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Heaven is a Biscuit
I love biscuits. Love them. I could eat a whole batch at one sitting, even without butter or jam or gravy. I say I could, because believe it or not I do possess the restraint not to.
And I should probably clarify, I love good buttermilk biscuits. Sure, I have been known to eat a fast food sausage biscuit or a chain restaurant puck covered with gravy. If a menu has a biscuit on it, I find it hard to resist. But my true passion is for good, down home, fresh made buttermilk biscuits. Some people have grandmothers who make these, or live near a mom-and-pop country restaurant that produce hundreds of from-scratch, by-hand biscuits. Someone forwarded a newspaper article to me recently about the wide variety of frozen biscuits available that are good enough that many Southern cooks have given up biscuit making altogether. And I'll admit, they are not all bad.
Here's the thing though. I make biscuits. And I love doing it. I think it may be because I have an image of myself as some one who can do things. The truth is – not so much. I can't make fluffy white bread, or my own puff pastry, or good old-fashioned dinner rolls. But I can make biscuits. I like being someone who can do something that most people don't bother with anymore.
Learning to make a good biscuit takes practice, and trial and error. Even the most experienced biscuit cook has a batch that just doesn't work. Maybe the weather was wrong, or the flour just wasn't in the mood, or the cook didn't have the right love to put into that batch. So today I made a big batch of biscuits and carefully made notes about every step. The recipe below may look long, but don't be intimidated. I have tried to put in as much detail as I can to get the dough rolling.
So here are some starting tips: I do truly recommend using soft Southern wheat flour, like White Lily (my choice) or Martha White. I am sure you can order it online if you can't track it down. I use White Lily as my flour always, so I don't have two types of all-purpose flour in the pantry. If you use regular all-purpose, you'll still get biscuits, but if they don't taste exactly right, that's why. I used to be a little afraid of shortening and made biscuits with all butter, but now I know that the shortening is really a must. I use a combination because the boost in flavor the butter adds. Both must be cold – right out of the fridge before you use it. Same with the buttermilk. I prefer cold whole buttermilk, but low-fat works as well. Make sure you shake the bottle very well before measuring.
Buttermilk Biscuits
4 cups flour (all-purpose White Lily)
2 Tablespoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons salt
¼ cup cold vegetable shortening
¼ cup cold unsalted butter
1 to 1 ½ cups cold well-shaken buttermilk
Preheat the oven to 475 degrees. Line a baking pan (about 13" by 9" with 1-inch sides) with parchment paper or grease it well with shortening.
Measure out the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a large bowl that gives you lots of room to work. Mix gently with a fork to combine and aerate the flour.
Cut the shortening and the butter into small cubes. I cut the butter from the stick three times down the length, turn it over once, cut it three times down the length again, then across the short way. I buy Crisco shortening in sticks as well and do the same.
Separate the shortening and butter into cubes and sprinkle over the top of the flour mixture. Use the fork to toss the cubes lightly in the flour to coat. Then dip your clean fingers into some flour and mix everything together, squishing and rubbing the mixture together to combine the fats and the flour. Don't spend too long doing this, gentle handling is the key to a tender biscuit. It's okay if there are some lumps of butter or shortening left. Many recipes describe the result of this process as looking like breadcrumbs or fine meal, and that's okay. I think it looks like lumpy flour. When you pinch a bit of flour between your fingers, from anywhere in the bowl, it should stick together.
Measure out the shaken buttermilk, then pour about ¾ cup of it over the mixture. Use the fork to fold the buttermilk into the dough, carefully incorporating the liquid. Keep adding the buttermilk a bit at a time until you have a cohesive dough. You may not need all the buttermilk. Again, you don't want to work the dough too much, but don't leave much loose, dry flour in the bottom of the bowl. You can use your hands to get that last bit of dry flour into the dough.
Lightly flour a work surface. I find the counter top to be best; a board tends to slip around. You do want to use a light hand to flour the surface, because too much will leave an unpleasant floury coating on the biscuits. Sprinkling flour through a wire sieve is a great way to do this.
Turn the dough out onto the surface, and turn it over on itself once or twice to bring the dough together. I do not say knead, because you don't want to work the dough that hard. Press the dough into a rectangle about ½ inch thick. Just press it out lightly with your hands to an even thickness. This method makes the top of the biscuits slightly textured, which looks very homemade, but if it bothers you, roll a lightly floured rolling pin lightly over the top.
Cut the biscuits with a round cutter or a thin rimmed glass, always cutting as close to the edge of the dough and as close together as possible to get as many biscuits as possible. I get a good dozen in the first batch using a 2 ½ inch cutter from this recipe. Just press the cutter down and pull back up; don't twist or the sides won't rise up as nice.
Place the biscuits very close together on the prepared pan, just touching each other. This helps them rise while cooking.
Now the big debate: to re-roll or not re-roll. There will be some leftover dough. Some people say that this dough is not worth using again, but I disagree. Gently press the remaining dough together and press out into a ½ inch thickness and cut – you'll get maybe three more. Place them on the pan with the rest of the biscuits. The first-roll dozen are the company biscuits, the last ones just for you, so remember which are which. Any leftover scraps can be cooked separately, or rolled in cinnamon-sugar and baked off, or frankly just eaten raw.
