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We generally spend more time in the office than at home. For eco-friendly people, some good practices at work are necessary. But how to implement them?
Very simple ones can be adopted without representing a constraint for your colleagues and management, starting with the lighting.
Light pollution washes out starlight, interferes with astronomical research and disrupts ecosystems. In 2016, Singapore was named the country with the worst level of light pollution in the world - with a pollution level of 100%.
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Working By Night is Not Eco-Friendly.
What is the use of lighting a desk with a lamp, when there is a window in the room? Place your desk close to windows or natural light sources, to avoid using electricity for lighting your office during the day. Encouraging the use of natural light means saving energy, and money for sure: lighting contributes to about 30% of the electric bill for a typical office. A good excuse to come back home earlier, before dark!
Break Up With Halogen Lamps.
At home and in your workplace, halogen lamps consume a great deal of electricity and generate a lot of heat. A halogen lamp switched on for 3 hours consumes 350 watts, the equivalent of 23 low energy bulbs. To save electricity, permanently replace halogen lamps with LEDs or low-energy lamps. Singapore is hot enough!
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Low energy light bulbs consume 5 times less energy and last 15 times longer than incandescent bulbs. Choose the most energy-saving light bulbs, adapted to the place you want to light. For instance, a 20W low energy lamp is suitable for reading or working, but one of 5W is sufficient for sharing gossips in the toilets.
Automatic Magic.
Like clockwork, so are lights. Out of habit, if you find that you frequently turn on lights between certain hours, automate that process with timer lamps. For common areas that aren't frequented all the time, explore the use of motion detectors to trigger the lights on/off. This would save you electricity in the long run, especially when they don't need to run all the time.
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LED bulbs are light-emitting diodes. A light-emitting diode lets the power flow only in one direction. One-way, like when Giselle tries to flirt with Jonathan.These LED bulbs last 20,000 to 50,000 hours, compared to 5,000 to 15,000 hours for low-energy bulbs, and 1,000 hours for incandescent bulbs. Thus, they allow considerable energy savings, consuming an average of 0.06 W per bulb!
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Turning off the lights when you leave a room is an eco-gesture that may seem simple and obvious, but that enables to save significant energy as a daily reflex: 10 minutes of unnecessary lighting three times a day is equivalent to five days of continuous lighting after one year.This systematic reflex has to be assimilated by all your colleagues. However, if Nicole could avoid turning off the light when people are in the toilet cubicle…
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Sometimes Lu has a hard time waking up in the mornings. She wanted me to feed her, but she also couldn't hang. Her eyes were closed, but it's hard to tell because she's so scruffy. She needs a haircut SO bad.
I headed out for a 5-miler a little after 7AM. I was reminded why we run EARLY. I was so tempted to jump in the creek by our house...
Post-run stretching. This was the only picture without the girls attacking me.
Lunch was half of one of the broccoli and rice stuffed peppers I made. These turned out super yummy!
My afternoons are pretty much always the same - work and snack breaks.
I really wanted some chips yesterday. They were delicious.
Someone was all tuckered out from work. Jake can literally fall asleep anywhere. And he does. I'm so jealous. It takes me forever to fall asleep. Don't worry, I showed this to him before I posted it. We had a good laugh.
I think I dropped a chip crumb. Lu would not stop crying and staring under the couch. I think she finally got it out yesterday evening.
Aspen always has her head hanging off whatever she is sleeping. I don't see how that is comfortable.
Dinner last night was salmon in a puff pastry. I got ready to start making everything and realized I didn't have any regular flour left, so I used almond flour. It was definitely a little challenging, but it ended up being amazing. I wasn't quite sure how it would turn out at first...I posted all the steps on my Instastories. Here's step 1 - make the dough.
This deliciousness went on top of the salmon once it was inside the pastry.
While the dough chilled in the fridge, I seasoned the salmon.
The recipe is supposed to feed 8 people, so I made it WAY smaller. Since the dough was super crumbly, I cut our salmon portions so they would fit into the pastry. I want to make this meal for a big group, though. I think it would turn out ever better.
Before baking...see how crumbly it was? Jake and I had to use teamwork to pick it up off the counter and transfer it to the baking sheet. This was definitely not a pretty meal (my fault), but it would be if I followed the directions...
It turned out DELICIOUS. Ready to be devoured!
My friend, Katie, was giving me a hard time about never posting pictures of food before I dumped Sriracha on them, so this first picture is for her! I'm going to make this again this week since we planned to have it twice, but I'm going to get some regular flour and see which one we like better. Stay tuned!
These three sleepy babies did not want to get up this morning. Jake even has his running shoes on!
Lu was sulking about having to get up.
I headed to the track to knock out a workout!
I got 8 miles in for track Tuesday. 3 mile warm-up, 4x1k at 10k pace with 2 minute rest in-between, 2 mile cool-down. I loved this workout!
I'm off to the library for the day! I'm ready to knock out some work.
Happy Tuesday!
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A weekend away is a beautiful thing. See you later, New York!
A weekend away is a beautiful thing. See you later, New York!
It was another Thursday, and I was running just that hair late whereby your fate, meaning the time you arrive at the office, is completely depended upon the trains. If you're just a moment on the right side of the equation, meaning you walked fast enough down the street or swiped your Metrocard smoothly enough on the first swipe, or if the trains are running behind by just enough time to make up for your delay, a train will be pulling up just as you're getting to the track. City-dwellers, you've been there, right? It feels like a fantastic victory when you arrive just as the train does, and it speeds you along to your destination, or to the connecting station where you will board the other train which will take you to where you want to go. And depending on if you can catch a train right as you're walking up to that platform, you could be walking through the revolving doors of your own glass-skyscraper right on time.
Ahh, the little victories.
Other times, it doesn't work out quite like you would hope. On this particular Thursday, I made my first train in the nick of time. Congratulating myself, I hoped off at the next stop, speedily weaving my way through other commuters and dashing down the stairs in perfect time for my next train to arrive. Perfect! I remember thinking the trains are on my side today. We crossed the bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan, where I could see the sun glimmering off the skyscrapers in the financial district, and we sped past the next stop. And then we stopped. But not at the next stop—between two stops. Ladies and Gentleman, we are being held momentarily, said the announcer. We all waited, patiently at first, as the minutes passed. And passed. And passed. Through the windows we could see other trains passing. Other trains that should be running on the same tracks as we are. Trains start and stop routinely in the morning, sometimes smoothly and briefly, but other times the halt is jarring and more immediate, knocking even the kind of veteran subway rider who doesn't hold on off their balance. This was a particularly jarring stop today, and we were waiting for longer than I've ever had to wait before. We sat for a whole twenty minutes, looking at our watches, rolling our eyes, and exchanging commiserating glances, knowing that all of us on this train have somewhere to be and that we're all in this together. That's where I feel community in this city most—on the trains.
Finally we were moving again, as inexplicably as when we stopped. When we hit the next station, there was a train across the platform that those of us who do this often knew we should board. When a Q train and an N or R train pull into 34th Street, the N or R will almost always leave first. Come this way everyday like I, and my fellow commuters, do, and you learn tricks like this. We crossed the platform, boarded the other train, and the doors closed. At 57th Street where I got off, I spotted the guy who sits in the cube next to mine. He edits e-books, wears flannel, and puts as much thought into his shoes as I do. We talk about his shoes sometimes on the cube street, when we're not talking about dating in the city or what it's like to be twenty-something here. (All eight of us are.) Coincidentally, he is also from Michigan. His exasperated expression matched mine exactly, though it was hidden a little better behind a beard and a pair of Ray Bans. We both rolled our eyes, feeling that kind of comradery that comes with being trapped together on a train that's moving forward, or not moving forward, at a pace and frequency that you can't control.
He and I swiped our cards, gates being lowered to allow us the privileged of pressing the button to call an elevator to take us to our cubicles. He remarked on the irony of leaving early for work, only to arrive late. I agreed, noting that I was happy I'd taken the extra minute to make a pot of coffee before I left.
That evening I was afforded a rare privilege. I jumped in the first car of the D train just as the doors were closing, congratulating myself on a victory, that I would make it down to my boyfriend in the Village 5-6 minutes faster than I would have if I had been 30 seconds later.
Little victories.
I looked forward, as I always do, but this time I could actually see something. I could see the tracks in front of us. They were blurred by the dirty glass, but I could see the green lights on the walls of the tunnels, beckoning us forward, and I could see the red lights in the distance cautioning us to slow down, changing to green as they allowed us to pass. Twists and turns. Station platforms, people tapping their feet, people dashing down the stairs like I had to catch this train. Then it was green. Green. Green. And we were speeding on an express line past the local stations, faster and faster as the sea of green seemed endless, ending only as we'd reached out next stop. My stop. I got off and scurried up the stairs.
