for a vote.
"Under no circumstances should any child be unknowingly videotaped, photographed or otherwise recorded without parental consent," O'Toole said. "This legislation reflects our paramount responsibility as legislators to ensure the safest possible atmosphere for children and provides authorities with greater resources and prosecution power to protect our children."
The legislation would make it a third-degree crime to record a minor without parental consent under any circumstances.
Under the current invasion of privacy law, it is a third-degree crime to record minors' private body parts or their engagement in an act of sexual penetration or contact. It is also a third-degree crime to distribute these recordings.
Senator O'Toole sent Senator Scutari a letter on Friday, Aug. 17 urging the immediate posting of the legislation, which he introduced last January.
"This alleged incident is a chilling account of possible dangers children face," O'Toole said. "People who even attempt to endanger the welfare of children must know that such despicable acts will be met with criminal charges and serious jail time."


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July 30 to August 5, 2016
The mountain hiking was my boss' arrangement for his family. But then, he invited hubby and me to join them, knowing that we too love hiking adventures. That meant that I had to apply for a week of paid leave again just a couple of weeks after my recent major summer vacation leave. No sweat! My boss was more than willing to approve my application just so we could keep them company.
And so, on July 30, we set forth on this exciting trek to the mountains that I haven't trodden before. My boss and his family led the caravan made up of his car and a trailer and our car. I almost couldn't contain my thrill for this new stroke of wanderlust, when for the first time, I was going to use my new hiking backpack.
This is a whole week adventure, but I'm trying to put everything in a nutshell, though I'm afraid this would be a giant nutshell due to the astronomical pictures that I have taken.
We arrived in a familiar place where travelers in these mountainous parts of the country stop by for a refreshing view and snacks or lunch. We've passed this a few times during our past travels but never had the chance to stop by this close for a picture-taking.
We proceeded to find the hikers' parking place where we had planned to pitch our tent. There were no parked cars at the time we arrived there, but they started to come and go later on. Some who hiked long distances had to leave their cars for a few days while others went on a day-trip hike and left the parking place in the evenings.
We, on the other hand, made that our base for the entire journey. My boss' family stationed their car and trailer on one side of the parking lot while hubby and I set up our pop-up tent on the other side. The parking place was kind of wild in that it had no complete amenities save for a picnic table with long benches. No water supply and toilets too. So we had to find a store to get our drinking water. No problem with food because we took with us an ample supply. As to answering the call of nature, hmm....we had to do it the "wild" way to the effect that what belonged to nature went directly back to the wild...☺✌
We went to rest in our tent that first night, my sleep a bit perturbed due to the chilly air that night. The day came with an uncertain weather condition, the erratic mountain weather that kept shifting between cloudy, rainy and a bit sunny. We decided not to go hiking that day but rather take it easy.
I saw this hawk perched on a tree in our camp. I couldn't get a clearer shot due to poor lighting.
While our companions were lazing in their trailer, hubby and I took a drive in the vicinity to dispel a growing ennui from being stuck in our tent or car. We got to see the Trappstegsforsen in Saxnäs again and took more pictures.
That evening, hubby and boss sauntered to a nearby lake to see if they could catch fish. I trailed behind, scanning the area thoroughly, enjoying the scenery and shooting away.
FIRST HIKE (August 1)
We were all set for a day trip to a nearby mountain, a sort of try-out first before taking a bigger leap. We took that trail that starts from the parking where we were based.
It looked like a wonderful day to hike this time as the passing scenery affirmed.
This time, we started out from Fatmomakke and followed the Marsliden (trail) with the Marsfjäll's "kåtan" as our target destination, about 7 km. away. It was pouring when we set out but the rain gradually abated in the course of our trek.
The trail was expectedly long but not formidable. The longer we've walked though, the farther the destination seemed to take. We've become exhausted and famished as the afternoon hastened to evening, but we just kept walking resolutely, sometimes stopping for a little rest and a drink from the creeks and rapids.
The sight of the "kåtan" or mountain hut up ahead perked us up, the exhaustion from the long strenuous journey quickly fading away. Our power was renewed, our spirits buoyed up. We just kept moving on, and then we were there at nightfall. A typical bright summer night.
This was supposed to be another day trip, going back to our base that same night, but which became impossible due to our being totally exhausted and time insufficiency. We had no choice but spend the night in the shelter without any sleeping bags, pillows or whatever stuffs that could keep us warm. The comforting thing was that it was not occupied that night, otherwise we had nowhere to sleep. And so the six of us crammed ourselves into this cramped space, reclining restlessly, shifting sides, shivering. We kept the wood burning stove (kamin in Swedish) in the middle of the shelter ablaze the whole night, though at times, we neglected to put in new firewood which sent us quivering at times. We were so grateful for that "kamin" and an abundant supply of firewood that kept us warmed in this chilly summer mountain air. But I didn't sleep a wink due to the pain caused by lying down on a bare flat narrow wooden bench.
the structure in the upper right photo is a toilet and the one in the lower left is a storeroom for firewoods
The previous night's inconveniences were completely forgotten when we got up in this beautiful morning and luxuriated in the sunshine while sipping our coffee.
The following day, we unanimously chose to hike to one of those not-so-distant mountains before leaving the area and going back to our camp. We packed all our stuffs and left them in the hut while exploring the mountains.
"Let the rivers clap their hands;
Let the mountains shout joyfully together."
-Psalm 98:8
"He is watering the mountains from his upper rooms.
With the fruitage of your works the earth is satisfied."
- Psalm 104:13
The journey back seemed shorter this time. Back to Fatmomakke, we dropped by an outdoor museum and explored the amazing surrounding of a place where the early settlers chose to dwell.
At this point, I think I'm going to break this post after all in two parts instead of cramming the whole journey into one nutshell which I originally planned.
So stay tuned! More exciting adventures and stunning vistas are coming up.
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Tuesday Oct 4 – End Of Season Blind Draw will be at Johnny G's
7:30pm sign-up.
7:45pm darts fly.
Tuesday Oct 11 – General Meeting (Lucky's @ 7:30pm). Sign-up for Fall/Winter season. Discuss any league business. Team captain, or at least a team representative, should attend to register your team for the new season. Possible blind draw after.
