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Defining Who You Are
To begin, we offer a few packages to define your company through messaging and visuals.
This is for businesses that have a compelling product or service and need help creating clear messaging and visuals to reach their audience.
Let's be real, an amazing logo and rad visuals are great, but they won't necessarily bring you more business. Being able to easily communicate what you're offering and why it's valuable to others will bring you more business, and that begins with a clear brand message.
We have a process to help you define the core values and purpose of your company, and then provide the tools you need to market your company; whether in person, online, or through your social media platforms.
• Discovery process and brand consultation
• Full brand questionnaire process
• Curation of brand values and purpose
• Original logo
• Secondary logos based on main logo
• Base brand elements (icons, patterns, etc.)
• Color scheme
• Font recommendations
• Upload-ready profile images
• Brand guidelines PDF
This is for businesses that already have a clear brand message, but need visuals to enhance their established brand.
We take you through a short brand questionnaire process to help define your desired goal for visuals. Then we create a complete identity package that will serve as a visual guide for all your marketing materials.
• Short brand questionnaire
• Original logo
• Secondary logos based on main logo
• Base brand elements (icons, patterns, etc.)
• Color scheme
• Font recommendations
• Upload-ready profile images
• Brand guidelines PDF
This is for businesses who are just getting started not quite ready to invest in full branding.
Although we fully believe in the importance of clear brand messaging and identity design, we understand that some companies are on a small budget and need a simple logo to get their feet off the ground. We'll have you answer a few questions to get a feel for your style and then create a few logo options for you to choose from.
• Short brand questionnaire
• 2-3 original logo options
Sharing What You Do
Once you have your brand established, we have a variety of offerings to help you share your unique product or service in creative and compelling ways.
Whether you are selling a service, product, or meaningful message to the world, we can display your company on the web with a design consistent with your brand identity.
Email is one of the leading marketing platforms and creates a loyal audience for your business. We can design a beautiful template for your monthly newsletters of promotional campaigns.
Call us old school, but we're still a fan of print collateral. If you're needing business cards or stationery, postcards or flyers, packaging or newspapers; we can make your brand tangible.
Because everyone needs photos. They say a photo says a thousand words, but these days it seems you need a thousand photos. Engaging photos are are such necessary assets to complement your brand.
Wanna make your graphic move? Adding a simple animation to your logo or using motion to explain a concept adds depth to what you want to communicate. We call it brand choreography.
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Marketing isn't something you do once and then move on. Rather, you have to continually connect with your audience to run a sustainable business. We can help you on a consistent basis to form marketing strategies and create your content so that you can simply run your business.
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Thursday, May 16 2019 - Podcast Launch Party
We celebrated our pilot podcast season at LMHQ in Manhattan!
The Not Yet podcast explores how 'coming of age' can happen at ANY age - through the dynamics, challenges, and milestones of intimate relationships. It's guaranteed to spark some revelations of your own.
Thanks to the community of thinkers, artists, and storytellers present at this event. We had light bites for all, beer & cider, VIP gift bags, and a sex health table from our friends at Community Health Network.
Sunday, December 2nd 2018 - Honesty Wellness Workshop
Whether you're working with others or with yourself, honesty will always bring you closer to what you truly want. We confronted this vulnerable space in our Honesty workshop at Urban Asanas. We're held a mind & body practice which included:
+ A one-hour community yoga class with Aasia
+ A meditative writing practice with bklynprose, an online & real-time support system for marginalized communities
Saturday, November 17th 2018 - Sex Positivity Showcase
Were you looking for a space to talk & learn about sex freely? Without the hangups of shaming or silence? Our sex positivity showcase was a blast. We even had our friends from Community Health Network stop by with PrEP/PEP info and goodies!
It was awesome seeing you there. With workshops like sensual dance, body positive collage, and an Inner Hoe Uprising live show - we hope we spiced up your November.
Sunday, November 4th 2018 - Taking Chances Workshop
Embracing risk can be a challenge. But taking chances in your relationships, work and creativity will always bring you closer to the life you dream of. Our community brought their ideas into action with the Taking Chances workshop. We had a packed Sunday afternoon of activities:
+ A one-hour community yoga class led by Jyll Hubbard-Salk
+ A meditative writing practice with bklynprose, an online & real-time support system for marginalized communities
Monday, October 22nd 2018 - Halloween Trivia Night
We had a night of pop culture savvy and snacks! Our Not Yet Halloween trivia night at New Women Space was one for the books.
We had a DJ, drinks and more to get our fam inspired, and some exciting prizes to give out. Congrats to the trivia winner for knowing their Halloween history, and enjoy your new BLUETOOTH SPEAKER prize!
Saturday, August 25th 2018 - Babetown BBQ
NOT YET teamed up with Babetown for an end-of-summer community BBQ!
Grilled eats + good company = recipe for a great time. We even gave away free tickets to this SOLD OUT celebration! Follow us at @NotYetSeries & stay tuned for our next event.
Saturday, August 18th - Love & Healing Workshop
We teamed up with Urban Asanas yoga studio and bklynprose for our Love & Healing Workshop! This was a Saturday afternoon of grounding, reflection, and meditation.
1:30PM - Community Yoga (mats provided & all levels welcome)
3PM - Meditative Writing with bklynprose (materials provided)
Sunday, July 22nd 2018 - Art & Activism Popup
Not Yet web series and The Unapologetically Brown Series hosted a popup & potluck! Come through New Women Space Sunday, July 22nd for a FREE afternoon of art, food and fellowship. BIG LOVE to Veggie Mijas for providing plant-based eats from their Vegan BBQ!!
1PM - Doors Open
2:30PM - Zine Workshop with Colectiva Cósmica
3-4:30PM - Creative head shots in NWS
4PM - Soca Dance Workshop with Mariama Noguera-Devers
6PM - Panel on art & activism with Paige Polk, Johanna Toruno, and Jasmine Wahi - moderated by New Women Space co-founder Sandy Hong