Bake the biscuits in the hot oven for 8 – 9 minutes, rotating the pan about 6 minutes through. Watch the biscuits carefully so they do not over-brown. These may not get too brown on top, but will be nice and soft inside. If you want a brown top, turn the broiler on a few minutes, watching all the time with the door open until lightly golden. Take the biscuits out of the oven, then brush the tops with melted butter (about 2 Tablespoons should do it).
Leave the biscuits to cool slightly and then eat 'em up. They will keep a day or so tightly wrapped, but are better toasted when not eaten fresh.
Makes 12 – 15 biscuits
Serve your fresh, hot biscuits with Tomato Gravy or Sausage Gravy.


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Tips For Choosing The Right CRM Solution
Today's business market has become an extremely competitive place. To succeed in this environment it's more important than ever for companies to develop and manage their operations efficiently. A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution is an effective way to do this. It will strengthen your relationships with existing customers while building new ones with your latest prospects. A CRM solution helps any organization become more competitive by automating, organizing and synchronizing business processes.
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Once you've established the need for a CRM solution, you're left with the matter of choosing the best one for your business. A CRM solution that works effectively for one company may not meet the needs of another.
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CRM has evolved into a versatile system that allows businesses to maintain existing customers and recognize new ones by utilizing automated functions and lead management that supports your sales and technical personnel. A CRM solution will reduce calls to your help desk and improve customer service.
When Choosing the Right CRM Solution, Consider the Following:
With the abundance of CRM solutions that are available on the market today, it can be difficult to choose the right one for your business, however this needn't be so. Break things down into manageable steps to make things easier for you, and keep the following things in mind as you begin your CRM search.
Your current needs versus your future needs
Analyze your current needs, and remember that the scalability of the product you're selecting is important. Think three years down the road, and consider what your needs will be then; the solution you're selecting should meet your needs now and in the future as your company grows. Be careful, because CRM products will come with many features and items you won't need. You don't want to incur unnecessary expenses so be as realistic as you can be. Be in control and ready to ask the right questions. If you remember to analyze your needs first, you'll find the best solution that will grow with your company.
Once you've implemented the right CRM solution into your operations it will become an important part of your business strategy, possibly even the KEY part of your strategy. So you want a product that provides historical interactive analytics. If the CRM solution provides crucial insight regarding historical trends relating to every aspect of your business, then it will provide all the answers you need.
It's important to analyze trends over time to identify where your company has excelled versus where it's fallen short. You need this information for your businesses success in the long run. A CRM solution that doesn't provide this information will hinder your ability to make important business decisions required in today's marketplace. Look elsewhere for a solution if the product doesn't offer these tools.
Cost VS. Budget VS. Quality
It's simple to state a dollar figure and go from there; CRM costs can run from inexpensive to extremely expensive. It's important to keep in mind that higher cost doesn't always equate to higher quality; and when a solution is expensive, that doesn't mean it's going to meet all your needs and expectations.
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You'll be paying total cost of ownership (TCO) over time in addition to initial costs, so it's important to look for a CRM solution that works for your business and also gives you the opportunity to grow and excel with time.
Hosted Solutions VS. Onsite Implementation.
Today, most software products can be used in one of two ways. Traditionally, the equipment can be purchased and installed on your businesses premises, where the CRM solution can be put into effect on locally at your site. The other option is to use a CRM solution stored on the cloud. Both of these solutions have their pros and cons.
Examine solutions from each of these two areas and choose one based on your budget and needs. Consider what an onsite implementation will offer as opposed to a hosted solution, and it'll become obvious to you what solution will work for your company. Every case is different, implementation may be great for one business, but another might have greater success with a solution from the cloud. Only you know what will work best for your company.
Hosting/Vendor Selection
Once you've identified your budget and business needs, you can exclude some vendors and save yourself a lot of time. Research is key, and since you've now eliminated many vendors and hosting companies, you can begin looking for a vendor that has a good track record and experience in helping customers achieve their business goals.
Remember to ask companies about the types of customers they've worked with and their long term plans; and evaluate the security offered by particular solutions because you want to ensure your business isn't exposed to hackers. Ask for references if possible; typically if a company is proud of the work they've done, they'll provide you with references you can contact.
This is usually the most difficult step in the process but it's important to take your time because as difficult as it can be, it'll be extremely rewarding once you've found the right solution.
Make sure that your team knows how to use the CRM solution you've decided on. Many people tend to look at training as an expense that can be dismissed, which is a mistake. If you're staff doesn't know how to best use the new CRM software, you're not going to get the results you desire. Find out if the companies you're considering offer training, and if so, ask for it to be included in the package.
It's going to take time for you to decide on the right CRM solution. The entire process may take several months to complete.
What to Expect Once You've Made Your Choice
It's been challenging but you've put the required effort into making the your decision. You've done your research and you're completely satisfied with your choice, so what should you expect now that you've chosen and implemented the solution?
Assuming you've followed the advice in this article and done everything correctly, you should quickly begin to see the benefits of your CRM solution. Your customers will notice an improvement in how you're doing business with them and your users should feel comfortable and confident when using the product.
Most investments take time to pay off, but the rewards should be seen in about six months. Many people don't like change, so there might be some resistance in the beginning. However, once they see the benefits of the change, they'll be ready and willing to comply. If they don't, they might need to be replaced. The change will be a positive one that will affect the culture of your business. If they can't get on board with the new culture, they may need to move on.
