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An incredible trip to Calcutta
I'm Bip Ling and for the past five years I've been writing my blog, DJ-ing and modelling for Storm Artists. My mother and I recently flew to Calcutta in West Bengal, India and I wanted to tell you about my trip. Both my grandparents and my mother are Bengali. I myself am half Bengali and half English and I was born and raised in London.
On a visit to Calcutta in 2011, my grandmother introduced me to the Piyali Learning Centre, a school for girls in a village outside of Calcutta. I was both curious and excited to visit the school and meet the students. Most villagers in Piyali live on less than £1 per day, which means that school is not an option for the local girls. Most often these young girls work to support their families. Girls may work as domestic servants farming in fields, many suffer abuse and in most cases they are married off while they are still children.
The PLC school was founded by Deepa Willingham in 2003 when she founded PACE Universal, a charitable organisation that works tirelessly to provide education and improve the prospects of girls in Piyali. PACE stands for: Promise of Assurance to Children Everywhere, and they partner with the Rotary Club International.
I sponsor five girls in the school, and last week I caught up with them as they celebrated ten years of PLC school with the opening of their new school building. I first visited the Piyali Learning Centre in 2011, when the school wasn't a proper building as you can see. The girls looked absolutely happy to be studying.
When I arrived in Calcutta I couldn't wait until the celebration to see my girls. I set off to Piyali two days before the big celebration from the busy city of Calcutta. On the way we passed many people selling flowers, spices and vegetables on the sides of the roads.
The teachers who work at the PLC take the train from Calcutta. It's a big commitment for the teachers to commute everyday, and the journey can take up to two hours each way.
When I finally arrived at PLC after an hour and a half drive, the head teacher Kristine Perdersen welcomed me. I was absolutely amazed by the new school building! It was really like a dream, like an oasis in the village! As soon as I arrived it was the girls' lunch time. The gorgeous Bengali girls filed up into the new canteen, waiting for their food. They were all so well behaved queuing. This girl was one of the youngest pupils at the school. So cute!
The girls of PLC were so thrilled to have guests, they really did give me lots of attention before they had to head into the brand new assembly hall for the celebration rehearsals.
After lunch I took a tour around the new classrooms. There was a very exciting atmosphere in the air. PLC have provided new desks, white boards and chairs and they made the girls so happy!
I asked the girls that I sponsor to show me their homes. I was interested to see how they lived. All of the girls live in huts without clean water and only two of the five girls that I sponsor have electricity. It was humbling to see the reality of how they live.
It made me sad to see young children in the village who clearly do not have the privilege to be educated. Walking to each of the girl's houses I realised that sponsoring five girls meant so much to their lives, which hardly cost me anything to donate! It brought tears to my eyes, learning how often a girl's birth is considered a burden to a family and they may be forced into marriage at a young age. Some girls are often abused too. That's why it's so important to educate the girls, so they have a voice.
The day of the celebration, Sunday 2nd December 2013 was an absolutely beautiful positive day. Everyone who has been a part of the school came. A group of the American sponsors attended as well as the parents of the girls. Most of the parents of the girls are illiterate. The school really needs their encouragement and support to keep the girls in school. I was so pleased to see so many of the parents and siblings attend the event.
So the celebrations began. It was so adorable to see the young girls perform a song and dance. The older girls performed a light show, about the history of the school. The new school is now in fact the third location of PLC. Deepa thanked the teachers for their hard work educating the girls of PLC. The girls at the end of the program all came out with huge bright signs, with one of them saying "Hear my voice". It made me cry, it was so beautiful.
After the performance I caught up with my girls that I sponsor, in the outfits that they wore for their dance routines. They looked so beautiful.
Deepa was born in Calcutta, She told me that she was privileged to be educated and she wanted to give back to the world so she started PACE and the PLC. She also caught up with the girls after their performance. Deepa showed the guests the plans for the school so they can educate more girls. We ate, whilst the younger girls were so excited to play on the "Jungle Gym" playground set up for the first time! I even had a go!
To sponsor a girl at the Piyali Learning Centre it only costs £215 a year. That covers their education, food, medical and school uniform. Education is key to beat poverty. It is so important that the girls learn how to look after their community and about personal hygiene too.
Thanks for reading!
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This lunch picture was from awhile ago that I never got around to posting. I'm not sure, but I think this was the lunch I packed for myself for Owen's Kindergarten picnic on his last day of school. I pack lunches for myself almost as often as I do for the kids...but I don't take photos of my own that often because my lunches all pretty much look exactly the same. ;-)
I got a sandwich (peppered turkey, havarti cheese, lettuce and mustard on whole grain bread), baby carrots and green grapes (I only like green ones!), and SunChips. Packed in a spiffy EasyLunchboxes container, of course! :)
Here's a little secret (a secret so secretish that everyone who knows me in real life already knows this quite well, LOL) ... I am actually a very picky eater. I'm getting better in my old age. I actually tried asparagus for the first time a couple months ago and found I really liked it. Who knew? :)
Another picture from the Kindergarten picnic. This is Owen, the boy of honor, and my little dumpling of a daughter, Paige. She's also feasting on a lunch out of an EasyLunchbox. (They are just so dang easy to pack, I tell ya!)