I got to thinking that maybe this—yesterday, and the subway—is what being in your twenties is like. You can choose which trains to get on—most places have more than one way you can take to get there. The 4 to the Q. Or the 3 to the D. Get off at 47th or 59th Street. And the longer you're there, the better you get at picking which trains to take. You choose the express trains, knowing they'll get you where you want to be twice as fast. You start to count the stops and choose one express train over another, weighing simultaneously the difference in walking time you'll have once you get off the train. You learn which trains come when and exactly what time you need to leave your apartment to get to the station when your train is supposed to arrive. When you get really good, you learn the patterns, and you get off the Q train at 34th Street when an R pulls up—even though you're leaving an express train to get on a local one—because you can be almost certain that it will actually get you to your stop faster. Almost
But you can't be sure. You can't know when the train will actually be there or leave. And even when you do get on, you can't know when your train is going to stop, gently or abruptly, and keep you immobile for 20 minutes as you watch other trains and people pass you by. Or even if it's just for five minutes, in that fifth minute, the fear of twenty is excruciating.
You also can't usually see where you're going. It's an act of faith, really. You just have to assume that if you get on the train you think is right, it will take you where you want to go. (With the MTA, you know that's only an assumption.) And if it doesn't take you there—if the local is running express or if there's construction or if you just plain got on the wrong train—then you get off, and figure out another train that you think will get you there. You have to have faith that it's going to work out how it's supposed to, or that if it doesn't you'll have the presence of mind to be able to adjust your course. And after you choose your course, you just have to wait. Wait for the train to arrive, wait for your stop to come, wait out the delays, long or short, and sip your coffee, taking comfort in the glances and eye-rolls from others, knowing that we are all in this train together, and knowing that we'll all get wherever it is that we are going eventually.


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I always thought podcasts were something that people with passions for really obscure topics (knitting or TV show fan clubs comes to mind) listened to. It was only once my boss at Runners Connect recommended I start the Run to the Top podcast that I really started to pay attention.
One thing you will learn about podcasts though, once you start listening to them, you get HOOKED! You want to listen to them while you shower, while you drive, while you do chores. You can't get enough of them, and there are so many out there for so many different topics, you can find a podcast about anything (hello knitting and The Bachelor fan club!).
Today I thought I would write about why you might want to check out podcasts if you haven't before, who are podcasts aimed at, and why should you care?
So why podcasts? Why now?
- Podcast app on iPhone.
- Apple has made this app un-deletable, and it is automatically downloaded for every iPhone user. We all know Apple does their homework on what the latest trends are!
- Our attention spans are so short
- I find I really have to concentrate to read an entire blog post now without skimming, and this way I do not have to take the "effort" to read something….wow that makes me sound lazy!
- Podcast shows are constantly growing
- Every day new podcasts show up, about every topic you could ever imagine
And why I enjoy podcasts so much
- Intimacy
- There is something personal about feeling as though you are in a conversation with two other people. You hear this conversation in-between your ears, and I often find myself saying "yes!, uh huh, oh yep, thats me", as if I was there. You get to know the host, and as creepy as this sounds, kind of become their friend as you learn about their likes and dislikes, and what is going on with their life.
- You can multitask!
- I am constantly trying to multitask, and I know I am not that great at it, but with podcasting, you can do it while you do something else. Texting and driving is bad, but with a podcast you can listen and learn, but still be paying attention to your driving. Or how about household chores? You can learn and grow your knowledge while doing the dishes, or vacuuming!
- Learning
- I have learned so much listening to podcasts, from self help podcasts like Brene Brown, to how to become a better social media manager, which makes me better at my job. I love learning new things, but because it is in a conversation form, it does not feel like a lecture, instead you can pick and chose at what is interesting for you, absorb that information, and zone out when something is not applicable.
- Its 30-60 minutes
- You do not have to worry about a playlist, or finding enough to last your entire task, but you can just click it, and let it go! I love this for days when I listen to it while I run.
- Working while you are not
- This means I can be working, learning new information, while I am doing in otherwise dead time; driving, cleaning, preparing food.
- Learning about the lives of celebrities/well known people
- As you are hearing the interview between the podcaster and their guest, you are learning little things about the guest that you could not learn in a 2 page interview in a magazine, or on a blog page where it is all edited. You get to hear it out of their mouth, and listen to their response to particular questions. I love that it makes them seem more real, more human!
- Running related
- As I mentioned, there are topics for EVERYTHING, and if you are a runner lover, there is so much you can learn about running, where it is explained to you clearly. If the podcaster is good, they will make sure things are clarified if the guest can be confusing, so it is a great place to truly understand concepts.
Honestly, you can search for ANYTHING, and there will be a podcast about it. Find your interests, and give it a try.
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Awesome!!!! I may be staring down 14 miles on a treadmill on Saturday because of yet MORE SNOW so this is perfect timing. Thank you!
I only started listening to podcasts recently, too! The only one I have used so far is Runners Academy but I love the Runners Connect website so I will definitely need to listen to these too! I am thinking of checking out your podcast on tomorrow's run. Thanks for sharing! I definitely think that podcasts are here to stay. I also started listening to my first audiobook last week. Listening vs reading does make me feel lazy but like you said its great for multitasking. I also love learning new info about topics I am interested in so I would rather listen than use the excuse that I don't have time to read.
NOOOOOO Lisa!!!!! I thought about mentioning this in the post, but wanted to be the better person, but as you brought it up…….do not listen to Matt Johnson. He plagiarized all Runners Connect stuff once. I am all about innocent until proven guilty, but this evidence is pretty hard to ignore, and he didnt just do it to Runners Connect, he did it to 2 other companies too. http://runnersconnect.net/running-tips/runner-academy-theft/ Please take a read of that before you think about it again. I know he is fine with his podcast, that is all original stuff, but for me, this just puts me off anything from him as he has no moral compass. Jeff works SO HARD to create a business like Runners Connect that people can enjoy, and it makes me sad that he just arrogantly copied.
Thank you so much for the thoughtful topic though, I really appreciate all your support 🙂
OMG Thank you for letting me know!
I just realized I said topic….I meant thank you for the comment hahah 🙂
Wow. Just read this after I posted about RA below. I had no idea, lol. I respect that RC addressed it head on in a blog post, I'll take a read. Thanks for the link
What's crazy is that Matt has plagiarized other sites besides RC . . .
I love podcasts! They were a must with ultra training 🙂
I have never listened to a podcast, but I will look yours up for my next run!
Can't wait to listen to this! I enjoy the Runner Academy podcasts, and I'm always looking for more – I'm checking out Runners Connect for sure 🙂 I usually listen to them when strength training, makes the time go by super fast. I always thought they were nerdy too and didn't get into them until about a year ago. Is that mic yours too? If so, good idea in investing in one (former soundie here)
I am really enjoying your podcast. Like you I have just recently started listening to podcast during my commute. I love anything to do with running, nutrition and inspiring individuals. Thank you so much for providing such wonderful guests and information!
I just started listening to my first podcast, Serial, and I'm loving it! I will have to check out the others you mentioned! Have a great weekend!
I really like Marathon Talk and they're long enough for a long run.
I love listening to podcasts! I always have them fired up and ready to go for my commute or when I am grocery shopping. I think by the end of the year, I will have my own. I have been experimenting with audio clips.
I really enjoy a good podcast, in fact I just listened to Runner's Connect Race Day Fueling last night… very informative. I will definitely be using the calculator when I run Boston in April. Have a nice weekend Tina.
Podcasts are something I enjoy, particularly when doing mundane chores or projects that require little concentration. I put them on my iPod though, since I find the audio to be better than when I use my iPhone. I need to catch up on my RunnersConnect Podcasts. You do a great job, Tina! Keep up the great work.
Can I admit that I have listened to one podcast in its entirety? And that was Serial. I think I have a hard time finding the time for a podcast and feel guilty just sitting down listening to one. I have to multi-task in order to listen to one. I know that's weird. Anyhow, I made it work with Serial by doing it while doing strength work, making dinner, etc., so I need to make a more concerted effort to listen to others!
I've been purchasing and listening to audiobooks for my treadmill running but it's getting expensive! I'll try the podcast thing. Sounds brilliant.
I listen to Dr. Joy Brown on Podcast during my long runs. I always enjoyed her on the radio and listening on the weekends while I run is a nice treat and takes me away from the usual songs and stuff.
