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How does Network Inspector protect my network?
Network Inspector scans your current network for vulnerabilities and security issues that may expose your sensitive private data, or leave the devices on your network vulnerable to attacks. In addition, Network Inspector shows which devices are currently connected to your home network, so you can see if anyone is using your network without your consent.
For a list of the most common Network Inspector detections and links to articles that explain how to resolve these issues, refer to the following section in this article:
What issues and vulnerabilities does Network Inspector detect?
Below is a list of some of the most common issues that Network Inspector may detect when you scan your home network. Click any of the links below to learn more about the vulnerability and the available options for how to resolve it.
- Affected by Misfortune Cookie vulnerability
- Attacked by DoublePulsar
- Device is accessible from the internet
- Device is vulnerable to attacks
- DNS hijack found
- No Wi-Fi password
- Remote Desktop vulnerability found
- Rom-0 vulnerability found
- ShellShock vulnerability found
- Vulnerable to "WannaCry / DoublePulsar" attack
- Weak or default password
- Weak Wi-Fi password
- Weak Wi-Fi security
Does Network Inspector only scan wireless networks?
No. Network Inspector is designed to scan both wireless (Wi-Fi) and wired networks.
How can I keep my home Wi-Fi network secure?
Refer to the tips below:
- Allow Network Inspector to scan all devices on a home network to enable automatic scans and ensure your network is secure.
- Run regular automatic scans of your home network to check for vulnerabilities and security issues.
- Enable Ask me to scan new networks under the Settings tab. This feature prompts you to scan a new network when you join it for the first time.
- Enable Check devices for weak passwords under the Settings tab. This feature regularly inspects your passwords to ensure they are strong and secure.
- Protect your home Wi-Fi network with a strong password. We recommend following the guidelines:
- The password should contain at least 10 characters, but ideally 12 or more. The more characters you use, the more secure your password is.
- The password should not be used to access any other accounts or services.
- The safest passwords are phrases rather than single words. Select a phrase that is memorable for you, but not easily predictable.
- Rename your network if it uses a default network name (or SSID) that identifies the make of your router (for example, Linksys or NETGEAR). Identifying the make of your router makes it easier for attackers to access and misuse your network.
Is it safe to connect to public Wi-Fi networks?
Using a public Wi-Fi network (such as in an airport or cafe) is generally less secure than using a private Wi-Fi network (such as your home network) for the following reasons:
- Data that you send and receive over public Wi-Fi networks is not usually encrypted using a strong method of encryption. When your internet traffic is not properly encrypted, it can be seen by anyone who is connected to the network.
- Attackers can set up fake public Wi-Fi networks that appear legitimate. If you connect to a fake network, the attacker can intercept any data that you send and receive over the network.
- Attackers can misuse unsecured public Wi-Fi networks to launch Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks. When you are a victim of a MitM attack, your device is tricked into communicating with another device that is controlled by the attacker. This allows the attacker to intercept any data that you send and receive over the network.
To protect your privacy and security on public Wi-Fi networks, we recommend the following:
- Always scan public Wi-Fi networks using Network Inspector immediately after connecting. For instructions, refer to the following article:
- Never make payments, access online banking, or sign in to accounts that contain sensitive personal information while you are using public Wi-Fi unless you are connected via a Virtual Private Network (VPN).
Settings and Usage
How do I run a Network Inspector scan?
For detailed instructions on how to run a Network Inspector scan and manage any detected vulnerabilities, refer to the following article:
Can I configure Network Inspector to run scans automatically?
Network Inspector can automatically run a scan when you connect to a home network and all connected devices.
To enable this feature, follow the steps below:
- Open Avast One, click Explore ▸ Network Inspector ▸ Open Network Inspector.
- Select the Settings tab.
- Tick Automatically rescan home networks and connected devices.
Network Inspector now runs automatic scans according to your preferences.
How can I ensure that Network Inspector warns me about new devices connecting to my network?
If you have the paid version of Avast One, you can configure Network Inspector to monitor your network. This means you are notified each time a new device connects to your network, which ensures you are always aware about any potential intruders who may be misusing your network.
For detailed instructions, refer to the following article:
Is Network Inspector a free feature?
Yes. Network Inspector is a free feature available in both paid and free versions of Avast One.
Why does Network Inspector advise me to use a VPN?
When you connect to the internet via a private network (such as your home network), any data that you send and receive over the network is normally protected using a strong method of encryption. Encryption works by scrambling the data so that it cannot be read by others. However, when you use a public Wi-Fi network (such as in an airport or cafe), your data is often not properly encrypted. Because of this, attackers use public Wi-Fi networks to intercept sensitive personal information, such as login credentials, payment card details, and more.
Network Inspector always advises you to use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) while you are connected to a public Wi-Fi network, regardless of whether any specific issues are detected during a scan. This is because when you use a VPN, your data is properly encrypted and your online activity remains private, even on an unsecured network. Both paid and free versions of Avast One have access to VPN Secure Connection. However, the free version of Avast One has limited access. If you don't already have the paid version of Avast One, Network Inspector may show an offer to Upgrade to Avast One Premium to gain unlimited access to VPN Secure Connection.
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- Avast One 23.x for Mac
- Microsoft Windows 11 Home / Pro / Enterprise / Education
- Microsoft Windows 10 Home / Pro / Enterprise / Education - 32 / 64-bit
- Microsoft Windows 8.1 / Pro / Enterprise - 32 / 64-bit
- Microsoft Windows 8 / Pro / Enterprise - 32 / 64-bit
- Microsoft Windows 7 Home Basic / Home Premium / Professional / Enterprise / Ultimate - Service Pack 1 with Convenient Rollup Update, 32 / 64-bit
- Apple macOS 14.x (Sonoma)
- Apple macOS 13.x (Ventura)
- Apple macOS 12.x (Monterey)
- Apple macOS 11.x (Big Sur)
- Apple macOS 10.15.x (Catalina)
- Apple macOS 10.14.x (Mojave)
- Apple macOS 10.13.x (High Sierra)
- Apple macOS 10.12.x (Sierra)
- Apple Mac OS X 10.11.x (El Capitan)
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Hot Tub Health Benefits | What Can A Hot Tub Do For Your Health?
Hot Tubs do more than help you relax and unwind at the end of a long day. They also deliver a number of benefits for your health and your body. Immersion in warm water has always carried therapeutic benefits and hot tubs are designed to bring healing to tired and sore muscles and joints as well as ease body aches and pains.
It's been proven that soaking in a hot tub regularly can uplift your mood, relieve stress, help you to relax and sleep better, and improve your general well being. Here are some more hot tub health benefits:
Pain Relief:
Warm water has been used for pain relief for centuries. Heat opens up the blood vessels allowing increased circulation of blood, oxygen, and nutrients to the parts of your body that need them most. This along with the gentle hydro massage from the jets make hot tubs a potent source of relief from headaches, back pain, shoulder and neck pain, and other common chronic aches.
Sore Muscles:
The warm water in hot tubs helps to relieve sore muscles by improving circulation and the flow of oxygen through the body. The heat from the hot tub also helps tight muscles to relax and become less stiff, reducing pain and discomfort while increasing flexibility. Hot tub jets also deliver a soothing massage to bring your body the relaxation it really needs.
Tender and aching joints
Hot tubs work great for joint pain because of the effect of water buoyancy. When you soak in a hot tub, the effects of gravity on your joints are greatly reduced as the water takes the weight off your joints. The result is less stress on your joints, improved circulation, and reduction in swelling and inflammation. Thus hot tubs bring relief to people suffering from chronic joint pain, especially those with arthritis and fibromyalgia.
Hydromassage from the pressure jets and the heat from the warm water combine to make hot tubs great for stress relief. Hydrotherapy has been scientifically proven to help muscles relax, improve circulation, and uplift moods, giving you an overall sense of relaxation and improving your health. Consider your hot tub your personal stress and anxiety buster.
Hot Tubs help you sleep better because they ease tense muscles and relieve aches. The improved blood circulation you get from soaking in a hot tub leaves you feeling more relaxed and in a better mood. You'll find it easier to fall asleep and sleep for longer. Good sleep is important for your mental health and overall wellbeing.
Investing in a hot tub is one of the best lifestyle decisions you can make. Hot tub health benefits are both physical and mental and can even help to improve your relationships. Start living the life you deserve today. Talk to one of our hot tub specialists or browse our buyer guide to find the hot tub that is right for you.