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Authors Sarah Arthur and Erin Wasinger will be here to discuss their book The Year of Small Things with us at 7 pm! Bring a friend and come to what guaranteed to be a great book discussion.
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Kerry's Caribbean Food Kingston Ontario is where you can enjoy a real authentic taste of the islands, home made Jamaican patties, hot and spicy jerk chicken, jerk pork that will have you coming back for more and our famous curry goat which is seasoned just right.
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Michael Angove MA RCA is a Welsh artist and designer based in the medieval town of Devizes, Wiltshire.
He trained at Winchester School of Art in Printed Textile Design. After attaining a Masters degree from The Royal College of Art, Angove went on to work for Jean-Paul Gaultier, Hugo Boss and Antonio Marras.
Having cut his teeth at the fashion houses, Angove diversified and launched his own independent design brand - specialising in meticulous, high-impact imagery for products, textiles, interiors & illustration. He has been invited to create bespoke collections for Liberty of London, Jo Malone London and has collaborated with Farrow & Ball, Agent Provocateur and Artisans of Devizes
Michael's drawings are eagerly anticipated, both in the U.K. and internationally. His work can be found in private collections in Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong, New York, Chicago, Miami & Palm Beach, as well as the U.K.
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Starting the journey back in 2016, since then "Prayas InnConcepts Private Limited" has come a long way and emerged as a reputed leader dealing in Plastic Closures, Plastic Caps, PP & PET Preforms – Bottles & Pumps for packaging solutions in different industries like FMCG, Food & Beverage, Dairy, Chemical, Consumer Goods, Lubricants, Cosmetics, Households and Pharmaceutical Industry. Situated at Ahmedabad (Gujarat, India), We are a Private Limited firm offering a high quality range of products. Under the far-sightedness of our management team, We have been able to satisfy varied needs of our clients in efficient manner.
What began with just an idea, was slowly nurtured into a profitable business with the support and expertise of our special team members who bring their rich experience to the work which results in superior customer service when it comes to ideal packaging solutions.
We not just manufacture, supply but we continuously learn which puts us in the best position to come up with ideas that can be manifested. We go deep into the intricacies of the science of packaging and take into consideration not just the material but the entire process including the design, colour and look. All because we are committed to endowing superior quality solutions. Our team is well-equipped to provide professional consultation and can confidently answer to all your queries. You can get to know our business a little better by looking at our solutions and talking with our experts. We are also sensitive towards environment sustainability and thus dedicate our time to evolve friendly options for diverse business needs. If you are looking for best customer experience in the industry, it is right here! And we will continue to serve the best.
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Keiji Inafune still loves Mega Man. But to him there's no question who'd win if Capcom's robot mascot and Beck — the hero of Inafune's new Mega Man-alike Mighty No. 9 — got into a fight. "Unfortunately, Mega Man is an older robot and uses the older parts. A little bit too old school," Inafune said. "I don't know if he would be able to compete with the newer, shinier version of Beck."
It's safe to say that Keiji Inafune surprised the whole world when he announced Mighty No. 9 late last week at PAX. Stunning as the revelation of the retro-inspired action game was, the veteran game designer said that he decided to embark on the project because people wouldn't stop asking him about Mega Man.
Since Inafune left Capcom, he's been all about doing new things. There's been a mobile game, followed by Soul Sacrifice on Vita. Does he feel like going back to a character and game style so reminiscent of his early career is going backwards?
"One of the best things about owning your own company is that it allows you to do a wide variety of different projects that you otherwise may not have been able to," Inafune began. "As a creator, I don't want to be shoehorned into a certain type of game. There's a place and a time for every sort of game."
"When talking to fans that I've met at events, they constantly mention the titles that I had developed in the past at Capcom, from Dead Rising, to Onimusha, to Mega Man. Some of them say, "Hey, I really enjoyed the Mega Man games, it's too bad there's not anything like that right now." Of course, I'm like, "That's certainly something that's in my wheelhouse. That's something that I know how to do."
"For me, my basic concept is, whether I'm making an new original game, whether I'm making a classic-style game, whether I'm making a mobile game, whatever, I want to make something that I think the fans want to play. Obviously, when there's this many people out there saying, "This is what I want. This is what I want. This is what I want," then, obviously, I would love to listen to that as a creator."
And it's those fans that made Inafune and his colleagues at Comcept choose Kickstarter. "There are lots of things that make Kickstarter fantastic from the creator's perspective," Inafune told me. But it's the direct, unmediated connection to supporters and future consumers that's most appealing. "Right now [for many games], you've got the end user and then you've got the creator, and in the middle you've got the company."
"The company, for better or for worse, is determining a lot of the content that the end user is going to get to consume, and sometimes it's not what the creator wants to make for the end user. Probably nowadays even more than before, the company is putting more restrictions and making more of the judgment calls than they have before in the past."
Inafune: "Unfortunately, Mega Man is an older robot and uses the older parts. A little bit too old school. I don't know if he would be able to compete with the newer, shinier version of [Mighty No. 9]."
"Basically, they're handicapping their creators from doing what they really want to do as far as making really great games. What Kickstarter represents is being able to have that pure creator/consumer connection unlike there ever has been in the past."
Given how his tenure with Capcom ended, being able to chart his own future is important to Inafune. "As someone who has created several IP and franchises, I wanted control for the future, so I can continually give the fans what I know they want, and this system allows me to do that."
"Sometimes having that big publisher umbrella protects you. There are risks with Kickstarter. You really must go in knowing that you are doing this for the fans. Your heart must be with them and you must be willing to go all out and make some key decisions that you otherwise would not have. You're going to have to connect with them on a person-to-person level in a way that a lot of creators haven't. There might be times you're going to have to apologise. Unless you're able to bring that level of openness to Kickstarter, then you're probably not going to do a good job with it."
When I asked Inafune if Mighty No. 9 was a way for him to address certain things he wished were different about Mega Man, he said that would be part of his creative process. "People are a collection of their experiences in their life. When I originally made Mega Man/Rockman, I was in my early 20s. What doesn't someone in their early 20s know versus somebody who is in their 50s? Obviously, you have a wide variety of different perspectives and ideas and feelings through all those years of living life."
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"Rather than thinking of specific instances of saying, 'Oh I should have done that on Mega Man. I couldn't and now I'm going to do it on this,' the way I like to look at Beck is as a original character that allows me to trace back all of my learnings, all of my experience of the past 30 years in the game industry. I can use that to create something that's originally unique but still has the same spirit of its predecessor."
Most people look at the character design and the concept of Mighty No. 9 so far and feel like this is going to be a modern day update of the Mega Man formula. What's going to be explicitly different, then?
"If you actually break it down, in the character design or even what you're able to do in the game, it's very different from Mega Man games," Inafune said. "People will look at the main character Beck and they will see — at least this is how I feel about it — my spirit, my core character design in him. If you really break it down on a detailed level, things like the colour in the eyes, and the shape, there are things that are clearly set very apart from Mega Man as a character."
Inafune: "Basically, [companies are] handicapping their creators from doing what they really want to do as far as making really great games. What Kickstarter represents is being able to have that pure creator/consumer connection unlike there ever has been in the past."
"But the average consumer or Mega Man fan takes one look and thinks that it's Mega Man. From my perspective, being able to create a character that is in fact so different [but that gets such a response] shows that I really have put my soul in it. It's a sign that I really have captured that essence of what makes my games "my games" in this new character, and that makes me really happy."
Despite saying his new creation would mop up the floor with the Blue Bomber, Inafune bears no ill will towards the robot he left behind. Let's say that Capcom is working on a new Mega Man right now, I posited. Can the two co-exist? "Yeah. If the question is just, 'Can they exist as two different franchises at the same time?' then my answer is yes, of course," Inafune replied. "Capcom should be doing things with the Mega Man franchise just like we are with this original game."
"Ultimately, it would be great for the fans because then they would be able to play even double the content that they otherwise could," he continued. "So, in this perspective, yes, please, let both games exist." See that, Capcom? Even as he's sort of making his own, Keiji Inafune still wants new Mega Man games. If you put one out, he'd probably even buy it.