She was having a sandwich, Trader Joe's "pirate booty", cheddar cheese, and fruit. In this pic she was making a grab for the slice of kiwi. :)
Thursday, June 3, 2010
quick lunch for yours truly
Posted by Melissa at 2:25 PM
Labels: bento4grown-ups, EasyLunchboxes, picnic
4 comments:
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
You have some cute kids :-)
- June 3, 2010 at 3:28 PM
- Jenn @ BentoForKidlet said... [Reply to comment]
Yummy looking lunches!!
- June 3, 2010 at 3:50 PM
- care-in said... [Reply to comment]
I'm picky too and I don't like my food to touch...is there a club for us?
- June 4, 2010 at 5:40 AM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Oh, care-in, isn't it hard to be picky as an adult? I've become self-conscious about it in my old age! :)
Cher -- would you email me? my email is anotherlunch(at)gmail(dot)com - I'm working on getting some info together for you! :)
- June 4, 2010 at 9:45 PM
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There's nothing official you can do til May. The results are released in the middle of May (last year was the 15th); they will tell you via the email address you would have supplied when registering for the GAMSAT. On the GAMSAT website, the online application and GPA calculator will open in May (before the results are released) to apply for ALL the grad courses.
You don't really have to look into the uni websites individually (unless you want any detailed course info) because everything you need to know about applying will be in the application guide, which as I recall is released when the applications open in May. You can look through last years one, but things can change a little (e.g. Melbourne took nobody this year but will next year).
If there are new things you can do, they are normally pretty obvious on the main page of the website.
To apply, it goes through one application (for each course type, e.g. Med is one), you put in preferences for which unis and you have until June, so once you get your results you can think it over with no rush. Then you have to do the GPA calculation and send them a transcript.
For now, I'd practice interview techniques and look into the best options of unis to apply to. Each uni has slightly different criteria and ways they look at your results, so familiarise yourself with all the courses so when you get your GAMSAT results you have an idea of which preferences to put down.
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There are a few unis which have a weird application though, like Wollongong and NDS need extra forms when applying.
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I find it pretty alarming that theyve decided you should be tutoring and have not seen fit to tell you what they want you to be doing. Are you the only one with an assistantship or something?
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Ascent of Puy de Sancy on 1985-06-27
Greg Slayden
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Thursday, June 27, 1985
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Puy de Sancy
6184 ft / 1884 m
Ascent Trip Report
I woke up at 1 AM in my dorm room in Tours, France after 3 hours sleep, ate some food, and headed up towards the Gare de Tours. I got on my train by 2 AM, sitting in a compartment alone until a French lady joined me. We were able to converse fairly well in French, which made me feel good, given my 3.5 weeks of class. The train departed Tours on time at 2:18 AM, and we both fell asleep in our compartment as the train sped east through Selles, Vierzon, Bourges, and Moulins.
We were awakened by a conductor at some point for our tickets, and later, as I could see the orange sun rising through one on my dozings-off, I stayed awake and watched the countryside. We finally stopped at St. Germain-des-Fosses, where I got off to change trains—the train to Clermont-Ferrand was directly across, and left right on time. We went through Vichy and Riom, and passed the Michelin Tire Co. test track, before stopping at Clemont-Ferrand. Here I made another quick and easy change of trains, soon finding myself admiring views of the large valley city below me as my train climbed into the hills of the Massif Central.
The views of Clermont-Ferrand faded, and the train wound through bucolic countryside for another half hour, stopping at jerkwater towns now and then, before coming to Lacquielle, where I changed trains for the last time, here catching a tiny shuttle which took me in 10 minutes to the tiny town of La Bourboule, in a valley in the middle of the Monts Dore range, the highest of the Massif Central. It was about 9:00 AM.
I filled a plastic water coke bottle that was my canteen up with excellent water from a public fountain at the La Bourboule train station and started walking east along the main road south of the river, hoping to intersect a foot-path on my map, GR 30-41. After a short road walk and careful interpretation of my large-scale map, I followed a footpath off into the woods to the south. After a short climb, a side path led to a "cascade" which was in a dense forest setting. I ate my breakfast on a large rock in the grey morning in front of the waterfall as it threatened rain, then started back uphill again.