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Interest in the controversial school choice option known as the parent trigger has declined sharply among state lawmakers this year, even as legislators in a number of states forge ahead on tax-credit scholarships and other school choice alternatives.
In 2010, California became the first state to pass a law allowing parents to spark a transformation of a low-performing school. In addition, Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, and Texas have passed some version of that option, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. But no state has enacted a new parent-trigger law since 2012, the same year that a Hollywood film based on the policy, "Won't Back Down," was released.
Although 20 states considered trigger bills in 2013, according to the NCSL, the number dropped to 13 this year; seven of those proposals were holdovers that failed to gain traction the year before and had yet to receive a committee hearing this year, as of last week. Two of the recent bills—in California and Louisiana—would simply amend existing parent-trigger laws.
While lawmakers in Alaska, Florida, and Kansas this year have created or expanded a variety of other school choice programs, parents in California remain the only ones to actually have used the parent trigger to restructure a struggling school.
"Even for the states that have adopted the policy, it's not really having the effect the proponents hoped that it would," said Josh Cunningham, a policy specialist at the NCSL who tracks school choice legislation. From the perspective of many state lawmakers, expanding simpler, less controversial school choice programs might be the more appealing course, he added.
Parent-trigger advocates, however, remain optimistic about its broader popularity. States that have parent-trigger policies on the books account for about one-quarter of all public school enrollment in the country, noted Gabe Rose, the deputy director of Parent Revolution, a Los Angeles-based group that supports the policies and helps parents and other groups seeking to use them.
"I think that's a pretty remarkable growth trajectory," Mr. Rose said. "But this is going to take some time."
Third Time Not the Charm
Parent-trigger laws vary in important ways from state to state. But generally, they allow a majority of parents, if a school is seen as low-performing in some way, to officially petition for that school to be converted into a charter or undergo some other "turnaround" process.
The parent-trigger proposals that have made the most progress so far this year were in Tennessee, but companion bills in the House and Senate ultimately failed by the time the state legislature adjourned April 17.
The number of states considering parent-trigger legislation has dipped significantly from 2013 to 2014, and of the bills being considered this year many are holdovers from last year's legislative sessions. California remains the only state where parents have actually used the parent-trigger process.
SOURCE: National Conference of State Legislatures
New proposals have been introduced this year in Illinois, Kentucky, and New Jersey, while there are holdover bills from last year in states such as Georgia, New York, and South Carolina.
In Florida, meanwhile, after two straight years of unsuccessful and controversial campaigns to pass parent-trigger legislation in 2012 and 2013, no state legislator introduced a trigger bill for the 2014 session, which ended May 2. In the past two years, the Florida bills drew intense opposition from teachers' unions and other advocacy groups.
"The legislature was pretty clear to us that they'd spoken twice on the issue, and there wasn't an interest in sponsoring it," said Jaryn Emhof, a spokeswoman for the Foundation for Florida's Future, a Tallahassee-based group led by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush that is supportive of trigger laws. "Issues rise and fall."
Those who fought the parent trigger in the state, meanwhile, believe that what's forced Florida powerbrokers to back away from the idea is supposedly the driving force behind the idea: parent power.
"It's clear evidence that there is memory with the public, that they don't like to be schemed and scammed, and they're watching," said Kathleen Oropeza, a founder of Fund Education Now, an Orlando-based group opposed to parent-trigger laws, who cited the opposition to the idea by the Florida PTA and other prominent groups as evidence that parents actually don't like the idea.
Asking More of Parents
Mr. Cunningham of the NCSL noted that how parents choose to use the parent trigger can also affect how much controversy it raises. At Weigand Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles, he said, the process was used to remove a principal, a move that hasn't generated the same level of divisiveness as other efforts to convert traditional public schools to charters using trigger policies.
The fear of a legal challenge might also hamstring desires to use them. The charter-conversion process for Desert Trails Elementary, in Adelanto, Calif., involved a court battle between parents and Adelanto district officials over the validity of signatures on the parent-trigger petition.
And trigger laws, even after they're signed into law, require political advocacy from parents in order to be used in a way that other types of school choice programs don't.
The issue of who really drives parent-trigger advocacy also remains contentious.
Ms. Oropeza said parents are now highly attuned to the parent trigger's close ties to the charter-school-management industry, which she views as one of many policies that ultimately sap the power of traditional public schools.
But Mr. Rose of Parent Revolution said that view is way off the mark. He said that when Tennessee was considering parent-trigger legislation this year, one of the local advocates in favor of the bill was the vice president of the Memphis PTA, Helen Collins (who is also a member of Parent Revolution). And he also pointed to the District Parent Coordinating Council of Buffalo, in New York state, which has supported the parent trigger.
"It's their communities and their states. We're here to support them," Mr. Rose said.
Expanding Choice
Mr. Rose also rejected the idea that school choice expansion has been a zero-sum game recently, with parent-trigger expansion losing out to tax-credit scholarships and vouchers.
Still, the expansion of some school choice options continues in a number of states even as tangible progress on the parent trigger remains in low gear.
In their most recent session, Florida lawmakers approved an expansion of the state's long-standing Tax Credit Scholarship Program. Beginning in the 2016-17 school year, students from households with incomes of up to 260 percent of the federal poverty line (or about $62,000 for a family of four) will become eligible for partial scholarships. Right now, the maximum household-income level for scholarship eligibility in Florida is 185 percent of the federal poverty line, or just over $44,000 for a family of four.
Florida legislators also approved a new program modeled on the Education Savings Accounts in Arizona. The state's new Personal Learning Scholarship Account Program, if it is signed by Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, would allow parents of students with special needs to be reimbursed for private school tuition as well as curriculum, online learning, and occupational therapy services.
Elsewhere, as part of a deal to alter school finance signed this year by Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, lawmakers approved a $10 million tax-credit scholarship program. And a bill in Alaska awaiting the approval of Gov. Sean Parnell, a Republican, would institute a new tax-credit scholarship specifically directed at students in dual-credit courses to cover room and board at postsecondary institutions, transportation costs, and tuition and textbook fees.
The new Alaska program is an example of the "tremendous level of innovation" for choice policies, said Leslie Hiner, the vice president of programs and state relations at the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, an Indianapolis-based group.
Because of the relative complexity of parent-trigger bills and what they ask of parents, Ms. Hiner said, "I think it just might take them a little bit more time to develop the idea."


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Amazon Request List
August 28th, 2008 Brian HerzogIt seems like I learn of a new web tool or website feature every day.
A patron had missed seeing Hellboy II in theaters, and asked to be placed on hold for on the DVD. Since it's not out yet, or even close to being out yet, I told him I couldn't place a hold in our catalog.
The next obvious question is when is the DVD coming out. Usually I use the "DVD Details" section of IMDB.com for that, but in this case they didn't have the information. So I tried Amazon, and this is where I learned something new.
They didn't have a release date either, but they did have a record for it - and it let people add themselves to the list so they'll be notified when it is available. Amazon calls this their "1st To Know" notification service, which I thought it a great idea.
I didn't go through the steps, but I'm guessing that putting yourself on the list is also committing to buy a copy. But even still, I like that they are flexible enough to accommodate anticipated need.
Which is unlike most library systems. In my library's catalog, patrons can place holds on items as soon as we put an "on order" record in the catalog, but we try not to put in on order records too far ahead of time.
On order records for books aren't too bad, but movies are a whole different story.
Because we have different records for wide screen and full screen and director's cut and 10th anniversary re-releases and every other possible iteration, putting a record in too early means we might end up with holds for something we can't actually get. Or, if we buy the wide screen release and every other library in my consortium buys the full screen version, patrons with holds on the wide screen will have to wait for their turn, even if they don't care if they get the wide or full screen version.
Being able to get an idea of demand early on would help in knowing how many copies the library should buy, but this whole version thing is something we haven't found a good fix for yet. Amazon selling DVDs is certainly different than a library loaning DVDs, but there has got to be something we can learn from their model to serve library patrons better.


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The Anthony C Clarke Award: the 2018 EAMT best thesis award
The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT, http://www.eamt.org) is an organization that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology.
The EAMT invites entries for the Anthony C Clarke award: the fifth EAMT Best Thesis Award, for a PhD or equivalent thesis on a topic related to machine translation.
Researchers who
- have completed a PhD (or equivalent) thesis on a relevant topic in a European, Northern African[1] or Middle Eastern[2] institution within calendar year 2018 and
- have not previously won another international award for that thesis,
The submissions will be judged by a panel of experts who will be specifically appointed as part of the EAMT 2018 programme committee and which will be ratified by the Executive Board of the EAMT.
Selection criteria
Each thesis will be judged according to how challenging the problem was, to how relevant the results are for machine translation as a field, and to the strength of their impact in terms of scientific publications.
The scope of the thesis need not be confined to a technical area, and applications are also invited from students who carried out their research into commercial and management aspects of machine translation.
Possible areas of research include:
- development of machine translation or advanced computer-assisted translation: methods, software or resources
- machine translation for less-resourced languages
- the use of these systems in professional environments (freelance translators, translation agencies, localisation, etc.)
- the increasing impact of machine translation on non-professional Internet users and its impact in communications, social networking, etc.
- spoken language translation
- the integration of machine translation and translation memory systems
- the integration of machine translation software in larger IT applications
- the evaluation of machine translation systems in real tasks such as those above
- the cross-fertilisation between machine translation and other language technologies
The winner will be announced at the same time as accepted papers for the MT Summit XVII: the 17th Machine Translation Summit (Dublin, Ireland, Aug 19–23, 2019), and will receive a prize of €500, together with an inscribed certificate. The recipient of the award will be required to briefly present their research at MT Summit XVII. In order to facilitate this, the EAMT will waive the winner's registration costs, and will make available a travel bursary of €200 to enable the recipient of the award to attend the said conference. The prize includes complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2019 and 2020.
Candidates will submit using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2019 (Submission type: Thesis Award), a single PDF file containing, in this order:
- a 2-page summary of your thesis in English, containing:
- your full contact details,
- the name and contact details of your supervisor(s),
- a copy of your CV in English (at most one page, plus a complete list of publications directly related to the thesis)
- submission form explaining how your thesis fulfills the selection criteria
- an electronic copy of your thesis
- optionally, an appendix with any other relevant information on the thesis
By submitting their work, authors
- agree that, in case they are granted the award, any subsequently published version of the thesis should carry the citation "Winner of the 2018 European Association for Machine Translation Best Thesis Award" and
- acknowledge the right of the EAMT to publicize the granting of the award.
Closing date
The closing date for submissions will be the same as the deadline for research papers at MT Summit XVII: April 12th, 2019.
[1] Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia.
[2] Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.