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Plot Summary: Dabu is a 40 year old man who is smitten by a struggling actress. When out of sheer luck he becomes an overnight billionaire, he tells the actress of his wealth and proposes her for marriage. She plans to cheat Dabu off his wealth without having to marry him.
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Daal Mein Kuch Kaala Hai is a tale of a budding actress Veena Malik who is over motivated to become a successful in Bollywood. Mr. Dabu is a middle aged man in his forties, a total loser. However, he has a weak point in his life which is lavishness and women, because of which he is madly obsessed of this budding actress. At some point all of a sudden he gets rich after hitting a roll-over prize of birthright. Mr. Dabu decides to walk off to this actress to share his destiny and his future in the company of her. The starlet gets surprised and shocked after witnessing so much of wealth with him in cash. She wishes to just have his money but not him, but doesn't know how! Out of the blue she receives a phone call from her boyfriend, and tempted by her boyfriend to cheat all the riches of Mr. Dabu, they both plan for that. As per the plan, she convinces Mr. Dabu that they should set out to a mysterious place to decide on their future. She informs him they cannot travel with so much of wealth in tow, and in fact they should rent a vehicle and should go by road. The car now includes Mr. Dabu, the budding actress, secretary of the starlet - Mr. Seekhonath - who is also attracted to her and a car driver in it. The driver of the car, Charlie, is a young and handsome man and is wondering that what this gorgeous young woman is doing with an old aged man Mr. Dabu. During their journey, and being as an unusual couple, Mr. Dabu and the starlet make everybody go suspicious. They as well follow them to understand what is happening. In the scary night, Mr. Dabu and others were travelling on the road and suddenly a fiery rainfall smashes out in the midst of the forest, where a bid tree falls down and blocks their route. They couldn't find any solution from this and unexpectedly they spot a light far way. They all walk off nearby and discovered an attractive palace which was built in the memory of a gorgeous woman. They decided to take a safe haven for the night there. After landing at that palace, they are provided the shelter by the manager who was governing the palace. As night was passing, the rainy hurricane was getting stronger which was delaying their stay. They too realized that the palace is haunted by the lady, but to console themselves they are just ignoring this ghost story. Their thoughts travel to a very extent and they feel that it is their sixth sense which is building bravery to stay till the rainstorm comes to an end. Those useless people who were chasing them too landed the palace. Soon the palace where the ghost of that gorgeous lady resides, changes herself into a photocopy of that budding actress. She makes everybody running out for the money in a complete form of entertainment and in a very comical way. Now in the palace, a few desired to have the money only, where a few desired to have the money and the girl. In the end, the complete fight kicks-off over the cash which leads to the climax by means of an issue that who will finally get the money? The spirit who is an angelic hearted soul, at last carries out the justice and handovers the wealth to its fair owner. On the whole, from beginning to end, entire movie is filled with full humor, enjoyment and entertainment.
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YOU HAVE A PURPOSE - entry 2
After being told our unborn son's condition was incompatible with life, our drive home from the doctor's office was a blur. To be given no hope that your son will survive long enough to feel your embrace or to know how much they were loved was crushing. Because of his prognosis, we now felt burdened with an unthinkable choice. Do we induce labor to keep our son from suffering or endure the pain of carrying a child that had no chance to survive?
When are you due? You must be so excited! Have you picked out colors for the nursery? Tyler must be so excited! Although it was possible I would hear these comments and questions from time to time, Lauren was going to have to live this reality every time she was at the grocery store, working out at the gym, interacting with our customers and athletes at our business, and every Sunday at church. How would we answer the questions or handle the conversations? After conversations with Lauren's obstetrician, and equipped with the limited information we had, we came to an uncomfortable decision...we scheduled a date to induce labor. At that point, we truly believed our son had no chance at life and by doing this, we were in some way minimizing his suffering.
One of the first things we did after leaving the doctor's appointment was to call Lauren's mom and sister that lived near us. We felt we needed to let them know about our decision so we drove straight to her sister's house. Explaining to your family that you were making a decision to end a pregnancy was unimaginable. As much as we wanted to think that we were sparing our son imminent suffering and that the procedure was just "inducing labor", we both knew we were playing verbal judo. In our hearts we knew we were terminating the pregnancy. Having already been through the loss of our daughter at birth, we felt we could somehow get through the loss of our son...we had been there before. But deep down, we both knew this was different. We could have never imagined that one day we would consider terminating a pregnancy, but for less than 24 hours, that's what we did. Even today, there is a hint of guilt that exists deep in our hearts about that decision. Lauren's mom and sister didn't have any harsh or critical words for us whether they agreed or not...they just cried with us, hugged us and prayed with us.
The rest of the day and into the night, we felt like we were moving through life in a thick cloud. We didn't have a sense of where we were going or why we were going through this with another child. We weren't able to reconcile how we would tell Tyler what happened to his brother. To simply tell Tyler that his brother went to heaven would be lying by omission and nothing about the decision was sitting well with me or Lauren. We felt strongly that a meeting with our pastor to discuss our options was we needed to do as soon as possible, so we called our church. Unfortunately, it was Friday and the office was closed until the following week. That night, we laid in bed and talked about the decision to end the pregnancy. Why were we making the decision to end our son's life? If he was not going to survive, why were we not letting God's plan play out? Then we realized that even with so many unknowns the future held, this was the moment we needed to relinquish control. It became crystal clear to both of us...it was time to "let go and let God". When we agreed that the right thing to do was cancel the appointment, we both felt an enormous burden lift from our hearts. We actually got restful sleep that night, and planned to call the doctor's office first thing in the morning.
We woke up feeling refreshed with a renewed clarity that we were making the right decision. If our son wasn't going to make it, then God was going to make that decision. We were going to do our best to accept His plan. That very same morning, Lauren got an email from my brother's wife with a slideshow attached. It seemed like some kind of chain email, and how many of those do we all get in a week that we delete or skim over? I know...lots. But this was from my brother's wife who rarely sends us email, and she had no idea what had transpired the past 48 hours, so it was worth a look. Because of the timing and context of the slideshow, it gives me chills and brings tears to my eyes even to this day...it read:
The Butterfly Story
"A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it had and it could go no further. Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly. What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was…the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon. Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. And we could never fly." (author unknown)
To say it spoke to us would have been the understatement of the year. Two days later, we were moved again, by a message so clear and comforting in the midst of the most tumultuous season of our lives…it was undeniable.
As Lauren and I walked into church that morning, we noticed the ushers handing out small objects to people as they entered the sanctuary. They were giving everyone a small chain of about three or four small links. Just to be clear, our pastor had absolutely no idea about our situation. When we called to schedule a meeting earlier in the week, he was unavailable, and we didn't leave any message to indicate why we wanted to meet with him. That being said, as long as I am alive, I will never forget his opening words that morning.
Instead of the standard "turn and greet your neighbor this morning", our pastor's instructions were more precise. He looked across the congregation, and very intentionally told us all to turn to our neighbor, look them in the eye and say to them, "If you have a pulse, you have a purpose." We turned to each other, and couldn't even get the first word out before tears welled in our eyes. Not just misty eyes, but the kind where you can't even blink because you're afraid the levee will break and expose the pain and heartbreak just below the surface.
"If you have a pulse, you have a purpose." Our pastor went on to talk about how we all have our chains. We all carry our burdens. When Peter was in chains, he used his burden to spread His word to those around him. We didn't know why we going through the potential loss of our son, but we felt strongly that we were going to share our experience with those around us and maybe it would inspire or encourage someone, somewhere, somehow. I remember Lauren saying that if the doctors were wrong, she would be the first to shout it from the rooftops. Little did she know that just over three months later, it might be time to start climbing.


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Kent, Stacey
Since the release of Stacey's first album, Close Your Eyes (1997), she has achieved, without compromise, both critical and popular success, with her fresh and heart-felt interpretations of the finest love songs of the twentieth century. But it was a feature on CBS Sunday Morning in 1999 that gave Stacey national exposure in the USA and brought her to wider recognition. Since then, her career has become truly international and she has performed at major festivals and concert halls from Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek Concert Hall to Carnegie Hall to Paris' famed Olympia.
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Within the Indie Author Hub, you can learn about other authors, their thoughts and opinions, what makes them tick and how their writing process works for them.
All this week I will be releasing segments of an interview I conducted with fellow author, Karin Cox, Australian author of Paranormal fiction. Have a look at her profile and books here.
Part 1 : Karin's Writing Process
What inspired you to become an author? I've always had the gift of the gab, but I started out mostly writing poetry. My dad always wrote poetry. He is a farmer, a hard man and an unlikely candidate for lyricism. I loved that I saw his softer side in his poems. Writing was a way to release tension and to work through my own often tangled and extreme emotions. I am a Scorpio and I like exploring the darker side of human nature. I love philosophy and profound thought. I like to go deep, sometimes too deep. Writing seemed like a perfect fit for my nature. If I couldn't be an author I would be an editor. I love editing too, but I just need to focus on my own work for a little while at the moment, before I am too old to live my own dreams while I'm helping others chase theirs.
How do you juggle writing with normal life? I usually get up, have breakfast with my two-year-old daughter, and then check my social media and do a little marketing while she plays for an hour or so. From then on, my hands are tied until she has a daytime nap at about 1.30 pm, so I go to the gym, play, swim or swing or do craft and then I research or edit in the hour or two while she is asleep. Once she goes to bed at 7.30, I edit or write from 8 until 1 am. Prior to my daughters birth, I wrote full time as the inhouse author for Steve Parish Publishing for four years. Having 8 hours or more a day to spend on writing alone would be a dream come true, but I wouldn't trade my hours with my daughter, as she is the true masterpiece of my life. I don't worry about burning out because I almost feel burned out all the time! Like a phoenix, I manage to haul out of bed and rise from the ashes. Sometimes you just have to "Make it happen!" and that is kind of my personal motto. To recharge, I like to take the occasional camping holiday with my family, watch a movie together, or go to the park or the beach. I have a pool, so occasionally I just go and float and zone out for fifteen minutes or so. Floating is a great way to discover clarity. Going to the gym for an hour a day also helps me to stay focussed and fit and I often read the work of other indie authors on my iPad while I'm on the treadmill. I think being a part of a tight-knit and extraordinarily helpful indie community is important. I believe we can all achieve our goals; we're not in competition because each book and each reader is unique.
Where do you write? My study has been taken over by my partner as his X-box "man cave" so I now mostly write in a recliner in the living room or out on the deck at a big wooden table, overlooking the pool. It is getting too wintry here to do that now, so it's the recliner for a few months. My special writing place is simply solitude. I can't write with other people in the room or with the TV on. I need silence.
Do you plan your books down to the last detail? Good heavens no. Whenever I have tried to do that, I get crippling author paralysis. I prefer to plot very basically. I know how the book will begin, the climax, and the ending, and then I fill in the rest as I go along, adding theme and linking elements at editorial stage. I don't fear the blank page. I fear the point about 40,000 words in where the ending seems too far away. When I get there I just keep going. The editor in me makes it very hard for me to just "bash out" a first draft. I like to polish as I go along but that can lead to dilemmas if my desire to make it perfect conflicts with my ability to get words on the page. A good tool for me has been a program called Write or Die. I put it on a setting called Kamikaze, which means it eats my words if I don't keep up with the self-imposed word count, and I get my draft done that way in blocks of 2000 words or so. Then, when I start work the next day, I edit that first and then set myself another Kamikaze session.
How do you decide on your characters and what they will be like? I suppose I mentally "workshop" them for a while before I begin writing them. It helps to look at photographs of people and places, and to drill down to the core of why they act a certain way. What are their psychological hurts that make them who they are and how do they show those hurts or fears on the surface?
In Part 2, Karin reveals her thoughts on the publishing industry.