I will totally check some of these out! I think I want to try listening to something on my runs now! My own thoughts can get pretty….boring!
ok can you believe that I've never listened to a podcast?! I need to listen to yours-maybe in the shower?!
I have never listened to a podcast. And, I just looked while reading this – I didn't even realize that I had the app on my phone (found it!!). I should try podcasts when I'm ironing table cloths at the venue – I usually listen to books on CD so I guess this is the higher tech form!!!
I LOVE podcasts! Thanks for these great reasons and new podcasts to try out!
I loooooove podcasts. I love that I can passively learn while walking to work, which normally I'd just be doing, well, nothing. My favourites are Serial (!!!!), Invisibilia (so neat) and anything running related.
I am hooked on Serial but I am going to tear myself away this weekend to check out your podcast on Runners Connect!
Thank you so much for this! I've never really listened to podcasts until Serial! I've started listening to a couple and love the intimacy of it like you said. I will definitely check out the Runners Connect podcast.
I'm totally a short attention span person these days with reading! The only problem I have with podcasts is that I do multitask and find out 20 minutes later that I have no idea what they are talking about!
I really need to download podcasts. I've been threatening to do it FOREVER, but to be quite honest, didn't know where to start! I've been listening to the same music on my ipod for years because I lost my log in info to iTunes, hahahaha. Such a lame excuse!
i have about 10 i listen to! including Ben's! need to check out amys
Tina I just listened to your podcast with the author of Unbroken and really enjoyed it! Plus I got to put a voice to a face… I love your accent 🙂
Tina, it's so refreshing to read this because I am a complete podcast convert too! Finally, someone like me, who listens while cleaning and food-prepping. But, I have definitely been needing to branch out my podcasts options, and am grateful for your suggestions! SO excited to check them out. Keep rocking it! I love LOVE LOVE this post. Take care. Jessica Joy @TheFitSwitch
That's great! I hope you enjoy podcasting. 🙂 There are a few out there I like, but I don't listen to any all that regularly. I like Planet Money by NPR and Stuff Mom Never Told You.
Thanks for sharing! I used to listen to podcasts all the time back when I would drive back and forth from where my fiance lived to where I went to grad school (four hours each way!). Now that we're married and I'm not commuting, I listen to them whenever I do housework 🙂 I listen to Another Mother Runner, Marathon Training Academy, and Runner's Connect. I like your suggestions for social media marketing and business podcasts, I'm excited to listen to those!
I'm a huge podcast fan. I also listen to Ben Greenfield and Michael Hyatt. Have you listened to Lewis Howes? I think you'd really like him. Can't wait to hear the running one!
I love listening to podcasts on the bus on the way to work – will definitely add yours to my list!
I do listen to podcasts on long car trips but only recently started listening to some while I run. I will check the Runners Connect ones out!
I LOVE podcasts! Back when I had an hour+ commute to & from work, they were ALL I listened to in the car. Now I reserve them for when I'm running, road-tripping, or meal-prepping.
I love How Stuff Works and Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me. I've learned the most random things from How Stuff Works, and Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me is a quiz on tidbits from the news [not to mention Peter Sagal, the host is a runner :)]
I listened to your interview with Dave McGillivray yesterday during my long run – it was good! I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with upcoming episodes 🙂
I need a new podcast after finishing Serial, so I am so happy you posted this! I will definitely check out yours as well as some of the others you suggested! Thanks, Tina!


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Pop artist Michael Albert, known for his cereal-box collages, is making three stops in the area on his Summer Southern Pop Art Tour.
The 28-stop, 13-day tour will include appearances at Creative Discovery Museum on Sunday and at Collegedale Public Library and Chattanooga Public Library on Monday.
Sunday's appearance is a workshop open to families. Tweens and teens are the focus of Monday's two library stops.
Participants will have the opportunity to create their own pop-art collages from empty cereal boxes and other discarded cardboard packaging. While some materials will be available, guests are invited to bring their own empty boxes for greater variety.
In his hands-on workshops, Albert teaches his self-invented technique of making collages. He prefers to use cereal boxes and cardboard packages of famous consumer brands.
According to Chattanooga Public Library officials, the White Plains, N.Y.-based artist often chooses collage subjects that bring awareness to social and environmental issues. By using found materials, he supports and promotes the green movement.
Note: The author will give away autographed posters of his work at each session.
1-4 p.m. Open workshop for families at Creative Discovery Museum, 321 Chestnut St.
1-3 p.m. Art workshop for tweens and teens at Collegedale Public Library, 9318 Apison Pike. Call 396-9300 to register.
5-7 p.m. Art workshop for tweens and teens at Chattanooga Public Library, 1001 Broad St.
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In the midst of the Internet of Things movement experiencing tremendous growth and innovation, the space is also experiencing a bit of a shakeup. As startups emerge and tech giants roll out their own IoT products, Google-owned Nest is apparently on death watch, signaling the end of an era. According to Verizon, the new age we're entering into is one where IoT has not only moved beyond novelty status, it has become mainstream. In order to embrace the new movement, particularly by bolstering their "Smart Cities" project, Verizon has hired Mrinalini Ingram, a former executive with tech and communications giant Cisco.
In their 2016 State of the Market report for IoT, Verizon declared that the technology had a defining year in 2015 and now can safely be declared mainstream. To back this claim, Verizon's Vice President of IoT Connected Solutions, Mark Bartolomeo, pointed to recent deals in the space by big players such as Cisco, GE and IBM. Their report also laid out some rough projections for the future of IoT, showing a drastic leap from 2014's connected IoT device count of 9.7 billion all the way to a whopping 30 billion by 2020. Bartolomeo also took a shot at some of the carrier's smaller rivals, asking, "If you're just a wireless service provider, can you participate in IoT?" Bartolomeo also made the point that IoT was less about devices and more about use cases, lending itself to innovation. This claim was bolstered by an earnings figure from Verizon's IoT department of $690 million for 2015. The number indicated year-on-year growth of about 18 percent for Verizon's IoT exploits.
As for Ingram, Verizon's plan is to hand over management of their Smart Cities projects and have Ingram report directly to Verizon's Senior Vice President of IoT, Mike Lanman. This is only one piece of the IoT puzzle for Verizon, of course; they also have hands in IoT solutions for healthcare, transport, energy and agriculture, each of which gets their own separate team and management within the company, all reporting to Vice President Mark Bartolomeo and Senior Vice President Mike Lanman. With a cohesive strategy beginning to take shape, Verizon looks set to assert dominance early on in the growing field of IoT.


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Lovely Plant
But on a more mundane level is poison ivy. It is a lovely plant, especially when newly seeded in your 'edge of forest' garden. In fact, you might think it is a harmless weed as you are working hard to pull out the non-native invasive species. You know, the one that NEVER did you ANY HARM personally?
Yep, I've got a good case of poison ivy. It really is a lovely plant. In the spring the new leaves are such a light green with a delicate look, drooping a little in the heat of the day as if a bit shy of the bright sunshine. In the fall its leaves are golden and red -- seriously one of the more beautiful wild garden plants.
I have it on my arms and just a wee bit on my upper leg (the day I stupidly wore shorts). I didn't even SEE it there because it was so pretty. It just mixed so well with the invaders.
And I think that's my point. I'd rather keep the invaders who don't exude toxins than open up space for the noxious AMERICAN weeds to flourish.
While I consider my approach (long sleeves, long pants, and boots), I'll go get an Aveeno bath. Itch. Ouch.
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- quilly said...
Oh dear! My condolences. I hope you are feeling less itchy soon!
- April 12, 2010 at 8:51 PM
- Mary said...
I'm such a "non-gardener" that I can't even identify poison ivy! Hope the aveeno helps!
- April 12, 2010 at 9:04 PM
Ouch you poor thing. I've never seen it before. Tis pretty but nasty. Is it like a cold and you just have to ride it out or can you put medicine on it to get rid of it faster? Are you contagious? Hope it goes away soon.
- April 12, 2010 at 9:56 PM
- Larry said...
poison Ivy grows as a wild weed it is here in Oregon I know what it is as soon as i see it I'm very watchful for it when I venture out into the wooded hillsides and when I'm picking blackberries if yiou don't watch for it it will get you. it even gets you if you burn it the smoke from the plant when you breath it infects your inside believe it or not I was very sick one summer when I cleared a field and then decided to burn it.