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As an athlete, you must perform at your peak every single day. To reach optimal performance, your fuels sources must be top quality. You also have different nutritional needs. Your daily nutrition must support all of the energy that your body gives out. Consuming the right type of nutrients at the right time can make or break performance and energy. Whether you participate in recreational exercise, an endurance sport, or in building lean body mass, the correct timing of nutrient intake can increase your stamina and help you obtain faster results.
Athletes have created anecdotes which lead them to showcase bizarre dietary habits as they keep looking for the competitive edge. Athletes are presumed by many to be the epitome of physical health and their nutritional status is presumed to be superior to the non-athletic population. Smart sports nutrition has a goal of decreasing injuries, increasing reaction time, enhancing muscle power, boosting strength and endurance, increasing concentration and, of course, increasing enjoyment. Food is the fuel to help obtain this goal. The current dietary recommendations for athletes are similar to the recommendations for the general population.
Metabolism, in scientific terms, is the sum of the chemical reactions in the cells of our bodies that maintain life. When we say metabolism, we often mean metabolic rate which can be quantified as "calories burned" or "energy expended."
Understanding metabolism and having a sense of your own metabolic needs can help you find an approach to performance. Improved performance is based on the number of muscle fibers contracted at one time. Greater energy output equates with greater performance. The amount and type of energy transferred from food will tell the muscle how much to contract. When we ask our bodies to do more work, we are essentially asking it to increase its metabolism. The demand for energy causes the body to break down energy stores in the form of carbohydrates and fat.
Fat is an adequate energy source in the body. It is the preferred fuel for lower intensity level activities such as sleeping and eating, but it is also used for endurance activities such as marathons or long-distance cycling. Well-trained muscles are optimum fat burners; untrained muscles rely on glycogen. Greater glycogen use results in quick fatigue.
Using fats for energy spares glycogen, therefore increasing an athlete's stamina. Cells begin to utilize fat approximately 20 minutes into a workout.
Carbohydrates are the preferred energy source for all activities in the body. Having adequate carbohydrate stores allows for greater blood sugar regulation preventing early exercise fatigue. Exhaustion is reached quickly if an athlete is following a low carbohydrate diet (<5 percent carb intake). Therefore, the type of activity that an athlete is performing can determine the percentage of carbohydrate intake daily.


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Miko Mole features charismatic Miko with a passion for shiny gems, who is on a mission to become master thief by collecting enough diamonds on each level to open its exit to progress. It contains 6 challenging environments with 40 levels per world for an impressive 240 levels total. Dig down, dig deep, and uncover precious gems for Miko, but be careful, as each level requires quick reflexes and cunning strategy to avoid the many obstacles, surprises, traps and tricky puzzles, not to mention the many enemies such as bats, skunks and rats. When you get stuck, certain objects of the environment can be manipulated granting access to otherwise inaccessible areas.
Miko Mole is a lot of fun with its stealth-action gameplay and mind-bending puzzles. The ability to grab and move objects, and the ability to blow-up stuff is not just insanely cool it is a recipe for success. Miko Mole is a great arcade puzzler suitable to players of all ages and experience levels.