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I finally got around to finishing out my 2017 Memory Planner pages. I didn't do December as I put December's photos into my large Family Project Life album. To help complete this project, I kept my decorations and embellishments simple.
And with that, my 2017 Memory Planner is complete! Next week I'll be posting my January 2018 spreads and how I've changed up the process this year.


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CMA's Music On The Move: Inside the Drive toward Mobile Music Consumption session during Country Radio Seminar brought in a live Nashville radio listener panel of eight men and women, ages 18-49, to the stage at the Nashville Convention Center. They were recruited from the local market and are avid Country Music consumers, who in addition to traditional radio, listen to music via online sources, including iheartradio, Pandora or radio station streaming.
Some key pieces of information from the panel include:
- Mobile technology is indeed helping listeners take their music everywhere as they listen at home, at work, on the job, and even in their cars.
- While not abandoning traditional radio, streaming and mobile apps deliver on key consumer requirements.
- While freedom of location is a key benefit, the panelists revealed a more engaging benefit is personalizing music to match their own preferences and variety. This personalization enables their listening to embrace a wider variety of songs and artists.
- Most panelists want a listening experience that spans the format from traditional, current, and rising Country artists. The panelists said they are not getting enough of the legacy and up-and-coming artists on traditional radio.
- With mobile apps and streaming, they can control what they listen to, not only where they listen.
- Common features of today's apps such as "like" and tagging, along with pre-programmed playlists of similar artists and songs, seem to be strong aids in the discovery of new music with users.
- While mobile provides a unique method for music customization, it's also supporting their listening of favorite Country stations when listeners leave the area. Now they take their favorite stations with them.
"Obviously the strength and vitality of Country radio has a direct influence on the industry," said Steve Moore, CMA Chief Executive Officer. "Country radio stations and broadcast professionals do an outstanding job of broadening the scope of Country Music and presenting artists to their listeners–expanding the careers of established artists, creating and development awareness of new talent and delivering music directly to the fans that support our business."
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PA Alumni Connection—Summer 2018
- Suzanne Foland Silva '09
- Faculty Promotion: Dan Sturm
- 2018 PI Alpha Inductees
- Ambassadors Host Prospective Students
- Recently Published PA Faculty, Students, and Alumni
- Volunteers Needed for Interview Days
- Promote Your Alma Mater
- Alumni Profile: Roberta Patterson '05
- PA Partners in Success
- Challenge Bowl
- Medical Director: Mike Pauszek
- Faculty Highlight: Kate Kaiser
- Preceptor Profile: Ian Johnston, MD
- Selective Internal Admission Pathway
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Challenge Bowl
If you have never had the opportunity to attend the PA National Medical Challenge Bowl in May at the American Academy of Physician Assistant (AAPA) Conference, you are missing a great evening of fun and trivia. It is the PA equivalent of March Madness, complete with teams painting their faces, wearing their favorite institutional gear, and noisemakers. There is even a bracket produced for this exciting event. This year, Butler University placed fourth out of the 93 PA programs competing. The team consisted of: Quinn Harmon '19, Colleen Cotter '19, Ashley Dunman '19, Maggie Rancich '19, and Emily Brown '18. This was the highest placement that Butler University has had at the national competition to date! Check out the 2018 Bracket.
The competition has evolved and grown over its 27-year national occurrence. Round one is a multiple-choice assessment. Those teams that advance to subsequent rounds answer questions that are open response—similar to Jeopardy. A team receives points for correct answers, but loses points for incorrect answers. Teams must "buzz" in quickly to have the opportunity to answer and score points, but be mindful when they do not know something to avoid losing them.
To get ready for the national event, students study materials a minimum of two hours a week and meet as a team one hour a week beginning in January. These individuals train while maintaining all other responsibilities as PA students. They also have the opportunity while attending the national conference to participate in the student track of the conference, make connections with other students and practicing PAs, all while representing the Butler PA Program. Butler University's five-member Challenge Bowl Team competes for the entire calendar year, including the national competition held in May, as well as the Indiana Academy of PAs state competition in the fall. We hope to see many alumni cheering on our Bulldogs in 2019 in Denver at the National Medical Challenge Bowl. This just might be the year the Dawgs bring home the trophy.


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Join us in welcoming Amici Della Voce, a mixed-voice a cappella octet based in Oxford. For its festival debut the choir presents this programme of sacred vocal music entitled 'Renaissance to Romantic — a tale of two Masses' and comprising beautiful choral pieces written for 4 or 8 voices and spanning five centuries. The concert opens with Byrd's Mass for Four Voices, and follows it with motets by Viadana, Victoria and Lotti. After the interval, Rheinberger's Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis, other Romantic works including Bruckner's serene Locus Iste, and contemporary composer Julian Wachner's Aaronic Benediction.
And for full indulgence, book in early for the Grange Afternoon Tea — or even an overnight stay!
William Byrd | Mass for Four Voices
Lodovico Viadana | Exsultate justi
Tomás Luis de Victoria | O magnum mysterium
Antonio Lotti | Crucifixus
Josef Rheinberger | Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis
Anton Bruckner | Locus iste
Sergei Rachmaninov | Bogoroditsye Dyevo
Julian Wachner | Aaronic Benediction
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Three Days in New York City - A Travel Guide & Gallery/
In my last reading week every (I'm so excited to graduate!!), my boyfriend and I decided to take a quick trip to New York City! I'm fortunate to have cousins that live in Jersey City and previously lived in New York, so they were able to give us the low-down on where to go and what to do. We actually travelled for four days, but one of those days were visiting them! Here's the breakdown of what we did the rest of the days and how you can integrate it into your weekend in NYC!Read More


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Five artifacts at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., that were thought to be part of the Dead Sea Scrolls are believed to be fakes and will no longer be displayed, the museum announced Monday.
A German-based research institute tested the artifacts and found that they "show characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin and therefore will no longer be displayed at the museum," the museum said in a statement.
Jeffrey Kloha, the chief curatorial officer for the museum, said in the statement that the results of the testing are "an opportunity to educate the public on the importance of verifying the authenticity of rare biblical artifacts."
"Though we had hoped the testing would render different results, this is an opportunity to educate the public on the importance of verifying the authenticity of rare biblical artifacts, the elaborate testing process undertaken and our commitment to transparency," he said.
"As an educational institution entrusted with cultural heritage, the museum upholds and adheres to all museum and ethical guidelines on collection care, research and display."
The museum sent the five artifacts to the German institute in April of last year, several months before the museum's grand opening.
Kipp Davis, a scholar at Trinity Western University, said in the statement that he continues to study the museum's fragments and that "conclusions on the status of the remaining fragments are still forthcoming."
CNN reported in November of last year, around the time the museum held its grand opening, that some scholars were skeptical of the fragments and believed they may be forgeries designed to trick American evangelicals.