We always need players, so if you know someone who might like to play, bring them to the meeting or one of the blind draws.
Sunday Oct 16 – Summer Season Banquet – WALLY'S @ 2PM. Food, raffle, trophies and, probably, a blind draw.
Tuesday Oct 18 – Fall/Winter Season Begins (probably)


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2006 Olympic gold medallist. The first European drafted first overall. The first Swede to score 1000 points. 1346 games: 564 goals and 1349 points. And now he is a first ballot Hockey Hall of Famer.
That is an impressive resume. But is it impressive enough to crown him as the greatest Toronto Maple Leafs player ever?
That is a pretty lofty title in itself. I don't know if I would rank Sundin, the Leafs all time leading scorer, over Syl Apps, Teeder Kennedy, Frank Mahovlich or Dave Keon. But I have no reservations ranking him ahead of Darryl Sittler, who I consider to be a perfect comparable for Sundin.
Sittler and Sundin both bled Maple Leafs blue, captaining the team for long tenures and without much help. They were maligned to some degree, mostly unfairly, because of the lack of team success. Neither player won a Stanley Cup, or even a major individual trophy. Those outside of Toronto suggested that both were very good and very popular players, elevated to great players only because they were the face of the franchise in the most intense market in hockey.
I tend to agree that Sundin was a very good player for a very long time, but not necessarily a great player for any extended length of time. But there are several similar players like that already in the Hockey Hall of Fame - Mike Gartner, Dale Hawerchuk, Bernie Federko, Pat Lafontaine and, drum roll please, Darryl Sittler.
Unlike Sittler or any of the other great Maple Leafs players of the past, the general consensus is that Maple Leafs fans never fully appreciated Mats Sundin. Somehow they always wanted more out of him. The Leafs did not have the most success in his era. Sundin never had a lot of help. He represented the blue and white with class and dignity. He gave it his all.
Sundin was an elegant player, blessed with size and skills. The Leafs long time captain was a quiet and classy leader. On Monday Mats Sundin will take his place in the Hockey Hall of Fame on 30 Yonge Street, forever residing in the great city of Toronto - a Maple Leaf forever.


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Town of Coeymans v. City of Albany v. DEC
Lead Agency Dispute
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Commissioner's Determination of Lead Agency
under Article 8 of the
Environmental Conservation Law
PROJECT: ANSWERS: Designation of lead agency for the review of a proposed Solid Waste Management Facility in the Town of Coeymans, Albany County
- Town of Coeymans;
City of Albany;
Region 4 Office of the New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation;
Each of the Municipalities in the ANSWERS Planning Unit
This decision to designate the Region 4 office of the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) as lead agency for the conduct of an environmental review under the State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) process is made pursuant to Article 8 of the Environmental Conservation Law and 6 NYCRR 617. I find that the construction and operation of a regional landfill will impact all of the municipalities in the solid waste management planning unit and the Region 4 office of DEC has the broadest governmental powers for the investigation of the impacts of the proposed action.
The proposed project is the application of ANSWERS (Albany) for the construction of a solid waste management facility in the Town of Coeymans, Albany County, to accept mixed solid wastes from the ANSWERS Planning Unit which includes Albany County (except the Town of Colonie) and the City of Rensselaer. The site will comprise 30 to 40 acres within a 363-acre parcel adjacent to the New York State Thruway.
In resolving a dispute about lead agency, I am guided by the three criteria listed in order of importance in paragraph 6 NYCRR 617.6(e)(5). These are: (1) whether the anticipated impacts are primarily of local, regional or statewide significance; (2) which agency has the broadest powers for investigation of potential impacts; and (3) which agency has the greatest ability to provide a thorough environmental assessment of the proposed action.
Nature of Impacts
The proposed landfill will directly impact 40 acres of land consisting of 32 acres abandoned farm fields, surrounded by 8 acres of successional forest on the periphery. The Region 4 office identifies the primary impacts likely to result from construction/operation of the project to be: noise, fugitive dust, surface runoff, impacts to historical and archeological resources, filling of approximately one acre of wetland, and construction-related traffic and traffic from operating .(anticipated to be 62 trucks per day), and leachate which must be controlled to protect ground and surface waters. Coeymans Creek [Class Standard C(ts)] runs along the western edge of the larger 363-acre parcel, approximately 1,000 feet at its closest to the proposed landfill footprint.
The Town identified a similar list of anticipated impacts and additional potential impacts. The additional concerns identified by the Town include impacts to: land, air, plants and animals, aesthetic resources, open space, recreation, transportation, energy, odor, public health, and growth and character of the surrounding community. The Town also believes other impacts may be identified as details of the project are revealed.
The proposed facility will be a key part of the ANSWERS Planning Unit's response to the problem of solid waste management. The decisions made in the process of developing the landfill in Albany County have the potential to impact each municipality in the Planning Unit. I acknowledge that the municipality chosen as the location of the landfill will experience site- specific impacts. However, the impacts related to the landfill use will affect all communities and citizens in the larger planning unit area. Therefore, the regional nature of the solid wasteshed here outweighs the local nature of the impacts.
Powers of Investigation
According to the Town, the proposed site is within an area zoned "industrial" and a landfill is not a permitted use within an industrial zone. Therefore, in order for the project to be constructed as proposed, the applicant must obtain a variance for the landfill from the Town of Coeymans. The Town also has a subdivision ordinance in effect and subdivision approval may be required. Finally, the Town has an ordinance specifically prohibiting the operation of a landfill by any entity in the Town other than the Town itself.
The City of Albany disputes the Town's claim to "involved agency" status. The City asserts that the Town's involvement is limited to the consideration of a building permit. So the Town role is only an interested agency. The City also contends that it is not subject to the local land use and zoning laws of the Town of Coeymans. In its letter, the City cites established tests of govern- mental immunity from zoning. The City also questions the constitutionality of the Town's ordinance prohibiting operation of the landfill.
Lead agency may be assigned or assumed only by an involved agency. In practice, an agency is usually treated as an involved agency unless it can be shown with reasonable certainty that it has no jurisdiction in the particular action. In this proceeding, it can be reasonably argued that the Town may have a jurisdictional role in this action and so I will treat it as an involved agency for the purpose of this determination.