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Since 1999, the Afrobarometer has conducted more than 105,000 interviews to collect data on the attitudes and behaviors of ordinary Africans in reforming polities and economies across the continent. One of the project's key goals has been to open a window onto how average citizens understand their political, social and economic milieu. While we have often had a great deal of information on the attitudes and behaviors of African elites, the orientations of the general public towards political and economic change have, to a considerable extent, been unknown, undervalued and ignored.
In Round 4, we have added new questions that examine attitudes toward and assessments of local government and traditional leaders in greater depth, expanded the section on government accountability, and incorporated the new topic of cosmopolitanism and internationalperspectives.
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Flutronix & Friends Saturday, June 2 at 9 PM, Free Candy, Brooklyn, NY
Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull are Flutronix,
They tell AfriClassical:
collaborative music series, Flutronix and Friends, is back
2nd Doors
Open at 9pm
Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY
to Clinton-Washington. 2, 3 to Eastern Parkway)"
CharlotteObserver.com: Charlotte Civic Orchestra seeks 'African-American church' for 'tribute to the likes of William Grant Still'
[William Grant Still (Photo is the sole property of William Grant Still Music, and is used with permission]
The Charlotte Observer
Geoffrey Whithead: Has fun, will travel
This Charlotte Civic Orchestra conductor spreads the joys of the classics around town
By Lawrence Toppman
Posted: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Geoffrey Whithead: Has fun, will travel
By Lawrence Toppman
Posted: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
"You would expect a guy who came to Charlotte from Australia (via Indiana) to be cosmopolitan. You'd also expect a pedagogue who wrote a book called "A College Level Tuba Curriculum" to be knowledgeable. And you'd expect a fellow who likes to buy the complete recorded works of composers on CD – even composers he doesn't especially enjoy – to be passionate about the music he plays and conducts. You'd be right on all three counts."
"Most maestros wouldn't be expected to chase around the city looking for venues, either, but that's part of Whitehead's job: He's still searching for an African-American church to hold the fall 2012 concert, a tribute to the likes of William Grant Still."
[William Grant Still (1895-1978) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a comprehensive Works List by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma,
Morgan Museum Presents The Chamber Orchestra of New York 'From Olden Venice,' Kelly Hall-Tompkins, Soloist, May 31, 7:30 PM
The Morgan Museum
Lehrman Hall
The Chamber Orchestra of New York
"From Olden Venice" Concert
Vivaldi "Tempesta di mare" Concerto
Thursday May 31 at 7:30pm
(Almost Sold Out- Fewer than 5 tickets remaining)
Sedalia Democrat: 'Scott Joplin selected for Missouri Music Hall of Fame'
Bob Satnan
Sedalia Democrat
Bob Satnan
Sedalia Democrat
"Joplin will be
inducted into the Missouri Music Hall of Fame in August." "Robert
Schulz, president of the Missouri Music Hall of Fame, said he is
pleased about Joplin's induction into the 2-year-old hall." "The
Missouri Music Hall of Fame is based in St. Joseph and is a nonprofit
group under the umbrella of the St. Joseph Music Foundation."
induction will be part of the third annual Joestock music festival
Aug. 31 in St. Joseph. Greg Filardo, a St. Joseph-area collector who
was featured on an episode of "American Pickers," owns piano
rolls that were recorded by Joplin; a player piano will be brought
out to play them during the ceremony." [Scott Joplin (c.1867-1917) is featured at AfriClassical.com]
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
'Pilgrim Voices' Directed by Fred Onovwerosuoke With Will Robinson & Sons of Africa Ensemble 10:30 AM June 3, St. Louis, MO
Dr. Fred
Onovwerosuoke is composer of AFRO CARIBBEAN
MASS for
Mixed Choir, Soloist and Piano, published by African Music Publishers of St. Louis, Missouri in 2011. He will direct Pilgrim Voices at Pilgrim Congregational Church UCC, whose Pastor is Rev. Dr. Allen Grothe. The service will be held at 10:30 a.m., Sunday, June 3, 2012 at 826 Union Blvd., St. Louis, MO.
Music of Adolphus Hailstork on CD 'An American Port of Call' Recorded by Virginia Symphony, Released Internationally by Naxos
Virginia Symphony Announces International Recording Release on Naxos
Music by Local Composer Adolphus Hailstork Featured
VIRGINIA (May 29, 2012) -
The Virginia Symphony is pleased to announce the international
release of a new recording featuring the music of Virginia composer Adolphus Hailstork. The CD, titled
An American Port of Call, was recorded live at the L. Douglas
Wilder Performing Arts Center on May 18, 2011. For the live recording,
the Virginia Symphony, led by JoAnn Falletta, was joined by the Virginia
Symphony Chorus and baritone, Kevin Deas for
performances of five works by Hailstork: his Symphony No. 1, Three Spirituals,
An American Port of Call, Fanfare on Amazing Grace and Whitman's Journey, Part One: Launch Out on Endless Seas.
"It is an honor for any American composer to have an entire disc
released devoted to his/her music, especially by an orchestra
as fine as our own Virginia Symphony Orchestra," stated Hailstork. "I
am truly grateful to JoAnn Falletta, the musicians of VSO, and Naxos."
The recording will be distributed on the Naxos label, the world's leading classical music recording group."
An American Port of Call is the Virginia Symphony's first international recording release, and the project, a co-presentation
with the Virginia Arts Festival, was funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. "The Virginia Symphony is extraordinarily proud to consider Dr.
Adolphus Hailstork
a brilliant and beloved part of our family, and our community," stated
Falletta. "Internationally renowned as a composer and played by
musicians across the globe, Dolph has written many of his pieces for the
Virginia Symphony, and it has been our privilege
to premier a number of his works. We are very happy that our first
recording on the international Naxos label is a CD of his music."
composer Adolphus Hailstork is a vibrant communicator whose music
speaks directly and subtly. His Symphony No. 1 was commissioned
for festival performance and is imbued with the engaging, lyrical and
vivid qualities of which he is a master.
The Three Spirituals are richly affecting orchestral settings originally written for pipe organ.
Amazing Grace: Fanfare is nobly conceived and An American Port of Call,
written for the Virginia Symphony, evokes the bustle inspired by Norfolk, Virginia.
Whitman's Journey is a hymn of hope for those setting out on 'the seas of life'.
[Adolphus C. Hailstork (b. 1941) is featured at AfriClassical.com]
Eric Conway, Director, Morgan State University Choir: 'Never have we had such an exchange in culture as here in Brazil!'
Dr. Eric Conway, Director, Morgan State University Choir, www.MSUChoir.org, writes from Brazil:Unfortunately, we have come to our last day in Brazil.Yesterday, we performed an outreach concert for the Rochina School in the absolute poorest area of Rio. The concert was held in a local area church. Their school choir opened up our concert. After we sang our portion of the program, we all joined forces again for that popular Brazilian American gospel selection, Oh Happy day! Please see pics attached!This has been perhaps the best exchange opportunity that we have ever had here at Morgan. Never have we had such an exchange in culture as here in Brazil! We have already been asked to return in the fall for a celebration for the Zumbi de Palmores school.Look forward to seeing you all when we return, God willing!
Martina Arroyo Interviewed by Patrick D. McCoy 11 AM Wed. May 30
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 11:00 a.m.
legendary Metropolitan Opera soprano will discuss with Patrick D. McCoy
her foundation's initiative, "Prelude to Performance" as well as share
about her magnificent operatic career.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
'The Creation,' Poem by James Weldon Johnson; Music & Narration by Cheryl Lynne Skinner
Flutist and Composer Cheryl Lynne Skinner announces:
I am excited to announce the release of "The Creation" the third track in the Contemporary Muse MP3 Project.
This release is near and dear to my heart and part of a collection of work entitled "Afrocentricity"
inspired by the works of some of America's finest African American
poets. This spoken word project is based on the poem "The Creation" by
James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) an American author,
politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet,
anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. You can listen to the entire track in the Music Section and/or download from the Marketplace at www.cheryllynneskinner.com
Morgan State University Choir 'had another fantastic day in Rio'
Dr. Eric Conway, Director, Morgan State University Choir, www.msuchoir.org sends this note:
Well we have had another fantastic day in Rio. Yesterday we visited one of the modern wonders of the world - Christ the Redeemer statue on Corcovado mountain. We also performed our last full concert at the Santa Monica de Luce Church. See attached pics.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Sergio Mims: 'Eric Owens was mesmerizing and commanding as Jochannan'
[Eric Owens]
Sergio Mims writes:
I sent you the review for the performance last Thursday night of Richard Strauss'
Salome at Carnegie Hall. Franz Welser-Most conducting the Cleveland
Orchestra, Nina Stemme bought the house down in a stunning performance
as Salome and Eric Owens was mesmerizing and commanding as Jochannan.
was there and it was simply an incredible performance and I got a
chance to greet and hang out with Eric again after the performance
Sergio Mims in N'Digo: 'Outside The Box: Classical Pianist And Burgeoning Media Mogul'
[Jade Simmons]
Sergio Mims writes:
I hope that you and your readers would
like to read my interview with classical pianist Jade Simmons which
came out last week in N'Digo magazine
John Malveaux: 'Soprano Latonia Moore will return to California in 2013 to perform AIDA with the San Diego Opera'
John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com writes:
As a featured performer for the 150th Anniversary Emancipation
Proclamation Concert September 22, 2012, Soprano Latonia Moore will
return to California in 2013 to perform AIDA with the San Diego Opera
Latonia Moore will also sing the solo "Ritorna vincitor". Opera
Britannia called her 2011 performance in London "certainly better than
any I've heard at Covent Garden in 20 years". See Leontyne Price sing
"Ritorna vincitor" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kDUm-rDsN4
John Malveaux: "Baritone Donnie Ray Albert delivered...the definitive performance of Psalm 129: 'De Profundis'"
Donnie Ray Albert]
Donnie Ray Albert delivered a totally capturing and the definitive
performance of Psalm 129: "De profundis" on the Franz
Liszt: St. Stanislaus (James Conlon, Cincinnati May Festival)
recording released in 2004, Telarc distribution (80607). Mr. Albert
will be a featured artist at the 150th Anniversary Emancipation
Proclamation Concert on September 22, 2012 in Los Angeles (exact
date/month that President Lincoln signed the Freedom Act).
Donnie Ray Albert will sing the Act III duet between Amonasro/Aida in Verdi AIDA with the sensational Soprano Latonia Moore at the 150th Anniversary Emancipation Proclamation Concert. See Donnie Ray Albert and Marie-Adele McArthur as Aida http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU-AsqVQD_M.
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Donnie Ray Albert will sing the Act III duet between Amonasro/Aida in Verdi AIDA with the sensational Soprano Latonia Moore at the 150th Anniversary Emancipation Proclamation Concert. See Donnie Ray Albert and Marie-Adele McArthur as Aida http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU-AsqVQD_M.
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Re: Liszt Psalm 129 recording with Donnie Ray Albert - the conductor is James Conlon, not Colon! Byron Hanson
'Remembering Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: An audio-visual presentation' 2:30 June 23, Harrow On The Hill, U.K.
Coleridge-Taylor(1875-1912) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a
comprehensive Works List and a Bibliography by Prof. Dominique-René
de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com We are proud to collaborate with the Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor Foundation, http://www.sctf.org.uk]
Morgan State University Choir: Days 5, 6 & 7 in Brazil
Eric Conway, D.M.A., Director of the Morgan State University Choir, www.msuchoir.org, writes:
Hello again from Brazil,
Friday we endured an eight-hour ride from Santos to Rio de Janiero. I
have always found that one of the unique ways to experience a foreign
country is via a long-road trip. We saw much of the Brazilian
countryside. We arrived in Rio at 6pm on Friday evening to enjoy another
Brazilian buffet of various exotic meats. We are staying at a New
York-style Hotel only one block from the Rio shore.
Saturday, President Wilson, and Chairman of the Board of Regent, Dallas
Evans joined us in our Brazilian adventure. In the morning we visited
one of the best Samba schools in Rio and had another very special
exchange with the students of that school. After the Samba school
visit, we visited the famous Sugar Loaf mountain at sunset and witnessed
a truly breathtaking view from one of the highest points in all of Rio.
This evening, we sang a concert at the
largest cathedral in all of Rio. By the end of the concert, it was
literally standing room only. Once again, the quality of our concerts
had gotten around Brazil as many in attendance hade heard us in an
earlier city and drove great distances with guests to hear us again.
The acoustics of the cathedral were very special. Please see some pics
from these days.
If this email is not as
lucid as previous emails, please forgive as I am sending my very 1st
email from an iPad. My computer was fried via voltage in the Rio hotel.
More to come. . .
BTW, Happy Memorial Day!
Check out this video on YouTube:
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Yes, Brazilians go crazy for choral diversity. Whether Sao Paulo, Rio or Juiz de Fora - they want it all! Enjoy with your singers, Eric. You're doing marvelous work... Fredo Fredomusic, Inc. http://fredomusic.com
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Yes, Brazilians go crazy for choral diversity. Whether Sao Paulo, Rio or Juiz de Fora - they want it all! Enjoy with your singers, Eric. You're doing marvelous work... Fredo Fredomusic, Inc. http://fredomusic.com
SowetanLive.co.za: 'Tribute to the choir master'
VOCALLY GIFTED: Voices of the Nation choir during the choral tribute to
honour Professor Mzilikazi Khumalo on his 80th birthday celebrations
in Joburg. PHOTO: ANTONIO MUCHAVE
May 28, 2012 |
Patience Bambalele
"Ali Mpofu, the man behind the idea, praised Khumalo for constantly pushing for the preservation of choral and indigenous sounds. Khumalo, who turns 80 on June 20, sat next to his wife listening tentatively to choirs singing some of his best works.
"The first choir on stage was Gauteng Choristers who rendered three items.
Kopanong Chorus also came on stage sang three songs. Sounds of the Nation and Voices of the Nation also gave beautiful performances. Though people enjoyed all the choir performances, but it was Sounds of Nation that wowed the crowd with a love song entitled Thula S'thandwa Sami."
[J.S. Mzilikazi Khumalo was born June 20, 1932 and is profiled at AfriClassical.com]
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Ritz Chamber Players Present 'Finale Concert: Of Music, Love and Poetry' 7:30 PM Wed. June 13
Adolphus C. Hailstork (b. 1941) is featured at AfriClassical.com. On June 13, 2012 the Ritz Chamber Players will perform Summer. Life. Song., a work for Clarinet, String Quartet and Soprano which he composed for the Ritz Chamber Players, according to www.ArtSongUpdate.org:
"Summer. Life. Song. (March, 2004) (Emily Dickinson) written for the Ritz Chamber Ensemble, Florida
1. I Shall Keep Singing (serves as an introduction to the set)"
Berkshire Eagle: 'Tanglewood: Thomas Wilkins to make debut with Boston Pops in festival finale'
Thomas Wilkins]
Posted 05/14/2012
Boston Pops will
close the Tanglewood summer on Sunday, Sept. 2, with the "American
Songbook" concert under the direction of Thomas Wilkins, the
Tanglewood Press Office has announced. The performance will mark
Wilkins' Tanglewood debut. He is music director of the Omaha
John Malveaux: 'Memorial Day was first observed in 1868 as Decoration Day'
Memorial Day
(Photo: www.USMemorialDay.org)
(Photo: www.USMemorialDay.org)
John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com sends this history of Memorial Day:
Day was first observed in 1868 as Decoration Day, when the families
of Civil War victims honored their war dead by decorating their
graves. Over time, the holiday became known as Memorial Day – a
day for us all to commemorate the valor and sacrifice of the men and
women who have died in our nation's service."
Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan,
national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General
Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers
were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at
Arlington National Cemetery."
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Tai Murray "makes her harmonia mundi début in a dazzling reading of the six solo 'Sonatas' by Eugène Ysaÿe"
The Summer 2012 Issue of Listen: Life With Classical Music features a full-color half-page advertisement for Tai Murray's new CD on the prestigious music label Harmonia Mundi, Eugène
Ysaÿe, Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27:
"Chicago-born violinist Tai Murray, a BBC New Generation Artist in 2009 and winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, makes her harmonia mundi début in a dazzling reading of the six solo Sonatas by Eugène Ysaÿe. Murray's superb technique and burnished tone allow Ysaÿe's fascinating music to sing as never before." www.harmoniamundi.comè
"Chicago-born violinist Tai Murray, a BBC New Generation Artist in 2009 and winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, makes her harmonia mundi début in a dazzling reading of the six solo Sonatas by Eugène Ysaÿe. Murray's superb technique and burnished tone allow Ysaÿe's fascinating music to sing as never before." www.harmoniamundi.comè
'Brazil has been an exceptional tour for the Morgan State University Choir'
Dr. Eric Conway, Director of the Morgan State University Choir, www.msuchoir.org, sends news of Days 3 and 4 of the Choir's trip to Brazil:
Hello everyone,
Brazil has been an exceptional tour
for the Morgan State University Choir. Last evening, we performed our
2nd full concert at Teatro Coliseu, the premier hall of Santos, Brazil.
During the day a few of us toured historic Santos, which happens to be an island city, the oldest city in Brazil, and largest port in all of South America. We visited the Santos coffee museum, archiving one of Brazil's main exports. We then visited the Santos Aquarium, not the Baltimore National Aquarium, but not bad.
During the day a few of us toured historic Santos, which happens to be an island city, the oldest city in Brazil, and largest port in all of South America. We visited the Santos coffee museum, archiving one of Brazil's main exports. We then visited the Santos Aquarium, not the Baltimore National Aquarium, but not bad.
The concert was at 8PM.
Despite a soccer semi-finals game with the Santos team (Pelè's team)
playing opposite our performance, there was nicely filled. Again, we
were received enthusiastically. The backstage person working the show
made a point to tell me that he had heard many acts over the years, but
we were the absolute best! I told him that was quite a compliment and
humbly thanked him. Once again, the Morgan State Univeristy Choir is
growing the future and leading the world!
Diedre Robinson: Heritage Signature Chorale to 'premiere one of my choral works' in 'A Jubilant Song' in Washington, D.C. June 3
Robinson of Robinson Music writes:
excited to personally invite you, your friends and colleagues to an
upcoming premiere of one of my choral works
in an amazing concert "A Jubilant Song" presented by the
Heritage Signature Chorale of Washington, D.C. It's happening
next Sunday, June 3rd!
The event is almost sold out and I wanted to ensure that
you're able to secure your spot.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Thomas 'Blind Tom' Wiggins (1849-1908), Enslaved Pianist and Composer Born May 25, 1849
Ballad of Blind Tom, Slave Pianist: America's Lost Musical Genius;
Deirdre O'Connell; Overlook Press (2009)]
Thomas"Blind Tom" Wiggins (1849-1908) was an African American pianist and
composer. He was a blind and autistic slave who nevertheless was a
musical genius. He is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features
a complete Works List by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma,
the past three years, interest in the life and music of Thomas
Wiggins has been greatly increased due to the work of Deirdre
O'Connell, an Australian writer whose highly readable biography is
The Ballad of
Blind Tom, Slave Pianist: America's Lost Musical Genius. The book's website is: http://www.blindtom.org/ Performances of piano works composed by Wiggins have become steadily
more numerous in recent years.
another recent development related to the story of Thomas Wiggins,
musicologist Arthur R. LaBrew was honored earlier this year by the
National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. (NANM) for his
scholarly research on Wiggins.
LaBrew has also been honored by the Azalia Hackley Collection of the
Detroit Public Library. He is the author of Free
at last: legal aspects concerning the career of Blind Tom Bethune,
Arthur R. La Brew (1976) (68 pages).
profile at AfriClassical.com is based primarily on the book Blind
Tom, The Black Pianist-Composer: Continually Enslaved, by the
late Professor Geneva Handy Southall, who devoted her academic career
to Wiggins. She points out that he never really gained his freedom or
the control of his own earnings, even after the Civil War.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
ListenMusicMag.com: 'Street Symphony brings music to the margins'
lesson. Robert Vijay Gupta (right)
greets Nathaniel Ayers, his
sometime violin student."]
Professor Janise White of Los Angeles conducts The Afro-American Chamber Orchestra in that city. She brought Nathaniel Ayers to our attention, resulting in a post on June 15, 2011: "Los Angeles Times: 'Nathaniel Ayers plays the Foshay Learning Center'" Ayers figures prominently in an article in the Summer 2012 issue of Listen: Life With Classical Music:
Life With Classical Music
"Where It Is Needed Most
Johanna Gohmann
MENTAL HEALTH CENTER us in the heart of Los Angeles's notorious Skid
Row. Rusty coils of razor wire snake ominously around the outside;
inside, a makeshift auditorium has been set up in the basement. The
chairs are of the muted, waiting-room variety and have been organized
into tidy rows for an audience of about thirty. The attendees are in
blue jeans, sweatpants and baseball caps. Some are homeless. Some
are addicts. Some are severely mentally ill. Some of their faces
carry a hardened, haunted look that speaks to a life of intense
right now, these same faces are transfixed. They are upturned with
what looks like equal parts curiosity and wonder as they stare at the
violinist at the front of the room. He is feverishly whipping a bow
across his instrument, and the beauty of the Boccherini Duo for
Violin and Cello drifts up to the low ceiling, the intricate notes
falling in sharp contrast against the clinical white walls.
is Street Symphony, the brainchild of Los Angeles Philharmonic
violinist Robert Vijay Gupta. The twenty-four-year-old Gupta may
already have his hands full as the youngest member of L.A.'s
world-renowned orchestra, but his dreams lie beyond the gilded Gehry
glamour of Walt Disney Concert Hall. He wants to bring classical
music to the masses and to the communities he feels need it most.
For Gupta, this means prisoners, veterans, the homeless and the
mentally ill."
inspiration for Street Symphony originated with another talented
musician: Nathaniel Ayers, the Juilliard-educated double bass player
who found himself homeless due to severe mental illness. His life is
the subject of The Soloist, a
book by Steve Lopez that in 2009 became a film starring Jamie Foxx."
met Ayers in 2008. They immediately bonded through intense
discussions of Schumann and Beethoven, so much so that Ayers later
asked if Gupta might give him some violin lessons. Gupta was happy
to oblige, meeting alternately on Gupta's home ground at Disney hall
or at Ayers' home at the L.A. Men's Project – a housing shelter a
stone's throw from Skid Row. One day, in the midst of a lesson,
Gupta witnessed firsthand the extent of Ayers' illness.
just exploded,' Gupta recalls. 'He literally started to have a manic
episode. And I really got to see for the first time, face to face,
just how ill he was.' Alonein a room with the raging Ayers, Gupta
did the only thing he could think of: he picked up his violin and
started to play. 'I played for about twenty to thirty minutes. And
I slowly sensed that Nathaniel was becoming less agitated. He
started to cool down, was muttering to himself less. And then he
picked up the violin and started playing with me.'
was fascinated by the way the music calmed Ayers and seemed to bring
some peace to his troubled mind. He wondered: what if music could do
the same for others?"
2011, Street Symphony was officially born. There have been around
seventeen Street Symphony concerts so far, and Gupta is hoping to
increase that number in 2012.
organization has even added neuroscientist Antonio Damasio to the
board, who will further explore the therapeutic effects of the
program. One of the founders of he Brain and Creativity Institute at
USC, Damasio will be working with Gupta to find subjects for a study
that will track what is actually happening in the minds of the
mentally ill when they listen to music."
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Diaz links to the original article in the New York Times, and also hooks to an interesting review of the film, because of course those are hard to come by and getting rarer. HA.
I actually recognized his name from around this time last year; I had just seen bedrest study details on the Wired Science blog, and was browsing around for other mentions. Diaz posted an article entitled NASA Wants You To Get In Bed For $17,000 ... revisiting it tonight, I see there are now 50 comments.
And may I just say:
One person quipped they will pass rather than eat "astronaut food," two people did the salary math entirely wrong, still others commented about how it's appropriate for the grossly overweight or paraplegic... and I'm only mentioning some of the least offensive posts here. My favorite was the guy who said (without citing any medical journal, mind you) that studies show how "being immobilized for 30 days is worse for your body than 30 years of aging"... LOL!
How is it that people still believe Tang and paste tubes are space diet staples? That has not been the case for over three decades... but apparently, I am 98 years old now, so what would I know?
Oh wait, I'm living it as we speak, so I DO know. I've never understood why people comment brashly or with condescending certitude about topics they know nothing about. A few people in the mix asked reasonable questions or pointed out the benefits... but most of it was alarmingly off-base.
Having spent a year of my life participating in these programs and writing about them, I take some understandable umbrage. So here are some facts I've seen with my own eyes:
- If you are not healthy enough to withstand the protocols, you won't get in.
- Even if you screen and don't make it, you just got the best medical physical of your life.
- If at any point you experienced a problem, testing would cease immediately, and you are in about the best place in the world to resolve it.
- You will not age a year per day.
- We eat perfectly normal food and there is nothing secret about any of the meals... in fact, it's been posted in my blog's right-hand navigation bar for nearly a year. See the "UTMB * MENUS" link.
- Regardless of faulty wage assumptions by people not affiliated with the program and who assume NASA is attempting some kind of swindle -- you will be paid for EACH DAY you are traveling to or from Texas, screening, on the ward or in bed -- not just for the "bedrest phase" of any project. In fact, when Devin, Marcus and I evacuated last September, we were shipped to another hospital for rehab... but NASA continued to pay us until the day we got HOME. You will also be paid for 6-month and one-year check-ups.


