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Landscape photography tips for beginnersPhotoBlog
Taking landscape pictures seems to be very easy but for some reasons they appear to be not of a very good quality. Knowing the basic of landscape photography is as important as knowing your camera settings. To become a good photographer and make wonderful landscape photos you need to be patient as it will take time, efforts and many shots to master landscape photography.
Basics of landscape photography for creating unique images
- Know your camera settings. No matter how expensive and professional your camera is, you need to know perfectly well hot to use it and change settings, depending on location, light, and type of shooting. It is not a professional camera that is responsible for a great photo, it is a photographer.
- Location. It is obvious that landscape photography is all about location. Before your start shooting, you should have a clear understanding of where and what you are going to shoot.
- Light. Light plays a tremendous role when shooting landscapes. Photographers say that the best time to shoot landscapes is early morning or late afternoon. Taking photos when it is dark is more complicated and requires different camera settings.
- Composition. It seems that you cannot change anything when shooting nature but if the scene does not look good to you, it will not look good even being "photoshopped". Sometimes even changing an angle a little bit can change the scene completely. Do not be afraid of excluding unnecessary objects that do not blend or add to the scene.
- Focus. Unlike portraits landscape photography requires everything to be in focus without any blurs. You can control the depth of the field and set the aperture to a larger number, and that will help achieve the desired result.
- Filters and editors. Landscape photos should be natural. Surely, you should edit them but they should not be edited too much with thousands of filters. Nature is about looking naturally.
- Be patient. Even professionals need time to get a good image. Be patient and ready that there will be times when you need more than 10 shots to achieve the desired result.
- RAW-format. It usually keeps more details and gives more flexibility without losing the quality of the image in post-production. RAW-files can be saved in any other format then but you will not be able to save JPEG photos in RAW-format. Remember it.
- ISO. Photographer usually takes photos of nature with the lowest ISO settings. It produces a better and cleaner image without unnecessary noise.
- Water. If you are taking photos of landscapes with water, the best time is at midday when the sun is just over your head.
Landscape photography is a popular genre not only among beginner but also professionals. With some practice and keeping in mind the above-mentioned basic rules, you will master landscape skills and become a professional.


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Good Times
Music by Mark Loquan
Lyrics by Chris Morris
Arranged by Junior 'Ibo' Joseph
Sung by Denyse Plummer
© COTT 2005 All Rights Reserved
Published by MLQ Music Ltd., email: mlqpan(at)hotmail.com
Released 2006 on Alvin Daniell's 2006 Calypso Compilation A Musical Treat, Tribute to Clive Bradley and Denyse Plummer's 2006 CD Denyse Plummer
"When ya look around at Carnival time, no matter what was in the news the week before, people come out to have a good time. It's like nothing else matters for the moment."
The melody of this song was composed on the pan, with Chris Morris working with me once again to write the lyrics of the tune. The lyrics complemented the melody perfectly, bringing to life what Carnival meant to many.
Denyse did a great job singing the tune, and eventually the song was the 3rd most selected song for the Panorama. Combined with the success of my other song released for 2006, Colours Again, there may have been about 25 bands playing my music in 2006. I certainly did not write the songs knowing this was going to happen.
I was simply putting out music that flowed, knowing that sometimes it may be a good year, and sometimes not.
It was interesting to hear Merrytones practicing Colours Again, and in the same panyard listen to their single pan band, Ice Water Ensemble, rehearsing Good Times. The reward for composing is to see the impact on the players' faces, enjoying the music, and to see them really getting into the music and having a good time. It was a great feeling to know that the young players of both Junior Panorama Finals Under 13 and Under 16 categories had won with Good Times. Darren Sheppard did a fantastic arrangement of the song for NLCB Fonclaire, despite his wanting to choose Colours Again for the band that year.
Technology may have helped in this particular case to spread the music. I sent Cliff Alexis an electronic version of the song, and he arranged it and had it fully scored.
Our Boys learnt the song. The exciting arrangement can be viewed on YouTube, played by NIU Steel Orchestra.
For the Notting Hill Panorama 2006, one could see and hear Croydon Steel Orchestra perform the tune.
Thanks to all the bands and arrangers who selected this piece for the Panorama.
When last did you have a good time,
Where de music blowing ya mind
When last did you go out and lime,
With ya friends and ya feeling fine
When de big truck passing, people jumping
People waving, misbehaving, what ah feeling
Wining and jamming, getting on bad,
Is mas in sweet Trinidad
Jumping up in de burning sun, we jumping up in de band
Jumping up and we having fun... waving we hand
Come and have a good time, for de Carnival
Come and have a good time, where de love does always feel natural
Come and have a good time, for de festival
Come and have a good time, where de feeling always feel special
Jumping up to de sweet pan, playing mas with a steelband
Every man and dey woman, wining up in de hot sun
Come and have a good time, for de Carnival
Come and have a good time, in de heat of it all
Whole year, look ya working real hard,
Take some time out to get on bad
So sweet, here in we Trinidad,
Play ya self like ya going mad
Tell de boss man "look is J'ouvert morning"
You not working, with so much happening, it so exciting
Powder throwing, horn blowing, and drum beating
Look de whole nation heating up
Colours, how dey blaze in a rage
As de brass bands cross de stage
Every section, is like a new page,
Just to play is a privilege
See dem strong men and dem, in dey section
With pretty woman, dis explosion, a combination
Dey flexing, de next ting, dey wining low
Carnival, well is heat for so
Arranged by Cliff Alexis for Our Boys Tobago, Panorama 2006
Performed by NIU Steelband
Transcribed the arrangement above
For conventional orchestra by Gary Gibson