The path wound about and came to a tiny narrow road through open fields. I was lost to a small degree as I tried to follow the path on the road, but the countryside was wild, rolling, and exhilarating—I had not seen anything like it before. I wrongly took a downhill path to a "roche" or volcanic plug before coming back. I came to a main road where a French couple were admiring the flowers from their van, but could not locate the path on the other side of it, since there were many logging roads there. So I walked along the road (which the map said paralleled the path) until I set off into the woods on a viable path that slabbed up the west face of the Montagne de Bozart.
I passed a real logging operation in the middle of the trail—a truck with two guys. The trail steepened as it climbed through tall pines, and views of the village of La Bourboule opened up. The path became a wide track through scrub, then left it completely for a huge grassy field covering the entire upper parts of the entire Monts Dore range. I followed a track in the grass southeast along the crest of the Montagne de Bozart, past a deserted barn, as I marveled at the grassy expanse around me.
It was hard to follow any real path, and I got disoriented as I neared the lip of the Le Mont Dore valley. I could see the Puy de Cliergue, my destination, but lost my trail totally and cut across the grass trying to get to its base, finding boggy areas, barbed wire fences, and a large herd of cows and their calling cards littering the area. I cut right through the herd without incident, though, and soon found myself on a steep trail making a grueling ascent to the Puy de Cliergue. The worst part of the climb was the occasional pile of droppings covered with flies that all flew away as one approached.
At last I reached Cliergue's summit, where a large group of kids was resting—the first other hikers I had seen. There were patches of snow there. I found my own rock to rest on near the summit, and admired the expansive view of the valley below me. The rest of the ridge hike that afternoon was incredible—the well-defined path wound along the fairly level ridgecrest, still all grass, towards the impressive-looking crags of Puy de Sancy that loomed always closer. There were suddenly many other hikers on the spectacular trail, who I greeted with a "Bonjour". One guy coming the other way had been sitting next to me on the trail from Clermont-Ferrand—we expressed our mutual surprise.
I stopped to take many pictures and admire the view—at the Puy Redon I had the scamper over rocks to gain the actual summit. Finally, the path came out from behind a crag and I could see the area below Puy de Sancy, which did not look so formidable from this side. A cable-car station was a couple hundred feet below the summit, and hundreds of school kids were streaming out from it to go up the Puy on a well-worn trail. I joined the great line of people, and after a short hike came out on onto the tiny 1885 m-6185 feet summit of Puy de Sancy, the highest point in central France. I read the plaque and view description on top, then left the crowds of 6 year olds to descend to the east and ascend the broad grassy dome of Puy Ferrand, which had ski lifts on it (they were all over the Puy de Sancy area). I lay down on the grass and gazed off to the southeast (the view was expansive) of the side of the Puy Ferrand, then decided to get moving again.
I went to the cable car station, bought some cokes (and forgot and had to retrieve my map) and started to hike down to the valley floor, at first having to deal with occasional patches of snow and ski lifts in the now sunny and pleasant afternoon. The path down was a wide, rocky, and steep road, a real knee-killer. I made good time, though, passing some hikers and admiring the view back upward at the cable cars and a tall, spectacular waterfall pouring over a cliff. I finally made my way all the way down to the road where the path ended, at the Station de Sancy. Following this highway a little ways brought me to the Le Mont Dore Youth Hostel, which seemed very deserted. I went in anyway, and after a wait paid for my bed and breakfast which was dominated by workmen. It seemed that I was the only one there.
I found my bunkroom, made my bed, used the bathroom, and briefly walked around the hostel—it was a chalet-style place with several bunkrooms and a large common room. It seemed to cater mostly to skiers, in the winter. Making a reservation had been needless. I ate some of my food, then went to sleep in my warm bed at around 5:30 PM, very tired from my long day.
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426 ft / 129 m
Total Elevation Loss:
328 ft / 99 m
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Start Trailhead:
Sancy-Redon Col 5758 ft / 1755 m
Descent Statistics
Loss on way out:
328 ft / 99 m
End Trailhead:
Sancy-Ferrand Col 5856 ft / 1784 m
Ascent Part of Trip:
1985 - Puy de Sancy
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Puy de Cliergue
1985-06-27 a
2661 ft / 811 m
Puy Redon
1985-06-27 b
544 ft / 166 m
Puy de Sancy
1985-06-27 c
426 ft / 130 m
Puy Ferrand
1985-06-27 d
227 ft / 69 m
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1985-06-28 a
128 ft / 39 m
Total Trip Gain: 3986 ft / 1215 m Total Trip Loss: 2526 ft / 770 m
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Once again, the old adage that "golf is a game of putting" holds true - especially on the PGA Tour. So many storylines were playing out this past week at the Deutsche Bank Championship, it was hard to keep track of them all.
Who's going to win the tournament? Who's going to advance to the next FedEx Cup event? Who's going to impress Davis Love III enough to become a captain's pick?
The pressure to perform was - obviously - intense. And pressure almost always manifests itself with golfers via short putts.