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Newswise — The battle of the bulge is on – any movement on the scale yet?
"Losing weight is one of the top resolutions made every year, yet only 20 percent of people achieve successful weight-loss and maintenance," says Jessica Bartfield,MD, internal medicine who specializes in nutrition and weight management at the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery & Bariatric Care.
Despite that fact that two-thirds of Americans say they are on a diet to improve their health, very few are actually decreasing in size. "Dieting is a skill, much like riding a bicycle, and requires practice and good instruction, " says Dr. Bartfield. "You're going to fall over and feel frustrated, but eventually you will succeed and it will get easier."
Top Four Reasons Why Dieters Don't Lose Weight
According to Dr. Bartfield, here are the top four reasons why many dieters fail to lose weight.
1. Underestimating Calories Consumed"Most people (even experts!) underestimate the number of calories they eat per day. Writing down everything that you eat- including drinks and "bites" or "tastes" of food - can help increase self-awareness. Pay attention to serving sizes and use measuring cups and spoons as serving utensils to keep portions reasonable. Food eaten outside of the home tends to be much larger portion sizes and much higher in calories. Try to look up nutrition information of your favorite take-out meal or restaurant and select a healthy meal before picking up the phone or going out to eat.
2. Overestimating Activity and Calories Burned- "Typically you need to cut 500 calories per day to lose 1 lb per week. This is very difficult to achieve through exercise alone, and would require 60 minutes or more of vigorous activity every day. A more attainable goal would be to try to increase activity throughout the day and get a total of 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise most days of the week. Buy a pedometer and track your steps; try to increase to a goal of 10,000 steps per day. But be careful- exercise is not an excuse to eat more!"
3. Poor Timing of Meals - "You need a steady stream of glucose throughout the day to maintain optimal energy and to prevent metabolism from slowing down. Eat breakfast every day within one hour of waking up, then eat a healthy snack or meal every three to four hours. Try not to go longer than 5 hours without eating a healthy snack or meal to keep your metabolism steady."
4. Inadequate Sleep – "Studies have shown that people who get fewer than six hours of sleep have higher levels of ghrelin, which is a hormone that stimulates appetite, particularly for high- carbohydrate/high- calorie foods. In addition, less sleep raises levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, which can lead to weight gain."
Dr. Bartfield regularly counsels patients through the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery & Bariatric Care, which offers surgical as well as non-surgical weight loss programs. "A registered dietitian, behavioral psychologist, exercise physiologist and a physician plus a surgeon if appropriate, all partner one-on-one with patients," said Bartfield. "Good health practices are more than just learned, they become a regular habit and a way of life."
To register for a free Loyola weight-loss information session, visit loyolaweightloss.com or call (800) 355-0416.