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2. Open a web site in the form that allows editing.
3. Click on "Dashboard" in the row immediately above the name of the site.
4. Select the page that will contain the desired link.
5. Highlight the line of text to make into a link.
6. Click the link icon in the middle row. This action opens a panel called "link" with four options
7. Click the "Upload" option. This action opens a link panel. The panel now changes so that it now shows "Upload" with an empty panel below this word and "Browse "on the right.
8. Click Browse and it opens all the Computer's folders and files.
9. Highlight the desired PDF file for a link. right click the highlighted file and a menu opens.
10. Click the second option – "Open with Adobe Reader X" and the desired file opens.
11. Click "X" at the top right of the window (not the higher X). A file upload page opens with the desired file still highlighted.
12. Then the link page opens. The upload panel shows a detailed reference to the selected file with a blue panel underneath with the words "Send it to the Server".
13. Click "Send it to the Server" and, after a few seconds, it changes to "Browse Server" in blue.
14. Click "OK" at the bottom and the original page opens.
15. Click the "Save" icon and that action open a panel called – "Are you sure?"
16. Click "Leave Page" that shows in the middle bottom of this panel.
17. This action produces the saving of the material and a panel in the second row from the top will show action and finish with the words "Edit Page" followed by the first part of the name of the page.
18. Click "View Page" that exists on the far right in the row that follows the name of the page.
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Nov 17, 2018
The Basics
Score: Roanoke 88, College of Staten Island 57
Records: Roanoke 2-2 | College of Staten Island 0-4
Location: Salem, Va.
The Lead: Roanoke used a 26-3 run to open up the second half and go on to an 88-57 win over The College of Staten Island in the consolation game of the 2018 Dick Leftwich Tip-Off Tournament in Salem.
How it Happened
- Five different Maroons scored in double-figures led by all-tournament team selection Josh Freund who had a game-high 18 points. Joe Mikalauskas and C.J. Miles each had 12 points, while Brandon Harrell and Tripp Greene each added 10 points.
- The Maroons shot 52.9% for the game, including a 66.7% showing in the decisive second-half as RC made 16-of-24 shots.
- The Dolphins were led by Christian Taylor who had 11 points. Andrew Kartalis had 10 points as well. CSI shot 41.3% for the afternoon, making 19-of-46 shots from the floor.
- A Mikalauskas three-pointer made the score 21-13 with 10:32 to go in the first half.
- The Dolphins rallied and took a 31-30 lead on a Karalis three-pointer with just over two minutes to play in the half. RC would then score five of the final six points of the half to take a 36-32 into the locker room.
- A three-pointer by Miles to open the second-half sparked the big run that saw the Maroons take a 62-35 lead following a Kieran Turner bucker with 11:30 to play in the game.
- The Maroons lead would reach 30 when a Dillon Thomas basket made the score 77-47 with 4:39 to play.
- Emory took home the tournament title with a win over Keuka.
Up Next: Roanoke will host Hampden-Sydney in its ODAC opener Nov. 25 at 4:30 p.m.
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Now Hiring: MIX Ambassador (Hyderabad, India)
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MIX Ambassador Program - Asia
About MIX:
MIX is the leading global data resource for socially responsible investors and businesses focused on inclusive finance. MIX's data platform covers thousands of mission-focused financial service providers in more than 100 developing markets. MIX collects, analyses, and maintains data on financial services providers. The data is shared both as a public good for the advancement of the industry and on a fee-paid basis for subscribers interested in more detailed market intelligence. MIX helps socially responsible investors who move 10 billion USD annually to monitor their portfolios and increase their investments in underserved sectors and geographies, including agricultural finance and inclusive fintech. Founded in 2002, MIX has data analysts in every region of the world. Learn more at www.themix.org.
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Ambassador placements are made to fit the unique skills and interests of qualified candidates, as well as the needs of the organization. Working closely with the MIX team on various emerging areas, candidates will help through researching and contributing to the information building blocks that will be created by MIX. This program is a voluntary opportunity for working professionals who want to take a break and do research in emerging financial inclusion areas or students who want to build career in this field and hence, interested to learn more.
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Ambassador placements are made to fit the unique skills and interests of qualified candidates, as well as the needs of the organization. Working closely with the MIX team on various developing markets in the East Asia and the Pacific, the ambassador will help develop, promote and expand MIX's work through regular research and outreach to potential clients in the region. Furthermore, candidates will assist analysts in connecting with existing stakeholders, collecting, processing and analysing financial, operational and social performance data from the portfolio of MFIs in these regions. Other assignments will include but not be limited to (visualization) dashboard analysis, market analysis and summary writing and insight development, arranging and attending meetings with stakeholders.
This program is a voluntary opportunity for working professionals who want to take a break and do research in financial inclusion areas such as Microfinance and/or Fintech or students who want to build career in this field and hence, interested to learn more. The program is based out of Hyderabad, India.
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Proficiency in English Language is must. Prefer a candidate who can speak additional South-East Asian language.
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Why CalAmp Stock Popped 20% in September
Are there more gains to come for the M2M communications specialist?
The Company is a provider of wireless communications products that enable anytime/anywhere access to critical information, data and entertainment content.
Are there more gains to come for the M2M communications specialist?
And why the recent pullback could be a compelling buying opportunity.
CAMP earnings call for the period ending August 31, 2019.
The M2M communications company ended the first half on a strong note, but guided light on earnings once again.
Read on for crucial insight from the M2M communications company's latest quarterly call.
These stocks led markets higher to close the first half of 2019.
SaaS revenue and supply chain improvements powered a solid quarter for the M2M communications company.
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CAMP earnings call for the period ending May 31, 2019.
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Losing Tony
Like everyone else in my food-centric social media circle, I was shocked and extremely saddened this morning to hear of the death of one of my culinary heroes, Anthony Bourdain.
Of course I didn't know Tony personally, but I somehow feel his loss so profoundly. I mentioned to a friend that Tony was pivotal in my introduction to the food world. Food has always been a huge part of my life, but it wasn't until I began traveling and experiencing what was for me, mind-blowing cuisine, then wanting to come home and recreate it that Tony's culinary genius found me. In the slew of up-and-coming food shows in the early 2000s, it was his show "A Cook's Tour" and then "No Reservations" that resonated with me.
Making connections has never been easy for me, and I struggle daily with feeling socially awkward at all times - but when I hit the road in search of my next epic meal, everything odd and unwieldy about myself seemed to disappear over a steaming bowl of "the best thing I'd ever eaten in my life". Any differences I may have felt about myself and the strangers around me melted away and I would find myself opening up to an awareness about my humanity in a way that only a shared meal with someone can do.
Tony did this repeatedly, exceptionally, and gracefully on his shows, and it somehow encouraged me to be more open to a shared human experience. Over food!
I've written occasionally about Tony in my blog:
"Perhaps that's why I'm leaning so heavily on shows like Anthony Bourdain's "Parts Unknown", a food-focused presentation that provides a window for me to look through to places I'm unfamiliar with, showing me just how similar we all are. I feel like Tony and his guests solve so many of the world's problems over a a simple yet delicious bowl of noodles and I desperately want the world's decision makers to sit down with them."
That voice is gone, which is crushing me this morning, but I was encouraged as I scrolled down my Instagram feed to see how many people in the culinary world and just the world in general have learned from Tony how important speaking up is, and how they plan to keep that spirit alive.
I never met him, but will miss him regardless. RIP, Tony.


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Torrance-based group LiNK, the only nonprofit devoted to helping North Koreans escape the repressive dictatorship that rules the country, will holds a series of South Bay movie screenings beginning Friday.
A new 35-minute documentary called "Hiding" traces a treacherous rescue mission through China that North Koreans must make in a bid to find freedom. LiNK website
The free screening and subsequent audience discussion is designed to raise money and the visibility of both the issue and LiNK, which stands for Liberty in North Korea.
"Our tours are first and foremost awareness tours," said Leah Garrard, a regional manager for the nonprofit. "Every tour we find people who don't know what's going on in North Korea.
"We're attempting to redefine the North Korea crisis and try to shed light on the people of North Korea," she added. "There are up to 300,000 North Korean refugees living in China so there are always refugees waiting for freedom."
LiNK operates the only major shelter in Southeast Asia that assists North Koreans to settle in South Korea or the U.S. Since 2004, about 100 North Korean refugees have settled in the United States, including some in Torrance.
LiNK, which was founded in 2004, moved to Torrance last year, said spokeswoman Esther Lee.
Curiously, the group did not move to the South Bay because of the large number of Asians and Koreans in the area; it largely wanted out of the nation's capital.
"In Washington, D.C., it's all about advocacy – here we decided we can go back to the grass-roots and build more support," Lee said, adding the group found relatively inexpensive office space in Torrance. "There's no particular reason other than that."
The movie tours are hosted by teams of college students – called nomads – that travel in a van for 10 weeks from screening to screening.
The goal is to put human faces on the stories of North Koreans who lack basic freedoms and often face starvation, torture and forced labor in the communist state.
"When I was a nomad, people were just astonished about North Korea," Garrard said. "They don't know the personal stories of people who live in North Korea."
Likewise, those stories are "astonishing," she said.
North Korean refugees live in fear in China, because that nation has a policy of repatriating them to their homeland, where they face severe reprisals and possible death for fleeing their homeland.
Up to 90 percent of the North Korean women who attempt to flee are exploited in China with many "sold into the sex trade," LiNK maintains.
"Stateless" children born to North Korean women who marry Chinese men, sometimes under duress, run the risk of being abandoned or exploited.
LiNK nomads and the film attempt to tell these stories to an audience with little understanding of the harrowing existence in North Korea that drives refugees to take massive risks to find freedom.
"It's an hour of somebody's time," Garrard said. "It's a small sacrifice to come out to a screening and hear stories that aren't told.
"They can become an active member of the global community and … really be inspired that if we act together we can create freedom for North Korean refugees."
Want to go?
What: Nonprofit group Liberty in North Korea is holding a series of screenings of a short documentary film call "Hidden," which tells the story of refugees who attempt to escape the communist regime.
Where and when:Scheduled screenings locally include:
7 p.m. Friday at Torrance First Presbyterian Church, 1880 Crenshaw Blvd.
Noon Sunday at One Family Chapel, 425 W. Torrance Blvd., Carson
3:15 p.m. Sunday at Good Shepherd Church, 301 Avenue D, Redondo Beach
7 p.m. Monday at South High School, 4801 Pacific Coast Highway, Torrance