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In Movie MAGic, we'll be reviewing films with art or artist-related themes from Hollywood biopics to foreign art house movies. Not sure that you actually like arty movies? Too pretentious, up themselves and hard to understand? Don't let that put you off. We're here to help you with our own VS scale of difficulty;
Straight forward plot, easy to follow and entertaining. Requires little thought. Sunday afternoon, stuff. Starring actors you've probably heard of. Definitely no subtitles.
Nothing too scary, possibility of subtitles, but still a straight forward, average length film; no explosions or car chases, but a high chance of intense emotional grimacing and moody silences. Might possibly be in black and white, which could just mean that's it's old rather than arty.
Might have a challenging length, non-linear story structure, avante garde cinematography or mature themes (sexuality, nudity, etc). High probability of subtitles. Afterwards you'll feel like you've earned a good stiff drink, or a box set binge of light comedy to cheer yourself up.
Until recently Giacometti's Portrait of Elvezia Michel-Baldini (Nee Stampa) has been on display in gallery 11 as part of our To Be Human exhibition. To mark that, the first movie out of our projector gate is;
Final Portrait (2017)
Starring: Geoffrey Rush (him from The King's Speech, Pirates of the Caribbean, Shine)
Armie Hammer (him from The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Lone Ranger, Social Network)
Clemence Posey (her from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / Deathly Hallows 1 & 2)
Written and directed by: Stanley Tucci
Running time: 90 minutes
Paris, 1964. Famous sculptor and artist Alberto Giacometti asks writer James Lord to sit for a portrait, assuring him it would only take an afternoon. With his flight back to America booked the next day, Lord agrees. When Giacometti declares early on that 'no portrait can ever be finished.' you know that things aren't going to go according to plan, and both artist and model find themselves trapped in a situation from which neither can free themselves.
Whether holding forth on Picasso, or squirrelling away huge wads of cash around his studio Rush's cantankerous, acerbic and witty Giacometti is never anything less that watchable and Hammer's understated performance is the perfect foil.
Apart from occasional forays out into the streets of Paris and Giacometti's local haunts, the film is set mostly in Giacometti's chaotic studio, with visitations and interruptions from Giacometti's long-suffering wife Annette (Sylvia Testud), his brother and studio assistant Diego (Tony Shaloub), and Caroline (Clémence Poésy), Giacometti's mistress and muse with whom Giacometti has developed a complicated relationship.
Even though it's a film about the painting of a portrait, it's not boring, creating a tension between artist and sitter, artist and painting and, ultimately, between sitter and painting. Giacometti's frustration with his own work raises a few laughs in the beginning until, like Lord, we begin to learn what that entails and we start to sympathise with Lord's position. As days turn to weeks, Lord desperately tries to find a way to escape, one that, when it comes, wouldn't seem out of place in a Prisoner-of-War movie (and no, I'm not talking about digging a tunnel).
Also, unlike most films about art, this film does have explosions and a car chase to recommend it. Well, all right, explosions of expletives as Giacometti repeatedly voices his frustration, and one race through the Paris streets after which Giacometti vows never to travel by car again.
Although the muted greys of Giacometti's studio may give it an arty black-and-white feel at times, the film has a touching comedic heart that makes it an entertaining watch. And, while there are subtitles as dialogue occasionally lapses into French, there are fewer than in your average Star Wars movie, so don't be put off. And in a world where films seem to constantly run over two hours, this one is a very trim ninety minutes. Unlike Giacometti, Tucci knows when to finish his portrait.
Overall, it's a fascinating glimpse into the creative process and the mind of a great artist. But is it all Hollywood fabrication, or is it true to life? Well, it's based on James Lord's A Giacometti Portrait, his own published account of the sitting, so as far as it goes, yes, most of it really happened.
VS Verdict: EASY to MODERATE
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text: Even the brightest A-level pupils may lack the basic numeracy and literacy they need at university, MPs were warned this week. Mike Tomlinson, the former chief inspector of schools, gave evidence to the education and skills select committee about proposals to absorb GCSEs, vocational qualifications and A levels into a new diploma. He said undergraduates and university admissions tutors shared concerns about maths and literacy. One maths student had dropped out of a degree course amid "worries about having to write something", he said.


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Shepard to step down from housing authority board
Kellon Shepard, the longtime chair of the Phenix City Housing Authority Board, is leaving the group at the end of the current term.
Shepard, 81, has led the housing authority board for more than a decade and has been part of the PCHA board since the 1970s.
A retired 40-year employee of the Ledger-Enquirer, Shepard has also served the Phenix City community in a variety of roles, including president of the Phenix City-Russell County Chamber of Commerce, officer in the state and local Alabama Jaycees, and chairman of the former Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl Committee.
The Stagg Bowl, named after one of the winningest coaches in college football history, was sponsored by the Lions Club and played in Phenix City's Garrett-Harrison Stadium.
"I don't know how long he's served on that board, but I want the public to know that he has done a great job on that board," said Mayor Jeff Hardin. "He has taken it seriously and he knows the function and the purpose of that board. He has done a wonderful job. He represents the tenants very well and I just want to thank him for his service to the city and that board."
Councilmen John Storey, Arthur Sumbry and Ray Bush echoed the mayor's comments.
"Kellon has been on that board a long time," said Storey. "He has a lot of knowledge of how that board operates and he's sure going to be missed."


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Hello, my fellow Americans!
I'm off catching some island vibes, grabbing some z's and doing a media detox, so I'm out of the news loop.
Anything going on where you are?
I've been trying to unplug from the madness of our modern world, but Michelle says some of you are wondering what I'm up to. I'm honored that you care so just wanted to drop a quick note to let you know everything is copacetic.
How are you all doing?
Not much to report here. Been wearing my baseball cap backward. Kinda cool. Cruising around in flip-flops and shades and sometimes saying out loud in a Groucho Marx voice: "Here's to you, Mitch McConnell!"
Haven't grown that David Letterman-Jon Stewart madman-in-retirement beard yet, though. Michelle put her foot down on that!
Some days I eat a whole bag of almonds in a single sitting just for the hell of it.
As I write this, Michelle is off at yoga, getting in touch with her chakras or her nadis or whatever. She dragged me to yoga a few times, but she kicked my butt in downward dog. Literally. Kept telling me to turn my sit bones higher, so now I let her find inner peace her way while I find mine my way.
Same destination, different paths. Om.
So, yeah, I've been sitting around eating almonds and thinking about where I've been and where I'm going.
That reminds me of a line from that Winnie-the-Pooh classic, "When We Were Very Young":
Where am I going? I don't quite know.
What does it matter where people go?
The question endures until we're very old, doesn't it?
I guess what I'm feeling in my post-presidential life is, I don't know, relaxed? Or is it aimless? Or melancholy? Or philosophical?
Or completely p.o.'d?
Some days I just lie on the beach and look at the clouds while chanting, "Media detox! Media detox!"
Oh, and I've been reading books.
Started a horror story that arrived anonymously by Amazon drone. But it gave me nightmares so I tossed it. It was called "The Art of the Deal."
Oh, come on, people. You miss my dry wit, don't you?
Michelle just walked in and was reading over my shoulder. She said, "No," then kissed the top of my graying head and wandered out to weed her little garden.
What else?
Well, when I say I've been in media detox, I'm not being totally honest. I did peek at Twitter the other night and discovered something shocking.
Beyonce! Twins! OMG!
And all those Oscar nominations for "La La Land"? Hollywood sure loves Hollywood. My vote goes to "Moonlight," but then I'm just an ex-president, so who cares what I think?
Joe stopped by the other day. He's looking good. Guy has a knack for finding the rainbow in every dung heap. He told me some jokes I'd love to share but it would get me banned from Twitter.
Not that I care about Twitter. Unlike some people. And I am on a media detox.
But, OK, obviously I know enough about what's going on in this whacked-out world that I had a spokesman put out a statement on what-his-name's (expletive) immigration executive order.
Whoops. Just spilled my Scotch.
Staying mellow is not as easy as it seems, even on an island. Not when a lunatic is dismantling everything you care about and fought for! I don't know how much longer I can sit here chilling on the sea vibes while that guy swings his machete through my legacy.
But, as a wise man told me recently: Rest is the best weapon.
Without rest, we can't work. And so, for a while longer, I rest.
I've also been rereading Frederick Douglass, the great statesman and former slave. No need to say why. You know why.
Look, I already said that my media detox isn't total, didn't I?
Before I sign off, let me share three of Douglass' most important thoughts. He had many, but these three are particularly important for our times:
One: "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Two: "If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Three: "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."
That's it, folks. Time to go watch the sunset and remember that the sun also rises.
Latest Mary Schmich
Until we meet again. Stay hopeful.
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A Community of Ideas
Join our interdisciplinary Old Bakery community to imagine, build, and care for public space in downtown Austin. The 1000 block of Congress is bordered by the State Capitol, Congress Avenue, and the Governor's Mansion. It contains a City Park, a State Park, a Historic Bakery, and a growing Community of Ideas. >>>PROGRAMS: 1. May 12th Mini Maker Faire- Sarah Presson www.eyelikedesign.com is partnering with the Senior Guild and Parks Dept Amy Russell to have a table and activities at the fair. 2. We are discussing an interdisciplinary team competition that would pull themes from our upcoming Ideathon report and deliver short verbal + powerpoint presentations. This is envisioned as a judged competition, with the winner continuing on to present at a "powered by Pecha Kucha" event at the Texas Architects convention in October. Next tasks include venue selection, grant writing, and a speed dating event to pull teams together. (PK is a trademark and Jana McCann is in discussion regarding proper use/licensing of this term) Cindy Black suggests that we look at how this could benefit small businesses and entrepreneurs. 3. Other community events such as Parks Department-- September Museum day at Old Bakery. Kay Hughes reports that Plein Air Painting with Creative Arts Society is also looking at holding an event. >>>SHORT TERM IMPROVEMENTS 1. Downtown Austin Alliance, in partnership with Austin Parks Foundation, now holds Parks subcommittee on "Design". Melissa Barry, Eric Courchesne, and Roger Mueller report that the immediate focus is on Old Bakery Park. Additional stakeholder involvement will be needed, and Republic Square was discussed as a possible model. 2. Banner- Sarah Presson eyelikedesign.com is sketching ideas for improved signage to allow the community to connect the physical park to our online ideas, videos, and reports. >>>LONG TERM IMPROVEMENTS 1. Alex Gilliam publicworkshop.com is publishing a report on the 500+ ideas submitted by the community during our 6-month Ideathon, and we will restructure the home page of our website to reflect any changes in our mission. Join us "First Wednesday" 11:30 AM monthly in the park at 1000 Congress Ave www.oldbakeryideathon.org #1000greatideas