As time goes on, keep evaluating your solution; as your business changes, your needs will change as well. Don't be afraid to make changes, and be flexible. Your solution will grow with you.
Those who embrace the CRM solutions available will outshine the rest, and those who choose to ignore these solutions will simply be left behind. Your business will be more competitive by raising the bar for customer relations and interactions with your employees. Your CRM solution will help your business run efficiently and smoothly.
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Nice Post.
Managing customers, conducting marketing campaigns is a vital process that can overwhelm a small business.
I recently helped a client modify his Website to communicate with online CRM. ORBIT is designed for small businesses, a market that my own consulting service targets. Having tried other online CRM solutions myself, I am familiar with their functionality.
Thanks for this useful post. Choosing a right crm solution can do wonders and huge profit for a small business.
Thanks again for sharing buddy.
Keep up the good work.
I agree with you that you should choose a crm for small business which easy to use and a good crm software should be fulfill all your future needs. Another factor to consider when choosing a crm for your small business that is customizable. Customized crm is that which always customized according to your small business needs.
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If you're about to sell your home, having it in top shape will definitely up your chances of getting it sold quickly. It shouldn't just be about making it look beautiful; you have to consider functionality as a major aspect in a buyer's decision. A buyer will most likely have a professional home inspector check for faults in your home, so it's advisable for you (with the help of your agent) to address problems beforehand.
1. Paint – Doing this will instantly revamp your home, and it's one of the most cost-effective methods into making your house look appealing to buyers. Light-colored, neutral tones make your rooms look more spacious and it also makes it look as if it's blank canvas, where your buyers can help picture how they want it to look once they move in.
2. Kitchen – The kitchen is one of the most functional spaces in a home. You don't have to stuff it with new appliances to make it look like a dream kitchen, but just make sure to address problems regarding usability. Leaking faucets and old sinks must be repaired, and the dishwasher or range that is out of shape should be replaced. Also check if hinges or tracking in your drawers and cupboards need fixing.
3. Flooring – No one wants to live in a home with sub-par flooring. Buyers prefer hardwood floors, so if your house has that and it's in good condition, make sure to make it known by removing carpeting. But if you don't, there are a number of low-cost options such wood plank tiles or highly upgraded laminated flooring.
4. Bathroom – Just like the kitchen, the bathroom is a very functional space in a home. Check for leaky faucets and if necessary, replace caulking in the areas like shower, sink, and toilet to help in keeping the moisture out. Also keep in mind that making it clean goes a long way. Have the toilet as white as possible, and have your grouts steam-cleaned.
5. Roof – If your roof is in bad shape, it's advisable to cater to this before you set your house up for sale so that renegotiation and price reduction won't be on the table once a buyer makes an offer.
6. Exterior – Your curb is where buyers get a first impression of your home. Include fences in your paint job, patch up cement cracks in sidewalks, and resurface asphalt driveways if necessary. If you have extra cash to spare, add in bright flowers and plants to spruce up your curb.
7. Lighting – The lights sets the atmosphere of the home – the brighter they are, the more enticing and welcoming your rooms will look. Make sure that lights are working properly both on the exterior and interior of your home. Don't forget to check if your switches work, too!
8. Air conditioning and heating systems – As mentioned previously, your home may most likely be subject to a house inspection so it's good to get ahead of them and take care of minor repairs. Having this in top shape will definitely give you an advantage over other sellers.
9. Plumbing – Your house may look good in terms of its aesthetics but if there's problems in the practical aspects of the home, buyers might step back. You can tend to minor fixtures yourself but if you want to be assured that the plumbing is in a good condition, hire an expert to inspect and fix.
10 . Knobs – They may seem trivial but buyers could be critical of everything. If something as basic as a door knob is not working, buyers might think that the more important parts of the house are not working too.


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A Syrian search-and-rescue group says 21 civilians have been killed in two separate airstrikes on the northwestern rebel-held province of Idlib.
The Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, says 10 members of the same family were killed in an air raid Tuesday on the village of Baarbo, while 11 others were killed in a strike on the town of Khan Sheikhoun.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said seven children and two pregnant women were killed in Khan Sheikhoun. The Observatory also said 21 civilians were killed between the two locations.
The Observatory and the Civil Defense blamed the strikes on government and Russian jets. Russia is a key military ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
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Miranda Dale had her first breakdown during her freshman year at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. It was 2 a.m. on a Saturday, and she hadn't left her dorm room in days.
"I honestly didn't know what to do," says Dale. "I heard rumors that at a big university you're just a number and you're not going to get through to anyone" at the university counseling center.
But when she called the school's counseling line, someone answered right away. Dale got help getting a prescription for medication, and she was booked for an appointment that Monday. She was eventually diagnosed with bipolar II, a mood disorder that usually requires medication.
Over the past decade, colleges and universities across the country have seen an influx of students like Dale with mental health needs. The stigma of mental illness has started to dissipate, and more students are comfortable seeking help. In addition, teenagers with serious conditions are getting treatment earlier, and so a population of students that previously didn't make it to college now arrives on campus each fall.
The average college counseling center sees about 10 percent of the student body each year.
Some campuses are exploring new systems to help meet the growing demand. At UVA, for example, the counseling center uses a triage system to make sure it is able to see as many students as possible.