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Luke Carman
is the author of An Elegant Young Man, which was awarded a NSW Premier's Literary Award.
is the author of An Elegant Young Man, which was awarded a NSW Premier's Literary Award.
Luke Carman is the author of An Elegant Young Man, which was awarded a NSW Premier's Literary Award and shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal. In 2014 he was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist.
The voices and stories of Ahmad, Polites and Carman work incredibly well together to create an interwoven picture of the lives of these young men in the suburbs of their youth. In this respect, Three Jerks cuts through the homogeneity of media images by introducing us to characters from distinctly different backgrounds, occupying the same streets and engaging in different ways.
'I began to imagine the landscape of Byron Bay, so as to rehearse in advance the pitfalls awaiting. For a setting: the vague image of a beach somewhere: a bright sun and a long curving beach populated by tourists in shorts and thongs, the air stinking of seaweed and sunscreen, a hot burning sensation spread across my cheeks and sand between my toes. High to the right, I saw a limestone lighthouse on a hill, and seagulls rising to a background of clouds. This seemed a suitable conception of a beachside paradiso, one likely to fit some part of the bay's picture. A memory intervened in this idyll: I remembered what it should not be possible to forget: for a while, at least, I was a married man, and had honeymooned deep in the forests of the riverlands of northern New South Wales, stopping and staying in Byron on the way there.'
'It is the subtle duty of literary festivals and their variations to assure writers, with a vague but potent authority, that they are – despite their knowing self-doubts and anxieties – "writers".' Novelist Luke Carman on the festival circuit.'


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There are a number of rumours that Apple might announce a new low-cost MacBook or MacBook Air, at their first Education event since 2012, on Tuesday, March 27 at the Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago. The media invites sent out last week suggest this event will focus on "creative new ideas for teachers and students."
Along with a possible lower-cost iPad, the rumours are suggesting that Apple may introduce some kind of lower cost laptop that could be a more affordable MacBook Air aimed to compete with the Google Chromebook. It is not clear whether it will be a price reduction of an existing model or a new updated model. Other rumours suggest a price point between $799 and $899 with greater discounts for large orders from educational establishments.
There have also been contradictory rumours suggesting that Apple is developing a new low cost 13" MacBook possibly with a Retina display. Some Apple watchers are suggesting that this doesn't make sense as this rumoured MacBook is so close to the existing 12" MacBook, which already has Retina displays.
Another source just yesterday suggested that Apple is developing a new sub $1000 MacBook that would replace the current MacBook Air, but that new machine is not ready yet, which could mean that this won't appear in tomorrow's Apple Education event, or Apple could take the opportunity to announce the new MacBook tomorrow for a release sometime in the future.
I have to say that after the increasing prices of Apple hardware, with computers like the iMac Pro with a base price of $4,999 so the possibility of a sub $1000 Mac Book or MacBook Air is very good news.
The other rumours that relate to DAW users is a possible lower-cost iPad which could be $70 cheaper than the current 9.7" iPad.
As with Apple announcements, it can be extremely difficult to predict what Apple might do, so it might be that we don't have any Mac related news tomorrow. We will have to wait and see.


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Anti–wind turbine campaigner calls meeting at Winterborne Whitechurch
Credit: Blackmore Vale Magazine | March 11, 2014 | www.blackmorevale.co.uk ~~
More than 170 people packed into Winterborne Whitechurch village hall on Monday to hear the arguments against a four turbine wind farm which has been proposed for land east of the village.
The meeting was called by local resident Julien Turner who for the last ten years has campaigned against wind farms all over the country after first being involved in a successful campaign against a 32 turbine scheme at Winterborne Kingston and Zelston.
As founder of DART (Dorset Against Rural Turbines), he has now established DART Winterborne Whitechurch in opposition to the proposal by REG Windpower Ltd, who submitted a scoping document to North Dorset District Council in January for the four turbine scheme at Blandford Hill off the A354, and have held consultation meetings in the village.
After running through the perceived impacts of the proposal involving 130metre high turbines, including impact on property values, the landscape, the amenity, heritage and archaeology and health risks of noise and shadow flicker, he screened a video film recording the impact of turbines installed in Cumbria, and highlighted the unreliable nature of wind energy.
He was joined by Richard Slocock, chairman of the action group TAIT campaigning against proposals for a wind farm near Tolpuddle, and by Rupert Hardy, North Dorset representative of the Campaign to Protect Rural England from Winterborne Tomson who has led the campaign against one of the biggest solar farms in the country at Mapperton which is now the subject of a judicial review following its approval by East Dorset District Council.
"We will be providing DART-WW with as much support as possible in terms of funds, publicity and expertise," he said.
Mr Turner invited questions from the audience, saying he recognised some would be emotional because it was an emotional issue, and some on planning issues.
He also acknowledged the presence at the meeting of a representative of the company and of the landowners, the Torys at East Farm Winterborne Whitechurch, but neither commented or were available for comment after the meeting.
Early responses came from speakers who asked whether the noise from wind turbines 250 metres away was comparable with that from a busy main road outside a home, and said there were people who wanted to hear about the positives, including the £30,000 a year offered to the community should the proposal go ahead.
Mr Turner described the offer as essentially a "form of bribe", and another member of the public said it was a pittance compared to the reduction in property values, which have been estimated in a study by the London School of Economics as an average of 11 per cent for homes within 1.2 miles of a giant turbine.
Residents were invited to join the 200 who have already subscribed to the DART-WW newsletter, and to contribute to the campaign's fighting fund, which Mr Turner said had a £10,000 target which would rise considerably if the application went to appeal.
They were also urged to write giving their views to landowners, but not at this stage to the district council, since no application has yet been submitted.
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Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' "The Fade Out" is almost the platonic ideal of a "slow burn" mystery. The creative team is in no rush to start investigating in earnest. Instead, the second issue is devoted to atmosphere, character and nested subplots. While Valeria's death remains a mystery, Charlie and Gil's relationship is expanded and clarified.
Brubaker is as interested in a character study of Charlie Parish as he is in the identity of Valeria Sommers' murderer. Though he drops quite a few new clues at her funeral, each observation circles melancholically back to Charlie, for whom "[funerals] were just another of life's rituals that he felt removed from." Similarly, when he introduces the costume seen on the cover, Brubaker includes Charlie's thought that "it would be a relief to have a mask everyone could see, but that made them all look away at the same time."
Sean Phillips continues to prove that he's a master of modern noir. "The Fade Out" is reportedly his first all-digital comic, but it feels as seamless and gritty as his previous work. His relentlessly dark, shadow-crossed and heavily inked panels are as emotionally open as their compositions are closed in. In collaboration with colorist Elizabeth Breitweiser, he creates amazing emotional beats from Brubaker's script.
Breitweiser is excellent throughout. She uses splotches of color in unexpected arrangements, giving everyone the appearance of being forever in shadow or inside with the windows drawn. In addition, the issue shifts between flashbacks, the present and film footage, and she handles the transitions seamlessly and subtly. Indeed, the shifts are almost negligible -- a visual reminder that the past and present are so deeply intertwined in "The Fade Out."
More than anything, though, the eyes sell it. Phillips and Breitweiser draw remarkably expressive eyes that glisten, stark and white, out of the otherwise dark and variegated panels. Even Charlie's thick glasses don't hide them. This skill is especially noticeable in the contrast between Valeria on-screen and Valeria off-screen. On-screen Valeria is clearly acting, with hard and over-bright eyes, while off-screen her eyes are more expressive and natural. I've seen artists draw clearer facial expressions than Phillips, but never clearer eyes.
The only section that doesn't quite work for me is Charlie's remembrance of Valeria. These flashbacks feel boxed in and a little false. I understand the impulse to make the reader care for Valeria, as "The Fade Out" is also her story, but her characterization in this scene feels more like she's a character in Charlie's head -- all performance, no interiority. Valeria as a victimized well of mystery is far less interesting than Valeria as a thinking, talking person -- but when the reader only sees her through Charlie's flashbacks, Brubaker ends up writing her a lot more like the former.
Charlie's connection to Gil is much more believable for this same reason. Gil's past as mentor and friend stands beside Gil's present as drunken co-conspirator and nuisance. The reader not only sees Charlie's remembrance of Gil's decency, but sees the remnant of that decency in action when he cries, "those fat-cat bastards are gonna get away with this." Charlie is exhausted and impotent, but Gil -- drunken and disorderly and blacklisted though he may be -- isn't too tired to fight just yet. These interactions give Gil an existence outside of Charlie's perceptions -- indeed, an existence that defies Charlie's perceptions. This is a luxury Valeria isn't given.
Still, "The Fade Out" is simply the best at what it does. It's a clear creative statement that any fans of noir shouldn't miss.