However, the Region 4 office of DEC has the broad authority to review and decide on the application for a Solid Waste Management Facility Permit (6 NYCRR Part 360). The Region received a Solid Waste Management (Part 360 Permit) application from the City of Albany on behalf of the ANSWERS communities. Many of the anticipated impacts are also reviewable by DEC under its Part 360 Permit review. The regional and local impacts and concerns affecting all of the wasteshed will clearly be most appropriately addressed in the Part 360 Permit review.
DEC has a primary responsibility for regulating solid waste projects. This mandate includes encouraging local governments to engage in long-range planning and regional approaches to solid waste management. While this is not a peremptory role, DEC must fulfill this statutory mandate. The Region 4 office also has been delegated the responsibility to review the Water Quality Certificate for this project under the Section 401 of the Federal Clean Waters Act.
Capability for Assessment
The third criterion also favors the Region 4 office as lead agency.
The DEC Region 4 office has the staff and expertise necessary to meet the requirements of the regulation. The Town of Coeymans has expertise to assist with local land use issues and the ability to hire consultants to assist in an environmental review but does not routinely approve projects of this magnitude and nature.
I conclude, based on the facts presented, that the Region 4 office of the Department of Environmental Conservation best serves the function of lead agency for conduct of the environmental review for the ANSWERS application due to the regional nature of the impacts and DEC's broad jurisdiction under the Solid Waste Management Act, its delegated responsibilities under the Section 401 of the Clean Waters Act, and its expertise in reviewing landfill projects.
This decision does not in any manner limit or minimize the responsibility of other involved agencies to review the proposed action and to assist the Region 4 office in the environmental review process. The issues raised by the Town must be considered by the region in making its determination of significance. This project will likely require an Environmental Impact Statement and all of the involved agencies, especially the Town of Coeymans, should participate in the scoping of the EIS.
DGary L. Spielmann, Acting Executive Deputy Commissioner
Dated: March 14, 1995
Albany, New York
Distribution of Copies:
- J. Jennings, Mayor, City of Albany
V. Caark, Supervisor, Town of Coeymans
[Each municipality in the ANSWERS Planning Unit]
D. Robertson, NYS DOT
S. Lukowski, Albany County Health Department
M. Breslin, County Executive, Albany County
D. Bell, NYS Thruway Authority
M. Hoblock, Jr., Senator, 42nd District
J. Faso, Assemblyman, 102nd District
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation:
- Gary L. Spielmann, Acting Executive Deputy Commissioner
T. Adamczyk, Director, Region 4
W. Clarke, Regulatory Affairs, NYSDEC, Region 4
K. Martens, Legal Affairs, NYSDEC, Albany
R. Guthrie


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Features:• Articulating pieces offer flexible design for curves and corners
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The Ultra-Sidewinder Cable Protection System™ is an innovative new solution for protecting cables run across a floor. The new design articulates left and right, allowing the system to turn corners and adapt to the layout of the room, while maintaining full protection for the cables and trip protection for pedestrians. Cables can be left in the system for the ultimate in portability, or left in place indefinitely. There is no longer a compromise between safety and flexibility.
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Osias Loúkas was born in Aegina in 906 AD.
When he died in 953 the first monastery cells and the first small church were already built.
In 1011 this late-Byzantine church was finished.
This post is dedicated to the letter H, and we thank Mrs. Denise Nesbitt for creating this meme. You can participate in this game. You only should find a photo or a subject in poetry or the name of a famous person....beginning with H.
And... please refer to Mrs. Nesbitt and the ABC on Wednesday. You can also put the logo in your sidebar or post. If you have any problems please contact one of the team members.
The interior of the church is worth seeing too! With many frescoes about the life of Jesus.
Jesus appears to his disciples and shows his wounds to Thomas
Jesus washes the feet of his disciples


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Peter Pan and a Lost Boy
Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - Wonderfull Wednesday
Awesome card!!!!!!! Your colouring rocksReplyDelete
This is so beautiful, I love your colouring!! Thanks for joining our challenge this week with Kraftin Kimmie Stamps.
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Thank you Kerri and Marilyn :D
You were very lucky to have gotten two of those retired stamps! It was fast and furious and my internet speed was too slow for me to have any success lol! I can't wait to see what you do with your newest stamps because this card with Peter Pan is just awesome! Thanks so much for sharing your fantastic creation with us at Kraftin' Kimmie Challenges.ReplyDelete
I know it was going so fast! sometimes you think you where fast and your like number 10! But i was lucky indeed :)
I made 1 card with them already: http://sabrinastamps.blogspot.nl/2017/05/believe-in-fairytales.html
There will be more cards coming with old KKS stamps because I have been hunting online for shops that have some and have been lucky to find some more :)


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End of summer report
We had a good (and busy) summer this year - here are some of the highlights.
I had the great pleasure of attending the Lie Nielsen 30th anniversary open house on July 15th and 16th. I took a somewhat indirect route - Maine via New Jersey. I know - sounds kinda weird, but it was a perfect trip. I flew to New Jersey and connected with my friend Raney Nelson of Daedtoolworks and we drove to Maine together. We stayed at a wonderful B&B - Blue Skye Farm with fellow toolmakers, Ron Brese, Tico Vogt, Jameel Abraham, Father John and Huna and Peter Follansbee for good measure. The setting was wonderful, the food was fantastic and every evening we sat around enjoying each others company. It was marvelous.
This was the first time I have been to Lie Nielsen, and I was very impressed. Everything was well organized and everyone at Lie Nielsen was extremely helpful and generous in helping us get settled in. They took great care of the demonstrators and I am sure all the people who attended received the same level of attention. From the wood fired pizza, to the lobster bake, to the tour of the facilities - we were all well taken care of. My deepest thanks and congratulations to Thomas Lie-Nielsen and the rest of the fine folks at Lie-Nielsen. This trip was a highlight of my summer.