When student first call the counseling line, they are given a 20-minute phone consultation with a therapist on their sleeping and eating habits, attendance, substance use, and whether they're having thoughts of self-harm. That's according to psychologist Russ Federman, a former director at the UVA counseling center.
Students in crisis are seen immediately. Another quarter of callers are referred to off-campus therapists right away. Dale was seen only once at the counseling center. After her initial appointment, she was referred to a private therapist off-campus instead.
With the help of the triage system, the UVA counseling center was able to accommodate 9,000 visits last year with only 12 full-time therapists.
Overall, schools are getting better at meeting the mental health needs of their students, says Alison Malmon, president and founder of Active Minds, a mental health advocacy group with chapters on campuses across the country.
"Not everything is great; we would love all students to be able to get all of the unlimited visits they could get on campus," Malmon says.
Recently, anxiety outpaced depression as the No. 1 student complaint on college campuses, according to a survey of college counseling centers. Malmon says that has a lot to do with the current economy.
Meredith Was, who heads up the Active Minds chapter at UVA, says she started to feel the stress of getting a job after graduation during the first semester of her senior year.
Was saw a counselor for just seven sessions, enough to help her deal with the uncertainty of graduation, along with a painful breakup.
Between suicide prevention outreach, free counseling sessions and the triage system, UVA manages to mostly stay ahead of the demand for services.
"We really want students to know it's OK to reach out for help, and there's no shame in having anxiety or depression or anything," says Federman. "It's just part of the human condition."
Especially, he adds, during the college years.
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I once heard there is an island of plastic the size of Texas floating in the North Pacific. Turns out this is just a myth.
The truth is much, much worse.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not an island. You can't stand on it or walk across it. It's more like a cloud of suspended plastic particles ranging from the size of a person to microscopic. This patch isn't just the size of Texas. It's nearly as large as the United States, and it's one of five oceanic areas with problems just as bad.
They're called gyres, massive whirlpools that circulate the waters of the north and south Pacific, the north and south Atlantic, and the Indian Ocean, and all five of them are choked with plastic pollution. Scientists estimate there are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic floating in the ocean, or six times more plastic by dry weight than zooplankton, the most basic and common marine fauna that ultimately feeds the entire oceanic food web.
"Plastics have only been around for 100 years or so, and they're already a huge problem," said Shayla Andreas, Houston Zoo staff. "Plastic isn't bad. It's not evil. It has allowed for medical advances and other health applications. It's just being overproduced."
Think about all the plastic things you put into the trash can after using them only once. Soda straws. Water bottles. Coffee mixers. Grocery bags. Netting. Fishing line. Food wrappers. The purpose of this plastic is to keep your food clean and make access to it more convenient, but the plastic never goes away. It never degrades; it just breaks into smaller and smaller pieces until it's tiny enough for marine life to swallow.
Here's where the plastic begins to affect not only our oceans, but ourselves. Plastics contain toxic chemicals and have the ability to absorb other compounds, which both leach out of the plastic over time. Fish eat the plastic, as do turtles, birds and whales, and if it doesn't get caught up in the digestive tract and disrupt the absorption of nutrients, then the chemicals in the plastic inevitably poisons them. Fish and creatures pass the plastics in their guts on to the larger predators, until eventually, you have a whopper mackerel some fisherman pulls out of the ocean for sushi, its belly full of the plastic it has collected from the bellies of other fish, flesh tainted with chemicals that have entered its bloodstream. No one wants to eat that.
The point is, the plastic that's meant to protect us could ultimately poison us. The greatest problem, according to Marcus Eriksen, Director of Research for the 5 Gyres research project, are microplastics, specifically microbeads that lately have appeared in cosmetic facial cleansers. These beads, no larger than a fleck of dirt, are used a single time as an exfoliant, then washed down the drain and into the sewers, which in turn enter watersheds that feed into the ocean. 5 Gyres claims this is the most dangerous source of plastic pollution, and Andreas agrees. Because of their minute size, microplastics affect the most marine life. Small fish can ingest the particles as well as some of the largest predators.
"The smaller the plastics are, the worse the problem is," Andreas said. "Especially for baleen whales that eat krill. They filter out the water and the krill stays in the baleen, but so does the plastic."
Cleanup of microplastics appears next to impossible, even for 20-year-old environmentalist Boyan Slat, Dutch inventor of a groundbreaking gyre cleanup array and founder of The Ocean Cleanup. His array involves a passive, angled catch system that floats on the surface of the ocean and uses the motion of gyre currents to funnel plastic into its vertex, where a solar-powered conveyor constantly lifts the pollution out of the water and into a single container.
The mission of the non-profit is to deploy an enormous 100-kilometer-long array in the north Pacific, which Slat estimates will remove half of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 10 years. Slat plans to deploy a smaller pilot array off the coast of Tsushima, an island between Japan and South Korea, in 2016. At 2000 meters in length, it will still be twice as long as the record-holder for the largest floating structure deployed in the ocean in history, the Tokyo Mega-Float, a floating airport.
But Slat's array provides no solution for microplastics and smaller particles which will elude his array. His invention offers a promising, cost-effective, and feasible beginning to cleaning up the mess, but it won't solve the problem completely, which Andreas believes starts at the point of sale for every consumer and with responsible manufacturing.