And though over a four-day tournament, every golfer can look back at some short putts they could have made, it's the ones that consistently handle the pressure and hole out those must make short putts that will separate themselves from the rest of the field. Exhibit A of course, Rory McIlroy, who has become one of the most clutch "short putt" putters in golf - after struggling early in his career with those same distances. On Monday, on the 17th hole, Tiger, Rory and Louis all had short putts that they needed to make. Rory was the only one to make it - and he ended up winning by one.
You can't overstate the importance of making those short putts. Jackie Burke once famously challenged Phil Mickelson to start holing 100 3-foot putts at each practice session. Since Phil took him up on the advice, Mickelson has won four major championships. It's no coincidence.
Most players know that the secret to better scores is better putting. The great question is: how?
I have a favorite lesson I share with students on the putting green that has always seemed to bring good results.
I call it "hit, hold and look". You hit the putt, hold the finish, and then look to see it go in. Most golfer "look, hit and hope"!
Break these down in simple steps.
Once you are over your putt -
1.) Hit - make a good solid stroke on the line you've intended with the speed you feel is correct
2.) Hold - finish your putting stroke with your eyes still focused on where you made contact with the ball
3.) Look - Once your putting stroke is finished, you can look up to watch the ball roll in.
The concept is so easy but often difficult to adopt. Try these three simple steps the next time you get on the practice green and then take it onto the course. You'll make more short putts - and it will almost assuredly lower your scores.
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Meet Ashley, one of my new favorite bloggers, and one I can't wait to meet on my next trip to Phoenix! Ashley named me as one of her favorite bloggers previously, and this week she awarded me two sweet awards she was awarded with herself. Ashley, I was so very pleasantly surprised to be awarded these - it made my heart smile. I remember awards like these from way back when I first started blogging, when I was way more gung-ho about interacting. These days, I have a balanced mix, so I was so very honored to see my name on your list, and so, of course, I had to do it right away.
Five years ago I lived in a small town with not much to do except browse the internet. I came across a blog that pulled in my interest and realized blogs weren't for nerds like I thought. I started blogging with my first post and never looked back.
Anything from Sephora. I love DiorShow Mascara, Too Faced eyeshadows (thanks to Allie), Sephora's brush set, Smashbox BrowTech, and, sadly, much more that I don't know the name of because I'm out and haven't had the money to get more. Which reminds me, I have a gift card there I need to spend! Yipee! Other than that, for the first time in forever, I've been using a few drugstore brands. Almay's SmartShade makeup has been working fantastically, along with their SmartShade concealer and blush. Cheap, but works just as well as Sephora tinted moisturizers so far. Another fill in I've thrown in until I can get back to DiorShow is NYC's Lengthening mascara - figured if I was going to buy drugstore makeup I wasn't going to spend more than $2 on it.
Any surfer brand - Roxy, Billabong, O'Neill, Hurley, etc. I grew up with those brands being cheap and accessible, and now that I'm somewhere where they are not cheap and accessible, I crave them and always hit up the stores when I'm in Cali. They're comfy, cute, and yet somehow still stylish. Oh, and they fit like a glove. Exactly what I love. My favorite purchases lately have been a long short sleeve sweater perfect to go over leggings, a long sleeved comfy shirt, and a black super soft jacket.
A year ago, I would've had a whole list of indispensable make-up products. These days, not much makes the list. I've been trying to wear makeup less to allow my skin to breathe. If I wear one thing, though, it would be foundation to even out my skin tone. I wish my skin was clear like it used to be, and it is... when I don't wear makeup for awhile.
Green. Or pink, of course. If I'm picking something that's an accessory, it will automatically be pink. If I'm choosing something to wear, usually it doesn't fall in that category. If I'm choosing something for my home, it will generally be green.
I'm allergic to perfumes. The alcohol they use to infuse the scent onto your skin carries it straight to my head and gives me a headache. I used to use Victoria's Secret Body Sprays all the time though. Maybe I should start that up again.
Sabrina - the one with Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond, without a doubt. I also love Under the Tuscan Son and Eat, Pray, Love. A lot of people weren't too hot about Eat, Pray, Love, because the character Julia Roberts portrays can be super introspective. I dig introspection though, and always take movies that brave the depth with a grain of salt. I'm one of those super read into every thought I have people, and I love how she tears it apart to the nitty gritty and finds that she just wants to live and experience again.
Italy, Italy, Italy. See above movies :) . I'm currently reading Halfway to Each Other and am fantasizing about moving our whole family there for a year, which happens to be the subject of the book.
Blush. Mascara opens up my eyes and I don't ever put on blush to where it is super noticeable.
As per the person who awarded Ashley, "A 'stylish' blog isn't all about clothes or fashion, but about blogs of real heart and that keep you coming back for more." These are the kinds of blogs I love to read.
1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this award.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Award 10 recently discovered great bloggers.