Another highlight was an opportunity to work with my friend Noriko Maeda. Noriko is a Japanese calligrapher of the finest order. I have gotten to know Noriko over the last several years and jumped at the chance to collaborate on a project with her. She has an exhibit at the Warm Springs Gallery in Charlottesville, VA. Part of the exhibit includes a series of 6 lamps. Noriko explored the word Asobu, which means "to play like a child". She produced the paper shades and I had the honor of creating playful bases for them. It was a wonderful project that I thoroughly enjoyed.
The shop has been a busy place too. I have been working on some planes with very striking and unusual infill material. Here are 3 of them.
First up is a Snakewood filled XSNo.4. This was my first experience with Snakewood and it was a real pleasure. It is a strange wood beyond its appearance. The wood itself is very brittle and I can imagine would produce some horrific slivers. It works beautifully and the end result is quite spectacular. The customer and I had a really tough time deciding between a bronze lever cap or a stainless steel one. We were both on the fence about it and could not make a call. I threatened to let Riley decide.
Riley chose bronze.
It was the right call.
The bronze really highlights the lighter tones in the snakewood and helps connect the infill to the metal. I think a stainless steel lever cap would have left the infill somewhat disconnected.
This next plane is a Desert Ironwood burl filled SNo.4. I have worked with Desert Ironwood before, but this was a particularly nice piece. The lever cap for this plane was a no-brainer.
And last, but certainly not least, is a Black & White ebony filled SNo.4L smoother. The "L" in the name is because this plane is 1/2" an inch longer than the standard SNo.4. It has the same blade width, but is just a bit longer - 7".
I have had this Black and White Ebony for years and have been dying to try it out in a plane. These photos were taken after the 8th coat of french polish was applied. It is amazing how the color has changed as the french polish has built up and as the wood has been exposed to light. My understanding of Black and White Ebony is that the cream colored sections will darken a bit in time, but will retain most of the light color.
Working this material was really fun. It works just like Madagascar Ebony but without the annoying coal dust everywhere and has a softness like English Boxwood.
For some reason, I looked at the clock on July 10th at around 8:20 and was immediately struck by the fact that exactly one year ago at that moment, I was in the hospital waiting for my finger to be stitched up. It was a strange realization, and I have to admit the rest of the day felt a little odd. I was keenly aware of every activity in the shop and paid extra special attention to being safe. I breathed a sigh of relief as I crawled into bed that night - injury free.
August 16th - the much anticipated opening of the Lee Valley store in Waterloo. I have a running list of Lee Valley items on the chalkboard in the shop, and I held off on ordering in anticipation of picking them up in person at the new store. The store opened at 9am and I figured I would geek out and see how close to the front of the line I could get. Riley and I were the 4th people in line. Rob Lee was there to keep us company as we waited (he capped Riley's Timbit quota at 10 - I re-negotiated it down to 8). I have been back several times already - it is so great (and dangerous) to have a Lee Valley store less than 10 minutes from home!
The grand opening of the Waterloo store is being held the week of September 19th and there are a few of us that will be demonstrating at the store. I will be joining Dan Barrett of D.L. Barrett & Sons and Chris Schwarz from Lost Art Press for demonstrations and seminars on Thursday the 22nd, friday the 23rd and Saturday the 24th.
The following week, Joe Steiner and I will be driving to Cincinnati for the 2011 Woodworking in America conference. Last years conference was an amazing experience and I cannot imagine this year will be any different. We are looking forward to seeing everyone again and please stop in and say hello if you are going to be attending.
I am working on the first 2 K13's right now - one infilled with African Blackwood and the other infilled with some incredible Desert Ironwood. I should be posting photos shortly.


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(The Editor's Market slip dress, H&M grey faux fur jacket, Lovisa circle necklace, Forever21 cuff)
Photos by Erman
Always thought it meant some sort of novelty when one dons on fur, but for $40 that made me go 'OH MY GOD, SO CHEAP?', I thought differently. I got pretty lucky since this fur number seemed to be the last one on the racks. At every outlet too, it seemed. Gosh I love H&M...
Since one of my classes at school was held at a place with Antarctica-like temperatures, it didn't seem like such a bonkers idea to carry this animal resembling thing to school. It served its purpose, albeit with quite an amount of stares. Worn together with a slip dress and 5" leopard boots because I was going for stripper. I'm kidding, but the description sounds highly similar.
Anyway, I CAN'T WAIT for Isabel Marant pour H&M's collection that is launching in 4 days! Already narrowed it down to the laced up leather pants, the chunky black-white knit and ooh, the basic t-shirt. You can check it out here.


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Expect Traffic Delays Along the East Hill of Rim Rock Drive On Wednesday, November 16 From the East Entrance to DS Road Turnoff
On Wednesday, November 16th, striping of the center line will occur on the east hill of Rim Rock Drive in Colorado National Monument. The striping will take place between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Park visitors and Glade Park residents can expect 5-10 minute delays in the road striping work zone throughout the day. Bicyclists are reminded that they must obey all flagging stops in the work zone.
The National Park Service is committed to minimizing impacts to visitors and community members. We ask for the public's understanding and patience while the road work is ongoing.
Please note: Weather, logistics and mechanical failure sometimes may delay work on the project and/or change plans on short notice. The public is invited to visit the park's website regularly at www.nps.gov/colm for the latest updates and changes or call the park offices at 970-858-3617 ext. 300.
Thank you for your patience.


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Local Businessman Seeking Donations For Chile Quake Victims
Patricio Mendoza is making a last-minute push for public donations to fill a 40-foot container with clothing and bedding for victims of last month's 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile.
Donations of clothing, bedding or cash can be made at Mendoza's business, EC Computer, located at 22311 Marine View Dr. in Des Moines.
With the deadline for making donations for the earthquake relief effort fast approaching – the cut-off date is this Friday, April 2 – Mendoza said the container is 25 feet full.
"We still need 15 feet of clothes,†he added. "I hope that this week, Holy Week, with Good Friday as the final day for donations, people will find this an appropriate time to give to Chilean earthquake victims in need.
"We're collecting clothes here. Please, just bring them on in.â€
Needed are winter clothes for men, women, boys, girls, and infants and toddlers that are in "good condition.†But "no shoes, and underclothes have to be new only.â€
Cash donations will be spent in Chile to buy roofing materials and nets for commercial fishermen.