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This clinic is a hands-on event for the creation of a workplace emergency preparedness plan. Utilizing an electronic template, each attendee will be able to create or revise their emergency management practices with the direction and assistance of Human Capital staff. Interactive discussion will cover resources for writing (rewriting) your company's plan; preparing for emergencies; assessing job hazards; developing a successful training program. The goals and objectives of a workplace emergency preparedness program will be reviewed and a plan utilizing the tools for creating and maintaining a safe and compliant workplace will be prepared during the clinic.
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Ensemble Bio
Cowboys & Frenchmen is a new take on instrumentation, composition, and orchestration for the jazz quintet. "The band makes a glorious sound – more like a larger ensemble at times – providing intriguing, innovative and sublime music," [Mike Gates, UK Vibe]. The front line of two alto saxophones is the vehicle for reimagining the role of horns in a small group setting, charting new territory by exploring individuality within the same timbre.
The New York City-based quintet released its debut album Rodeo in 2015 on Outside In Music, which garnered terrific reviews and enjoyed top placement on radio charts. Their 2017 release, Bluer Than You Think, was produced by Grammy Award winning producer Ryan Truesdell, and received a four-star review from Downbeat Magazine.
Cowboys & Frenchmen was a featured presenter at the 2016 North American Saxophone Alliance Conference. They performed at the D.C. Jazz Festival in 2016 as finalists in the inaugural D.C. JazzPrix Competition, and again in 2017 as a featured artist. They were also selected to perform at Umbria Jazz Festival's 2017 Conad Jazz Contest, and were semi-finalists in the 2018 M-Prize.
Owen Broder, alto and bari saxophones
Ethan Helm, alto saxophone
Addison Frei, piano
Ethan O'Reilly, bass
Matt Honor, drums
Press Quotes, Honors & Awards
+ Cowboys & Frenchmen
"The ensemble is smart, cohesive, and credible... using virtuosic skills and rhythmic power to walk the line between irony and earnestness, with listenability as high a priority as group creativity."
Howard Mandel, DownBeat Magazine
"Innovative as well as inspiring. Electric and emotional. The artistry of the quintet is exemplary."
Travis Rogers, Jr., Jazz Times
"Together, the band make a glorious sound – more like a larger ensemble at times – providing intriguing, innovative and sublime music."
Mike Gates, UK Vibe
2018 M-Prize, semi-finalists
2017 Umbria Jazz Festival's Conad Competition, finalists
2016 DC JazzPrix, finalists
+ Bluer Than You Think (2017)
"Bluer Than You Think proffers a carefully and cleverly integrated diversity of musical sources and methods. An intriguing disc from young musicians who are very much on the rise."
Steve Feeney, ArtsFuse
"The disc is overflowing with unpredictable melodic turns, unusual voicings, and unorthodox rhythms... The common denominators are originality and innovative improvisation."
Ron Netsky, Rochester CITY Newspaper
"This is a first class sonic getaway that offers respite and salvation."
Chris Spector, Midwest Records
+ Rodeo (2015)
"Cowboys & Frenchmen have compiled an innovative album that has all the musicality and originality that any quintet on the scene today would respect and appreciate. Five big stars."
Geannine Reid, All About Jazz
"The possibilities according to this truly inventive group are limitless, especially when the music is imbued with intensity and imagination. This is music that is triumphantly modern, as these five young musicians demonstrate."
Raul da Gama, DaGama Jazz
"What Cowboys & Frenchmen haz done is present jazz that is fresh and defies easy categorizing, and offers rewarding listening; a rare combo these days."
Robert D. Rusch, Cadence Magazine
Radio Charting
The debut album from Cowboys & Frenchmen enjoyed the #1 slot on the CMJ Jazz Chart, and continued to chart for 12 weeks, including place- ment on the JazzWeek Top 50, breaking into the top 12 on the RMR Jazz Chart, being featured on NPR's Morning Edition and PRI's Jazz After Hours. Rodeo reached the #2 slot on the German iTunes chart, proving RODEO has global appeal.
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Selected Performance History
Festivals & Competitions
Umbria Jazz Festival
DC Jazz Festival
NASA Conference
West Coast Tour (Oct. 2018)
STAGES Theater
Herb Alpert's Vibrato
The Art Boutiki
The Sound Room
Shine Café
Black Cat
Piano Kitchen
The Mint
Bluer Than You Think Tour (Oct. 2017)
Sharp Nine Gallery
High Rock Outfitters
City of Asylum: Alphabet City
Cliff Bell's
Three Heads Brewing
Radio Bean
Blues Alley
An Die Music
Detroit, MI
Lecce, Italy
Washington, D.C.
Lubbock, TX
Fullerton, CA
Los Angeles, CA
San José, CA
Oakland, CA
Sacramento, CA
San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Durham, NC
Lexington, NC
Pittsburgh, PA
Detroit, MI
Rochester, NY
Burlington, VT
Washington, D.C.
Baltimore, MD
New York, NY
Rockwood Music Hall: Stage 3
Cornelia Street Cafe
Bowerie Electric
Joe's Pub
ShapeShifter Lab
Caffe Vivaldi
Freddy's Bar & Backroom
City of Asylum: Alphabet City
BLU Jazz+
Scat Jazz Lounge
Presbyterian Church
Community Outreach
Pittsburgh, PA
Akron, OH
Fort Worth, TX
Huntingdon Valley, PA
2017, 2016
2016, 2014
Contra Costa School for the Performing Arts
Orange County School for the Arts
Baltimore School for the Arts
Slippery Rock University
Royal Oak High School
Oxford High School
Southern Methodist University
Tarrant County Community College
Walnut Creek, CA
Santa Ana, CA
Baltimore, MD
Slippery Rock, PA
Royal Oak, MI
Oxford, MI
Dallas, TX
Tarrant County, TX
Press Photos
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I've been trying to get caught up, but my evil twin keeps trippin' me up! I figure it's from lack of perseverance or a strong desire to slack off. The last edit I just finished proved to be a bit more daunting than I expected. Research and writing the story is a heckuva lot more fun than editing, but into every keyboard a little editor must sprout I guess.
Now it's a waiting game to see how close the publisher comes to the anticipated release date of early July. I will just be getting back from a couple of trips with my Dad and family. I'm looking forward to a nice jaunt around the countryside and Alaska. It'd be nice to see a whale or two an assortment of other critters including a few of the grandkids.
Some day I might even talk myself into retiring if I play my cards right. I guess I better hurry up and get the next novel written!