4. Contact these bloggers and tell them about this award.
I have a bit of a confessional frame of mind lately, just because I am dealing with so much upheaval in the communication area of my life, so I'm going that route... sorry if it's too deep!
2) If I don't take my vitamins around that "time" of the month, I can be a real b word. Speaking of, I need to take them now. All done :) . I take a whole vitamin, calcium, and acidophiles. Somehow the combination of the three tell my body that it's okay, I'm just on edge, it's not me, it's just my hormones going psycho right now. I don't take birth control, and that may be part of it. But, after reading an article in Cosmo that says birth control may lower your libido (not that I trust everything Cosmo says, but still), I'm quite glad I don't!
3) I'm not enrolled this semester. And I struggle with being okay with it. I've come to the resolution with myself that I have earned a 4.0 GPA every semester I've been there, haven't dropped a single class, and I am rewarding myself with a semester off to reinvest myself into my family and creating a loving environment.
4) I also am not currently employed. I am considering becoming my husband's business assistant, but haven't started yet. I also struggle being okay with that. In the long run, I do want to become his business assistant as the couples I see that are the strongest in life, relationship wise and success wise, work together, and I want that for our marriage. I realize once I jump on the bandwagon, though, I'm not getting off, and I'm not ready to make that decision yet.
5) I'm worried my friendships and relationships are going to change as a result of me not being able to text (see number 1). I realized last night that my iPhone instantly aggravates my arm to a burning sensation. The computer I can handle, for a little while, as long as I take breaks (like right now). But, texting kills it.
6) I can't stand that I never had weight problems until I started school. In fact, I was six pounds lighter after I had my second child than I had been before I had my first child. The second I started school I started eating breakfast, something I'd never done prior. That, and I was introduced to mindless eating while studying. That put on the weight instantly. I lost it all doing a detox last winter and have been able to maintain the weight I had before I had my first child. The last few days it's been creeping up, likely because I've been working out more, but it's driving me crazy. Almost to the point I wish I hadn't started doing school. I can't wait to do another detox.
7) My favorite food in the whole world is ice cream. I eat a HUGE bowl of Blue Bell almost every night. Fortunately, this does not have anything to do with the above number six, as I was able to maintain a weight of 102 for five years while still eating my ice cream. In fact, I haven't had any ice cream in the last few days (see above, number 6). Maybe eating ice cream is what keeps my weight down :) .
Now to award this to ten other bloggers, who are so very stylish each in their own unique way, and I love reading each one:
1) Teagan's Mission to Paris - she's a new blogger, and so introspective - love reading her!
2) Goldilocks - because it's been awhile for her, too, in between having to go private and enjoying her wonderful man.
3) Villagegirl - She has so much fun with her boys, it's adorable.
4) Sonya - a self-described Canadian princess - email her at slarnder at hotmail for an invite to her private blog!
5) Michelle at Gooseberried - a recently rediscovered after her RSS feed got messed with favorite.
6) Love this Life - Hopefully, she's jumping back into the blog world with her adorable new man friend.
7) Liz at Need Your Pillow Fluffed? - send some love her way, she's dealing with a LOT right now.
8) PattyAnn at the Pittman Show - Used to be an Austinite, love her and her adorable hubby and baby.
9) Linda at Curious Notions - a local foodie and all around fun girl that I have yet to meet!
10) A Tall Sassy Gal - another recent foray back into blogging that I'm crossing my fingers is successful!


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On TMZ this morning, WWE Superstar Darren Young revealed to the WWE Universe that he is gay. WWE is proud of Darren Young for being open about his sexuality, and we will continue to support him as a WWE Superstar. Today, in fact, Darren will be participating in one of our Be A STAR anti-bullying rallies in Los Angeles to teach children how to create positive environments for everyone regardless of age, race, religion or sexual orientation.


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By Justin Tang
LOS ANGELES -- Women's rights and globalization are two of the catchiest - and most important -- phrases in business today. In a recent Dean's Distinguished Speaker series appearance, former Canadian Prime Minister, Kim Campbell -- who today promotes the advancement of women's rights in her world travels -- represented the link between the two ideas. Introducing Campbell, UCLA Anderson's Dean Judy Olian said, "One of our missions at Anderson is to prepare global leaders. Kim Campbell (represents) that (kind of) pioneering political figure. (She is an) intellectual powerhouse and force of change."
Among many topics discussed, Campbell focused on how the technology revolution, the effects of globalization, and the responsibilities of being a former female leader, shaped her career after politics.
Today, Campbell chairs the Council of Women's World Leaders, serves as the president of the International Women's Forum, launched the Women's Leadership Fund, and founded the Club of Madrid. Many of these organizations bring attention to the success of women in various countries, while encouraging companies to give women equal rights in the workforce. While her responsibilities are numerous, she credits technology for helping her reach out to a greater audience. "I needed to find a way to multiply what I do. The information and communication technology revolutions allow me to communicate to more people in real-time."