The container, which is located in north Seattle, has been donated by Seattle-based Westward Seafoods. On Saturday, Mendoza and others will box the donated clothing and put it back in the container, which will ship on Monday.
A 20-day voyage will deliver it to Talcahuano, a port city in the "'Zero Zone' where the biggest damage was done,†he said.
When the container arrives in Chile, Mendoza will be there to receive it, thanks to a donation from Public Access Channel 77 for his airfare.
While there, he will get to see his father Humbetor and talk to him for the first time since the earthquake. "Other family members have seen him and he's fine,†Mendoza said. "But his phone doesn't work and I still haven't talked to him.â€
Mendoza noted that he is the only individual or organization in this area "to have permission from the Chilean consulate in San Francisco to ask for money and donations†for earthquake relief.


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Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows. Luke 12:7
One thing that writing this blog does for me is that it makes me look for encouraging things in my life to write about. Most everything becomes grist for the mill. I look at each day and think ..'How can this be used to encourage others?' It helps keep me positive.
I dwelt for so long in negativity. An abusive first marriage where verbal onslaughts were common seem to have started the ball rolling. Yet, if I am honest, I know it began long before that.
I've felt negatively about myself for as far back as I can remember.
I always felt, "Less than."
"Less than" led me to marry just about the first man that asked. Nevermind that I didn't really love him. He wanted to marry me. That was enough.
I struggled for years with these issues - always bombarding myself with negative comments.
It wasn't until I heard about a book "The Search for Significance" that I began to realize just where my significance came from.
Not from me.
Not from a man who would never, ever allow me to feel good about myself.
Not from a world that didn't really care if I existed or not.
The only place I could find significance - and the rightful place - was in God's eyes.
In Him I am a new creation. In Him I am renewed day-by-day. In Him, I find love. In Him I find worth.
Struggling with challenges tends to eat away at my feelings of self-worth. Now that I can no longer "do" - I must be content with simply being.
It is who I am before God that matters. And to make it easy - He spells out just how He feels about me in His word.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. 2 Corinthians 4:16
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word. 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
Father God, Thank you that, as we search Your word, we find just how much you love us and how valuable we are in Your eyes even with all of the challenges we might face. Strengthen us in Your love. Amen and amen.
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As part of its effort to bootstrap itself into the high-technology era, the Kremlin has drawn up plans for creating data bases accessible by personal computers. The idea is hardly new in the West, but here in the Soviet Union data banks accessible to large numbers of people are still rare.
The Kremlin says it wants to change that, but there are some substantial obstacles in the way. The chief problem seems to be a Soviet proclivity for collecting massive amounts of information in central repositories, then keeping it in close embrace.
No official figures are available, but most Western analysts estimate that Soviet personal computer production is still only a few hundred units a year. By contrast, thousands of personal computers were sold in the United States in 1984.
Consequently, what data bases there are here remain inaccessible to most of the public. Pravda, the official Soviet Communist Party newspaper, likened the situation to building a huge, high-speed circular highway but neglecting to ``build access roads to it.''
A single US computer time-sharing service, Compuserve, has 252,000 subscribers, according to a company spokesman. But Pravda indicated that only 1,400 subscribers representing some 53 organizations were hooked up to a leading Soviet data base containing social science research.
Yet the social science data base, according to Pravda, contains over 300,000 documents, and there are plans to add some 220,000 documents annually over the next five years. The total should top 1 million documents in the next few years, Pravda said.
Clearly, it will be a difficult task for a country that keeps most foreign language periodicals and books off limits to most of the population and makes it difficult for researchers to read them in libraries.
Already the Soviet Union is linked to data bases in other East bloc countries and Cuba. The Soviets also have access to some Western data bases, sometimes through affiliated organizations in neutral countries. (Occasionally, however, the US shuts down such links -- as it did in a central European country not long ago -- on grounds that the Soviets are misusing them to gain sensitive technological information.)
One fundamental problem, according to a knowledgeable Western analyst, are the limitations of the Soviet telephone system. Signal quality is erratic, static sometimes overwhelms conversations, and connections are, at times, inexplicably cut.
And the Soviets are especially sensitive about data transmission over telephone lines. The reason, according to some Western diplomats, is Soviet concern about security.
This country no longer allows direct telephone service to the West, apparently because it wants to prevent dissidents and the disaffected from talking directly to the outside world. The possibility of ``data bursts'' being used to send information into and out of the country must be that much more worrying, according to Western analysts.
Pravda says some new attitudes are needed.
``Because of the rapid development of computer techniques, it has become necessary to change one's conventional ideas about the possibilities of electronics,'' the newspaper said.
It called for increased computer ``networking,'' better and more reliable hardware, and innovative uses of new technology. The newspaper -- which itself has changed little in appearance since its founding in 1912 -- predicted that news articles might someday be distributed overnight via phone lines connected to printers in individual households.
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Teaching Yourself to Play the Choroi Quinta Pentatonic Flute
I want to start off this post by making it clear that I am not a professional musician in any way, shape or form, nor am I professionally trained Waldorf teacher. I am, however, trying my darndest to make sure that I have taught myself as many of the necessary Waldorfian skills as possible, before Dora enters first grade. With that, comes learning to play the pentatonic flute. Some Waldorf educators will tell you that a student recorder is just fine and I would say to them that it really depends on what you are hoping to gain from the experience. I played the recorder for years, while in elementary school, and the music quality of traditional student recorders just does not come close to that of the Choroi pentatonic flute. In addition, recorders have more complicated fingering, so I do not believe it is reasonable to expect your average first grader to play a recorder. I'm also going to stick my neck out here and say that you should….yes, I'm going to "should upon you"… buy the Quinta Pentatonic Flute and not the traditional Choroi flute. My reason for this is simply that it appears to me that Choroi is phasing the traditional flute out, so it may become difficult to find replacement tone blocks as time goes by. Not to mention, why would you want to deal with tone blocks that have to be replaced and can get lost in the first place? What even is a tone block? Who cares what a tone block is? I'm not a professionally trained musician, so maybe my ear is just not discerning enough, but I cannot imagine saying that the Quinta sounds anything less than 100% beautiful! The best price I have found the Quinta for is from A Toy Garden. It is currently $85, which is $22 cheaper than most other stores, but it is still nothing to sneeze at. It is worth the cost in my opinion, given the quality of the instrument, but once again, it depends what you are hoping to gain from the experience. If you decide to buy the Quinta, do order some flute oil while you are at it (you can use jojoba oil, and only jojoba oil, instead if you want), as you need the oil immediately (the flute comes with directions on how to oil your flute).