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Defiant Texas Gov. Perry coming to New Hampshire
AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry arrived at a county courthouse Tuesday for booking on two felony counts of abuse of power for carrying out a threat to veto funding for state public corruption prosecutors.
"I'm going to fight this injustice with every fiber of my being. And we will prevail," Perry said before walking into the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, where a grand jury indicted him last week.
The Republican has dismissed the case as a political ploy, and he has laughed off concerns that it could be unflattering as he strongly considers a second presidential run in 2016.
The longest-serving governor in Texas history was indicted for coercion and official oppression for publicly promising to veto $7.5 million for the state public integrity unit, which investigates wrongdoing by elected officials and is run by the Travis County district attorney's office. Perry threatened the veto if the county's Democratic district attorney, Rosemary Lehmberg, stayed in office after a drunken driving conviction.
Lehmberg refused to resign and Perry carried out the veto, drawing an ethics complaint from a left-leaning government watchdog group. Perry was indicted by a grand jury in Austin.
He isn't letting the case keep him from a packed travel schedule that will take him to the early-voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina over the next two weeks.
If convicted on both counts, Perry could face up to 109 years in prison.


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I certainly could have done better on this picture. And I forgot to remind Abigail to put the place mats on the table. And only half of the dinner is there. But you get the idea...
We say this blessing every night as we sit down to dinner. I just love it!
For The Food Before Us
And The Family Beside Us
And The Love that Surrounds Us
For These Thy Gifts We Are About To Enjoy
Let Us Be Truly Grateful


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The work of the Digital Life Lab is motivated by the growing phenomenon of individuals and communities engaging with digital technologies in all facets of life: work, play and study.
A new 'digital lifeworld' is rapidly emerging, where digital technologies are shaping people's daily activities and interactions. People's lives are becoming inextricably linked to digital technologies in all its forms. From connecting and relating to others, to the way we learn and inform ourselves, and how we engage in pleasure and entertainment, people's lives are being mediated through and by digital technologies.
The Digital Life Lab aims to establish itself as a leader within the emerging national and international research and practice community studying the nature, impact, opportunities and challenges of people and communities living digitally. A research and practice hub, the Lab explores how digital technologies transform our social relationships and cultural practices, creating new problems but also providing novel opportunities to address societal challenges. The Lab engages in applied discovery and is an incubator of ideas and applications. From the Lab's research and practice will come the insights needed to inform how people and communities can live digitally.


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GroundWork's main aim is to connect art and environment in the belief that art can help us to see the environment differently, in new ways, and in greater detail. The greater attentiveness that we learn through art can help us to understand the environment better. Understanding leads to more sensitivity in the way the environment is managed. And a detailed understanding of environment leads to more inspiration for artists and greater power for them to inspire us, the viewing public, to see things more clearly and to respond with thoughtfulness and action.
Example of aims in practice : looking at stone and environment
'Over Millennia we have shaped stone: chipped, cut, split, crushed – turned hillsides into quarries – turned strata into streets. Like many other towns this process is the foundation of Macclesfield. The pink and blue-ish Gritstone of Tegg's Nose has been quarried for hundreds of years…..'
Mario Popham and Tom Baskeyfield's project has produced new interpretations both of a landscape and the town which has borne fruit through the new works of art which have been inspired by this landscape.
Tom Baskeyfield's series of graphite images of stone setts of the roads and pavements of Macclesfield have transformed them into beautiful images in the much more delicate medium of relief paper, glinting with detail and preciousness in the changing light of the gallery.
In King's Lynn this series of exhibits, bringing into focus the stones of the landscape, is inspiring us to look afresh with a contemporary audience at the stony historical environment, newly interesting and relevant, and maybe not as robust and enduring as we might have thought.
How do we know when the aims have been achieved?
There is no finishing line, however, there are many ways we might know when certain aims have been achieved.
Above all, we look for a change - change in thinking and interpretation of the environment, improvement in understanding, recognition of its beauty, seeing its detail, being alert to its fragility, its dangers.The study and creation of art is never predictable and therefore it is all the more likely that results will be unexpected, surprising, unusual.
Looking at what artists do and make, their work often makes us look more carefully, to question our previous thoughts or decisions, to highlight problems. Art and artists can help us to be more observant, to see the world carefully. Artists recognise change and help us to prepare for it. They know how to take risks, to find the images, materials, and the means to bring out big issues of concern, so we can all think more carefully about dangers we face. Beauty is not always obvious and art can help us to see it in unusual ways and places.
Each exhibition aims to develop a new strand of interest in the environment and to stimulate related activity and events, timely in an era when we need to be increasingly wary of all kinds of threats from pollution, species loss, deforestation and climate change.