She also spoke about her new website, www.bitesizechunks.org, which acts as a forum for the innovative ideas that Campbell wants to highlight. For example, her website examines the problems in Haiti and its implications for other developing nations. She said, "I want to create an exchange of ideas for two reasons. The first reason is because my entries may spark an interest in people that I know want to make a difference. Secondly, I want to give people a sense of empowerment because I believe it is too easy to feel alienated and overwhelmed by problems."
Campbell concluded the night by expressing the need to enable her generation to spread their global experiences in order to teach others. "We need to find ways of enabling those of us of my generation who have had valuable and interesting experiences...to communicate to the world without necessarily traveling everywhere." To describe this movement, she jokingly coined the phrase, "geezers going global."
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The CD's are printed, they've been mailed to radio stations and press, they've been mailed to the Kickstarter contributors (most of them, that is), the CD release shows are set and the publicity has been arranged…it's time now to step back and let this thing do whatever it's going to do. The CD release date is set for September 11, and we start a run of regional shows after that for a couple months to support it.
I'm really happy with the way this project has come out. It's a little raw-er than the most recent project, but it's dead on as far as accuracy. And most importantly, I can hand this to anyone, anywhere, with complete confidence and say "This is what we sound like as a band, this is what I sound like solo, and these are the kinds of songs I write." We could have done a lot more, but we consciously chose not to. It's an americana/folk rock/singer-songwriter sound I can get behind totally, and I hope you guys can too!
There's also a brand new website up and running as of mid last week, and you guys should go and check it out at www.aaronburdett.com. For those of you who didn't manage to get in on the Kickstarter or haven't received your disc yet (probably because you haven't sent me your address…) there are four songs there on the music page from the new project that you can stream right now. My buddy Reggie at Curve Theory (www.curvetheory.com) has put in a lot of hours and hard work and come through for me once again with a fantastic looking and really functional site.
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B.F.F. Diaper Bag - Prism Rose
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A classic geometric pattern never goes out of style, and the Prism Rose print perfectly embodies this timeless look. A black background provides the ideal backdrop to really show off the beautiful rose gold stripes, arranged in a simple, yet beautiful, overlapping zigzag pattern. Rose gold hardware and accents complete the look.
This bag really will become your best friend, whether you use it as a diaper bag or an everyday bag. Detachable, adjustable straps let you carry the BFF as a backpack, messenger bag or tote bag to suit the needs of the day. Spacious and structured, this bag provides ample space for all your daily essentials, and seven interior pockets keep everything neat and organized. Insulated side pockets keep drinks and snacks at the perfect temperature for baby (or you!).
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- Dimensions – 14"W x 12"H x 6.5"D
- Weight – 2.8 pounds
- Pockets – 4 gusseted pockets and 3 zippered pockets in main compartment; 2 bottle pockets with Thinsulate by 3M; Mommy pocket with key fob and microfiber glasses pocket; Quick-reach cell phone pocket
- Fabrics – Memory foam changing pad included; Light-colored lining; Agion-treated interior resists bacteria, mold and mildew; Teflon-treated exterior resists stains
- Straps – Detachable, adjustable messenger/tote strap with removable memory foam shoulder pad; Detachable backpack straps
- Hardware – Metal hardware; Luggage feet
- Extras – Crumb drains; Machine washable; Lifetime warranty
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How Bank of America Leverages Startups to Drive Innovation
With technology, regulatory, and market changes rocking the banking industry, institutions can't afford to stagnate in their day-to-day operations. Gaining exposure to different ideas around how to operate and do business is key to navigating those changes. David Reilly, technology infrastructure executive for Bank of America, tells us it has helped foster innovation around its technology infrastructure and operations by engaging and partnering with financial services technology startups.
Working with startups exposes the bank's staff to the agility and creative thinking intrinsic in that community, and it creates competition among Bank of America's different technology partners, Reilly says. "There's a real risk to fall into only working with the same established vendors. Our partnerships with those large vendors are very valuable to us, but no one provider has all of the answers, so we have to find ways to force disruptive thinking."
[For more on startups in banking, see 5 FinTech Startups to Watch]
Bank of America has developed several avenues for its top-level executives to engage with startups and see what is happening on the technological frontier of financial services. The bank runs a two-day summit in Silicon Valley that brings together more than 40 companies to help solve pressing IT issues. On the first day of the summit, the bank presents some of the problems that it is facing. Participating companies present their solutions on the second day.
"We bring several of our higher executives along to the summit so they can connect with this group," he says. "It's a chance to get people out of the office and sends the message that we expect engagement with this community."