"It comes down to researching the products that you use. You have to care," Andreas said. "And you have to get them to care about it. Taking initiative, behavioral change, is so easy to do. People have to make a concerted effort not to get them."
Consumers should consider choosing biodegradable alternatives to products that contain microbeads. Exfoliants should be made from natural materials.
Word is beginning to spread about the direness of the plastic pollution situation. The Houston Museum of Natural Science recently celebrated the United Nations-established World Oceans Day, an event that drew out about 2,000 people. Representative faculty from Rice University and Texas A&M University emphasized the importance of keeping plastic out of the ocean, and guests had an opportunity to estimate the amount of biomass living in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary and look inside the stomach of a thresher shark specimen.
Plastic may make human life more convenient, but single-use plastics have become a problem that can no longer be ignored. The only viable solution may be better choices to prevent plastics from entering the ocean in the first place. Reuse plastic bottles or take your own refillable water container. Choose to bring your own reusable bags to the grocery store. Never toss plastic or any garbage into the environment. And always, always recycle.


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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Part 9. The Origins of Dinotopia: Words and Pictures
I believed that the book should have enough scope to feel like a novel, and should be no shorter than 160 pages, fully illustrated with color on every page. This sort of "long-form picturebook," was pioneered by the Dutch illustrator Rien Poortvliet (with Wil Huygen) in Gnomes and Noah's Ark.
Producing that much artwork would mean that I would have to cut myself off from all my freelance illustration clients. My wife, our two little boys, and I would have to survive on the sale of art prints and originals until the book was published.
Seaside Romp, 1990
I had about a hundred and fifty paintings to complete in about two years. A few of the paintings could serve double duty, both as book illustrations and as art print subjects. Those keynote images had to be larger and more finished, and they also had to stand alone outside of the narrative.
The longer form gave me plenty of scope to develop the fantasy. It was five times the length of a typical thirty-two page children's picture book. It wasn't like a graphic novel, because each page had only one or two images, and it didn't require dialog and word bubbles to tell the story.
Storyboard: Will learns to Write
The running text could be a mix of narration, description, and dialog. The text didn't have to match the pictures exactly. The pictures could provide side excursions into details of the world.
I felt that the illustrated book medium, since it allowed the reader to skip around or pause on a single image, lent itself to a mode of conjuring that could be found in no other medium.
Storyboard: Code of Dinotopia
I wanted to depart from the good-versus-evil dramatic formula that motivated most fantasy universes in literature and film. I knew there must be other ways to set up an imaginary world.
I read more deeply in Irish and Italian folktales, which are full of whimsy and tricksters. I reread other fantasies that I had loved as a child, such as Gulliver's Travels, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Alice in Wonderland. Those stories inspired me with their fantastic invention and episodic plot lines.
Read More at these Links:
The new official Dinotopia website
Purchase a signed 20th Anniversary Edition of Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
Gnomes by Poortvliet and Huygens
Noah's Ark by Poortvliet
"Origins of Dinotopia" series on GurneyJourney:
Part 1: Childhood Dreams
Part 2: College Obsessions
Part 3: Lost Empires
Part 4: Dinosaurs
Part 5: Treetown
Part 6: The Illustrated Book
Part 7: Utopias
Part 8: Building a World
Part 9: Words and Pictures
Part 10: Canyon Worlds
Part 11: Putting it Together
Part 12: Book Launch
6 comments:
- J.A. said...
James, Thanks for including some conversation about the practical, financial aspects of the choices you made during your project. It helps to see that even a successful artist had tougher times.
- December 17, 2011 at 8:32 AM
- brueggert said...
There is a seeming inevitability about 'final products', and we are tempted to think they were conceived all at once, in full.
It is interesting to see this book came about through chance encounters, changes of mind, and your diverse life experiences. - December 17, 2011 at 12:10 PM
- JonInFrance said...
Isn't just great to have a dream, a vision?
- December 17, 2011 at 4:04 PM
- Tom Hart said...
James, I echo Ledeaux's and Brueggert's comments. It's very instructive to learn that these projects don't spring fully formed from your forehead, and that they involve struggles and the willingness to take chances - not to mention a supportive and understanding family!
A question: are the three sculpted heads next to your drawing table related to Dinotopia, or some other project? Are they your own work? - December 18, 2011 at 9:17 AM
- James Gurney said...
Tom, those are little plaster heads that I cast from clay originals that I made, long before Dinotopia, (and long before I knew of Sculpey). They're standard reference heads.
- December 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM
- T. Arispe said...
I really admire and appreciate all of the hard work that went into the making of this book; just as it was inspired by what you read as a child, Dinotopia in turn inspired me in my childhood.
- December 19, 2011 at 12:18 PM


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End of the line
For almost seven years, Brighter Planet has been a constant source of inspiration for me and, I'm proud to say, for the broader sustainability community. This makes it all the more difficult to announce that the company and its Brighter Planet Visa cards and other services are coming to the end of the line.
We thank our customers, our partners, and all those with whom we've worked with over the years to move the needle on building a clean-energy future. It's phenomenal how knowing what your carbon footprint is and what you can do about it or even what simple choices like which card to pull out of your wallet can do. Because of you, we offset over 350 million lbs. of CO2, supporting the development of 24 renewable energy and sustainable forestry projects across the US. This is the equivalent of over 20,000 homes being electrified by renewable energy for a year, removing over 10 million cars from the road for a day, or every cardholder turning off all the lights in their home for more than a year.