Now, I have a confession to make, not only did I play the recorder for several years, while in school, I also played the clarinet for a few years, and the Saxophone while in university, so I do have some woodwind instrument experience that most people don't have. This has come in real handy for me in learning to play the Quinta, because I already knew how to tongue, tie, and slur, which I will explain later.I have bought many, many books (e-book and bound) that purport to teach you how to play the pentatonic flute, but there is only one book that I could, in good conscience, recommend. It is a spiral bound book (8×11"-ish), published by a small company called Promethean Press, and is entitled Waldorf Teachers' Companion to the Pentatonic Flute, by John Cyril Miles. Unlike other flute instructional manuals, it is printed in a professional manner (some of the others are actually illegible photocopies of typing and/or handwriting). The Teachers' Companion clearly shows you how to finger and hold your flute. It presents the notes in a logical order, but with the most difficult notes saved for last. Finally, it has a lovely selection of songs. There are two potential problems, however, that others might have with this book. The first problem is that the foreword is anthroposophian, which might make some people uncomfortable, but can be skipped completely without any negative consequences (you can simply start on page 7, where is says "Begin Here"). The second problem is that the book starts with the assumption that you know the fundamentals of reading music.
So, in case there are some of you out there who want to learn to play the pentatonic flute, but don't know the fundamentals of reading music, I am going to attempt to teach you the basics. I'm going to beg forgiveness ahead of time for any and all mistakes I make or confusion I cause. I never, in my wildest dreams would have thought I'd ever be writing a music tutorial (I haven't played any music in two decades and was never very serious at my best, Mr. Mo is the musician in our household). I feel strongly, however, that this is an area of weakness in the Waldorf community. There just appears to be a major dearth of good books for learning the pentatonic flute and this is the only book I feel is even acceptable, much less good.
When reading music, you will read a staff, which are the five lines that run across the page and are shown below. The staff includes a symbol that tells you which clef you will be using. For our purposes, we will only be using the G clef. Next to that swirly, "S" thingy there may or may not be a fraction. If there is no fraction next to the clef, then the default fraction is 4/4, which means that there are four beats per measure. If the fraction was 3/4, there would be three beats per measure and so on. In the Teachers' Companion, all the songs are in 4/4 time. In 4/4 time, a whole note lasts for four beats. A half note lasts half of that, or two beats. A quarter note lasts 1/4th of that, or one beat. An eighth note lasts 1/8th of a whole note, or 1/2 beat. A sixteenth note lasts for 1/16th of a whole note, or 1/4th beat. A 1/32nd note lasts for 1/32 of a whole note, or 1/8th of a beat (yes, that does get confusing, and remember that this is only for 4/4 time). For our purposes, I consider a beat to be the amount of time that it would take for you to tap your foot, which is why some musicians tap their foot while playing music. Sometimes the beats are faster or slower, but to just get yourself going, consider a typical foot tap to be one beat (I am well aware that any and all music experts who have read this post this far are currently experiencing apoplexies from my words, but please, just take a deep breath, remember I am writing this for total beginners, and roll with it).
You read music from left to right. The note symbols look like the ones shown on the chart below. The book will show you what note to play, depending on where the note is located on the staff, vertically, but it doesn't explain that a hollow circle is a whole note, that a hollow circle with a straight line coming up out of it is a half note, or that a black circle with a straight line coming out of it is a quarter note. The one symbol that this chart does not show and you need to know is called a dotted note. A dotted note is a note with a small dot next it (on the right side). The dot means that you increase the the length of the note by 1/2. So if you have a dotted half note, that means you would hold the note for the two beats for the half note and then an extra beat for the dot, for a total of 3 beats. If you have a dotted quarter note, you hold the note for one beat for the quarter note and an extra half beat for the dot, for a total of 1 1/2 beats. Once again, this assumes 4/4 time.
These are the symbols for rests, which are times that you don't play any music. They last as long as their note counterparts.
When you play a woodwind instrument, you tongue each note, unless the music tells you otherwise. To tongue a note on the Quinta, you basically tap the mouthpiece with your tongue. Your tongue stops and starts the air from going in and out of the instrument. So if the music shows 5 "D" notes in a row, you would tongue the mouthpiece 5 times, articulating each note independently. Sometimes, you will tie or slur notes together (the technical definition between a tie and a slur is not something you need to know right now, but you can read about it here). This means that you do not tongue between the notes, but will continue to blow for the duration of all the notes together, moving your fingers as applicable (i.e. a half note and a quarter would be held for 3 beats). The symbol for a tie is the same as for a slur and is shown below.
Whoo! That is a lot more information than I thought I was going to need to give. Later, I will discuss the why's and wherefores of the pentatonic scale.
If I actually managed to convey this information correctly and you work through the Teachers' Companion, Promethean Press also publishes another book of folksongs that have been adapted for the pentatonic flute by John C. Miles.
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Warner Bros. teased an announcement yesterday that would bring together two of the world's most popular brands. Although Xbox.com leaked it ahead of time, LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been officially announced, along with a teaser trailer that features the trademark humor the series is known for. First and foremost, the game launches on June 28, 2016, on every platform imaginable, including PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3DS.
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens will introduce new gameplay mechanics, but, more importantly, provide additional story content exploring the 30 years between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. There are already a handful of books that cover the important events during this time period, but the game looks to focus on the characters from The Force Awakens.
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On the occasion of sending my daughter off to her first day of second grade: a YouTube video of an orchestral flashmob, that Joy and I have listened to together repeatedly this past weekend.
I'm sure that part of why she loves it is that she knows the tune so well from Baby Einstein.
I love it because it's so soaring and beautiful -- and the resonance of the title as Joy starts a new school year.