I loved your comment you left when you visited this morning and I appreciate it thanks for stopping by.. Larry
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Sprite and Pepsi became fast friends. They did everything together, from rummaging through the trash to loudly greeting the deliveryman. And the Levin family fell in love with him -- with his gentle nature, beautiful face and soft, huggable fur. But on Halloween night, shortly after joining their family, Sprite suddenly collapsed and was rushed to the animal hospital. It was the first of many such visits, and the start of a long journey for the Levin family, filled with much joy and anguish.
During the next two years, Sprite and Pepsi were inseparable. And Sprite's bond with the Levin family deepened. Friends, neighbors, and even Mark's radio audience came to know and love Sprite. As Mark's daughter turned eighteen and graduated from high school and Mark's son turned fifteen, Sprite's health deteriorated -- even as his spirits remained high and his beauty and grace continued to inspire. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas 2006, the Levin family said their emotional final goodbye. Crushed and consumed with grief, Mark turned to family, friends, and fans for help.
But new hope came when the Levins least expected it.
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Halloween In Houston With Owl City
We were sat in the office the other day and Jaimie came over and asked if I wanted to spend Halloween in Houston, Texas. Before I'd even enquired what responsibilities came in-hand with that I said, "Yes, please!" Luckily he wasn't sending me to handle trick-or-treat door duties at the NRA's annual Halloween hoedown.
As it turns out, Radar had been asked to come gawp at the latest Stateside monster chart mutation: lekro-tweemo.
Right now Owl City are Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 and iTunes' biggest selling single of the year. Which if you're in any doubt about, is: A) Considered about as big a deal as you get, and B) why they can afford to fly British journalists across the world to watch random gigs with no even agreed coverage. The job Jaimie assigned me was to make a call on whether they were an undeniable force that we shouldn't even think about trying to fight against, or just a shit cheesy Postal Service that are best left in the hands of deranged cardigan-pilfering Middle American emo sprats.
Two things of note to take head of before entering Owl City's garden:
1) They're very Christian
2) They're very American
Once you've acclimatised yourself to both, the ride is much smoother.
Shonky youth club/industrial estate disco stylings of the venue not withstanding, Halloween is in full effect with various Pirates of the Caribbean, an impressive Duffman and kids getting into the festive spirit by squeezing glow stick juice over their arms and probably risking some kind of terrible illness in later life. You've got to love Halloween. Owl City are into it too, bowling onto the stage as the doomy 'Imperial March' from Star Wars plays.
Though there's a backing band – a bumblebee and little drummer boy included – Owl City is essentially a solo project, the nom de pop of Adam Young, a boy from Middle-of-Nowheresville, Minnesota.
We grabbed smiley happy person Adam for a chat before the show:
Where Bon Iver had his shed, Adam Young has his parents' basement, where he's spent the past two years noodling away, crafting the earnest synth-pop he lays out tonight. Pulling off his Darth Vader mask, the sold-out, 650 capacity crowd – made up mostly of young girls who, impressively, know every single word to every single song – squeals and shrieks with the kind of delight normally reserved for buffed up boy bands.
Owl City have gone and done a Lily Allen, converting tens of millions of free MySpace plays into chart topping success.
Unlike Lily however, Owl Cityare super clean-cut. This isn't rock'n'roll of the sex and drugs persuasion, but rather more of the holding hands and hot chocolate with floompy marshmallows variety.
Check out Owl City-mania here, as they play final song of the night, the aforementioned 'Fireflies'.
See what we told you about the squealing and the shrieking? Owl City are over in the UK next February. You have been warned. Did we ever make a call on the shit Postal Service versus unstoppable force dichotomy? Jury's still out.


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BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Ren Xinmin, a well-known expert on missile and rocket technologies, chief designer of China's first manmade satellite and also one of the founders of China's space industry, has died.
He was 102.
Ren was born in Ningguo, east China's Anhui province in 1915. He graduated from a military university in Chongqing in 1940. He then went to study at the University of Michigan in America and got a master's degree for mechanical engineering and a doctorate for engineering mechanics in 1945.
He returned to China in 1949 despite receiving an offer to teach at the University at Buffalo. Starting from 1956, Ren worked as a key technical engineer and helped China develop its first missile, Dongfeng-1 in 1960 and also its first man-made satellite Dongfanghong-1 in 1970. Ren then worked as chief designer of 6 major space projects in China including an experimental communications satellite, practical satellite communications and meteorological satellite Fengyun-1.
In 1980, Ren was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). In 1999, Ren was granted the Two Bombs and One Satellite Merit Medal.
After Ren retired, he still paid close attention to the development of China's space industry. In 2003, at the age of 88, Ren witnessed the process of China's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, being sent into space by a Shenzhou-5 spaceship at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. He also wrote a calligraphy work to celebrate the successful launch of China's carrier rocket Changzheng-5 on November 3, 2016.


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As the Singapore Red Cross says, the need for blood never stops. But the demand for blood from living donors could become a thing of the past, as A*STAR researchers make red blood cells (RBCs) from stem cells in an efficient and reliable way.
"What's lacking in the field of RBC generation is the ability to manufacture high-quality cells in a large-scale and cost-effective manner," says Jaichandran Sivalingam, a research scientist at the A*STAR Bioprocessing Technology Institute. "Our approach provides a first step in that direction."
Every year, at hospitals across Singapore, people undergoing surgery, cancer patients, accident survivors and even newborns with medical complications collectively receive more than 100,000 units of blood. Donor-derived supplies can generally meet current demands, but as the population ages, the need for blood will increase at the same time that the pool of willing donors dwindles.
Lab-grown blood offers a potentially limitless solution, but existing methods for manufacturing blood from stem cells are not appropriate for clinical use.
Take the systems for making RBCs, for example. Researchers typically culture embryonic or reprogrammed stem cells in flat lab dishes so they can form three-dimensional aggregates called embryoid bodies before the cells develop into blood. But the large surface area required for this method makes it impractical for scaling up. Alternatively, scientists can grow the stem cells alongside mouse cells that secrete differentiating factors. However, these non-human cells can carry animal pathogens and can't be used for human transfusion.
Jaichandran and his colleagues got around these problems by using tiny plastic spheres known as microcarriers. These spheres float in suspension, providing large amounts of surface area. And covering them in a human protein called laminin-521 eliminates the need for any animal material.
By culturing the stem cells on these microcarriers and adjusting the media, the A*STAR team could generate at least six times as many RBC precursor cells and 80 times as many differentiated RBCs as the standard method involving embryoid bodies in a dish. Since reporting the method last year, the researchers have boosted the yields even further.
Terminal maturation of the blood cells is still difficult, stringent quality checks have yet to be done, and the process is still too costly to be commercially viable. But Jaichandran's team is making progress. "We are looking at different approaches and systems to address some of these challenges," he says.


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Motherboard is my approach to quilting as a new media artist.
The patches are embroidered with electrically conductive thread so each functions as a fabric circuit board. When stitched together, the piece collects and displays images of what is happening around it as an abstract quilt pattern. Sensors embedded in the quilt change the projected pattern based on the interaction of the viewer. I was playing off of the idea of quilts as a visual archive of memory.
I was also interested in reconciling two different ideas of production within this piece.
I think in many ways we are divested from the production of technology. Phones, computers, tablets, etc. are created by engineers in Cupertino and physically manufactured in a factory somewhere in China. When a new phone or computer or software update is released, we simply buy or update. We act as passive consumers of technology. Quilting for me became a metaphor for producing our own material goods and representative of a time when we more directly engaged in making our own tools, clothes, food, etc.
I wanted to reconcile those two ideas with this piece.


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A Frog-Strangler Meeting in the Rain
It was a frog-strangler, as some people from around here call it, when I ran into the coffee shop to meet a woman I didn't know. I leaned my dripping umbrella against the wall and looked around the room for someone I hoped to recognize from her LinkedIn photo. She smiled and waved and after confirming we were indeed looking for each other, we started what turned out to be an intriguing conversation.
Over a cup of minty hot green tea, I listened as she told me her story. As is the case with each of us, she has an interesting story to tell of beginnings, stumble-ings, successes, loves, losses, transitions and then she said something that caused me to lean in a little more.
She said, "I've accomplished all this and raised my children to be successful. I've worked hard and made a lot of money but I still don't know who I am or why I am here."
Isn't that the crux of it? Our perceptions, our thinking, our behaviors are directed toward our external experience of the world. We are certainly taught early on that our survival requires it, whether it is in school as children or our jobs as adults, in our marriages and our parenting and in our bodies. We spend years measuring our success by what our material, outer life looks like.
Sooner or later we all hear the whisper from inside that makes us wonder, makes us uneasy, makes us dissatisfied. "Is this why I came here? Is this what it's all about?" And ultimately, "Who am I really?" and "Why am I here?"