Of the 40-plus companies involved in the summit, 17% have become technology vendors for the bank. It's also just as beneficial for startups at the summit to get exposure to how banks operate, so they can understand the challenges that banks face in dealing with security, compliance, and legacy infrastructure. "For some companies, if the management team hasn't dealt with financial services before, it can be a real shock to see that just having a world-beating solution isn't enough."
Bank of America holds all its vendors, large and small, to the same standards for security and compliance, Reilly says. Those standards are spelled out in a document it shares with all its vendors to help articulate its requirements in those areas.
With a better understanding of how banks operate, startups can learn how to sell their solutions to banks and sell themselves as a potential partner. This year, Bank of America held a session in its New York City offices with participants in the FinTech Innovation Lab program to help them gain that understanding on how to sell to a bank. Several of the bank's executives and members of its technology procurement team gave the startups advice on what banks seek in technology partners.
"Startups need to have a sponsor within the bank, usually a subject matter expert, who acts as an advocate within the organization for the company," Reilly says. "Big vendors don't need that, but startups do."
He predicts that startups will continue to play a heavy role in Bank of America's technology and operations organization as it works toward a more open IT environment. "The more that we can drive really open technology standards -- that's going to be the future. We need to have a compute stack running that helps make it easy to integrate. That drive to open standards is critical for us."
Jonathan Camhi has been an associate editor with Bank Systems & Technology since 2012. He previously worked as a freelance journalist in New York City covering politics, health and immigration, and has a master's degree from the City University of New York's Graduate School ... View Full Bio


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Frost & Sullivans recent analysis of world wireless network monitoring systems and protocol analyzer markets selected Anritsu as the recipient of the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Line Strategy in recognition of its proficient products in the mobile wireless network monitoring market.
Anritsu, which recently acquired NetTest, is a leading global provider of end-to-end network monitoring systems, service assurance solutions and test and measurement products. Anritsu's chief area of expertise in wireless is the centralized and distributed monitoring of mobile wireless networks. Their product suite for this market includes both the MasterClaw solution (formerly known as MasterQuest) and the NetClaw (formerly known as InterQuest) analyzer.
With its flexible design and ability to leverage existing product iterations in newer generation products, Anritsu has designed for its customers and itself a 'win-win' strategy and thus is positioned for growth, which gives it an advantage over its competitors, says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Sankara Jambulingam. Anritsu's wireless monitoring solutions help network operators reduce customer churn rates, lower network operating costs, assures smooth rollout of new services and ensures performance of networks at peak efficiency.
The MasterClaw solution is Anritsu's probe-based non-intrusive monitoring system designed to provide full end-to-end monitoring of GSM, GPRS, UMTS, and VoIP/SS7 networks. The solution enables operators to increase profits by optimizing the use of existing network capacity, increase average revenue per user by improving service quality and launch new access and subscriber services faster. Moreover, the MasterClaw effectively links parallel 2G, 2.5G and 3G networks to support an operator's transition strategy.
As wireless networks become more complex, there is increasing demand for end-to-end troubleshooting and monitoring solutions that ensure optimal network performance, said Thomas Jensen, vice president and head of the Service Assurance Business Unit of Anritsu. We are honored to be recognized by the industrys leading experts for closely aligning our product line strategy with customer needs, which has resulted in continuous significant market penetration.
The MasterClaw integrates network monitoring, troubleshooting, as well as service and customer quality monitoring of converged networks into one platform. This integrated environment enables service providers and network operators to monitor their networks as a unified service platform rather than treating service and network segment as a separate entity.
The NetClaw is an advanced network and service performance analyzer to troubleshoot and optimize new and existing services across GSM, CDMA, GPRS/EDGE, UMTS, SS7 and IP networks in a single box. Apart from using NetClaw to capture data, monitor and troubleshoot in a single unit, efficient testing of the interoperability of different technologies can be performed, reducing operational costs, as networks get increasingly complex. With the innovative NetClaw multi-user capability, it is possible for up to eight users to analyze different parts of the monitored network simultaneously and independent of each other, thus optimizing work routines while minimizing investment in other test solutions.
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Anritsu, a true pioneer in the wireless network and service monitoring market, is forecast to further increase its market share in the coming years, and is a worthy recipient of Frost & Sullivan's 2005 Product Line Strategy Award in the World Wireless Network Monitoring Market. Each year Frost & Sullivan presents this Award to a company that has demonstrated the most insight into customer needs and product demands. The recipient company should have optimized its product line by leveraging products with the various price, performance, and feature points required by the market.


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text: Brownies should be a delicious chocolate experience, not a dry brown square chiseled out of a pan. Kir Jensen, author of The Sugar Cube and owner of a food cart by the same name in Portland, Oregon, has a few simple tips that will ensure rich, fudgy, perfectly baked brownies every time. (Click here to see Kir's brownie recipe from her new book. Or try CHOW's adapted version of her recipe, which addresses the questions of yield that had come up in the video comments below.)