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United States District Court, D. Massachusetts
March 28, 2018
JOHN LAVERY, Plaintiff,v.RESTORATION HARDWARE, INC., Defendant.
J. Casper United States District Judge.
John Lavery brings claims against Defendant Restoration
Hardware, Inc. ("RH"), based on RH's alleged
misclassification of Lavery as an independent contractor when
Lavery was allegedly in fact in employee under Massachusetts
law. D. 13. In the request for relief in the amended
complaint, Lavery seeks wages, reimbursement for expenses,
and the value of benefits plan that he would have received
had he been classified as an employee. ¶
RH now moves to dismiss this claim for damages with respect
only to the value of the benefit plans because RH contends
that that claim is preempted by federal law. D. 14. For the
reasons discussed below, the Court ALLOWS this partial motion
to dismiss.
Factual Allegations
Court accepts all non-conclusory facts alleged in the amended
complaint, D. 13, as true, Ocasio-Hernández v.
Fortuño-Burset, 640 F.3d 1, 12 (1st Cir. 2011),
and "draw[s] all reasonable inferences in favor of the
plaintiff[]." Gargano v. Liberty Int'l
Underwriters, Inc., 572 F.3d 45, 48 (1st Cir. 2009).
Lavery provided services to RH from April 2013 until
September 2014. ¶ 2. From April 2013 until May 12, 2014,
RH classified Lavery as an independent contractor. ¶ 7.
During that period, Lavery worked full time at least two days
a week performing "store maintenance as directed"
at RH's store in Boston. ¶ 4. Beginning around April
2014, Lavery began working at additional stores and regularly
working more than forty hours a week. ¶ 6. When Lavery
became classified as an employee on May 12, 2014, his duties
did not change. ¶ 7. While Lavery provided services for
RH, he was "not free from RH's control and
direction in connection with the performance of his
services" and the services he performed were "not
[] outside the usual course of RH's business."
¶ 8-9. Lavery "did not have an independently
established trade, occupation, profession, or business of the
same nature as that involved in the services he performed for
RH." ¶ 10. Lavery contends that, as a result of
his misclassification, he "suffered lost wages and
other benefits; . . . the value of RH's benefit plans
(such as life insurance, disability insurance, medical
insurance, and retirement plans)." ¶ 5.
Procedural History
March 1, 2017, Lavery filed a complaint in Middlesex Superior
Court, alleging that RH had violated the Massachusetts
independent contractor law and wage law. D. 1-1. On May 15,
2017, RH removed Lavery's suit to this Court. D. 1. On
June 12, 2017, Lavery filed an amended complaint, alleging
counts under the same two state statutes. D. 13. RH has now
filed its partial motion to dismiss as to the value of
benefits under the benefit plan that Lavery seeks in the
complaint. D. 14, 15. The Court has heard argument on the
motion and took the matter under advisement. D.
Standard of Review
On a
motion to dismiss based under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6), the
Court will dismiss a complaint that fails to allege adequate
facts "to state a claim to relief that is plausible on
its face." Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550
U.S. 544, 570 (2007). In reviewing the complaint, the Court
can consider documents attached to or fairly incorporated
into the complaint and facts susceptible to judicial notice.
Schatz v. Republican State Leadership Comm., 669
F.3d 50, 55 (1st Cir. 2012).
ERISA Preemption
contends that the portion of the amended complaint that seeks
damages based on the lost value of the benefit plans provided
by RH, under two state law causes of action, is preempted by
ERISA. D. 15. ERISA "supersede[s] any all State laws
insofar as they may now or hereafter relate to any employee
benefit plan" covered by ERISA. 29 U.S.C. §
1144(a). The statute defines "State law" as
"all laws, decisions, rules, or regulations, or other
State action having the effect of law, of any State."
29 U.S.C. § 1144(c). The parties agree that the benefit
plans in question are benefit plans covered by ERISA. D. 15
at 5; D. 17 at 11. The question, then, is whether the state
law causes of action that Lavery assert "relate
to" the employee benefit plans covered by ERISA.
are "three categories of state laws that 'relate
to' ERISA plans" such that they are preempted:
"(1) state laws that 'mandate[ ] employee benefit
structures or their administration, ' (2) state laws that
'bind plan administrators to [a] particular choice,
' and (3) state law causes of action that provide
'alternative enforcement mechanisms' to ERISA's
enforcement regime." Hampers v. W.R. Grace &
Co., Inc., 202 F.3d 44, 51 (1st Cir. 2000) (quoting
New York State Conference of Blue Cross & Blue Shield
Plans v. Travelers Ins. Co., 514 U.S. 645, 658-59
(1995)). RH contends that the Lavery's claims under the
Massachusetts independent contractor law and the wage law,
fall into the third category of providing an alternative
enforcement mechanism to ERISA's enforcement regime. D.
15 at 4-5.
third category was at issue in Hampers as well. In
that case, the plaintiff, Hampers, contended that the terms
of his employment contract with a parent company, Grace,
entitled him to enrollment in a particular ERISA benefits
plan provided by a subsidiary company and Hampers sued Grace
for its failure to enroll him in the benefit plan. 202 F.3d
at 46-48. Subsequent to the decision not to enroll Hampers in
the ...
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Protestant Ireland and the English Parliament, 1641-1647
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Citation:Robert Armstrong, 'Protestant Ireland and the English Parliament, 1641-1647', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1996, pp 389
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This thesis considers the relations between the Protestants of Ireland and the Long Parliament from the outbreak of the 1641 Rising until mid -1647. It aims to show that Ireland was a central concern of Parliament's throughout these years, as being an element in the self-definition of the parliamentary 'cause' of one of religious and national defence; and that the eventual accommodation of Irish Protestants and Parliament was founded on a compatibility of objectives, based on victory in the Irish war, strong enough to overcome constitutional scruples if not pressed too hard. The principal sources used are the records of Parliament and of its Irish committees, and collections relating to Irish Protestant figures, most notably the Carte collection of Ormond papers. Newsletters have been sampled where it seemed most appropriate and contemporary pamphlets and other works have been consulted.
Author: Armstrong, Robert
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In the days leading up to Black Friday, Guitar Center has announced a number of fantastic deals, but we figured we'd highlight this, one of the best of the whole lot.
Guitar Center is offering $100 off select finishes of the Epiphone Les Paul Traditional Pro-III, bringing the price down to just $299.
The finishes in question are Metallic Gold, Pelham Blue and Ebony; you can check out how they look above. If you want your Les Paul Traditional Pro-III in Wine Red and Pacific Blue, you'll be paying the regular $399.
The Traditional Pro-III features a maple veneer-topped mahogany body, a mahogany neck with pau ferro fingerboard and Alnico Classic Pro humbuckers.