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The sad story how BP managed to screw up a jackpot well and the Gulf of Mexico in the process is by now universally known and deplored. We see what happened in the Gulf as a disaster for everyone everywhere. What is to be done to bring discovery, production and distribution under manners continues to be puzzled over, and while it is hoped that solutions will be found, in the meantime, as citizens and as consumers who feel implicated in the mess, it occurs to us to try to do something, however small and indirect, to help with cleaning up that mess.
Back in 2006 The Red Krayola conjured a contaminated world in "Greasy Street"(from Introduction). What it described then was no more than a specter; now it seems horrifically real. In case you would like to check the connection and by the same token contribute with us to Gulf coast relief contrary to our usual policy of making complete sets available we now offer "Greasy Street" b/w "Easy Street" (an instrumental variant) as a downloadable single. All of the $1.98 you pay for the two songs will go to Gulf Coast relief organizations; and you are free to spread them in the audiosphere as you see fit. Care to slide down "Greasy Street" with us?


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In simulations, collisions cause smaller star groupings to lose material.
An international team of astrophysicists report how, when tiny galaxies collide with bigger ones, the bigger galaxies can strip the smaller galaxies of their dark matter — matter that we can't see directly, but which astrophysicists think must exist because, without its gravitational effects, they couldn't explain things like the motions of a galaxy's stars. The new study, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, was by an international team led by astrophysicists from the University of California, Irvine, and Pomona College.
It's a mechanism that has the potential to explain how galaxies might be able to exist without dark matter – something once thought impossible.
It started in 2018 when astrophysicists Shany Danieli and Pieter van Dokkum of Princeton University and Yale University observed two galaxies that seemed to exist without most of their dark matter.
"We were expecting large fractions of dark matter," said Danieli, who's a co-author on the latest study. "It was quite surprising, and a lot of luck, honestly."
The lucky discovery, which van Dokkum and Danieli reported on in a Nature paper in 2018 and in an Astrophysical Journal Letters paper in 2020, threw the galaxies-need-dark-matter paradigm into turmoil, potentially upending what astrophysicists had come to see as a standard model for how galaxies work.
"It's been established for the last 40 years that galaxies have dark matter," said Jorge Moreno, an astronomy professor at Pomona College, who's the lead author of the new paper. "In particular, low-mass galaxies tend to have significantly higher dark matter fractions, making Danieli's finding quite surprising. For many of us, this meant that our current understanding of how dark matter helps galaxies grow needed an urgent revision."
The team ran computer models that simulated the evolution of a chunk of the universe – one about 60 million light years across – starting soon after the Big Bang and running all the way to the present.
The team found seven galaxies devoid of dark matter. After several collisions with neighboring galaxies 1,000-times more massive, they were stripped of most of their material, leaving behind nothing but stars and some residual dark matter.
"It was pure serendipity," said Moreno. "The moment I made the first images, I shared them immediately with Danieli, and invited her to collaborate."
Robert Feldmann, a professor at the University of Zurich who designed the new simulation, said that "this theoretical work shows that dark matter-deficient galaxies should be very common, especially in the vicinity of massive galaxies."
UCI's James Bullock, an astrophysicist who's a world-renowned expert on low-mass galaxies, described how he and the team didn't build their model just so they could create galaxies without dark matter – something he said makes the model stronger, because it wasn't designed in any way to create the collisions that they eventually found. "We don't presuppose the interactions," said Bullock.
For researchers like Bullock, whose career and everything he has discovered depends on dark matter being the thing that causes galaxies to behave the way they do, the confirmation that galaxies lacking dark matter can be explained in a universe where there is plenty of dark matter is a sigh of relief.
"The observation that there are dark matter-free galaxies has been a little bit worrying to me," said Bullock. "We have a successful model, developed over decades of hard work, where most of the matter in the cosmos is dark. There is always the possibility that nature has been fooling us."
But, Moreno said, "you don't have to get rid of the standard dark matter paradigm."
Now that astrophysicists know how a galaxy might lose its dark matter, Moreno and his collaborators hope the findings inspire researchers who look at the night sky to look for real-world massive galaxies they might be in the process of stripping dark matter away from smaller ones.
"It still doesn't mean this model is right," Bullock said. "A real test will be to see if these things exist with the frequency and general characteristics that match our predictions."
As part of this new work, Moreno, who has indigenous roots, received permission from Cherokee leaders to name the seven dark matter-free galaxies found in their simulations in honor of the seven Cherokee clans: Bird, Blue, Deer, Long Hair, Paint, Wild Potato and Wolf.
"I feel a personal connection to these galaxies," said Moreno, who added that, just as the more massive galaxies robbed the smaller galaxies of their dark matter, "many people of indigenous ancestry were stripped of our culture. But our core remains, and we are still thriving."
Reference: "Galaxies lacking dark matter produced by close encounters in a cosmological simulation" by Jorge Moreno, Shany Danieli, James S. Bullock, Robert Feldmann, Philip F. Hopkins, Onur Çatmabacak, Alexander Gurvich, Alexandres Lazar, Courtney Klein, Cameron B. Hummels, Zachary Hafen, Francisco J. Mercado, Sijie Yu, Fangzhou Jiang, Coral Wheeler, Andrew Wetzel, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Eliot Quataert, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère and Dušan Kereš, 14 February 2022, Nature Astronomy.
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-021-01598-4
Funding for the work came from the National Science Foundation, sabbatical leave support for Moreno from Pomona College and the Harry and Grace Steele Foundation, and, for Danieli, from NASA through Hubble Fellowship grant HST-HF2-51454.001-A awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555. Other collaborators include Francisco Mercado, Courtney Klein and Zachary Hafen, all from UCI.