The answer is in the journey but it is also in the work to uncover, reclaim and live out our true purpose, that which will move us forward in our evolution and in that way make the world a better place because we were here for this time. None of us gets to that place of certainty and centeredness by ourselves. We have teachers, mentors and guides in different shapes and at different times.
The Realignment Workshop is an opportunity to work in a small group with teachers who guide you from a realistic and lived experience to answering those questions that once answered serve as a compass for the rest of your life.
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"Free sneakers, shoes and boots today," Bernard Rorie shouted, standing outside a soup kitchen in East New York, Brooklyn, where he was being recorded by investigators
Mr. Rorie was recruiting homeless people, prosecutors said, and whoever had a valid Medicaid card would be packed into a van and sent to medical clinics around New York City. There, after hours of unnecessary tests and fake diagnoses, the homeless people would be sent off with sneakers — selected from stacks of shoeboxes in the clinics' basements. The doctors, staff members and billing specialists, meanwhile, would rack up hundreds or thousands of dollars per recruit in false Medicaid claims, prosecutors said.
On Tuesday, nine New York doctors were among 23 people indicted in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn in connection with the sneaker scheme, which the Brooklyn district attorney's office said made almost $7 million and took advantage of thousands of homeless people.
The charges in the indictment include health fraud, enterprise corruption and money laundering.
"At the heart of this health care fraud scheme was the exploitation of poor people," Kenneth P. Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, said on Tuesday. "This was a Medicaid mill."
While Medicaid and Medicare fraud cases are common, this one was notable for the number of participants and the use homeless people as fake clients.
From a warehouse in Sunset Park, Eric Vainer, 43, oversaw the operation with the help of his mother, Polina, 66, prosecutors said. "We can use the same patients like guinea pigs for anything we want," Mr. Vainer was recorded saying in a government wiretap.
He sent recruiters to offer free shoes to homeless people gathered at places like a shelter in Chelsea and soup kitchens and welfare offices in Jamaica, Queens, and Brownsville, Brooklyn. The recruiters would check the homeless people's Medicaid cards and, if they were valid, they would be sent to clinics in Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Typically, once patients arrived at a clinic, they would be seen by a podiatrist, the indictment says. The podiatrist would give a "fictitious diagnosis," order more tests or specify equipment like orthotics or leg braces that the patient actually did not need. The podiatrist often referred the patient to additional doctors who were part of the scheme, including psychiatrists and pain-management specialists, who might sign the patient up for recurring visits that they could bill. Cardiologists and vein specialists, meanwhile, might bill as if they were reviewing their unnecessary tests without actually doing any reviewing, or claim to Medicaid they had done procedures that they never had.
After all of that, the patient would get to pick a pair of shoes, boots or sandals from a storeroom that, in at least one clinic, Mr. Thompson described as "like a shoe store."
The doctors in the group made money by, for instance, seeing a patient for four minutes and billing for 30 minutes, or claiming they had reviewed tests when they had not, or simply billing for procedures they had never done, prosecutors said. Some doctors paid Mr. Vainer a referral fee for each recruit, while some split the Medicaid payment with him.
Mr. Vainer made money from the scheme in several ways: He owns medical clinics where the patients were sent; he supplies devices for foot and leg problems; and he had financial arrangements with doctors to whom he sent the recruited homeless patients, prosecutors said.
Mr. Vainer also made money by supplying cheap equipment and billing it to Medicaid as a custom medical device — for instance, supplying a drugstore shoe insert and billing it to Medicaid as a custom orthotic, for which he received about $330.
The "fictitious" diagnoses listed in the indictment include "dermatophytosis of nail," a fungal infection; "abnormality of gait"; "lumbago," which is lower-back pain; and "radiculitis," or nerve pain.
On Tuesday, almost all of the defendants entered State Supreme Court in Brooklyn in small groups, their handcuffs linked by a chain. Justice Danny K. Chun ordered almost all of the defendants held on bail that ranged from $10,000 to $350,000. Mr. Vainer was arrested Tuesday in Florida, where he was apparently on vacation, Mr. Thompson said, and where he will appear in court on Thursday.
Some of the doctors involved are affiliated with well-known institutions. Dr. Joseph Grossman, 82, a cardiologist, was a clinical assistant professor of medicine at New York Medical College. The vein surgeon Dr. David Glass, 65, a former assistant chief of surgery at New York Methodist, is an assistant clinical professor at Cornell, according to his website. Dr. Grossman and Dr. Glass pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Thompson said the investigation began in 2012 after a woman walked into the district attorney's office and said she had been recruited to a clinic and given a knee brace and sneakers, and, when she said she did not need a knee brace, was told she had to take it in order to get the sneakers.


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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the Western Film Genre
With new productions on the horizon, some say the once dead Western film genre seems to be making a slow comeback. Did it ever really go away?
For many of the younger audience members of contemporary cinema, the idea of watching a western is pretty lame… or so I've been told. Decade after decade, many of us have heard that the Western was dead. In fact, this theory has been debated quite extensively in articles at Acculturated, Film.com and, to a more modest extent, Cinemablography.
While it is true that the Western film genre isn't as popular as it once was, it does still live on in a major way, whether we realize it or not. Plenty of films and television shows that you watch have their roots firmly planted in the Western film genre. With this said, let's explore the evolution of the Western film genre from its classic days to present.
Classic Western
The classic era of the Western film genre spanned over 50 years, from 1903's The Great Train Robbery to the standard clean cut westerns of the mid-1950s. Throughout its early existence, the genre was, as Patrick McGee stated in his book From Shane to Kill Bill, "a conservative film genre." It was all about individualism, masculinity and American lore.
During this era, director John Ford cemented the style in which westerns should be seen, in wide sprawling shots. John Wayne also became a legend during this era and the face of American masculinity. We were treated to classic films like The Virginian, Stagecoach, Red River and Rio Bravo. But underneath all of that muscle and sweat, something was changing.
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The Revisionist & Anti-Western
In the 1950s, things began to change for the Western film genre. We began seeing the rise of the anti-hero and a move toward narrative philosophies started in Japanese films by Akira Kurosowa, like Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. With films like The Magnificent Seven, High Noon, Johnny Guitar, The Unforgiven and Shane, we began seeing the genre tackle subjects like class and racism. Meanwhile, the classic hero went from the clean-cut cowboy to a rough cowboy with a checkered past.
This evolution of the western has lasted ever since. We still see it today on the big screen in films like Unforgiven, The Proposition, Django Unchained and The Revenant. We see it on the small screen with successful series like Deadwood, Hell on Wheels, and Texas Rising.
But no director and actor team has contributed more to the anti-western than Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood. The "Dollar" trilogy changed the game for good. Now we want our cowboys to be dirty and gritty, like Blondie in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, who left his companion at the end of a rope staring at his half of the gold.
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Contemporary & Neo-Western
Because of the advancements of the anti-western and the birth of the anti-hero, a new form of western began to take root in film known as the contemporary or neo-western. This new form of western wasn't regulated to just the old west, though it did begin there with films like Hud and The Wild Bunch.
By the 1970s, films like the The Getaway and Dirty Harry were just westerns playing out on modern streets. These characters were the same classic type of old west heroes, only now they lived in a time and society that rejected their idea of justice.
Again, this form of the western is still in force today through films such as Desperado, Kill Bill and No Country For Old Men. Or even in your favorite television series like Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Justified and True Detective. In fact the final fight in Kill Bill, The Showdown at the House of Blue Leaves, shows the Bride and Orin ready to draw like two cowboys on a dusty road waiting for high noon.
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Fantasy & Space Western
What many people don't know is that the western film genre's reach is so much larger and broader than they realize. The western has firmly rooted itself in fantasy (for better or worse) with films like John Carter and The Lone Ranger or the upcoming adaptation of the best "Weird Western" of all time, The Dark Tower.
Science fiction has probably felt the impact of the western film genre even more than fantasy with its roots going back to the 1930s with Buck Rodgers and Flash Gordon. John Scalzi even wrote a great piece for AMC about the fact that science fiction is essentially the western of old. You can see this clearly when looking at films like Cowboys and Aliens and Guardians of the Galaxy or television shows like Firefly and the animated series Cowboy Bebop.
But as many of you know, no sci-fi film has benefited from the western as much as Star Wars. Han Solo and Boba Fett are pulled straight from the pages of the old westerns. The Mos Eisley Cantina scene alone is loaded with nods to old westerns, from a quick draw with a light saber to a hero found in a saloon to even the denial of service to the droids.