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Patta Revisits Old Classics for Fall/Winter 2018
Featuring new graphics and tracksuiting.
Amsterdam-based label Patta is set to follow up its Mizuno collaboration with the release of its full Fall/Winter 2018 collection. The new capsule features a range of the Dutch brand's signature touches, including graphics from Patta's Vincent Van De Waal and classic tracksuiting.
Key motifs in this collection include the use of an all-over barbed wire print and patterns such as stripes and half-moons, which appear on polo shirts and matching sweatpants. Elsewhere, the Fall/Winter 2018 collection includes winter-ready outerwear, collaborative satin jackets and shooting shirts with Mitchell & Ness and a selection of Tiger Stripe camouflage baggage. The full collection will be available from Patta's web store and London and Amsterdam locations on September 7.
In related news, Eytys has expanded its new denim collection.
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Steamworld Dig. A game I hadn't heard of until the Steam Summer sale and I don't think too many people have either. No one on my friends list owns it and I've never seen anything about it before. Man is that a crime; I REALLY dig this game.
On the surface it looks like a modernized version of Dig Dug, down to dropping rocks on the heads of your enemies.
But as you dig deeper you find a game that's more Megaman than Dig Dug, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
You start the game off falling through a hole in the ground on your way to the mining claim your uncle has given you. You meet a girl-bot named Dorothy down in the mine who informs you that your uncle is dead...right over there. Hey, why don't you go take the pickaxe from his corpse and start up the mining operation again? That sound good? Good.
The game starts off quite basic. Head down, dig up ore and gems, head back up, sell it, head back down. Slowly you'll build up money (and thus levels) and buy upgrades like a larger backpack, armor, picks, lanterns and the like.
Light becomes an issue after you start getting deeper. The sunlight you build up in your body while on the surface eventually runs out and you have to head back up to be able to see if you aren't near a lantern, so stocking up on them early on is useful, but after getting your furnace upgraded they're completely unneeded.
Once you're deep enough and fight your way passed the trilobites and skeletal turtle missile launcher things, you'll start to find caves. Exploring these and completing the platforming puzzles yield Megaman X-like upgrades. This is when the game picks up and changes completely. You'll continue to dig deeper, finding more upgrades and learning more about the world you're in.
Chipping away at the story, you learn that your uncle used to spend weeks down in the mines alone, sometimes coming back to town with strange new inventions and machines that didn't use steam for power.
As you level and progress, bringing more money to the town, residents start coming back, offering you new shops to buy upgrades and items from.
Digging into the Old World really get's to the mantle of the game, showing you just why there's a few steam powered robots on the surface of a barren world, and hidden beneath that is an even darker secret.
At its core, this game is an enjoyable mashup of digging, platforming and Megaman-esque mechanics. "But Gabby, what about the sound and graphics?"
Well, the game is gorgeous. The art style fits the world perfectly, the animations are pretty and for a barren wasteland it's brightly coloured and vibrant. Breaking through dirt, rocks and ore are all satisfying. The backgrounds give the world depth and add to the creepiness as you go deeper. The music is quite fitting, going from old western to creepy the deeper you get. The sounds of enemies and traps are loud and distinct so you know what's coming.
The controls work just fine with a keyboard (I don't own a 360 pad). The times I've died have been completely my fault and haven't felt like the result of badly designed or sloppy controls.
As we break through the other side of this review I just want to say that this game is incredibly rad and you should definitely pick it up. It's not long (I beat it in just about 3 hours) and I'm not entirely sure about the replayability, but if you're looking for a solid game to kill some time, there aren't many that are better.
Steamworld Dig is available on Steam for $9.99 (or your regional equivalent). It's also available on the DS eShop, PS4 and PS Vita.


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This is a time of profound importance and change in the Gulf of Maine fisheries. The groundfish industry continues to adapt to a fundamental transformation in management structure, and significant reductions in catch quotas seem to be on the horizon for several key species. We work directly with Gulf of Maine stakeholders to nurture the cooperation, communication, and innovative solutions necessary to overcome these challenges and ensure the sustainability of the industry.
This year, we helped fishermen get under the hood of fisheries management and introduced them to new ways to increase their profitability. In our role of neutral convener around complex marine issues, we gathered managers, scientists, and fishermen together to discuss and develop solutions to the industry's challenges.
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According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give birth to something evil to unleash ... . You can read more in Google, Youtube, Wiki
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According to an ancient Indian tale a giant monster embryo residing in a crystal vase is predetermined to fertilize a blue-eyed woman. She will give birth to something evil to unleash horror and destruction upon human kind. Ugly septuplet brothers reproduced within the framework of mysterious genetic experiments terrorize a young innocent girl who seems to be chosen for the sinister predestination.
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Law Blog Post Formats: Regular Features
August 30, 2017
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The eighth in a series about useful law blog post formats.
The creation of a regular weekly feature article is a good way to boost productivity among the law firm's blog-writing team — and stimulate reader interest as well.
Regular features promote editorial planning by giving everyone a clear target to shoot for each week and they calm the "What can we put on the blog today?" stress that often attends regular care and feeding the of law blog beast.
A law firm that runs a regular feature is not hostage to the day's events or, worse, the day's lack of bloggable events.
Finally, a regular feature article is a clearly defined bit of editorial content that can be delegated and managed by the firm's marketing department.


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After more than doubling local home starts in the last decade, don't expect Dallas-Fort Worth builders to increase construction by much in 2019.
D-FW home starts are forecast to rise to 36,000 houses next year. That would be an increase of only a few hundred home starts from this year's totals, according to a new forecast by local housing analyst Residential Strategies Inc.
"We believe that the housing market is generally flattening," said Residential Strategies' principal Ted Wilson. "It will be difficult for the market to grow much larger from a start standpoint."
For the 12 months ended with September, local builders have started 35,733 homes, according to Residential Strategies.
Wilson said that rising mortgage costs and years of steady home price hikes in North Texas have caused buyers to pull back from the new home market in recent months.
"Beginning back in mid July, builders began to share with us that traffic was off in many neighborhoods and sales were down," Wilson said to a group of local builders this week. "The combined effects of higher mortgage rates and increased house prices have pushed consumers to the affordability limit.
"The speed at which rates have moved higher has caught many prospective buyers by surprise and is to blame for the recent market sputtering."
This week, long-term fixed-rate mortgages averaged just under 5 percent — the highest level in seven years.
"With the 30-year mortgage rates climbing from 4 percent to nearly 5 percent and housing prices up 5 to 6 percent, the monthly payment by the consumer on the same house they may have seen 11 months ago is now 15 percent higher," Wilson said.
And mortgage costs are expected to keep rising through next year.
"Builders could be staring at a long term mortgage rates close to 5.7 percent this time next year," Wilson said. "If rates were to climb 5.7 percent from where they are today, that would mean the monthly payments would have climbed about 20 percent in the last two years.
"Clearly there needs to be a cap on house price increases, as the rise in interest rates just themselves are making it increasingly challenged for the consumer to purchase a house."
Median new home prices in North Texas have increased from about $200,000 in 2010 to just under $350,000. At the same time, household incomes in the area have risen only modestly.
"The amount of house that a buyer can afford today continues to shrink," Wilson said. "Back in 2012, a household earning the median household income could purchase a home that was a little over 3,100 square feet.
"Today that same household can only by a house of about 1,833 square feet," he said. "The message we should read from the buyer today is their frustration comes not only from the fact that prices are high but the house that is affordable to them is much smaller than what was expected."
The slowdown in home sales comes at a time when housing purchases in North Texas should be booming.
The D-FW area leads the country in population growth and is adding more than 100,000 jobs a year.
Wilson predicts that continued increases in local incomes and consumers getting used to higher home finance costs will eventually bring new home buyers back to the market.
"There is an enormous amount of pent up housing demand in this market," he said. "Strong job growth continues to fuel the prospect for housing sales and there is a plentiful supply of renters that want to become homebuyers. The challenge is how to get housing prices back to a level to unlock this pent up demand."
Local builders are struggling to provide more houses costing under $200,000 — the price range that appeals most to first-time buyers. But rising land, building materials and labor costs are making it tough to build cheaper new homes in the D-FW area.
"It's unlikely there will be much new home growth under $200,000," Wilson said.
And sales of higher-priced new houses have hit a wall in some neighborhoods.
"The part of the D-FW market that has been most negatively impacted by market changes has been the northern, higher priced markets including Frisco and Prosper where housing prices generally are over $500,000," Wilson said. "Not only have the higher rates and housing costs put houses out of the reach of many local buyers, but there is also been a decrease in the number of prospects brought here through corporate relocations and the H-1B Visa program."
No wonder local builders don't expect to see substantial home sales price hikes in the year ahead.
"Builders' price increases have eroded significantly this year to 4.2 percent on average, down from their banner 2016 at a 12.8 percent increase and even lower from the 5.8 percent average increase indicated last year," Residential Strategies' Cassie Gibson said. "There is growing concern from builders regarding their ability to raise prices to keep up with rising costs and mortgage rates."