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MASE BACK! Mason Betha Comes For Cam'Ron's Neck In New 'Oracle' Diss Track, Cam Responds
Harlem World! Mason Betha is back, and he surprised TF out of everybody with a tea-filled diss track for his longtime frenemy Cam'Ron. Get it all inside...
Mase and Cam'Ron are beefing and it's trending everywhere. Nope, it's not the '99 or the early 2000's again. But it's certainly a good time to be alive. Rapper turned pastor turned "rapper" again Cam'Ron apparently had some ish to get off his chest...for the last 20 years.
He had all the time this Thanksgiving break, so he decided to drop some bars coming hard AF for Dipset's Cam'Ron. On "Oracle", there was plenty of built up ether Mase released.
While we find the timing quite interesting since the Diplomats announced their "reunion" a couple days on social media, we're with the sh*ts. Publicity stunt or not.
Mase went from outing Cam for having sex with his own sister at 13 to revealing how Cam conned his own homie Juelz Santana and plenty more.
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Twitter's loving it. And this tweet from Jemele Hill pretty much sums it up:
The Mase diss track got me thinking about what rap beef I'd want to see from any mid-90s to early 2000s rappers. I could go for some Lil Kim v Foxy.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) November 24, 2017
Cam's already responded. And he's threatening to pop back with a vengeance:
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Dee Jay Silver will get Bangor Pumped Up and Ready for Brad Paisley this Sunday! So How Did This DJ Get Where He Is Today? Watch!
This Sunday, Brad Paisley brings the 2014 'Country Nation' World Tour to Darling's Waterfront Pavilion with guests Randy Houser, Charlie Worsham, Leah Turner and the man that mixes beats better than any other around...Dee Jay Silver! How did this club DJ get to opening for some of the biggest country tours around??? Watch here!


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Video: D.P.G.C. – Forever In A Day
Tha Dogg Pound Gangsters are still at it. Here's their latest video directed by Dah Dah.
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One Response to "Video: D.P.G.C. – Forever In A Day"
Sonnyjr78 on November 26th, 2011 1:28 am
Thanks for posting this, good to see the Dogg Pound back kicking on tour with snoop, classic, and the Anita Baker sample on the track sounds dope!
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The NHS could be saving £5 billion a year by 2020 with better use of staff and medicines and more efficient processes and systems in general, according to findings of an interim report by Lord Carter.
Lord Carter was assigned the task of working with hospitals to explore how money could be saved by doing things more efficiently and spreading best practice.
He concludes that annual savings of up to £2 billion a year could be delivered by improving workflow and containing workforce costs, while a further £3 billion could be bagged through improved hospital pharmacy and medicines optimisation, estates and procurement management.
A series of small reforms could make a huge difference at time when the NHS is facing a tremendous financial challenge. Even with the government commitment of an extra £8 billion, the NHS itself must garner efficiency savings of some £22 billion by 2020 if it is to have any hope of balancing the books.
Small reforms
Carter's review highlights several examples of where minor changes could help reduce the financial burden. In one such case, a hospital restricting use of a soluble steroid (costing £1.50 a go) to just children and patients with difficulty swallowing giving the solid form (at just 2 pence) to everyone else generated savings of some £40,000 a year.
Elsewhere, one hospital saved a massive £750,000 a year just by improving management of staff rostas, annual leave, sickness and flexible working, regaining the £10,000 lost from staff claiming too much annual leave.
"The NHS has some of the best hospitals in the world both in terms of quality, innovation and operational efficiency. The challenge is to lift hospital efficiency to a consistently high standard in every area of every NHS hospital and, where we already perform well, innovate to improve further," Lord Carter said.
Rob Webster, Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation said the potential savings outlined in the review "need to be tested and developed with the wider NHS, so that final savings targets due to be handed to the NHS from September are owned by the whole service".
NHS 'not wasteful'
But he also argued that "while it is fair to say waste exists in the NHS, it's not true to say it is wasteful," noting that data on spending and outcomes "show the NHS is relatively efficient compared to other countries and our members' efforts to reduce costs in the last parliament delivered almost £19 billion worth of savings".
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society said that NHS-based medicines procurement pharmacists "are working diligently" to ensure medicines are purchased at the lowest price possible, but stressed that there remain challenges with medicine supply chains, "which means greater efficiency will require the pharmaceutical industry and distributers to work collaboratively with the NHS to ensure timely availability of medicines".


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It still amazes me that if someone is taking the time and making the effort/investment to reproduce a specific item, that in this era of cad-cam and 3-D digital mapping they can end up so far off.
Very interesting and great info. Now someone correct me if I am wrong, but for 1971 - 1973 didn't those Hurst T handles lose the side set screw? I wonder if the alignment as displayed in the NOS pics also apply to the original '71 - '73 handles?The T Handle was replaced in 72 by the round and black knob.
The aftermarket Hurst shifters are completly different (read that as far superior) than the factory Ford units.
One of the main differences is the shifter body, the aftermarket has an adjustable stop bolt for each "throw", add to that the threaded rods and the aftermarket is a much more precise unit.
Shifting between the 2 is a day and night difference.


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US technology giant Microsoft has reportedly launched a massive anti-cybercrime operation targeting hackers in Kuwait and Algeria.
The operation will target traffic involving malicious software known as Bladabindi and Jenxcus, which Microsoft said work in similar ways and were written and distributed by developers in Kuwait and Algeria.
In what the company says is the most high profile case of malware written by developers outside of Eastern Europe, the malware could have infected as many as 20 million computers worldwide; 7.5 million have been detected by Microsoft anti-virus software, which is only installed on about 30 percent on computers, according to Reuters.
The operation has been ordered by a US court and will disrupt communication channels between hackers and infected computers.
According to court documents cited by Reuters, the malware has dashboards with point-and-click menus to execute functions such as viewing a computer screen in real time, recording keystrokes, stealing passwords and listening to conversations.
The developers used social media, including videos on YouTube and a Facebook page, to lure in unsuspecting victims.
The court order allows Microsoft to disrupt communications between infected machines and Reno, Nevada-based Vitalwerks Internet Solutions.