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Time for another EBTKS challenge.
OK ladies (and gents), I'm stepping WAY outside of my comfort zone here. I don't know if you've noticed, but I've been trying to really stretch from my norm lately. So when I saw this sketch I immediately thought of a window with a flower box. (and the St. Louis Arch) Don't ask why. I stopped asking why my mind works the way it does years ago!
I started by hand sketching the arched window frame in pencil onto the front of my cardstock and then using a hobby knife to cut it out. I adhered transparency to the inside of the card and hand sketched in some siding for the house using a Toner Gray Prismacolor marker. I added the shading using SU! pastels in Bordering Blue.
For the "flowers", I again used the tree tops from Funky Foliage. First I stamped the medium polka dots from PTI's Polka Dot Basics II in SU!'s Cameo Coral, stamped the tree tops in black, and added the flower centers from Funky Flowers in black. I fussy cut them out and added the leaves from Funky Flowers in SU!'s Glorious Green. A little punched trim, some ribbon, a butterfly, and some pearls...voila! All that was left was the sentiment, from PTI's Giga Guide Lines.
If the color combo looks familiar, it should. It is the current Color Cue colors with a touch of green added!
Project Supplies
Funky Foliage, Funky Flowers by Wplus9 Design Studio; Polka Dot Basics II, Giga Guide Lines by Papertrey Ink
Bordering Blue pastels, Cameo Coral dye ink, by Stampin' Up!, Black fluid chalk ink by Colorbox
Stamper's Select, Summer Sunrise, and Clear by Papertrey Ink, Glorious Green by Stampin' Up!
Whisper White grosgrain ribbon
Butterfly, and large scallop punch by Martha Stewart, Pearls (unknown)


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Company: Thrive Skilled Pediatric Care LLC
Location: Kempner
Posted on: July 10, 2024
Job Description:
Weekly pay and up to 80 hours of PTO per year!Thrive Skilled
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home care, is -seeking nurses -for an adult male client in
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The AAT Trade Federation battle tank is a hard-hitting vehicle favored by Separatist commanders like Lok Durd. While its droid operators require precise commands to be used to full effect, is primary MX-8 artillery laser cannons can blast out barrages that target multiple enemies or hammer the same foe with twice the firepower, and its anti-personnel armament can whittle down even squads as heavily armored as Clone Troopers.
With the AAT Trade Federation Battle Tank Unit Expansion, you can add one of these heavy tanks to your Separatist army. The unpainted, finely-detailed miniature you find here can be constructed with its hatch closed or with a B1 Battle Droid scanning the horizon for new targets. In addition to this miniature, you'll find everything you need to fully customize it to your personal strategy, including eight upgrade cards and a unit card.


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Data protection
Waterden Dental Practice complies with the 1998 Data Protection Act and the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and this Policy describes our procedures for ensuring that personal information about patients is processed fairly and lawfully.
In order to provide you with a high standard of dental care and attention, we need to hold personal information about you. This personal data comprises:
- Personal details such as your name, age, address, telephone numbers, email address and your general medical practitioner;
- Your past and current medical and dental condition;
- Radiographs, clinical photographs and study models;
- Information about the treatment we have provided or propose to provide (and its cost);
- Notes of conversations or incidents that might occur for which a record needs to be kept;
- Records of consent to treatment;
- Any correspondence (relating to you) with other healthcare professionals: such as referrals to specialists, for example.
We need to keep comprehensive and accurate personal data about our patients in order to provide them with safe and appropriate dental care.
We will process personal data that we hold about you in the following way:
We will retain your dental records while you are a practice patient. If you cease to be a patient, we will continue to hold them for at least another eleven years, or in the case of children until they reach the age of 25, whichever is the longer.
Personal data about you is held in the practice's computer system and/or in a manual filing system. The information is not accessible to the public and only authorised members of staff have access to it. Our computer system has secure audit trails and we back up information on every working day.
In order to provide proper and safe dental care, we may need to disclose personal information about you to:
- Your general medical practitioner;
- The hospital or community dental services;
- Other health professionals caring for you;
- Dental Insurance Companies of which you are a member.
- Private dental schemes of which you are a member.
Disclosure will take place on a "need-to-know" basis. Information will only be given to those individuals/organisations who need to have it in order to provide care to you and for the proper administration of Government (whose personnel are also covered by strict confidentiality rules). The recipient will only be given the information that they need to know for these purposes.
In very limited circumstances or when required by law or by a court order, personal data may have to be disclosed to a third party not connected with your dental care. In all other situations, disclosure that is not covered by this Policy will occur only when we have your specific consent. Where possible you will be informed of these requests for disclosure.
You have the right to access the data that we hold about you and to receive a copy. Access may be obtained by making a request in writing. We will levy a fee of £10 for records that are copied. If a request is made to copy x-rays, an extra charge of £40 will be made. We will provide a copy of the record within 40 days of receipt of the request and fee and an explanation of your record should you require it.
If you move to another dental practice we may (at our discretion) loan original x-rays and provide copy notes direct to that practice free of charge on receipt of a written request from them to do so.
If you do not wish personal data we hold about you to be disclosed or used in the way that is described in this Policy, please discuss the matter with your dentist. You have the right to object, but please remember that this may affect our ability to provide you with dental care.


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An updated and modern take on a sexy silhouette, this fit-and-flare wedding dress by Stella York is an absolute showstopper! Lace and tulle create a figure-slimming shape while shimmering beadwork and scalloped lace set this dress apart. A plunging neckline is adorned with bugle beads and shimmering water pearls that elevate this look. Thin shoestring straps are embellished with delicate beading and meet in the back, creating a unique, floating illusion style. A long train features hand-sewn, placed lace and a fully-finished hemline, giving drama and depth to the dress. Couture-inspired lattice details are placed throughout the bodice and skirt which create movement and shapes the bride's body, elongating her frame. Crystal buttons finish the back of the dress.


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Estonia, 11th Jun 2024 – In the whirlwind of today's financial markets, staying ahead requires innovative strategies. Enter Algorithmic Trading — where intricate algorithms dictate trading decisions with a speed and frequency far surpassing human capabilities. At the vanguard of this revolution stands MoonTrader, boasting an avant-garde auto-trading system poised to redefine trading strategies.
Understanding MoonTrader's Algorithmic Trading
The MoonTrader terminal epitomizes advanced trading automation. It employs sophisticated algorithms to execute trades based on predetermined criteria. This system optimizes performance while mitigating emotional biases that often plague manual trading.
Key Features
- User-Friendly Interface: Despite its complexity, MoonTrader's interface is intuitive, making it accessible for novices and seasoned traders.
- Customizable Algorithms: Tailor the algorithms to fit your trading style and risk tolerance. Whether you're a day trader or a long-term investor, MoonTrader adapts to your needs.
- Real-Time Market Scrutiny: Continuously monitors market conditions, adjusting real-time strategies to maximize profitability.
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Benefits of Utilizing MoonTrader's automated trading
- Increased Efficiency: Automates trades, reducing the need for constant market monitoring.
- Enhanced Precision: Algorithms eliminate human errors, ensuring precise trade execution.
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Advanced Strategies in MoonTrader Terminal
Designed for professionals, MoonTrader provides exceptional opportunities to develop custom algorithms based on individual strategies. Here are some advanced techniques:
- Averages Strategy: This strategy analyzes the average price over a specific period. The bot buys when the current price is below the average and sells when above it, leveraging mean reversion with the assumption that prices will revert to their average over time.
- Shots Strategy: The bot participates in short-term trading by taking advantage of abrupt changes in prices. It purchases when prices sharply drop and sells during rapid rebounds in order to profit from temporary price fluctuations. To take advantage of these changes, the bot maintains open orders at set distances from the current price.
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Integrating MoonTrader's auto-trading into your routine is seamless. Visit MoonTrader's official page to explore features, pricing, and setup instructions. The platform offers comprehensive support and resources to help you effectively set up and customize your trading algorithms.
As financial markets continue to evolve, adapting your trading strategies is paramount. MoonTrader's auto-trading offers a powerful solution to enhance trading performance with unparalleled speed, precision, and efficiency. By utilizing advanced strategies such as Shots, Depth Shots, and Averages, you can tailor your approach to meet your specific requirements. Embrace the future of trading and explore the vast possibilities with MoonTrader today.
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Wild Color by Jenn Dean
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The best resource on natural dyeing is back, updated to make your colorful hobby even more beautiful and rewarding.
A practical and inspiring guide to creating and using natural dyes from plants, Wild Color, Revised and Updated Edition, offers the latest information on current environmentally friendly dyeing techniques and more than 65 species of plants and natural dyestuffs.
This comprehensive book outlines all the necessary equipment, how to select fibers and plant parts, choose the right methods for mordanting and dyeing, test color modifiers and the fastness of dyed colors, and obtain a range of gorgeous colors from every plant, from alter to woad, shown in more than 250 swatches.
Wild Color, Revised and Updated Edition, is the all-in-one resource for fiber enthusiasts, including knitters, sewers, and weavers; gardeners who are interested in new uses for traditional dye plants; and eco-conscious DIYers who want authoritative information about the natural dyeing process and the plants that are essential to it.