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The Current State of Things
Currently we are seeing an uptick in terms of production surrounding the western genre. Big name directors and actors are jumping on board productions such as Jane Got a Gun, The Revenant, The Hateful Eight, Slow West and remake of The Magnificent Seven. Now, will this sustain itself for a long haul? That question isn't easy to answer.
Television is playing a big part in the swing upward for westerns, with series like Hell on Wheels continuing to track well, alongside such recent mini-series as Hatfields & McCoys and Texas Rising. Networks such as History and American Heroes Channel are developing original programming based in the old west and the Civil War. This is a lesson I've learned firsthand while directing my latest documentary, a film based on events of the Civil War.
If someone asks me if the western will ever rule the box office again, I'll tell them probably not. Of course, the western was never a box office powerhouse to begin with. In fact, the genre was seen as a B-movie genre until John Wayne came along. But if someone asks me if the western is dead, I'll emphatically say no. And I'm not the only one who thinks this. The western film genre isn't ready to ride off into the sunset. Not just yet.
- Kitses, Jim. Horizons West: Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood.
British Film Institute; 2nd edition (September 1, 2007)
- McGee, Patrick. From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western.
Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (April 28, 2006)
- Rickman, Gregg. The Western Reader. Limelight Editions; 1st Limelight ed edition (August 1, 2004).
How many of these films have you seen? What are your thoughts on Westerns? Love em, hate em? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below.


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In 2009 I was asked by a journalist for my thoughts on the importance of Earth Hour.
Here is my response.
I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.
Giving women the freedom to work outside the home depended on the availability of electrical appliances that free up time from domestic chores. Getting children out of menial labour and into schools depended on the same thing, as well as the ability to provide safe indoor lighting for reading.
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Teddy's Mini-Session at Home, Shenfield, Essex
Mini Sessions- How do they work?
A mini portrait session differs from a full session mainly by the amount of time spent photographing. For a mini session we spend 30 minutes together as opposed to the 60-90 minutes for a full session. However, it's a great opportunity to have some gorgeous family/childrens photos taken on location. They are usually set locations, on specific dates and you simply select your chosen time slot. It is perfect for you if you just want a few updated photos of your little one/ family.
Each mini session will specify what's included for the session fee. Extra prints and products and digital file upgrades can be purchased at the time of ordering (with no obligation). You can expect to view up to 15 images from your mini session.
These mini sessions are usually seasonal, Spring and Autumn are great times for these and I will select a beautiful outdoor location for us to capture your memories. Christmas is another great opportunity to update your family photos with a festive mini session. My Christmas jumper mini sessions are also on location and are great fun.
Teddy's mini session was slightly different in that she was gifted this from a previous client of mine. We did Teddy's session at his home when he was just a few months old. We moved around the house using the locations with the best source of daylight including the living area and the master bedroom and his nursery. It was such a pleasure to meet this gorgeous little cheeky chappie Teddy! His big brown eyes and little smile is so infectious. I absolutely loved spending time with him and I hope to see him again soon! You can check out some of his natural photos at home from his mini session here.


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TheaterWorksUSA reimagines Charlotte's Web & other children's books at BMCC
This fall, TheaterWorksUSA is offering its trademark brand of quality family entertainment in New York through a partnership with BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center to present four shows based on beloved children's books Charlotte's Web, Pete the Cat, Dragons Love Tacos & The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System.
"We are thrilled to bring New York families four of our newest productions in addition to launching ten national tours for audiences around the country. We hear from New Yorkers all the time about how they "'grew up on TheaterWorksUSA' – we want to make that a possibility for a new generation of young theater lovers!" TheaterWorksUSA Managing Director Michael Harrington
Upcoming TheaterWorksUSA New York season:
Saturday, October 6, 2018 @ 11 am
This brand-new production combines inventive staging and bluegrass music to tell E.B. White's loving story of the friendship between a pig named Wilbur and a little gray spider named Charlotte.
This treasured tale – perfect for the whole family - explores bravery, selfless love and the true meaning of friendship.
Charlotte's Web is adapted by Joseph Robinette with direction and design by Andrew Rasmussen, costume design by Tristan Raines, and original music composed and orchestrated by "Sheriff" Bob Saidenberg, Kat Minogue, and "Deputy" Robert Abrahams. Produced by special arrangement with The Dramatic Publishing Company.
Saturday, November 24 and Saturday, November 25 at 11am
When Pete the Cat gets caught rocking out after bedtime, the cat-catcher sends him to live with the Biddle family to learn his manners –– and boy are they square! But for the groovy blue cat, life is an adventure no matter where you wind up. Based on the Pete the Cat Series of Books by Kimberly and James Dean. Fun for all ages, but especially appreciated by ages 3 to 8.
Pete the Cat has book and lyrics by Sarah Hammond, music by Will Aronson, based on the Pete the Cat series of books by Kimberly and James Dean. It has original direction and choreography by Dan Knechtges with scenic design by Rob Odorisio, costume design by Jen Caprio, and orchestrations by Frank Galgano and Matt Castle.
Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 11am
Five best-selling children's books: Dragons Love Tacos. Interrupting Chicken, Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa School Days,The Dot, and Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride – have been adapted into short musicals by some of today's most exciting musical theater writers! Recommended for ages 4 to 10.
Musical adaptations by Janet Allard, Joe Kinosian, Brian Lowdermilk, Brendon Milburn, Sam Salmond, Mark Sonnenblick, Marcus Stevens and Ben Wexler. Original direction by Marcus Stevens, original choreography by Wendy Seyb, scenic design by Brian Dudkiewicz, costume design by Dustin Cross, and orchestration by Mike Pettry.
Saturday, March 23, 2019 @ 11am
Hop on The Magic School Bus for a ride with Arnold, Ralphie, Carlos, Wanda, Janet – and, of course, Ms. Frizzle and Liz - in this new musical adaptation based on the original book series published by Scholastic When the class gets lost on the way to the planetarium, Ms. Frizzle saves the day by blasting into outer space for an epic interplanetary field trip! But when rivalries both old and new threaten to tear the students apart, our young heroes must learn to pull together or risk getting forever lost in the solar system. Recommended for ages 6 to 12.
The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System has music and lyrics by Matthew Lee Robinson, book by Marshall Pailet, original direction and choreography by Connor Gallagher, scenic design by Jason Sherwood and costume design by Sarah Cubbage.
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Hema North Queensland
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Hema North Queensland
Product Overview
- Product No:
- 2806784
- Publisher:
- Hema Maps
- 9781865007267
- Edition:
- 11th Edition
- Edition Date:
- January 2014
- Size:
- 140 x 250 x 4 mm
- Weight:
- 120 g
- Format:
- Folded Map
- Scale:
- 1:750 000
- Sales Rank:
- 279 (See Top 100 in Maps)
Product Description
This completely new version of North Queensland is the ideal map for discovering the many destinations between Mackay and The Tip.
The mapping is at a touring scale of 1:750,000, with terrain shading and touring symbols giving an accurate and informative overview of the region. There is a detailed inset map for Mackay and the Whitsundays and another for the entire coastal strip between Townsville and Cooktown.
There is also tourist information on the popular coastal strip with a handy list of national park facilities and information centres as well.
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On a pleasant May evening in 2016, Fred Karash and four friends were enjoying a boat trip on Lake Erie when, without warning, they were stopped by law enforcement officers and detained for more than an hour while the officers searched Fred's 23-foot cabin cruiser.
The officers, who admitted they had no reason to suspect the boaters had violated any law or regulation, claimed authority under state law to search any boat at any time on any Pennsylvania waterway to conduct a "safety inspection."
But that sort of unfettered discretion violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unwarranted and even vindictive government incursions upon our privacy by requiring that authorities have probable cause to search someone's home or property. That safeguard, as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has recognized, "is second to none in its importance in delineating the dignity of the individual living in a free society."
After an hour of tearing through Fred's boat to check that he had all the required safety equipment on board, the officers discovered that he was short one required life jacket and issued him a $75 fine.
Rather than simply paying the citation, Fred challenged the search of his boat as unconstitutional and argued that the evidence of the missing life jacket should be suppressed. Fred represented himself through three levels of court proceedings until he finally won in front of the Pennsylvania Superior Court.
But the fight didn't end there.
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, alarmed that the Superior Court decision would curtail their unfettered discretion to search any boat on Pennsylvania's waterways at any time, asked the entire Superior Court to hear the case. The court agreed, meaning that the original decision of the three-judge panel was vacated and a nine-judge panel of the court would hear the case.