Assistant general counsel of Microsoft's cybercrime-fighting Digital Crimes Unit said about 94 percent of all machines infected with the two viruses communicate with hackers through Vitalwerks servers. Criminals use Vitalwerks as an intermediary to make it more difficult for law enforcement to track, he said.
The court ordered the registries that direct internet communications to send suspected malicious traffic to Microsoft servers in Redmond, Washington, instead of to Vitalwerks.
In an operation that begins Monday, Boscovich said, Microsoft will filter out communications from PCs infected with another 194 types of malware also being filtered through Vitalwerks.
Vitalwerks said Microsoft's actions have disrupted service for millions of internet users.
"Vitalwerks and (operational subsidiary) No-IP have a very strict abuse policy. Our abuse team is constantly working to keep the No-IP system domains free of spam and malicious activity," spokeswoman Natalie Goguen said in a statement.
Microsoft has not accused Vitalwerks of involvement in any cybercrime, though it alleges the company failed to take proper steps to prevent its system from being abused.
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Anonymous on 12/27/2014
I have lived here for three years and I have noticed a lot of bedbugs and when you ate dealing with a TCHC building that houses primarily previous homeless people and the mentally ill,getting raid of bedbugs is proving to be a nightmare as many people here don't report them ( they don't even keep their apartments in a liveable state! So why would they bother with bedbugs?! It's as if they are their best friends!) My mother herself is in denial of scope of the infestation! It was like pulling
teeth to get her to discard furniture and carpeting and the bed! She kept coming up with bandaid solutions and I have to keep at her to get the problem looked at. The management here has some lackadaisical pest control company to do the spraying and to get management o do anything is practically next to impossible. It is traumatic to have a pest eat at you and your kids to ruin your possessions. You go to bed scratching feeling as if things are constantly at you it is a nightmare. I rather live in my car than be around a pest like that. You want to get a blow torch just to get raid of them once and for all and I think that's what it comes down too because it doesn't matter what one does because if the entire building doesn't get hosed down with treatment it will keep reoccurring and especially when you have people who don't report bedbugs and keep bringing in used furniture or using moving services that have bedbugs Or even making sure bags from outside sources are free from these menacing pests!
Anonymous on 10/17/2010
this building is disscusting. filthy with bed bugs and cockroachs to boot. i have been sprayed four times and i still have them, my neighbor as well. as when i got sprayed so did she. nothing seems to work, the pest company ripped all the lining off the bottom of my leather couch, which i might add, was very pricy. all of my inconvenice and still no peace of mind. sign me really pissed.
BugsInTO on 10/07/2008
Here's the right link.
Anonymous on 10/06/2008
Newspaper reports widespread infestation in this building. (I have no first-hand knowledge of the situation; article is here: http://www.yourhome.ca/homes/article/512276)
207 bedbug reports near this address:
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Your talk toolbox: Making great scientific presentations
This is the second post in a series on scientific presentation design.
In a paper, give me enough to draw my own interpretations. In a presentation, give me your interpretation.
If there's anything I've learned in a decade of giving scientific presentations, it's this: the software doesn't make the slides, you do.
It's true, Keynote will help you make better looking presentations than does PowerPoint. But to really unleash Keynote's power (and your own creative energy), you need a broader assortment of tools. Here are mine:
Stock images
Let's start this discussion with a healing cleanse. Try this:
- Breathe in deeply, expanding your diaphragm, holding your core steady.
- Search your hard drive for all "clip art."
- Select all. Press delete.
- Release the air slowly and resume your activities.
OK, now let's proceed. Good presentations start [and usually end] with good images. I don't mean cartoons. You know the maxim: "a picture is worth a thousand words?"
It's true.
It doesn't apply to cartoons.
Most presenters can greatly reduce their use of on-slide text by using a strong image-based background. That's right, I'm recommending that you reject the template.
Let's face it. Most templates are hideous. They constrain creativity and are mostly designed for uses other than science. So why do we use them? I suspect most think: 1) they help with marketing, 2) by standardizing the background, people will focus on the content, 3) it's convention, 4) we don't know any alternative testing approaches.
If you believe #1-3, let's talk. Otherwise, keep reading.
Imagine that you're doing a talk on poverty, health inequities, children's health, or global health. How about this as your background?
Or, this:
These images look great, but that's not all. See how each contains open space for text? That makes them ideal backgrounds.
Here's how I used an image in a recent talk.
(Incidentally, this is a good example of a slide is still way too text heavy. More on that next time).
So, where do you get these great images? There are tons of great search sites for royalty-free images, but I use everystockphoto.com. The site searches a bunch of repositories for stock photos. All are free for non-commercial use (be sure to check the rights statements, but in most cases you can acknowledge the photographer in the slide notes).
Pro tip: Always search for the largest image possible. Large size usually means high resolution. Because your slide is likely to be projected on a large screen, you want to make sure that it isn't pixelated. If it's only available in a small size (say, smaller than 1024×768), move on.
Design inspiration
When you get stuck (and even before getting there, check out Note and Point. There are great presentations here, on a wide range of topics. Those in the tech world often have fewer constraints than we do, so ignore the content and focus on the design.
Why use Times New Roman or Arial or Cambria? Just like the right image, a strong font can greatly improve the "feel" — not to mention the readability — of your your slide text.
There's been surge of interest in typography, with enough font options to make you dizzy. Easiest option? Head over to Google Fonts where you'll find tons of font choices (and a nice preview interface). Note that Google Fonts is primarily intended to make it easy to use great typography on the web. To use a font in your presentation, click the download arrow on the upper right side of the screen. Install your font and your presentation will read as good as it looks.
One should use video sparingly, but it can be hugely effective. My favorite design device — setting a video as my slide's background. The video moves in the background behind [just a little] text. I often use this to show people using our digital health technologies, while descriptive text appears in the foreground.
Let's say that you'd like to include some stock video from YouTube. Of course, they don't make it easy to download videos (given concerns re copyright infringement). So what to do if you want to use video in a non-commercial scientific talk?
Pro tip: Add "pwn" in front of the regular YouTube URL (e.g. youtube.com/lorem becomes pwnyoutube.com/lorem).
Now that you have the right toolbox, you're almost ready.