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Chaos Control: Vivid visuals,passable shooting but easy to finish
>> Sunday, July 31, 2011
Chaos Control is one of the prettiest CD-i titles to look at -- and unlike other beauty-contest CD-i discs, it's also fun to play. The game puts players in the cockpit of a space-fighter, desperately trying to punch through an invasion fleet and... of course... Save The Earth. As flying games goes, Chaos Control is of the ''railroad tracks'' ilk, meaning you fly through the same terrain the same way every time. The ship flies itself, you just have to shoot. Fortunately, that assignment will keep players plenty busy.
As you fly furiously through cityscapes, through space stations, etc., you'll come across alien ships, ''mobile-suits'', tanks, etc., some stationary, some flying. Moving your cursor on to them and pressing the button fires your guns. But to keep things interesting, you can only fire so often before overheating your guns -- as a practical upshot, success depends on making quality shots.
As the alien mecha returns fire, a shield guage on the bottom of the screen diminishes. When it runs out, the game ends. There's no way to replenish it -- no ''1ups'' or recharges to pick up -- short of finishing the entire level. One other thing to watch for: the cursor turns yellow when it's pointed at a friendly object, such as one of your squadron members. Try not to shoot them!
In Chaos, the same alien ships show up in the same places at the same time in every game. That's because of how the game actually works -- the terrain and the alien ships are pre-recorded digital video being unspooled from the disc. The CD-i superimposes a target and the various shots (yours and theirs) on top of this video. When you hit a ship, an explosion and smoke is drawn on top of the ship until it disappears off the screen.
In its execution, Chaos most closely resembles the Namco arcade shooter Starblade, which also offered exactly the same game every time. Starblade gets a point for actually removing exploded ships from the screen, but Chaos gets many more points for being faster, better looking, and generally more fun. (Note to Infogrames, though: if you can animate the explosions, vary their size, and have them track the moving objects, couldn't you have just put computer-animated ships in random locations and opened up the game more? Or is that too Rebel Assault?)
Chaos is also distinguished by a faux-anime storyline that is played out in animated sequences between the action sequences. The heroine who you're playing is ace pilot Jessica Darkhill, whose wingman and One True Love has been killed in an earlier battle with the Kesh Rahn, an alien fleet that's come to conquer the Earth. Jessica must first punch through the front lines to get to a base in Manhattan, destroy a computer virus in a virtual-reality world, then take a prototype ship into space and destroy the alien mothership.
It's nice to give the game a narrative angle like this, and making the hero a woman is an interesting idea. Anime fans will also notice a variety of borrowings from franco-japanese animation. Still, every now and then, the voice acting isn't up to the task, and some of the scenes border on camp. (to some, of course, that makes it even more authentic anime!)
The look of the game elements actually show the title's strongest design skils. The larger Kesh Rahn ships are appropriately creepy, bulbous behemoths with pointed spikes. They're backed up by robot-like mobile-suits, serpentine ''boss'' mecha, etc. The flying is at times claustrophobic, dizzying, and desperate. All of this has been rendered by supercomputer and when replayed in full-motion video, it's a sumptious shoot-em-up.
The game comes from France's Infogrames, who designed last year's feeble Kether. That game's sole highlight was its sweeping flying sequences, an idea developed further here. Having said all that, Chaos Control has two significant game-play flaws that prevent it from achieving true greatness. The first is simply that the level designs don't live up to the potential of the game-engine. The first level, in which you fly past the Statue of Liberty and into the wrecked urban corridors of Manhattan, is easily the best, and even it seems to go on aimlessly near the end.
After that, you fly a ''virtual'' fighter through a computer landscape, to destroy a virus that threatens the attack mission. The real rush of the first level, the sense of flying through a real-world landscape, is obviously lost here. Flying around a circuitboard is too obviously artificial to provide the same rush. The third and fourth levels, in which you fight off aliens around a space station and take on the mother ship, are better. But...
They're just too easy. The first time I finished the second level, I proceeded to destroy the flagship and win the game. This after maybe five or six games, tops. A feeling of victory is great and all, and replaying the first level is still nominally interesting, but a $50 disc shouldn't be beaten so quickly. Ultimately, the best thing about Chaos Control may be that it could open designers' eyes to new kinds of games using the digital video cartridge. Instead of tacking video interruptions onto an otherwise boring game (e.g., Mutant Rampage), Chaos uses the fast-moving video to overcome the difficulty the CD-i would otherwise have animating so many objects and backgrounds. Aside from the obvious use in shooting and flying games, you have to wonder if there are camera crews shooting first-person perspectives for CD-i racing games, adventures, and other kinds of titles. Chaos is a good enough game in its own right, but it could be the start of something even better. (7/10)
[Thanks to Chris Adamson, Devin, Black Moon]


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