When the nine-judge panel heard argument in Fred's case on Wednesday, he was represented by the ACLU. We argued that the random, suspicionless search of Fred's boat violated his rights under the U.S. and Pennsylvania Constitutions because it did not meet any of the recognized exceptions to the requirement that police have a warrant signed by a judge before conducting a search of a person, their home, or their property.
We pointed out that the Supreme Courts of the United States and Pennsylvania have long held that random, suspicionless stops of cars are unconstitutional, unless they have a public-safety purpose and are carried out in a systematic manner with pre-established guidelines. That is why drunk-driving checkpoints in which police stop all cars to check for evidence of impairment are constitutional but randomly pulling over drivers is not.
Although the Fish and Boat Commission argued that the power to conduct random, suspicionless searches is necessary to achieve its interest in boater safety, it failed to offer any evidence that it could not meet its safety interests using means that are less intrusive on boaters' privacy, such as checkpoints.
The authority being asserted by the Fish and Boat Commission to search any boat, any time on any Pennsylvania waterway is unprecedented in its scope and undoubtedly arbitrary in its application. But it had also gone unchallenged until Fred came along.
As one judge noted during the argument, few people are going to hire a lawyer to fight a $75 fine. Fred's case conveys an important message: Protecting individual privacy against arbitrary intrusions by the state is important no matter the amount of money at stake. It is essential to liberty itself.
dirtbag usurpers
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- May 3, 2018
And by that, of course, you mean the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
- May 11, 2018
So what was the outcome of the case???
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- May 12, 2018
caroline mitchell
i'm a lawyer. i'm a lifelong boater. i've held office in the US Power Squadrons, a national boating organization. i have been unconstitutionally and illegally stopped 1/2 dozen times by Pa fish and boat officers on their unconstitutional fishing expeditions for evidence of high crimes possibly being committed by us boaters. and as a lawyer, i am ashamed to say i did not have the personal courage to challenge the unconstitutionality of these suspicion less stop and boards. maybe i couldn't spare the time for a 1/2 day magistrate's hearing. maybe i did not want to spend a 1/2 day in a de novo trial 3 hours away from my home and office. I'm glad Fred Karash had the courage to challenge this practice. Some one has to -- it's happening all over America.
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- May 12, 2018
Pleasure boat C...
Although I applaud Fred's efforts and hope he wins to set the precedence .... I am leery of this type of push and shove game which would serve to limit law enforcement abilities ( and rightfully so ).... that it May piss off a congressman to sponsor a bill or two or three that me lawfully restrict the enjoyment of boating in general .... ie. mandating operator licensure's, mandating wearing of PFD's, totally outlawing alcohol of any kind aboard any vessel not moored or at anchor
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- May 15, 2018
True safety checks should be performed heading OUT from the marina not coming back IN.
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- May 15, 2018
In many parts of South Florida, I have observed municipal, County and State WIldlife officers conduct safety checks at the ramp, many times while the boat is still on the trailer.
Much more efficient and results oriented.
- May 16, 2018
Fred. Start a Go Fund me website so we can help you take this issue on
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- May 15, 2018
So, after reading the article, we're supposed to just guess how the court ruled? Must be a part-time writer.
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- May 15, 2018
I agree stops should involve reasonable suspicion, or have some level of systematic approach, e.g. DUI checkpoints. The problem with this article is that it failed to mention that there was reasonable suspicion as the officer could not see a fishing license on at least one of the fisherman. Even though the fisherman was able to produce a license, it must be prominently displayed on the outer garment. During any boating stop, a safety check is reasonable and only takes a short amount of time, on the order of two to three minutes. Additionally, it is not unreasonable and is well supported by case law that officers can check compliance with fishing catch limits, sizes, etc. Put plainly, this case has not been adequately described in this article and I advise readers to examine the briefs and background and other case law state and federal.
Perhaps others posting have been stopped unlawfully, but this case does not exemplify such a scenario.
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- May 16, 2018


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LONG ago, at the inception of his rise to power, Vladimir V. Putin recounted a memory of growing up in the late 1950s in a Soviet communal apartment in Leningrad, as St. Petersburg was then known. For kicks, he and his friends would chase rats in the building's dismal hallways. It was what passed for a game until the time a cornered rat hurled himself at a surprised and frightened young Vladimir, who turned and ran away.
The anecdote, vivid as a nightmare, was meant to highlight the hardscrabble roots of Russia's future president, but in the years since, self-effacing recollections like these have all but disappeared from Mr. Putin's official biography.
Instead, Russians have ingested a regular diet of televised acts of leadership and machismo, from hectoring bureaucrats and oligarchs to excelling at sports, including his latest form of kicks, ice hockey, which he took up with remarkable determination when he was turning 60. It has made him a caricature of the man of action, of the benevolent but remote leader, of the steely patriot delivered by providence to restore Russia to its rightful destiny after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Yet the rat story, and its vanishing, echo a recurring theme in episodes through Mr. Putin's childhood and his formative years as a minor officer in the K.G.B., during his unexpected ascent to the presidency in the 1990s and his steady consolidation of power since 2000: namely, his insecurity and fear of displaying weakness.
Although he liked to portray himself as a young tough raised in Leningrad, he took up martial arts as a slight boy, by his own account, to protect himself from courtyard bullies.
His most searing experience in the K.G.B. came in East Germany in 1989 when the sclerotic Soviet state proved, in his mind at least, irresolute in the face of the protests that brought down the Berlin Wall and ultimately the Iron Curtain. When a crowd of protesters reached the K.G.B.'s villa in Dresden, where he was stationed, he confronted them alone and unarmed and, without any orders from Moscow, warned that those inside would open fire. In his recollections the "mob" was terrifying, though it amounted to only a few dozen people.
In the wild 1990s, when a convulsion of violence and crime accompanied the advent of capitalism in the newly renamed St. Petersburg, he once sent his daughters out of the country for their safety. During the re-election campaign for his boss in St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, he took to carrying an air pistol — "It won't save me," he told a friend, "but it makes me feel calmer."
"We demonstrated weakness," Mr. Putin said in another context, "and the weak are beaten." That was in 2004, following the terrorist siege of a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan, which ended after two and a half days with the deaths of 334 hostages, 186 of them schoolchildren. To him, the attack — which he insinuated, without evidence, had been orchestrated by Russia's enemies abroad, not the Chechen terrorists who actually carried it out — and its aftermath signified neither resilience nor resolve but utter vulnerability.
He exploited the horror of the attack to tighten his control of the political system.
The fear of displaying weakness has become a shrewd pillar of Mr. Putin's political identity. And to the dismay of the country's democrats and world leaders with whom he interacts, it has made him extraordinarily popular and powerful, even though in moments of candor and, of course, in private, officials in Russia acknowledge the overwhelming problems the country faces.
On Monday, Mr. Putin will swagger through New York, delivering a speech at the United Nations for the first time in a decade, meeting with an evidently reluctant President Obama and seeking to regain the spot on the world stage he believes he has been unjustly denied by his rivals in the West. In Russia's sycophantic official media, this is another triumph, of course, but even The Wall Street Journal's editorial writers could not resist the schoolyard bravado, saying the Russian leader was "stealing Mr. Obama's lunch money."
Andrei Kolesnikov of the Carnegie Moscow Center recently noted that "rising from one's knees" was a "distinctively Russian metaphor" for restoring dignity and national pride. And on their knees is where many Russians believe they spent the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union — until Mr. Putin single-handedly wrenched them back to their feet.
What Mr. Putin has succeeded in doing is persuading Russians that the hardships they now face — many of them a result of his own decisions — are evidence of efforts by Russia's enemies to keep the nation weak.
"Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, many citizens felt humiliated by defeat in the Cold War," Mr. Kolesnikov wrote in an essay published on the center's website. The annexation of Crimea in 2014, the defiance of Western sanctions, and now even the exertion of Russian military power in Syria are all antidotes to the country's ills. "These past humiliations have been obliterated by the construction of a besieged fortress within the country's expanded borders."
He concluded, as many have, that Mr. Putin's tactics have been strong — often compared to his training in judo — but that he lacked a strategy. A year and a half after the occupation and annexation of Crimea, Mr. Putin has never been as isolated politically and diplomatically. He has few foreign allies and faces a withering economy at home, battered by the low price of oil and economic sanctions imposed in retaliation for the Kremlin's involvement in the war in eastern Ukraine.
The latest intervention in Syria, more than four years after the war there began, signals a growing desperation about the fate of Bashar al-Assad's government — and the Kremlin's own concerns about what its fall might mean. And in part it may be a move to distract attention from Russia's disastrous intervention in eastern Ukraine and looming questions over its culpability in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July 2014, which killed 298 people.