We also thank our investors, leadership boards, and experts who have supported and advised us over the years. As a business that came to be profitable with almost 200,000 customers, we hope that we have helped demonstrate, along with all of our compatriots in the social entrepreneurship world, that you can certainly do well while also doing good.
I must thank our team too, past and present, the soul of Brighter Planet. Andy, Seamus, Robbie, Ian H., Nancy, Matt K., Derek, Jon, Jake, Adam, Carolyn, Rich St., Daniel, Emily, Ashley, Bruce, David, Ian W., Kerry, Matt V., Rich Sa., Remy, and others. Some were with us for more than five years, others were interns for a few months, all played a role in our many successes.
You may be wondering why we are liquidating at this point. Having led businesses large and small, I can tell you that winding a company down is the toughest decision to make. It was not one that Brighter Planet's Board or shareholders took lightly.
A perfect storm of regulatory upheaval made Brighter Planet's business model increasingly challenging and financially non-sustainable going forward. The passage of the Durbin Act, intended as a plus for U.S. consumers and merchants, upended the card market, effectively precluding economically viable rewards cards that provide revenue for cause-based organizations including Brighter Planet. At the same time, the government's inaction on meaningful cap-and-trade and the rise and fall of the U.S. carbon markets negated the need for and value of computational sustainability tools for businesses—tools that we pioneered in developing. Finally, the country's economic meltdown these past few years naturally impacted discretionary spending by consumers and businesses, in turn impacting companies offering products and services like Brighter Planet.
Since getting our start in a Middlebury College classroom in 2005, so much has changed. The powerful call to action of An Inconvenient Truth came the year after Brighter Planet was created, and left millions of Americans searching for ways to make a difference in climate change, the most important challenge our world faces today. Back then, there weren't many significant organizations devoted to the global warming challenge. Brighter Planet in partnership with the Bank of America and Visa offered a straightforward first step for people to reduce their impact on our planet's atmosphere, and we appreciate the bold steps that these partners took along with us.
Now in 2013, I see a myriad of ways for people and businesses to take action. With organizations like 350.org building the largest climate movement the world has seen or CERES mobilizing business leadership for a sustainable world, I think it's safe to say that while we certainly haven't solved the climate problem, the community has made a serious dent in the participation problem. That you no longer need a credit or debit card to join the fight is cause for celebration.
So while Brighter Planet is wrapping up, I'm happy to count hundreds more capabilities that have sprung up from the ingenuity of the community as well as thousands of organizations both big and small that transformed themselves to embrace sustainability within their core businesses. Even several of Brighter Planet's former employees, including one of its founders, have formed a new startup, Faraday, to apply Big Data technology to customer acquisition of energy efficiency solutions. What so many for-profits, not-for-profits, and individuals are doing today in 2013 is nothing short of amazing.
I'd like to close with some of my favorite Brighter Planet highlights from these past several years:
Managed the country's largest consumer carbon offset program with almost 200,000 customers, outlasting every competitor in our space
Supported the development of 24 projects such as wind power in public school districts and open lands, cow power on family farms, and conservation of redwood forests, decreasing our dependence on carbon-emitting dirty energy sources like coal burning power plants and removing carbon from the atmosphere
Modeled over 27.5 million carbon, energy, and resource impacts of real-life carbon emissions sources, the most in the country
Conducted groundbreaking research in the aviation and hotel sectors, examining key drivers of energy efficiency and analyzing economic and environmental benefits
Assessed employee sustainability engagement in corporations and identified best practices
Provided grants to support community climate projects such as school gardens
Ran industry defining social media campaigns
Successfully built and sold a social giving platform
Named the country's Best Small Business by Discovery Channel's Treehugger
Won the Financial Times Social Innovation Award
Won the EPA's Apps for the Environment Award
Recognized as thought leaders, presenting the company's work to diverse audiences such as the technology, corporate travel, energy, and open government communities
Thank you all.
A new offset project
We've got a new offset project, and once again it's the first of it's kind for Brighter Planet. The Rentech Fertilizer Plant project supports a new N2O destruction system at midwestern fertilizer plant, and is certified under the Climate Action Reserve.
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# postgresql (pg library) Upsert was 78% faster than find + new/set/save Upsert was 78% faster than find_or_create + update_attributes Upsert was 88% faster than create + rescue/find/update # mysql (mysql2 library) Upsert was 46% faster than find + new/set/save Upsert was 63% faster than find_or_create + update_attributes Upsert was 74% faster than create + rescue/find/update Upsert was 28% faster than faking upserts with activerecord-import (which uses ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE) # sqlite3 Upsert was 72% faster than find + new/set/save Upsert was 74% faster than find_or_create + update_attributes Upsert was 83% faster than create + rescue/find/update
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– Plutonium From Fukushima Detected in Lithuania (EX-SKF, Jan. 1, 2012):
Not to show that the amounts were significant (they weren't) but to note that plutonium out of the Fukushima reactors did indeed travel far and wide, contrary to many nuclear experts (particularly the kind that live in Japan) have said.
What's more, the authors of the paper seem to think that plutonium came from the spent fuel.