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Author:George Dickie
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"Dickie, George," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
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Role: Cofounder & Director
Vent Over Tea is a nonprofit organization that connects people who need to talk to a volunteer listener. The meetings are free, confidential and take place in local cafés around the city.
Our mission is to offer a casual and accessible platform that promotes connection and community cohesion through the power of conversation.
Vent Over Tea is currently active in Montreal and is projected to grow to other cities late 2017.
Role: Co-creator and co-facilitator
Social Skills Program for Teens was an eight-week workshop series specifically designed for teenagers who experience social anxiety, low self-esteem or have trouble communicating or understanding social cues.
The workshops were designed to open space for teenagers to feel vulnerable but safe in a supportive and structured social learning environment. Learning opportunities came both from the content of the workshops and from the weekly interactions and relationships built between participants. Each workshop consisted of exercises, discussions, scenarios as well as "Real World Homework" which gave chance to participants to take positive social risks (i.e. starting a conversation with someone at school) and return the following week to share and receive feedback.
The series was run at and supported by Clinique Psy Santé, a holistic wellness centre in Pierrefonds, Quebec.
Role: Curator and Facilitator
Kalu Yala Wellness Weekend was an experiential wellness event that I created and ran in March 2017. Kalu Yala is a modern sustainable town being built in the Panamanian Jungle. I was led there through my interest in the intersections between psychology and nature. More specifically, I wanted to learn about the link between wellness and the closeness with which one lives to the land.
While I was there, I designed and facilitated a weekend dedicated to supporting multi-dimensional wellness for KY residents through both student and staff-led workshops and activities. The event consisted of workshops, activities and individual sessions that focused on educating and experiencing wellness across eight different dimensions (physical, mental, emotional, social, occupational, intellectual, environmental and spiritual).
Role: psychosocial consultant
Psychosocial consulting is a one-on-one approach to holistic wellness and lifestyle coaching. For a year and a half I worked under the supervision of clinical psychologist and holistic psychotherapist Stephane Bensoussan at Clinique Psy-Santé, a holistic wellness centre in Pierrefonds, Quebec.
Sessions consisted of evaluations of holistic wellness, client-centered goal setting, guided mindfulness meditation,
Role: psychosocial consultant
In spring of 2017, I moved into a co-working and co-living space in Rio de Janeiro to act as a one-month consultant for Edventurists, an alternative education nonprofit organization that seeks to connect social entrepreneurs to impact projects around the globe.
While there, I designed a corporate personality test, modelling the Myers-Bryggs personality test and adapting it to suit corporations. This tool is designed to help the organization find best matches between social entrepreneurs and impact organizations.
Role: dance facilitator
Chakra dance is an interaction of movement and music that brings alignment to your Chakras, the seven swirling energy points in the human body. It fuses ancient knowledge and modern music in a flowing energetic dance that moves its participants through a series of vibrations in order to release trapped energy and to bring a sense of centeredness and alignment to participants.
I have led several chakra dances, in Montreal and Panama for groups ranging from 8 to 40 people. Following the chakra dance is a group meditation.
Role: Creator and Author
The Nomad Library is a project started in August 2017 during a road trip with a creative collective across the USA.
The goal of the Nomad Library is to leave messages of love scattered in books across the world in an effort to foster a sense of interconnectedness among humans from all walks of life.
With a similar mission as Vent Over Tea, the idea is that the simple moment of connection created between the reader and the "stranger" or author of the note is the intrinsic value of the note and the end goal. The relationship is temporary, anonymous and beautiful in this way.
Check out the notes left by The Nomad Library here.
In the summer of 2017, I joined a Brooklyn-based creative collective Future Clear Productions on a cross-USA tour, installing a mobile pyramid art piece in public spaces in order to open space for community gatherings.
Together, we lead sound meditations and yoga sessions as well as served food to participants.
Above all, the pyramid held space for us to talk and connect to people from all walks of life, bringing together strangers and reminding us of the core facets of humanity that connect us despite cultural or political differences.
Role: Spokesperson
Bell Let's Talk is one of the largest mental health campaigns across the globe. Since 2010, the campaign has become a wide-reaching, multi-year program designed to break the silence around mental illness and support mental health all across Canada.
Each year the campaign culminates on January 31st for Bell Let's Talk Day. On this day, for every text, phone call, tweet, or social media video view 5 cents is donated to support mental health initiatives across the country.
Please read my story with mental illness for this initiative here.
Please view the video content here.
Role: Creator and project manager
Presence for the People is an initiative generously funded by TakingITGlobal, one of the world's leading networks of young people learning about, engaging with, and working towards tackling global challenges.
As part of a youth service initiative, Presence for the People is a reoccurring event in which young people come together to spend time with people living on the streets of Montreal. The idea is to be present with those who often get ignored hundreds of times a day, connecting with those who make up an important part of our community.
In addition to friendly conversations, participants are also offered care packages that include water, warm socks and gloves, hygiene products, and a hot meal of their choice.
Please read our first event recap here.
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NCTA Behind Onward Internet 'Suggestion Box' Campaign
The National Cable & Telecommunications Association was indeed behind a campaign to drum up comments on the future of the Internet, one the campaign suggests has flouirshed "unfettered by rules."
ProPublica reported Thursday that it believed it had discovered that NCTA was the group behind a futuristic-looking Onward Internet Web site and Twitter handle (@OnwardInternet) and 1-800 number soliciting input on keeping the Internet a "wild, free thing." There were also giant actual Internet "suggestion boxes" that have been springing up, including in New York.
ProPublica was right about the NCTA connection, though a source familiar with the campaign said it was not targeted to the network neutrality debate specificaly, but instead to a broader vision of the future of the Internet.


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Best day of the week is here!
Yay (!!) it is Friday night and in a few minutes it is movie-time with Ada.
I usually try to make Friday night special with snacks/candies/chocolates (tonight it
is chips... yummy!) and a movie.
Family time is just the best time e.v.e.r... !!
Family time is just the best time e.v.e.r... !!
We have a nice and busy Saturday coming up.
Dance class in the morning and a birthday party in the afternoon.
I also have to go Christmas shopping....
Enjoy your Friday night and I will see you tomorrow.