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Tadanori Yooko is one of Japan's most highly recognized graphic designers and artist. He was originally trained as a painter and worked as a stage designer for a Tokyo based Avante Garde theatre. Tadanoori's work was often very personal, reflecting his own personal interests. Beginning his graphic design career in the early 1960s, Tadanoori incorporated both eastern and western styles into his work to reflect a collective of Japanese society at the time. Tadanoori's early work was heavily influenced by ukiyo-e style and the flat colours of pop art; which he incorporated with photography. Because of the major influence of pop art in his work at the time, many referred to him as the "Japanese Andy Warhol". Towards the late 1960s and early 1970s, Tadanoori grew interest in Indian culture and Bhuddism, incorporated many religious and universal images in his work. He designed many album covers for rock and folk musicians who he became acquainted with through his "spiritual quest"; including the Beatles, Emerson, Lake and Palmers, Carlos Santanas and Cat Stevens. In the 1990s, Tadanoori began incorporating digital design in his work. He even went through his old work and reworked them digitally. A large exhibition of Tadanoori's work was held in 1998 with over forty thousand in attendance over a thirteen day period. Tadanoori retired working commercially in 1981.
Koshimaki-Osen, 1966 and The Rose-Colored Dance, A La Maison De M. Civecawa 1966
Tadanoori's work is high personal, even in his commercial work. He incorporates his own personal themes, photographs and references his own anti-modernist style in his work, making it immediately recognizable. His work often teeters between fine art and design, having no limitations or rules in his work, with inspiration from Japan aesthetics, psychedelics, science fiction and spiritualism.
The City and Design, The Wonders of Life on Earth, Isamu Kurita, 1966
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THANKFUL FOR: 21 IS SPECIAL to me
I am currently doing one of my favorite things EVER and I decided it was fitting to check in...the Southern and Thankful way!
In case you missed the last blog post (if so please go read it--BEST THING ANYONE HAS EVER DONE FOR ME @HAN) I am officially 21 years of age and I had a wonderful time celebrating the past week. It is so hard to believe that I am 21 years old. As I sit on the deck at my lake house watching the sunset, I can't help but be saddened at the thought of no longer being a teenager...stuff is going to get real...real quick. But that is another worry for another day!
I have been toying for the last week with the thought of sharing a little bit about my times before I was legally allowed to consume alcohol. I use the word "toy" because I don't want readers to think I am putting myself on a high horse because that is simply not what I am doing. I want to write about my experience choosing not to consume alcohol regularly until I was 21 because I hope it will give hope to those who also want to make the same decision. For me alcohol was never something I judged others for. I have plenty of friends who consume alcohol and I have grown up with alcohol around me. I have never seen anything wrong with it! In fact, I looked forward to the day when I could feel right joining those who drank.
Growing up in my small town you either farm/hunt or you play sports all day long. If you don't fall in either category then you are somewhat off on your own. I always considered myself more creative and I was 100% happy with that even when others didn't seem to be. The names and things you get called because you don't choose to live under the Friday night lights are unbelievably intense. Did you know that being the high school mascot instead of riding the tractor or playing soccer somehow makes a person "gay" even if they have a girlfriend? That is a different topic for a different time though. In high school when I had about enough of the hate, I realized that there was one way I could fit in with my friend group. I could drink and drink a lot because isn't that what every teenager seems to do? I struggled with that question. Get drunk on a regular basis with hopes of fitting in OR lose what friends I had left by making the decision to not drink in high school. You see the dilemma I was faced with. I wanted so badly to fit in I was willing to do just about anything.
I am not really sure the exact moment I decided that I was not going to follow the path of most of my friends, but I remember the months that followed after that were some of the worst ever. Turns out all my friends that were girls wanted to follow my lead, but not to many guys liked the idea of not drinking. Which in case you were wondering---didn't help with whole "gay" thing. To be honest, there were times when I was probably depressed, but during this hard time I turned to my God and this is when I first learned He had a plan. Fast forward years later to the first year of college where I decided yet again that I didn't want to drink. Not because I disliked people who did--because I saw how alcohol affected people. It was like they needed to be drunk to make friends. I wanted to make friends with someone before falling over them at the party. Another hard decision that ultimately led me to some of the best guys, girls, and fraternity for me. Almost all of my friendships freshman year were full because I didn't originally mix them with alcohol.
For me the biggest thing was peer pressure. It was something I decided from an early age that I wasn't going to be scared of. Saying NO is an okay thing to do. It doesn't make you weak or gay or a loser. It makes you human--strong indeed. There are certainly times where I think how things would have been if I got drunk on a Saturday night. I would have had more friends. I probably would have more memories. But I would not be the man I am today. And that is something I am proud of. So I tell this for those people who want to be popular and who want to make everyone else happy---it is not worth it. You will end up damaging yourself beyond compare..trust me I have seen it with my own eyes. Be you because that is when you will be the most happy. You probably won't realize it when you are being called names, but when you are old like me (joking) you will look back and be thankful that you were you.
So yes, I am going to be drinking and I am going to be enjoying it because that is what we 21 year olds are allowed to do. My birthday was not how I thought it would be, but my friends and family made it such a special day for me. My mom and dad even arranged for some of the best guys in my life to come to our lake house this weekend and celebrate. It was so much fun and I am thankful that I got to celebrate with people who know the real me. We spent lots of time on the lake and lots of time with great food and drinks. It was the perfect celebration for me!
Huge thank you to my parents for teaching me the right ways and doing everything they can on the daily basis to be the best parents they can be. They were there for me during all the hard times and they loved me also through the fun times. I mean they planned my whole birthday celebration as a surprise and that takes a lot of work! Thank you Mom and Dad for 21 years of support, hard parenting, and memories. Here's to some more--with a little something special to go along!
This isn't me preaching or judging--this is me explaining why my 21st birthday was really special to me. As it should be! Thank you all for the birthday messages and wishes. Thank you to those who have always loved me. Thank you to those who have called me names and judged me. You made my 21st the best yet!
Yours Truly,
Southern and Thankful
Amy Davis
7/13/2016 09:29:17 am
Cade- so glad you shared this story. I know you are aware that Jacob falls in to the category that you did in high school. It's hard to do the right thing! It just means you are a leader, not a follower!
MAROLYN Speer
7/13/2016 03:15:13 pm
Well said ,Cade. Proud of the young man you have become. Blessed to have watched you grow from birth to Christian manhood Happy birthday 🎶🎶🎂
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Blessed is an understatement when it comes to my life. Each and every day I am amazed by God's steadfast love. In return, I have claimed this space to show my thanks and whatever else comes along the way. A recent graduate from Texas Christian University who loves any creative insta post, all donuts, and dress pants that make you do a double take. I pray God has a grand purpose for me and I plan to get there with a little Southern and a lot of Thanks! Join me!
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New Saturday night TV star Dylan Hutchinson is getting used to being stopped in Melton by strangers wanting autographs and selfies.
He is one of the judges in BBC1 singing show, All Together Now, alongside former Spice Girl Geri Horner.
Dylan was chosen for the programme because of his talent for karaoke singing at various venues around the town.
And he has attracted a strong fan base on the new show, where contestants have to sing well enough to prompt a 100-strong judging panel to stand up and sing with them.
The final is due to be screened on Saturday and Dylan said he has been amazed by the positive feedback he has had.
He told the Melton Times: "I've been stopped in Morrison's with people saying 'oh it's you off the telly.
"Parents have stopped me in the street and said their kids are obsessed by me or I am an inspiration to their child. It really has been the opportunity of a lifetime for me and I've loved every minute of it."
Dylan, who also appeared on Channel 4 TV cooking show Come Dine With Me in January, has featured inseveral of the pre-recorded heats, singing along and then being interviewed by host Rob Beckett.
He is meeting up with many of the judges on Friday for a night out in London and they all then plan to watch the final on television.
Dylan, who is pictured with with members of Melton's Performing Stars Academy, where he helps as a volunteer coach, added: "I don't know where this show will lead for me but hopefully doors will open."


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The New Yorker, June 8, 1940 P. 23
PROFILE of Robert E. Sherwood. In 1935, Sidney Howard became the president of the Dramatists's Guild, Sherwood the secretary. One concrete thing which the Dramatists's Guild has accomplished is a more favorable division of money from the sale of plays to the movies. Formerly the playwrights and the managers divided the proceeds equally Now the playwrights get 60 per cent, the manager 40 per cent. Tells about the Wharton-Wilk Plan. Mr. Wharton is a well-known lawyer and Mr. Wilk is the representative of Warner Bros. Wharton-Wilk Plan is like the Schleswig-Holstein Question, of which it was said that only three people had ever understood it. Mentions some of the members of the Guild.