Interesting. Does anyone have access to the full paper?
From PubMed.gov (US National Library of Medicine), emphasis is mine:
J Environ Radioact. 2011 Dec 27. [Epub ahead of print]
Radionuclides from the Fukushima accident in the air over Lithuania: measurement and modelling approaches.
Lujanien? G, By?enkien? S, Povinec PP, Gera M.
SourceEnvironmental Research Department, SRI Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Savanoriu 231, 02300 Vilnius, Lithuania.
Analyses of (131)I, (137)Cs and (134)Cs in airborne aerosols were carried out in daily samples in Vilnius, Lithuania after the Fukushima accident during the period of March-April, 2011. The activity concentrations of (131)I and (137)Cs ranged from 12 ?Bq/m(3) and 1.4 ?Bq/m(3) to 3700 ?Bq/m(3) and 1040 ?Bq/m(3), respectively. The activity concentration of (239,240)Pu in one aerosol sample collected from 23 March to 15 April, 2011 was found to be 44.5 nBq/m(3). The two maxima found in radionuclide concentrations were related to complicated long-range air mass transport from Japan across the Pacific, the North America and the Atlantic Ocean to Central Europe as indicated by modelling. HYSPLIT backward trajectories and meteorological data were applied for interpretation of activity variations of measured radionuclides observed at the site of investigation. (7)Be and (212)Pb activity concentrations and their ratios were used as tracers of vertical transport of air masses. Fukushima data were compared with the data obtained during the Chernobyl accident and in the post Chernobyl period. The activity concentrations of (131)I and (137)Cs were found to be by 4 orders of magnitude lower as compared to the Chernobyl accident. The activity ratio of (134)Cs/(137)Cs was around 1 with small variations only. The activity ratio of (238)Pu/(239,240)Pu in the aerosol sample was 1.2, indicating a presence of the spent fuel of different origin than that of the Chernobyl accident.


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Comments/Context: Appropriation, reuse, and digital photocollage have become so pervasive in photography that it's hard to imagine a time when these techniques weren't commonplace. Although we can go back to Oscar Rejlander and Henry Peach Robinson in the mid 19th century to find the use of multiple negatives and early photomontage, the "invention" and extension of photocollage (the cutting and pasting kind) is usually placed at the feet of the Dada and Surrealist artists of the early 20th century (Hannah Höch in particular). This exhibit unearths a different genre of photocollage (an upper-class Victorian kind, created decades before the arrival of the avante-garde) and makes a case for its relevance in the art historical narrative.
The artists who made these photocollages (and they were nearly all women) combined elaborate watercolor scenes with photo cut outs of heads and posed bodies, equal parts trompe l'oeil and Alice in Wonderland whimsy: children and family members sit on toad stools and ride frogs, are arrayed in a shoe or a bird's nest, fly inside bubbles or in a hot air balloon, or decorate a fan, turkey feathers, playing cards, or butterfly wings. Many of the collages are elaborate set pieces, with various people carefully posed in drawing rooms or lush gardens, mixing the relationships of the aristocracy with a bit of subversive humor. Faces become a necklace, seals on letters, or the heads of ducks.
Most visitors will come away from this exhibit with memories of light entertainments and favorite/amusing surprises (the people in the pickle bottle!). For those immersed in the subculture of photography, I think the show is a welcome reminder that the roots of our Photoshop world go back more than a century, and include not just "serious" artists but those who saw the fun in using everyday photography as part of their fanciful creations and family albums.
Collector's POV: I have very little idea about how to track down images like these for interested collectors. My guess is that they are generally bound into albums, rather than available as single works, and they certainly aren't generally available in the normal secondary markets for photography. If I was going to follow up, I'd start with Hans Kraus (here) or perhaps a rare book dealer.
Rating: * (one star) GOOD (rating system described here)
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Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Through May 9th
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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It's much easier for consumers to justify continued support of a celebrity or politician disgraced by scandal when they separate moral judgments about a public figure from assessments of their professional performance, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
"Distinguishing between morality and performance allows consumers to avoid condoning immoral behavior. This may be one reason that the public discourse around scandals often focuses on the relationship between performance and morality rather than how wrong an action is," write authors Amit Bhattacharjee (Dartmouth College), Jonathan Z. Berman, and Americus Reed II (both Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania).
What do Bill Clinton, Martha Stewart, Tiger Woods, and Roman Polanski have in common? They are all public figures whose reputations have been threatened by scandals attracting relentless media coverage. How do consumers justify buying products endorsed by a celebrity accused of immoral actions or voting for a politician implicated in a scandal?
While some consumers withdraw their support, others may find ways to justify continuing their support either by excusing or justifying the immoral actions in question or separating a judgment of morality about the public figure from an assessment of their performance.
For example, after Tiger Woods admitted to adultery, consumers argued that they don't care for Tiger Woods as a person but still think he is the best golfer in the world and thus will continue to purchase his golf clubs. Instead of arguing that an immoral action is not that severe, consumers prefer to argue that it's not that relevant.
"It may feel wrong to say that immoral actions are acceptable. We don't want to be judged negatively by others for justifying bad behavior. Separating morality from professional standing may be especially appealing, and especially prevalent in public scandals, because it allows us to support an immoral actor without condoning their actions. It's a win-win," the authors conclude.