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WARNING: This is a RACE ONLY product manufactured and sold for installation on vehicles to be used solely for competition purposes. Once this part is installed, the vehicle may never be used, or registered or licensed for use, on a public road or highway. If you install this part on your vehicle and use the vehicle on a public road or highway, you will violate the Clean Air Act 203(a)(3), 42 U.S.C, 7522(a)(3) and may be subject to personal civil or criminal liability, including fines of up to $4,819 per day.
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1 Paul, an aapostle—bnot from men nor through man, but cthrough Jesus Christ and God the Father, dwho raised him from the dead— 2 and all ethe brothers1 who are with me,
To fthe churches of Galatia:
3 gGrace to you and peace hfrom God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 iwho gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present jevil age, according to the will of kour God and Father, 5 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
6 I am astonished that you are lso quickly deserting mhim who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to na different gospel— 7 onot that there is another one, but pthere are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or qan angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, rlet him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, rlet him be accursed.
10 For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying sto please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a tservant2 of Christ.
11 For uI would have you know, brothers, that vthe gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel.3 12 wFor I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it xthrough a revelation of Jesus Christ. 13 For you have heard of ymy former life in Judaism, how zI persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it. 14 And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely azealous was I for bthe traditions of my fathers. 15 But when he cwho had set me apart dbefore I was born,4 and who ecalled me by his grace, 16 was pleased to reveal his Son to5 me, in order fthat I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;6 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
18 Then gafter three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days. 19 But I saw none of the other apostles except James hthe Lord's brother. 20 (In what I am writing to you, ibefore God, I do not lie!) 21 jThen I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. 22 And I was still unknown in person to kthe churches of Judea that are in Christ. 23 They only were hearing it said, "He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy." 24 And they glorified God because of me.
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The Future of Web Design conference is amazing this year – here's a quick update after Day One.
The Best
jQuery for Designers session
The format of this year's conference is tons better than last year. The atmosphere of the Brewery is great, and the food (which is also outstanding) at the break times gives people a chance to talk to each other and network. It has been much easier this year to meet people and talk to other designers.
It's really hard to choose a favourite speaker because they're all so great! I think jQuery for Designers is probably going to have the most impact on my day to day work because it has encouraged me to take a new step into jQuery.
The design clinic time was great, and it was a wonderful opportunity to talk to designers you really respect. I got some great feedback from Mike Kus, who has to be one of my all time favourite web designers because of his original work.
The Worst
Definitely had to be font.com's sponsor slot. Not only were they the ugliest slides of the day, the introduction was dated (we know about using @font-face already) and then followed by a whole sales pitch on why we should all buy their service. It was very amusing to see the tweets coming in during the talk!
Don't get me wrong, their service is great and no doubt I'll be using it soon, but the talk and presentation definitely gets labelled the worst, after everything else was so amazing.
More to come tomorrow, but in summary…
(I'll add links to slideshows and downloads as I get them)
Play. Destroy. Create. from Brendan Dawes
I loved his reference to maths and nature, and seeing how he had turned that into something new. It's about observing things like the trend of technical stuff to non techy people. Some of the things he was showing was simply play to explore and provoke reactions. He encouraged us to play, have passion and love what we do!
How to Get Started with CSS3 from Dan Cederholm
After doing a lot of CSS3 work already, I wasn't expecting to get much from this session, but was very pleasantly surprised. I now have a list of things I want to try, tools to use, and new ideas generated from this session. Definitely ideal for people new to CSS3, but still lots of great stuff in there for those of us who have already been using it.
jQuery for Designers: All You Need to Code (Remy Sharp)
Very inspiring stuff, and I'm now eager to take the plunge into jQuery!
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Accessibility in Web Design Robin Christopherson
I've seen Robin speak a few times, and each time he has something new and very informative. This time he encouraged mobile versions of websites, as the format of them is also much more accessible. He also encouraged the use of Text Captcha because it's accessible, free and offers a comprehensive API. You Tube are now also providing automatic captioning on their videos!
Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design (Aarron Walter)
Making things usable is not enough – we should also make them enjoyable. Don't compromise on the base needs for t»he user, but look for ways you can add that extra layer of emotive enjoyment – like the Mailchimp quotes!
UX Masterclass with Web Standardistas Web Standardistas
This flowed on really well from the Emotional Interface Design and looked at the secret for making something that is usable really great. The secret is YOU!
Smart Tips for Wireframing Brad Haynes
Wireframes help communication, focus and workflow. This session was a good practical reminder of why we should be using them and looked at which techniques to use where, including some good tools.
Also check out summary of Day 2 »


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Happy Halloween everyone!!
We hope you had a a great weekend filled with spooktacular adventures! We were all over the place this weekend - which you will hear more about as the week goes on - but we are so excited that we get to kick off the week with a fun holiday.
Our kids were beyond excited! And I'm not gonna lie - so am I!
I can't wait to see them all dressed up in their costumes after school.
Until then I've been getting everything together for our traditional spooky dinner and a fun treat or two for later.
Each year I like to make the parents a little treat for when they stop by our house. We started this tradition before Cute was born, and would pass out mini-margaritas to our neighbors. After we had kids of our own, we passed out full size ones.
This year, I've decided to hand out my own take on Blood Orange Punch.
It is YUMMY!
Be a good neighbor and whip up a batch!
(Large Batch Recipe)
- 2 bottles of red wine (I used a Pino Noir since its a little fruity already).
- 2 Cups of blood orange OJ
- 8 Cups of Ginger Beer
- 1/2 Cup of lime juice
- Slices from 2 oranges
- 1 cup of sliced strawberries
- 1 cup of frozen cranberries
- Mix wine, OJ, Ginger Beer, and lime juice together in a large punch bowl or pitcher
- Add fruit to mixture.
- Serve and enjoy!
We can't wait to see everyone's fun Halloween happenings!
Have a happy and safe Halloween everyone!


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It's the "Fall Itch". Summer's coming to an end, time to start thinking about those clean Fall swells lighting up the outside sand bars. They're coming; late season, warm water south swells and early north west ground swells swept clean by offshore Santa Ana winds. The Fall and Winter wave season prime the pump for some serious mind-rambling:
Photo: Fall and winter bring the promise of more and better surf. The kind of stuff that'll let you rev up your carve-master and lay down some sweet tracks.
1. New boards: Nothing keeps me going like the idea of a new board. A new ride keeps you fresh. Late summer is the time to get those orders in. If you're lucky you might hit the seam between the heavy board demand of summer and the coming Holiday season orders.
While you're pressing your luck you might as well cross your fingers and hope that you'll have the new one in time for first of the solid Fall swells. And remember, there is an inverse relationship between the number of, "Just checking to see how my board's doing..." phone calls and the duration of time it takes for you to get your freshy. Lay off the cell phone and let your shaper do his job- or bribe him with a 12-pack.
Photo: Unfortunately, Fall also means goodbye to the warm waters of summer... and all that comes with it.
2. Winter surf trips: Most of us around here think about heading south. Christmas break means we'll be surfing the long points of Baja's mid-section or the warm water grinders at the tip. The East Cape is out, except if it blows Norte down the Sea of Cortez and makes the weird left points tucked down in gulf start doing their thing. And then there's the flat water paradise of Bahia Concepcion- blue water cruising the little volcanic islands pincushioned with linear green cardons. Fall's a good time to start dreaming about a winter down south.
3. Highway Cruising the California Coast: Fall's the best. Crisp mornings, slate blue skies and a light offshore breeze carrying the cool, sage-scented, canyon air down across Pacific Coast Highway. The same offshores throwing plumes of cool spray off the backs of clean autumn waves. The crunch of sagebrush as you walk a chaparral guarded trail to a hidden central California point-reef set up. Start breaking out the mysto-maps, Fall's the season to get your walking shoes fired up.
It's the Fall itch, a little tickle that I'm always willing to scratch!