And yet as he has always done, he has responded to weakness by daringly ignoring it, even defying it. Throughout his 15 years at the center of Russian politics it has worked.


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So, after sourcing maintenance software vendor sites, going through customer reviews, having chosen a vendor, and negotiated the acquisition of your new CMMS – what next? The truth is, you're only getting started. The following are the eight steps to take to ensure that your maintenance software implementation will be flawless:
1. Define your expectations for the new software
You'll need to determine what the purpose of the new maintenance software is going to be. Is it to provide preventive or corrective maintenance? Once you identify the goals that you expect your new software to reach, you'll be able to know when it's succeeding and failing to meet those expectations.
2. Outline the project scope
To ensure the overall success of the new management software, you must first analyse the existing system(s). The two critical things to include the current maintenance contracts and data sources. Having them in mind will enable you to pick an ideal software that'll address all your present and future needs.
3. Migrate data to the new system
This step involves capturing the existing data and uploading it to the new system. Be sure to confirm that the vendor provides some guidance and tools that'll facilitate this process. Also, ensure that the data migration tool they offer can migrate large and different types of data.
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Almost everything has budded out — everything but the pecans who are always fashionably late.
Bud burst in spring fills me with a joy that one of my favorite poets describes best:
Always it happens when we are not there–
The tree leaps up alive into the air,
Small open parasols of Chinese green
Wave on each twig. But who has ever seen
The latch sprung, the bud as it burst?
Spring always manages to get there first.
Lovers of wind, who will have been aware
Of a faint stirring in the empty air,
Look up one day through a dissolving screen
To find no star, but this multiplied green,
Shadow on shadow, singing sweet and clear.
Listen, lovers of wind, the leaves are here!
– May Sarton
Found this bit of graffiti nearby. A spring paint-burst. Totally cosmic, dude. haha
New esperanza (Tecoma stans) leaves. We didn't have a freeze for several years so it grew to be about 10 feet tall but this year it only seems to be growing from the ground. When I found out that esperanza is the Spanish word for hope I thought it was a well named plant. It blooms just when the heat becomes oppressive and it is nearly impossible to lovingly/accidentally kill.
Some Virginia creeper growing on a nearby fence. The leaves in spring are soft and must make an excellent salad for caterpillars.
A bad picture of new rough leaved dogwood leaves. This is one of my favorite all time plants. I even ordered one from a nursery before I realized the birds had already planted several in various places on the property. Behind it you can see the new silver leaves of the Russian olive.
Unfortunately, the birds once upon a time planted this wild plant, too:
My neighbor's poison ivy vine. It is 15 feet tall and a couple of years ago it nearly killed me. Really.
This is another bird planting. Some yaupon holly, dewberry, some unknown things and a mulberry that I realize I am supposed to destroy but just look at the orange color of the bark when it rains. It is really crowded in there with everything conspiring to squeeze out one of the pecan trees but it provides some nice cover and habitat for wildlife.
Mulberry leaves. You can kind of see the catkins. It looks like it will be a great year for mulberry fruit. We should see a lot of mockingbirds visiting. If I am really quick we might be able to scavenge a bit for muffins.
And last …
some color from a humanly introduced fringe flower and sage.


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RPM #12: Bale Defoe
Mixing the twelfth installment of the Robotic Peacock Mix (RPM) series is Detroit-based DJ/producer Ryan Thomas, known musically as Bale Defoe. Since returning from grad school in New York City late last year, Bale Defoe has been piquing interest in the Detroit music scene. His recent mix series, Grown Folks Business, has put his beat dexterity, refined song selections and crisp music productions on full display. As the music blog Motor City Ragers articulately states, "Bale Defoe… will leave no stone unturned searching for the next record to get your feet moving." The Rager Haus artist is gearing up for a busy fall as he prepares to release a couple of EPs and a collaborative side project with fellow Rager Haus artist, Ryan McCray. We were thrilled to catch up with him and chat about his influences, collaborative process, upcoming releases, and where he came up with his name. Enjoy the mix!
RP: Hi Ryan, thanks for meeting with us today! So how did you get into dance music?
BD: I'm originally from Romulus – where the Detroit airport is – and Belleville is down the street (where Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May, Juan Atkins went to school) so some of that techno bled into Romulus a bit and then my parents always had very eclectic taste. Late high school is when my love for house music was solidified and then it just took off. I've always been more into the deep house stuff because the soul/jazz R-n-B influences are what I love more than anything.
When did you decide you wanted to start pursuing music and DJing?
I played saxophone and trombone when I was young but my pursuit of music production really started when I was 16/17 years old. I remember it was around the holidays and my brother was wondering why I didn't do too much music anymore so we went to Guitar Center and he bought me a keyboard and Fruity Loops. For the next year or so I dabbled in production but didn't do it too seriously. My sophomore year of college at CMU I went out and bought Maschine and put together my own studio set-up. That's when I started taking music production more seriously and then 3 years ago is when I really started putting stuff out and making mixes.
So where's the name Bale Defoe from? How did you come up with it?
I'm a huge soccer fan and my favorite team is Tottenham Hotspur. One of my favorite players, Gareth Bale, used to play for them (he now plays for Real Madrid) so I basically used his surname and also Jermain Defoe (another soccer player who also used to play for Tottenham) and put their last names together. So people either get it right away or they ask where I came up with the name, haha.
How would you describe your music style?
Well my biggest influence in the DJ world would be A-Trak because he has no musical boundaries. I appreciate the fact that he respects the music scene as a whole and will incorporate different genres in his sets so I try to always listen to different kinds of music and then pull samples from everything. I also enjoy the Fool's Gold label and that's what I love about the direction Rager Haus is moving in—it's incorporating lots of genres— hip hop, R-n-B, electronic music and Fool's Gold is the same way. A lot of my favorite artists— The Cool Kids, Treasure Fingers —have released music on that label.
Speaking of Rager Haus, you and Ryan McCray, another artist on the label who you collaborate with under the guise as BlackBass, just released a track this week called "Lemme See." Tell us about that collaborative creative process.
Ryan Mccray is my partner in crime in terms of music. He's the type of person where we'll finish a song, he'll send it to me , we'll talk about it and then he'll release it on Soundcloud right away. And I'll sit on music continuously so we're kind of opposites that way. But in the studio, we are symbiotic. Usually we're very improvisational and we use whatever works in that moment. For the samples on "Ova Deez," (editor's note: this song is unreleased but can be heard on Grown Folks Business Vol 2) we were sitting in the studio with the structure of the song and I just pulled up some notes on my iPhone and Ryan was tweaking different parts on the track and I was just throwing around different ideas I wrote down until he's like, "Alright! That's the one."
Sounds like a very organic process. In addition to "Lemme See," any other upcoming releases our readers should know about?
My mix series, Grown Folks Business, has a lot of original tracks on it — there's a solid 18 months of studio work on there. Now I'm working with Rager Haus to put together a plan to release it in physical format. Ryan and I are working on putting out a solid 5 or 6 track EP in the fall. And I'll be rounding out the year with a couple of solo releases.
Tell us a little bit about the mix you made for us.
It was a little bit of a departure from what I've been doing with Grown Folks Business because I was incorporating a lot of originals into those mixes but in this mix I only included one original and the rest are from different artists. It's probably one of the weirder mixes and it's not as high tempo as most of them. I combed thru a lot of stuff I've gotten over the last 3 years…a lot of UK artists like Jimpster and stuff like that. Also, I'm a huge Detroit Swindle fan and the run they've been on for the past 3-4 years is, in my opinion, in connection with my music library, the greatest run I've seen in my lifetime in terms of production and even just their growth since their first EP is tremendous. It's just incredible to see an artist grow so much. So many people don't give electronic music a lot of credit in regards to what goes into it and the creativity portion so I really try to display that with a lot of the deeper stuff and I hope that it comes through that way.
Bale Defoe – Grief
Max Graef – Itzehoe
Detroit Swindle – Figure of Speech
Jimpster, Paxton Fettel – She's Alright (Jimpster Remix)
Fritz Wetnik – Goose
thatmanmonkz ft. Dnae – Be With Me
Two Deep – Be Right
Jessie Ware – Sweet Talk (Urulu Works For Me Dub)
Session Victim – Large Processor
Moderat – Bad Kingdom (DJ Koze Remix)
Jesper Ryom – End Title (Art Of Tones Remix)
6th Borough Project – Back To Me
Tiger & Woods – Deflowered
Jack J – Thirstin
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