More information: Amit Bhattacharjee, Jonathan Z. Berman, and Americus Reed II. "Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger: How Moral Decoupling Enables Consumers to Admire and Admonish." Journal of Consumer Research: April 2013.
Journal information: Journal of Consumer Research
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The clean lines of a roller blind offers an elegant yet functional window blind solution. This range of standard roller blinds offers a wide selection of colours with popular trendy palettes, neutral hues and contemporary greys. Also available in blackout fabric with light blocking qualities. A quality roller blind with quality components at a realistic price. Supplied with brackets and child safety device.


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The survey is carried out as a part of the CApturing Paradata for documenTing data creation and Use for the REsearch of the future (CAPTURE) research project. CAPTURE has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 818210).
CAPTURE investigates what information about the creation and use of archaeological research data ( 'paradata') that is needed to make the research data reusable in the future, and how to capture enough of that information. More information about the project can be found at www.uu.se/en/research/capture
You are kindly invited you to share your experience and your views in this survey if you have ever used and/or created and deposited archaeological data (understood broadly, ranging from digital data to finds collections).
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What is the Aire font?
Aire is what Sproviero would call a < big display family >. We recommend seeing its user's guide.
After his success with Reina, Sproviero comes out with this big family of 7 members: Each of them loaded with lots of sophisticated ligatures, alternates and the entire cyrillic alphabet.
The overall impression that the font gives is lightness and delicateness; that's the reason the designer chose to call it Aire, or Air, in English. More…
"Aire was somehow having a rest from my fat face Reina […] It started as a really thin style of Reina, but it rapidly migrated from it and grew up alone. And how it grew…"
The inspiration came from his own past creations: "The heavy strokes of Reina were shouting for a more delicate thing. Something more feminine. More fragile. Something which had a lot of elegance and fresh air inside".
Aire responds to this: Sproviero found that many of the typefaces of nowadays which are used for headlines (best known as display fonts) have almost always just one, maybe two weight styles. This was his opportunity to try something new. Aire makes it easier for the user to generate different levels/layers of communication thanks to its variety of styles. With this font you can solve entire decorative pieces of design with just one font, and that was the aim of it.
Aire was designed to be playful yet formal: While none of its alternates are activated it can be useful for short to medium length texts; and when the user chooses to make use of its open-type decorative glyphs, it can be useful for headlines with dazzling results.
On March of 2012, Aire was chosen to be part of the most important exhibition of typography in Latinoamerica: Tipos Latinos 2012.
Aire is a family with many members. In total, the user can choose between almost 6,000 (!) glyphs (1,000 per style). Each member has variants inside, which are open-type programmed: The user decides which glyph to alternate, equalizing the amount of decoration wanted. Every decorative glyph has its weight adjusted to the style it belongs to.
Exclusively for decoration, Aire Fleurons Pro is an open-type programmed set of ornaments.
And last but not least, remember Aire is delicate. What's my point? It is not recommended to activate all the alternates at the same time. It is typo-scientifically proved: A maximum of 3 or 4 alternates per word would be more than enough.
Aire Font families
The Aire includes the following font families:
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- Aire Roman Std
- Aire Bold Pro
- Aire Bold Std
- Aire Light Italic Pro
- Aire Light Italic Std
- Aire Roman Italic Pro
- Aire Roman Italic Std
- Aire Bold Italic Pro
- Aire Bold Italic Std
- Aire Fleurons Pro
Aire Preview
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Designed by Chipewyan Artist John Rombough.
As the two ancestors watch over the land, they pray for all the children – every child matters.
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John Rombough - Chipewyan Dene Artist
Chipewyan Dene artist John Rombough was born in the remote community of Sioux Lookout in Northern Ontario, Canada. At the age of three, John was adopted by Carol and Lyall Rombough, a Prince Edward Island couple. He attributes his early interest in drawing and painting to being raised in their giving and artistic environment.
John is a self-taught contemporary woodland painter. He uses strong supporting black lines and vibrant colours. His main mentors are artists such as Ojibwe Norval Morrisseau, the grandfather of contemporary woodland style, and those from the 'Native Group of Seven'.
As a young adult, John began the search for his birth parents. He discovered his biological father, Alfred Catholique, living in the tiny community of Lutselk'e on the shores of Great Slave Lake in Canada's pristine Northwest Territories.
Warmly welcomed by all the Catholique family, John decided to move to the community in order to rediscover his cultural identity. John Rombough's painting style has since changed to reflect the harmony of the Dene people with the natural world. His distinctive modern aboriginal designs encompass his own personal visions and strong connection with nature. John's paintings communicate to all nations through visual interpretation and brilliantly mixed colours. His art sends the message of compassion and respect.
As John works toward creating original pieces, Ceremonial Drum Songs flow through his thoughts, songs that represent Dene teachings and spiritual way of life. Sacred teachings past down from ancestors through his visions inspire John to live a healthy, creative lifestyle, honoring ancestral teachings of 'respect for self, respect for people and respect for the land'.
John Rombough is recognized as a role model throughout Northwest Territories and takes his role very seriously. His paintings are instrumental in conveying a message to the youth, a message of encouragement, leadership, strength, will power, and determination. New cultural discoveries continue to provide him with an inexhaustible reservoir of ideas to put to canvas.
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