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GROW: What I'm Growing: My Seed Order
Last year, I did a serious inventory of my seeds and all of the seeds that were five years and older were tossed into seed trays, watered and encouraged with softly spoken blessings. The germination rates were mostly zero for those old and not-so-well-taken-of seeds with the exception of many purple basil seedlings.
This year I swore I would maintain control: before opening any of the six seed catalogs sitting on my dining room table, I made list of what I wanted to grow and then carefully looked through my current inventory of seed, checking off what I already had.
Then I opened my Adaptive Seeds catalog and completely lost control. And they don't even have plant photos.
Have you noticed that wine makes you more persuadable to delightful plant descriptions? 'Cuz I sure have...
I ordered seeds from two places: Adaptive Seeds, a small seed grower and supplier based in Oregon who specialize in open pollinated and organic seed. They are passionate about seed access and biodiversity and are founders of The Seed Ambassadors Project (and allowed me to repost their essay, What's This So-Called Plant Breeding?). My other order was made at Strictly Medicinal, also located in Oregon, who specialize in medicinal herb seeds.
Here's what I am growing this year:
Adaptive Seeds
Pole Snap Beans - Scalzo Italian
Bean - Sacaton Brown Tepary
Broccolini - Red Arrow Purple Sprouting (A new one for me)
Carrot - Hilmar/Nantaise 2
Carrot - Red Core Chantenay
Sweet Corn - Double Red (Red sweet corn - a good one for starting conversations and funny looks)
Cucumber - Mideast Peace
Fennel - Selma Fino (bulbing)
Green Onion - White Spear - (Absolutely loved these from last year)
Grain - Hells Canyon Millet - (For flower arrangements and the birds)
Greens - Transylvanian Sorrel - (How can I resist the Transylvanian connection?)
Greens - Greek Cress
Greens - Buck's Horn Plantain - (Permaculture strategy for easier workload: perennial, edible green)
Leek - Verdonnet
Pumpkin - Pie Pumpkin Party (Excited about this one: free-for-all plant sex that resulted in a variety of different looking pumpkins - anticipate photos)
Radish - Blauer Winter
Salad Greens - Delicious Diversity Mesclun Mix
Tomato - Astrakhanskie
Rustic Colors Rudbeckia - (Increasing my limited perennial flower diversity - I want more flowers in my house)
Food Not Lawns Remix Poppy - (Medicinal and just plain pretty)
Tiger Mix Coreopsis - (species is tinctoria which means the plant is useful for dyeing fiber)
Strictly Medicinal Seeds
Basil - Sweet Lettuce Leaf - (big luscious leaves filled with diced tomatoes, diced fresh mozzarella, expensive balsamic vinegar, olive oil and a tad of salt... The. Best. Summer. Lunch. Ever.)
Bergamot Seed Set - (Goldenrod bullied my bee balms out of the neighborhood; I adore bee balms and so do the hummingbirds so I am bringing them back)
Gravel Root
Marigolds: African Tururu, French, Mexican - (Heavily scented blooms discourages unwanted bugs)
Marjoram, Sweet
Onion - Walla Walla - (My favorite sweet onion; does not store well so I will need to eat one every day!)
Seeds I already had:
Arugula - Apollo
Asian Greens - Tatsoi
Broccoli - Purple Peacock
Bush Snap Bean - Wade
Bush Bean - Calypso
Cabbage - Red Head
Carrots - Dragon
Cauliflower - Purple Cape
Chinese Cabbage - Michihli
Cucumber - Addis Pickle
Cucumber - Emperoror Alexander
Lettuce - Red Vogue
Lettuce -Kalura
Kale - Winter Red
Mustard - Dragon Tongue
Pepper - Aji Colorado (hot)
Pepper - Jalapeno
Pepper - Stocky Red Roaster (sweet)
Radish - China White
Shelling Pea - Caruther's Purple Pod
Spinach - Steadfast, Matador, Strawberry, Red Malabar
Sugar Snap Pea - Sugar Magnolia
Summer Squash - Yellow Crookneck , Black Beauty Zucchini
Tomatoes - San Marzano, Costoluto Fiorentino
Turnip - Purple Top White Globe
And herbs - lots of herb seeds to sow.
Don't ask me where I am going to grow all these plants!
Next order for perennial plant starts and crowns for my Hugelkultur Hedgerow...stay tuned


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Made with old coffee cups, styrofoam trays, plastic utensils, paper, party toothpicks.
Corks, gloves, plastics, shoes, pens, lighters, toothbrushes.
Plastic cutlery, yogurt cups, food containers, straws, wood, wire and glue.
Plastic bags, cup lids, six pack rings.
Various collected items, screws and glue.
Corks, gloves, plastic lids, old sponges, razors, wood.
Containers, plastics, pill bottles, lids and more!
Plastic containers, lids, straws, bottle caps, cutlery, wire, glue and screws.
Containers, coffee cups, lids, pens, plastics, everything I had went into this...almost.
Bottle base, sunglasses, lids, plastics, chew toys, phone cord, garter hook, buttons.


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We have officially reached the halfway point of our scholarship goal! Thank you to everyone who has donated, we appreciate your support. Let's keep up the great work to reach $2,000!
Any University of New Haven Senior graduating in May 2019 that gives $5 or more to the area of their choice will receive a green & white philanthropy cord to wear at commencement!
Donate to Chi Kappa Rho's Virginia M. Parker Scholarship in honor of our 9 founding Sisters.
Chi Kappa Rho was founded December 2nd, 1963.
Presently Chi Kappa Rho has 28 active sisters.
The 2019 Virginia M. Parker Fashion Show will be the 54th of its kind, a donation of this size would honor the dedication Chi Kappa Rho has shown to aiding students reach their goals.
A donation of $100 would help ease the stress of financing college for an academic & financially deserving woman at the University of New Haven.
One of our core values is Scholarship. An incredible gift of $250 would allow us to encourage a woman on our campus to encourage academic excellence.
An incredibly generous donation of $1000 would help the Sisters of Chi Kappa Rho reach the halfway point of our goal!
A donation of this size would meet this year's goal of $2000 for the Virginia M. Parker scholarship which is awarded to a deserving, non-Greek affiliated female student at the University of New Haven.


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According to the Blogger Challenge I signed up for, this time's chat is supposed to be around New Beginnings.
A brief spot of family news before we move on the main course, as it were. :-) Wee Man has finished his first week at big school. He's doing okay, and I'm proud of him for being brave, doing his bit in getting up and - to use a well loved 90s phrase - getting his sh** together :-). There was a minor incident between from kids who thought they'd try it on, in winding Wee Man's best mate up. He stepped in, gave them some serious - and rather witty verbal - to send them packing. Good on you, lad!
For many months - perhaps even the last two years - I've coasted along, trying to get out the dead end, that my job was turned into. I think, like much in life, you have to fight for what you want and for what you believe in. It can be tiring, but I'm not willing to back down and become a screen watcher. I didn't join the company I did to sit there and be just a cog in the machine. I want to make new things and make IT work for people. IT should, IMO, be something that helps you - yes, you - get stuff done, not get in the way.
The project work has been stressful, I've done longer hours than I would normally and getting the supplier to commit, has been like herding fog knitting cats. At least, I think that's the right phrase! ;-) But.... I have gone to work with a spring in my step and a smile on my face. I have - dare I say this? - enjoyed, nay, loved it. It is as if I've woken up. This interests me and that fire makes me want to bring the project team along with me, and push the message that we can do this if we put our backs into it.
Will this continue? Possibly not, but I hope it runs for a bit longer and while I know this is truly I long shot, maybe I can move to do this full time? It would certainly be a very welcome change and could give others a chance to fill my old role.
So, yeah. Right now, I'm very much feeling the message in the quote "...for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive..."


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By Lindsay Gray
Some of you may have heard about the mother of three who had received DACA and advance parole and was deported upon returning to the U.S.. This has caused some panic for those who have a prior deportation order and DACA, and are thinking about leaving on advance parole. We want to give people correct information so that you can make decisions based on fact and not fear.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: The deported woman will be allowed to return to the United States and resolve her case here!
You can receive advance parole if you have DACA even if you have a prior removal order.
An article published by ThinkProgress.com states that USCIS has published that you cannot receive advance parole if you are in removal proceedings (this includes those who have outstanding orders that have not been executed). However, the article they link to is one specific to the issuance of advance parole for those adjusting status, not DACA recipients.
If you got to USCIS's page specifically for DACA recipients, and scroll through the frequently asked questions, you will find the following at FAQ #57:
"If USCIS has deferred action in your case under the DACA process after you have been ordered deported or removed, you may still request advance parole if you meet the guidelines for advance parole described above."
While There is an Argument to the Contrary, its Possible that Leaving on Advance Parole Executes the Outstanding Deportation Order
In 2012, the Board of Immigration Appeals held that someone who leaves the United States pursuant to a grant of advance parole does not make a "departure" from the United States. However, this ruling was specific to a question about "departure bars", which occur when someone has been in the United States unlawfully and then leaves. There is currently no court ruling about whether someone who leaves on advance parole has "departed" the United States with an outstanding removal order and has thus has self-deported.
So while one could certainly argue that the BIA case applies to this circumstance as well, it has not been firmly ruled on by the courts.
USCIS cautions against leaving on advance parole with an outstanding order and suggests that you file a motion to reopen prior to leaving. (This is also found on FAQ question #57). This can work in certain circumstances, but oftentimes motions to reopen are very difficult to win.
If leaving on advance parole is considered a departure, one would need a waiver of inadmissibilitybefore being admitted to the United States. And if you depart the United States after failing to appear in immigration court, that can further complicate things.
Entry on Advance Parole is Not an Admission
When someone re-enters the U.S. with advance parole, this is not an "admission" and therefore you do not have to prove that you are admissible in order to re-enter. The Huffington Post published an article quoting a Customs and Border Patrol spokesperson saying that in order to re-enter on advance parole, you have to overcome all grounds of inadmissibility. And this simply isn't the case.
It is Within Customs and Border Patrol Discretion to Deny Entry on a Case-By-Case Basis
Having said all of the above, CBP still reserves the right to deny entry to individuals on a case-by-case basis. Some attorneys recommend that their clients travel through certain airports so that they are less likely to run into issues. And even with precautions taken, there is always still some small risk.
We do not know all of the facts about the woman who was removed this week after attempting to re-enter on advance parole. There are rumors that she lied on her DACA application or had other problems with immigration. Hopefully as time goes on we can get more information about the facts of this case, and why this woman was deported when so many others re-enter without problems.
Talk to a Lawyer Before You Leave
Because of the sensitive and risky nature of advance parole with a prior order, it is so important to speak to an experienced immigration attorney before you leave the United States. For many, leaving on advance parole may provide a pathway to adjustment of status and a life free of fear that someday ICE will find you. For others, it may not be worth the risk. The most important thing is to make sure you are fully informed and therefore can make an educated decision that could affect your life so drastically.
This article was originally posted on Biesthal & Gray, and is published on AMIGA courtesy of the author.


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I thought I would share this meme from facebook. It did the rounds last week, and it was interesting to see the authors and poets people were influenced by. I didn't do a great amount of thinking for this. I originally did a speculative fiction list, and later did a non-speculative fiction list and my influences can be quite diverse.
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Don't take too long to think about this. List fifteen authors (poets included) who've influenced you and who will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag at least fifteen friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what authors my friends choose. (To do this, go to your Notes tab on your profile page, paste these rules in a new note, cast your fifteen picks, and tag people under Tags below the note.)
This is my speculative fiction list:
- Charles de Lint
- David Gemmell
- Enid Blyton
- Frank Herbert
- HG Wells
- Isobelle Carmody
- JRR Tolkein
- Nalini Singh
- Patricia A McKillip
- Patricia Briggs
- Peter V Brett
- Raymond E Fiest
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Tanith Lee
- Terri Windling
This is my non-specfic list:
- Anon (for all those poets! Beowulf, Dream of the Rood, Battle of Maldon!)
- Banjo Patterson
- Charlotte Bronte
- Colleen McCullough
- Dick Francis
- Henry Kendall (he wrote Bell-Birds near Gosford, where I grew up! Also have a look at Last of his Tribe... And Bob... And something about a grey ghost!)
- Jane Austen
- John Marsden
- Melina Marchetta
- Peter Dickinson
- Rosemary Sutcliff
- Ruth Park
- Upton Sinclair
- William Blake
- William Langland, etc.


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Well, we've all seen the top notch bezel-less iPhone Ten. Oh, I mean iPhone X and this brilliance sure comes at a price. With the latest advancements in technology that Apple has implemented in it's finest device, there are some drawbacks too. And, Apple has it noted already. Out of the box, this device comes with iOS 11 which is as buggy as it could be. More applications need update to support the top notch and let's not forget that there are some premium features still in beta, like the Augmented Reality show off and camera portrait mode. Battery has seemed to be better on this one though. But, do you know how this battery is placed inside of the iPhone X?
Hold your hands at right angle to each and that's it. There are two batteries placed in an L shape and Apple sure wants to get rid of that. Companies major concern is to increase battery life of the smartphone. This remains a constraint because people love thin devices and bigger battery obviously means thicker phones. Reports have shown that smartphone users are more comfortable with thin phones while being ready to compromise the battery capacity.
With no big points on the list, Apple is currently working on making a perfect battery that fits into the inside by providing the user both a sleek phone as well as a better battery life. Apple has all the sensors and chips it needs to get that iPhone working but all these sensors require power to run. It has been reported that the 2018 model of the iPhone will have an additional 300mAh battery capacity which means a whooping 10% extra power. Coming up with a new chip will prove beneficial for the handset provided the phone is not burdened with a bunch of other unnecessary features.
Increased efficiency and power is definitely on the list though. What other features are you expecting? Will this be the iPhone 9 or iPhone 11 or iPhone Y? That just blew my mind. 😀
Let me know your views in the comments section and be sure to hit the like button if you did like this article. Keep reading and stay tuned for more such articles.


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Welcome to episode 30 of You Me & Duffy! This week we will finally give you our review of, Wonder Woman! There have been a lot of articles flying around the internet saying that "We finally have a movie with a strong female lead." To that we say, HAH! We list just a small portion of actresses that are and have portrayed, Women of Badassery! Let us know who we missed.
In honor of seeing Wonder Woman we drank one of Secret of the Booze's newest beverages, The Martini of Truth! It was tasty and it was very strong! We definitely recommend tipping one back while you relax and check out episode 30, Women of Badassery!
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